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Obviously a shower needs to be early enough just in case baby comes before the due date and to leave time to get things set up and purchase items that we still need.
But, if you're like me with a due date at the beginning of February (mine's the 1st), this ideal time runs right into end-of-the-year holidays!
So, when is everyone planning on having their shower!? (Especially if your baby is due at the first half of the month.)


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War Tragedies Strike Families Twice
MILLTOWN, N.J.—One night in March 2008, William and Christine Koch opened their front door to see two soldiers in green dress uniforms bearing news that their son, Army Cpl. Steven Koch, had been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.
Two years later, Mr. and Mrs. Koch opened the door to see two police officers in blue. This time, they learned their daughter, Lynne, brokenhearted over her brother's death, had killed herself with an overdose of prescription drugs.
"She is a casualty of this war, and I don't care what anybody says," Mrs. Koch said. "If my son was not killed, my daughter would be here."
The military tracks suicides among the troops. The Department of Veterans Affairs studies self-inflicted deaths among people who have left the service. Nobody collects data on suicides among the parents, siblings and spouses of the more than 6,500 Americans killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But anecdotal evidence from military families, support groups and suicide survivors suggests that over the past 11 years of war, the U.S. has experienced a little-recognized suicide outbreak among the bereaved. This second round of tragedy often takes place years after a loved one's death, when the finality of the loss becomes inescapable.
"We've all had the idea of suicide at one time or another," said Nadia McCaffrey of Tracy, Calif., whose son Patrick died in an ambush in Iraq in 2004. She said she personally knows a half dozen military parents who have killed themselves.
To learn more about war grief, researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a federal institution in Bethesda, Md., are recruiting 3,000 people to participate in a first-ever U.S. study of bereavement among families of those killed on active duty.
"We don't know whether or in what ways military-service deaths—combat-related, accidents or suicides—differ from similarly sudden or violent civilian deaths in their impact on bereaved family members," said Stephen Cozza, a psychiatrist involved in the research.
The violent and faraway nature of combat death—often following months of dread—may make it harder to accept for those left behind, said Bonnie Carroll. She founded the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, or TAPS, after her husband, an Army general, died in a 1992 plane crash.
"To have someone come to the house and deliver this devastating information that you'd never see them again is impossible to absorb," Mrs. Carroll said. In her grief after her husband's death, she found herself taking high-speed, late-night drives along the Alaska coast, as if daring herself to join him.
"When you lose a loved one, death is very real," she said. "It's at the forefront of your every waking thought. It seems as if you just yearn to be reunited with your loved one."
War's Wake
Earlier stories about the human toll of war.
- When the Fighting Stops (12/1/12)
- Students Rediscover Fallen Soldiers (10/12/20)
- Marine's Death Unites Father, Friend (9/22/12)
- Under Attack: A Routine Patrol Becomes a Harrowing Firefight (6/12/12)
- For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War (2/4/12)
- See the Full Series
The U.S. military assigns a casualty-assistance officer to families in the wake of a combat death, to help secure insurance payments and other benefits, and also to steer survivors to emotional help. Widows and children can retain their military health insurance, which covers antidepressants and psychiatric services. Since 2003, VA Veterans Centers also have offered counseling to all surviving family members.
"Support for our family members does not stop," said Marine Corps spokeswoman Maj. Shawn Haney. "It is always there and available if they want or need it."
TAPS and other private organizations offer grief camps for children, peer counseling groups for parents and spouses, as well as telephone hotlines.
Since April, seven family members of deceased service members have called TAPS in apparent suicide crises, the group said. Then there are the family members who either don't seek help or are immune to its consolations.
Jo Beth Brookshire, age 71, suffered from depression even before her 36-year-old son, Maj. Sid Brookshire, died in a bomb attack in Iraq in 2007, an example of how a combat death can be a final blow in an already-troubled life.
Soon after her son was killed, Ms. Brookshire guzzled vodka, swallowed a bottle of Excedrin PM and walked into the ocean at Laguna Beach, Calif. The surf beat her back to shore and passersby pulled her to safety. She survived two more attempts over the following years.
"I had a hard, hard time with life after Sid died," Ms. Brookshire said. "I've never loved anybody like I loved Sid."
Each year, roughly 12 out of every 100,000 people in the U.S. kill themselves, according to 2010 data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. No similar accounting exists for military families.
Mrs. Koch, who has wrestled with despondency since Steven's combat death and Lynne's suicide, said, "Nobody knows what goes on behind these closed doors of our house."
Lynne had a history of suicidal thoughts and mental-health problems, including bipolar disorder, according to medical records. She saw a therapist while a teenager, her mother said, but recovered her cheerfulness when she went to college.
As the eldest of three children, Lynne was a "little mom" to her brothers, Steven and Billy, her parents said. After college, she became an estimator at the electrical-contracting firm where her father worked.
Billy, the middle child, was a student at Pace University in Manhattan and on Sept. 11 watched as terrified office workers jumped to their deaths from the upper floors of the World Trade Center.
The terror attacks motivated Steven to enlist. He was 23 and five weeks from the end of his combat tour when an insurgent drove a truck filled with explosives into a building where his unit was resting. Mrs. Koch, a 55-year-old oncology nurse, had been telling patients that her son had called to say he was coming home soon.
When the uniformed soldiers came to the door, Mrs. Koch hit one of them on the shoulder each time he started to say, "We are sorry to inform you…"
"You have the wrong the house, you have the wrong soldier," she recalled screaming at him. "You misidentified. My son is coming home."
Lynne spoke at the dedication of a black-marble memorial to her brother at their elementary school, Our Lady of Lourdes, in Milltown.
"When once a sunrise meant so many new beginnings, it now rises to merely blossom what's left of the flowers at the ending of a season," Lynne said. "I find no glory in this sunrise, no comfort. I find no hope in this new day. My brother is gone."
Still, for more than a year after Cpl. Koch's death, Lynne sought refuge in the fantasy that Steven was alive in Afghanistan. She "worried she would 'fall apart'…if and when she allowed herself to acknowledge fully that Steven was dead," according to a therapist's report.
The bubble burst in 2009 when she wrote in an email to Mrs. Koch: "Mommy, I finally realize Steven isn't coming home."
During that period, she was on antidepressants, antipsychotics and other medications, her records show. She spent days in tears, chanting, "I want my brother," Mrs. Koch recalled.
In September 2009, the therapist became concerned about Lynne's "suicidal thoughts," although Lynne revealed no plan to kill herself, according to medical records. At the therapist's suggestion, Lynne's boyfriend delivered her to Hackensack University Medical Center, where, according to her mother, she stayed for about a week.
