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[Zoley!]

Taken from the New Post


EWW!-BERRY MUFFIN

By LINDSAY POWERS



October 24, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE

A young Manhattan woman split open her breakfast muffin — only to find what seemed to be a condom baked inside.

Theresa VanHorn, a 29-year-old writer at MTV Networks, said she was eating a carrot-nut cream-cheese-topped muffin from her office building's bodega on West 50th Street when she found a piece of latex baked into the crumbly delicacy.

"I ate almost half the muffin before discovering it," VanHorn said. "Then it was like slow motion when I pulled it out — I was screaming."

Since the incident last Tuesday morning, she said she's lost her appetite.

VanHorn called the Health Department to report it, but was told not to bother.

"Go ahead and throw away the evidence," a representative told her over the phone, VanHorn said.

"We won't get to your complaint for days, or maybe weeks."

The representative added that the department routinely gets complaints of foreign objects in food and doesn't have time to deal with them all immediately.

The owner of the bodega — which does not bake or alter the muffins it purchases from Sensible Edibles bakery — said he would stop carrying the bakery's products.



The well-known bakery in Long Island City, Queens, stocks the shelves of nearly 300 upscale local delis and most hotels in the city — including The Plaza, according to David Moarsi, its owner.

Moarsi denied his company was responsible for creating the questionable muffin — despite the muffin's picture and name being listed as a product on his business' Web site.

Sensible Edibles "is wall-to-wall inspected every two months," Moarsi said. "We haven't had one small complaint since 1992," when the bakery opened.

The owner of the bodega, which also receives muffins from another supplier, International Delight, provided inventory records showing the muffin had been supplied by Sensible Edibles.

Two International Delight employees contacted by The Post confirmed that the company does not make cream-cheese-covered muffins.

In the meantime, VanHorn is considering legal action, and Moarsi wants a lab to analyze the muffin — at a cost of nearly $600 — to prove whether or not it came from his bakery.

A city Health Department representative examined it on Thursday, but said the New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets would continue with the investigation.

[Arch_Angel]

Oh man, that is just gross!! I would rather eat a spoilt mango than to have to go through that.

But wait, was the condom/latex a used one? Yuck!! I don't think I even want to know.
Want to post a link to the news article Zoley?

[Zoley!]

Let me see if I can find the link Ok :eusa_thin

[Pondadat]

That is too nasty, now I will be looking in all my muffins! I might not eat muffins again without thinking about this thing. :confused:

[Zoley!]

Oh man, that is just gross!! I would rather eat a spoilt mango than to have to go through that.

But wait, was the condom/latex a used one? Yuck!! I don't think I even want to know.
Want to post a link to the news article Zoley?

here is the link you asked for also some funny stories Daves daily look under google and see if you get the link.

www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32586.htm

[Drew]

it could be in other things pondadot. this is rather disturbing, but you can only pray, hope and wish that this sort of thing doesn't happen to u.

[Pondadat]

Other News and Odd news arent they the same thing or is my freeking mind playing tricks on me again.

[Zoley!]

Thats a mind set thing and if you look into you will see that.

[Zoley!]

Newborn Twins Named Yasser and Arafat
UPDATED - Thursday November 11, 2004 2:25pm


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - When Safra Hassan went into labor Thursday, she told her husband she wanted to name their child Yasser after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died hours earlier.

It was only in the delivery room at Gaza's Shifa Hospital that Hassan, 32, discovered she was carrying twin boys.

"I looked at my husband and I said, we will call them Yasser and Arafat," she told The Associated Press. "I'm so proud that the name of Yasser Arafat will be in my house every day, just as the name of Yasser Arafat will be in every Palestinian house forever."

The boys, each weighing about 4 1/2 pounds, are doing well, doctors said. Safra Hassan and her husband, Rafiq, have two other children, a 7-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son.



Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press.
All rights reserved.

[Zoley!]

Australian Man Convicted for Beating Russian Wife to Death With Shoe
Created: 12.11.2004 11:43 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:03 MSK


MosNews


An Australian man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for beating his Russian wife to death with a shoe.

John Kiseljev, 66, pleaded guilty to murdering Nadezhda Zassukhina, 22, in their Mount Druitt home on Nov. 29, 2002, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. He was sentenced on Friday in the New South Wales Supreme Court to 16 years in jail with a non-parole period of 11 years.

