IWS Person of the Week...Luis Guerrero

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Cheers and Hola Mi Amigos, it's time for the IWS Person of the Week...<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process."</i></span></span><br /><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span> <span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--Ted Nugent (R-Draft Dodger Universe)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytAZ-hAz3xXFMoYilIywUPVRTi2wsKgu4Xk5ozLWlMlOvycF8jRdYETWOn4KUp6baLveIiPvYbfZpmkYUGgWtvJxI52dBgqhPlSDp1SgiRRzBmm_R-NPiSr3PO0EaxFIz9LsoOiD13MzM/s1600/Luis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytAZ-hAz3xXFMoYilIywUPVRTi2wsKgu4Xk5ozLWlMlOvycF8jRdYETWOn4KUp6baLveIiPvYbfZpmkYUGgWtvJxI52dBgqhPlSDp1SgiRRzBmm_R-NPiSr3PO0EaxFIz9LsoOiD13MzM/s400/Luis.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #666666; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“We could also electrify this wire (on the border) with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.”</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #666666; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #666666; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rep. Steve King (R-IA)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3v6UTTfwCzx0BojmXASRyU3BnPL7A5KioIy_TfMrI-R6kFLdsdIbN3CB7-C-vkHzya0hzUhXVMnS7w235A6VvO0vTUfG9SowR9Odmw44y3rQdB-PJcvTg_VD1H6aVUBhswrdiE5CIfZ4/s1600/Luis+Citizen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3v6UTTfwCzx0BojmXASRyU3BnPL7A5KioIy_TfMrI-R6kFLdsdIbN3CB7-C-vkHzya0hzUhXVMnS7w235A6VvO0vTUfG9SowR9Odmw44y3rQdB-PJcvTg_VD1H6aVUBhswrdiE5CIfZ4/s400/Luis+Citizen.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?"</i></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Than what the hell is your reason, Mr. Cruz and Mr. King, for stalling immigration of "livestock" type folks who want to help defend this country and contribute??</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Our friend Luis has this week, proven that immigration, whether </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">initially</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> an illegal thing or not, is a good thing.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">And Luis is now officially an American citizen.  Which means two things to us here at <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">IWS Radio.</span></a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">We are incredibly proud of him, and now we know that he will be around forever in order that we can secretly put signs on the back of his ice truck as he </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">unknowingly</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> pulls away!!  </span></span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNQ-eb9KlREBj6aLmVsZ3cJA1mHrbkykMOog5xkrtjfv2mxRzdrpFjzNlOZDFdzY9-735YxSuoDe3QmTQqh3kZjtzHt3brZYm-uNzCHQiZcCt016xGrXGd-Xr_MhnN_hCp13BK9B2HjsX/s1600/Hugo+Chavez.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNQ-eb9KlREBj6aLmVsZ3cJA1mHrbkykMOog5xkrtjfv2mxRzdrpFjzNlOZDFdzY9-735YxSuoDe3QmTQqh3kZjtzHt3brZYm-uNzCHQiZcCt016xGrXGd-Xr_MhnN_hCp13BK9B2HjsX/s400/Hugo+Chavez.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And if that right there isn't funny enough for ya, tune into IWS Radio today from Noon-2 PM ET as Jay and Matt celebrate<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">National Bad Poetry Day!!</span></a> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Many of our correspondents have their poems ready for you and we will talk to, Party Marty Live from Chicago, Nurse Sherri with a polemics offering, and of course, the Man of the Hour, or in this case, the Week...Luis!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">You can catch us LIVE today from Noon-PM by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE!!</span></a></div></div></div>

IWS Person of the Week...Luis Guerrero

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When No One Is on Call - NYTimes.com

