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Ice Cream and Sinus Infections
Last Modified on Nov 08, 2015
The Connection Between Certain Brands of Ice Cream, Flu, and Sinus Infections
Here's our theory, which we are absolutely convinced is an accurate one: Within 24 hours of consuming a scoop of ice cream from brands that contain artificial flavors (e.g., Baskin Robbins, Wendy's, Dairy Queen, etc.), flu-like symptoms will manifest: fever, headache, congestion, general malaise. The supposed virus disappears within 24 hours and a raging sinus infection develops in its place. You won't ever have a runny nose, (which you would have with a true virus or allergy), you'll just have two intensely clogged & infected sinus passages with extreme sinus pressure.
We started asking friends who came down with sinus infections if they had eaten ice cream 2 days prior to the onset of the sinus infection. 4 out of 5 cases reported a yes. We took our theory to the web and started asking our readers in 2006. Sure enough, the same report came back time and time again: fake flu within 24 hours and a sinus infection within 48 hours.
If you take your kids to get ice cream on the weekend, this theory should be pretty easy to track since the side effects will take place Monday or Tuesday following.
What is in Ice Cream That is Causing the 'Flu' and Sinus Infections?
Earth Clinic's Theory: It's not the listed ingredients in ice cream (milk fat and nonfat milk, sugar, sweet whey, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, etc. etc. ) but the so called "natural" and artificial flavorings causing the bogus flu and sinus infections.
We ate lots and lots of ice cream as children back in the 1970s and 80s and never once experienced a sinus infection. The sinus infections started to occur in the late 1990s, never during a cold or flu, but always (as in 100%) after eating a cone at a store like Baskin Robbins or Dairy Queen. We're convinced that if someone was to do a study on this subject, they would probably find a nationwide spike in sinus infections commencing when companies started to add chemically-complicated artificial flavors to ice cream.
6/29/2006: Penny from Fresno, CA was kind enough to send us the following excerpt. You can find even more information on this subject at: http://www.rense.com/general7/whyy.htm
"In his book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser looks at the typical ingredients in a Burger King strawberry milkshake: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenyl-glycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone, a-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, run ether, y-undercalctone, vanillin and solvent.
It would appear that underneath the natural and artificial flavours, an abundance of compounds lay. There is nothing illegal going on here. This is all within the law. Likewise with food labels, they too can include all these ingredients and place them under the umbrella term of 'flavourings'. It's really rather frightening. The value of flavourings is of tremendous importance to the fast food industry, which require their foods be standardized, and flavourings can offer a standardized product. In order that artificial flavourings are made believable, the correct 'mouth feel' must be gained. This is achieved by the addition of starches, emulsfiers, stabilizers, sugars and fats (Marsili, 1993, Food Product Design). So next time you pop into your favourite fast food outlet for a milkshake, take a moment and think about what's really in this stuff."
Since we first wrote this article several years ago, several others have written about the link between sinus infections and ice cream. (See links below article.)
Here's a snippet from a May 6th, 2007 New York Times article by Jesse McKinley entitled: "Flavoring-Factory Illnesses Raise Inquiries."
"Over the last several years, California health officials have been tracking a handful of workers in flavoring factories who have been incapacitated with a rare, life-threatening lung condition 'bronchiolitis obliterans' for which there is no cure or treatment. Usually found only in people who are poisoned by chemical fires or chemical warfare or in lung transplant patients, bronchiolitis obliterans renders its victims unable to exert even a little energy without becoming winded or faint."
"The airways to the lung have been eaten up," said Barbara Materna, the chief of the occupational health branch in the California Department of Health Services. "They can't work anymore, and they can't walk a short distance without severe shortness of breath."
Seven flavoring-factory workers in California are known to have the disease or similarly serious lung damage, and 22 others have had lung tests come back with abnormal results..."
EC: No one on the web appears to be addressing this bogus flu/virus condition from artificial flavorings issue except for us! However, we feel it is very important that people (and the companies who add artificial flavors to their products) look into these side effects more seriously.
You may also be interested in our page on Sinus Headache Relief from Folk Cures.
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I have had my suspicions for some time now about my reaction to chocolate chip mint ice cream. I seem to always get sick with bronchitis that lasts months. I have been a skeptic of this connection since I grew up eating ice cream ( this flavor always a favorite) with no problems. I did it again last Friday night and it started Saturday and I have been stick with bronchial asthma for a week. I also get sick eating cold cereals with bht that didn't bother me as a kid. This site puts it together for me. I'm done with ice cream. Is it the corn in cereals (the rare treat of Lucky Charms)? Or the BHT?
EC: Hi Audrey,
Please read the introductory/overview article at the top of our ice cream and sinus infections page here, specifically these 2 parts:
6/29/2006: Penny from Fresno, CA was kind enough to send us the following excerpt. You can find even more information on this subject at: http://www.rense.com/general7/whyy.htm
"In his book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser looks at the typical ingredients in a Burger King strawberry milkshake: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenyl-glycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone, a-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, run ether, y-undercalctone, vanillin and solvent.
It would appear that underneath the natural and artificial flavours, an abundance of compounds lay. There is nothing illegal going on here. This is all within the law. Likewise with food labels, they too can include all these ingredients and place them under the umbrella term of 'flavourings'. It's really rather frightening. The value of flavourings is of tremendous importance to the fast food industry, which require their foods be standardized, and flavourings can offer a standardized product. In order that artificial flavourings are made believable, the correct 'mouth feel' must be gained. This is achieved by the addition of starches, emulsfiers, stabilizers, sugars and fats (Marsili, 1993, Food Product Design). So next time you pop into your favourite fast food outlet for a milkshake, take a moment and think about what's really in this stuff."
Here's a snippet from a May 6th, 2007 New York Times article by Jesse McKinley entitled: "Flavoring-Factory Illnesses Raise Inquiries."
"Over the last several years, California health officials have been tracking a handful of workers in flavoring factories who have been incapacitated with a rare, life-threatening lung condition 'bronchiolitis obliterans' for which there is no cure or treatment. Usually found only in people who are poisoned by chemical fires or chemical warfare or in lung transplant patients, bronchiolitis obliterans renders its victims unable to exert even a little energy without becoming winded or faint."
Thank you so much, I am in the throws of a megga sinus attack with no other reason for it than a new brand of icecream which states its the Smooth icecream with the worlds finest vanilla flavour! Sourced from Madagascan vanilla..........Now I am informed and will go back to making my own with homegrown strawberries and NO artificial flavours.. Its such a relief to learn its not the icecream as such but once again its the Ad-ins.....
Cider vinegar massage and steaming are finally providing me relief thanks to sites like yours who care enough to help.