But the court took into consideration that Kisiljev had not exactly murdered his wife in cold blood. The judge found there was a degree of provocation involved in the killing and Kiseljev had previously been of good character and was unlikely to reoffend.

According to Justice John Dunford, the pair got married on Sept. 23, 2002, after Zassukhina suggested they tie the knot so she could obtain permanent residency because her student visa was about to expire.

“She did not come home every night and when she did, she argued with (Kiseljev) and kept him awake, accusing him of stealing her papers and other things,” the Herald quoted Justice Dunford as saying.

Things got so bad between the couple that Kisiljev was forced to lock himself up in his room.

“Ultimately he put a barrier, and subsequently a lock, on his own bedroom door and kept food, drink and a bucket for urinating at night in his room to avoid being confronted by her.”

The deadly fight between them broke out when Zassukhina had been yelling and kicking at Kiseljev’s bedroom door for 40 minutes before he opened it and they started fighting.

During the fight Kiseljev hit Zassukhina over the head a number of times with a shoe heel before realising she was dead.

Kiseljev will be eligible for release in 2014.

[mesinya]

that is too crazy I don't think he is getting enough times. I don't think I want to go to Australia :rolleyes:

[Zoley!]

Mobile phone cover turns into flower! :D

AFP
London, December 1

Feeling guilty that you've just thrown away your umpteenth mobile phone to get the latest handset? Soon you may be able to plant your old one and watch it grow into a flower.

Engineers at the University of Warwick in central England said on Tuesday they had developed a mobile phone case or cover with a seed embedded inside that, when discarded, can be planted in compost where it will disintegrate.

The invention appears to have been a success, with prototype telephones sprouting dwarf sunflowers.

Mobile telephones are one of the most quickly discarded items of consumer electronics, the researchers noted.

"Rapid changes in technology and taste means customers constantly upgrade their phones leaving behind more and more discarded phones," they said.

"However, there is increasing pressure on all manufacturers by policy makers to find ways of recycling discarded goods, and also pressure from some customers who want to feel they are making an environmentally sensitive purchase."

The mobile phone case is made from a biodegradable polymer developed by PVAXX Research and Development and handset maker Motorola, in conjunction with researchers at Warwick.

The university's engineers have designed a small transparent window in the case or cover in which a seed can be embedded, but it will not germinate until planted.

A commercial launch date for the new technology has not yet been announced.

[Zoley!]

ALL CEREAL RESTAURANT


By JOANN LOVIGLIO
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA

How's this for thinking outside the box: a cafe with jammies-clad servers pouring cereal day and night, topping it off with everything from fruit to malted milk balls, and serving it in "bowls" resembling Chinese takeout containers. It's all cereal. Seriously.

Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe, which opened its first sit-down cafe Wednesday on the University of Pennsylvania campus, is a sugarcoated _ and tongue-in-cheek _ homage to what your mother always told you was the most important meal of the day. But she probably never dished out bowls of Froot Loops and Cap'n Crunch topped with Pop Rocks.


Behind glass-door kitchen-style cabinets at Cereality are 30 varieties of brand-name cold cereal. Customers order from "cereologists," whose most popular mix is two 8-ounce scoops with one of 36 toppings, plus regular, flavored or soy milk for $2.95. Also offered are cereal bars and made-to-order cereal smoothies and yogurt blends.

Though some of the choices sound like a sugar overdose or a dental disaster to the uninitiated (or to those long past their college years), they're not all that indulgent.

"This is great because you can try all different kinds and not have to buy the whole box," said Penn freshman Erica Denhoff, 18, as she munched on a healthy concoction of Quaker Oat Squares, Corn Chex and yogurt flax bark with skim milk. "I'm on the track team. ... I eat cereal for breakfast and for a snack if I need energy."

Co-founders David Roth and Rick Bacher opened the first Cereality, a 200-square-foot kiosk in Arizona State University's student union, last year. Besides the 1,500-square-foot Philadelphia cafe in the middle of Penn's retail district, the Boulder, Colo.-based company wants to open more than a dozen Cerealities next year on campuses, hospital lobbies, airports and office buildings.