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We nurses all have stories — if we're lucky, it's just one — about the time we failed a patient. It's usually a problem of being too busy: too many cases, too many procedures to keep track of until one critical step, just one, slips through our frenetic fingers and someone gets hurt.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I saw it happen the first time while in nursing school. A patient needed an escalating dose of pain medicine. Her pain eased, but her breathing slowed and her oxygen level dropped. I told her nurse that the patient might need narcan, a reversing agent for opioids.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Narcan?" The nurse didn't have time for that. Caring for eight patients on a busy medical-surgery floor meant that getting through the day's tasks took up all her time. Half an hour later, though, the patient needed an emergency team to revive her. I held her hand while an anesthesiologist stuck a tube down her throat. She ended up in intensive care.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It would be easy to blame the nurse. How could she be too busy? But she was a good nurse, smart and committed. She simply had too much to do, too many acute needs to address. And then one, just one, got out of control.<span id="more-148198"></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bedside nurses are the hospital's front line, but we can't do the first-alert part of our jobs if there aren't enough of us on the floor. More demands for paperwork, along with increasing complexity of care, means the amount of time any one nurse has for all her patients is diminishing. And as hospitals face increasing financial pressure, nurse staffing often takes a hit, because nurses make up the biggest portion of any hospital's labor costs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For patients, though, the moral calculus of the nurses-for-money exchange doesn't add up. Pioneering work done by <a href="http://www.pop.upenn.edu/bio/linda-h-aiken" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline;">Linda H. Aiken</a> at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 showed that each extra patient a nurse had above an established nurse-patient ratio made it 7 percent more likely that one of the patients would die. She found that 20,000 people died a year because they were in hospitals with overworked nurses.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Research also shows that when floors are adequately staffed with bedside nurses, the number of patients injured by falls declines. Staff increases lead to decreases in hospital-acquired infections, which kill 100,000 patients every year.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The importance of sufficient nurse staffing is becoming irrefutable, so much so that the Registered Nurse Safe-Staffing Act of 2013 was recently introduced by Representatives Lois Capps, a Democrat from California and a nurse, and David Joyce, a Republican from Ohio.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among other things, the act would require that hospitals include their nurse staffing levels on Medicare's Hospital Compare Web site and post their staffing levels in a visible place in every hospital.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Concerns over money will determine whether this bill has even a chance at passing. It is collecting co-sponsors, but similar legislation has never gotten very far because hospital administrators view such mandates as too costly.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's hard to do a definitive cost-benefit analysis of a variable as complicated as nurse staffing because health care accounting systems are often byzantine. But data suggest that sufficient staffing can significantly reduce hospital costs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Medicare won't reimburse a hospital if a patient is readmitted before 30 days, and a full nursing staff is one way to reduce readmissions. Having enough nurses increases patient-satisfaction scores, which also helps maintain Medicare reimbursement levels. Understaffing leads to burnout and nurses' quitting their jobs, both of which cost money in terms of absenteeism and training new staff. Finally, falls and infections have associated costs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What this discussion of finances misses, though, is that having enough nurses is not just about dollars and cents. It's about limiting the suffering of human beings. When hospitals have insufficient nursing staffs, patients who would have gotten better can get hurt, or worse.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Several months ago I started a new job, and a few weeks in I heard my name being called. A patient getting a drug that can cause dangerous reactions was struggling to breathe. I hurried to her room, only to discover that I wasn't needed. The other nurses from the floor were already there, stopping the infusion, checking the patient's oxygen and drawing up the rescue medication.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The patient was rattled, but there were enough nurses to respond, and in the end she was completely fine.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now picture the same events in a different hospital, one that doesn't adequately staff, and this time the patient is you. As the drug drips in, you feel a malaise. You breathe deeply but can't quite get enough air. Your thinking becomes confused, your heart races. Terrified, you press the call light, you yell for help, but the too few nurses on the floor are spread thin and no one comes to help in time. A routine infusion ends with a call to a rapid-response team, a stay in intensive care, intubation, ventilation, death.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This kind of breakdown is not the nurses' fault, but the system's. We are not an elastic resource. We can be where we are needed, but only if there are enough of us.</p><hr style="clear: both; height: 1px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin-top: 3em; margin-bottom: 3em; display: block; text-align: center; width: 275px; margin-left: 242px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><em>Theresa Brown is an oncology nurse and the author of "Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between."</em></div><br><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/when-no-one-is-on-call/?src=rechp">http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/when-no-one-is-on-call/?src=rechp</a>

When No One Is on Call - NYTimes.com

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Misery Loves Company

Another one bites the dust.<br /><br />My niece is getting married today and ten to one says she already has this waiting for the new groom and he just doesn't know it yet.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNA4Dez_RK7f2vLJnt5Wl8_7BPg9nh3vsedaKG_he3bdsYRL8DAj7yvHdteX_FRvu3Iy_XmqtLaj_VJ2TOy_ql2gXxKfaOjxUCLR5EW5X6HpMQqJ3HMHWGfLNQq3n4GQM623Et5rXv_xdD/s1600/133.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNA4Dez_RK7f2vLJnt5Wl8_7BPg9nh3vsedaKG_he3bdsYRL8DAj7yvHdteX_FRvu3Iy_XmqtLaj_VJ2TOy_ql2gXxKfaOjxUCLR5EW5X6HpMQqJ3HMHWGfLNQq3n4GQM623Et5rXv_xdD/s400/133.jpg" /></a><br /><br />I dug mine out in sympathy.<br /><br />So you know where I'll be here shortly. I just went and got my head buzzed and my beard trimmed.

Misery Loves Company

Another one bites the dust. My niece is getting married today and ten to one says she already has this waiting for the new groom and he just...

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EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA

