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{Guest Post} Your Guide to Farmers' Markets This Spring
In a perfectly timed follow-up to last week's post about planting an edible herb garden with your kids, guest blogger and chef Kellan Hori of Kellan's Kitchen offers smart practical tips about how, when, and what to buy at your local farmers' market this season. No more knocking on cantaloupes or smelling their rinds without knowing what to look for! And, score!, he shares pointers for inspiring your children's love of healthy foods.
Spring has arrived! And that means the seasonal produce at farmers' markets is getting more colorful and diverse. It's a great time to venture away from what you normally buy at grocery stores and try new and fresh foods that may be foreign to your taste buds. If you're a farmers' market novice or go once a week, let this be a good starting point for your visits.
Buying local produce has a lot of benefits. Because it is grown close to your home, it will likely be free of preservatives and hormones used to keep food "fresh" if shipped from further away. And buying local is hugely beneficial to your local economy, keeping smaller operations thriving and producing high quality ingredients! Farmers' Markets can sometimes seem to be more expensive than your average grocery store, but this isn't always the case. If you go with the intention of buying everything you need for a dinner, then it can get a tad pricey. However, if you are going just to get a few produce items, then your trip can be quite thrifty. Although, it is quite difficult to pass up buying some artisanal cheese or bread!
Research a dish. Whether you're a seasoned cook or just a novice, it's always good to have a general outline of what you might want to cook following your trip to the market. It doesn't have to be a detailed shopping list, but more of an inspired idea. For example, let's say you want to cook a dish revolving around chicken. You might want to look at buying some onions, carrots, potatoes, and a veggie for your dish. Instead of your normal brown onions, maybe you pick up a Vidalia, or a ciopollini. For your potatoes, instead of the usual russet, maybe the market has some purple potatoes, or fingerling. And for a veggie side, move away from the standards of broccoli & asparagus, and experiment with Chard, or eggplant. Try and keep an open mind while you shop!
Bring your kids. The offerings at farmers' markets are colorful and eye-catching, so it's an enticing way to get kids involved in cooking. Have your kids try different fruits and vegetables and make the selection for dinner. This will ensure they try new foods and expand their palette—even the pickiest eaters are more apt to eat something green if they get to play chef. At the end of the trip, reward them with a stick of local honey (there is almost always local honey stalls at the market).
Bonus: The open market is a great venue to teach your kids about real and organic versus processed foods. To the open eye, the produce from the farmers' market generally looks different than the produce from grocery stores. First off, there is usually dirt on the veggies, proving first hand that it came from the earth. This also starts a conversation about the life cycle of food that is grown at a farm and then ends at your dinner table.
Talk to Vendors. Don't be shy when approaching a tent or booth. If you're unsure about an eggplant, or the color of a certain pepper, ask! The friendly sellers most likely grew or had a hand in making the edibles available for purchase, so they're very helpful in selecting the best piece of fruit or ripest vegetable. I always enjoy talking to vendors because they often will introduce me to new produce, so I end up walking away with something fresher and more delicious that never before crossed my mind until visiting their stall. New discoveries are always welcome and encourage creative cooking!
Taste Everything. If you see a sample, taste it! It is essential in cooking to taste all the ingredients your recipe calls for—don't assume what flavors they may hold. On numerous occasions I have randomly tried something, say, a blackberry, without the intent of buying it and then purchase an entire carton. I especially enjoy trying greens and lettuces. I recently purchased a bundle of dandelion greens after nibbling on a leaf. I was originally going to purchase arugula, but went home with the dandelion because the bitterness was slight with incredible earthy flavors that would go better with my dish than the standard arugula.
Be Bold. Buy something you have never cooked with before. Taste something you have never tried before. Don't be afraid of a food you have never heard of! Who knows, you might really like it!
Bring Cash. Most vendors don't take credit cards... plus, many of your purchases will be just a few bucks! For a family of four, I like to bring about $40-60 to the market, with the intent of getting some fruit, veggies, greens, and herbs. Tip: Be sure not to overbuy on the produce, as it will spoil faster because it is organic and free of preservatives. You should only buy what you need for 3-4 days tops. And if you find that you can't go through all those fresh berries your bought, look to make something with the ones that are about to spoil, like a tart, jam, syrup, or smoothie. The same thing can be applied to basil, or parsley. Many times you'll have to purchase more of and herb than you need for your dish, so look to also make something that you can save. Big bunches of basil or parsley makes for an easy pesto sauce! And, in the spirit of being green, bring your own bags!
Below is a pocket guide to Spring Produce you might begin to see at your local farmers' market (print it out and stash in your bag for future reference!):
- Apricots come into season towards the end of spring in the warmer areas where they grow.
- Artichokes have a second crop in the fall, but the main harvest takes place in the spring when the largest thistles are available. Look for artichokes with tight, compact leaves and fresh-cut stem ends.
- Arugula (a.k.a. rocket) is a cool-weather crop. Long days and warm weather make it bolt, or flower, and bring an unpleasantly bitter flavor to the leaves. Wild arugula is foraged in spring and again the fall. Cultivated arugula is grown year-round, thanks to coastal, temperate growing areas and winter greenhouses.
- Asparagus is harvested from March through June, depending on your region. Note that thickness in no way indicates tenderness, which is related to how the plant is grown and how soon it is eaten after harvest rather than spear size. Look for a good firm stock, and not something that is beginning to wilt.
- Beets are in season in temperate climates fall through spring, and available from storage most of the year everywhere else. Fresh beets are often sold with their greens still attached. The fresher the beet, the generally sweeter they are, so if you are trying to introduce beets to your kids, the fresher the better!
- Carrots are harvested year-round in temperate areas. True baby carrots - not the milled down versions of regular carrots sold as "baby carrots" at grocery stores - are available in spring and early summer.
- Cherries are ready to harvest at the end of spring in warmer areas. Sweet cherries, including the popular Bing and Rainier varieties, are available from May to August.
- Fava beans are a Mediterranean favorite available in the U.S. from early spring through summer.
- Fennel has a natural season from fall through early spring.
- Grapefruit from California, Texas, Florida, and Arizona comes into season in January and stays sweet and juicy into early summer.
- Green Onions/Scallions are cultivated year-round in temperate climates and come into harvest in the spring in warmer areas.
- Greens of all sorts come into season in warmer regions.
- Kiwis grow on vines and are harvested winter through spring. You want to look for a kiwi that is beginning to be tender, but not soft.
- Leeks more than about 1 1/2 inches wide tend to have tough inner cores. The top green leaves should look fresh - avoid leeks with wilted tops
- Lemons are at their juicy best from winter into early summer.
- Lettuce starts coming into season in cooler climates.
- Mint starts thriving in the spring.
- Morels are foraged in the wild in the spring. Look for firm specimens at specialty markets and foragers' stalls at farmers' markets.
- Navel oranges hit the end of their season in the spring.
- Parsley may seem to be season-less, but this cool-weather herb flourishes in the spring in warm and temperate climes.
- Pea greens are sold in big tumbled masses in spring and early summer. Look for bright vines with fresh, vibrant looking leaves. Avoid vines with brown or mushy ends or damaged leaves.
