One Thousand Reasons to Love Hendersonville NC: March 2025

Monday, March 31, 2025

Google Reviews : Petco

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I needed a refill on my Shih Tzu's flea medication. This may seem like a relatively simple thing to do, but in today's world with veterinarians prescribing one thing and over-the-counter medication's promoting another. It's good to get a little personal advice. I called Petco to ask if they had a certain medication and a young lady named Jessica gave me not only the names of what they carried, but the qualities of each of the brands. She took that extra minute to take my questions and the health and welfare of my pet into her full consideration. I made the trip across town to Petco. I bought the flea medication that she recommended and I also bought shampoo and I know that I will return many times in the future to buy more pet supplies. People make a difference and in this case, Jessica made a major difference in not this decision but future decision decisions and purchases. We can buy almost anything We need on the Internet and it's here the next day. I have no problem with that but I think it's important for retail management to recognize the fact that it's their friendly and knowledgeable personnel who really make the difference. Many thanks to you from Pete and Zeke!

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Pete

Can you create a PGN for a sample chess game of White Queens gambit accepted

Comparison of Simparica, K9 Advantix II, and Frontline Plus

Feature	Simparica	K9 Advantix II	Frontline Plus
Type	Oral chewable tablet	Topical solution	Topical solution
Protection Duration	30–35 days	30 days	30 days
Parasites Targeted	Fleas, ticks, mange mites	Fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, biting flies, chewing lice	Fleas (all life stages), ticks, chewing lice
Speed of Action	Kills fleas within 3 hours; ticks within 8 hours	Kills fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes within 12 hours	Kills fleas within 24 hours; ticks within 48 hours
Waterproof?	Yes (oral)	Yes (topical)	Yes (topical)
Advantages	- Fast-acting and long-lasting	- Broad spectrum (includes mosquitoes and biting flies)	- Effective on all flea life stages
	- Easy to administer (oral tablet)	- Repels as well as kills parasites	- Safer for households with cats
	- Useful for mange mites	- Breaks flea lifecycle	- Good for dogs that swim frequently
Disadvantages	- Requires a prescription	- Toxic to cats; must keep cats away from treated dogs for 24 hours	- Slower action against ticks compared to K9 Advantix II
	- Potential side effects: vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, seizures	- May cause skin irritation or gastrointestinal upset	- May cause mild skin irritation
	- Not evaluated for pregnant/lactating dogs

Summary

Simparica: Best for fast action and oral administration but requires a prescription and may have neurological side effects.
K9 Advantix II: Offers the broadest protection (including mosquitoes) but is toxic to cats.
Frontline Plus: Safe for multi-pet households with cats and effective against all flea life stages but slower against ticks.

Citations:

Answer from Perplexity: pplx.ai/share

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Pete

Table Rock Park Fire | Greenville Water

UPDATE: March 23, 12:53 p.m. - Due to increased wildfire activity in the Table Rock area, you will see more air traffic (planes and helicopters) overhead. These aircraft are actively fighting these fires, drawing water from sources like North Saluda, Lake Jocassee, Table Rock Reservoir, and others. Table Rock Reservoir's size and shape limit it to helicopter usage only, while larger aircraft require the more spacious areas of North Saluda and Lake Jocassee. Spreading water scoops across multiple bodies of water ensures safe operations for all aircraft involved.
https://www.greenvillewater.com/news/table-rock-park-fire

Pete

Well your headline is getting you views but the show Seinfeld did not ruin TV, it was a great show that continues to be watched and generate revenue. Maybe actors and writers should be paid according to a mathematical formula that calculates the percentage of their contribution and continue their retirement income based on re-run revenues. Meanwhile it could be said that monumental pay checks issued to athletes has ruined sports, especially now available on a college level. Certainly a valid argument but it goes back to George’s, pardon me, Jason’s original point… how much is that individual generating revenue and is he/she getting a fare share. Perhaps a way to settle this would be that actors, writers, players and coaches are paid by commission, like many other workers, paid by tips, or commissions after the service is delivered.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Benfords Law

Benford's Law is a statistical principle that predicts the frequency distribution of leading digits in naturally occurring datasets. It states that in many real-world datasets, the first digit is more likely to be small, with "1" appearing about 30% of the time, while higher digits like "9" occur less frequently (around 5%). This logarithmic distribution applies to diverse data sets, such as financial transactions, population numbers, or scientific measurements. Benford's Law is often used in fraud detection, as manipulated data tends to deviate from this expected pattern. It works best with datasets spanning multiple orders of magnitude and is scale-invariant.

