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  • Back on the Blog

    Whew! The good news is that the guys and gals at Brown got my computer working again and it didn’t cost too much. The bad news is that they don’t know what was wrong with it. I think it’s the spirits. My coffeepot went out too, and my palm pilot [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:51pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Something to be thankful for…

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    This Thanksgiving day, as many of us sit with family and friends devouring pretty much anything in sight, there is something to be thankful for.  It’s not 2012.  Or at least not the version of Apocalypse in 2012 as indicated below. An epic battle between good and evil (with all [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:23am EST
    by riclpp

  • National Survivors of Suicide Day

    It’s worth mentioning that today is National Survivors of Suicide Day: National Survivors of Suicide Day is a day of healing for those who have lost someone to suicide. It was created by U.S. Senate resolution in 1999 through the efforts of Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, who lost his father [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:49pm EST
    by Kiersten Marek

  • Thundermist

    Number of comments: 4
    A fine video documentary by Scott Kingsley and/or David DelP about Thundermist Health Associates. It was my first job in 1991. How they’ve grown. [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:24pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Good Save

    If I ever have to call a doctor in the middle of the night, I hope I talk to one like Dena Rifkin. Forgive me for quoting the NYT at length, but this is what real practice of medicine should be… The voice on the phone was authoritative, even brusque. A [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:39pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • China-Based Solar Company to Build in Arizona

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    In concert with Obama’s meeting with Chinese leader Hu and talk of more global cooperation between China and the US (see WSJ Article), comes news that Chinese Solar Power giant Suntech Power (STP) is going to build a manufacturing plant in Arizona. This is good news indeed. We here in [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:30pm EST
    by Kiersten Marek

  • Applying the ACORN Standard to Republicans

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    I’ve been kind of scared off this topic, because when the Tea Party folks talk about ACORN, they pronounce it AAACORRRNN, as if their head is going to spin around backwards like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. So you don’t dare ask what is really so awful about ACORN. My general [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:08pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Purple Priestly Prose in the ProJo

    Number of comments: 5
    I usually keep it clean on Kmareka, the standard being to write nothing that Kiersten would be embarrassed to have her kids read. I take it as a challenge to try to convey my dislike of some people by neither suggesting they do things to themselves that are physically impossible, [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:53pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Claiming Victory

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    In today’s ProJo there’s a letter by Prof. Laura Lederer, congratulating the Journal for supporting the law criminalizing prostitution. She sees this as a step to fighting sex-trafficking. Depriving anyone of their freedom is a human rights violation, and forced prostitution is an atrocious crime. But so far, we have [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:04pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Attack of the Blob

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    It’s been said that the Earth will do just fine, no matter what imbalances the six billion of us inflict on her. The Earth will adjust, but we may not. A reporter on NPR was talking to some fishermen in Japan, who have had to learn to cope with huge [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:08am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • A Cure for Blue Christmas

    Buy Nothing Day is a holiday tradition on the State House lawn. It happens on the day after Thanksgiving. Bring a coat if you have an extra, take one if you need one. Meet your neighbors and share some Christmas spirit. No lines. You can even sneak off to the [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:28pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • What’s Missing?

    It’s just a piece of pop culture trivia, that a poster for the American movie, ‘Couple’s Retreat’ had a British version, with the black couple removed. Actually, the movie looked like a woofer to me, so I wasn’t going to see it anyway. But it suggests an intellectual exercise. Look [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:22pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Seth MacFarlane

    Number of comments: 5
    I should be happy to see a local boy make good. I should be a fan. Or maybe not. I’ve heard that Family Guy can be pretty offensive. Maybe I’d be offended if I watched it. But I cannot. Everyone in it looks like Garfield. Garfield did not look like [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:50am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Carrie Prejean–Courtesan

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    So I’m surfing the web while waiting for my toenail polish to dry, and there’s more on Carrie Prejean, who Republican America saw as the next Anita Bryant. I think it was unfair to put her on the spot with a loaded political question while she was competing in a [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:40am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Concrete and Vinyl Siding

    Several years ago there was a man in my neighborhood who raised eyebrows by cutting down all the trees in his yard and paving it over. (It was in the area between Camp St. and N. Main, to the best of my recollection.) His landscaping was legal, but weird. Like [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:47am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Advent Season

