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A Georgia congressional election is headed to a runoff that will ratchet up the already significant national attention "" and campaign cash "" on a race that poses an early measure for President Donald Trump and both major parties ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.Democrat Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old former congressional staffer, and Republican Karen Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, will meet in the June 20 runoff. But as they campaign across the northern suburbs of Atlanta, they will act largely as proxies for the roiled political atmosphere in Washington and across the country.Ossoff led an 18-candidate field of Republicans, Democrats and independents, the entire slate placed on a single ballot to choose a successor to Republican Tom Price, who resigned to join Trump's administration as health secretary. But Ossoff fell shy of the majority required to claim Georgia's 6th Congressional District outright, opening the door to Handel, who finished a distant second but ahead of a gaggle of Republican contenders.Republicans believe a two-candidate scenario will benefit them in a district that has been in Republican hands since 1978, when Atlanta suburbanites elected a young congressman named Newt Gingrich. But Ossoff's campaign maintains momentum, fueled by more than $8 million in contributions from all over the nation, and liberal advocacy groups on Tuesday hailed his first-place finish as a success in its own right.National leaders in both major parties agreed the Georgia race is a prime test run for the 2018 election cycle, because the affluent, well-educated district is replete with the kind of voters Democrats must win over to have any chance at reclaiming a House majority and winning more governor's races.At the least, the results suggest Republicans have no easy answer for how to handle Trump in down-ballot races. He still engenders an intense loyalty among his core supporters but alienates many independents and even Republicans, leaving him unable to command a majority of the electorate. That was reflected in November, when Trump barely won the Georgia 6th over Hillary Clinton, falling shy of a majority just four years after Republican Mitt Romney garnered more than 60 percent of the presidential vote.Given those fundamentals, Ossoff has tried to capitalize on the anti-Trump energy while still appealing to independents and moderate Republicans in the conservative district.He demonstrated the tightrope through the final hours of the primary campaign."This is not about me. … This is about the kind of community we want to live in. The kind of country we believe in," Ossoff told supporters Monday night, forgoing any mention of the president despite Trump attacking him on Twitter as a "super liberal" who wanted to raise taxes, protect criminals and allow illegal immigration.Trump continued his Twitter barrage Tuesday, even as a White House spokeswoman insisted the race wasn't a "referendum" on the president. Sarah Huckabee Sanders made that case within hours of Trump urging 6th District Republicans to vote and mocking Ossoff for not living in the district.Ossoff acknowledges that he lives a few miles south of the district, in Atlanta, so that his girlfriend is closer to her work at Emory University's medical complex.Republicans, meanwhile, have made their own attempts at nationalizing the race.A political action committee backed by current Speaker Paul Ryan funneled more than $2 million into attacks on Ossoff, mostly tying him to national Democrats such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Handel, meanwhile, called Ossoff Pelosi's "hand-picked" candidate. Pelosi remains an unpopular figure in the district, which includes GOP-leaning territory in three metro Atlanta counties: Cobb, Fulton and DeKalb.Handel rarely if ever talked about Trump unless she was asked. But she also was careful not to criticize the new administration."I certainly support the president and will work with him where we agree," Handel told the Associated Press at one of her final campaign stops before polls opened. "But my job is not to go to Congress as a rubber stamp for anybody. My job is to be the representative for the people of the 6th District, and that's what I believe regardless of who is the president."Handel left some of her Republican rivals to squabble over who would be more loyal to Trump. One of her closest competitors, technology executive Bob Gray, even donned hip waders for one television spot as he paid homage to one of the president's campaign signatures by, literally, draining a swampAP
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A few things I learned about Vista yesterday
Posted On Friday, February 16, 2007 at at Friday, February 16, 2007 by Ben HJust wanted to share a couple of things I learned about Vista yesterday. The first is the search capability. I had been getting to my files the old XP way. Opening Windows Explorer and navigating to the folder where the files reside. With Vista, if you open the Start Menu, you will see a search text box at the bottom. I guess I just ignored this or though it would use Windows Live to run an internet search. This search will search your computer for a bunch of things. It will search for programs, files, things in your web favorites and web history as well as all your emails. I recommend you give it a try. Type in "Vista" and see what you get. Secondly, you can create peer to peer wireless connections with Vista. You do not need a wireless router or anything special. I need to do some more research and testing. As a side note, a funny thing happened yesterday while the guy was demoing this. The presenter casually said "Let's see if there are any wireless networks in my range". He opened his network sharing center and said "There are some networks." and walked away. The crowd started laughing. He didn't look closely at the IDs of the networks and someone had created a peer to peer network named "Fukoff". It was the first in his list in huge bold letters on the screens…. I learned tons of other stuff and I will try to put that in a few more posts.

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Lesson 4: Create your first website
With what you learned in the previous lessons, you are now only minutes away from making your first website.
In Lesson 1 we looked at what is needed to make a website: a browser and Notepad (or similar text editor). Since you are reading this, you most likely already have your browser open. The only thing you need to do is to open an extra browser window (open the browser one more time) so you can read this tutorial and see your new website at the same time.
Also, open Notepad (in Accessories under Programs in the Start menu):
Now we are ready!
What can I do?
Let us start with something simple. How about a page that says: "Hurrah! This is my first website." Read on and you'll find out how simple it is.
HTML is simple and logical. The browser reads HTML like you read English: from the top down and from left to right. Thus, an simple HTML document begins with what should come first and ends with what should come last.
The first thing you need to do is to tell the browser that you will "talk" to it in the language HTML. This is done with the tag
(no surprises there). So before you do anything else type "
" in the first line of your document in Notepad.
As you may recall from the previous lessons,
is an opening tag and must be closed with a closing tag when you are finished typing HTML. So to make sure you don't forget the HTML close tag now type "
" a couple of lines down and write the rest of the document between
and
The next thing your document needs is a "head", which provides information about your document, and a "body", which is the content of the document. Since HTML is nothing if not logical, the head (
and
) is on top of the body (
and
Your document should now look like this:
Note how we structured the tags with new lines (using the Enter key) as well as indents (using the Tab key). In principle, it does not matter how you structure your HTML document. But to help you, and others reading your coding, to keep an overview, it is strongly recommended that you structure your HTML in a neat way with line breaks and indents, like the above example.
If your document looks like the above example, you have made your first website - a particularly boring website and probably not what you dreamt of when you started this tutorial but still some sort of a website. What you have made will be the basic template for all your future HTML documents.
So far so good, but how do I add content to my website?
As you learnt earlier, your HTML document has two parts: a head and a body. In the head section you write information about the page, while the body contains the information that constitutes the page.
For example, if you want to give the page a title which will appear in the top bar of the browser, it should be done in the "head" section. The element used for a title is title
. I.e. write the title of the page between the opening tag <title>
and the closing tag </title>
<title>My first website</title>
Note that this title will not appear on the page itself. Anything you want to appear on the page is content and must therefore be added between the "body" tags.
As promised, we want the page to say "Hurrah! This is my first website." This is the text that we want to communicate and it therefore belongs in the body section. So in the body section, type the following:

Hurrah! This is my first website.

The p in

is short for "paragraph" which is exactly what it is - a text paragraph.
Your HTML document should now look like this:
<title>My first website </title>

Hurrah! This is my website.

Done! You have now made your first real website!
Next all you have to do is to save it to your hard drive and then open it in your browser:
- In Notepad choose "Save as..." under "File" in the top menu.
- Choose "All Files" in the "Save as type" box. This is very important - otherwise, you save it as a text document and not as an HTML document.
- Now save your document as "page1.htm" (the ending ".htm" indicates that it is an HTML document. ".html" gives the same result. I always use ".htm", but you can choose whichever of the two extensions you prefer). It doesn't matter where you save the document on your hard drive - as long as you remember where you saved it so you can find it again.
