class of plan - 1st bim - 2nd theme - career plan

review: 1st theme (with 6wh questions)
forgetting curve - review - 1;7;30;60 days

(a) class orientation: Providing the objectives for which a specific task/lesson/series of lessons take(s) place

- a) oral drill, filling mindmap - 10 minutes
- b) written text explanation - 10 minutes
- c) reading about theme text (reading strategy) or oral presentation or ENEM Question - 10 minutes
- d) lyrics or poem (6whq) - 10 minutes

(b) class structure: Outlining the content to be covered
(c) class structure: signalling transitions between lesson parts

Oral Drill

work in pairs: ask your closest colleague:
"what is your chosen job?"
"which are +  aspects of it? (while, but,)
[work memory: < =7 items at a time]
"which are - characteristics of it ?
(while, but,)
"how much money will you get, at the beginning"  and
"who will help you get there?"
"what will you/they/it do for help you?
"how will ----- do it?"
"why will this help?"

new questions: 2 per class / asked for 5 students
review: earlier classes questions asked for 2 or 3 students, dependent of class level

scaffolding example

scaffolding - per class or per theme (??)
1st theme-
Teacher ask 5 st: "what is you chosen job?"

2nd theme
a) Teacher asks for Student one: "What is your chosen job?"
b) Student one ask students two: "What is your chosen job?" - st2 ask st3; st3 ask st4; st4 ask st5

3rd theme
a) teacher ask student 1: What is your chosen job?
b) Student 2 ask st3 about st1 chosen job: "St3, What is S1 (his/her) chosen job?"
c) teacher ask st4: What is your chosen job?
d) S5 ask st6 about st4 chosen job: "St6, What is St4 chosen job?"

Answers according to students level:
basic: keyword answer;
intermediate: longer modelled answer;
advanced: free speech possible answers

Student one: enginering/ My chosen career is ------'.
  I don't know.
           I am shy (inference).
           I don't want to participate, because...
           He or She do not know yet
           He or She did not do the exercise! (Don't want to be a snitch)  (tattletalle, snitch, informant, grass, mole, spy)

presentation and written text (intersection of 3 circles)
      -    learning ( learning, strategies and focus)
      -    job choice (career, competition and education)
      -   robots and AI ( tech revolution, robots, ethics)
       -  work and robots ( robots, work, and education)
       -  career's planning (

Written Text modeling structure:

- introduction: What
- Dev 1: Why
- Dev 2: Which were +-,
- Conclusion: intervention proposal: who could/would; what could/should/must; how could/should/must/ought;

Conversation:

two questions added per class (10 first minutes)

(ask to five students, mainly at the backbench)

- What is your dream job?
- Why do you want to work at this job?
- Which are some positive and some negative aspects about this job? ( so much labor)
- How much money will you probably get, annually, at the -------- of your career, according to your job? (beginning; middle; ending)
- Who can do something to improve your chances at getting this job? (you, your family, the school, the government)
- What do _____ can do?
- How do ------ can help?
- Which are another things ------- can do?
- Which effects are expected?

          class planning

a 1 - 1 lirics  per week; poem per week, ENEM question ( next week music: at facebook - students share choices with links at specific thread and the most voted will be your translated and  listened))

ENEM Question - multiple choice question per class

English Enem or 2019 Enem various subjects translated to English

A2 - 1st reading together in english, 3nd translating together, ask questions about text)

b1 – Written text

one written text each 4 classes - 1 part per class

(introduction [what; who; when; where];

dev1: why - causes [conjunctural, underlying, structural];

dev2: which - consequence [short; middle; long term];

conclusion: intervention - how to deal - (who- what - how - which effects; local - regional - global)

middle (reading activity)

c1- reading a written thematic text per class (wh q&a; causes and consequences; intervention proposal

deepening a learning strategies  (1 study/reading/written  strategy per bi-weekly subject)(pre-view tittle, source, skimming, scanning, textual genre, contradiction, incoherence, phrasal topic) - see core standards gradation)

Reading  Cartoons or graphics (main subject - specific information) - Wh-question

C2 - Oral presentation - each student different presentation - (1 coordenator-organizer):

- presenting (presentation moderator),

writing text (dissertative;)

- debating ( 2 people)

- visualizing (2 people);(6wh mind map, drawing)

performing (dance; theater)

creating (ludic activity; play) narrative; poem

verbalizing - free speech about subject; pedagogical

ENDING class (oral practice)

D1 - oral Wh questions about subject of the week (given at the last class - flipped classroom;  fill blackboard mindmap - Oral practice

a2 - drill and conversation  practice including at least two wh-question per class (pair work? )

- visualize the question while your classmates ask them?

Answers =Extending thinking time (from 3 to 5 sec)

- beginner - only key words
- intermediate - complete answer
- advanced - complete answer and related example

a3a- wh-questions alternate close and open questions -

(what [who; where;when];

why [i-u-b];

which [s-m-l]  (+|- but - adjectives);

how [l-r-g]) (who [individual, collective, institution, government], what, how, details, which effects)

about bi-weekly theme -

a3b - begin with "what" and each class add two other wh-q

10 students asked per each class (remember: 4 classes per sub-theme)

A4- next class question [what; why; which; or how] flipped classroom

End class

- question  to think while listening: what is the main subject? (without answer)

- listen to music and following worksheet

- translating together

- read together in English

- answering question

  (most listened on vagalume or spotify or billboard)

(https://www.billboard.com/charts/streaming-songs)

