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Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar: Goram Entertainment Friday Night Karaoke. 10 p.m. Free. 1400 Village Square Blvd. 508-4062.
Barnacle Bill's: Keith and Barefoot Rob. Vintage Acoustic Blues, Rock, and a little Country thrown in. 6-9 p.m., Free. Barnacle Bill's, On The Deck (weather permitting), 1830 N. Monroe St., 385-8734.
B Sharp's Jazz Club: Leon Anderson, with Rodney Jordan on bass, brings Avis Berry to the stage to sing. This is Leon's last performance as leader for the 2012 fall season at B Sharp's. 8-midnight, $10. B Sharp's Jazz Club, 648 W. Brevard St., 577-0748.
Cafe Shisha: Belly dancing. 10 p.m.-midnight. Free. 1416 W. Tennessee St. 222-0405.
Calico Jacks: Deja Blu Live. Classic acoustic rock with intense vocals. 6:30-9:30 p.m., Calico Jacks, on the Patio, 2738 Capital Circle NE.
Collection at Southside: The Collection at Southside is presenting its first Open Mic Show. All performers are welcome. This event benefits ECHO. The shop will be open for holiday shopping and beverages will be available. 8 p.m., Collection at Southside, 231 E. Palmer Ave., 597-7845.
Corner Pocket Bar & Grill: Wiley Coyote band, 8 p.m.-midnight, 2475 Apalachee Parkway # 201, 574-2724.
Dux Lounge: Falling Timbers band plays your favorite rock and country. 9:30 p.m.-1:45 a.m., $5 cover charge. 3332 Crawfordville Highway, Crawfordville, 926-3212.
Hi Fi Jazz Cafe: Chuck Crawford and Darryl Steele give you the best of jazz blues and soul. Doors open 8 p.m., show time 8:30, $10 adults $7 students table minimum. 1617 South Adams St., 545-6409.
Hobbit American Grill: Live local music. 8-11 p.m. Free. 5032 Capital Circle S.W. 942-4505.
Johnny Ringo's: Midtown Country Christmas Party featuring Houston Deese, Eric Durrance & Tobacco Road and Nashville recording artist Outshyne. 1660-15 N. Monroe St. in the Publix Lake Ella Plaza. Doors open 7 p.m., music at 9 p.m. No cover before 9. 577-1177.
Krewe de Gras Midtown Tavern: Dance Party with DJ Nate. 10 p.m. Free. 1304 N. Monroe St. 222-0378.
Level 8 Lounge: Wine Down Fridays. Live music. 5-8 p.m. No cover; $20 all you can drink house wine. Hotel Duval, 415 N. Monroe St. 224-6000.
Mockingbird Lounge: 7 p.m.: SAIL High School Bluegrass Ensemble led by Carrie Prekins and Thom Henderson. 8:30-9:30 p.m.: Acoustic Ensemble led by Mickey Abraham. Free. 1225 N. Monroe St., 222-4956.
The Moon: Stetson's on The Moon. Country line dance and two-step music by DJ John Summers and DJ Dustin. Booty breaks by DJ Swab. Mechanical bull onstage with Scott Carswell Jr. Karaoke in the lounge. Doors at 9 p.m. Ladies 21+ get in free 'til midnight, $5 cover for others. 1105 E. Lafayette St., 878-6900.
Nefertari's: Phillip Solomon Stewart & the Palace Band. Soul, funk, R&B. 9:30 p.m. $7. 812 S. Macomb St. 320-7836.
The Plaza Restaurant & Lounge: Wayne's World Band. Country and rock dance music 8 p.m.-midnight. Free. 217 S. Broad St., Thomasville, GA, 509-4662.
Rummy's Italian Grill & Sports Bar: Paul Harbin. Acoustic variety, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. 2887 Kerry Forest Parkway. 878-8669.
Salty Dawg Pub & Deli: Anything But Stressed. Good time cover tune variety 7:30-11 p.m., 3813 N. Monroe St., 562-6500.
Tom Baxter's home: Multiple award-winning peace activist songwriter and folk singer Tom Neilson, along with Lynn Waldron, provides a warm, witty and engaging art and activism evening. 7:30-9:30 p.m., $15 donation. 426 W. Carolina St., 893-7390.
The Warehouse: 27th Annual Almost Christmas Concerts with Pierce Pettis and Del Suggs. Please bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to ECHO. 8-11 p.m. today and Saturday, $15 advance from Beethoven & Co. $18 at the door. The Warehouse, 706 W. Gaines St., 222-6188.
Bradfordville Blues Club: Victor Wainwright & the Wildroots with special guests. 10 p.m. -1 a.m., $13 in advance at www.bradfordvilleblues.com; $13 at the door for students, $15 at the door for all others. 7152 Moses Lane, 906-0766.
B Sharps Jazz Cafe: Scotty Barnhart and the jazz faculty from FSU and FAMU. 8 p.m.-midnight, $15 / $30 VIP. 648 W Brevard St., 577-074.
Cafe Shisha: Belly dancing. 10 p.m.-midnight. Free. 1416 W. Tennessee St. 222-0405.
Colonial Liquors: Saturday Night Karaoke with Jeff Cornish. 8:30 p.m. Free. The Cove, 5531 N. Monroe St. 408-2799.
Level 8 Lounge: Seven Deadly Sins Saturday. DJ Gonzalez. 9 p.m. Free. 415 N. Monroe St. 224-6000.
Midtown Pass: Simple Saturday Happy Hour. 5 p.m. No cover. 1019 N. Monroe St. 597-9614.
Mockingbird Lounge: Rockin' Rockabilly, Swing and Country, 7-10 p.m., free. 1225 N. Monroe St., 222-4956.
The Moon: Grown Folks Night. R&B/hip-hop with DJ Bo Weezy. 10 p.m. Cover starts at $10; ladies free 'til midnight. 1105 E. Lafayette St. 878-6900.
Sopchoppy High School Auditorium: The Sopchoppy Opry presents the fabulous Purvis Brothers Band in a special Christmas show, 7 p.m. All tickets $10. Call 962-3711.
Waterworks: The Institution - Tunes of the Alterna80s with DJ Evol Eno. 10 p.m. Free. 1133 Thomasville Road. 224-1887.
American Legion Hall: 2nd annual "If You Believe Campaign" Christmas charity concert with live music, DJ, dancing and poetry. 229 Lake Ella Drive, 5pm-9pm. Admission is $10 or $5 if you bring an unwrapped gift worth $10 or more. Call 241-2653.
Finnegan's Wake: Tallahassee Uke Jammers. 4 p.m. Free. 1122 Thomasville Road. 222-4225.
Finnegan's Wake: The Ned Devines, Irish traditional music and dance. 7-10 p.m. Free. 1122 Thomasville Road. 222-4225.
Milano Pizzeria: Carlos & Carlos, Latin fusion guitar duet. 6-9 p.m. Free. Corner of Tharpe and MLK Blvd. 270-9100.
Ouzts Too: Swingin' Harpoon Band. Midnight, free. 7968 Coastal Hwy, Newport, 212-6683.
Po' Boys Creole Cafe: Sunday Funday Brunch, NFL ticket and live music. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. 224 E. College Ave. 224-5400.
American Legion Hall: Dance lessons. 7-8 p.m. Ballroom dance 8-10:30 p.m. $5. 229 Lake Ella Drive. 222-3382.
Bird's Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack: Open mic. 9:30 p.m. Free. 325 N. Bronough St. 222-1075.
Just One More: Open Mic Mondays. 7 p.m. Free. 3808 N. Monroe St. 727-0613.
Level 8 Lounge: Happy Hour. 4-8 p.m. Free. 415 N. Monroe St. 224-6000.
