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Mayor Deborah Robertson mayor for Rialto was at it again this year. Her “THE STATE OF WOMEN EVENT” took place last month Saturday, March 3rd. It was given in honor to The National Women’s History Month. The building was wrapped around with hundreds of women and men, the lines consisted of young women to older women. This was the day women of all walks of life stopped to take time out for themselves. This grand event was free to all who registered. A delicious breakfast was served and a wonderful program was presented to all. Honoring women has been Mayor Deborah Robertson mission for 12 years. The event honors those women who have shaped American’s history and its future through their tireless commitments. Women are celebrated for fighting not only against sexism and the many intersecting forms of discrimination facing them. Women are faced with discrimination based on their race, age, ethnicity, class, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, and many other categories. Mayor Acquanetta Warren for the city of Fontana was Mistress of Ceremony and she was great! The guest speakers, Elaine R. Ferguson, MD and Dr. Betty Uribe spoke so eloquently encouraging women to continue to press forward. The 2018 Jewel Award was presented to Kim Carter, of Time For Change Foundation. The 2018 Special Recognition honored Frances Grice, Civil Right Activist. Many Dignitaries were present in support of the day. Thank you Mayor Robertson!
Always Consult your personal physician before adding said spices to your daily diet...
By Contributor Writer The information for this article was researched and taken from Dr. Sinatra via the internet. To reduce blood pressure, I highly recommend my antiinflammatory Pan-Asian Modified Mediterranean (PAMM) diet, as well as cutting back on the use of salt. However, many who have salt sensitive blood pressure complain that foods taste too bland without it. That doesn’t need to be the case. If you are salt sensitive there are a number of savory alternatives that not only make your meals tastier but act as natural blood pressure reducers as well. If you season your meals to perfection with these four ingredients, you’ll enjoy great flavor and reduce your blood pressure at the same time. You may not have heard of curcumin before, but you have probably heard of turmeric, the spice that is best known as an ingredient in Indian curry and yellow mustard. Turmeric has been my No. 1 natural blood pressure reducer and cardiovascular spice for years, and
its yellow color comes from curcumin, a powerful antioxidant and antiinflammatory compound that’s been found to reduce blood pressure by lowering the excess platelet aggregation that occurs in sticky, clot-forming blood. Plus, animal research suggests that it may reduce cardiomyopathy, though more human research is needed in the hypertensive population to confirm these findings. That’s why I recommend cooking with plenty of turmeric. If you wish to take curcumin as a nutritional supplement, try 500–750 mg daily Ginger—the smart man’s aspirin—is a potent blood thinner and antiinflammatory agent that can help you reduce your blood pressure. You can try commercial organic ginger teas or make your own from ginger root. Simply chop the root into small pieces and boil for about five minutes. You can also use sliced or grated ginger to spice up any dish, as I frequently do with wild salmon. Garlic is an excellent natural blood pressure reducer, capable of very effectively thinning the blood. So effec-
tively, in fact, that I instruct some patients to lay off garlic—as well as ginger—if they are on a pharmaceutical blood thinner like Coumadin. A recent Australian review of 11 studies in which patients with high blood pressure were randomly given garlic or a placebo found that garlic can reduce blood pressure as effectively as some drugs. Dosages taken by the subjects in the studies ranged from 600 to 900 mg over a period of three to six months. There’s an old saying among Italian chefs that there’s never enough garlic in a dish. I agree. I love to cook, and I always chop up at least one clove when I make spaghetti sauce. Four cloves of garlic (about four grams) daily are required to noticeably reduce blood pressure. If you have an aversion to garlic’s trademark odor, then try an odorfree garlic supplement. I like entericcoated soft gel garlic capsules (soft gels are better absorbed in the body). Take 500–1,000 mg daily in divided doses. The key compound in cayenne pepper is a pungent substance called capsaicin, which is the main active in-
gredient in a number of over-the-counter “hot creams” for joint and muscle pain. Capsaicin creates the sensation of heat through a thermogenic effect that raises body temperature and boosts circulation in the area where it’s applied. I suspect capsaicin has vasodilating properties, which explains why it increases circulation (and temperature) wherever it’s applied. Capsaicin is also an antioxidant known to reduce lipid oxidation and decrease platelet stickiness. You can cook with red pepper in chili or other dishes once a week. Just don’t overdo it — too much cayenne may be harmful to DNA. It is Yes We Can Newspaper hope that this information can help, but before adding any herbs, spices or over the counter medication you should consult your personal physician.
