Eat Drink Jax Talks With Mina's Bakery And Cafe | Metro Jacksonville

Tell us about Mina's Bakery & Cafe.
Mina?s Bakery is a family owned and operated European style bakery. Our cakes and pastries hail from various countries around Europe (from Russia to Greece to Hungary to Croatia). Our emphasis is on taste and quality, with no preservatives or artificial ingredients used. The bakery offers one of a kind sweets and delicious hand crafted sandwiches.

How is a European style bakery different from other types of bakeries?

European cakes differ from each other quite a bit. Every time you have a different cake you have a different experience. Every cake has its own thing going on. What is similar with various European style cakes is that they're not too sweet or too heavy. For example, Medovic, which is a huge cake, maybe 10 or 11 pounds, uses only 1 stick of butter for the whole cake. For puddings I use imported varieties that come without sugar. That lets me control the amount of sugar to use. Most of my cakes have at least one imported ingredient.

?what types of imported ingredients do you use?

For example, I don't use vanilla extract, I use vanilla sugar in almost all the cakes. I use imported puddings too. For whipping cream I use imported whipping creams that come in chocolate, strawberry and vanilla flavors, because they're not too sweet. I use German milk chocolate for my Milka Roll. For my Moskva Cake I use imported sour cherries because I can't even find sour cherries here.

?is the level of sweetness the thing that mostly differentiates European cakes?

Yes, mostly that. They're not as sweet as cakes made in America.

What makes Mina's special?

Everything is handmade by myself, Mina, from scratch. Every cake uses at least one imported ingredient to give it a true European feel. From sour cherries to Milka chocolate to poppy seeds to apricot and plum jams, there is something special in all the sweets that make them delicious and unlike anything most people have ever seen!

What sort of food do you serve in addition to your baked goods?

For lunch we focus mainly on paninis. We have a number of varieties, such as smoked turkey, Mediterranean, gyro-style and grilled cheese. We also offer a chicken salad sandwich. If you aren't in a rush we can prepare a Bosnian dish called Pita, which is homemade dough that has been stretched and filled with meat and cheese, or spinach and cheese. Pitas are a must try for food junkies - they were voted one of the top 10 foods around the world! Pita does takes a while to prepare, so we recommend calling ahead by at least 30 minutes. It's delicious but it's not something to order if you're in a rush.

Our main focus is our cakes though, which are all made in house and from scratch.

Where do your recipes come from?

Many of my recipes have been passed down to me. Baking has always been a passion of mine and many of my family members. A few recipes I?ve made up along the way as I go, combining ingredients I think taste well together, and then experimenting. I?ve even had customers bring me their family recipes that they?d like me to make for them which has been a fun and flattering way to discover even more types of cakes! The selection changes daily so there is always something new.

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Apple antitrust suit over e-books set for NY trial

NEW YORK (AP) ? In a civil case where the words of Steve Jobs play prominently, the government and Apple Inc. are set to square off over allegations that Apple Inc. conspired with the country's largest book publishers to make consumers pay more for electronic books.

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote is scheduled to begin hearing the price-fixing case Monday in federal court in Manhattan.

The trial stems from an antitrust lawsuit brought last year by the Justice Department, which accused Apple of helping hatch the scheme at a meeting with publishers in 2009 as it was preparing to launch the iPad. Its purpose was to force Seattle-based Amazon.com ? the marketer of Kindle e-book readers ? to raise the $9.99 price it had set for the most popular e-book titles because that was substantially below their hardcover prices, the government says.

"Apple wanted to sell e-books to the public, but did not want to compete against the low prices Amazon was setting," the government wrote in its court papers. "Apple knew that the major publishers also disliked Amazon's low prices and saw Apple's potential entry as a pathway to higher retail prices industrywide."

The Justice Department accuses the conspirators of agreeing that instead of selling books to retailers and letting them decide what price to charge readers, the publishers would convert the retailers into "agents" who were restricted from lowering the publisher-set retail price. The arrangement guaranteed Apple a 30 percent commission on each e-book it sold.

