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

California Mandates Boost Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Workers – The New York Times

“Mandates are working,” said John Swartzberg, a physician and professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. “If you define ‘working’ by the percentage of people getting vaccinated and not leaving their jobs in droves.”

Unlike other incentives — “prizes, perks, doughnuts, beer, we’ve seen just about everything offered to get people vaccinated” — mandates are among the few levers that historically have been effective in increasing compliance, said Dr. Swartzberg, who has tracked national efforts to increase rates of inoculation.

The various mandates in place are arriving as many employers await further guidance from the Biden administration, which announced sweeping actions in September, including a mandate that all companies with more than 100 workers require vaccination or weekly testing. Mr. Biden also moved to mandate shots for health care workers, federal contractors and a vast majority of federal workers, who could face disciplinary measures if they refuse.

1968

1968 was a year that the whole world convulsed. I was in Washington, DC when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were killed, Paris burned, Mexico City your father saw, China ate itself… Vietnam…

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Pido a mis lectores que me disculpen si acaso escribí abrumado. Hace rato, mientras escribía el presente texto, no pude contener las lágrimas al recordar el dolor y la impotencia con que mi padre narraba la masacre contra incontables jóvenes estudiantes, de la cual fue testugo en 1968

Un extraño silencio prevaleció en las calles. El ambiente, enrarecido, parecía distinto al de otros días, al de meses pasados, cuando la gente, en postrimerrías de la década de los 60, en el siglo XX, caminaba apacible, miraba aparadores, se asombraba con la mercancía novedosa, y los campanarios de los templos coloniales sonaban cada hora.

Entre el Zócalo y La Alameda Central, en la Ciudad de México, se resumía una atmósfera cosmopolita, la difícil prueba de la coexistencia en un país en el que el campo abandonaba los surcos y se…

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Orange Shirts and Wet’suwet’en Arrests

LANDBACK Friends

It is good that the land called Canada went through years of work related to the Indigenous residential schools. Passed legislation and budgeted funds. Has designated September 30th as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, celebrated for the first time a few days ago. Many wore orange shirts that symbolize the children who were forced to go to those schools.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission ran from 2008 to 2015 and provided those directly or indirectly affected by the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools policy with an opportunity to share their stories and experiences. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has become the permanent archive for the statements, documents and other materials the Commission gathered, and its library and collections are the foundation for ongoing learning and research.

The Commission released its final report detailing 94 calls to action. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a direct…

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Mindful Mondays/ Turkish Tuesdays/Great Greek Wednesdays/Thoughtful Thursdays/French Fridays, Sacred Study Saturdays, Why “The 2nd of October is not to be forgotten,” and transit/Adulting ed/ libraries/ Health Care

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

The common good, or the general welfare, includes our neighbors, both to the south, en México, and elsewhere.

(aka Adulting Education), must become more fully inclusive for all of us. (2k wds, aim…)

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So, it turns out that yz:

Action Items:

1.) Search for two different sources related to the Holocene Epoch and to the Holocene Calendar.

2.) Share them with us in the comments, here, please.

3.) Share your thoughts on how a calendar based on the Holocene Epoch might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking,

4.) Write a book, blog post or tweet that uses an alternate calendar, tells a good story, and makes a difference. I’m working on that through my historical fantasy #WiP, #WhoByFireIWill. If you write a book, once published, please consider donating to your local public library.

Dear Readers, ideas on learning,

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APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Coronavirus: Zimbabwe receives nearly one million COVID-19 vaccine doses from COVAX

“We are delighted to see the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe through the COVAX Facility” said UN Resident Coordinator Maria Ribeiro. “This is an important and tangible act of solidarity from the international community and will bolster the admirable national COVID-19 vaccination rollout by Government of Zimbabwe.”

To date, Zimbabwe has procured over 12 million doses and accompanying injection safety materials using its own local resources.

As of 27 September 2021, a total of 3,051,371 eligible people in Zimbabwe had received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 2,211,880 their second across the country. This translates to a national coverage of 35.7% for the first dose and 25.8% for the second dose.

Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Coronavirus: Zimbabwe receives nearly one million COVID-19 vaccine doses from COVAX

The Last Click

Excellent story – from an old photography buff who spent way too many hours developing and manipulating photos until I got my first copy of Photoshop – grin

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

At 141 Surendranath Banerjee Road in the New Marker area of Dharamtala, in the post-colonial city of Kolkata, stands a dilapidated building named Photographe. Established in 1840 by famous Calcutta lensman William Howard from Britain, the studio was taken over by the British photographer and traveller duo – Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd and renamed Bourne & Shepherd in 1866. Unfortunately, after successfully documenting Indian-pictorial history for more than one-hundred-and-seventy-six years continuously, the world’s oldest and longest-running photo studio was shut down in June 2016.

In its glory days, the Bourne & Shepherd Calcutta studio had four corresponding offices in Shimla, Mumbai, London, and Paris, besides numerous affiliates all over the subcontinent. Along with a team of thirty in-house photographers, including Samuel and Charles themselves, the studio thrived, running prestigious official assignments for the British Government and enjoyed the patronage of royal Indian families, upper-class British officials, and high-profile businessmen.

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