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Monday, March 3, 2008
Check your batteries…
There was a tragedy here over the weekend. An early morning fire claimed the lives of 5 people, including three little girls and their mother.
The fire chief has said that there were no working smoke detectors. On the news last night, he had tears in his eyes as he said angrily, "We too often find that there are smoke detectors without working batteries in fatal fires. Then we find that the TV remote control batteries are working fine."
Even though we just changed the batteries in our seven (yes, 7 – I live with Elmer the Safety Elephant) smoke detectors at Daylight Savings Time a few months ago, we changed them all again yesterday. All the while, somewhere, a mother and grandmother was arranging 4 funerals and wishing to go back in time.
11 comments:
- Misty said...
Oh, no no no no.
Will do.
- March 3, 2008 at 11:18 a.m.
- Chantal said...
OMG that is so sad
- March 3, 2008 at 1:40 p.m.
- Saly said...
Things like that go right to the pit of my stomach. So sad....
- March 3, 2008 at 2:26 p.m.
- bananafana said...
I can't even imagine . . .
we just changed all of ours and put reminders in our cell phones so we'd remember to check them
- March 3, 2008 at 3:28 p.m.
- desperate housewife said...
How horrific. Thanks for the reminder.
- March 3, 2008 at 4:03 p.m.
- JMC said...
That's awful. So sad.
I was just thinking this morning, as the crap in the bottom of my toaster oven began smoking and the smoke alarm didn't register a complaint, that we need to change the batteries.
- March 3, 2008 at 4:29 p.m.
- Tessie said...
I like the idea of changing the batteries with the clocks at Daylight Savings Time. I wish they would mention it more on the news.
Terrible story. Good reminder.
- March 3, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.
- Mighty Morphin' Mama said...
OH Gosh, my heart is just aching for that family. And those poor firefighters.
I am going out to buy some new smoke detectors today, ours don't seem to be very sensitive.
- March 4, 2008 at 11:46 a.m.
- Beck said...
That's been on our news, too. God, what a tragedy.
- March 4, 2008 at 1:36 p.m.
- Miss Perfect said...
That was such a sad story.
And, it happens far far too easily and too often.
I also made sure our fire detectors were working. We always change the batteries at time changes. I insist and my husband rolls his eyes ... and then he admits he's just done it.
Fire is a scary thing.
- March 5, 2008 at 10:36 a.m.
- Artemisia said...
Oh, my. Thoughts being sent out to the family and batteries have been added to my shopping list.
- March 5, 2008 at 4:38 p.m.


