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Panasonic Portable 2-Speed Oral Irrigator for $19.99 + free shipping w/code FLOSSY

Edit CNET 20 Apr 2016
Panasonic offers its Panasonic Portable 2-Speed Oral Irrigator, model no. EW-DJ10-A, for $49.99. Coupon code "FLOSSY" drops it to $19.99. With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we've seen and the best deal today by $6. It features 2-speed water jet flow and 1,600 pulses per minute. Deal ends today ... ....

Drew Barrymore grows emotional speaking about her pets

Edit Belfast Telegraph 16 Apr 2016
The Charlie's Angels star was honoured for her humanitarian efforts at the ASPCA's Bergh Ball in New York on Thursday (14Apr16), and in her acceptance speech she recalled how important her bond with her late dog Flossie was ... Flossie lived for 16 years and in her book Wildflower, Drew recalled her emotions when she lost her, because of their special bond....

What's the concept behind themed albums from Weezer, M83 and Edward Sharpe?

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 14 Apr 2016
. Weezer. WEEZER. Crush Music/Warner Advertisement. ★★★★. M83. JUNK ... But one listen to Moon Crystal, which is two minutes of gliding strings, flossy synths and a canned beat, or Bibi The Dog, an effervescent slice of synth-pop that sounds like The Thompson Twins collaborating with a French chanteuse, should have TV producers scrambling for Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano's numbers to get a revival happening ... ....

Merle Haggard turned to God more and more as he aged

Edit The Oklahoman 13 Apr 2016
Country music star Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday at age 79, made a career out of singing about drinking and prison along with paying homage to the working class ... Haggard's mother, Flossie Mae Haggard, was a devout member of the Church of Christ, going so far as to ban her husband, James, from playing fiddle in honky-tonk bars because she thought it was sinful, CMT Artists reports ... His commitment to bettering himself paid off big ... ....

Merle Haggard: the maverick musician and his ‘defiantly contrarian journey’

Edit The Guardian 10 Apr 2016
The singer-songwriter, who died on 6 April, drew on his genuine outsider experience to forge a tougher sound in opposition to Nashville’s slickness ... A complex lineage is suggested here ... Twitter ... Haggard’s father died when he was just nine years old and he was raised by his mother, Flossie Mae, a church-going disciplinarian against whose strictures he rebelled as a young teenager ... So began a defiantly contrarian journey ... ....

Obituary: Country music star Merle Haggard

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Apr 2016
Merle Haggard 1937–2016. Over decades of trouble, fame, and more trouble, Merle Haggard never stopped making up songs. The country-music star seemed afflicted with a song-writing compulsion, much as Woody Guthrie was. He penned his first ballads as a child ... Advertisement ... He said ... Merle Ronald Haggard was born on April 6, 1937, in Oildale, near Bakersfield, the youngest of three children of James Frances and Flossie Mae Haggard ... ....

Merle Haggard Captured America’s Spirit with Grit and Integrity

Edit Time Magazine 07 Apr 2016
I met Merle Haggard in 2008. He had just written a song about Hillary Clinton and wanted to sing it for me. So I went up to his home, in view of Mount Shasta, in northern California, and we spent the day together ... He did not deny the legend that he wrote the words “We Don’t Smoke Marijuana in Muskogee” while stoned. It was a good day ... He was raised by his mother, Flossie Mae Harp, who became immortal when Merle wrote. ... ....

Country music legend Merle Haggard dead at 79

Edit The Examiner 06 Apr 2016
Iconic country music star Merle Haggard has passed away at the age of 79, according to TMZ on Wednesday. Referred to as the working man’s poet and an architect of the Bakersfield Sound, the singer and songwriter who influenced country music like few other artists throughout history, had just had his 79th birthday ... He was the child of Oklahoma migrants, James and Flossie Haggard, born on April 6, 1937 in Bakersfield, California ... ....

Merle Haggard Dies on 79th Birthday

Edit Rhapsody 06 Apr 2016
Merle Haggard passed away on his 79th birthday (April 6, 2016) after suffering from a spate of health issues, including double pneumonia, for which he was recently hospitalized. Merle Haggard was known for spearheading the Bakersfield Sound along with Buck Owens. Flossie and James Francis Haggard moved from Checotah, Oklahoma to Bakersfield, California in the midst of the Great Depression in 1934 ... 1 singles ... ....

Merle Haggard, ‘Okie From Muskogee’ Country Singer, Dies at 79

Edit Bloomberg 06 Apr 2016
Merle Haggard, the country music star who emerged from the Bakersfield, California, music scene during the 1960s and criticized hippies at the height of the Vietnam War in “Okie from Muskogee,” has died. He was 79 ... The cause was pneumonia ... The single was one of 38 songs Haggard recorded that reached No ... He was the third child of James Haggard, a railroad worker and one-time fiddle player, and Flossie Harp ... 1 country single ... 1 single ... ....

Merle Haggard obituary: ‘all he really wanted to do was fish and write songs’

Edit The Guardian 06 Apr 2016
Inventive singer-songwriter who gave common people a forthright voice. Merle Haggard, who has died aged 79, was one of the most resonant figures in country music for almost half a century ... His family background was an archetypal Dust Bowl story. In 1934, James Haggard and his wife Flossie Mae (nee Harp), like the Joads in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, quit the worn-out soil of Oklahoma to find work in California ... That’s all.” ... ....

PACA, PAMELA

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 26 Mar 2016
Paca; mother, Walteretta "Flossie" Cameron; brother, Scott Cameron (Laura Cameron); sister, Cindy Kalfoglou; brother, David Cameron; niece, Jessie Cameron-Jackson (Aaron Jackson); nephews, Stavros Kalfoglou (Maribeth Kalfoglou), Aleko Kalfoglou (Stacy Kalfoglou), Matthew Kalfoglou, Chris Kalfoglou; great-nephew, Aidan Jackson; Konstantinos "Kosta" Kalfoglou; great-niece, Camryn Jackson; and many other loving relatives and friends ... ....

Obituary: Charles Mackie Forbes, lorry driver and soldier

Edit Scotsman 26 Mar 2016
Born. 7 March, 1915, in Raemoir, Banchory. Died. 7 March, 2016, in Aberdeen, aged 101. Like so many of his generation Charlie Forbes never really spoke of his war. But last August, on the 75th anniversary of the night his troopship sank, he broke his silence about the deadly German torpedo attack ... In 1934, in his late teens, he moved back nearer to Banchory, to Lumphanan, where he met Flossie, whom he married the following year ... ....
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