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9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hola Y’all! It’s time for another round of Onion-Like Headlines. You might remember that I did some of these back in <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/02/onion-like-headlines.html" target="_blank">February</a> and said it would be a regular feature. Well, it only took me eleven months to come up with some more! I’m so damn clever it amazes even me. Okay, here we go…<br /><br /><i>“Hillary Clinton Tells Her Favorite Monica Lewinsky Jokes” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“College Coaches: 'We're Overpaid, Cut Our Salaries and Use the Money on the Kids.'”</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Oprah Dines at Waffle House Several Times a Week” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Oklahoma Scenery Voted Most Beautiful by People Who Have Never Been There” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“113 Congress Promises to Stop Being So Damn Productive” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Rush Limbaugh Says Tyler Perry Movies are His Guilty Pleasure”</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Rachael Ray Embarrasses Self by Leaves Big Tip for Appreciative Wait Staff”</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Networks Promise to Make Reality TV More 'Lowbrow'”</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Celine Dion: 'My Music is Average at Best'” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Ohio Residents Confused, Anxious and Paranoid Over Being Called ‘Meth Capital of the US’”</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“President Obama Promises to Aggravate Everyone by Taking Slow, Methodical Approach to the Debt Limit Fight”</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQgqK3JJiAvPDfS7rukqz9A6yUkZjiuLKdtwtHKiP5a0WF1yB4bKdDwXsehPPiPZsQDN8_X9lo3ySVMbbWw06RrAQ2Q3z0Pc0w9QxJS9DCEkj-3SoC7PoNMUnBR5MpLppvkqcfYA6duM/s1600/Doutzen-Kroes-Nude-Hot-Thong.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQgqK3JJiAvPDfS7rukqz9A6yUkZjiuLKdtwtHKiP5a0WF1yB4bKdDwXsehPPiPZsQDN8_X9lo3ySVMbbWw06RrAQ2Q3z0Pc0w9QxJS9DCEkj-3SoC7PoNMUnBR5MpLppvkqcfYA6duM/s400/Doutzen-Kroes-Nude-Hot-Thong.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><i>“Victoria's Secret Model Admits She Was Beautiful in High School and Got Asked on Dates All the Time” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“NFL Owners and Players Concerned That They Might Be Putting Fans First” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry Says Americans Take too Many Pills”</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Michelle Obama Says to Quit 'Nitpicking' Your Kids' Diets” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Mommy Bloggers Admit Their Kids aren't Anything Special”</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Israel Apologizes for Not Killing Enough Palestinians in Last Attack.”</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Republicans Refuse to Renew ‘Violence Against Women’ Act. All Go Home and Tell Their Wives ‘I Hate Myself for What I Did’” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Rihanna Criticizes Barbara Streisand for Not Using Auto-Tune Because Natural Voices Sound Weird.” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Mississippi Afraid Children are Getting ‘Too Much Book Learning’” </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>“Nicolas Cage’s Latest Movie is Another Masterpiece” </i><br /><br />Eh … Obviously I’ll never get a job with The Onion. Maybe the next round of headlines, in late Dec 2013, will be better. <br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><br /><br /><br />In other news Wednesday’s episode of I’m With Stupid was 45 minutes of warm, charming and even funny internet radio. We just rolled along jumping from topic to topic as if we knew what we were doing. 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ISRAEL, JORDAN AND PALESTINE

