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Reach for More Fruits and Veggies on Heart Association’s Eating Healthy Day

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MPH, RD, chair of the American Heart Association’s nutrition committee, said in a statement. “If Karen Aspry, a cardiologist and member of the AHA’s Rhode Island Board of Directors, said in a statement. Johnson, Ph.D., If you devote one day to healthy eating, you will know you can do it again and learn to enjoy it.”.

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Inked: Librarians Show Off Tattoos to Raise Library Awareness

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The Rhode Island Library Association is getting people talking with its new 2014 calendar featuring librarians and their tats. Try challenging a stereotype like the Rhode Island Library Association, which recently released a calendar of tattooed librarians. “It Want to get people talking about your industry?

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Oakland Warehouse Fire: Sprinkler Group Pledges Renewed Legislative Push

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The Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act, first introduced in Congress after a deadly 2003 blaze at The Station, a Rhode Island night club, would allow building owners to deduct costs of installing sprinklers—up to $125,000 in a single year. Both occurred in large, enclosed venues while an event was taking place.

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Association Blasts Medicare for Paying Unlicensed Prosthetics Providers

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The American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Pedorthics reports that 15 states currently have certification laws: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

Reid All About it

A few years ago, on a visit to my aunt in Rhode Island, I was inspired by the bean salad she made, so I developed my own recipe with additional inspiration from Our State It’s been a Fourth of July tradition ever since—a tradition made even more meaningful because the Fourth is my aunt’s birthday. Would fresh clams be better?