With the new federal infusion, local officials can breathe a sigh of relief — forestalling drastic potential cuts in city services. The ARP money for local cities is significant. Pasadena, for example, is slated to get $52 million; El Monte nearly $44 million; West Covina $20 million; and Whittier $19 million. Given the magnitude of the funding, cities will be under tremendous pressure to burn through the money — or stash some of it in their reserves. Just patching budgets, won’t fulfill President Biden’s promise to “build back better.” Source: Biden plan delivers big-time for California cities – Pasadena Star News
Monthly Archives: March 2021
119 more CVS pharmacies join effort to vaccinate Californians against COVID-19 | KTLA
CVS is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination efforts in California, adding another 119 pharmacies statewide capable of administering doses to residents Sunday.
The new locations add to the 167 CVS stores already vaccinating people in the state, bringing the total to 286 different locations that eligible Californians can choose from to get inoculated.
Vaccines at participating CVS pharmacies will be available to those 65 and older, health care workers, emergency services personnel, food and agriculture workers, and school teachers and staff and childcare workers.
To get the shot, people have to make an appointment online. Those without internet access can call customer service at 800-746-7287.
Source: 119 more CVS pharmacies join effort to vaccinate Californians against COVID-19 | KTLA
Prison Guards Across the Country Refusing to Take Covid Vaccine
A report by AP News and The Marshall Project has found that prison employees across the country are frequently rejecting the vaccine at higher rates than prisoners. Some of the reasons prison employees have given for rejecting the vaccine include concerns about its effectiveness and side effects; some cited debunked conspiracy theories peddled by far-right websites; and others simply have a lack of faith in the prison system given how poorly they have handled mitigating the effects of the virus.
This is concerning for a multitude of reasons: Prisons are natural hotspots for the virus, as the cramped living conditions, questionable hygiene practices, and an inability to effectively distance makes it easier to transmit the virus. FCI Miami, a federal prison in Miami, experienced two outbreaks last year. The first, which happened last July, resulted in over 400 of the prison’s 852 incarcerated people contracting the virus. In December, another 100 people also wound up contracting the virus.
Despite that, less than half of the prison’s 240 employees have been fully vaccinated, despite the vaccine being made available to them for well over a month.
Source: Prison Guards Across the Country Refusing to Take Covid Vaccine
The Greenland ice sheet may be more vulnerable than we knew to global warming, new study shows – The Washington Post
Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities have already raised global average temperatures more than 1 degree Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1880. Greenland is losing ice at its fastest rate since humans invented agriculture, causing about 14 millimeters of sea level rise in the past half-century.
If the island’s entire ice sheet were to melt now, global sea levels would rise by more than 20 feet.
“We don’t want to see what that looks like,” said Christ, a geologist at the University of Vermont. “It underscores the urgency of needing to change the way things are going right now.”
As Lebanon sinks deeper into turmoil, leaders unmoved by int’l warnings | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
Lebanon sank deeper into economic collapse and chaos over the weekend amid the pound’s free-fall against the US dollar with all the grave consequences this entails for the country’s crumbling economy and the lives of the Lebanese who are threatened with poverty as a result of an unprecedented financial downturn. Source: As Lebanon sinks deeper into turmoil, leaders unmoved by int’l warnings | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
Deb Haaland confirmed as first Indigenous US cabinet secretary | Deb Haaland | The Guardian (YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!)
Deb Haaland has been confirmed as the secretary of the interior, making her the first Indigenous cabinet secretary in US history.
The 60-year-old from New Mexico will be responsible for the country’s land, seas and natural resources, as well as overseeing tribal affairs.

Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo, one of 574 sovereign tribal nations located across 35 states.
Source: Deb Haaland confirmed as first Indigenous US cabinet secretary | Deb Haaland | The Guardian
Myanmar Crackdown on Protesters Kills 25 as Junta Imposes 24-Hour Mobile Internet Shutdown — Radio Free Asia
At least 25 people were shot dead Monday as anti-coup protesters in multiple cities braved increasing violence by security forces following a bloody weekend that killed scores of protesters in Myanmar’s largest city, witnesses said.
The junta that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government on Feb. 1 also imposed a 24-hours shutdown of mobile internet service in an attempt to cut off lines of communication among protesters and other members of a nationwide civil disobedience movement (CDM) that has opposed military rule for six weeks.
The suspension of internet service forced court officials in the capital Naypyidaw to postpone the videoconference trial hearing of the 75-year-old deposed leader, who has been under house arrest since the coup and is facing a handful of what supporters say are spurious charges.
The Difficulty and Harmfulness of Cultural Imperialism Yelling Rosan Blog
Cultural imperialism
Representatives of large language groups are not overwhelmed by the feeling that they are losing their own identity and culture when they can only use their own language to a limited extent on the international internet. As many sociologists and linguists have pointed out, languages also bring with them the culture of the country represented by the speakers. These habits can differ greatly from those of a country represented by a small language group and can even be harmful or offensive. Google’s translator has made the situation a little easier, but its ability to translate Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages is still at most satisfactory at best. Thus, it is clear that in the case of poems, for example, its use is out of the question. It’s also surprising that you can’t give Google Translator a character, what points in the article it should not be translated. Such a feature would be necessary in a multilingual article comparing, for example, the features of different languages.
Source: The Difficulty and Harmfulness of Cultural Imperialism Yelling Rosan Blog
الفعل ورد الفعل
عندما سقطت التفاحة على رأس نيوتن تحرك عقله كرد فعل وحاول تفسير لماذا سقطت إلى الأسفل ولم تصعد إلى الأعلى ؟ وتوصل لإكتشاف الجاذبية الأرضية ثم وضع بعدها العديد من القوانين التى جعلته من أشهر علماء الفيزياء , على عكس الكثير من البشر يمرون بمواقف مشابهة لموقف نيوتن ويصدر عنهم ردود أفعال مختلفة فمنهم من يكتفى بأكل التفاحة أو لا يلتفت لها على الأطلاق . من أهم القوانين التى وضعها إسحاق نيوتن (قانون الفعل ورد الفعل) الذى ينص على : ( لكل فعل رد فعل مساوى له فى المقدار ومضاد له فى الاتجاه ).
ينطبق هذا القانون فى مجال الفيزياء على الطبيعة والكون الذى نعيش فيه ويمكن ملاحظته خلال أبسط مظاهر الحياة مثل : سقوط المطر فى الصحراء(فعل) ظهور نباتات بعد فترة فى الصحراء(رد فعل), كما ينطبق على الحيوانات حيث أن أغلب الحيوانات الضارة لا تقوم باللسع أو العض والمهاجمة إلا كرد فعل نابع من خوفها من الطرف الآخر وليس…
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We should be sympathetic to others!
We should be sympathetic to others. But this quality is not easily acquired. Even after going through that grief, we are not sure that we will be able to understand the pain of the front. To feel others we have to rely on their experience. It is not necessarily how we feel, it is about how they feel.





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