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Hanami (花見?, "flower viewing") is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers, flowers are ("hana") in this case almost always referring to those of the cherry ("sakura") or, less frequently, plum ("ume") trees.[1] From the end of March to early May, sakura bloom all over Japan,[2] and around the first of February on the island of Okinawa.[3] The blossom forecast (桜前線 sakura-zensen?) "cherry blossom front" is announced each year by the weather bureau, and is watched carefully by those planning hanami as the blossoms only last a week or two. In modern-day Japan, hanami mostly consists of having an outdoor party beneath the sakura during daytime or at night. In some contexts the Sino-Japanese term kan'ō (観桜?, view-cherry) is used instead, particularly for festivals. Hanami at night is called yozakura (夜桜?) "night sakura". In many places such as Ueno Park temporary paper lanterns are hung for the purpose of yozakura. On the island of Okinawa, decorative electric lanterns are hung in the trees for evening enjoyment, such as on the trees ascending Mt. Yae, near Motobu Town, or at the Nakijin Castle.
A more ancient form of hanami also exists in Japan, which is enjoying the plum blossoms (梅 ume) instead, which is narrowly referred to as umemi (梅見?, plum-viewing). This kind of hanami is popular among older people, because they are calmer than the sakura parties, which usually involve younger people and can sometimes be very crowded and noisy.
In these spring days,
when tranquil light encompasses
the four directions,
why do the blossoms scatter
with such uneasy hearts?
The practice of hanami is many centuries old. The custom is said to have started during the Nara period (710–794) when it was ume blossoms that people admired in the beginning. But by the Heian period (794–1185), sakura came to attract more attention and hanami was synonymous with sakura.[5] From then on, in both waka and haiku, "flowers" meant "sakura."[6][7]
Hanami was first used as a term analogous to cherry blossom viewing in the Heian era novel The Tale of Genji. Although a wisteria viewing party was also described, the terms "hanami" and "flower party" were subsequently used only in reference to cherry blossom viewing.
Sakura originally was used to divine that year's harvest as well as announce the rice-planting season. People believed in kami inside the trees and made offerings. Afterwards, they partook of the offering with sake.
Emperor Saga of the Heian period adopted this practice, and held flower-viewing parties with sake and feasts underneath the blossoming boughs of sakura trees in the Imperial Court in Kyoto. Poems would be written praising the delicate flowers, which were seen as a metaphor for life itself, luminous and beautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral. This was said to be the origin of Hanami in Japan.
The custom was originally limited to the elite of the Imperial Court, but soon spread to samurai society and, by the Edo period, to the common people as well. Tokugawa Yoshimune planted areas of cherry blossom trees to encourage this. Under the sakura trees, people had lunch and drank sake in cheerful feasts.
The teasing proverb dumplings rather than flowers (花より団子 hana yori dango?) hints at the real priorities for most cherry blossom viewers, meaning that people are more interested in the food and drinks accompanying a hanami party than actually viewing the flowers themselves.[8][9]
Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees! is a popular saying about hanami, after the opening sentence of the 1925 short story "Under the Cherry Trees" by Motojirō Kajii.
If there were no cherry blossoms in this world
How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.
Ukiyo-e painting from The Tale of Genji, chapter 20 Hana no En, "Under the Cherry Blossoms", by artist Kunisada (1852)
Cherry Blossom Viewing Picnic, ca. 1624–1644. Edo period, Kan'ei Era. Ink, color and gold leaf on paper, Brooklyn Museum
Ladies in the Edo palace enjoying cherry blossoms, Toyohara Chikanobu.(1894)
Evening Banquet for Cherry-blossom Viewing at the Rokujô Palace (Rokujô gosho hanami no yûen)Kunisada.(1855)
The Japanese people continue the tradition of hanami, gathering in great numbers wherever the flowering trees are found. Thousands of people fill the parks to hold feasts under the flowering trees, and sometimes these parties go on until late at night. In more than half of Japan, the cherry blossoming days come at the same time as the beginning of school and work after vacation, and so welcoming parties are often opened with hanami. Usually, people go to the parks to keep the best places to celebrate hanami with friends, family, and company coworkers many hours or even days before. In cities like Tokyo, it is also common to have celebrations under the sakura at night. Hanami at night is called yozakura (夜桜, "night sakura"). In many places such as Ueno Park, temporary paper lanterns are hung to have yozakura.
The cherry blossom front is forecast each year, previously by the Japan Meteorological Agency and now by private agencies, and is watched with attention by those who plan to celebrate hanami because the blossoms last for very little time, usually no more than two weeks. The first cherry blossoms happen in the subtropical southern islands of Okinawa, while on the northern island of Hokkaido, they bloom much later. In most large cities like Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, the cherry blossom season normally takes place around the end of March and the beginning of April. The television and newspapers closely follow this "cherry blossom front", as it slowly moves from South to North.[11]
The hanami celebrations usually involve eating and drinking, and playing and listening to music. Some special dishes are prepared and eaten at the occasion, like dango and bento, and sake is commonly drunk as part of the festivity.
Hanami through the "Tunnel" at Japan Mint in Osaka, 2016
(video) Hanami picknickers in Bunkyō, 2015
Hanami at Maruyama Park behind Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, 2014
Hanami parties along the Kamo River, 2005
Outside Japan[edit]
Smaller hanami celebrations take place in Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, and China.[12]
In the United States, hanami has also become very popular. In 1912, Japan gave 3,000 sakura trees as a gift to the United States to celebrate the nations' friendship. These trees were planted in Washington, D.C., and another 3,800 trees were donated in 1965.[13] These sakura trees continue to be a popular tourist attraction, and every year, the "National Cherry Blossom Festival" takes place when they bloom in early spring.[14]
In Macon, Georgia, another cherry blossom festival called the "International Cherry Blossom Festival" is celebrated every spring. Macon is known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World", because 300,000 sakura trees grow there.[15]
In Brooklyn, New York, the "Annual Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival" takes place in May, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.[16] This festivity has been celebrated since 1981, and is one of the Garden's most famous attractions. Similar celebrations are also held in Philadelphia[17] and other places through the United States.
The largest collection of sakura in the United States is in Newark, New Jersey's Branch Brook Park, whose over 4,000 cherry trees attract 10,000 visitors a day during its annual Cherry Blossom Festival.[18]
Hanami is also celebrated in several European countries. For example, in Finland people gather to celebrate hanami in Helsinki at Roihuvuori. Local Japanese people and companies have donated 200 cherry trees which are all planted in Kirsikkapuisto. Those cherry trees usually bloom in mid-May.
In Rome, in Italy, the hanami is celebrated in the park of the Eur, where are a lot of cherry trees were donated by Japan in 1959.[19]
See also[edit]
- Momijigari, autumn leaf viewing
- Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia
- Tsukimi, moon viewing
- ^ Sosnoski, Daniel (1996). Introduction to Japanese culture. Tuttle Publishing. p. 12. ISBN 0-8048-2056-2.
- ^ "Cherry blossom forecast" (in Japanese). Weather Map.
- ^ "Okinawa Cherry Festivals".
