Thursday, September 1, 2011
Letter from a Reader: This Store's Computer is Bad at Math
I would like to share the experience of me and my bother that happened a few days ago in a toy store. I remember reading an article of your site regarding the inconsistent pricing from a certain supermarket. The same thing happened to us today and I just want to share this with all your readers.
I received a text message from this toy store that they will be having a one day special sale. On top of the special sale, if you are a member of the store's loyalty program, you will get extra 10 percent discount. Since my niece's birthday is fast approaching, my brother and I decided to take advantage of this opportunity.
My niece gave us a wish list from the said toy store and she even included the prices so it would be convenient to everyone. My brother choose 2 items, one was priced at 699.75 and the other at 1199.75. If you add the two items, the total amount will be 1899.50. If you less the 10% discount because of the special sale, it will be 1709.55 then less another 10% for being a member of the loyalty program, the final amount should be 1538.595.
The funny but thing was I was confused when the cash register final amount was 1589.88. I noticed that we were being charged 51.38 extra. We called the manager and I told him that " mahina yata sa Math ung IBM computer nyo." My brother has to explain the whole thing twice to the manager before he understood the complaint.
We both kept our cool because we want to see how if it was really a computer error or human error. The manager tried it for 15-20 minutes but the same result came out so he said "i-manual na lng natin sir."
Normally we just give our credit cards and let the lady at the cashier swipe it thinking that computers will not make an error in computation. I hope this will serve as a lesson to all your readers that they should also do their own computation. Now, I am not wondering why the store owners are getting so rich.
Yours truly,
Harry F.
On Jobs: Tell It Like It Is
By Robert L. Borosage, cross-posted from Huffington Post
Washington is waiting for Obama. Next week, the president has scheduled a big speech to propose new measures to create jobs and get the economy going. Reports are that the administration is still undecided whether to put forth a bold plan or propose measures that might pass the Republican Congress.
AFLCIO President Rich Trumka had it right when he told the president: 'Do not look at what is possible -- look at what is necessary... If you only propose what you think they'll [the Republican Congress] accept, they control the agenda."
Republicans have already made this an easy choice, by denouncing virtually any idea out of the president as dead on arrival. Their "jobs plan" involves cutting spending, rolling back financial regulation, repealing health care reform, subsidizing big oil, and passing more corporate trade deals. This would cost jobs, and make the economy less competitive in the long run. They are either wrong-headed or willing to sustain mass unemployment in order to insure Obama's defeat. Or both.
So half measures aren't likely to pass anyway. And worse, they constitute presidential malpractice, using the "bully pulpit" to confuse rather than educate the American people about the straits we are in. Far better simply to tell it like it is.
But progressives shouldn't be waiting on Obama in any case. It is long past time for Democrats in the Congress to put forth a bold plan to revive America and put people back to work. Let the White House ignore it and Republicans scorn it. Take it to the country. The faltering economy and sustained mass unemployment will make it more and more compelling. Eventually, the president will figure out he needs to run on something. The bold agenda will frame the choice for Americans to decide in the election.
So what would that agenda look like? There is no shortage of good ideas. For a series on big ideas on making America work, go here..
Here is my version.
Get the Challenge Right
The economy is barely growing. Twenty-five million Americans are in need of full time work. One in four teenagers not in college can't find a job. Wages aren't keeping up with prices. Our trade deficit is rising, as more and more good jobs get shipped abroad. Nearly one in three homes with a mortgage is underwater, worth less than the mortgage.
Moreover, there is no old healthy economy to recover to. The old economy didn't work for most Americans even when it was growing. The cancer was spreading before it metastasized in the financial panic. In the so-called Bush recovery years before the collapse, the few captured all the rewards of growth. Most households lost ground. That economy was built on unsustainable debt. We were hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs and borrowing $2 billion a day from abroad. And we were in complete denial about global warming and the catastrophic climate changes that have already begun. We can't recover to that old economy -- and we wouldn't want to.
So the task is not simply to give the economy a stimulus, like a dead car battery that just needs a booster cable and a charge to get it going again. We need to rebuild the engine and modernize the wiring, creating a new strategy for America in the global economy even as we put people back to work.
Ironically, no one has made this case better than Barack Obama, most notably in his "Economic Sermon on the Mount" at Georgetown University in April 2009. (Maybe if the president just re-read some of his old speeches...)
Elements of a Real Jobs Agenda
Given that reality, consider the following elements of a new strategy:
• Revive Manufacturing in America
We must end the unsustainable global imbalances that drive us ever further into foreign indebtedness. That would best be done with global cooperation -- the surplus nations like China exporting less; the deficit nations like the U.S. making more at home and selling more abroad. But we can gain that cooperation only by setting out an independent course to revive manufacturing in the U.S. and to balance our trade.
This requires a national plan for manufacturing -- targeting industries, coordinating research, providing incentives and training, and repealing tax laws that reward companies for shipping jobs abroad. It requires a new trade strategy, insisting that every major nation play by the same set of rules, taking direct action against mercantilist nations like China that protect their markets, rig their currencies and steal our technology. Buy America should be a mandate on all federal, state and local government purchases, consistent with our trade laws.