7:20 PM Tukiyooo 0

<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYM54mYqnttqUW1enGYYtKar_DOI14MRKm0-5f6qgOztgpt1LN8fdYPWOidg-qtcTC2ETz8BX3UU9G6BgXsvmW-kGZ-Dvk3e8gcDNSf0ZJ7feWaFbZ8W6mh8UEW7UKhaSTfMcwg5JhkbYR/s1600/Jordan+is+Palestine+Map+low+res.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYM54mYqnttqUW1enGYYtKar_DOI14MRKm0-5f6qgOztgpt1LN8fdYPWOidg-qtcTC2ETz8BX3UU9G6BgXsvmW-kGZ-Dvk3e8gcDNSf0ZJ7feWaFbZ8W6mh8UEW7UKhaSTfMcwg5JhkbYR/s400/Jordan+is+Palestine+Map+low+res.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">JORDANIAN-PALESTINIAN CONFEDERATION AIRED BY NETANYAHU, ABDULLAH</span></span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-small;">Via DEBKA<i>file</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i> </i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Aspects of a possible confederation between a Palestinian West Bank state and the Hashemite Kingdom – not SYRIA - were the subject of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent conversation with JORDAN’S King Abdullah in Amman, debkafile’s sources reveal. Nothing was decided and the two leaders agreed to hold further discussions in due course.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_Vw5sGQmCmMs1UEYLVi18S35A9S2A-uiJPZFihZijFGzU-JBCdKiEaxLBiNOcfS5QZEyolgjsb9vR1EUR-6BtSrY_xR-4BMDGyT76IN6UIAVS4Pl-7CsAiHs2nXrzQYnZDfL7JlXJGzm/s1600/IsraelMapReduction1922-mandate_for_palestine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_Vw5sGQmCmMs1UEYLVi18S35A9S2A-uiJPZFihZijFGzU-JBCdKiEaxLBiNOcfS5QZEyolgjsb9vR1EUR-6BtSrY_xR-4BMDGyT76IN6UIAVS4Pl-7CsAiHs2nXrzQYnZDfL7JlXJGzm/s400/IsraelMapReduction1922-mandate_for_palestine.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This idea has become a focal talking point in Amman, Washington and PALESTINIAN centers.<br />Netanyahu brought some pointed questions to the highly confidential one-on-one at the Hashemite palace: He asked the king how much responsibility would Jordan undertake in controlling West Bank security and intelligence activity? What were his plans for extending such control from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip? And how would JORDAN’S intentions fit into the security arrangements demanded by ISRAEL in both territories as part of any accord with the PALESTINIANS?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According to US and JORDANIAN sources <i>au fait </i>with these ideas, the current goal for the next stage of ISRAELI – PALESTINIAN negotiations in the coming months would be a long-term interim accord. It would leave the core disputes on permanent borders, Jerusalem, the PALESTINIAN refugees and the future of ISRAEL’S settlements in Judea and Samaria to a later round of negotiations at some unspecified time in the future.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">PALESTINIAN-JORDANIAN CONFEDERATION WOULD SIDESTEP THE DIFFICULTIES OF RECIPROCAL RECOGNITION - A PALESTINIAN STATE BY ISRAEL AND ISRAEL BY THE PALESTINIANS</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_WdEPzVHaDtCAtQF-Op2fz33PG1YQvxDm81fhS8TpkA-KBpXsh0qPj6fKH7MYt5BrqoRzvxCpwqkfMaZn9Dr-YLvyHuVy3ULeXiyqt-fLKc2DLaGRRF4IxJKdQgVI6M7jNiONhJHq5xY/s1600/jordanpal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_WdEPzVHaDtCAtQF-Op2fz33PG1YQvxDm81fhS8TpkA-KBpXsh0qPj6fKH7MYt5BrqoRzvxCpwqkfMaZn9Dr-YLvyHuVy3ULeXiyqt-fLKc2DLaGRRF4IxJKdQgVI6M7jNiONhJHq5xY/s320/jordanpal.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The establishment of a PALESTINIAN-JORDANIAN confederation would sidestep the difficulties of reciprocal recognition - a PALESTINIAN state by ISRAEL and ISRAEL by the PALESTINIANS as the national state of the Jewish people. JORDAN has recognized ISRAEL and the two nations maintain full diplomatic relations. The confederation’s ruling body as such would be able to recognize ISRAEL without requiring a public PALESTINIAN declaration of acceptance. Equally, ISRAEL would be saved from having to formally accept PALESTINIAN statehood and could simply greet the new joint entity and extend an assurance of cooperation that in practice would be implemented through JORDAN or any Muslim Arab element taking part in the move.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In December 2012, the PALESTINIAN Authority’s Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) secretly advised certain PALESTINIAN leaders “to be prepared for a new confederation project with JORDAN and other parties in the international community.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />He did not name those parties. debkafile’s sources reveal that he was referring to EGYPT, TURKEY and QATAR – in other words, the members of the pro-AMERICAN Sunni-led bloc AMERICAN diplomats established in Cairo last month in the course of ISRAEL’S Pillar of Defense operation in Gaza and the negotiations that led to an ISRAEL-Hamas ceasefire. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SUNNI CRESCENT - SAUDI ARABIA AND GULF NATIONS WILLING TO GRANT SECURITY GUARANTEES FOR PALESTINIAN JORDANIAN CONFEDERATION PROJECT</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Msy4iYHL6tXKGY58NMyRPNaWtvV_HsfA7YPDufuiIbQ6TfyX4io6yt21B4RJXW7hXtN8cKLjagiLV8cYEHVqAFbh9CnZ0g8JfnZ4XWDK9n6TYjrpyOqz-WbL5VrAIfHgLfyoQZdvl1cK/s1600/news-graphics-2006-_631107a.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Msy4iYHL6tXKGY58NMyRPNaWtvV_HsfA7YPDufuiIbQ6TfyX4io6yt21B4RJXW7hXtN8cKLjagiLV8cYEHVqAFbh9CnZ0g8JfnZ4XWDK9n6TYjrpyOqz-WbL5VrAIfHgLfyoQZdvl1cK/s1600/news-graphics-2006-_631107a.gif" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AMERICAN sources said at the time that Washington was not averse to additional Gulf nations including SAUDI ARABIA adding their weight to the initiative for a JORDANIAN-PALESTINIAN confederation and was willing, if it took off, to consider granting the endeavor security guarantees and economic assistance.