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

In Mozambique, A Surprising Kind Of First Aid For People Fleeing Violence : Goats and Soda : NPR (Me: What does US do with refugees from similar violence in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador? Pretend they are just looking for a free ride to “take” low paid US jobs…?)

Why did you decide a mental health component was needed here?

People had to leave under extremely violent conditions. They saw their homes being burnt, family or friends killed, and sometimes, they received death threats. Now that they are here, they will have to rebuild not only a home but the very concept of who they are while they process all the losses they’ve had along the way.

So the reason to have the mental health component is to help alleviate their suffering and enhance their coping.

Source: In Mozambique, A Surprising Kind Of First Aid For People Fleeing Violence : Goats and Soda : NPR

 

(Me: What does US do with refugees from similar violence in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador? Pretend they are just looking for a free ride to “take” low paid US jobs…?)

Innovative After-school Kids Workshop

Innovative After-school Kids Workshop is a research based after-school community education programme which encourages the school children of a local community to expand their cognitive, social, physical, and emotional attributes through various learning activities.

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INTRODUCTION

Innovative After-school Kids Workshop is a research based after-school community education programme which encourages the school children of a local community to expand their cognitive, social, physical, and emotional attributes through various learning activities.

After-school refers to learning opportunities that happen after regular school hours, intended to support or supplement student learning. The Kids refer to the school children or students from elementary to high school level students. And, workshop refers to a platform for the kids or school children to experience the real world through a common goal of learning holistically and forming or expanding their creative strength beyond horizon. It forms a basic step towards their intellectual growth and potential cognitive development to walk on the journey of exploration of their personal interest.

Furthermore, this workshop supports school children on their academic study and help to establish their creative mindset solving the problems easily and removing homework…

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Conversație la catedrală – ore de drum

Mexico City, 2019 On the Camino, when you make a stop, the first thing is to go to the church / abbey / collegiate / sanctuary / cathedral to put the initials of your place in the pilgrimage credential. Ciudad de Mexico, 2019 Pe Camino, atunci când faci un popas, primul lucru e să mergi la biserică/abație/colegială/sanctuar/catedrală ca să-ți pună parafa locului în credențialul de pelerinaj. Abia …

Source: Conversație la catedrală – ore de drum

Bolsonaro slashes Brazil’s environment budget, day after climate talks pledge | Brazil | The Guardian

Speaking on Thursday to the summit organised by US President Joe Biden, Bolsonaro pledged to double the budget for environmental enforcement and end illegal deforestation by 2030.

Less than 24 hours later, Bolsonaro signed off on the 2021 federal budget that included 2bn reais (US$365.30m) for the environment ministry and agencies it oversees, down from 2.6bn initially approved for 2020, according to the official government gazette. Spending can be adjusted over the course of the year.

Source: Bolsonaro slashes Brazil’s environment budget, day after climate talks pledge | Brazil | The Guardian

New chip could detect COVID-19 cases with 99.9% accuracy – study – The Jerusalem Post

Scientists have developed a new chip which would allow for faster and more accurate COVID-19 detection with up to 99.9% accuracy.

Jeremy Edwards, director of the Computational Genomics and Technology (CGaT) Laboratory at the University of New Mexico, along with colleagues from Centrillion Technologies in Palo Alto, California and West Virginia University, has developed a simpler and faster genome sequencing method which would allow the detection of respiratory diseases such as COVID-19 with greater accuracy.
Their research study is titled “Highly Accurate Chip-Based Resequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Clinical Samples” and was peer reviewed and published in the American Chemical Society. It aims to create alternative COVID testing and tracing systems which would be a widely available alternative to current systems which often produce false positives or negatives.

Source: New chip could detect COVID-19 cases with 99.9% accuracy – study – The Jerusalem Post

Myanmar Regime Troops Ordered to ‘Annihilate’ Protesters, Internal Memos Show

“You must annihilate them when you face them,” reads an instruction dated April 11, because “rioters [the military’s euphemism for anti-regime protesters] have gone from peaceful demonstration to the level of armed conflict.”

“Officers at all levels have to follow these instructions strictly,” it adds.

The order amounted to a retroactive endorsement of the massacre of 82 people just two days earlier in Bago, a city north of Yangon, in which soldiers and police sprayed protesters with live rounds and used rifle grenades to destroy roadblocks fortified with sandbags.

Two days later, on April 14, another memo was distributed.

It reads, “All the emergency security forces must be weaponized fully and systematically” as “riots may extend to your control area,” citing ongoing protests in “every township in  Sagaing, Mandalay, Yangon and Bago regions and in Mon State.”

Source: Myanmar Regime Troops Ordered to ‘Annihilate’ Protesters, Internal Memos Show

Avian Flu Diary: FIOCRUZ COVID Bulletin: Deaths Continue To Climb In Younger Age Groups – Brazil

The analysis points out that the age group of the youngest, from 20 to 29 years old, was the one that registered the greatest increase in the number of deaths by Covid: 1,081.82%. In the ages of 40 to 49 years (1,173.75%) there was the greatest increase in the number of cases. Source: Avian Flu Diary: FIOCRUZ COVID Bulletin: Deaths Continue To Climb In Younger Age Groups

Day 7 of GED in 5 months, Adulting, SD Promise, and the Zapotecs

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

Adulting is taking responsibility for ourselves and for our society, where we live in a Republic that both allows us much freedom and thus, requires of us much responsibility.  Part of that responsibility is helping others in society learn and help others.  The Four Freedoms movement advocates one possible program, starting with free schooling and more funding for programs like the San Diego Promise program, to which graduates of Continuing Education and Adult High School Equivalency programs can aspire. 

Let’s help each other!

Updated  syllabus

Day 7 Lesson Plan except for the Reading Passage

Day 7 Reading Passage:  (Today’s reading is from P. 279 in Peterson’s Master the HiSET,
2nd Edition…)

By 500 BCE, the Zapotec people were developing an advanced society in what is now the southern Mexican state of Oaxoca.  This civilization developed early forms of hieroglyphic writing adn a calendar system.  the Zapotec built complex…

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Culturalizando

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monf nasceu no ano de 1864 em Albi no sul da França. O artista faz parte do movimento artístico do pós-impressionismo junto com outros artistas como Paul Gauguin e Émile Bernard. Apesar de Henri Toulouse-Lautrec ser um pouco menos conhecido do que outros artistas pós-impressionistas, suas pinturas já foram vendidas por quantias milionárias.

Toulouse-Lautrec nasceu numa família muito antiga de nobres franceses, sendo descendente dos condes de Lautrec e Toulousse. Como acontece na nobreza, o casamento entre primos, depois de algumas gerações resulta em algum tipo de condição genética, Henri tinha uma doença genética chamada de Picnodisostose que provoca nanismo e ossos mais suscetíveis à fraturas.

O artista começou o seu aprendizado no estúdio de Fernand Cormon, onde conheceu os artistas pós-impressionistas como Émile Bernard e Vincent Van Gogh. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec chegou a pintar um retrato de Vincent Van Gogh:

Retrato de Vincent Van Gogh…

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