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ECOC Friday Blast (1/20/12)

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     Friday Blast
                January 20, 2012

Edgewood Chamber of Commerce
    Your Chamber,
Working for you…

Sorry to be late this week,  especially for those of you who actually look for the blast at 6:30 on Friday mornings (I know who both of you are.)  Also, please remember that upcoming monthly events are ALWAYS listed on the right side panel in the Blast, and you can always check back if you are wondering when an event will take place!
Yesterday’s first Leadership Edgewood 12 class was a great success at least according to the class surveys taken after the class.  We enjoyed great discussions, learned a bit about each other, participated in planning, and began to come together as a thinking, acting group!
Thanks to Brenda Murray, LE2012 Director, Lori Harris, Saul Araque, and Martha Eden…your hard work was very apparent at yesterday’s session!  Many thanks to our presenters yesterday.  We got a great deal of good and useful infromaton.
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A Big Thanks to ReMax Western Heritage, Ray Seagers,  for a very interesting and fun Chamber Mixer last evening! At least three of our town candidates attended, and it was good to get a chance to discuss isues with them, as well as visit with our members.
The food was abundant and tasted wonderful…loved that fruit tray, Martha!
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Put February 16 at 5:30  at the Masonic Lodge in Edgewood on your calendar.  The Edgewood Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Edgewood 2012 are presenting
A CANDIDATE’S FORUM, 
with the help of  Leota Harriman- Editor of The Independent and Rory McClannahan- Editor of the Mountain View Telegraph who will moderate the forum.
Candidates running for Edgewood Town positions will tell us what they see in the future for Edgewood, and how they plan to get us there.   Admission will be a can of food for the food pantry.
COW AWARDS NOMINATIONS
CLOSE TODAY.
The COW Awards Committee has asked me to please remind  you that TODAY is the last day to submit entries for the COW Awards.  and to invite you to attend the Pot Luck (the best potluck in the area)  on February 3 at the Edgewood Middle School Cafeteria.
The speaker will be Syd Masters! It’s worth the great evening to see who has been nominated (especially YOUR candidate).
 
Please get the completed form to the Chamber office by 4pm Friday January 20.  Call Renee Willes at 505-506-4900 or Robin Prudencio at  505-281-5364 for more information.
    
    Area Happenings

This Friday Blast Section is reserved for your events or happenings in the area!  If you have an upcoming event or a special happening that you would like to see in the Blast, please email it to the office by Wednesday. Approved information will be reviewed and inserted in the Blast on the following Friday.
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January 24, 11:30 -12:30 (lunch)
January 26, 7:30-8:30 (breakfast)
 Join us for a light meal while we explore the clinically proven benefits provided by Juice Plus+ at the Chamber office (95 Highway 344 ste 3).
Please RSVP by phone to Linda by Monday Jan 23rd to accomodate for food.
Call 505-463-2647
Linda Thomas, JP 4 My Health
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January 28 Saturday  1-5pm
FREE Real Estate Investor Seminar and Home Tour.
Learn more about investing in Bank Owned Properties, Real Estate Contracts, HUD Homes, Rentals, and much more.
ReMax Pros 12028 North Highway 14
Cedar Crest.  RSVP 505-281-7677
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January 22  3:30 to 4:30
LinkedIn 101
Come learn why if you’re in business you need to be on LinkedIn.  Learn the marketing strategies used by professionals, what is expected, and what is shunned and how to tap into the LinkedIn resources people are begging to give away.
All participants must be preregistered.  Seating is reserved only. To register and get more information please go to
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100 Years of New Mexico History
Get this keepsake hardbound book with beautiful pictures and stories of the history of New Mexico.
Order now:
Only $29.95 plus tax (add $7.50) for cover shipping and handling if the book is mailed.  Available at
The Mountain View Telegraph
 or call 823-7100
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Edgewood Mobile Food Pantry needs your plastic bags from the grocery store.  Please drop them by the Chamber office.
About Us 
Hours of Operation:
Mon-Fri
9:00am – 3:30pmLocation:
95 State Road 344 Ste 3
(Library/Chamber Bldg)
Edgewood, New Mexico
Phone Numbers:
505-286-2577
505-850-2523