On May 6, 2010, Lynne emailed her parents: "I love you very much."
Mr. Koch was worried enough by the note to give her a call. Lynne assured her father she was fine and talked him out of making the hourlong drive to her home in Wayne, N.J., he said.
Lynne, then 29 years old, had been preparing her death for weeks, her mother believes. She left notes for her parents and Billy. She described where she wanted to be buried. On her bed she laid out the black gown and diamond necklace she wanted to wear. Then she swallowed a lethal mixture of medications.
At 2:20 in the morning, Mrs. Koch stood on the stairs as the two police officers talked to Mr. Koch. At first she thought they said Lynne had overdosed and was hospitalized. Then she saw the ashen face of one of the officers.
"Wait a minute," she said. "Are you trying to tell me my daughter is dead?"
"Yes, ma'am, I am," the officer said.
Mrs. Koch dropped weeping to the floor.
Earlier this year, Mr. and Mrs. Koch filed suit against Lynne's psychiatrist, nurse and pharmacy, alleging they were negligent in the care they provided her at a time the medical team should have known she was suicidal. The defendants deny the allegations.
"I don't know where we stand either, the three of us who are left," Mr. Koch said. "We're on the same line that she stood on. Hopefully you never cross that line like she did."
By early September 2008, George Vaughan thought his wife, Debra, was finally recovering. She laughed more than she had in the 17 months since their son, 20-year-old Michael Vaughan, had been killed in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq. She volunteered to help train search-and-rescue dogs.
He said he now realizes she was apparently relieved to have made her decision.
The senior Vaughans met in the Army in 1987. He is fully disabled from his service in the first Gulf War; she was in military intelligence and then worked at the post office in Lincoln City, Ore. They signed the papers when Michael begged them to let him enlist at age 17. He became a scout in the 82nd Airborne Division.
The military advised the Vaughans not to view Michael's body. But Mrs. Vaughan rushed the casket to make sure it was her son inside. Mr. Vaughan went after her, and together they saw their son's head, wrapped in gauze, like a mummy. The funeral director took a photo of the crucifix tattoo on Michael's arm to assuage his mother's doubts.
Michael's death "just crushed Debra," recalled Mr. Vaughan, 50, who lives in Otis, Ore. She built a shrine in her son's bedroom—flags, medals and military tokens in an oak-and-glass cabinet. Mr. Vaughan discovered later she didn't take the antidepressants her doctor had prescribed.
On Sept. 27, 2008, the couple attended an event honoring veterans, where Mr. Vaughan was scheduled to speak. Mrs. Vaughan, 42 years old, left early, saying she wasn't feeling well. He returned home to find his wife's car gone.
When he reached her cellphone, she was at the cemetery in St. Paul, standing next to Michael's grave. "George, I love you," she said. "If I'm unsuccessful, I don't want life support."
He heard the gunshot. Debra's ashes are buried in Michael's grave, held in a wooden urn with a brass plaque that reads: "Rest in Peace with Mike."
Those who try and fail to take their own lives provide vivid insight into the motivations of those who complete suicides. Some talk of wanting to join lost sons or brothers. Others seek relief from anguish.
Scott Warner said he was numb for the first 18 months after his son, Pvt. Heath Warner, was killed by a hidden bomb in Iraq on Nov. 22, 2006. The remembrance ceremonies that accompany a military death helped keep the pain at bay for a while.
"The challenges of trying to work, hold the family together, the reality of Heath's death—my emotional reserves began to deplete," said Mr. Warner, 49 years old, from Canton, Ohio. "It was like part of your heart was torn out of you."
He would come home from work, go to his bedroom and mix booze and pills. The nadir came in 2010, when he and his wife learned that Heath's body may have been mislabeled or misplaced at Arlington National Cemetery.
Mr. Warner went to Arlington for the disinterment of the body in his son's grave. "That sent me over the edge," he said, "because I had to look at this decomposed body." Mr. Warner could only tell it was Heath from the tattoo on his arm.
"I don't know how to describe the darkness," he said. "It was unlike anything I'd ever felt before." Four years after Heath's death, Mr. Warner took a handful of drugs and washed it down with gin.
He survived the night, and awoke to a gradual realization that his son would have wanted him to live. "You have to make a choice, either I'm going to live for the living or I'm going to stay living for the dead," Mr. Warner said.
Lance Cpl. Alex Arredondo's father, Carlos Arredondo, was painting his fence in Hollywood, Fla., when a Marine van arrived in 2004 to deliver the news that his 20-year-old son had been killed by a sniper.
"I was begging God to wake me up from this bad dream," Mr. Arredondo recalled. He tried to shoo the Marines off his property, but they decided to stay until his wife, Melida Arredondo, came home to comfort him.
Before his wife returned, Mr. Arredondo grabbed a hammer, a five-gallon can of gasoline and a propane torch from the garage. He smashed the Marine van's window, climbed inside and splashed gas around him, soaking his socks, pants and shirt. Then he ignited the torch.
The blast blew him out of the van. Ms. Arredondo, Alex's stepmother, arrived at the house and found her husband in flames. The Marines and others managed to put out the fire.
"It was this crazy moment I wasn't expecting," said Mr. Arredondo, 52 years old. "There are no scripts for how I'm supposed to handle all of this." He suffered burns on a quarter of his body.
A separate notification team had gone that day to the house of Lance Cpl. Arredondo's mother, Victoria Foley, age 47, in Norwood, Mass., where the Marine's 17-year-old brother Brian was living. Brian learned of the death and then saw his father burning on cable TV news.
Alex's death hit Brian hard. He dropped out of school, fell into drug use and got in trouble with the police. In March 2011, he threatened officers with a machete, saying, "Shoot me, shoot me," according to his parents. He landed in a psychiatric hospital and then in jail.
On Dec. 19, 2011, Brian hanged himself in the shed outside his mother's house. He was having girlfriend problems, and criminal charges were still pending. His father and mother said Brian's downward slide began when his brother was killed.
"He really didn't want to live after he lost his brother," said Mr. Arredondo.
Mr. Arredondo and his 47-year-old wife were hospitalized in 2010 for "rampant depression," Ms. Arredondo said. Mr. Arredondo is considering checking in again. Ms. Foley, Alex's mother, said she thought about suicide this year. Now, she said, she feels distraught but stable.
Marie Coon's suicide in 2009 followed two years of despondency over her stepson Jimmy's death in Iraq. Ms. Coon, formerly a welder in the Air Force, couldn't forgive herself for failing to talk him out of joining the Army, family members said.
