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Today's Quote!

To get the most out of life,

 you must surround yourself with the things 

& people that will help you do just that.

How Do You Know...

If a person is bossy?

You know because when he or she says jump,

 the only acceptable response is how high?

Tampons Can Cause Toxic Shock Syndrome!

It’s better to be safe than sorry, so ladies, especially those under 20 whom this hits at the highest rates, please listen up! Tampon related/induced Toxic Shock Syndrome is very real. Several women in different places have had tampon fibers break inside them and causes Toxic Shock Syndrome. In the 1980s, 38 women were reported to have died from this and some specific tampon brands were pulled off the shelves.

More recently beautiful 20 year old Amy died from it, while bubbly Brittany almost died from it. When the situation begins it seems like normal flu symptoms, and can include fever, throwing up, going blind, can’t feel extremities like hands and feet, and dark rashes, all of which totally affects your body. Your vascular system can also collapse because it doesn’t have enough oxygen.

Many conventional tampons are made with viscose rayon with or without a cotton mix, which can produce toxins inside people if it stays in there too long because synthetic fibers aren’t for inside your body. However, some women are more susceptible to this than others because some leave them in longer than prescribed by the manufacturer.

Manufacturers say, if worn properly, and changed regularly; most people will be absolutely fine wearing tampons. Although it is rare, it still occurs, so don’t let it happen to you especially when there other perfectly better options you can use…

Personally, I’m not a fan of tampons, so I’ll share an experience I had in case someone else out there has this same problem. I recall one day I was at Costco and a lady asked for my opinion about keeping up with the really heavy flow during her time of the month. She was seriously considering getting some tampons to use in addition to the sanitary pads she was already using to keep up since even the most absorbent maxi pads only lasted minutes for her. I advised her that instead of using tampons in addition to pads, she should consider using small highly absorbent towels she can fold into the shape and size of a pad in addition to using the pad under and change as frequently as needed. She was skeptical when I shared this with her, but she tried it and later called me to say it worked like a charm.

Another issue is that some ladies can forget to remove tampons before sexual intercourse causing it to get lodged way up in there and it has to be brought out by various uncomfortable methods including bearing down like having a bowel movement to lower it into the vaginal canal within yanking reach or using a finger to sweep along the vaginal walls and fishing for the string or using fingers to grip for the string or if all of these

retrieval methods fail, visiting the emergency room and have a gynecologist do it is the last resort.

So, ladies, if you can, avoid using tampons. There are other options available to you.
A word is enough for the wise….

Today's Quote!

Never judge a book by its cover

or a person by their gender or the color of their skin.

Today's Quote!

The 4 D’s you need to succeed:

 Direction, Drive, Determination, & Discipline

Today's Quote!

The grass always looks greener on the other side...

so nuture your own grass instead of wasting your time envying someone else's.

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Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) Part II

PTSD is challenging to have because it leaves people typically confused, in emotional pain, distant, not wanting to engage in fun or family activities, and not wanting sexual activity. You can get PTSD from natural disasters or incidents that happen between people like sexual assault, rape, abuse, domestic violence, wars and victimization. However, people recover better from the natural disaster induced PTSDs faster.

With PTSD some people stay in a hyper aroused state because the brain keeps feeding these danger messages to the body, so the person remains in this hyper aroused state and displays the many symptoms. Many PTSD sufferers are hyper vigilant and think something is lurking around the corner. This is stressful to both the person and their partner. Avoidance behavior is used by many people to avoid flashbacks. It is best not to take these things personally. You can do imaging exercises and deep breathing techniques for both the person and their partners to help with the symptoms. Also, there are support groups that are helpful to both sufferers and their partners.

Caller: I am with a woman who has the symptoms. It’s from something in her past like from her past marriage or relationships that she carries around with her. She’s never been in treatment. I’m a silent partner in the relationship and she takes my kindness and uses it. She loves me one minute and hates me in the next minute. It doesn’t matter what I do, it doesn’t satisfy her. She’s set in her own ways of what she wants to do. She’s given up on life. This isn’t where I want to be but it’s where I’m forced to be. I have a stressful job with people’s lives in my hands so I can’t go through this anymore.

Host/Guest Response: Talk with her about getting help for both of you. If she won’t get help you can accept the fact that it’s more about her and less about you and you may have to have different expectations of what she can and can’t do for you the relationship. Or you can decide with a loving heart that you need more than she can give and move on. Ultimately you have to face the facts of staying or moving on since you have limitations in this relationship. Get some support for yourself even is she doesn’t want it.

