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Hollywood is Dead
Canada Free Press, by Daniel Greenfield
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Posted By:snowcloud, 2/26/2013 9:48:12 AM
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| Hollywood has no problem being dumb, sleazy and violent. Those are all known and marketable qualities. What it does not look is appearing desperate. Desperation however is what the Oscars of this year and last year have in common. They stink of an industry desperately racing its own age and irrelevance reaching for gimmicks to try and hang on to a younger audience. The dirty little secret is that Hollywood hardly exists anymore. The industry is bigger than ever, but its bread and butter consists of 200 and 300 million dollar special effects festivals
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RayLRiv, 2/26/2013 10:10:23 AM (No. 9196885)
I´m OK with Hollywood dying. I´ll seek my entertainment elsewhere - like spending quality time with my wife and our son.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
southron, 2/26/2013 10:31:04 AM (No. 9196940)
Interesting fact: The phrase "dumbing down" originated in the Hollywood of the 1930s. Studio moguls discovered that a large segment of the population was not going to movie theaters because films of the time were not easily understood. So screenwriters were instructed to dumb down scripts and dialogue to accommodate people with "little education and limited intelligence."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jonr, 2/26/2013 10:44:26 AM (No. 9196975)
The whole Hollywood culture is corrupted with communism, Marxism, atheism, and hedonism! Add good old-fashioned greed and narcissism to the stew and you have what Hollywood has become.
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tomanderson61, 2/26/2013 10:59:18 AM (No. 9197016)
I think the undercurrent that runs in the article about Chinese dominance is a little much. Chinese have their own bubble to worry about, I have said it many times before, funny how just now we are hearing others talk about it. When it bursts, it will be a disaster, then things will adjust naturally.
That said, people will ALWAYS want a good story. Played by good actors and direction. My 19 year old son sat and watched "A Place in the Sun" with me the other night on TCM and was floored at how good it was. He hates movies like "Ted", so there is hope for the youth. They aren´t all idiots.
What do I read as good news? Continued loss of control of filmed entertainment by studio honchos. There are abilities now for older guys like me to make high-definition, ready to broadcast material with no studio control, just for the joy of filmmaking and telling stories. I can produce shorts and features of technical quality inconceivable a few years ago, and instantly share it with the whole world via the internet. True, I don´t have the marketing funds and distribution of the big corporations, but I have the ability for millions to see my product for $0. With video, once I have purchased the equipment, there are no film costs, developing, and "wait and see", I have stereo sound and HD instantly. And in any town a guy like me is in, there is good talent ready to work for little or no money, just for experience. Where exactly is the downside?!
That´s the good news folks. More opportunities, less control, more choices for the viewer.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque, 2/26/2013 11:54:17 AM (No. 9197131)
I highly recommend Colony Bay: Courage, New Hampshire. Inspirational and true to our American heritage!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TexaTucky, 2/26/2013 12:18:15 PM (No. 9197173)
I like that attitude #4 - good ole fashioned American optimism.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Penney, 2/26/2013 2:27:31 PM (No. 9197477)
Plus, everything has just gone digital. Thus, many of the small theaters in rural America are having to go out of business as they can´t aford the new digital equipment required to show any new productions. Today´s hollyweird has completely left such little theaters behind in the dust but then, there will be no more ticket money for hollyweird coming in from those former sources.
Pols in States who give today´s hollyweird productions taxpayers´ money & tax breaks for making PC trash propaganda flicks within their domain are irresponsible, to say the least, and voters should hold them accountable at the polls.
