24-Nov-2013 16:15

Willie Nelson's Band Tour Bus Crashes - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth :: <a href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Willie-Nelsons-Band-Tour-Bus-Crashes-233144361.html">http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Willie-Nelsons-Band-Tour-Bus-Crashes-233144361.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Powerful storm system blasts U.S. West; 5 killed - Salt Lake Tribune :: <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/57171913-68/storm-system-killed-mexico.html.csp">http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/57171913-68/storm-system-killed-mexico.html.csp</a><br /><br><br /><br>Police: Store Owner, Clerk Tried To Cheat Man Out Of $1M Lottery Winnings - CBS Local :: <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/23/police-store-owner-clerk-tried-to-cheat-man-out-of-1m-lottery-winnings/">http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/23/police-store-owner-clerk-tried-to-cheat-man-out-of-1m-lottery-winnings/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Activists: Clashes as rebels push to break Syrian government siege near ... - Fox News :: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/24/activists-clashes-as-rebels-push-to-break-syrian-government-siege-near-damascus/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/24/activists-clashes-as-rebels-push-to-break-syrian-government-siege-near-damascus/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Latvia begins three days of mourning for supermarket tragedy victims - euronews :: <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/23/latvia-begins-three-days-of-mourning-for-supermarket-tragedy-victims/">http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/23/latvia-begins-three-days-of-mourning-for-supermarket-tragedy-victims/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Suspect Charged in Attack on Jewish Man in Brooklyn - New York Times :: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/nyregion/suspect-is-charged-in-attack-on-a-jewish-man.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/nyregion/suspect-is-charged-in-attack-on-a-jewish-man.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Obama, Bush pay tribute to John F. Kennedy - USA TODAY :: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/11/22/barack-obama-george-w-bush-john-f-kennedy/3677825/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/11/22/barack-obama-george-w-bush-john-f-kennedy/3677825/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Swiss voting no to capping bosses' pay at 12 times poorest paid - BBC News :: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25076879">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25076879</a><br /><br><br /><br>Israel Criticizes Nuclear Pact - Wall Street Journal :: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304791704579217110836724136.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304791704579217110836724136.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>China riles Japan, US with air defense zone - USA TODAY :: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/24/china-japan-disputed-islands/3690911/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/24/china-japan-disputed-islands/3690911/</a>

24-Nov-2013 16:15

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Amid holiday canned-food drives, U.S. food banks take up farming [ BeritaTerkini ]

<div id="yom-ad-LREC" class="yom-ad yom-ad-LREC"> <center> <div id="yom-ad-LREC-iframe" class="yom-ad"></div> </center> </div> <p><br></p> <p>By Daniel Kelley</p> <div class="body-slot-mod"> <div class="yom-remote"> <div class="yom-loading" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div> </div> </div> <p>GLENMOORE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Surrounded by rows of kale and collard greens, Bill Shick ticks off statistics about yields and the man-hours it takes to harvest the leafy green vegetables.</p> <p>What he can’t tell you is what he would sell it for – because it will all be given away by the Chester County Food Bank in its efforts to grow food for the needy. The fresh produce program gives low-sodium, low-sugar foods to the poorest Americans year-round, including during the holiday season often associated with canned-food drives.</p> <p>“We picked a thousand pounds this weekend and we’ll do another thousand next week,” Shick, the food bank’s agricultural director said, while standing in a greenhouse where the program grows seedlings in a suburban Philadelphia park.</p> <p>Chester County is among about 20 food banks across the country that have started their own farms to boost healthier eating by the needy, said Domenic Vitiello, a University of Pennsylvania professor who has studied food pantry agricultural operations.</p> <p>Low-income Americans are a demographic often plagued by diet-related ailments such as diabetes and heart disease.</p> <p>Chester County Food Bank opened about five years ago, springing from the ashes of a similar program that relied on nearby Amish farmers. It was started explicitly with the goal of distributing food straight from the field.</p> <p>Canned food that is often donated to food banks because of its long shelf life is typically higher in sodium, which the American Heart Association says may increase risk for heart failure. People with diabetes also are encouraged to limit the sodium in their daily diet to 1,500 mg to help prevent or control high blood pressure, according to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="Chester County Food Bank agricultural director Bill …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="200px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">Chester County Food Bank agricultural director Bill Shick covers a hydroponic growing bed holding le …</div> </div> <p>“The cans we’ve gotten in through the years – it’s not the healthiest stuff,” said Larry Welsch, Chester County Food Bank’s executive director. “I’ve gotten cans of pickled cactus with 2,800 (milli) grams of sodium.”</p> <p>CONTRIBUTING THROUGH VOLUNTEERING</p> <p>“When we formed this food bank,” Welsch said, “it wasn’t going to be cans in, cans out.”</p> <p>The farming effort has offered the public new ways to contribute to the food pantry.</p> <p>“People are very excited to volunteer in the field,” Shick said. “It isn’t stuffing envelopes and putting cans in a box.”</p> <p>In three growing houses in Chester County’s Springton Manor Farm park, the food bank cultivates seedlings for its partners, including private farmers and corporations such as Endo Health Solutions and Malvern, Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group. Some schools use the seedlings to grow vegetables for student lunches, others raise their own crops in horticulture and culinary programs, and donate to the food bank what they do not use.</p> <p>The charity grows food on more than a dozen acres spread across multiple sites. To supplement its crop yield, the food bank buys from a farm auction in nearby Lancaster County.</p> <p>Fresh produce makes up about 22 percent of the edibles the Chester County Food Bank distributes. It ranks sixth-highest in the nation for the amount of fresh produce it distributes as a percentage of all the food it gives out, according to statistics compiled by a University of Pennsylvania researcher.</p> <p>Growing produce allows food banks to distribute a wider variety, including leafy greens, Shick said.</p> <p>But it also means footing the expense of buying commercial refrigerators and refrigerated trucks, said Ross Fraser, a spokesman for the nonprofit Feeding America. Those costly hurdles have slowed the transition of food cupboards away from canned goods able to last for months in church basements and toward often more nutritious, but perishable food.</p> <p>Nationwide, most food bank agricultural programs are still in the experimental stages, but they share some characteristics, Vitiello said. They are usually located in wealthier areas because of the start-up expense, and they tend to have educational components that can be just as important as feeding people.</p> <p>Chester County is Pennsylvania’s wealthiest, with an economy buoyed by the pharmaceutical industry. But it also has pockets of poverty, particularly in the Kennett Square area, where there are numerous migrant farm workers who pick mushrooms; and Coatesville, a city whose fortunes have declined as a local steel mill closed and then re-opened with fewer jobs.</p> <p>Food bank farming programs have important roles to play in educating people to cook and use healthier food, Vitiello said.</p> <p>“When these programs are training low-income people in learning how to produce their own food, they’re playing a different role in the food system and promoting food justice,” Vitiello said.</p> <p>(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Maureen Bavdek)</p> <ul id="topics" class="hidden"> <li>Food & Cooking</li> <li>Society & Culture</li> <li>food bank</li> </ul><p></p> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

