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Middle Eastern Studies
Program Overview
The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations, which can be traced to more than 7000 B.C. It is the birthplace of the three great monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, on which the spirituality and the ethics of many people and countries are based. It occupies a strategic area in the world across Southwest Asia into North Africa. The countries of the Middle East are diverse in their climate, major languages (Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, and Turkish), population density, and lifestyles. Many of the countries in the Middle East have resources of great importance to the world. Most important of these are Oil and Natural Gas. Trade, Financial Services and Higher Education have also become areas of growth in the region. Recently, there have been fundamental changes in the political structure of several countries accompanied by democratic reforms and concomitant tensions that characterize the entire region as one in flux and exciting to explore from all perspectives.
Central Connecticut State University has interdisciplinary B.A. and M.S. programs in International Studies with regional specialization in Middle Eastern Studies. The program is designed to help students take advantage of varied job opportunities overseas, as well as with companies here, which are dealing with the Middle East. Also, there are jobs in the federal government. This field of study, when combined with other areas, gives the graduate great skills for employment.
CCSU provides courses taught abroad and study abroad opportunities for students to learn first-hand about Middle Eastern languages and culture. These unique experiences enhance students' academic and professional development in their specialized area, while completing degree requirements.
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Nanjundiah Sadanand, Ph.D., Physics and Earth Sciences - Middle Eastern Studies Coordinator (email@example.com)
Fatemeh Abdollahzadeh, Ph.D., Computer Science (email@example.com)
Nidal Al-Masoud, Ph.D., Engineering (email@example.com)
Aram Ayalon, Ph.D., Teacher Education (email@example.com)
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Minor in Middle Eastern Studies (18 credits)
HIST 291 Modern Middle East
PS 434 Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
PS 439 U.S / Middle East Policy
HIST 292 History of Judaism
HIST 474 History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
PS 339 International Law
PS 439 U.S./Middle East Policy
PS 491 Advanced Studies in Political Science
Dr. Ghassan El-Eid in the Political Science Department coordinates CCSU student participation in the Model United Nations Program held at the American University in Cairo, Egypt annually in March. Students registered for his Spring section of (insert course title), are eligible to apply to participate in the program. Selected participants are eligible to apply for scholarships for this program through the Center for International Education.
Study Abroad Opportunities
Through the University's partner institutions around the globe, CCSU students are presented with exciting opportunities to discover the world through overseas study. Living and learning in a new culture prepares students for the increasingly integrated and interdependent world around them. Students in the Middle Eastern Studies program can apply to study abroad at any of the institutions listed below. For more information about studying abroad and for a full list of CCSU's partner and affiliate universities worldwide, please visit the CIE's website.
Northern Cyprus
Eastern Mediterranean University (Gazimağusa)
Students may also pursue studies at other accredited universities in the Middle East with the prior approval of the Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies and the Study Abroad Coordinator in the Center for International Education.


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Atlanta looking to add a goalie?
With injuries to their top 3 goalies so early in the season, there are whispers in Atlanta about Potvin, or Biron coming to the Thrashers.Eklund has reported on his site that the Buffalo Sabres are interested in Defensman Mark Popovic and since they have Biron to spare (with Miller and Norrenen in goal) a deal with Atlanta is possible.
Eklund also said the Thrashers have interest in Potvin as do the St.Louis Blues. Personally I think Atlanta should look at Roman Turek, and see if he wants to come back to the NHL as another possibility.


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25-4153a. Contributions; limitations during legislative sessions. (a) No registered lobbyist, political committee or person, other than an individual, shall make a contribution after January 1 of each year and prior to adjournment sine die of the regular session of the legislature or at any other time in which the legislature is in session to a:
(1) Legislator;
(2) candidate for membership in the legislature;
(3) state officer elected on a statewide basis;
(4) candidate for state officer elected on a statewide basis;
(5) candidate committee of persons described in paragraphs (1) through (4); or
(6) political committee established by a state committee of any political party and designated as a recognized political committee for the senate or house of representatives.
(b) No legislator, officer, candidate or committee described in paragraphs (1) through (6) of subsection (a) shall accept or knowingly solicit any contribution as defined by K.S.A. 25-4143, and amendments thereto, from any registered lobbyist, political committee or person, other than an individual, during such period of time described in subsection (a).
History: L. 1990, ch. 306, § 10; L. 1997, ch. 191, § 1;
L. 2000, ch. 124, § 13; L. 2007, ch. 25, § 1; July 1.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
"Compelled Cost
Disclosure of Grass Roots Lobbying Expenses: Necessary Government Voyeurism or
Chilled Political Speech?" Ron Smith, 6 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y, No. 1, 115 (1996).
Governmental Ethics Commission Opinions:
Time limit for restrictions on contributions by lobbyists and political action committees discussed; special sessions. 91-19.
"Individual" construed. 97-32.
Use of campaign funds to pay costs of defending against a recall proceeding.
During legislative session legislator may not solicit contributions from lobbyist to be given after sine die. 2000-16. 1999-13.
Candidate for Insurance Commissioner may not accept campaign contribution from a personal trust during the legislative session. 2006-09.
Sets forth for whom a legislator may solicit contributions during legislative session. 2007-04.
E-mail and electronic newsletters containing link to legislator's campaign website; when not a solicitation to lobbyist. 2007-07.
Attorney General's Opinions:
Election campaign finance; contributions to legislators and legislative candidates between January 1 and May 15 by lobbyists and PACs prohibited. 91-153.


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November 29, 2015
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The University of Kentucky has issued an alert about a scam that's targeted some of its employees.
UK officials say a small number of employees fell victim to a phishing scam and their paychecks ended up being re-directed to a different bank account.
UK is working with them to fix the problem.
Meanwhile, UK is enhancing direct deposit security for all its employees to protect those who do need to make a change to their main bank account.