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Asked why the project had not figured in ISRAELI political discourse, those sources accused the ISRAELI media of generating an election campaign climate that hostilely depicted Netanyahu and his party as extreme right-wing nationalists who consistently refused to talk peace with the PALESTINIANS.  Showing the prime minister as quietly preparing to return to the peace track after forming his next government, assuming he wins the Jan. 22 poll, would spoil their show. Netanyahu himself prefers to stay aloof from his accusers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According to Arab sources involved in the new initiative, it gained traction from the UN General Assembly’s Nov. 29 upgrade of the PALESTINIANS to non-member observer status. On the strength of this upgrade, the PALESTINIAN Authority is claiming the status of a government representing an independent state and therefore eligible to join JORDAN as a confederation partner.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Such a setup may have room for Hamas which too would be saved from having to recognize the state of ISRAEL.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CRISIS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS - MIDDLE EASTER STYLE </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For the first time in their decade-long rocket offensive against their ISRAELI neighbors, the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers are scrupulously upholding the ceasefire deal they struck with ISRAEL.  The Netanyahu government has reciprocated by substantially easing restrictions on the territory. And now, after six years, ISRAEL will allow building materials to cross through into the territory, including cement and gravel, withheld until now lest they were used to build smuggling tunnels for supplying terrorist organizations with war materiel. Public transport, including buses and trucks, will also soon be running through the crossings. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HAMAS MAY FIND THE CONFEDERATION PROJECT WITH JORDAN ATTRACTIVE</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Netanyahu appears to have decided that the chances of another outbreak of hostile operations from the Gaza Strip have receded.  Indeed, there is a good chance that Hamas may find the confederation project the West Bank’s Fatah rulers are about to pursue with JORDAN attractive, and let itself be led to join by EGYPT and QATAR.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There are more straws in the wind attesting to the confederation project being on the move. The US-based PALESTINIAN professor and journalist, Daoud Kuttab, writing in <i>The Atlantic</i>, reported that King Abdullah’s closest advisers include partisans of the confederation notion – i.e. JORDAN’S restoration to its pre-1967 rule of the West Bank.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: red;">See relates articles:</span> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/palestine.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/palestine.html</a></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/license-to-statehood.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/license-to-statehood.html</a></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.ar/2011/04/palestine-and-paranoia-jordan-jerusalem.html">http://jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.ar/2011/04/palestine-and-paranoia-jordan-jerusalem.html</a></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kuttab goes back in history to quote the late <span style="color: red;"><b>Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad), the terrorist leader ISRAEL eliminated in Tunis in January, 1991, as saying: “What the PALESTINIANS wanted was five minute of independence and then they would happily agree to a confederation with JORDAN. “</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY DEEPLY COMMITTED TO ADVOCATE A PALESTINIAN JORDANIAN CONFEDERATION </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Interestingly, this phrase is increasingly cited by Arab and Western media.<br />Furthermore, US and Arab sources disclose that TURKISH Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has deeply committed himself to the step. They say this commitment was partly manifested by his consent to drop TURKEYS boycott on cooperation with ISRAEL in the framework of NATO and that more evidence of revived US-TURKISH-ISRAELI cooperation is still to come.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><i><b>See related article:</b></i> </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY RESUMES NATO TIES WITH ISRAEL</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/israel-and-turkey.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/israel-and-turkey.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">debkafile reported exclusively that ISRAEL and the PALESTINIANS had agreed to resume peace negotiations in March, as soon as Netanyahu, who is generally expected to win the January election, has assembled his new government.<br />The Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem made haste to deny reports that he planned to invite opposition leader and former foreign minister Tzipi Livni to join the next cabinet in her old job as lead negotiator in talks with the PALESTINIANS. According to our sources, Netanyahu has reserved that role for himself.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