- Peas (garden, snap, snow, etc.) come into season in the spring and continue in most areas well into summer.
- Radishes are at their sweet, crunchy best in the spring.
- Rhubarb is the first fruit of spring in many areas - look for heavy stalks with shiny skin.
- Strawberries are mostly grown in California or Florida, where the strawberry growing season runs from January through November. Peak season is April through June.
- Sweet Onions have slightly different seasons, but in general they are available in spring and summer.
- Turnips have a sharp but bright and sweet flavor. Look for turnips that feel heavy for their size.
~ Kellan Hori
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Heal The Bay, an organization dedicated to making the waters off Southern California healthy and clean, has released a new short mockumentary on the life of a plastic bag. The film is being used to promote the passage of AB 1998, a state measure that would ban the single-use of plastic bags in retail stores in California.
Voiced by actor Jeremy Irons, the PSA treats plastic bags as living creatures making their way to the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. It's all done in a nature documentary-style that's been well received online — and praised for its clever approach in explaining why plastic bags are such a big environmental issue.
Problem is, this angle has been done before. In fact, it was only a few months ago that I told you about a short from independent filmmaker Ramin Bahrani called "Plastic Bag". That film was voiced by actor/director Werner Herzog and, just like Heal The Bay's version, followed a plastic bag from its life in the grocery store to its eventual home in the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.
Did Heal The Bay rip off Bahrani's idea? It rather appears that way — though I'm not sure the director would mind a nonprofit using his concept for good. You be the judge by having a look at both versions below:
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Perfect for hanging on a tree or using to decorate your kitchen for the holidays, these Cookie Cutter Ornaments by Becky Meverden are easy and fun to make, and are great DIY projects for the Christmas season. These also make great gifts for bakers and those who love to make cookies for Christmas. You can also make fun gift tags for any holiday by using cute cookie cutters to label gift packages and boxes.
- Christmas tree cookie cutter
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Place a line of glue around the back perimeter of the cookie cutter and place onto fabric. Let dry.
Cut excess fabric around entire cookie cutter. Don't worry if fabric pulls away from the cutter, you can reapply the glue when you are finished.
Place a line of glue around the entire side of the cookie cutter. Follow with the rick rack, starting at the bottom of the cutter. Cut off excess.
Glue buttons on each side.
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is this s**t real?
WTH! What the hell is she doing is that even legal to do to a baby? That poor baby couldn't do a damn thing! That literally made me sick! All of that swinging all around, upside down, thrown in the air, s**t that made me want to vomit! That baby must be use to that because he/she wasn't crying. That lady need to do baby exercises with that baby, not that make me dizzy, make me sick and want to vomit type of s**t! Crazy! That ain't no baby yoga!
i think this is fake…notice how the woman settles the baby at the end..we all lose visibility of the baby able to do the swap with the real baby. Once again the fake baby is used to do these "yoga" exercises. So Tiki this is all fake and planned for views
its not fake u can see the baby start to cry at some parts
That was so not a fake baby. it has the exact same build and the exact same hair. and you can see it moving throughout the entire video.. when she gives it time enough to gather its stomach back. that dumb b***h needs to be throw around like that and see how she likes it.
I still love Ukraine!
She's killing him!! it's horrible!!
WOW, Um so wat is that doin for the baby? Is he gna walk wen hes 3 months old i mean wtf is he gna be in gymnastics wen hes 4months old???? dumb a*s ppl!!!
I cannot believe that's even legal!! That's a newborn, why would you feel the need to have a newborn do yoga? Seriously what stress is the baby under… Oh wait.. IT"S BEING THROWN IN THE DAMN AIR!! Hello?? No wonder why the baby is stressed… Man I don't know what the laws are over their… I'm just glad their not the same here… That should be illegal!!
wtf! is she mad or what since do you even handle a baby like that? this lady really needs some help because she has totally lost her mind. this should be in jail for doing this kind of stuff this is where human rights should in place!!!! FOCKING CRAZY a*s b***h!!!!!!!!
it looks like shes throwing around a little pig. =/
Holy god I'd be terrified if I was that baby. Crazy woman needs to put the poor child down.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!! That is not OK on nay level.
ANY LEVEL that is.
if that baby survives and does not become a gymnast all this was in vain
stop talking s**t about this woman and think instead of what kind of fucking retarded parents would let their own child be used in such way. now that's sick
Fake. Definitely. That baby is so new, probably less than 3 weeks old, that to treat it that way would have killed it. That's fake. 100% fake. Especially around 2:30 where she's just flipping it back and forth. Shaken Baby Syndrome! In conclusion, this is fake.
I support the tossing of babies.
The sad part that everyone is missing is that this poor hippie woman has lost her yo ho diablo/fire stick and clearly can't afford a new one.
C'mon you guys!Give her a break!She is training that baby to become the next Mr Fantastic
This is child abuse!!
I can not believe that she has not been arrested! What she is doing is so incredibly dangerous. This video mad me want to vomit and punch her all at the same time.
I think she really fucking hates that kid.
For the love of all that is Holy, please let this be fake! That was just an extended fancified act of Shaken Baby Syndrome. Just how many babies did she kill before she figured out how to do it "right"? Holy s**t. I need to believe it's fake. NEED TO.
I am absolutely unsurprised that the fail-spawns above and below find reality in the unconvincing rubber doll rattled about in the video. To whom this might concern: lol.
this is child abuse and that woman needs a bullet in her head
i wonder how many she had before she started baby yoga…
internet lumber jack read up on it before you make a comment, you 'fail-spawn'
The scariest thing about this video is that it will encourage some moron to do this to their baby. I figure its a fake baby, but somewhere someone will think its okay to do it to their baby AND kill the baby. Its sick on many levels, and I couldn't even watch the whole video. The woman should be smacked for even making such a nasty video..
NOW THIS TOTALLY EXPLAINS THE COLD WAR WITH THE FORMER SOVIET UNION!! other than shaken baby syndrome this is a wonderful way to dis joint the shoulders and hips and since babies are so flexible when they are born it is feasible but a good way to tear tendons and ligaments. but the bones has the the same properties as cartilage when they are born since they are not fully hardened or formed. but EVERYTHING IS OK IN THE UKRAINE! SHE PROBABLY ALSO GAVE HER KID A SHOT OF VODKA RIGHT BEFORE HAND!! BUT WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY LIKE THAT.
This video about made me puke.
Baby is moving and reacting like a newborn. It's real. Pity the baby didn't barf and crap all over her in mid demo.
