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Cheese lovers are better in bed: US poll
By IANS | Updated: Apr 11, 2015

NEW YORK: Good food gets you in good mood and what's better that having a grilled cheese tonight to get more action in the bedroom.

According to a poll by the social networking and dating site Skout, people who love grilled cheese have more sex than people who do not.

Grilled cheese sandwich eaters are also more charitable and more adventurous, the poll of 4,600 people discovered.

According to the findings, 32 percent of grilled cheese fans have sex at least six times a month.

Over 80 percent of people who ate grilled cheeses said they have donated their time, money or food to the needy.

Meanwhile, only 66 percent of people who disliked grilled cheese said they are charitable.

Also, 84 percent of grilled cheese sandwich fans love to travel compared to 78 percent of people who dislike the sandwich.

"In an ongoing effort to engage with our community, we thought that US National Grilled Cheese Day would be a fun way to gauge the habits and behaviours of our users," said Christian Wiklund, co-founder and CEO of Skout in a statement.

Grilled cheese sandwiches are a traditional US comfort food that almost everybody enjoys yet the sandwich can be created in a bunch of different ways.

"It is interesting to see how different our users are, but they all have one thing in common: the grilled cheese sandwich," Wiklund added.

Nearly 60 percent of adults surveyed said they prefer a grilled cheese sandwich that mixes two types of cheeses. Only 40 percent were grilled cheese purists.

http://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/grilled-cheese-lovers-are-better-in-bed-us-poll/articleshow/46888317.cms

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LONDON — Sky, the British satellite television giant, has been a most elusive crown jewel for the Murdoch family.

The last time a company led by Rupert Murdoch tried to acquire Sky, it was News Corporation, and the deal was abandoned amid a phone hacking scandal. Now, Mr. Murdoch, the executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox, and his sons James and Lachlan are again vying for control of the 60.9 percent of Sky shares that 21st Century Fox does not already own. And again there are calls for British regulators to consider a scandal, this one involving sex harassment allegations at Fox News Channel in the United States that led to the ousters of Roger E. Ailes, the network’s longtime chairman, and Bill O’Reilly, its top star.

On Friday, Britain postponed its regulatory review of 21st Century Fox’s proposal to take full control of Sky until after the country’s general election in June. The regulator, the Office of Communications, or Ofcom, is reviewing the potential effects of the potential acquisition on competition in the media industry and also assessing whether the combined company would be “fit and proper” to hold a broadcasting license.

The White House will release on Wednesday the “broad principles and priorities” of their plans to overhaul federal taxes, a White House official said Friday night, downplaying expectations that the Trump administration would reveal key details underpinning the plan.

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Citing Exxon Mobil’s right to “free speech,” 11 state attorneys general — all Republicans — filed in court this week to stop an investigation into the oil and gas giant’s decades-long history of climate denial.

The attorneys general — from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin — filed a brief to support Exxon’s request to stop the so-called “Exxon Knew” investigation, arguing that there is a “public policy debate” over climate change and that the investigation is an “unconstitutional abuse” of power.

The Washington Post has repeatedly failed to inform readers about major financial conflicts of interest in pieces by opinion writer Ed Rogers. Rogers is a leading Republican lobbyist who has used his Post column to advocate for the interests of his firm’s clients without disclosure in at least a dozen instances since the beginning of 2016.

Rogers writes for the publication’s PostPartisan blog. His columns also regularly appear in the Post’s physical edition and are syndicated across the country through its syndication service.

The Republican lobbyist is the chairman of the BGR Group, which he co-founded in 1991. The firm is one of the country’s largest lobbying groups and had over $17 million in lobbying revenue in 2016.

His Post credentials are touted to potential clients in his corporate biography, which states: “Since 2011, Ed has been an opinion writer for the Washington Post, where he writes about politics and the current state of affairs in Washington, D.C., from a Republican point of view.”

Lobbying experts told Media Matters that the Post’s arrangement with a lobbyist of Rogers’ stature is “rare” and “highly unusual.”

Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at New America and author of The Business of America is Lobbying, said that “It's pretty rare for a megalobbyist to have a gig as a columnist in such a prominent venue.”

He added that while it’s hard to quantify how much the Post column helps his lobbying business since Rogers “has plenty of influence with or without his columns ... it almost certainly helps him. I can't imagine his gig as a Post columnist isn't part of his pitch to potential clients.”

Tim LaPira, a James Madison University associate professor who studies lobbying, agreed that the Post’s “arrangement is highly unusual.”

“Most lobbyists do not promote ideas in the public domain on their own behalf, under their own name,” LaPira said. “I doubt anybody has ever kept track of how common it is for lobbyists to write regular columns like this because it is so rare.”

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The grilled cheese sandwich in combination with Bean With Bacon soup is my national meal.