Caller: My seven year old son tried to commit suicide, my mother passed away, my friend’s son was murdered and I was a victim of domestic violence all three months apart. I have injuries and upcoming surgeries from the attack’s extensive nerve damage, and I have a plate in me and my hands have been affected. These things pushed me over the edge, and interfere with my job and relationships. I’m with House of Ruth and Cognitive Therapy, but I want to know how long this will last. I take Valium and Cymbalta. I always felt that I was a strong person but this has left me feeling weak.

Host/Guest Response: Don’t sell yourself short by feeling weak and vulnerable. You are still standing trying to sort it through, which is good for someone who has been through everything you have described. There’s no time limit on emotional recovery. You’ve suffered so much, all layered on top of each other. You should be kind and gentle with yourself. It’s a process. Medication is important. Be open to medication adjustment and changes. Do you like to write? Do you journal? Do you do deep breathing? Tell yourself, “I’m strong. I can get through this” You’ve been faced with much more in a short period of time much more than most people have to deal with in a lifetime and it hit you all at once. So you are indeed strong but you are human and you’ll see you are on the way to being on the other side of it but it will take time. I was in an emotional and verbally abusive relationship at one point. I’d cry for no reason and lash out at people like the grocery store clerk, but I would go back and apologize to the people I did it to.

The book, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship: How to Support Your Partner and Keep Your Relationship Healthy’s Chapter 12 is about deciding if you should stay in a relationship with a partner with PSTD? People should read it and evaluate if they should stay or go. Problems present themselves but if people get treatment, things improve, but if they don’t it doesn’t. So the question is is the person getting treatment or not? What are the consequences of staying? And is it is harmful to stay or not?

Caller: I think my husband has PSTD. He used to love to drive. Now when we want to go somewhere, I’ll say let me drive. He’ll say, “I’m fine. I can drive.” Then when he drives about 5 miles, when we are high up, he pulls over and we have to switch, so I can drive. If there’s a bridge over water with no suspension, for example, when were going to W. Virginia on the highway he got anxious or when we are going to Philadelphia, but it seems to happen when we are high up. His mom died 8 years ago. 5 years ago the situation started. He hasn’t gone to the doctor. He’s not very emotive and holds his emotions inside and drinks. He’s high functioning, so I can’t tell if his alcohol consumption is adding to it. He was unemployed for a long time, but now he has a dream job but he hasn’t cut down in the drinking since if he found his new job.

Host/Guest Response: It sounds like he’s got trauma from something and if he holds his emotions in then things happen. The high heights might trigger things from his trauma. Sometimes these can spring from anywhere we don’t know. Not all are from a known trauma. Be okay with changing places with him and driving for him. He’s masking and self medicating with alcohol and since he’s still drinking so much after finding the job then it may be out of control. What about the two of you going together to help to get started? Don’t be pushy but be supportive. He may need the support. Make an appointment so you can both go. PSTD sufferers should maintain a healthy diet. Caffeine and sugars aren’t good. They should stick to a diet from American heart or diabetes associations. Exercise and sleep are essential. They also have to be careful what they think because thoughts can be a trigger. Cognitive thinking and approaches to help and not work against sufferers are essential because PSTD feeds thoughts that are detrimental, so the brain must be retrained on how to think.

Caller: My girlfriend of 15 years is in the process of leaving today because I have PSTD. I am a Vietnam vet suffering with it for 41 years. I have been married twice and divorced twice and this is my third relationship ending today. I have maintained sobriety since 2004. I have come to realize that my expectations are not a priority on someone else’s list. When I returned from Vietnam, it was like 36 hours prior I was in the jungle of Vietnam and later I was on a plane heading home. I wasn’t a drinker before, but I found myself at home and didn’t know what to do. I went to the airport lounge and had my first drink and that’s when I realized that after a few drinks I had never felt so good in my all of my life because I wasn’t under the pressure of being in combat anymore. From that day I believed I had found a remedy. I was anxious and found myself impotent. I got married 6 months later to my childhood sweet heart I met when I was 7 and she was 6 and everyone knew we would be together but the marriage didn’t last. I tried the 12 step program but it didn’t work for me. Being alone and going to appointments have helped me. Another problem is that my expectations are so high and I realize I can’t be where I want to be. I have to realize what I can and can’t do and accept it. I have a psychiatrist and psychologist who work with me and I also take medication.

