New study: Pesticides harm organisms critical to soil health | Pesticide Action Network

Farm soil Soil: A living ecosystem

It’s clear that pesticides pose a grave threat to organisms critical to healthy food and farm systems. Yet U.S. regulators, including the Environmental Protection Agency, aren’t required to consider risk to soil-dwelling organisms and the broader ecosystem of soil in their regulatory decisions.

But scientists know that soil isn’t just “dirt”. Instead, it’s a vast ecosystem, home to a wide range of organisms, from earthworms and bees, to microscopic fungi and bacteria. These organisms cycle nutrients and water critical for plant growth and carbon sequestration —  both of which are necessary for ecosystem function — and for agriculture in its entirety. From the regulation of pests and diseases, to decomposing dead plants and animals to nourish new plant growth, we need healthy soils to grow food.

Without a healthy soil ecosystem, productivity suffers — and farmers must turn to more synthetic inputs, including pesticides and fertilizers, to maintain yields. Industry’s answer to problems caused by pesticides? More pesticides. This is the pesticide treadmill, and it’s not sustainable.

Source: New study: Pesticides harm organisms critical to soil health | Pesticide Action Network

With Idaho case, AP counts 109 statehouse #MeToo allegations | News | phillytrib.com

Since 2017, at least 109 state lawmakers in 40 states have faced public allegations of sexual misconduct or harassment, according to an Associated Press tally. Of those, 43 have resigned or been expelled and 42 have faced other repercussions such as the loss of committee chair or party leadership positions. Source: With Idaho case, AP counts 109 statehouse #MeToo allegations | News | phillytrib.com

Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment – The Lancet Public Health

The study found that 36·7% of mothers had some CPS involvement during childhood: depending on their level of CPS involvement, 41·3%–74·7% of their children were involved with CPS, compared with 16·9% of children whose mothers had no CPS involvement. Children of mothers with more intensive CPS involvement—a proxy for severity of maltreatment—had a higher risk of CPS involvement themselves. Associations between maternal maltreatment and time to the first maltreatment event in the child were measured using hazard ratios, adjusted for a range of key confounders. Compared with mothers with no CPS notifications, the risk of CPS involvement increased 2·47 times in children of mothers with CPS notifier-only concerns, and 6·25 times for mothers who had substantiated maltreatment and spent time in out-of-home care. Risks of CPS involvement for the child were higher with earlier age (<1 year) at first maternal record of CPS contact and in mothers with ongoing CPS contact after age 13 years.

Source: Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment – The Lancet Public Health

L’astronaute Français a décollé pour l’ISS – Le journal des Jum’s

Thomas Pesquet on his way to the ISS  (there now) The Falcon-9 rocket liftoff, scheduled for 11:49 a.m. from Florida, went as planned. The French astronaut took off for the ISS aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. Accompanied by two Americans and a Japanese, he will stay there again for six months, after a first mission in 2017.

Le décollage de la fusée Falcon-9. L’astronaute français a décollé pour l’ISS à bord de la capsule Crew Dragon de SpaceX

Source: L’astronaute Français a décollé pour l’ISS – Le journal des Jum’s

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom with the Call of Freedom, and music

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

Music is also a crucial part of a person’s health.  

So, how do we each help our society to become more fully inclusive for all of us, and to understand how very connected we all are?

I believe that attention to shared musical styles may provide part of an answer.  I started a note about that, a few years ago, on page twelve of my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call:

Shared Musical Styles: Call And Response

“I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously;
Horse and driver He has hurled into the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and might;
He is become my deliverance.
This is my God and I will enshrine Him;
The God of my father, and I will exalt Him.
3 The Lord, the Warrior —
Lord is His name!”
-from the JPS Tanakh Exodus 15:1-3

From the celebratory…

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Why is human eye sensitive to changes in brightness?

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Have you ever experienced a sudden darkness in front of your eyes when you come back inside your home on a sunny day? Human eyes experience such phenomenon when we enter from a bright lighting to dim one. Even in opposite situations when we travel from inside of a tunnel to outside, there is a split second of darkness. We try to find out the reason behind the sensitivity of our eyes.

I recently did some search on the topic and found that the reason behind the phenomenon is pretty intriguing.
Little background:Our eyes are made up of two kinds of photoreceptor, called rods and cones. Rods are responsible for processing light when photons are scarce. Cones require more photons to fire and help us see in bright environment.
Main Reason: The rods are very sensitive to photons. Researchers say that single photon is enough to fire rods. The…

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अगर हम एक होते।If we were one.

