July 4th weekend WPB Flagler

Click  http://www.palmbeachfl.com/events-palm-beach/fairs-festivals/-events-palm-beach-fairs-festivals-4th-on-flagler/

and scroll, scroll 15 events.

Free Speech, NOT Free Screech

Best headline ever in the UCO Reporter.
Here is part of Robert's Rules on Decorum in meetings.
"All remarks must be directed to the Chair. Remarks must be courteous in language and deportment - avoid all personalities, never allude to others by name or to motives!

If at any time the chairman rises to state a point of order, or give information, or otherwise speak, within his privilege, the member speaking must take his seat till the chairman has been heard first. When called to order by the chair the member must sit down until the question of order is decided. If his remarks are decided to be improper, he cannot proceed ..."

When I call Customer Service

Temkin Customer Service Ratings

For the second year in a row, USAA earned the highest score in the Temkin Customer Service Ratings. USAA’s banking business took the top spot and the company’s insurance business tied with Amazon for second place in the ratings. Rounding out the top 12 companies in the ratings are Chick-fil-A, Publix, H-E-B, USAA (credit cards), credit unions, Starbucks, Costco, QVC, and Trader Joe’s.

The prize for the worst customer service goes to Comcast, which earned the lowest two scores in the ratings for its Internet service and TV service businesses. As a clear sign of collective customer neglect, Internet service providers, TV service providers, and health plans earned 11 out of the bottom 13 positions in the ratings.

The remaining companies with the lowest Temkin Customer Service Ratings are Highmark (BCBS), Time Warner Cable (TV service and Internet service), Coventry Health Care, Charter Communications (TV service), Verizon (Internet service), HSBC (credit cards), US Airways, Qwest (Internet service), Cablevision (Internet service), CareFirst (BCBS). 

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Stop paying too much for your prescriptions! 

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worth a try GoodRX

More Participation

Obviously .. Blog Part 2 needs more cats and kittens. My grandchildren fostered a pregnant cat and voila! No you cannot adopt these stair/stare guys, people were standing in line for them courtesy of Facebook.

Library Drop Box - Car Drop

Yesterday a patron at the Okee Branch Library left her car, w/keys, purse, and wallet at the curb and took a few steps over to the Outside Book Drop. Two young guys jumped into the car and took off. Vroom!

I do not know if the car was recovered, STAY ALERT AND CAUTIOUS. Park properly and lock up.

Gotta have a little Soccer

and one more -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xbb4yP5AJ_g  

Water Ready for Hurricane/Apocalypse

I went a step beyond the store-jugs-of-water advice. I have a Lifestraw in my go-bag.

Dirty water? Have a drink. LifeStraw is a purifier that provides instant access to safe drinking water with no need for electricity, chemicals or running water. The system is more effective than boiling water and doesn't require as much time or energy.

Search online for Lifestraw, they can be bought in many places, the one below has an extra good deed.

http://buylifestraw.com/buy-lifestraw  Buy a LifeStraw online. Your order will be fulfilled by Eartheasy.com. For each LifeStraw® water filter you buy, one school child in Africa receives clean water for an entire school year.
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Blogmeister butts in:

LifeStraw in Action

Both the family and personal models of LifeStraw eliminate sediment, bacteria and parasites from drinking water. The personal filter can stop particles measuring 0.2 microns -- small enough to filter tiny bacteria and parasites. Both models have filters that eliminate 99.9999 percent of the bacteria and 99.9 percent of the parasites present in the water. (As we said, only the family version can filter out viruses .002 microns.) It's important to note that both versions don't remove heavy chemicals or salt, so don't go sticking your LifeStraw in arsenic-laced water and expect refreshment.

Small Amoeba = 90 Microns 

Staph A = .5 Micron
Average Virus = .005 Micron
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Dave Israel
 

Bob Hope

Requested by Vet

HOPE THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART. This is a tribute to a man who DID make a difference.

ON TURNING 70

'I still chase women, but only downhill.'

ON TURNING 80

'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.'

ON TURNING 90

'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.'

ON TURNING 100

'I don't feel old. In fact, I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.'

ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING

'I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.'

ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR

'Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'

ON GOLF

'Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.'

ON PRESIDENTS

'I have performed for 12 presidents but entertained only six.'

ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER

'When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, Congratulations, you have an eight pound ham.'

ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL

'I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.'

ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY

'Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.'

ON HIS SIX BROTHERS

'That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.'

ON HIS EARLY FAILURES

'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.'

