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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night to present Oprah Winfrey, along with James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith with honorary Oscar statuettes at the annual Governors Awards in November.
Blogs have been abuzz with criticism over the selection of the 57-year-old media mogul for the award since the announcement was made late Tuesday. In an article published Wednesday, Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein called the academy decision "a boneheaded move."
Film academy president Tom Sherak is now coming to Oprah Winfrey's defense.
Sherak says Winfrey is "one of the most philanthropic performers in the world" and thus deserving of the academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
"Winfrey has done good work in the world, but that's not enough to merit an Oscar," he writes, and plenty of anonymous Internet posters on Wednesday agree.
"Oprah has given and given and given," he said, adding that she has contributed more than $500 million of her own money to charitable causes. "She's a member of the academy, she was nominated for an Academy Award and she has produced movies. This is not about personality. This is about a person who has come from the depths, risen to the heights and given back. That's a perfect example of why this award was created."
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was established shortly after the death of the actor in 1956. Previous winners include Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Quincy Jones and Jerry Lewis.
Goldstein and Deadline.com's Nikki Finke say Winfrey belongs more to the world of television than that of film. She was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for 1985's "The Color Purple," produced and appeared in "Beloved" in 1998 and was an executive producer of 2009's "Precious."
Finke asks in her post if "no one among the philanthropic film bigwigs deserved this award more than her this year? Or is this merely a matter of another of the rich and powerful just throwing their weight around and buying the Governors Award honor for ego feed?"
Sherak said many philanthropists belong to the film academy, but its governors "felt very strongly" about honoring Winfrey this year despite her limited work in film.
"We have a lot of people who are TV people who have made movies," he said. "It doesn't matter that they do other things... She is definitely one of us. What really counts is her contribution to humanity."
Jones and Smith will receive their honorary Oscars alongside Winfrey at the Nov. 12 ceremony at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. The two men are being recognized for their outstanding film careers.
Jones has appeared in more than 50 films. The 80-year-old actor — voice of Darth Vader — was nominated for an Academy Award in 1971 for "The Great White Hope." His other credits include "Field of Dreams," ''Patriot Games" and "The Hunt for Red October."
Smith was NBC's first makeup man when he started his career in 1945. He won an Oscar in 1984 for his work on "Amadeus" and was nominated again in 1989 for "Dad." Known as the "godfather of makeup," he also worked on "The Godfather," ''The Exorcist" and "Taxi Driver." Smith also helped train many of today's top movie makeup artists.
The Governors Awards are not televised, but excerpts from the evening could be included in the Academy Awards telecast in February, 2012.
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Oprah, James Earl Jones to Receive Honorary Oscars
Some think there are those more deserving than Oprah.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night to present Oprah Winfrey, along with James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith with honorary Oscar statuettes at the annual Governors Awards in November.

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Country singer-songwriters Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis were married for 17 years and had four children before they made their first album together, last year's superb "Cheaters Game." One listen revealed just how perfectly the duo's voices fit together — and "Our Year" continues the collaboration beautifully.
First of all, though, a warning: There are no slick studio tricks here, and these songs aren't likely to be performed along with high-tech light shows and pyrotechnics in stadiums by musicians wearing $300 cowboy hats anytime soon.
Robison and Willis specialize in finding — and sometimes writing — timeless songs from a wide variety of sources and applying their effortlessly rendered vocal harmonies to them over mostly acoustic, but spirited backing provided by traditional country instruments like the banjo, dobro, fiddle, mandolin.
Robison's clear, warm tenor and Willis' honeyed alto transform the Statler Brothers' "I'll Go to My Grave Loving You" into an endorsement of fidelity that sounds as unshakable and immutable as the song's title.
With its rolling Buddy Holly drumbeat, Willis' spirited "Lonely For You" adds a jolt of energy to the proceedings, resulting in the album's liveliest and best track.
Willis also tackles Jeannie C. Riley's 1968 crossover smash "Harper Valley PTA," turning in a slow-burning, low-key version punctuated by sputtering acoustic guitar licks that retains every bit of the original's defiant sass.
"Our Year" takes its title from the Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year," just the kind of brilliant song choice that allows Robison and Willis to excel. It serves as a perfect closer to an album whose only fault is its too-brief 32-minute running time.
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Gamespot score:8.5 (great)
my score:9.0
(+)Pros:-Amazing story that draws you in,-clever puzzles that vary alot from each other,-realistic cast of characters that are easily likable,-multiple interesting endings provide tons of replay value,-choices made during the game alter its course greatly.
(-)Cons:-Too much of the game is spent reading.
Gameplay time:30-40 hours
The story of 999 is easily one of the best I have seen in any game. The story is kind of like a japanese version of saw, locking a bunch of people up to play an incredibly twisted game. 999 sees junpei as its protagonist, and he wakes up in a room of what seems to be a ship. It doesnt take long for him to remember that he got kidnapped, after realising that the door out of his room is locked, and that there is a watch with a number 5 on it. The window to his room suddenly cracks and water pours in, junpei panicks and tries to find a way out. After solving what seems to be a puzzle made especially for him, junpei escapes the room to find a bunch of other people sharing the same fate as him, one of which he recognises as akane, his childhood friend. After realising that the kidnapping of all these people is just a game devised by the ship's captain zero, the group of people introduce themselves depending on the number on thier watches, and they work together to traverse the ship's puzzles, to find the door numbered 9....the door to thier freedom.
|Even an ordinary screwdriver may be a crucial piece to solve a puzzle.
