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Saturday 13 August, 2005
At the Table on Monday, 8/8/05_: Dan Hershey , Steve Sunderland, Roy euvrard, Mike Murphy, Tom Hensley (Welcome Tom!), Londo Slack, Steve Slack, David Rosenberg, Mira Rodwan, Robyn Repasky, Spencer Konicov, Gary Weiss, Ray Ash, Daisy Quarm, Ellen Bierhorst.
Roy: check out Wayne Green, http://www.waynegreen.com . We should live to ten to fifteen times longer than the age of puberty. Only mammal who doesn¹t. Should therefore live to 120-180. Wayne is 84 but looks 50. Raw food only, including raw meat.
Topics Nominated:
The A bomb dropped on Japan
Mike: Peak Oil Conference and renting a house in Yellow lSlprings?
Iran and nuclear power. Weapons.
Dan: wrap up of the Hackett--Schmidt race
New Members¹ email addresses: tom h.
Announcements: ellen, attach the letter to TV stations.
Roy: email from daughter in the military on way to Iraq.
And Stan Broadnecks will come to meet with you. Drug addiction. Public health. Where the HUD money goes in this city. It goes to subsidize white construction cos. to build fancy condos in city. The poor don¹t ghet it.
Mira: Judy and my sister in law are on their way now to Jerusalem for the Women in black meeting.
tomorrow at Ted Berry Friendship Park at 7:30 a commemoration of Nagasaki. Leaving from Meyer¹s at 6:45.
David: got two people to go to the Jas Taylor concert this weekend. Lloyd HOuse ads work.
Steve Sl: how much did it cost the taxpayers to have that stupid effort to impeach Clinton.
Steve Su: week wtih Thich Nat Hahn, a VietNamese Buddhist priest. Recommended by MLK for the Nobel peace prize.
David: A CHART F ROM A WALL ST J. article about antibiotics in meat. Consumers don¹t want antibiotics in their meat. Putting out disceptive lables, ³antibiotic free² doesn¹t necessarily mean they haven¹t been given antibiotics.
Tom: ³free range² means that only once in its life did the chicken ste foot on the ground.
David: The point is that these lables are not standardized.
... The USDA licenses entities to certify as ³organic². That works well.
Mark Dobbs, findlay market , N side of new part of the market. Drives an electrified trailor with freezers. I¹ve known him a long time. His meat is good.
Mike: Mark Dobbs had a Great Pyranees pup raised with chickens. Protects the chickens from predators.
David: eppople don¹t get the food situation yes. In Denmark, prophylactic feeding of antibiotics was banned. Then the need for antibiotic for disease went up thirty percent. ... But when animals are humanely treated they don¹t need antibiotics.
Roy: my people were dairy farmers. This actually increases your cost.
Steve Sl: it¹s a common practice in slaughter houses to keep diseased carcases. They cut out the bad spot.
Daisy: this is a guess.. if we kept our same food budget but spent it differently... eat less meat, but have organic food. No twinkies.
Steve Su: Frances Moore Lappe talk. (Mira: I have the video of her talk) seven corpor. controll 40% of our food.
Mike: a deeper metaphor. ... apply the same thinking to international relations as to farmer. If we didn¹t go at it so aggressively with petrochemicals we wouldn¹t have bad consequences. ... War in Iraq.
Tom H: most oil cos. have long term contracts that represents their reserves. ...the price increases is just price gouging. When the Hunts cornered the mkt on silver sugar, soybeans, the us gov¹t stepped in and controlled it. but they
The justification of the pump price increase is based on the price of West Texas Crude. But that is irrelevant.
roy: now that China is off the dollar, it is cheaper for them to import oil. the yen is going to get increasingly strong.
Gas actually should be $5 per gal. To preserve, conserve.
Roy: Nuclear waste has long half life. What was proposed in the Midwest Compact and the low level waste disposed in Ohio. Concrete bunker underground, encapsulated in drums. Weekly inspection. If drums leAK, REPACKAGE. AS LONG AS IT IS maintained, it is safe. Poses no risk. Significantly less. Near Miamisburg, they produced Tritium.
Tom: we have Uranium 235. Half life is significantly more than a hundred years.
Mike: civilization is 10 thousand years old. Graham Hancock... the watermarks on the pyramids suggest they might be 20 thousand years old. So we are talking about a stewardship of these wastes. Metal corrodes , so what do you do with the old containers. Is it like steplping in shit and tracking it aaround.
Roy: when we did the survey of the Mound facility. The highest concentrations of radioactivity came downwind from the coal fired power plant. We know fosseil fuels are causing climate change. You have to gauge your risks.
Robyn: just because the offsite radioactive load for coal powerplant is greater... there is still a greater load from the Mound plant.
Roy: right now all the hospitals are storing their nuclear waste onsite in swimming pools, unguarded.
Dan: remember ³planet of the apes². The nuclear waste you have to store has to be in secure places. Keep in mind that re. nuclear waste we are talking about time frames of thousands of years. Over courses of long times whereever they are stored there will be geiological movement, and water seepage. This will destroy the security of the storage areas. There will be leakage. ... for a long time Fernald was leaking gasses into the wind, which then went to Cincinnati. Another groundwater movement came towards Cinti.
Also consider the nuclear business efficiencies. It is very inneficient to generate thousands of degrees of temp. to boil waTER. The nuclear option deflects us from developing other more promising power options.
It is well established that alternative power technologies can bwe developed by
Discussion:
the Manhattan Project: Steve: we have a clear view of Truman¹s decision. Stephen Walker¹s book, history of the Manhattan project. Fascinating absence of clarity about what was going on in Truman¹s mind, in the minds of the Japanese leaders. It looked like the Japanese could have struck a deal with the Soviets.
There was a story that the Soviets had spied on Los Alamos and might have been able to build a bomb also.
so this casts new light on the necessity of the bomb.
Scientists were protesting right up to the moment of the bomb.
Pressure so great. Truman had no doubt.
This fuzzyness of thinking could be applied to the nuclear power options.
I think we are in PTSD still from 9/11. What would be like if we started to hear that full nuclear power would make us safe from terrorism.
Roy: France is now 80% nuclear power plants. The lowest hydrocarbin emmissions of any western country.
Mike: and also, do we want a grid system, or a cluster idea. We can have home heating without the grid, and some lighting and hot water as well, and cooling without the grid. ... We have an addiction to power.
Mira: since Regan we have lost regulation of the public lutilities.
Steve Sl: nuclear waste... we haven¹t paid for that yet. Who is going to pay for that. Society doesn¹t even last a thousand years. We are getting away with it now, and not paying for it. It¹s going to be hell for the future generations to deal with that.
Roy: but future generations have to deal with global warming.
Dan: the anti nuclear people are tilting windmills because there is now money flooding into universities to support nuclear programs. It is happening.
Ray: an alternative source of nuclear power, ³fussion² which does not emmit waste. Currently now harnessable. With the incredible progress in technology, I feel like there may be all kinds of alternative sources of power in the future. High costs of gas will provide a tremendous incentive. fussion reactions cannot be contained today, but in the future, something may be discovered.
Roy: the consortium just agrteed that France will build the first fussion plant. That is in the works. Hopefullyl some of the fed. money is in alternative power.
Steve Su¹s comment: I am firmly convinced that Hiroshima d Nag. prevented WWIII with the Soviet Union.
Mike: 5$ / gal will gentrify the whole city. Poverty and unemployment are being used to keep the poor in line.
Steve Su: Nick slpencer is calling for booting out the poor f rom OTR.
Steve: did the bomb prevent anything or did it open Pandora¹s box? The whole discussion was suppressed. When in the 60¹s we were frightened by Kennedy¹s missile crisis we were frightened. ... Now perhaps we are opening the discussion to considering that we have to accept the risks in order to prevent terrorists from taking over the world.
Steve Sl: othere issues: water being degrated.
There are now lower heat templ reactiors. We don¹t have to have these big dangerous high templ reactors. Much safer.
Ray: I believe they exist on ships and submarines.
I believe that the A bomb has prevented further use of that bomb for 60 years. ... I am more worried now about suitcase bombs... We can dmonstrate now that if a weapon exists it¹s probablility of use is aproximately 1.0.
Sooner or later everybody will have nuclear bombs. ... I remember air raid drills in school.
Mira: Vandana Shiva spoke at XU early this year... she told about how CocaCola in India has taken over the water sources in villages, and people have to buy their water. Huge demonstrations. ... All around the world water is getting increasingly precious.
David: Toyota just bought half the groundwater in KY for their big palnt, according to rummor.
Gary: Should we have dropped the A bomb question. Years ago I came to the idea that our loss in Vietnam was a sig. factor in the dropping of the Iron Curtain. Here¹s the argument:
We got out of VN in shame. \
then the russians get into Afghanistan...similar problems.
Gorbichov came on the scene...used the example of VN to convince the Russians that it would be good to withdraw from Afghanistan. Gorbichov started the movement that lead to the downing of the iron curtain.
Sometimes bad moves can lead to good things.
The coming down of the Iron Curtain might be a bad thing. It might have kept us from going into Iraq.
Roy: a lot of recent evidence now that Openheimer was giving nuclear secrets to the soviets. Maybe his rationale was ³balance of power². Not a good thing to h ave only one superpower. ... more people were killed in the firebombing in Dresden than were killed in Hirosh. or Nagas.
During the cold war, there was a balance of power. With nuclear proliferation we are at greater risk than every before. And the message.. N korea, has nuclear weapons. Iraq does not. We invaded Iraq, not N Korea.
MIke: the Japanese were already suing for pece before the bomb was dropped. ... About Iran, if we have them, why say other should not have them.? We should disarm, ourselves.
³Failed State² idea. The most stable are democracy and tyrany. J curve idea. If you h ave rising expectations, which are then disappointed, you have a revolutionary situation.
This discussion is heading the wrong direction. A mistake to rule the world with weapons and force. Not only can we disarm, by stages of course, but we have to find a way to help the world meet its needs. Aids, water, food, global warming. Basic problems. They are more important than the armament problems.
Steve Sl: re. the bomb. did the culture of Japan... were they are all into the war effort? Did we kill a bunch of innocent people. If they were 90% gun ho to take over the war...
Re. Dresden, that whole culture was behind the war effort. Their military industrial complex was out of control.
Dan: recently read of contingency plans in the govt. where nuclear warfare is no longer unaccepltable. Calculations what it would be like to lose a million people in nuclear attack. there are plans on how to survive a nuclear exchange.
Steve su: in this morning¹s NY Times. The pentagon is now saying that in that case the pentagon should take over the government.
I have a close friend, a great humanist. Told me that he was part of the US troops going to invade Japan. he thought he¹d be killed. Glad we dropped the bomb. ... the mass killing of civilians, ... capacity for evil. the inability to come up with alternatives.... I fear for us all. If we really want security, allow the military take over. As this conversation goes on, I have been feeling increasingly hopeless.
Gary: I feel set up. you ask What do I thik of it, not What would I do? I feel stuck in a world with the Geo Bush types. I have to live with that. the world is more complicated than values; values are not all that rules.
Daisy: one of the things you ask is about how afraid of terrorism that people are. I think the gov¹t has whipped up fear. When we objectively count how many have been killed by terrorists, it is relatively few. Medical mistakes... seat belts... vaccinations... lower speed limit... antibiotics in the food... we could do many things to save lives. what I am afraid of is a military take over. That scares me.
Ray: the bomg: when I was at the peace plark at Hiroshima. I was baffled at why they had to do it twice.
Steve Su: the Jap. gov¹t did not respond to Hirosh. as we had hoped. They were working on negotiations with russia. Stalin threw in with us, not the Japanese.
Steve Sl: traditinally wars were fought in fields, guys facing guys. There was an honor. There is no honor in nuclear war. The game is screwed up.
Tom: what if we cannot stop global warming or the price of gas or the nuclear waste problem? Can we survive and still maintain some sort of happiness.? It is easy to zone out. I used to i solate, I shopped at 4 am... but I suspect that we cannot divorce ourselves from the rest of society. If we want running water etc etc we have to be a part of society.
There was an article in the NYTimes... a world wide shortage of solar panels because of new tax incentives for US to install them. We supply Germany and Japan their solar planels. ...
Satelites now are tracking radioactivity throughout the world. We are missing some 27 oz of bomb grade plutonium but it has been missing for a long time.
Roy: I heard that Russia did not pass on Japan¹s offer of peace until late becauswe they wanted in the war.