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I just started a job with an inventory company on a part time basis. During my training they said that they followed all state laws with respect to pay.
My first day on the job was a sunday night doing an inventory, I ended up working 5.2 hours. When I got my payheck the next week I was paid straight pay for hours worked and no sunday bonus pay. Since I just started I don't want to ask a dunb question. But this sunday, I am going to be working again and I would like to know if I should be getting time and a half for sunday.
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On Episode 230 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit success story Brian Marcoullier and Reebok CrossFit Games Masters qualifier Eric Bartlett. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
The WOW (Workout of the Week) is from MBS CrossFit in Broomfield, Colo.
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps for time of:
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That Chesapeake Summer by Mariah Stewart
I've already read and reviewed this one. In case you hadn't seen my review I loved it, along with the rest of the series. I still have a few others from the series I haven't had a chance to read yet, but I'd love to find the time to read them later this summer.
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Your Baby's First Word Will be Dada by Jimmy Fallon
This was one of Elley's Father's Day presents to the boy. In the book various animals try to get their babies to say, "Dada," except instead they respond with their normal animal noise. It's a cute book, although hopefully it doesn't predict the future and her first word will in fact be Mama.
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Another book I've already read and loved. This is our book club book this month. While we'll be meeting this week as well as going to see Magic Mike, I hope everyone else has read it because I'm dying to talk about it. My review for this one isn't yet up, but I promise it will be soon.
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PJ Library is an organization that sends free books to Jewish children from the age of 6 months to 8 years. I heard about this program before I was pregnant and I've been looking forward to the month Elley is finally eligible. This month's book shows baby faces with different emotions and then has the emotion written in both English and Hebrew, similar to how it's written on the cover. I'm so, so excited for this program and can't wait to see what books they'll be adding to our collection each month.
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It took nearly 30 years for the Vasa to be preserved, restored, and displayed in a new museum. First, archaelogists and carpenters had to identify, catalog, and assemble some 14,000 wooden fragments that ranged from sculptures to deck planks. The museum finally opened in June, 1990. On the 10th anniversary of the Vasamuseet in 2000, the museum's press office wrote:
Work on the Vasa didn't stop after the ship went on display. Masts and rigging were reconstructed in the early 1990s, and the upper deck was rebuilt in 1998 and 1999. Researchers are now trying to determine the ship's original colors to complete the next phase of the restoration.
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Soon, she says, her anger, too, melted away. Their relationship shifted. "I truly, truly, began to love her."
"Because as I've worked to be more giving, less judgmental, more mindful… not rolling my eyes, letting him be who he is without trying to change him. it's just opening up so many doors. My relationship with my kids. My relationship with my friends. I'm really trying to be here. I'm really trying to stop the chatter that takes me to places I don't want to go. You don't change overnight. That's for sure. It's bit by bit and piece by pieces. We're all works in progress. Again because I have time, I have the ability to contemplate. [In my job] I was too filled and absorbed with columns and numbers and deadlines and have-tos and to-do's. I never had time. I now have the moment to pause, to ponder what I did and didn't do with my life. I was just doing it. I was on autopilot.


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When resistant weeds are concerned, herbicide modes of action don't come back from the grave.
At Bayer CropSciences' Respect the Rotation field day, University of Arkansas' Jason Norsworthy explains in the mid-1990s many fields developed weed populations with resistance to ALS chemistries. Along came the Roundup Ready system, and everything was wonderful. Today, glyphosate is losing its effectiveness. Why not give ALS another try?
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This particular Respect the Rotation was held at Collinsville, Ill. The site was chosen because there is a massive population of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth growing unchecked. Southern Illinois University weed specialist Bryan Young estimates there's around 2,000 acres of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth currently in Illinois. It will spread.
Hailing from Arkansas, Norsworthy has seen Palmer amaranth (he calls it pigweed) take over in the mid-south. From the time a farmer sees a single escape, Norsworthy estimates it will take only two to three years before glyphosate is completely ineffective.
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To start clean, growers must train themselves to spray smaller weeds. Gone are the days of spraying 12-inch weeds. Young says the max size is three inches for Palmer amaranth.
If glyphosate or glufosinate are working on your farm, switch chemistries now! Young says the worst thing growers can do is continue to challenge herbicides, i.e. use a one-pass post system to kill seven-inch weeds. This is what caused problems with glyphosate in the first place.
Additionally, both weed specialists say a liberal use of soil-residual herbicides is now necessary. Young recommends overlapping residual herbicides by tank-mixing a residual with the post-emergence pass.
Norsworthy reminds growers that multiple modes of action are no longer a luxury; they're a necessity. He posed this little scenario at the event. Say a farmer applies a pre-emergence pass of Valor and a post-emergence pass of Flexstar and Roundup. How many modes of action did this grower utilize?
The answer is one. He notes the weed science community is working toward a numerical system to make it easier for growers and applicators to recognize different modes of action.
Finally, Young says it may be time to swap spray nozzles. Roundup made large, drift-resistant droplets all the rage. It's time to get back to medium droplets, Young says.
"Most of the Roundup we've been spraying for years has been applied with droplets between 600 and 800 microns," Young notes.
The label for the Liberty Link system, which utilizes glufosinate as its active ingredient, specifies a droplet size of 300 microns. Yeah, a medium-size drop is more susceptible to drift, but Young says it's necessary to get control out of these chemistries that are still effective on Palmer amaranth.
Bottom line is the days of a one-pass Roundup system are over. If it's still effective on your farm, you better switch it up soon before you lose Roundup forever.


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