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

Banning Books … What’s Next … Burning Books?

Filosofa's Word

The book Maus by Art Spiegelman won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer.  According to Amazon …

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).

A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history’s most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.

This week, a Tennessee school board voted to ban

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Day 60/67: Five Month GED, Constant Rate of Change Med. Reactions, and Health Care Science for Adults

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

We use health care related words every day, but do we see how those words are related to the mathematics and to the concepts that we must remember, or relearn, from our science basics?  Noting the relationships and patterns between various interacting concepts are important for every Adult in a republic, where we each have a responsibility to understand public health care issues, and to help protect one another.

Today’s reading starts looking at chemical reactions, and the concept of half-life of a reaction, which is a linear relationship to the starting point of the reaction:

“The half-life of a reaction, t1/2, is the amount of time needed for a reactant concentration to decrease by half compared to its initial concentration. Its application is used in chemistry and medicine to predict the concentration of a substance over time. The concepts of half life plays a key role…

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Former Tennessee Law Enforcement Officer Convicted of Federal Civil Rights Offenses | OPA | Department of Justice

Bean was convicted of using excessive force against arrestee C.G. on two occasions during C.G.’s arrest in 2014, while Bean was the Chief of the Tracy City Police Department in Tracy City, Tennessee, and of using excessive force against arrestee F.M. during F.M.’s arrest in 2017, while Bean was the Chief Deputy of the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office in Grundy County, Tennessee. Bean’s co-defendant, T.J. Bean, faced a single charge at trial and was acquitted of using excessive force against arrestee F.M. during the same arrest in 2017.

In June 2021, the court heard evidence over the course of three days that showed that, during C.G.’s arrest in the Tracy Lakes area of Grundy County in 2014, Tony Bean repeatedly punched C.G. in the face while C.G. was handcuffed and compliant, causing C.G. pain and other injuries.  The court also heard evidence that, during F.M.’s arrest in Grundy County in 2017, Tony Bean punched F.M. in the face while F.M. was compliant, causing pain and other injuries. In addition, the court heard evidence that Tony Bean bragged about using excessive force against his victims and failed to report his uses of force.

Source: Former Tennessee Law Enforcement Officer Convicted of Federal Civil Rights Offenses | OPA | Department of Justice

Em pauta

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Em pauta hoje, só a felicidade. Não a protele para o dia seguinte, ou quando tudo der certo, quando ‘os bons ventos ‘ forem favoráveis a você. Não. A gente tem mania de deixar tudo pra depois. E quase sempre esse ” depois ” não chega, ou se chega, às vezes não se comemora ou sente com o mesmo sentimento de antes. Não coloque a sua atenção voltada ao futuro. Não faz sentido. Tudo nesse tempo é incerto. O lado positivo de tudo aquilo que se sente, só é possível viver no agora, digo “no hoje”. Esse é o momento presente que se torna permissivo as nossas conquistas, assimcomo fracassos. É através dele que a gente suspira centenas de vezes, para não desistir, não é? Sim. Você quer saber se amanhã estará vivo (a) para desfrutar das sensações prazerosas, da companhia das pessoas que te acrescentam, de encontrar beleza aos…

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Parashat Mishpatim, “Na’aseh VeNishmah” as Do First and Buy-In Later, via Education?

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

     This week’s Torah portion is Parashat Mishpatim (פרשת מִשְׁפָּטִים),  the 6th in the book of Shemot/Exodus, and the 18th weekly Torah portion in the annual cycle.

      This week, traditional congregations (and maybe a few Masorti/Conservative Movement folks) will read of the inter-generational (in theory, or at least in Midrashic legend) acceptance of the Torah by all then-present and future members of the People Who Argue with G-d, both birth members and converts.   Mishpatim literally means judgements -and there are many spelled out in this week’s Torah portion.

      On the most fun holiday of the Jewish year, The Geek’s holiday, Shavuot/Pentacost, on  Tikkun Leil Shavuot (the night of Shavuot when we get to stay up all night long studying!!), I taught a class at the DC Beit Midrash.  The class was about a different parashah, but I referenced an important concept first found in this…

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Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2–“Q”

Words from Walden

Q is for Quest

“To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous” -Plato-

What is your Ultimate Quest in life?

What do you want to do?

Is there someone or something that you would like to become? Somewhere you want to see or live?

You can do that thing.

The way to do it is to take belief, faith and desire and mix them together. That the secret formula that will allow you to chase your dream.

Whether it is love, money, legacy, fame, family or a multitude of things. When we question what we want from life, the answer will become clear in the form of a Quest.

We may not be able to see the full quest but instead we may only see one or two steps ahead.

That is okay. The next steps will reveal themselves along the way…

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Você compra ouro? Você está se enfeitando com ouro? … « A floresta está sangrando, eu posso sentir no meu coração. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

Foto: Ricardo Stuckert «Série Índios Brasileiros»

«Os garimpeiros derramam mais mercúrio envenenado na terra do que o peso de ouro que levam embora. Eles são como mortos-vivos, cobertos de lama dourada.»

- cacique Raoni Metuktire

Foto: Destruição de garimpo na floresta amazônica

A mineração de ouro e o uso indiscriminado de mercúrio para encontrar ouro transforma partes dos ecossistemas de maior biodiversidade do mundo em uma paisagem lunar de pesadelo!

«Garimpeiros destroem a floresta» – desenho no papel: Wacayowë Yanomami

Até 75% do ouro extraído a cada ano é usado para joias, relógios e outros símbolos de status vãos e fúteis vendidos pela Cartier e outras empresas na indústria de luxo, bem como varejistas de desconto em todo o mundo.
Dezenas de milhares de árvores da floresta tropical têm que ser arrancadas, centenas de toneladas de solo extraídas e misturadas com dezenas de toneladas de poluentes ambientais tóxicos que contaminam…

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Native American tribes reclaim California redwood land for preservation | Native Americans | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Barbara Crane Navarro

The group of 10 tribes that have inhabited the area for thousands of years will be responsible for protecting the land dubbed Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ, or “Fish Run Place” in the Sinkyone language. Priscilla Hunter, the chair of the Sinkyone Council, said it is fitting they will be caretakers of the land where her people were removed[…]

Native American tribes reclaim California redwood land for preservation | Native Americans | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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