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class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via DEBKAfile </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facing condemnation at every hand from the WEST, EGYPT’S military rulers received a powerful shot in the arm from Riyadh Friday, Aug. 16, with an unprecedented public assurance from SAUDI King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz that the kingdom supports EGYPT in the fight “against terrorism” – the military rulers’ term for Muslim Brotherhood resistance. In a statement broadcast by official <i>Al-Ekhbariya</i>TV, Abdullah said EGYPT’S stability is being targeted by “haters” and warned that anyone that interferes in EGYPT’S internal affairs seeks to “waken sedition.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WEAK RESPONSE TO BROTHERHOOD’S CALL FOR MILLIONS TO RALLY FRIDAY TO JOIN IN THE PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF DEPOSED PRESIDENT MOHAMED MORSI</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debkafile have been reporting since last week that SAUDI ARABIA and the UAR stand firmly behind EGYPT’S military strongman Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debkafile reports a weak response to Brotherhood’s call for millions to rally Friday to join in the protest in support of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and against the government crackdown two days ago which left more than 600 dead. No more than tens of thousands of supporters took to the streets across the country Friday. By nightfall, 50 people were reported killed in clashes across the country – in Cairo, Fayoum, Damietta and Ismailia - including 24 security personnel. An officer was killed at one of the checkpoints thrown up to block the demonstrators’ access to Tahrir Square.<br />The relatively low turnout points to the Muslim Brotherhood’s hard core having decided that avoiding further deadly clashes with the EGYPTIAN military is the better part of valor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">US PRESIDENT WANTED TO GIVE THE GENERAL A DRESSING-DOWN MUCH ON THE LINES OF THE CALL HE MADE TO FORMER PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK IN FEBRUARY 2011</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the clashes between EGYPTIAN security forces and pro-Morsi protesters were at their peak in Cairo Wednesday, Aug. 14 – 525 dead and 3,700 wounded to date - President Barack Obama put in a call to EGYPT’S strongman, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, debkafile’s intelligence sources report.  The US president wanted to give the general a dressing-down much on the lines of the call he made to former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 at the high point of the ARAB Spring Tahrir Sq demonstrations against his rule, namely:  Stop repressing the protesters and firing live ammunition. Step down!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Mubarak asked for a three or four days’ grace to break up the massed rally, Obama shot back that he has to quit NOW!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And indeed, on Feb. 11, the army announced the president’s resignation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Realizing what was coming; Gen. El-Sissi decided not to accept President Obama’s call, our sources report. The EGYPTIAN officials who received it informed the US president politely that the right person for him to address was EGYPT’S interim president Adly Mansour and they would be glad to transfer the call to him. The White House callers declined.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HARSH INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF GEN. EL-SISSI’S CRACKDOWN WILL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This anecdote shows that the military strongman is not only determined to avoid the pitfalls which brought Mubarak down but is equally determined to keep the US administration from interfering in his plans for driving the Muslim Brotherhood out of EGYPTIAN politics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Diplomatic condemnation of those plans is building up in Western capitals. Wednesday night, the Obama White House issued a statement strongly condemning “the use of violence against protesters in EGYPT” and the state of emergency. EGYPTIAN ambassadors in Paris, London and Berlin received denunciations and expressions of concern from their host governments, and TURKEY demanded a UN Security Council emergency session on the situation in EGYPT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">US and EUROPEAN stance and condemnation of the crackdown in EGYPT are pure political rhetoric’s to paint a political correct picture but in reality the scenario looks somewhat different. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As Geopolitical </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Analysis and Monitoring has pointed out in a previous article</b>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DUE TO GEO – STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS EGYPT WILL NEVER BE LEFT IN THE HANDS OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was a foregone conclusion that a nation as important to the world as EGYPT is, would not be left in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. The brutality of the Mubarak regime was well known, most considered the region stable and their important business continued uninterrupted. ISRAEL’S intelligence apparatus monitors the tectonic shifts in EGYPT in relation to the Gaza Strip. If EGYPT sneezes, the Gaza Strip gets a cold. ISRAEL would find itself under a serious threat if the EGYPTIAN leadership had friendly relations with militant Islamic groups like Hamas. It is a dangerous yet delicate balance.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE ONE WHO COMMANDS THE SUEZ STRAIT CONTROLS A MAJOR PORTION OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, substantially dependent upon trade and commerce. Washington’s relationship with EGYPT angled as humanitarian aid ends up being billions of dollars annually in foreign military financing grants supplying EGYPTIAN military apparatus with heavy weapons used to control and retain the allegiance of the uprising population and purge any subversion. The interdependent relationship between the U.S. and EGYPTIAN military is coherent, billions of dollars to maintain EGYPT’S military elite-led government, the uninterrupted military coordination and movement of the regions oil resources to the UNITED STATES and EUROPE and the establishment of a U.S. military bridgehead in a geo-strategic location for future military operations or conflicts in regions rich in hydrocarbon deposits, the MIDDLE EAST and the CASPIAN Basin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For US military planners, the sudden loss of access to EGYPT would present a double problem. Without EGYPT, they would find their options for shipping air and sea cargo, refueling and repairing aircraft and consolidating troop movements narrowed to those along the Persian Gulf. The loss of landing rights in EGYPT, for example, might mean that in a crisis, wide-body jets, each carrying hundreds of troops, would have to fly directly into congested Persian Gulf airfields, rather than into Cairo West, from which smaller transports would ferry troops into action, furthermore Persian Gulf facilities are increasingly vulnerable to IRANIAN ballistic missiles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debkafile’s sources report that harsh international condemnation of Gen. El-Sissi’s crackdown will do more harm than good. The backlash will come in three forms:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. The Muslim Brotherhood will be encouraged to pursue increasingly extreme measures to fight the EGYPTIAN army in the expectation of international applause.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />2. The generals will be encouraged to escalate their steps for repressing the Brotherhood.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />3. The SAUDIS and the GULF EMIRATES will redouble their support for the EGYPTIAN general and his campaign against the Brotherhood. This will widen the rift between those Arab rulers and the Obama administration.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxR03bF6PHKKg4jHqmdwWd1og6f-aNw4SFkBJqRltvb4NzMoFLj3GxsrY0Y9J_2gWn9s80uATmFnLvHc7h24ZB6qo11eJb2ZxcidPhLIHGKCzIkTyjPohvjaxQ2mauEUHWKk3gM3B0WOHV/s1600/saudi-egypt-handshake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxR03bF6PHKKg4jHqmdwWd1og6f-aNw4SFkBJqRltvb4NzMoFLj3GxsrY0Y9J_2gWn9s80uATmFnLvHc7h24ZB6qo11eJb2ZxcidPhLIHGKCzIkTyjPohvjaxQ2mauEUHWKk3gM3B0WOHV/s320/saudi-egypt-handshake.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our intelligence sources also disclose that, while President Obama was trying to get through to Gen. 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The SAUDI prince next received an invitation to visit Washington at his earliest convenience and meet with President Obama.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Related topics: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A SPY WHO TRIED TO SCALE KREMLIN WALL</span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE SYRIAN CRISIS -A FIRST-RATE WRESTLING MATCH BY EXTERNAL POWERS OVER REGIONAL HEGEMONY</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/08/a-saudi-overture-to-iran_19.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/08/a-saudi-overture-to-iran_19.html</span></a></div></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><b>Bandar has still not responded to that invitation.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clearly, the US president’s problem with the EGYPTIAN situation is a lot more complicated than pulling the army off the Muslim Brotherhood’s backs.  He needs to somehow snap the strategic alliance unfolding between EGYPT and SAUDI ARABIA, and the rapport between the EGYPTIAN general and the SAUDI prince.</span></div>

EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA

SAUDI KING ABDULLAH BACKS EGYPT’S MILITARY RULER, WARNS AGAINST OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE Via DEBKAfile  Facing condemnation at every hand from ...

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<span style="font-size: large;">It was all about Rugs this morning when we visited <a href="http://www.rugart.ie/">RugArt</a> in Clonskeagh.  </span><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">We had borrowed a Jan Kath 'Maths' rug for a recent photo shoot in the house but of course as soon as it was taken away the place looked and felt so bare.  </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">We have decided that now is the time to begin looking for a rug for both the front and back room. Currently we have an old Habitat Rug in the back room that badly needs switching out. A rug will soften the look of the concrete floors as well as provide comfort under foot along with providing some sound insulation and hopefully lessen the echoes in the house.</span><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">RugArt have a great selection of rugs but we kept on being drawn back to the Jan Kath designs and in particular the amazing Maths rug.  We are having a think about it over the weekend as although stunning they are rather pricey.  </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGRKYSwMDNAqah8SmCm0sMELtzkP0R27LFpN69D8BaYzboUy_jRNcOzldJlL0Yqn00dDl-LTAsnd5U5gb-T_-5K5oLBm4YOvtvjZB-R_bv3YJ2diH5-XzudGCrwPiEe8lBxOFvpJO1-clG/s640/blogger-image-1640576403.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGRKYSwMDNAqah8SmCm0sMELtzkP0R27LFpN69D8BaYzboUy_jRNcOzldJlL0Yqn00dDl-LTAsnd5U5gb-T_-5K5oLBm4YOvtvjZB-R_bv3YJ2diH5-XzudGCrwPiEe8lBxOFvpJO1-clG/s640/blogger-image-1640576403.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">This rug is a work of art!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCPm95mhpq6o1C7_G7byOto5T5pOAoBdM9NxiKCnfKsDjfwVgLMhEATDZ-4IuaiybOALG6mR5zedgmj0-JEcVxd_tUugMQKgMBkgx5noCWMUpMaDxVmiyuzMOyO128ENrdjF1zKju8tEe8/s640/blogger-image--400744878.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCPm95mhpq6o1C7_G7byOto5T5pOAoBdM9NxiKCnfKsDjfwVgLMhEATDZ-4IuaiybOALG6mR5zedgmj0-JEcVxd_tUugMQKgMBkgx5noCWMUpMaDxVmiyuzMOyO128ENrdjF1zKju8tEe8/s640/blogger-image--400744878.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I found this rug interesting but would not choose it for my own house.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPQ9f_Ey441eEosQo6gGIPSWaCx1m0lnpjXUr_jeZRZJNiY03LeGkOjMZWZyYuhYl2xVg85riOIgGya8HYg7_guQ0Bg_4WphlJeekPWngxQcqJT1yK9K_wUY9nYVJQuai8uM1kwVRWlkv/s640/blogger-image-1491207751.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPQ9f_Ey441eEosQo6gGIPSWaCx1m0lnpjXUr_jeZRZJNiY03LeGkOjMZWZyYuhYl2xVg85riOIgGya8HYg7_guQ0Bg_4WphlJeekPWngxQcqJT1yK9K_wUY9nYVJQuai8uM1kwVRWlkv/s640/blogger-image-1491207751.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the Maths rug hanging on the wall. The colours are seriously vibrant.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNh6oPAT6hbwbssuIjw2EJOF13BXz4svhpmPelJyzxEJHrC1yzIprZ4zdPBmF6nLEiy2PxnPzyLnEvNucrYxjaC54aAWlMrqIjVzrZv6m1bEdAVLnTKGoLLE8iFOClwBpM-Q7Inc734YJ/s640/blogger-image--166537466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNh6oPAT6hbwbssuIjw2EJOF13BXz4svhpmPelJyzxEJHrC1yzIprZ4zdPBmF6nLEiy2PxnPzyLnEvNucrYxjaC54aAWlMrqIjVzrZv6m1bEdAVLnTKGoLLE8iFOClwBpM-Q7Inc734YJ/s640/blogger-image--166537466.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

Rug me up!

