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Skip to comments.The right to healthcare does not require a doctor to work for free
Posted on 11/25/2012 4:12:14 PM PST by ReformationFan
After the election, a lot of people are excited that they can now get healthcare. Or maybe not quite yet, but by 2014, when ObamaCare is fully implemented.
The only problem is that healthcare is not like an Obama phone. The phones are all made by a standard process in a factory, probably in China, and they usually work.
You can use them to call a healthcare provider. But you usually get the if this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911, followed by the phone menu.
How will this change with ObamaCare? Doesnt that give you a right to care?
Whenever someone tells me about the right to healthcare, I ask, From whom? From me? This question exposes this right for the robbery and slavery that it is. Take it to the next step. Do you really want to exercise your right to healthcare on a physician who doesnt want any part of this bargain? What kind of care do you think youll receive?
(Excerpt) Read more at medcitynews.com ...
Everyone will eventually find a doctor to care for them....but it'll take hours, if not days...to get your dose of "care". The sad thing is that you then have to hear folks whine about this on NBC or CNN...telling you just woeful tales of how the system didn't work like they imagined (to include the folks who had health care before Obama Care came along).
Silly doctor. Doesn't he know 'bout the Physician Draft act of 2015, that will swell the ranks of the Public Health Service Corps?
Im from the Givernment and I have come to give you a free lifetime supply of
More debt than you can possibly imagine
More debt than you could possibly repay in a lifetime
and its absolutely free,
paid for by the ever shrinking value of the dollar!!
Its just like winning the lottery of life for a little while...
Us peons will get the ill-trained "barefoot doctors" that rank-and-file Cubans now receive care from. The politiburo members and well-connected citizens will receive 21st Century care. Period.
a virtual army of moose limb "docs" are ready and waiting. no joke. special visas will be issued
"Now we have waiting lists, "he says and compares Thailand to the UK's NHS (National Health Service). "We studied the EU community and their health care systems and wanted to bring that to Thailand," he says, though adds that in many western countries some "responsibility" must come from the patient. Due to Thailand's UC system now being completely free there is an "over utilisation" of the health care system, he says. Because it's free, and drugs are free, doctors and nurses are "overburdened and overworked". "
"Everyone will eventually find a doctor to care for them....but itll take hours, if not days...to get your dose of care.
Of course they will. The doctor taking care of you will be foreign and speak very little English. Of course, that's happening already. Many of the docs saw this coming and are preparing to either exit the profession as fast as they can or they will stop accepting patients who are on medicare and medicaid. I can hardly wait for hussein to sign an executive order forcing these docs to work for nothing and claim it is for the general welfare that the Constitution "provides" for.
And don't forget...
The "barefoot doctors" and nurses will be members of an all powerful government union.
You won't even get to see a doc. They will send everyone a medical illness book so you can self diagnose. Once you figure out what is wrong with you you will call in to a call center to get a number to see a doc based on your self diagnosis.
The right to healthcare does require a doctor to work for free
"Silly doctor. Doesnt he know bout the Physician Draft act of 2015, that will swell the ranks of the Public Health Service Corps?"
Involuntary servitude. Thought that was prohibited in the 13th amendment. Guess that will take another civil war to re-establish.
I don't know which will happen first; currency collapse or health care collapse. No matter, 0bama won and things will be just fine. But seriously, people are still really asleep. But at least today, I engaged in one of my recent favorite activities. I went to the supermarket and stocked up on $250 of canned food. I usually like to get the African American cashiers (95% 0bama voter) and watch their reaction.
Obama voters won't know who is treating them. Nurse Practitioners, "Doctors of Nursing", Physician assistants etc. The mark of an intelligent patient will be to ask their caregiver "Are you a physician?" Soon that question will be considered very politically incorrect.
6 years ago I was unable to get hired as a RN in south Florida due to a hiring freeze in the hospitals that lasted years. I kept my license active all this time even though I have not been working as a nurse.
Every year, new nurses were churned out of the nursing programs, and majority couldn't find employment. (at least that was the word on allnurses.com forum for nurses) So I would think there is a glut of nurses now.
It seems that even though there were no jobs, nurses were encouraged to train because of a "nursing shortage".
Me thinks this was according to the plan . . .
Kudos to this doc for saying what needs to be said.
Older, wiser, more experienced docs are having nothing of this. Already seeing the MD in the office I train with going to concierge care. (you want his care, you will be paying for it out of pocket). Other patients will be seeing the NP's. Don't get how all these new patients will all be seen by the limited number of NP's in practice at the moment.
Training to be an NP myself. Really not looking forward to going through all this hassle only to be paid peanuts as an Obamabot care provider. I pray I get on with a Minute Clinic or some such organization.
NO....you will NOT see a Doc...you'll be prescreened by an administrative person, who then MAY let you see a Physicians Assistant, who then will decide if MAYBE you are worthy of seeing a doc. Of course, if you grease the palms enough, you'll get to go closer to the front of the waiting line...
Hmmmm....10+ years ago when I spent a week with my Great Uncle who was in an ICU in South Florida....most of the nurses were foreigners....could THAT be the problem?
Would love to see that. They can make me show up, they can't make actually treat anyone.
I am working on my exit strategy and will be out of medical practice as woo as I feasibly can. I cannot be forced to work for the government healthcare system and will not. Period.
Did y'all read the comments after the article....sheesh, the ignorance of the masses...
Look for a new crop of affirmative action doctors in the not too distant future. Prolly will have their own union too.
Exactly. If God wanted us to have a "right" to free healthcare, doctors would have been born already educated and trained and would have been given a license to practice medicine instead of a birth certificate. Don't use drugs. We've already got more liberal 'RATS in this country than we really need.
Liberals do not understand that a "want" and a "right" are two very different things.
Just make sure that you leave your phone number with JimRob in case we Freepers need a real doctor. No joke. I've read reports of doctors who have failed their board exams in India being hired by the NHS in Britain.
Say goodbye to hospital bedside doctors...