- ^ Pictures of the heart: the hyakunin isshu in word and image, University of Hawaii Press, 1996, By Joshua S. Mostow, page 105
- ^ Brooklyn Botanic Garden (2006). Mizue Sawano: The Art of the Cherry Tree. Brooklyn Botanic Garden. p. 12. ISBN 1-889538-25-6.
- ^ Hoffman, Michael, "Sakura: Soul of Japan", "Petals 'perfect beyond belief' stir poetic", Japan Times, 25 March 2012, p. 7.
- ^ Inoki, Linda, "Tracing the trees in a long national love affair", The Japan Times, 25 March 2012, p. 7.
- ^ Buchanan, Daniel Crump (1973). Japanese Proverbs and Sayings. University of Oklahoma Pres. p. 175. ISBN 0-8061-1082-1.
- ^ Trimnell, Edward (2004). Tigers, Devils, and Fools: A Guide to Japanese Proverbs. Beechmont Crest Publishing. p. 41. ISBN 0-9748330-2-9.
- ^ "Cherry Blossom Viewing". Japan Mint. Retrieved August 14, 2007.
- ^ Akasegawa, Genpei (2000). Sennin no sakura, zokujin no sakura: Nippon kaibo kiko (in Japanese). Osaka Seikei University, Kyoto, Japan: JTB Nihon Kotsu Kosha Shuppan Jigyokyoku. ISBN 978-4-533-01983-8.
As cherry blossom front comes up, the whole Japan goes into a war; we just can't sit home and let it go.
- ^ "Spring flower festival events". Seoul Metropolitan Government. Retrieved August 18, 2007.
- ^ "HISTORY OF THE CHERRY TREES". National Park Service, United States.
- ^ "National Cherry Blossom Festiva". Official Site. Retrieved August 16, 2007.
- ^ "International Cherry Blossom Festival Online". Official Site. Retrieved August 16, 2007.
- ^ "Brooklyn Botanic Garden Celebrates Hanami". Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia". Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "Branch Brook Park FAQs". Retrieved March 26, 2016.
- ^ ""Passeggiata del Giappone"".
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hanami. |
- Hanami in Philadelphia! Information on the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia
- Hanami Documentary produced by Oregon Field Guide
- Hanami in Japan! Information on Hanami and other annual events across Japan.
- Hanami Fun Facts — Japanzine:Field Guide to Japan by Zack Davisson
- Hanami Manners 101 — Japanzine by Emily Millar
- Kyotoview — Hanami In Kyoto
- Blossoms in Japan Yearly map of blossoms in Japan (in Japanese but the map should be understandable by all)


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Condé Nast shutters House & Garden
in surprise move
Now, here's a stunner. House & Garden is folding. The 106-year-old H & G, which once boldly bestrode the industry and which has a circulation of nearly a million, will cease publication after its December issue and lay off its staff, it was announced today by Charles H. Townsend, the president of Condé Nast. In an unusual move, the magazine's website is also being closed down.
No attempt was made to sell the magazine, which has been struggling against other titles such as Metropolitan Home and Condé Nast's own Vogue Living as well as the burgeoning number of shelter titles."House & Garden has a long and venerable history within Condé Nast," Townsend said in a statement, reported on Folio: magazine's website. "This has been a difficult decision to come to but we feel it is one that must be made at this time. I would like to thank Dominique Browning and the entire staff for their award-winning efforts throughout the years. House and Garden's intelligent and graceful editorial attracted a loyal readership. We were proud to publish it." The staff numbered less than 100, according to a Condé Nast spokesperson.
Joe Lagani, the magazine's publisher, left House & Garden last month for a high-level position at GlamLiving, part of the burgeoning online portal startup Glam Media. According to a source close to the company, several candidates to replace Lagani were considered. "There had been some conversations," the source says.
"With the unexpected departure of the publisher of the magazine, we decided to take a serious look and re-evaluate the title," Townsend continued. "Our investment in House & Garden throughout the years has been substantial and we no longer believe it is a viable business investment for the company." Lagani was named Condé Nast's "Turnaround Publisher of the Year" in 2006.
Through September, House & Garden's advertising revenue is up 9.5 percent to $68.2 million, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. Ad pages, however, are down 1.4 percent. The magazine's average paid monthly circulation during the first half of the year was 976,443, an increase of nearly seven percent over 2006, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Single copy sales, however, have decreased every year since 2003, according to ABC figures. Through June, single copy sales (48,732) were down 4.3 percent for the period and 42 percent since 2002.
The company now says it will focus on its other home and lifestyle titles, including Architectural Digest, Domino—a magazine that was seen, at least internally, as a threat to House & Garden since its 2004 launch—and Vogue Living, which will increase its frequency in 2008.
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Ann (ANN) announced that earnings increased by 26 percent during the fiscal third quarter due to better sales at Ann Taylor retail outlets. Earnings were $40.7 million, or 84 cents per share, up from $32.3 million, or 61 cents per share, in the same period last year. Revenue increased by nine percent to $612.5 million from $564 million. Revenue from Ann Taylor locations increased by six percent to $244.6 million, whiled Ann Taylor Loft revenue increased by 10 percent to $368 million during the quarter. Same
store sales increased companywide by 5.5 percent. Analysts had forecast a profit of 75 cents per share on $606.1 million in revenue.
Shares are higher by about 7.5 percent.
JoS. A. Bank Clothiers (JOSB) announced that it earned $13.3 million, or 47 cents per share, in the most recent fiscal quarter, versus $15 million, or 54 cents per share, in the same period last year. Revenue increased by 11 percent to $232.9 million.
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Los Angeles area experts discuss dog training
Who we talked to
Penny Whisler, marketing director
Paradise Ranch
10268 La Tuna Canyon Road
Sun Valley
Julie Sterling, owner and trainer
Julie Sterling Dog Training
Pacific Palisades
Caryl Wolff, dog trainer
Doggie Manners
Los Angeles
What services do you offer?
Penny Whisler: "We offer cat and dog boarding, weekend group training, on-leash and off-leash training, day care, grooming, birthday parties for the animals and pet souvenir pictures."
Julie Sterling: "I create well-mannered household pets. I offer beginning and advanced in-home private training, group classes and a boot camp program. I do mostly in-home private training."
Caryl Wolff: "Dog training, dog behavior modification and boarding. I'm currently training an assistant dog for an autistic child."
Why should people hire an animal trainer?
Penny Whisler: "People don't want unruly dogs in their home, chewing up furniture and ruling the house."
Julie Sterling: "They can learn how to manage their dog so when it grows up, the dog is a well-behaved, pleasant family member."
Caryl Wolff: "Most dogs don't know how to be dogs in a human world. People have difficulty bridging the gap to communicate with their dog."
What methods of training do you use?
Penny Whisler: "Rewarding the dog with love and praise. We don't do treat training."
Julie Sterling: "Clicker training. It's a method that relies primarily on positive reinforcement and not physical dominance."
Caryl Wolff: "I use positive reinforcement with treats, praise, petting - whatever works."
Do you train both the pet and owner?
Penny Whisler: "Yes, we train the pet first and then the owner so they can keep it up at home."
Julie Sterling: "Yes, you have to. I can put a lot of training into the dog, but I then have to instruct the owners."