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    The Christian holy season of Advent begins on Sunday, November 29. Perhaps the remedy for shopping frenzy is to look to the deeper roots of the Season. Marian Styles-Mc Clintock calls to us from the Christian tradition, with words of peace, goodwill, and kindness to the tired, pregnant stranger and [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:35pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Z Gallery

    How Federal Hill has changed. I drive up and down Atwells Avenue often, undeterred by the rumor that the Holy Hand Grenade is going to drop on an unwary driver someday. I hadn’t seen the night life for a while, and each elegant restaurant is more enticing than the last. [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:47am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Have Some Respect. Block, But do not Strike Clergy

    Number of comments: 4
    I’m agnostic most of the time, and atheist a couple of times a month, but I retain some old Catholic School training. If a nun should attack me now, I would block her, but not counter-punch. I think that’s more than fair. I’ll protect myself, but assaulting religious people seems [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:02am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Standing on the Side of Love

    Number of comments: 4
    Fortunately we don’t have a state religion, or religion by majority rule. Our Governor seems to misread his role and duty. The Catholic Church has his ear, and gives him its support, but the Bishop does not speak for all Catholics, let alone all Rhode Islanders, and there are other [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:00pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Politics

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    Happy Veterans Day to all who served, all their families and friends. May we find the way to peace. Happy Veterans Day to my Dad and Father in Law, and all the people I meet in elder care who have stories to tell. It’s off to work today. I’m watching [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:11am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Park Theater to Premier “Lumberjacking”

    Number of comments: 2
    Many of us have been waiting looooooong time for the restoration of the Park Cinema, and now it has finally come to fruition. From the Projo: CRANSTON, R.I. – The newly renovated and renamed Park Cinema (now the Rhode Island Center for Performing Arts at the Historic Park Theater) will present [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:17pm EST
    by Kiersten Marek

  • Park Theater to Premier “Lumberjacking”

    Number of comments: 1
    Many of us have been waiting Looooooong time for the restoration of the Park Cinema, and now it has finally come to fruition. From the Projo: CRANSTON, R.I. – The newly renovated and renamed Park Cinema (now the Rhode Island Center for Performing Arts at the Historic Park Theater) will present [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:17pm EST
    by Kiersten Marek

  • Blue Rhode Island

    I’m totally bummed. On the Happiness Index Rhode Island is 37th out of the 50 states. Not only that– if you drift over the border into Seekonk or Attleboro you enter a state that made the top ten. What could possibly make Massachusetts happier than Rhode Island? We have snotty colleges, [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:16pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Shooter Speaks–I’m Not Listening

    Number of comments: 5
    The news is that the Fort Hood shooter is conscious and speaking. Who cares what he has to say? It’s just another angry man who had access to guns buying himself instant fame with other people’s lives. I once saw a man in the IMH–he was lying on the floor [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:26am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Anti-Reform Protest

    Number of comments: 2
    Channel 6 had coverage of an anti-health reform protest outside the office of Sen. Whitehouse. There were about eight protesters. I have to say that the pro-reform demonstrations I attended all last month were larger, had a positive message, and more attractive signs. So there. [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:24pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • A Dirty Needle is a Loaded Gun

    I used to work in elderly high-rise buildings, and I’d urge the residents to be careful. Maintenance workers were getting stuck with discarded needles. This was earlier in the AIDS epidemic. A needlestick is a nasty injury now, but even more frightening then, because there was no prophylactic treatment and [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:45am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Here on the Ground

    Number of comments: 7
    I’m on this weekend, so it’s off to work today. I’m looking to see what will happen with health care reform here on the ground. The House has passed a bill, now it goes to the Senate for debate. It’s not the reform I would have chosen, given my first,second [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:40am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Max Cleland on the Forever War of the Mind

    Fort Hood has been in the news all today, on my radio as I drive from house to house visiting patients. It’s a tragedy I have no comprehension of, no way to make sense of. But the people who serve, who live on the bases, who suffer the wounds of [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:50pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Everyone Loves a Secret

    So I’m reading Margaret Atwood’s ‘Year of the Flood’,– a dystopia that is all too real. If Atwood doesn’t turn me vegetarian, she might at least put me off fast food. ‘Oryx and Crake’ had ‘chickie-nobs’. They looked like something deep-fried you would buy at the Colonel, and were efficiently [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:22am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Lunch at the Liberty