Host/Guest Response: Alcohol lifts you up temporarily but then you crash. You started with alcohol and it failed you. Then you found positive things to replace alcohol which is great. You are becoming resilient and connecting with nature and getting professional help which is also great. You are a good role model. Sometimes you have to let your relationship go. When you married your first wife when you returned from Vietnam you were not the same person who left for Vietnam so you should have received help. War changes people and people go through during wars should be treated. Now you are on the right path. It’s never to late to overcome previous problems and change your life because many Vietnam vets are still suffering and need help.

Source: The Audrey Chapman Show
Guest: Diane England, Clinical Social Worker and author of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship: How to Support Your Partner and Keep Your Relationship Healthy.
Aired: 9/24/11

Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) - Part I

How your relationship with your self? Do you or someone you are involved with have Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD)? Do you have symptoms including flashbacks, heart racing, body tension, fight or flight reactions, sleep disorders, social withdrawal, irritability, depression, stress, anxiety, sleep deprivation, functional inabilities, nightmares, panic attacks, nervousness, jitters, feeling like you’ll be attacked in your sleep, angry outbursts, impotence and always feeling something is going to happen? If you do, that’s what PTSD looks like. If you or someone you are involved with has it, you need help because PTSD causes people stop doing basic things like driving or going out of their homes, so it can have a destructive spiraling effect if you don’t deal with it.

A quote in the book, Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendent Meditation by Dr. Norman Rosenthal states, “If it's not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.” Maybe you’ve had a trauma when you were young, as a child, a teen, or a young adult, or if you were in a car accident, in the military, or other high stress environments or you were a rape or robbery victim or you were part of 911, the trauma is still with you and you will have difficulty in your life and/or in your relationships if you don’t deal with it.

Stress is harmful to our immune systems. The only way you know how much damage it’s doing is when you take away the stress. Transcendent Meditation reduces death from vascular diseases by 20 %. In one study, it’s even double that. Death from heart attacks and strokes can be prevented if we are easier on ourselves. When we are stressed out, our blood pressure rises, our heart works harder to beat faster and our blood travels faster and it has a cumulative effect on our whole body because our blood vessels, which may contract and get worn away by the pressure of the blood racing through them and weakening them. Also, when we stop the stress, what’s occurring in our body doesn’t stop immediately or fast either. It takes time for the body to correct itself and return to normal.

In nature, the fight /flight response is crucial for organisms to be geared up for attack. There’s a YouTube video titled Animal at Kruger. In this video you can see the fight/flight reactions of nature in a buffalo/lion attack. When the buffalos see the lions, they flee, but a calf is caught by the lions. The lions drag it into the water and it is also caught by a crocodile on the other side. Then the other buffalos see what’s occurring and go back to get the calf. This is a great display of fight/flight response. In our busy lives, we are constantly bombarded with fight/flight reactions. This shouldn’t go on day by day, but we are bludgeoned morning till night with this because we have jobs we hate and we also have stressful time pressures on us due to deadlines we must meet, which is deadly for our bodies. People are generally getting more and more impatient. People are stressing themselves and others out. We are encountering impatience from ourselves and others daily. Society is inculcating a sense of urgency when there is none and we have different illnesses because it affects the immune system. For example, people are rushing to go to the stores to get things they can actually do without but would just like to have.

PSTD is a form of anxiety disorder. It’s in the news because many military Iraq and Afghanistan returnees have it. Many of these soldiers are nervous wrecks who have been bludgeoned away by Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs) which does physical and psychological damage, but also does closed head injury because the shock waves do bad things to the brain internally. This situation is serious because 1 in 5 military returnees has PSTD.

The recent earthquake has left some people with what they believe is PSTD. When they hear a sound or feel like a building is shaking, they are stopping and thinking, here we go again. It’s another earth quake. The situation depends on the severity of the aftermath, but I would be careful with applying the PSTD label to it because here in the East Coast we are not used to earthquakes, but in the West Coast, it’s relatively normal. There is a soldier in my book who was involved in an explosion when he was in a military vehicle in the war. When he came back home and went over pot hole while driving, he in went into a state of shock because it triggered something in him to remember the explosion event he experienced.