Now go to the browser:
- In the top menu choose "Open" under "File" (or press CTRL+O).
- Click "Browse" in the box that appears.
- Now find your HTML document and click "Open".
It now should say "Hurrah! This is my first website." in your browser. Congratulations!
If you absolutely want the whole world to see your masterpiece right away, you can jump to Lesson 13 and learn how to upload your page to the Internet. Otherwise, be patient and read on. The fun has just begun.
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Oh no, not another social media project trying to save humanity? That's what we thought. There are plenty of people working on that already. The only problem is: They are not working together.
That is why we want to build a platform to connect us all:
• users
• coders
• the different projects
Social Swarm is an open think tank initiated by the German privacy and digital rights NGO digitalcourage (formerly FoeBuD). (English information at Wikipedia)
You are all welcome to join the swarm.
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- Жизнь после рака
- Cookbook
- Ratatouille Soup
Ratatouille Soup
I used to eat very quickly, but this is now not possible as I have to chew everything that I eat very carefully before swallowing. I did not eat in public immediately after surgery, but started to do so more after about five months. This was important after my surgery, because meeting people for lunch or dinner was a great part of my social life.
Anke, Germany
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
3-4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 red chilli pepper, finely chopped (amount to taste)
1 aubergine, diced
4 tablespoons of tomato purée
2 bell peppers, one red, one yellow, diced
1 courgette diced
1 medium-sized can of tomatoes, chopped, including juice
Fresh oregano and/or thyme, chopped
1 L vegetable broth
100 ml heavy cream
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
2-3 teaspoons white sugar
Freshly ground nutmeg
1-2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon smoked pepper/Pimentón de la Vera picante
4-5 tablespoons mascarpone, sour cream or crème fraîche
Serve with toasted bread / baguette and an extra dollop of mascarpone
Cooking instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot (medium to high heat), then add finely chopped onions, garlic cloves and chilli peppers
- Cook until onions become translucent then add the tomato purée and aubergine, and sautée for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally
- Add the bell peppers and courgette, the fresh herbs, and roast for a couple of minutes, while stirring occasionally
- Deglaze the pan with the canned, chopped tomatoes, without stems and their juice, and add the hot vegetable broth and heavy cream
- Add the spices: sea salt, black pepper, smoked pepper, sugar, nutmeg and simmer for 20-30 minutes, or until all vegetables are softened
- Lift the pot off the stove and mash the mix with a handheld blender
- Add the mascarpone, then pass through a fine-mesh sieve
- Place the pot back onto the stove and add one or two bay leaves
- Let the soup simmer for a few more minutes, and season to taste
- Discard the bay leaves and serve with a generous dollop of either mascarpone, sour cream or crème fraîche, and a slice of toasted bread
Nutritional Information
Serves 1 | Serves 3 | |
Kcal | 436 | 1307 |
Protein (g) | 8 | 25 |
Lipids (g) | 36 | 109 |
Carbohydrates (g) | 20 | 61 |
Sugars (g) | 20 | 60 |
Fibre (g) | 7 | 20 |
Salt (mg) | 3284 | 9858 |
Recipe credit
This recipe was provided by Nicole Stich and is available on deliciousdays.com


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Chinese Foreign Policy during the Maoist Era and its Lessons for Today
All socialist states face a continuing, and at times acute, contradiction between the necessity of defending the socialist country--including through making agreements with imperialist and reactionary states--and the goal of promoting and supporting the world revolution. This paper examines how socialist China handled this tension during four periods between 1949 and 1976. It contrasts the strong internationalist support given to the Korean people and to the Vietnamese and other struggles for national liberation in the 1960s, with the development of bourgeois nationalist lines around the 1955 Bandung Conference and the reactionary "three worlds theory" of the early 1970s. This paper also takes on the view that nationalist governments and their leaders, not revolutionary people's movements, are the most important challenge to imperialism in the world today. (40 pages, January 2007)


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NEW YORK – Struggling department-store operator J.C. Penney announced it will cut 2,000 jobs and close 33 stores as it tries to get back on the path to profitability.
The news raises concerns that Penney's holiday season sales were not what the company hoped for and that the chain needs to do even more to recover from a turnaround plan that has had disastrous results.
J.C. Penney Co., based in Plano, Texas, said earlier this month said it was pleased with its holiday results but declined to give sales figures, raising worries among Wall Street analysts about how the season actually fared.
"It was a season where they realized that they had to do more to reconnect with the customers they've lost," said Brian Sozzi, CEO and chief equities strategist at Belus Capital Advisors.
The cuts announced Wednesday should save more than $65 million annually. The company will take $26 million in pretax charges in the third quarter and $17 million in future quarters. Penney has 116,000 staffers and operates more than 1,100 stores. All the job cuts are related to the store closings.
Penney is expected to be among a number of stores that will be announcing it will be cutting staff and closing stores in the next few weeks. After the holiday season, stores typically re-evaluate their store fleet and announce job cuts and store closings. But analysts believe that after a tough holiday season where stores had to discount early and often to get shoppers to buy in a tough economy, the cuts will be deeper than normal, says John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a global outplacement firm. Stores are also contending with a shift in consumer spending to PCs and mobile devices.
Macy's Inc., a standout among its peers, announced last week that it was cutting 2,500 jobs as part of a reorganization to sustain its profitability.
"Retailers are having to come to terms with these consequences," Challenger said.
The holiday season is crucial since it can account for anywhere from 20 percent to 40 percent of a retailer's annual sales. But at J.C. Penney, the stakes are higher.
Penney is trying to recover from massive losses and plummeting sales drops that occurred under former CEO Ron Johnson, who was ousted in April after being on the job for 17 months. The company then brought back former CEO Mike Ullman.
Penney has since reinstated the frequent sales events that Johnson ditched. It's also restored basic merchandise, particularly store brands like St. John's Bay, which were either phased out or eliminated in a bid to attract younger, more affluent shoppers.
Penney had been releasing monthly sales figures over the last few months, which had showed some improvement. Sales at stores open at least a year edged up 0.9 percent in October — the first increase since December 2011. That's a key indicator of a retailer's health. Last month, the company said that revenue at stores opened at least a year jumped 10.1 percent in November, helped by a strong start to the holiday season.
But on Jan. 8, it offered no figures regarding December sales when it came out with a brief release to update investors on its holiday performance. It said that it was "pleased with its performance for the holiday period," and that the holiday season showed "continued progress in its turnaround efforts." It also reaffirmed its outlook for the fourth quarter that was first announced in late November. At that time, it said that Penney's revenue at stores opened at least a year and gross profit margin will likely improve "sequentially" and year over year.
Penney's shares fell 8 cents to $6.93 in after-hours trading Wednesday when Penney made the announcement, after gaining 8 cents to close regular trading at $7.01. The shares have lost 84 percent of their value since February 2012 when investor enthusiasm was high over Penny's transformation plan.
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The annual public meeting of the Sierra Club was held in the hall of the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, on the evening of Saturday, November 23, 1895. The topic announced, "The National Parks and forest Reservations," had brought together a large audience of members and friends of the Club.
Mr. Warren Olney, Vice-President, called the meeting to order, and introduced Professor Joseph LeConte as the "President of the Evening." In turn, Professor LeConte offered remarks on the announced topic, and then introduced the main speaker, Sierra Club President, John Muir.
