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

International Lefthanders Day 2021

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Introduction – International Lefthanders Day is celebrated on August 13 every year to spread awareness about the advantages and disadvantages of being left-handed as compared with right-handed all over the world. This day celebrates left-handed people’s uniqueness with 7 to 10 percent of the world’s population. International Lefthanders Day also raises awareness on those problems that are faced by left-handers.

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History – Founder of left-Handers International Inc, Dean R. Campbell celebrated the first International Left-Handers Day in the year 1976. After that, Left-Handers Club introduced International Left-Handers Day on August 13, 1992, as a part of their organization to celebrate their uniqueness and be conscious with the benefits and disadvantages of being a left-hander. This day highlights the challenges faced by left-handed people all over the world.

International Left-Handers Day 2021: Date, History, Significance, and Facts

Significance – At about 10 percent of people all over the world are lefties with a better memory as compared with righties. There…

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Day 65/67 of GED in Five Months, Parabolas, and Public Libraries

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

Parabolas describe falling, thrown, (or ?) objects: symmetry is … symmetrical.

–Clearly, a library at each campus of each Adult /Continuing Education site would be helpful, as well as quiet study cubicles, for those with no place to study at home.

Continuing to learn, and helping others continue to learn, helps our society, so I am posting these lesson plans in the hope of helping others to help themselves to learn, whether one has yet to finish High School, or merely wants a refresher.

But, the fun parabola question is: will this space tour transportation (rocket) travel in the form of a parabola on the way to and from the Space Station?  Babylon 5, we’re almost there! 

Axiom Space said three private individuals and a former NASA astronaut will fly aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule for an eight-day stay on the station.

 

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 Week 18/18
Day 65, week…

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Mexico tells Mennonites: stop cutting down jungle to plant – The Washington Post (Me: irresponsible deforestation for profit in Mexico and Columbia)

In 2018, Mexico slapped a 10.3 million peso ($540,000) fine on a Mennonite community for clearing tropical vegetation in Quintana Roo state, also on the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Attorney General for Environmental Protection said members of the community removed plants including endangered chit palm and jobillo trees from 3,251 acres (1,316 hectares) that are home to a protected olive-throated parakeet.

Source: Mexico tells Mennonites: stop cutting down jungle to plant – The Washington Post

1,200% increase in orders for antibody treatments to treat COVID in the U.S. – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

As coronavirus case numbers spike, the US has seen a 1,200% increase in orders for monoclonal antibody treatments in the past month, the US Health and Human Services Department told CNN Thursday.

HHS said as of August 6, the latest date they have figures for, nearly half of the distributed supply has been used. The treatments have been used at new sites and at locations that were until recently inactive.

“At this time, there is plenty of product available for existing and new sites,” a spokesperson for HHS told CNN. “They are able to order product as needed and we are encouraging sites to order as much as they think they’ll need, based on two-week utilization.”

Source: 1,200% increase in orders for antibody treatments to treat COVID in the U.S. – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Adoção

My brother and I were both adopted – thanks for posting this!

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Como explicar o amor? O amor daquilo que é uma extensão contínua de você? Ou do que foi acolhido como seu? Claro que estou falando da adoção. O modelo tradicional de família se tornou muito mais flexível e hoje, há casais que mesmo tendo os filhos biologicos, tem o desejo de adotar uma criança, de oferecer um lar e, também conseguir ser um referencial para a outra pessoa.

Que adotar uma criança é um gesto de amor, todos sabem. Mas, essa relação estreita e umbilical quer com os filhos vindos da consanguinidade, ou o filho que você “acolhe” é algo extraordinário. Quem adota uma criança, alimenta um sentimento inexplicável pelo outro, digamos que essa pessoa ” reiventa” essa questão dos cuidados maternos. Isso que estou falando serve para ( pais heterossexuais como para homossexuais). Como eu sei que uma mãe ou um pai, são capazes de ter papéis que demontra…

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Measuring Up

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We all crave acceptance but have we taken the time to look at whether we measure up to our own ideals. Stepping back, and picturing who we pretend to be and who we really are is the first step towards self realization. The question we need to ask of ourselves is: How worthy are we in accordance with the judgment of our own eyes?

© Norma Bobb-Semple 2021

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