Web Tools #30: Add speech bubbles to a photo online and then download the photo

<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/AVvXsEiKSslAbAfX36gre4ursOB9zaLFkfKFLo-G2Br-QsIrPJhYlW-pCA4mUgFFvHiMZbgDfu5ZADpSixaRGBUwNvPetIajfuL4RyA7Xq5IHeqskTx7GZ3Y_aMxJG2JpZRcJSl78QPO86nnyrw/s1600/phraseit.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKSslAbAfX36gre4ursOB9zaLFkfKFLo-G2Br-QsIrPJhYlW-pCA4mUgFFvHiMZbgDfu5ZADpSixaRGBUwNvPetIajfuL4RyA7Xq5IHeqskTx7GZ3Y_aMxJG2JpZRcJSl78QPO86nnyrw/s320/phraseit.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal. </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the last in my series of 30 Days of Web Tools series - but of course I continue adding many web tool posts in the days to come</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came across the coolest website today called Phrase.it (<a href="http://phrase.it/">http://phrase.it.</a>)  It is a very easy to use tool where you simply upload your photo (or select it from Facebook), add your bubble and text and then save it.  Let’s go through it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1. Open Phrase.it</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-uq8myMbPAl9t_WIpLxWK9Ub43lQ7-aW1Hgjm2etsday3_LKB58OTAITmCCi4ijcN3s2A6suD3QuhxE-8wuu9nm1GmwabOkTqE7q-puA5Ejz26WnVG_JoTgT-UVhwBZq0kRsy95_gwI/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2. Add your photo</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can import from Facebook, upload one or use a random stock photo. I added one from the TeachMeet in East London on Tuesday. I notice that the image must be over 400kb. Phrase.it gives you little messages as it uploads – it goes very quickly. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am using a photo from the TeachMeet at East London on Tuesday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYrK_wg0puoaQ7GdXYYeOm7VImGhNKm0y0OGjnDzZ0KzFLyhm6I5_RSx9MGbBgE-QytSb9C1on8f6L6nqXTIWkFbdsNXYqm5x3aoulmUJb14auEF2v4etDcuwNnw1Gd9DiIrkBkRWdC8U/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>3. Add your speech bubbles</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiES3C7hLjKjuakabFxMPDCHn5zN5BH6d8evLP4DSlrLnFVJgzqnIcL4VZ6NEr9qV0WtzWi9xUARnzC11EYWT69oQ_ahZiDAG0UCjXAtDI-JROn90kTG2gxT0OfWdNuBTJA0gKz3MWSJq8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>4. Preview what you have done</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnYMcVS3RFsfFC0eozlfypmqnbj3M3DN-17Gr2uuL75p1xHAbbRRNKtzxaQAQr6u2IWP5KKKby6dl67QScieIyoHo1vGkgbB9-McLq8Z8EjaGDV45hZxlVRQzeekSi-_XbLefLesS8Nzo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>5. Save and download</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have various options. One is to email it. I chose download. A little box comes up as you download to see if you want to display it on any social media.  There is also an option to make an optional monetary donation. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA0NKmfycLieTsSei6vZ7Wo6SNjCGCpJCG6LhP3JYhigSUaQYZAaUPNT4_U2H8GLTPUWzE-rdhtMy-pVXNZKkvM1uI3IIAromZloBfvSaOsj12GENI4f1FnMl3UJ_T5pu2ELF2RiYexEM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="77" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>6. View the final result</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="qvc9fq" border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKtQDvluGaICh9jOwtysy82nvIL5FmBay02i7tDcITPiCN_6-o0g7uFj30wASoFzVvB1Qk1DuP_RT7uUL4l5Gz5OtrbPtoYyY0aaTbV5NQ1qo-V0Z0wYFtkwSSjmdkb3qyPKiG4Ma13A/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="qvc9fq" width="400" /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must confess, I need to play around with it a bit. I couldn’t get the speech bubbles to go any smaller, for example. I also couldn’t raise them so that the end bit didn’t overlap with a person’s face. But I love this idea of adding speech bubbles to photos quickly. Phase.it is quick and easy. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Classroom use</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Use this in the classroom for a board display. <br />2. Let your students upload a photo of themselves and add something that says something about themselves, their charactger, their opinion etc. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Just have fun with it.</span></div>

Phrase.it Web tools Web Tools #30: Add speech bubbles to a photo online and then download the photo

Submitted by Fiona Beal.  This is the last in my series of 30 Days of Web Tools series - but of course I continue adding many web tool posts...

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An Old Spic? Really?

