In a report by the American College of Emergency Physicians, doctors say the drug bivalirudin appears to be a useful alternative to heparin, the common anticoagulant hospitals use to treat blood clots. Source: Doctors first to treat rare blood clotting side-effect of Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine with Heparin alternative – Study Finds
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Useful news for all to advance knowledge of the world and how it works
Nearly 1 Million People Signed Up for Obamacare This Spring – The New York Times
Three Months After Coup, Myanmar Returns to the ‘Bad Old Days’ – The New York Times – (Me: Shameful greed and lust for power must not be tolerated by world)
Three months after Myanmar’s experiment in democracy was strangled by the generals’ power grab, the sense of foreboding has returned. There is no indication that it will ease. For the better part of 60 years, the military’s rule over Myanmar was animated not by grand ideology but by fear. Today, with much of the population determined to resist the coup-makers, a new junta is consolidating its grip by resorting, yet again, to a reign of terror.
“Myanmar is going back to the bad old days when people were so scared that their neighbors would inform on them and they could get arrested for no reason at all,” said Ko Moe Yan Naing, a former police officer who is now in hiding after opposing the coup.
Prisons are once again filled with poets, Buddhist monks and politicians. Hundreds more, many young men, have disappeared, their families ignorant of their whereabouts, according to a group that tracks the military’s detentions. More than 770 civilians have been killed by security forces since the putsch, among them dozens of children.
New study: Pesticides harm organisms critical to soil health | Pesticide Action Network
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:
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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?
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.
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Racism
Red is the colour
Of blood that flows in our veins
It is not black, white
Black, white is not a colour
Just the darkness in our minds.
# Tanka
An old poem of mine written several years ago .

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