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Although I would agree with the other two suggestions, I would skip looking for initials. They are a marketing concept more than a certification that the agent is good at that type of transaction. The best predictor of whether an agent is good or not is their past performance and how they click with you not the initials behind their name.
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Hope this helps! Good luck!
Another thing to ask for is referrals. Chances are if their previous clients were happy you will be too.
Don't rule out the smaller boutique agencies over the largest one in town. The internet has proven to be a great levelling field when it comes to buying or selling real estate and the smaller company might just work harder for you.
I like to suggest to people (outside my area) when they are looking for a agent to list is to go to open houses in their town and chat with the agent there. If he or she is representing the property well and you have a nice chat then you may have just found your agent.
Once you do find your agent be sureto listen to her advice and use her expertise.
Good luck.
I would plan on interviewing 10 or more on the phone. Of those, perhaps having three coming out to see your home, provide CMAs and a marketing plan would be reasonable. Here links to a number of Zillow guides on the selling process.
Question to ask when interviewing a listing agent.
When to call a listing agent
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Hi Florence, Your level of comfort with an agent is very important - just as you mentioned not wanting to use the previous realtor. Ask for references ffrom other satisfied sellers, ask the number of sales in the last 12 months, what you can expect from the agent such as routine follow up to market changes, phone calls about showings, open houses, and of course ask what you need to do to help sell your home. Take the agents advise on removing personal decor, neutralizing, addressing taste specific things in your home and price your home well. It is ok to test the market, but when your realtor suggest a reduction if no showing activity or offers have been received, take their advise and adjust the price. Wish you lots of success in selling your home.


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Tasted it before the keg, I can already tell this is pretty damned cloned. Missed my mark and lost a few alcohol points, no big deal, I've really come to like the 4-4.5% range, so perfect. Also took your advice on gelatin in the keg, although this already looked pretty clear coming through the racking cane. Color is dead-on.
Thanks for the recipe, I can tell this is going to be a hit! That whitbread and the specialty grain choices really make it taste like the original! Cheers!
You can trust me to make the beer. You cannot trust me with what I'll do to it once it's done.
I'm goin to try a 5gal minus the roasted barley but i was wondering, would irish moss do the same as the gelatin?
I know this thread is kind of old. Did the fruity flavor ever come through in your brew?
Hey BM or anyone who has brewed this. When filling my primary I took my eye off the carboy and ended up filling her up pretty high. This meant that when I added yeast it filled up to the brim and there was a bit of yeast left over. I do 3 gal batches so figure this is not a prob. Had a vigorous fermentation the first few days like normal but it is now day 11 and she is still chugging along. Should I move to the secondary or wait it out? My space is a bit cooler 64-66 and I have never used this yeast before so don't know what to expect.
I did a 10 gallon batch of this. Its been fermenting 7 days. I took a gravity reading today and it is at 1.012. I tasted it and it its great. I also used wirfloc during the boil. do you think I should still try the gelatin. It was real clear in the testing tube.
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What should the carb profile be for this beer. 2.30?
Hi all,
First post here, and second all-grain brew. Just wanted to open with a quick thanks to BierMuncher and to all other posters for this very good discussion about what sounds like a very good beer
I want to try to do this with my BIAB setup, and have two questions:
First, some of the ingredients like 80L crystal malt are not available to me, and I also wanted to dial down the roastiness. I deleted the barley completely, and fudged around with some of the other ingredient proportions. I think I've nailed something that will be fairly close to BM's recipe but fit within the limitations of what ingredients I have available. I've also scaled it down to my 23L setup with an expected effeciency of around 65%. Based on these changes, can anyone see any glaring omissions or possible pitfalls with my modified recipe, included below?


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Spark Plug Leak
Anyone have a quick solution for a leaky thread on spark plug #3 for my Cub? I used teflon pipe dope (yeah I know probably won't withstand the temp) which seemed to help control some of the blow through but I was wondering whether there was something industrial out there that is typically used?
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Re: Spark Plug Leak
Don't worry about the teflon holding up to the heat. A fellow model builder makes his own spark plugs. When I expressed surprise that he could make the insulator he said he uses teflon. When I questioned its' ability to withstand the temperature he said the plugs don't get hot enough to keep from fouling. The oil will burn off a plug a couple hundred degrees below the limit for teflon.
I agree that cleanliness and a good gasket should stop the leak, however.
