Lafayette, We Are Here; So Let's Cook-Out!!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUvViIKDERPbrp_VrjT_cgqcOBf-mx4Q7NFjnt-0ulp_tXmfWG4jivFDQQ4K8U9vJYlYa8z5vJ-sXozIWdzQ0QW9MSPE921737gEkdMGpw5kVDlELcQAwq0NdMJUODjljkDmObj9bj1s/s397/French+Guy+Cooking+Out+Charcoal+Briquet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaUvViIKDERPbrp_VrjT_cgqcOBf-mx4Q7NFjnt-0ulp_tXmfWG4jivFDQQ4K8U9vJYlYa8z5vJ-sXozIWdzQ0QW9MSPE921737gEkdMGpw5kVDlELcQAwq0NdMJUODjljkDmObj9bj1s/s400/French+Guy+Cooking+Out+Charcoal+Briquet.jpg" width="400" /></a>Bon Matin, Accueil, and Hello!!<br /><br />I am the official French griller and cooker-outer for IWS Radio, Char'coal Bri'quet here for IWS Radio on this very fine, pre-Independence Day Eve..<br /><br />Allow my Gallic self to tell you in your own boorish language…<br /><br />My rocks are hot, and I can’t wait to flame up an American Independence Day soiree for you.  Viva la Lafayette; here’s to the defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and the smiting of his culinary penchant for gruel and haggis!!<br /><br />Which on its face, was very troubling in itself, but even more so, because of instead of serving red wine with swine innards, Cornwallis served mead.<br /><br />Sérieusement?  Oui, and Sérieusement…Oh, the gaucheness of it all!!  Anyhoo…<br /><br />Let me, or should I say, “allow” me to say, while you enjoy your, “chien chaud” upon the grill, do it in such a way that the processed skin and fillers of said, “chien chaud” crisp up, and maximize their potential artificial juices.<br /><br />I know that you Americans love your Hot Dogs, but in order to be kind to dogs, be they hot or any other breed, allow them to be all that they can be.<br /><br />The hot dogs that you are so fond of will live for minutes beyond their shelf life, and you will enjoy a nice crisp bite, while at the same time, savor their genetically-altered juices.<br /><br />Place them so that they may receive the maximum grill marks.  Allow them to cook perching perpendicular upon either the Y or X-Axis of the grill!!  Do this not, and you will rue the day that you ate a limp hot dog with no cool burn marks worthy of Avignon!!<br /><br />As for the Dachau-Like, hand-beaten, Nazi-Jack Booted, kicked in the ass, lump of meat that you call hamburgers?<br /><br />Fry em’!!  Fry them hard, fast and nasty.  It is cow meat, a stupid animal that just sits there, grazes, and says to itself…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcacgr_Bdcbf8lg6EXUCOG68w4t-bVp2J0VKfWBHQqUyT0Y7rC8-kYoW9nSETTcKf0sZJ9X-2Qb7LqftpzfRJq_mFbxHYJcbY6YyE4xXSa7bhNh-c_ZhbAFBzQLJsaipLn9bK9637_60/s400/american-burger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcacgr_Bdcbf8lg6EXUCOG68w4t-bVp2J0VKfWBHQqUyT0Y7rC8-kYoW9nSETTcKf0sZJ9X-2Qb7LqftpzfRJq_mFbxHYJcbY6YyE4xXSa7bhNh-c_ZhbAFBzQLJsaipLn9bK9637_60/s400/american-burger.jpg" width="400" /></a><i>“I better eat some more hay, so I will become a better burger.”</i><br /><br />Who the Hell does that!?  Cows…American Cows, that’s who…er…Cows…any cow…American, or otherwise.  Hell, they don’t know their fate growing up…They’re stupid, and well, they’re cows, so that explains it, but as a Frenchman, I have to say…<br /><br />Even though the hamburger (uuch) is round, it stills needs to be cooked perpendicularly.  If not?  The grill marks will be straight, and the burger will look like…well…<br /><br />A round piece of meat with straight lines upon it.<br /><br />And you know what?  When I think of that, I can only think of the way my great-grandfather described the look on Mussolini’s face when he was hung in 1943.<br /><br />Saint Enfant Jésus, and Oy Vay!!<br /><br />Anyway…Keep your grill hot and haute, and always, sprinkle it with oil…This is your Number One Summertime French Guy saying…<br /><br /><i>Bon Voyage and Happy Grill'age!!</i><br /><br />Char'coal Bri'quet<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 /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Matt’s Facebook Page</span></a></div>

Lafayette, We Are Here; So Let's Cook-Out!!

Bon Matin, Accueil, and Hello!! I am the official French griller and cooker-outer for IWS Radio, Char'coal Bri'quet here for IWS Rad...

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Charlottesville ABC agents should be reminded of the Alicia Showalter Reynolds tragedy