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Publishers Note Have you ever drove through a city and noticed that a whole shopping center that used to be busy, wasn't busy anymore? Maybe in your own city the streets that would take you to the down town area you noticed closed stores, stores you use to go into and shop are now closed. What about those Ma and Pa restaurants you and your family use to go eat, laugh and have so much fun at, many of them are now closed. This is a normal appearance in so many cities today, they have taken the look of a ghost town or shopping center. It’s sad that when most people finally notice what’s going on and ask themselves, what happened to that Little Restaurant or that cute Little stores? it’s too late… The next questions in most cases are, “I wonder why they closed down?” Well, I have the answer to those questions if your are asking them. The small merchants have been Dropped by the very communities and people they opened up for. They once provided services and goods and many of them jobs. My husband and I go outside of our community to shop and to eat at other restaurants, but our first priority where we have our home is to give 70 percent or more of our dollars to our local businesses. We do not want any of them to go out of business and have our town looking like a ghost town. Patronizing the small businesses in your community is so important. It will help keep them stay in business providing for themselves and the community. When you stop patronizing them they are forced to close because they can’t survive without your dollars, it would be nice to make a habit of shopping low, give them your business. I think we all grew up knowing to do unto others as we would want them to do unto us. Just think if you or your family had a business! If I may I would like to give a BIG SHOUT OUT for all of the small businesses advertising in Yes We Can Newspaper. I have patronized all of them and they all have great services and products, they have my approval.
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The C.E.O. of Facebook who has created, and dominates, the Internet. This article will tell a little bit of the history of Mark Zuckerberg. So many of us have included Facebook as a part of our lives. There are some will have nothing to do with Facebook and have missed out on positive information that could be available to them. Families are able to view what’s going on with their families and be a part of information. Like anything there is pros and cons. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room 2004. Worldwide there are more than 2.13 billion monthly active Facebook users and now billions and billions more. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities. You sign up and start posting information about yourself: photographs, employment history. Some of the information can be seen only by your friends; some is available to friends of friends; some is available to anyone. Zuckerberg has three sisters (Randi, Donna, and Arielle), his parents, Karen and Edward Zuckerberg. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and attended Harvard University. The more that people are willing to put online, the more money his site can make from advertisers. The typical complaint about Zuckerberg is that he’s “a robot.” One of his closest friends said, “He’s been overprogrammed.” But face to face he is often charming. In sharing when he was younger, Zuckerberg grew up in a hilltop house in Dobbs Ferry, New
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York. Attached to the basement is the dental office of his father, Edward Zuckerberg, known to his patients as “painless Dr. Z.” (“We cater to cowards,” his Web site reads.) There’s a hundred-and-sixty-gallon fish tank in the operating room, and the place is packed with marine-oriented tchotchkes that Dr. Zuckerberg’s patients have brought him. Mark’s mother, Karen, is a psychiatrist who stopped practicing to take care of the children and to work as her husband’s office manager. Edward was an early user of digital radiography, and he introduced Atari basic computer programming to his Mark. The house and the dental office were full of computers. One afternoon in 1996, Edward declared that he wanted a better way of announcing a patient’s arrival than the receptionist yelling, “Patient here!” Mark built a software program that allowed the computers in the house and the office to send messages to one another. He called it ZuckNet, and it was basically a primitive version of AOL Instant Messenger, which came out the following year. The receptionist used it to ping Edward, and the kids used it to ping each other. One evening while Donna was working in her room, downstairs, a screen popped up: the computer contained a deadly virus and would blow up in thirty seconds. As the machine counted down, Donna ran up the stairs shouting, “Mark!” Some kids played computer games. Mark created them. In all of our talks, the most animated Zuckerberg ever got—speaking with a big smile, almost tripping on his words, his eyes alert—was when he described his youthful adventures in coding. “I had a bunch of friends who were artists,” he said. “They’d come over, draw stuff, and I’d build a game out of it.” When he was about eleven, his parents hired a computer tutor, a software developer named David Newman, who came to the house once a week to work with Mark. “He was a prodigy,” Newman told me. “Sometimes it was tough to stay ahead
of him.” (Newman lost track of Zuckerberg and was stunned when he learned that a former pupil had built Facebook.) Soon thereafter, Mark started taking a graduate computer course every Thursday night at nearby Mercy College. When his father dropped him off at the first class, the instructor looked at Edward and said, pointing to Mark, “You can’t bring him to the classroom with you.” Edward told the instructor that his son was the student. Mark was not a stereotypical geek -klutz. At Exeter, he became captain of the fencing team. He earned a diploma in classics. But computers were always central. For his senior project at Exeter, he wrote software that he called Synapse. Created with a friend, Synapse was like an early version of Pandora—a program that used artificial intelligence to learn users’ listening habits. News of the software’s exist-
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ence spread on technology blogs. Soon AOL and Microsoft made it known that they wanted to buy Synapse and recruit the teen-ager who’d invented it. He turned them down. Zuckerberg decided, instead, to enter Harvard, in the fall of 2002. He arrived in Cambridge with a reputation as a programming prodigy. He sometimes wore a T-shirt with a little ape on it and the words “Code Monkey.” He joined the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, and, at a Friday-night party there, Zuckerberg, then a sophomore, met his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, a Chinese-American from the Boston suburb. They struck up a conversation while waiting in line for the bathroom. The girlfriend is now his wife. They have been married since 2012.