Midtown Pass: Happy Hour at the End Zone Sports Bar. 5-9 p.m. Free. 1019 N. Monroe St. 597-9614.
Mockingbird Lounge: Happy Hour with Mimi & The Hearn Dogs. 6-8 p.m. Free. 1225 N. Monroe St. 222-4956.
Waterworks: The Tim Blackmon Quartet. Jazz. 8:30 p.m. Free. 1133 Thomasville Road. 224-1887.
American Legion Hall: Tallahassee Swing. Big band, swing, ballroom. 7:30-10 p.m. $6, $5 students with IDs. 229 Lake Ella Drive. 222-3382.
Cafe Shisha & Hookah Lounge: Belly dancing. 10 p.m. $10 for all you can smoke. 1416 W. Tennessee St. 222-0405.
Colonial Liquors: Goram Entertainment Tuesday Night Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. 5531 N. Monroe St. 562-4344.
Hobbit American Grill: Tuesday Trivia. 7 p.m. Free. 5032 Capital Circle SW. 942-4505.
Level 8 Lounge: Happy Hour. 4-8 p.m. Live music on the terrace. 8-11 p.m. Free. Hotel Duval, 415 N. Monroe St. 224-6000.
Little Italy Restaurant: Open bluegrass jam. 7:30-10 p.m. Free. 111 S. Magnolia Drive. 878-7781.
American Legion Hall: Dance classes featuring Triple Two, cha-cha and intro to two-step. 6:30-8 p.m. $8. 229 Lake Ella Drive. 224-4894.
Bird's Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack: Stand-Up Comedy Showcase. 9:30 p.m. Free. 325 N. Bronough St. 222-1075.
Bradfordville Blues Club: Popa Chubby, powerhouse blues rock guitarist. 8:30-10 p.m., $8 advance online at www.bradfordvilleblues.com and for students; $10 day of show for all others. 7152 Moses Ln, 906-0766.
Cafe Shisha: Jazz Night with Steven Moore Plus 4. 9:30 p.m. Free. 1416 W. Tennessee St. 222-0405.
Hobbit American Grill: Acoustic open mic. 8-11 p.m. Free. 5032 Capital Circle S.W. 942-4505.
Just One More: Ping pong tournament. 7 p.m. Free. 3808 N. Monroe St. 727-0613.
Level 8: Little Black Dress Night, with DJ KOH. 9-11 p.m. Hotel Duval, 415 N. Monroe St. 224-6000.
Midtown Pass: Happy Hour. 5-9 p.m. Free. Sexy in the Capital City Ladies Night. Ladies enjoy complimentary martinis and $2 house wines, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. No cover. 1019 N. Monroe St. 597-9614.
Momo's Pizza & Brewpub: Blues and Brews. Weekly music performance. 7-9:30 p.m. Free. 1410 Market St. 412-0222.
The Moon: College Night with DJ Sean-D. Hip-hop. 10 p.m. Cover starts at $10. 1105 E. Lafayette St. 878-6900.
Morelia's Mexican Restaurant: Free salsa lessons. If you can walk, you can salsa. 7-9 p.m. weekly. Free. 1355 Market St. 339-8463.
Riverside Cafe: Mike Nash hosts open mic night. 7-10 p.m. Free. 69 Riverside Drive, St. Marks. 925-5668.
Tasty Eats: Open mic night. 5-8 p.m. 602 Industrial Drive, Railroad Square Art Park. 597-9051.
The Warehouse: Open mic with Doc Russell. 8 p.m. Free. 706 W. Gaines St. 222-6188.
Waterworks: Magnum P.I. Wednesdays. Drink specials, "Magnum, P.I." theme, surprises. 9 p.m. free. 1133 Thomasville Road. 224-1887.
Cuzzy's Key West Seafood Shack: Food Truck Thursday. 6-10 p.m. Free. 300 W. Tharpe St. 386-2899.
El Jalisco Mexican Restaurant: Charles Santiago. Instrumental guitar solos. 6-9 p.m. Free. 2022 N. Monroe St. 942-5046.
Just One More: Pool tournament. 8 p.m. 3808 N. Monroe St. 727-0613.
Level 8 Lounge: Happy Hour. Live music on the terrace. 8-11 p.m. Free. Hotel Duval, 415 N. Monroe St. 224-6000.
Sid's Pub: Pool tournament. 8 p.m. 3839 N. Monroe St. 562-7437.
The Warehouse: Open House Conspiracy. High-tech soulful, Afrobeat, disco. 10 p.m. 706 W. Gaines St. 222-6188.
Waterworks: Science Salon. 9 p.m. Free. 1133 Thomasville Road. 224-1887.
Wild Greens Cafe: Dinner and music. Acoustic music by local musicians in an intimate setting at the Wild Greens Cafe. 915-2 Railroad Avenue, 422-2131.


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The 33rd edition of Seafood Expo North America and Seafood Processing America will offer a series a special events to the thousands of seafood professionals attending the expo from March 16-18, 2014 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
The schedule of events includes a master class series complemented by culinary demonstrations, the 8th Annual Oyster Shucking competition, the Seafood Excellence Awards, sponsored sessions on timely topics in the seafood industry and a new product showcase featuring product sampling.
"These tailored presentations are designed to enhance the visitors' experience by providing them with an opportunity to learn about new products and upcoming trends, hear about the latest topics in the industry, and take away information to help them grow their business," says Liz Plizga, Show Director at Diversified Communications, producers of Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America. "We are thrilled to introduce an expanded program of master classes that focus on specific species presented by industry professionals and distinguished chefs."
The Master Class Series consists of educational sessions presented by industry experts and top chefs. Through these classes attendees will gain a deeper understanding on how to grow, source, select, handle and prepare specific seafood species such as lobster, salmon and oyster.
During the three-day event, the New Product Showcase will display the latest packaged seafood products, condiments and culinary dishes to be launched in 2014.
All products entered into the New Product Showcase are automatically entered into the prestigious Seafood Excellence Awards competition, which recognize and celebrate the best new seafood products for Best New Retail Product and Best New Foodservice Product in the North American seafood market. The 2014 finalists were recently selected and the winners will be announced at the Seafood Excellence Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 16 at 3:30pm.
The 8th Annual Oyster Shucking competition brings together 14 contestants competing to earn the title as the fastest shucker on the East coast! The first five winners receive cash prizes.
All participants of Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America are invited to take part in these numerous activities and presentations:
Sunday, March 16, 2014:
10:00AM – 5:00PM New Product Showcase
Sponsored by: Clearwater Seafoods
11:00AM – 5:00PM Conference Program
Presented by SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business magazine
11:00AM – 12:00PM Master Class Series: Lobster – Focus: American Lobster
Presented by: Carl Wilson, Lobster Biologist, Maine Department of Marine Resources
Chef: Alain Bosse, The Kilted Chef
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1:00PM – 2:00PM Master Class Series: Salmon – Focus: Wild Salmon
Presented by: Randy Rice, Technical Director, ASMI & Karl Johan Uri, Foodservice Marketing Specialist, ASMI
Chef: Dan Enos, The Oceanaire Seafood Room (Boston, MA)
Sponsored by: Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI)
1:30PM – 2:00PM Product Sampling
Hot smoked candied salmon and hot smoked sliced peppered salmon
Sponsored by: True North Salmon Co., Ltd.
