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Entries from November 27th, 2009

Chinese food for Thanksgiving

November 27th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Aging & dementia

The good news was that we arrived well before lunch and found my dad sitting at a table with three other men in the third-floor common room of his nursing home. Small paper turkeys decorated the walls, signaling that Thanksgiving had arrived. There was a little sign on the table in front of him, a [...]

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Feline Friday: Post-Thanksgiving Cats

November 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Cats, Photographs

[note: for those who got an error message earlier, the link to today's felines has been fixed!] Here we are, the day after Thanksgiving, and our cats still haven’t had a taste of turkey. We’re not going to cook a turkey until Sunday, when my mother and sister will be joining us in Kaaawa. So [...]

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HMA/Summerlin to be EUTF “default” plan despite failure in two key mainland markets

November 27th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Politics

Nevadacare, a sister company of Summerlin Life & Health Insurance Co., the firm recently named to provide the “default” health plan to state-county workers in a controversial decision by the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, agreed late last year to stop doing business in Iowa based on allegations made by the Iowa Insurance Commissioner. [...]

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