... I live in Mt Auburn...I have suburban friends who are afraid of coming to my neighborhood.
Dan: old historians studied civilizations..Toynbee, Gibbon. Civilizations fall apart from WITHIN. The focus of our efforts should then be to help the country to work better. If internally you are strong, the ³barbarians² cannot attack you successfully. So we need to keep doing what we can do inside.
Mira: an elderly woman friend in UU at Miami U area proposed to teh UU gen¹l asseml]bly, ³The moral imperative for responsible consumption.² We are overspending in this country, while the rest of the world isgoing to hell in a basket, with the help of NAFTA, CAFTA etc. If we don¹t watch our expenditures we will be doing without true necessities.
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On Thursday I attended a dialogue on racism at Jos. Beth bookstore in Rookwood commons, sponsored by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and lead by Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, a fellow psychologist on staff at NURFC and also at X.U. There were about a dozen folks there. Going to be a monthly affair, second thursday, 6:30, at Jos. Beth. Come and talk.
I invited all the folks there to the salon. There was a retired policeman, a Democrat, named Young, first name Wendel? who is running for city council. This guy is smart, eloquent, and Black. He's got my vote. Wife also smart.
They presented an interesting survey taken by the NURFC recently asking Caucasian and Black Cincinnatians about their beliefs and experiences with racism. See my synopsis of the findings below in the blue section.
Hugs,
ellen
(for Articles: see below. First, the "Announcements" section.)...
Don't miss the way cool article you want to read in blue section. It might be one of these:
- Lively Interchange on Soy vs. Milk Controversy and the validity of the Weston A. Price foundation
- Vic Wulsin's resumé for her application for Health Commissioner.
- Steve Sunderland's comment after meeting Vic Wulsin at the salon.
On The Hackett - Schmidt Race: What it means (from TruthOut) Ellen's boil down of the NURFC survey on racism results. Blurb about the Sept. 23-25 Peak Oil Conference in Yellow Springs
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Announcements:
7/23/
7/16/05
2 Rooms Available at Lloyd House
Fabulous Clifton Gaslight Castle; warm, multicultural environment
2 miles from U.C. 1/2 mile from Mitchell Ave. exit I-75
Call Ellen: 513 221 1289
Third floor walk up. One room with sleeping loft, private bath, share kitchen
Room has ethernet for high speed internet connection: $10/mo. extra
Also available Sept. 1: third floor two room suite, private bath, beautiful teak bedroom set, etc. etc.
Share: third floor meditation/dance/yoga room
first floor TV/VCR/DVD, iMac w/ high speed internet, dining room, veranda
Off street parking, spacious yard, gardens, sauna, workout room
2 hours per month building maintenance/yard care/housmates meeting
Laundry (indoor lines for drying) free
Minimum age: 25
Monthly house contribution: $285 (more if you use A/C, internet)
Available 1 August, 2005
Other housemates include: me, Neil Anderson (our fabulous massage therapist), Gordie Bennett (grad student in planning), Alan Bern (musician, doctoral student CCM). I am looking to slowly become more of a community in the house.
No smoking in house.
I am looking for: rock solid good vibes 24/7. Also rock solid financial reliability. Also, prefer a person who will enjoy the Monday night Salon and is interested in building community here. Eventually want to explore sharing ownership and all responsibilities.
Please pass the word to any of your contacts who might know of folks looking for a place to live/work.
ellen
8/13 Want to support Vic Wulsin's candidacy for the Health Commissioner's job? (see her resumé below in Blue section). Write to Board of Health members, below, c/o Cincinnati Health Department
3101 Burnett Avenue
City, 45229
Emphasize that she has not only clinical experience in our Health Department Clinics, but that she has formal training and a distinguished career in Public Health, and is particularly interested in prevention. ellen You may also want to reference the document in small type below, giving national definition/standards for public health.
Board of Health members, spring 2005.
All are appointed by the mayor/ &/or City Council. (I don¹t know the process exactly.)
Chair: *Thomas A. Dryer, M.D.
Vice-Chair: *Nancy Savage, M.S.N., Ph.D.
* Steven J. Baines, M.A.
Darlene Barnes, M.S.W, L.S.W.
Jerry Bedford, Jr.
* Kathleen S. Clark, R.N.
Linetta D.C. Collins, Ed.D.
Jacqueline R. Edmerson, M.S.W., L.I.S.W.
Jill S. Huppert, M.D., M.P.H.
The asterisks represent the search committee members.
The process, as I understand it:
1) Mercer Inc., a search firm, will cease taking applications August 5.
2) Mercer will cull the list to a review-able number (³a few²).
3) Search committee will review the Mercer-list, and determine which are interview-worthy.
4) Search committee will recommend finalist/s to entire Board.
5) Board will select commissioner.
6) ? Commissioner is confirmed by Mayor.
One¹s qualifications, experience, and recommendations are the major determinants of selection. Citizens¹ recommendations to members of the Board of Health or to Cin. City Council members could augment the customary employer and supervisee references.
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The Essential Public Health Services (If you want to read this, select and copy it and past it into a new email message. Then select all, increase type size. ellen)
The Essential Public Health Services provide the fundamental framework for the NPHPSP instruments, by describing the public health activities that should be undertaken in all communities. The Core Public Health Functions Steering Committee developed the framework for the Essential Services in 1994. This steering committee included representatives from US Public Health Service agencies and other major public health organizations. The Essential Services provide a working definition of public health and a guiding framework for the responsibilities of local public health systems.
1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
8/25
Thursday, August 25 meet with
Council Candidates
to hear their views on local environmental issues.
Mother of Christ Church, 5301 Winneste Ave (in Winton Place, off King's Run, which runs E from Winton)
7:00 pm
RSVP Marilyn Evans 541-4109
sponsored by ECO, local Environmental Community Organization (Gerry and Marvin Kraus, Karen Arnet, Marilyn Wall, et al.)
8/30/05
(See the letter that I wrote...using "Mail Merge"-I am proud!... below. ellen)
Local Activist Cheryl Crowe (of Progressive Alliance etc.)
Recommends
Write the local TV Stations before end of August:
They are renewing their licenses (every 8 years) this year
Have you written the TV stations yet? Tell them you don't like so much violence, want more about positive things happening; less sensationalism and celebrity gossip, more on what the people need to know to be good voters, etc. etc. Ellen
WLWT:
OHIO/OKLAHOMA HEARST-ARGYLE TV, INC
c/o BROOKS, PIERCE, MCLENDON, HUMPHREY &
LEONARD
P.O. BOX 1800
RALEIGH, NC 27602
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WCPO-TV:
SCRIPPS HOWARD BROADCASTING COMPANY
312 WALNUT STREET
28TH FLOOR
CINCINNATI, OH 45203
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WKRC-TV:
CITICASTERS CO.
PO BOX 470408
TULSA, OK 74147-0408
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WXIX: (FOX19)
RAYCOM NATIONAL LICENSE SUBSIDIARY, LLC
RSA TOWER, 20TH FLOOR
201 MONROE STREET
MONTGOMERY, AL 36104
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WSTR-TV: (Ch. 64)
WSTR LICENSEE, INC
SHAW PITTMAN (KATHRYN R. SCHMELTZER)
2300 N STREET, N.W
WASHINGTON, DC 20037-1128
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Ellen O. Bierhorst, Ph.D.
Lloyd House 3901 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220-1145
(513) 221-1289
ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com
www.lloydhouse.com
Fax: (513) 221-8150
July 30, 2005
(Address of Station Owner)
Dear (TV Station Owner),
I am writing regarding the forthcoming license renewal for (TV Station), your television station in Cincinnati. I am a lifelong resident of Cincinnati.
I believe the news coverage of this station is not serving the public. There is too much about crime and violence, too much about celebrities¹ lives, about sports, and about weather, and not enough about matters that inform the citizens concerning issues that affect our actual lives. I would like to see detailed, educational coverage of city council sessions, council committees, county commissioners¹ meetings, Board of Health actions. I would like to see good coverage of the many citizen advocacy organizations , and I would like to see stories about groups working to enhance their neighborhoods.
Because these kinds of stories are not covered, I avoid the local news programs altogether. The stations are licensed by the FCC in recognition that the airwaves are a shared, public commodity and must be used to serve the interests of the people. The practice of airing only the sensational is not serving that interest.
Sincerely,
Ellen O. Bierhorst
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Visionaries and Voices Exhibit [month of August]: Visionaries & Voices, a community minded studio for artists with disabilities, will exhibit work at Bughouse Video during August. In their 2005 "Best of Cincinnati" issue, City Beat touts V&V as the "Best Arts Organization with Vision." At Bughouse Video, 4170 Hamilton Avenue, Northside, Cincinnati, OH 45223. More info @ 513.541.3700, bughousevideo@yahoo.com, www.bughousevideo.com, & www.visionariesandvoices.com.
French Film Festival [Thursday 11, 18, & 25 August @ 6 PM]: The beautiful newly refurbished Taft Museum presents a series of 3 classic French films by Jean Renoir, son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Each film will be introduced by Tom Zaniello, director of the Honors Program & professor of film at NKU. Free admission. Box dinner is available for $12 with 24 hours advance reservation.
<> Thursday 11 August 11: Grand Illusion (1937). One of the first prison escape movies, Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars Jean Gabin & Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp & Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable Captain von Rauffenstein.
<> Thursday 18 August 18: The Rules of the Game (1939). Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests & the servants downstairs alike. The refusal of one of the guests to play by society's rules sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy.
<> Thursday 25 August 25: French Cancan (1955). French Cancan recreates the backstage world of the music halls of Montmartre, focusing on the grand opening of the Moulin Rouge. Aging impresario Danglard (Jean Gabin) has a talent for transforming common working girls into dance-hall sensations. Complications arise when he is captivated by Nini (Françoise Arnoul), a beautiful laundress, & decides to make her the star of his new show.
At the Taft Museum, 316 Pike Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. While there, enjoy the Taft's current exhibit An Impressionist Eye through August 28. More info @ 513.684.4515, taftmuseum@taftmuseum.org, & www.taftmuseum.org.
Matt & Ben - Live Theatre [Thursday-Saturday 11-13 August @ 8 PM]: The KNOWTHEATRE Tribe presents a hilarious comedy by Mindy Kaling & Brenda Withers about Pre-Celebrity Hood. "Matt & Ben" imagines the story behind the friendship of two of Hollywood's most celebrated leading men - Matt Damon & Ben Affleck - before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before "Project Greenlight," before Oscar... before anyone actually gave a damn. When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys realize they're being tested by a Higher Power. $15 general admission; $12 student-senior. At the corner of 1425 Sycamore Street & Liberty, Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.300.KNOW, info@knowtheatre.com, & www.knowtheatre.com.
Cincinnati International Fiesta [Saturday 13 August @ 2-10 PM]: Explore live music, dance, & arts, cultures, heritages, & cuisine representing Asia, Africa, Europe, & the Americas. The entertainment will be spectacular, eclectic, engaging, educational, & fun. The Cincinnati International Fiesta is a festive way for folks of all ages to learn and enjoy different nationalities, build friendships & understanding, promote & preserve the cultures of Cincinnati's different ethnic groups, & celebrate diversity. Help make Cincinnati a better place to live & a city that attracts & retains international talent through its multi-cultural, inclusive atmosphere. While new artists are being added to the fiesta daily, these are some of the performances already on board: Los Jokers Musical (Mexico; Duranguense); Cincinnati-Dayton Taiko Group (Japan); Bi-Okoto (Africa); Cincinnati's Greek Dancers (Greece); "Lion of Babylon" Belly Dancers & Mysterious Ways Dance Ensemble (Middle East); Bag Pipers (Scotland); Vivo Flamenco (Spain); Tango (Argentina); Salsa Rueda (Cuba); Son del Caribe (Puerto Rico /Caribbean); Queen City Sound - Drum Corps (USA); Danza Contigo Peru (Peru); & Mantra (Spanish Rock).Volunteers wanted & needed. Free. At the P&G Stage & Kroger Promenade, Sawyer Point, 801 East Pete Rose Way, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ mbeck1@compuserve.com & http://midwestlatino.com/globalfiesta.php.
