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Katie Medina isn't in the Florida lineup for her hitting ability. But on Saturday, she gave the Gators one of their biggest hits of the season.
Katie Medina isn't in the Florida lineup for her hitting ability.
But on Saturday, she gave the Gators one of their biggest hits of the season.
Medina, who was hitting .212 entering the game and was hitless in her previous 16 at-bats, stroked a one-out single to left to give Florida a 4-3 walk-off win over Alabama-Birmingham in the Super Regional.
"I was just looking for a pitch I could drive," said the UF shortstop. "As soon as I hit it, I knew it was over the shortstop's head. I knew."
In the sixth, Florida pinch-hit for Medina. But UF coach Tim Walton said he didn't hesitate to give her a chance to win the game despite her offensive struggles.
"I talked to her and told her to stick with the plan," Walton said. "Everyone in that dugout was screaming Katie's name."
The teams play again at noon Sunday. Florida (56-7) is now one win away from its fifth trip to the Women's College World Series.
The Gators had tied the game when Brianna Little was hit by a pitch in the seventh with the bases loaded as a crowd of 1,691 watched at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium.
"Give our fans credit," Walton said. "We couldn't have done it without them."
UAB's fans were celebrating in the top of the seventh when the Blazers (40-18) took their third lead of the game.
With two outs, Whitney Fletcher popped up for what looked like the third out of the inning. But UF first baseman Taylor Schwarz lost the ball in the sun.
"I saw a couple of things today I hadn't seen in a long time," Walton said.
Although the pop up kicked right and rolled foul, Fletcher drew a walk. Kate Armstrong followed with a single and Kristen McGrath's liner just eluded Medina at short to bring home the go-ahead run.
Florida appeared in prime shape to take its first lead of the game in the bottom of the sixth when it loaded the bases with nobody out and the top of the order coming up.
But leading hitter Kelsey Stewart hit a soft liner that bounced to the shortstop and turned into an out at the plate. Kirsti Merritt, who fouled off a suicide squeeze earlier in the at-bat, and Stephanie Tofft both struck out against UAB reliever Leigh Streetman.
"You would have liked to push a run across in the sixth," Walton said. "How many times have you seen me squeeze with the bases loaded? But then the (TV) ratings wouldn't have been as good."
For the third time in four NCAA Tournament games, Florida fell behind 1-0 because of an unearned run.
With pinch-runner Kelly Britt at second, Megan McGrath hit a grounder to third in the second inning. Tofft's throw was good enough to get the out, but the ball bounced off the glove of Schwarz and rolled into the UAB dugout, allowing Britt to score.
It was Schwarz's first error of the season.
"She said it just came out of her glove," Walton said. "She's been complaining about her glove for two weeks now. We have backups, but they aren't broken in right."
Florida answered in the third when Stewart reached on an infield single, stole second and scored on Tofft's two-out, two-strike single to right.
"That was a huge hit," Walton said.
Florida starter Hannah Rogers, who had control issues in the first two innings, set down 10 straight UAB batters at one stretch and had two outs in the fifth. Up to that point, Rogers had yet to allow a hit but three straight by UAB brought home a run. Rogers escaped a bases-loaded situation to end the inning.
"I think getting through the lineup once helped me," Rogers said.
Florida tied it in the bottom of the inning when Kelsey Horton was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. A hit batter and two infield singles by Tofft and Lauren Haeger loaded the bases for the Gators.
"We did not come here for a moral victory, we came here to win," said UAB coach Marla Townsend, whose Blazers are in their first Super Regional. "We're not content. We're not happy."


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Sweden has won the first ever European Bombina Song Contest, in what is surely Europe's most sparsely attended Idol spinoff. Indigenous to the lowlands of Northern Europe, the fire-bellied toad or Bombina bombina is an endangered species that has attracted a small but fanatically loyal fan club of zoologists and ecologists. To bring attention to…

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Feeling the Pain: States, EAC likely to see cuts in federal budget debate
The budget debate is in full swing in Washington, DC and around the country as the White House and a divided Congress spar over priorities for federal spending both right now and for the next fiscal year (which begins October 1, 2011).
Anyone following the debate is likely well-aware of the professed commitment to fiscal discipline at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill. To date, this commitment to discipline has translated into a focus on identifying budget cuts wherever they might be found in the federal budget. As a result, policymakers and stakeholders across the nation are learning that the concept of "shared sacrifice" – at the least the version that involves reduced or eliminated funding – is less rhetoric than reality.
The election community is no exception. Less than ten years after the federal government made its first-ever investment in state and local administration via the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, election officials are seeing the federal government take steps to reduce the flow of federal money for voting improvements across America.
One immediate casualty is the election reform grants established to help states meet the various mandates enacted as part of HAVA. The President's fiscal year 2012 (FY12) budget formally zeroes out these funds, which have not been replenished for several budget cycles (beginning during President G.W. Bush's second term) after about $3 billion went to states in the fiscal years following HAVA. These funds have been identified as consensus cuts and were included in both versions of the FY11 continuing budget resolution ("CR") originating in the House of Representatives. The latest CR (H.J.Res.44) passed the House 335-91 on March 1, passed the Senate 91-9 March 2, and was signed by the President later the same day.
