FELLOW MEMBERS of COUNTRYSIDE

As the representative of Country Glen to the Master Board I have decided in the best interest of our community and the community at large to shut down the blog.

My name is attached to the blog which I no longer run or participate in, as some may see it as a conflict of interest. To make sure there is no mistake, there will be no more postings as of September. I am closing the blog since I represent Country Glen and the community and will do so through the proper channels.

Respectfully, John Flueckiger

Veterans beware: This scam targets you
Mitch Lipka
Sep 25th 2009 at 1:30PM
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Filed under: Ripoffs and Scams, Health, Identity Theft, Consumer Ally

Being someone who tries to steal from people through scams means having to come up with some believable proposition with the potential to get the person on the other end to give up money or private information. The latest scam in this never-ending series is targeting those who served the United States in the Armed Forces.

Calls are being placed to veterans telling them the Department of Veterans Affairs needs their credit card information to update their prescription records.

The VA is warning veterans nationwide that the calls are not coming from them or anyone acting on the government's behalf and urging the veterans to not give out their personal financial information to these callers.

"America's Veterans have become targets in an inexcusable scam that dishonors their service and misrepresents the Department built for them," Dr. Gerald Cross, the VA's undersecretary for health, said in issuing the warning. "VA simply does not call veterans and ask them to disclose personal financial information over the phone."

The VA said it found out about the scam from veterans organizations that heard about the calls. The callers are told that the VA has recently changed its procedures from giving out medication and therefore needs their credit card numbers.

"VA has not changed its processes for dispensing prescription medicines," Cross said. "Nor has VA changed its long-standing commitment to protect the personal information of this nation's veterans."

Those who have any questions regarding the VA's services can call their VA medical center or 877-222-8387.
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More individuals become so anxious about their own troubles, and yet helping others is the best way to rid yourself of your own troubles. For what is the pattern? He gave up Heaven and entered physical being that ye might have access to the Father.

Edgar Cayce Reading 5081-1

The fountain at the Radio Road entrance is on now. Looks great!!!!

Work is in progress outside the back gate. The brick wall is up, lights where going in yesterday. They have been working in both lakes at the front gate and back gates the past two days. Went out the front gate this morning and that fountain is working now. Not sure on the one at the back gate. Countryside is looking pretty nice so far.---Laureen Quinlan

To C E H..... update on Radio road entrance:

They are working on the lighting for the entrance today.

Enjoy yourself.
These are the good old days
you're going to miss in the years ahead.
~ Author Unknown ~

The work on the Radio Road entrance is not completed. The brick wall is finished but the lighting is not in yet. Some bushes have been planted but it is still a ways from being done. Lots of rain has kept progress at a snail's pace but hopefully when it is done it will look very nice. The fountain is not in and not quite sure when work on that will begin. "All good comes to those who wait." aml

How about a report on how the back entrance (Radio Rd.) looks now? New bushes, flowers and new brick work ??? CEH

For, as has been given, it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.
---------Edgar Cayce Reading 1977-1

Do not worry as to whether you are fat or thin. Worry rather as to whether you use your body, mentally and physically, as an expression of thy ideal.
---Edgar Cayce Reading 308-8

Attending the Radio Road MSTU Advisory Committee's monthly meeting on September 15, 2009, was an "eye opener" for me.

I learned that the MSTU line on my Notice of Proposed Property Taxes for 2009 and prior years, actually consists of mandatory funding for Collier County parks & landscaping (Referred to as Fund 111) and Fund 158 - The Radio Road MSTU.

Each year the millage rates are re-evaluated. The Radio Road MSTU rate is set by the Advisory Committee with input from Collier County officials. The 2009 Millage rate for the Radio Road is .2521. The original MSTU agreement states this MSTU can be raised to .5 . To determine what portion of the MSTU line shown on one's proposed taxes is attributable to Radio Road, one multiplies the millage rate by that year's taxable value for the property. My 2009 taxable rate is $165,467 which translates to $41.71 for the Radio Road MSTU.

The Radio Road Advisory Committee consists of 5 members. Countyside was not represented on the Advisory Board until late last year when John Weber petition to serve on the Committee. I understand a number of communities included in the Radio Road MSTU are not represented including Fox Fire GCC.

Second thing that I learned is the Radio Road MSTU landscaping improvements are not completed. Planning is underway to complete landscaping and curbing WESTWARD from Livingston Road to AIrport Pulling. It appears this may take another 3 or more years.

