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We knew that Danny Kohl's "GM Foods--Another View" [April 16], on genetically modified organism (GMO) technology used in food production, would provoke controversy, and we weren't disappointed. Below are edited versions of some of the letters that flooded in.
--The Editors
East Ryegate, Vt.
GMO technology epitomizes the contempt for life that is the basis of science and capitalism. Asian children do not need bioengineered "golden rice" to meet their vitamin A requirement. As the World Bank has acknowledged, eating leafy greens daily does the job, cheaply and efficiently, as Asian families have done for millennia. So why the vitamin A deficiency crisis? It was the Green Revolution, which came from the United States in the sixties, that destroyed families' access to a diversity of field greens. Its "miracle" monocultures displaced cultivated greens from grain fields, while its herbicides killed off the wild greens ("weeds") traditionally harvested along with crops.
Vitamin A deficiency, the most easily and cheaply remedied of the deficiency diseases, signals environmental degradation and poverty. GMOs will remedy neither. Food-based education projects, however, are already helping 3 million people in India combat vitamin A deficiency through home gardening and also by increasing diversity in their diets, to combat the malnutrition of which vitamin A is symptomatic. But few are willing to acknowledge the role of science and technology in degrading the environment and impoverishing the multitudes.
We in the First World face a moral challenge, which is to acknowledge that in our contempt for life, in our claim to be "conquering nature," we are destroying humanity and nature, in effect cutting off the branch on which we sit.
Oakland, Calif.
Danny Kohl's suggestion that genetically altered "golden" rice is the answer for the condition of 2 million children at risk of vitamin A deficiency-induced blindness reveals a tremendous naïveté. Vitamin A deficiency is a symptom, a warning sign of broader dietary inadequacies associated with poverty and with agricultural change from diverse cropping systems to rice monoculture. People do not have vitamin A deficiency because rice contains too little vitamin A but because their diet has been reduced to rice and almost nothing else. A magic-bullet solution that puts beta carotene into rice--with potential health and ecological hazards--while leaving poverty, poor diets and extensive monoculture intact, is unlikely to make any durable contribution to well-being.
Kohl argues that the development of golden rice was "supported entirely by the public sector and philanthropic funds." He fails to mention that all rights have been granted to corporate giant Astra Zeneca, which plans to market it in industrialized countries as a "nutraceutical" (food containing a pharmaceutical agent), while making it available free of extra charges above normal improved-seed costs to those poor farmers in the Third World who can demonstrate that their annual rice sales are below a magic threshold ($5,000 was suggested). Should the farmers bring their tax returns to the seed shop? Most peasant farmers have never paid taxes and probably don't have an identity card or proper title to their land. Nor do they usually buy expensive seeds, preferring to save their own for the next planting. And who would administer this anyway? Get serious.
Food First/Institute for Food
and Development Policy
Cambridge, Mass.
Danny Kohl's call to separate ideology from science or empiricism isn't possible--or desirable. All science occurs in a context; no empiricism is free from ideology. Biotechnology is no more value-free than nuclear power or automobile technology. Starvation is a social disease--caused mainly by poverty, poor food distribution and the conversion of farmland to other purposes. The pursuit of technofixes for hunger, even by well-intentioned scientists, as Kohl proposes, will lead us right back to the golden rice and Starlink messes we have now. The plight of the planet's 800 million starving people can't be addressed by science, absent the real world of political context. Did we learn nothing from the mistakes of the Green Revolution?
Kohl accuses critics of "indiscriminately rejecting GMO technologies," when that rejection is in fact frequently careful, responsible and science-based. The ceaseless promotion of a science that is not ready for prime time deserves more, not less criticism. While Dr. Kohl might well long for a pure examination of this infant science without messy ideological debates, it just can't be done.
Council for Responsible Genetics
When African delegates to a United Nations conference saw images of starving African children used in Monsanto ads claiming that genetic engineering is critical to feeding the poor, they wrote in response, "We...strongly object that images of the poor and hungry from our countries are being used by giant multinational corporations to push a technology that is neither safe, environment friendly, nor economically beneficial to us.... We do not believe that such companies or gene technologies will help our farmers to produce the food that is needed in the 21st century. On the contrary, we think it will destroy the diversity, the local knowledge and the sustainable agricultural systems that our farmers have developed for millennia and that it will thus undermine our capacity to feed ourselves."
Danny Kohl says yellow rice comes from a team of scientists whose sole intent is to bring it freely to the poor. In fact, the lead scientist on this team is a former Novartis researcher who currently holds an interest in dozens of Novartis plant patents. Although the rice was developed with public money, Novartis (through Syngenta, a company it formed in alliance with another gene giant, Zeneca) holds the rights to sell the rice, and a company spokesperson told the Financial Times, "We see it doing particularly well in Japan." The Rural Advancement Foundation International, which works with small farmers worldwide, rightly exposed this ripoff as "millions of dollars of public funding [being] surrendered to a multinational corporation."
Scientists have found yellow rice an unlikely solution to the problem it pretends to address. Dr. Marion Nestle has written in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, "Food-based approaches to improving vitamin A status seem especially desirable. The addition of one or two nutrients to an existing food does not constitute a food-based approach."
The real problem the industry seeks to address is not malnutrition but public opinion. The propaganda value of yellow rice has been immeasurable, as industry has shamelessly used it in an attempt to quell growing US distrust of its experimental foods. Faced with a PR meltdown, the biotech/chemical industry is desperately plying the same message it promoted when its pesticides were first exposed as threats to the environment and our health. When Rachel Carson's Silent Spring brought the dangers of DDT to a national audience, the chemical industry responded with a PR blitz centered around its claim that poor people would starve without pesticides. Monsanto, one of the leading chemical polluters of the past century and infamous for its cover-ups (see www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/dirtysecrets/anniston/1.asp) today is the leading force behind the genetic engineering of our food. While proponents of this experiment distract us with unsubstantiated arguments about future wonders, Americans are unwittingly eating Monsanto's genetically engineered products in thousands of foods from our supermarket shelves. Like Monsanto's chemicals, none of these altered foods have been the subject of long-term study for their effects on the environment or our health.
Like other apologists for this industry, Kohl argues that economic and political solutions to problems of hunger "will not happen soon," implying that it is faster, easier and safer to alter millions of years of evolutionary ecology than to address the man-made inequalities that have been perpetrated over the past few decades.
Yellow rice has been in development for nearly ten years and is still several years away from even small field trials. After more years of research and millions of dollars, what will these researchers achieve? They hope the rice will have beta carotene that humans can assimilate, in quantities that matter, without side effects that harm the environment or human health. Meanwhile, every year and dollar spent on this rice is a year and dollar not spent on projects that truly address sustainable solutions to poverty and hunger.