• Capture a Lead in the Green Industrial Revolution
The priority target should be the green industrial revolution. It is sweeping a world that has no choice but to address catastrophic climate change. This will change how we live, the appliances we use, the way we travel and fuel our cars, and how we light our homes or power up our computers. China, Germany, Spain and others are rushing to dominate growing markets in solar, wind, fast trains, electric cars and more. This should be the centerpiece of our manufacturing strategy, investing in research and innovation, providing investment incentives, building key infrastructure such as a smart grid. The Apollo Alliance, now merged with the Blue Green Alliance, has a comprehensive energy plan, as well as key initiatives on green manufacturing and transportation, that provides a good roadmap.
• Rebuild America
This is truly a no-brainer. At current interest rates, America is now being paid to borrow money for seven years. That's right, investors are so spooked they are buying U.S. bonds that pay lower interest than the rate of inflation. For all the ranting of the right, the U.S. now has access to essentially free money.
And we have compelling investments to make that that will have real returns. Our decrepit infrastructure -- from roads to bridges to sewer systems to mass transit -- is not only taxing our competitiveness; it increasingly endangers lives. Meanwhile, the construction industry is flat on its back. There will never be a better time to finance rebuilding that will eventually have to be paid for. It will cost more later than now. Create a national infrastructure bank, as the president suggests. But go big. Current plans are too timid to take advantage of our current opportunity. These projects will take time to get moving, but we'd be fools to delay a major initiative to rebuild America.
• Save Our Schools
The president has correctly warned against debilitating cuts in our schools. But across the country, we see the carnage at all levels, from pre-K to college: teachers laid off, after school and advanced placement programs closed, music and arts and languages discontinued. Colleges are raising fees and tuitions, cutting grants, and slashing class offerings.
We need to staunch the layoffs of skilled teachers. But we also should be using the current opportunity to invest in creating the finest public education system in the world, from universal preschool, to modernized public schools, to advanced training and affordable college. Expanded federal revenue sharing with the states in exchange for commitments to sustain state and local investment in schools is an essential first step. Again, these investments will generate a strong return in economic performance and can be financed with essentially free money. Why would we allow an essential key to a prosperous society be savaged when it can be revived now with money investors are paying us to hold?
• Save Our Homes
As noted nearly one in three homes with a mortgage is underwater. Millions have lost their homes already. Millions more are struggling to sustain mortgages even as their jobs are lost, incomes decline, or higher mortgage interest rates kick in. Housing prices will not stabilize until the massive overhang of foreclosed homes is reduced. We need a serious program to restructure this debt.
The New Bottom Line has called on the Attorney Generals to require, as part of settling the mortgage fraud negotiations, that banks write off principle and refinance underwater mortgages at current lower rates. They estimate it would pump about $70 billion a year into the economy and create about 1 million private sector jobs. It would cost the banks about half of what the top six paid out in compensation and bonuses last year. Those already facing foreclosure should have access to bankruptcy proceedings that can restructure their debts and, where appropriate, restructure their mortgages, providing them with a right to rent their own homes at market price.
• Put Veterans and the Young to Work
Veterans are 50 percent more likely to be homeless than other Americans. One in four teenagers is officially unemployed; nearly one in two young African Americans and Latinos is unemployed. We are breaking trust with those who risk their lives for us. We are abandoning the young at the beginning of their work lives. It is hard to think of anything more corrosive to the future of this nation.
If veterans and young people cannot find employment in the private sector, then government should act as the employer of last resort. Rep. Jan Schakowsky has a sensible bill that would provide 2.2 million jobs, largely through direct employment in the public or non-profit sectors. It creates a new Green and Urban Corps and provides resources to nonprofits to hire the young. Work installs discipline and self-confidence. It provides hope. We should insure that every veteran and every young person has that opportunity.
These elements are only the beginning. We'd be wise to raise the minimum wage, and empower workers to insure a greater sharing of corporate profits and productivity. Greater aid to states and localities now in budget straits would also help limit the drag on the economy.
Straight Talk on Deficits and Debt
As we get the economy moving, we need to be clear about how to put our books in order. The U.S. has a real long-term debt concern -- but it is entirely driven by our broken health care system. Comprehensive health care reform is already beginning to create savings, both in Medicare and more broadly. More will require taking on the private insurance and drug companies, and the private hospital complexes that make our costs almost twice per capita those of any other industrial nation.
Fixing health care isn't about "shared sacrifice," or putting a lid on Medicare and Medicaid. It is about getting costs under control, not shifting them to those least able to pay. Empowering Medicare to negotiate bulk discounts on prescription drugs is a no brainer. Creating a public option to compete with oligopolistic private insurers would help. That every other industrial country has manged this challenge suggests just how lame our privatized system is.
And as the economy recovers and people go back to work, our deficits won't be much of a problem -- other than health care costs. But paying for the new commitments above will require progressive taxes and new priorities, ending the wars abroad, reducing our commitment to policing the world, and cutting the Pentagon budget, even as we maintain the strongest military in the world.
Progressive tax reforms are long overdue. As Warren Buffett wrote, he pays a lower tax rate than anyone in his office, including his secretary. We should tax income from wealth at the same rate as income from work, to curb systematic tax avoidance schemes, crack down on offshore tax havens, and on companies parking profit abroad. And as Buffett argued, millionaires and multimillionaires can easily pay a higher tax rate than that now imposed.
The Choice for Americans
All this sounds outlandish. The Tea Party legislators will go nuts. The corporate lobbies will spend so much in opposition it just might boost the economy.
