Doctors Increasingly Ignore Evidence In Treating Back Pain : Shots - Health News : NPR

The misery of low back pain often drives people to the doctor to seek relief. But doctors are doing a pretty miserable job of treating back pain, a study finds.<br /><br><br /><br>Physicians are increasingly prescribing expensive scans, narcotic painkillers and other treatments that don't help in most cases, and can make things a lot worse. Since 1 in 10 of all primary care visits are for low back pain, this is no small matter.<br /><br><br /><br>What does help? Some ibuprofen or other over-the-counter painkiller, and maybe some physical therapy. That's the evidence-based protocol. With that regimen, most people's back pain goes away within three months.<br /><br><br /><br>But when researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston looked at records of 23,918 doctor visits for simple back pain between 1999 and 2010, they found that doctors have actually been getting worse at prescribing scientifically based treatments.<br /><br><br /><br>Doctors were recommending NSAID pain relievers and acetaminophen less often. Instead, they were increasingly prescribing prescription opioids like OxyContin, with use rising from 19 percent of cases to 29 percent. Over-the-counter painkiller use declined from 37 percent to 25 percent. Other studies have found that opioids help only slightly with acute back pain and are worthless for treating chronic back pain.<br /><br><br /><br>"That's a big public health issue," says Dr. John Mafi, chief medical resident and a fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess. Mafi was the lead author of the study, which was published online inJAMA Internal Medicine. In the 1990s doctors were criticized for ignoring patients' pain, Mafi says. Some of that criticism was valid, but doctors have overreacted. "What magic bullet better than a very powerful pain medication?"<br /><br><br /><br>About 43 percent of patients taking opioids for chronic back pain also had other substance abuse disorders, the researchers found. In 2008, almost 15,000 people died from overdoses of prescription opioids, and abuse has surged among women. Opioids may be necessary in some cases, Mafi says, but "they're certainly not first-line."<br /><br><br /><br>Doctors were also quick to whip out the prescription pad and call for CT and MRI scans for people with lower back pain, the study found. The number of people getting scans rose from 7 to 11 percent. Though those scans won't hurt the patient, in most cases they don't find anything wrong. And they are expensive, costing $1,000 or more.<br /><br><br /><br>Patients are partly to blame for the rush to scan, Mafi says. "Patients are expecting very comprehensive evaluations," he tells Shots. "There's a sentiment perhaps if my doctor ordered an MRI for my back pain they really listened to me. It's almost validating."<br /><br><br /><br>And in an era when doctors are rated online by patients, "doctors have an incentive to make patients happy," Mafi says.<br /><br><br /><br>Financial incentives for doctors may also be a factor. This study didn't examine why doctors aren't following clinical guidelines for treating back pain, but other studies have found that when doctors own imaging equipment, they are more likely to use it.<br /><br><br /><br>Doctors should be cut a little slack, a journal commentary accompanying this study says, because guidelines have been conflicted on back pain treatment until recently, and it takes 17 years, on average, for new treatment standards to be widely adopted. But creating checklist-type guidelines for doctors would help speed that process, the commentary says. So would requiring patients to pay more of the cost of expensive imaging, and providing payment incentives for doctors who do the right thing.<br /><br><br /><br>"For the majority of new-onset back pain [cases], it gets better within three months," Mafi says. "Unfortunately, we don't have fancy treatments that cure it." Time, some ibuprofen and gentle exercise aren't sexy. But they most often do the trick.<br /><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/30/206910829/doctors-increasingly-ignore-evidence-in-treating-back-pain">http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/30/206910829/doctors-increasingly-ignore-evidence-in-treating-back-pain</a>

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2nd day of fast food strikes hit Kansas City, St. Louis

<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/AVvXsEgHrUbr8Qh7eRP20qPBspqmnQ3tKHoEi9K4mlU2hgsO3e0uuEXHRkrDOdSe53GiyvG7LuwMdus4F5dyE03D3RokTuB9n9_YHbY22_EqGMgNSBgVoU_urAp-5Z71szdq6o1qXl_ewnrZ3Agu/s1600/fast+food+workers+strike+in+Kansas+City.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrUbr8Qh7eRP20qPBspqmnQ3tKHoEi9K4mlU2hgsO3e0uuEXHRkrDOdSe53GiyvG7LuwMdus4F5dyE03D3RokTuB9n9_YHbY22_EqGMgNSBgVoU_urAp-5Z71szdq6o1qXl_ewnrZ3Agu/s320/fast+food+workers+strike+in+Kansas+City.png" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fast food strike in Kansas City</td></tr></tbody></table>Fast food workers walked off the job today in Kansas City and St. Louis, fed up with poverty wages and employer retaliation. The action followed a one-day strike in New York City by hundreds of workers at fast food restaurants such as Wendy's, McDonald's and Burger King.<br /><br />In Kansas City today, a Family Dollar worker inspired by the fast food strike walked off the job and joined the action.<br /><br />Andre Houston, a McDonald's crew member in St. Louis, is featured on the "Low Wage Is Not OK" Facebook page. The message: His family relies on his salary just to live. His family can't survive on poverty wages.<br /><br />Sixty Teamster first responders in El Centro, Calif, are also <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/07/teamster-first-responders-strike.html">striking Gold Cross Ambulance</a> for a third day. They're fighting against low wages and substandard equipment that puts patients at risk.<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.890625px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.890625px;">The labor unrest will continue to escalate through the rest of the week with short strikes against fast food companies in Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee. And in San Francisco, <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/07/teamsters-to-protest-against-mckesson.html" rel="nofollow">McKesson will face a large Teamster protest</a> tomorrow because it retaliates against workers for trying to form a union. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.890625px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.890625px;"><a href="http://business.time.com/2013/07/30/fast-food-strikes-unable-to-unionize-workers-borrow-tactics-from-occupy/">Time Magazine</a> compared this week's industrywide strikes to the wave of actions that galvanized the labor movement during the 1930s:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.890625px;">This week’s walk-outs seem less about truly unionizing (even though the workers’ efforts have received support from the Service Employees International Union) and more about building public momentum for a higher minimum wage. Instead of taking the traditional route of trying to reach some sort of collective bargaining agreement, they’re betting that an Occupy-style public awareness campaign, based on the idea that their wages are inherently unfair, perpetuate inequality and fail to move them up the economic ladder, will lead to change at either the state or federal level.</span></span></blockquote>Sign the petition demanding no retaliation against fast food strikers <a href="http://lowpayisnotok.org/noretaliation/?utm_campaign=LowPay&utm_medium=FBPage&utm_source=NoRetaliation">here</a>. And give them a Facebook Like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LowPayIsNotOk">here</a>.

