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A chef
and his wife, whose excess breast milk, has
been used to make cheese, are beating back criticism that the human
dairy product is unsafe.
"I
eat healthier than your average cow and I'm not pumped full of
steroids!" said Lori Mason, who co-owns Klee Brasserie in New York
with her chef husband, Daniel Angerer.
Though
the cheese is not against health codes, city officials do not recommend
it. Several curious diners did show up to the couple's restaurant to try
a sample.
"It was slippery, slightly crunchy and tasted like pickles," a
New York cheese shop owner told the newspaper. "I give it a thumbs
down."
They had an overabundance of milk for their newborn, Arabella Caroline.
When their small freezer ran out of space, Angerer decided to experiment
and even published the recipe.
Angerer says he does not intend to sell the cheese at his restaurant,
though he contends that it is quite healthful.
"I tried it and I'm still alive," Angerer said. "The baby
eats it all day long and she's fine too."
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Florida woman dies during religious fast
Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her
central Florida home after locking herself in the room for several weeks
for a lengthy religious fast.
Evelyn Boyd told her husband, a preacher at a Pentecostal church
in the city of Bartow, not to disturb her when she locked herself in the
room February 7 to fast and pray with only water to drink.
Family members forced open the door March 5 and found her dead. Sheriff
Grady Judd said deputies don't expect to file charges, though the
investigation continues. A precise cause of death has not been
determined.
The woman's husband, John Boyd, told the paper he didn't check on his
wife because she felt she was doing what God called her to do and he
wanted to respect her privacy.
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AZ
school sues taxpayers to stop asking questions
A handful of taxpayers in a small community north of Wickenburg,
Arizona are being targeted by the local school district in a lawsuit
that asks a judge to declare they have no right to request public
records, sue the district, or complain to outside agencies.
The Congress Elementary School District claims that past efforts
by these residents to obtain documents such as minutes of board meetings
and spending reports amount to harassment that should not have to be
tolerated. But
Jean Warren, one of the four defendants named in the lawsuit filed
January 28, 2010, said the complaint is an illegal attempt to silence
citizens who have questioned the district’s policies and spending
practices. “The whole thing is based on trying to shut us down so that nobody has any rights,” Warren said. “Just because you live in a small area does not mean you don’t have rights. Everything I believe about the Constitution and what it means to be a citizen of the US is being shot down.”
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It’s
not a cartoon
In an episode
of Comedy Central’s South
Park the
ever mischievous Eric Cartman is allowed to sign-out 500 AK-47s from a
weapons storehouse.
In February, it was revealed during a Senate Armed Service
Committee hearing that a Blackwater subsidiary known as Paravant had
checked out weapons from a U.S. military weapons storehouses using the
cartoon character’s name.
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Britain
releases UFO reports
The British government has received thousands of UFO reports over
the decades, and last month it released the largest amount of documents
ever concerning UFO sightings.
The documents, made available online via PDF by the Ministry of
Defence and The National Archives, included 6000 pages from 1994 to
2000.
The tales found within cover several elaborate tales, including a
woman's telepathic encounter with bizarre lights.
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Pepsi
to pull
sugar drinks from schools
Anti-obesity
campaigns scored a direct hit last month when PepsiCo said it would pull
its sugary drinks from schools around the world.
The company says it will remove of all of its full-calorie,
sweetened drinks from schools in more than 200 countries by 2012.
PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and others in the industry have already swapped
lower-calorie options into schools to replace sugary drinks, under
voluntary guidelines adopted in 2006.
Coke last month said it no longer would sell its other sweetened
drinks in grade schools unless parents or school officials asked it to.
But Coke didn't extend that change to secondary schools, and today after
the Pepsi move Coke said it thought school officials "should have the
right to choose what is best for their schools." The
World Heart Federation praised the PepsiCo move. It said it wanted all
drinks with added sugars removed from schools with children 18 and under. PepsiCo said it would sell water, fat-free or low-fat milk, and juice with no added sugar in grade schools. In secondary schools it will add diet soda to that list. So-called sports drinks will be allowed for students participating in sports or other physical activities.
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Russia's flying saucer scheduled for production The
government of the Ulianovsk Region in the Volga area has approved a
five-year program to produce so-called "flying saucers" - a
bizarre hybrid of a helicopter and
a dirigible or airship.
Officially named "aerostatic thermo-ballasted vehicle" or
simply "Locomoskayner" after its manufacturer LocomoSky, was
presented at a 2009 air show. The prototype flying saucer was 23 feet in
diameter and was able to transport 44.4 pounds of cargo.
The company, however, plans to produce aircraft with a
cargo-carrying capacity of up to 600 metric tons or a passenger capacity
of up to 11,000 people. It will be able to hover and perform a vertical landing. |
RUSSIA’S FLYING SAUCER will be able to transport outsized cargoes
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Group wants right to
assisted suicide for elderly
Dutch
people over 70 years of age who feel tired of life should have
the right to professional help in ending it, a citizens’ initiative in
the Netherlands calling itself “Out of Free Will” demands. It has
started collecting signatures in support of this proposed change in Dutch
legislation, hoping to place the matter firmly on the parliamentarian
agenda.
A number of prominent Dutch citizens have come out in support of
the initiative, including former ministers and artists, legal scholars and
physicians . The
group hopes to decriminalize assisted
suicide in
the Netherlands. The
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Idaho officials sued in medicine bag case
A
Portland man is accusing Idaho police officers of destroying the mystical
qualities of his Native American medicine bag when they opened it during a
drunken driving arrest last summer.
The tort claim filed recently by Craig Clark Show of Portland seeks
$25,000 in damages from the Idaho State Police and Bonner County Sheriff's
Department.
Show also alleges he was persecuted because of his religious
beliefs after he was stopped by northern Idaho authorities last August.
Police arrested Show, charging him with driving under the influence of
alcohol. In
the tort claim, Show says the medicine bag had been blessed by a medicine
woman and has been sealed since 1995. But he says the bag's mystical
qualities were damaged when opened by officers.
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