Jo’s Cafe

WeekEnd Wrap of goings on at the Cafe and around the blog and world.

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While listening to the news this morning, the business person made a comment that this holiday season gas reaching $100 a barrel is of course weighing heavy on all consumers’ minds.
Uh?   Ah - I’m not thinking about that.  I’m worried about not being able to get the right gift for the SGM - and that Bubba [...]

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Welcome to the official kick-off to massive holiday shopping and planning.
Me?  I’m sitting my backside right here and am not moving out of the house except to maybe walk the dog.
My shopping is done on the internet:

QVC
Overstock.com
Barnes & Noble

Do you do Black Friday online?  Tell me where!  
How long is your list?   Thankfully mine is 1 - the [...]

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May today be filled with joy and happiness as you gather with your family and friends. Remember our soliders, sailors, airmen, and marines far from home this day and ask God to continue to watch over them and keep them safe.
I am most thankful for living in the United States of America - the greatest [...]

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The number of U.S. girls taking diabetes drugs more than doubled between 2002 and 2005, almost certainly because of rising obesity, researchers reported on Wednesday.Children of all ages are increasingly taking drugs originally formulated to treat adults with illnesses often caused by years of eating too much and exercising too little, the researchers told a [...]

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I have removed the November - Diabetes Month Sticky Post.  We are almost to the end of the month and think we all get the idea. 
I will continue the daily posts until the end of the month and then go back to the weekly Diabetes in the News posts.
Have a great day!

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These are the people that Harry Reid wants to stop paying. Even with that possibility hanging over their head, and recovering from wounds, they love their country enough to keep at it.

clipped from www.foxnews.com

An American soldier who was seriously wounded during a bomb attack in Iraq on Nov. 13 re-enlisted just hours after the ambush, [...]

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This is just a great feel-good story.  
From WISinfo.com
Terry Lee Rucks likely doesn’t have nine lives, but thanks to his cat, Shaggy, he didn’t have to find out.
Rucks credits his four-legged friend for saving his life Friday morning when he began slipping into what could have become a diabetic coma.
He awoke shortly after 1 a.m. Friday [...]

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Help - I’ve tried WP-Extreme Video and CoolPlayer and can’t get either to work. I don’t want to upload to my server and play from there, but play some from YouTube (have a great one for Christmas already).
HELP!! Who has what that works?
Figured it out … don’t need a plugin after all!

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I’ve been doing this since being told I was diabetic.  After much research, mainly on the About.Com Diabetes area, I decided that eating low and good carbs would be the best way for me.  Once I was stabilized on my medications, I found that “bad” carbs did more damage with my control than sugar itself.
Here are [...]

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