I am so happy to have been directed to your site. So much information. The ice cream/sinusitis connection is especially interesting, since I have several friends/family members that suffer terribly with sinus trouble.
I don't have any cures but I wanted to share some information that a nurse (7th Day Adventist) told me, during a discussion about nutrition. One of her statements was so simple as to render it mind-boggling. She said:
Everyone forgets that God made MILK for baby cows!
And we wonder why, even in raw form, we can't tolerate it??
Be calm and be healthy...
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I knew it!!! I should have looked this up years ago! Thank you. I get horribly sick every single time after eating my favorite ice cream, Hagendaz vanilla Swiss almond. I am sick today, sinus and all. Had homemade papaya shake with carnation evaporated milk last night. So was it the milk? Was it the brown sugar? Was it that it was too cold? Or all of the above? I would really appreciate your feedback. thanks again to everyone.
Replied by Prioris
Fl, Usa
03/06/2014Have you checked into fungal infection as reason for sinusitis. One quick remedy could be mixing 1% johnson's baby shampoo (probably anything that has surfactant would do) with 99% water. put in nose with eye dropper. it clears away biofilm. I used it for sinusitis headache and it worked to some extent.
Some have used gut bacteria and put into nose. I'd consider also treating with antifungal.
Here is a treatment protocol someone wrote up. it's very informative.
Replied by Prioris
Fl, Usa
03/06/2014let me clarify what I just said about 1% shampoo solution
to make nasal solution I used ... 1 cup water, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp johnson baby shampoo ... but this is 2% solution so one can use less than a tsp of shampoo ... the baking soda and salt is needed ... you can use eye dropper or nasal spray bottle to put into nose
Posted by Nikki P (Ontario Canada) on 01/09/2014
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3 days ago I celebrated a birthday with a friend here in my home all my life I delt with sinusitis since I was 16. I picked up a DQ icecream cake for her to share with her family. I had decent sized piece. Next day had pressure on my ears and face seen that my face was swollen. I just assumed it was allgeries by the next day I was in so much pain my ears were closed up like being on an air plane running 102 fever and really bad virtago. Have a netti but the water not going through did natural healing search found this Page and went holey #*+". I have reflected back on past events and realized I had ice cream every time I got sick. This is just mind blowing.
Nikki P, Ontario Canada
Replied by Amy
Los Angeles California
01/10/2014If you have problems with Sinusitis it is very important to avoid cold foods like ice cream, freezes, and ice chip drinks of any kind. Snow cones is also a no no for sinusitis suffers. AND KEEP YOUR HEAD WARM WITH A HAT OR KNIT CAP. DON'T ALLOW YOUR HEAD TO BECOME COLD ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. In fact it is probably best to keep your entire body warm.
I am mostly well from my Sinusitis but I bought a Vanilla Bean Cappuccino at Starbucks and this cold drink with ice chip (that is so delicious) started a Sinusitis attack on me. I now have to avoid them. Benadryl will usually help an attack! Warmth is a must!
Posted by Aditya (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) on 06/26/2013
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I haven't had a history of sickness, and I believe I have a fairly good immune system. A few weeks ago, ice-cream was on sale, so I bought two packs. After finishing the first (chocolate), I opened up the last pack last Saturday, this was some three flavour (I never really care what I buy, like I said I've never really had any major problems). The next morning I had what seemed like a cold. I ignored it, had some cold medications and went off to work, from there it was downhill. I thought it might just be the weather, I bought neo-citran to end the pain in my ears (sore throat). It helped me sleep, but my lungs were full of mucus the next morning. Its been a few days now (10 days). I haven't fully recovered, it is getting better. But atleast now I know, whats wrong, its a great relief, having read this post. I just wanted to post my experience here so that people realize this is not a fluke, it does and is happening.
Posted by Anonymous (Orlando, Fl) on 06/26/2013
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Thank you for your article on ice cream and sinus infections, Saturday I went to my local market they had Klondike bars buy one get one free, I been waking up everyday since with a horrible headache and clogged nasal passages, like it says in the article I do not have a runny nose. I just wanted to share my experience so anyone reading this knows it is true, from now on I will be staying away from ice cream.
Posted by Rod (Philly, Pa) on 03/30/2013
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I just found your page while looking for home cures for sinus infection (which I have right now) and surprise! I did have ice cream just before I came down with this. I wanted to inform you that I do not eat any ice creams that contain any artificial additives. Most of what I buy I get from Wholefoods. I just thought that you might want to add this to your statistics for narrowing down the culprit.
Replied by Ejules
Woodbridge, Us
03/31/2013Look into the benefits of using oil of oregano for similar symptoms.
Posted by Mrgoodfriend (Allen, Tx) on 01/09/2012
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I got a 'regular' cold just before Christmas 2011. I did my sinus flush and all, and I was back in business by Monday evening. Of course there are the lingering affects, but I can deal with the symptoms individually. As long as I can sleep, I can recover. Then comes Jan 4. After a long day, I head home, and stop in at Wendy's to get my favorite chocolate Frosty for the trip home. It was delicious as always. Thursday I started feeling the down hill crash and by 5pm, I was toast. I'm just today beginning to feel better (Monday, Jan 9). Head still has tons of gunk. I'm still sinus flushing. Started researching for sinusplasty or something to get rid of this when I came across this article. I think I will be avoiding Wendys et al for a while.
One thing I do plan on trying: Homemade Ice Cream. I want to see if I have a similar reaction. I don't think I will, and I have an excuse for ice cream!
Replied by Mommypantz
Scottdale, Pennsylvania
04/18/2012I believe my 5 yr old is definitely feeling the correlation right now. He was on day 3 of his zpak for his sinus infection and feeling so much better. On day 4 he ate a child-size chocolate frosty from Wendy's. Today, day 5, he became feverish and his sinuses are hurting him terribly. He is miserable and keeps waking up crying. I am definately going to keep my eye on his reaction to ice cream and the likes from now on. So glad to have found this thread. Thanks.
Replied by Candy
Houston, Tx
05/21/2012I am thrilled to find this thread about ice cream!!! I do not know where to post this so I wanted it as close to the top as I could get it... ACNE!!!!!! If anyone here suffers from ACNE look into the ice cream connection!!! Growing up I rarely had a pimple and I mean rarely. I have very fair skin with really no visible pores. It never occurred to me to care until I woke up one day and thought a bug had bitten me in the middle of the night because I had a giant hard knot-like thing on my chin... It took weeks for it to go away. Thus began the nightmare of CYSTIC ACNE!!! It took me years to pinpoint it down to ice cream because it was taking 3 months to even begin to heal from breakouts, I couldnt trace the cause. Nobody ever believes me if I tell them "no thanks it makes my skin break out really bad". Not even my husband. I can have relatively clear skin and if I eat it within a couple of days my face is INFECTED!!!! Like no joke infected!!! Itchy scabby bleeding with pus coming out of huge pimples that are as big around as a quarters. (yeah sorry about the visual). I had some cysts that stayed on my face for years without ever coming up or going down or healing. Sometimes they would literally stick off my face like gigantic lumps... It was absolutely disfiguring!!! now my face is wrinkled and dry and oily at the same time after years of tying to get rid of it. It will probably never be nice per se again but at least it's not like that anymore!!! Funny it wasn't a food allergy just the ice cream.
