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Why We Should Be Proud
This is a broad topic, and one that I will surely re-visit many times, so I will be as brief as possible.
As an intern for Organizing for America – Obama's 2012 re-election campaign – I sit down with a lot of people who actively supported the President in 2008. Attitudes towards the President's first term accomplishments vary from very pleased to extremely disappointed. Generally, I have a vague idea of where on this spectrum these people sit before I meet them, and regardless of that information, I always make sure to say one thing during my meetings: I will not make a "lesser of two evils" argument.
Bachmann, Romney, Perry, or Palin – the Republicans could nominate the sasquatch and I wouldn't care – I do not need to fall back on a comparative argument because I have something better: The legislative and executive resume of the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. Allow me to run through a brief list:
1 million young adults have retained insurance through the Affordable Care Act; by 2014 (if the law withstands attacks from Republicans in Congress) the law will extend coverage to 32 million of America's least fortunate individuals.
Greatly increased regulation and oversight of commercial and investment banks in order to promote long-term financial stability and investor safety. Put an end to predatory lending practices, like ballooning mortgage rates. Took steps to empower borrowers and investors and increase corporate transparency by mandating firm-client information sharing. (NOTE: This is an extremely brief and simplified description of the Dodd-Frank Finance Reform and Consumer Protection Act, with which I am intimately familiar; for more detailed information please feel free to e-mail me at email@example.com).
Has pledged to bring troops home from Iraq by the holidays.
Oversaw the execution of Osama Bin Laden. (If you think Presidents do not play a role in covert operations like the one in Pakistan that resulted in the elimination of OBL, then I refer you to Groupthink, by Irving L. Janis, which documents the decision-making processes behind the Bay of Pigs, Carter's failed hostage rescue mission in Iran, and a number of other U.S. foreign policy debacles. Another covert operation as seamless and effective as Osama Bin Laden's assassination may not exist in United States history.)
Waged a cost-effective and minimally invasive campaign in Libya that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, a long-ruling and brutal dictator, hopefully paving the way for a more equitable and free society. (Important thought on this topic: Yes, I am glad Gadaffi is gone, but I am still greatly concerned for the future of the Libyan people and I sincerely hope that President Obama takes diplomatic steps to ensure that a progressive and peaceful regime is formed. I have full faith that he will and I would not work for him if I did not.)
Took a logistic and symbolic step towards achieving equal protections for gay Americans by repealing the homophobic don't ask, don't tell policy in the military.
Ok. Now that I have spelled out a few things that make me glad we elected Barack Obama president in 2008, allow me to make a few concessions:
The Affordable Care Act did not go far enough; the reality that we have yet to get down to brass tacks on reducing costs, and that the law's best case scenario leaves 23 million Americans uninsured, concerns me greatly. I'm not thrilled with the President's altered stance on the Clean Air Act. I agree with many liberals who feel that Obama has wasted some energy reaching across the aisle when he should have been Johnsoning his agenda through Congress while he had the votes. Also, some little things I have heard, like that the press has found Obama to be one of the less forthcoming Presidents when it comes to information sharing, do not please me. But let us not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Any liberal-minded person who does not believe there is cause to celebrate this presidency and actively support Barack Obama's re-election in 2012 should take a moment to think about the American legislative system and the example of Civil Rights.
The American government is designed to move slowly. We should all remember the phrase "checks and balances" from middle school. Well, there are consequences to these safety measures. The British system, for example, is inherently different; in Britain, the party that controls the legislature, controls the executive office, and the opposition is left to grumble a great deal and ask questions on Fridays. Sure, I am occasionally envious at the speed with which agendas can be passed in the UK, but that is not what the founding fathers intended, so we will all be remiss if we do not appreciate the stability and continuity that our slower legislating pace provides. Those who are disappointed with the progress the Obama administration has made must come to terms with the fact that legislative change in America has always, and probably will always, occur over long periods of time.
Every step is essential and I will leave you with an example of just how piecemeal progress can be.
Civil Rights legislation began, most would say, with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during reconstruction, continued with the 19th Amendment in 1920, Johnson's Civil Rights Act in 1964, and has been augmented more recently with affirmative action legislation, and other legal measures that extended equal protections to marginalized groups (repealing don't ask don't tell, for example). It has been almost one hundred and fifty years since that first step towards equal rights. But do we condemn Lincoln for failing on the first try? I won't bother to answer my own question.
It is always right to want and to push for more and better reforms, but every liberal should understand the importance of protecting and building on the progress we have made. It is my belief that the best way to do this is to ensure the re-election of Barack Obama in 2012. It's not about avoiding a disaster; it's about recognizing a succe


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Eighty-two games a season – and then four rounds of playoffs. We have followed them every single step of the way for so many years – this was my tenth year of watching the Penguins – and THIS year was THE year!
Pittsburgh Penguins WIN the Stanley Cup!
…so many people counted them out, said that there was no way from all the statistics…
They DID it!
…and it was a HUGE game for my two favorite players: Evgeni Malkin (named the Playoffs Most Valuable Player!) and Max Talbot (game winning goal scorer!)
…Now to figure out how to knit a Penguins jersey…
Gotta send lots of love up to my friends over in the Ravelry groups – Puck This! and Let's Go Pens! they are awesome people over there (yep, even the fans of my rival teams!), and we have had so much fun talking hockey this whole season!
…and I am supposed to go to sleep now?

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Hello Friends!!
Today I am sharing a layout I created using my January 2017 Counterfeit Kit Challenge kit.
I was inspired to create this layout my Maven Lisa at the Sketches in Thyme blog. She initially started out with Sketch #256.
I love the mixture of the blues and greens and even copper and wood tones.
Here I mixed all types of flowers and enamel dots. I cut the papers along the bottom at an angle and used some washi tape to separate the 2, I even pulled in some copper tape since there was copper ones in the mats behind the photos.
The wood look piece had a boys silhouette on it and I didn't really have a use for it, so I used it for a layering piece.
I had pulled this word for another layout and didn't use it so I decided to use it here. I also added some green arrow brads along the washi tape for some added dimension and color.
Thanks for visiting my blot today!!


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Someone you care about is facing cancer, and you want—very much—to support your friend. But you don't know what to say or do.
You're hardly alone with how you feel.
For many of us, cancer is a frightening disease, and something frightening can make us feel uneasy. So if you feel uncomfortable reaching out, it might help to know that one of the most meaningful ways to offer support is to simply be available to listen. In fact, it's even OK to say: "I don't know what to say. But I care, and I'm sorry you're going through this."
And while there are no set rules for helping someone with cancer—different people may have different needs—there are some general do's and don'ts.
|Become informed. As a first step, try to learn about your friend's diagnosis—for instance, by finding out the basic details from a family member or mutual friend. It might be draining for your friend to repeat the same information to several people.
|Be afraid to talk about the illness. And if your friend feels anxious or sad, allow your friend to express these feelings.
|Follow your friend's cues. Your friend may feel relieved to talk openly about his or her illness. Or the opposite might be true. Your friend might need privacy. Respect your friend's desires.
|Offer advice if not asked. Also, respect your friend's treatment decisions, even if you disagree.
|Try not to let cancer dominate your friendship. As much as possible, try to treat your friend as you always have. Talk to your friend about his or her interests that have nothing at all to do with cancer.
|Feel you have to respond. A caring listener may be the best medicine of all.
|Offer to help in concrete ways. You might volunteer to cook dinner, pick up prescriptions or babysit if your friend has children.
|Make assumptions. Try not to tell your friend, "I know how you feel." You really can't, unless you've also faced cancer.
Sources: American Cancer Society; American Society of Clinical Oncology


