Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 9, 2012, 2:31 pm
Alberto Contador has described the two-year ban handed down to him on Monday for failing a drugs test during the 2010 Tour de France as a 'terrible injustice' and plans to continue to fight to prove his innocence.  The Spaniard was found guilty of doping after testing positive for clenb...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 9, 2012, 2:23 pm
Detroit is slated to close down 16 public schools permanently by the end of the year and will have to convert another four into charter schools by this fall. Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts said that the schools are being closed because they are underused and children attending ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 9, 2012, 2:12 pm
 For more than a week now, the Oregon Legislature has worked on a bill to implement long-discussed health reforms, hoping to qualify Oregon for additional federal funding of as much as $500 million a year for the next five years. The money could help offset a roughly ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 9, 2012, 2:10 pm
Walmart has announced it is closing its store on West Brown Deer Road this fall, and will move to a bigger building at Timmerman Plaza on Silver Spring Drive. The bigger store means at least 50 new jobs, but it’s another hit for an already struggling area of Milwaukee. There seems to be a gr...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 9, 2012, 2:08 pm
Danske Bank A/S (DANSKE) will bring forward the 2,000 job cuts it’s planning as Denmark’s biggest lender steps up efforts to stay competitive with European rivals, Chief Financial Officer Henrik Ramlau-Hansen said. “The program will be a little bit frontloaded so we’ll take the major t...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 9, 2012, 2:07 pm
The Federal Reserve announced on Thursday that as part of the larger $25 billion foreclosure settlement agreed to by U.S. banks and states that it was imposing penalties totaling $766.5 million on five U.S. banks over their mortgage servicing practices. From: http://ping.fm/tRGYP
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 9, 2012, 8:23 am
48 people who work at McLeod's Loris Hospital and Seacoast Medical Center lost their jobs. A spokesperson for the hospital says the layoffs are partly due to cuts in federal and state funding of more than $2.5 million. The hospital also says a drop in patients because of the economic dow...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 9, 2012, 8:16 am
PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) plans to cut 8,700 jobs and boost marketing spending for its brands by as much as $600 million as Chief Executive Officer Indra Nooyi ... America, the Purchase, New York-based company said today in a statement. The job cuts represent about 3 percent of PepsiCo’s global workfor...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 8, 2012, 11:51 pm
TOM BOONEN SHOWING GREAT CYCLING FORM!  Tom Boonen extended his overall lead at the Tour of Qatar by winning stage four of the race in Madinat Al Shamal this afternoon. Boonen outsprinted Tom Veelers (1T4i) and Fabian Cancellara after Mark Cavendish missed out on the chance of replicatin...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 8, 2012, 5:33 pm
Aunque son muy diversas las biomoléculas que contienen energía almacenada en sus enlaces, es el ATP (adenosín trifosfato) la molécula que interviene en todas las transacciones de energía que se llevan a cabo en las células; por ella se la califica como "moneda uni...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 6, 2012, 11:31 pm
Sheeple: "People who don´t know and don´t want to accept that the banksters run the world." Source: xkcd.com
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 6, 2012, 3:25 pm
Militares Brasileños en las calles Tropas del Ejército asumieron el control del estado de Bahía, el cuarto más poblado y uno de los más turísticos de Brasil, a raíz de una huelga de la Policía Militar que duró cinco días y que desató una ola de violencia con 76 muertos, dijeron autor...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 6, 2012, 2:34 pm
As part of its exit from the business of originating home mortgages, MetLife Inc. will cut a total of 804 positions at two locations in Irving. The New York financial services company disclosed that in a Jan. 27 letter to the Texas Workforce Commission and Irving mayor Beth Van Duyne. &#...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 6, 2012, 12:45 pm
 "At least 44 people, including school children were killed today after a severe 6.8 magnitude quake hit the third-largest island in the Philippines and causing buildings to collapse and shutting down power supply. The quake struck about 70 kilometres from...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 6, 2012, 11:34 am
Despachadora de Gasolinería  Ya ni la amuelan, ahora se debe dar una "pequeña cuota" para trabajar en una gasolinera...?! El problema se presenta principalmente en el Valle de México por el bajo número de gasolineras, alta demanda de combustible y porque las personas en e...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 6, 2012, 9:30 am
Two months ago, Hillary told all Americans to get "immediately out of the 'dodge' known as Syria. Today, the request is formally an order, following an AP report that the US has just severed ties with Syria. ---US closes embassy in Damascus, pulls American diplomats out of Syria - AP Fro...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 5, 2012, 10:00 pm
México.- Con 86.7 por ciento de las casillas computadas, Josefina Vázquez Mota se perfila como la abanderada del Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) a la Presidencia de la República, y la tendencia es “irreversible”, aseguró José Espina, presidente de la Comisión Nacional de ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 5, 2012, 9:22 pm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Great Recession has dealt Nevada a losing hand. The Silver State, which will hold the Republican caucus on Saturday, has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in unemployment, foreclosure filings and share of homes worth less than the mortg...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 5, 2012, 8:42 pm
 La Confederación Nacional Campesina demandó al Gobierno Federal y a los empresarios rescatar a más de 8 millones de jóvenes que ni estudian ni trabajan y son presa fácil para engrosar las filas de la delincuencia organizada, ya que el 90 por ciento de la juventud en México...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 5, 2012, 4:46 pm
The video clearly shows a very wrong move by the motorcyclist, which was getting between the cyclist and his team car. The motorcyclist should never do that because he could cause a terrible accident for the cyclist. Mario Cipollini gets mad, understandably and throws his water bottles at the biker....
