I can barely stomach ripe bananas! Seriously!! When I crave a banana it's ALWYS  a green one! And I always get the same quote, “Green bananas will make your stomach hurt!” Ha! Dr. Mercola….one of the highly recognized health guru's o' stuff to eat says differently!

http://www.mercola.com/nutritionplan/foodalert.htm#bananas

See mom!! They won't make me ill and they never have! The ONLY way I will eat a ripe banana is with peanut butter (have to be careful eating too much of that (pb)….slight allergy)!

So go eat cha some GREEN bananas!!!

This is SOOOO freakin' AWESOME!!!!!

Well, well, well! Didn't we think Starbucks could do no wrong? Oopsie…..guess even 'they' can't figure out the new media music industry!

Starbucks to stop serving music

Coffee giant's Music label dismantles after 1 year

After just a year of operation, Starbucks is getting out of the recorded music business.

Operations for the coffee vendor's label, Hear Music, which released albums by Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor last year, are being turned over to Concord Music Group, which has handled back shop operations for the imprint.

Ken Lombard,
who ran Hear Music as president of Starbucks Entertainment, has left
the company. Chris Bruzzo, chief technology officer, has been promoted
to senior vice president and will assume the leadership helm of the
Entertainment category.

Starbucks referred to the moves as a
restructuring of its entertainment business to focus on digital
strategy and core content with music and books. Starbucks will look for
ways to increase wi-fi related offerings and other in-store technology.

Starbucks will continue to work with the William Morris Agency to select book offerings for its stores.

Concord
Music Group has a family of labels including Concord, Fantasy and Stax.
Unlike other music groups, the individual labels do not have specific
chiefs.

Hear Music has about four or five more releases on its slate for 2008, among them a June release from Brit roots R&B singer James Hunter.

Hear and Concord most famously partnered on Ray Charles' final album, “Genius Loves Company,” which sold millions and won four Grammy Awards.

Saw this and was VERY interested! Although there is no autism in my family, the idea that a pediatric vaccines could trigger a predisposition is frightening! Got the email from Dr. Mercola!

In
this CNN op-ed piece, actors Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy reflect on
their son’s recovery from autism in light of the recent federal court
decision which conceded that vaccines could have contributed to another
child’s autistic condition.

Carrey and McCarthy’s son, Evan, has been healed thanks to
breakthroughs that may not be scientifically proven, but have
definitely helped, such as a gluten-free, casein-free diet, vitamin
supplementation, detox of metals, and anti-fungals for the yeast
overgrowths that plagued his intestines. Once his neurological function
was recovered through these medical treatments, speech therapy and
applied behavior analysis helped him learn the skills he could not
learn while he was frozen in autism.

When Evan was re-evaluated after these treatments, state
workers were amazed by his improvement. But although Evan is now 5, not
a single member of the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, or any
other health authority has asked to evaluate and understand how Evan
recovered from autism. Instead, they simply posit that he was
misdiagnosed and never had autism to begin with.

Carrey and McCarthy believe that autism is an environmental
illness, and that while vaccines are not the only environmental
trigger, they do play a major role. Even if the CDC is not convinced of
a link between vaccines and autism, changing the vaccine schedule
should be seriously considered as a precautionary measure.

Although I only have 1 link for this one, 2 current vocal stars are canceling tours because of vocal illnesses, Jordan Sparks (vocal hemorrhaging) and Alisha Keys:
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/04/60909/index.html

SAG has extended it's negotiations with the studios…please, NO STRIKE! 😦
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984515.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&nid=2563

And OMG! I did not know that Star Jones (formerly of The View) was getting a divorce! (how sad!)
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/04/60900/index.html

OH! And one of my good friends told me about ChaCha for your cell! You have a question? ChaCha has the answer! Check it out!
www.chacha.com/

More later!!