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Posted on Wednesday, 19th May 2010 by Gregory Moore

When you feel like you are choking or can’t breathe, you tend to panic, which can make your lungs want to breath even faster. However, the stress of this can constrict your airway more, making it difficult for you to get the oxygen that you need to survive. This is what asthma sufferers must deal with regularly. Thus, sometimes asthma can count as a long-term disability.

If you have an illness or impairment that prevents you from working, you may be unable to pay your medical and utility bills. However, as you struggle with your health, your medical bills can pile up, causing even more worry in your life. In cases like this, the Social Security Administration, or SSA, can provide you with coverage to help you with these bills. A

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Posted on Wednesday, 19th May 2010 by Jeremy Lee

NEW YORK — Burger King Holdings Inc. won dismissal of part of a lawsuit brought by franchisees over the $1 double cheeseburger promotion, but a Miami court will hear arguments on whether the company acted inappropriately in implementing the deal.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore ruled that Burger King can set maximum prices that franchisees must follow, a victory for the parent company.

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Posted on Tuesday, 18th May 2010 by Gregory Moore

Have you had a break-up with your boyfriend or girlfriend recently? If so, then this period must be very difficult for you to go through. Pangs of loneliness and guilt are a natural outcomes of break ups. Do not worry about it to the extent of getting into a depression. It is ok to feel deep regret and hurt. The question you should ask yourself is whether you want to move ahead and try to get over your ex; or do you want to get him back into your life? If it is the latter then it is very important for you to make the first move in quick time. Read more…

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Posted on Monday, 17th May 2010 by Laura Hernandez

HENDERSON, Ky. The new River View Mine in Union County, Ky., will be brought up to full production to help make up for production that will be lost by the temporary closure of a sister mine in Illinois because of a conveyor problem, parent company Alliance Resource Partners L.P.

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Posted on Monday, 17th May 2010 by Laura Hernandez

Owning a similar business with a name similar to one whose owner is facing drug-related charges has brought embarrassment and possibly loss of business to Janie and Bruce Blunk’s Head to Toe Salon & Spa.

The couple say people have gotten their Head to Toe business in Jennings Station at Newburgh confused with Head Over Heelz, an Evansville salon and spa whose owner Shelly Thompson faces two counts of obtaining, or attempting to obtain, legend drugs by forgery, a class D felony, and by theft, also a class D felony.

The Blunks — owners of the Newburgh business the past 12 years — first got an inkling of the misidentification in March, after the initial story about Thompson’s arrest appeared in the paper.

Janie Blunk said she got a phone call from a man, who was upset with her, saying ” ‘I was just in there the other day and bought a gift card for my wife. Now

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Posted on Monday, 17th May 2010 by Laura Hernandez

Sporting dark sunglasses, some sandals and mostly short sleeves, the assemblage at the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota’s posh Lido Key beach club was both happy testimonial and unapologetic promotional stunt.

In all, some two dozen elected officials and others filmed spots that will be cobbled into a YouTube video aimed at bolstering the area’s image.

“Our beaches are as beautiful as they’ve ever been,” said Richard Bradshaw, owner of the Comfort Inn and Days Inn hotels, on Clark Road, and chairman of Sarasota County’s Tourist Development Council.

“The water here is clear, clean and refreshing,” said Jim McManemon, the Ritz-Carlton’s general manager, to a background of beach strollers and pelicans fishing for a late breakfast.

But amid the pep rally atmosphere and the images of pure, green waters and foamy whitecaps, dark clouds formed and sounds of thunder rumbled off in the distance.

More symbolically, clouds may coalesce in the weeks ahead, as the gushing oil — estimated now to be as much as 3.8 million gallons daily by some scientists — meets summer hurricane season, beginning June 1.

Oil from the downed BP America rig Deepwater Horizon appears poised to move, flowing into the so-called “loop current” in the Gulf, according to satellite images.

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