"She thought it was her fault that he got killed," said her husband, James Coon, age 55. "She kept blaming herself even though he was 21 years old when he went in."
Ms. Coon, who sewed wedding dresses for a living, had a turbulent life and was estranged from two other children from previous marriages. She discussed killing herself, said her mother-in-law, Helen Hurd, who lived with the couple at the time.
Her sister, Cindy Gattenby, said Ms. Coon visited a psychic to communicate with Jimmy and make sure he didn't blame her for his death.
"I spent the last nine years doing things for his benefit and basing decisions on how it would affect him," Ms. Coon told the psychic in a recorded phone session months after Jimmy's death. "Now I don't know what to do or where to go."
With her marriage unraveling, she left her home in Paradise, Calif., and moved in with a Southern California couple who had also lost their son at war.
On Mother's Day, 2009, Ms. Coon, 48 years old, taped up the windows of her pickup truck and lighted two hibachi grills in the front seat. She crawled into the back seat and waited for the carbon monoxide to kill her.
The note she left behind said she was going to be with Jimmy. Tattooed on her arm was a portrait of him with the caption, "A mother's love is forever."
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The proposal to build a covered stadium on the outer harbor faces long yardage.
The National Football League called the developers' game plan into question Tuesday, as the proposal landed with a thud in front of several key lawmakers, the Buffalo Bills and the county executive.
The developers – who want to build a 72,000-seat, retractable-roof stadium that would double as a convention center – assert that getting an option on waterfront property from the city and working with Dallas-based HKS, the foremost football stadium builder, would gain the NFL's endorsement and ensure that the Bills stay in Buffalo, even without the team's participation in the project.
But Brian McCarthy, an NFL spokesman, said that it doesn't work that way.
"We haven't considered a proposal without club support," McCarthy said.
The Bills have shown no interest in the proposed stadium, nor have they been approached. A Bills spokesman said the team is focused on continuing talks with county and state officials to renovate Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park and extend its lease.
Meanwhile, politicians cast doubt on the wisdom of putting a stadium on the outer harbor, which is beginning to spring to life after decades of inattention.
"Obviously, an innovative idea requires a rigorous public discussion, but I think the waterfront is the wrong place for this," said Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo. "A stadium is not water-dependent or water-enhanced. People have been denied access to the waterfront for 50 years, and those days are over."
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz said that limited infrastructure at the site makes the proposal a nonstarter. "There are several problems … such as a lack of space needed for parking, distance from the downtown core and insufficient road infrastructure – particularly in bad weather – to accommodate the thousands of fans heading to the site."
Mayor Byron W. Brown took an arms-length approach to the proposal, even as he applauded the developers for their initiative. "I think many of us in Buffalo would certainly love to see a domed, retractable stadium in downtown Buffalo somewhere, but it's premature to say that this is something that could be a reality," Brown said.
"What is real is the ongoing lease negotiations with the county and the state and the Bills organization."
Nicholas J. Stracick and George F. Hasiotis, development partners in Greater Buffalo Sports & Entertainment Complex, say the mixed-use project will cost a total of $1.4 billion. They say a public-private partnership would be necessary, with the state kicking in about $400 million.
Stracick said he has spent $250,000 on the project, including the cost of a preliminary site plan developed by HKS.
The developers haven't attempted to measure what the public wants on the outer harbor. Jill M. Jedlicka, executive director of Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, said the stadium proposal should be reviewed within the planning process already in place for the outer harbor. She also suggested that it should be considered part of a larger vision for the waterfront.
"Through this process, the outer harbor has emerged as a high-priority area to retain permanent public open space, and a proposed development should respect the community's desire," Jedlicka said.
Members of the Common Council's Community Development Committee listened to the developers' proposal Tuesday and asked about its practicality – from where people would park to what the tailgating experience would be like.
"I think big ideas are great things," said Fillmore Council Member David A. Franczyk. "The notion of a big plan and a big idea is excellent. I'd love to see the Buffalo Bills back in the City of Buffalo, where they used to be."
Franczyk said that he was encouraged that Rochester-based Strong Museum has shown interest in building a North American Museum of Sports and Culture but that the project would need support from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Higgins and Poloncarz.
Council President Richard A. Fontana, of the Lovejoy District, said the project could be "very exciting" for the waterfront. "I think before another penny is spent on the stadium in Orchard Park, this idea should be fully fleshed out," Fontana said, adding that the proposal would need to have the Bills and fans onboard.
Niagara Council Member David A. Rivera raised doubts about access to the outer harbor, saying that there are many questions in need of answers. But he also offered praise for the developers' "vision, passion and wanting to keep the Bills here."
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A Swedish word, which in English translates to "the Queen". Word typically used when referring to either Silvia Sommerlath (the German bride of King Carl XVI Gustaf), Victoria (eldest daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf), or Cortney Blohm, a Swedish born girl (currently living in America) who is a queen in her own right.
Pronounced "Draw-t-ning-en"
Pronounced "Draw-t-ning-en"
"Dude, who's that girl over there?"
"That's Cortney, but we all call her Drottningen."
"That's Cortney, but we all call her Drottningen."
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Hang on. A rebound is close.
Hang on. A rebound is close.
Much higher milk prices are about to arrive for beleaguered dairy farmers.
by Dennis Halladay, Hoard's Dairyman Western Editor
It's easy to be pessimistic when times are as bad as they are this year. It's also easy to focus on dark clouds so hard that you don't notice when a glow finally appears on the horizon.
Not only is a glow already visible, it's about to get brighter in the form of $20+ milk prices that should last for a while.
Class III futures for fall and winter months are already soaring. On May 1, prices for the second half of 2012 averaged $15.80 per hundredweight. On August 10 they averaged $18.73 and every month from September to January was over $19. Dairy forecasters tell us they expect some individual months to go $2 or $3 higher.
A few key factors will dictate how high they go and for how long, but they will go up for one simple reason: Less milk.
The drought and heat stress will continue to take a toll on cow health, production and reproduction. In addition, some degree of situations that are already occurring may continue until next summer:
• Tight feed supplies, even higher prices, producers cutting back on ration quality and cows making fewer pounds of milk per day.
• Dairies running out of feed, being unable to borrow more from lenders and being forced out of business.
• Even higher cull cow prices after the beef industry's current drought-driven surge leaves the supply pipeline, which will encourage even more dairy cows to be culled.
The net result will be fewer cows, less milk per cow, less total milk and higher milk prices.
There are, however, some caveats to this rebound scenario, including:
• In order for $20 milk prices to help, dairies have to hang on until they arrive. Not all of them will.
