hi. my name is denise duffield. it s okay, thank you. i am the mom who started the chains dot or petition that now has over 6000 signatures for the folding of the santa susana field lab. you re going to hear a lot today. we ve got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we are all intelligent people here. but i think what is lacking is courage to do the right thing. and so, i wanted to bring you my daughter, my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at nine years old. can you do it? would you like to go to disneyland today? okay, let s go to disneyland! oh, yeah! are you coming? i m coming too. she earned all these beads during her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different. for example, red represents when she had a blood transfusion black when she got booked with a needle, yellow for inpatient state, white for chemotherapy. this is what you earned the first month. i d like to share with you what she s earned over the last two times fighting
you know, it s kind of on your shoulders now, because. that you ve got to make this happen or we are all gonna lose. and i was like, you know, some people are trying to say like oh these people are using you, these people are using you. i m a very small person, you know? this is not what i thought my life would be. and i feel so little. and i feel so powerless right now, and it doesn t stop. and then, i have these little times of melting out, and then i pack up. and i wash my face, and then, i go pick up the kids from school. my life just moves on. i think that s all i have to say. i ve been dealing with the santa susana facility for 39 years. i tried to walk away from the
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In core samples taken from glacier ice in Tibet, a team of microbiologists discovered 33 distinct viruses dating back to the Pleistocene. They believe the viral communities were active on glacier surfaces before they were frozen. Some of them are still active within the ice cores.
The Guliya viruses discovered in the ice cap are assumed to have infected the microorganisms that lived on the same ice. The researchers aren t sure when those infections occurred-whether they were most active before the ice cap arose or only thrived after it did. Their comprehensive study of the viruses ecology was published in the journal Microbiome recently with the title