There are a few reasons that come to mind why not to do this:
Let's see… possible dislocation of all the joints in the legs and arms, serious neck trauma, twisting force applied to brain-stem during rapid deceleration of brain inside the cranium, who knows what kind of cranial-vascular injuries might occur from swinging baby from ankles exerting even up to 1G of force on the blood rushing to it's head…
Would now like to see a video of the parents and the instructor being violently tossed around like rag dolls by their ankles.
is a child care organization of any sort going to step in? that's disguised abuse. That baby needs to be taken away immediately. I could just picture that poor baby's arm snapping at any time
Oh my god…that video is about 5 minutes long and I was only 1 minute in when I had to stop because my stomach was about to revolt on me. I had to watch happy kitten videos for ten minutes in order to rinse out my brain. Oh my god do I WISH this were fake, but here's the link cracked.com gave that shows that not only is it not fake, but she's been doing this for years. http://www.dadwagon.com/2011/01/18/dadwagon-qa-exclusive-interview-with-baby-yogas-lena-fokina/
I don't care what she says and I don't care if every baby is still happy and healthy…when a baby is literally being tossed about while having it's arms and legs ripped out of it's sockets, it makes me die a little inside.
this is obviously good for the baby. the woman is a professional yoga instructor and she knows what she's doing. providing such exercises for the child only stretches out the kid's muscles and helps the digestive system work properly.
shut the f**k up. it's NOT child abuse.
I think the baby needs to be fed to the hungry children new guinea or taken to the deli. Babies are a delicacy here.
Wow that just mind boggles me to see a women do that to her child and if its not her child to someone else's child. The baby started to cry at one point and so did i. that poor child could not say stop it. and the damage she might have done to the child's brain could be lifetime problems in the future. Children and babies should have rights against that…that woman should get some kind of punishment for that really!
… You Americans freak out over the smallest things, yet you do not say nay against what you do? You smoke in front of you babies, you do meth and crack and other drugs around your babies, you give them fattening foods and turn them into fat asses. You harm them the most. You let them get pregnate at age 12, and you never want to admit you do wrong, always blaming it on other people while teaching your kids the same thing. Think about your own children and what you do before you say anything about this.
mere – you have no proof it's fake – you just don't want to belive she was doing that to a baby. It's real.
@fuckyouassholes: you are either a troll or a huge idiot.
I was just waiting for her to launch the baby into the wall or turn it into some phillipino filet, or some wierd s*x toy. WTF, this woman should be shot and killed!
this is sick
Well the "yoga" instructor is ridiculously stupid and cruel to children, but what kind of parents would let this happen and just stand around and watch? Seriously. -_-
Ok, I have seen "shocking" things on the net but this is one video I couldn't watch all the way through.
Generally, healthy babies are more durable than we may think. (When our daughter was born I had to constantly convince her father that she wouldn't break when he held her) but this is so over the top and so beyond the realm of unacceptable, I can't believe anyone would think this would be good for their baby.
I just hope the baby in this video doesn't suffer any lasting injuries.
I want my baby back baby back baby back baby back… Ribs. CHILLI'S BABY BACK RIBS. GET IN MAH BELLEH! I'M BIGGER THAN YOU! HIGHER UP ON THE FOOD CHAIN! GET IN MAH BELLEH! I like my babies a bit looser than normal.
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The main problem with this is that is has zero margin for error. Even if you believe that there is no danger from the act itself, just one slip of the grip and that baby's brains will be guacamole. I don't care how sure you are of your abilities, accidents happen. If you aren't prepared for such contingencies, you are just being careless. And with a baby or child, that is beyond criminal.
As for the act itself, a child's joints can easily come out of the socket. Look up "nursemaid's elbow" as an example. Such dislocations would be difficult to ascertain in an child this young until the crying and swelling made you go to the pediatrician (assuming this woman even believes in using doctors). Not to mention the potential for neck injury, brain injury, etc. Whatever strength gains you might imagine would come from this "yoga" would be completely offset by the risks to the child.
This isn't an "over-reaction" by idiot American parents. This is common sense based on medical facts and physics. But the very basic argument is this…people accidentally drop stuff all the time. Even a professional juggler occasionally drops a ball. Given this basic fact, swinging a baby around, even when you aren't STANDING IN A FREAKING ROCK GARDEN, shows incredibly bad judgment.
This is horrifying. A baby's neck can NOT handle so much stress on it.
I wouldn't be surprised if the baby was severely harmed after this. This woman needs to get shot.
SHUT THE f**k UP ABOUT SHOOTING PEOPLE! GOD DAMN IT! WANTING TO COMMIT MURDER OR WISHING TO COMMIT MURDER IS JUST AS BAD! f**k!
I know it looks like child abuse, (and it very well may be) but the child is not crying at any point. Wouldn't a child cry if it was hurt in any way? Even if it was simply uncomfortable? I agree that there is zero margin for error, but I wouldn't call this abuse until the second she makes an error and hurts the kid. Then you can throw the book at her.
This is the best video ever. I haven't had a hardy laugh like this in some time. Well, I wish this were shot somewhere in the US so everyone could also b***h about that and say how ignorant Americans are, oh well. Maybe next time, you can just say she learned this from an American for now. And yes, of course this is illegal. It's only illegal if you drop it.
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*it's legal unless you drop it.
u idiots this is fake, you can tell its a life like doll! LOL still not funny some nut might try it
This like the perfect recipe for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome… someone please take that baby away from her.
There's no way in hell this is fake; aside from the fact that it moves, the baby is clearly crying at one moment. In my experience, life-like plastic dolls don't change their facial expressions. This baby needs to be taken away and given to non-psychotic parents.
No, it's not fake. When infants are absolutely terrified, they'll hold their breath (they don't cry instantly), arch their backs and stretch their arms and legs out, desperately reaching for something to grab on to. This baby was terrified for almost this entire video. Even if there wasn't physical injury, then that baby's gonna need therapy or something.
anyone who says this isn't a real baby hasn't seen a real baby before just watch the beginning of the film, she has the baby take a few steps then starts flipping him like a pancake, far as it "killing the baby" no it wouldn't it's not violently opposing forces like shaken baby syndrome everything is slowed and clearly the baby isn't hurt however this is the most horrible thing I have ever seen as far as child abuse is concerned.
Grabbin a shotgun! Anyone want to join me in my hunt for tat b***h?
@Yojimbo and yet the rest of the world still desperately tries to be america, and at least 60% of the world wants to live here. i'm so sick of "american people are stupid." yes there are some really stupid people here, all i can say is advances in medical science have all but eliminated natural selection. however if we were an entire country of idiots, who also has nuclear weaponry, pretty sure the apocalypse would of happened already. America's biggest problem is that the idiots are the ones who get global attention, and the trend in american television is "good news is not news." so anyone who actually does something intelligent and positive either gets 0 news coverage or they get to be on the local news as the "hero of the week"
Strap some glow sticks to it and you're ready for a baby rave
i really really hope that was a fake baby. but it appeared to move it's right arm all by itself at the end of the video.
and even if it's fake there's still the risk of idiot parents copying her.
if it's a real baby both she and the parents should be charged with gross child-abuse and never be allowed to come within 10 meter of a child again.
Babies are designed to be babies, not yoga masters. Take that baby away.
@ Dan:
The baby wouldn't necessarily cry. It looks like it's about 6-8 weeks old (judging by how my daughter looks now) and has probably had to take this torture from InsanoGirl for a while now. In psychology it's called learned helplessness–repeated studies confirm it. When a person or animal has taken constant abuse from which they are unable to escape, they eventually just take it without even TRYING to escape anymore. I feel horrible for that poor little newborn. The movements here are not anywhere near severe enough for Shaken Baby Syndrome, as so many have posted, but this woman is clearly out of her mind. It's recommended not to even pull your baby up by his/her arms because it can cause the shoulders to dislocate and cause serious physical problems in the future. I'll be surprised if this baby ever grew up to walk normally.