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Google Inc (GOOG) $588.79 -7.94%
Google (GOOG) trades down $51.34 to $588.23 on its first earnings miss ever and options on the stock are heavily traded through the first two hours of Friday's session. 82,000 calls and 78,000 puts traded in the name so far. About 55 percent of the volume is in the expiring Jan 2012 contracts. OTM Jan 590 calls, 600 calls, 580 puts and 585 puts are the most actives, as players are actively jockeying for position in anticipation of the next intraday move in Google shares. The activity has been in smaller sizes. The biggest trade is a 528-lot of Jan 590 calls for $2.35 when the market was $2.30 to $2.35. Beyond the front-month, Feb 600 and 620 calls are the next most actives. Weekly 600 calls, which are 2 percent OTM and expiring in 7 days, are seeing interest as well. Meanwhile, implied volatility in GOOG options is seeing a significant post-earnings crush, down 31 percent to 22.5, compared to a 52-week range of 55.5 (10/3) and 15 (2/18).
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Last week, the stacked deck ObamaCare Medicaid expansion commission put out its report. As we expected, they embraced a plan to bring ObamaCare here and to shift tens of thousands of New Hampshire residents from quality private health insurance into a substandard Medicaid program.
At the same time, they embraced a plan that will cost tens of millions of state taxpayer dollars annually, and if the federal government breaks another ObamaCare promise, could cost us hundreds of millions each year.
That's a recipe for an income tax here in New Hampshire.
Please tell your legislators today that Medicaid Expansion is wrong for New Hampshire!
Some newspaper accounts make it sounds like Medicaid expansion is a done deal. It certainly isn't – the fight has just begun.
Sadly, even some people who claim to support economic freedom think that Medicaid expansion is OK, as long as the Medicaid policies are bought in the ObamaCare exchanges. That's like putting a new coat of paint onto a building that's been condemned.
That's why it's critical that you contact your legislators – NOW – and tell them that ANY Medicaid expansion under ObamaCare is simply a slow-motion income tax for New Hampshire.
If there's one thing we learned from Washington the past few weeks, it's that putting your faith in them is a huge mistake, but that's what Medicaid expansion does for our state.
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November 26, 2015
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The first lady will be in Kansas Friday.
Laura Bush is planning a visit to lend her support to Senator Pat Roberts' re-election campaign.
Roberts says the first lady will be giving the keynote address at a fundraiser in Overland Park as his campaign begins in earnest.
While here, she will focus on childhood literacy and will visit Rolling Ridge elementary school in Olathe.
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Brandi the shepherd/poodle mix knows that treats come from drive-through windows.
Lily Mae the shepherd mix gets to sleep on the bed and the couch.
Cameron the Yorkshire terrier sometimes wears a plaid sweater from Woolrich, just to be stylish.
These dogs were all coming for puppy training at Pet HQ on East Main Street in Palmyra recently, and the way their owners treat them is not unusual. Nine out of 10 people in a recent survey said their animals are members of their families.
Bob Moran, CEO of PetSmart, said such thinking comes from the "humanization of pets.
"We've seen them go from the barnyard, to the backyard, to the porch, to inside the house, to inside the bedroom, to under the sheets," he said in an interview last summer.
Even in the worst of economic times, pet owners have still been spending money on their furry friends.
The American Pet Products Association keeps track of spending on pet products from year to year. In 2009, during the worst of the recession, owners spent $45.5 billion on their animals, a 5.3 percent increase over the year before. In 2012, they spent about $52.9 billion.
They were spending even during years they were cutting back on cars, clothing, travel, homes and Christmas presents, the association reported.
Officials with PetSmart would not reveal sales figures for their retail store in the Lebanon Plaza but, according to the corporate website, petsmart.com, sales nationwide were up 6 to 7 percent in 2012. PetSmart stock has tripled since 2008.
Local owners and managers of pet supply stores confirm that pet products seem to be recession-proof.
"At Christmas time, it's kind of amazing how much people spend," said Bev Eck, manager of Brandt's Mill and Pet Supplies in Lebanon. "We're talking hundreds of dollars."
Laura Whitman, owner of Pet HQ, said sales in 2009 were a bit flat, but other than that they have been going up every year since she bought the business seven years ago.
Evidence of how highly we value our pets is everywhere.
The American Pet Products Association surveys pet owners every other year and comes up with some interesting results.
One reason for the increase in pet spending is the type of foods owners feed their animals.
According to Whitman and Eck, a major trend the past few years is toward healthier, more organic food with more meat and less filler.
Some of it is also tasty.
Employees at Brandt's sometimes eat Grandma Lucy's Oven Baked Dog Treats in pumpkin, apple, banana, sweet potato and blueberry flavors.
"They're wonderful," Eck said.
A Merrick dog food sampler includes flavors such as "Mediterranean Banquet," "Turducken" and "Thanksgiving Day Dinner."
There are specialized foods for various health conditions and specific breeds. Treats promise your pet better breath, better skin, a calmer demeanor, less plaque and arthritic relief.
There are organic items for chewing, like processed bones that don't splinter, pig ears, cow tails, cow hooves and duck feet - "enough to build your own animal," Eck said.
There are supplements to add to a pet's water to cut back on tartar on their teeth. There are also electric toothbrushes for pets.
The organic feeds are more expensive than the typical dog chow - often around $50 for a 25-pound bag - but dogs need less to get the nutrition they need, so the price can even out, Eck said.
Pet HQ carries a 30-pound bag of organic dog food made from wild boar that sells for $90.
Whitman was a diet technician at the Hershey Medical Center before she bought Pet HQ, and now she passes on her nutritional expertise to her clients.
Greg Gilligan of Lititz comes to her store to buy food for his four border collies, who compete in agility contests and sheep herding. Each dog has its own nutritional needs, he said. At night, they get a high-quality dog food, a glucosamine pill, fish oil, vitamin E and a little yogurt.
Some might think all this pampering of pets is a little over the top, but pet owners say they are worth it. Medical experts tend to back them up.
Study after study has shown that pets generally help to lower blood pressure, reduce stress, ease depression and provide exercise for owners. Pets satisfy the need to nurture and keep owners company when they are lonely.
Judi Boswell of Palmyra said she and her husband don't have any grandchildren, but her two Yorkshire terriers take their place. They get groomed every three weeks, have their own car seats, wear stylish clothes and will travel with them to Florida.
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Over the weekend, a friend and I were sitting at the bar having a beer and he asked me if I had written anything lately. He knows I'm passionate about writing fiction, but I couldn't remember the last time he ever asked me if I'd written anything "recently."
