Posted: 05 May 2010 04:59 PM PDT

When ever I am sick or feel sick to my stomach, I think of what I can do to help. I noticed that things like over the counter medications do not really help, and if they do, they do not last long enough. Prescription medications work, but they take forever to get and are normally very expensive. I do not like to wait for relief when my stomach is ready to climb out of my body. I would rather try my own ways to stave off the queasy and nauseous feelings of an upset stomach.

My first choice is usually a simple one, one dab of tooth paste on the tongue can usually take care of minor upset stomachs. It is not the toothpaste that cures the queasiness, but the mint taste and smell. Mint is known to be a very good quick remedy for upset stomachs. You can also eat raw fresh mint, make mint tea, or use it cooked in a starchy meal. Mint is great for promoting digestion, so it will help your stomach along in moving out any pests that have it going haywire.

My second choice would have to be ginger ale, the real deal, not imitation. Reason behind this is because real ginger is and always has been a natural for curing nausea and upset stomachs. I use this method of home remedy when I can't keep anything else down. It helps you stay hydrated as well as helps with the nausea. Remember not to add ice to the ginger ale either, ice can make nausea worse, and even induce vomiting.

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Cremation Goes Green - Minyanville

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Climate-change legislation has had difficulty getting off the ground in Congress, and the blowout of the BP (BP) oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that was leased from and operated by Transocean (RIG) hasn't made things any easier.

The energy bill headed to the Senate would expand the areas in which offshore drilling would be permitted, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 -- sweeteners that attracted lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

But now, in light of the Gulf environmental disaster, which followed closely on the heels of the Massey Energy (MEE) coal mine explosion last month, hopes for bipartisan support of the bill are dimming.

While John Kerry, the Democratic sponsor of the bill, says "We're not going to stop drilling in America," fellow Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia says, "Personally, I will have a very hard time ever voting for offshore drilling again."

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is similarly skeptical. "You turn on the television and see this enormous disaster, you say to yourself, 'Why would we want to take on that kind of risk?'," he said.

Fear not -- State Assemblyman Jeff Miller from Corona, California, is stepping up to the plate to do his part in the meantime.

Miller has introduced a bill that would legalize alkaline hydrolysis, or "bio-cremation" -- an environmentally-friendly alternative to combustion cremation.

"It's green. It's clean. It's environmentally friendly and it reduces the carbon footprint," Miller said.

Bio-cremation uses a liquid chemical process and heat to dissolve a body in about three hours. It also releases eight times less CO2 into the atmosphere and uses more than three times less electricity than traditional cremation.

Bob Achermann, executive director of the California Funeral Directors Association says of the process, "There will be consumer demand."

However, Thomas Lynch, funeral director at Milford, Michigan's Lynch & Sons, and the author of a book of poems and short stories called Apparition and Late Fictions, doesn't predict a spike in requests for bio-cremation anytime soon.

"There are significant expenses involved," Lynch tells Minyanville. "There's a big difference between a traditional $250 cremation and a $1000 'green' cremation. Alkaline hydrolysis will separate the environmentally conscious from the environmentally passionate."

So far, the process is only legal in Florida, so the big funeral homes owned by corporations like Service Corporation International (SCI) and Carriage Services Inc. (CSV) haven't yet started using it. Anderson-McQueen, a family-owned operation based in St. Petersburg, Florida, will be the first.

Will alkaline hydrolysis ever catch on in numbers significant enough to make a difference, environmentally?

"People say the widowed don't shop. That's a bunch of bull," says Bartlett Funeral Home director Al Tacker, who is also the owner of Al Tacker's Casket Store. "People are not buying the metal and upper-priced caskets, vaults and services."

That's especially true now that Walmart (WMT) and Costco (COST) have started offering caskets at prices considerably below those found at funeral parlors.

Honey-baked hams, aisle six. A final resting place for dad, aisle 11.

Though, as we all know, you can't take it with you.

So, when my time is up, place my body in that stainless steel basket, immerse me in that alkali/water solution, heat me up to the recommended 370 degrees Fahrenheit, and sprinkle my remains over a field of organically-grown, non-genetically modified soybeans.

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Why doesn't Broadway love Enron? - The Guardian

Posted: 05 May 2010 07:33 AM PDT

A scene from Enron at Minerva theatre, Chichester

Anti-American? ... The original British production of Lucy Prebble's Enron (2009). Photograph: Tristram Kenton

You know the cliche about domestic disputes? A man beats his wife, the neighbours call the police, a cop knocks at the door and the victim screams: shove off, none of your business. Sometimes I feel that way about English playwrights who tackle touchy American subjects. It's our dirty laundry; we'll get around to cleaning it. Someday.

Yes, we have much atone for. We're obese and xenophobic and we're poisoning the environment. Doesn't mean you lot have the right to dramatise it. Then along comes Enron, the ingenious and unexpectedly sympathetic docudrama written by Lucy Prebble and directed by Rupert Goold. In February, I lamented the fact that no American had thought of this first. After having seen and thoroughly enjoyed Enron's Broadway incarnation, I'm doubly jealous.

Not everyone feels the same. According to the useful review aggregator StageGrade, New York critics gave Enron a median grade of B, which includes an outright slam from Ben Brantley of the New York Times. Given the disproportionate influence the Times wields in this town, this could mean Goold's production will not earn back its $4m capitalisation and close in a few weeks if the box office doesn't pick up.

Given the hype that preceded Enron, the turn of events is surprising. But then, it should shock no one that British critics raved about the show, which uses expressionistic staging to chronicle the rise and fall of the Texas energy-trading giant. Of course you guys loved it; a bunch of amoral capitalists in Bush's home state bilk shareholders of billions. The house of cards comes crashing down in the shadow of September 11 and the whole mess presages the shady fiscal practices of the subprime bubble that nearly tanked the world economy. And what was our Securities and Exchange Commission doing about it? Wanking to ladyboy porn.

Despite Enron's relevance, its intelligence and its technical bravura, about half the Broadway critics found it either too obvious or too contrived. Brantley barely stifled his yawn over what he dismissed as lack of substance. "[T]his British-born exploration of smoke-and-mirror financial practices isn't much more than smoke and mirrors itself," he sniffed, rather too glibly.

Truthfully, Enron is, in style and content, starkly original by Broadway standards. The use of found text and video, the choreographing of stock-trader gestures to form a dance, the ambitious interweaving of psychological and sociological analysis to create a penetrating critique of a moment in history – all this is sadly rare on the Great White Way. As for lack of substance, the play offers a sweeping analysis of how all progress in human history has taken the form of an economic bubble: slavery, the railroad, the internet. That's not shallow.

I don't think critics were mixed on Enron because they perceived anything anti-American in its depiction of stock-market hucksters Jeffrey Skilling, Andy Fastow and others. I think it's more a case of critics who haven't the aesthetic sophistication to process postmodern dramaturgy or ideological ambiguity. Still, there will always be a market for Yank-bashing. If you're an American author and you want a gig at the Royal Court or buzz in Edinburgh, obey the three V's in portraying Americans: venal, vulgar, violent. You Brits will lap it up.

But here's the wonderful thing about Enron: it doesn't rely on caricature or stereotype. The final 10 minutes of the play are magnificent, as Skilling asserts that he's not really a villain and characterises human progress as the jagged, upward-ascending line of a financial graph. Guess what, he implicitly says about his crimes against economy, we're in it together. When it comes to the elaborate fictions that sustain our global marketplace, everyone's American.

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