I had no intention of writing about the Charlottesville ABC agents who apprehended a UVa student in the false belief she was underage with beer. Her "beer" turned out to be sparkling water but a series of events led to her arrest and she was thrown in the slammer overnight. ABC agents thought their lives were in danger, and the young lady thought her life was in danger, and it ended up in a big mess.<br /><br />The actual incident occurred in April but came to light at the end of June when the <i>Daily Progress</i> reported on it after charges were finally dropped against Elizabeth Daly. Reporter K. Burnell Evans wrote "<a href="http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/bottled-water-purchase-leads-to-night-in-jail-for-uva/article_b5ab5f62-df9b-11e2-81c4-0019bb30f31a.html">Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student</a>:"<br /><blockquote>When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.<br /><br />That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a sorority benefit fundraiser.<br /><br />A group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to flee the darkened parking lot.<br /><br />"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," she recalled Thursday in a written account of the April 11 incident.</blockquote>And then there's this:<br /><blockquote>Prosecutors say she apologized profusely when she realized who the agents were. But that wasn't good enough for ABC agents, who charged her with three felonies.</blockquote>She was charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer and one count of eluding police. <br /><br />What stands out to me is that <i>half a dozen</i> agents closed in, at night, on several young college students. The agents were in street clothes, unrecognizable as law enforcement, and apparently their quick flashing of badges was not enough to be seen or confirmed. It was dark, the agents banged on the windows and jumped on the hood of the vehicle. The girls fled, terrified they were being assaulted. Stopped a short distance away by another police officer, Ms. Daly was told the car-jumping, window-banging shadows in the night were actually agents, and she apologized profusely. They slapped the cuffs on her and hauled her to jail.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.readthehook.com/109831/terror-harris-teeter-gun-wielding-abc-agents-arrest-underage-water-buyer">Local</a> and national news outlets have picked up on it. <br /><br />As I read yet another account of the incident, I thought about Alicia Showalter Reynolds who was abducted and murdered 17 years ago on Rt. 29 north of Charlottesville, reportedly by a man who had a flashing police light on the roof of his truck and pulled her over. She went missing for two months until her body was found in Culpeper. The murder was never solved ... the case is still open.<br /><br />That incident was an alarming event for women in the area. Still unsolved, Virginia State Police issued a statement in March of this year: <br /><blockquote>CULPEPER – Apprehending the person responsible for the disappearance and death of Alicia Showalter Reynolds remains a priority for the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Culpeper Field Office.<br /><br />March 2, 2013, marks 17 years since Ms. Reynolds was abducted in Culpeper County on Route 29 while traveling from Baltimore, Md., to Charlottesville. Since then the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Culpeper Field Office has received more than 10,040 tips relating to the ongoing case, with 27 of them coming in within the past 12 months. State police continue to ask the public to come forward with any information related to the investigation.<br /><br />According to witnesses who observed Ms. Reynolds’ vehicle parked on the southbound shoulder of Route 29 on March 2, 1996, a white male, approximately 35-45 years old with a medium build and light to medium brown hair was stopped out with her vehicle. The man, described as between 5’10’ to 6’0 tall, was driving a dark colored pickup truck, possibly a green Nissan. Ms. Reynolds’ remains were found two months later on May 7, 1996, in the Lignum area of Culpeper County.<br /><br />As news spread about Ms. Reynolds’ abduction, several other female subjects came forward advising that a white male had either stopped them or attempted to stop them while they were traveling along Route 29 in Culpeper County.<br /><br />Despite the passage of time, state police continue to pursue this case. “Within the past year, the investigation into Ms. Reynolds’ murder was the focus of review by State Police violent crimes investigators from around the state,” said Capt. Gary T. Settle, commander of the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Culpeper Field Office. “These investigators poured over the entire case file, leads, witness statements, interviews, suspect profiles, evidence, etc., to strategize and pursue any new evidential or technological avenues that could benefit and, ultimately, advance the progress of this ongoing investigation.”<br /><br />Anyone with information pertaining to the abduction and murder of Alicia Showalter Reynolds is asked to contact the Virginia State Police Culpeper Division toll-free at 1-800-572-2260, or the Bureau of Criminal Investigation toll-free at 1-888-300-0156 or by e-mail at bci-culpeper@vsp.virginia.gov.</blockquote>At the time, police advised women who were apprehended by a "police" vehicle to find a safe area before stopping, and were assured real officers would know they were not fleeing. <br /><br />With that in mind, perhaps ABC officers, especially those working in college towns, should be reminded of the <a href="http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Alicia_Showalter_Reynolds">Alicia Reynolds tragedy</a>.<br /><br /><b>UPDATE: </b>A number of newspaper editorials have questioned the validity and wisdom of ABC agents' actions during this incident including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, posting the editorial, <a href="http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/our-opinion/today-s-top-opinion-drunk-on-power/article_6d59ca44-59bb-5bb2-88b6-78f17b3ffade.html">Drunk on power?</a> 

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Deaths in Painkiller Overdoses Rise Sharply Among Women - NYTimes.com

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Prescription pain pill addiction was originally seen as a man's problem, a national epidemic that began among workers doing backbreaking labor in the coal mines and factories of Appalachia. But a new analysis of federal data has found that deaths in recent years have been rising far faster among women, quintupling since 1999.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">More women now die of overdoses from pain pills like OxyContin than from cervical cancer or homicide. And though more men are dying, women are catching up, according to <a title="The analysis." href="http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/PrescriptionPainkillerOverdoses/index.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">the analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>. And the problem is hitting white women harder than black women, and older women harder than younger ones.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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 this Ohio River town on the edge of Appalachia, women blamed the changing nature of American society. The rise of the single-parent household has thrust immense responsibility on women, who are not only mothers, but also, in many cases, primary breadwinners. Some who described feeling overwhelmed by their responsibilities said they craved the numbness that drugs bring. Others said highs made them feel pretty, strong and productive, a welcome respite from the chaos of their lives.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">"I thought I was supermom," said Crystal D. Steele, 42, a recovering addict who said she began to take medicine for back pain she developed working at Kentucky Fried Chicken. "I took one kid to football, the other to baseball. I went to work. I washed the car. I cleaned the house. I didn't even know I had a problem."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">Ms. Steele, now a patient at the <a title="The center s Web site." href="http://www.thecounselingcenter.org/The_Counseling_Center/Programs.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Counseling Center</a>, a rehabilitation center here, remembers getting calls about deaths of high school classmates while working at an answering service for a local funeral home. She counted about 50 women she had known who had drug-related deaths. She believes that had it not been for a 40-day stint in jail for stealing pain pills, she would have been among them.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">"I felt like I sold my soul somewhere along the way," said Ms. Steele, whose father was an alcoholic and abusive. "I didn't feel like I deserved to be given a second chance. I thought my kids would be better off without me."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">For years, drug overdose deaths in the United States were seen as mostly an urban problem that hit blacks hardest. But opioid abuse, which exploded in the 1990s and 2000s and included drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet, has been worst among whites, often in rural places. The C.D.C. analysis found that the overdose death rate for blacks in 2010, the most recent year for which there was final data, was less than half the rate for whites. Asians and Hispanics had the lowest rates.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">According to the report, 6,631 women died of opioid overdoses in 2010, compared with 10,020 men.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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 younger women in their 20s and 30s tend to have the highest rates of opioid abuse, the overdose death rate was highest among women ages 45 to 54, a finding that surprised clinicians. The range indicates that at least some portion of the drugs may have been prescribed appropriately for pain, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said in an interview. If death rates were driven purely by abuse, then one would expect the death rates to be highest among younger women who are the biggest abusers.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">Deaths among women have been rising for some time, but Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the C.D.C. director, said the problem had gone virtually unrecognized. The study offered several theories for the increase. Women are more likely than men to be prescribed pain drugs, to use them chronically, and to get prescriptions for higher doses.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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 study's authors hypothesized that it might be because the most common forms of chronic pain, like fibromyalgia, are more common in women. A woman typically also has less body mass than a man, making it easier to overdose.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">Women are also more likely to be given prescriptions of psychotherapeutic drugs, like antidepressants and antianxiety medications, Dr. Volkow said. That is significant because people who overdose are much more likely to have been taking a combination of those drugs and pain medication.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">Broader social trends, like unemployment, an increase in single-parent families, and their associated stressors, might have also contributed to the increase in abuse, but they are slow moving and unlikely to be a direct explanation, Dr. Volkow said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">Stella Collins, who runs group therapy sessions at the Counseling Center, said her patients, most of whom are poor, feel trapped. They are squeezing a living out of tiny paychecks. Many get no financial support from the fathers of their children and come from families where alcohol or drugs were abused. Their feelings of inadequacy and shame over not properly caring for their children help drive their addictions, she said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">"Poverty is depression, it's failure, it's sadness, it's low self-esteem," said Ms. Collins. Her mother, an addict, died of a heart attack at age 56 after spending money meant for heart medication on pain pills, she said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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 women are stuck, emotionally and financially," Ms. Collins added.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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 some of the women also fight their way back.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">Kathy Newman, 35, who started using pills in her 20s, after her older sister overdosed, and whose oldest son was born addicted, has been drug-free for two years. She now takes classes, and travels around the county telling her story at schools.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">For Ms. Steele, the most motivating image is that of her 12-year-old son's face streaked with tears, looking at her through the glass of the prison visiting area. Her eldest son now has custody of him.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">"I was at a big stop sign and it was like, 'O.K., which way are you going to go?' " she said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; 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); ">Portsmouth has worked hard to stop addiction. 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After one three-year employee walked off the job in May, he was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody for four days and fired by Quick Pita, according to Eidelson. 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The GSA, which owns the Reagan Building, took the complaints to the Department of Labor and the Trade Center Management Associates (TMCA), the private company which manages the building, saying it looks forward to the results of the investigation.</blockquote>The federal government<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/05/federal-govt-has-more-low-wage-workers.html"> employs more low-wage workers than Walmart and McDonald's combined</a>, according to a<a href="http://www.demos.org/publication/underwriting-bad-jobs-how-our-tax-dollars-are-funding-low-wage-work-and-fueling-inequali"> Demos</a> report released in May:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">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. </span></blockquote>Today's strike is the latest in a wave of job actions by low-wage worker across the country. Last month, Walmart workers went on strike for two weeks and traveled to the company's Bentonville, Ark., headquarters in bus caravans modeled after the freedom riders of the Civil Rights era. <br /><br /><br /></div>

