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USA TODAY founder Al Neuharth dies at 89
- He was audacious%2C flamboyant and a self-described %27dreamer%27
- Executive criss-crossed the country and interviewed all 50 governors
- He championed the careers of women and minorities
Allen H. Neuharth, the newspaper visionary and former Gannett chairman who founded USA TODAY, helped create a museum dedicated to news and became one of the industry's most influential and sometimes controversial figures, died Friday at his home in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was 89.
"As a journalist, I had a wonderful window on the world,'' Neuharth wrote in "Plain Talk," a final column he said should be published in USA TODAY after his death. "For nearly 50 years as a reporter and editor, I tried to tell stories accurately and fairly, without opinion."
It was fitting that Neuharth would try to have the last word, even on the topic of his own passing. The longtime newspaperman, media executive and columnist died after sustaining injuries in a fall at his home.
Newsroom smart and board room savvy, Neuharth was audacious, flamboyant and a self-described "dreamer and schemer." He used all those talents, and a dose of Midwest charm and common sense, to help build Gannett into one of America's largest media companies.
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He picked fights with the likes of Donald Trump, Ben Bradlee and Betty Friedan, usually with a wink of satisfaction for the attention it drew. He invited himself to palaces and board rooms to meet with world and business leaders such as Margaret Thatcher.
More memorably, he championed the careers of women and minorities inside Gannett and on its front pages, and — against all odds — battled his own board of directors to give the nation its first general interest national newspaper in 1982.
So deeply did he believe in USA TODAY that he decked out a bus in 1987 and criss-crossed the USA (which he insisted was the only proper name for America), to interview all 50 governors and promote the struggling daily.
Even in retirement, long after USA TODAY had become one of the nation's most entrenched news brands, Neuharth's views were keenly sought by Gannett's top leaders.
"Al's passing is a great loss for all of us in the Gannett family," said Gannett CEO Gracia Martore. "Al was many things — a journalist, a leader, a serial entrepreneur, and a pioneer in advancing opportunities for women and minorities. But above all, he was an innovator with a unique sense of the public taste. ... I will miss his counsel, and I will miss the man. But as with all great people, what Al built will live on."
When USA TODAY was ready to mark its 30th anniversary last September with a dramatic redesign (replacing the time-tested USA TODAY rectangle with a round blue logo), Gannett executives, some nervous about the change, flew to Neuharth's home in Cocoa Beach eager for his opinion — and hopefully his blessing.
"You should have done this five years ago," Neuharth said plainly after a slide presentation of the changes. The relief in the room was palpable.
"Al Neuharth reinvented news,'' said USA TODAY Publisher Larry Kramer. "Even in our recent efforts to translate his vision into the modern world of digital journalism, we relied on him to tell us if we were going in the right direction. His advice was, not surprisingly, the best and most practical we heard.''
Dave Callaway, editor in chief of USA TODAY, said Neuharth "was, is and always will be USA TODAY. He holds a remarkable place in the history of American journalism, and the spirit and passion which he brought to our industry will never be extinguished."
As a leader, Neuharth's style "rubbed some people the wrong way, but you never had any doubt who was in charge," said Charles Overby, former chairman of the Freedom Forum, which opened a $435 million Newseum across from the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in 2008. "He was a big picture guy — a new national newspaper, a new museum about news.''
Neuharth rose from a poor, fatherless childhood in the Depression Dustbowl of South Dakota to become rich, powerful and famous — jetting to Gannett's properties across the nation, sharing a Yankee skybox with George Steinbrenner and raising quality control to a new level in the newspaper business..
USA TODAY, widely dismissed as Neuharth's folly when it appeared in 1982, virtually reinvented the American newspaper with splashy color and bold graphics, shorter articles, expanded sports coverage and a big, colorful weather map. The entirety of the American experience was boiled down to four sections — News, Money, Sports and Life.
Some derided it as "McPaper'' — junk-food journalism for television viewers who didn't like to read. Newsweek once described its founder as "the man who shortened the attention spans of millions of Americans."
But within five years USA TODAY had its first profitable month, and is now the nation's second-largest daily newspaper with an expanding media footprint both online and internationally.
"The editors who called us McPaper," Neuharth liked to say, "stole our McNuggets.''
The USA TODAY gamble was "an act of enormous imagination and courage and risk-taking," said media critic Geneva Overholser, who as a Gannett editor sparred with Neuharth for years over cutbacks at local papers as the national newspaper took center stage.
"Al's legacy was to jumpstart newspapers when they were beginning to lose favor with readers," said Overby. "He made color and graphics routine in newspapers, and he changed editors' ideas about what belongs on page one."
The mad scientist behind this experiment in journalism was as colorful as his creation.