Mr. Muir then addressed the club as follows:
Sierra Club and Friends: —- When I was requested by the directors to address the Club on the parks and reservations of the Sierra, with reference to their preservation and management, I think I said truly that this part of the work of the Club dependent on the action of Congress was in great part lawyer's work, and that Mr. Olney, our Vice-President, ought to do it. You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wildernesses, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer. I have faithfully inspected gorges, glaciers, and forests, climbed mountains and trees, and lived with the wild animals, and, as best I could, I have talked and written about them, never sparing myself. but this it seems was not considered enough by the directors. More still was required of me. I must make speeches and lead in society affairs. this, as it appears to me, is not reasonable. This formal, legal, unwild work is out of my line, and if any harm should come to the woods from my awkward, unskillful handling of the subject this evening, then you must lay the blame where it belongs - lay it on our Vice-President, sitting at ease there on the front seat, seemingly unconscious of wrong. I proved over and over again that this speech belonged to him, but all my good arguments were lost; he remained as obstinately unchangeable and unpersuadable as a glacier or a Scotchman
When I realized that I must speak here to-night, I tried to prepare a compact address an hour or less in length, but the subject in my hands proved far too big. Try as I might, I could not prevent it from radiating out in a dozen different directions, which, if faithfully pursued, would have made a speech ten or twenty hours long, a thing not to be thought of in any formal city affair. So I laid down my pen in despair, and saw that I must simply trust to memory and say what I could in the measured time allowed me.
This last summer I wanted to go to Alaska to explore some fine busy glaciers that are working on the flanks of Mt. St. Elias and the mountains about Cook's Inlet and Prince William's Sound. But I could not get away early enough for such extended explorations as would be required there; and so I just rambled off for an easy six weeks' saunter in the Sierra above Yosemite, and about the head-waters of the Tuolumne, and down the Grand Cañon of the Tuolumne to Hetch Hetchy and the sugar pine woods of the main forest belt. On this ramble I was careful to note the results of the four years of protection the region had enjoyed as a park under the care of the Federal Government, and I found them altogether delightful and encouraging. When I had last seen the Yosemite National Park region, the face of the landscape in general was broken and wasted, like a beautiful countenance destroyed by some dreadful disease. Now it is blooming again as one general garden, in which beauty for ashes has been granted in fine wild measure. The flowers and grasses are back again in their places as if they had never been away, and every tree in the park is waving its arms for joy. Only the few spots held as cattle ranches under private ownership continue to look frowzy and wasted; but the condition of even these has been greatly improved under protection from the sheep scourge. Lilies now swing and ring their bells around the margins of the forest meadows and along the banks of the streams throughout the lower and middle portions of the park. the broad tangles and beds of chaparral have put forth new shoots and leaves, and are now blooming again in all their shaggy beauty and fragrance. the open spaces on the slopes are covered with beds of gilias of many species and purple spraquea, monardella, etc.; while on the steeper slopes the driest friable soil, that was most deeply raked and dibbled by the hoofs of the sheep, has been replanted, mostly by a delicate species of gymnophytum, whose winged seeds were the first to reach those desolate places. soon, however, they will be followed by other plants to enrich the bloom; for in the work of beauty Nature never stops.
In the highlands of the park the tough sod of the glacier meadows was never wholly destroyed, but their delicate grasses were not allowed to bloom beneath the feet of the trampling sheep, and all the bright flowers that so charmingly enameled the close, smooth sod - gentians, daisies, ivesias, orthocarpus, bryanthus, etc. - vanished as if not a root or seed had been spared. this year, I am happy to saw, I found these blessed flowers blooming again in their places in all the fineness of wildness - three species of gentians, in patches acres in extent, blue as the sky, blending their celestial color with the purple panicles of the grasses, and the daisies and bossy, rosy spikes of the varied species of orthocarpus and bryanthus - nearly every trace of the sad sheep years of repression and destruction having vanished. Blessings on Uncle Sam's blue-coats! In what we may call homeopathic doses, the quiet, orderly soldiers have done this fine job, without any apparent friction or weak noise, in the still calm way that the United States troops do their duty. Uncle Sam has only to say: "There is your duty," and it is done. This makes me think of what Robert burns says about the effects of whisky. He says:
Take a Scotchman frae his hill,
Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,
Say, such is royal George's will
And there's the foe -
He'll have no thought but how to kill
Twa at a blow.
So Uncle Sam's soldiers, in attending to those marauding shepherd and their flocks, tried to gather in two at a blow. A very suggestive flock, not of sheep, but of shepherd and their dogs, was seen this summer crossing the Yosemite National Park. Nine Portuguese shepherds and eighteen shepherd dogs were marched across the park from the extreme northern boundary, across the Tuolumne Cañon and the rugged topography of the Merced basin to the southern boundary at Wawona, and presented as prisoners before Captain Rodgers, who had charge of the troop guarding the park. These shepherds submitted to being driven along over hill and dale day after day as peacefully as sheep, notwithstanding they had a little previously been boasting of their fighting qualities and the surprising excellence of their guns, and with what deadly effect they would use them if interfered with in their divine right of stealing pasturage. But when they were calmly confronted with a soldier, armed with the authority of the United States and a gun of much surer fire than theirs, they always behaved well, and became suddenly unbelligerent. Occasionally a flock would be found in some remote, hidden valley of the park, attended by three or four shepherds, so that a watch could be kept on the movements of the soldiers from the heights around the camp. but, sooner or later, they would be caught and made to obey the laws; - for every year the whole park is faithfully policed.
In my wanderings this summer I met small squads of mounted soldiers in all kinds of out-of-the-way places, fording roaring, bowlder-choked streams, crossing rugged cañons, ever alert and watchful; and knowing, as we do, the extreme roughness of the topography of the park in general, our thanks are due these quiet soldiers for unweariedly facing and overcoming every difficulty in the way of duty. And always it is refreshing to know that in our changeful Government there is one arm that is permanent and ever to be depended on.
The Yosemite National Park was made October 1, 1890. For many years I had been crying in the wilderness, "Save the forests!" but, so far as I know, nothing effective was done in the matter until shortly before the park was organized. In the summer of 1889, I took one of the editors of the Century Magazine out for a walk in Yosemite and in the woods and bowlder-choked cañons around it; and when we were camped one day at the Big Tuolumne Meadows, my friend said, "Where are all those wonderful flower gardens you write so much about?" And I had to confess - woe's me! - that uncountable sheep had eaten and trampled them out of existence. then he said, "Can't something be done to restore and preserve so wonderful a region as this? Surely the people of California are not going to allow these magnificent forests, on which the welfare of the whole State depends, to be destroyed?" Then a National Park was proposed, and I was requested to write some articles about the region to help call attention to it, while the Century was freely used for the same purpose, and every friend that could be found was called on to write or speak a good word for it. The California Academy of Sciences became interested, and began to work, and so did the State University. Even the soulless Southern Pacific R.R. Co., never counted on for anything good, helped nobly in pushing the bill for this park through Congress. Mr. Stow in particular charged our members of Congress that whatever they neglected they must see that the bill for a National Park around Yosemite Valley went through. And in a little over a year from the time of our first talk beside that Tuolumne camp-fire the bill organizing the park passed Congress, and a troop of cavalry was guarding it.
But no sooner were the boundaries of the park established, than interested parties began to try to break through them. Last winter a determined effort was made to have the area of the park cut down nearly one-half. But the Sierra Club and other good friends of the forests on both sides of the continent made a good defense, and to-day the original boundaries are still unbroken.
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. I trust, however that our Club will not weary in this forest well-doing. The fight for the Yosemite Park and other forest parks and reserves is by no means over; nor would the fighting cease, however much the boundaries were contracted. Every good thing, great and small, needs defense. The smallest forest reserve, and the first I ever heard of, was in the Garden of Eden; and though its boundaries were drawn by the Lord, and embraced only one tree, yet even so moderate a reserve as this was attacked. And I doubt not, if only one of our grand trees in the Sierra were reserved as an example and type of all that is most noble and glorious in mountain trees, it would not be long before you would find a lumberman and a lawyer at the foot of it, eagerly proving by every law terrestrial and celestial that that tree must come down. So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.