<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/AVvXsEjhz1rsQhRKHQv-EDgq4iIQEjesp4vwiopRa4HXURbdUov3J6LtQ410NclMJaP0KF2KOUcb-Ja-dfcxozyjQUt1bm8TRuOngwxstNpDyXiOW604OvrAHoSXHlnAVLUH0aTbcs_hNtX3_Js/s1600/Pope+Francis+I.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhz1rsQhRKHQv-EDgq4iIQEjesp4vwiopRa4HXURbdUov3J6LtQ410NclMJaP0KF2KOUcb-Ja-dfcxozyjQUt1bm8TRuOngwxstNpDyXiOW604OvrAHoSXHlnAVLUH0aTbcs_hNtX3_Js/s400/Pope+Francis+I.jpg" width="301" /></a></div>Cheeeeeers Bitches and to Catholics all around the world…Happy Popepapalooza!!<br /><br />Seems that yesterday, the gaudily dressed gaggle of Eucharist eating pedophiles from across the globe conclaved and elected a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.<br /><br />Well, Praise Jeebus, settle with me out of court, and hand me the gag order concerning your abuse, that’s wonderful!!<br /><br />Anyhoo…<br /><br />The new Pope is 76 year old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Mr. Bergoglio, has chosen Pope Francis I as his papal name.<br /><br />Uh-huh…how clever.<br /><br />Francis?  Really?  That’s gay.  Oh wait?  Was that one of the requirements…being gay?  Hell, I am clueless, because I wasn’t in the room with all of those sweaty, incense sniffing, drenched in Holy Oil, robe wearing men.  I have to plead ignorance on that.<br /><br />I think I know why Pope Whore-Hey picked the name Francis…He’s from Argentina…Y’know, South America.  And dig it…<br /><br />Do you remember those old b/w movies starring Donald O’Connor and Francis the Talking Mule?<br /><br />Well my friends, Pope Francis I from South America is a talking mule as well.  A talking DRUG MULE!!<br /><br />Connect the dots as I have folks…Bergoglio’s (if that’s his REAL name) parents came to Argentina from Italy.  Y’know…Syndicate City.  Francis has drug trading Mafioso written all over his tano face.<br /><br />Look it…When the white smoke came out of the Vatican chimney, it wasn’t really white smoke…it was pure, unadulterated, Argentine BLOW, Bitches!!<br /><br />Oh Hell yeah, the Catholic Church is piping in coke on the Buenos Aires to Rome Popemobile as we speak. Child rape settlements don’t settle cheaply my friends, but Francis has the connections to make them all go away in a supernatural and fiduciarily pleasing way.  Amen!!<br /><br />Annnnnd…Ol’ Pope Francis better make his Godly and virginal voodoo work quickly because he is no spring chicken.  The bastard is 76.  Guess we can expect another conclave in four years, amirite!?  Hell electing a Pope is gonna become like the Olympics!!<br /><br />Every four years, gay, juiced up Catholic theologians will gather into the venue of shame and denial and elect a “venerable” man who is less shameful and in denial as the rest of them.<br /><br />As a former Catholic, I ask myself at times…<br /><br /><i>“Where the Hell is the first Pope, St. Peter, when you need him?”</i>  And then I realize…<br /><br />Peter is in the ass of some innocent kid in the silent and cloistered vestibule of a Catholic Church.<br /><br />And what I find ironic?<br /><br />Never ever, should an elected Pope ever choose their Papal name to be Pope Peter or Pope Innocent.<br /><br />Well…okay maybe they should, because that would be fucking funny…and sad.<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><br /><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a></div>

An Old Spic? Really?

Cheeeeeers Bitches and to Catholics all around the world…Happy Popepapalooza!! Seems that yesterday, the gaudily dressed gaggle of Eucharist...

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Today's archidose #657

Here are a bunch of photos of the <a href="http://www.naf-aad.com/works/2005/006.html">Mecenat Art Project</a> (2010) in Hiroshima, Japan, by <a href="http://www.naf-aad.com/">naf architect & design</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/">Ken Lee</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/8534361980/" title="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8505/8534361980_b5caecb3f8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/8537076802/" title="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan" height="480" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8521/8537076802_f56762b1a4_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/8535971901/" title="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8383/8535971901_6f9e3de270_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/8537076444/" title="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan" height="480" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8090/8537076444_8ba9b9fd24_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/8537076382/" title="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="其阿弥美術館, Mecenat Art Office, Hiroshima, Japan" height="480" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8249/8537076382_8fa394bc6d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #657

Here are a bunch of photos of the Mecenat Art Project (2010) in Hiroshima, Japan, by naf architect & design , photographed by Ken Lee ....