• Because feed prices are already at record highs and could rise even more, will $20 milk be enough for producers to break even?
Breaking even doesn't mean making a profit. It may mean surviving another near-fatal market down cycle, but is it enough to encourage dairies and their lenders to keep on going?
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ROCKFORD — AnnDee Nimmer, Sarah Hale and Erin Hughes won the Women's Shark Tank Competition held Feb. 19.
Nimmer received first place for her business RoomTagz. Hale was first runner-up with her business idea Ashes Aquatic Custom Ceramics. Second runner-up went to Hughes for her invention, Adjust-A-Slice.
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One Saturday Steve, Levi and Brian were looking for some action. With only one female present they decided to give her the triple trippler.
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What Is Conjunctivitis?
What Is Conjunctivitis?
Conjunctivitis is an irritation or infection of the membrane that covers the white of the eye and the inside of the eyelid (conjunctiva). It can affect one or both eyes. The membrane swells and the blood vessels dilate (enlarge), making the eye red. That's why conjunctivitis is sometimes called red eye or pink eye.
What Are the Symptoms?
If you have one or more of these symptoms, see an eye doctor:
Redness in and around the eye
Eyes that are puffy and sore
Itching, burning, or stinging eyes
Watery eyes or discharge from the eye
Eyelids that are crusty or stuck together when you wake up in the morning
Prompt treatment helps prevent damage to your eyes.
How Is It Diagnosed?
Conjunctivitis usually isn't serious. But some more serious eye diseases have similar symptoms, so it's important for an eye doctor to diagnose you. Your eye doctor will ask about your symptoms, any medications you take, and any illnesses or medical conditions you may have. The doctor will also check your eyes with a hand-held light and a special microscope called a slit lamp.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - With more than two decades of experience, Rainbow Printing and Office Supply has seen plenty of technological changes through the years.Now offering everything your office could ever want, from paper to a selection of pens, Rainbow Printing has a full service print shop as well.The store, owned by David and Mark Tavener, opened in 1988 and currently has two locations, in Incline Village and Reno. While the Reno store handles faxes and online orders, the Incline Village shop has an inviting and friendly storefront.Rainbow Printing and Office Supply started out as a printing shop. At the time, Mark Tavener was working as a serviceman for copiers and printers. After working on the machines for years, he asked his brother, David, one day if they wanted to be in business together, with a copy and printing store."That's just how it happened," David Tavener said of the store's simple history.The shop, which has been in its current location for the past two years, offers a full range of printing capabilities, including color posters."If you can imagine it, we can print it," said Linda Bell-VanDelinder, who has worked at the store for 11 years.The store accepts online orders as well as faxes for printing. Bell-VanDelinder explained that files are sent in a universal format (mostly PDFs), where they are downloaded then printed to the customer's wishes."(Orders) come in and go right back out the next morning," David Tavener said of the process, now expedited thanks to technology.Using the Internet also opens the store up to new customers, Bell-VanDelinder explained. Often, customers who are traveling to Tahoe for business will email documents to the shop ahead of time to have them printed and delivered (which Rainbow Printing offers free of changer) to various meeting spots.With various $20,000 machines to use, Rainbow Printing offers a range of services that other stores cannot match. One of these services is the ability to make copies of blueprints, David Tavener said."We try to accommodate people with anything they need," Tavener said.Recently, the store set up an office furniture showroom, allowing customers to see various pieces of furniture in an office environment. This project has been two years in the making, Bell-Vandelinder said.While Tavener explained that the biggest sellers are various print cartridges, the store has also begun selling art supplies. From brushes to canvasses to oil and pastel paints, the business has found that these items are big sellers.Tavener explained that when ordering, the store looks out for fun and different office supplies, including things for children to use as well, such as colored pencils, crayons and sketch pads.Rainbow Printing and Office Supplies makes a point of being involved in the community, often printing posters for various events - but also in a more unusual way as well."We call it Popcorn Friday," Bell-VanDelinder said.Every Friday, the shop fires up its popcorn machine for customers - or community members who are hungry - to grab a quick snack, free of charge."That's the fun thing about working here - every day is a different day," Bell-VanDelinder said. "No two days are alike."Bell-VanDelinder added that while the store has a variety of supplies, if a particular item isn't there, staff will order it online. Rainbow Printing also has a community bulletin board, for residents and businesses alike to use to post information."It's not just customer service, it's personal service," Bell-VanDelinder said.
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Christmas marks the culmination of weeks of preparations, including shopping for presents; setting up of decorations and trees; and the enjoyment of parties, parades, and song and dance. The dreams of sugar plums dancing have passed; presents are being opened today. "Silent Night," "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "The First Noel" are being sung or played. Maui families have or will be attending one of the many Christmas services around the island that mark the birth of Jesus Christ in that manger in Bethlehem halfway around the world. It has become the season of giving as well, as Mauians have brought some joy to children and families in crisis by purchasing gifts or dropping some loose change into a Salvation Army kettle. Here are some photos from Christmas season 2012.
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Santa landed on Maluaka Beach on Christmas Eve as part of the Makena Beach & Golf Resort's "Here Comes Santa Claus" event. Santa, also known as Kip Larson, arrived by speedboat, accompanied by his elves, resort workers. Once on the beach, he did a Gangnam-style dance before moving to a cabana for picture-taking with children. Joining his dance were hotel employees (from left) Rie Takahashi, Javin Santos, Kate Cheng, Emma Zhou, Marc Sim and Gwen Taft.
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Being clever and funny, making funny quips off the top of your head. Witty people are clever and cool. Hang out with them.
He is so witty... I think I am in love.
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A relativly cool person, who can think of clever, but not particulary rude or offensive, funny comebacks on the top on their heads, making people laugh, not annoyed.
You find very few people who are genuinly witty..people just try too hard these days to be funny.
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is when someone make a quick intellectual remark relevant to a situation
Robert is hilarious with his witty comments.
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having clever thinking;sharp, funny quips at randomly inappropriate times;Claire Bertram
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A term used in reference to being intoxicated.
"Let's get witty."
"(John)'s not up to going out today; he got really witty last night."
"(John)'s not up to going out today; he got really witty last night."
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A girl who is a bitty that has potential to be your wife.
That girl is not just a bitty, but she could be your witty.
Ashley is witty material, but Shelby is just a bitty.
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The Randolph County Sheriff's Office has released the name of the truck driver who wrecked on Country Club Road late Wednesday night.
Matthew Ray, 24, of Elkins, was driving a 1997 black Ford pick-up truck south on Country Club Road at approximately 11:33 p.m. when he veered left of center and drove off the left-hand side of the road, Randolph County Sheriff Mark Brady said Thursday. The truck struck an embankment before colliding with a utility pole, where it came to a rest, Brady said.