3:30PM Seafood Excellence Awards – New Product Competition Ceremony & Reception
Monday, March 17, 2014:
9:00AM – 10:00AM Sponsored Session: Maine Lobster, From Trap to Table
Panelists: Michele Ragussis, Food Network Celebrity Chef
Carl Wilson, Lobster Biologist, Maine Department of Marine Resources
Sponsored by: Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative
9:00AM – 10:00AM Sponsored Session: Reeling in Your Cold Chain
Sponsored by: Americold
10:00AM – 5:00PM New Product Showcase
Sponsored by: Clearwater Seafoods
11:30AM – 5:00PM Conference Program
Presented by SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business magazine
11:30AM – 12:30PM Master Class Series: Oyster
Presented by: Patrick McMurray
11:30 – 12:00PM Product Sampling
Bacon & cheese stuffed clams and panko cod tenders
Sponsored by: National Fish & Seafood Inc.
3:30PM Oyster Shucking Competition
Sponsored by: Cherrystone Aqua-Farms
Tuesday, March 18, 2014:
10:00AM – 3:00PM New Product Showcase
Sponsored by: Clearwater Seafoods
10:30AM – 12:00PM Conference Program
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According to IDC research, 75% of B2B buyers and 84% of C-level/vice president executives use social media to make purchase decisions. LinkedIn, in particular, can put you in close proximity to and, ultimately, connect you with these buyers. However, it isn't enough to simply create a profile. You must grow your network, post articles, comment on posts, participate in groups, and more. To help you get started, we've created a tool to help you optimize your LinkedIn profile and use LinkedIn for your sales efforts.
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Blue Flag (BF) is an Air Combat Command-sponsored exercise program that trains participants at the operational level of war. ACC provides overall management of the program, to include programming, funding, and scheduling.
The 505th Combat Training Squadron (CTS) is ACC's agent for planning and executing the BF program. BF provides doctrinally-correct air, space, and cyberspace crisis action planning (CAP) and command and control (C2) training for joint/coalition air components and operational-level headquarters in a constructive environment.
The primary training audience includes commanders and staff of component-numbered air forces (C-NAF), Air Force forces (AFFOR), joint/combined air operations centers (J/CAOC), and associated operational-level joint and coalition C2 organizations and personnel. The goal is to train commanders and staff officers so that, in a war emergency, they can immediately participate in directing an air war and make smart decisions during the critical first days of an engagement. Training during the exercises is in five primary areas: command, control, communications, intelligence, and the relationship of these elements.
The goal is for each NAF to participate in a BF every two years, but AOC/AFFOR training is also embedded into multi-tiered combatant command-sponsored events through the Joint Air Component Command and Control Exercise, Training, and Integration (JETI) program.
Blue Flag exercises attempt to duplicate theater conditions and procedures as closely as possible. Blue Flag planners research friendly and enemy force structures, communications capabilities, logistics support, command and control procedures, and current plans and directives. Blue Flag relies on theater advisors for validation of exercise scenarios and proper relocation of participating headquarters and wartime command and control structure. Theater advisors also assist with player training and act as non-player higher headquarters.
Control Group - The 505th CTS has developed several world class capabilities which include a higher headquarters team designed specifically to replicate the joint task force and above level. Joint participants can either join as role players or as part of the training audience. Control functions also include the professional control force made up of weapon system and AOC experts who run the "air war," fly the ATO, and replicate the various functions required for JFACC/JAOC operations and training.
Scenario Development - Scenario development is conducted by a cross-functional team whose activities occur throughout the BF planning cycle. Blue Flag has developed a robust theater level scenario which can be modified for additional joint context and joint training as required by the training audience. The principal scenario is developed around the theater air campaign however can easily accommodate special operations forces, land component, and maritime training requirements.
Models and Simulations - The constructive backbone for a BLUE FLAG event is the Air, Space and Cyber Constructive Environment (ASCCE) suite, and the Joint Training and Experimentation Network (JTEN) which is supported by the 505th Communications Squadron. The simulations federated into this environment provide a realistic representation of air and space power for joint exercises and experimentation conducted in MAJCOMs around the world.
Academic/Trainer Support - Trainer Support is accomplished through the support of the 705th Training Squadron's Operational Command Training Program (OCTP), utilizing Senior Advisors who focus on JFACC/COMAFFOR training, and Observer/Trainers (OTs) who provide focused AOC Division Chief and AFFOR A-Staff Director tailored academic training "over the shoulder" as requested by the training audience prior to crisis action planning (CAP) and exercise execution phases.
The Higher Headquarters Element (HICON) replicates the functions of the national strategic levels of war, the theater strategic levels of war, the geographic combatant commander (GCC) or Joint Task Force (JTF) staff and/or other strategic level functions and organizations in exercise design and execution. Joint doctrine is integral to the entire BF planning and execution process. Focus is on doctrinal execution of air component processes within the context of a theater level Campaign.
Feedback to Training Audience - Both formal and informal feedback is provided to the training audience through various methods. "Over the shoulder" support can be offered during daily ATO execution, end of day feedback to the division chiefs and JFACC as well as end of event formal feedback which provides opportunities for all participant leads to openly discuss training and exercise objectives. Formal feedback is led by a highly qualified joint lessons learned subject matter expert.
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Archive for Thursday, February 7, 2008
Seventh-grade basketball
February 7, 2008
The Eudora seventh-grade varsity boys basketball team picked up a key win Jan. 31 at Central Heights, 23-20.
The team entered the game needing at least two more wins in order to have a chance for a top four seed in the end-of-the-season tournament in Ottawa.
Central Heights was hungry for a win for other reasons - the Vikings had yet to win on the year and Thursday marked its first of two home games this season.
The Vikings' 1-3-1-zone defense gave the Cardinals fits throughout and Eudora struggled early on the offensive end. Careless Cardinal fouls and turnovers also helped Central Heights stay close.
Eudora managed to close things out, however, and came home with the win. The Cardinals will look for another important victory Thursday as they play host Prairie View.
¢ The junior varsity squad lost a close game Jan. 31, 14-12, also at Central Heights.
The squad kept things very close, heading into the fourth quarter trailing by one, 11-10. Both teams had difficulty finding the hoop in the final period and fouls by Eudora proved to be too much, killing the Cards hopes for a victory.
The team returned to action Saturday in a Central Heights tournament.
The Cardinals played two games, beating Osawatomie 19-8, and then falling again to the Vikings 13-12.
Central Heights took the lead with less than a minute to play to win its second game against the Cardinals a three-day span.
The junior varsity team will also welcome Prairie View Thursday.
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Our English word health is derived from the Saxon word for whole. Sylvester Graham (1795-1852) inventor of the Graham cracker advocated whole wheat flour, vegetarian diets and temperance. He believed that meat and bad bread were the most obvious but not the only causes of ill health and that raw foods from the plant kingdom were provided by God. When it wasnt possible to eat raw food, the next best choice was unadulterated foods without the use of condiments (including coffee and tea), which were stimulating/irritating to the body and therefore injurious over time.
Hygieia was the Greek goddess of health and in 1856, the phrase Hygienic System came into use. The Natural Hygiene movement applied the principles of nature to the preservation and restoration of health. It called for a return to that pristine mode of living which emerged when man first appeared on earth.
Herbert Shelton (born 1895), one of the 20th-centurys premiere natural hygienists, promoted a 100 percent plant-based diet in 1928. He first published the Hygienic Review in 1939 that ran until 1980, and founded the American Natural Hygiene Society in 1949 which is still active today.
The 2008, "Vegetarianism in America" study published by the Vegetarian Times Magazine, puts the number of U.S. adult vegetarians at 7.3 million, or 3.2 percent of the population.
Of those, 0.5 percent, or 1 million, are vegans who consume no animal products at all.
Another 11.9 million, or 5.2 percent of the population, claims to be interested in vegetarian diets.
How many in that mix follow a raw food diet?
Likely some small fraction of the vegans are also raw foodists, but the question wasn't asked. The study surveyed 5,050 people from different areas of the country, which is considered a statistically-sound representative sample, but with so few people it may be that none of them were raw foodists.