He wrote on an old manual typewriter sitting in a treehouse he built overlooking the Atlantic; he commissioned larger-than-life busts of himself; he dressed exclusively in black, white and gray, and still managed to look garish — "like a Vegas pit boss dressed up for Wayne Newton's funeral," wrote Henry Allen of The Washington Post.
He entitled his autobiography Confessions of an S.O.B., and gave both his ex-wives chapters to tell their side of his story. "His life was turned inside out, and he did most of it himself," said his colleague, John Seigenthaler.
Neuharth was full of surprises:
The CEO who promoted women executives once wrote a column calling for younger, slimmer airline stewardesses.
The innovator who used satellite technology to create his national newspaper never learned to use a personal computer.
A reluctant father of two in his 30s, he adopted six children in his 60s and 70s.
As Seigenthaler observed, "Every time you thought you had him typecast, he did something to chip the mold. Which is why he was forever young."
Born March 22, 1924, Allen Harold Neuharth grew up in a German-speaking household in the rural South Dakota towns of Eureka and Alpena. His father died when Al was 2, and his mother raised him and his older brother Walter by washing dishes and taking in laundry.
After serving in the infantry in World War II, Neuharth married, graduated from the University of South Dakota on the G.I. Bill, and took a job as a reporter with the Associated Press. But he quit two years later because he'd decided that starting a newspaper was the way "to get rich and famous." So he and a partner launched a weekly called SoDak Sports, which would cover South Dakota sports in unprecedented detail.
Despite Neuharth's energetic efforts — he would cover up to four basketball games on a Friday night in as many towns — SoDak Sports ran out of capital before it could turn a profit. So in 1954 he moved to Florida to take a job as a reporter at the Miami Herald, where he rose quickly in the newsroom hierarchy.
In 1960 he was named assistant executive editor of the Detroit Free Press, which Knight Newspapers owned along with the Herald.
In 1963 he accepted an offer to join Gannett, which owned a small group of 16 newspapers in five northeastern states. It was not as big or prestigious a company as the Knight newspaper chain, but no family members blocked his route to the top.
"He was the first of the major media barons who didn't own the company," recalled Michael Gartner, former president of NBC News. "Unlike Pulitzer or Hearst, he was a hired hand."
When Neuharth arrived, Gannett executives already knew that newspapers in small- and medium-sized markets were excellent investments. Gannett typically would buy a family-owned newspaper, often after the death of a patriarch with several heirs, and realize sizable profits by cost controls and bulk purchases of newsprint and supplies.
He persuaded Gannett CEO Paul Miller to let him begin a daily in Cocoa, Fla. The new paper, TODAY (later renamed FLORIDA TODAY), opened in 1966 and became the first successful new daily in nearly a generation.
Neuharth became president of Gannett in 1970 and CEO three years later. In the years that followed, Gannett became the most profitable newspaper company in history. But Neuharth was interested in more than the bottom line.
He said newspapers must reflect all their readers. He'd seen his own mother work for less pay than men. His Gannett, accordingly, put unprecedented numbers of women and minorities in important jobs. In the Gannett executive suite, people joked, there was a waiting line for the ladies' room.
Neuharth tried to shatter those barriers from inside the newsroom, and in the pages of the newspaper itself, where diversity in images and content was stressed from the top.
"There's been this sort of hardbitten newsman image that really hasn't served newspapering very well, especially for women and people of color who couldn't find themselves in newspapers," Overholser said. "Al Neuharth had a belief in America and its people. USA TODAY, whether it's too formulaic or not, made an important advance in diversity."
Gannett's CEO liked to "do business with pleasure," and he believed "first class costs only a few dollars more and is a smart investment for a smart company on the climb." He maintained sprawling suites at the Waldorf Towers in New York City and the Capital Hilton in Washington, and he traveled on a corporate jet with its own shower.
In 1987, he convinced President Reagan to speak at the newspaper's fifth anniversary on the 31st floor of the Gannett headquarters overlooking the Potomac River. "God bless you, and I'll be waiting for your paper in the morning," Reagan told Neuharth and his executives, who sat in a dining room with a gold-leafed fountain.
Critics scoffed at the opulence, but it served an inner need for the man from South Dakota. The high-spending ways also were an effort to convince a skeptical Wall Street and a wary Madison Avenue that the company's near billion-dollar gamble on USA TODAY was going to pay off, no matter the cost.
When Neuharth visited a Gannett newspaper, he expected to be met at the airport by the publisher and lodged in a first-class hotel suite stocked with fruit (but no grapes), Kleenex brand tissue, ice and a bottle of Pouilly Fuisse wine. Local newspapers, USA TODAY and the Wall Street Journal were to be at his door by 6 a.m., even if the publisher had to deliver them himself.
Selling USA TODAY to Gannett's board of directors wasn't easy in the shaky economy of the early 1980s.
"If you had taken a vote of all the executives who were involved, it probably would have gone against the project," then-Gannett director Wes Gallagher observed. "But there was only one vote that mattered, and that was Al's."