D3 - read -Last week top trending topic from Google

D 4 - 1 series or movie plot (most watched on Netflix) (https://reelgood.com/) - subtitles

D5  - 1 book first paragraphs

February - (learning and writing strategies)

March - career choice ang main invention in chosen field

april -robots; artificial intelligenge s; cellphone)

2nd bimester (table of intervention)

may -  cultural diversity - graphite and cinema (stereotypes and representation)

June - (Internet and social media problems; cyberbullying; fake news; game addiction;

3rd bimester (three cicles intersection's area)

august   - water (lack, contamination: urban; agriculture and pesticides)

September - beauty patterns; food problems; suicide

September  - greatest inventions and tech revolution (greatest inventions; cars; vaccines - antivaxx; computer; cellphone

4th bimester

- Outubro até Enem

        - learning strategies review

          1 question Enem per class)

November

climate change (anthropogenics and consensus; causes (industrialization/); consequences; intervention)

questions for evaluating

exercise - open questions

rec. paralela - open and multiple (closed)

provao  - multiple choice

questions structure

a)  subject of the text  (specific as main)

b) causes (basic,  immediate,  or underlying) (March )

c) consequences  (long term, short, or middle) ( April)

d) how to deal (individual, collective, or institutional)  (may)

questions main subject of the text

a) specific info

b) main

c) contraction with specific info

d) not related or inferences (irrational, or illogical)

- Utilizando questões do Enem para prática
-  exercício avaliativo nos dias 5 e 6/11
- simulados e correções de últimas quatro provas do Enem.

Novembro pós-enem - Reading and study strategies - going deep

Writing

  4 texts

        Learning strategies

         Learning styles

        Evaluation strategies

        Reading strategies

         Writing strategies

oral presentation

demonstrate their learning, which can include:

verbalizing,

visualizing,

writing,

performing,

presenting,

debating, and

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers

Oral presentation

         Presentation a text about learning

   Choose a theme and a textual genre

Exercício (alternativa)

-    Dois exercícios - nota média aritmética dos dois
- Dois exercícios, cada um valendo 4 ponto
- Osegundo servindo como
-           2nd chamada para quem perdeu
-            recuperação paralela para quem não conseguiu média

revisão Enem

A- Graffiti and contestation: social and class relations

B- Media and beauty patterns: anorexia and bulimia

Marketing and consumerism:

C- Social media and post-truth discourse: antivaxx

Internet forums and anti-science discourse

D- Movies and representation: racism

Cinema and gender representation

- Education: homeschooling and social segregation

Career

o consumismo,

o desperdício e

a obsolescência programada.

arts

cinema and representation

social medias and hate speech

graffiti and

internet e pós-verdade e discurso anticiência

         movimento antivacina

         terraplanistas

         theory of evolution and criacionism

Discurso de ódio na internet

           antifeminismo

           racismo - anti-cotas

escola

      - alfabetização e Letramento digital: com melhorar os processos de aprendizagem

      - educação domiciliar  (homeschooling)

      - Evasão Escolar

      -  violências na escola

                  (física, psicológica,

                    bullying, intelectual )

     -  escola cívico-militar

youth

       - redução da maioridade penal

       - weapons acess- mass shootings

       -  extremism - youth radicalization

       - epidemia das drogas

       - spread of sexually transmitted disieses

Migrações

          cultural diversity and difference

          fronteirs - empire strikes back

           prostitution - trafic human

internet

   - over-exposition - depressão -

   -  increase in suicide rates

   - deepfake - you, wherever you want

   - fakenews

    - cyberbullying

   - nudes, sexting and child pornography

   - paedophylia

“Temas ‘engajados’, que sugiram pautas associadas a movimentos sociais ou a uma visão de mundo mais progressista, como questões identitárias ou de gênero, racismo, feminismo ou pautas LGTBQ+, bem como aquelas ligadas à preservação ambiental não devem aparecer na redação”. (Marcelo Pavani, Oficina do Estudante)

https://m.vestibular.brasilescola.uol.com.br/enem/10-temas-que-podem-cair-na-redacao-enem-2019.htm

Mediterranean diet and gut bioma

After the year was over, those who had followed the Mediterranean diet saw beneficial changes to the microbiome in their digestive system. The loss of bacterial diversity was slowed, and the production of potentially harmful inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein and interleukin-17 were reduced.

At the same time, there was a growth of beneficial bacteria linked to improved memory and brain function, the study said. The diet also appeared to boost "keystone" species, critical for a stable "gut ecosystem" and which also slowed signs of frailty, such as walking speed and hand grip strength.
Previous publications from the ongoing study found those who followed the diet closely had improved episodic memory and overall cognitive ability. Higher adherence to the diet also reduced the rate of bone loss in people with osteoporosis and improved blood pressure and arterial stiffness.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/17/health/mediterranean-diet-microbiome-wellness/index.html

Sanders proposals' support

ny polls have documented what the public thinks about Sanders’ policy positions, and the evidence is overwhelming: From a wealth tax to minimum wage, they are extremely popular.

Last March, a CNBC/All-American poll illustrates this: support for paid maternity leave, 85%; government funding for childcare, 75%; boosting the minimum wage, 60%; free college tuition, 57%. Medicare for all came in at 54%. In October 2019, The Hill reported on an American Barometer survey that found “70% of the public supported providing ‘Medicare for All,’ also known as single-payer healthcare.”