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First Christmas Fair

Amy and I went to a Christmas Fair of Irish Crafts yesterday. It was on in the Ranelagh Multidenominational School.<div><br></div><div>Lots of lovely things for sale including felt covered soaps by Sheena.  These soaps are covered in pure wool and as you use the soap the wool softly exfoliates the skin.  I bought a grapefruit flavour.<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUpE3y6vdUCK1dtUi7FpUeHgTJARocqRLKIKCSOwEIvCBcILfsk5Cor2MBN9nIIkSA22j53GSdsfidbdvQupwbhaID7cZ-ck79FHscr5Sz53HuArbTFe3tvj1EKeL0Z8jqBJCd0OLpp9OE/s640/blogger-image--350528627.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUpE3y6vdUCK1dtUi7FpUeHgTJARocqRLKIKCSOwEIvCBcILfsk5Cor2MBN9nIIkSA22j53GSdsfidbdvQupwbhaID7cZ-ck79FHscr5Sz53HuArbTFe3tvj1EKeL0Z8jqBJCd0OLpp9OE/s640/blogger-image--350528627.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQY6NHBBEXbeT28F_3iHaXzctceSdVyK54yfZTxuUtOQKGf_-MwJnLtoLui3YEg-mLhrRLB1mV7Hs1OttQyabSHf3AjkpjZRiYOWdT75fbboZ_UUKxAeZit8VoTTMqLun2fWVIWrwX0Ke/s640/blogger-image--88808008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQY6NHBBEXbeT28F_3iHaXzctceSdVyK54yfZTxuUtOQKGf_-MwJnLtoLui3YEg-mLhrRLB1mV7Hs1OttQyabSHf3AjkpjZRiYOWdT75fbboZ_UUKxAeZit8VoTTMqLun2fWVIWrwX0Ke/s640/blogger-image--88808008.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqZVoz4F3YS3skXYETIl-d6kMW1Rp5ppWp7uDkW6PUsh91NNEJzyiyzP-prcuzje502NqUmiFlE8MeQXRn_hE2gpSKGdV88mNToHG5QSSrW-tGW-O4GM03aCJMLZVjI0I3mLpKu92cBLLI/s640/blogger-image--1887924610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqZVoz4F3YS3skXYETIl-d6kMW1Rp5ppWp7uDkW6PUsh91NNEJzyiyzP-prcuzje502NqUmiFlE8MeQXRn_hE2gpSKGdV88mNToHG5QSSrW-tGW-O4GM03aCJMLZVjI0I3mLpKu92cBLLI/s640/blogger-image--1887924610.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">My bar of soap was €4 and I can't wait to use it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrV0kPu0whmE1mq3zL4oKD96wKt1J0rTIullMeIzbHODArkTaYRIBTfMI4mPFqz5JNs25-0LyJhV9WxLYeZkFTsvdXUpTI4-KdVFfwiPwMwOnTYUoN8X0UdgUe99gkAO8Hv3cnDX7NQACX/s640/blogger-image--1690775078.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrV0kPu0whmE1mq3zL4oKD96wKt1J0rTIullMeIzbHODArkTaYRIBTfMI4mPFqz5JNs25-0LyJhV9WxLYeZkFTsvdXUpTI4-KdVFfwiPwMwOnTYUoN8X0UdgUe99gkAO8Hv3cnDX7NQACX/s640/blogger-image--1690775078.jpg"></a></div></div>The last bar of grapefruit soap I had was bought in the Wine Cottage on Eaton Street in Key West.  It was a great soap - I hope this one is just as good!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7J1sG_XW5JY5FoHdqeE9cc0qAOaqqznVzHeSxwFXddJYHTEo2OszeYWrefgwrnHJ_UpPo_2niXWE7iConqQQQF87dSpJHriNF2T6-8nAZoG-qmI8DqM9Wf5szdtKSXNH_RKROE92QMGTw/s640/blogger-image--834335012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7J1sG_XW5JY5FoHdqeE9cc0qAOaqqznVzHeSxwFXddJYHTEo2OszeYWrefgwrnHJ_UpPo_2niXWE7iConqQQQF87dSpJHriNF2T6-8nAZoG-qmI8DqM9Wf5szdtKSXNH_RKROE92QMGTw/s640/blogger-image--834335012.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>

First Christmas Fair

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24-Nov-2013 15:14

Cops: Deli owner, son stole customer's $1 million lottery ticket - Newsday :: <a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/cops-deli-owner-son-stole-customer-s-1-million-lottery-ticket-1.6485094">http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/cops-deli-owner-son-stole-customer-s-1-million-lottery-ticket-1.6485094</a><br /><br><br /><br>Remaining Riga mall roof caves in - BBC News :: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25069947">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25069947</a><br /><br><br /><br>Suspect Charged in Attack on Jewish Man in Brooklyn - New York Times :: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/nyregion/suspect-is-charged-in-attack-on-a-jewish-man.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/nyregion/suspect-is-charged-in-attack-on-a-jewish-man.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Fifty years later, J.F.K.'s assassination is the mother of all conspiracy theories - NorthJersey.com :: <a href="http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/news/233194511_Fifty_years_later__J_F_K__s_assassination_is_the_mother_of_all_conspiracy_theories.html">http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/news/233194511_Fifty_years_later__J_F_K__s_assassination_is_the_mother_of_all_conspiracy_theories.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Swiss seen rejecting plan to cap managers' pay - Danbury News Times :: <a href="http://www.newstimes.com/news/world/article/Swiss-seen-rejecting-plan-to-cap-managers-pay-5007349.php">http://www.newstimes.com/news/world/article/Swiss-seen-rejecting-plan-to-cap-managers-pay-5007349.php</a><br /><br><br /><br>Chinese pilots patrol controversial air zone over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu ... - <a href="http://Telegraph.co.uk">Telegraph.co.uk</a> :: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10470910/Chinese-pilots-patrol-controversial-air-zone-over-the-disputed-SenkakuDiaoyu-islands.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10470910/Chinese-pilots-patrol-controversial-air-zone-over-the-disputed-SenkakuDiaoyu-islands.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Wintry Blast Hits West, 8 Killed; Storms Head East - TIME :: <a href="http://nation.time.com/2013/11/24/wintry-blast-hits-west-8-killed-storms-head-east/">http://nation.time.com/2013/11/24/wintry-blast-hits-west-8-killed-storms-head-east/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Israel calls Iran nuclear deal a 'historic mistake' - USA TODAY :: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/24/iran-nuclear-deal-israel-reactions/3690161/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/24/iran-nuclear-deal-israel-reactions/3690161/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Willie Nelson suspends tour after bus crash - Atlanta Journal Constitution :: <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/willie-nelson-suspends-tour-after-bus-crash/nb3k3/">http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/willie-nelson-suspends-tour-after-bus-crash/nb3k3/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Syria: Fighting near Damascus kills 160 - Indian Express :: <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/syria-fighting-near-damascus-kills-160/1199007/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/syria-fighting-near-damascus-kills-160/1199007/</a>

24-Nov-2013 15:14

Cops: Deli owner, son stole customer's $1 million lottery ticket - Newsday :: http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/cops-deli-owner...