Answer from Perplexity: pplx.ai/share

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Metformin works to reduce A1C levels through several mechanisms:

Liver glucose production: Metformin decreases the amount of glucose produced by the liver54.
Glucose absorption: It reduces the amount of glucose absorbed from food and drinks in the gut25.
Insulin sensitivity: Metformin improves the body's response to its natural insulin, helping combat insulin resistance25.
Glycerol conversion: It inhibits the mitochondrial-associated enzyme glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase, which converts glycerol to glucose4.

These combined effects result in lower blood glucose levels, which in turn leads to a reduction in A1C. Metformin typically lowers A1C by about 1% to 2% on average when used as monotherapy13. In some studies, metformin has been shown to lower A1C by up to 1.5%2.

The full glucose-lowering effect of metformin usually takes about 2 months to manifest, although some patients may see improvements in blood glucose levels within the first week of treatment2. Long-term A1C control is typically monitored by healthcare providers every 3 to 6 months to assess the medication's effectiveness3.

Citations:

Answer from Perplexity: pplx.ai/share

Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. Nov. 19th, 1863. [n. p. n. d.].

Gettysburg Address

Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.

Nov. 19th 1863.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we

cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor

long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Fwd: Clever piece...

Pete

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Mr. Pete" <peteandtess@gmail.com>
Date: March 27, 2025 at 11:22:48 AM EDT
To: Dave Bock <bock@htva.net>
Cc: John Bodamer <johnbodamer@outlook.com>, Bob Miles <rmiles6514@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Clever piece...

Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. Nov. 19th, 1863. [n. p. n. d.].
Gettysburg Address
Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.
Nov. 19th 1863.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of
that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. "But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. Nov. 19th, 1863. [n. p. n. d.]. | Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=pdf

Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. Nov. 19th, 1863. [n. p. n. d.].

Gettysburg Address

Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.

Nov. 19th 1863.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived

in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged

in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can

long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of

that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is

altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we

cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled

here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor

long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living,

rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so

nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that

from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full

measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that

this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the

people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Fwd: The Morning: A hiring binge abroad

Pete

Begin forwarded message:

From: The New York Times <nytdirect@nytimes.com>
Date: March 26, 2025 at 6:41:45 AM EDT
To: peteandtess@gmail.com
Subject: The Morning: A hiring binge abroad
Reply-To: nytdirect@nytimes.com

India's hiring binge
By Alex Travelli
I cover business and economics in South Asia.
The biggest companies in the United States are on a hiring spree in India. They are building hundreds of overseas office parks. These aren't call centers — they're offices for Indian professionals employed by global companies to perform advanced tasks that, not long ago, Americans would have carried out. There are already 1,800 of these centers, and the rate of growth is doubling. They will soon employ two million Indians.
President Trump wants to restore American manufacturing. He is preparing to impose tariffs on India, a move that he says will bring jobs back and close a $46 billion trade deficit.
But tariffs reduce trade by making goods more expensive; they don't affect services or offshoring, the practice of hiring workers overseas. Visa restrictions are equally irrelevant. The roles at these new centers are not for immigrants. They're for people who want to stay in India and work for American companies.
Today's newsletter is about a new kind of offshore office park. Here, Indian workers are doing the kind of jobs that American workers envy — for American companies. We'll cover the firms that are building them and the professionals who now staff them.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Fwd: The Morning: The deportation rationale

Pete

Begin forwarded message:

From: The New York Times <nytdirect@nytimes.com>
Date: March 18, 2025 at 6:41:41 AM EDT
To: peteandtess@gmail.com
Subject: The Morning: The deportation rationale