Sadly enough, the answer was no.
Then I felt compelled to explain myself. I mean—why haven't I written anything lately? It probably has to do with losing focus, being lazy, and being busy at work.
But the real answer is that writing sucks.
It's True—Writing Sucks
Writing is daydreaming for hours to come up with something decent to write about. It might sound like a great idea or a terrible idea, but you won't know until you sit down and start writing it all out. And that sucks because you're going to have to work really hard for a really long time to maybe realize that what you're writing isn't any good.
Sure, occasionally the creative gods will give you a break and you'll have an "aha" moment—a story will materialize our of thin air without any effort at all. It's rare, but it does happen. The only story I've ever written that won anything came to me in two and a half hours and required very little work after that. Those two and a half hours netted me $300—not too shabby.
Writing sucks because, typically, you're going to put in a lot of work and get very little back in return—if anything at all. You'll sit there and write for hours and hours, pages and pages, and it might turn out that no one will ever read it. I sometimes have to write 25 pages to get five pages that are any good. I try consoling myself that all great writers have to produce shitty first drafts to eventually come up with something good, but it doesn't make it any easier.
So Why Write at All?
My friend was looking at me laughing the whole time and ranting about all of this. He looks at me and says: "Why are you torturing yourself like this then? No one is making you write, no one is forcing you. Just stop doing it already."
Ah, but here comes the part where I tell you why I love to write: you get to create something new out of thin air and you get to discover things about yourself you didn't know before. Writing may be hard, but it's one of the most rewarding things I can think of doing when it all goes right.
There's a reason why everyone isn't a writer—it's hard (and there's no money in it). But there's a reason those of us that do keep on doing it: when you wind up creating something really good, there's no better feeling in the world.


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Plans for tonight: Snider's folk, Powerman's metal
• '90s metal band Powerman 5000 performs at In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, Salt Lake City. Show starts at 6. Tickets are $21, at Smith's Tix.
• Indie hip-hop artist Aesop Rock performs at The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City. Opening acts: Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz, Busdriver. Show starts at 6. Tickets are $20, at 24Tix.
• Soja headlines a reggae night at The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Opening acts: Los Rakas, Rootz Underground. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets are $26 (for 21 and over) and $28 (for under 21), available at Smith's Tix.
• Oregon folk-rocker Todd Snider performs at The State Room, 638 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Opening act: Great American Taxi. Show starts at 8. Tickets are $35, at the venue's website.


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The UK's excessive weight problems is increasing much like its residents' bellies. According to BBC Health, 60.8 per cent of adults and also 31.1 per cent of young children are obese; it was also once reported that almost a million Britons are eligible for weight reduction surgical treatments. While surgical procedures are frequently perceived as a last resort, you can always do things the old fashioned method; this means diet as well as exercise.
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Oh what a world, it seems we live in
Straight man
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Oh what a world we live in
Why am I always on a plane or a fast train
Oh what a world my parents gave me
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Travelin' but not in love
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Abby Ortmeier led Guardian Angels Central Catholic with 13 points in a 49-43 state championship win over Humphrey Saturday morning at the Devaney Center. The win for the Bluejays is the fifth state championship in school history and the school's first since 2005. Guardian Angels grabbed 36 rebounds and shot 65 percent from the free throw line to secure the win.
The game was close throughout, but it got tight in the 4th quarter as both teams were battling back and forth trying to take the lead and Guardian Angels Central Catholic secured the lead for good, despite their last field goal coming at the 6:56 mark of the final quarter.
Alex Wallin led Humphrey with 17 points and Alyssa Frauendorfer added 13 points in the loss.
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Decades after charges of sexual misconduct hit retired Alexandria priest Frederick James Lyons, the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith in Rome has stripped him of the title of monsignor and imposed "a life of prayer and penance" on him.
Lyons, now in his late 80s, was accused of sexual abuse of minors during a period in his early life as a priest.
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The Republican-controlled House betrayed Constitutional privacy protections by passing the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) with overwhelming support last week.
In a 288-127 vote, the House rammed through the cyberspying bill that would allow email and Internet providers to share confidential information with the Federal government. While there were a handful of libertarian-leaning GOP holdouts, most Party-line Republicans justified a "yea" vote in the name of national security.
"This is not a surveillance bill," Representative Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said during debate over the bill. "It does not allow the national security agencies or the Department of Defense or our military… to monitor our domestic networks."
But privacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union point out language in the bill that would effectively overrule Federal and State laws, including online privacy policies and wiretap rules.
The bill says:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a self-protected entity may, for cybersecurity purposes — (i) use cybersecurity systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information to protect the rights and property of such self-protected entity; and (ii) share such cyber threat information with any other entity, including the Federal Government…
The term 'self-protected entity' means an entity, other than an individual, that provides goods or services for cybersecurity purposes to itself.
The House also voted in support of CISPA last year but the bill was quashed in the Democrat-controlled Senate. This time, on the heels of a veto threat from President Barack Obama, it's likely that the Senate will once again allow CISPA to die.
The debate over CISPA has made strange bedfellows of Senate Democrats following the President's lead in opposition of the bill and conservative Americans who see it as damaging to 4th Amendment privacy protections.
The conservative-aligned organization Freedomworks said in a recent statement: "There are grave Fourth Amendment concerns with CISPA. The bill would override existing privacy laws to allow companies to share 'cyber threat information' with the federal government without making any reasonable effort to strip out any personal information from the file."


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DEP wants to boost fees on major polluters
Air quality improved so much in Pennsylvania that the state isn't making enough in pollution fees to cover one of its core permitting programs.
State officials want to increase by half the fees that big polluters pay, from $56 per ton of emissions to $85. The Department of Environmental Protection will hold public hearings on the plan, including one on March 5 in its Pittsburgh office.
The action would be in response to lessening air pollution from stationary sources, cut by half statewide between 2008 and 2011, according to federal data. Because power plants and factories are polluting much less, they pay less in fees the state uses to run the program that permits them. A fee hike would help cut deficits that are on pace to rise to $17.3 million by mid-2015.
