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If the boss offered you steeply discounted or free medications for asthma, diabetes, hypertension, depression and other common chronic conditions, would you sign up for that insurance? Would you sign up if it meant you'd have to pay sizable additional...
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...5 lbs...15 oz...19.5 in...all on March 5th at 10:24PM...big deal, right? You bet! My grandson was ushered into this world right before my eyes at that exact moment in time. I cannot tell you, I cannot express to you, there are no words that do justice...
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As I yanked them, some as high as my thigh, I warned them to cease and desist. As they broke above the entrenched root, I swear I heard them laugh. I pledged I'd be back. As I toted away my victims, I wondered how I'd ignored that side yard for so long....
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I will start my first blog from over a year in blog exile with a challenge. The first person that can comment back to me with the name of the TV show and break-out actor in this show from the catch phrase (from the show) listed above will receive a $20...
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I came across a full-page Wall Street Journal ad, in my routine "why have I saved this?" home downsizing. The headline played on a Chapter 11 filing by scratching out one of the one's. But listen to some of the content and then see what business placed...
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The healthcare environment is just a bit nuts these days and requires some real courage and insight to forge ahead. Reimbursement is far short of costs and something has gotta change. Did you know that in 2009 California Hospitals alone provided $12 billion...
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A mixture of the serious and the bizarre here. There are among the several hundred websites I've bookmarked. Serious journalism pursued online: http://www.propublica.org/ Wonder where campaign donations come from and go to? http://www.opensecrets.org/...
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My how time flies! Especially when you realize time may have run out for you if it weren't for some good doctors and some diligence on your part. It’s been more than five years now since I found out I was born with a heart defect and needed open heart...
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The Olympians throw a rock, sweep its path clear with a broom. And they get their heart rates up to 185 beats a minute. Maybe that would dissolve some of the heartburn that politics provides these days. Consider: Zero -- the number of times in 1957 and...
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...well, eventually...huh? My husband and I hosted a baby shower for my son and daughter-in-law this weekend that was attended primarily by family. My sister and brother-in-law that live in Bakersfield, purchased a stroller as one of the gifts with explicit...
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The scene: Hank Swank's driving range in Clovis, the dense fog of 8 a.m. Sunday. A solitary figure wearing an incongruous Pebble Beach hat addresses the ball -- go that way, please. Not a soul around. Sixty or seventy swings later, sweating, he drives...
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I read a startling and incredible story about a woman who had surgery last year (not in the USA), a fairly "routine" gallbladder removal...well, it should have been unremarkable and theoretically, she should have had a brief recovery and then re-entered...
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While posturing thrives in DC and budget dodge-ball persists in Sacramento, a couple of stories caught my eye. Lawmakers in 34 states apparently have filed or proposed amendments to their state constitutions that would ban governments from mandating that...
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Huh?...Kutai, Inji, and Batik are the resident primates at a Zoo in Portland and have been "predicting" major match-up wins since 1996 with great accuracy. It all started when a local sports caster observed the Zoo Keepers creating an enrichment activity...
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It was one of those weeks. First listening to Mayor Swearengin extol downtown revitalization from my seat behind a pillar at the Grand. Later, behind a palm tree watching Gov. Schwarzenegger hype the advent in years (and billions of dollars) ahead of...
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It seems a lot of people are asking the question, “Who am I?” these days. Sure, we all ask that during major life-changing events, but businesses and cities can do the same thing, right? Take Fresno for example. Many feel the city is in the midst of an...
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In our tech-emersed world, those with numerous gadgets are going to love the possibilities of recharging their devices with their jeans and T-shirts...huh? Good ole' cotton and polyester will be transformed into "electronic textiles" that will serve as...
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I attended a State of Downtown breakfast this week hosted by Mayor Ashley Swearengin where she outlined the challenges and successes of her administration’s mission of revitalizing the city’s urban core, with particular emphasis on the downtown Fresno...
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Might be some downtime during the Pro Bowl, SuperBowl, trips to baseball spring training. Here are some tidbits to dip into: 540 -- the number of hospitals that offer a blog or have some presence on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. (Yep, Community Medical...
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No way I could see Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin as she delivered a 30+minute "State of Downtown" pledge to several hundred people Jan. 26. That's because the old PG&E building, restored and renamed "The Grand," wasn't designed as a viewer-friendly...
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Okay, can I brag a little this week? I have the cutest and most talented dog in the world! I can just hear you now saying, “No you don’t, mine is!” Everyone thinks their dog is the most loyal and greatest pooch anyone could have. I love my Max because...
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Yep....50 years old apparently. Wrap things with it, stomp on it (my favorite), create art with it, make a wedding dress with it (huh?...some have done so), or whatever crazy innovation you can think of. Oddly enough there seems to be enthusiasts with...
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I can't play violin. And I can't artfully explain health care financing, either. But I'm a good listener and a very good worrier. Which helps explain why I was so impressed by a recent blog by New York Times writer David M. Herszenhorn who floated something...
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I've seen a lot of dirt pushed around in my nine years with Community Medical Centers, and in the years prior while covering health care for the Fresno Bee. But there was something electric on Jan. 14, when earth movers and levelers, a street sweeper...
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I'm baaaaaack! Many of you know I had the pleasure of spending some time in Australia and New Zealand over the Christmas holidays and I am deeply grateful for the privilege to have done so as it was the trip of a lifetime...the scenery was breath-taking,...
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