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Quiche Me Once, Quiche Me Twice ...

by Clark Dougherty

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How Safe Is Your Toothpaste?

by James Lemire, M.D.

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Yin & Tonic: Chasing Sunsets and Moonrises

by Melody Murphy

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Conscious Eating: Liquid Nutrition Water Myths and Truths

by Catherine Guthrie

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Household Water Testing and Filtration Options

by Martin Miron

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Wise Words: Loving a Sustainable Life Conversation with Daryl Hannah

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Living Off the Grid

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Water, Water Everywhere ...

But Will There Be Enough?

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The Value of Imprinted Water in Medical Use

by Dr. Paula Koger, RN, MA, DOM

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Transformative Communication

by Kylie Devi

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Immune System Effects on Thyroid Function: I

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World Peace: One Breath, One World

by Jeff Primack

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The October Garden

by Jo Leyte-Vidal, Marion Master Gardener

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anctuary, by Paul David Bond. Paul Bond’s magical realism artworks illuminate a dreamlike world where anything is possible as he deftly juxtaposes and rearranges common elements to convey universal spiritual or metaphysical ideas. Sometimes his paintings are simply uplifting illusions, expressing some facet of the whimsical, surreal and fantastic side of life. Always, they are soothing, visual meditations intended to delight the imagination and energize the soul.

Rearranging familiar objects gives Bond the visual symbols he uses as a language to reflect an emotion or thought he’s entertaining at the moment. “Very often,” he says, “a painting is born from something randomly seen from a car window, or a line in a novel or song. If it stirs my curiosity, it finds its way into my work.”

Of Sanctuary, Bond says, “The woman offers respite to the birds flying in mid-ocean. All of us have some place or person that serves as our personal sanctuary—a lover, child or parent, home, God, or a combination of these. It is a place where we know we are safe to be our true selves without fear of judgment. In that safety, we are free to grow and flower.”

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Here Comes the Sun

A Musical and Spiritual Tribute to George Harrison

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t 8:00 pm on Friday night, October 28, a George Harrison evening will be hosted by the U.F.-based Krishna Lunch in celebration of their 40th anniversary. The live musical event will explore the musical and spiritual journey of George Harrison.

The internationally known Godfrey Townsend band will play a concert of 18 of Harrison’s most beloved songs.

Godfrey Townsend has played with some of the greatest names in rock-androll including John Entwistle, bassist of The Who; Jack Bruce, bassist and vocalist of Cream; Dave Mason, guitar/ vocalist of Traffic; and Alan Parsons.

Joshua Greene, Harrison’s biographer (Here Comes the Sun), will host the event and present a chronology of the spiritual journey of the “Quiet Beatle,” including rare

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photos and videos. Mr. Greene is an instructor at Hofstra University and an Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker.

The “Here Comes the Sun” event will be held at the University Auditorium next to the Plaza of the Americas, where Krishna Lunch will serve hot refreshments for two hours before the concert.

Krishna Lunch began in 1971 when Hare Krishna founder Srila Prabhupada spoke at U.F. and suggested the idea to the local congregation. The same year, George Harrison, a friend and admirer of Srila Prabhupada, released the Krishnachorused “My Sweet Lord.” George said that Srila Prabhupada’s attitude of service inspired him to write many of his nowfamous songs with spiritual themes.

The October 28 event marks the 10th anniversary of George’s passing as well as the 34th of Srila Prabhupada’s.

“All Things Must Pass” indeed, although Krishna Lunch, at 40, is still going strong, serving healthy vegetarian meals to U.F. students and the Gainesville community. The menu is strictly vegetarian. For a $4 donation, diners enjoy an “all you can eat” lunch from 11am-1:30pm at the Plaza of the Americas whenever U.F. is in session. Lunch is also served from 12-4pm on the patio of Krishna House (214 NW 14th St), or by delivery 11-4 through Gatorfood.com.

For more information, visit http:// krishnalunch.com/ and www.godfreytownsendmusic.com or email krishnagator@gmail.com. Tickets for “Here Comes the Sun” are available for $1520 at Krishna Lunch, Krishna House, or the Phillips Center Box Office (352392-2787 Mon.-Sat. 12-6pm).

World Food Day

Millions Against Monsanto October 16, 2011

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ight2Know Rallies are being organized nationwide to peacefully advocate for mandatory labeling on all genetically modified foods. On the heels of the March 26, 2011 demonstration at the White House and in 30 other cities, the October 16 event promises to be even more widespread.

Right2Know Rallies range from a

permitted event with hundreds of people gathering at a state capital, to a few friends throwing together homemade signs, grabbing their clipboards and petitions, and heading with some fliers to the local grocery store to talk to shoppers about genetically engineered foods.

Right2Know Rallies engage, involve, and inform people, adding to the number who know about genetically engineered foods and are willing to voice their support for mandatory labels.

In Ocala, the World Food Day event is happening Sunday, October 16 from 12-6 pm on The Square in downtown Ocala. Visit https://www.facebook. com/event.php?eid=258002870878847

For more info, including resources on organizing a Right2Know Rally, visit www.MillionsAgainstMonsanto.org.

Psychic Faire

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ainesville’s Spiritual Connections Psychic Faire will be held on Saturday, October 15 from 11-5 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4225 NW 34th St., Gainesville.

Aqua-chi, chair massage, aura photography, readings, and healing sessions will be offered. Gift items including jewelry, rocks from around the world, and aromatherapy goods will be on sale. Food booths will be serving a variety of foods including vegetarian fare.

For more info, call 352-332-7153.

Parapsychology Expo The Villages, October 29

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he 6th Annual Parapsychology Expo will be held on Saturday, October 29 from 9am-4pm in The Villages at the Lake Miona Recreation Center, 1526 Buena Vista Blvd. Admission is free.

This year’s event has more than 20 readers including numerology, human design, and more. There are also two vendor rooms featuring holistic healers, books, gemstones, jewelry, candles, tuning forks, gifts, and more. There will also be free lectures throughout the day.

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GlobalBriefs Plastic in the Food Chain Fish Consume Plastic from Human Trash

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he Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as dubbed by scientists, is a region of floating trash in the ocean that is twice the size of Texas. It comprises plastic debris that includes toys, cups, wrappers and bottles that slowly degrade from the sun’s rays and wave action into ever-smaller fragments until fish often mistake them for food. This finding, from a new study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, could have serious implications for the food chain, particularly as PFCs are so prevalent in plastics. Small fragments of plastic could leach toxins into

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the fish, stunt their growth, alter reproduction or even kill them. It is unclear what impact small, plastic-affected fish have upon larger fish that eat them, and ultimately on human fish-eaters.

Scientists examined 141 fish across 27 species and estimated that small fish were eating as much as 24,000 tons of plastic waste each year, mostly tidbits smaller than a fingernail, and that nearly one in 10 fish in the region had plastic in its stomach. Most fish in the study were lantern fish, which dwell at depths of 650 to 3,200 feet during the day, but then swim near the surface at night to feed on plankton, where they often gulp plastic by mistake.

Researcher Charles Moore, head of the environmental monitoring group the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, started measuring the weight of plastic in the water compared to that of plankton. He said, “We found six times more plastic than plankton, and this was just colossal.”

While sea vessels throw their plastics overboard (to the tune of 639,000 plastic containers every day), 80% of the garbage originates from land-based sources. The plastics in the patches consist of items such as water bottles, plastic bags, and fish netting. Moore found that the majority of the plastic in the world’s oceans consists of billions of pounds of raw plastic pellets called nurdles, a byproduct of other plastics manufacturing.

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Quiche Me Once, Quiche Me Twice ...

by Clark Dougherty

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uiches are wonderful for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, or a snack. They exist happily at home, in restaurants, board rooms, and late-night buffets. And their versatility is boundless.

Here are the basics for making fool-proof quiche without kneading crusts, along with two personal favorite quiche creations.

These quiches use a frozen deepdish pastry shell. It is important to note that for successful quiches, you should not follow the pastry shell directions.

Instead, follow the directions below.

It works—this baking method avoids having an underdone, soggy bottom crust, and prevents baking a hard layer of leaked filling underneath the shell.

The first recipe is my version of classic Quiche Lorraine, prepared with ingredients layered in the quiche shell separate from the filling.

The second is a vegetarian’s delight, Spinach and Mushroom Quiche, assembled entirely in the filling, and simply poured into the shell.

Hardware: 4-cup measure, whisk, fork, pizza pan Quiche Pastry Shell Preparation (for all quiches): Let frozen pie shell thaw; preheat oven to 400; do NOT score or prick the unbaked shell. However, DO repair any tears in the shell before baking.

Let it blister and bubble up during baking—it’s OK. Bake directly on the oven middle rack for 8 minutes only, no matter what the package directions indicate. Remove at once and examine baked shell. If cracks or tears have developed in the bottom or sides, place shredded Swiss cheese lightly over the fissures to seal the shell. Let cool for at least half an hour.

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Quiche Base Common ingredients: 3 large eggs 2-3 cups heavy cream 1½ cups shredded Swiss cheese ¾ cup shredded Gruyere cheese Several dashes sea salt and lemon pepper 2 tbsp. unsalted butter, quartered 1 “deep dish” frozen pie shell (see directions, below left)

Quiche Lorraine More ingredients: 2 small shallots + 10 strips bacon + a pat of butter Preparation: While crust is cooling, coarsely chop shallots; sautée with pat of butter until edges brown; remove, drain, pat dry.

Cook bacon to medium done; remove, drain, pat dry, coarsely chop. Preheat oven to 350. Assemble quiche filling by beating eggs in 4-cup measure; add salt and pepper; fill to 2-cup level with heavy cream; whisk thoroughly. Add half of both cheeses to mixture—stir with fork. Add more cream to bring filling to 4-cup level. Combine with fork. Sprinkle some of cheeses on bottom of shell—just a dusting. Pour half of filling into shell. Sprinkle with bacon and shallots, edge to edge. Top with remaining cheeses. Gently pour rest of filling into shell, making certain no filling goes over top of shell sides.

Place on pizza pan, put butter quarters on 4 sides of quiche top. If desired, lightly dust with cinnamon before baking. Bake 40-45 minutes. Once quiche rises, remove from oven and let rest for at least 15 minutes. Serve warm or cold, optionally topped with chopped fresh dill.

Spinach and Mushroom Quiche More ingredients: 1 cup mushrooms (baby bellas) + 9 oz. baby spinach leaves + two pats of butter Preparation: While crust cools, rinse and drain mushrooms, chop into large pieces, sautée with pat of butter, add salt and pepper while cooking; remove, drain, pat dry. Sautée half of spinach with pat of butter until wilted; season with salt and pepper; add remaining half spinach, season again. Once wilted dark, remove, drain, pat dry, chop into inch-long lengths. Preheat oven to 350. Assemble quiche filling by beating eggs in 4-cup measure; fill to 2-cup level with heavy cream; whisk thoroughly. Sprinkle some of the cheeses on bottom of shell—a thin layer. Reserve ¼ cup of cheeses for later. Add remaining cheeses to filling mixture; use fork to combine.

