Application Development Engineer

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 18px;">Job Title:</b><span style="line-height: 18px;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px;">Application Development Engineer</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Location</b>:Flexible*</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Duration:</b> Full time</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Note* :</b> The location of this position is flexible; ho</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wever, the engineer must be able to travel 50% of the time to various KLA-Tencor offices.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Job Description</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Optical Metrology Division products are used for optical overlay metrology. The portfolio of products includes unique solution packages which are based on hardware and software systems to enhance yield and effectiveness. As a world leader in its field of expertise, the division's products are the most advanced in performance (measurement accuracy of nanometers and below), reliability, ease of use and compatibility with other KLA-Tencor's products.  KLA-Tencor (Israel) controls over 80% of the world market sales in its field, and its products are used by every major semiconductor manufacturer around the world.  KLA-Tencor Israel is located in the Migdal Haemek Industrial Park.  </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marketing support for the development and dealing with complex products, such as operating systems and capital equipment. Makes technical presentations regarding all aspects of OMD products. Assists sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and preparing detailed product specifications.  Provides follow-up support in disseminating technical information on specific applications to service personnel, company sales representatives, and customer's employees.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Responsible for developing advanced applications and algorithms for state of the art Optical Metrology systems. Overall responsibility starts at project inception and ends at the first implementation at the customer’s site.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The job includes modeling and simulation of interaction between semiconductors and light. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least B.Sc degree in Physics, Optical Science/Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knowledge of at least one of the following is required: optical systems, Semiconductor processing, Algorithm development and implementation in Matlab.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience in the semi-conductor industry, mainly in the lithography process.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Familiar with YieldStar equipment  is highly preferred.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The location of this position is flexible; however, the engineer must be able to travel 50% of the time to various KLA-Tencor offices. </span></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doctorate (Academic) OR Master's Level Degree with at least 2 years of experience. OR Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 3 years of experience.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">                           Kindly forward your resumes to <b>vicky.palatnik@kla-tencor.com</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>

Application Development Engineer

Job Title: Application Development EngineerLocation:Flexible*Duration: Full timeNote* : The location of this position is flexible; however, the engineer must be able to travel 50% of the time to various KLA-Tencor offices.Job DescriptionThe Optical M…

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Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and Sydney Leathers Sexting Scandal...Collateral Damage

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UHDtcBTP18wRe2zM9SEvo_B66Z0-gW_S6nrbkKh1dri_2SPgcQcymCyMb4OHMPvGPI03-GJfxT9EIUnwO3i0ioUGmPHBoTgQNzesBDDqrJz8PnjGSoC7pNzkI6GkjJK48zLGBTn5bhY/s1600/Anthony+Weiner+Huma+Abedin+Sexting+Scandal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UHDtcBTP18wRe2zM9SEvo_B66Z0-gW_S6nrbkKh1dri_2SPgcQcymCyMb4OHMPvGPI03-GJfxT9EIUnwO3i0ioUGmPHBoTgQNzesBDDqrJz8PnjGSoC7pNzkI6GkjJK48zLGBTn5bhY/s400/Anthony+Weiner+Huma+Abedin+Sexting+Scandal.jpg" width="400" /></a>Greetings my friends and thank you for reading, for this may be the most important thing I have ever written, and thankfully Jay and Matt have opened the IWS Radio website up for my own personal news ticker as it were, today.<br /><br />The last day and a half, many news outlets have been reporting on the burgeoning and continuing sexting scandal of former NY Congressman and NYC Mayoral candidate, Anthony Weiner.<br /><br />Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin were on television Tuesday afternoon holding a press conference in response to various news outlets discovering Weiner’s continued sexting habits with among others, one Sydney Leathers.<br /><br />Huma Abedin gave an emotional outcry to the press, the public, and to you and I, to leave them alone.<br /><br />She caterwauled that it’s a private matter….respect their privacy, and let our marital and familial wounds heal, as the Mayor’s race heats up.  Both Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin say that they will deal with, and overcome the hurt in a private manner.<br /><br />Well…<br /><br />That’s just fine for those two, and their kid Jordan, but what about me?<br /><br />Who the hell am I you ask?<br /><br />I am THE Carlos Danger™, and that Weiner jerk has not only hurt his wife, his child, and his career, but he has destroyed the sexting, cyber sex, and chat room reputation that took me years to develop and hone.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZfymKNab9o7C2bFrJrGN_UWVwwPFcyJGRyPm51IrX1iaapGF9pGKzYGIv0XtxqOuPJRgsJzfAu6fG_2dnJJb5XVJN5XSQ2w-kXcm2OrU1dUxEM7lZ9vq8pIh02URaNh6xWLf9hALi04/s1600/Sydney+Leathers+Anthony+Weiner+Sexy+Sexting.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZfymKNab9o7C2bFrJrGN_UWVwwPFcyJGRyPm51IrX1iaapGF9pGKzYGIv0XtxqOuPJRgsJzfAu6fG_2dnJJb5XVJN5XSQ2w-kXcm2OrU1dUxEM7lZ9vq8pIh02URaNh6xWLf9hALi04/s320/Sydney+Leathers+Anthony+Weiner+Sexy+Sexting.jpeg" width="312" /></a>Evidently after the first discovery of his sexting capers and his subsequent apology, he still felt the need for speed of internet love yet again, and assumed my online name, Carlos Danger™.<br /><br />When he was getting his virtual dork on with Sydney Leathers couldn’t he have used a more representative moniker like Hebrewlicious64, or Big Maccabee, or simply, Big Apple Tony?<br /><br />Noooooo…He had to assume the phony yet belonging to me name of, Carlos Danger™.<br /><br />That skinny assed hymie has some real chutzpah!!  What the hell right does he have to assume my online pseudonym?  None, and I tell you what…<br /><br />Ever since this story broke, I have received emails from Babs69, Trollin’For Daddy, and MakeMeYour Widow telling me that I am no longer to contact them as my name, Carlos Danger™ is too high profile, and their husbands may find out that they are playin’!!<br /><br />Oy Vey!!<br /><br />Why does Weiner need to be such a shiksa hunter?  Why can’t he enjoy sexting with his own kind?  I know why…because Jewish girls would charge him for it, and at the end of the chat, he would hear and/or read…<br /><br /><i>“That was most unsatisfying; could you send me to Palm Beach to make up for it?”</i><br /><br />Jesus Christ (who your guys killed by the way), could you just man up, state your name, and have online sex? Hell use your real name, because no one with whom you were to screw with online would assume that your real name is Anthony WEINER!!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKCdm7r-SRzKePSLiEw47t0Ly-uM9SF9wjxGpDdC34ow_xUVWKCTO7xjJzW2imumyWwQ8pkvoQkRkvWcr-WxPcQ_UC_SXhE9VSqRLeycgdGSIpM6jEn8rmxxbp2OqQgdghDv8szbs0w9E/s1600/Carlos+Danger+Anthony+Weiner+Sexting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKCdm7r-SRzKePSLiEw47t0Ly-uM9SF9wjxGpDdC34ow_xUVWKCTO7xjJzW2imumyWwQ8pkvoQkRkvWcr-WxPcQ_UC_SXhE9VSqRLeycgdGSIpM6jEn8rmxxbp2OqQgdghDv8szbs0w9E/s400/Carlos+Danger+Anthony+Weiner+Sexting.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />Hell, if you want to live in a virtual world of perversion, have a couple of daughters, go into a chat room called <i>Sodom and Gomorrah</i>, and send sexy tweets to your daughters.<br /><br />Just leave me, and my good name, Carlos Danger™ alone from now on.<br /><br />Thanks Weiner-Mobile, and tell your wife to, “hit me up.”<br /><br /><i>Carlos Danger™</i><br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a><br /><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank">Matt’s Facebook Page</a></u></span></div>

Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and Sydney Leathers Sexting Scandal...Collateral Damage

