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Day 14/67, High School in Five Months, Our Numerals, and mass transit

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We would have no transportation, public or otherwise, without a numbering system that allows us to calculate precise locations?  Decimal numbers, based on Arabic numerals, give us both precision and the ability, thanks to our positional numeral system, to express any number in fairly limited space (just try writing 10 billion in Roman Numerals!).  Our numbers, or rather, the symbols that we use to represent numbers, come from India via the Arabs, during the Middle Ages (“… up to the end of the fifteenth century“).  Any advocate for a democratic movement must both learn and share an understanding of number as system and statistic(s), for democracy to work well (there is also a need for good mass transit used by the middle classes, for a democracy to work well, but that is for another post, if you’d like):

Day14/67 Lesson Plan
Grammar online worksheets to choose from easy/medium/hard…

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Saguaro Sky

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

November is a special time for the ranges and basins of southern Arizona deserts. Climb a bajada of foothills, face west and wait for the sunset. That is what I did this day, November 3, 2005. East of Tucson the Saguaro National Monument at the foot of the Rincon Mountain Wilderness is where I parked, unpacked the photo gear and climbed the side of the Tanque Verde Ridge for a favorable view. Weather was pushing high level moisture from the west, clouds were developing.

You see here a shot from that session. In the distance, looking across Tanque Verde, are the Santa Catalina mountains. Months since the last rainfall, the giant Saguaros are using internal moisture reserves drawn up from a shallow root system, the flesh is less plump, the supporting structure of the ribs, always evident, are more pronounced. The last light catches these ribs in relief against a…

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Illegal gold mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500 % in a decade – The Nation —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Illegal gold mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500 % in decade – The Nation https://ift.tt/2WGcSCI Illegal mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500pc in decade  The Nation Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

Illegal mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500pc in decade – The Nation —

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Ils font danser leurs puissants esprits pour la protéger 🦉 — JEREMIKARUS

Barbara Crane Navarro

«A única razão pela qual a floresta ainda não está se transformando no caos é que alguns grandes xamãs ainda estão fazendo seus espíritos poderosos dançarem para protegê-la» — Barbara Crane Navarro — TinyLife «La seule raison pour laquelle la forêt ne se transforme pas encore en chaos, c’est que certains grands chamanes font encore[…]

Ils font danser leurs puissants esprits pour la protéger 🦉 — JEREMIKARUS

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10 Best Remote Jobs for Extroverts — MiddleMe

Are you someone who loves to be with people, interact with them and not be afraid to speak in front of a crowd? If that is a yes, you may be wondering what kind of jobs are available for extroverts like you, especially now that the pandemic is disabling many from going out and interacting […]

10 Best Remote Jobs for Extroverts — MiddleMe

GOP nominee accuses Soros of placing political operatives in schools – The Jerusalem Post (Me: At its root, GOP is antisemitic – period.

Jewish anti-defamation groups have said that attacks on the liberal Jewish billionaire and Holocaust survivor can cross into antisemitism, particularly when he is accused, often without basis, of working secretively to advance a far-left agenda. Soros’s political giving is in the open and he is often accused of backing initiatives with which he has no affiliation. Source: GOP nominee accuses Soros of placing political operatives in schools – The Jerusalem Post

B.C. musicians band together to fight anti-Asian racism – BC | Globalnews.ca

Many of the musicians in the newly formed Asian Persuasion All Stars have been on the Vancouver scene for decades now, each performing in their own respective bands.

But they’ve come together, some meeting for the first time not too long ago, galvanized after seeing racist attacks in the Asian community.

Source: B.C. musicians band together to fight anti-Asian racism – BC | Globalnews.ca

Myanmar authorities re-arrest more than 100 political prisoners after amnesty — Radio Free Asia

Authorities in Myanmar have re-arrested at least 110 political prisoners freed earlier this week—some within hours of their release—suggesting that the amnesty was only a bid by the junta to appease the international community amid criticism of its rule, observers said Thursday.

Nearly nine months after the military’s Feb. 1 coup, security forces have killed 1,183 civilians and arrested at least 7,031, according to the Bangkok-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)—mostly during crackdowns on anti-junta protests.

Source: Myanmar authorities re-arrest more than 100 political prisoners after amnesty — Radio Free Asia