@ karrie:
No, the baby is definitely real. Dolls don't move. I've seen a TON of lifelike dolls in my life with my CPR and lifeguard training, and THIS baby is a real one. It looks just like my baby girl. This video makes me sick.
@ yourallstupid : I totally agree!
That baby looks totally real to me and, exercise or not, that is still incredibly dangerous and shouldn't be done. Also, where the hell the "I hate Americans" rant come from Yojimbo? Last time I checked, every country has their idiots. We're not saying that they're not people who hurt their children in America, just that each time we catch them, we do our best to put them in jail and prevent it from happening again. This, this is just sick. I don't care what country it's from. If the lady was American, I'd say the same thing: that lady needs to be fined and not allowed to swing babies around like a flail.
This is bullshit! I don't care who the hell you are or what kind of "abilities" you think you have! For one thing, you are NOT supposed to pick up a baby or child by their arms. Dislocation takes a fraction of a second. The poor things arms and legs are not supposed to be used like that! I can't count how many times she fucking twisted the poor thing's arms/legs around. I am shocked that the kid was alive after. Shaken baby syndrome, or just dropping the kid are real possibilities. There are no benefits to gain from this. PERIOD. Anyone who thinks this is ok should be jailed! My cousin's son was born with a broken arm because the doctors moved him the wrong way during birth. It's that easy. I don't care that "nothing happened" in this video. We don't know that for sure! And don't try to say the baby wasn't crying in the video. There was no sound other than music and the picture was blurry enough, the kid had to be scared out of his mind! If he's "used" to this then she's already done enough brain damage to him to not know how to react and therefore, the baby will not live long or have a quality life. The woman needs to be fucking locked up. Such bullshit!
Definitely fake. No baby could keep it's limbs from not flopping around. Fake
i guarentee this is fake, while she flinging it around the face does not change, it never moves until it goes off screen then back on, she obviously switched to a real baby lol cant wait until this is proven a fake so i can laugh at u all
Not only do i believe this is real, ive seen ppl do it in real life ( its limbs and head didnt pop off) She told us while he was crying, oh he likes it!!! the baby isnt crying because its freakin brain dead!!
Doesn't she know
maybe we should put her through that
if the baby didn't like it, he would've told her to stop
What is WRONG with people!!?? If this woman did this to a pet she would be hung before this page finished loading!!!
Wow, mom's got some nice arms on her.
1) You don't juggle babies, not even in a rock garden. You just don't. Not even if they are on fire. Even in Ukraine.
2) That wouldn't be yoga even if baby yoga existed. When the British invented yoga in occupied India decades ago it did not involve being flung around by giant Ukrainian women.
3) What exactly was there to gain by doing this? You risking severe physical and psychological trauma that could have lifelong effects on the child so that it is more limber? WTF?
4) In the psycho's defense, it really didn't look like she caused any harm to the baby other than shoulder dislocation and mild brain damage. But still.
@aykm2194 This woman actually did do cat yoga …if you want to be even more scared for her sanity than you already are, watch it. But I wouldn't suggest it.
That baby really is real. Go do some research rather than speculating. Look up DaddyWagon's interview with her on google. Or just google Lena Fokina. Scary.
She's pretty hot. Crazier than a shithous rat, but pretty hot.
"Shithouse." Sorry.
Wow i worry about HOLDING another persons baby wrong. They look so breakable. Can't imagine doing something like this. Don't know what went through her mind to consider swinging a baby around by it's under-developed extremities.How is this yoga btw?… Thought that mostly involved stretching and relaxation. So many things wrong here -_-
This is real…Gawker did an article about it http://gawker.com/5737061/baby+swinging-yoga-is-real-meet-the-children-who-survived-it
Not fake, this was on a couple news reports as well as being passed around the internet for a while. I'm pretty sure she has a website to, but not sure about that. It's gross but its absolutly real.
than stupid b***h needs to b put n jail. and all u assholes that dnt like america can go to hell.
This woman belongs in prison
She needs to do some yoga porno with the baby in it.
I need Babychucks!
Oh wow. O_O There is a safer way for baby yoga >.> I think you just lie them on their backs and teach them to relax. Not throw them in the air..
Ok to the people that say the baby isnt fake because it isnt crying, you dont cry when you are in fear, for example if you see a fucking alien you dont just cry, you will s**t your pants, run away and then cry. That baby is shiting his pants there.. and if he isnt crying which i think he is, he will cry later.
Apparently it is real:
I can't believe I just saw that. That b***h needs a bullet in her head. Either that or someone does that to her. I'll be verry surprised if tat baby doesn't grow up to be brain damaged.
to the people who said it's fake and can't wait until it's been proven fake, do a little research, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20029037-10391704.html already been proven real by multiple sources
The child was completely shaken up at the end and could not focus to even cry. He will suffer brain damage from this and he is at a far greater risk for sids. The video is not fake, baby yoga is often practiced and is said to lossen up muscles at a young age but a better solution is a child friendly chiropractor.
That is completely disgusting and made me feel sick. That stupid b***h should be prosecuted for child endangerment and child abuse. I am completely astounded by the stupidity of some people that they actually believe this is good for children and the parents who let this happen to their babies should also be prosecuted.
Well..ahem..Regardless of what country this is monster is from, what she did to this poor baby is insane. First of all, since when does yoga involve being flung around? Isn't yoga more of a quiet, relaxing meditation? The baby is terrified; you can tell by the look on his face! Secondly, why in the world, out of all the places, did she decide to do this surrounded by rocks? What if the baby managed to slip or something? That's not right. Also, how does she know what babies need in order to meditate or whatever she's trying to accomplish by doing this? Did she talk to a baby and ask him what he needed? What makes her such an expert at this? So many things could go wrong in this situation, by performing such disgusting "yoga tricks!" It's people like her that make this WORLD more screwed up than it already is. And that's because she's not under the influence of drugs or mind-altering substances that would allow her to think that this is OK (assuming she isn't. If she is, WTF, UKRAINE!?) And finally, babies don't need yoga!! They spend 16 hours a day asleep when they're that young! What is the purpose of this?? Lady, stop terrorizing the kids. Parents, get your newborns the hell away from this monster. Babies, if you didn't know how to walk before you met this psycho, you're going to learn how to run afterwards. Viewers, don't try this at home.
It's so obvious that the baby is CG. The lighting on the baby doesn't even match the rest of the scene. The texture of the baby looks fake. This CG work is akin to those shitty low-budget commercials. Seriously though. Obvious CG is obvious.
It is def a real baby …
and …
I know a lot of people want to say this is fake and I would hope to god it was, but its not. You know its a real baby right at the end of the video because it is moving completely on its own you can see it at 5:20 when the baby starts moving.
