A new model of health care — for the well - PostBulletin.com: Health

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><span class="paragraph-0" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">As it prepares for Destination Medical Center expansion to transform its Rochester campus, Mayo Clinic is also changing the concept of medical care.</p></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><span class="paragraph-1" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Instead of only responding to injury and illness, Mayo has begun treating patients who are already well to help them get even healthier, with everything from its new wellness center to smart-phone apps to reach out to them.</p></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">For people with stable chronic illness, that might mean improved general health. For athletes, it could mean boosting performance at the new Sports Medicine Center opening next spring. For people without health problems now, it may mean an overall wellness plan that will head of potential future problems such as heart disease.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">"We want Mayo to be the destination for anybody in the world, whether they access via the Web or come to Rochester, Minn. in person," said cardiologist Dr. Douglas Wood.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">"We're searching for a deeper relationship" with people, he said. "That's how Mayo will actually be the destination medical center and the reason people will seek Mayo again and again and again."</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">More of that type of interaction could multiply the number of patients Mayo sees. Clinic CEO Dr. John Noseworthy has said that Mayo expects to create "a meaningful interaction with 200 million patients and people each year" by 2020.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Last year, Mayo directly treated more than 1 million patients.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">"Meaningful interaction" can include services like providing vetted medical information over the web, education through the Mayo Medical Edge column, answers via next-day Mayo Medical Laboratory test results sent nationwide and through Mayo Clinic Care Network e-consults.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; "><strong style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; ">Mayo changes rhythm of care</strong></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Mayo Center for Innovation administrator Barb Spurrier said patient needs are "the very core" of Mayo's mission. That's why Mayo is reaching out with e-consults that allow patients to get direct delivery of primary care at their own health provider's clinic or even in the patient's own home.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Mayo providers are "changing the rhythm of care" away from the doctor's office and toward local care, such as electronic data monitoring, sometimes with smart phones.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">A Web-based care plan can become an integral part of the patient/provider care team concept — and it can work even if the patient checks in from halfway around the world.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Wood said Mayo is asking what its patients need and searching for tools to fulfill those needs.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">In June, for example, Mayo announced it will partner with <a href="https://www.drchrono.com/" style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 125, 157); text-decoration: underline; ">drchrono</a> to broadly offer it's vetted patient information via iPad in an effort to increase the use of electronic health records and to "save time, increase revenue, improve patient care."</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">At the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Project at the Rochester Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center, patients will create wellness goals in consultation with a care team.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">"Under each of the goals, we'll tell you, 'here are the things you can do,'" said Wood. Mayo will provide updates about how the patient is doing in comparison to goals.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Spurrier said the mission is not just to transform the patient experience, but to transform how the experience feels so that the patient feels engaged in the wellness process.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">She focuses on "the humanity of it all." Some patients on dialysis might want to be freed from the medical institution and do dialysis in the comfort of their own homes. Others might want the security of the medical center.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Instead of responding to the nation's health policy and designing health centers around it, Mayo leaders are approaching health care from a "design-thinking" standpoint — figuring out how do design the system so it works best to raise the health of patients, many of whom are well but want to improve their health and decrease their risk.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">"It's about the user need, and how do we meet that in the best way," Spurrier said.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; "><strong style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; ">Transforming wellness</strong></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Now is the time, Wood said, to transform the delivery of health care into the delivery of wellness.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">The Healthy Living Project and Office of Wellness at Dan Abraham opening next year will offer patient-goal-oriented services focused on nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep and mind/body "resiliency," said Dr. Donald Hensrud, author of the Mayo Clinic Diet Book and medical director for the project.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Those programs will revolve around the concept of "individualized wellness," he said.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Yolch said the new programs will build upon the existing practice, adding an integrative-health suite with massage and acupuncture, along with a focus on mind, body and biofeedback. Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, sleep programs, journaling, relationship programs and a meditation room will be available.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">The program will even teach them how to eat healthfully on a daily basis. Patients will cook in a "participation" kitchen with a chef coaching. Patients will use a pantry of real foods, along with a virtual pantry from which they can design healthy meals by reading food labels. They will also mimic dining out to learn how to order healthy foods.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">It will be designed to be fun, yet serious, targeted and individualized to each patient's goals.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Before patients arrive for a two- or three-day session, they will complete self assessments so Mayo experts from a variety of specialties will have a working knowledge of the person's needs.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Patients will undergo a multi-day program of aerobics testing, functional-muscle testing and blood tests, Yolch said.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Then, a wellness coach will say, "OK, here's the picture of your health today."</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">That wellness coach will continue connecting with the patient even after the person leaves Rochester.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">That's a core aspect of Destination Medical Center that many might not fully understand; Mayo will increasingly connect with patients worldwide, raising Rochester's profile internationally.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">Key to success, Hensrud said, will be the final phase of the program, which will be maintaining a health provider-to-patient connection once the patient leaves Rochester to help the person continue health improvements.</p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="font-size: 12px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Georgia; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><p style="font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.48em; padding: 0px 0px inherit; line-height: 1.48em; ">"The goal will be to have a wellness plan when they're ready to leave," Hensrud said. "Nobody's cracked the 'behavior' nut in a significant way — and we're going to try to do that."</p></div></div><a href="http://www.postbulletin.com/life/health/a-new-model-of-health-care-for-the-well/article_9463230a-d337-54bf-b6d8-74947ef7016a.html">http://www.postbulletin.com/life/health/a-new-model-of-health-care-for-the-well/article_9463230a-d337-54bf-b6d8-74947ef7016a.html</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<a href="http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/local/federal-mediator-arrive-to-gold-cross-ambulance-strike/article_d4973b7c-ff2f-11e2-b5be-0019bb30f31a.html" rel="nofollow">Federal Mediator Arrive To Teamsters Strike Against Gold Cross Ambulance</a>  Imperial Valley Press   ...Federal mediators arrived Tuesday to assist with negotiations between Gold Cross Ambulance employees on strike and the company...<br /><a href="http://teamsters2010.org/index.cfm?zone=%2Funionactive%2Fview_article.cfm&HomeID=298948" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Local 2010 Signs Up 333 New Members</a>  Teamsters Local 2010   ...Employees at the University of California’s state-wide campuses stepped up and joined Local 2010 as a result of a union-building blitz recently...<br /><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rail-company-involved-in-megantic-disaster-files-for-bankruptcy/article13644535/" rel="nofollow">MM&A files for creditor protection after Lac-Mégantic rail disaster</a>  Globe and Mail   ...The U.S.-based railway whose train crashed in Lac-Mégantic, Que., last month has filed for creditor protection in Canada and the United States, saying it is unable to deal with mounting bills arising from the disaster...<br /><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12203/whats-alecs-agenda-its-40th-anniversary-meeting-chicago" rel="nofollow">What's on ALEC's Agenda for its 40th Anniversary Meeting in Chicago?</a>  Center for Media and Democracy   ...The "Employee Secret Ballot Protection Act" will be amended "to call for [union certification by] a majority of members in the bargaining unit, rather than a majority of those voting." This was the same certification policy pushed by Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and creates an almost insurmountable burden...<br /><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/06/news/economy/costco-fast-food-strikes/index.html?sr=fb080613fastfoodwages7p" rel="nofollow">Worker wages: Wendy's vs. Wal-Mart vs. Costco</a>  CNNMoney   ...Hundreds of dissatisfied workers at major companies like Wal-Mart, McDonald's and Wendy's have joined protests nationwide, demanding higher wages and better benefits. One company hasn't had to deal with such strikes. Costco pays its hourly workers an average of just over $20 an hour, compared to just under $13 at competitor Wal-Mart. Even President Obama praised Costco in a recent speech about helping the middle class...<br /><a href="http://www.thereporteronline.com/article/20130807/OPINION03/130809687/wage-gap-between-ceos-workers-shows-costly-disregard" rel="nofollow">Wage Gap Between CEOs, Workers Shows Costly Disregard</a> (opinion) The Reporter …U.S. workers are tired of being the last ones considered when wealth is being made in America. While the average CEO pay has climbed to over 300 times the average worker’s, those making the legal minimum of $7.25—only $15,000 a year—have gone without a legally required raise for four years...<br /><a href="http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/25/fast-food-worker-we-go-hungry/" rel="nofollow">Fast food worker: 'We go hungry'</a>  MSNBC   ...In a major speech on the economy Wednesday, President Obama declared that it is “time for the minimum wage to go up.” While more people are employed as the country continues to climb out of a deep recession, many full-time workers making the minimum wage are still living in poverty…<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-a-hard-landing-for-the-middle-class/2013/08/06/e8948e4c-fec4-11e2-bd97-676ec24f1f3f_story.html?hpid=z3" rel="nofollow">A hard landing for the middle class</a> (opinion)  Washington Post   ...It’s August, and Americans by the millions are cramming themselves into coach-class seats as they embark on their summer vacations. Airline seating may be the best concrete expression of what’s happened to the economy. The joys of air travel have been redistributed upward and are now reserved for the well-heeled few...<br /><a href="http://www.mlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/08/guest_column_michigans_auto_co.html" rel="nofollow">Michigan's auto companies, workers pay price when economic rivals rig the market</a>  Michigan Live   ...U.S. automakers, only a few years out of their deathbeds, are back in the black, despite their prewritten obituaries in 2009. But despite their turnaround, the Big Three still face significant hurdles in getting their goods into Japan, and face import competition subsidized by currency manipulation...<br /><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_23812557/free-trade-deal-korea-is-costing-american-jobs" rel="nofollow">Free-trade deal with Korea is costing American jobs, report says</a>  Denver Post   ...Although the Korea-US FTA has been in effect for little more than a year, it is already drawing vehement condemnation. It wasn't supposed to be this way. The International Trade Commission estimated the pact would kick-start some $10 billion in US exports to Korea. But it's not clear that the agreement is living up to its promise...