Add mushroom pieces and spinach; stir with fork. Add enough cream to bring filling to 4-cup level. Pour filling into shell, making certain no filling goes over top of shell sides.

Distribute reserved cheeses on top of quiche. Place on pizza pan, put butter quarters on 4 sides of quiche top. Bake 40-45 minutes. Once quiche rises, remove from oven; let rest for at least 15 minutes. Serve warm or cold, optionally topped with chopped fresh tarragon.

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How Safe Is Your Toothpaste?

by Dr. James Lemire, M.D.

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ccording to the handbook Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products, fluoride is more poisonous than lead and just slightly less poisonous than arsenic. It is a cumulative poison that builds up in bone tissue over the years. According to the Physicians Desk Reference, “in hypersensitive individuals, fluorides occasionally cause skin eruptions such as atopic dermatitis, eczema, or urticaria.

Gastric distress, headache, and weakness have also been reported. These hypersensitive reactions usually disappear promptly after discontinuation of the fluoride.”

From 1990 to 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published three separate articles linking increased hip fracture rates to fluoride in the water. In the March 22, 1990 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Mayo Clinic researchers reported that fluoride treatment of osteoporosis increased hip fracture rate and bone fragility.

97% of western Europe has chosen fluoride-free water. This includes Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, and Switzerland. (While some European countries add fluoride to salt, the majority do not.) Thus, rather than mandating fluoride treatment for the whole population, western Europe allows individuals the right to choose, or refuse, fluoride.

Contrary to previous belief, fluoride has minimal benefit when swallowed. When water fluoridation began in the 1940s and ’50s, dentists believed that fluoride needed to be swallowed in order to be most effective. This belief,

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however, has now been discredited by an extensive body of modern research (1). According to the Centers for Disease Control, fluoride’s “predominant effect is posteruptive and topical” (2).

In other words, any benefits that accrue from the use of fluoride come from the direct application of fluoride to the outside of teeth (after they have erupted into the mouth) and not from ingestion.

Adverse effects from fluoride ingestion have been associated with doses attainable by people living in fluoridated areas. For example:  Risk to the brain. According to the National Research Council (NRC), fluoride can damage the brain. Animal studies conducted in the 1990s by EPA scientists found dementia-like effects at the same concentration (1 ppm) used to fluoridate water, while human studies have found adverse effects on IQ at levels as low as 0.9 ppm among children with nutrient deficiencies, and 1.8 ppm among children with adequate nutrient intake (3-6). Risk to the thyroid gland. According to the NRC, fluoride is an “endocrine disrupter.” Most notably, the NRC has warned that doses of fluoride (0.01-0.03 mg/kg/day), achievable simply by drinking fluoridated water, may reduce the function of the thyroid among individuals with low-iodine intake. Reduction of thyroid activity can lead to loss of mental acuity, depression and weight gain (7).  Risk to bones. According to the NRC, fluoride can diminish bone strength and increase the risk for bone fracture. While the NRC was unable to determine what level of fluoride is safe for bones, it noted that the best available information suggests that fracture

risk may be increased at levels as low 1.5 ppm, which is only slightly higher than the concentration (0.7-1.2 ppm) added to water for fluoridation (8). Risk for bone cancer. Animal and human studies—including a recent study from a team of Harvard scientists—have found a connection between fluoride and a serious form of bone cancer (osteosarcoma) in males younger than 20. The connection between fluoride and osteosarcoma has been described by the National Toxicology Program as “biologically plausible.” Up to half of adolescents who develop osteosarcoma die within a few years of diagnosis (9-12).  Risk to kidney patients. People with kidney disease have a heightened susceptibility to fluoride toxicity. The heightened risk stems from an impaired ability to excrete fluoride from the body.

As a result, toxic levels of fluoride can accumulate in the bones, intensify the toxicity of aluminum build-up, and cause or exacerbate a painful bone disease known as renal osteodystrophy (13-15).

Here is an informative video on “The Fluoride Deception” and its link to the phosphate mining industry. http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=426 52E035A1B1BAAAE1F340B54694975.

For additional articles, visit http://www. naturalnews.com/fluoride.html.

For further information visit www. lemireclinic.com or call 352-291-9459.

References: 1. Featherstone JDB (2000). The Science and Practice of Caries Prevention.

Journal of the American Dental Association. 131: 887-899. (Additional references available at: www.fluoridealert.org/ health/teeth/caries/topical-systemic.html) 2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2001). Recommendations for Using Fluoride to Prevent and Control Dental Caries in the United States.

Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Review.

(MMWR). August 17. 50(RR14):1-42.

3. National Research Council (2006). Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards.

National Academies Press, Washington, DC. p.173-188.

4. Varner JA, et al (1998). Chronic

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Administration of Aluminum-Fluoride and Sodium-Fluoride to Rats in Drinking Water: Alterations in Neuronal and Cerebrovascular Integrity. Brain Research. 784: 284-298.

5. Lin Fa-Fu, et al (1991). The relationship of a low-iodine and highfluoride environment to subclinical cretinism in Xinjiang. Iodine Deficiency Disorder Newsletter. Vol. 7. No. 3.

6. Xiang Q, et al (2003a). Effect of fluoride in drinking water on children’s intelligence. Fluoride 36: 84-94; 198-199.

7. NRC (2006). p. 189-224.

8. NRC (2006). p. 107-148.

9. National Toxicology Program (1990). Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Sodium Fluoride in F344/N Rats and B6C3f1 Mice. Technical report Series No. 393. NIH Publ. No 91-2848. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C.

10. Hoover RN, et al (1991). Time trends for bone and joint cancers and osteosarcomas in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program.

National Cancer Institute In: Review of Fluoride: Benefits and Risks. US Public Health Service. Appendix E & F.

11. Cohn PD (1992). A Brief Report On The Association Of Drinking Water Fluoridation And The Incidence of Osteosarcoma Among Young Males.

New Jersey Department of Health and Environmental Health Service: 1- 17.

12. Bassin EB, Wypij D, Davis RB, Mittleman MA (2006). Age-specific Fluoride Exposure in Drinking Water and Osteosarcoma (United States).

Cancer Causes and Control 17: 421-8.

13. Johnson W, et al (1979). Fluoridation and bone disease in renal patients. In: E Johansen, DR Taves, TO Olsen, Eds. Continuing Evaluation of the Use of Fluorides. AAAS Selected Symposium. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. pp.275-293.

14. Ittel TH, et al (1992). Effect of fluoride on aluminum-induced bone disease in rats with renal failure, Kidney International 41: 1340-1348.

15. Ayoob S, Gupta AK (2006).

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Chasing Sunsets & Moonrises

“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”

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ne evening a few weeks ago, I was at my desk writing when I noticed a pink glow in the room. I turned and looked out the westward window and saw, through the treetops, one of the most gorgeous sunsets I’d ever seen.

Trying to describe it doesn’t do it justice.

It was magnificent. The heavens had become a fire opal: brilliant pink and glowing gold, wisps of smoky lavender and the iris blue of the heart of a flame, lit with radiant apricot and plum and touches of eerie green. The rest of the sky was the color of buttermilk. The light was rosy and the setting sun was fiery orange tinged with scarlet. All this glory shone through the lacy black silhouette of the trees to the west.

It was tantalizing. I could see the colors, but only part of the greater picture. I jumped up, grabbed my car keys and my camera, and took off in pursuit of glory. Literally rode off into the sunset.

It was a race against time. I headed west as quickly as I could without breaking too many traffic laws.

I could see more of the sunset, but

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still only glimpses of the full vision through all the trees and buildings.

It was maddening. I never regret the existence of trees until they impede my view of a sunset or a full moon, but this time I found myself cursing live oaks and wishing for wide open spaces. I wanted nothing but fields for

miles, nothing between me and the sunset.

I wish I could say I finally found that perfect spot to sit and drink in the view. But sunsets fade quickly, and by the time I finally got far enough west that I was out of town proper and among greener pastures, the colors were fading into smoky purple and twilight. The few pictures I took didn’t capture by even half the glory that had lit up the heavens.

I turned the car around and went home. I had driven seven miles to try to catch the sunset, and only got

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A few nights after the peak of the harvest moon, when it was still round enough to appear full, I read on Facebook that the moon looked “scary.” By other accounts it was “weird” and “cool.” There had been brush fires to the north of us that day, so I assumed the smoky haze in the atmosphere was contributing to the effect and turning the moon red or orange or gold.

I like a weird cool scary moon. Especially a full one in autumnal colors. So I went outside to check out the scary cool weirdness. The moon wasn’t high enough in the sky yet for me to see it over the trees around my house, but again I could catch only a tantalizing glimpse, this time to the east. Once again through the lacy silhouette of live oaks hung with ancient moss, I could see the lurid shimmer of a smoky scarlet moon tinged with eerie gold. It looked like a luminous pumpkin floating in the blackness, spectral and harvest-hued.

Once again, I had to get a better look. I ran inside, grabbed my car keys and my camera, and took off in pursuit yet again, this time headed east and chasing the moonrise.

Once again, it took forever to get past all the buildings and trees of town

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to find a space open enough to get a good look. This time part of the issue was finding a spot dark enough to stop and take a picture. I’d never really noticed it before, but clearly modern man is still afraid of the dark. The light pollution even on the edge of town is astounding.

I finally found a spot both open and dark enough to stop briefly and take a few pictures. But on this occasion, the problem wasn’t getting there in time, but the abilities of my camera. It’s a nice camera. It does good work. But capturing a good picture of the moon is not one of its talents. I couldn’t get a shot close or clear enough, so what I kept ending up with was blackness with a tiny, blurry, insignificant orange orb in the middle of it.

It was, yet again, maddening. I turned the car around and went home, once again thwarted by time and space and the limitations of what I had to work with.

And that’s life: glimpses of glory through the frustrating obstructions that surround us on all sides. Life is full of fleeting beauty. We try to capture it in spite of its transitory nature, confounding ourselves in the attempt instead of accepting the impermanence of the moment and enjoying what loveliness there is before it fades.

But should we give up trying to capture it? Never. Though elusive as a butterfly, life’s beauty is worth our attempts to capture the essence of it, both for the enjoyment of others as well as ourselves. Memories are said to exist that we might have roses in winter. Even if we can’t manage to take that perfect picture with our camera, or paint it satisfactorily on canvas or with words, just the effort is worth it, and good for the soul. It can still be a perfect snapshot in our memories if we take the time to savor the moment and really drink it in. Taking the time to memorize a gorgeous sunset or an ethereal moonrise enriches our memory bank with more of life’s best moments.

