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Thursday Theories – Dinosaurs vs Humans

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Climate Change is a … HOT … topic! See what I did there.

Anyways, I saw something recently from a “I.T. Specialist” who said that it was

it is absurd and arrogant to think that we, humans, are a threat to the planet AND that we can modify the weather. If we try to accomplish this we will only ensure our extinction.”

Well…I gave him a few actual facts, and I quote myself here…

“It’s absurd and arrogant to think that human beings play no part in changing the climate. While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s. Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), after…

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Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 37, and Tours as Bridges in DC

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

     It is crucial that the tours we take, and the bridges we build, like the Duke Ellington Bridge, in DC, help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us today, and to come and work together, for all of us. 

     I still believe that attention to shared histories through walking (and singing!) tours may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that based on my own walking singing tour company, a few years ago, in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

 

” … an academic author and lover of history, it was clear that this forgotten cooperation was a story that needed to be told in as many ways as possible, for the sake of both communities, and for the city at large.  Many tours exist which view the history of one community or another in isolation from other communities…

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Alberto Caeiro

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Nem sempre sou igual no que digo e escrevo.

Mudo, mas não mudo muito.

A cor das flores não é a mesma ao sol

De quando uma nuvem passa

Ou quando entra a noite

E as flores são cor da sombra

E as flores são cor da sombra.

Mas quem olhar bem vê que são as mesmas flores.

Por isso quando pareço não concordar comigo,

Reparem bem pra mim:

Se estavam virando para a direita,

Voltei-me agora para a direita,

Voltei-me agora para a esquerda,

Mas sou sempre eu, assente sobre os mesmos pés-

O mesmo sempre, graças ao céu e a terra

E aos meus olhos e ouvidos atentos

E à minha clara simplicidade de alma…

Alberto Caeiro

https://www.pensador.com

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Imagem://Visiting Lisbon/ Belém, Lisboa, Portugal

Santarém, Pa 11 de novembro de 2021

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Garlic Roasted Thyme Tomatoes

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Food Whisperer: Garlic Roasted Thyme Tomatoes! Turn ordinary tomatoes into a savory side dish with earthy vigor. Have you experienced roasted garlic lately? Don’t hate me if I describe it as smooth and sweet as a dab of butter. Having said that, I can tell by the look in your eye, you’re gonna roast more garlic cloves than I pictured here. Go for it. By quick-roasting vegetables on high heat in the oven, you’ll notice a natural hint of smokiness that satisfies the palate. Although they turn from shiny smooth to a dull luster when finished, the taste is what will win you over. I promise you this, here’s a down-home recipe that will not disappoint.

GARLIC ROASTED THYME TOMATOES

Ingredients:

6 medium tomatoes

6 cloves garlic, peeled

5 sprigs fresh thyme

1/2 cup olive oil

Kosher salt

Cracked black pepper

Instructions:

Preheat oven…

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Ohio’s COVID cases per 100K people climbs back over 400

After weeks of declining COVID-19 transmission rates, Ohio saw an increase in cases per 100,000 people over two weeks.

Ohio reported an average of 410.5 cases per 100,000 people over two weeks, according to the Ohio Department of Health. On Nov. 4, the state recorded 354.3 cases per 100,000.

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All of Ohio’s 88 counties reported fewer than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people. The CDC’s definition of a high COVID transmission rate is 100 case per 100,000 people. None of the counties had fewer than 100 cases per 100,000. Defiance County had the highest transmission rate with 908.4 cases per 100,000 people. Athens County reported 176 cases per 100,000, the fewest reported in the state.

Source: Ohio’s COVID cases per 100K people climbs back over 400

Ohio’s COVID cases per 100K people climbs back over 400

After weeks of declining COVID-19 transmission rates, Ohio saw an increase in cases per 100,000 people over two weeks.

Ohio reported an average of 410.5 cases per 100,000 people over two weeks, according to the Ohio Department of Health. On Nov. 4, the state recorded 354.3 cases per 100,000.

All of Ohio’s 88 counties reported fewer than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people. The CDC’s definition of a high COVID transmission rate is 100 case per 100,000 people. None of the counties had fewer than 100 cases per 100,000. Defiance County had the highest transmission rate with 908.4 cases per 100,000 people. Athens County reported 176 cases per 100,000, the fewest reported in the state.

Source: Ohio’s COVID cases per 100K people climbs back over 400

Finally, A Settlement In Flint – by Erin Brockovich and Suzanne Boothby – The Brockovich Report

On Wednesday a judge approved a $626 million deal to settle lawsuits filed by the people of Flint, making money available to those most vulnerable—the children who were exposed to unsafe, toxic levels of lead in their drinking water. Adults with injuries, business owners, and anyone who paid water bills at that time will also have access to money from the settlement.

An estimated 10,000 kids were exposed to drinking water with unsafe levels of lead in Flint, a town of about 100,000 people.

It’s now November 2021 and this crisis began in April 2014. That’s 7 years! That’s way too long for any family to deal with health issues and water problems, and all the fear that goes with them.

Source: Finally, A Settlement In Flint – by Erin Brockovich and Suzanne Boothby – The Brockovich Report