Greenpeace Genetic Engineering Campaign
The fundamental point upon which the GMO debate pivots is the matter of public trust--trust of government, researchers and corporations that they will be cautious not reckless, generous not greedy, humble not arrogant. While there may be a few geneticists scattered throughout the world working toward knowledge and technology "free of costs and restrictions on property rights," they will unfortunately always be in the overwhelming minority. Moreover, the knowledge created even by well-intentioned geneticists can turn on its creators and those it is designed to benefit. And we cannot put the GMO genie back in the bottle once we have released it. The promise of GMO technology today reminds one of the promise of nuclear power a half-century ago. Better our efforts were devoted to fighting the underlying causes of poverty and malnutrition.
Plainfield, Vt.
Professor Kohl is right about one thing: Corporate control over agriculture and over scientific research agendas is perhaps the most important issue underlying the debates over genetically engineered food. But having acknowledged this, he proceeds to outline a research agenda tailor-made to benefit his corporate benefactors.
Certainly there is a great deal of scientific knowledge to be brought to bear on the problems of hunger and malnutrition. But why is the question always "How can we address these problems through genetic engineering?" and almost never "What is the most appropriate course of scientific research to address human needs?"
A February 3 article in the British magazine New Scientist offered a very different approach to using science to aid the world's poor. Using an impressive array of very low-tech interventions--trap crops for common pests, polycultures replacing monocultures, changing planting times and patterns, etc.--farmers in Africa have been increasing yields by up to 100 percent. That's a huge advance beyond the marginal-yield advantages that Monsanto and the other biotech companies brag about incessantly.
The biotech industry supported the development of "golden" vitamin A rice to the tune of $100 million. Even if the beta carotene content could someday be increased fivefold, as Kohl suggests, it will still take 3 or 4 pounds of rice a day to satisfy a person's nutritional requirements, and that is only if other nutrients are in proper balance. There's much more beta carotene in traditional crops, from leafy green vegetables to squashes, melons and mangoes. The key is helping people regain the ability to feed themselves, exactly what the companies that have brought us genetic engineering are most threatened by. In emergencies, vitamin A supplements are available for just a few pennies.
Biotechnology does offer one clear advantage--to corporations--over more traditional low-tech solutions: the ability to "invent" new varieties of plants and animals that companies like Monsanto can patent and claim proprietary rights over. While the results of more traditional agricultural research often remain in the public domain--where they properly belong--genetically engineered varieties are subject to the most stringent "intellectual property" rules of the WTO. Farmers all over North America are finding this out the hard way, as they face severe legal penalties even when their crops are contaminated with Monsanto's proprietary genes due to cross-pollination.
For twenty-five years, the narrow agenda of genetic engineering has dominated scientific discussions in the public and private domains, corrupting scientific discourse while enriching those researchers who are most willing to feed at the corporate trough. It's time for a more honest discussion of how science can best benefit human health and well-being.
Biotechnology Project Director
Institute for Social Ecology
Chillicothe, Mo.
Danny Kohl argues that judgments on biotechnology should be based on facts rather than supposition. As a family farmer, I couldn't agree more. But is industry willing to make its GMO research available to farmers and consumers? No. Much like Big Tobacco, it spends millions on PR campaigns and resists all efforts to involve the government in the research, testing and regulation of GMOs.
For family farmers the promise of GMOs stands in stark contrast to the reality. For three decades US farmers have been told that if we are to survive we must (1) produce for the global marketplace, (2) reduce costs and (3) become more efficient. How does this play out with respect to GMOs?
Numerous countries in Europe and Asia have banned the use of GMOs because of consumer concerns, which in effect have closed markets to US farmers using GMO seeds. In fact, many European and Asian countries have begun to market GMO-free products and are paying farmers premiums for crops grown with conventional seeds.
Crops grown with GMO seeds are far more expensive to produce. In 1999 a GMO soybean system cost farmers about 50 percent more than comparable conventional seed and weed management systems. A recent Nebraska study found that GMO soybean yields were 11 percent lower than their conventional seed counterparts and concluded that genetic engineering, not farming practices, was responsible. Similar studies have shown 12 percent and 20 percent yield reductions in GMO cotton and canola, respectively. For the farmer, GMOs mean fewer markets, higher costs and reduced performance. For more information call toll-free (877) 968-FARM (3276).
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Earthcraft Farm, Bringhurst, Indiana
Danny Kohl shares the hubris of his corporate master Monsanto that we can tamper with life at the basic level of the creation of novel species, and we can understand and control the consequences. What scientists today get corporate funding to keep track of the world's biodiversity with a view to its preservation? The life-and-death sciences have no concern about biodiversity, except to exploit little pieces of it and to turn them into commodities for profit.
And what about human societies in the next year, or next ten years? What is the impact on poor farmers and on native and indigenous people? Maybe they want to preserve and grow natural and traditional varieties of crops, free from genetic pollution. Maybe they have too much reverence for nature to fathom the arrogance of redesigning life. Maybe they just need land to grow food on so that they can feed themselves. But these political solutions "will not happen soon," thinks Kohl, and so he recommends an interim technofix, just like all the other technofixes, the ones that destroyed much of the resource base of viable communal agriculture.
We have an organic vegetable farm, and we sometimes use Bt, a natural biopesticide. Bt is now genetically engineered into many food plants so that they express toxin in every cell, all the time (in its engineered form, Bt does not quickly biodegrade, as it does in natural form). Since there are Bt crops in our area, we expect Bt-tolerant insects to develop and render Bt ineffective, thus making it more difficult to grow food organically. Corporate scientists have predicted this outcome for years. Corporations figure they can sell more toxic pesticides, and scientists count on working on the next technofix.
Monsanto recently won a lawsuit against a Canadian farmer who had Monsanto's GE canola growing in his field without having purchased its proprietary technology. Pollen drift from nearby GE fields ruined his crop and his livelihood. The international repercussions from this and similar outrages are just beginning.
JIM ROSE and SIGNE WALLER
St. Louis
Since a point-by-point response isn't possible in this limited space, I'll try to respond to some themes. For a point-by-point response, visit www.biology.wustl.edu/faculty/kohl.html, then click on the link, GM Food The Nation/April 21, 2001.
Clearly, there is more than one reasonable opinion about the potential for golden rice to make a significant contribution to improving vitamin A nutrition. Some of the reasons the jury is still out were included in my article.
Brian Tokar is correct that for people with no other source of vitamin A, satisfying the Recommended Daily Allowance would require consumption of impossible amounts of rice. (Benefits to vision occur far short of RDA, by the way.) But benefits are not "all or none." Peter Rosset of Food First is, of course, correct. Golden rice is not the solution. The empirical question is whether it can make a significant contribution to improving public health. While many find vitamin A supplements an attractive alternative, it is not inexpensive. In 1994 the World Bank estimated the cost to be 50 cents per person per year (two doses, including administration costs). South Asia might have 1.25 billion people. If only 1 of every 12.5 people (children and adult women) requires supplements, that's $50 million per year.
