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Entries from November 1, 2009 - November 30, 2009

Monday
Nov302009

Cop-Killer, Maurice Clemmons, Sought by Police

Maurice Clemmons, 37, has been identified as a "person of interest" and is being actively sought by the Lakeland Police Dept. regarding to the execution-style killing of four police officers at the Forza coffee shop near Tacoma, Wa. on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009 around 8:15 am.

He is said to have an extensive criminal record, including at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington state. He was released on $15,000 bond just six days ago on his latest charge -- second-degree rape of a child.

Clemmons lives in Tacoma, where he ran a landscaping and power-washing business. He has been known to behave erratically giving rise to concerns about his mental health.

 

The City of Lakewood has released the following information on the four slain police officers:

 Mark Renninger, Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens, Greg Richards

Sergeant Mark Renninger, age 39 with thirteen years of law enforcement experience. He is survived by a wife and three children.

Officer Tina Griswold, age 40 with fourteen years of law enforcement experience. She is survived by her husband and two children.

Officer Ronald Owen, age 37 with twelve years of law enforcement experience. He is survived by a former wife and a daughter.

Officer Greg Richards, age 42 with eight years of law enforcement experience. He is survived by a wife and three children.

The incident began around 8:15 on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. A gunman, believed to be Maurice Clemmons, entered the Forza coffee shop and approached the counter. The attendant asked for his order and the gunman opened his jacket, revealing a weapon. The employee fled. The gunman then turned his attention to four police officers who were sitting at a nearby table in the process of doing paperwork on their computers in preparation for their upcoming shift.

“Two of them were just flat executed, sitting writing reports,” Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office, said of the officers, who worked for the Police Department in Lakewood, just south of Tacoma. “One of them stood up and tried to go for the suspect and got shot. Then the fourth one fought his way out to the parking lot and fired off some rounds.”

It is believed that the fourth police officer, who had fought with the gunman, was able to fire his weapon, wounding the suspect, before he was killed.

“We hope that he hit him,” Mr. Troyer said of the officer, who fired at the suspect before dying from gunshot wounds. “If he’s hit, that means he’s injured somewhere with a gunshot wound. He’s going to have to get that taken care of sometime, someplace,” he said.

Authorities are offering a $120,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person involved in this morning's fatal shooting, described as a black man who is between 5-feet-7-inches and 5-feet-10-inches tall, and wearing a black coat and blue jeans in the Lakewood, Wash. area. Anybody with information is asked to call 253-591-5959 or 866-977-2362.

Maurice Clemmons' criminal history began when he was 17 years old in 1989. He was sentenced to a 48-year prison term on five felony convictions. The next year he was given an additional 60-year sentence for burglary and theft of property. Clemmons served 11 years before being released. He had his sentenced reduced by then Gov. Mike Huckabee, who cited his young age when he had committed those crimes.

After being released, and while on parole, Clemmons was again arrested, in 2001, for aggravated robbery and theft. Those charges were eventually dropped by the prosecution for "technical reasons". Clemmons then moved to Washington state in 2004 where he continued to get himself in trouble. Clemmons had been in jail in Pierce County for the past several months on a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child. He was released from custody - after posting $15,000 bail with a Chehalis company called Jail Sucks Bail Bonds - just six days before gunning down the four police officers.

 

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Friday
Nov202009

What Does it Feel Like To Kill?

15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante wondered: What does it feel like to kill someone? So she decided to find out.

This is not the story of a crime of passion; this was no accident; this was a premeditated, ruthless and well-thought plan - she even had a grave dug for her 9-year-old victim beforehand - to deprive another human being of the right to life. 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante is a cold-blooded murderer.

Alyssa Bustamante was in court, on Nov. 18th, indicted on two felony charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Oct. 21st death of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. Just hours before, a juvenile court judge had certified her to stand trial as an adult. Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce entered a plea of not guilty on the teen’s behalf and asked the public defender’s office to review whether she qualifies for representation. She was ordered to be held in jail without bail. If found guilty, she could be sentenced to life in prison.