All the characters are awesome in thier own way, and some of them having hidden agendas or dirty secrets make the scenes all the more imposing when you discover these very secrets through the course of the game. During the game, you will also be faced with a great deal of choices, like answers to seemlingly pointless questions or deciding which door to enter, these affect the game's course greatly, and ultimately decides upon which ending you get. This makes each and every choice you make feel heavy and important, bearing quite the burden.
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Now comes another intruiging part of the game, the puzzles. The puzzles are all cleverly made, and involve you switching views of a certain area, and finding a key to unlock a door to proceed to the next story area. To find a key to open a door sounds simple, but the puzzles are rather complicated, meaning that you will probably have to do a bunch of stuff before getting the key....sometimes, the door just unlocks itself after meeting certain requirements during the puzzles. While most of the puzzles require lots of thinking, brainstorming, trial and error, there also many times where you have to find pass codes for code locks. Theres quite alot of variety in these puzzles, ranging from matching nodes, mixing chemicals (one of my personal favourites), playing a weird version of tick tack toe or even gathering gambling cards for a simple mathematical puzzle.
While you will be replaying the game many times due to its many endings (about 7 in total), these puzzles will rarely get old, since they are so well and clerverly made. If you happen to just scrape through a puzzle before, a 2nd time will have you prove yourself to finally clear it properly. Speaking about the endings, most of them are....terrifyingly good (I dont really know why Im saying this, those who played the game should know what I mean). Fear not though, after replaying the game so many times, the final and true ending provides new and exclusive puzzles that the other endings don't have.
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The game has totally no drawbacks at all in my opinion -.-. Though I say there are no drawbacks, the game itself IS just a visual novel...meaning that theres alot of reading to be done. Don't be fooled, I think the game is awesome and I dont mind reading walls and walls of interesting text, but since its just reading, some people might be put off.
Thats it. I conclude the review of 999. I can only say this, its an awesome game and I recommend ANYONE to play it. Its the kind of game that you simply have to play to understand what I mean. Though what I say in this review might sound boring (reading and puzzle solving), trust me, its so damn awesome that it will change the way you look at such games. If you own a DS, 999 is definetely a must have for your collection. If you don't like reading, don't worry! Just get the game, you might not be able to play constantly for hours straight, but the story is so epic that you might actually force yourself to read further. If you really cant, just turn it off and play it again later, the game autosaves.
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Where Are the Fearless and Muscular Pro-Israel Activists?
by Shmuley Boteach
For those involved in pro-Israel advocacy, now is the winter of our discontent. We're on the defensive in virtually every part of the world. The BDS movement continues to spread across university campuses with even Jewish-populated Brooklyn College recently joining the fray. When I was in South Africa last week I treated to the usual orgy of anti-Israel comment in the media and even in the State of the Nation address of President Jacob Zuma. South Africa, a country I love has, sadly for now, become the new world ground zero of anti-Israel criticism.
In the UK Bradford East MP David Ward offered this jewel on Holocaust Remembrance Day: "Having visited Auschwitz twice… I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza."
How sweet.
Not that the United State is a whole lot better. Come this week and despite the opposition of several courageous Republican Senators, the Senate will almost certainly confirm a new Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, who called the State Department "an adjunct of the Israeli foreign minister's office," excused Palestinian terrorism by saying, "Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away hope," and famously said that Israel puts the Palestinians "in chains."
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And through all of this, some of the most important pro-Israel groups are adopting a new, more submissive posture, believing that the best way to stand up for Israel is to choose one's battles and try and cultivate influential people rather than calling them out for their outrageous comments.
When I penned a column last month on AIPAC's silence on Hagel, a few of their leaders, whom I count as close friends, took umbrage and told me that my analysis was just plain wrong. Hagel is going to be nominated. Israel has Iranian nukes to worry about and other, bigger fish to fry. Why make enemies?
I am a huge AIPAC fan. There is no more important American Jewish organization. Well beyond the Jewish community AIPAC is a model professionalism lobbying for an unqualified good. In 20 years I have barely missed an AIPAC policy conference, such is the ardor of my support. I publicly introduced my friend Mayor Cory Booker, now running for the United States senate, at an AIPAC summit in Chicago and we have jointly addressed AIPAC groups around the country.
But with 10,000 activists about to gather in DC next week for AIPAC's annual policy conference the organization's definition of friendly incumbents being based solely on a lawmaker's voting record on Israel must undergo serious review.
When I ran for Congress last year against Congressman Bill Pascrell AIPAC designated him a friendly incumbent based on his voting record for Israel aid and in favor of Iran sanctions. The problem was that Pascrell had also signed the infamous Gaza 54 letter which falsely condemned Israel for collective punishment against the Palestinians rather than soundly laying the blame at the Hamas terrorists who have turned Gaza into a launching pad to kill Israelis. Now, I completely understand AIPAC's policy of friendly incumbents. Why would any politician feel loyalty to AIPAC if someone who is considered more pro-Israel comes along and immediate gets their support? But my candidacy was an opportunity for AIPAC to approach Pascrell and pressure him to repudiate past statements. Israel's battle today is not just one against bullets and bombs but against a ferocious attempt to delegitimize the Jewish state. It is a war of words and pictures and what political figures say matters.
Now, what a lone congressman opines is far less serious than the contemptible comments coming out of an incoming secretary of defense. Hagel's broadsides against Israel are shameful and he must be called on it. American Jewry gave President Obama seventy percent of their vote. Is Hagel the reward?
In 1991 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir requested $10 billion in loan guarantees to help settle Russian Jewish immigrants. President George H. W. Bush said Israel could only have the guarantees if it froze all settlement building and guaranteed that no Russian Jews would be resettled in the West Bank. Shamir demurred and called on the American Jewish community to mobilize in support of the loans guarantees. AIPAC drafted a letter that was signed by more than 240 members of the House and 77 senators supporting the loan guarantees. On September 12, 1991, Jewish lobbyists from all over the country descended in huge numbers on Washington. President Bush famously responded with a televised press conference in which he complained that "1000 Jewish lobbyists are on Capitol Hill against little old me."