"With the deficit, it wasn't something that could wait," said Nancy D. Perkins, an environmental law expert at Duquesne University who helped the DEP's Citizens Advisory Council review the proposal. "Something had to happen. What happened here wasn't necessarily out of line with what other states were doing."
The Electric Power Generation Association does not plan to fight the fee increase, said Jake Smeltz, president of the Harrisburg-based industry group. State officials spent years discussing and vetting the proposal with stakeholders in order to smooth its way to passage, Smeltz and Perkins said.
"I would say that the process was fair," Smeltz said. "When you have that type of dynamic, it's not surprising that the fees are going up."
Federal and state rules require Pennsylvania to charge plants enough annually to fully fund the permitting program. It covers permit reviews, modeling, analysis, staff costs, pensions, benefits, resources and equipment, DEP spokesman Kevin Sunday said.
The program applies to 560 facilities statewide, all of which pay for their first 4,000 tons of pollution. There were more than 800 polluters when the program started in 1994, according to the state.
At least a dozen coal-fired plants, the biggest polluters, are scheduled to close by 2015, meaning the state will have to do more to cover the deficit, Sunday said. This fee increase would raise about $5 million by 2014-15, leaving the department about $12 million short for the following year.
"We are aware that a ton-based fee may only temporarily stabilize the program," Sunday said. "Trying to close the funding gap with a per-ton-based fee will not work, as it would drastically increase costs for the few well-controlled coal-fired power plants that expect to remain in operation after 2015."
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WASHINGTON — Saying members of Congress should stop sitting around on our hands, Sen. Lamar Alexander on Monday became the latest from Tennessee to call for lawmakers to forgo their paychecks if they cant complete budget bills on time.
Alexander, a Republican, said he would co-sponsor the No Budget, No Pay Act introduced by Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, is the lead sponsor of the idea in the House.
The act would prohibit lawmakers from getting paychecks after Oct. 1 of any year in which they have not passed a budget resolution and the 12 appropriations bills needed to fund government departments and agencies in the next fiscal year. Oct. 1 is the start of the federal fiscal year.
So far in the second session of the 112th Congress, none of that has happened, and Congress has punted the issues to a post-election lame-duck session.
You wouldnt get paid at the Grand Ole Opry if you showed up late and refused to sing, Alexander told reporters in a conference call. The same should apply to members of Congress who dont do their jobs.
The denial of pay under the proposal would last until all the needed bills were passed. Members would not be eligible for retroactive pay.
Rank-and-file members of Congress are paid $174,000 annually. A weeks pay is $3,346.
Alexander becomes the 12th sponsor of the Senate version, according to the Library of Congress website. Sen. Bob Corker, also a Tennessee Republican, signed on earlier this year.
In the House, Coopers bill has 78 co-sponsors, including Republican Reps. Marsha Blackburn of Brentwood, Diane Black of Gallatin, Scott DesJarlais of Jasper and Phil Roe of Johnson City.
I am going to do everything possible to make it become law, Alexander said, adding that he thinks the idea will continue to attract support.
Alexander said he has tried lobbying Senate leaders on the matter but to no avail.
I am sure there is responsibility on both sides of the aisle, he said.
Weve got plenty of time; we are just sitting around on our hands wanting to do something.
Some of his fellow senators, he said, have likened it to kindergartners playing in a sandbox.
The government reform advocacy group No Labels also supports no budget, no pay, saying there have only been four years out of the past 60 when Congress completed its budget work on time.
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Well yesturday I finished my first four weeks of Roaccutane and Ive gotta say I'm feeling pretty good! I have definetely noticed a change in my skin, I havent really had any new spots ive literally just developed rather red, flaky cheeks. My chin is also quite dry but I can put up with this. Anything gotta be better than large bulbous spots!
I do have spots still, of course, but they are not too obvious and I just looked kind of flush a lot of the time. My family have commented that my face looks better which is great, and I went out to see my fiancee without wearing any form of make up for the first time yesturday, and I felt great.
I still have quite a few weeks to go but if these are the results after the first four weeks then I am feeling rather positive about it all!
The only issues I have had with the roaccutane was drinking. I was a bit rebellious and had a few drinks over Christmas, only once did I have more than I think I should, and I felt that my skin did sort of react to this. But then my skin reacted to alcohol before I was taking the tablets so I kind of expected it. So now its a new year, and Im not having any alcohol until im done. I really hope its worth it all in the end.
Too anyone concerned about starting roaccutane, my advice is go for it! I was terrified, but you never know unless you try
Happy New Years guys!
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Bro. Darryl Tate and his wife Carolyn have just completed their first year at the Rayville United Methodist Church.
"It's been a wonderful year," said Tate, and representatives from the congregation feel the same way.
Both are very active not only in the church, but also in the community. Bro. Darryl attended LSU and is an avid Tiger fan. He also attended SMU. They love Rayville and hope to retire as permanent residents. Their two daughters and two grandsons live in New Orleans. ...


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... that this is quirting, you don't know a lot about women. She's just peeing all over the place.
"2 Slow
she never had one orgasm, all she did was urinate
gota find a girl like that
i would love to fuck her in that sweet ass
wow damn girl
Fucking amazing wow! ive never seen a woman squirt so much pussy juice in my life very sexy
This clip says no cuts, but clearly it's the same one over and over. I have had a couple of squirters. AMAZING. The first time, I was about 20 years old, and eating this pretty thing on my couch. All of a sudden, my mouth was full of it. Freaked me out at first. The second squirter I had used to blow my dick out of her when she came, all over my chest. I almost got rubber sheets and a squeegee. It is for real!!! Not much of a taste, but sexy as hell. Wish I could find them again:)
i could do that too if i drank 10 beers, LOL
holy shit!!!!
holy shit, feel like I need an umbrella to watch!
french girl :o
I want to see how much was on the floor after that!
I would love to lick her pussy out and take all that in the face!!
Me la follaria todos los dias sin parar!!
I would love to get her on my bed and make her due this. I wish i could get my wife to due this. The first time we had sex she did but now i can't get her to go again and would love some advice how i can due it again
She looks like Jessica Biel kinda! Oh, to be that towel!