Another key policy proposal with broad public support is a wealth tax that both Sanders and Elizabeth Warren support. According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll (1/10/20), nearly two-thirds of respondents agree that the very rich should pay more. Among 4,441 respondents, 64% strongly or somewhat agreed that “the very rich should contribute an extra share of their total wealth each year to support public programs.” Support among Democrats was even stronger, at 77%, but a majority of Republicans, 53%, also agree with the idea.

https://fair.org/home/factchecking-nprs-attempted-takedown-of-bernie-sanders/

Direito a preguiça

"Lafargue escreveu O Direito à Preguiça, colocando ao centro de sua reflexão a necessidade de recuperar algo muito similar ao conceito latino de otium: para romper as grades da prisão, os subproletários deveriam reapossar-se daquele tempo que os antigos dedicavam ao estudo, ao cuidado com o espírito e à estruturação do pensamento."
https://outraspalavras.net/mercadovsdemocracia/cronofagia-o-roubo-do-tempo-do-sono-e-das-ideias/

Sinn Fein’s Victory is Ireland’s ‘Brexit Moment’

Sinn Fein’s Victory is Ireland’s ‘Brexit Moment’ When Left-Out Voters Turn on the Elite
by PATRICK COCKBURN
“People wanted to kick the government and Sinn Fein provided the shoe to do the kicking,” says Christy Parker, a journalist from the beautiful but de-industrialised town of Youghal in county Cork. He speaks of the “chasm” between the elite benefiting from Ireland’s impressive economic progress and the large part of the population that has been left behind.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/17/sinn-feins-victory-is-irelands-brexit-moment-when-left-out-voters-turn-on-the-elite/

Can Sanders Do it? Jan 31, 2020 James K. Galbraith

 As of 2019-2020, the Core Sanders has been supplemented by an “Expanded Sanders” program comprising the Green New Deal (GND), a federal job guarantee, a wealth tax, and a plan to abolish and forgive student-loan and medical debts. Of these four policies, the first two would be expansionary or stabilizing in their economic effects. The third is, in my view, impractical, and the fourth is perhaps more far-reaching than is generally appreciated.
 By boosting incomes without creating new consumption goods, the GND is similar to an industrial mobilization for war. The increase in income from GND-related activities will be partly offset by a decrease in wasteful finance, private health insurance, and excessive medical provision (somehow defined), as well as reductions in military spending consistent with ending America’s forever wars.
 But how, then, would the GND be funded? True “financing” is a matter of real resources, not scrounging for tax revenue. As noted above, those real resources would come from cutting back on finance, health insurance, unnecessary medical provision, and the military, and by mobilizing residual unemployed and underemployed workers toward more useful and necessary activities. Tax revenue would then come from these workers’ earnings, and from more effective levies on the profits of the companies that employ them.

 Among the circumstances likely to face a Sanders administration in 2021 are those left over from the 2008 financial crisis, which gave way to a decade of slow but steady growth, accompanied by a broad reduction of unemployment. The decline in the unemployment rate partly reflects an aging workforce and decreased immigration, but mainly a large increase in new service-sector jobs paying mediocre wages. As a result, an ever-growing number of US households have come to rely on multiple earners to make ends meet.Meanwhile, neglect of public investment has accelerated physical decay in many parts of the country. Mitigating and adapting to climate change demands major investments, and a large share of the available physical resources will need to be committed to carrying out a successful transition to a clean-energy economy. Obviously, this has not happened under Trump.

Sanders Can Do It

Whether an economic program as a whole succeeds or fails largely depends on how its various components add up. Based on a general evaluation of Sanders’s agenda, it appears that a reasonable answer to the question of whether he can do it if given the chance is: Yes, he can. The Sanders movement is growing, and the candidate’s program is popular. Equally important, the Sanders agenda is largely coherent as a matter of basic economics, broadly balanced between elements that boost economic growth and those that free up resources, and largely consistent with the broader conditions, domestic and international, that the next US president is likely to face.
 https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/what-if-bernie-wins-by-james-k-galbraith-2020-01

Events in Syria have Taken a Dangerous Turn

In recent days, we’ve been witnessing a noticeable deterioration of the security situation in Syria. Hostilities are being reported both the in Idlib and Aleppo governorates, where radical militants are desperately trying to regain control of sections of the M5 highway they had to surrender. Gunfights are being reported near the village of al-Rashidin to the west of Aleppo.

https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/15/events-in-syria-have-taken-a-dangerous-turn/

Some Economic and Political Factors of Coronavirus Outbreak

At present, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the global economy is potentially heading for a disaster. It would suffice to allude to various problems that are bound to arise when foreign investment and capital flow into the Chinese economy dry up. After all, the PRC has been one of the key drivers of growth of the global economy.


https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/16/some-economic-and-political-factors-of-coronavirus-outbreak/

capital cities the best places to live?

What makes capital cities the best places to live?

Capital cities, no matter the size, are centres of
economic and institutional resources, and the
quality of life they offer contributes to their
competitive advantage, especially in attracting
investment and highly qualified labour forces.Quality of life data show that in most countries, the capital city has advantages compared to the regions outside the capital. In light of the continued growth of capital city populations and the concentration of resources within them, this policy brief explores the source of the advantages of capital cities in quality of life. Are these advantages mostly related to specific demographics that these cities nurture and attract? Or do these advantages stem from opportunities that major cities provide due to their scale and economic growth?
The policy brief aims to clarify why policy should focus on both the economy and society when it comes to advancing economic, social and territorial cohesion.

In Europe, people living in the capital city generally have a better quality of life than people living in other parts of a country. On this basis, it seems that capital cities are indeed the best places to live.

