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Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an Elder Statesman for Civil Rights, Dies at 89

BY JON NORDHEIMER The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a storied civil rights leader who survived beatings and bombings in Alabama a half-century ago as he fought against racial injustice alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala. He was 89.

He died at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, his wife, Sephira Bailey Shuttlesworth, said. He also lived in Birmingham.

It was in that city in the spring of 1963 that Mr. Shuttlesworth, an important ally of Dr. King, organized two tumultuous weeks of daily demonstrations by black children, students, clergymen and others against a rigidly segregated society.

Graphic scenes of helmeted police officers and firefighters under the direction of T. Eugene (Bull) Connor, Birmingham’s intransigent public safety commissioner, scattering peaceful marchers with fire hoses, police dogs and nightsticks, provoked a national outcry.

The brutality helped galvanize the nation’s conscience, as did the Ku Klux Klan’s bombing of a black church in Birmingham that summer, which killed four girls at Sunday school. Those events led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, after the historic Alabama marches that year from Selma to Montgomery, which Mr. Shuttlesworth also helped organize. The laws were the bedrock of civil rights legislation.

“Without Fred Shuttlesworth laying the groundwork, those demonstrations in

“Among the youthful ‘elders’ of the movement,” she added,“he was Martin Luther King’s most effective and insistent foil: blunt where King was soothing, driven where King was leisurely, and most important, confrontational where King was conciliatory — meaning, critically, that he was more upsetting than King in the eyes of the white public.”

Birmingham would not have been as successful,” said Andrew M. Manis, author of “A Fire You Can’t Put Out,” a biography of Mr. Shuttlesworth. “Birmingham led to Selma, and those two became the basis of the civil rights struggle.”

Mr. Shuttlesworth, he added, had “no equal in terms of courage and putting his life in the line of fire” to battle segregation.

Mr. Shuttlesworth joined with Dr. King in

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The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, left, with Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963.

1957 as one of the four founding ministers of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the engine of Dr. King’s effort to unify the black clergy and their flocks to combat Jim Crow laws. At the time, Mr. Shuttlesworth was leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, which he had helped form in 1956 to replace the Alabama offices of the N.A.A.C.P., shut down for years by court injunction.

Outside their roles as men of the cloth and civil rights advocates, however, Mr.

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Shuttlesworth and Dr. King stood in sharp contrast to each other in terms of background, personality and strategies.

Dr. King was a polished product of Atlanta’s black middle class. A graduate of Morehouse College, he held a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University. Fred Shuttlesworth was a child of poor black Alabama whose ministerial degree was from an unaccredited black school. (He later earned a master’s degree in education from Alabama State College.)

Where Dr. King could deliver thunderous oratory and move audiences by his reasoned convictions and faith, Mr. Shuttlesworth was fiery, whether preaching in the pulpit or standing up to Bull Connor, who dueled with him for years in street protests and boycotts leading up to their historic 1963 showdown.

Diane McWhorter, the author of “Carry Me Home,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2001 book about the struggle in Birmingham, wrote in an e-mail that Mr. Shuttlesworth was known among some civil rights activists as “the Wild Man from Birmingham.”

“Among the youthful ‘elders’ of the movement,” she added, “he was Martin Luther King’s most effective and insistent foil: blunt where King was soothing, driven where King was leisurely, and most important, confrontational where King was conciliatory — meaning, critically, that he was more upsetting than King in the eyes of the white public.”

Mr. Shuttlesworth was temperamental, even obstinate, and championed action and confrontation over words. He could antagonize segregationists and allies alike, quarreling with his allies behind closed doors.

But few doubted his courage. In the years before 1963 he was arrested time and again — 30 to 40 times by his count — on charges aimed at impeding peaceful protests. He was repeatedly jailed and twice the target of bombs.

In one instance, on Christmas night 1956, he survived an attack in which six sticks of dynamite were detonated outside his parsonage bedroom as he lay in bed. “The wall and the floor were blown out,” Ms. McWhorter wrote, “and the mattress heaved into the air, supporting Shuttlesworth like a magic carpet.”

When he tried to enroll his children in an all-white school in 1957, Klansmen attacked him with bicycle chains and brass knuckles.

When a doctor treating his head wounds marveled that he had not suffered a concussion, Mr. Shuttlesworth famously replied, “Doctor, the Lord knew I lived in a hard town, so he gave me a hard head.”

Freddie Lee Robinson was born on March 18, 1922, in rural Mount Meigs, Ala. He took the surname Shuttlesworth from a man his mother, Alberta Robinson, later married. He had eight siblings, and the family supplemented its income by sharecropping and making moonshine liquor, an activity for which Mr. Shuttlesworth was sentenced to two years’ probation in 1940.

He was a truck driver in the early 1940s but was soon drawn to pulpits in Selma and Birmingham. He became pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1953 and joined the Alabama chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. before it was outlawed from the state in 1956.

He and others established the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights to carry on the chapter’s work and came to challenge the white power structure on many fronts.

In 1963 he welcomed Dr. King to Birmingham to take part in the protests. They planned a boycott of white merchants coupled

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Good Health Starts with Good Habits Paul B. Simms, MPH, President - San Diego Black Health Associates, Inc. It is important to remain focused on the theme. Good Health Starts with Good Habits. This statement is so true – friends. A habit is a practice that improves with repetition. The more often you do it, the easier it becomes. The longest held habits begin when children are nurtured to accept them early in life.

The recent Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama provides a national framework to promote prevention and early screening in health care. The expansion of prevention and early diagnosis policy at the federal level should also result in measurable progress at the local level. How should we promote prevention in our every-day living?

More importantly, how should communities respond to fast-food advertisements that offer a whole range of goods and services? Are they trying to convince us to purchase their products unchecked, and what is their duty to tell the truth about any bad outcomes from its use?

Try to remember the seven presidents and chief executive officers of tobacco companies who testified about nicotine before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.

It was Chairman Henry Waxman who noted in 1994: Each of the 7 subsequent speakers testified that nicotine was not addictive. In truth, they all appeared to have committed perjury. From these and other efforts, the multi-state tobacco tax settlement was estimated to generate $246 billion over the ensuing 25 years,

“It is sometimes easier to invent fiction than to face the truth.The truth is that cigarettes are the single most dangerous consumer product ever sold. Nearly a half million Americans die every year as a result of tobacco.This is an astounding, almost in- comprehensible statistic.

Henry Waxman, Chairman Committee on Health and the Environment House of Representatives April 14, 1994

to attack enormous public health problems posed by tobacco on the United States. This was in 1998. Might we envision a similar type of taxation and assessment plan for the fast food manufacturing companies?

The world is adjusting to moral failures in the housing industry and the greedy practices in the banking system. The current demonstrations on Wall Street about abusive banking and lending practices are similar to the protests to the Vietnam War in the late 1960’s. People who did not believe that the U.S.A. had launched an acceptable war in Southeast Asia and were determined to change it; and they did. Similarly, the current generation is dismayed at proposals for untaxed riches for millionaires while students wrap their futures in loans and the country is eroded from its safety net for the elderly and poor.

