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		<title>2011/10/15 &#8211; Calgary&#8217;s Largest Oktoberfest Party &#8211; last chance for tickets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join 450 of your best friends at the Red and White Club for Oktoberfest, a party benefiting both the Huntington Society of Canada and the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. Where else can you have this much fun for only $25? Saturday October 15, 2011 6:30 p.m. &#8211; Doors Open 8:30 p.m. &#8211; The Ad Hoc Band goes on.  Yes this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curehd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8362832&amp;post=2253&amp;subd=curehd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help us make this blog better.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>2011/08/18 &#8211; Community Consultation on Affordable Housing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are invited by the Accessible and Affordable Housing Working Group of the Accessible Housing Society  to a community consultation promoting secondary suites as a housing option for persons with disabilities. August 18, 2011 1:30 &#8211; 3:30 p.m. CNIB 15 Colonel Baker Place NE, Calgary RSVP 403-242-6672 ext 123 The Accessible and Affordable Housing Working Group was created to function [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curehd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8362832&amp;post=2257&amp;subd=curehd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011/08/16 &#8211; HDSA Caregiver&#8217;s Corner webinar invite</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As there are some caregivers that are not attending the Caregiver Group here, I thought it would be good to make it available to people generally. The Huntington’s Disease Society of America invites you to attend a new Caregiver’s Corner webinar on TUESDAY, AUGUST 16 at noon EDT.  (10:00 a.m. Calgary time) The August Caregiver’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curehd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8362832&amp;post=2251&amp;subd=curehd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Shoulders of Giants&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie! Perhaps the most famous person to openly suffer from Huntington disease, Woody would have been 99 years old today.  Unfortunately, his life was cut short at age 55 by HD in 1967.  For those too young to know, Woody was an extremely popular, politically active singer-songwriter, best known for the song [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curehd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8362832&amp;post=2235&amp;subd=curehd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caffeine makes Huntington’s symptoms start earlier?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From HDBuzz Recent news stories suggest that Caffeine might be harmful to people with the Huntington&#8217;s disease mutation, while others claim that Cannabis might be helpful. Here&#8217;s the lowdown on the science behind these stories, and why we think that a third &#8216;C&#8217; &#8211; Caution &#8211; might be the best medicine when it comes to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curehd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8362832&amp;post=2247&amp;subd=curehd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Lou Nicolson Klimek letter to families and friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 5, 2011 Dear Friends, I’m sending this letter to let you know I will be ending my work as the HD Research Coordinator on July 31, 2011. It has been a rewarding 27 years working with you and your families. You have taught me so much as you shared your lives with me. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curehd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8362832&amp;post=2221&amp;subd=curehd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family curse.  BBC story on genetic testing for breast cancer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>To Test or Not to Test?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The May/June 2011 issue of Alberta Health Service&#8217;s Apple magazine includes an article by Dawna Freeman on genetic testing.  It features Tara Johnson-Ouellette&#8217;s journey through genetic testing for Huntington disease after her mother&#8217;s diagnosis. Here are a few excerpts: Genetic testing can reveal if you have one of the 3,000 genes linked to diseases. But the bigger question is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curehd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8362832&amp;post=2209&amp;subd=curehd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Step Toward Controlling Huntington&#8217;s Disease?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Johns Hopkins Medicine press release: Johns Hopkins researchers identify a potential new way of blocking activity of gene that causes HD Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a natural mechanism that might one day be used to block the expression of the mutated gene known to cause Huntington’s disease. Their experiments offer not an immediate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curehd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8362832&amp;post=2206&amp;subd=curehd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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