Tracy Walker @ Six Sundays At Six Acres - Evening Concerts [Sunday 14 August @ 7 PM]: Sensuous blend of folk, rock, country, jazz, & blues that will touch your heart, soothe your soul, & get your feet moving. The Six Acres B&B embraces history & elegance. It is owned & run by Kristin Kitchen & Laura Long who have spent 3 years rescuing & renovating this 6,500 square foot 1850s Colonial mansion built by Elon Strong, noted abolitionist & active participant in the Underground Railroad. Concerts are from the spacious outdoor patio for an audience seated on the lawn in a uniquely scenic, wooded & serene setting. Bring your lawn chairs & blankets as seating is limited. Smooth grooves, tasty treats, & a cool new musical experience in Cincinnati. $15 admission includes appetizers & drinks. Shuttle parking provided from Twin Towers Retirement Community @ 5343 Hamilton Avenue. Six Acres B&B is @ 5350 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45224. More info @ 513.541.0873, info@sixacresbb.com, www.tracywalker.com, & www.sixacresbb.com.
Free Introductory Talk at the Lloyd House - Center for Holistic Wellness [14 August @ 2-4 PM]: Ellen O. Bierhorst, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, & Neil Anderson, L.M.T. Massage Therapist, will present the following topics: 1) Five Keys to Finding the Right Therapist for You, 2) How to Give the World's Best Backrub: tips from a professional; & 3) Secrets of Smoking Cessation: quitting cigarettes is harder than kicking heroin; learn how you can be one of the 5% who pull free & stay quit. Free, open to everyone. At the historic Lloyd House, 3901 Clifton Avenue @ Lafayette Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. Park on Lafayette. Contact: Ellen Bierhorst @ 513.221.1289.
Mayoral Candidate Forum [Tuesday 16 August @ 11:30 AM]: Join the Over-The-Rhine Chamber of Commerce for lunch & meet the candidates for Cincinnati¹s Mayor. Statements from seven candidates: Sylvan Grisco, Justin Jeffre, Mark Mallory, Sandra Queen Noble, David Pepper, Alicia Reece, & Charlie Winburn. This is not a debate. Lunch provided by Harry¹s Pizza & Bar. Registration $20; $15 for members. Jefferson Hall, 1150 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.241.2690, otrchamber@zoomtown.com, www.otrchamber.com.
Dances In The Park 2005 [Thursday 18 August @ 6-10:30 PM]: In the midst of one of the city park jewels, boasting floral gardens that are reminiscent of Europe, Ault Park presents Dances In The Park 2005; great dance music for all ages. Featured will be The Generics on August 18. Free admission; beer & soft drinks for sale, though it is unlawful to bring alcohol onto city property; all profits go to Ault Park. Ault Park is on Observatory Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45208. More info @ 513.871.9015, Info@AultParkAC.org, & www.aultparkac.org.
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8/14
Free Introductory Talk at the Lloyd House - Center for Holistic Wellness [Sunday: 14 August @ 2-4 PM]:
Ellen O. Bierhorst, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, & Neil Anderson, L.M.T. Massage Therapist, will present the following topics:
1) Five Keys to Finding the Right Therapist for You,
2) How to Give the World's Best Backrub: tips from a professional; &
3) Secrets of Smoking Cessation: quitting cigarettes is harder than kicking heroin; learn how you can be one of the 5% who pull free & stay quit.
Free, open to everyone.
At the historic Lloyd House, 3901 Clifton Avenue @ Lafayette Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220.
Park on Lafayette.
Contact: Ellen Bierhorst @ 513.221.1289.
8/27
A Day For Men Workshop
Shirley Reischman (our estimable homeopath) sends this along. I don't know about it, but Jack Armstrong is a wonderful healing professional, worked on my family many years to great benefit, is a D.C.
Gary Matthews is a massage therapist in town, good guy, partner of Beverly Wellbourn.
Shirley says,
FYI. Gary Mathews and Jack Armstrong are among those doing workshops at A Day for Men event on August 27th. Please pass this on to all the men you know. http://www.celebratewisdom.com/pages_blocks_v3_exp/index.cgi?Key=402&Field=key_field&catg=index&Exact=Yes&this_sect=The%20Wisdom%20Center%20Coaching%20&thisroot=/pages <http://www.celebratewisdom.com/pages_blocks_v3_exp/index.cgi?Key=402&Field=key_field&catg=index&Exact=Yes&this_sect=The%20Wisdom%20Center%20Coaching%20&thisroot=/pages>9/23/05
Check out the Peak Oil Conference, Yellow Springs, also is the weekend of Sept. 23. In the Blue section below, last article.
Huge March in Washington
against war in Iraq
Sept. 24
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Leave no bases behind - End the corporate occupation of Iraq
Stop bankrupting our communities - No military recruitment in our schools
Sat., 9/24 - Massive March, Rally & Festival
Sun., 9/25 - Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training
Mon., 9/26 - Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
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A r t i c l e s
8/13
Lively INterchange on the Milk vs. Soy Controversy and Weston A Price Foundation
8/9/05
Shirley Reischman Rebuts Jeannette Raichyk's Letter from Last Week
On Milk, Soy, Meat and the Price Foundation
Dear Ellen,
As an active member of the Weston A. Price Foundation, I have to take exception to Jeanette Raichyk¹s letter to you. For starters, if the dairy industry supports the Weston A. Price agenda, they do so only because they don¹t understand what it¹s all about. WPF is adamantly opposed to factory farming and factory dairy practices and completely opposed to pasteurized, homogenized dairy products, chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Weston Price traveled the world looking for groups of people who were long lived, healthy and structurally sound. What he found was that those groups who met his criteria had certain things in common regarding their diets. They ate only organic unprocessed foods; at least half, oftentimes more, of their diet was raw and/or cultured (fermented) which creates the probiotics and enzymes our bodies need; and any animal products they ate, including dairy and eggs, were from grass fed animals, completely free of medication and hormones. Additionally, he even advocated that many of our animal foods be eaten raw, which is impossible to do with factory raised animals.
As far as milk itself is concerned, raw milk, the only type advocated by WPF, is a very healthy product. An article by Thomas Cowan, MD, published in Lilipoh magazine explains why and also why the milk generally available today is such an unhealthy product. You can read the article at http://lilipoh.com/article_issue06.html . Dr. Frances Pottenger conducted a very interesting experiment in the 1940s with cats and other animals. He fed half of them a diet exclusively of raw milk and the other half a diet of pasteurized milk. Those on raw milk thrived, while those on pasteurized milk were prone to all kinds of both acute and degenerative illnesses.
As for soy, the modern soy product available in the US is usually genetically modified, and is almost always processed at high temperatures. Most of the soy used in Asia is fermented at room temperature. The phytoestrogens in soy have been implicated in the premature sexual development in girls and retarded sexual development in boys, causes infertility in animal studies, and has been implicated in the formation of estrogen-dependant tumors in post-menopausal woman. In addition modern processing techniques denature the fragile lysine, one of the amino acids that our bodies cannot manufacture; and the compound in soy that resembles B12 actually causes the body to require more B12. High levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc. As for Asians eating a lot of soy, the average consumption, depending on country, is from 2 teaspoons a day in China to ¼ cup a day in Japan.
Weston A. Price did not use a lot of statistics nor did he do lab experiments. Rather, he observed people and correlated their diets with how healthy they were. As a former mathematician, I can tell you that statistics lie. They can be manipulated to prove anything you want. And statistics from lab experiments can be manipulated even more easily than most. An example is a study done on one of the newer allopathic drugs. The study shows that there was a 100% improvement in the heart health of those on the drug. What they don¹t tell you is that the problem they were testing for only occurs in 2 out of every 10,000 people and with the drug, it occurred in 1 out of 10,000, and negative side effects occurred in over 86% of the people taking the drug. That¹s a 100% improvement! Whoopdedo! So anyway, the fact that Weston Price didn¹t write up a bunch of statistics isn¹t an issue for me. The photos he took of healthy people and those of unhealthy people are convincing. What¹s really convincing is how well people feel following his dietary guidelines. Even more convincing is that once one follows the WPF dietary guidelines, you can really tell the difference if you¹re in a situation where you are forced to eat a normal ŒAmerican¹ meal. And yes, people should read his book, ŒNutrition and Physical Degeneration¹. It¹s a real eye opener.
Yours,
Shirley Reischman
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8/13/05
Jeanette Raichyck: further thoughts on
Weston A. Price and the Dairy vs. Soy thing
>From Ellen:
Hi Jeanette,
>
> What gave you the idea that the dairy industry was sponsoring the Weston A
> Price Foundation? It would surprise me, given that the only type of dairy
> that they recommend is raw (unpasteurized) whole milk products.
> Hope to hear from you.
>
> Ellen
Ellen,
when I was last out at their website, the milk industry was very
happy with the bogus arguments that Price was advancing to attack soy. I
just now went there and the website is for sale so I can't track the
original quotes. (but I find it in its usual place at http://www.WestonAPrice.org. ellen )
I know most of the dairy industry would not be pleased with his stance on
pasteurization and have read that here in Ohio, some farmers were on
the verge of supporting a measure that would allow sale of raw milk for
human use (currently it's only permitted to sell it for animal consumption)
and *curiously* that same farmer had an unexplained outbreak of something
bacterial and was given the ultimatum to shut down the raw operation or face
closure totally... Hmmmm...
I wrote to a woman north of Dayton who was trying to organize a raw milk
operation, maybe co-op of local farmers but have heard nothing in response
so maybe she gave up. ( there are ways to buy raw milk here. I do it every week. ellen)
How would you like to own "shares" in a nice goat,
that's the way I've heard others are getting around the law, since the milk
would then be dividends instead of commodity... probably wouldn't be
reportable to the IRS either since the $-amounts would be too small... no
law against dividends... ever.... (I own a share in a nice cow. ellen)
Back to the WP politics and their connection to the milk industry... since
some states permit the sale of raw milk, if only for long-aged cheese making
or for animal consumption, then what WP was saying about the 'goodness' of
raw milk would have gotten him under the wire as an insider, meanwhile what
he was saying about soy (even though his arguments were vacuuos) probably
would have endeared him to those who saw him as a milk advocate, without
checking his whole story.
The WP foundation had a list as long as your arm of *names* with bushels of
letters behind them that were supposedly on their "board", BUT when
challenged to answer the China Study's results, not a single reply was
forthcoming. (Jeanette, how did you "challenge" them? If yu have a cc of the email or letter you sent, I would love to see it sent up through the WP Foundation local branch and see what happens. ellen)
I suspect 'puffery' and with the financial weakness pled by
one of their outreach fellows, (no sign of this, see below. ellen) the attacks on soy could easily have been a
'commodity' to sell to get grant monies from the milk industry support
groups, who would then promote WP webpublishing, which makes the politics
pretty interesting. (This is a very powerful allegation and if true, would destroy WP credibility altogether. Let's check it out. ellen) Whatever their funding, it seems to have run out. (No sign of this that I can see. Also, my understanding is that Sally Fallon's husband is a millionaire and underwrites her work with the Weston A Price Foundation. ellen)
Promoting raw milk should have been their focus but somehow they got
sidetracked on the soy issue, which is a shame. They could have extended
the China Study results in a fantastic way, by opening the door to raw
'energies' if they would have picked up the ball and done the CS experiments
with raw cheese instead of mouse-chow with different levels of casein. (Huh? what China Study experiments are you talking about? What's this about mouse chow and casein? ellen)
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8/13
Shirley Responds Again re. Raw Milk
Hi Ellen,
The 'woman north of Dayton' is Dan Kremer's wife. They have definitely not
given up! In the meantime, they have set up a cow share program and she has
been extremely busy getting that put together. Legalizing raw milk in Ohio
will go to the next legislative session since the lobbying wasn't in place
early enough for this session. I'm sending you another e-mail with some
references to lab work and other things that Jeanette seems to think are so
important. There's also a site that has gobs of additional links to reports
and scientific studies.
Yours,
Shirley Reischman
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8/13
Negative Effects of Soy on Health...Much data
from Shirley Reischman
Hi Ellen,
Below are some studies on the negative effects of soy, along with a web site and also an abstract at the end.
Yours,
Shirley
Japanese males consume, on average, less than 10 milligrams of genistein per day (Fukutake M, Takahashi M, Ishida K, Kawamura H, Sugimura T, Wakabayashi K; Food Chem Toxicol 1996, 34:457-61).
Perhaps the best survey of what types/quantities of soy eaten in Asia comes from data from a validated, semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire that surveyed 1242 men and 3596 women who participated in an annual health check-up program in Takayama City, Japan. This survey identified that the soy products consumed were tofu (plain, fried, deep-fried, or dried), miso, fermented soybeans, soy milk, and boiled soybeans. The estimated amount of soy protein consumed from these sources was 8.00 ± 4.95 g/day for men and 6.88 ± 4.06 g/day for women (Nagata C, Takatsuka N, Kurisu Y, Shimizu H; J Nutr 1998, 128:209-13).