e-mail:
info@ edgewoodchambernm.com
Executive Director:
Madeline Heitzman
Board of Directors
                            Term ends 12/31
President:
Chris Hopper                         2013
Vice President:
Misty Miller                           2013
Treasurer:
Patrick Thompson                 2013
Secretary:
Robin Markley                       2013
Members at Large:
Howard Calkins                    2012
Ray Seagers                          2012
Renee Willes                         2012
Gary Birkman                        2012
Saul Araque                           2013
COMMITTEES:
Membership:    Howard Calkins
Marketing: Misty Miller Moonshine
Political Affairs, By Laws:
Ray Seagers
Events:                Gary Birkman
Programs:          Brenda Murray
Luncheon:          Linda Thomas
February Edgewood
   Chamber Dates  
ECOC BOARD MEETING
February 6 at 6:16pm
ECOC Office.
MEMBERSHIP LUNCH
February 8  11:30 am
Edgewood Community Center
Speaker:  Martha Eden
“Understanding our Economy”
ECOC MIXER
February 16 at 5:30pm
at the Masonic Lodge
Edgewood Candidate’s Forum
Host: Edgewood Chamber of Commerce
Leadership 2012

Other Chambers:
East Mountain Chamber meets
the first Thursday of the month at
11:30am.  Call 281-1999 or
Moriarty Chamber meets
at noon the third Thursday of the month at the Moriarty Civic Center.  Call 832-4087
Mountainair Chamber meets the first Tuesday of the month at 11:30am at the Shaffer Hotel. 847-2975 or
mcc@mountainairchamber.com
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 Ponderings:
HISTORICAL TRIVIA:
Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what the people considered important.  Since there were no telephones, TV’s or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs, and bars.  They were told to “go sip” some ale and listen to people’s conversations and political concerns.  Many assistants were dispatched at different times.
“You go sip here”, and “you go sip there.”
The two words “go sip” were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and, thus (are you ready?) we have the term
          GOSSIP!
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Address:
PO Box 457 Edgewood NM 87015

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Chips Away!

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According to this article in Smart Planet, you will soon be able to swallow your pill with a microchip which will transmit or otherwise provide information on  bodily functions and other information.

The release indicates physicians and other medical personnel or information gathering devices will be able to diagnose in part, or in whole, the possible condition or condition causing your health problem.

This information is posted under the fair use doctrine for education purposes and no money or other reward is gained by Gadabout-Blogalot or its owner:

New pill with ingestible microchip monitors you from the inside

By | January 17, 2012, 11:24 PM PST

Soon, patients will be able to buy smart pills that have tiny ingestible sensors that can help track their medication use. Um, the call is coming from inside the house?Patients not taking their meds as prescribed cost the US $290 billion in increased medical costs.

And last week, Silicon Valley’s Proteus Biomedical announced the launch of their ‘digital health product’ in the UK, in collaboration with pharmacy chain Lloydspharmacy.

“The most important and basic thing we can monitor is the actual physical use of the medicine,” says Andrew Thompson of Proteus Biomedical.

These ‘sensor-enabled tablets’ are called Helius, and they come with ‘ingestible event markers.’ These can be taken with pills or incorporated directly into medicines by the manufacturers. The sensors are embedded in a placebo to be taken alongside the actual meds.

  1. The sensors are activated by stomach acid, and as Nature News explains, they’re powered much like potato batteries (where 2 different metals generate a current when inserted into the tuber).

  2. Each sensor – about the size of a grain of sand – contains a tiny amount of copper and magnesium. When you swallow one of these devices, you become the potato that creates a voltage. That then is used to power the device, which creates a signal.

  3. The digital signal can’t be detected except by an adhesive patch attached to your skin, like a bandage.

  4. It monitors things like heart rate, respiration, temperature, body posture, and even sleeping patterns – to show how you’re responding to the medication.

  5. These data are then relayed to your cellphone to be shared with whomever you like. Your doctor might decide to change dosages or medication based on that info.

The cost of the monitoring service is slated to be £50 ($77) a month. Lloydspharmacy hopes to make the system available in September.

Proteus Biomedical is developing and commercializing a range of digital health care products with others in the industry, such as Novartis, Medtronic, ON Semiconductor, and Kaiser Permanente. The company has already tested the system in hundreds of patients in many different therapeutic areas: tuberculosis, mental health, heart failure, hypertension, and diabetes.

Via Nature News, IEEE Spectrum.

Image: Proteus Biomedical

Take It From Chuck & Cut 1.5 Trillion

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Chuck Woolery, the former game show host, that is:

Chuck Knows How

Of course we won’t find anyone in government to even look at this, much less give it any consideration … but we tried.