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African Mango Plus Will Help You Lose Weight

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Sally Jamieson</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>One of the most popular food supplements in USA today certainly is African Mango Plus. It has numerous qualities that makes it very useful in fighting excessive weight. Besides speeding up your metabolism, it will also boost your energy level and immune system. Thanks to the fact it contains anti-oxidants, this product helps against premature aging as well.<br /> <br /> This Fruit is very similar to ordinary mango, and it has similar taste as well. Full of important minerals and vitamins, this fruit can be consumed fresh, just like any other fruit. It is also known as Irvingia Gabonese, and some call it bush mango.<br /> <br /> The plant is harvested for seeds, called Dikka seeds. The extract of these seeds has numerous qualities that makes it very effective in fighting excess weight. They can be eaten in their natural form, but they are equally effective in form of powder. Thanks to other ingredients added, such as caffeine and green tea, this product really helps losing weight.<br /> <br /> Maybe you don't exactly have a weight problem, but you are unhappy about your abdomen appearance. Many people have troubles with losing fat from this area. Others are more worried about their thighs. The fact is that this mixture speeds up losing extra pounds primarily from these particular areas.<br /> <br /> There are some other useful stuff there. For example, caffeine. It makes you feel awake, and affect the hunger, among other things. Vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants work together to make your immune system stronger, and your body leaner and more attractive. Besides, there are no artificial or harmful ingredients added.<br /> <br /> The most valuable ingredient is Dikka seed extract. It speeds up your metabolism and triggers your natural weight loss processes. Of course, you should combine taking this food supplement together with other valuable foods, and you should spend some time walking or exercising, if you want to achieve fast results.<br /> <br /> No food supplement will help you if you don't change your attitude towards food in general. You have to eat moderate amounts of healthy food, you should drink enough water and consume fresh vegetables and fruits whenever you have a chance. Besides, you need to at least take a walk once in a while.<br /> <br /> It is important to understand nothing will happen over night. You need a certain amount of calories to live, but your purpose in life is not to eat all the time. African Mango Plus can help you lose weight on problem areas, but you need to think about your health and change your habits.<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'>Remember to study <a href="http://terriey645howaerdy.bravesites.com/">African Mango Plus Green Tea</a> user reviews prior to using these things or dietary supplement.</div><br /> </div><br />

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In What Way You Can Keep Your Weight Loss Website's Increase

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Aaron Small</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>A lot of people still mistakenly believe that creating and maintaining a successful diet tips and weight loss information website is such a technical undertaking that it's beyond all but the most computer savvy. And yet, anyone can actually run their own website with the right information at their fingertips. We've put together a package of suggestions that can help you get started today.<br /> <br /> You obviously want to set your site apart from the pack so you're easier to remember, but don't go overboard with it. Ridiculous additions can be distracting and have the exact opposite effect you want to achieve. Surf around on other sites, and take note of some of the features you like and don't like, and use that information to inspire your own design. Maybe there is a feature custom to a particular site you just love-see if you can work out a deal to purchase the idea to utilize yourself.<br /> <br /> Descriptive link text will make it very easy for your visitors to anticipate the content that they are going to be able to access through that link. Also, the better a link describes it's content, the better search engines will be able to accurately portray them on searches.<br /> <br /> Social media sites are incredibly important when it comes to diet tips and weight loss information website traffic. It help your website achieve better SEO, and connects you to your users through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube. This give the impressions that you are trying to get to know your users on a more personal level.<br /> <br /> A great way to get your visitors to look at your diet tips and weight loss information website and purchase your products is to provide a way for them to contact you. If they have a question about your products or service, they just contact you. Make sure that all the contact information including phone number, e-mail address and contact-form are provided in a way that the visitors can find them easily. This can also possibly build a connection between you and the visitor.<br /> <br /> Users want to be able to easily and quickly locate the information they want. A diet tips and weight loss information website that requires lots of searching or makes it difficult to find things can be annoying. Do not be one of these. Users will appreciate a feature like a search engine since it makes things easier for them. This can be extremely beneficial to websites that are packed with content.<br /> <br /> Transact with reliable suppliers, this is mainly beneficial to those who manage online stores. Doing business with suppliers who don't deliver on time and are always compromising on quality will just set your business backwards, leaving you cashless and without good reputation.<br /> <br /> Your diet tips and weight loss information website should be easily accessible. This includes making your site accessible to even handicapped visitors. This is a big concern in the modern web designing world. One of the most effective things that can be done for improving accessibility is to use alt tags in images, avoiding frames, using valid CSS and HTML coding and allowing re-sizing of text for different types of visitors.<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'>Looking for ways to enhance your understanding about the helpful tips discussed above? Just submit <a href='http://www.bestfatreduceblog.com/'>phen375 reviews</a> when searching online. You might find some great helpful ideas about <a href='http://www.bestfatreduceblog.com/overview-of-the-fat-burner-phen375'>amp enzyme boosters</a>.</div><br /> </div><br />

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Benchmark Results has New Spot of Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD Tablet