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The Advocare 24 Day Challenge Diet Will Increase Your Energy

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Myrtle Cash</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>The weight loss industry is one of the most heavily promoted industries within the market today. The monotonous lifestyles that many people are forced to conform to, has caused the obesity epidemic to continue increasing. The AdvoCare 24 day challenge diet is a new product that is designed to promote weight loss.<br /> <br /> Although the program is called a diet, it actually is not just a dieting plan. It is a program that has been tested by scientists. It features supplements that have been scientifically engineered to help an individual lose weight, while also building muscle in the process.<br /> <br /> There are many people that choose to use weight loss products because of the promises that they make. However, they are not willing to sacrifice their present lifestyles in order to follow the programs as they state. The only way to obtain positive results, when using any product that promotes weight loss, is to follow all of the directions stated for the utilization of the product.<br /> <br /> Aside from putting all of your focus on dieting, you also need to ensure that with every program you use, you also include an exercise program into the mix as well. Exercising and dieting are two fundamental principles that go hand in hand. You cannot have one without the other, and expect to see results.<br /> <br /> The AdvoCare program, although focused on what you are consuming, does encourage including some type of physical activity into your daily activities as well. In order to receive the best results that go along with utilizing the product, you have to be willing to make some sacrifices. Nothing on your body will change, until you take the proper steps to promote the change.<br /> <br /> The dieting program is broken up into two phases. Individuals will go through one phase of the program, during their first ten days on it. The second phase will begin on day eleven and last until day twenty four. The initial phase is known as the cleansing phase. During this particular phase of the program, an individual will be given specific items that they will need to use every single day, in order to cleanse their bodies free of any toxins.<br /> <br /> Many people have a difficult time conforming to the cleanse phase instructions. The reason being, is because it is during this phase, where the individual has to alter the foods that they typically consume. The individual will be consuming high protein meals, eliminating sugar and dairy entirely.<br /> <br /> The second phase of the <A href="http://www.advocare.com">AdvoCare 24 day challenge diet</A> is the max phase. This phase is designed to help an individual manage their weight, control their appetite, and improve wellness. This program has the ability to help you lose weight, but getting the body that you want is still going to be solely up to you. You need to be willing to put in the effort to see the results that you desire.<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'>Learn how to lose weight with advocare 24 day challenge diet by getting top tips from this informative website <a href="http://www.advocare.com">https://www.advocare.com</a>. For guidance, see the related homepage now at http://www.advocare.com.</div><br /> </div><br />

The Advocare 24 Day Challenge Diet Will Increase Your Energy

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Milmont Greenhouse: Mountain views, gardening values