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then we use our limited capabilities to try to express those fleeting moments of clarity and perception. Our words and pictures can’t fully express the deeper things we sense, but should we shouldn’t try? No. We keep striving to express our feelings and share our experiences. That’s human nature.

We spend our lives chasing wondrous things, only to get there a little too late or to discover that circumstances or our own limitations prevent us from capturing or fully experiencing them. But does that mean we shouldn’t chase life’s wonders? No. As long as there is beauty and wonder and glory in the world, humans will, I hope, pursue it. That means we still possess hope.

We all harbor a hope that one day, at the perfect time, we will find the perfect place to experience a perfect moment of whatever beauty, wonder, and glory we are chasing. That is why we chase sunsets and moonrises. If the view isn’t good enough from where we sit, we go after it. We spend life searching for heaven, on earth and after the sun sets on it. That’s hope.

That’s life. That’s the reach if not the grasp.

As I was hurtling westward that evening, I found myself wondering if it would be possible to truly ride off into a sunset, and what it would be like.

I think it would be magnificent. One day, a very long time from now, I hope to be able to literally disappear into a sunset. I think that would be a very cool exit.

I had a beloved friend—a true artist, a theatre legend, and a magnificent creation herself—who died not long after the sunset and the moonrise. I hope that’s what her exit felt like. Many of us were telling stories and sharing memories of her the day after she died, and several people said they imagined her helping from heaven to design the lighting and color palettes of the next few sunsets. And you had darn well better appreciate all the colors in it. It was good to imagine and laugh, even though our hearts hurt.

Grief is not in the color palette of Always, but it is the costume you put on for a time until the scene changes.

Night fades, the moon sets, the lights of sunrise come up again. Life, and the show, must go on. Remembering together, we reached for what was beyond our grasp, and hoped, and were thankful for our glorious memories of the beauty she had given us and the wonder that she had been.

The heavens are for hope and glory, beauty and wonder, sunrises and sunsets, memories and moonrises.

The heavens are for the reach beyond man’s grasp. The heavens are for chasing.

Melody Murphy will chase and photograph sunsets and moonrises as long as she is able. And she will always try to find the beauty in every color in them, and not find fault with the lighting design. She can be reached at yinandtonic12@yahoo.com.

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LIQUID NUTRITION Water Myths and Truths

by Catherine Guthrie

Water is good for both body and soul, but you don’t need to drink as much as you might think. Here’s the truth about what’s sufficient, plus five other myths about water.

MYTH: Caffeinated beverages zap the body’s water reserves.

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or the past 50 years, nutritionists and other health experts have been exhorting Americans to drink more water. If the ubiquity of water bottles is anything to go by, the message has been received loud and clear. But now, updated research lets us off the hook. It turns out that much of the water craze springs from a deep well of misinformation. Our experts debunk some of the most popular water myths.

MYTH: You need eight, eight-ounce glasses of water a day to be healthy.

TRUTH: The familiar eight-by-eight rule is likely based on misinterpretation, rather than scientific certainty, says Dr. Heinz Valtin, a kidney specialist, textbook author and retired professor at Dartmouth Medical School, in Hanover, New Hampshire. Valtin traces the prescription to a 1945 recommendation by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council to take in, “1 milliliter per calorie of food.”

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In a study published in the American Journal of Physiology in 2002, Valtin explains that most of that allotment already comes from the foods we eat. He not only discredits the need for most people to consume this “mythical” amount of water every day, but writes that the recommendation is potentially harmful, by making people feel guilty for not drinking enough.

“The consumer ended up thinking only plain water counts,” says Ann Grandjean, Ph.D., a hydration researcher and medical nutritionist with the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha. But almost all liquids—including tea, coffee and beer—count toward the daily water intake, she says.

So, how much should you be drinking? Researchers at the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, after reviewing more than 400 studies, including Valtin’s, set the general daily intake for women and men at about 91 and 125 ounces, respectively. The average American receives 20 percent of this daily water intake from food. The remaining 80 percent comes from all beverages—not just water.

TRUTH: Grandjean first became interested in the reputed link between dehydration and caffeine while working as a consultant to the United States Olympic Committee.

“I worked with elite athletes, and I noticed they drank a lot of caffeinated beverages without showing any sign of dehydration,” she says. In 2000, she published a study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition showing that the body doesn’t discriminate between regular and decaf beverages when it comes to hydration.

MYTH: If you’re thirsty, you’re already dehydrated.

TRUTH: While thirst is an accurate barometer of when to imbibe, the notion that thirst signals a dehydrated body is not true, says Valtin. Thirst is triggered when the blood’s concentration of solid particles rises by 2 percent. Dehydration occurs when the blood concentration rises by 5 percent. So, thirst sets in before dehydration and people who shrug off their thirst can find themselves on the path to dehydration.

“Thirst is the first indicator of the body’s need for water,” cautions Dee Sandquist, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. Signs to watch out for include headache, dry mouth, rapid pulse and lightheadedness.

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MYTH: Urine should be clear.

TRUTH: Perpetually clear urine can actually be a sign of drinking too much water, which can dilute the body’s electrolytes, according to Grandjean. “Healthy urine should have some color,” she counsels. Certain vitamins, such as riboflavin (B2), can darken urine.

MYTH: Drinking a lot of water suppresses the appetite.

TRUTH: While being adequately hydrated helps the metabolism run at its optimal level, drinking vast quantities of water won’t affect the overall amount of food you eat. Because water quickly empties from the stomach, drinking water has little effect on appetite, says Barbara Rolls, director of the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior, at Pennsylvania State University. Eating foods that have a high water content, such as fruits, vegetables, soups and grains, can help us to feel sated.

MYTH: Bottled water is always better than tap water.

TRUTH: False. Be aware that bottled water is often just tap water. A Natural Resources Defense Council report cites government and industry findings that 25 percent of bottled water is plain tap water; sometimes treated, sometimes not, but never as regulated as tap water. NSF International certification indicates brands that meet federal safety standards.

Catherine Guthrie is an award-winning health and lifestyles journalist in Bloomington, IN. Connect at CatherineGuthrie.com.

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Household Water Watch

Testing and Filtration Options

by Martin Miron

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he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets legal limits on contaminants, including chemicals, animal wastes, pesticides and human wastes, in drinking water nationwide. But tests by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have found that many communities skirt the line of what’s safe. In 2003, NRDC found that several of the U.S. cities they studied delivered tap water that was sufficiently contaminated to pose potential health risks to some consumers; outdated pipes and weak regulations were cited as major factors.

New contaminants are entering water systems all the time, including traces of pharmaceuticals that have never been tested or regulated. The Water Quality Association (WQA) works with the EPA and universities to catalog the new offenders. WQA Executive Director Peter Censky says, “In 10 or 15 years, everyone is going to need filtration devices.” Until then, individuals will want to regularly stay abreast of the status of their tap water.

Start by finding out if local municipal water is filtered. Unfiltered water has a higher risk of containing harmful particles or contaminants. Also, utility lines may contain old plumbing materials, so it is important to check for lead and copper. Home testing kits for metals such as lead are available at most hardware stores, while the types to use for a broader range of biological and chemical contaminants are identified online at Amazon (tinyurl. com/3daw5mg).

For public water systems serving more than 100,000 people, information can be found on the EPA website at tinyurl.com/3jbgsxh. Otherwise, contact your local water company directly for an online or printed copy of its Consumer Confidence Report.

Well water should be regularly tested every year or two, especially for farming and rural residents, to check for E. coli and nitrates common in runoff. Local county health departments or university extension offices can direct homeowners to testing labs.

Home filtration systems can range from point-of-use, often attached to a kitchen faucet and icemaker or under the sink for drinking and cooking purposes, to a whole house system. Even a carbon-filtering water pitcher in the refrigerator can be a cost-effective way to ensure water quality, although it only filters a small amount of water at a time.

Find more information at nsf.org/consumer/drinking_water.

Martin Miron is a freelance writer in Naples, FL.

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WiseWords

Loving a Sustainable Life Heartfelt Perspective from Actress and Activist Daryl Hannah

Which other issues are important to you?

by S. Alison Chabonais

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est known for her roles in such popular films as Splash, Blade Runner and Kill Bill, actress Daryl Hannah is now busy shedding light on environmental issues and working hard to help improve the way people treat our planet.

“It’s just common sense to care about the environment,” she says.

“I’ve always understood and valued the interdependence of all life, the idea that whatever we do to the web of life, we do to ourselves.”

Dwelling in a small community in the Rocky Mountains, Daryl attends to her ethical-lifestyle website and serves as a positive role model for living a simple, natural and healthy life.

How did you go about designing and building an ecologically sustainable home?

My home is a small, recycled barn

that was about to be torn down to build a new post office. I salvaged the old barn and carefully had it relocated and bermed into the side of a hill, which faces southwest for optimal passive solar exposure. The sun passes high in the summer for shade and low across the sky in winter to warm the house.

The south wall of the house is like a greenhouse, where spring water flows through and provides humidity in the dry, high-altitude air. We used stones gathered from the site for the fireplaces, bathroom and stairs. I’ve also used

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even biofuels can be produced destructively. I co-founded the U.S. Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance to help people differentiate sustainable biodiesel from other, “bad news,” biofuels.

In addition, I now own the TransAm car featured in the Kill Bill movie series. The car has been converted to run on 100 percent alcohol fuel, which can also be made from waste.

a number of mosscovered stones in a “living” couch. I grow food in a garden that is wildly productive when cared for.

“Off the grid” is a new term for some people. How do you define it?

Off the grid literally means that an individual creates their own power and has access to rain, well, spring or ground water. I believe in being as self-sufficient as possible. Both passive and active solar energy provides my power and I’m very lucky to have a productive spring for water.

What have been the most rewarding, as well as the most challenging, aspects of achieving your current Earth-friendly lifestyle?

More and more these days, I admire and crave simplification. While filming the video blog for my website, dhLoveLife.com, I have found it incredibly interesting to learn how many gifts traditional knowledge holds and to discover amazing new innovations.

The more I learn, the more I try to adapt to and adopt a simpler lifestyle.

Why do you drive a biodiesel car?

I like opting out of the petroleum economy as much as possible, and I love that I can drive on non-toxic waste.

Biofuels can be an important part of the solution to the energy crisis we face, but

In these times of environmental and economic crises, there are many things that call for our attention: I’m very concerned that global population has grown from about 3 billion people when I was born to nearly 7 billion now; we are also witnessing mass extinction of species worldwide; there are more enslaved human beings today than at any other time in human history. It can be overwhelming, but I try to do what I can and when I can, whenever I’m moved.

