Lots of juicy and important articles this issue. See Navy Section. Ellen
Salon Weekly
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- Events & Opportunities
- Articles, Letters
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- Tri-State Treasures: events compiled by Jim Kesner
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................................................... Section One: Table Notes ............................................................................ (Note: these notes were taken at the table and have NOT been approved or corrected by the speakers. Reader beware of inevitable misunderstandings and misrepresentations. E.B.)
At the table Wednesday 1/10/07
Ginger Lee Frank, Vlasta Molak, Mary Biehn, Karen Hahn Santa, Mira Rodwan, Judy cirillo, Dallas Fish, Derek Lester, Jonathan Rosenberg, David Rosenberg, Ellen Bierhorst, Julia Yarden, Charles Griffin, Sophia Yarden, Bill Limbacher., Spencer Konicov, Elaine Bradford ekBradford @fuse.net
Steve Sunderland, Neil Anderson, Carolyn Aufderhaar.
Preamble read by David Rosenberg
ANNOUNCEMENTS AT TABLE
Jonathan: Food not bombs serves free vegetarian food 2:30 every Sat at Walnut and 5th (Federal Buildg).
Mira: performance and time arts series at CDT in College Hill Saturday. Belmont, College Hill Town Hall. $12.Fri and Sat at 8 pm.
Judy: Wild Carrot at St John’s Sat at 8. Folk music. $15. Fund Raiser for St. John’s.
Julia: CSA. We are doing it again. Memberships open Ground Hog Day. Will bring brochures here in couple weeks.
Santa: Zeta report: Nibiru is now closer to earth. Closest will be 14 million miles. See satelite. Could be as early as April. ... I have a new marriage relationship. Only took two hours. Billie, in Columbus.
My birthday today.
Karen: happy to be back
Mary: US Supreme Ct. will be hearing 2 death penalty cases using lethal injection re. Cruel and Unusual punishment.
Vlasta: Went to A Small Group meeting at the zoo. Asked Peter Bloch “how’s your pimping doing” (laugh). john McKnight, Alex. DeToqueville discussed. Said Americans are different because they are all organized in small associations which empower them. They define problems, figure out how to solve it, then work together. 1831. Predicted that the south would go under because of a corps of ignorant lazy whites due to slavery. McKnight now is saying that we have abandoned the small group approach and now turn to experts. Says in the days 80 years ago a problem means you ask Aunt Nellie or Uncle Ned ...
Everyone invited to party Wed. 4 –7 at Gaia Center across from City Hall, to celebrate the opening the Gaia Feast and Sustainable Living Center. Also the course will start next day; Ellen asked for a 3 hour version; for 10 people I will offer it. Dinner, T shirt, manual, all for $60. I will give it any time there are ten subscribers. Sustainability in Cincinnati. Contact me: mailto:DrMolak@email.com
TOPIC: Video of Bill Moyers interview with Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich: on media coverage of presidential race.
The subject in both conversations is the shutting out of Ron P and Dennis K by the major (corporate) media networks.
... Kucinich told Iowa caucus people, “If I don’t win on first ballot then go for Barak O. on second ballot.” Many were surprised...he should have thrown his weight for Edwards who is more close to his position..e.g. On
... New Hampshire: Hillary won by 3 points over Obama. Edwards also got a lot.
... Pundits were predicting Obama would get the nomination. “Groundswell” and “Movement”.
Bill: the Cherokees had a peace chief and a war chief. Both.
Santa: in corporate law, you put down the purpose of the corp. If you violate the charter, you dissolve the corp. For the US, the corp. charter is the Constitution. Everyone should take the time to study the Constitution. Then you can understand the difference between candidates. ... It is thievery to take money out of one person’s pocket and use it to pay for the health care of someone else.
...the Constitution says No Capitation Tax.
... Ron Paul says the first amendment prohibits a religious test for candidates for government, but that’s wrong. It’s in the body.
Santa: the Fed Reserve thing. Imagine you want to invest 1 million. You open a bank. How much can you lend? Only 1 million? No, you can lend 10 million. So you create money out of nowhere. That means that you who borrow from a bank you become a slave, it only takes them 2 minutes to print the money; you work a month a year to pay them back for 30 years. That’s slavery.
(These are the views of Santa, not of the other salonistas nor of Ellen.)
Ginger: both Paul and Kucinich referred to borrowing money from China to finance the war.
David: China buys our T bills.
Santa: since the mid fifties we have been using up the biosphere faster than it can replenish. ... Amazing opportunities and scary situation. Survival is the issue. Survival requires service to others. ...pandemics are coming.
Julia: most cancers flourish under anaerobic conditions... We have reduced oxygen by 30%... Acidifying the oceans at a alarming rate; the plankton are endangered...oceans have produced 75% of the oxygen. ... The permafrost system has been melting; methane is being released, which warms the earth 25% faster than carbon alone. ... Most impt. Thing to do is to eat local food. Eating is killing the planet the fastest. The carbon footprint is bad from eating long distance transported food and eating meat food. ... Food, clothing, shelter, medicines will be the most important commodities.
Derek magnetic rocks show the magnetic pole has shifted periodically, usually every 10k years, and we are 5k years overdue for one. There will be a lot of problems ... Cancer rates up ... Hard to get stuff to grow.
David I feel moved to make a comment about doom prophecies. I truly believe that humanity is going to come around. I am not a bit worried that the world will end. We’d all cooperate to do whatever is needed ...
~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Events & Opportunities
Please circulate to your lists:
Vacancy at the historic Lloyd House, 3901 Clifton Avenue, Clifton Gaslight.
3rd floor suite of two rooms plus private bath adjoining sitting room. Suite lets onto the large, beautiful Zendo meditation room which is common space for the housemates. Off street parking, shared kitchen on third floor, laundry in basement (we hang dry our clothes but if need be, you can use gas dryer for $1 donation), Shared spacious dining room, common room with wood burning fireplace, great veranda, gym with weights, bench, treadmill, etc. in basement. Sauna.
Multicultural atmosphere, terrific vibes, pot luck + discussion salon every Wednesday at 5:45 to 8 pm (your presence desired but not required).
Must have:
Rock solid good vibes 24-7. Rock solid ability to pay housing contribution (450, all utilities plus hi-speed internet included) without reminding each month.
No pets, no smoking.
Willingness to contribute 2 hours / month on house maintenance chores.
Ellen Bierhorst 513 221 1289
Salonista Dr. Vlasta Molak hosts gala opening for Gaia Center Across from City Hall...
Stay well and come to my opening party for the Gaia Oasis and
Sustainable Living Center on Wednesday, January 16 from 4-7 pm.
Also, could you please send through your mailing lists Gaia Foundation
flier for the Sustainable Cincinnati Course, which will take place in
our Gaia Feast across from the City Hall at 806 Plum Street.
Dr. Vlasta Molak offers 2 day workshop, Jan. 17-19 *
(*She says she will offer a boiled down 3 hour version for $60 whenever 10 people want to hold it. This is an excellent deal. Contact her to get more info: mailto:DrMolak@email.com )
Sustainable Cincinnati:
Aiming for a TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE (Economic Development, Environmental Protection and Solving Social Problems)
By Dr. Vlasta Molak, staff, and invited national experts in sustainable development and re-development, GAIA FOUNDATION, Inc.,
Web: http://www.GaiaFoundation.net <http://www.gaiafoundation.net/> E-mail: DrMolak@gmail.com <mailto:DrMolak@email.com> or tel. 513/521-9321
This is a 2- days workshop, starting on a Thursday evening, and ending on Saturday afternoon is designed to enable the participants maximal interaction and problem solving for creating sustainable Cincinnati
PLACE: Gaia Feast and Sustainable Living Center, 806 Plum Street, Cincinnati 45202 across from Cincinnati City Hall
DATE: January 17-19, 2008.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Our workshop is particularly designed for the City Council (and staff), Hamilton County Commissioners (and staff), and members of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County business community, developers and other VIPs, and Northern Kentucky equivalents, since they are the citizens with the most power to affect positive (and/or negative) changes in our community of Greater Cincinnati. Other citizens involved in development and redevelopment and/or who are concerned about environment and future of our community may also find our seminar very useful.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this condensed workshop is to teach a new paradigm in dealing with urban and suburban environmental, occupational, and social problems, by integrating science and technology with the social sciences and applying them to sustainable development of the Greater Cincinnati Community. Sustainable development is defined as “integrated strategies that would halt and reverse the negative impact of human behavior on the physical environment and allow for a livable environment for future generations on Earth.” Sustainable Cincinnati is linked to our work in Over-the-Rhine, in which we are starting to apply a systemic approach, in contrast to a “business as usual” band-aid approach, to solve multiple urban problems of Cincinnati (poverty, homelessness, racial tensions, drug dealing, crime, etc.).
