APRIL 2010 VOL. Xi NO. 89
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Snack soil in Indonesia In Tuban Indonesia, soil is not just a raw material for bricks and ceramics, it’s also a snack that one family has been making for many generation. This village in East Java Province, is the only village that produces ‘’ampo’’, a snack made from clean, gravel-free dark earth collected from nearby paddy fields. The villagers believe the soil snacks are an effective pain-killer so pregnant women are encouraged to eat them as it is believed to refine the skin of the unborn baby. Makers of the snack use a wooden stick to pound the soil into a hard, solid mass. Rolls of dirt are scraped off with a bamboo dagger then baked and smoked in
large clay pot for half and hour and then they’re ready to serve. According to it’s founder Rasima (53 years old), the better the quality of the soil, the better the taste of the snack.
Two of oldest people in the world die on same day Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day. Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days. She died at a nursing home in Westmoreland but was active until about two weeks before her death, her granddaughter Katherine Ray said. “She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dying at all,” Katherine Ray said. “She was planning for her birthday party.” Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was 113 years, 342 days, said L. Stephen Coles, a director of the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks and studies old people and certifies those 110
or older, called supercentenarians. “It’s very rare that two of our supercentenarians die on the same day,” Coles said. Bailey, who was born March 30, 1896, died in Detroit, he said. She had suffered from dementia, sai her family, which claimed she was born in 1895. Ray, even with her recent decline, managed an interview with a reporter last week, her granddaughter said. Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second-oldest in the world, the Gerontology Research Group said. She also was recorded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hampshire.
Photo taken in 2006 shows Mary Josephine Ray during her 111th birthday party in Westmoreland, She died Sunday at age 114.
Alaska wolves ‘kill’ woman’s teacher out jogging Wolves in Alaska are suspected of killing a teacher in an isolated village while she was out jogging. An autopsy has revealed that Candice Berner, 32, died of injuries sustained in an animal attack, officials said. Her body was dragged off a rural road, leaving a bloody track, into the nearby bush and was surrounded by wolf tracks. Police said wolves in the area had been aggressive recently. If confirmed, it is believed to be the first fatal wolf attack in the US in 50 years. The Alaska State Medical Examiner said Ms Berner’s cause of death
was “multiple injuries due Col Audie Holloway, of the to animal mauling”. Alaska State Troopers, said: “There’s no other carnivores Her body was in that area that are out and found on Monday active. evening by snowmobilers after she “There were wolf tracks all was last seen that around the body, and drag afternoon at her marks associated with those school in Chignik tracks.” Lake, a community of about 100 “From the number of prints people 474 miles at the scene, we’re thinking (760km) south of there probably were, posAnchorage. sibly, two, three, maybe four [wolves],” he added.
FOR HIM Danny Bascal Jr., 42 years old Driver for 14 years in Hong Kong Nabasa ko ang tungkol sa mga food supplements ng RICA sa KabayanSTAR newspaper, nagkaroon ako ng interest kaya hinanap ko ang shop nila sa World Wide House. Noong nagpa consulta ako sa kanila nadiskubre kong mayroon pala akong high blood pagkatapos kong na BP. Palagi ding masakit ang aking buong katawan na nakakaapekto sa aking pagtatrabaho kaya tinanong ko kung ano ang magandang food supplement mayron sila na puwede kong gamitin. Ang nirekumenda sa akin ay Arginine, binigyan ako ng flyers tungkol dito at pagkatapos kong binasa ang mga benefits nito ay nagdesisyon akong bumili. Habang iniinom ko ang unang bote ng Arginine na binili ko, nararamdaman ko ang maraming pagbabago ng aking pakiramdam. Isang buwan palang akong nakakainom pero masigla ako, may improvement na rin ang mataas kong BP noon at malakas ang aking pakiramdam kahit maghapon akong nagtatrabaho.
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