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhe4TGno8tpNkHx8xt7prvYjh5tH4E4uD-FDSMXo9Y66ggQyFtdlqUk8p3q04JEc93KJI_V_wlLmS1w62iCRriT-F1PCRKAqVJZYy-ILy-fOOugQP1Zvovy2s5DIg24O8FupM27fnubJoy/s800/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhe4TGno8tpNkHx8xt7prvYjh5tH4E4uD-FDSMXo9Y66ggQyFtdlqUk8p3q04JEc93KJI_V_wlLmS1w62iCRriT-F1PCRKAqVJZYy-ILy-fOOugQP1Zvovy2s5DIg24O8FupM27fnubJoy/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I snapped a photo while shopping the 50% off premium annuals on Tuesday at <a href="http://www.milmont.com/">Milmont Greenhouse</a> in Stuarts Draft. With the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background, this Mennonite-run nursery has a beautiful view both inside the fence and beyond. It's been my first choice for plants for 16 years.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbANETENsOpvOaQUE5F03-Tim4xCW6MnKsp81i4PbGa-8z7u143nw2cLOLE7eLpv9tGPndx8WCmUMYykaJ7MxeGU5EG1-aJph2sZjehCqnCZO32qGJoqzykA8j7XuSpvVGVS6Vw8PwtYm8/s800/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbANETENsOpvOaQUE5F03-Tim4xCW6MnKsp81i4PbGa-8z7u143nw2cLOLE7eLpv9tGPndx8WCmUMYykaJ7MxeGU5EG1-aJph2sZjehCqnCZO32qGJoqzykA8j7XuSpvVGVS6Vw8PwtYm8/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Sprinkles fell from the clouds throughout the morning before finally turning into downpours by the middle of the day.</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/AVvXsEi_1-fg0ELCO80sjfMFnOLoPzNe_t7XsBcGtrEWBsassf-5yaPLxlWfYssVo1j_YURn5fVzl3C9e_p91Rcv88rQgdwWECDW7TvKomrXJ6NvJTL_jWnLTQvdNsoIFh1i84BCGZhjDsgQcpmJ/s800/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1-fg0ELCO80sjfMFnOLoPzNe_t7XsBcGtrEWBsassf-5yaPLxlWfYssVo1j_YURn5fVzl3C9e_p91Rcv88rQgdwWECDW7TvKomrXJ6NvJTL_jWnLTQvdNsoIFh1i84BCGZhjDsgQcpmJ/s400/3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkv9Rq5ZOS5IJVuo1IZxyVgreSU8vRNvDYZ1UVwCD7_PyUhd3nXITgfYCEGmSM6fvFJD6gUzifia1RnaAhUw7_b3o3Qcaoaj5YEzISnnFyq3gnEzZE0zWu5ZQOWnvMlIMMlcrA1mNo25j/s800/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkv9Rq5ZOS5IJVuo1IZxyVgreSU8vRNvDYZ1UVwCD7_PyUhd3nXITgfYCEGmSM6fvFJD6gUzifia1RnaAhUw7_b3o3Qcaoaj5YEzISnnFyq3gnEzZE0zWu5ZQOWnvMlIMMlcrA1mNo25j/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I was looking for flowers to fill in blank spots in pots that had been planted with Milmont products in the spring.</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/AVvXsEhGGHdaYfhkuv9vI8aPnK0Xsyv3opbRO47UfREDgvApPC04p72GIk6oAgIt6ojDOWpFTuqI6KqZMzFhGu5iZEarxM7Q568vJww3qY43KuTC9ahxgcOTzr9iz_lE0zCaic5FQCiIJoF05zHf/s632/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGHdaYfhkuv9vI8aPnK0Xsyv3opbRO47UfREDgvApPC04p72GIk6oAgIt6ojDOWpFTuqI6KqZMzFhGu5iZEarxM7Q568vJww3qY43KuTC9ahxgcOTzr9iz_lE0zCaic5FQCiIJoF05zHf/s400/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuJ9Ia1kE6zyW4FhOZNvz_yHgzq44R8Sd8IRfbbFZt0MBZTJUINYzkfgtTFcU0PqPjtScAxtvgEJ4vAocFztwq7C1MhzOpEWsNQb-gMx5BjAFBaoPJVBdm54iu4w81L6T5pcZfymxOydP/s800/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuJ9Ia1kE6zyW4FhOZNvz_yHgzq44R8Sd8IRfbbFZt0MBZTJUINYzkfgtTFcU0PqPjtScAxtvgEJ4vAocFztwq7C1MhzOpEWsNQb-gMx5BjAFBaoPJVBdm54iu4w81L6T5pcZfymxOydP/s400/6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_nufNOpHT53BmZ5TYRuJElwJEPWU-JmGbkXuMpdO6l1qYxshyphenhyphen1tYBH9SQgdbXlhEg_XjPi2YLFndGEgQHJLKKnyMynCylKhU4LsZUkOv2e87NDgfsjrsdVeSWJUQUh16gNKXAsfu8H7-/s790/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_nufNOpHT53BmZ5TYRuJElwJEPWU-JmGbkXuMpdO6l1qYxshyphenhyphen1tYBH9SQgdbXlhEg_XjPi2YLFndGEgQHJLKKnyMynCylKhU4LsZUkOv2e87NDgfsjrsdVeSWJUQUh16gNKXAsfu8H7-/s400/7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhln1tMa2TASsEtjMxygUY-emeNR-QlOBm_ayAhmiRXYIAMSL063cAk_Ywc5fiNYVL5ctK64vCgbQ2ZFaDY51RZEi-MjRzUSRDXd9gNFcVhB0ojlLCN_Pd8lxlptGeUSKiyZiZcki-bXYUE/s657/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhln1tMa2TASsEtjMxygUY-emeNR-QlOBm_ayAhmiRXYIAMSL063cAk_Ywc5fiNYVL5ctK64vCgbQ2ZFaDY51RZEi-MjRzUSRDXd9gNFcVhB0ojlLCN_Pd8lxlptGeUSKiyZiZcki-bXYUE/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The sale on hanging baskets and premium annuals began July 2.</div><br />Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell<br />July 2, 2013

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NC Moral Monday protesters take on unemployment cuts; more than 80 arrested

Police arrested more than 80 people during the ninth Moral Monday protest in Raleigh, N.C,. last night. They were protesting a new state law that<a href="http://www.wral.com/nc-s-long-term-jobless-lose-unemployment-checks/12612312/"> cuts off federal unemployment benefits for 70,000 state residents</a>. Since late April, law enforcement has detained about <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=9157935">675 demonstrators</a> for protesting the policies of Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican-majority Legislature.<br /><br />North Carolina yesterday became the first state to opt out from collecting extended unemployment benefits. Beyond those immediately affected, another 100,000 state residents could lose their benefits in the coming months. The new law also hacks the maximum weekly benefit a laid-off worker can receive from $535 to $350.<br /><br />For some in the crowd of 1,200 gathered near the Statehouse, the loss is far more than a statistic. Wayne Bostic <a href="http://www.wral.com/9th-moral-monday-focuses-on-unemployment-cuts/12617625/?print_friendly">said</a> he is unsure whether he will be able to remain in his home:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">It means my check, which is the mortgage check, is not going to be there. How is a cut in anybody's money going to help a person?</blockquote>Chapel Hill resident Kristin Frescoln is the former manager of the state's drug treatment courts who lost her job in 2011 when the Legislature largely defunded the program. She <a href="http://fayobserver.com/articles/2013/07/02/1267195">said</a> the protests build awareness of what is going on in North Carolina:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We have to bring attention to what is happening here. It's our obligation in a democracy to speak out.</blockquote>The <a href="http://www.naacpnc.org/">state chapter of the NAACP</a>, with the backing of unions, the North Carolina Democratic Party and others, have continued to put pressure on Gov. McCrory and the Legislature. They are dancing to the tune of the state's multimillionaire budget director, <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/02/heres-billionaire-trying-to-destroy.html">Art Pope</a>. Pope is a friend of the Koch brothers and a disciple of <a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/">ALEC</a>, the escort service for corporations and state lawmakers. Pope helped pay for the 2012 candidacies of the governor and many state GOP lawmakers now in office.<br /><br />Besides unemployment benefit cuts, the Legislature opted out of participating in the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, which would have covered an additional 500,000 North Carolinians. The Legislature is also proposing tax changes that would favor corporations and the rich over middle-class families and education cuts as well.<br /><br />Stay tuned...<br /><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/AVvXsEgq6UJmKXwvg5AL2oFi-33G4OgWqeOCk9PK8InzkqPKGRDXe6rUyUgJYhRSHc6IfDr05LAQNdJPDNPJ1kTJ6DxbzX1llwl5xbWJSONYwvFVjD_H6rr62cIaIZRy69dNf2O9uJ-mlqJrF2A9/s1024/7-1moralmondayphoto2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6UJmKXwvg5AL2oFi-33G4OgWqeOCk9PK8InzkqPKGRDXe6rUyUgJYhRSHc6IfDr05LAQNdJPDNPJ1kTJ6DxbzX1llwl5xbWJSONYwvFVjD_H6rr62cIaIZRy69dNf2O9uJ-mlqJrF2A9/s320/7-1moralmondayphoto2.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good dog!</td></tr></tbody></table>

NC Moral Monday protesters take on unemployment cuts; more than 80 arrested

Police arrested more than 80 people during the ninth Moral Monday protest in Raleigh, N.C,. last night. They were protesting a new state law...