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Teamsters to protest against McKesson worker retaliation

McKesson Corporation will face a large Teamster protest tomorrow outside its shareholder meeting in San Francisco tomorrow because it abuses workers at its distribution facility in Lakeland, Fla. Though McKesson employees voted for Teamster representation more than a year ago, the company still will not agree to a first contract that provides decent wages and affordable health care.<br /><br />McKesson, the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America is retaliating against its Lakeland employees,. The company hired a union-busting law firm and has threatened and intimidated the workers rather than agree to wages they can live on.<br /><br />The San Francisco-based pharmaceutical distributor is a poster child for corporate greed and corruption.<br />Accused of stealing from taxpayers and payors by fixing drug prices, it had to pay nearly $1 billion in legal settlements. Then the board allowed CEO John Hammergren to loot the company of roughly $50 million a year, with a pension estimated at $159 billion.<br /><br />Tomorrow, McKesson will also face an investor backlash inside the shareholder meeting over the company’s excessive executive pay practices and poor corporate governance. The Change to Win Investment Group has called for a vote against Hammergren – as well as two other board members – because of the company’s pay practices and financial and reputational risks arising from widespread price fixing allegations.<br /><br />Rome Aloise, Teamsters international vice president and president of Teamsters Joint Council 7, said it's no wonder health care costs are rising.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Teamsters won’t stand by while McKesson fleeces workers, investors and the American public.</blockquote>Stay tuned. <br /><div><br /></div>

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Potential TPP costs keep going up

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5GNPh4L9dyFEjafZgdiLgok9fpP5_M0vgNOuTOWAXZejHvGXGnGsP1spLECr7NtKsbzE1Y7RlXgK3QNdhzmGV_vRO4iWp0vuqjkx_b7TV33eLlje3d5hnhidRw71jJ4kMMouyRMMkqih/s1600/tpp.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5GNPh4L9dyFEjafZgdiLgok9fpP5_M0vgNOuTOWAXZejHvGXGnGsP1spLECr7NtKsbzE1Y7RlXgK3QNdhzmGV_vRO4iWp0vuqjkx_b7TV33eLlje3d5hnhidRw71jJ4kMMouyRMMkqih/s320/tpp.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking for </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/congress-shouldnt-outsour_b_3618561.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another reason to oppose a possible TPP trade deal</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">? How about this -- America could be on the hook for potentially billions of dollars if an international company sues the government because it decides our health and safety rules are getting in the way of its profits.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">South Centre, an intergovernmental think tank based in Geneva, Switzerland, </span><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">details how a biased arbitration system</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> used to decide cases between corporations and countries who are members of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and “free trade” agreements is driving some nations to the financial brink:<o:p></o:p></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under these treaties, foreign companies can sue governments if they introduce policies that these companies deem affect their future incomes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The treaties define “expropriation” to include depriving investors of future profits due to new regulations.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So a tobacco firm has sued Australia and Uruguay for requiring cigarette boxes to have plain packaging. When Ecuador cancelled a contract with an American oil company for violating the terms of the contract, the company won took a case and was awarded US$2.4 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A report released last year by two European groups explains how </span><a href="http://corporateeurope.org/publications/profiting-from-injustice" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a small group attorneys working for investors or as arbitrators have benefited from such litigation</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. The lawyers also encourage big companies to sue governments for potential fat paydays.<o:p></o:p></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among some of the findings are:</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Only 15 arbitrators, nearly all from Europe, the US or Canada, have decided 55 percent of all known investment-treaty disputes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>This small group sits on the same panels, acts as both arbitrators and counsels and call on each other as witnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Many arbitrators show a clear bias towards investors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Several prominent arbitrators have been members of the board of major multinational companies, including those who filed cases against developing countries.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A few law firms have been encouraging investors to sue governments, as a weapon to weaken or prevent laws on public health or the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>These investment lawyers are the new “ambulance chasers” and have fuelled an increase in cases from 38 in 1996 to 450 known cases in 2011.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Countries have to pay exorbitant legal and arbitration costs averaging over $8 million per dispute, and exceeding US$30 million in some cases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The Philippines spent $58 billion defending two cases against a German firm.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The U.S could be a huge target for such litigation if it enters into the TPP deal. Our country has more stringent labor, workplace safety, health and environmental rules than many of the 11 other nations we are currently negotiating with as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact. If we agree to the TPP, the only solution to avoid these lawsuits would be to lower our standards. That’s no solution at all.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's time we negotiate trade agreements that protect American workers, not the big corporations. We should be setting the standards on how to treat workers, produce the best and safest products, and protect the environment. If the TPP is going to sink the workplace standards to the level of sweatshops in Vietnam, we should pass.</span>

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ALEC link to official who cheated on charter school grade

