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It appeared that my younger brother Mark was not going to come home last night. He had done so the previous evening, but he usually spends Saturday nights at his girlfriend Bev's home.
And since today was a statutory holiday ─ Victoria Day ─ it seemed very possible that he was going to spend Sunday night with her.
He generally fails to spend Saturday nights with her once the two get into a drunken disagreement; so I concluded that perhaps in reconciliation he was staying with her this alternate night.
Then ─ just ahead of 11 p.m. ─ I noticed him about to back into the drive-way. I was almost about to turn off the T.V. for the night.
I came upstairs to avoid conversation with him.
And then I just listened.
Soon, I heard him crack open a can of beer, so I knew that he would be seating himself in front of the T.V., and it was no more my responsibility.
I don't now recall what time it was when I got into bed, but at least it was well ahead of midnight.
Just after 4:00 a.m. I found myself awake enough to decide to use the bathroom.
Unfortunately, when I returned to bed, I found myself entering into a state of great unease. Part of it likely was due to my frustration and self-loathing arising from the previous late afternoon/early evening when I 'danced on the brink' until I finally took the dive in.
At any rate, I began worrying about finances, and how it seems inevitable that I will have to withdraw at least $2,500 from my already diminished RRSP account in order to meet the upcoming annual home insurance in early June and the annual property taxes in early July.
Every year since my working salary came to an end, I have found it essential to withdraw RRSP money to make it through.
Mark pays half of those expenses, and my wife Jack and I have paid the other half.
But that was the way of it when her two sons were in school. One is now 21 years of age, and the other is 18 and employed.
It used to be that Jack would deposit her restaurant wages into our chequing account when she got paid, but she does not do that anymore. She has grown so deep into debt that she often uses an entire paycheque just to pay off credit bills.
Thus, I never see that money anymore. I only get to transfer some over to our account on-line when she notifies me that a certain figure is available for the transfer from her account.
I am left with less and less of my monthly pension to live on ─ the monthly mortgage of $1,600 devours the majority of it.
My brother Mark thinks he is paying half of the mortgage, but he is not ─ thanks to two remortgages Jack pressured me into when I was still employed.
I no longer remember what the mortgage payment originally had been for he and I ─ something over $300 every two weeks, I believe. So he keeps 'paying' me what he believes is half of that when he makes a monthly reconciliation of household expenses like cablevision, internet, house telephone, gas, and electricity.
He splits the total of those utility payments in half for the two of us, and then reduces my half by what he thinks he owes me for the mortgage.
But the mortgage payment is no longer something well under $800 in a four-week period ─ it has become $1,600 monthly. And I am shouldering that increase because it was my folly, caving to Jack's pressure to let her enter into the Thai restaurant field when she bought the now-defunct Pattaya Thai Restaurant in New Westminster back in the first half of 2010.
Mark is half-owner of our home ─ plus he put in a $40,000 down payment.
However, only my name is on the title ─ there were a couple of legal reasons for this when we first acquired the property back in June 2002.
But before Jack emotionally blackmailed me into the mortgage renegotiations, only about $125,000 was owed on the mortgage. Now, with a built-in line of credit debt, the full figure is well over $327,000.
To my thinking, if the property was to be sold, then after the bank had been paid off, Mark would pretty much be entitled to whatever 'profit' there was remaining on the sale. Jack's ambitions had already used up our share.
Along with a lot of RRSP money I used to have.
Mark keeps declaring that he wants to sell the house after hie retires at the age of 65 in July of next year.
If that happens, then my life as I know it would essentially end. I will not move into some apartment with my two step-sons ─ and their two girlfriends.
The youngest boy's girlfriend practically lives here ─ she has slept with him every night for the past week, and generally does so about five nights a week. But this recent streak of overnighting makes me wonder if a new trend of semi-permanence has begun.
Jack basically stays downtown in Vancouver to be near the Thai restaurant she works at. We are married in name only.
And I am left a prisoner of this house with her two sons aggravating the hell out of me in one way or another.
There will never be a scenario of me sharing an apartment with them and everyone they bring home.
And since I do not drive, I will be left to the stark necessity of disposing of almost all that I own ─ including my desktop computer. I would not be moving to an apartment ─ I have no furniture, and cannot afford any.
I would need to get some cheap room somewhere. And it wouldn't have internet service.
My marriage would be through ─ I would have to get the banks to disassociate my wife from anything to do with me. It would be the end of our joint accounts.
And from there, I would not expect to be alive too much longer. This great reversal of my life's conditions would mark my finish.
With an end to my on-line presence and my desperate hopes and dreams of deriving a second income through my half-dozen websites and this miserable blog, it would be time for me to call it quits in every way.
I am 66 years old now, with my 67th birthday coming in the Fall.
My eyes are so bad I cannot read books anymore ─ I gave that up at least 15 years ago.
With the various other physical damages I have incurred ─ including a deranged left shoulder I have never sought medical attention for, and that left knee that had to have its quadriceps tendon surgically reattached in early November 2010 ─ I feel almost as if I am spent.
My knees burn from cartilage damage as a result of excessive running when I was a younger man.
And there is the sexual dysfunctions ─ but I'm not going to venture into any explanations there.
Hell, I'm lonely ─ painfully lonely.
This was never supposed to be the retirement I was working towards.
I'm a prisoner of this house, and the overcrowded part of Surrey in which it is located. I have wanted to get out of Surrey and live in a part of the country where Nature prevailed ever since I was about 12 years old.
That's a long, long time to be living somewhere a person does not want to be.
But youth is gone, and so is its vigour and hopeful optimism.
The only way that I can see to possibly persuade my brother Mark from wanting to sell at his retirement is if everything was split four ways ─ not just two like it is now.
He could also still carry on in the blissful belief that the mortgage was what it used to be.
So he would pay one quarter of costs; Jack and I the second quarter; and her two sons would have to pay a quarter share apiece, too.
That might work with the youngest lad ─ he seems to be financially practical.
But the 21-year-old is a financial fool. He isn't even working ─ he has quit his second job after quitting the first back in...was it February?