Capital cities have, by and large, larger proportions of people who report feeling resilient – able to cope during times of hardship – compared to other urban centres and rural regions in the same country. Some characteristics of city populations – such as a younger age profile and higher educational attainment – contribute to resilience, while others, such as housing insecurity, erode it. The findings suggest that some other latent factor, possibly related to opportunities for economic advancement and improving one’s living standards, could underlie the extra resilience that capital cities provide.
 The findings are drawn from the European
Quality of Life Survey 2016, which monitors
different dimensions of quality of life examined
here: individual quality of life and well-being,
quality of society, and quality of public
services.

https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/policy-brief/2020/what-makes-capital-cities-the-best-places-to-live?&utm_campaign=quality-of-life-and-public-services&utm_content=ef18025&utm_source=social-europe&utm_medium=banner
 Eurofound (2020), What makes capital cities the best places to live?, European Quality of Life Survey 2016 series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

$5.34 Ladder Defeats $2.5 Billion wall

Brilliant New $5.34 Ladder Defeats Not So Brilliant $2.5 Billion Trump Fever Dream

by

Abby Zimet, Further columnist

Now, Mexicans still determined to come here despite our national mayhem have discovered a new, cheap, go-to method of scaling Dear Leader's pesky, pointless pet project. Using two lengths of light, cubed, readily available rebar called castillo - ubiquitous in Mexican construction and LOL the wall itself - they're fashioning hook-and-ladder rigs; the rebar is fitted with steps, and connected to four thinner poles bent into a U-shape to hug the top of the wall. The rust-colored rebar is naturally, fortuitously camouflaged, barely visible against the rust brown wall. And it's dirt cheap: Six meters of castillo cost 99 pesos, about $5.34, at Juárez' Hágalo - or Do It Yourself - True Value hardware store.

Last spring, the new ladders started turning up near the El Paso section of wall, where the number of single male migrants who mostly use them has nearly doubled in recent months; border agents say the level of "evading activity" has likewise soared. Last week, they found 9 ladders in one spot. Meanwhile, the whole stretch of border is littered with rusted rebar - waiting on the Mexican side, yanked down on the U.S. side, poking from dumpsters, their users long gone. Outwitted and conscripted into ludicrous service, agents say all they can do is pull abandoned ladders off the wall, cut them up, and hope they can't be used again. "It's a very powerful, very powerful wall," Trump brayed at a September rally there, "the likes of which, probably, to this extent, has not been built before."

"A wise man lets a fool build a wall before choosing the height of his ladder.” - Socrates

Think the US is more polarized than ever? You don’t know history

February 14, 2020 5.23pm ESIt has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturally than at any other point in our national past.
As a historian who has written and taught about the Civil War era for several decades, I know that current divisions pale in comparison to those of the mid-19th century.
Between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at Appomattox in April 1865, the nation literally broke apart.
More than 3 million men took up arms, and hundreds of thousands of black and white civilians in the Confederacy became refugees. Four million enslaved African Americans were freed from bondage.https://theconversation.com/think-the-us-is-more-polarized-than-ever-you-dont-know-history-131600

Facial expressions don't tell the whole story of emotion

by Laura Arenschield, The Ohio State University

"Some claim they can detect whether someone is guilty of a crime or not, or whether a student is paying attention in class, or whether a customer is satisfied after a purchase," he said. "What our research showed is that those claims are complete baloney. There's no way you can determine those things. And worse, it can be dangerous."...
After analyzing data about facial expressions and emotion, the research team—which included scientists from Northeastern University, the California Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin—concluded that it takes more than expressions to correctly detect emotion.
Facial color, for example, can help provide clues.
"What we showed is that when you experience emotion, your brain releases peptides—mostly hormones—that change the blood flow and blood composition, and because the face is inundated with these peptides, it changes color," Martinez said.
The human body offers other hints, too, he said: body posture, for example. And context plays a crucial role as well.,,,,https://techxplore.com/news/2020-02-facial-dont-story-emotion.html

Bloomberg Misleads on Stop-And-Frisk

Bloomberg Misleads on Stop-And-Frisk

February 14, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg misleadingly stated that he “cut” the police practice of stop-and-frisk — a policy that he “inherited” — by “95%” by the time he left office as mayor of New York. There were nearly twice as many stops in his last year as mayor compared with the year before he took office.

impossible to fight for socialism from within the Democratic Party

Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic Socialists of America say it is possible to fight for socialism from within the Democratic Party. Such a political program is not real socialism and can lead only to disaster.

...
 What the ruling class does fear, however, is that the growing opposition to capitalism will develop on an independent, revolutionary basis in the working class. Sanders serves to contain this opposition and, in his words, take discontented youth and “bring them into the Democratic Party.”
...

The Democratic Party is the oldest capitalist political party in the world. Founded in 1828, it carries in its political DNA all of the American ruling class’s great crimes.


This was the party of the southern slaveowners before the Civil War, of the forced removal and massacre of Native Americans, of Jim Crow segregation and of the anti-Chinese and anti-Japanese restrictions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is the party that jailed socialists and immigrants during World War I and dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the conclusion of World War II.
The Democratic Party launched and sustained the Korean War and Vietnam War, ended “welfare as we know it,” supported the hyper-criminalization of nonviolent drug use, voted for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, passed the PATRIOT Act, kept Guantanamo Bay open, and bailed out the banks after the market crash of 2007-08.