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Librarians - Fairfield University

<strong>Librarians - </strong><strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Fairfield University</span></strong></strong> seeks energetic, self-motivated librarians with a strong public services commitment for the following shifts: Monday evenings 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. and Wednesday evenings 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Some flexibility is desirable for working as a substitute for other evening/weekend reference staff. Schedule varies during holidays, summer and intersessions. The Library also invites applications for a part-time instruction librarian opening to teach weekdays as part of a busy Information Literacy Program. Requirements: MLS from ALA-accredited program. Prior reference desk experience. Demonstrated ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, to a variety of audiences. Experience with electronic reference resources. For the instruction position: teaching experience using active learning techniques is highly desirable. Submit letter of application, resume, and telephone numbers/e-mail addresses of three references to JoAnn Garrity, DiMenna-Nyselius Library, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 06824-5195, or directed electronically to <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:jgarrity@fairfield.edu" href="mailto:jgarrity@fairfield.edu">jgarrity@fairfield.edu</a>. Review of applications will begin in late July.

Librarians - Fairfield University

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Supervisor of Youth Library Services / Librarian II - Portland Public Library

<strong>Supervisor of Youth Library Services / Librarian II -</strong> <strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Portland Public Library</span></strong></strong>. Energetic, professional person responsible for children’s services of public library responsible for collection building, programming, outreach and communications with schools and other agencies; will be part of planning team; works with part time staff and volunteers; provides information service to adults, children, and teens. Subject to pre-employment drug/alcohol testing. Requirements: ALA/MLS. Experience in children’s department in a public or school library; demonstrated computer skills; organizational abilities. Previous supervisory experience is desirable; must have valid driver’s license, physical dexterity and visual acuity. Salary $52,000; forty (40) hours per week; regular night and Saturday rotation; fringe benefit package; union position. Equal Opportunity Employer. Send application with resume to: First Selectwoman’s Office, P.O. Box 71, Portland, CT 06480. Deadline: <span style="color: red;">July 26, 2013</span>.

Supervisor of Youth Library Services / Librarian II - Portland Public Library

Supervisor of Youth Library Services / Librarian II - Portland Public Library . Energetic, professional person responsible for children’s ...

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Blew it

"What happens if I tell you to do something?"<br /><br />"I'll do it."<br /><br />Seemed simple enough.  Not as simple as I probably think, but the general principle of being asked to do something and following through shouldn't be too difficult to the one asking for it.  Well, I blew it.<br /><br />I didn't see it for what it was until this morning.  I guess, like probably every one of you, it didn't go as I pictured it would... you know, my way lol.  I was thinking more like "put away these clothes that you've had sitting around for a week" or maybe something like "help the kids sort out their toys so we can walk through the living room again." Or more importantly, "Do your work tasks today so we don't owe late fees."<br /><br />My heart is always in everything I do, even if I despise doing it.  Everything is done for a reason and I like to think there's always good to come from it in the end.  Heart and good intentions don't get the job done.  I've always had issues with organization and procrastination.  I have ADD that's no longer medicated.  Not that it's an excuse, not at all, it just poses an additional challenge for staying on task when I <i>finally </i>get doing whatever it was.  Deadlines and disasters are what  motivate me.  Which comes back around to why I think DD is going to help me as opposed to some other way of improving my relationship with my husband.  <br /><br />One of our businesses is closed this week.  Kids are out of school this week and back to school Monday, darned year-round schools.  I do have stuff to do, I'm still sorta working, just the stuff I usually do at home.  This is the closest our family gets to having a stay-at-home mom.<br /><br />Read: I have a lot more time on my hands.<br /><br />They were subtle.  I didn't catch it.  Softly spoken suggestions.  I mean, I heard them, but filed them away as things on my to-do list... that will never be completed.  Suggestions that didn't quite register with the enormity of what he brought himself to do.  <br /><br />Not barked out, but worked into conversation.  You should probably go to the bank. Child should probably get writing thank-you cards, her party was a month ago.  Do you think you'd have time to call the utility company to find out how they want us to do something for a work project?  With that one he added, "You're so much better at that stuff than I am."<br /><br />We had a late dinner after kids went to bed.  "Did you get a lot of stuff done today?"  I admitted no.  "Well you got a house rented today."  Yes, I did, for more money than the last tenant!!  "And you went to the bank."  No... made some excuses.  "Well, you've got the cards done."  No... just bought them and didn't <strike>feel like it</strike> have time.  "Well you did call utility, right?"  Ummm, no... forgot and figured they'd be closed when I remembered.<br /><br />He sat there shaking his head in utter frustration.  I brushed it off, knowing I'd get these things done eventually.<br /><br />This morning, it hit me like a ton of bricks.  Those words seared into my brain.  "You're so much better at that stuff than I am."  Reading was far more important to me yesterday, more important than the work I knew I had to do.  Apparently more important than what I was asked to do.  When I had an opportunity to encourage him, I blew it.<br /><br />With an obscene amount of guilt weighing on me, I had a lengthy conversation with the utility company while they scrambled for the answer.  My daughter has been sitting here dutifully writing thank you cards.  Shes making far too much work for herself but they're really stinkin cute.  She's still writing and I'm here typing.  Then we'll be off to the post office so she can pick out her own stamps... then to the bank.

Blew it

"What happens if I tell you to do something?" "I'll do it." Seemed simple enough.  Not as simple as I probably think...

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Teamster funeral directors strike in Chicago

The relentless greed of <a href="http://www.teamsterslocal727.org/">Houston-based funeral giant SC</a>I has forced Teamster funeral directors and drivers to strike today. The funeral directors, members of Local 727, set up strike lines this morning outside of area funeral homes.<br /><br />SCI, despite a soaring stock price and healthy profit, is trying to take away their employees' pensions, raise health care costs and freeze wages for new hires. The funeral directors and drivers overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike last night.<br /><br />According to Local 727's<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sci-funeral-directors-vote-to-strike-213927771.html"> press statement</a>, <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">SCI, which uses the Dignity Memorial brand name, operates 16 funeral homes with 59 employees in the Chicagoland area.  The employees voted in a secret ballot election to reject SCI's June 30 "last, best and final offer".  In a vote immediately following the rejection of the offer, employees voted to strike. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">"In 40 years as a funeral director I've helped thousands of people through some of the most difficult times in their lives.  Striking is not something I ever thought I would have to do," said John Liberatore, a director at Piser Funeral Services in Skokie...</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">In preparation for a strike, Teamster-represented funeral directors established a website (www.integrityinillinois.com) and hotline (312-206-4123) to direct families to community-friendly funeral homes not affected by the labor action.  A complete list of affected homes is available at the site.</blockquote><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/AVvXsEh9AHe8JZUt5IEWyUmUJw50KVSsqanquuVtqZ7MqHTwldDvU3cO-kDen4QHkabQwCjtwg1Pb85u24ddlXE1egm1x2W5oGtpF8yo8nKJN12BRpTrk4ZzQ7z4l2lNBmMGUQgwG6PD_O4yx1Ck/s640/SCI+strike+preparation.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9AHe8JZUt5IEWyUmUJw50KVSsqanquuVtqZ7MqHTwldDvU3cO-kDen4QHkabQwCjtwg1Pb85u24ddlXE1egm1x2W5oGtpF8yo8nKJN12BRpTrk4ZzQ7z4l2lNBmMGUQgwG6PD_O4yx1Ck/s320/SCI+strike+preparation.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preparing for today's strike.</td></tr></tbody></table><div>The <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-funeral-directors-strike-20130701,0,5369416.story?track=rss">Chicago Tribune</a> covered the strike: </div><blockquote>Funeral directors and drivers who work at Dignity Memorial funeral homes voted on Monday night to strike against their Houston-based employer, Service Corporation International, according to the workers’ union...</blockquote><blockquote>John Liberatore, a director at Piser Funeral Services in Skokie, said the union would not picket any funerals that had been arranged prior to the vote and would direct families to other funeral companies while the strike takes place.</blockquote>Several <a href="http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/news/21090705-418/teamsters-to-strike-funeral-homes.html">smaller papers in the Sun-Times chain</a> covered the job action. The main paper <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teamsters-sun-times-refuses-union-advertising-213561401.html">refused to carry an advertisement</a> from the union seeking support in its struggle against SCI. The smaller papers in the chain <i>did</i> carry the ad. Later the smaller papers' ad manager accused the Teamsters of "getting them in trouble" for failing to notify them of the Sun-Times' refusal -- even though the smaller papers had an earlier deadline and the ad hadn't been refused yet!

