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What is natural pond fertilizer? Safely keeping a stocked fish pond, backyard koi pond and luxurious water garden. Natural pond resources for the surrounding plantings, foliar applications for the aquatic plants, liquid lime for adding calcium easily. Subject includes natural details on pond care.
Pond fertilizer and water garden fertilizer considerations are about natural pond care….
- Do you realize the runoff from the surrounding fertilizers effect your pond?
- Do you want a natural pond?
- Do you want lusher aquatic plants with less hassle in placing pond fertilizer beneath the planting medium?
- Does your pond really need fertilizer? We tell the truth with a list of reasons why not below…..
We have two ways to create that natural pond. Though, if you want to run fertilizer in your pond water, that we do not have here… but there are recommendations.
- When you want to use a natural fertilizer in the crops, pastures, lawns and natural area around your pond, then you can use AGGRAND (pronounced ag-grand, as in agriculturally grand). With our all natural, organic fertilizers, you don't need to worry about the boundary runoff into the pond. In fact, you will notice plants closest to runoff areas and shallow edges are benefiting from AGGRAND just like grasses, flowers and plants outside the pond.
- If you want to use a liquid fertilizer as a foliar spray application on the aquatic plants in a small backyard pond and lovely water garden, the AGGRAND fertilizers are effective and affordable.
For actually fertilizing large fish ponds, we suggest products while using the AGGRAND all natural fertilizers around the pond, both soil and foliar applications. If you don't know if your pond water needs fertilizer, read below.
To begin shopping for product, click this link or the banner. Read more to learn more…. and call or email for assistance. Table of contents coming up.
Pond fertilizer for the pond
In any pond fertilizers, you need a product that is formulated from the highest quality materials that are highly water soluble. It must not become tied up in the mud bottom or sink to the bottom. The nutrients in your pond fertilizer must stimulate the growth of plankton which creates the base of the pond food chain. Plankton is necessary. High phosphorous is necessary for the bloom or flowering of the plankton.
Fertilizing a pond creates plankton, therefore fertilizer is needed for a good pond that will be used for fishing. Water insects and organisms will feed on plankton. The small fish feed on insects and small organisms. The large fish feed on the small fish.
When you fertilize your pond, its entire food chain increases as does the fish for you to catch. No doubt, this is instructing the pitcher, but must be said.
There are powder, granular and liquid pond fertilizers, some with high phosphates and nothing else. No matter what, that middle number for phosphorous to create the plankton bloom is high and ready in all types. AGGRAND is not for the pond water, it is for the surrounding area and the foliar spray on aquatic plants and flowers, plus a fine root soak for plants like the hybrid water hyacinths in a water garden and other sublime floaters.
- Pond fertilizer and water garden fertilizer considerations are about natural pond care….
- Pond fertilizer for the pond
- Pond Fertilizer for Boundary Plants and Grasses
- Foliar applications work well for aquatic plants
- Why fertilize ponds
- Schedule for fertilizing ponds and surrounding areas
- Why not fertilize the pond? Here we are talking the farm pond mostly.
- Water garden fertilizers – trying foliar applications and all natural root soaks
- Pond stocking
- Fish pond care
- Pond fertilizer and water garden fertilizer tips
Pond Fertilizer for Boundary Plants and Grasses
What could be more perfect for surrounding areas in pond fertilization than the natural materials that would be in the pond to begin with. Fish emulsion. Kelp seaweed concentrate. High quality liquid lime. Sulfate of potash. The fish emulsion provides the nitrogen for leaf growth. The kelp provides plant-growth hormones, amino acids and more. The bonemeal will provide quick release and slow release phosphorous that gives the luxurious blooms.
With AGGRAND you can fertilize pond plants all around the edges. Use it as a highly diluted mist on the aquatic plants in the pond. Even use the AGGRAND fertilizers for a perfectly natural root soak on some plants before reintroducing them to the pond water. No need to rinse the roots to remove chemicals because there aren't any chemicals at all.
When you choose AGGRAND fertilizers you are purchasing liquid, all natural, effective and potent ingredients designed for both soil and foliar applications. The lime is a super-fine ground quality limestone powder. Everything is fine ground and highly water soluble. These are highly concentrated and must be diluted in 30 to 75 gallons of water per gallon. The numbers you read on the bottle are what is actually available to the plants in both their quick-release and slow-release timeline. Plants benefit immediately and thereafter. The foliar applications are like lightning is to grass in the spring. Hate to use the word awesome, but AGGRAND is very awesome.
Foliar applications work well for aquatic plants
The foliar applications on plants in the pond are done with a garden hose and our hose end sprayer. Depending on water pressure, it can spray fifty feet, though usually thirty. For large ponds, a backpack sprayer and rowboat. Whatever you need to get around the pond acreage.
You would be applying a very fine mist of our AGGRAND liquid kelp in high dilution, around 2 to 3 percent, even combined with the AGGRAND 4-3-3 or liquid lime. Our liquid bonemeal is fine for creating fabulous and plentiful blooms, so it is a good root soak in a recipe with the 4-3-3.
The 'recipe' for complementary combinations and dilution rates are provided on this page. But for your detailed information, just contact us with what you are fertilizing, how much, where, maturity level and whatever you want to tell. Your answer comes relatively quickly. Contact button on left side of page in brown background.
So yes, please email or call for details on your pond fertilizer schedule. Always happy to help people use natural fertilizers on their land.
Why fertilize ponds
When you fertilize pond water this stimulates and expands the population of plankton to create what is called a "bloom" in the top three feet of water. When this fertilizer schedule is maintained through spring, summer and early fall it can decently shade the bottom to prevent the establishment of aquatic weeds with roots.
First, phytoplankton are the plants and zooplankton are the animals, those microscopic creatures that look like a haze of microscopic green flowers in the water. You need these for pond viability, no way out of it. They need food too. But don't give their food to the weeds.
Bringing us to second…… the rooted aquatic plants will not be be prevented or eliminated by the plankton bloom shading the area if these plants are already established. The issue needs dealt with before fertilizing unless you want them down there. Some ponds are just more natural than others. But then you will be fertilizing the weeds and the bloom of plankton will likely not happen. So deal with the weeds first, then choose your aquatic plants carefully. A lovely sanded bottom with stones and a stream-like appearance is ideal before the plankton bloom begins in spring.
Schedule for fertilizing ponds and surrounding areas
Fertilizing ponds is a seasonal schedule, just like the lawn and an established sustainable crop. Early spring, early summer and again in early fall, if you want a third application. Early spring or late autumn, a wonderful application of our AGGRAND liquid bonemeal is always ideal for the plants, flowering plants, grasses around a pond. This takes the roots deep, produces the lovely blooms. The bonemeal is applied and begins work immediately and carries on as well.
Pond fertilization to the soil …. the schedule is like the lawn or the pasture.
- Early spring
- Early summer
- Early fall, if you like a third application
- Liquid bonemeal also in early spring and autumn.
NOTE::: Foliar applications for the pond plants with that fine mist and high dilution can be done every two to four weeks, easily. Very affordable and effective.
Why not fertilize the pond? Here we are talking the farm pond mostly.
Do not fertilize the ponds that are not fished heavily. You would be wasting time and money, plus fertilizing can develop into overpopulation and stunting because the harvest rates for the stocked fish would increase three to four times which needs heavy fishing.
Do not fertilize muddy ponds. That mud keeps the sunlight out of the water and the plankton must have sunlight. The plankton also needs the phosphorous, remember that super high middle number on your fertilizer, phosphorous. The mud probably has clay particles too and those bind the phosphorous the most and so more wasted effort and money.
Do not fertilize ponds full of 'trash fish' that really need to be renovated instead.
Do not fertilize ponds that are infested with weeds. Those weeds will use the fertilizer that was suppose to feed the plankton and tiny plants. Weeds love fertilizer. But you need the plankton, not the weeds.
Do not fertilize ponds that have an unbalanced fish population. You will have small catches more often than not and it only gets worse.
No need to fertilize a commercially fed pond. The commercial feeding program does the same as fertilization only for the fish higher in the food chain. The reason you re fertilizing a pond is for stocked fish to be catch-worthy anyway.
