| Sparky Marky |Sound advice for the unemployed

This site is written by a recently unemployed middle aged service manager, who offers advice on how to live well while being unemployed in today's economy. He has written articles about how to get started trading Forex, how to make money as an affiliate marketer on the internet, and how to save money by not going out to dinner, and cooking at home

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An Open Letter from the Israeli Ambassador to UC-Irvine Stud

On March 8, 2010 Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, attempted to open up dialog on the Middle East.  Needless to say such a dialog was was made impossible that evening by members of the Muslim Students Union and other children’s groups. It is a shame that in this day and age a handful of ignorant fools can dictate what speech

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Love, Wealth, or Success?

When I was eight years old and was spending a weekend visiting my Aunt Libby at her home, a middle aged man called one evening and after a polite skirmish with my aunt, he devoted his attention to me.

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An Agreeable Friend

When I was eight years old and was spending a weekend visiting my Aunt Libby at her home, a middle aged man called one evening and after a polite skirmish with my aunt, he devoted his attention to me.

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$100,000-A-Year Pensions For Government Workers?

In California, there are 6,144 retired public employees in the CalPERS plan and 3,090 retired teachers in the state teachers' plan receiving annual pension benefits of more than $100,000. And folks wonder why California is bankrupt. Should middle-class Americans be forced to subsidize $100,000-a-year pensions for middle-aged California retirees?

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New Study Says iPhones Addictive: More Bad Statistics

I would wager that College students will be more careless, more flippant, about using the word "addiction: than would, say, middle-aged executives. "Dude, I am totally addicted to this thing" is a sentence you can readily imagine an 18-year-old uttering. It�s more difficult to conjure an image of the assistant manager at Walmart saying the same.

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Lomo al trapo - Roast Beef from the Middle Ages

My Colombian wife goes back to her roots and cooks Colombian Lomo al trapo - a meal from ages ago that needs only beef, salt, cloth, and fire to make.

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Middle-Aged Women Who Drink Alcohol May Gain Less Weight

Women who drink light-to-moderate amounts of alcohol may gain less weight than nondrinkers as they age, reports the Archives of Internal Medicine.LINK(S):

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Marijuana Use Sky Rockets Amongst Middle Aged Americans

Marijuana mom's are a certainly not a new phenomenon. Lord knows how long middle aged women (just as everyone else) have used marijuana. But with the availability of medical marijuana, the middle aged demographic has seen a sharp increase in marijuana use.

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Study: Women Who Drink Red Wine Gain Less Weight

What women who keep slim in middle age have in common isn't a brutal gym routine or an raw-vegetable diet—it's a glass or two of wine a day. So claims a new study that followed the weight fluctuations... Science & Health News Summaries. | Ne...more

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