We are connecting sustainable development of Greater Cincinnati with the sustainable redevelopment of the urban blight areas in Cincinnati, according to the vision stated in our SEARCH (Sustainable Development and Advanced Renewal of Cincinnati Heart) in addition to Sky Gardens, our vision of the Banks, which will house a totally sustainable Rainbow Town and will not require ANY tax money from the citizens to built and maintain, see our Web site. According to our calculations, when we complete those two major projects, the tax-paying population of the city will increase and the social ills will decrease. Indeed, both of these projects will increase the wealth and the tax-base of our city and restore its glamour of the past as the QUEEN CITY.
This type of approach has not yet been used anywhere else! Why not start with Cincinnati? Perhaps we can finally dispense with Mark Twain's assertion that everything in Cincinnati comes 10 years after it arrives anywhere else!
PERSONAL RETREAT AND HEALTHY LIVING STYLE: It turns out that sustainable living is also good for personal health. “Walking lightly on your mother Earth” also involves eating lower from the food chain, i.e. decreasing a consumption of foods derived from animals (meat and meat products and milk and milk products). It also involves avoiding the most inefficient mode of transportation -a single driver car, which is 60 fold less efficient than bicycle. Walking, biking, and other body movements not only decrease our personal CO2 emissions, but also improve our personal health. Therefore, what is good for the Earth is also good for our personal health. In our workshop we will also include healthy nutrition.
PRICE:
$ 360 if registered and paid before January 9, 2008. Price includes meals, desserts, and drinks, a manual, and a high-quality tea-shirt with the Gaia Foundation logo. $ 410 after January 9, 2008
Gaia Foundation, Inc., which is sponsoring this course and is developing the SEARCH and Gaia Oasis project, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promotion of sustainable development of communities and environments for improved quality of life. Results are achieved through multiple means, such as educational programs, demonstrations of sustainable technologies, providing consulting to non governmental and governmental organizations, developing policies on local, state, national and international levels, and/or getting involved with practical projects within communities. Guidance and support is provided to volunteers and professionals who are dedicated to the improvement of local, national, or international living conditions and environments. The headquarters of the GAIA FOUNDATION are at 8987 Cotillion Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45231
Dr. Vlasta Molak is an international expert in sustainable development and had taught courses in this and similar topics in many venues. In 1993, she has taught a one-day course on Use of Risk Analysis in Sustainable Development at then newly formed Division for Sustainable Development at the United Nations in New York. She had also taught the old City Council (1990) on Fundamentals of Environmental and Occupational Risk Analysis and Management. Roxanne Qualls was one of the lecturers. In addition, Dr. Molak has taught numerous environmental risk analysis courses in Brazil, Russia, Check Republic, Croatia and others. Her book on Fundamentals of Risk Analysis and Risk Management (see amazon.com) is used as a reference book and text book in graduate courses on risk analysis.
In 1999, Dr. Molak served as a Congressional Fellow in the Office of the Ohio Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, working primarily on all aspects of sustainability under the Kyoto Protocol. All other environmental issues were also under her domain.
REGISTRATION FORM
Send to Gaia Foundation, 8987 Cotillion Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45231 with the check payable to Gaia Foundation, or register and pay on the Web site with Pay Pal.
NAME AND FAMILY NAME:
Address:
E-mail:
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Professional work and position (detailed description of your work):
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Hobbies:
Biggest accomplishment so far (in your own opinion):
For all us commie-pinko-freaks who love folk singing!
Come to a Celebration of:
Labor Music & Song, Sat. January 19th, 7-10 pm, featuring Dave Hawkins & Allen Schwartz
The evening is to support the Cincinnati Interfaith Worker’s Center. The event is free, a light meal will be served, & CIWC will ask for your support. All donations – large and small are gratefully accepted.
We will gather at Dave and Wendy’s home, 1 Tanglewood Ln in College Hill. Parking requires directions so please RSVP to portoall@yahoo.com or call 621-5991.
Dave is a national recording artist & Chairman of AFM Local 1000 Solidarity Committee. Allen is a performer, songwriter and artist originally from Chicago. For more information on Dave see www.davehawkins.com
Announcement sent out by Steve Schoemacher and Ginny Frazier (our civic treasures!)
There is now every Sunday morning an open weekly Tai Chi practice session at the Lloyd House in the third floor zendo at 10:15 am. Everyone welcome. Group is led by Jackie Millay (sp?) and I finally made a class last week. It was excellent! Only three of us. Come join us. Raise the chi, warm yourself up this winter. ellen
From Fanchon:
Pure Movement: Dancing With Gods and Goddesses [Four week Monday night series Jan. 28 - Feb. 18, 2008 at 6:30- 8pm]
Heat up, recharge, and awaken your spirit by dancing from eternal energies, archetypes, gods and goddesses. Fanchon Shur a dancer/ choreographer, Dr. Susan Crew a psychologist/ diviner , and Bonia Shur a composer will join together to allow an ancient sacred myth to come alive in us. Classes will be fueled by live music (piano, guitar and drums) performed by Bonia Shur and additional musicians. $240 for all four classes, you can pay what is right for you.
Where: 4019 Red Bud Ave. Cinti, OH 45229. More info: click here to go to website! <http://www.growthinmotion.org/images/uploaded/gods&goddessflier2.gif> To register email fanchon@ growthinmotion.org or 513-221-3222.
Thank you
Fanchon Shur
Sometime-Salonista John Kelly appreciates Weekly
Thank you so much for the notice about having dinner at St. John's Unitarian Church for Christmas dinner. I attended and received radical hospitality. The food and fellowship were a blessing to me and helped me get through what is often a sad holiday with the passing of both my parents and a sister. Your weekly newsletter is chock full of useful information.
Dr. John A. Kelly
Nonviolent Communication workshop
"The Art of Empowering Communication".
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Jeff Brown, certified trainer with CNVC (Center for Nonviolent Communication), will be returning to Cincinnati for a workshop the weekend of Feb. 1-3.
To view a flyer for the workshop, go to http://www.bloomington.in.us/~jwbrown/pdfs/feb1.pdf or email Julie Nichols at michaelnjulie@aol.com for more information.
Friday night - Introductory workshop designed for all levels of practice, and required preparation for the weekend for those who have not previously attended training's.
(See Julie’s book review of Nonviolent Communication, below in Teal section.)
DESCRIPTION: Discover a life-transforming communication practice that
builds trust, transforms conflict, and creates harmony in your relationships.
In this session, you will learn how to create a quality of connection between
yourself and others where everyone's needs, even in conflict situations, are
held with care and compassion... without resorting to punishment, force,
manipulation, blame or other approaches that we end up paying for later.
Weekend intermediate training: "The Art of Empowering Communication: A Map to the Heart". Open to those who have attended previous training's, including Friday night's program.
DESCRIPTION: You have Nonviolent Communication in your toolbox. You
understand how it works. You even have a few peak experiences that give you hope and faith that it's possible to participate in the world in a way that is
satisfying, uplifting and full of richness. Yet, more often that you would like, you are frustrated because you have been unable to access it when you need it the most. Some of you might notice that you are beating yourself up in a way that creates inner resentment and internal confusion. Others of you repeatedly see, in hindsight, how you could have interacted with someone in a way that created connection or resolution, yet you weren't able to come from that level of consciosness in the moment (Why didn't I think of that during the conversation?!).