The government has alleged that the scheme cost consumers tens of millions of dollars by adding $2 or $3, sometimes as much as $5, to the price of each e-book. It also argues part of the proof is Jobs' own account of the arrangement.

The former Apple CEO "conceded the price-fixing conspiracy when, the day after publicly announcing Apple's forthcoming iBookstore, he explained to his authorized biographer that Apple had told the publishers, 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway,'" the government says in court papers.

In its papers, lawyers for Apple have accused the government of basing its case "on mere allegations, faulty assumptions and unfounded conclusions." The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has denied claims that its agreements required publishers to force Amazon to charge more for e-books.

The agreements "required no such thing," the defense papers say. "They set forth the terms of Apple's business relationship with each publisher; they placed no constraints on how a publisher should deal with other retailers, including Amazon."

The government has reached settlements with the five publishers named in the suit ? Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Holtzbrinck Publishers, doing business as Macmillan, and The Penguin Publishing Co. Ltd., doing business as Penguin Group ? that requires them to lift restrictions on discounting and other promotions they had imposed on e-book retailers. The judge has urged Apple to settle, even suggesting at a recent pretrial hearing that its chances of prevailing at trial are slim.

"I believe that the government will be able to show at trial direct evidence that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of e-books, and that the circumstantial evidence in this case, including the terms of the agreements, will confirm that," she said.

On May 22, British publisher Pearson's Penguin unit announced it would pay $75 million in damages plus costs to settle claims by 33 attorneys general of 33 states and a class-action lawsuit by consumers alleging price-fixing in the e-book market.

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Reverse Dumbbell Flyes | Los Angeles Informer

By Dr. Donald A. Ozello DC

Las Vegas Informer

Perform reverse dumbbell flyes to strengthen the posterior shoulder, rotator cuff and upper back to improve posture and shoulder function. Reverse dumbbell flyes develop several key muscles in the posterior shoulder.

Reverse flyes primarily target the posterior section of the deltoid muscle. Reverse dumbbell flyes also train the supraspinatus, infraspinatus and teres minor. These three muscles compose the posterior aspect of the rotator cuff. Reverse dumbbell flyes also build the muscles in the upper back that retract the shoulder blades.

Anatomy: The posterior aspect of the deltoid muscle originates on the scapula and merges with the fibers of the anterior and lateral sections of the deltoid to attach to the upper arm bone. When contracted the posterior deltoid pulls the upper arm backward toward the spine.

The supraspinatus, infraspinatus and teres minor muscles originate on the posterior side of the shoulder blade and attach to the upper arm. As a unit they contract to raise the upper arm and pull the upper arm backward toward the shoulder blade.

The muscles that originate on the spine and attach to the shoulder blades are the rhomboid major, rhomboid minor and the middle and inferior aspects of the trapezius. These important muscles retract the shoulder blades toward the spine. Collectively they are known as the scapular retractors.

Posture and Function: The correct balance of strength between the muscles that pull the shoulder backward and the muscles that pull the shoulder forward are necessary for proper posture and correct functional movement. Proper strength balance is imperative for healthy shoulder performance.

Technique: Correct technique is vital and more important than the amount of weight. Start light and perfect your technique before adding weight.

Reverse dumbbell flyes can be performed seated, standing or prone on an incline bench. If seated or standing bend forward at the waist to ninety degrees. Grasp a dumbbell in each hand with your wrists straight and elbows bent. Begin with the weights close to the floor and almost touching each other.

Exhale and raise your shoulders and arms backward toward your spine at ninety degree angles. Keep your elbows bent and lift your shoulders as high as you can. Inhale and lower the dumbbell in a controlled manner.

Reverse dumbbell flyes are best performed after the basic multi-joint exercises. Begin with one set of ten to thirty repetitions. If needed, add a second and third set in gradual increments. Progress in weight slowly and feel the correct muscles working throughout the exercise.