This site has a lot of links to information about various negative effects of soy products: http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/
Studies showing negative effects of soy:
1. R. A. Guy, "The Diets of Nursing Mothers and Young Children in Peiping," Chinese Med J 50 (1936): 434-442.
2. R. A. Guy, K. S. Yeh, "Roasted Soybean in Infant Feeding," Chinese Med J 54, no. 2 (1938): 101-110.
3. R. A. Guy, K. S. Yeh, "Soybean 'Milk' as a Food for Young Infants," Chinese Med J 54, no. 1 (1938): 1-30.
4. H. W. Miller, "Survey of Soyfoods in East Asia," Soybean Digest (June 1948): 22-23. Summarized in William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi, Bibliography and Sourcebook
5. Ernest Tso, "The Development of an Infant Fed Eight Months on a Soybean Milk Diet," Chinese J Physiol 2, no.1 (1928): 33-40.
6. C. Y. Chou, "Studies on the Use of Soybean Food in Infant Feeding in China and the Development of Formula," unpublished manuscript in the possession of Bernard Zimmerli at the Federal Office of Health, Berne, Switzerland (1983).
7. KeShun Liu, Soybeans: Chemistry, Technology and Utilization (Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen, 1999): 379-411.
8. E. W. Lusas, K. C. Rhee, "Soybean Protein Processing and Utilization," in Erickson. See Note 17: 138-146.
9. "Evaluation of the Health Aspects of Soy Protein Isolates as Food Ingredients," SCOGS-101, prepared for Bureau of Foods, US Food and Drug Administration, by the Life Sciences Research Office (FASEB) (1979).
10. J. J. Rackis, "Biologically Active Components," in Allan K. Smith, Sidney J. Circle, eds., Soybeans: Chemistry and Technology 1 (Westport, CT: Avi Publishing, 1972): 159-189.
11. I. E. Liener, M. L. Kakade, "Protease Inhibitors," in I. E. Liener, ed., Toxic Constituents in Plant Foodstuffs (New York: Academic Press, 1980): 7-71.
12. I. E. Liener, "Trypsin Inhibitors: Concern for Human Nutrition or Not?," J Nutr 116, no. 5 (1986): 921.
13. R. L. Anderson, W. J. Wolfe, "Composition Changes in Trypsin Inhibitors, Phytic Acid, Saponins and Isoflavones Related to Soybean Processing," J Nutr 125 (1995): 581S-588S.
14. J. J. Rackis, M. R. Gumbmann, "Protease Inhibitors: Physiological Properties and Nutritional Significance," in Robert L. Ory, ed., Antinutrients and Natural Toxicants in Foods (Westport, CT: Food and Nutrition Press, 1981): 203-238.
15. R. F. Hurrell et al., "Soy Protein, Phytate and Iron Absorption in Humans," Am J Clin Nutr 56, no. 3 (1992): 573-578.
16. B. Lonnerdal et al., "Effects of Phytate Removal on Zinc Absorption from Soy Formula," Am J Clin Nutr 48, no. 5 (1988): 1301-1306.
17. L. Davidsson et al., "Iron Bioavailability Studied in Infants: The Influence of Phytic Acid and Ascorbic Acid in Infant Formulas Based on Soy Isolate," Pediatr Res 36, no. 6 (1994): 816-822.
18. J. D. Cook et al., "The Inhibitory Effects of Soy Products on Non-Heme Absorption in Man," Am J Clin Nutr 34, no. 12 (1981): 2622-2629.
19. N. S. Shaw et al., "A Vegetarian Diet Rich in Soybean Products Compromises Iron Status in Young Students," J Nutr 125 (1995): 212-219. .
20. L. K. Massey et al., "Oxalate Content of Soybean Seeds (Glycine Max: Leguminosae), Soyfoods and Other Edible Legumes," J Agric Food Chem 49, no. 9 (2001): 4262-4266.
21. R. W. Peace et al., "Trypsin Inhibitor Levels in Soy-Based Infant Formulas and Commercial Soy Protein Isolates and Concentrates," Food Res Int 25 (1992): 137-141.
22. A. R. Kennedy, "The Bowman-Birk Inhibitor from Soybeans as an Anticarcinogenic Agent," Am J Clin Nutr 68, suppl. (1998): 1406S-1412S.
23. M. Jenab, L. U. Thompson, "Role of Phytic Acid in Cancer and Other Diseases," in Reddy, Sathe. See Note 29: 225-248.
24. T. Foucard, I. Malmheden-Yman, "A Study on Severe Food Reactions in Sweden-Is Soy Protein an Underestimated Cause of Food Anaphylaxis," Allergy 53, no. 3 (1999): 261-265.
25. M. Fitzpatrick, "Soy Formulas and the Effects of Isoflavones on the Thyroid," NZ Med J 113, no. 1103 (2000): 24-26.
26. D. R. Doerge, "Inhibition of Thyroid Peroxidase by Dietary Flavonoids," Chem Res Toxicol 9 (1996): 16-23.
27. R. L. Divi et al., Anti-Thyroid Isoflavones from Soybean," Biochem Pharmacol 54 (1997): 1087-1096.
28. Committee On Toxicology, British Food Standards Agencies (UK), Draft report of the COT Working Group on Phytoestrogens, "4:Sources and Concentrations of Phytoestrogens in Foods and Estimated Dietary Intake." www.foodstandards.gov.uk/multimedia/webpage/cotphytoback.
29. M. A. Jabbar et al., "Abnormal Thyroid Function Test in Infants with Congenital Hypothyroidism: The Influence of Soy-Based Formula," J Am Coll Nutr 16 (1997): 280-282.
30. C. H. G. Irvine et al., "Phytoestrogens in Soy-Based Infant Foods: Concentrations, Daily Intake and Possible Biological Effects," Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 217 (1998): 247-253.
31. C. H. G. Irvine et al., "The Potential Adverse Effects of Soybean Phytoestrogens in Infant Feeding," NZ Med J 24 (1995): 318.
32. R. M. Sharpe et al., "Infant Feeding with Soy Formula Milk: Effects on the Testis and on Blood Testosterone Levels in Marmoset Monkeys During the Period of Neonatal Testicular Activity," Hum Repro 17, no. 7 (2002): 1692-1703.
33. P. L. Whitten et al., "Potential Adverse Effects of Phytoestrogens," J Nutr 125 (1995): 771S-776S.
34. R. B. Clarkson et al., "Estrogen Soybean Isoflavones and Chronic Disease: Risks and Benefits," Trends, Endocrinol Metab 6 (1995): 11-16.
35. R. S. Kaldas, C. L. Hughes, "Reproductive and General Metabolic Effects of Phytoestrogens in Mammals," Repr Toxicol 3 (1989): 81-89.
36. R. Santti R et al., "Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disrupters in Males," Toxicol Envir Health 14, nos. 1 & 2 (1998): 223-237.
37. I. L. Sedimeyer, M. R. Palmert, "Delayed Puberty: Analysis of a Large Case Series from an Academic Center," J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87, no. 4 (2002): 1613-1620.
38. J. Hutson, M. Baker, "Hormonal Control of Testicular Descent and the Cause of Cryptorchidism," Repr Fert Dev 6 (1994): 151-156.
39. R. Sharpe, N. Shakkeback, "Are Oestrogens Involved in Falling Sperm Counts and Disorders of the Male Reproductive Tract?," Lancet 341 (1993): 1292-1395.
40. J. Auger et al., "Decline in Semen Quality Among Fertile Men in Paris During the Past 20 Years," NEJM 332, no. 5 (1995): 281-285.
41. Richard Sharpe, MD, as quoted by Aileen Ballantyne in "Why Our Men Are Getting Less Fertile," London Times (29 August 1995).
42. Herman Giddens et al., "Secondary Sexual Characteristics and Menses in Young Girls Seen in Office Practice," Pediatric Research in Office Settings Network 99, no. 4 (1997): 505-512.
43. Peter Montague, "The Obscenity of Accelerated Child Development," Ecologist 28, no. 3 (1993): 140-142.
44. L. Zacharias, R. J. Wurtman, "Age at Menarche," NEJM 280, no. 16 (1969): 868-875. This article includes results reported in N. Michaelson, "Studies in Physical Development of Negroes: IV. Onset of Puberty," Am J Phys Anthropol 2 (1944): 151-166.
45. C. L. Fenton, M. Poth, "Precocious Pseudopuberty," eMedicine 2, no. 5 (2001): www.emedicine.com.
46. B. L. Strom et al., "Exposure to Soy-Based Formula in Infancy and Endocrinological and Reproductive Outcomes in Young Adulthood," JAMA 286, no. 7 (2001): 897-814.
47. L. R. Goldman et al., "Exposure to Soy-Based Formula in Infancy," letter to the editor, JAMA 286, no. 19 (2001): 2402-2403.
48. A. A. Franke et al., "Daidzein and Genistein Concentrations in Human Milk After Soy Consumption," Clin Chem 42 (1996): 955-964.
49. K. D. R. Setchell et al., "Exposure of Infants to Phyto-Oestrogens from Soy-Based Infant Formula," Lancet 350, no. 9070 (1997): 23-27.
50. K. B. Declos et al., "Effects of Dietary Genistein Exposure During Development on Male and Female DC (Sprague-Dawley) Rats," Repro Toxicol 15, no. 6 (2001): 647-663.
51. K. North, J. Golding, ALSPAC Study Team, "A Maternal Vegetarian Diet in Pregnancy Is Associated with Hypospadias," BJU Inter 85 (2000): 107-113.
104. R. J. Apfel, S. M. Fischer, To Do No Harm: DES and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984).
52. K. D. R. Setchell, "Naturally Occurring Non-Steroidal Estrogens of Dietary Origin," in John A. McLachlan, ed., Estrogens in the Environment (New York: Elsevier, 1985).
53. E. M. Bickoff et al., "Relative Potencies of Several Estrogen-Like Compounds Found in Forages," Agri Food Chem 10 (1962): 410.
54. David J. Woodhams, "Nutritional Deficiencies in Soy Protein-based Infant Formulas," paper presented to the New Zealand Ministry of Health (5 March 1995).
55. R. R. Newbold et al., "Uterine Adenocarcinoma in Mice Treated Prenatally with Genistein," Cancer Res 61 (2001): 4325-4328.
56. L. Markiewicz et al., "In Vitro Bioassays of Non-Steroidal Phytoestrogens," J Steroids Biochem Mol Biol 45, no. 5 (1993): 399-405.
57. D. M. Sheehan, "Isoflavone Content of Breast Milk and Soy Formulas: Benefits and Risks," letter to the editor, Clin Chem 43 (1997): 850.
Association of mid-life consumption of tofu with late life cognitive impairment and dementia: the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study.
White L, Petrovich H, Ross GW, Masaki K.
Fifth International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease, #487, 27 July 1996, Osaka, Japan.
Abstract
Tofu and other soybean foods contain isoflavones - three ringed molecules bearing structural resemblance to steroidal hormones and having significant estrogen agonistic or antagonistic activities apparently related to their interactions with estrogen receptors and/or with enzymes involved in estrogen metabolism.
There is evidence suggesting that estrogens modulate neural and synaptic plasticity during aging. Male neurons have both estrogen and androgen receptors. Further, an enzyme (aromatase) that converts androgens to estrogens has been demonstrated in the medial forebrain, limbic system, hippocampus, and hypothalamus.
It was hypothesized that men had consistently high dietary intakes of tofu during middle life would experience different patterns of cognitive decline and dementia in late life, compared with men reporting little or no tofu consumption.
The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study is a longitudinal study of aging and dementia conducted in Japanese-American men who are members of the Honolulu Heart Program cohort. Mid-life patterns of consumption of tofu and several other foods were defined on the basis of food frequency interviews conducted in 1965 and 1972. The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument was administered to more than three thousand surviving participants aged 71-93 years during the 1991-93 examination cycle. DSM-HI-R, NINCDS-ADRDA, and California criteria were use for the diagnosis of dementia (all cause), AD and VsD.
We found an association of consistently high levels of tofu consumption in mid-life with low cognitive test scores (p=0.02) and (independently) with Alzheimer's disease in late life, controlling for all other relevant variables. The odds ratio for AD in persons who reported eating tofu at least twice weekly was 2.4 (95% CI 1.14-5.09), compared with persons reporting tofu consumption rarely or never.