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 4, 2012, 9:59 pm
Free yourself, from within, your mind, your spirit, what you really are, what you really feel and think...just be and let go of fear. What is there to lose if you just try to be free, just for one day, if you give it a try you might find wonders and a sense of immense liberation, and the next ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 4, 2012, 12:17 pm
 Lance Armstrong has welcomed the news that the federal investigation into allegations of systematic doping at his former US Postal Service team has been closed. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Friday that the investigation had concluded without charges. No explan...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 4, 2012, 10:35 am
Finally, the truth is coming out: Ron Paul has been linked (with proof) to White Supremacist Groups, to the KKK and the White Nationalist Community. David Duke, Grand Wizard of the KKK (Google it)Paul's connections with racist supporters have been highlighted by the media in America. The Washi...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 3, 2012, 5:14 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Feb 03 - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation backed down from its decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion and birth control services, a move that had thrust the world's largest breast cancer charity into a deeply politicized controversy. &#...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 3, 2012, 10:25 am
Impala Platinum Holdings, LTD producer of about a quarter of global platinum, fired 17,200 workers after an illegal pay strike halted its Rustenburg mine, the world’s biggest for the metal. The number includes 13,000 employees who joined the stoppage, declared illegal by court order, after t...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 3, 2012, 9:48 am
CIGNA Medical Group is laying off 100 employees, including 15 doctors, and the health care company closed nine of its CMG CareToday clinics. In December, Cigna closed CMG CareToday clinics throughout the Valley, leaving only two open in Phoenix: one at Central and Adams avenues downtown, and a...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 3, 2012, 12:01 am
SEVEN-TIME Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong might be seeing action in the 2012 Xterra Philippines Championship Off-road Triathlon on March 18 in Liloan, Cebu. Cebu over-all coordinator Oscar Rodriguez said that Sunrise Events Chairman Fred Uytengsu, organizer of the ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 2, 2012, 9:34 pm
The Five Stages of Collapse Elizabeth Kübler-Ross defined the five stages of coming to terms with grief and tragedy as denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, and applied it quite successfully to various forms of catastrophic personal loss, such as death of a loved one, sudden ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 2, 2012, 7:43 pm
Image via Wikipedia In the face of increasing societal pressure to achieve bodily perfection, young men in particular sometimes turn to anabolic steroids to help them achieve the body they want. The health consequences of this choice are often overlooked. We describe two cases of se...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 2, 2012, 1:31 pm
January 31, 2012 — A new study strengthens the association of long-term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) with increased risk for hip fracture in postmenopausal women, particularly those who smoke. PPIs can affect fracture risk by increasing secretion of gastrin, inhibiting calcium absorpt...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 2, 2012, 12:49 pm
Buyouts and layoffs will shave more than 200 employees from Kennedy Space Center’s ranks during the next few months as post-shuttle downsizing continues. Prime shuttle contractor United Space Alliance, which has been cutting staff quarterly since before last year’s final shuttle missio...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 2, 2012, 12:43 pm
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Sumco Corp., a Japanese silicon wafer maker, said it will cut about 1,300 jobs amounting to 15 percent of its workforce as it withdraws from supplying solar panel makers following a plunge in prices for the raw materials. The solar wafer business is expected to incur a “s...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 2, 2012, 12:35 pm
The analyst talk was almost half right. AstraZeneca ($AZN) is sharpening its jobs ax for a new round of layoffs. But the number of jobs to be cut isn't 3,000. It's 7,300. Half of the cuts will hit sales and administration, with the other half divided between R&D (2,200) and operations (1,350). With ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 2, 2012, 2:58 am
In rural México, the number of holidays competes with the number of workdays to see which will find more space on the calendar. Not that the people don’t work, mind you, just that they like to keep hours at any given task as brief as possible, to maintain perspective. As...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 1, 2012, 4:43 pm
El diputado federal suplente, Pavel Díaz Juárez, fue detenido la madrugada de este miércoles por escandalizar en la vía pública y agredir a transeúntes, cuando se encontraba en completo estado de ebriedad. Elementos de la Policía Estatal condujeron al legislador a lo...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 1, 2012, 2:14 pm