This training is designed with these challenges in mind, and to help
everyone deepen their practice of NVC at the level of both practicality and
consciousness. Join us to make NVC more a part of your everyday life -- a way of
being -- that assists you in transforming whatever patterns of thinking,
speaking, and listening that prevent you from experiencing deeply satisfying
relationships and encounters with others.
To view a flyer for the workshop, go to http://www.bloomington.in.us/~jwbrown/pdfs/feb1.pdf
the Lloyd House Salon yahoo group has many particularly tasty entries
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(See Tri-State Treasures, the compilation of cultural events by Jim Kesner, at the bottom of the entire weekly. It’s juicy! E.)
Section Three: Articles
Contents:
- Local Feminist/Weekly Lurker/psychologist Jill Bley forwards Gloria Steinum piece: Sexism worse than Racism as bar to political office.
- Shirley Reischman, Impt. Info. On flu immunization shot
- Tyrone Yates responds to my letter re. electronic voting problems.
- Ron Paul: no real friend to progressives, gays, women ....?
NY Times:
January 8, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
Women Are Never Front-Runners (A plug for Hillary...read this. I have added emphases. Ellen)
By GLORIA STEINEM
THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6. Herself the daughter of a white American mother and a black African father — in this race-conscious country, she is considered black — she served as a state legislator for eight years, and became an inspirational voice for national unity.
Be honest: Do you think this is the biography of someone who could be elected to the United States Senate? After less than one term there, do you believe she could be a viable candidate to head the most powerful nation on earth?
If you answered no to either question, you're not alone. Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House. This country is way down the list of countries electing women and, according to one study, it polarizes gender roles more than the average democracy.
That's why the Iowa primary was following our historical pattern of making change. Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women (with the possible exception of obedient family members in the latter).
If the lawyer described above had been just as charismatic but named, say, Achola Obama instead of Barack Obama, her goose would have been cooked long ago. Indeed, neither she nor Hillary Clinton could have used Mr. Obama's public style — or Bill Clinton's either — without being considered too emotional by Washington pundits.
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was; because anything that affects males is seen as more serious than anything that affects "only" the female half of the human race; because children are still raised mostly by women (to put it mildly) so men especially tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman; because racism stereotyped black men as more "masculine" for so long that some white men find their presence to be masculinity-affirming (as long as there aren't too many of them); and because there is still no "right" way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what.
I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. That's why Senators Clinton and Obama have to be careful not to let a healthy debate turn into the kind of hostility that the news media love. Both will need a coalition of outsiders to win a general election. The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
I'm supporting Senator Clinton because like Senator Obama she has community organizing experience, but she also has more years in the Senate, an unprecedented eight years of on-the-job training in the White House, no masculinity to prove, the potential to tap a huge reservoir of this country's talent by her example, and now even the courage to break the no-tears rule. I'm not opposing Mr. Obama; if he's the nominee, I'll volunteer. Indeed, if you look at votes during their two-year overlap in the Senate, they were the same more than 90 percent of the time. Besides, to clean up the mess left by President Bush, we may need two terms of President Clinton and two of President Obama.
But what worries me is that he is seen as unifying by his race while she is seen as divisive by her sex.
What worries me is that she is accused of "playing the gender card" when citing the old boys' club, while he is seen as unifying by citing civil rights confrontations.
What worries me is that male Iowa voters were seen as gender-free when supporting their own, while female voters were seen as biased if they did and disloyal if they didn't.
What worries me is that reporters ignore Mr. Obama's dependence on the old — for instance, the frequent campaign comparisons to John F. Kennedy, though Senator Edward Kennedy is supporting Senator Clinton — while not challenging the slander that her progressive policies are part of the Washington status quo.
What worries me is that some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system; thus Iowa women over 50 and 60, who disproportionately supported Senator Clinton, proved once again that women are the one group that grows more radical with age.
This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. We have to be able to say: "I'm supporting her because she'll be a great president and because she's a woman."
Questions about Flu Vaccine
FROM SHIRLEY:
Please read the entire e-mail, but particularly note two ideas:
1) according to other experts, the reason the 1918 pandemic killed so many people was that they took the new drug, aspirin, to reduce their fevers which led to an unchecked multiplication of the virus in the absence of the body's natural fever defense. Fever stops the replication of viruses. (my insert – one of the reason homeopaths believe they only had a 3% death rate compared to the allopathic 60% death rate was because they did not use fever reducers.)
2) a leading geneticist with hundreds of original publications, has to say about the flu vaccine: "We have found that clinically normal individuals aged 60-65 who receive influenza vaccine three or four times during a five-year period, will five years later have an incidence of Alzheimer's disease 10-fold greater than age-matched individuals who did not receive it."
Yours,
Shirley
(I have not checked this information, but IN GENERAL, I HAVE FOUND INFORMATION FROM SHIRLEY TO BE RELIABLE AND INTELLECTUALLY RESPECTABLE. ELLEN)
FYI
Yours,
Shirley
Flu Vaccine Has No Benefits for the Elderly?
A study published online in the journal Vaccine found the influenza vaccine had no impact on emergency admissions in the elderly.
The new study analyzed uptake data and hospital admission rates for 3,970 people aged between 65 and 89 registered with 79 general practices in England.
Even after adjustment for age, sex, chronic conditions, deprivation and smoking status, flu vaccination still had no effect on admissions for acute respiratory illness. Vaccinated patients had a non-significant 20% increase in risk of admission.
The research fuels growing doubts over the effectiveness of flu vaccination, following a recent review in The Lancet Infectious Diseases that claimed the supporting evidence had been 'greatly exaggerated'.
Dr. Tom Jefferson, leading expert on flu and coordinator of the Cochrane Vaccines Field, urged the Department of Health to look again at the flu vaccination campaign. 'This adds to the uncertainty, but I'm not sure people are taking any notice. What I want to see is the Government taking stock of this because this is a major health campaign every year that uses public money.'
The researchers said their results were consistent with earlier reviews, which found the 'observed effects in the community-dwelling elderly are likely to be overestimated'.
They also warned: 'Solely relying on the influenza vaccine to control the annual winter bed pressure in hospitals is unlikely to be a sufficiently effective yearly strategy.'
Dr. Peymane Adab, an author on the study and senior lecturer in public health at the University of Birmingham, stated that, 'Flu vaccination is not the major driver of admissions, so putting all of our efforts into vaccination won't have a major impact on admissions.
'We should look at other factors instead -- like reducing COPD exacerbations, treating chest infections and promoting smoking cessation. These are possibly going to be things that are more effective.'
Jo Haynes, Editor of Pulse, said: 'Each year, GPs face weeks of frantically busy flu clinics in order to make sure everyone eligible is vaccinated. It's a stressful and extremely expensive business, and doctors and patients need to know that the whole process is worthwhile. It's time ministers took notice of the growing doubts over flu vaccination, and commissioned a large-scale trial to sort out once and for all whether vaccination works.'
Source: Pulse a magazine for GPs in the UK
-----Original Message-----
From: Natural Solutions Foundation [mailto:healthfreedomusa@mail.democracyinaction.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:48 AM
To: jereisch@fuse.net
Subject: Fear Sells, Terror Sells Better. Avian Flu and & Compulsory Vaccination
January 8, 2008
FEAR SELLS, TERROR SELLS EVEN BETTER
HERE COMES AVIAN FLU with
COMPULSORY VACCINATION RIGHT BEHIND!
PLEASE FORWARD
JOIN HEALTH FREEDOM eALERTS
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One, Two Punch
It's always sad when government propaganda uses the independent media to spread its lies and, in this case, terror. Art Bell, popular "Indy" radio host, interviewed internist Dr. Gary Ridenour who is marketing terror (at $19.02 cents a pop, by the way, on the website "Pandemic Direct") [I kid you not]. Dr. Ridenour is touting the idea that we are really in for a pandemic disaster since he believes that avian flu represents "the greatest health threat to mankind in the history of the world." Not depleted uranium, not chemtrails turning the entire atmosphere of the earth into a novel plasma, not genetically engineered foods, not global warming, mind you. Avian flu, which, according to official sources, does not even exist yet in pandemic form. Pay attention here: the truth will set you free!