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MEOW! Where You Must Pet A Cat! LOL! [ BeritaTerkini ]

<div id="woo_blogauthorinfo-3"> <h3>About Wendy Diamond</h3> <div> <span class="left"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-230 photo" height="230" src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/33a973e437b02ad6e51a75f56ce2b125?s=230&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D230&r=G" width="230"></span> <p>Wendy Diamond, Entrepreneur, Leading Pet Lifestyle expert, Best Selling Author, TV Personality and Endangered Animal and Rescue Advocate.</p> <p>Read More About Wendy</p> </div> </div> <div id="text-36"> <h3>Sign Up for our Newsletter!</h3> <div class="textwidget">Fabulous events, special offers, and news you and your pet do not want to miss! <p><br clear="all"></p> </div> </div> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

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Grayson County Fraser firs decorate Busch Gardens Christmas Town, grace Vice President Biden's home

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByRLVnoUpr62zZix_Vncw1feYbzGDWJ_dOiSLwin0T-usG7GN73fOBiLI7jBS0gKycQG20gOICe-8wwD95i4Z08DqJMZR60dBTVOabrYq-zJShlOWNABNqPkEVjLgznIQjtG_o7pt2g4/s1600/Mount+Rogers+Christmas+Tree+Association.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByRLVnoUpr62zZix_Vncw1feYbzGDWJ_dOiSLwin0T-usG7GN73fOBiLI7jBS0gKycQG20gOICe-8wwD95i4Z08DqJMZR60dBTVOabrYq-zJShlOWNABNqPkEVjLgznIQjtG_o7pt2g4/s320/Mount+Rogers+Christmas+Tree+Association.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />I'm a little prejudiced about Grayson County since it's where my grandparents grew up and where lots of relatives still live but I think the Fraser firs grown in that part of Virginia are the most gorgeous Christmas trees around. Where once cows grazed in rocky meadows on mountain slopes, now rows and rows of Frasers grow in the cool temperatures of this southwestern area of the Commonwealth.<br /><br />Journalist Bill Lohmann has taken a look at Grayson's Fraser fir Christmas tree industry in today's <a href="http://www.timesdispatch.com/entertainment-life/holiday/christmas-trees-are-gift-to-va-s-grayson-county/article_a2922a46-ac6c-592f-87d6-e4592ecb4d1f.html"><i>Richmond Times-Dispatch</i></a>, a business that took root in the 1970s and has grown into an economic boom:<br /><blockquote>The steep and rocky mountains of Grayson County are some of the tallest, most spectacular in Virginia, wonderful for hiking and sightseeing but less than ideal for farming — unless you are growing Christmas trees.</blockquote>One whiff of a Fraser and you'll be hooked.<br /><br />Mr. Lohmann talked with one of the pioneers of <a href="http://www.mtrogersfraserfir.org/">Fraser farming in Grayson</a>, Rodney Richardson, owner of <a href="http://www.mtrogersfraserfir.org/tfchoosecut.html">Mount Rogers Christmas Tree Farm</a>, who has some well-known clients. This year he sent several hundred trees to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg for their <a href="http://seaworldparks.com/en/christmastown-williamsburg?from=portal&__utma=1.343876508.1383166447.1383171243.1385300644.3&__utmb=1.2.10.1385300644&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1385300644.3.2.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=109009154">Christmas Town display</a>, and another tree is going to Vice President Joe Biden's residence.<br /><br />Good article. I could almost smell the heavenly scent of Frasier firs while reading it....

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Today's Teamster News 11.24.13