But Americans aren't as stupid as Washington thinks. They understand the economy is in trouble. They are looking not for a short-term boost, but for a long-term strategy. They are appalled at Washington's scorn for their priorities. They want a focus on jobs and reviving America's economic strength. They are upset about deficits largely because they think they are a measure of an economy that is broken. They want Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid protected. They think the banks should help pay for the mess they have made. They want the rich to pay their fair share, and an end to the money politics where predatory corporate lobbies rig the rules to benefit themselves.
The first step is a clear, bold agenda on jobs and American economic revival. It is time to present this to the American people, to introduce it in Congress, and to fight for it all the way through the 2012 elections.
Washington is waiting for Obama. Next week, the president has scheduled a big speech to propose new measures to create jobs and get the economy going. Reports are that the administration is still undecided whether to put forth a bold plan or propose measures that might pass the Republican Congress.
AFLCIO President Rich Trumka had it right when he told the president: 'Do not look at what is possible -- look at what is necessary... If you only propose what you think they'll [the Republican Congress] accept, they control the agenda."
Republicans have already made this an easy choice, by denouncing virtually any idea out of the president as dead on arrival. Their "jobs plan" involves cutting spending, rolling back financial regulation, repealing health care reform, subsidizing big oil, and passing more corporate trade deals. This would cost jobs, and make the economy less competitive in the long run. They are either wrong-headed or willing to sustain mass unemployment in order to insure Obama's defeat. Or both.
So half measures aren't likely to pass anyway. And worse, they constitute presidential malpractice, using the "bully pulpit" to confuse rather than educate the American people about the straits we are in. Far better simply to tell it like it is.
But progressives shouldn't be waiting on Obama in any case. It is long past time for Democrats in the Congress to put forth a bold plan to revive America and put people back to work. Let the White House ignore it and Republicans scorn it. Take it to the country. The faltering economy and sustained mass unemployment will make it more and more compelling. Eventually, the president will figure out he needs to run on something. The bold agenda will frame the choice for Americans to decide in the election.
So what would that agenda look like? There is no shortage of good ideas. For a series on big ideas on making America work, go here..
Here is my version.
Get the Challenge Right
The economy is barely growing. Twenty-five million Americans are in need of full time work. One in four teenagers not in college can't find a job. Wages aren't keeping up with prices. Our trade deficit is rising, as more and more good jobs get shipped abroad. Nearly one in three homes with a mortgage is underwater, worth less than the mortgage.
Moreover, there is no old healthy economy to recover to. The old economy didn't work for most Americans even when it was growing. The cancer was spreading before it metastasized in the financial panic. In the so-called Bush recovery years before the collapse, the few captured all the rewards of growth. Most households lost ground. That economy was built on unsustainable debt. We were hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs and borrowing $2 billion a day from abroad. And we were in complete denial about global warming and the catastrophic climate changes that have already begun. We can't recover to that old economy -- and we wouldn't want to.
So the task is not simply to give the economy a stimulus, like a dead car battery that just needs a booster cable and a charge to get it going again. We need to rebuild the engine and modernize the wiring, creating a new strategy for America in the global economy even as we put people back to work.
Ironically, no one has made this case better than Barack Obama, most notably in his "Economic Sermon on the Mount" at Georgetown University in April 2009. (Maybe if the president just re-read some of his old speeches...)
Elements of a Real Jobs Agenda
Given that reality, consider the following elements of a new strategy:
• Revive Manufacturing in America
We must end the unsustainable global imbalances that drive us ever further into foreign indebtedness. That would best be done with global cooperation -- the surplus nations like China exporting less; the deficit nations like the U.S. making more at home and selling more abroad. But we can gain that cooperation only by setting out an independent course to revive manufacturing in the U.S. and to balance our trade.
This requires a national plan for manufacturing -- targeting industries, coordinating research, providing incentives and training, and repealing tax laws that reward companies for shipping jobs abroad. It requires a new trade strategy, insisting that every major nation play by the same set of rules, taking direct action against mercantilist nations like China that protect their markets, rig their currencies and steal our technology. Buy America should be a mandate on all federal, state and local government purchases, consistent with our trade laws.
• Capture a Lead in the Green Industrial Revolution
The priority target should be the green industrial revolution. It is sweeping a world that has no choice but to address catastrophic climate change. This will change how we live, the appliances we use, the way we travel and fuel our cars, and how we light our homes or power up our computers. China, Germany, Spain and others are rushing to dominate growing markets in solar, wind, fast trains, electric cars and more. This should be the centerpiece of our manufacturing strategy, investing in research and innovation, providing investment incentives, building key infrastructure such as a smart grid. The Apollo Alliance, now merged with the Blue Green Alliance, has a comprehensive energy plan, as well as key initiatives on green manufacturing and transportation, that provides a good roadmap.
• Rebuild America
This is truly a no-brainer. At current interest rates, America is now being paid to borrow money for seven years. That's right, investors are so spooked they are buying U.S. bonds that pay lower interest than the rate of inflation. For all the ranting of the right, the U.S. now has access to essentially free money.
And we have compelling investments to make that that will have real returns. Our decrepit infrastructure -- from roads to bridges to sewer systems to mass transit -- is not only taxing our competitiveness; it increasingly endangers lives. Meanwhile, the construction industry is flat on its back. There will never be a better time to finance rebuilding that will eventually have to be paid for. It will cost more later than now. Create a national infrastructure bank, as the president suggests. But go big. Current plans are too timid to take advantage of our current opportunity. These projects will take time to get moving, but we'd be fools to delay a major initiative to rebuild America.
