| Lottery reps make special appearance to hype jackpot
SEASIDE HEIGHTS � It didn't take Maria Strazemski long to name what she would buy if she wins the $330 million Mega Millions jackpot tonight. "I'd buy my husband a Porsche, and share with my family," said Strazemski, 57, of the Richfield section of Clifton. "I'd travel to the Mediterranean and take a cooking class in Tuscany." She did not feel a jackpot could be too large, but thinks that with a certain size jackpot, several people should win. "Or, someone who is in need should definitely win," she added. Yesterday, the New Jersey Lottery Commission and acting Executive Director William T. Jourdain visited a booth at Blaine Avenue on the boardwalk to sell tickets for tonight's drawing and give advice to people buying tickets. The jackpot is $330 million for the annuity jackpot option over 26 years, and $194.4 million for the cash jackpot option.
Send in the storm-trooper nurses . . .
Perhaps the most depressing thing about the news of filth in hospital kitchens is how quickly it will be forgotten: shrugged off on to the ever-growing heap of anecdotes about slovenly hospitals. The Freedom of Information Act, invoked by the Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb, informs us that of 368 NHS and nine private hospitals checked, 173 have mucky kitchens, 57 employ sluttish caterers, and scores don’t know how to store food safely. In Winchester a food handler samples food and licks his fingers; in Ashford, Kent, full-grown cockroaches frolic; in Croydon used syringes are left on meal trays . . . well, let me not spoil your breakfast. But it is good to be told these things by professional inspectors – just as we were four years ago, when the Government huffed that every hospital must have a "director of infection control" and John Reid promised "a raft of measures".
Freshman 15 still a worry for students
College freshman every year get to live their teenage fantasy: being able to eat whatever they want, when they want. For most that means take out pizza, boxes of brownies, instant noodles, macaroni and cheese -- a lot of it eaten after midnight. The thousands of college students back in Utah County are mostly eating anything quick, cheap and easy. Some of those college students could fall victim to weight gain, menacingly known as the Freshman 15. But studies show that not every student gains weight, and the ones whodo usually don't go for the whole 15. Ashton Guthrie, a junior at Utah Valley State College, said she gained six or seven pounds her freshman year because she didn't know how to cook anything. Lora Beth Brown, who teaches in the department of nutrition dietetics and food science at Brigham Young University, said many students only gained a few pounds their freshman year.
Scientists hail ‘frozen smoke’ as material that will change world
A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars. Aerogel, one of the world’s lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C. Scientists are working to discover new applications for the substance, ranging from the next generation of tennis rackets to super-insulated space suits for a manned mission to Mars. .
Community Calendar
Narcotics Anonymous Support Group meetings are held at Christian Living Fellowship Church on Section Line Road in Leesville. Meetings are held Mondays from 8-9 p.m.; Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m.; Wednesdays, 5-6 p.m. Thursdays, 7:15-8 p.m. and 8-9 p.m.; Fridays, 8-9 p.m., Saturdays, 8-9 p.m. and Sundays 8-9 p.m. For more information please call Ricky C. at 718-6234 or Brian T. at 238-3570. .
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