Medical Scrubs for Christmas

This year for Christmas I am thinking of purchasing a set of medical scrubs for my sister-in-law that I found online. I have found that these medical scrubs are so very comfortable and they keep you very cool during the hot summer months that have now come to an end for the year of 2011, but before we know it the summer of 2012 will be upon us and we all will be looking for nice looking clothes to wear while trying to keep cool.

My oldest sister suggested these scrubs for me to try out this summer, which I did and I couldn’t have been happier with the ones that I found and ordered online from Blue Sky Scrubs and I’d like to pass along the good things that I have found to others that I care about. So with Christmas looming ahead I am trying to pick up gift suggestions as well as the actually gifts along the way before the mad rush starts due to all of the holidays that are fast approaching us. Anything that I can find and buy online is the way to go for me, I hate going out to the malls and all the other retail stores scattered around town. It is kind of a Bah Humbug thing for me the older I get.

Indian Summer

I guess we are experiencing what is called “Indian Summer” it has been in the eighties and not getting much cooler in the evenings. I had to turn the air conditioner back on. I hate the thought that winter is looming, sigh…..

Sweet Tea made the correct way

I was reading a blog authored by a woman, Elena Redmond, that I turn to once in a while and enjoy reading and found was so excited to find the recipe to the correct way to make Sweet Tea, I heard about this recipe on T.V. a few months back but could not remember it to save me soul. So I was certainly tickled to find it today.

To read the blog’s post on this subject, try this site at Elenaredmond.com

Flat Tire Issues

Been dealing with a slow leaking tire for the past couple of months. A few times a week I have had to put air into the darn thing before hitting the road and I finally got tired of dealing with it and took it yesterday to Wal Mart. They told me that I had a big gash in the side wall and a new tire was needed. So $85 later I have a new tire in place.

5 Ways Advertising is Regulated in the U.S.

To the average consumer, it might not seem like there is any regulation in the advertising industry. Consumers are constantly bombarded with ads and messages, and it seems like there is no end and no limit. However, despite what it feels like, the advertising industry is actually pretty highly regulated. Here are some interesting examples of just how ads and advertising are regulated in the United States today.

Five Ways U.S. Advertising is Regulated

In the United States, advertising is regulated most thoroughly by the Federal Trade Commission, the governing body overseeing advertisement (among other things). Although there may be other regulations imposed by states or local government bodies, the highest authority for the regulation of advertising in the U.S. is the Federal trade Commission, or FTC. Some examples of the work performed by this body, and the results of some of their labors, are as follows:

  1. The United States most highly regulates advertising in two categories. The first of this is in false advertising. Simply put deceptive, misleading, or false advertisements are illegal, but in reality the practice, prevention, and control of the practice is a very complex issue.
  2. The second most highly regulated are of advertising in the United States in in the advertising of health-related ads. Similar care is taken in the advertisement of products relating to health and the claims that these advertisers make, although again the issue is not as cut-and-dried as it might seem to be, as there are many evolving definitions of what constitutes “health” advertisement and what category of classification products fall into.
  3. A close competitor to these two is the regulation of advertisement for tobacco and tobacco-related products. Advertising for tobacco products has been banned in the US on TV and radio since the 1970’s; regulations have recently been expanded to include sponsorship of many forms of cultural and sporting events.
  4. The FTC has worked hard to restrict abuses by telemarketers, enacting laws governing practices such as Pay-per-call and Telemarketing Sales Rules, giving birth to such consumer protections as the national “Do Not Call” list.
  5. More and more, the development and revelation of privacy policies and truthful disclosures has become a way of life in the U.S., thanks to regulations requiring such disclosures. We often see these in the form of annual privacy policies form businesses, and the “fine print” either printed or stated in ads.

One of the biggest ways advertisers are regulated in the U.S., although not a direct rule or law, is through consumer information and education by groups like the FTC. The attitude of the FTC is that prevention is the most effective weapon against abuses and consumer exploitation, and so one of their tasks is to continually make consumers aware of their rights and the way advertising is regulated in the U.S. The FTC maintains a through websites and system of complaint resolution which is easily accessible to consumers at www.ftc.gov/index.shtml.

Maryellen Ward is very knowledgeable when it comes to advertising programs.

Too Much Spam Going On Here

Lately I have been getting way too much spam here on my blog. Each day I log in and I usually find more than 30 spammed comments. That might not sound like much to you but I’m certainly not used to it. I’m not sure what to do about it. Might have to talk with my brother (the family computer geek) and see if he can give me any tips. I’m still learning all that is involved with WordPress and my blog, but I’m enjoying the ride!

Helping Out Family

I promised my mother that I would do some research for her on some of the Undermount Sinks that I can find on the Internet. She still is a little gun shy when it comes to the Internet, besides sending her emails out to friends and family, so she turns to me on occasion to assist her for things that she is interested in. I don’t mind really, she has been having a really rough time of it since my dad passed away 3 years ago, anything I can do to make things easier for her is good with me.

I’m going to find her the perfect Undermount Sink and my kid brother will install it for her. I had no idea of the variety of sinks that are available these days. In looking around I have fallen in love with the glass sinks that I’ve seen lately and I’ve bookmarked a couple of sites that have the ones that really float my boat for when I get into the remodeling mode for my own place. So far mrdirectint.com

Getting better at bar trivia

Guest post written by Anna Bishop

When I first moved in with my roommates after college, we didn’t really have a whole lot in common. I guess maybe it was beacause we all only had mutual friends or mutual friends of mutual friends. But since then we’ve found something that unites us, bar trivia.

After a long day at work in the middle of the week, there’s nothing more that I love than totally beating a bunch of strangers with my knowledge of useless trivia. But I like to find different bar trivia places to go to each week. I was online looking up some of the better trivia places in Chicago when I ran across some info on Chicago wireless internet providers. After I looked through it some, I shwoed it to my roommates and we changed over our home internet service to it.

I think that our bar trivia skills are getting even better. It just so happens works that we all have a different area of expertise, so we know the answers to a whole bunch of the answers. If anything, it’s ecnomical because we win free drinks when we win!

It’s Always All About The Money

I’m glad that I was sent a link to a web site that explains the risks of day trading. I have been hearing a lot about online trading, but it has all been good and positive things about it and not one word of caution about it at all. Not that I have any money to do any investing with at this point and time. But one day I hope the economy will let up and we can start enjoying life the way we used to before our government screwed it all up for us.

If you want to read about the risks of day trading you can go to daytradingcenter.net and read about it there as I did.

Disaster Date

I have been watching MTV more than usual lately. For a long time I had nothing to do with MTV or VH1, since the days of them playing music videos have long gone by the way side and the shows that had taken place of videos were pretty lame. But since I’ve started to watch The Jersey Shore on MTV I have seen a couple of pretty decent shows that I enjoy. My favorite being Disaster Date. These poor people are set up by their friends on a blind date and then they let the fun and the games begin.