Hurricane Preparation

Excellent presentation yesterday in Party Room, by CERT, Fire Dept. PB Emergency Management, initiated by Anitra, Thank You.

If you missed it or need more info go to www.readypbc.org   Very thorough.

Precious

Priceless, I prefer Gollum to the other thing.

Whining for a Committee

Would you believe you can go to UCO committee meetings, they are OPEN meetings.

My story: In 2013 I was in hospital when committees were populated in March. When I returned I did not whine for special attention, I just attended meetings and I gave my opinions. I had plenty UCO experience, but for someone who does not, what could be better. 

Do not whine and blame just go to the meetings and get experience. We know one person will not go but at least many others will not be misled by her.  

Medicare Advantage Cuts

Because people cannot afford health care they are reducing benefits #$%^&*

"The latest cuts are the consequence of a slowdown in the overall growth of Medicare spending — some of it owing to reduced utilization of medical services as a result of the slack economy. The Medicare program recently told the private plans that, since per capita costs are trending lower than prior estimates, the feds are now assuming that Medicare Advantage will take another cut in 2015, on top of existing reductions."

Please email and call your US Senator and Congress for help.

For the whole article read/click:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2014/01/06/more-cuts-in-store-for-medicare-plans-heres-the-options-that-will-shrink-most-for-s

How to Set Rear‐View Mirrors to Eliminate Blind Spots

Click   http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Rear%E2%80%90View-Mirrors-to-Eliminate-Blind-Spots

And daily complaint - Every time I start to back out of a handicapped spot (I am in motion!) someone walks close behind me. Next car will have one of those annoying beepers.

Scam Time

Don’t click on links inside of emails like this! 

“You have a payment of $500 waiting in your PayPal account! All you have to do is click here!”

Dear, unpaid beneficiary ...

Sincerely you are lucky person

I have important cause that I'm “funding”, and need your support.

Sob story about being stranded somewhere, and needing money.

“Your application has been approved” email

“You are a winner” emails

I have good news about your FREE GIFT

Warning that local loan interest rates have hit rock bottom

Do you want to help an married women expose her cheating spouse

Make money sue someone.

An alert that a sex offender has moved into your neighborhood.

If you really are concerned there’s a warning, hover over the link and check the URL in the status bar on your browser. What you’ll discover is that it goes to some silly dot-com URL that you probably won’t recognize, not some .org or .gov URL like you’d expect if it came from a legitimate agency.

The reason these are still around are that they work, on charity, greed, forgetfulness, and fear.

How does your Orchid grow?

If the flowers are gone from those orchid plants you got for Valentine, Easter etc. do not throw them away. If you leave them in the shade at the beginning of the Secret Garden (Dorchester), they will be tied to the trees or fence and will bloom again for everyone. Or you could tie them to your own trees. 

 Orchids are popping up on many trees in the village. For the one above the whole pot is stuck in an aged tree.

Village traffic 4-Way or Roundabout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OvoFjirrgYA

Testing self-directed drivers hurrying thru 4-Way or Roundabout

Spoiler (its a long video) the roundabout was 20% more efficient and quicker at moving cars thru an intersection. Nobody crashed. However, do we need that much speed in CV!

Cracks & Crackpots

Go outside the village.

Look down you will see reflection cracks everywhere.

Do research on reflection cracks, they are cosmetic in Florida.

Up North they would be enlarged by ice, freezing thawing, that does not happen here.

If you had been to the Paving town hall mtgs in CV you would understand.

As Grace repeats, 'that is what we voted for'. The paving company told us if we did not go down to bedrock the cracks that were on the old roadway would come back. We could not afford the cost to go to bedrock, not then, not now. What price prettiness!  Face lifts for all!

Of course, if you are only interested in creating phony issues and blaming and exaggerating you will not be interested.

photos are: Haverhill Road, Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, Commons Ctr, Volvo dealership, etc

None of these locations have crazy lawsuits.

The Commons is example of sealing over cracks. Shiny black finish.

Even with cement:  http://cement.org/pavements/cracking.pdf  -cracks are mainly cosmetic in nature and do not reduce the pavements smoothness or serviceability." 

Even with a cement-stabilized base there can also be shrinkage cracks in the stabilized base layer, which can reflect through the asphalt surface. The cracks that develop are not the result of a structural deficiency, but rather a natural characteristic of the base. The surface cracks tend to follow the same pattern as the cracks in the base, and are referred to as “reflection” cracks. 

Mothra visits CV