Thanks and a flap of the cap to Chuck Nilson, Sandia Tea Party member and Patriot Update

EPA Tries To Sack Sackett Family’s Property Rights

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The following information was partly furnished by STP member Herb Stoltenberg when he provided a newsletter from the Pacific Legal Foundation dated July 2011. The newsletter reports on the Sackett family’s efforts to build on property purchased by them.  After securing permits from local government, they were abruptly halted as they were spreading gravel and told to stop construction and return their property to its earlier undisturbed state or face fines of up to $25,000 per day (the fine amount is disputed with some reports indicating much higher fines.)

Additionally, the EPA and the “system” in general had aggravation and great cost toward the Sacketts on the bureaucracies side. The Sacketts and their legal representatives maintain the cost to remedy the EPA’s assertions are prohibitive and unfair.

More of the story is found below in narrative and video.  We hope you will access the information and remember this is just one more example of “bureaucracy run amok.”

Pacific Legal Foundation
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The Muck & Mire From EPA Run Amok

Thumbs-Up & cap flap to Herb Stoltenberg & The Pacific Legal Foundation

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11 US Funded “Renewable” Energy Companies Short-Out (Kaput)

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That is to say they have lost their spark and our money or they are on the way to “cannot pay.”  This, as we know is a shame, a sham and another reason scientists should not assess government investments and why it is not wise for our government  to whiz away our money on projects best left to the private sector investors.

While a great deal of the blame rests with the Obama folks, some of the blame for approval is inside the pointy heads on both sides of the aisle.

cap flap to Cyberwiz Beezer at NMpolitics.org ,  RealPolitics and CBS News for the point and video:

11 Other Failed “Success” Stories

English: United States President Barack Obama ...Image via Wikipedia — Doling Our Dollars” Stories
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In New Hampshire Dead People & Zombies May Vote

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This came by way of Ralph Hill.  You may want to donate to Project Veritas since progressives hate the organization and the Demos in New Mexico are fighting against Voter ID with all they have:

Dead People Or Zombies Get Ballots In New Hampshire

That’s “Live Free Or Die.” & And vote whether you’re dead or not!.

Do yourself a favor and access the “Related Articles,” found below and especially the last three to hear the progressive and socialist bloggers and those that comment there squeal like a pig caught in a gate.  By the way, their governor recently vetoed a Voter ID bill.  Wonder why — go figure!

Another thing.  I’m surprised Media Matters is so far out this one, but they may show up yet.  Most all of the progressive blogs and their commenters talk about “dumb,” O’Keefe and many purport to know the law in New Hampshire, along with federal law which may apply. We’ll see, I guess, but I have to believe he has someone (perhaps New Hampshire’s AG) protecting his back and that this was a sanctioned undercover investigation.

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Edgewood Chamber Friday Blast (1/13/12)

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      POSTED AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE BY GADABOUT-BLOGALOT

     Friday Blast
                January 13, 2012

Edgewood Chamber of Commerce
    Your Chamber,
Working for you…

Thanks for the feedback last week! We will be increasing the size of the type to help us read more easily…other than that, no other complaints – we are glad that you enjoy the new format.
Wednesday’s Luncheon was a good meeting.  We honored outgoing President Gary Birkman with his very own Gavel, and thanked him for his hard work in 2011!
Chris Hopper, President for 2012, and the new board and officers are excited about the new year and have plans to help make the business community more successful in 2012.
The winner of the Bill Gilmore Scholarship 50/50 was Dacia Wiest 
who donated her winnings back to the Scholarship Fund.  Thanks, Dacia.
SASS donated a great basket full of goodies, and Bill Gilmore donated a beautiful horse art piece created by Mrs. Gilmore.  The Independent donated two one year subscriptions. Thank you to all who made our drawings a success!
And we saw at least two potential business deals connected at the meeting.
Don’t forget that this is a great place to network your business!
COW AWARDS NOMINATIONS
CLOSE JAN 20.
The COW Awards Committee has asked me to please remind you that there are folks in our community who give and give, and we would like to give them recognition!  Please take a minute and think about someone who should be honored at the Cow Awards Pot Luck (the best potluck in the area)  on February 3 at the Edgewood Middle School Cafeteria.
The speaker will be Syd Masters! It’s worth the great evening to see who has been nominated (especially YOUR candidate).
The Deadline has been extended to NEXT Friday the 20th…
If you would like some help filling out the form, just call the office at 850-2523  or drop by and we’ll help you fill it out.  We would be so happy to have ALL of those in the East Mountains who have helped others honored!
Please go to
www.edgewoodchambernm.com  and click on Events  to get the letter of explanation and the form to nominate them. 
Please get the form to the Chamber office by 4pm Friday January 20.  Call Renee Willes at 505-506-4900 or Robin Prudencio at  505-281-5364 for more information.
    LEADERSHIP EDGEWOOD 2012
BEGINS THURSDAY JAN 19.
Today is the last day to register to join Leadership Edgewood 2012 class.  
Only $100 in January, with the balance of $250 paid by the end of May will put you into one of the remaining seats in this class.   Think about what this investment can do to make you stronger.
Call Brenda at 228-3456
 or Madeline at 850-2523.
 Stop by the office and we’ll fill you in!
We would love to see you taking a pro- active step toward personal and community strength and knowledge!
    Area Happenings