<a href="http://www.irontontribune.com/2013/11/24/teamsters-contract-to-bring-less-than-2-percent-raises/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters contract to bring less than 2 percent raises</a>  Ironton Tribune   ...The first Teamsters contract for employees of the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office will bring them raises over the next three years...<br /><a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/11/22/anheuser-busch-inbev-teamsters-conclude-round-of-contract-talks/" rel="nofollow">Anheuser-Busch InBev, Teamsters Conclude Round of Contract Talks</a>  CBS St. Louis   ...Teamsters Local 6 Principal Officer Ron Shy says the three-week-long local talks wrapped up last night with what he says are a “couple of unresolved issues” they will take to the national talks that open in St. Petersburg, Florida on December 2...<br /><a href="http://fox43.com/2013/11/21/middletown-boro-teamsters-local-reach-agreement-on-holiday-decoration-volunteers/#axzz2lZ8aufqy" rel="nofollow">Middletown Boro, Teamsters local reach agreement on holiday decoration volunteers</a>  Fox 43   ...Earlier this fall, Arnold announced the Borough would be forced to suspend the decorating activities this year after members of Teamsters Local 776 filed grievances seeking compensation for the work the volunteers did last year...Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the union recognizes the Borough’s right to use volunteers so long as such use does not result in employee layoffs...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/walmart-protests-2013_n_4319420.html" rel="nofollow">Walmart Protests Promised To Be Even Bigger This Black Friday</a>  Huffington Post   ...Walmart workers and their supporters are planning to kick off this year's holiday shopping season with protests at 1,500 Walmart stores around the country on Nov. 29...<br /><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/civil-society-groups-demand-transparency-and-user-protections-tpp" rel="nofollow">Civil Society Groups Demand Transparency and User Protections in TPP </a> Electronic Frontier Foundation   ...Civil society groups are coming out in force against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, following Wikileaks' publication of the “Intellectual Property” chapter...<br /><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/an-orgy-of-thieves/" rel="nofollow">An Orgy of Thieves </a> Counterpunch   ...There was indeed a vast criminal class coming to full vicious potential in the 1990s: a group utterly vacant of the most elementary instincts of social propriety, devoid of moral fiber, selfish to an almost unfathomable degree. The class comes in the form of our corporate elite...<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/23/us-usa-congress-cash-analysis-idUSBRE9AM09720131123" rel="nofollow">Analysis: U.S. businesses back Tea Party Republicans after shutdown</a>  Reuters   ...Eight of the most active business PACs wrote checks totaling $84,750 to 56 Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives after they voted against an October 16 deal to re-open the government that had been shut down since October 1 and avert an imminent debt default...<br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/11/22/end_the_1_percents_free_ride_how_taxing_land_would_solve_americas_biggest_problems/" rel="nofollow">End the 1 percent’s free ride: Taxing land would solve America’s biggest problems</a>  Salon   ...Just tax the stuff that humans had nothing to do with creating, and therefore have no basis to claim ownership over at all. You’ll find that almost all of it is “owned” by the fabled 1 percent...<br /><a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelson-is-upset-that-the-government-gives-one-thosuand-times-as-much-money-to-billionaires-like-peter-peterson-as-it-does-to-poor-children?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+beat_the_press+%28Beat+the+Press%29" rel="nofollow">Robert Samuelson Is Upset that the Government Gives One Thousand Times as Much Money to Billionaires Like Peter Peterson as It Does to Poor Children</a>  Center for Economic Policy and Research   ...we should look at the billions of dollars in interest paid out on government bonds to rich people like Peter Peterson without taking account of the fact that Peterson and his billionaire friends paid for these bonds...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/21/watch-economic-insecurity-spread-like-a-virus-over-a-quarter-century/" rel="nofollow">Watch economic insecurity spread like a virus over a quarter-century</a>  Washington Post   ...the two great transformations of the economy over the late 20th century have been the rise in inequality and the increasing risk that households and workers bear...<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/business/caught-in-unemployments-revolving-door.html?hp&_r=1&" rel="nofollow">Caught in a Revolving Door of Unemployment</a>  New York Times   ... joblessness lasting more than six months is a major factor preventing people from getting rehired, with potentially grave consequences for tens of millions of Americans...<br /><a href="http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/11/right_to_work_michigan_unions.html" rel="nofollow">Susan J. Demas: How the Democrats blew it after Right to Work</a> (opinion)  Michigan Live   ...they filed a couple long-shot lawsuits and essentially decided to give up...<br /><a href="http://www.prnewschannel.com/2013/11/22/ohio-unions-optimistic-about-shifting-right-to-work-landscape/" rel="nofollow">Ohio unions optimistic about shifting Right to Work landscape </a> Keep Ohio's Heritage   ...Following this month’s colossal failure of the Ohioans for Workplace Freedom Election Day signature push, labor groups believe that Ohio voters are beginning to make their choice clear at the ballots...<br /><br />

Today's Teamster News 11.24.13

Teamsters contract to bring less than 2 percent raises  Ironton Tribune   ...The first Teamsters contract for employees of the Lawrence Cou...

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24-Nov-2013 14:13

Deeds released from hospital - CNN (blog) :: <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/22/deeds-released-from-hospital/">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/22/deeds-released-from-hospital/</a><br /><br><br /><br>China imposes airspace restrictions over Japan-controlled Senkaku islands - The Guardian :: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/23/china-airspace-restrictions-japanese-senkaku">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/23/china-airspace-restrictions-japanese-senkaku</a><br /><br><br /><br>New York City man charged with hate crime in 'knockout' game - The Journal News | LoHud.com :: <a href="http://www.lohud.com/viewart/20131123/NEWS/311230045/New-York-City-man-charged-hate-crime-knockout-game">http://www.lohud.com/viewart/20131123/NEWS/311230045/New-York-City-man-charged-hate-crime-knockout-game</a><br /><br><br /><br>Remaining Riga mall roof caves in - BBC News :: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25069947">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25069947</a><br /><br><br /><br>Khan's Party Blocks NATO Pakistan Supply Route Over U.S. Drones - Bloomberg :: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-23/khan-s-party-blocks-nato-pakistan-supply-route-over-u-s-drones.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-23/khan-s-party-blocks-nato-pakistan-supply-route-over-u-s-drones.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>L.I. deli tried to scam customer out of $1M lottery ticket - New York Daily News :: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/scam-article-1.1527269">http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/scam-article-1.1527269</a><br /><br><br /><br>Fifty years later, J.F.K.'s assassination is the mother of all conspiracy theories - NorthJersey.com :: <a href="http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/news/233194511_Fifty_years_later__J_F_K__s_assassination_is_the_mother_of_all_conspiracy_theories.html">http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/news/233194511_Fifty_years_later__J_F_K__s_assassination_is_the_mother_of_all_conspiracy_theories.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Vatican unveils bone fragments said to be Peter's - Watertown Public Opinion :: <a href="http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/associated_press/national/europe/article_3a1773f7-1181-551f-a925-e1508862cf80.html">http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/associated_press/national/europe/article_3a1773f7-1181-551f-a925-e1508862cf80.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>3-decade gridlock broken: The nuclear deal with Iran in Geneva - CNN :: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/24/world/meast/iran-nuclear-deal/">http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/24/world/meast/iran-nuclear-deal/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Manny Pacquiao outclasses Brandon Rios in Macau to ignite new interest in ... - <a href="http://Telegraph.co.uk">Telegraph.co.uk</a> :: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/manny-pacquiao/10470732/Manny-Pacquiao-outclasses-Brandon-Rios-in-Macau-to-ignite-new-interest-in-Floyd-Mayweather-superfight.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/manny-pacquiao/10470732/Manny-Pacquiao-outclasses-Brandon-Rios-in-Macau-to-ignite-new-interest-in-Floyd-Mayweather-superfight.html</a>

24-Nov-2013 14:13

Deeds released from hospital - CNN (blog) :: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/22/deeds-released-from-hospital/ China imposes ai...

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Spreading Holiday Cheer: Celebrity-Signed Cat Collars To Support Adoption! [ BeritaTerkini ]

