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Marii Freire

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Quando o espírito sorrir junto com a alma, agradeça. “

Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 26 de maio de 2023

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Brain-Spine Interface Allows Paralyzed Man to Walk Using His Thoughts – Scientific American

Brain-Spine Interface Allows Paralyzed Man to Walk Using His Thoughts

Twelve years ago, a cycling accident left Gert-Jan Oskam, now 40, with paralysed legs and partially paralysed arms, after his spinal cord was damaged in his neck. But these days, Oskam is back on his feet and walking, thanks to a device that creates a ‘digital bridge’ between his brain and the nerves below his injury.

The device — called a brain–spine interface — builds on previous work by Grégoire Courtine, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and his colleagues. In 2018, they demonstrated that, when combined with intensive training, technology that stimulates the lower spine with electrical pulses can help people with spinal-cord injuries to walk again.

Source: Brain-Spine Interface Allows Paralyzed Man to Walk Using His Thoughts – Scientific American

Tally of covid-19 cases after CDC conference climbs to 181 – The Washington Post (Me: Healthcare workers just as dumb about masks as general US public… shameful “lazy” behavior.)

The tally of people infected with the coronavirus after attending a high-profile Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conference in April has risen to at least 181, the agency reported Friday. No one was hospitalized.

The CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service officers and alumni — the disease detectives deployed to identify and fight outbreaks — met April 24-27 at an Atlanta hotel. The conference drew 1,800 in-person attendees, the first in-person Epidemic Intelligence Service gathering in four years. Like many conferences, it was crowded, with much face-to-face contact, many events held in small rooms and lots of socializing, according to attendees. About 70 percent of participants who responded to a CDC survey said they did not wear masks at the event.

Source: Tally of covid-19 cases after CDC conference climbs to 181 – The Washington Post

Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions To Chatbot After Unionization – Slashdot

According to Harper, the helpline is composed of six paid staffers, a couple of supervisors, and up to 200 volunteers at any given time. A group of four full-time workers at NEDA, including Harper, decided to unionize because they felt overwhelmed and understaffed. “We asked for adequate staffing and ongoing training to keep up with our changing and growing Helpline, and opportunities for promotion to grow within NEDA. We didn’t even ask for more money,” Harper wrote. “When NEDA refused [to recognize our union], we filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board and won on March 17. Then, four days after our election results were certified, all four of us were told we were being let go and replaced by a chatbot.”

Source: Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions To Chatbot After Unionization – Slashdot

Finally, a Glimmer of Global Health Light

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

    This spark needs to be fanned into a global health care flame of hope for all of us, through learning, and through persistent caring about all of us:

“This is a long overdue technology”

From NPR, by Fran Kritz

   Indeed, it is long overdue.  With no need for cold storage, medical bio hazard waste or the sharps disposal infrastructure needed, not to mention the trained medical staff, needed to deliver vaccines via shots, and no clean water for rendering the concentrate into individual doses (which I had never read about until now, and that requires even further training and staff time…), and no wasted doses.  Why has this not been done far, far earlier?  Yes, I know that the big pharmaceuticals and other groups benefit from costly supply chains, need for electricity, transportation requirements, and even from the wasted doses, but really, people, where is the humanity…

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Smorgasbord Laughter Lines Extra – Another Open Mic Night with author Daniel Kemp – May 2023 – Facebook Friends and Orchestral manoeuvres | Filosofa’s Word

Author Daniel Kemp has been entertaining us over the last three years with his funnies on his Facebook page and head over to follow Danny Kemp  .. Always a place to find funnies and jokes to cheer you up… plus some satirical political commentary on politicians at home and… Reblogged on WordPress.com

Source: Smorgasbord Laughter Lines Extra – Another Open Mic Night with author Daniel Kemp – May 2023 – Facebook Friends and Orchestral manoeuvres | Filosofa’s Word

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER…

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An arty arty I stumbled across in my old photos.

Art is everywhere!  Depends how you look at it.

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Take a look at Ruth’s experience with animals:

OUR ANIMAL FAMILY

Last year’s nest of chickadees on the front porch

Hanging basket of bright orange impatience,

All hatched, sang, tested their wings and flew away.

This year a nest of four robin’s eggs on the front porch

Atop a plastic floral wreath hanging on the wall,

Still incubating, so we’re using the side door.

An unopened walnut tucked into the wicker mail basket

Also on the front porch. A thank you for the stale Cheerios?

Two big black ants on the white counter top

Face to face, in an embrace not moving

Even with me coming in for a close up.

A pregnant doe, with belly big and round,

Resting in the backyard, watching me…

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Marii Freire

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Li uma publicação na Internet, a seguinte frase: ” Mulheres empoderadas, empoderam outras mulheres “. A mulher empodera, se ela souber o significado de empoderamento e, não tiver divergência com a outra – esse detalhe tem que ficar claro na mente dela. Se uma mulher concordar com a ideia de empoderamento – souber como funciona, e que este, serve como uma grande experiência para fortalecê-las, assim como também tem relação com o seu despertar, certamente, o apoio vem; do contrário, além da sua manifestação ser negativa, ela ainda vai convencer às outras de que, o empoderamento é um negócio horrendo. Isso serve também para os homens. Há homens que não podem ouvir falar nessa questão que são contrários. Já outros, são grandes apoiadores porque entendem como ele é necessário para a mulher se tornar cada vez mais independente. O problema, é como se ” vende” o real sentido de empoderamento…

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Marii Freire

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

O fato da mulher lutar por igualdade, necessariamente, não significa que ela tenha que concordar com a forma de pensar da outra. Essa questão, não se trata só de uma disputa entre a própria mulher. Mas, de corrigir algumas questões dentro do próprio sistema que acabaram aprofundando as diferenças entre homens e mulheres. Veja, a educação por exemplo, é um problema que vem muito lá de trás, principalmente, quando se fala em bons estudos – situação que acabou privilegiando os homens, já que a mulher não precisa ser bem instruída. Isso ainda reflete na maneira de ambos pensarem hoje obviamente. No que diz respeito a emancipação feminina, os ganhos que a mulher conseguiu obter após ela. E mais, que fez os seus herdeiros acreditar em igualdade de gênero. A gente precisa nadar e não afundar. Não podemos esquecer das lacunas do passado, e o que foi estruturado sobre isso. O…

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Marii Freire

For a woman to be beaten, the abuser must have complete control over her. Exactly. The woman who catches, her psychological is so fragile that she is unable to substantiate any question about what happens to her…

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Para uma mulher apanhar, o abusador tem que ter total domínio sobre ela. Exatamente. A mulher que apanhar, o seu psicológico é tão fragilizado que, ela é incapaz de fundamentar qualquer pergunta sobre o que acontece com consigo. Uma mulher no seu estado normal, avalia, reflete sobre o que bom para ela ou não, o que é certo e o que lhe fere, o que não aceita. A mulher que usa a razão, se encoraja. não baixa a cabeça com facilidade. Mas aquela que vive um relacionamento conturbado ( abusivo) os bastidores de seu psicológico são outros. Esta obedece! E o parceiro agressivo ou parceira, para aprofundar isso, acaba impondo muito mais medo através do poder que tem dentro da relação.
As mulheres que passaram – e passam por esse tipo de situação, hesitam em agir, por temer o fracasso, o pior da relação. Então, não é que a mulher…

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