Ban on TransFat/Fries - Good Job New York!!!

Ban Ban Ban.........!!!
New York banned smoking in restaurants and other public places three years ago, hats off for health consious and cancer preventing public policies. To add another hats off to New York, a plan to ban trans fat food is underway,
the health commissionerof NY is doing good job, hope other states just follow such good policies to make our cities better place.

Ban all those fries and any food that is dangerous to health, specially the transfat food. Read the rest of the article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060927/ap_on_he_me/diet_trans_fat_ban

E.Coli in Bagged Spinach!!???

Latest Spinach UPDATES!!
Week of October 5, 2006
FBI raids Calif. firms in spinach probe
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061005/ap_on_he_me/tainted_spinach
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. - The ongoing probe into the source of a nationwide
E. coli' E. coli outbreak linked to tainted spinach turned into a criminal investigation as federal agents raided two Salinas Valley produce companies. Agents from the
FBI' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> FBI and the
Food and Drug Administration' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Food and Drug Administration's criminal investigations office executed search warrants Wednesday at the Natural Selection Foods LLC plant in San Juan Bautista and Growers Express in Salinas to see if they violated food safety and environmental laws.

September 27, 2hours ago:
Meanwhile, four more bags of fresh spinach in three other states have tested positive for E. coli contamination. And the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food and Drug Administration announced that Canada had confirmed its first case of E. coli O157:H7 in a person who ate bagged spinach.
On Tuesday, Pennsylvania health officials said that a lab identified the deadly strain in a bag of Dole baby spinach purchased on or around Sept. 8 in the western part of the state, the AP said. Also Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said E. coli had been isolated by state public health labs in Illinois and Ohio from three more opened packages of spinach. "DNA fingerprint" testing was under way to see if the strains match the outbreak strain, the agency said.
The investigation of the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that sickened scores of people across the country and left one woman dead has been focused on three counties in the Salinas Valley, where more than half the country's spinach crop is grown.

Week of Sept 15, 2006
A california based "Natural Foods Company" seems to be the start of the Outbreak, according to the following news?. Unidentified crops are seen across the street from the Earthbound Farm/Natural Selection Foods plant in San Juan Bautista, Calif. on Friday, Sept. 15, 2006. The California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green. The crops pictured are not those in question. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Today the FDA and health officials announced about a E.Coli (bacteria) outbreak through bagged SPINACH. One person died and 20 infected in Wisconsin, about ten states have reported cases according to news (By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago. WASHINGTON - Federal health officials worked Friday to find the source of a multistate E.coli outbreak and warned consumers that even washing the suspect spinach won't kill the sometimes-deadly bacteria). So, why do you want to take risk and eat when obvious spread of E.Coli is going on. Wait until another announcement comes, even then be careful about E.Coli, which is a bacteria normally lives in stomach including humans. However, there are several strains among this bacteria, some of them are dangerous and deadly. One of the official says it is tip of the icerberg of the outbreak, it is not clear. The FDA official announced not to eat spinach, even if you cook them it is not safe. It sounds to be a good advice, why take risk. Do not eat spinach from bags for sometime...............................)

East Rock-Robberies!!??

The recent raise in robberies in East Rock (Sunday 09/10/06) and other New Haven neighbourhood is a horrible and terrible incidences. Whatever is going on and whoever is doing, these are terribly sick and dangerous people. Hope they will be put in jail permanetly than leaving them out as soon as they go to station. Dear neighbours, be watchful, it is sad to note that in our own neighbourhood we can't walk free and safe, what the hell is wrong with this people?.

The Road to East Rock Park- Fallen Tree!!??

The Fallen Tree that is blocking the road to the top of the east rock park mountain. How Long will it take for the East Rock Park aministration or the concerned New Haven town to remove a tree that blocks the road?. A big tree is fallen due to recent rain and stormy weather, it is blocking the road, bickers (like myself and many more), joggers, walkers and tourists alike are finding difficult to go through the fallen tree in disguise. It is been let to rotten there I believe. Comon...how long it will take for the workers to remove the tree??. Is there anyone concerned listening or checking on these roads up the east rock park hill???

A friendly, regular bicker Hanna is standing besides these tree thinking whether or not to cross the tree with a bike in her hand?. She finaly decided to go back instead. Crossing the road through this tree is a struggle through this mess of tree branches, one could easily get hurt and injured by several branches of the fallen tree.


How many days more will it take for the responsible maintenance people to attend to this natural road block???. Some bikers even turn and go back instead of crossing this fallen tree.

Yale NEWS - Interesting!!!

NEW YALE WEBSITE:
The new design of Yale website is quite colorful and beautiful, it is a kind of trial phase, they might put up the new site soon permanently, but at the moment you can see time you visit the new images and designs.....
Great Use of Salvaged Oil from Yale Dining Halls???
I was browsing the latest "yale alumni" magazine isse [July/August, 2006] last weekend, something struck my attention. This small news bit can be found under the campus clips in the magazine. It is quite obvious that there must be huge amount of oil used in cooking in various dorms within the yale campus. Wow, what to do with so much used oils, well, it is Yale we are talking about. A smart scientist deciced to solvaged all the used oils from campus dining halls and took it to the lab to refine it??. The salvage Oil has been converted into fuel, most interetingly, one of those yale shuttle you see on the New Haven streets is running on the fuel that was made from cooked up oil from dining halls.....isn't amazing. Congrats to the scientist, labs and all those involved in it, a wonderful way of saving the environment, using the used oil effectively and for being innovative.

