Singapore company to ship 4.5M pounds of baby formula base powder to U.S. – UPI.com

Singapore-based Mead Johnson Nutrition/Reckitt plans to ship 4.5 million pounds of the base powder used to make Enfamil Stage 1 to the United States help counter the ongoing shortage of baby formula, the Food and Drug Administration announced.

The FDA said Wednesday that the base powder will be used to produce some 5.7 million cans of baby formula, the equivalent of about 66 million 8-ounce bottles.

 

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Vaccinations Rates Are Lower in Red States, and Not Just for Covid

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Conservative areas have lower rates of vaccination for Covid-19. That statement shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. However, the CDC is finding now that these same areas are showing lower rates of vaccination for the seasonal flu. (1)

The divergence is quite remarkable. For the flu season of 2021-2022:

  • Covid-19 vaccines: Use varied from 50% in Alabama to 81% in Rhode Island
  • Flu vaccines: Use varied from 31% in Mississippi to 59% in Connecticut

In the prior flu season, the variation in use of the flu vaccine was not nearly this great. For that reason, the CDC hypothesizes that the controversy stirred up over the Covid vaccines hurt acceptance of the flu vaccine.

That’s certainly one possibility. Another is that the controversy became a convenient excuse for people who don’t like needles to avoid them. In Democratic areas of the US, there is arguably peer pressure in favor of…

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Groups of Monuments at Hampi, India – Grupa spomenika u Hampiju, Indija

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Od prizora koji pruža ta oblast zaista zastaje dah i to je sigurno jedan od najupečatljivijih predjela u južnoj Indiji. Stjenovita brda sastoje se od masiva koji, kao da su slučajno razbacani, i koji se u najčudnijim oblicima pružaju svuda okolo. Tu i tamo nailazi se na velike površine pod bujnom vegetacijom, a blistava rijeka Tungabadra protiče između širokih obala. Hampi, kako glasi drevno ime grada, koje se još i danas koristi, ili Vidžajanagar, “grad pobjede”, kako se zvao na svom vrhuncu, danas predstavlja ogromni i izuzetno upečatljiv kompleks ruševina. Osnovali su ga oko 1336. godine braća Harihara i Buka, vjerovatno sinovi vladara kojeg su odredili muslimanski osvajači. Braća su nekada bili hinduistički vjernici, ali prihvatili su islam i tako obezbjedili sebi visoke položaje. Ali, onda su se pobunili, vratili na hinduizam i uspostavili nezavisnu vlast nad teritorijom koju su im dodijelili muslimanski vladari. U naredna dva vijeka grad je…

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Reconhecimento do Universo

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As melhores coisas que temos, não são aquelas pelas quais pagamos em espécie. Não, elas nascem do coração. Sob pseudas formas, surgem sem recalques, pretensão, ou simplesmente, interesse. Eu diria que são acontecimentos suaves, que vagando, e de um jeito sublime, chegam até nós.

“…uma notícia boa” é sempre um motivo memorável para comemorar. Quem não se alegra? Claro, a positividade é algo que não se pode conter. Assim como notícias boas, há outros acontecimentos que podem ser comparados a uma brisa suave que, no meio de tanta pobreza- e, situações adversas, faz com que aquela conversa arquivada que você deixou debaixo do travesseiro na noite anterior, antes de dormir, no dia seguinte, ganhe sentido lúcido. De maneira silenciosa, alguns momentos da vida, se apresentam de uma forma indecifrável. Você sabe do que estou falando: – tudo aquilo que tem que chegar até você, essas coisas ” encontram seu próprio…

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Cause and Effect

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Perpetrators of crimes against humanity or our environment aren’t the ones to blame. It’s what sells, and we as consumers are addicted to instant gratification. We have to take our focus away from individuality to pursuing a course of self healing, the healing of every sentient being and our source of sustenance, Mother Earth.

© Norma Bobb-Semple 2022

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Assumptons

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New research leveraging DNA has identified the origins of the Black Death or Plague that killed half or more of all humans in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the mid to late 1300s.(1)

The Plague was introduced to the Mediterranean region in 1347 from ships from Eastern trading centers. Researchers identified tombstones from 1337 and 1337 in Kyrgyzstan whose inscriptions mentioned a mysterious illness. DNA examination of the remains of the dead found traces of the bacteria, Yersinia pestis, which is the bacteria responsible for the plague.

The Plague is very much still around. This bacteria is carried by rodents and transmitted to humans when bitten. Because it’s a bacteria and not a virus, there are medications readily available now for treatment. However, if ignored, the bacteria can still cause critical illness and death. For that reason, it has found its way into chemical warfare arsenals.(3,4)

What’s…

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Shall We Stop Educating Our Children?

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Betsy DeVos served under the former administration as Secretary of Education. Ms. DeVos brought no qualifications in the field of education to the position – her only qualification was the huge sum of money (reported to be in the multi-million dollar range) she and her husband, Dick, had donated to the former guy’s campaign in 2016. Ms. DeVos was no more qualified than I for the position, and did an even worse job than I would have, but that is all water under the bridge, for she and her corrupt boss have left the federal government … or have they?

It seems these days that anybody and everybody who served in the former administration feels qualified to write a book, and they believe that we will pay money to read their first-hand experience, or drivel, which is what most of these books are. There are a few exceptions, such as

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Why Health Care and Science Education Matter

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

I was shocked that anyone might not know what CO was: So this is what educational priv. looks like, and why Science Ed Matters?

Thanks for the local investigative reporting, NPR and ProPublica.
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