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqbBvOSjWyjb8EovjG4xMi2cYSqbWLEpgNJdfwfWxgXoT2P1fAht8UrnSOvGijhszYW4rUhFQcXUFFvacYCorY1_l8XLm4Z6hyX0xpROYBXY9slOUBW_cOZWT1R-xiqBE092AFGTKVc4j/s1600/alec-exposed-600x400.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqbBvOSjWyjb8EovjG4xMi2cYSqbWLEpgNJdfwfWxgXoT2P1fAht8UrnSOvGijhszYW4rUhFQcXUFFvacYCorY1_l8XLm4Z6hyX0xpROYBXY9slOUBW_cOZWT1R-xiqBE092AFGTKVc4j/s320/alec-exposed-600x400.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>There's an <a href="http://alecexposed.org/">ALEC</a> link (what a shock) to the Indiana school superintendent who inflated the grade of an outsourced school run by a wealthy political donor. <br /><br />Our friends at the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12198/former-indiana-superintendent-lauded-alec-and-education-privatizers-cheats-school">Center for Media and Democracy</a> found the ALEC link. We're cross-posting their story below: <br /><br />New documents show that former Indiana Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett -- who now heads Florida's schools -- overhauled Indiana's much-heralded school grading system to guarantee that a charter run by a major campaign donor would receive top marks. These revelations shine a light on the big bucks behind the education privatization agenda, its continued failure to meet the need of students, and provides another instance of cheating to cover up poor educational outcomes.<br /><br />Bennett had been applauded by education privatizers like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for enacting reforms like school grading, vouchers, and anti-union measures. He was a <a href="http://www.alec.org/nearly-1000-state-legislators-business-leaders-and-public-policy-experts-discuss-free-market-solutions-to-creating-jobs-at-alecs-states-nation-policy-summit/">keynote</a> <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/at_arizona_gathering_alec_teac.html">speaker </a>at ALEC’s December 2011 States and Nation Policy Summit, and the education reforms he pushed <a href="http://www.alec.org/model-legislation/indiana-education-reform-package/">were adopted by ALEC</a> <a href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/education_35-day_mailing%20-%20new%20orleans.pdf">in August 2011</a> as a stand-alone bill called the "Indiana Education Reform Package" -- in no small part because they reflected ALEC model legislation.<br /><br /><b>"This will be a HUGE problem for us"</b><br /><br />Christel DeHaan, a big Republican donor in Indiana and school privatization supporter, gave Bennett an astounding $130,000 in campaign contributions for his 2008 and 2012 elections. But when DeHaan's Christel House charter school received a "C" last September under Bennett's grading system, he and his staff scrambled to fix it, according to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/tony-bennett-indiana_n_3672196.html?utm_hp_ref=tw">emails obtained by the Associated Press</a>.<br /><br />"They need to understand that anything less than an A for Christel House compromises all of our accountability work," Bennett wrote in a Sept. 12 email to then-chief of staff Heather Neal, who is now Gov. Mike Pence's chief lobbyist.<br /><br />Bennett had made the A to F grading system a signature item of his 2011 radical education reforms, which he spearheaded with the support of then-Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and <a href="http://stateimpact.npr.org/indiana/2011/12/16/meet-the-influencers-the-american-legislative-exchange-council/">ALEC legislators in the state</a>. Bennett often cited Christel House as a model charter school as he secured support for his education overhaul, and <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/documents/ineds/ed2.pdf">according to the emails</a> had assured the Chamber of Commerce and legislative leaders that Christel was an "A" school.<br /><br />"This will be a HUGE problem for us," Bennett wrote to Neal about the school's "C" grade. <br /><br />Neal emailed back a few minutes later: "Oh, crap. We cannot release until this is resolved."<br /><br />"Legislative leadership as well as critics of A-F are going to use this against us to undo our accountability metrics through legislation," Bennett wrote in another email. "I hope we come to the meeting today with solutions and not excuses and/or explanations for me to wiggle myself out of the repeated lies I have told over the past six months."<br /><br />According to the Associated Press, Bennett's staff scrambled to alter the grading system over the next week, and Christel House's grade jumped twice, eventually reaching an "A." <br /><br /><b>Indiana Has No Campaign Contribution Limits</b><br /><br />In most states, a donor like DeHaan would be prohibited from directly giving a candidate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Indiana has no campaign contribution limits for superintendent.<br /><br />Bennett, first elected in 2008, <a href="http://stateimpact.npr.org/indiana/2012/08/02/interactive-map-whos-giving-money-in-the-campaign-for-state-superintendent/">raised an astounding amount of money</a> for his 2012 reelection campaign: DeHaan gave $75,000, and was one of Bennett's top donors, behind Wal-Mart heir Alice Walton, another major school privatization funder, who gave him $200,000. <a href="http://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/indiana-superintendent-campaign-finance-the-rich-vs-the-many/">Other donors</a> included voucher proponent Eli Broad ($50,000) and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ($40,000).<br /><br />He also got <a href="http://stateimpact.npr.org/indiana/2012/08/02/interactive-map-whos-giving-money-in-the-campaign-for-state-superintendent/">$45,000</a> from Hoosiers for Education Reform, a group bankrolled by the DeVos family's American Federation for Children, which itself has run into some campaign finance problems. <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/05/12101/issue-ad-charade-american-federation-children-uncovered-wisconsin">As CMD has documented</a>, AFC boasted to funders in 2012 that it spent $2.4 million in Wisconsin helping elect nine Wisconsin state legislators, but told the state's Government Accountability Board that it spent only $345,000 that year. <br /><br />But despite significantly outraising his opponent, voters rejected Bennett and his education reform agenda, in what the head of the teacher's union called the biggest upset in Indiana history. <br /><br />Money may not have bought that election, but given these latest email revelations, it sure did seem to buy some special treatment.<br /><br /><b>How Common is Cheating?</b><br /><br />For years, educational reformers have promoted the notion that schools need to be run more like a business, with "competition" from for-profit entities and increased "accountability" through testing regimes. But the promised improvements in educational outcomes have not followed, apparently leading some to cook the books.<br /><br />Perhaps the best-known cheating scandal came from former Washington, D.C., school Chancellor Michelle Rhee, whose controversial reforms had been credited with improving test scores in the District's schools -- an accomplishment that has been cast into doubt by evidence of widespread cheating, where teachers or school officials appeared to change students' incorrect test answers to improve results. Investigations have found extremely high erasure rates that were statistically anomalous, and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/class-struggle/post/surprise-dc-admits-school-test-tampering-at-meridian-public-charter/2013/04/25/818ccb2e-ad66-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_blog.html">some charter schools have been cited</a>. <br /><br />Despite these scandals, both Rhee and Bennett have moved on to greener pastures. After resigning from her position in 2010, Rhee went on to found the 501(c)(4) StudentsFirst, and after Bennett's election loss in Indiana, he was appointed by Florida Governor Rick Scott to head that state's school system.

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Day 3: Teamster first responders strike against low wages in CA

<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/AVvXsEiIPQa4bdExLJdoovg0CrwpI4BQPqAjxuihKNGpzV5ghYXDYGBrtJpvdvCCICzPPboc62jax1V_6uNgzuL58ksXC8gFEpQnCwnfAghv1ifMFX46Fl7K7aYBUEz8vVNYi1hoeptSRAEK5p0T/s1600/Teamsters+strike+Gold+Cross.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPQa4bdExLJdoovg0CrwpI4BQPqAjxuihKNGpzV5ghYXDYGBrtJpvdvCCICzPPboc62jax1V_6uNgzuL58ksXC8gFEpQnCwnfAghv1ifMFX46Fl7K7aYBUEz8vVNYi1hoeptSRAEK5p0T/s400/Teamsters+strike+Gold+Cross.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teamster first responders picketing Gold Cross ambulance.</td></tr></tbody></table>Teamster first responders for Gold Cross Ambulance are on<a href="http://www.kyma.com/slp.php?idN=8646&cat=Local+News"> strike for a third day</a> in their fight for a wage that allows them to feed their families and pay for medical coverage.<br /><br />Sixty of our Teamster brothers and sisters in El Centro, Calif., are standing strong against Gold Cross Ambulance, which pays them starting hourly wages ranging from $8.78 to $9.77<span style="color: #114477; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span> for saving lives as ambulance drivers, EMTs and paramedics. They are members of Teamsters Local 542 in San Diego.<br /><br />Phil Farias, president of Teamsters Local 542, said the Teamsters deserve a fair wage, better benefits and decent working conditions:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">These are dedicated employees who want to do this work, who want to serve their community.</blockquote>The Teamster first responders are joining a wave of strikes engulfing low-wage employers around the country. Labor unrest is escalating this week with a series of shorts strikes against fast-food companies. Hundreds walked off the job at Wendy's, McDonald's and KFC yesterday in New York. Today low-wage workers went on strike in Kansas City and St. Louis, while more workers are expected to strike in Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee over the next few days.<br /><br />In California, <a href="http://www.kyma.com/slp.php?idN=8646&cat=Local+News" rel="nofollow">KYMA News</a> reports: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Alex Ochoa has been working for Gold Cross Ambulance as a paramedic for 13 years. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">"We're running out on calls--we break down going to a call. Or we have a patient on board--A/C's not working in the back. We're handing them ice packs and apologizing to them," Ochoa said.</blockquote>Despite the 106 degree heat, the employees on strike are out 24 hours a day holding signs near the corner of Imperial Avenue and Vine Street in El Centro.<br /><br />“Our members are strong and they will stay out for as long as it takes to get a fair contract,” Farias said.<br /><br />