Then, on the very next day in a speech I will never forget and at which I was present, Tom Dine, AIPAC's Executive Director, declared that "September 12, 1991 is a day that will live in infamy" as an American President had had the chutzpah to criticize the constitutionally guaranteed right to lobby our government, found in the very first amendment. It was high theater and I had chills down my spine as Dine directly challenged a sitting American president. We all know the rest of the story. Months later, the loan guarantees were approved. Bush would later receive only 12% of the Jewish vote and was trounced by Bill Clinton. President Bush's son would eight years later become President of the United States and would take a completely different posture toward Israel, becoming its greatest ally ever to occupy the White House.
I also remember how, the following day, Ron Brown, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, stood up and said that this November we had to send President Bush packing from the White House. The crowd erupted with huge applause. There was no attempt to disguise the hostility to a President whose policies were simply unfair to Israel.
I recognize that AIPAC is often accused of hijacking American foreign policy. I know that there are charges of AIPAC as a modern incarnation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and many believe that we have to be sensitive toward accusations of global Jewish dominance.
Should we allow anti-Semites who will despise Jewry and Israel regardless to cause us to lower our heads in proud pro-Israel advocacy just because of anti-Jewish slurs?
If Hagel has made disparaging comments about Israel, and he has done so repeatedly over many years, then how in God's name can we not oppose him becoming the Secretary of Defense of the United States, whatever is being offered Israel behind the scenes? Israel is America's foremost ally. It is also the Jewish homeland. We should stand proudly in its defense, regardless of people in high places.
As it is Purim, I am reminded of the words of Mordechai delivered to Esther when she hesitated to use her influence with Achashveirosh after Haman had decreed the annihiliation of the Jews. "Do not seek to save your own skin, to escape the fate of the rest the Jews. For if you are silent in this moment, salvation shall come to the Jews from elsewhere and you are your father's household shall perish. And who knows if it is specifically for a time such as this that you were chosen for high office."
Ancient words have never been so relevant.
Shmuley Boteach, "America's Rabbi" whom The Washington Post calls "the most famous Rabbi in America," has just published his newest best-seller, "The Fed-up Man of Faith: Challenging God in the Face of Tragedy and Suffering." Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.


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Charlie Sheen isn't the only one the actor's outlandish behavior has gotten in trouble.
A former Washington, D.C., police commander whose division provided Sheen a police escort last April has given notice that he intends to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, saying he was demoted because he testified to the D.C. Council that such escorts for celebrities were commonplace.
Hilton Burton was demoted in August as commander of the special operations division and transferred to the medical services branch. In a whistleblower notice filed with the city and obtained by The Associated Press, Burton alleges the demotion was punishment for telling the council that there was nothing inappropriate or unusual about the escort provided to Sheen.
His testimony contradicted statements from Police Chief Cathy Lanier, who appeared at the same hearing and has said the escort – provided with flashing lights and police sirens – broke with department policy.
Burton, who is now a captain, says in the notice that he was punished because the chief was "displeased with the negative publicity that the Charlie Sheen escort had created" and was upset by his allegations that celebrity escorts had been provided during the years she led the special operations division. He says department management told him at the time of his demotion that there were problems with his performance, but that those concerns had not been raised with him before.
Lanier on Wednesday reissued a statement from August in which she said the decision to demote Burton was "based on a review of command decisions, including several critical incidents." She has denied that the demotion was in retaliation for the escort or for Burton's testimony.
"I think the facts will show this was done in retaliation for his having provided whistleblower information to the city council and the (D.C.) office of inspector general," which also investigated the escort," said Burton's lawyer, James Pressler. The suit will seek to have Burton reinstated to his previous rank of commander.
Special ops officers escorted Sheen in April from a Washington-area airport to a stand-up performance in the city. The escort attracted attention after Sheen posted about it on Twitter. He wrote, "In car with Police escort in front and rear! Driving like someone's about to deliver a baby! Cop car lights #Spinning!" and also included a photograph of a speedometer that appeared to be registering about 80 mph.
The city was reimbursed more than $445 for the escort, records show.
Lanier said at the time that escorts are generally reserved for the president, vice president, visiting heads of state and other dignitaries who require extraordinary protection, but can be granted on a case-by-case basis if approved by an assistant chief. Sheen's escort didn't follow the proper chain of command and should not have been done at high speeds and with flashing lights and sirens, she said.
Documents obtained in May by the AP through a public records request revealed that Jay-Z, Bill Gates and John Wall of the Washington Wizards were among the non-dignitaries who had received police escorts in the last two years, suggesting the practice was more common than initially revealed.
Burton has said he didn't know about the escort until after it was granted. But he nonetheless defended the escorts at the council hearing as standard practice for the special operations division. Lanier acknowledged at the hearing that there may be legitimate reasons for celebrity escorts, such as for public safety reasons, and said it would be foolish to craft a policy barring such escorts under any and all circumstances. She said the department had identified 17 celebrities who had received escorts since 2002 and was investigating to find out who approved them.
She also said the department was working to clarify its policies on police escorts.
Burton alleged at the hearing that some celebrities received escorts during the years that Lanier commanded the special operations division. Lanier denied approving the escorts while in that position.
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2015. The N.C. Department of Labor will adopt this change as required by law. The revised rule expands the list of severe work-related injuries that all covered employers must report to the NCDOL Occupational Safety and Health Division. The revised rule retains the current requirement to report all work-related fatalities within eight hours and adds the requirement to report all work-related in-patient hospitalizations, amputations and losses of an eye within 24 hours. There are also changes to the recordkeeping requirements that will also take effect Jan. 1, 2015.