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Speed and power to spare: Google Nexus 4 new latest smart phone from Google

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I know that everyone loves Google so it is the Greatest news for Google lovers. Different types of applications are brought to you by Google Nexus 4. It contains latest Android 4.2 jelly bean operating system to operate your phone, 2100 mAh battery capacity, to talk for a long time. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For outer structure it has 1280 x 768 pixel resolution display screen, 139g light weight, rounded edge corner and full touch screen phone with hybrid technology means you feel like you're touching every pixel. Put your world under your fingerprint.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPRukc7hx739MgdcPES9mMO298ZypK05qTXO8XHNz1rdDW_-L69sskhRzy2EVY0IZa4lVfjZ_Sv5MUDOsH8iegdHOeZ9J22rIphIurzHCjZ3vpgo3MGeElaJOizHsXfMRm30uqT1cGEQ/s1600/nexus4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Speed and power to spare: Google Nexus 4 new latest smart phone from Google" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPRukc7hx739MgdcPES9mMO298ZypK05qTXO8XHNz1rdDW_-L69sskhRzy2EVY0IZa4lVfjZ_Sv5MUDOsH8iegdHOeZ9J22rIphIurzHCjZ3vpgo3MGeElaJOizHsXfMRm30uqT1cGEQ/s1600/nexus4.jpg" title="Speed and power to spare: Google Nexus 4 new latest smart phone from Google" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">source: google</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can now store your friend photos or family pictures in nexus in-built storage. It has 8 GB internal storage and 2 GB RAM.</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">Google said that The first phone with 360° Panoramas.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">It’s like no camera you've ever seen. Up down and all around you, with Nexus 4 it’s more than panoramic, it’s like you’re actually there. </blockquote>Nexus provide 8 MP rear camera and 1.3 MP front camera for your high quality pics.<br />Nexus 4 provide Google map apps for giving right information at right time such as Weather, latest scores, traffic information, transit schedules etc.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Best Buy from </b></span><br /><br /><a href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb&feature=microsite&hl=en">https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb&feature=microsite&hl=en</a></div> <div style="border: thin solid #000000; background-color: #CCCCCC"> <table style="width: 100%;"> <tr> <td class="auto-style1" rowspan="2"> <img alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwq1TqeWf9-Gy7S135LTaOHSIQHvbajeZZw0nOINVBSyjn5XxCZOxJlgJcxESBAi5LDZZe-4FMuo_r2K4dEB8ndM79BG_fG7-tGVQ1xr4ZBHzXaUtpCslKV8sXGXVd3GGBvk8Hdh2MHuU/s200/jacob.jpg" style="height: 69px; width: 59px" /></td> <td>About the author : <a href="https://plus.google.com/109838201058606610638" rel="author" >Jacob </a>        <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/search/label/jacob">View All post by Jacob</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">He is the co-founder and Chief Editor of pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in. He is well known among his circle for his incredible attraction towards smartphones and tablets.Jacob is a DOTNET programmer and also a part-time Android App developer</span></td> </tr> </table> </div> </div>

android google jacob news Speed and power to spare: Google Nexus 4 new latest smart phone from Google

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Grove Park Inn on Sunset Mountain in Asheville