The Morning: The deportation rationale

Plus, attacks in Gaza, DOGE cuts and sushi in Ukraine.
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March 18, 2025
By German Lopez
Good morning. We're covering Trump's immigration crackdown — as well as attacks in Gaza, DOGE cuts and sushi in Ukraine.
Immigrants deported from the U.S. arriving in Panama City. Matias Delacroix/Associated Press
Immigration crackdown
President Trump's promised immigration crackdown is here. Over the past two weeks, his administration has pushed against the limits of executive power — and surpassed them, critics say — to kick more people out of the country.
The administration has readied two facilities in Texas to again detain immigrant families, including children, my colleagues Jazmine Ulloa and Miriam Jordan reported yesterday. It invoked an arcane law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador, despite a judge's order. It deported a kidney transplant expert who works at Brown University, also despite a judge's order. It detained a green-card-holding leader of last year's pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.
Presidents have not traditionally treated illegal immigration as a national security issue, but Trump says migrants pose a threat. He claims without evidence that other countries have deliberately emptied their prisons and asylums to fuel an "invasion" of the United States.
Today's newsletter examines the new rationale for the crackdown — and the way it is taking shape.
Stretching powers
In each of the examples above, the Trump administration has gone further, or plans to go further, than previous administrations felt they could:
Family detention: The administration has indicated that it will contest a 20-day limit on how long child migrants can be detained. Trump's allies have long decried such limits as imposing a "catch and release" policy that forces the government to free unauthorized migrants.
Venezuelan deportations: To evict migrants without a hearing, the administration cited a wartime law used most recently to intern Japanese Americans during World War II. (The United States is not at war with Venezuela.) It dispatched planeloads of migrants over the weekend despite a court order that tried to stop the deportations. White House officials argue that a judge can't restrict the president's national security powers, and even if one could, the order came too late. They stuck to those arguments in a court hearing.
The nephrologist's deportation: The government deported Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese kidney transplant expert at Brown University, over the weekend. She had a valid visa, and a court tried to block the move. The administration said that it deported her because she attended a Hezbollah leader's funeral during a trip to Lebanon.
The student activists: The administration detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestinian protests, this month. Another student activist at Columbia, Ranjani Srinivasan, fled to Canada after immigration agents revoked her visa and showed up at her home. Supporters of Khalil and Srinivasan argue that the First Amendment protects their right to protest. But the Trump administration counters that immigrants, particularly those it deems national security threats, do not enjoy the full freedom of speech. It suggests that the activists supported a designated terrorist group, Hamas. (Read more about Khalil's story and why he was targeted.)
A proposed revival for the travel ban: During his first term, Trump repeatedly tried to ban visitors from mostly Muslim countries, citing the threat of terrorism. The courts blocked the first two attempts. But the Supreme Court eventually allowed a ban on eight countries, six of them predominantly Muslim, to remain. Last week, my colleagues Charlie Savage and Ken Bensinger reported on a plan to bring back the ban — and grow it to cover 43 countries.
In some ways, these examples continue a longstanding executive tradition: Presidents often use national security concerns to expand their powers. George W. Bush, for example, pointed to worries about another attack like Sept. 11 to detain and torture people without trial, drawing criticism from civil rights advocates.
Preparing for more
The extraordinary measures are needed to deliver on a campaign pledge, Trump says. He has struggled to execute the mass deportations he promised. In fact, he has deported migrants at a lower rate than Joe Biden did, as this chart shows:
Source: ICE | Data is through March 8, 2025; no data available for Dec. 2024. | By The New York Times
(The Times broke down what the data shows about Trump's deportation efforts so far here.)
Some of that failure is a result of the administration's success. Fewer people are crossing the border illegally, leaving fewer people to ship back. But Trump vowed to deport not just recent arrivals but also those who've been in the country for months or years. He has so far failed to kick out much of that second population, which enjoys stronger legal protections, such as rights to specific immigration court hearings, than people caught at the border do.
By claiming major new executive powers, Trump has set the groundwork to bypass more legal protections and execute his vision. Before Trump's election, his allies talked about deporting at least one million people a year. Experts always doubted he could reach those numbers as quickly as hoped. But with a different view of what is legal, he eventually might.
More on immigration
A Justice Department lawyer refused to answer a judge's questions about the timing of the deportation flights. The judge asked officials to provide him a timeline by noon today.
Two of the flights carrying Venezuelan migrants were in the air when the judge ordered them to turn back, and one had yet to take off, a Times analysis found.
El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, boasted on social media about accepting Trump's deportees into his prisons. He has described himself in the past as the "world's coolest dictator."
THE LATEST NEWS
Israel-Hamas War
In Gaza City. Saher Alghorra for The New York Times
Israel launched a major attack on Gaza, its first on that scale since the cease-fire with Hamas began roughly two months ago.
Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the attack because Hamas refused to release its remaining hostages. Israel consulted the White House before attacking.
The strikes killed at least 300 people, including children, according to Gaza's health ministry.
The attack followed weeks of negotiations to extend the cease-fire. It was not clear whether Israel aimed to force Hamas to compromise or to start a new phase of war.
The Israeli government says that 59 hostages are yet to be returned, and it believes that fewer than half of them remain alive.
Government Overhaul
In Asheville, N.C. Mike Belleme for The New York Times
Town halls in Republican districts have become tense. Voters are expressing anger and anxiety over Trump and Elon Musk's government cuts.
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the E.P.A.'s scientific research arm and fire as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists and other scientists.
After a standoff involving the police, Musk's DOGE team entered the headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent agency, and evicted its officials.
The Department of Veterans Affairs halted most transgender medical treatments, citing a Trump executive order.
Trump said he considered some of Biden's pardons invalid because Biden had used an autopen, a common automatic signing device. There's no power in the Constitution or case law to undo a pardon.
The president also ended Secret Service protection for two of Biden's children, Hunter and Ashley.
More on the Trump Administration
Trump privately told auto executives to prepare to operate under tariffs.
Trump says he will release thousands of files this afternoon related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The administration asked 20 prominent law firms for information about diversity, equity and inclusion practices in their recruitment, suggesting they could have discriminated against white candidates.
Trump visited the Kennedy Center for the first time since taking over the organization. At a board meeting, he floated the idea that he might host its honors ceremony.
Starlink, Musk's satellite internet service, is now accessible across the White House complex.
More on Politics
A conservative F.D.A. lawyer defended the Biden administration's position on the abortion pill. In retaliation, a Republican senator has forced her out of her role.
Senator Chuck Schumer postponed his book tour because of backlash to his decision to vote with Republicans to prevent a government shutdown.
War in Ukraine
In his call with Vladimir Putin today, Trump will, in essence, negotiate how large a reward Russia will receive for its 11 years of aggression against Ukraine, David Sanger writes.
Russia has sabotaged warehouses, railways and undersea cables, escalating its actions over the past two years to pressure the U.S. and Europe to curb support for Ukraine, a study found.
In a town near Ukraine's front line, a popular sushi restaurant braves artillery strikes to bring in its fish.
Other Big Stories
The daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot uses the pen name Caroline Darian. Andrea Mantovani for The New York Times
The daughter of Gisèle Pelicot believes her father drugged and raped her, too.
Texas authorities arrested a midwife and an associate, and charged them with illegally performing abortions in greater Houston.
Harvard will offer free tuition for students whose families earn less than $200,000. Other elite colleges have made similar changes in an effort to diversify their student bodies.
A swath of the southern and central Plains faces severe fire danger, with dry air and wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station for months, are headed back to Earth.
Opinions
China cracked down on fentanyl before Trump took office. His tariffs might make Beijing cooperate less, not more, Brandon Yoder writes.
Andrew Cuomo understands better than his rivals what New Yorkers want from their transit system: for it to be as safe as it used to be, Nicole Gelinas writes.
Here's a column by Michelle Goldberg on a Meta whistle-blower.
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MORNING READS
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Across the Hudson: See a ferry terminal's faded grandeur before it's renovated.
Blossom in winter: A Times critic explains why he loves Piet Mondrian's "Blue Chrysanthemum" — a delicate watercolor from a painter known for simple shapes and primary colors.
Most clicked yesterday: "How do I know which jeans are best for me?"
Lives Lived: Jesse Colin Young's sincere tenor vocals for the Youngbloods graced one of the most loving anthems of the hippie era, "Get Together," with a chorus that began, "Come on people now, smile on your brother." He died at 83.
SPORTS
N.F.L.: Derek Stingley Jr. agreed to a three-year, $90 million contract extension with the Houston Texans, making him the highest-paid defensive back in league history.
College basketball: The N.C.A.A. tournament starts tonight with play-in games on the men's side. Read The Athletic's bracket advice.
Women's basketball: Chelsea Gray and the Rose Basketball Club are the first-ever Unrivaled champions after defeating the Vinyl Basketball Club in the inaugural championship game. It ends a successful debut season for the league.
ARTS AND IDEAS
In Tokyo. Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times
Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers star, is ubiquitous in Tokyo. He's on billboards, products and television ads. Talk shows dissect his diet, fashion choices and home décor. In Japan, Ohtani is a marketer's dream: sports icon, pop star and national hero rolled into one.
More on culture
Conan O'Brien will host the Oscars again next year. "I want to hear Adrien Brody finish his speech," he said in a statement.
Jon Stewart joked about Trump's golf championship win. "Oh, he 'won the tournament' at 'Trump International'? How did that happen?" he said.
THE MORNING RECOMMENDS …
Bobbi Lin for The New York Times
Try a classic Cantonese noodle dish, commonly enjoyed for breakfast or lunch at dim sum.
Slather the best sunscreen on your face.
Take photos or video in any situation with an action camera.
GAMES
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