Why Child Care Staff Had to Show Up While Teachers Worked Remotely – The New York Times (for clicks and attention: create a division between unionized teachers and childcare workers and then present it as news? Not a good move NYT)

“When there’s a school closure, they don’t even include us, we are always an afterthought,” said Maria Collier, who runs the center, which serves mostly low-income Latino students. “We were deemed essential workers. But if teachers are in Department of Education schools, they were not essential workers.”

Over the last year, some educators, school officials and teachers’ union leaders in New York and across the country have declared that teachers are not babysitters, and that schools are not child care centers. The sentiment has been meant to convince the public that teachers should not be responsible for supervising children just so that parents can return to work.

But while some educators have been able to work from home for much, if not all, of the pandemic, child care centers have emerged as substitute schools for many thousands of American children for whom online learning is not an option.

Opinion: German politicians must realize this is no time for caution | News and current affairs from Germany and around the world | DW | 18.03.2021

For politicians, playing safe in emergencies isn’t necessarily the best approach, as the current situation goes to show. Of 1.6 million people who have received the first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Germany, three died of thrombosis. This is doubtless tragic and needs to be investigated. But was it necessary for Germany, like a whole series of other countries, to immediately suspend use of the AstraZeneca vaccine? Better safe than sorry? Well, the impact of this decision is predictable: The rate of vaccination in Germany will slow down and even more people will die, particularly as the number of cases is increasing rapidly.

Source: Opinion: German politicians must realize this is no time for caution | News and current affairs from Germany and around the world | DW | 18.03.2021

How to Deal With Anxiety At Night – Invisibly Me

Anxiety can be exhausting & debilitating if not managed well. Many find it can become more bothersome before bed, with the evening hours gradually ramping up stress and anxiety. Both issues can be incredibly damaging, and both may be all the more prevalent this year given the stress of the Covid19 pandemic. Mental and physical health go hand in hand, and these things shouldn’t be underestimated. Source: How to Deal With Anxiety At Night – Invisibly Me

Mudskippers

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

BrothersKadaandMatiwere abandoned as babies on the muddy banks of the riverGangesin theShovabazararea of nostalgic North Kolkata. While some thought them to be the unwanted seeds of a prostitute from neighbouringShonagachi, Asia’s largest flesh-market, others believed them to be Demigods, sons of the GoddessGangesherself.

It was a wet and cold August night in 1980.Chandrabhanu Pal, a local idol-maker was on his nightly rounds collecting a special kind of glistening river clay for his unique idols. This special clay could only be found at particular spots, where Mudskippers wiggled and aired it to an ideal texture most suitable for the master’s sculptures.

On that chilly moonlit night, while searching for this very precious clay,Chandrabhanusaw something on the muddy riverside, that would change his life forever.

He spotted two creatures that looked like skippers shimmering in the…

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C.D.C. Says 3 Feet in Elementary Schools With Masks Is O.K. – The New York Times (misleading headlines support public disbelief about everything – thanks but no thanks NYT)

The three-foot rule also now applies to students in middle schools and high schools, as long as community transmission is not high, officials said. When transmission is high, however, these students must be at least six feet apart, unless they are taught in cohorts, or small groups that are kept separate from others.

The six-foot rule still applies in the community at large, officials emphasized, and for teachers and other adults who work in schools, who must maintain that distance from other adults and from students.

FBI Needs Help

In Saner Thought

My past situations have made me no fan of the FBI…..but after 06 January and the moronic insurrection by Right wing idiots the FBI has asked help from the public to identify some of the criminals that attacked law enforcement officers in and around the Capitol…..I shall put me bias on hold.

I admit it I was a radical back in the day and as radical as I was in my politics we NEVER considered the actions that was taken by this pack of idiots on 06 January….for that reason I have decided to help the FBI spread the word and in doing so maybe we can make the bastards pay for their actions.

So in the spirit of help preserve the republic I will assist in some small way…..

Capitol Violence

The FBI’s Washington Field Office has released new information and videos of suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal…

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La Tierra no es una mercancía y todos somos parte de la Naturaleza. — The Earth is not a commodity and we are all part of Nature.- Barbara Crane Navarro

Entrevista | El escritor y líder indígena Ailton Krenak cree que la Tierra es un organismo vivo y que, si la humanidad continúa al ritmo depredador que vive, entrará en la lista de especies en peligro de extinción.  Foto: Neto Gonçalves / Companhia das Letras « Estamos experimentando la fiebre del planeta ». Esto es lo que […]

La Tierra no es una mercancía y todos somos parte de la Naturaleza. — Barbara Crane Navarro

VEM comigo!

“We live fighting with reality, at the same time that we forget to live life, and when we realize it is late, only the residue is left”, and the shadow of who we were. So, don’t waste your precious time, with the wind curve, or with the fact of being enchanted by the leaves fallen to the ground. Rather, make your days what poets do with your verses “make them fertile”. Then try to fill the emotional gaps with ambition! .. Madness is not believing that we can make each day a unique spectacle.

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” Vivemos brigando com a realidade, ao mesmo tempo que nos esquecemos de viver a vida, e quando percebemos é tarde, só sobra o seu resíduo “, e a sombra de quem fomos. Por isso, não perca o seu precioso tempo, com a curva do vento, nem com o fato de se encantar com as folhas caídas ao chão. Antes, faça dos seus dias, aquilo que os poetas fazem com os seus versos ” fecunde-os”. Depois, trate de preencher as lacunas emocionais com ambição!..

Loucura é não acreditar que podemos fazer de cada dia, um espetáculo único.

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