With PSTD, the best thing is to get help such as counseling, meditation, medication and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) , which is a form of psychotherapy where you are guided to move your eye from left to right while you think about the trauma and you can also learn to meditate. Francine Shapiro, a doctor in the West Coast created EMDR because she found that if your eyes scan a visual field while thinking about something it helped with PTSD. For example, following tennis balls on a field with your eyes helps the brains hemispheres which deal with different things to talk to each other. One side of the brain deals with emotions and the other deals with analysis and logic. After trauma we are flooded with our emotions. This means the emotional side of our brain is over working while the logical side isn’t working as much. It’s also important to know that the human nervous system is like a belt you bend hard, when you leave it, it doesn’t stop and get back to where it was immediately, it continues to vibrate for a while.

We want people to have healthier and happier lives and one must realize that you don’t’ have to go to Iraq or Afghanistan or be in a war to get PTSD. You only need to have experienced any kind of trauma. For example, rape which is a traumatic sexual experience also results in PSTD. Transcendental Meditation helps to settle down the body so you can amongst many other things sleep to recharge your batteries and recover your energy.

Caller: I was in a car accident after deer ran in front of my car. I was pinned into the car which had turned 360 degree with me facing the opposite side of the road. I was pried out of the car and I was lucky to have no injuries. Days later, I drove past the scene of the accident and I saw the deer which hadn’t been picked up on the same road and I literally felt like I had to get off the highway immediately. With the speed I was driving at, the trucks driving past me and me seeing the deer, it was a replay for me. It was like seeing the accident happening all over again. I was prescribed Lexapro which worked, but I can’t drive like I used to. So I take the back roads to avoid the highways. I even had to will myself back on to the highway because the experience made me want to stay at home and I was very nervous. Construction fender walls and merging traffic now also affect me. I was fine for 9 months, but then it started again. I’m humbled and dependant because of the experience. I went to a therapist who wanted to do EMDR on me, but I lost my job and insurance, so I didn’t get to do it then. I got a job in Tyson’s Corner that I can’t take because I can’t drive to get there. I now drive really slowly, like an old lady and I only drive in the slow lane.

Host/Guest Response: You have had a traumatic experience. Having an accident and being pinned down inside the car and having to be pried out, then going to the same place days later, reactivates the memory of the traumatic event. Then you display phobic avoidant behavior because you don’t want to go through that. Then you say to yourself, I won’t let my life be dominated by this fear. Your reasoning of thinking the slow lane is the only safe lane isn’t logical. You have to expand your comfort zone. Go and drive on the beltway when there’s no traffic to show yourself you can do it. Not all solutions to PSTD are drugs. I would advice that you see a therapist who will work with you. Therapies, distractions and behavioral therapies work very well too. Maybe you can even do a therapy where the therapist will get in the car and drive with you to help you overcome the fear, so it doesn’t overcome you. The Ross Center practices In Vivo Therapy, which is excellent for this situation. They go in the traumatic situation with you. Their phone number is (202)363-1010 and their website is www.rosscenter.com

Caller: I’m a soldier who was deployed to Iraq. I have been back for 2 years now, but before that I was deployed for 12 months, during the time I saw many IEDs and road side bombs and I was shot at. I’ve been irritable and I get angry quickly. I’m married, so I had to readjust to being a father and husband when I got back even though when I was in Iraq I was only a soldier 24/7, so it’s hard to readjust. I couldn’t even go into stores or even drive in some places because I’m so alert and always looking to see what will blow up like I had to be when I was in Iraq.

Host/Guest Response: Your story is not uncommon. There’s a reason we are focusing on PTSD. My book has been wonderful for soldiers and some of them are profiled in it. Read the stories in the book because they will ring true for you. People improve with Transcendental Meditation techniques. Meditation is good because it settles your system down without any medication. There are Transcendental Meditation (TM) centers in Arlington and Rockville where you can learn the techniques. You can contact them at the (202)714-9949 for their Rockville location. Or you can contact them in Arlington at (703)823-6933. Or visit their website at www. tm.org. Military hospitals may offer Transcendental Meditation treatments, but in my experience, many soldiers don’t want to go there because they believe it will influence their security clearance or go on their permanent record, which will affect their careers.

Caller: My baby sitter used to leave me and my brother with her son who sexually abused me. Now, I’m hypersensitive to being around men and I don’t want other people being around my children. I can’t send them to people’s houses for sleepovers or anything and I only send them to facilities where there are many employees. My husband believes I’m paranoid. I have a 3 year old child I don’t send to anybody. I’ve never been treated for this.