We are seeing implementation of interactive audio/video systems installed in patient rooms that are connected by a high bandwidth connection to a monitoring facility in another city that will be staffed with a doctor that is able to watch the streaming medical data from the patient - heart rate, blood pressure(s), oxygen saturation, heart data calculations, etc.
The doctor can pan the camera to talk to the patient/nurse and watch the bedside patient monitor, ventilators, etc.
Just another step closer until it is monitored from a certified Obamacare "doctor" out of Washington DC who can remotely pull the plug on grandma.
You got that right (correct). Also, freedom is a right but we still have to frequently pay for it in blood. Just because something is "a right", it doesn't mean that it's free. Jesse Jackson and Fat Al Sharpton started this "right" crap about going to see a doctor.
"NO....you will NOT see a Doc...youll be prescreened by an administrative person, who then MAY let you see a Physicians Assistant, who then will decide if MAYBE you are worthy of seeing a doc."
Medicare is coming up with strict rules regarding physician supervision of PAs. This will limit the use of PAs, but NPs will still be able to see patients w/o physicians in the building. As far as Medicare is concerned, the idea to to restrict access for old people as a way to reduce costs. The 'complete lives system' will reduce the surplus, GOP voting population. Meanwhile, for the time being, Medicaid patients (illegals, single women, AAs, Hispanics) will probably have better access than Medicare patients. It's all about voting patterns for demographic groups.
It's what I have been telling folks for years. If you have a right to the knowledge and skill I have spent a lifetime acquiring how do you propose to get it against my will?
There is even talk about robotic surgery. You doc can be anywhere in the world controlling the robot. This way they don't need as many docs on hand.
Just pray that the PC program does not freeze up at a critical point of your procedure.
Wanna bet?
It took exactly TWO WEEKS from the election until the letter arrived from our PCP that the practice was becoming 'boutique' for a monthly fee, And, of course, they will continue to accept insurance, the premiums for which have about doubled in the last couple of years. But now, for the monthly 'boutique' fee, we will have the same time and attention from the docs as we've become used to. They are not fools.
And Obamacare will solve NOTHING. The small % of folks who didn't have health insurance were, probably 95-99% medicaid-eligible, would have gotten healthcare in any case. Alas, now EVERYONE is screwed.
Sadly, you probably hit the nail on the head.
I'm not leaving free republic. Of course by refusing to work for the govt I'll probably lose my license and DEA #. But FR has a large medical community. We can take care of each other
Only $285 for six hours? How do you eat? Dont forget we heavily subsidized your education. Get off your high horse and get to work. Everyone is going to make less money now. Youre lucky enough to have a choice. Because you are a doctor doesnt mean you know a thing about health care reform. Pointless post.
Postitive rights require slaves. Not coincidental that the Democrats love positive rights.
And when I was in residency I got paid peanuts.
Did I go into medicine to get rich? No.
But I also didn't go into medicine and make incredible sacrifices of life, hard work, and time, to be considered some kind of "slave" to greedy, entitled POS's.
As an MD, I agree. I think people have no idea what's coming their way - a rude shock to their sense of entitlement, lives of increasing frustration and desperation, and a nose dive in their life expectancy.
Food is needed to sustain life so it must be a right, right? When will Obama be giving free food to everyone within our borders?
That same "nursing shortage" is being used today to induce the unwary to sign up for nursing degrees at colleges and universities. Amazing how many people believe that health care is still a guaranteed job. Local hospitals have hundreds of applications for every position advertised as "open"....but ask about it and somehow they never seem to find a qualified person.
The people making those comments probably pay no Federal income tax at all, and have not subsidized anyone.
Well, there is already breakfast, lunch, and dinner at some public schools, amd tens of millions on foodstamps.
An entire nation of thieves and parasites is what America has become.
Whose right is health care? Do you think it's yours?
Congressman Anthony Weiner has said that health care is not a commodity. If it isn't a commodity then do doctors and nurses have rights? Assigning health care the status of a right makes health care workers slaves to that right who must serve it. On what ground could a health care worker refuse to provide their products and services since that would violate the patient's "basic human right to health care."
That is a direct loss of individual rights for health care providers. The collective right of the people to receive health care would supersede the provider's individual right to set fees and hours or to change their occupational status or even decide how to apply their skills and knowledge if taken to its logical extreme. A collective right, by practical definition, is a state right because it is a right that is created and given by the government to those it chooses to give it to. It is not a natural right possessed by each person protected by the Constitution from the government. It is also a collective/state right by virtue of the fact that it would supersede individual rights when the two come into conflict. How else would the government view a right that it created and administers vs. one it has no control over?
Of course it isn't stated in any bill that a patient's right to care supersedes a provider's right to set fees and hours etc, but it doesn't need to. Rights, as always, are adjudicated in the courts. The Health Care Reform bills simply establish the foundation for the courts to rule in favor of the collective right.
Weiners view is collectivist, fascist and totalitarian. Collectivist because it has to be described as being a right of the many instead of the one and superior due to that fact. Fascist because ultimately the sole authority for its creation and oversight is from one entity the Federal government. Totalitarian because the Federal government is the enforcer of this collective right as well. State and local jurisdictions will have little say about it.
Congressman Weiner's view is the underlying philosophy of all of the Health Care Reform legislation in the House and Senate. Consider this section in the Senate version of the bill; the setting up of community watch dogs that will monitor citizens for various health parameters. Read pages 382 - 393.
TITLE IQUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS pps 382 - 393
So, even citizens themselves will be subject to Federal regulations on their behavior in order to fulfill the "human right" of universal health care. It isn't the individual's liberty that is being protected by that it is the government's control over its own health care system that is being guarded. How much clearer can it be that these bills abrogate the concept of individual rights? Someone will be checking your lifestyle, according to gov regulations, to be certain you serve the best interests of the "basic human right to health care" ie. "the Public Option."
HCR is not just about rationing care and wealth redistribution. It's about the end of individual rights as the corrosive effects of the new collectivist "basic human right to health care" spreads throughout the legal and political systems like a virus.
I think that the main purpose of Health Care Reform (HCR) is as a direct assault on individual liberties.