What in the world could they be feeding us?! Nuclear waste!
This makes me so mad... Those poor employees. All I had was a horrendous case of cystic acne. They got a life sentence.
Replied by Marie
Middle Tn, Tn
11/29/2012I also do not drink milk or eat ice cream anymore. I used to LIVE on it, and I had around the clock sinus infections. I have had two sinus surgeries that didn't seem to help. But recently we started a very WHOLE FOODS diet, we are hardly eating anything that isn't completely fresh. We were drinking raw milk until we couldn't drive to get it anymore and it didn't seem to cause any problems for us. I haven't had any sinus infections.
Then recently I made potato soup with the main ingredient being heavy cream. I had it 3 times in two days because it was so good! It didn't have too many artificials in it, I checked. I have a RAGING sinus infection, and both my kids are sick, and it happened the day after eating this cream based soup. I just looked up a similar heavy cream and here are contents: Heavy Cream, Contains Less than 1% of Each of the Following: Mono and Diglycerides, Polysorbate 80 and Carrageenan.
I eat Carageenan in my almond milk so I know that isn't the culprit. I really believe it is the actual CREAM itself not the artificial flavors. Now organic yoghurt does not give me this problem, so I'm wondering it is something with the hormones they give cows? Or maybe its the way that cream is produced. I don't know. I just know that the cream seems to have promoted this infection in all of us.
I could feel the sinus infection coming on, why oh why didnt' I start the ACV protocol right away? I know that would have helped keep it from developing. Oh well. I'm sipping ACV now.
Replied by Cindy
Rapid City, Sd
01/04/2013It's interesting to find this. I noticed several years ago that if I had a MacDonalds milkshake on my way home (a 45 min. trip) I would cough and have to clear my throat constantly. I concluded (after a couple of instances of this) that I must be alergic to something in their milkshakes. I didn't get the flu or anything, but I stopped drinking the milkshakes all the same. It was just too unpleasant, and I feel sure it was the shakes causing my problems.
Posted by Icecreamless Gurl (Queens, New York ) on 09/29/2011
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Your amazing. I have been looking this up for years! I am so glad I am not the only one who gets this. About 95% of the time after I eat ice cream I come down with flu-like symptoms, first it starts off as a light sore throat, then a feverish headache, then nausea, upset stomach etc etc. I never got a runny nose. I was convinced that the doctors that removed my tonsils nearly 14 years ago messed up in some way that spoiled my fun of eating ice cream whenever I feel like it, but I have never heard of anyone having that problem after getting their tonsils out. Should definitely look into this more!!!!! I am beyond interested in what's causing this.
Replied by Debbie
Melbourne, Australia
09/30/2011After my son had a soft cream ice cream from a well known multi national, his nose was blocked all night. He had "NEON green" discharge from his nose the next day. I googled "neon green discharge to see what was going on, and was amazed at how many people had flu like systems and neon coloured discharge after eating ice cream.
What on earth are they putting in the ice cream?
Replied by Chantal
Kingston, New York, Usa
09/30/2011Some children are unknowingly allergic to milk products, and eating them at night affects them. My friend's 5 and 3 year olds still wet the bed most nights, until her chiropractor told her to cut out the dairy products after supper. They used to have milk at supper and yogurt afterwards, now the don't, and no more bedwetting. The chiro knew the dairy was causing it. And it's not uncommon for milk products to cause sinus and cold problems, so I bet trying to minimize these products for your child might help. It's not necessarily the ice cream's fault, but an allergy.
Replied by Carly
Seattle, Wa - Usa
09/30/2011If my husband eats ice cream before bed I can be sure he will snore for at least half the night.
I finally got him to realize this, and things are much quieter now. If he wants to eat dairy now, he eats it much earlier in the day.
In my opinion dairy products are generally not tolerated well be a lot of people who do not realize it is the dairy causing thier issues. It may be an allergy, or lactose intolerance, but the results are really icky. :-p
Replied by Maria
Gippsland, Australia
09/30/2011Hi Debbie, Because we don't have truth in labeling in Australia we won't ever know the full list of ingredients. It can be fun for your son to help you make ice cream. The cheap ice cream makers can work quite well providing you remember to have the bucket pre frozen. This way you can use the milk and sweetener that suits you. You can even add a little colour with a teaspoon of beetroot juice. I have not done it but I can't see why you could not add a teaspoon of wheatgrass/barley powder to get a tinge of colour. All the best.
Posted by Stefhen (Los Angeles, Ca) on 07/20/2011
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Im very happy to find this article. I thought I was imagining things. 3 days ago on sunday I had a vanilla shake at in n out burgers in LA and immediately, while I was drinking it even, I started to have flu symptoms. Now its almost full blown: runny nose, cough, etc. I very rarely eat fast food, once a month usually. And I only eat in n out. But this time I went 2x in the last two weeks. This had never happened before, so I thought I was hallucinating or something. Thats when I turned to the internet for answers. I'm a pretty healthy person, been living in japan for the last decade, but came to america a year ago on a promotion tour for my book black passenger yellow cabs. Living in japan, one cant help but eat healthily, so my body is just not accustomed to artificial flavoring. thanks to you guys, the mystery is solved.
Posted by Jerome (Berlin, Ny) on 12/27/2010
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I am rarely one to come down with a cold. And once a cold gets me I can't remember too many times it lasting for more than one are two days. My girlfriend and I are really conscious about the food we buy and avoid fake food as much as possible. We like organic and real ingredients. But I admit I can slip from time to time. For instance working with my friend before Christmas. The 22nd and 23rd of December I ate at McDonald's with him. Then Christmas eve I did it... Ate some Eddy's Ice cream. What ensued were symptoms so much like described in your article. Its scary. 'Cept the order may not be exact. Christmas day I got the stuffy nose and feeling awful after taking a afternoon nap. That night runny nose and I started taking notice - I may have a cold. I went to sleep that night and mucus dripping into my throat gave me a painfully sore throat. We practice Netty pot nasal washes - my girlfriend more than I. So I cleansed my nose. And went back to sleep to wake with symptoms worsening. By the second night, Dec 26, I am flu like. With constant blowing of much mucus, even though I am cleaning my nose with a Netty pot.