Host/Guest Response: In this society we can’t over protect our children, but you don’t want to over protect them and have them miss out on social interactions as well, so teach them that if anything happens, they should come and talk to you. Visit a therapist to help you deal with the issues. The better therapists are the ones who’ve spent some time in the chair themselves. Give yourself the opportunity to heal from the trauma of what happened to you. Visit www.audreychapman.com for referrals to therapists.


Source: The Audrey Chapman Show
Guest: Dr. Norman Rosenthal, world renowned psychiatrist and author of Transcendence, Healing and Transformation through Transcendent Meditation.
Guest Website: http://www.normanrosenthal.com/
Aired: 9/24/11

Today's Quote

The bible is the most important book I’ll ever read.

It changed the way I think and I act and has given me courage that I didn’t know I had inside me.

I’m changed for the better.

Bring The ABSU 5 Who Gang-Raped A Woman in Nigeria to Justice

There's a desperate search on for a female university student in Nigeria. Some want to silence her. Others want to protect her.

On August 16, the unidentified woman was gang-raped by five male students at Abia State University -- for hours, as she begged first for mercy, and then for her rapists to kill her because of the pain. And it's all on video.

Change.org has joined bloggers and activists working to bring the victim to safety and her rapists to justice by starting a petition to Abia State University (ABSU) and state officials. Sign the petition to demand a full investigation into the videotaped rape in order to prosecute and convict the "ABSU 5" gang-rapists.

Over the past two weeks, bloggers and individuals around the world have put up reward money and used video imaging software to try to identify the victim and the rapists -- when the police should have been doing this all along. Unbelievably, state authorities have so far stymied efforts, preferring to deny the rape ever even happened under their watch. Local women's groups fear that they're even out to silence the victim, perpetuating a culture of fear and shame around rape in Nigeria, where such crimes are dramatically under-reported and under-prosecuted.

The international outcry around the gang rape at ABSU will be decisive in protecting the victim and bringing justice. With the whole world watching, the victim may have the courage to come forward and press charges -- and other women who’ve been raped may come forward, too, when they previously would not have.

Global pressure is as important today as it was then. Demand the "ABSU 5" gang-rapists who videotaped their own crime pay for it with prison time. Sign the petition now, and then send it to everyone you know.

Thanks for being a change-maker,

The Change.org team

Latest Fashion For Girls

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Women and girls wear latest fashion clothes to make herself look beautiful and attractive thats why i created this post. This post contains latest fashion clothes for girls. This post gives new tips to girls and tells whats the new fashion in.Whether they  are dressing for winter, summer, spring or autumn.

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Today's Quote!

A dream deferred doesn’t mean a dream denied.

ADG Creative's Anniversary Event

Jeff Antkowiak, Chief Creative Officer

Yesterday, ADG Creative, the strategic communications company with the "Be heard" mantra, which is listed as one of Baltimore Magazine’s Best Places To Work In The Region for the second time, continued their four day 20th year anniversary celebration with a discussion on the role of hand drawn illustration in the digital age.

The event titled, Illustration Is Not Dead, featured speakers including Pamela Ronsaville, Greg Harlin & Rob Wood of the Annapolis based Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc., a former employer of Jeff Antkowiak, ADG Creative's Chief Creative Officer, who spoke of their individual humble beginnings and paths to where they all stand united today as Wood Rosnsaville Harlin, Inc., a force to be reckoned with in the very creative and often evolving illustration and graphic design business.

In addition to the very informative glimpse into the inner workings of the business and words of encouragement they shared,   attendees were also treated to gifts such as greeting cards, posters, and art work and a very delightful cocktail reception. Also, one lucky guest went home with a priceless painting presented by Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc.

For more information Wood Rosnsaville Harlin, Inc., visit http://www.wrhillustration.com/index.html

Below are pictures from the event, enjoy!

The Prize Presenter & Prize Winner

 

 

  

 ~The End~

Today's Quote!

There's no one single definition of success.

Define your own.

Stop Mastercard's Dolphin Cruelty‏

Hotel room at a Singapore resort: $253.

Discounted tickets to watch wild dolphins suffer in captivity: Priceless.

MasterCard is offering discounted tickets to the infamous Resorts World Sentosa, a resort in Singapore that recently kidnapped 27 wild dolphins for an exhibit. Two of those dolphins have already died, and the 25 other dolphins are being held in brutal conditions until construction of the exhibit is complete. The surviving dolphins' risks of illness and death increase with each day of captivity.