"We don't see this as (solely) a college concept, we see this as being relevant to the 95 percent of the American public that eats cereal," Roth said. If college students _ "the most cynical market we can go after" _ like it, Roth's confident that office workers and travelers will like it too.

Cereality also offers its own combos with names reminiscent of Ben and Jerry's ice creams. John Merz, a 27-year-old Penn employee, was bowled over by Devil Made Me Do It _ an ambrosial elixir of Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, chocolate crunchies and malt balls, topped with milk.

"I'm always on a sugar high, so this doesn't make that much of a difference," he said with a laugh that sounded sugar-influenced despite his assertion.


"You're eating candy with milk on it!" chided his co-worker Caroline Couture, 42. After polishing off her Banana Brown Betty with hot oatmeal, bananas, molasses sugar and streusel topping, she said that she'd be having a salad for lunch _ but that she'd visit Cereality again.

"We're all still kids, really," she said. "A lot of the foods you loved in childhood you still love as an adult."

In Philadelphia, customers can eat Apple Jacks and stretch out on a couch (Mom might not approve, but it's OK here), watch cartoons on a flat-screen TV or check their e-mail via free Wi-Fi access.

Like build-your-own salad bars with fattening and healthy foods side by side, "I think this is something that's as good or as bad as you want it to be," said Jeanne Goldberg of Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

American Dietetic Association spokeswoman Gail Frank agreed that cereals can be a good fast food because they're high in fiber and loaded with vitamins and minerals _ as long as customers keep their sweet tooths in check and pick healthier toppings like nuts and fruit.

Between bites of hot oatmeal with cranberries and almonds, Penn junior Alpha Mengistu, 20, said Cereality offered more than a quick carb- and sugar-load.

"I think this would be a good place for a date," she said. "You could learn a lot about a person by what cereal they choose."
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On the Net:
http://www.cereality.com

[Zoley!]

Cover Your Tracks Without Changing Your Identity
How to Disappear Until You WANT to Be Found

by B. Wilson

Is your life on a downward spiral? :)

Are your finances in a mess? Are you in a relationship, or even a marriage, that is in bad shape? Do you hate your job? Are you feeling mean, nasty, and tired? Well, don't go postal, don't get intoxicated, and don't send your money to a television evangelist.

Get out. Not for good, but for the time being.

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Why not simply take a powder, cover your tracks to thwart any would-be pursuers, and then return to your old life once the dust has settled or of your choosing? Author B. Wilson did, and in this book he shares the ins and outs of this option with you, including where to go, how to get there, what to take (and what to do with the stuff you don't take), where to stay, how to handle financial concerns and support yourself while in hiding, how to live comfortably and securely in your chosen refuge, and how to return home when -- and if -- you decide to.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2, softcover, photos, 88 pp.

Only $18.00

[priceless_d]

im about to disapear right now lmao you are a trip. how do you find this stuff?

[Zoley!]

Woman Pleads Guilty to Selling Fake Beer




BRISBANE, Australia - A woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling on eBay three nonexistent cases of Duff brand beer — the favorite of cartoon character Homer Simpson.



Tara Edith Woodford, 28, pleaded guilty in the Mackay Magistrates Court in northern Queensland state to three charges of dishonestly gaining money by false pretenses.


Prosecutor Gavin Burnett told the court Woodford was paid a total of 1,951 Australian dollars (U.S. $1,511) by three separate buyers after advertising the bogus beer on the eBay Internet auction site.


Duff is the beer brand of choice for Homer Simpson and his barfly friends in the animated U.S. television series The Simpsons.


In the mid-1990s, two breweries released their own "Duff Beer" in Australia until legal action by the creators of The Simpsons and the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. took the beer off the market. Fox has a policy of refusing to license The Simpson's merchandising for products that would be detrimental to children.


Duff beer is now a collector's item and cases can sell for as much as A$1,000 (U.S. $774) on eBay, according to Lorraine Gledhill, the treasurer of the National Beer Can Collectors Club.


Buyers paid money into Woodford's bank account, but contacted police when they never received the beer.


Woodford was caught because she listed her correct name and address on the auction site, the court was told.


Woodford's lawyer Phillip Moore said she committed the scam to buy Christmas presents and clothes for her four children.


Woodford was placed on 18 months' probation, and was ordered to reimburse the money and undergo counseling.