• Save Our Schools
The president has correctly warned against debilitating cuts in our schools. But across the country, we see the carnage at all levels, from pre-K to college: teachers laid off, after school and advanced placement programs closed, music and arts and languages discontinued. Colleges are raising fees and tuitions, cutting grants, and slashing class offerings.
We need to staunch the layoffs of skilled teachers. But we also should be using the current opportunity to invest in creating the finest public education system in the world, from universal preschool, to modernized public schools, to advanced training and affordable college. Expanded federal revenue sharing with the states in exchange for commitments to sustain state and local investment in schools is an essential first step. Again, these investments will generate a strong return in economic performance and can be financed with essentially free money. Why would we allow an essential key to a prosperous society be savaged when it can be revived now with money investors are paying us to hold?
• Save Our Homes
As noted nearly one in three homes with a mortgage is underwater. Millions have lost their homes already. Millions more are struggling to sustain mortgages even as their jobs are lost, incomes decline, or higher mortgage interest rates kick in. Housing prices will not stabilize until the massive overhang of foreclosed homes is reduced. We need a serious program to restructure this debt.
The New Bottom Line has called on the Attorney Generals to require, as part of settling the mortgage fraud negotiations, that banks write off principle and refinance underwater mortgages at current lower rates. They estimate it would pump about $70 billion a year into the economy and create about 1 million private sector jobs. It would cost the banks about half of what the top six paid out in compensation and bonuses last year. Those already facing foreclosure should have access to bankruptcy proceedings that can restructure their debts and, where appropriate, restructure their mortgages, providing them with a right to rent their own homes at market price.
• Put Veterans and the Young to Work
Veterans are 50 percent more likely to be homeless than other Americans. One in four teenagers is officially unemployed; nearly one in two young African Americans and Latinos is unemployed. We are breaking trust with those who risk their lives for us. We are abandoning the young at the beginning of their work lives. It is hard to think of anything more corrosive to the future of this nation.
If veterans and young people cannot find employment in the private sector, then government should act as the employer of last resort. Rep. Jan Schakowsky has a sensible bill that would provide 2.2 million jobs, largely through direct employment in the public or non-profit sectors. It creates a new Green and Urban Corps and provides resources to nonprofits to hire the young. Work installs discipline and self-confidence. It provides hope. We should insure that every veteran and every young person has that opportunity.
These elements are only the beginning. We'd be wise to raise the minimum wage, and empower workers to insure a greater sharing of corporate profits and productivity. Greater aid to states and localities now in budget straits would also help limit the drag on the economy.
Straight Talk on Deficits and Debt
As we get the economy moving, we need to be clear about how to put our books in order. The U.S. has a real long-term debt concern -- but it is entirely driven by our broken health care system. Comprehensive health care reform is already beginning to create savings, both in Medicare and more broadly. More will require taking on the private insurance and drug companies, and the private hospital complexes that make our costs almost twice per capita those of any other industrial nation.
Fixing health care isn't about "shared sacrifice," or putting a lid on Medicare and Medicaid. It is about getting costs under control, not shifting them to those least able to pay. Empowering Medicare to negotiate bulk discounts on prescription drugs is a no brainer. Creating a public option to compete with oligopolistic private insurers would help. That every other industrial country has manged this challenge suggests just how lame our privatized system is.
And as the economy recovers and people go back to work, our deficits won't be much of a problem -- other than health care costs. But paying for the new commitments above will require progressive taxes and new priorities, ending the wars abroad, reducing our commitment to policing the world, and cutting the Pentagon budget, even as we maintain the strongest military in the world.
Progressive tax reforms are long overdue. As Warren Buffett wrote, he pays a lower tax rate than anyone in his office, including his secretary. We should tax income from wealth at the same rate as income from work, to curb systematic tax avoidance schemes, crack down on offshore tax havens, and on companies parking profit abroad. And as Buffett argued, millionaires and multimillionaires can easily pay a higher tax rate than that now imposed.
The Choice for Americans
All this sounds outlandish. The Tea Party legislators will go nuts. The corporate lobbies will spend so much in opposition it just might boost the economy.
But Americans aren't as stupid as Washington thinks. They understand the economy is in trouble. They are looking not for a short-term boost, but for a long-term strategy. They are appalled at Washington's scorn for their priorities. They want a focus on jobs and reviving America's economic strength. They are upset about deficits largely because they think they are a measure of an economy that is broken. They want Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid protected. They think the banks should help pay for the mess they have made. They want the rich to pay their fair share, and an end to the money politics where predatory corporate lobbies rig the rules to benefit themselves.
The first step is a clear, bold agenda on jobs and American economic revival. It is time to present this to the American people, to introduce it in Congress, and to fight for it all the way through the 2012 elections.
One doctor prescribed more than a million hydrocodone tablets
A California diet center doctor known by patients as “Candy Man” was sentenced to four years in federal prison for dispensing what authorities said were massive amounts of powerful painkillers in exchange for cash.Records revealed that he ordered more than a million hydrocodone tablets in 2008, more than any other doctor in the nation.
Prosecutors estimated that he made nearly $700,000 that year from selling controlled substances. However, authorities said they couldn’t account for 75% of the pills purchased over a 13-month period because he didn’t keep records of the transactions.
