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Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

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Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus — Palm Oil Detectives

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Day 55/67 of GED in Five Months, Linear Inequalities, and Health Care

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So, why do you think that it may be important to understand linear inequalities as they relate to Health Care, especially to health care outcomes for Black, Latino, and White Americans?

Today’s reading:

Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) lead to large coverage gains, some groups remain at higher risk of being uninsured, lacking access to care, and experiencing worse health outcomes. For example, as of 2018, Hispanics are two and a half times more likely to be uninsured than Whites (19.0% vs. 7.5%) and individuals with incomes below poverty are four times as likely to lack coverage as those with incomes at 400% of the federal poverty level or above (17.3% vs. 4.3%).”

 Start of week 15/18
Day 55, Week 15
Writing -Continue working on your Cons (or finish Pros) paragraph
math: Graphing linear inequalities
Who is behind today’s Science reading?
Please see the Lesson plan…

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European agency clears Moderna vaccine for children 12-17 – The Washington Post

The European Medicines Agency on Friday recommended authorizing Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, the first time the shot has been authorized for people under 18.

The EU drug regulator said research in more than 3,700 children aged 12 to 17 showed that the Moderna vaccine — already given the OK for adults across Europe — produced a comparable antibody response.

Source: European agency clears Moderna vaccine for children 12-17 – The Washington Post

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¿Es que, por usted, he perdido la razón? ¿Es que, por usted, alguna vez decidí modificar mi ruta y mi destino, hasta seguir, juntos, el mismo sendero? ¿Es que, por usted, mis letras aceptaron compartir las novelas y los cuentos -oh, mi arte tan amado- con palabras románticas, con textos poéticos, con alfabetos que se convierten en flores y en gotas de lluvia y de cristal al dedicárselos? ¿Es que, por usted, renuncié a mi soledad natural y ahora la sé mi musa y la siento conmigo? ¿Es que, por usted, asomé y abrí la puerta y las ventanas, y recibí los abrazos de las ilusiones, las caricias del amor y las miradas de un idilio inolvidable? ¿Es que, por usted, cuando escribo algún poema, le entrego un soneto, una canción, un concierto? ¿Es que, por usted, al escribirle…

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Land Grabbers: The Growing Assault on Brazil’s Indigenous Areas – Yale E360

One afternoon last month, several vehicles descended on a village in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where Avelin Buniacá Kambiwá and other members of some 20 Indigenous families were building their homes. Emerging from one of the cars, a man known only by his nickname, Piauí, shouted to his companions and anyone else within earshot, “Feathers are going to fly!”

He was referring to the feathered headdresses of the local Indigenous people. He was outraged, and he wanted them gone.

Piauí is what Brazilians call a grileiro, a land-grabber — someone who invades Indigenous or public land, or land that simply does not belong to them, before claiming it as their own. They frequently use fake documentation to carry out activities such as illegal logging, mining and real estate speculation.

Two years earlier, some members of the Pataxó and Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe peoples had lost their homes along the Paraopeba River after a tailings dam at a major iron ore mine collapsed. The Brumadinho dam disaster killed 270 people, spewed millions of tons of toxic waste into the river and surrounding communities, and left hundreds of Indigenous people homeless.

Source: Land Grabbers: The Growing Assault on Brazil’s Indigenous Areas – Yale E360

Top Indian newspaper raided by tax authorities after months of critical coverage – The Washington Post (Me: Repression over compassion again by Modi mob)

Indian tax authorities on Thursday raided one of the country’s most prominent newspapers in what journalists and the political opposition denounced as retaliation for the outlet’s hard-nosed coverage of the government’s pandemic response.

The Dainik Bhaskar Group, whose Hindi-language broadsheet boasts a combined circulation of more than 4 million, was raided simultaneously in at least four locations, including at its headquarters in Madhya Pradesh state.

Source: Top Indian newspaper raided by tax authorities after months of critical coverage – The Washington Post

Eight Months Later, a Vigilante Shooting Over a Trump Sign Divides Topeka – Akela Lacy July 22 2021, 6:15 a.m. — Just Sayin’

Families of the five teenage victims from a Halloween shooting incident console each other following a press conference at Santa Fe Park in Topeka, Kan., on April 12, 2021. Photo: Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal/Imagn Two white men in Kansas shot into a car of Latino teenagers and went home. Almost a year later, neither shooter is in […]

Eight Months Later, a Vigilante Shooting Over a Trump Sign Divides Topeka – Akela Lacy July 22 2021, 6:15 a.m. — Just Sayin’

Cuba – what will trigger Positive Change for Everyone?

The blockade or boycott of Cuba by the United States for 60 years has done what for freedom and prosperity of people in Cuba? Has the government fallen? No. Are Cubans in Cuba freer now than when their revolution succeeded? No.

Ummm… Is tightening the blockade now going to change things anymore than in the past 60 years? Not likely.

If former Cubans here in the US could send money to and visit relatives in Cuba, could that encourage change? Could be.

If Cubans could import US health related products at lower costs than from elsewhere, could that encourage change? Could be.

If American citizens were allowed to visit Cuba for research or vacations, could that encourage change? Possibly.

Time for changes in US approach to Cuba to improve life for Cubans? Could be.

Snarky Snippets Are Baaaaack!

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It’s been a while since I’ve done a snarky snippets post, though in truth almost all of my posts contain an element of snark!  Anyway … I have just a couple of short ones for you this afternoon …


Killing us softly with …

The big news yesterday was that the U.S. has seen a significant drop in life expectancy … the biggest decrease since WWII.  My first thought was … “Well duh.  625,000+ people dead in the U.S. from the pandemic – what do you expect?”  And certainly, the pandemic has played a role in the decline in life expectancy, but it isn’t the only culprit.  Turns out that the ever-expanding income disparity is one of the biggest culprits, and it has been bringing down life expectancy rates for a few years now, even before the pandemic.

During the second half of the 2010s, life expectancy fell on a…

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