"We weren't opposed. We wanted to be realistic," said former Gannett CEO Doug McCorkindale, who as chief financial officer often sparred with Neuharth over the cost of USA TODAY. "I always thought the idea Al had for the product, and then using our printing facilities around the countryside, just made a lot of good sense."
Neuharth in an interview said the tensions within the Gannett board over USA TODAY had a "good balancing effect. They were in the minority, but they were vocal. It pissed a lot of people off, including me occasionally, but I don't think it hindered us very much. We had the decision-making power."
Indeed, it was his baby. He chose the name and picked the editors and approved the newspaper box, which was designed to look like a television set.
The newspaper's obituary was written before it was born. John Morton, a respected industry analyst, said a national newspaper "seems like a way to lose a lot of money in a hurry."
The new newspaper did not impress the old order. "It doesn't rub off on your hands, or your mind," said television commentator Linda Ellerbee. Asked if USA TODAY should be considered a good newspaper, Ben Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post, said, "If it is, I'm in the wrong business."
To which Neuharth responded: "Bradlee and I finally agree on something. He is in the wrong business."
Years later, both men waved off any animosity. "We laugh about how we used to fight with each other," Neuharth recalled. "I don't think (Bradlee) thinks he was wrong. But at least he and others recognize that the thing has worked, even though they were sure it wouldn't."
Bradlee in 2007 called his criticism "just some wise-ass remark. I wish I'd learn to shut up." He added: "I don't feel badly about the paper at all. Take Neuharth out of the equation, and you don't have a story!"
At one newsroom meeting, Neuharth yanked a copy of that day's USA TODAY from the news box he kept in his office and pointed angrily to the photo on page one of a high school cheerleader.
"The next time you run a picture of a nice, clean cut All-American girl in a tight sweater," he shouted at his editors, "make sure you get her chest above the fold!" Only he didn't say "chest.''
"When Al was riding high at USA TODAY, he could be a local terror," Overby recalled. But "he didn't yell at everybody. Somehow he instinctively knew who needed to be yelled at and who just needed to be encouraged."
The newspaper was an immediate hit with readers, but advertisers were leery. Losses began to mount.
By November 1984, the newspaper was losing $340,000 a day. Neuharth summoned his senior executives to Pumpkin Center. After a grim meeting on how to cut costs, he told them to report that evening to a nearby restaurant.
They entered a private dining room to find their boss dressed in a robe and crown of thorns; a wooden cross leaned against the wall. Neuharth served kosher wine and unleavened bread, declared himself "the crucified one" and warned that those at the table who did not improve their performance would be "passed over."
Overby, Neuharth's aide at the time, called it "the most offensive thing I have ever seen in my adult life."
But 15 years later Cathleen Black, by then head of Hearst magazines, would still cite "Neuharth's Last Supper" as an effective — if radical — motivational tactic.
Neuharth promoted his newspaper relentlessly. In 1987 he and a support staff set off on BusCapade, a 50-state, six-month, jaunt across the nation. It was followed in 1988 by JetCapade for Neuharth and company to cover 148,261 air miles and visit 32 countries in seven months.
Then he published his autobiography, Confessions of an S.O.B.
None of his critics hit Neuharth as hard as Neuharth. The book depicted the author as a driven, cold, manipulative, conniving corporate climber who looked out almost exclusively for No. 1.
"Al isn't confessing," Fortune magazine noted. "He's boasting."
Neuharth admitted to manipulating a college election with dirty tricks; to eavesdropping on a corporate rival and using the information to get the upper hand, to forcing out Paul Miller, the popular CEO who had brought him into Gannett and promoted him.
The most damning chapters were those written by his two ex-wives.
Loretta Neuharth, with whom Neuharth had two children — Dan and Jan — described how he neglected her for his career. They divorced in 1972 after 26 years of marriage. He and his second wife, Lori Wilson, divorced in 1982 after nine years. In the book, she called Neuharth "a snake. He's sneaky and slithers around and sheds his old skin as he grows."
Meanwhile, Neuharth was, in his phrase, "gradually retiring" from Gannett. In 1989 Neuharth turned 65 and retired.
There had been failures. A joint venture with television producer Grant Tinker formed in 1986 lasted only three years and was remembered mostly for a costly, unpopular program called USA TODAY, The Television Show. An attempt to merge with CBS in 1985 also stalled. Neuharth later said he'd tried to push it too fast.
But when Neuharth had joined Gannett in 1963, it was a company with yearly revenue of about $62 million. When he retired, it had 85 newspapers, 26 broadcast stations, 37,000 employees and revenue over $3 billion.
In retirement, Neuharth — who spent the previous 40 years making money — now focused on giving it away.