The President's signature will leave the EAC with about $69 million in previously authorized funds for grants to the states – but no new funds. The CR also rescinds half of $10 million in grant funds for planned studies of pre-election logic and accuracy testing and accessible voting technology.
The other target for reduced funding is the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) itself. The President's budget cuts the agency's proposed budget $4 million from last year, authorizing $14 million - $3.25 million of which is to be transferred to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for voting system testing and guidelines. Barring any other negotiated changes, the EAC will be left with approximately $12 million for FY12. At press time it was not yet clear what impact the cuts would have on EAC operations.
When HAVA was enacted in 2002, there was some uncertainty about whether or not the nearly $4 billion authorized represented a down payment on a new and longstanding federal role in election administration. As the FY11/12 budget debates continue, it seems pretty clear that while the federal role created by HAVA may be longstanding, the level of funding will not.
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Stocks mostly ticked higher on Monday, but persistent concerns about the upcoming debate on the fiscal cliff limited gains even after last week's steep sell-off.
Barclays cut its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 1,325, citing fiscal cliff issues.
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The S&P 500 dropped 2.4 percent last week, the worst week for the benchmark index since June. It closed below its 200-day moving average for the first time in five months, and an extended run under that level could signal further losses ahead.
Trading volume is expected to be light, with the U.S. bond market and government offices closed on Monday for the Veterans Day holiday.
Last week's weakness was partly propelled by concerns about whether there will be a timely solution to avoid the fiscal cliff, a combination of government spending cuts and tax increases set to go into effect early next year unless Congress acts to change the law before then. Though most consider it unlikely that no deal will be reached, analysts fear going over the cliff could push the economy back into recession
"Right now, all eyes are on Washington, and we're just waiting," said Matthew Keator, a partner in the Keator Group, a wealth management firm in Lenox, Massachusetts. "We're hopeful something gets done, but we've been disappointed before. We need to see something done if we're going to remain up for the year."
The S&P 500 is still up 10 percent for 2012, though recent months have eroded those gains. The Nasdaq has fallen for five straight weeks.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 3.69 points, or 0.03 percent, at 12,811.70. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 0.87 of a point, or 0.06 percent, at 1,380.72. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 4.53 points, or 0.16 percent, at 2,909.41.
Some major acquisition news gave investors some reasons for optimism on Monday. Precision Castparts Corp offered to buy Titanium Metals Corp for $2.9 billion, while Leucadia National Corp agreed to buy investment bank Jefferies Group for $3.6 billion.
Shares of Titanium surged 42.3 percent to $16.46 while Jefferies climbed 13.5 percent to $16.19. Precision rose 5.5 percent to $180.67. In contrast, Leucadia fell 4 percent to $20.93.
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In addition, the Greek parliament on Sunday approved an austerity budget for next year, a necessary step to unblock a new tranche of credit from the European Union and International Monetary Fund before the government runs out of cash. Still, investors remain concerned about whether the EU and IMF will agree to send the next tranche.
Apple Inc rose 0.6 percent to $550.42 after the company announced a global patent settlement with HTC Corp <2498.TW>, as well as a 10-year licensing agreement. Apple's stock has been under pressure recently, dropping more than 20 percent from its 2012 high to enter bear market territory.
Homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat expectations, helped by a jump in orders. D.R. Horton's shares gained 3.1 percent to $21.23.
According to Thomson Reuters data through Friday, of the 449 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings, 63.3 percent have topped expectations. But only 38.2 percent of companies have topped revenue expectations - well below the 62 percent average since 2002.
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Several readers have asked for a repeat of last year's Halloween column about child safety. These revised strategies from the "scary" column helps to keep kids safe on the scariest night of the year, compliments of Cathy Lewandowski, AT&T's marketing director then and now.
- First, this is a great time to give your young witches and goblins a cell phone, regardless if they normally use one or not. Activate old phones with a prepaid calling card and fully charge them before Count Dracula and Witchipoo start out their evening.
- Program emergency numbers as a speed dial; the numbers also can be programmed as ICE (in case of emergency), which is a good idea for anyone's phone at anytime. Tell your children to call home immediately should they become separated from others in their group or feel uncomfortable within their surroundings. Be sure to be within earshot of your own phone.
- Maintain contact information with chaperones. Trade phone numbers with all parents who're with you and those who are with your kids. And establish regular check-in times for both younger and older party goers and/or trick-or-treaters.
- Drive responsibly. Take advantage of hands-free options while using your phone in the car, especially with so many youngsters out crossing the streets.
- Be a wireless Samaritan. Keep a lookout for anything suspicious or out of place and, if you note such, instantly call law enforcement authorities.
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Due to the interconnectedness of the Floridan Aquifer, a local solution to restore flows at Silver Springs will require regional action.
On Dec. 11, the Governing Board of the St. Johns River Water Management District held the fourth and final meeting concerning their new Springs Protection Initiative. The primary topics at the meeting were the declining water flows at Silver Springs and the causes and effects of nitrate nitrogen pollution. To any attendee who might have expected to hear what the district was planning to do to ensure the protection of Silver Springs, these meetings must have been alarming.
Average flows at Silver Springs during the past decade are reduced by 32 percent compared to the average of the previous 70 years, and down by 50 percent during the past two years. Silver Springs also is suffering from nitrate-nitrogen concentrations more than 25 times higher than historic levels, a result of excessive fertilizer use and inadequate treatment of human and animal wastes.