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As I have previously specify, Amazon was going to be launched a next generation <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/07/kindle-fire-hd-tablets-for-next.html" target="_blank">Kindle Fire HD</a> tablet preserving the price much less in order to compete with the market. A lot of thrill is going to become a result now.<br /><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/AVvXsEi-O6B_6JZF0p574bRU5MjUF9mm4JSH_VCTLiphq8W2Www_3vSyJ2Lmqg8slJVEI4J6WvZiuVzL3LMumyk25RSJJqd_8cC_eIblHaoIFo56xFb82GV4pUhEWYnqoyLSYc-KOV7DoA53x6Y/s1600/amazon_kindle_fire_hd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Amazon's Kindle Fire HD Tablet spot in Benchmark Results" border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-O6B_6JZF0p574bRU5MjUF9mm4JSH_VCTLiphq8W2Www_3vSyJ2Lmqg8slJVEI4J6WvZiuVzL3LMumyk25RSJJqd_8cC_eIblHaoIFo56xFb82GV4pUhEWYnqoyLSYc-KOV7DoA53x6Y/s1600/amazon_kindle_fire_hd.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ndtvGadgets</td></tr></tbody></table>Leaked information reports, Webtrek (An Italian Publication) has published about two devices, first is Amazon Apollo (KFAPWA) and Amazon Thor which are likely to be 7-inch and 8.9-inch tablet respectively.<br /><br />According to benchmark results, tablet includes features like 1920-by-1200 pixel display, quad-core Qualcomm snapdragon 800 processor on chip with adreno 330 graphics and 4 Krait 400 CPUs which is an ARM-based CPU including dual-core configurations. It also support 2 GB of RAM as a primary memory.<br /><br />This tablet also powered by the latest Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) OS having in-built bug fixes and performance enhancements. With 8 MP rear camera you can capture high-resolution moments of your life and a 2 MP front camera is also there for video calling. At the last but not least there are three storage options in the tablet – 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB.<br /><br />All the internal specifications are same except 2560-by-1600 pixel high definition display and a snapdragon 800 SoC in 8.9” Kindle Fire HD tablet.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Read also <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/07/kindle-fire-hd-tablets-for-next.html" target="_blank">Kindle Fire HD Tablet</a></div></div>

amazon Tablet Benchmark Results has New Spot of Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD Tablet

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Proven Muscle Building Tips For A Better Body

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Coach Todd</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Regardless of sex, age or fitness level, weight lifting is one of the best ways to improve fitness and overall health. This article includes many tips on maximizing the benefits from your workouts for an effective program in muscle building. Read on to learn more!<br /> <br /> Make sure you have enough vegetables in your diet. Avoid concentrating solely on carbs and protein; do not forget your veggies. Veggies have nutrients that other foods high in carbs and proteins do not. In addition, they are excellent sources of fiber. Your body uses fiber to process protein more efficiently.<br /> <br /> Try to keep breaking your personal lifting records. You can do this by gradually increasing the amount of weight you lift. Another record to keep track of is the amount of reps you are able to do at a specific weight. This will make it seem like you're competing with yourself, which will make working out a lot more fun and interesting as you workout during the week.<br /> <br /> Make sure you are eating food that supports your workout schedule. If you want to build muscle, concentrate on eating protein at the expense of fats. It doesn't mean you can eat whatever you want. It means that you should eat a balanced diet that fuels your workouts. Also, talk with your doctor or nutritionist about adding vitamins and supplements to your regimen.<br /> <br /> Limit your workouts to no more than 60 minutes. The body begins to produce more cortisol, a stress hormone, after sixty minutes of working out. Cortisol blocks testosterone and puts to waste any of your efforts to build muscle. Making sure that workouts are less than an hour helps you to get the best results.<br /> <br /> Make a careful and frank appraisal of your body's capabilities and limitations at the start of a muscle-building program. This is a good place to start for establishing your regimen goals. When doing this evaluation, focus on your composition and body weight.<br /> <br /> When weight training in order to build muscle, don't err by eliminating healthy fats. There are a number of good fats that are vital to muscle growth. If you cut down on fats, you could slow down the recovery process for your muscles. Research also shows a relationship between fat and testosterone levels, an added benefit of consuming good fats!<br /> <br /> No matter your age, a beneficial muscle building workout routine can really work wonders for you. Reading this article was the ideal starting point for you as you work to develop and improve your fitness routine in the hopes of increasing muscle mass.<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'>If you want to find out if you can <a href="http://rippedclub.net/motivation/i-cant-do-p90x/">get ripped abs</a>, be sure you check out a wealth of info on the subject <a href="http://rippedclub.net/supplements/do-i-need-supplements">in this blog post</a>.</div><br /> </div><br />

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Stretching Together With A Personal Trainer Pleasant Hill