Health Care is a Liberty Issue
Conservative Underground - 18 August 2009 - Tim Dunkin
Another Stupid Argument: Heath Care is a Right
Obama's Authoritarian, Unconstitutional Health Care Proposal
To Americans Who Believe Healthcare is a Right
Mandated health insurance threatens freedom, privacy
Bad Laws and Unintended Consequences, part 1.
Obamacare Rips Doctor-Patient Relationship Apart
Second Bill of Rights aka FDR's economic bill of rights
(An early attempt to embed collective rights into American politics and society.)
That would give the "Blue Screen of Death" an ENTIRELY new meaning. . .
Re: "That question will be politically incorrect"
Only if you ask someone who is not white.
In which case, it will be grounds for a lawsuit!
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At the end of the food drive the first hour class with the most items will win the HMS Food Fight and every student in that classroom will be awarded with a prize bag filled with food certificates, candy, and other prizes.
Organizers encourage everyone with a child, grandchild, or anyone who knows a pupil at the Middle School to send donations with pupil. Other may get involved by dropping off their items at the Woodforest Bank location, located inside the Harrisburg Walmart.
Items collected include non-perishable foods only such as canned meats, fish, canned fruits, vegetables, canned soups, peanut butter, pasta, rice and cereal. All donations collected will go to the Harvest Deliverance Center in Harrisburg. Those with questions may call the 4-H club leader at 618-926-3062.
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The need is constant.
Add saving lives to your summer to-do list
You don't need to sit in a lifeguard tower all afternoon this summer to help save lives. You can be a lifesaver, like Tony, by donating blood or platelets, or volunteering through the American Red Cross.
Stay involved during the summer months by donating or volunteering at a blood drive, taking a Red Cross CPR/First Aid class, being trained as a disaster relief volunteer or making disaster preparedness presentations to your community. Click here to checkout Red Cross volunteer opportunities and hear why others volunteer through the Red Cross.
Celebrating blood donors
June 14, 2010 is World Blood Donor Day – a day to raise awareness about the constant need for a safe and stable worldwide blood supply and celebrate the millions of blood and platelet donors who give generously.
More than 80 million units of blood are collected globally every year. Only 38 percent of these are donated in developing and transitional countries where more than 82 percent of the world's population lives.
This year, the Red Cross and World Blood Donor Day organizations are focusing on nurturing a new generation of blood and platelet donors. The slogan "New Blood for the World" illustrates the important contribution young people make by donating blood. Help spread the word and make a blood donation appointment today.
Six-month-old and family thankful for blood donors
Generous donors like you help patients like 6-month-old Cameron Rannow every time you roll up your sleeve.
Cameron was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a condition where the heart's left side is undeveloped. He had his first surgery at just eight days old and needed a blood transfusion. Six months later, Cameron had a second operation to rebuild his aorta that required blood and plasma transfusions.
To thank the Red Cross and help replenish supplies for other patients, Cameron's parents Shawna and Virgil hosted a blood drive in his honor. Both donated for the first time. Find a blood drive in your area and make an appointment to help patients like Cameron. Or learn more about hosting a blood drive.
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Here's the Real Reason Investors Should Be Worried About Apple's iPhone 5
Updated to include UBS analyst comments
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- In the daily speculation on everything Apple(AAPL) , investors may be missing what could be the biggest story to emerge about the iPhone 5 after its September release.
Apple's newest iPhone and a lineup of tablet computers will provide a fourth-quarter test to the sustainability of profit margins for telecom giants Verizon(VZ) , AT&T(T) and Sprint(S) .
A recent Wall Street Journal report indicates that Apple may be cutting orders with suppliers who build the iPhone 5, potentially indicating less-than-anticipated demand for the company's newest smarthphone. The report, which cites anonymous sources, adds to a frenetic 2013 in the Apple rumor mill.
Previous media reports indicated Apple might start selling iPhones as low as $99 by year-end. However, Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, quickly nixed such speculation .
Apple, at its 11 price-to-trailing-earnings multiple, seems to attract an ever-growing number of bulls who see America's most profitable company as an obvious 2013 value -- and skeptics who call the company a value trap and foresee a commoditization of its premium-priced tech products.
In the interim, the more urgent iPhone 5 story may have little to do with Apple or its shares.
As telecom giants Verizon and AT&T prepare to report fourth-quarter earnings, analysts are bracing for the full impact of smartphone subsidies and, in particular, the earnings hit that might come from an entire quarter worth of subsidized iPhone 5 smartphone sales.
Carriers already have indicated that Apple's newest smartphone will have an impact on earnings, even if trends like underlying subscriber and average-revenue-per-user growth indicate a strong outlook for the industry's top players.
Earlier in January, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said the company added 2.1 million wireless subscribers in the fourth quarter, "a truly impressive result," according to Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research. Still, the oftent bearish telecom analyst noted such subscriber growth may come at a cost, highlighting two January 8-K filings Verizon made with the Securities and Exchange Commission that indicate wireless service margins for the fourth quarter might fall on a year-over-year basis.
A decline in wireless margins as a result of subsidized new iPhone and Google(GOOG) Android-operated handsets would cut against three successive quarters where Verizon's margins have improved, according to a Monday note by Moffett. It means investors in Verizon and AT&T might have to temper expectations about sustainable wireless profitability.
On Monday, UBS analyst John Hodulik downgraded Verizon from 'Buy' to 'Neutral' on expectations of lower than expected wireless and wireline profitability and a lack of "positive catalysts." Still, in spite of fourth quarter earnings concerns, Hodulik noted a strong long-term outlook for the carrier.
"We continue to believe Verizon to be the leading wireless company in the U.S. given its network position, continued strong share gains, high single-digit service revenue growth and the highest margins in the industry," wrote Hodulik.


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Beyond the possible rebirth of the Whalers, another cool thing the AHL is doing this year is a bunch of throwback nights to commemorate the league's 75th anniversary.
The six current league cities with the longest history in the AHL will be kicking off the year with back to back home and homes. The Monsters will be wearing Barons threads. I'm looking forward to it, and am thrilled that my Browns trip will coincide with the Monsters opener.