But the golden rice project is important beyond its possible contribution to alleviating suffering. It suggests one model for allowing scientists to escape the iron grip of profit potential that determines which crops and diseases are addressed. And escaping industry's demand for profit is the task I consider to be the most important. In the case of golden rice, public sector (Swiss and EU science agencies) and philanthropic (Rockefeller Foundation) funds allowed scientists to pursue a product that did not have sufficient profit potential to interest a biotech multinational.
It is true, as Charles Margulis and Rosset say, that a multinational was granted the rights to market golden rice in the developed world in exchange for work done on obtaining waivers of the seventy intellectual property rights agreements that otherwise would have restricted free distribution of seed. I'm comfortable with this trade-off, since it will allow seeds to be distributed without royalties in the Third World. This collaboration with industry after the hard, basic science has been done does not change the fact that there was not enough profit potential to induce any corporation to attempt to develop the product from scratch. Other aspects of the venture worth emulating are the role assigned to public agencies, like the Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology, and the commitment to cross the trait into local varieties, among others.
If, as Margulis writes, in the past the lead scientist (I assume he means Ingo Potrykus) held patents along with a multinational, then I'm surprised Margulis doesn't welcome Potrykus into the light of public interest from the darkness of corporate co-patent-holder. Or does Margulis consider Potrykus to be beyond redemption? I could not agree more with Margulis's assessment that the biotech industry has shamelessly tried to turn golden rice into the poster child for the industry, especially since, contrary to the claim of Tokar, no industry money was spent to support its development. But I am puzzled by the apparent conviction that the golden rice project is somehow compromised by the industry offensive. Surely, we should denounce industry's shameless attempt, but why should their unprincipled effort to co-opt this publicly financed effort reflect badly on the product?
The product should be evaluated for what it is. Many predict it will fall far short of making a contribution to improved public health. If it turns out that way, so be it. But the logic of "my enemies' friends are my enemies" leads to strange places. One small indication that the biotech industry has succeeded in focusing attention on golden rice is that none of the letter writers mentioned my claim that science might contribute to improving cassava.
I admit to also being puzzled by the "either/or" paradigm presented in comments by Beth Champagne, Tokar, Rossett and Darel Paul. I think it's great that 3 million people in India are improving their lives with home gardens, even if (and I do not mean this sarcastically) that is only about 0.25 percent of the people at risk for vitamin A deficiency. I think we should vigorously support any strategy with promise for improving life for poor people, even if it is only an incremental improvement, recognizing that for the most part such projects do not compete for the same funds, such as money made available for science from the European Biotech Program. I absolutely agree that vitamin A deficiency, like hunger, is the result of poverty. GM foods will not cure poverty. The empirical question is whether they can make any contribution to human welfare without major changes in the social structure.
Clearly, Martin Teitel is correct that "all science occurs in a context." There can be no better example than the influence corporations have on the science agenda. What I had in mind when I mentioned "empirical, not ideological" questions were questions like those I asked in my essay; e.g., would golden rice be accepted by consumers, would the yield be less than the parental varieties into which it was crossed, etc. An extreme example of an ideological stance is the statement by Champagne that "contempt for life...is at the basis of science and capitalism." If this leads Champagne to reject all products of science, then we simply disagree. I, for one, am glad that my grandchildren have been immunized against disease, even if some corporation made a profit from it. (Immunization raises issues of benefit/cost ratio, but that's another story.) I'm glad that biotechnology techniques have resulted in bacteria that produce adequate insulin with consistent properties, a far better medicine than that isolated from pig and cow pancreas.
In my editorial, I called for increasing the stringency of the regulatory environment, including requiring multinationals to do the hard scientific work of making it virtually impossible for engineered genes to escape from the GM crop, a problem raised by Jim Rose and Signe Waller's letter. I did realize that this put at risk my status as a "hero of Monsanto," which a number of letter writers assigned to me. So it goes.
Genetically modified food has been the object of extensive criticism by many, including in the pages of this magazine. Here is a different perspective. --The Editors
The technology that creates genetically modified organisms (GMOs)--for example, corn with built-in insecticide--has aroused opposition from much of the left equal in intensity to that induced by sweatshop labor and racism. Does GMO technology warrant this reflexive rejection, or can it make a contribution to human welfare?
Products that contribute little or nothing to improving human welfare do not justify taking even a small risk. Who needed bovine growth hormone? Does anyone really care that engineering an increase in potato starch content makes better potato chips? But GMO technology can also address extremely important issues. For example, the ravages of severe vitamin A deficiency among poor children, especially in Southeast Asia, annually results in the death of several million children and blindness in 250,000, according to UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Work aimed at contributing to amelioration of this nutritional deficiency has resulted in the widely publicized "golden rice." By adding two plant genes and one bacterial gene, this genetically modified variety allows beta carotene to be synthesized in the edible portion of rice, rather than primarily in its leaves. Beta carotene, whose main dietary source is deeply colored fruits and vegetables, is converted by humans to vitamin A. If society were to eliminate poverty so that families could afford a balanced, nutritious diet, there would be less need for attempting to fortify rice. But since that will not happen soon, surely improving the beta carotene content of rice is worth diligent effort.
Despite the apparent altruistic motive in developing golden rice, the anti-GMO movement has vigorously attacked the project and succeeded in influencing public debate. For example, in a March 4 New York Times Magazine essay, Michael Pollan concludes that golden rice is no more than a poster boy for biotech companies. This is ironic since the work was supported entirely by the public sector and philanthropic funds with the commitment that golden rice would, in the words of Ingo Potrykus, a lead scientist on the project, "reach subsistence farmers free of charge and restrictions."
Whether golden rice can make a positive contribution to health depends on the answers to a series of questions. But these involve empirical, not ideological, issues. Among them: Will poor Southeast Asians be able and willing to buy or grow golden rice? How much beta carotene will golden rice supply and with what efficiency can malnourished children convert it to vitamin A? Will the plausible three- to fivefold increase in beta carotene content be realized as the result of further research? And, as important, what impact might a product like golden rice have on the structure of agriculture, and how might those structural changes affect the rural poor?
Instead of indiscriminately rejecting GMO technology, we should direct our ire at corporate control of the research agenda, since under corporate control profitability rather than public need determines which projects are pursued. This results in crops and pharmaceuticals of immense importance in the developing world being "research orphans." With little potential for profit, corporations are not competing to develop virus-resistant cassava, for example, despite cassava's being the third most important source of calories worldwide [see Ken Silverstein, "Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor," July 19, 1999].
Most of the potential problems activists have highlighted are the result of racing to market. One such problem is escape of a transgene from an engineered crop to wild relatives. This would be virtually eliminated if the pollen of a transgenic corn plant, for example, were able to fertilize only other identically engineered corn. There are strategies for accomplishing this consistent with current knowledge of plant reproduction. A second example is the presence in many GMO crops of the gene for a protein that degrades antibiotics. Such genes are often inserted into the plant genome to facilitate creation of the genetically modified plant. Using existing techniques, this antibiotic resistance has been eliminated from golden rice. We should insist that genetically modified plants incorporate features like these before any GMO products are approved for marketing. And the more trivial a product's contribution to human welfare, the higher should be the safety bar.