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These are all great suggestions but let's talk about repairing the threads for a second. In order for me to do this, I'd think that I'd need to retap the head rather than to chase the existing thread. Now we're into a whole different world of which I know nothing about whatsoever. Size of the new plug vs. required plug rating, etc since the threaded end of the new plug would be physically bigger.
"Henry" 1948 Farmall Cub
I believe Heli-coil has a thread repair kit for sparkplugs.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
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Spark plug hole repair
It's been quite some time. I purchased and used a repair kit for spark plug holes from the local auto parts store. It was designed for and used on an aluminum engine. Basically. It was a self tapping bolt to cut new threads and an insert installed with a socket.
How did we jump from a leaky thread that wouldn't hold pressure to one that wouldn't hold the spark plug in the hole? What is wrong with the threads in the head?
Get more specific and maybe we can give better suggestions.
Scotty, are you sure there isn't some dirt on the surface where th plug seats. The plugs on a cub have a metal gasket that seals them against a flat spot on the head, they don't use a pipe thread seal like Ford cars do. Also are you sure the leak is coming from where the plug screws in, and not between the metal and porcelain of the plug? I've seen that happen more than once.
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Well I suppose it could be leaking between the plug gasket and the porcelin but this particular plug I've consistently had to play with in order for it to thread in correctly which usually means that someone cross threaded at one time or another. Basically, I just assumed that it was the threads in the cast causing the problem. When I refurbed the tractor, I was careful to insure that all dirt and paint were removed from the metal gasket in the head. I didn't know that the Cubs don't rely on pipe thread to seal so I've learned something there.
Once the plug is in, it does seat firmly. It's just that I've noticed some blow through next to the plug by a visible sooty mark nearby that develops right away. This will, as Jim pointed out, reduce pressure so I want to stop the problem. If I can replace the gasket under the plug, that's what I'd opt for. Later in the thread, I was just curious as to what people normally do to retap plug threads.
I think I'll try using a copper washer and see if that does the trick. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
"Henry" 1948 Farmall Cub
Scotty. Spark plugs do not rely on the threads alone to seal. They usually come with a gasket (looks like a double washer) that seals the pressure. Some without washers have a tapor just above the threads to seal (like your valves). I never heard of a spark plug with NPT threads. Cub plugs are 18mm thread size. It is possible some one tried to clean out the threads with a standard tap or straight pipe threads. Regardless, you should check the flat surface where your plugs go in to see if it there is gouges or something else causing pressure to blow out. That is why both Jim & I suggested a gasket (new gasket or copper washer) and as GW suggests (good to see his posts again!!! ) make sure your clean around the plug area. Hope this helps..........
Thanks for catching my error. I intended to type that the tapered ones seal like pipe threads, but my typing and thinking sometimes don't follow each other. Guess I'm going to have to start proofreading closer.
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APO had installed tapered plugs in my Low Boy. The blow by had formed carbon in the threads. I had to use a 3 foot pipe on a 1/2 in breaker bar to get them out. I ground flutes similar to a tap in an old plug and used that to chase the threads. I grould away some of the metal on the plug as well so that I could clean deep in to the hole. That was the sunday evening shade tree mech idea that fixed my problem. With the added compression I thou ght that I had an engine overhaul.
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Since the Cub plugs are 18MM straight thread this doesn't really apply, but there were a lot of plugs made with tapered pipe threads. The most notable I can think of was the model T Ford. Some early tractors and hit and miss engines also used them. I'm not certain, but I think our John Deere GP that I haven't seen since 1947 had them as well.
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Thanks for the insight, George. When I said "I never heard of NPT threaded spark plugs", I should have added "with my limited knowledge of the subject"! John, it was in reference to Scotty's post. NPT threads would surely hold plenty enough pressure, but gosh, what a bugger to get them out if left in for years like some cubs!! Probably why modern plugs go strictly with gaskets (as far as I know, with my limited knowledge!). This is just the MACHINIST in me talking...............
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Old Dominion advanced to the quarterfinals of the College GPS tourn ... excuse me, the CollegeInsider.com tournament, where the Monarchs will face Mercer University on Wednesday at the Ted.
Mercer (24-11) is ODU's second consecutive Atlantic Sun Conference opponent. After beating third-place USC Upstate on Sunday, the Monarchs (23-12) get the A-Sun's second-place team in Mercer.
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"They're methodical," USC Upstate coach Eddie Payne said of Mercer. "They run a lot of stuff, they run a lot of sets. If you allow them to run their stuff, they execute pretty well. You have to try to take them out of things, defensively."