In the meantime, the NYTimes reports that Florida is shutting ‘Pill Mill’ clinics. Florida has long been the nation’s center of the illegal sale of prescription drugs: some doctors there bought 89% of all the Oxycodone sold in the country last year. This has changed dramatically with the introduction of new legislation.
References:
Doc gets 4 years for dispensing drugs for cash. MSNBC.
Florida Shutting ‘Pill Mill’ Clinics. NYTimes.
Image source: public domain.
'Most sedentary' designation sparks Lexingtonians to stand up; Herald-Leader coverage is an example to follow
Lexington's recent designation as the most sedentary city in the country by Men's Health magazine has got its residents talking, exercising and sharing their stories.First, the city had a tongue-in-cheek Sedentary Parade with stationary floats and non-marching bands. Then, the Lexington Herald-Leader invited readers to share their stories about how they stay active to disprove the designation. The stories were published online Wednesday (with this couch potato illustration).
They include stories of people who have lost weight and run in marathons. It also includes the story of Robert F. Wachs, a 79-year-old man who has walked 4,500 miles in the last four years. "Once a month or so, I walk to downtown Lexington to get a haircut and then walk back to my home. This is a seven-mile round trip," he wrote.
The stories are accompanied by a calendar of upcoming exercise opportunities in the area.
There are also several features under the Stand Up Lexington heading, which include in-depth stories of how Lexingtonians are getting fit. They range from a woman sharing her weight-loss story on her blog to a badly injured trucker who is now participating in an Ironman triathlon. (Photo of Brennan Donahue by H-L's Tom Eblen)
The Herald-Leader has offered a good example for how a newspaper can provide an outlet for readers to share their stories, dispel an unflattering designation and inspire others to get active. Other newspapers across Kentucky could do the same with a variety of health-related topics.
Military Death Penalty Even More Flawed Than Civilian Death Penalty
McClatchy reports on the serious flaws in death penalty trials held in military courts:
Unfortunately, the military has resisted any meaningful changes to its system that would require more experienced lawyers. As a result, as the legendary death penalty lawyer, David Bruck, says:
Designing and implementing a capital punishment scheme in which defendants facing the death penalty are represented by experienced, competent counsel with access to sufficient expert and investigative resources, in which safeguards are in place to ensure non-arbitrary and non-discriminatory application of the death penalty is as elusive in the military as it is in civilian courts. While we fight to seek an end to the death penalty state-by-state, the military should simply cut and run. An 80% reversal rate in military death penalty cases might be "close enough for government work" but that is not nearly close enough for a fair system of criminal justice.
Of the 16 men sentenced to death since the military overhauled its system in 1984, 10 have been taken off death row. The military's appeals courts have overturned most of the sentences, not because of a change in heart about the death penalty or questions about the men's guilt, but because of mistakes made at every level of the military's judicial system.The problems cited are the same as those typically seen in capital cases in civilian courts: "defense attorneys who bungled representation, judges who didn't know how to properly instruct a jury and prosecutors who mishandled evidence."
Unfortunately, the military has resisted any meaningful changes to its system that would require more experienced lawyers. As a result, as the legendary death penalty lawyer, David Bruck, says:
If you have a system where it's always amateur hour and where the lawyers are always trying their first capital case, you're going to guarantee the same kinds of mistakes that have resulted in many, many cases being reversed - because of ineffective assistance of counsel - for the last 30 years are going to be made over and over again. . . . Even worse, you may have cases where the person is not only sentenced to death because of their lawyers' mistakes but because the courts will say that it's close enough for government work.Another serious concern, which appears to be even more pronounced than in civilian courts, is racial disparity: "Ten of the16 men who've been sentenced to death since 1984 were minorities." According to a recent study, "minorities are twice as likely to be sentenced to death in courts-martial as their white counterparts."
Designing and implementing a capital punishment scheme in which defendants facing the death penalty are represented by experienced, competent counsel with access to sufficient expert and investigative resources, in which safeguards are in place to ensure non-arbitrary and non-discriminatory application of the death penalty is as elusive in the military as it is in civilian courts. While we fight to seek an end to the death penalty state-by-state, the military should simply cut and run. An 80% reversal rate in military death penalty cases might be "close enough for government work" but that is not nearly close enough for a fair system of criminal justice.
Which Fruits and Vegetables Which are Vitamins?
Which Fruits and Vegetables Which are Vitamins?
Trace element lettuce Phosphorus Potassium
(Lactuca virosa)
1. Contains vital substances.
2. Regulates fat metabolism.
3. Protects against the risk of stroke.
4. The tea leaves and roots: the liver, spleen and kidneys, regulates the activities.
RASPBERRY vitamin C, folic acid Potassium Calcium Iron
(Rubus idaeus)
1. Protects against viruses and bacteria
2. Prevents the formation of tumor
3. It cleans the blood,
4. Accumulated in the body of toxic substances in food.
5. Sweat, and a diuretic.
6. It cures constipation.
7. Gives vigor to the body.
Unsaturated fatty acid, vitamin B6, vitamin E, potassium glutathion AVOCADO
(Persea americana)