Earlier this year, Jan Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, proposed obese or overweight consumers covered by Medicaid (low income families only) “be assessed an additional $50 per person per year to offset cost for obesity”. It’s not as if fresh fruits and vegetables were available in these low income communities.

Thankfully, the People’s Produce Project was successful in its Farmer’s Market plans.

Every Friday from 2:00 until 6:00 pm, fresh fruits and vegetables are available at the corner of Market Street and Euclid Avenue. In addition, WIC families and people on SSI can have up to $20.00 doubled each week through the use of EBT federally support coupons.

As globalization redefines the competitive forces with which American workers must now try to compete for employment, those at the bottom of the economic ladder must learn how to work together to promote good health, pursue viable exercises, and promote new

concepts of wellness.

I want to stress the importance of shifting your thinking about a healthy world and mobilizing the resources to ensure a vital and healthy values. Our goal is for you and your family to live a full and rich life. This means beginning to redefine and make better use of the assets around us.

Ensure that habits promoted in the household are understood by our children and adults.

We see that where families are generally strong and vibrant, socialization occurs. This socialization takes on varied forms. It is important, therefore, that all of the members embrace a particular world view about education and healthy living.

Television has become the great socializer of the children, particularly for homes where there is a single bread-winner. Neilsen Media Research reported in November 2010 that average television use in U.S. households was at 5 hours and 11 minutes each day. For African American households, however, they use 7 hours and 12 minutes of television daily. Asians used their T.V. the least - just 3 hours and 14 minutes, on average (less than half that of African Americans). Large doses of television do not pave the road to the University of California or to careers in engineering, medicine, law, astronomy, genetics, or psychology.

The important fact is that while there have been hundreds of thousands of dollars committed to education, there are still large numbers of Black children who cannot read. The Black Star Project (www.blackstarproject.org) noted that: “This failure exists after six years of No Child Left Behind, 53 years of Brown versus the Topeka Board of Education, and 142 years of being technically removed from slavery. If Black children cannot read today, they cannot become the Black doctors, nurses, lawyers, engineers, bankers, accountants, technologists, business people or educators of tomorrow who will make Black communities successful. If Black children cannot read today, they are really no better off than their forefathers who were slaves”.

Thus, reading for our children is an essential function and should be an early habit. We must start reading early and stay late. Retired teachers should be mobilized. Work should begin on tutorial opportunities for expanded educational efforts in schools. Churches should provide additional study opportunities. Training programs should ensure internships are marketed to the entire community. There are no steps that should be circumvented to ensure that our children follow our leadership. If we have not practiced reading as adults, we should start.

We should also begin to take greater responsibility over our health. We should empower ourselves to do those things that are health-related. You will immediately see and feel the benefit. These are the simply powerful assets. Drink water (not soda) with meals. Take our vitamins! Keep track of your health, based on the lab reports. Eat more vegetables and fruit. Never “supersize” anything. Fast and pray regularly. Don’t let yourself get too angry.

Learn the value of older habits; “Pot liquor” is the juice that cooked the greens and is tasty.

Stay in control. Keep a record of your own weight. Clean your teeth twice a day. Verbally support your children. Keep them conscious of the changes you are making.

Together, we learn that we are not alone. There is a God who blesses us regularly.

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The Difference Between an Uncle Tom and a Sambo Being a former farm boy that sharecropped with his father, I got a stomach full of Blacks that would do any and everything to impress the Massa. You could sometimes hear the names Uncle Tom or Sambo being tossed around.

Calling a Black person an Uncle Tom or a Sambo had a lot to do with how the particular individual handled himself in front of white people. That, and also how he treated other

SHUTTLESWORTH Continued from page 3 with large marches that they expected would provoke overreaction by city officials and show the world the depth of white resistance.

“We wanted confrontation, nonviolent confrontation, to see if it would work,” Mr. Shuttlesworth later said. “Not just for Birmingham — for the nation. We were trying to launch a systematic, wholehearted battle against segregation, which would set the pace for the nation.”

Mr. Shuttlesworth suffered chest injuries when the pummeling spray of fire hoses was turned on him. “I’m sorry I missed it,” Mr. Connor said when told of the injuries, The New York Times reported in 1963. “I wish they’d carried him away in a hearse.”

After 1965, with the new civil rights legislation on the books and Dr. King turning his attention to poverty and black problems in the urban North, Mr. Shuttlesworth remained focused on local issues in Birmingham and Cincinnati, where he had moved to take the pulpit of a black church. He traveled frequently between Ohio and Alabama before returning permanently to Birmingham in 2008 for treatment after suffering a stroke the previous year.

Besides his wife, Mr. Shuttlesworth is survived by four daughters, Patricia Massengill, Ruby “Ricky” Bester, Carolyn Shuttlesworth and Maria Murdock; a son, Fred Jr.; a stepdaughter, Audrey Wilson; five sisters, Betty Williams, Truzella Brazil, Ernestine Grimes,

Blacks in the presence of whites. The term Uncle Tom became very popular, even catching the eye of Hollywood with the movie adaptation of the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In reality, the Uncle Toms of the world didn’t have a cabin. If they did, it was just a makeshift cast off with a roof and four walls. If a man proved to be a good Uncle Tom, he would be treated one step above the plantation animals.

Iwilder Reid and Eula Mitchell; 14 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and one greatgreat-grandchild.

With the death of Dr. King, and later Dr. King’s chief aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Mr. Shuttlesworth eventually assumed the role of elder statesman in the civil rights movement.

In 2004 he was named president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, but he stepped down the same year, complaining that “deceit, mistrust and a lack of spiritual discipline and truth have eaten at the core of this once-hallowed organization.”

He also came under criticism by gay rights advocates in 2004 when he lent his name to a campaign in Cincinnati to stop the city from passing a gay rights ordinance.

He remained an honored figure in Birmingham, however. In 2008, the city renamed its principal airport BirminghamShuttlesworth International Airport.

In 2009, in a wheelchair, he was front and center among other dignitaries in an audience of about 6,000 at the city’s Boutwell Auditorium to watch a live broadcast as the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, was sworn in.

He had encountered Mr. Obama, then a senator from Illinois, two years earlier, along with former President Bill Clinton, during a commemoration in Selma of the Selma-toMontgomery voting rights marches. As a crowd crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where demonstrators were beaten and tear-gassed on “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, Mr. Obama pushed Mr. Shuttlesworth’s wheelchair.

One day I heard a so-called Uncle Tom speaking to a young Black boy on the plantation, admonishing him for the way he was speaking to the Massa and his family. The Uncle Tom pulled him to the side and said, “Boy, we can only work with what we’ve got. I went to the Massa and asked him to spare you like I have asked him to spare many other Blacks on this plantation. Young man, if there is going to be an exit away from this plantation, living is paramount. If you’re going to leave here alive, you may have to swallow a bitter pill.” The Uncle Tom stood in to save young boys and girls like him from a hard fate.

