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Useful news for all to advance knowledge of the world and how it works

India Says VPN Firms Unwilling To Comply With New Rules ‘Will Have To Pull Out’ of the Country – Slashdot (Me: India wants to know what all Internet users in India are looking at and posting – dictatorship in the works.)

Source: India Says VPN Firms Unwilling To Comply With New Rules ‘Will Have To Pull Out’ of the Country – Slashdot

The Cost of Spent Life

The Twisting Tail

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans
John Lennon

Monoku: numbers don’t add up

ten thousand grains of rice, still the jar is empty


Epitaph: under the phallic tombstone

Here lies Michael Dickson
Mostly just known as Mick
But I knew his father better
So I called him a son of a dick


Couplet: choice makes the difference

In life, choice defines a way of livin’
In death, there is no quarter given


Get busy living or get busy dying

Stephen King


Shadorma: overcome costs

To enjoy
Ordinary life
Is no life
But to fight
Only able to survive
surrenders to fate


Each person's destiny is thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.


Aquarian: inner demons

journey
within observe
pandemonium reigns
in Hell


You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough

Mae…

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Florida Pharmacy Owners Sentenced in Tennessee for Multimillion-Dollar Nationwide Telemedicine Pharmacy Fraud Scheme | OPA | Department of Justice

Peter Bolos, 44, of Tampa, was convicted by a federal jury in December 2021 of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, 22 counts of mail fraud and introduction of a misbranded drug into interstate commerce. U.S. District Judge J. Ronnie Greer sentenced Bolos to 14 years in prison and ordered him to pay more than $25.6 million in restitution and $2.5 million in forfeiture. The court also sentenced Bolos’s co-defendant, Michael Palso, 48, of Tampa, to 33 months in prison and ordered him to pay more than $24.6 million in restitution. Palso previously pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy, as did 14 other defendants in related cases. The remaining defendants are scheduled to be sentenced later this week.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Bolos, Palso and their co-conspirators, Andrew Assad, Scott Roix, Larry Smith, Mihir Taneja, Arun Kapoor and Maikel Bolos, as well as various other companies owned or controlled by some of these individuals, deceived pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), such as Express Scripts and CVS Caremark, regarding tens of thousands of prescriptions. The PBMs processed and approved claims for prescription drugs on behalf of insurance companies. Bolos and his co-conspirators defrauded the PBMs into authorizing millions of dollars’ worth of claims that private insurers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, and public insurers such as Medicaid and TRICARE, paid to pharmacies controlled by the co-conspirators.

 

Source: Florida Pharmacy Owners Sentenced in Tennessee for Multimillion-Dollar Nationwide Telemedicine Pharmacy Fraud Scheme | OPA | Department of Justice

Do Better Wednesdays, Writing Process: Editing out a Chapter

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

This part of chapter six is mentioned later, so appears to be redundant:

Many groups require their students to give an hour or two of their time each week, or even ten or more hours per week, to a charity of their choice. This time spent in giving to a segment of their community is commendable, but does not contribute to solving the actual problem of the lack of critical thinking skills, nor any other difficult individual and societal problems. Teaching a person a critical life skill from scratch, however, does.

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Holistic High School Lessons,

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Shira


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Why Old-Growth Forests Matter So Much in the Fight Against Climate Change — Mother Jones

Barbara Crane Navarro

Few experiences have rendered me as awestruck as the winter morning I spent wandering through a grove of ancient sequoias, their sienna bark glowing against the snowy ground. 560 morewords

Why Old-Growth Forests Matter So Much in the Fight Against Climate Change — Mother Jones

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Illegal mining footprint swells nearly 500% inside Brazil Indigenous territories

  • Illegal mining inside Indigenous territories and conservation units in Brazil increased in area by 495% and 301% respectively between 2010 and 2020, a new report shows.
  • The worst-affected Indigenous territories were the Kayapó, Munduruku and Yanomami reserves, with a combined area of nearly 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres) occupied by illegal miners.
  • The trend is driven by the increase in international prices of gold, tin and manganese — the metals typically mined inside the reserves — as well as lax enforcement and lack of economic alternatives.
  • While mining inside Indigenous territories and conservation units is banned under Brazil’s Constitution, the current government is pushing for legislation that would allow it.

Source: Illegal mining footprint swells nearly 500% inside Brazil Indigenous territories

The Warm Wings of Wonder

From Behind the Pen

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Your wings already exist. All you have to do is fly. – Anonymous

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The man who has no imagination has no wings. -Muhammad Ali

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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. -J. R. R. Tolkien

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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? -Rumi

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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. -Ray Bradbury

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. -Salvador Dali

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You’re not going to see your dreams come true if you don’t put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on ’em. -Dolly Parton

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Those who fly solo have the strongest wings. -Unknown

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« Os Yanomami pensam e falam com a alma da terra, dos rios, das montanhas, da lua, das estrelas e do sol. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Neste mês, os Yanomami comemoram os 30 anos da demarcação de seu território, um marco na luta pelos direitos dos povos indígenas. Suas terras são protegidas em teoria, mas não de fato…O presidente brasileiro Bolsonaro apoia garimpeiros ilegais e incentiva indústrias extrativistas em terras indígenas. Ele e seu governo são cúmplices do massacre e da […]

« Os Yanomami pensam e falam com a alma da terra, dos rios, das montanhas, da lua, das estrelas e do sol. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Why Old-Growth Forests Matter So Much in the Fight Against Climate Change — Mother Jones — Barbara Crane Navarro

Few experiences have rendered me as awestruck as the winter morning I spent wandering through a grove of ancient sequoias, their sienna bark glowing against the snowy ground. 560 more words Why Old-Growth Forests Matter So Much in the Fight Against Climate Change — Mother Jones

Why Old-Growth Forests Matter So Much in the Fight Against Climate Change — Mother Jones — Barbara Crane Navarro