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUWmP_hTCj5SrXF2Gp0Ac1J-KRiCWEztZJtzvj4ecbtulWjGdi2lRsC076DtokcXyiSI2mjj5uMmwgopZxqVTKYa_SzgufC_4hQQaMWJOC18bH1-Y8h5Nxp0eLVHMjQA5tIWLUyotEIIW/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUWmP_hTCj5SrXF2Gp0Ac1J-KRiCWEztZJtzvj4ecbtulWjGdi2lRsC076DtokcXyiSI2mjj5uMmwgopZxqVTKYa_SzgufC_4hQQaMWJOC18bH1-Y8h5Nxp0eLVHMjQA5tIWLUyotEIIW/s400/7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The historic <a href="http://www.groveparkinn.com/">Grove Park Inn</a> on Sunset Mountain in Asheville, NC, is celebrating its 100th year anniversary.<br /><br />It was during the 1880s that Edwin W. Grove, owner and founder of Grove’s Pharmacy and Paris Medicine Company of St. Louis, Missouri, began spending his summers in Asheville. A frequent sufferer of bronchitis, Grove’s doctor had advised that the mountain climate might prove soothing and beneficial. He came to love the area after spending more and more of his time in Asheville and became quite involved in the growth and development of the small city.<br /><br />Grove dreamed of building a resort hotel as early as 1909, but it wasn’t until 1912 that his dream began to take shape. Workers from all over the South converged on a grassy mountain slope overlooking the city and the construction of The Grove Park Inn was under way. Hundreds of mules, wagons, pulleys and ropes were used to move the massive granite stones mined from Sunset Mountain, some weighing as much as 10,000 pounds, into place. In an engineering marvel, it only took eleven months and 29 days to complete. <br /><br />Since that time, thousands of visitors have passed through the resort’s majestic lobby, drawing inspiration from the numerous quotes by authors, famous and unknown, that adorn its distinctive stone architecture. <br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy7r2h-geP2ZrInE25ddNv_5rkjNDfXGAP-K8DWtu_v1LIhB_dyITy2g76evMjqt5P479V6aQqthrc8givuVEzvyrd6SvM2bGuErJCHy8s_o1L_8rwAMxh5hVTvYD-f8k0nTHGWFHJ_r5C/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy7r2h-geP2ZrInE25ddNv_5rkjNDfXGAP-K8DWtu_v1LIhB_dyITy2g76evMjqt5P479V6aQqthrc8givuVEzvyrd6SvM2bGuErJCHy8s_o1L_8rwAMxh5hVTvYD-f8k0nTHGWFHJ_r5C/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Majestic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains from the front terrace.<br /><br />With its distinctive undulating red clay tile roof and original Roycroft furnishings and fixtures, The Grove Park Inn captures the essence of the Arts and Crafts movement. Throughout its massive lobby, words of inspiration from noted authors and anonymous sources are etched in stone.<br /><br />The pure mountain air, impeccable service, and unparalleled cuisine have attracted visitors by the score. At the end of the 20th century, The Grove Park Inn underwent a major renovation, adding a 40,000-square foot spa and expanding its outstanding sports complex.<br /><br />The grand opening of the Grove Park Inn in 1913 featured a keynote address by well-known orator William Jennings Bryan.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8X2aVu5NHASrCl0nWWdA6EUR0ee2uvqyGrpiGqez9_ac9ZU1et1jYRHZ_y-Cvl01h7NekiARY1mLIGmRESZ9NDqzFJYa3AkuQ7GfUmxeLca4Cs8FOLsA2Phpn_iqrOAWc3mIfgvuVuxSp/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8X2aVu5NHASrCl0nWWdA6EUR0ee2uvqyGrpiGqez9_ac9ZU1et1jYRHZ_y-Cvl01h7NekiARY1mLIGmRESZ9NDqzFJYa3AkuQ7GfUmxeLca4Cs8FOLsA2Phpn_iqrOAWc3mIfgvuVuxSp/s400/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Ten U.S. presidents have stayed at the hotel: Calvin Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBCaAxHXMrIV5P8wHjVZ1KaJwR-q1xEKBqhMTlqt_8h67TDgQKIuv5EoORbC8BJHfbj-wMuLehHIHgj0g_33Edas75M6VSq9-skdUbj_wQmX04bQ1godoeJWY36M8LH3k6ehrS5G94hCHg/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBCaAxHXMrIV5P8wHjVZ1KaJwR-q1xEKBqhMTlqt_8h67TDgQKIuv5EoORbC8BJHfbj-wMuLehHIHgj0g_33Edas75M6VSq9-skdUbj_wQmX04bQ1godoeJWY36M8LH3k6ehrS5G94hCHg/s400/6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Exiled Philippine government leaders were housed in a guest cottage on the property during World War II.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVC3xq-DBRX5_XVW70vObYxaPHh4w3uffAHafHpEb4J6haBD6FgkIy7Mw2HVGcT0YWVdOupLn5I4AhUtsNfDioccJVzNzlyjEIJNxzbwcUwoRJ6XYB2E0z5eAfw8Zc2o7Bwk1zGKe2PkWr/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVC3xq-DBRX5_XVW70vObYxaPHh4w3uffAHafHpEb4J6haBD6FgkIy7Mw2HVGcT0YWVdOupLn5I4AhUtsNfDioccJVzNzlyjEIJNxzbwcUwoRJ6XYB2E0z5eAfw8Zc2o7Bwk1zGKe2PkWr/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">SWAC Daughter taking a picture of me taking a picture of her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhupUWFRmntzLEA6PlYZquQaaHq_olidwRdMzPmWGuq2jk4vbN8NLRgEMyxSkFzEGfxFNaBdaoF74WrYCTa3jJ1rSgADNW_Xe-I2TxShWdn7fex1CHJQSQHtCtpiUbrekGvdhgwMp3SG2/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhupUWFRmntzLEA6PlYZquQaaHq_olidwRdMzPmWGuq2jk4vbN8NLRgEMyxSkFzEGfxFNaBdaoF74WrYCTa3jJ1rSgADNW_Xe-I2TxShWdn7fex1CHJQSQHtCtpiUbrekGvdhgwMp3SG2/s400/9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Asheville's skyline</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSL6mq_CdE7G63UITyyXl0TZ18Xj4hxAQfNLEaimDANJdZbLPmW1akbaLEnldQL1iUPN_DGePZtq_hqZCpBe0zMkOiKxEKoVSYI23_jtC36174JKRZfUoA3MaECAuqCIHviaEECisrH2QY/s1600/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSL6mq_CdE7G63UITyyXl0TZ18Xj4hxAQfNLEaimDANJdZbLPmW1akbaLEnldQL1iUPN_DGePZtq_hqZCpBe0zMkOiKxEKoVSYI23_jtC36174JKRZfUoA3MaECAuqCIHviaEECisrH2QY/s400/10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Spa at the Grove Park Inn</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWxiKJ6bJF_Rcsm81Q3VSSEz7UyVP2BdxWPiW2Wn4NPrThSNBGCCQF_tVs6PDCIwJ8OWjufKAn4PEGcGAEKuYvwP_2HKLPbTd6kuEPG7hvbPq3WnBBSIAiFNzPqTcVccvuNiX8Zr1QmEb/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgENGH1YA0IaZZx0k6eJOZnMl-CJcrzIi8-9Vmi0GAtGiWXB059D5Irxce-a1JPqhnjmh067oK31-3EepQen6mqR7DMN_r062sPmje28yqRLBGKGUHHKWhHegda_KjmAHTKiiHMqYLbEe4P/s1600/13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgENGH1YA0IaZZx0k6eJOZnMl-CJcrzIi8-9Vmi0GAtGiWXB059D5Irxce-a1JPqhnjmh067oK31-3EepQen6mqR7DMN_r062sPmje28yqRLBGKGUHHKWhHegda_KjmAHTKiiHMqYLbEe4P/s400/13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzbmPZNqRvEI_I8aWbMOjC4SigPfk3GHKkI2_01Vb3AZCslZ4UjgYmCszZ1pyL1Fw1XF1k20emysv57T-cny1KAcAZs0a2sH3wTDa-KSnMfxQKrNaHH-q8Suhwsh1_w_zYX3TVtZz4eopK/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzbmPZNqRvEI_I8aWbMOjC4SigPfk3GHKkI2_01Vb3AZCslZ4UjgYmCszZ1pyL1Fw1XF1k20emysv57T-cny1KAcAZs0a2sH3wTDa-KSnMfxQKrNaHH-q8Suhwsh1_w_zYX3TVtZz4eopK/s400/14.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The hotel has hosted numerous celebrities over the years including William Jennings Bryan (who spoke at the hotel's opening), Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Elbert Hubbard, John D. Rockefeller, Gen. John J. Pershing, Dean Smith, Jerry Seinfeld, John Waters, David & Amy Sedaris, Mischa Barton, Mike Huckabee, former NC Governor Bev Perdue, Sanjay Gupta, Trey Anastasio, Charles Schwab, Enrico Caruso, Harry Houdini, Al Jolson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bobby Jones, Wiley Post, Will Rogers, Bill Tilden, Billy Graham, William Shatner, Don Cheadle, Vijay Kansupada, and many others.<br /><br />F. Scott Fitzgerald stayed at the hotel for two years to write while his wife was in an asylum in Asheville. The rooms in which he stayed, Suites 441 to 443, are available for guests. One is furnished exactly as it was during his stay in the 1930s. Rooms in which famous people stayed are marked by plaques on the door saying who stayed there and when.<br /><br />On February 3, 1930, William Howard Taft resigned from the US Supreme Court in the Great Hall Lobby.<br /><br />In 1999, gospel artist Bill Gaither recorded "Mountain Homecoming" in his series of Gaither Homecoming videos and CDs in the Great Hall lobby, including artists Gloria Gaither, Mark Lowry, Larry Gatlin, the Bishops, Stephen Hill, Joy Gardner, and Ben Isaacs.</div><br />Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell<br />Grove Park Inn<br />July 24, 2013

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The historic Grove Park Inn on Sunset Mountain in Asheville, NC, is celebrating its 100th year anniversary.It was during the 1880s that Edwin W. Grove, owner and founder of Grove’s Pharmacy and Paris Medicine Company of St. Louis, Missouri, began s…

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George H.W. Bush ... class, loyalty, love

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJX8wYJ407sarcpr-cdro58HRRZQAtEXBfsNGlJxdxNeZkcyY-gPoRsfFn0NupeCsdu-Wggcqggee6pMRkaZmI3vXdRyWtPXi7G9K9Ns_APO7TMYeqGWH7oLkbsEXxwZLe09kE_C5fCAyT/s1600/George+H.W.+Bush+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJX8wYJ407sarcpr-cdro58HRRZQAtEXBfsNGlJxdxNeZkcyY-gPoRsfFn0NupeCsdu-Wggcqggee6pMRkaZmI3vXdRyWtPXi7G9K9Ns_APO7TMYeqGWH7oLkbsEXxwZLe09kE_C5fCAyT/s640/George+H.W.+Bush+1.jpg" width="491" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="userContent">President George H.W. Bush, 89, and his entire security detail shaved their heads in solidarity with the two-year-old son of one of his security guys. That's loyalty, class, and love all rolled into one....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH2dpgSQWg3o_7qOmgRh7kCX6SA5J25O6RExlvqLkyNZ1UpOw2YT7fEDhzHU6yl8a4fw1_wSc500hiG798dttmbOadA4nDGffAUn9k5aSny-StkWyWUvIms99hO9xq15AzUClnoIeYuyvl/s1600/George+H.W.+Bush+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH2dpgSQWg3o_7qOmgRh7kCX6SA5J25O6RExlvqLkyNZ1UpOw2YT7fEDhzHU6yl8a4fw1_wSc500hiG798dttmbOadA4nDGffAUn9k5aSny-StkWyWUvIms99hO9xq15AzUClnoIeYuyvl/s400/George+H.W.+Bush+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> <span class="text_exposed_show">KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE -- President George H. W. Bush this week joined members of his Secret Service detail in shaving his head to show his support for the two year-old son of a detail member who is being treated for leukemia and started losing his hair.<br /> <br /> The 89 year-old commander-in-chief took the unusual step earlier this week after learning, and seeing, that many members of his security detail had already gone under the razor to show their support for young Patrick, whose father Jon is a member of the Bush Protective Division (BPD). (Surname being withheld per family's request.)<br /> <br /> BPD members have also launched a website at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patrickspals.org&h=kAQHXkGjx&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.patrickspals.org</a> to assist with Patrick's medical bills, and organized the Inaugural Patrick's Pals Motorcycle Benefit Run on August 10th in Kennebunkport -- a 50-mile motorcycle ride through the Maine countryside followed by a lunch and silent auction to raise funds for Patrick's treatments.<br /> <br /> Once President and Mrs. Bush learned of this "Patrick's Pals" effort, they made a donation and President Bush volunteered to shave his head as well. The Bushes lost their second child, Robin, to leukemia 60 years ago this October at the age of four.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><i>Photos from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/georgebushfoundation">George Bush Presidential Library</a></i> </span></span></span>