Hearing that explanation, the definition of the Uncle Tom was redefined for me. The Uncle Tom was the Black man providing a buffer between the Massa and the other slaves on the farm. The Uncle Tom saved more lives than he ever sold out.

Sambo on the other hand earned his stripes by selling out other Blacks. Sambo was the Massa’s boy and the Massa could count on him to look out for his interests at any cost. Sambo was out to get whatever he could get, avoiding working and yet still looking good in the eyes of the Massa. He would sell you out faster then Judas did Jesus. He’s the guy that divided the plantation by always keeping some mess going on so that he would look good as the peacekeeper.

I remember an incident where I was called on to a military base to figure out why the younger Black and white soldiers couldn’t get along. When I arrived on base, I was quickly told by some white women just how great the sergeant majors and the sergeants were. In their minds, it was the young troops that were creating all of the trouble. After spending some time observing the situation I came to realize that the powers to be, both Black and white, kept confusion going on at all the times between the soldiers so that there would always be some sort of chaos. The sergeants would then get up even in the middle of the night to stop the fighting, making themselves look good in front of the general. The gener-

EDITORIAL al thought his sergeants were lifesavers, but I had to tell him otherwise. A Sambo is forever looking for something to raise him above the rest.

Which one are you? An Uncle Tom or a Sambo? Are you in the Black community today looking out for Blacks and making sure they are growing at the rate of other communities? Or are you a Sambo selling out people to make sure you get your stripes? You may not say it publicly but you practice it in private. When was the last time you encouraged a Black person to keep on pushing or tried to help them push forward? Or are we simply sitting around talking about how bad we look and complaining that Black people don’t work together? Perhaps it’s because we don’t have any common ground in the community.

If one of us tries to do something, we always find a way to pull it down and kill it. So remember the definitions of the Uncle Tom and the Sambo from this day forward. And ask yourself this, which one are you?

Until next week, Willie Morrow

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Tips on Hair During Chemotherapy Treatment • One of the side effects of chemotherapy is hair loss. Chemotherapy targets not only cancer cells, but also other cells that divide rapidly, including hair follicles. According to the Breast Cancer website, healthy hair follicles divide every 23 to 72 hours. The amount of hair loss is impossible to predict in chemotherapy patients. Some chemo agents cause hair loss only on the head, others, over the entire body. Small, infrequent chemo doses tend to cause less hair loss than large, frequent treatments.

Prevention • For some chemotherapy regimens, a cold cap is used to limit hair loss. The cap works by cooling the scalp and slowing blood flow to the hair follicles. This also helps reduce the amount of chemical that penetrates your hair. The cap is applied 15 minutes before the start of chemo infusion and stays on for one to two hours after treatment. You might decide not to wear a cold cap because the cold can be uncomfortable. Clinical trials show successful hair retention of up to 85 percent with certain chemotherapy drugs. Your oncologist will advise you if a cold cap might help you.

Wigs • Wigs are made from human hair, synthetic hair or a combination of both. A wig is typically covered by insurance and is purchased before the start of chemo to ensure the right style and color. It is important to work with a wig specialist for a proper fitting, and it's also helpful to ask your own hairstylist or trusted friend to accompany you when purchasing the wig. As you lose more hair, the wig will need to be refitted.

A thin scarf or skullcap worn under the wig prevents irritation of your scalp. If you have issues with the wig staying in place, you can use non-irritating double-sided tape available from a wig specialist. The American Cancer Society can provide help in locating and purchasing a wig.

Tips • Cutting your hair short can help to ease the transition to baldness. Some people prefer to shave their heads completely, flaunting their baldness and bringing acceptance and awareness to their condition. Scarves, caps or turbans are often worn instead of a wig.

Some websites specialize in head coverings for chemotherapy patients.

Avoid harsh shampoos, and if irritation occurs, moisturizing the scalp will help. You should not use any chemicals on your hair, such as a permanent wave or hair color, until your hair has re-grown completely.

Use a soft hairbrush and a non-nylon pillowcase to reduce scalp irritation. If the hair is brittle, avoid hair dryers and other appliances that can cause further dryness. he American Cancer Society offers the Look Good Feel Better program, which provides two-hour workshops that teach chemo patients skin care and makeup techniques.

The workshops, offered in hospitals and community centers, are free of charge and are designed to help improve patients' self-esteem.

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Is Your Illness Work-Related?

Only work-related injuries or illnesses are covered by workers’ compensation.

If you are seeking workers' compensation benefits, you will have to show that your injury or illness is work-related. Usually, if you were doing something for the benefit of your employer, and you were injured or became ill as a result, then your injury or illness is work-related and you can receive benefits as long as you meet the other eligibility requirements. (See Nolo's article Are You Eligible for Workers' Comp Benefits? for more on these requirements.)

Although the "work-related" requirement may seem like a simple rule, it can get tricky.

Some common situations are covered below. If your injury or illness falls into a gray area, you may want to consult with an attorney to find out whether you will be eligible for benefits. (To learn about situations that aren't covered by workers' compensation, see Nolo's article Workplace Injury: When You Can Sue Outside of Workers' Compensation.)

Lunch Breaks Usually, injuries or illnesses that happen on an employee's lunch break are not covered under workers' compensation. For example, if you sprained your ankle while walking into a deli to pick up your lunch (or lunch for your coworkers), then you probably cannot claim workers' compensation for that injury. However, if you were also picking up lunch for your boss, then the injury might be covered.

If you sprained your ankle in a cafeteria on the company's premises, then your injury might be covered by workers' comp. Using a company cafeteria saves you time, which leaves more time for work, which makes your use of the cafeteria beneficial to your employer.

Company Events Many companies sponsor special events like parties, picnics, or baseball games -- and injuries sustained at these events are usually covered by workers' compensation. For example, let's say Don drinks too much wine at the company anniversary party and decides to twirl his coworker Angie above his head while they are dancing. Unfortunately, he drops Angie, and they both fall. Angie breaks her arm, and Don suffers a severely strained neck. Both injuries are probably covered by workers' compensation.

Travel If you are injured on your commute to or from work, your injury probably isn't covered by workers' compensation. However, there are many times when injuries during travel are covered. For example, if you are traveling for work, but not to your fixed work site (on a business trip, for example), then your injuries will probably be covered. If you are a traveling salesperson with no regular work site, then injuries you sustain while driving to meet with a customer will probably be covered. Or, if you are injured during your regular commute but are driving a company vehicle, then your injuries will probably be covered.

Misconduct If you were injured while breaking a workplace safety rule or while doing something else that your employer has prohibited (even a criminal act), your injury may still be covered by workers' compensation, depending on the level of your misconduct. This is part of the workers' compensation bargain: Employees do not have the right to sue their employer for work-related

injuries, but those injuries are usually covered by workers' compensation, regardless of fault.