The once clear water, verdant plant community and abundant fish populations at Silver Springs now are visibly degraded and disappointing to any visitor who remembers the way the springs once were.
Sadly, during their springs meetings, the St. Johns River Water Management District made no decision to restore flows to Silver Springs. District staff continue to insist that groundwater pumping is not a significant part of the documented flow decline and, instead, claim that lower rainfall totals and other natural causes are responsible for reduced spring flows.
However, the district's own data show that groundwater pumping from the Floridan Aquifer exceeds 1.2 billion gallons each day, which is groundwater that otherwise would have flowed to the springs. Further, regional monitoring data show that groundwater levels have already declined by up to 60 feet in heavily pumped areas around Tampa and Jacksonville, and aquifer levels in the vicinity of Silver Springs have declined by up to 20 feet. Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey demonstrate that regional groundwater level declines severely reduce flows, even in distant springs.
Silver Springs is not healthy, and its vital signs are not improving. Yet, the outcome of the four District Springs Protection Initiative workshops was a recommendation for additional research rather than immediate corrective action for problems that have been visibly worsening at Silver Springs. While increased monitoring is certainly commendable to assess the changing health of the springs, the root causes of the impacts have been well understood for more than a decade.
Due to the interconnectedness of the Floridan Aquifer, a local solution to restore flows at Silver Springs will require regional action. The only feasible approach to restoring aquifer levels and historic flows at Silver Springs is to reduce the overall groundwater extraction districtwide.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has determined that the amount of nitrate entering the groundwater that feeds Silver Springs needs to be reduced by at least 79 percent to control harmful algal blooms. This difficult task will require a reduction of fertilizer use by farmers and homeowners and upgrades to wastewater treatment/disposal systems throughout much of Marion and adjacent counties.
The community that loves Silver Springs needs to draw a line in the sand and let their state officials know that no more degradation can be tolerated. All state and local permitting decisions should be based on protecting the public's interests. A healthy environment at Silver Springs equates to a healthy local and state economy.
Residents who wish to pass a restored Silver Springs to the next generation should demand that any new consumptive use permits issued must be offset by an overall decrease in groundwater pumping and a reduction in the amount of nitrogen applied to the land. Otherwise, Silver Springs will continue to suffer a death by a thousand cuts.
Dr. Robert Knight is director of the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute in Gainesville and has been researching Silver Springs since the 1970s.


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- 2B. Indecent Exposure
- 3. Red Satin Face
- 4. Seize the Day
- 5. Rhino on the City Hall Steps
- 6. Two Fingers in the Pocket
- 7. Men Behaving Badly
Route List
Wish You Were Here Face Routes from Left to Right
|Look Ma, No Friends
|FA: Sean Bartleet; Greg Stewart; Richard Gee; Andre Dalais; Sally Hofmeyr (1998)
|On the left-hand side of the Wish You Were Here face, there are between 3 and 5 (depending on how you count them!) huge, right-facing corners. This line starts up the middle of the face to the right of the big corner that is closest to the far, left-hand end of the crag.
1. 13 (40m) Start near the middle of the face located to the right of the left-most corner. Climb straight up the face past a few pockets to a big ledge.
2. 12 (15m) Climb the slab on the right and then up an open book. Move out left onto a nose directly above the top of the first pitch.
This is a pleasant, easy route with consistently clean slab climbing. Protection consists mainly of large cams in pockets. Walk off to the left and then around and back along the base of the crag.
|Magic Carpet Ride
|FA: Gavin Peckham and Greg Wooding (5 May 2001)
|This route takes a direct line up the buttress to the left of 'Red Satin Face'. Walk in along the base of the crag and past the start of 'Rhino…' and 'Red Satin Face' to reach the base of the huge, right-facing corner immediately to the left of 'Red Satin Face'. From the corner, walk left for a couple of metres towards the arête until the bush becomes too thick to progress easily.
1. 15 (35m) Get up onto the face and then traverse to the left and around the corner onto the arête. Once around the corner, pull up on a perfect finger-jam (crux, reachy) and then climb easily straight up the arête to a stance on a narrow ledge about 5m below two adjacent cubby-holes at the base of a short vertical section. There is a good crack on the ledge and a pocket in the face at the back of the ledge for a belay.
2. 14 (25m) Scramble up to the cubby holes and then climb the steep, broken rock above them. Continue up easily and belay on a big ledge with two very large cubby-holes - almost caves.
3. 14 (15m) Pull through one of the two breaks in the steep rock above the cubby-holes and continue easily up to the top.
|Indecent Exposure
|Apparently a high quality climb with some wild positions. The route ascends the overhanging arête to the left of the slab where Rhino on the City Hall Steps face. The first pitch starts up the grey slab, just left of the corner.
|Red Satin Face
|FA: Gavin Raubenheimer and Cesar de Carvalho (1998)
|Towards the left-hand end of the Wish You Were Here face there are several huge, right-facing corners. Between two of these corners there is a superb face with three unmistakable, broad, black water streaks running almost the full height of the crag. The climb goes more or less up the left-hand water streak.
|Seize the Day
|FA: Gavin Raubenheimer and Andy Telfer (11 April 1999)
|1. 12 (30m) Start at the same point as 'Red Satin Face'. Move up diagonally to the right, across the broken face to belay at the chains at the top of the first pitch of 'Rhino'.