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/corporate-tax-lies_b_3709157.html" rel="nofollow">The Three Biggest Lies About Why Corporate Taxes Should Be Lowered</a> (opinion)   Huffington Post   ...Instead of spending August on the beach, corporate lobbyists are readying arguments for when Congress returns in September about why corporate taxes should be lowered. But they're lies. You need to know why so you can spread the truth...<br /><a href="http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/08/06/cameron-is-the-worst-british-pm-for-living-standards-in-recorded-history/">Cameron the worst PM for living standards in history</a>  Liberal Conspiracy   ...An analysis of figures from the Office for National Statistics out today show that David Cameron has been in Downing Street for 36 months of falling real wages – more than any Prime Minister on record...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-07/jpmorgan-sued-with-goldman-in-aluminum-antitrust-case.html" rel="nofollow">JPMorgan Sued With Goldman in Aluminum Antitrust Case </a> Bloomberg   ...<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/JPM:US">JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)</a>, the biggest U.S. bank, was sued with <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GS:US">Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)</a> and <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GLEN:LN">Glencore Xstrata Plc (GLEN)</a> over claims they restrained aluminum supplies and drove up prices...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/rick-perry-macys_n_3714546.html" rel="nofollow">Perry Vetoed Texas Equal Pay Bill Under Pressure From Macy's, Kroger</a> Huffington Post   ...Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) vetoed a bill to help prevent wage discrimination after receiving letters against the measure from retailers like Macy's and Kroger Food Stores, <a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Perry-vetoed-wage-bill-after-getting-letters-from-4708525.php?t=fa8a8175f5" rel="nofollow">according to newly obtained documents</a>. The bill would have brought Texas state law in line with the federal <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/lilly-ledbetter-fair-pay-act" rel="nofollow">Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act</a>, which makes it easier for women to sue employers over wage discrimination...<br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0807-eminent-domain-20130807,0,5669410.story" rel="nofollow">Eminent domain proposal for mortgages gains traction in California</a>  Los Angeles Times   ...Cities in the Golden State are once again testing a controversial mortgage relief plan that could use local eminent domain powers to help residents stung by the last housing crisis...<br /><a href="http://www.legislativegazette.com/Articles-Top-Stories-c-2013-08-06-84656.113122-Cuomo-Administration-cracks-down-on-illegal-payday-lenders.html" rel="nofollow">Cuomo administration cracks down on illegal payday lenders</a>   Legislative Gazette   ...Gov. 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large;"><b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICAS’ CYBER SPACE FAR SIGHT </span></b></span></span></div><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/united-states-of-americas-cyber-space.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/united-states-of-americas-cyber-space.html</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via German-foreign-policy.com</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; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New reports are confirming the close cooperation of the GERMAN Federal Intelligence Service (BND) with the National Security Agency (NSA). According to these reports, BND agents have repeatedly visited the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade to discuss technical issues. The NSA has also furnished the BND instruments for analyzing intercepted data. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A former head of the AUSTRIAN intelligence service has confirmed that it was a "common understanding among all European intelligence services" to be "aware" of the NSA Prism surveillance program. Already years ago, officials of the US military have been quoted saying that the US military espionage center that is being established in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden - and that will reportedly also be used by the NSA - is destined to gather information "on the current situation of friend and foe, and everything that can influence our mission." The GERMAN government has also admitted that the Western block's cooperation of the intelligence services - which includes abduction and torture of suspects in the so-called war on terror - dates back to secret agreements between the leading NATO powers during the post-WW II decades.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE BND AT FORT MEADE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Recent reports have confirmed the close cooperation between the GERMAN Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the National Security Agency (NSA). The German TV magazine "Monitor" presented a document reporting on a working visit by leading personnel of the BND to NSA headquarters at Fort Meade in February 2010. For its cooperation with foreign intelligence services, the NSA has established a "Foreign Affairs Directorate" at its headquarters, to exchange intelligence information and organize the delivery of relevant equipment. A former NSA Technical Director confirmed to "Monitor" that he had witnessed "joint meetings and conferences" with BND officials, where "technical and other issues" were discussed.[1] According to a report in the GERMAN weekly "Der Spiegel," NSA has also furnished the BND the instruments for analyzing the cross-border telecommunication passing through GERMAN lines. The BND is drawing on data passing through five internet hubs with particular focus on the connections to the MIDDLE EAST. BND President Gerhard Schindler has confirmed the cooperation with NSA.[2]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMMON UNDERSTANDING</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It has become increasingly difficult for GERMAN authorities to deny knowledge of the incriminating NSA Prism program. In its broadcast, "Monitor" quoted Gert-René Polli, the former head of the AUSTRIAN "Federal Agency for State Protection and Counter Terrorism" (BVT) saying, "We knew the repercussions of this program. And this information and this knowledge were a common understanding among all EUROPEAN intelligence services - the GERMAN included." Polli assumes that the BND has also been a "cooperation partner in the surveillance program" and that the GERMAN government will not be able to claim "too much longer" not having been aware of Prism.[3] "Der Spiegel" quotes US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who said that the NSA "has been in bed with the GERMANS."[4] However, the NSA makes sure that the cooperating countries "can protect their top politicians from a backlash, in case it emerges how massively people's privacy is violated worldwide." This is not restricted to intelligence service measures, but applies also to other sensitive issues.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NERVE CENTER IN EUROPE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOejdlaFBaKqA1M-tfEIsA5aio93N0bHJIIrfaD458jLPb618BsmYBON-kXdU6QuDvYQ6qCJWYJGzmd2fRU86POYn3hfkvUU_tbGB37qH-55wrXXznBFCaifrkdgMpMQqzg5wvzqf61_G/s1600/0,,16957892_303,00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOejdlaFBaKqA1M-tfEIsA5aio93N0bHJIIrfaD458jLPb618BsmYBON-kXdU6QuDvYQ6qCJWYJGzmd2fRU86POYn3hfkvUU_tbGB37qH-55wrXXznBFCaifrkdgMpMQqzg5wvzqf61_G/s400/0,,16957892_303,00.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to "Der Spiegel," the NSA will also be able to use the "Consolidated Intelligence Center," being established in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden by the US Army. Reports on the upgrading of US military installations in Wiesbaden had already attracted public attention, years ago. (german-foreign-policy.com reported [5]). According to the US Armed Forces this entire complex will constitute "the nerve center of the Army in Europe."[6] The complex in Wiesbaden will include a so called "Network Warfare Center" and intelligence units. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The "66th Military Intelligence Group," for example, has been transferred to Wiesbaden from Darmstadt, where it had been stationed only since 2004 - following its relocation from its previous base in Bad Aibling, where it had been running a wiretapping operation. Anti-war activists, making reference to the intelligence service expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, report that the Darmstadt facilities are part of "the US Echelon global espionage system, which taps all satellite-based communication systems." "Computers analyze faxes, emails and conversations." This facility will possibly now be installed in Wiesbaden.[7] In the press, US military personnel have been quoted saying, already back in 2008, that information is supposed to be gathered in Wiesbaden "on the current situation of friend and foe and everything that can influence our mission."[8]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CENTRAL COMMAND FOR ABDUCTIONS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Allegations that GERMANY is sheltering principal US intelligence agencies on its territory and that these are closely cooperating with their GERMAN counterparts is nothing new. In his book published at the end of 2006, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom described another case that became quite significant in the so-called war on terror. He wrote that the CIA's Frankfurt station is home to "over two hundred intelligence operatives" - "three times as many as in Bagdad," where "the agency has its largest MIDDLE EAST residence." The intelligence service expert reported that "when the last major team of CIA agents was dissolved in 1989, it was learned that their network had been commanded from Frankfurt." But, above all, the journalist Stephen Grey had proven that the Frankfurt CIA station was "the world's most important commando facility for abductions" of suspects by US intelligence services. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Schmidt-Eenboom concluded that it is "evident that GERMANY had not only served, like other EUROPEAN countries, as a hub for abduction flights and transport of interrogation teams, but also, that Frankfurt was housing the planning staff and the central command for illegal abductions."[9]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SECRET AGREEMENT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New press reports have confirmed that the exceedingly close cooperation of the GERMAN-US intelligence services dates also back to a 1968 administrative agreement. (German-foreign-policy.com's report.[10]) This agreement stipulates that "the intelligence agencies of western allies can call upon the BND and the Federal Office of the Protection of the Constitution for help in intelligence matters," (...) "the GERMAN agencies must provide raw data." The GERMAN government now admits that this administrative agreement - stamped "secret" up until last year - is still in force, but claims it "has not been invoked since 1990" - because now there are several other - all classified "top secret" - "declarations of principles" that regulate "cooperation between the US intelligence services and the BND." Besides, "earlier GERMAN governments have guaranteed the AMERICANS the right, 'in the case of pending danger' to their armed forces" to take "'appropriate protective measures'."[11] This includes "the right for them to gather their own intelligence on GERMAN territory." Berlin is profiting from this, because the BND regularly receives data in an exchange with the US services - data, by the way, that it is not allowed to collect inside its own country.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Sources: <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[1] Grenzenlose Überwachung durch US-Geheimdienste: Was wusste die Bundesregierung? Monitor Nr. 649 vom 04.07.2013<br />[2] NSA liefert BND Werkzeuge für Lauschangriff; www.spiegel.de 07.07.2013<br />[3] Grenzenlose Überwachung durch US-Geheimdienste: Was wusste die Bundesregierung? Monitor Nr. 649 vom 04.07.2013<br />[4] NSA liefert BND Werkzeuge für Lauschangriff; www.spiegel.de 07.07.2013<br />[5] see also </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/57179"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Nervenzentrum</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />[6] Wiesbaden community sees building boom; Stars and Stripes European edition 02.03.2008<br />[7] Rüstungsatlas Hessen; www.ruestungsatlas2011.linksfraktion-hessen.de<br />[8] Die Spione kommen; Frankfurter Rundschau 12.02.2008<br />[9] Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: BND. Der deutsche Geheimdienst im Nahen Osten. Geheime Hintergründe und Fakten, München 2007. See also </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/56035"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Steinmeier and his Accomplices</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />[10] see also </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58548"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Allied Services (I)</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />[11] Amerika darf Deutsche abhören; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung 07.07.2013</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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LG G2- New Smartphone with 5.2 inch full-HD display and 2.26 GHz Snapdragon 800 processor