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 President George H.W. Bush, 89, and his entire security detail shaved their heads in solidarity with the two-year-old son of one of his security guys. That's loyalty, class, and love all rolled into one.... KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE -- President Georg…

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6 Reasons That Prevent You From Losing Weight

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px;">6 Reasons That Prevent You From Losing Weight</span></span></h1> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="6 Reasons That Prevent You From Losing Weight" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6jltV_y-b5ZyqtoGIR9aWKT3SSDsqvpTOXTR4wtqYgOyl6QvKovZF50Ro1Ycl5rvJZgiMI-q0WjQ_0l_eA9YNu1lMTIdGpDoLBwnTxU4Du_rdhrkkTJxPDcrcku_A5OYi0zGZAOtZ52U/s320/6+Reasons+That+Prevent+You+From+Losing+Weight.jpg" title="6 Reasons That Prevent You From Losing Weight" width="307" /></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 9px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">You don’t drink enough water:</span></h3><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="You don’t drink enough water" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYZLb_5exi-KjFTDv0Y048NhUXWQ_d9JZzqTzyo_yuCQFn9CO7sgkhKCINCgdh_Qscbz2WQRmxtU2cT05MtPKQ42nU7s0L37NBu3LOqMbrHHFRHcli3qxYJ8Mff6WJsNEDn6ahwA9Q_DI/s1600/You+don%E2%80%99t+drink+enough+water.jpg" title="You don’t drink enough water" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">You skip meals:</span></h3><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="You skip meals" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXq1zVsBf2KGWmy1J84EDIELKmo-BAvSFYScv-OHZnzhOsPzxtdFuRF5G4QTdslTOy4dsf-tPhQz3gCSJj3oU-yFfOp9-qUAJG8_I11d7KmdL1oLzGnQ-vYBoF9NND1YgGTCKC-MyOpNs/s1600/You+skip+meals.jpg" title="You skip meals" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lack of Sleep:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></h3><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPe8fhqsxVMJHI7t6POPjKUcwXeXIuJYvmdkvS2YA20eswza-ptHbHSOc3VVft1spvd16CtWBAaLkSvKOl7shqBbFLHGY-zFf3YQol0gnAogaEHR3So5Tk-kcGUkKbb5IH8VKrJOqdKvM/s1600/Lack+of+Sleep.jpg" /></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Too much stress:</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Too much stress" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvaid7K63YYFQeO33p3BwHUX6GB6i9qA9GOATQAjHyFAuUfcKVECZZqt3sLoYmKf02QJK1Q3AzfUS1JH6wEqYJtkcqIo3x1Mkkv0BkTah1PXGeQgvudF2cqR2q1LDQTNIw0Ibrw3bIBs/s1600/Too+much+stress.jpg" title="Too much stress" /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">You don’t have enough muscle:</span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="You don’t have enough muscle" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVmoRSSA-wPKrGlcHOwSTmoGYyhxVxxvRYhpMz1XQhHVG_Pr9ej1zpM8UcTs6EPaidXSXw8zK0tFu5b4VmXD_HX3T3uatpTFy2fK9uXPK__VmWoxyIbJ_hAce5ZK8PVsJfamTx_Tsy4hQ/s1600/You+don%E2%80%99t+have+enough+muscle.jpg" title="You don’t have enough muscle" /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Taking medicine:</span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Taking medicine" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFR77xYCIVqf2pOJSpH3L3Zp6Ahvllxz7cBgcPJwp1ChT8Qn0QmlAojx7EZ4IRrc7o_BdDzT-cGoKCPfs9IOR7cIwPUveq5XCTMkj8SfHbJ5UkOt7Qhyphenhyphen0ppOfiAxnxxHoNwXiHzfqPzBI/s1600/Taking+medicine.jpg" title="Taking medicine" /></div><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5028478688240504"; /* AdSense in Post */ google_ad_slot = "6975892477"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--></script><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></center><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>

Weight Loss 6 Reasons That Prevent You From Losing Weight

6 Reasons That Prevent You From Losing Weight You don’t drink enough water:You skip meals:Lack of Sleep:Too much stress:You don’t have enough muscle:Taking medicine:…

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Wisconsin's solidarity singers arrested today

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0Nf5VzN1MKg" width="420"></iframe><br />Wisconsin police just arrested 22 people today for singing "Solidarity Forever" in the Statehouse. The singers have been musically protesting <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/06/scott-walker-still-kills-jobs-better.html" rel="nofollow"><strike>Job-killer</strike></a> Gov. Scott Walker every weekday since March 11, 2011 -- ever since he rammed an <a href="http://alecexposed.org/">ALEC</a> bill through the Legislature to destroy public service unions. The Solidarity Sing Along happens every weekday from noon to 1 pm in the Capitol Rotunda. Dozens of union supporters stand in a circle and sing pro-union songs like, well, "Solidarity Forever."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTf7U0hZy7GMoI8_-QLnbqRHHTkDRcPQ7_ShvEujsNXxpffFU1Q3K_b_2zPRlOpD40h9w2MXZhWfIrHjQwF9cMYHhXH1uMuC9ihehQkdGyMShHc-IdFFYPle-MqGAp6iUM0u9xhgvABkU/s1600/wisconsin_80_yr_old_arrested.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTf7U0hZy7GMoI8_-QLnbqRHHTkDRcPQ7_ShvEujsNXxpffFU1Q3K_b_2zPRlOpD40h9w2MXZhWfIrHjQwF9cMYHhXH1uMuC9ihehQkdGyMShHc-IdFFYPle-MqGAp6iUM0u9xhgvABkU/s200/wisconsin_80_yr_old_arrested.jpeg" width="150" /></a></div>Among those arrested today was an 80-year-old woman.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.wpr.org/post/protest-singers-arrested-state-capitol">Wisconsin Public Radio</a> tells us:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Capitol Police have been threatening arrests this month, after U.S. District Judge William Conley blocked the Walker Administration from requiring permits for gatherings at the Capitol involving 20 people or fewer, but did not block a requirement that larger groups obtain permits... </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">25 citations were issued today to 22 people for demonstrating without a permit. Three people received a second citation after rejoining the singers after their first citation. The fine amount for a no-permit citation is $200.50. Marquis says one individual received a disorderly conduct citation for spitting on a singer/protestor.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4K3GfgBl11Q4Y3D45f9I1RSyAWdOwGT7iyFBuhEKmywlb_LRuRSyw03_w_p3HtaLKkEXPngxG6nbUEzNWzNGLdKQDzbztNzu8MKz_37HtLUqkWFQHfaURofJfBpRBqmQnTXsrWrz5hyphenhyphenU4/s1600/wisconsin_singers_arrested.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4K3GfgBl11Q4Y3D45f9I1RSyAWdOwGT7iyFBuhEKmywlb_LRuRSyw03_w_p3HtaLKkEXPngxG6nbUEzNWzNGLdKQDzbztNzu8MKz_37HtLUqkWFQHfaURofJfBpRBqmQnTXsrWrz5hyphenhyphenU4/s320/wisconsin_singers_arrested.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The Solidarity Singers clearly drive Walker batshit crazy. He's been trying to shut them down for months, along with myriad other crackdowns on freedoms of speech, assembly and right to petition one's government for a redress of grievances. <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/12/1201368/-One-Day-Longer-25-Months-Stronger-the-Solidarity-Sing-Along-Draws-Hope-From-the-Next-Generation">Wisconsin Wherls</a> blogged about Walker's attempt to silence the singers in April. (The post also describes how Teamster and Wisconsin state Sen. Dave Hansen brought 100 schoolchildren to listen to the singing.)<br /><br />We turn to our friend, blogger <a href="http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=30581">blue cheddar</a>, for some perspective on these persistent protesters:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">I stand by the Solidarity Sing Along (SSA). I do not think the Solidarity Sing Along is detrimental to “our movement”. It is in fact the movement’s most persistent element – the pilot light that you should keep afire. It began on March 11, 2011 as an extension of the occupation and has persisted through the courage of individual Wisconsinites who had to figure everything out on their own and under pressure. It lives in defiance of an autocratic administration that tries to eradicate it. Nobody has allowed it to die out of neglect, “civility”, infighting, or excuse-making. It is free and yet held tightly in common. It is amazing.</blockquote>

