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Monografia : Red Nichols
Red Nichols – one of my old time favorites!
A beautiful Sunset in Africa

Admiring a sun setting is part of pleasure while visiting a new country… But I can’t explain why it is so unique and special for me in Africa 😉
Do you feel the same for your country or for an another location?
Sunset, also known assundown, is the daily disappearance of thesunbelow the horizondue toEarth’s rotation. As viewed from everywhere on Earth (except the North and South poles), theequinoxSun sets due west at the moment of both the Spring and Autumn equinox. As viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the sun sets to the northwest (or not at all) in the Northern hemisphere’s spring and summer, and to the southwest in the autumn and winter; these seasons are reversed for theSouthern Hemisphere.
The time of sunset is defined inastronomyas the moment when the upper limb of the Sun disappears below the horizon. Near the horizon,atmospheric refractioncausessunlight…
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Day 8/67 High School in 5 Months: Library Apps, and San Diego Futures Foundation
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
| Day 8 Lesson Plan as a PDF file |
| Today’s Grammar activity is with tomorrow’s lesson: Comparatives & Superlatives |
| Khan Academy activity: subtracting fractions with unlike denominators |
Remember that the San Diego Public Library has an App for mobiles that allows those with a SDPL libray card to place books on hold, search for books, etc. The SDPL also allows patrons to have two hours of free internet on library computers each day.
If you need a low-cost laptop, the San Diego Futures Foundationmay be able to help.
Action Items:
1.) Search for two different sources related to free laptops in your area.
2.) Share them with us in the comments, here, please.
3.) Share your thoughts on how a having a laptop might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking,
4.) Write a story, post or tweet that…
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For Brazil’s persecuted Krenak people, justice arrives half a century later
- A federal court has condemned Brazil’s federal government, the Minas Gerais state government and the country’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, for human rights violations against the Krenak Indigenous people committed under the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985.
- Decades of reports, witness statements and evidence show torture, beatings, solitary confinement and forced labor were commonplace in the Krenak Reformatory and Guarani Farm, considered concentration camps by the Federal Public Ministry.
- Speaking Indigenous languages, drinking alcohol, and resisting land invasions by farmers were among the supposed infractions to justify the arbitrary imprisonment of Indigenous individuals deemed rebels by the regime.
- The court has ordered the federal government to organize an official ceremony for a public apology with national coverage, as well as deliver reparations.
Source: For Brazil’s persecuted Krenak people, justice arrives half a century later
The DEATH of NATURE – Gold and Diamond Merchandise – The ART of Greenwashing by the Luxury Merchants of the Death of Nature and Indigenous Peoples…in their own words… updated 2021

In Thomas More’s “Utopia,” published in 1516, gold and precious stones have no value. Indeed, they carry the weight of blood, slavery and human madness …

photos: Fondation Cartier – Luc Boegly / gold mining site – João Laet
photo of Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela and photomontage – Barbara Crane Navarro
The Art of Manipulation:
The corporate contrivanceof art sponsorship was so perfectly described in 1994 by Hans Haacke in “Free Exchange”, the book by Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke, that I’m quoting here from the English version published by Polity Press in 1995: “One would underestimate the Venice Biennale if one were to think that it is only concerned…
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Teachable moment: Decolonization and Indigenous Liberation— LANDBACK Friends


Yesterday I wrote why decolonization and Indigenous liberation is the only way to mitigate the damages done from unrestrained fossil fuel extraction and burning. From a lifetime’s experience I know just saying something like that doesn’t register for most people. Stories or events that impact a person’s life directly are what we learn from. I[…]
Apogeu da liberdade
Vivaldi translation: If a bird decides to land in your hand, make it feel comfortable. Do not arrest him, because he is arrested, he loses his charm. Leave him free so that when he flies, he wishes to return. If you do, it is because you have won it.
Birds in cages are birds without charm. The greatest show of respect and care we can take for them is by letting them enjoy what is their own – freedom. Perhaps, among so many, man’s greatest dream. Flight is freedom itself translated into a ballet full of grace and beauty. They own their wings, and are lost in the immensity of nature.
“Happy bird, it’s free bird!”
Marii Freire Pereira
Se um pássaro resolver pousar na sua mão, faça com que ele se sinta confortável. Não o prenda, porque preso, perde o encanto. Deixe-o livre para que voando, ele deseje voltar. Se assim o fizer, é porque você o conquistou.
Pássaros em gaiolas, são aves sem encanto. A maior demonstração de respeito e cuidado que podemos ter por eles, é os deixando desfrutar do que lhes é próprio – a liberdade. Talvez, dentre tantos, o maior sonho do homem. O voo é a própria liberdade traduzida num balé cheio de graça e beleza. Eles são donos de suas asas, e se perdem na imensidão da natureza.
“Pássaro feliz, é Pássaro livre!”
Marii Freire Pereira
https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!
Imagem & criação: Marii Freire Pereira/ pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!
Santarém, Pá 1 de outubro de 2021

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