Also for those who says its cgi obviously does not know s**t about cgi. The babies skin tone is completely accurate for a new born. The reason the lighting looks off is because the babies skin reflects more light than the surroundings making it appear brighter.And if someone did do that baby in cgi then they are a fucking master at rigging models.That babies movement is so fluid and graceful with absolutely no deformations or constraint problems for a full 5 minute plus video all done in one take.
Other things that tell the baby is real is by watching the babies reflexes, especially in the legs which bounce back accurately when the baby pushes off the women.
This is unfortunately real and really stupid parents think this a good idea to do to their children.
Personally. I would never shake a baby. Unless the recipe calls for it
I think the baby is not crying because it died about 30 seconds into the damn video. It gave me a heart attack.
Is it dead yet?
WTF??? That wasn't a doll? That b***h, she's gonna kill it! Really, that's legal?
Did this turn any of you guys on like it did me?
Looks fun :3
You guys aer ignorant idiots judging from a lopsided experience of over-sheltered western kid who can't wipe his own a*s and needs a babysitter until late teens. What she does is a really good gymnastics and stretching of the limbs that trains the muscles and ligaments strength and flexibility as intended by evolution due to historic necessity of a human lifestyle. My parents did this and I could do splits no problem as a kid and haven't broken a single bone in my body regardless of multiple opportunities.
Keep sitting on your a*s and passing judgement on who's crazy and what's legal and we'll see who lives a better life 😉
And the dizzying part – well it makes you dizzy, it means your parents failed on you. When I was a kid this was considered a lot of fun.
Get a coaster and reacher-grabber, fragile fatso ))
this women should have her baby taken away!!!!
That's an unusual nunchaku.
That was hilarious, she's basically using the kid in place of a ribbon for a ribbon twirling act. Couldn't stop laughing.
this is not even possible….. babies neck muscles are not even strong enough at that age to even hold their heads up all the time…. and some cribs were even recalled because they swung to hard and caused brain movement inside the skull so if she did that with a baby it would be dead….. this is totally not real.
Sick idea though dont you think?
OMG, It's our babysitter !!!!
Many people should tell her this is wrong. She probably means well but aparently has a blind spot for what she is doing. Has anybody mentioned Michael Jackson yet with the baby hanging out the window?
What kind of sick b*****d would think of this?
Also, Alex:
There are biological limits. My parents swung me around, too, but that was at a much younger age. The key that you're missing is that you remember it. This child is, at best, a four-month old. At that point, you're still supposed to support a child's neck, lest its abnormal head swing the wrong way and break. There is also still a "soft spot" in the back of the baby's head, where the skull plates haven't yet hardened. Even the slightest pressure can severely injure a kid, not to mention possibly mentally incapacitate.
Yes, your parents may have swung you around at a kid, but it was – obviously – when you could take it. And if you're trolling, you're wasting your time.
what the ever loving f**k…shaken baby syndrome much?
This fucking b***h needs putting in jail.
Bullshit, kids neck is way too straight, even when she's doing the sideways swinging his neck is barely bent, his head would be bouncing around a lot more
Little note- watch the baby's hands. You can tell that this child is (probably) not a doll because the hands clench and unclench at different parts of the video. A baby this young wouldn't be able to do much more than that when put under that amount of force. Shaken baby syndrome is a very likely outcome.
I hope no one sees this and thinks it's a good idea, regardless of whether the original video has a real baby or not.
That's fucking bullshit. I seriously think that the baby isn't fat enough to have to need to get in shape. This probably scares the baby for life and will end up like a phsycopath. "What caused you to be so fucked up?" "Oh, you know, the usual, I was tossed around as a baby, but I was convinced I was just doing yoga."
GOD DAMNIT LOOK HOW MANY FUCKING COMPLAINT COMMENTS YOU HAVE oooh how abusive ooohh lets fucking shoot her why dont you fucknuts find out something about her before you go thrashing out wildley without proper reasoning behind it… GOD DAMN you people make me sick
That woman is clearly a man.
I think the baby looks pretty CGI. Just something subtly wrong about the coloring
Can we take comfort with the fact that at least TWO people in the world think this is a good idea? The woman, and the unidentified mystery cameraman who would be an accomplice to murder had she dropped the baby.
Guys…when you are committing crimes, don't record your s**t! It's evidence! DUH!
Can you spell "BRAIN DAMAGE"!!! Fake or not…promoting this is wrong. There are idiots out there who will try it cuz they are not smart enough to realize how wrong this is. Lets try this out on her and see how she likes it.
And the million dollar question:
Is she training the baby, or is she actually just training herself?
Answer to a million question, BOTH.
To the rest who lacks comprehension, assuming that your way is the only right way is the kind of arrogance that keeps people in ignorance. With such thinking we would never crawled out from the dark ages & kept burning witches along with other stupid crap that was done by creativity of closed-minded.
Instead of bitching on the subject, take a closer look, the baby is not in pain & when it grows up, it will have unbelievably strong & flexible joints & extraordinary sense of balance at very least. You should envy this baby instead of "worrying" about it.
Sorry to say folks but its REAL. I googled it and the child is alive and well and still participating in this type of yoga/gymnastics.
Here is the CBS link
…i dont like it, but its their "way"…how messed up
Value diversity already, people.
Can't really envy babies as such Dmitry, but that's an unlikely result at best; although if there were a time to split a person's cartilage and muscle insertions 10 ways each direction hoping to encourage the performance, I'll go out a limb (the shortest of the low-hanging limbs) and say infancy would be the time. She's clearly babying it; shaking damage is pretty evident, just as whether formula dissolves or not.
Hey, babies make people gain wait and recapitulate childhood at some length, so it's fair. Whether I'd be okay watching this as a ritual picking an infant up at day care though, 3 days a week, that's important! It really departs from a casual 'bye!'
Maybe the babies will grow up closing first dates with parkour tours of a village?
Please someone ,help this baby,how can you report her!
It's a fake baby. During the yoga moves. It's incredibly obvious
If you did that s**t to a cat you'd get done for animal cruelty, how the f**k can you do it to a baby?!
It's so obviously fake I wonder how come so many people can't see it.
Gotta love the anti-American sentiments. Because clearly all of us got pregnant at 12 (Goddamnit I'm late again!!!) and were exposed to drugs by our shitty parents at 6 months old and obesity is simply caused by inactivity and a poor diet instead of underlying social problems or other illnesses, right, Yojimbo? And Alex is so very clearly a troll that I'm not even bothering to respond to that one. Okay. Let's make the erroneous assumption that all that is true, and every single person in America is a fat, sexually promiscuous drug addict.
That still doesn't excuse this woman's behavior. Most of the comments are insulting her, not the country of origin, so anti-American statements are not necessary. I'm pretty sure any intelligent person, regardless of nationality, would find this video offensive. Even if it is a fake or CGI baby, the fact that she's advertising this as being okay is still wrong. And if it isn't a fake baby (it could very well be real) then she is a crazy b***h and is hopefully in jail now. o_o
But just because some American parents are bad doesn't mean that it's okay for other people in other countries to endanger or abuse their own children. And regardless of cultural norms, I think shaking and juggling a very young baby would be unacceptable anywhere.
