Meg Wolff is a two-time cancer survivor (bone cancer and breast cancer) from Maine, an author and a macrobiotic expert.
Early life
Wolff was born in 1957 as Margaret DeCoste and grew up in Westbrook, Maine, a suburb of Portland, the second of five children.
Personal life
Wolff has been married to Tom Wolff since August 1982. They have two children, Francis and Cammie.
Cancer
At age 33, Wolff was diagnosed with bone cancer and had her leg amputated. She had a 4-year-old son, Francis, and a 6-month-old daughter, Cammie, at the time. Eight years later, at age 41, Wolff was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.
Wolff exhausted all conventional medical treatment - surgery, radiation, chemotherapy - but doctors gave her no hope. She learned that a macrobiotic diet based on whole grains, beans and vegetables might help and started eating this healthy way. After switching to this diet, her health started to improve.
Wolff has a website that offers help and support to anyone dealing with cancer, information about diet and health, inspiring survivor stories, links to helpful resources, and recipes. She also has a blog that is building a community of people all over the world who are interested in living a healthy life. Wolff teaches macrobiotic cooking and lectures around the United States.
Early life
Wolff was born in 1957 as Margaret DeCoste and grew up in Westbrook, Maine, a suburb of Portland, the second of five children.
Personal life
Wolff has been married to Tom Wolff since August 1982. They have two children, Francis and Cammie.
Cancer
At age 33, Wolff was diagnosed with bone cancer and had her leg amputated. She had a 4-year-old son, Francis, and a 6-month-old daughter, Cammie, at the time. Eight years later, at age 41, Wolff was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.
Wolff exhausted all conventional medical treatment - surgery, radiation, chemotherapy - but doctors gave her no hope. She learned that a macrobiotic diet based on whole grains, beans and vegetables might help and started eating this healthy way. After switching to this diet, her health started to improve.
Wolff has a website that offers help and support to anyone dealing with cancer, information about diet and health, inspiring survivor stories, links to helpful resources, and recipes. She also has a blog that is building a community of people all over the world who are interested in living a healthy life. Wolff teaches macrobiotic cooking and lectures around the United States.
OKC Lipo is a Cosmetic Surgery group based in Oklahoma that offers “lunchtime” or “awake” liposuction treatments. It is one of the Cosmetic Surgery practices in Oklahoma employed as a test market for numerous makers of liposuction equipment. OKC Lipo is an exclusive Midwest training center (OK, NM, CO, AR, NE, KS) for such manufacturers. Training on matters of safety, getting quality results, and effectiveness is imparted to other physicians.
History
A rising demand for the services of OKC Lipo caused the practice to shift to their sophisticated surgical facility, situated on the same area as that of Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates.
Medical Team
Dr. Miller
Dr. Miller received his medical degree from the Oklahoma School of Medicine. By way of Texas A & M, he finished a General Surgery Residency of 5 years duration, finally entering into the famous Scott & White Hospital, Temple, Texas as a Staff Surgeon (Trauma Surgery). This was followed by a year of training under Dr. Angelo Cuzalina in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dr. Miller’s mentor, for fellowship training specifically in Cosmetic Surgery.
Dr. Miller educates physicians from all over the US who handle Cosmetic Surgery. He delivers lectures nationwide on the different kinds of liposuction. He is board-certified in General Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgeons, and the Texas Medical Association. He is a prospective member of the American College of Surgeons. He has an affiliation with Leutronic Liposuction to provide special training in learning liposuction methods to regional physicians.
Dr. Nuveen
Dr. Nuveen possesses subspecialized fellowship training in Cosmetic Surgery. He possesses dental and medical graduate degrees, the former from a dental school considered to be the best in the US - University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, and the latter from the esteemed Case Western University School of Medicine. He did an extra year of general surgery at Penn State/Hershey Medical Center.
Dr. Nuveen is a global Cosmetic Surgery instructor and much of his professional life is spent in the Cosmetic Surgery training and instruction for physicians from different parts of the world. He has done research in rheumatology and immunology. The doctor’s practice is the biggest in Oklahoma having 5 locations. In addition, it has hospital privileges to perform all the doctor’s procedures within or outside the hospital.
Dr. Nuveen was taken in for a fellowship accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, in Cosmetic Surgery of the face and body in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Liposection
Liposuction is one of the most well-liked and safest procedures for body contouring in the world. Its popularity can be attributed to the fact that any surplus body fat (trouble areas) that does not get reduced despite doing exercise and watching food intake, can be easily, quickly, and permanently removed with this procedure. It also tightens loose skin, and helps to improve male and female body contours. Areas that can be worked on include the face, breasts/chest, hips, knees, abdomen, neck, ankles, upper arms, and thighs. Fat can be removed from one or multiple areas simultaneously.
