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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Violência Contra a Mulher

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” Mulher não é objeto “

Mulher não é objeto, nem pode continuar sendo tratada como se fosse. Evidente que, essa frase merece uma reflexão profunda. Principalmente, porque remete a ideia do marido submtê-las aos seus caprichos no casamento, e por serem economicamente dependente desses homens, elas obedeciam o chamado ” contrato tácito de troca” que se dava de diversas formas, dentre elas, cuidar da casa e servi-los sexualmente. Essa questão, tem uma ligação estreita com o patriarcado que determina o comportamento dessa mulher na sociedade. Em algumas culturas isso era bastante claro. Hoje, apesar de termos evoluído culturalmente e socialmente, e a mulher ter a sua independência financeira, ainda vemos muito a questão da objetificação da mulher principalmente em peças publicitárias.

A objetificação da mulher dar-se de muitas formas, a estética é uma delas. Se bonita, elogia-se, se feia, se costuma depreciar e hostilizar a sua imagem. A aparência…

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Connecting More Dots: Brain Shrinkage and Covid-19

scary – covid not like flu folks… mask up, vaccinate, get tested…

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

Spoiler alert: Houston, we have a problem.

Biobanks are repositories for human tissue and other test samples. There are a number of them around the world, with the content of each specific to the mission or focus of that particular facility.(1)

One of the ten largest is in UK. This Biobank holds brain scan information donated by 45,000 British individuals. What’s important about this database is that the information was collected prior to the Covid pandemic.

British researchers were able to obtain updated brain scans (MRIs) from 785 of the original contributors, including 401 who are known to have been infected with Covid-19. This allows them to compare before-and-after scans as well as compare those infected with those not infected. We can see any brain changes among those infected with Covid, and compare those changes with the impact of normal aging among the uninfected.

The post-infection MRIs were collected approximately…

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White House calls Florida advice against vaccinating healthy kids ‘deeply disturbing’ | TheHill

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday called it “deeply disturbing” for the Florida Department of Health to advise against vaccinating “healthy children” against COVID-19.

“Absolutely not,” Psaki said when asked if the Florida recommendation was a good policy. “Let me just note that we know the science. We know the data and what works and what the most effective steps are in protecting people of a range of ages from hospitalization and even death. The FDA [Food and Drug Administration] and CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] have already weighed in on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for those 5 and older.”

“We also know through the data that unvaccinated teenagers are three times as likely to be hospitalized if they get COVID than vaccinated teenagers,” Psaki continued. “So it’s deeply disturbing that there are politicians peddling conspiracy theories out there and casting doubt on vaccinations when it is our best tool against the virus and the best tool to prevent even teenagers from being hospitalized.”

The state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, said the state “is going to be the first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children.” The advice came at the end of a roundtable discussion on virus response.

Ladapo did not provide details such as who would qualify as a healthy child or go into the reasoning behind the decision.

Source: White House calls Florida advice against vaccinating healthy kids ‘deeply disturbing’ | TheHill

Avian Flu Diary: WHO/FAO/OIE Joint Statement On Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 In Wildlife & Preventing Formation of Reservoirs

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Although SARS-CoV-2 is incredibly well-adapted to humans, one of the topics we’ve revisited often over the past 2 years has been its spread to non-human hosts  (i.e. deer, mink, rodents, etc.) where the virus could conceivably take divergent evolutionary paths and produce new, potentially dangerous variants that could `spillback‘ into humans.

It’s not a farretched concern. In fact, we’ve already seen it happen (several times).

In the fall of 2020 SARS-CoV-2 jumped from humans to farmed mink in Denmark, and began to mutate into new mink-variants (see Denmark Orders Culling Of All Mink Following Discovery Of Mutated Coronavirus).

Several mutated viruses jumped back into humans, and began to spread in the community (see WHO 2nd Update: SARS-CoV-2 mink-associated variant strain – Denmark), forcing North Denmark To Lockdown Over Mutated Coronavirus Concerns.

 

Luckily, this emergency was relatively short-lived, as the Alpha variant emerged in Europe in late 2020 and quickly supplanted these mink-variants. But it did demonstrate the problem; carriage of SARS-CoV-2 by other host species can produce new variants, which can jump back into humans.

 
Fortunately, most farmed animals (pigs, chickens, cattle, etc.) are poor hosts for the SARS-CoV-2 virus – while dogs and cats appear only mildly susceptible – but biggest findings thus far have been in mink and North American White-Tailed Deer (WTD)…

Source: Avian Flu Diary: WHO/FAO/OIE Joint Statement On Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 In Wildlife & Preventing Formation of Reservoirs

The Invisible, Afflicted Spy Who Led the U.S. Army Into Occupied Manila – Atlas Obscura

Since the early days of the Japanese occupation, Guerrero had been walking, carrying messages for the Filipino resistance fighters. She ferried news tucked into her chignon—at least until the day a Japanese sentry pulled at her hair, threatening to dislodge her secrets—or tucked between two pairs of socks or secreted away in hollowed-out fruit that she carried in a street vendor’s basket. Guerrero, known to most as Joey, moved around the city and into the surrounding mountains more easily than most. As a woman, she was dismissed as frivolous and flighty. Japanese soldiers answered her seemingly idle questions about their fortifications—never suspecting she was meticulously mapping their garrisons.