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The List:
-Nora Farthington, Ned Silver, Nelson Garrett, Naith
-Nebraska, Nigeria, the Nest, the NICHE, nowhere, neighborhood
-nighttime, next, never, Neanderthal, nanosecond
-napkin, necklace, note, nebula, nightclub, name, nightstand, nightgown, nerves
The Result:
(*A sequel to the story "Occupational Heresy")
Nora took a deep breath to steady her nerves; no sense in notifying the Occupants that one of their number was at present severely high-strung for no apparent reason. Ten minutes after Professor Silver departed, Nora made her way back into the neutral zone, back to the noxious hum that buzzed in her ears louder than ever before. She tucked the necklace back into her collar, felt the warm metal nestle against her skin.
Could she really be the one to liberate Earth, as the professor said? She wondered, for a nanosecond, whether it could actually be possible. No one had ever thought to resist the Occupation; the longer they remained nested in every continent, the more the Occupants negated any historical record in which they were not the dominant species. As far as anyone even knew, an insurrection had never been tried.
Until now.
Nora concentrated on her firm, measured steps all the way back to her small apartment. She had agreed to meet him at noon the next day; he promised information that would help her. It sounded so easy when he said it: in order to find the other keys, they would have to break into the NICHE—the National Interspace Command Headquarters Edifice from which the Occupants controlled the entirety of human governments worldwide—and find the Nest, which served as the nexus of power for these Occupants whose presence everyone felt, but never actually saw. She had initially objected at being the "lone heroine to save the day," but Professor Silver had laughed and assured her, "You won't be alone. There are others who will be with you every step of the way."
Nora went through her customary nighttime routine, wrestling against the urge to change even a single moment of what would be considered normal. She combed her hair, exchanged her uniform for a nightgown, and brushed her teeth. Last of all, before getting into bed, Nora removed the earplugs, basking in the stark silence. She closed her eyes and drifted to sleep.
Not much later, the nightmare began. Nora found herself navigating an endless maze of dark hallways, with nebulous shapes wafting in the shadows, manifesting periodically in forms from the deepest, darkest corners of Nora's psyche. Slithering tentacles, gnashing teeth, fearsome claws—Nora could do nothing but run from one horror straight to the next. She woke with a small whimper to an absolute mess of her bed, pillows and blankets thrown about, nightgown rumpled. She sat up and rubbed her face, panting hard to calm her shaken nerves. The earrings on her nightstand flashed a soothing green. The Occupant assigned to her neighborhood was trying to make contact. Nora groaned softly to herself as she obediently replaced the earring so the Occupant could network with her.
"Hello, Nora."
"Hello, Naith."
"I noticed you weren't sleeping well just now. What seems to be the problem?"
"Nothing," Nora tried to keep the tremor out of her voice. "Just normal things; a nightmare is all."
"Nightmares are often caused by neural unrest. What is the nature of your nightmare?"
"Know what?" Nora murmured, "I don't even remember it now. I think I can sleep just fine."
"All right. I will be with you in the morning, Nora."
"As always, Naith."
Nora couldn't get the small studs out of her earlobes fast enough. She laid the gemstones back on their stand, now returned to their customary blue hue, and laid down in her bed, pulling the covers up to her chin. She glanced out the window, watching the undulating nebula wavering over the sky. No one could pinpoint exactly when the nebula had first entered human cognizance—whether it had appeared as suddenly as the Occupants, or whether it had always hovered in the night sky, undetected until the present moment. Nora knew there was some important connotation attached to the phenomenon, if only she could figure out what it was.
Nora found it even more difficult to focus on the mundane routine the next morning. She fumbled through dressing, and she nearly walked out with only one earring in, and her necklace in plain view on the outside of her uniform. Frantically, she kept the door of her apartment firmly shut until she had everything in order, and only then did she allow herself to emerge like a good little Occupied student.
Nora fought to keep from nodding off during the Arithmetic lecture; at least here she didn't have to worry about double-speak and ever-changing narratives—did she? Nothing about numbers and figures seemed in the least way out of the ordinary. Contrary to what she had told Naith the night before, she could remember the most intense moments of her nightmare, seared into her brain with vivid, excruciating detail.
Nora walked out through the university commons as the massive clock tolled the noon hour in digitized knells.
A note had found its way into her locker, in Professor Silver's familiar handwriting and inscribed hastily on a napkin. He wrote in bold capitals for some reason, and the message was especially cryptic. "NOWHERE IS NOWHERE," it said. At the bottom he had drawn a symbol she recognized, the logo of a long-defunct nightclub. Nora headed there now, nagged by the incessant humming of her earrings, knowing her every movement would be tracked—she could only assume the Professor had found another one of those "noise-canceling pockets" like he had near the library.
She passed through the narrow gate under the decrepit sign that read NETHER-LAND. Rather a naughty name for an establishment, however appropriate. Her hand trembled as she knocked at the door. The nozzle of a gun peeked out the window next to her.
"Nobody home! Buzz off!"
Nora held up her note, hoping that whoever was inside could see it. "Professor Silver indicated that I should come," she said.
"You numpty!" The voice growled, and the door opened at just about the same time two large hands grabbed Nora by the arm and dragged her inside.
"Naming names in the open like that! Do you want to get us all nixed?"
"Who are you?" Nora demanded, wrenching away from the grip in the dark interior of the vacant nightclub. "Where's Professor Silver? Is he here?"
"Ned!" the man called, leaving Nora standing in the middle of the room that stank of countless crowds, unwashed dishes, stale cigar smoke, and who-knew-what-else. "Someone here for ya!"
"Nora!" At last, a familiar voice! Nora nearly cried as the professor she barely knew stepped into the room and wrapped his arms protectively around her. "You got my note! You found us."
"I did," she admitted, swallowing the tears and rubbing her nose. "Though I'd like to know: who is us? What is this place?"
Ned Silver smacked his forehead. "I'm sorry; in my effort to hide our true intentions from anyone who could betray that information, I may have muddled things for you. Come! Let me show you!" He took her hand and led her further back into the club, where a large room completely hidden from any windows held many monitors and screens and some very sophisticated navigational equipment. "Welcome to N.O.W.H.E.R.E.!"
Nora gazed in bewilderment at the assembled group: people milled about the screens, entering information, reading articles and streams of text she couldn't possibly dream of understanding, and speaking together in small groups over short stacks of printed material. "Nowhere?" She repeated.
A man stopped in the act of walking by. "Yes, we are the National Organization of World Historians to End Research Entropy."
Nora frowned. "Research Entropy?"
Ned nodded. "What can I say? The acronym came first, before the official title. Basically, what we are doing—right under the noses of the Occupation—is collecting and preserving any records we can find of pre-Occupation historical events. That way, no matter what they try to do with replacing or negating our past, we can still know how things really happened."
"And someday," the man agreed, "When we figure out how to neutralize the Occupant's surveillance, and how to re-activate the Stonehenge Shield, we'll be able to correct the nullified records."
Ned smiled and squeezed the young woman's hand. "That's where you come in. Nora, meet Nelson Garrett, one of the first historians on the team. Nelson, this is Nora Farthington—and she is the key-holder for North America."
"Key-holder?" Nelson gasped, and the same time Nora cried, "North America?"
"Yes," Ned agreed. "You recall how I told you there were five keys? Well, thanks to some very relentless hacking, our team has discovered that potentially the other four keys are located somewhere within four other continents: Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. We're still narrowing down the specifics—which we can't do unless the neural network spanning the nation is neutralized—but thus far we've been able to isolate four different regions: Norway in Europe, Nepal in Asia, Nigeria in Africa, and New South Wales in Australia."
Nelson snorted. "Yes, well, if we were at the Home Office in Newfoundland, I could network with all the agents in those areas, thereby making our search more effective, but no! You had to call us all out to bleeding Nebraska, of all places—"
"Oh!" Nora gasped, noting the nature of Nelson's complaint. "That's what your note meant! "NOWHERE is now here."
Nelson would not be so easily deterred. "We are indeed, and we have precious little to show for it. I mean, really! I acknowledge that Nebraska might be a nexus of power for the Occupation in this part of the world, but the accommodations are bordering on Neanderthal!"
"Nevertheless," Ned cut in, raising his hand, "we're doing pretty well with what we have, working in secret like this, and—if you're on board, Nora—we can start planning how we'll infiltrate the NICHE."
Nora took one more glance around the room, and then nodded at Ned.
"Count me in," she said.
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Hi and Happy Easter Weekend! What will you be doing?
What sweet memories we have of Easter for our family when we were all much younger. Each Good Friday, we would drive up (3 hours) to the Pennsylvania Dutch country in Lancaster PA for a little get-away and Easter Sunday church with a great congregation that loved to belt the song "Up From The Ground He Arose!"
Good times … Right now we're getting ready for the children's Church Easter Egg Hunt at a beautiful farm for Saturday, with Walt Disney perfect weather predicted. Fun!
Easter is a special time! I expanded the newsletter article from a couple of weeks ago about my Mom and her Peeps candy for Meridian. You might want to read that HERE, which includes some cute pictures of her …. Very sweet indeed. And please don't miss the true Easter message with the "Prince of Peace" videos now at www.LDS.org.
And for me … NO EASTER CANDY! That feels so nice. How are you doing with the sugar blitz and rich foods that go with Easter Sunday? The good thing is, it's a one-day holiday. When you treat it as such, rather than an excuse to binge for several days before and after, then all is well. For the evening and the day after, there's nothing quite like the tea to get things moving and keep the cravings in check. Love it!
Enjoy my newsletter today, announcing our new website, important life-saving information about my friend's son's close brush with death, using something he used for constipation, and two amazing stories about nail fungus and the socks. Easter and miracles are real!
Hippity-Hoppity-Happity — You WON!
This Week's Weekly Winners For 04-08-2017 Are
Norma Banks: 1 Month Supply
Tatiana Biesinger: 2 Week Supply
F.D. Robertson: 2 Week Supply
Ruth Rhodes: 2 Week Supply
The Tea for NAIL FUNGUS! The Socks for HEART TRANSPLANT SURGERY HELP!
There is ALWAYS something new to try, and new stories about the tea … and the power socks! This week, I got the following cool email from Annette in Oregon. She and her family own a "u-pick" fruit orchard where they grow peaches, apples and pears. They also have honey from their our own bees! How beautiful Bells Orchard must be in the Spring. Can we come visit, Annette???? Anyway — here's what she wrote:
I have used My Miracle Tea off and on for a couple of years and did read the literature provided in the beginning but I noticed something the other day when I was waiting for the water to cool that caught my attention. It said it could used on skin and I thought "why not try it on nail fungus"!! Every toe but my big one on my left foot is totally deformed with nail fungus and I have tried many things. I started rubbing the tea on them-especially the tops of the toenails-everyday about 10 days ago and it is greatly reduced on all but one of the toenails. I am REALLY IMPRESSED! And I am going to keep working at it.
In a phone conversation with Gloria, who was ordering more socks, she shared that her son, in his mid-30's has had a heart transplant. Lack of stability is one of the ongoing side-effects of that. They purchased the socks and she was getting excited to show him the push test. As he put them on he said, "I can already sense that these will make a difference!"
How wonderful …. How truly wonderful!
Well, you are the FIRST TO KNOW! www.CTRVital.com is UP!
The tea in capsule form has been used by many of you who serve on church missions — some close to home, and some very far away, with amazing results. For the going-on ten years we've shared the tea, we've wanted to share it in a bigger way so more would know about it. Out our young men and women are often not inclined towards a product that they feel looks like something only for grandmas and grandpas. And for our LDS friends, the word "tea" may feel like it doesn't fit in with our health code for not drinking coffee or tea (although it's an herbal drink that truly does.)
I'll tell you more details later, but for now, we're ready to launch and you are the first to officially know about it :0)
Here's our pretty new websi te: www.CTRVital.com, and our incredible videos about Sister Michaela Proctor, a gorgeous 19-year-old young woman who served a mission in Africa. See her video HERE, along with videos from our dear friends from My Miracle Tea, Kerrie Stone and Teresa and Dave Halley.
We're still tweaking the website! If you see any typos or links that don't work … please let us know!
We feel like we have our joyful marching orders from Heavenly Father Himself on this incredible aid for missionaries in the US and internationally. We are so thrilled to share it with you all first: www.CTRVital.com Hats off to our sons Spencer and Cooper who are taking this on as former missionaries themselves. (London and Brazil)
Today's Article
Constipation and Epsom Salts
Can constipation be a life or death matter? What a story for Easter!
On Wednesday morning I got a text from a dear friend of 30 years, Mary Ellen. We had all our babies together. She's one of those sister/angel friends that make life so rich. Her text read
"Kevin almost died. I'm so grateful he's OK. Please call."
When I called her, she told me that her son Kevin, a 22-year-old college student, had been experiencing constipation. He must have looked online for some quick fix and read that Epsom Salts were an easy home remedy.
He misread the dosage on the bottle and as a young man who doesn't cook, perhaps didn't understand the difference a teaspooon and a tablespoon.
Instead of taking one teaspoon, he took one tablespoon. He knew very quickly that th ere was something very wrong and immediately ate three large bananas and drank a large amount of water. This was an incredible blessing as he usually doesn't have that much food/fruit in his dorm room. He felt very strange and eventually passed out.
When he woke up, he called Poison Control, who advised him that he had taken a lethal dose of it and was very lucky to be alive. The bananas with the potassium and the water had probably saved his life.
He was very weak for a couple of days, but has fully recovered.
Easter Sunday is especially meaningful for Mary Ellen and their family this year!
And we as well as we learn again and again how we know the Lord is near in unusual ways — like those bananas!
Mary Ellen requested of me, "Tell everyone you know about the dangers of this. All the Poison Control agents Kevin worked with told me that they are doing all within their power to h ave constipation relief instructions on all Epsom Salts bottles removed.
I made a quick call yesterday to the Tennessee Poison Control Center to confirm all of this, and was told that an overdose of Epsom Salts greatly affects the electrolytes and magnesium balance of the body, and should never be used. He said that there are other far more helpful products for constipation.
We know that, don't we????!!!!
The other constipation aid I'd like to highlight again today is the Squatty Potty. I put this in a newsletter a year or so ago. Several of you purchased it and are thrilled with how this works without taking anything internally! It's easy to find at www.squattypotty.com
Well, we're off to finish getting ready for the Easter Egg Hunt tomorrow!
Have a beautiful Easter and please know how much we treasure you and this very special and beautiful time of the year.


