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Re: “Cargill's Way”
I think those brown people would prefer not to work among poisons. Higher incidences of health problems, in particular birth defects, are one of the reasons Cesar Chavez spoke out in favor of organics. Their working conditions should be better in many ways but this benefit, in addition to the pesticide and herbicide runoff into water, were ignored by the Stanford study and New York article. After reading the times article my first question, as it should always be in this age of budget cuts to desperate universities, was "who funded it?". Thanks for letting me know.
Re: “Beer by Bus (or Limo)”
Or just visit BeerbyBart.com for directions on how to get to many of these same great breweries (as well as great beer bars) via public transit.
Re: “Let's Grow Something Weird”
Wow, that's the kind of genetic modification that I can live with.
The clowns at Monsanto are claiming that what they are doing has been going on for thousands of years...sorry Charlie, I've never seen a fish jump up and mate with a tomato to produce frost tolerance or seen soil bacteria hump plants and insert their DNA into Bacilus thurengiensis corn that blows up bugs--and people's stomachs that eat enough of it.
Bravo for the CRFG and please vote YES on Prop 37 to label GMOs.
If you are interested in plants or agronomy or human health, check out this great video that just came out.
http://geneticroulettemovie.com/
Re: “Creative Parenting”
Our child had developed food allergies to many food groups and we were mystified as to why? We are healthy, eat well, get plenty of rest, take vitamins,
live in an unpolluted area. Then we found out.
"Leaky gut syndrome" It's basically where food leaks out of the intestines before it can be digested and converted into a form that the body can use. The body forms antibodies to the undigested food and whenever you eat it you get the allergies.
The best Pediatrician in San Francisco came up with a staggeringly simple method to prevent it.
"Stop eating genetically modified food".
Turns out that plants that are genetically modified to produce a toxin that bursts insects' stomachs also transfer the DNA to stomach bacteria that create leaky gut syndrome and many other conditions.
Here's a fabulous video that explains all of it.
http://geneticroulettemovie.com/
Watch it and try not to cry. Just be glad you saw it now, not five years from now.
Please vote YES on Proposition 37 to label Genetically Modified Food
so that we can avoid it in the future.
www. Carighttoknow.org
Re: “Creative Parenting”
Great article!! As a mother of a 6 year old girl and a 5 month old boy, I can totally relate!!
I personally think the most important thing we can do for our children is love them unconditionally and tell them that ALL OF THE TIME! Listen to their silly stories, play with them, and read to them. This time FLIES and it's up to us to make those happy memories!
Congrats Leilani!! I can't wait to meet the little lady!!
Re: “Creative Parenting”
Congratulations. The best thing we can do for our children is to buy the highest quality food that we can. That means high quality organic.
The most dangerous thing anyone can do is to feed their children
genetically modified food. All manner of novel proteins, never before encountered by the human body, created starting in the Mid 90's when GMO food was "approved" and started being sold, are in this witch's brew of pesticide producing plants, meat fed on them and in the herbicide that they are genetically modified to survive in. There are too many other unknown contaminants that have never been tested on humans, yet are in way over half of the processed food that is sold.
Our kids are not lab rats for corporate profits. The wave of weird allergies, autism, colic, auto-immune diseases and premature aging that some women are experiencing is connected to GMOs. Babies have not formed a blood brain barrier and are especially vulnerable.
Vote to label GMOs. YES on 37.
Learn about it here:
http://www.carighttoknow.org/facts
Re: “House and Home”
Kamala Harris hasn't done squat. Her "Bill of Rights" is basically lifted whole cloth from New York State Attorney General Schneiderman's bill.
She is desperate to join the Obama Administration which as everyone knows is in bed with the banks and Wall Street. She is a phony Democrat in Name only and will whatever it takes to keep her name in the press and pretend like she's doing something real. Look at the details of her bill and then decide if it's effective.
What's needed is a serious Occupy-type movement to take back the foreclosed houses and maintain them in better shape than could the foreclosing banks.
Also, hedge fund bloc purchased properties should be squatted by locals in a clean, organized and socially useful manner. This has to be an organized and viable movement, not degenerate into a bunch of homeless trashing these places and creating photo ops for the financial powers that be.
Re: “Knocked Out”
Glad that you are censoring people's thoughts and their choices of websites in this "alternative media journal." Nothing like an ad-hominem attack on a person and his business to show your fairness and tolerance.
Keri Brenner's favorite boogeyman is her problem. Don't lower your paper to the level of some Stalinist witch hunt.
This journal has the promise of becoming a fine local newspaper that people turn to for news and information. Don't let it turn into a blaring mouthpiece for some trust-fund witch hunter like her. You owe the Hungarian guy and his business an apology and maybe a free ad to make up for attacking him.
Re: “Creative Parenting”
great article...Loved it!
Re: “Wine Country Confidential”
Hi Sara - the mine you ask about was originally included in the article, but we removed it from the online version at the request of the current landowner.