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John Goblish
SHAKOPEE – Services for John Goblish, 48, of Shakopee will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Purification Church, 15850 Marystown Rd., Shakopee.
He died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at his residence in Shakopee.
He is survived by his wife, Robin; sons, Blake of Granite Falls, Alex of Shakopee; father and his wife, Henry and Lorraine Goblish of Marshall; brother, Jim Goblish (and Paula) of Marshall; sisters, Deb Henline (and Bud) of Minneota; Julie Banish (and Chad) of Ghent; grandmother, Lucille Blake of Marshall and many nieces, nephews and other relatives.
John was preceded in death by his mother, Rosie Goblish; son, Dane; grandparents, Don and Mary Blake, George and Lucy Goblish.


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Peter Kolkay: BassoonMusicPosted by Jay Batzner in CD Review, tags: bassoon, CD Review, chamber, George Perle, instrumental, Jay Batzner, John Fitz Rogers, Judah Adashi, Katherine Hoover, Paul Moravec, Peter Kolkay, Russel Platt
Peter Kolkay, bassoon
with Alexandra Nguyen, piano
CAG Records
- BassoonMusic – George Perle
- The Dark Hours – Judah Adashi
- Andy Warhol Sez – Paul Moravec
- Three Songs – Russell Platt
- Seven Desert Elegies – John Fitz Rogers
- Journey – Katherine Hoover
Bassoonists rarely feel the love in the contemporary music world. It seems like all the attention went towards the flute, clarinet, and saxophone leaving the double reeds to lurk in the corner of Baroque or 19th century repertoire. Sometimes they'll break out the Zappa quote but for the most part the bassoon seems to be ignored outside of the Common Practice Period. This disc by bassoonist Peter Kolkay buts the breaks on that kind of thinking and reminds us that one of the most iconic and recognizable figures that gave birth to "contemporary music," if you will, was a bassoon solo. How apt that the disc begins with George Perle's BassoonMusic, an unaccompanied piece that uses the opening measures of Le sacre du printemps as one of its primary gestures. Amidst the Stravinsky quotes and transformation lies other contrasting materials that, if they aren't directly from other famous bassoon excerpts, sound as if they were. Peter Kolkay is all over the instrument, his tone and articulations perfectly matched to the demands of the material. Not only is this work first on the disc, it is also the oldest work on the CD dating from way back in 2004. Kolkay has a brilliant lineup of pieces that show great composers are making extremely compelling cases for composers to write bassoon music (and for performers to play more modern stuff).
Judah Adashi's The Dark Hours from 2007 is a meaty three movement work. The music is austere, lyrical, and rich with extended tonal harmonies. Even when very little is happening on the surface, my attention is always held fast by the music. Andy Warhol Sez by Paul Moravec is a series of playful miniatures separated by spoken Warhol quotes. Each miniature works well with neither too much or too little material and they reflect the various quotes nicely. I was a little turned off by the actual spoken quotes, though. I would have preferred to just hear the music and save the quotes for reading material.
Unaccompanied music returns with Russell Platt's Three Songs, all short lovely movements that contemplate simple melodic shapes. The stark Seven Desert Elegies by John Fitz Rogers is held together more by a lugubrious ensemble momentum than virtuosic pyrotechnics. The duo coalesces into a single voice quite well on this piece. There are more fireworks in the shorter movements of Katherine Hoover's Journey but again the bulk of the piece is based upon tender lyrical lines and a continuity of sound with the piano. Kolkay's tone is entrancing. Not only do I listen to his melodic line, I get lost in the layers of overtones that emerge. Alexandra Nguyen's piano work is fluid, gentle, and effortless. These two make quite a pairing and I look forward to hearing more releases by them.


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Teapot attributed to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (1663–1719), Albany or Watervliet, New York, ca. 1695. Silver and pearwood. The New-York Historical Society, bequest of Major General Philip Schuyler.
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Koret Auditorium
American Decorative Arts Forum presents Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York, by Margaret K. Hofer, New-York Historical Society.
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South Korea, AgustaWestland Team for Military Training
AgustaWestland has inked agreements with Firstec Co., a defense and security equipment manufacturer, and Dodaam Systems, a training and simulation developer in the defense industry. The partnership is the first step toward developing military service and training centers in South Korea. The contracts also cover logistics support and training for the Republic of Korea Navy's helicopter fleet, which includes 23 Super Lynx Mk99s.


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45th Presidential Inauguration photo gallery
More than $185 million in FEMA funds have assisted Souris Valley
In the two years since historic flooding struck the Souris River Valley, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided more than $185 million in assistance to help the region recover, the agency reported this week.
This is funding that has gone directly to residents or local communities to restore homes or damaged public infrastructure and enact measures to lessen the impact of future disasters. The agency also manages a program that provided temporary housing for more than 2,100 households at its peak. That program ends Sept. 24.
FEMA continues to maintain a presence in the Souris River Valley, with about 50 personnel still in the region and additional support coming from the regional office in Denver.
Following the 2011 flood, FEMA had received 8,256 applications for assistance from residents, representing about 80 percent of the 10,286 applications received statewide following disasters that year. The $91.2 million distributed to county residents for rental assistance, home repairs and other serious disaster-related needs represented 95 percent of the total $95.8 million for the state.
Of the nearly $242 million approved statewide for infrastructure assistance following the 2011 floods, nearly $90 million was provided to the four Souris River Valley counties of Ward, Renville, McHenry and Bottineau. Among the larger recipients of assistance were: the City of Minot, $8.6 million; City of Burlington, $1.6 million; Minot Park District, $3 million; and Ward County, including townships, $10.3 million.
The largest beneficiary of public assistance funds has been Minot Public Schools. FEMA is providing $24.5 million to replace Erik Ramstad Middle School and $5 million to replace Lincoln Elementary School. FEMA also has provided an additional $25 million for activities ranging from emergency protective measures to building repairs at other locations to temporary classrooms to replace offline facilities. The temporary classrooms were provided within 10 days of the planned starting date for the 2011-12 school year and are still in use.
