Exploding Churro Caused by Recipe in Newspaper, Court Says

Chile's Supreme Court has ordered a newspaper to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns while trying out a published recipe for churros, a popular Latin American snack of dough fried in hot oil.

The publisher of La Tercera must pay individual damages to 11 women and two men ranging from as little as $279 to $48,000 for one woman whose burns were particularly severe.

The high court's ruling was announced Monday, seven years after the readers burned themselves while trying out the recipe.

Judges determined that the newspaper failed to fully test it before publication, and that if readers followed the recipe exactly, the churros had a good chance of exploding once the oil reached the temperature the recipe called for.

Days after the recipe was published in the paper's "Woman" magazine in 2004, hospitals around the country began treating women for burns suffered when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.

More Packer's Stock Available to Public

Need to pick up a late Christmas present for someone?

Sales of Green Bay Packers stock have been so brisk since an initial offering three weeks ago that the team is making another 30,000 shares available.

The team initially offered 250,000 shares for sale starting Dec. 6. But the allotment is nearly gone, even though the shares cost $250 each and have virtually no resale value.

The offering is scheduled to end Feb. 29 or when all remaining shares are sold.

The NFL’s only publicly owned team is applying the proceeds toward a $143 million expansion of Lambeau Field. The Packers have said they would fund the expansion themselves and through private funding, and wouldn’t ask taxpayers to contribute as owners of other teams typically do.

Selling all 280,000 shares would raise $70 million.

The shares are available at packersowner.com for $250, plus a $25 handling fee per transaction.

Buyers gain the privilege of calling themselves NFL owners, though the stock value will not go up and there are no dividends. Stockholders also get voting rights, and they can attend annual meetings where they can meet team executives and tour the Packers Hall of Fame.

College Football Bowl Play of the Day: Military Bowl

It's only appropriate that Air Force is playing in the Military Bowl.

The Air Force gets a tough opponent in high scoring Toledo.

Toledo scores at will as hasn't scored fewer than 44 points in their last five games.  Air Force can score too, and today I think they control the ball.

Air Force is getting 3 points and I like them to get the win today.  Also the total is 70, and I expect it to go way beyond that.

Picks:  Take Air Force +3 and the OVER 70.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Transfer of Power

A nice freebie this week from Vince Flynn.

This free ebook also features an exclusive preview of Kill Shot, Vince Flynn’s next Mitch Rapp thriller. On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a deadly terrorist attack on the executive mansion. The president is evacuated to an underground bunker, but not before nearly one hundred hostages are taken. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, determines that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought. Indeed, Rapp has made a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government wants his rescue attempt to fail.

College Football Bowl Play of the Day: Independence Bowl

The historic Independence Bowl in Shreveport today with North Carolina taking on Missouri.

There is a good chance of rain as the game starts today, so the field might be a mess.

Missouri is giving the Tar Heels 5.5, and I think they want to send a message as they leave the Big XII and head to the SEC.

The Tigers are led by quarterback James Franklin and are on a 3-game winning streak.

Missouri is also 6-2 ATS in its last eight games on grass, leading me to say you should give the 5.5 to Carolina and take Mizzou.  Could be a good game with Missouri pulling away at the end.