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In an effort to reduce injury and death to fire and rescue personnel in the State of North Carolina, the State Legislature established General Statute GS 95-148, which required the State Fire and Rescue Commission to establish voluntary occupational safety and health standards for fire and rescue personnel. This document was developed to provide a voluntary guide for departments to implement an occupational safety and health program that meets the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration within the NC Department of Labor, as well as the OS&H standards of the National Fire Protection Association. In addition to serving as a voluntary guide for volunteer departments, it can also serve as an interpretation document when applying required OS&H standards to career departments and career personnel. In carrying out these objectives, it allows a department to meet all recognized safety and health standards for fire and rescue activities.
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Cañon City will receive a visit from a significant Republican powerhouse this week.
Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will speak to Fremont County voters Tuesday afternoon at Veterans Park.
While details have not been finalized, Ryan is expected to be at the park at about 2:45 p.m. to speak. Tickets will be required. They are available free from the Fremont County Republican Headquarters, 621 Main St., or on the Mitt Romney campaign site, mittromney.com.
The visit will be part of Ryan's tour of Colorado that will include stops in Castle Rock and Greeley earlier in the day.
Ryan is a seven-term Congressman from Wisconsin. He is chairman of the House Budget Committee and serves on the House Ways and Means Committee.
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In honor of his Houston Appreciation Weekend, hip-hop star Drake performed at Warehouse Live on Friday.
Tickets were not sold publicly. Instead, they were given to volunteers for RockCorps Global.
It was a long line outside the venue. Some in the crowd said they waited two hours before the doors opened at 9 p.m., just so they can get a good view of the Canada-born rapper who credits Houston with helping him launch his career.
Drake started his days-long party for Houston on Thursday at an Astros game.


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September 18, 2013 - The Rock will play Ontario in the CRC at the Swilers Rugby Complex on Saturday Sept 21 at 3pm. Ontario, undefeated in 4 consecutive games in the CRC, were crowned National champions last Saturday, when they defeated BC by 50-27. The Rock lost their chance when they were defeated in two games, by the Wolf Pack and BC Bears, in a most difficult weekend out west over Labor Day weekend.
Ontario has won the National title for 3 consecutive years, a credit to their strong development program from u14 to senior.
They are determined to have an unbeaten season but the Rock are equally determined to resist on their home ground. In the prior game this year in Toronto The Rock lost a tight contest by 27-25. Last year the Rock lost at home comprehensively to Ontario in the final game of the CRC.
Powered by a strong pack featuring current Canadian internationals, Doug Woolridge, Ray Barkwill and John Moonlight, and by a potent backline, dominated by capped Liam Underwood and Derek Daypuck, Ontario will be favorites. However the Rock have improved compared to last year and should have several players back from injury. They will be expecting to field a fired –up pack, pushed by veterans Frank Walsh, Brad Lester and Kevin Parfrey, and a skillful backline, led by Canadian internationals Patrick Parfrey and Ciaran Hearn. Missing for Saturday will be Mike Simpson, Dean Blanks and Patrick McNicholas.
'We are determined to play at our most intense' commented Rock coach Simon Blanks. "We will need our sixteenth man, the crowd on our side if we are to have any chance of prevailing. Although the National champions have been crowned the results of all CRC games have importance, particularly against our traditional rivals Ontario."
Rock roster to face Ontario Blues:Frank WalshStephen CutliffeOwen ParfreyJordan PowerBrad LesterToni WodzickiJustin MeyersKevin ParfreyZac CoughlanKyle BaillieMatt HeatonMike HamsonAdam PaulPatrick ParfreyRobert WilsonGeoff WardenCiaran HearnJason PiccoAndrew JamiesonAlex Rogers


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Eat your medicine. That's the message in three recent books by Metro Vancouver authors who promote managing illness through diet. The idea that we are what we eat is certainly common sense, but mainstream medicine often is often criticized by the alternative crowd for not taking a harder line on all the junk their sick patients are eating. These books take the opposite approach and say one of the first steps toward health should be found on your plate.
The Complete Fibromyalgia Health, Diet Guide and Cookbook by Louise McCrindle and Dr. Alison Bested.
As head of the Complex Chronic Diseases Program at BC Women's Hospital, Dr. Alison Bested is recognized as an expert in fibromyalgia. It's a poorly understood condition characterized by long-lasting pain all over the body. It was officially recognized by medical associations in the 1990s, so research in the area is relatively new.
Through more than 20 years of experience with patients, Bested and co-author Louise McCrindle, a naturopathic doctor, have developed an eating plan they've found can reduce pain levels by 10 to 20 per cent. It's not a cure, but can provide some relief and hope for sufferers — mainly middle-aged women — who are often too sick to work and face a future with few treatment options.
"The book really is a summary of what I was teaching patients in my practise," Bested said in an interview.
"What we have found is that people can improve if they get rid of things that tend to irritate and inflame the body, such as the high-sugar diet, the diet that's full of preservatives and certain food groups that often create food sensitivities in this patient population."
That includes the nightshade family — potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers — the wheat family, fungus in food — like mushrooms — and the dairy group.
The book begins with a discussion of fibromyalgia's symptoms and management. It ends with a step-by-step plan, including shopping lists, menus and recipes, for an anti-inflammatory diet free of red meat, pork, cold cuts, dairy products, sugar, caffeine and alcohol
The Diabetes Prevention and Management Cookbook, by Johanna Burkhard and Barbara Allen
This plan for tackling the diabetes epidemic sweeping North America is written by Richmond-based dietitian Barbara Allen and Ontario cookbook author Johanna Burkhard. It serves as a primer for understanding the glycemic index (GI) and how low-GI foods that take longer to digest are a key weapon in the battle. Its food plans contain high-fibre, low-GI carbohydrates which are converted to sugar in the body much more slowly than highly processed foods.
