| Fortified Water Ads Flood Super Bowl
(Rochester, N.Y.) – The Super Bowl was awash with commercials for enhanced or "fortified" water.Are these beverages good for you, or are their claims all wet?At the Midtown Athletic Club cafe, the Vitaminwater brand is a big seller.“It tastes good and supposedly it's good for you," said Elvio Fernandez.“I have to force myself to drink water so it's a good alternative," said Jay Surgoine.The beverages come in many flavors with different vitamin and mineral combinations. Vitaminwater's Kiwi-Strawberry Focus favor has Vitamins A, C, B3, B6, B12, B5. Some of the drinks have calcium or potassium.In one ad shown during the 2008 Super Bowl, Shaquille O'Neal rides a horse to victory, thanks to Vitaminwater. In another, lizards got down to Michael Jackson while claiming the SoBe Life water brand is “thrillicious."USA Today cites figures showing that sales of fortified ("enhanced") water went up 32 percent in the first nine months of 2007.“It's definitely hype," said Rochester Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Liz Kmiecinski, who teaches a class on sports nutrition.She says the vitamins in these drinks are “totally random," and most people typically don't need a boost of the vitamins offered.“We need to get our vitamins from food, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, whole foods, dairy products, those kinds of things," Kmiecinski said.Midtown's fitness director warns clients that the water is "enhanced" with more than just vitamins.“Regular water is always better because of the calorie content, the calories.
Celebrate the Holidays With Sun Shower(TM) 100% Nectarine Juices
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking for a nutritious and delicious way to liven up your holiday parties? Sun Shower's(TM) variety of 100% Nectarine Juices makes for excellent mixers for your holiday celebrations. "Whatever type of holiday celebration you are having, Sun Shower(TM) 100% Nectarine Juices are a fun way to add some great flavor and a bit of nutrition to your holiday cheer," said Chris New, founder, chairman and CEO of NBI Juiceworks, producers and distributors of Sun Shower(TM) 100% Nectarine Juices. "Our variety of eight 100% nectarine juices provides a wonderful way to serve something new and exciting during the holidays." Currently available in two sizes, convenient 12 oz. and 28 oz. containers, the eight flavors in the Sun Shower(TM) line are Nectarine, Nectarine Berry, Nectarine Mango, Nectarine Acai, Nectarine Pomegranate, Nectarine Cranberry, Nectarine Grape Orange and Turbo-G Superfood.
Knight Capital Group Announces Earnings of $0.52 Per Diluted Share for ...
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NITE) today reported earnings of $49.6 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, and pre-tax income of $78.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2007. The results include a non-recurring tax benefit of $0.02 per diluted share. Excluding this item, earnings for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $0.50 per diluted share. For the fourth quarter of 2006, the company reported earnings of $47.4 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, and pre-tax income of $71.6 million. The results included a $0.09 per diluted share gain from the sale of the remaining strategic investment in shares of the International Securities Exchange, Inc. (ISE) and a non-recurring tax benefit of $0.03 per diluted share. Excluding these two items, earnings for the fourth quarter of 2006 were $0.33 per diluted share.
Dietary exercises take students from brainstorms to brain freezes
There was a whole lot of slurping going on at Franklin School on Thursday. And there may have been a few children suffering from brain freeze.For the second time this year, lunchtime was turned into a lively nutrition lesson as kids participated in a "Mix It Up" activity focused on the benefits of eating fruit. Their reward for paying attention? A frozen 5-ounce serving of a "strawberry whirl" or "pomegranate paradise" smoothie from Jamba Juice."It doesn't just taste good, it tastes really good!" said first-grader Raghav Bangalore.During each lunch session, students were randomly assigned to one of six tables and asked to brainstorm different ways to eat a banana, apple, cantaloupe, strawberries, raspberries or pomegranate.Fifth-graders Kole Bartley and Kieley Trempy found themselves sitting at the "pomegranate table." They said they loved pomegranates and described the taste as between sweet and sour."You have to eat the seeds," said Kieley, to nods of agreement from Kole.
Rep. Campfield wants gay references banned in schools
An essay on little Johnny's two mommies could be tossed in the bin before it ever gets the chance to bask in hallway display prominence. Newly proposed state legislation would ban anything that exposes students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade to homosexuality. "Homosexuality, bisexuality, that's something that should be left to be taught at home and not at our schools," said Rep. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, author of the legislation. The bill, however, would allow for the teaching of heterosexuality. "Without heterosexuality you wouldn't be able to teach biology," Campfield explained. He also added keeping heterosexuality on the books would protect schools from litigation. "'Jack and Jill went up the hill' - some organizations say you can't teach that because it pushes a heterosexual agenda," he said.
The legality of water-boarding is a moving target.
It's been a banner week for water-boarding. This centuries-old practice of simulated drowning to extract false confessions and false testimony has really benefited of late from a good old legal reassessment and a smoking-hot PR campaign. In the course of a few short years, water-boarding has morphed from torture that unquestionably violates both federal and international law to an indispensable tool in the fight against terror. Charting that progression is almost not worth doing anymore, so familiar are the various feints and steps. First, the administration breaks the law in secret. Then it denies breaking the law. Then it admits to the conduct but asserts that settled law is not in fact settled anymore because some lawyer was willing to unsettle it. Then the administration insists that the basis for unsettling the law is secret but that there are now two equally valid sides to the question.
Organ, Schiffelbein a 60-year institution at church
She said she takes her work seriously and picks out hymns that tie in with the liturgy and Scripture readings for a particular Mass. Schiffelbein has lost track of how many years she has played the organ at Sacred Heart but said it was more than 60. "I started when I was in grade school," she said after a recent Saturday evening Mass. "My piano teacher switched me over to the organ." Soon, Schiffelbein was playing the organ at every morning Mass. She later became a fixture, playing at weddings, funerals and other services. Schiffelbein is the youngest of 14 children born to Adam and Catherine Puhl. She said her father always prayed that one of his children would play the organ in church. Sadly, Schiffelbein said, he died before she began to play.
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The stories named here were selected from a list of more than 20 nominations compiled by The Sun news staff, then voted on by newsroom personnel. The Sun Sports Staff also selected its top local sports stories of the year (see story below). And we’ve included the news nominations for readers to make their own choices for the year’s top stories through tonight at www.thewesterlysun.comTo cast your vote in our Viewers' Top 10 Stories of 2007 Poll, click here.Here are The Sun’s choices for the top 10 local news stories of 2007.1. The Hospital’s Health: The Westerly Hospital, bleeding red for a number of years, posted its largest-ever deficit – nearly $6 million for the 2007 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. And the CEO/President Charles S. Kinney urged corporators at the annual meeting in December to lobby their state and federal lawmakers to get relief through legislation that could boost the hospital’s reimbursements and bring other reforms.
Workshop Digs Into Proper Soil Fertility
Though he lives just a few miles from the farm on which he was raised, Neal Kinsey's chosen field takes him all over the world.The Missouri native travels next to Salem to conduct one of his workshops on soil fertility in a Jan. 21-23 event hosted by Oregon Tilth. Kinsey's workshop comes on the heels of Oregon Tilth's 33rd Annual Conference Jan. 18-19. Both events take place at the Salem Conference Center. .
Newy can be reached at his Web site, www.newdawg.com .
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