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Edgewood Chamber Home Based Business Expo (3/24/12)
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Reminder: Sandia Tea Party Meeting Tomorrow (2/12/12)
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Join the Sandia Tea Party for an educational afternoon featuring David Justice. Mr. Justice is a Tea Party activist from Colorado and has previously presented at one of our events.
His topic will be Honest Money, a topic adapted from The Flight Of The Black Swan by Marilyn Barnewall.
Mr. Justice is a Tea Party activist from Colorado and has previously presented at one of our events.
He lives in a small cabin near the mountain town of Gunnison, Colorado with his wife, Karen and two of his four sons, all of whom they home schooled.
Karen birthed three of David’s sons at home with David, a credentialed EMT, as the “midwife.”
He is a Veteran of the United States Coast Guard where he earned his Multi-Engine, Turboprop Aircraft Flight Engineer rating.
After his time with the Coast Guard, he worked with the Airforce as an Aircraft Electrical Systems specialist.
He is first and foremost a disciple of Christ, and is well studied in the Christian Religion.
He received his Paralegal certificate from the University of Northern Colorado and has studied law, political science and government as his main interest for 26 years.
He is a businessman and entrepreneur, who has built, established and sold three art galleries in Denver and Colorado Springs.
He currently owns Gunnison Valley Appliance, an appliance repair business serving the Colorado Western Slope.
He is talk show personality in Colorado.
He is an Extreme Skier who jumps off cliffs in the Colorado mountains.
He has recently announced his Candidacy to serve Colorado District 61 for the Colorado House of Representatives.
Meeting Venue: Calvary Chapel (2½ miles north of Wal-Mart on NM 344)
Time: 3:00-500 PM
On the web site click once on the box under Upcoming Events for a map to the event:
website: Sandia Tea Party
Edgewood Chamber Friday Blast (2/3/12)
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Friday Blast
February 3, 2012 |
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Committees:
Membership: Howard Calkins Marketing: Misty Miller
Political Affairs &
By Laws: Ray Seagers Events: Gary Birkman
Programs: Brenda Murray
Luncheon: Linda Thomas
Town of Edgewood
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PO Box 457 Edgewood NM 87015
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PO Box 457, Edgewood, NM 87015, USA
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Buffet Gets A Buffet From Obama
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According to an article on or in The Washington Times, almost without “warning”.Warren Buffet stands to dine at the table set for him by Obama and his State Department’s lack of support for thousands of jobs in the USA. The Keystone XL pipeline, once to be built from Canada to Houston, Texas has been left exposed to the millionaires among environmentalists, green people and assorted other opponents to real job creation in this country.
Warren Buffett, whom President Obama likes to cite as a fair-minded billionaire while arguing for higher taxes on the wealthy, stands to benefit from the president’s decision to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.
Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, which is among the railroads that would transport oil produced in western Canada if the pipeline isn’t built.
Obama’s rejection of the pipeline comes three years after the initial application was made to construct the pipeline and just when it amounts to political expediency and a thumbing of the nose toward energy independence for this country:
“Whatever people bring to us, we’re ready to haul,” Krista York-Wooley, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern, a unit of Buffett’s Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., told Bloomberg News. If Keystone XL “doesn’t happen, we’re here to haul,” she said.
The Obama administration rejected TransCanada’s request for a permit on Jan. 18, saying there was not enough time to review the proposal by Feb. 21, the deadline imposed by congressional Republicans eager to see the pipeline built. The decision came from the State Department, although Mr. Obama said he agreed with it.
If completed, the $7 billion Keystone XL would deliver 700,000 barrels a day of crude from oil sands in Canada to Texas refineries on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It would traverse about 1,600 miles.
Republicans, labor unions and even some Democrats have criticized the administration’s rejection of the pipeline permit, saying it would create up to 20,000 jobs. Critics accuse the president of buckling to pressure from environmentalists who oppose the project and are important to Mr. Obama’s re-election effort.
What was that about transparency? Obama has consistently spouted transparency, has he not? In addition to Buffet’s buffet and other railroad’s largesse, do you think there might be investors in renewables walking this project to the gallows? Yep, me too.