Caryl Wolff: "I train mostly the owner - the dog's the easy part. Owners have baggage while dogs get stuff right away."
How do you charge, and what is the cost?
Penny Whisler "Group classes are $300 for eight Saturday sessions. It's $2,200 for 22 days of individual training."
Julie Sterling: "I do a package of six private lessons for $800. Group classes are $200 per dog and we meet six times over six weeks, while the boot camp classes are $1,500 per month."
Caryl Wolff: "I offer five lessons starting at $595. I have a combination of one private session and four puppy classes for $295 or one private session and five obedience classes for $325."
Can you teach an old pet new tricks?
Penny Whisler: "Yes."
Julie Sterling: "Yes, you can motivate behavior at any age."
Caryl Wolff: "If you can learn something new every day, so can your dog."


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John Carter Causing Write-down
It has recently been revealed in a report that a write-down is going to be incurred by Walt Disney, for a sum of $200m. This is going to be for John Carter, the recent movie. The movie had a huge $300m budget as well as promotion and marketing done throughout the world, but it failed to do well at the box office. The movie is based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The movie is actually about a civil war hero from America. He goes to Mars and has a series of adventures there. This has been one of the costliest flop movies in Hollywood in the recent times, and the brunt of the same is being borne by the people who have spent on the making of the magnum opus.
The write-down is definitely a blow for the chairman of the Walt Disney studios, Mr. Rich Ross, who has continued his efforts of trying to improve the returns they are getting after the restructuring.
"You never really know what a budget is for any of these films because Hollywood isn't very open with its numbers. Directionally, though, these are definitely near the top of any list of worst films", said Keith Simanton, managing editor of IMDb.


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Vijay Singh has gotten off to a superb start in his bid to win the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational.
The Fijian, who began his fourth round in a tie for first on eight under par with Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson, has picked up a further three strokes in his first eight holes.
Combined with the slower pace of his challengers – playing partner Westwood is level for the day and Mickelson is two under through eight – Singh currently holds a one shot advantage at the top.
His fine form began with a birdie at the second before he added further strokes at the third and fourth to reach 11 under.
Another birdie followed at the fifth sixth to put daylight between him and Mickelson, who birdied the par five second and par three fifth, but a bogey at the eighth reduced his lead to one.
Westwood, meanwhile, got off to a fine start but has faltered. He opened with a pair of birdies, but a bogey at the fourth and a double bogey five at the seventh derailed his charge. A birdie at the eighth brought him back to eight under, three off the pace.
Australia's Peter Lonard proved his credentials by claiming four strokes in his first 15 holes, leaving on seven under.
He is joined by South Africa's Retief Goosen and Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke, who are two under and three under respectively after ten holes.
England's Paul Casey has set the clubhouse target at six under par after shooting a superb final round score of 65, while Henrik Stenson finished two under alongside K J Choi.
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Last week, IATP convened a high-level panel at the WTO Public Forum titled: "The Food Price Explosion: What Can the WTO Do?" The idea was to further a debate on the WTO's role in the food crisis, with some world leaders identifying the completion of the Doha Round to further liberalize global trade as part of the solution, while others, starting with civil society representatives, arguing that the model promoted by the Doha Round is partially responsible for the food crisis.
We put together a panel that represented these different perspectives, trying to base the discussion on facts and figures so as to identify possible bridges between various approaches. Hoping to reconcile such "schizophrenic" (in the words of one of the speakers) approaches in two hours would have been overly ambitious. What came clearly out of the discussion were two main points:
Below are some quotes from the panel. You can listen to the entire session (a little less than 2 hours) by clicking here.
Arze Glipo, convener of the Asia Pacific Network for Food Sovereignty, said:
"Long before food prices actually exploded, a long running agrarian crisis fueled by the development strategy of trade liberalization had already deprived millions of poor people access to their food entitlements (…). And on the other hand, the power of global corporations expanded enormously under globalization. Transnational agribusiness corporations such as Cargill or ADM have even made a killing out of the food crisis."
"Agriculture needs to return to its function as provider of life rather than a source of huge profits for transnational corporations."
Brad McDonald, representative for the International Monetary Fund in Geneva, stressed:
"Speculation can in principle increase or reduce futures prices and spot prices from the levels justified by fundamentals. Whether that possibility has been a reality is an empirical question that must be examined carefully using actual data of course. Speculative positions and commodity prices have indeed moved together; they are positively correlated. The interesting question then becomes whether there is a causal link between the two and, if so, in which direction. . .Statistical analysis, at least so far, finds little evidence that speculation has been behind the increase in food prices"
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, highlighted:
"The problem is not so much high prices per se. Rather, the problem is the unpreparedness of States who have been addicted to cheap food and who have under-invested in agriculture as a result."
"I will be preparing a report on the impact of the WTO on the right to food and I will very much put forward the need to anticipate the risk that because of their trade commitments, States might be obliged to sacrifice their obligations towards the right to food and this may not be allowed to happen; they must have the policy space necessary for them to protect the rights of their populations."
Ambassador Ujal Singh Bhatia, Permanent Representative for India to the WTO, added:
"As things stand, the [Doha] Round cannot be expected to deliver a major outcome for expanding food production in developing countries or for addressing the food crisis in any substantial manner. Conversely, those who expect the Doha Round to worsen the global food situation perhaps give it too much credit."
"The challenge of food security requires distributional interventions as much as production incentives. In developing countries, governments have to retain the power to maintain price stability in the interest of producers as well as consumers."
Wally Smith, vice president, Dairy Farmers of Canada, said:
"I can assure you that Canadian supply managed farmers stand behind India and the developing countries in their effort to protect through SSM their farmers and their production vehicle."
"Regulated systems like supply management provide better solutions and help prevent significant price instability. Our unique Canadian supply management experience is one example of how a country can effectively keep the lid on inflation for consumers, because according to official estimates, Canadian consumers paid 3 percent more this year for dairy products in a context of rising prices. However in contrast, consumers in France, Europe and the U.S. saw double digit increases for both eggs and dairy products in their countries."
As election season hits high gear, what should candidates be talking about regarding the future of our food and farm system? The Backbone Campaign is trying to elevate the political discourse by asking various experts to pose questions to all candidates.
You can go here to listen to IATP President Jim Harkness on the challenges facing our food and farming system heading into 2009.
Jim's commentary is drawn from an article IATP contributed to an essay collection from leading progressive think tanks, led by the Institute for Policy Studies, on important first steps for the next administration, to be released following the election. Last week, IATP contributed ideas on how the U.S. could rejoin the global community in the collaborative report, New Progressive Voices.
I've probably heard and read dozens of times over the past two weeks that this is the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. Our stock market and confidence in the banking system are allegedly on the brink of a 1929-style collapse.
But what is fascinating and somewhat alarming is how our collective perception of the economy has shifted in the past 75 years. In the early 20th century, agriculture was the backbone of the country. When commodity prices went south, people suffered. And the effects went well beyond the farm gate because farm income provided the capital for businesses in rural communities all over the country. The lack of jobs and farm income resulted in poverty and hunger.