As an example of how injuries that stem from misconduct are usually still covered under workers' compensation, let's say Dolores and Kalil work on the assembly line at Widget World. One day, they decide to play catch with a two-pound metal ball that is part of the machinery. This is in direct violation of a safety rule, which prohibits playing with the equipment. While Dolores is attempting to catch the ball, it slips through her hands and hits her in the head, knocking her unconscious and causing a minor brain injury. Her injury could still be covered by workers' compensation, even though she was violating a work rule when she got hurt, especially if the employer knew this type of horseplay occurred and condoned it.

There are some exceptions to this general rule. For example, if your injuries were selfinflicted, then they might not be covered.

Preexisting Conditions If you have a preexisting condition, and your job aggravates or exacerbates it in a way that results in an injury or illness, then the injury is probably covered by workers' compensation.

For example, when Marco was 30, a disc in his back ruptured. The injury resolved itself within six months and has not bothered him since. He is now 45 and works in a department store. One day, he ruptures the same disc while lifting a heavy object off a shelf. Although his job did not cause his initial injury, it certainly caused it to reoccur. The injury is now covered by workers' compensation.

Hearing Loss People who work in noisy environments -such as construction sites or manufacturing plants -- often suffer hearing loss over time.

Unless there is some other obvious reason for the impairment, this injury is usually covered by workers' compensation.

Mental Conditions Mental conditions that are job-related are covered by workers' compensation. For example, if you are traumatized by witnessing another employee injured or killed on the job, your trauma is compensable by workers' comp.

Conditions caused by a stressful workplace environment can also be compensable. In addition, if you become depressed because you have suffered from a workplace injury, that depression is covered by workers' compensation.

Be warned, however, that it can be hard to prove that the mental condition actually exists and that it was caused by workplace events. This is a situation in which a consultation with a lawyer can help you decide how to proceed. To locate a workers' compensation attorney in your geographic area, visit Nolo's Lawyer Directory.

Diseases and Illnesses If you have a disease or illness resulting from your work, then you are entitled to workers' compensation. For example, workers suffering from asbestosis, which is a disease caused by exposure to asbestos, can receive workers' compensation benefits, as can workers suffering from black lung disease, which is caused by inhaling coal dust.

Except in the case of recognized environmental illnesses like these, however, it can be difficult to prove that a disease is work-related and not something that would have happened anyway.

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Self-Exam Schedule it In Regular breast exams don't work if they aren't done regularly. Follow these tips for remembering to examine yourself: - Put it on your calendar or in your day planner. If you don't want others to see your reminder, you can always abbreviate it "BSE" for discretion.

- Schedule it with something else. If you color your hair once a month, try to remember to perform your breast self-exam on the same day you recolor your hair. Or do it every time you pay your bills, or every time you get your hair cut.

- Check yourself in the shower. This can be an easy way to remember regular exams if you make it part of your morning routine once a month.

Try choosing the same day every month so you don't forget.

Procedure to Follow Breast self-examinations may seem fairly self-explanatory, but you should follow a specific pattern for your exam to be effective. Use these tips: - An exam should come in two parts: looking and feeling.

- For the "looking" portion of the exam, stand topless in front of a mirror. Hold your arms at your sides and examine yourself. Then raise your arms over your head and do it again. Look from both sides as well.

- For the "feeling" portion of your exam, lie on your back (or you can remain standing). Put one arm over your head and feel that breast with your opposite hand.

- During the exam, keep your fingers together and flat. Press on your breast, but not too hard. Make sure you cover the entire breast during your exam; you can do this by moving systematically in a circular or linear pattern across the breast.

What to Look For When you examine your breast, you are looking for signs of possible cancer or other problems.

- During the visual portion of the exam, look for redness, puckering or bumps.

- When feeling your breasts, feel for lumps and bumps. You should also take note of any swelling, pain, flaking skin or nipple discharge.

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By Nathan Max, Reporter - UT SAN DIEGO — The San Diego City Council is considering new regulations to make it easier for residents to garden and keep various unconventional animals on their properties.

City staff hopes to bring the new set of rules before the council in early 2012. On Wednesday, a series of proposals came before the city’s Committee on Land Use and Housing and garnered praise from council members and the public.

New regulations could affect farmers’ markets and community gardens, as well as residents who want to keep chickens, bees and goats on their properties.

“Urban agriculture operates in cities across the country,” Councilman Todd Gloria said.

“We’re simply updating our codes to match those of other cities. And, frankly, the practices are already occurring in homes throughout the city.”

Among the proposed new rules: Retail farms of up to four acres would be permitted.

The use of pesticides on them would be prohibited, and 75 percent of products sold would be required to be produced on site.

Backyard chickens: Currently, residents are

allowed up to 25 chickens on their property, however, the animals must remain 50 feet from any structure used for residential purposes. For those wishing to keep 15 or fewer chickens, the distance would be relaxed. Roosters, however, will be prohibited.

Honey bees: Hives must be located within a secured area to protect the colony and the public, and no more than one hive would be permitted per lot. Bigger lots could have one additional hive for every 5,000 square feet of lot space.

Goats: Only miniature goats would be allowed, they must be dehorned and males would have to be neutered. The sale of goat food products would be prohibited.

More than a dozen residents spoke in favor of the new guidelines at Wednesday’s meeting.

There were no speakers opposed.

Council members did not vote on the proposals. The issue is expected to come back before the committee late in the year before heading to the full council.

“I think urban agriculture makes sense,” Councilman Kevin Faulconer said. “It also makes sense to make the rules clear. I’m strongly supportive of this moving forward.”

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THE ANTI-WALL STREET MOVEMENT: DC POLICE ARE GETTING READY FOR LARGE SCALE PROTESTS

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olice in the District are planning for sizable but civilized protests this week by groups affiliated with the anti-Wall Street demonstrations in New York as the movement gains support in cities across the country, as far as San Francisco.

“Right now, we haven’t had any sign that there is going to be any civil disobedience,” said Lamar Greene, a Metropolitan Police Department assistant chief. “We have sufficient manpower out there if it was to drastically change. Things could change pretty rapidly.”

In three weeks, the protests that started with a handful of college students camping out in a park near New York’s financial center have swelled to the thousands and resulted in hundreds of arrests Saturday (Oct. 1) as protesters swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Occupy Wall Street movement, which is speaking out against corporate greed and corruption and to express a mass feeling of injustice in society, has spawned similar movements with marches on financial centers in cities including Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles. Another component of the movement is the encampments that protesters have erected in busy downtown corridors, which they say will remain indefinitely.

In the coming weeks, marches are planned for nearly every major U.S. city, and some not-so-major cities. The fledgling Occupy D.C. movement has been small in number since kicking off efforts Saturday. By its own count, approximately 120 people showed up for a meeting that night. The number of protesters gathered at McPherson Square dwindled last Monday but is expected to gain momentum in the coming weeks—there are indications that there will be 1,000 protestors Due to the mass arrests and complaints of police brutality in New York, both police and organizers in the District plan to keep a close eye on interaction between protesters and police. During protesters’ occupation thus far, interactions with police have been “mostly cordial,” said Chris Carraway, a Georgetown University law student working with the National

Lawyer’s Guild to help organize legal observers. The handful of protesters sleeping at McPherson Square have purposely chosen to sleep on sidewalks rather than in the square itself, which is illegal, Mr. Carraway said.