Replied by Cameron
Brooklyn, Ny
04/05/2011I came online to find a natural remedy for a sinus infection that I woke up with this morning (drinking apple cider vinegar as I type, thank you). Last night I ate a pint of ice cream (Ronnybrook Toasted Hazelnut Crunch), so I was very surprised to see a correlation between the two posted on your site. Pretty amazed actually. I wanted to list the ingredients of the ice cream that I ate because, from what I can tell, there are no chemicals in it.
It's from a local dairy farm here in NY, and although it's not certified organic, it's produced without hormones or antibiotics and is supposedly all natural. Maybe there's a connection beyond the chemical additives, a correlation to dairy, sugar, and sinus infections, or something else. I'm certainly not discounting the ill effects of chemical additives. I just thought my experience could be of use in better understanding this connection between ice cream and sinus infections.
Posted by Betsymoody (Louisville, Ky) on 10/09/2010
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I read some report done on the link between artificial flavors in Dairy Queen and Baskin Robins icecream and sinus infections. It must have been fate that I saw it because right now I am battling a severe sinus infection and I have been eating Dairy Queen blizzards like every day for the past two months. 3 weeks ago I had "flu like symptoms" like the article I read stated. I ran a fever of 101. 8-102. 0 and had a sore throat. Now, for the past two weeks, along with the sore throat, I have had this severe sinus infection. I have NEVER had one this bad before! I really wish someone would contact me via facebook reguarding this matter. On facebook do a search for Betsy Moody-Ervin. Thank you
Replied by Davy
Portland, Or
05/17/2012We eat ice cream like once a year well we went over to Cold Stone for ice cream cones. Well when we arrived I drank my usual apple cider vinegar before bed. But my husband did not he woke up the next day with fever and chill he felt sick. NO more chemical laden fake ice cream for us!
Posted by Seth Taylor (Philomath, Oregon, Usa) on 05/22/2010
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For the last couple of years, I have taken ACV religiously, after reading here on EC how well it worked at preventing and even curing sinus infections. I had been sinus infection free after taking ACV regularly. I was thinking my sinus problems were over ... then this week, to my surprise, I got a horrible, painful sinus infection. Then I recalled eating some ice cream a few days earlier ... now, I've eaten ice cream occasionally off and on over the last couple of years too, but have only had the major brands that don't contain corn syrup (usually the sucralose sweetened variety) with no major effects. This time however, I mistakenly had one with corn syrup. It burned my throat, but I didn't think much of it ... only when I was finishing off the box did I read the ingredients and saw corn syrup was listed. I took extra ACV, but to no avail ... after 4 horrid near sleepless nights, painful, bleeding sinuses, etc, (felt like I was dinner, and my body didn't care ... immune system on strike?) and loath to seek antibiotics, I went looking for information. I knew about ACV, but what else was I missing? After reading Ted's remedies, I thought that perhaps my pH had dropped, since I had not been eating as well as of late due to just moving (the day I started eating the ice cream) ... so, I took about 1 tsp of baking soda sweetened with 2 tsp xylitol in a cup of water. WOW! With in 1/2 hour, my sinus pain was going away! Then my mucus color lightened ... after getting a few more hours of much needed sleep, I am feeling almost normal. I still cough and have some stuffiness, pressure, and drainage, but the pain and bleeding are gone. THANK YOU EC and TED! (I like the fizzy ACV and baking soda: 1/2 C water, 1 tbsp ACV 1/4 tsp baking soda 4 drops of liquid stevia extract.)
Now, I read about the artificial flavors added to some ice creams, and I don't eat any that have these listed ... there may have been something not listed in the one I ate. However, as mentioned on EC about the history of this sinus problem and ice cream, it started in the late 1990s or so. This is when I stopped eating ANY corn, as it started to make me ill. At the time, I chalked it up to food sensitivities ... well, guess what? Something changed in corn during the 1990s. GMO. Today, about 60% of all corn is genetically modified with Bt protein, a naturally occurring pesticide. I don't know how much is in the seed, or how much makes it into the resulting corn syrup, but it could be that there is enough that some people are affected. So, the causative ingredient may very well be listed ... we just don't see if for what it is. (Or, I'm just sensitive to corn.)
Bottom line, keep the body's pH up and stay away from things we find cause harm. Then the body can do its job and be well.
Seth Taylor
EC: Great theory, thanks Seth!
Replied by Tom
Regina, Sk
Great post, but there's additional crucial information to add to your list of weeded out food 'flavors'. It's the sweetener you use, sucralose!
Here is the basic horror story about it:
"Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature's Doberman attack dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.
"Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three hydroxyl groups (hydrogen oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane, Lindane and DDT.
"It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn't a chlorocarbon. When molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn't included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.
Dr. Bowen continues: "Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and mice.
For more information on aspartame and Splenda click on the Aspartame Information List on http://www.wnho.net. Dr. Bowen can be seen in the movie "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World." For the movie call 1-818-349-8822 or email email@example.com See how aspartame was approved by clicking on http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html and visit http://www.wnho.net/sweet_misery_movie.htm for more information on the movie
Replied by Jsp241980
Philadelphia, Pa, Us
08/19/2010I have had this problem for a while. Not only ice-cream, but anything that is sweet. If I have cookies, candy/chocolate & etc. & that was the last thing I ate before going to bed, I develop sinus the next day. I have gotten into a habbit of eating something spicy (eg. Hot chips) & goto bed if I do so. It doesn't happen to anyone I know, therefore I guess its very limited to few of us.
Replied by Lynne
Portland, Or
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Is this an allergy to artificial flavoring, artificial vanilla, or corn syrup? I read this information a couple of weeks ago and the ACV has been very helpful. I thought that perhaps my sinus flare up, which coincided with my period (sorry men), were somehow related but, could just be that I eat worse during this time. Anyway, I have put the ice cream to the test... One scoop of DQ cone with vanilla softserve ice cream caused my normal sinuses to violently react about 6 hours later. I had a completely stuffy nose but lots of mucous when I blow my nose, sinus pressure, and asthma. The same thing happened when I ate a Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwich, and also when I have had a McDonald's Sundae. All symptoms came raging back 6 hours to 12 hours later. It would be nice to know the specific ingredient to avoid.
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09/19/2010Stop eating dairy, a mucusless diet is the only way to rid yourself of sinus and many other issues..... Hope this helps
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I found this site looking for natural sinus infection cures. Something definitely rings true with the ice cream connection. My family went to Baskin-Robbins for their .31 cent scoop night. We never go there, for lots of reasons but, decided it would be a rare treat. This was April 28th. I of course didn't make the connection when I got really sick after. Sinus infection and bronchitis (likely caused by sinusitis)that was treated with antibiotics. The bronchitis seems to have gone, but sinuses not even touched by the drugs. I just tried the ACV treatment and an hour later...WOW! I want to cry. It's been bad these past few years...if this works as good as it seems to, I feel hope! I am breathing through my nose. It's almost shocking how much oxygen I feel like I'm finally getting. It's interesting that the rest of the family didn't get sick like me, but they were super tired for days after. Interesting stuff!