This Friday Blast Section is reserved for your events or happenings in the area!  If you have an upcoming event or a special happening that you would like to see in the Blast, please email it to the office by Wednesday. Approved information will be reviewed and inserted in the Blast on the following Friday.
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January 14 Saturday
Decorate a Felted Bag from 1pm to 3pm ($20) The bag is already felted, so you can create your own signature design.
Edgewood Yarns and Fibers
95 State Road 344 Ste 2 Call 286-8900.
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Amazing new deals for 2012 at
4 Essential Balance
call Cassie Christensen at 980-3599 or go to their website at www.4essentialbalance.com
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100 Years of New Mexico History
Get this keepsake hardbound book with beautiful pictures and stories of the history of New Mexico.
Order now:
Only $29.95 plus tax (add $7.50) for cover shipping and handling if the book is mailed.  Available at
The Mountain View Telegraph
 or call 823-7100
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Edgewood Mobile Food Pantry needs your plastic bags from the grocery store.  Please drop them by the Chamber office.
About Us 
Hours of Operation:
Mon-Fri
9:00am – 3:30pmLocation:
95 State Road 344 Ste 3
(Library/Chamber Bldg)
Edgewood, New Mexico
Phone Numbers:
505-286-2577
505-850-2523e-mail:
info@ edgewoodchambernm.com
Executive Director:
Madeline Heitzman
Board of Directors
Term ends 12/31
President:
Chris Hopper                         2013
Vice President:
Misty Miller                           2013
Treasurer:
Patrick Thompson                 2013
Secretary:
Robin Markley                       2013
Members at Large:
Howard Calkins                    2012
Ray Seagers                          2012
Renee Willes                         2012
Gary Birkman                        2012
Saul Araque                           2013
COMMITTEES:
Membership:    Howard Calkins
Marketing: Misty Miller Moonshine
Political Affairs, By Laws:
Ray Seagers
Events:                Gary Birkman
Programs:          Brenda Murray
Luncheon:          Linda Thomas
January Edgewood
   Chamber Dates  
.ECOC Mixer
January 19 at 5:30pm
ReMax Western Heritage Real Estate offices.
1917 Old Hwy 66 Suite E
Edgewood   
Phone: 281-4445
Host: Ray Seagers
Other Chambers:
East Mountain Chamber meets
the first Thursday of the month at
11:30am.  Call 281-1999 or
Moriarty Chamber meets
at noon the third Thursday of the month at the Moriarty Civic Center.  Call 832-4087
Mountainair Chamber meets the first Tuesday of the month at 11:30am at the Shaffer Hotel. 847-2975 or
mcc@mountainairchamber.com
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 Ponderings:
Create greater value by marketing with businesses that compliment your services.  We’ve all seen things like,
 ”Bring your movie stub and receive 20% off at Joe’s Pizza.”
Same idea.
Who can you partner with to create greater perceived value for your customers?  Alliances are a powerful way to make the most of every marketing dollar.
© 2012 Edgewood Chamber of Commerce – All rights reserved
Address:
PO Box 457 Edgewood NM 87015

SEIU: How Do They Do Dues

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Here is information from the Right To Work Foundation.  We hope you will examine it and consider their plea for support:

Cap Flap to Right To Work Foundation/Fox News

Foundation Attorneys Challenge SEIU Forced Dues for Politics Scheme at the US Supreme Court

Wed, 01/11/2012 – 18:40 — Will Collins

On Tuesday, National Right to Work staff attorneys argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of tens of thousands of California civil servants who were forced to contribute to an SEIU “Political Fight Back Fund” in 2005. The video below gives a overview of what’s at stake in the case, including an interview with Foundation staff attorney Jim Young:

You can also read Right to Work President Mark Mix’s op-ed on the case in The Washington Times. Here’s the key quote:

Forcing civil servants to subsidize the political agenda of an organization to which they don’t belong should offend every American, regardless of political sympathies. Voluntary SEIU members may wish to financially support their organization’s political goals, but nonunion employees – many of whom disagree with the union’s agenda – are under no similar obligation. Freedom of association is a bedrock principle of American democracy, and no one should be compelled to support a group to which they don’t belong.