|Rhino On The City Hall Steps
|FA: Andy Haliburton and Sean Bartleet (1996)
|Towards the left of the Wish You Were Here face there are two huge, right-facing corners. On the face between them there are three black water streaks that run almost the full height of the crag. The climb starts just to the right of the middle streak, then moves left and continues up between the middle and the left-hand streaks.
|Two Fingers in the Pocket
|(21, or 13, A0)
|FA: Dylan Salt; Dario Tedeschi
|1. 21 (30m) Start as for 'Rhino …' but instead of traversing left, carry straight on up the line of bolts. The crux move consists of getting over a bulge by deadpointing a two-finger pocket from a large hueco, followed by another thin move to the chains.
|Men Behaving Badly
|FA: Gavin Raubenheimer; Trevor Johnson (27 April 2003)
|This route takes a line up the blunt arête to the right of 'Rhino on the City Hall Steps'. It is at times exposed, but well protected. The pitches are all slightly less than 25m long. The third and fourth pitches can linked using a 50m rope. Communication between the leader and belayer can be problem on pitch two, especially if the wind is blowing. Start about 10m to the right of 'Rhino…'. The first bolt is about 4m up. 12 draws will be enough for this route. This is an excellent route at a moderate grade.
|Ledge of Renewed Hope
|FA: Jacques Raubenheimer and Hennie van Zyl (1999)
|Just left of 'Fight the Feeling' and 'Come Together' is a large column of rock lying against the face. The route climbs the face just to the right of the crack formed by this column.
|Come Together
|FA: Helmut Gorgitten ; Renato Botte ; Kuit Buiggen ; Pauli Tieukwwalster ; Jtoly Sudtiroc (20 April 1998)
|This line uses the first two pitches of 'Fight the Feeling', moves left and then climbs parallel to that route. Grades are unknown, if anyone does it please send info!
|Fight the Feeling
|FA: Mike and Ruth Behr (1994)
|The original line up Mooineok Mountain and the most popular. Easy except for a couple of moves. The Wish You Were Here face has two huge, right-facing dihedrals towards its left and a recessed face bounded by a huge arch on the right. This line goes up the face about midway between the right-hand dihedral and the left-hand side of the arch. There is a broad, grey, water-streak in the middle of this face and the route starts just to the left of this.
|Mr Teatime's Neurological Accelerator
|FA: C Reed and Alex Steyn (25 April 1998)
|Towards the right-hand side of the Wish You Were Here face, and to the right of 'Fight the Feeling' there is a reddish face that is enclosed by a huge, arch-like feature. The route takes a line up this face.


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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Blogging for Cousins? How about blogging for help?
Often genealogy and family history bloggers refer to their blog posts as "cousin bait." In other words, the blogger is trying to leverage the power of search and social media to catch the attention of potential cousins with a few well chosen keywords in their posts. It works very well, I've had cousins and other researchers working on the same family line find me through my blog and that is a rewarding feeling.
While I do hope my blog finds new cousins, I'm not opposed to leveraging the power of search and social media for some good, old fashioned help! This approach can work equally if not better than using your blog as bait.
I will post about a particular ancestor or challenge I am facing in my research and ask straight up "does anyone have any suggestions?" I can't think of one post that someone, from somewhere didn't offer to help, make a suggestion or point me in the right direction. The help doesn't just fall into your lap, it can take some time but it's usually always worth the wait.
There is no shame in asking for help, we are all in this together. Just remember to pay that help forward.
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Interviews with People Who Make a Difference: That All May Eat
Interview with John Robbins
as interviewed by Daniel Redwood DC
Offered the chance to inherit an extremely lucrative family business, most people find a way to rationalize saying yes, even if they face some qualms of conscience about the nature of the business.
John Robbins, who stood to inherit Baskin-Robbins, the largest ice cream company in the world, said no. After looking closely at the factory farms of the dairy industry, and studying the health implications of the products the company was selling, he concluded that he had to remain true to his conscience. He has not regretted the decision.
Robbins is the author of widely-acclaimed book
Diet For a New America
(Stillpoint), in which he deftly blends fact and passion in an attempt to awaken us to the consequences of our dietary decisions. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the book takes an in-depth look at the way our society relates to the animals we eat. From the factory farms where they suffer in profoundly inhumane conditions, to the heart attacks and cancers caused by the consumption of their flesh, to the severe and ongoing environmental damage caused by this system, Robbins pulls no punches in detailing the uncomfortable truth. His book is disturbing and, for many, life-changing. Robbins has received over 20,000 letters from readers, thanking him for having moved them to eat differently and live differently.
Robbins is the President of the EarthSave Foundation, dedicated to the welfare of all species and the environment.
John Robbins Interview
: Gandhi said that "the greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." How well does the United States measure up to this standard?
: Terribly. We treat animals institutionally as if they were nothing but commodities, nothing but merchandise. In this excessive commercialization, we end up treating them with tremendous cruelty. One place where this is particularly glaring is in the treatment of the animals whose meat and milk and eggs we consume. We don't have barnyards and pastures, and Lassie and Timmy running around on the family farm anymore. Instead, we have factory farms, and these institutions could hardly be more exploitive and involve more suffering if they were designed for that purpose.
: Is it primarily greed, or just lack of awareness?
