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mopinko's Journalwould you use polycarbonate panels for a garage roof?
working on the design for our "barn" aka garage. architects like these panels, but they give me the creeps. i just can't see them holding up long enough to make them worthwhile. spendy, too. the panels are cheap, then the accessories are nutso.
http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/product/easy-ship-2-ft-wide-twinwall-polycarbonate/polycarbonate-panels
Cook County begins enrolling 250,000 new Medicaid recipients
Source: wbez.org
This week Cook County will start sending letters to about 115,000 of its low-income residents inviting them to enroll in the county’s new Medicaid program.
Adults under 65 with an income of up to 133% of the federal poverty level will be eligible for Medicaid beginning in 2014 in states that choose to participate in the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion.
In Cook County, the expanded eligibility will begin even sooner, in January 2013. Cook County applied for and received a federal waiver to let the law kick in a year early.
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But Dr. Raju said he hopes that by then, they will want to choose County Care. In addition to setting up patients in a “medical home”, County Care will provide mental health and substance abuse services, which Illinois Medicaid currently does not cover. The lack of mental health services in the region has been a topic of ongoing controversy.
Read more: http://www.wbez.org/news/cook-county-begins-enrolling-250000-new-medicaid-recipients-103902
cook county president toni preckwinkle ALWAYS says that everyone in cook county jail has a substance abuse or untreated mental health issue. it is the biggest psych ward in the country. this is a TREMENDOUS leap forward for cook county.
yeah for progressives. toni is the best.
what's wrong with these peppers? jamacain hot chocolate
they are all splitting like this, but none of the other peppers in the greenhouse with it are having any trouble.
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what's your favorite bean?
we plan to focus on growing beans next year, as our hugelkulture will need the nitrogen for a year or 2. so we are looking for interesting and tasty beans that we can seed save.
will probably do a teenie bit of the three sisters thing and tuck in a couple melons and squash, but to run and shade out the weeds. suggestions for that welcome also.
xposted in gardening and cooking
what's your favorite bean?
we plan to focus on growing beans next year, as our hugelkulture will need the nitrogen for a year or 2. so we are looking for interesting and tasty beans that we can seed save.
will probably do a teenie bit of the three sisters thing and tuck in a couple melons and squash, but to run and shade out the weeds. suggestions for that welcome also.
xposted in cooking
what's your favorite bean?
we plan to focus on growing beans next year, as our hugelkulture will need the nitrogen for a year or 2. so we are looking for interesting and tasty beans that we can seed save.
will probably do a teenie bit of the three sisters thing and tuck in a couple melons and squash, but to run and shade out the weeds. suggestions for that welcome also.
xposting in gardening.
i have blocked vanje from this group.
i believe she followed a member in here to continue a spat from feminism and meta. a word police spat, no less.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1151&pid=2083
i think that is just about as unacceptable as it gets. libodem deleted all her comments from the thread, so when i alerted on vanje's post, it was pretty impossible to judge.
i pm'ed eferrari, who is the other host, but she has not answered after a day, so i am going ahead with this. if people object to this, please let me know and i will consider your input. but...
do NOT stand in long lines to vote on tuesday
without trying to fix it.
go right now, get your phone. load the numbers of your local board of election, your state's attorney, and this number- the obama campaign Voter Hotline: 1-800-311-VOTE.
i went to early vote yesterday. i was told the wait was 2 1/2 hours. i didn't have that kind of time. but i went and talked to the judge that was tending the long snaking line. i asked her if they could get more machines. she told me there were 2 more machines but they had no place to put them. except that they were in a room with a collapsible wall into an empty room. so i asked why they didn't put them there. she said the park district wouldn't let them (most early voting places here are park fieldhouses)
so, i talked to the park guy. "yes, the room is empty. but i don't have anything to do with that, that is the board of elections." so i dragged him over, and had him repeat what he had said to the judge. she bloviated about why she couldn't do anything, then asked me to leave the building! (she was quite a snot.) after passing out the number for the board of elections (which is in my phone because i usually judge) i got outside and called.
boe says they will check it out. i call my alderman. he calls the board. about 15 minutes later, he calls me back to say that they sent a supervisor out, and they were setting up the machines.
he also sent an email to his rather extensive email list to tell them that the wait was shorter at the polling place in the next ward, and that they could go there.
now, i am pretty sure that anyone turned away will vote on tuesday. also pretty sure that more people got through the line because i didn't take 2 1/2 hours for an answer.
i am not anybody big. i'm sure we all know someone who could help out in that situation like my alderman did. especially if it were tuesday.
so, be prepared. have a plan. have a place to start. know the rules. don't take forever for an answer.
add your suggestions for contact info you should have here. i know there have been some twitter tags mentioned. i am sure there are some good websites.
ok, get it? BE PREPARED. you can make change happen.
hazelnuts, chestnuts, or??
looking at next years planting, and want to grow some nuts. don't want a huge tree. i think some of the hybrid chestnuts are a little easier to dwarf, but not sure.
hazel bushes would be fine, and that is where we are leaning. plus i love hazels. but skinning and all is labor, and that will be a factor.
think i might xpost this in cooking, but will get a little feedback first.
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