Now, instead of an economy built on the labor of farmers and manufacturing, the backbone is perceived to be Wall Street. Debt and financial instruments are the new wheat and corn. The rising costs of housing, food and gasoline have been a concern for a few years, but it took the collapse of financial institutions to create a national panic. The proposed solutions to this crisis by Congress and the Bush administration are much different than the response in the 1930s.
Seventy-five years ago, the New Deal focused on getting people back to work and getting farmers a fair price for their commodities. Nowadays, the solutions largely revolve around assuring adequate assets in financial markets, and bolstering domestic and global confidence in our financial institutions. I'm glad that a poor farm economy, like the downturn in the late 1990s and early 2000s, no longer devastates the country, but perhaps we've drifted too far from a Main Street focus to a Wall Street focus.
I have no idea if using $700 billion to provide Wall Street this assurance is the best way of avoiding a financial crisis. But it is striking how much the current focus is on a top-down approach of fixing global markets rather than the previous grassroots approach of getting adequate income back into workers' pockets. With such an emphasis on financial indicators such as stock prices, currency valuations and interest rates rather than focusing on the well-being of workers and families, the 21st century New Deal may be missing the forest for the trees.
New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the health risks from the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in many plastic and children's products, highlights the challenge for consumers to find safer plastics.
To help consumers navigate the myriad of choices they face in the marketplace, IATP yesterday released two new consumer guides:
1-- Smart Plastics Guide: Healthier Food Uses of Plastics. This is an updated version of our most popular consumer guide, also known as the publication that crashed our server when it appeared on the Today Show and the entire viewing audience decided to download it at once. The new Smart Plastics Guide includes the latest science and marketplace developments to help consumers make wise choices about the types of plastics they purchase. The guide includes information on all seven labels for plastic products, health and environmental risks of chemicals used in plastics, the latest on green chemistry and 10 tips for safer use of plastics in storing food. And because there are so few resources out there for consumers on plastics, we also have produced a Common Questions and Answers to accompany the Smart Plastics Guide
2-- Guide to Safe Children's Products. Co-produced with the Minnesota-based public health coalition Healthy Legacy, this guide helps parents learn about synthetic chemicals commonly used in children's products (and how to avoid them). It includes a full-page insert on safer children's products ranging from baby bottles, utensils, pacifiers, teethers and more.
As IATP's Kathleen Schuler said in our press release, "Ultimately, consumers shouldn't need these safe product resources. But as we are eagerly anticipating government regulation of these toxic chemicals, we wanted to provide consumers with a way to make smart and safe choices for their families."
IATP's contribution to a new report from the Progressives Ideas Network, New Progressive Voices: Values and Policies for the 21st Century, addresses the need for the U.S. to re-engage with the world. The report is intended to be a guide for the next administration as it tackles the big problems facing the nation. Recent events, including the collapse of the credit system and continued speculation in the commodity markets, drive home the pressing need for new voices to save us from the failed arguments of market fundamentals—or as George Soros puts it, "the belief that markets assure the best allocation of resources." The "market" has yet again given ordinary citizens and the world's poor a massive $700 billion bill for its greed and avarice.
To be honest, IATP's contribution to the New Progressive Voices is not so much new ideas as it is common sense thinking based on historical experience. One would think that being an active player in global issues would be an obvious goal for the U.S. in a period of serious challenges that can only be solved through global cooperation. The Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive war along with a "go-it-alone" approach to international problems has left the nation isolated and distrusted in the world.
A recent New York Times article by Adam Liptak—The Supreme Court, Long a Beacon, Guides Fewer Nations—indicates how far-removed we have become. The article paints a disturbing picture of the decline of U.S. Constitutional law as a model for the world. Citing a number of studies by researchers in the U.S. and abroad, Liptak reveals a worldwide shift away from respect for U.S. constitutional law. A New York Times survey of the Canadian Supreme Court found the U.S. Supreme Court cited 12 times a year between 1990 and 2002. In the last six years, the annual citation rate has fallen to six. In the field of human rights law, where the U.S. had been a leader for decades, "foreign courts in developed democracies often cite the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights in cases concerning equality, liberty and prohibitions against cruel treatment," according to Harold Koh, dean of the Yale Law School.
In New Voices, IATP calls for the next administration to take on a broad range of common sense alternatives to the notion that the "the market knows best," including a proposal to create a new global food convention to address issues of food security, hunger and market stability. If any proof is needed for why this proposal is long overdue, the announcement by the UN on September 19 that 17 million people in the Horn of Africa urgently need food should help focus our attention. This represents an increase of nine million in the number of people at risk of starvation since May of this year. Is the world callously waiting to see the gruesome sight of millions of hungry people suffering and dying? That there is more than enough food in the world to prevent this sort of crisis is universally recognized.
In the New Progressive Voices report, IATP's proposal for a global food convention includes the establishment of worldwide grain reserves to prevent price instability and starvation. The idea of grain reserves is as old as time. The U.S. had adequate reserves until Nixon came along. By the time Reagan came in preaching the blessings of the market, it was just a matter of sweeping out the bins to put an end to our reserves. In 1990, Republican Kent Conrad of North Dakota drafted one of the last bills calling for the re-establishment of our grain reserves, but it never saw the light of day.
IATP's contribution to New Progressive Voices proposes solutions to global problems created by unregulated global markets. The next administration must work with the world community to put an end to market volatility in food and agriculture. When market fundamentals fail the credit system, there is little hesitation by government to act to save large financial institutions. When whole regions of the world are threatened with hunger and starvation, it is only common sense that we act together to find sustainable long-term solutions. Let's hope somebody is listening to the New Voices.
Listen to a New Voice: Jim Harkness, President, IATP
IATP's Alexandra Strickner is blogging from the fifth European Social Forum taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from September 17-21.
Given the current social and ecological crisis facing the food system in Europe and elsewhere, the Assembly on Food Sovereignty held during the 5th European Social Forum in Malmö decided to work together to build a European movement for food sovereignty. Participants to the assembly included the European Coordination Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth Europe, Attac groups from different European countries, civil society groups working on genetically modified organisms and for a moratorium on agrofuels, Red FAL (a network of local communities working toward sustainable local food economies) and consumer groups. The participants of the assembly concluded that in order to move toward food sovereignty in Europe, the development and construction of a socially and ecologically sustainable food system is needed. In addition, key European policies regulating the food system and agricultural production must be strengthened and reformed.
The current Wall Street financial crisis has me thinking about potential parallels to food. Not long ago, the vast majority of Americans had little choice but to consume a diet dominated by industrially produced food. We were becoming the culture of Wonder Bread. But then some alternative ideas started to break through. Environmental groups raised concerns about the chemicals used in agriculture and the impact those chemicals had on soil, water and health. "Foodies" sought heirloom varieties of vegetables, heritage breeds of livestock, pasture-raised animals, locally produced foods and other culinary treasures. Community leaders recognized the quality of life benefits of agricultural open space, farmers markets and localized food systems. We still have a food system dominated by the centralized, industrial production model, but we also have local food, organic food, slow food, and many other labels and initiatives. People now have more choice in the food marketplace.
