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Site mostra o tamanho e importância da biodiversidade brasileira para o mundo — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Mais de três quartos de todas as espécies de anfíbios, mamíferos terrestres, peixes de água doce e salgada, formigas e plantas vivem nas regiões tropicais do planeta. E oBrasil tem uma contribuição impressionante: abriga 12% das espécies de plantas do mundo, 12% dos mamíferos e 24% as espécies de peixes. Esses números, que sãoresultado…

Site mostra o tamanho e importância da biodiversidade brasileira para o mundo — Ecoamazônia

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Amazon Eagle’s Last Stand as Deforestation Continues – The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Amazon Eagle’s Last Stand as Deforestation Continues – The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer https://ift.tt/3h8Ypa7 Amazon Eagle’s Last Stand as Deforestation ContinuesThe St. Kitts-Nevis Observer Superforest via “deforestation” – Google Newshttps://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

Amazon Eagle’s Last Stand as Deforestation Continues – The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer —

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Day 45/67 of GED in Five Months, community colleges, and, local lawmakers

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

 Aside from simplifying mathematical roots, Adulting often involves simplifying the roots of complex social and logical problems, too.  Seeing through false arguments, distinguishing red herrings from truth, finding the root cause of a situation, all require logical and persistent thinking, developed by mathematics.  Community colleges are one good place to learn these skills.

 Middle of week 12/18
Day 45 lesson plan

Grammar:  Coordinating conjunctions

Simplify Roots
Day 45 Exit Ticket
(Day 44Day 46)
 

Action Items:

1.) Search for two different reps in your state for whom you are a constituent.

2.) Email them to ask for increased Community College funding.

3.) Share  how each of the reps responded.

4.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those responses, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider…

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Amor por bibliotecas

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Real Gabinete Português/ Rio de Janeiro.

As bibliotecas são maravilhosas, atrativas não só bela beleza, mas em relação a riqueza cultural que guardam por séculos a toda humanidade. Ontem, 1 de Julho foi o dia da biblioteca. Há quanto tempo você não entra numa? Eis, um lugar que você que vem ao Brasil precisa conhecer:O Real Gabinete Português no Rio, um lugar incrível.

Hoje, eu fiquei com o coração maravilhado por estar diante um um lugar como disse “culturalmente rico a todos nós brasileiros (quem gosta de leitura irá compreender o que estou falando). O Real Gabinete Português é uma biblioteca tradicional cultural lusófona no centro do Rio.

Além de conhecer o Rio, “você se sente em casa”. A história dessa biblioteca tem quase dois séculos de memória guardada. Não só o tempo, mas a tradicional da herança portuguesa permanecem viva no projeto e estilo Português desse lugar.

Quanta riqueza…

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Benefits of Meditation

Be Inspired..!!

Meditation is the best way to take deep rest and be alert at the same time. It is a skill that calms the mind and allows you to get in touch with your inner self. It is the precious inner peace that is derived by meditating, by sitting still with ourselves for few minutes. The result of meditation is precious – it takes us to our Self – that too in just a few minutes.

Here are some benefits :

1. We develop the ability to respond, not react – Challenging situations and unsure times can be a cause for anxiety and may take away our awareness of the present moment. We are swayed by our emotions. We act on impulse even though we are required to take a calculated and rational decision. Meditation gives us the strength to accept situations as they are. We respond consciously to a situation…

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South Dakota Governor Uses Private Donation to Send Troops to Mexico Border – The New York Times

“It’s basically money laundering, and it’s turning the state National Guard into a mercenary force,” said Rachel VanLandingham, a former Air Force lawyer who is a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. “She’s using troops there that are a resource and have been paid for by taxpayers that are being used for a political show by a high-powered donor because the governor thought it was a good idea.”

Private funding of state National Guard troops was common in the 19th century, when mining companies subsidized military deployments to crush labor uprisings during the Industrial Revolution. A dedicated federal funding stream for the National Guard was created with what is often known as the Dick Act of 1903, named for the Ohio congressman who was chairman of the House Militia Affairs Committee.

“In terms of a governor accepting private money, there’s no historic precedent because the Guard is funded by U.S. and state tax dollars,” said Joshua Kastenberg, a military historian who served as an Air Force judge and is now a law professor at the University of New Mexico.

New Zealand Minesweepers Sink an Enemy Sub – Intermission Story (19)

Pacific Paratrooper

Kiwi attacking the I-1 submarine

A story I failed to locate from 1943.

By early 1943 the ships of the New Zealand minesweeping flotilla were patrolling along the Guadalcanal coast. The Americans had landed successfully, but Japanese land, air and sea forces held footholds and were still contesting the islands. Although the destroyers of the nocturnal ‘Tokyo Express’ were still active, the Bird-class ships’ usual targets were small craft and submarines attempting to land troops and supplies.

Lt.Cmdr. Peter Phipps, HMNZNS Moa

On the night of 29 January Kiwi and Moa were patrolling along Kamimbo Bay, on the north-western corner of Guadacanal, when Kiwi detected a submarine. It made a depth charge attack, but then lost contact. Kiwi continued to attack and on its third run, the damaged submarine surfaced and attempted to fight it out.

On paper it was two-to-one, but the Japanese…

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