The preservation of specimen sections of natural flora - bits of pure wildness - was a fond, favorite notion of mine long before I heard of national parks. When my father came from Scotland, he settled in a fine wild region in Wisconsin, beside a small glacier lake bordered with whit pond-lilies. And on the north side of the lake, just below our house, there was a carex meadow full of charming flowers—cypripediums, pogonias, calopogons, asters, goldenrods, etc.—and around the margin of the meadow many nooks rich in flowering ferns and heathworts. And when I was about to wander away on my long rambles' I was sorry to leave that precious meadow unprotected; therefore, I said to my brother-in-law, who then owned it, "Sell me the forty acres of lake meadow, and keep it fenced, and never allow cattle or hogs to break into it, and I will gladly pay you whatever you say. I want to keep it untrampled for the sake of its ferns and flowers; and even if I should never see it again, the beauty of its lilies and orchids is so pressed into my mind I shall always enjoy looking back at them in imagination, even across seas and continents, and perhaps after I am dead." But he regarded my plan as a sentimental dream wholly impracticable. The fence he said would surely be broken down sooner or later, and all the work would be in vain. Eighteen years later I found the deep-water pond lilies in fresh bloom, but the delicate garden-sod of the meadow was broken I up and trampled into black mire. On the same Wisconsin farm there was a small flowery, ferny bog that I also tried to save. It was less than half an acre in area, and I said, "Surely you can at least keep for me this little bog." Yes, he would try. And when I had left home, and kept writing about it, he would say in reply, "Let your mind rest, my dear John; the mud hole is safe, and the frogs in it are singing right merrily." But in less than twenty years the beauty of this little glacier-bog also was trampled away.
Next, I tried to save a quarter-section of the flower San Joaquin plain when it began to be plowed for farms; but this scheme also failed, as the fence around it could not be kept up without constant watching, night and day. For the same cause, I did not take up a timber claim in the sugar-pine woods. But now we have this magnificent park, with all the world interested in keeping it.
When I first saw Yosemite, and read the notices posted by the State Commissioners, forbidding the cutting or marring the beauty in any way of the trees and shrubs, etc., I said, "How fine it is that this grand valley has been made a park, for the enjoyment of all the world! Here we shall have a section of the wonderful flora of the mountains of California, with most of its wild inhabitants preserved, when all about it has been injured or destroyed." But instead of enjoying special protection, on account of its marvelous grandeur, it has suffered special destruction, for lack of the extraordinary care that so much trampling travel in it required. Therefore, now, instead of being most preciously cared for as the finest of all the park-gardens, it looks like a frowzy, neglected backwoods pasture. The best meadows are enclosed for hay-fields by unsightly fences, and all the rest of the floor of the valley is given up to the destructive pasturage of horses belonging to campers and those kept for the use of tourists. Each year the number of campers increases, and of course, destructive trampling and hacking becomes heavier from season to season. Camping parties, on their arrival in the valley, are required to report to the Guardian, to register and have camp-grounds assigned to them, and their attention is called to the rules and regulations prohibiting the cutting of trees and underbrush, etc.; but as the Guardian has no power to enforce the rules — has not a single policeman under his orders, — they are of non-effect, or nearly so. Most campers and tourists appreciate their privileges, but some, I am sorry to say, need the services of a soldier as much as the sheep-owners who break over the boundaries of the park. Not a single horse or cow should be allowed to trample the Yosemite garden. It was given to the State for a higher use than pasturage. Hay and grain in abundance may be hauled into the valley and sold to the owners of saddle-trains and campers, at moderate prices, at stables and corrals provided by the Commission. Then, of course, every disfiguring fence would be useless, and the wild vegetation would be gradually restored.
Since the fires that formerly swept through the valley have been prevented, the underbrush requires much expensive attention, that will call for the services of a skilled landscape artist. the wasting banks of the river also require treatment of the same kind, and so, indeed, does the whole wasted floor of the valley. As far as the hotel and saddle-train service is concerned, little fault can be found; but good management of the valley in general by a Board of Commissioners appointed by the Governor, whole terms of office depend on ever-changing politics, must, I think, be always difficult or impossible as long as the people of California remain lukewarm and apathetic in the matter. The solution of the whole question, it seems to me, is recession of the valley to the Federal government, to form a part of the Yosemite National Park, which naturally it is. One management for both is enough; and management by the unchanging War Department must be better than State management, ever changing and wavering with the political pulse. Anyhow, people usually get what they deserve; and Californians can obtain immensely better results, even from a State Commission, if they really care enough. Golden Gate Park, under State Commissioners, is well managed. Emerson says: "Things refuse to be mismanaged long," and now, when Yosemite affairs seem at their worst, there are hopeful signs in sight.
A landscape artist has lately made a complete topographical survey of the valley floor with reference to a general plan of treatment. This is a good beginning, and speaks well for the present managing board. To Commissioner Fields in particular I think the thanks of our Club are due for what he has done for the valley, and is doing. Years ago, in discussing Yosemite affairs, he said to me that he did not think any of the Commissioners were landscape artists, and that, so far as he was concerned, he would as soon try to make his own boots as to attempt to do the landscape work required in the valley. Unfortunately, his term of office expires in a few months; but I trust that the Governor will re-appoint him.
This year, nearly as many campers as tourists visited the valley, and their stay was much longer. It is encouraging to learn that so many of the young men and women growing up in California are going to the mountains every summer and becoming good mountaineers, and, of course, good defenders of the Sierra forests and of all the reviving beauty that belongs to them. For every one that I found mountaineering back of Yosemite in the High Sierra, ten years ago, I this year met more than a hundred. Many of these young mountaineers were girls, in parties of ten or fifteen, making bright pictures as they tramped merrily along through the forest aisles, with the sparkle and exhilaration of the mountains in their eyes — a fine, hopeful sign of the times.
How vividly my own first camping trip in the Sierra comes to mind! When I set out on the long excursion that led to California, I wandered, afoot and alone, from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico, with a plant-press on my back,holding an easy course southward, like the birds when they are going from winter to summer. Thus I made my way to the west coast of Florida.Thence I crossed the gulf to Cuba, and enjoyed the rich tropical flora there for a few months, intending to go from there to the north end of South America, and thence through the woods to the head-waters of the Amazon, and then float down that grand river to the ocean. But a lingering fever caught in the Florida swamps, compelled me to seek cooler climates, and I came here. All the world was before me, and every day was a holiday. I stopped one day in San Francisco, and then asked the nearest way out to the untrampled part of the country. "But where do you want to go?" asked the man to whom I had applied for this important information. "to any place that is wild," I said. This reply startled him, and he seemed to fear I might be crazy, and that, therefore, the sooner I was got out of town the better; so he directed me to the Oakland Ferry. From East Oakland I started up the Santa Clara Valley on the first of April, after a wet winter. The warm sunny air was fairly throbbing with lark song, and the hills back of the cultivated fields were covered with bloom, making bright masses of color side by side and interblending, blue and purple and yellow, from many species of gilias, lupins, compositae, etc., now mostly lost. Of course, with such an advertisement of plant wealth I was soon on those hills, and the glowing days went by uncounted. Inquiring the way to Yosemite, I was directed through the Pacheco Pass, and from the summit of this pass I gained my first view of the Sierra, with its belts of forests and the great San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. It was on one of those perfectly pure, rich, ripe days of California sun-gold, when distant views seemed as clear as near ones, and I have always thanked the Lord that I came here before the dust and smoke of civilization had dimmed the sky, and before the wild bloom had vanished from the plain.
