| What's Up 11/22
Free Thanksgiving meal. Eugene and Volanda Watts of Amen Ministries will sponsor their 15th annual free Thanksgiving meal at Holy Trinity Community Church on South Road Street, Elizabeth City, today from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The meal will include turkey, candied yams, string beans, stuffing, drinks and dessert. To help Amen Ministries sponsor the meal, call 338-2515. Libraries to close. All libraries of the East Albemarle Region Library System will be closed today through Saturday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Libraries will re-open on Monday. For more info, call 335-2511. Public Works department to close for Thanksgiving. The city of Elizabeth City Public Works Department will be closed today and Friday. Today’s and Friday’s trash routes will be picked up Monday, and Monday’s trash routes will be picked up Tuesday.
Smoking bans spreading in North County - Encinitas, Carlsbad are latest to investigate ordinances
NORTH COUNTY - At its beaches and parks, North County is becoming a tough place to be a smoker.Municipal smoking bans are accumulating like butts in an ashtray and now exist in half a dozen cities in the region from Del Mar to Oceanside to Poway. On the vanguard of such bans was little Solana Beach, a town that made national headlines in 2003 as the first city in the country to outlaw smoking on its shoreline. City leaders cited the dangers of secondhand smoke and the number of butts left strewn across the sand as reasons for the ordinance.Last week, the Encinitas City Council moved toward enacting a similar beach ban, and the Carlsbad City Council told its staff to return with information about smoking policies in other cities.The spread of such no-smoking laws has encountered little opposition in North County, but groups have formed elsewhere to trumpet smokers' rights.A leader of one such group said Friday that municipal governments were taking their anti-smoking crusade too far."It's not the cities' or the state's job to legislate how we live our lives," said Robert Best, who lives in Ventura and is the California representative for a group called The Freedom Alliance."We're not banning food on parks and beaches because of a littering problem," he said.
How the Old Firm pitched in to give fans a new lease of life
It was famously said that football was more important than life and death. For Rangers fan George Sanderson they go together. He is one of a number of supporters who owe their improving health to a pioneering scheme run with the backing of the Old Firm rivals Rangers and Celtic. For many years, the 59-year-old season ticket-holder at Ibrox would break up the stresses of his successful career in security management with a greasy treat from a burger van. At night, he confesses, he would rarely leave the couch after enjoying a large, home-cooked meal. .
FORTEO(R) Increased Spine Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis
Glucocorticoid therapy is the most common cause of secondary osteoporosis,(2) leading to bone loss and an increased risk for fracture. Data indicate that glucocorticoids are used by up to three out of every 100 adults (3 percent) over age 50,(3) and up to 50 percent of individuals on chronic glucocorticoid therapy will eventually have an osteoporotic fracture.(4) Glucocorticoids are prescribed to treat many conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and inflammatory bowel disease.(4,5) "Currently, there is a lack of variety in treatment choices for patients receiving chronic glucocorticoid medication who are at high risk for fractures," said lead investigator Kenneth G. Saag, M.D., MSc, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
Think For The Memories
I may need to change my long-term goal, which is to make it to retirement, at which time I'd planned to sleep late and loll around until 11, drinking coffee and reading the paper. If I want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, however, I may want to aim higher. Maybe I should work the crossword puzzle, too, and take up a cause — napper's rights? It seems that people with a sense of purpose stand a better chance of warding off the terminal brain disease. That's the conclusion of a study released this month by Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. People who wake up each morning with a sense of duty and dive into their day may increase the neural connections that protect them from the disease. Autopsies of some of the go-getters in the study revealed the same brain lesions that marked Alzheimer's sufferers, yet these people didn't show signs of dementia in life.
How To Beat The Flu Virus
SOME people call it the tenner test - the unscientific way of determining whether you have the flu or a common cold. Imagine you saw a £10 note lying in your garden. If you have a cold you'll go and retrieve it, but if you have the flu you'll say 'stuff it' and leave it lying there. Because if sniffing and sneezing characterise a common cold, bone-shaking shivers, pounding headaches and excruciating tiredness signify the flu. The cosy option of snuggling in front of the TV is not an option when the flu virus is coursing through your veins leaving you too ill to move and exhausted after waves of hot fever and cold trembles. Only those who have truly suffered the flu understand its debilitating effects - and they hope the rest of us never experience it.
Experts: Treat Employees Fairly
Respecting workers at all levels is the best way for workers' comp managers to reduce claims and costs. The voices were there as the best and brightest gathered Tuesday morning at McCormick Place to argue the merits and failings of workers' compensation management in the United States. Could you hear them?
By Dan Reynolds .
Marchand's the man
CANADA-RUSSIA CHALLENGE - Brad Marchand of Hammonds Plains scored in regulation and potted the shootout winner as the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League all-stars edged the Russian Selects 3-2 in the Canada-Russia Challenge last night in Gatineau, Que. .
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