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Michael Petry</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Before every exercise workout, your personal trainer Pleasant Hill is going to always run you through a few simple movements that seemingly don't have any relation to your planned workout routine. Nevertheless, it's important to know that those movements, no matter how simplistic or boring they might appear, are expedient with regards to your safety and overall exercise routine.<br /> <br /> The Goal Of Stretching<br /> <br /> Stretching has several main purposes, though the intensity of each varies according to the individual and the specific stretch. These are:<br /> <br /> * To put you in the mood for working out, in both your mind and your body<br /> <br /> Stretching before a workout can help you get more into the swing of exercising. The simple motions of going through each stretch will give you ample time to relax your mind and focus on the routine that you are about to do. It also helps a person in becoming more interested in the upcoming exercises.<br /> <br /> * To make sure that you do not harm yourself while going through your routine<br /> <br /> Stretching also makes sure that you are less likely to encounter injuries during your workout. Any personal trainer Pleasant Hill, California can tell you that warming up your muscles beforehand allows them to be more relaxed and supple, thereby making them easier to work with while doing the proper workout routine.<br /> <br /> * To warm your body up before starting the proper exercise<br /> <br /> A personal trainer Pleasant Hill is well-versed in the workings of the human body and will be able to tell you that simple movements before doing your routine will help your overall performance. The movements, though relatively easy to do, warm your muscles up and start increasing the flow of blood throughout your entire body. This is also beneficial as it prevents a person from jumpstarting their body straight into exercising, an action that puts unnecessary strain on the body.<br /> <br /> A Fun Activity That Your Trainer May Suggest<br /> <br /> There are a lot of activities that your personal trainer Pleasant Hill may suggest you take up. The most typical activity that involves stretching is yoga.<br /> <br /> Yoga is a really old exercise method that has records of use dating back several thousands of years in its country of origin which is India. It involves the use and discipline of your body, mind and spirit all at once, and has been a very favored form of exercise for years.<br /> <br /> While a lot of stretches have been based on yoga, it has been found that yoga itself can be done almost any time of the day, even without following it up with a workout routine. There are many types and variations of yoga that have been developed over the years-including the popular Hatha Yoga and the Bhakti Yoga-and as such there's always something for everybody to follow. Another beneficial point for a personal trainer Pleasant Hill to suggest yoga is that it could be done by anyone of any age and even in social gatherings, making it a very flexible activity.<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'>Being in great shape with the aid of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-pleasant-hill/">Personal Trainer Pleasant Hill</a> not only improves your entire body but also your well being as well. The benefits that you can receive from <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-los-altos/">Personal Trainer Los Altos</a> are endless.</div><br /> </div><br />

Stretching Together With A Personal Trainer Pleasant Hill

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How Many Calories To Lose Weight Is Not Hard To Assess

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Charlene Dempsey</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>If you are wondering How Many Calories to Lose weight you need, it is easy to figure it out. There are many websites online that can help you figure it out. You could also go to a weight management establishment to get some advice. They will help you, but you will most likely have to pay them.<br /> <br /> Many reasons exist as to why someone gained weight. It could be a hereditary issue. Maybe some of your relatives also struggle with it. When this is the case, it can be harder to take the pounds off because it seems as if your DNA is working against you. That does not mean that you cannot lose the pounds. It just means that you may have to work harder than others do.<br /> <br /> Other people may have gotten sad over a breakup in their life or a tragedy that made their emotions go downhill. They found food to comfort them. They may have tried dealing with their emotions despite the sadness, but were unsuccessful. There are medical issues to think about if you get severely overweight such as diabetes and heart issues. Take precautions and try to avoid these.<br /> <br /> Twenty-five hundred calories is equal to one pound. If you need to take off twenty pounds, for example, you will need to lose fifty thousand calories. If you are doing a lot of cardiovascular work when you work out, you will need to monitor how much is going out with each workout. There is equipment that is possible to buy to calculate this.<br /> <br /> Knowing your height and weight will help you determine your body mass index. You also must take into consideration your age. All of these factors determine the percentage of fat in your body. Burning fat is essential if you want to overcome any obesity. Having a healthy body mass index is crucial. Being at a healthy weight is a lifestyle and not just going on a diet.<br /> <br /> If you are persistent, you can take off the pounds that you want. It is not hard with patience and persistence. If you get distracted by life, try to get back on track again soon. It does not have to be hard unless you make it hard. Going to the gym two or three times a week is challenging to keep up with, but it must be done.<br /> <br /> It will take discipline, but you will see that the results will be well worth it. You will appreciate the results in your body as you feel better. You will like walking around now and see people notice you while before they did not notice. This is especially true if you did successfully take off some pounds.<br /> <br /> Look online for How Many Calories to Lose weight. There are calculators available there or in local gym. Try to get into a good workout plan each week so you can enjoy the benefits of a healthy body.<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'>When you are curious about <a href="http://acellulitetreatment.com/">how many calories to lose weight</a>, visit the web pages here today. You can learn information about dietary management at http://acellulitetreatment.com/ right now.</div><br /> </div><br />

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Can Protein Bars Help You Lose Weight?

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Sandy Rogers</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Many of us snack on protein bars to refuel after an extreme workout. They can also be a practical travel meal, an occasional mini-meal when we are in a rush or a meal replacement if we are trying to lower our calorie consumption.<br /> <br /> In a majority of these situations, we are selecting protein bars to stay healthy and often reduce weight. Nevertheless, when you are staring at a store shelf filled with items, how do you know which bars are better for dropping weight?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The Bottom Line:<br /> <br /> The bottom line is that we want to prevent sugar and processed ingredients. Some people look for "low carb" on item packaging, however, you do not want to get fooled into getting a lot of processed low carb trash either.<br /> <br /> But There's a Challenge ...<br /> <br /> A big obstacle is that a lot of protein bars include a considerable amount of sugar, and some contain a variety of several types of sweetener. Some labels even list sugar as the main ingredient!<br /> <br /> I understand that sugar boosts food taste, but protein bars that contain a lot of sugar are basically candy bars undercover, in my view. This is similar to a chocolate chip breakfast muffin - isn't that actually a cupcake in reality? Hmm ...<br /> <br /> Exactly What to Look for if You are Looking to Drop Weight:<br /> <br /> If you want a very sweet protein bar, that's fine. It just will not aid you in reducing weight. If you are wanting to lose weight or keep your weight loss, look for nutrition bars that have no added sugars.<br /> <br /> This can be challenging, and you will typically need to look for an all-natural health bar that does not include any processed ingredients. An example would be a trail mix bar which contains a mix of natural nuts and seeds with shredded coconut or dried fruit.<br /> <br /> If you are searching for low sugar, high protein bars, there are some nut and seed bars with protein powder included, such as egg white protein powder. Many paleo athletes choose these types of protein bars, because they do not include dairy and they don't have wheat too.<br /> <br /> Some More Coll Things ...<br /> <br /> An additional advantage to consuming a low-sugar or no-sugar snack is that it will decrease your hunger for more sugar. Have you ever consumed a high-calorie protein bar and immediately wanted more? This is likely a sugar craving, and consuming an additional bar will definitely not help you burn fat.<br /> <br /> Low sugar, unrefined nutrition bars are generally much easier to digest and provide lots of nourishment naturally. Things like nuts and coconut are high in healthy fats, and are for that reason good for satiating hunger and food yearnings.<br /> <br /> Paleo protein bars are low in sugar and usually include a considerable amount of protein. Too see a comparison graph of different choices, click here.<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'>To see a video about soy-less protein bars, go here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HspnDdSy0Q">http://www.youtube.com</a></div><br /> </div><br />