As human beings we look for answers to horrific acts like this. What was the motive? Why would someone so young even contemplate doing this? Alyssa Bustamante went through psychiatric evaluations and the best answer seems to come from Alyssa herself: She did it because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill.

 

David Cook, a Cole County juvenile officer, testified yesterday that, after reading notes and analysis by Bustamante’s therapists, he is not much closer to figuring out a motive for the alleged crime. “There may not be a definite diagnosis,” he said yesterday in the juvenile hearing. “It may just be something the individual wanted to do. I don’t know that there will ever necessarily be an answer.”

In school, at Jefferson City High School, Alyssa was described as a good student with motivational problems. Like some other students she tended to wear dark eyeliner and black shirts printed with skull shapes but did not raise any alarms until in 2007 she tried to commit suicide. That prompted a 10-day stay at the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center. She was treated for tendencies toward depression and self-mutilation but noone suspected that she had homicidal tendencies.

Her family life was difficult. Her father, Ceasar Bustamante, is serving a 10-year sentence for assault. Her mother, Michelle Bustamante, has had personal and legal problems, prompting a court to rule her unfit to care for her children.

Alyssa and her younger siblings have been living with their grandparents since 2002, who are said to be tough disciplinarians who don't hesitate to take away privileges. She had a twitter account where she posted, shortly before the October killing, the following:

“The world goes by my cage and never sees me.” Four days later she posted: “bad decisions make great stories.”

She also had a Youtube account where she posted a video showing her brothers and herself touching an electrified fence for fun:

Kurt Valentine, Bustamante's attorney, said the teenager had recently tried to harm herself while in custody by cutting herself with her fingernails. He had urged officials to be cautious with their judgments of the suspect.

"I would ask that they wait, that they listen to the facts as they come out and not judge quickly," Valentine said. "Learn about this person, learn about this child. You're dealing with a child."

 

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Thursday
Nov192009

Murder, Arson and Jealousy in Giles County




   

Two 18-year-old boys, from Pulaski, Tn., William Charles Angel, Jr. and Matthew Wood, are sitting in the Giles County jail. They are both charged with 3 counts of first degree murder in the deaths of 38-year-old Desere Thornton and her two sons, 16-year-old Jerrod Thornton and nine-year-old Anthony Thornton. The two teens are also charged with arson, accused of burning down the home of the three murder victims.

One of the teens, Matthew Wood, was burned so badly while trying to set the house ablaze that his mother had to call 911 for emergency assistance. That call was what caused investigators - who had just received another 911 call about a house on fire - to zero in on the teens.

 

 

 

The two 911 calls were placed in the early morning hours of October 23, minutes after a home on Milky Way Drive in Pulaski, Tn. caught on fire.

The first call came in at 1:34 a.m. from a neighbor, Robin Hernandez, of the Thornton's saying: “The house across the road from me is on fire, the woods are on fire.....and there was just some kind of explosion down there.”

The second call came in at 1:59 a.m. from Matthew Wood's mother, Janet Thomlin, saying: “My son just called me and said him and a friend of his was playing with fire and he is burnt really bad and he’s screaming and crying....he said him and a friend were playing with fire, with gasoline, and he got too close and it burnt all of his face.

The authorities won't release any information on how the family was killed but said that the fire was an attempt to cover up the murders.

Apparently Wood and Angel went to the Thornton's house to look for the 16-year-old Jerrod. Wood was jealous and thought that Jerrod was involved with an ex-girlfriend of his. They all knew each other because they went to the same school, Richland High School. In fact Wood had asked Jerrod's girlfriend, Tessia Tibbs, about it just days before:

Giles County Sheriff, Kyle Helton, said it's one of the worst crimes he's seen.

"It's a small county, almost everybody knows each other and it's just a shock that somebody would commit such a heinous crime....It's tough for the community and it's just going to take time to heal"

According to neighbors, the family had recently moved into the home. Desere Thornton owned a local gym and her two sons attended school just a few miles from the now charred home.