Wasted money to fertilize a pond with excessive water flow. The spring- and creek-fed ponds most often have too high a volume of water flowing through and the needed supply of plankton is not maintained because the water is flushed through, fertilizer gone.
Pond fertilizer is not viable in water with 20ppm or less alkalinity. Ponds that read low alkalinity will not respond to fertilization but if you add crushed ag-lime, the problem can be corrected with that added calcium.
Do not fertilize ponds that are used as a primary water source for livestock or family. The fertilized pond will create the bloom-green plankton water that usually will taste and smell bad.
Don't bother to fertilize ponds that are designed for wildlife. Water birds prefer their ponds to be clear and shallow with vegetation food sources. Since pond fertilization will cause water to turn green and shade out submerged plants, they will not be happy. It will also cause the aquatic plants or pond weeds, so to speak, to become so thick they choke out the entire pond, like you can walk across. This makes the pond highly undesirable for many wildlife species. All wildlife like to see the bottom, if at all possible.
Never fertilize ponds with ponds that have had or have at present low oxygen. Ponds like these can have fish kills for many reasons like heat, cold rush of water after the low oxygen and heat. Fish are susceptible. When you fertilize a low oxygen pond, this increases plankton productivity and plankton bloom increases oxygen use.
Other than that, if your pond needs fertilizer, try to find a natural source of fertilizer. Here is some inspiration…..http://www.ca.uky.edu/wkrec/FertilizingFishPonds.PDF http://www.ca.uky.edu/wkrec/SUSTAQUA21ST.pdf
Water garden fertilizers – trying foliar applications and all natural root soaks
Water gardeners are always concerned if the liquid pond food will harm their fish or plants. And yet…. the chemical fertilizers are used on plants around the water garden and on the lawn. AGGRAND is safe for water garden areas, the runoff is actually a benefit to the garden and pond and will not harm the fish, pets that drink from the home garden pond or family that plays in the yard and wades in the pond.
But we do acknowledge that the aspect of fertilizing a water garden is different. The water clarifier is important to the water gardeners. For water garden ponds, the beginning is an essential time to provide nutrients to the plants. Their roots are in a water basket with tablets under the growing medium. Unless of course they are the water hyacinths which float their roots in the pond water for nutrition.
When clear water is an important factor, AGGRAND can be used as a foliar spray on your plants. Incorporated with water tablets or clarifying liquid pond food, this is recommended. Again, we are basically talking about the fertilizer used around the pond.
Pond stocking
Popular fish in ponds are fathead minnows and bream first as a food source for your sport fish, then bluegill, coppernosed bluegill, channel catfish (do not over populate these), largemouth bass, hybrid sunfish, redear sunfsh, and grass carp which are to control submerged vegetation issues. There are several fish to avoid and good reasons why. Research fish pond stocking. This is not the end-all for your information in stocking. Here is a resource for the Midwest pond owners.
Fish pond care
Fish pond care is based on the building of the pond and goes from there. A word on the creation –
- Ponds too shallow often result in fish kills caused by low oxygen conditions during the ice over in winter and in summer heat and drought. Prevention is in maintaining your pond at least 8-feet deep in 5 to 10 percent of the fish pond area.
Lets talk more on fertilizing the pond.
Pond fertilizer and water garden fertilizer tips
- Want many blooms? When you want to fertilize floaters like water hyacinths you can pull them out, soak them in a bucket of AGGRAND solution for a few hours and place them back in the pond.
- Instead of pulling pots from the water you can often use a foliar spay with the all natural AGGRAND. The fertilizer was designed for foliar applications. A light mist weekly absorbs throughout the plant and is easy to apply.
The recipes for fertilizing around a pond and using foliar spray applications with AGGRAND
Fertilizer mixture for plants around a pond.
Small trees and berries, flowering shrubs, woody perennials. AGGRAND 4-3-3 and Liquid Bonemeal. Depending on the size of the tree or shrub, AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer should be applied between 4 to 32 ounces per plant, with a ratio of four ounces of fertilizer to one gallon of water for hand watering. Reduce the concentration to one half ounce of fertilizer per gallon of water when injection and soaker hoses are used. When introducing the AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer solution into holes, pour 1 quart of the fertilizer/water mixture into each hole. Younger trees and shrubs or plants in sandy soils require about one half of the concentration previously described, but applications should occur during the spring and fall. Rates vary according to soil fertility and other inputs used. Also great benefits result from applying the bonemeal in autumn, one quart to six gallons water – use on flowering shrubs and bulbs a distance from the water. This is high phosphorous, so do not use in spring. Though natural, you do not want a natural bloom of plankton when you desire a clear pond.
Flowers and smaller plants around the pond. AGGRAND 4-3-3 and Liquid Kelp. These can be used in same mixture too. Great for your transplants too, a little bonemeal in mixture on those. FOLIAR APPLICATION: Mix 1 to 3 ounces of AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer 4-3-3 with one gallon of water and apply as a fine mist to the leaves. Apply enough solution to wet the leaves. Apply in 14 to 21 day intervals. Adjust dilution rate and interval according to plant demands and growth rate. SOIL APPLICATION: AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer 4-3-3 should be applied at 10 to 14 day intervals (apply more frequently when using soil-less mixes). Mix 3 to 4 ounces of AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer 4-3-3 with one gallon of water and apply enough to the soil to saturate the containers.
Root soak for rootless plants and aquatic floaters that you want blooms. In a gallon of water, like a foot bath, add 2 ounces of AGGRAND Liquid Bonemeal and one ounce of AGGRAND 4-3-3 or 1 tablespoon of AGGRAND Liquid Kelp. Let plant roots soak an hour while it will feed. Rinse and reintroduce to the pond.
Call or email with questions and for further assistance.
Pond fertilizers for the crops, pastures, lawns, gardens and flowers around your ponds are crucial choices since this fertilizer will runoff into the pond water. This page on AGGRAND fertilizers is intended to offer natural fertilizer choices for pond care. We hope you also enjoyed the fish pond care tips and answers on whether or not you need a fertilizer for your pond water.


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Municipalist has followed the bizarre but certainly predictable assault on Twitter in recent months from many big-time mainstream media names. Maureen Dowd at the New York Times, Dana Milbank at the Washington Post, Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald, Alessandra Stanley, Rachel Maddow, Nancy Giles, Kathleen Parker, Matt Bai, the Financial Times, Jon Stewart, sports columnist Gregg Doyel, and on and on. But that is all over now. A new age has arrived.
Since mid-day Thursday, WashingtonPost.com has up its "Fort Hood Shooting Twitter Aggregator." Which sounds way too complicated. [That acronym would be FHSTA, to be forever referred to here as "Fasta."] The site tracks "breaking information about Thursday's Fort Hood shootings from news sources and military Twitter users." The New York Times has set up its own Twitter list covering the shootings as well.
ABC News joins the listing game too. Fastas and listas, everywhere you look, all from the mainstream media, home to plenty of Twitter bashing and eye-rolling and tut-tutting for as long as Twitter has been around. So what happened? And then on CNN this morning, I saw this under a graphic that showed a photo and the name of police officer Kimberly Munley who shot the shooter: "Source: Twitter."
Will the activity here move beyond these sort of basic engagement tactics? Will mainstream media organizations hire more Web developers to create their own aggregation and sharing and listening applications? That would seem to be the next step.
But don't look for mainstream media to suddenly refrain from slamming Twitter. Kathleen Parker has way too much space to fill every week.
On the government side, the Army is tweeting on the Fort Hood murders, but not nearly enough. Department of Homeland Security is not tweeting on this, and should be. Not that Janet Napolitano could ever figure this out.
And Twitter keeps making itself better, as TechCrunch details today here and here, as additional apps from a myriad of developers to make the Twitter experience richer and easier to manage keep popping up as well. Here is TC on recent additions such as Bettween and Brizzly.
Update 1: Essential thinking on this from Paul Carr at TechCrunch on how a soldier's tweets from inside the Fort Hood hospital as the wounded were brought in -- and even a photo of one shooting victim with a graphic description of his wounds -- are little more than "tragiporn": "For all the sound and fury, citizen journalism once again did nothing but spread misinformation at a time when thousands of people with family at the base would have been freaking out already, and breach the privacy of those who had been killed or wounded. We learned not a single new fact, nor was a single life saved."