This exciting new food system is developing and booming because of the growing recognition that food is more than the body's delivery system of protein, fats and carbohydrates. Appropriately produced food can provide many other benefits to communities, ecosystems and economies. Perhaps this is the reason that so many cultures and religions consider food to be sacred and perform rituals around food <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> —the benefits of good food are too numerous and far reaching to be quantified.
Money, on the other hand, is rarely thought of in such lofty terms. It is perceived to be simply a vehicle for facilitating commerce. And just like industrial farm equipment continues to get larger and more complicated, it has become even more difficult to comprehend exotic mortgages, derivatives and other schemes of finance.
Perhaps the looming financial collapse will create new relationships with money and more opportunities for people who want to avoid supporting the bizarre money-making schemes of Wall Street. Just as consumers now have a better opportunity to buy into local food systems, the time is ripe for a more localized money system that re-circulates money within the community. Will I soon be able to purchase a mortgage, insurance policies, and car loans with assurance that my loans and investments are being used to help others locally? Given what is happening on the international financial scene, I would pay a little more for that alternative.
A Dow Jones story last week, titled "FDA To Face Public Upbraiding Over Ingredient In Plastic," points to a longstanding contradiction between what federal regulators consider good science and what scientists consider to be good science.
This latest example revolves around Bisphenol A (BPA), the synthetic estrogen put into the polycarbonate plastic found in baby bottles, water bottles and the liners of some food and infant formula cans. BPA isn't bound within the plastic, so with heating or normal wear it leaches out into the food, breast milk, formula or water in these containers.
The disagreement between the FDA and the scientific community seems to be about whether or not this is okay. The FDA claims there is no science indicating that BPA poses a risk to humans. That's because the FDA only considers the science (i.e. toxicity studies) submitted to it by pharmaceutical companies or plastics manufacturers using something called Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). GLP criteria are those ensuring cleanliness and good hygiene in the industry-operated labs or the labs they have paid to conduct the studies.
GLP does not address at all whether the work actually done by the labs is well-designed, has answered the "right" questions from a public health standpoint, or even whether the study sent to the FDA accurately reports what happened in the lab - i.e. the experimental outcomes.
On the other hand, academic laboratories don't go to the trouble or great expense of getting themselves certified as using GLP. The quality of their work is ensured by the fact that it's peer-reviewed, submitted for publication and the results are made publicly available.
The not-so-funny result is that the FDA ignored hundreds of published scientific studies suggesting that BPA does pose a risk to humans, and relied instead on two industry-funded studies that were negative, but which did use Good Laboratory Practice.
What the industry studies didn't use were the most up-to-date, sensitive techniques for measuring potential effects from exposure to BPA. This isn't uncommon. In fact, it's typical that the requirements codified into law that dictate which tests of chemical or product safety federal regulators require of manufacturers are scientifically out-of-date. The science of testing is ever-evolving; chemical regulations often aren't revised for decades. In fact, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the chief law regulating industrial chemicals, hasn't been revised since 1976.
Similarly, the EPA acknowledges there are some 140 approved pesticides that it now considers toxic to the brain and nervous system. Under the code of federal regulations, however, the EPA still doesn't require that new pesticides be tested for neurotoxicity before being put on the market. The EPA doesn't require that any chemical--industrial or pesticide--be tested for its potential to damage the young, developing brain before being put on the market.
So, the next time you read a warning from scientists that some common chemical or pesticide may not be safe, followed by assurances from the industry that the FDA or EPA has called it "safe," know this: both are right, depending on their view of what constitutes "safety" or good science.
Independent scientists are saying that the latest published science raises new concerns (or strengthens longstanding suspicions) about a chemical product already on the market. Industry, meanwhile, is saying that the chemical has been tested and passed the weak and often outdated testing standards that the FDA or EPA has set for them.
That's why a regulator's notion of "safe" may not pass a parent's laugh test.
David Wallinga, M.D. is a physician and Director of the Food and Health Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis.


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Men may not be from Mars and women may not be from Venus, but that doesn't mean the sexes have the same wiring. Dr. Ruben Gur and his wife, Dr. Raquel Gur, two of the world's premier experts on gender differences in the human brain, have been studying men and women for more than 30 years. The neuroscientists were the first to show, with brain imaging methods, that the sexes may not have the same hard wiring, after all.
"A lot of the differences between men and women are related to how they are built rather than how they are taught," says Dr. Ruben Gur who works with his wife at the Brain Behavior Center of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Psychiatry.
Using an MRI scanner, the couple monitors how the brains of males and females react when their volunteers are instructed to answer emotional, verbal, and spatial questions. "Estrogen and progesterone are likely to be important factors when we talk about biological differences, but it is likely to go even beyond that," says Dr. Raquel Gur.
For TODAY, Dr. Nancy Snyderman asked the doctors to use their MRI test on her and her husband, Doug, to see if their brains work differently. The results were, well, mind opening.
It turns out that Dr. Snyderman was able to decipher someone's emotions from his facial expressions much more easily than Doug. His brain had to work harder.
Do you think you and your partner also think differently?
If you would like to participate in the doctors' study, you can take a test. Just click on the link below. Dr. Gur created a test especially for TODAY viewers. The test asks spatial and emotional questions. He will release the results during the first week of January on the study's page. So check back next year to see how the show's are wired.
The doctors believe this research will help them figure out how certain mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated in the early stages. They are particularly interested in depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), schizophrenia, autism, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease.
We know less about the brain than probably any other organ in the body. This kind of research may change that.
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Producer Mudassar Aziz chooses to work with Raveena Tandon than ex-girlfriend Sushmita Sen in his next film
The gorgeous Sushmita Sen has been away from the limelight for eons. Besides her I Am She venture, the actor hardly falls in our visibility map. She was last spotted in duds like No Problem and Dulha Mil Gaya and has not tasted a solo-success for very long. The talks of her ambitious project Rani Laxmibai keep cropping up. But, it seems, the film is nowhere near its inception. A little birdie from B'Town informs us that Miss Sen's ex-boyfriend, Mudassar Aziz, who made Dulha Mil Gaya with the feisty actor, has chosen Raveena Tandon for his upcoming film titled Gin Liya Aasmaan. Sushmita was allegedly seeing Mudassar while they were shooting Dulha Mil Gaya and the couple called it off shortly prior to the release of the movie. Sush who was the main protagonist of the film was completely aloof during the promotions of the film. Well, that could be one of the reasons why Raveena has bagged the lead role in Aziz's next. Sushmita is known for living life on her own terms, but in an industry that thrives on camp-loyalty and cluster-politics, she needs to reconsider her stance. After all, we want her million-dollar smile back on the screen, wooing us all over again now, don't we?


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Justin Bieber Lip Sync /Lip Singing. So what!!
Justin Bieber don't usually lip sync or lip singing. But this time, when he was performing "Baby", @Lets Dance 2010 in UK, he did lip singing. So what??
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Ah, this is the closest I could get to Spring Training baseball this year - a preseason exhibition game at Turner Field! All upper deck tix were $5, so we got a handful of friends together (and told some other friends to meet us in 410) and took off!