If everything was one then this world would have been so different.

There is no sorrow, no pain, there is just happiness everywhere.

There would have been no fence or no small one, all would have been one!

I was you and you were in me.

If everything was one, this world would be so different!

If everything were one, the world would have been so different!

No Pain, No Sorrow, Only Happiness All Around.

Nobody would been rich, Nobody would have been poor. Everyone would have been one!

I would have been you and you would have been me.

If everything were one, the world would would have been so different!

Beyond The Lines

अगर सब कुछ एक होता तोह यह दुनिया कितनी अलग होती।

ना कोई दुख, ना कोई दर्द होता, हर तरफ़ बस खुशियां होती।

ना कोई बाड़ा होता ना कोई छोटा, सब एक होते!

में तू होता और तू में होते।

अगर सब कुछ एक होता तो यह दुनिया कितनी अलग होती!

If everything were one, the world would have been so different!

No Pain, No Sorrow, Only Happiness All Around.

Nobody would been rich, Nobody would have been poor. Everyone would have been one!

I would have been you and you would have been me.

If everything were one, the world would would have been so different!

This is the first poem that I have written. I hope you will like it.

P.S. Getting Inspired From My Fellow Bloggers!

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Les oiseaux du Lac Naivasha en Photo!

Lake Naivasha, Kenya, is a real place attracting all kinds of birds. Indeed, rich in fish and vegetation, the lake allows birds to feed abundantly. I will share these few photos with you, hoping that they will bring some peace of mind during this difficult and unpredictable time that we are going through at the moment.

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Le lac Naivasha, Kenya, est un véritable endroit attirant toutes sortes d’oiseaux. En effet, riche en poissons et en végétations , le lac permet aux oiseaux de se nourrir abondamment. Je vais partager avec vous ces quelques photos en espérant qu’elles vont apporter un peu de sérénité pendant cette période difficile et imprévisible que nous traversons en ce moment.

Il y a les types d’oiseau comme les pélicans, qui vont en groupe.

Il y a la famille d’oiseaux qui semble préférer être en couple...

Et d’autre qui préfère être en solo… ! En tout cas,il y a un guide disponible sur place qui peut vous fournir des informations sur toutes sortes des volatiles profitant du Lac Naivasha.

Si vous êtes intéressés pour d’autres articles similaires, consultez ce lien:

Naivasha, a perfect escape from the city

J’espère que cet article vous a plu. N’hésitez pas a commenter. Merci.

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Albreht Direr,moć ruke i uma – Albrecht Dürer,the power of hand and mind

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), appears as a great drawing lighthouse in his and other times. Strong concentration, precision that you can be afraid of, endurance, systematics, but also logic decorated with nobility, and of course, perseverance – describes a German. One, whose tree divinely stands in a dark Gothic forest. His boyish self-portraits, portraits of pillows or mothers, are just as exciting as the mature works of young nobles and old masters, rabbits, plants, knights of the Apocalypse, alpine and imaginary landscapes. That long, firm and supple line, which flows in almost one breath from the crown to the tendon on the heel, with a sense of the essential, that clarity without trembling, the common hand of heart and mind, that is Dürer.

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Jedan veliki crtač i učitelj evropskih crtača kroz vijekove, jedan sjevernjak, Albreht Direr (1471-1528), pojavljuje se kao veliki crtački svetionik u svom i drugim vremenima. Jaka koncentracija, preciznost od koje možeš da se uplašiš, izdržljivost, sistematičnost, ali i logika ukrašena sa plemenitošću, i naravno, upornost – opisuje jednog Nijemca. Jednog, čije drvo božanski stoji u tamnoj gotskoj šumi. Njegovi dječački autoportreti, portreti jastuka ili majke, podjednako su uzbudljivi kao i zreli radovi mladih velmoža i starih gospodara, zečeva, bilja, vitezova Apokalipse, alpskih i izmaštanih predjela. Ta dugačka, čvrsta i gipka linija, što gotovo u jednom dahu teče od tjemena do tetive na peti, sa osjećanjem za bitno, ta jasnoća bez drhtanja, zajednička ruka srca i razuma, to je Direr. Može biti da ti je on duhovni rođak, iako si dijete narednog vijeka, moguće je da se desi da crtate slično, jer, iako misliš da si sam sebi predak, nisi bez…

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