Me la follaria todos lo dias sin parar!!
i want to fuck her
It was 11, in 4 min 24 sec; or once every 24 sec.
for all who are doubters, i had a gf like her. that is squirting, not pee. its hot, but not salty. she knew what she was doin, so she just relaxed & enjoyed herself. that was for us to get excited, not her.
C est juste de la stupide pisse. Asolute fake!!! Nothing squirting.
She's from cananada quebec
This crap is so fake!!!
From the person who said that she squirted from her pee hole. thats where women squirt, i should no im a women but i deffo cannot squirt :( shame really
this is
Amazing stuff!
she bust 10! fucking with me she will bust 11!
it is piss, but doesn't matter... looks great !!!!
fuckin awesom i used to make a chick do that nibblin on her nipples
she can squirt in my face anytime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
putang ina nyong lahat,.. Mabuhay Manny "Pacman" Pacquio
LOL @ jealous girl, thats what i though
Shes not cumming, there's no actual orgasm - its just piss. And its not odorless, it smells like piss because thats what it is. Still had a lovely wank over it though.
Her panties were on back to front.
wow. Just wow.
That is no fucking squirting at all!
my girl can gush at least 8x
When I squirt, my legs shake afterwards and I have to regain control. It feels sooooo goooood. I need a few minutes in between, but then I'm sure that women are different. We keep a plastic sheet on the bed because it gets so wet. My guy loves it.
she can sit in my mouth anytime.
I would fuck her anytime
gelyot - female ejaculation comes from the same place as pee, the urethrea, its not pee, its clear and sometime sweet, although pee is sometimes clear. I have researched this, am a woman and squirt!!
Anyone know who this is?
her legs looked so thin in the beginning............
I have that same laptop.
j'ai jamais vu ça avant, c'est vraiment énorme et je pari que c'est une Brésilienne!!! championne si c'est le cas championne du monde 10 fois!!!!!!!!
I would have some fun between those thighs
this girl is so hot, and her toes are such a turn on, i wish i could lick them before stopping in such a great pussy to get myself wet by her juices.
i wish i could let her squirt right in my face.
hell yeah i wanna fuck her
I would bang her
i came
That she just piss..
84 comments - wow!!! -- now 85...
Squirter here and this is real... It is not piss, I can squirt that fast also and more than once... It's clear and smells and taste sweet....
She is just pissing....
sweeeeeeeeeet,, my wife cummmms like that, and it is so much fun when I can use the toy, and with her instruction make her squirt like that. AND THEN SHE WANT COCK
i would like to see it in 3D lol
WTF???!!! incredible!!!
female squirt comes from the urethra not from the vagina
every girl is able to squirt you noobs
it is possible to get more then 10 squirts easy, just do what you do but stop when ur about to cum/squirt, do that a few times and then wait a while and get off you (you're cum remains built up) then ull have the squirt for a life time!
i want to lick her feet
No pussy juice, just pissing herself.
Many guys just won't believe that a girl can squirt. They think they (the men) are the only one's who can "shoot" a load. Squirting is real and really hott.
holy shit my men
if yu look closley it comes fron her urethra which is for urine.... not her vagina or cervix.... con... not cum but watersports
I wish she could squirt all over me, so sexy, so lovely, would love to taste her squirt!
i love you feet more than your pussy bitch
OMG I WANT THAT VIBE! it's hard to squirt with just fingers ... I thought that only some women could squirt but then my Bf was like "you want me to make you squirt? all I have to do is rub your G spot" and it does come out the urethra ... but it's deffs not pee
some girls get less ecxited when they squirt. it`s not an amrecan porn. she is from europe, from france.
To all of the dudes who don't believe it .... my girlfriend is a squirter .... it was the most bizarre thing I ever experienced when she first did it. It's not piss ... the smell, taste everything is exactly like before she squirts when she is just juicy wet. If you can find a squirter, I highly recommend that you do everything you can do to keep her !
all i can say is she must be the easiest woman to please in bed she lasted 15 seconds before her first squirt
does look like sara palin lol
Welp.. At least her pussy isn't hairy.. That's a win.
she doesn't seem anywhere NEAR as excited as she should be!
by curious
wow wow wow !!! toda mojada qe delicia se vino 11 veces ufff wow
i like her feet & toes
Kione lol
Yeah, pee. Big deal.
that is a lovely sight to see.
someone should be there drinkin it.
A lovely, very sexy girl -- she's as good to watch as Cytherea, maybe better.
damn I can make you squirt more
So fucking hot !!!
Nous ne sommes pas déçus, ni à 4:12 , ni à 4:42, etc., mais que ce soit de l'urine ou un autre jus, ça sort de l'urètre ... toujours. Elle pisse beaucoup mais n'a tout de même pas un orgasme à chaque fois. J'ai une copine, sans plus, qui m'a dit que ça lui arrivait souvent et que ça faisait peur aux hommes d'être une telle fontaine !
wow che sogno leccargli tutto quel ben di dio che piscia
Fem Ejactulation is clear - Even on video you can tell that is yellow urine - piss - pee. But hey some guys like getting pee'd on - LOL


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The revolving door at Mitchells & Butlers' boardroom may not yet have stopped spinning, comments from the new chairman John Lovering suggest.
"If any director is not adding value we'll get shot of them," he told analysts Wednesday after unveiling his new strategy for the company.
He was also relaxed about the management departures that have already happened this year at the pub group, including the decision of finance director Jeremy Townsend to jump ship for a role at Rentokil Initial.
[Read on over the jump.]
As John Lovering and the new board of Mitchells & Butlers settle into defining the future strategy of the U.K.'s largest managed pub group, they do so in the knowledge that any failure to please the group's two largest shareholders could mean their time is short.
Piedmont and Elpida–who own a combined 40% of M&B–were both insistent the new board was truly independent and would in no way be controlled by them.
This, despite the fact that five of the eight directors owe their presence on the board to the two investment companies. The five, including Jeremy Blood, Simon Balfour and Simon Burke, in addition to Lovering , were nominated directly by Piedmont, tycoon Joe Lewis's investment vehicle and backed by Elpida, J.P. McManus and John Magnier's company.
"The new board should be free to do what it wants," said Elpida's Ed Banks Thursday, "we don't want to manage it, we'd rather be less active as a shareholder."