scott walker union wisconsin Wisconsin's solidarity singers arrested today

Wisconsin police just arrested 22 people today for singing "Solidarity Forever" in the Statehouse. The singers have been musically protesting Job-killer Gov. Scott Walker every weekday since March 11, 2011 -- ever since he rammed an ALEC bill through…

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Hoffa urges U.S. to drop TPP talks with Vietnam

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If Vietnam were to join the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the U.S. would be turning a blind eye to what’s really going on there, according to </span><a href="http://www.workersrights.org/linkeddocs/WRC_Vietnam_Briefing_Paper.pdf" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a report by the Worker Rights Consortium</span></a><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink">. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></u><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unsafe workplaces are tolerated in Vietnam. So are poverty wages, human trafficking, child labor and violent suppression of workers’ rights. These are unacceptable in the United States and should be globally. At the very least they are conditions that should not be encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5GNPh4L9dyFEjafZgdiLgok9fpP5_M0vgNOuTOWAXZejHvGXGnGsP1spLECr7NtKsbzE1Y7RlXgK3QNdhzmGV_vRO4iWp0vuqjkx_b7TV33eLlje3d5hnhidRw71jJ4kMMouyRMMkqih/s1600/tpp.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5GNPh4L9dyFEjafZgdiLgok9fpP5_M0vgNOuTOWAXZejHvGXGnGsP1spLECr7NtKsbzE1Y7RlXgK3QNdhzmGV_vRO4iWp0vuqjkx_b7TV33eLlje3d5hnhidRw71jJ4kMMouyRMMkqih/s320/tpp.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> On the eve of </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-bailey/obama-include-disability-in-strategic_b_3640177.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama’s meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in Washington to discuss the TPP, Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa today demanded that U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman hold the Southeast Asian nation accountable for its violations of human rights. Hoffa said the U.S. should cut off talks and not enter any trade deal with Vietnam until it cleans up its act:</span><br /><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is imperative that Mr. Froman ensure that Vietnam is in compliance with basic labor, environmental and human rights standards before the two sides move forward with Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. We have seen the tragedy that results due to lax enforcement of labor standards and human rights in Bangladesh – we cannot enter into a trade agreement with a country that shows the same disregard for workers safety and human rights.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Others condemn what is going on in Vietnam. Rep. George Miller sent a letter to Froman today questioning whether </span><a href="http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/sites/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/files/documents/Letter%20to%20Ambassador%20Foman.pdf" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vietnam is following existing labor standards</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> given the findings detailed in the report. He said the U.S. must be a leader when it comes to enforcing labor obligations:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the Administration moves aggressively to complete TPP negotiations this year, we would be interested in your assessment as to whether a country such as Vietnam would have the ability to comply with obligations under the labor chapter of the TPP on a future date after the agreement is signed.</span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must suspend trade negotiations with Vietnam until it improves its international labor, human rights and environmental standards. Too many members of Congress and the Obama administration, however, are either uninformed or disinterested in fair trade and human rights. That’s why we are demanding action. </span><a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50740/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8750"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tell your elected officials and Froman the U.S. should be setting the standards</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for how to treat workers and create safe products and not sink to level of nations like Vietnam.</span></span></span>

Hoffa urges U.S. to drop TPP talks with Vietnam

If Vietnam were to join the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the U.S. would be turning a blind eye to what’s really going on there, according to a report by the Worker Rights Consortium. Unsafe workplaces are tolerated in Vietnam. So are …

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Seeds of Deception

I watched the true movie Seeds of Deception based on the true story of <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Jacobson">Dr. Cesil Jacobsen</a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Have you ever heard of this doctor?  He used his own "product" to inseminate numerous of his patients in the 1980's who went on to become pregnant and carry his babies. SHOCKING!!</div><div><br /></div><div>The film stars Melissa Gilbert who is always in these type of movies of late.  This is some story and nearly unbelievable - incredible that it actually happened.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYGzNiUGVH-Jv5U8bAbNTh2M8aFwGfe4y-XrYqNkNOx47AtxvNYda5UUG2obHrdL51i420eonps2UcULJWnorQhU5XYK3RoXjWADYgvYR4sLCI43AD4-QOYp9AsNVf1Kk6n38JMjaZYEMZ/s640/blogger-image-1264028445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYGzNiUGVH-Jv5U8bAbNTh2M8aFwGfe4y-XrYqNkNOx47AtxvNYda5UUG2obHrdL51i420eonps2UcULJWnorQhU5XYK3RoXjWADYgvYR4sLCI43AD4-QOYp9AsNVf1Kk6n38JMjaZYEMZ/s640/blogger-image-1264028445.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sxb9-nLVwMZNErSEzokxXWn7r6qC5NBi1F6ZwdB9zEx6zhmdlvV5I5SX7aHq3z3tSVLXdv8HFKDG1qYvS-OHSXyihFP3bz_40GawLymhDIbyhyzndVpnzPPe18dZJTKO7LHYdWvkdX0k/s640/blogger-image-990491402.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sxb9-nLVwMZNErSEzokxXWn7r6qC5NBi1F6ZwdB9zEx6zhmdlvV5I5SX7aHq3z3tSVLXdv8HFKDG1qYvS-OHSXyihFP3bz_40GawLymhDIbyhyzndVpnzPPe18dZJTKO7LHYdWvkdX0k/s640/blogger-image-990491402.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

Seeds of Deception

I watched the true movie Seeds of Deception based on the true story of Dr. Cesil JacobsenHave you ever heard of this doctor?  He used his own "product" to inseminate numerous of his patients in the 1980's who went on to become pregnant and carry his …

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Walmart workers, Detroit firefighters, Chicago teachers protest today