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The relentless greed of Houston-based funeral giant SC I has forced Teamster funeral directors and drivers to strike today. The funeral dire...

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Six Pack Abs Foods

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;">Six pack abs foods</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Getting a six pack takes a lot of hard work, and is more about diet than it is about exercise. so you need to restrict your calorie intake and eat a healthier, more balanced diet that is high in protein, low in fat, and low in carbs.</span></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 type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br /></center> <div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fiber </b>: is digests and can lower blood sugar, cut cholesterol, and may even prevent colon cancer and help you avoid hemorrhoids. So you should always try to eat foods that contain significant amounts of fiber.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Vitamin D</b> : improves your fat-burning potential by up to 50%!. is important in weight loss and Six Pack Abs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Whey protein</b> : Whey protein is a superior form of protein and extremely effective when you’re trying to burn fat and show off your abs. Supplementing your diet with whey protein provides your body with the building blocks to recover from intense workouts. Whey protein (six pack abs foods) is also high in the amino acid cysteine. This amino acid helps boost immunity by boosting glutathione levels. Whey protein is also very low in fat so you can use it while dieting as well. If your mission is to build a better body, you better be training hard and supplementing with whey protein. The effects of whey protein on human health are of great interest and is best Six Pack Abs Foods.</span></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 type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br /></center> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Omega 3 </b>: Studies have shown that fish oils and other Omega 3 supplements do promote weight loss by preventing the accumulation of fat cells. The best source of omega-3 is fish.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chia Seeds</b> : The benefits of chia seeds are extreme. The first of which would be the Chia gel. This chia gel creates a barrier for carbohydrates and your digestive enzymes. The barrier slows the process of turning sugars to fat. This leads to chia seeds weight loss benefits and to support your six pack abs. This is definitely one <a href="http://waysforweightloss.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-best-superfoods-for-weight-loss.html">Superfood</a> and is best Six Pack Abs Foods.</span></div></div> <br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5028478688240504"; /* AdSense_Link_468-15 */ google_ad_slot = "9216178472"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 15; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /></center> <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Source: <a href="http://www.losingweightforall.com/six-pack-abs-foods">http://www.losingweightforall.com/six-pack-abs-foods</a></h4></div>

Six Pack Abs Foods Six Pack Abs Foods

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Tight Butt Workout

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;">Tight butt workout</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Summer’s finally here, Want to have a tight butt by the time you hit the beach? We all want a pretty butt to make our skinny jeans look stylish. Try out this tight butt workout, tone and lift your butt!</span></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 type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br /></center> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Hydrant </b>: Start out on all fours, with abs engaged and back flat. Keeping upper  body still, lift it up to the side until it’s parallel with your hips. 21 reps each leg</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlfohfVQv_zybVWTM5ochFFzYSH3IzL7tCPVBtdKutLz_xHHrzi-BhukZF_LbGIFj-zkPIMoxtLwxMCFwm6oofzmR2Jy9tJwjEJnQyaF6pZARuwfrNQ9hHQdtu_EdyQhc5orXNfBn_i4/s400/The+Hydrant_Tight+Butt+Workout.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Getting tighter glutes with <b>Dumbbell Squats</b>.. Do it: Stand with your legs at about shoulder width, and hold a dumbbell in front of you with both hands. Squat down as if you were going to sit in a chair, keeping your weight over your heels. Squeeze your glutes as you return to the start position. Do 15-20 reps. As you continue, keep the weight in your heels, making sure your knees do not pass forward of your toes. For a bigger challenge, try it without the weights, jump explosively, and land in the squat position.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEddowhnuZMZFoFMt9kq6UES09TvH8tiY_1YZdOh6OByL5W2sXYt9zUoZ55jLEGmaQy3g-Yv7RjjOYKO0gkAgokb0RE58lVzG3uHBEvVMHSS9D3jpbO_liy0o2yOpFkQd30ThHlf6J0Y/s400/Dumbbell+Squats_Tight+Butt+Workout.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Kickback</b> : To do it, Start on all fours. For minute and a half seconds, kick your left leg straight out behind you at a square angle to the floor. Do the same with your right leg. Repeat this four times.</span></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 type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br /></center> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Hip Extension</b> : Start on all fours, keeping your left leg bent, push it back until it’s in line with your spine, with your foot and upper thigh parallel to the ceiling. Do this for minute and a half seconds and then do the same with your right leg.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM7Fmf3F-7bqq2ShNJRX46bHvG5_IAj2a-T7O6wnUHyuyTyJ0M_sH7uGs5wC-UeYI6Asi_LgE1XHFS0V0LnO4DpPqqW9v77Gb7lJXGq_CtK0qSja69P9D0LL3fCJj6Hlj5i04VKsxDsDU/s400/The+Hip+Extension_Tight+Butt+Workout.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lunges</b> : This exercise tightens up the outer part of your butt: To begin a walking lunge stand upright (add weights in your hands for more intensity). Now take a lunge forward while never letting your knee go 'over' your toe. Once at the bottom of the lunge (leg bent at 90 degree angle), push off with the back foot and then approach the standing position. Repeat with the other leg. Make sure to breath out on the way up and breathe in on the actual lunge.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJwcs3O0TMByPbGk1xfWAWTgpAxkJC5_fRfIQYzUiOE-xKL66dfM2s1fkf4zix2KCFwbwmbGJXBW0jKa00Ou5dItVL21Wst_U-XrN0pNK1od7DbV5JVkiakaQxjst62A5CL4qndXGj6Q/s400/Side-Walking+Lunges_Tight+Butt+Workout.jpg" width="335" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>

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Hard Work: The Weight Loss Salt Lake City Residents Are Seeking Needs It