It includes weekly eating plans and recipes that run from breakfast to dessert using widely available ingredients, including low-fat sources of protein such as poultry, fish and some dairy products.
Happy Healthy Gut, by Jennifer Browne
This is the only one of the three books not written by a health care professional. Browne uses a chatty girlfriend style of writing to get her message across: Meat is bad for lots of reasons. Do not eat it.
She is a vegan who credits giving up meat and all dairy products with ending years of suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Browne, who lives in Abbotsford, walks readers through her journey back to health by also shunning sugar — except when it's in fruit — processed foods of all kinds, caffeine, alcohol and anything with genetically modified ingredients.
There's no arguing that a plant-based diet is healthier for humans and the planet, but some of Browne's pronouncements sound too much like a true believer rather than an author making a logical argument.
"GM (genetically modified) foods are scary. If my lunch has anything to do with a scientist holding a test tube, I'm out," she writes.
While this may play well with the anti-science and anti-GMO crowds, it won't inspire confidence in readers who prefer facts over feelings.
Despite that quibble, the book will be helpful for anyone who wants encouragement to adopt a plant-based diet by presenting readers with an unappealing picture of factory farming. It makes a convincing argument that becoming a vegan is the single biggest contribution any human being can make toward cleaning up the environment.
It includes a limited number of recipes, but plenty of ideas for creating meals with fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains.


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I don't know if I have mentioned it here or not, but I am currently training for a half-marathon that is coming up in October. I have never run in a race before, unless you want to count a 5K walk/run that I did in 3rd grade when we lived in New Jersey. No worries, I am going to run in a 10K this month to "break the seal" and see what the hoopla is all about before the big day in October. I started running on & off in the Spring of 2008. I really started to get more into it in December of 2008 and have never looked back.
Now that I have been increasing my mileage and running more than an hour at a time, I needed to find some kind of "fuel" to eat before or during my run. I am a sucker for jelly beans, so when I saw that Jelly Belly made Sport Beans, I knew I had to try them. All Jelly Belly beans (sports & regular) are gluten-free per a phone call made to the company in June 2009. Some of the regular beans are labeled "gluten-free". I have not seen the "gluten-free" labeling on the Sport Beans yet.
The 1 oz bag of Sport Beans are only 100 calories and contain carbs, electrolytes & vitamins B & C. There are 6 different flavors, 2 of which also contain caffeine, if that is your thing. These are a great, portable product to help keep your energy level sustained during those longer runs or bike rides.
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Although Usher and his now-former wife Tameka Foster hit some rough patches that led to their divorce last November, there is one thing they can agree on: their kids.
"We had to put our issues aside and focus on raising them," Usher, 31, recently told People magazine in an interview. "There will never be another mother for my sons, and I'll always be their father."
Both the singer and Foster share custody of their two young sons, Usher V and Naviyd. "Usher [V] is always in everything," he said. "He's an instigator. He's the one who leads his brother astray. I was like that when I was his age."
In contrast, Naviyd follows what his older brother Usher V does. "So if one gets in trouble, the other one does, too," Usher said. "They both have a lot of energy. They can wear me out."
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On why his marriage to Foster ended, the singer said: "We're two different people," he says, "and we have two different goals. It just was never going to work out 100 percent."
Still, the singer, who recently released his latest EP, "Versus," told People he still believes in love. "I believe in marriage. When I fall in love again, everyone will know. I'll sing about it."
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A sustainable ecosystem is a delicate arrangement of relationships, thriving on intertwined elements like biodiversity, a balanced food chain and the cycling of nutrients. The loss of one species or a change in soil chemistry can render the entire system unstable.
The modern concept of sustainable development echoes this interdependence. Increasingly, success in both public and private sector institutions is measured across social, economic and environmental spheres. As in the natural environment, imbalances can lead to business processes that cannot be sustained over the long run.
To take this idea just one step further, modern development - manufacturing, infrastructure projects, building construction and so on - takes place in a vast and interconnected world of systems. Global supply chains, regional regulatory schemes and the emergence of integrated systems like intelligent highways and buildings mean that most materials are produced within overlapping economic, social, regulatory, environmental and material requirements.
And it is at this intersection that standards and sustainability meet.
As documents that specify the performance and properties of processes and materials, standards can promote and encourage sustainable practices. But while the strength of many standards is their specificity, they are written for materials that co-exist with countless others in the man-made world around us. Effectively introducing sustainable practices into standards requires cross-pollination among technical committees and access to helpful resources.
With GreenScene, SN's newest column, we aim to provide readers with a forum on issues that impact sustainability and standardization. What resources are available to help technical committee members consider their work in a broader context? How can ASTM International Committee E60 on Sustainability, a group created in part to support and serve as a resource to other committees, help with your latest sustainability standard? How do sustainable procurement policies impact standardization? How is sustainability being incorporated into material science?
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President Barack Obama is asking Hispanic activists to build a movement outside Washington to push for overhauling immigration, saying he can't do it by himself and Republicans aren't playing along.
He said he remains committed to his unfulfilled promise to rewrite the nation's immigration laws, but offered no timelines as he spoke Monday at the annual conference of a major Hispanic civil rights organization, the National Council of La Raza.
Obama faced a roomful of activists eager for him to do more. Speaking about the high number of deportations that are troubling the Latino community, Obama said he had to enforce the laws that exist and couldn't change them by himself.