SOURCE: www.raw-food-health.net
Grassroots Natural Market, Denville, www.grassrootsnaturalmarket.com
Morris County Vegans, Denville, www.meetup.com/Morris-County-Vegans
Mountain Lakes Organic Coop, Mountain Lakes, www.mountainlakesorganic.com
Northern NJ Helath Conscious Living, Butler, www.meetup.com/Northern-NJ-Health-Conscious-Living
Whole Foods Market, Madison, http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/MadisonNJ
Namaste Café, New Brunswick, 732-247-0118, www.namastejuicebar.com
Raw Food Life, www.rawfoodlife.com
Raw Food World Store, www.rawfoodworld.com
Rawist, www.rawist.com
Sunfood, www.sunfood.com
Hemp milk.
Detoxifying Parsley Juice.
Cinnamon Banana Green Smoothie.
These are just some of the raw food recipes available on Rawist.com.
Rawists campaign to eliminate all processed food, substituting instead nutritionally whole uncooked fare as all or most of the human diet.
Proponents insist that heating food beyond 104 to 118 degrees causes harm to the body by destroying natural enzymes and nutrients, and that an over-processed and additive-laden diet is the chief cause of the startling obesity/disease-related statistics worldwide.
Acceptable fare includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouts, grains, microalgae, eggs, fish, meat, raw non-pasteurized dairy products, and fresh juices in an uncooked state. Edibles may or may not be organic, and adherents can be vegan (no fish, eggs or dairy), vegetarian or carnivore, but the diet permits no irritants or stimulants (liquor, caffeine, tobacco).
While purists maintain 100 percent adherence is the only true path, 75 percent is acceptable for advocates.
Reasons of adopting the lifestyle might be to shed excess weight, to detox, or to comply with medical advice, but its a stringent lifestyle even for the dabbler, and to adopt it requires adherence and commitment.
Health risks are obvious, professionals say. Practitioners must be extremely cautious regarding raw milk/eggs/meat, and there is an increased risk of food poisoning and foodborne illness.
Professionals also say that while rawism does largely eliminate additive-laden preserved and processed food, white sugar, flour, starches, salt and stimulants from the diet, and might be cleansing short-term, it can be nutritionally inadequate long-term and might take years until negative symptoms are noticeable in adults.
One danger of long-term adherence is vitamin and protein deficiency.
Dr. Nancy Cotter, medical director of Atlantic Integrative Medicine at Morristown Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center in Summit, said studies show plant-based diets raw or cooked are valuable for almost every condition.
She points out that plant-based does not exclude meats or dairy or animal products, just that a large percentage of calories come from plants.
The question is, to what degree, she said. And raw food is not always a good idea.
Because uncooked food circumvents the bodys normal metabolic process wherein enzymes are broken down in several steps in the small intestine vitamin deficiencies frequently occur, particularly B-12, D and omega-3 fatty acids.
Supplements like fish and flaxseed oil have to compensate, which some people dont absorb well, Cotter said. I do worry about a raw-food diet for someone who is frail or whose digestion is non-optimal. They should be tested regularly to ensure levels trend normal.
Special care, professionals warn, must be taken for children who require sufficient calories and an abundance of vitamins D and B-12 to sustain activity and growth.
Cotter has put several patients on vegan diets for weight control and other ailments for no more than three months in an attempt to reduce symptoms, judiciously adding dairy products and meat back into the diet as the body gradually re-adapts.
Phyllis Deering, owner of Inspired Health in Mountain Lakes, is a natural food counselor/chef and a certified Holistic Health Practitioner with certification in raw food. In 2006, Deerings middle daughter kept getting ear infections, and she didnt want to give her any more antibiotics.
My next-door neighbor introduced me to homeopathy, she said. We took her off dairy and she never had another. Theres something to be said to be taking children off something for a while to see if it makes a difference.
The experience made Deering curious. Although not 100 percent vegetarian, she realized she had been eating less meat and wondered what effect a raw-food regimen would have on her own health. Enamored, she took courses.
As she whipped up a walnut/red-pepper pate, Deering explained that the walnuts omega-3 oils provide the creaminess.
I take it to parties and guys love it. Anything thats a dip, theyre in, she said.
Next she concocted a green smoothie of baby spinach leaves, frozen blueberries, flax seeds, a banana, pomegranate juice and almond milk.
Pick your berries in the summer, and freeze them on cookie sheets, she said. Youll have them in the freezer all year long.
The version she made with whey or rice protein powder for her husband every morning is especially beneficial for anyone with high cholesterol.
Once Deering got started, people clamored for more. All my girlfriends were on top of that green smoothie, I can tell you, she said with a laugh.
Deering is good at explaining some raw-food terminology and discussing costs.
Sprouting occurs by soaking seeds and grains (for example alfalfa, lentils, sunflower or pumpkin seeds, mung or garbanzo beans, peanuts) until they germinate or start to put forth small shoots.
Dehydrating is drying food by removing water. Legumes/beans and root vegetables, for example, are virtually inedible in the raw state. Youll need decent dehydrator.
Costs vary, but figure at least $150.
Depending on quality, a mandoline to julienne produce might run anywhere from $40 to $200; manual citrus squeezers about $15; and a spiral slicer to spaghetti veggies, about $50.
Food? The price for a pound of shelled walnuts for that pate is $10 and red peppers are $1 each.
Nutmilk is a staple. You can buy it you can get anything at Whole Foods but making your own seed- or nutmilk is so easy, Deering said. Just soak them overnight in a nutmilk bag, then throw them in the Vitamix with some water.
Raw food preparation can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. Andrea Giancoli, based in Hermosa Beach, Calif., is a registered dietitian with a masters degree in public health/nutrition and a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
In the last 10 years at least in my experience and practice the (raw food) movement has grown immensely, she said. While its still considered somewhat a fad, theres far more interest in it now.
Giancoli agreed that the lifestyle is neither simple nor inexpensive.
Youll get pretty tired of eating salads every meal, she said. And while specialty stores have more products so you dont have to do all the prep anymore, a lot of them are high-tariff.


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Modern office space rising in Cottonwood Heights
Cottonwood Heights • A major piece of commercial development is falling into place for Salt Lake County's youngest city.
Construction began in late February on the first of two high-end office buildings called Cornerstone I and II in Cottonwood Corporate Center, the business park in Cottonwood Heights just south of the intersection of 6200 South and Interstate 215 near Old Mill Golf Course.
The $80 million project by Cottonwood Partners, a real estate-development company with primary offices in Park City, will offer 268,000 square feet of Class A office space, with completion of the first building slated for about a year from now.
The buildings go up as office space vacancy rates in the Salt Lake area's suburban markets are at a five-year low, having closed 2013 at 11.1 percent, down from 17.3 percent in 2009. Similar spaces are under construction across the county including several high-profile projects in downtown Salt Lake City after a building lull related to the economic downturn.
"Everything is being leased up," said Brian Berndt, planning director for Cottonwood Heights, which incorporated in 2005. "This is one of those nice projects that adds a lot of value to the city."
With exteriors in red sandstone and glass, weathered copper and eucalyptus wood interior finishes and an elegant three-story glass lobby connecting the two buildings, the Cornerstone complex is intended to make a strong architectural impression, the developer said.
"It will be striking," said John L. West, CEO of Cottonwood Partners. "We felt this was a location that demanded a higher level of quality."
The new buildings will occupy the last parcel of open land in a 45-acre business development by Cottonwood Partners, constructed in stages over nearly two decades. It already features four office buildings directly next to I-215 occupied by technology and other companies such as Fusion-iO and Centershift and another building to the southeast, which serves as the regional headquarters of health insurer Regence Group-Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Several features of the Cornerstone buildings and similar projects reflect what industry experts say are major trends in new office space construction, as the businesses that lease such offices increasingly rely on workplace ambience and amenities to lure valuable young employees.
