| Beef recall rattles faith in U.S. food supply
Jeanine Altoe of Wilmington shops for hamburger meat Thursday at Giant Food on Concord Pike. After last week's recall of 143 million pounds of beef, the beef industry and U.S. Department of Agriculture have been trying to reassure consumers. (Buy photo) The News Journal/JENNIFER CORBETT .
Easy WebContent Web Page Editing Service
It is a rare but unalloyed pleasure to try a product or service for which you have only modest expectations, and find yourself blown out of the water. Easy WebContent, an online service designed to take the fuss out of editing Web pages, is that good. In fact, this $9.95-per-month service is better than most stand-alone Web design applications I've used during my 13 years of building sites. Easy WebContent isn't designed to compete with an Adobe Dreamweaver-scale product; it's meant to help average mortals create and update Web pages. And in that market, it has no rival. Online services such as Homestead.com use template approaches that restrict what you can do with your site; Easy WebContent comes much closer than its template-oriented competitors to being a Web design application.
Animal abuser jailed for violating probation
A Thurmont woman convicted of animal cruelty last year pleaded with a judge to give her another chance after he found her guilty of violating probation. "You've already had a second chance. You got that when I put you on probation," Frederick County District Court Judge W. Milnor Roberts told Faith Kilby on Thursday, referring to her April 2007 appearance in Frederick County District Court. During the April hearing, Roberts found Faith Kilby, 32, and her husband, Jeffrey Kilby, 35, guilty of animal cruelty after a police officer found their 10-year-old dog, Bear, decomposing in their backyard. At first, Thurmont Police Officer DiAnne Tackett didn't realize what she was seeing about 1:15 p.m. June 7, 2006. Tackett initially mistook the cocker spaniel's body for an old rug, according to court testimony.
Website Calculates Snacks To Help Kids Make Healthy Choices
Before letting your kids go to the movies or play video games, you probably check the rating to make sure it's appropriate for them. So why not do the same thing for the snacks they eat? It's estimated that 1 of every 3 children is now overweight in this country* and some experts say snacking on the wrong types of food is a big part of the problem. Now, making better snack choices is as easy as checking its rating.
Like most teens, 14 year old Danny Gwirtz has a hearty appetite, but he didn't always make healthy choices when it came time to eat.
"I always used to ask for unhealthy snacks instead of healthier ones," says Danny.
Today, Danny knows better. He's lost 20 pounds and is now testing out an innovative new website to help him keep it off.
Kaduce races to the finish
Kaduce is now in the final leg of the 2008 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, an over 1,000 mile trek from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada.He started Saturday and will likely finish within the next few days.Anxiously keeping up with the race is his mother, Meg Thorton of Chippewa Falls."I'm on my Internet constantly," she said. "I get up in the middle of the night to check the Internet."Although Kaduce's finished the race twice before, Thorton has concerns. There are long legs in the races where racers may not reach a checkpoint for hours at a time, and sledding can be dangerous.One woman had to quit the race Tuesday because of a knee injury."A mother always worries about her kids," she said.A love for the unusualDog sledding wasn't always a dream of Kaduce's.He grew up loving dogs and the outdoors, but he had never been exposed to the sport, which is popular in Alaska and Canada.But Thorton wasn't shocked when she heard her son had started racing."It didn't surprise me really," Thorton said.
Clinton campaign starts 5-point attack on Obama
Please don't turn to name calling, study your facts and good luck, my husband and I are counting on you. Get facts on Social Security, Taxes, Health, Education make the words stong and true. Just tell the truth on what you hope to accomplish. Juanita B .
Low-calorie sweetener findings leaves experts split
Six months ago, Gloria Ramirez switched from regular soda to diet soda. People told her it would be better for her because she is overweight. And her husband, who has diabetes, drinks diet soda on his doctor's advice. After hearing about a study released this week that found rats given yogurt with a low-calorie sweetener found in diet soda gained more weight and ate more than rats given yogurt with traditional sugar did, Ramirez said she is thinking about exchanging a case of diet soda for bottled water. "People think this stuff is helping them," Ramirez, 45, of Riverside, said as she sipped from a can of Diet Pepsi this week in downtown Riverside. "But, in reality, it's not helping them." Some health experts said people shouldn't jump to conclusions.
Angry mob beats, shoots rape suspect
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Something's cookin' in the I.E.
At this school, you don't give your teacher an apple. No, you give your teacher a caramelized apple crepe with smoked Gouda. Or a buttered rum apple fritter with orange sauce. At this school, you don't eat a sandwich and banana out of a lunch box. No, you dine elegantly on rack of lamb with mint sauce, baked polenta with a tomato reduction sauce, and grilled artichokes. At this school, you don't have food fights. You have cook-offs. Welcome to the new International Culinary School at The Art Institute of California - Inland Empire, located just off Hospitality Lane in San Bernardino. If anyone needs additional proof that the Inland Empire has become a destination dining capital, here it is. We are enjoying the best work of today's best chefs, at exquisite restaurants throughout the region.
Nutrition Q&A
Cruciferous vegetables are the ones most people either hate or love. But you should develop a love relationship with them because they have many health benefits. Here's a quiz to find out how much you know about cruciferous vegetables.1. Cruciferous vegetables got their name because their flowers resemble a cross.True or false?2. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower are all cruciferous vegetables.True or false?3. Cruciferous vegetables are rich sources of flavonoids, beta-carotene and lutein.True or false?4. All cruciferous vegetables are powerful antioxidants which reverse high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries.True or false?Source: "WomenHeart's All Heart Family Cookbook; Featuring the 40 Foods Proven to Promote Heart Health,'' by Kathy Kastan and Suzanne Banfield.Answers: 1) True; 2) True; 3) True; 4) True .
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