1. Perfect place for the heart and blood circulation.
2. Protect against cancer
3. A super cell protector of glutathion, (the best antioxidant)
4. Delays aging of the cells.
5. Rich in protein.
WHITE RED CABBAGE vitamin C, B vitamins, calcium
1. Strengthens the immune system
2. Combats the symptoms of stress.
Magnesium Protein PEAS
1. Cholesterol lowering the level of
2. Reduces the risk of bowel cancer.
BROCCOLI Magnesium Potassium Vitamin A Vitamin C
1. Protects against cancer
2. Strengthens muscles.
HAZELNUT WALNUT PEANUT B vitamins, vitamin E, zinc, iron
1. Calm
2. Allows you to sleep
3. It reduces stress.
STRAWBERRY Vitamin C Calcium Potassium
1. Strengthens the immune system
2. Stimulates the metabolism.
VEAL Iron Potassium Protein
1. Cold
2. Cough
3. Curative against flu
Seaweed Omega3 fatty acids Pantothenic acid
1. Cholesterol level lower
2. Reduces the risk of heart attack.
Tomato Lycopene folic acid Tyron
1. Lycopene protects against cancer
2. Folic acid stimulates cell production.
3. Liver diseases.
APPLE Bioflanovoid Pectin Vitamin C
1. Cholesterol level lower
2. Strengthens the immune system.
ARTICHOKE Cynarin Vitamin B Vitamin C
1. Blood sugar and is good for the heart.
2. Accumulated in the liver and gallbladder Cynarin nicotine, alcohol, and allows elimination of the oil.
Iron and B vitamins, potassium PLUM
1. Energizes the body, helps drain away excess water.
WHEAT BROWN Lezithin Lysine
1. Nourishes the brain and the nerves
2. Reinforce learning.
Protein Vitamin B Vitamin C Calcium Iron BEANS
1. The construction of the blood and helps the cell.
RED CURRANT vitamin C, Niacin, Calcium
1. Strengthening the nervous and immune system provides.
GRAPEFRUIT folic acid vitamin C.
1. It lowers blood pressure
2. Increases the production of blood.
Carrots Vitamin A Selenium
1. Allows the production of sperm
2. Protects the body against infections.
SPINACH vitamin folic acid Magnesium Vitamin E Manganese
1. Strengthens the nerves.
2. It is recommended, especially during pregnancy.
COARSE GROUND WHEAT Iron Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Leg cramps are muscle cells, and destroy them.
2. Reduces the duration of sleep.
ROUGH GROUND Carbohydrate RYE Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Energy offers
2. Helps reduce stress.
Calcium Magnesium Potassium MELON
1. Adjusts the water level in the body
2. increases the formation of urine.
Kefir Lactic Acid
1. lactic acid bacteria, intestinal infection
2. It is good for constipation and gas.
Sodium Potassium Calcium Magnesium CELERY
1. Constipation
2. Stomach and intestinal problems, effective against.
Unbroken rice protein Potassium Calcium Magnesium
1. Heartburn
2. Effective against Gaza.
3. The excess water is taking.
Phyto-oestrogens Potassium Calcium RED GRAPES
1. It is good for high blood pressure
2. Preventing thromboses
KIWI vitamin C Karotionid Flavonoid
1. Weakens
2. Strengthens the immune system.
Lycopene is a vitamin C, vitamin E, iron ROSE HIP
1. Colds and
2. Have a preventive effect against influenza.
Magnesium Potassium Zinc Vitamin B Protein POULTRY
1. Effective against the problem of headache
2. Clean of stress.
Lactic acid, vitamin B12, PICKLED CABBAGE
1. Bacteria and prevents tumor formation.
LEMON vitamin C Glucarate
1. Strengthens the immune system
2. Preventing stomach cancer.
Zinc Vitamin A Vitamin B MANGO
1. Increasing sexual energy
MUSHROOM Sodium Potassium Calcium Magnesium
1. Strengthens muscles
2. Nourishes hair and nails.
LENTIL Zinc Amino Acid
1. Effectively eliminates the stress fatigue
EGYPT Zinc Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Stress-fighting
2. Preventing bowel cancer.
BANANA serotonin Magnesium Potassium Vitamin B6
1. Comforting
2. Helps you to sleep.
Vitamin B1, vitamin C, potassium Elderberry
1. Reduce the impact sweaty and cough.
2. It is good for constipation.
NAR vitamin C, Iron and Potassium alkaloid glycosides
1. Thanks to some of the substances contained in the balance of cholesterol and glucose
2. Protects the health of the heart, strengthens the heart,
3. In cancer cells from growing,
4. Three times more powerful than green tea has antioxidant effects,
5. The hull of alkaloids, tannins and glycosides contain.
6. diarrhea, (strip) reduces intestinal worms, bloody diarrhea are also used,
7. diuretic, blood constructive, energizing and blood pressure-lowering feature
8. Fruit peel extract, a powerful virus, and germ-killing properties, has healing properties on skin infections and wounds,
9. Fruit antioxidant and anti-tumor effects are also known to tanenlerinin shell,
Enzymes of vitamin C carotenoids PAPAYA
1. Preventing heart disease
2. Helps reduce stress
POTATO Minerals Vitamin C Potassium Protein
1. Protect against cancer
2. The body clean of toxins.
CHEESE Protein Sodium Potassium Calcium
1. Strengthens the bones
2. Protects the nerves.
Sodium Potassium Calcium Lactic acid whey
1. Bacteria in the digestive system complaints
2. It is good against burning of the stomach.
LEEK Allin Manganese Selenium Zinc
1. Lowers blood pressure
2. Strengthens the heart and blood vessels.
ORANGE B vitamins, vitamin C, Potassium Calcium Selenium
1. Excretion of water makes the body more.
Rhubarb Manganese Calcium Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Contribute to the formation of healthy bones.