Wood and Angel will be back in Giles County court on December 8th.


 

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Saturday
Nov142009

Female Genital Mutilation

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Amnesty International estimates that over 130 million women worldwide have been affected by some form of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) with over 2 million procedures being performed every year. But what exactly is FGM, why is it practiced and why is there so much controversy about it?

According to Wikipedia:

Female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision, refers to “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.”

Infgm_map.gif other words it is the disfigurement of a woman’s private parts for non-medical reasons. It is practiced in many parts of the world but primarily in Africa, the Middle East and Indonesia. The traditional cultural practice of FGM predates both Islam and Christianity. A Greek papyrus from 163 B.C. mentions girls in Egypt undergoing circumcision and it is widely accepted to have originated in Egypt and the Nile valley at the time of the Pharaohs.

The procedure is now practiced among Muslims, Christians, and Animists. Some African societies consider FGM part of maintaining cleanliness as it removes secreting parts of the genitalia. However, just the opposite is true. Vaginal secretions play a critical part in maintaining female health.

There are 4 categories of FGM: Type I, II, III and IV each of which will be described more fully later. Organizations like the WHO have been campaigning for decades to have this procedure stopped. Nevertheless, because of cultural and religious practices it is still popular in many societies.

There have been disagreements about the actual name of the procedure.

  • Female Circumcision “implies a fallacious analogy to non-mutilating male circumcision”.
  • Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) “may imply excessive judgment by outsiders as well as insensitivity toward individuals who have undergone some form of genital excision.” Parents may resent the suggestion that they are “mutilating” their daughters.
  • Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is deemed to be more politically correct because “local languages generally use the less judgmental “cutting” to describe the practice.” Also, so as to avoid alienating communities and demonizing certain cultural and religious practices, “cutting” has been gaining in popularity.

The following video describes FGM as practiced in the African country of Sierra Leone.

 

 

As mentioned before there are four categories of FGM: Type I, II, III and IV. The diagrams below will help in identifying the parts affected by each of the categories.

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TYPE I:

Sunna circumcision in which the prepuce (the clitoral covering) is removed, along with part or all of the clitoris. This is called Clitoridectomy, Sunna, meaning removal of the clitoris in the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. It is called “Sunna Kashfa” (Open Sunna) in Sudan. This is found most commonly in West African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal.

TYPE II:

Excision: The entire clitoris and prepuce are removed, along with all or part of the labia minora. This is called “Sunna Magatia” (Closed Sunna) in Sudan. It is most commonly found in Burkina Faso and Sudan.

TYPE III:

Infibulation(a.k.a. Pharaonic circumcision): This involves removal of the clitoris and prepuce, followed by sewing up of the vulva. A small opening is left to allow urine and menstrual blood to pass. A second operation is done later in life to reverse some of the damage.

In some cultures, the woman is cut open by her husband on their wedding night with a double edged dagger. She may be sewn up again if her husband leaves on a long trip. During childbirth, the enlargement is too small to allow vaginal delivery, and so the infibulation must be opened completely and restored after delivery.

A five-year study of 300 women and 100 men in Sudan found that “sexual desire, pleasure, and orgasm are experienced by the majority of women who have been subjected to this extreme sexual mutilation, in spite of their being culturally bound to hide these experiences.” Many infibulated women will contend that the pleasure their partners receive due to this procedure is a definitive part of a successful marriage and enjoyable sex life.This is often referred to as Pharaonic or Sudanese circumcision. It is the most extreme form of FGC, and accounts for about 15% of all FGC procedures. It is most commonly practiced in Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Mali, Somalia and Sudan.

TYPE IV:

There are also various other practices, which may or may not involve any tissue removal at all, including stretching of the clitoris and/or labia, burning of the clitoris and adjacent tissues by cauterization, scraping of the vaginal orifice, cutting the vagina, placing corrosive substances or herbs in the vaginal in order to tighten it. Type IV is found primarily among isolated ethnic groups as well as in combination with other types.