Day 3: Teamster first responders strike against low wages in CA

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NC Teamsters in biggest Moral Monday protest yet

<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/AVvXsEgXuUOmBXhyphenhyphencSGcyQVUlecM-3RPPi8dwCnips7iI6ID2oatd3js1NgbhBoWKrGu94PsfnCbJ7_7uQV4cNPiMUKiMwoaEtDfo1WL2nq_IrwvPo_FhLpHEGE4jSsrVRKWGCblVeRs6cOMAAmA/s1600/7-30moralmonday2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXuUOmBXhyphenhyphencSGcyQVUlecM-3RPPi8dwCnips7iI6ID2oatd3js1NgbhBoWKrGu94PsfnCbJ7_7uQV4cNPiMUKiMwoaEtDfo1WL2nq_IrwvPo_FhLpHEGE4jSsrVRKWGCblVeRs6cOMAAmA/s400/7-30moralmonday2.jpg" title="Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Raleigh, N.C. to speak out against anti-worker legislation." width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moral Monday protesters rallied against the anti-worker Legislature.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teamsters were among the </span><a href="http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/07/30/moral-monday-13-teachers-march-on-raleigh/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10,000 Moral Monday protesters</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> who marched through the streets of Raleigh, N.C., last night to voice their disgust for a slate of anti-worker initiatives approved by the Legislature this year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the largest of the weekly protests that resulted in 925 arrests for civil disobedience.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lawmakers gutted public education, cut taxes for corporations while raising them for working and middle-class families more and suppressed voting. They cut unemployment and Medicaid benefits. While elected officials disappeared after recessing for the year last week, demonstrators at the 13^{<span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span>} Moral Monday event met on the Statehouse grounds before marching downtown through the state capital. Organizers plan to take the show on the road with similar protests scheduled to be held across the state in the weeks to come. The first is planned for Asheville, N.C., on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Randy Conrad, a Teamsters Local 71 organizer in Charlotte, said several of his members were in attendance yesterday to express their outrage at the direction Gov. Pat McCrory and legislators are taking the state:</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are pretty upset, even those people who voted for them. I can’t wrap my head around what they are trying to accomplish.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Many protesters yesterday were teachers outraged about budget provisions that freeze their pay – already among the lowest in the nation – while ending tenure and taking away salary incentives for them to earn master’s degrees. <a href="http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/07/30/moral-monday-13-teachers-march-on-raleigh/" rel="nofollow">Several said they could be forced to move elsewhere is search of fairer wages</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forsyth County teacher Frankie Santoro, who attended the march with fellow teacher Sara Thompson, said:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without a doubt, we are both thinking of leaving the state. And we believe there will be a mass exodus of teachers from North Carolina.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Denise Jordan, a Guilford County parent who came to the rally with several of her local teachers, </span><a href="http://cdn.optmd.com/V2/44508/50487/index.html?g=Af////8=&r=www.news-record.com/news/local_news/article_3896765a-f8c4-11e2-943e-0019bb30f31a.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">said the Legislature went too far</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enough is enough. You can’t make a state better if we’re going to totally destroy education.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gov. McCrory and the Legislature are fulfilling the anti-worker agenda pushed by </span><a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/02/heres-billionaire-trying-to-destroy.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">greedy billionaire Art Pope</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, an </span><a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ALEC</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">disciple and </span><a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/bombshell-kochs-sold-oil-equipment-to.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strike>Benedict Arnold</strike></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Koch brothers buddy who got himself appointed state budget director after financing a number of radical politicians’ campaigns.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, Moral Monday organizers -- led by the NAACP’s state chapter -- said they are not backing down and will continue through next year’s election.</span></span>

NC Teamsters in biggest Moral Monday protest yet

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New Upheaval in Technology world is going on with new Launching of a Wearing camera

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Using a camera, which can be wearable easily and one can visit anywhere without the headache of losing or forgive anywhere, sounds good. Just wear it and take a picture when you want, with a single click.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wearing Technology, the market is still undefined but are accepted by more than geeks and gadgets in the market. The word “Wearable” is sounds confusing in the technology world but today the market is going in the forward direction only.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the technology world the new technique (Wearable technology) in gadgets is growing much more in compare with other techniques. According to this technology, just worn the gadget on the body and it will do everything from body performance and movement. There are many gadgets in the market which can be wearable </span>doesn't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> matter it is a <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/search/label/google" target="_blank">Google</a> glass or eye watch of <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/search/label/sony" target="_blank">Sony</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_lKl6oTYKATr5W6Qoz7IwfzUWkDMDxpYbp7AluRYcNUPRhELMqkvj4_jcSUYeIneIgOFQfIU_439UVA-8VW2qDknwJTNJeZfkvFtoPBFgPOc8g9E0ordivjTj8Kl6D_BatFWPgmRy9VI/s1600/Wearable+camera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_lKl6oTYKATr5W6Qoz7IwfzUWkDMDxpYbp7AluRYcNUPRhELMqkvj4_jcSUYeIneIgOFQfIU_439UVA-8VW2qDknwJTNJeZfkvFtoPBFgPOc8g9E0ordivjTj8Kl6D_BatFWPgmRy9VI/s1600/Wearable+camera.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: dainikbhaskar</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This new wearable camera has been developed with some special features like it has capacitive sensors, high resolution etc. This new wearable camera is of approx. 5 MP and can capture up to 1800 most valuable moments of your life. If we talk about the Google glass then it has features of record videos, showing messages including the feature of taking pictures. Google glass can find required information for the user, provide feature of </span>Google<span style="font-family: inherit;"> maps and more.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This wearing camera may become an essential tool in protecting public safety through effective utilization of police resources. The gatekeeper may also use this camera for the safety of the colony. </span><br /><div><br /></div></div>