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Julie's Organic Ice Cream Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMm9KO2HDqq7TzFP4oFkpABr57J_MAX9vCjqD8jelzWjFK0PD88HVzuKulvGybeEmitkKHZrBp5HGWpro6eSq444VhhmlZ7SrO8nOIuKFjJcxhlm8KdkfV6oJQnNoY6I-4xC6cz0HfpU/s1600/julie's+organic+logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMm9KO2HDqq7TzFP4oFkpABr57J_MAX9vCjqD8jelzWjFK0PD88HVzuKulvGybeEmitkKHZrBp5HGWpro6eSq444VhhmlZ7SrO8nOIuKFjJcxhlm8KdkfV6oJQnNoY6I-4xC6cz0HfpU/s1600/julie's+organic+logo.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julie and her husband Tom of <a href="http://juliesorganic.com/">Julie's Organic Ice Cream</a> along with their two sons purchased a ice cream company in 1996 and wanted to make ice cream products that were better for the family and also the environment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So she set out on a mission and started to get to work by finding the best of ingredients to make the ice creams taste great!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They started getting their hands on the best add ins for their ice creams such as fruits, cream, chocolates and ice cream.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then in 1998 they launched their company of the most delicious ice creams and have grown since then from pints, ice cream bars, novelties, and they've also got non dairy products as well!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you ever heard of Alden's ice cream?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julie's son is in fact Alden, he launched the first family sized ice cream!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow, I never knew that!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growing up I would always have ice cream, whether it was  for going to see the fireworks, going to the beach or just as a treat at the ice cream parlor it was pure heaven and so delicious!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, words can not describe how excited I was when I was sent some coupons for review!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to try them!</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/AVvXsEgLjvAtuFBFkj87XHrJl0IratNoyK9mg_RtxeS2IP-1PeL3-I1Y5lb7-2Kpypl3E6MrhNAcgbsMq9kKWKQDaZ3i-pkFO8-c7M1ZHoeOj7QptWcXos5TgEgnEaYHOQv0bNtH84ez10qxgZE/s1600/Julie's+Organic+Vanilla+Ice+Cream.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjvAtuFBFkj87XHrJl0IratNoyK9mg_RtxeS2IP-1PeL3-I1Y5lb7-2Kpypl3E6MrhNAcgbsMq9kKWKQDaZ3i-pkFO8-c7M1ZHoeOj7QptWcXos5TgEgnEaYHOQv0bNtH84ez10qxgZE/s320/Julie's+Organic+Vanilla+Ice+Cream.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ha ha I have found you at least!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At first when I went into Whole Foods I couldn't find the pints.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So today I went to my local Shaw's market and what do you know!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BAM!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right in the freezer section!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so glad I found this stuff!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vanilla cookie with Lemon Ice Cream Sandwich:</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdy5iOs4rL83lG4w9tNrHViscutQRClHtl97KAuxRyTi9UiVeBAGVH3VGdNfMUWF291ajmb8hKl5TdWF1hME9hY0s2NBWOyvstRfoKbNMi81WiDqMVcCq4V8Kh8xKOctQ54Zl0Sdg_uQ/s1600/Julie's+organic+lemon+and+vanilla+cookie+sandwich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdy5iOs4rL83lG4w9tNrHViscutQRClHtl97KAuxRyTi9UiVeBAGVH3VGdNfMUWF291ajmb8hKl5TdWF1hME9hY0s2NBWOyvstRfoKbNMi81WiDqMVcCq4V8Kh8xKOctQ54Zl0Sdg_uQ/s320/Julie's+organic+lemon+and+vanilla+cookie+sandwich.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lemon ice cream is creamy, cool and refreshing with a citrus zing that will make your lips pucker!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tastes great with the decadent smoothness of the vanilla cookie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chocolate Cookie with Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich:</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzRh8IxnZ8CZOXn904Yfvk-v_rHbX-AhUimPx55v2eAAoA4NQJl8vCBXrRARIvVS46EKPaAItASlbiLzozDRQwtCRTvyW3y1m0bRdbNl9BnKVZNFPDHPMolN26c2xc6Uki790HI0sbpR0/s1600/Julie's+Organic+chocolate+and+vanilla+ice+cream+sandwich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzRh8IxnZ8CZOXn904Yfvk-v_rHbX-AhUimPx55v2eAAoA4NQJl8vCBXrRARIvVS46EKPaAItASlbiLzozDRQwtCRTvyW3y1m0bRdbNl9BnKVZNFPDHPMolN26c2xc6Uki790HI0sbpR0/s320/Julie's+Organic+chocolate+and+vanilla+ice+cream+sandwich.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I've tried many ice cream sandwiches and loved them as a kid!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the packaging of these, they are very creative and decorative looking!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You could even reuse them!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mom and I couldn't wait to eat one, so we opened one in the car.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know how when you bite into an ice cream cookie sandwich and it's mushy and it gets all over your fingers?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well not this cookie!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has great chocolate taste in the cookie and it's a little crunchy so it doesn't melt on your fingers!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great vanilla ice cream center, so delicious and creamy sandwiched between the two cookies!