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WASHINGTON The James Webb Space Telescope, intended to peer deep into the cosmos from beyond the moon, is progressing well in development and is on track for a planned June 2013 launch, NADSA officials say.
Edward Weiler, head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said after cost overruns a couple of years ago, the project has met every technical, cost and schedule milestone for the past 20 months. The launch date already has slipped from 2011.
The Webb telescope is envisioned as the first of a new generation of space observatories, set to orbit nearly a million miles from Earth to allow scientists to look further into the universe than ever before in five decades of space exploration.
Scientists hope the new telescope can collect data on the early universe after the Big Bang, and on planets outside our solar system, including evidence of whether life might exist on them.
Officials from NASA and Northrop Grumman Corp., the defense contractor building the telescope, described its progress during an outdoor news conference on the National Mall.
"We're making excellent progress in meeting all of our plans and commitments for a mid-2013 launch," said Martin Mohan, Northrop Grumman's program manager, adding that NASA has endorsed all 10 new technologies developed for the telescope.
Standing in the shadow of a full-scale model of the telescope measuring 80 feet long, 40 feet (12 meters) wide and 40 feet tall, Mohan said, "There's engineering to do, but invention is done, more than six years ahead of launch."
Weiler said the telescope will cost $4.5 billion including development, deployment and operations through 10 years after launch. He said Hubble has cost between $7 billion and $8 billion, adding that the Webb project is far ahead of where Hubble was at a similar time in development in the 1980s.
The Webb telescope will be more powerful and capable than the aging Hubble, which has greatly expanded the understanding of the cosmos since its launch in 1990. The Webb is due to be placed in a more distant orbit beyond the moon.
The Webb telescope will be given a primary mirror whose surface is about six times the size of the one on Hubble. It will also have infrared-sensing cameras and spectrographs.
The future of Hubble is in doubt because the space shuttle program is winding down in the coming years and the telescope needs manned maintenance missions to continue operations.
The Webb will not be as serviceable by astronauts as the Hubble but is being designed so that a future spacecraft can dock with it to try to correct simple problems, Weiler said.
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Luna Redone by KissTheThunderWatch
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A feeling of calm and gentle
but it is perfect lines and beautiful.
but it is perfect lines and beautiful.
Yep, this one's better.
Oh my Celestia! you have improved a lot i envy your coloring mad skillz ;u;
Luna/Matt is best pony
This is very beautiful, I love how the stars on her hair/mane shine, it really adds to the effect.
Oh mah gawd that IS big improvement XD
Pretty Moon Light
wow thats buetiful!
i love luna!
i love luna!
how long did this take?
Wow splendid work on her hair, makes me feel like I'm being drawn into the stars .
wow good job
Beautiful work on this, it is indeed an improvement and you did this character so well too.
It would seem I like both Lunas!
she looks so lovely in your style so well done on her =3
aw man the colors and shadows looks so much better now >u< i cannot explain how awesome you draw ponies D: DAT HAIR
Clicking between the two of them, I'm amazed to see how much you improved it. I almost can't beleive they have the same lineart, but they obviously do... It borders on surreal for me!
Wowers! this peice of work you did is very beautiful and yes you've gotten better at the blending part as well! the colors aren't as harsh like the other picture you did so it doesn't make Luna look like she's JUST a painting! this picture makes her look real and alive! <3 this painting you should be proud of yourself girl!
Nice improvement.
I am very happy to see that you gave this little Art Improvement a try and were so successful with it <3 I like Luna a lot and the way how you have presented her here fits wonderfully to the way she is really shown in the beginning of her appearance in this version First of all you improved on the little bg elements as well, I like how the stars have different size and strength now, there are stars that are more eye-catching now then others C: The clouds are more realistic too and since the position of them changed a little, it seemes like Luna is flying right through it x) On the character itself, you did an especially good job on the plasticity of her details and her pose <3 It seems like the light influence is really soft moonlight and especially her hair has gotten its magic in your very own style, reminding me of an incoming night, just like it should be x3 Next to this I also think the addition of a second visible wing was a great choice All in all the colouring is much smoother and powerful in this improved version and it also has gotten more charismatic, due the fact that you can really get a feeling of Luna's deep thoughts by looking at her face, it has worries and memories, yet her presentation has something strong <3 You did a great job on this and I know there will be many more great works of yours to follow! I would be excited to see more Art Improvements like these, if you have some time, mood and inspiration for another one in the future, keep it up!
<3! Thank you so much for taking such a close and meaningful look at it! It really made me happy to see that my skills have made a leap after all my efforts! Thank you
Gorgeous!! Enchanting!!! Marvelous job!
according to my calculations this pic is exactly 20% cooler than the original
Added stars in her hair and improvement on shading. Looks great
I've titled this "Luna, Fierce and Beautiful!"
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Impressive, really. It's beautiful *-*
Una obra excelente, mezclaste muy bien la atmosfera y la transformaste en una obra de ensueño.....
That is indeed a lot better.
And you have succeeded
By Far One of the Best Princess Luna Fanart I have Seen Thus Far, greet Job !
Wow u really became better. Such softly colours and shading all is just awesome and perfect!
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The new game 'Spartan Strike' exists in an audio-dominant world. To make sure he could still capture a player's attention, composer Tom Salta decided to record quieter, more subtle cues. He also enlisted the help of the New York Film Chorale and the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra. Hear more about it on this week's episode of Top Score.


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She has applied for a loan from KIVA partner Asasah for her brother who also runs a fertilizer retail business and who is currently facing low stock problems. With the help of a loan he will purchase different brands and variety of fertilizers for his shop to generate more sales and profits. He has been operating this business for many years and Khursheeda is hopeful that a loan will help her brother increase his business profits.
Note: "In the picture, the lady holding a book called Asasah passbook is Khursheeda."
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Hi All,
I am trying to translate psf files into SST2 files (simvision) format.
I ran the analog simulations the results are dumped/saved in psf files and I want to convert them into SST2 files(simvision.
I tried to execute "translate psf " in command prompt, but could get. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
There's no command line utility to do this (not sure why you thought that "translate psf" would do it. There's an old utility called "translate" which was for translating Edge databases into DFII, but that's nothing to do with waveform databases.
Spectre can write out SST2 directly - maybe you should have done that?
Also, ViVA (run "viva" from the command line) can iteractively export SST2 for selected signals in the results browser (this is in IC615). I don't think you can do this in wavescan in IC5141 though, for example. You didn't say which versions of the tools you're using.