Thus far, more than $4 million in funding from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program has been provided to the Souris Valley. Funding has been provided for generators, home acquisitions, mitigation planning and engineering, permitting and design work for a floodwall to protect the Minot Water Treatment Plant.
More than $70 million was provided by FEMA to North Dakota to distribute to hazard mitigation projects statewide. The state is considering potential projects to share in funds yet to be allocated.
FEMA also engaged its Long Term Community Recovery team in Ward County. Members of the public participated in a series of meetings to voice their views about the future of their communities. The information gathered at the meetings was used to develop the "Souris Basin Regional Recovery Strategy," which was adopted by Ward County, Burlington and Minot.


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Topic: SSH Keys
These days I spend almost half my time in the shell poking my models and running rake and cap tasks. Everything runs smooth except when I have to perform remote tasks via SSH. I currently use SSH Agent in the background which helps secure things a bit more, but I get annoyed that I have to keep entering my password, especially on the cap deploy task.
Any suggestions for a better SSH tool for OS X?


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by Anton Shilov
The rumours about yet another possible re-branding of the products by Nvidia Corp. have emerged once again and this time they say that the company plans to rename the GeForce 9800-series as early as this March.
Nvidia once renamed the GeForce 8800-series into 9800-series without improving it much and now the company wants to do that again, but change the name of the GeForce 9800 GTX+ and 9800 GT graphics cards to GeForce GTX 250 and GeForce GTX 240, respectively, according to a news-story by Expreview web-site that quotes an allegedly official message by Nvidia to its partners.
"GeForce GTS 250 carries over the same specs and features of 9800 GTX+, and hence the same GPU, memory, board, PCB, and thermal solution. AIC's should be confident in purchasing GPU's, PCB's, and other materials, since the only change is a new VBIOS to implement the new branding," the letter reads.
From the consumer perspective, the GeForce 9800 GTX is an overclocked version of the GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and performance wise those graphics cards are pretty close to each other. Moreover, the GeForce 9800 GT is even slower compared to the GeForce 8800 GT despite of generally similar specifications.
Since all the aforementioned graphics cards are based on the code-named G92/G92b graphics processing unit, which debuted under GeForce 8800 mark, this will be the second renaming, which greatly confuses customers who do not follow the market very often.
The G92 chip was made using 65nm process technology, whereas the G92b is produced using 55nm fabrication process and is cheaper to manufacture. Both chips have the same technical specs. Earlier Nvidia wanted to call the code-named G92-based chips as GeForce GTS 150.
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The Coca-Cola Kashrus Controversy
Aah! The cool refreshing taste of the "Real Thing"! Is there anything (besides maybe baseball and apple pie) that is considered more American? Everyone also knows that around the world (pretty much) there is almost nothing more kosher than good, old-fashioned Coke. Why, you can even ask Grandma, that back in the day (before mp3s, microwaves, dishwashers, and even World War II), it was "Always Coca-Cola", as it was THE drink of choice for all, even the strict kosher consumer.
However it wasn't always that way. We all have a certain person to thank for that, Rabbi Tuvia (Tobias) Geffen, Chief Rabbi of Atlanta, Georgia for many decades. He was one of the select few who actually knew the closely guarded secret ingredient in Coke. Back in the 1920's and 30's, Coke was looking to (and I'm sure still is) expand their market share, when it came to their attention that if they received a hashgacha(kosher certification), then many more Jews (and others who look specifically for kosher products) would drink freely of the "pause that refreshes".
So the directors approached the most-likely candidate to grant Rabbinic supervision, Rabbi Geffen. Coke was, after all, invented and headquartered in Atlanta. He was more than willing to check it out, as many of his congregants were asking him about the kosher status of Coke.
His findings were mixed, for although technically the drink was kosher and was permitted to be drunk, it was questionable if he was allowed to give it his seal of approval to allow observant Jews to purchase it. The reasons were that it turned out that there was a non-kosher ingredient in the makeup of Coke, but it was only present in minute quantities. Therefore, it would be permitted to drink, for the non-kosher ingredient was battel b'shishim (meaning there was present at least 60 times the amount of kosher against the non-kosher1), and was, for all intents and purpose, considered nullified according to Jewish Law.
However, for him to grant Coke hashgacha, posed a different problem in a different category, that of "Ain Mevattelin Issur L'chatchila, or that one may not purposefully nullify a non–kosher ingredient".2 This means that although if the non-kosher substance would accidentally fall into kosher food (as long as there was the prerequisite sixty times the amount of non-kosher that fell in) it would be permitted to drink. Nonetheless, if one would add it on purpose with the express intention of nullifying it, the halacha is that the entire mixture becomes forbidden for the person who transgressed and for whomever he intended to benefit.
The issue at stake here was that the Coca-Cola Company was obviously putting this non-kosher ingredient in the batch purposefully, as it was part and parcel of the Coke everyone knew and loved.
On the other hand, it was not just a simple open and shut question, for the Coca-Cola Company was not owned or run by Jews, and quite obviously was not marketing Coke exclusively for Jews.
Therefore, Rabbi Geffen was in a bit of a dilemma: did this situation fall under the category of "Ain Mevattelin Issur L'chatchila" and therefore be unacceptable for purchase by the kosher consumer? And, even if it did not, and was permissible for purchase, was he allowed to give his hashgacha, or Rabbinic approval, on a product that contained a non-kosher ingredient?
Before we get to the punch line, let us explore the Halachic issues involved.
There are various schools of thought among the Halachic authorities as per the status of a non-Jew's nullification.