Respectfully C H:
How could you have respect for any politician, there is a old saying
-------------If they are talking their lying-- so no holier then thou from anybody.
Yes that man was so out of place it was a disgrace, I don't know if it has ever happened before. Remember in "AMERICA", IT'S WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY.
During the campaign our President said same medical and retirement for the little people, they deserve the same as senators and congress men what happened lets keep our eye on the ball.I personally liked what he had to say and I believed him.
Every American should be rooting for him to turn things around.
GOD bless AMERICA and the great men and woman who serve us. J H

Where were you when all the Bush Bashing was going on? No one seemed to object to it.
It was front page news and the media was relentless. There is definitely
a double standard. Where are all the war protesters or isn't it important now?
RL

Those of us who served our country in the military learned that you show respect by saluting all officers.You may have not liked a certain individual but you saluted his rank as a officer.
The President is the Commanding Chief of the military and the elected leader of our nation. I can't believe some of the stuff that I have seen on the newscasts degrading the President of our USA. How do you think that looks to other countries? Sure, it's your right to disagree with his policies, "in a civil way"...I disagree with some of his policies, but come on people, show a little class...
Respectfully C. H.

Even if you get smacked down everyday take a shot:

POSITIVE QUOTE OF THE DAY
-----------------------------

Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more
often than anyone.

-- Anonymous

Countryside looks great the roads are done and the back gate area is being worked on. We moved down here full time in August and it is nice to see so many people using the club on Wednesday night. Friday night is dine and dancing and looks like goods times are had here at Countryside during the summer months as well.

Laureen Quinlan

THIS WAS POSTED IN AARP FACT'S ABOUT HEALTH CARE PLAN:
YOU MUST COPY AND PASTE

http://www.factcheck.org/

David Feherty OF "C B S" on McCord, Player, Mickelson, Wie & Woods

-------------------------David Feherty speech…..
On the 14 years since CBS colleague Gary McCord was banned from the Masters:
-----------"They don't do comedy at the Masters. The Masters, for me, is like holding onto a really big collection of gas for a week. It's like having my buttocks surgically clenched at Augusta General Hospital on Wednesday, and surgically unclenched on Monday on the way to Hilton Head."

On his decision to give up his playing career in favor of a
microphone:

"When CBS came to me and asked me to do on-course commentary, I said, 'You know, I'm only 37, I still have hopes of playing a little better.' So they told me what they were going to pay me, and I said, 'You want to buy a set of clubs?' "

On giving up alcohol:
------------"I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I
was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge."
-------------------On McCord's recent revelation, at the annual JCC Sports Awards
banquet in Vancouver, that Tiger Woods' caddy Steve Williams and Feherty often try to outdo one another on the course in the area of flatulence, Feherty said:

Tiger is no slouch himself: "He can lay 'em down like a crop duster."

On Gary Player's unsubstantiated suggestion last year about use of performance-enhancing drugs in pro golf:
-----------"Gary thinks he invented fitness because he used to do push ups on the airplane. He's just upset because you can't win a major any more with a low, flat hook and a Napoleon complex."

On the poor life advice Michelle Wie's parents have given the teenage phenom:

"She could be adopted by Britney Spears and be better off. I want my 16-year-old daughter to have an enormous phone bill, a case of the giggles and to be pissed off at me for killing her first three boyfriends. I do not want her out on Tour under that kind of pressure."
------------------------------On Phil Mickelson:

----------"Phil is brilliant, but he's nuts. There's something not quite right
about that boy. Phil is watching a movie that only Phil can see. His mother told me, "Phil was so clumsy as a little boy, we had to put a football helmet on him until he was four because he kept bumping into things.' I told her, 'Mary, Mary, I'm a writer, you can't keep handing me material like this.'
-------So the next time I saw Phil I said, 'You didn't really wear a football
helmet in the house until you were four, did you?' He said, 'It was
more like five.' "

On Tiger Woods:
---------------The first time he ever watched Woods play, Feherty examined the lie Tiger had in the trees, where he'd hit the ball into deep rough alongside a large root, and said on-air that the only available play was to wedge out sideways. Tiger promptly hit a towering 200-plus-yard, sweeping slice with a 2-iron that rolled to within 12 feet of the flag. "I just stood there watching him walk past," Feherty said, "and thinking, 'I don't know what that is, but I know there weren't two of them on Noah's Ark. "

Paying on line: Does that mean you can use a credit card?
R L

This is something we should all read at least once a week
---------------Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me... It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone...
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first pay check.
10. When it comes to chocolate,resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others.You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ’In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

While we all have differing opinions of what we’d like to see enacted in healthcare, Congress must vote on the bill presented. Here is a factual summary of what is currently contained in HR 3200. Please feel free to disseminate broadly. Thanks!
http://www.dailycommercial.com/grayson0830