Instead of helping Sanders save the Democratic Party, the IYSSE and SEP appeal to you: take action by supporting real socialist candidates in the 2020 elections, Joseph Kishore for president and Norissa Santa Cruz for vice president.
Our campaign recognizes that the fight for socialism means turning toward the working class, the chief progressive social force under capitalism. This class, comprised of billions of people in every country, has the power to transform the world.
Awakening the tremendous political energy of this social force requires educating workers and dispelling the lies of the corporate media. Fighting for socialism means making workers aware of their common class interests, giving them an understanding of the nature of capitalist society, and explaining the role of the state, the police, the courts and the political parties of the different factions of the capitalist class.

 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/14/lett-f14.html

Warmer climate and mass migration

Warmer climate leads to current trends of social unrest and mass migration: study

 

Research by an international team of scientists led by University of New Mexico Professor Yemane Asmerom suggests contraction of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) during a warming Earth, leading in turn to drying of the Neotropics, including Central America, and aggravating current trends of social unrest and mass migration.

Positioned near the equator where the trade winds of the northern and southern hemisphere converge, the ITCZ is the world's most important rainfall belt affecting the livelihood of billions of people around the globe. Globally, seasonal shifts in the location of the ITCZ across the equator dictate the initiation and duration of the tropical rainy season. The behavior of the ITCZ in response to the warming of the Earth is of vital scientific and societal interest.

 "What we found was that in fact during the Medieval Climate Anomaly Southern Belize was very dry, similar to modern central Mexico. In contrast, during the Little Ice Age cool period, when it should have been dry by the standard old model, it was the wettest interval over the last 2000 years," said Asmerom. "The pattern that emerges when all the data across the full transect of ITCZ excursion is supportive of the expansion-contraction model." The implication of this that regions currently in the margins of the ITCZ are likely to experience aridity with increased warming, consistent with modeling data from Central America. These data have important implications for rainfall-dependent agriculture system on which millions of people depend for food security.

Co-author and UNM Professor of Anthropology Keith Prufer is an environmental archaeologist, who has been conducting research in Belize for 25 years. "In the last five years there have been mass migrations of people in Guatemala and Honduras—partially driven by political instability, but also driven by drought-related conditions and changes in seasonality. This is creating enormous problems for agricultural production and feeding a growing population. There is growing evidence that these changes are a direct consequence of climate change."
"This work highlights the convergence of good science with policy relevancy. It also illustrates the strength of cross-disciplinary collaborative work, in this case international," said Asmerom.

 

 

by University of New Mexico

seniors looking for assisted living

 For more than a decade, “assisted living” residences grew faster than any other segment of the long-term care industry. Typically more home-like than a full-care nursing facility, assisted living is often favored by people who are generally independent, but still need support with daily activities. In general, providers offer fewer medical services, though many provide health and memory care for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.

 

 We and our colleagues track the ever-changing circumstances of long-term care in the U.S. As we study policies and practices, we have observed that the expansion of assisted living is clearly a game-changer, creating new challenges in the industry. Many states have increased assisted living regulation in recent years. Some consumer advocates have called for nursing-home style federal rules, though others oppose this, saying assisted living should remain flexible enough to serve residents with a range of needs, from personal care only to end-of-life comfort.

Using criteria formulated from prior research, along with information provided by some states, we examined 39 key elements of each website. Those elements included the size of the facility, cost, license status, the insurance it accepts, and any special services offered, such as memory care. We also looked at each website’s usability – the ease in finding critical information.

more and more people are choosing assisted living. The government is now funding many residences to provide care for low-income disabled citizens. Their needs – and vulnerability – are significant, enough for states to reassess their roles in protecting assisted living residents. Adding accurate and detailed content to their websites would be a great first step. 

https://theconversation.com/incomplete-and-inadequate-information-lacking-for-seniors-looking-for-assisted-living-129426

career and technical education

My research has found that the best investment in career and technical education is when it’s targeted toward schools that design all instruction around developing career paths, say, as an electrician or as a nurse’s assistant. Career and technical education can also improve high school graduation and employment when it is integrated with core subjects and offers work-based learning.
The proposal also calls for allocating $83 million to competitive grants to states. Proposing competitive grants suggests that the administration will look to fund states with the most innovative proposals. This is in contrast to just giving out money based on how many students a state may serve, which is how most of the federal funds for technical education are allocated.
Trump also wants to double fees associated with H1-B visas – visas that allow for the hiring temporary workers from abroad with high skills that are in short supply in the U.S. This hike could raise an additional $100 million or more. The idea here seems to be to use revenue collected from programs that use talent from abroad to invest in educating students here in the United States.

.., the only technical education programs that research has shown lead to improved graduation rates and higher wages are whole-school models.
 https://theconversation.com/trumps-big-bet-on-career-and-technical-education-131558

read more
https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-we-know-about-career-and-technical-education-in-high-school/

Readings 18/01/2020

Election, 
Cambridge Analytica and the end of elections, by Nanjala Nyabola

The latest Cambridge Analytica leaks show just how compromised voting - one of the pillars of democracy - has become.

Public Health; Suicide
Black kids and suicide: Why are rates so high, and so ignored?, by Rheeda Walker
"Black youth may be less likely to share their thoughts of loneliness or depression than other youth, which could be a reason for higher rates of death by suicide among black youth"

Militarism Has Become Enormously Popular and Nearly Universally Accepted by HOWARD LISNOFF

Militarism Has Become Enormously Popular and Nearly Universally Accepted

by HOWARD LISNOFF

On December 13, 2019, the segment “188 Democrats vote for Trump’s Bloated Defense Budget” aired on The Read News. Here’s host Marc Steiner about 13 minutes into the discussion of the $738 billion so-called defense “budget” that will stoke the profits of the permanent war contractor class to levels of stratospheric proportions for the endless wars the US now fights and supports: "I mean the people in this country and from many and interesting and good reasons support their military.”