ISRAEL, JORDAN AND PALESTINE

JORDANIAN-PALESTINIAN CONFEDERATION AIRED BY NETANYAHU, ABDULLAH Via DEBKA file Aspects of a possible confederation between a Palestin...

Awakening - Joshua Lang - The Atlantic

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 1pt; ">Linda Campbell was </span>not quite 4 years old when her appendix burst, spilling its bacteria-rich contents throughout her abdomen. She was in severe pain, had a high fever, and wouldn't stop crying. Her parents, in a state of panic, brought her to the emergency room in Atlanta, where they lived. Knowing that Campbell's organs were beginning to fail and her heart was on the brink of shutting down, doctors rushed her into surgery.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Today, removing an appendix leaves only a few droplet-size scars. But back then, in the 1960s, the procedure was much more involved. As Campbell recalls, an anesthesiologist told her to count backward from 10 while he flooded her lungs with anesthetic ether gas, allowing a surgeon to slice into her torso, cut out her earthworm-size appendix, and drain her abdomen of infectious slop, leaving behind a lengthy, longitudinal scar.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The operation was successful, but not long after Campbell returned home, her mother sensed that something was wrong. The calm, precocious girl who went into the surgery was not the same one who emerged. Campbell began flinging food from her high chair. She suffered random episodes of uncontrollable vomiting. She threw violent temper tantrums during the day and had disturbing dreams at night. "They were about people being cut open, lots of blood, lots of violence," Campbell remembers. She refused to be alone, but avoided anyone outside her immediate circle. Her parents took her to physicians and therapists. None could determine the cause of her distress. When she was in eighth grade, her parents pulled her from school for rehabilitation.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Over time, Campbell's most severe symptoms subsided, and she learned how to cope with those that remained. She managed to move on, become an accountant, and start a family of her own, but she wasn't cured. Her nightmares continued, and nearly anything could trigger a panic attack: car horns, sudden bright lights, wearing tight-fitting pants or snug collars, even lying flat in a bed. She explored the possibility of post-traumatic stress disorder with her therapists, but could not identify a triggering event. One clue that did eventually surface, though, hinted at a possibly traumatic experience. During a session with a hypnotherapist, Campbell remembered an image, accompanied by an acute feeling of fear, of a man looming over her.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Then, one fall afternoon in 2006, four decades after her symptoms began, Campbell met an anesthesiologist at a hypnotherapy workshop. Over lunch, she found herself telling the anesthesiologist about her condition. She mentioned the appendectomy she'd had not long before everything changed.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The anesthesiologist was intrigued. He told her about a phenomenon that had sometimes accompanied early gas anesthetics, particularly ether, in which patients reacted to the gas by coughing and choking, as if they were suffocating.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The comment sparked something in Campbell. "I started having all these flashes," she remembers. "The flashes were me being on the table. The flashes were of the room. The flashes were of the bright lights over me." A man—the same one from her memory?—was there. At some point, the room went black. "And then I got to the place where I was on the table, and I just remember feeling terror," she says. "That's all I remember. I don't see anything. I don't feel anything. It's absolute, abject terror. And the feeling that I am dying." At that moment, Campbell realized that something had happened to her during her appendectomy, something that changed her forever. After several years of investigation, she figured it out: she had woken up on the table.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">This experience is called "intraoperative recall" or "anesthesia awareness," and it's more common than you might think. Although studies diverge, most experts estimate that for every 1,000 patients who undergo general anesthesia each year in the United States, one to two will experience awareness. Patients who awake hear surgeons' small talk, the swish and stretch of organs, the suctioning of blood; they feel the probing of fingers, the yanks and tugs on innards; they smell cauterized flesh and singed hair. But because one of the first steps of surgery is to tape patients' eyes shut, they can't see. And because another common step is to paralyze patients to prevent muscle twitching, they have no way to alert doctors that they are awake.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Many of these cases are benign: vague, hazy flashbacks. But up to 70 percent of patients who experience awareness suffer long-term psychological distress, including PTSD—a rate five times higher than that of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Campbell now understands that this is what happened to her, although she didn't believe it at first. "The whole idea of anesthesia awareness seemed over-the-top," she told me. "It took years to begin to say, 'I think this is what happened to me.' " She describes her memories of the surgery like those from a car accident: the moments before and after are clear, but the actual event is a shadowy blur of emotion. She searched online for people with similar experiences, found a coalition of victims, and eventually traveled up the East Coast to speak with some of them. They all shared a constellation of symptoms: nightmares, fear of confinement, the inability to lie flat (many sleep in chairs), and a sense of having died and returned to life. Campbell (whose name and certain other identifying details have been changed) struggles especially with the knowledge that there is no way for her to prove that she woke up, and that many, if not most, people might not believe her. "Anesthesia awareness is an intrapersonal event," she says. "No one else sees it. No one else knows it. You're the only one."</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">More ...</p></div><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/awakening/309188/?single_page=true">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/awakening/309188/?single_page=true</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Awakening - Joshua Lang - The Atlantic