Elements ranging from visually appealing decor, convenient location, recreational facilities, integrated work and relaxation areas and even energy efficiency are increasing in demand by employers of workers born between 1980 and 2000, referred to as Generation Y, Echo Boomers and Millenials, said Tab Cornelison, senior vice president and office space expert at the commercial real estate firm CBRE.
"Tenants will pay more for cool and creative space if they understand they can use this space as a tool to attract and retain talent," Cornelison told a January industry gathering in Salt Lake City.
Along with its centerpiece lobby  done in crushed blue glass with a futuristic chandelier the Cornerstone site will also offer a cafe, concierge services and high-speed Internet.
The site incorporates extensive open spaces on its grounds, including a system of walking and biking paths tied into trails leading up Big Cottonwood Canyon. There's a golf course nearby and ski resorts just up the canyon. And the building offers showering facilities for an easier blend of work and play.
It is also situated to take advantage of its spot at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains. Said West: "This will have spectacular views."
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The Tony Awards are rapidly approaching, with the telecast scheduled for 8/7c on June 10. Since I did pretty well last year, I decided to make some predictions about who will take home the big prizes this year. My predictions are below.
Best Play
Best Musical
Best Book of a Musical
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This morning, the American Theatre Wing (well, Kristin Chenoweth and Jim Parsons, on their behalf) announced the nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards. Several shows garnered lots of nominations, led by Once with 11 nominations, closely followed by Nice Work If You Can Get It and The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, each with 10 nominations. In a few weeks I'll post my predictions for who will be doing the actual winning of the awards, but for now here's a complete list of nominations:
What do you think of this year's nominees? Any predictions? Tell us in the comments!
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A few weeks ago, Tim suggested that I should do a blog post about the best Broadway songs. It sounded fun, so I agreed...and soon realized just how difficult the task would be. I ended up settling on my favorite Broadway soundtracks, so that I could cheat a little bit and include more awesome songs. Here's my list, in no particular order:
This is one of the most powerful shows ever written. I saw it for the first time just a few months ago, and it was a very intense and emotional experience. It helps that there is almost no dialogue; the entire show is music, which is amazing. This video is of the finale of the 25th anniversary concert version of the show; the video is about 11 minutes long...including 3 minutes of standing ovation at the end. Shows you just how great this show is.
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Do you remember Olivia from The Cosby Show? The uber adorable little girl who stole scenes everywhere she went? Well, now she's a nun. On Broadway, that is. She's currently playing Deloris in the Broadway production of Sister Act.
Time will tell whether Raven-Symoné's time on the big stage proves successful. But overall, former child stars who make it to Broadway have had mixed results. Here are a few child stars who have made the leap, some who have soared and some who have flopped.
Daniel Radcliffe, Equus and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: The Harry Potter star first made waves on Broadway in Equus, a very not-appropriate-for-children production that was a stark departure from the role that made him famous (along with some disturbing subject matter, the role required him to appear fully nude onstage). Radcliffe received rave reviews for his performance, and last year he returned to Broadway as the lead in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for which he also received plenty of praise. I saw him in How to Succeed last summer, and he was amazing. Radcliffe's Broadway future seems pretty secure.
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It's almost April, which will hopefully bring some spring weather (without the relapses into winter that filled up March here in CT). April will also bring some pretty great live events, plus April Fools Day, National Welding Month and National Karaoke Week (my favorite!). Check out the preview of April live events below!
Coachella: For the first time, the festival will span two weekends, starting April 13 and going through April 22. Top headliners include Radiohead, David Guetta, Florence and the Machine, Gotye, and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
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Nickelback: Nickelback is teaming up with Bush, Seether and My Darkest Days for their latest tour, which kicks off April 10 in Moline, IL.
Crosby, Stills and Nash: The trio is back again with a US tour starting April 17, continuing all the way through September.
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A reporter friend of mine, years ago, told me about doing an interview with TVs "Mr. Rogers"in his home, not his neighborhood. His living room was as big as my friends apartment, he reported, complete with grand piano. But the reason he remembered the interview wasnt the luxury; it was that to Rogers, this was living simply.
Its all in how you look at it, I kept reminding myself as we sat in the living room of our rented beach house watching Affluenza, the PBS special due to be aired September 15. (By now everyone should know to check those all-important local listings.) "We" was me, my husband, our friends Susan and Pete, and their son Taddand our stuff. And we had plenty of stuff: three laptop computers, CD player, radio, microwave oven, cordless phone, cell phone, and of course the television and VCR that made it possible to watch the show in the first place. This is the simple life?
Not according to National Public Radios Scott Simon, host of this good-humored and often goofily funny hour-long special surveying what it describes, only half in jest, as a catastrophic modern-day plague. In a fast-moving montage of old ad clips, satire, statistics, and analysis, Simon and his producers list the symptoms of "affluenza": shopping fever, chronic stress, a rash of bankruptcies, fractured families, and social disarray.
The statistics are astounding. More Americans are expected to declare bankruptcy this year than to graduate from college. The average American parent shops six hours a week and spends 40 minutes playing with the kids. The percentage of Americans describing themselves as very happy reached its high in 1957 and has been going down since. In the town of Colorado Springs, where taxpayers have refused for 25 years to increase school funding, the superintendent of schools is selling ads in school buildings and on school buses.
The show spends quite a bit of time in Colorado Springs, whereit noteseven the Christian Right, gung-ho as it is for capitalism and free enterprise, seems to suspect things have gotten out of hand. "The market brings in new consumers at any price," complains Focus on the Familys Glenn Stanton. "Pitting children against their parents is going too far."
"The majority of people are rushing to get a little more, and its got to stop," says Pastor Ted Haggard of New Life Church. As he speaks, he is sitting at a bucolic picnic table, clad in a Wilson (as in tennis racket) T-shirt, shooing off a goat thats nibbling at his Bible.
THIS RAMPANT consumerism, according to Simon and his producers, goes against a deep strain in the American charactera strain into which the show shoehorns characters as diverse as the Pilgrim fathers, Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt, and Jimmy Carter. And heres where we all began arguing with the TV screen, even as we howled at the "uncommercials" put together by the Canadian Adbusters group.
Some of our complaints sprang from sheer discomfort, of course. Okay, so there are good reasons for those computers (like writing this review)...but three of them? "I buy Nikes because theyre comfortable," insisted Tadd during a segment on how kids get hooked on brand names. Pete exclaimed in outrage as Jeremy Rifkin used tuberculosis to prove that until this century, to be a consumer in America was a bad thing (after all, TB was called consumption).
"Ben Franklin was one of the bad guys," sniped Susan. And I countered the almost-obligatory shots of starving children (in the global miseries segment) with guilt-trip accusations.
But as I watched Your Money or Your Life authors Vicki Robin and the late Joe Dominguez (to whom the show is dedicated) wax eloquent about simplifying your life, I did begin to wonder just what was going on here. The movement is growing by leaps and bounds, said one participant. But when Susan canvassed New York bookstores for a copy of Voluntary Simplicity, another book touted on the show, she couldnt find a single oneor even a store that had heard of it.
Perhaps the hours strangest moment is a clip showing Nike employees eagerly participating in a workshop on voluntary simplicity. I couldnt help wondering if any of them had thought about what might happen to their jobs if this movement became widespread. Exactly where did they think theyd be, if teen-agers all over the world started wearing their Nikes until they developed holes?
