ROCHESTER, NY—In response to increasing American demand for tangier, more hygienic meals, condiment giant French's has introduced a new antibacterial mustard.

"Each year, 15 million cases of bacterial food poisoning originate in U.S. home kitchens, resulting in nausea, diarrhea, fever, and even death," read a press release French's issued Monday. "Now, lunch doesn't have to endanger your health! All-new French's Antibacterial Mustard is the perfect way to add flavor to, and subtract harmful disease-causing bacteria from, your family's favorite meals!"

According to French's representative Darla Nelson, the new hypoallergenic mustard complements the company's expanding line—which includes French's Honey Dijon Mustard and French's Sweet & Tangy Honey Mustard—and kills over 99.99% of harmful germs.

The mustard is orange in color, more translucent than the traditional varieties, and somewhat medicinal in flavor. In product trials performed by French's, mothers preferred antibacterial mustard five to one when informed of its sterilizing properties.

A television commercial for the mustard plays up its prominent role in luncheon sanitization.
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In spite of such warnings, Nelson said all French's mustards will eventually contain triclosan, the most trusted antibacterial agent used in hospitals today, and that the company is currently working on three new germ-fighting sauces: Cattlemen's Kansas City Antibiotic BBQ Sauce, Frank's RedHot Hot Sauce with Hydrogen Peroxide, and French's Worcestershire-Neosporin Sauce.

French's Introduces Antibacterial Mustard

Feline lovers, hunters hiss over cat hunt

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Posted: 3:29 PM EDT (1929 GMT)

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Feline lovers holding pictures of cats, clutching stuffed animals and wearing whiskers faced-off against hundreds of hunters at meetings around Wisconsin to voice their opinion on whether to legalize cat hunting.

Residents in 72 counties were asked whether free-roaming cats -- including any domestic cat that isn't under the owner's direct control or any cat without a collar -- should be listed as an unprotected species. If listed as so, the cats could be hunted.

The proposal was one of several dozen included in a spring vote on hunting and fishing issues held by the Wisconsin Conservation Congress. The results, only advisory, get forwarded to the state Natural Resources Board.

Statewide results were expected Tuesday.

La Crosse firefighter Mark Smith, 48, helped lead the cat-hunting proposal. He wants Wisconsin to declare free-roaming wild cats an unprotected species, just like skunks or gophers. Anyone with a small-game license could shoot the cats at will.

Weekend Pussy Hunt

flynn23 wrote:
] ] The film starred adult actress Summer Nyte, 31, of
] ] Sevierville, Tenn. Her husband, truck driver David Moore,
] ] 42, helped produce the project and said they chose to
] ] shoot the film locally because ''Nashville is a nice
] ] city.''
]
] ] The movie, which also featured adult-film actor Ron
] ] Jeremy, involved men ages 21-62 engaging in sex with
] ] Nyte. Nyte was the only person paid for taking part,
] ] Moore said.
]
] One look at Summer and it's unclear why she was the only one
] that got paid.

W00t W00t. The Hedgehog Roxx! Apparently, State Sen. John Ford must not have gottent he casting call... :p

RE: Metro says it can't prosecute creators of pornographic movie

Apparently a whole lot of rules changed after 9/11/2001... Sheesh! Can you imagine how pissed you would be if this had been you?

The fear of terrorism has reached the English city of Ipswich.

Heidi Brown says she was told she could park her new motor scooter outside the vehicle registration office in Ipswich, while she waited to get number plates.

However, it was blown up by the army in a controlled explosion after someone reported it might have been a bomb.

Police say the moped was chained to a fence outside the building, but officers were not able to identify whose it was because there were no number plates on it.

The 22-year-old care worker appeared soon after the blast with her new plates but too late to identify her vehicle.

English police blow up parked scooter

Simple recipes for mental health....

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Sex, cryptic crosswords and a good run could help ward off dementia and other degenerative conditions by stimulating new brain cells, an Australian researcher said Thursday.

Perry Bartlett, a professor at the University of Queensland's Brain Institute, said mental and physical exercise helped create and nurture new nerve cells in the brain, keeping it functional and warding off diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

"Perhaps one should run a long distance and do the cryptic crossword, " Bartlett told Australian radio.