Who typically visits your website, and how do others use it to make their lives better?

I started dhLoveLife.com when I decided it was time to try to live by my beliefs—it’s an ongoing process. The site curates information on truly sustainable solutions, based on my discovery that reliable information and resources for efficient and functional goods and services were not readily available.

There was a bit of trial and error in my own learning process, so I wanted to share what has worked for me. With today’s glut of green marketing, we may have lots of “green” options available, but now there’s a lot of greenwashing and the whole arena can be challenging to understand.

People from all walks of life seem to be interested in commonsense solutions. So, whenever I learn something fascinating and helpful and catch myself saying, “Wow, I wish someone had told me that before,” I like to share it with others.

S. Alison Chabonais is an editor of Natural Awakenings.

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LESSONS LEARNED BY LIVING OFF THE GRID

by Priscilla Short

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hen I take stock of my life these days—married, with one child and another on the way, living in a conventional house in Colorado—it seems improbable that I spent a year living alone in an offthe-grid, self-sustaining desert house in New Mexico. It was a time of solitude, characterized by cold winter nights, power outages and water rationing, during which I championed manual labor and practiced self-reliance.

Back in the mainstream today, I too often find myself compromising my conservation habits for convenience. Yet, I’ve been able to happily apply some off-grid lessons for a more conventional, yet still eco-friendly, life.

n Eat your leftovers. It doesn’t matter whether they come from a restaurant or your own kitchen: If you fully consume every piece of food you buy, you will buy less food overall and consume fewer of the planet’s resources. n Drink only tap water, filtered onsite. If you stop drinking soda, juice, bottled water, milk, coffee, tea, alcohol and energy drinks, you will consume fewer calories, avoid potentially addictive habits, spend less money, and conserve resources. You will also avoid clogging landfills with plastic and glass containers. n Keep the lights off as long as pos-

sible, saving both energy and money.

At sunset, go outside and turn on all of your senses. Let your eyes adjust to the fading light as a new world unfolds.

Listen to the birds settling down for the night as the insect chorus begins and inhale the fresh evening air, feeling its delicious coolness on your skin. By eliminating an artificial evening environment lit with electric bulbs, you are better able to tune in to the natural world that has been present all along. n Turn off the TV and anything else involving a screen and advertisements. Your purchases will cease to be influenced by the ads—as will the pressure to live beyond your means—and instead be motivated more by simple need. When you spend less, you use less of everything.

Priscilla Short is the author of Thrifty Green, journaling on how to ease up on energy, food, water, trash, transit and other stuff. Find more at ThriftyGreenBook.blogspot.com.

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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE… But Will There Be Enough?

by Sandra Postel

For at least three decades, Americans have talked about our uncertain energy future, but we’ve mostly ignored another worrisome crisis—water.

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heap and seemingly abundant, water is so common that it’s hard to believe we could ever run out of it. Ever since the Apollo 8 astronauts photographed Earth from space in 1968, we’ve had the image of our home as a strikingly blue planet, a place of great water wealth. But of all the water on Earth, only about 2.5 percent is fresh—and two-thirds of that is locked up in glaciers and ice caps.

Less than one hundredth of 1 percent of Earth’s water is fresh and available.

Across the United States and around the world, we’re already reaching or overshooting the limits of Earth’s natural replenishment of fresh water through the hydrologic cycle. The Colorado and Rio Grande rivers are now so over-tapped that they discharge little or no water into the sea for months at a time. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the massive Ogallala Aquifer, which spans parts of eight states, from southern South Dakota to northwest Texas, and provides 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the country, is steadily being depleted. In much of the world, we’re growing food and supplying water to

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communities by over-pumping groundwater. This creates a potential crisis in the food economy: We are meeting some of today’s food needs with tomorrow’s water.

The Changing Climate

Due to climate change, we may no longer be able to count on familiar patterns of rain and snow and river flow to refill our urban reservoirs, irrigate our farms, and power our dams.

While farmers in the Midwest were recovering from the spring flood of 2008 (in some areas, the second “100-year flood” in 15 years), farmers in California and Texas allowed cropland to lie fallow and sent cattle to early slaughter to cope with the drought of 2009.

In the Southeast, after 20 months of dryness, Georgia’s then-Governor, Sonny Perdue, stood outside the state capitol in November 2007 and led a prayer for rain. Two years later, he was pleading instead for federal aid, after intense rainfall near Atlanta caused massive flooding that claimed eight lives. This year again saw record regional precipitation, this time produc-

ing epic flooding in the Mississippi and Missouri river basins.

Climate scientists warn of more extreme droughts and floods and changing precipitation patterns that will continue to make weather, storms and natural disasters more severe and less predictable.

As a policy forum in the journal Science notes, the historical data and statistical tools used to plan billions of dollars worth of annual global investment in dams, flood control structures, diversion projects and other big pieces of water infrastructure are no longer reliable. Yet today’s decisions about using, allocating and managing water will determine the survival of most of the planet’s species, including our own.

Shifting Course

For most of modern history, water management has focused on bringing water under human control and transferring it to expanding cities, industries and farms via dams, large water-transfer projects and wells that tap underground aquifers. Major water programs have allowed cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas to thrive in the desert, the expansion of world food production, and rising living standards for hundreds of millions. But globally, they have worsened social inequities as tens of millions of poor people are dislocated from their homes to make way for dams and canals, while hundreds of millions in downstream communities lose the currents that sustain their livelihoods.

Such approaches also ignore water’s limits and the value of healthy ecosystems. Today, many rivers flow like plumbing works, turned on and off like water from a faucet. It’s tougher for fish, mussels, river birds and other aquatic life to survive; a 2008 assessment led by the USGS found that 40 percent of all fish species in North

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residents will benefit from increased America are at risk The United States withdraws watersheds and wetlands.

Through flood protection and reduced flood inof extinction. more fresh water per capita better technolosurance rates, plus new parks and trails Meanwhile, than any other country, much gies and informed for recreation, higher tourism revenues many leaders and of which we could save. The choices, they seek and improved habitats for fish and localities are callvast majority of demand does to raise water prowildlife. ing for even bigger versions of past not require drinkable water. ductivity and make Communities prone to excesevery drop count. sive storm water runoff can turn existwater manage Communities ing structures into water catchments.

Source: Pacific Institute ment strategies. By are finding that Portland, Oregon, is investing in “green some estimates, the protecting waterroofs” and “green streets” to prevent volume of water resheds is an effective way to make sure sewers from overflowing into the Willocated through river transfer schemes water supplies are clean and reliable; lamette River. Chicago now boasts more could more than double globally by than 200 green roofs—including atop plus, they can do the work of a water 2020. But mega-projects are risky in City Hall—that collectively cover 2.5 treatment plant in filtering out polluta warming world, where rainfall and million square feet, more than any other ants at a lower cost. New York City is river flow patterns are changing in unU.S. city. The vegetated roofs are providinvesting $1.5 billion to restore and certain ways and require costly power ing space for urban gardens and helping for pumping, moving, treating and protect the Catskill-Delaware Waterto catch storm water and cool the urban distributing at each stage. shed, which supplies 90 percent of its environment. Parking lots, too, can be

Some planners and policymakers drinking water, in lieu of constructing harnessed. are eyeing desalination as a silver bullet a $10 billion filtration plant that would

Many communities are revitalsolution to potential water shortages. cost an additional $300 million a year But they miss—or dismiss—the perto operate. Research published in Natu- izing their rivers by tearing down dams that are no longer verse irony: by burning more fossil fuels ral Resources Forum Water managers in 36 states safe or serving a and by making local water supplies further shows that expect shortages by 2013. useful purpose, more and more dependent on increasa number of other thus opening ingly expensive energy, desalination U.S. cities—from Source: The Wall Street Journal up habitats for creates more problems than it solves. tiny Auburn, Maine, fisheries, restoring Producing one cubic meter of drinkable to Seattle—have healthier water flows and improving water from salt water requires about saved hundreds of millions of dollars in aquatic quality. In the 10 years since two kilowatt-hours of electricity, using capital and operating costs of filtration the Edwards Dam was removed from present technology. plants by instead opting for watershed the Kennebec River, near Augusta, protection.

Maine, populations of alewives and

Communities facing increased Water for People and Nature striped bass have returned in astoundflood threats are achieving cost-effec Thus, a vanguard of citizens, coming numbers, reviving a recreational tive protection by restoring rivers.

After munities, farmers and corporations are fishery that adds $65 million annually enduring 19 floods between 1961 and thinking about water in a new way. to the local economy.

1997, Napa, California, opted for this They’re asking what we really need the approach over the conventional route water for, and whether we can meet Watershed Moments of channeling and building levees. In that need with less. The result of this

Conservation remains the least partnership with the U.S. Army Corps shift in thinking is a new movement expensive and most environmentally of Engineers, a $366 million project in water management that focuses on sound way of balancing water budgets. is reconnecting the Napa River with ingenuity and ecological intelligence From Boston to San Antonio to Los its historic floodplain, moving homes instead of big pumps, pipelines, dams Angeles, water consumption has deand businesses out of harm’s way, and canals. These solutions tend to creased via relatively simple measures revitalizing wetlands and marshlands work with nature, rather than against like repairing leaks in distribution sysand constructing levees and bypass it, making effective use of the “ecotems; retrofitting homes and businesses channels in strategic locations.

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with water-efficient fixtures and appliances; and promoting more sensible and efficient outdoor water use.

But the potential for conservation has barely been tapped. It is especially crucial in agriculture, because irrigation accounts for 70 percent of water use worldwide, and even more in the western United States. Getting more crop per drop is central to meeting future food needs sustainably. California farmers are turning to drip irrigation, which delivers water at low volumes directly to the roots of crops. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture figures, between 2003 and 2008, California’s drip and micro-sprinkler area expanded by 630,000 acres, to a total of 2.3 million acres—62 percent of the nation’s total drip irrigation.

Community-based education and rebates to encourage water-thrifty landscapes can help. Las Vegas, for example, pays residents up to $1.50 for each square foot of grass they rip out, which has helped shrink the city’s turf area by 125 million square feet and lower its annual water use by 7 billion gallons.

The water crisis requires us to pay attention to how we value and use water. Across the country, it’s essential that communities work to take care of the ecosystems that supply and cleanse water, to live within their water means, and to share water equitably.

Sandra Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project, a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and a Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society. She adapted this article from her chapter “Water: Adapting to a New Normal” in The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, edited

by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, and a piece published in Yes! (YesMagazine.org). Visit GlobalWaterPolicy.org and NationalGeographic.com/freshwater.

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Ways to Lighten Your “Water Footprint” Eat less meat. A study published in Agricultural Water Management shows that if all U.S. residents reduced their consumption of animal products by half, the nation’s total dietary water requirement in 2025 would drop by 261 billion cubic meters per year, a savings equal to 14 times the annual flow of the Colorado River.