Carr interviewed about this by Brian Lehrer on WNYC here.
Update 2: Analyst Jim Geraghty shares the notion that the logical site to check out simply does not bother to make the effort, and so he wants to know: "Four days later, DHS web site has nothing on Fort Hood. One top news item is on testing smoke alarms."


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RICHMOND (WRIC) – Patrick Henry
Charter School opened on Tuesday on a two-hour delay due to freezing
temperatures, but as the day progressed, the classrooms became colder and
colder and school wasn't let out early.
Classes for majority of
the 230 students at Patrick Henry were actually moved into different areas of
the building including the cafeteria and hallways.
School administrators had
the heating system checked, they discovered that wasn't the problem.
"They brought in
what's called a lazar point thermostat, and they had 100 degrees coming out of
the heating units themselves," says Deborah Corliss of the Patrick
Henry Charter School Board
Turns out the freezing
wind chills made its way through the
school's classroom windows.
"It's very difficult
for the heating systems to keep up when you have that issue with the window,"
Corliss says.
By the time school
administrators figured out the problem Tuesday afternoon, they had to make a
tough decision.
"It was a 'do we get
school to be let out early' or 'do we work with what we have?' We determined we
could work with what we have. We felt the safety of the children and staff was
Corliss says she and the
principal evaluated the problem and determined school had to be closed for Wednesday
as adjustments were made to the windows.
"I think when we get
the installation around the windows, that's going to be extremely helpful," she
says. "And when this arctic blast gets out of Richmond, that's going to be
extremely helpful as well."
Long term plans are
underway to either replace or renovate the windows in the 100-year-old
building. However, the cost is in the ballpark of $500,000 and certain
guidelines must be followed with the department of historic resources.
Meanwhile, the
installation adjustments are expected to be done Wednesday evening and Patrick
Henry plans to operate on the same schedule as Richmond Public Schools for Thursday.
Copyright 2014 by Young Broadcasting of Richmond


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My sister has a laptop which she plans on giving to our parents. I was going to download some programs which I know they need and use but am having problems getting an internet connection using my wireless router. My desktop is running WinXP (I never wanted to upgrade to anything further which I really didn't need) with a router which I can access wirelessly with my iPhone. The laptop is also running XP. Every time I try anything, the laptop keeps saying I need a certification (even after I've entered the router's password). I'm probably missing something, maybe an easy step in set-up, but can't figure out what. Can anyone help?
Need help from the DL tech crew
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I just love it when they start talking the Microsoft Windows gibberish.
Wanh-wanh-wanh .... wanh!
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Get a Mac!
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CDC warn hospitals nationwide about Super Bug that is growing....
Scary stuff. This is what happens when people demand antibiotics for every little nose sniffle and every product on the market has "antibacterial" crap in it.
Reports of rare superbug jump in US, CDC says
In the U.S. today, the most common type of highly drug-resistant germs known as CREs are the Klebsiella pneumonia bacteria like those shown here. Nearly untreatable, they're being detected in a growing number of health care settings.
A sharp jump in the number of rare but potentially deadly types of a superbug resistant to nearly all last-resort antibiotics has prompted government health officials to renew warnings for U.S. hospitals, nursing homes and other health care settings.
The move comes just as researchers in Israel are reporting that people colonized with dangerous CRE -- Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae -- can take more than a year before they test negative for the bacteria, making it more difficult to control -- and raising the risk of wider spread.
Reports of unusual forms of CRE have nearly doubled in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this month. Of 37 cases of rare forms of CRE, including the alarming NDM -- New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- 15 have been reported since last July.
"This increase highlights the need for U.S. health care providers to act aggressively to prevent the emergence and spread of these unusual CRE organisms," the CDC said in a health advisory.
CREs are part of a family of drug-resistant germs that have shown up in growing numbers of U.S. health care settings. They're named for their ability to elude carbapenem antibiotics, the big guns in the medical arsenal. They usually strike people who are already ill and require devices such as ventilators or catheters or who have been taking antibiotics for a long time. But they can occur in any patient.
Twenty-nine of the unusual CRE cases have been NDM, up from the first case detected in the U.S. in 2010, said the CDC's Dr. Alex Kallen, a medical epidemiologist and outbreak response coordinator in the agency's Healthcare Quality Promotion division. It's especially alarming because it confers resistance to multiple drugs and is easily transmitted to other types of bacteria.
The others were even rarer types of CRE, including VIMs, IMPs and OXA-48s, all of which produce enzymes that render most antibiotics virtually useless.
The agency called for stricter isolation and hygiene precautions, increased screening of patients potentially colonized with CRE and better communication within and between hospitals and other health care settings where the bugs can become intractable -- and deadly. CRE infections have a mortality of up to 40 percent, much higher than other health care infections, such as those caused by MRSA or C. difficile.
"Our main objective is to slow or stop the spread in places where we can identify them," said Kallen. "Right now, the therapeutic options are very limited."
Health officials have been worried about them for more than a decade, particularly the KPCs, or carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumonia, which have now been reported in 43 U.S. states, the CDC reports.
Nine states have reported NDMs and at least two have reported other rare forms that also block antibiotic effectiveness, including those known as VIMs, or Verona integron-encoded metallo-beta-lactamase, and IMPs. So far, they've been associated mostly with people who've been hospitalized in countries outside the U.S.
The bugs were in the news last summer after reports of a CRE strain of Klebsiella penumoniae roared through the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center near Washington, D.C., killing seven people, including a 16-year-old boy.
In Colorado last summer, NDM-producing CRE was detected in eight patients, the largest outbreak in the U.S. to date, according to a CDC report this month. It was found largely because the University of Colorado Hospital already has stringent surveillance protocols in place, said Dr. Michelle Barron, director of infection control and prevention. Since then, the hospital has probably tested 500 or 600 patients with unusual resistance patterns, she told NBC News.
None of the eight patients in the original outbreak died. The evidence showed that patients who were colonized with the germs, but not actually sick, contributed to the spread.
That's a point underscored by the study by Israeli doctors published Wednesday in the American Journal of Infection Control. They studied medical records of adult patients hospitalized between January 2009 and December 2010 at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, a 700-bed, university-affiliated hospital in Jerusalem.
In 97 patients with positive CRE cultures, it took a mean time of 387 days to log a negative test -- and nearly 40 percent remained positive after a year, according to Dr. Amon Yinnon, one of the study authors.
"The major concern is that an undiagnosed carrier may be admitted to hospital for totally unrelated reasons, and subsequently and unwittingly pass his CRE to other patients," Yinnon said in an email to NBC News.
Patients who were hospitalized repeatedly were at higher risk of remaining colonized with CRE, the study found.
CDC officials hope to increase awareness of the growing problem among the general public as well as the health care providers before it gets out of control.
"I can't predict the future, of course, but there is a concern that we can see more of these as they spread," Kallen said. "This can become a community bug."
Ah crap.
I don't understand why people take anti biotics so often. It's beyond my comprehension. or are doctors over prescribing it? I've read about people taking them for urinary tract infections and that just boggles my mind. I get those not too often but often enough. I just drink a shit ton of water and it clears up in a day. No need for anti biotics. I understand there can be bad cases of if where anti biotics really would be needed. I am speaking in general.
I had pneumonia earlier this year. That was the last time I took anti biotics. I gotta be really sick to take medication.
It's ridiculous how often we hand out antibiotics and narcotics in this country. It's like goddamn candy in the ER. You wouldn't believe the fits people pitch when the physicians don't give them antibiotics and they think they need it. I've even had them scream at me when we don't prescribe the specific antibiotic they want (in that case it was for a child with a skin infection and Mom wanted the same antibiotic she got for her respiratory infection.)
It's bullshit. Physicians are essentially forced to give antibiotics for everything by a demanding public who is quick to sue if they don't get what they want. It's an 'order what you want and complain if you don't get it because it isn't medically necessary' service industry these days. Every ear ache, cough, and burning urethra gets a script because god forbid anyone treat symptomatically and let the body fight off infection on it's own. No, then if it gets worse and they have to get antibiotics the doctor was a moron and should be sued and have his practice shut down.
