Time To Host A Party
Posted by Michelle Moquin on May 24th, 2010
Good morning everyone. I just got this letter from Obama. He’s asking for our help once again. The November elections will be here sooner than you think, and the kick-off time to start canvassing is June 5th. Can you host a party in your area?
Zen Lill: You have many friends and you’re very influential in your circle - I’m counting on you to host one.
Michelle –
We’ve got a big task ahead of us in this fall’s elections.
We need to get as many of the 15 million first-time voters from 2008 back to the polls as possible.
Historical trends are against us this year, but, with your help, we can overcome them.
If we can increase the turnout levels of first-time voters by just 8% over previous trends, that would mean a shift of 2% in the final vote total — more than enough to swing close races across the country and make sure we elect candidates committed to change.
And it all starts with our Vote 2010 Kick-off Canvasses the weekend of June 5th. OFA supporters fromMaine to Hawaii will go door-to-door, re-engaging first-time voters from 2008 in the fights ahead and asking them to commit to return to the polls in 2010.
We know that starting early will help us build the connection we’ll need with these voters to get them to the polls in November.
But to make sure enough doors get knocked and voters are spoken with, we need 2 more events in your area.Can you sign up to host one?
Readers: I know you’re out there, but it is awfully quiet and lonely around here. Where are all of you? Anna, Peter, Ruth, Evelyn, Mike, Helena, Robert? Anyone? This is not the time to disappear, although I doubt it is your choice. Hope to hear from all of my readers soon…
…peace out…
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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May 24th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Hi Mischa,
I’m flattered that you think I have many friends and that I’m influential with them, the truth is I have a long list of acquantances who may or may not agree with the influential part : ) I can only test the waters, which I will do, guess I should hold onto those 30 martini glasses I was just thinking I should ditch, I never have that many people over anymore, those days are so over bc that’s 24 people too many, hahaha…
It is quiet here…maybe my comment will help open the portal (yeah right, I’ve got pull with the powers that be…!) so – open says-a-me : )
Back to biz…! Luv, Zen Lill
May 24th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Hi, I just wanted to post this bc we all know an over 65 person who still likes imbibing and may or may not realize the risks when mixed with meds. Also, no matter what age, alcohol and regular use of advil/acetomenaphine/ibuprofen is not a good idea either, I used to double dose on both for cramps, hee hee, now I just double down caffeine (opens veins/arteries thus limiting headaches and cramps). These articles about seniors getting addicted to rx drugs and otc’s are just as valuable to tweenies-sixty year old’s, watch what your family/friends say they’re taking and for how long. Vicadin every 4 hours right after surgery for 5-7-10 days (depends on surgery, of course) is fine, 3 months later to ‘regulate lasting pain’ is not good and could require a review of symtoms, effectiveness of physical therapy, etc…that’s just my two on health today. – ZL
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Even Moderate Drinking Puts Many Older Adults at Risk
Regular alcohol use may harm those over 60 with health issues, prescription meds, research shows
(HealthDay News) — Although one to two alcoholic drinks a day is often considered safe or possibly even beneficial for health, this habit may put many older adults at risk, a new study has found.
Older adults are considered “at risk” if they have at least one of the following drinking behaviors: they consume more than two drinks a day; they consume one to two drinks on most days and have certain health problems, such as gout, hepatitis or nausea; they consume one or two drinks on most days and take certain medications, such as antidepressants or sedatives.
University of California, Los Angeles researchers analyzed data from more than 3,300 patients aged 60 and older who went to primary care clinics near Santa Barbara, Calif., and found that:
• 34.7 percent of the patients were at risk due to drinking alone or drinking in combination with existing health problems or medications, and 19.5 percent fell into multiple risk categories.
• Of those at risk, over 56 percent were in at least two risk categories, and 31 percent were in all three risk categories.
• At-risk drinking was 2.5 times more likely among patients who had not graduated from high school than among those who had completed graduate school.
• Patients with annual household incomes between $80,000 and $100,000 were 1.5 times more likely to be at risk than those with incomes under $30,000.
• Those 80 or older were about half as likely to be at risk as patients between 60 to 64 years old.
• At-risk drinking was less than half as common among Asians as among whites.
The study was published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
“In summary, even among our relatively advantaged study patients, as many as one in three who continued to consume alcohol into older adulthood were at risk of harm from drinking,” lead study author Andrew Barnes, a researcher in the UCLA School of Public Health’s department of health services, and colleagues wrote.
“Physicians may be less aware of other alcohol-related risk factors common among the elderly (e.g., interactions with select medications and comorbidities) than the risks associated with heavy drinking,” they concluded.
May 25th, 2010 at 8:40 am
I’ve had the hardest time getting in but I noticed that Zen Lill seems to have no problem. If this makes it in, I want to let you know that I am hearing your call.
I will be hosting a brunch for the dems. I would like to open with this column if you don’t mind. I’ve asked the Geeks(it’s a Geeks for Obama get out the vote brunch) to bring their laptops.
I hope this gets in so that I can get an answer from you, the brunch is scheduled for Saturday.
Thanks
Terry
May 25th, 2010 at 8:49 am
Hafa adai
This is another reason the Chief had to go. He ran a cowboy operation in which his police force acted like it could do anything to anybody.