<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/AVvXsEh1WNEgmg0HmJbhkZp4BDnEATgjXCV_r0HkTfFOPGYgJBHaxZ7wjSHCoIizEzewm9wUgHshGcdwpeFKRxNCtH8fEy_4VK2Haq8lA-hO3Mtuq2nLOFeQIFvf0vdXDVQx_jYtD8OgZSyUw_pf/s1600/lg_g2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1WNEgmg0HmJbhkZp4BDnEATgjXCV_r0HkTfFOPGYgJBHaxZ7wjSHCoIizEzewm9wUgHshGcdwpeFKRxNCtH8fEy_4VK2Haq8lA-hO3Mtuq2nLOFeQIFvf0vdXDVQx_jYtD8OgZSyUw_pf/s640/lg_g2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>LG has launched its brand-new flagship device, the LG G2.<br /><br />It comes with a 5.2-inch full-HD (1080x1920). It has Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with speed up to 2.26GHz. It has 2GB RAM and offers 16GB and 32GB storage options.<br /><br /> The LG G2 has 13 MP rear camera with Optical Image Stabilization and 2.1 MP front shooter. It runs Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 and powered by 3000mAh battery. It has dimension 138.5 x 70.9 x 8.9mm and will be available in Black and White colour.<br /><br />LG G2 comes with a unique design by having power buttons and volume rocker at the back of the phone, below the rear camera, instead at the sides of the phone. It also comes with bezels as thin as 2.65mm.<br /><br />LG G2 also comes with some software like Answer Me, Plug & Pop, Text Link, Slide Aside, and a Guest Mode. Answer Me automatically answers the call after lowering the ringtone when the phone is raised to one's ear. Plug and Pop recommends options to choose from when the earphone or USB cable is detected. Text Link allows information embedded in text messages to be selected and easily saved in a memo or calendar and searched on a map or the internet. Slide Aside enables easier multi-tasking by simply open apps off to the side using a three-finger swipe. Guest Mode is designed to protects owner's privacy by displaying only pre-selected apps when guests access the phone with a secondary unlock pattern.<br /><br />It also includes QuickRemote that can remotely control popular home entertainment devices.<br /><br /><strong><u>Specifications of LG G2</u></strong><br /><br /><ul><li>5.2 inch full-HD display</li><li>2.26GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor</li><li>2GB RAM </li><li>16GB/32GB internal storage</li><li>13MP rear camera</li><li>2.1MP front camera</li><li>Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean</li><li>138.5 x 70.9 x 8.9mm</li><li>3000mAh battery</li></ul></div>