: It's a combination of both, and also it's a consequence of institutionalized arrangements that in effect reward organizations and industries for the very short-sighted "third quarter profit" mentality, instead of looking at anything from a larger perspective. For example, if someone does want to run their operation using organic methods of agriculture, and treating the animals with some minimal amount of respect and consideration, they are in the very short term at an economic disadvantage, compared to the people who will do anything to save five or ten cents. So they get pushed out of business.
We are the only fully industrialized country in the world today that still implants our beef cattle with hormones. Over 65 percent of the antibiotics produced in the United States are not used as medicines; they are used as feed additives on factory farms. They are not used as medicines to cure a sick animal; they are mixed into every dose of feed from birth to slaughter. This is because the conditions in which the animals are kept are so unnatural, and so stressful and so severe, that these creatures would die if it weren't for the biosecurity that is employed in the form of constant doses of antibiotics.
: Europe has banned American meats, because antibiotics and hormones are routinely fed to our animals. The U.S. government says this is an unfair trade practice, that the meat is really safe, and the Europeans just want to keep American meat from competing on their markets. What do you feel is the real reason for the ban?
: It would be more correct to say that it is certain people in the Department of Agriculture, who are spokesmen for the meat industry. The Secretary of Agriculture under Reagan, for instance, Richard Lyng, was the former president of the American Meat Institute. We have a revolving-door policy where our nation's food policies are pretty much controlled by the meat and dairy industries. The Europeans do not want to start a trade war with the United States, but they do feel an obligation toward the public health. They are forced by the science they see, and by the feelings of their populations, to protect their people from the onslaught of hormones and pharmaceuticals that are all too often found in animal products.
This brings up the control of our food policies by the industries. Earlier this year the USDA came forward with an idea to improve the basic four food groups. They have up until now shown them in a wheel form, which implies that half of our food intake should be from meat and dairy products, although it's clear they cause heart disease, strokes, cancers, diabetes, obesity and general ill health in the population.
They proposed that instead of showing it as a wheel, they would show it as a pyramid, with the higher rungs being meat and dairy. In the pyramid shape, these rungs are actually narrower at the top, so this would graphically depict that these foods ought not to play that important a role in a person's diet.
Well, the meat industry, the National Cattlemen's Association, the National Livestock and Beef Board, The American Beef Council, The National Dairy Council, the American Milk Producers Association, basically the entire gamut of beef and dairy concerns, raised such an incredible stink about it that the wiser voices in the USDA just knuckled under, wilting under the pressure. So we're back to the Basic Four being taught in a way that is profoundly contraindicated by medical science.
: How much of the nutrition education curriculum and materials in America's schools comes from unbiased sources, and how much is supplied by the public relations people of the dairy, meat and egg industries?
: Very little is unbiased. The foremost supplier of the nutritional materials used in public schools in this country is the National Dairy Council. When I first learned that, I did not really understand just how unfortunate this is. I assumed that the Dairy Council was a public interest council, but it turns out that it's a trade lobby. Its purpose, which is explicit in its bylaws, is to promote the sale of dairy products. The material it provides to schools reflects very directly that inclination.
For example, I just saw a coloring book that's distributed by the Dairy Council to kindergarten through third grade. It's a very nice coloring book, except that it has some real inherent biases. For example, there's a drawing of the outline of a man's face, and it says "What did Daddy eat today? If he had his cheese, color him happy, and draw a smile on his face. If he did not have his cheese, color him sad and draw a frown on his face."
"Did he have his butter today? If he did, color his eyes blue. If he didn't, color his eyes red." And it goes on and on, with ice cream, milk and so forth, so you end up with two pictures. One of this fellow who ate his butter and his cheese and his ice cream and his sour cream and his milk, and he's glowing with a big smile on his face. Then there's this other poor fellow who didn't have his dairy products, and is a mess.
Now there's a message being delivered there. Children, drawing with their crayons, do not realize that they are being programmed. It happened to all of us. I can remember when I was a child--I believed in the four basic food groups as if they came down from Mt. Sinai. I had no awareness that there were previously seven food groups, and before that there were twelve, and that the number had been whittled down in Washington, not in response to advances in health science, but rather in opposition to those advances, as a consequence of lobbying efforts paid for by the meat and dairy industries, and enacted on behalf of their products.
: Until I was a young adult, I certainly believed that animal products, as I had been told, provided the best-quality protein, and were necessary for good health. What does the scientific community, the parts of it not in the employ of the meat, dairy and egg industries, have to say about this?
: The largest study ever done in world medical history on the relationship between diet and health, is currently being completed under the direction of T. Colin Campbell of Cornell University. He is the former senior science advisor to the National Cancer Institute, and is probably the most prestigious authority on the diet/health connection in the world. His opinion is that the excess consumption of animal protein in the American diet is the single greatest cause of disease in our time. His views are reflected throughout the informed medical community. I read every week another article in
or the
British Medical Journal,
or the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
reporting another study showing the negative health impact of excess animal protein.
In this country, we derive approximately 80% of our protein consumption from animal products. In those parts of the world where cancers and heart disease and diabetes are much more rare, the percentage of protein consumption that comes from animal products is more like 10 percent. We are consuming animal protein to a terrible excess, and really damaging ourselves in the process. Protein has become kind of a sacred cow in this country, and so many of us are afraid of not getting enough that we don't really approach it in a balanced way, realizing that there are dangers in getting too much. It's like the old German proverb that says "A man with one watch knows what time it is, but a man with two watches is never quite sure."