When the antiwar group I was involved in in 2001 gave up the ghost and disbanded in response to the rise of militarism following the heinous attacks on September 11, 2001, I knew the handwriting was on the proverbial wall for the celebration of all things connected to war and militarism. Many go hungry in the US, schools aren’t properly funded, the environment decays beneath our feet, and millions of others can’t get good medical care, but anything the military and its contractors want is okay in this not-so-new world order.

Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers, by Dean Baker- Counterpunch

Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers

The impact of trade was devastating for large segments of the U.S. workforce. It cost 3.4 million manufacturing jobs (20 percent of the total) between the years 2000 and 2007. (It cost almost 40 percent of all unionized manufacturing jobs.) Note, that this was before the Great Recession, which began in December of 2007.

... deals like the TPP are largely about locking in rules on items like intellectual property protections and preserving Mark Zuckerberg’s dominance of the Internet. The TPP, like other recent trade deals, calls for longer and stronger patent and copyright monopolies.

These protections are 180 degrees at odds with free trade. They are about shifting more income from the bulk of the population to people who benefit from rents on patents and copyrights, by making them pay more for drugs, medical equipment, software and a wide variety of other items.

...

Biosphere Collapse? by ROBERT HUNZIKER

BiosphereCollapse? (Counterpunch)

(...) global governments plan to increase fossil fuels by 120% by 2030, including the US, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, Canada, and Australia.

Additionally, over that past 18 months China has added enough new coal-based power generation (43GW) to power 31 million new homes. China plans on adding another 148GW of coal-based power, which will equal the total current coal generating capacity of the EU.
India increased coal-fired power capacity by 74% over the past 7 years. The country expects to further increase coal-generated capacity by another 22% over the next 3 years.

China is financing 25% of all new worldwide coal plant construction outside of its borders, e.g., South Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Meantime, China, kissing goodbye to its commitment to cut emissions, cuts renewable power subsidies by 30%.

Mining and water pollution

Water. Water-pollution problems caused by mining include acid mine drainage, metal contamination, and increased sediment levels in streams. Sources can include active or abandoned surface and underground mines, processing plants, waste-disposal areas, haulage roads, or tailings ponds. Sediments, typically from increased soil erosion, cause siltation or the smothering of streambeds. This siltation affects fisheries, swimming, domestic water supply, irrigation, and other uses of streams.

Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a potentially severe pollution hazard that can contaminate surrounding soil, groundwater, and surface water. The formation of acid mine drainage is a function of the geology, hydrology, and mining technology employed at a mine site. The primary sources for acid generation are sulfide minerals, such as pyrite (iron sulfide), which decompose in air and water. Many of these sulfide minerals originate from waste rock removed from the mine or from tailings. If water infiltrates pyrite-laden rock in the presence of air, it can become acidified, often at a pH level of two or three. This increased acidity in the water can destroy living organisms, and corrode culverts, piers, boat hulls, pumps, and other metal equipment in contact with the acid waters and render the water unacceptable for drinking or recreational use. A summary chemical reaction that represents the chemistry of pyrite weathering to form AMD is as follows:

"Yellowboy" is the name for iron and aluminum compounds that stain streambeds. AMD can enter the environment in a number of ways, such as free-draining piles of waste rock that are exposed to intense rainstorms, transporting large amounts of acid into nearby rivers; groundwaters that enter underground workings which become acidic and exit via surface openings or are pumped to the surface; and acidic tailings containment ponds that may leach into surrounding land.

Read more: http://www.pollutionissues.com/Li-Na/Mining.html#ixzz5ypIXITXK

SindUte MG, subsede Lafaiete, na Tribuna Popular na Câmara

Olá, tudo bem?
Nessa quinta feira, 27/06, durante sessão na Câmara de Vereadores de Lafaiete, que começa às 19:30,  o SindUTE-MG, subsede Lafaiete, ocupará a "Tribuna Popular".
A fala será relativa à educação e à reforma da Previdência.
Contamos com sua presença.

30M paralisaçao da Educação

Ocorreu uma manifestação pela educação, e contra os cortes no orçamento da educação superior, ensino médio, básico, fundamental e pós-graduação, nesta  Quinta-feira, 30 de Maio de 2019, em Congonhas, a partir das 15.

O ato, também por investimentos em educação pública,  gratuita, de qualidade e inclusiva, ocorreu na Praça JK, com uma caminhada pelas ruas do centro de Congonhas.

Líderes sindicais, de partidos, de movimentos sociais, de estudantes secundaristas e outras pessoas  presentes falaram contra  os cortes na educação. Alguns também convocaram   o público para nova manifestação no dia 14 de Junho, chamando Greve Geral.

A principal pauta foi contra os contingenciamentos em torno de 30% no orçamento de custeio na educação

Estes cortes atingem todos os níveis  da educação:
- Universidades e Institutos Federais (Verbas para custeio, que pagam água, luz, manutenção, terceirizados, bolsas permanência para estudantes de baixa renda, etc);
- FNDE ( financia, entre outros, o FIES e o FUNDEB - Fundo nacional de desenvolvimento do Ensino Básico; Pronatec - Programa Nacional do Ensino Técnico, etc.)
- MEC
- CAPES (financia grande parte das pesquisas e de Bolsas  de Mestrado e Doutodo, na pós graduação brasileira).