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Christian Origins of
Essential American Doctrines
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Canada Free Press, by Kelly O´Connell
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Posted By: snowcloud- 4/7/2013 2:29:38 PM
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In midst of the modern, mindless battle to drive religion completely from American life, a small and inconvenient fact has been ignored: Virtually every important, original American idea is a product of Christianity. Further, had these doctrines never been developed, the US would arguably not been nearly as productive, free or happy. These ideas involve property, liberty, and the rule of law.Today the government bears down upon the Constitution, menacing the Bill of Rights and our entire way of life, offering to trade our freedoms for the supposed security of state control. Our very life,
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Finding Christ on the Internet
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 4/4/2013 12:54:46 PM
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For the many whose complaints were marginalized when New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan invited President Barack Obama to the legendary Al Smith dinner two weeks before the November 6 election on the weak-kneed alibi that “he invited Mitch Romney too”: Cardinal Dolan gave abortion-loving Vice President Joe Biden Holy Communion and a gleeful shout-out from the altar of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City on Palm Sunday. Most shamefully and unabashedly, yes he did.Even as the faithful were honouring the beginning of Holy Week 2013 in the memory of Christ riding a donkey into Jerusalem,
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Is ‘Scientist-in-Chief’ Obama
competing with Brain Expert
Dr. Ben Carson?
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 4/3/2013 4:21:33 PM
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If President Barack Obama is serious about pioneering a Congress-paid, $100-million mapping expedition into the human brain, he should seek the help of celebrated brilliant brain surgeon Dr. Ben Carson. But it’s far more likely that megalomanic Obama is only jumping onto the human brain study bandwagon because that’s where the increasingly popular Dr. Carson is. “Obama, who jokingly labeled himself “Scientist-in-Chief”, said the so-called BRAIN Initiative could create jobs and eventually lead to answers to ailments including Parkinson’s and autism and help reverse the effect of a stroke.
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Only parents can set their children free
from Common Core indoctrination
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 4/2/2013 11:17:49 AM
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The new battle-cry to save a disappearing Republic should begin with the words: “Set our children free”. While the President Barack Obama-led Socialist regime in Washington calls the tune by keeping the bouncing ball over the concept of Government-Fighting-Patriots, the real battle is the one where it gets to take over your children. With all eyes trained expectantly on the latest Obama executive order; with the definition of one man, one woman marriage being rewritten by the Supreme Court, progressives in office have been working out the details to come up with a way to capture your children.
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Travesty: David Petraeus apologizes
for Sex, should apologize
for COIN and Benghazi
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Canada Free Press, by Marinka Peschmann
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Posted By: snowcloud- 4/1/2013 3:07:17 PM
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Former famed CIA director David Petraeus apologized last week for his blackmail-able extramarital affair with sycophant author Paula Broadwell that “caused such pain for [his] family, friends and supporters,” during an event honoring the military at the University of Southern California. While it must have been devastating for his wife Holly of 37 years to have to go to the family doctor to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases thanks to her husband’s infidelity and lies—something all spouses and partners need to do under such circumstances, that is between them. The truth is Petraeus is getting off easy.
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Is Canada the next Cyprus?
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 3/29/2013 11:08:10 AM
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It’s Good Friday and a government holiday in Ottawa. No point trying to reach Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty today. So rather than wait until Monday, Canada Free Press (CFP) is posing this cliff-hanger question: “Is that a Cyprus-style “Bail In” proposed in the newly-minted 2013 budget?” That’s what economic gunslingers on both sides of the border and dozens of letters to the editor are charging. What began as a rumble is growing into an ear-splitting cacophony—and the Canadian government should post a truthful, detailed and in-plain-English explanation on its website.
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Larry Grathwohl: An Extraordinary
Life from the Weather Underground
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Canada Free Press, by Sher Zieve
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Posted By: snowcloud- 3/28/2013 8:47:49 AM
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Larry Grathwohl is one of those increasingly rare individuals who has led a truly extraordinary life. However, after speaking with him I found that he is an unassuming and truly humble man who has a strong belief in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Snip) What was new 30 years ago was the violence and the determination of individuals such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn who were part of the Weather Underground, with the sole purpose of destroying the United States of America, its Constitution and the liberties it provides us. Nothing is really changed
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The picture of the Real Obama
worth framing
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 3/25/2013 10:39:32 AM
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Radio talk show giant Mark Levin may want to know now that President Barack Hussein Obama’s back from his Israel trip, his White House schedule remains totally empty for Holy Week and Passover. Obama’s usual sleep-late, no-meetings-until-lunch routine has been replaced with a blank itinerary. (See Below) Now that most are familiarized with this president’s taunting style, dare we hope that the other shoe won’t drop during this Holy Week? Ever since his first election, Obama’s most stinging insults to Judeo-Christian society have come during Easter and Passover.