Sadly, traffic was way-bad on this Good Friday and B and I got there so late that we completely missed Braves BP! Lizziebeth got in the gates on time, so hopefully she'll have some pics to share. :) I did snag a shot of Curaçao natives Jair and Andruw chatting in CF between their BP sessions, which was super-cool. Andruw hit some bombs in BP - pic 1, pic 2 - as Ozzie Guillen mentioned, we forget sometimes that Andruw's only 32! It was fun to see him again.
Lauren: "Look, it's Tommy Glavine!" Lizziebeth: "How did you SEE him?" Heh, I don't know. Pretty random, right? This whole post is going to be pretty random. Please bear with me. :)
We have a new bromance! I love Heyward & Freeman. They're so fun to watch, and I really wish we had a spot for Freddie in the Big Club this year, but his time will come. For now, I took far too many pictures of them warming up together! And maybe a little video too. ;)
Pictures 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4 ~ 5 ~ 6 ~ 7 ~ 8 ~ 9 ~ 10 ~ 11
Excessive, I know. I'm just way too excited for this season to start and I'm kinda missing the McFrenchy stories, and Salt & Pepper are a perfectly wonderful replacement friendship!
Let's go to the in-game pics!
Lineup video:
- They're still using Baby's old jumbotron pic. I'm OK with that - it's cute.
- Glaus' pic is also way cute!
- Druw Jones was in the dugout for the whole game, and was MEGA cute. (Have I said cute enough yet today? Gimme a break, I've been working on this post for 3 days, somehow! :D) Pic 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4
- Yunie got injured a little (for real this time, not for fake)
- As I discussed earlier, I am super-excited for Freddie to move on up the ladder. I haven't met him, but by all accounts he's a great kid and he appears very talented. Also, he's pretty cute. (There's that word again!) (Also, I have to remind myself he was born in 1989. I'm starting to feel old compared to these new Braves!)
OK, so here's some Freddie stuff. :)
Honey, I have an eyebrow lady who can help you out. You'll still look like a man and no one will ever know. Ask for Shila at the Spa Sydell in Buckhead -- she is the absolute best at eyebrows I've ever known, and I've sent more than one man to her. Tell her the Lauren she used to work with sent you to her. Just saying. Loves, bye. :)
More Freddie pics and pics of the whole day in the full album. Lovvies, hope to see you all later today at Opening Day!!


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The Budget
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Apportionment –financial and non-financial sectors
Various taxpayers earning interest, dividends and foreign exchange gains in excess of 5% of their total turnover need to apportion their input tax credits incurred on expenses.
The current default turnover based method of input tax apportionment is inequitable at times, and as a result it is proposed that this method and the apportionment principles be re-evaluated. Over the last number of years, SARS has been reluctant to agree to the approval of other apportionment methods.
We would welcome a re-evaluation should it provide clear guidelines in calculating the apportionment percentages as well as the principles to be applied to the direct attribution of expenses. The process for the approval of apportionment methods have been a source of severe frustration for many taxpayers leaving them in an uncertain financial position, in many cases has not been given for periods in excess of 5 years.
Motor cars
Input tax on passenger motor vehicles is generally denied. However, input tax on vehicles without the ability to carry passengers such as delivery bikes is recoverable. Similarly, the input tax credit on the purchase of racing cars is currently recoverable even though these vehicles are generally used for recreational purposes. There is a proposed change to the definition of "motor car" to include racing cars or carts that will in future prohibit the recovery of input tax credits.
Tax invoices issued in foreign currency
A tax invoice that is subject to the standard rate must be issued in the currency of the Republic. Where two parties have concluded a contract in a foreign currency, SARS seems willing to allow the parties to convert the currency at a spot rate agreed between them. If they are not able to agree a conversion rate, the spot rate at the time of supply must be used. It seems that SARS may be changing their view, as a general binding ruling that was issued in 2012, forced taxpayers to convert at the spot rate on the day of the supply. Should the ruling be withdrawn, it will be welcomed by many taxpayers concluding contracts in a foreign currency.
VAT registration of foreign businesses selling digital goods
It has been proposed that foreign businesses that sell digital goods such as e-books, music, and other digital goods and services in South Africa should be required to register for VAT.
This is in line with current European Union directives whereby sales on electronically delivered services are taxable at the customer's location.
VAT, which is a consumption tax, is generally payable in the location where the goods and services are consumed. Accordingly, exports are zero-rated and imports are subject to VAT. However, given that digital goods are easily accessible and may be consumed anywhere, this enshrined principle cannot be easily applied in respect of imported services or e-commerce. Unlike the export and import of physical goods, no border post or post office can perform the function as collecting agent.
The effect of this is that in certain circumstances, local consumers have been able to buy imported digital goods or services without paying VAT.
This proposal is suggested in order to curtail the loss of revenue. However, it will be interesting to note how the legislature intends to draft the relevant amendments within the framework of the current VAT treatment of imported services.
A further consideration is how the current practical requirements for a VAT registration, which presupposes the physical presence of a representative vendor, South African bank account, and physical location within South Africa, will be amended to provide for the VAT registration of foreign businesses.
Although the actual implementation of the proposed change is uncertain, given that the e-commerce market within South Africa has grown phenomenally within the last three years, and that the current VAT legislation does not provide certainty regarding the sale of digital products, this proposed change is welcomed.
Temporary letting of residential fixed property
Currently, developers that use the temporary relief provisions for the letting of residential fixed property are required to furnish SARS with a declaration containing certain information within 30 days of the supply. The effect of compliance with this provision is that the supply of such services is deemed not to have a VAT consequence, and prevents the triggering of any change of use adjustments.
We welcome the proposed change that vendors retain the information as part of their normal recordkeeping (without being required to file a declaration with SARS for each individual transaction), as this would be more practical and appropriate.
Home-owners association
The supply of services by a sectional title association to its members in the course of the management of the sectional title body corporate is exempt from VAT. Currently, the home owners associations do not qualify for this exemption and are required to charge VAT at the standard rate on the services provided to members.
It is proposed that a similar exemption be applied for home-owners association. This amendment is welcomed as it would provide relief to these associations of the VAT compliance burden suffered under the current legislation.


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A worker at a dump who scavenged items left at her work site was unfairly sacked because two other workers were not fired for doing the same thing, the Employment Relations Authority has ruled.
Emily Smith was dismissed from her role as Waste Disposal Services (WDS) site manager at its East Tamaki refuse transfer station on September 26, last year, after an investigation by Transpacific Industries Group operational general manager Ian Kennedy.
A dismissal letter by WDS said that after a "comprehensive investigative process", Ms Smith was dismissed for a number of reasons including failing to adhere to its code of conduct by scavenging; authorising others to scavenge; and removing items from the site for personal gain.
Ms Smith told the authority the landfill operations manager Roger Jordan told her staff could take some items that were not otherwise valuable to the company provided they got permission. She recorded it and it did not become a habit.
She said Mr Jordan had based what he said on what Mr Jordan told her was the view of his own direct manager, WDS Auckland regional landfills manager Carl Temm.
The conversation happened at the time two others were being investigated for scavenging - one of whom was said to have taken scrap metal, food and cans of soft drink.
That person was fired, but not for scavenging, but for failing to turn up to work. The other person was given a written warning by Ms Smith.