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- The man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline – Boston.com (gogreennation.org)
- Crony capitalism + ecomentalism = Win-win for POTUS (professorbainbridge.com)
- Keystone XL Pipeline Seen Moving Ahead on Alternative Route (energyindependenceforstates.com)
ECOC Friday Blast (1/27/2012)
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Friday Blast
January 27, 2012 |
Edgewood Chamber of Commerce |
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Working for you…
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Committees:
Membership: Howard Calkins Marketing: Misty Miller
Political Affairs &
By Laws: Ray Seagers Events: Gary Birkman
Programs: Brenda Murray
Luncheon: Linda Thomas
Town of Edgewood
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PO Box 457 Edgewood NM 87015
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Who Gives A Hoot — Who Gives Money To Boot
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Biden, it seems gives a hoot when it is his money. On the other hand, Romney doles out a substantial portion of his money to his church and charities. Let’s see the details, or at least some of them from the Daily Mail Online and Tony Hanrden’s blog:
n the early hours of this morning, some 550 pages of Mitt Romney’s tax returns and a 2011 tax summary were released by his campaign. Just after dawn, there was a long campaign conference call for bleary-eyed reporters in which an accountant (who sounded exactly like you’d imagine Mitt Romney’s accountant would sound) went into details of Mitt millions in mind-numbing detail.
There was an air of grumpy efficency about the call, which was led by Ben Ginsberg, who was George W. Bush’s lawyer during the Florida election recount in 2000. At one point Ginsberg noted that 26 people from Chicago were listening into the proceedings, a reference to the Obama campaign headquarters.
So what were the headlines? He raked in about $42 million in 2010 and 2011. His effective tax rate was just below 14 percent, lower than that for many American taxpayers. He paid $6.2 million to the taxman and donated a staggering $7 million to charity, including $4.1 million to the Mormon church.
OK, so Mormons are supposed to tithe 10 percent of their income. But it’s to Romney’s immense credit that he promised to do this in his youth and followed through with that – to the tune of scores of millions (maybe hundreds of millions) of dollars throughout his life.
When I was in grade school, a few years ago (yeah, right) the two sums would add up to 13.2 million. And what to some of the other politicians in the limelight of late give to charity of any kind. Let look at a few examples:
In fact, in those two years, he paid 16 percent of his income to charity, compared to, er,2.6 percent by Newt Gingrich.
And what about President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the run-up to their 2008 campaign?
USA Today broke it down here. In 2007, the Obamas gave more than $240,000 to charity, about 5.7 percent of their income. The Bidens gave an average of $369 to charity a year for the decade before he moved to the Naval Observatory – about 0.3 percent of their income. Back in 1997, then veep Al Gore and his then wife Tipper gave $353.
Since becoming veep, Biden hasn’t become much more generous. In 2010, he gave $5,350, about 1.4 percent of income. That same year, Romney gave some $3 million. The national average is about three percent.
It seems that economic wealth, even coupled with charity, causes rupture or heartburn, not to mention gnashing of teeth and pointing of accusatory fingers. This in “free” America, a place hard work and economic success was admired and to be copied. Now we may be falling into the abyss of European disdain of personal success.
In Britain and much the rest of Europe, immense personal wealth often breeds resentment. In the United States, not so much. Certainly, Americans want economic fairness and equal opportunity. But belief in capitalism and the notion that by striving hard you too can become wealthy remain are enduring American traits.
Last week, Romney was stunningly inept in his handling of questions about his tax returns, humming and hawing, prevaricating, stonewalling and then finally, in defeat in South Carolina, agreeing to release documents.
Now he’s done what he should have done earlier (politically-speaking – he’s releasing returns much earlier than any other candidate previously in modern times) this is going to fade away as an issue for most voters.
Democrats will try to foment resentment about Romney’s wealth. And certainly some people will never want to vote for a fat cat rich guy. But if Obama strategists think they it can win a re-election battle on a platform of class warfare they’re very much mistaken.
There you have it. Almost the entire post from Mr. Harnden’s blog. For those wishing to visit his blog and his post for this article, click here.
Wildlife West: We Got A Zoo
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ECOC Friday Blast (1/20/12)
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| Friday Blast January 20, 2012 |
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Membership: Howard Calkins Marketing: Misty Miller Moonshine
Political Affairs, By Laws:
Ray Seagers Events: Gary Birkman
Programs: Brenda Murray
Luncheon: Linda Thomas
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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 Janet Fang | January 17, 2012, 11:24 PM PST
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.
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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).
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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.
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The digital signal can’t be detected except by an adhesive patch attached to your skin, like a bandage.
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It monitors things like heart rate, respiration, temperature, body posture, and even sleeping patterns – to show how you’re responding to the medication.
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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




