Spring fever is a real thing. Longer daylight really does cause most to be in a better mood and have more energy.
Spring 2017 Starts Now
Spring 2017 Starts Now –According to our server’s clock it is now 6:29 a.m., EDT, March 20, which means the vernal equinox just happened and Spring 2017 has begun.
Equinox is Latin for “equal night.” Days and nights are approximately equal everywhere and the Sun rises and sets due east and west, explains The Old Farmers Almanac. At the equinoxes, the tilt of Earth relative to the Sun is zero, which means that Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun.
Vernal comes from the Latin vernalis which means spring.
Spring 2016 Starts Now
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-18-17
There are five basics tastes. Sweet, sour, salty and bitter are the ones easy to guess. The fifth? It’s umami. It’s a Japanese word and is used to describe the taste of glutamic acid which provides a pleasant “meaty” flavor to food.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-18-17
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-17-17
So what does green have to do with Saint Patrick? It’s the color of the shamrock that he used to explain the Holy Trinity.
And of course spring, which is but three days away, this year.
A shamrock, by the way, is a sprig of clover.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-17-17
Alex Charlton Ice Cream Social 3-23-17
Alex Charlton Ice Cream Social 3-23-17 — State Rep. Alex Charlton is holding an open house and ice cream social for residents of his 165th District, 4:30-6:30 p.m., March 23, at his office 905 W. Sproul Road, Suite 203, Springfield, Pa. 19064.
“This is a great opportunity to get to know one another and talk about the many issues facing our communities and the Commonwealth as a whole,” Charlton said. “If you can’t make, you are welcome to stop by the office during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, or contact us by phone or online.”
He notes that among the services his office provides are:
- Driver’s license and vehicle registration applications and renewals.
Assistance with PennDOT paperwork (lost cards, changes, corrections, special registration plates, vanity plates and temporary placards for persons with physical disabilities). - Information and applications for senior citizen benefit programs, including Property Tax/Rent Rebate and PACE/PACENET prescription drug programs.
- Information and applications for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
- Help with securing birth and death certificates (photo identification required).
- Information about legislation.
- Assistance with resolving matters relating to state agencies, such as Veterans Affairs, Human Services, Labor and Industry, Insurance, Environmental Protection or Conservation and Natural Resources.
Alex Charlton Ice Cream Social 3-23-17
Dylan Byers Fake News
Dylan Byers Fake News — CNN’s Dylan Byers wrote a story implying conservative Fox host Sean Hannity pulled a gun on liberal colleague Juan Williams due to an on-air argument.
“Last year, after ending one of his many spirited on-air arguments with liberal contributor Juan Williams, Hannity pulled out a gun and pointed it directly at Williams, according to three sources with knowledge of the incident,” Byers said. “He even turned on the laser sight, causing a red dot to bob around on Williams’ body.”
Hannity and Williams both said that’s not what happened.
Fox News said that’s not what happened.
But Byers stands by his story. He has anonymous sources, he says. Not a police report — assault and terroristic threats are crimes in New York — not a person with a name, just anonymous sources.
And he expects to be believed. You know that an anonymous source can be a guy in a bar, right? Or it can be a liar with a grudge. It can even be a malicious fiction.
And this guy calls himself a journalist.
A generation educated to be shameless has entered the media. They are caught in a lie and they double down. They are absolutely clueless as to where this path leads. Karma happens.
Dylan Byers Fake News
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-16-17
What was the First Reich? It was the Holy Roman Empire from 962 to 1806. The Second? The German Empire from 1871 until the German Revolution of 1919. You all know what the third one was.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-16-17 First Reich
Ukrainian Easter Food Basket
Ukrainian Easter Food Basket
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 3-15-17
34 percent of welfare recipients live in California.
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 3-15-17
SEIU Harms Pennsylvania
SEIU Harms Pennsylvania
By Sen. Scott Wagner
Last week, I described the power of the largest public sector union in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Education Association, also known as the PSEA.
Now, I will tell you about another public sector union that also represents Pennsylvania state employees.
This public sector union is the Service Employees International Union, also known as the SEIU.
I have reported in past email blasts about the layoffs of employees from the Department of Labor and Industry’s (L&I) Unemployment Call Centers and the issues surrounding the call centers.
The call center employees laid off were represented by the SEIU union.
On Feb. 28, the Senate Appropriations Committee held a budget hearing with L&I, at which time the Secretary of L&I, Kathy Mandarino testified.
She commented on the layoffs and issues at the call centers and how callers to the call centers were either having their calls not answered or experiencing long wait times and that paperwork was not being processed in a timely manner.
Senator Scott Martin (R-Lancaster) asked Secretary Manarino if “all hands were on deck” and specifically, were managers and supervisors assisting with answering telephones and processing paperwork?
Secretary Mandarion responded that L&I has, “collectively bargained contracts” in place that prohibit managers and supervisors from performing the work that is performed by union represented workers.
Senator Pat Browne (R-Allentown) then asked Secretary Mandarino some questions which she responded with this statement – “we have a situation where the patient is laying on the gurney bleeding to death and we must do something.”
In simple terms, the patient is on the gurney bleeding to death and only unionized employees can stop the bleeding, and managers and supervisors cannot do anything to stop the bleeding because there are collectively bargained labor contracts in place.
What I have just described is the power of a public sector union in Harrisburg – and there are many more public sector unions in Harrisburg so the issue of who can do what task is widespread.
I am curious – when I am the Governor of Pennsylvania, if I were to want to work in an Unemployment Call Center answering telephones or to process paperwork so I could learn first-hand how things worked in the call centers, would the SEIU union attempt to stop me from performing these tasks?
One of the management styles that I use every day in my private sector business world is to manage by walking around and talking to people and asking questions.
It is not uncommon in the private sector at times when businesses have seasonal business surges, or an emergency situation arises, that managers and supervisors pitch in to help people who compete a task each and every day to meet the needs of their customers.
I have continually reported that the public sector unions have a choke hold on Harrisburg and this email pretty well tells the story of the power of these unions in Harrisburg.
Something needs to change in Harrisburg or Pennsylvania will never move forward.
Sen. Wagner represents the 28th District in the Pennsylvania Senate.