Mr Jordan confirmed Ms Smith's account of their conversation, but Mr Kennedy discounted that as irrelevant because Ms Smith should have abided by the work policy that no items were to be taken from the site.
"In that respect Mr Kennedy's approach resulted in unfairness to Ms Smith because he may well have acted on a mistaken view of just how recently Ms Smith's direct manager and her manager's manager had led her to believe that some items could be taken from the site," authority member Robin Arthur said.
Mr Arthur criticised Mr Kennedy for only interviewing people who had brought complaints against Ms Smith and not others such as the other employees who had scavenged material.
The investigation into Ms Smith was "less than full and fair", Mr Arthur said.
Ms Smith also "suffered from the stigma of having been dismissed for 'fraud' because WDS had included the prohibition against scavenging in its definition of fraud in its policy".
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Dan Mason of Glover, Vermont, enlisted for the Civil War on September 26, 1861. He mustered in as corporal, Company D, of the Sixth Vermont Volunteers. He was later promoted to sergeant. In 1864 he re-enlisted and was made captain of Company H, 19th U.S. Colored Troops. In March 1865 he took a leave of absence, returned to Vermont, and married Harriet B. Clark; afterwards he returned to duty. On November 20, 1865, he died of dysentery at the Post Hospital, Brownsville, Texas. He is buried in Glover, Vermont. Mason was at the Battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg, among others.
Letters written during the Civil War by Dan Mason, an officer in the 6th Vermont Volunteers and 19th U.S. Colored Troops, to his fiancee/wife, Harriet B. Clark, in Glover, Vt.


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Lettuce is commonly used in salads or as a topping in burger, spring rolls and sandwiches. They are high in vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B complex, folic acid and fiber. Regular consumption of lettuce in salads prevents osteoporosis, iron deficiency anaemia, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimerâs disease and cancers. Following are the list of health benefits of lettuce:
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⢠Lettuce is high in fiber so helps to remove toxins from the body and prevents constipation.Â
⢠Lettuce is rich in folic acid and good for the pregnant women as this helps to avoid neurological disorders in the newborn.Â
⢠It is beneficial for liver health because it removes the toxins from the body and reduces the load on the liver.Â
⢠Leaves of lettuce contain antioxidants which help to prevent many chronic degenerative diseases and even cancers.Â
⢠Lettuce is a very good source of beta carotene which is a precursor of vitamin A. Vitamin A is required for good vision and skin. Vitamin A is an important antioxidant and helps to lower the bad effects of free radicals. Studies suggest that Vitamin A also help to prevent lung and oral cavity cancers.Â
⢠Lettuce is also a good source of B complex vitamins which helps in the overall functioning of the body. They are required for good hair and skin, digestion, energy production, functioning of nervous system and to form red blood cells.Â
⢠Lettuce is rich in Vitamin C which is required for the healthy tissues and immune system and it is also required for the absorption of iron and for preventing recurrent cold and cough. Vitamin C is also an antioxidant and helps the body to fight against diseases.Â
⢠It is a rich source of vitamin K. Vitamin K prevents the neuronal damage in the brain so good in Alzheimerâs disease.Â
⢠Potassium present in lettuce leaves helps to lower the high blood pressure. So very beneficial for the patients of hypertension or High B.P.Â
⢠Lettuce leaves are rich in calcium and phosphorus so good for bones and teeth and prevents osteoporosis.Â
⢠Lettuce contains considerable amounts of iron so beneficial to prevent iron deficiency anaemia.Â
⢠Lettuce is low in fat, high in fiber. It also contains strong antioxidants which help to prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Nutritional value of 100 gm of Lettuce as per nutritive value of Indian foods
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⢠Moisture (g):93.4
⢠Protein (g):2.1
⢠Fat (g):0.3
⢠Minerals (g):1.2
⢠Crude Fiber (g):0.5
⢠Carbohydrates (g):2.5
⢠Energy (Kcal):21
⢠Calcium (mg):50
⢠Phosphorus (mg):28
⢠Iron (mg):2.4
⢠Carotene (mcg):990
⢠Thiamine (mg):0.09
⢠Riboflavin (mg):0.13
⢠Niacin (mg):0.50
⢠Vitamin C (mg):10
From the above health benefits it is clear that lettuce is not only a salad vegetable but gives so many of health benefits also. But before consuming the lettuce leaves one should wash them thoroughly in cold water as pesticides are commonly used in lettuce crops. However, organic lettuce is believed to be free from these toxins and safe for consumption.
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- Exceptional build quality
- Ability to take 2 x Type I or II and 1 x Type III storage device
- Complete professional photography solution...
- The most flexible digital camera on the market... (at this time)
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Conclusion - Cons
- Blue channel can sometimes be noisy
- Could do with being about 0.5Kg lighter
- Could do with being about 100mm shorter
- Could do with being about $5,000 cheaper ;-)
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How much can I say about this camera? I
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There are just so many features in this camera I'm sure I've not done it complete justice in this review, I could write a book on what you can do with this camera, anyone who knows what you can do with a quality SLR will realise what you get when you combine one of the best SLR's (Canon EOS-1n) with the CCD, electronics and photography experience of Kodak. True pedigree.
Kodak go on, producing the highest quality digital camera in the world, trying to ignore the price this camera not only produces but is a work of art.
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Today, I am proud to say, my children ate a healthy dinner. My son's usual request for dinner is pizza. Tonight we kind of made our own pizza:) With a healthy twist, of course!
We unwrapped the whole wheat crust, slathered on the sauce, sprinkled on some baby spinach, strategically placed shredded chicken breast, and loaded the pizza with mozzarella cheese. Both my children took turns turning on and off the oven light and watched the pizza until the cheese bubbled. My son ate three slices!


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The Good: Captures the realism of war, great cinematic moments, decent multiplayer, Tier 1 mode is a challenge
The Bad: Bland multiplayer, two different game engines?, single player looks outdated, pacing is off, blah story
All the great World War II shooters are going away from that genre since it's been beaten to death. Medal of Honor went the way for Call of Duty and adapted to modern warfare which works for this series. The single player campaign is nothing really too special, but it does showcase the realism of war and really makes you feel like a helpless nobody warrior in the middle of a Taliban shootout. It does this better than Modern Warfare, but not the multiplayer.
The single player campaign has you playing as four different parties from a regular soldier, a navy SEAL, a pilot, and a Tier 1 operative. Like most war games you never get attached to the characters, but you do care for them enough towards the end. The games pacing is pretty good with you moving from night to day levels, and there is even an ATV level (why choose the loudest vehicle to do a night raid?), and the flying levels are pretty fun, but extremely linear and limited in control. You can actually move the helicopter, but instead just aim and shoot. There are some great moments like the Tier 1 sniping sections, and cinematic parts, but these are far and few between. Most of the game consists of moving cover to cover and shooting everything in sight. Sound familiar? Sure! Is it still fun? Why not! You seem to always be equipped with the right weapons and ammo is unlimited since you can just ash your fellow team mates. I never had to pick up a weapon off the ground, but it's there for variety.