While opposing corporate domination of the research agenda, we should encourage government and philanthropic organizations to support research, development and marketing of products aimed at alleviating the most serious problems afflicting poor people without regard for profit potential. When immense good with little risk is the likely outcome, we should celebrate not only with the people who benefit from the product but also for the success of a project motivated by humane values rather than the pursuit of profit. There are scientists in the forefront of genetic engineering who have a far different agenda from that of the multinationals. Their commitment is to bring modern science to bear on problems of importance to the Third World "free of costs and restrictions on property rights," in the words of Ingo Potrykus (www.rereth.ethz.ch/biol/selb.gruissem/gruissem/pj.01.html). The Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture, in Australia (www.cambia.org.au), operates on a "bottom up" principle. In its words, "CAMBIA develops technologies that enable local researchers and producers to regain an appropriate measure of control over breeding, utilization of genetic diversity and management of agricultural systems."
We need to be talking with such researchers. They can help us identify truly important potential uses of GMO technology, risks associated with it and strategies for minimizing the risks. For our part, we can encourage such researchers to insist on appropriate regulatory vigilance and to resist being co-opted by corporate devotion to the bottom line.


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be noted that HDFC Bank has also approached the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to raise its foreign holding limit to 67.55 per cent from the present 49 per cent.
When asked if he is expecting a favourable decision from the FIPB, Puri said: "We are hoping so."
On the move by MSCI India Index to reduce its weight on the bank stock, Puri said it is a natural action for a "dispassionate" player like MSCI to do because of the official action.
Meanwhile, on the bank's sustainability initiatives, Puri said it is already devoting 1-2 per cent of its net profit to CSR activities.
"We were doing it without the mandate. We do believe that all corporations owe a due to society. The quantum you can debate, but the fact that you can do something for the society as a corporate citizen is a must," he said.
Scale and sustainability are key for the bank in its CSR efforts, Puri said, specifying that it has been working in the fields of blood donation, sustainability (by uplifting people from below poverty line), education and replacing moneylenders.
Puri said under its sustainability programme the bank has already helped 2.2 million come above the poverty line through interventions on the loan disbursement front which stresses on know-how sharing, and announced that in the next three years it targets to take up the number to 10 million people.
On the blood donation front, where it set a Guinness record for the largest single-day blood drive with 61,902 participants, Puri said the bank will be targeting to take up the total amount of blood collected to 1 lakh units from the 86,000 in 2013.


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Except… that Romney seems to think women workers can't work as hard as men do. They're kind of like a gentler, feebler version of your male employees.
Look, I am actually fully in favor of flexible schedules. I think flexible schedules are great! I work from 10 to 6 because I run a blog, and also, I am a sleepy sort of person. I probably also make less money and will have less influence on the company than someone who decides they're going to work 100 hours week. That is okay with me. It gives me time to go pilates and watch – OMG AMERICAN HORROR STORY SEASON 2 STARTS TONIGHT TIVO IT RIGHT NOW.
But I realize it would be insane to assume that all women want the same schedule I do. Setting up the notion in the speech that, if you're employing women, you're going to have to readjust their schedule because women workers need to be out at 5:00 on the dot is simply wrong. It's wrong, and it implies that it does not make sense to hire women if you need people willing to work hard. There are plenty of ambitious women in the world who have no interest in getting dinner on the table for their families (hell, maybe Dad does that). There are plenty of women who have no interest in having children. Just as there are plenty of men who have personality traits that make them well suited to that job, so there are plenty of women. Many of them will stay in the office all night if you want them to.
Just as I, personally, love the idea that we can have flexible schedules, I also think women should be regarded as viable candidates for jobs with inflexible schedules. Because I do think that women are more than just pictures in a binder.
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Ruben Studdard Dishes On His New Album 'Unconditional Love'March 9, 2014 06:12:06 by Lisa Princ
It's been a few weeks since we've seen Ruben Studdard show off his weight loss on The Biggest Loser finale, where he also performed his new single Meant To Be. Now, the Idol alum is dishing all about his new album, Unconditional Love, and what we can expect from it!
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The Biggest Loser's Olivia Ward Defends Rachel FredericksonFebruary 9, 2014 02:00:45 by Stephanie Gustafson
Rachel Frederickson experienced some considerable backlash following her recent victory on The Biggest Loser. The champ lost nearly 60 percent of her body weight, tipping the scale at a mere 105 pounds during her final weigh-in. Rachel retains plenty of supporters, however, with fellow winner Olivia Ward warning that it's time for the critics to back off.
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The Biggest Loser's Bob Harper "Shocked" By Rachel Frederickson's Weight LossFebruary 7, 2014 02:47:05 by Megan Thompson
There is no doubt that one of the biggest stories this week was the jaw-dropping weight loss of The Biggest Loser winner, Rachel Frederickson. All week people have been talking if the show has driven people to go too far with their weight loss. Is Rachel's weight sending an unhealthy image to the public? At first The Biggest Loser trainers weren't saying much about the dramatic weight loss, but finally Bob Harper has some comments. Keep reading to find out what Bob has to say and then take our poll – we want to know what you think!
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Biggest Loser Controversy: Rachel Fredrickson Fires Back By Revealing Her Diet And Fitness PlanFebruary 6, 2014 01:00:32 by Suzy Kerr
After Rachel Frederickson stepped on the scale during the Biggest Loser finale and shocked us with her 160-pound weight loss, the controversy was immediate. People wasted no time sounding off about Rachel's tiny frame, with some praising her for her efforts and others expressing concern that she'd gone too far.Now, Rachel is firing back at her critics, sharing her diet and fitness secrets in hopes of assuring everyone that she may be a lot smaller, but she's perfectly healthy.
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The Biggest Loser Trainers Break Silence On Rachel Frederickson's Weight LossFebruary 6, 2014 06:45:23 by Lisa Princ
The Biggest Loser crowned Rachel Frederickson the season 15 winner this week, leaving everyone in shock with her emaciated look. We all saw the trainers faces when they got a glimpse of Rachel, and now, they are breaking their silence about it…sort of!
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The Biggest Loser's Rachel Frederickson Hopes To Maintain Her Extraordinary Weight LossFebruary 5, 2014 01:39:19 by Stephanie Gustafson
In what may be the most surprising (and most alarming) transformation in Biggest Loser history, Rachel Frederickson managed to lose over 59 percent of her body weight. But not all viewers are impressed; in fact, many worry that Rachel may have taken the weight loss effort to an extreme. Based on initial post-finale interviews, the champ appears to be intent on maintaining her very thin figure.