The crowd disagreed and shouted, "Yes you can, Yes you can!"
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A smoker's careless disposal of a cigarette or something similar caused an Allston fire last weekend that killed a Boston University student in an overcrowded and illegal home, Boston Fire Department investigators have concluded.
The Sunday fire at 87 Linden St. started in a stairway that had been blocked off on the first floor, but was open on the second floor, the fire department said Thursday. Investigators made the determination based on witness interviews, burn patterns, physical evidence and other factors.
BU senior Binland Lee, 22, died in the three-alarm blaze that broke out about 6:30 a.m. She was found dead in the attic by firefighters. The fire injured 15 people including six firefighters and two BU students.
The city's Inspecial Services Department on Tuesday cited the owner of the building, Anna Belokurova, for having an illegal basement apartment in the home and for overcrowding. City and BU officials said 19 people were living in the two-family home, including nine BU students.
Bryan Glascock, the city's ISD commissioner, told Metro Tuesday that the central stairway of the home, where fire officials determined the fire started, was blocked off and that a lot of debris and items had accumulated there.
While city officials said the home had not been inspected in about 20 years, partly because of an old ordinance that relied on the landlords to call the city for re-inspections, the owner's lawyer said in a statement Wednesday that the building had passed inspection "many times" in the past 10 years.
"First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and BU community who were affected by this tragedy, and we would like to thank the firefighters who responded and worked swiftly to contain the fire," Belokurova's lawyer, Frank Fragomeni Jr., said in a statement. "The safety of Anna Belokurova's tenants has always been her top priority. I have been informed that she had in place 2 leases for the 2 units, one for 7 people and another for 5 people and was proactive in safeguarding the property. The property has also passed inspection many times in the ten years she has owned it. We will continue to provide full cooperation to all agencies, authorities and investigators until the cause of this tragedy is determined."
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This fight left everyone dazed by this sudden outcome. The ninth prince had… stood up?
The Emperor smiled happily, "Old ninth is still quite valiant when he stands." He was the typical person that enjoyed watching exciting things and did not fear them getting out of hand, as he shouted: "Continue fighting! There are so many people watching!"
Xuan Tian Ming curled his lips into a sly smile, "What's the rush? Wait until he is seated properly."
Looking again at Xing Hai Sheng, who had been pushed onto the wheelchair, who knew if he had suffered internal injuries or was truly unaccustomed to sitting in a wheelchair. Upon being seated, he began fidgeting. He felt that the ground definitely was not flat. Otherwise, why would the wheelchair keep spinning without stopping?
The imperial relative angrily shouted: "Why do you not quickly get out of that wheelchair!"
These words were a reminder for Xing Hai Sheng, as his mind cleared up. He then exerted some strength from his dantian to try and soar straight into the air.
Unfortunately, before his butt completely left the wheelchair, Xuan Tian Ming used the butt of his knife to hit his shoulder, slapping him back down.
One wanted to leave the wheelchair, and one wanted to stop him from leaving the wheelchair. Like this, 30 exchanges very quickly passed. Xuan Tian Ming no longer beat around the bush, using the butt of his knife to unsheath the sword that Xing Hai Sheng had never unsheathed. Once the sword was knocked loose, he slashed with his knife at the sword and cut it in two.
"Boring." A certain person cleanly took care of matters then shook his head and said: "Cutting a sword that was borrowed is not very fun. At a later date, you should bring your own weapon to come and fight with this prince once more. Now," He looked at the person sitting in the wheelchair and smiled wickedly, "Now, get up for this prince!"
Once this was said, a figure flashed, and nobody was able to see when exactly the ninth prince had acted nor how he had acted, but they suddenly felt something blur before their eyes. Something ended up being thrown a long distance. That thing was none other than the general from Qian Zhou, Xing Hai Sheng. Xuan Tian Ming threw him out of his own wheelchair then sat down on the wheelchair once more. He then waved in a certain direction: "Heng Heng, come and push this prince."
Feng Yu Heng walked forward with a smile to push the wheelchair. Her small hands, however, took an opportunity to forcefully pinch the back of his neck.
Teach you to fake it!
Feng Yu Heng was unhappy, but there were two people that were even more unhappy. They were the imperial relative and the government official that had come along. The imperial relative then said: "It was clear that your Highness' leg injury has already been healed. Why do you continue to sit in your wheelchair?"
Xuan Tian Ming glanced at him then answered very seriously: "Because I am lazy."
"Hmph!" The imperial relative flicked his sleeve, and his expression became even uglier.
Xuan Tian Ming became puzzled, "How is there any relation between me sitting in this wheelchair and you? Was it you that needed to push it?"
General Ping Nan already found the people from Qian Zhou to be an annoyance, so he also joined in: "That's right. Have we eaten your Qian Zhou's food and slept with your people? You can worry about the heavens and the earth, but why are you worrying about what chair someone else's child sits in?"
These words caused Qian Zhou's imperial relative to become speechless and red in the face, unable to say a single word. Someone had already gone to fetch Xing Hai Sheng. That person did not have the face to continue speaking, so he did not dare say a single word.
Xuan Tian Ming turned to look at the officials on the other side and very unhappily said: "This prince's legs were successfully treated by county princess Ji An. What is it, why do you not say anything?"
The officials then quickly kneeled and said: "These officials congratulate your Highness Prince Yu on the successful recovery of your legs!"
Only then did he nod with satisfaction, "Alright, you may rise." He then looked at the Emperor and said loudly: "Son has caused father Emperor to worry."
"Not worried, not worried!" The Emperor repeatedly waved his hand. They were clearly just words of courtesy, but why did he feel like old ninth's face seemed a little off?