Health Risks:

A recent study by the WHO found that women who have undergone FGM were more likely to have difficulties during childbirth and that the babies themselves were more likely to die. The study involved 28,393 women at 28 obstetric centers in six countries, where FGM is common – Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan. The centers varied from relatively isolated rural hospitals to teaching hospitals in capital cities. They were chosen to provide appropriate diversity of types of FGM.

Serious complications during childbirth include the need to have a cesarean section, dangerously heavy bleeding after the birth of the baby and prolonged hospitalization following the birth. The study showed that the degree of complications increased according to the extent and severity of the FGM.

In the case of cesarean section, women who have been subjected to the most serious form of FGM (“Type III“) will have on average 30 per cent more caesarean sections compared with those who have not had any FGM. Similarly there is a 70 per cent increase in numbers of women who suffer from postpartum haemorrhage in those with Type III compared to those women without FGM.

The study also found that FGM put the women’s babies in substantial danger during childbirth. Researchers found there was an increased need to resuscitate babies whose mother had had FGM (66% higher in women with FGM Type III). The death rate among babies during and immediately after birth is also much higher for those born to mothers with FGM: 15% higher in those with FGM Type I, 32% higher in those with FGM Type II, and 55% higher in those with FGM Type III. It is estimated that an additional 10 to 20 babies die per 1000 deliveries as a result of the practice.

“This research was carried out in hospitals where the obstetric staff are used to dealing with women who have undergone FGM. The consequences for the countless women and babies who deliver at home without the help of experienced staff are likely to be even worse,” added WHO’s Dr Paul Van Look, Director of the Special Programme for Human Reproduction Research (HRP) which organized the study.

Cultural and Societal Factors:

Given the brutality of the procedure and the permanency of the disfigurement to a woman’s body; the obvious question is WHY?? WHY is this procedure even permitted and WHY is it still prevalent in many countries?

The World Health Organization(WHO) and other similar international organizations have been for decades waging a battle to have the practice of FGM stopped. There are however significant cultural and societal obstacles that promote and perpetuate FGM. These include:

  • Psycho-sexual reasons:
  • Reduction or elimination of the sensitive tissue of the outer genitalia, particularly the clitoris, in order to attenuate sexual desire in the female, maintain chastity and virginity before marriage and fidelity during marriage, and increase male sexual pleasure;

  • Sociological reasons:
  • Identification with the cultural heritage, initiation of girls into womanhood, social integration and the maintenance of social cohesion;

  • Hygiene and Aesthetic reasons:
  • The external female genitalia are considered dirty and unsightly and are to be removed to promote hygiene and provide aesthetic appeal;

  • Religious reasons:
  • Some Muslim communities, however, practice FGM in the belief that it is demanded by the Islamic faith. The practice, however, predates Islam.

The justification for the operation appears to be largely grounded in a desire to terminate or reduce feelings of sexual arousal in women so that they will be much less likely to engage in pre-marital intercourse or adultery. The clitoris holds a massive number of nerve endings, and generates feelings of sexual arousal when stimulated.

Parents in those cultures where FGM is common often feel that it is the only way to guarantee that their girl children will remain “pure” until marriage. This belief is so strong that it can overcome the dangers to the girls: some do not survive the blood loss during the operation; others die from infection; most suffer life-long complications.

Uncircumcised women in countries where FGM is normally performed have difficulty finding a marriage partner. Men typically prefer a circumcised wife because they are considered more likely to be faithful.

FGM in AFRICA:

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There are many countries in Africa that practice FGM, some of which continue the practice even though there are laws on the books against it. Although precise figures are hard to come by, the following indicates some of the countries where FGM is prevalent:

Somalia (98%) Djibouti (98%) Eritrea (95%) Mali (94%) Sierra Leone (90%) Sudan (90%) Egypt (85-95%) Ethiopia (70-90%) Guinea (65-90%) Nigeria (60-90%) Gambia (60-90%) Chad (60%) Kenya (50%) Liberia (50%)

In 14 African countries at least half the female population practice FGM. In most of these countries where some form of legislation exists against FGM, it is poorly prosecuted, if at all. See Basic Country FGM Facts for a country by country breakdown.