It's utterly ridiculous. But isn't just a human problem. The vast majority of the antibiotics in this country are consumed by our livestock, and only last year did the CDC recognize that this is part of the problem.
I think patients demand it, and doctors fork them over to make their patients happy. It's a bad cycle.
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Ah crap.
I don't understand why people take anti biotics so often. It's beyond my comprehension. or are doctors over prescribing it? I've read about people taking them for urinary tract infections and that just boggles my mind. I get those not too often but often enough. I just drink a shit ton of water and it clears up in a day. No need for anti biotics. I understand there can be bad cases of if where anti biotics really would be needed. I am speaking in general.
I had pneumonia earlier this year. That was the last time I took anti biotics. I gotta be really sick to take medication.
Great just one more thing to put on the" Worry" table.
My step-daughter gets pissed if she takes my Gdd to the doctor and they don't perscribe anti-biotics yikes. I can't tell her anything though because she is an EMT and she thinks she knows it all.
Yep, I worked with a Virologist a few years back on a system he was creating to track disease across the country - his projections were down right terrifying.
When I was younger we used to get antibiotics for EVERYTHING. Then when I had kids I noticed that the pediatrician really didn't prescibe them often. My oldest has only had it once, for strept when he was about 4, my 7 year old had it to get rid of an infection in her tooth, and my younger two have never had it.
The advances medical science makes are often way over-used, not only because the dr.'s tend to promote them as a really good thing but also, as others have mentioned, the public demands them and the result can be stronger bugs that are immune to current "fixes". Then they work on developing something even stronger to combat those bugs and the cycle repeats itself.


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With Thanksgiving tomorrow and Christmas less than five weeks away, it's time to get excited about the annual Downtown Christmas Celebration in Liberty.
This year's celebration, with the theme "Peace on Earth," will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, and feature a lighted Christmas parade, live music, wagon rides, vendors, an auction, free food and drinks, and a visit from Santa Claus.
The highlight of the event is the parade, after Santa Claus, of course, said Blaine Staat, director of the Liberty-Casey County Chamber of Commerce, which helps coordinate the event.
"The parade by far is the biggest highlight. It's gotten better and better each year," Staat said.
Trophies and prize money will be awarded for the top five floats in the parade. First place will receive $500; second, $400; third, $300; fourth, $200; and fifth, $100.
There has been one small change for the parade contest among the fire departments.
"We decided that starting this year, and from now on, whoever wins the traveling first-place trophy won't be eligible to win the next year, but they will have the honor of bringing Santa Claus to town," Staat said. "And since the Liberty Fire Department won first place last year, they'll bring Santa in on the fire truck in the parade this year."
The celebration would usually boast a host of contests for individuals but it has been boiled down to one contest this year to encourage participation, Staat said.
Contestants can make a wreath, of any materials or size, and turn it into City Hall between Monday, Nov. 26, and 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, to register for the contest.
Judging for the wreath contest will be at 4 p.m. on Nov. 30 at City Hall. Entries will be judged on adherence to the theme, "Peace on Earth," quality of construction, originality and overall appearance.
Trophies and prize money will be awarded to the top three — $100 for first; $50, second; $25, third.
All of the wreaths will be auctioned off at the Christmas Celebration, with proceeds benefiting the Casey County Community Ministries' Toys for Kids program. Official rules and an entry form are available at the chamber office at City Hall, or call 787-7106.
According to Staat, vendors will set up booths in the courthouse to sell their arts and crafts from 4-8 p.m.
The celebration kicks off at 5 p.m. with the closing of the downtown streets around Courthouse Square.
The Casey County Pork Producers will serve free chili and a host of local sponsors — Casey County Bank, Monticello Banking Company, Farmer's Deposit Bank, State Farm Insurance, Lifeline Home Health, Amedisys Home Health and Sweet Beans and Things — will offer hot dogs, coffee, hot chocolate, cider, cookies, popcorn, candy canes and more, while it lasts.
"It's such a great community outpouring of food and other things to give away to people," said Mayor Steve Sweeney.
The lighting of the Christmas tree will be at 5:30 p.m., followed by an auction of donated items in addition to the wreaths from the contest at 5:45 p.m.
The lighted parade will start at 6:30 p.m. at Liberty Elementary and go west on Middleburg Street, circle around Courthouse Square, then down Hustonville Street.
Santa Claus will round out the back of the parade and be available upstairs in the courthouse after the parade for pictures with children.
"Everybody gets one picture for free," Staat said. "The picture will be available at City Hall the following Monday (Dec. 3)."
Pictures with Santa and the lighted parade are definitely highlights, but it's the combination of events and the people of Casey County coming together that make the event, Sweeney said.
"It's such a great community event where everybody can get together and enjoy the Christmas season," he said.
For those wanting to enter a float in the parade, contact Dale Hoskins at 303-3315.
Schedule of events
4 p.m. — Gifts on sale in the old courthouse until 8 p.m.
5 p.m. — Streets closed, free food and drinks, music, wagon rides
5:30 p.m. — Lighting of the Community Christmas Tree
5:45 p.m. — Auction
6:30 p.m. — Liberty Christmas Parade
7 p.m. — Pictures with Santa (upstairs in the old courthouse)
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You can now buy and sell designer handbags at the Divine Children's Show in north Raleigh, the long-running consignment sale featuring high-end boutique children's clothing.
The sale is looking for handbags in excellent condition with designer labels, according to its website. Examples of accepted brands include Coach, Gucci, Dooney and Bourke, Cinda B, Tory Burch, Kate Spade, Juicy Couture, Marc Jacobs, Cole Haan, Kooba, Furla, Prada, and Louis Vuitton.
If you have any of these in your closet and you're looking to clear some out, here's your opportunity.
If you're looking to add to your collection, the sale will be open to the public Feb. 27 and Feb. 28, at 9660 Falls of Neuse Rd., in Raleigh. You can shop earlier than that if you're a consignor, volunteer, grandparent or new mom.
The price point for children's clothing is higher here because of the brands that the sale accepts. But I'm always on the lookout for Hanna Andersson and I've had great luck here.
For details and to sign up to consign, go to the sale's website.
Check out Go Ask Mom's updated list of consignment sales on our consignment sale database.


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I started botox sept 2009. The results were astounding for me. I am a fit 39 yo mother of 2 that takes great care of herself. Problem is I am very expressive and have deep forehead furrows and very deep line between the brows.
When my derm finally convinced me to do botox for my 20th high school reunion I was reluctant but I did it and the result were ASTOUNDING! I looked so good, my forehead looked smooth but natural, not fake or harsh. i loved it. I was 38 when I did it and the response was amazing! I looked great and men were responding to me like I was 30 again. At my high school reunion I can say that I was one of the more confident attendees there. I love it also because i do not wear makeup so i want a clean smooth look.
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New Scotland Archives The Altamont Enterprise, November 4, 2010
New Scotland plans $6.7M budget
By Saranac Hale Spencer
NEW SCOTLAND A salary schedule, years in the making, slid into place just before the town board adopted a preliminary budget for 2011.
The $6.7 million spending plan for next year includes a 3-percent tax-rate increase due partly to lower-than-average revenues from sales tax, which first dipped in 2009 and aren't expected to recover in the coming year.
Town workers made clear their desire for a salary scale during last year's budget negotiations and the town board assured them that it would address the issue before this fall. Last month, the board adopted a scale with five pay grades for each job.
The town board also adopted a new system for awarding longevity payments, which, essentially, doubles those previously given. Councilwoman Deborah Baron, who had worked on a proposal to restructure those payments, cast the lone dissenting vote, since she felt strongly that longevity payments shouldn't begin until 10 years of employment had passed and that employees who had worked for the town for 20 years or more should be rewarded more generously.
The longevity arrangement, as adopted, awards $500 to those who have worked for five years, $750 to those who have worked 10 years, $1,000 to those who have worked 15 years, $1,250 to those who have worked 20 years, and $1,500 to those who have worked more than 25 years. The change in the amount of longevity payments adds about $7,500 to the 2011 budget, Supervisor Thomas Dolin said this week.
Integrating the new salary scale, which features a five-tiered ladder on which employees can climb based on their level of proficiency in a given job, will add about $20,000 to the coming year's budget.