He had been unemployed for about five weeks between jobs, and then only worked perhaps an equivalent amount of time at that second job.
He had been working since at least as far back as the Fall of 2013 ─ it was at least September ─ yet he has never paid a share in anything. He has lived here scotfree.
I can get the declaration made to the boys through their mother that they are either going to have to step up, or be prepared to move ─ and probably before the end of next year.
But I have my doubts that the oldest lad will ever be a full contributor ─ he has no ambition.
And every dollar of help his mother sneaks his way is one more dollar that I seem to have to make up for because it further dilutes her restaurant wages and what she can afford to pass along to me for household expenses.
As I said, most of her wages I never see anyway due to her own massive credit debt.
As I said, most of her wages I never see anyway due to her own massive credit debt.
Anyway, this was the trend my mind took as I lay in bed, alone and helpless in the dark night. It often feels that even God has utterly forsaken me, for he will not even bless my labours on-line of hours and hours per day in a futile effort to achieve a second income.
I had to get my mind off the suicidal concerns it was focusing on, so I rose a little after 4:30 a.m. and came here to my computer for about two hours, working upon one thing or another.
When I returned to bed a little after 6:30 a.m., the distraction had succeeded. Eventually, I managed a very little further sleep.
Heck, it might have been just after 9:00 a.m. when I rose. My youngest step-son Pote had already left to catch his bus to work.
There would be no leaving the house for me today ─ my spirit is too low. And since it is an overcast day ─ there seems even to have been a little rain overnight ─ sunning in the backyard is out of the question.
And with all that said, I think I will just depart further discussion of my day.
I had so much hope relating to my retirement when first I visited Thailand in January 2003. I had fallen so in love with the country and its people that I determined that I would do my utmost to spend most of my retirement life there.
I was 53 at the time.
It has become financially impossible, and I just grow older and less able with each passing year.
This photo is from that first visit to Thailand in early 2003 ─ the description beneath is from the Google album where I have the image stored:
The photo was probably taken in January 2003 during my first trip to Thailand; I was with these ladies at some park unknown to me, but very near Udon Thani City.
At left is Jack (Supranee), whom I was to marry late in May on my third trip to Thailand in 2005; in the centre is Tukta, the delightful lady who was driving us about that day in her car; and at right is Tumma ─ a sheer sweetheart to me, even though she understood no English.
As I have said in the past, I wish that I was still with that Jack.
The one I am married to now ─ so completely remade and mutated here in the West since coming to Canada in May 2006 ─ is not someone I should have in my life.
I miss the old Jack so very, very much. She was just a simple village girl with a great heart.
This report about acetaminophen and Canada's new official view concerning it is something I had not heard about until now:
"I think if Tylenol was brought to the market today, it would not be approved."
That comes from Dr. David Juurlink -- the top expert on toxic drugs at one of the largest hospitals in Canada.
For years now, Canadian health authorities have been talking about taking big steps to protect citizens from acetaminophen.
Now Canada's national health agency may be on the verge of permanently banning Extra Strength Tylenol and other high-dose acetaminophen products.
It's a move that has Big Pharma shaking in its boots -- and it's sounding a loud warning on acetaminophen that's being heard all over the world.
As an eAlert reader, you know that I've been warning about acetaminophen for years.
I've shared the stories of people who unknowingly crossed that fine line between a so-called "safe" dose, and a lethal one.
And I've told you about families devastated by the loss of a loved one who simply took one pill too many for a cold or arthritis flare-up.
Now, it looks like health officials in Canada have seen enough.
Health Canada is considering chopping the maximum daily dose of the drug from 4,000 mg (what it is in the U.S.) to 2,600 mg.
On top of that, it may also no longer allow Extra Strength Tylenol to be sold anywhere.
And that's big. Because that product represents a giant 90 percent of Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol sales.
Company reps and an industry trade group wasted no time in responding that such restrictions would be bad news for patients. And that when used according to the directions, the drug is perfectly safe.
Yeah, right.
It's so safe that acetaminophen is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. -- and it sends 78,000 people to the ER every year.
And those ER visits and deaths are happening to people who are taking the exact dose recommended on the label.
Health Canada found that up to 20 percent of all the acetaminophen liver injuries reported came from doses smack within the current guidelines.
Dr. Eric Yoshida, who is with the liver transplant program at Vancouver General Hospital, says restrictions on acetaminophen are just "common sense."
He's seen his share of Canadians with acute liver damage -- many with complete liver failure -- from taking acetaminophen.
If banning products like Extra Strength Tylenol just prevents one death, or one person from needing a liver transplant, "it would be worth it," Dr. Yoshida added.
Hopefully our neighbors to the north will follow through with these changes.
As for the FDA? Well, I wouldn't hold my breath.
But a major country banning high-dose acetaminophen should be a
wake-up call to doctors and patients around the world.
And hopefully this will be a reminder to everyone of how important it is to protect ourselves from acetaminophen.
One way to do that is to be very sure of the ingredients in any OTC or Rx drugs you're taking.
Acetaminophen doses can add up quickly. And as many have sadly discovered, it's very easy to be just one pill away from a fatal overdose.
- "Health Canada looks at reducing daily dosage of acetaminophen due to liver damage concerns" Elizabeth Payne, May 10, 2016, Ottawa Citizen, ottawacitizen.com
However, Canada is not exactly moving swiftly on this ─ the following news report is from July 10, 2015:
As with most government departments anywhere, nothing generally gets done.
Just within the past few days, I included in this blog a report on a study that found how mainstream pancreatic cancer treatments were by-and-large ineffective, but it's interesting how the study was interpreted by this observer:
"There's always hope."
That's what your doc will tell you, anyway. He'll spit out that tired old cliché... despite the fact that there's NONE as far as he's concerned.
If you've got terminal cancer with months to live, you're not the only one running out of time. He is, too -- he's running out of time to make some extra money off your illness.
So he'll use false hope to sell you on bogus, ineffective, and wildly profitable mainstream cancer treatments.