Dr. Rideour maintains "the current strain of avian flu kills about 60% of the people who contract it in as little as eight hours". in order for it to become a pandemic, heexplained to Art Bell, the virus must mutate down to a less lethal but far more infectious form that can be spread from one person to another. Ridenour estimates a one in three chance of an avian flu pandemic in the near future. It is beyond me, by the way, to understand how that "statistic" was derived or what it means, just as it eludes me how to understand how Dr. Ridenour can predict that a "less lethal" strain of a virus will kill billions of people.
Astonishingly, Dr. Ridenour goes on to assert, "The death rate will be highest among 20 to 40 year olds because they have the best immune systems. This is because the avian flu harnesses the immune system to attack and dissolve the tissue in the lungs. [Dr. Rima's comment: the H5N1 virus does not "attack and dissolve the tissue in the lungs". Since the virus depletes vitamin C rapidly, the vessels of the lungs are damaged by the blood and fluid leaking from the capillaries due to a rapid onset of a condition like a fulminate case of scurvy.] "According to health experts, this 'cytokine storm' is one of the main reasons so many young and healthy people died during the 1918 flu pandemic -- an outbreak that killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people." [Dr. Rima's comment: according to other experts, the reason the 1918 pandemic killed so many people was that they took the new drug, aspirin, to reduce their fevers which led to an unchecked multiplication of the virus in the absence of the body's natural fever defense. Fever stops the replication of viruses. Others have suggested that it was the rudimentary flu vaccine that actually caused that world pandemic.]
Dr. Ridenour estimates "this time up to one billion people could perish during the pandemic, but not solely from the virus' lethal effects." Ridenour believes many will not survive because of a disastrous infrastructure meltdown caused by the pandemic.
Ridenour notes that Tamiflu and other flu treatment drugs will likely not be an effective defense against the virus. "If people can stay secluded indoors for the first 8-10 days of the outbreak, he recommended, there is a good chance they will survive the first wave."
But What's Right Behind This Absurd Fear (and Book) Mongering?
This gem from the BBC getting us ready to roll up our sleeves and ask to be "protected" and vaccinated again and again and again. (Note that the article says nothing about the amount of mercury, aluminum or the cancer viruses in the new wonder vaccine).
Universal Flu Jab Works in People Flu
BBC News January 4, 2008
The vaccine is designed to protect against all flu strains A single jab that could givelifelong protection against all types of flu has produced promising results in human trials. The vaccine, made by Acambis, should protect against all strains of influenza A - the cause of pandemics.
The vaccine is designed to
protect against all flu strains
Currently, winter flu jabs have to be regularly redesigned because the flu virus keeps changing. The new vaccine would overcome this and could be stockpiled in advance of a bird flu outbreak, say experts.
Dr Michael Watson of Acambis said: "As a universal vaccine, ACAM-FLU-A can potentially overcome many of the drawbacks of existing influenza vaccines. It can be manufactured at any time of the year, and could be stockpiled in advance of a pandemic or potentially used routinely to ensure population protection against future pandemics." Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=491) to read more.
The story says that 9 out of 10 people exposed to the vaccine developed antibodies. It does not say whether that protected them against the flu. Those are VERY different things. Note the words "Entire populations protection" - that's compulsory vaccination on the hoof.
Forced Vaccination On the March
At the University of Maine on December 11, 2008, college kids were locked out of their dorms, their dining halls, their libraries, their classrooms in the middle of the New England winter if they had not yet submitted to forced vaccination for mumps because 2 cases showed up on campus. Their ID cards were turned off so they could not eat, sleep, shower or study at their homes and halls. (I guess that is what people with chips in their arms could expect if they offended the government and their chips got turned off.)
The kicker in the story is that the same day, the Alberta (Canada) Health Department stopped all use of the identical vaccine because of the serious and potentially deadly adverse reactions in adults. Ontario, QuebecBritish Columbia followed suit the next day. But here in the US, we chalked up another victory for public ill-health. The decision, made by the President of the University of Maine (who is not a physician) leaves people who do get sick or die without recourse for themselves or their estates, of course, because the FDA has conveniently removed all, ALL, product liability from drug and vaccine makers once the product is approved by the FDA. And who can forget the 2300 children in Maryland, a State which DOES NOT have compulsory vaccination laws and which DOES have an exemption, who were vaccinated at the point of a gun (complete with dogs) after their parents were threatened with fines and jail time if they did not let their kids be vaccinated with substances too toxic for the State's Attorney, Glen Ivey, to allow his own kids to take! Compulsory vaccination decrees will become more and more frequent until they are as commonplace as fluoridated water and even more toxic. That way, just as we have come to accept fluoride as an everyday public health measure which it is folly to question, vaccination will become a similiar fact of apparent life, but actual death and disease.
Consider what H. Hugh Fudenburg, MD, (nitrf.org/fudenberg.html), a leading geneticist with hundreds of original publications, has to say about the flu vaccine: "We have found that clinically normal individuals aged 60-65 who receive influenza vaccine three or four times during a five-year period, will five years later have an incidence of Alzheimer's disease 10-fold greater than age-matched individuals who did not receive it."
Join the Forum
Looking for information, support and ideas on how to avoid compulsory vaccination and drugging? Join the Natural Solutions Foundation's No-Forced-VaccinesForum, (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-forced-vaccination/join).
This is our specialized No Forced Vaccination Forum (NFV Forum) where health freedom advocates can coordinate the national campaign to finally end forced vaccinations and drugging.
A funny thing happened on the way to the NFV Forum!
Sometimes the information on the NFV Forum is not only useful, it is hilarious. Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=489) to read the letter a Forumn member named Mary suggests you bring to your doctor if he or she wants to vaccinate you or your children!
And the Truth Shall Make You Free
In the era of the forward march of compulsory vaccination, you need good information and strong exemption options to protect yourself from compulsory vaccination at the State level. And you need a strong grass roots movement to repeal the laws that the US has passed (like the mis-named "Patriot Act") giving itself the authority to force vaccination on you for a so-called "Pandemic" or quarantine you indefinitely if you do not submit to this unknown substance being put into your body.
It is important to recall that there are two distince threats of compulsory vaccination and drugging. The first is the State level where State legislators need to be informed that compulsory vaccination is unwise, unsafe and unconstitutional and schools, hospitals and other State-supervised agencies need to be controlled (along with doctors and nurses, of course). The Maryland and Maine atrocites were State-mediated assaults.
The Federal Government, on the other hand, has powers that transcend the State's powers. Various laws have given the Federal Government the option of declaring mandatory vaccination and drugging to be within their right to enforce, no matter what the damage to the recipient. Those who do not agree to be vaccinated can be incarcerated indefinitely. The FDA has conveniently relieved the manufacurers of any liability if their products hurt or kill you, as mentioned elsewhere in this Health Freedom eAlert. Thus, the "acceptable wastage" that the head of the CDC vaccination program described in a pandemic condition with compulsory vaccination, while it may not be acceptable to you, is perfectly acceptable to the US government.
The Natural Solutions Foundation Provides You With
Reliable and Significant Information
As parents and citizens, we have joined this discussion feeling the weight of great responsibility on our shoulders, because we see an urgent need for change in public health policy and practice. The health of the children of our country is deteriorating. Yet rather than facing this reality, our public health leadership has turned away from the challenge in order to defend entrenched practices and controversial policies, some of which may have contributed to these adverse trends. Accordingly, we want to make a strong and clear statement: the public health agenda in our country requires comprehensive reform. Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=488) to read the highly informative "Atlanta Manifesto" written as a response to the disgraceful whitewash by a CDC "Blue Ribbon Panel" on the dangers of mercury in vaccines
"The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled [at Simpsonwood, Norcross, GA] to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines — thimerosal — appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. "I was actually stunned by what I saw," Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants — in one case, within hours of birth — the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children."
Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=478) to Robert J. Kennedy's story of CDC secret mercury coverup "Deadly Immunity"
Vaccine Exemptions? Coming Right Up
Do you want exemptions from compulsory vaccinations or drugging for you and your children? I certainly do. To help make that possible for you, the Natural Solutions Foundation is preparing a State by State Vaccination and Drugging Exemption eHandbook. It is available in an eBook format ($75) or a hard copy format ($250). To order, send your check made out to Natural Solutions Foundation with "Handbook" on the memo line to:
Natural Solutions Foundation
PO Box 722
Maryville MO 64468
Donations above that amount are tax deductible, of course. If you have already made a donation entitling you to a free copy of the eHandbook, you will receive a coupon shortly to allow you to download your copy.
If you need a more personalized approach to securing exemptions to vaccination or forced drugging, consider our individualized consultation with two hours of attorney time (including research and phone consultation) and a 30 minute phone consultation with a licensed physician in order to secure the necessary documentation as appropriate. The cost of this extensive consultation is $1500 for the first family member and $750 for each subsequent member (all members of a family must live in the same state to qualify for this special price). Send your check made out to the Natural Solutions Foundation with "Individualized Consult" on the memo line to the address above.
On a slightly different note, by the way, I found this article on who is advising the men and woman who want to be the next President of the US to be very interesting. These policy advisors who will help decide on your freedoms or their loss. Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=487) to read "Marrying Your Mother-In-Law".
Let's Do Lunch!
General Stubblebine and I will be in New York for about 12 hours between planes on January 26, 2008 on our way to Africa for a Codex meeting on the labeling of Genetically Modified Foods. Why don't we have lunch together if you're in the area? We would love to have you join us at a No-Forced-Vaccination luncheon, along with Ralph Fucetola, our third Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee. Join us for some fund raising, some brainstorming and some networking while we eat some great food.
If you are interested in joining the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation at this event, let us know. Send an RSVP email to us at dr.laibow@gmail.com with "RSVP" in the subject line and your contact information along with the number of people you think you will bring. Lunch is planned now for a fantastic Korean Restaurant (veggie and non-veggie available!) in Queens (subject to availability). See you there!
What's Ahead in 2008 for Health Freedom
Health Freedom is complex and will be attacked on many fronts during 2008. Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=465) to read the Natural Solutions Foundation Program for 2008. With your help we will defend it on all those fronts with your strong and continued help and support. That support, of course, comes from YOU when you:
1. Take the action steps we provide to let the powers that be know that we are alert and awake, actively defending our health and rights
2. Vigorously disseminate our information to your contacts, both personal and professional, patients, suppliers, friends, communities and email lists. Helping those contacts to sign up for the Health Freedom eAlerts (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=187) is a great way to get them involved. You can ask them if you can sign them up and then click here (www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php) to add their names if they say it is OK.
3. Donate generously. Your tax deductible donations (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) are our financial life blood.
They allow us to fund our special Health Freedom documentary, to cover and impact Codex by building a pro-health international coalition at the national level, educate Congress on a monthly basis on your behalf, produce materials like the State By State Vaccination and Drugging Exemption Handbook, the Codex eBook, the updated version of Nutricide: the DVD and other actions to protect your health freedom in a way that no other organization does.
Special Media Fund
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Make a donation of $100 or more and we will put your name in lights! You will be thanked in the final version of the full length made for TV documentary film on Health Freedom and the COdex Agenda. Click here (http://tinyurl.com/ysyjau) to make that special donation now!
Continuing financial support (and thank you for your generous donations in 2007!) allows us to cover the costs of our current campaigns, attend Codex meetings, educate Congress, make a major documentary on Health Freedom and the Codex Agenda and allow us to initiate responses as needed to the curve balls that you can be sure Big Pharma and its friends in the US Government and Codex are sure to throw at us. All donations are tax deductible, of course. Recurring donations are of incredible importance to us, as are matching grants! This is your battle and we are fighting it together.
4. Ready to offer a matching grant and double the impact of your money? That's a great way to become a Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom Heroes Forum member. We will be inviting our most active health and freedom advocates to join that special forum to help us develop the tactics needed to implement our strategic vision. If you want to be invited to the Heroes Forum, please email me at dr.laibow@gmail.com and put "HEROES" in the subject line.
5. Become an organizer within your circle of influence or your community (local or othrwise). Spread the word! Growing our eAlert email list is one powerful step we can take to make our voices heard. Let us know that you are interested and we will help you with materials, ideas and support. Send us an email at dr.laibow@gmail.com with "ORGANIZE" to help you get started. My assistant Kathy Greene will get back to you with more information.
Your Skin
There is one basic issue common to all areas of health freedom: Whose power and authority determine what can - or cannot- go into your body? The Natural Solutions Foundation says that your skin is the boundary at which the power of governments, companies, international commissions, laws and regulations stops. What you want to put into your body, whether natural or drugs, whether clean food or GM, pesticide tainted food, is your business. What you want injected into your body - or not - is your right to decide, and no one else's. Period. It is really that simple.
When we look at all of the many individual health freedom issues and try to find the underlying theme that binds them all together, one thread emerges as the single most important theme: Your right to determine what to do with your body and your health care. Governments, industries and multinational bodies like Codex want to control what goes past your skin.
We asked you in a questionnaire a while ago what your priorities were and you told us. It was amazing and quite gratifying to learn that we were so clearly on the same wavelength. You told us that your priorities start with eliminating the threat of compulsory vaccination and drugging and Codex. Next is making sure that you have continued access to high potency nutrients and unhampered access to accurate scientific and clinical information on what they can do for you (strongly opposed by Codex and the FDA).
Next in line is keeping the food supply safe: you don't want your food irradiated (as the FDA, along with Codex now wants to require for green leafy veggies as well as almonds); you don't want to eat unlabeled food that has been genetically modified (the FDA prohibits telling you that your food contains GM ingredients), you don't want your food filled with poisons and pesticides and veterinary drugs; you want to preserve and protect organic standards instead of allowing them to follow the Codex "standards" which are so degraded as to be meaningless.
You want the right to seek and use natural health options without you - or them - being criminalized (as Codex and the US government, along with the EU, Australia, etc., are already in the process of doing). And you want companies providing good natural products and doctors and other health practitioners who are practicing good health care to be free from absurd and abusive attacks by the FDA with their dogs and axes and rifles!
In short, we want the Constitution of the US Government applied to your right to make your own health care decisions. You have the right to learn the truth, to decide what is your truth, and to act on that truth to protect the health of yourself and those you care about.
I know that the wonderful, generous health and freedom advocates who receive this eAlert already understand that Freedom is not Free -- we can only do this work of advocating for your health and freedom if you give us the financial support we need to make your voice heard. Please give generously. Every month we need to meet basic office expenses and the expenses associated with the computer platform that lets you get those all-important messages to FDA, Congress and state legislators. Please continue your generous support by clicking here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189), right now:
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD (We saw her on video at the Salon. ellen)
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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TYRONE YATES RESPONDS TO ELECTRONIC VOTING LETTER I SENT
Prompted by Gerry Kraus’ able assistance last week.
I sent it to the whole list of people on her email including Sec’y State Brunner.
Ellen
January 9, 2008
Dear Dr. Bierhorst:
Thank you for your recent email of January 4, 2008 regarding electronic voting machines in Ohio. I appreciate you bringing this issue to my attention. Ensuring that our voting systems are fair and accurate is an important issue that affects all of us as Ohioans, and I look forward to its further examination and research in the coming legislative session.
If you are interested in pursuing this idea further, I suggest you contact the office of Ohio’s top elections official, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner at 614.466.2655 or visit her website at www.sos.state.oh.us <http://www.sos.state.oh.us/> . Secretary Brunner has recently published the Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing report, known as EVEREST, which you may also find interesting. You can download it from the Secretary’s website.
Thank you once again for taking the time to share your ideas with me. It is wonderful to see citizens in dialogue with their elected officials, participating in the process of government. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact my office. You can reach me by phone at 614-466-1308 or by email at district33@ohr.state.oh.us. If I am not available, my legislative aide, Mr. Carey McDonald, will be able to assist you. If there is anything else I can help you with, please do not hesitate to let me know.