You really
have too much of a good thing. You can have too much sunlight, too much sleep, too much food. Certainly you can have too much protein. Some of the diseases that are correlated with too much protein, and particularly too much animal protein, are colon cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis, all kinds of kidney problems and heart disease. These afflictions are so common in our culture as to be considered normal, yet they don't appear with any regularity at all among people who do not consume excess animal protein.
: If recent independent research shows this, why aren't even more people making the change toward vegetarianism?
: Because of the concerted effort, and literally tens of millions of dollars of publicity and advertising, from the companies and industries that profit from our continuing to trade our forests for cheeseburgers and heart attacks.
: Pope John Paul gave a controversial speech in which he stated that it was very important not to take the fall and disgrace of Communism as an across-the-board endorsement of Western-style capitalism. In your book, you speak of the need for a "deeper bottom line." What does this mean to you, especially in light of your having passed up the opportunity to inherit the Baskin-Robbins empire?
: I was born into a situation where I had a view from the top of the consumer mountain. This is the mountain that most of us are trying to climb in this culture, investing our efforts and our time. One of the things I saw was that it's who you are, and what you do with the challenges of your life, that determines the impact you have in the world. It's not how much social status you have or how wealthy you are, it's how aligned you are with your own spirit that is the key to having the influence in the world that you would like. I really deeply believe that the deeper bottom line that each of us meets in our lives has to do with our own sense of integrity and compassion, and involvement and connection with people, and indeed with the whole community of life on this earth.
One of the consequences of capitalism and its darker side has been the treatment of the natural world as a resource to exploit. As a result, we've treated our oceans like garbage dumps. We've polluted and used up the resource base, the natural capital of our planet, the endowment from God that sustains human life. This is occurring at a terrifying rate, absolutely unsustainable. The shift that I am working for in our society today has to do with seeing nature as a community, of which we are a part, to which we owe our lives, and for which we must care if we are going to survive.
If I had followed in my father's footsteps, as I was groomed to do, and come to run the Baskin-Robbins empire, I'd have looked in the mirror at a person who had not followed the call of his own conscience, and that price I'm not wealthy enough to pay. No one can be wealthy enough to pay it.
: I found parts of
Diet For a New America
to be so painful and upsetting that several times I wanted to just put it away and do something else. How can we look inhumanity square in the face and not put on blinders and turn away?
: I don't know that we can actually face it all without some denial and coping and psychic numbing. But we do the best we can, and we move out of the numbness and the programmed avoidance of our feelings by degree, in stages. Gradually we bring our lives into accord with our deeper human responses to these things. When we do that, when we make our lives statements of our feelings, and authentic expressions of ourselves, then we access a power that's greater than ourselves, that's connected to the whole web of life.
That enables us to take the next step, of opening our eyes and seeing the darkness that needs light brought to it. We can only bite off a chunk at a time, but it's by being true to our wholeness and our spirits, and to that part of us that deserves to live in a compassionate world, and needs to express its feelings and its prayers and its caring, that we come into that balance.
Actually, that's such an important question that I've written my second book about it. It's about the whole human and personal struggle to come into harmony with the situations that we're dealing with here. Just today I read in the paper that the World Health Organization has raised their prediction of how many people will be carrying the AIDS virus by the year 2000. They've raised it from 20 million a few months ago, to 30 and then to 40 million, because it's spreading so much more rapidly, particularly in Africa.
We see the suffering of the Kurds, the tragedy in Bangladesh. The level of suffering in the world is so immense that to keep your heart open and not block the human reality of what is occurring is difficult. It takes a great deal of compassion, a great deal of sensitivity and a great deal of self-acceptance to even attempt it, particularly because our society invalidates our compassion and our caring in so many ways.
There's a little bit of Donald Trump in each of us, but I think there's also a little bit of Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Theresa too. But it's the Donald Trump that makes the headlines, that gets lots of space for acknowledgement in this culture. But a part of us knows that our real sense of value, our real sense of meaning, doesn't derive from a financial statement, but arises from the kind of human being we are. That part of us usually doesn't get much more than lip service in the mainstream media. Still, I believe there is something in each of us that aspires and works and longs deeply to live in a society and a world that strengthens us in our spirits.
: Many countries in the Third World, where there is widespread hunger and starvation, are using large portions of their most fertile land for meat, coffee, cotton and other export crops. Places like Guatemala and El Salvador export meat to the US, while substantial portions of their populations go hungry. How can this actually be happening?
: Your point about cash crops is certainly crucial. Every morning from Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia, a 747 jumbo cargo jet takes off full of meat for Western Europe, at a time when over a million people in Ethiopia have less than a ten day supply of food. We may see this year in Ethiopia starvation the likes of which we have never seen before. The natural resource base in Ethiopia is being chewed up by animals, and drunk by animals, whose meat is consumed by the overindulgent palates of people in what I call the overdeveloped countries.