Russian sprint cyclist Denis Galimzyanov could spoil Mark Cavendish's home Olympics, six-time Tour de France winner Erik Zabel has warned. Galimzyanov is the lead sprinter for Russia’s Katusha team, where Zabel works as a consultant, and despite his finish of 11th in ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 1, 2012, 1:11 pm
Image via CrunchBase A new report coming out of Germany says that International Business Machines Corp. is planning to cut 8,000 jobs out of its 20,000-plus workforce in Germany, according to sources from the company's management. Hours after IBM Corporation purchased smartpho...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 1, 2012, 11:47 am
BM steht in Deutschland ein massiver Umbruch bevor. Auf Dauer könnten hierzulande bis zu 8000 Stellen gestrichen werden. Viele Projekte sollen künftig extern ausgeschrieben werden. Ein Neustart für das Unternehmen. From: http://ping.fm/g20mK
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Feb 1, 2012, 11:21 am
Image by Getty Images via @daylife American Airlines may cut up to 15,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of its workforce, in an effort to cut costs at the struggling carrier, sources familiar with the situation told an NBC affiliate. NBC 5 reported Wednesday that the a...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 30, 2012, 4:29 pm
What happens if the country that invented the Olympics cannot afford to produce Olympic athletes? As this summer's London Games approach, that notion is causing great angst in Greece, where elite athletes are feeling the sting of austerity measures in the face of debt crisis. ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 30, 2012, 11:40 am
The writer below has good ideas about this topic, but I would add to it, sports, in my case, bicycling is my cheerful counterpoint activity to this modern day financial depression the world is going through. Recently a PhD student was talking about her anxiety building. (I’m not ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 30, 2012, 10:35 am
 (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Patients with head and neck cancers who have been treated with newer, more sophisticated radiation therapy technology enjoy a better quality of life than those treated with older radiation therapy equipment, a study by UC Davis researchers has found. The ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 30, 2012, 9:51 am
Corp said it will open its first outlets in India in August or September and plans to have 50 stores in operation by the end of the year in a joint venture deal with Tata Global Beverages. The formal launch of the company's retail foray into India comes a year after it signe...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 30, 2012, 9:27 am
 Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) shows an 8.7 per cent drop in applications to start courses this September compared with 2011. Figures show an 11.2 per cent fall in demand from European students – who must pay the same fees as British counterpa...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 30, 2012, 9:00 am
 BERLIN – In Greece, tax officials fly helicopters over residential areas to spot swimming pools of the alleged poor. In Italy, inspectors raid elite ski resorts to catch the down-and-out in their Ferraris. In Spain, taxmen snoop about homes rented to sun-seeking vacationers �...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 29, 2012, 10:49 pm
Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to welfare recipients? It may be hard to believe, but it is true. Right now, there are companies that are running advertisements specifically targeted at low income Americans informing t...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 29, 2012, 10:34 pm
While over the past 2 days there may have been some confusion as to who, what, how or where is demanding that Greece abdicate fiscal sovereignty (with some of our German readers supposedly insulted by the suggestion that this idea originated in Berlin, and specifically with politicians elected by a ...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 29, 2012, 5:32 pm
Image via Wikipedia Facing flat market shares and growing investor pressure to cut costs, Procter & Gamble Co.plans to eliminate about 1,600 "overhead" or nonmanufacturing jobs, including some in marketing, and is banking on digital marketing to help contain media spending long-term, executives...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 29, 2012, 5:31 pm
Image via Wikipedia The Aveda Store at the Hollywood & Highland Center shut its doors for the final time Friday. Hollywood Patch was told the store would officially close Friday during a recent visit. It is the only Aveda Store in Hollywood. It wasn't clear what prompted the c...
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Dr. Martha Castro, MD posted an article on LIVING STRONG AND HEALTHY BLOGGER - Jan 25, 2012, 11:24 pm
While there was massive attention last week to online anti-piracy bills -- SOPA in the House and the PIPA in the Senate -- ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, has received scant media attention yet poses a tremendous threat to online freedom. RT reports on how the ACTA treaty will w...
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