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vanilla Ice Cream:</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkj-8kV_Cwie7Xl0k8h7eu7qp0dEOSUO3I1kZfi8PmHdvcVJHZUNyzUFhyphenhyphenLaChLguvbRYg_KxHD4AV7mhd_Q-9VJZux8Bzw0mRf7dn0BxerHvGSX7qFWp0Cgq5RQ4zO8WjV6lMxsQefAY/s1600/Julie's+Organic+vanilla+ice+cream+with+love+crunch+aloha+blend.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkj-8kV_Cwie7Xl0k8h7eu7qp0dEOSUO3I1kZfi8PmHdvcVJHZUNyzUFhyphenhyphenLaChLguvbRYg_KxHD4AV7mhd_Q-9VJZux8Bzw0mRf7dn0BxerHvGSX7qFWp0Cgq5RQ4zO8WjV6lMxsQefAY/s320/Julie's+Organic+vanilla+ice+cream+with+love+crunch+aloha+blend.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know about you but whenever I have ice cream it needs something on top, whether it's some fresh fruit, chocolate syrup or caramel sauce!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just tastes good with a little extra something you know?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my latest obsessions is the Nature's Path Love Crunch granola's!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are so delicious and don't have all those added sugars,fats and hidden ingredients like other brands do.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I sprinkled some of the Love Crunch Aloha Blend on top of Julie's Organic Vanilla ice cream.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those of you who haven't heard or seen the Aloha mixture it has bits of coconut, freeze dried pineapples and best of all white chocolate!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to dig in!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then took a little spoonful and tried it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is seriously the best ice cream that I have had in a long time!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's made with organic and all natural ingredients and it tastes homemade like it came fresh out of the ice cream maker!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great vanilla taste and it didn't even need any ingredients at all, but hey that's just me!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Chocolate Frozen Yogurt:</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDnQkppjo3mRsDk8xGhs9ooi62lfiIRltPR8bZw1h5vY2wCtqfTzmA9U_MUlvAgPMfwqJKzi7SPigb0NSQfMKURBDK0s3-1V8SUvhTwk-OTILjofQbPZUdVGZ7K0ZuKUmWIyWwjNWcL0/s1600/Julie's+Organic+chocolate+froyo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDnQkppjo3mRsDk8xGhs9ooi62lfiIRltPR8bZw1h5vY2wCtqfTzmA9U_MUlvAgPMfwqJKzi7SPigb0NSQfMKURBDK0s3-1V8SUvhTwk-OTILjofQbPZUdVGZ7K0ZuKUmWIyWwjNWcL0/s320/Julie's+Organic+chocolate+froyo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could not believe the taste of the chocolate, it was amazing!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet, creamy and delicious.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Didn't have the icy texture in it like some other frozen yogurts do.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great for shakes, on a cone or in a bowl with some sprinkled granola or fresh fruit!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Blackberry Sorbet Bar:</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkhgYQwP9KS18GP57xpZciwl-1OA7-U__uXu5C8xxCZDZWzTcJrJ2aAKg8J_FX4zdXR4YlU-g6pfDOrVlvzClXk6IisSSGRXrHxNmUFmZXHmWwjC9BdmoYcEhSumbjjKd8oIpjUaYlCA/s1600/Julie's+Organic+blackberry+sorbet+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkhgYQwP9KS18GP57xpZciwl-1OA7-U__uXu5C8xxCZDZWzTcJrJ2aAKg8J_FX4zdXR4YlU-g6pfDOrVlvzClXk6IisSSGRXrHxNmUFmZXHmWwjC9BdmoYcEhSumbjjKd8oIpjUaYlCA/s320/Julie's+Organic+blackberry+sorbet+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hot day?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This refreshingly cool and creamy treat will sure cool you down.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So light and delicious.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can really taste the blackberries as well which is great because I love blackberries!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always throw them on top of my yogurt when I have some handy in the house.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Other products*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorbet bars</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">non dairy pints</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ice cream bars</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">non dairy novelties</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ice cream sandwiches</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">frozen yogurt</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ice cream pints</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yogurt bars</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Website: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://juliesorganic.com/">http://juliesorganic.com/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like them on Face Book here:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/juliesorganic">https://www.facebook.com/juliesorganic</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Follow them Via Twitter here: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/JuliesOrganic">https://twitter.com/JuliesOrganic</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Due to FFC rules I've received no compensation for this.</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Julie's Organic Ice Cream Company has provided me with coupons for free ice cream products of my choice in exchange for a product review.</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, all opinions expressed are my own.</span></div></div>

