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This weekend I had the honor of attending a young friends First Communion at the San Rafael Mission in Marin County. People do not generally think of me as Catholic for good reason. The character Sicily Marshall in Chasing Mercury reflects a bit of mine in an excerpt from Chasing Mercury, Chapter 15, Santa Monica Bay 1960-1962...
Read More"The ballerina envies this couple’s courageous passion, which spits in human desperation’s face."
"His sinew and muscle defy the command that human beings should not fly."
"Secure in the knowledge that citizenship alone did not confer civil or human rights in the land of their birth, the American Japanese couple had not considered themselves crossing the color line, instead acknowledging where on it they stood..."
"Apparently, he was an expert in this human phenomenon..."
"...at risk for losing this human potential."
"...at risk for losing this human potential"
“How can human beings be living here?”
"...accumulated human blood levels have not been calculated yet...”
Sicily reads the title aloud, “Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects..."
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As the sun rises, the bus crosses the River Spree, pulling through the gates of Berlin’s Humboldt University. Hundreds of young adults perch in the stone courtyard, some hanging from the balcony, guarded by marble pillars and neoclassical Roman roof sculptures. Guitars in hand, a chorus of ‘C’s serenade them—Cape Verdeans, Cambodians, Cameroonians, Czechs, Chileans, Colombians, Costa Ricans and Cubans. They greet the tardy Canadians, voices filling the sweltering damp dawn with Cat Stevens’s song Baby, Baby It’s a Wild World--
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Negotiators will gather in Geneva from 24 to 29 September 2017 to further discuss issues related to the Minamata Convention on Mercury at its first meeting of the Conference of the Parties, contingent to the prior entry into force of the Convention. These discussions build on the previous negotiations.
Initiated in 2009, the development of a global legally binding instrument on mercury was carried out over five sessions of the intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) held between June 2010 and January 2013 in Stockholm, Chiba, Nairobi, Punta del Este and Geneva, preceded by two Open Ended Working Group meetings.
As a result, the text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which was agreed upon at the fifth session of the INC in January 2013, was adopted at the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Kumamoto, Japan on 10 October 2013 and opened for signature for one year.
Two sessions of the INC have been held since the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in 2013, INC6 from 3 to 7 November 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand and INC7, from 10 to 15 March 2016 at the Dead Sea in Jordan.
Read MoreThe photo is sunrise on New Year's morning with my daughter Autumn as seen from the Marin Headlands. I remember thinking even those waking up in the horror os Syria or other wars see that sun.
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