Well, my friend, it's time to tell him where to stick it.
Because while there IS always hope... while there ARE ways to beat even the deadliest cancers... new research shows how you WON'T get it from him!
The latest science focuses on one of the deadliest cancers of all. Some 95 percent of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will eventually die of the disease -- sometimes within a matter of weeks or months.
The study finds just about every last trick your doctor pulls offers no hope at all when it comes to beating or even delaying pancreatic cancer.
All they'll do is drain your bank account and bilk your insurer out of thousands of dollars!
He may offer you a second chemo drug. Two are better than one, right?
The study finds pancreatic cancer patients given a second drug with the standard first med actually die slightly SOONER than folks given the one drug alone.
The doc may hoodwink you into a combo of chemo and radiation -- a.k.a. chemoradiotherapy. He'll tell you this can attack the tumor from two directions, but the study finds again no benefit at all to adding radiation to the ordeal.
Zip... zilch... nada!
The extra treatments won't give you extra time... but they WILL give you extra side effects. You'll spend some of your final months in this world battling the sickening side effects of the chemo and radiation treatments you never even needed.
This scam isn't limited to pancreatic cancer.
Just about EVERY end-stage cancer patient who puts his trust in mainstream medicine gets exploited by unethical docs out to make a crooked buck.
A study I shared with you just last year found chemo doesn't extend lives in end-stage cancer -- and in a terrible irony, it causes the healthiest patients to decline MORE rapidly.
Another study found docs routinely ignore guidelines and give end-stage lung-cancer patients unnecessary chemo and radiation.
That's no way to live -- and no way to die, either.
So, if you've got an incurable cancer, it's time to ditch the so-called treatments that are now proven NOT to work and get what you really need: quality care in the hands of a skilled naturopathic medical doctor.
I recommend a member of the American College for Advancement in Medicine with experience in natural cancer therapies.
Exposing the chemo scam....
This is the study, but only the abstract is available for free to the general public: Effect of Chemoradiotherapy vs Chemotherapy on Survival in Patients With Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Controlled After 4 Months of Gemcitabine With or Without Erlotinib │ The LAP07 Randomized Clinical Trial (doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.4324).
Notwithstanding that limitation, I found Sci-Hub.ac to be functioning when I tried it, and I located the full study as a 10-page .pdf document.
And here are a couple of other reports on the study:
I have also reported about the FDA warning to physicians concerning fluoroquinone antibiotic usage, but here's that special interpretation that may have bigger bite for any consumers prescribed the dangerous medication and who might see this:
Infection? You probably don't need this antibiotic
Docs with a new drug are like kids with a shiny new toy.
Instructions? Who needs 'em! They'll tear open the package and wing it as they go.
With kids, the worst that can happen is you get a broken toy. But when docs pull this act, you get broken people.
Patients are hurt -- and lives ruined -- by the rush to put everyone on the latest and greatest new meds, and it's gotten so bad that the FDA has had to give docs a public spanking over the issue.
This is a rare reprimand from the agency -- and an even rarer acknowledgement that mainstream medicine on the whole has screwed up big.
Fluoroquinolones ain't exactly gummy bears. They're big-time drugs for big-time diseases, like the ciprofloxacin (a.k.a. Cipro) everyone was stocking up on during the anthrax scare.
Big-time drugs come with big-time risks, yet docs are giving them out for conditions that are small potatoes, including run-of-the-mill UTIs and respiratory infections (many of which are viral and shouldn't get antibiotics anyway).
That's exposed millions of Americans to potentially devastating side effects, including a few your own doc may not even be aware of because -- like that kid with a new toy -- he's never even bothered to look at the instructions.
These drugs can cause extremely painful and in some cases permanent nerve damage in the form of a condition called peripheral neuropathy. They've also been linked to acute liver injury and tendon ruptures, and a study last year found they can DOUBLE your risk of an aortic aneurism.
That's a bulge in your aorta, the main artery that carries blood from your heart, and it can lead to a stroke or even burst and kill you on the spot.
Unfortunately, I don't expect that the FDA warning will change much.
The agency has already urged docs to stop messing around with these meds... and they've been ignored by the very companies they're supposed to regulate.
The inmates are running the asylum!
Best you can do is make sure you don't take these drugs yourself unless there's an absolute certainty that you need them.
If you've got anthrax, then go ahead and grab that Cipro.
Everything else? Ask questions... and get a second (and even third) opinion, because common infections such as UTIs and respiratory illnesses usually have much safer and far more effective natural solutions.
With REAL solutions....
This is the FDA warning:
Fluoroquinolone Antibacterial Drugs: Drug Safety Communication - FDA Advises Restricting Use for Certain Uncomplicated Infections
The warning is straightforward enough, but here are a couple of further (very short) reports about it:
It is time now for me to close today's post with an entry from my journal of 41 years ago when I was 25 years old, and living in a basement housekeeping unit in New Westminster.
I worked just one day a week back then ─ Friday ─ at a New Westminster charitable organization called S.A.N.E. (Self Aid Never Ends) that is today known as Fraserside Community Services Society.
I was serving as a truck swamper on S.A.N.E.'s blue pick-up truck ─ its only company vehicle.
Be aware that I often wrote my journal entries piecemeal ─ that is, at several sittings over the course of the day. It made for rather disjointed reading, alas.
FRIDAY, May 23, 1975
Up just past 6:00 a.m..
Bill and I had a pretty lax morning.
The day has had shower periods and sunny periods.
At lunch at Safeway I bought $4.42 worth of stuff: salad dressing, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, and apples.
Art dropped in just before I left S.A.N.E. and committed me to showing up later.
For lunch I shall have Red River Cereal, then take my last bag of Bruce's clothes back to work.
Bill and I had a rough time messing about with 600 or so pop bottles; Art dropped in once more confirming my obligation.
After work Bill and I hit the Dunsmuir for five each, Charlie going the price of one; very nice show from one of the familiars.
I came home and had five delicious hamburgers.