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="focusParagraph" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; ">Doctors warn about the ethical and medical implications of prescribing attention-boosting and mood-altering medications to healthy kids and teens, in a new statement from the American Academy of Neurology.</p></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">Focusing on stimulants typically used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, researchers said the number of diagnoses and prescriptions have risen dramatically over the past two decades.</p><span id="midArticle_2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">Young people with the disorder clearly benefit from treatment, lead author Dr. William Graf emphasized, but the medicines are increasingly being used by healthy youth who believe they will enhance their concentration and performance in school.</p><span id="midArticle_3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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 National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1.7 percent of eighth graders and 7.6 percent of 12th graders have used Adderall, a stimulant, for nonmedical reasons.</p><span id="midArticle_4" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">Some of those misused medicines are bought on the street or from peers with prescriptions; others may be obtained legally from doctors.</p><span id="midArticle_5" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">"What we're saying is that because of the volume of drugs and the incredible increase… the possibility of overdiagnosis and overtreatment is clearly there," said Graf, from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.</p><span id="midArticle_6" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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 their statement, published in the journal Neurology, he and his colleagues say doctors should not give prescriptions to teens who ask for medication to enhance concentration against their parents' advice.</p><span id="midArticle_7" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">Prescribing attention- or mood-enhancing drugs to healthy kids and teens in general cannot be justified, for both legal and developmental reasons, Graf and his co-authors conclude.</p><span id="midArticle_8" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">"You're giving amphetamines to kids. I think we have to be worried about how that affects the brain, mood, rational thought… and we don't have enough data about that yet," he told Reuters Health.</p><span id="midArticle_9" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">Almut Winterstein, a pharmacy researcher from the University of Florida in Gainesville, agreed that not much is known about the effects of long-term stimulant use - another reason to be careful and make sure they're really necessary for a specific child. In the short term, stimulants increase heart rate and blood pressure.</p><span id="midArticle_10" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">"If you have a child who actually can sit still and doesn't seem to have a problem focusing on a task, a stimulant won't do a thing, and definitely won't improve school performance," said Winterstein, who didn't work on the new statement.</p><span id="midArticle_11" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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 am concerned personally that many parents believe that if their child doesn't do well in school, they must have ADHD," and therefore need stimulants, she told Reuters Health.</p><span id="midArticle_12" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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 new statement is also endorsed by the Child Neurology Society and the American Neurological Association.</p><span id="midArticle_13" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); ">Graf noted that childhood is changing in the United States: kids are being challenged in school, but also spending more and more time in front of screens.</p><span id="midArticle_14" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 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); "></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; 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); position: static; z-index: auto; ">"The majority still has to agree that we're not going to give a pill for every problem in childhood," he said. "We're talking about healthy kids."</p></div><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-medications-kids-idUSBRE92C17H20130313">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-medications-kids-idUSBRE92C17H20130313</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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SchoolNetSA at the National Teachers Awards

