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08-02-04

Well Dennis here is the definition from a blog site:  

The name blog is short for "Web log" A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. However, a blog can be a part of a regular website. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.  Blogs also contain live links as references to people places and things.  

So when you get done reading this - if you are not Dennis, go to his site.   He will thank me for it! 

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-----Original Message-----

From: VIRGINIA GROTZ [mailto:VRONDO@webtv.net]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:13 AM

TO:  Jeff Schmidt - Sierra Club

Jeff - 

I am currently changing my personal website and turning it into a Blog. Seems I have been sort of blogging all along - but didn't know it. Anyway, I would be happy to include your posts in it, but it would be real helpful if you could could send a link to the information - in this case a link to this story in the gazette. I would never have time to look it up, but would get the information out there.

I will keep you apprised of traffic. If warranted at some point I may ask for some sort of sponsorship - if traffic warrants. That is my mission to make traffic warrant it. In the mean time, I will put your sendings in my daily email blog. Be aware - blogs are pretty out there as I am finding, so I may even put this correspondence online. 

Fascinating stuff - Here is the link - 
www.themediastation.com/grotzblog.html

Here is a peak - my first day actually. 

Kurt Grotz 

PS - Include your webpage to, I will link it to the post. 

From Judith Trustone www.sagewriters.com

Kurt, I couldn't open your website...technodemons, I guess. Did you check out SageWriters? (needs to be updated since my "acute coronary event a couple of months ago) I am currently trying to get four books to the publisher by September, so my plate is groaning with an overflow of words.(Three by prisoners, one by me with seven prisoners, all under the SageWriters imprint.) I left a copy of my book at Jeff's, so if you go by (it may be on the stairs, I was offering it for the auction) you can take a look and see the art that's in there and maybe something of yours would be
appropriate to include in the 2nd edition, which would give you some exposure. Let me know. I'm also looking for artists to help with book cover designs (volunteers at this point). I'm attaching a copy of SageWriters
vision and some reviews of the book. I'm getting an award in late October from the publisher as an "Author Who Makes A Difference" (with Miss USA!) and am doing a hige publicity push in the fall for the 2nd edition of Cellign as well as the three other books. Celing has been recommended by NPR, NAMI and the Midwest Book Review. I'm also completing a screenplay
treatment which I'll be sending to director Lee Daniels (Monster's Ball) for consideration.

So if you're sympathetic and supportive of what I'm trying to do, hop on board!
Be in Beauty,
Judith Trustone 

From Bill Smedley - www.greenwatchusa.org

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  Date: July 23, 2004

  CONTACT:

  Laurel Hopwood, 216-371-9779  Ronnie Cummins, 218-226-4164 

  TRADER JOE'S GIVES FALSE AND MISLEADING INFORMATION TO CONSUMERS

   Environmental and consumer groups today criticize Trader Joe's for its use of the genetically engineered (or recombinant) bovine growth (rBGH).

  Trader Joe's is selling cheese that comes from cows that have beeninjected with rBGH.  Yet on Trader Joe's website, it states "We have identified any  product containing ingredients that could potentially be derived from  genetically engineered crops and worked with our suppliers to replace  offending ingredients with acceptable alternatives." 

  Laurel Hopwood, member of Sierra Club's Genetic Engineering Committee,  cited evidence that this genetically engineered hormone increases  production of insulin growth factor (IGF-1) in milk, which has been shown  to promote breast, prostate and colorectal cancers. 

  Ronnie Cummins, national director of the Organic Consumers Association,  noted that injected cows get painful mastitis and persistent sores,  contributing to the overuse of antibiotics and the worldwide crisis of drug  resistant disease. Canada and the European Union have banned the use of  rBGH. Although the U.S. government has approved its use, Cummins said, "We  hear consumers say, 'I don't want any more hormones in my food and I  don't want to be part of a system that's cruel to dairy cows!'"

   The Sierra Club and Organic Consumers Association provided Trader Joe's  with a list of rBGH free cheese  (www.sierraclub.org/biotech/nonrBGH.asp) yet Trader Joe's refused to sell  what it claims to be selling. 

  Sierra Club, America's largest grassroots conservation organization, and  the Organic Consumers Association, a leading consumers organization,oppose  use of genetically engineered crops and also of rBGH to force  increased milk production from cows.

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