<p>Spreading cheer this holiday season, Tidy Cats is giving back through an online auction of celebrity-autographed cat collars, with 100 percent of proceeds benefitting the spcaLA,  an independent, nonprofit animal welfare organization serving those looking to adopt in Southern California. What better gift for a cat lover in your life than  one of the 33 collars signed by celebrities (including, Ed O'Neill, Dennis Quaid, Matt LeBlanc and many others) visit TidyCatsCollarAuction.com between now and Sunday, December 1, 2013.  Start your bidding!</p> <p><img alt="christmas cat holiday" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33973" height="220" src="http://animalfair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/christmas_cat-275x220.jpg" width="275"></p> <p>Tidy Cats has recently invented a revolutionary new cat litter product from Tidy Cats that solves a pet peeve cat owners have been dealing with for a long time– heavy cat litter.  Tidy Cats has developed a cat litter that is half the weight – literally, it's 50% lighter than regular cat litter — but has all the strength you need in a litter.  It's so light, you have to lift it to believe it! In a recent survey, approximately 61% of cat owners said they hate dealing with heavy cat litter.  Sound familiar? In addition, when asked about purchasing cat litter, cat owners said the most important considerations are odor control (70%) and price (65%).</p> <p>New Tidy Cats^® LightWeight 24/7 Performance® offers continuous odor control, is 99.9 percent dust free and produces light, tight clumps for easy clean up. Tidy Cats^® LightWeight 24/7 Performance^® is now available in an 8.5 lb. jug at select retailers – find a retailer near you at TidyCats.com/FindAStore. The new product will become available at retailers nationwide starting in March 2014. Learn more about the product at TidyCats.com/LightWeight.</p> <p>Still have a cat-lover to buy for this holiday season? One of these special collars will make the perfect gift for any sassy kitty. Help Tidy Cats spread holiday cheer in support of spcaLA by visiting TidyCatsCollarAuction.com to bid now on one of the 33 celebrity-signed cat collars!</p> <p><em>For the Best that Pet Lifestyle and Animal Welfare has to offer follow Wendy  Diamond on </em><strong><em>Facebook</em></strong><strong><em>,</em></strong><em> </em><strong><em>Twitter</em></strong><strong><em>, </em></strong>and right here at <strong><em>AnimalFair.com</em></strong><strong><em>!</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em> </em></strong></p> <p><br><br></p><h3>Bark about it!</h3> <p> comments</p> <p class="tags">Tags: celebrity cats, dennis quaid cat, lightweight litter, matt leblanc cat, spcaLA, tidy cats litter</p> jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();});<br><br>

Spreading Holiday Cheer: Celebrity-Signed Cat Collars To Support Adoption! [ BeritaTerkini ]

Spreading cheer this holiday season, Tidy Cats is giving back through an online auction of celebrity-autographed cat collars, with 100 perce...

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Denmark targets iPhone generation to keep edge in hearing aids [ BeritaTerkini ]

<div id="yom-ad-LREC" class="yom-ad yom-ad-LREC"> <center> <div id="yom-ad-LREC-iframe" class="yom-ad"></div> </center> </div> <p><br></p> <p>By Stine Jacobsen and Mia Shanley</p> <div class="body-slot-mod"> <div class="yom-remote"> <div class="yom-loading" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div> </div> </div> <p>COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Tiny Denmark, with fewer than 6 million people, supplies half the world’s hearing aids, and local makers aim to advance that commanding position as baby boomers and the iPhone generation age.</p> <p>GN Store Nord, headquartered in Ballerup, near Copenhagen, has a product it hopes will reach that demographic – famously averse to accepting the depredations of age – by taking the stigma out of wearing an aid.</p> <p>The world’s fourth-largest maker has collaborated with Apple Inc to develop a device packed with bluetooth-like technology that installed in the ear allows users to stream voice and music from their iPhones without the need for an intermediary device.</p> <p>Denmark’s expertise in sound technology can be traced back to 1904, when William Demant Holding Group was founded by Hans Demant, whose wife had a hearing disability. Nearly 110 years later, William Demant is the world’s second-largest maker of hearing aids, behind Switzerland’s Sonova, and its Oticon Foundation continues to fund research and support engineering students.</p> <p>Strong public and private cooperation has driven development in audio products from microphones to amplifiers in Denmark, which is also home to luxury stereo maker Bang & Olufsen and sound measurement firm Brüel and Kjaer.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="Employee of GN, the world's fourth largest maker of …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="212px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">An employee of GN, the world’s fourth largest maker of hearing aids, demonstrates the use of ReSound …</div> </div> <p>Denmark’s technical university offers an engineering acoustics masters program that attracts students from around the world and hosts a sound technology innovation network funded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.</p> <p>There is huge potential in an industry worth $ 15 billion.</p> <p>The World Health Organization estimates there are 360 million people – over 5 percent of the world’s population – with a disabling loss of hearing, yet current hearing aid production meets less than 10 percent of global need.</p> <p>Berenberg Bank estimates only one in four who suffer from hearing loss in the United States use them. That might in part be down to stigma, part to cost.</p> <p>Premium products in the United States sell for about $ 3,000, including GN’s Verso range, and GN has said it will probably launch LiNX at a 5 to 10 percent premium to that.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="Employee of GN, the world's fourth largest maker of …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="223px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">An employee of GN, the world’s fourth largest maker of hearing aids, demonstrates the use of ReSound …</div> </div> <p>But there are hopes that the new technology can overcome some of the stigma by making the devices more attractive, accelerating single-digit volume growth in a market that will benefit from an ageing population and rising wealth in emerging markets.</p> <p>United Nations figures project that one in five people in a world population of between 8.3 and 10.9 billion will be over 60 by 2050, up from just under one in 10 of the current 7 billion.</p> <p>It was a technical challenge to get the 2.4 GHz technology used in the LiNX into a tiny, discreet hearing aid that could run for several days without frequent and fiddly battery changes.</p> <p>It had a headstart on bluetooth technology for hearing aids as one of the world’s biggest wireless headset makers, but conventional bluetooth devices tend to be notoriously profligate users of energy and require sizeable antennas. Overcoming those limitations gives LiNX users a cosmetic advantage by eliminating the need for a separate transmitter, typically worn round the neck.</p> <p>Morgan Stanley calls the LiNX, which will be officially launched in the first quarter next year, the “first attempt to turn a hearing aid into more of a lifestyle product”.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="Employee of GN, the world's fourth largest maker of …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="216px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">An employee of GN, the world’s fourth largest maker of hearing aids, demonstrates the use of ReSound …</div> </div> <p>Lars Viksmoen, CEO for GN’s ReSound hearing aid business, described the 2010 launch of its first 2.4 GHz product – with a third device for streaming – as a “live or die” moment.</p> <p>“Had that launch failed, we perhaps wouldn’t have been here today,” he said.</p> <p>Luckily, the 2.4 GHz frequency was picked last year by trend-setter Apple for its iPhones.</p> <p>Apple went to all manufacturers and said it wanted to have a direct link from hearing aids to its phones using 2.4 GHz and, because GN was already on its second generation of such products, an instant pairing was made.</p> <p>Frequent visits followed between California and Copenhagen to build up the protocol and improve power-efficiency.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="Employee of GN, the world's fourth largest maker of …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="208px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">An employee of GN, the world’s fourth largest maker of hearing aids, demonstrates the use of ReSound …</div> </div> <p>NO-BRAINER</p> <p>The buzz surrounding the made-for-iPhone device and a major cost-cutting program have helped send GN’s share price up 60 percent this year, beating the 27 percent rise in Sonova and the 6 percent rise in William Demant.</p> <p>Some remain skeptical that the main user base – the over 65s – will feel the need for the connectivity offered.</p> <p>“I think it will provide new avenues for innovation … but I am less convinced it will structurally change the industry,” said Tom Jones, a Berenberg analyst.</p> <p>Still, GN’s bigger rivals are taking stock.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="ReSound LiNX mock-up is pictured in Vienna" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="210px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">A ReSound LiNX mock-up is pictured in Vienna November 22, 2013. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader</div> </div> <p>William Demant, which has a 23 percent market share, will not go into details but says there is greater engagement with the mobile phone industry.</p> <p>“We will have great stuff with connectivity for all types of mobile phones,” Finn Mohring, Vice President of Research and Development at William Demant, who previously worked at Nokia for nearly two decades, told Reuters.</p> <p>Asked if it might also collaborate with mobile makers, he said: “Probably. We will not be seen trailing in the dust on this area.”</p> <p>William Demant, Sonova, Germany’s Siemens and privately owned Widex in Denmark all use lower frequency bands which some argue provide better sound quality. They also have 2.4 GHz in third devices, but not in their hearing aids.</p> <p>Starkey Technologies in the United States uses an 800-900 MHz platform. It is working on a made-for-iPhone hearing aid but will not provide details about what technology it will use.</p> <p>But most agree GN is a step ahead, and ReSound’s Viksmoen said it would look to work with other mobile phone makers – the bigger Android market, for instance – after the iPhone device.</p> <p>“It’s a no brainer that we will not stop here,” he said.</p> <p>Morgan Stanley recently bumped up its organic sales growth forecast for GN’s hearing aids business for 2014 to 8-9 percent from 5.8 percent, with possible further upside thanks to LiNX.</p> <p>Currently the penetration rate among iPhone users in GN’s target group is only 5 to 10 percent.</p> <p>“We’ll see if connectivity can change that,” Viksmoen said.</p> <p>(Editing by Will Waterman)</p> <ul id="topics" class="hidden"> <li>Technology & Electronics</li> <li>hearing aids</li> <li>William Demant</li> <li>Denmark</li> </ul><p></p> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