Linda Campbell was not quite 4 years old when her appendix burst, spilling its bacteria-rich contents throughout her abdomen. She was in se...

Good and Bad, the Little Things Add Up in Fitness - NYTimes.com

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<base href="data:"><div style="color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The past year in fitness has been alternately inspiring, vexing and diverting, as my revisiting of all of the Phys Ed columns published in 2012 makes clear. Taken as a whole, the latest exercise-related science tells us that the right types and amounts of exercise will almost certainly lengthen your life,<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/how-working-the-muscles-may-boost-brainpower/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">strengthen your brain</a>, affect <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/dieting-vs-exercise-for-weight-loss/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">your waistline</a> and even <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/exercise-as-housecleaning-for-the-body/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">clear debris</a> from inside your body's cells. But too much exercise, other 2012 science intimates, might have undesirable <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/is-marathon-running-bad-for-the-heart/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">effects on your heart</a>, while <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/for-athletes-risks-from-ibuprofen-use/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">popping painkillers</a>, <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/scientists-look-at-the-dangers-of-high-heels/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">donning stilettos</a> and sitting and reading this column likewise have their costs.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">With New Year's exercise resolutions still fresh and hopefully unbroken on this, day two of 2013, it now seems like the perfect time to review these and other lessons of the past year in fitness science.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">First, since I am habitually both overscheduled and indolent, I was delighted to report, <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/moderation-as-the-sweet-spot-for-exercise/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">as I did in June</a>, that the "sweet sport" for health benefits seems to come from jogging or moderately working out for only a brief period a few times a week.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Specifically, an encouraging 2012 study of 52,656 American adults found that those who ran 1 to 20 miles per week at an average pace of about 10 or 11 minutes per mile — my leisurely jogging speed, in fact — lived longer, on average, than sedentary adults. They also lived longer than the group (admittedly small) who ran more than 20 miles per week.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"These data certainly support the idea that more running is not needed to produce extra health and mortality benefits," Dr. Carl J. Lavie, a cardiologist in New Orleans and co-author of the study told me. "If anything," he said, "it appears that less running is associated with the best protection from mortality risk."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Similarly, in <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/is-30-minutes-of-daily-exercise-a-sweet-spot-for-weight-loss/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">a study from Denmark</a> that I wrote about in September, a group of pudgy young men lost more weight after 13 weeks of exercising moderately for about 30 minutes several times a week than a separate group who worked out twice as much.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The men who exercised the most, the study authors discovered, also subsequently ate more than the moderate exercisers.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Even more striking, however, the vigorous exercisers subsequently sat around more each day than did the men who had exercised less, motion sensors worn by all of the volunteers showed.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"They were fatigued," said Mads Rosenkilde, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Copenhagen and the study's co-author.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Meanwhile, the men who had worked out for only about 30 minutes seemed to be energized by their new routines. They stood up, walked, stretched and even bounced in place more than they once had. "It looks like they were taking the stairs now, not the elevators, and just moving around more," Mr. Rosenkilde said. "It was little things, but they add up."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">And that idea was, in fact, perhaps the most dominant exercise-science theme of 2012: that little things add up, with both positive and pernicious effects. Another of my favorite studies of 2012 found that a <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/can-housework-help-you-live-longer/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">mere 10 minutes of daily physical activity</a> increased life spans in adults by almost two years, even if the adults remained significantly overweight.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">But the inverse of that finding proved to be equally true: not fitting periods of activity into a person's daily life also affected life span. Perhaps the most chilling sentence that I wrote all year reported that, according to <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/get-up-get-out-dont-sit/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">a large study of Western adults</a>, "Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer's life expectancy by 21.8 minutes."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">I am watching much less television these days.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">But not all of the new fitness science I covered this year was quite so sobering or, to be honest, consequential. Some of the more practical studies simply validated common sense, including reports that to succeed in ball sports, <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/keeping-your-eye-on-the-ball/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">keep your eye</a> on the ball; during hot-weather exercise, <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/strategies-for-hot-weather-exercise/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">pour cold water</a> over your head; and, finally, on the day before a marathon, <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/how-to-carbo-load-for-a-marathon/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">eat a lot</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">But when I think about the science that has most affected how I plan my life, I return again and again to those studies showing that physical activity alters how long and how well we live. My days of heedless youth are behind me. So I won't soon forget the <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/the-benefits-of-middle-age-fitness/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">study I wrote about in September</a> detailing how moderate, frequent physical activity in midlife can delay the onset of illness and frailty in old age. Exercise won't prevent you from aging, of course. Only death does that. But this study and others from this year underscore that staying active, even in moderate doses, dramatically improves how your aging body feels and responds.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Aging also inspired my favorite reader comment of 2012, which was posted in response to a research scientist's name. "'Dr. Head,'" the reader <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/how-exercise-may-keep-alzheimers-at-bay/?comments#permid=44" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; ">wrote</a>. "That shall be the name of my all-senior-citizen metal band," which, if its members gyrate and vigorously bound about like Mick Jagger on his recent tour, should ensure themselves decades in which to robustly perform.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><br></font></div></div><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/the-little-things-add-up-in-fitness/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/the-little-things-add-up-in-fitness/</font></a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Good and Bad, the Little Things Add Up in Fitness - NYTimes.com