Japanese troops march toward Manila in late December 1941. They would occupy the city for more than three years.
Japanese troops march toward Manila in late December 1941. They would occupy the city for more than three years. ULLSTEIN BILD DTL. / GETTY IMAGES

Guerrero also had another unexpected advantage: she was sick. Before the occupation, Guerrero had been diagnosed with Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy. The symptoms included headaches, fatigue, and tell-tale skin lesions. Before the invasion, Guerrero had been able to manage the disease, but medication was scarce in a country at war, and as she developed more noticeable lesions, she found herself shunned. Leprosy was misunderstood as a disease of the unclean and impure, and sufferers were cast out of society and expected to live in isolation; Guerrero had already been separated from her husband and daughter. The affliction kept most Japanese soldiers at bay, too. No one wanted to search her. “I’m a leper,” she’d cry if a sentry approached her.

Source: The Invisible, Afflicted Spy Who Led the U.S. Army Into Occupied Manila – Atlas Obscura

Immigrant-owned meal delivery business offers refugees their first jobs in a new country — Grid Magazine – Erin Flynn Jay

Tsao began to offer family meal packages to suburban subscribers, effectively bringing Chinatown to them. He also invited other restaurant accounts to be on his website, most of them in Chinatown. Tsao’s restaurants EMei and GTH–Tsao’s new restaurant with business partner Eric Rosenfeld–are also included on the site.

Three months later, the new venture was being used by more than 35 restaurants. Nine months later it was serving more than 2,000 families.

That’s how RiceVan, a grocery and takeout delivery service that takes suburban orders up to 60 miles away within the tri-state region, started.

From there, it’s also evolved as a way to pay homage to Tsao’s immigrant roots.

Over the past three months, RiceVan has been providing daily lunch and dinner, and weekly grocery service to several hundred refugees living in temporary housing in Center City. Nationalities Service Center, the largest refugee resettlement agency in Philadelphia, pays for the meals. The business also has five refugee employees, three of whom are full time.

Tsao arrived here as an immigrant from China more than 20 years ago.

“Both myself as an immigrant and the refugees, we share the challenge of a language barrier and cultural barriers,” he says. “For them, career, and education for [their] kids—there’s going to be a journey.”..

Source: Immigrant-owned meal delivery business offers refugees their first jobs in a new country — Grid Magazine

Even Mild Covid is Linked To Brain Damage, Scans Show – Slashdot

During at least the first few months following a coronavirus infection, even mild cases of Covid-19 are associated with subtle tissue damage and accelerated losses in brain regions tied to the sense of smell, as well as a small loss in the brain’s overall volume, a new British study finds. Having mild Covid is also associated with a cognitive function deficit. NBC:These are the striking findings of the new study led by University of Oxford investigators, one that leading Covid researchers consider particularly important because it is the first study of the disease’s potential impact on the brain that is based on brain scans taken both before and after participants contracted the coronavirus. “This study design overcomes some of the major limitations of most brain-related studies of Covid-19 to date, which rely on analysis and interpretation at a single time point in people who had Covid-19,” said Dr. Serena S. Spudich, a neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research. Source: Even Mild Covid is Linked To Brain Damage, Scans Show – Slashdot

Vladimir Potanin donated millions to Oxford University | openDemocracy

Vladimir Potanin is one of Russia’s richest men, with a fortune of over $23bn. He served as the country’s deputy prime minister in the 1990s and is now president of one of the world’s largest metal producers, Norilsk Nickel.

The Russian oligarch’s £3m Oxford endowment, for an Earth Sciences fund, was first reported on Friday by the Cherwell student newspaper.

Now openDemocracy has discovered that the oligarch’s foundation donated a further $150,000 to an Oxford University fellowship scheme named in his honour.

Source: Vladimir Potanin donated millions to Oxford University | openDemocracy

Creativity Heals #art #depression

penned in moon dust

I just read a blog by a blogger who was really pressing down on herself for feeling that things are so bad. They are and they are not. It’s a matter of perspective.

BUT…

Something that helps so much is expression.

Blogging, art, writing are all forms of media that help us keep from that tipping point.

When I was very active on Social Media (sorry guys I am all over the world at the mo and so blogging is really a back door thing) I was meeting people coming out of Alcoholism, attempts at suicide, a divorce that drove the person batty…

there is that place to go to splash paint and get it off the head and heart.

And there is always prayer…

Reverse Thunder

I hear thunder in the distance

rolling onward like the waves

gaining power it surges forward

and like a child I am afraid

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School in the Dirt #children #Uganda

penned in moon dust

“Please teach us,” many children surrounded her.

Her arms were full of folders for a meeting in the hut down the path.

“Yes, of course,” She smiled as she set her things down.

A little boy proudly presented her with a stick that was perfect for writing in the dirt.

“We will start with the alphabet.” She placed her stick in the ground and drew a letter.

“A” a boy called out.

“Very good. Now we must all say “A.”

Several of the children knew their letters very well.

She tried not to frown as the two children a brother and a sister struggled. The teacher knew they had not been in school for some time and it made her sad. They tried very hard and finally got the sounds right.

All the children knew their numbers but addition and subtraction was much more difficult. One boy was very bright…

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