And that, of course, is the rub. Yeah, wed be better off if we simplified our lives. But we live in a Ponzi-scheme economy where not just corporate fortunes, but peoples jobs, from the United States to Poland to Thailand, depend on the ever-increasing appetite for things that the advertising industry so skillfully fuels. Getting enough folks off that treadmill to avert the environmental disasters Affluenza threatens is likely to be not the uncomplicated blessing the show promises, but a messy and possibly ugly process.
But the Affluenza producers cant really be blamed, in an hour-long show, for skipping lightly over a few awkward areas. We had a ball watching it, even when we squirmed. So tune in. Invite your friends over. Invite their stuff over. Have a rummage sale.
Who knows, when we get home, we might even get rid of one of those computers.
When not on vacation, ANN MONROE writes for a variety of magazines, including Sojourners and Mother Jones. She thanks John Howe, Susan Schaeffer, Pete Schellenbach, and Tadd Schellenbach for their valuable assistance.Affluenza. Scott Simon. KCTS/Seattle and Oregon Public Broadcasting, 1997.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Seattle billionaire Chris Hansen says he regrets funding a secretive effort to block a new downtown arena for Sacramento's professional basketball team.
Hansen's involvement was disclosed by California's campaign watchdog Friday.
He issued a statement saying he "made a mistake" by giving a Los Angeles law firm $100,000. The firm secretly funneled $80,000 to a group gathering signatures to force a public vote on the arena plan.
The Fair Political Practices Commission sued to learn Hansen's identity.
Hansen tried to buy the Sacramento Kings and move them to Seattle until his bid was denied by the NBA earlier this year. The team's new owners are working with city officials to build a downtown arena to replace the aging facility the Kings now call home.


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The Immigration and Naturalization Service hearings to deport Lennon eventually bogged down. Documents from the CIA—which investigated Lennon on U.S. soil in violation of its own charter—included a suggestion from then-acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray, who had by then replaced the dead Hoover, that the ex-Beatle would be easier to deport if he could be arrested in America for drug possession.
"I read this as a drug-bust setup," Wiener said. "The FBI is not involved in drug-possession enforcement; that's a state matter. Clearly, here they were worried the immigration hearings were not succeeding. This is an abuse of power by the FBI."
In the end, it's possible to conclude the government beat Lennon. Tied up in deportation hearings for the rest of 1972, Lennon canceled his peace tour. "His attorneys urged him not to do anything more to provoke the Nixon administration," Wiener said, "because he had a very weak case for staying in the United States."
The last 10 pages on Lennon must be kept secret because of a pact made with a foreign government that supplied the information. Wiener says he already knows what's there: a report from British intelligence that Lennon helped fund communists and the IRA. David Shayler, a former British MI5 agent, says he's seen agency documents that claim Lennon made large contributions to the IRA and the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), whose best-known member was actress Vanessa Redgrave.
Wiener points to evidence that shows Lennon supported nonviolent Irish civil-rights groups and the New Left Marxists, whose political orientation was completely different from the WRP. Ono has denied her late husband was involved with the IRA, and an ex-WRP executive-committee member maintains, "There was absolutely no link between Lennon and us."
But that didn't stop ultra-right-winger Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times of London from splashing this banner headline across the top of the Feb. 20, 2000, issue: "Lennon Funded Terrorists and Trotskyists." The story asserted that secret documents proving the allegation were about to be released. They weren't.
The Sunday Times story was based on a development in Wiener's ongoing case, which is ultimately after those last 10 FBI pages. But federal Judge Brian Robbins had just ordered the government to release two pages of 1997 FBI correspondence with the unnamed "foreign government" that provided the information about Lennon, not the FBI's 1972 Lennon documents.
Of course, there's one way to clear all this up: just release the freakin' documents already.
"It's kind of silly to say these are secrets and that national security will be threatened," Wiener said. "These are reports on 30-year-old activities of a dead rock star."
It's more than silly. Wiener learned long ago that the secrets America's top law-enforcement agency kept on a long-dead rock star were far less intriguing—and ultimately less important—than the actual battle to get the documents released.
Secrecy is considered power to some misguided souls in our supposedly democratic society. But we can't keep our society democratic unless we "find out what the government is up to," Wiener said. "We need the freedom of information for journalists and scholars and citizens to use as a weapon in the battle of democracy against secrecy."
For Wiener, happiness would have been a "smoking gun"—a letter from Hoover to Nixon. The files don't include that, but they do show Hoover and Gray did update H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff and the closest person to the president in the White House. "There is no reason to tell Haldeman if Nixon didn't want to know," Wiener said. "That's why they communicated with Haldeman, to get to Nixon."
Yet the files also reveal "there are no real secrets here about John Lennon," Wiener added. "John Lennon lived a pretty public life. What you see in these 400 pages is the effort the government put into what they called 'neutralizing' John Lennon. They succeeded."
Rather than rejoice in a mission accomplished, the FBI has fought to keep the matter secret. Why? Because there are no secrets about Lennon and, thus, no reason to mobilize vast resources to spy on him. All the documents now reveal is a highest-levels-of-government conspiracy to neutralize one guy who strummed a guitar. That's embarrassing, especially in light of later federal-enforcement blunders such as Waco.
As the Christian Science Monitor wrote recently, Gimme Some Truth "is a primer in legal maneuvering, persistence and recognition of the public's right and need to know. In short, Gimme Some Truth is one of the most important books ever published about the FOIA."
One thing Wiener is proudest of about his book is its format: after the first 104 pages of text—mostly chronological in nature—readers get to see 200 pages of reproductions of the most-important FBI documents. The blackened-out pages he initially received run right alongside the exact same pages in unobscured form.
To demonstrate how dishonest the government has been about its stand to keep the documents secret because of "national security," look at the report on Lennon's appearance at the "John Sinclair Freedom Rally" in 1972. Sinclair, who was head of the White Panthers, was serving a 10-year prison sentence for selling two marijuana joints to an undercover officer. The report shows that among the 15,000 people at the concert was an FBI agent, who'd inform his bosses that Lennon was there and that he sang a song called "Free John Sinclair." Included in the report were the lyrics.
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Sep 16, 2007
British dwarf's penis gets stuck to hoover
from the What not to do dept.
EDINBURGH (AFP) - A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry.
Daniel Blackner, or "Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf", was due to perform at the Circus of Horrors at the festival known for its oddball, offbeat performances.
The main part of his act saw him appear on stage with a vacuum cleaner attached to his member through a special attachment.
The attachment broke before the performance and Blackner tried to fix it using extra-strong glue, but unfortunately only let it dry for 20 seconds instead of the 20 minutes required.
He then joined it directly to his organ. The end result? A solid attachment, laughter, mortification and ... hospitalisation.
"It was the most embarrassing moment of my life when I got wheeled into a packed AE with a vacuum attached to me," Blackner said.
"I just wished the ground could swallow me up. Luckily, they saw me quickly so the embarrassment was short-lived."
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I broke my arm, but boy am I happy!
from the Fun and Games dept.
Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm.
Distributor Atlus Co. said Tuesday it will remove all 150 "Arm Spirit" arm wrestling machines from Japanese arcades after three players broke their arms grappling with the machine's mechanized appendage.
"The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it," said Atlus spokeswoman Ayano Sakiyama, calling the recall "a precaution."
"We think that maybe some players get overexcited and twist their arms in an unnatural way," she said. The company was investigating the incidents and checking the machines for any signs of malfunction.
Players of "Arm Spirit" advance through 10 levels, battling a French maid, drunken martial arts master and a Chihuahua before reaching the final showdown with a professional wrestler.
The arcade machine is not distributed overseas.
posted by al at 03:46:03 PM | More Print News »
An unusual employment opportunity
from the Tibet dept.
