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VOL 5 NO. 6 FEBRUARY 12 , 2009
HEADLINE NEWS
ON THE FRONT BURNER
OBITUARIES
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DAYS OF YORE - MARTHA AHRENS
HERE AND THERE - POLLY HILL
NEVERSINK NEWS - HULDA VERNOOY
NATURE COLUMN - PEGGY DE WIRE
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February 5, 2009
Dear Secretary Salazar and Secretary Vilsack: The Honorable Ken Salazar Secretary U.S. Department of Interior 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240
The Honorable Tom Vilsack Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20250
Dear Secretary Salazar and Secretary Vilsack: Please accept our heartfelt congratulations on your appointments as Secretary of Interior and Secretary of Agriculture. We look forward to working with you in your new capacities and anticipate positive changes on many fronts at the Departments of Interior and Agriculture. As sponsors and cosponsors of legislation in the 110th Congress that would permanently protect precious acres of land in the United States through wilderness or other similar designations, we appreciate the action you took yesterday in Utah, and we urge you to put a temporary hold on offering any federal oil and gas leases on the areas we're attempting to safeguard. For example, in a last ditch attempt before leaving office to give away precious public land to the oil and gas industry, the Bush administration's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) made millions of acres available for lease sales. Many of those acres were the subject of legislation being considered in Congress that would have put them off limits for energy production and protected them in their natural state for this and all future generations to enjoy. By putting a temporary hold on the leasing of these precious acres, your agencies would have time to review the merits of offering such areas for sale and provide Congress with an opportunity to safeguard that land forever. New federal onshore oil and gas lease sales planned under the Bush administration by the BLM are scheduled to occur in Montana as early as late January 2009 with additional sales scheduled in Wyoming and Colorado for February 2009 and in Utah in March 2009. As you are aware, a lease sale held by the BLM in Utah on December 19, 2008, generated national controversy because of the large number of tracts offered for sale that were located in areas long-proposed for wilderness protection, or in close proximity to National Park units. On January 17, 2009, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C. issued a temporary restraining order blocking BLM from issuing 77 of the most egregious leases offered at the December 19 Utah sale, and stated that the plaintiffs were likely to prevail on the merits of their case. This sale, in fact, typified the controversy surrounding the BLM's oil and gas program during the last eight years. The sales planned for 2009 likewise contain lease tracts that harbor important wilderness, wildlife, cultural and other characteristics that would ordinarily disqualify such lands for conveyance to the oil and gas industry. Your agencies have the opportunity to correct the gross imbalance that has unfortunately come to characterize the BLM's oil and gas development program – a policy that has prioritized the exploitation of federal oil and gas resources over the protection and proper stewardship of all other resources and values of our public lands. In order to prevent the conveyance of more sensitive lands to the oil and gas industry, we strongly urge you to direct the BLM and the Forest Service to defer future lease sales of all public land under their jurisdiction that have been the subject of legislation in the 110th Congress that would designate them as wilderness or another protective status. Doing so will allow your agencies time to further review the suitability of such tracts for leasing and development, while allowing oil and gas activities to continue on the tens of millions of acres of federal lands currently under lease. Given the recent District Court decision to halt the issuance of leases on sensitive lands in Utah , this path offers a prudent way to avoid similar court rulings in the future. It will also provide your agencies the opportunity to take further action to protect sensitive areas from development by using existing administrative authorities to temporarily or permanently withdraw such areas from future leasing. Deferring lease sales in these sensitive areas will also provide Congress with the opportunity to take action to establish permanent protection for such areas. We are convinced that the new administration can have an onshore oil and gas program that both helps meet America 's energy needs, and at the same time protects for future generations those lands that harbor a wealth of environmental, wildlife, and cultural values. We believe that in order to bring the balance needed to achieve both goals, your agencies will need to move very early in 2009 to halt the conveyance of more leases earmarked for sale by the Bush administration on lands proposed for protection. Unless such action takes place very soon, more sensitive lands that should be protected will be dedicated to inappropriate oil and gas development activities. Sincerely, Maurice Hinchey, Carolyn Maloney, and their 73 House Colleagues
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TVCS - "The Class of 1956"
Dear Classmates:
Since our last 40th reunion we have not had another one and I would like to have a 53rd since we didn't get together for our 50th.
The plans are to have a buffet supper Saturday evening at Albert's in Liberty, NY starting at 5 pm for cocktails and get together with a meal at 6 pm.
Payment will be $25-$30 and due that evening.
The date will be July 24th, 2009 and lunch and a visit of the schoon on sundaythe 25th.
Please let me know as soon as possible by sending me a note (224 Schumway Road, Neversink, NY 12765
or calling me at 845-985-2268.
Hope to hear from you.
Fond Regards,
Hulda Brackman (Vernooy)
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LOOKING FOR MEMBERS OF THE TRI-VALLEY CLASS of 1959
Can anyone help me find the following: Myrna Altman, Daniel Bologna, John (Jack) Buswell, Darlene Decker, Jacob Frank, James Krum, Mary Leonard, and Lillian Smith.
Please e-mail me at: minghrim@warwick.net or call me at 845-985-2903 (Mary McGuire Inghrim)
http://www.mywaiora.com/581155
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ARE YOUR KIDS DROWNING IN TOXIC SOUP?