Long-term potentiation in the hippocampus is blocked by tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
O'Dell TJ, Kandel ER, Grant SG
Nature 1991 Oct 10 353:6344 558-60
Abstract
Long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippocampus is thought to contribute to memory formation. In the Ca1 region, LTP requires the NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor-dependent influx of Ca2+ and activation of serine and threonine protein kinases. Because of the high amount of protein tyrosine kinases in hippocampus and cerebellum, two regions implicated in learning and memory, we examined the possible additional requirement of tyrosine kinase activity in LTP. We first examined the specificity in brain of five inhibitors of tyrosine kinase and found that two of them, lavendustin A and genistein, showed substantially greater specificity for tyrosine kinase from hippocampus than for three serine-threonine kinases: protein kinase A, protein kinase C, and Ca2+/calmodulin kinase II. Lavendustin A and genistein selectively blocked the induction of LTP when applied in the bath or injected into the postsynaptic cell. By contrast, the inhibitors had no effect on the established LTP, on normal synaptic transmission, or on the neurotransmitter actions attributable to the actions of protein kinase A or protein kinase C. These data suggest that tyrosine kinase activity could be required postsynaptically for long-term synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. As Ca2+ calmodulin kinase II or protein kinase C seem also to be required, the tyrosine kinases could participate postsynaptically in a kinase network together with serine and threonine kinases.
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8/13
Local Availability of Raw Milk through "Cow Share"
from Ellen
From: Ellen Bierhorst [mailto:ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:23 AM
To: DectiriPublishing
Subject: Re: Price sponsored by dairy industry?
Hi Jeanette,
Is this the link you were using for Weston A Price?
http://www.westonaprice.org/index.html
There is no sign to me that the site is for sale.
?
re. Raw Milk, I am part of a Cow Share group with Gary Oaks, a farmer in N.
KY, who delivers twice a week to the waldorf school in Winton Place. I get
1/2 gal raw whole milk once a week for $15 / month. Glass recycled bottles.
He also provides yogurt, whey, butter, occasinally cheese, and now some
produce.
there is another way to buy "pet food" raw milk, from Dan Kremer, farmer
near Dayton.
You said < the milk industry was very
> happy with the bogus arguments that Price was advancing to attack soy.
How do we evaluate the arguments re. unfermented soy containing a digestive
enzyme destroying factor? I took Sally Fallon's word for it, having decided
to accept her findings. However, you seem to know something detracting from
that faith, and I would like to know more. Seems we agree that raw milk is
good. The argument that unfermented soy contains an enzyme destroying
factor sounded plausible. Would love to hear more from you on this.
Ellen
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8/13
Soy vs. Milk... more
Hi Ellen,
Here is the mission statement of the Weston A. Price Foundation:
The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human
diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of
movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition
instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock,
community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared
parenting and nurturing therapies. Specific goals include establishment of
universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy
formula for infants.
As a side note, the US is one of the few industrialized countries that has
not banned soy formula.
Yours,
Shirley R.
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8/13
Jeanette's Interaction with W.A. Price web article author
Ellen I had already written to one of the authors of an article at the WP
website, since he was the only author whose contact data was given. His
answer is below, and his opinion was that the foundation was strapped for
funds and couldn't undertake the equivalent of a simple experiment doable by
a competant graduate student.
After his response, I recast the challenge to the chief admin at the WP
Foundation whose addy was at the website but never heard back from her,
though some responses require more time than has elapsed, *if* she were
taking the issue up without responding in the interim.
( from Jeanette:)
We are 'near vegetarians' and have long adopted
various forms of fermentation and infusions as part of
our routine to keep raw foods readily available and to
re-vitalize our favored cooked/dried foods. So I was
intrigued with your article at the Price website
(though we don't fit your definition of vegetarian
deficiencies) because you were the sole member of the
group open enough to offer to answer or discuss issues
raised. Hopefully that's just a sign of bad webpage
design making the information seem more like
propaganda. But there you were.
I have been recently reading the research in the book
The China Study, and find the implications to be
difficult to reconcile with the Price agenda. The
problem according to long confirmed studies is animal
protein, and populations that minimize that component
of their diets correspond to those who are free of the
leading diseases of the affluent-status western diet.
There was also significant work done to identify the
mode of avoidance specifically for cancer, where casein
was demonstrated to be a potent tumor promoter at
dietary levels characteristic of human consumption.
Furthermore the effects were dose related. Under the
5% (of calories) level, no cancer developed.
Now I have looked through the pages of the Price
Foundation and find no such solid evidence, nor even
guidance on quantities recommended. In fact, there are
noxious claims that 'all' animal studies are invalid
and overdose the animal subjects which I assure you is
not true. Nevertheless, this may be the excess of
zeal. So I'm posting this query to find out what
levels of consumption these Price claims are based on.
Also to ask whether there is any clinical study of the
raw milk claims. It would seem to me to be easily
doable by someone with biological/medical training,to
repeat Professor Campbell's (The China Study)
controlled full life duration(roughly 2 year) studies
with mice (either the carcinogen exposed or
the genetic-predisposed species) but with the
difference of using raw cheese instead of casein/chow
at the 10% and the 20% of calorie diet-levels.
Surely with the litany of academic credentials paraded
by the Price Board, this sort of study would not only
be doable but a potent rebuttal. I would
certainly like to hear the Board's response and would
consider a negative answer to be tantamount to
admission of weak faith since the logic of the
challenge to establishment results is obvious and
decisive.
Sincerely,
MJ Raichyk
-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Jim Earles <yogaspectrum@yahoo.com>
Sent: Jul 27, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: The China Study vs Price
Dear MJ (Jeanette R.),
Thank you for your intelligent and well-written
message. Let me begin by clarifying my identity. I
am a member of my local chapter of the Price
Foundation...nothing more, nothing less. I have no
connection to the Price Foundation's Board of
Directors nor any authority to bring these issues to
the forefront of anyone else's agenda. However, I do
e-mail back and forth with Sally Fallon from time to
time. I would be happy to forward your message on to
her, if you would like me to do so. However, it
sounds as though you have extensively combed through
the Price website and could well have sent the message
to her yourself, had you chosen to do so...therefore I
will assume that you are looking only for my reply.
I must first of all say that I do not have much
knowledge of The China Study. The experiments you
described would indeed be quite interesting to run
with raw dairy products, and I have a feeling that it
would meet with much enthusiasm from raw milk
proponents within the Foundation. The problem, as I
understand it, is money. The WAPF is a non-profit
entity and almost all of the funds they have at their
disposal are spoken for elsewhere. Outside of the
Price Foundation and a handful of others, I think
there is extremely little interest in doing any
laboratory testing with raw dairy
products...especially tests done specifically using
dairy from grass-fed animals.
As for guidance on quantities of animal products for
dietary intake, I think this has been very
purposefully left unaddressed. My own feeling is that
this sort of information cannot be quantified at the
same levels for everyone. If you look at Dr. Price's
actual work as found in "Nutrition and Physical
Degeneration," there was a tremendous variance in all
aspects of the diets which he encountered. In fact,
some who have researched his work have made the
arguement that nothing coherent may be extrapolated
from his data. My own feeling is that Price's work
and the info compiled by the WAPF make excellent
guidelines, but the question of how much is right for
you or for me is best left as an individual question.
This is where the quest for health leaves the realm of
the thinking/rational/scientific and moves into the
feeling/emotional/subjective experience of the
consciousness that dwells in the physical body.
That's all I really have to reply with for now. I
would welcome further dialogue with you on this or
other topics, if you desire. Forgive me if I am
wrong...it is so difficult to read a person's tone
through an e-mail...but you do not seem enamored of
the Price Foundation or its spokespersons. Please
know, however, that I am sympathetic to your position.
I frequently get the same sense from the Price
website as that which you described, and it disturbs
me...which is exactly why I wrote the letter which you
found posted to vegetarians. I feel that it is my
proper role to try to bridge the gap between the two
positions in any way that I am able.
Peace,
Jim Earles
---------------------------------
8/13
Jeanette: Serious Criticisms of W.A. Price Foundation
Ellen,
Not quite the same URL, I had used google and tracked it to a site
(www.westonprice.org) ...that was the URL I was using this morning and was
getting the page that the webhost or name registrar uses for nonpayment of
fees, namely "this domain name may be for sale". I was just out at
westonAprice now and the pages are back in their usual place. Based on the
other answer I received from the author on the Price website(posted to you a
moment ago from my archives), the non-payment looked rather like financial
trouble. If Fallon is floating this organization with millions, somebody
slipped up on paying the bills on this alternate version or decided that
they didn't need both. It's common for big domain name owners to buy
'similar names' that they think their potential clients might try so that
all roads lead to them, so to speak.
re. Raw Milk... this is what WestonAPrice's project site <www.realmilk.com>
says about Ohio, Indiana and KY:
Indiana
Raw milk sales for human consumption are illegal. Cowshare programs exist in
the state and are legal. Cowshares do not constitute a "sale" under the
statutory definition of the word.
Raw milk sales for animal consumption are legal on the farm and in stores if
the farmer has obtained a commercial feed license from the state.
Details
A group of farmers and consumers is working on the liberalization of raw
milk sales in Indiana and several active cow-share programs are underway,
with state approval. If you would like to help, contact Steve Bonney at
sustainableearth.steve@verizon.net or (765) 463-9366.
Kentucky
Raw milk sales are illegal with one exception. An individual with a written
recommendation from a physician may purchase raw goat milk. The goat milk
producer must have a permit from the state Cabinet for Health Services and
can only sell raw milk directly to individuals on the farm. Goat milk
producers must keep the written recommendation statement on file for at
least one year. In addition, "the producer shall keep on file records
stating volume of unpasteurized goat milk sold and date of sales to each
person having submitted a written recommendation statement."
Ohio
Raw milk sales for human consumption are illegal. The state has adopted
Section 9 of the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance which permits only the sale of
pasteurized milk to the final consumer.
There are no state laws against the sale of raw milk for pet consumption. It
is the policy of the state Department of Agriculture to permit on-farm sales
of raw milk for pet consumption provided that the farmer posts signs stating
that they are selling raw milk for pet consumption only.
Ohio Details
Young's dairy, the last remaining raw-milk dairy, stopped selling raw milk
in January 2003 when a recent outbreak of salmonella sickened 47, 16 of whom
worked at the dairy. The strain originated elsewhere in the state and
officials could not positively attribute the problem to Young's.
Nevertheless, the state put considerable pressure on the dairy (threatening
to take away their Grade A license and close down the pasteurized portion of
their business) which then closed down the raw milk portion of their
operation.
The outbreak and subsequent decision by the dairy came just a week after the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation voted to support an effort aimed at permitting
more people to sell raw milk. The majority of the more than 400 delegates to
the group's annual meetings, all active or retired farmers from across the
state, said that anyone who wants to should be given a licence to sell raw
milk. Then came the incident at Young's Dairy. Coincidence? We think not.
But the decision by Young's could actually be a boon to other farmers in the
state who want to set up cow-share or farm-share programs. Laurie Smith of
Cridersville is trying to put something together. She can be contacted at
wonders@wcoil.com .
Update 10 JAN 04: If you live in the state of Ohio and support the right to
purchase raw milk at the farm, please join the Yahoo group titled "Ohio
WAPF" (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ohiowapf/) to stay informed of
grass roots efforts to legalize the sale of raw milk in Ohio. A postcard
campaign to legislators is currently in the works and we need to know who
you are!
--------------------------- end of website quote -----------
Re: questionable information casting doubt on Price credibility
Jeanette continuing...
As I pointed out in the note to one of the Price local chapter outreach
fellows, the WAP website made statements like "all" animal testing was
invalid because they grossly overdose the animals. But there were other bad
omens in the webpages at WAP.
Similar redflags went up in my mind when they made the soy attacks based on
issues where milk has been similarly implicated. For example they claimed
that soy was the cause of early maturation in children fed soymilk, when
milk and meat in govt aid programs to Puerto Rico were implicated in exactly
that phenomenon. They made dire warnings that *soy* in baby formula was
responsible for various deficiencies, when it's baby formula (period) that
is the problem and though the technical tests were only about soy-formula,
they claimed cow's milk formulas were the solution. As well as other
examples of a lack of basis.
When I see things like this, I generally find that the 'messenger' is
defective, so even though I am an advocate of raw foods and fermentation,
infusions and marinading, I am very leery of bad representations of these
'counter-culture' concepts. It is not unknown that those in establishment
positions have set up 'strawmen' that they can demolish along with the
genuine, leaving the real advocates with as much egg on their faces as if
they'd been the ones who'd perpetrated the fraud.