LG G2- New Smartphone with 5.2 inch full-HD display and 2.26 GHz Snapdragon 800 processor

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Low Budget Smartphone with latest features has been launched by XOLO: XOLO A500S

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div>XOLO- the next level which objects to provide something new and better every time. XOLO has been launched world’s first Intel processor powered smartphone with fastest computing experience. XOLO developed its new device with an intent to provide something better experience to user.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLf1RsgEAh3Sctjnc6t8cI05zYe266qyTR4j3k-6DUboS8Ipo2a0gl6q3dU8Z9lzRxI9c94OVRfhsQz_RCHkdF6aTWgCEuKvvGwHYixS17nolt8szmnbTv-kcjq_6ik7FbSIz4u2AgwH0/s1600/xolo-a500s.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="XOLO launched a low budget smartphone with latest features" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLf1RsgEAh3Sctjnc6t8cI05zYe266qyTR4j3k-6DUboS8Ipo2a0gl6q3dU8Z9lzRxI9c94OVRfhsQz_RCHkdF6aTWgCEuKvvGwHYixS17nolt8szmnbTv-kcjq_6ik7FbSIz4u2AgwH0/s1600/xolo-a500s.png" title="" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">source: xolo</td></tr></tbody></table><div>XOLO launched its new low budget smartphone A500S with 4-inch (480-by-800) display and 233 pixels per inch. The device will provide all the latest features in just Rs. 6999. A500S is powered by 1.2 GHz Dual core processor with 512 MB of RAM through which user can use multiple applications consecutively. </div><div><br /></div><div>XOLO A500S will be run on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean which provide simple and quick app switching. It also includes 32 GB expandable storage with 4 GB of internal storage. With 1400 mAh battery it provides more backup in comparison to other smartphones.</div><div><br /></div><div>Users can enjoy with the pictures and video recording up to 720p resolution from 5-MP rear camera and a VGA camera may be used for front facing. It is a rare case of providing 5-MP camera in low price.</div><div><br /></div><div>XOLO launched its A500S smartphone with a new Anti-theft application which protect your phone from data loss or theft. It automatically back up your phone’s call logs, SMS and other important data time to time.</div><div><br /></div><div>The device is 9MM thick i.e. very slim in smartphones and it is a dual SIM (3G+2G). It has all the connectivity options such as Wi-Fi, 3G, and GPRS etc. like other smartphones. The phone will be available in four standard color variants: Black, Blue, Red and White.</div></div>

smart phone XOLO Low Budget Smartphone with latest features has been launched by XOLO: XOLO A500S