Since just about all employees will be getting more money due to the new salary scale and longevity plan, the town hasn't included cost-of-living increases in the budget, Dolin said.
The biggest challenge in putting together the 2011 budget, Dolin said, was coping with the loss in expected sales-tax revenue, which comes from the county and is distributed to municipalities based on population. The last year that Dolin considered normal for sales tax revenue was 2008, which brought in $1.9 million to the town, and the 2011 budget anticipates about $1.7 million.
"It's been tough for all towns that rely on sales tax," Dolin said, adding that he hopes it rebounds.
In addition to facing fewer revenues, the town will have to pay $67,000 more in pension contributions than the previous year, Dolin said. Statewide, municipalities' contributions to the retirement system have increased as investments on Wall Street have faltered.
The highway fund for the town outside of the village of Voorheesville is projected to be slightly less than the current year's budget, at $1.8 million and the town plans to defer payment on a snowplow truck that will cost $182,000.


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Columbia man facing another sex-related charge involving a child
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COLUMBIA (WACH) - A Columbia man faces another sex-related charge involving a child.
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division officials say 46-year-old Hammond Love is charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor in connection with a 2004 incident in Hilton Head with a 12-year-old girl.
Agents began investigating the incident at the request of Clemson University.
Last month, SLED agents charged Love with criminal sexual conduct with a minor in connection with an incident they say happened on the Clemson campus in 2005.
In that case, he is accused of inappropriately touching a 13-year-old girl.


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Alexander Collier
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Alexander Collier was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Birth Place and family relationship from "Abstracts of Wills of Augusta Co., Virginia, Augusta County Court Will Book No 4." Abstracted in "Vital Statistics of Garrard Co, Ky - Births- Marriages - Deaths 1852-1859 1874-1878" by Bill and Kathy Vockery - Alexander Collier was of Pa.
An Alexander Collier was one of three sworn appraisers of the estate of James Crutchfield in Lincoln Co, Ky in 1788.
He and Sarah sold land on Sugar Creek in Lincoln Co, Va on 21 Jul 1789. On 15 Nov 1796, Alex and Sarah sold 107 acres to Robert Collier.
In 1812 Alexander Colyier sold 134 acres of land in Garrard Co, Ky on Sugar Cr to son Aaron.
On 15 Jan 1839, John and Jane Huffman sold their interest in a land patent on Sugar Creek that they had inherited from William Huffman and Moses Collier. William Huffman and Moses Collier had inherited the interest in the land patent from Alexander Collier. They sold to Aaron Collier, Jr
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In London, just off Battersea High Street, an oval house for sale –
In London, just off Battersea High Street, an oval house for sale –
The Jero Shelter, a modern yurt from German designer Uula Jero –
Made of canvas, marine plywood, stainless steel hardware, and polyester rope, it can be built by three people in around 2 hours.
Villa Circuitus, the first round house in Sweden to meet passive house standards –
She practiced alternative medicine; he was a doctor. But despite his conventional facade it was he — and decidedly not she — who dreamed of living in a circular house.
The doctor, property-owner and soon-to-be-round-house-builder explained his thinking on an episode of the British television show Grand Designs. His architect sent him a drawing, he said, that was a perfect circle. "I took one look at it, and thought, that's great; it's what nature would do: nature doesn't grow squares … it just grabbed me."
The story of how this man took a compelling idea and made a house out of it — and how he somehow managed to convince his reluctant spouse to stick with him during the process — is unexpectedly moving.
At the end of the episode, narrator Kevin McCloud speaks about the house's structure, but he could just as easily be describing the couple's relationship: "the contradiction between the square and the round is completely resolvable. A building can take opposite ideas and synthesize from them something new and exciting."
This energy-efficient eco-house, in Tulle, France — inspired by a yurt — was designed by architect Virginie Farges –
A spinning, earthquake and hurricane resistant, energy-efficient dome, with a Guggenheim-inspired spiral staircase is on the market in New Paltz –
If you're not ready to buy it, you can rent it for the weekend. As the owners will tell you, spending time in the dome is liberating.
"People really do behave differently in the round space," one of the owners says. "It's just free. It's free-flowing, free of walls, free of constraints. It's a space, versus a room, versus a box. There's no limitation."
Add this fantastic house to your list of reasons to visit London –
In 2005, British designer Tom Dixon bought a disused 1930s water tower in north London, collaborating with sustainable architectural firm SUSD to convert the landmark structure into a home.
Watch the building being constructed on the tower's concrete base –
An early 19th century Martello tower in Suffolk, England, is now on the market. Built as a rampart against a feared French invasion — one of 11 Martello towers that still line the Suffolk coast — it was converted to a residence in 2010. Architect Stuart Piercy and designer Duncan Jackson collaborated on the project, creating "one of the most original and soul-stirring modern homes in Britain."
The asking price is £995,000 (about $1.58 million). If you can't afford to buy it, you may be able to rent it for a holiday.
If you've always wanted to live in a round house, but have never found the right one, in the right place, for the right price, you could always try building one yourself. That's what Tomasi and Irene Tukuafu did in 2009, and they seem very happy with the results –
The couple, who live on the banks of the Mississippi River in Nauvoo, Illinois, built the house using reclaimed timbers from an old log cabin that had been torn down. During a televised house tour just after the house was finished, Irene Tukuafu explained the couple's interest in circular design to a skeptical interviewer.


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Kenny Chesney's annual stop at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA is a popular one. All 60,000 seats to each of these shows sells out almost immediately. It is no surprise that Gillette is one of his favorite places to play. Chesney recently told CJWF Country 1031AM: "There is just something about those people. Every time we play Gillette Stadium, they come — and they sing their hearts out. It may be one of the NFL's biggest stadiums, but I'm telling you…every year, those people make it feel like a little club date."
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Got a good, no great deal on a 64" Obrien Siege for my 12 yr old. He'sw moving up from a 61" HO Judge. Here's my problem, the new ski came without an adjustable fin and no cheater wing or even the ability to mount a cheater wing. Where is the best place to get a differnet fin set up for this ski with out it costing as much as the ski?
Schnit's wants 130.00 for just a fin, I need to do better than that, especially for a 12 yr old.07 Outback, PP, Heaters, Custom 1/2 wrap, SeaDeK platform cover, Upgraded Stereo, Bimini, Apperance package
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How fast is he skiing and what is he doing in the course? I am wondering if he needs a wing or is good enough to tell the difference in fin position?If you believe something to be true, it will be - in it's consequences.
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not a skier, but have you checked the local shops to see if anyone has one laying around?
my buddy bought a new ski a few years ago and one of the local dealers sold him a rear fin setup with the little wings on the side for $20. they had several in a drawer.'06 Supra Launch 20SSV-gone but never forgotten
Bart's has some ski wings. I put a generic red one on my green obrien competitor back in the 80's
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I question the need for the wings on the fin too? At his age and the speed he is skiing I don't think he would even notice the difference? Before I spent too much money on the new ski trying to upgeade or fix it I'd make my kid ride it until he's riding it hard.
As I posted a few days ago I just bought a brand new ski two weeks ago. I got it through an HO rep and had the chance to ski it and the ski was adjusted to my ability. It's a funny thing I upgraded my model to a way better ski as well as went to a little bit shorter ski and I actually removed the fins from the ski. Got to ski it both with the fins and without on my set up day. All ski's ride differently even if from the same manufacturer as I went from one HO to another HO ski.
I preferred the ride and response of the new ski without the fins. I didn't get to ski as hard as I will in a month when I'm back in better shape.
The fins are usually set at 8 degrees and are designed to create friction based on that degree set up. The idea is designed to slow the skier down upon transition when standing up between cuts and slow you down as you enter your next cut or bouy.
I know there are some great 12 year old skiers out there but even at that age I highly see or doubt the need for them?
I'm not a pro skier by any means just a dude who likes to go hard and push his limits everyday to improve. If I start noticing I'm entering my turns too fast on my new ski once I get used to it, I may put the fins back on as I have that option.
But skiing 22 off at 34-36 mph I know I'm entering my next cut with way more speed than any young fellow is going to see until he's at least 16-18 years old and is skiing on a sponsored ski.
Let him ride it and get used to it. I bet you he gets another ski in the future before the fins are needed?