BEIJING (AFP) - Tibetan living Buddhas are no longer allowed to be reincarnated without permission from the atheist Chinese government, state media reported Friday.
The new rules are "an important move to institutionalise the management of reincarnation of living Buddhas," the Xinhua news agency said.
According to the regulations, which take effect on September 1, all reincarnation applications must be submitted to religious affairs officials for approval, Xinhua said.
China is ruled by the Communist Party, which, despite being officially atheist, maintains strict controls over Tibetan Buddhism and all other religions.
Living Buddhas are an important element in Tibetan Buddhism, forming a clergy of influential religious figures who are believed to be continuously reincarnated to take up their positions anew.
Often there is more than one candidate competing to be recognised as the actual reincarnation, and the authority to decide who is the true claimant carries significant power.
This is especially true in the case of the Panchen Lama, the second-most influential figure in Tibetan Buddhism behind the Dalai Lama.
Chinese authorities detained the Dalai Lama's choice as the Panchen Lama in 1995 when the boy was six years old, and he has not been seen in public since.
The Chinese government's choice as the Panchen Lama has meanwhile been paraded around the country in recent years to promote China's rule over his homeland.
China sent troops in to "liberate" Tibet in 1951. The Dalai Lama later fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising and established a government-in-exile in Dharamsala.
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Aug 12, 2007
An unusual employment opportunity
from the Tibet dept.
BEIJING (AFP) - Tibetan living Buddhas are no longer allowed to be reincarnated without permission from the atheist Chinese government, state media reported Friday.
The new rules are "an important move to institutionalise the management of reincarnation of living Buddhas," the Xinhua news agency said.
According to the regulations, which take effect on September 1, all reincarnation applications must be submitted to religious affairs officials for approval, Xinhua said.
China is ruled by the Communist Party, which, despite being officially atheist, maintains strict controls over Tibetan Buddhism and all other religions.
Living Buddhas are an important element in Tibetan Buddhism, forming a clergy of influential religious figures who are believed to be continuously reincarnated to take up their positions anew.
Often there is more than one candidate competing to be recognised as the actual reincarnation, and the authority to decide who is the true claimant carries significant power.
This is especially true in the case of the Panchen Lama, the second-most influential figure in Tibetan Buddhism behind the Dalai Lama.
Chinese authorities detained the Dalai Lama's choice as the Panchen Lama in 1995 when the boy was six years old, and he has not been seen in public since.
The Chinese government's choice as the Panchen Lama has meanwhile been paraded around the country in recent years to promote China's rule over his homeland.
China sent troops in to "liberate" Tibet in 1951. The Dalai Lama later fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising and established a government-in-exile in Dharamsala.
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Weekly World News Folds, 500 Aliens layed off!
from the End of an era dept.
Publisher American Media Inc. said on Tuesday it will stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities.
The company said in a brief statement it would end the print version of the tabloid newspaper next month but would maintain the online version (www.weeklyworldnews.com).
"Due to the challenges in the retail and wholesale magazine marketplace that have impacted the newsstand, American Media, Inc. today announced it will close the print version of the Weekly World News, effective with the August 27 issue. Weekly World News was AMI's smallest weekly publication," the company said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters.
Spokesman Richard Valvo declined further comment.
American Media is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, and is best known as the publisher of the National Enquirer. The company announced last month it was exploring the sale of five of its 16 magazines as part of a strategy to focus on celebrity weeklies and lifestyle magazines.
The Weekly World News, which boasted it was "The World's Only Reliable Newspaper," reveled in shocking and almost always exclusive reports about extra-terrestrials, ghosts, scoundrels and scientific discoveries, such as the cure for lovesickness found on the walls of an ancient Mexican monument.
Bat Boy, the half-bat, half-human child found in a cave, was a regular feature. After the September 11 attacks, the tabloid reported he had been enlisted in the hunt for Osama bin Laden because of his special cave-dwelling skills.
The current online version reports that Mother Nature has endorsed Al Gore for president and other recent headlines include: "Man bothered by alien telemarketers" and "Dentist uses UFO metal in patient's tooth"
AMI reported a $160 million net loss for 2006 and is struggling with $1 billion of debt and plummeting circulation. It said in an SEC filing in March that sales of the Weekly World News dropped to 83,000 in 2006 from 153,000 in 2004, while circulation of the National Enquirer fell to 802,000 in 2006 from 1.2 million in 2004.
The company has no publicly traded stock but its bonds are publicly traded.
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Jul 24, 2007
Checkers is now even less interesting than when Grandpa let you
from the draughts = checkers dept.
After 18 years of practice, computers have finally conquered the game of draughts.
The result, described as a "truly significant advance in artificial intelligence", is a draughts programme which cannot be beaten.
Draughts, known as checkers in America, is a popular board game with a history that dates back 5,000 years. Disc-shaped counters move diagonally on a chequered board one square at a time and jump over an opponent's pieces to capture them. Counters that reach an opponent's end of the board are crowned "kings" and can then move backwards as well as forwards.
The game is essentially simple, but working out responses to every possible move meant sifting through 500 billion-billion (five followed by 20 zeroes) different play positions.
An average of 50 computers were run together every day for years at a time to complete the programme, known as Chinook. At peak periods, more than 200 computers were in use.
Scientists led by Dr Jonathan Schaeffer, from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, sought the help of top-level draughts players to programme the computers.
Chinook now contains all the information needed to predict the best move to play in every situation of a game. Even making no mistakes, the best an opponent taking on the programme could achieve would be a draw.
Dr Schaeffer, whose team describe the programme in the journal Science, said: "I think we've raised the bar - and raised it quite a bit - in terms of what can be achieved in computer technology and artificial intelligence. With Chinook, we've pushed the envelope about one million times more than anything that's been done before."
Dr Schaeffer, who chairs the University of Alberta's Department of Computing Science, started the Chinook project in 1989, with a view to winning the human world checkers championship.
Chinook lost the championship match in 1992, but won two years later, becoming the first computer programme to win a human world championship in any game - a feat recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Jul 19, 2007
Two, Two vices in ONE product!
from the Sex and chaw dept.
A condom flavoured with the popular mixture of betel nut and tobacco known as paan is to go on sale in India, newspapers said Tuesday. State-owned company Hindustan Latex has already tested the pungent and bitter mixture on their main market, sex workers, who preferred it to other flavours such as banana and chocolate, the Hindustan Times reported "The community loved it as most of the sex workers chew paan," Sanjeev Gaikwad, a director at advocacy group Family Health International who helped launch the new condom. The condoms will be sold to the public later this year, but sex workers will be given supplies immediately.
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Jul 10, 2007
Bono AND Bob Geldorf CAN'T Be Wrong
from the Why pop stars will never save the earth. dept.
LONDON (Reuters) - More famous for Learjets and limousines than green living, pop stars performing at Saturday's Live Earth environmental concerts face widespread cynicism from fans, commentators and campaigners alike. Built on the model of the Live Aid famine relief gigs of 1985 and Live 8 anti-poverty concerts in 2005, Live Earth aims to raise awareness about climate change and encourage people to live greener lives. There is little doubt that the shows, starting in Sydney and ending in Rio de Janeiro, will be the focus of the world's media, and millions of people, on the day.
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Jun 24, 2007
Eskimo Viagra
from the tourist season dept.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An Alaska man has pleaded guilty to selling more than 100 fur seal "oosiks" -- or penises -- to a local gift shop that intended to sell the items as an aphrodisiac.
Michael Richard Zacharof, an Aleut and former tribal president from the Bering Sea village of St. Paul, pleaded guilty this week to one count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Federal law forbids the sale of any raw marine mammal parts unless they have been crafted into pieces of Alaska Native artwork.
