A Bit Of This And A Tad Of That

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Just a few short snippets on my radar today …


Invasion of privacy

Beginning this summer, in order to access your file on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website, you will have to scan your face!!!  No!  Just NO!  The IRS can keep their damned website and I’m sure that if they need information or money from me, they will let me know … sans my picture!  This, to me, is a gross invasion of privacy!  According to an article in Popular Science …

“Users will need to submit a combination of documents and even a video selfie to ID.me, a third-party company, to verify their identity.”

And we should trust either this “ID.me” company OR the Internal Revenue Service WHY???  No!  Just NO!  Believe me, if the IRS wants to get in touch with you, they will definitely do so and without the invasion of your privacy that…

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Justice Department Secures Agreement to Make Online COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Accessible for People with Disabilities at Kroger Grocery Chain | OPA | Department of Justice

The Justice Department today announced that it has secured a settlement agreement with The Kroger Co. (Kroger) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that will eliminate barriers preventing people with certain disabilities from getting information about COVID-19 vaccinations and booking their vaccination appointments online. Kroger is an Ohio-based retailer with approximately 2,800 retail grocery stores under the Kroger name and other brands, with a presence in 35 states and the District of Columbia. Today’s resolution is the department’s third agreement on the critical issue of COVID-19 vaccination website accessibility, following settlement announcements in November 2021 (Rite Aid Corporation) and December 2021 (Hy-Vee Inc.).    Source: Justice Department Secures Agreement to Make Online COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Accessible for People with Disabilities at Kroger Grocery Chain | OPA | Department of Justice

How to Create Sustainability in The Workplace

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With climate change affecting every industry, sustainability in the workplace is becoming one of the important tenets companies and businesses of all sizes are trying to achieve. Studies have shown that having a sustainable workplace can reduce a business’s carbon footprint, safeguard its assets, make its employees happy and secure their long-term success.

But, how can one create a sustainable workplace? Below are some of the best ways on how you can introduce it in your workplace:

Sustainable Dining

Check what your in-house restaurant and cafe offer and see if they can provide healthy menu options instead of processed and unhealthy food and drinks.

You should also advise everyone to use reusable dishware instead of plastic or styrofoam containers.

Virtual Conferences

Another great sustainability goal your company can try is engaging in webinars or virtual conferences. This will help everyone save time and resources, especially office electricity use, gasoline for…

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Fun with Languages Fridays: Lupin, 1:5

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Fun with Languages Friday is French Fridays with Lupin, Chptr 5 ! Omar Sy style!!

***Spoilers!! ( episode 4 was last week…)

This episode should be called “I Know Everything: about Raul !”
They name Lupin’s son Raúl because, of course , the son of of Arséne Lupin, in the books is named Raúl. They have a very close connection, but he always lets her down even though he makes up for it stolen jewelry. He is a gentleman, but not the classic type. So of course we go from Raúl’s conception to the present day with his birthday and then tragedy strikes. This is a very good episode : showing Claire and their son and how closely connected the three of them are in an unconventional way. And of course the festival of Maurice Leblanc on his birthday at the fort from the story of L’aiguille Creuse

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Day 57/67: Five Month GED, Slope-Intercept Form, and Adults Follow the Funding

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     We live in a world swimming in documents, both online and in print, telling us things that we must decide how to use, as citizens of a republic.  Web sites are especially difficult to trace back to the initial source, since books have bibliographies and publishers that can be researched.  So, how would you solve part of the problem of verifying the veracity of a document, figuring out where the funding for a particular document or web site you are reading came from, and why those funders commissioned that site or study?

Today’s reading continues with atomic structure, but you can follow links to earlier pages on atoms, or go ahead with molecules, depending on what you’ve already covered in your science studies:

“The precise physical nature of atoms finally emerged from a series of elegant experiments carried out between 1895 and 1915. The most notable of…

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Four Individuals Indicted on Wage Fixing and Labor Market Allocation Charges | OPA | Department of Justice

A federal grand jury in Portland, Maine, returned an indictment charging four managers of home health care agencies with participating in a conspiracy to suppress the wages and restrict the job mobility of essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the one-count felony indictment filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, four Portland residents: Faysal Kalayaf Manahe; Yaser Aali; Ammar Alkinani; and Quasim Saesah — all owners and/or managers of home health care agencies — conspired to eliminate competition for the services of Personal Support Specialist (PSS) workers by agreeing to fix the rates paid to these workers and by agreeing not to hire each other’s workers. This indictment is the first in this ongoing investigation into wage fixing and worker allocation schemes in the PSS industry.

Source: Four Individuals Indicted on Wage Fixing and Labor Market Allocation Charges | OPA | Department of Justice

Il precariato della grande scienziata Amalie Emmy Noether

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Emmy Noether la più importante matematica - Una donna al giorno

Il nome della scienziata tedesca Amalie Emmy Noether(1882–1935) è legato all’omonimo teorema, ricevuto da Einstein in anteprima e pubblicato poi nel 1918, che mette in luce la profonda connessione trasimmetrie e leggi di conservazione.

Figlia primogenita del matematicoMax Noethel e di Ida Amalia Kaufmann, entrambi di origini ebraiche, nacque nella cittàbavaresediErlanger. Il suo primo nome era “Amalie” ma usò sempre il suo secondo nome.

Emmy era miope e non spiccava a scuola. Le fu insegnato a pulire e a cucinare e le furono impartite lezioni di pianoforte ma non aveva passione per nessuna di queste attività. Dopo aver acquisito l’abilitazione all’insegnamento del francese e dell’inglese non potè subito accedere all’università perchè allora era preclusa alle donne. Riuscì solo nel 1904 quando l’ateneo di Erlangen, dove suo padre insegnava, aprì le porte all’iscrizione femminile. Si laureò in soli tre anni e dopo lavorò all’Istituto di Matematica per sette anni senza…

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