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Since today is Presidents Day I thought it would be a great time for some presidential triva.

Presidential nicknames. 

George Washington:  Father of our county

Thomas Jefferson:   The Pen of the Revolution

James Madison: Father of the Constitution

James Monroe:  The last of the crooked Hats

Zachary Taylor: Old Rough and Ready  (given to him by soldiers during the Seminole War)

Abraham Lincoln: The great Emancipator, Honest Abe, The Rail Splitter

Ulysses S Grant: American Caesar , his friends called him Sam ( his initials were U.S.)

Franklin Roosevelt: F.D.R. , The Boss, King Franklin

Harry S Truman: Give’em  Hell Harry, Haberdasher Harry

Dwight D Eisenhower: General Ike, Kansas Cyclone, Duckpin, Ike

John F Kennedy: J.F.K.  Jack by his friends, Little Blue Boy by Pres. Eisenhower I& The Boss by secret service

Lyndon G Johnson:  L.B.J.m Secret Service code was Volunteer

Richard Nixon: Tricky Dicky, Gloomy Gus

Gerald Ford: Jerry ,accidental president

Jimmy Carter: The Peanut Farmer, Cousin Hot, Hot or Hot Shot

George H Bush Ole Pop or Poppy

Ronald Regan:   The Great Communicator, Secret Service code name Raw Hide

George W Bush: W.

Bill Clinton: Slick Willie

Barack Obama : Berry

Presidents who died in office

William H Harrison 1841

Zachary Taylor 1850

Abraham Lincoln 1865 (assassinated)

James Garfield 1881 (assassinated)

William McKinley 1901 (assassinated)

Warren G Harding 1923

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945

John F Kennedy 1963 (assassinated)

The "Curse of Tippecanoe"
The curse began with William Harrison (Tippecanoe and Tyler Too) who died in 1841. He was elected in 1840. For a 120 years, every president elected in a year ending is zero died while serving in office. A zero is in an election every 20 years. The story is told that Tecumseh's older brother known as the Prophet set a curse on Harrison and future occupants of the White House in years that end with the same number as Harrison's election. He did this because of the treaty me of the Native Americans after a war. The curse was broken by Reagan (1980). He was shot but not killed. In 2000, George Bush was elected. There was an attempt against his life but he was not injured.

What the bible have been opened to during the swearing in of the president.

Hayes:  Ps 118: 11-13  - 11  They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
12  They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
 13  Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

Garfield: Proverbs 21:1  1  The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD,  as the rivers of water:
he turneth it whithersoever he will.

 Cleveland: Psalms 112: 4-10  4  Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness:  he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
5  A good man showeth favor, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
 6  Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
 7  He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
 8  His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.
 9  He hath dispersed,he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor
 10  The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

McKinnely: II Chronicles 1:10 1  And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
 2  ¶ Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
 3  So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
 4  But the ark of God had David brought up from Kir'jath–je'arim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.  5 Moreover the brazen altar, Ex. 38.1-7 that Bez'aleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
 6  And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
 7  ¶ In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
 8  And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
 9  Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. 10  Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

 Taft:  1 King 3 : 9-11   9  ¶ So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
10  And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
 11  But Jehosh'aphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Eli'sha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Eli'jah.

Wilson: Psalms 119: 43-46 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
 44  So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
 45  And I will walk at liberty for I seek thy precepts.
 46  I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings,  and will not be ashamed.

 Harding:  Micah 6:8   He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

F.D. Roosevelt: 1 Corinthians 13  1  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

 2  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,  and have not charity, I am nothing.

 3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

 4  ¶ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

 6  rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

 7  beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

 8  ¶ Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

 9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

 10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

 11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

 12  For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

 13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Truman: 1^st term -Mathew 5  The Beatitudes  1 And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him.

2 Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:

3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed are those who mourn   For they shall be comforted.

5 Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.

6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

7 Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.

8 Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

9 Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.

10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,

11 “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Truman 2^nd term:  The Ten Commandments 20 And God spoke all these words, saying:

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

 Nixon : Isaiah 2:4  He shall judge between the nations,And rebuke many people;They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.

George H. W. Bush :  The Beatitudes  And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. 2 Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:

3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

5 Blessed are the meek,  For they shall inherit the earth.

6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

7 Blessed are the merciful ,For they shall obtain mercy.

8 Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

9 Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.

10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Clinton:  Galatians 6:8 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

George W Bush: Isaiah 40 : 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.heirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Gotta have HEART

February is Heart awareness month.  Our blog today we are focused on the heart. The heart can be a silent killer.  Before you know it it’s too late.  That is why you must be on your toes concerning your heart.  We must be diligent in keeping ourselves healthy for hearts sake. This means eating properly, exercising, watching our alcohol intake and no smoking.  These are all things we should do in order to keep a healthy heart.  This is something we must make a habit of if we want a healthy, full and long life. We recommend having a yearly check up with your physician. A heart attack is not a respecter of person. It strikes the young, and the old, male or female and does not discriminate race color or creed.  Listed below are a few sign/symptoms related to heart attack

1. Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest.  It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back.

2. Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach.

3. Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort.

4. Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness.

5. As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting and back or jaw pain.

If you have any of these signs, don’t wait more than five minutes before calling for help. Call 9-1-1 and get to a hospital right away. 

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN 80/20?

When you call for an insurance verification, do you know what they mean by 80% of the allowable charges?  Some times this can be confusing to you as well as the patient.  In this week’s   blog I hope I can help explain what the insurance company means by 80% of the allowable charges.

The insurance will only pay the provider the maximum amount allowable according to your contract with the insurance company. This amount is considered full payment from the insurance.  Insurance companies have a fee schedule they refer to for payment of fees you charge.  This fee schedule is negotiated at the time the provider’s contract. It is comprised of the charges of all the providers of a certain area. 

Now that we have figured out how they set up the allowable charges. Let’s take a look on how to figure the 80%.  When insurance pays 80/20 this means they will pay 80% of the allowable charges and the patients responsibility is the 20% of the allowable charges.  The balance between the allowable charge and the providers charge is usually written off by the provider according provider /insurance contract.  When the provider charges $100.00 for a service rendered, the insurance by only allow $90.00 the provider must then write off the $10.00. The insurance company will then pay 80% of the $90.00.  Some contracts state you may not bill for the balance of the fee after the insurance has paid.  Some contracts you may bill the patient the other 20%.