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face value: abandoned by the tide
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October 9, 2009. Abandoned by the tide. 8216;A kind of pleasure accompanies most of our appetites: we are enjoying either the memory of a past experience, or the expectation of a future one.’. All that was left of that September day was a photo. Two people lying on a beach. Bright blue sky. Sand in his hair, the breeze in hers. Tangled arms. Her fingernails painted. His eyes half closed. Red wine teeth. Skin on skin. He lay there as the wave receded. 8216;Many important realities are not easily reduced t...
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face value: questions in my eyes
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April 19, 2009. Questions in my eyes. Do you see the questions, the many question in my eyes? In my hesitant hand, reaching for yours? In my open invitations, in my cooking, in the telling of secrets? If I ask you, will you answer? Of course I’d only approach someone whose opinion i respect, whose life I admire, someone qualified to answer. someone who knows what they’re talking about, who knows me, knows whats up. Will you answer my questions? Do I do a good job, am I nice person? I see your answers....
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face value: escaping tomatoes
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May 6, 2010. Tomatoes. The frozen kind. Red hard cricket balls, expertly bowled towards me… as I carefully protect my wicket, dive desperately around the goal posts, keep my gloves up – swinging, guarding my face. It was a nightmare. I’m not sure when I got scared of tomatoes, (or when I started using sports imagery). Did one bash me on the forehead, or was it more of a slow bombardment? I even bought in extreme measures. Avoid the feeling by; researching it, write a report on it, talk about it. ...Such ...
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A Lands End to John o'Groats cycle via the Three Peaks
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A Lands End to John oGroats cycle via the Three Peaks. Ron and Neil on a Wateraid hillwalk in June 2005. The charities I was supporting. I undertook this event to raise funds for Water. A project he set up to help narrow the gap in access to resources between healthcare professionals in the developing and the developed world. Fraser, Ron and Neil on a sponsored ride for RedR in February 2010. Please visit these sites via the links above to see what it is they do. If you want to donate to redr. We would l...
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Global Health Report: April 2010
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Join longtime health journalist Christine Gorman in the search for what works, what doesn't and what needs to happen next in global health. Monday, April 19, 2010. Jobs: Global Health Reporter/Blogger in Seattle. Job posting in global health journalism. My friend Keith Seinfeld sent this along. He's part of a new venture being funded by a grant via the Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and channeled through a team at NPR. Here's what Keith writes:. It is based in downtown Seat...
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Global Health Report: November 2009
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Join longtime health journalist Christine Gorman in the search for what works, what doesn't and what needs to happen next in global health. Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Plumpy'Nut: Tabatchnick Takes On Nutriset. The debate over Plumpy'Nut and whether it should have been patented in the first place continues. Now US food company Tabatchncik Fine Foods is talking about creating its own peanut-based therapeutic food to feed severely malnourished youngsters. According to IRIN. And Tabatchnick. Who Pays for ...
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Global Health Report: India Blocks Use of Plumpy'Nut
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Join longtime health journalist Christine Gorman in the search for what works, what doesn't and what needs to happen next in global health. Wednesday, August 5, 2009. India Blocks Use of Plumpy'Nut. The Indian government has told Unicef to stop using Plumpy'Nut for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in that country over concerns about importing and becoming dependent on "foreign food." This is a separate issue from the patent controversy. That I have blogged about in the past. May be to use local...
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Global Health Report: Plumpy'Nut: Tabatchnick Takes On Nutriset
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Join longtime health journalist Christine Gorman in the search for what works, what doesn't and what needs to happen next in global health. Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Plumpy'Nut: Tabatchnick Takes On Nutriset. The debate over Plumpy'Nut and whether it should have been patented in the first place continues. Now US food company Tabatchncik Fine Foods is talking about creating its own peanut-based therapeutic food to feed severely malnourished youngsters. According to IRIN. And Tabatchnick. Im not sure w...
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Global Health Report: Nurses and the Web: Text For My Talk
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Join longtime health journalist Christine Gorman in the search for what works, what doesn't and what needs to happen next in global health. Wednesday, October 7, 2009. Nurses and the Web: Text For My Talk. Here is the prepared text for the talk I gave yesterday at the American Journal of Nurses conference in Chicago. The slides to go with it are available here. Nurses and the Web: Staking Out Your Territory as an Expert in Health Care. Oct 6, 2009. American Journal of Nursing conference. Providing contex...
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