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SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT AND THE BABY BOOMERS By Contributor Writer Among our nation's social programs, arguably none stands as more important to seniors than Social Security. An analysis conducted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that senior poverty rates are just 8.8% with Social Security income, compared with an estimate of 40.5% if those same monthly payments weren't there. Furthermore, statistics from the Social Security Administration (SSA) show that 48% of married elderly beneficiaries, along with 71% of unmarried elderly beneficiaries (61% combined), are reliant on their monthly paycheck from the SSA. Leaning so heavily on Social Security isn't advised but given Americans' poor saving habits it isn't surprising. Top of Form In effect, we see here ways to double your monthly Social Security benefit. It means today's working Americans and pre-retirees need to do everything they can to maximize what they'll be paid by the SSA once they retire. However, according to the July 2017 snapshot from the SSA, the average payout to retired workers a month was just $1,369.97. On an annual basis, we're only talking about $16,439.64 a year, which is above the federal poverty level but not by a lot. Yet, there are two simple choices that working Americans can make today that could have a remarkably large impact on their Social Security payout once they retire. In fact, it may even double what they'll receive each month. Working Americans if they can wait until age 70 is the first choice, wait as long as possible to enroll for benefits. Eligible workers who've accumulated the prerequisite 40 lifetime work credits can enroll for benefits with the SSA beginning at age 62 or at any point thereafter. However, there's a big dangling carrot for those who wait to claim. For each year that seniors wait to sign up, their 5
eventual monthly payout grows by 8%. This means, birth year, income, and work history being equal, a retired worker who takes benefits at age 70 could earn up to 76% more per month than the same worker enrolling at age 62. That's a huge "raise" that you can give yourself by just being patient. However, few retired workers are patient, roughly 45% of workers enroll at age 62, with at least 60% signing up before their full retirement age (the age at which the SSA deems a person eligible for 100% of their benefit). This means, at minimum, 60% of retired workers are taking a permanent reduction from their full retirement age payout. On the flip side, just 3% of retired workers are maximizing their payout and waiting until age 70 to file for benefits. For some folks, signing up early and not waiting for age 70 does make sense. If you're in poor health, are struggling to find work and therefore generate income, or are a lower-earning spouse, then enrolling at an earlier age can be a smart move. But if you're in good health, have an insufficient nest egg, or are the higher-earning spouse, waiting until age 70 to enroll could be a great choice. The second choice you can make that could have a markedly positive impact on your monthly Social Security benefit is to work a few extra years. The SSA will take into account your 35 highestearning years in calculating your monthly payout, meaning you'll want to work at least 35 years and earn as much as you can annually, in order to pump up your payout. For each year less of 35 worked, a $0 is averaged in by the SSA. Working into your 60s could come with two key advantages. First, working more than 35 years could allow you the opportunity to replace a year of lower earnings when you were younger with a year of higher earnings. Just as important, when you're in your 50s and 60s, you've probably gathered key work skills and experience that can net you a higher annual wage or hourly pay rate. Working more in your 50s and 60s could really pump up your earnings history and eliminate lower pay years from when you were younger and lacked the skills and
experience to net a good wage. Once again, as a reminder, Social Security isn't designed to be a primary income source. But if it will be for you, be smart with how you approach your claim for benefits, try to work as long as possible to boost your average annual earnings. The bonus most retirees completely overlook, could pay you as much as $16,122 more... each year! Visit your local Social Security Office for more information.