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The Randolph County Sheriff's Office is investigating a wreck that occurred on Country Club Road on Wednesday night. Matthew Ray, 24, of Elkins, was the driver of a 1997 black Ford pick-up truck that went off the road into an embankment. Ray was transported to Davis Memorial Hospital and the truck was deemed a total loss.
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Brian K. Fullum had contended violations of the Ohio Minimum Fair Wage Standards Act, retaliation, a hostile work environment, retaliatory constructive discharge and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
A jury trial had been scheduled for Dec. 18, but the defendant filed a motion for summary judgment.
Pike ruled Graham is an elected official, not a political subdivision. The complaint was filed against the coroner both professionally and personally, not the coroner's office. Therefore, Pike wrote Graham is presumptively entitled to protection under statutory immunity.
"There is no allegation by the plaintiff that Dr. Graham ever acted maliciously, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner or outside the scope of his official duties and responsibilities, all of which are exceptions to immunity doctorine," Pike wrote.
Fullum, who worked as a coroner's investigator, claimed he was forced to resign because Graham created a hostile work environment after Fullum raised concerns about the number of hours he was required to work compared to his compensation. The lawsuit was filed in November of 2011.
A second lawsuit filed by Susan Bennett in May is still pending involving the former coroner's office secretary's claims of illegal retaliation by Graham after she brought up allegations of professional misconduct by him. An investigation by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation into the misconduct allegations cleared Graham of wrong doing.


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Among the thousands of runners in Monday's Boston Marathon, 13 were from Bend, two from Redmond and one from Madras.
We talked Monday night with Jennifer Myers, the "Marathon Mom" from Redmond who crossed the finish line only about five minutes before the blast.
Her words capture some of the confusion, terror and panic following the explosions.
"Run Like a Mother," it said on her racing shirt, with signs of support for "Team Jen," and "Hot Mama."
But a day of joyous triumph soon turned frightening.
"The first (blast) went off," she recalled, "and we all kind of looked at each other, and it was kind of like, 'No, it couldn't be -- and then we heard the second one."
Having reunited with her husband, Stefan, a block away, they hoped it was just noise from construction.
"It wasn't until we saw the police just start barreling past us that we realized it was something else," she said.
From the thrill of finishing a life-long goal, to the frightening scenes now familiar from our TV or PC screens.
"We couldn't get out fast enough," she said – and yet they couldn't.
The bridge back to their car was closed. Subways were shut down. And calling for help also was impossible.
"They shut down cell service for a while," Myers said, "so we couldn't call out, and we couldn't get calls."
But a friend's relative came and picked them up -- their hotel room in Boston empty, their car still there.
Facebook gave them a chance to tell everyone they were lucky ... they were safe.
Still, the scenes of the day were now an unsettling memory.
"I had seen all these faces cheering us on, giving us medals, telling us we did a great job," she said. "And you just think about those people, and you're wondering if they're okay."
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North Tahoe was scheduled to host South Tahoe on Tuesday. The girls game was postponed. No information was available about the boys.
The Lakers play at Incline on Thursday.
Starting this season, for the first time ever North Tahoe and Incline will enter a separate small-schools postseason involving only the Divisions III and IV, despite playing against Division I-A schools in their competitive Mount Rose League pod.
The NIAA's power rankings system for the DIII/DIV tournaments is clearly a work in progress. The system used to determine the seedings somehow had the Incline and Whittell boys tied for the No. 1 seed as of Monday, with power rankings of 1.5 apiece (despite Incline defeating Whittell in both league meetings). With Incline's loss at Sparks on Tuesday, the Highlanders fell to a No. 2 seed behind Whittell.
The North Tahoe boys, meanwhile, are currently a No. 4 seed and are not guaranteed a playoff berth, while Yerington, which North Tahoe defeated 7-1, owns the No. 3 seed. North Tahoe has a power ranking of 1.06 to Yerington's 1.21. White Pine, which North Tahoe defeated 7-1 during the season, has a power ranking of 0.90. If White Pine beats Battle Mountain and Lowry and North Tahoe fails to win one of their final two games against South Tahoe and Incline, then White Pine would move into the No. 4 seed and the Lakers would be eliminated from the regional tournament.
On the girls side, Incline holds the top seed with a 1.78 power ranking, Whittell currently has the second seed with a ranking of 1.76, Pershing County is third at 1.42, North Tahoe is fourth at 1.29 and White Pine is fifth at 1.15. North Tahoe defeated Pershing County 2-0 and White Pine 5-0 during the regular season.
Incline will host the Northern Division III/IV tournament Nov. 2-3. Check the NIAA website for an updated bracket.


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Bart wakes up and thinks to himself, "dang, i dont have any money still" so he leaves his wallet at home on purpose and later says to his friends, "Whoops, I forgot my wallet today again, could you please buy my lunch again?" what a bottom feeder.
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A person who has more or less failed in life and is at peace with it.
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term used to describe the boomerang child who returns to the family home to take up adult residence in the basement
Carl finished college and immediately assumed the position of bottom feeder.
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The absolute lowest and filthiest form of life, that is so much of a scumball that every living and non-living peice of matter would benefit from it's/their death.
Clint is such a bottom feeder that he was walking down the alley next to the trashcan and got hungry. When he leaned in to grab some shit infested day-old throw-up, not only the flies flew away, but the trash can grew legs and ran away!
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A person of relative affluence who has achieved little on his own, and is only where he is because of the advantages that his family pampered him with. While this at times can be okay, the bottom feeder fails to acknowledge this fact due to an emotionally abusive childhood, and maintains an obtuse arrogance and indifference towards everyone around him who has to work for a living.
Frank is such a bottom feeder. Had he grown up on the mean streets of Detroit he'd be such a crackhead for his herd mentality and immaturity.
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A lazy, drunk, pot-smoking loser who can't hold down a job or keep a lady. A bottomfeeder is used to sucking dry everyone he knows for his own benefit. Extremely worthless & non-handy, this person wouldn't know a how to fix his own ass if it were broken. Usually the product of consentual-incest or rape, this person is angry and hostile for the conditions in which he was raised - yet unwilling to pick his fat-ass up to change it. Always unable to admit that his surroundings are fuct and his family are crackheads and simply all-out 'unintelligent inbreds'. 9 times out of 10 his Mother is a controlling cunt who thinks she is God.
Dude, that Duane Alcorn is one hell-of-a Bottomfeeder. What worthless Fuck!
