But… I never set them back. For months, the clocks on my stove and in my car have been one hour ahead of the one on my computer. Sure, it was confusing at first, but then my mind became distracted by calculating the differences in time zones… See, while it’s 11:18pm here, in front of my computer, it’s after midnight in the kitchen.
(Artwork by Me, on New Year’s Day 2015.)
http://krqe.com/2015/03/07/report-4-5-billion-unspent-by-nm-agencies/
New Mexico has had a hard time recovering from a recession. But the report shows more than $2 billion for things like road work, and infrastructure wasn’t spent by state agencies. Neither was $42 million in education funds, or more than $700 million for water projects…
The state budget is roughly $6 billion… So, $4.5 billion unspent is a lot…
That’s the funniest understatement I’ve seen all year. 😀
This is Shawn Johnson’s teammate, Nastia Liukin, the gold medal all-around winner of the 2008 Olympics. I can’t confirm the truth of this rumor, but some say she even sleeps with her toes pointed. 🙂
http://www.lawofcompoundingmedications.com/2015/03/hamilton-county-judge-dismisses-6-of-9.html
A Hamilton County judge has dismissed cases against six of nine defendants charged in connection with a DEA raid on several Indiana medical clinics last summer. Local police and federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested doctors and staff affiliated with the Drug Opiate Recovery Network on charges of selling prescription painkillers to their patients…
In charging documents, authorities accuse the clinics of illegally providing patients prescriptions for Suboxone, a synthetic heroin substitute, in exchange for cash. The defendants have maintained their innocence…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/07/state-opt-out-policy_n_6820198.html
In New Mexico this past week, over 2,000 students from Albuquerque Public Schools opted not to participate in standardized testing, after voicing their opposition to the exams with protests and walk-outs…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/your-syndromes-missing-benefit_b_6815588.html
The primary message of this report is that ME/CFS is a serious, chronic, complex, multisystem disease that frequently and dramatically limits the activities of affected patients. In its most severe form, this disease can consume the lives of those whom it afflicts. It is ‘real.’ It is not appropriate to dismiss these patients by saying, ‘I am chronically fatigued, too.’
Not long after its release, the report was fodder for a poignant New York Times column in which the author, a professional science writer, reveals that she has suffered the condition for the past 16 years…
The challenge of living with a syndrome confronts millions of Americans. Roughly 1 percent to 2 percent of the U.S. population, or some 4 million people, have fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue syndrome affects approximately another million. As many as 50,000,000 of us have irritable bowel syndrome. Nearly 40,000,000 women have premenstrual syndrome. Interstitial cystitis plagues some 700,000 women, and nearly 28 million adults in the U.S. have a migraine headache syndrome.
If you are a member of the enormous population that suffers from one or more syndromes, you can get good medical care. But you may have to work extra hard to do so, and you, too, are apt to suffer the addition of insult to your injury along the way…
But perhaps the most important difference of all between disease and syndrome is the legitimacy attached to them. The lack of confirmatory test results for a syndrome means that there is nothing to “clinch” the diagnosis. Because the causes of syndromes are unknown, treatment is often uncertain, too, and results often less than gratifying…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/07/women-on-20s_n_6816928.html
A nonprofit campaign called Women on 20s, seeks to put the face of a woman on the $20 bill by 2020, the 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment, which granted the right to vote to women in the United States…
People can visit the campaign’s website to vote for the woman they think should replace Andrew Jackson on the 20. Ades Stone urges everyone to vote and tell your friends, especially since this Sunday is International Women’s Day…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/chattanooga-socialism_b_6812368.html
According to a 2011 survey by the FCC, 61 percent of Americans have only one cable and internet provider to choose from…
But with the help of a $111 million grant from President Obama’s federal stimulus package, The EPB was formed…
A 2-hour video that normally takes 25 minutes to download on a regular broadband network would only take 33 seconds to download on Chattanooga’s network. And like other cable providers, EPB offers TV, internet, and phone service as a bundle, and for less than Comcast charges…
NerdWallet rated Chattanooga the 6th best city for economic growth for 2009 to 2012, the years immediately following its decision to invest in high-speed public broadband network…
Urban Dictionary:
Peace Out: 1. A slang term telling someone good-bye, used with a hand gesture in which you pound your chest with your fist twice, then give the peace sign.