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City Water Issues
Hard Water
Hard Water contains dissolved calcium, magnesium and in many cases, iron. Most homes have Hard Water, whether it is supplied by a private well or a municipality. In many cases, homeowners don't realize they have Hard Water or realize the constant and expensive damage it causes. Dry skin and hair, bathtub rings, spots on glass, silverware and fixtures, dull and dingy clothing, disappointing performance and a shortened life expectancy of water-using appliances are all problems frequently caused by Hard Water.
Chlorine Smell
Since the 1850s, chlorine has been used as a disinfectant to kill harmful bacteria in the water itself or in the pipes that transport it. While this has helped end a number of major threats to public health, and is essential at the water treatment plant and in the water distribution system, it is no longer necessary once the water reaches your home.
Though chlorine is vital for stopping the spread of disease, its benefits come at a price. Chlorine tastes and smells bad. It dries skin and hair, fades clothes (bleach is made of chlorine), and can dry out the rubber seals in appliances, shortening their lives.
Bad Tastes
In its pristine state, water is colorless, tasteless and odorless. So, if your water tastes or smells funny, you owe it to yourself to find out why.
Bacteria and Viruses
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there could be as many as 12 million cases of waterborne acute gastrointestinal illnesses annually in the United States alone. These illnesses are frequently caused by bacteria, viruses and protozoa that make their way into the water supply. Even well-operated, state-of-the-art treatment plants cannot ensure that drinking water is entirely free of microbial pathogens.


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I'm new to this site, but felt like it might help me chill out a little to talk to others who are going through a similar thing.
Anybody out there got pcos, and got thyroid issues or had a thyroidectmoy? if so, how were your periods after the thyroidectomy? Did they get more or less regular?
Mine were pretty regular before my operation 4 months ago, but now they are almost non-existent! Feel like I've taken a step backwards! Been ttc since last October (seems like a lifetime).