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSF6Mjka-J9J7_aSJQuYGlJ9QRF_cspVf6Hws_Nl90duf8cZNejZkb1yW_6wDo-h2r7P36TEB6dLbPqtgPWBLTqIfNLJ5n_PD7p-BnM8Qzw8i7EHHhqiAfBGbNcKS-O3WQSGQNxb-ovaK/s1600/walmart_warehouse_strike.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSF6Mjka-J9J7_aSJQuYGlJ9QRF_cspVf6Hws_Nl90duf8cZNejZkb1yW_6wDo-h2r7P36TEB6dLbPqtgPWBLTqIfNLJ5n_PD7p-BnM8Qzw8i7EHHhqiAfBGbNcKS-O3WQSGQNxb-ovaK/s320/walmart_warehouse_strike.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walmart warehouse workers on strike in California today</td></tr></tbody></table>(UPDATE: New grafs 1-2 with additional protests today.)<br /><br />Warehouse workers along the Walmart supply chain walked off the job today in Mira Loma, Calif., as activists in dozens of U.S. cities prepare to <a href="http://raisetheminimumwage.org/pages/july-24th-national-day-of-action-to-raise-up-america" rel="nofollow">protest multinational corporations that impoverish workers</a>. In <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130724/METRO01/307240071">Detroit, firefighters protested the city's bankruptcy</a>, in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/336352769828541/" rel="nofollow">New York, citizens protested hospital closings</a> and in <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/15347/cps_teachers_protest_layoffs_chanting_emanuel_has_got_to_go/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" rel="nofollow">Chicago teachers protested against massive layoffs</a> when a private college gets $33.5 million in public money to build a stadium.<br /><br />In <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/07/wisconsin-solidarity-singers-arrested.html">Wisconsin, 22 protesters singing pro-union songs</a> -- including an 80-year-old woman -- were arrested in the state Capitol.<br /><br />Today's actions are only the latest in a growing<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/06/massive-protests-against-poverty-led-by.html"> revolt against the exploitation of America's workers and attacks on our freedom</a>. In North Carolina, citizens rose up against repressive, <a href="http://alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">ALEC</a>-driven legislation during <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/07/NC-moralmonday-voter-education-policies.html" rel="nofollow">Moral Monday</a> protests at the Statehouse. As of Monday, 11 weeks of massive demonstrations and civil disobedience resulted in 925 arrests.<br /><br />In cities throughout the country, low-wage fast-food and retail workers are engaging in one-day strikes. Last week, workers at a <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/15328/mcdonalds_strike_dunkin_donuts_heat_wave/" rel="nofollow">Dunkin Donuts in Chicago and at a McDonald's in New York City</a> walked off the job for a day to protest their dangerously hot workplaces. That same day, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/18/2320021/low-wage-workers-on-federal-contracts-keep-up-pressure-with-third-strike/" rel="nofollow">low-wage workers for federal contractors stopped work and mobbed Union Station in Washington, D.C.</a> It was the third such strike in eight weeks.<br /><br />In late May, dozens of Walmart workers all over the country went on <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/05/wal-mart-freedom-riders-hailed-in-union.html" rel="nofollow">strike</a> against low wages and management retaliation. They rode by bus in self-styled freedom rides to the company's headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. A little earlier, <a href="http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2013/05/09/news/doc518b78b1617f1739272799.txt">Durham school bus drivers</a> in Rhinebeck, N.Y. staged two short Unfair Labor Practice strikes to protest their poverty wages.<br /><br />This growing worker movement for justice is engaging the broader public. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-c-offenheiser/americans-working-poor_b_3583894.html" rel="nofollow">Oxfam America</a> recently reported the results of a poll that showed a huge majority of Americans think the government should be helping the working poor:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">America's poverty rate is now at its highest level in two generations, and many Americans are in jobs that do not pay a living wage. 100 million of us have a hard time putting food on the table, and almost half of America's children live in poverty or near poverty. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">...poverty everywhere is about power, not scarcity; it is the result of imbalances in power that privilege some and marginalize others. </blockquote>The growing poverty among working Americans is even getting mainstream news attention. As <a href="http://www.laprogressive.com/liberal-new-york-times/" rel="nofollow">LA Progressive noted,</a> the New York Times, generally no friend to workers, is reporting on the rampant exploitation of workers and the plundering of the citizenry by multinational corporations:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">...are labor conditions in America becoming so bad that even the national paper of record is demanding social justice? A look at this past Sunday’s Section A revealed no fewer than three stories delving into the predatory practices of employers and financial players.</blockquote>Over at <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/175407/warehouse-workers-moving-walmart-baggage-will-strike-today#axzz2ZrbQDNw6" rel="nofollow">The Nation</a>, Josh Eidelson tells us about today's strike in California. About 30 of the 200 warehouse workers were expected to strike at an Olivet International warehouse that contracts with Walmart. Writes Eidelson,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Today’s strike is backed by <a href="http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3b3338c3f4215c36ce83a3259&id=3acef9e09f" rel="nofollow">Warehouse Workers United</a>, a project of the Change to Win union federation. It comes two months after twenty-one Olivet warehouse employees filed a formal complaint with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, alleging rampant safety violations: emergency exits blocked by boxes and merchandise; forklift brakes, seatbelts and horns that don’t work; workers loading shipping containers in the dark; triple-stacked and unsecured boxes; lack of ventilation or adequate water amid intense heat; “a risk of workers being hit by forklifts” and workers “trapped inside trailers as they drive off.” </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“It’s important that I make it home to my family safe, in good health," Garcia told The Nation. “I don’t want to get injured [at work] like my other co-workers.” Along with “a good salary,” said Baizabal, “we want simple things we have the right to, like clean water.” She said that workers’ repeated efforts to address issues with Olivet had proven a dead end: “For me, it took a lot of courage to go to managers with our concerns. And then we kept doing it, and every time, they ignored us.”</blockquote>One worker says she makes $8 an hour. In a good week she earns $300, while her rent alone is $800 a month.<br /><br />You can help by clicking on <a href="http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3b3338c3f4215c36ce83a3259&id=3acef9e09f" rel="nofollow">this link</a> and doing what they tell you.<br /><br />And remember the words of Mother Jones,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">You...ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.</blockquote>

Walmart workers, Detroit firefighters, Chicago teachers protest today

Walmart warehouse workers on strike in California today(UPDATE: New grafs 1-2 with additional protests today.)Warehouse workers along the Walmart supply chain walked off the job today in Mira Loma, Calif., as activists in dozens of U.S. cities prepar…

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Healthy Breakfast Foods for Weight Loss

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">5 healthy breakfast foods to help you lose weight:</span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></h2><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Eating breakfast boosts your metabolism which leads to successful at losing weight. Eat breakfast to  get more calcium, vitamins A and C, fiber, zinc, riboflavin  and iron and less fat and dietary cholesterol. try on or a few of these 5 healthy breakfast foods for weight loss.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Healthy Breakfast Foods for Weight Loss" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMHldyDXX1l581UmRa4_O0fZPFzV5FI-PyiA8mt8mMZkPjeARq01K72I72LQEpA7NRfmM4tyAKnBxTAPQLuGqPWD9UxPW41bAacufRzFGtxpOyOgeqAbAqUB4OfTlN3ggLII4F_GBV57w/s1600/Healthy+Breakfast+Foods+for+Weight+Loss.jpg" title="Healthy Breakfast Foods for Weight Loss" /> </span></div></div></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"> </h2><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5028478688240504"; /* LargeInPost_waysforweightloss_300-600 */ google_ad_slot = "6695176472"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 600; //--></script><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /></center><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Eggs:</span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Eggs" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1LFBSlFYf0EeNH3hiWcWTILzQClV-F6vJ8hWzd3dLpEV6quKmmTNW1Zv8IIFpLkQcfkuSzCQRf99wqYULRAXMnQPbHFYP2jtmYVuwwE_QUpSOBVnPJnWJ1_OTx8pbA5ka_w9Rcm3kiA/s1600/Eggs.jpg" title="Eggs" /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Oatmeal:</span></h3></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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5 healthy breakfast foods to help you lose weight: Eating breakfast boosts your metabolism which leads to successful at losing weight. Eat breakfast to  get more calcium, vitamins A and C, fiber, zinc, riboflavin  and iron and less fat and dietary…

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Black-White Divide Persists in Breast Cancer - NYTimes.com