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The Biggest Loser Crowns Most Shocking Winner To DateFebruary 5, 2014 06:22:27 by Lisa Princ
Last night it was time for the season 15 finale of The Biggest Loser, where one of the three finalists would be crowned the winner. And it proved to be a shocking finale, but it wasn't good ole Ruben Studdard, that shocked us, it was the show's winner! Details inside…
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Ruben Studdard To Perform New Single On Biggest Loser FinaleFebruary 4, 2014 07:00:41 by Lisa Princ
It has been a few weeks since we've last seen good ole Ruben Studdard on The Biggest Loser, but tonight, he and all the other eliminated contestants are back for the finale. And guess what? Not only do we get to see how much weight Studdard has lost, but he will also be performing his new single on the show!
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The Biggest Loser Names The Season 15 FinalistsJanuary 29, 2014 12:00:34 by Lisa Princ
Like most of us, you were probably anxiously waiting last night to find out who would make the finale of season 15 of The Biggest Loser, but were horribly disappointed when we were stuck with the president instead. Well, the show went on anyway, and we know which three contestants will be heading to next week's finale! Find out if your favorite made it after the jump…
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Jillian Michaels Partners With Fitness ChainJanuary 21, 2014 06:14:36 by Megan Thompson
Jillian Michaels is best known for her extreme
yelling motivation techniques on The Biggest Loser. Now this fitness guru is sharing her knowledge with a well-known fitness chain, so she can help the masses shed the pounds. So if you want a Jillian Michaels approved workout – keep reading to find out where you can get one.
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Norman Jones
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M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo
Norm has been teaching theatre at Gordon College since 1985. In that time, he has directed 36 plays and has supervised 30 student-directed productions. His interest in encouraging the creation of new theatrical works has resulted in 15 premieres or commissioned plays. Norm is also an actor and playwright. He has performed his original one-person script as Nathaniel Hawthorne in dozens of different settings.
Jeffrey S. Miller
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B.A. Bethel College
M.A. University of Minnesota
Before joining the Gordon faculty in 2002, Jeff was the founder and Artistic Director of The Refreshment Committee Theatre Company of St. Paul, MN. He also chaired the Theatre Arts Department at Bethel University in St. Paul, where he received the 1995 Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and served as Director of Education, director, and performer at Lamb's Players Theatre in San Diego, CA.
His many directing credits include The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Macbeth, Shadowlands, Edith Stein and Forgiving Typhoid Mary. At Gordon, Jeff has directed a new adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, Tartuffe, The Secret Garden, An Evening of Pinter, Tarantara! Tarantara!, Sueño and Quilters. The student ensemble-created devising called Growing Up Christian, directed by Miller, was recently selected to be performed at the Region 1 gathering of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
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Matt Schwabauer has been a theatre artist for many years, working both as a performer and more recently as a technician. He draws on experience during his brief time as a construction worker, as well as his undergraduate work at Hope College, to coordinate carpentry, lighting, costuming, properties, sound, and stage management for Gordon productions. His passion is to point students towards their destinies and to help them learn more about their identity, not only vocationally, but also as human beings. Few things have been more gratifying for him than to be a part of a student's journey. Prior to his work in the Department of Theatre Arts, Matt served in Gordon's Design Center for nearly five years.
Matt's favorite shows to work on at Gordon have been Metamorphoses; Waiting for Godot; and Working: A Musical. His acting credits include roles in The Importance of Being Earnest and Cariboo Magi (Sea Change Theatre Company); Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe); and Jane Eyre: The Musical, Twelfth Night, and Spinning Into Butter (Hope College Department of Theatre).
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The East Mississippi Business Development Corporation Board heard encouraging news from our neighboring state Thursday.
EMBDC President Wade Jones told them Thursday of a visit from an Alabama developer who toured the proposed Lauderdale County Industrial Park this week and apparently was impressed.
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Guy Maddin Invites You To Take Part In His SEANCES
Guy Maddin has never been one to bow before convention and so when word arrives that he has teamed with Montreal's Phi Centre to shoot twelve films in thirteen days with the public invited to participate ... well, coming from Maddin this sort of insane undertaking is pretty much the sensible thing to do.
Supported by the National Film Board of Canada, the shoot will run July 4 - 20 with the public free to attend the filming for free at the Phi Centre in Montreal.Seances is a film shoot, an experience and an installation, which will subsequently become a film and an interactive work. The basic premise of Seances is that most silent filmmakers lost at least one film to a twist of fate. Ever since, these films have hovered like ghosts in search of their final resting place.
And now Guy Maddin has decided to recreate these lost films. Every day, he will call on the spirits to take hold of the actors, plunging them into a deep trance that will enable them to act out the lost film of the day.
The most amazing part: the public is invited to attend these Seances of cinematic spiritualism. Cameras will be set up to transmit--live and in closed circuit--the shoot taking place inside the Phi Centre.
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BELLEFONTE, PA (AP) - Another alleged victim of Jerry Sandusky says the former Penn State assistant football coach pinned him down and performed oral sex on him, then told him he'd never see his family again if he told anyone.
The man identified as "Victim 10" by prosecutors told the jury at Sandusky's sex abuse trial Wednesday that the two were wrestling in the basement of Sandusky's State College home when the ex-coach got on top of him, pulled his shorts down and began performing a sex act.
The man, now 25, had been in foster care at the time of the alleged assault. He says Sandusky then told him "I'd never see my family again" if he told anyone what happened.
Under cross-examination, the man testified he was the camp roommate of another Sandusky accuser.
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Doane College placed 18th at the American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET), April 6-9, at Texas State University-San Marcos. Eighty-three colleges and universities from throughout the country attended the tournament; there are no divisions based on school size. Five hundred students competed with 1,496 speech entries.
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As the innovative guitarist and imposing 300-pound frontman for Mountain, Leslie West was the king of power and tone in the '70s, inspiring successive generations with his thunderous riffs.