"My feeling, for what it's worth -- Blaine (Taylor) knows what he's doing -- but I think you can't allow them to execute half-court because they're a half-court team."
Bonus points if anyone can name the locations of all three of ODU's CIT opponents -- Coastal Carolina, USC Upstate and Mercer. No fair Googling.
Mercer and ODU have two common opponents: Georgia State and Missouri. The Monarchs lost by seven to the Tigers at the Ted, while Mercer lost by 18 at Mizzou. ODU won at Georgia State in overtime, while Mercer beat Georgia State at home Saturday in a second-round CIT game.
In that CIT game, Panthers' coach Ron Hunter was ejected midway through the second half after he hustled onto the court to check on Eric Buckner, who was on the floor following a hard foul. Hunter said something to official Jerry Heater, who responded in a way that Hunter deemed inappropriate. More words were exchanged, and Heater tossed Hunter.
Crowd size will be notable Wednesday. The CIT is one of those pay-for-play events -- $30,000 to host each round -- and ODU officials have said that they need to sell approximately 4,000 tickets to break even. They've fallen far short in the first two rounds, with 2,200 versus Coastal Carolina and an announced crowd of, ahem, (cough, cough) 2,091 Sunday at Scope.
The ODU administration remains all-in with its commitment to hoops. However, another thin crowd might prompt officials to install student toll booths to cross Hampton Boulevard or to green light that "Blaine Taylor Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein" CD they've been considering.
For you intrepid souls who plan on going to the Ted on Wednesday, or are just marginally interested, here's a bit on Mercer.
Decent size, good balance. The Bears' shortest starter is 6-foot-3. Point guard Langston Hall is 6-4 and the leading scorer at 11.4 points per game. Their top six players average between eight and Hall's 11.4 points per game.
They go eight-deep, and 6-8 forward Justin Cecil is the only senior. They shoot 46 percent from the field as a team, 36 percent from 3-point range. Five players have made at least 24 3-pointers, led by Cecil (75) and Hall (63).
Mercer opponents shoot 38.4 percent from the field, 30.4 percent from 3-point range. But the Bears give up an average of 13 offensive rebounds per game -- not a good sign against an ODU team that successfully plays chuck-and-chase on offense.
Coach Bob Hoffman is in his fourth season at Mercer, which has had a breakthrough season after three years hovering around the .500 mark. He came to Mercer after being a head coach with the NBA Developmental League's Rio Grande Valley team. He's also been a head coach at Texas Pan American and at his alma mater, Oklahoma Baptist.
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West Ham paid a massive £15M to sign Andy Carroll from Liverpool in the summer, and the reports were that Carroll even got a wage increase to go to London, and is being paid £100K/week by the London side.
Andy Carroll – could be out another four months
Andy was injured in the last game of the Premier League season, when he had a heel injury, and the Geordie lad didn't make the start of the season.
Andy had returned to training, but the Hammers are now waiting for scans on a new foot injury he suffered in training yesterday.
A West Ham statement said the following:
"Although it is in the same part of his foot as his previous injury, it is a new injury." "West Ham United can confirm Andy Carroll suffered an injury to his right foot during his return to full training."
"There will be no prognosis until he has seen a specialist."
And as a precaution West Ham this afternoon confirmed the signing of former Fulham and Croation striker Mladen Petric, who was a free agent.
And we assume Newcastle had decided not to sign this striker – following the news yesterday we are looking at the free agent market, because of our failure to sign another striker this summer.
It's a lot of money to pay for a player like big Andy, who seems to be injury prone.
And Carroll is on a six year deal, but the player himself must be in some distress, as we're quite sure the only thing Andy wants to do is to play and earn his wages at West Ham.
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Research firm KLAS has named the ACUSON S3000 TM ultrasound system from Siemens Healthcare the recipient of its 2014 'Best in KLAS' Award in the category of 'Ultrasound – General Imaging'. The annual survey aims to improve healthcare technology delivery by honestly, accurately, and impartially measuring vendor performance. Equipment used for ultrasound imaging within general imaging, including diagnostic radiology, women's health, obstetrics, urology, and other related specialties were compared within the category.
From Aberdeen to Bristol, Siemens UK has won a significant number of new contracts for Electric Vehicle (EV) rapid charging technology in the past few months and the company will be highlighting its recent success and growing reputation in the market at two low carbon vehicle events in September 2014.