Oh ya tell him to LOVE IT AND RIDE IT HARD!!!!!!! :d
Post some pics of him enjoying it too! Need more skier's on the lakes as it seems to be a forgotten sport on the water!
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a few issues ago in Waterski mag Bob Lapoint said anything 34mph and below 15-32 off he tells students to take the wing off- that it's counterproductive for non shortline skiers. it's on my list of things to do when the water warms up a little and I can tolerate some time in the drink2008 OBV
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Hmmm, good points. Dakota is not your averarge 12 yr old. He's tall, way too strong, and in very very very good shape thanks to 3.5 hrs 4 days a week of very high level martial arts training. He's the strongest junior skier on the lake, but that being said I will go with the above suggestion.
FYI he skiis 28mph on my PP and is running at 28 off. Hey weighs 110lbs and is 5'4" tall.
He learned on the Judge when he was 7. Went to a 61" Andy Mapple Obrien which was traded temporarily for his judge from another boy who's dad bought it and realized it was too much ski to learn on. Dakota skiied it 2 yrs then had to trade back. He refused to ski the Judge as "it's just too slow dad". I put him on one of my old 66's with Double High Wraps and he skied it fine was just too long and heavy for him. I'm hoping this ski will work out, or it's back to the drawing board.07 Outback, PP, Heaters, Custom 1/2 wrap, SeaDeK platform cover, Upgraded Stereo, Bimini, Apperance package
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You might want to talk to Doug about this - and if necessary he could probably get you a good price on a new fin/wing. I bought a new aftermarket wing from him for real cheap a couple years ago.
I had no idea that he was hitting the course that hard. Good for him. (We are still planning a June 11-15 (or 16) trip to The Liquid Edge. Maybe we will see you there?)
For guys our size Doug has warned me away from 28 mph at 28 off - that it was too slow for that rope and may encourage bad form.
At 12 years old Dakota is in Boys 2, and his max speed is 77k(34.2m)/hr. If he likes the speed I suggest he go back to 22 and work on more boat speed. But if your OB is anything like my 99 Mobius - that 22 off bump on the bubble path can be a bummer. If he gets his speed up I bet a wing might be helpful for him - IF his body position actually puts him in a position to take advantage of it. It is my understanding that the braking effects of the wing really kick in when you have your body well centered over the ski (vs. on the tail) going into the turn.
Glad to see a young guy taking a serious look. He should look into competing. I bet he could take home some placements, maybe even qualify for regions/nationals.If you believe something to be true, it will be - in it's consequences.
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Hilltown Archives The Altamont Enterprise, December 29, 2011
2011 in review: Knox
KNOX Two incumbent Democrats on the county legislature were unseated by a pair of native Knox Republicans on Election Day. Both districts had been reconfigured. One of the winners, Knox Councilman Travis Stevens, will be vacating his seat on the town board, and a replacement will be appointed in the new year.
In the race for town board, the Democrats won both seats. The town clerk race was initially too close to call, but the incumbent Republican came out on top.
In other news, a single, impoverished mother thought she would be spending last Christmas on the streets after being evicted from her trailer in Knox. This April, Easter decorations covered her new home on Bozenkill Road, which she got with help from a Hilltown neighbor.
The Dudley Observatory of Schenectady has acquired a piece of land on the property of Russell and Amy Pokorny in Knox, to take advantage of the dark skies in the Hilltowns and the view of outer space, uninhibited by nearby light sources. Dudley's executive director, Janie Schwab, said then that the observatory is also looking to purchase property along Washington Park in Albany to site its historic telescope for use by the public, along with its library, and exhibit space.
In the hope of preserving those dark skies, the Knox Town Board this year passed an amendment to the town's zoning ordinance, requiring all new construction to use only full-cutoff lighting fixtures.
County elections
In an upset on Election Day, Legislators Alexander "Sandy" Gordon and William Aylward were edged out of their seats on the county legislature, making way for Republicans Deborah Busch and Travis Stevens to represent the Hilltowns and Altamont in the coming year.
Every 10 years, after the federal census is published, Albany County redraws the lines for its 39 legislative districts. This year, the new map was challenged in court over minority representation in the city of Albany. There was also controversy over the reshaping of the 39th District, which Gordon represented, and which included Berne, Knox, and Westerlo. Dozens of Hilltown residents had asked the legislature to maintain the 39th District, arguing that they share a community.
In the new map, much of Knox is grouped with a large part of suburban Guilderland, including the village of Altamont, Aylward's home base.
Gordon ran for re-election, and lost, in a district that included the towns of Berne, Rensselaerville, and Westerlo, which had been in the 38th District with the town of New Scotland.
The legislature was split on the new map, voting 22 to 14 to accept it in May. In June, the outgoing county executive who did not seek re-election, Michael Breslin, signed the plan.
Gordon, 56, a former Knox Town Board member who has a grass-fed beef farm at his home in town, has served Albany County's 39th Legislative District for 16 years.
According to the unofficial results from the Albany County Board of Elections, Gordon garnered 1,170 votes, or 47 percent, while Busch received 1,321 votes, or 53 percent, winning in her third attempt at political office. Busch had run for county coroner in 2009, and state assembly last year, but lost in both races.
"I don't think it's as much a political issue; it's taxes," Busch, 48, a nurse, told The Enterprise of her victory. "People are strapped to the limit. They can't afford it anymore, working harder than ever, and getting less return on our dollar, and the quality of life is affected. It's no longer voting for parties, but whom you can afford to vote for. That's what it's coming down to. And, if someone can guarantee to you that they're not going to raise taxes, but they're not going to take away essential services that should be provided by the county, then we've struck a deal."
Aylward, 76, who has been involved in local politics for decades as a former supervisor of Guilderland and mayor of Altamont, lives in the village, and is member of its board of trustees. He has represented the 31st Legislative District for 12 years.
On Election Day, Aylward got 978 votes, or 48 percent, while Stevens got 1,059 votes, or 52 percent.
"They showed with their votes that our community cares about history, and tradition, and votes with a small-town feel," said Stevens, 37, who works for the state in energy conservation. Of voters in Altamont and the Hilltowns, Stevens said, "I think they'd really like to see a legislator who will fight, in Albany, the ever-increasing taxes that are brought on by the city politicians."
Stevens, who was elected to his first term on the Knox Town Board two years ago, has stepped down from that post in order to represent District 31.
"We found out you can't hold a town board seat and a county [position]," Stevens said. "And I want to be able to do the job the best that I can, so, I think [resigning] would be the best thing to do no matter what."
Christopher Valens, a spokesman for New York's Department of State, said one could not be on a town board and the county legislature, but that one could serve on a village board and be on the county legislature, as Stevens's opponent, William Aylward, has done in Altamont for years, because State County Law is silent on village board members serving.
Valens also cited the recent case of Spencer v. Cristo, which held that three town board members from East Greenbush were not eligible to simultaneously serve on the Rensselaer County Legislature to which they were elected. However, the Appellate Court noted that: "The prohibition is not absolute, and 'two-hat' representation is permitted so long as proper procedures are followed. For example, a county operating under a charter form of government may, by county charter or charter law, supersede certain state laws, including County Law § 411."
"It is possible that the Albany County Charter has a clause that would allow a member of a town board to also serve as a county legislator," Valens said. The section of the Albany County Charter that covers the legislature does not address one's ability to serve on more than one board.
"I've lost my first race and my last race," said Gordon, who told The Enterprise after the election that he does not plan to run for political office again.
"I took the high road in this campaign, and it appears to be the road less traveled," Gordon went on. "I didn't go into negative campaigning, and I never have, and I'm pleased to have the dignity of never being a negative campaigner."
Campaign literature mailed in weeks before the November election cast both Gordon and Aylward in a negative light, with one claiming that Gordon often voted in the legislature to impress his political bosses.
Said Aylward, "I think the literature was at least misleading, if not untrue. It portrayed me as having a budget with a 19.2-percent increase, which wasn't my budget; it was the county executive's budget." Aylward had said during his campaign that he looked forward to upcoming meetings with the different legislative committees on how to reduce the levy, as he and his colleagues did last year when the county executive proposed a 15-percent increase.