“The general assembly has decided they want to proceed nonviolently and without breaking any laws,” he said of the group’s organizing body. MPD officials have met with protest leaders, and has used cameras, to document interactions for the upcoming First Amendment-related events. “We do have protests almost on a daily basis, so our procedures are pretty current,” he said of the way MPD handles protesters. The police department’s strategies have greatly improved over the last decade, thanks in part to two multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuits brought by people arrested during protests.

“Ten years ago, you couldn’t go to a demonstration in D.C. without risk of being falsely arrested and that is very different now,” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership Civil Justice Fund, which brought the lawsuits against the District.

The District paid out $22 million in protest settlements for two separate incidents, the arrest of 400 people in Pershing Park in the District in 2002, and the arrest of 700 people in 2000 during a protest near the World Bank. The arrests also led to changes in law that dictate how police must deal with protesters in the District. Legal observers will be out among the protests this week to ensure protesters are treated fairly and police follow the law.“We’re monitoring the police action in D.C. with regard to this growing protest movement in part to ensure compliance with the very significant changes we’ve secured in D.C.,” Ms. Verheyden-Hilliard said.

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THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC BUBBLE!!

Connect Create Cooperate While I am not an economist, (but I am looking for one for my campaign) I haven’t heard anyone else say it, so YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! THE WORLD IS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMIC BUBBLE! (If you already heard it somewhere else, keep it to yourself. J ) I was watching interviews from the Barefoot Economic Summit on MSNBC (which I listen to almost every day) and reading this book, “The Sellout: How Three Decades Of Wall Street Greed And Government Mismanagement Destroyed The Global Financial System, by Charles Gasparino.*” (You’ve got to read more than the newspaper.) This is what they were talking about without saying it, and it’s scary as hell. No, I mean really scary as hell. When you get a chance, study economic bubbles, especially the “Tulip Bubble.” This was the dumbest one of all, and, in the modern European economy, the first bubble. Why do we not learn from our mistakes??

You’ve probably heard of the “dot com bubble” and the “real estate bubble”. This is when someone says something is worth something it’s not, and a lot of people put up a lot of money (billions and trillions of dollars) to buy it at the high (fake) price. The problem comes when someone finally says, “Oh hell no, ain’t nobody gonna pay that kinda money for that!” Then the dot-com start-ups go under, or the fake housing “values” drop to half, and everybody’s wondering, “Where did all the money go?!” Because now the billions and trillions invested in these businesses and houses simply vanish from someone’s balance sheet – i.e., into thin air. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but I’ve only got 500 words here.

This week the biggest investors in the world are getting together to try and figure out where the world economy is headed, and all of them are saying it’s heading into the tank (i.e.: “toilet”).

Why, because Greece can’t pay its bills. Why, because it is too deep in debt. Why is this critical and scary as hell, because the people who are supposed to bail out Greece are drowning in debt, too. If Greece goes under, the world economy goes under with it. SOLUTION: Forgive everybody’s debt! Give everyone a loan modification. This debt isn’t real anyway. IT IS A DEBT BUBBLE! (Note: This is a European/American problem) I’ll see you on Monday October 11th at 6:00 p.m. at the Urban League and we’ll figure out our part in this.

Love Your Neighbor. J Love Yourself! *A couple of other books to read: Rich Dad’s Prophecy, by Robert Kiyosaki and Three Billion New Capitalists by Clyde Prestowitz.

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Dealing with Puberty & Menopause from a males Prospective

By Robin A. Allen I spoke on the topic of Puberty and Menopause in my last column to you and the effects of how these two very different events in life can come together in one home and cause chaos. Now I will share with you what the male counter part may be going through when he is faced with this deli ma in his home.

I interviewed a gentleman by the name of , Kevin, who states when he went through this very difficult time he was faced with the challenge of dealing with not only the emotions of his wife, but that of his own teenage daughter as well. This was not an easy time as he puts it. In fact he shared some advice for those father who may find themselves in the same situation.

One problem would be when the emotions are high , Kevin states " do not walk away from an argument that is brewing between your wife and teen rather mediate by taking the wife in private and working through the problem." Sometimes You spouse may be too emotional to rationally deal with the situation at hand and may not be able to clearly think things through. By you pulling her to a private environment you can hash through the drama and get to the nuts and bolts of the issue at hand.

Next He states " it's okay to tell your teenager that you will have to discuss the issue with them at a later time." Often times teenager's will get upset when things are not going in their favor. By taking time out to handle the issue you allow them to vent privately and calm down at the same time you are giving yourself a chance to give a more clear explanation to them with fairness rather than rushed decision due to the emotional battle field P & M can bring. As Kevin puts it " it''s a good time to go and change the oil on the car." This way you are not leaving the environment so your wife does not feel abandoned , and your teenager has some support knowing that the mediator is close by. It also sends a message to your teenager that they can not upset the parental balance and that your wife and you are making decisions as a team. Often times when teenager's can not get what they want they will play the "parent card." In other words {what mom says no to dad will approve.} Kevin states this is bad reflection on team parenting and should not be done.

I feel that this is sound advice because in my own home I am sure had the mediator been in place a lot of my own conflicts would have been better resolved.

In retro spec I would just like to remind the reader that if you feel you may be going through Menopause or Peri menopause and you have a teenager at home please seek some help.

Have your MD check your hormonal levels and follow up with a solid treatment plan for the symptoms of menopause. Make sure to take your supplements get plenty of rest and a well balanced diet. Exercise and talk to others in a support group setting.

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Through the eyes of a child Through the eyes of your child what emits back through their cornea, the part of the eye that is like a camera lens? What is it that your child or children see of you on a regular basis? We have the responsibility to raise them up in a way that is pleasing to God. That means that we are not to live a life that says do as I say not as I do. It means we are to live a life that they can emulate later in life and instill those same values and principles in their children. So much damage is being done by parents to their children that is absolutely mindboggling and downright shameful. The children born to you did not choose you and yet they’re stuck with you. Let me ask you, through the eyes of a child; is this the image they see?

• A parent who insists their child/children go to church and yet the parent lives their life as though they don’t know Jesus the other six days of the week?

• A parent who walks around saying God bless you and out of If you have questions you would your mouth on a regular basis the child hears you cussing them and like answered or topics discussed, please send all questions to faceothers out?

• A parent who puts their respective courting partner before the book.com/connectwithangelaharris or email: needs of their own child?

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• A parent who misappropriates funds given by God opting for frivolity then can’t pay the basic bills needed to provide for your family?

• A parent who tells their child they’ll never amount to anything? Calls their child stupid? Is always tearing them down?

I could go on and on. The question begs don’t you want to give your children a chance in life?

Many times our children act up because we are not giving them the love, the time, the attention, or the encouragement they need to mine their way through this thing called life. Our young girls search for the love of a man that they just can’t seem to get from their fathers. This means they tend to get together with any pair of britches if they dare to say those five magic words, “Girl you know I love you.” Our young men tend to emulate the men they’ve seen come around or worse they have a strong need to prove themselves and an even stronger need to feel accepted since they’ve been torn down by the very one who should be building them up.