With esteem and best wishes,
Tyrone K. Yates
Ohio House of Representatives – 33rd District
TKY/cpm
From: Ellen Bierhorst [mailto:ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 9:33 AM
To: District33
Subject: No Electronic Voting
Dear Rep. Yates,
Given that the recently completed (December, 2007) independent study has concluded that Ohio’s electronic voting systems have “critical security flaws that make them vulnerable to tampering”, I strongly urge that you replace the state’s electronic voting machines with paper ballots that are filled in manually by voters. Optical scan machines can read and electronically count these paper ballots while still providing a paper trail for official verification counts by Boards of Election as well as a paper trail for recounts.
The bipartisan team that conducted the study of Ohio’s present electronic voting systems has stated, “All of the studied systems possess critical security failures that render their technical controls insufficient to guarantee a trustworthy election.” Using the current electronic voting systems will undermine the integrity of the 2008 presidential election.
Hopefully this change to manually filled-out ballots can take place in time for the Ohio Primary Election in March 2008. It would certainly give me greater confidence in the validity of Ohio’s voting results.
Sincerely,
Ellen Bierhorst Ph.D.
Holistic Psychological Services
http://www.lloydhouse.com
~~~513 221 1289~~~
The Lloyd House
3901 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
My dau. in law in Denver, Fran Simon (an enormosly savvy, smart woman) sends this: Liberals and progressives beware of backing Ron Paul:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rex Wockner <wockner@panix.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2008 12:58 AM
Subject: NC22743: Ron Paul's 'limp-wristed' past
To: undisclosed-recipients
Citizen Crain blog
8 Jan 08
Ron Paul's 'limp-wristed' past
by Chris Crain
A must-read piece on The New Republic's website today by Jamie Kirchick,
who wrote op-eds for me at the Washington Blade while still in college.
Jamie unearthed years of newsletters published by Republican presidential
candidate Ron Paul that are saturated with attacks on gays, blacks and
Jews -- not to mention conspiracy theories galore.
As the maverick libertarian in the GOP presidential primaries, Paul has
caught the interest of many gay Republican and independent voters -- and
was endorsed by Andrew Sullivan. It's hard to see how Paul can effectively
distance himself from the story, considering the volume of bile that
Kirchick outlines.
Read on:
http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2008/01/ron-pauls-limp.html <http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2008/01/ron-pauls-limp.html>
Section Four: Books/Movies/Magazines/Reviews
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I threatened to discontinue this section because so few folks were sending in the books they were enjoying or wanted to tell us about. However, I got two letters asking we continue it and promises to write in. Hey! So we’ll continue. ellen
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From Chiropractor Julie Nichols another Salon Weekly lurker:
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg.
This is truly the most consciousness changing book I've ever read. Most books on communication give theory, but Marshall gives actionable tools that give you the ability to communicate with compassion, treating others with respect without sacrificing your own needs. It is like learning a new language, since most of us have been taught that we live in a world of limited resources, and therefore fight to get our piece of the pie. Marshall's tools of communication challenge that theory, and teach us a way to all get our needs met. This book has truly transformed the level of communication in my family, and all of my relationships, along with my work. I cannot share it enough with others. NVC is truly a spiritual practice. Check out www.cnvc.org <http://www.cnvc.org/> for resources and books.
Submitted by Julie Nichols.
(Incidentally, Marshall Rosenberg is giving the keynote address at the International Cngress of the Alexander Technique people this August in Switzerland. ellen)
Tri-State Treasures
Tri-State Treasures is a compilation of unique local people, places, and events that may enrich your lives. These treasures have been submitted by you and others who value supporting quality community offerings. Please consider supporting these treasures, and distributing the information for others to enjoy. And please continue to forward your Tri-State Treasures ideas to jkesner@nuvox.net.
Information about Tri-State Treasures and how to submit Tri-State Treasures is at the bottom of this email. Please help me by providing all basic information, and formatting your submissions as described below. Thank you.
Sincerely, Jim
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UC MainStreet Cinema: The UC MainStreet Cinema continues to expand the selection of films they present. For example, in January, they present screenings of the following films on a rotational schedule: "Waitress," "3:10 to Yuma," "Gone Baby Gone," "Once," "Lust, Caution," & "Dan in Real Life." Monitor their website for other special screenings, including films by campus orgs such as the Women's Center, & free sneak previews (past examples include "Fast Food Nation" and "The Kite Runner"). $4 general admission; $2 with UC ID. At 265 Tangeman University Center, 2766 UC MainStreet, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221. More info including film schedule @ 513.556.3456 (recording), 513.556.0943, Adam.Bankovich@uc.edu, & www.uc.edu/mainstreet/tuc/tuc_theater_3.html.
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Art Opening at Redtree Gallery [Friday 11 January @ 6-9 PM]: An exhibition of "Beloved:" paintings & assemblages by local artists Jennifer Bortz Schneider & Janet Zack. Show runs thru February 2. Live music, wine, & cheese. At Redtree Art Gallery, 4409 Brazee Street, Oakley, OH 45209. More info @ 513-321-8733, mbusch@redtreegallery.net, & www.redtreegallery.net.
Northside 2nd Annual Up For Grabs Day [Saturday 12 January @ Noon - 4 PM]: Clean out your closet or attic, let go of those holiday white elephants. Unclutter your life, find homes for your items, don't contribute to landfills. Two reusable items get you admitted to this community recycling event, & take home any treasures you find – Free. Contribute as many items as you want. A community recycling event for house wares, books, shoes, clothes, baby items, toys, furniture, music, sports equipment, & other useful items. Items will be categorized by: Housewares, Men’s Clothes, Women’s Clothes, Children’s Clothes, Baby Supplies, Shoes, Books, Crafts, Sports Equipment, Appliances, Music, Pets, & Oversize. For Oversize items, such as furniture or vehicles, bring a photo of the item with phone number or other contact info. Place your donations in the proper category area, then "shop” for new treasures to bring home. In the spirit of community recycling, items acquired at Up For Grabs Day are for personal use; items are not for resale or profit. At North Presbyterian Church, 4222 Hamilton Avenue, Northside, Cincinnati, OH 45223. More info @ Annedelano@aol.com & chuckb75@aaahawk.com.
Annual Skeptical 10 Minute Free-for-all [Saturday 12 January @ 10 AM]: Once every year, ART members get their chance at fame & fortune by talking about what is on their (your) mind. Tell what you are thinking about. Ten minute time limit. Free. Association for Rational Thought. Molly Mallone’s Restaurant, 6111 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513.533.8142, rrdavis@fuse.net, & www.cincinnatiskeptics.org.
Drop Inn Center Celebration [Saturday 12 January @ 4-6 PM]: Help the Drop Inn Center celebrate the 30th anniversary in their current home. In 1978, on a cold blizzardy Friday the 13th night, a momentous event occurred, known in Over-the-Rhine history as The People's Move. Operators of the Drop Inn Center consciously planned & organized a secret, “illegal” midnight move from their former home on Main Street to their current location at 12th & Elm Streets, in a building previously owned & vacated by the Teamsters Union. This group decision of conscience to move was made deliberately to address the inhumane plight of the homeless in the community. The celebration will include stories, food, & singing, including a performance early in the evening by MUSE - Cincinnati's Women's Choir, directed by Catherine Roma. Free. At Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.721.0643 & pclifford@dropinn.org.
Reiki I [Saturday 12 January @ 9 AM - 5 PM]: Obtain level-1 certification in the ancient hands-on-healing method of Reiki (ray-key). Class consists of lecture, discussion, & practice using a pendulum & dowsing rods to find the aura & chakras, & group sessions for giving & receiving Reiki. Experience this non-invasive healing modality that can work in tandem with medical treatments such as pharmaceuticals & surgery. Learn how to stay healthy & help heal yourself & others. Taught by Reiki Masters Pam Bronner & Bob Buring. Registration is $125; deposit of $25 required. Held in Erlanger, KY; directions provided upon registration. More info & registration @ 859.727.1062 & herbnurse@fuse.net.