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January - May, 2018The Drummond Public Library is pleased to present over 36 works by a talented group of pastel artists.Participating Artists:Sandy Iseley, Cynthia Meyer, Suzanne Smiles, Michelle Williams, Gretchen Burke, Joanne Meierhofer, Ann Christensen, Pat Gierczic, Chris Lindsey, Elizabeth Lexau
Show on view through May during regular library hours. Tuesday through Friday 10am - 5 pm and Saturday 9am - 1pm
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Former Comptroller of Albuquerque Construction Company Arraigned on Federal Fraud and Identity Theft Charges
Defendant Allegedly Defrauded Employer of $1,531,124.00 During Five-Year Period
ALBUQUERQUE – Stephanie Pyle, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arraigned this morning in federal court on a 12-count indictment charging her with six counts of access device fraud and six counts of aggravated identity theft. Pyle entered a not guilty plea to the indictment and was released pending trial on conditions of release and under pretrial supervision.
The indictment, which was filed on Feb. 10, 2015, alleges that between Jan. 2010 and May 2014, Pyle used credit cards and account numbers in the name of a company without authorization and with the intent to defraud the company. The indictment alleges that Pyle defrauded the company of approximately $1,531,124.00 during the five-year period. Counts 6 through 12 of the indictment allege that Pyle used the identity of another person to commit the fraudulent acts charged in Counts 1 through 6. At the time of the offenses charged in the indictment, Pyle was employed as the comptroller for the Albuquerque-based construction company that was the victim of Pyle's alleged criminal conduct.
If convicted, Pyle faces a statutory maximum penalty of ten years in prison on each of the six access device fraud charges. She also faces a mandatory two years in prison on each of the six aggravated identity fraud charges which must be served consecutive to any sentence imposed on the fraud charges. Charges in indictments are only accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The case was investigated by the Albuquerque office of Homeland Security Investigations and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy Peña.


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Efficcess is a cross-platform personal information manager that can help you organize and plan your business and private life. With Efficcess you can keep track of contacts, appointments, tasks, to-do lists, birthdays, and much more. The software also gives you space for keeping notes, diaries, and even passwords. In order to be successful you need to be organized and efficient. With Efficcess all of the things you need to manage are located in one, easy-to-use interface. And you can sync data across PCs and mobile phones.
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CC Designs August Release!
I have more Halloween fun to share with the new releases from CC Designs!!!
This month is full of spooky goodness! Here's a card I made using
the adorable witch from the Monster Mash set-
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Can you handle the cuteness!!??
Not only do they have this new adorable set, but
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THE Nationals have preselected Gaelle Broad, a former political staffer to deputy leader Bridget McKenzie and former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello, to run against incumbent Jacinta Allan in the state seat of Bendigo East.
Ms Broad said there was other interest but she was preselected unopposed and was now preparing to embark on the 35-week "job interview" that would lead up to the state election in November.
She is the first candidate to disclose preselection, and the first the Nationals have entered to run for Bendigo East since the 2010 election.
Ms Broad put her hand up to fill Damien Drum's Victorian upper house seat when he decided in 2016 to enter federal politics.
Luke O'Sullivan took his position.
Ms Broad was most recently general manager of 105.1 Life FM, but says she has had political ambitions for a while.
Apart from her experience working for the coalition parties, Ms Broad also has worked in media, and business and government relations.
She has supported the Nationals since moving to Bendigo 15 years ago because she thinks the party is a better fit for central Victoria and "I think I align more with the Nationals because they offer the best from all the political parties".
"They have economic credentials, they know how to stand up for people battling and there is also the environmental management experience that comes with the farming backgound," Ms Broad said.
"I think they prioritise community and grassroots and that is very much where I sit."
But she will have to claw back a 3.2 per cent margin from Ms Allan who is also deputy premier and holds the high profile public transport portfolio.
Labor, Ms Broad said, had been city-centric while in government in Victoria.
"A number of projects that have happened locally are not delivering the outcomes as promised," she said.
She could deliver better rail options to Bendigo.
"I look and I think we have trains slower than a decade ago, we have express trains sitting behind stop-all-stations trains, no wifi that was promised and we have buses that operate more often than trains," Ms Broad said.
"Surely we can do better on that front and that is something I would strongly advocate for."
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Thank you so much for the duck pond cake! It was beautiful & beyond tasteful. Couldn't have chosen a more perfect place to get it done. I will be a recurring customer from now on for such great service, great price and great looking and tasting cakes! Thank you!
" Loved their cake so much. The best Dominican cake I've ever had."
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"Carmen Rosa has the best dominican cakes!!! they are fresh and delicious!!
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Carmen made me the best tasting Dominican cake for my wedding. Everyone loved it. It was fresh and tasty. Thank you so much Carmen"
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Solo queria decirte que muchas gracias por el cake e Barney del Sabado Marzo 27. Fue identico a la foto y riquisimo tambien! Muy buen trabajo! Gracias!
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"Great tasting affordable cakes for any occasion. The lady who bakes the cakes originally started making them out of her house, but as her cake baking skills spread through word of mouth, she got so much business that she had to open up a storefront. I think the main draw from this place is the price to ratio. You're not paying up the wazoo for a fancy schmancy storefront. The place is literally just a counter and a back where the cakes are made. However, the place is generally pretty packed as people come in and out to pick up their cakes. Just call in (or visit) and order your cake, and tell her when you need it by. And then wait for your cake goodness. I only give it a 4 because I've never had anything other than the cakes at this place...not even sure if she makes anything but cakes. But even if she didn't, it would still be a worth while place to get a cake"
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Welcome to the fight to help kidney patients! Join us through the Action Center - see the Quick Sign Up box below. Receive alerts on when to add your independent voice to those of other kidney patients and caregivers in the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.!
With the click of a button - from your phone, pad or computer - you can send a message to educate lawmakers and officials about the true cost of kidney disease. Attaching your personal story to legislation and policy is vital to ensure our policymakers make wise decisions about BOTH people and budgets!
Your voice does count. Kidney disease has many human costs – stress over treatment choice and access, loss of income, the struggle to stay employed, stress on family and loved ones and delayed dreams.
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T-minus I can't tell you how long until the new paper launches
But stay tuned for the United Arab Emirates new daily, The National.
This is the Emirates Media building where it is being assembled as I write this. (I am on a day off, for anyone who thinks I am shirking any editing responsibilities) There is a sign in the middle of the newsroom, on just a regular-size piece of paper, that I completely love, that sums up the frenzy and excitement that is afoot here.
"Keep calm, and carry on."


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Ongoing Locum Tenens Need in Idaho - CPH# JOB-2270541
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An Idaho-based facility is currently seeking a pulmonology/critical care physician to assist with locum tenens coverage. Assignment schedule is 7pm to 7am and no call will be required. Covering physician must be board certified or board eligible and have a current ID license in hand or be willing to work with CompHealth to obtain one. At CompHealth, we're experts at matching you with your just-right job. We work with thousands of respected healthcare facilities nationwide, enabling us to find the best jobs and locations. Every step of the way, you'll be supported by specialty teams comprised of tenured professionals. Our goal is to make a difference in the lives of our providers and the healthcare communities they serve.
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The Valerie, My Crystal Sister chandelier is a bittersweet creation. Created through the crystallization of DNA fragments, it represents the sister that Dutch designer Lucas Maassen never had. In fact, the name Valerie would have been his own name had he been born a girl.
Made in collaboration with medical company Roche, the Valerie, My Crystal Sister chandelier was crafted over the course of several months. According to Design Milk, "He was able to crystallize synthetic DNA fragments present in his parents and then replicated this into glass in collaboration with Vienna-based crystal manufacturer Lobmeyr." Comprised of one thousand of these glass orbs, the end result is enchantingly ethereal.
The Valerie, My Crystal Sister chandelier is currently part of the Confrontations: Contemporary Dutch Design exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum.
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I wanted to share a picture of one of the students work in our year long stumpwork class. This is Avrils piece that she finished and framed. It looks so good. Everyone made their own changes to their homework pieces. They made them their own. I am so proud of her work and she actually finished it. Better than me, I'm still on those borders. I'll still try to get in touch with the other people in the class and see if they could share their pictures with us too. Donna
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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- Hi everyone, my name is Donna. I just love stitching of all sorts, I also love antique, and book stores. I am married and I have 2 children, and 2 grandchildren :). My Christian faith is the foundation of my life, and has sustained me through the ups and downs of this journey. Keep spreading kindness so you can change the world. So glad you stopped by, leave me a message and I will stop by and visit you.


