Acid-Forming & Alkaline-Forming

Healing & Preventing Cancer Nutritionally (XVIII): Acid-Forming & Alkaline-Forming Foods Table: "Another factor is pH. Acid-forming foods, such as ... [carbohydrates like donuts, beer, candy, ice cream, Pepsi, bread, pastries, etc.], make the blood more acidic. To sustain life, human blood pH must be in the range of 7.3 - 7.45 (Guyton). Outside that range, we're dead. Remember, the lower the number, the more acidity. The more acid the blood is, the less oxygen it contains... There's a major difference in oxygen even within the narrow range of 'normal' blood pH: blood that is pH 7.3 actually has 69.4% less oxygen than 7.45 blood, according to Whang's book, Reverse Aging. On a practical level, this means we should do everything to keep the pH on the high side of the range, as close as possible to 7.45, by eating as many alkaline foods as possible. That would be, you guessed it - live, raw foods, especially green foods."

It has been proven that Cancer needs an acidic environment to grow and also that alkalinity will kill Cancer. Some experts believe that Cancer is a fungus, in fact Dr Otto Warburg proved that Acidity is the root cause of most if not all disease and especially Cancer. He found the cause of Cancer in the 1920s and won the Nobel Prize yet when I asked oncologists if they were familiar with his findings, all to date say they have never heard of him. This begs the question, do they really want to find the cure to Cancer or would they rather continue making billions on drug "cures" that don't work? We could all radically reduce our chances of Cancer and other diseases by avoiding these poisons.

Florida Tax Forum

Florida Tax Forum: "The future of government will be dramatically different from our current model. If the taxpayers unite it will come sooner than later. The sooner we reform our government the sooner our economy will recover. I have almost finished my book; 'Building a Better Local Government.' It is a road map for fixing the problems with our local government and an economic recovery plan. Don't give up. The problems are many but the solutions are within our grasp if we unite as taxpayers.

Join me July 4th at the next Tea Party in Orlando tentatively scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Amway Arena. I will outline a plan to reform local government and give government back to the people.

Matthew Falconer
Orange County Taxpayer Budget Review Board
www.TaxpayerBudgetReviewBoard.org www.LowerTaxesNow.org
matthew@LowerTaxesNow.org"

News Detail

News Detail: "Youth Recommend Improvements in Schools [04/17/2009]

by Judi Jetson

Over the years 2003-2008, the Amy Kohlberg Quinlan Internship Program sponsored by the USF Collaborative for Children, Families and Communities offered teens research-oriented summer internships to study ways to improve the quality of youth development in their communities. As the school year winds to a close, we want to re-cap some of their suggestions for enhancing effective education

• Greater meaningful student involvement in school policy decision-making • More help during and after school, schools should facilitate club participation
• Tutoring for kids by kids
• Smaller classrooms, smaller school size, assign students to small learning communities in order to promote bonding
• Develop curriculum to improves school performance while increasing education about the community and social connectedness
• Integrate programs into the community, promote connectedness, give teens experience and understanding of the adult world, offer mentoring and life skills programs for students in the community
• Provide more opportunities for active learning and service-learning
• Use alternate methods to measure student achievement such as student & teacher satisfaction surveys
• Teachers should display high expectations and be trained in effective communication
• Create a physical setting which has visual appeal, schools should be clean, pleasant décor, manicured landscapes, proper temp control, lighting, seating arrangements.

This program has been suspended due to budget cuts and re-allocation of funds. For copies of past studies and recommendations, visit our website by clicking the url below. Next month we’ll review the interns’ recommendations for out-of-school time.

See more information at: http://www.usfcollab.usf.edu/interns.cfm

The Hero Workshop

The Hero Workshop: "After an obviously rigged election, enormous groups of people are protesting. Each of them is individually risking their safety after the government promised to arrest any protesters. Last night on BBC I saw tens of thousands of people calling the government’s bluff. Much of the organizing seems to be coming via the internet. Bloggers are using Twitter to communicate, frustrating the government’s attempts to close down internet communication. Twitter’s ability to be used in many ways is causing them problems. To add to that, people around the world have been changing their Twitter icons green and more importantly, changing their location and time zone to Tehran in order to frustrate any low end targeted attacks. It’s a pretty amazing event. I would suggest reading BoingBoing or following Shel Israel on Twitter if you want to know more.

Iran shows that small individual acts of heroism can add up to make a huge difference. The students at St. Mary’s in St. Louis understand that as well. The next set of papers will be up tomorrow.