Descending the pass, I waded out into the marvelous bloom of the San Joaquin when it was in its prime. It was all one sea of golden and purple bloom, so deep and dense that in walking through it you would press more than a hundred flowers at every step. In this flower-bed, five hundred miles long, during my first walk through it, I used to camp by just lying down wherever night overtook me, and the flowers closed over me as if I had sunk beneath the waters of a lake; the radiant heads of the compositae touching each other, ray to ray, shone above me like the thickest star-clusters of the sky; and, in the morning, I sometimes found plants that were new to me looking me in the face, so that my botanical studies would begin before I got up. Not even in Florida or Cuba had I seen anything half so glorious. But I must make haste to the forests. Crossing the San Joaquin at Hill's Ferry, I followed the Merced into the Sierra foot-hills on my way to Yosemite, and at Coulterville was warned not to attempt to go to the Valley so early in the season, as the snow was ten feet deep on the mountains. But this news was only a joyful exhilaration, and I pushed on, my mind glowing with visions of the pine-trees I had heard of, ten feet in diameter, snow ten feet deep, and, beyond these riches, the Yosemite rocks and waterfalls. Of course, the trail was buried, but I found my way easily, holding a general easterly direction, and getting now and then from the top of some headland a glimpse of the Merced Cañon, which was my main guide.
At Crane Flat, I reached the main forest belt, and there for the first time I saw the giants of the Sierra woods in all their glory. sugar pines more than two hundred feet high, with their long arms outspread over the spiry silver firs and the yellow pine, libocedrus and Douglas spruce.
I began eagerly to sketch the noblest specimens, trying to draw every leaf and branch. this was in 1868. I was perfectly free; and I soon saw that it would be long ere I could get out of those woods, and as you know, I am not out of them yet. Then the sugar pine seemed to me the priest of the woods, ever addressing the surrounding trees, - - everybody that h as ears to hear — and blessing them. few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine-trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
It has been said over and over again, by those who know them best, that ours are the grandest as well as the most beautiful trees in the world. Once I was seated by a camp-fire on Mt. Shasta, in the main forest belt, with Asa Gray and Sir Joseph Hooker, who, as you know, has seen and studied all the great forests of the world, and I then asked him if he knew any coniferous forest that rivaled ours. He said, "No; in the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the forest of the Sierra surpasses all others." In the forests of Switzerland which I saw a few years ago, and which are so carefully preserved and managed, it would be difficult to select a hundred of the largest trees that would equal in weight a single specimen of the largest of our sequoias, to say nothing of their kingly beauty and majesty. "They are," as Hooker says, "the noblest of a noble race," while the sugar pine is the king of pines, though no less than eighty species are known to science.
The Sierra forests are growing just where they do the most good and where their removal would be followed by the greatest number of evils. The welfare of the people in the valleys of California and the welfare of the trees on the mountains are so closely related that the farmers might say that oranges grow on pine-trees, and wheat, and grass.
Now any kind of forest on the flank of the Sierra would be of inestimable value as a cover for the irrigating streams. But in our forests we have not only a perfect cover, but also the most attractive and interesting trees in every way, and of the highest value, spiritual and material, so that even the angels of heaven might well be eager to come down and camp in their leafy temples.
But Professor Dudley has an address for this evening, and I fear I am taking his time.
PROFESSOR DUDLEY: I should be very glad to have you continue instead.
MR. MUIR: Mr. Camminetti said last winter that there were seventy-five actual farms included in the Yosemite National Park whose owners were all praying to have the boundaries so changed as to leave their farms out. but this is not so. Con the contrary, there is little or nothing in the park that can properly be called a farm, but only garden-patches, small hay-meadows, and cattle-ranches; and all the owners, as far as I know, are rejoicing in their protection from the sheep scourge.
The two Sequoia National Parks are also protected by a troop of cavalry; but the grand Sierra Forest Reservation, extending from the south boundary of the Yosemite Park to the Kern river, is not yet protected. Many Government notices were nailed on trees along the trails as warnings to trespassers; but as there was no one on the ground to enforce obedience to the rules, cattle and sheep-owners have paid little or no attention to them.
Now, Mr. Runcie, who is familiar with army affairs, and last summer spent some time with the troops guarding the sequoia parks, says that the troops stationed every summer in the sequoia parks could also effectually guard the great forest reserve at the same time, if only the military authority were extended over it. this we hope will be done. But we must remember that after all trespassers are kept off the parks and reservations and running fires prevented, much more will remain to be done. The underbrush and young trees will grow up as they are growing in Yosemite, and unless they are kept under control the danger from some chance fire, from lightning, if from no other source, will become greater from year to year. the larger trees will then be in danger. Forest management must be put on a rational, permanent scientific basis, as in every other civilized country.


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With a storied and strong breakfast meat history, Hormel Foods, Austin, Minn., adds to its breakfast meats portfolio with the introduction of the healthier and lower sodium Hormel Breakfast Canadian Bacon. It's center cut from pork loin, which is fully cooked, 97 percent fat-free, gluten-free and made only with natural juices. It also features thinner slices, so a serving of three slices is only 70 calories.
What's really great about this Canadian bacon, besides the taste, is that you can use the thinner slices for breakfast sandwiches, cut into pieces for frittatas or salads, make a sophisticated version of a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, add use it as a topping for pizza. Or make eggs Benedict, my favorite breakfast. You can pan fry the slice for one minute or microwave for 10-15 seconds if you want to enjoy it hot.
"Many of our competitors' formulations are 'water-added,' " says Alex Elliott, assistant product manager of breakfast meats. "All of the Hormel Breakfast Canadian bacon items are 'natural juices only,' which is the most premium offering of the category."
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The Longevity Film Competition – Announcement by SENS Research Foundation, The Healthy Life Extension Society, and International Longevity Alliance
SENS Research Foundation
The Healthy Life Extension Society
International Longevity Alliance
Editor's Note: The U.S. Transhumanist Party encourages its members to participate in the Longevity Film Competition, whose official website can be found here. The more original attempts exist to convey to the general public the feasibility and desirability of indefinite life extension, and to dispel common misconceptions about it, the sooner we will have the critical mass of public support needed to bring about this most vital goal.
~ Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party, July 15, 2018
Contest Introduction:
We are living in very interesting times, times of constant change. The scientific community is telling us that soon we could enjoy much healthier and longer lives thanks to technological advancements happening at an accelerated rate. The future can be bright and healthy, and we want more people to know about this amazing prospect and want them to get involved in this important mission – the mission of healthy longevity.
However, describing something potentially beautiful is not always easy. We think you can help by making a (very) short movie conveying that a longer and healthier life thanks to sustainable medical interventions, will be a very positive thing for citizens and society alike.
Help us spread the word in the right way, help us make sure people understand this is about health and that for the first time in history the possibility of tackling aging is not science fiction, but science fact.
Join us in this crusade by entering our competition presented by the SENS Research Foundation, The Healthy Life Extension Society and the International Longevity Alliance and not only potentially help saving lots of lives, but also win the first prize of $10,000!
We look forward to your ideas on how to better communicate this important message to the world.
– The Longevity Film Competition team
Contest Guidelines:
Even though putting aging under medical control is probably desirable to most humans, this concept is not always clear to everybody.
One of our goals is to use this competition as a vehicle to clarify and demystify some of the misconceptions we hear very often.
You can choose just one or all of them and explain them in any way you choose, using your own language and ideas.
Misconception #1
"Aging and disease are two separate things."
— Aging causes disease, and they should be treated as one. —
As we age, we lose our health. We cannot age and become elderly without eventually getting ill as a result of it. If we live long enough, we will all get sick of one or several of the diseases of aging and eventually succumb to them. When we talk about eliminating aging, we talk about putting this process under medical control so that we don't have to get sick as we age.