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">Breast cancer survival is, over all, three years shorter for black women compared with white women, mostly because their cancer is often more advanced when they first seek medical care, new research shows.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">While cancer researchers have known for two decades that black women with breast cancer tend to fare worse than white women, questions remain about the reasons behind the black-white divide. The new report, from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, begins to untangle some of the issues by using an analytic method to filter the influence of demographics, treatment differences and variations in tumor characteristics, among other things.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">The findings, <a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1719739" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">published in The Journal of the American Medical Association</a>, suggest that while a significant number of black women still get inferior cancer care, the larger problem appears to be that black women get less health care over all, and that screening and early detection campaigns may have failed to reach black communities.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">Using data from Medicare patients tracked in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database, the researchers analyzed 107,273 breast cancer cases, which included 7,375 black women. The larger number of cases involving white women allowed researchers to find nearly perfectly matched controls against which to compare the outcomes of black women with breast cancer.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">The findings were striking. Over all, white women with breast cancer lived three years longer than black women. Of the women studied, nearly 70 percent of white women lived at least five years after diagnosis, while 56 percent of black women were still alive five years later.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">The difference is not explained by more aggressive cancers among black women. Instead, the researchers found a troubling pattern in which black women were less likely to receive a diagnosis when their cancer was at an early stage and most curable. In addition, a significant number of black women also receive lower-quality cancer care after diagnosis, although those differences do not explain the survival gap.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">"Something is going wrong," said Dr. Jeffrey H. Silber, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Center for Outcomes Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which studies disparities in health care. "These are huge differences. We are getting there too late. That's why we are seeing these differences in survival."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">The data show that black patients are twice as likely to never receive treatment. The records of 12.6 percent of black patients did not show evidence of treatment, compared with 5.9 percent of whites.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">Black patients were also more likely to have at least a three-month delay in receiving treatment. Among black and white women with similar tumors, 5.8 percent of black women had not started treatment after three months, compared with just 2.5 percent of whites.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">One notable finding of the report is that while the introduction of new treatments has improved the outcome for both white and black breast cancer patients since 1991, those improvements have not narrowed the survival gap between the two groups.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">But solving disparities in cancer care would not immediately have a major effect on overall survival for black women, the study showed. If black women began receiving exactly the same quality and level of breast cancer treatment as white women, that would lengthen their lives by two to three months, the study showed.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">However, two additional years of life could be gained among black women if their breast cancers were detected earlier and if their health were better over all, as is the case with white women with breast cancer. Among the black women studied, 20 percent received a diagnosis of Stage III or IV disease, when the cancer is far less likely to be cured. Among the white women, only 11.4 percent had late-stage disease.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">One reason may be that the black women studied were less likely to seek medical care for any reason.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">Although all the patients in the analysis had Medicare coverage, blacks were significantly less likely than white women to have seen a primary care doctor in the 6 to 18 months before diagnosis, and they had far lower rates of cholesterol and colon cancer screening. Black women also had far lower rates of breast cancer screening — 23.5 percent had been screened 6 to 18 months before diagnosis, compared with 35.7 percent of white women. Black women with breast cancer were, over all, in poorer health than white women. Of the black women studied, 26 percent had diabetes, compared with 12.6 percent of white women.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">"These patients have insurance," Dr. Silber said. "We need to improve screening for these women and improve their relationships with a primary care provider."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">In <a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1719717" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">an accompanying editorial</a>, the authors, who included Dr. Jeanne S. Mandelblatt of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Georgetown University's Lombardi Cancer Center, said the rigorous study offered "additional clues to the black-white differences in breast cancer outcomes."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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); ">However, the authors wrote that the report may still understate the effect of lower-quality cancer care for black women, in part because some treatment data are missing from the database it used.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; ">"Ratings of patient-physician communication and trust have been related to black women's, but not white women's, patterns of chemotherapy use," the authors wrote. These findings further reinforce "the idea that black women may have different cancer care experiences than white women."</div></div><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/black-white-divide-persists-in-breast-cancer/">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/black-white-divide-persists-in-breast-cancer/</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Black-White Divide Persists in Breast Cancer - NYTimes.com

Breast cancer survival is, over all, three years shorter for black women compared with white women, mostly because their cancer is often more advanced when they first seek medical care, new research shows.While cancer researchers have known for two d…

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U.S. House schedule for Wednesday, July 24, 2013

<a href="http://majorityleader.gov/">From Majority Leader Eric Cantor....</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>WEDNESDAY, JULY 24TH </b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />On Wednesday, the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. First votes expected: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Last votes expected: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>One Minute Speeches</b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=350651-6846703" target="_blank">H.Res. 315</a> </b>- A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 2218 - Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013, and H.R. 1582 - Energy Consumers Relief Act of 2013, Rules Committee Print (Special Rule, One Hour of Debate) <i>(Sponsored by Rep. Michael Burgess / Rules Committee) </i><br /><br /><b>Complete Consideration of <a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=350652-6846703" target="_blank">H.R. 2397</a></b> - Department of Defense Appropriations Act (Structured Rule) <i>(Sponsored by Rep. C.W. Bill Young / Appropriations Committee)</i><br /><blockquote>The Rule provides for no further general debate and makes in order the following remaining amendments:</blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><b>Rep. Derek Kilmer Amendment</b> (10 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Rep. Jerry Nadler Amendment</b> <b>#69 </b>(10 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Rep. Jerry Nadler Amendment #70 </b>(10 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Del. Pierluisi / Rep. Young Amendment </b>(10 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Rep. Mo Brooks Amendment</b> (10 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Rep. Adam Schiff Amendment</b> (10 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Reps. Speier / Wilson / Chu / Eshoo / Keating / Brownley / Esty / Rush / Schakowsky / Walz / Meng / Maloney / Carolyn / Braley Amendment</b> (10 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Reps. </b><b>Speier / Schrader / Wilson / Chu / Eshoo / Keating / Brownley / Esty / Rush / Schakowsky / Walz /</b> <b>Meng / Maloney / Carolyn / Braley Amendment </b>(10 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Rep. Elizabeth Esty Amendment </b>(10 minutes of debate) <br /><b>Rep. Trey Radel Amendment</b> (20 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Reps. Massie / Amash / Yoho Amendment </b>(20 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Rep. Richard Nugent Amendment</b> (15 minutes of debate)<br /><b>Reps. Amash / Conyers / Mulvaney / Polis / Massie Amendment </b>(15 minutes of debate)</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>Postponed Amendment Votes: </blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><b>Rep. Lee Terry Amendment #24 <br /> Rep. Walter Jones Amendment #48<br /> Rep. Doug LaMalfa Amendment<br /> Rep. Mick Mulvaney Amendment<br /> Rep. Steve Stockman Amendment<br /> Rep. Jackie Walorski Amendment<br /> Rep. Suzanne Bonamici Amendment<br /> </b></blockquote></blockquote><b>Special Order Speeches</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>COMMITTEE ACTIVITY OF THE DAY </b></u><br />Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Environment and Subcommittee on Energy joint hearing on “<a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=350653-6846703" target="_blank">Lessons Learned: EPA’s Investigations of Hydraulic Fracturing</a>” <br />(Wednesday, July 24th, at 10:00 a.m.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=350654-6846703" target="_blank">Printable PDF</a>

Congress Eric Cantor U.S. House of Representatives U.S. House schedule for Wednesday, July 24, 2013

From Majority Leader Eric Cantor....WEDNESDAY, JULY 24TH On Wednesday, the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. First votes expected: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Last votes expected: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.One Minu…

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Today's Teamster News 07.24.13

