Health-Conscious Baby Boomers Love Those Blueberries
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Blueberry season is about to dawn in Northern California, bringing with it the promise of a healthy, long life embedded in the tiny, sweet orbs.
And the most likely to sweep them off the shelves are baby boomers searching for that fountain of youth.
“I’m trying to eat healthier,” said Nancy Paddock, 56, as she snatched up [...]
The Internet, Politics and Power of the People
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The Almighty Dollar
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pulled in more than US$1 million a day in campaign donations for the entire month of January, mainly from online contributors who gave small sums of money.
On Dec. 16, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul pulled in $6 million — a record for one day of fundraising — from [...]
Collaboration in Government IT, Part 1: Needs and Benefits
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The Value of Effective Collaboration
The importance of our need for well-informed, well-equipped and coordinated government services was driven home by 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Yet responding to terrorist attacks and natural disasters — despite their potential scale and severity — are just two examples in which a host of government offices need to collaborate by [...]
Collaboration in Government IT, Part 1: Needs and Benefits
Posted by admin
The Value of Effective Collaboration
The importance of our need for well-informed, well-equipped and coordinated government services was driven home by 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Yet responding to terrorist attacks and natural disasters — despite their potential scale and severity — are just two examples in which a host of government offices need to collaborate by [...]
The Internet, Politics and Power of the People
Posted by admin
The Almighty Dollar
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pulled in more than US$1 million a day in campaign donations for the entire month of January, mainly from online contributors who gave small sums of money.
On Dec. 16, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul pulled in $6 million — a record for one day of fundraising — from [...]
The Internet, Politics and Power of the People
Posted by admin
The Almighty Dollar
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pulled in more than US$1 million a day in campaign donations for the entire month of January, mainly from online contributors who gave small sums of money.
On Dec. 16, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul pulled in $6 million — a record for one day of fundraising — from [...]
The Way It Would End
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Close to sunset in early November 2005, two young Ukiah men buzzed on crystal meth drove a white Toyota pickup to a scenic overlook on the south side of Lake Mendocino, a few miles east of town. There they would meet a man nearly twice their age whom they would stab and beat to death [...]
Miss Otis has some regrets
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Edith Piaf regretted nothing? She had to be lying and probably went to her grave regretting she ever said it.As for Paul Anka, who wrote %26quot;My Way%26quot; for Sinatra…that line, %26quot;I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption,%26quot; [...]
Regret haunts baby boomers
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Edith Piaf had none.Frank Sinatra admitted to a few.And in The Remains of the Day, the dutiful manservant, Stevens, is haunted by them.Regrets.You can blow them off. Or you can drown in them.In his most recent novel, For One More Day, Mitch Albom poses the question, %26quot;If you had the chance, just one chance, [...]
Dealing with detritus of parents’ downsizing
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For as long as I can remember, the Art Deco Noritake china luncheon set sat on a shelf in the happy kitchen of the house where I grew up.It still takes my breath away.Its clean white, black and silver lines, rimmed with sky- and robin’s-egg blue, would be perfect on a ship where Fred Astaire [...]
