February 4, 2014 (CNN) -- The autopsy results aren't in yet, but police believe heroin played a role in the death of Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman -- if not the primary role. Using heroin can kill you, but it may not be in the wa ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 12:48AM
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February 3, 2014 After Saturday Night Live drew critiques from its African-American male cast members Jay Pharoah and Kenan Thompson, the show hired Sasheer Zamata as its first black female member since 2007. The most recent show's skit is one of the ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 6:27PM
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The last thing you want to do when you get home from a long day of work is to do more work. Some days are more stressful than others so make sure you try to unwind and relax a little before continuing with your evening routine. If you find it diffic ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 5:41PM
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Grammy award winning artist Jody Watley has been at the forefront of some of the most groundbreaking trends and movements in modern pop culture. Jody ranks as one of MTV’s most nominated solo artists for her video “Real Love” with 7 nominations ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 5:37PM
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In honor of Black History Month, I wanted to focus on pioneer Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926). She is the first black woman to study and work as a professionally-trained nurse in the United States.
Mary Mahoney worked for 15 ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 4:48PM
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Professors Abi Adegboye and Ibiyemi Dare have written a most fascinating account on how life is lived in Western Nigeria in the book, Owanbe! Yoruba Celebrations of Life. This superb “How-To” Manual details many aspects of Yoruba culture in a con ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 3:12PM
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Jan 20, 2014. Last week I worked a 12-hour shift at the medical surgical unit. I was on my feet all night and ran (actually, speed-walked) from one room to another, non-stop, answering call bells, cleaning poop, feeding patients, lifting patients, de ...
Posted Monday, February 3rd 2014 at 5:56PM
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All nursing professionals have felt compassion fatigue at one point or another. You know, that time when you know you should care and you desperately want to, but…you’re just plumb out of caring tickets.
So what can you do if you’re in a car ...
Posted Monday, February 3rd 2014 at 5:50PM
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Jennifer Hudson is denying that a comment she made about too much sex in today’s music was a diss directed at Beyoncé. “If you took my general comment and YOU singled out someone to apply it to, then that would mean that’s how u feel. Not me, ...
Posted Monday, February 3rd 2014 at 3:35PM
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Get the latest on your favorite stars like K.Michelle, who brought up her Grammy snub in a new song. Then get your first peek at Eva Marcille’s new baby, and find out what she Kevin McCall named their daughter. And just in case you missed Bruno Mar ...
Posted Monday, February 3rd 2014 at 3:20PM
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Oprah Winfrey. The award-winning media mogul, actress, philanthropist and cultural icon inspires so many people every day. Perhaps because we see so much of ourselves in what she represents: a very real person trying her hardest every day to live wel ...
Posted Monday, February 3rd 2014 at 3:14PM
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Hopefully you will turn the lights down low and have your baby come close to you on Valentine's Day. Don't forget the flowers, chocolate, cards, and bubbly. These are songs I heard played when I was a girl coming up. My mama and her sisters called ...
Posted Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 12:46PM
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The powerful voice. The attitude. The smile. All things that we recognize about Jenifer Lewis, even if we may not recognize her name. The well-known actress has been in many memorable roles and continues to thrill audiences. But after 17 years of th ...
Posted Saturday, February 1st 2014 at 2:42PM
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(CNN) -- It's a situation no one wants to be in: staring at the serene face of a loved one as doctors discuss ventilators, feeding tubes and EEG results, wondering whether this is what your mom or brother or spouse really would have wanted. The hear ...
Posted Saturday, February 1st 2014 at 2:11PM
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Oxnard, California (CNN) -- A few years ago, during one of his lowest points, Ronney Jenkins decided to play a game of Russian roulette. He pointed the metal barrel of a gun at his head, he said, as one ominous click followed another.
Eventually - ...
Posted Saturday, February 1st 2014 at 1:19PM
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January 29, 2014 (PORTER, Ind.) (WLS) -- Several police agencies searched Lake Charles in northwest Indiana last week for clues in the case of a missing Michigan doctor. Police said the search did not yield any results. Doctor Taleka Patrick of Kala ...
Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 10:59PM
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Your doctor worries about your high blood pressure because it can suddenly kill or cripple you through a stroke or heart attack.
But high blood pressure is even more insidious. It speeds up the aging of your body and brain – making you chronical ...
Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 7:16PM
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Florence, Italy (CNN) -- Amanda Knox vowed Friday to fight her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher "until the very end" and said she "will never go willingly" back to Italy.
Speaking on ABC's "Good Morning America," Knox ...
Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 2:05PM
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Humans are usually predators, but we can be prey. The people in a village on the Niger River in Africa were losing fellow villagers at a rapid rate, and called in the army, which shot a 7 m, 1200 Kg crocodile.
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Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 10:41AM
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Thursday that it would seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man accused of killing and maiming people with homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line last year.
The decision sets i ...
Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 9:44AM
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Overview Communication problems are as old as Adam and Eve. In this 6-session study, we will explore what the Bible has to say about the obstacles and solutions to communication, how to communicate love to our spouses, how to avoid miscommunication, ...
Posted Friday, January 31st 2014 at 9:29AM
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On Thursday, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that as of June 1, the lowest paid workers in that province will get paid $11/hour, a 75-cent increase from the current rate.
"Increasing the minimum wage will help improve the standard of living for h ...
Posted Thursday, January 30th 2014 at 9:38PM
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A secretive EU body has agreed to develop a device to be fitted to all cars allowing police to cut off any engine at will, it emerged today. Leaked paperwork has revealed the 'remote stopping' technology could be activated by a switch in a control ro ...
Posted Thursday, January 30th 2014 at 8:46PM
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Since giving birth to her second child in October, Halle Berry has been spotted just three times. But she made it a fourth on Wednesday, and looked absolutely incredible in the process as she unveiled her post-baby body. The 47-year-old returned to ...
Posted Thursday, January 30th 2014 at 8:26PM
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If people work 12 hour shifts and have second jobs, the issue then becomes when do you factor in down time? "Twelve-hours shifts is probably one of the worst things we ever did," she says. "It's thinking about doing things differently. [Nurse leader ...
Posted Thursday, January 30th 2014 at 8:03PM
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