My favorite moment in the game has you playing as the army soldier Adams, and you and your squad are stuck on a hill inside a tiny little mud shack and Taliban are raining down on your from the mountain. You hear military chatter an awful lot, but it sounds more authentic and not just silly babble. Your team slowly runs dry on ammo and after the cinematic music plays, and almost all hope is lost in comes the helicopters! During this sequence it seems it never ends, but the surrounding chatter makes the whole experience more intense and authentic to real life battle warfare, but the whole game isn't like this. There are a lot of moments that seem more like the rest of the shooters, so the pacing is off a bit, but it doesn't fall apart.
You'll mainly come back for multiplayer which is your standard military shooter affair. There are only three classes, a few maps, and that's pretty much it. It's fun since DICE (Battlefield: Bad Company) makes it, but it's no Modern Warfare. You have your usual three classes of ranger, sniper, and specialist, so everyone is pretty much the same person. It's basically shoot whatever moves and rack up a score. There is an objective based type of game mode, but it's essentially the same.
The game also does one of the weirdest things, and that's use two different game engines. The single player uses an outdated version of the Unreal engine, and it's obvious that it looks outdated due to low resolution textures, and some low models. It uses the Airborne engine which was a poor move on Danger Close's part. The multiplayer uses the Frostbite engine that's used in Bad Company 2 and it looks great! Why the weird design choices? I don't know, but I hope MoH2 changes their engine. Is the game worth a purchase? Not really, but maybe a weekend rental. After about five or six hours of multiplayer you'll be bored, and probably just switch back to a better shooter. If you get bored you can go into the Tier 1 mode which disables everything and times you. Yes health restores slowly, no ammo refills, no reticle, nothing. So enjoy the super hard mode.


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ASK THE EXPERT: N.Y. TIMES architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff writes Cowboys Stadium's design "mercifully avoids the aw-shucks, small-town look that has become common in many American stadiums over the years." However, the stadium "suffers from its own form of nostalgia: its enormous retractable roof, acres of parking and cavernous interiors are straight out of Eisenhower's America, with its embrace of car culture and a grandiose, bigger-is-better mentality." The result is a "somewhat crude reworking of old ideas, one that looks especially unoriginal when compared with the sophisticated and often dazzling stadiums that have been built in Europe and the Far East over the last few years." And "worse for fans, its lounges and concourses are so sprawling that I suspect more than a few spectators will get lost and miss the second-half kickoff." Ouroussoff wrote the "idea is to evoke, through the architecture, the relentless flow of movement up and down the field." But Ouroussoff added of the stadium, "Walk around to either side of the structure and you're confronted with what looks like a conventional suburban office park" (N.Y. TIMES, 9/18).
EXCITEMENT BUILDING: In San Antonio, Tom Orsborn noted Jones for Sunday's game "has his sights set on topping" the league's regular-season attendance record of 103,467, set by the 49ers-Cardinals game played in '05 at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The stadium "seats about 72,000, including suites and club seats, but it can top 100,000 for special events" and has a maximum occupancy is 111,947. Meanwhile, stadium workers throughout this week have been putting the "finishing touches on the stadium," including removing the "bronze statue of Tom Landry that was at Texas Stadium the past eight years" and placing it at Cowboys Stadium (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 9/16). In Dallas, Jeff Mosier noted Cowboys officials "wanted to reserve some surprises for the first regular-season game" at the stadium, including the team's star logo, which has been "missing from the turf for its two preseason games in Arlington." The team's Ring of Honor around the seating bowl of the stadium also has been "covered to keep visitors, employees, and fans taking tours from getting a sneak peek" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 9/13).
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Regular-Season Attendance Record Of 103,467
STRONG DEMAND FOR TICKETS: The MORNING NEWS' Mosier Friday reports tickets for games at the stadium are "changing hands at a furious rate -- some at huge markups but many at amounts not much above face value, thanks to a weak economy." StubHub estimated that 10% of all seats for Sunday's game "have gone through its site," and StubHub Corporate Communications Manager Joellen Ferrer said that the game is the "highest grossing [regular season NFL] game in the company's nine-year history based on the dollar amount of tickets sold." Meanwhile, Mosier notes a review of tickets for sale on StubHub and Craigslist found that "less expensive seats" for Sunday's game "were on sale anywhere from close to face value to about double face value" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 9/18).
OPEN SESAME: In Dallas, Todd Archer reports the stadium's roof "will be open Sunday." A decision on whether the roof is open or closed "has to be made 90 minutes before kickoff, and the decision for this week has been made -- although the game officials could call for it to be closed under weather conditions that threaten fan and player safety." The end zone doors "will also be open, which could create some wind currents." The NFL "does not have rules regarding the possibility of opening and closing the end zone doors during the game" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 9/18). In Ft. Worth, Jeff Caplan notes the doors "will remain open, along with the roof, throughout the game, barring inclement weather, in which case the Cowboys can close both" (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 9/18).
OUT WITH THE OLD: In Dallas, Brandon Formby reports the Irving City Council is "expected to consider awarding a $5.8[M] demolition contract next week that would allow a Dallas excavation company to implode Texas Stadium." Irving "owns the stadium and the land on which it sits," and the implosion is "expected to take place early next year" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 9/18).


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May 14, 2005
A glamorous but slightly pervy rest stop on Route 90.
They have two spiffy VW vans -- both with big Sponge Bob dolls in the front seats -- that each has four compartments filled with stuffed dolls to play that arcade game where you manipulate that gripper device to try to snag a prize before your time runs out:
Whoever loaded up the Flintstones compartment put the Betty Rubble dolls on top, face down, with their skirts pushed up so you could see their white underpants. And the one in front has a dirty fingerprint on the panties! (Click photo to enlarge.)
Oh, my!
5 comments:
- Mark Kaplan said...
Are you going to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame?
- leeontheroad said...
I prefer the shot with the Oscars (the grouches); but I'd have had to take the Betty Rubble doll shot, also-- on the "no one's going to believe this" principle.
- vnjagvet said...
When on the way to Ithaca on Route 90, between Erie and Buffalo, you will find even more spanning rest stops. They were the "coolest" in the late 50's when built. I was a teenager when we trekked from Erie to NYC on the New York Thrueway back in those days, and remember them well. About five or six years ago, I made the trip from Toronto to Erie and stopped at one of those spanners. Wow. It gave the same vibes. The passage of over 40 years made no difference whatever in the experience.
- Steve Donohue said...
Isn't it though! I was there about 10 months ago, and it was like being in some sort of alternate universe. I mean, oasises (oasi?) are supposed to be small and dank, but this had huge windows and everything, with like 10 different fast food places. It's almost a tourist destination itself- well, at least as far as rest stops go.
- RheLynn said...
I just went through there -- we got stuck in the 'trucks only' part with 1/8 gas tank and no way to get back out... after 12 hours of almost straight-through driving (which is why we missed the split).
One-Way gas stations? Who thought that up?
No Turns, Do Not Enter? :o(
The station might have been cool in design - but its usability left us confused and a little angry. We had to go BACK through the toll road and loop around to get to Rockford (after going to the Wal-Mart for gas thanks to a tip from a nice pretzel-shop worker). - 12/28/05, 8:09 PM