Aylward, a retired schoolteacher, said after the election that he will likely retire from politics as well; while he currently serves on the Altamont Village Board, he does not plan to run again once his term expires.
"We had a good campaign, and I thought we would do better but the most votes wins, and that's what he has," said Aylward of Stevens, "so I wish him luck."
Gordon, on the other hand, did not speak so highly of his opponent.
"As much as she railed that I was part of the political party bosses, it's not true," Gordon said of Busch. "If it was, they certainly would not have redistricted me out of three-quarters of my hometown, and I don't understand why there were changes in polling places in towns that were not changed in their district. In the town of Rensselaerville, there were people who were told, when they walked to their firehouse to vote, that they had to vote somewhere that was six miles away, and they just didn't vote."
Anticipating a string of Republican victories, Edward Cox, chairman of the New York State Republican Committee, issued a statement during campaign season, saying, "Republican victories in local elections will demonstrate that our momentum, which started with local victories in 2009, and carried us through historic wins in 2010, and Bob Turner's upset victory in the 9th Congressional District, has not ceased."
But Gordon sees Cox, a lawyer at a Manhattan law firm and son-in-law of former President Richard Nixon, as a mouthpiece for the views of corporate America.
"This is the effect of big money and outside interests, and corporate America has invaded our government, and it's percolated to the local level," Gordon said. "It's not what the constitution set up for this country, and corporations do not have the rights of citizens, and yet, the Supreme Court has given them unbridled opportunity to make corporate contributions for their own good. The people in Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Albany, they're sick and tired of corporate America. And Mr. Cox articulates corporate America's view."
Come January, Aylward said, he would be keeping busy with his other interests.
"I will be turning 77," he said, "and I'm going to enjoy my family, and do the things I enjoy doing: gardening and other things, and watching the news."
Gordon, too, will focus on appreciating life outside of the political arena.
"I woke up this morning, I looked over at a beautiful farm, and that's a great place for me," Gordon concluded. "If this is the level politics is sinking to, I'm glad to have served when there was some dignity in the discourse."
Town elections
The Republicans and the Democrats both did extensive door-to-door campaigning, but the Democrats won the two open town board seats with Dennis Barber garnering 28 percent of the vote and Dennis Decker right behind with 27 percent of the vote.
Republican challenger Michael Swain was a close third with 24 percent of the vote and his running mate, John Hunsicker, got 20 percent.
Turnout was heavy this year with well over 900 Knox residents voting.
The race for town clerk was initially too close to call. Incumbent Republican Kim Swain, who has served three two-year terms, was challenged by Democrat Renée Quay.
Quay, a newcomer to politics, works as the chef at the Township Tavern. She was largely inspired to run for office by her family heritage, she said, as her mother is a former town clerk and judge, and her grandfather had been a judge as well.
After the unofficial vote count on Election Day, Swain was only one vote ahead of Quay, getting 468 votes, compared to Quay's 467; after the absentee ballots were counted, Swain came out 8 votes ahead.
The incumbent Democratic judge, James Corigliano, and the Democratic candidate for tax collector, Diane Champion, both won handily.
"We felt we made a valiant effort in trying to reach all of the citizens," said Supervisor Michael Hammond, who headed the Democratic ticket, as he waited in Town Hall on Election Day for the results from the three election districts to be tallied.
Hammond was unopposed as was the Republican highway superintendent, Gary Salisbury, who won his fourth two-year term.
Hammond won his 20th consecutive two-year term and is the longest serving supervisor in the county.
Knox's bipartisan town board currently has three Democrats and two Republicans. That mix will change on Jan. 1 as Gage, the town's Republican Party chairwoman, did not seek re-election, and Stevens has resigned from the board to take his place on the county legislature.
At 51, Decker has spent 12 years on the town board. First elected in 1995, he served for two terms, and then lost an election. He was elected two years later and then, after another four-year term, he lost in 2009.
"Even losing, you can tolerate," he said on Election Night. "You just have to move on and try it again."
Decker works for National Grid as a civil construction supervisor for underground electrical systems.
Gesturing to the renovated and expanded town hall, which was in the planning stages for years, Decker said, "We've got some results here, a beautiful town hall…It's come a long way."
Barber, on perusing the tallies on Election Night that put him in the lead, said simply, "I'm happy."
Barber has lived in Knox for all of his 56 years. He's retired from his job at the state's Department of Transportation. His first run for public office was unsuccessful when he challenged Highway Superintendent Salisbury two years ago.
Asked on Election Night to what he attributed his victory, Barber said, "The involvement I've had in the community over the last 30 years. They realize, this person cares about the town." Barber has served on the Knox's youth committee, worked with the Little League, volunteered in the fire company, and is now on the zoning board.
After eviction, a new home
Last December, Rebecca Michael was evicted from her trailer in Knox, after years of conflict with the tenants' association that owned and ran the trailer park. Michael's husband left in 2003, she said, and paying the rent became an even greater challenge than it had previously been. The association had, at one point, told her that it was evicting her due to her failure to pay her rent. But, when she presented a check from the Albany County Department of Social Services in March of 2010, the association denied the payment.
Four months later, she and her children were decorating their new home on Bozenkill Road for Easter.
The new home a modest, narrow, three-story frame house may one day belong to her if all goes according to plan. For now, she'll be paying rent with federal funding while she builds her credit rating.
"I like decorating for every holiday," Michael told The Enterprise, seated on the stairs leading down to her new living room, which was covered with Easter ornaments; two pastel colored candy dispensers sat below the nearly wall-sized window. Her 11-year-old daughter, Christina, shared her fervor.
"Christina is already planning on making this a haunted house for Halloween," said Michael. "I have witches, I have goblins. She can't wait for garage sales to find more holiday stuff."
Michael, struggling with an IQ of 69, is raising two children with disabilities. She is grateful, she said, that a fellow Hilltowner, Vasilios Lefkaditis, learned of her eviction in December from an Enterprise story, and was driven to help.
"Truthfully, I did it because we're either a community or we're not," Lefkaditis said, seated in the living room across from Michael. "When it comes to expertise, I'm steep in real estate, lawyers, and courtrooms. This fell right into my wheelhouse."
In addition to buying the property for Michael through Shaw Funding, the company that he manages and built with his business partner, Lefkaditis also helped renovate the inside of the house.
Michael's 9-year-old son, Dartanyen, has a class with Lefkaditis's daughter, Kiki, and Christina is in 4-H with Kiki. Anna Lefkaditis, Vasilios's wife, often sees Rebecca at Parent-Teacher Association meetings.
"But, whether we knew them or not," Lefkaditis said, "something had to be done."
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Of the three Grammy awards that Wally De Backer won this week, one in particular will set the artist known as Gotye up for long-term commercial success.
His best alternative music album prize for Making Mirrors makes him less vulnerable to becoming a one-hit-wonder for his single Somebody That I Used To Know in the world's biggest music market.
"Winning a Grammy for Somebody That I Used to Know was almost a fait accompli but taking out the album gong is the most significant win for Gotye's longevity," the manager at The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project, Chris Johnson, said.
"It catapults Gotye beyond the guy 'who did that amazing hit song' to being viewed as a major global recording artist alongside previous winners like REM, Nirvana, Radiohead and Beck."
De Backer said he was "particularly pleased" that the "album as well as the single" had been acknowledged.
"Hopefully this means there's a place for adventurous, interesting music out there – and for completely silly music, too," he said.
The award will lure new fans to his back catalogue, including the critically acclaimed 2006 album Like Drawing Blood.
Australian Record Industry Association chief executive Dan Rosen said: "Both commercially and artistically it's a big vote from the academy that his excellence went beyond this one song."
The amiable Melbourne based-artist also won the coveted record of the year award, previously won by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and U2, along with duo/group performance, for Somebody That I Used To Know. The minimalist break-up duet, featuring New Zealand's Kimbra and an arresting video, has sold more than 13.5 million units, been viewed more than 373 million times on YouTube and hit No. 1 on the iTunes singles chart in more than 50 countries.
It was catapulted to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 last April after the hit teen TV series Glee did a version as part of a co-ordinated global marketing campaign.
Belgian-born De Backer has written, recorded and produced music– "in a barn on my dad's block of land" near Melbourne – for a decade and released it on his own imprint, Samples'N'Samples Records. By avoiding a major label until 2011, he has secured more of the takings for himself.