Zhang Yuan poked him and quietly said: "His legs were already injured to that degree, how could not be worried."
Oh! He nodded and quickly changed his tune: "I was worried before, but isn't your wife a divine doctor! Last time, she already ensured Us that your legs would definitely be healed. We even made a bet with this damn eunuch Zhang Yuan. We said that you would be fine by this year. He insisted that it would be next year. He has lost 100 taels of silver to Us. Take a look, it was father Emperor that has the most faith, right?"
Zhang Yuan nearly bit his own tongue off. Your Majesty, in order to appear good in front of your son, you will sell me out like this?
His face sank, as he quietly said to the Emperor: "This servant does not have the money."
"We will award you with a bit later on." Zhang Yuan felt that being able to receive something was quite good, so he nodded with satisfaction. Who knew that the Emperor would add: "After awarding it to you, you can pay Us."
This meant that he would need to die first!
Feng Yu Heng truly could not stand to watch this father-son combo act so shamelessly, so she quickly interjected: "Father Emperor, now that the steel has begun production, I trust that all of the soldiers in Da Shun will be able to hold steel weapons like the one used earlier. At this time in this world, I invite father Emperor to come and visit the military camp."
Xuan Tian Ming also said: "You should visit personally. With 30 thousand steel weapons in hand, that scene would be spectacular and could not be described."
The Emperor was extremely interested from what the two said, nodding repeatedly, "Good! Good! When the steel has been produced, We will personally go over to take a look."
The officials of Da Shun began to discuss things about the steel knife. Feng Jin Yuan wanted to go over a few times to speak with Feng Yu Heng, but seeing her cold expression and how she did not even look at him, he did not have the courage.
At this time, a eunuch quickly ran over and kneeled on the ground, saying: "Reporting to your Majesty, the young grandson of Qian Zhou has been found."
"Oh?" The Emperor asked: "Where was he found? Has he been brought back?"
The eunuch replied: "He was found inside the capital. He has been brought back to the palace."
Qian Zhou's imperial relative heard that his grandson had been found and immediately became emotional, urgently asking: "Where is he? Where is he?"
At this time, on the other side of the square, a sound came from far away: "Grandfather! Kun'er is here!"
Feng Yu Heng trembled, Kun'er? It really was amazing that he could say it.
Following the dwarf's shout, he was brought to the middle of the square. The Emperor looked at the blanket that he had been wrapped up in, and he felt a little strange, "On this hot day, what are you wrapped up in a blanket for?"
The dwarf then dropped to his knees and kowtowed three times to the Emperor. He then said with a complaining voice: "I beg your Majesty to support Kun'er!"
The Emperor was puzzled: "Support you for what?" Thinking a little more, "Oh, I heard that you were kidnapped by someone?"
Qian Zhou's imperial relative went forward and saluted, saying: "The criminal went rampant, and I hope your Majesty will investigate."
The Emperor asked the soldier that brought him forward, "Say, what happened?"
The soldier had noticed the shout from the dwarf, Feng Kun, in front of county princess' manor, so he told everyone about everything that had happened. He then looked at Feng Kun with a very perplexed expression: "I really don't understand why the grandson of Qian Zhou ran off to that desolate corner of the capital. If it was not for running into Lady Yao, perhaps you would have been eaten by a beast, right?"
The imperial relative of Qian Zhou lost it: "What a bunch of nonsense. Did you not hear Kun'er say that he had been kidnapped?"
The soldier rolled his eyes and wondered to himself what an imperial relative of Qian Zhou was doing here in Da Shun and trying to use his prestige. He then threw out a truth: "Lady Yao had come back from the military camp. How could she have time to come to the capital and take away your grandson and return go back. Just looking at the timing, it doesn't make sense!"
Feng Kun quickly took over and said: "It was me that went out on my own to play around. Along the way, I ran into that group of criminals. not only did they hang me from a tree, they also threw me into a river."
"Oh!" The soldier laughed, "This humble subordinate wanted to say along the way to the palace, the imperial grandson is quite fast! Did you go out in the middle of the night to play?"
The Emperor understood what was being said and glared at Feng Kun, asking: "When did you run into Yao shi?"
Feng Kun knew that this lie would not hold up to scrutiny. Under questioning, all kinds of holes would be exposed, thus he quickly pretended to be like a child and played it off, "I forgot."
Qian Zhou's imperial relative had an angry expression, "Your Majesty, Kun'er is still young. Going out to play is considered normal, but that woman, Yao shi, how could she be such a venomous woman. She…"
Unexpectedly, before he could finish speaking, the imperial relative of Qian Zhou felt his vision blur. It was as though something had slapped him. His face then suddenly felt hot, and something seemed to flow down. He subconsciously raised his hand to feel it and actually ended up with a hand covered in blood.
The officials of Da Shun saw this and laughed, saying to themselves that it served him right. Before coming to Da Shun, he did not do his homework. He could insult anyone, yet he chose to insult county princess Ji An's mother? Slapping you is considered a light punishment. There wasn't a steel knife that hit you. Even if you did die, it would be considered just.
Qian Zhou's imperial relative was dazed. Enduring the extreme pain, he searched for the source and immediately saw the whip in Xuan Tian Ming's hand. Angrily opening his mouth, he was about to begin cursing. Before he could even say anything, he heard the Emperor say: "What is it? Are you about to curse at Our ninth child?"
Qian Zhou's imperial relative was stunned and immediately recovered mentally. The reports about Da Shun's ninth prince that never paid attention to what was right or wrong surged into his head. This included the ninth prince how he would favor county princess Ji An. He began to feel afraid. He was from Qian Zhou, yet he had come to Da Shun on his own. This was the equivalent of entering the wolf's den. If he said a single word too much, he would lose his head!