Essential oils are Vitamin C Calcium Iron Potassium FENNEL
1. Prevents cough
2. Increase intake of oxygen into the body.
Omega3 fatty acids, Sodium Potassium HERRING
1. Hardening of the arteries
2. High blood pressure, prevents.
GARLIC quercetin Ajoene Allin
1. Strengthens the immune system against cancer.
Shiitake mushrooms Lentinan vitamin D
(Letinus edodes)
1. Strengthens the immune system
2. Preventing the formation of cancer.
3. Blood thinners,
4. Cholesterol-lowering,
5. Tumor degrading,
6. With the potency-enhancing effects.
7. Lentinan anti-carcinogenic agent in Japan have been registered as a medicine.
Black radish Vitamin C Calcium Iron Potassium
1. Immune system
2. Strengthens the blood circulation.
Omega3 fatty acids, vitamin D SALMON
1. Strengthens the bones
2. Reduces the risk of breast cancer.
Protein fatty acid, vitamin E, vitamin E SOYBEAN Omega6
1. Protects cells
2. Reduces the risk of cancer.
Calcium Vitamin D Milk Vitamin A Vitamin B2
1. Promotes bone formation
2. Protects against bowel cancer.
TOFU Protein Calcium Potassium Magnesium
1. Warns metabolism.
2. Important for bone density.
TUNA FISH Omega3 fatty acids, vitamin D, potassium
1. Cholesterol lowering the level of iodine
2. Protects nerve cells.
Omega3 fatty acids, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin D MACKEREL
1. Blood pressure drops of iodine
2. Morale increases the impact
GREEN-RED PEPPER Capsaicin Vitamin A Vitamin C Zinc
1. Headache
2. Have a protective effect against migraine
Vitamin B12, Riboflavin Calcium YOGURT
1. Strengthens the immune system against intestinal cancer.
OATS Carbohydrate Iron Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Energy offers
2. Prevents muscle cramps
Unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E OLIVE OIL
1. Lowers cholesterol level of a malignant
2. protects cells
Trace element lettuce Phosphorus Potassium
(Lactuca virosa)
1. Contains vital substances.
2. Regulates fat metabolism.
3. Protects against the risk of stroke.
4. The tea leaves and roots: the liver, spleen and kidneys, regulates the activities.
RASPBERRY vitamin C, folic acid Potassium Calcium Iron
(Rubus idaeus)
1. Protects against viruses and bacteria
2. Prevents the formation of tumor
3. It cleans the blood,
4. Accumulated in the body of toxic substances in food.
5. Sweat, and a diuretic.
6. It cures constipation.
7. Gives vigor to the body.
Unsaturated fatty acid, vitamin B6, vitamin E, potassium glutathion AVOCADO(Persea americana)
1. Perfect place for the heart and blood circulation.
2. Protect against cancer
3. A super cell protector of glutathion, (the best antioxidant)
4. Delays aging of the cells.
5. Rich in protein.
WHITE RED CABBAGE vitamin C, B vitamins, calcium
1. Strengthens the immune system
2. Combats the symptoms of stress.
Magnesium Protein PEAS
1. Cholesterol lowering the level of
2. Reduces the risk of bowel cancer.
BROCCOLI Magnesium Potassium Vitamin A Vitamin C
1. Protects against cancer
2. Strengthens muscles.
HAZELNUT WALNUT PEANUT B vitamins, vitamin E, zinc, iron
1. Calm
2. Allows you to sleep
3. It reduces stress.
STRAWBERRY Vitamin C Calcium Potassium
1. Strengthens the immune system
2. Stimulates the metabolism.
VEAL Iron Potassium Protein
1. Cold
2. Cough
3. Curative against flu
Seaweed Omega3 fatty acids Pantothenic acid
1. Cholesterol level lower
2. Reduces the risk of heart attack.
Tomato Lycopene folic acid Tyron
1. Lycopene protects against cancer
2. Folic acid stimulates cell production.
3. Liver diseases.
APPLE Bioflanovoid Pectin Vitamin C
1. Cholesterol level lower
2. Strengthens the immune system.
ARTICHOKE Cynarin Vitamin B Vitamin C
1. Blood sugar and is good for the heart.
2. Accumulated in the liver and gallbladder Cynarin nicotine, alcohol, and allows elimination of the oil.
Iron and B vitamins, potassium PLUM
1. Energizes the body, helps drain away excess water.
WHEAT BROWN Lezithin Lysine
1. Nourishes the brain and the nerves
2. Reinforce learning.
Protein Vitamin B Vitamin C Calcium Iron BEANS
1. The construction of the blood and helps the cell.
RED CURRANT vitamin C, Niacin, Calcium
1. Strengthening the nervous and immune system provides.
GRAPEFRUIT folic acid vitamin C.
1. It lowers blood pressure
2. Increases the production of blood.
Carrots Vitamin A Selenium
1. Allows the production of sperm
2. Protects the body against infections.
SPINACH vitamin folic acid Magnesium Vitamin E Manganese
1. Strengthens the nerves.
2. It is recommended, especially during pregnancy.
COARSE GROUND WHEAT Iron Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Leg cramps are muscle cells, and destroy them.