Denmark targets iPhone generation to keep edge in hearing aids [ BeritaTerkini ]

By Stine Jacobsen and Mia Shanley COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Tiny Denmark, with fewer than 6 million people, supplies ha...

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24-Nov-2013 13:12

Teen raped Mass. math teacher before killing her: prosecutors - New York Daily News :: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/danvers-teen-raped-killed-24-year-old-teacher-prosecutors-article-1.1525067">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/danvers-teen-raped-killed-24-year-old-teacher-prosecutors-article-1.1525067</a><br /><br><br /><br>Governor-elect McAuliffe discusses plans for mental health funding - <a href="http://wtkr.com">wtkr.com</a> :: <a href="http://wtkr.com/2013/11/22/governor-elect-mcauliffe-discusses-plans-for-mental-health-funding/">http://wtkr.com/2013/11/22/governor-elect-mcauliffe-discusses-plans-for-mental-health-funding/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Police: NY deli owners stole $1M lottery ticket - NewsOK.com :: <a href="http://newsok.com/police-ny-deli-owners-stole-1m-lottery-ticket/article/feed/620522">http://newsok.com/police-ny-deli-owners-stole-1m-lottery-ticket/article/feed/620522</a><br /><br><br /><br>Conrad Black: The salvation of Rob Ford - National Post :: <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/11/23/conrad-black-the-salvation-of-rob-ford/">http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/11/23/conrad-black-the-salvation-of-rob-ford/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Filipino Typhoon Survivors Cheer Pacquiao Triumph - ABC News :: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/filipino-typhoon-survivors-root-pacquiao-20993679">http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/filipino-typhoon-survivors-root-pacquiao-20993679</a><br /><br><br /><br>Latvia to raze supermarket where 54 died - Washington Post :: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/latvia-to-raze-supermarket-where-54-died/2013/11/24/d8c3bdf4-54f4-11e3-bdbf-097ab2a3dc2b_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/latvia-to-raze-supermarket-where-54-died/2013/11/24/d8c3bdf4-54f4-11e3-bdbf-097ab2a3dc2b_story.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Fifty years later, J.F.K.'s assassination is the mother of all conspiracy theories - NorthJersey.com :: <a href="http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/news/233194511_Fifty_years_later__J_F_K__s_assassination_is_the_mother_of_all_conspiracy_theories.html">http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/news/233194511_Fifty_years_later__J_F_K__s_assassination_is_the_mother_of_all_conspiracy_theories.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Clashes to Break Syrian Siege Kill Over 75 - ABC News :: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/activists-syrian-rebels-capture-key-oil-field-20988934">http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/activists-syrian-rebels-capture-key-oil-field-20988934</a><br /><br><br /><br>3-decade gridlock broken: The nuclear deal with Iran in Geneva - CNN :: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/24/world/meast/iran-nuclear-deal/">http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/24/world/meast/iran-nuclear-deal/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Even division rivals feel bad for Derrick Rose - USA TODAY :: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2013/11/24/derrick-rose-torn-meniscus-injury-opponents-feel-bad/3690815/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2013/11/24/derrick-rose-torn-meniscus-injury-opponents-feel-bad/3690815/</a>

24-Nov-2013 13:12

Teen raped Mass. math teacher before killing her: prosecutors - New York Daily News :: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/danvers-teen-r...

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An owl’s eye view of London | @GrrlScientist [ BeritaTerkini ]