It's been called a "bar room brawl" by some amused observers. But that probably doesn't do the boardroom shenanigans at UK pub operator Mitchells & Butlers justice. The power struggle over the search for a new chairman is far more complex than a common brawl and is likely to drag on longer than a bout of beer-fueled fisticuffs.
The trouble started when M&B said it received a request for the resignation of senior independent director Simon Laffin or else "a small number of large shareholders would vote against his election at the January 2010 AGM." The board went ahead and nominated Laffin as Chairman anyway.
The brawl rolled out of the boardroom and into the public eye on Monday when M&B said it had approached the UK Panel on Takeovers and Mergers to report what it sees as an effort by some shareholders to take over the board. That's quite an allegation. But M&B didn't take long to point the finger. [Read on over the jump.]


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Friday, March 23, 2012
Fun with Photoshop
Soooo, tres moody and sorta apocalyptic, oui?
As we were...
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I love what you did with this picture. It looks really cool. And congratulations on winning the red dress contest. So glad you won.ReplyDelete
So fun ... LOL, regarding your comment, my seam allowances are on the inside too, I use the three step zig-zag topstitching to catch those seam allowances ON THE INSIDE and force them to lie flat, rather than relying on pressing only. For some garments this is not a good look but for some it makes it much smoother IMO on the inside. For an example see here :ReplyDelete
Editing pictures can be so much fun.....this is a beautiful picture!ReplyDelete
I really need to take an entire class in Photoshop so I can discover all the possibilities. It's a very different photo with the addition of the ombre.ReplyDelete
Hmmm, Photoshop, eh? No wonder you always look so great! ;-)ReplyDelete
Sorry, Carolyn, I didn't mean to cause offense. I was trying to make a joke, but it was actually meant as a compliment. I don't actually believe that you really manipulate all your images - who would have time for that AND to blog AND to sew? And you obviously do look good in your pictures. I shouldn't make jokes with people I don't know well...ReplyDelete
This image is making so quiet, you are really great photoshoper as compare to other. Can you tall me how to make this type image in photoshop?ReplyDelete
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Have you ever noticed that a task you struggled to do for ages suddenly gets done when the right motivation pops up? For example, we moved into our new home a month ago (nearly) and it looks like we got here yesterday. Untouched boxes of stuff, bags of clothes, the bedrooms are a mess and nothing really has a permanent home yet. There are plenty of excuses for this; Christmas, new baby, 4-year-old, and hubby's work being a bit all over the show. That kind of thing…
My dear friend from NSW facebooked me this morning, she'll be here next week to stay for a few days! Well the fire is lit ladies and gentlemen! While it may be true that everyone already knows I'm the worst housewife in the world, I don't want my friend to actually SEE that!
- Sun room need to be cleaned out.
- Clothes need to go in the actual closet.
- Baby stuff needs a home, not just boxes in the living room
- I need to lose 10kgs at least before she gets here next Thursday (hey, if you're gonna dream, dream big right?)
I'm interested in trying out this style of motivation (I'm calling it the 'holy *&^% someone's going to actually SEE it soon' theory) on my writing as well. The plan is still to get into gear towards the end of Feb when progeny the eldest goes to school three
days a week, trying for enough head space to write before then is probably kinda silly and a set-up for disappointment. Once I've got the plan in place though, I'll be asking for some feedback on the projects people like the sound of, and I'll work on those.
On the same note, I'm interested in having someone who might be interested in beta-reading for me. It's part editor part feedback/reviewer, to let me know if anything doesn't flow right or if a pair of characters have swapped names as some point (don't laugh, I have done that). Anyone who'd like to can leave a comment here with their e-mail, or if you'd rather you can drop me an e-mail at 10percentinspired (at) gmail (dot) com.


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Food Waste Fiascos
Every time I open a dumpster there's food in it. Time after time I am finding grocery stores dumpsters filled to the brim with perfectly good food. I'm not going to stand for that anymore!
Right now I am cycling across America eating solely from dumpsters and hosting Food Waste Fiascos in major cities in an effort to drastically reduce food waste in America. 1 in 7 American's don't have the food they need yet we are throw away enough food to feed every hungry American five times over! My solution is real simple. Grocery stores need to stop dumping and start donating! It truly is a no brainer. Stores that donate are protected from lawsuits by the Good Samaritan Food Act, they get tax write offs which means it's profitable to donate, they spend less on dumpster fees, and most importantly they are doing what is right for their community! Thousands of stores are already donating to non-profits and food banks across America but it is a very small fraction of what could be done. The most common excuse for not donating is that they fear liability but according to a University of Arkansas study not a single lawsuit has ever been made against a grocery store that has donated food to a food rescue program. So these stores are either highly misinformed or just plain don't care about people and the planet. However I know humans with hearts run these stores and we can get them to change for the better! It's up to us to hold them accountable to treat the environment and our hungry Americans with the respect they deserve.
I'm calling for a citizen patrol to call out wasteful grocery stores! Simply go to dumpsters with your smart phone and take a picture or video if you find a lot of food. Upload the media and tweet, Facebook, or gram it at the wasteful company with #DonateNotDump. Let them know we are not ok with them wasting precious food. Food is life and life is too good to be thrown into a dumpster!
I am hosting eight Food Waste Fiascos across America to show the country just how much perfectly good food is going to waste and I've got the media on my side. So far I've done over 20 news stories on Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, as well as newspapers such as USA Today and Detroit Free Press, some of which have been picked up nationwide. Check out what we did in Madison, Chicago, and Detroit so far and see the tour schedule below. If you are in any of the cities coming up on my tour please get involved!
Update: I've added photos and little stories for each city that I hosted a Food Waste Fiasco in.
Madison, Wisconsin – August 13th- James Madison Park
The first food waste fiasco was a huge success in terms of food waste awareness but a massive failure in terms of how Madison grocery stores are handling their excess food. In two days of casual dumpster diving around Madison my friend Dane Gottschall and I found more food than we could transport in a full size SUV. What you see is a tiny fraction of what we found but is a good sampling of the variety of perfectly good food that these stores are tossing out. Keep in mind this is just one days worth of waste for a fraction of the stores in Madison. This happens every single day in Madison and most cities around the country. What you see came from the dumpsters of Whole Foods, Big Lots, Sam's Club, Aldi, Brennan's Market, Madison Sourdough, Subway, and Dunkin' Donuts. We were joined by reporters from around the city to help us get the word out about food waste. Madison's ABC, CBS, Fox and The Capital Times reported to help get the word out about food waste and the media continued on afterwards with close to 20 stories in Wisconsin. We ended up giving away almost all the food too, feeding dozens of people in Madison!