Fri, Mar 6, 2015 7:43 pm
From: Southwest Organic Producers (SWOP) info@swopnm.com
March Moving Sale !!
ALL Bud will be on sale for $11.00 / $10.00 per gram
O.G. Kush-(Hybrid Sativa)
THC-%19.94-CBD-%0.75
On Sale $11.00 Per Gram (Reg. $16.00 per Gram)
Super-Lemon-Haze-(Sativa)
THC-%16.55-CBD-%0.76-CBN-%0.15
On-Sale-$11.00 per-gram-(reg-$14.00-per-gram)
Average price per gram (flowers & buds) – Average per LNPP ‐ $11.33. High ‐ $13.95 & 13.51. Two producers reported the average price of $13.00 or more. Low ‐ $6.03 & $7.83. Two producers reported the average price under $10.00.
Okay, the high was not $13.95 — I’ve seen strains at $15 a gram. And for $10/gram, all you get is shake.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/06/27/mooning_a_history_when_did_people
_start_baring_their_butts_as_an_insult_.html
Mooning: A History
If the gesture was employed on the battlefield between the English and Scots, as in Braveheart, the mooning may have been taken place the other way around. The University of York professor Nicola McDonald points out that, according to the chronicle of the 13th century historian Peter Langtoft, it was the English who used mooning to insult the Scots…
Though it was a worldwide phenomenon by the 19th century, mooning didn’t get its name until the 1960s. The Oxford English Dictionary dates moon and mooning to student slang of the 1960s, when the gesture became increasingly popular at American universities…
From Wikipedia:
In Western culture, the finger (as in giving someone the finger or the bird), also known as the finger wave, the middle finger, flipping someone off, flipping the bird, shooting the bird, the rude finger, the one finger salute, the Trudeau salute (in Canada), (and other names) is an obscene hand gesture. It communicates moderate to extreme contempt, and is roughly equivalent in meaning to “fuck off”, “fuck you”, “shove it up your ass”, “up yours” or “go fuck yourself.”
It is performed by showing the back of a closed fist that has only the middle finger extended upwards, though in some locales the thumb is extended. Extending the finger is considered a symbol of contempt in several cultures, especially Western cultures. Many cultures use similar gestures to display their disrespect, though others use it to express pointing with no intentional disrespect toward other cultures.
The gesture dates back to Ancient Greece and was also used in Ancient Rome… It also represented the phallus, with the fingers next to the middle finger representing testicles..
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2013/02/07/first-middle-finger-history-charles-radbourn-boston/
The First Ever Middle Finger Captured on Film Was Flipped by an Angry Boston Baseball Player in the 1800’s
The ornery attitude was a side effect of the amount of booze the Boston baseball player used to put back, even during games. According to Achorn, a family member said Radbourn drank a quart of whiskey a day while playing the sport…
Achorn first stumbled on the infamous picture of Radbourn giving the finger during a visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame several years back. The photo got him thinking about who the first person was to ever brandish the bird, and after some research, he discovered Radbourn may not only have been the first, but also the second to be documented doing it…
https://lindanee.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/a-must-read-concerning-surveillance/
In 2005, private investigators, hired by Hewlett-Packard to uncover the source of media leaks about the company, used Social Security numbers of H.P. directors to assume their identities and obtain their phone records…
In my work, I am routinely asked to break the law. An attorney once suggested that I bribe a bank officer for account numbers and balances. This could lead to charges of commercial bribery, unlawful possession of personal identification information and larceny. Felonies. A spurned husband once asked me to hack into his wife’s Facebook account and bug her phone and car — which would include computer tampering, trespassing and eavesdropping. Felonies. I’ve been asked to obtain flight manifests, steal trade secrets and impersonate mailmen. Felony. Felony. Felony.
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