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Lucy Cho</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>The trick to weight loss Salt Lake City residents are hunting for? It takes good old hard work. There are differing services, products and ideas that could help to set you on the path to losing some weight, but it also takes you putting in some decent effort. We will look into various ways you could get yourself to a better mental space to begin a journey toward weight loss in Salt Lake City. We will cover various potential solutions. Even how getting treatments such as lip injections in Utah could possibly help your process! There are many things that could help you out, but you need to be committed to taking some action and doing at least some work for serious results.<br /> <br /> To begin, we are going to cover some things you might do to boost your weight loss in Salt Lake City with activity and exercise. Then we will cover how your diet will help to get more results. To conclude, we'll address how improving your self-image can bolster your efforts to lose some weight.<br /> <br /> Many voices tell us that exercise is a great contributor to good health, but it can be difficult to fit it into a busy day or week. There are differing ideas that can offer the boost to weight loss Salt Lake City residents look for. Look for solutions all around you. It is probable, if you live in Utah, that there are mountains nearby that are full of places to explore. Biking, hiking, and various other activities could be available not too far from home. Or if you need to stay at home, getting a pedometer and tracking the amount of steps you take each day could be a helpful idea. Just walking around the house more could help your weight loss journey. Simply try to keep busy. Look around for ways to keep you from being too sedentary and lazing around your house or other environments that discourage healthy activity.<br /> <br /> We frequently hear how a healthy diet is a good place to look for getting the weight loss Salt Lake City residents want. You should think carefully about what you are consuming. Write down the food and drinks from your past week or so. Look for healthy things missing from the list or that you could use more of, and look for the unhealthy things you could omit from your diet.<br /> <br /> Having confidence about yourself and your appearance can be another way to improve your efforts. Having treatments such as the laser hair removal, facials, or lip injections Utah spas can perform could help you have some confidence. Perhaps just a new haircut may do the trick. The more you have in yourself, the more it can contribute to your drive to work hard at losing the weight and improving yourself even more.<br /> <br /> The weight loss Salt Lake City citizens seek may or may not involve unique ideas such as getting lip injections in Utah, but talking to a doctor and working hard are great things that should be involved.<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'>Want to find out more about <a href='http://www.elase.com/utah/vive-weight-loss'>weight loss Salt Lake City</a>, then visit Esme Spence's site on how to choose this or other services like <a href='http://www.elase.com/utah/lip-augmentation'>lip injections Utah</a> for your needs.</div><br /> </div><br />

Hard Work: The Weight Loss Salt Lake City Residents Are Seeking Needs It

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Going to the upper road: when life says "move on"

<blockquote><p><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LVHrGjOA7EU/SSFyDaNy0cI/AAAAAAAAAh8/vIzx3fkUf4I/s1600/9908_11_7638_a3.jpg" target="_blank" style="text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img alt="" class="alignleft" height="335" id="blogsy-1372767131801.9924" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LVHrGjOA7EU/SSFyDaNy0cI/AAAAAAAAAh8/vIzx3fkUf4I/s500/9908_11_7638_a3.jpg" width="500"></a></p><p> I’m going by the upper road, for that</p><p><span style="text-align: center; ">still holds the sun,</span></p><p>I’m climbing through night’s pastures where</p><p>the starry rivers run:</p><p>If you should think to seek me in my</p><p>old dark abode,</p><p>You’ll find this writing on the door,</p><p>“He’s on the Upper Road.”</p><p>Streams in the Desert - July 2</p></blockquote> <p>There are times we must move on. We've lived in a place that served a purpose. We've gotten comfortable there. We've had good times there. Yet, there are new travels ahead with a new purpose and new mission.</p> <p>As we've been talking on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/coolcatteacher" target="_blank" title="">Facebook page</a> about whether we miss our students, I'm struck by the comments of those teachers in transition between schools. Leaving a school must have heartache in it. Every teacher I know who is a great teacher loves their kids and many colleagues at any school - no matter how tough.</p> <p>My Mom still shows me the platter presented to her when she left her first school. My sister still misses some of her colleagues and talks fondly of her first class at Gwinett County schools near Atlanta. It is part of who we are. Our treasures are not dollars in the bank, but faces that come to mind and the stories that enrich our lives full of meaning. Good teachers are rich. We aren't biding our time, we are building it. When we retire, great teachers have castles of legacy built upon the stories and richness of lives forever changed.</p> <p>Today, I have lunch with Casey - she's in college and was one of the two students that Thomas Friedman mentioned when he wrote about the Flat Classroom projects in his version 3 of the World is Flat. She is doing great in college and I'm excited to hear her stories. She couldn't stay in her old abode (high school) but had to move on to the upper road (college) and then will move beyond. Like my son who just finished his first college test yesterday in Psychology. The upper road calls.</p> <p>I'm writing this because many of us educators have transition. We may have to give up coaching a sport and move to another. We may have to give up a club to do another. We may no longer be teaching a subject we love and have to move to one we're not so crazy about. If we're parents, we might even have to let our own child move to their upper road without the baggage of an overly sad parent hanging over their heads. (sniff)</p> <p>I never want to be the kind of teacher (or parent) who lives in the old, dank abodes of time past - wishing for how it used to be. It used to be hard and it will continue to be hard because that is the profession we have. The profession we have is tough. I pray daily to be like Moses' burning bush to be on fire without burning out (something only God can do, honestly, because teaching is sooooo hard.)</p> <p>So, teacher, as you face transition - let's move to the upper road with purpose. Let's remember the past abode with joy, but as our bodies move forward, let our hearts and souls move forward too. <strong>Let's be fully present in the present</strong> - learning from the past but not living there. Let it go and go on.</p> <p>The upper road calls. I'm packing my bags. Will you?</p> <p> </p><div style="text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;" id="blogsy_footer"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com" target="_blank"><img alt="Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad" height="20" src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;" width="20" />Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad</a></div>

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George W. Bush carries on humanitarian work in Africa