Chicago, Illinois – August 19th – Lincoln Park
After a week of dumpster diving across Wisconsin I was pretty certain that I wouldn't find a state that was more wasteful. My expectations held true in Chicago but the waste there was equally appalling. In Chicago I had less time to put together this display and squeezed in stories with Fox, ABC, and WCIU while trying to fill up two cars full of food. The first morning I went out I had troubles finding food because every dumpster was emptied just hours earlier. But once the afternoon rolled around I managed to pick up almost everything you see here in just two dumpsters. Garden Fresh and Walgreens had enough perfectly good food in their dumpsters to feed in excess of 250 families for an entire weekend. I colleced 104 still cold pizzas with a suggested sell by date of summer 2015. I assume they had been thrown away due to stocking issues. The incredible thing about Garden Fresh is their dumpsters were completely empty when I visited them at 9 AM and when I returned at 6 PM they had two entire dumpsters full and most of it was healthy fresh produce. We set up in Lincoln Park and had a great turn out of friends and family plus dozens of passerby's stopping by to see what the heck we were doing. While in Chicago I spent time in Englewood, the poorest neighborhood in town, and learned that most of the people on the block I was visiting go to bed hungry almost every night. When I explained to them what I find in dumpsters they just couldn't wrap their heads around it. So I took them out diving in the northern suburbs and we filled their jeep with over $2,500 worth of food in under two hours (not pictured). This food was from Whole Foods, Garden Fresh, Trader Joe's, and Antons Fruit Ranch.
Detroit, Michigan – August 31st – Campus Martius Park
Empty dumpsters haunted my sleep and upon awakening I stressed that I may not find food for tonight's Food Waste Fiasco. I had little knowledge of the city, no friends in town, and just a few hours of Detroit dumpster diving experience from the night before but the press knew the plans and the word was out. 5:00 there would be a Food Waste Fiasco at Campus Martius Park. I had nine hours to collect a bounty of food and get it to the busy park in downtown Detroit. I was nervous mostly because morning diving can be a battle with the garbage man. Whoever arrives first gets the bounty. At 7:00 my Facebook acquaintances Julie and Seth picked me up at in their eight seat SUV. They didn't know what to expect. I had a good feeling about Aldi, because I've never found an Aldi that wasn't full of food, so that's where we headed to first. But on the way we saw a Save-A-Lot and decided to take a peak. Jackpot! 20 minutes later we were pulling away with half the car full of fruits, veggies, crackers, bread, and pastries. Next stop, Aldi. Jackpot! When we pulled out of there it was 8:00 and we were having troubles fitting all the bread, apples, oranges, grapes, carrots, and peppers into the car. We discussed going back to their house an hour away to get a trailer but decided to head to the Trader Joe's down the street first. A whim told me to stop at the CVS on the way though. The dumpster was locked but I could pear inside and see what looked like garbage bags full of packaged food. Seth held the lid open and I squeezed in. Ten minutes later we had pulled out about eight bags of cereal, granola bars, cookies, crackers, and candy all in immaculate packaging most of it not even past its suggested sell by date. We managed to pile it all in somehow. We had a few nooks and crannies left so we headed to the Trader Joe's. The dumpster wasn't full but we pulled out a few boxes of produce, couscous, and some salmon to name a few things plus almond butter, my all time favorite. It was now 9:00 AM, just two hours after they arrived at my house and we had barely an inch of space left in the car. My worries of course had been completely unnecessary. Coast-to-Coast, America's dumpsters are full of perfectly good food. We pulled into a parking lot to consolidate everything into bins (from the trash) and pull out any spoiled food. This freed up some space and with a car full of about $2,500 worth of food we set out for more. The Detroit Free Press met up with us to do a story and after that we headed down to the park to get set up. Again I was nervous because it turned out the park was packed for Jazz Fest. Whoopsy! I read my rights to peacefully demonstrate in public and was assured I had the right to be there. We exposed food waste to over 1,000 people that evening and had crowds photographing our display all evening. Shocked faces were aplenty but even more I saw inspiration light up in people's eyes. They were excited to see us in action and went home with hope and knowledge. And guess what? Almost every bit of food you see above was taken home by the passerby's, all of them knowing it was from a dumpster. Proof that it was perfectly good food? I'd say so. Today's Food Waste Fiasco was covered by The Detroit Free Press, CBS, USA Today, Discovery, and I did stories with four other media outlets while in Michigan. You can see them all here. Momentum is picking up nationally. Food waste is going to take a beating.
Cleveland, Ohio – September 5th- Cleveland Public Square
The Cleveland Food Waste Fiasco was hosted by Budget Dumpster! I arrived in Cleveland the night before the fiasco and got right to work them. It was a hot night and the dumpsters were full of food but much of it was a bit spoiled from the ninety degree day. The city was also plagued by locked dumpsters and trash compactors so it was hard to access the wasted food even though it was all out there. Every Aldi we went to was full of food though and I pulled out some of the best stuff. I found so many bananas between all of the stores I could have fed all of the worlds Gorillas! The day of the fiasco we went out diving again and were joined by the local ABC channel, Cleveland.com, The Cleveland Scene, and a gaggle of girls from Budget Dumpster. It felt like I was leading a class field trip. I had a reporter from the LA Times with me both days as well. Again it was a roasting day which made the whole experience more challenging but we made it through that no problem. Mid afternoon I spent some time down at the lake freshening up and eating fruit and then we headed downtown for the Fiasco. We set things up pretty quickly and we turned out to be in a park full of people who wanted to eat this food so pretty much right after we set it up we opened it up for people to take. Within 15 minutes 80% of it was gone! We raised awareness and fed a bunch of people in need. Talk about a success! Tell your grocery store to #DonateNotDump!