Observatory University: Explorations in Mathematics II [Sundays 13 & 27 Jan, 10 & 24 Feb, 9 & 23 Mar, 13 & 27 Apr, & 25 May @ 7-9 PM]: Are you fascinated by our Universe? Do you teach math, physics or astronomy? COC Scientist & Xavier University Visiting Professor Richard Hamilton discusses how the Universe works. Everyone experiences math in their daily lives as applications or a tool. Mathematics will be studied as a language & science, as mathematicians do through a series of topics including pi, probability, numbers that meditate, random chaos, misbehaving parallel lines, Mandelbrot’s monster, & Pink Floyd. Observatory University offers college-level astronomy, science & math courses for inquisitive members of the general public, amateur astronomers, & science educators (credit available through Xavier). Open to all including the math-challenged. $150 for general public, high school students (non-credit), PDU, & Friends of the Observatory; $300 for 1 graduate credit hour or high school students for undergraduate credit; check with your school for possible financial support. At Cincinnati Observatory Center, 3489 Observatory Place, Cincinnati, OH 45208. More info & registration @ 513.745.3477, Observatory@fuse.net, & www.cincinnatiobservatory.org.
“I Love Lucy!” Opera Rap [Tuesday 15 January @ 7 PM]: Cincinnati Opera & the Cincinnati Opera Guild present “I Love Lucy!” an Opera Rap with New York City Opera Dramaturg Cori Ellison, who will take the audience on a journey through historic productions, favorite recordings, & an introduction to the wonderfully romantic French version of Lucia di Lammermoor, 1st performed in Paris in 1839. Donizetti’s French version of Lucia is part of Cincinnati Opera’s 2008 Summer Festival. Free admission; reservation requested. Ms. Ellison appears as a commentator & Opera Quiz panelist on the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, & as guest commentator on WNYC’s “Soundcheck,” WQXR’s “First Hearing,” & many other radio programs. A former faculty member at The Juilliard School & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at New York University’s School of Continuing Education, Ms. Ellison is a regular lecturer & panel moderator for New York City Opera, the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series, & the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. At Music Hall’s Corbett Tower, 1241 Elm Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & RSVP @ 513.241.2742, jbellin@cincinnatiopera.org, & www.cincinnatiopera.org.
LUNAFEST [Tuesday-Wednesday 15-16 January @ 7 PM]: This 3rd annual presentation features 9 award-winning short films made by, about, & for women from Africa, Central & South America, France, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, & the USA. The program includes 5 live-action shorts, 4 animated works, & a bonus film "Empty Chairs & Painful Windows" directed by Cincinnatian Linda Spalazzi for the Greater Cincinnati YWCA's Protection from Abuse Program. In the spirit of excellent short film programs, LUNAFEST is simultaneously entertaining & informative; its films include dramas, comedies, & documentaries; if one film is not your cup of tea, wait a few minutes for the next; a proverbial stroll thru a gallery of films born from the love & passion of their creators. Topics include life on the West Bank, family reunions, nose jobs, motherhood, & snowboarding. Discussion after each screening will be led by Theresa Singleton (YWCA) & Linda Spalazzi (Bright Light Communications). Tickets are $7 & $9; a portion of the proceeds will go to the Breast Cancer Foundation & the Greater Cincinnati YWCA. Presented by Cincinnati World Cinema. At Fath Auditorium, Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info & tix @ 859.781.8151, WorldCinema@fuse.net, & www.cincyworldcinema.org.
Call for Submissions for Celluloid Fringe [thru Tuesday 15 January]: The 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival is seeking submissions from filmmakers of all types. Film Fringe is a showcase of short digital cinema, typically films less than 30 minutes in length, but projects up to 1 hour will be considered. Films may be experimental or more traditional; they can span any genre. They need not premiere at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, but premieres are always welcome. Documentaries are welcome & encouraged. Presented by Know Theater of Cincinnati. $15 submission fee. At 1120 Jackson Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & applications @ 513.651.4171x11, sara@mediabridges.org, & www.cincyfringe.com.
Sustainable Cincinnati Workshop [Thursday-Saturday 17-19 January]: The purpose is to teach a new paradigm in dealing with urban & suburban environmental, occupational, & social problems by integrating science & technology with the social sciences & applying them to sustainable development of the Greater Cincinnati Community. Aiming for a Triple Bottom Line: Economic Development, Environmental Protection, & Solving Social Problems. Dr. Vlasta Molak will lead this seminar-retreat to discuss sustainable development & re-development. Other faculty will include Tom Dunn (Design Architect with Dunn & Titus, PSC) & Mike Fremont (Founder of Rivers Unlimited; www.riversunlimited.org). The workshop begins with a dinner @ 6 PM on Thursday & ends after the final session @ 5 PM on Saturday. Designed for the Cincinnati City Council, Hamilton County Commissioners, members of the Cincinnati, Hamilton County, & Northern Kentucky business community & developers, & citizens interested in the relationship between development & the community’s environment. $360 registration before 9 January includes meals & drinks, manual, & t-shirt; $410 thereafter; limited to 25 participants. Sponsored by Gaia Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit org dedicated to promoting sustainable development of communities & environments to improve quality of life. Dr. Molak has taught environmental risk analysis in Brazil, Russia, Japan, Nepal, India, Czech Republic, & Croatia, & was editor & contributor to "Fundamentals of Risk Analysis & Risk Management" & "A Comprehensive Approach to Problems With Oil Spills in Marine Environments: The Alaska Story : Proceedings of the Alaska Story, a Workshop." At the Gaia Feast & Sustainable Living Center, 806 Plum Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.521.9321, DrMolak@gmail.com, & www.GaiaFoundation.net.
Africa Culture Fest 2008 [Saturday-Monday 19-21 January @ 11 AM - 5 PM]: The 23rd annual African Culture Fest will reflect the diversity of African cultures. Featuring live performances by artists from South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, & Senegal. An African village highlighting Africa’s cultural diversity; purchase authentic goods from a bustling African marketplace; watch exciting performances by some of Cincinnati’s finest African drummers & dancers, wide selection of music & art; enjoy storytelling & activities for the kids. On the last day, Monday 21 January, the New York dance company, Wideman/Davis Dance, will perform a short sampling from The Bends of Life. A snapshot of American history as lived in the African-American community of Gees Bend, AL, noted for the artistry of their quilts, this production will be presented in its entirety by Cincinnati Contemporary Dance Theater the following weekend at the Jarson-Kaplan Theater. African Culture Fest is part of the Passport to the World Series featuring Latin American Culture Fest, Appalachian Culture Fest, Celtic Lands Culture Fest, & Asian Culture Fest. Passport to the World is sponsored by Cincinnati CityBeat & WVXU 91.7 FM. At Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45203. More info @ 513.287.7000 & www.cincymuseum.org.
Homegrown Permaculture [Saturday 19 January @ 1-5 PM]: Grailville will present a workshop for homeowners & renters on Permaculture design; sure to cure cabin fever. Permaculture is a way of designing systems for sustainable living developed in Australia by Bill Mollison & David Holmgren based on their experience with traditional knowledge, science, & common sense, applied to living with & in ecological systems. It teaches people better care for themselves & each other by working with ecological cycles & energy flows. Led by trained Permaculture practitioners, the workshop is designed to provide: answers to design questions; simple & effective ideas & resource info to apply to your living situation; hands-on activities teaching Permaculture techniques. Reservations required; registration is $50; limited scholarships available. At Grailville, 932 O’Bannonville Road, Loveland OH 45140. More info @ 513.683.2340, ml.grailville@fuse.net, & www.grailville.org.
Watercolor for the Truly Terrified & Paint Avoidant [Saturday 19 January @ 9:30 am - Noon]: Marion Corbin-Mayer invites you to come play around with paint & paper. No experience required or expected. $25; supplies included. Reservations required. At Creative Catalysts, #231 Essex Studios, 2511 Essex Place, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.368.1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
African Drum & Dance Classes [weekly on Saturdays starting 19 January @ Noon-2 PM]: ballet tech cincinnati will host new West Indian African Drum & Dance classes that will focus on rhythms from Nigerian & other West African traditions. The 1-hour African Drum class will present authentic rhythms, teach correct hand techniques, & provide cultural history behind the rhythms, exposing students to a wide variety of traditional Nigerian & African drums & playing styles. A 1-hour African Dance class will follow. Both classes are led by Adeleke Onanuga, a 16-year veteran of the National Troupe of Nigeria. Drum class is $10 per session; dance class is $10 per session; both classes are $15. At ballet tech cincinnati Kennedy Heights World Headquarters, 6543 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513.307.6365, marvel@ballettechcincinnati.org, www.ballettechcincinnati.org, & http://dugombas.com.