Next I shall phone Bill and impose on him to join me for a bottle of something (if wine, my expense) at Art's; then we'll blow; Judd is to be there. It's near 7:00 p.m.
(I went; the idiot wasn't there; I'll leave a note for him to come to my rescue, and hope he shows, the blackguard.)
My relief did not show. I got fed again; more hamburger.
Les came awhile, and Angie went to work.
Late, Art retired.
At 11:30 p.m. I watched a James Darren hosted special on 1965; it really sent me back and made me realize how I've squandered my years. That was the greatest decade I shall ever have had opportunity to grow in. Ahead, I fear, lies nothing.
My flab and puny muscles left Judd at 1:00 a.m. At least I rather controlled my vodka imbibing; I'll be abed by 1:45 a.m. at latest.
Tomorrow the Hyack parade.
I don't remember working with someone named "Bill." I find that a bit odd.
I've come to understand that I sometimes came home for lunch, although I do not now remember doing so. So it was just before I had left on my lunch break to go to Safeway that Art Smith conveniently ─ for him ─ caught me still at S.A.N.E.
He was in his early 40s, and also worked part-time at S.A.N.E. We had formed a pretty good friendship, but he was coming to be too monopolizing ─ always trying to corral me into wasting my time drinking with him.
I felt with no recourse but to agree to coming over to his home after work.
Meantime, I went and shopped at Safeway, and then went home for that feed of Red River Cereal.
By the way, $4.42 could certainly buy a lot at Safeway, couldn't it?
I think that I must have been given a few bags of my maternal cousin Bruce Halverson's clothes, and had been taking them in to S.A.N.E. as donations.
So I took the final bag of clothes with me when I returned to S.A.N.E. for the remainder of the afternoon.
The Dunsmuir Hotel was very close by ─ S.A.N.E. used to be located on Carnarvon Street where the New Westmninster SkyTrain Station now spills out. The hotel's beer parlour or pub was a very popular drinking hole, and back then it had stripper entertainment ─ just like all of the other hotels tried to do at that time.
I now cannot know, but "Charlie" may have been the husband of Esther St. Jean, a dear woman in her early 40s who often drove the S.A.N.E. truck. That would possibly explain why he was buying my co-worker "Bill" and I a beer each.
Anyway, after Bill and I had our five beers and enjoyed some nice stripper performances, we broke up and I headed on home for a supper of hamburgers.
My plan was to arrange with my old friend William Alan Gill to help me get out of spending the damned entire evening at Art's home. Art's younger brother Judd (Gerald) was supposed to be at the house.
I must have phoned Bill at a payphone, and then headed on over to Art's place.
But Bill never did show up, and I was stuck there until the early a.m.
Art just about invariably would cut his evening short by supposedly going for a nap, but it was rare that I ever saw him again that same night. I usually would give up after a few hours and go home.
I now do not remember who "Les" was that dropped by at Art's, but Angie (Angelina) was Art's wife ─ I think she was working as a waitress at the Pacific Café on Columbia Street near the foot of Eighth Street, if I am remembering the location correctly.
I would have enjoyed that James Darren musical feature on the year 1965 ─ heck, I'd really enjoy it now!
James Darren sang one my top...15?...favourite rock/pop songs.
The following YouTube video clip of scenes featuring him in a movie called Rumble on the Docks has the song: James Darren - All (1967).
I see that the Hyack Festival was and still is held during the Victoria Day long-weekend, so it has been running this weekend, too.
And I see that it is now nearly 7:00 p.m. I am going to proofread this post, and then publish it.
I might finish off the last two or three ounces of the mickey of white rum that I have, as well as have my usual three cans of strong (8% alcohol) beer this evening.
I am feeling uncomfortably trepid ─ the alcohol will serve to dispel this unsavoury unease.


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UK employees name office culture as the main culprit for the slow adoption of remote working and green practices, research from Interwise, a company that sells remote working tools, finds.
Thirty percent of all respondents said that corporate culture was the barrier to their employers' adoption of remote working practices and 25 percent also cited the same reason for slow adoption of green initiatives.
"Companies which do not embrace remote working will find it difficult to recruit and retain staff," Gartner vice-president and fellow Diane Morello said. "Corporates should respond to user pressure for presence-aware applications, social networking tools and wikis to support flexible working. IT organizations that attempt to shut down those tools for security and policy reasons alone will do so at the expense of their relevance and value."
Other reason for slow uptake of remote working cited were lack of enabling technologies adopted in the work environment, reluctance to give up face-to-face social interaction and management distrust of remote workers. Only half of all employees said they were equipped to work remotely, despite their views that over half of the meetings they travel to, do not need to be in-person.

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Originally published on November 8, 2013 12:23 pm
To coincide with Hispanic Heritage month, PBS TV stations nationwide begin an historic six-hour documentary series tonight, titled "Latino Americans."
Covering 500 years of history in six hours, it is the first major documentary series on the history and experience of Latinos in America.
Watch Latino Americans on KLRU (18.1) Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 7 pm and Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 7 pm. KLRU's VME channel (18.4) will show the series in Spanish starting Friday, Sept. 20 at 8 pm. Or watch online at klru.org.
For KUT, David Brown interviewed one of the series producers, John Valadez. Listen to their conversation – and excerpts from "Latino Americans" – in the player above.
Copyright 2013 KUT-FM. To see more, visit http://kut.org.


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I absolutely love sustainable solutions.
It's like the old saying, "give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man how to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." And that's exactly what Wild Hope International's Artisan Project is doing!
Wild Hope International's Artisan Project
"Wild Hope International's Artisan Project was born out of a desire to provide income generation and spiritual development for East African women and their families. The Artisan Project preserves traditional art forms while providing micro-enterprise for women in remote Maasai communities far from normal tourist markets."
Some good friends of mine sent us some 'home accents' from the While Hope Artisans—and their crafts are so beautiful!
The project started with six skilled Maasai women and now includes fourteen Lead Artisans which oversee 140 women.
This Christmas season, you should consider ordering from the Wild Hope Arisan Project. These gifts are not only unique and beautiful, but also a great way to help support this amazing women.


