• The Metropolitan Transportation Authority put its best paws forward Friday, graduating a new class of police dogs at Grand Central Terminal in New York. Each dog received a collar, which includes the dog’s badge.
• The eight pooches have gone through an extensive 14 week training program and were taught how to detect explosives and work in crowded spaces.
• The new members of the K-9 force are being named after an officer or soldier who fell in the line of duty, including Glen (pictured above), who was named for Officer Glen Pettit who died in the line of duty.  And “Buck” who is named after Gregory Buckley, a Marine who was killed in Afghanistan.
• Family members of officers who died in the line of duty, received a placard noting that a new dog in the unit had been named in the officer’s honor.
• “I’m very, very proud. Especially that they’re honoring my…

You read.  Articles.  Books. Magazines. Posts.

Much of it blows in one ear and out the other.

Not this one.  This article is from The Monthly and is titled Fat City.  It has stuck with me since last weekend.  It’s long but captivating. Seared in long term memory.

Karen Hitchcock is an Australian author and medical doctor.

A few excerpts:

• Barring the gravely ill and a couple of men, everyone I know wants to lose weight.
• As a doctor, I no longer know what to do about the obese.
• people quit smoking, cut down on their drinking and sometimes lose weight. But usually counselling people to lose weight is hopeless.
• and obesity seems simple: more in than out
• love reading articles with titles like ‘How I Lost 25 Kilos’, even though the answer is always the same: I ate less.
• Who wants to eat less – of anything – when…