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBqtra2un3iwzBg5ctWeAPoOH0hCYD91eInC9kohk9L2eXaxtrCehzkS1PoC4MEXLAxTNmudAxke_mXW7Ed1M62AHuGo1FJc4yAjxF7F04LUBJXLLk9WZyY8hyphenhyphenG58YLFeTqLwT8Hx4Euj/s570/George+W.+Bush+33+Africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBqtra2un3iwzBg5ctWeAPoOH0hCYD91eInC9kohk9L2eXaxtrCehzkS1PoC4MEXLAxTNmudAxke_mXW7Ed1M62AHuGo1FJc4yAjxF7F04LUBJXLLk9WZyY8hyphenhyphenG58YLFeTqLwT8Hx4Euj/s640/George+W.+Bush+33+Africa.jpg" width="538" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzmdbAArQL4PgP0QJsWH11CcfA8bQrIJi3bJX0IyO2poeFuMdYZtAIjLo6OGwLchMjBRDtpTC29Bgh2T5McvNy1pAPHLANTq8Rehd8wTs9aLS_Z8wE6u4hzf1neQff5p7KXd5q7chC2nvD/s720/George+W.+Bush+20+Africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzmdbAArQL4PgP0QJsWH11CcfA8bQrIJi3bJX0IyO2poeFuMdYZtAIjLo6OGwLchMjBRDtpTC29Bgh2T5McvNy1pAPHLANTq8Rehd8wTs9aLS_Z8wE6u4hzf1neQff5p7KXd5q7chC2nvD/s400/George+W.+Bush+20+Africa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">After a week of renovating, President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush opened the Mosi-Oa-Tunya clinic, a cervical cancer facility in Livingstone, Zambia. <a href="http://www.swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/07/wapost-obama-yet-to-leave-lasting.html">The trip demonstrates their continued commitment</a> to the people of Africa through the work of the global health initiative at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheBushCenter?fref=ts">George W. Bush Institute</a>. June 30-July 1, 2013 </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-vvODqLSQGgUmSMTZA9ILgndtw2pV3usUIx920eBDgmGqssXsnwssmeP0P9R4UzFdPBOrdgcKKHycLrsACCH-Krcgfm5IRxeelqWD0HOBehrCbvNX8rou_3SY9-vqMnTxrPg0VHhlfQy/s640/George+W.+Bush+21+Afrida.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-vvODqLSQGgUmSMTZA9ILgndtw2pV3usUIx920eBDgmGqssXsnwssmeP0P9R4UzFdPBOrdgcKKHycLrsACCH-Krcgfm5IRxeelqWD0HOBehrCbvNX8rou_3SY9-vqMnTxrPg0VHhlfQy/s400/George+W.+Bush+21+Afrida.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">GWB has spent his time traveling the country and the world on behalf of human freedom, global health, education, economic freedom, and <a href="http://newbusinessethiopia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=653:former-us-president-to-visit-ethiopia-tanzania-zambia-&catid=27:health&Itemid=52">AIDs research in Africa</a>, something <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/15/georgebush.usa">he began while President</a>. In 2008, he received the <a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2008-11-13-voa5-66795107.html"><span lang="X-NONE">Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Award</span></a> for his work in Africa, and in December 2011 he and Mrs. Bush traveled to <a href="http://www.bushcenter.com/africa-trip">Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Zambia</a> in their continued commitment to the people. </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/AVvXsEh5govGzE1CqkoKqKpPc-h8ydtEDv3V-Dh8NdCk0cO1DJRV5Qv8ZkEk0T-IKZ6Gut9ERKaqgXvRS4xJD411Ms7dulVu8r2HB5PLf7UHA29UECS5xkOTt5OVapOH8tlxKgA0IAkUNs55qdU3/s960/George+W.+Bush+22+Africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5govGzE1CqkoKqKpPc-h8ydtEDv3V-Dh8NdCk0cO1DJRV5Qv8ZkEk0T-IKZ6Gut9ERKaqgXvRS4xJD411Ms7dulVu8r2HB5PLf7UHA29UECS5xkOTt5OVapOH8tlxKgA0IAkUNs55qdU3/s400/George+W.+Bush+22+Africa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Not many are aware of <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2011/07/19/bono-praises-george-w-bush-saving-millions-africa-prendergast-credits">Bush’s humanitarian work</a> in other parts of the world. In the summer of 2011, Bono of the rock group U-2 praised Bush for his fight against AIDs in Africa, a stand that has saved over five million lives during the past eight years. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij3QqlEqaJkAkM-Elx6-_8_cg5tDcgzpxel5vEPVjluoGVSbtJBWDzZNtOh-vaMUIELssYQH4ZfwCtJZF3gepufxDgAnMZkppF17UidXBUEYfKrMxqeNYts8dYe7LO05WaB4VbViOXKyYJ/s960/George+W.+Bush+23+Africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij3QqlEqaJkAkM-Elx6-_8_cg5tDcgzpxel5vEPVjluoGVSbtJBWDzZNtOh-vaMUIELssYQH4ZfwCtJZF3gepufxDgAnMZkppF17UidXBUEYfKrMxqeNYts8dYe7LO05WaB4VbViOXKyYJ/s400/George+W.+Bush+23+Africa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">In addition, human rights activist John Prendegast noted that it was during Bush’s administration and with the help of America’s influence that South Sudan was able to successfully obtain peace with the north. Democratic consultant and Fox News contributor Bob Beckel, co-host on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/02/democrat-bob-beckel-picks-george-w-bush.html">praised Bush’s African work</a> and picked him as one of his two all-time favorite presidents.</div><br /><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/AVvXsEgps2o5pq3Sk2GEb7D8XBGAUXxPOFMjq3TqyCZLaJ229kZ4RDYiQ6pwaa9VuzHQ3tlHsm1ZUhyphenhyphenHG-iTkbXG7rJqf13jf9Tg7fBmowfw5A1CIXxTdDvMKpp-0U8QvFTndIobvQUH9l6URGBF/s960/George+W.+Bush+24+Africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgps2o5pq3Sk2GEb7D8XBGAUXxPOFMjq3TqyCZLaJ229kZ4RDYiQ6pwaa9VuzHQ3tlHsm1ZUhyphenhyphenHG-iTkbXG7rJqf13jf9Tg7fBmowfw5A1CIXxTdDvMKpp-0U8QvFTndIobvQUH9l6URGBF/s400/George+W.+Bush+24+Africa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The President's tee shirt in this photo is a reminder that on the home front, most of the time he has spent with America’s military members is unknown to the public as he greets solders at airports when they return home from service overseas, reaches out to individual families, and works with injured military veterans and the <a href="http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/">Wounded Warrior Project</a> including the <a href="http://www.bushcenter.org/military-service-initiative/w100k%E2%80%8E">W 100K mountain bike ride</a>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKFMeYl-ASUQvWBiBB3A5DXH_RLhG3wYFTCC-4-YrDqNpPwVDbzeo528dqiGcClIyaEgHO56KVgzyqoWAD0UcRciKqMNelI03Y_q97NNvcf1xQJ33kyoQVlpATTn5I35VuK4TtkSWfWycw/s960/George+W.+Bush+32+Africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKFMeYl-ASUQvWBiBB3A5DXH_RLhG3wYFTCC-4-YrDqNpPwVDbzeo528dqiGcClIyaEgHO56KVgzyqoWAD0UcRciKqMNelI03Y_q97NNvcf1xQJ33kyoQVlpATTn5I35VuK4TtkSWfWycw/s400/George+W.+Bush+32+Africa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">More about George and Laura Bush's work in Africa can be seen <a href="http://www.swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/07/wapost-obama-yet-to-leave-lasting.html">here</a> and <a href="http://bearingdrift.com/2012/04/03/george-w-bush-not-endorsing-in-presidential-primary-is-no-mystery/">here.</a></div><br /><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><i>Cross-posted at <a href="http://www.politicalpineapple.com/">Va Political Pineapple</a></i> </span></span><br /><br /><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Photos by Paul Morse</span></span><br /><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">For the <a href="http://www.bushcenter.org/">George W. Bush Presidential Center</a></span></span>

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