STORIES:

The following stories come from 4 Kenyan girls affected, one way or another, by FGM.

Grace’s Story

Grace starts by saying that FGM is very painful. She was only 12 years old when she was taken from her grandmother’s house at 5 am. They took her to the river she recalls how cold the water was, in order to numb her body. She was taken with other girls of her age. She went first; she was naked and had to sit on a special stone. A very strong woman covered her eyes and mouth. “If you scream, you bring omen in your family.”

The knife came down and it was painful, it wasn’t too sharp and cut everything off. The pain was so bad it went into her head. She was in the house for over a month and desperately ill when they took her to the hospital, looking for medication. Grace felt how inhumane it is, so she will never do it against her daughters’ wishes. God blessed her with 3 girls and she has kept her promise. Her daughters are adults now, almost married and performing well at school.

When the wound is healed, Grace continues, there is a scar that isn’t flexible. Therefore it is dangerous to give birth at home. Even the delivery in hospital is extremely painful. “For those of you that think about circumcision for yourself or daughters; DON’T DO IT!” she said.

Ester’s Story

Esther begins, “We are conquerors. We were given information and insight into FGM but it was difficult to resist the rite. We were seen as sources of friction in the community, we had a big problem with our grandmother who talked about it for years. I could resist because I was educated.”

Esther couldn’t stay with circumcised girls but persevered even after the other girls shut her out. Circumcised girls were brought gifts and good clothing but she wasn’t given anything. One day, she went to her cousin to talk about FGM.

“My grandmother came for my cousin forcefully but she resisted with the help of my parents. The community came as the girl screamed and said we brought shame to the community. It created conflict between family members as the cousin stayed with me. People said we will become prostitutes and smell, but that didn’t shake us. Now we say we are conquerors. Join your hands together and say no to FGM!!”

Zipporah’s Story

“I was brought up in a Christian family and I knew that one day I would be circumcised. When my time came my mum said. ‘Read from the Bible. Genesis 17 where Abraham was circumcised.’ In the old days only boys were circumcised. The Bible doesn’t say that girls should be circumcised. Mum said it was painful when she give birth to me. At that time I was so young I didn’t even know where babies came from. So we were left out while all the other girls were circumcised. This meant that I didn’t have any gifts and was teased at school and on the field. I couldn’t even speak to the teacher about it, but mum did. As a result the girls who teased me were caned. Since then they started using my proper name and never teased again.

Zipporah goes on seminars into communities to inform parents in the fight against FGM.

Nurse Mary’s Story

“Very young girls came to the hospital in the early hours. I put them in a small bed, washed my hands and put gloves on. I would disinfect and anaesthetize the vagina before cutting off the clitoris with a knife and scissors. Then I put disinfectant on the wound to prevent infections. Today we have come to say no to FGM because there are so many complications afterwards, for example, urine tube infections, HIV/Aids, hepatitis, and tetanus.

“Circumcised women do not enjoy sex with their husband, leading to broken families. The men go to the cities to look for women who aren’t circumcised, let’s put our hands together to fight against FGM.”

The following video is an interview with super model Waris Dirie who, herself, is a victim of FGM. She has written a book about her experience and is an outspoken advocate against the procedure.

Changing Attitudes:

Attitudes towards FGM are slowly changing. Campaigners have tried for decades to bring an end to FGM. But their tactics of providing alternative employment to the circumcisers, introducing alternative rites of passage for girls, or demanding legislation to outlaw the practice have all failed to make a dent: an estimated 2 million girls in about 26 African countries are circumcised every year. There is however a movement started in Senegal that is gradually spreading and making a difference:

Back in 1997, 13 Senegalese villages publicly declared that they would no longer permit female circumcision, or female genital mutilation. In the eight years since, the number has grown to 1,527, representing 30 percent of Senegalese communities where FGM has been practiced. Dozens more villages are preparing to make similar declarations.

