By Balazs Koranyi OSLO | Wed Dec 7, 2011 7:24pm GMT (Reuters) - The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis.
Norwegians have eaten up the country's entire stockpile of butter, partly as the result of a "low-carb" diet sweeping the Nordic nation which emphasizes a higher intake of fats.
"Sales all of a sudden just soared, 20 percent in October then 30 percent in November," said Lars Galtung, the head of communications at TINE, the country's biggest farmer-owned cooperative.
A wet summer which reduced the quality of animal feed and cut milk output by 25 million litres had already limited supplies and the shortage has led some pundits to suggest the world's eighth-largest oil exporter offer some of its plentiful fuel supply in exchange for butter.
"Norwegians are not afraid of natural fats, they love their butter and cream," Galtung told Reuters.
Butter is now selling on Norway's top auction website, with a 250-gram piece starting at around $13 (8.28 pounds), roughly four times its normal price.
Just weeks before Norwegians will be expecting to eat plenty of buttery traditional biscuits and other homemade Christmas treats made with love and the liberal inclusion of dairy products, residents of the world's second-richest per-capita country can't even hope for help from a friendly neighbour who is rolling in butter.
Top dairy producer Denmark lies just across a narrow sea channel, but its stores of creamy butter will be kept out of the country by the high import duties of Norway, the only Nordic nation that does not belong to the European Union.
Still, the problem has certainly provided the Danes with a good laugh over their richly buttered breakfast toast.
Morning TV show Go' Morgen Danmark amid much hilarity offered a paltry 1,000 packets of butter on Wednesday to help ease the pain.
NJ woman charged in penis silicone injection death
NEWARK, N.J. -- A 34-year-old New Jersey woman injected a man's penis with silicone, killing him, police said Friday. The Essex County prosecutor's office says Kasia Rivera gave 22-year-old Justin Street the injection on May 5. Such injections often are used to enlarge body parts, such as the buttocks. Street died the day after his injection. His death was ruled a homicide following an investigation and a medical examiner's determination he died of a silicone embolism. Rivera has been charged with manslaughter. She also faces charges involving the unauthorized practice of medicine. She was arrested Friday and is being held on $75,000 bail. It's unclear if she has a lawyer. No telephone listing could be found for her home in East Orange.
Man cleaning gun kills girl 2.4km away Last updated 13:19 21/12/2011
A man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle shot the gun into the air, accidentally killing a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy 2.4 kilometres away, a sheriff said today (NZ time).
Rachel Yoder was shot in the head Thursday night (Friday, NZ time) while travelling to her home in Wayne County, between Columbus and Akron. She had attended a Christmas party for employees, most of them under 18 years old, at an Amish produce farm and was riding home alone when she was shot, Wayne County sheriff's Captain Douglas Hunter said.
The horse continued to cart the girl after she was shot, and she fell out of the buggy near her home, Holmes County Sheriff Timothy Zimmerly said. Her brother found her after he saw the horse walking in circles and went to check it. Authorities initially believed she had fallen out of the buggy and hit her head until a hospital test revealed the gunshot wound.
Hunter said his department traced a trail of blood along the road for about 600 metres into Holmes County in an area of farms and rolling hills.
Zimmerly said the gun-cleaner's family came forward and his neighbours reported hearing a shot at about the time the girl was wounded.
The man had fired the gun in the air about 2.4km from where Yoder was shot, Zimmerly said. State investigators were checking the rifle for a ballistics match, he said.
"In all probability, it looks like an accidental shooting," Zimmerly said.
No charges have been filed.
Yoder was born in nearby Mount Eaton and attended the Old Order Amish Church, The (Wooster) Daily Record reported. She is survived by her father, 10 brothers and sisters, 26 nieces and nephews and two grandparents.
Hunter said earlier there was no indication the shooting was related to a rash of beard-cutting attacks against Amish men in a feud over church discipline.
Still, the mystery of the shooting in the wake of the beard-cutting attacks had left the Amish shaken and "on pins and needles," Zimmerly said.
Zimmerly said he informed the Yoder family that the shooting appeared to be accidental.
"Obviously, that makes them feel a lot better than if someone might have been targeting the Amish or (if it was) a random shooting murder," he said.
Gun violence in Amish communities is rare but not unheard of. A man shot 10 schoolgirls, killing five, inside a one-room schoolhouse five years ago in Nickel Mines, Pennsylviana. The Amish were praised for their forgiveness after the shooting and reaching out to comfort the gunman's widow.
World champion masturbator Masanobu Sato isn't shy.