Utilize reverse dumbbell flyes to strengthen your posterior shoulders. Strength and endurance in the posterior shoulder improves upper body posture and shoulder function.

Dr. Donald A. Ozello DC

Dr. Donald A. Ozello DC is the owner and treating doctor at Championship Chiropractic. 2595 S. Cimarron Rd, Suite #100, Las Vegas, NV 89117. ?His web address is?Championship Chiropractic. He can be contacted at (702) 286-9040 and?DrO@ChampionshipChiropractic.com.

Dr. Donald A. Ozello?s mission is to educate and inspire others to live healthier, fitter, more functional lives.

Dr. Donald A. Ozello DC proudly handles?Standard Process Supplements?and?Foot Levelers Orthotics.

Dr. Donald A. Ozello DC writes a weekly health, fitness, exercise and nutrition column for The Las Vegas Informer. His is published in?OnFitness Magazine,?Livestrong.com,?SpineUniverse.com?and?EHow.com.

Dr. Donald A. Ozello DC is an award-winning public speaker. He has spoken to numerous groups on the importance of health, fitness, exercise, ergonomics, nutrition and injury prevention.

Dr. Donald A. Ozello DC is a fitness enthusiast. Functional kettlebell training, bike riding and running are his favorite forms of exercise.

Before pursuing his career in Chiropractic, Dr. Donald A. Ozello DC served in the United States Navy aboard the USS Bremerton, SSN 698.

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Sending humans to Mars holds radiation risk, study shows

A radiation-monitoring device carried by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took measurements during the trip to the red planet. A resulting study appears in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / May 30, 2013

This July 2007 image provided by NASA shows astronaut Clay Anderson waving during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. A trip to and from the red planet could expose travelers to an accumulated dose of radiation that would approach ? and in some cases exceed ? the maximum allowable career limits for a NASA astronaut.

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For any astronaut tapped for a trip to Mars, a journey today would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience ? in more ways than one.

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With shielding comparable to the level built into NASA's new crew-exploration vehicle (CEV), just the trip to and from the red planet could expose travelers to an accumulated dose of radiation that would approach ? and in some cases exceed ? the maximum allowable career limits for a NASA astronaut.

The Europeans, Russians, and Canadians accept a somewhat more liberal exposure limit than the National Aeronautics and Space Administration does. Even at that limit, Mars would probably represent a memorable but one-and-done spaceflight career for any prospective astronaut.

Those are among the implications of measurements taken by a radiation-monitoring device that NASA's Mars rover Curiosity carries. The measurements were taken during Curiosity's 253-day, 347-million-mile trip to the red planet. The data were unveiled Thursday in a study set to appear in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

"NASA is very excited to get this new cruise data," said Eddie Semones, radiation health officer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston during a briefing Thursday to discuss the results. The data also will help shape human-exploration missions other than to Mars, he adds, noting that missions to retrieve asteroids or even missions to the moon will benefit from the information the new results provide.

Scientists and engineers long have recognized radiation in space as perhaps the most significant challenge to exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, where Earth's magnetic field acts as a natural deflector shield.

The hazard has spawned a range of studies on how to deal with the risk, ranging from concepts for spacecraft that can generate protective magnetic fields to individual body armor for astronauts.

To date, researchers had gathered "outdoor" radiation measurements on a wide variety of robotic spacecraft visiting comets, asteroids, and other planets. The detectors on these missions were exposed to space by design, so they could measure radiation levels around a planet or in interplanetary space.

Curiosity's device, the Radiation Assessment Detector, is bolted to the rover's deck to measure surface radiation on Mars. So, like the rover, RAD was cocooned within the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its trip. Thus, its en route measurements provide the first data from within an interplanetary spacecraft and with a level of shielding that the first Mars explorers might receive from their craft.

The study comes at a time when two private groups are aiming to send humans to Mars long before any NASA astronauts are sent ? a prospect the Obama administration and the agency envision taking place after 2030.