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Obama a “fellow Christian” who
champions partial birth abortion
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 3/20/2013 3:02:18 PM
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Question for Glenn Beck: Is ‘That Guy’ who’s in Israel today with his own redesigned map of that beleaguered country truly a “fellow Christian”, as described by ‘The Bible’ mini-series co-producer Roma Downey now playing until Easter on the History Channel? Before the Twitter follow-up telling all to “relax”, because his Sunday night Twitter suggesting that Barack Obama looks an awful lot like actor Mehdi Ouzanni, who plays Satan in ‘ The Bible’, Beck, who’s been touting the mini-series as the most popular in television history, linked Obama and the series’ Satan as “exact” lookalikes.
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Life’s Little People
always Ripped off First
by Socialist Governments
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 3/19/2013 10:30:20 AM
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What’s going on in Cyprus should be Textbook Lesson 101 how Big Socialist Governments will always find new ways to rip off the Little People to continue their profligate lifestyles. Taking full advantage of the public they were elected to serve, Cyprus Parliament and their banks worked out the details of a fait accompli while folks went about their own business. In other words, the horse was already out of the barn before social media was able to tip off the masses. Does it surprise any that today the mainstream media is rife with stories
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EU theft of private bank accounts
a “sacrifice” to mainstream media
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 3/18/2013 11:53:49 AM
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The mainstream media downplaying of what is happening in the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus this weekend is already muddying the water. Tens of thousands of unwitting little people have had their bank accounts ripped off over the long weekend by their own government, in a fashion where their ripped off funds were already a fait accompli before word began to leak out over social media. Media downplaying notwithstanding, the unvarnished truth about what is happening in Cyprus is both precedent setting and staggering in dimension.
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Socialists ready to make power
grab of world citizens’ money
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Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod
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Posted By: snowcloud- 3/16/2013 7:25:19 PM
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Get your money out of the banks.Due to an “emergency deal reached today in Brussels”, a one-time 9.9% tax is to be levied on Cypriot bank deposits of more than 100,000 euros effective Tuesday, March 19. Virtually overnight and with no warning of any kind, the emergency tax deal was imposed on the people of Cyprus without vote or debate. People ran to ATM machines today only to discover that the taxed amount of their cash had already been frozen. Monday in Cyprus is a national holiday, the first day of Greek Orthodox Easter.
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´My bangs are getting
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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Christians, here´s why we´re
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Broadcasters worry
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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Obama critic apologizes for
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Is going gluten-free
healthier for everybody?
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The Week, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 11:28:27 AM
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Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.
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Adam Lanza´s murder spree at Sandy
Hook may have been´act of revenge´
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New York Daily News, by Matthew Lysiak and Rich Schapiro
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Posted By: noproblems- 4/7/2013 9:52:58 AM
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Newtown killer Adam Lanza may have launched his murder spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School as an “act of revenge,” the Daily News has learned. A close friend of Lanza’s mother told The News that the troubled boy was a target of relentless bullying when he attended the Connecticut school years ago. “I think Adam felt betrayed by the school and this was his act of revenge,” said Marvin LaFontaine, a friend of Nancy Lanza’s. “Nancy told me he was being picked on at school. That they were just torturing him.”
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Parents outraged that Mass.
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: beancounter- 4/6/2013 5:21:39 PM
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ATTLEBORO, Mass. — As many as 25 students at a Massachusetts school were denied lunch this week — with at least some forced to dump their food in the garbage — because they couldn´t pay, school officials and parents said. Outraged parents said some students at Coelho Middle School in Attleboro cried when they were told by a worker for the district´s food service provider they could not eat on Tuesday because they couldn´t pay or their pre-paid accounts were short on funds. The on-site director for the company, Whitsons Culinary Group of Islandia, N.Y., was placed on administrative leave by
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