Otoh, if the problem is simply a garbled message then we want to correct
that before it propagates into images we'll regret. But the problem here is
that the Price foundation is basically defending milk, per se, by attacking
soy when they should be either simply promoting raw milk, or making it clear
that hormones in milk are bad dairy management, period, go organic and stand
on the principle of quality. What they are doing in attacking soy (as well
as the anti vegetarian info) reflects bad judgment at best.
Re: the cowshare opportunity you've lucked into...
Unfortunately, WintonPlace is nowhere near our routes, certainly not on a
regular basis.
Re: the experiment
If you need any more details on the experiment I've been proposing to
majorly enhance the foundation work in The China Study, let me know. Maybe
the proposal/challenge note will be clear enough. In the Campbell study,
the mice fed low amounts of casein(milk protein) in their diets were healthy
and active, but their compatriots eating levels of casein comparable to the
great american diet were dead or nearly after what I recall as two years,
normal lifespan supposedly. There would be no point in redoing the bad diet
(regardless of usual protocols), just feed another batch real, raw cheese
for 20% of their calories, then if they're healthy at the end of the 2
years, the finger is indelibly pointed at pasteurization.
btw, the mice who were fed soy protein in comparable amounts did not develop
the expected cancers. Doesn't prove it's good for us, but it does highlight
the dynamite difference between milk protein and soy protein.
What I want is to nail pasteurization for the damage in milk. But that's
only half of what I need, since I want to see if re-vitalizing milk with
pro-biotics will solve the problem, like kefiring, cheesemaking and
yogurt... each of those is something we do and enjoy, so I want to get
decent data to support what we enjoy and what fits with the fragments of
living energy research that I've been reading.
As you'll note in the response from the website author, the claim is that
Price abhors giving solid data on amounts based on some bogus concern for
individual needs, bogus because ranges are always useful, and he supposedly
observed all these specific groups healthily drinking raw milk. He/they
could simply report what they observed. Naturopaths and other wholistic
practicioners deal with individual medical advice, and have no problem with
quantifcation. So that defense for refusing to supply useful data on
consumption is yet another indication that something's not right with this
group.
Early day tomorrow, again, since it looks like construction weather.
ttys
Jeanette
.............................................
8/13/05
Anita Sorkin, Local Price Group Chairperson
Responding to Jeanette:
My comment so far is that the China Study (published book) was reviewed in detail in the Spring or Winter Wise Traditions Journal. The article should also be on the website.
The Whole Soy Story is an excellent reference book that has been published in 2004 or 05 that was undertaken by an independent reseacher, and independent from WAPF.
Also, as far as I know the main funding for the orgainzation is from membership. Up until last month WAPF headquarters did not have an office outside of one in someone's home. They are not overrun with funds.
Regards,
Anita Sorkin
8/13
Don't miss this: Huge Planet Mars Sighting all month!
Hello Everyone,
The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.
The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification.
Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.(P.S. f rom Ellen... surely not! Can't believe this. Will be out looking, though. Ellen.) Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.
By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen in recorded history.. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month.
Share this with your children and grandchildren. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN!
Yours,
Shirley
8/13/05
Ellen's Boil Down of the Racism Survey
Five survey questions were reported, all with statistically significant differences in the responses of Caucasian and African American respondents. Don't know what statistic was used. Likert scale for responses: "Strongly Disagree", "Disagree", "Agree", and "Strongly Agree. There were 267 Caucasian Americans, and 180 African Americans responding.
Item 7a: do you think that racial minorities in your community are treated less fairly than Caucasians while conducting everyday business such as at their job or while shopping or eating out?
African Amer. Probably Yes: 39.3%; Definitely yes: 31.2% = 70.5% some kind of yes.
Caucasian Amer: Probably Yes: 25.7%; Definitely yes: 10.1% = 35.8% some kind of yes.
Based on what I learned in the Aria Group Collaborative Agreement process, listening to the s tories of my black neighbors, and of course, listening to salonistas Roy Jones, housemate Neil Anderson, and Merril Frazier as well as others, I am quite certain that Cincinnati Black folks are treated differently in every public situation. I learned two new ones at this meeting Thursday night: Wendel, a 250 lb man and hard to overlook, reports that in restaurants when the host returns to the line to ask "who is next" they tend often to look at the white person behind him, even though he may be first in line. .... In the grocery store when receiving money in change, the cashier routinely puts the money down on the counter rather than putting it in the hand of the customer, as they do when the customer is white.
Here's a stunner: listening to many stories of police stopping drivers who are black in situations where white drivers were not stopped, I had the impression that any black driver, especially men, have had this experience, even if they are dressed in a suit and driving a Lexus. but Item 26 surprised me: "How many times were you stopped by the police that you felt was due to your race or ethnic background?" Whites: .62 times on average. That is, a little over half of the respondents had been stopped once on the basis of race, the rest not at all. I have never been stopped on racial basis. But Blacks: 4.08 on average. That is, the average black resondent had been stopped four times under circumstances that seemed to her or him race related! Worse than I thought.
But get this, Item 25: "Have you ever felt that you were stopped by the police just because of your race or ethnic background?"
92.4% of Caucasians said "No".
48.9% of African Americans said "Yes". So over half the blacks polled said they didn't think they ever had been stopped because of race, and yet the mean number of race related stops per person was 4.8! That means among those who had ever been stopped because of race, the number of times they had been stopped was, on average, something like 9 times! I expect there is a gender issue here. If you are a Black MAN, you get stopped a lot. If a Black woman, probably not at all.
Item 22: "In America it is more difficult for African Americans to get justice through the legal system than it is for Caucasians." Numbers for "Agree or Strongly Agree"
Caucasians: 46.9%.
African American: 80%.
I was gratified that even 47% of the Whites realize that justice is scarcer for Blacks, since denial is pretty common. What surprised me was that only 80% of Blacks agreed with the proposition. I would have thought it would be 95%. Hmmm.
We are always interested in talking about racism at the salon. I liked what was said last spring, perhaps by Alan. The REASON why we want to overcome racism, aside from simple justice and compassion for those hurt by it, is that when we shuck off our (inevitable) societal racism it makes our world and our lives so very much richer and interesting!
ellen.
8/13
VICTORIA WELLS WULSIN, MD, DRPH (Looks like a very impressive career to me. ellen)
8875 Spooky Ridge Lane
Cincinnati, Ohio 45242
(513) 984-9257 veww@post.harvard.edu
PROFILE
Physician-epidemiologist with proven effectiveness in leading public health organizations and teams to attain common goals. Recognized for work in infectious disease, occupational and ecological safety, maternal and child health, chronic illness, diversity. Achievement in prevention through accessible primary care, environmental protection, community health promotion. Accomplished public speaker. Energetic advocate and negotiator. Successful and courageous innovator, motivator, mobilizer.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Leadership
… Created SOTENI International in USA. Elected Chairman of Board of Directors and appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, 2003 pres.
… Directed $30,000,000 federally funded project enabling women around the world to achieve and maintain optimal health at Centre for Development and Population Activities [CEDPA], USAID, 2001 2003.
… Led diverse teams to intervene in public health crises in Cincinnati (pertussis), El Salvador (infant mortality), Belize (clinician shortage), Tanzania (AIDS), Malawi (drought), 1989 1997.
… Elected chairman of the Board of the Health Resource Center, Cincinnati, 2003 2005.
… Appointed by the University of Cincinnati to the Board of Directors of the Drake Center, Cincinnati, 1989 1995.
… Founded and incorporated The Africa Foundation USA in Cincinnati. Elected as Secretary of the Board of Directors, 2004 2005.
Management
… Designed, implemented (with team) annual strategic plans for CEDPA, USAID, 2001 2003.
… Developed, executed (with team) annual business plans for SOTENI, 2002 2005.
… Recruited, supervised, evaluated > 100 staff and volunteers for SOTENI in Kenya and US, 2002 2005.
… Hired, supervised, evaluated, promoted, and disciplined CEDPA employees in 10 locations with direct (12) and indirect (112) authority, 2001 2003.
… Monitored and evaluated maternal and child health projects, Cincinnati, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, India, Nepal, El Salvador, for compliance with Ohio and USA law and quality standards, 1995 2003.
… Evaluated and improved HIV/AIDS prevention and care projects, Zambia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Rwanda, Madagascar, El Salvador, Senegal for USAID, 1995 2003.
Finance/ Accounting/ Grantsmanship
… Raised > $50,000 in less than a month to finance my campaign for US Congress, 2005.
… Secured IRS 501(c)3 certification for two non-profit organizations, 2003 2004.
… Raised > $1,000,000 in less than two years, including individual contributions, public and private grants, property, and in-kind donations, for SOTENI, 2003 2005.
… Managed, disbursed, accounted for $30,000,000 for ENABLE, a project funded by USAID and administered by CEDPA, on time and under budget, 2001 2003.
Finance (cont.)
… Created/ modified, adhered to, and accounted for budgets of $85,000 (Campaign for Congress, 2005), $675,000 (SOTENI, 2005), $1,500,000 (Health Resource Center, 2005), and $30,000,000 (CEDPA, 2003 2005).
… Competed, received, managed, and accounted for $138,885 from the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati through the Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research, to improve health literacy, 1999 2001.
… Competed and received $1,819,841 from the National Institutes of Health through Cincinnati Children¹s Hospital
Medical Center, for research on the effect of environmental tobacco smoke on children¹s asthma, 1999 2001.
Public Health
… Instigated and developed three sustainable, community-led programs designed to prevent and mitigate the effects of HIV/AIDS in rural Kenya, 2002 pres.
… Provided pediatric care in innovative program at Rockdale Elementary School, through Cincinnati Children¹s Hospital Medical Center, 1999 2001.
… Promoted health literacy among disenfranchised groups in greater Cincinnati, 1999 2001.
… Diagnosed, treated, and prevented illnesses among uninsured and underinsured adults at the Health Resource Center, a free clinic in Over the Rhine, 1998 2001.
… Consulted for and improved primary care and prevention (particularly STD/HIV/AIDS) programs with Ministries of Health, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders, in more than 10 settings from Cincinnati to Katmandu, in Spanish, French, or Swahili as needed, 1994 2005.
… Reported and responded to infectious diseases in Hamilton County, per CDC regulations, at the Cincinnati Health Department, 1989 1995.
… Investigated and corrected environmental complaints related to air, water, and land quality, locally (1989 1995), nationally (1986 1989), and internationally (1995 1998).
Communication
… Proven written skills: articles, columns, books published; epidemiology manuscript led to plenary speech at premier professional association, Society for Epidemiologic Research, 1987. See Appendix I.
… Demonstrated public speaking skills : created, adapted, used lectures, syllabi, and curricula in diverse settings/audiences. Examples: campaigning for US Congress, 2005; alerting Cincinnatians about an outbreak of pertussis, 1993; teaching environmental health to doctors and other health professionals, 1986 1995; selected student speaker at the Harvard graduations where received undergraduate (1975) and doctoral (1985) degrees. See Appendix II.
… Advocated for and advanced women¹s empowerment locally and in developing countries, 2001 pres.
… Recruited, marshaled, directed hundreds of volunteers to support campaign for US Congress (2005) and SOTENI (2002 2005).
Service
… Candidate, U.S. Congress, 2nd District of Ohio, 2005.
… Board Member, Chairman, Health Resource Center, 2003 pres.
… Board Member, The Drake Center, 1989 1995.
… Officer of the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service, 1986 1989.
Awards
… Appointed to planning committee for 13th International Conference on AIDS & STDs in Africa, 2002 2003.
… Selected as Riley Lecturer (annual honor to extra-mural speaker), Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 2002.
… Awarded YWCA Career Woman of Achievement, Cincinnati, 1992.
… Selected to represent Rotary International as ambassador to Kenya, 1976 1977.
… Awarded for Excellence in Family Medicine as senior medical student, from the Ohio State Association of Family Practitioners, Columbus, 1980.
… Awarded National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, 1983 1985.
… Awarded National Research Service Award from the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, 1981 1983.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY (1980 2005)
SOTENI Inc. 2003 pres.
President and CEO
Preventing and mitigating the effects of AIDS among the most vulnerable groups, through
their own leadership.
ENABLE, CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND POPULATION ACTIVITIES 2001 2003
Director
Empowering women at all levels of society to be full partners in development.