In March, a group headed by Dennis Tito, the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station, announced the goal of sending two people on a 501-day fly-around mission to Mars, launching in 2018. The mission, Inspiration Mars, is a one-off attempt at inspiring a new generation of space explorers as well as providing NASA with information on technological, physiological, and psychological issues that no Earth-bound Mars analog station can deliver.

Earlier, a nonprofit group based in the Netherlands announced an effort to set up the first permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023.

The radiation that the new study examines ? actually speedy, electrically charged particles such as protons and ions ? comes from two sources.

The sun sends out a constant stream of protons in a feature called the solar wind. The wind is punctuated by solar storms, ranging from flares to enormous coronal-mass ejections ? the most powerful eruptions the sun delivers. The protons from these storms travel with higher energies than the solar wind and so represent the biggest particle-radiation risk from the sun, the RAD researchers say.

The second source is the galaxy itself, which bathes a spacecraft in low but persistent levels of energetic particles known as galactic cosmic rays. These are generated when massive stars explode as supernovae or in other high-energy cosmic events. About 85 percent of the cosmic rays are protons, another 14 percent are helium ions, and the remaining 1 percent consists of heavier ions.

Heavy-ion collisions can have an influence larger than their small proportion would suggest because when these smack into a spaceship, they create a shower of secondary particles that can inflict biological damage. However, estimates of the level of damage carry large uncertainties.

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NWS: Number of Midwest, Plains tornadoes unclear

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? National Weather Service meteorologists say it's unclear how many tornadoes touched down Friday evening.

Dozens of tornado warnings were issued across a wide swath of the Midwest, including Oklahoma and Missouri, as a large storm front moved through the region. Nine died and dozens were injured.

Weather service meteorologists said Saturday that crews have to assess the damage before determining whether it was caused by tornadoes or severe thunderstorms. Cars were toppled on an interstate in the Oklahoma City area, and aerial images showed damaged to homes and businesses in the suburbs of St. Louis.

They said they expected to have an estimate by Saturday afternoon.

A cold front will move through the Plains and Midwest today, lessening the chances for severe weather.

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Friendly Fire: Democratic Senator Blasts Obama in First Campaign Ad

For a sign of the challenges Southern Democrats will face on the ballot next year, look no further than Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor, who went up with his first campaign ad today. The spot blasts President Obama for his gun control legislation and takes aim at New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been airing ads in the state criticizing Pryor for his vote against the Toomey-Manchin bill.

"The mayor of New York City is running ads against me because I opposed President Obama's gun control legislation," Pryor said in the ad. "Nothing in the Obama plan would have prevented tragedies like Newtown, Aurora, Tucson, or even Jonesboro."

Pryor concludes: "I approve this this message because no one from New York or Washington tells me what to do; I listen to Arkansas." The closing line is a time-tested formula for Southern Democratic survival ? showcase your independence from an unpopular national party. Indeed, some Democratic operatives believe that Bloomberg's high-profile opposition to Pryor gives him a useful foil to run against throughout the campaign and prove his moderate bona fides.

Last week, Bloomberg's group went up with a hard-hitting ad featuring an African-American woman lamenting Pryor's opposition to the Toomey-Manchin background check bill. "On that vote, he let us down," she said. The group spent $350,000 to air the spot ? an unusually large sum this early in the race ? which threatens to dampen black enthusiasm for his candidacy. The formula for Democratic success in deep Southern states is to win enough crossover conservative-leaning voters, while also turning out the African-American base. Bloomberg's activism in Arkansas threatens to hurt his ability to do the latter.

The early activity showcases how vulnerable Pryor is, facing friendly fire from would-be allies and regular criticism from Republicans. Pryor needs to showcase his independence in a state where Obama won just 37 percent of the vote last year. He's the first Democratic senator to air a campaign ad this year ? more than 17 months away from the November 2014 election. He is still waiting for a GOP challenger to emerge, but Republican sources are optimistic that freshman Rep. Tom Cotton, an Iraq war veteran, will jump in the race later in the year.

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Evelyn Lozada Attends Prom with Michigan Senior

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