Two new Traffic Control Maintenance Services contracts have been awarded to Siemens by Transport for London. Commencing October 2014, Siemens will maintain traffic control equipment in the North and North-east London regions, representing two of the five contracts that will see London's traffic signals upgraded to the latest, energy-saving technology, as well as expanding the use of intelligent traffic signals and new crossings for pedestrians and cyclists. Worth in total around £317m for up to eight years, the five contracts cover over 6,200 traffic signal sites, 149 variable message signs (VMS) and 56 over-height vehicle detectors across the capital.
Nottingham City Hospital, part of the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, has chosen a SOMATOM® Definition AS+ system to bolster its CT department and enhance patient care during imaging procedures. The system procurement was facilitated by a member of the community, James Redgate, who left a donation to Nottingham Hospitals Charity in his will. The system is imaging up to 30 patients per day, and staff have reported that the simple and well laid out user interface enhances workflow.
Business Secretary Vince Cable MP visited Siemens Mechanical Drives to celebrate the launch of the Government's new campaign calling on young people to "Get In, Go Far" by choosing an apprenticeship. He praised Siemens commitment to developing engineering skills in Yorkshire, specifically through the backing of the newly proposed University Technical College for the city as well as supporting a number of local apprenticeships at the facility in Leeds.
King's College Hospital, part of the King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has recently increased its imaging capabilities with the installation of two ACUSON S3000TM ultrasound systems from Siemens Healthcare. The units, which image up to 40 patients per day at the hospital respectively, were primarily chosen for their excellent versatility and imaging capabilities.
West Suffolk Hospital, part of West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, has been able to increase the clinical offering its expanding MR department provides to patients through the installation of a new system from Siemens Healthcare. The busy department, which currently examines over 10,000 patients per annum, anticipates the new technology will reduce the number of studies patients have to undergo as a result of more detailed MR procedures.
The Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC) is going through an expansion to facilitate the centralisation of all specialist children's services in a single, state-of-the-art children's hospital. To support an increase in workload, the hospital has invested in three ARCADIS® Varic C-arms from Siemens Healthcare to provide treatment for local Bristol children plus specialist care for children across the South West and nationally.
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Eyesight problems are a plague of modern society. Eyeglasses, when they are a solution at all, are not an acceptable solution.
We believe that you can recover your eyesight naturally, over a wide variety of types of blurry vision and visual disorders, and that you can do so without surgery, drugs or glasses, even in long-standing cases that began in childhood. We believe that the way you use your eyes and mind are the biggest factors in good vision and eye health. The methods presented on this website are based loosely on the Bates method, developed in the early 20th century by a little-known eye doctor, W.H. Bates.
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Several years ago when I started trying to do without my glasses, after spending most of my life with a strong prescription in front of my eyes, I was surprised to find I was not looking in the distance. Since I didn't expect to see well, I didn't even look! I'd look "out the window" but actually be looking at the window pane, not through it, making do with the blurry images I saw "on it" as if the window was a TV screen! I could hardly see natural depth then at all.
When I began going for regular walks without my glasses, when I still needed a -8 correction to drive safely, I caught myself looking down a lot. The sidewalk was only a little more than 5 feet from my eyes, and I could see it pretty well, but looking straight ahead into the distance was scary! I was surprised to find myself getting nervous if there was a wide open space in front of me, with no tree or building to comfortably block my gaze.
Gradually I weaned myself away from this fear by practicing looking at far-away trees, or the clouds overhead, when I didn't have a long panoramic view to play with. This is one big reason I like to get outside every day, even in poor weather — the chance to look far is more available than it is indoors.
One of my vision clients is slowly learning to do without his glasses for some activities, like walking outside or working out. He recently took a long coastal trip with a friend who did the driving, so my client could practice letting his gaze travel far outward. He told me his eyes "were doing something different", the little muscles releasing and adjusting. His natural vision was re-learning how to see far away.
Meir Schneider is a well-known vision teacher who was considered blind from failed infant cataract operations, and grew up reading only Braille until he met a Bates teacher at age 17. He regularly did the Long Swing exercise at the edge of the sea, letting his gaze travel out and out over the waves. He trained his eyes to see in the distance, successfully, and now has a driver's license with no requirement for eyeglasses. (Here is a link to a video of the Long Swing if you're not familiar with it. This simple exercise is a core Bates Method technique.)
