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If you listen to many Republicans in Washington, the Affordable Care Act’s insurance markets are in a “death spiral,” “imploding,” “collapsing” or “will fall of their own weight

Mr. Ryan is right that the Obamacare market has endured hardships. It isn’t as competitive as many of its advocates had hoped, and shoppers in many parts of the country have only one insurer to choose from

But insurers say lawmakers need to make fixes in order for them to remain in the market and have praised some of the early steps taken by the Trump Administration to stabilize the market.

You call it Repeal and replace, or fix Obama care... It wasn't the end of the road and we haven't got Trump-care yet. But it is the politicians tactic to scare the public and they may get some publicity out of this cruel game.  Just a thought.

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Two recently deciphered papyri were discovered and translated, dated to the third century. The spells are written in Greek, a language widely used in Egypt at the time.

Ancient, magical spells of love, subjugation and sex,  may sound like a "Game of Thrones" episode, but these evildoings are also found on two recently deciphered papyri from Egypt.

One spell invokes the gods to "burn the heart" of a woman until she loves the spell caster.  Another spell, targeted at a male, uses a series of magical words to "subject" him, forcing him to do whatever the caster wants.

The two spells were not targeted at a specific person, only need to insert the name of the person being targeted sort of like an ancient "Mad Libs."

Archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt discovered the spells in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, more than 100 years ago, among a haul of hundreds of thousands of papyri.   Many of them are now owned by the Egypt Exploration Society and are housed and studied at the University of Oxford in England.

 Nothing new under the Sun.   Been used since. Just a thought.  

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An Oregon woman fatally shot a home intruder after she found him in a bedroom. 
The woman, 33, said she had returned home with her two children when she found a stranger in one of her child's bedrooms. She was armed with a handgun and fired at least one shot at the man.  Officers found the man, 59, dead at the scene.

Local defense attorney Edward Kroll says a homeowner has the right to defend themselves in most cases.   He says, if the homeowner reasonably believes an intruder is in their house to commit a crime, they can use deadly force to protect themselves.   

Exceptions come into play when the intruder is a known to the homeowner and, perhaps, has been invited over before.  On a twist, neighbors said squatters have been coming to this house in the past.

Police can response very quickly, that is what they do, so step out of the house and call the police.          Just a thought.

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The head of a now-defunct Massachusetts pharmacy was sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and left others with debilitating infections.

Barry Cadden, the owner and head pharmacist, was convicted of racketeering and fraud in connection with the outbreak, the largest public health crisis ever caused by a pharmaceutical product.

The 50-year-old was accused of producing drugs in dangerously unsanitary conditions and sidestepping regulations. Tainted steroids from the facility were distributed to patients around the country, triggering a wave of infections that sent health officials scrambling to identify the source.

When regulators inspected Cadden’s facility, they found standing water, mold and bacteria on workers’ gloves all potential sources of contamination.

The case brought new scrutiny to compounding pharmacies, which typically make medicines for individual patients on a custom basis and face looser regulations as a result.  The New England Compounding Center was operating more like a full-blown manufacturer, producing large volumes of medicine and shipping them to many states.  

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