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A while ago, someone asked me to write about how we keep balance in our lives, as two lawyers with four kids and three pets and two houses. The answer is that we don't.
The big one has just started her senior year. This means ACTs, college applications, a job, 5 AP classes, cheerleading, and a driver's license. She needs our help with almost all of these things.
Boo has started her freshman year of high school. She has a set of friends that are all a bit entitled, and a bit fast. The kind of entitled and the kind of fast where they are allowed to traipse around New York City at 14 years old with no adult, after having each received $100 of spending money from their parents. She recently burst into my office while I was working, without knocking, and said, "Can you give me some money? I'm in a hurry." I did not give her money. She needs to learn to navigate these friendships without becoming an asshole. She needs our help with this.
Our older youngest boy is in 7th grade now. We don't think his reading and writing are where they should be, and he is having a hard time making friends. He seems lonely, and he seems sad. He needs help figuring out why the reading and writing still haven't clicked for him, and he needs to find his place in the social nightmare that is middle school. He needs our help in this hard time, or at least some extra attention and love.
Bumby is 2 and a half. He starts preschool tomorrow. He alternates between shouting "I don't like you mama! I can do it ALL BY MYSELF! GO AWAY!" and crying, clinging to my legs, and swearing his love for me, begging me not to leave him with Dada (his babysitter). His language is so developed that it is hard to remember that he has no logic and no impulse control. He is afraid of being dropped off at school; he is afraid of new friends. Sometimes he wakes in the night and calls for us, just to know we are there. He needs our help.
My wife's job has been all-consuming for about the last year now, as she works in a highly regulated industry that has become incredibly unpredictable under Trump. She has been working late, and when she isn't, she basically talks about nothing but her job. She needs mental and emotional support, and doesn't have much capacity for the day-to-day house chores.
I have been picking up lots of slack, and feeling under-appreciated. We have had two toilets break in the last week (Bumby was very excited to tell the plumber that the toilet was "TOTALLY FREAKING OUT"). A friend has gifted us a piano that they no longer use, and I have to find someone who can move it to our house but also our credit cards are up to the max and we can't afford to pay someone $500 to move a free piano right now, and yet I very much want to get Bumby lessons next year so we should take advantage of it (first world problems, I know). I got slammed at work on a deal for a European client, meaning lots of early morning conference calls, and my wife can't help me cover the childcare because of her own demanding job.
For example: During a conference call last week, while I had no childcare and had plopped Bumby in front of PJ Masks on Youtube, the plumber left to go get parts and water started pouring through the ceiling from the broken toilet upstairs. I put the phone on mute and mopped it up, and put a bowl under the leak. As soon as I sat down again, I got a text from the school that it was on lockdown due to a "suspicious person attempting to gain admittance." I frantically tried to reach the kids to make sure they were okay while also actually paying attention to the work call, which was actually kind of important and required me to speak and take notes. (The kids are fine, the person was caught by local police.) Bumby hit a button on the computer that caused his show to minimize, and started shouting for me. Also the dog had refused to poop that morning and started barking at the door for a walk. I got an email at the end of the call from my boss that said, "Will you follow up on all open points, please?"
We are drowning.
We had our 5 year wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago. Through various complicated logistical arrangements involving 4 different childcare providers, we cobbled together a way to have a night away, sans kids, for the first time since Bumby was born. It was heaven. We were us again. We window shopped, and went on a sailboat ride, and drank a whole bottle of wine before dinner even started. We ate at 10pm in a restaurant that did not have high chairs. I felt like I looked at my wife at one point and felt like, "Who are you? You look vaguely like the woman who has been living in my house, but you actually look at me, and see me, and smile at me." I'm sure she felt the same. In a way, this has made it all worse, because the contrast is so stark.
We need to figure this shit out, starting with ourselves. Long, long ago, before Bumby, before the dog, when we had only one house and thought our life was so fucking complicated, we were lying in bed one weekend morning (HAHAHAHA your life is not complicated if you can lie in bed in the morning!) and we said to each other, with solemn straight faces, that our relationship was the most important part of our life. The parental relationship, we told each other, is the bedrock of the family. The kids feel okay when the adults feel okay. You can't take care of them when you're not taking care of yourself. All of those kinds of things. And for those reasons, we were not going to give up our date nights, even though her ex was telling the kids that the fact that we left them with a babysitter once a month meant we did not love them.
This past weekend was like a record-scratch. We remembered this moment, and this conversation, and the sad, trite truth of it. We worked all day on closing up the beach house for the season while bickering with each other over details and alternatingly disappearing for an hour or so to go manage our jobs, and after Bumby went to bed, we poured ourselves glasses of cheap red wine, and we talked to each other.
We sorted through lots of tangled up crap and hurt feelings, and put our date nights back on the calendar. The entitled middle child is going to babysit for us — at a discounted rate — and that will be the only spending money she gets. Grandma is going to tutor the big brother, giving him adult attention and help with his writing at the same time. The oldest one is going to have to do some of this college stuff on her own, because for god's sake she's about to be living by herself in less than a year. Also, we will suggest she drop one of the AP classes so she can actually have some sleep and some fun her senior year. We will put Bumby to bed earlier so he is better able to cope with the changes in his life, and give ourselves some more time together in the evenings. My wife is going to take Bumby to school on Thursday mornings so I can go into work early, and do a few loads of laundry each week. We budgeted a way to pay off our credit cards just in time to rack them up again for Christmas.