If it is a real baby, I hope it's okay. : (
Any rational normal person that has some common sense can see that this throwing-around-baby thing is totaly wrong; you don't need medical education to suppose that it can damage the brain in many ways, can wreak physiological chaos, dislocate the joints and damage the skin in some way because of the friction.
Unfortunately, you can find ignorant, stupid and utterly idiotic new-agers anywhere in the world that think this baby-yoga would be a good idea. Anyone who promotes this as an OK thing to do should be beaten to a pulp and locked up; they're asking for it themselves.
Baby's that young are not supposed to be able to properly support their own neck muscles yet. That's one reason why this is so dangerous besides the obvious reasons.
What's the big deal. She is hot enough to be able to make a new baby if she drops it.
It is one of those real life looking baby dolls. Any one that would swing a baby around like that would have already killed the kid. Shaken baby syndrome.
That is fucked up as hell
I'm glad they made a video of this. When the tyke grows up he can b***h slap this woman and his Momma into the next kingdom!
I'm pretty sure this is a boy baby and if I'm right no! that's not a freaking handle!
My joints hurt just watching this and I'm a grown man.
Maybe someone should sling this chick and the babies Momma around like that for a while. Oh right! That would be illegal!
I swear, if I could get away with it I WOULD CUT OFF THIS WOMAN'S ARMS AND LEGS AND LEAVE HER TO LIVE OUT THE REST OF HER LIFE AS A "HEAD ON A STICK" FOR DOING THIS!! D8<
That is soo not a fake baby what so ever.
The baby is most likely "shaken" causing a mild form of shock that basically paralyses the poor thing.
It doesn't scream or cry because it is literally shaken out of it's mind. Shaken baby syndrome is a "real" condition, and should not be taken lightly. That lady needs her limbs pulled off.
The woman is Lena Fokina she is a 50 year old Russian yoga teacher who was based in Egypt until the revolution there when she moved back to Russia.
She has two adult daughters who work as freedive instructors.
The baby is a girl named Platona Goryun, who lives in Khorol, Ukraine, about three hours outside of Kiev. She was just two weeks old when she was subjected to what Fokina calls "dynamic gymnastics" for newborns in the video.
The video was uploaded by the girls father.
Earlier this year Lena Fokina was on a Russian TV programme, she reduced to tears by criticism of her baby yoga.
That b***h crazy. I hate her.
Seriously, this chick is an amazing raver.
This woman should of not gave birth. I suggest getting her euathanized. Stupid b***h.
You are is fuckin grazy
somebody please shoot her in the face
most of you people are really.. i mean really STUPID.. you dumb pricks ahahah – ever seen a baby? then you should see its pretty much faked.. check the 1st 25secs – just watch the baby whole time.. feelind stupid? ahahaha dumb fuktards
That babe's got a cute a*s. The lady swinging him/her ain't so bad herself.
All you guys are ignorant assholes. If you did a little research and opened your minds, instead of opening your mouths, you would know that this in no way hurts the children. In all reality, it helps them so much more. have you seen the video of one dad flipping his girl around and showing her motor skill improvement? its pretty impressive for a 4 month old child. I'll bet money your kids cant do that.
wow…..your really stupid:|
I don't like it
No babes should be submitted to activities that involves risk until it has grown enough to make a decision for itself. No one has the right to put another life at risk, specially a babe.
Pls, avoid that babe from going through that again !
I think this is a fake. The baby's arms and legs never seem to move position unless that Ukrainian lady manipulates them in that bizarre routine. Also you can't see a change of skin colour in the baby at all when its being swung around , surely the neck/head area would go red from all the blood flow rushing to that area? Also that baby's neck muscles look remarkably strong considering a newborn/small baby can't even hold their heads up properly until they're about 6 months old…
If anybody thinks this is actually real they must be dumb enough to be from the Ukraine
So my question is, what happens if the baby starts taking a s**t mid exercise?
WTF lady! Put that baby DOWN! You should be in jail just for touching that child! Seriously is this crap legal? Throw her a*s in jail.
funny how everyone here cares soooooo much about this video.
1. it is obviusely a real baby, anyone who says otherwise is basically stupid, fake babies don't move, period.
2. she is from ukraine, so those of you who say "call child services etc etc" ukraine doesn't give any fucks towards your american/wherever you happen to be laws.
3. yes this is fucking terrible that someone does this to a child, especially since there appears to be no safety equipment anywhere, just a bunch of fucking rocks
4. posting about how you are disgusted about this video and how you vomited and how this lady deserves to die is attention needy. everyone else agrees with you, and the fact that your disgusted isn't anything special. if you really want to "help" call ukraine and file a complaint
5 while i do not know the "benefits" if any. don't be so quick to hate i guess. yes it's terrible, yes she really isn't in the right mindset or beliefs etc etc. but since i don't really know i wont judge (much) if i get mad at this i have to get mad at everything else to that could be considered abuse, neglect, etc etc, or whatever else that comes up that is biased
6. it's kinda her job, while she should think of something else for a profession, the parents are the one taking the risk
7 in closing yeah it's dumb and stupid, and definetely borderline cruel. but honestly if you can't think of something new to say other than "holy s**t what an evil women, kill her with guns and free the child and stop world hunger" it's been said before so shut up
Someone needs to find this sick f**k of a woman and torture her to death. Same goes for the mother and father.
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see? julia is completely against the abuse of the child (justly so) but is all for the torture and murder of the woman, and the child's parents, while slightly hypocritical, she is posting on a comment board, and has easily lost her head, saying something that she would probably never say in public, due to being annonymous, i feel as though she didn't read my previous comment (above hers) and skipped right to the reply box and began posting about murder and death and killing, and "sick f**k of a woman" is implying that the woman is doing it for her own benefits, it's for the babies "benefit", still not sure if there is one… and the parents satisfaction, while in extreme cases such as: gouging out your babies eyes will better prepare them for the world, come see me for help!!! would make her a "sick f**k of a woman" she is seriously overdramaticizing the video. personally i really hope she replies to this, because it will probably be emotional, she'll call me a baby yoga supporter, and probably suggest that i be tortured and murdered too
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This is bloody hilarious!
Okay 3 questions:
1. How is that baby still alive? O__o
2. Why didn't it s**t all over her?
3. Why is she allowed to do this?
This is horrific. I mean, they tell you not to shake a baby because that'll wreck it's brain and this is the same thing just 10000x worse. WTF
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Hasn't this woman heard of shaken baby syndrome??
WHAT THE f**k!!!!!????????????
Okay, for the sake of argument, let's pretend the baby isn't harmed (no brain injury, no dislocations, no tearing of soft tissue, etc.) and that it does help them be tougher (which is, supposedly, the point)…
Who in their right mind would torture a helpless infant like that?! The baby is clearly terrified the entire time. She's sobbing, she's flailing her arms in that way they do when they're scared and she's trembling.
I hope this woman sees the error of her way before she really hurts someone, and I hope the parents that let her handle their babies so roughly get them taken away and are charged with *something.*
And to think I feel awful when I accidentally startle my son. Sheesh. Some people just should not be allowed to breed!
She probably has s***k with cheerios in the morning too.