Since I saw the treatment of people, and the consequences to the societies of Latin America and Africa, of our consumption of coffee, I no longer will purchase coffee from these areas unless it is organically grown from a cooperative where I know the money actually goes to the people. Similarly, we import 300 million pounds of Central American rainforest beef into the United States every year. Meanwhile, the average Central American eats less meat than the average North American housecat. Virtually all that beef production is undertaken on land that had been tropical rainforest. It was destroyed to clear the land to graze the cattle, so we can have more heart attacks.
There is no natural niche for cattle in Central America's ecology. Every hamburger made from rainforest beef represents the destruction of 55 square feet of tropical rainforest. So now when I look at a hamburger, I not only see the raised cholesterol level and the heart attack lurking there, for those human beings unfortunate enough to eat it. I also see the ground-up cow and the animal suffering that's involved in the production of that hamburger, and I also see the tropical rainforest being destroyed.
The lungs of the planet are being ripped apart. And I see the consequences to our future because of the destruction of the rainforests. As they go, there is less and less oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere, and more carbon dioxide. This means an accelerating greenhouse effect, global warming, and the destabilization of the climate of our planet.
: When I lived in Iowa, there were miles and miles of cornfields everywhere. I was shocked to discover that virtually none of it is for human consumption.
: That's correct.
: It's fed instead to cows, pigs, chickens and other animals. What are the consequences of this?
: We call the Midwest the breadbasket of the country. When you fly over it, you see miles and miles of row-crops, growing grains and soybeans. But they're not growing bread. It's livestock feed. 90% of the grain grown in the United States is fed to animals, not people. This process is a very wasteful and inefficient way of producing food for human beings. It takes 16 pounds of grain, on a national average, to produce one pound of beef.
One way to look at this is to realize that if the people of the United States reduced our consumption of beef by 10 percent, that would save enough grain to feed 60 million human beings, which is more than the number of people on the entire planet who will die of hunger this year. Another way of looking at the wastefulness of growing all that grain to feed the animals is to realize that for every individual who shifts from a standard American meat-centered diet to a vegetarian diet, an acre of trees is spared.
You see, when the Founding Fathers signed the Constitution of this country, a squirrel could travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean without ever setting foot on the earth. This was a very thickly and richly and luxuriantly forested continent. But over 280 million acres of our original forest has been cleared, to create land on which to grow cattle feed or graze cattle. So this is what I mean when I say that we have traded our forests for cheeseburgers.
But the good news is that when we decrease our consumption of beef, we can then return a great deal of that land to forest, and in so doing provide habitats for wildlife which would otherwise become extinct. The forests play an indispensable role in the hydrological cycles of water. They purify our water. They also hold the topsoil, so we would not lose it at the rate we are. They also breathe out oxygen, and take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, where it is doing so much damage.
: When I was in chiropractic school, my classmates and I were stunned to learn in class one day that the "normals" on blood tests such as cholesterol, are determined by statistical averages rather than by what is needed for good health. Thus, the "normal" American cholesterol level will quite likely result in a heart attack. China's "normal" is at the far low end of America's scale. What is your advice on how we should interpret health statistics? How are these abused by vested interests?
: Another example of that is the RDA's, the recommended daily allowances. Those are not determined by the amount of each vitamin that is optimum for health maintenance, but by the average amount of consumption of these nutrients in the American diet, a diet which is laughable from any larger perspective.
We live in an interesting time, when people who consume a diet and make food choices that predispose them to heart disease and cancer, strokes and diabetes, that involve a great deal of suffering, that are ecologically unstable and unsustainable to the point of being insane, are considered normal. Whereas people who make life choices and food choices that are compassionate, healthy, light, conscious, and aware, are considered weird.
: I have a question on one specific choice people feel forced into. Most American women fear osteoporosis, and many are advised to increase their calcium intake to avoid it. What have the most recent studies shown about the causes of osteoporosis?
: That the amount of calcium you take into your body is of minimal importance, and that the main lifestyle factor is protein consumption. If you want to get osteoporosis, eat excess animal protein. Vegetarians have
lower rates of osteoporosis than their meat-eating counterparts, in every culture in the world. There are some other factors that contribute to osteoporosis: lack of exercise, excessive phosphorus in the diet (from cola drinks and meat products).
The reason animal protein causes osteoporosis, (and this includes dairy protein, by the way), is that animal proteins are acid-forming. The body then needs to buffer the amino acids from these proteins with minerals, and the mineral of choice is calcium, which it draws out of the bones to provide an alkaline substance to neutralize these acids. You end up excreting this calcium in your urine on a daily basis when your diet is high in protein, particularly animal protein.
The result is that over a period of time, you deplete your body of its store of alkaline minerals, and particularly calcium. Your bones become more brittle and fragile and porous, and one day you sneeze and crack a rib, or ride over a bumpy road and crack a tailbone, or fall down and break a hip. Osteoporosis is a very serious disease.
The Dairy Council is constantly advising women to drink more milk, eat more cheese and eat more ice cream as a remedy or preventive for osteoporosis. Under the situation of medical understanding today, which clearly and with very little controversy substantiates that the cause of osteoporosis is not lack of calcium in the diet, but rather excess animal protein in the diet, for the Dairy Council to send this message to American women is criminal.
: Perhaps over the next generation the truth of the matter will become far more widely known than it is now. Can you tell us a bit more about your new book?