Evolutionary Enlightenment 101 - Andrew Cohen's Blog

Andrew Cohen's Blog
June 15, 2009 Evolutionary Enlightenment 101 Part I: 51% — The Magic Number Do you know what the magic number is in spiritual physics? The Authentic Self is the evolutionary impulse. The Authentic Self is Eros, which we experience at the highest level of our being as the urge to innovate and create that which is new. The Authentic Self is the spiritual impulse, the mysteriously felt urge to evolve at the level of consciousness itself. It’s experienced as a compulsion to become more conscious, more awake—more in touch with life at the deepest level. And it’s the drive toward the new enlightenment—what I call Evolutionary Enlightenment. It’s the drive to become one with the life-process This potential becomes even more powerful and significant when the profound awakening of and to the evolutionary process happens in and through several people at the very same time. It’s the evolution of self, culture, and cosmos through the individual. Now we can change the world from the inside out. When we awaken to the Authentic Self and cross that 51% threshold, we no longer have any choice. In fact, we realize, from now on, that that’s the only reason we’re alive. Consciousness is the timeless, formless ground of everything that is. It is beginningless and endless The highest realization, therefore, was that being in the world was not ultimately different than transcending it. In this new understanding, to transcend the world meant one had seen through the veil of appearances, the most fundamental of which was the appearance of duality In the electric ecstasy and tactile immersion of erotic love, the mind can become transparent, and through that transparency the formless nature of Spirit’s true face can powerfully shine every one of us as individuals, is part of a creative process. And it’s a dynamic process that is going somewhere, that is evolving.

Seminole Heights community garden abounds with benefits - St. Petersburg Times

Seminole Heights community garden abounds with benefits

In Print: Friday, June 12, 2009

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Linda Ketley, left, and Jean Cothron spread mulch at the community gardens as others pitch in or arrive for a rain barrel workshop. Ketley owns the lot.
	[DANIEL WALLACE | Times]

SEMINOLE HEIGHTS — Purple blossoms dot stems, and green peppers dangle.

But no one's eating yet.

The seedlings aren't ripe, and most of these gardeners are just getting started, too.

Dirty-handed and sweaty, residents crouched to the ground as part of a bigger family: Seminole Heights Community Gardens. Group members plant and maintain their own organic fruits and vegetables together. It's a first for the neighborhood.

Coordinator Robin Milcowitz said they planted in April. That's late. Florida gardeners typically plant seedlings in February. The group will harvest by the end of June but expects the yield to be less than gardeners who started earlier.

This is the trial run season.

"We have a lot of folks involved because they don't know what a community garden is," Milcowitz said, "and they want to know what it is."

In Seminole Heights, it means people working toward a bounty of food at least once a week. Workshops are held. Recipes await to be shared and tested. The workers gather in the garden, just past W Violet Street and N Ola Avenue, to produce organic foods more cheaply than buying in stores.

Members pay $35 a year for individual plots or $20 to share a lot with others. The communal membership requires at least 10 hours of work each season in the 110- by 80-foot lot. Neighbors get to know neighbors while exercising and reducing their carbon footprints.

It's a real picture of the green initiatives City Council member Mary Mulhern advocates in meetings. She advised Milcowitz on how to organize the group, whose squash, pineapple, tomatoes, cilantro and eggplant will be ready soon.

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Balty Castillo bikes to the spot every afternoon. He tends his tomatoes and helps others despite recent shoulder surgery.

On a recent Saturday, Ben Takemori pushes a wheelbarrow. He maneuvers through the 56 plots placed in wading pools to secure moisture in the dirt. It's his first Saturday in the garden.

"My garden at home is just trial by error," Takemori said. "I don't know what I'm doing."

Around the neighbors, old sails have been propped up like a tent to lead rain into buckets. Barrels heavy with water line the fence.

Members work Saturdays from 9 a.m. "until it gets hot," Milcowitz says. Her back is smeared with sunscreen. She smiles and admits, "I'm not a gardener."

Piet Vanderhorst brings experience to the group. He works every day in the soil and has organized community gardens in California. He set up the rain-catching system here.

Talk to him about gardening, and the grandfather can't stop grinning. For him, teaching novice gardeners is fun.

"Their smiles get bigger and bigger," Vanderhorst said. "Kids start singing instead of whining and bugging their parents."

The garden may have more benefits. Community gardens make homes of vacant lots and chase out drug dealers, violence and litter, said Bobby Wilson, president of the American Community Gardening Association, based in Ohio.

Gardens transform eyesores and sometimes lives.

Wilson helped minors in trouble with the law in Atlanta get involved with community gardens.

One even demanded to stay so he'd stay out of trouble and people's purses.

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Mulhern's goals to grow a sustainable community helped jump-start garden meetings.

About 100 people showed up in February to a meeting at Sweetwater Organic Community Farm in Town 'N Country. People said they were waiting for something like this. All they needed was a place.

Linda Ketley offered her empty Seminole Heights double lot on the spot. Free.

Ketley, who rehabilitates houses in the area, plans to build a couple of homes in the space, but not for two years. At that point, Milcowitz hopes to move the garden to several bigger lots.

"It does my heart good," Ketley said.

In her own plot, sunflowers and squash surround a painted frog. She bikes to the garden from her home around the corner.

"I'm sort of the hippie generation," Ketley said. "And now it's coming back."

Membership is up to 70. More than 200 connect through the group's e-mails and Web site.

The group survives on membership fees and donations.

If the enthusiasm lasts a year, Milcowitz said she'll go for the title of nonprofit organization.

Like Milcowitz, Vanderhorst sees no reason not to grow food with neighbors.

"The more you sweat, the more you work, the more healthy calories you've got room to put in," Vanderhorst said.

"The longer you'll live and really enjoy life more if your hands are dirty."

Ileana Morales can be reached at (813) 226-3403 or at imorales@sptimes.com.