He said a chemical called prolactin appeared to promote new cells in the brain and could be found in high levels in pregnant women.

"Prolactin levels also go up during sex as well. So one could think of a number of more entertaining activities than running in order to regulate the production of nerve cells," Bartlett said.

Fend Off Dementia with Sex, Crosswords and a Run

Wow... Blame Elvis.. I hate when dead guys are better compensated than me...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp. said on Wednesday it paid more than $5 million in bonuses to the estates of former Chief Executives Jim Cantalupo and Charlie Bell following their deaths.

Cantalupo, who died suddenly of a heart attack last April, received a bonus of $1.8 million in recognition of his "outstanding service," the company said in regulatory filing. McDonald's said the bonus was similar to one Cantalupo would have received had he remained employed throughout 2004.

Cantalupo's estate also received a prorated payout of $791,000 as part of the company's long-term incentive plan.

Bell, Cantalupo's successor, received a bonus of $3.2 million following his death in January from colon cancer. He stepped down as CEO in November due to his illness.

McDonald's pays deceased CEOs bonuses

A provincial court later commuted the sentence to 15 years in prison.

So the question is... If you've already done the time, can you still do the crime? I seem to remember an Ashley Judd/Tommy Lee Jones movie that had a similar theme.

Jailed 'Killer' Freed After Wife Turns Up Alive

Ensure you don't become another Terry Schiavo in case some biological tragedy besets you.

I, _________________________ (fill in the blank), being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.

Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of peckerwood politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it.

If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up and ask for a cold beer, it should be presumed that I won't ever get better. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my spouse, children and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day.

Under no circumstances shall the members of the Legislature enact a special law to keep me on life-support machinery. It is my wish that these boneheads mind their own damn business, and pay attention instead to the health, education and future of the millions of Americans who aren't in a permanent coma.

Under no circumstances shall any politician butt into this case. I don't care how many fundamentalist votes they're trying to scrounge for their run for the presidency in 2008, it is my wish that they play politics with someone else's life and leave me alone to die in peace.

I couldn't care less if a hundred religious zealots send e-mails to legislators in which they pretend to care about me. I don't know these people, and I certainly haven't authorized them to preach and crusade on my behalf. They should mind their own business, too.

If any of my family goes against my wishes and turns my case into a political cause, I hereby promise to come back from the grave and make his or her existence a living hell.


Signed: ________________________________________

I've wanted a piano for a while now but missed out on this deal. I have wondered if operating costs of the new online muni auctions like Nashville's ebid site were worth what they brought in. Maybe not. I guess they could always raise our property tax rates...

MURFREESBORO — The cash-strapped Rutherford County School System didn't get quite as much money as it had hoped for from this year's auction of unneeded items.

One reason was the bargains bidders got, including a piano bought for 11 cents, a 1997 Ford van that sold for $250 and a 32-inch Samsung television that went for $1.27.

Those rock-bottom prices have some school administrators wondering if the current surplus system is as good a deal for the county as it is for the bidders.
Rutherford County's school system has faced a growing need for money since the last property tax hike in 2003. Three new schools are expected to cost $36.3 million to build and about $3.5 million a year to run when they open in 2006. The building plan also calls for three more schools to open in 2007, as well as a major addition at Murfreesboro's Blackman High School. The county has even asked lawmakers to levy taxes on new homes and on home sales, in part to pay for the increasing demands explosive growth has put on schools.
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The county sold 205 items this year, bringing in around $6,400, but most of that came from seven vehicles. Those cars and trucks, six power tools and a load of used wire brought just under $5,800, while the remaining 191 items generated only about $600.

School piano brings 11¢ at auction

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken...

BALTIMORE - With a beak-like nose, beady eyes and thin lips, Frank Perdue looked like he was born to sell chickens. It wasn’t until he put his face on TV commercials, however, that his father’s backyard egg business rapidly grew into one of the world’s largest chicken companies.
Perdue, who became famous for his folksy television pitch “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken,” died Thursday at his home in Salisbury after a brief illness, his company said. He was 84.

Perdue was one of the first CEOs to pitch his own product on television in 1971 and remained the company’s public face for the next two decades.

Chicken magnate Frank Perdue dies at 84