But if he did not speak, he would feel miserable, thus he could only say to the Emperor: "Your Majesty, my Qian Zhou has presented a tribute year after year, and it has always been acting as a vassal state. Why do you…"
"Has it?" Xuan Tian Ming spoke up, "Qian Zhou has the vile heart of a wolf. To say that Lady Yao tied this shorty up and hung him from a tree, how should anyone believe it? This prince will tell you, that's right, that is how it was done. This is all clear, if it was not for madam's kindness, based on what this prince intended, he would have been cut up into pieces and thrown into a pot then boiled up."
"You" Qian Zhou's imperial relative was extremely shocked. Xuan Tian Ming suddenly said such vulgar things, and this left him with a bad premonition. If it was not for the other side having some sort of clue, even the ninth prince would not tear down the face of Qian Zhou so clearly. It had to be known that Kun'er had come to Da Shun as the grandson of Qian Zhou. That was the imperial bloodline!
He realized that things were not good, but he did not have time to understand the reasoning. He quickly went forward and helped Feng Kun up and pulled him into his embrace. Only then did he say: "Forget it, Qian Zhou is a vassal country. Naturally, it cannot compete with Da Shun. Since Kun'er has already been found, this prince will not investigate."
However, whether or not it would be investigated was not something that he could decide, as Xuan Tian Ming added: "This prince does not care if you investigate or not, but there is something that Qian Zhou must explain clearly. Why has Qian Zhou disguised a dwarf as a child and brought him to Da Shun?"


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Acclaimed session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, who played on dozens of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 71.
Norma Sullivan said that Sullivan had died at their home in West Sussex, England, on Tuesday. He suffered from heart disease and diabetes and had stopped performing live recently because of his health problems.
Sullivan learned guitar as a teenager and turned professional when he was just 16. He played with many of the biggest names in British pop at the height of the "Swinging London" era.
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Along with Jimmy Page, who would later star in Led Zeppelin, Sullivan was one of the most in-demand session guitarists of his era. His website lists sessions with the Tom Jones, Marianne Faithfull, David Bowie, Gerry and the Pacemakers and many others. He claimed to have played on more than 1,000 singles that entered the British charts.
Sullivan's website said he joined his first band, the Wildcats, at age 17, in 1958, which he described as "the early days of rock and roll in this country."
He said he and his friends were too busy learning music to do normal teenage things.
He was known for his mastery of a wide variety of styles, from hard rock to country to blues.
"I am a very lucky man," he said on his website. "I am living my life with my hobby as my profession."
Sullivan also toured with Tom Jones's band, playing in Las Vegas casino hotels and on television shows.
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In what is shaping up to be my ongoing series about how Utah's ID requirements prevent perfectly eligible U.S. citizens from renewing their driver licenses, here is a story about how we disqualify members of our U.S. military in the name of ensuring patriotism.
Gaylen Stewart, of Spanish Fork, says his son holds a Utah license but has lived outside the state the past few years because he is on active duty in the U.S. Air Force.
While in California, he passed the necessary tests to add a motorcycle endorsement to his license, but that is only good in California. While in Utah recently, he went to the Driver License Division to add the motorcycle endorsement to his Utah license but was turned down because he couldn't produce two utility or mortgage related bills to prove his place of residence in Utah.
That is because he is in the military and doesn't have a place of residence in Utah.
He since has been transferred to Ohio and is changing his residency to the Buckeye State. Not only does that solve the motorcycle license problem, but as an Ohio resident, he won't have to continue paying income taxes in that state if he is transferred elsewhere. In Utah, military personnel must pay taxes even if they live out of state because of their service.
Sen. David Hinkins, R-Orangeville, is planning to open to open a bill file soon to amend the law that requires two pieces of evidence of current residency in Utah. His amendment will exempt active-duty military who have out-of-state requirements.
"I guess that's why we have a session every year," Hinkins said, "so we can minimize the damage we did the year before."
Meanwhile • Vonetta Fackrell, the 86-year-old woman whose dilemma with the state Driver License Division was featured in my column Friday, has had her problem resolved.
Fackrell was denied a license renewal based on Utah's new ID law because she was born in Canada and couldn't show a document establishing U.S. citizenship when she entered the U.S. with her parents, who were both born here, about 80 years ago.
She has had a Utah driver license for 70 years, been married to her husband, a World War II vet, for 68 years and worked for several years at the Tooele Army Depot. But times have changed, and when she went to renew her license, she was told she was an "illegal alien."
But Nannette Rolfe, director of the division, has since contacted Fackrell, had her come into the office and, based on other identification Fackrell could produce, was able to declare she had satisfied the proof of her citizenship, so she renewed her ID.
Praying is bipartisan • So now that Mormon Democrats have answered the call of their pro-Mitt Romney counterparts by calling for their own day of fasting and praying on Sunday, it will be interesting to see whom God favors most.
LDS Romney supporters had no doubt whom God favored when they sent emails to followers in several states calling for a day of fasting and praying to help Romney win the presidential debates. He won the first debate, undoubtedly strengthening the testimony of those participants.
But then he lost the war.
The Mormon Democrats have a different message. They want their followers to fast and pray "to help all Americans to render proper respect to those we have chosen to lead us, regardless of whom they personally voted for and help those so chosen to earn that respect."
What a concept!
The LDS Church, by the way, did not officially take sides in the election.
Causing a laundry emergency? • Roland Brimley is a CPA in Salt Lake City who assists taxpayers with problems they have with the IRS. He recently received this response from the IRS office in Ogden that acknowledged his claim that a late penalty should not be imposed on his client because a proper extension had been filed:
"We apologize for any incontinence this may have caused you."