Water Factoids Humans need five to 13 gallons of clean water a day for basic needs.

Source: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Indoor direct water use for the average American is 69.3 gallons a day. That’s equal to the combined daily use of one person each in China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Paraguay, Afghanistan and Somalia.

Primary Source: Residential End Uses of Water, by Peter Mayer

Ditch bottled water. Per the U.S. Government Accountability Office, putting water in plastic bottles and shipping it just 125 miles uses 1,100 times more energy than producing tap water. The Pacific Institute calculates that it takes three liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water.

Direct water use for a family of four in the United States is 400 gallons a day. Thirty percent of that is for outdoor use alone, or 30 gallons per person, the same amount a person uses for all daily needs in Algeria.

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Sense program

Create eco-friendly landscapes. Statistics published in Environmental Management confirm that turf grass currently covers some 40.5 million acres in the United States—triple the space taken up by any single U.S. irrigated farm crop. Converting thirsty lawns into native, droughttolerant landscaping significantly drops household water use.

A 1-percent increase in organic matter allows soil to hold 16,000 more gallons of water per acre.

Source: National Sustainable Agriculture Project

Be water-wise at home. Visit the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s online WaterSense page at tinyurl.com/3wqbz2p to learn simple ways to save water, energy and money.

Desalination plants produce less than 0.5 percent of the water used in the world.

Source: National Geographic

Calculate personal water use at National Geographic’s tinyurl. com/274jo6v or H2OConserve.org.

One billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water.

Source: World Health Organization

Water promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century: the precious commodity that determines the wealth of nations.Source: Fortune Magazine

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The Value of Imprinted Water

by Dr. Paula Koger,, RN, MA, DOM

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s a child, I nearly died from a penicillin injection. I have spent the rest of my life looking for ways to get well without taking things that harmed my overall body as it treated one part or condition.

Due to my own resistance to get the message that The System did not work for me, I became a nurse. I saw the devastating responses to treatments as doctors struggled to save lives.

Next, I turned to studying the mind and became a counselor, on the theory that it was all in the mind. I found a lot of it is in the mind. However, that training, Acupuncture training, and a PH.D. in Alternative Medicine still did not fully address the needs of the body/ mind to my satisfaction.

As I continued my search for what could benefit the body, mind, and spirit as a totality, I attended every seminar in the world that claimed to work. I found Ice crystal of water imprinted with the message “I love you.”

Ice crystal of water imprinted with the message “Thank you.”

Ice crystal of water imprinted with the message “You make me sick.”

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that all this—plus herbs, supplements, and homeopathy—still did not do the complete job I was looking for in myself and my patients.

During the quest, I was impressed with the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of Hidden Messages in Water and kept an open mind to how that could be applied to medicine. He showed that words could change the physical structure of water and demonstrated that in photos of frozen water with certain phrases imprinted into them.

I am also impressed with barcode technology enabling check-out registers to scan our imprinted products and identify what they are. We are in an age of advanced scanning capacities.

So when I learned about the work and research in Australia of Dr. Peter Frasier regarding the medicinal value of imprinted water, I was curious. I thought, “Why not apply this technology to medicine?”

The thing that has been missing from medicine’s understanding is that formation has an essential role in regulating the functioning and healing of the body. We may or may not have been born with the correct information to activate and regulate the ten trillion cells in the body. We have all had events, toxins, accidents, and procedures that have given our body misinformation or blocked the transfer of this information.

Because these traumas and toxins create chaos in the body tissues, one cannot correct the resulting misinformation with pills or supplements alone. It takes several regulatory corrections in the form of new information to eliminate and facilitate all the changes that are needed to restore health. When we take a pill to alter one chemical imbalance, we can cause a cascade of unpredictable changes in the vast information regulatory systems of the other systems we’re not intending to affect at all. Not that these substances aren’t useful and sometimes life saving, but the whole picture needs to be

addressed as well. In New Science Magazine, Mark Buchman wrote, “scientists and physicians believe that information lies beneath the physical stuff.” The information theory is being used to create new technologies, including those that perform medical resonance imagery. Computers can now scan our imprinted information and make suggestions, thanks to their brilliant programmers.

You know the problems associated with drinking water containing heavy metals, or the problems of swimming in polluted waters. More than 70% of our body is made of water. It is what makes it possible to communicate with systems, because the body pumps blood and lymph that carry the regulatory information of the body. That makes the information that is imprinted into the water of the body extremely important.

I have recently discovered the use of mineral water which is imprinted to provide restorative, corrective information for healing the body in an orderly, sequential pattern. It uses the evaluations done by advanced computer science and technology. The exact information that is needed can be determined by the computer—and the non-toxic, 100% safe introduction of imprinted mineral water allows the body to restore its health by using the new information to detox, organize, and regenerate.

This system has been a major part of successfully preventing a 26-yearold man with testicular cancer from having all his lymph nodes removed.

It has been instrumental in producing profound improvements in energy and health in many more patients.

For yourself, you can have a great impact on your water and health by being thankful and loving fully. Affirm “I am thankful” and “I love.”

For more info, call 941-539-4232 or visit www.wealthofhealthcenter.com. Dr. Koger practices in Dunnellon and Sarasota.

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What Can Transformative Communication Do For Me?

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ransformative communication is not merely a set of skills, it is a communication based approach to self-realization. What this ultimately means is that, while mastering the tools of this style of communication can lead to more fulfilling relationships, a more satisfying career path, more harmony at home and in the workplace, etc., the ultimate goal is to understand ourselves on a deep level. When we begin to learn to communicate ourselves so that others truly understand us, when we learn to create empathic space for others to be profoundly seen and heard, we also reveal to ourselves the depth and breadth that constitute our true nature. This process of realizing ourselves, devoid of any false identities, is the heart of transformative communication. It is also what makes the path of discovering and implementing the tools so exciting.

What are some of the skills learned in cultivating this level of conscious awareness? We speak often about empathy and empathic listening. Empathic listening includes reflective listening, or mirroring what people have said to us before responding. It demonstrates that we care about the person speaking and that we are able to suspend our judgments and agendas, if only momentarily. Empathy, and taking the time to truly understand and experience it, is the foundation of all the other work we do in this process. There are several other components, such as taking responsibility for our experience and perceptions, living in clear intention, being willing to be vulnerable and authentic, and speaking and listening in ways that build trust. All of these work together in various ways and in differing situations to create conscious communication and deep connection.

Marie Glasheen, co-founder of the Satvatove Institute, offered a version of the Foundational Life Skills Seminar to a group of incarcerated youth who were convicted of a range of violent crimes. At first, the boys were very closed down to the processes of transformative communication. Many refused to make eye contact with others, and some even left the room when asked to do so due to their non-cooperation.

Some of these youth were in opposing gangs, and empathic communication could have been perceived as impossible.

However, as the boys participated in the processes offered over a six day period they experienced a dramatic shift in consciousness. They began to soften, they began to open up to each other. Some of them shared their pain, their hurt, their life stories, in a vulnerable manner for the first time ever. At the end of the six- day process together, members

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of rival gangs were embracing.

We all have areas in our lives where we seek improvement.

Transformative communication can provide results in any area through dedicated application of its principles. However, the most powerful application leads us to deep realization of our true self. As one incarcerated youth stated after the workshop: “Through your course I got motivation to live my life. I realized what I was put on Earth for. I’m very appreciative of you. Thanks.�

Kylie Devi is a writer, healing artist, and workshop facilitator living in Gainesville, FL. She has enthusiastically participated in the Satvatove Foundational and Advanced Course, as well as Satvatove III and Coaching. She is available to discuss Satvatove programs with anyone who has interest in the process of transformative communication, and can be reached at kyliedevi@gmail.com or on Facebook.

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Immune System Effects on Thyroid Function Part One (Still having thyroid symptoms when your lab tests are normal?)

by Dr. Michael J. Badanek, DC, BS, CNS, DACBN, DCBCN, DM(P)

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fter 30-plus years of clinical practice, I have noted an overwhelming concern about endocrine conditions in America, particularly with the thyroid gland. This is the first in a series of articles in which I will be addressing specific issues precipitating thyroid conditions plaguing more than 50 million Americans today. An overview was presented in the September, 2011 issue of Natural Awakenings Magazine. Now we will examine specific causes which must be addressed and identified for proper diagnosis and care.

The evidence clearly shows functional crosstalk between the immune system and the thyroid. Thyroid hormones are not only used to support immune cells’ basic metabolic rate, but they also exhibit influences on cellular messenger systems that promote modulation of T- and B-cell activity, cellular apoptosis, cytokine release, and other responses. Therefore, thyroid hormones are classified as immune system modulators, and thyroid function and metabolism should be considered in cases of immune disorders.

On the other hand, immune signaling mediators such as cytokines and adjuvants have been found to disrupt all aspects of the hypothalamicpituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis, peripheral metabolism, and thyroid receptor site transcriptional expressions. Immune disorders have great potential to disrupt thyroid physiology and promote concomitant dysfunction in cellular metabolism. It is important for the

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practicing clinician to understand the thyroid-immune and immune-thyroid interactions. This article will encompass the immune-thyroid interactions.

The next upcoming issue will address the thyroid-immune interactions.

The immune system has profound effects on the endocrine system, especially in regards to the thyroid, from both autoimmune and non-immune perspectives. Certain patterns of thyroid dysfunction strongly suggest an evaluation of the immune system. The immune system appears to influence the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis in relation to TSH release and T3 levels from a non-autoimmune perspective.

From an autoimmune perspective, the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the U.S. today is hypothyroidism secondary to Hashimoto’s. Therefore, any time an individual has an elevated TSH or has been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, antibodies against thyroid (TPO Ab and TGB Ab) should be considered. Hashimoto’s is generally a TH-1 predominant attack against self-thyroid tissue; once the genes for this disease turn on, the individual becomes increasingly susceptible to cytokine fluctuations for further immune attack on self-thyroid tissue.

Cytokines Cytokines are messenger proteins that are released by immune cells found in different tissues in the body.

Activation of cytokines, regardless of the tissue of origin, can affect metabolism and physiology throughout the body. Cytokine molecules have effects upon diverse networks of neurological, endocrinological, and immunological responses.

Cytokines are classified into two distinct categories labeled as T-Helper

1 (TH-1) or T-Helper 2 (TH-2). They are also known as pro-inflammatory (TH1) T-cell mediated, or anti-inflammatory (TH-2) B-cell mediated compounds.

TH-1 cytokines include interferon (IFN) gamma, Interleukine-2 (IL-2), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha.

TH-2 cytokines include IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-13.