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i>Submitted by Janet Thomson CEO of SchoolNet and Omashani Naidoo of SchoolNet</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The National Teachers Awards was held at the Gallagher Estate Conference Centre on 7 March, 2013. This event is in its 13^th year and is growing annually. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A number of finalists are nominated via our nine provinces in the following categories:</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Primary School Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Secondary School Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Primary School Leadership </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Secondary School Leadership </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Grade R Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in Special Needs Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellence in ICT - Enhanced Teaching </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lifetime Achievement Award</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naturally the category for <b>Excellence in ICT – Enhanced Teaching </b>is closest to SchoolNet’s heart. Pictured here, <b>Warren Sparrow</b> of Rondebosch Boys Prep, <b>Duma Nhlumbini</b> of WillowVale High School and <b>Mabore Lekhalaka</b> of Toronto Primary were all finalists in the Excellence in ICT-enhance teaching category. These teachers have all experienced SchoolNet-facilitated training offered through both the Intel and Microsoft Education programmes. Warren and Mabore have participated in the Adobe Youth Voices International programme. The eventual winner in this category was <b>Anita van Vuuren</b>, Universitas Primary School in the Free State and who had also benefitted from SchoolNet’s programmes. Anita was a finalist in the 2012 Microsoft Partners in Learning Forum Awards which SchoolNet always helps to coordinate, and she has attended innovation workshops. as well as the peer coaching programme both offered through SchoolNet </span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 426px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="190"></td> <td valign="top" width="228"></td> <td valign="top" width="6"></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tF1NonFusIOr1o7gL97xL9O-Whsby8CYXZIyayXdm-CopWiPiQ6xo-rxWDgyA6IGl-Vu4yTEjxPcaKbjD_kVx_CNyzeJy4nATQYJeJHkIHHuDl6Ey_dHBVRzUW820RdH3xcyC_Wo2YM/s1600-h/image%25255B19%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXHgS05iprcgY4GbGy18puX79TJmj45_9MUgGAfKr-z_ow6BpUk7mSAr8F7GTf3F8IoWnUf5f2TJwAT6vFIoS648cZvesyxWqaIKMZ4LOBd0HzfOZQtulzJtcuvVQM4dyGiyegNWPG68/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="201" /></span></a></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3_uCLDUO-llAyKiGwIAUm1IctHf-J5j6DaYlHrdF8MK2-7XkSijUVI7qLu3A6XwRCSZs1bbf0osh5fcIjGbNvDUCrBmmUMpE88cdcYj01VJgVacOomAQ94oI7jUFMxNIjF_Ygx-JCNo/s1600-h/image%25255B20%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNIlWE8I3AVGspuhbKf3hABrcNhkj5A5j_SgqQaQtIX7s50GIwF45JazUP9PSkSJZ91vCbGarntk5BrCtbzdtPLNHyUYGV9sp0MXCKY09436i7omVVS49cRj97a-4yg2mx7XYjDmOgpi8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="238" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGP7kNGzOyWHIFSkPzhxsO4pS8nhtXDCKWxuBYV62U1tkQW8ceylXpjjz1-rzWvXFTw7CwFypmzEwyvmjKid3oSD24bg0y3KmCjXXdlTUZ3OfUWY3RBT1zH_KNbgkKrT6u9ummeLeQOhs/s1600-h/image%25255B18%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoz6MbD96rEiSPY48O1GPjCdAakYonDYkCQgz_AB0brqahw5jehjTAZyFUCyldAy-YwpDGQgFjjZUC-1Dg6TwjG6Z_4PLQ2Yyz6VDplqtb-n8miG1OXJeedfgYKne1amgCrKjcK1u8Zwc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="129" /></span></a></td> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUsvPW1IKyATIv2eouMnW_31usA3LuHTtz_BJmxKHs6AMfKW9eFkZ5MQpGhyphenhyphenHnN4yQJEGn4f52TIlipGE_bbItgh__M7yEkao7cSecpVjCj_CKAhJOulIOhLI5NpIDGgpEDSTmrQAfzg/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ypeulwqxac_oJTpO5TnnEbkhkmu2DyGLTeu3F-ITI8iriTt0CjfVoky9DhFJNWtix9IenlUBEEvrV2JhzXgZRMm93ZXLI8PdrNNsp4aeE4yqDWCKRqPSyr3Y5fJ1eieG_7oWRKP7Z-Q/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="329" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr <b>Derick Petersen</b>, of ImiZama Yethu Secondary School won the category Excellence in Secondary School Leadership. (Mr Petersen  received a tablet from a project that SchoolNet embarked on with the Western Cape Department of Education in December 2012.) He is pictured here with omashani Naidoo of SchoolNet. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhKANDE-nslf2pCdlQWGcgwKcpIn3iCDAYVSfQfsEhkKpUHL4mjvlYRrX7FUIJTj07xF18u8rPE-xmwnR03aIkn5ptCX9vNZ-r2eZUXgcdie8NodYLCDRODKb8ROsli01QDE_l9vRU6E/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations to all South African Educators who work towards creating young free thinking individuals. We salute you</span><br /><br /></div>