Camera gadget google Technology New Upheaval in Technology world is going on with new Launching of a Wearing camera

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UNITED NATIONS - OUTSOURCING PEACEKEEPING

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mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><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"; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUCR4i4CRjDhmgbFUYAWp5d3tDxeuT3fJ-lN5G__QTE9-3JR7tWdFuHnmccdaLHAld1Dvxd1-T0lUniKpnZZopRW-5-PrC1tJO8y8JoJ4hB53hoYpkQaykQagTJ3Ax8EwENwHYNm3dz7nx/s1600/united-nations-flag-icon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUCR4i4CRjDhmgbFUYAWp5d3tDxeuT3fJ-lN5G__QTE9-3JR7tWdFuHnmccdaLHAld1Dvxd1-T0lUniKpnZZopRW-5-PrC1tJO8y8JoJ4hB53hoYpkQaykQagTJ3Ax8EwENwHYNm3dz7nx/s1600/united-nations-flag-icon.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">UNITED NATIONS MULLS USE OF MERCENARIES FOR INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS </span></b></span></span><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";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2013/07/26/UN-mulls-use-of-private-security-groups/UPI-33211374858786/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Source: UPI</span></b></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UNITED NATIONS is assessing private military and security companies and their commitment to international norms, an envoy said from New York</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The UNITED NATIONS announced a panel discussion on the use of mercenaries and private security companies is scheduled in due course at U.N. headquarters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Group director Anton Katz said the UNITED NATIONS has an opportunity to influence the standards and behavior of the private security industry in a way that puts it in line with international human rights laws.Katz said the working group would assess a draft measure which would provide an overview of U.N. policies on mercenaries and private contractors.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The UNITED NATIONS should serve as a model for world governments and other organizations in its use of private military and security companies,” he said in a statement Friday. “Without proper standards and oversight, the outsourcing of security functions by the UNITED NATIONS to private companies could have a negative effect on the effectiveness and image of the UNITED NATIONS in the field.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A working group on mercenaries during meetings in 2011 found “considerable” evidence that LIBERIAN mercenaries were involved in the post-election conflict in neighboring <a href="http://www.upi.com/topic/Ivory_Coast/" title="Ivory Coast"><span style="color: blue;">IVORY COAST</span></a>. Foreign fighters in LIBYA were reportedly used by the former regime of <a href="http://www.upi.com/topic/Moammar-Gadhafi/" title="Moammar Gadhafi"><span style="color: blue;">Moammar Gadhafi</span></a> to repress peaceful demonstrations against the government during the 2011 civil war.</span></div>

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Police, firefighters now in Walker's union-busting sights

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="236" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MNJdJbpj1GE" width="420"></iframe><br />Wisconsin <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 now says he wants to destroy collective bargaining rights for police and firefighters.<br /><br />If you're surprised by this, you haven't been paying attention.<br /><br />Walker exempted police and firefighters in 2011 from his infamous Act 10 in 2011 -- the one that caused <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests">massive, month-long protests in the state Capitol</a>. Act 10 was Walker's attempt to crush his political opponents -- unions representing teachers, snow plow drivers, solid waste workers and nurses -- by eviscerating their right to bargain collectively. <br /><br />Wisconsin's police and firefighters are not stupid. They stood with their public-sector brothers and sisters during the protests.<br /><br />Walker's plan was clear from the beginning. He was even <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-richards/scott-walker-the-divide-c_b_1528638.html" rel="nofollow">caught on camera</a> divulging his "divide and conquer" strategy to a billionaire,<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2012/05/walkers-divide-and-conquer-donor-paid.html" rel="nofollow"> tax-avoiding donor </a>in January 2011. Now he's putting it into play.<br /><br /><a href="http://fox6now.com/2013/07/29/gov-walker-opens-door-to-act-10-expansion/" rel="nofollow">FOX News</a> in Milwaukee reported the story:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Police and fire unions were exempted from the reforms, but now, Gov. Scott Walker has suggested expanding Act 10 to include those unions. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“I think now, for those areas, having seen that the world didn’t come to an end for other municipal employees, there might be a greater opening going forward because they’d say, ‘hey, you know, things worked out,’” Gov. Walker said Monday, July 29th... </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Gov. Walker says the reason for that was public safety. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“If I had one jurisdiction where somebody walked off, or didn’t come to work or slowed down on things, and someone was injured or killed because of that — I said I can’t deal with that,” Gov. Walker said.</blockquote>The obvious question is why he didn't do it earlier if safety was such a concern?<br /><br />Maybe he was too busy <a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/mike_ivey/report-scott-walker-th-of-governors-on-job-growth/article_cb6dcfd2-e019-11e2-9637-001a4bcf887a.html" rel="nofollow">killing jobs</a>. The fact is things haven't "worked out" for other municipal employees, as Wisconsin's economy has been in the toilet since -- oh, just about the <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/06/scott-walker-still-kills-jobs-better.html">time Walker took office</a>.

Police, firefighters now in Walker's union-busting sights

Wisconsin Job-killer  Gov. Scott Walker now says he wants to destroy collective bargaining rights for police and firefighters. If you're...