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Teachers howling with anguish over GCSE grades are betraying every pupil of the future
Breach of trust by professionals who enjoy the respect of the community is a shocking thing, though we have seen plenty of it lately by bankers, priests, policemen, even doctors.
Yet many of us still recoil in fury from the spectacle of thousands of teachers behaving as in recent days, betraying not only their pupils, but their calling.
Last week's GCSE results showed the first fall in grades for decades, albeit a tiny one: the number of A* to C grades declined by 0.4 per cent on 2011, with a slightly higher fall in English of 1.5 per cent.
Fall: Just 63.9 per cent of pupils achieved grades of A* to C this year in English, down 1.5 per cent on last year
These figures were greeted with a howl of anguish from schools and teachers, who complained that their pupils had not received the grades they expected, meaning that some are threatened with missing college places.
They accused Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, of political meddling to enforce a fall in top grades. Some head teachers have threatened the exam boards and Department of Education with legal action.
The outcry has persuaded Ofqual, the exam regulator, to order 'an urgent review'. It will be remarkable if some parent or teacher does not brief lawyers to pursue a claim that children's human rights have been breached.
What has precipitated this storm? It is only the first tiny, tentative, cautious step towards reversing the trend of half a century — the dumbing-down of education, failure of many schools, debasement of exams so that certificates, in the eyes of employers, are not worth the paper they are written on.
Every sensible parent and citizen in the land cheered when last week's exam results were published, because we recognise that until we raise our pathetic standards of state education, our unemployed young cannot get jobs, nor can Britain compete in the 21st century.
Some teachers have accused Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, of political meddling to enforce a fall in top grades
Disappointment: It is only fair to recognise that some thousands of this year's exam-takers are indeed losing out
For years, children have been passing exams, and getting high grades, merely by answering idiot multiple-choice questions; English students — for instance — could secure a GCSE in which, say, Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice is a set book, without even reading it. Examiners, in the most condescending fashion imaginable, have set questions geared to the perceived ignorance and unteachability of many pupils.
The entire teaching profession has not merely colluded in this shameful process, but incited it. The teachers' unions have become a huge obstacle to raising standards, because in a fashion Stalin would applaud, they deny the existence of any problem.
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- Rage of middle-class America: Renowned for its optimism, the US today is consumed by self-doubt and hatred. Which is why voters - mad as hell - are backing lunatics in the most frightening election MAX HASTINGS has covered 27/02/16
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the so-called Association Of School And College Leaders, spoke at the weekend of children being 'short-changed' by the latest exam results, which deny them their rightful passage to a sixth form or college.
Equally deplorable, the Lib Dems' appointed 'fair access tsar' Les Ebdon takes up his appointment next week with a mandate to force universities to take more state school pupils.
Last week, this wholly unsuit-able figure denounced an alleged 'drift' that is allowing the middle classes to tighten their grip on university places.
Here, too, is Politburo-speak: this foolish man rebukes universities for taking too many decently educated private school pupils, when he should instead be straining every sinew to raise state school standards so that they produce more pupils capable of benefiting from higher education.
The 'fair access' policy, one of many Lib Dem initiatives that cripple Britain's competitiveness, obliges universities to abandon their proper function as higher education establishments and instead focus on remedying the deficiencies of years of state secondary schooling.
Recently, I heard an Oxbridge professor say wearily that many of his state school intake have to spend their first year learning how to write an essay.
That is not a snobbish remark, as Nick Clegg would no doubt say, but a mere admission of reality.
The most pernicious aspect of the education establishment's behaviour is its policy of denial: teachers' leaders shout from the rooftops again and again that they are doing a great job — the only trouble is that the Government keeps interfering, refuses them unlimited funds and tries to impose a doctrine of competition on children who do better if they are just trusted to do their own thing in their own way.
It is all nonsense, of course. The message of Britain's Olympics triumph, as every proper teacher in the land should be telling their pupils from the first day of this term, is that success comes to those who strive for excellence, knowing that nothing worthwhile is easy; that iron self-discipline, which needs to be taught and learned, is indispensable to genuine achievement.
But I have beside me, as I write, a letter from a deeply disillusioned veteran state school teacher, who says: 'My experiences have shown me that state education is run by people who do not believe in discipline. They are liberal-minded individuals who believe that unruly pupils will, eventually, reform themselves.
'They refuse to adopt rigorous policies and allow disruptive pupils to destroy the education of others. There are so many of these people running schools …'
The most bitter allegation hurled by teachers over the weekend was that Michael Gove has improperly meddled in the work of exam boards to produce last week's marginal reduction in top grades.
Harsh reality: Recently, I heard an Oxbridge professor say wearily that many of his state school intake have to spend their first year learning how to write an essay
Many of us hope to heaven that indeed he has. At a time when our confidence in much else done by this Government is flagging, Gove still seems worthy of faith and support because he has the courage to proclaim the cruel truth that state education is failing, and is determined to do something about it.
He is attempting to move a mountain amid concerted opposition by the entire education establishment. If he succeeds, we may see a glimmer of hope that this country could once again foster the talents and skills to prosper later this century.
If he fails — if the educationalists triumph in their cynical and shameful campaign to hold down standards to those of their least literate and numerate pupils — then our young unemployed will become lifelong unemployed, which would be a shocking indictment of our society.
It is only fair to recognise that some thousands of this year's exam-takers are indeed losing out, momentarily at least, because they have received fractionally lower grades than were given for the same work last year.
But there is no pain-free route back from reversing the educational disasters that began in the Sixties with Labour's Tony Crosland and Shirley Williams's abolition of grammar schools.
State education in Britain has become a battlefield in which the whole nation will be the losers if the teachers' unions win.
If the regulator now bows to the outcry and raises GCSE grades to last year's level, it will be a fine day for Stalinism, because British schools will have set their faces against admitting the truth about themselves.
We shall see our exams continuing to lose value even faster than our money.
To pretend that today our schools produce adequately skilled pupils is to collude in a wicked lie.
Those of us who have met young Chinese, and visited their schools, know what young Britain is up against for the rest of this century.
Neither we, nor our teachers, set the vital standard for Britain: Asia does, and we are failing to meet it.
If Michael Gove does not win his titanic wrestling match with our failed educationalists, Britain will be the loser for generations to come.


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Other Worlds
- Artists The Advent, Industrialyzer, A.Paul
- Release Date 2013-04-08
- Labels Kombination Research
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- Description Kombination Research presents the Portuguese producer A.Paul.'Other Worlds' is an epic techno journey, styled mix of a classic bassline and hammering bass drums. The release closes with a massive remix by the label boss The Advent and his partner in crime Industrialyzer, with slamming bass and stepping rhythm throughout.