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Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world. That's the mission our founders began with in an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009 and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we're constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobile-first Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. Most recently, we've launched Episode, a mobile storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy game.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cross Platform team, you will work on a cross-platform technology that allows iOS apps to run on Android automatically, without extensive changes to the original Objective-C or C++ code. This platform has been battle tested with several top grossing apps we've shipped on Google Play Store to millions of users. Our Platform team works closely with our App teams, so you'll quickly see your work in the hands of millions of users.
What You'll Do:
- Master a build system
- Integrate third-party libraries
- Add support for latest Objective-C features
- Crush bugs
- Build abstractions that enable other teams to write platform-agnostic code
What You Bring to the Cross Platform Team:
- Strong knowledge of OpenGL ES, Objective-C, C++ (or related tech/languages)
- 3+ year of practical experience in shipping major iOS apps and/or developing cross-platform technologies
- Experience with build systems and cross-compiling toolchains
- A working knowledge of Android Java APIs, JNI, NDK
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- Familiarity with any of these Open Source projects: GNUstep, CFLite, Cocotron, Clang, cocos2d
Pocket Gems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.


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Computing fossils: Old tech holding on for dear life
Some ancient technology is still useful -- and some just won't die.
Consider the abacus. Developed perhaps as long as 4,500 years ago, this handy gadget served the mathematical needs of merchants and accountants until the development of mechanical calculating machines in the 19th century. Today, the abacus lives on in niches -- for instance teaching preschoolers the basics of counting.
There are a number of obsolete technologies and gadgets that have persisted from slightly less ancient times right down to the current day, though again in greatly diminished numbers and scope. A brief tour through these technological fossils serves as a lesson on the durability of items we sometimes think of as ephemeral.
Return to main story: Computing fossils: Old tech holding on for dear life
Plugboards still plugging along
Retro computer geeks everywhere were all aflutter a few years ago with the report of an IBM 402, first introduced in 1948, still in use. Sparkler Filters, a Texas company that manufactures water filtration equipment, uses this punchcard machine for accounting, and even a delegation from a hobbyist group couldn't convince them to give it to a museum and replace it with a modern computer.
Technically, an IBM 402 isn't even a computer -- it's a tabulating machine, "programmed" by arranging wires on a plugboard. They were reliable, and if you need one to do only one task, and it still works, then why replace it?
MicroVAX put out to pasture
Techies take pride in using genuinely antiquated systems. Thus it's no surprise that a humble-brag post on Reddit from YouCantOutrunABear, describing the 23-year-old system he uses working for a silver mining company, bubbled up to Reddit's front page.
The computer, a MicroVAX 3100 from the Digital Equipment Corporation, sports an awesome 12 MB of RAM. It's running OpenVMS, used in 1989 and still produced by Hewlett-Packard, though installing the latest version on that old machine would be tough.
YouCantOutrunABear's machine runs several non-mission-critical programs, including computations on silver price conversions; it also prints labels onto an almost as antiquated printer. The monitor sitting on a brick is a nice touch.
The ghost of a PDP-11
In the 1970s, the U.S. Navy and American Airlines used the PDP-11 from DEC to build the Multi-station Spatial Disorientation Device (MSDD). It was like a souped-up carnival ride that kept riders in the dark to simulate the disorientation felt in planes at night.
The MSDD was used until 2007, when it became too expensive to keep working. Migration Specialties moved the Navy to a modern machine which simulates a PDP-11 exactly. That FORTRAN code is still running on a PDP emulation card, which in turn emulates a fighter jet spinning out of control at night.
You don't want to be the one who has to clean this thing.
The flat file database that wouldn't die
Now onto the true black hole of U.S. government IT: the IRS. For decades, the IRS held tax records in an Individual Master File, an enormous flat file containing millions of records, stored on big spinning wheels of magnetic tape, accessed via COBOL code.
Finally, in Janurary 2012, Customer Account Data Engine (CADE), a conventional database system run on IBM hardware, replaced Master File. And that switchover was only for data for individuals; business and retirement plans taxes are kept on the old system.
Will paper returns also be a thing of the past? Don't hold your breath.
Big Blue predicts blue skies
Sometimes longtime government use of technology isn't the result of chaos and incompetence, but simple thriftiness. When it comes to weather predictions, satellites and doppler radar get all the press, but the National Weather Service still relies on good old-fashioned balloons -- and much of the data sent from those balloons is still processed by good old-fashioned IBM PC/XT machines, dating from the 1980s. It did turn out that 640 KB wasn't enough for everybody, but it seems that it's still good for many purposes.
Wait, what did 'XP' stand for?
Is your PC among the 40.7% still running Windows XP? This archaic, outdated operating system was released in October 2001. To show you how long ago that is (and to make you feel old), ten and a half years before that was April 1991, when Windows 3.0 was Microsoft's reigning operating system.
With such a large installed base, it's a good bet that an article like this one written ten years from now will include "ancient x86 box running Windows XP" in its rogues' gallery.
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Hi everyone -
Welcome to our new website. We are excited to share all of our content in an updated way.
I am really happy to announce that, as we expand our business into managing the new club we designed, we will have some changes at Moffett Towers Club.
First off congratulations to Kyle Crist, he will be moving into the General Manager role at Moffett Towers Club.
I am also really proud to announce that, Megan Neves will be moving to The Club At Moffett Towers II as the GM, and Matt Snee will be the AGM there. Kennedy Uy will be moving to The Club also as our evening trainer.
I am really excited to offer them all this opportunity.
Be sure to tell them all congrats next time you see them at the club.
Stephanie Hammons - Regional Manager, L10Fitness
Now on to some club stuff ;)
All Fall Swim Programs start the week of July 9th
REGISTER ON MINDBODY or E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
BEGINNER SWIM - Learn to Swim
Mondays & Wednesdays
8:20am-9am 10-week session for $550 – 3 spots available
5:40pm-6:20pm 8-week session for $440 – 3 spots available
Tuesdays & Thursdays
9am-9:40am 10-week session for $550 – 3 spots available
12pm-12:40pm 10-week session for $550 – 3 spots available
*No swimming experience necessary.
BEGINNER SWIM 2 – Intro to Masters
Monday & Wednesday
7:40am-8:20am 10-week Session for $350 – 8 spots available
Further instruction and advanced stroke development for all 4 strokes.
*Must be comfortable swimming Freestyle and backstroke.
Tuesday & Thursday
11:30am- 12pm 4-week session for $80 – 8 spots available
Mondays & Wednesday
11:30am-12pm 4-week session for $80 – 8 spots available
Focus on freestyle specific stroke development.
*Must be able to swim freestyle for at least 25 yards.
As many of you may have seen, our day spa has been remodeled into offices, taking away most of our massage offerings. However, we still offer our relaxing HydroMassage.
HydroMassage is a fully customizable, user-friendly massage system that gives you a powerful, heated, deep-tissue massage in as little as 10 minutes.
You will remain fully clothed, dry and comfortably supported while powerful waves of water are directed at specific areas of the body - giving you a deep and relaxing massage.
Schedule your appointment today HERE
Tuesday (July 3rd) – 6 am – 6 pm
Wednesday (July 4th) – CLOSED
Thursday (July 5th) – Regular Hours
Another change is some of the Group Exercise class instructors. If you are wondering whether your favorite instructor is teaching a different class click HERE.