New Haven/East Rock

As if this little plant stands taller than the huge mountain in front of it, isn't it?.
But, yet it is quite beautiful when you look at from this angle!!.




When did we first pave a tiny little road in this heavily wooded, dense forest??, keep monitoring where this road leads to?.

Oh, I took the unpaved short cut into the woods, I saw this fallen, trimmed and cut tree branch or perhaps a trunk.
Why.. among so many other attractive trees, branches and fallen woods that this one interested me...don't know!?These plants are always useful, even after they are fallen lifeless so to say?.

When I reached the top, I got this panoramic view of ER area from the top of the hill, I guess that you guessed it right from where I am standing, those regular walkers, joggers, bickers and visitors to the hill certainly know this spot and they stood here once in their trip up to watch the beauty of the city from up!

Immmmmm......the downtown skycrappers are not as tall as me, look at me here, from this view, I am staning on this lil mountain pretty and pretty tall.
This plant might not attract just an ordinary eye, but when it captured on the camera, just look how elegant and peacefully posing, don't you agree?. And these beauties don't need any make up to look pretty?.




And, this is a view of the NEW HAVEN, a view from the top of the East Rock Park, Connecticut.




View of the Ocean from the top of East Rock mountain.

ON TOP OF EAST ROCK PARK





This beautiful monument appears like splitting the tree and coming out of the middle of teh tree, can be found at the top of the east rock mountain.

Like the statue of Liberty to NY, I believe there is a story behind this monument too, in any case this is a beautiful one when it is viewed from either stading on the top of teh east roack mountain, or from the town of east rock areas, one can see this from the town. While walking on the Orange street, one will be able to see this.

New Haven/ER

So,
tell me if this is not a breathtaking veiw on this shot?.

This view is obtained from the east rock iron bridge.

New Haven/Connecticut

The East Rock Bridge

These are some recent pics I shot from East Rock park area and in the New Haven Green.

Apart from all sorts of things one can talk about New Haven, there is a beauty to this city that can be partly acknolwedged and appreciated in the following images. I took this using my coolplix camera. Due to time restrain, I am only posting the images, later I will add on the comments and more. But, I am quite sure that NewHavener's already know the place in these pics. Enjoy.

In & Around New Haven

IN AND AROUND NEW HAVEN, CT

Best Food in New Haven, Pantry

2 Mechanic Street
Restaurant New Haven, CT 06511

August 29, 2006

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• Value:My Breakfast Favorite- your's too??
• If you are in New Haven for any reason and looking for best breakfast without burning your fingers and wallet with ridiculous prices but yet get the most delicious food, look no further than a short drive from downtown to Pantry, located at 2 Mechanic Street, intersction between Lawrence St, Mechanic St and State St in New Haven.
  
  This locality is commenly known as East Rock Area, the beautiful East Rock Park and East Rock Hills are walkable from Pantry. Yale new campus, Peabody museum are closeby. Orange, Edward and Whitney streets are closeby. The atmosphere at the Pantry breakfast restaurant is very friendly, homely and quite a busy place. Sometime a wait is required, other times you can walk-in, but no reservations and that mundane dance to the tune of hi-fi, glass paneled restaurant kind. It is simply a homely restaurant. I go with my shorts and t-shirt, sometime with shoos or other time with sandals, doen't matter, I am decent looking even if I visit a grocery store, what I mean is there is no need to worry about your dress code at this restaurant. LoL...
  
  Only breakfast items are served, they close at 2pm. Monday is holiday, the rest of the week and weekend is opened as usual. I can't discriminate which is a better breakfast in the menu list, because they take spcial care to cook every single item, either the super pancake (I felt like eating breakfast and lunch together, big quantity), about 3-4 thick pancake with starwberries or blueberries on top,butter and vermont maid syrup and it goes with the pancake smoothely to let you devour!?. French toast, different kinds of potato addition to the toasts, omlet and egg toasts...immmmmmmm tasty. Well, coffee as a part of your breakfast, the coffee is one hundred times superior and better in quality than the star bucks crap. I normally ask for few re-fills. All other drinks are served (fruit based drinks or soda). I am not describing all the items, there are several special items served at pantry, whatever you eat, I can assure you it is worth visiting for a break fast or even for a early lunch. The berries on top of a pancake is unbelievable, a whole bowl of fresh berries, neatly cut and incredebly arranged on top of pancake, I could never eat the whole break fast, first I finish all the berries and then I eat about half of the pancake served, good enough to satiate my hunger and tommy, no more room. Anyways, I visit often and every time I go with immmmmmmmmm satisfied eating here.
  Note: I am just another customer like everyone, I am not related the pantry in anyways.
  Enjoy,
  muni
  Last Visited: July 2006