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Big Ten Football Preview 2013...OH-IO!!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZj2PbMvnZ6YOySn2s5GsKKVZ4Drzz1AeCgik13wWNwwZ9d0DbTB27sACWqF0Px0K00DEAXigN1an26rB7DJAviNhtvgqPs_6FVwCAY2Jebhrtj_DsDlyFS3KFL8N-ObnodPjQ_7Q2EaUu/s1600/Ohio+State+Football+Fans+Suck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZj2PbMvnZ6YOySn2s5GsKKVZ4Drzz1AeCgik13wWNwwZ9d0DbTB27sACWqF0Px0K00DEAXigN1an26rB7DJAviNhtvgqPs_6FVwCAY2Jebhrtj_DsDlyFS3KFL8N-ObnodPjQ_7Q2EaUu/s320/Ohio+State+Football+Fans+Suck.jpg" width="289" /></a>Are you ready for some football, America!!?<br /><br />Hiya my fellow college football fans….<br /><br />Tank Patterson (B.S. Agri-Business, THE Ohio State University ‘77) here for IWS.<br /><br />Now yesterday, Jayman posted a <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/08/sec-football-preview-2013.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">preview of the upcoming 2013 SEC Football season</span></a>, and upon reading it, I said to myself…<br /><br /><i>“Tank?  You should preview the upcoming 2013 football season for the only NCAA Football conference that matters, that being the Big Ten Conference.”</i><br /><br />So…Here I am.  Tank Patterson, 1977 graduate of THE Ohio State University.  So, here goes, in order of where each team will finish…<br /><br /><i>Leaders Division</i><br /><br /><b>THE Ohio State University:</b>  If Braxton Miller can stay out of trouble, and our beloved Buckeyes can dodge the early landmines of such high powered teams such as Buffalo, San Diego St., Cal, and Florida A&M, we will be prepared to run through our conference schedule like a combine through a drought stricken corn field.<br /><br /><b>Wisconsin:</b>  The Badgers come to OUR house this year.  Prepare to see a lot of people wearing scarlet and red that game…the red being the blood of 22 Wisconsin Badgers lying dead on the sacred turf of OUR house!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWL-2y3WQ-hBXOy5r3ccdlJjtQG_balEh8F5311vuHAJHItUZdCo3FYOegDQNnHSLk-MZ7U3bqse_0m4IwUIZ-f_gNI6YucikMqtQwG4a_9iw7jzEcFH-mS2FcWe2c0EjK-NGZuvRDM73/s1600/Jerry+Sandusky+Penn+State+Candy+Rape.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWL-2y3WQ-hBXOy5r3ccdlJjtQG_balEh8F5311vuHAJHItUZdCo3FYOegDQNnHSLk-MZ7U3bqse_0m4IwUIZ-f_gNI6YucikMqtQwG4a_9iw7jzEcFH-mS2FcWe2c0EjK-NGZuvRDM73/s320/Jerry+Sandusky+Penn+State+Candy+Rape.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>Penn State:</b>  They come to Columbus on October 26th.  That’s pretty close to Halloween, so hide the kids. Those perverts will be offering candy to all of the precious little kids in OUR city.<br /><br /><b>Purdue:</b>  Ooooooooo, Purdue…Oooooooo, we’re so scared of you, Purdue.  Kicking your ass in Ross-Ade Stadium this year would be a great memory except for the fact that I, my wife, and my family have to spend the night in West Lafayette, IN. in order to watch it happen.<br /><br /><b>Indiana:</b>  Seriously?  Why do you guys even bother?  You are barely a basketball school anymore.<br /><br /><b>Illinois: </b> We go on the road for the second week in a row to play you after Purdue.  Looking for an upset of us?  Perhaps you and the Fighting Illini’ tribe would be better served by making reservations for a scalping!!<br /><br /><i>Legends Divison</i><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAtJ1b7H_Wu8G3Z5ED1PcHfVwYOInhN80BeuDO7SF6WfZeV0QTnd_J6P1DIWavG85Q_qmM9ZJ_-CMLTnYYqsjU5Uys6y5fdRLfPRGniU4PEnZFErFqGXjuUUoTkFubWZsUl1ZfOTwi4LX/s1600/Stupid+Michigan+Football+Fans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAtJ1b7H_Wu8G3Z5ED1PcHfVwYOInhN80BeuDO7SF6WfZeV0QTnd_J6P1DIWavG85Q_qmM9ZJ_-CMLTnYYqsjU5Uys6y5fdRLfPRGniU4PEnZFErFqGXjuUUoTkFubWZsUl1ZfOTwi4LX/s1600/Stupid+Michigan+Football+Fans.jpg" /></a><b>Nebraska:</b>  Remember when you guys were feared? Remember Tom Osborne?  Remember when you joined the Big Ten and much to your chagrin found out that even Ohio has a more moderate winter climate than yours?  Take That!! Cornsuckers!!<br /><br /><b>The Team That Must Not Be Mentioned:</b>  What do you call a Wolverine football player with a National Championship ring?  A Thief!!<br /><br /><b>Northwestern: </b> Hey Smarty Pants, we play you in the “jewel of the Midwest” Evanston, IL. on October 5th…Are you going to trick us by running counter-intuitive plays, or perhaps try to stifle our offense with your defensive mind meld antics?  Your SAT score doesn’t trump the scoreboard on the field.<br /><br /><b>Michigan State:</b>  Ha…Every year, “people in the know” say that this is YOUR year Sparty…Hell, we’re going to beat you 42-0 this year, and we don’t even play you!!<br /><br /><b>Minnesota:</b>  The Golden Gophers are rebuilding and revitalizing their program this year, which means they may actually win a game or two…or not.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnziZ1S_2aQJKKXR5PrY4Nq3v8w3e_YK7ZH8ZCGk3HyYEBCA3F8Uugw2BONxqcreCnN70sWdIryxQG0XZPbA8oqP7DbgTBvecqJpS9x0JqICzdNP7hwZqC6fmpOHCrghhaMmd5UC6mg6Mx/s1600/Sexy+Ohio+State+Girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnziZ1S_2aQJKKXR5PrY4Nq3v8w3e_YK7ZH8ZCGk3HyYEBCA3F8Uugw2BONxqcreCnN70sWdIryxQG0XZPbA8oqP7DbgTBvecqJpS9x0JqICzdNP7hwZqC6fmpOHCrghhaMmd5UC6mg6Mx/s320/Sexy+Ohio+State+Girl.jpg" width="278" /></a><b>Iowa: </b> Kirk Ferentz is quite the head coach.  I know Ferentz is an Iowa grad, but man, he has the IQ of a Northwestern grad, because anyone with his dismal record who can still retain his job, is fucking brilliant!! <br /><br />See you on October 19th, Kirk…unless the IU administration comes to their senses.<br /><br />So there you have it folks…a fair and balanced break down and preview of the 2013 Big Ten Football Season.<br /><br />Here’s to the upcoming college football season, and to Jay and Matt, and here’s to THE Ohio State University.  The best of the best.<br /><br /><i>OH-IO!!</i><br /><br /><i>Tank Patterson</i><br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Matt’s Facebook Page</span></a></div>

Big Ten Football Preview 2013...OH-IO!!

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World of Warcraft: Burdens of Shaohao Part 3: Fear

<div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"> </div> <p> <div id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:7ad9f212-717c-4dcd-8301-7ae18a901029" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px"><div><object height="480" width="853"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/lom_plwy9iA?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/lom_plwy9iA?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="853" height="480" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div></div></p> <p><a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10534912/The_Burdens_of_Shaohao%E2%80%94Part_3_Fear-8_6_2013" target="_blank"><font size="3">Burdens of Shaohao</font></a><font size="3">: Part 3 Fear has just been released.  It is as impressive as the previous installments in the series.</font>  <br></p> <p></p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3548c990-f862-4d8d-9135-3f06ea72dde7" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/World+of+Warcraft" rel="tag">World of Warcraft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/WOW" rel="tag">WOW</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Burdens+of+Shaohao" rel="tag">Burdens of Shaohao</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/video+games" rel="tag">video games</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/MMO" rel="tag">MMO</a></div>

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  Burdens of Shaohao : Part 3 Fear has just been released.  It is as impressive as the previous installments in the series.   Technorat...

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All better now!