Little incisions are made in natural skin creases or hair bearing regions. Following this, a special tumescent solution is introduced within the trouble areas to be a local anesthetic and control blood loss. A cannula that is connected to a suction machine by way of tubing is then used to get rid of the excess fat (now in melted form) from the particular fatty area(s). How long the procedure would take would depend on how much fat is involved and how difficult the process is for a particular patient. Results from the procedure are also variable. A compression garment limits surgical trauma, and helps with retraction of any flabby skin.
History
A rising demand for the services of OKC Lipo caused the practice to shift to their sophisticated surgical facility, situated on the same area as that of Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates.
Medical Team
Dr. Miller
Dr. Miller received his medical degree from the Oklahoma School of Medicine. By way of Texas A & M, he finished a General Surgery Residency of 5 years duration, finally entering into the famous Scott & White Hospital, Temple, Texas as a Staff Surgeon (Trauma Surgery). This was followed by a year of training under Dr. Angelo Cuzalina in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dr. Miller’s mentor, for fellowship training specifically in Cosmetic Surgery.
Dr. Miller educates physicians from all over the US who handle Cosmetic Surgery. He delivers lectures nationwide on the different kinds of liposuction. He is board-certified in General Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgeons, and the Texas Medical Association. He is a prospective member of the American College of Surgeons. He has an affiliation with Leutronic Liposuction to provide special training in learning liposuction methods to regional physicians.
Dr. Nuveen
Dr. Nuveen possesses subspecialized fellowship training in Cosmetic Surgery. He possesses dental and medical graduate degrees, the former from a dental school considered to be the best in the US - University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, and the latter from the esteemed Case Western University School of Medicine. He did an extra year of general surgery at Penn State/Hershey Medical Center.
Dr. Nuveen is a global Cosmetic Surgery instructor and much of his professional life is spent in the Cosmetic Surgery training and instruction for physicians from different parts of the world. He has done research in rheumatology and immunology. The doctor’s practice is the biggest in Oklahoma having 5 locations. In addition, it has hospital privileges to perform all the doctor’s procedures within or outside the hospital.
Dr. Nuveen was taken in for a fellowship accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, in Cosmetic Surgery of the face and body in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Liposection
Liposuction is one of the most well-liked and safest procedures for body contouring in the world. Its popularity can be attributed to the fact that any surplus body fat (trouble areas) that does not get reduced despite doing exercise and watching food intake, can be easily, quickly, and permanently removed with this procedure. It also tightens loose skin, and helps to improve male and female body contours. Areas that can be worked on include the face, breasts/chest, hips, knees, abdomen, neck, ankles, upper arms, and thighs. Fat can be removed from one or multiple areas simultaneously.
Little incisions are made in natural skin creases or hair bearing regions. Following this, a special tumescent solution is introduced within the trouble areas to be a local anesthetic and control blood loss. A cannula that is connected to a suction machine by way of tubing is then used to get rid of the excess fat (now in melted form) from the particular fatty area(s). How long the procedure would take would depend on how much fat is involved and how difficult the process is for a particular patient. Results from the procedure are also variable. A compression garment limits surgical trauma, and helps with retraction of any flabby skin.
jDnevnik (') is a Java EE blog and multiblog project. It is a customizable blog-system that can be used as personal blog, simple picture storage or corporate blog system. jDnevnik is freely distributed, sources can be accessible on http://jdnevnik.com site. It uses CDDL license, that is Open-Source approved.
History
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jDnevnik was started as a single-blog project, because old engine (Register, http://nudnik.ru/key/41) was not enough. After some time an idea of usual/corporate multiblog came, and jDnevnik was born. After a year of developing, Frank has won the first place on Russian Java Contest (http://javakonkurs.ru) in J2EE section.
jDnevnik can be positioned in many ways. First of all, it can handle single blog of a single man. It has interesting features, such as hierarhical categories, customizable design, files (images) upload, intergated aggregator, LiveJournal crossposting, etc. Next, it can be used as a multiuser/multiblog system. It has such thing as tree-view of blog system (and mass-editing/moving/removing feature), blog groups, UTF-8 support (different blogs can be in different languages), powerful permissions system and many more.
Finally, jDnevnik can be used as a corporate blog. It has a pluggable and highly extendible architecture (almost every feature can be extended), (expendable) workflow engine, entry types (standard types are: entry/bug/appointment/idea/todo/file/dictionary), wiki auto-links, dynamic blogs (something like stored search queries). Also, other features, liki permissions/users system, tree-view are good for the target.
