Florida family found guilty of selling bleach as fake Covid-19 cure through online church

A federal jury in Miami found Mark Grenon, 65, and his sons, 37-year-old Jonathan, 35-year-old Joseph and 29-year-old Jordan, guilty of conspiring to defraud the United States and deliver misbranded drugs, according to court records. Source: Florida family found guilty of selling bleach as fake Covid-19 cure through online church

Leading British scientists call for worldwide closure of mink farms over pandemic concerns

Mink farms are a pandemic “time-bomb” and should be closed worldwide, leading British virologists have warned, amid mounting concerns that the sites are breeding grounds for dangerous viruses to mutate.

In an article published in the journal on Thursday, scientists from Imperial College London said intensive mink farming for fur was not only unethical, but a major danger for human health.

Source: Leading British scientists call for worldwide closure of mink farms over pandemic concerns

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When I need cheering, when my smile is turned upside down, there is one person who can always bring a smile, make my toes tap, and put my world back to rights, even if only for a few minutes, and that person is none other than Stevie Wonder!  So, regardless of what I might have had planned for my a.m. music post, and regardless of the fact that I played this one just over a year ago, I’m playing it again!  Stevie … bring me a smile tonight … PLEASE????


I am told by several who have reason to know, that I don’t smile enough these days.  They are probably right, but in truth, I find little to smile about.  In the mirror, I see an old hag with a perpetual scowl and sad eyes.  However, there is one person who always brings a smile to my face, and that…

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Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows | Food | The Guardian

The research showed that vegan diets resulted in 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than diets in which more than 100g of meat a day was eaten. Vegan diets also cut the destruction of wildlife by 66% and water use by 54%, the study found. Source: Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows | Food | The Guardian

Florida Board of Education Approves Black History Curriculum

Basically they want to teach kids that slaves’ duties, including agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, helped them in the long run. So, we’re just going to skip over the part about the mental, physical and emotional damage caused by the horrors of slavery?

But should we really be surprised? After all, this is the state that shot down an Advanced Placement African American Studies course for high school students, claiming it had no educational value.

“Our children deserve nothing less than truth, justice, and the equity our ancestors shed blood, sweat, and tears for,” said NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson in a statement. “It is imperative that we understand that the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow were a violation of human rights and represent the darkest period in American history.”

Source: Florida Board of Education Approves Black History Curriculum

Reflexive Public Transportation?

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

Reflexive verbs can get no simpler than this!

Right, kids?

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Now, if only we can reflect on our own usage of various means of clean and healthy transportation…

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Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  Once I have found others to help with Project Do Better, I will rework these notes in my other languages.

Any thoughts on how your previously learned languages help hook the new material?
More soon,
and

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        Hopefully, the empathy that studying languages builds, and a little more good example via story, will help all of us learn to be more open to the needs, feelings, and happiness of others.
Hoşça kalın!  Saluton!  !Nos Vemos!  Salut !

Shira

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Water reuse systems that work in a building

Darcy Hitchcock

A Los Angeles hotel is installing a OneWater system that lets it take gray water from showers, laundry and sinks, then treat it, and use it again and again. Similar systems are now available for individual homes or communities too. The goal is to make water for nonpotable uses cheaper than buying water from the water provider.

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“There is no reason to only use water once,” said Peter Fiske, the executive director of the National Alliance for Water Innovation, a division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Just as natural systems use and reuse water repeatedly in a cycle driven by the sun, he said, “we now have technologies to enable us to process and reuse water over and over, at the scale of a city, a campus, and even an individual home.”

San Francisco is a leader. All new buildings over 100,000 square…

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