Some Halachic decisors make a distinction between a scenario where a non-Jew nullifies non-kosher, where a Jew is allowed to eat of the mixture; as opposed to where a non-Jew is selling non-kosher, where they maintain that it is forbidden for a Jew to purchase. They reason that when a Jew is purchasing the item from the non-Jew, it is as if he himself nullified it, and therefore it becomes forbidden for him to eat.3
Many authorities, however, disagree with this reasoning and conclude that it is improbable to make such a distinction.4 They maintain that it is acceptable to procure items that contain nullified non-kosher ingredients in its makeup, providing that the nullification itself was done by a non-Jew. The reason for this is that for a non-Jew, it was never forbidden to actively nullify it. As such, the item is not restricted by or beholden to the laws of "Ain Mevattelin Issur" and therefore is suitable for purchase.5
However, this matter is even more complicated, for yet other authorities further qualify this permissible ruling. They maintain that although one may rely upon a non-Jew's occasional nullification for purchase, conversely, if the non-Jew is doing it for his job, or on a frequent basis, then certainly it is considered as if the Jew himself nullified it.6 Following this ruling would seem to imply that Coke would have to be prohibited to the kosher consumer, as it is definitely mass produced.
So, now us being the wiser, having a rudimentary understanding of the issues involved, what did Rabbi Geffen decide to do? Feeling uncomfortable by having to make such a decision (sort of like between a rock and a hard place), where Gedolim through the ages have taken stands on both sides of the matter, he did the only thing he felt he could do – try to make shalom! He went to Coca-Cola and asked them to change their formula! Surprisingly, out of respect to him, the executives listened and the company removed the problematic ingredients from the formula, and substituted them with kosher alternatives, thus making the soft drink kosher for everyone, proving that "things", especially kashrus, "go better with Coca-Cola".
Rabbi Geffen later published the whole account, as well as the Halachic reasoning behind his actions, in his responsa.7 Later Halachic authorities as well, ruled similarly to Rabbi Geffen's sound logic and reasoning, and rule that although there is what to rely upon when it comes to buying, nevertheless, when it comes to granting hashgacha, a Rabbinic authority should not give a seal of approval to an item that has nullified non-kosher ingredients inside.8
So the next time you partake in a nice, cool, refreshing glass of Coke, you should think of Rabbi Geffen, as well as all the "behind the scenes kashrus issues" that went into making sure that "Coke is it", even for the kosher consumer.9
Postscript: There is actually more to the story. Another ingredient inside the Coke was Chametz, and the laws of nullification do not apply to chametz on Pesach, and therefore the Coke was not kosher for Passover. At Rabbi Geffen's behest, this ingredient was also substituted for a kosher for Passover alternative. In fact, Coca-Cola was considered kosher for Pesach until the "New Coke" debacle in the 1980's. When the company reinstated the "Original Coca-Cola Classic", there was one minor change in the formula. Cane sugar was replaced with a cheaper alternative, high-fructose corn syrup. The one kashrus concern with this is that it is kitnyos, which Ashkenazim do not consume on Pesach. That is why Coca-Cola, and other soft drinks, require specific Passover supervision. There are numerous die-hard Original Coke aficionados, who drive many miles during the Passover shopping season, to major metropolitan areas with a large Jewish concentration, just to purchase "the Coke with the yellow bottle cap". For these fans, if it's not the Passover Coke, it's just not the "Real Thing".
1 This is the standard rule of nullification in halacha, that if there is present (in the kosher ingredients) 60 times the amount of non-kosher, then the non-kosher ingredients are considered nullified. See Shulchan Aruch Yorah De'ah 98.
2 See Shulchan Aruch Yorah De'ah 99, 5.
3 Including the Radbaz (Shu"t HaRadbaz vol. 3, 958; old print 54), the Chid"a (Shiyurei Bracha Y"D 99, 5), the Maharshdam (Shu"t Maharshdam 53), and the Rashbash (Shu"t HaRashbash 560).
4 Including the Ksav Sofer (Shu"t Ksav Sofer O.C. 87), the Erech HaShulchan (Y"D 99, 8) and the Zivchei Tzedek (Y"D 99, 36).
5 This Majority opinion includes such luminaries as the Ri MiGash (brought by the Ran in A.Z. 13b in Rif), Rambam (Hilchos Ma'achalos Asuros Ch. 3, 13), as well as the Maharam M'Lublin (Shu"t Maharam Lublin 104), the Chasam Sofer (Shu"t Chasam Sofer Y"D 82), the Beis Shlomo (Shu"t O.C. 97) the Noda B'Yehuda (Shu"t Noda B'Yehuda Tinyana Y"D 56 and 57) and the Pischei Teshuva (Y"D 134, end 8). Many contemporary Gedolim as well rule this way, including Harav Moshe Feinstein zt"l (Igros Moshe Y"D vol. 2, 32 and 41), Rav Henoch Padwa zt"l (Shu"t Cheishev HaEifod vol. 2, end 104) The Debreciner Rav zt"l (Shu"t Ba'er Moshe vol. 3, 109, 21), Rav Betzalel Stern zt"l (Shu"t Btzeil HaChochma vol. 4, 89:13 -14; 174:18) and Harav Ovadia Yosef shlit"a (Shu"t Yabea Omer vol. 7, Y"D 7).
6 The Tashbat"z (Shu"t HaTashbat"z vol. 3, 10), as well as the Sdei Chemed (vol. 1, Klalim, Ma'areches Ha'alef 360, and in Pe'as Hasadeh 10) and the Atzei Halvanon (Shu"t Atzel Halvanon Y"D 43, s.v. ach dah). The Rashba (Shu"t vol 3, 214, brought in Beis Yosef -Y"D end 134) and Ra'avad (brought in Beis Yoseh ibid.) imply this way as well. The Arugas HaBosem (Kuntress HaTeshuvos 15) and Tiferes Shmuel (Shu"t 17) also rule stringently. See also Kovetz Ohr Yisrael (vol. 30 page 134).
7 Shu"t Karnei Hahod (vol. 2, last chapter in the sefer - B'davar Hamashkeh HaCoca-Cola). This teshuva has also been translated to English and can be found on the HebrewBooks website – www.hebrewbooks.org .
8 Including Harav Moshe Sternbuch shlit"a (Shu"t Teshuvos V'Hanhagos (vol. 1, 440) and Harav Menashe Klein shlit"a (Shu"t Mishneh Halachos vol. 7, 113, 2).
9 This article was written in honor of my brother-in-law, Ezra Carter, who, as a native Atlantean, was the impetus for my interest and research on this topic.
A different version of this article originally appeared in Hamodia.
