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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

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

     I just heard from a fellow Manzilla, descended from Emily Manzilla Pinn, and Civil War hero Robert A. Pinn, to become more computer independent!  Since Do Better is not on Amazon (and I’m still sort of open to putting it up there, opinions needed…) due to their refusal to allow FREE as a price, getting the file onto an older Kindle (with no browser) requires transfering the .mobi file (which I can email to anyone needing it) via Calibre, my favorite free ebook s/w.

  While I am quite used to doing this, I found that it is not as simple for others.  So, we walked through it, and now, another (Boomer generation!) person is another tool further empowered!  And it was really wonderful to see her increasing confidence as we talked through the steps over the phone.

  I am so grateful!

Shira Destinie

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Autorrespeito

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” Autorrespeito é dizer não àquilo que não queremos”

Marii Freire

O autorrespeito é quando o indivíduo se coloca como centro de si mesmo. Nao é egoísmo. É sim, o respeito, ou o mesmo, o ” limite” que cada pessoa acrescenta a si, a vida, sobre o fato de tolerar determinadas coisas, e ter a clareza sobre tomar decisões que ajudam a gerir a própria vida. Claro, somos seres únicos, e tendo essa consciência, se constrói muros que servem de proteção para aquilo que possa nos atingir. Na verdade, o autorrespeito é importante, porque nos faz enxergar o nosso próprio valor. São questões inegociáveis que fazem com que cada pessoa absorva o que é importante.

O foco do autorrespeito é construir o que é bom pra nós. É acionar a consciência sobre tudo aquilo é indispensável ao indivíduo. Ora, imagine, não tem pessoas que transferem a responsabilidade de suas vidas…

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The Final Evidence of a Cult of Hypocrisy — Filosofa’s Word

Originally posted on The World As It Is. Not As It Should Be: Maybe it’s one of those classic features of old age, maybe it comes from reading volumes of military and political histories or maybe it’s ‘Just Because….’  . Anyway, I can accept Misdirection, Distortion and even Downright Lies as part of the whole box…

The Final Evidence of a Cult of Hypocrisy — Filosofa’s Word

10 Fun Facts About Sleep You Didn’t Know

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To commence with 10 Fun Facts about Sleep You didn’t know, let’s see what is sleep. Sleep is a typically repetitive condition of mind and body, identified by altered alertness, comparatively reserved sensory activity, decreased muscle activity and reservation of almost all voluntary muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and limited interactions with the environment.

So, Here are, 10 Fun Facts About Sleep You Didn’t Know:

Number 10: when you are snoring, you can’t dream,

Number 9: on average, a person spends nearly six years dreaming during sleep,

Number 8: while sleeping dolphins keep half of their brain awake this
sleep behavior helps them guard against predators

Number 7: a study done by Xu Yan University in Hong Kong shows that your sleep positions can affect, the kinds of dreams you have. According to the study, people who slept on their stomach had more dreams related to sex than…

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Report says white supremacist groups are still on Facebook and it profits from their presence – UPI.com

According to a report published Wednesday by the Tech Transparency Project, white supremacist groups are still active on Facebook and the social media platform is making money from their presence.

The TTP investigation found over 80 white supremacist groups — some of them labelled by Facebook itself as dangerous organizations — are still on Facebook.

Source: Report says white supremacist groups are still on Facebook and it profits from their presence – UPI.com

Afghan Man Charged in Muslim Killings Was Headed for Texas – The New York Times

An Afghan man accused of killing two Muslim men in Albuquerque was driving to Texas when he was arrested, and the police said they found a bullet casing in his car that matched those found at one of four crime scenes around the city.

A police detective wrote in a criminal complaint that the suspect, Muhammad Syed, 51, who himself is Muslim, denied that he had anything to do with any of the four killings that have shaken Muslims in Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city.

According to the complaint, Mr. Syed told police officers who stopped his car Monday night that he had been driving to Houston to find a new place for his family to live because things were “bad” in Albuquerque, and he referred to the recent shootings. He was pulled over about 100 miles from the Texas state line.