CHILDREN¹S HOSPITAL 1998 2001
Assistant, then Associate Research Professor of Pediatrics and Cincinnati
Combining clinical work, teaching, and research.
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1995 1998
Technical Advisor in AIDS and Child Survival
Enacting US policy in east and southern Africa.
CINCINNATI HEALTH DEPARTMENT 1989 1995
Epidemiologist.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (NIOSH), 1986 1989
Medical officer for the Epidemic Intelligence Service.
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTER, MASSACHUSETTS 1985 1986
Physician.
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 1981 1985
Graduate student and teaching fellow.
CLEVELAND CLINIC 1980 1981
Pediatrics resident.
EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS
DrPH, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 1985
MPH, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 1982
MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 1980
Special student, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1977
AB, magna cum laude, History and Science, Harvard University, 1975
Board certification in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, pres.
Board certification in Occupational Medicine, pres.
Medical license, state of Ohio, pres.
Pediatrics internship, Cleveland Clinic, 1981
Appendix I: Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles in Professional Journals
Ludke, R.L., Obermiller, P.J., Jacobson, C.J., Shaw, T., Wells, V.E., ³Functional Health Literacy of Metropolitan Appalachians,² Journal of Appalachian Studies, 2003.
Wulsin, L.R., Maddock, R., Beitman, B., Dawaher, R., Wells, V.E., ³Clonazepam Treatment of Panic Disorder in Patients with Recurrent Chest Pain and Normal Coronary Arteries,² International Journal of Psychiatry & Medicine, Vol. 29, p. 97-105, 1999.
Wulsin, L.R., Vaillant, G., Wells, V.E., ³A Systematic Review of the Mortality of Depression,² Psychosomatic Medicine, Vol. 61, p. 6-17, 1999.
Wilhelm, J. et al, Wells, V., et al, ³Resurgence of Pertussis -- United States,² MMWR, 42(49), December 17, 1993.
Wright, D.M., Kesner, J.S., Schrader, S.M., Chin, N.W., Wells, V.E., Krieg, E.F., "Methods of Monitoring Menstrual Function in Field Studies: Attitudes of Working Women," Reproductive Toxicology, Vol. 6, pp. 401-409, 1992.
McCammon, C.S., Glaser, R.A., Wells, V.E., Phipps, F.C., Halperin, W.E., "Exposure of Workers Engaged in Furniture Stripping to Methylene Chloride as Determined by Environmental and Biological Monitoring," Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, Vol. 6, pp. 371-79, 1991.
Wells, V.E., Schrader, S.M., McCammon, C.S., Ward, E.M., Turner, T.W., Thun, M.J., Halperin, W.E., "Cluster of Oligospermia among Four Men Occupationally Exposed to Methylene Chloride," Reproductive Toxicology, Vol. 3, p. 281--282, 1989.
Wu, W., Steenland, K., Brown, D., Wells, V., Jones, J., Schulte, P., and Halperin, W., "Cohort and Case-Control Analyses of Workers Exposed to Vinyl Chloride - An Update," Journal of Occupational Medicine, Vol. 31, pp. 518-523, 1989.
Wells, V.E., Schnorr, T.M., Halperin, W.E., "NIOSH Selection of Chemicals and Study Populations: Setting Priorities for Reproductive Research," Repro. Tox. Vol. 2, p. 289, 1988.
Wells, V.E., Halperin, W.E., Thun, M.J., "The Predictive Value of Screening for Illicit Drugs in the Workplace," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 78, No. 7, p. 817, 1988.
Wells, V.E., Deykin, E.Y., and Klerman, G.L., "The Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms in College Students," Social Psychiatry, Vol. 22, p. 20, 1987.
Deykin, E.Y., Levy, J. and Wells, V.E., "Adolescent Depression, Alcohol and Drug Abuse," American Journal of Public Health , Vol. 76, p. 178, 1986.
Wells, V.E., Deykin, E.Y., and Klerman, G.L., "Risk Factors for Depression in Adolescence," Psychiatric Developments, Vol. 3, p. 83, 1985.
Vaillant, G.E., Clark, W., Milofsky, E., Wells, V., Kopp, J.P., Mogielnicki, N.P, "The Natural History of Alcoholism: An Eight Year Follow-up," American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 75, p. 455, 1983.
Victoria Wells Wulsin Appendix I Page 1
Reports and Monographs published by ENABLE, CEDPA, Washington, DC, 2003.
Title Country
Case Study: The Impact of Queen Mothers on HIV/AIDS Education Ghana
Working with Teachers to Improve Adolescent Reproductive Health Ghana
Providing Reproductive Health Services through Peer Educators Ghana
Designing of Programs to Eradicate Female Genital Cutting Ghana
Gender, Power and Multi-partner Sex: Implications for Dual Method Use in Ghana Ghana
Impact Study: Choose a Future! Project India
Community Based Distributors: Best Practices India
Case Study: Community Aid Sponsorship Program India
Adolescent Girls Literacy Initiative for Reproductive Health Nepal
A GIFT for Reproductive Health Project Nepal
Communication Action Groups: Promoting Discussion of Reproductive Health Nepal
The Female Condom: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study Nepal
Adarsha Byakti: Women Acting Together for Choices in Health Nepal
Evaluation Study of the Effectiveness of Communication Action Groups to Communicate on Reproductive Health Issues Nepal
Exploring the Role of the Community-Based Volunteer in Family Planning Access and Choice Nepal
Community Volunteers as Providers of Reproductive Health Services Nepal
Enabling Women for Reproductive Health: The REWARD Project of Red Cross Nepal
Giving Women a Voice: The 100 Women Groups Nigeria
Reproductive Health and Democracy and Governance Linkages in Plateau State Nigeria
The Vulnerable Children Project in Benue State Nigeria
The Impact of Market-based Distributors in the Onitsha Markets, Anambra State Nigeria
Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Benue State Nigeria
Youth and HIV/AIDS: Prevention Actions and Strategies (English) Senegal
Jeunes du Secteur Informel et VIH/SIDA, Quelles Pratiques et Stratégies de Prévention? (En Français) Senegal
Training Manuals published by ENABLE, CEDPA, Washington, DC, 2003.
Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS for NGOs, Faith-based Organizations and Community-based Organizations
Volume I: Family Planning Plus: HIV/AIDS Basics for NGOs and FP Program Managers
Volume II: Faith Community Responses to HIV/AIDS
Volume III: Home Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS: The Power of a Community
Volume IV: Social Mobilization for HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual
Volume V: Strengthening Organizations to Meet the HIV/AIDS Challenge
Sustaining the Benefits: A Field Guide for Sustaining Reproductive and Child Health Services
Reproductive Health Awareness: A Wellness, Self-Care Approach
Other Publications
Wells, V.E., Chenier, T., Ludke, R.L., Downing, K., Shaw, T., ³An Assessment of Functional Health Literacy Among Patients Served in Primary Care Providers to the Poor Practice Settings,² Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research, University of Cincinnati, OH, 2001.
Wells, V.E. and LaRosa, J.E., "Gender and AIDS in East and Southern Africa," presented at Xlth International Conference on AIDS, Vancouver, BC, 1996.
Ainsworth, M., ... Wells, V., "Final Report: Workshop on the Status and Trends of the HIV/AIDS Epidemics in Africa," Family Health International, 1996.
Thun, M.J., Schober, S.E., Stayner, L.T., Wells, V.E., "Urinary Tract Disorders in Nuclear Fuel Production Workers," HETA 86-381, NIOSH, 1988.
Thun, M.J., McCammon, C., Wells, V.E., "Health Hazard Evaluation Report" Wilbanks International Inc., HETA 87-435-1896, NIOSH, May 1988.
Wells, V.E., "Depression in Adolescence," Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 1985.
Wells, V.E., "Rural Health Care of Great Britain Before and After the Enactment of the National Health Service in 1948" (Undergraduate Honors Thesis Manuscript), 1975.
Columns
³Darfur: Another ³If Only We Had Known?² The Cincinnati Enquirer, Aug. 20, 2004.
"Visima," The Arusha Times, Arusha, Tanzania, 1996-1998.
Editorships
Salud de los Trabajadores, 1989-1995.
Books
Wells, V.E., Epidemiology for Non-Epidemiologists, Applied Statistics Training Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, Rockville, MD, 1992.
Wells, V.E., Introduction to Occupational Epidemiology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH, 1992.
Victoria Wells Wulsin Appendix I Page 3
Appendix II: Public Speaking
2005 Priorities for the Second Congressional District of Ohio: Affordable Health Care, Guaranteed Social Security, and a Balanced Budget, multiple public venues and on television, OH.
2005 The AIDS Pandemic How Wake Forest University Will Make a Difference, WFU, NC.
2005 Think Global, Act Local: Opportunities to Impact the AIDS Epidemic, St. Thomas Church, OH.
2005 The AIDS Pandemic How Phillips Academy Will Make a Difference, MA.
2005 The AIDS Pandemic How Skidmore College Will Make a Difference, NY.
2005 The AIDS Pandemic How Bennington Will Make a Difference, VT.
2004 Educating Individuals, Empowering Communities, Eradicating AIDS: The SOTENI Experience, Nairobi, Kenya.
2004 The AIDS Pandemic How UC Will Make a Difference, University of Cincinnati, OH.
2004 Grass-roots Mobilization to Stop AIDS, Mituntu, Eastern Province, Kenya.
2004 Grass-roots Mobilization to Stop AIDS, Mbakalo, Western Province, Kenya.
2004 Grass-roots Mobilization to Stop AIDS, Ukwala, Nyanza Province, Kenya.
2003 International HIV/AIDS Epidemiology, Closing the Health Gap Conference, Covington, KY.
2003 The Road to the Optimal Enabling Environment for Women¹s Health, Accra, Ghana.
2003 Enhancing Community Support for AIDS Orphans: A Case Study from Benue State,
Nigeria, Cincinnati Children¹s Hospital Medical Center, OH.
2003 Social Mobilization to Improve Safe Motherhood, Accra, Ghana.
2002 Women¹s Empowerment in Africa, USAID, Washington, DC
2002 Setting up ARV Treatment Programs in Low Resource Countries: Tools for Estimating
Annual Costs, George Washington University, DC.
2002 Mobilizing Communities: Community-Based Care Through Non-Traditional Providers,
Global Health Council/ Pan-American Health Organization/USAID/World Bank Technical Seminar, Washington, DC.
2002 Population, Power and Progress: How Women in Developing Countries are Champions
for Change, Riley Lecture, Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
2002 Development and Implementation of HIV Programming with Faith Based Organizations
in Nigeria, 14th International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
2002 Leveraging Resources for a Community-Based Vulnerable Children¹s Project in Nigeria,
14th International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
2002 Optimizing the Relationship Between USAID and its Cooperating Agencies, USAID, DC.
2001 Women¹s Rights and Reproductive Health, Ghana National Association of Teachers, Ghana.
2001 Social Mobilization, Sustainability, and Sex: CEDPA¹s Experience in Marshaling Local
Resources to Support Health Programs, Global Health Council/ Pan-American Health
Organization /USAID/World Bank Technical Seminar, Washington, DC
2001 International HIV/AIDS Prevalence and Prevention, Centre for Development and
Population Activities, Washington, DC.
2001 The Relationship between the Stage of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Prevention Programs
in Africa, 12th International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa, Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso.
2001 The Relationship between Women¹s Empowerment and Reproductive Health, Ghana
National Association of Teachers, Accra, Ghana.
2000 Stress among Kenyans Exposed to the 1998 Bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi,
American Psychiatric Association, Chicago, IL.
2000 Depression among Kenyans Exposed to the 1998 Bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi,
American Psychiatric Association, Chicago, IL.
2000 Global Epidemiology of HIV, University of Cincinnati, OH.
2000 Public Health Surveillance and Response to Reportable Diseases, Cincinnati Children¹s
Hospital Medical Center, OH.
1999 Environmental Tobacco Smoke and its Relationship to Asthma, Cincinnati Children¹s
Hospital Medical Center, OH.
1999 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other Mental Disorders Following the US Embassy
Bombing in Nairobi, University of Cincinnati, OH.
1998 The Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Cincinnati, OH.
1997 Evaluating the Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, 10th International
Conference on AIDS & STDs in Africa, Abidjan, Cote d¹Ivoire.
1997 Maternal to Child Transmission of HIV, 10th International Conference on AIDS & STDs
in Africa, Abidjan, Cote d¹Ivoire.
