Do Not Monkey Around in Walmart: Walmart Faces Potential Lawsuit

I was listening to the local radio station while doing my freelance writing work. An interesting story caught my attention. Wal-Mart is facing a potential lawsuit for preventing a woman from bringing a monkey as a service animal into their Springfield, Missouri store. The customer that was not allowed in the store is now considering suing Wal-Mart for violation of the American Disabilities Act.

According to the Kansas City Star newspaper report, Debby Rose has had problems at other establishments with not being allowed to bring her service monkey inside. Ms. Rose states that she suffers from public panic attacks due to a social anxiety disorder and the ten year old monkey makes it easier for her to go out in public.

“Health officials in 2006 sent letters to restaurants and grocery stores, advising them not to let Rose in with the monkey.

Rose also alleges she was denied access to Cox Health Systems facilities.

The three entities declined to comment on the lawsuit.”

(Resource: Kansas City Star, July 17, 2008: http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/708770.html)

What really determines a service pet? Should this woman be denied the right to bring a service monkey into establishments? Was the health department wrong in sending those letters?

I think that the health department is devaluing the mental disability. Social anxiety disorders are just as serious as someone needing a dog to help them see if they have a severe visual impairment or visual disability. It is a fine line to draw. From the date of the letter from the health department, she has been dealing with these types of problems now for over two years.

Resources:

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http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/708770.html

Summer Recipes: Honey Dew on a Stick for the Grill

Grill recipes are such fun because you can do them inside or outside. I love to eat fruit in the summer months. It is so refreshing and tasty. Also, a lot of the summer recipes for fruit give you increased energy.

Honey Dew on a Stick for the Grill: Ingredients

1 honey dew melon
¼ cup of squeezed fresh lemon juice
2 rounded tablespoons of sugar substitute
1 tablespoon minced ginger

Honey Dew on a Stick for the Grill: Preparation

Cut honey dew melon into chunks. Mix lemon juice, sugar substitute and ginger into a plastic bowl. Saturate honey dew melon chunk. Place on skewer. Let stand for a couple of minutes to absorb mixture. Place on piping hot grill for approximately two minutes.

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Summer Recipes Sinful Grilled Hazelnut Pears in a Pocket

Crank up the grill and enjoy some great summer recipes with fruit. The sinful grilled hazelnut pears in a pocket summer recipe takes about fifteen minutes to cook and is a fun dessert that everyone is sure to love. Best of all it is virtually no work and easy to fix!

Summer Recipes Sinful Grilled Hazelnut Pears in a Pocket: Ingredients

6 pears
½ teaspoon of nutmeg
½ teaspoon of cinnamon
3 tablespoons traditional corn syrup
3 tablespoons of butter
½ cup of tightly packed brown sugar
1/3 cup of hazelnuts
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon ginger
Butter Pecan Ice Cream

Summer Recipes Sinful Grilled Hazelnut Pears in a Pocket: Preparation

Combine all the ingredients (except pears and ice cream) into a metal sauce pan. Heat on the grill until bubbling.

Cut the six pears in half (leaving the peel on). Prepare six squares of aluminum big enough to completely wrap around each pear half.

Place pear half on the foil with the non-peeled side up. Fill with the sauce. Wrap the pear. Poke a few holes for steam. Place on the grill and cook for about fifteen minutes. Serve with a big scoop of butter pecan ice cream.

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Microchip Saves Beagle and Reunites with Family After Half a Decade

After half a decade of being lost from his home in Queens, Rocco was finally reunited with his family thanks to a dog microchip that had been implanted in the beagle. You can only imagine the sheer excitement and joy that the family must have felt when Rocco the family beagle dog was returned to them.

"We have reunited families with their dogs before but never after so many years - this is unheard of," Randy Durrence of Liberty County Animal Control tells the New York Post. (Reference: USA Today, July 15, 2008)


Resource: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/07/dog-returns-hom.html

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Summer Recipes: Flaming Grilled Pineapple Wedges

You can really watch the fun with some summer recipes. Flaming grilled pineapple wedges are great to fix on the grill and watch everyone in their excitement when the flames are shooting off of the pineapple wedges.

One thing that you should note about this summer recipe is that once you put the wedges over the flame, get away from the grill. You can watch the pineapple wedges go up in flames but you don’t want to have them burn you or your friends. That would completely ruin all the fun of grilling.

Summer Recipes Flaming Grilled Pineapple Wedges: Ingredients

1 pineapple
½ cup of Worcestershire sauce
½ cup of honey
½ cup of vegetable margarine
½ cup of tightly packed dark brown sugar
½ cup of dark alcoholic rum (this will flame off of the pineapple wedges)

Summer Recipes Flaming Grilled Pineapple Wedges: Preparation

Cut the pineapple into large chunks or wedges removing the core and the peeling. In a metal sauce pan combine all the ingredients except the pineapple. Place on the grill and bring to a boil for about five minutes until the sauce thickens.

Spread the sauce over the pineapple chunks. Carefully place on the grill and stand back! The pineapple wedges should go up in flames for grill fun. Turn once. Cook for about two minutes until the pineapple chunks turn brown.

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Summer Recipes for Grilling: Drunken Peach Grill Recipe for Family Fun and Grill Dessert

You can try out some great summer recipes over the grill. Fruit is very interesting to grill. There are some great things that you can do with fruit over the grill for summer recipes. If you have an indoor grill, you can grill these summer recipes inside all winter long. For this recipe you can substitute rum flavoring with mixed with water if you want it non-alcoholic for your summer grilling.

One of my favorite parts about this summer recipe is that it is simple to fix. You can prepare drunken peach grill recipe very quickly and with virtually no work. This is a quick and very tasty grill dessert that your family is sure to enjoy.

This summer recipe serves 6.

Drunken Peach Grill Recipe: Ingredients

2 tablespoons of unsalted, low-fat margarine

2 tablespoons dark brown sugar

¼ cup dark rum (or ¼ cup of water with strong rum flavoring added)

6 ripe peaches

1 pint of butter pecan ice cream

Drunken Peach Grill Recipe: Peach Preparation

Cut the six firm, ripe peaches in half. Pit them. Do not peel the peaches.

Drunken Peach Grill Recipe: Drunken Sauce

Combine rum or rum water with butter in a metal sauce pan and heat over the grill until
bubbling slightly.

Remove the sauce pan from the grill. Add the brown sugar to the drunken sauce mix and stir until dissolved.

Drunken Peach Grill Recipe: Grilling the Peaches

Dip the peach halves in the drunken sauce. Coat each peach individually very well. Place on the grill with the flat side up. Grill until the peach skin has light grill marks on it. Turn and repeat for the flat side. Remove from the heat and serve the drunken peaches with a heaping scoop of butter pecan ice cream.

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Do Not Mess With Grandma: Grandmother Wins Boxing Match with Rabid Fox

One think that Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania is like any other town. Quiet and a place to do some fun gardening in the yard. According to Associated Press, “A 77-year-old grandmother was recovering at home after she pinned down a rabid fox that bit her and held it until help arrived. Avis Blakeslee was attacked as she tended to her petunias outside her Stroudsburg farmhouse.” (Resource: Associated Press, July 14, 2008)

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