Also known as there's a really fun and easy way to make a dirty girl happy ;-)  As we always do, our tension builds and builds and we truly hate each other.  We're the epitome of dysfunction.  And the epitome of make-up sex.<br /><br />For us, it's not make up, then sweet lovin'.  No, it's the other way around.  It's emotionally charged and aggressive and almost violent.  Then after, that's where the making up happens.  Not that we're talking about anything, it's just that clean slate all's forgiven and fall asleep snuggled together.<br /><br />And see I can write about this because I know he's never reading this ;-) It's a shame I'm not better with words.  Some of you are truly gifted with them!  <br /><br />There was an orgasm so intense I literally cried.  I wasn't upset, the tears just stated pouring which then turned into tears from laughing because they wouldn't stop.  <br /><br />I fessed up to him not that long ago about my darker fantasies.  We're still in the learning phases of what makes me tick.  It's a shame we've got to have so much resentment and hostility built up (or drunkenness) for it to get this good.  So there's things that others do or like and I read them thinking there's no way I'd ever like that.  Or I think it's odd how their body reacts to something, not that it's wrong but I don't understand how it's sexual in any way.  Then I personally stumble into it and find a new way to rock my world.<br /><br />Apparently I like having hands over my face and neck so I can't hardly breathe.  Seems I like not being able to move anywhere other than my fingers and toes.  The weird one.  Him holding my chin so I look at his face and him asking, "Are you trying to tell me what to do?"  Wow.  Didn't see that one coming.  But that shot straight from my ears on down... <br /><br />Okay enough of that and back to the point of this.<br /><br />I'm clearly not a techie person.  I got my first phone that did something other than make a telephone call and sent my first text about a year ago. Yes, I'm now an addict!  I was recently informed it's not Tweeter, it's Twitter.  Even though the messages are tweets not twits...  I am on facebook though and am being slowly fattened by pinterest.  So not totally in the dark ages.  But then again, I've never owned a CD... which I suppose is fine now but I don't have one of those ipad touch thingys either.  I like Spotify and then XM in the car.  It's all good.  I feel like a little old lady sometimes but I'm not.  I'm 38.<br /><br />And... I didn't know that accidentally hitting publish rather than save would broadcast my rantings to the world in a way that can't be taken back.  Friggin "feed" or whatever somebody said it was called.  Once it's there it doesn't go away.  Even when you un-publish it a millisecond later, it's stuck for eternity.. Thanks for the tip joey, I can be dense lol.  And lol clearly stands for little old lady. <br /><br />I didn't mean to have my temper tantrum on display. I'm glad most of you were only privy to the paragraph you got.  I'd apologize for the immaturity, but it was my feelings at the time so it was what it was.<br /><br />I was blown away by the emails and texts and facebook chats of concern.  I am humbled by the compassion and concern.  Just still cannot wrap my mind around the outpouring of support for everyone here.  And to answer the burning question, no it's not all good now.  Yes, we are in dire need of counseling. No, it's never gonna happen.  What matters is that no matter how much we want to wring the other's neck, we do love each other.  There's ups and downs.  Yesterday was one of the bottomest bottoms and we're back on the upswing.  I don't know what the future holds for us.  I (and I suspect he as well) want to grow old together so that's the vision I choose to keep.  Despite the tantrum I might have.<br /><br />At least I don't do this (bad words warning) when I'm not getting my way!<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PEPoO08IMog" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />

All better now!

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Anti-ALEC protests converging in Chicago

<div class="tr_bq"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7TA8gnpUBIE6LV-jYfA9sluaVixOCxgSmYPMKsqxrjeiLzhdg0RpbjLfeGiC9vjjs-56-EpntyZqEt7eC6DHqU1AmlCL8sdu0e8V5kwEMlVHir4n_cbEy7JDAtNKpf_OQbmJgz2G_hMa5/s1600/alec+is+coming+to+chicago.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7TA8gnpUBIE6LV-jYfA9sluaVixOCxgSmYPMKsqxrjeiLzhdg0RpbjLfeGiC9vjjs-56-EpntyZqEt7eC6DHqU1AmlCL8sdu0e8V5kwEMlVHir4n_cbEy7JDAtNKpf_OQbmJgz2G_hMa5/s1600/alec+is+coming+to+chicago.jpg" /></a></div>The pace of protest is quickening throughout the nation as a vast army of fed-up workers sing in the Wisconsin Capitol, <a href="http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/alec-protests-begin-banner-drop-and-arrests-at-the-palmer-house-more-to-come/">disrupt a posh Chicago hotel</a>, hold <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/07/nc-moral-monday-protests-against-alec.html" rel="nofollow">massive rallies in North Carolina</a> or simply <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/08/low-wage-workers-in-Chicago-Milwaukee-Seattle-walk-off-jobs.html" rel="nofollow">walk off their low-wage jobs</a>.<br /><br />Though the Solidarity Singers in Wisconsin and the Moral Monday protesters in North Carolina may be thousands of miles apart, their targets and tactics are the same. They are protesting politicians who've been bought by corporations to help them seize more power and wealth. Since April, more than a thousand protesters have been arrested for civil disobedience in Raleigh, Madison and Chicago.<br /><br />Tomorrow another large protest in Chicago will take direct aim at the corporate-backed group that stands out for its lethality to workers and for the huge number of politicians who have filled its shopping bag: the American Legislative Exchange Council, or <a href="http://alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">ALEC</a>. ALEC has written hundreds of bills to outsource public education, destroy unions, raise taxes on the middle class and limit voting to its supporters. ALEC's modus operandi is to treat state lawmakers to luxury vacations and hand them legislation to empower corporations at the expense of workers and citizens.<br /><br />ALEC is hosting one of its periodic confabs this week at the luxurious Palmer House in Chicago's Loop. Already an offshoot of North Carolina's Moral Monday group staged a disruption in the hotel lobby -- on Monday of course -- demanding that ALEC go home.Six were arrested. Tomorrow another large demonstration will take place outside the hotel.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/" rel="nofollow">Center for Media and Democracy</a> brings us the frightening ALEC agenda at the Chicago meeting:<br /><br /><ul><li>New ways to thwart local democratic control by prohibiting city or county governments from regulating genetically modified plant seeds...</li><li>Presentations on how fracking America can lead to increased profits through exporting America's natural gas....</li><li>Updates to some of ALEC's long-standing anti-union policies. The "Employee Secret Ballot Protection Act" will be amended "to call for [union certification by] a majority of members in the bargaining unit, rather than a majority of those voting." This was the same certification policy pushed by Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and creates an almost insurmountable burden....</li><li>Renewing objections to linking the minimum wage to the consumer price index...</li><li>Privatization and outsourcing of toll roads...</li><li>New efforts to eliminate occupational licensing for any profession, which help ensure that people who want to call themselves doctors, long-haul truckers, accountants, or barbers meet basic standards of training and expertise to guarantee that consumers are safe and get what they pay for.</li><li>Expanding virtual “schools,” which enriches ALEC’s online school corporate funders, such as K12 Inc. </li></ul></div>Meanwhile, little notice has been given to the protests against ALEC's agenda in Wisconsin. Yesterday was the seventh day in two weeks that police arrested Solidarity Singers, a group that has met every weekday since March 11, 2011, to sing pro-union and civil rights songs inside the Rotunda. Twenty-two were arrested. <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/06/scott-walker-still-kills-jobs-better.html" rel="nofollow"><strike>Job-killer</strike></a> Gov. Scott Walker has been an ardent promoter of ALEC's agenda to <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/07/ALEC-bills-to-crush-unions.html" rel="nofollow">crush unions and lower workers' wages</a>.<br /><br />One of Walker's political opponents, state Rep. Sandy Pope, was threatened with arrest yesterday for watching the singers.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=34690" rel="nofollow">blue cheddar</a> tells us:<br /><blockquote>Today was the 7th day of mass arrests in Wisconsin’s capitol building since July 24, 2013 when the mass arrests began... </blockquote><blockquote>According to WMTV, today August 6th, 22 people were cited for not having a permit and one of the 22 also got a disorderly conduct ticket. </blockquote><blockquote>A tally that Jason H. has been keeping shows that capitol cops have dispensed 168 citations and 6 misdemeanors to singalong participants since July 24th.</blockquote>We understand some of the Solidarity Singers may be on their way to Chicago...

