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Commenter: Bernadette FrawleyIn the 1990′s, as a mother of three, I borrowed around $35,000 to get a degree in Economics. After a divorce and relocation and struggling, I was able through the years, to pay back approximately $10,000 of it. In 2001, I consolidated again and all of a sudden my balance of (then) $47,000 became $100,000! When I tried to get answers no one could help me and was told I would have to produce the original loan documents. By this time my loans had been sold so many times who knew their path. I am now up to almost $200,000 in debt, receive 3-4 phone calls a day and have been unemployed for over a year. They called and harassed my last employer…I’m afraid to get a job! Two of my children have just graduated from college and they kept student loan borrowing to a minimum (of course, I was not able to borrow for them). I am 48. I will NEVER pay this off and I don’t think I owe this much but the collection agency won’t listen! Help! I do volunteer work in my community. I’ve dreamed of joining the Peace Corp but now I think this will prevent me from doing so.

Chickens come several ways: as hawks, peals, pox and coffee-flavored (chicory), BBQ’s, fried, in past little lumps called McNuggets and with their tail between their legs! You can get them in a basket, in a bucket or in a coop with fries.

People develop a morbid relationship with the most unlikely things. “Git rid of that horse, Newt! It’s bound to kill ya someday!” But Newt keeps saddlin’ up the widow maker.

Commenter: ColleenI graduated in 1997 at age 30. As a single mother with two small children, I made the decision to obtain a bachelors degree in order to make a better life for my family. I attended school full-time and worked part time, and obtained my degree in four years cum laude. Fortunately, I qualified for some low income grants, and I used student loans to help make ends meet during my four years in school. At the time I graduated, my consolidated student loan balance was just under $30k. After graduating, I remarried, and my husband and I planned to pay off the loan balance as quickly as possible. However, my husband was injured and unable to work for a long period, making it impossible for me to pay toward my loans during this time. With my forebearance options exhausted, my loans went into default and were sent to collections. My total loan balance is now $66k, including a whopping $18k (!!!!) in penatlties the collection company will receive for making approximately 20 phone calls to me arranging to put my loan into a "rehabilitation" program. At the rate of $520 per month, it will take me 30 years to repay my loans. I will be over 70 years old. colleencsco@gmail.com

Now, Phil had come prepared to work in the cold. He had on his hat with Elmer Fudd earflaps, mudboots, socks, undies, long johns, jeans, undershirt, wool shirt and Carharts. Carharts, for you tropical cowboys, are insulated coveralls made out of canvas and tough as a nylon tutu.

How can we go wrong? We’ll get national promotion. We can reduce costs by laying off herders and border collies. Park the camp wagons, use the carbine guns as planters, sell the mules. And all for the price of a few baby lambs and old ewes.

This one-hour holiday season Gospel Concerts will bring joy to your heart and soul. Gospel music is a powerfully uplifting experience that everyone should experience. We intend to have you toe-clapping, foot-stomping, and singing along with the soulful rhythms of Black gospel music that will fill the church on these two days.

Because farm and ranch people have chosen to work directly with God, we get a closer look at life than most folks. We are not insulated from its precarious nature. Yet, in return we are exposed to the beautiful sunrise, the smell of rain, the quiet snow and the satisfaction of saving a life now and then.

Commenter: Betty KemperIn 2000, I was a 53 year old returning student with high hopes and dreams of being a COLLEGE GRADUATE. I signed up for and received financial aid. Yes, what a NIGHTMARE. I lasted almost two years in my educational quest and dropped out in financial ruin. I filed for bankruptcy. Not only did financial aid not sustain me through my education, as I understood it would, the University revealed its self as an administrational incompetence. I refuse to pay for an education I didn’t get. I refuse to pay for someone else’s incompetence. Could this really have been an acredited University? (My list of grievances has about 6 major issues). Now I’m to be the responsible one and pay up. No one at the University is taking responsibility for their actions. I refuse to pay. Now at almost 62, I understand that the government can take a % of my Social Security retirement benefits to repay my financal aid loans.

BILLY STRITCH "LUCKY TO BE ME" at New York’s legendary Birdland Nov. 25, Dec. 2 & 9 at 6:00 pm Acclaimed pianist/singer Billy Stritch brings his new solo show "Lucky To Be Me" to the Birdland stage for three shows only (November 25, December 2 and 9 – Saturdays at 6:00 pm). This show will include Billy’s arrangements of songs by Gershwin, Kern, Hoagy Carmichael, Cy Coleman and other giants of American popular music and stories of his career thus far. These shows also commemorate the 20th anniversary of Billy’s first appearance at Birdland in 1997 when he premiered his Brazilian CD "Waters Of March" and will include selections from that recording as well. Billy will be joined by bassist Neal Miner (November 25, December 9) and Tom Hubbard (December 2). Billy Stritch is one of the premier singer-pianists on the New York and national jazz and cabaret scenes. He began his career in Houston, Texas, where he formed the vocal trio Montgomery, Plant and Stritch. The trio performed all over New York and Europe from 1983 until they disbanded in 1990. A chance meeting with Liza Minnelli in March of 1991 resulted in her asking him to create vocal arrangements for the record-breaking… (read more)

Jazz drummer Ai Murakami was born in Japan, and has been fascinated by rhythm ever since she played taiko (Japanese drums) at the age of four. When she heard Thelonious Monk’s "Monk’s Dream" for the first time, she fell in love with his music immediately and immersed herself in jazz. She started her professional career while at Waseda University, and moved to New York city in 1998. Soon after her arriving, she found her musical home, Smalls Jazz Club, located in Greenwich Village, and quickly met like-minded musicians. Since then, she has dedicated herself to pursuing her musical passion. Her debut album Conception, released from Gut String Records in November 2014, features Zaid Nasser, Tardo Hammer and Hassan Shakur and has received outstanding reviews from the jazz critics. "Murakami is crisp and selective, but her breaks insert force into all the right places. She is the first reason Conception swings like crazy." "Her interpretations prove once again two things about bebop: Its complex energy is unique in its capacity to communicate joy, and its forms are inexhaustible in their openness to individual expression." Tom Conrad, Stereophile Magazine "The tw… (read more)

Two more Olympic golds the Hunter has some claim to came in the same event as Ryan’s, when Laurie Morgan captained the three-day team to victory at the 1960 Rome games and also won the individual.