Main features
* Multiblog system
* UTF8 support
* Many customizable parts (design, entry types, renderers, etc.)
* Typed entries (type defines an entry editor and its view)
* Full-text search (Lucene based)
* Import from LiveJournal and crossposting to LiveJournal (entries/comments/back crossposting comments)
* Wiki-style or HTML syntax
* Statistics
* Blog Groups
* Aggregates (feed collectors)
* Dynamic blogs (Dylogs)
* Objects Tree-view for easy administration
* Powerful permission system
* jFilter (powerful and fast strings filtering system)
* Many, many more features
Information
Homepage: http://jdnevnik.com
Author: Alexander Babaev, personal blog: http://exception.jdnevnik.com
History
right
jDnevnik was started as a single-blog project, because old engine (Register, http://nudnik.ru/key/41) was not enough. After some time an idea of usual/corporate multiblog came, and jDnevnik was born. After a year of developing, Frank has won the first place on Russian Java Contest (http://javakonkurs.ru) in J2EE section.
jDnevnik can be positioned in many ways. First of all, it can handle single blog of a single man. It has interesting features, such as hierarhical categories, customizable design, files (images) upload, intergated aggregator, LiveJournal crossposting, etc. Next, it can be used as a multiuser/multiblog system. It has such thing as tree-view of blog system (and mass-editing/moving/removing feature), blog groups, UTF-8 support (different blogs can be in different languages), powerful permissions system and many more.
Finally, jDnevnik can be used as a corporate blog. It has a pluggable and highly extendible architecture (almost every feature can be extended), (expendable) workflow engine, entry types (standard types are: entry/bug/appointment/idea/todo/file/dictionary), wiki auto-links, dynamic blogs (something like stored search queries). Also, other features, liki permissions/users system, tree-view are good for the target.
Main features
* Multiblog system
* UTF8 support
* Many customizable parts (design, entry types, renderers, etc.)
* Typed entries (type defines an entry editor and its view)
* Full-text search (Lucene based)
* Import from LiveJournal and crossposting to LiveJournal (entries/comments/back crossposting comments)
* Wiki-style or HTML syntax
* Statistics
* Blog Groups
* Aggregates (feed collectors)
* Dynamic blogs (Dylogs)
* Objects Tree-view for easy administration
* Powerful permission system
* jFilter (powerful and fast strings filtering system)
* Many, many more features
Information
Homepage: http://jdnevnik.com
Author: Alexander Babaev, personal blog: http://exception.jdnevnik.com
Riccardo Mortara (born May 3, 1947 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian aviator. On January 29, 2010 he will attempt to break the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the earth.
The record is currently 67 hours, one minute and ten seconds (held by Steve Fossett). Mortara has stated he will attempt the record in a 1980 Sabreliner 65 - a mid-size private jet which seats seven passengers. It requires a two-man crew to fly. The co-pilot on the circumnavigation mission will be Frenchman Flavien Guderzo.
Mortara is the proprietor of Sonnig SA, a private jet charter company with bases in Geneva, Moscow and Turin. He holds Italian, Swiss and French citizenship.
His father, Gregorio Mortara, was an Italian flying ace during World War II, and a recipient of the Silver Cross for bravery. In 1972, having completed university degrees in engineering, law and French, Riccardo began to fly, tutored by one of his father’s military colleagues.
Mortara played ice hockey for the Italian national team until he was 26, and raced a works Volvo 142 in the World Rally Championship between 1968 and 1971.
His son, Edoardo Mortara, races in Formula One’s feeder series, GP2, and won the prestigious Macau Grand Prix in 2009.
Mortara has two sons, Gabriel and Edoardo. He lives in Geneva.
The record is currently 67 hours, one minute and ten seconds (held by Steve Fossett). Mortara has stated he will attempt the record in a 1980 Sabreliner 65 - a mid-size private jet which seats seven passengers. It requires a two-man crew to fly. The co-pilot on the circumnavigation mission will be Frenchman Flavien Guderzo.
Mortara is the proprietor of Sonnig SA, a private jet charter company with bases in Geneva, Moscow and Turin. He holds Italian, Swiss and French citizenship.
His father, Gregorio Mortara, was an Italian flying ace during World War II, and a recipient of the Silver Cross for bravery. In 1972, having completed university degrees in engineering, law and French, Riccardo began to fly, tutored by one of his father’s military colleagues.
Mortara played ice hockey for the Italian national team until he was 26, and raced a works Volvo 142 in the World Rally Championship between 1968 and 1971.
His son, Edoardo Mortara, races in Formula One’s feeder series, GP2, and won the prestigious Macau Grand Prix in 2009.
Mortara has two sons, Gabriel and Edoardo. He lives in Geneva.