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We have many types of jacking equipment to get the job done. We have lifted camps, placed new foundation walls and lifted specific sections of old homes to level the floors. No matter what the dwelling size we can lift it.
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Teague attended Wentworth Institute of Technology where he obtained a BS degree in Civil Engineering. He started his career as a field engineer for a large site work company in Maine for several years. After working in the layout and constructions of major roads and highways Mr. Adams moved on to become a Project Manager for a large Massachusetts based company operating in Southern Maine. While working there he oversaw school building projects, hospital renovations, new college dorms, and masonry restoration of private high schools to say a few. Looking for more challenges, Teague then joined a reputable Geo Technical and materials testing firm in central Maine. After five years of overseeing rock coring on wind tower projects, testing and inspecting concrete, reinforcing steel, masonry, soils, steel beams & column connections and hot mixed asphalt. He opened his own business in 2007 specializing in home & septic inspection, excavation, foundation repair & waterproofing, and jacking, shoring of residential buildings and camps.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Pre-school to prevent delinquency?
The rant below is typical of disassociated Leftist thought. Jacqueline Maley points to problems and just asserts that pre-school will fix them. Asking for evidence that your "cure" will in fact cure anything is chronically "forgotten" among Leftists. Evidence connecting the cure to the problem is absent.
She points to the problems that children reared in feral environments pose for both themselves and everyone else and then points out that if you get an infant very early, you may be able to train its brain into more positive behaviour channels. It's a reasonable conjecture.
So how do we implement this draconian intervention? The infant brain is at it most plastic when it is youngest. The plasticity is highest just after birth and declines steadily thereafter. To make Maley's idea work, you would have to take masses of infants away from their families from shortly after birth. Is that going to happen? The "stolen generations" furore guarantees that it will not.
So she does not even explore that option. She just states blandly and blindly that pre-school will achieve the desired result. But, for a start, pre-school is far to late to do much good and, secondly, any effect of a few hours in pre-school will be overwhelmed by the very different experience of the feral home for the remaining 18 hours (or more) of the day.
Maley quotes theories of U.S. educators that say there is a small advantage in pre-school but those theories fade into insignificance when we look at the actual experience with the American "Head Start" program -- now in existence for many decades. It aimed to give a quality pre-school experience to children from deprived homes. It produced some initially promising results, as new programs often do, but those advantages rapidly faded away, leaving a program that scholarly analysts see as an abject failure. The program is now kept going mainly as a means of offering a child-minding service in poor areas
Ms Maley hasn't got a clue. Like most Leftist writing hers has an initial plausibility until you know all the facts
There is one simple thing politicians could do right now that would save the budget millions, or even billions, of dollars over the next generation.
The evidence is clear that this near-magic initiative works to prevent poverty, illiteracy, social delinquency, welfare dependency, ill health, and even cardiovascular disease and obesity.
Politicians like to talk about there being no "silver bullet" solution to any given problem, but according to economists and doctors, and at least one Nobel prize winner who has devoted his life to this cause, this is as close to it as it gets.
All they have to do is better fund preschools.
After 20 years of solid research into child brain development, scientists now know (and I use the verb "know" in the entirely scientific, evidence-based, non-feelpinion sense) that the human brain in the infant-to-child period is exquisitely sensitive to its environment.
Whatever crappy destiny a child's genes have planned for him or her, it will usually only be triggered in a bad environment, where a child's basic physical needs are not met, or where his or her parents fail to provide a nurturing, stimulating and responsive backdrop.
Professor Frank Oberklaid, a feted paediatrician who is probably Australia's foremost expert in early intervention and childhood development, says none of this research is touchy-feely or vague.
It is "robust and non-contested" neuroscience.
We all know that children who are exposed to abuse or neglect often grow up to have psychological and behavioural problems.
But the research shows there are long-term physical and neurological consequences from what you and I might call a crappy childhood.
The effects from a bad environment are as real and long-lasting as a blow to the head, or a kick to the kidneys might be.
"In situations of extreme poverty, child abuse, substance abuse, or any situation where the child is exposed to unpredictability and a lack of responsiveness, stress levels go up in the brain," Oberklaid says.
"This produces cortisol, and cortisol levels affect the brain's functioning. You get the biologic embedding of environmental events, so after a generation or two you start to see changes in genetic material."
Here's the real kicker: increased stress in those early years resets the body's physiological regulatory system at a sub-optimal level, meaning these children, as they grow up, are more likely to develop disease like heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
It also buggers their brain's frontal lobe development, which governs what is known as "executive function" – a trio of cognitive processes that are essential to functioning as a happy and productive adult: working memory, mental flexibility and self control.
Take a survey of your nearest prison population and you will find it full of men and women who have difficulty holding more than a few pieces of information in their minds at once, who are bad at switching between tasks and who have poor or zero impulse control.
Children are not born with these skills, and they are unlikely to develop them in dysfunctional home environments.
That's why compulsory, state-subsided preschool for at least one year, but ideally two, is something economists are switching on to.
The Nobel-winning American economist James Heckman has devoted much of his professional life to researching the economics of early childhood, and has shown that funding early childhood delivers a return on investment.
His analysis of one preschool program estimated a 7 to 10 per cent return on investment. Analysis of another early childhood program, the Chicago Child-Parent Centre, estimated $48,000 in benefits to the public per child from a half-day of public preschool. The estimated return on investment was $7 for every dollar invested.
These savings are based on the greater adult productivity of the kids involved, and reduced costs in remedial education, healthcare and criminal justice participation down the line.
The good news is we know exactly what we have to do in order to prevent a lot of these adverse outcomes.
Oberklaid spends his life advocating early intervention policy, and has advised state and federal ministers on the subject.
If he could make politicians do one single thing, it would be to fund one year of universal preschool education. Even better, fund two years of it.
Preschool helps develop the early building blocks of educational success – learning colours and numbers, understanding patterns, realising that printed words hold meaning. It socialises children. Any language, hearing or developmental problems a child may have are picked up early.
Unsustainable solar scheme being wound down in NSW
Less than a week before the lucrative NSW solar bonus scheme ends, there is still "mass confusion" among the 146,000 affected households, industry figures say.
The scheme, which was launched in 2011 to encourage the uptake of renewable energy, handed homeowners 60¢ or 20¢ "feed-in" tariffs per kilowatt hour, for the solar energy they put back into the grid.
But from December 31 those homeowners are set to face "bill shock", when their tariff rates drop to around 6¢, which is less than the amount they will be charged for accessing electricity from the grid.
The biggest change for all affected consumers has been the need to switch from a gross meter to a net meter, a process that has been beset by lengthy delays.
Michael Furey, the NSW chairman of the non-profit Australian Solar Council, said: "From the customer side there is mass confusion, and also a huge amount of frustration, because customers have been told to get information from their energy retailers and that has been either difficult to access or confusing."
From January 1, households that already have a net meter can use the electricity they generate to power appliances in the home at the time, while any excess energy is exported to the grid, earning the homeowner an unsubsidised feed-in tariff of around 6¢.
According to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal, changing from a gross to a net meter could leave NSW customers between $234 and $461 better off each year.
Mr Furey estimates that an average-sized two-kilowatt system that has not been switched to net metering will cost a homeowner around $1.20 a day, from January 1.
An EnergyAustralia spokesperson said that it understood customers were confused about delays, but it expected to have all net meters installed by the middle of 2017.
"We do not think our performance to date has been good enough ... To make sure not a single EnergyAustralia customer is disadvantaged, we're crediting $40 each month to our NSW solar customers who ... haven't yet had their meter installed."
The feed-in tariffs offered by the major providers from January 1 are 10¢ from Origin, 6.1¢ from AGL and EnergyAustralia and up to 12¢ from smaller market players such as Enova Energy.
The Macassar tyranny
Macassar is a small seaport in Indonesia. So what has that got to do with Warmism? Nothing at all. But its namesake does.
I refer to Rowland's Macassar Oil, a product first marketed by a London barber in 1783. It was marketed as a way for men to keep their hair in order and in good health. It soon had imitators and it became a fashion for men to put oil or grease in their hair. And that fashion lasted into recent times. I remember going into Woolworths in the 1950s and buying "Californian Poppy" grease for my hair.
Greasing your hair had become virtually universal. A man who did not grease his hair was regarded as untidy.
The fashion died fairly decisively in Australia in 1972, when a new Leftist Prime Minister gained power -- the haughty Gough Whitlam. Shortly after his accession, he went on TV to announce that he was abandoning hair grease. Up until that time, he had always greased his hair -- like most of his unionist supporters. The internet has a short memory so does not record the occasion but what Whitlam said ran roughly as follows:
"I have always used a pomade to dress my hair. But fashionable people tell me I am behind the times in doing so. A modern man does not put anything in his hair. I have therefore decided that it is time to cease being a gluggy and become a fluffy".
There was at the time some debate over whether rice should be served gluggy or fluffy.
Even unionists ceased greasing their hair after that. If they were lucky, their wives now blow-dried their hair -- perhaps with a little help from the lady's hair spray.
So what is the lesson from all that? It shows that a totally useless belief and custom persisted among us for nearly 200 years until it was laughed to death. Will the equally foolish doctrine of global warming stay among us for 200 years? It could.
Senator Rod Culleton declared bankrupt by Federal Court
Besieged senator Rod Culleton has been declared bankrupt in a Federal Court hearing in Perth, jeopardising his position in the Senate.
The decision is the result of legal action brought against Senator Culleton by a creditor, former Wesfarmers director Peter Lester, seeking $280,000.
The constitution prohibits federal parliamentarians from being bankrupt. The judge has granted a 21-day stay on the order.
Senator Culleton recently quit One Nation after weeks of public tension over policy differences and the party's support for an unrelated legal action against him - concerning his eligibility to run at the July election - in the High Court.
If he is thrown out of the Senate as a result of Friday's bankruptcy decision, his former party will be empowered to select his replacement.
The courtroom reportedly became dramatic following Judge Michael Barker's ruling, with Senator Culleton yelling at the judge: "You've just executed me".
Outside the court, he said the stay on the bankruptcy order meant he "was in a legal rip" that he would swim out of by seeking to overturn it in the Supreme Court.
He also claimed the court proceedings were not fair because two people - against whom his wife Ioanna allegedly has violence restraining orders - were present in the courtroom at one point before they were removed by police.
"I'll fight to the end," he said.
The separate High Court decision Senator Culleton is awaiting concerns the larceny charge hanging over his head at the time of the election.
If he is declared ineligible by that jurisdiction, an automatic recount would most likely award his spot to the person who was second on One Nation's Senate ticket: his brother-in-law, Peter Georgiou.
Senator Culleton's former leader, Senator Pauline Hanson said she feels sorry for him "but this was the right ruling".
"I hope he now acts honourably & steps down with dignity," she tweeted.
Senator Hanson has sought to avoid Mr Georgiou emerging as the replacement, suggesting earlier this week that he might not be able to take the job.
"I'm also hearing that his brother may be a guarantor for him in that bankruptcy. So if that be the case, his brother-in-law may not be eligible to stand. So if that be the case, then the seat comes back to the party," she said.
Senator Culleton's chief of staff, Margaret Menzel, rejected this claim.
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I don't know, but Culleton strikes me as a bit of a narcissist. I think he fancied himself as running One Nation.
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Edward and Catherine James
Its almost 17 months since I was diagnosed. I dont usually take a lot of notice of statistics, especially when they are depressing, but this is one time Im happy to say Im beating them - well and truly. I really shouldnt be here.
I try not to dwell on that fact too often, but yesterday I was watching the news of yet another KC patient fighting for funding for Sutent and it was stated that without treatment a patient with mRcc (advanced kidney cancer) has only a few months to live. Ofcourse I knew this, but to have it publically announced was a bit of a shock.
For a while now I have been thinking about making 'Memory Boxes' for the children and Im going to make a start on them this week. Ofcourse being in their teens, and older, they will have well established memories of me anyway, so these will consist of stories of when they were born, when they were babies. Photos and the odd bits and pieces Ive kept over the years - the silly things that we Mums collect, cards and letters for future birthdays/special days, and little gifts.
Ive put off doing this until now because I find it incredibly upsetting just to think about it, but this is such a wonderful opportunity, Im so lucky to have it and I really must make the most of it.
How many parents get the chance to actually sit down and write to their children and tell them how much they love them, to describe the day that they were born and how special they are each in their own way?
At the end of the day memories are all we leave behind but they can help to shape the future and its important they should be positive, happy ones.
So today I shall make a start, knowing full well Ill be crying buckets whilst I do it - but hoping Im creating some smiles for the future.