The past year in fitness has been alternately inspiring, vexing and diverting, as my revisiting of all of the Phys Ed columns published in 2...

Skoy Cloth Review and Giveaway!

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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHPWbh-xrfC-UBFeykc44a25qBGgYaXesETh2fNhVeQJGEf7WnXZlI7tPd8dlURGAPqUUB_Jiy5JFOFMAimPsctsBnRXzk8CcNNuu4qiI0S8onp950fzWSGK39g6-wLw0wxZaLzOvRVU/s1600/skoy+cloths.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHPWbh-xrfC-UBFeykc44a25qBGgYaXesETh2fNhVeQJGEf7WnXZlI7tPd8dlURGAPqUUB_Jiy5JFOFMAimPsctsBnRXzk8CcNNuu4qiI0S8onp950fzWSGK39g6-wLw0wxZaLzOvRVU/s320/skoy+cloths.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Skoy Cloth </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All I have got to say is this is an amazing product!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.skoycloth.com/index.htm">Skoy</a> cloths is an environmental stretch in cleaning cloths.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their cloths are made from an extravagent blend of natural cotton, non toxic and free of chlorine. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6XMje0JdK_SFQJ9X7FSDRALy5OeLocrDbNnuIFNlkUUeJDIwW7He7XcOdx51c-rC1uZl2b6-mxLdvaU3mOrGfn4aSmhabzhE_xZ6m3swECpw4YMvZgQjR9CR6OZJpXFoEkt7tmQD1MNg/s1600/skoy+cloth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6XMje0JdK_SFQJ9X7FSDRALy5OeLocrDbNnuIFNlkUUeJDIwW7He7XcOdx51c-rC1uZl2b6-mxLdvaU3mOrGfn4aSmhabzhE_xZ6m3swECpw4YMvZgQjR9CR6OZJpXFoEkt7tmQD1MNg/s320/skoy+cloth.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water based inks are colors are made with it's artwork designs to add fun into cleaning!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever feel like every time you turn around your constantly buying rolls upon rolls of paper towels?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With Skoy cloth you don't need to because it's reusable and get this actually saves 15 rolls of paper towels!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Easy on your wallet as well too!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you know that Skoy Cloth company also offers a  fund raising program for schools.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think this is a great idea!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think this would be great for your children's school or yours? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check them out and fill in the form!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.skoycloth.com/index_files/fundraising.htm">Fundraising </a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Upon using wet your cloth and squeeze out all of the excess water for absorption and also can be used with your everyday household cleaners.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dishwasher safe too!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do Recommend microwaving it for 1-2 minutes to keep your cloths healthy and germ free and it must be wet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wait a minute or two before removing from microwave, don't want to burn yourself!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvLtspdsxyVI_GriGdD_wEtO2TbQjmDtweWV85gLVXMlOyevFmpVvcNJwDAwHol2MqbYeUAw13d4c9NgEzh-wZ-4PSGBtrxlqAQiEvv2PEwyeGswzgsbJPV1HlBC80H_TrwNhfzc2DBBA/s1600/wet+skoy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvLtspdsxyVI_GriGdD_wEtO2TbQjmDtweWV85gLVXMlOyevFmpVvcNJwDAwHol2MqbYeUAw13d4c9NgEzh-wZ-4PSGBtrxlqAQiEvv2PEwyeGswzgsbJPV1HlBC80H_TrwNhfzc2DBBA/s320/wet+skoy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After washing the dishes tonight I wet the Skoy Cloth and started wiping down the counters.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I immediately noticed a difference, unlike paper towels Skoy Cloths don't rip very easily.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are durable and fun to use because of the design and colors.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleanup is a pinch!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So easy to use and best of all it's safe and you don't need to toss it out after one use!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Skoy Cloth Review and Giveaway!