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SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR

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width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE QATARI PROJECT: </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“DESTROYING SAUDI ARABIA”?</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><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;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The events of the ARAB Spring and the variables that have happened in IRAQ after invading it in 2003, which led to the fall of the dictatorial rulers, caused authoritarian and political vacuum, over which the States whose governments still hold the reins of power in it have competed and thus have turned into powerful States.</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";">QATAR is one of these States that is small but yet have great ambitions and is supported and backed by the UNITED STATES and ISRAEL. In fact, the Gulf area have become an area where both influence and power between different parties compete, including QATAR and SAUDI ARABIA, and the region in turn have changed into a yard for political conflicts. It became clear that the Arab policy in general is based on the special interests of the rulers and never respects the freedom of speech or conscience, especially that what is happening seemingly is quite different from what is hidden between lines.</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";">It is clear that QATAR’S policy aims at strengthening its authority and role in the region, most likely at the expense of the SAUDI role. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></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";"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #990000;"><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";">HOW MUCH AND TO WHOM IS QATAR PAYING?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></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";">At the same time, the SYRIAN-QATARI relations became strained over QATAR’S plan to hit SYRIA in order to get a foothold in the Gulf and then to destroy and divide other countries so that to become a superpower among small fragmented States in the region. QATAR is so far supporting the SYRIAN armed opposition financially and in the media to expose the role of the SAUDI government after dropping SYRIA. Therefore, the basic question remains: How much and to whom is QATAR paying? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #990000;"><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";">THE ANSWER: WAHHABI ASSOCIATIONS AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></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";">The answer is clear: Sheikha Mozah’s association has paid about 200 million dollars to Wahhabi associations as (“Ansar al-Sunnah” in EGYPT) and 100 million dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood. Additionally, the Emir of QATAR has built a huge mosque in the name of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.</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";">QATAR has also implemented a military plan aiming at transferring the U.S. military bases from SAUDI ARABIA to its territories and by doing so it imposed itself on the Western world as a regional and Arab country. This became a reason to intimidate SAUDI ARABIA materially and politically, since the kingdom was the place where GULF STATES and other countries agree seemed to show consensus among each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #990000;"><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";">STRIVING FOR BECOMING THE REGIONAL POWER PLAYER </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWpGk5lmkDAOYtpN82i8i-SL2ooh-nfJ0wUy1FWMT1Ht9z2Fghl8-cLRHHL3xDFPtUbOeQ2yNCdNW5ptBG-t1dYA4M7eHumcWvpMYu4Dl1i8Cu_l1_xhyR9tt8wKTT2yLc9UzaO28WLb9/s1600/map_qatar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSWpGk5lmkDAOYtpN82i8i-SL2ooh-nfJ0wUy1FWMT1Ht9z2Fghl8-cLRHHL3xDFPtUbOeQ2yNCdNW5ptBG-t1dYA4M7eHumcWvpMYu4Dl1i8Cu_l1_xhyR9tt8wKTT2yLc9UzaO28WLb9/s320/map_qatar.jpg" width="320" /></a></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";">Thus, a new ideology against the ruling family in SAUDI ARABIA would be promoted between the army and the SAUDI people in order to destabilize and destroy the SAUDI State politically and economically, so that QATAR will raise its political stakes in the region.</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";">At the same time, the situation in SAUDI ARABIA is not as calm as usual, and the so-called “SAUDI stability” seems to slowly crumble, for the oil-rich eastern Shiite areas are boiling and the sounds of explosions are heard in the areas very close to the capital Riyadh. Additionally, the descendants of the ancient Arab families in the Hijaz and Asir, west of the country, do still remember the role they have played earlier in the life of the Arabian Peninsula, of which they have been deprived in the era of Al-Saud. QATAR the small, stable, and rich country, will use this opportunity to take advantages over contradictions and divisions Arab state have been showcasing for centuries, thus displaying QATAR as the regional player to reckon with. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></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";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Via ABNA an Iranian viewpoint</span></div>

SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR

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SAUDI ARABIAN PROTESTS

<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><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/AVvXsEi3q7Jcc6eFhYV-IjkirD0Wa9OX7NHrMziYbD_hDlYbIA7x2BeV3zncRJFA3aXkgDeQpU1ic6wJyNA58lukFG1kneIt6f5as-JS-gHe8aVNNpWfbNHwKXN-U4w0VIKV7aydKGygXZNJfJym/s1600/_62090607_saudi_mecca_g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3q7Jcc6eFhYV-IjkirD0Wa9OX7NHrMziYbD_hDlYbIA7x2BeV3zncRJFA3aXkgDeQpU1ic6wJyNA58lukFG1kneIt6f5as-JS-gHe8aVNNpWfbNHwKXN-U4w0VIKV7aydKGygXZNJfJym/s400/_62090607_saudi_mecca_g.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">  </span></b></span><br /><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In January 2012, Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring wrote:</span></b></span></div><div 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; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE QUIET WAR IN SAUDI ARABIA</span></b></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;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/food-for-thought_19.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/food-for-thought_19.html</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While western powers have been happy to use SAUDI ARABIA as an ally to ratchet up the pressure on Assad's beleaguered regime in SYRIA, it has not caught a whiff of the silent crackdown occurring within the kingdom. Since late November the protest movement which was largely snuffed out last spring has returned to the streets in force, largely centered on the oil rich and largely SHIA Eastern Province. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SAUDIS DISCRIMINATION AND MISTREATMENT AGAINST SHIA IN ITS EASTERN PROVINCE COULD BACKFIRE</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br />The SAUDI response was both brutal and predictable. Security forces shot and killed three protesters and wounded many more over several days of crackdowns in the eastern city of QATIF. Clashes continued throughout December as demonstrators battled security forces who routinely utilized live ammunition. In a series of retaliatory raids on the homes and districts of protest sympathizers hundreds were arrested and wounded. The killings along with the continued discrimination and mistreatment of the SHIA of the Eastern Province has formed the basis of the current protest movement - a protest movement that has suffered heavily like its neighbour in BAHRAIN, but with little in the way of a headline.<br /><br />Today, while attention was focused on the Strait of Hormuz, on SYRIA, and on the rising tensions in BAHRAIN, SAUDI security forces launched an assault on the city of AWAMIYAH killing at least one and wounding half a dozen more. Eye witnesses have stated that soldiers on trucks opened fire on demonstrators, hitting many as they fled. The attack bears all the hallmarks of a planned operation with electricity being cut to the area prior to the assault. The area at the time of writing is apparently still under military lock-down and reflects a state of siege with clashes continuing to occur and gunfire being heard.<br /><br />This attack was almost certainly condoned by the royal family and comes on the heels of a series of indictments against demonstrators and high profile invectives against the protest movement. Despite this attack and others like it, the rumblings and tremors of protest and crackdown show no sign of abatement. Indeed in the past few months they have once again reared their head in the south west in NAJRAN and JAZAN, compounded with protests over women’s rights in RIYADH and BURAYDAH.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaE1NfYhAKzHBIusbnI_FKpOGzArj7QH-LUpIh00D7aLsa8a_sGkbSNpuz_aShKdoZAijiLKiGClfMFOdFfrjBn0SVLjIIfK-6SLzduwhPxN8gFl5-KzEUxAbaNYOYW_ea6nqIyYAxTb9/s1600/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaE1NfYhAKzHBIusbnI_FKpOGzArj7QH-LUpIh00D7aLsa8a_sGkbSNpuz_aShKdoZAijiLKiGClfMFOdFfrjBn0SVLjIIfK-6SLzduwhPxN8gFl5-KzEUxAbaNYOYW_ea6nqIyYAxTb9/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STORM CLOUDS LOOMING OVER THE OIL KINGDOM</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><br /><br />These protests bear all the hallmarks of a movement which could coalesce and burst anew from the ashes of the disjointed and largely suppressed protests of last spring. They also come at an extremely troubling time for the kingdom. The death of Crown Prince Sultan highlighted the geriatric character of the upper echelons of the ruling family, and the potential uncertainty and disquiet surrounding the issue of succession.<br /><br />Meanwhile, continuing tensions in the STRAIT OF HORMUZ and rising furor on the streets of BAHRAIN open up the risk of unrest spreading to the kingdom in a domino effect. Indeed the extremely aggressive SAUDI position on BAHRAIN and the continued quartering of troops in the tiny island monarchy has a direct relationship to their fears of domestic instability. The possibility of SAUDI SHIA rallying on behalf of their co-religionists in BAHRAIN, or vice versa is a looming threat that the SAUDIS are taking great pains to neutralize.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PROTESTS COULD HAVE TUMULTUOUS IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL ENERGY MARKET</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />Though the protests currently centre on a single province, the Eastern Province is home to the majority of SAUDI energy reserves, terminals, and processing facilities. Disruption and upheaval in this province has a disproportionate impact on SAUDI ARABIA. A protracted and visible uprising would not only weaken the SAUDI government internally but could have a tumultuous impact on the global energy market. This is all the more reason for not only the media, but for western governments to begin taking an active interest in the ongoing street conflict.<br /><br />SAUDI rulers certainly understand the threat posed by the protesters and the risk of an expanding movement: their actions are a testament to that fact. So why is the world’s media apparently incapable of recognizing the same thing? Arab media has been noticeably silent, with the two largest ARAB MEDIA entities the Saudi-owned AL-ARABIYA and the QATARI-owned AL-JAZEERA having said almost nothing. However there is little excuse for western media. SAUDI ARABIA is probably AMERICA'S most important ARAB ally, the world’s most important single energy node, and one of the most influential countries in the region.<br />It's also experiencing its worst domestic upheavals since its rebellions of the early 1980's. Taken in a vacuum this is a significant news story. When set against the context of the unfolding drama in the GULF and the wider contours of the ARAB SPRING, it is incredible.<br /><br />The past year was a bad one for SAUDI ARABIA: the coming year augurs to be even worse. The time has come to slice through the veil SAUDI ARABIA has kept around its crackdown and recognize that the Arab Spring at least in limited form has hit the kingdom. What comes next is difficult to say, but with the rapidity of change that the Arab Spring has introduced us to, it would be wise to pay close attention to the warning signs as they appear. It is entirely possible that we will see a very, very, warm spring in SAUDI ARABIA.</span></div>

SAUDI ARABIAN PROTESTS

  In January 2012, Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring wrote: THE QUIET WAR IN SAUDI ARABIA http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/...

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