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Legendary rocker performs at Fraze Pavilion Wednesday
In the last year, Alice Cooper could be seen everywhere from special guesting on stage with Vince Gill to rocking out with Rob Zombie. This past weekend he even popped up singing Lady Gaga at Bonnaroo. Cooper can do anything in music, entertain every audience, and still be cutting edge enough to be a premier name in music after almost 50 years in the business, countless awards and nominations and 36 albums. He shows no signs of slowing down and he is set to continue his monumental career as his band goes on the road with Iron Maiden this summer and fall.CityBeat was privileged to speak with the legend to preview his upcoming show near Dayton before he hits the road with Iron Maiden. He spoke about longevity and told of the more bizarre stories of being a tenant in the Queen City. Alice Cooper performs at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering this Wednesday.CityBeat: Your show in Dayton is coming up.Alice Cooper: Yes, we start this tour in June with Iron Maiden. We will be out there as their guest star on the show, their guests, so that's an hour show. The show we are doing there in Dayton is our regular show which will be a full out Alice Cooper show.CB: I am actually a photographer and I've photographed you many times. You are one of my favorite artists to shoot.AC: Well we give photographers a lot to shoot. If you are going to go all that trouble to do all that theatrics and really coordinate the show like that, then I want to see lots of shots. I love seeing different angles, people will hand me an envelope full of pictures and I will go, "That's a great shot. That's a great shot." And it gives me a different perspective of what the show looks like because we only see it from the stage. We never see it from the audience point of view.CB: I have interviewed many of your past guitarists, Jason Hook and Al Pitrelli and people that have toured with you and everybody always has spectacular things to say about you as a mentor and just to be around. One of my questions is how do you choose band members on your tours now?AC: Honestly, I am very instinctive about guitar players. Of course the guitar players are the gunslingers. They are the guys that you can sit and listen to and go, "When I quit singing, I want to hear something take over," and it better be a guitar that can take over what I'm doing when I step back, I want that guitar player to step up. So getting a Damon Johnson, when we first got Damon, every guitar player wants to stand back a little bit and I say, "No, no, no, when it is your solo, you take two steps forward into the light and let it go." A lot of times lead singers don't want their lead guitar player to share the limelight. I want everybody in that band to have their moment on stage where they are the star. So when you get (young Australian guitarist) Orianthi, who is a natural, she is a natural star up there. I mean the girl is such a great player.CB: Is she going to be with you?AC: Yes, I mean she is such a great character for a Alice Cooper show. And you get Ryan Roxie on this tour and Ryan is a show unto himself. He has his own production going on over there which I really like because he really brings it every night. And Tommy, who I have in the middle as a rhythm guitar player, has got his own show going on. It's great to get guys to come out of their shells and just when you get on stage be a rock star. I don't want you to be a sideman. CB: Again, it's always been amazing to talk to all these people who have worked with you over the years and I know they appreciate it as well.AC: I think it is because I let them play. I want you to play. When it is your turn to play, I want you to be Eric Clapton, I want you to be Jeff Beck, I want you to be the guy and sometimes it takes a little bit of getting used to. These guys are not used to being the center of attention, they are used to being the guys that stand in the background and play. Sometimes it's hard for Johnny Depp, when Johnny plays with us, I kind of have to push him forward a little bit because he likes to hang back a little bit.CB: We are in Cincinnati. Can you tell me what your craziest Cincinnati story is from your past?AC: I have the best Cincinnati story you have ever heard. This is a true story. We finally left L.A. We decided we had to move some place out of L.A., out of New York, some place in the Midwest. So we go to Cincinnati and we play this show there and we get a standing ovation. We decided the first standing ovation we get, that is where we are going to move. So we played in Cincinnati and got a standing ovation, I think it may have been after the Cincinnati Pop Festival, the one we did with Iggy (Pop and The Stooges), and we found this area down by the college. It was this big, beautiful house for rent. So we came in and rented this house at the beginning of summer, and we went in and painted it and did everything like that. For three months we lived there until in September, all of a sudden, there was a knock at the door, we walked outside and there were 10 guys that are football players and they are going "What are you doing at our house?" And I said, "What are you talking about? We rented this house indefinitely." And the guy goes, "This is our frat house. I don't know who rented this to you but they didn't own the house. You are paying rent to someone that doesn't even own the house." Some guy rented us a frat house and he didn't even own it. He just walked in and put up a "For Rent" sign because nobody was there and we just assumed he just owned the house. So for these guys, it was kind of cool to them that Alice Cooper was living in their house, but we had to leave because it was their frat house.CB: So did you pick another city or did you hang around town?AC: We moved to Detroit then but it was really funny because we really thought Cincinnati was where we were going to live and then we got ejected by the frat house.CB: I guess it could have worked out a lot different. You could still be in our hometown. You have spoken openly the last few years that you have become a Christian and about your Christian beliefs. Did that change how you put your show together?AC: I think what it is, you do a certain amount of your own, not censoring, but you start shaping the show whereas there may be a couple of songs that I used to do that, now when I sing those songs, I don't believe that anymore. So, it is hard for me to sing that. It hasn't been any big hits, "School's Out", "18", "Billion Dollar Babies", all those songs have nothing to do with Christianity or nothing to do with something that I couldn't sing as a Christian. Most of it is social satire anyway, but there are a few songs that I looked at and I went, "You know what, I don't believe that anymore," so I am going to stay away from that show. I am just being true to myself to be honest with you. It really hasn't affected how I do my stage show because I don't believe Alice was promoting anything that was anti-Christian. We were like a musical horror movie and I think if people took Alice Copper as entertainment, as pure entertainment, there is certainly a dark side to my sense of humor but I don't think there has ever been anything in there that was, that any Christian couldn't see and have fun with.CB: It's all in good fun. It's all perspective.AC: Yeah, and I think if you look at it as a social satire, I am fine with it. I don't really have a problem with that. I am still very involved, I read twice a day, I have two different times of devotional for myself. I hope and I try not to just be a Christian in "Oh, I'm a Christian." I try to live that life. It is a one-on-one relationship with Christ so I really try to keep that as my lifestyle. In other words, you aren't ever going to see me at the strip club after a show.CB: I know you gave up drugs and alcohol a long time ago for good reasons. Is there still ever a struggle on the road to stay sober?AC: No, never has been. I was literally healed from that. People say you are cured, I say no, it was much different. I never went to AA. I never had to do any of that. I came out of a hospital and it was gone. It was gone as if I had cancer and cancer was gone the next day. It was totally taken away from me. I never had a struggle with alcohol. When I came out of the hospital, I was absolutely straight as an arrow. I never had a desire or a craving for alcohol which even the doctors say is weird. I know because I have a lot of friends that are in AA and they struggle with it all the time. They say, "How do you do it?" and I say "I am not an alcoholic anymore. I was one but I am not anymore." I wouldn't challenge myself. In other words, I wouldn't sit around and say, "Well I think I will take a drink of beer." Because I know that could be a trigger that takes me back to where I was. So I won't even approach that, but at the same time I don't have any desire to do that.CB: Well, my Mom saw you in 1974 and she still talks about it today as I go shoot your shows. It was one of her memorable experiences with you and some chickens in Nashville at Memorial Coliseum…AC: Well the music hasn't changed much since the '70s to now, if you look at the bands that are still out there — Aerosmith, Ozzy, Alice, Thin Lizzy — we are all still playing the same kind of music. I think it is funny that 16, 17, 18 year old kids are more into Classic Rock than they are into modern Rock so I think there is a large audience for us that has never seen us. One of the reasons we are playing the Iron Maiden tour is because I don't think the Iron Maiden audience has ever seen Alice Cooper so I want to expose them to Alice Cooper.CB: Has touring for you changed from now to then?AC: It's a lot easier now. When you are physically in better shape and you are mentally and spiritually in better shape, (my wife) Sheryl and I have been together for 36 years, and I never been happier in my life. My kids are great. All my ducks are in a row. Physically, I am healthy. Touring is easy then. Physically, it is a workout and you have to get used to traveling and you have to get used to being away from your family a lot even though now my family can travel with me any time they want to. My wife will go out for three weeks then go home for a week and come back out for two or three weeks. So, touring to me is easy.CB: You spoke about music now and what people are listening to. Are there any current bands you listen to these days?AC: I wish there was — my pet peeve right now is that 80-90% of the modern Rock bands are just testosterone-free. I am listening to these bands and going, "Where is the spark? Where is the fire?" These bands are whining like crazy. I hear these bands and go, "What is wrong with these guys?" And then I look at a picture of the band and I could go into a mall and pick any five guys, it's like they are trying not to be rock stars. They just want to be normal guys that play in a band with no image and no fire just we are in a band. "What is wrong with that?" That's crazy. If you are in a Rock band, you get in a Rock band to be something different. I guess modern Rock bands really just want to blend in and I think it is the most boring time in Rock right now that I have ever seen.CB: Well you have your Lady Gagas…AC: There are exceptions. Jack White is amazing. The Foo Fighters are amazing. I don't know the Black Veil Brides music very much but I love the image. At least they are going out of their way to be something that when you see them on stage you say, "That's the Black Veil Brides." But when I see 99% of the other bands up there I say those bands can be anybody. I just don't get the fact that everybody is so against having image.CB: Are you working on any new music, maybe another album?AC: The Welcome to My Nightmare album has been out for about a year now and that was our highest charting album for quite a long time. So after this tour, we will go back in the studio again, Bob Ezrin and I will, but we were very, very happy with Welcome to my Nightmare. CB: I briefly spoke to you at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction this year in Cleveland. I know you weren't performing but what your favorite part of the night?AC: You mean the last one. I thought Guns N Roses were amazing. I thought Slash and the boys were the best band there. They just rocked that place.CB: We are heading into a critical election year, are you planning on backing any candidates this time?AC: Boy, I'll tell you at this point right now I almost want to go independent. I am not political in the least bit. I am not in the least bit political. So when somebody says, "Who are you voting for?" I'm going, "Wow!" It's like saying, do you want a poke in the eye or a poke in the ear. Nobody is making me smile now.CB: And it is very narrow now.AC: Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, I wish there was somebody out there that had some spark that would make a difference but I don't think either one of these guys are. CB: Do you have any plans to slow down or stop touring?AC: No. For me, physically everything is fine right now. Until I physically can't tour, I think I will be touring every year.
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Remember a few years ago when you couldn't walk into a Starbucks without hearing the words, "Three words that became hard to say/I and love and you?" At the time, you probably rolled your eyes at yet another attempt to reel in hipsters from their local coffee shops. However, the man whimpering those words was Scott Avett and his band, The Avett Brothers, ended up becoming … kind of a big deal. The group performs a show at the mid-size shed in Kettering, Fraze Pavilion, tonight at 8 p.m. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $35-$45.While "I and Love and You," as a song, was mostly mellow and Folk-ish, it's far from a decent indicator of the sort of noise the Brothers are capable of creating.Perhaps best described as "Punk-Grass," the band's six albums are littered with songs almost worthy of an Andrew W.K. record. Rowdy numbers like "Slight Figure of Speech" and "Talk of Indolence" often cause quite a ruckus. On stage, their wilder songs work Scott and Seth Avett into contagious fits of bouncing, stomping and slapping excitement.The plaid shirts, wife-beaters and bandanas may call to mind the likes of Nirvana, but the boys do romance, too. "I and Love and You" isn't the only love song in their repertoire. Songs like "January Wedding" and "Laundry Room" make their female fans swoon. The boys are married, so keep your panties in your purse, but enjoy the show.
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Remember a few years ago when you couldn't walk into a Starbucks without hearing the words, "Three words that became hard to say/I and love and you?" At the time, you probably rolled your eyes, but The Avett Brothers ended up becoming kind of a big deal. While "I and Love and You," as a song, was mostly mellow and Folk-ish, it's far from a decent indicator of the sort of noise the Brothers are capable of creating.
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Elvis Costello's career has spanned across four decades and probably quadruple that many genres. His latest project is an acoustic Bluegrass/Country-tinged album, 'Secret, Profane and Sugarcane,' which — to absolutely no one's surprise — is another fantastic piece of work. Cut in Nashville with T Bone Burnett in just three days, EC is joined by an all-star team of Bluegrass and Country players, including Jerry Douglas and Stuart Duncan.
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Although just a 15-minute boat trip from Cannes, the Lérins islands seem to belong to another world. The crossing offers excellent views stretching from the Cap Roux to Cap d'Antibes. The wooded island of St Marguerite, covered in eucalyptus and pine, is home to a fortress which, along with the monastery on the Île St-Honorat, testifies to the important role played by Cannes throughout history.


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We're cutting emissions, trimming waste and running lean. Rowan University is going green!
That's a big commitment on campus. The University is demonstrating that commitment in numerous ways, from a new co-generation plant to old-fashioned plantings, from research on alternative fuels to a implementing a single-stream recycling program. Rowan's administration, faculty, staff and students are doing as much as possible to leave a smaller carbon footprint and ensure the health or our environment.
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On my recent trip to St. Louis, Joe has been enamored with a new video game called COD: Black Ops. Maybe some of you have heard of it. We like to call it "Blops"... and we have a system. When he starts playing, he likes me to hang out in the same room. But watching the game makes me nauseous. So instead, I end up baking. This way, we're both in the same general area and can chat in between. It's silly.
Somewhere around 11pm one night, I got it into my head that I really wanted to make my own pancake syrup. I just really wanted to try it! I did my regular extensive research, checking all my usual sites and dissecting every review/comment I could find. I recently bought some maple extract and really wanted to put it to good use. I also have this problem where I can't find the right store-bought maple syrup anymore. At least not one that comes up to my standards...
Making syrup at home is so easy! And I do believe it's quite tasty. It's slightly thinner than store-bought, but I liked that I could control the sweetness and that I didn't have to spend money on a bottle; I could just use the ingredients I already have at home. And by the way, you don't need to have maple extract to make the syrup, since the original recipe only asked for vanilla and still had rave reviews.
The pancakes turned out so yummy. It was a bit difficult to tell whether they were fully cooked on the inside since bananas are mushy and sort of the color of uncooked dough, but I eventually got them right. We invited our friends over for breakfast and gorged on, well, basically dessert for breakfast. I even had some requests for chocolate chips.
I would love to make this again, and I'm glad the maple syrup recipe yielded so much because there's more than enough left over for another pancake breakfast. Usually when I'm craving pancakes I just run to IHOP (I do believe they have the tastiest pancakes) but home-made is definitely best!