Skoy Cloth All I have got to say is this is an amazing product! Skoy cloths is an environmental stretch in cleaning cloths. Their cloths a...

Country Bob's Review and Giveaway!

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTt111wSBJLlb1yL4gaQE7HvojTnitIJpqvn2Mv3suv_6JXrZpvxaD7X38-HDaU4c60w-zPLUk0uh80KqVQw5-x94NcYgcvLV5hmNe-4BJAeRYA0-8S-lqsQ3CpQRg3FWsGKqn_VVjiY/s1600/Country+Bob's.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTt111wSBJLlb1yL4gaQE7HvojTnitIJpqvn2Mv3suv_6JXrZpvxaD7X38-HDaU4c60w-zPLUk0uh80KqVQw5-x94NcYgcvLV5hmNe-4BJAeRYA0-8S-lqsQ3CpQRg3FWsGKqn_VVjiY/s320/Country+Bob's.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><b>Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bob Edson founder of <a href="http://www.countrybobs.com/">Country Bob's </a> sauces perfected his recipe in 1968 with the most amazing spices to give your food that extra kick it needs!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He then began offering the sauce as a taste test to friends and family, then began selling it in 1977.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since then the product line has expanded into seasoning salt, barbecue sauce, Honey Habanero All Purpose Sauce,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ffefc3; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">and apple chipotle  as well! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You know when a product is made with the finest ingredients and the people who made it put a lot of love into them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is a company that believes in equal partnership as a team.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can use it on any kind of meat such as burgers, steak, chicken, pork or even dip french fries into the sauce!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The taste of the sauce is like no other, it can't even compare because it's that good!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's not too spicy and not too sweet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just the right amount of heat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just give the bottle a little shimmy shake and pour some onto your favorite meal.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. You can enter to win 2 bottles of their all purpose sauce here by telling me what you like to use all purpose sauce on! </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Want an extra entry? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">2. 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Country Bob's Review and Giveaway!

Country Bob's All Purpose Sauce Bob Edson founder of Country Bob's sauces perfected his recipe in 1968 with the most amazing spices...

Soda Sparkle Review and Giveaway!