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Daiya Foods Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G5qC5NiWpS8/UffWuWFBSzI/AAAAAAAAI2g/LQti8r8riwM/s1600/Daiya+cheese+foods+review+with+food+should+taste+good+chips+campaign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G5qC5NiWpS8/UffWuWFBSzI/AAAAAAAAI2g/LQti8r8riwM/s320/Daiya+cheese+foods+review+with+food+should+taste+good+chips+campaign.jpg" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Whether you have a food allergy such as dairy, gluten or just watching that figure  <a href="http://daiyafoods.com/">Daiya Foods</a> are right up your alley!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I've seen their products in stores before and have wanted to try them for quite some time now because as you may know I've been on a mission to get healthier and lose weight!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I then checked them out on the web to learn more about them and their products and here's what I learned.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cheesy Melty Facts:</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Dairy Free</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Gluten Free</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Soy Free</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Free of Artificial ingredients and preservatives</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Free of Hormones</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7fEKoiY-X00/Ugg5KEe3jTI/AAAAAAAAJHE/feG2oC1C4RM/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7fEKoiY-X00/Ugg5KEe3jTI/AAAAAAAAJHE/feG2oC1C4RM/s320/13+-+1" width="240" /></i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I loved the cheese lovers pizza ! Offered the right amount of sauce and was super cheesy! Loved it!</i></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Products:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Pizza</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cheese Lovers</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Fire Roasted Vegetable</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Margherita</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Mushroom and Roasted Garlic</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cheese Slices</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Provolone</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cheddar</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Swiss</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cheese Shreds</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cheddar</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Pepper jack</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Mozzarella </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><div><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cream Cheese Style Spreads</i></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Chive and Onion</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Strawberry</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Plain</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cheese Wedges</i></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Jalapeno Garlic Havarti</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cheddar</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Jack</i></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br />I was sent some coupons for free products of my choosing!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I bought the mozzarella shreds and the cheddar wedge so far but can't wait to try more products!</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /> Cheddar cheese wedge-</i></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZkkyOaCSTwY/UfghQpqpwtI/AAAAAAAAI3E/ieI_Y5xz8Ag/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZkkyOaCSTwY/UfghQpqpwtI/AAAAAAAAI3E/ieI_Y5xz8Ag/s320/13+-+1" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br />What I loved about this cheese is that it's easy to slice and it's creamy and delicious! Worked great for lunch this afternoon which was chicken nachos with black beans, salsa, guacamole and chips!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Mozzarella Shreds-</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LdlzK4IwBEo/UhUnMaTf0DI/AAAAAAAAJU8/5BUF_Hsn3Lc/s1600/daiya+burrito.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LdlzK4IwBEo/UhUnMaTf0DI/AAAAAAAAJU8/5BUF_Hsn3Lc/s320/daiya+burrito.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This cheese is great for pizzas, salads, baked potatoes, nachos, or even on steamed veggies for added flavor!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>What I loved about the cheese was that it didn't take a long time to melt at all and the stringy effect of the cheese was just right when taking the first bite!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I have to admit I've never tasted anything like it before in my life, I usually go for real dairy kind of cheese but this one right here is delicious !</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It has a bit of a different flavor but so good and worked great in my meal pictured above!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Website:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://daiyafoods.com/"><i>http://daiyafoods.com/</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Face Book:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/daiyafoods"><i>https://www.facebook.com/daiyafoods</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Twitter:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/daiyafoods"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>https://twitter.com/daiyafoods</i></span></a></div>

Daiya Foods Review

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A Personal Trainer Orange County Revealed A Few Fitness Advice For Busy Moms

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Tammy Walker</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Exercising is very important not just because it helps us to feel great about ourselves, but simply because it helps us to stay healthy and strong. Others also shared that working out helps them to alleviate stress and gives them the much needed energy for them to be able to function well at work. But the problem with some people living in big cities like in Orange County is that they cannot find time to exercise. This is common among busy moms who, apart from working, are too busy taking care of the household including the kids' needs. If you're one of these busy moms, check out these fitness tips from a top personal trainer Orange County.<br /> <br /> Get Others On Board<br /> <br /> It will be easier to exercise if you've got some friends to accompany you. So if you have some friends who are busy moms as well, then ask them to join you in your quest of a healthy life. If you cannot find someone to accompany you, then ask your husband to join you in your workouts. You really do not need to enroll in a gym or a fitness center for your workout routines, because you can choose to hire a personal trainer Orange County who will be willing to visit you in your home and will adjust to your own schedule.<br /> <br /> But if you want to really be successful, you have to think positively regardless of what may come along the way. The personal trainer Orange County strongly advises individuals who are trying to lose weight to be optimistic in everything as this will surely lead them to success.<br /> <br /> You should schedule your exercises as a part of your daily routine, just like you would when doing other household chores. When coming up with your weekly schedule, you must make sure that you include exercising on your calendar or on your organizer. This is to make sure that you will really be able to allocate some time for your workout.<br /> <br /> The personal trainer Orange County recommends that you allocate at least an hour of your day for your exercises or perhaps make it at least three hours in each week.<br /> <br /> Be Optimistic<br /> <br /> Get Others On Board<br /> <br /> It will be easier to exercise if you've got some friends to accompany you. So if you have some friends who are busy moms as well, then ask them to join you in your quest of a healthy life. If you cannot find someone to accompany you, then ask your husband to join you in your workouts. You really do not need to enroll in a gym or a fitness center for your workout routines, because you can choose to hire a personal trainer Orange County who will be willing to visit you in your home and will adjust to your own schedule.<br /> <br /> So these are the a few fitness strategies that busy moms could benefit from. There are several other strategies that you can learn from a fitness instructor so if you are really determined to drop those extra pounds off, then you better sign up with a personal trainer Orange County. And remember that although your trainer is there to help you, the success will mainly depend on you. So help yourself out and work harder until you are able to achieve your goal of losing weight.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Being in good shape with the assistance of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-orange-county/">Personal Trainer Orange County</a> not only promotes your own physique but also your well being too. The benefits that one can receive from <a href="https://plus.google.com/115839840522968346614/about">Orange County Personal Trainer</a> are countless.</div><br /> </div><br />

A Personal Trainer Orange County Revealed A Few Fitness Advice For Busy Moms

By Tammy Walker Exercising is very important not just because it helps us to feel great about ourselves, but simply because it helps us ...

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A Personal Trainer Huntington Beach Uncovered The 3 Easy Ways To Sneak In Some Workout

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Patricia Neill</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Some of the largest companies in the United States are actually stationed in Huntington Beach, California. One of the companies that are based in this coastal city are Boeing, Quiksilver and the Hyatt Regency. Because of this, some Huntington Beach residents find it a challenge to visit the fitness center because of their busy work schedules. If you're one of them, here are some suggestions for a personal trainer Huntington Beach on how to sneak in some exercises in your daily schedule.<br /> <br /> Sneak In A Lunch Break Workout<br /> <br /> Why not turn your lunch break into a workout break? So after you take your lunch, hit the gym for 15 to 20 minutes. You can also invest in some portable exercise machines that you can bring to work and use it during lunch breaks.<br /> <br /> If you have a TV at work, why not play your Yoga DVD during lunch break and sneak in some yoga exercises? There are absolutely so many exercise routines that you can do during lunch time at work. You can ask a personal trainer Huntington Beach for more tips regarding these exercises.<br /> <br /> Sneak In A Lunch Break Workout<br /> <br /> Why not turn your lunch break into a workout break? So after you take your lunch, hit the gym for 15 to 20 minutes. You can also invest in some portable exercise machines that you can bring to work and use it during lunch breaks.<br /> <br /> According to a personal trainer Huntington Beach, doing this routine every single day will certainly help you to lose a good amount of weight and you'll start seeing and feeling the effects in just a few weeks.<br /> <br /> Exercise At Work<br /> <br /> Yet another way to sneak in some exercises in between your busy schedules at work is to do a few exercises while you are working at your desk. Among the recommended exercises by a personal trainer Huntington Beach is to utilize a stability ball as opposed to your office chair and try to keep some dumbbells or resistance bands ready on your desk. Spend a few minutes of your day at work to squeeze in some 10 to 15 repetitions of different workouts like dumbbell curls and ab crunches and perform at least 2 to 3 sets of these exercises each day.<br /> <br /> So as you can see, there is certainly no excuse to lose weight. Just follow these tips from a personal trainer Huntington Beach and you will definitely get the kind of body that you want in spite of your hectic schedules at work. But of course, along with these workouts, you should make certain that you eat healthy and you watch your diet so you will be able to successfully lose a good amount of weight in no time.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Getting in good shape through the help of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-huntington-beach/">personal trainer Huntington Beach</a> not only improves your entire body but additionally your health. The benefits that one can get from <a href="https://plus.google.com/112997657809142165825/about">Huntington Beach personal trainer</a> are countless.</div><br /> </div><br />