Misconception #2
"If I live to a 150, I will be living for a long time in an old, sick body."
— If these new therapies help us live to a 150, it will only be because they will keep us strong and healthy. —
When we talk about extending our lifespan, we are talking about extending our health. The extension of our life will not happen unless we fix the health problems that come with aging. Once we do this, more longevity will happen as a "side benefit" of being healthier. As we said before, we get sick with aging, and that's why most of humans die of old age.
So, if we will still be alive at 150, this will mean we will have a better control of the aging process through medical interventions – hence we should not be living in an old sick body.
Misconception #3
"Aging is natural, and we shouldn't tamper with the natural."
— Combating aging is a great challenge for Humanity, and we have a long history of getting great benefit from tampering with many natural things. —
It is proven that there are endless 'unnatural' things created by humans of enormous value and positive outcomes, and we can imagine only a minuscule number of people who would choose to live without them — especially when it has to do with suffering, disease and death.
A few examples of unnatural things we use all the time without questioning much are: pacemakers, antibiotics (to kill natural bacteria), painkillers, cochlear implants, dialysis, plastic surgery, airplanes (it is not natural for us to fly), hair coloring, prosthetic limbs, contact lenses, birth-control methods, and the list goes on forever.
On the other hand, here are some natural things that are definitely bad for us: earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, tornadoes, infectious microorganisms, poisonous plants, predators, venomous creatures, fire, gravity (when we fall), tsunamis, radiation, meteor impacts, etc.
It is time to reason and understand that "natural" doesn't necessarily mean "good".
Misconception #4
"These therapies will only be for the rich."
— Healthy longevity therapies are being developed for everybody to access. —
Rejuvenation therapies could be as little reserved for rich people as mobile phones, cars, electricity, or vaccination may have been in the beginning. Like for most technological progress, the research may be complicated and expensive, but once the technology becomes available, it will become available for everybody. One good example is that the first Human Genome took $2.7 billion dollars and almost 15 years to complete. In 2001 the price of sequencing a genome was 100 Million dollars; today is under 1000 dollars, and it will keep going down without a doubt. Humanity has never stopped advancing just because it was harder and less cost-effective in the beginning; if we had thought like that, we would probably not have most of the technology that is available for everybody today. That's one more reason why it's so important not to delay the development of these cures.
Official Rules
- Concept of film: The submitted piece should show that medical progress for a healthier and longer life is generally a good thing for citizens and society alike. You will achieve this by using the list of common misconceptions provided in the Guidelines section above. You must choose at least one and may also choose all of them.
- Length: The length of the film should be a minimum of 1 minute and a maximum of 20 minutes.
- Visual art style: All kinds of visuals are allowed:
Films, computer animations, whiteboard drawings, live action, infographics, stop and motion, cartoons, typography, screencast, etc. - Genre: All genres are allowed. Science, fiction or science-fiction, a story, sad or funny, a docufiction, a documentary, etc.
- Copyright: All material used in the video should be original, or you should own the copyright for it. You may not use copyrighted material for which you don't have the rights. If you fail to follow this rule, your film will be automatically disqualified.
- Submission: The submission deadline is 23:59 GMT September 15, 2018. The final work should be uploaded to the Internet, and a link to watch it should be provided to us via email at firstname.lastname@example.com, together with your last name, first name, and the proposed title of the work. The winners will be announced October 1st (International Longevity Day).
- Language: The official language is English. Videos can also be submitted in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Dutch but would need to have English subtitles.
- Work Originality and Permissions: a) Films must be the original work of the applicants, and they must be unpublished before July 1st, 2018. b) If a film is based upon another person's life or upon a book or other underlying work, applicant(s) must secure any necessary rights to make such adaptations. c) By entering the competition, you represent that you have secured all necessary rights. d) Applicants are solely responsible for obtaining all necessary rights and permissions for third-party materials included in their films, including but not limited to music, trademarks, logos, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights. e) Longevity Film Competition (LFC) expressly disclaims all liability or responsibility for any violations of the foregoing. f) If your submission is selected for a prize, you agree that SENS Research Foundation (SRF), The Healthy Life Extension Society (Heales), and the International Longevity Alliance (ILA) use your movie without restriction to promote the mission of curing the diseases of aging. SRF, Heales and the ILA can show your work on the internet or by all other means. g) SRF, Heales and the ILA are non-profit organizations and may use the films to drive donations from the public, which will be used to advance the mission of healthy longevity. Any funds raised though the films will support scientific research, outreach, and/or education programs.
- Selected Films and Winners: a) LFC has no obligation (other than as stated in these rules or on our website) to disclose any of the following information: i) identities of screeners or judges; ii) notes, feedback, or information relating to the submitted project; and/or iii) details regarding the submission review or selection process. b) LFC explicitly disclaims any liability or responsibility for any comments, notes, or opinions expressed about a submission, whether by LFC or by its volunteers. c) Winners will be announced on October 1st, 2018. The judges' decision is final. Winners receiving cash prizes are solely responsible for payment of all applicable local, state, and federal taxes.
- Legal action: In the event of litigation the competent courts will be those of the Brussels jurisdiction in Belgium.
- Additional information: For all issues not mentioned above, the members of the jury will decide. They must decide in equity and with the same rules for all competitors.
To having read all of the rules, understood, and have complied with these rules.
To warrant that their work is original and that there are no disputes regarding the ownership of their submission.
To warrant that the submitted material does not defame or invade the rights of any person living or dead.
That failure to adhere to the competition rules and regulations will result in disqualification.
That no revisions of materials will be accepted once entry has been submitted.
That to the best of their knowledge, all the statements herein are true and correct.


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Back pain often occurs as a result of injury, overuse or mechanical issues, but not all causes of back pain are easy to identify. If you struggle with back pain that is chronic or recurrent, you may want to consider some of these surprising culprits:
- Smoking – Smoking damages nearly every organ in the body, and some studies have linked it to chronic back pain. A study at Northwestern University found that smokers are three times more likely to experience chronic back pain than people who do not smoke. "We found that [smoking] affects the way the brain responds to back pain and seems to make individuals less resilient to an episode of pain," researchers said.
- Diet – Sugary snacks could be the reason for your back pain flare-ups. According to Vijay Vad, M.D., an assistant attending physiatrist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, sugars can spike inflammation and trigger back pain. Poor diet also leads to weight gain, which increases pressure on the back and may contribute to pain. Individuals who are overweight are four times more likely to develop back pain.
- Cell phone use – Do you look down at your phone while texting or use your shoulder to hold your phone against your ear during conversations? This can place repeated strain in your neck that extends to the back. If your work requires you to use your phone and computer at the same time, consider purchasing a hands-free device to avoid neck strain. When texting, try holding your phone in front of you instead of placing it in your lap.
- Stress – Stress can manifest itself through numerous physical symptoms, including back pain. If you notice that your stress symptoms and back pain tend to coincide, look into stress management techniques that can help relieve muscle tension. Yoga, meditation and stretching are excellent therapies to help clear your mind and relax the muscles.
- Sedentary behavior – Lounging on the couch might seem like the perfect ending to a stressful day, but this habit could be the culprit behind your back pain. Sitting places pressure on the back discs, decreases blood supply and increases the risk of injury. Whether you're sitting at a desk for work or on the couch watching television, try to take walking or standing breaks at least once every 30 minutes (Source: Huffington Post).
- Footwear – The shoes you wear can change your posture, which in turn can affect back pain. Backless shoes or high heels create lack of stability and cause your body weight to be unevenly distributed over the spine. Opt for shoes that hold your feet firmly in place, and keep heels under three inches (Source: Health).