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Find Nassau County New York pharmacies and drug stores. Pharmacies provide information on prescription drugs and medicines, name brand, generic and discount drugs, over the counter (OTC) medications.
Affordable Script Pharmacy 177 Rockaway Avenue Valley Stream NY 11580 516-561-6480
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Pharmacists are required to have a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited pharmacy program. They must also pass two exams: The North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam and the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam. A one to two year residency is also required. All U.S. states license Pharmacists and most require the completion of a certain number of hours of internship.Who should be notified of concerns or complaints about a Pharmacy?
Customers who believe they have been given the wrong medication by their pharmacist should notify their physician and pharmacist immediately. Concerns about erroneous prescriptions or medication should also be reported to the state Board of Pharmacy. Complaints about pricing should be addressed with the patient's prescribing practitioner and the Pharmacy. Complaints about insurance coverage and co-pays should be directed to the state's insurance regulatory agency.


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Janice Dickinson has found herself on the ugly side of the beauty biz.
Jeweler-to-the-stars Neil Lane is claiming the self-proclaimed World's First Supermodel made off with thousands of dollars of borrowed baubles worn in an August 2002 photo shoot.
Neil Lane Inc. filed the breach-of-contract suit in Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday, seeking compensatory damages of at least $88,000.
According to the suit, the former cover girl was loaned several pieces of jewelry for use in the photo shoot, including a pair of diamond earrings worth $52,000; a turquoise, pearl and gold necklace worth $14,000; a coral and gold necklace priced at $17,500; and turquoise and pearl earrings valued at $4,500.
"Despite numerous requests," Lane says, Dickinson has failed to return the jewelry.
For her part, the former America's Next Top Model judge claims that the sparkly trinkets were either lost or stolen from her home back in 2002 as she has been unable to find them, a message she relayed to Neil Lane's insurance company.
Per the court filing, Lane's company says its insurance company investigated Dickinson's assertion of theft "and determined that the claim was dubious."
Besides, the suit asserts that while at the photo shoot, the former Surreal Lifer signed an agreement to return all jewelry to Neil Lane, or barring that, be held financially responsible for them.
Dickinson has yet to respond to the allegations.
While she awaits her day in court, Dickinson is keeping plenty busy trying to keep up her celeb status.
The provocateur's latest show, Janice Dickinson's Modeling Agency, debuted earlier this month, albeit to scathing reviews, on the Oxygen network. Her latest book, Check, Please!: Dating, Mating and Extricating, was released, though again, to little acclaim, in May.


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T.Rextasy are the only band to have been authorised and endorsed by Marc Bolan's Catalogue Management, are now officially recognised as the world's No.1 group dedicated to the greatest glam rocker of them all, Marc Bolan of T.Rex. With their uncanny doppelganger lead singer and lead guitarist, Danielz, T.Rextasy perform a powerful and mesmerising presentation of Marc Bolan's rock and pop anthems.
With a career spanning over 25 years, T.Rextasy are now regarded beyond the boundaries of 'tribute' and are respected in their own right. They are also the only band to have the blessing and support from Marc's own family and Ex-T.Rex band members, including June Bolan (Marc's wife), Gloria Jones (Marc's Girlfriend), Rolan Bolan (Marc's Son), Mickey Finn (T.Rex conga player), Tony Visconti (T.Rex producer), and others
They have toured worldwide playing at venues such as the gigantic Ariake Coliseum in Japan, and Wembley Arena in London. They also perform alongside artists such as Wizzard, Cockney Rebel, Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople), and Slade amongst others.
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The Church of Robotron has been working hard to find the mutant savior and to train members of the last human family. We had an opening on Wednesday, and my friend Zach edited together this fantastic video:
Here's a test video I shot of oscule's much improved jacob's ladder...it's terrifying:
If you have not yet been tested, please join us on First Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 at Diode Gallery for indoctrination, testing, anti-robot training, propaganda distribution, and some good old-fashioned street devival.
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So Open Source Bridge was a month ago, and I had been so bogged down and frazzled thinking about an planning for toorcamp 2014 that I didn't have a chance to collect my thoughts/bookmarks. Until now.
So yeah, this is a series of thoughts random, poorly organized thoughts and bookmarked tabs from the conference. In no particular order...
I'm sure I've only captured a fraction of what I found fun/interesting/inspiring! Until next year...
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I know what I'm doing when the next economic downturn slices our faces in half! I'm going to the pawn shop with all of my Hargadons!
For historical record: First observed yesterday morning, around Broadway and 3rd (??). This is not a common morning route for me, but the sign was there and appeared fairly new. I considered going back last night to pick it up but decided to give it a day or more to cook(?). Tonight it's mine mine mine mine mine mine mine...
I want the g-voice number response team to be moar responsive, though I respect that my calls are hopefully just noise in the matrix. From the support perspective, we should be OUTRAGED that it's this difficult to get actual cash money for your actual Banksy (original artwork). Actually.
Please call the above sales line and let them know how upset you are that you can't actually sell your actually original Banksy.
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I can't speak to the authenticity, but the Pad Kee Mao today from the "I Like Thai Food" cart (10th and Alder) was perfection. Ingredients were amazing and fresh, flavors were balanced, and the heat was thru the roof! Bonus points for no mushrooms (default!).
I especially love their spice scale:
At the chef's recommendation I went with OMG.
I know I've had their food a few other times...but I can't ever remember it being this good. Wow.
Mon Mar 10 2014 22:48:15 GMT-0700 (PDT)
The view from the max station is probably just as iconic as the view from the front...but maybe 1000x worse.
Sadly, it seems that the bowling alley will be closing in May.
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This is inspiring: http://humansofpdx.com/
especially this:
Reinvigorates my desire to do grassroots street recording, interviews, exploration. I vowed to field record once a month. Starting that again.
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So my pal Mykle has done this EPIC event called LIGHTBAR to cheer people out of their seasonal affective disorder during February in Oregon. If you can't see the victory in building a GIANT and BRIGHT bamboo-event-party-dome, by hand, in the middle of winter, then you need to be poked (with sharp bamboo).