<p><span class="inline embed embed-media"><br><img height="648" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7296/10928751903_aa73f11d32_o.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> Adult female snowy owl, <i>Bubo scandiacus</i> (formerly <i>Nyctea scandiaca</i>).<br> Image: pe_ha45 (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.)</span><br></span></p> <p>I have returned to London for another too-short visit. This time, I was invited by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to celebrate the publication of their Bird Atlas 2007-2011, and of course, I will attend the Royal Society’s 2013 Winton science book prize.</p> <p>These book-related ceremonies bookend my visit, which leaves me some time in the middle fpr other events. For example, today, I am taking a tour of Warner Brothers’ The Making of Harry Potter: Hogwarts in the Snow. As an avid fan of the books and then later, of the films, I am excited for this tour, despite the expense.</p> <p>Here’s a short video interview with the trainers who worked with all the animal actors — especially my favourite, Hedwig the snowy owl (the Animal Actors tour is another event that is quite popular):</p> <p>[Video link]</p> <p>In addition to the book-related events I’ve mentioned, here’s some of the other exhibitions I plan to attend during my stay:</p> <p><strong>The Tate Museum:</strong><br></p> <p><strong>National Portrait Gallery:</strong><br></p> <p><strong>Museum of London:</strong><br></p> <p><strong>Tower of London:</strong><br></p> <ul> <li>Following up on the jewel theme and since I really enjoy seeing stones and minerals, I’ve decided that I really must visit the Royal Crown Jewels</li> </ul><p><strong>V&A:</strong><br></p> <p>Being a fan of ales and bitters, I will be sipping a few local brews. (Of course, I am always interested in visiting pubs that have a science theme or where famous writers used to hang out, too.)</p> <p>Also thanks to my twitter pals’ suggestions, I have a list of recommended vegetarian/vegan curry houses to dine at — there’s a plethora of such places that I’ve been investigating near the Euston Street station. Thanks to a commenter, I now know there’s a few vegetarian/vegan south Indian and Sri Lankan restaurants near Tooting that are worth exploring.</p> <p>Have I missed any special exhibitions? Do you know of a special pub or curry house that you think I must visit? If so, please do let me know so I can add it to my (not yet overcrowded) schedules!</p> <p>.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..</p> <p>GrrlScientist can also be found here: Maniraptora. She’s very active on twitter @GrrlScientist and sometimes lurks on social media: facebook, G+, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.</p> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

An owl’s eye view of London | @GrrlScientist [ BeritaTerkini ]

Adult female snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus (formerly Nyctea scandiaca ). Image: pe_ha45 (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license....

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24-Nov-2013 12:11

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24-Nov-2013 12:11

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Why The Apple Is One Of The World's Most Healing Superfoods

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://www.diseaseproof.com/uploads/image/apples%20google(1).jpg" class="decoded" src="http://www.diseaseproof.com/uploads/image/apples%20google%281%29.jpg" /></div>Photo Credit:www.diseaseproof.com <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>An apple a day keeps the doctor away.</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'This age old saying has never rang with greater promise and authority than it does today. As in the modern era, doctors bring with them a battery of tests, <b><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/greenmed/display/toxic-ingredient">drugs</a></b>, and <b><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/greenmed/display/anti-therapeutic-action">interventions</a></b>, all of which carry unintended, adverse health risks that often outweigh their purported benefits, and are therefore best avoided whenever possible.  </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Also, apples are also far cheaper than doctors, and in the worst case scenario of coerced or <b><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/mandatory-pediatric-chemo-institutionalized-child-abuse">mandatory treatment</a></b> can be thrown as a non-deadly (downright nutritious) form of self-defense.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">  </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">While some might take this opening aphorism as mere folk medicine fantasy, the reality is that the medicinal properties of apple are well-documented within the biomedical literature.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">For instance, apple consumption has been the subject of quite a few studies on colorectal cancer risk reduction. <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-apple-one-worlds-most-healing-superfoods#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title="">[i]</a> <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-apple-one-worlds-most-healing-superfoods#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title="">[ii]</a> <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-apple-one-worlds-most-healing-superfoods#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title="">[iii]</a>  Other cancers that apple constituents have been studied to kill in pre-clinical research include:'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-apple-one-worlds-most-healing-superfoods">more... </a></span>

Why The Apple Is One Of The World's Most Healing Superfoods

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24-Nov-2013 11:10

Rio breaks off relationship with Toronto in wake of Rob Ford crack scandal - Toronto Star :: <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/11/22/rio_breaks_off_relationship_with_toronto_in_wake_of_rob_ford_crack_scandal.html">http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/11/22/rio_breaks_off_relationship_with_toronto_in_wake_of_rob_ford_crack_scandal.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas a somber study of JFK, assassination - Tulsa World :: <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/sixth-floor-museum-in-dallas-a-somber-study-of-jfk/article_11709e8f-0b53-5a96-9289-e7b970b8ad1a.html">http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/sixth-floor-museum-in-dallas-a-somber-study-of-jfk/article_11709e8f-0b53-5a96-9289-e7b970b8ad1a.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Analysis: Dems reach breaking point on filibusters - Salt Lake Tribune :: <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/57173961-68/senate-filibuster-republicans-democrats.html.csp">http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/57173961-68/senate-filibuster-republicans-democrats.html.csp</a><br /><br><br /><br>Pacquiao beats Rios in unanimous decision - Washington Post :: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/pacquiao-beats-rios-in-unanimous-decision/2013/11/24/70a9c3e0-54cb-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/pacquiao-beats-rios-in-unanimous-decision/2013/11/24/70a9c3e0-54cb-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Remaining Riga mall roof caves in - BBC News :: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25069947">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25069947</a><br /><br><br /><br>Even opponents feel bad for Derrick Rose - Detroit Free Press :: <a href="http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/3690815">http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/3690815</a><br /><br><br /><br>China establishes 'air-defence zone' over East China Sea - BBC News :: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25062525">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25062525</a><br /><br><br /><br>Powerful storm moves across western US - Boston Globe :: <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/11/24/powerful-storm-system-blasts-west-killed/FNIOmXXmqsGBuEt1Re3MkL/story.html">http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/11/24/powerful-storm-system-blasts-west-killed/FNIOmXXmqsGBuEt1Re3MkL/story.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Typhoon Haiyan: The search for bodies - BBC News :: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25051472">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25051472</a><br /><br><br /><br>Iran nuclear deal seen reducing bomb risk despite Israeli criticism - Reuters :: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/24/us-iran-nuclear-capability-idUSBRE9AN06O20131124">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/24/us-iran-nuclear-capability-idUSBRE9AN06O20131124</a>

24-Nov-2013 11:10

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Healing Cancer with Cannabis - (Documentary)

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How the Buteyko Breathing Method Can Improve Your Health and Fitness

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1sIGAw5opU0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><b>By Dr. Mercola</b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'It is my intention to share the simplest, most inexpensive yet effective natural strategies to help you optimize your health, and it doesn’t get any simpler or more affordable than learning to breathe properly.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> The Buteyko Breathing Method—named after the Russian physician who developed the technique—is a powerful approach for reversing health problems associated with improper breathing, the most common of which are overbreathing and mouthbreathing.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/11/24/buteyko-breathing-method.aspx">more... </a></span>