100,000 Change.org members have already called on Resorts World Sentosa to release its captive dolphins. If Mastercard cancels its ticket discount promotion, it will put big financial pressure on the resort to finally set the dolphins free. Please sign dolphin activist Barbara Napoles's petition on Change.org calling for Mastercard to stop offering discounted tickets to Resorts World Sentosa.

Statistics for captive dolphins are bleak. While dolphins in the wild usually live for 45 years, more than half of all captured dolphins die within their first two years of captivity. In tanks, dolphins swim around in circles. They can't hunt. They're exposed to bacteria that have been known to cause blindness and death.

Resorts World Sentosa has canceled ocean animal exhibits from public pressure in the past. With 100,000 Change.org members already calling for the resort to free its captive dolphins, financial pressure from Mastercard could push the resort to finally take action. Please sign the petition to ask Mastercard to cancel its ticket promotion to Resorts World Sentosa.

Thanks for being a change-maker,

- Michael and the Change.org team

Today's Quote!

1st Samuel 15:22  "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams."

A word is enough for the wise...Peace be upon you!

Monsanto the corporation responsible for producing roughly 90% of genetically modified seeds around the globe, is working to bring their new, GMO "sweet corn" to a grocery store aisle or farmer's market near you.

Unlike Monsanto's other GMO crops — which are primarily fed to animals — this sweet corn is intended for direct human consumption. This is the first time Monsanto has engineered a vegetable that could be served straight to your dinner table. And if this unlabeled and potentially toxic crop succeeds, Monsanto is sure to bring us even more.

Monsanto's GMO "sweet corn" is engineered to tolerate the herbicide Roundup, and to produce the insect-killing pesticide Bt. If that sounds dangerous to eat, there's good reason. A past study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences found that Monsanto's GMO corn led to organ failure in mammals.

This GMO corn has also recently been linked to a new pathogen causing crop failure and a sharp spike in livestock infertility — as high as 20% — which could potentially pose a health threat to humans as well. But shockingly, just as other GMO foods are not required to have special labeling, consumers will have no way of knowing if they're purchasing Monsanto's new genetically modified "sweet corn."

Some of Monsanto's GMO corn is already in human food — used to make additives in processed food products — and even in small quantities it's having scary effects. This past spring a Canadian study found that the GMO toxin inserted in Bt corn was found in the bloodstreams of 93 percent of pregnant women4 — just from its presence in processed grains and highly processed food products.

Now, grocery stores could be on the verge of delivering up this toxic corn, and its toxic effects, in much higher doses and without processing, and we wouldn't even know what we were eating.
We must raise our voice as consumers and urge grocery stores to reject Monsanto's potentially dangerous new product, and stop this dangerous trend of Monsanto-made, straight to table products.
As an activist and consumer, you are in a powerful position to pressure leading U.S. grocery stores to reject Monsanto's new GMO corn. Tell U.S. food companies: Americans and people all over the world don't want Monsanto's GMO "sweet corn" in grocery stores or markets!

Sign the petition at http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/monsanto_sweet_corn/?r=231329&id=27575-4234324-4y%3DN4Ex

Thank you for standing up to Monsanto and its dangerous GMO products!

From: CREDO Action from Working Assets

For more information, read the articles below:

1. Monsanto Plans To Sell Sweet Corn In Your Local Supermarket August 8, 2011.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1771750/monsanto-reveals-sweet-corn-as-first-product-developed-for-the-consumer-market
2. Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals March 18, 2011.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html
3. Dr. Huber's Warning: How GMOs Are Linked to Disease and Infertility May 4, 2011.
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/dr_hubers_warning/
4. GM Food Toxins Found In The Blood of 93% of Unborn Babies May 20, 2011.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1388888/GM-food-toxins-blood-93-unborn-babies.html

Brazilian Dancers at Howard University

I was recently opportuned to watch the Brazillian dance performance by the members of the Capoeira Males DC organization who performed at Howard University as part of their 5th Annual Batizado & Troca De Cordas which included a batizado ceremony, workshops and rodas. I was told the dance which is more like a dance/art form was created by Brazilian slaves and has become an integral and popular type of Brazilian dance. If you'd like more information, email espoleta@capoeiradc.com  Below are images from the event. Enjoy!