Australasian Performing Right Association chief executive Brett Cottle said: "Wally started his career in Melbourne's local live scene. To bridge the gap between community and commercial radio in Australia and come out on top of the world is an amazing achievement."
It is the biggest Grammy haul by an Australian since Olivia Newton-John's 1975 hit I Honestly Love You.
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June 10, 2002
Garrison Hall, #3 East Mall
Occurred on 6-6-02 at 6:40 p.m.
Criminal Trespass: A non-UT subject was found loitering in a basement men's restroom. Subject was issued a criminal trespass warning.
Goldsmith Hall, #5 West Mall
Occurred on 6-8-02 at 11:50 p.m.
Theft: A UT teaching assistant was stopped on the south exterior side of the building, by UT Police, in the act of removing an arm chair with coasters that belonged to UT.
Graduate School of Business, 100 West 21st Street
Occurred on 6-10-02 at 2:00 a.m.
Criminal Trespass: UT Police found two non-UT male subjects inside a women's restroom on the second floor. Both subjects were issued written criminal trespass warnings.
Kinsolving Dormitory, 2605 Whitis Avenue
Occurred on 6-10-02
Criminal Trespass: Two female residents in a fifth floor dormitory room woke up to find a naked male subject sitting on the edge of one of their beds. The dormitory room's door had been left unsecured. Subject appeared confused as if on drugs. Subject left while wrapping a towel around his waist. A wet pair of gray sport shorts (size 36-38) was found inside the room. Subject was described as a white male, short brown hair, 18 to 22 years of age, 6'1" to 6'4" and 210 to 240 pounds.
Parking Garage #5, 2017 Robert Dedman Drive
Occurred on 6-10-02 at 6:37 a.m.
Criminal Trespass: A non-UT subject was found sleeping on level 4 of the southwest stairwell. Subject was issued a written criminal trespass warning.
Parking Garage #7, 1815 Trinity
Occurred on 6-6-02 at 7:00 a.m.
Criminal Trespass: A non-UT subject was found sleeping in the bushes on the south side of the structure. Subject was issued a written criminal trespass warning.
J. T. Patterson Laboratories Building, 2415 Speedway
Occurred on 6-7-02 between 11:00 a.m. and 3:40 p.m.
Theft: An over the shoulder dark blue denim bag containing a silver and black Ericson cellular telephone was stolen from an unsecured office on the fourth floor. Loss value: $75.00.
J. T. Patterson Laboratories Building, 2415 Speedway
Occurred on 6-7-02 between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Theft: A black leather wallet with a University of Texas seal stamped on the cover was stolen from a backpack that had been left in an unsecured office on the third floor. Wallet contained assorted credit cards and identification. A suspect was seen leaving the office at the time of the theft. Suspect was described as a black male, 5'8", and 200 pounds (no other description). Suspect was talking on a cellular telephone. Shortly after the theft, one of the victim's credit cards was used at a local discount store.
Penick-Allison Tennis Center, 1701 Trinity
Discovered on 6-8-02 at 4:05 a.m.
Criminal Mischief: Human excrement was left when someone defecated outside of the elevators on level three. Removal cost: $50.00.
Printing and Press Building, 2100 Comal Street
Occurred on 6-7-02 between 8:00 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.
Theft: A gray Porter Cable portable band saw was stolen from a roll-around tool cart that was left unattended in the Packaging Room. Stenciled on the saw in black paint was "Property of Shop 4 Steam Plumbing." Loss value: $125.00.
Robert Lee Moore Hall, 2515 Speedway
Occurred on 6-6-02 between 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Theft: A blue Jansport backpack was stolen from an unsecured office on the 12th floor. Backpack contained a Swiss army knife and ten $20.00 American Express Travelers Checks. Loss value: $220.00.
Union Building, #4 West Mall
Occurred on 6-7-02 at 1:50 p.m.
Criminal Trespass: A non-UT subject was found in the 3rd floor Loggia that is reserved for students, faculty and staff. Subject was issued a written criminal trespass warning.
Walter Webb Hall, 2500 Guadalupe
Discovered on 6-10-02 at 12:29 a.m.
Graffiti: Initials were spray painted in blue aerosol paint on the exterior west wall, south end. Removal cost: $200.00.
2400 San Jacinto Blvd.
Occurred on 6-5-02 between 10:00 a.m. and 8:15 p.m.
Burglary of Motor Vehicle: A navy blue Jansport backpack was stolen from an unsecured dark gray 1995 Honda Civic. Backpack contained eight CD's, three textbooks and a Texas Instruments TI-89 calculator. Loss value: $250.00.


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FREMONT — A woman was critically injured Tuesday afternoon after she crashed her car into a eucalyptus tree after driving off Interstate 880, a fire official said.
The woman, whose name was not released, was driving southbound on I-880 at 4:13 p.m. when she crashed into the tree, south of Mowry Avenue, Fremont Fire Battalion Chief Steve Silva said.
No one else was injured and no other vehicles were involved, authorities said.
Hanna Yi, a 31-year-old Fremont woman who witnessed the accident, said before the woman lost control of her car she had started to veer to the right to change lanes but was possibly startled by a Maxima that had just moved into the lane.
She jerked the wheel back to the left, Yi said.
"Her car suddenly violently jerked from left to right a few times before she completely lost control of her car," said Yi, who slowed down along with other drivers as the collision unfolded.
Yi said the woman's car spun into oncoming traffic, slid across the two right lanes and then hit the tree.
Fire crews arrived and found the woman trapped inside her vehicle, and worked for 20 minutes to get her out of the car.
The woman was taken to San Jose Regional Medical Center, where she was in critical condition on Wednesday, Silva said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Free fishing weekend
If you look at the calendar the number of summer recreational weekend opportunities shakes out to about nine. Only nine weekends. Sure, you can do things after school starts but I always feel a lot of pressure to get some fun stuff done before our weekends are taken up again by the kid's school obligations. The things we need to make time for are fishing, hiking, swimming, vacation, a rodeo and a couple of birthday celebrations. If we spend one weekend doing each of these things, we'll have used up all our time. Freakin' hell. Summer is WAY too short but what can you do but try to pack in as much stuff as possible before the snow flies.
We dedicated last weekend to fishing because it was free fishing weekend in Colorado. Woot! We loaded up the kids, a cooler of snacks, Kip, worms and poles and headed up to Glade Park. We stopped at Fruita Reservoir No. 2 and cast our lines.
Fishing with kids is not like fishing with adults. It's loud and chaotic. There are tangled lines, spilled Cokes, scabbed knees, wet shoes, dropped worms, and abandoned poles. If someone does finally get a line in the water and hooks a trout, a grown-up has to jump up and supervise the entire process of reeling, unhooking, then stringing. Often, worm hooks get swallowed which means someone (Daddy) has to re-rig the whole pole. Marty and I are not fishing, we're just running around helping the boys catch fish. It's rather exhausting.
But, it's so, so good for our boys. And, they love it.
After finally getting a pole in the water, Marek will sit patiently in a chair staring at a bobber he most likely can't see. Once every minute or so he says "Is it time Daddy?"
One minute later.
"Now Daddy?"
One minute later.
"Leave it in the water!!!"
One minute later.
"Daddy, am I a good fisherman."
Marek sings ....
He drops his pole, pokes the mud with a stick.
"Now Marek, Now!"
And Marek jumps up and starts reeling with all his might. And everybody runs down to the water to inspect the stocked rainbow trout.
And, Marty gets handed an empty pole to start the whole process over, again.
On the second day, Marek didn't catch any fish. This is what he thought of that.
No matter, in two days, we had nine fish that we ate with lemon and onion.
Fishing with little kids is far, far from a relaxing or serene time. But, we do it for the boys. And for ourselves because, just like summer, the number of weekends to make these kinds of memories before they grow up are pretty limited. And, we have so very much to do still.
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That's a great post! My 16-year-old daughter asked if we could go fishing and I told her yes, but we'd have to get poles and all the other gear, so she said, "Never mind," thinking she'd rather spend our money on something else. Am thinking now that we should have done it anyway. You're smart.
Yes, it's so true. Summer goes so fast. I feel like ours is already booked up.
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