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Public Financial Knowledge Infrastructure: What is an SoL?

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

    Since no one seems to be jumping up and down to get this part of the Project started, I am beginning with a very basic post, meant to be useful for anyone wishing to give a 5-minute seminar at the Metro/Trolley/Bus stop.
   SoL  ==  Statute of Limitations
   Statutes of Limitations are time limits on the enforcement of laws, basically.  The kinds of SoLs that Project Do Better focuses on, in Phase I, are those related to debt.  Every state has a different set of SoLs for each of the 4 kinds of debts:
1.  revolving  or open, is credit card;
2.  written contract;
3.  verbal contract;
4.  promissory notes
        Many web sites list the various SoLs by state, but be sure to compare the SoL in your state with the online legal code of your state.
    Another crucial…

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Nuremberg Holistic Sangha

Raffaello Palandri's Blog

This is the kind of Talks you may expect in the Nuremberg Holistic Sangha, that I have the honor to coordinate. Our regular meetings will start again in September, with a full online policy.

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Everyone is welcome to join our Sangha, which is open to everyone who wants to practice meditation, mindfulness, and some mild physical activity such as Qi Gong, Yoga, or Tai Chi Chuan.

In the Sangha meetings, you can also listen to and talk about themes such as Buddhism, engaged Buddhism, Eastern philosophies, languages, and cultures, empathy, social commitment, peace, and environment.

No previous experience in meditation, mindfulness, or Buddhism is required to join us.

Also, the Nuremberg Holistic Sangha is not a religious community, but an open community of like-minded people who want to…

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Idade madura em olhos, receitas e pés, ela me invade

com sua maré de ciência afinal superadas.

Posso desprezar ou querer os institutos, as lendas,

descobri na pele certo sinais que aos vinte anos não via.

Eles dizem o caminho,

embora também se acovardem

em face a tanta claridade roubada ao tempo.

Mas eu sigo, cada vez menos solidário,

em rua extremamente dispersas,

transito no canto do homem ou da máquina que roda,

aborreço-me de tanta riqueza, jogo-a toda por um número de casa,

e ganho

Idade madura. A Rosa do Povo

Carlos Drummond de Andrade. A Rosa do Povo. Círculo do Livro. São Paulo, 1945

Marii Freire.

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem:pinterest/ Jennie Tardin

Santarém, Pá 12 de agosto de 2022

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Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” A mulher que sofre violência, se sente só. Na verdade essa mulher é uma pessoa intimidada, refém da própria condição”

– O delito de ameaça na Lei Maria da Penha.

Marii Freire Pereira. MULHER Do ostracismo à luta pelos direitos nos dias atuais.

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem & criação: Marii Freire Pereira

Santarém, Pá 12 de agosto de 2022

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Terms of Endearment

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Image Credit: Kojirou Sasaki

Do you have a nickname? If you do, who gave it to you? Is it a pet name from your parents, your significant other, or a nickname you picked up in your youth?

My siblings and I never had nicknames, but we have had our share of family members who did. Of course, Bubba was one of the most common nicknames, but the sad thing about it, is that hardly anyone knew their real name, even after they died.

The 1983 movie “Terms of Endearment,” starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger, was about a mother and daughter’s on-again, off-again relationship. Yet Emma (Debra’s character) relies on her mother. Emma is dying, but she entrusts her mother with her three children. It’s a comical drama if you haven’t seen it yet.

When we think about the meaning of terms of endearment, we think about those pet words…

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Soap made from captured CO2

Darcy Hitchcock

Hotels use a lot of hot water, typically heated by gas. A device from a Canadian company can capture the carbon dioxide and turn it into a useful product, potash, that can be used to make soap or other products. The device also captures waste heat which can then preheat water or warm rooms.

Inside a Radisson hotel, hidden in a mechanical room, a black box roughly the size of two refrigerators is connected to the hot water heaters (which a hotel uses a lot). But they’re not to make the water hotter. The system helps capture CO2 whenever guests take a shower. The technology, from the Canadian company Clean02, reduces emissions from buildings by converting the CO2 from water heaters or furnaces into an ingredient that can be used to make soap or shampoo.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90770632/this-big-black-box-turns-the-co2-emissions-a-your-hot-shower-into-soap

Flue gas enters the chamber and reacts with potassium hydroxide. Every few weeks…

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Xmas Pear Pupus

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Enjoyable Eats: Xmas Pear Pupus! A popular Polynesian appetizer, served hot or cold, comes from the Hawaiian word “pūpū”. It can be anything from a buffet table of skewered meat, tempura veggies, raw fish, and other finger foods to simple cold trays of tropical fruits, deviled eggs, edamame, and smoked salmon. Remember to make everything bite-size when planning an informal gathering. Because pear trees live such a long time, their fruit is very symbolic during the holiday season. The pear often represents immortality, wisdom, and health; a treat fit for royalty. By creating a pear pupu platter, you’re giving your guests a gift of intangibles they may treasure for years to come. Get the conversation started. Serve freshly sliced ripe pears and cinnamon dusted pear chips with a wheel of warm Brie. How festive!

XMAS PEAR PUPUS

Ingredients:

2 pears, thinly sliced for baking

1…

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Humour In The Snippets!

Filosofa's Word

Sometimes snarky snippets can be humorous, too.


A bit of a disappointment, I guess

A man named Shahram Poursafi started planning to murder former national security advisor John Bolton in October in likely retaliation for his involvement in a drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani.  Poursafi, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, attempted to pay people in D.C. or Maryland up to $300,000 to carry out the murder, but was thus far unsuccessful and the FBI is currently attempting to locate him.

John Bolton was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s “Situation Room” on Wednesday.  Blitzer asked …

“The suspect put a $300,000 price tag on your head.  What goes through your mind, ambassador, hearing the details of this plot, as explained today in great detail by the U.S. Justice Department?”

I don’t know what sort of response I might have expected, but it wasn’t this one …

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