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Searching the Universe for Highly Energetic Cosmic Particles and Role Models
May 4, 2012
UPTON, NY — Petra Huetenmeyer of Michigan Technological University will give a talk titled "Searching the Universe for Highly Energetic Cosmic Particles and Role Models," at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Thursday, May 17, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall. Sponsored by Brookhaven Women in Science and Brookhaven Science Associates (the company that manages the Lab) the talk is free and no registration is required. All visitors to the Laboratory age 16 and over must bring a photo ID.
Cosmic rays, which are made up of subatomic and atomic particles ranging from electrons and protons to iron nuclei, bombard the Earth's atmosphere from space. They are produced and accelerated in the most violent environments of our known universe and can have energies that are orders of magnitude larger than the energies that will be produced by the Earth's most powerful accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
In the 1960s, scientists began considering supernova remnants — the gaseous remains of highly energetic explosions of massive stars (supernovae) — as likely candidates for cosmic ray particle accelerators in our galaxy, and the plot has thickened since. At higher energies other classes of sources, such as gamma ray bursts, are still being considered. Therefore, it is fair to say that even one hundred years after the first detection of cosmic rays by Austrian-American scientist Victor Hess (1936 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for his discovery of cosmic rays), we still do not know the exact nature of the physics processes that govern their creation and acceleration.
The study of gamma rays provides a crucial piece of the puzzle. Gamma rays are produced by cosmic ray interactions with matter and radiation fields in space, and as neutral particles, they can be traced back to the location of their creation. This will help with the identification of cosmic ray source classes, ultimately leading to uncovering their origin. In her presentation at Brookhaven, Huetenmeyer will discuss how the experiment she is currently working on at the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC), located on the Sierra Negra plateau near Puebla in Mexico, will contribute to her quest, and how positive role models have influenced her approach to solving the day-to-day problems of astrophysicists working in large international collaborations. She has long been intrigued by the influence of role models on young scientists and engineers and their careers.
Huetenmeyer received her PhD in elementary particle physics from the University of Hamburg in Germany while working on the OPAL Experiment at CERN. She then switched continents and fields and moved to the University of Utah where she worked on the HiRes experiment, an astrophysical observatory in the Utah desert that measured ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
Before joining Michigan Technological University as an assistant professor in 2009, she was a post doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory where she focused her research on the detection of galactic gamma rays with the Milagro Observatory that was located in the Jemez Mountains, about an hour drive from the LANL. Most recently, she has been involved in the design and construction of the HAWC Observatory, the successor of Milagro to be completed in 2014.
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British dermatologists are warning of an "epidemic" of skin allergies caused by a chemical used as a preservative in some personal care products.
The chemical, methylisothiazolinone (also known as MI), has been linked with a significant rise in contact dermatitis, and doctors are sounding the alarm:
"We are in the midst of an outbreak of allergy to a preservative which we have not seen before in terms of scale in our lifetime," said Dr. John McFadden, consultant dermatologist at St John's Institute of Dermatology in London. "I would ask the cosmetics industry not to wait for legislation but to get on and address the problem before the situation gets worse."
MI is added to shampoos, creams, makeup and even antibacterial wipes to give the products a longer shelf life by stopping the growth of yeast and bacteria. It is also used in some paints and pesticides.
Changes to European regulations back in 2005 led to a 25-fold increase in how much MI could be used in a personal care product. Since then, dermatologists report a surge in this skin allergy: McFadden's team identified just one case of dermatitis linked to MI in 2010, but by 2012 they found 33.
As well, positive patch tests to the substance (along with its sister chemical, MCI) have reached as high as 10 percent across the U.K., according to David Orton, president of the British Society of Cutaneous Allergy.
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This course provides a detailed investigation into the history, working and challenges experienced by Australia's security and intelligence organisations. The course is designed to examine and contrast the varying roles and functions of the various agencies as part of Australia's national security apparatus in the context of its engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. The course considers how the various intelligence and security functions and organisations have evolved and how they have interacted with society and how they have helped shape Australia's engagement in the Asia-Pacific.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Describe the components of the Australian Intelligence Community
- Explain how and why the AIC came to be configured as it is
- Explain the role of the AIC in Australia's national security community and national security strategy
- Critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the AIC
- Evaluate the significance of the AIC for Australia as an Asia-Pacific power
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- Intelligence Assessment (20) [LO null]
- In Class test (10) [LO null]
- Research Essay (40) [LO null]
- Final Exam (20) [LO null]
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By Frederico Fellini La Dolce Vita is the title of Italian film director, Federico Fellini's, ground-breaking 1960 satire. It was, at the time, regarded as one of the most stylish movies ever made - putting Italian cinema firmly on the world stage. The film, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, made Rome THE destination to visit and made many people aspire to drive a Lambretta or a Vespa, wear exclusive fashion along with sunglasses (at night!), drink cappuccino and generally hang out on the streets, even when it was pouring with rain! One of the characters in the film, Paparazzo, provided the inspiration for the term "paparazzi" - to describe photographers making a living from their (sometimes unwanted) shots of celebrities. Not everyone was so enamoured with the film, with some condemning if for placing a spotlight on corruption, debauchery, perversion, and aimlessness among the 'high society'.
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Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
Datastream Character: Miss Moneypenny Actor: Lois Maxwell Movies: Dr. No - A View To A Kill Status: Retired Appearance: Medium height and build, shoulder-length blow-waved brunette hair, blue eyes, normally seen in formal office attire or military uniform. Date of Birth: 14 February 1927 Date of Death: 29 September 2007 Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Place of Birth: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Lois Maxwell MI6 Biography
Pleased To Meet You James Bond and Miss Moneypenny share an ongoing and feisty office-bound relationship. Whilst it is unknown exactly when the pair first met (they appear comfortable with each other prior to the "Dr. No" mission and 007's infamy) they frequently cross paths as a result of their respective duties and hint at a longer-term relationship out of the office but nothing ever comes of James Bond's empty promises.
"...the only gold I know about is the kind you wear... you know, on the third finger of your left hand?"
Personality Bright and efficient, Moneypenny is the soul of discretion and these character traits have earned her the prestigious and highly-secretive job as the assistant to the head of the British Security Services. To her bosses's chagrin she frequently uses the intercom to listen in on codeword clearance conversations in the office and on the red telephone. Whilst she is primarily office-bound, Penny delights in the opportunity to work in the field, for instance on the "You Only Live Twice" and "Diamonds Are Forever" missions. Whilst Bond and other agents are operating in the field, and at the point of 007's resignation prior to the "O.H.M.S.S." mission, the warm-hearted secretary uses MI6 resources in order to trace Bond and check on her star 00.
Bond: Moneypenny! What gives? Moneypenny: Me, given an ounce of encouragement. You've never taken me to dinner looking like this. You've never taken me to dinner...
Involvement Moneypenny has tireless numbers of responsibilities in and out of the office, here are some career highlights wherein she aids 007 on a mission:
From Russia With Love - Bond is tasked with attempting to secure a Lektor coding device from the beautiful Russian defector. Miss Moneypenny is instructed by M to prepare the case file on Tatiana Romanova, which which 007 spends a mere 5 minutes and before having the salient details memorised. Penny is disappointed that her aid went to so little use, and Bond taunts the secretary with an autographed picture of Romanova. The inscription: "From Russia, With Love".
Thunderball - Bond is on R&R at Shrublands clinic when he runs into the suspicious Count Lippe. Moneypenny handles the call during which 007 asks the secretary to look up a trident tattooed to Lippe's arm. Moneypenny later files her report back to Bond via telephone.