Further research has also identified TH-3 and TH-17. TH-3 subsets are related to regulatory T-cell function (CD25+4). Regulatory T-cells are used to modulate the balance of TH-1 and TH-2 responses. TH-3 activity is promoted by TGF-B. TH-17 is T-cell activity related to the immunological destructiveness potential of TH-1 and TH-2 shifts. The greater the TH-17 activity, the greater potential for immunological destruction is present. TH-17 activity is promoted primarily by IL-6 and TH-17 activity is measured by IL-17. There is an independent loop between TH-1, TH-2, TH-3, and TH-17 cytokine responses that will be elaborated on later.

However, it is best to start with a basic understanding of cytokines unrelated to immunological activity rather than autoimmune activity.

Cytokines promoted by immunological activation have profound and specific influences on thyroid metabolism and physiology that are classified under the title of euthyroid sick syndrome or non-thyroidal illness (NTI). NTI refers to thyroid conditions in which the thyroid gland itself is not diseased, but rather chemical imbalances are promoting a loss of healthy thyroid hormone metabolism. It appears that cytokines can disrupt the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis and down-regulate the expression of T4 into active T3 peripherally by type 1 and type 2, 5-deiodinase enzymes.

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Cytokines and the HypothalamusPituitary-Thyroid Axis

Cytokines IL-1 beta, IL-6, and TNF-alpha have been shown to downregulate the hypothalamus-pituitarythyroid axis. These reductions in TSH are only evident when evaluated in comparison to pre-existing TSH results and control groups.

Tumor necrosis factor alpha, a peptide secreted from stimulated macrophages during inflammatory conditions, has the ability to impair the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis.

An animal study was conducted and subjects were injected with TNF-alpha to be followed by thyroid biochemistry assay. One single injection of TNFalpha reduced serum TSH, T3, free T4, T3, and hypothalamic TRH compared to the control for 5 days. TNF-alpha

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was found to inhibit hepatic 5’deiodinase, reduce thyroid hormone uptake, reduce thyroidal release of T4 and T3 in response to TSH, alter the glycosylation of TSH, and suppress hypothalamic TRH release.

The TSH range used in the standard healthcare system is so extremely broad that these patterns are typically not considered in the clinical workup of the patient. Since the standard TSH range is very wide, individuals who have issues resulting from cytokine suppression of TSH will not be assessed properly. These individuals will suffer from thyroid symptoms and also experience receptor site resistance despite a TSH that is within the wide reference range.

Practitioners who evaluate blood chemistry functionally are always

considerate of pituitary suppression by using a TSH functional range of 1.8 as the low end of the range, compared to the typical laboratory range 0.5. The TSH low-end range does not reflect ideal physiology. It is skewed by the bell-curve analysis that is used to formulate the range, since many subjects in the bell-curve analysis are taking thyroid hormones that have suppressive influences on TSH. In functional evaluations of TSH, if it is below 1.8 and the patient has thyroid symptoms, the possibility of this pattern is suggested. Evaluation of cytokines (IL-1, TNF, IFN, IL-6) associated with euthyroid suppression of ideal thyroid-pituitarythyroid axis feedback loop coordination should be considered. ... Continued on the next page

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... Continued from Page 25 Cytokines and Peripheral Thyroid Hormone Conversion

Cytokines can not only impact the thyroid-pituitary-thyroid axis, but also disrupt peripheral conversion of inactive T4 into active T3. The enzyme 5’deiodinase catalyzes the conversion of T4 into T3 in peripheral tissues away from the thyroid. Both TH-1 and TH-2 cytokines—IL6, TNF-alpha, INF gamma, and IL-1 beta—have demonstrated the ability to down-regulate thyroid conversion potentials of T3. Patients with non-thyroid illness have demonstrated an inverse relationship between serum T3 and IL-6 levels. The administration of cytokines to healthy human subjects has shown to lead to immediate changes in thyroid hormone levels.

Exposure to IL-6, TNF-alpha and IFNalpha to healthy subjects resulted in a rapid reduction of serum T3 and TSH levels and an increase in reverse T3, (rT3) concentrations, while T4 and free T4 levels were minimally altered.

Clinically, it is important to note that T3 levels have very little influence on the TSH negative feedback loop.

Therefore, when T3 levels decline from a cytokine 5’-deidinase mechanism, the TSH will typically not be elevated.

If TSH is used as an isolated marker to screen for thyroid disorders, the T3 under-conversion pattern promoted by an elevation of cytokines may be overlooked. It should be standard to measure T3 when evaluating the thyroid. A pattern of normal TSH, normal T4, and a depressed T3 strongly suggests downregulation of the 5’-deidinase enzyme.

Lipopolysaccarides and Thyroid Metabolism

Gastrointestinal microorganisms such lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are adjuvants that effect thyroid physiology at the level of the central and peripheral systems. LPS released from gram-negative bacteria are considered endotoxins that may be used as adjuvants in the immune response.

LPS has potential to influence the thyroid at all levels of function, including reducing thyroid hormone levels, diminishing the expression of the

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thyroid hormone receptor, increasing inactive reverse T3 levels, decreasing TSH concentrations and promoting autoimmune thyroid disorders. Subjects who underwent IV injection of an LPS endotoxin demonstrated diminished levels of serum T4, serum free T3, and serum TSH, and inactive reverse T3 was elevated when compared with controls.

Subjects were given intravenous injections with an LPS endotoxin from Escherichia coli (EC-5). The LPS challenged subjects demonstrated decreased levels of serum T4, serum free T4, T3, TSH, and a rise in inactive reverse T3. These studies suggest that an immune challenge and abnormal gastrointestinal microorganism environments may promote abnormal central pituitary release of TSH as well as potential peripheral thyroid hormone productions. LPS has been shown to contribute to the pathogenesis of non-thyroidal illness of the central part of the hypothalamuspituitary-thyroid axis.

Lastly, the promotion of elevated LPS activity as a result of infection demonstrated a reduction of thyroid hormone receptor expression. These dramatic changes occurring at the receptor sites cannot be recognized with routine thyroid testing and may explain euthyroid presentations clinically.

In conclusion, LPS in combination with other variables has the potential to disrupt thyroid- hypothalamus-pituitary coordination, thyroid hormone to T3 conversion, the amount of thyroid hormones, and the expressiveness of thyroid receptors to thyroid hormones.

The connections with euthyroid clinical presentation, inflammation, gastrointestinal disorders, and immune activity are beginning to be understood better. Clinically, the immune system and its role in LPS activity cannot be overlooked with patient populations who present with thyroid symptoms and euthyroid laboratory presentations.

beta 1 mRNA in an NF-KB dependent way leading to decreased post-translational receptor activity.

Clinically, the amount of receptor site expression cannot measure in private practice and assumptions about thyroid receptor site activity must be made with elevated cytokines. Active immune-related patterns may hinder thyroid metabolism and a careful evaluation of immune related disorders must be provided to all individuals who present with thyroid symptomology. A perfect example of this clinically is the autoimmune thyroid patient or a patient with an inflammatory disease who is taking replacement hormones, but is still suffering from thyroid symptoms. In these scenarios, the elevations of the inflammatory immune cytokines are depressing thyroid receptor site responsiveness and the replacement hormones are creating a normal appearance of thyroid laboratory markers (TSH, T4 and T3). The concept of cytokines suppressing thyroid receptor site responsiveness is not clinically acknowledged and the patient ends up without proper management.

Conclusion

If you or a loved one is experiencing chronic, long-term conditions with little or no relief, consider being evaluated for these underlying chronic thyroid symptoms.

Dr. Michael Badanek has been serving the Central Florida, Marion County region for more than 30 years in active clinical practice. Dr. Badanek is a licensed Chiropractic Physician with extensive continued training in Alternative Complementary Medicine including nutrition, acupuncture, homeopathy, applied kinesiology, functional and traditional medicine, and electrodermal screening, with three board certifications. His real love and zeal in healthcare is treating patients with all Cytokines and Thyroid Receptor types of conditions with alternative/ Site Expression functional medicine, especially people

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A solution for WORLD PEACE One Breath One World

by Qigong Practitioner Jeff Primack

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he massive illusion of SEPARATION CONSCIOUSNESS is finally being dissolved as ancient legends prophesied it would. You might not see this reflected on the 10 o’clock news, but it is clear that mankind is awakening to its higher reality.

There is less separation now than ever before. With a black man as the President and many women running for the position, it is clear humanity has come a long way. But is it enough to end a 6,000-year track record of almost constant war? When will all the hatred and bitterness end? Documented history shows peace treaties haven’t lasted and old resentments have endured.

“All is one consciousness” is the answer, in my opinion. This new way of viewing reality sees fellow citizens and other cultures as part of the same great oneness. Unfortunately, history shows enlightenment can’t be understood on the mental level. Ancient sages “experienced” their oneness rather than simply reading on the subject.

They used meditation and breathing techniques to merge with grass, trees, and stars. Even the soil underneath them was experienced as an extension of themselves.

It wasn’t until I learned pranayama

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breathing that I myself experienced being one with the universe. My whole body filled with spiritual electricity that hummed within me, making me feel totally alive with spirit. When I laid hands on people while doing the breathing, I was able to “transfer” the experience.

One day, completely on the fly, I took two hundred people through a breathing meditation while holding hands.

Everyone said it was powerful enough to unify humanity towards world peace. Since that first circle, an incredible legacy around it was born. To date, more than 30,000 people have experienced it, with most saying it is a realistic shot at uniting mankind.

Qi energy is a unifying agent of the highest order and reminds us on a cel-

lular level of our connection with God and everything/everyone around us.

When one feels their hands interconnected with thousands of people flowing with electricity, it is a real bonding experience. I think it can provide the foundation for global cooperation even on the government level. Breathing energy is energizing, euphoric and stress dissolving. I foresee leaders of the UN breathing in such a circle before meetings. It can be used to resolve many issues stemming from the illusion of separation. Even holding grudges against relatives and people that have wronged us becomes hard to maintain under this new vibration of energy. It’s as if the combined group energy of all the people breathing switches our brain into a new way of seeing everything as interconnected.

On 11-11-11, we’re forming a massive 10,000-person power breathing prayer circle to send healing energy to loved ones and countries around the 11-11-11: Be a part of history!

“One Breath One World” is a once-in-a-lifetime event coming to Orlando UCF Arena. Qigong Practitioner Jeff Primack, Music Artist Sheryl Crow, and other talent will be present. Seating limited. For more information visit OneBreathOneWorld.org. world in need. Sheryl Crow and other musical guests are performing live during this historic moment on humanity's timeline. For people who enjoy being a vessel for God’s healing energy, this type of gathering will be refreshing entertainment. The energetic effects endure long after the party is over, giving rise to higher levels of creativity, performance, and a true feeling of being connected to the universe. The old expression, “May you live in interesting times,” could not be more applicable.