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Guam – The legal challenges keep piling for the Guam Police Department, as another lawsuit alleging violations of civil rights has been filed with the U.S. District Court of Guam. Gillian Mary Hardman is suing the Government of Guam – specifically GPD and officers Benny T. Babauta, Carlo E. Reyes, Kenneth J.C. Balajadia, Joseph B. Tenorio and others.
According to the verified complaint for damages and demand for trial by jury, on May 25, 2008 police received a harassment complaint against Hardman. Between midnight and 1:30 in the morning the following day, police went to her home in Tumon. The plaintiff alleges that police forcibly broke open the door to her home without permission to enter and then confronted her while she was in her bedroom. Hardman claims she tried to call her attorney for assistance after she asked police for a search warrant.
Additionally, she alleges that police threw her to the ground outside her home onto the cement driveway, which she claims caused her to suffer a broken bone in her leg. The complaint also states that she pleaded for medical assistance but was taken to the Hagatna Precinct instead of the hospital.
Her attorney, Curtis Van De Veld, cites violations of his client’s civil rights – that the officers invaded her privacy, assaulted her, trespassed on her property, made a false arrest, and falsely imprisoned her. Hardman is seeking full and complete compensatory damages to be proven at trial, as well as the cost of the lawsuit and attorney’s fees and legal expenses.
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Checks and balances are supposed to be present to prevent any one branch of government from running amok. That includes the group used to protect and serve.
If this doesn’t happen, the we the people MUST step up and provide the check.
The result is one errant police chief checked.
Peter
May 25th, 2010 at 8:53 am
I’m three months pregnant and I have been trying to get this in for three days. This is my 14th try. I love the Sun but I thought that I had to give it up now that I am pregnant. This was great news and I wanted to share itl
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Sunning yourself for baby
Many pregnant women give up nearly everything while they’re expecting–and most of those habits are worth quitting.
But whatever you do, don’t surrender your time in the sun.
You and your child need the vitamin D delivered by our neighborhood star, and getting the right amount of sunlight during pregnancy can help your child years down the road. A new study finds that extra sunlight during the key first trimester may slash your child’s multiple sclerosis risk decades later.
Australian researchers studied the birth records of 1,524 multiple sclerosis patients born between 1920 and 1950, and found a disproportionate number were born in November and December. Since Australia’s summer begins on Dec. 1, these babies were all born in the warm-weather months.
But let’s hit the rewind button on those pregnancies… because those summer births mean the future mothers went through their first trimesters in Australia’s late autumn and early winter–when they were much less likely to be outside.
The researchers also found a disproportionately low number of MS patients were born in May and June, which means those first trimesters took place during the Australian spring and summer, when women are more likely to be outside.
Overall, they found babies whose first trimesters took place in autumn and winter had a 30 percent higher risk of MS than those whose first three months in the womb took place in spring and summer, according to the study published in the British Medical Journal.
It’s not a definitive link, to be sure–but since we already know how low levels of vitamin D can increase MS risk, you just can’t ignore this one.
In fact, MS rates overall rise as you move away from the equator. Nations with the most sunlight have the lowest risk. Those of us who live further north have the highest.
And vitamin D will do so much more than lower your baby’s MS risk. Getting enough of this crucial hormone early on can also lower the future risk of everything from schizophrenia to diabetes.
But you don’t have to wait decades to see those D levels pay dividends–when a mother-to-be gets enough of it during her pregnancy, her baby is much more likely to have stronger bones and a healthy birth weight.
So if you or anyone you love is pregnant, make sure that steady sunlight or a good vitamin D3 supplement is part of the prenatal routine–especially during the winter months.
And that same advice applies to the rest of us, since vitamin D has been linked to longer lives, stronger bones and healthy immune systems along with lower risks for everything from diabetes to heart disease.
Be sure to keep an eye on your email this weekend, when I’ll you more about the important role vitamin D plays in healthy aging.
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So it seems that those of you like me who love the sun can continue.
Janice
May 25th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Summertime is arriving in much of the country. Warmer weather should mean time to kick back, take a nap in the hammock or, even better, head to the beach for a little fun in the sun.
But just when millions of people are thinking about heading to the beach, we’re watching BP’s oil spill in the Gulf unfold like a slow-motion disaster on television. All that oil washing ashore is destroying more than vacation plans — where I grew up on the Gulf Coast, real people are losing their jobs, their livelihoods and their hope in the face of an unprecedented economic and environmental disaster.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed like I am about the Gulf oil spill or anything else, you really owe it to yourself to tune into our conversation tonight at 8 p.m. ET with Paul Loeb, author of the new edition of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times.
May 25th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Michelle
I am not trying to be silent. But each time I summit a post, I get this Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!
i will continue to post this until it gets in. When it does I will try to follow up with what I have to really post.
Thanks for thinking of me thought
Mile
May 25th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Michelle
We white people are loving tool Here is an excellent example.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/north_bay&id=7459472
I know that my race is responsible for terrible things done to OTWS, but not all of us are that way.
Valeri
May 25th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Valeri,
It is a good article and video. It means nothing that the woman is white. It means this woman is a humanitarian and cares for others. Because she’s white does not mean that this is why she is kind and loving…The point to the race argument is that there is not point…
May 25th, 2010 at 10:23 am
[...] Zen Lill: Friends or acquaintances, not matter – You are influential; more than you think. Every time you tell us a story, I notice how people listen to you. I say, keep those martini glasses and host a party. :) Thanks for the article too – good stuff. [...]