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16 July 2008, 05:45
by Eloisa Romero, JICA NGO Desk Local Coordinator
Tree planting at the Lagud Village Learning Inn in Barangay Uhaj, Banaue. Eloisa Romero from JICA (wearing black, on the left) and Jephonie Himiwat (right) attend. (JICA)
Japanese volunteers with JICA and IKGS in the Philippines, Kiyoko Okamoto (left) and Kozue Kamijo (right). (JICA)
Makati City, The Philippines:
Jephonie Himmiwat is an Ifugao, one of the indigenous people in the northern Philippines. Her people and their land are inseparable, thus both are called by the same name, Ifugao.
The Ifugaos are known for building the rice terraces carved on the high slopes of the Cordilleras. So impressive are these rice terraces, created over 2,000 years ago, that they earned the distinction as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995. As the Ifugao's source of life and art, the rice terraces have sustained and shaped them as a community. Hence, Jephonie's life, like everyone else around her, revolves around work in the farm.
In Japan, two women enjoyed a very different upbringing. Twenty-three-year-old Kiyoko Okamoto spent four years as staff at the Mister Donut chain while she was studying international economics in the city of Fukuoka. Thirty-year-old Kozue Kamijo worked part-time in a restaurant while attending a business school in the Japanese capital.
Chance brought these two different cultures together, amidst the backdrop of picturesque Ifugao rice terraces and the problems of the people tending to it. For behind the splendour of this man-made wonder lies a more mundane truth – many of the villagers are extremely poor and their children need better and more easily accessible education.
Jephonie, for instance, must walk several kilometres from her modest home to the nearest schoolroom and must always balance time for studies with farm work to help her family. If she is lucky she will finish high school and "hopefully go to college". But she has nine brothers and sisters wishing the same thing. Her father died in his sleep a few years ago, leaving her mother to work in the farm and fend for the family alone.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Kiyoko Okamoto and Kozue Kamijo are helping her try to fulfil that dream. The women gave up the office jobs they had secured in Tokyo to do volunteer work in the Philippines through a Japanese non-governmental organization (NGO), the International Keeping Good Sannan (IKGS).
JICA teamed up with IKGS to help Jephonie and other young boys and girls from the same community build what they called the Lagud Village Learning Inn in their hometown in Barangay Uhaj, Banaue. The two Japanese volunteers have been working with the youngsters at the education centre. The Lagud Village Learning Inn is a cluster of traditional Ifugao houses, perched on the top of a hill with a panoramic view of the mountains and rice terraces that lie around it.
The local teenagers study about their own Ifugao culture, plant trees to protect the rice terraces and welcome visitors who stay at the centre and participate in local activities.
This is where the skills that the Japanese volunteers learned in food service in Japan come in handy, in the Philippine uplands where they teach the young boys and girls how to serve and entertain their visitors. They also helped design a website and brochure to promote the centre, which has begun to generate a modest amount of revenue from accommodation and food charges.
Gains from the project are earmarked to help send some community members to school. This year, the project sends three of them to college. Jephonie eagerly looks forward to her turn.
Yet the learning and teaching process is always a two-way street. "We learned from them, too," the two Japanese volunteers said, referring to some of life's important lessons that the local people have taught them along the way.
While they helped several children go for further education, the volunteers learned how to cook without a rice cooker, wash clothes without a washing machine, and generally how to live in a simple society, in an environment totally removed from their own.
"These young kids can do a lot of things on their own: they can get firewood, carry heavy things across the rice fields, they even helped in constructing Lagud - its walls and ceiling and tables! And for that, we respect them greatly," the two volunteers added.
The experience has helped them become more independent and confident women, geared for adversities back home in Japan or wherever their future in volunteer work will take them.
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In the 2009 Hennen's American Public Library Ratings, Douglas County Libraries ranks first nationwide among libraries serving populations of 100,000 to 250,000. Ratings are based on statistics collected from nearly 9,000 public libraries measuring 15 factors.
In response to decreased funding, the Douglas County Libraries Board of Trustees implements budget cuts and belt tightening efforts:
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• Douglas County Libraries retires its Bookmobile.
• Louviers Library expenditures are cut roughly in half.
• Library materials budget is reduced by $275,000.
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The Oregon-California Trails Association recognizes the work of the Douglas County History Research Center at Douglas County Libraries with a prestigious Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contributions to the preservation and protection of historic emigrant trails. The DCHRC is home to an important collection of aerial photographs documenting the presence of the Cherokee/Trappers' Trail in Douglas and Elbert County.
The Douglas County Libraries Contact Center achieves a 97% satisfaction rating in a survey run on that department. In November, the Contact Center also assists the Elections Department to provide better and faster service to Douglas County citizens, while pooling resources and saving costs.
Old friends and new gather for the book launch of the Perry Park Story, a reprint funded by Douglas County Libraries Foundation that documents the community's story from the beginning to present.
Castle Pines Library opens in November. Fundraising efforts garner 300 new donors and $25,000 in pledges. Thousands participate in fundraising events that raise nearly $12,000. More than 900 people attend a grand opening celebration, after the facility is made ready in just eight weeks from start to finish.
Libraries inspire people like Dr. and Mrs. Robert Sullivan and Mrs. Verna Daughenbaugh, whose generous donations to Douglas County Libraries Foundation fund children's department renovations at the libraries in Castle Rock and Parker.
Parker Library is remodeled with no closures and minimal interruption to patron services. The result is a new entry and beautiful new children's area.
The Louviers community rallies against the odds to keep its library open. Citizens raise nearly $18,000 to help cover operating expenses.
Douglas County Libraries launches new and informative blogs including DCL Book Chat and Bottles2Backpacks.
Douglas County Libraries and eight Douglas County Schools participate in Battle of the Books for the first time.
Fifty new Book Start volunteers are trained to read to children in Douglas County childcare centers. They bring early literacy activities to nearly 6,700 children per month.
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The man accused of telling police he had a Molotov cocktail in the state Capitol was charged Wednesday.
Kvon Smith, of Milwaukee, was arrested hours before Gov. Scott Walker's State of the State address.
Police in Madison were tipped off to the case after someone posted video on Facebook, narrated by Smith, showing pictures of the explosive devices.
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"Bam!", "in your face", and "hell yeah", all at the same time. A term that self-congratulates, describes excitement, lets others know the magnificence of the celebration as well as the superiority of the user, and is used as an exclamation of those ideas.
Say "booya!" when you play a trick on someone or beat them at a game, or prove your superiority to others.
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While much of Hollywood is suffering from the flu, Barbara Walters has come down with the chicken pox.