Anyone who has ever had babies knows that the one in the video is scared to death. Babies that young do not necessarily cry when they are frightened. They tend to hold their breath and flail their arms, just as Teartaye says. And, the baby did start crying at one point….to those of you that want to argue that the baby was not, try watching the video again and actually paying attention to what the heck is going on. And, as member of the physics world, the force experienced by this baby during all the movements is enough to cause serious damage to the neck and brain of the baby, not to mention other ligaments and tendons.
Really, I do this all a time.
I do this to my pups 24/7
I did this to my wife's embryo, and he is now schizophrenic.
This woman should be put in jail. She looks like she is enjoying it too much. I think she does this for herself.Not the baby.She's sick.She's a child abuser.If she lived in America, she'd be put away already. Somebody should do this to her,to she how she likes it.Shes such a freak she probably would like it.
Jesus Christ. Does this woman not realize babies don't have the muscles to support themselves and protect themselves during these kinds of exercises? I'm surprised it wasn't injured.
Jesus Christ, it's a fake baby.
Uh, no…it's real. Look it up.
I don't see the big deal here. This woman is occupying herself a whole lot more with her baby than all you gen Y spawn had the pleasure of experiencing. The baby obviously doesn't mind that much, he'll get strong way before the rest of his future fellow kindergarteners, and probably a bit retarded due to internal bleeding in that fragile little head. But then again, he'll fit right in when he moves to America as the poster-child of Baby Yoga gone awry.
Look, ma! No hands!
No matter what or how you look at that. its sick the baby's bones haven't even harden that is so sick the baby is prolly dizzy not to mention i'd say pretty darn close to shaken baby syndrome! I can't believe she is not arrested frick go grab a doll or something to play with…the baby doesnt need fricken yoga.
I… I think that is actually a real baby. Holy crap.
I think that's a guy
The babay's hucking arms and legs should have fallen off so I could see the hucking w***e's expression of regret and remorse and surprise at how a baby's limbs would possibly fall off when you swing it around like some lumpsheyt, in'nit??? Eh??
Phuck you, Ukraine.
That baby looks totally fake, but apparently it's real. That's just…disturbing. I don't care how much yoga experience she has, babies are fragile and are not supposed to be moved like that. They develop muscles by crawling and climbing up chairs, not by being swung around like a sack of potatoes.
Oh, and I seriously love that guy who said that since all Americans are chain-smoking, crack-addicted meth-heads who enjoy murdering our children on a daily basis, we're not allowed to criticize someone doing stupid, horrible s**t if they live in a different country. Because anti-American ranting is the only logical response to a video like this.
ok to all the haters out there you're just jealous that u didn't have a special bonde with ur mother like that. for that whole 5 minutes theres no way u didn't stop to think " LUCKY"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…… White People!
Better graphics+physics is excellent, yet game development costs can get higher as games are more complex.
Anyways, i've been playing the beta from the and LoL, I have to say that both games aren't finished but very exciting, LoL seems to you have a greater focus on friends working together than HoN and a complete different approach at to become MOBA game, having said that, LoL is quite lacking in the end, this is partly this is great diversity in supplementary player upgrades like 'masteries' (just as the WoW talents) and runes, which give slight for game bonuses, I wouldn't directly say speaking of balanced, but the more diverse a game is, the harder balancing will be.
Good lord, that was entertaining.
Well, only if it was a real baby.
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This isn't fake. Some parents mostly in asia really do this to their kids. It is fucking disgusting and a crime.
So thats how retards are made. Interdasting…
If it's not fake, I can't believe it, but this video would confirm my thesis about many women who sees a toy in their childs. A "thing" that belongs to them, can be supervised a lifelong.
She don't even know about centrifugal forces. It leads to an aneurysma in the brain. The baby could die easily.
How is that woman not covered in p**s, s**t and vomit?


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Country music duo Love and Theft will perform at the Moon on Friday, Nov. 16. / Photo courtesy Michelle Owens
Friday, Nov. 16
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Show: 8:00 p.m.
The Moon
Tickets: $12
Call 850-222-MOON or online at loveandtheft.com/us/events
Two-time Academy of Country Music nominee Love and Theft will perform this Friday, Nov. 16, at The Moon. The breakout musicians are visiting Tallahassee to perform chart-topping songs from their Country Music Awards-nominated self-titled album. With nominations in both the Best New Artist and Vocal Duo of The Year categories, attendees will be able to sing along with country musics rising stars.
We love to give our fans and those attending the concerts a good time, Love and Theft singer-songwriter Stephen Barker Liles said. We love keeping our shows up-beat and fun. We dont play a lot of slow songs, so get ready to keep it high energy with us. Well probably end up taking shots on stage as well.
The RCA Nashvill-signed duo is comprised of singer-songwriters Eric Gunderson and Stephen Barker Liles. Gunderson is from Charlotte, N.C.
A native of Clearwater, Fla., Liles has a special connection to Florida State University, being a Seminole fan since he was a child.
I am a big Florida State fan, said Liles. I used to go there all the time with my family and friends to the football games. I have some friends who work for the FSU athletic department as well, so it will be nice to see them. I have been trying to get my management team to book us in Tallahassee for a long time and Im so excited to finally play here.
Gunderson and Liles come from strict religious families. Growing up with the iconic sounds of Elvis Presley and The Eagles, along with church music, both knew they wanted to pursue music, hoping to share their experiences with others.
We are inspired from real life, real people and the history of music, Liles said. Music can have a huge influence on peoples lives and we dont take it for granted one bit. Music is very special to me.
Along with their successful self-titled album released this past July, Love and Thefts debut single Angel Eyes was certified gold and later held the No. 1 spot for the week on Billboards Hot Country Songs chart and Country Aircheck. The groups notable tracks include Amen, Runnin Out of Air and Shes Amazing. Crowd favorite Girls Look Hot in Trucks is always a sing-a-long at shows when the chorus rolls around. In 2010, Liles co-wrote country superstar Martina McBrides hit, Wrong Baby Wrong.
Amidst all their success, Love and Theft still have dreams they wish to fulfill.
We hope to sellout our own headlining tour in the near future, Liles said. Although it takes a little bit of time, we are enjoying every step on the way.
Love and Thefts combination of back-to-basics country with a Maroon 5-sounding flair add to their lively selection of tunes.
We are excited to share our new album with the fans, said Liles. It is going to be one huge party.


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NSA flooded with requests for records
Fueled by the Edward Snowden scandal, more Americans than ever are asking the NSA whether their personal life is being spied on.
And the NSA has a very direct answer for them: Tough luck, we're not telling you.
Americans are inundating the National Security Agency with open records requests, leading to a 988 percent increase in such inquiries. Anyone asking is getting a standard pre-written letter saying the NSA can neither confirm nor deny that any information has been gathered.
"This was the largest spike we've ever had," said Pamela Phillips, the chief of the NSA Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Office, which handles all records requests to the agency. "We've had requests from individuals who want any records we have on their phone calls, their phone numbers, their email addresses, their IP addresses, anything like that."
News reports of the NSA's surveillance program motivates most inquirers, she said.
