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First Aired - 08/09/2009 01:00PM
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This week on the Q Report, Patrick and Mark are joined by Gary Cox and Clay Gregory. Gary shares his experience with defending prisoners diets, and Clay talks about the Napa Valley.
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Introduction & Show Summary (10:00)
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Mark Marabella, Roberta's, brunch, Patrick Martins, Rod Blagojevich, Napa Valley, frozen tundra,Gary Cox Talks About Over-Consumption (5:00)
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Gary Cox, law, Western diet, white enriched flour, refined sugar, promoting traditional diets, Weston A. Price Foundation, nutrient dense healthy food, white bread, calories, diet of indigenous tribes,Soy Prison Food Lawsuits with Gary Cox (13:04)
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soy, edamame, health disadvantages and over consumption, Larry Harris, burrito, macaroni & cheese, http://www.westonaprice.org/, Judge Harold Baker, hardening of the heart, heart attack, irritable bowel syndrome, lawsuits, court, Illinois, defendants, witnesses, toxicity of soy, plaintiffs, symptoms, prohibiting the use of soy in prison diets, Archer Daniels Midland, Illinois prisoners are eating more daily soy than the FDA approves,Clay Gregory of the Napa Valley Designation Council (4:41)
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wine is pleasure, Clay Gregory, slow food, Chris Carpenter, www.LegendaryNapaValley.com, destination marketing, Napa Valley is a small area, 35 miles long 2 miles wide, Silverado Trail, Highway 29, Napa Valley designation council,Clay Talks About Robert Mondavi & The History of Napa (7:13)
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Jack Davies, wine industry, Napa is a Native American word, Robert Mondavi, Tuscany, California, ignoring individual brands, as the tide goes up the boats go with it, Napa mostly grows grapes, olive trees, dairies, Napa cheese, Pacific Ocean, seafood, farmers markets, San Francisco, Ferry Plaza, Oxbow market, diversity of soil, volcanic activity, Mediterranean climate, prohibition nearly ending the American wine industry,The State of Wineries & Winemaking in Napa Valley (6:14)
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slow wines, Constellation, Diageo, Fosters, there are still many family owned wineries, growing, climate, Central Valley, dry and hot, cold air comes from Pacific Ocean to Napa Valley, weather, Mark Twain, green certified programs, air from Central Valley creates vacuum, environmentalism,Obituary: Corazon Aquino (11:07)
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Corazon Aquino, Philippines, Doily Reyes, People's Revolution, martial law, democracy, JFK, Jackie Kennedy, Benigno Aquino, Jr., women's rights, female president, colon cancer, third world country, military base, Ronald Reagan, Joseph Estrada, text messaging, corruption, movies,Obituary: John Hughes (4:31)
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John Hughes, National Lampoon's Vacation; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Weird Science; The Breakfast Club; Some Kind of Wonderful; Sixteen Candles; Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Uncle Buck; Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York., John Candy, Brat Pack, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, John Cusack, Joan Cusack,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/21/2009 12:00PM
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On a "holiday" edition of The Naturalist, Bernie Wides gives us some well timed history on the winter solstice celebration.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Winter Solstice (11:02)
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Bernie Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Bushwick, Roberta's, Tekserve, winter solstice, Yale University, what causes winter and summer?, everybody thought it was because of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, if that were true we would die, the sun is at the center of the solar system, Galileo Galilei, the axis of the Earth, its tilted 23 and a half degrees, summer occurs in the Northern Hemisphere when the axis points up, the sun does not move, ecliptic, four checkpoints, when the sun crosses from south to north it's the first day of spring, vernal equinox, when the sun reaches the furthest point north in the ecliptic its summer solstice, when it crosses the equator going back south its the autumnal equinox, when the sun goes furthest south on the ecliptic its the winter solstice,Winter Solstice In Culture (13:27)
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solstice means sun stop, we are 40 degrees north of the equator, latitude starts at 0 at the equator and goes up north, The North Pole, The Arctic Circle, 70% of the surface of the Earth is water, Hudson River, the water temperature here is colder than the air, since 45 BC, Julian calendar, daylight savings, Mexico, candle mass, Catholic Church, people brought candles to be blessed at mass, East Asian culture, lunar calendars, sunrise and sunset, the Earth orbits around the sun in an elliptical pattern not a circle, the solstice is always close to this day, Neolithic times, controlled the mating of animals and the sewing of crops, winter solstice sunrise, New Grange, Ireland, winter solstice sunset, Stonehenge, famine,Celebrating The Solstice & Seasonal Affective Disorder (10:11)
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Northern Europe, wine and beer, holidays we celebrate are based on ancient holidays, cold and darkness, gatherings are valued for emotional comfort, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Russia, depressive psychological effect of winter, tied to cold, tiredness, inactivity, seasonal affective disorder, insufficient sunlight, melatonin, circadian rhythm, tanning salon, increased negative ion exposure, serotonin, traveling across time zones, jet lag, take melatonin to avoid this, Southern Africa, mid winter festivals, forever greens, large ongoing fires, evening physical excursion, dancing, drinking, singing, when we celebrate the holidays we are dealing with light, burma, Christmas, the timing was adopted from Pagan tradition, substituted festivals with religious overtones,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