O ato nacional foi convocado por entidades Estudantis, como a UNE (União Nacional dos Estudantes), a Ubes (União Brasileira dos Estudantes Secundaristas) e a ANPG (Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduandos).

Em Congonhas foi organizado por representantes do SINASEFE (Sind. Nac. dos Servidores Federais da Educação), que representa servidores do IFMG Congonhas, do Sindicato Metabase Congonhas, que representa trabalhadores da Mineração,  e teve o apoio de movimentos sociais e entidades, entre outros e representantes do Sind-UTE (Sindicato Unificado dos trabalhadores da Educação de Minas Gerais), da Subsede Lafaiete.

Você apoiou ou foi contra o ato?

Vander Resende, Prof., Diretor de Formação Sindi-Ute Mg, subsede Lafaiete.

Deformação da Previdência - pressione seus representantes

LUTO pela Aposentadoria 

Você é a favor da Deformação da Previdência?

Você sabe como seu deputado Federal e Senador quer votar?

Ele é a favor da :

- Aposentadoria de Mulheres: só aos 62 anos
- Aposentadoria de Homens: só aos 65 anos
- Pensão: só 60% da aposentadoria
- Idoso Pobre: 1 Salário Mínimo só aos 70;

... e muitas outras bondades ...;

Motivos do genocídio:

- Fraudes Fiscais por grandes empresas;
- Não cobrança de dívidas dos ricos; 
- Banqueiros, como Paulo Guedes, querem seu dinheiro nos Bancos;
- et ali

Saiba mais em: FBP-CL

Organização: Frente Brasil Popular – FBP-CL

aposentadoria em condições especiais

DAS REGRAS DE TRANSIÇÃO RELACIONADAS AO REGIME GERAL DE PREVIDÊNCIA SOCIAL

Aposentadoria dos trabalhadores cujas atividades sejam exercidas em condições especiais prejudiciais à saúde

Art. 21.  Ressalvado o direito de opção à aposentadoria pelas normas

estabelecidas no art. 24, o segurado de ambos os sexos filiado ao Regime Geral de Previdência Social até a data de promulgação desta Emenda à Constituição cujas atividades tenham sido exercidas com efetiva exposição a agentes nocivos químicos, físicos e biológicos prejudiciais à saúde, ou associação desses agentes, vedada a caracterização por categoria profissional ou ocupação e enquadramento por periculosidade, durante quinze, vinte ou vinte e cinco anos, nos termos do disposto nos art. 57 e art. 58 da Lei nº 8.213, de 1991, poderá aposentar-se quando o total da soma resultante da sua idade e do tempo de contribuição e o tempo de efetiva exposição forem, respectivamente, de:

I      - sessenta e seis pontos e quinze anos de efetiva exposição;

II    - setenta e seis pontos e vinte anos de efetiva exposição; e

III  - oitenta e seis pontos e vinte e cinco anos de efetiva exposição.

§ 1º  A partir de 1º de janeiro de 2020, as pontuações a que se referem os

incisos I a III do caput serão acrescidas de um ponto a cada ano para o homem e para a mulher, até atingir, respectivamente, oitenta e nove pontos, noventa e três pontos e noventa e nove pontos, para ambos os sexos.

§ 2º  A idade e o tempo de contribuição serão apurados em dias para o cálculo

do somatório de pontos a que se referem o caput e o § 1º.

§ 3º  Lei complementar estabelecerá a forma como as pontuações referidas

nos incisos I a III do caput serão ajustadas após o término do período de majoração a que se refere o § 1º, quando o aumento na expectativa de sobrevida da população brasileira atingir os sessenta e cinco anos de idade. 

§ 4º  O valor da aposentadoria de que trata este artigo corresponderá a

sessenta por cento da média aritmética definida na forma prevista no art. 29, com acréscimo de dois por cento para cada ano de contribuição que exceder o tempo de vinte anos de contribuição na atividade especial, exceto para aquela que se refere o inciso I do caput, cujo acréscimo será aplicado para cada ano que exceder quinze anos de contribuição.

Aposentadoria por condições prejudiciais

Somatória      Efetiva exp       Idade                2020          2032     2036           2042

66 –                 15              +  51 anos              67                                                  89

76 –                 20              + 56 anos               77                                93       

86 –                   25                + 61 anos                87                  99

Velório da aposentadoria: 23/03/2019

O velório da aposentadoria será em breve! Tá sabendo?

A aposentadoria está dando seus últimos suspiros!  

Com tristeza, comunicamos aos nossos caros amigos acerca do iminente velório da  vilipendiada moribunda. 

O ofício fúnebre ocorrerá no dia 23/03, sábado às 10h da manhã, em Lafaiete, no calçadão entre o Terminal de Integração e a Rodoviária.

Convidamos aos interessados e prejudicados pela PEC 06/2019, da "deformação da previdência", para o velório da aposentadoria pública, repartitiva e equitária.

Felizmente o herdeiro - a capitalização privada, individualista e inequitária - já está tomando conta dos despojos, antes mesmo do óbito. E sendo responsável por vilipendiá-la de forma inclemente.

Se muit@s comparecerem ao velório, sairemos em cortejo fúnebre: precisaremos de ao menos 6 pessoas para levar o caixão.
E gostara de saber:
Você se dispõe a auxiliar a carregar esse caixão?

Você sente que vai ser prejudicado pela "deformação da previdência" do Brasil?