A Personal Trainer Huntington Beach Uncovered The 3 Easy Ways To Sneak In Some Workout

By Patricia Neill Some of the largest companies in the United States are actually stationed in Huntington Beach, California. One of the ...

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U.S. House schedule for Tuesday, July 30, 2013

<a href="http://majorityleader.gov/"><i>From Majority Leader Eric Cantor's office....</i></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>TUESDAY, JULY 30TH</b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />On Tuesday, the House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. Votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. <b>**Members are advised that the 6:30 p.m. vote series is expected to last longer than usual.**</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>One Minute Speeches</b><br /><br /><b>Begin Consideration of <a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=352744-6846703" target="_blank">H.R. 2610</a></b> - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 (Open Rule) <i>(Sponsored by Rep. Tom Latham / Appropriations Committee)</i><br /><blockquote>The rule provides for one hour of general debate and makes in order any amendment offered that complies with House rules.</blockquote><b>Legislation Considered Under Suspension of the Rules:</b><br /><blockquote><b>1) <a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=352745-6846703" target="_blank">H.R. 2094</a></b> - School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act <i>(Sponsored by Rep. Phil Roe / Energy and Commerce Committee)</i><br /><br /><b>2) <a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=352746-6846703" target="_blank">H.R. 2754</a></b> - Collectible Coin Protection Act <i>(Sponsored by Rep. G.K. Butterfield / Energy and Commerce Committee)</i><br /><br /><b>3) <a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=352747-6846703" target="_blank">H.R. 1300</a></b> - To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize the volunteer programs and community partnerships for the benefit of national wildlife refuges, and for other purposes <i>(Sponsored by Rep. Jon Runyan / Natural Resources Committee)</i></blockquote><b>Special Order Speeches</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>COMMITTEE ACTIVITY OF THE DAY </b></u><br />Energy and Commerce Committee markup of “<a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=352748-6846703" target="_blank">H.R. 2810, the Medicare Patient Access & Quality Improvement Act of 2013, and H.R. 2844, the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act of 2013</a>”<br />(Tuesday, July 30th, at 4:00 p.m.)</div><br /><a href="http://republicanleaderforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx?ID=352750-6846703" target="_blank">Printable PDF</a>

U.S. House schedule for Tuesday, July 30, 2013

From Majority Leader Eric Cantor's office.... TUESDAY, JULY 30TH On Tuesday, the House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for morning hour and 2:0...

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Hitchcock...in 3D!