Disclaimer: This is not a comprehensive guide, rather a brief summary to raise awareness of the issues. In any real case one should ask a competent Halachic authority.
L'iluy Nishmas the Rosh HaYeshiva - Rav Chonoh Menachem Mendel ben R' Yechezkel Shraga, Rav Yaakov Yeshaya ben R' Boruch Yehuda, and l'zchus for Shira Yaffa bas Rochel Miriam and her children for a yeshua teikef u'miyad!


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (185 votes).
In short: Just brilliantIn full: OK - the weather is just awful - and for some reason it constantly rains in the home 1km even if it doesn't rain elsewhere. But this is just so great. Easy to get to. Easy to register. No hanging about at the start. Organisation like clock work. Love it. Date of review: November 23, 2010
In short: plenty of potential to become a much bigger eventDate of review: November 23, 2010
In short: Really Enjoyable but very Chilly! Good Fun, well organised would do againDate of review: November 23, 2010
In short: Perfection As Always!In full: Despite the awful weather, this race was great. As always wonderful organisation, well done DB Max.Date of review: November 22, 2010
In short: Cold driving rain didn't show it at it's best, but great atmosphere and very well organised.Date of review: November 22, 2010
In short: As a beginner, it was a really good experience.In full: This was my first race ever. Never even been to a race as a visitor before let alone a competitor. I thought the organisation was good leading up to the race (email coms etc) and was good on the day.I hope they keep doing this race again next year, as I definitely plan to beat what is now my PB!Thanks to Will and DB Max.Date of review: November 22, 2010
In short: A reliable and enjoyable event on a fascinating course.In full: I see with some surprise that this is the fourth time that I have run in this event. I ran once in 2008, twice in 2009 and may well run twice this year too. Why do I keep coming back? Well, there is something about this Castle Combe motor racing circuit that says to me "I am a fast course" and that, together with exemplary organisation by dbMax, seems to draw me back. The dbMax team are making quite a name for themselves as they expand their range of events and if they are all like this, I wish them well. (I suspect that they are; I took part in the Trowbridge Triathlon this August and that was excellent too.)There is not a lot to add to my previous reviews. Advance information via the website is excellent and the location is quite obviously set up with loads of competitor and spectator parking and facilities. I was accompanied by two members of my family this time and they both took part in the duathlon (run-bike-run) which took place on the same circuit a couple of hours earlier. It's a good location to be a spectator as well as be a competitor.The 10k is pretty strightforward - no routefinding challenges here! The course is in open countryside, so competitors usually have to be prepared for a headwind somewhere on the circuit. One drinks station en route, so you pass it every three kilometres. The finishing spur is well laid out and the chip timing process works well. Results are posted very quickly and there is a medal too. I must say that I would not mind not receiving a goody bag at this event and would be happy just to be handed the medal and a cereal bar, rather than a large and nearly empty carrier bag, but that is the only suggestion that I have for improvement.In conclusion, this is a great 10k run and you know exactly what you are going to get. Give it a try!Date of review: September 15, 2010
Date of review: August 19, 2010
In short: Good, fairly challenging 10k 3 times around the track at Castle Combe.In full: Overall a good race, the course is mildly challenging. More hilly than I was expecting (they weren't large more long and gentle). As the circuit is exposed even though it was a warm mild day there was quite a head wind at some points. Not much to look at on the way round. Good facilities, although food rather expensive, ran out of goody bags though, would recommend as an good race but there are nicer ones out there.Date of review: August 16, 2010
In full: This was the only race I have ever entered where not only was there no form to fill in to actually enter the race, but there were no bibs either! I was told to write my no. down on my hand with a felt tip pen and would receive a special price of £12 for the lack of number!At least the chip timing worked but this race was an organisational shambles. How can you charge £14 for a 10k with a field of less than 200 with one marshal handing out drinks at one station and not have sufficient entry forms or race numbers and no initiative as to how to cope with the situation (like writing the number on a blank piece of paper and asking people to display it in the usual manner!?)Very poor........Date of review: August 15, 2010
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Q. David Bowers: The following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993). Note: the Notable Specimens list should be used with caution - it has been updated in my 2013 edition of "The Encyclopedia of United States Silver Dollars 1794-1804."
OBVERSE 3: Large date. The "large" size of the date is not immediately obvious, but upon study, the digits are indeed slightly larger, and are in the numeral size used the following year, 1797. The 6 in date plainly shows it was double punched; this is visible at the underside of the top of the 6 and the upper inside of the bottom loop. Stars at right are very closely spaced and touch or nearly touch their neighboring stars. Highest wave of hair is below upright of and is very indistinct, probably due to very light relapping.
As the numerals bear a close relationship to those used in 1797, this obverse die was probably the final die cut in the 1796 year. Further, the lower right tip of R in LIBERTY is broken; the latest state of any of the four 1796 obverses.
Obverse die used to strike 1796 BB-65 only.
REVERSE D: Small letters. Leaf under A of STATES. Seven large berries in wreath, and a very small 8th berry is made to show on inside stem of lowest sprig of leaves on left. Three leaves beneath eagle's right (to observer's left) wing, these having been added by hand in front of the cloud. Eagle punch impressed deeply and strongly into the working die; thus, coins from this die have much better breast feather definition than on BB-61. Wreath differs from any other variety, several leaves touching letters of legend. Quickly identifiable by a lump at right top of I in AMERICA; this lump does not touch C in the earlier state of the dies.
Note: This is the third and final Small Letters reverse die in the series. The others were the long lived die first used to strike 1795 BB-51, later 1796 BB-62, BB-63, and BB-66 now relapped, 1797 BB-72, and 1798 BB-82, and another die used to strike 1795 BB-52. The obverse of BB-65 is believed to be the latest die made bearing the 1796 date, but the reverse, the Small Letters style, is the style of 1795 and, possibly, early 1796, and was probably the first 1796 reverse cut (before the two Large Letters dies).
The reverse of BB-65 could have been made in 1795 but not used then.
Reverse die used to strike 1796 BB-65 only.
Die State I: Perfect dies; obverse not relapped; reverse without lump at I in AMERICA on reverse. May not exist.