It's like a science fiction movie. They're everywhere. It's in the air, the water, even the food we eat. No one is immune. We're talking about toxins and they are affecting your children. A July 2005 paper released by the environmental working group (www.ewg.org) entitled Body Burden-The Pollution in Newborn s states: “ Not long ago scientists thought that the placenta shielded cord blood and the developing baby from most chemicals and pollutants in the environment. But now we know that at this critical time when organs and vessels, membranes and systems are knotted together from single cells to finish, form in a span of weeks. The umbilical cord carries not only the building blocks of life, but also a steady stream of industrial chemicals and pesticides that cross the placenta as readily as residues from cigarettes and alcohol.”
In a study conducted in part by the Environmental Working Group (EWI), researches at two major laboratories tested the cord blood of 10 babies born in August and September of 2004. Tests revealed over 287 chemicals in the group with an average of 200 per child. Of the 287 chemicals found, 180 were known to cause cancer, 217 were toxic to the brain and nervous system and 208 caused birth defects or abnormal development in animals.
It comes as no surprise to learn that chemical exposure in the womb or during infancy is dramatically more harmful than exposure later in life. According to Dr. Rashid O. Buttar, D.O. of Cornelius, N.C., this is true, in part, because the rapidly developing organs and systems do not yet have the capability to detoxify and excrete industrial chemicals. Moreover, the blood brain barrier of the developing infant allows greater chemical exposure to the brain.
A most alarming part of the EWG study was the finding that mercury was present in every umbilical cord examined. The EWG report found that “Methyl mercury exposure in the womb caused measurable decline in brain function in children.” Mercury is well-documented to be associated with major nervous system and brain disorders including Autism, ALS, Alzheimer's disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
As parents, nothing is more important to us than our children and global toxicity is undeniable. Just when you thought your new home was a safe place in which to raise your children, think again. That lovely new carpet may be out-gassing volatile organic compounds and that great play area you designed for your kids, replete with swing and slide may have been made from wood treated with arsenic. Dr. Lyn Hanshaw, a well-known expert in environmental toxicology, relates one such sad story. It's the sorry of two cute brothers, one six and one eight from Seattle area. One year they were both bright and exceptional students in school. The next, both boys began exhibiting disruptive behavior in class, bullying other children, defying teachers and refusing to complete homework." When I interviewed the parents," Dr. Lyn said, “I asked if he children had been exposed to any heavy metals, and I tried to help the parents reconstruct any events that might have triggered the new disruptive behavior - any new household additions or medications?”
Suddenly the father grew pale and tears streamed down his eyes. “Oh my God,” he said, “I've poisoned my boys.”
What had happened was the father built a “state of the art” play area for the boys made from treated timbers. Around the play area he made an organic garden for the family. The treated beams he had used contained the heavy metal arsenic. The water used to grow the vegetables was contaminated by arsenic run-off. As the boys played around the timbers and ate the poisoned food, their young immune systems were not strong enough to protect them and the result was behavior that mimicked ADD or ADHD. A doctor less educated on the dangers of environmental toxicity might have recommended Ritalin or some other psychotropic drug.
What parent would think that the colorful magic markers they purchased for their children contained Xylene, a toxin that could cause their child to experience headaches, dizziness, confusion and even breathing problems. And how many parents try to create a germ-free kitchen by using antibacterial, germ killing, sterilizing sprays, thereby not only creating a synthetic chemical hazard, but also increasing the potency of the germs themselves and making them less resistant to eradication. Or who would think that the colorful trinket you bought your child for a reward actually contained lead?
A recent story in the Tampa Tribune stated, “One in 3 children could sit still for the 3 hours necessary to administer the chelating agent. And the agent itself pulled out the good minerals along with the toxic metals, thereby creating nutritional deficiencies.
Happily, there may be a solution for parents who want to do something to get the heavy metals out of their kid's and themselves. It is called “Activated Liquid Zeolite” or NCD, which stands for Natural Cellular Defense. This completely natural, negatively charged mineral has a unique cage-like molecular structure that looks somewhat like a honeycomb. These cages trap positive elements, including viruses, bacteria, cancer cells and toxic heavy metals such as mercury, lead and arsenic. These ‘bad guys” are then excreted from the body via the kidneys and bowels. Perhaps the most exciting thing that zeolites do is that they systemically alkalinize the body and it is an accepted scientific fact that viruses, bacteria and cancers cannot live in an alkaline environment.
Zeolites have been on the earth for thousands of years and are derived from a combination of volcanic ash and sea salt. There are many different kinds of zeolites and zeolites are known for their ability to attract toxins into their cages. NCD is made from zeolite cinoptilolite. It has a unique patent that makes it safe and incredibly effective in chelating heavy metals from humans. It is completely safe for all ages from infants to the elderly and remains in the body 4-5 hours where it attracts toxins and ushers them out of the body so that the immune system can enable the body to heal itself. It is not only safe but is also highly recommended for pregnant and lactating women. NCD has been given GRAS (generally regarded as safe) status by the FDA.
NCD also works topically with many users reporting that poison ivy; spider bites, bee stings, viral warts and skin rashes resulting from exposure to polyvinyl chloride (the petrochemical that rafts are made of) heal rapidly after topical application of NCC.
But - Buyer Beware! Not all zeolites are created equal when it comes to human consumption. For example, asbestos is a zeolite that is known to cause cancer. Powered zeolites have been used for many years to clean up toxic wastes, the most memorable being the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Russia where tons of powdered zeolites were used in clean up of the nuclear reactor site. NCE is a liquid. It is tasteless and easy to take. Unlike some other zeolite products that claim to use clinoptilolite, NCD is safe because a unique proprietary process uses intense heat to “clean the cages”. NCD can be absorbed by the body thanks to a patented micronization process.
Judy Robinson, Natural Awakenings Magazine
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