A few of us from dorkbot PDX have been peripherally involved, even contributing some works.
My friend Brian and I collaborated on a light-based project dubbed the RETINAL TATTOO GUN. The concept involved a series of bright flashes intended to [temporarily] imprint iconic imagery directly into the retina with strong after-images (ghosts).
We had a semi-working prototype up at LIGHTBAR last weekend before it collapsed(!!!) this week. This iteration of the retinal tattoo gun was a pretty big technical failure, but it was a fun project and we have a nice foundation going forward.
The circuit I designed/built had a series of issues, the worst of which was some form of ground bounce or inductive jibber jabber that caused all 8 flash channels to fire when any of them fired. Turns out that yeah, it's nontrivial to sequence a bunch of disposable camera flashes.
The day of installation we also found out that the repurposed viewmaster switch was connected in a way that caused the flashes to trigger when the advancer jobby was directly in front of the slide...so most of the light power was dampened. Whoops, doh!
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Going to Church
I come from a long history of church-goers. My grandfather was a preacher and all his children and grandchildren attended his church every time the doors were open. These were special family times. Of course I grew up thinking the family was a lot bigger than it really was because we called everyone "Brother and Sister" so-and-so…
Being in church a lot means that kids slowly get more and more comfortable being there and soon they can find all kinds of trouble. There is a famous story of my dad and uncle causing a commotion during church when they were kids. Grandpa stopped in the middle of his sermon to call one of them down front in hopes of separating them. What he didn't know is that they had handcuffed themselves together and coudn't find the key.
My brother and I weren't as bad as that, but we did get sent to the back room in the church on occasion because we couldn't keep quiet. The room had a big window and mom always said that grandpa would be watching us as he preached. Grandpa was a "hell fire and brimstone" preacher so the last thing you wanted to think was that all that yelling was being directed to you. So what did we do? We sat under the window of course so he couldn't see us. We would then proceed to glue our hands together. I can't smell Elmers glue without thinking of us gluing and then peeling large hunks of glue off our hands. It was just like something out of NCIS as we would look and the lines of our hands in the glue.
It wasn't until I was older that my dad shared another story of what he used to do during church…much to my mom's dimay I might add.
The and his brother would go through the hymn book and read the tittle of a song and then say, 'without his pants on". It would go some thing like this;
"On Christ the solid rock I stand….with out my pants on"
"When we all get to heaven…without our pants on"
"Onward Christian Soliders…without their pants on"
The moral to this story is just going to church doesn't make you Christ-like….it's got to be something more.
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Come in many shapes, forms, sizes, culture and personalities, etc.
As we called another human being friends
Other human beings calling me "friends";
We love them as friends "friends, etc."
We love them more than tht "lovers, bff, etc."
As they would love me in the same way in the end.
The definition of friends are just like parents giving names to their children
For each has their own personalities, characteristics and behaviours
Different interests, likes and dislikes, yet all are family;
For all comes with different expectations for them
That brings to them all fear and tears
That stem from all the bias and prejudice.
The only definition is when they are not friends but enemies
Regardless how much hurt or pain caused
Or how nice they once used to be;
The damage has been done, that is!
Just one simple clause
"Friends not, excluding strangers to meet and see"
Humans are so divided than united
Has so much to generalized yet complicated categorization
Wanted simplicity, yet complexities arise.
Ethics and morals, caught between wrong and right
Has so much to expected and yet unattainable
Wanted so much, but give too little in return.


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Tony Cochrane is the man who has reinvented motor sport in Australia, as the Chairman of V8 Supercars.
Broadcast date: Monday 23 November 2009
Tony Cochrane has managed to modernise and popularise motor racing in Australia, attracting big crowds to the V8 Supercars competition.
He's as well known for his background as a showbiz entrepreneur; it was Tony who brought Frank Sinatra to Australia after he swore he'd never visit our shores again. Frank called Tony "the kid" and they got on so well they worked together again when Frank returned once more with Sammy Davis Jr and Liza Minnelli.
To mark Motown's 50th anniversary Tony is bringing some of the Motown legends out next year, including The Temptations, The Four Tops and Martha and the Vandellas.'
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Here's some excerpts from the Gov Monitor describing the new strategy for health which will put patients first. It's hard to imagine anything sounding more trite than that – after all what's healthcare about if not patients?
That's a rhetorical question of course. For clinicians and nurses healthcare has always been about patients. If only the same could be said for the politicians and bureaucrats who both waste money, and get in the way.
Health Secretary Andy Burnham today set out his strategy for the NHS to put patients first and improve the quality of care as it enters an unprecedented era of reform.
The strategy, 'NHS 2010-2015: from good to great. Preventative, people-centred, productive,' published today by the Department of Health, explains the need to accelerate the pace of NHS reform to make the system more productive and hasten improvements in quality of care – protecting patients, supporting staff, shifting resources to the frontline and slashing back office waste and bureaucracy.
The measures include:
A new payment system, which puts patients first – hospital income will increasingly be linked to patient satisfaction, rising to 10 per cent of their payments over time, meaning hospitals will work harder for their patients.
More choice for patients – abolishing GP practice boundaries, improving access to a GP in the evenings and weekends and more services at home or in the community.
Dedicated carers for those in need for patients with cancer or serious long-term conditions who can benefit from a more personal approach to nursing. Where appropriate, this should include the provision of personalised one-to-one support by a health professional, particularly for the more complex conditions.
New rights to high quality care including consulting on the right for patients nearing the end of their life to choose where they wish to spend their final days and new rights to high quality standards of service and care that will be clearly set out in the new NHS Constitution.
Supporting staff – we believe the announcement in the Pre-Budget Report provides the resources to protect frontline services in the NHS. We are proposing to work with NHS Employers and trade unions through the national Social Partnership Forum and Staff Council to explore the pros and cons of whether we could offer frontline staff an employment guarantee locally or regionally – in return for flexibility, mobility and sustained pay restraint.