When I started to improve my vision, when I looked out my front window without my glasses I could hardly see the cars in the neighbor's driveway 50 feet away. I can now see across the street and identify the people coming in or out of the house over there, which was unheard of (or unseen!) before. Now I'm sometimes annoyed that the house across the street is so "close", because it blocks my view! But of course I can look up and see the clouds, or go outside and look down the street.
To retain or improve your distance vision, use it! Look at those details you can see, and imagine those you can't see yet. Is there a bird on that small branch over there? Might there be a butterfly there too, or a big (or little) bug? Pretend you have Superman's telescopic vision, and see what you can see.
Looking at Something Impossible to See
But not really. That's the way it seems, with the way you can't seem to do it right, but the idea is just an illusion. You can create whatever you want. Instead of struggling with avoiding too much effort and strain when you look at details, you can let the whole idea go and create your own action that isn't flawed. You do what you think of, and if you have an idea in your head about how your vision should work, your body will work to try to make that a reality. All the metaphors that you may have heard from Bates method enthusiasts about how you can think about using your eyes are all ways for you to re-create the process for yourself.
So if you struggle with doing a particular thing the way Bates or someone described, or you find you have no success with it, then think about it another way. If you find that looking at the smallest detail you can find results in you always tensing up your eyes as you try to grasp the details, I suggest you backtrack and approach it differently. If looking at details causes you problems, what could you do to avoid looking at details? How can you gain the benefits of looking at them without actually doing what you were doing? What does it mean to look at details?
Try this. Imagine that what you're looking at – say, an eye chart – is made of details so small you can't possibly see them. And that's the truth, with all the molecules, so this will be easy. If when you look at part of a letter on the chart you are imagining you're looking at a molecule, and you know that you can't possibly see that individual molecule, then you have nothing to "grab onto" and tense your eyes over. Instead of looking at details, you're always looking within them, glancing at various points that catch your interest, but never being satisfied with "seeing" a point, and in fact assuming that you will not see it.
Can you imagine what a relief it would be to not have to try to focus and find details, but only to look at whatever area catches your interest and imagine a molecule within it that is too small to see?
Are you willing to trust that your visual system needs no more involvement from you than this? Are you willing to give it a chance to do its job as you look from molecule to molecule that you don't even see?
What I'm suggesting is your visual system needs very few things from you to function. It needs stimulation, so it needs your eyes to be moving, and it needs you to be interested in what you're looking at or imagining (again, the body takes its cue from your intention). And of course it needs the eyes to blink and stay relaxed so they can do the work without restriction.
Let me know how it goes!
Why My Eyes?
Since I've felt the same feelings, I could completeley relate to this. First, we don't know anyone else's story. Someone you see on the street who looks normal could have an artifical leg! Or even if their vision is clearer than mine, perhaps they're overweight and have high blood pressure, or have other medical problems which aren't obvious to me. As the saying goes "Better the devil you know" — I've been dealing with nearsightedness since I was probably 3 (I got glasses at age 5), so I understand it and know what to do about it. I don't want to trade it for someone else's problems, which might be a lot worse!
Another aspect of this for me is that every challenge is a gift, to learn more about myself, perhaps to get me to change direction, and to help me grow. This has certainly been true for me with improving my vision. I didn't need the lesson of learning how to stay fit and honor my physical body. Unfortunately many people don't learn this lesson until they contract a serious disease from years of not taking care of their body. I needed to learn how to reach out, to connect with others. I'm well aware that "short-sightedness" is not reaching all the way out visually (as I groan inwardy at my limitation being so obvious to everyone). I needed to learn that it is safe to see clearly, not only seeing my environment but also seeing myself, my good points and my not-so-good ones.
Since I've always loved to learn, and my vision is teaching me more than any other situation in my life has, I am not planning to walk away from the lesson. I think one of the main reasons I'm here is to learn and understand, then to turn around and use what I've learned to help others, and I don't mean only with regard to vision. I see myself going off to Life School every day, my books firmly under my arm, ready for the new adventure. What is Life teaching you today?
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The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Investigations Section executed asearch warrant at an apartment complex on the South end of Hilton Head Island Wednesdaynight, and as a result six suspects were arrested.
Drug investigators executed the warrant just after 6:30 p.m. at the CordilloCourts apartments on unit O-05. A long-term investigation into alleged drugactivity in that unit led to several controlled drug purchases being made, andas a result, a search warrant was obtained.