In Zacharof's case, the former tribal leader sold the raw seal penises to a gift shop catering to customers from Asia. The shop then sold the items for about $100 each, according to the Justice Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Steward said seal penis bones, also known as seal sticks, are believed to have properties similar to erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra.
Zacharof faces a possible one-year prison term and a $20,000 fine, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
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China's Drug Regulator / FDA Administrator Gets Death Sentence.
China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country's main quality control agency announced its first recall system targeting unsafe food products.
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court convicted Zheng Xiaoyu for taking bribes in cash and gifts worth more than $832,000 when he was director of the State Food and Drug Administration, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The court then issued the death penalty, the report said.
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Jun 18, 2007
2007 DIY Book Festival
from the Read A Book, Better Yet, Write One dept.
The 2007 DIY Book Festival has placed a special focus on
the poetry, fan fiction, unpublished stories and comics/'zines
categories in its annual event honoring the top independent authors and
small publishers.
The DIY Book Festival will consider self-published or independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, teenage, how-to, cookbooks, science fiction, audio/spoken word, photography, art, comics, 'zines, fan fiction, poetry and e-books published on or after Jan. 1, 2005. All entries must be in English and have been self-published or issued by an independent publishing house..
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Jun 12, 2007
Bob Barker retires
from the A TV land Icon fades to that little dot in the middle of the screen dept.
For the fans who traveled across the country and slept on the sidewalk outside CBS Television City, this was their day — the day of Bob Barker's last "Price is Right." The silver-haired icon, who has hosted the game show for 35 years, plans to officially begin his retirement Thursday. Philip Barrett, 24, of Tampa, Fla. had camped outside the studios since Saturday to see Barker tape his last show on Wednesday afternoon. "This is the chance of a lifetime," he said. Die-hard fans from across the country huddled in sleeping bags for days to say goodbye to Barker and be a part of his last show. CBS sends out more tickets than its 325-seat studio can accommodate, so fans who want a seat need to get in line early. Melanie Zepeda Velez, 32, traveled from Alberta, Canada. "I'm here because I need to kiss Bob," she said. Fans hoped for a chance to bid on prizes, but mostly they came to bid farewell. Barker's long run on the show has inspired fan traditions. Most female contestants kiss him on the cheek. Members of the military wear their uniforms. There is also the 83-year-old Barker's trademark signoff — "Have your pets spayed and neutered" — a tribute to his favorite cause and now a fan mantra.
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Apr 25, 2007
Homer Simpson Moves to Orlando
from the Theme Park News dept.
Don't have a cow, man: The world's most popular dysfunctional cartoon family is coming to Universal Studios. A new ride based on The Simpsons is planned for Universal Studios both in Orlando and Hollywood. Universal Studios officials and The Simpsons producers Matt Groening and James L. Brooks are expected to announce a new partnership and theme-park ride today during a tourism convention in Anaheim, Calif. The ride would go into Universal's recently closed Back to the Future: The Ride buildings in both parks, making it an instant signature attraction in each. It would open in the spring of 2008.
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Apr 23, 2007
The more your drink, the better you feel
from the Vice is GOOD dept.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food, U.S. and Thai researchers said on Thursday. Adding ethanol -- the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits -- boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberries and blackberries, the researchers found. Any colored fruit might be made even more healthful with the addition of a splash of alcohol, they report in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
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Apr 18, 2007
Breaking up is easy to do
from the video game breakups dept.
Enter the video game accessory as date killer. Consider Chris Blessitt. He had so much fun with is buddies playing "Guitar Hero II" he decided to buy his own copy of the popular music game -- and the nearly life-sized plastic guitar that goes with it -- much to his girlfriend Kate's dismay. As the 27-year-old stage actor went looking through the shelves at a Best Buy Co. Inc. store in New York this week, he recalled his girlfriend of nine-months' reaction when he approached her with the idea. "She rolled her eyes," he said.
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Apr 14, 2007
It was the best of parks, it was the worst of parks
from the Grimly themeish dept.
Literary purists may quake at the prospect of a Charles Dickens theme park complete with a Great Expectations boat ride and Ye Olde Curiosity Gift Shop. But Dickens World, a 62 million pound ($115 mln) complex built in the naval dockyard where his father once worked as a clerk, is confidently predicting 300,000 visitors a year to this new attraction dedicated to the Victorian author. "We are not Disneyfying Dickens," insists manager Ross Hutchins as he dons hard hat and fluorescent jacket to tour the site, a hive of activity as the Fagin's den playground and Newgate Prison's grimy walls are given their finishing touches. "If Dickens was alive today, he would probably have built the place himself, " Hutchins said of the theme park in Chatham, once a big unemployment blackspot in southeast England after the dockyards closed in the 1980s but now a major regeneration target.
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Apr 8, 2007
REAL Engineering
from the Beer me! dept.
When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
"I conceived it right after I got out," said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. "I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn't want to let go of."
It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.
With a click of the remote, fashioned from a car's keyless entry device, a small elevator inside the refrigerator lifts a beer can through a hole and loads it into the fridge's catapult arm. A second click fires the device, tossing the beer up to 20 feet — "far enough to get to the couch," he said.
Is there a foam explosion when the can is opened? Not if the recipient uses "soft hands" to cradle the can when caught, Cornwell said.
In developing his beer catapult, Cornwell said he dented a few walls and came close to accidentally throwing a can through his television. He's since fine-tuned the machine to land a beer where he usually sits at home, on what he called "a right-angle couch system."
For now, the machine throws only cans, although Cornwell has thought about making a version that can throw a bottle. The most beer he has run through the machine was at a party, when he launched a couple of 24-can cases.
"I did launch a lot watching the Super Bowl," he said. "My friends are the reason I built it. I told them about the idea and hyped it so much and I had to go through with it."
A video featuring the device is a hit on the Internet, where more than 600,000 people have watched it at metacafe.com, earning Cornwell more than $3,000 from the Web site.
Cornwell said he has talked to a brewing company about the machine, but right now only one exists. Asked if he might start building some for sale, he said: "I'm keeping that option open, depending on interest."
When Cornwell was a student at Duke — an elite, private university in Durham — he participated in the engineering school's robotic basketball contests, said mechanical engineering Professor Bob Kielb. He said students tried to build a robot that could retrieve a pingpong ball and toss it into a small hoop.
"He always did well in it," Kielb said. "He came up with completely unique ideas."
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Mar 26, 2007
Geeks rock out
from the no problem dept.
Teenagers who lock themselves in their bedrooms to blast out heavy metal music may simply be trying to cope with the pressures of being gifted, according to British research reported Wednesday. The study said that teenagers often work off the stresses and strains of being a bright outsider by listening to bands such as System Of A Down, Slipknot and Tool. "There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading. think that is an inaccurate stereotype," Stuart Cadwallader, a University of Warwick psychologist who is presenting the findings to the British Psychological Society Wednesday, told the Daily Telegraph.
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Mar 23, 2007
Snow Donuts
from the Just plain weird dept.
No, it's not a promotion for Winchell's or Krispy Kreme. "This is no joke. We did not build it," said Mike Stanford, an avalanche-control expert with the state Department of Transportation (WSDOT). "They are a natural occurrence in nature." Stanford found frozen doughnuts of snow on the top of Washington Pass in the North Cascades this week when he was doing avalanche-control work. He said it's only the second time in his 30 years of working in the snow that he's seen anything like it. The larger of the snow rollers, as they are commonly called, was about 24 inches tall, he said, large enough for him to put his head through the hole. Stanford said snow rollers form when there is a hard layer on the snow, covered by several more inches of dense snow. "Then you add a steep slope and a trigger such as a clump of snow falling out of a tree or off of a rock face."