For more info, check out the Foundation’s Knox webpage, which includes links to relevant legal documents, press releases, and media coverage.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to release its ruling in the case by June.

The Foundation relies completely on voluntary contributions from its supporters to provide free legal aid. If you can, please chip in with a tax-deductible contribution of $10 or moretoday to support the Foundation’s programs.

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Poor Joe Lost His Dough

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If this was anyone else I would really feel bad.  Seems Joe Biden fell for a Nigerian Scam ..,English: The official poster of the movie I pr...

and it isn’t even April:

Read All About It!!

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Trumpets And Fanfare: All Hail The Imperial Fiat-Master Obama

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At the risk of offending some of the King’s serfs, smurfs and peóns, we are posting this piece from The Heritage Foundation’s, NEW Common Sense.  We hope you will enjoy it, while understanding that his actions, as usual, are anathema to citizens who believe in the Constitution.

English: President Barack Obama shakes hands w...

Flap of the Cap to “Heritage.”

Obama’s Authoritarianism

Last week, President Obama cast aside the Constitution and a century of legal tradition with an unprecedented move to make “recess” appointments while the Senate was meeting in pro forma sessions. Obama asserted the authority to decide when the Senate is in recess in order to install, without the Senate’s consent, three members to the National Labor Relations Board and Richard Cordray as the head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Obama’s claimed power to override the Senate reveals a worrisome disregard for the separation of powers and an equally troubling sense of imperial arrogance.

To be clear, the dispute is not over the President’s authority to make recess appointments. It is whether or not the Senate was “in recess” when Obama made the “recess” appointments. Obama rejects the Senate’s claim to be in session when most Senators are out-of-town.

The Constitution prohibits either house of Congress from adjourning for more than three days without the consent of the other house. Since the House did not consent to a Senate recess, the Senate must remain in session. Since the Constitution stipulates that “each House may determine the rules of its proceedings,” the Senate chose to stay in session by holding pro forma sessions (very brief sessions with only a few members) every few days. This allows the Senate to remain in session formally without requiring all the Senators to return to DC. As Heritage’s Todd Gaziano noted: “It does not matter a wit that most Members of Congress are not in town voting on legislation, because ending a session of Congress requires the passage of a formal resolution, which never occurred.”

Thus, according to Senate rules of operation (which the Senate alone has the authority to determine), the Senate was not in recess. Obama does not deny this. Rather he asserts that pro forma sessions aren’t real sessions and that the Senate was therefore “functionally” in recess.

President Obama has a clear track record of agreeing that pro forma sessions do not constitute a recess. On December 23, less than two weeks before making the appointments, Obama asked the Senate to convene a pro forma session in order to pass the payroll tax extension. The Senate did, and Obama signed the bill without any doubts about the validity of pro forma sessions.

After the 2006 elections, Senate Democrats convened pro forma sessions to block President Bush’s nominees. At the time, Senate Democrats were fully confident that pro forma sessions were not a recess. Harry Reid notably explained that “I had to keep the Senate in pro forma session to block the Bradbury appointment. That necessarily meant no recess appointments could be made.” This is the same Harry Reid who declared: “I support President Obama’s appointment today of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB.”

Even more troubling is the imperial philosophy the argument reveals. For the executive to claim the authority to invalidate the Senate’s use of pro forma sessions demonstrates a chilling disregard for the separation of powers. Sadly, this incident is merely the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of Obama’s increasingly imperial presidency. Since the 2010 elections, Obama has made a very public show of his weariness to work with Congress and his willingness to bypass it whenever possible. Obama has, for example, used executive waivers to circumvent Congress in changing No Child Left Behind. Yet until now, Obama has at least claimed that he would act within his proper executive authority. As this latest incident suggests, Obama may be dropping even the pretext of adhering to the Constitution.

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