The View host was hospitalized after injuring her head in a fall during inauguration festivities. She was transferred to a New York hospital late last week and remains there with her new infection.
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UNIVERSITY PARK - One day, Cole Chiappialle was home with his mom in Beaver Falls.
The next day, Chiappialle was getting a call that she was gone.
"It was very unexpected," said Chiappialle, whose mother, Kim, was just 53 when she passed away of apparent natural causes on March 9, just as the rising sophomore from Blackhawk was about to begin spring practice with the Penn State football team. "It's still something I'm overcoming and battling every day.
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Cole Chiappialle, whose mother died last month, points to the sky after scoring a touchdown for the Blue team.
"She was my biggest fan. She called me after every game. She'd say, 'I saw you on TV.' She was definitely a big part. She only got to one game last year, but she watched them all on TV and called me after every game."
With his mother there in spirit serving as inspiration, Chiappialle, a preferred walk-on, went out and put forth as noticeable an effort as anyone in Saturday's Blue-White Game. The bowling ball-like 5-foot-8, 211-pounder rushed for 63 yards on nine carries and scored a pair of touchdowns in the Blue's 37-0 victory at a picturesque Beaver Stadium before an estimated 72,000 fans.
No one else in the game ran for more than 22 yards.
"It was big [to have a game like this]," Chiappialle, affectionately known as "Chip" to his friends and teammates, said. "I had a little moment to myself before I went out. I was going to play hard for her, which is what I've been doing every day. But I really wanted to play hard for her.
"It's something that really drove me this spring."
The rest of the Nittany Lions were happy to see Chiappialle get to enjoy some time in the spotlight.
"Chip is a hard-working guy. He comes to practice every day. He works hard. He doesn't talk back. He does what he's supposed to do. I really respect that guy," said starting receiver Geno Lewis. "For him to come out here in the spring game and for it to all pay off for him is just a blessing. I think the Lord must have just gave him the opportunity, and he's flourishing."
The loss of his mother is just the latest and hardest exercise in overcoming adversity for Chiappialle (pronounced chip-EE-el-ee). A throwback football player from an old-school football community who literally wears his nickname on his shoulder, Chiappialle admitted he didn't have a very good junior season in high school. That combined with his size and speed probably doomed much of a chance to get a Division I scholarship, even though he became just the 10th player in WPIAL history to rush for 400 yards in a game when he piled up 404 on the ground in a game against Chartiers Valley in 2012.
He had a handful of Division II offers and an opportunity to walk on at Temple. Then Nittany Lion quarterback coach Charlie Fisher, though, pitched him the idea of being a preferred walk-on at Penn State.
Despite the likelihood that Blue-White Games would be the most meaningful action he ever saw, Chiappialle took Fisher up on his offer for one very simple reason.
"Honestly, my mentality is I knew I could play here," Chiappialle said. "I just wanted to play at the highest level I could, and they gave me a chance."
Chiappialle made a big enough impression that he was one of 12 true freshmen to play for the Nittany Lions last season. He first saw the field against Kent State and saw action throughout the year on special teams, making four tackles.
That's probably where he'll be back this year, with Zach Zwinak, Bill Belton and Akeel Lynch all back ahead of him on the depth chart, but it's a role he's embraced and a challenged he's accepted.
"He had a great spring. I've been very impressed with him," new Penn State coach James Franklin said of Chiappialle. "Everyone in the organization has tremendous respect for how he carries himself and how he works. To me, that's what spring is about. It's about creating opportunities for guys to get a shot to show what they can do on the big stage."
Chiappialle made about as much out of his as he could. His first carry went for 19 yards on a direct snap and set up a Sam Ficken field goal. In the second quarter, he got the ball on four straight plays, eventually plowing in from the 1 on fourth-and-goal.
But the big play was to come moments later. After a Ryan Keiser interception gave the Blue the ball on the White 23, Chiappialle took a stretch play to the left, spun out of a scrum a couple of yards down field and emerged all alone, darting into the end zone.
"I really just kept going and spun out and just took off," Chiappialle said. "That was really it."
Chiappialle thinks he can beat the odds, and his teammates don't seem to think it would be wise to bet against him.
"He just needs to continue doing what he is doing," Lynch said. "He is like Danny Woodhead, a great running back in the NFL. I know he will do great things when his time comes."
Almost the first words out of Chiappialle's mouth were to credit the beleaguered Penn State offensive line for creating holes for him, but he said his whole team was there for him a month ago when he needed them the most. Almost all of them tweeted condolences, and several of the assistant coaches like Terry Smith and Charles Huff were at his mother's funeral.
"My team surrounded me really big. I've got to give them everything. They rallied behind me," Chiappialle said.."Everyone had my back. My family. My girlfriend. It was rough, but, coming into the spring, I had nothing to lose."
Chiappialle said his mother would have wanted him to keep playing, to keep working hard and pursuing his football dream. Football, in turn, has helped him through the grieving process.
"Football helped a lot," Chiappialle said. "But, honestly, everyone that has supported me my whole life has helped me be strong."
With his father and an older brother and sister still there to back him, Chiappialle is looking to keep working and to somehow make his mother proud.
"It's a big opportunity with the new staff to show them that I can play," Chiappialle said. "And that's what I did."


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As it stands now, Barack Obama's body of presidential work has been: good, bad, or mediocre?
WatchDog, You are absolutely correct. What ever you say.
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No doubt you find humor in this TripleD. But you remember all of this when ACA destroys a lot of people. Including people just like you.
This has never been about our healthcare, this is about that National Debt and deficit. So hows it feel to be a sacrificial lamb?
ACA was designed to FAIL.
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WatchDog, You are absolutely correct. What ever you say.
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Triple D blows smoke with: "The more expensive the insurance companies can make any procedure or service, the more profit they can make from it."
You must really believe people are all stupid and easy to manipulate to believe that manure you just spread.
But hey thanks for the advance help. I don't have insurance and the next time my Doctor and the other 3 Doctors that he consults with, who get their piece of the pie and everybody else from radiologists, etc etc etc who sends me allthose bills. I think I will write back to them and ask them to specifically HIGHLIGHT how much is their profit for services and how much on that same bill is the imaginary insurance companies parts and profit!
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questioner, I totally agree that the roll out of the ACA has indeed gone very, very badly. I can also tell you that we desperately need the ACA to work. It may be our last chance to control runaway healthcare spending. As someone who works in healthcare and has designed and wrote numerous healthcare insurance and billing interfaces for multiple hospital vendors, I can tell you that the insurance portion of healthcare costs is one of the most wasteful. A health insurance policy basically consists of a cost plus contract between insurance companies and the patient. The more expensive the insurance companies can make any procedure or service, the more profit they can make from it.