2. Reduces the duration of sleep.
ROUGH GROUND Carbohydrate RYE Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Energy offers
2. Helps reduce stress.
Calcium Magnesium Potassium MELON
1. Adjusts the water level in the body
2. increases the formation of urine.
Kefir Lactic Acid
1. lactic acid bacteria, intestinal infection
2. It is good for constipation and gas.
Sodium Potassium Calcium Magnesium CELERY
1. Constipation
2. Stomach and intestinal problems, effective against.
Unbroken rice protein Potassium Calcium Magnesium
1. Heartburn
2. Effective against Gaza.
3. The excess water is taking.
Phyto-oestrogens Potassium Calcium RED GRAPES
1. It is good for high blood pressure
2. Preventing thromboses
KIWI vitamin C Karotionid Flavonoid
1. Weakens
2. Strengthens the immune system.
Lycopene is a vitamin C, vitamin E, iron ROSE HIP
1. Colds and
2. Have a preventive effect against influenza.
Magnesium Potassium Zinc Vitamin B Protein POULTRY
1. Effective against the problem of headache
2. Clean of stress.
Lactic acid, vitamin B12, PICKLED CABBAGE
1. Bacteria and prevents tumor formation.
LEMON vitamin C Glucarate
1. Strengthens the immune system
2. Preventing stomach cancer.
Zinc Vitamin A Vitamin B MANGO
1. Increasing sexual energy
MUSHROOM Sodium Potassium Calcium Magnesium
1. Strengthens muscles
2. Nourishes hair and nails.
LENTIL Zinc Amino Acid
1. Effectively eliminates the stress fatigue
EGYPT Zinc Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Stress-fighting
2. Preventing bowel cancer.
BANANA serotonin Magnesium Potassium Vitamin B6
1. Comforting
2. Helps you to sleep.
Vitamin B1, vitamin C, potassium Elderberry
1. Reduce the impact sweaty and cough.
2. It is good for constipation.
NAR vitamin C, Iron and Potassium alkaloid glycosides
1. Thanks to some of the substances contained in the balance of cholesterol and glucose
2. Protects the health of the heart, strengthens the heart,
3. In cancer cells from growing,
4. Three times more powerful than green tea has antioxidant effects,
5. The hull of alkaloids, tannins and glycosides contain.
6. diarrhea, (strip) reduces intestinal worms, bloody diarrhea are also used,
7. diuretic, blood constructive, energizing and blood pressure-lowering feature
8. Fruit peel extract, a powerful virus, and germ-killing properties, has healing properties on skin infections and wounds,
9. Fruit antioxidant and anti-tumor effects are also known to tanenlerinin shell,
Enzymes of vitamin C carotenoids PAPAYA
1. Preventing heart disease
2. Helps reduce stress
POTATO Minerals Vitamin C Potassium Protein
1. Protect against cancer
2. The body clean of toxins.
CHEESE Protein Sodium Potassium Calcium
1. Strengthens the bones
2. Protects the nerves.
Sodium Potassium Calcium Lactic acid whey
1. Bacteria in the digestive system complaints
2. It is good against burning of the stomach.
LEEK Allin Manganese Selenium Zinc
1. Lowers blood pressure
2. Strengthens the heart and blood vessels.
ORANGE B vitamins, vitamin C, Potassium Calcium Selenium
1. Excretion of water makes the body more.
Rhubarb Manganese Calcium Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Contribute to the formation of healthy bones.
Essential oils are Vitamin C Calcium Iron Potassium FENNEL
1. Prevents cough
2. Increase intake of oxygen into the body.
Omega3 fatty acids, Sodium Potassium HERRING
1. Hardening of the arteries
2. High blood pressure, prevents.
GARLIC quercetin Ajoene Allin
1. Strengthens the immune system against cancer.
Shiitake mushrooms Lentinan vitamin D
(Letinus edodes)
1. Strengthens the immune system
2. Preventing the formation of cancer.
3. Blood thinners,
4. Cholesterol-lowering,
5. Tumor degrading,
6. With the potency-enhancing effects.
7. Lentinan anti-carcinogenic agent in Japan have been registered as a medicine.
Black radish Vitamin C Calcium Iron Potassium
1. Immune system
2. Strengthens the blood circulation.
Omega3 fatty acids, vitamin D SALMON
1. Strengthens the bones
2. Reduces the risk of breast cancer.
Protein fatty acid, vitamin E, vitamin E SOYBEAN Omega6
1. Protects cells
2. Reduces the risk of cancer.
Calcium Vitamin D Milk Vitamin A Vitamin B2
1. Promotes bone formation
2. Protects against bowel cancer.
TOFU Protein Calcium Potassium Magnesium
1. Warns metabolism.
2. Important for bone density.
TUNA FISH Omega3 fatty acids, vitamin D, potassium
1. Cholesterol lowering the level of iodine
2. Protects nerve cells.
Omega3 fatty acids, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin D MACKEREL
1. Blood pressure drops of iodine
2. Morale increases the impact
GREEN-RED PEPPER Capsaicin Vitamin A Vitamin C Zinc
1. Headache
2. Have a protective effect against migraine
Vitamin B12, Riboflavin Calcium YOGURT
1. Strengthens the immune system against intestinal cancer.
OATS Carbohydrate Iron Magnesium Vitamin B
1. Energy offers
2. Prevents muscle cramps
Unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E OLIVE OIL
1. Lowers cholesterol level of a malignant
2. protects cells
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