Elaine’s Place

Elaine’s Place is closed for vacation. Will be back in May

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Remember that cracked tooth and subsequent crown that happened a couple of weeks ago? I went for the permanent crown last week and since there were several indicators there was nerve damage the dentist put the crown on with temporary cement. Just in case I needed a root canal. Well I didn’t even make it [...]

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If you notice the post below (Stem cell)  it was clipped and I added it to my blog directly from the page I was reading. If you haven’t discovered clipmarks check it out. It works in Firefox and IE browsers. This is a great little tool for us blogger’s but even if you don’t it’s still [...]

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clipped from www.healthday.com Ignoring President George W. Bush’s threat of a veto, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to ease restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, the Associated Press reported.The bill would provide federal funding for research on stem cells from unused embryos at in-vitro fertilization clinics that would otherwise [...]

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There was a comment yesterday about adding an update alert. Acting upon that suggestion I added subscribe by email on the side bar. Just type in your email address and follow the prompt. You will only receive email when I update so it will not be every day. Hope this helps my MSN friends who [...]

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Well I am back in Michigan and the surprise party for my Dad was a great success! Talk about pulling off a surprise we sure did. He told me later as he was walking towards the table where we were seated he almost said to the lady standing, “you look just like my daughter.” When [...]

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Yesterday was airport day again to pick up hubby. Sheesh I do that drive so often wish I could put my car in automatic pilot mode. The weather here is still crappy. One minute driving through snow squalls and then clear, then back to snow. Suppose to be like this all of Easter Weekend. We [...]

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Can you believe another winter storm for parts of the country! This is getting ridiculous. Snow flurries on and off all day, temps at around 30 with wind-chill 18°! We’ve been under a high wind advisory since last night and the wind is still raging sucking every once of heat from the house.  And I thought [...]

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Today Forbes put out their  Top 100 worst cities for spring allergies 2007. Of course  due to the mild winter all the reports are saying it will make the allergy season a rough one.  If you want to see all 100 cities click on the Forbes link. Here are the top 10 for you.     [...]

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Two topics that we all care about (well most of us anyway). Protecting our health and the environment. There was a study released by Harvard Health Publications with a few tips we can follow to do both. Now obviously these won’t work for all of us but most of them will. 1. Walk or bike [...]

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