More freedom for the best hospitals to expand their services out into the community across a wider area including GP centres.
More access to personal care plans that allow patients to choose the right care tailored to their individual needs.
Personal health budgets to empower patients to give millions of patients the right to more control over their care and the services they can ask for, as well as more options to receive care at or closer to home.
Locking in improvements in the service with the NHS Constitution – from 1 April 2010, we will give patients the legal right to maximum waiting times to start treatment by a consultant within 18 weeks of GP referral and to being seen by a cancer specialist within two weeks of GP referral. In addition, the Prime Minister announced in September plans to offer all patients in England access to tests that can confirm or exclude cancer within one week to help save thousands of lives every year.
From April 2012, we also want everyone between 40 and 74 to have the legal right to an NHS Health Check every five years to assess their risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease.
Regular free health checks will improve health and prevent up to 1,600 heart attacks and strokes each year.
In addition, NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson today outlined details of the NHS Operating Framework for 2010/11, due to be published next week, which will set out NHS priorities for the next year. The Operating Framework will help the NHS make the changes necessary to embed quality and for it to drive all that the NHS does.
The Framework will allow the NHS to focus on ensuring care is safe, compassionate and personal to patients and will provide real opportunity for radical and innovative approaches to improve the quality of services, whilst at the same time reducing costs.
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My bladder has been kinda out of control lately?
As recent as like a month ago, if I had to pee really badly, I was able to hold it in. Now if I have to pee badly, I can't hold it in as well anymore. What's going on?
I've been drinking tea.. and coffee lately... if that's any help. And I'm fifteen.
Caffeine is an irritant to your urinary tract.
If it affects you that way, just stop drinking caffeine.
Drink more clear water, and cranberry juice for urinary tract health.
Is my boyfriend being unfair about my bladder problem?
I have a bladder infection (got medication and everything) and and as a result I've been peeing a LOT more than normal these past few weeks. And if I even drink water or iced tea, I pee at least four times an hour.
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So our trip is officially booked for the Disney Princess Half Marathon which is a little over 16 weeks away! And my trio cannot be more excited and Rachelle and I are too!
We will be staying at the Disney Animal Kingdom Villas and are too excited and I know the kids will be too! Hubby is staying at home, Rachelle and I are running and so is my oldest and the Grannie and Papi will watch the twins! This trip is Christmas and Birthday presents to my trio so Santa you can pass by our house this year (lol)!
In a little over a week I start my 15 week training program! I have decided to use the Train Like a Mother Finish It 13.1! Met these ladies at the Rock n Roll San Antonio half marathon and love their books! Keeps this mama sane and it definitely shows me how to enjoying running as an outlet.
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Last week, Americans United for Life Action (AULA) and LifeNews.com launched a Facebook page in support of Focus on the Family's pro-life Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow. The number of supporters on that page has grown rapidly since then. It has now eclipsed the 100,000 mark.
Media coverage has included a mention on social media news site Mashable. Bruce Horovitz of USA Today tweeted about the Facebook fan page.
Mark Tapscott also mentioned it in his Beltway Confidential blog at Examiner.com:
This is the same group that did the innovative Virtual March for Life this week. As of this afternoon, more than 83,000 people have signed up there, created an avatar for themself [sic], and joined the march. Could this be the first instance of new technological protest wave?
Another part of the Facebook page is a video submission contest announced by AULA communications director Matthew Faraci. The below video provides details:
We are asking everyone interested to submit their video story to the Facebook page. The video can be your own story about the impact of someone (you, a relative, or a friend) choosing life has had on you.
The video should be no more than 2-3 minutes long. The best videos will be featured here on the blog, on the Facebook page, and possibly other places online. If you'd rather post your video to YouTube, Vimeo or another site, please leave a link to it in the comments below on this blog post so we can find it (posting a link on the Facebook page would be good too but due to the high traffic of comments there, we can only guarantee we will see it if it is posted to the comments on this blog post.)
The simplest way you can make a video and submit it to us is if you have a webcam connected to your computer. Just go to the top of the Facebook page and look at the box where you enter comments. Click on the small video icon at the bottom left of that box and then click on "Record a Video." If you have a video you previously recorded on your personal camera (a Flip for instance) or on a webcam, just click on "Upload a Video."
Americans United for Life (AUL Action) is the legislative action arm of Americans United for Life, the first national pro-life organization in the nation.


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Ahead of tonight's premiere of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, TEN'S publicity team have made the unusual decision to release the names of two celebrities heading into the jungle
TEN has paid for a number of journalists to travel to South Africa to cover the show, these journalists are heavily restricted in what they are allowed to reveal, however this year Jonathan Moran from News Corp was allowed to reveal Lisa Curry as a contestant, while Fairfax writer Ebony Bowden has published an interview with Steve Price.
Revealing two names certainly spoils some of the fun for viewers tonight but TEN is desperate to generate publicity for the premiere episode, particularly now that it will be competing against a historic Federer VS Nadal Australian Open Final on Seven
Price told Fairfax that he new little about the reality show he was about to join:
"I deliberately didn't want to watch the show because I don't think I would have done it. If I'd done that I would have said no, I think."
"I'm going to be wanting to be in charge but there will be other personalities within this group who won't want me to be in charge. They'll want me to just be one of the group. That's going to be a difficult thing for me because I like to run things."
Meanwhile Curry told News Corp she was nervous about heading into the Jungle:
"People think because you are an Olympian, you must be really tough. I am a pussy cat. I am a crybaby. I am a bit of a walkover sometimes."
"I would say that I'm scared of spiders and snakes, I can't stand them. I really don't like heights and I don't like pretentious people. It might be the wrong show,"
Curry and Price will join eight other celebrities in the Jungle, you can read the DeciderTV predictions here.


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A hayseed with a brain is at the center of former daily newspaperman Mike Nichols' debut novel.