Can Protein Bars Help You Lose Weight?

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Today at Wintergreen: 8th Annual Blue Ridge Mountian Music Festival

8th Annual Blue Ridge Mountain Music Festival<br />August 17<br />12-7 pm<br />Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort<br /><br />The weather's perfect for today's Blue Ridge Mountain Music Fest at Wintergreen. Sunny skies, cool temps, low humidity ... a great day to head to the mountains.<br /><br />Celebrating our mountain heritage, Wintergreen Performing Arts presents the 8th Annual <a href="http://direct.wintergreenresort.com/ct/22881275:23605075909:m:1:1511708989:696BC2655C4E4C3F4E415FEEFEDEF136:r" target="_blank">Blue Ridge Mountain Music Fest</a>. This year the Fest features the return of the always popular Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group and the Grammy-nominated marquee bluegrass group, Blue Highway. Rounding out the program, we welcome Honey Dewdrops as well as Kim and Jimbo Cary & Peter and Ellen Vigour.<br /><br />Schedule:<br /><br />12 pm Honey Dewdrops<br />1 pm Blue Highway<br />2 pm <a href="http://direct.wintergreenresort.com/ct/22881278:23605075909:m:1:1511708989:696BC2655C4E4C3F4E415FEEFEDEF136:r" target="_blank">Robin and Linda Williams</a> and their Fine Group<br />3 pm Honey Dewdrops<br />4 pm Blue Highway<br />5 pm Robin and Linda Williams and their Fine Group<br />6 pm  <a href="http://direct.wintergreenresort.com/ct/22881279:23605075909:m:1:1511708989:696BC2655C4E4C3F4E415FEEFEDEF136:r" target="_blank">Kim & Jimbo Cary</a> and <a href="http://direct.wintergreenresort.com/ct/22881281:23605075909:m:1:1511708989:696BC2655C4E4C3F4E415FEEFEDEF136:r" target="_blank">Peter & Ellen Vigou</a>r<br /><br />Join us for a toe tapping good time!

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8th Annual Blue Ridge Mountain Music Festival August 17 12-7 pm Dunlop Pavilion, Wintergreen Resort The weather's perfect for today'...

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Now Smartphone On Your Wrist: Samsung Will Introduce Smart Watch.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A wrist watch that will make phone calls send emails and surf the web, we are not talking about James Bond’s watch that was used in movies, we are talking about Samsung’s smart wrist watch. The device will introduced in September and most probably in first week. Now your pocket gets more space because your smartphone will on your wrist.<br /><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="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C4DjXN8_lQ4/Ug9ygxcM86I/AAAAAAAAALg/TkZMO0Dbg2g/s1600/Samsung_Galaxy_Gear_smart_watch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="261" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C4DjXN8_lQ4/Ug9ygxcM86I/AAAAAAAAALg/TkZMO0Dbg2g/s1600/Samsung_Galaxy_Gear_smart_watch.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">loginmobile.com</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The device will be powered by Android and will be called “Galaxy Gear”. Samsung will introduce the device in Germany at an event. The market of wearable technology is likely to touch $1.5 billion till the end of next year and Samsung know this very well and ready to lead this market with the help of their smart device. This is the first step of Samsung in wearable technology.<br /><br />The other major companies also in line to entered in wearable technology. Apple is also working on its own smart watch named <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/08/wearable-tech-may-serve-as-health.html" target="_blank">iWatch</a>. Google is working on the kinks on Google Glass, which will the market early next year. Microsoft is supposed to be making a prototype smart watch that would run on Window 8. Acer is not behind from the other companies and announces that it will realise a wearable Device in 2014, but did not specify what type.<br /><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="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PoXo5nNNuFo/Ug9wqRQLGwI/AAAAAAAAALU/yi8jaMZJt1o/s1600/Google-Glass-Mashable-39.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PoXo5nNNuFo/Ug9wqRQLGwI/AAAAAAAAALU/yi8jaMZJt1o/s1600/Google-Glass-Mashable-39.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google glass source:mashable.com</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Reps of Samsung are not available for comment on this report. Neither the technical specifications, nor the price available for the device. The mystery will open on 4th September in Berlin.<br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/100638775997274345522" rel="author">Anil Swami</a></div></div>

android SmartWatch Now Smartphone On Your Wrist: Samsung Will Introduce Smart Watch.

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