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Would you like to receive a letter from a member of the Onyx Court?
Mary Robinette Kowal has announced the Month of Letters for February, and furthermore sparked the notion of participating in it fictionally. So, from now until the end of February, you are invited to write a letter to any character from my Onyx Court series (novels and short stories alike). I will respond as rapidly as I can, in the form of a handwritten reply, produced the old-fashioned way with a Venetian glass dip pen, and quite possibly even with a wax seal!
To get in on this exchange, here's what you have to do:
1) Pick which character you're writing to, and when. Anyone from the series is fair game, be they mortal or faerie, real person or invented. (Some, I will warn you, may be better correspondents than others; Nadrett is not much for writing letters.) The date is important because for the faeries especially, when you contact them may make a great difference in their replies. Characters contacted before their births or after their deaths are unlikely to reply at all, but don't worry about that too much; the only ones I have death dates for are a) the historical ones, b) the Princes of the Stone, and c) the people who die on the page. If you're really in doubt, you can e-mail me and ask.
2) Decide who you're writing as! You're welcome to write as yourself, of course -- but feel free to write in another persona if you want to. This can be historical, fictional, invented, whatever; think of it as a little snippet of fanfic. Just try to give me a sense of who you're pretending to be, either in the letter, or in an accompanying note. That will help me run with whatever you've started.
3) Write a letter -- or postcard -- and mail it to me. It can be as long or as short as you like, but yes, you have to write an actual, physical letter, not an e-mail. (If that poses a problem for you, because of disabilities/international postage/whatever, drop me a line and we'll work something out.) The letters/notes themselves should be addressed to the characters, with the date somewhere on it; the envelopes/postcards should be addressed to:
Marie Brennan
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BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS. I promise not to share it with anyone. If you forget this step, I can't write back!
4) Have fun!
In return, I will send you, as promised, a handwritten reply, in the persona of the character you've chosen, possibly with a wax seal if I don't think the post office will chew it up too badly. I will answer any letters received before March 1st, and maybe a grace period of a few days after that, just in case things get delayed in transit, though I cannot promise with total certainty that all my replies will go out before then (it depends on how many letters I get). I'll certainly do my best.
Once you receive your letter, you're welcome to do with it whatever you like. Read it, of course; share it with friends, blog about it, post pictures, hang it on your wall. (Which several people have already threatened to do. I, um, need to practice my cursive.) Have fun!


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Payday loans changes and controversy timeline
- March 2013 - The UK's biggest payday lenders are threatened with being put out of business after a damning report uncovers evidence of "widespread irresponsible lending", by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
- June - The OFT refers payday lenders to the Competition Commission for a full-scale probe, saying it has found "deep-rooted" problems.
- July - The Archbishop of Canterbury told Wonga the Church of England wants to "compete" it out of existence as part of its plans to expand credit unions.
- November - More than one million people plan to take out a payday loan to cover the cost of Christmas 2013, research by the Money Advice Service (MAS) finds.
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In the last stimulus program, a lot of money went to states for job creation, and the states used it to reduce their budget deficits and save or increase public sector jobs, such as teachers, police, firemen and bureaucrats - jobs that may otherwise have been cut, and which have since experienced cuts.
The last federal stimulus program clearly demonstrated that the President and the majority of citizens have opposing views about "job creation." Obama believes in investing in government jobs at federal, state and local levels, while most voters would rather invest in private sector jobs that produce our GNP.
Providing artificial incentives for government to hire public sector workers is counterproductive to the goal of reduced spending, reducing our federal deficit, and increasing employment.
These days (how did this happen?) government workers get paid more than private sector workers, their benefits are far more expensive, and they contribute very little toward them. On average, every public sector job saved or created costs the equivalent of almost two private sector jobs.
Former Department of Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich has a plan he wants Obama to implement that entails (guess what?) income redistribution and wasteful spending. He even proposes to bring back FDR's WPA (Work Projects Administration) and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), to make unemployed citizens direct employees of the federal government. They would work on bridges, roads and other infrastructure projects.
These programs are hugely inefficient compared to the private sector, and they would cannibalize existing private sector jobs. What many people today forget (or didn't learn in school), is that WWII is what led America out of the Great Depression, not these socialist programs.
President Obama will likely propose the creation of an infrastructure bank with the power to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars annually from the Treasury (thus further increasing the deficit) to help fund the repair and upgrade of roads, bridges, schools, rail lines, and you name it.
