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Tularemia warning issued in New Mexico

The New Mexico Department of Health issued a warning Monday about the risk of contracting tularemia.
The warning was issued after a 51-year-old Los Alamos Countyman received laboratory confirmation from the Scientific Laboratory Division of the Health Department that he has tularemia. He returned home after receiving hospitalization.
Health professionals also have reported 33 tularemia cases in pet cats and dogs so far this year. The pets were located throughout Santa Fe, Torrance, Taos, Los Alamos and Bernalillo
Vífilsfell at sunset
_rebekka posted a photo:
Vífilsfell is a medium sized mountain (by Icelandic standards, not Himalayan), 655m high, located a short distance from Reykjavík (which can just be seen in the distance, on the left). Climbed it last friday evening (July 10th) reaching the top just in time for this breathtaking view (this was at 10:55 pm). It had been foggy only 15 minutes earlier, according to two women we met on their way down. Iceland at its finest, if you ask me.
That China’s Stockmarket Is Not A Market Cuts Both Ways | DQ-en
This is not to say that dangers don’t lie ahead for China’s continuing economic transformation, nor that everything is currently healthy and balanced in the world’s second largest economy. China remains a developing nation faced with massive challenges. And, beyond that, China realises that all advanced economies eventually come to rely on their stockmarkets to power economic growth and that these economies learn to live with that market’s vicissitudes. As long ago as 1966 Paul Samuelson had famously quipped that Wall Street predicted 9 of the last five recessions in the US. China will have to resign itself to that kind of behaviour too, or come up with some alternative formula for finance and economic performance.
But all in all, this most recent China stockmarket experience is just a fluctuation that, both in its wider implications and in the cold light of recent historical experience, registers to be far from dramatic.
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On the Euro Summit’s Statement on Greece: First thoughts
Hindsight shows that the monetary union was well-intentioned but too soon and incomplete. Unintended consequence, Germany creates a Reich based on financial control. The new imperialism.
In the next hours and days, I shall be sitting in Parliament to assess the legislation that is part of the recent Euro Summit agreement on Greece. I am also looking forward to hearing in person from my comrades, Alexis Tsipras and Euclid Tsakalotos, who have been through so much over the past few days. Till then, I shall reserve judgment regarding the legislation before us. Meanwhile, here are some first, impressionistic thoughts stirred up by the Euro Summit’s Statement.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Sues U.S. Government After Years of Airport Detentions and Searches
Silliness, being snotty, and stupidity often accompany “security” checks. Most can be denied because there are no records kept on who is chosen and why in random, as well as targeted border checks. Others are “explained” away as just being “cautious” about frequent travelers – except brokers and bankers (grin) to active hot spots around the world.
Trump Your Cat – Anyone Can Join the Race
15-year-old schoolboy develops test for Alzheimer’s disease
Afghan Women’s Writing Project | My Pen, My Pride
Men of my country!
Fathers, brothers, husbands!
What can I write about you?
I am restless, impatient, tired
From telling my story and yours
Men! Throw away your knives
Don’t give me more scars
I am not among the devastated Afghan women
I don’t want my head covered by your cruelty
I live beside you — yet how far we are from one another
Hide your knife — I am afraid
Let me show you my golden heart.
Covered in my burqa, you make the world blind to me
In front of you, I am a woman, your slave, a tired face of fear
What do I mean to you?
I know the answer: A victim of tolerance, a friend of silence
Don’t make me known by your violence
I am not a picture of punishment
Never deceive me with your kindness
I am not a stone
I own my life, my soul, my body
I am empty of the love you took from me
I am still strong, a lonely mountain
I carry my pen, my pride.
By Pari

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