Here are some images that should be seen and embraced through the eyes of a child: • A parent who encourages them to be the best they can be.

• A parent who exercises tough love, when, the occasion calls for it.

• A parent who if they say they are a Christian is identified as such not because you say it but because the child witnesses Christian behavior by you on a regular basis. You are a walking epistle.

• A parent who shows by example what it means to have work ethics, be a good citizen, and live in a way that exudes character and respect for authority.

• A parent who has a spirit of hospitality, a spirit of compassion, and one who always endeavors to see the best in others.

You can add to this list also. It is time out for the constant destruction being done to our children and time for parents to be parents is a way that builds our children up instead of tearing them down.

Like marriage parenthood should not be entered into lightly. You will have to sacrifice, you will have to discipline yourself, you will have to put some of your wants and desires on the back burner to ensure that your children’s needs are met both emotionally and financially. Remember you’re the one who decided to have children so you should be the one making the sacrifice. If we don’t stop this emotional chaotic rollercoaster that has taken over the very fabric of the family then we position ourselves to continue to see the following: • Escalating divorces • Escalating violence towards one another • Escalating sexual promiscuity • Escalating single parent households • Escalating emotionally disturbed children Let’s stop the cycle. If you have not lived in a way that you want your child to see you apologize to your child and immediately begin a corrective program to bring your child/children into a healthy realm of existence.

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NATURAL WAYS TO PREVENT AND REVERSE AUTOIMMUNE ILLNESS PART 3 OF 4 ON GETTING YOUR HEALTH BACK!

By Lady Topaz This is Part 3 in a 4 part series geared towards helping you understand the root causes of many autoimmune diseases and how to effectively address them in a healthy and holistic way.

Last week we concluded how the immune system falters and begins identifying some of the body’s own tissues as being harmful, or unnecessary, causing it to attack and eliminate these tissues through an inflammatory response which can cause pain and discomfort in many forms thus explaining how autoimmune illness develops.

This segment of the article series will review several natural ways to protect yourself against autoimmune illness. In some cases, I have found that the steps outlined herein can actually reverse some of the degenerative changes that can accompany various autoimmune illnesses.

Let’s begin with ….

GIVE YOUR DIGESTIVE TRACT A CHANCE TO HEAL Think of your digestive tract as your first physical line of defense against autoimmune illness, or any degenerative illness for that matter.

From your mouth to your rectal pouch, the lining of your digestive tract is continuous with the skin that covers your body. This technically makes your digestive tract lining similar to your outer skin in the sense that it acts as a barrier that protects your blood and inner tissues against undesirable substances in your environment.

Once the lining of your digestive tract begins to break down, if your genetic programming allows for it, you will begin to experience the antigen-antibody complex formation that occurs whenever incompletely digested protein leaks through your damaged digestive tract into your blood. The same goes for exogenous toxins like synthetic chemicals found in cosmetic products.

If you are suffering from an autoimmune condition, chances are good that your digestive

tract is not as healthy as it can be, and that the effects of “leaky gut syndrome” and the formation of antigen-antibody complexes are contributing to your current symptoms.

How can you know with reasonable certainty that your digestive tract lining is not as healthy as possible? Leaky gut syndrome is not recognized by conventional medicine as a health condition, most likely because there are no clear-cut drugs or surgical procedures that can justifiably be prescribed for it.

The loss of lining integrity that we are talking about is microscopic, which doesn’t make it any less harmful than it is.

In general, you can safely assume that your digestive tract lining is in need of significant repair if you have symptoms of an autoimmune illness and you have one or more of the following symptoms of digestive tract dysfunction: Excessive, foul-smelling gas production Ill-defined discomfort in your abdomen following meals or even during meals Chronic constipation and/or diarrhea SO HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT RESTORING THE HEALTH OF YOUR DIGESTIVE TRACT? First, recognize that your body’s self healing mechanisms are already hard at work to repair any damage that exists within your body, including within your digestive tract.

Just as your body predictably works to heal a cut on your skin the moment the cut is created, your body is constantly on the alert for trouble spots throughout your body and will always work to repair damaged areas.

The difference between your digestive tract and your skin is that you can see your skin and clearly determine if your daily choices are helping or hindering your self healing mechanisms as they work to repair a cut.

Put another way, it is easy for you to see that when you keep a cut on your skin clean and protected against abrasive objects, your body can almost always successfully restore it to health.

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We spent part of our weekend going to the Del Mar Fair grounds which was showcasing the Cross Roads of the West Gun show. It was such a sight, so many people were there who were so friendly and took the time to explain things to us. My best friend loved the modern guns and the shiny ones where as I loved the antiques. I was so surprised to see all of the families with their children. There were tons of things to look at like collector’s coins, clothes, jewlrey, knives, guns of course and ammonition. The hunting booth sparked our interest and now we want to go on a hunting trip for wild turkey. All I want to know is who is going to pluck the feathers?

Next stop, the Beer Festival at Pacific Beach. My best friend said, “You really don’t know how blessed you are to live in San Diego where you can go to the beach any time you want. I live in the boone docks where it is hot as hell and nothing to do to, an escape to the beach would be like Heaven”. We had a wonderful time at the beach just walking on the board walk and enjoying the breeze. Next week I will finish our “Fabulous Weekend” so stay tuned in.

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10 Health Differences of Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs are amazing: part superhero, part lunatic, all at once we can go days without sleep and without artificial help because we love working THAT MUCH. A few conferences ago I realized that no matter where in the world we are or what our start-up does or what language we speak at home, launching and building a start-up is hard work.

Entrepreneurship is not a mystic venture, it is a common journey of like-minded individuals who are trying to solve a major problem and scale to be bigger than imaginable. Some are hoping to get rich but those only interested in the money will get weeded out quickly when the heat goes up.

There are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs in this world so when I went to pick up my 23 year old Colombian start-up Founder/CEO friend in San Francisco and he was holding a Walgreens bag filled with Tums, Nyquil, a heating pack and migraine medicine I realized we have a common bond: certain things will affect us the same if we have the same work-aholic lifestyle.

The list below is not medical advice, but things to lookout for if you work like a machine, never sleep, and forget to listen to your body.

1. Back Problems Soon from leaning over a laptop all day and night you will get back problems. Stress tightens the muscles, driving to meetings or sitting on a train will make it worse and before you know it you will have developed “the 2am lean.” Its the position your body makes when you can finally switch to personal emails and realized you have a conference call with some foreign place at 7am. Best plan is to take a few minutes every couple of hours to lay flat on the ground. Might be good for the mind as well. In the case of many friends, instant heating packs that can be found at most pharmacies work great.

2. Acid Reflux You won’t know what this is called but you will slowly develop it. One morning you will

have a coffee, just like normal, and head out to a meeting. You will think that something didn’t settle right or maybe you are nauseous but it has nothing to do with the contents per se. One morning you will take a sip of coffee and gag outloud. You will sip coffee and find your body almost rejecting it, check. Tums, Mylanta and assorted antacids will help as well as (I have heard) bubble water. Not medical advice, just Founder advice of what works.

