| 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.
The Real Subprime Crisis and Elusive Predatory Lender
We're at the early stages of a subprime crisis. The number of people getting kicked out of their homes for missing loan payments is rising. Since home ownership is every politician's favorite talking point, it's no wonder that we're seeing presidential hopefuls like Senator Clinton taking the evil eye off of oil companies, and pointing fingers at the subprime loan business. As the real estate mess should be peaking right before the next presidential election, expect the subject to increasingly dominate the news and talking points. "Something must be done to ensure honest hardworking Americans don't get kicked out of their homes," they say. Some of the policies proposed to "fix" the system will do exactly the opposite of the intended result: they will hurt lower income Americans by restricting access to home loans.
Flick's closing store
Competition to the north and the south has led longtime Northern Kentucky grocer Flick's Food to close its Hebron location in the Flick-built Tanners Station shopping center, which opened in 2004. The store on North Bend Road will close by the end of this month, a company official said Monday. "We are closing just the one for now," co-owner Dave Flick said. "We are not sure what we're going to do with the other." .
Rather than sweating glycemic index, stick to the basics
If you pick up a box of Lean Cuisine Chicken Pomodoro in Australia, you'll find a small symbol on the label that lists the product's glycemic index in addition to the usual facts about calories, carbohydrates, fat, protein and sodium. About 150 other products carry the symbol, too. Developed nearly 30 years ago at the University of Toronto, the glycemic index, or GI, is becoming part of the nutritional landscape Down Under. And it's attracted attention in the U.S. and Canada, too. The GI tries to gauge how much your blood sugar is likely to rise after eating a particular food. The higher the number, the more likely your blood sugar will be elevated after eating – something people need to avoid. Foods with scores of 70 to 100 are considered high-glycemic; 55 and lower are low-glycemic.
Americans Abandoning National Parks
While people participating in fewer outdoor activities may get less sunshine, and therefore less vitamin D, Siegel said that you generally get enough sun exposure to make sufficient vitamin D just from walking to the office from your car. And, while America is "clearly a sedentary society," he doesn't believe an extra visit or two to a national park will cure America's obesity problem. But Zaradic believes the problem runs deeper than that. "We tend to underestimate how important it is for ourselves and for our kids to get out and play in the dirt and to vacation somewhere like a state park or national park," she said. "We have forgotten how important our relationship with the real world is for our well-being." SOURCES: Patty Zaradic, Ph.D., Environmental Leadership Fellow and conservation ecologist, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Oliver Pergams, Ph.D., research assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago; Marc Siegel, M.D., internist and associate professor, medicine, New York University School of Medicine and Medical Center, and author, False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear; Feb.
Honoring Zindler with matzo balls
On March 2, the memory of Channel 13's Marvin Zindler, arguably the most famous, most influential and inarguably most beloved TV personality in Houston history, will be celebrated and rejoiced ... with a big matzo-ball-eating contest at Kenny & Ziggy's delicatessen. Sounds just about right to me. Marvin knew his way around a deli menu. Around, upside down and inside out. And soup was one of his favorites. World champion eater Joey Chestnut will compete in the "Matzoh Balls for Marvin" food fight. Chestnut is best known for dethroning the Japanese eating machine Kobayashi last July 4 in Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Contest on ESPN. Chestnut downed a record-shattering 66 franks and buns in 12 minutes. Last summer, Chestnut broke the kolache-eating record by gobbling 56 sausage-filled pastries at Minute Maid Park.
Charlie Sheen: On the Record
The "Two and a Half Men" star issues a statement to ET. CHARLIE SHEEN is coming to ET to set the record straight about recent reports that his custody case has been settled with ex-wife, DENISE RICHARDS. "A published report last week detailing the outcome of our proposed custody settlement couldn't be further from the truth. The idea that we would agree to the exact provisions we've fought so hard to overcome is absurd. Once again, this derisive fiction recklessly provided by an 'inside source' is as transparent and baseless as the entire case against us." Lawyers for Sheen and Richards are due back in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday as they continue working out a custody agreement. .
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