The change in Senegal is being credited to a slow but steady program of human rights education that allows villagers to make up their own minds about whether to abandon female circumcision. Spearheaded by a local rights agency called Tostan, the program’s success is proving so eye-catching that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is endorsing it as a model.

“The Tostan approach is working because it’s a holistic approach, and it works with communities,” says Lalla Toure, UNICEF’s regional adviser for women’s health. “The starting point is not female genital mutilation; it’s about rights, it’s about health, it’s about development. We think that’s the best approach.”

The program is being replicated with some success in Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Mali, and is currently being considered for one of the strongholds of FGM, Somalia, where nearly 100 percent of girls are circumcised. It’s this same power of social conformity that is helping the campaign to end FGM in Senegal. As more villages publicly announce that they are abandoning the practice, Tostan says others begin realizing it may no longer be a marriage requirement, momentum builds, and the number of villages following suit snowballs.

“People are realizing that the social convention is changing,” says Molly Melching, the Texas-born director of Tostan who has lived in Senegal for more than two decades.

The birthplace of the Tostan approach, Ker Simbara, Senegal, eventually declared in 1999 that its citizens would no longer practice female circumcision. Ramata Sow, who staffs the local clinic and nursery illustrates the transformation. She circumcised her eldest daughter, but her two youngest, Sadio, 13, and Nabou, 7, and her granddaughter Duma, 2, are not circumcised.

“I will never do it again,” she declares. “Things have changed.”

 

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Tuesday
Nov102009

Manuel Uribe's Struggle

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Manuel Uribe, 43, of Monterrey, Mexico was awarded the title “The Heaviest Man in the World” in Jan. 2006 by Guinness World Records. At that time he weighed 1,235 lbs. He has since lost over 500 lbs and now weighs about 700 lbs thanks to the Zone diet. He had been bed-ridden since 2001 and has one goal in mind – to be able to walk again.

Manuel Uribe is beyond the kind of overweight that comes from fast food and lack of exercise. Doctors call it morbid obesity. According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity means weighing 20 percent or more than your ideal body weight, and it’s a health risk. Morbid obesity is altogether different. Sometimes called “clinically severe obesity,” it means you’re 100 pounds or more over ideal body weight, with a body mass index of 40 or higher.

Uribe doesn’t gain weight like the rest of us. Brain chemistry, genetic mutation, addiction, psychological pain — or an unhappy combination of all of them — makes morbid obesity one of the biggest mysteries of medicine.

An operation in 2001 – to remove 180 lbs of growth tissue from his thighs and pelvic areas – proved unsuccessful and Manuel feared that he would not be able to walk again. In addition to his weight problems, his wife of 14 years left him. He continued to over-eat and became depressed and at one point contemplated suicide.

Things began to change after he was noticed by a local journalist, Jose Luis Garcia, who interviewed him and told his story to the world. In the interview Manuel asked for someone to help him lose weight. Doctors and dietitians visited him. After much consultation Manuel decided to go on a diet, the Zone diet, rather than undergo more surgery which came with significant risks to his health.

Manuel not only started losing weight on his new diet but he also found love again. He met Claudia Solis and they both decided to get married. The following video chronicles Manuel’s transformation from depression to romance.

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Manuel Gets Married

Even though Manuel is still not able to walk, he has plans to be mobile. He is now having a 1989 Chevrolet Astrovan outfitted specially for him. The minivan is being converted into an open-air, flatbed pickup. Manuel says he will put a bed on the back of the van to drive around town, with his new wife at the wheel.

With his new found lease on life, Manuel now wants to open an auto parts store. He is also making plans to visit the beach soon with his wife. He plans to continue with his diet and exercise and maybe someday he will be able to walk again. Below is a clip with Dr. Barry Sears, the creator of the Zone diet.

Manuel Uribe sums it up like this:

“I love life , I love God and I have someone to love, Thank God!!”

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