...And helllooooo San Francisco!

Yay, I get to go home!! I have been gone so long I feel like a visitor now. Well, really I am a visitor. I don't have a home; my brother took it. So I have to stay with him. I was talking to a friend last night and he said "so you go home and sleep on your own couch?" Well, really, that about sums it...

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Time to Pay Our Dues

Blog Location: On route to Vuda PointCurrent Position: Musket CoveCurrent Position: 17°46.2' S 177°11.3' EWe awoke early on Monday morning to begin preparations for our trip to Yadua Island. The first thing we needed to do was bottle the beer we had been brewing. We didn't want it to get all...

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Farewell Louisiana!

Well, the end is near.... I will leave Louisiana in about a week and never look back. Okay so maybe I will come back and visit the few locals that I have met while I was here.... And I will definitely remember the fun times that I had and great friends that I have met while I was here. And there were...

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Still in Naviqiri Village

Blog Location: Naviqiri VillageCurrent Location: Musket CoveCurrent Position: 17°46.2' S 177°11.3' EAfter the paw-paw bread disaster we decide to bring the village kids out to the boat. I shuttled people back and forth and we ended up with 30 people on board. Everyone wanted a photo taken and loved checking out the boat. They especially loved our electronic zapping fly swatter that says do...

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What actually goes on in New Orleans

Whaaat(?) really does go on in New Orleans these days? Well first of all, like they say, "what happens in New Orleans stays in New Orleans." Or is that Vegas? I can never remember. You can look at that statement a couple of different ways. First of all, I think that many people who are not in Lousiana...

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Men at Work (no, not the band)

Men at Work (no, not the band)Okay there are are all these old guys at work and if we do not know their names, we just make something up.For instance, there is "old guy smoking", who is ALWAYS out front puffing on a cigarette. And he is all wrinkled and grey and...always smoking. Hence the name. Then there is "curly q-tip". Well this has a background story though. A Q-tip is an old guy with white...

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uptown pub golf extravaganza!

PUB GOLF IN NEW ORLEANS: For those of you who have never played a round of pub golf, I recommend it! A couple weekends ago, we got about 20 people together to make up 10 teams of two, each with a caddie and a golfer (we switched at each bar). It all started at my house (the clubhouse) where we got the...

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Fat Rapid Loss Capsules (Xin Yan Zi Pai Mei Zi Jiao Nang), Canada

Health Canada is advising consumers not to use the following products listed in the table below due to concerns about possible side effects. These products are not authorized for sale in Canada and have not been found in the Canadian marketplace. However, it is possible these products could be purchased by Canadians travelling abroad or have been brought into Canada through personal importation by...

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Report Examines Legal Strategies To Reduce Obesity In U.S.

"Obesity -- The New Frontier of Public Health Law," New England Journal of Medicine: In their review of the legal strategies to combat obesity in the U.S., Michelle Mello, an associate professor of health policy and law in the [click link for full article]Report Examines Legal Strategies To Reduce Obesity In U...

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