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Si pudiera, esta tarde te daría un bote y un par de remos para que navegaras y sintieras, inesperadamente, las caricias del viento y las gotas de la lluvia, porque es necesario que te sepas vivo y que, con el crepúsculo postrero, no termina tu historia. O tal vez te obsequiaría un columpio con la finalidad de que te mecieras tras tus andanzas por el mundo. Si pudiera, esta noche te regalaría la luna, los cometas y las estrellas que alumbran y decoran la pinacoteca celeste, o te entregaría un paréntesis con la ilusión de que guardaras miedos, tristezas, desconsuelos, mortificaciones y enojos acechantes que solo lastiman e interrumpen los sueños y las ilusiones. Si pudiera, te pediría que te sumergieras en las profundidades de tu ser y del sueño. Si pudiera, al amanecer te despertaría y te recordaría…

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COVID protests in Germany: Orchestrated anger | Germany | News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 11.01.2022

The masterminds behind the protests are proceeding strategically. The right-wing extremist group “Free Saxons” kept announcing more and more simultaneous marches on Mondays, with the intention to deliberately overwhelm the police. The far-right extremists use chat groups on the encrypted messaging app Telegram to organize the protest action and incite hatred. Police officers are insulted as militias and mercenaries. Politicians and opponents are declared enemies of the people. The protesters are also increasingly receiving support from the populist far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, some of whose members have been classified as anti-constitutional and are under observation by the domestic intelligence agency.

Protest against the COVID deniers

Freiberg resident Sybill Matthes is worried about developments in her city. “We don’t treat each other with respect as we used to do,” she says. She complains that politicians and police should have banned gatherings much sooner to nip developments in the bud. “It almost got out of hand,” remarks Sybill Matthes, who is now taking to the streets in counterprotest.

Source: COVID protests in Germany: Orchestrated anger | Germany | News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 11.01.2022

Biden calls for changing Senate rules to allow voting bills to pass | TheHill

Biden called on the Senate to advance two pieces of federal voting rights legislation: the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. He described both measures as remedies to efforts by Republican-led state legislatures to pass bills making it more difficult for certain groups to vote.

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“I’ve been having these quiet conversations with members of Congress for the last two months. I’m tired of being quiet,” Biden said, pounding the lectern for emphasis.

Biden argued the two bills would directly address some state-level bills that were passed last year to make mail-in voting tougher and give more autonomy to elected officials over counting ballots, or what he deemed “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has vowed to take up election legislation in the coming days. If Republicans block it, which is expected, Schumer has said he will bring up a rules change vote by Monday, Jan. 17.

But a handful of moderate Democrats, most notably Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), have been vocal opponents to gutting the filibuster, warning it could backfire if Republicans retake the majority.

“We need some good rules changes to make the place work better. But getting rid of the filibuster doesn’t make it work better,” Manchin told reporters hours before Biden’s speech.

The president did not specifically name Manchin, Sinema, or any other member of the Senate. But he argued history would harshly judge any lawmaker who stood in the way of securing the right to vote at a time when democracy in the U.S. was facing grave threats.

“This is one of those defining moments in American history,” Biden said. “Each one of the members of the Seante is going to be judged by history on where they stood before the vote and where they stood after the vote. There’s no escape.”

Source: Biden calls for changing Senate rules to allow voting bills to pass | TheHill

COVID-19 cases surge in LAPD; more than 800 personnel out – Los Angeles Times

LAPD Chief Michel Moore told the civilian Police Commission during its morning meeting Tuesday that there were 562 new cases among department personnel in the prior week alone, after 424 new cases the week before.

A total of 803 personnel in the department of about 12,200 were out.

Those figures represent a massive increase from the 82 new cases the week ending on Christmas, and from less than 30 new cases per week as recently as a month ago, Moore said. There were 89 officers out sick or quarantining a month ago.

Source: COVID-19 cases surge in LAPD; more than 800 personnel out – Los Angeles Times

Day 32/67, GED in Five Months, Learning Styles, and Polygons

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

 Adulting is also about understanding how you learn most effectively, is it not?  The multiple sides of any issue or problem are sort of like the edges of a many-sided object, aka a polygon, no?

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See the lesson plan for more…

Start of week 9/18
Day 32 Lesson Plan
Grammar: Essay Writing -keep working on your Introductory Paragraph
Math: Drawing polygons in the coordinate plane
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( Day 31 … Day 33 )

Action Items:

1.) What do you think the concept of multiple learning styles may (or may not) have to do with Adulting?

2.) Share your  thoughts with us, and why you think them, and

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public…

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Pfizer booster tied to fewer COVID cases in health workers | CIDRAP

Israeli healthcare workers who received a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had significantly lower rates of infection in the next 39 days, according to a single-center study yesterday in JAMA.

On Jul 30, 2021, the Israel ministry of health began offering booster COVID-19 vaccines to people 60 and older, later expanding availability to younger residents. In the United States, boosters are now available to people ages 12 and older and for those 5 to 11 with compromised immune systems.

Source: Pfizer booster tied to fewer COVID cases in health workers | CIDRAP

Helsinki, Finland – Day 3 — 100 Country Trek

Market Square – We spent hours here making sure to see every craft store. There are some wonderful Finnish handicrafts here. We buy a couple of lovely wooden hats and a numbered print from a local artist of a reindeer. There are so many fur garments not able wear these anymore. There were lots of […]

Helsinki, Finland – Day 3 — 100 Country Trek