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

Losing 15 percent of your bodyweight may be the best treatment for diabetes – Study Finds (Me: worked for me – 20 years diabetes free)

 

Study authors find that a drop in bodyweight of 15 percent should become the primary focus for patients dealing with type 2 diabetes (T2D). They add significant weight loss shows the potential to slow or even reverse the condition in many cases. Weight loss also cuts down on the medical complications which can stem from having diabetes while being overweight.

“We propose that for most patients with type 2 diabetes without cardiovascular disease, the main treatment focus should be managing the key underlying abnormality and driver of the disease: obesity,” says paper co-author Dr. Ildiko Lingvay from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in a media release.

Source: Losing 15 percent of your bodyweight may be the best treatment for diabetes – Study Finds

California health workers without COVID vaccine may be fired – Los Angeles Times

the number of holdouts seems to represent a small fraction of the Golden State’s approximately 2.4 million healthcare workers.

The holdouts nevertheless represent a significant test for employers and public health officials grappling with how to apply the state’s new requirements, including how to ensure compliance from a vast network of health facilities.

Some hospitals said they plan to fire workers Friday; others are starting with suspensions. Most said they plan to offer grace periods to employees who change their minds. Several said they expected the state to give understaffed hospitals hit hard by the Delta variant a 45-day extension to allow administrators to make alternate staffing plans.

Source: California health workers without COVID vaccine may be fired – Los Angeles Times

A beautiful Sunset in Africa

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Admiring a sun setting is part of pleasure while visiting a new country… But I can’t explain why it is so unique and special for me in Africa 😉

Do you feel the same for your country or for an another location?

Sunset, also known assundown, is the daily disappearance of thesunbelow the horizondue toEarth’s rotation. As viewed from everywhere on Earth (except the North and South poles), theequinoxSun sets due west at the moment of both the Spring and Autumn equinox. As viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the sun sets to the northwest (or not at all) in the Northern hemisphere’s spring and summer, and to the southwest in the autumn and winter; these seasons are reversed for theSouthern Hemisphere.

The time of sunset is defined inastronomyas the moment when the upper limb of the Sun disappears below the horizon. Near the horizon,atmospheric refractioncausessunlight…

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Day 8/67 High School in 5 Months: Library Apps, and San Diego Futures Foundation

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

Day 8 Lesson Plan as a PDF file
Today’s Grammar activity is with tomorrow’s lesson:
Comparatives & Superlatives
Khan Academy activity: subtracting fractions with unlike denominators

Day8ExitSlips

Remember that the San Diego Public Library has an App for mobiles that allows those with a SDPL libray card to place books on hold, search for books, etc. The SDPL also allows patrons to have two hours of free internet on library computers each day.

If you need a low-cost laptop, the San Diego Futures Foundationmay be able to help.

(Day 7Day 9)

Action Items:

1.) Search for two different sources related to free laptops in your area.

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

3.) Share your thoughts on how a having a laptop might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking,

4.) Write a story, post or tweet that…

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For Brazil’s persecuted Krenak people, justice arrives half a century later

  • A federal court has condemned Brazil’s federal government, the Minas Gerais state government and the country’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, for human rights violations against the Krenak Indigenous people committed under the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985.
  • Decades of reports, witness statements and evidence show torture, beatings, solitary confinement and forced labor were commonplace in the Krenak Reformatory and Guarani Farm, considered concentration camps by the Federal Public Ministry.
  • Speaking Indigenous languages, drinking alcohol, and resisting land invasions by farmers were among the supposed infractions to justify the arbitrary imprisonment of Indigenous individuals deemed rebels by the regime.
  • The court has ordered the federal government to organize an official ceremony for a public apology with national coverage, as well as deliver reparations.

Source: For Brazil’s persecuted Krenak people, justice arrives half a century later

The DEATH of NATURE – Gold and Diamond Merchandise – The ART of Greenwashing by the Luxury Merchants of the Death of Nature and Indigenous Peoples…in their own words…  updated 2021

Barbara Crane Navarro

Photo montage: ”Pas de Cartier” series – Barbara Crane Navarro – with advertisement for Cartier, photo of gold mining site in indigenous territory by João Laet and Cartier® LOVE gold ring

In Thomas More’s “Utopia,” published in 1516, gold and precious stones have no value. Indeed, they carry the weight of blood, slavery and human madness …

“Their True Nature #1- Cartier Foundation
photos: Fondation Cartier – Luc Boegly / gold mining site – João Laet
photo of Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela and photomontage – Barbara Crane Navarro

The Art of Manipulation:

The corporate contrivanceof art sponsorship was so perfectly described in 1994 by Hans Haacke in “Free Exchange”, the book by Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke, that I’m quoting here from the English version published by Polity Press in 1995: “One would underestimate the Venice Biennale if one were to think that it is only concerned…

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