: After
Diet For a New America
came out, I received over 20,000 letters from people who were basically saying that the book changed their lives. One of the things that I realized is that because the information is so emotionally charged, and deals with very basic issues of our lives, it is difficult to stay open and balanced and whole in dealing with these things. One unfortunate consequence is that we see a syndrome I call "Vegetarian Evangelism," where people try to change a lifetime of eating habits overnight. Not only that, they want to change everyone else's eating habits overnight.
There are very deep emotional issues involved in our diets, and we have associations to our food choices and to our life choices that have very profound multidimensional implications. The effort to learn how to live in harmony with nature, for a lot of us it's a new struggle, and we are doing it in a culture that doesn't reflect our values or our spiritual nature in a wider sense. I wrote
In Search of Balance
as a guide and as a process of exploring my own struggles with these issues. The transformation that is needed to heal ourselves and the life support systems of the planet, is a transformation in the depths of human consciousness.
Daniel Redwood is a chiropractor, writer and musician who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is the author of
A Time to Heal: How to Reap the Benefits of Holistic Health
(A.R.E. Press), and is a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
He can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
©1995 Daniel Redwood, D.C.
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Jennifer Aniston wore Christian Dior at the UK premiere of We're The Millers last night. It's a really cute dress. And it's really cute on her. Even though it's like a French maid-apron hybrid (is that the same thing?) because of those shoes. Another pair of shoes and it's a totally different look. But, for some reason, Jen can't seem to contain her toes. What is it with her and her toe freedom?
The other day I wrote about how Jen was hair crushing on Kate Moss's bedhead because she says she can't do it and I was like, yes, yes you can! This however is not what I had in mind. It's not that the volume isn't good, it's just that the way it's been teased here…
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6abc, proud partner of the Philadelphia Zoo, will broadcast a half-hour special this Saturday, May 3rd, at 7pm. 6abc's Wild About the Zoo, hosted by Action News anchors Matt O'Donnell and Tamala Edwards, will take viewers on a whirlwind adventure that's out of this world.
First, it's a birthday bash?and 6abc has your invitation! We'll check in with the cutest cubs in town as they celebrate their first birthday, and meet the newest arrivals?on the trees, and in the water. Then, zookeepers showcase the amazing talents of their feathered friends.
Catch the highlights from the second annual Party for the Planet, learn more about frogs becoming an endangered species, and see how the Philadelphia Zoo is taking action to protect endangered animals, and the environment. Also, it's your chance to see what's in store for the summer. And, the Zoo is checking in with kids to put their ideas into action, and we have your preview. Plus, we're sure you'll be wild about what the Philadelphia Zoo has in the works for next year's 150th anniversary!
6abc's Wild About the Zoo airs this Saturday at 7pm on 6abc. For more information on the Philadelphia Zoo, and the special broadcast, go to www.6abc.com.
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The Silicon Valley Red Cross has teamed up with the Foothill College EOPS Ambassadors Club to host an information and donation station in the Campus Center Dining Room. Visit the table to find out how you can help bring life-saving resources to the people of Haiti.Pan-African City Alive! Exhibit
This cultural resource celebrates 16 years of excellence, and shares displays of artifacts that illustrate the beauty and richness of the Pan-African experience. Look for these impressive artifacts on display in the Foothill College Campus Center during February. Exhibit hours are Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.About Beauty Exhibit
This exhibit features works by Southern California-based artist Rosalind McGary. The artist uses intricate adornment and patterning in her pieces to compel you to examine the beauty of women, and the way we respond to love, loss, want and fulfillment. About Beauty is on display throughout February in the Semans Library. Exhibit hours are Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.


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- What makes your small kitchen so cool:
- Our kitchen is small, but the yellow walls and white cabinets make it feel sunny, airy, and completely spacious. My sister/roommate loves to cook (and I love to eat!) so we're always hanging out in the kitchen, which is why it was so important for us to make it feel cozy and welcoming.
- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.:
- We like to keep our kitchen pretty well stocked, so it was tough to figure out how to store all of our food products without it looking messy or cluttered. A small herb garden on the window sill, well organized cabinets, and spices and grains kept in glass jars keep everything looking neat and fresh.
- What's your favorite meal to cook here?:
- The weekend is when we really get to enjoy cooking, so I love a leisurely Sunday brunch of Huevos Rancheros. Fried eggs, tortillas, avocado, refried beans, and salsa = food heaven!


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|Chargers | Several LBs needed to step up
Tue, 14 May 2013 21:01:18 -0700
The San Diego Chargers were expected to have LBs Melvin Ingram (knee) and Jarret Johnson at outside linebacker in Week 1. However, Ingram is likely done for the season, meaning LB Larry English might be in line for a bigger role. The team also has LB Tourek Williams, a sixth-round pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, as well as LBs Frank Beltre and Devan Walker on the roster. The team is expected to explore their options in free agency.
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|Chargers | Slew of UDFAs join team
Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:53:25 -0700
The San Diego Chargers signed undrafted free agents DB Jahleel Addae, DB Greg X. Brown, TE Ben Cotton, DB Marcus Cromartie, WR Courtney Gardner, NT Kwame Geathers, RB Michael Hill, NT Byron Jerideau, DB Josh L. Johnson, P Richard Kent, DE Jamarkus McFarland, LB Daniel Molls, DE Brandon X. Moore, DB Chibuikem Okoro, OT Randy Richards, TE David Rolf, WR Luke Tasker and LB Devan Walker Saturday, April 27.
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