How the Buteyko Breathing Method Can Improve Your Health and Fitness

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Why Crash Diets Don’t Work

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Why Crash Diets Don't Work" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27470" height="361" src="http://www.cheeseslave.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/why-crash-diets-do-not-work1.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'You’ve seen the ads. Lose Weight Fast! Melt Fat Away Lose 20 pounds in 3 days! …and so on.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Crash diets are food and exercise plans that starve you of nutrients that you need in an attempt to lose weight quickly. The allure is usually very appealing to people who have struggled with weight issues for years. I know I was tempted to try a crash diet when I was 40 pounds overweight.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Crash diets don’t work. You may lose weight, but then because it is impossible to sustain you lose heart. Studies have shown than more than 80% of those who start crash diets regain any weight they have lost. Many put on even more weight.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But whether you lose weight or gain it back isn’t the point. If a crash diet is robbing you of the nutrients you need, then it is unhealthy even if you get results.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I lost nearly 40 pounds in 5 months eating real food. And the best part? It’s been a couple months now and I can eat whatever I want and I haven’t gained a pound.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.cheeseslave.com/why-crash-diets-dont-work/">more... </a></span>

Why Crash Diets Don’t Work

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Haw Par Villa, Singapore: the theme park made in hell [ BeritaTerkini ]

<div id="main-content-picture"> <img alt="Haw Par Villa theme park, Singapore" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2013/11/22/1385124027912/Haw-Par-Villa-theme-park--008.jpg" width="460"><p>Severed and impaled heads in the Ten Courts of Hell at Singapore’s Haw Par Villa theme park. Photograph: Alamy</p> </div> <div id="article-body-blocks"> <p>We were barely 10 steps inside the dimly-lit stone tunnel that houses the Ten Courts of Hell when my friend jumped back and grabbed my arm. She had approached a mock replica of the “Mirror of Retribution” – where evildoers see their life replayed before they face punishment for their sins – and a demonic apparition had appeared out of nowhere through the looking glass. She calmed down from the shock. “He does have a nice collarbone,” she noticed.</p> <p>Any walk through this grim Hadean fairytale is laced with a mixture of curiosity, disgust and a little humour. The Ten Courts of Hell can be found at Haw Par Villa, a Chinese mythology theme park in Singapore with more than 1,000 statues and dioramas glorifying Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian folklore. Built in 1937 by brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par – famous for selling the popular medicinal paste Tiger Balm – older locals look back fondly at a place where parents would bring children for an education in morality, complete with bloody visual aids.</p> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="Haw Par Villa theme park, Singapore" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2013/11/22/1385123616217/Haw-Par-Villa-theme-park--008.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> One of the less gruesome statues at Haw Par Villa. Photograph: Alamy<br></span><br></span></p> <p>Thousands used to throng the park, and it once stood shoulder-to-shoulder with attractions like Singapore Zoo and Jurong Bird Park. “Every Singaporean over the age of 35 probably has a picture of themselves at Haw Par,” said Desmond Sim, a local playwright. Those pictures would probably include the following statues, each made from plastered cement paste and wire mesh: a human head on the body of a crab, a frog in a baseball cap riding an ostrich, and a grandmother suckling at the breast of another woman.</p> <p>But the highlight of this bizarre park are the Ten Courts. A tableau of severe disciplines are shown in painstaking detail, along with a placard stating the sin that warranted it. Tax dodgers are pounded by a stone mallet, spikes driven into a skeletal chest cavity like a bloodthirsty pestle in mortar. Spot the tiny tongue as it is pulled out of a screaming man, watch the demon flinging a young girl into a hill of knives. Ungratefulness results in a blunt metal rod cutting a very large, fleshly heart out of a woman. Perhaps the most gruesome depiction is an executioner pulling tiny intestines out from a man tied to a pole. The colons were visible and brown. The crime? Cheating during exams.</p> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="Entrance to Haw Par Villa, the 'Tiger Balm Gardens'." height="299" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/gallery/2013/11/22/1385135717629/Entrance-to-Haw-Par-Villa-001.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> Entrance to Haw Par Villa, the ‘Tiger Balm Gardens’. Photograph: Alamy<br></span><br></span></p> <p>However, Haw Par Villa is facing an afterlife of its own. Hardly anyone goes there anymore, and closed sections of the park point to an uncertain future. For some it’s a refreshing antidote to the mall-culture, but it looks like mall culture is winning out over a day out in hell. RemSG, the blogger behind the Remember Singapore website, believes new investment is needed. “Its future, in my opinion, is certainly pessimistic,” he said.</p> <p>During our visit, a father could be heard telling his bespectacled daughter to “do your homework, and you can spend more time with the iPad”. Unless, of course, you want to be crushed by a boulder.</p> <p><em>Haw Par Villa is next to the Haw Par Villa MRT station, and is open daily from 9am to 7pm. Entry is free.</em></p> <hr> <strong>THREE MORE BIZARRE THEME PARKS</strong><br><br><h2>Suoi Tien Cultural Theme Park, Vietnam</h2> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="Suoi Tien Park near Saigon" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2013/11/22/1385123805910/Suoi-Tien-Park-near-Saigo-008.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> Suoi Tien Park near Saigon. Photograph: Alamy<br></span><br></span></p> <p>A winning combination of water slides and Buddhism, this splash park in Vietnam is a fitting homage to the nation’s most popular religion. Legendary animals such as dragons, unicorns, tortoises and phoenix adorn the park, while staff dress up as the mischief-making monkey character from Buddhist mythology to entertain visitors. The vast attraction features swimming pools, boat rides and, for the real thrill seekers, a pool with over a thousand hungry crocodiles that visitors can feed with raw meat.<br><em>Entry: £1.50 per adult (children pay half the adult price), plus additional fees for individual rides. More information: vietnamonline.com</em></p> <h2>JeJu Love Land, South Korea</h2> <p>Unsurprisingly, Love Land is the “only sexual theme park in Korea”. Opened in 2004, the attraction showcases works of art created by 20 graduates from Hongik University in Seoul – as well as regular visiting artists – and is a place “where sexually oriented art and eroticism meet”. The park is littered with sculptures demonstrating the various sexual positions, as well as plenty of phallic statues and stone labia to cast your eyes over. There are also fun interactive exhibits, such as the invitingly named “masturbation cycle”. Sticking to the obvious theme, the park’s two mascots consist of Bulkkeuni, a phallus with a red nose and Ssaekkeuni, a vagina that wears a floppy pink hat.<br> jejuloveland.com</p> <h2>Republic of the Children, Argentina</h2> <p>Based in the city of La Plata, the Republic of the Children is a mini town where the children rule. It features all the institutions you would hope a functioning society to have; parliament, courthouse, church, even a municipal bank. The park was opened in 1951 and was built by the Eva Perón Foundation, a charity set up by the Argentine political leader – and hopes to teach children how to be good citizens in a democratic country. It’s either the most incredible, or the most completely dull idea for a theme park around. Leave it to the kids decide.<br><em>Entry: $ 15 (age seven and above), children under seven free, fundacionvalorar.org.ar</em></p> </div> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

Haw Par Villa, Singapore: the theme park made in hell [ BeritaTerkini ]

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