Die State II: Obverse lightly relapped, with highest wave of hair incomplete. Obverse is cracked from the 6th denticle right of numeral 6, extending vertically toward bust but not quite reaching bottom of drapery. Reverse: Prominent lump caused by piece out of the die at the upper right outside of I in AMERICA, extending upward toward the denticles and rightward toward C, but touching neither denticles nor C. The field of the coin is bulged outward in a small area below the lump (discernible only on higher grade coins). Letters I and C are joined by a short crack from a point just below the center of each letter. The noted bulge is between this crack and the lump. It is likely that this short crack establishes a lower limit for the "internal die break" or lump. Stars 2 and 3 are weak and are not defined at their centers, due to metal flow into the lump at I, which was opposite stars 2 and 3 when the dies were in the press. Most specimens seen are of this die state.
Die State III: As above, but the lump at I in AMERICA is now slightly larger and lightly touches the adjacent C. Scarcer than the preceding.
Die State IV. As III, but now the lump extends along the curve of the C closest to the I, and also has enlarged to the left, covering the vertical shaft of the I at one point. Scarcer than either II or III.
Die State V: Bolender-5a. The lump joins IC and extends past C. Rare.
Die State VI: The lump extends further, and there is noticeable die rust at ER in AMERICA (cf. Bowers and Merena 3/89: 1951 and others).
Note: There is really no end to the theoretical number of intermediary states. For this reason, most numismatists are content with but a single specimen of a given variety of a specific Bolender number. Collecting by die states has attracted a few numismatists over the years, primarily because Bolender gave much space to them. Today, interest in minute die state differences is minimal.
COLLECTING NOTES: 1796 BB-65 is the second most available (after BB-61) of the die varieties of the 1796 date. I estimate that 800 to 1,400 survive. While it is common in the middle circulated grades, BB-65 becomes a rarity in AU or finer.
Most specimens show light striking at stars 2 and 3 (due to metal requirements to fill the defect at I opposite in the dies in the press). A few have weak striking at first T in STATES on reverse.
Newman Specimen. MS-61. Eric P. Newman Collection. Toned in gold, brown and green. Die State II.
Hollinbeck-Kagin Specimen. MS-60. Hollinbeck-Kagin Sale, June 1970: 601. Uncirculated with attractive patina.
Alto Specimen. MS-60. Stack's, Alto Collection, 1970: 1063. Brilliant Uncirculated, with a prooflike surface. Perfectly centered, and very sharply struck. A superbly toned specimen, with splashes of golden and blue iridescence which enhances the overall beauty of this coin. Minute planchet defect on reverse edge. Full eagle's eye is seen S.S. Forrest, Jr. Collection, Stack's, 1972:978 .Metropolitan New York Convention Sale, Stack's, 1975:154.
DeCoppet Specimen. AU-55. James Kelly, Andre DeCoppet Collection, 1955. "Practically Uncirculated, a beautiful sharp specimen."
New Netherlands 54th Sale Specimen. AU-55. New Netherlands 54th Sale, 1960: 1010. "Uncirculated. Weakly struck in centers as usual. Considerable original mint frost. Slight peripheral tarnish." Don Corrado Romano Collection, Stack's, 1987:746. "Light steel and russet toning, the border of denticles complete on both sides."
Four Landmark Collections Specimen. AU-55. Bowers and Merena, Four Landmark Collections sale, 1989: 1951. "Very sharply struck, Beautifully toned in shades of pale gray and iridescent golden brown. Several obverse die breaks can be seen, as made. A lovely, sharply struck specimen, with full and separate definition in Liberty's hair strands and folds in her gown on the obverse, and nearly complete feathering detail in eagle on reverse."
Flip-strike mint error. Concerning a flip-strike specimen of Die State V, grade not stated, Bolender noted this in 1950: "Another specimen of this variety is a curious overstrike. The reverse is struck over the obverse of this variety, the date and stars showing plainly on the reverse."


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- 1School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia;
- 2Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Correspondence to: Professor Samar Aoun, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia; S.Aoun{at}curtin.edu.au
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This review found evidence of the benefits of providing home-based palliative care, supporting people to die at home, particularly those with advanced cancer.
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Current stories from Syria offer only death and destruction. But in the spirit of the season, I offer four love stories, two fables and two authentic.
Chaucer, who died in 1400, wrote one of the Canterbury Tales about Syrian cloth merchants who visited Italy and returned home with stories of Constance, a beautiful and noble Italian woman, which found their way to the sultan. He resolved to marry her, and sent emissaries to arrange the event. To overcome the Moslem-Christian divide, he announced he would become Christian, and invited her and an entourage of religious leaders to Syrian for the wedding. Meanwhile, the sultan's mother pretended to convert while plotting behind his back. At the wedding feast, her co-conspirators murdered her son and all the other Christians, and sent the wife-to-be packing. The story is an example of European antisemitism, helping to justify the Crusades and later acts against Jews.
The second story is a Syrian tale of the beautiful Aila, and her suitor Antar. Aila's parents refused to consent to the marriage because his skin was too dark. But after distinguishing himself in battles – possibly the Crusades – he was so famous and popular that Aila's parents consented to their union. I have a folk art painting of Aila I acquired many years ago in Damascus.
The third story is about my former nanny in Jerusalem, who married a Syrian and raised a large family. Her widowed father-in-law in Damascus was going blind, and hired a young woman to take care of him who was divorced by her husband, because he accused her of not being a virgin when they were married. The young woman and the blind man fell in love, but his family, probably thinking inheritance, objected to the marriage. The two of them were resolute, and she guided him through the streets of Damascus to find a priest who blessed their union. Since she was kind and good-natured, the entire family eventually adjusted and accepted her.
The fourth story of unrequited love was told by my father, who was gathering inscriptions in the Syrian desert and visited an isolated police post, where he was invited in for coffee. The one-room building had a small jail with a prisoner who was singing away the time. My father asked the sheriff what he was singing about, and he replied, "Oh, he is singing of the beauty of Marilyn Monroe."
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