Você vai poder participar desse primeiro velório e cortejo?

Enfim: Vamos "beber o morto" em Conselheiro Lafaiete, Mg, dia 23/03?

 

De qualquer forma, meus sentimentos!!

Vander Resende, prof. Ms.

Mais informações, atualizações e necrológio: 

 https://vanresnews.blogspot.com/2019/03/velorio-da-aposentadoria-23032019.html

Luto pela aposentadoria

LUTO pela Aposentadoria 

Cortejo Fúnebre

contra a Reforma da Previdência

Vá de roupas fúnebres!

Quando: Sábado,  23/03/2019, às 10h -

Onde: Calçadão entre Rodoviária e Terminal de integração de em Lafaiete

Contra:
- Aposentadoria de Mulheres: aos 62 anos
- Aposentadoria de Homens: aos 65 anos
- Pensão: 60% de aposentadoria
- Idoso Pobre: 1 Salário Mínimo aos 70;
... e várias outras bondades ...;

Motivos do Assassinato:

- Fraudes Fiscais por grandes empresas;
- Não cobrança de dívidas dos ricos; 
- Banqueiros, como Paulo Guedes, querem seu dinheiro nos Bancos;
- et ali

Organização: Frente Brasil Popular – FBP-CL

Aula dada, aula estudada

Manhã: Assiste à aula e faz anotações de explicação de professor
Tarde: transcreve palavras-chaves de anotações em Mapa mental
Noite: reedita, estuda e reescreve  mapa mental

"O Brasil tem milhões de alunos, mas pouquíssimos estudantes" (prof Pier)

Estudar é basicamente Transcrever as ideias principais?

"Inteligência, talento e vocação são aprendidas, a genética influi muito pouco"

Demanda 5 - canal de denuncias

Demandas em discussão

5 - criar canal no YouTube para denúncias de ônibus quebrados, sujos, dilapidados, superlotados, fora de itinerário, etc;

Quem concorda

O que acham?
Canal de denuncias sobre problemas com a empresa de transporte público coletivo de Conselheiro Lafaiete.

Serviria para levantarmos dados para pedir a revisão do contrato e a quebra do monopólio.

https://vanresnews.blogspot.com/2019/02/demandas-do-coletivo-transporte-publico.html?m=1

Etapa do processo de reajuste da passagem

Amigos, não vai haver o aumento nesses dias não.

O prefeito declarou em programa na Rádio, segundo o Fato Real, que quer uma análise de custos por especialistas, o que vai atrasar um pouco o processo.
Depois, a que se cumprir alguns requisitos:
- reunião do conselho de transporte
- audiência pública na Câmara (com aviso prévio de no mínimo 10 dias)

Se fossem acelerar o processo, não sairia antes do fim de março, considero.

Vander Resende

https://www.fatoreal.com.br/v3/prefeito-quer-discussao-responsavel-sobre-aumento-da-tarifa-de-onibus/

Abaixo Assinado contra aumento da passageme vorte de gratuidades

Abaixo-assinado

Já há uma manifestante recolhendo assinaturas para um abaixo assinado, contra o aumento da passagem e corte das gratuidades. Já tem mais de 60 assinaturas.

Você pode ajudar, também recolhendo assinaturas, CPF,  endereço e telefone?

Que dia e hora vc pode ir ao terminal de integração?

Ou vc pode pegar assinaturas no seu bairro?

Se quer assinar o abaixo- assinado, vá na Câmara dos Vereadores, na próxima quinta-feira.
Conversamos lá.

Link e convite para compartilhamento

Olá.
Esse é o link do grupo.
Https://chat.whatsapp.com/FFV3A0oLAojB1m61c0gWRS
Se puder Compartilhe o link com amigos e colegas de escola e trabalho.
Principalmente aqueles que possam ter interesse em dialogar de forma construtiva, por um Transporte Público de Qualidade em Lafaiete e contra o aumento da passagem e contra a corte nas gratuidades.
Valeu
Vander Resende

Demanda 4 - projeto de lei de fim de exclusividade

Olá, a partir das conversas no grupo, nas e na Câmara Municipal, elaborei mais algumas demandas.

Vou colocar uma por vez para discussão. Depois revisamos as anteriores, para avançar na elaboração da Carta pública.

Proposta 4 - procurar vereadores para propor lei que estabeleça o "fim da exclusividade" de apenas uma empresa no transporte coletivo de Lafaiete (para que a cidade não fique REFÉM da empresa que detém a concessão), com a inclusão de pelo menos duas novas empresas;

Embora haja divergências - e muitas considerações  já tenham sido feitas, sobretudo em relação aos  custos fixos -  considero que devemos colocar a questão do fim da Exclusividade, como proposta de lei para discussão pelos vereadores.

Comentem, por favor.

Para ver todas as demandas acesse:

https://vanresnews.blogspot.com/2019/02/demandas-do-coletivo-transporte-publico.html?m=1

Aumento de passagem em CL: recomposição do CMTT

"Durante manifestação popular realizada na terça-feira, dia 26, o vereador João Paulo informou que essa era uma das pendências para que a majoração ou não da tarifa fosse decidida. Com a recomposição do órgão, resta ainda a marcação de uma audiência pública para informar a população sobre os critérios que balizam a solicitação de aumento da passagem."

"Em contato com a Câmara Municipal, nossa reportagem averiguou que

..."

Continue lendo em:
http://www.correiodeminas.com.br/site/decreto-recompoe-conselho-e-aumento-da-passagem-pode-ser-decidido-em-breve/