TIL Bees Are Fed With High-Fructose Corn Syrup
April 30, 2013
Picture
bees in the hive. Buzzing away. Some beekeeper comes along and takes
big chunks of honeycombed honey from their honeycomb hideout. The
beekeeper substitutes the honey for a slop of high-fructose corn syrup.
Do you think the bees noticed?
We've secretly replaced
the fine coffee they usually serve with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if
anyone can tell the difference.
Researchers
have noticed the worldwide collapse of honeybee colonies (Colony
Collapse Disorder) and are wondering if the high-fructose
corn syrup is the problem.
Hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm. Do ya think?
Honey is shelf stable. High-fructose corn
syrup is not. Chemically they are similar except that honey has pollen
and high-fructose
corn syrup does not. And it's the pollen in honey that has antioxidants,
enzymes, and other health benefits.
Some companies filter out the pollen from their honey. Why
would they
do that?
Pollen tells where the honey comes from. China has been found to add
illegal antibiotics and dilute the honey with high-fructose
corn syrup. (The antibiotics preserve the corn syrup.)
In
one instance 11 years ago, contaminated Chinese honey was shipped to
Canada and then on to a warehouse in Houston where it was sold to jelly
maker J.M. Smuckers and the national baker Sara Lee. By the time the
FDA said it realized the Chinese honey was tainted, Smuckers had sold
12,040 cases of individually packed honey to Ritz-Carlton Hotels and
Sara Lee said it may have been used in a half-million loaves of bread
that were on store shelves.
The honey you've been eating probably isn't honey, according to this
study. Yes, even the honey in the plastic bears.
Music Association: John Belushi
- King Bee "Buzz Buzz"
The European
Union has banned the nerve-agent pesticides
blamed for the dramatic decline global bee populations. The
moratorium restricts the use of imidacloprid and clothianidin,
made by Germany's Bayer, and thiamethoxam, made by the Swiss company,
Syngenta. The ban on use on flowering crops will remain in place
throughout the EU for two years unless compelling scientific evidence
to the contrary becomes available.
Makeup Consultation
Every Single Time
April 26, 2013
This calls for a smokey eye.
How about
we do a smokey eye?
Maybe a
smokey eye...
Let's
flip the hair like this and add a smokey eye.
Since everybody thinks getting a black eye is sexy, how about a makeup
version of it?
Music Association: Harold
Barefoot Sanders III - Get Plastered
Everyone
should win an award.
Music Review
Dr. Shlomo and the G.I. Clinic
April 25, 2013
Everyone agrees the early music of Dr.
Shlomo and the G.I. Clinic (when they were Dr. Shlomo and The Infantry)
was far better than their latest Don't
Rock the Bedpan.
Should we be upset or relieved that the CD only has eight songs?!?
Gang Green, the first song, starts with what sounds like hands slamming
down on a table -- a loud thumping. Dr. Shlomo sings:
Record companies are knocking
The record companies
are pounding
They want a contract
They want to talk money
The record companies
are calling
How'd they get this
number?
Jimmy says, They want
their money back
They want their
contract back
Gang Green -- the money
people -- Gang Green...
Compact disks are supposed to last 30 or 50 years, depending on if
they're left in the sun or not. Don't
Rock the Bedpan is
one CD for the sunshine. I'd
rather listen to anything by Shorty Jizzle before any more of Dr.
Shlomo and the G.I. Clinic. It's like nothing you've ever heard before.
Music Association: Dr. Shlomo
and the G.I. Clinic - Gang Green
If they tour Minnesota, it'll be on the Twin
Cities Calendar with a warning to clear the area.
Minnesota Vikings Draft Picks
April 22, 2013
[Update 4-26-2013 -
Vikings traded 4
later picks for a 3rd first round draft pick. The
Vikings picked
defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd, cornerback Xavier Rhodes, &
receiver Cordarrelle Patterson.]
Having traded Percy Harvin to Seattle for an extra first round draft
pick, the Minnesota Vikings are betting on a good draft. They have the
23rd and 25th picks in the first round and then nine more picks after
that.