His vehicle was the Gannett Foundation, which he headed. The foundation had been established by Frank Gannett, the company's founder, and held about 10% of Gannett stock. It mostly funded projects in communities with Gannett newspapers.
In 1991, Neuharth renamed the foundation the Freedom Forum, changed its mission to promoting "free speech, free press and free spirit" and broadened its focus to include international affairs. He also put its Gannett stock on the market — to increase income, he said.
Neuharth's successors at Gannett were forced to buy back the foundation stock to avoid a potential takeover. Some thought he had betrayed the Gannett executives who struggled with him to create USA TODAY.
Although the Freedom Forum was criticized for its lavish spending on travel and facilities, in 1997 it opened the world's first museum devoted to journalism — the Newseum, which in 2008 relocated just a few blocks from the Capitol. The words of the First Amendment are carved in stone for all visitors to see from the street.
What Neuharth liked to call "the gradually retiring years'' also brought him a new family. In 1993 at the age of 68, he married Rachel Fornes, a Cocoa Beach chiropractor and founder of an adoption agency. She was 26 years his junior. Over the next seven years, the couple adopted six children of varying races and ethnicities — Alexis, Karina, twins Andre and Ariana, and twins Ali and Rafi.
Neuharth remained officially hands-off after he left the company. Even though his column, "Plain Talk," continued to run every Friday, he had no official connection with Gannett or the newspaper. But phone calls or notes to editors or publishers were common in the final years.
"Neuharth never retired and certainly never faded away,'' said Ken Paulson, a former editor of USA TODAY.
During the scandal over Jack Kelley in 2004, a USA TODAY reporter who was found to have falsified dozens of stories from overseas, Neuharth went public with criticisms of the newspaper's leadership and its new, more sophisticated direction which had boosted sales and advertising in the late 1990s. USA TODAY had lost its way, he complained. Stories were getting longer, more traditional and the newspaper was concentrating too much on international events. "We got away from our basic approach," he said. "It took that unfortunate Jack Kelley episode to remind us what the hell we were all about."
Not everyone agreed with Neuharth's assessment, but it was clear the paper's founder was always ready to remind people who came first.
Neuharth remained, to the end, USA TODAY's biggest booster. He acknowledged the need for USA TODAY to expand its brand into usatoday.com, mobile devices and beyond.
"Our readers," he said, "want to know a little bit about a lot of things, and they don't want to waste a hell of a lot of time finding it out.
"I don't think that has changed. If anything, that mobile society — our readers —may be in even more of a hurry to learn what they want to know than they were back then."
During the newspaper's 25th anniversary in 2007, Neuharth was asked about the newspaper and how it had changed.
"I'm generally very, very pleased with what I read," Neuharth said. "Occasionally I gripe a little that I would have done it differently, but I'm not the editor so I realize how tough it is.
"But it's a great feeling to get USA TODAY wherever you are. It's a wonderful feeling on airplanes to see a lot of people reading it, and in other locations as well," said Neuharth, his dream of a national newspaper fulfilled. "It feels good."


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Flannery O'Connor on "compassionate" writers …
"It's considered an absolute necessity these days for writers to have compassion. Compassion is a word that sounds good in anybody's mouth and which no book jacket can do without. It is a quality which no one can put his finger on in any exact critical sense, so it is safe for anybody to use. Usually I think what is meant by it is that the writer excuses all human weakness because human weakness is human. The kind of hazy compassion demanded of the writer now makes it difficult for him to be anti-anything."
Flannery O'Connor in "The Grotesque in Southern Fiction" in Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. Selected and Edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969).
Comment by Janice Harayda …
"Compassionate" is also a word that that no critic can do without unless she substitutes "generous." Why are the book reviews in Sunday newspapers so often dull? O'Connor has identified one of the reasons. Too many editors allow critics to substitute fuzzy words like "compassionate" for tough-minded analysis or interesting perceptions. O'Connor, thou shouldst be living at this hour!
Mystery and Manners is a classic book of essays on writing filled with sharp comments like today's Quote of the Day. This collection was on the syllabus in the journalism classes I took with Donald M. Murray at the University of New Hampshire and has helped to shape my style of reviewing. I strive for the mix of wit, clarity and intelligence that pervades Mystery and Manners, a book I recommend to all writers and hope someday to review on this site.
Once I dated professor who wanted make his writing less academic. I took him to a bookstore, pulled Mystery and Manners off a shelf, and showed him a few passages. He said, "I have to have this," and bought it. He dumped me but kept the book.
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To celebrate "hump day" with a BANG I am joining in on the Foodbuzz Daily Specials once again. Today's feature on Foodbuzz is the professional mandolin such as the stainless steel commercial one featured at CHEFS™ catalogue. We're not talking about one of my favourite movies Captain Corelli's Mandolin that takes place on the island of Cephallonia (Kefalonia) in Greece or a musical instrument. We are talking about a mandolin, also spelled mandoline, the kitchen gadget that cuts fruits and vegetables into even and precise slices. No shopping channel required. They can be handy, especially for home chefs who want to present their food with a professional flair. Because the blades of a mandolin are very sharp, cooks should use one with care, and young children should never be allowed to handle a mandolin. Even with a safety guard, a mandolin can still take a chunk out of a finger.