Wasn't infrastructure the focus of the last stimulus? How did that work out for taxpayers? Building infrastructure will spur the economy, but if it is implemented as it was during the last stimulus, funding the wrong projects will lead to a mountain of engineering and construction activity, after which careers will be cut short as construction demand goes back to normal levels.
I predict that the President's job creation plan will involve yet another stimulus program which will benefit the public sector more than the private sector. I think he will also use this occasion to propose making "investments" in "green" technologies and pre-college education. While these are noble purposes, investing in them is very expensive, with little to show for it in the next few years. We need to kick-start our economy now.
The Obama administration needs to leverage the fact that small businesses make up 50 percent of this nation's annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employ 60 percent of the workforce. On top of this, small businesses create 2/3 of all net new jobs.
If I were the President, my jobs creation proposal would target a combination of small business growth and solutions that would also reduce our country's dependence on foreign oil. In so doing, we would create sustainable careers for citizens, increase tax revenue, lower our cost of energy, and greatly reduce the amount of imports we purchase from foreign sources; especially those factions who threaten the security of the U.S. and its allies.
Here is what I think our President should propose:
1. Roll back existing regulations that don't pass the risk-reward analyses that both Congress and the President have ordered, yet which the administration's departments have largely ignored. The number of new regulations is excessive and many of them cost too much to implement (compared to their intended benefits), interfering with small business growth, thus negatively impacting job creation.
2. Small businesses have lower overhead costs and can employ more people for the money. Make it economically favorable for large businesses in all industries to use small businesses as contractors as an option to growing their own workforce. Instead of creating an infrastructure bank to make loans (creating yet another bureaucracy), or forcing "small business set-aside" regulations onto large companies, we could accomplish this by immediately creating tax incentives for corporations (all forms, including S corporations) and individuals (sole proprietors). As small companies grow and gain experience, their ability to innovate and enter new markets quickly will spur the next technological wave.
3. Lift the moratoriums, bans and red tape that prevent additional oil drilling offshore (85 percent of our outer continental shelf is now off-limits to drillers) and in Section 1002 of the ANWR region of Alaska (2300 square miles, or less space than a square with 50-mile sides). Careers in this endeavor will be long and prosperous. Many critics say that such jobs won't be created in the near-term, however their concern is born out of the past two decades where our leaders have put a stranglehold on exploration and refining. Taking away uncertainty and roadblocks will result in a lot of new jobs as companies race to take advantage of new, sustainable opportunities.
4. Do likewise for natural gas drilling, which will also create sustainable new jobs in the short term. Nature has produced more natural gas than oil. The world's proven natural gas reserves will last 60 years at current levels, so this is a very sustainable strategy. The U.S. presently produces about 20 trillion cubic feet (tcf) annually. The U.S. presently imports over 3 trillion (net) of the 25 tcf/yr of natural gas that we consume, so we aren't far from becoming a net exporter. China produces only 3 tcf/yr, and it is poised to become a huge consumer of natural gas as it continues to modernize and experience rapid growth. If we made it easier for U.S. gas producers to double production, we could export as much as 17 tcf/yr, realizing additional annual revenues between $70 billion and $200 billion, potentially increasing our GDP by over 1 percent and cutting our trade balance by as much as 30 percent, while reducing our reliance on foreign sources of fossil fuel.
5. Natural gas burns safely, cleanly and efficiently. The next big U.S. infrastructure project should entail the use of tax strategies that will encourage the construction of more natural gas pipelines and natural gas filling stations, and the sale of vehicles that can be powered by both natural gas and gasoline (these already exist and they are much less expensive than electric vehicles to build, fuel and maintain). There are currently more than 30,000 natural gas vehicles on U.S. roads and over 700,000 worldwide, so we are already trailing many other countries on this opportunity.
6. Likewise, the federal government should encourage the use of natural gas to produce electricity, reducing our dependence on coal (more toxic emissions) while buying time to design and build a new generation of nuclear power plants and solve the problem of nuclear waste disposal.
These are just a few market-based ideas for creating sustainable jobs, which will spur our economy and bolster tax revenue, so that we can reduce our deficit and debt.
Peter LaChance is a conservative blogger from Lower Makefield and he is involved in Bucks County politics. His posts will appear other Thursday and discuss government, politics and current affairs. Please post your comments for all to see. For personal communications, Peter can be reached at email@example.com. Politically Correct bloggers post each Thursday.


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