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LA County reports 3,000-plus new coronavirus cases, 8 more deaths – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The Week’s Best Cartoons 8/7
As she does every Saturday, our friend TokyoSand has scoured the ‘Net for the best political cartoons of the week. There are a couple of really great ones this week. As you might guess, the big topics of the week are the COVID surge and Andrew Cuomo. Here are a few, but be sure to head over to TokyoSand’s place, Political Charge, to see the rest! The very last one on TokyoSand’s page is especially touching. Thank you for all your hard work in finding these, TS!
Be sure to check out the rest of the ‘toons over at Political Charge!
Spain bans small boats from stretch of water after orca encounters | Spain | The Guardian (Me: Orca defending “their” territory!)
The most recent order was aimed at preventing “further incidents with orcas” the ministry said in a statement. “Since 27 March – the date of the first encounter [this year] – the cetaceans have had 56 interactions with small sailboats, at times causing rudder failure. Up to 25 cases required the services of Spain’s maritime rescue to tow vessels into port.” Source: Spain bans small boats from stretch of water after orca encounters | Spain | The Guardian
Fernando Pessoa
Vivaldi translation: ”Life is what we make of it. Travel is travelers. What we live is not what we see, but what we are. ”
Fernando Pessoa.
” A vida é o que fazemos dela. As viagens são os viajantes. O que vivemos não é o que vemos, senão o que somos. “
Fernando Pessoa.
Marii Freire Pereira
https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!
Imagem: jccabral_color/ Porto, Portugal, Europa/ Instagram
Santarém, Pá 8 de Agosto de 2021
Barbara Crane Navarro : « L’objectif de mes films, projets d’installation et livres pour enfants est d’attirer l’attention sur la forêt tropicale et les questions autochtones ». — Causes perdues


Femme Yanomami en train de peindre le visage de sa fille avec de l’achiote Dès 1978, Barbara Crane Navarro vit à Paris et exerce ses talents d’artiste-peintre. Depuis plusieurs décennies, elle crée des œuvres « inspirées par le temps passé avec les communautés Yanomami au Venezuela et au Brésil pendant les mois d’hiver ». Voyager[…][…]
Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas — Palm Oil Detectives



The enigmatic blue-billed curassow (Crax alberti – local name “Paujil”), endemic to the tropical humid forests of northern Colombia, is the cracid species most threatened with extinction in the wild from#deforestation
Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas — Palm Oil Detectives
Tristes tropiques : les Nambikwara du Mato Grosso — DR livres et publications

“Le monde a commencé sans l’homme et il s’achèvera sans lui.” Cette phrase est tirée de “Tristes Tropiques” (1955) de Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologue et ethnologue. Mais l’acculturation des autochtones et la déforestation n’étaient pas encore aussi fortes à son époque qu’aujourd’hui . Il a visité des tribus encore sauvages du Mato Grosso central, une région[…]
Tristes tropiques : les Nambikwara du Mato Grosso — DR livres et publications
Portland bars, restaurants band together to form vaccine coalition | Local News | kptv.com
A growing number of Portland bars and restaurants have joined forces to form a Vaccine Coalition requiring customers to show proof of vaccination status. TJ Fuller, the owner of Tomorrow’s Verse Taproom, said he found out about the coalition on Facebook after it was initially spearheaded by another business owner. Fuller said the goal is to get more bars and restaurants to start asking for proof of vaccination. “The goal for me is to keep my staff, my guests, my family, any musicians who perform in my neighborhood and my community safe,” Fuller said.
Source: Portland bars, restaurants band together to form vaccine coalition | Local News | kptv.com
Day 64/67 of GED in Five Months, lines and laws, and transporting us to the stars!
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
Ad Astra! But, how do we get there?
Today’s reading discusses Newton’s proofs of Kepler’s earlier laws, based on both observation and mathematics. After all, if we can see it, but don’t know how much food and fuel we need to get there, it might be a longer trip than we thought!
“ Newton’s Principia (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687), the foundational work of modern science. Newton used classical geometry and the emerging techniques of differential and integral calculus to give mathematical derivations from general fundamental principles of essentially all the quantitative physical laws known at the time.One of the main achievements was the derivation of Kepler’s laws from an inverse square law for gravity …”
End of Week 17/18
| Day 64 lesson |
| Grammar: Compound sentences |
| Math: comparing slope of two or more lines |
| Science: reading science history, with the help of a little math… |
| Please see the… |
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