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Despite how it sounds, this is not a contradiction of the last blog but a weird contradiction in thinking that used to really trip me up, and I'm sure, many other people as well.
In my early days back in Sydney Film School, I used to happily pay though the nose to hire a studio, equipment and crew but I was outraged at the cost of using professional actors. I would pay the extra money for the two-hundred-and-twenty-seventh change to the edit but I could not see the point of hiring a professional sound designer.
*forehead slap*
I'm not alone. I have been involved in quite a few productions where either the client or the creative has skimped in all the wrong areas. Sometimes people even go so far as to use their Aunty Penny (who is oh-so-very pretty) or their brother Phillip who used to do acting back in high school.
This decision can lead to a drastic blow out of production and editing time causing the whole experience to go over time and over budget… which makes everyone cranky.
It's on…
I'm not saying that one must always use professional actors or that you need the best of everything. What I AM saying, is that if you are a business that made $2M in the last year, these videos could get you at conservative 20% Sales Increase when paired with a good customer experience. So if this video campaign is going to make you $200,000… why save on the $400 for a professional voice-over artist?
I can appreciate this point, the dollar short cuts you make can end up sticking out like a sore thumb in the final product. A proper mindset is needed for spending; you don't want people choking on the flaws and missing the otherwise good points of a production.


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LA Supervisor Rails Against Opera Festival
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Gemma Kybert – Founder
A Mother to a child with wings, Qualified Early Childhood Teacher, College Lecturer.
After many health complications I fell pregnant with my lovely little Oscar Jensen in May 2014. My beautiful Oscar was still born at 26 weeks (6 months) My waters broke at 18 weeks when I experienced a tear in the amniotic sac. Starting "Oscar's Wish Foundation" has allowed me to acknowledge and honor my baby boy in a very precious and memorable way. This has been my focus and paramount to my grieving process. Knowing that my story and experience is similar to that of many woman and that sharing my experience may help others has contributed incredibly to my healing.
Oscar's short life has also created an inner strength with has given me the ability to try and help others. I have drawn great comfort from the many amazing people who have contacted me and shared their stories enabling us to help each other through the most devastating times of our lives.
Tracey Gunes – Gemma's Mummy, Foster Mother, Adoptive Mother and Child Minder
As a Nanna to Baby Oscar and Mummy to Gemma I wanted to be involved in OWF and become a Trustee. I sadly experienced many loses throughout the years. I experienced 5 devastating miscarriages amongst my 3 biological children. These are experiences that will never leave me and will always be part of my story as a mother. I have fostered many children over the last 27 years and am the proud mummy to two adopted children who completed our family. I understand how much being a parent is an investments of our hearts and I feel for other parents who have experienced similar loses. My heart goes out to each of you.
Kirsten Thomas – Treasurer for OWF
Being a close friend of Gemma's since 2001 I feel incredibly sad for the loss of Oscar. I was honoured and feel privileged to be asked to be part of OWF. Gemma has been like a mother and big sister to my children who love her so much. She is the most selfless/caring, beautiful person I know and she will make a great success of the Foundation assisting others who go through similar experiences. She will make Oscar proud and ensure that the Foundation helps as many families as possible.
Sarah Comley – Trustee & Designer for OWF
Gemma is an inspiration to me and to everyone she meets. I agreed to be a Trustee and to help raise awareness of stillbirth. It is a subject very close to my heart. I am a lone twin who lost her identical twin sister at 42 weeks, she was stillborn. I have another wonderful sister and two children who I adore, but still think about my angel sister every day of my life.
Sophie and Dave Stone – Trustees to OWF
Mummy and Daddy to a daughter with wings, our beautiful Daughter - Jessica Stone. We have become Trustees for Oscar's Wish Foundation after meeting Gemma through our devastating loses. We lost our Daughter, Jessica in July 2014 when I was 21 weeks pregnant. Losing Jessica was without a doubt the worst thing we could ever have experienced and we both couldn't be happier and more honoured to become Trustees for this wonderful Charity.
We look forward to being a part of many changes being made for the better and since having our son, Alfie born 3 months early in 2016, we fully appreciate the need for there to be support for families throughout their grieving journey and their future... whatever that may be.