3. Perma-Cold Every little germ on the planet that crosses your path will almost wipe you out. Being sleep deprived, overly caffeinated, and uber stressed will make your immune system into a pansy. Little kids, airports, city streets will start to take on a new perspective. When you do get a cold you will eye every sniffling four year old at the Mac store like a loaded gun.

4. Migraines Not just headaches, real doozies. Migraines so bad you might even take to laying on the ground quickly or forget your name. They come rapid fast, are directly related to when you’re feeling overwhelmed or getting over-pinged, plus you are probably not drinking enough water. Excedrin helps, aspirin helps. Just remember you are not dying or having a heart attack, this is all stress and how you manage it.

5. Kidney Stones This is the hidden issue amongst entrepreneurs. It wasn’t until I passed stones myself that I realized this is common with executives. Long hours, not enough water, too much Red Bull, too much alcohol. Work hard, play hard, right? One friend of mine accepted a prestigious industry award only to be in a hospital bed getting saline via IV only a few hours later. I can remember being at a Web 2.0 AfterParty hosted by Canaan Partners standing in the most pain I have ever felt my body generate and thinking “wow, my body is only 25 years old.” Remember what is in must come out, drink lots of fluids and try to have a doctor in your life at some point.

6. Separation Anxiety–Laptop You will not be able to leave it or enjoy

your time by any considerable means. Even going to the bathroom you will realize while sitting on the toilet, ‘where’s my phone?!” If you think this comment is gross, it’s because you already have your phone with you, this article is probably being read by a couple founders at this moment while they are checking email and Twitter on the John. Kidding aside, be prepared to no longer be able to enjoy life unless your laptop is one, it will go away after your Series A funding or if you can manage a vacation after Seed Funding, though unlikely.

7. Weird Skin Issues Everywhere. Rashes, zits, all kinds of bizarre things. You can go to a doctor and swear you have an ancient disease but its straight up stress. Weird stuff too, like a random red rash on your belly, or a pimple the size of a quarter on your shoulder. You should appreciate the amazingness that your body can produce and keep all kinds of itch and blemish creams in your toolbox.

8. Shingles 22 year old founder or 32? Won’t matter, at some point the stress will get so high your body will tingle all over, then your side will itch and before you know it there’s a little path of red Pop Rocks on your body. The cool thing and key here is to pay attention to your body. If you start noticing blisters or early warning signs of Shingles you can go to a doctor and get medicine to help. Similar to kidney stones, if caught in the beginning your quality of life can be drastically changed. However if ignored, breakouts and Shingles can last for weeks so paying attention ultimately pays off.

9. A.D.D While some experts vary on the causes and symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder you will undoubtedly be unable to maintain any stream of attention for more than a few seconds and your ability to emote with other humans will be gone. It doesn’t make you a bad person just understand when you are trying to close a $400k gap or round, your friend’s issue (enter something minor with little consequences

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here) will bore you. Try not to look bored, say you are stressed. On the other hand, at times it might be relaxing to listen to OPP (Other People’s Problems) but eventually your mind will wander onto something more shiny.

10. Becoming a Wimp Remember a time in your life when you partied super hard, like in college at that frat house or maybe grad school? Won’t happen again or for a while. You will soon find yourself only being able to handle a glass or two of wine at max. Part of it will be your stomach/ Acid-reflex/ ulcer and part of it will be physical exhaustion. Either you won’t be able to drink what you used to or stay awake like you used to. Find yourself getting heckled by friends on a Tuesday night for not going out on the town for “fun” or random drinking.

Remember they aren’t running a company, they get to hide in cube the next day. If you were into random weeknight drinking you wouldn’t have started your own company.

That said, is there any hope for an entrepreneur? Of course! First, talk with friends that are both “ahead” of you and “behind” you. In the beginning you won’t know what that means but soon you will figure out where you are on the food chain: bootstrapped, Seed stage, Series Valued. You will be able to look at products or websites and appreciate the work it has taken them to get there, then you can measure up and realize you are 6 months ahead of someone or 1 year behind someone. Getting the information and passing it on keeps your mind sharp and karma aligned.

Some other (maybe helpful) tips: Vitamins and Water: are your friends.

Drink that water and try to take vitamins especially if you aren’t getting enough sleep.

Sleep: this is very important, it can be hard to wind down but force yourself to sleep even if it means a early rise.

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By Peter Rowe, Reporter - UT One morning this week, Hamse Warfa was introduced to a San Diego State class as a recent SDSU graduate — class of ’04 — and a Somali refugee.

Soon, observers predict, the 32-year-old City Heights resident will be known for much more.

“He could really write his own ticket,” said Bob Montgomery, executive director of the International Rescue Committee in San Diego.

That ticket, Warfa said, may lead to elected office.

Some day. Today, he’s too busy to campaign; his plate is piled higher than a glutton’s at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

He works full time at Alliance Healthcare Foundation, managing 30-odd grants to nonprofit groups serving poor San Diegans of all ethnicities. He’s a Ph.D. candidate (leadership studies) at the University of San Diego. He’s active in the San Diego Refugee Forum, a group for professionals working with immigrants fleeing oppression. He’s president of the Institute for Horn of Africa Studies and Affairs, a San Diego think tank with an international membership.

But running for office three years from now, when that Ph.D. is hanging on his wall? “That’s my interest,” he said. “I want to be shaping the discussion.”

It’s easy to imagine the campaign. His skin is the color of dark coffee, his smile as white as whole milk, his talking points red, white and blue. “Anything is possible in this country,” he said. “I came here with no language and no resources and within 15, 16 years, I am influencing policymakers internationally and helping my community locally.

“My adopted home has given me so much.”

So he steals another hour from his wife and two children and drives to SDSU. There, he outlines East Africa’s woes and then takes questions. The students are sharp — What is China’s role in the Ogaden, the oil-rich lands of northern Somalia? — but their questions reflect book knowledge.

Warfa’s replies reflect his life. “Talking about the oil in the Ogaden, what comes to my mind was my grandfather was displaced by war, my father was displaced by war and I was displaced by war,” he said.

“To do this oil exploration, the government is going to move everyone out of certain areas. I am thinking about the people who are going to be displaced.”

The three-year line Chasing peaceful solutions to violent problems can be dangerous.

Hamse Warfa settled in San Diego in 1995.

In 1991, as civil war raged across Somalia, Warfa’s parents were preparing to abandon their Mogadishu home when their 11-year-old disappeared.

With a band of idealistic friends, he planned to enter the capital, march against the war and end the fighting.

“That,” Warfa said dryly, “didn’t materialize.”

Instead, warriors fired on the young protesters.

The children ran and Hamse managed to catch a ride back home. Reunited, his family set off for safety, eventually landing in Kenya refugee camps.

Warfa spent much of the next three years standing in lines — for food, for water, for asylum applications.