1997 Epidemiology and Evaluation Techniques for the Consultant, Training Course, Kenya.
1996 Sex, Sexuality, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, World AIDS Day, Nairobi, Kenya.
1996 HIV/AIDS Epidemiology in Eastern and Southern Africa, USAID, Nairobi, Kenya.
1996 HIV in Teenagers, Hillcrest School, Nairobi, Kenya.
1996 Epidemiology of HIV in East and Southern Africa, American Public Health Association
[APHA], New York, NY.
1996 Mental Health in Rwanda: Where the Population is the Patient, APHA, NY.
1996 HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa: Are Prevention Programs Working? APHA, NY.
1996 The Prevention of HIV and Safer Sex Promotion, APHA, NY.
1996 Youth and HIV, International Students Against AIDS Conference, Nairobi, Kenya.
1996 Community Needs Assessment, 11th International Conference on AIDS, Vancouver, BC.
1996 Gender and AIDS in East and Southern Africa, 11th International Conference on AIDS,
Vancouver, BC, Canada.
1996 Introduction to Epidemiology, 11th International Conference on AIDS, Vancouver, BC.
1995 The Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa,² 9th International Conference on AIDS & STDs in Africa, Uganda.
1995 Gender Issues in HIV/AIDS Epidemiology in Africa, Mombasa, Kenya.
1994 Introduction to Occupational Epidemiology, Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage, AK.
1994 Introduction to Occupational Epidemiology, Annual Meeting of Occupational and Environmental Health for the Uniformed Services, Norfolk, VA.
1994 Epidemiology for the Non-Epidemiologist, Applied Statistics Training Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Charlotte, NC.
1994 Syphilis in Cincinnati, USAID, Nairobi, Kenya
1994 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Integration, Regional Workshop on Setting the
Africa Agenda: Integration of STDs/HIV into MCH/FP Programs, Nairobi, Kenya.
1993 Immunizations in Childhood and Adulthood, Leadership Cincinnati Seminar, OH.
1993 Epidemiology for the Administrator, American Hospital Association, Chicago, IL.
1993 STDs in Cincinnati, Bethesda Hospital Continuing Education Seminars, Cincinnati, OH.
1993 Epidemiology for the Non-Epidemiologist, Applied Statistics Training Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Houston, Texas.
1992 Epidemiology in Cincinnati, Grand Rounds, Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, OH.
1992 Toxic Effects of Chemical Exposures, International Chemical Workers Union, Pittsburgh, PA.
1992 Occupational Epidemiology, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Winnipeg, Canada.
1992 Introduction to Occupational Epidemiology, Panama Canal Commission, Panama.
1992 Epidemiology for the Non-Epidemiologist, Applied Statistics Training Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Chicago, IL. 1992 Principles of Toxicology, International Chemical Workers Union, Oak Ridge, TN.
1991 Hepatitis Update, Cincinnati Health Department, OH.
1991 The Epidemiology of HIV, AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bethesda
Hospital Infectious Disease Update, Cincinnati, OH.
1991 Occupational Health Education in Latin America; Translating Information: A Three-
Step Process, APHA, Atlanta, GA.
1991 A National Health Program: The Role of the Epidemiologist, APHA, Atlanta, GA.
1991 The Public Health Cost of the War in the Persian Gulf, APHA, Atlanta, GA.
1991 Making Real the Year 2000 Objectives, APHA, Atlanta, GA.
1991 The CES-D as a Screen for Depression in Adolescents, APHA, Atlanta, GA.
1991 Closing the Gap: Does all our Work Help the Worker? APHA, Atlanta, GA.
1991 Health Effects of Chemical Exposure, International Chemical Workers, Tampa, FL.
1991 Epidemiology for the Non-Epidemiologist, Cincinnati Health Department, OH.
1990 Principles and Practice of Epidemiology: Focus on Psychiatric Issues, American
Psychiatric Association, New York, NY.
1990 La Salud Ocupacional (in Spanish). Universidad de Carabobo, Maracay, Venezuela.
1990 The Epidemiology of Sexual Transmitted Diseases Which Affect the Perinatal Period,
Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, OH.
1990 The Epidemiology of STDs in Cincinnati, Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, OH.
1990 HIV and Health Care Workers, Cincinnati Health Department, OH.
1989 Biomarkers in Reproductive Epidemiology, University of Cincinnati, OH.
1988 Epidemiology for the Non-Epidemiologist Training Course, NIOSH/CDC, Cincinnati, OH.
1988 Methylene Chloride and Male Reproductive Health, Boston University, MA.
1988 The Predictive Value of Screening for Illicit Drugs in the Workplace, American
Occupational Medicine Association, New Orleans, LA.
1988 NIOSH Selection of Chemicals and Study Populations, Symposium on Reproductive
Hazards in the Workplace (NIEHS/NIOSH), Cincinnati, OH.
1988 The Predictive Value of Screening for Illicit Drugs in the Workplace, American
Psychiatric Association, Montreal, Canada.
1987 The Predictive Value of Screening for Illicit Drugs in the Workplace, Plenary Speech,
Society for Epidemiologic Research, Amherst, MA.
1987 Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace, Annual Conference of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, Cincinnati, OH.
1985 The Right and the Responsibility to Say, ³I Don¹t Know,² Commencement Speech,
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
1985 The Epidemiology of Depression in Adolescents, Cleveland Clinic, OH.
1984 The Nature and Occurrence of Depression in Adolescence, Clinical Pharmacology
Symposium, Human Resource Institute, Boston, MA.
1981 Toxic Shock Syndrome, Cleveland Clinic, OH.
1980 Conception and Contraception, Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH.
1975 Doing Good while Doing Well, Radcliffe Class Day Speaker at Commencement, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA.
And... From Vic's cover letter accompanying her application:
.
"... My priorities for achievement are:
… Primary Care
o To reduce Cincinnati¹s unacceptable infant mortality rate.
o To maintain the excellent quality and productivity of the physicians and other clinicians of the Cincinnati Health Department.
o To extend the outreach of Cincinnati¹s primary care clinics and in-home care to ensure every Cincinnatian has access to excellent health care.
o To motivate Cincinnatians to choose safe and healthy behaviors, to reduce preventable diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS) and risk factors (e.g., smoking).
… Community Health
o To make Cincinnati the cleanest city in the country, thereby increasing its attraction to current and potential residents, industry, and other investors.
o To increase synergy with local (e.g., Cincinnati Public Schools) and national organizations (e.g., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) that will strengthen the outreach and the quality of the Health Department¹s services.
o To promote the health of Cincinnatians through education, partnerships, and empowerment.
o To build and advance systems of preparedness for disasters, including terrorism.
o To eliminate the disparities in health care and health status that currently afflict our community. "
8/13
Steve Sunderland's comment after meeting Vic Wulsin at the Salon
Monday's meeting was upsetting. I am tired of meeting
candidates for important offices who do not know the constituency,
have no administrative or political experience, and are locked in
perspectives that are not grounded in those who have the greatest
needs. When I think of Paul Wellstone and then who is offered to us
as candidates, I shake with anger and regret. When will we be able to
elect people like Gerry Kraus and other community leaders who have
dedicated their lives to understanding the heart of the communities
and not swoon over elites with none of the basic tools of knowing the
community?
In peace and love,
Steve
8/13
On The Hackett - Schmidt Race: What it means
New Politicking in Ohio
By Stirling Newberry
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Wednesday 03 August 2005
When Representative Rob Portman resigned his seat in Congress to become a US trade representative, it seemed like the safest possible move: shore up the key state of Ohio for the Republicans, and promote a reliably reactionary member of the Republican Party. The Republican Primary was three times better attended than the Democratic one, and hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed in from right wing groups such as the "Club for Growth." They believed that "the primary is the general election," and that it was pure upside. They may be thinking twice tonight. No, Democrat Paul Hackett, Iraq war veteran and harsh critic of how the war has been run, did not win last night. But he came very, very close to upsetting the seemingly invincible Ohio Republican machine.
Ohio truly is the heartland of the Republican Party, going all the way back to its inception. No Republican has gotten a majority of the electoral college without Ohio. During the Republican dominance of the White House between the Civil War and the Great Depression, 7 of the Republican Presidents came from Ohio. And Ohio's second district is a bastion of that dominance. It went 63% for Bush in 2004, and it routinely re-elected Rep. Portman with 70% of the vote. Instead, Schmidt was often behind during the vote count, and won by only a few percent. It was almost as shocking as losing outright.
The problem, Schmidt's problem, is not merely that the Bushconomy has not been particularly kind to Ohio, nor that the Iraq War is particularly more unpopular there than elsewhere, it is that the underbelly of the Republican machine has ripped in Ohio wider than in most places. That scandal, involving Ohio Republican king pin Thomas W. Noe and the millions he lost in Ohio's public money, touched everyone. Even Jean Schmidt, who had connections to Noe. Only three days before the election, she was caught saying she didn't know him, when, in fact, she had met him at least twice. The Republican money machine, having managed to buy elections, very nearly gave one away.
When the dust cleared, Jean Schmidt had carried a district by 3,500 votes, or less than 4%. Even worse for the Republican Party's digestion is another statistic: in the Republican Primary, 45,000 people voted, and Jean Schmidt got 58,000 votes in the general election. Only 13,000 people not among the party faithful bothered to cast their ballots for her. Hackett, by contrast, got 54,000 votes, or almost 40,000 more than the Democratic Primary. If the swing vote, the moderates and not strongly committed voters, break three to one, that is the sign of an electoral tidal wave. This despite Schmidt outspending Hackett by nearly three to one.
The difference was the new politics: a combination of using the internet, including email, blogs and media, along with feet on the ground voter mobilization. High voter turnout was the key for Hackett scaring Schmidt. In essence the Schmidt campaign got the Republican Party faithful, and a few friends, to vote. Hackett tapped a deep vein of discontent. Hackett did not run as a Republican-lite candidate, but instead was forceful and forthright in his criticisms of Bush and the Iraq War. He'd been on the ground, and could talk with crisp authority about the lack of armor and infrastructure. Hackett attracted endorsements from General Wesley Clark and other politicians with a strong internet presence.
In the spring, there was a great deal of controversy over Howard Dean's proclaiming a "Fifty State Strategy." Ohio's Second District points to both why this idea is going to work, and how it can be made to work. The Republican Party's electoral success has come, in no small part, because they could focus resources on marginal races while still mounting challenges all over the country. With fewer safe zones, the Democrats had to both play defense and be much more careful about offense. Hackett's strong run, and the support he gained from all over the country, showed that Democrats running in Republican strongholds do not have to pull their horns in, but, instead, can go all out, without having to worry about losing.
Hackett is important in another respect: he is a forceful personality, charismatic, and exudes leadership. His campaign attracted top talent, including Bob Brigham of the Swing State Project. He and his campaign came up with a string of zingers: including "The Culture of Corruption." They were able to pull money, research and volunteerism from across the country. One example? When the Hackett campaign learned that Jean Schmidt was going to deny knowing Tom Noe, they went out and asked the internet for help. And the internet came through for them.
In short, last night's results left the House where it had been the day before; Schmidt, if anything, will be to the right of Portman. However, the implications of an 11% shift in Ohio-2 are massive. A shift of similar proportions across the country would sweep the Republicans from House and Senate in 2006. It would sweep them out of governorships and legislatures. Even if it is confined to Ohio and the upper Midwest, it would end their ability to become the kind of overwhelming majority party that has a mandate to radically remake American government. It is dangerous to draw too many lessons from small data points. After all, the Democrats used off-year elections to win two even more conservative districts during the last election cycle, but ended up losing ground in the general election. But the model, should the beltway establishment have the courage to use it, has been demonstrated.
Last night was another battle between the old hierarchical pyramid politics of the past, and the coming power of spheres of participation, and while Schmidt's pyramid posse made it out with a victory, it was a very near thing, and on their own home turf.
7/16/05
At the Earth Spirit Rising Conference I saw Megan Quinn, salon attendee (at least one time!) and manager of Community Solutions, the group in Yellow Springs that sponsored that terrific Peak Oil conference David R, Mike M and I went to last November. The conference this year will be in September. Invisible salonista Judy Leever who heard about it here says she has already registered! The power of the Weekly! ellen.
Second U.S. Conference
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Peak Oil the point in time when world oil
Keynotes: Richard Heinberg, author
production will begin to decline forever.
Hear the latest on this vital issue and its
connection to economics. Also learn about
designing viable low-energy living solutions
and new forms of community.
of Powerdown: Options and Actions for a
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War and The Fate of Industrial Societies and
Michael Shuman, author of Going Local:
Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a
Global Age.
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Register with the attached form or online:
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