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Tim Sears Jr. Uses Late Caution To Win Fulton Speedway 358 Modified Feature
Tim Sears Jr. Uses Late Caution To Win Fulton Speedway 358 Modified Feature
Story By: Dave Medler/Fulton Speedway
Photos By: Mike Johnson/RacersGuide.com
FULTON, NY – There is an old saying of what's old is new again. That played out Saturday night at the Fulton Speedway as the track returned to its roots with the 358 Modifieds as the headline division.
A fantastic field of 124 cars filled the pits for the opening points night to kick-off the 2018 points season with great racing in all divisions on Ferris Mowers night.
Feature winners were, Tim Sears Jr. (DIRTcar 358 Modifieds) Brandon Ford, Mike Stanton Jr. and Billy Clark Jr. (DIRTcar Sportsman) Jason Parkhurst (Late Models) Addison Bowman and Quinn Wallis (Novice Sportsman).
Larry Welling and Larry Wight brought the 27 Tracey Road Equipment DIRTcar 358 Modified field to the green with Welling leading the opening lap before Wight would take command of the race one lap later in the 35-lap feature.
With 10 laps complete, Wight would open a four-second lead on the field. Behind Wight, Billy Whittaker, Welling, Pat Ward and Tim Sears Jr. were putting on a show with tight racing for second through fifth.
At the halfway point, Wight was still leading, Sears had moved into second and was slowly chipping away at Wight's lead. Whittaker, Bobby Herrington and 358 modified rookie, Glenn Forward raced in tight quarters inside the top-five.
With no yellows to slow the action, Wight was still in control with 10-laps to go. Sears and Whittaker were slugging it out for second and third with Forward and Herrington still in the top-five.
The turning point in the race came with a handful of laps left when the first yellow of the feature waved erasing the 3.3 seconds lead Wight had setting up a shootout to the finish with defending track champion Tim Sears Jr.
When the green came back out, Wight and Sears raced side-by-side around the entire speedway leaving the winner in doubt. Sears made the winning pass with 2-laps to go finding the bite he needed using the bottom of the speedway to grab the narrow win over Wight. Billy Whittaker finished third, with 358 Modified rookies Glenn Forward and Ron Davis III finishing fourth and fifth.
With 65 SUNY Canton DIRTcar Sportsman in the pits, three 25-lap features were run in appreciation for racers supporting the speedway.
In the first feature, two and three-wide racing was seen throughout the field in the opening laps with Tyler Thompson setting the early pace out front.
With 5-laps in the record book you could have thrown a blanket over the top-five of Thompson, Garett Rushlow, Wade Chrisman, Corey Barker and Brandon Ford.
On lap-8 Ford made an impressive move going from third to the first to be scored the new leader of the race.
With 10-laps remaining Ford bolted out to a 2.1 seconds lead. Rushlow, Barker, Thompson, Will Shields and Chrisman raced in close quarters for second through sixth.
A yellow with 9-laps to go took away the large lead Ford had built-up setting up a shootout to the checkers.
Over the final laps Corey Barker threw everything he had a Ford, but Brandon Ford held on for the narrow 0.219 of a second win. Will Shields finished third flowed by Nate Higgins and Wade Chrisman to complete the top-five.
In the second 25-lap Sportsman feature, there was close side-by-side racing throughout the entire 20-car field with Jessica Power setting the early quick pace out front.
The show over most of the race was between Power running the low line and Mike Stanton Jr. racing the top groove as they ran side-by-side lap after lap never knowing who would be out front. The winning pass came with 2-laps to go as Stanton led by a bumper. Jessica Power fought back, but Stanton held on for the narrow 0.766 second win. Mark Yorker, Mike Phelps and Alan Fink finished third through fifth.
In the final 25-lap Sportsman feature, Billy Clark Jr. set the quick pace grabbing the lead at the drop of the green.
By lap-10 Clark opened a 1.5 second lead as Mike Button, Zach Sobotka, Nick Krause and Ricky Yelle raced for top-five positions.
Over the second half of the race Clark was still fast out front trying to put cars a lap down. Over the final 5-laps Mike Button was able to reel in Billy Clark Jr. setting up an exciting finish. Clark was not to be denied as AMB scoring showed him the winner by 0.733 over Button. Zach Sobotka, Nick Krause and Jeff Taylor finished third through fifth.
Jason Parkhurst made a statement in the 20-lap Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux RUSH Late Model feature leading every lap. The only thing that slowed down Parkhurst was quick caution periods. The racing behind Parkhurst was nose-to-tail and side-by-side that saw Sean Beardsley, Dale Caswell, Kevan Cook and Chad Homan finish second through fifth. Jason Occhino, Chris Fleming, AJ Kingsley, Billy Eisele and Dane Keller Jr. completed the top-ten.
A strong field of E&V Energy Novice Sportsman signed in the pits with them running a pair of 15-lap features.
Addison Bowman totally dominated feature one with a convincing victory. Wesley Hayes, Pat Nolan, Robert Gage and Matt Becker finished second through fifth.
In the second feature, Quinn Wallis was the class of the field as he was never seriously challenged over the 15-lap distance. Tyler Murray, Jake Holmes, Chris Bonoffski and Jake Davis came home second through fifth.
This coming Saturday, May 12, Ehrlich Pest Control will present a night of fast, family, affordable fun featuring the Tracey Road Equipment DIRTcar 358 Modifieds, SUNY Canton DIRTcar Sportsman, Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux RUSH Late Models, E&V Energy Novice Sportsman plus the Home Depot Kids Workshop for all the Jr. Fans.
Admission is $12 for Adults, 18 years and younger FREE. Pit admission is $27 Member, $30 Non-Member. Grandstand opens at 5:00 pm with racing at 7:00 pm.
Any questions you might have about the 2018 racing season and for marketing opportunities, please contact Cory Reed at 315-593-6531 or firstname.lastname@example.com . For all the latest news go to www.fultonspeedway.com and like the track Facebook page www.facebook.com/FultonSpeedway for weekly and race day updates.
May 5 Ferris Mowers Night Results
(DIRTcar 358 Modifieds 35 Laps) – TIM SEARS JR., Larry Wight, Billy Whittaker, Glenn Forward, Ron Davis III, Jordan McCreadie, Bobby Herrington, Danny O'Brien, Pat Ward, Phil Vigneri, Mike Bowman, Tom Sears Jr., Ryan Jordan, Madison Mulder, Tyler Meeks, Larry Welling, Jeff McGinnis, John Mulder, Greg Martin, Todd Root, Andy Noto, Joe Shields, Rick Richner, Kevin Poitras, Brian McDonald, Nick Webb, Kenny Wills.
(Larkin Mowing Hard Charger $50) – Jordan McCreadie.
(SUNY Canton DIRTcar Sportsman #1 25 Laps) – BRANDON FORD, Corey Barker, Will Shields, Nate Higgins, Wade Chrisman, Chris Mackey, Stephen Denton, Tyler Corcoran, Dylan Zacharias, Joel Hall, Tyler Thompson, Josh Blackwell, Billy Sauve, Joey Bounagurio, Remington Hamm, Tyler Reynolds, Kelly Smith, Garett Rushlow, Amy Holland, Willy Decker Jr., Colby Herzog, Richie Riggs.
(SUNY Canton DIRTcar Sportsman #2 25 Laps) – MIKE STANTON Jr., Jessica Power, Mark Yorker, Mike Phelps, Alan Fink, Chris Cunningham, Brandon Carvey, Tony Finch III, Brian Hudson, Steve Marshall, Kyle Kiehn, Jim Spano, Earl Rudy, Joe Sobotka, Tim Abate, DJ Forbes, Jake Petit, Dorian Wahdan, Scott Prentice, Greg Henry. DNS Rick Miller.
(SUNY Canton DIRTcar Sportsman #3 25 Laps) -BILLY CLARK Jr., Mike Button, Zach Sobotka, Nick Krause, Jeff Taylor, Jackson Gill, Kyle Demetro, Greg Doust, Ricky Yelle, Tye-Scott Rood, Tom Juno, Kyle Perry, Mike Fowler, Jimmy Moyer, AJ Miller, Michelle Courcy, Rachel Zacharias, Torrey Stoughtenger, Brett Draper, George Sanford, DNS – Frank Sobotka, Bill Megnin.
(Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux RUSH Late Models 20 Laps) – JASON PARKHURST, Sean Beardsley, Dale Caswell, Kevan Cook, Chad Homan, Jason Occhino, Chris Fleming, AJ Kingsley, Billy Eisele, Dane Keller Jr., Max Hill, Steven Coit, Bret Belden.
(E&V Energy Novice Sportsman #1 15 Laps) – ADDISON BOWMAN, Wesley Hayes, Pat Nolan, Robert Gage, Matt Becker, Brandon Thompson, Ryan Gustin, Michael Wight, Kierra Backus, Keith Stevenson.
(E&V Energy Novice Sportsman #2 15 Laps) – QUINN WALLIS, Tyler Murray, Jake Holmes, Chris Bonoffski, Jake Davis, Skylar Greenfield, Cody Wolfe, Teddy Starr, Erica Bowman.