OSS Unit 101 – American/Kachin Rangers — Pacific Paratrooper

OSS Unit 101 After the withdrawal of the two Chinese divisions back to China, from Burma, ordered by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, this left a large void in the area in which they operated. The British were unable to fill the area with troops vacated by the Chinese and thus the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) […]

OSS Unit 101 – American/Kachin Rangers — Pacific Paratrooper

NM education leader not concerned with lack of social distancing in schools | KFOX (Really dumb view!)

Shortly after the visit was over, KFOX14 learned that not even four days into resuming in-person learning, a class at Mayfield High School is having to be quarantined due to a student testing positive for COVID-19.

RECOMMENDED: Mayfield High School class under quarantine after student tests positive for COVID-19

“Yes, and that’s accurate. Quarantining the class is precautionary and in protocol with NMDOH guidelines,” Kelly Jameson, a spokesperson for Las Cruces Public Schools, said.

KFOX14 was able to visit multiple schools on Tuesday for the first day back to in-person learning at full capacity.

We were at Las Cruces High during a passing period and as you can see in the video below, dozens of students are extremely close together going down the halls.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/nm-education-leader-not-concerned-with-lack-of-social-distancing-in-schools?video=9b07f705986b423a890017019e542ed6&jwsource=cl

Source: NM education leader not concerned with lack of social distancing in schools | KFOX

New Mexico announces one-third of adults are fully vaccinated | KDBC

New Mexico Land of Enchantment (credit: KFOX14/CBS4) The New Mexico Department of Health on Friday announced that one-third of New Mexicans 16 years and older are now fully vaccinated. This follows Thursday’s announcement that more than 50 percent of New Mexicans 16 years and older have received at least a first shot.

DOH encourages New Mexicans to register at vaccineNM.org.

Source: New Mexico announces one-third of adults are fully vaccinated | KDBC

Drama(-tisme)

This provincial city in northeastern Greece, where Macedonia tends to Thrace, has earned a reputation as a wine capital.

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Drama, 2017

Dacă e să vorbim despre vinuri, cei mai mulți greci te trimit la Drama.

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Această urbe provincială din nord-estul Greciei, acolo unde Macedonia tinde spre Tracia, și-a câștigat reputația de capitală viticolă.

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Parcelele fiind mici, vinurile de calitate sunt produse în ediție limitată, așa că nu-i ușor să le găsești.

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Multe au în compoziție soiul de struguri local asyrtiko, cel mai răspândit în zonă. Odată ajunși aici, vă propun ca seara să o consacrați Dramei, iar dimineața următoare antichității.

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1.-Turul orașului presupune o plimbare lejeră în jurul parcului cu amenajările sale acvatice favorizate de cascadele Agia Varvara. Parcul cu vegetație bogată se învecinează cu hotelul de seamă al orașului, preschimbat dintr-o veche fabrică de tutun.

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Decorul interior minimalist respectă rigoarea întreprinderii clasice.

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Însă, dacă te îndepărtezi de acest mic nucleu central, decorul se schimbă dramatic.

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Pe străzile istorice dai peste clădiri neoclasice de mare calitate arhitecturală lăsate…

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Day 62/67 of GED in Five Months, Perpetual Motion, and graphic proof

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

If proof lies in seeing with our own eyes, then those ideas which you can graph and derive from laws must be true, or are they?

Like the moon forever in orbit around the earth, some proofs take a bit more time than others…

Today’s reading: Newton’s laws of motion need to be examined in greater detail in order to answer questions that derive from those laws, just as in mathematics, one derives a proof from various postulates and laws of mathematics.

As it turns out, the moon is very nearly a perpetual motion machine. It goes around the earth every month and has been doing so at almost constant speed for a very long time. Even so, with advanced instruments and careful measurements, we can determine that the moon’s motion is changing: it gets farther away from the earth on average by about two centimeters each year…

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The Disconnected

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The estimate at the end of 2018 was that 86.4% of US households were connected to the Internet.(1) We also believe, based on surveys, that some proportion of the disconnected either borrow access from friends, have access via cell phones, or use public libraries to access the Net.

That leaves a reported 7%, per a recent Pew Foundation survey, who aren’t connected at all.(2)

My suspicion is that the number of disconnected is higher, for several reasons:

  1. Participation bias in surveys. I suspect that the disconnected tend not to respond, and they certainly don’t respond to web-based surveys. The only way to reach them is by mail or phone. While Pew uses the best methods to reach people, there’s only so much you can do to reach people who don’t want to cooperate.
  2. There are 19,502 municipalities of all sizes in the US and approximately 9,000 public libraries. While some…

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Damn the pencils, full shovels ahead!

The Chatty Introvert

I never thought I could get this much done in a day again, but that weather was back and a nice breeze keeping it decent most of the day. And so I spent the time afterward with throbbing feet, kicking back with some cheap red and Hot Pockets.

I’m sure I could’ve done better for dinner, but I was too tired.

I was out the door a bit later than planned with the dogs, but they were loving it. I figured I’d get to work on the pollinator garden and started hauling some more wheelbarrow loads of dirt in the space.

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I mainly was trying to cover the grass and potholes and smooth things out, and it took probably 10 more loads before it was good. I also had some bags of garden soil I ripped up and put in the space to improve the topsoil a bit. But I…

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