Sunday Jazz Jam Sessions [3rd Sunday of each month starting 20 January @ 6-9 PM]: ballet tech cincinnati will host monthly Jazz Jam Sessions, a unique opportunity for jazz musicians of all ages & skills to perform or observe skilled jazz musicians in action, & for music lovers to enjoy great jazz from a variety of performers in a relaxed, no smoking/no alcohol atmosphere. The House Band will provide keyboard, drum set, amplifiers, mikes, & a rhythm section for sit-in musicians. Admission is $5. Soft drinks, juices, & snacks available for purchase. At ballet tech cincinnati Kennedy Heights World Headquarters, 6543 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513.841.2822, marvel@ballettechcincinnati.org, & www.ballettechcincinnati.org.
Be Organized in 2008 [Tuesday 22 January & the 4th Tuesday of each month @ 6:30-8:30 PM]: Do you wish you were more organized in some area of your life? Whether you simply want to conquer your desk, a room in your home, or your life in general, investing in this monthly coaching circle can help you stay on target in 2008. Circle begins January 22, to occur on the Tuesday of each month, presented by Marion Corbin-Mayer & Polly Giblin. $30 per session, series of 6 for $150 (save $30); reservations & $15 deposit required. At Creative Catalysts, #231 Essex Studios, 2511 Essex Place, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.368.1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
Using Documentary Film for Social Change [Wednesday 23 January @ 6 PM]: Documentary filmmaker Barbara Wolf will close her film exhibit at Media Bridges (see Ongoing Tri-State Treasures below) by sharing her experiences in using documentary film to foster social change in the community. Using examples from her works created with local & regional agencies, Barbara will discuss the strengths of using documentaries to reach your organization's goals. Barbara has edited 3 video pieces for the Sierra Club; each resulted in environmental improvements in the greater Cincinnati area. Free. Sponsored by Media Bridges. At Media Bridges, 1100 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.651.4171 & sara@mediabridges.org.
Conscious Choice Cinema Premiers with "One: The Movie" [Wednesday 23 January @ 7 PM]: Conscious Choice Cinema is part of the new film series in the Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center. "In a divided post 9-11 world, first-time filmmaker Ward Powers asks life's ultimate questions of world renowned spiritual leaders and ordinary people. ONE: The Movie weaves the diverse answers, exploring topics of war and peace, fear and love, suffering, god, life after death, and the ultimate meaning of life. The answers reflect global diversity, while emphasizing the oneness of humanity." ~ IMDb. Tickets are $10. In the Otto M. Budig Theatre, the Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center, Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859.491.7885, Silvorwing@aol.com, & www.ConsciousChoiceCinema.com.
Cinema Carnegie Premiers with "Rain Man" [Saturday & Wednesday 26 & 30 January @ 7:30 PM]: Cinema Carnegie is a new film series at The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center featuring the best in independent films, documentaries, short films, art house films, repertory classics, & films with local connections (filmed locally, filmmakers with community ties, etc.). Combining the majesty of America’s grand movie palaces with a surprising intimacy that enhances the detail & nuance of film, the beautifully restored Otto M. Budig Theatre at The Carnegie is Northern Kentucky’s premier venue for captivating cinematic experiences. Cinema Carnegie is on the final Saturday & following Wednesday of every month, with cocktails, movies, & conversations with filmmakers. Cinema Carnegie premiers with "Rain Man," featuring Tom Cruise & Dustin Hoffman as unlikely brothers traveling cross country. This 1988 classic won 4 Academy Awards including “Best Picture” & was partly filmed in Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky, including a scene at Newport’s Pompilio’s restaurant. $8 admission. At the Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center, 1028 Scott Boulevard, Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859.491.2030 & www.thecarnegie.com.
Ongoing Tri-State Treasures
Manifest Offers 4 Drawing Classes [winter months]: Classical Drawing in a Contemporary World instructed by Constance McClure; classes begin Monday 14 January & Saturday 19 January (2 sections open). About Face: Approaches to Portraiture is instructed by Tim Parsley; class begins Sunday 20 January. Open Figure Sessions; 3 sessions: Tuesday & Wednesday evenings & Saturday mornings; sessions begin Tuesday 8 January. Open Critique Sessions; Thursday evenings; sessions begin 10 January. More info about all classes @ 513.861.3638 & manifest@manifestgallery.org, & http://www.manifestgallery.org/studio.
Documentary WORKS: Social Activist Documentaries of Barbara Wolf [Monday-Saturdays thru Thursday 24 January]: Films by local documentary filmmaker Barbara Wolf are screening during normal business hours as part of the film@mediabridges series. The films: "The Earth Covenant" describes a covenant being made between the peoples of the earth to take responsibility for the environment in the absence of comprehensive governmental action. "Peace March 2004" presents the Cincinnati protest as part of a larger national demonstration on the 1st anniversary of the US initiating bombing of Iraq. "Degrees Of Shame" examines the situation of adjunct (part-time) faculty teaching in America’s institutions of higher learning, suggesting they are the information economy’s migrant farm workers. "Know Theatre Corpus Christi Protests" documents protests outside the theatre during the play's entire run. "These Old Buildings Raised Our Many Children" was made in 1995 for & with long-term residents of Over-The-Rhine, looking at the effects of massive community redevelopment on their lives. "This Is My House" highlights transitional housing associated with the Drop Inn Center which was threatened by the proposed new SCPA. These films are presented by Media Bridges. Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8AM-9PM, Friday: 8AM-6PM, Saturday: 9AM-5PM. Free. In the At Media Bridges front lobby, 1100 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.651.4171 & sara@mediabridges.org.
Julian's Stanczak Exhibition [thru 11 February 2008]: The exhibit of work by this internationally significant artist coincides with the unveiling of his design for Fifth Third Bank's 6th Street Façade facing the CAC. In addition to the models & preparatory drawings, a collection of Julian Stanczak's work from throughout his career provide a context for his newest monumental project. Polish-born Stanczak trained under Josef Albers & Conrad Marca-Relli at Yale University's School of Art & Architecture. He brought this background to the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he taught from 1957-1964. Stanczak's work is characterized by scientific precision & the illusion of pulsating motion. Using repeated line patterns, his work studies the optical behavior of colors in close proximity to each other. His work earned him the moniker "Father of Op Art." At Contemporary Art Center, 44 East 6th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.345.8400, pr@cacmail.org, & www.contemporaryartscenter.org.
Don Nesbitt Photo Exhibition Opening Reception [thru 15 February]: Creative photographs of Don Nesbitt, who prefers the old Black & White wet process for developing his photos. Special musical guests will provide entertainment. Free admission; donations to the Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House are appreciated. Sponsored by Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe. At the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, 2950 Gilbert Avenue @ Martin Luther King Drive, Walnut Hills, Cinicnnati, OH 45206. Off street parking available. More info @ 513.221.4586, 513.751.0651, & maloneap@att.net.
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption Concert Series [Intermittent Sundays thru 9 March 2008 @ 3 PM]: The Series presents instrumental & choral music from the rich traditions of western liturgy & inspired classical music, presented in a suitable visual & acoustic environment. Donations support all series expenses & costs to preserve the Historic Matthias Schwab Organ (1859). In other words, the Cathedral Concert Series combines music of extraordinary range & quality in arguably the region's most magnificent space. Concerts include Musica Sacra Chorus & Orchestra, Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols, An Epiphany Epilogue, Concert in Memory of Dr. Louis Schwab, & JS Bach's 323rd Birthday. At St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, 1140 Madison Avenue, Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859-431-2060, timbrel@fuse.net, & www.cathedralconcertseries.org.
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1 comment:
The Food not Bombs serving is on 5th and main, not walnut. sorry if this confused anyone. thanks.
Jonathan
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