The Health Insurance Bill -- Here are the Facts
Alan Grayson, U.S. representative, District 8, Orlando
As you may have heard, there is an awful lot of misinformation about the current legislation to reform health insurance. I'm your Congressman, and I think that you deserve the facts. Here they are, directly from the latest version th at the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on:
(1) If you have health insurance, and you like it, you can keep it. Period.
(2) Because of this bill, if you change jobs, you will be able to keep your health coverage. If you lose your job, you'll be able to keep your health coverage. You cannot be denied coverage or care for pre-existing conditions. If you get very ill, and require expensive treatments, your health insurance company won't be able to cut you off. No matter how expensive the treatment, even for cancer, your copayments will be capped at $10,000. In other words, this bill requires real coverage. It offers you peace of mind.
(3) This legislation will reduce your insurance premiums. Since everyone will be covered, you won't have to pay, through your coverage, for the expensive emergency room visits that other people with no coverage now make, at your expense. If your coverage includes a prescription drug plan, you'll pay less, because the drug companies have agreed to cut drug costs by $80 billion. The bill also requires insurance companies to spend 85% of your insurance payments on providing health care to you. (The current average is around 70%; the rest goes to paperwork, overhead and profit.)
(4) This bill offers you an option that you don't have now, a public option. It promotes competition by requiring insurance companies to compete against a public or non-profit option, which the Government will not subsidize. In most areas, the top one or two insurance companies provide up to 80% of the coverage, so more competition is desperately needed. The public option will be based on the existing Medicare network, for those Medicare providers who want to participate. No one - no one - will be required to accept the public option; that's why it's called an "option."
(5) If you own a small business, don't worry. The bill will have absolutely no effect on you if your payroll is less than $250,000, an amount that probably will increase to $500,000 by the time that the legislation is final. If your payroll is more than that, you will need to provide your employees with health coverage that meets the standards above. Eighty percent of all such employers already do. And the remaining twenty percent should.
(6) If you are single, and you make less than approximately $40,000, the Government will subsidize your coverage, to make sure that you can afford it. If you have a family of four, that amount is around $80,000. You can apply this subsidy to any plan, not only the public option. If someone makes more than these amounts, and refuses to obtain coverage, then he will have to pay 2.5% of his income to cover his emergency care, so that others like you don't have to subsidize it.
(7) If you are on Medicare, nothing in your existing coverage will be reduced. The "donut hole" on prescription drugs will be eliminated, saving you up to $5000 a year. Co-payments will be eliminated. That's why the AARP has endorsed this legislation.
(8) If you have no coverage, and you are an American citizen, you'll get it. There are almost 40 million of us in this category. Their mortality rates are astronomical. Roughly 18,000 of them die every year, for lack of coverage.
Here are some things that the bill won' t do: It won't give coverage to illegal aliens. It won't ration health care. It won't establish "death panels" to deny anyone care. It won't herd people into the public option. It won't cap doctors' salaries. It won't let the Government audit every business in America, or seize your computer or your bank records, or kill you. These are paranoid delusions, promoted by fear-mongers. They simply aren't true.
You can see all this for yourself; we've posted the entire bill at our website, Grayson.house.gov. So, will you be better off or worse off if we have health insurance reform? Now that you have the facts, you can decide.

Very interesting - please read!
(Air conditioning) MUST READ

Good to know....
Please do not turn on A/C immediately as soon as you enter the car. Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning after a couple of minutes.
Here's why: According to a research, the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener emit Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen - take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car). In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. May also cause miscarriage. Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft.. A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level..... People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession excessive amounts of the toxin. Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver . What's wo rse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
So friends, please open the windows and door of your car - give time for interior to air out -dispel the deadly20stuff - before you enter.
Thought: 'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.'

Terri Sanders
University of Michigan
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Domino's Farms J 1200
Box 5750
Phone: (734) 615-4639
Fax: (734) 615-3022
email: sandert@med.umich.edu

For the last 11 years, I have advocated for better walking hours, more walking days, a seasonal fee, etc. I have heard all the negatives about the walkers but thought that this article from Parade, August 30Th, 2009 was very informative.
Larry G Hulce

It might be the time to rethink the term "golf widow". A Swedish study found that men and women aged 40 to 79 who regularly play golf have a 40% lower incidence of mortality then those who don"t. In fact, teeing off can add about 5 years to your life. For maximum benefit, wean yourself from the golf cart, start out slowly walking every other hole until you are walking the entire course. A study out of the Rose Center for Health and Sport Science in Denver finds that golfers who walk 36 holes per week burn around 2900 calories, which would lead to a 40 pound weight loss in one year. In addition to boosting your health, you will improve your game. The golfers produced lower average scores when they walked than when they used a cart, probably because they were better able to see the details of the course, leading to better club selection and shots. More important, walking has proven to increase fitness and improve overall health. The social aspect improves your mood. And because golf can be played at almost any age, the sport keeps on giving.