I only recently purchased a mandolin within the last year and find that although I don't use it every day it is an invaluable tool in my kitchen especially when working with vegetables. Who doesn't love a crunchy potato chip for starters? I used to be the person years ago that could "scoff" down an entire bag of salt and vinegar chips within the span of a few minutes. The problem is that they are not the healthiest snack or accompaniment on the planet. As a world staple, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. As thin, salted, crisp chips, they are THE number one snack food.
In the summer of 1853, Native American George Crum was employed as a chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. At Moon Lake Lodge, one dinner guest found chef Crum's French fries too thick for his liking and rejected the order. I'd have to say Crum was less than happy, OK pissed, and decided to rile the guest by producing French fries too thin and crisp to skewer with a fork. The plan backfired. The guest was ecstatic over the browned, paper-thin potatoes, and other diners requested Crum's potato chips, which began to appear on the menu as Saratoga Chips, a house specialty. The rest is history!!
Many adults, as well as children, need more vegetables in their diet. I for one could always use more varieties than my favourite salad greens. As part of the solution I started making veggie chips when L'il Burnt Toast was "knee high to a grasshopper". Not sure if there is a more kid-friendly way to sneak those vegetables in and they are a fun and healthy way to spice up a meal. Using a variety of garden vegetables, oils and spices you can create a flavourful treat that the whole family will enjoy. If you can imagine, the beet chips were a favourite of both of ours!!! These veggie chips are a healthy alternative to that bag of potato chips.
When the veggies are sliced place them in a large bowl so the oil can be evenly coated over the vegetable slices. Various oils can be used when making vegetable chips. Olive oil, vegetable oil and canola oil are very popular however almost any cooking oil will do. The amount of oil you apply depends on the amount of vegetables you have prepared. Add only enough oil to provide a thin and even coat on each slice.
Spices add pizazz and chutzpah to your vegetable chips. Some people prefer a little sea salt or pepper while others enjoy the added taste of garlic powder, dill, oregano or chives. For hot and zesty chips try adding a combination of mild chili powder and hot red pepper flakes. Sprinkle your spices as sparingly or moderately as you like.
Spread the vegetable slices onto a baking sheet. Make sure to spread out the slices to allow each slice to cook fully. Avoid overlapping vegetables slices as this will prevent the vegetables from becoming crisp and will result in mushy or soft chips. For crisp chips you need to make sure your vegetables are thinly sliced, evenly coated in oil and individually spaced on the baking sheet.
Some of these vegetable chips are sweet and some are savoury making them a satisfying snack. Serve them alone and unadorned or with your favourite salsa, guacamole or a kid-friendly Ranch dip. Chips don't just come in foil bags and they don't need to be deep fried. They can be both tasty and healthy, and you can make them in the comfort of your own home. You can choose what to season them with and you need not worry about any crappy preservatives and random additives the bagged, store bought kind may have. You don't even need fancy equipment to accomplish this. When you're yearning for potato chips, reach for these instead. They're healthier, tastier and cure your craving. Your kids will love you, I guarantee it!!!!
1 medium potato
1 medium sweet potato or yam
1 medium parsnip
1/2 lb. fresh beets (approx. 2 medium)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 to 1 teaspoons sea salt
1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
dash of pepper
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese if desired
Before you begin making the best homemade vegetable chips first wash vegetables then peel and cut them into 1/8 inch slices. Using a mandolin slicer would make this step a breeze.
Put the vegetable slices into a large bowl. Drizzle with the olive oil . Combine the dry ingredients then sprinkle over the vegetables. Now toss to coat evenly.
Arrange the vegetable slices in a single layer onto 2 ungreased 15x10x1 inch baking pans covered with parchment paper.
Bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until the vegetables are golden brown. Turn them once halfway through baking..
NOTE: Inevitably some vegetables will crisp up more quickly so watch your chips. The thicker the chip and the more water content the vegetable has the longer it will take.
You might like to try other recipes using a mandolinL
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We won't know the next winners of American Library Association's Newbery and Caldecott medals until Jan. 18. But if you're looking for ideas for children's gifts before then, you might want to print and save this list of books that won the most recent Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for excellence in children's literature. Only American authors are eligible for ALA honors. But the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are open to anyone who has had a book published in the U.S., so they can show more diversity than the librarians' awards. Two examples: The latest winners include Nation, the British Terry Pratchett's young-adult novel about two 19th-century children who create a society from scratch, and Bubble Trouble, by the New Zealander Margaret Mahy, illustrated by England's Polly Dunbar. And this month the Horn Book posted its list of the best books of 2009 for children and teenagers, which also includes Bubble Trouble.