Washington, D.C. – September 16th- The National Mall
The morning before the fiasco in DC I had no transportation to go dumpster diving and no place to sleep at night. I wasn't worried though because everything always works out. A few hours before arriving in DC I got a message from someone who would host me and another message from someone would take me out diving with their Subaru! A crew of us went out and loaded up on dumpster food the night before the event. CVS, Trader Joe's, and Panera made up the bulk of our find. The energy was so high at the fiasco and my heart was just bursting with excitement the entire event. Fox had me in studio, came to the dumpsters with me and covered the event live and we got coverage from a few other local news channels and newspapers. So many beautiful people came out and once again we were able to give all of the food away!
Lancaster, Pennsylvania – September 20th- Central Market
I arrived in Lancaster at 6:00 PM and had a crew of friends excited and ready to hit the dumpsters. They'd been planning for my arrival for a few weeks and the media was there waiting too. After just a bit of relaxing we hit the dumpsters and the first one was a true fiasco, full of so much perfectly good food. It was incredible and my hurt sunk when I found bags of still cold wild caught crabs and even a Lobster that seemed to have been alive just moments earlier. We had two cars out diving so we were able to collect a ton of food in just four hours. We hosted this fiasco in the morning at the market and we crowds mulling around the food the entire time. We planned on waiting until noon to give all the food away but so many people were waiting by 11:00 that we opened it up an hour early. Within fifteen minutes about 75% of the food was taken and again almost every piece of food was taken. Another successful fiasco!
Hosted by Gwendolyn Mccomsey and Catherine Rivera. Photo courtesy of Michelle Johnsen Photography
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 22nd- Rittenhouse Square
One night, 4 hours in a new city, and I casually collected all of this. I'm starting to think this is happening every day in every city across America.
New York City, New York – September 30th – Union Square
And finally I rolled into New York City where I was greeted by the people behind Freegan.info. In one night of walking around the streets of Manhattan we scrounged together this fiasco. We blew the people of Union Square away.
Burlington, Vermont – October 14th- University of Vermont
On my way back to San Diego I stopped into Burlington, Vermont. It's one of the most environmentally friendly cities in America so I was worried that I might not be able to put on a fiasco. I was absolutely wrong. I put together this display with no issues at all. Much of it was at least in compost bins, but it was far too good of food to be composted yet.


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Obesity is an epidemic. It's an indisputable fact, and it affects all of us.
In addition to all the lives that are coming to a premature end due to obesity-related health issues, this ongoing problem in our society is costing us all millions of dollars in unnecessary health care costs.
So while they may not be dealing with obesity firsthand, even the fittest triathlete has to cope with rising insurance premiums caused by the unhealthy choices of others.
Thus obesity, much like tobacco use, is an issue that impacts the whole of our society, not just the individual who makes the poor eating choices.
And as government has in other cases where poor lifestyle choices effect society at large, smoking, seat belts, car seats and the like, our elected officials have begun the attempt to pass laws encouraging healthier choices.
So far, however, most of the attempts have seemed somewhat comical.
In New York City, you can't get a Big Gulp anymore. The thinking that outlawing oversized sugary drinks will reduce New Yorkers waistlines is wrongheaded and just flat-out ridiculous. Ever heard of a refill?
In Los Angeles, they passed a resolution suggesting "Meatless Mondays." While the intentions are good, the action seems pointless. It's just as easy to overindulge on carbs and candy as it is to gorge yourself on a porterhouse steak. And how much weight does a resolution to go vegetarian one day a week really carry? Pun intended.
Meanwhile, across the pond in France, they are currently in the process of legislating a new tax that's been dubbed the "Nutella Tax." French lawmakers, in an effort to curb obesity, are attempting to quadruple the taxes on items containing palm and other vegetable oils, including Nutella, the chocolate and hazelnut spread, beloved in France and which when combined with peanut-butter and bananas makes one of the best sandwiches known to mankind.
While it only amounts to a few pennies on each jar of Nutella and again seems comical to refer to a Nutella tax, perhaps the French are on to something here.
Just as we have taxed other unhealthy choices Americans have made for decades like alcohol and cigarette consumption, perhaps it's time we look at taxing trans-fats, sugary sweets and other unhealthy foods and applying those funds to offset the added health care costs of obesity and promote healthier choices.
Lawmakers need to stop wasting time nibbling around the edges of this issue with pointless resolutions and senseless bans on large cups. If they're serious about preventing obesity, tax those Big Gulps and use the funds to really tackle the problem head-on.


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When European settlers first entered Kentucky they found a wilderness, thinly populated by Native Americans in scattered villages and largely open hunting ground. Near present-day downtown Louisville, hundreds of thousands of bison crossed the untamed Ohio River on their annual migrations.
Now, Kentucky has more than 4 million residents, the Ohio River is tamed by dams and channels, the wild bison are gone, and most Kentuckians live in cities and towns. It is no wonder that many Kentuckians fear losing the natural beauty and abundant resources that are such an important part of our ...


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Watching Pricing In The New Recession
Posted by: David Kiley on October 15, 2008
It's becoming clear to me that different marketers have different strategies for pricing in this Recession.
I took my son to Kalahari, the big waterpark in Sandusky, OH about ten days ago. I booked two tickets online for $60.00. When we arrived at the hotel/resort/waterpark and checked in, my receipt said $84. Huh? Oh don't worry, the cashier said, you were charged what you booked at, but the prices changed since I reserved the tickets. Upon going in, the crowd was light. In fact, several attractions were closed so as not to use the energy for the skimpier crowd.
Hmmmmm. Higher prices and fewer attractions open?
On the other hand, I was stunned when I booked flight from Detroit to New York this week and got a fare of $138.00. That is less than half the fare I found in late August with the same amount of lead time. I know fuel prices factor in, but it is also a measure to stimulate demand.


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Wake up
Millions of dollars are spent by self-serving politicians to ensure they have lifetime jobs. But there's no money for food banks, no money for animal shelters. Thousands of dollars are spent to extol the virtues of those who have the innate ability to brainwash the American people.
Wake up, people. Turn off the TV and start to think for yourselves. Because of our politicians, our country's freedoms may become a thing of the past.