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Guns And Ammo

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  You would have to be in a cave not to know the carnage this kid unloaded at Sandy Hook School in Conn. He had an array of guns and ammo worth hundreds of dollars. Where did he get the money to purchase all this paraphernalia. Only source I can see was from his mother. She paid with all that with  her life, she was the first one he shot. He discharged  some 154 shots with that military type rifle before  killing himself. I think the Police responded within a few minutes. 20 little kids killed, 6 adults. If he had been limited to a single shot rifle think how many lives would have been saved.   .  

Walking and Old Age

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Although walking pace is a seemingly basic measure to make, it has been gaining traction in the gerontology world as a reliable marker for overall health and longevity for those 65 and older. Blood pressure is one indicator of your health, it doesn't tell you everything—your walking speed doesn't either," If the correlation of walking speed with life expectancy"was valid everyone would be running like the IRS was after them. The example of "white coat hypertension" in which a person's blood pressure rises "because they're nervous that their doctor is measuring their blood pressure and what he may find." I have been using a pedometer for a number of years, and although my pace has slowed over the years I know that if my pedometer indicates I have walked 2500 steps,I have walked 1 mile.Omron makes a reliable pedometer, mine went through a wash cycle and after drying out still works reliably. I try to walk a mile a day at least. I'm 81

2013 Florida's Health Care Delima

MEDICAID FL - 2013 . Q. Who Joe Negron? Joe Negron is the senator for Florida’s state senate district 28. He is also a former member of Florida’s House of   Representatives who served from 2000 to 2006. Q: OK, so what does Negron's plan do? A: His plan would use Medicaid dollars to extend coverage insurance to roughly 1 million individu­als and families earning up to 138 percent of the fed­eral poverty line, or about $15,000 for an individual and $26,000 for a family of three. Coverage would be contracted through Flori­da Healthy Kids, a state plan that now provides subsidized private care for about 250, 000 low-income children. Q: What type of care would people receive? A: The proposed plan would have to offer what's called "benchmark" ben­efits, including preventive care such as yearly physi­cals; emergency care; ma­ternity care; and mental-health and substance-abuse treatment. It would not include preventive dental, which Florida Healthy Kids currently re

BLOAT OR UNWANTED SOFTWARE

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BLOAT OR UNWANTED SOFTWARE Nothing is more frustrating than booting up a a new computer and finding that it's already littered with junk software. This junk is commonly referred to as "BLOAT," although it also goes by other names such as "craplets" and "shovelware." New computers make great targets for advertisers because the companies can pay to have trial versions of their software installed before the computer is sold. Removing UNWANTED SOFTWARE is like uninstalling any other program, but a few tricks can make it a much smoother process. Another one is "free software". It's not free - you spend a half hour undoing all it's unwanted software they do not tell you about.Some programs will install or change servers. Example"Google" will all of a sudden be "Bing". Step 1 Click Start, and navigate to the Control Panel. Step 2 Double-click the Programs and Features button if you're using the Classic View, or cli

St. Patrick's Day

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TOTO commodes - 1.6 gallon per flush

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  Lately our attention has been of all things. How to flush and what commode to buy that efficiently does the job.After  much web surfing we settled in a brand that seems altogether foreign to Canadians.A Japanese company called TOTO.   Sometime this year all residents of North Bay will be on metered water. Now how does this effect us? According to statistic's I think they were provided by TOTO 26,665 gallons of water are used by a standard toilet compared to their low 1.6 gallon usage in a year. That's a lot of water;now if you compound that by 2 to 3 extra toilets much dinero $$$$ flowing out of your wallets.Already I can see brown lawns as people cut back to save money.   Now for the price of change. Our low flow Florida toilets needed replacing they were very inefficient and continually plugging up.Can you imagine having visitors and explaining the intricacies of a plunger.Cost of 1 TOTO toilet and lid (sold separately)delivered $282.00.The lids are special they close by th

Hybrid Cars - Payback

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Do you like this little car - You better if you buy it. At recent prices payback time in about 27 years. Opting for models that promise better mileage through new technologies does not necessarily save money, according to data compiled for The New York Times by TrueCar.com, an automotive research Web site. Except for two hybrids, the Prius and Lincoln MKZ, and the diesel-powered Volkswagen Jetta TDI, the added cost of the fuel-efficient technologies is so high that it would take the average driver many years — in some cases more than a decade — to save money over comparable new models with conventional internal-combustion engines. That is true at today’s pump prices, around $4, and also if gas were to climb to $5 a gallon, the data shows. Gas would have to approach $8 a gallon before many of the cars could be expected to pay off in the six years an average person owns a car. And of course, there’s the Volt: The Volt, which cost nearly $40,000 before a $7,500 federal tax credit, could
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Just to-day an Italian Airline pilot flying into JFK noticed a drone when " on  approach landing ." Now does this add fodder for al-Qaeda terrorists that could have a relatively cheap attack aircraft to bring down a large commercial airliner ?? Sure sounds like that to me. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130305/alitalia-pilot-drone-jfk-airport