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These are all the chemical process that continuously takes place inside the body to keep your organs functioning. This includes breathing, digesting food and repairing cells.
Energy is necessary for these chemical processes to take place. The minimum amount of energy our body requires to carry out these chemical processes is called the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
The pathways of metabolism depend on nutrients that break down in order to produce energy. This energy is needed by the body in order to synthesize new proteins and nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA.
Food provides a number of essential substances for the building, maintenance and repair of body tissues and also for efficient body functioning. Essential nutrients in the diet include carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorous, nitrogen, sulfur and about 20 other inorganic elements. In addition, minerals, vitamins, and water are necessary.
Carbohydrates are supplied by foods in three forms; starch, sugar, and cellulose. Sugars and starches from the major sources of energy for humans. Fibers (cellulose) contribute to bulk in the diet.
Carbohydrates and sugars yield glucose by digestion or metabolism. Glucose is used b the body's tissues for all activities.
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Fats are concentrated sources of energy and they produce twice as much energy as either carbohydrates or protein on a weight basis. Essential fatty acids include unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic, arachidonic and linilinic acids. These need to be taken in the diet. Fats serve several functions which include:
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WASHINGTON – Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday that the Federal Reserve's low-interest-rate policies are helping to boost growth around the world and have created markets for products made in developing nations.
In a speech at the London School of Economics, Bernanke staunchly defended the Fed's policies and similar stimulus efforts pursued by other central banks since the 2008 financial crisis.
Last week, the Fed stood by its efforts to keep borrowing costs at record lows, saying the U.S. economy still required the support to help lower high unemployment.
Critics have argued that the low-interest-rate policies could feed a global currency war, which is lowering currency values to make products more competitive on global markets.
Some have blamed such policies for making the Great Depression worse during the 1930s. Countries devalued their currencies and raised tariffs, which made foreign-made goods more expensive and stunted trade. They became known as "beggar-thy-neighbour" policies.
Bernanke argued that the situation is different today because the low-interest rate policies have the primary aim of boosting domestic growth, not trying to lower the value of a nation's currency.
"Because stronger growth in each economy confers beneficial spillovers to trading policies, these policies are not 'beggar-thy-neighbour' but rather 'enrich-thy-neighbour' actions," Bernanke said.
The current efforts should support stronger trade flows, Bernanke said. By boosting growth in major economies, consumers can buy more imported goods from developing countries.
After its two-day meeting last week, the Fed said it would stick with its plan to keep short-term interest rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 per cent. Unemployment in February stood at 7.7 per cent.
Bernanke told reporters that the Fed saw the 6.5 per cent unemployment level as a threshold and not a "trigger," for a possible rate increase.
The Fed also said it would keep buying $85 billion a month in bonds to keep long-term borrowing costs down. Bernanke told reporters at a news conference that the Fed might vary the size of its monthly purchases depending on whether the job market is improving and by how much.
In its policy statement, the Fed noted that the U.S. job market has improved, consumer spending and business investment have increased and the housing market has strengthened. But in an updated economic forecast also released last week, the Fed said it still did not expect unemployment to reach 6.5 per cent until 2015.
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One of the leading candidates to replace Pope Benedict XVI apparently supports Uganda's controversial "Kill the Gays Bill," Gay Star News reports.
Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson is a favorite to become the next pope, but many LGBT activists may be concerned over his support for anti-gay measures and that he's defended Uganda's dangerous bill. The National Catholic Register reported last year Turkson, 64, said people need to understand why African governments are creating anti-gay bills and the "intensity of the reaction is probably commensurate with tradition." He added that people need respect African culture.
"When you're talking about what's called 'an alternative lifestyle', are those human rights?" he said of U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon, who has criticized African countries' anti-gay laws. "There's a subtle distinction between morality and human rights, and that's what needs to be clarified."
"He [Ban Ki-moon] needs to recognize there's a subtle distinction between morality and human rights, and that's what needs to be clarified," Turkson added.
According to the Bilerico Project, when Turkson was asked why homosexuality is a stigma in Africa, he said, "Just as there's a sense of a call for rights, there's also a call to respect culture, of all kinds of people. So, if it's being stigmatized, in fairness, it's probably right to find out why it is being stigmatized."
There are currently 37 countries in Africa that have passed laws that criminalized homosexuality. Punishments vary from country to country, but gay men can be subjected to whippings, jail time and capital punishment.
According to a 2009 article by Ghana Business News, Turkson defended Benedict's views on condoms and said they should not be the solution to HIV and AIDS. He added that condoms give Africans a sense of false security and are "helping the disease spread."
It should come to no surprise that the Ghanaian cardinal does not support marriage equality.