During the first quarter of the NSA fiscal year, which went from October to December, it received 257 open records requests. The next quarter, it received 241. However, on June 6, at the end of NSA's third fiscal quarter, news of Snowden's leaks hit the news, and the agency received 1,302 requests.
In the next three months, the NSA received 2,538 requests. The spike has continued into the fall months and has overwhelmed her staff, Phillips said.
Joel Watts, 35, of Charleston, W.Va., put in an open records request in June, days after learning about Snowden's leaks and the NSA's surveillance tactics. About three weeks later, he received a letter telling him the agency wouldn't say whether it had collected information on the health and safety administrator.
"It's a sign of disrespect to American citizens and the democratic process," he said. "I should have the right to know if I'm being surveyed if there's no criminal procedures in process."
Watts said he understands the need for secrecy when dealing with terrorism but thinks the NSA is violating constitutional rights by withholding information it might have on the American public.
The spike in inquiries, a backlog in responses and lack of information illustrates the limits of open records requests and the determination of the NSA to remain mum despite Snowden's historic leaks, experts say.
"People are legitimately troubled by the idea that the government is monitoring and collecting information about their email traffic, phone calls and who knows what else," said Anne Weismann, chief counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group. "There is a growing sense of horror every time there is a new report about the data."
She said the NSA's failure to provide people with answers shows that the agency is burying its head in the sand. The tactic is successful, she said, because most people don't have the resources to fight for information through appeals or in court.
Even if people do fight, courts often side with intelligence agencies that say they want to protect national security, Weismann said.
Some requests simply state that a person wants any and all information the NSA has about them. Others go into detail and ask for specifics about how the NSA is run, how its surveillance program works and how the NSA has gone about collecting information.
While the NSA is hearing mostly from the public, journalists and civil rights organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center also are digging, Phillips said.
Her 19-person staff is struggling to deal with the surge in requests, she said. More than 900 are pending, but the NSA tries to get back to people in the 20 days required by law, she said.
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SANTA FE — Doña Ana County Clerk Lynn Ellins has disqualified two Democrats who were running for magistrate judge, saying neither meets the upgraded qualifications to hold office.
The ousted candidates, Paul A. Martinez and Keith Lamonica, said Friday they would challenge Ellins' ruling in different courts.
Ellins said state law requires that candidates for magistrate in Doña Ana County now be licensed attorneys. The county surpassed 200,000 residents in the last census, and that benchmark triggered the new qualification to run for magistrate, Ellins said. Martinez and Lamonica are not lawyers and therefore cannot run against one another for magistrate.
"It was something I felt I had to do because my responsibility is to enforce the laws as I read them," Ellins said. "I don't think this is an interpretation issue. It may be a constitutional issue, but that's not my call."
He said he withheld his ruling until checking with the secretary of state, who in turn sought advice from the state attorney general's staff. All agreed that candidates for Doña Ana County magistrate court must meet the new, higher standard of being licensed attorneys, Ellins said.
Martinez, 47, has hired a lawyer to challenge Ellins' decision in the state Supreme Court.
Lamonica, 69, also is contesting the ruling, but he filed an emergency petition Friday in Doña Ana County District Court. Lamonica is representing himself.
Lamonica said his removal from the ballot was "arbitrary and capricious, discriminatory, and a clear violation of the rational basis test of the equal protection clause" of the U.
Moreover, Lamonica said, Ellins' decision has partisan implications.
Lamonica said it "leaves the citizens a choice of no Democratic magistrate candidate and allows the Republican governor the power to appoint her own Republican choice, contrary to the obvious desire of the citizens of Dona Ana County to chose a Democratic magistrate judge."
Martinez and Lamonica were the only two candidates who filed for the position.
For his part, Ellins said his decision was not political. Ellins, like both candidates he removed from the ballot, is a Democrat.
Martinez's attorney said he still was researching the case and did not want to discuss his strategy for contesting Ellins' decision.
Magistrate judges in New Mexico are paid $79,537 a year, according to the state Administrative Office of the Courts. But neither Martinez nor Lamonica knew the salary. Each said he wanted to serve the public as a magistrate, and had not bothered to check the pay scale.
Lamonica calls himself semiretired after a career in broadcasting, both as an engineer and a news director. He said he teaches public speaking at New Mexico State University and writing courses at El Paso Community College. He was news director at radio stations in Los Angeles and Memphis. Lamonica also worked at television stations in Seattle and Knoxville, Tenn.
He said he has had a long interest in the legal system. While in Memphis, he covered the criminal case of James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martinez retired from the state Department of Corrections. He said he was a unit manager, analogous to a warden of an area of inmate housing, and also worked at the J. Paul Taylor Center for juveniles.
Martinez also is a licensed private investigator.
He declined to discuss his challenge to Ellins' ruling, other than to say magistrate courts are "the people's court," so a law degree should not be required.
The state government describes magistrate courts as having limited jurisdiction. They handle landlord-tenant cases, felony preliminary hearings, misdemeanors and traffic violations.
Gov. Susana Martinez, formerly the district attorney in Dona Ana County, favored creation of a metro court system in which all judges would have to be attorneys.
The state Legislature last year approved a bill by Rep. Andy Nunez that would have established a high school diploma or equivalency degree as the minimum qualification to serve as a magistrate.
Nunez, an independent from Hatch, saw his bill breeze through the House of Representatives 64-0 and the Senate 35-0. But Gov. Martinez pocket vetoed the measure.
With his bill to revise qualifications dead, the law requiring counties of 200,000 or more to have licensed attorneys as magistrates remained in place.
Ellins said the law should not impact other magistrate court judges until they come up for re-election.
Santa Fe Bureau Chief Milan Simonich can be reached at 505-820-6898. His blog is at nmcapitolreport.com


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Photo: Tom Fox/Staff Photographer
Texas Rangers catcher Geovany Soto (8) scores on an Ian Kinsler double in the second inning against Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez (30, center) and catcher Carlos Santana (41) at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Tuesday, September 11, 2012.
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today announced that Tim Westergren, chief strategy officer and founder of Pandora, will deliver a keynote address at the 2013 International CES Leaders in Technology Dinner.
The Leaders in Technology Dinner will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 in the Lafite Ballroom at Wynn Las Vegas. The invitation-only event honors the top technologists, entrepreneurs and policymakers instrumental in furthering technology innovation.
"Tim Westergren is a trailblazer in Internet radio and developed a game-changing, innovative platform that helps musicians find their audience and people discover and enjoy new music," said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CEA. "We are excited to have Tim keynote the 2012 CES LIT Dinner and look forward to hearing his vision for the future of radio."
Westergren started the popular personalized radio service in 2000 with the Music Genome Project. He is an award-winning composer and an accomplished musician with 20 years of experience in the music industry - spanning production, audio engineering, film scoring and live performance. Trained as a jazz pianist, his musical background spans such genres as rock, blues, jazz and classical music. In addition to guiding Pandora's overall strategy and vision, Westergren spends most of his time as Pandora's chief evangelist - traveling the country to connect with some of the tens of millions of people who listen to Pandora.
Owned and produced by CEA, the 2013 International CES, the world's largest consumer electronics tradeshow, is scheduled January 8-11, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.