As far as the breakfast goes, I was not the one who began talking about throwing people out of windows, nor am I the one who stated that those seeking to do so would find plenty of assistance if needed. I am hoping for a peaceful breakfast without any drama.
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TripleD, I'll play nice at breakfast. I gotta say, I am tired of this subject--I've passed on several quotes I could have copied after Obama's last statements. I can accept that you and many more feel a law like the ACA is 100% right for the citizenry. I think several parts of it are right. (I also think it doesn't handle our biggest problem of too high health costs though.) But you must acknowledge that this is not going well. However right you feel the concept was, the actual enactment is not so great. Right?
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No need to release me...it won't happen from the "right"...
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Kozy62, First, My question concerning your groups intentions was directed to notSocialist who had stated that if watchdog tried to throw me out a window, there would be a lot of help if needed. Second, I do not believe I need anyone to defend me, I was simply curious as to what the groups intentions might be. Third, You can rest easy, I release you from any responsibility for my safety.
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I don't believe Mr. Obama can be impeached because he doesn't know anything about anything.
Attacks...not unless you start something and even then I will do everything I can to stop it and I just might be bigger and stronger than the rest. This is a time to just be nice, have a meal together and show that we can...ok!
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When I said, " "Heck, I may go now just to see if watchdog can throw me out of a window."
You said, "I'd wager she would have a lot of help, if needed."
Is that what I can expect from the conservatives at this breakfast. Are you all going to attack me at once or are you going to try going at me one at a time to see if you can wear me down?
Just curious, it really does not make any difference to me.
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Kozy, Why doesn't the U.S. House of Representatives just Impeach him for the High Crimes that you said he has committed? Oh, that's right, in order to Impeach a sitting President you have to have more than just Lies and False stories. That must be why the House has not moved an inch in any kind of Impeachment proceedings against this President.
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Kozy62, "Now if he only resigned." It is good to see that you are finally willing to admit that has been your goal all along.
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From the NY Times...
"A contrite-sounding Mr. Obama repeatedly blamed himself on Thursday for the failed health care rollout, which he acknowledged had thrust difficult burdens on his political allies and hurt Americans' trust in him." (almost)
"It's legitimate for them to expect me to have to win back some credibility on this health care law in particular and on a whole range of these issues in general," Mr. Obama said. The president did not admit to misleading people about whether they could keep their insurance, but again expressed regret that his assurances turned out to be wrong.(well no it was lying)
"To those Americans, I hear you loud and clear," Mr. Obama said as he announced changes intended to allow some people to keep their insurance."(and I this even possible now that you messed things p so badly)
But, even he admits to failing...more than those who give him a pass on everything! Good for him. Now if he only resigned.
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POLITICO...By SEUNG MIN KIM | 11/14/13 6:45 PM EST
"President Barack Obama issued a rare presidential apology when he expressed remorse for promising to Americans that they could keep their insurance plans if they liked their current coverage.
Don't expect the same "I'm sorry" from House Democratic leaders. In a news conference Thursday after a meeting with White House officials, the top four Democrats said they won't apologize for that promise, instead defending the language of the Affordable Care Act — their prized legislative achievement."
It mattes not if healthcare is destroyed or if millions lose their insurance...Pelosi, Reid and others could care less. How on earth do they keep getting elected?
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D3, Payment change.
My current policy was in effect to renew (we had already renewed) for Dec.
My policy was an "acceptable" policy--it wasn't a change in the policy itself.
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Kozy, that's pretty cool; a Salem get together all the way down in Florida. Unfortunately I don't get that far south. My inlaws live in the Panhandle, near Tallahassee.
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questioner, What was the change?
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Just got a letter from my ins. agent. Here is the last sentence:
We apologize for any inconvenience, but this change was due to the Affordable Care Act.
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sorry brothers
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The Koch brother main boot licker mr. Boehner. Hay man tan Poor people are americans also!!
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Kozy62 has used the Huffington Post as a news source in the past. Here is Huffington Post story on the effect on the National Debt if Obamacare is cancelled.
GAO Obamacare Report: National Debt Would Skyrocket If Plan Not Implemented.
w w w .huffingtonpost****/2012/04/03/gao-obamacare-national-debt_n_1399895.html (remove spaces between 'w's) The actual GAO report can be found here: w w w .gao.gov/assets/590/589835.pdf (remove spaces between 'w's)
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Breaking news... President Obama will address the nation on healthcare at 11:35 EST today.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce a patch to his signature health care law to address mounting concerns over canceled insurance plans.
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Yes, Mtlhed...a long way home. Plans are to see as many family members and friends as we can. At my age, you just don't know.
Cape Coral is beautiful. Are you going to make the Salem get together, February 15th at the Shell Factory in N. Ft. Myers. We have a good time with good food at a reasonable price. Last year, Earl Bruce even gave us a pep talk. I'm passing the word but Richard Hary is the person carrying the load right now, with others filling in the gaps as they come South.
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Kozy, Cape Coral, now that's way down there. Looks like we're both a long ways from the original homestead.
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Kozy62, I admit that President Obama is really taking a beating over Obamacare. Since I happen to know that Obamacare is the right thing to do, I still approve of him even if I do not approve of the web site roll out. I think it was not Socialist that brought up the Heritage Foundation the other day. I found it very interesting that in 1989 the Heritage healthcare plan included an individual mandate. So it appears that the Right was for an individual mandate before they were against it. What was it that they called Kerry during the 2004 Election? I believe they called him a flip flopper. Kind of funny when you think about it now.
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The Stetson sand volleyball team dropped a 4-1 decision to top-seed UNF in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship winner's bracket semifinals Sunday morning in Jacksonville.
The Hatters (12-10) will now face the Jacksonville/Florida Gulf Coast winner at 1 p.m. in the loser's bracket semifinals, with the winner advancing to the championship match at 3 p.m. vs. UNF.
"We played hard and put up a tremendous fight, but we came up just a little short," Stetson head coach Tim Loesch said. "It came down to the last two matches and both were decided by just a few points in the third set."
Catherine Coston and Alisha Hoffman picked up Stetson's lone point, winning 2-1 (21-14, 19-21, 17-15) at the no. 4 seed.
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Lifesaver wintergreen mints that age just a bit so they become somewhat soft and powdery. They become just as addictive as crack and once you eat one, you can't stop.
Holy Crap! You've got crackmints in your lunch! You better have brought enough for everyone.
от iq911506 17 април 2011