"We need to find ways of dealing with the challenges coming up from society and culture," he told the British newspaper, Telegraph, recently. He also said he believes the Catholic Church must "evangelize," people that have "alternative lifestyles, trends or gender issues."
On Monday Benedict, 85, announced that he would resign on Feb. 28 due to health issues, which makes him the first pontiff in 600 years to resign.
A number of religious figures are now vying to become the next pope, including Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze and Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet. Gay Star News points out that Arinze compared homosexuality with pornography, infanticide and adultery during his 2003 speech at Georgetown University in the United Kingdom. Arinze even went as far as condemning people who wear rainbow sashes and said they are "showing their opposition to Church teaching on a major issue of natural law and so disqualify themselves from being given Holy Communion."
Both Arinze and Ouellet oppose gay marriage. While Canada lawmakers and church officials were debating gay marriage in Canada, Ouellet called homosexuality an "abomination" and later said the gay rights movement was a "black cloud over America."
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"I built this ridiculous, human-sized doghouse behind my house, and when I went over it with my contractor, he consulted the HOA on all their restrictions and whatnot," Madison told Las Vegas Weekly. "He told me it has to match the architecture of the house, so I did that with the roof because people would see the roof. It's possible you could see the roof from the street, but you can't see any of it from the street, actually."
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Madison said she hasn't paid the fines, which she said work out to about $100 per month. "I just keep sending them nasty letters," she said.
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Maine man creates furniture that turns into coffins
Chuck Lakin is a low-cost funeral advocate
How would you feel about buying your coffin years before you die and then putting it on display in your home?
A man in Waterville is making that happen. Chuck Lakin is a woodworker who is an advocate for lower cost funerals.
Lakin builds relatively inexpensive coffins that serve a real function until needed.
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"It's not a tragedy, everybody dies," said Lakin.
Lakin runs a website and lectures on affordable funeral alternatives, but his specialty is designing coffins and building them in his own shop.
"I'm a woodworker, and I talk to people about home funerals, so of course I'm going to try to make a coffin," said Lakin.
They're not your typical coffins. Over the past five years, Lakin has developed a line of coffins that before that fateful day serve as fully functioning furniture, including beds, bookcases and a chest of drawers.
Lakin said they are simple to convert.
"Basically, like on the bookcase coffin, you take the shelves out, you take the screws that are holding the shelves up out, and if you haven't put the handle on yet, you put the handles on and you're ready to go," said Lakin.
Lakin said if more people had the attitude Landry has, Americans could save millions of dollars on funeral costs.
He said he still finds many people reluctant to buy; most he said are simply unwilling to confront the inevitable.
"There are more people that are willing to talk about it now than there used to be, but it's still a tough sell for a lot of people," said Lakin.
According to the National Funeral Director's Association, the average cost of a metal coffin or casket is about $2,300.
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The transportation standoff
The governor called yesterday as part of the full-court press he has on the transportation/tax package. Much of what he said is here.
I'll have a lot more to say on the standoff between Gov. Patrick and the leaders of the Legislature in my column tomorrow.
Of local note: In the call to me, in an earlier statewide conference call with reporters, and in the statement he read Thursday responding to the Democratic leadership's weak proposal, Gov. Patrick specifically mentioned depressing the commuter rail grade crossings in downtown Framingham. "It's a capacity issue," he said. "It's got to be done."
I asked him whether that was a commitment, or whether he just wanted to make it look like everyone's wishes would come true if his plan was approved. "No," he said. "This is not just an aggregated wish list." The only reason the Framingham project wasn't being discussed with more specificity is they don't have cost estimates yet, but they've started doing test borings and are working on it.
Anyone who's been around Framingham for awhile has ample reason to be skeptical about a project always dismissed as pie-in-the-sky. There are reasons it's more possible today than a few years ago (for one thing, the state has bought the tracks from CSX). But the issue has been talked about for more than a century, and Patrick's is the strongest commitment from a governor it's ever received.
I wasn't surprised that Patrick called us. It's one of the things governors do, especially this governor. And I wasn't surprised that nobody from the other side seemed to be making any effort to win public support for the DeLeo/Murray plan. That's not what they do. Governors do things in public; Beacon Hill legislators do everything they can in private. Governors have press conferences. House Speakers have closed caucuses with their members. And Democratic reps and senators, for the most part, are working hard to avoid taking a position.
The next week may the most interesting of the year on Beacon Hill.


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You could get fried along with the trout at these outdoor feasts
Picnics. By Hilary Heminway and Alex Heminway. Photographs by Audrey Hall. Gibbs Smith, 144 pp., $19.95.