Banana Cinnamon Pancakes
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Yields 14-16 4-6in pancakes
1 1/2 cup flour
3 tbs sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup buttermilk*
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbs canola oil
1 large egg
1 medium ripe banana (or 2 if you really like bananas)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
cooking spray for the pan
Mix all the ingredients together until incorporated. Mash the banana well and fold it in the batter.
*I didn't have buttermilk on hand but you can mix half milk and half plain yogurt together as a great substitute!
Heat a nonstick skillet to medium heat and coat pan with spray or butter and pour about a quarter cup of batter into the pan. Wait until the edges set and then flip till cooked.
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1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
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Soon as I saw OCR in my monthly gaming mag I was like... okay, L4D with Leon... interesting, NOT. never gave it another thought.
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In addition, "if you're too low, you're not allowing the leg to go through a full range of motion," meaning you'll use fewer calories, he says.
The stationary bike is a less intense calorie-burner than some of the other machines. You'll need to pedal four miles to burn 100 calories, says Alexander.
4. Rowing Machines
Don't be fooled into thinking this machine gives you only an upper-body workout. Rowers are more advanced cardiovascular machines.
Because you must push with the legs while you pull with the arms, rowers require coordination. They also you require you to engage your core abdominal muscles to support and protect your back.
Because they use so many muscle groups, rowers burn lots of calories. But this machine has several red flags for a beginning or unfit exerciser.
"It is thought by most unfit people to be fairly uncomfortable," says Stamford.
Extra weight often comes with back pain, and this is not a machine you want to use if you have back issues, he says.
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Our experts offered the following tips to help you make the most of any machine workout:
Choose a machine that feels right. If impact is a problem, the stationary bicycle may be a better choice than the treadmill. If you have low back limitations, it's probably not a good idea to get on a multi-muscle machine like the rowing machine at first.
"It's not so much about the machine as the relationship between the body and the machine," says Alexander. "If anything hurts and you can't modify the equipment or yourself so that it doesn't hurt, then, at least for that day, that's not the right piece of equipment for you."
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A Water Wonderland
The Pacific Northwest is a "water wonderland". If you look at the area from the air, you'll see that it is both beautiful and immense. Probably some of the most pristine country you'll ever find. It is well marked by the Cascade mountain range and the Columbia River. It encompasses the states of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington and the providence of British Columbia. There is no place on the planet that compares to what this area can offer. From the breath taking Victoria Island right down to the adventurous Oregon Rivers in Oregon. This area is home to 32 national parks, reserves, monuments, trails, rec areas, and historical sites. And numerous national wildlife refuges and national forests. But public area doesn't stop there as there is also over 370 state parks, plus hundreds more in British Columbia.
The fishing in this area is what you would expect...AWESOME! We would need an entire web site just to list all the rivers and lakes. Not to mention all the different species of fish. But we'll try to give you a idea of what each area has to offer in the state and provincial pages. But first, let's touch on the three things that make this area what it is ... " a water wonderland". And those are the Pacific Ocean, the Cascade Mountain Range and the Columbia River.
The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia,flows south into the state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state of Oregon before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. The river is 1,243 miles (2,000 km) long, and its largest tributary is the Snake River that flows in from Idaho. Its drainage basin is roughly the size of France and extends into seven U.S. states and British Columbia.
The Columbia River is the fourth-largest river , by volume,in the U.S., and it has the greatest flow of any North American river draining into the Pacific. The river's heavy flow and its relatively steep gradient give it tremendous potential for the generation of electricity.
The 14 hydroelectric dams on the Columbia's main
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And shoreline, Alaska alone, has over 33,000 miles of coastal shoreline. Alaska also has over 3,000 rivers,
more than 3 million lakes, these numbers just stagger
the imagination.
The Pacific Ocean , not only provides some of the best fishing, but has some very unique coastline. From the Oregon Dunes National Rec area on the Oregon coast and graduates to a rocky coastline as it passes Olympic National Park in Washington State, and becomes down right pristine along the British Columbia coast line and moves into the state of Alaska. It has some of the best whale watching and also has over 20 Lighthouses.
The Cascades Range stretches from British Columbia .... to northern California, and is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. All of the known historic volcanic eruptions in the contiguous United States have been from Cascade volcanoes. The two most recent were Lassen Peak in 1914 to 1921 and a major eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.


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The school library was destroyed by a fire from an electrical outlet late last month, but sealed fire doors prevented the blaze from spreading to the next door computer lab and the rest of the school.
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Rockville Centre News and Events, Week of Nov. 15
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Join resident knitter Paula Picow and learn a new skill or enhance a current one. Bring projects or yarn and needles!
Evening Yoga with Mary Clare
7 p.m.
Traditional yoga instruction. $25 for six session, non-refundable fee! Register at the Adult Reference Desk!
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The Library wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
The following art will be featured throughout the month of November:
Archival Photos: Old School in RVC
Upper Concourse Gallery
Be sure to take a look at this collection of photographs featuring school buildings of yesteryear, including the very first high school on the south shore of Long Island.
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Rockville Centre Homemakers
Craft items created by members of the Homemakers Council of Nassau County Rockville Centre Chapter will be featured in the display cases of the Rockville Centre Public Library throughout the month of November.
Homemakers is a non-profit community service organization. Members learn and teach crafts, sewing, knitting, crocheting, cooking and nutrition. Meetings are held at the Rockville Centre Recreation Centre, 111 Oceanside Road, Rockville Centre on Tuesdays from 10 am until 2 pm. For further information please contact Maryann Grandazza 516.766.1620 or Lauren Seaman 516.705.6091.
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Mixed media by Flora Allen
Born in Lima, Peru, Flora Allen arrived in the United States more than thirty years ago to pursue a better life for herself and her two daughters. Always artistically inclined Flora's true potential is now being realized following her enrollment seven years ago in her first formal art class. She has not stopped painting since, and continues to explore all mediums from oils to watercolors and acrylics. Her work is known for its excellence in landscape composition and for vibrant use of color. Flora has displayed her paintings in libraries and community centers across Long Island. She is a proud member of a
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Each was asked what they would bring to the job, if elected Nov. 4.
"I'll bring exactly what I said I would bring four years ago, which is to be a strong voice and effective leader for east Mississippi," said Snowden.
"I will be bringing a person with a different way of looking at Mississippi," said Price.
Price brought up the fact that the House is controlled by Democrats. He was asked if party affiliation made a difference.
"Yes, because I believe there are some fundamental true differences between the two parties," Price said. "One is, I believe, very much promoting of large business and large economic factors and another one is much more compassionate and interested in the normal person who's going to the polls on Tuesday."
"Well, it does make a difference," responded Snowden. "And Mr. Price just indicated he is an ideological Democrat and that's fine. There are some in the House that are ideological Republicans, but the truth is Republicans and Democrats have to work together in the House of Representatives. That's the only way anything gets done. We don't organize by party in the House of Representatives. We have Republican committee chairmen. We have Democratic committee chairmen. You have to get along with everyone."
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