The Snow Charts

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November is a month steeped with traditions and family activities.  One of my favorite traditions involved the Snow Charts.  As I mentioned before, the kids were always apprehensive when the snow started to fly, because their father had to travel down the mountain road we lived on at that time.  One snowy day in early November, I kept them busy making Christmas gifts for their grandmothers while we waited for my husband to call and say he arrived safely at work.

(The craft itself was a measuring stick for the yard, sort of like this…)

As we painted the pieces, we began to speculate about the coming winter and what they hoped would be a great amount of snowfall…and the idea of the snow charts was born.  One child would be responsible for the Snow Depth Chart.  The premise was simple.  To win the prize, you had to be the most accurate predictor of how much snow we got at the house for the winter season.  At dinner that night, my husband helped them determine the optimal place to put the measuring yardstick.  The child who made this chart was responsible for accurately measuring the snow in the yard at that point and entering it on the chart. They also had to record on the chart everyone’s guess at what the final amount would be.

The other child would be responsible for the Snow Frequency Chart, which would maintain and record the number of storms and our predictions of when the largest snowfall of the season would occur.  Naturally we had to vote on the rules, such as only storms dumping an inch or more of snow would be counted and the guess for when the largest snowfall occurred was expanded to a week and not a day. The responsibilities would switch every year and the kids were encouraged to make their charts as artistic as they could.   And there were additional prizes, of course.  The competition grew increasingly fierce as the kids got older, because they no longer coveted a $5 prize—they lobbied instead for Get-out-of chores FREE cards and longer curfews…LOL

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  1. “Did Maricopa County Violate The Law? Election law was not followed regarding defective ballots in the midterms” — Emerald Robinson 8 min ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE (except for one pic I’ve already posted here): “Here’s a short update from Kevin Moncla and David Cross over at Election Oversight on a potential violation of the law by Maricopa County election officials in their handling of “defective” ballots:

    In Maricopa County on Election Day, voters printed their ballots, filled them out, and attempted to scan their ballots, but a large number were rejected by the scanner — usually several times. County officials then instructed poll managers to have voters put their rejected ballots that wouldn’t scan in compartment #3. County officials later picked up the compartment #3 (rejected) ballots, and took them to the county office where they were scanned by a central scanner.

    The county’s actions were not lawful. Arizona law states:

    SB1135 clearly states that a ballot that “…cannot properly be counted by the automatic tabulating equipment” is “defective.” The ballots that were placed in compartment 3 were rendered “defective” when they could not be read by the tabulator. Therefore, according to AZ law, those ballots should have been duplicated accordingly — not brought to another location and scanned.

    You can subscribe and follow the work of Kevin Moncla and David Cross at Election Oversight on Substack.”

    https://electionoversight.substack.com/

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  3. OAN Newsroom
    UPDATED 2:40 PM PT – Tuesday, November 15, 2022

    Illustration picture shows the Google logo, during a visit to the Google company in Ghlin on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Google data centre in Belgium, Friday 21 October 2022. (Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Google has agreed to pay nearly $400 million to settle allegations over how it collects data from users.

    On Monday, attorneys for the states announced the decision, noting the tech-giant will pay $391.5 million to 40-states who accused it of violating user’s rights to privacy. A 2018 Associated Press article found that Google continued to track users’ location data even after they opted-out of the service. This prompted the state’s allegations.

    While the payout is the largest privacy-related settlement in U.S. history, critics argue it serves as “pocket change” for the tech-giant whose net worth remains over $1.2 trillion. Alongside the lump-sum, Google” must become more transparent on their data-tracking by creating a webpage informing users about which data it collects.”

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  5. sounds like he made a deal with the devil (schmucky)…

    Troublemaker10
    November 15, 2022 6:03 pm

    The old crow with 7% approval rating says he has the votes.

    *******

    Greg Price
    @greg_price11

    McConnell: “I have the votes. I will be elected. The only issue is whether we do it sooner or later.”

    Video linked

    McConnell: “I have the votes. I will be elected. The only issue is whether we do it sooner or later.” pic.twitter.com/wuuqp5povs

    — Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 15, 2022

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  7. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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    1. from what I’m reading he won the “nomination” …the vote doesn’t come till january–so there’s time for him for make deals to secure the proper number of votes to win…right now he doesn’t have them. he either has to convince more repubs or even some dems to vote for him

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