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Rockin' On: the Blog: The United States is not healthcare nirvana.
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Sunday, August 9, 2015. The United States is not healthcare nirvana. A recent newspaper story. Introduced a young girl with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome to tens of thousands of readers across Ontario and possibly Canada. The story originated at The London Free Press. If you didn't see the story, you must be wondering "What exactly is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome? A little bit of quick, ballpark math says that a province with population of some 13 million. Must contain about 2600 people touched ...
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Rockin' On: the Blog: July 2015
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. A must read for those concerned with the state of journalism. The Sad Story of Canadian Geographic. Former employees say the nature magazine became a paid mouthpiece for oil companies and others. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Pizza that adhers to Weight Watchers guidelines. This thick layer of artichokes, sweet peppers, mushrooms and pepperoni is sitting a a pizza. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Tasty can be healthy. But as someone who regularly enjoys Mediterranean cooki...
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Rockin' On: the Blog: November 2014
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Don't believe The London Free Press; Get a flu shot. It is interesting to note the headline was changed on the online story. A lot of people do not get a flu shot. They don't believe in them. They argue: Flu shots can't be trusted; Flu shots don't always confer protection. And now my local paper, The London Free Press. Other medical experts, not employed by Sanofi Pasteur, have called the new flu shot a mild improvement. Why is a 25% improvement, as re...
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Rockin' On: the Blog: Can food be art?
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Sunday, June 21, 2015. Can food be art? Can food be art? A piece in the New York Times. Widely quoted on the Internet, states unequivocally that beautifully prepared and presented food is not art. I beg to differ. Taking my inspiration from R.G. Collingwood, I have no problem calling some food creations art. For a short summary of Collingwood's work in aesthetics please read the entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The creation of a new food dish is, in the beginning, a...
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Rockin' On: the Blog: Pizza that adhers to Weight Watchers guidelines
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Pizza that adhers to Weight Watchers guidelines. This thick layer of artichokes, sweet peppers, mushrooms and pepperoni is sitting a a pizza. DrOetker pizzas often go on sale. One can pick up the doctor's four cheese pizza for just under three bucks. My wife and I like to stock-up whenever we get a chance. We use these pizzas for the base on which to build our own Weight Watcher friendly pizzas every Tuesday night: our Pizza night. Share this on Twitter.
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Rockin' On: the Blog: August 2015
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Saturday, August 29, 2015. Seniors are not embracing downtown living en masse. How truthiness is spread by the media. Image edited in Photoshop. There is a myth, almost an urban legend, that aging baby boomers in high rise apartment filling numbers are forsaking their suburban homes to relocate in city centres. My local paper. Tells me the move to downtown is "typical of what's happening in other cities." But is it typical? Joel Kotkin wrote in Forbes / Business. A promoter of downt...
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Rockin' On: the Blog: Tasty can be healthy
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Tasty can be healthy. Not a fine photo but it was a fine dinner. Maybe I'll get a better shot next time. I don't recall how I discovered Elena Paravantes' blog Olive Tomato. The star of this dinner was potato gnocchi. At a little over 100gms per portion, the gnocchi contained only four points. It was boiled until it rose to the top of the bubbling water. After a minute it was removed using a slotted spoon. Meanwhile the small tomatoes were fried in a little ...
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Rockin' On: the Blog: April 2015
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Monday, April 27, 2015. The Twilight Zone: PD Day style. This illustration is wrong. Can you see why? It seems Barbie should not have been ridiculed for admitting she found math class tough. The Barbie doll making the confession was yanked from the shelves and the offending words banished from her vocabulary. Now, it is clear that the Ontario Ministry of Education along with quite a number of teachers in London, Ontario, are also befuddled by math. Unfortunately, the illustration is...
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Rockin' On: the Blog: Pluck must be partnered with a moral compass
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Pluck must be partnered with a moral compass. According to Larry Cornies. Canadians have become "weak-kneed." We lack "political pluck." Cornies writes. My, but what weak-kneed nation builders we’ve become. Forget all that. These days, the prospect of merely reforming and renewing the upper chamber of our bicameral parliament is enough to make us cower like frightened turtles. I learned Sir John A. Macdonald was a shakedown artist. A plucky shakedown ...Was c...
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Rockin' On: the Blog: February 2015
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Rockin' On: the Blog. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Mesclun greens and fruit make a great salad. Between my wife going to Weight Watchers and my granddaughters spending an inordinate amount of time at our home, our fridge had filled with oodles of fruit and other healthy stuff. My heart and stroke doctor would approve no matter what the cause. I'm sure he'd tell me to just get imaginative and eat the stuff - and I did. Dole mesclun mix - lots. 1/4 of a small, red onion diced into large pieces. Conducted a ...
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