How Professors Are Handling Unmasked Students Amid Delta – The New York Times

Irwin Bernstein, an 88-year-old psychology professor, said the University of Georgia had lured him out of retirement this fall. But when he posted a “No mask, No class” sign in his classroom, his department head told him to take it down “since I was in violation of the governor’s order.”

At his next class, a student resisted wearing a mask, saying it was uncomfortable, he recalled. He announced that he was retiring — again — and walked out of class.

Day 1/67 of High School in 5 months, Geo, and Adulting as on-going education

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

The Four Freedoms movement starts  with empathy building, which both leads to and requires continuous learning. Today’s Adult Basic Education vocabulary begins with Geo, of Greek origin, meaning Earth.             (“Give me a word, any word…”)

This is a particularly key concept for all of us, who dwell on Earth, to consider regularly, perhaps?

-Lesson Plan for today in PDF format, see syllabus for details.

(Remember that you can always do a harder or easier Khan Academy assignment …)

Take the Grammar PreTest, and then Go at your own pace after getting 100% right on the quiz of your choice!   GrammarBook.com…

Action Items to support Adulting that we can all take right now:

1.) Consider our responsibility to “promote the general welfare” of society:

2.) Share your thoughts here on how High School education starts that process,

3.)  …

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Femmes autochtones, femmes originales : « Reboiser les esprits pour la guérison de la Terre ! »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Femmes autochtones, Femmes originales : Reboiser les esprits pour la guérison de la Terre

Du 7 au 11 septembre, plusieurs milliers de femmes de 150 nations indigènes se sont rassemblées pour marcher ensemble à Brasilia en faveur des droits qui leur sont garantis dans la Constitution du Brésil et contre la limite du «cadre temporel» et d’autres politiques anti-indigènes du président Bolsonaro.

«Nous cherchons à garantir nos territoires pour les générations présentes et futures, défendre l’environnement, ce bien commun qui garantit nos modes de vie en tant que partie de l’humanité.

En plus d’être une ressource physique qui nous soutient, elle abrite également les esprits des forêts, des animaux et des eaux et de la vie dans son ensemble – la source de notre savoir ancestral.

Nous déclarons que les femmes autochtones seront en première ligne pour enterrer une fois pour toutes la ‘cadre temporel’, lors de la 2e marche…

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Brésil. 7 septembre : « Descendez dans la rue pour faire échec au golpisme » — Entre les lignes entre les mots — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

EditorialEsquerda Online Bolsonaro menace le peuple brésilien. Alors que la faim progresse, que l’inflation s’envole, que le chômage n’a jamais été aussi élevé et que le covid continue de faire des victimes, les partisans fanatiques de Bolsonaro sont convoqués pour une action de type d’Etat le 7septembre, une initiative structurée sur un affrontement avec le[…][…]

Brésil. 7septembre: «Descendez dans la rue pour faire échec au golpisme» — Entre les lignes entre les mots — Tiny Life

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The Showers

Pacific Paratrooper

Unfortunately, I do not remember which island this story occurred on.

Smitty did not write home about his experience with the showers. .. BUT,

He was coming back into camp after having a nice cold shower.  He walked back with a towel wrapped around his middle and held it closed with his left hand.  The jungle appeared quiet except for the buzzing of the insects whizzing around him.  [The New Guinea “salute” is said to actually be the act of swatting the insects!)

He said, “You know how annoying just one mosquito can be when it’s hovering by your ears.  This was like a swarm and I tried like hell to use my right hand to swat them away from my face.  When I began to approach our tents there was not one man to be seen and I couldn’t imagine where they all went.  As I got closer I could…

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C.B.I. Theater – June 1945 (1)

Pacific Paratrooper

Harassed and groggy after ever-increasing aerial blows, residents of Japan’s main cities once more sought shelter underground this week as Super-Forts rode high and unchallenged over the island kingdom. But, for once, the giant planes did not only unleash cargoes of flaming death. Huge paper bombardments also rained down on the cities, spraying millions of propaganda leaflets over wide areas.


Text of the leaflets was soon revealed by Radio Tokyo, which reported they were signed by President Truman and advised the Japanese people to get out of the war or face the same destruction that was accorded the German people. “Unconditional surrender,” the broadcast reported the pamphlets as reading “would not mean obliteration or slavery for the Japanese people.”
However, Uncle Sam’s airmen backed up the threats implied in the propaganda warfare with two “knockout” punches aimed at Nippon’s “glass jaw” – her concentrated industrial empire.

As Maj. Gen. Curtis…

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Jamaica undertakes major assessment of its food systems ahead of global UN Food Systems Summit

Petchary's Blog

Another important event tomorrow: the opening of consultations in Kingston on an assessment of Jamaica’s food systems – in other words, agricultural production and output. The workshop is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Planning Institute of Jamaica. You can watch the opening ceremony on the PIOJ’s Facebook page tomorrow (Tuesday, September 7) at 9:00 a.m. Jamaica time.

There are all kinds of issues associated with food, these days: there is not only food security (how are we going to feed ourselves?) but there is an environmental aspect (more and more so) to food production. Then there is food storage and food processing. Then there is food waste – a terribly important but often ignored issue. Just a couple of days ago I watched this very informative and thought-provoking featureon Al Jazeera on the latter topic, and I recommend it. There are solutions…

So, what…

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This Week: The Virtual Island Summit 2021 embraces islanders worldwide — Petchary’s Blog

There are several Big Things happening this week, that I should have already told you about. Island Innovation’s Virtual Island Summit is just getting under way. I believe this is the third. It is on all week (September 6 to 12) and it is free! It is free and also truly global. I have tuned […]

This Week: The Virtual Island Summit 2021 embraces islanders worldwide — Petchary’s Blog