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QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Welcome to Stateline New South Wales. I'm Quentin Dempster. Smoking in pubs and clubs is being phased out in New South Wales, effective and enforceable from July 2007. But new regulations approved by the government in February establish what's becoming known as the 75:25 rule, which would allow smoking in pubs and clubs where spaces, bars or lounges are substantially locked open to the outside elements during trading hours. Under this definition, a bar or lounge room would be declared open if 25 per cent of its total ceiling and wall area was exposed to the outside. The anti smoking lobby, the Cancer Council, the AMA, the Heart Foundation, SmokeFree Australia and the Asthma Foundation is appalled at what it calls a government created loophole which subverts the intention of the smoking bans in pubs and clubs.
Shortly we'll talk to Frank Sartor, who's got one leg on either side of the barbed wire fence on this issue as minister for cancer research and as Minister for Planning, who's introducing the compromise. There's one other nasty element to this: with claims made under parliamentary privilege, that the powerful hotels lobby has been able to secure this advantageous policy through slush fund donations to the major political parties, in particular the Australian Labor Party.
Phil Edge, 21, a non smoking hotel worker, is recovering from very aggressive tongue and throat cancer contracted from passive smoking. He refused to sign a confidentiality clause in his compo case.
PHIL EDGE: Yeah, yeah, it was a very aggressive type of cancer.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Mr Edge has been doing the rounds of the politicians. In a rare display of unity, upper house cross bench members are moving to disallow recent regulations which conditionally permit smoking to continue in pubs and clubs indefinitely.
FRED NILE: We regard this as a betrayal of the people of this state, particularly the workers.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: On 14 February this year, Premier Morris Iemma, with Gaming and Racing Minister Grant McBride, met with John Thorpe, veteran hotelier and President of the Australian Hotels Association New South Wales. Mr Iemma was invited to address the AHA Council delegates at their Haymarket Chambers. Four days before, Planning Minister Frank Sartor had announced the government's decision to introduce new regulations which defined spaces in which smoking in pubs and clubs would be permissible beyond the so called complete smoking ban to be in force from July next year.
FRANK SARTOR: As usual with these things, they're a compromise. Essentially what we are saying is that, if the space where you smoke, you can smoke if it's got more than 25 per cent void, in other words more than 25 per cent of it is not walls. If there are doors and windows, they have to be locked open for you to be able to smoke. The pubs and clubs wanted certainty particularly when they deal with local government, so we've finalised a guideline which, as I said, is tougher than Victoria, tougher than ACT but not as tough as some of the other states.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Dr Arthur Chesterfield Evans, of the Democrats and an anti smoking campaigner for 25 years, smelt a rat.
The hotel industry, Mr Thorpe, says, when Victoria went cold turkey with a complete ban on smoking in the pubs of Victoria, the economic impact was devastating. Hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs were lost; patrons deserted the industry.
ARTHUR CHESTERFIELD-EVANS: This is the doom and gloom that they always say and which has basically been keeping us smoking for, what, 25 years with thousands and thousands of deaths, this sort of philosophy. The people in Ireland and New York who I visited said there was a bit of a drop for three months, the restaurants improved, the non smokers came back and basically at the end of the year they were making as much money as they had been at the beginning of the year or even more. The figures on takes of pubs in New York and the figures in Ireland back that up.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Also appalled at the Sartor compromise regulations is Anita Tang, Director of Health Strategies of the New South Wales Cancer Council. The Cancer Council has produced this animation to demonstrate what's meant by the new space definition, where effectively one wall of a room on licensed premises through the construction of sliding doors and windows would be locked open to the elements; smoking permitted.
That looks a pretty good compromise, doesn't it?
ANITA TANG: The promise from the New South Wales government was that there would be full indoor smoking bans from 1 July 2007. This regulation makes a mockery of that. Something that has a roof and is substantially enclosed is essentially indoors. If it traps smoke, and we know that the ceiling is probably the greatest contributor to that, it is still going to leave people at risk.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Ms Tang showed Stateline what many hotels will be doing as the regulations take effect.
Would this pub, with these windows open, comply under Frank Sartor's regulations?
ANITA TANG: At the moment, this room probably doesn't have more than 25 per cent open to the outside. But, if the pub owner decided to knock out more of the wall or extend the windows all along the bank here, then it could become a smoking area.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: So if this wall went and you put in glass doors and windows, what have you ...
ANITA TANG: Which were then locked open during trading hours, people would be able to continue smoking inside that room. But essentially what you would see it would be is a room with a wall missing. It still has a ceiling that would trap smoke and you're still largely enclosed on all other sides.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: So what we're going to see as these regulations take effect is a lot more pubs around New South Wales with walls missing, as it were?
ANITA TANG: That's right. We think a lot of pub and club owners will probably try to renovate to meet the new regulations, but we're not convinced that those configurations will protect people from second hand smoke.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: In any wet weather, windy weather, the doors and windows get closed?
ANITA TANG: They will. Once the doors and windows are closed, it has to then become a non smoking area.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: So the public will have to say, "Shoo, all you smokers. Get outside"?
ANITA TANG: It's going to be very confusing.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: AHA President John Thorpe acknowledges that 60 per cent of smokers nowadays frequent hotels. He says the industry is moving to protect the health of staff from the effects of passive smoking, while sending a clear signal to smoking patrons through the creation of the designated outside areas in pubs.
This regulation that you have got through the New South Wales cabinet will allow smoking to go on indefinitely?
JOHN THORPE: Look, let me say this to you ...
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: When is your end point?
JOHN THORPE: My end point is this, and you've got to understand it, Quentin. The end point is that we're pushing you outside. When I push you outside from somewhere, you're not going to like it and you're going to say to yourself, "I'm entitled, as I have been for the last, say, 29 years at Harbord Hilton with Mr Thorpe, to having a drink in his establishment. Tonight he's told me that I'll have to now sit outside in the beer garden area, in the outdoor area." You won't like it. You won't like it. I wouldn't like it, and I've got to tell you, quite frankly, that will be a massive change and we are looking forward to the quitters, those that'll be saying "No, I want to join my friends back inside, I want to be there. I have to quit." We're saying to you it's another progression. Given time, I'm happy for you to come back to me after '07, Quentin, if I'm still here, on the basis that you can say to me, "Well, when is the end time now?"
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Mr Thorpe produced to Stateline hotelier employment returns showing the hiring of casuals in the hotel industry in New South Wales was dropping.
JOHN THORPE: Fourteen to six.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: As the industry phased in the smoking ban on all internal facilities, bars, lounges, gaming rooms, to comply with the government's Smoke free Environment Act. John Thorpe also says there could be a downside to an abrupt and blanket smoking ban, with research in some countries showing a rise in house fires, domestic violence and asthma among children where parents have no choice but to smoke at home. While the pubs were copping unfair flak, people should realise it was the government which still allowed the legal sale of tobacco, regardless of its many mandated health warnings.