<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-announce-ups-freight-contract-extension" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Announce UPS Freight Contract Extension</a>  IBT   ...The Teamsters Union and UPS Freight have <a href="http://www.teamster.org/sites/teamster.org/files/UPS_Freight_Contract_Extension_07232013.pdf">agreed to an extension</a> of the current UPS Freight National Agreement in order to give the parties time to continue negotiations...<br /><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/22/mr-president-why-are-there-so-many-bad-jobs-at-mcdonalds-and-walmart/" rel="nofollow">Mr. President, why are there so many bad jobs at McDonalds and Walmart?</a>  Raw Story   ...“Hundreds of billions of dollars in federal contracts, grants, loans, concession agreements and property leases go to private companies that pay low wages, provide few benefits, and offer employees little opportunity to work their way into the middle class. At the same time, many of these companies are providing their executives with exorbitant compensation...”<br /><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/175387/not-just-goldman-sachs-koch-industries-hoards-commodities-trading-strategy#">Not Just Goldman Sachs: Koch Industries Hoards Commodities as a Trading Strategy</a>  The Nation   ...Goldman Sachs has made a tidy profit by buying up vast amounts of aluminum and slowing the delivery through the ownership of vast warehouses...<br /><a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/07/22/13018/koch-industries-pac-spending-record-cash" rel="nofollow">Koch Industries PAC spending record cash</a>  Center for Public Integrity   ...The political action committee of Koch Industries — the energy and chemicals company led by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch — gave more money in June to federal political candidates and committees than it ever has in any other month during a non-election year...<br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/07/22/i-have-to-choose-between-food-and-rent-meet-the-mcdonalds-workers-fighting-for-fair-wages/">'I Have To Choose Between Food And Rent': Meet The McDonald's Workers Fighting For Fair Wages</a>  Forbes   ...The burger chain’s PR nightmare could also serve to increase political pressure to boost the federal minimum wage, which currently sits at $7.25/hour, or $15,000 in annual pay for a full-time gig. It has also provided momentum for campaigns like July 24th’s National Day of Action, backed by the National Employment Law Project, when workers from McDonald’s, Walmart and other low-wage companies will take to the streets in 22 cities and towns nationwide to protest what they see as poverty-level pay...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/labor-board-picks-pledge-fairness-at-hearing-that-comes-days-after-filibuster-deal/2013/07/23/9220ecc2-f3b6-11e2-81fa-8e83b3864c36_story.html" rel="nofollow">Labor board picks pledge fairness at hearing that comes days after filibuster deal</a>  Associated Press   ...President Barack Obama’s newest picks for the National Labor Relations Board sought to assure Senate lawmakers that they can be fair and impartial in resolving business-labor disputes, despite backgrounds that include advocating for unions...<br /><a href="http://www.prnewschannel.com/2013/07/22/gop-accused-of-using-deception-to-trick-voters-on-right-to-work/" rel="nofollow">GOP accused of using deception to trick voters on Right to Work</a>  PR News Channel   ...As Ohio labor groups prepare for the next round of legislative fighting on Right to Work, they accused Right to Work supporters of using misleading names and engaging in a campaign that deliberately tricks the public into supporting a controversial, anti-labor agenda...<br /><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12184/just-how-low-can-your-salary-go-117-alec-bills-2013-fuel-race-bottom-wages-and-wo" rel="nofollow">Just How Low Can Your Salary Go? 117 ALEC Bills in 2013 Fuel Race to the Bottom in Wages and Worker Rights</a>  PRWatch   ...At least 117 bills introduced in 2013 fuel a "race to the bottom" in wages, benefits, and worker rights and resemble "model" bills from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to a new analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), publishers of <a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed" rel="nofollow">ALECexposed.org</a>...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/unions-rally-federal-employees-to-appeal-furlough/2013/07/22/fd72097e-f079-11e2-9008-61e94a7ea20d_story.html" rel="nofollow">Unions rally federal employees to appeal furlough</a>  Washington Post   ...Unions are mounting a new attack on the Obama administration’s decision to furlough nearly one in two federal workers, rallying thousands of their members to appeal the unpaid days off to a little-known review board...<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/opinion/getting-detroit-back-on-its-feet.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">Getting Detroit Back on Its Feet</a>  New York Times  ...After suffering through decades of economic decline and official mismanagement, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/us/detroit-files-for-bankruptcy.html">the city of Detroit sought bankruptcy protection</a> last week, becoming the largest American municipality to take that extreme step. The city’s debts total a staggering $18 billion, far more than it could ever afford to pay back given its shrinking population and tax base...<br /><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-07-23/currency-rules-sought-in-pacific-trade-deal-by-u-dot-s-dot-automakers" rel="nofollow">Currency Rules Sought in Pacific-Trade Deal by Automakers</a>  Bloomberg News   ...A trade pact among Pacific-region nations should include provisions to prevent currency manipulation, Representative Sander Levin said, siding with U.S. automakers in expressing concern about Japan’s economic policies as the nation formally joins the talks...<br /><a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/07/22/3399588/city-unions-argue-anchorage-labor.html" rel="nofollow">City and unions argue Anchorage labor law in court</a>  Associated Press   ...A new law, which limits annual raises for city employees, restricts incentive pay and bonuses in future contracts and takes away the right to strike, is making its way through court to determine if voters should get an opportunity to repeal the law through a referendum...<br /><a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021437606_westneat21xml.html" rel="nofollow">Mayor McGinn goes all out on Whole Foods over worker pay</a>  Seattle Times   ...The Washington, D.C., city council <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/us/washington-push-on-wages-has-walmart-balking.html" rel="nofollow">made national news</a> earlier this month with its effort to <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-10/local/40487421_1_wal-mart-spokesman-steven-restivo-minimum-wage-retail-giant" rel="nofollow">force Walmart to pay higher wages</a> at the new stores the company has hoped to build in the city. A similar fight is afoot in Seattle — but over Whole Foods...<br /><a href="http://www.journalnow.com/news/state_region/article_aa5d6866-f342-11e2-b632-0019bb30f31a.html" rel="nofollow">Voting rights target of 12th Moral Monday protest</a>  Winston-Salem Journal  ...Speakers at the 12th weekly protest in Raleigh took demonstrators back almost 50 years Monday, claiming current proposals to change voting policies in the state would restrict voting access in ways that haven’t been seen in decades...

Today's Teamster News 07.24.13

Teamsters Announce UPS Freight Contract Extension  IBT   ...The Teamsters Union and UPS Freight have agreed to an extension of the current UPS Freight National Agreement in order to give the parties time to continue negotiations...Mr. President, why…

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The Amazing Benefits Of Kettlebell Workout Routines

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Chris Rivers</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>A kettlebell, also known as a girya, is a spherical iron ball, with an attached handle that used for kettlebell workout routines. Kettle bells originated from Russia in the 1700s. The use of them in sports and competition in Russia was very common in 1940s. At this time, they were measured in poods, and are still measured in poods today.<br /> <br /> For a long time this highly effective training device, however, was forgotten. Within the last few years, though, it has made a strong comeback and it is making a name for itself for those looking to lose weight and tone up.<br /> <br /> Also they were used for counter weight in the shipping yards. These iron balls have been used in Russia for a long time. In the US they are relatively new. Today, the Russian Military requires that their recruits use kettlebells in training. In the U.S the FBI Assault Team requires that their students train in with them as they know of their amazing fitness benefits.<br /> <br /> There is hardly a sports machine, with which you can train as extensively as with the kettlebell. Basically, kettlebell workouts can be divided into two areas. Part A involves slow exercises with intense body voltage to force and muscle building. Part B consists of rapid, sweeping-emphasized exercises that improve flexibility, coordination and stamina. In addition, they represent an optimal fat burning program as well. But as with anything that produces results you have to be willing to put the effort in.<br /> <br /> If the goal of a person's workout is centered more on cardiovascular fitness, then they are still the right workout tool. The movements inherent to using kettlebells are, if not easier, than certainly more fun to execute than some other comparable weight systems. The swinging motion often used provides a fluid, even, low-impact workout that aids in getting one's heart into shape. Practicing with a kettle bell set is more akin to dancing than running or jogging, and therefore easier on one's feet, ankles, knees, hips and other joints.<br /> <br /> Kettlebell workouts have many benefits, and are very beneficial for anyone. Either if you are trying to loose weight, stay in shape, or upkeep your muscle endurance, kettle bells will do the job.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>become fitter and become in shape quick with <a href="http://www.ultimatekettlebellworkoutroutines.com">kettlebell workout routines</a> and see your body transform</div><br /> </div><br />

The Amazing Benefits Of Kettlebell Workout Routines

By Chris Rivers A kettlebell, also known as a girya, is a spherical iron ball, with an attached handle that used for kettlebell workout routines. Kettle bells originated from Russia in the 1700s. The use of them in sports and competition in Russia…

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