You Only Live Twice - Accompanying M onboard a British submarine that has become the MI6 chief's floating office, Moneypenny offers Bond a copy of a Japanese phrasebook before 007 departs for the mission. The secret agent disappoints the ever-efficient secretary with the news that he has a first in oriental languages and does not require the book of words.
O.H.M.S.S. - Moneypenny is tasked with locating James Bond when he goes missing in the middle of tracking down the arch-villain Blofeld. When he returns grumpy to have been pulled from the case, Moneypenny takes a memo for the "monument" in which 007 threatens to resign. M dismissively tells Bond that his request has been granted and Bond, fuming, leaves the office. The secretary, however, has a secret to share with Bond: she requested two weeks leave, not a resignation. 007 is ultimately grateful for Penny's tact.
The Spy Who Loved Me - M is on location in Egypt, and with him is his ever efficient secretary. Dressed in military uniform and more coy than usual, Penny directs Anya and 007 into the office.
Bond: What can I bring you back from Holland? Moneypenny: A diamond? In a ring? Bond: Would you settle for a tulip?
Octopussy - Bond enters Moneypenny's and before being ushered into M's office for a briefing remarks that she is looking more lovely every day... whilst eyeing up the younger assistant that Penny has on staff. The secretary introduces 007 to Miss Penelope Smallbone, who has heard about Bond and his infamous flirting.
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A strong person physically and mentally don't fall for this bullshit, the powers to be hate strength, it's why they continually push weakness, toxic masculinity, fatherless homes, booze, drugs, lottery tickets, gambling etc.
They want you to be controlled on government money it's why they took away your livelihood and banned you from earning a living.
They opened up the doors and let sex offenders on the street so they could fine and lock up lawful citizens trying to earn a living.
It is easy to control a sick and weak population!
Don't believe me look how easy it was to convince so called men to lock themselves in their homes and start using #Stay home and save lives!
Only weak pussies looking for validation of how caring they look would conform to this nonsense.
If you have a different opinion and support being told to stay home for no fucking reason other than government control you deserve what you weak fucks will soon get.
Read the article below if it doesn't get you thinking, you can't think and your weak warped mind is already lost, they have done what they have set out to do, control your feeble educated mind.
The author of The Secret Covenant is unknown. Questions as to the origin of The Secret Covenant have been debated and as it seems most have even dismissed it as a work of complete fiction but to those who have obtained a deep understanding of these things when presented with the facts cannot deny and ignore the Validity of this Demonic Manifesto.
The Secret Covenant was leaked out on www.Bankindex.com 21 June 2002. The piece came in through one of Bankindex forms with the author left leaving an unusable e-mail address.
The Secret Covenant
An illusion it will be, so large, so vast, it will escape their perception.
Those who will see it will be thought of as insane.
We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us.
We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive.
Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time, so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves. This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.
We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute.
We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy.
Death will come to he who speaks.
We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite.
We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so that they will never see what is happening.
We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water, also in the air.
They will be blanketed in poison everywhere they turn.
The soft metals will cause them to lose their minds. We will promise to find a cure from our many fronts, yet we will feed them more poison.
The poisons will be absorbed through their skin and mouths. They will destroy their minds and reproductive systems.
From all this, their children will be born dead, and we will conceal this information.
The poisons will be hidden in everything that surrounds them; in what they drink, eat, breathe, and wear.
We must be ingenious in dispensing the poisons for they can see far.
We will teach them that the poisons are good with fun images and musical tones.
Those they look up to will help. We will enlist them to push our poisons.
They will see our products being used in film and will grow accustomed to them and will never know their true effect.
When they give birth we will inject poisons into the blood of their children and convince them it is for their help.
We will start early on, when their minds are young. We will target their children with what children love most, sweet things.
When their teeth decay, we will fill them with metals that will kill their mind and steal their future.
When their ability to learn has been affected, we will create medicine that will make them sicker and cause other diseases for which we will create yet more medicine.
We will render them docile and weak before us by our power.
They will grow depressed, slow, and obese, and when they come to us for help, we will give them more poison.
We will focus their attention towards money and material goods so that the many never connect with their inner self.
We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures, and games, so that they may never be one with the oneness of it all.
Their minds will belong to us and they will do as we say. If they refuse, we shall find ways to implement mind-altering technology into their lives. We will use FEAR as our weapon.
We will establish their governments and establish opposites within. We will own both sides.
We will always hide our objective but carry out our plan.
They will perform the labour for us and we shall prosper from their toil.
Our families will never mix with theirs. Our blood must be pure always, for it is the way.
We will make them kill each other when it suits us.
We will keep them separated from the oneness by dogma and religion.
We will control all aspects of their lives and tell them what to think and how.
We will guide them kindly and let them think they are guiding themselves.
We will foment animosity between them through our factions.
When a Light shall shine among them, we shall extinguish it by ridicule, or death, whichever suits us best.
We will make them rip each other's hearts apart and kill their own children. We will accomplish this by using hate as our ally, anger as our friend.
The hate will blind them totally, and never shall they see that from their conflicts we emerge as their rulers. They will be busy killing each other.
They will bathe in their own blood and kill their neighbors for as long as we see fit. We will benefit greatly from this, for they will not see us, for they cannot see us.
We will continue to prosper from their wars and their deaths.
We shall repeat this over and over until our ultimate goal is accomplished.
We will continue to make them live in fear and anger though images and sounds. We will use all the tools we have to accomplish this. The tools will be provided by their labor. We will make them hate themselves and their neighbors.
We will always hide the divine truth from them, that we are all one. This they must never know! They must never know that color is an illusion, they must always think they are not equal.
Drop by drop, drop by drop we will advance our goal.
We will take over their land, resources and wealth to exercise total control over them.
We will deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they will have.
We will establish a money system that will imprison them forever, keeping them and their children in debt.
When they shall banD together, we shall accuse them of crimes and present a different story to the world for we shall own all the media.
We will use our media to control the flow of information and their sentiment in our favor.
When they shall rise up against us we will crush them like insects, for they are less than that. They will be helpless to do anything for they will have no weapons.
We will recruit some of their own to carry out our plans, we will promise them eternal life, but eternal life they will never have for they are not of us.
The recruits will be called "initiates" and will be indoctrinated to believe false rites of passage to higher realms. Members of these groups will think they are one with us never knowing the truth.
They must never learn this truth for they will turn against us.
For their work, they will be rewarded with earthly things and great titles, but never will they become immortal and join us, never will they receive the light and travel the stars.
They will never reach the higher realms, for the killing of their own kind will prevent passage to the realm of enlightenment. This they will never know.
The truth will be hidden in their face, so close they will not be able to focus on it until its too late.
Oh yes, so grand the illusion of freedom will be, that they will never know they are our slaves.
When all is in place, the reality we will have created for them will own them. This reality will be their prison.
They will live in self-delusion. When our goal is accomplished, a new era of domination will begin.
Their minds will be bound by their beliefs, the beliefs we have established from time immemorial.
But if they ever find out they are our equal, we shall perish then. THIS THEY MUST NEVER KNOW. If they ever find out that together they can vanquish us, they will take action.
They must never, ever find out what we have done, for if they do, we shall have no place to run, for it will be easy to see who we are once the veil has fallen.
Our actions will have revealed who we are and they will hunt us down and no person shall give us shelter.
This is the secret covenant by which we shall live the rest of our present and future lives, for this reality will transcend many generations and life spans.
This covenant is sealed by blood, our blood. We, the ones who from heaven to earth came."
This covenant must NEVER, EVER be known to exist.
It must NEVER, EVER be written or spoken of for if it is, the consciousness it will spawn will release the fury of the PRIME CREATOR upon us and we shall be cast to the depths from whence we came and remain there until the end time of infinity itself.
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