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How it ended in Miami

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from " Shaq Uncut: My Story," by Shaquille O'Neal with Jackie MacMullan. Copyright 2011 by Mine O'Mine Inc. Reprinted by permission of Grand Central Publishing. All rights reserved.

While I was rolling out my new clothing line in China, Pat Riley was busy sending us letters about our body fat. He had come up with some new and improved threats, but I didn't even open my letter. I knew I wasn't going to make my number.

Pat was concerned winning it all would make us too comfortable. And, to be honest, he was right. It did.

We celebrated a little too long and a little too hard. There were too many parties, too many commercials, too many celebrations. We lost our edge.

I showed up to training camp without any chance of making my target of 13 percent body fat. I wasn't the only one. Antoine [Walker} and [James} Posey both missed their target number and were suspended.

Source: ESPN

Call Me Webster

Words have been disappearing from my vocabulary; cooking, cleaning, shopping, laundry, gardening, exploring.....Now some of these, like cleaning, you might want to rub from your life,but I miss them. So I am redefining what they mean.

Cooking means spending the money for pre-cut meats and veggies. Letting go of the idea that it has to be from scratch.

Cleaning means investing in hand held power scrubbers for kitchen and bath. Pop up wipes and electric sweepers. Just don't look under my rugs...smile.

Shopping means online and home delivery. It does not mean getting the best deal at the lowest price...Letting go of that was tough!

Laundry means investing in a stackable unit for the main floor. Permanent press and "no iron" are my best friends.

Gardening means raised beds, soaker hoses and a garden bench. Digging in the soil is therapy and I refuse to give it up!...

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Why a Rolling Walker Can Help to Make Life Safer For a Senior ...

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Despite the amount of wheels, in using this type of mobility aid there will be lots of pushing much like what a person would do to a shopping cart due to the wheels as opposed to the approved walkers for seniors where what is needed is that the person will lift the walker to be able to use it.

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However, the request is: “Why do seniors need rolling walkers?” As age sets in many seniors will suffer from mobility problems due to arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, and other diseases that cause painful joints and muscles. Not only are diseases the culprit because definite medications such as: laxatives, antidepressants, and sedatives also sway their sense of balance more than the younger generations.

When the sense of balance is impaired in any way, what happens is that a person becomes more prone to falls. For the younger generation who has stronger bones, easy falls are not something to be afraid of but for the senior age bracket it’s a cause of concern since falls have the inherent of aggravating the conditions they already have.

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Rolling Walker exercises

March on Walker home caps day of recall activities

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Jan 01, 1970

"It's just a rolling cascade of events from here on out," he said. In addition to targeting Walker and Kleefisch, separate recall efforts were filed against four GOP senators: Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau, Pam Galloway of Wausau,

Ohio gets sanity ball rolling, Walker next to 'bounce'

Milwaukee Labor Press - Jan 01, 1970

Citizens left and right have clearly had it with seeing their families served up as piñatas to extremist attacks on the middle class, so they are moving to wipe away the gains of a rabid minority in 2010 and exercise the powers of intelligence and

How it ended in Miami

ESPN - Jan 01, 1970

While I was rolling out my new clothing line in China, Pat Riley was busy sending us letters about our body fat. He had come up with some new and improved threats, but I didn't even open my letter. I knew I wasn't going to make my number.