Re: “Bedside Bankroll”
California should impose stringent measures to ensure that facilities likeurgent care carlsbad ca can preserve its practice despite of all the non-certified in-home healthcare professionals that are dominating the state.
Re: “Wine Country Confidential”
Finally! Some answers to my curiosity concerning the Fountaingrove building. I have walked my dog in that area often and have always been fascinated by that crazy brick building. At least now I know what it was in its heyday.
Any thoughts on the ramshackle mine out by Guerneville and Armstrong Woods, on Sweetwater Springs Rd?
Re: “The Straight Dope”
Hello Hapless Farmer,
The general characteristics of Sativas and Indicas you referenced are indicative of the complexity of plant profiles with their varying amounts not only of THC and CBD but also of individual terpenes and flavonoids. To correct a long-held assumption, high CBD cannabis does not make one lethargic, nor does it cause red eyes and a stoned effect. On the contrary, many people find it rather stimulating and appropriate for functional daytime usage. Also, high CBD strains have been found among Indicas and Sativas alike. Again, a cannabis plant's overall biological effect is influenced not only by its CBD-to-THC ratio, but also its mix of flavonoids and terpenes, which vary from plant to plant and have individual modulating and/or enhancing effects on phytocannabinoids as well as acting upon the body's cannabinoid receptors.
Re: “The Straight Dope”
Not a bad article, however it is somewhat inaccurate. THC does not cause "couch lock" in users. It is psychoactive, and somewhat psychotropic, and can reach the level of psychedelic in strains with high levels of THC and low levels of CBD, CBN, and other cannabinoids and synergistic chemicals. It is THC that gets one "high" and is useful for depression, lethargy, and other psychological issues, along with anti pathogenic activity . CBD (and constituent components) is what gets one "stoned", with the telltale red eyes, heavy eyelids, and lassitude. It can be narcotic-like. It has been shown to be especially deadly to cancer cells, and is very useful to alleviate pain.
THC is psychotic inducing, CBD is anti psychotic.
CBD is found in high levels in Cannabis Indica strains, which are thought to originate in Afghanistan, northern India, Nepal, and southern China.
High levels of THC with corresponding low levels of CBD are generally found in Cannabis Sativa which comes from more tropical regions such as southern India, Africa, southern Asia, and South America and rarely grows well above 35 degrees latitude.
Virtually all cannabis available was Sativa dominant until the early 90's. Indicas were traditionally used exclusively to make kif, hashish, etc. The classic California cannabis strains were Sativas.
That changed when Canada and Holland loosened restrictions on cannabis. Sativas wouldn't grow well in those northern latitudes as they require a very long growing season, produce wispy, fluffy, loose flowers, can be 15 feet tall, and are challenging to grow well. Indicas are short season plants, are rarely over eight feet, are easy to grow, produce hard, easy to trim flowers in abundance.
Generally speaking, in my experience, the more stony Indicas are preferred by younger people and those who tend to be 'hyper' or wish to simply relax or sleep.
Sativas tend to be preferred by mature users, professionals, especially those who have a long relationship with cannabis. These are not hard rules of course, simply my 40 year experience.
Re: “Grow a Spine!”
There's no text here! Please update archives!
Re: “The Anchor-Outs”
Those who feel the anchor outs add lovely character to Sausalito probably also feel the wretched homeless in San Francisco who poop and pee on the BART escalators add a lovely character to San Francisco.
They would not find them so romantic if they lived next door.
Re: “The Straight Dope”
I very much appreciated the article and view the conspiracy theory advanced by Anon-E as being a reminder that rigidity of perspective is an affliction that affects
not only right wing bigots.
Certainly to tease out any facts on a subject that has until recently been so taboo in the legal/academic institutions of the US is a credit to the author. While I would have appreciated more facts, it is clear that we don't have more facts on this topic because as the authors notes, our government has (and to great extent continues) to suppress such research.
Given the prevalent use of grass not only in our modern cultural-- but also dating back to ancient civilizations-- it is incumbent on our journalistic community to keep us informed as this author has done even if the facts are just beginning to be understood.
Thanks you, Melinda for reporting with depths. wit and eloquence from the frontiers of research on a topic of such immense importance.
David
Re: “Step by Step”
Give me a break, Don't Get Me Started. AA dogma is not flexible as is claimed, and I have been to plenty of AA meetings. In all AA meeting there will a reference to Jesus, and how important it is to pray, aka beg, for some higher power to empower me. If said higher power was so powerful, why wouldn't they keep me from being an alcoholic in the first place, I wonder. And since relapse happens in AA, I have the following question: Does relapse show that a higher power doesn't care? Or does it mean that a higher power doesn't exist? There is absolutely no empirical evidence that AA is any more effective than any other treatment or support. The whole "it works" claim is a bunch of hogwash!
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Re: “We Are Family?”
Sept. 29, 2009 Ted "No Comment" Koehn signed our yearly contract with Costco agreeing to pay us $11 / hour. All $0.25 bonuses per year mysteriously disappeared and everyone with "seniority" went back down to Company Minimum (or damn near it).