Things are about to get very interesting. Never before in human history have people been more ready to unite beyond all differences of culture and religion. In honor of this movement to oneness, the first One Breath event happens on the date made completely of ones.

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The October Garden

by Jo Leyte-Vidal, UF/IFAS Marion County Master Gardener

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hink spring in October by planting wildflowers. Those spring drifts of bright pink along our road sides are descendants of annual garden phlox that have naturalized.

To create the same effect, you can purchase wildflower seeds to be used in your garden. This works very well in a swale or hard-to-mow area. When they bloom next spring, remember not to mow or cut the area until the plants have had a chance to reseed themselves for the next year’s flowers. Caution: It is illegal to dig wild plants.

Remember that October begins Florida’s second dry season. The sod web-worm takes advantage of lower temperatures and drier weather to damage your lawn. This is the

caterpillar stage of a small tan moth that flies around in early fall evenings. Look for webs on the surface of your grass in the early morning. If you need to spray, you can use Bacillus thuringensis (Bt) (also known as Thuricide, an organic pesticide), or Sevin.

Another dry weather event to look out for is dollar-spot disease, which is most prevalent in spring and fall when the temperatures are 60-80 degrees. If you did not fertilize in September, the turf may also be low in Nitrogen and Potassium, which will make the lawn more susceptible to the dollar-spot fungus, with straw-colored, silver dollarsized spots on the blades. Edges of the spots are usually dark reddish-brown.

The best remedy is to quickly fertilize with 15-0-15 and water deeply every 10-14 days, if there is not a soaking rain in that time. Then the infected growth should be cut off with the next mowing, bagged, and put out in the trash.

We still have about 90 days before freezes generally set in, so you can still

plant some vegetables. Put in beets, Swiss chard, broccoli, kale, collards, and cabbage seedlings. Sow carrots, Kohlrabi, mustard, radish, spinach, turnips, and bulbing onions (Granex is the best onion for our climate).

If you have not planted with compost and organic amendments, be sure to sidedress approximately every four weeks.

Side-dressing is applying fertilizer on both sides of the growing row, just beyond the outer fringes of leaves.

Keep up with weed removal.

Weeds compete with new plants for water and nutrients. Carrots and onions will fail if surrounded by weeds.

The Marion County Master Gardeners will be presenting their annual October Fundraiser on Saturday, October 8, at the Extension Center, 2223 NE Jacksonville Road, Ocala. they will be featuring trees for Marion County. If you have any questions about planting your new purchases, call the Master Gardeners at 671-8400.

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Fitness

Dr. Paula Koger, DOM, BS Nursing, MA Counseling 941-539-4232 / Dunnellon and Sarasota www.WealthOfHealthCenter.com Dr. Koger has a long history of success with people who are receptive to multiple ancient and high-tech healing techniques. 20 years’ experience including Professor and school health nurse; more than 17 years in Alternative healing practices with training from experts worldwide.

Hip Moves Fitness Studio Rona Bennett, BS, CPT Holistic Health, Personal Fitness Coaching 708 N.W. 23rd Ave., Gainesville www.hipmoves.com / 352-692-0132 An intimate fitness studio focusing on creativity and holistic health. Classes and private lessons in Belly Dance, Yoga, Pilates, and Personal Training.

Rental space available.

Biologic Dentistry

Gluten Intolerance

Dr. Cornelius A. Link, DDS 352-629-0700 / Ocala / www.drlinkdds.com There must be a biologic balance in the mouth as part of total body health. This means being concerned about infections in the teeth and gums, the relationship of the teeth to the jaws, the teeth to each other, saliva pH and metal toxicity. As a member of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, we follow a recommended safety protocol for removal of amalgam fillings, if necessary. Dental materials compatibility testing available.

Gluten Intolerance Group / Gainesville 352-215-1078 / GIGgainesville@gmail.com www.glutenintolerancegroupgainesville.blogspot.com The Gluten Intolerance Group of North America proudly announces a new branch in Gainesville. Please call or email for information about our monthly meetings.

Share your stories, or give/get support! Gluten intolerance is more common, and more serious, than most people know.

Colonics Gentle Waters Healing Center 352-374-0600, Gainesville info@gentlewatershealing.com The therapists at Gentle Waters Healing Center will assist each individual with detoxing using colon hydrotherapy, Far Infrared Sauna, and/or Aqua Chi Lymphatic Drainage. We also carry probiotics, digestive enzymes, and other products for overall health. Proud sponsors of Barley Life Nutritional Products. Call Dawn Brower for more information or visit www.gentlewatershealing.com. MA41024, MM15426.

352-694-6044 535 NE 36th Avenue, Ocala, FL A Wellness Center for 10+ years conducive to healing the whole person.

Educating and empowering a healthy lifestyle through detoxification. Offering “State of the Art” FDA registered colonic equipment, Farinfrared sauna, Aqua-Chi ionic cleanse, lymphatic drainage. Pain relief and relaxation massage. Automobile insurance and Workers Comp. Gift certificates. Call our happy staff for more information. MA28872, NCTMB156725, MM11062.

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Holistic Medicine James F. Coy, M.D. Life Family Practice Center 1501 U.S. Hwy. 441 North, The Villages 352-750-4333 / www.LifeFamilyPractice.com More than 20 years in the General Practice of medicine, with a focus on allergies, and treatments using environmental bio-nutrition and other natural methods including N.A.E.T. and acupuncture.

Providing detox therapies including chelation, anti-aging treatments, natural hormone replacement, and alternative testing.

Nelson Kraucak, M.D., ABCMT, ACAM Life Family Practice Center 1501 U.S. Hwy. 441 North, The Villages 352-750-4333 / www.LifeFamilyPractice.com For 15 years in The Villages, Dr. Kraucak has been committed to bridging the gap between clinical medicine and complementary therapies to promote the body’s natural healing mechanisms. Embracing a medical approach to alternative treatment and by using cutting-edge technologies, he is able to treat chronic auto-immune and degenerative disorders.

Providing treatments such as Immune Biomodulation, Chelation, Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement, PRP, Prolozone and much more.

James E. Lemire, M.D., FAAFP Nuris Lemire, MS, OTR/L, NC The Lemire Clinic

11115 SW 93rd Ct. Rd., Suite 600 Ocala, FL 34481 / 352-291-9459 www.LemireClinic.com Dr. Lemire has been in practice for 32 years. He follows a Functional Medicine approach, utilizing up-todate techniques such as: Chelation, Detoxification, natural hormone replacement, nutrition, Prolo/Biopuncture, acupuncture, anti-aging, among others. Dr. Lemire along with his staff are dedicated to a joint partnership with their patients—a partnership that seeks to maximize the God-given life potential of each individual. We believe that true wellness for the whole person includes a healthy body (physical self), a healthy mind (emotions and intellect), and a spiritual peace. For this life-changing goal, Lemire Clinic commits their energy, their compassion and their skills.

Hanoch Talmor, M.D. Gainesville Holistic Center 352-377-0015 www.betterw.com We support all health challenges and the unlimited healing potential of God’s miracle: your body.

Chelation, Nutrition, Cleansing, Homeopathy, Natural Energy Healing, Detoxification, Wellness Education and more.

Michael J. Badanek, BS,DC,CNS,DACBN,DCBCN 3391 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Suite #B Ocala, FL 34470 / 352-622-1151 www.alternativewholistichealth.com 30+ years in clinical practice with alternative wholistic complementary health services. Treating the body to support all health challenges with Wholistic Integrative Medicine. Treatments include Autoimmune disorders, Lyme disease, Autism, ADD/ ADHD, Musculoskeletal conditions, Heavy metal toxicity, Cardiovascular and endocrine conditions, Nutritional deficiencies/testing.

Holistic Psychotherapy Diane Alther, LCSW, RN, CHt Traditional and Karuna Reiki Master/Teacher Ocala and Dunnellon locations / 352-425-1992 www.emdrtherapistnetwork.com Combining conventional counseling with body, mind, energy therapies including EMDR, EFT, hypnosis, full wave breathwork, meditation and Reiki to facilitate change and mental and emotional balance.

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Christine Green CHt Hypnotherapy Gainesville Hypnotherapy 1212 NW 12th Ave., Suite C-3 Gainesville FL 32601 / 352-339-6078 www.OneStepDeeper.com Invite amazing changes into your life through Hypnosis.

The powerful process of Hypnotherapy guides you naturally and easily to the life you truly deserve. Free consultation: www.onestepdeeper.com and 352-339-6078.

Hendrix Piano Service 352-895-5412, Serving north central Florida Tuning, repairs, cleaning, fine custom maintenance of your acoustic piano.

Pianist: accompaniment, weddings, other church services, concerts. Experience: churches, cabarets, Marion Chorale, Duelling Divas, much more. Fine used pianos available.

Rolfing Life Coaches Cynthia Christianson, M.A., CCC ThetaHealing™ Advanced Practitioner 352-374-7982 or 352-284-1107 www.thetahealingworks.net ThetaHealing™ coaching is using the Belief and Feeling Work to empower people with the ability to remove and replace negative emotions, feelings and thoughts with positive, beneficial ones. Change your negative beliefs and you will heal on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels thus really seeing this relief show up in your life.

Massage Tiara L. Catey, LMT Center for Balance 1705 N.W. 6th St., Gainesville 352-642-4545 / www.tiaracatey.com Relieve pain, manage stress and cultivate joyful relaxation and balance by including massage as an essential part of your self-care practices. Therapeutic massage, relaxation massage and lomilomi. Includes aromatherapy. Holistic approach. Some insurance accepted. Visa/MC. See www.tiaracatey.com for details. MA41831.

Carol L. Short / Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Craniosacral Therapist, Gainesville and North Central FL / 352-318-0509 Rolfing® is a system of body restructuring through systematic manipulation of muscle and fascial tissues. It promotes the release and realignment of long standing patterns of tension and dysfunction, bringing the body to greater balance, mobility, vitality, and ease.

A holistic approach to mobility, vitality and balance. MA16337/MM18921.

Veterinary Care Medicine Wheel Veterinary Services Shauna Cantwell DVM, Ocala, FL www.shaunacantwell.com / 352-538-3021 Holistic veterinary medicine for small animals and horses.

Preventative health, arthritis, neurologic and hormonal dysfunction, skin, allergies, cancer, pain, immune and chronic disease, more. Certified Veterinary Acupuncture, certified cAVCA animal chiropractic, herbal therapy, tui na medical massage, functional neurology, postural rehabilitation, ozone therapy, homotoxicology, nutrition. Available for workshops.

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Dr. Michael Badanek in Ocala is looking for a “special,” mature person to work part-time in his office doing reception/ light clerical work. The selected candidate must sincerely practice natural lifestyles with no hang-ups in traditional medical beliefs and must have a good sound work ethic. Email qualifications and resume to kingfrog10@cox.net.