Anti-ALEC protests converging in Chicago

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10 startling facts about low-wage workers

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Low-wage workers are rising up against their corporate bosses nationwide in an effort to increase their appalling wages and improve workplace protections by organizing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some that’s meant walking out on their jobs on a one-day strike, while others have joined them on the picket line to protest.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><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/AVvXsEhsFdvMq6sS7Om2igYBfpKzBUWCwJpqBhR7_WYyhul1n-CWMzv_7IQWoKcFGsq0cRG_sotnoN8TTrKcS7_CXsWthAffeuCxn9Ft74DkQymlH8q5aFRMmDfo9KoN7pjQbN1x2SKnlxoEhGkm/s1600/7-31lowwagerally1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFdvMq6sS7Om2igYBfpKzBUWCwJpqBhR7_WYyhul1n-CWMzv_7IQWoKcFGsq0cRG_sotnoN8TTrKcS7_CXsWthAffeuCxn9Ft74DkQymlH8q5aFRMmDfo9KoN7pjQbN1x2SKnlxoEhGkm/s320/7-31lowwagerally1.jpg" title="Workers at a Chicago McDonald's walked off the job to protest low pay and a lack of benefits." width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Workers protest at a Chicago McDonald's last week.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No matter what form the action takes, there are many good reasons why this is happening now. While the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unemployment rate has dropped in the past few years, </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/low-wage-workers-recovery_n_3685091.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the new jobs created are falling far short of the ones they are replacing</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> when it comes to pay and benefits. That means many low-wage jobs, such as in the fast food and retail industries, are now being filled by adults who have families to feed. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Here are 10 little-known facts that show who is working low-wage jobs and what they have experienced in recent years:</span><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/slow-progress-for-fast-food-workers" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">39.3 percent of fast-food workers are 25 or older</a></li><li>31.4 percent of fast-food workers aged 20 and over have at least some college experience;</li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26.6 percent of fast-food workers are parents;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">83.6 percent of fast-food workers make $10.09 an hour or less;</span></li><li><a href="http://www.nelp.org/page/-/Reports/NELP-Taking-Low-Road-Federal-Contracting.pdf?nocdn=1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">74 percent of those in federal contract jobs</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (which includes port truckers, janitors, fast food and retail workers) make less than $10 an hour;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/worker-wage_n_3610530.html?utm_hp_ref=business"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">average U.S. worker with one child needs to earn $14.17 an hour</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to achieve economic security;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Workers </span><a href="http://www.alternet.org/recession-forever-10-reasons-american-workers-are-screwed"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">making between $10.61 and $14.21 per hour saw their real wages drop</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> on average by 4.5 percent between 2009 and 2012;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The median U.S. income has fallen 8.1 percent since 2007;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Involuntary part-timers have almost doubled in the past five years, to 8.2 million;</span></li><li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Exclusive-4-in-5-in-US-face-near-poverty-no-work-4691668.php#page-2">12.6 percent of adults aged 25 to 60 live in poverty</a></span></li></ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don’t expect worker-led efforts to raise awareness to end anytime soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s going to continue to be a long, hot summer for corporations that pay poverty wages.</span></div>

low wage workers 10 startling facts about low-wage workers

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How Is LFone Faring?

<a href="http://archidose.org/wp/1999/10/18/landesgartenschau/"><i>Landesgartenschau</i></a>—aka Landscape Formation One (LFone)—is a flower pavilion designed by <a href="http://www.zaha-hadid.com/">Zaha Hadid</a> for Weil am Rhein, Germany, the same town that is home to her first built work, <a href="http://www.vitra.com/en-us/campus/architectur#5">Vitra's Fire Station</a>. When LFone was completed in 1999 it looked something like this:<br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNgsduwf58nURhy2Mx_Mga-oZITx2iqZL01UWOa5uPHwzvS3-kXd9BA7CQJhH0YaPOoJcFEZ3aFcyB1r-HfHgCNsAA9_lpiXaHc9WNFfnHGRcxst6C4RiVUWcxq5T_kZfIzIXqiiIqbx7L/s1600/th_65d1300db123ce22f6e2569fb36764f8_943_lands_phot_04.jpg" /><br />[Photography © Hélène Binet | image <a href="http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/landesgardenschau-landscape-formation-one/">source</a>] <br /><br />In 2007 I posted <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegoatisbad/1361268993/">a photo from Flickr user "thegoatisbad,"</a> pointing out that LFone had "<a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2007/09/seen-better-days.html">seen better days</a>":<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegoatisbad/1361268993/" title="if this is the building now... by thegoatisbad, on Flickr"><img alt="if this is the building now..." height="426" src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1142/1361268993_7224d29fa4_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Having visited the pavilion a couple weeks ago I can say things have gotten both better and worse for LFone. The approach clearly signals that something is happening:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9460644790/" title="Landesgartenschau by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Landesgartenschau" height="536" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3690/9460644790_ed013ac819_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />For the summer (at least) the grounds abutting the building are being used for a festival with food kiosks placed around a central seating area and stage for musical performances.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9457862087/" title="Landesgartenschau by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Landesgartenschau" height="638" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3788/9457862087_fa4d65405e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />As can be seen above and below, the building itself appears to be in adequate condition, better than the seen-better-days photo from five years ago. <a href="http://www.badische-zeitung.de/weil-am-rhein/landscape-formation-one-grosser-wurf-und-sorgenkind-zugleich--72632530.html">A June 2013 article at Badische Zeitung</a> appears to say (via Google Translate) that: "Two years ago it was believed at the Town Hall and the Garden Festival Society to have problems with the water under control: 770 meters wall tops were sealed with a special process, the concrete impregnated."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9457861919/" title="Landesgartenschau by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Landesgartenschau" height="480" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5482/9457861919_70d9b827a5_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The landscaping adjacent to the building is also in good shape, perhaps stemming from the fact the plants are succulents (or appear to be, to my untrained eye):<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9457861215/" title="Landesgartenschau by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Landesgartenschau" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3677/9457861215_9306f6b626_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br />It also appears that the tagging covering the half-pipe-like slope at one end of the building has given way to serving as a canvas for children's chalk drawings:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9460644152/" title="Landesgartenschau by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Landesgartenschau" height="800" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2891/9460644152_349de9fd9d_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br />So given that the building won't be falling down anytime soon, and the grounds around it (that aren't covered with trucks and the like) are faring well, then the big issue is what exactly is the building doing? Is it merely serving as a backdrop for outdoor festivals? Is it a rental space for parties (some tables and chairs were awkwardly squeezed inside when I was there, but the doors were locked)? Is it a visitor center, a trailhead for the adjacent nature preserve (a small visitor center with an LFone brochure, among others, was stuffed into a small space, also locked)?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9460644010/" title="Landesgartenschau by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Landesgartenschau" height="480" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3675/9460644010_c608bf4bba_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />It's not really clear what purpose the building is serving these days, and therefore it's up to Weil am Rhein to find something that is appropriate for the building while enabling the town to pay for its continued maintenance. Not surprisingly, it doesn't work as a backdrop for summer festivals. If anything, its landscraper-like design and original function point to something aligned with the appreciation of nature unspoiled by commercial presence.