By STACY SCHNELLENBACH BOGLE
As strange as this may seem, the words "literary" and "Fort Worth" can be used in the same sentence. This city is crawling with the bound work of historians, biographers, and novelists, many of whom got their starts as newspaper writers. Jerry Flemmons, Hollace Ava Weiner, Mike Shropshire, and Gary Cartwright. Elston Brooks, Tim Madigan, Leonard Sanders, Larry Swindell, and Rich Haddaway. Many of these names are as familiar to local newspaper readers as a morning cup of coffee, and a few of those wordsmiths — Bud Shrake, Dan Jenkins— are recognized nationally. No one should really be surprised that the latest addition to this august company is former Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist and humor writer, Mike Nichols, whose debut novel, Balaam Gimble's Gumption, was published just before Christmas.Nichols, who has said that the novel represents the most autobiographical thing he's ever written, also reports that the story was inspired by 25 years of living in Texas outside the big-city limits. The fictional setting of Willoughby is a product of Nichols' ability to recall small locales and their inhabitants' desire to enjoy the unhurried lifestyle of a small town while making a decent living — often a nearly impossible combination. In the words of the title character: "Not long after I relocated to a dirt road eight miles from the nearest town in a county with the same number of people it had 100 years earlier, somebody started a sand excavation business down the road. The progress-oriented people would call that good: more jobs, more tax revenue, more money spread around. But the people who moved that far out to be able to hear a bee buzz at 10 feet as it whispers the facts of life in the ears of wildflowers or to hear a hummingbird hum at 20 feet as it tries to remember the words would call it something else."Balaam Gimble is a middle-aged, self-employed handyman who lives surrounded by railroad ties, coffee cans full of nails, and sheets of corrugated metal — the homely detritus commonly associated with folks who make their livings with their hands. Affable, courteous, comfortable in his own skin, Balaam seems to enjoy his break-even existence. His monastic one-room cabin, built on land his family has owned for five generations, is merely the means to an end, an opportunity to witness the natural world unfolding from the comfort of his front porch. For Balaam, the land is the point, and that continues to be true even after he discovers an underground spring of health-promoting mineral water on his property and the rest of his neighbors begin finding ways to make their own plans for Balaam's property and the future Willoughby.A common mistake among those writing about rural areas is to wring every ounce of common sense from a cast of players, infusing each with his or her own brand of idiocy, thus making room for the bigger laugh at the character's expense. Simpletons leading the simple life. Unlike some writers who are content to draw country people as caricatures of the typical Southern hayseed, Nichols peoples his book with the kinds of living, breathing folks you'd find in any small Texas community. Run in to the Chigger Ranch Convenience Store in Dublin for a bag of chips and an original recipe Dr. Pepper, and you'll find the same kinds of characters as those who populate Balaam Gimble's Gumption.The novel's beginning is leisurely, and the reader might begin to wonder when and how things will take off, although that's most likely Nichol's intent. Willoughby's inhabitants do live at a slower pace, as do many folk whose existence depends on how fast okra grows and whether or not it rains.Nichols says some of the characters are based on real people, others just represent "types," and altogether they paint a full spectrum — good and not-so-nice, ambitious and content, those who see the town as it is versus those who see it as it once was and could be again. If there is a weakness in the novel's construction, it is when the lines separating good people from bad are drawn a mite too deliberately. To some of the citizenry, J. Howard Liggett is the urban savior who comes to rescue Willoughby from certain extinction, but to Balaam he's the harbinger of unwelcome change and relentless opportunism. The reader might know the feelings of each character, but ultimately we view the world through Balaam's filter.Balaam Gimble's Gumption is, nevertheless, a novel of integrity, with a solid premise, believable characters, and cleverly understated dialogue. Nichols has assembled a host of individuals who gladly live in a place where, when you stop to smell the roses, the noise in the background is that of an armadillo rustling through the underbrush — not the roar of gunfire from the neighbor kid's video game. All in all, a pretty nice place to spend some time.
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For the food writer: "Punctuation: The Shortest, Simplest, Most Lighthearted Guide, Ever"
Last week I talked about How to Write about Food: How to Become a Published Restaurant Critic, Food Journalist, Cookbook Author, and Food Blogger and some readers expressed concerns about punctuation. So, this week, I give you Punctuation: The Shortest, Simplest, Most Lighthearted Guide, Ever. This is an incredibly simple, wonderfully clear, delightfully amusing little guide on how to use the punctuation that has confounded you for years. Excerpt after the jump.
Here, as promised, is an excerpt from Punctuation: The Shortest, Simplest, Most Lighthearted Guide, Ever.
The hyphen
It may be smaller than a dash (and I would read the section on dashes if you tend to confuse them with hyphens), but it can do something no dash can ever do: join words, such as My ex-boss loved chocolate-covered almonds so much I gave him a T-shirt with a picture of them printed on the back.
In other words, the hyphen is word glue.
So far so good. But here is where the waters get murky: the rules surrounding hyphen use are fairly ambiguous (in some instances you are allowed to join two words, but in others, you are not allowed to join the exact same words). So let me give you the most important of these rules.
Hyphenation 101
- If you've got two adjectives (adjectives are words that describe nouns, such as: small, dark, red, fast, loud, hidden, patterned) and they show up before a noun (a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea), then hyphenate them, such as: the well-trained dog. Do the adjectives show up after the noun? Then don't hyphenate them, such as: a dog who is well trained.
- If you have multiple word compounds, use hyphens to link them together, such as: It is a little-known fact that she kept her day-by-day diary completely up-to-date.
- If you are dealing with an adverb (a word that modifies another, such as: quickly, boldly, happily) don't use a hyphen because the ly functions just like a hyphen, making a hyphen redundant, such as: The highly regarded officer.
- Where it is commonly used, such as: X-ray. You dictionary will help you with these.
Final example, to clarify and leave you with a smile
Here is an example of how the wee hyphen does a big job clarifying phrases: fifty odd girls versus fifty-odd girls. Yes, the first version, the one without the hyphen, is fun, but the version with the hyphen is correct. We assume.
(Excerpt courtesy of Punctuation: The Shortest, Simplest, Most Lighthearted Guide, Ever.)