| Man charged with shoplifting after running from police
Shoppers in the Giant Food Store at the Camp Hill Shopping Center were interrupted at 4:21 p.m. yesterday when two store employees and a police officer tried to arrest a man they said was shoplifting. Employees said the man stole $243 in video games and DVDs, and they tried unsuccessfully to hold the man for police. The man reached in his pocket for a knife, then ran from the store, shedding clothing along the way, police said. Outside the store, the man crashed into a police car that an officer used to block his escape. The man dented the side of the cruiser, then ran onto South 32nd Street, where he fell and was caught by police. Police charged Anthony Eugene Braxton, 28, of the 200 block of Reno Avenue, New Cumberland, with robbery, simple assault, resisting arrest, criminal mischief and false reports to police.
Organic Baby Food Could Be Healthier for Growing Bodies
"I want to make sure that he gets the best that he can get. And I think organic's the best," Gorman said. Consumer Reports testers said buying organic baby food is a good choice, and can be worth the extra cost. "Baby food is usually made from condensed fruits and vegetables. This means that the pesticide residue can sometimes be concentrated as well. So you'll get higher levels than in regular food," said Consumer Reports tester Urvashi Rangan. In fact, studies show that children who eat organic food have lower levels of pesticides in their blood than children who eat regular food. Consumer Reports testers said pesticides could pose a bigger risk for children than adults. "Babies' bodies are still developing, so they are especially vulnerable to toxins in foods like pesticides and other chemical additives," Gorman said.
Compiled by Deidre Schipani
Norm Hanf, the original owner of Norm's Pizza and Subs on Calhoun Street in downtown Charleston, decided to come out of retirement after eight years to open up a new restaurant with his daughters: Allison, Ashley and Abbey. Abbey and Allison worked at Norm's downtown with the restaurant's new owner, Traye Collins, until Norm opened What's Cookin @ Norm's in early December. What's Cookin @ Norm's is just off of Clements Ferry Road at 2030 Wambaw Creek Dr., Suite 101. The restaurant, inside Beresford Commerce Park, serves burgers, pizza, subs, wings, calzones, grilled and fried items, pasta and more. What's Cookin @ Norms is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday; from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; and from noon to 7 p.m. Sunday. It features a hot food bar from noon to 7 p.m.
Future shock: Asia is running out of gas
SYDNEY - When crude oil surged past US$70 a barrel in mid-2006, Southeast Asian governments were forced to confront an inconvenient truth that might almost have come from the hand of former US vice president Al Gore: income levels could not be sustained unless new energy sources were found, and quickly.
The World Bank has calculated that oil-import dependency trimmed as much as 1% off the region's gross domestic product
last year, as higher production costs eroded export earnings, boosted freight overheads and inflated food prices.
Add in the threat posed by climate change, as well as the rising tide of diplomatic pressure for the Third World to meet emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol, and Southeast Asia's future shock of energy depletion has suddenly become all too real.
Are you really going to eat that? Food fanaticism gets out of control.
Remember when the only food fight was vegetarians vs. the meat-eaters? That quaint and comical little war was set for decades in our college restaurants, where people wore plastic shoes and asked, practically every time they came to eat, if any animal flesh was cooked on the premises.
"I can't eat it if it's been cooked near a chicken," a fellow student once said, as I poured him a glass of iced tea to drink with his tofu-and-vegetable scramble with nutritional yeast and whole-wheat biscuits, in the earnest cafe where I worked. This guy -- he was the real vegetarian.
And yet, he was also exactly the kind of guy who would leave his dog on a rope in front of the library with no water for six hours in the hot sun, wearing a cute bandana tied around its neck, as if that made the cruelty all right.
Japanese cuisine with a modern touch
However, a chat and short cooking stint in the kitchen with him would dispel any doubts on his culinary prowess, and justify his position as Hotel Maya's top chef. Teng's approach to cooking is fresh, innovative and in keeping with the city's current gastronomic pulse, which is clearly reflected in how he presents his food. "Young chefs like to cater to the demand of today's crowd, which is food that is straightforward yet different," he said, while whipping up a few ''sosaku'' dishes at the modern, zen-like kitchen of Still Waters, the hotel's flagship restaurant. ''Sosaku'' refers to modern Japanese cuisine with influences from various parts of the world - which is very much up Teng's alley. "I use European ingredients, play around with herbs and apply modern presentations to the food, but the basic Japanese rules still apply at this restaurant," he said.
Purim parties aplenty
Saying Purim three times is probably safer than that age-old Burton chant that goes, "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice." No scary, half-rotted corpse of Haman will return to comically disrupt your dysfunctional family life. However, Purim itself appears thrice on the Tel Aviv scene with parties spanning a long weekend. Barzilay Club (03-687-8090, 13 Harehev) comes on strong all three nights. The Devil's Kitchen is Friday night's theme with DJ Food tending the turntables spinning electronic hip-hop. To being at midnight, entrance is, like all the Barzilay shows 22 and up. Come in costume and admission is NIS 60, without costume it is NIS 70 and you are not as cool. Saturday night the Policia Purim Party starts at 11 pm, with local acts The Models and Yaron Cohen. The evening's main event is DJ Jacek, a Polish import who was one of the pioneers of electronica in Eastern Europe and founded the label Recognition Recordings in 1991.
Truth B Told 2.15.07: Dirty Little Secret
Now that its okay to be a gamer, play Fantasy Football, and enjoy barely legal Thai transvestite snuff films, when will society accept the wrestling geek into the fold?
I'll keep you my dirty little secret (Dirty little secret) Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret (Just another regret, hope that you can keep it) My dirty little secret Who has to know I am NOW an official "internet blogger" now that I've quoted the lyrics to an emo song to start my "post". Oh yes, it's been a long strange trip. Over the past week I've really been contemplating my wrestling "fandom" and trying to decide just how ridiculous it is. Having a 31 year old who looks like a 13 year old who wears diapers on his ass and pancakes on his face for a living question your taste in "entertainment" tends to do that to you.
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