How Is LFone Faring?

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Leaders of personal computer makers ready to introduce a new kind of device: tablet-cum-laptops.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Leading manufacturers including Dell, Lenovo, Acer and HP are ready to launch hybrid of laptop and tablet. There is an all new series of gadget is ready to hit Indian market. A crossbred of laptops and tablet is a new arrival for the users and every leading company wants to join it with their product.<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="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hS-jIhGp5DY/UgJmawI44DI/AAAAAAAAAJE/AZqZbYJVg6c/s1600/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Yoga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="247" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hS-jIhGp5DY/UgJmawI44DI/AAAAAAAAAJE/AZqZbYJVg6c/s320/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Yoga.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">credit: gadgetronica.com</td></tr></tbody></table><br />According to P Krishnakumar, executive director and head of consumer business at Dell India said, “On one side the pc market is not growing, while on other face more and more people are getting used to the touch interface. The question is, ‘Do you want to complain or do something about it.” It is clear from this statement that companies are ready to get full advantage of markets hypothesis.<br />In 2012, Smartphone shipments in India grew 48% to 16.3 million units; on other hand PC market grew at a slow rate of 3.5% to 11 million units from 10.5 million units at same time. So the Leading PC makers change their concept.<br /><br />PC makers like HP, Dell, Acer gambling on touch based laptops, a new device to beat reduce speed. “Touch will bring interest back to PC market but overall volumes will not increase but steady the decline,” says Ranjit Agarwal, research director at technology research firm of UK.<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="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9ZN1Bpx1hfQ/UgJmH7cp9dI/AAAAAAAAAI8/asdqk6Aoq8g/s1600/asus-taichi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9ZN1Bpx1hfQ/UgJmH7cp9dI/AAAAAAAAAI8/asdqk6Aoq8g/s320/asus-taichi.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">credit: gadgetronica.com</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iNDagWdyi4Y/UgJmrSnGn_I/AAAAAAAAAJM/q4qTt4vfdCU/s1600/XPS-12-Dell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> </div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Top 5 tablet-cum-laptops available in India are following with specification</span>:<br />1. Asus Taichi: RAM: 4GB DDR3, Processor: Intel core i7-3517m (1.9GHz), Price Rs.: 1,39,999.<br />2. Samsung ATIV smart PC Pro: RAM: 4GB DDR, Processor: Intel core i5, Price Rs.: 75,490.<br />3. HP Envy X2: RAM 2GB, Processor: Intel Atom 1.8GHz, Price Rs.: 48,200.<br />4. Dell XPS 12 Convertible: RAM: 4GB DDR3, Processor: 3rd Gen Intel Core i5-3317U(2.6GHz), Price Rs.: 89,990.<br />5. Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 13: RAM: 8GB DDDR3, Processor: 3rd Gen Intel Core i3-3217U, Price Rs.: 84,290.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iNDagWdyi4Y/UgJmrSnGn_I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/DL4Njvj-t_4/s1600/XPS-12-Dell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iNDagWdyi4Y/UgJmrSnGn_I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/DL4Njvj-t_4/s320/XPS-12-Dell.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>                                                    credit: gadgetronica.com<br />Device makers having also a challenge about their touch-based devices at sensibly price to make them  in consumers reach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/100638775997274345522" rel="author">Anil Swami</a></div></div>

Asus Dell HP Intel laptop Lenovo samsung Tablet Leaders of personal computer makers ready to introduce a new kind of device: tablet-cum-laptops.

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Belviq Patients

Good Morning everyone!  I can't believe we are already well in to August!  It's already proving to be a hot and steamy month here in Houston!  We have had a heat advisory for a few days.  I guess that means I will spend more time in the pool to cool off!<br /><br />I changed my blog just a bit.  I added some tabs where it's easier to find things.  Let me introduce you to a few key tabs:<br /><br />First is the Belviq Patients Tab.  I am following about 5 or 6 other Belviq patients who just started in the last month or so.  All have great results thus far.  Most are in align with my numbers as well.  I will periodically update so keep check back for those updates.  You can go directly by clicking here:<br /> <a href="http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/other-belviq-patients.html">http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/other-belviq-patients.html</a><br /><br />The Second one is for my weigh ins.  It's the videos people claim they enjoy watching to see my progress.<br /><a href="http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/video-weigh-in.html">http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/video-weigh-in.html</a><br /><br />How about some before and after pictures.  This is a great way to see the slow transition to my desired goal:<br /><a href="http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/before-and-after-pictures.html">http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/before-and-after-pictures.html</a><br /><br />And, let's not forget about all of the wonderful people who are blogging or writing about my progress as well:<br /><a href="http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/we.html">http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/we.html</a><br /><br /><br />Also, pay attention to the ads on my blog.  If you see an ad that interests you, then click on the ad and go check it out.  You never know what you may find and I also get a little extra as well.  There are great companies with great products.  All of this is helping me pay for my Belviq.  I made through donations and ads exactly enough to pay for my August Belviq.  I am hoping the ads alone with help me pay for September and not rely on other assistance.<br /><br />Have a great hump day!<br />xoxox<br />Ellie<br /><br />

Belviq Patients

Good Morning everyone!  I can't believe we are already well in to August!  It's already proving to be a hot and steamy month here in...

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