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The multinational company Monsanto has entered the business of genetically engineering foods so they will withstand more of its pesticides. If the plants can stand more pesticides, the company sells more product and makes more money. It's such a shame that most everything evil is always traced back to $$$.

Monsanto has convinced Kellogg's to start using genetically modified beets in their cereals here in the US. The sugar in your cereal comes from these genetically modified beets.

Kellogg's is not selling their GM foods in Europe because the people won't allow them to. However, here in America, it seems that people don't care.

Why are GM foods bad for you? Here are some pros and cons from the Human Genome Project. You decide.

Please don't buy Kellogg's foods until they stop using genetically modified sources.

Additional information:
Organic Consumers Information - Boycott Kellogg's

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If someone is going to be a judge in a beauty pageant, they must be neutral and unbiased. Many have heard the story and comments of what happened the other week when this shameless man asked Carrie Prejean if every state should make gay marriage legal.

When he disagreed with her answer, he publicly attack her immediately afterward. He should be ashamed of himself. He may be an adult, but this man is nothing more than a teenager who never graduated from highschool.

Grow up Perez Hilton, please have some respect for other people's opinions.

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One of the great things about going out in Minneapolis or any other city that bans indoor smoking is that you don't come home smelling like cigarette smoke. I absolutely can't stand my clothes, hair, and skin smelling like that wretched stench. If someone wants to smoke, they simply step outside and do so without affecting everyone else.

That's one of the worst things about moving back to Atlanta. I enjoy going out with friends and having some food or a beverage in town. However, in most places you find smokers poisoning the air everyone else is breathing. I have no problem with them smoking, just don't let it affect the air I'm breathing.

Did you know that if you ask your dentist about the safety of mercury in amalgam tooth fillings, he may lose his dental license if he says it's not safe?

Try it. Ask your dentist and see what he says. The ADA controls his business and what he's allowed to say.

New studies show that when dentists work on your fillings, it releases toxic mercury gas from one of the most dangerous metals known to man.

Mercury has a negative vapor pressure, so it's always releasing toxic gases.

Even those new, low emission, "green" curly light bulbs contain mercury. If one of those breaks, you have to call poison control and immediately evacuate the premises. Definitely not a good thing.

Do some research and have them removed for your own health.

Studies:
http://www.flcv.com/indexa.html
http://www.holisticmed.com/dental/amalgam/
http://www.thebeautifultruthmovie.com/




 

One thing that I've always disagreed with is the required fees for paying your utility bills online. I used Xcel and CenterPoint Energy in Minneapolis for a little less than a year. I've always paid by check via US Postal service because they charge you up to $5 every time you pay online. This is quite ridiculous.

So, I pay by putting my check in the mail. Yes, I do have to pay for a stamp, but it's still cheaper than paying online. You also have to wait for the check to get there which is also a pain.

Taking electronic payments online is with no fees should be the standard.

Now don't get me started on the Tickermaster convenience fee either.

My sister recommend a movie to my family: The Beautiful Truth. It's quite an insightful story about the Gerson therapy and how Max was able to cure cancers and other diseases using organic foods, juices, and other methods to accomplish such feats.

The movie goes into such great depths like:

1. MSG is in almost every food we eat. The FDA has allowed food processing companies to get away with this by letting them hide it under other names. How MSG leads to autism (pdf flowchart): MSGTruth

2. The toxic effects of aspartame, which is in Diet coke, chewing gum, Listerine strips, and more.

3. How the ADA will terminate a dentist's license if they speak out against one of the most toxic metals known to man, mercury, which is almost every amalgam and filling. Just ask your dentist if having mercury in your mouth is harmful. If they want to keep their license, they will not say it's bad.

4. How the multi-national company Monsanto wants to rid the world of heirloom seeds and replace them all with genetically modified seeds that withstand their pesticides better. That way, they sell more pesticides and make more money.

This is some serious stuff. Our health is being manipulated just for our money. Can the world ever break free?

Please watch the movie. It's on Netflix streaming.

The Beautiful Truth

Some excerpts on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQsi777_B1g

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People are always busy in the corporate environment. So busy sometimes that they will wait even a week before responding to your email.

I understand how busy people can be but sometimes I think it's just a bit of laziness. How often do you receive an email from someone, know the answer, but don't respond right away because you say to yourself that you'll do it later? Happens all the time.

If you're not going to respond to someone in a timely manner, at least be courteous enough to tell them you'll get back to them later. </end rant>

I have been seeing this grammatical error more often lately. It's simple to overlook and an easy mistake, but it can hurt your reputation when others notice.

From Wikihow:

1. Use there when referring to a place, whether concrete ("over there by the building") or more abstract ("it must be difficult to live there").
   • There is an antique store on Camden Avenue.
   • The science textbooks are over there on the floor.
2. Use their to indicate possession. It is a possessive adjective and indicates that a particular noun belongs to them.
   • My friends have lost their tickets.
   • Their things were strewn about the office haphazardly.

Just take a second to think before you write it and use the correct word.

Now that jobs are being slashed all across the country, I'm seeing different ways that companies layoff employees. What is the best way to layoff staff with a minimal impact to the individual as well as the company?

I've experienced a layoff where the company announced there was no definite timeline, no specifics about who was going to be cut, and no details about how many were losing their jobs. Even further, a Q&A email was sent out to help ease everyone. However the ease was minimal as there were no straightforward answers in the email. Each question was answered: Plans are still being finalized and the company is committed to providing proactive and straightforward answers.

Now do a 180 degree turn and take a look at Target corporation a month ago. By the time the public announcement of a layoff was made, the layoff had already happened. Employees received an email at 8:45 telling them to go to the auditorium for a 9:30 meeting. Once the meeting started, they were told that there was a layoff and those that did not get the email were already laid off. Imagine the relief everyone in the auditorium felt.

When employees are left wondering about who, when, how many, etc, company productivity takes a direct hit. People start talking, proverbial water cooler chatting, looking for other jobs on company time, etc.

On the other hand, if you are sent packing with no warning, that can leave many people very surprised after having made no plans not even knowing it was coming. This can be very detrimental to families and those who have commitments to mortgages, kids, debt, etc.

So comparing the two examples, which do you think has less of an impact on an individual as well as company productivity? There must be a common ground between these two schools of thought. Companies must look at their own interests as well as their employees to evaluate the best method of cutting work force.

The blatant misuse of company profits, bailout money, stock options, and bonuses by CEOs of is something that really bothers me. Greed in corporate America is running rampant because of a lack of checks and balances.

I mean seriously. These guys are fleecing us American citizens for all we are worth. Citigroup was planning on buying a new jet with their free bailout money. Where did that money come from? US citizens who will eventually pay for it with our tax money. Then there's the lavish parties thrown after receiving bailout money. And new million dollar offices and bathrooms made with bailout money. These guys should be locked in jail.

How can CEOs  give themselves raises and bonuses when companies are not performing well? A bonus is compensation for a job well done and which shows improvement. Just because you are a CEO does not mean that you should give yourself more money for a job that you are not doing well. I realize that lot of a company's success vacillates with the state of the economy, but CEOs have to ride the wave too. You're not exempt just because you're c-level.

Not all execs are like this of course, but we are all hearing more and more about situations like this all the time. Ego and greed has consumed the souls of American CEOs. Wake up! You are a slave to your ego!