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<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";} </style><![endif]--><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My introduction to 3D movies <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finally</i> came this past weekend and I’m sure it surprises no one who knows me that this happened by way of a classic rather than one of today’s CGI extravaganzas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My initiation into stereoscopic 3D film, a process that has been around forever but has gained a firm foothold only recently, took place on Sunday afternoon, when I happily watched the only 3D film Alfred Hitchcock ever made with a near-full-house audience at one of my favorite theaters, <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2010/09/rafael-theater.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Rafael</b></span></a>.</span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmv-3C5U97xdc6nWGdbs7N5xnTenPbUUVjS0bURuADbTswBjYBS30OqwuI37tB8I3KcT6bqfK-qN_Mv0Rd9aQwJqv2bNtxcdClL9STFK_q3wtonisIjeAkZ27mYecK5YujJCzM1ZVTlqo/s1600/rafael.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmv-3C5U97xdc6nWGdbs7N5xnTenPbUUVjS0bURuADbTswBjYBS30OqwuI37tB8I3KcT6bqfK-qN_Mv0Rd9aQwJqv2bNtxcdClL9STFK_q3wtonisIjeAkZ27mYecK5YujJCzM1ZVTlqo/s320/rafael.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Rafael Theatre, San Rafael, CA</span></td></tr></tbody></table><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M for Murder </i>(1954) was the last film Hitchcock made as part of his deal with Warner Bros., a studio that had a huge hit with the 3D horror thriller <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House of Wax </i>in 1953. On the heels of that film’s box office success, Jack Warner decreed, for the moment, that Warners would or should make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all </i>subsequent films in 3D. Hitchcock, who was ever interested in evolving filmmaking technology, agreed to make his final film for the studio using 3D. It would be his first and last foray into the process. Because it could not be released until the Broadway play it was adapted from had ended its stage run, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M</i> did not come out until mid-1954, just as public fascination with 3D films had begun to wane. In fact, once it went into wide release, the film screened far more often in 2D than 3D. The first “golden age” of 3D film had lasted only from 1952 until 1954; the process was an expensive and unwieldy undertaking at the time, and other, less difficult to produce and exhibit technologies, like CinemaScope, would move to the forefront.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to AMPAS, “Hitchcock used the All-Media rig developed by the optical department at Warner Bros. to experiment with stereoscopic techniques…” To emphasize the impact of 3D, he paid great attention to the film’s art direction, in particular, set design and decoration, as well as the placement of actors within each scene. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the action, based as it was on a play, takes place primarily on one set, a London apartment interior, this sort of approach was a necessity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, in the hands of an artist of Hitchcock’s caliber, 3D became a showcase not only for the drama at hand but, simultaneously, showcased the process itself. Hitchcock’s distinctive style coupled with the potency of 3D makes for an intense and evocative film experience. All that transpires onscreen - from a woman quietly reading her newspaper to a violent scene of attempted murder - is enhanced by the director's grasp of the 3D format.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2ZPUYjn7aNwezPgdsMbqUB1M3m9NfqmqNQXc1FPzOzfOb4oIiiruxsO5Y2wU3UN3g5zaOcjoC7U_pIk8Z67TlUIfCu_cyEPoGs4cPkJDI2FFQuSUtRwZ_i7gN-dFltRX8ZWTE3Lsh24/s1600/newspaper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2ZPUYjn7aNwezPgdsMbqUB1M3m9NfqmqNQXc1FPzOzfOb4oIiiruxsO5Y2wU3UN3g5zaOcjoC7U_pIk8Z67TlUIfCu_cyEPoGs4cPkJDI2FFQuSUtRwZ_i7gN-dFltRX8ZWTE3Lsh24/s400/newspaper.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Grace Kelly</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br /><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have seen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M for Murder</i> many times in 2D. I think it may have been the first Hitchcock film I ever saw. There was once a local Los Angeles TV station that aired a different movie every week, all week: in the early evening five nights, Monday through Friday, and then again Saturday night. Was it KTLA? One week the movie was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M</i>. And I watched it every night. Hooked by Hitchcock at a young age! But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M</i> hasn’t been a favorite of mine. After seeing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vertigo</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rear Window</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Notorious</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Strangers on a Train</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shadow of a Doubt</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Psycho, </i>ETC., it seemed fairly tepid fare. And yet, when I found out it was to be screened at the Rafael, I instantly purchased tickets online. I had realized by now that Hitchcock on the big screen is a different experience from Hitchcock on the small screen (even on a good-sized small screen in HD). This realization first dawned on me when I attended a screening of the silent version of <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/03/hitchcocks-silent-version-of-blackmail.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blackmail</i></b></span></a> (1929) at the Rafael a few years ago and grew more profound with later viewings of <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/05/north-by-northwest-free-to-public.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">North by Northwest</i></b></span></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(1959), also at the Rafael, and <b><a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/p/a-month-of-vertigo-bloggers-their-posts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vertigo</i></span></span></a> </b>(1958), at <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2012/03/alfred-hitchcocks-vertigo-at-oaklands.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Paramount</span></b></span></a>, Oakland’s Art Deco movie palace.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDlHSmI8mIFbAsE5-wVkvQXodJIPkMWZ24i6qaY31oeXfqykDM34HWML4ETo2ow7Uo_Zn04JjdfsnQzD_TQytqnFlESe8TTcDInD-mgkZyMrggmtm9fACV2Z2rNyMGPnNDU1ab66RHTyE/s1600/murder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDlHSmI8mIFbAsE5-wVkvQXodJIPkMWZ24i6qaY31oeXfqykDM34HWML4ETo2ow7Uo_Zn04JjdfsnQzD_TQytqnFlESe8TTcDInD-mgkZyMrggmtm9fACV2Z2rNyMGPnNDU1ab66RHTyE/s1600/murder.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was not disappointed with the newly restored <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M for Murder</i> in Dolby 3D. At all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>With visual depth and dimension it seemed to me a different film. Where, before, the film had seemed as flat as its two-dimensional format, it now, literally, came to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’d thought of it as talky and static (as filmed plays often are) but now its atmosphere teemed with suspense, every word spoken implied more, facial expressions and physical movements suggested barely concealed undercurrents. Dialogue-heavy as it is, the film now seemed to move along at a brisk clip. Though one scene was obviously designed for 3D (and must’ve caused quite a stir when the film was first shown), Hitchcock clearly understood 3D and exploited it with precision in every frame.</span><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/AVvXsEimhA9_qOai1PKgYWlexljkCDsGDZrquH06UqO_QeeDqrx4nRYIVBLH5byXCePj43Cdodn7ONOskTIm0ZvAB5weenlmgPPTFRJTno4DcRQ3GzvLsl5Y8N0cMxFS7yYdjEVKt561zyZ7oz0/s1600/phone+system.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhA9_qOai1PKgYWlexljkCDsGDZrquH06UqO_QeeDqrx4nRYIVBLH5byXCePj43Cdodn7ONOskTIm0ZvAB5weenlmgPPTFRJTno4DcRQ3GzvLsl5Y8N0cMxFS7yYdjEVKt561zyZ7oz0/s400/phone+system.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">dialing M...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Among <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M for Murder</i>’s claims to fame is that it was the first of Hitchcock’s three films starring Grace Kelly. He had first seen the young actress opposite Robert Alda in an early ‘50s screen test for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taxi</i>,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>a film that was never made. She would go on to make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">High Noon </i>(1952) with Gary Cooper for Fred Zinnemann and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mogambo </i>(1953) with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner for John Ford before Hitchcock managed to cast her in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M</i>. If director Gregory Ratoff thought Kelly was perfect for the role of the Irish lass she might have played in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taxi </i>because, he said, “she’s not pretty,” Hitchcock saw something else entirely. By the time the two were finished making pictures together in 1955, Kelly was vaunted as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood - due in no small part to Hitchcock’s presentation of her.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6zm0CL1K-mWoqTWzGEYj97yrgb0kUHNeA-NThtAqZDOvnk6jsejZ7R1EBx32m36RKk6QYpAF1-3A489-O1c1epiPUM9JCfcHvHutUE5u9vkPBwUmwjw1SrFoHSGEsl7pEwIIYH-e0pOY/s1600/dialmscissors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6zm0CL1K-mWoqTWzGEYj97yrgb0kUHNeA-NThtAqZDOvnk6jsejZ7R1EBx32m36RKk6QYpAF1-3A489-O1c1epiPUM9JCfcHvHutUE5u9vkPBwUmwjw1SrFoHSGEsl7pEwIIYH-e0pOY/s400/dialmscissors.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A scene designed for 3D </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks to the resurgence of 3D, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dial M for Murder </i>can now be seen as it was originally conceived and appreciated as the bona fide classic it is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3KJJ7KsIimI2EwJyRPWBOQ0H96ViSaUs1Z0fP-SUKef06SmYA9RNYFDofoKpEIipqtnBCx0wmhp1kr16TsQGCXrH0yJPI5-97B9V6TTm_w7KDUiqgWaQLIBfVbQ9JC3WoMAWel5Xy0w/s1600/Dial+M+for+Murder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3KJJ7KsIimI2EwJyRPWBOQ0H96ViSaUs1Z0fP-SUKef06SmYA9RNYFDofoKpEIipqtnBCx0wmhp1kr16TsQGCXrH0yJPI5-97B9V6TTm_w7KDUiqgWaQLIBfVbQ9JC3WoMAWel5Xy0w/s400/Dial+M+for+Murder.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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