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I have a friend who owns a multimillion dollar home in a fancy suburb. She has two kitchens, too. The deluxe kitchen is part of the open concept living area on the first floor and there is a catering kitchen downstairs. The catering kitchen is larger with restaurant sized appliances. Two ovens, two dishwashers, etc. She says it is fairly common in that area. She uses the showplace to make coffee and simple stuff, but, she is an excellent cook. When she is tackling a bigger cooking job, especially for guests, she uses the catering kitchen.

I was there with 40,000 or so of my closest friends and we, too, enjoyed it immensely.

Jill's daughters do; because Jill had already planned a photo shoot in Andy Griffith's hometown so she could post the pictures on their blog. I'm sure having Mahmo slap makeup on them and fix their hair wasn't the worst part of the day. Posing for photo after photo while sick with a stomach virus must've been torture. Jill didn't give them a choice; it's her way or the highway. A few years ago, Nurie and Kaylee were in an auto accident. Jill showed up at the ER, snapping pics of the girls as they lay on backboards with cervical collars while they were getting Xrayed to see if they'd broken their necks. She posted multiple photos of their bruised and bloodied faces. Amazingly, despite their terrifying accident and obvious injuries, both girls had full faces of makeup including freshly applied lipstick in the pictures. Pretty hard to slap blush on your face when you're strapped to a backboard. Thank God Jill arrived to comfort her traumatized daughters by applying makeup to their faces and taking pictures of them to post online. You'd be hard pressed to find a more selfish parent than Jill. Her kids exist purely as props for her ego on social media.

There are already multiple state legislatures where reps have said they will present legislation requiring pregnant women to register with the state, probably via their obstetric caregiver and will require them to document the progress of the pregnancy and eventual outcome. While this is ostensibly to prevent women from having abortions out of state in places like Texas where there are heartbeat laws; it wouldn't be hard to imagine some sort of proof of citizenship being required as part of the information gathered. There really are people who are perfectly fine with invading the privacy of others for their own purposes and way too many have been elected to state government.

Love Kamala's smirk at Biden's reply. Of course, supposedly there were members of Trump's 'team' present at the negotiations, so he will claim it was his dealmaking abilities. Reminds me of the Iranian hostage crisis in Jimmy Carter's day. After he won the election, Reagan negotiated for the release of the hostages and made sure that it didn't happen until the day he was inaugurated so he could claim full credit while insulting Carter one last time.

It could be; but most hospitals are a bit more formal than that. I work for a large hospital system, and, if I came to work dressed like that, I would go to the locker room and change into scrubs. The hospital system where I work allows ER providers to wear either scrubs or a blue polo shirt with the hospital logo on it with chinos or similar. Hospital policy is no jeans ever, for any on-duty employee. On ER, they did something similar, although, by series end, most of the male docs anyway, seemed to wear scrubs rather than street clothes. There are a lot of bodily fluids floating around an ER, so avoiding wearing anything that might get stained is a good idea. Doctors dress much less formally than they did when I started out 40 years ago. I had a friend from residency who practiced in Atlanta and she told me she never wore anything other than a skirt or dress to the office for her first 5 years in practice, all the female docs did the same.

I, too, live in a large metropolitan area where the public hospital is well-regarded and offers specialized services that are nationally known and respected. The facilities are every bit as nice as any of the private hospitals, too. I worked for them years ago and received compensation that was competitive with private practice or employment by a private hospital system. The notion that public hospitals are somehow inferior to other institutions is incorrect in this day and age. My local public hospital has 100% private rooms for patients, BTW. No room mates and certainly no wards.

Yeah, dear old dad essentially invalidated any research he was currently conducting by interfering with the penguins' environment. And, as you stated, anyone with the sort of qualifications and experience this guy would have to have to be permitted to conduct research in Antarctica would not only know this, but be an absolute staunch supporter of the scientific method. I don't mind the actress, but I think she's sorta quirky and definitely an acquired taste. She's lucky that the first time I noticed her was in the Norwegian Christmas movie last year where the rest of the cast was so charming and funny, I wasn't paying much attention to her. I've also been to Norway and loved it, so the scenery was also distracting. Not so much with fake Antarctica.

Another plot hole: if the father was so distraught over the penguin situation, why call the daughter thousands of miles away to have an emotional meltdown over it? What was she going to do about it? He seemed to have multiple friends and colleagues at the research station, yet, none of them seemed to know about the problem despite the fact that 1. they were right there and 2. they were far more likely to have a practical solution than the daughter. The daughter quit her job to illustrate a non-existent children’s book about penguins. As you do. Because getting a book contract is a fast and easy solution for maintaining income over the short term. Even if she is able to sell it to a publisher, it will be many months before she sees a dime, which is why people trying to break into the business have day jobs. Except for her.

Michelle O was supposedly in Hawaii during Carter's funeral and had a scheduled engagement that she really needed to keep. At least that was the story we got. I think it is also quite possible that she realized that the seating arrangements were going to put her right next to Trump and decided to stay put. She's not the politician in the family, as she has made clear on numerous occasions. I think she's done with playing nice with the Trumps.

Because the margins between profit and loss are small and it is not cheap to keep a hospital up and running. Hence, it is important to let consumers know what services are available and the quality of care at individual institutions so as to attract them and their health care dollars to that facility rather than a competitor. In other words, same reason other businesses advertise. Almost nobody is willing to pay more for amenities or specialized services beyond what their insurance provides. It has become the norm that most hospital rooms are private, for example, there is no extra fee charged for it. Why? Because patients expect it and, if given the choice, will go to the hospital where a private room is guaranteed rather than take their chances on ones where it isn't.

From what we know about where they live, it does not seem that their particular area has been affected; although I am sure life is not going smoothly. LA's air quality is extremely poor due to the smoke which has also put a haze over the city and I am sure they are following the news closely.

Maybe there's a treehouse in the backyard?

Please don't insult stuffed animals that way! Both Carlin and Evan are just so darned careless with their possessions; it is maddening. They really do not seem to understand the value of a dollar and act as if they expect expensive stuff to just fall from the sky into their hands. For that matter, they treat their kids like they're disposable and easily replaced.

Carrie Underwood is singing America the Beautiful at the inauguration ceremony. She says she wants to promote national unity. Sure, Jan.