The debate on the Sartor regulations is about to hot up. All 11 upper house cross benchers the Democrats, the Christian Democrats, the Greens, the Shooters Party, One Nation, Unity, Reform the Legal System and the Outdoor Recreation Party will vote for disallowance. But Dr Chesterfield Evans concedes the motion probably will be defeated on the combined vote of the Labor, Liberal and National Party upper house members. With 6,500 smoking related deaths each year in New South Wales, he now wants Labor and coalition members to break party discipline in the interests of public health.
ARTHUR CHESTERFIELD-EVANS: If both the major parties vote together, of course they get it. That's what happens very frequently. People approach me in the corridor and say, "Of course you're right, Arthur, but we can't ruffle the big boys." I'm trying to get the party to change as a whole, and then obviously I'm trying to get the members to break discipline on this and get a vote like they did on abortion, where people vote with their consciences.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: And what prospects do you think you'd have for success?
ARTHUR CHESTERFIELD-EVANS: I'm certainly giving it a go. I'm trying them individually. Whether I succeed or not is another question.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: It's been alleged under parliamentary privilege that the hotels lobby, in effect, has been able to buy a favourable government decision through $250,000 in party political donations to the Labor Party.
You're not alleging corruption here, Dr Chesterfield Evans, are you?
ARTHUR CHESTERFIELD-EVANS: Well, I think you could call it corruption. I think basically the major parties don't go against their major donors, and I think that's the key problem. The major parties no longer act for the benefit of the people of New South Wales. They are captured by the big end of town. The whole democracy, so called, in New South Wales acts that there is only really two parties. If those two parties can both be bought fairly easily, then effectively the people go down the tube.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: The Premier and his ministers deny any donations from interest groups have any influence on the decision making processes of government. Stateline is not alleging and has no probative evidence of a direct link between any donations and the government's decision allowing smoking to continue in pubs and clubs through the new regulations. So we cut to the chase with the AHA's President, John Thorpe, who acknowledges the AHA and its members do make Electoral Commission declared donations to political parties.
It's been put by various politicians that you have bought this policy with your industry's $250,000 odd to the Australian Labor Party.
JOHN THORPE: Oh, you know, honestly, you're a respected journalist in this state, and to think that anybody could buy a government or anything of this nature. There does happen to be ICAC, there does happen to be a position here with the AEC ...
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QUENTIN DEMPSTER: Well ...
JOHN THORPE: It's not cheap.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: That's a cynical remark on your part, isn't it?
JOHN THORPE: It's not.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER: That's a confirmation that you have bought the policy.
JOHN THORPE: Mate, you can't when you use the word "bought", you put both of us in ICAC; and I got to say to you quite frankly the use of that word of buying people and particularly a government, to me, puts us both in very, very dim light of people today.
What I've got to say to you, sir, I have a role here as the association president to do the best I can for an industry that's iconic in this country. The country pub is iconic. It will be here long after you and I are gone. And let me tell you: the preservation of it, the fact that it's part of our history and hotels are part of our heritage, that we have got an obligation, I have an obligation, sir, to persuade if you use the word "persuade", I'll accept that, but I won't accept "bought".


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The paper "Optical and X-ray Variability of the Peculiar Cataclysmic Variable FS Aurigae with a Magnetic and Freely Precessing White Dwarf [1]" by Vitaly Neustroev and collaborators is now available on arXiv.org. The paper was co-authored by several AAVSO observers, and involves data taken during the 2010-2011 observing campaign.
FS Aurigae is a complicated system showing variations on different timescales at different wavelengths. Neustroev and collaborators found evidence of precession of the magnetic white dwarf using optical multicolor time series obtained in part by AAVSO observers. This behavior had not been seen in optical photometry until now.
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Veteran actress Jaya Bachchan couldn't hold back her tears after watching a special screening of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag", which tells the strife and struggle of Indian sprinter Milkha Singh's life.
"Jayaji seldom attends movie screenings these days. But she made it a point to be there for 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' because of the family's very close relations with the film's director Rakeysh Mehra and Farhan (Akhtar)," said a source from "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag".
"After the screening, she just couldn't control her emotions. She called Farhan aside and wept openly, telling him he had lived the pain, suffering and triumph of Milkha," added the source.
Farhan refused to comment on Jaya's emotional response to the film and his performance, saying it was a private moment.
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Bidaai like Amrit Manthan is also a story of two sisters. However in Bidaai there was a strong bond of love between them whereas in Amrit Manthan it is a story of hatred between two sisters. Love and hate are after all are two sides of the same coin.
Amrit Manthan is a very realistic show based on sibling rivalry. If you just open the newspapers you will get to read so many stories about anger, hatred and betrayal between siblings. Indeed, there can be bloodshed even when two people have been born out of the same blood. Our message is that ambition, greed and ego will result in a downfall.
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Kuch To Log Kahenge isn't a TRP success. Please comment. Are you happy that the show has been shifted to the 11pm slot?
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I am happy that the show has been shifted to the 11pm slot. When it was running at both 8pm and 11pm, the viewers were getting bifurcated. The show always got better viewership at 11pm. So, I am happy with the time shift.
You must be very proud of your showYeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai...
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai is a feather in the cap for Director's Kut. It is a show which has made us proud. This is one show with no negative characters and has very relatable emotions. There is no false hype, gimmicks and drama. We have interesting characters. The journeys of the characters have been interesting. We have been true to the texture of the show, which is about love after marriage.
The NRIs love to tune in to Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. Apart from loving the plot and characterization of our show, they feel that our characters wear very sophisticated (non-gaudy) costumes and jewellery.
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai has constantly delivered for the past three and a half years. It will complete 1000 episodes very soon.
Which show do you think has been your best work till date? Bidaai?
I really can't choose which is supposed to be my best work till date. However I can say that Bidaai laid the foundation to Director's Kut. I am proud of the show which made its actors into stars. The success of Bidaai was followed by the success of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai which added to the reputation of our company.
On Wikipedia it is written that your show Chand Chupa Badal Mein was boring. Please comment.
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There were rumours that the sets of your show Havan were haunted?
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We're gathering details on a Camp Lejeune Marine who pleaded guilty to soliciting sex with a minor.
John Leone was arrested in June after a three month investigation when he talked to whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl online, but the Wilmington Star news reports, she was actually a Pender County detective. The paper says the 24-year-old traveled from Camp Lejeune to Pender County to meet the girl. According to the paper Leone has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. He'll also receive a bad conduct discharge from the Marine Corps and must register as a sex offender.