By Janice Harayda
Taking my advice on cooking would be a little like taking advice on winning pennant races from a middle reliever for the Chicago Cubs. So I generally avoid reviewing cookbooks and stick to books on subjects I know perhaps too well, such as all the unintended comedy provided by the finalists for the recent Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
But I thought Picnics was my kind of book when I saw that it had a recipe for gorp (trail mix), which basically involves throwing together a few things like nuts, M&Ms and dried fruit. This coffee-table-topper isn't a cookbook so much as a celebration of meals in the outdoors or other spots that call for portable food – sushi at your desk, dinner in bed, a sandwich on a plane (apparently a private jet, because you'd never get the glass bottle of San Pellegrino on page 24 past airport security). It has tips on defeating bugs, recipes for dishes like chili and grilled trout, and photos worthy of Martha Stewart Living.
The trouble arises when Hilary Heminway and Alex Heminway move beyond outdoor, sunny-day picnics. Quoting the novelist Alice Walker, they say that the English see a tea as "a picnic indoors." That's true only of a low tea (which includes foods such as cucumber sandwiches and sweet buns). A high tea is eaten at a dining room table – typically, instead of dinner — and involves more substantial fare, such as ham, roast beef and Cornish pasties. Picnics perpetuates American misconceptions about these two types of tea by showing pictures of (and giving recipes for) what the authors call a "high tea" but that the English would consider a "low tea."
Then there is the bizarre section on what to do when it rains on your picnic. The Heminways suggest that you seek shelter in a convertible or under a gabled roof, then seem to contradict themselves by saying that you could also have your picnic under an umbrella or "in the drench where you are." The metal parts of umbrellas aren't usually dangerous because people use them near taller trees or buildings. But they could increase your chance of frying to death on a flat field. And the suggestion that you take cover in a convertible seems similarly irresponsible. So let's give the last word to a group that specializes in preventing the kind of disasters this book could cause. The American Red Cross says that if no building is nearby, a hard-top vehicle will offer some protection: "Keep car windows closed and avoid convertibles" www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_590_,00.html.
Best line: The old rhyme about how to avoid poison ivy: "Leaves of three, let it be."
Worst line: "Weather never fails. It may disappoint, but it never fails." Picnics has many lines like those: They sound pretty, but what do they mean?" The first line of the book exemplifies the flowery writing throughout: "Doomed, a painted skimmer cuts (cuts a hundred bias lines per minute) air rich with midges: curves past blue dashers (out for midges, too); breaks through pickerel weeds; stops short on a nodding monocot: a rush for rest."
Recommendation? The pictures in this book are easy on the eyes, so you might consider it as a gift for someone who wouldn't mind the lapses in the text.
Published: March 2007 www.gibbs-smith.com
Furthermore: Hilary Heminway and Alex Heminway also wrote Guest Rooms (Gibbs Smith, 2005).
Janice Harayda is an award-winning critic who has been the book columnist for Glamour and the book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland.
© 2007 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Californians brace for nights of freezing temps
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Californians are bundling up with sweaters and gloves and stocking up on firewood as they brace for several nights of very unseasonable freezing temperatures.
The National Weather Service is forecasting morning frost on San Diego beaches. Big Sur, on the central coast, prepared for daytime highs almost 20 degrees below Boston's. Even the snowbird haven of Palm Springs faced the possibility of freezing temperatures at night.
In addition, San Diego zookeepers turned up the heat for chimpanzees, tourists covered their hands on Hollywood walking tours, and some farmers broke out wind machines and took other steps to protect crops from freezing.
Freeze warnings were in effect in San Diego County valleys and deserts Saturday morning with lows in the 20s and 30s, the weather service said.
In Sonoma County, homeless shelters started handing out extra warm clothes on Friday to protect people from freezing overnight temperatures.
Morning temps fell into the 20s and 30s in many areas, and much lower in the mountains. A low of 12 degrees was recorded in the Big Bear mountain resort east of Los Angeles.
Some customers drove more than an hour to buy firewood.
"It's crazy busy here," said Renea Teasdale, office manager at The Woodshed in Orange, south of Los Angeles.
Still, it was business as usual as much of the state contended with temperatures in the high 40s and low 50s.
"It's still sunny Southern California, and I'm going to work on my legs all year long," said Linda Zweig, a spokeswoman for the Del Mar Fairgrounds, which is hosting a 5-kilometer run north of San Diego on Sunday. The lifelong San Diego-area resident is prone to wearing two sweatshirts when the temperature drops but refuses to give up on shorts.
In the San Joaquin Valley, the heart of California's citrus production, growers prepared for another round of freezing temperatures late Friday after seeing little crop damage Thursday night.
They run wind machines and water to protect their fruit, which can raise the temperature in a grove by up to 4 degrees, said Paul Story, director of grower service at California Citrus Mutual. Existing moisture, sporadic rain and cloud cover can also help keep in heat.
Snow shut a 40-mile stretch of a major highway north of Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, forcing hundreds of truckers to spend the cold night in their rigs and severing a key link between the Central Valley and Los Angeles.
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