He's pleasured himself in front of crowds at San Francisco's annual Masturbate-a-thon, and has even talked to the press about his handy, award-winning techniques.
But now the Japanese sex toy representative and his girlfriend are opening up about one of Sato's favorite pastimes for an online series on masturbation produced by Metropolis. (Watch video above.)
The two-time champion begins masturbating for two hours every morning as his girlfriend goes about her daily routine.
But the woman isn't phased by Sato's actions, and sometimes she even helps out by timing his performances.
"He puts a lot of effort in it, and I just have my own hobbies," she explains in the video clip.
In 2009, Sato broke his own record by masturbating for an impressive 9 hours and 58 minutes at the Masturbate-a-thon, the San Francisco Weekly reports. His previous record was 9 hours and 33 minutes.
But self-gratification isn't all fun and games. Apparently, there's some actual training involved when preparing to go the distance.
"I swam twice a week and gained about 5 kgs in muscle," he told the San Francisco Weekly in an email. "That helped me a lot, too, in terms of stamina."
The Masturbate-a-thon is an annual affair sponsored by the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, where events are held in a place appropriately titled the "masturbatorium."
If a man is taking part in a competition, he must stay aroused without ejaculating for as long as possible, a 2010 article in the San Fransisco Weekly explains. At times, the event attracts more males than females, which can be a turn off for some participants.
World champion masturbator Masanobu Sato isn't shy.
He's pleasured himself in front of crowds at San Francisco's annual Masturbate-a-thon, and has even talked to the press about his handy, award-winning techniques.
But now the Japanese sex toy representative and his girlfriend are opening up about one of Sato's favorite pastimes for an online series on masturbation produced by Metropolis. (Watch video above.)
The two-time champion begins masturbating for two hours every morning as his girlfriend goes about her daily routine.
But the woman isn't phased by Sato's actions, and sometimes she even helps out by timing his performances.
"He puts a lot of effort in it, and I just have my own hobbies," she explains in the video clip.
In 2009, Sato broke his own record by masturbating for an impressive 9 hours and 58 minutes at the Masturbate-a-thon, the San Francisco Weekly reports. His previous record was 9 hours and 33 minutes.
But self-gratification isn't all fun and games. Apparently, there's some actual training involved when preparing to go the distance.
"I swam twice a week and gained about 5 kgs in muscle," he told the San Francisco Weekly in an email. "That helped me a lot, too, in terms of stamina."
The Masturbate-a-thon is an annual affair sponsored by the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, where events are held in a place appropriately titled the "masturbatorium."
If a man is taking part in a competition, he must stay aroused without ejaculating for as long as possible, a 2010 article in the San Fransisco Weekly explains. At times, the event attracts more males than females, which can be a turn off for some participants.
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Diet craze leaves Norwegians starved of butter
By Balazs Koranyi
OSLO | Wed Dec 7, 2011 7:24pm GMT
(Reuters) - The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis.
Norwegians have eaten up the country's entire stockpile of butter, partly as the result of a "low-carb" diet sweeping the Nordic nation which emphasizes a higher intake of fats.
"Sales all of a sudden just soared, 20 percent in October then 30 percent in November," said Lars Galtung, the head of communications at TINE, the country's biggest farmer-owned cooperative.
A wet summer which reduced the quality of animal feed and cut milk output by 25 million litres had already limited supplies and the shortage has led some pundits to suggest the world's eighth-largest oil exporter offer some of its plentiful fuel supply in exchange for butter.
"Norwegians are not afraid of natural fats, they love their butter and cream," Galtung told Reuters.
Butter is now selling on Norway's top auction website, with a 250-gram piece starting at around $13 (8.28 pounds), roughly four times its normal price.
Just weeks before Norwegians will be expecting to eat plenty of buttery traditional biscuits and other homemade Christmas treats made with love and the liberal inclusion of dairy products, residents of the world's second-richest per-capita country can't even hope for help from a friendly neighbour who is rolling in butter.
Top dairy producer Denmark lies just across a narrow sea channel, but its stores of creamy butter will be kept out of the country by the high import duties of Norway, the only Nordic nation that does not belong to the European Union.
Still, the problem has certainly provided the Danes with a good laugh over their richly buttered breakfast toast.
Morning TV show Go' Morgen Danmark amid much hilarity offered a paltry 1,000 packets of butter on Wednesday to help ease the pain.
im gonna start selling butter like drugs to norwegians
NEWARK, N.J. -- A 34-year-old New Jersey woman injected a man's penis with silicone, killing him, police said Friday.