    Can’t complain. At least there’s eggs at the Liberty Elm Diner, with a sculpture show to feed the aesthetic sense. It’s nice to have a place to take a break. [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:21pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • No Answers

    As of this writing there are no answers to the violence at Fort Hood. Possibly three soldiers were involved in a shooting rampage, carried out without warning for reasons unknown. Why did they attack without provocation? And why does this keep happening? I don’t even know what to feel. Grief, [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:06pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Nomi’s Back

    Number of comments: 1
    At I Dreamed I Saw Grace P. Last Night. Welcome back to the blogging world, Nomi, we missed you. [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:57pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Doctors Hooked on Coke

    Number of comments: 1
    Should I have said, ‘hooked by Coke’? CHICAGO – Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation’s largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke. The American Academy of Family Physicians has prompted outcry and lost members over its new six-figure alliance with the Coca-Cola [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:48am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Author Smackdown–Margaret Atwood v. Ursula LeGuin

    Number of comments: 4
    Okay, not exactly the WWF. But LeGuin has some provocative takes on what constitutes science fiction. Actually, these two distinguished and prescient authors have nothing but good to say about each other. I just chose an inflammatory headline because I’m looking for attention. Visit our site. Often. [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:21pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • An Effective Vaccine

    So is cancer not only preventable, but even treatable, with a vaccine? That would be good news. The most promising tool of medicine is the human immune system. [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:56pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Not Worried about 2012

    Driving into Boston, up Rt. 93, you will see a huge billboard with no message except four numbers–2012!!!. Start screaming now! I love this stuff. Anyone remember the prediction that Comet Kohoutek would be ten times brighter than the sun? Probably you don’t, because the comet was a dud. But [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:10pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Barbara Ehrenreich on Positive Thinking and Vaccines

    The media thrive on a cycle of panic. They need to have a crisis to draw viewers. Readers who take the longer view will recall that the ‘swine flu’ has been a worry to scientists for about a decade. H1N1 and similar viruses have been circulating around the world, causing [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:33am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • The Loophole is Closed

    Number of comments: 1
    The Governor signed a law making prostitution illegal in Rhode Island, indoors or outdoors. I opposed this, but I hope I was wrong. I hope that Rep. Giannini and Prof. Donna Hughes and all those who conflated trafficking and prostitution are vindicated in their belief that this is the way [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:01pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Technically American

    Number of comments: 1
    Well, that’s a new one on me. This year’s New York City Marathon winner is American, but not enough to make us proud, according to Darren Rovell, CNBC sports reporter. He actually did use the term, ‘technically American’. Meb Keflezighi, who won yesterday in New York, is technically American by virtue [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:18pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Free Credit Report?

    Come to think of it, why should banks be allowed to maintain a secret ranking system of customers that they share with everyone but the customer? Isn't that kind of monopolistic? ' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:59am EST
    by ninjanurse

  • All Souls

    Number of comments: 1
    Almost a hundred years ago, a teenage girl named Constance Witherby died suddenly of heart failure while hiking in the Swiss Alps. Her bereft mother commissioned a sculpture and dedicated a small park on a quiet street near the Blackstone River. As the years passed, the neighborhood fell on hard [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:57pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Hope They’re Wearing Flame-Proof Vestments

    For the clergy to issue a statement, even a late and mild one, shows moral courage. They'll face criticism, but that's their job, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. ' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:25pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • El Dia de los Muertos

    In Pawtuxet. ProJo article here. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:39pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • El Dia de los Muertos

    In Pawtuxet. ProJo article here. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:39pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • The Panic of 2004

    Number of comments: 1
    Frightened people, elderly and those who had health conditions that would have made the flu very dangerous, were asking if I had any inside information, but there was simply no vaccine. The Chiron Corporation, one of only two manufacturers, had its plant closed down by the FDA. The vials were [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:45pm EST
    by ninjanurse

  • Why Deny It?

    The Governator is a tough-talking guy most of the time. I remember when he told the world he was going to beat those California nurses. They won. But he made a good try. Recently he sent a veto message containing an acrostic that Kmareka editorial policy won’t allow me to print [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:02am EST
    by ninjanurse
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