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Clark Dougherty Therapeutic Massage Clinic 850 N.E. 36th Terr., Ocala 352-694-7255 / www.ClarkDougherty.com Offering a variety of therapeutic massage techniques for pain relief, improved flexibility, and other wonderful benefits. PIP and WorkComp always accepted, also group/private insurance in some instances. All credit cards accepted. Gift certificates are available now for Mother’s Day and birthdays with 25% discount on a second session. MA27082, MM9718.

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CalendarofEvents Listings are free for our sponsors and just $15 each for others. 352-629-4000.

High Springs, 386-454-8657, www. highspringsemporium.net.

Saturday, October 1 Basic Organic Workshop, 9-3.

Crones Cradle, 6411 NE 217th Pl., Citra, 352-595-3377, www.CronesCradleConserve.com.

Readings for Pets and People with Melodye Gaskin. Bring a picture of your pet. 1-5pm, $20. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd.,

Monday, October 3 Meet the Doctor Open House.

Lemire Clinic, 11115 SW 93rd Court Rd, Suite 600, Ocala, 352291-9459, www.LemireClinic.com.

Wednesday, October 5 HGC weight loss: safe homeopathic solution. Detox coaching and support. FREE consultation; call

Intuitive Touch Reiki and Massage Therapy Specializing in Therapeutic/medical and relaxation massage, intuitive Reiki sessions and lymphatic drainage

Susan Domfort LMT/COTA Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Master Teacher and Certified in Holistic Manual Lymphatic Drainage MA #53889 MM #22664

1294 SE 24th Road Ocala, Florida 352-804-7617 Now accepting PIP and BC/BS insurance for medically necessary massage.

for appointment. Reesers Nutrition Center, 3243 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, 352-732-0718, 351-1298, www.ReesersNutritionCenter.com.

with Travis Hetsler. 1-3pm, $20. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd., High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.highspringsemporium.net.

Thursday, October 6 Are You Digging Your Grave with Your Fork? Evening with Nuris Lemire, MS, OTR/L, NC. 6pm. The Healing Place, 1200 NE 5th St., Crystal River, FL, 352-795-0250.

Health Profiling Workshop, 6pm, Dr. Koger, DOM, Dunnellon.

Demonstration of computerized stress analysis and Kinesiology.

Reservations: 941-539-4232.

October 10 Emotional Healing Workshop for Health Professionals: A seminar with Raymon Grace. 9-5. $150/ person. Gainesville Holistic Center, 4140-C NW 27th Lane, Gainesville, 352-377-0015, www.BetterW.com, www.ramongrace.com.

October 6-16 “The Guys,” drama. Ocala Civic Theatre, 4337 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, FL, 352-236-2274, www.OcalaCivicTheatre.com.

October 7-8 Initiation Healing® Meditation: Awakening to Soul Workshop with Ojela Frank, MSC and Author, Ocala Inner Center, 205 S. Magnolia Ave., Ocala. 10-6 both days, $95.

To register: www.initiationhealing. com, 352-239-9272.

October 7-9 Addiction and Alcoholism: Addressing the Source. Weekend includes vegetarian meals, accommodations, darshan with Yogi Amrit Desai, lectures by Dr. Choudry and Professor Kelly. This program is for professionals in the field and recovering addicts and alcoholics. $395 includes program, lodging, meals.

Contact Amrit Yoga Institute 352685-3001 or www.amrityoga.org.

Saturday, October 8 Dowsing and Pendulum Demonstration and Healing Sessions with Steve Henry. Demonstration 12-1pm, free. Healing sessions 1-5pm, $20.

High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd., High Springs, 386-4548657, www.highspringsemporium.net.

Psychic/Mediumship Spiritual Development Class, 2-4:30pm.

Held at Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW 39th Ave. Int’l Foundation for Spiritual Knowledge, www.ifsk.org, 407-673-9776.

The Marion County Master Gardeners Annual October Fundraiser.

Extension Center, 2223 NE Jacksonville Road, Ocala. 352-671-8400.

October 8-9 Healing Nature and Yourself with Dowsing: A seminar with Raymon Grace. 9-5 both days. $250/person.

Gainesville Holistic Center, 4140-C NW 27th Lane, Gainesville, 352377-0015, www.BetterW.com, www.ramongrace.com.

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Tuesday, October 11 Introductory Workshop on Good Health & Holistic Medicine.

7-9pm, $50/person (good toward future purchase of goods/services).

Gainesville Holistic Center, 4140-C NW 27th Lane, Gainesville, 352377-0015, www.BetterW.com.

Thyroid-Brain Interactions: How Each Controls One Another. Free seminar. 5-8pm, The Villages Public Library, Pinellas Plaza, 7375 Powell Road, Wildwood. Reservations/ information: 352-622-1151.

Wednesday, October 12 Metabolic balance. All natural weight loss. FREE consultation; call for appointment. Reesers Nutrition Center, 3243 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, 352-732-0718, 351-1298, www.ReesersNutritionCenter.com.

October 12-Nov. 6 “The Turn of the Screw,” drama. The Hippodrome, 25 SE 2n Pl., Gainesville, 352-375-HIPP, www.TheHipp.org.

Saturday, October 15 Fall Natural Foods Gala, 9-3.

Crones Cradle, 6411 NE 217th Pl., Citra, 352-595-3377, www.CronesCradleConserve.com.

Spiritual Connections Psychic Faire, 11-5. $3/person. Held at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4225 NW 34th St., Gainesville.

352-332-7153 or 222-3492.

Surviving and Thriving During the Shift: Crystal Grids for Prosperity and Protection. Workshop with Sharron Britton, 1-3pm, $20. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd., High Springs, 386-454-8657, www. highspringsemporium.net.

Sunday, October 16 Millions Against Monsanto “World Food Day” Right2Know Rally, 126pm, Ocala’s downtown Square.

Free. Rally for mandatory labeling on all genetically modified foods. Info: http://www.facebook.com/event. php?eid=258002870878847, www.

MillionsAgainstMonsanto.org.

Relationships That Work. FREE Introductory workshop. Reserve online at www.satvatove.com/register or call 352-359-7579.

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Wednesday, October 19 Cleanse your body of toxic buildup, repair G.I. tract, support immune system, weight loss, anti-aging nutrition, protocol for radiation detoxification. FREE consultation; call for appointment. Reesers Nutrition Center, 3243 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, 352-732-0718, 351-1298, www.ReesersNutritionCenter.com.

October 21-23 Transformative Communication and SelfEmpowerment Seminar, facilitated by Dr. David Wolf, author of Relationships That Work, at the Hilton in Gainesville. For information or to register: The Satvatove Institute, 352-538-0376, www.satvatove.com.

October 21-25 Yoga Nidra Immersion. CEUs available. Amrit Yoga Institute, 352-685-3001, www.amrityoga.org.

Saturday, October 22 Sacred Earth Bazaar. Free, 10-4. Vendors, healers, readers, food. Sacred Earth Center, All Faith Chapel and Healing Center, 3131 NW 13th Street, Gainesville, 352-275-8537, www. sacredearthcenter.org.

Wednesday, October 26 Introductory Workshop on Good Health & Holistic Medicine. 7-9pm, $50/person (good toward future purchase of goods/services). Gainesville Holistic Center, 4140-C NW 27th Lane, Gainesville, 352-377-0015, www.BetterW.com.

Thyroid-Endocrine Inter-reactions: How Each Controls and Coordinates Each Other’s Functions. Free seminar, 3-6pm. The Belleview Public Library, 13145 Southeast Highway 484, Belleview. Reservations: 352-622-1151.

Wellness Consultation on Irritable Bowel Syndrome. FREE consultation; call for appointment.

Reesers Nutrition Center, 3243 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, 352-732-0718, www.ReesersNutritionCenter.com.

Friday, October 28 Here Comes the Sun: A Musical and Spiritual Tribute to George Harrison, 8pm. $15-20.

University Auditorium next to the Plaza of the Americas, where Krishna Lunch will serve hot refreshments from 6-8. Tickets available at Krishna Lunch or the Phillips Center Box Office, 352-392-2787. krishnagator@gmail.com.

Signs and Symptoms Analysis. Any time any of the organs/systems of the body are out of balance, there are signs and symptoms. FREE. Call for appointment. Reesers Nutrition Center, 3243 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, 352-732-0718, www.ReesersNutritionCenter.com.

Saturday, October 29 6th Annual Parapsychology Expo, Lake Miona Recreation Center, 1526 Buena Vista Blvd., The Villages. Free admission. Info: 352-205-6055 A Halloween Hop to benefit the Ocala Civic Theatre. 7-10pm, Our Lady of the Springs Hall. $10/person. Cash bar, ‘50s style music and dancing. Information: 352-629-8859.

Halloween Psychic Fair. 12-5pm, $20/reading. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd., High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.highspringsemporium.net. ... Continued on Page 38

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November 5-11 Satvatove Advanced Seminar Experience, facilitated by Dr. David Wolf and Marie Glasheen at the Days Inn in Gainesville. For information or to register: The Satvatove Institute, 352-538-0376, www.satvatove.com.

November 19 - 20 Reiki I Healing Workshop with Rev. Ojela Frank, LMT, Karate Academy, Ocala. Sat. 10-6, Sun. 12-6, $100. To register: www.initiationhealing.com, 352-239-9272.

ONGOING EVENTS Monday-Friday Organic Food Pickups. Monday, Ocala; Tuesday, Eustis and Mt. Dora; Wednesday, Ocala and Gainesville; Friday, Oxford/The Villages. Homegrown Organics by Doreen, 352-598-4184, http://www.homegrownorganics.vpweb.com. Recipes: http://homegrowngainesville.wordpress.com/ Wednesdays 1pm radio show: 30 minutes, Relationships That Work Show, online at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/satvatove-institute.

Wednesdays and Fridays “Words of Peace.� Free, 7-8 pm. Videos from the award-winning TV series.

1208 NW 6th St., Suite A, Gainesville. 352-373-5578, www.wopg.org.

Wednesdays and Saturdays 10/12-10/26 Introductory Biosyntonie Webinar/Teleconference Workshop. Recordings will be available to participants as well as the book. $250, preregistration required. Gainesville Holistic, 352-377-0015, www.BetterW.com.

Thursdays Amrit Yoga w/Veda, 5:30-6:30pm every Thursday. Downtown Public Library, 401 E. University Ave, Gainesville. Free. Dress warmly, bring light blanket. vedalewis@aol.com.

Saturdays Farmstead Saturdays. Free, 9-3pm. Crones Cradle, 6411 NE 217 Pl, Citra. 352-595-3377, www.cronescradleconserve.com.

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For the First Time in Florida!

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