月: 2010年9月

野村の載せる話はウソ臭いのが多い、という失礼なメールが知り合いから送られてきました。（怒）

でも確かに誰も信じませんよね、７年前に消えた犬が７００キロ先で見つかるなんて。まあとにかく読んでみてください。

いつもの通り、動画は下記をクリック。

Sandie Clark came to work at the Estill County Animal Shelter Tuesday morning, she found two dogs left overnight in the “drop box.” (サンディークラークさんが火曜日の朝、動物保護収容所へ出勤してみると、dropboxに２匹の犬が置かれていました) One was a Weimaraner, but his high breeding wasn’t the only thing that set him apart.　一匹はワイマラナー。しかしこの犬を飼い主の元から引き離したのは血統の良さではありませんでした。 

There was a microchip inside him.  After a few calls later, she was on the phone with a Michigan man, who had last seen his six-month-old pup the day after Thanksgiving, 2003.（彼の体内にマイクロチップが埋められていたのです。何度か電話したのち、彼女はミシガン州の男性と通話できました。この男性は、２００３年の感謝祭の翌日、生後６か月の子犬を盗まれていたのでした。）

Yeah, we found a dog down here and it’s got a microchip in it,’ and I said, ‘Holy cow, is it a Weimaraner?’ and they said, ‘Yes,’ and I said, ‘That’s Jake.'”（はい、ここで犬を
預かっています。マイクロチップが入っています、と電話の向こうで相手が言ったので、「なんてこった。ワイマラナーでしょうか？」と聞いたんです。そしたら向こうが「はいそうです」と。それで「私が飼っていたジェイクに間違いありませんと答えました。」　
Davis said Jake was stolen from his backyard — perhaps by a family he’d help pack for a move to Kentucky.（ジェイクは裏庭で盗まれたとのこと、おそらくそのときケンタッキー州に引っ越しをする家族の荷造りを手伝いましたので、その家族が持っていったのではないかと思います。

“We got him back and it doesn’t matter anymore. （犬を取り戻したのでこれ以上大事にしません） We’ll take him home and take good care of him. （家に連れて行ってだいじにしてやります） We got him an appointment with the vet tomorrow at 2:30 and get him checked out and get some meat on his bones,” he said.（明日２時半に獣医に診てもらう予約をとりました。そのあと栄養をたっぷりつけさせてやるつもりです。）

Davis’s children were one and three years old when the family dog vanished.  The younger hardly remembers Jake — the elder never forgot.（その子犬が消えた時、デイビスさんの子どもは１歳と３歳でした。下の子はジェイクのことをほとんど覚えていませんが、上の子は決して忘れませんでした）

“When we showed her some pictures of him yesterday when she first got off the school bus and she said she always knew he was coming home,” Davis said.（スクールバスを降りるとき、娘にこの犬の写真をみせたところ、「いつかは帰ってくると思ってた」といったんですよ。

In dog years, Jake’s been gone nearly half a century.（犬の年齢を人間に合わせれば、半世紀は家を離れていた計算になります。） 

“I don’t know if he remembers me yet, but I’m sure he’ll get to be — once we get him home and he can see the kids — same house he was before, same backyard,” he said.（ジェイクが私のことを覚えているとは思えませんが、家に帰って子どもたちと会って、見覚えある家や裏庭を見れば、きっと思い出してくれると思います）

It was a 900-mile round-trip, but Davis and his brother Dave pick up Jake, take him home. 往復で９００マイル（１５００キロ）の旅ですが、デイビスさんと弟のデイブさんはジェイクを引き取りに来、家へ連れて帰ります。“I drive ten thousand miles ,ten times over to pick him up.（こいつを引き取るためなら一万マイルでも、その十倍でも運転してきますよ。 By mid-afternoon, Brad, Dave, and Jake got in the truck for a 450 mile trip back to Michigan.正午を過ぎたころ、ブラッドさんデイブさんそしてジェイクはそろってトラックへ乗り込み、４５０マイルの旅にでました。

That’s OK. They’ve got a lot of catching up to do.これでよし。離れ離れになっていた年月を共有できるまでかなりの期間を要するでしょうね。 That’s John Mcgary. ABC 36, your local news selects.

Many of us struggle for a weight on the daily basis. 

But for Ed Ugel, this battle of the bulge was so tough he decided to get serious about it.

He set off on a year-long quest to lose fifty pounds and regain his health, which he documented in his new book “I’m with fatty”.

 

And Ed Ugel is here to tell us more about it. Welcome Ed. Good to see you.

Thanks for having me. 

What motivated  you to start on this difficult journey in the first place?

That was born out of a health issue.

 

I thought that I was getting chubby around the middle  and chin. but it turns out that my wife taped me sleeping and my snoring was so bad that it turned out it was  sleep apnea.

Sleep apnea of course is when you stop breathing in your sleep, which is not a good thing.

 

And that’s related to weight.

 

That’s related to weight.

There’s not an absolute cause or effect. My doctor would put it that way. But once I put the weight on, the apnea showed up and when I lost the weight the apnea disappeared.

So at least for me, that was the motivating factor.

 

Now in this book you are very honest about the difficulties you went through in losing weight and coming to terms with the fact that you were a food addict.

Could you tell us about that?

You know I’m a lover of food like many people are. But I think when you wake up in the middle of the night and find yourself with a piece of steak in one hand and pint of Ben and Jerry’s in the other, you realize maybe you have gone past the point of no return. So for me it was really trying to find a way to isolate what was passion versus what was really an addiction. And that was something that I needed  to change through the rest of my life.

So how hard is it to find a healthy relationship to food for someone who obviously loves food so much.

Well I don’t think it’s as hard as it sounds. For me it’s about moderation and will. What I try to do is cook my way out of this problem.

When I’m in the kitchen and I’m cooking as much as I love to cook. And my food I think is delicious. It’s not really that unhealthy.

Just naturally I cook  a relatively healthy meal

It’s  when you are eating out of styrofoam boxes at a Chinese takeout that I really get myself in trouble, I’d like to think that’s really par for the course for a lot of the country .

Yeah, I think that’s a bit taken away from your book that if you learn to cook for yourself, you’ll ultimately eat a lot more healthy. Going out to eat is often the worst way we can eat.

Well I think it’s almost impossible to cook as badly and poorly as for yourself.