Off-season changes:
Vikings
gained
Greg
Jennings, wide receiver
Matt
Cassel, quarterback |
Vikings
lost
Percy Harvin, wide receiver
Antoine Winfield, cornerback
Jasper Brinkley, middle linebacker
Geoff Schwartz, guard
Michael Jenkins, wide receiver |
With The First Pick
has some ideas what the Vikings should do on Thursday night (the first
round).
The Vikings
2013 Draft Guide has a worksheet for the draft picks.
The Minnesota Vikings
Cheerleaders
are wrapping up their auditions for the 2013-2014 season. They held
their semi-finals on Sunday night at the Pantages Theater and Seven
Restaurant in an otherwise rainy downtown Minneapolis.
The finals will be Tuesday, April 23 at 6:30pm at the Mall of America
rotunda.
Then the cheerleaders will attend the draft party Thursday night and
Saturday.
In the interview picture above, Kate is from Waseca. In the next
picture below, #42 is Kelsey from Farmington, #43 is Alyssa from
Beresford SD, #44 is Kelly from Eagan, #45 is Michelle from Northfield,
and #46 is Brooke from Oakdale.
Music Association: Rush -
Freewill "If you chose not to decide, you still have made a
choice."
Twin
Cites Calendar
- April 2013 NFL Draft Party next weekend
Boston Bombing Quotes
April 19, 2013
“ You don’t rob
7-Elevens, if you have a master plan. ” - CNN
[What do you think provoked this?] “Being
losers.”
“Anything else having
to do with religion -- with Islam -- it's a fraud -- it's fake.”
“Of course we are
ashamed! Yes, we're ashamed of the children of my brother.”
“This is the ideal micro-world in
the entire world. I respect this country. I
love this country, this country which gives
chances to everybody else to be treated as a human being.”
- Ruslan
Tsarni
“We got him.”
- Boston Mayor Menino
Music Association: Cheap Trick -
Surrender
April 22nd 1:50pm
CT - Moment of Silence & Chicago pays
for pizza
Minnesota's Second Winter
April 19, 2013
I'm an optimist. Put me next to the most optimistic person you know,
and I'll make them seem dismal and gloomy.
And yet this winter... are
we still on the first winter of the year or have we already moved on to
the second? ...has been wearing on me.
Yes, it looks beautiful. Inches of snow finely balanced on the thinnest
of twigs. Yes, it's very pretty. Now back to the shoveling.
This is the sort of adversity... beautiful adversity no less... that
causes me to call in the optimism
reinforcements...
... dogs.
Music Associations: Dean Martin
- Let It Snow & Winter Wonderland
Happy 75th
Birthday, Superman
April 18, 2013
Still super for an old man.
Music Associations:
Stereophonics - Superman
"Superman on an aeroplane, sitting next to Lois Lane."
Five For Fighting - Superman
"I'm only a man in a funny red sheet, looking for special things inside
of me."
Minnesota Music Review
Sarah Morris - Grateful Moon
April 17, 2013
Recently I enjoyed a performance by local singer-songwriter Sarah Morris.
She has a charming style of boldly singing
while sometimes hiding behind her guitar.
Her covers to songs makes you do a hearing double-take. “Is that what she
sang? Yeah, that's what I thought she sang.” She
makes other artist's songs her own, in a thoughtful way.
While she was on a break, I bought a CD from her. She has two. Grateful Moon
is a collection of covers, with a jazz influence. Lonely Or Free
is her original work, with more of a country style. Because of liking
her take on other's songs, I bought Grateful Moon, even
though I wanted to hear original work as well.
Her gutsy rendition of Irving Berlin's Cheek To Cheek was
worth the price of the CD. I also liked her jazzier take on the Whitney
Houston hit, I Wanna
Dance With Somebody.
I'll buy Lonely
Or Free next time.
Music Association: Sarah Morris
- Cheek To Cheek
See more local artists on the Twin Cities Calendar
April 15, 2013
“Criminals are a
superstitious cowardly lot.”
Boston
Marathon Disaster Donations
• Bostons
First Responders Fund
Boston
Firefighter's Credit Union
60 Hallet Street
Dorchester, MA 02124
617-288-2420
• Salvation
Army
• American
Red Cross
Music Association: Boston - More
Than A Feeling
Gold at Two Year Low
April 15, 2013
It might be a
good time to buy back that gold filling.
Music Association: Shirley
Bassey - Goldfinger