The family moved to Denver in 1994, then settled in San Diego in ’95. Warfa attended Crawford High School and enrolled in an after-school program run by the International Rescue Committee.

“Even back then,” Montgomery said, “he was ambitious — and I mean that in a good way. He’s always aspiring toward success, not just for himself but for his community.”

While Warfa is committed to San Diego’s 20,000plus East African refugees, his life and work is not limited to that population. But his background may become a political asset. San Diego’s council districts were recently redrawn, raising the possibility that City Heights — home to many immigrants from Vietnam and East Africa — will soon be represented by someone who knows what it means to be displaced, to flee one country and embrace life in a new land.

“Hamse could make history as the first refugee elected to San Diego City Council,” said Councilman

.John Gastaldo

Todd Gloria, who has worked with Warfa through the community groups he represents. “I don’t think that’s out of the question, given what he’s accomplished so far.

“I just hope he waits until I’m termed out.”

‘The Try’ Warfa’s story was featured in James Owens’ “The Try,” a book of inspirational true-life stories. Owens stressed the San Diegan’s commitment to nonviolence despite experiences in his native and adopted countries. In January 2010, a robber murdered two of Warfa’s cousins in a Minneapolis store.

“He could respond to that and take vengeance, but he doesn’t do that. He says we have to change course, find a better way,” said Charles Dambach, chief of staff to Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Creek.

“There is a morality and an intelligence to him.”

He also has “the try,” Owens’ term for a determination to press forward, no matter how daunting the task. Warfa recently co-chaired a conference at Washington’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discussing regional solutions to the Horn of Africa’s woes. Some thought the approach — trying to unravel this area’s intertwined problems — was too ambitious.

Warfa disagreed. “We need to create tomorrow’s leaders,” he said in his softly accented English, “not just for Africa but all over the world.”

Any candidates?

Dambach, who spoke at the Wilson Center conference, nominates Warfa: “Here in Washington, people pay attention to him.”

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TOPAZ Continued from page 17 your body’s attempt to heal damaged areas.

If you could see with your eyes how a specific food that you ate over lunch – say a hot dog or a turkey sub – was putting stress on your digestive tract lining and preventing it from making progress in healing, you would certainly be well motivated to avoid such foods.

Similarly, it is not obvious to your eyes how other foods, lack of rest, emotional stress, and other lifestyle factors are affecting the health status of your digestive tract.

The good news is that you can learn – from this article and by listening to your body’s signals – how to best support the healing of your digestive tract. And, once your daily food and lifestyle choices consistently support your body’s ongoing efforts to restore the health of your digestive tract, recovery of your health is well within your reach.

When you want a cut on your skin to heal as quickly as possible, you know that you must do the best you can not to disturb that area. Leave it alone and let your healing mechanisms do exactly what they are well designed to do all the time.

The same principle applies to healing your digestive tract: leave it alone as much as possible. Do not give it any unnecessary stress.

Which takes us to our next major point...

ADOPT EATING HABITS THAT FACILITATE OPTIMAL DIGESTION Perhaps the single most important eating habit that you can adopt to facilitate healing of your digestive tract is to chew your foods thoroughly.

Ideally, you want to chew your foods until liquid. When you chew well, you allow your digestive tract to efficiently break down small particles of food into micronutrients that can pass through the wall of your small intestine into your blood.

Your teeth are designed to mechanically break down food, while the rest of your digestive tract and organs are designed to chemically break down your food. Whenever you do not chew

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well, your digestive tract and organs take on the burden of trying to accomplish what is much easier for your teeth to accomplish.

If you have dental or jaw problems that make it difficult to chew well, consider blending your foods in a blender or a food processor.

Chewing your foods well allows your saliva and digestive enzymes to mix in with your foods and liquids, and begin the process of digestion right in your mouth.

However, chewing well also encourages physical and emotional rest while eating. Being emotionally balanced and at rest while you eat allows your body to send a rich supply of blood to your digestive organs during a meal, which helps to optimize every step of digestion.

If possible, strive to combine the habit of chewing well with a steady focus on feelings of gratitude for your food and other blessings. Just as the connection between your mind and body can cause you to sweat when you are nervous, having a feeling of gratitude while you chew your food can help your digestive organs break down your food and assim-

ilate nutrients into your blood.

Once you condition yourself to chew well and to eat with a grateful heart, the next habit to adopt to promote optimal digestive tract health is to...

AVOID EATING MORE PROTEIN THAN YOU NEED As mentioned previously, a significant cause of autoimmune illness is the formation of antigenantibody complexes that can float around in your blood and get deposited into your tissues, which can cause inflammation and accompanying discomfort.

Chewing your food well will certainly help to minimize the amount of undigested protein that can make it into your blood.

But to stay optimally well, it is equally important to avoid eating more protein than your body needs.

In general, it is best to eat no more than half of your body weight of protein, in grams, per day.

This means that if you weigh 150 pounds, you should strive to eat no more than about 75 grams of protein per day.

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TOPAZ Continued from page 22 A three-ounce piece of beef, chicken, or fish contains approximately 25 grams of protein. And three ounces of meat equates to a serving size that is about the size of a regular deck of cards.

But don’t forget that every food that you eat, including fruits and vegetables, contains protein.

So if you eat three ounces of animal-based protein for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you are almost certainly eating more than 75 grams of protein per day.

A cup of broccoli, cooked spinach, or corn contains approximately 5 grams of protein.

A cup of peas contains over 8 grams of protein.

Even a medium-sized potato contains almost 5 grams of protein.

If you eat plenty of vegetables and legumes, it is not difficult to get enough protein to be optimally healthy without eating any animal foods at all. I am not suggesting that you need to be a strict vegan for the long-term to recover from and prevent autoimmune illness. Rather, I am striving to illustrate how easy it is to eat more protein than you need, which is a critical mistake when addressing autoimmune illness.

My active participation in holistic regimens, alternative medicine studies and research has led me to believe that animal-based protein, especially when cooked at high temperatures, tends to contribute to antigen-antibody complex formation in people with autoimmune illness more easily than plant-based protein.

To best support recovery from autoimmune

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illness over the long-term, I would recommend eating no more than one three-ounce serving of animal-based protein per day, cooked using a low temperature technique, such as steaming or boiling.

If possible, I even recommend staying away from all animal-based protein for a period of six months to give your digestive tract complete rest from having to digest animal protein. During such time, it is best to avoid eating large amounts of protein-dense plant foods as well, such as nuts, seeds, and legumes. As long as you eat plenty of vegetables, especially green ones like broccoli, lettuce, and cabbage, you will get plenty of protein for your daily needs.

After six months of avoiding animal protein and going light on protein-dense plant foods, you can gradually increase your protein intake until you are eating approximately one gram of protein per day for every two pounds of your body weight, with no more than one major serving of animal-based protein.

Now that we have emphasized how important it is to avoid over-consumption of protein, let’s take a close look at how you can choose to...

Pick up next week’s edition of The San Diego Monitor News & Business Journal for the final part of this 4 Part series, on Getting Your Health Back.

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