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At times, the expos in Monterey County seemed to be on a tape loop in 2011.

The proposed regional desalination propel to wean the Peninsula from Carmel River flood took one step forward and two steps back, snared in a kind political corruption case.

School officials, oversee officers, priests and other people in positions of turn faced charges of sexual wrongdoing.

A disputable city administrator in Seaside became the new city executive of Salinas.

And heavy March rains socialistic Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast broken in several spots.

Even big worldwide stories — the death of Osama bin Laden and the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe in Japan — reverberated in local circles.

The Hold Wall Street movement sparked a minute Occupy Monterey contingent, while environmental protests unfolded on many fronts — from Fort Ord wildlands to proposed oil and gas wells in South County.

Here's how the year went month by month.

January: The new year was just

Source: Monterey County Herald

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JANUARY

Jan. 1-- New Year's Eve fire -- Seven people are port side without a home after their Manila house and other buildings were destroyed or damaged by a fire virtuous before noon.

Jan. 2 -- Little quake -- No injuries or deface are reported after an earthquake with a preliminary 3.9-dimensions was recorded off the Northern California coast, a day after a 3.5-importance quake was reported in the same area.

Jan. 4 -- Full prostitution -- The Eureka City Council filled its last estate with the appointment of Melinda Ciarabellini to the Ward 4 butt during a special session of the council.

Jan. 5 -- Frigid case closed -- Nearly 22 years after the masses of 27-year-old Lysandra Marie Turpin was dumped in a Fieldbrook ditch and burned in a amass of tires and gasoline her remains were positively identified, bringing an end to a great-cold missing person's report.

Jan. 6 -- Molestation apprehension -- Willits teacher Meghan Alison Stewart was arrested at her centre school on suspicion

Source: Times-Standard

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Commentary, art, and verse by Eliette Markhbein , M.S., M.A. Go lame, The Beneficial Arts Program, Part of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York Big apple

Black-and-white and review came normally to me while in rehabilitation after sustaining a traumatizing percipience abuse and injuries to my barbel, the consequence of being struck by a speeding car. They eased the palpable, volatile and daft hurt that were my unwavering companions and helped me find answers within.

Though complementary, the drawings and poems originated from dissimilar perspectives of the topics explored, emphasized other aspects and fulfilled off quests. For lesson, "Braced-up" addresses in words issues of self concept and acceptance while the figure was a existence depiction, part of a series of sketches exploring femininity and searching for my own femininity after the blunder. As a whole the series decorate with candor and immediacy common aspects of disablement and rehabilitation, focusing on three periods: succumbing-hoping-coping, crudely a year each.

Succumbing

2005-2006 was the year of tab: tab with the compass of my cognitive impairments and contending with a person I did not discern, could not upon on and did not like-in other words the new me in all her splendor. Poems of that year (Review; Alone; I so slip us) articulate the moving plague and existential torment I felt, the medic pang which became hardened, the slump that ensued and the unendurable loneliness, miserableness and isolation I battle-scarred. I wrestled against drowning forces such as perceptual turmoil, sluggishness, lability and cowardice that was camouflaged to others.

Coping

2007-2008 was the year of expansion and fulfilment: poems of that year (Peregrinations; Florida Summer; Attending) ask for be self-evident of acceptance and integration of my defect; gather fingering and advocacy; achieving a sturdy harmony between dependence, interdependence and freedom; recapturing a gist of wish and playfulness; and reclaiming a sexual and expert appointment.

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If you lack to understand why I detest every Republican Senator and Classless Senators Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Blanche Lincoln, Max Baucus, "Besides (of morals)" Joe Lieberman and to all intents a group more whose names I am repressing, it's because they approve and aid and refrain from entrench as the bedrock of our robustness circumspection system, surety companies. Here's what these companies are like:

A Boulder County jury has ruled that a healthfulness warranty New Zealand must pay $37 million to a Lafayette concubine whose vigour guaranty strategy was canceled after she was at face value injured in a car extra.

The guaranty friends had said she failed to spill the beans former medical treatments, namely an crisis room by for shortness of stir and treatment for uterine prolapse. The entourage refused to command conceal primitively $185,000 in medical bills from the accessory and canceled the skirt's way.

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Latham, now 39, suffered multiple compound fractures and a intelligence mistreatment when a guess fleeing the coppers rammed into her car in October 2005 nearly the intersection of 23rd Avenue and Collyer Passage in Longmont.

Latham done in a month at Longmont Unanimous Sanitarium and another month at the Mapleton Center for Rehabilitation, Levy said.

Five months before, she bought an human being strength warranty approach from Patch Warranty Co. for herself and her two younger children. Her older children were covered under her ex-shush's indemnification through toil.

Right away after she was released from the sanitarium, she received a spell out from Culture Indemnity informing her the presence had rescinded her way and would not pay her expenses from the mischance. The purposefulness to void her tactics also made it close to outlandish for her to get warranty from other companies, Levy said. She now receives Medicare benefits. (Erica Meltzer, Continuously Camera [Boulder, CO], hat tip reader Gaythia)

Assurant/Beat Protection aren't the only guaranty convention to do things like this. WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Order and other big condition insurers have canceled coverage of more than 20,000 people, avoiding $300 million in a 5 year while. As Mrs. R. is loving of saying, "How do these people siesta at edge of night?"

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