| Your year ahead
Not only is all the fun to be found there – the best parties and the smartest dinners with friends – but increasingly you find it is an ideal setting for work. As your family planet makes a move from your house of fun to your house of health and work, you find that nowhere are you more clear-headed than in the domestic setting. Want to build an extension? Wait till the autumn, or embrace chaos.Watch out forThe savage beast of your libido. This year's sexuality is one long experiment in your personal limits.Robert RedfordBig Bob puts down his clapperboard and placards about climate change and replaces them with… 'Redford for President' boards, promising to give Barack and Hillary a run for their money. Lions for Lambs co-star Meryl Streep steps up and offers to be his deputy.Hayden PanettiereHeroes star Hayden leaves the prime-time show in a bid to punt a script for a new Free Willy movie, following her 2007 run-in with Japanese fishermen over a dolphin hunt.
Iams and Eukanuba Dog and Cat Foods Earn Good Housekeeping Seal
DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- When it comes to assuring consumers about product quality, Iams and Eukanuba always have led the way, providing a money back guarantee to assure pet lovers that their dogs and cats are getting the best nutrition. Now, Good Housekeeping is recognizing Iams and Eukanuba with the Good Housekeeping Seal, a mark of excellence that stands for the Good Housekeeping Institute's rigorous evaluation process as well as an additional limited warranty against defects. "Being the only pet food manufacturer to earn the Good Housekeeping Seal is a source of pride for Iams and Eukanuba that we're happy to offer to our consumers," said P&G Pet Care general manager Dan Rajczak. "Dogs and cats are important members of our family households, so it's only right that we provide families with the ultimate assurance that we stand behind our pet food products." Founded in 1900, the Good Housekeeping Institute is dedicated to informing and educating consumers through product evaluations.
Mr. E's beautiful downer at the Galaxy
There's a nifty new primer on the work of singer-songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, the enigmatic, idiosyncratic man known simply as E. "Meet the Eels," it insists, for the first time placing "the" before that slippery moniker. It sports 24 tracks of varying moods and a dozen videos that rarely got airtime nary a bum cut in either lot. Yet, though it's a useful overview of Everett's six acclaimed albums, the package is only what it says it is a mere sketch of the odd, tragedy-stricken fellow whose tumultuous life and movingly warped view of it has given rise to songs that increasingly categorize him as a true original in American music. More than any tunes that are absent I miss "Dog-Faced Boy" and "Hospital Food," for starters the new retrospective lacks a crucial piece of E's story that isn't very musical at all: "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives," an hour-long BBC documentary about Everett's quest to learn who his father really was.
Latest fitness Rx for men is a yawn
Today we present: Masculine Medical News For Men. Our first item concerns what could be the most significant medical discovery for men since the invention of the electric nose-hair trimmer. According to an Associated Press article sent in by alert reader Shirley Damiano, researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered that - and here, to indicate the importance of this breakthrough, we will activate our keyboard's "Caps Lock" feature - MEN NEED SLEEP. The reason for this is hormones, which are chemicals that our bodies produce so they can take control away from our brains. For example, men produce a hormone that compels them to watch instant replays on TV. If a man is watching a football game, a moose could walk into the room wearing a tutu, and the man will not notice, because his hormones are forcing him to watch, possibly for the sixth time, a football player fall down in slow motion.
Divine Juno nod for Toronto “Nu-Funk” ensemble
For a band best known for their incredible live performances, a Juno nomination is a powerful tool. Kaybe, male vocalist in the band God Made Me Funky (GMMF) says the Junos provide an avenue for spreading their unique sound across Canada, and hopefully across the globe. "More people will come out, see the energy and the good time that we have out there," said an enthusiastic Kaybe. GMMF recently received their first Juno nomination: R&B/Soul Recording of the Year for their second album "We Can All Be Free." Rapper PHATT al could barely contain his delight. "We’re watching all the other nominees. They’re all people that we know and have seen great success happen to. To be honoured by being placed in the same category as these guys, it’s awesome! We’ve worked really hard to get here." Nu-Funk? Originally formed in 1996, the nine-member ensemble creates a style that’s hard to define.
Musharraf's cheery swing through Europe
You have to hand it to Pervez Musharraf. With all the problems the Pakistani president faces at home, he still found time to spend eight days in Europe last week, assuring world leaders everything is fine in his nuclear-armed state. But everything is not fine, and the cracks in his sunny public relations facade were not hard to see. Musharraf petulantly lashed out at an influential group of retired officers from Pakistan's powerful military that had urged him to step down immediately, dismissing them in a Financial Times interview as "insignificant personalties." In fact, they are yet another reflection of how the ex-army chief of staff's popularity has plummeted, even among former fellow officers. And when a leading Pakistani journalist at a London news conference asked a reasonable question about the security services, Musharraf implied that he was an enemy of the state.
Community bulletin: Drop off e-waste this weekend
Drop off electromic waste at no charge at 900 Airline Highway from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. There's no limit to how many items you can recycle. Broken or unbroken recyclables accepted.
For more information call (831) 628-3421, or visit www.sannbenitocountyfair.com.
Jan 19
Women's Club meeting
The Women's Club is hosting a meeting at the Presbyterian Church this Saturday. At 10:30 the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation will be doing a demonstration of a search and rescue.
Chamber Dinner Dance
There are only about 50 tickets left for the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner Dance to be held this Saturday at San Juan Oaks at 6 p.m. The tickets are $50 each and can be purchased by calling or stopping by our office.
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