The Essex County prosecutor's office says Kasia Rivera gave 22-year-old Justin Street the injection on May 5. Such injections often are used to enlarge body parts, such as the buttocks.
Street died the day after his injection. His death was ruled a homicide following an investigation and a medical examiner's determination he died of a silicone embolism.
Rivera has been charged with manslaughter. She also faces charges involving the unauthorized practice of medicine. She was arrested Friday and is being held on $75,000 bail. It's unclear if she has a lawyer. No telephone listing could be found for her home in East Orange.
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HAHA
Sucks.... and probably was shot because some punks wanted to prove themselves to a group of morons.
Last updated 13:19 21/12/2011
A man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle shot the gun into the air, accidentally killing a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy 2.4 kilometres away, a sheriff said today (NZ time).
Rachel Yoder was shot in the head Thursday night (Friday, NZ time) while travelling to her home in Wayne County, between Columbus and Akron. She had attended a Christmas party for employees, most of them under 18 years old, at an Amish produce farm and was riding home alone when she was shot, Wayne County sheriff's Captain Douglas Hunter said.
The horse continued to cart the girl after she was shot, and she fell out of the buggy near her home, Holmes County Sheriff Timothy Zimmerly said. Her brother found her after he saw the horse walking in circles and went to check it. Authorities initially believed she had fallen out of the buggy and hit her head until a hospital test revealed the gunshot wound.
Hunter said his department traced a trail of blood along the road for about 600 metres into Holmes County in an area of farms and rolling hills.
Zimmerly said the gun-cleaner's family came forward and his neighbours reported hearing a shot at about the time the girl was wounded.
The man had fired the gun in the air about 2.4km from where Yoder was shot, Zimmerly said. State investigators were checking the rifle for a ballistics match, he said.
"In all probability, it looks like an accidental shooting," Zimmerly said.
No charges have been filed.
Yoder was born in nearby Mount Eaton and attended the Old Order Amish Church, The (Wooster) Daily Record reported. She is survived by her father, 10 brothers and sisters, 26 nieces and nephews and two grandparents.
Hunter said earlier there was no indication the shooting was related to a rash of beard-cutting attacks against Amish men in a feud over church discipline.
Still, the mystery of the shooting in the wake of the beard-cutting attacks had left the Amish shaken and "on pins and needles," Zimmerly said.
Zimmerly said he informed the Yoder family that the shooting appeared to be accidental.
"Obviously, that makes them feel a lot better than if someone might have been targeting the Amish or (if it was) a random shooting murder," he said.
Gun violence in Amish communities is rare but not unheard of. A man shot 10 schoolgirls, killing five, inside a one-room schoolhouse five years ago in Nickel Mines, Pennsylviana. The Amish were praised for their forgiveness after the shooting and reaching out to comfort the gunman's widow.
- AP
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World champion masturbator Masanobu Sato isn't shy.
He's pleasured himself in front of crowds at San Francisco's annual Masturbate-a-thon, and has even talked to the press about his handy, award-winning techniques.
But now the Japanese sex toy representative and his girlfriend are opening up about one of Sato's favorite pastimes for an online series on masturbation produced by Metropolis. (Watch video above.)
The two-time champion begins masturbating for two hours every morning as his girlfriend goes about her daily routine.
But the woman isn't phased by Sato's actions, and sometimes she even helps out by timing his performances.
"He puts a lot of effort in it, and I just have my own hobbies," she explains in the video clip.
In 2009, Sato broke his own record by masturbating for an impressive 9 hours and 58 minutes at the Masturbate-a-thon, the San Francisco Weekly reports. His previous record was 9 hours and 33 minutes.
But self-gratification isn't all fun and games. Apparently, there's some actual training involved when preparing to go the distance.
"I swam twice a week and gained about 5 kgs in muscle," he told the San Francisco Weekly in an email. "That helped me a lot, too, in terms of stamina."
The Masturbate-a-thon is an annual affair sponsored by the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, where events are held in a place appropriately titled the "masturbatorium."
If a man is taking part in a competition, he must stay aroused without ejaculating for as long as possible, a 2010 article in the San Fransisco Weekly explains. At times, the event attracts more males than females, which can be a turn off for some participants.
[-(
blue turbins
From Those Fishes - I Fingered An Old Bitch (i got Aids on my finger)
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From Those Fishes - I Fingered An Old Bitch (i got Aids on my finger)
They have an air sex competition too
The contest was in San Francisco, lol.