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The Sierra Club is no longer officially doing this hike but we virtually always meet at around 6:45 and leave at 7:00 p.m.

The old write-up described it as:

Spectacular view of Santa Monica Bay and LA Basin. 2 hr, 5 mi, round-trip, 1100′ total gain, on fire road. Moderately strenuous conditioning hike for fit hikers.
Level: Moderate
Cost: Free
Bring: Water, Flashlight, Good Shoes

I appreciate and encourage any efforts to verify connections online and be safe. You can Google Sierra club Ed Lubin and find a variety of links. He is always happy to talk to people and he is our unofficial leader. He always knows who’s on the trail and that they’ve gotten down okay.

The start is relatively close to PCH and Sunset. And Here is a map link.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/PutdhZMEQxXTyAAB7

I always look forward to the full Moons near Fri. But the hike is always a little different. Moon, Marine layer, etc. Sometimes we start in the Marine layer and climb out of it, sometimes we start in the dark under just a sliver of moon. We highly recommend flashlights to have for emergencies but generally discourage their use. There is so much ambient light from the city and Moon and if you have a flashlight on you will just follow that spot of light down the trail instead of appreciating your surroundings.  A woman who has been blind since birth is fairly regular and she has been doing it for a dozen plus years and she can do it without a flashlight 😃

It’s out and back so it’s fairly easy to give it a try and if it’s too much initially it’s an easy back out.
I’m a fan of getting outside for our health and I’m a fan of this hike.

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This is one of the things I like about Obama. I believe what he’s saying here is that you can’t change people’s minds by yelling at them. I believe we all could be doing a better job at living with the world rather than against it and I try in my business to provide a resource for people who want to change their backyards from a chemical cesspool to a wildlife-friendly oasis. That said: I don’t call people stupid, psychopaths, or idiots because they don’t agree with me. The best to everyone Bob

This is what we are trying to save!

Related: Chemical-free community swimming pool is filled with recycled rainwater filtered through plants + gh3* Photos via gh3* Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool, gh3*, natural swimming…

Source: Canada unveils its first chemical-free public outdoor pool and it’s

They call it “protecting crops”. But what’s protecting you? Are you putting cut flowers on your table…?
Eating grain and vegetables…?
Growing your own requires knowlege.
Cut flowers have the highest pesticide use per acre of any vegetable material. Do you buy can you buy organic flowers? Are you sure that the farmers market is organic?
Enjoy growing your own!
Bob

www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48297647

Very interesting article. Syn61 has many safeguards over Craig Ventner’s organism. The recombination in yeast could have created unforeseen problems but overall the “organism” and method of creating it looks fairly safe (so crippled that it is unlikely to escape the laboratory.) Anyone seen Jurassic Park lately. laughing.

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I started reading The Wizard of Oz series a while back. And this morning I was Wikipedia-ing around and discovered that it is dedicated to his best friend and companion, his wife. and I looked up her name Matilda Joslyn Gage and she was very active in the women’s suffrage movement wrote and edited a lot of articles and books and her parents were active in the Underground Railroad.

I have now gotten a book on the history of the woman suffrage movement where she has written a chapter. It is free by the way here.

And speaking of married teams. I have a very good friend Tad. And he is the husband of Kitty Felde who used to be on KPCC in Southern California a lot. Well she has written a children’s book and I think some of you out there might be interested in it. So the link above is to her book.

The microscopic particles unleashed by the plant’s explosions are also a potential environmental and health concern

Source: Radioactive Glass Beads May Tell the Terrible Tale of How the Fukushima Meltdown Unfolded

Oh my. Read between the lines. There are tiny particles of radioactive material (ie. tiny “glass beads”) all over the place. Seems to me that it might be that part of the Reactor Core actually vaporized and spewed into the air. oh my

I’m just flabbergasted,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an expert in infectious diseases and chair at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.

“This is an awful disease, but … we have had a mechanism to completely prevent it, and the reason that we have virtually no cases anymore in the United States is because we vaccinate, literally, everyone.”

Source: CDC: Unvaccinated Oregon boy almost dies of tetanus

Oh what horrible, horrible parents …. Oh wait. _Not!_ One kid gets tetanus but _recovers_ and its Front Page News about how terrible it is.

Source: Deaths following vaccination: What does the evidence show?

The vaccine was estimated to have caused approximately one Guillain-Barré syndrome case per 100,000 persons vaccinated [17], resulting in 53 deaths [18].

Over 400 people get Guillain-Barré syndrome and 53 people die from one vaccine and you never hear of it. Now I want to reiterate! I am not against vaccines, I’m a microbiologist! I am; however, completely against forced medical procedures when the complete story is not in.

And the complete story is definitely not in! It may be that natural immunity from anti-vaxxers may end up saving us all from the pathetic benefits of a vaccine.

And this brilliant Dr. William Schaffner. Who is “an expert in infectious diseases and chair at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine”. Enough said. He should be sooooo proud. :-) And I wonder where he gets his money from?

Current industry level vaccinations are pathetic at generating a robust immune response and yet there is virtually no encouragement for the companies to improve them. And certainly even less the more vaccinations are mandated by the government.

Going back and looking at original papers, original studies, and other information; the benefits of vaccines are much much much less than what the medical community tells you today. The original study authors often were very concerned that other factors were involved in the improvements seen. Facters such as the propensity at the time to remove tonsils and perform other childhood surgeries.

The amount of money collected by the medical community for prescribing opioids, for performing unnecessary surgeries, and for forcing vaccinations is obscene. And often not in your best interest. Despite the Hippocratic Oath. And the promise within that oath to “first, do no harm” (or “primum non nocere,”)

King Tut peas are one of dozens of spring flowers you can see during a tour.

Source: Finch Frolic Garden is Open!