A Little Story With a BIG MEANING Stop sending your kids out with their friends knowing that they don’t have any money on them. A waitress was working today and eight young guys came in and they all ordered, but one of them was kind of lingering on the side when one of kids joked “HAH, you THOUGHT you were bout to get something” after he finished placing his order…the Little dude nicely laughed it off and ordered one cookie, while all 7 of his “friends” ate GREAT...and didn’t offer him a thing. Then he must’ve found some more change because he came back up and ordered another cookie. The waitress waited until they were about to go and she caught the Little guy before he went out… she rushed a whole plate to him saying “you forgot your order sir, sorry it took so long” and whispered to him “Pay attention to how people treat you”… Not to mention, he was a young kid and all of his friends weren't… Unfortunately some kids can be rude, but we can as parent teach our kids to treat others kindly and remember to give our children some money just in case!
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Veterans can inspire us in many ways, whether through selfless sacrifice, heroic acts on the front lines, or countless other admirable traits. Sometimes this inspiration comes from how they overcome challenges after returning home, showing the same strength and determination that helped them thrive in their military service. Each one of these personal stories showcases the resilience of our Nation’s Veterans. Marco beat his drug problem to get his life back. He served as a radio operator in the U.S. Air Force for more than 20 years. During his transition from the service, like many Veterans, he had difficulty translating his military skills and experience to civilian employment. “It can be a frustrating experience for someone when you’re in the military and making a good living, and then you get out of the military and you’re working for minimum wages an hour,” Marco says. “I went through bouts of depression and drug use.” He turned to cocaine and marijuana to temporarily mask his challenges, but he knew that abusing drugs was not a permanent solution. Marco’s problem with drugs put a strain on his family until his sister, a fellow Veteran, encouraged him to reach out to counselors at his local VA. “They were very helpful in helping me get my life back on track,” he says. Engaging in therapy led to newfound confidence, and that confidence led to securing a fulfilling job. Now, Marco is living a sober, happy life. An IED blast couldn’t keep this Marine down. Adjusting to life after a physical injury can be challenging. You may have to adapt to chronic pain or changes in your appearance. You may have to give up hobbies or sports or learn to do them in different ways. These challenges can affect you emotionally, too. Chad was serving in the Marines overseas when he was injured by an IED. The blast, “equivalent to about a 500-pound bomb,” ripped through his unit’s tank. “I was knocked unconscious for what seemed like a second,” he says, “but I was told it was a few minutes.” Chad eventually needed a double amputation to address the injuries he suffered. On top of the physical toll, he felt a sense of guilt for having to leave his fellow Marines behind. “They set me up with a psychologist who I pretty much right away got along with,” says Chad. “He was no-holdsbarred, he didn’t take any crap, and he didn’t let me have a pity party. We started with exposure therapy.” What’s exposure therapy? It exposes Veterans to situations and sensations that remind them of traumatic events. After learning effective coping skills, Veterans discover ways to positively deal with their reactions. For Chad, the experience helped him persevere. “I can’t believe how much it helped me,” says Chad. Now, this Marine doesn’t let his physical limitations affect his outlook on life — or his ability to do the things he enjoys. He lives life to the fullest, and even spends his free time snowboarding and riding motorcycles. As Chad puts it: “The only person that can stop you is you.” Military sexual trauma doesn’t define Misty anymore. For many of those who live with the effects of trauma they experienced while serving in our Nation’s military, connecting with fellow Veterans can make all the difference. For Misty, joining a women’s group was her first step to overcoming military sexual trauma (MST) — and regaining control of her life. Treatment is about finding what works for you; there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Misty realized that big hospitals brought flashbacks of her traumatic experience, so she decided to reach out to a women’s group at her local Vet Center. There, she found support in an environment where she felt comfortable. “They have support groups specific for PTSD and MST that help women together — [to] be stronger together,” says Misty. She learned effective ways to cope with her difficult memories: keeping a journal, writing a letter to the perpetrator of her assault, and maintaining a positive outlook on life. “I stopped using absolute words,” she says, “and started using affirmations.” Misty knows that MST is something that happened to her, but it doesn’t define her. “Don’t give up,” says Misty. “PTSD and MST is something I’m diagnosed with, and it’s hard to deal with. But I know each female out there that has it is a warrior. I know that they can battle it and can beat it.” Ben learned to manage his PTSD triggers. “I came out in one piece, but my mind didn’t come out in one piece.” That’s how Ben felt after serving in the U.S. Army during the Gulf War. He wasn’t prepared for the horrific scenes of battle that he witnessed. “That’s when it all felt real,” he says. The sights, sounds, and memories of war stuck with Ben as he transitioned to civilian life. The painful images from his past made it difficult to adjust to society. “Any noise — I felt jumpy,” he says. “Anytime I went out I was always looking around. I was really nervous. I was scared.” Ben’s family noticed the change and encouraged him to reach out for support. He found camaraderie in group therapy — hearing from other Veterans who experience PTSD helped Ben realize that he wasn’t alone. “We all tell each other our stories, we all get along, and we all understand each other,” says Ben. Ben also started seeing a counselor every few weeks, which, in addition to his group, helped him learn to manage the everyday triggers for his PTSD. “It took me a while, and I got a lot of help,” says Ben. “I’m getting better and better every day. It worked for me — and it probably could work for you.”
