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Health Headlines - November 29
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Meredy
Many Type 2 Diabetes Patients Morbidly Obese: U.S. Study Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight (morbidly obese), according to a Loyola University Health System study. "The rate of morbid obesity among people with diabetes is increasing at a very alarming rate, and this has substantial public healt ...
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Thanks to Gourmet Caterers
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Paul L.
As the Thanksgiving holiday weekend draws to a close, I want to give a "shout-out" to Robert Wiggins, President, and his staff at Gourmet Caterers in Roslindale, MA. Each year Mr. Wiggins donates dozens of gift certificates for Thanksgiving and Christmas "turkey dinners for 10 with all the trimmings" to charities who then aucti ...
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Port, Courtney, Thanksgiving
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froggy14
So I got my port successfully flushed on Wednesday. This was the same nurse that did it the first time. She got it in one shot! You could still see the marks where the other chick had tried 3 times so I had her check it out and then feel where they were. She said that it was right over the edge!!! That's what I told the other chick!! She didn ...
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Miscellany for Saturday
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Meredith
A little miscellany for this Saturday: This has been the weirdest Thanksgiving. We had one with my family, one with Dave's family, and I'm yet to have any turkey. Not because I didn't want turkey, because there wasn't any turkey. My family's never got done and we had roast at Dave's family. Weird.Our puppy Sloopy is starting to come out of her ...
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Chimneys aren't just blowing smoke
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Gretchen S.
In preparation for the holiday season, the International Guild of Chimneys makes a simple request: lose the gut or find a new way in this year.Sookie Smokehouse adds, "It isn't as though we're asking him to have the svelte figure of Dick Van Dyke when he played chimney sweep Bert in Marry Poppins. Twenty pounds before C-Day is not unreasonable ...
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Virtual Book Tour: Pris Campbell on Sea Trails
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T
(super-quick update: I'm doing pretty well and have just been focusing on enjoying the holidays, the crash is easing and I'm catching up on some things) I am very honored today to host a virtual book club stop for author and poet Pris Campbell. Her new book, Sea Trails: Poems and 1977 Passage Notes, is out and here's Pris to talk about her book! W ...
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Spotlight on cookbooks: THE RAW FOOD REVOLUTION DIET
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Gena
Hey all!Hope that your many Thanksgiving celebrations were absolutely lovely. Thanks for your comments on my thankful post — I should have added that I am terribly thankful for all of you!One of the more frequent reader questions I get is which cookbooks or raw diet books I most recommend. It’s not always a question I love to answer, si ...
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NCB ~ Simply ~ The BEST
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Lacie H.
Our North Colonie Pee Wee Large cheer team competed at the Eastern Regional competition last weekend in Trenton, NY. Our cars were covered in shoe polish with NORTH COLONIE BISON. The top two teams go on to compete at the National level in Florida, Walt Disney World. Last year we missed going to Nationals by TWO points.After the NY competitions we ...
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Betancourt v. Trinitas -- Most Requested NJ Court Opinion in 2009
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Thaddeus Pope
The New Jersey Law Journal's sixth annual Legal Almanac contains, among other things, a list of the judicial opinions which were most requested by attorneys in the State.
Elder law attorney Donald Vanarelli noticed that "one of the most requested judicial opinions was the unpublished decision in Betancourt v. Trinitas Regional Medical Hosp ...
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Images from 2009 CHPRMS Conference and Wallie Awards
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Dan Dunlop
Here are a few of the photos I took last week while attending the fall conference of the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations & Marketing Society (CHPRMS) and the annual Wallie Awards. The meeting took place in Asheville, North Carolina at the amazing Grove Park Inn. I’ve mixed in some scenic shots. Enjoy!Ann Nickels and Michele Affr ...
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