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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISGD8cwVhUmAXEER86Rd7Q_-IyFxvyzwCk8GtQ_KVBAZpkZkG0ruXEllAGZS04tk2UTkO7klxLG30cjeA0lBmEpEqx27dJ8aTpy0JFcHajcF-hHGO8ymN4PiY1upaJ-iv_BASIK4Ssh0/s1600/soda+sparkle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhISGD8cwVhUmAXEER86Rd7Q_-IyFxvyzwCk8GtQ_KVBAZpkZkG0ruXEllAGZS04tk2UTkO7klxLG30cjeA0lBmEpEqx27dJ8aTpy0JFcHajcF-hHGO8ymN4PiY1upaJ-iv_BASIK4Ssh0/s320/soda+sparkle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Soda Sparkle </u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent this wonderful fizzy product to review! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Want to enjoy soda at home without all of those extra calories?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can with <a href="http://www.sodasparkleusa.com/">Soda Sparkle</a>, by simply using cold tap water.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sounds amazing doesn't it?</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEiLoPbGDEARPpXTXzIPfdyUTn97NCkbBwy8foJ372QwrH6acIaqVqwWsDhb0dCLNHiLklOeGbR0Q7kOOsaE6fuRxBic4b5cKJGOh084xmPbR89nte4WOD35ZeMebRLv7p4Q2qOkGt4I/s1600/soda+sparkle+nutrition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSEiLoPbGDEARPpXTXzIPfdyUTn97NCkbBwy8foJ372QwrH6acIaqVqwWsDhb0dCLNHiLklOeGbR0Q7kOOsaE6fuRxBic4b5cKJGOh084xmPbR89nte4WOD35ZeMebRLv7p4Q2qOkGt4I/s320/soda+sparkle+nutrition.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can enjoy soda all over again in the comfort of your own home and the best of all it's made from water and a Soda Sparkle flavor packet.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember to use cold tap water because if not there will be no fizz just like any other sodas or soft drinks.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can be used as sparkling water or soda which is awesome so you don't spend all of the extra money by buying both separately! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The flavors include Pineapple, Lychee, Cola Lemon, Tonic, Lemon and also apple.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With just a few shakes of the bottle you will have your favorite soda in no time!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbNvQDPC7y4Sb5ccz3gpI0RBubr7wEyEkSb8DaZvAIvM2u8s9-mRhWyZPs_WsoTNiuR-c-6pDQPS0XV2du2T9WGkVv_1sFiyRm4C3Cn37aH12OieCNAZQ7LNUh02P7JChx2DYG90thF0Q/s1600/soda+sparkle+contents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbNvQDPC7y4Sb5ccz3gpI0RBubr7wEyEkSb8DaZvAIvM2u8s9-mRhWyZPs_WsoTNiuR-c-6pDQPS0XV2du2T9WGkVv_1sFiyRm4C3Cn37aH12OieCNAZQ7LNUh02P7JChx2DYG90thF0Q/s320/soda+sparkle+contents.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's affordable, fun and environment friendly.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The flavors are natural and are continually growing in market!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's environment friendly because it helps the reduce of the use of plastic bottles at home such as soda bottles,cans or water bottles we use to flavor ourselves. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTdAeh3ZpDq0aqRW52mfHGCYlzXiuxODqjVTpzdhVMkQWe2s6vx-W6kvm0QNv_nWwof_GwZirmeu-eNIbpkOa4UF9ROwcq2zT2-DsotHtzwHKdbL2hFamqxylV6zgMOHr2ot8F_geSSv4/s1600/soda+sparkle+flavors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTdAeh3ZpDq0aqRW52mfHGCYlzXiuxODqjVTpzdhVMkQWe2s6vx-W6kvm0QNv_nWwof_GwZirmeu-eNIbpkOa4UF9ROwcq2zT2-DsotHtzwHKdbL2hFamqxylV6zgMOHr2ot8F_geSSv4/s320/soda+sparkle+flavors.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Pineapple-</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>I</u> am obsessed with all things pineapple!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one is my favorite.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Full of flavor, refreshing and not too sweet! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Apple-</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not too much of an apple person when it comes to drinks except for apple juice but I thought this one was actually pretty good!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It wasn't over powering like some apple drinks are.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Lychee-</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one was fantastic.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reminded me of bubble teas without the tapioca bubbles in them!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Cola-</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tastes just like the real thing! Amazingly crisp and delicious!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Tonic-</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love how good this is.reminds me of sparkling waters and I would usually buy them by the cases!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I don't need to thanks to Soda Sparkle. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5YMTsj42aZ9o2VgBrbhN93Gq8M22dw1SvFf3z9jMM4HsFMenK1o8Kbw0JKPG1Zh4fBQdyBjwBtTUDDxhgDZ5UjBJtj5gVavxf1hk4DVOdsx4BvhfYP7JzAH_ULXKLBKg151KXnCS-MQE/s1600/soda+sparkle+directions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5YMTsj42aZ9o2VgBrbhN93Gq8M22dw1SvFf3z9jMM4HsFMenK1o8Kbw0JKPG1Zh4fBQdyBjwBtTUDDxhgDZ5UjBJtj5gVavxf1hk4DVOdsx4BvhfYP7JzAH_ULXKLBKg151KXnCS-MQE/s320/soda+sparkle+directions.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymUh6w-48uL6MPP7oxIxRHo2Xx_RH4D_TchBLLA7V84MTxspR-Cx-E5dRLNKCfODIZlDHogtzrQ_DS3mdj14nkDwInWrGrbetbPiGwX08AV3wkVXlEXXu4j2j-hLOAFoD9wSfPWaYD3s/s1600/soda+sparkle+directions+continued.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymUh6w-48uL6MPP7oxIxRHo2Xx_RH4D_TchBLLA7V84MTxspR-Cx-E5dRLNKCfODIZlDHogtzrQ_DS3mdj14nkDwInWrGrbetbPiGwX08AV3wkVXlEXXu4j2j-hLOAFoD9wSfPWaYD3s/s320/soda+sparkle+directions+continued.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. 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Soda Sparkle Review and Giveaway!

Soda Sparkle I was sent this wonderful fizzy product to review! Want to enjoy soda at home without all of those extra calories? You can wi...