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nothing beats the power of seven. The optimum number of hours of sleep for humans is seven. A study by the West Virginia Medical School in the US of
Behind the World’s Favorite Number By Jackie Baber Researching information behind the number 7 was very interesting. Much is written about the number 7, and we would like to share a portion of the information. Pick a number, any number. Chances are it will be seven. Whatever your creed or culture the number seven is special. Psychologists see evidence of our affinity with seven time and time again and now comes further statistical proof from mathematician Alex Bellos in his new book Alex Through The Looking Glass.
more than 30,000 adults found that the risk of developing heart disease increased in those who sleep one hour more or less than seven. Those who sleep for fewer than five hours a day are twice as likely to have heart attacks , strokes or angina attacks and the risk also increased markedly in those who clock up nine hours or more.
He asked 44,000 people to name their favorite number and a 10th of them answered seven. He claims this shows that even those with no interest in maths are subconsciously doing a kind of There are seven colors of the mental arithmetic. rainbow. Isaac Newton original“Of the first 10 numbers, ly divided the spectrum into five seven is the most prime. You main colors – red, yellow, green, cannot multiply or divide it with- blue and violet – in 1672 but later added orange and indigo to in the group. It feels unique.” make seven. In common with the There’s a reason why Yul Ancient Greeks he believed Brynner, Charles Bronson and there was a connection between the other gunfighters in the 1960 the number of colors in the specfilm were magnificent and that’s trum and the number of days in because there were seven of the week, the number of notes in them. a musical scale and the number For when it comes to of objects then known in the somaking a grand statement, feel- lar system. ing lucky or seeking the divine, The number seven is one of the
most significant in the Bible. Scholars say it denotes completeness or perfection. After creating the world God rested on the seventh day and the seven-day week has been adopted by all human civilizations. The word “created” is used seven times in the Book Of Genesis in reference to the making of the world. Seven also symbolizes the unity of the four corners of Earth with the Holy Trinity. The number seven occurs more than 700 times throughout the Bible and 54 time in the Book Of Revelation, which refers to seven churches, seven angels, seven seals, seven trumpets and seven stars. Israel captured the city of Jericho after marching around it seven times, Solomon took seven years to build his temple, Job had seven sons and the great flood came seven days after Noah went into his ark. In the story of Joseph in Egypt there were seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine and Christ spoke seven words from the cross. In Christianity, Judaism and Islam, God resides above the seventh heaven and one of the most important elements in Jewish weddings is the conferring of the seven blessings. And in modern Jewish wedding ceremonies the bride often circles the groom seven times. The human body has seven basic “wheels of energy”.
ders: the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (now in Turkey) the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and finally the Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the Modern World are: the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal in India, the rock city of Petra in Jordan, the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Chichen Itza pyramid in Mexico and the Colosseum in Rome. The list was chosen by global ballot and the results were announced on the seventh day of the seventh month (July 7) in 2007. The ancient pyramids in Egypt are one of the seven wonders of the world [GETTY] One species of the ladybird has a total of seven spots. The seven-year itch is a phrase denoting the point at which marriages begin to feel stale – and with Marilyn Monroe as an enticing neighbor who would blame any man for seeking a bit of extracurricular excitement? For more information on the number 7 just Google “meaning of the number 7”
Along with seven deadly sins there are seven virtues: humility, chastity, kindness, patience, abstinence, diligence and liberality. The ancient world had seven won-
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