Then we went to bed ourselves, with dishes stacked in the sink and 37 unread emails. Things looked a bit better in the morning.
we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming…
Which is of course about Trump, right? It's all we read about, think about, talk about. What will the madman do next? How will we get through it? Nevertheless, I am here to interrupt this newsfeed with something else entirely.
Bumby is TWO. On his birthday, we went to the American Museum of Natural History. I don't know why I never remember that Bumby does not actually like outings that last more than 2 hours, but I don't. Anyway, my parents were in town, and my sister came, and Mala came (that is what he calls my mother-in-law) and all of our millions of children. We had two cars full. Which means of course we left at 10:30 instead of 9 am. I wanted to leave at 9, so that we could maximize our time there before nap. Wellllll yeah no. Not with that many people.
The dinosaur bones were boring, but Bumby liked running up and down the small inclines between the rooms, and he liked all the taxidermy animals, which I weirdly did too until I realized that in order to have a stuffed baby gorilla you had to have killed a baby gorilla. Then they all made me feel a little sick. Anyway, Bumby doesn't know about killing of baby gorillas, so he loved them of course. He ran up to each one and said, "Hey, monkey! Come on out! No jumpin on the bed!" and then searched around in vain for a handle or a door or some way to open the glass case and free the monkeys (which were, of course, not actually monkeys, but gorillas and lemurs and other such things). Here is a blurry photo as an example:
After doing this for a while, we moved on to the Native American exhibits, where he pointed out "This one's a mama, and this one's a mommy." Haha to my wife, all the "mommy" ones were actually men. She is not masculine, by the way, at all. Then he spotted a fellow toddler and raced over, screaming "NEW FRIEND." He aggressively hugged him until I pulled him off, because the parents looked vaguely horrified and the kid was about to cry.
He then gave himself a time out. When he was a little younger we noticed he would get over-stimulated and bite his siblings, so we started taking him aside for a time out when this would happen. Now he gives himself a time out when the stimulation is too much. After about 5 time outs, we decided he needed to just go. Everyone except my sister and I left to get a table at the pizza place, and my sister and I went to get the coats. We went through the ocean exhibit, where he was fascinated by the "big baby beluga" which was actually a blue whale. We waited in line for coats, and he blew his nose on my face (my grossest parenting moment yet, actually).
After going home and taking a nap, some friends came over and we drank wine and ate cake and everyone gave him presents except for us, because ours were ordered from Amazon Prime and were late (of course). He still does not have them, because we're trying to space the new toys out a little. And that was that – a day off from the chaos that is swirling around us on a daily basis. A little reprieve, courtesy of the boy who taught me to slow down and take a break in the first place.
Yesterday, my wife and I woke up grouchy. We were trying to pack away a million Christmas decorations and do approximately 950 loads of laundry and had to shovel the walks and it was cold out. Also, I wanted coffee and Bumby insisted on helping me make it which of course meant half the water was dumped in the coffee part and half the coffee grounds were on the floor. When my wife came in from walking the dog, she snarked about the likely-gross Bumby coffee. I snarked back about something, I don't know what. And this continued for a bit until I got a little mean and made my wife cry. She went upstairs. I thought I would give her some space, but really it is more likely I didn't want to admit I had been an asshole.
But Bumby. Nothing gets by him."Mommy crying."
"Yes. Mommy's crying."
"Well, no. I mean, she might want a nap. But she's crying because I hurt her feelings."
He hopped down off the couch and grabbed my hand. He started dragging me toward the stairs. "Mama. I'm sorry, Mommy. Gentle gentle. I'm sorry."
This is what we tell him when he hits or scratches or otherwise attempts to injure us or his siblings when he is frustrated. You say you're sorry, and show the person you know how to be gentle in your touching. So, right. Also with feelings.
We walk upstairs and find Mommy at the computer reading about Trump. (Hard to see how this would make her feel better, but to each her own, right?)
"Sorry, Mommy," says Bumby.
"No no. You didn't do it. I hurt Mommy, not you. You are fine." He looks at me expectantly. So I say to her, "I'm sorry I hurt your feelings." She looks at me a bit skeptically but gives me a hug.
"Gentle," prompts Bumby.
"Yes, gentle. I will be gentle with them." The hug becomes real, and we go downstairs.
The coffee was not ruined after all. We ate toast and cleaned house and played outside and watched the Steelers pommel the Dolphins. It was a really good, tiring day. Sometimes when you hurt someone, it's best to apologize like a toddler, to just say you're sorry and promise to do better, without explaining your side or making a lot of excuses or discussing who started it.
In 2009, my wife and I talked about having babies. Specifically, I informed my then-girlfriend, who was already the mother of three, that if she did not want to have more babies, that was it. It was a deal-breaker for me. "BABIES," I said, "plural. Not BABY." I wanted, specifically, two babies. Also, she had to want the babies, not just be willing to go through it for me. Because babies should be wanted, all of them, each of them. There is a big difference between wanting a baby and agreeing to have a baby because the person that you love wants one. She did not answer right away. She said she would think about it, and come back to me. And she did. A day or so later, she said she was in. Whole-heartedly in. Babies I wanted, and babies I would have.
And then, you know, life happened. For one reason or another, it wasn't time to start trying to conceive until late in 2013. Then it took us nearly a year to get pregnant. So it wasn't until six years after that original conversation that we had our first baby together.
By the time Bumby was born, the other kids were kind of… old. The next-youngest was 9, and the oldest was 14. Having another child when your next-youngest is 9 is very different from having another child when your next-youngest is 3. To further complicate matters, the Big One was decidedly moody about the topic of adding a fourth child to our nest, and made those moods known throughout the entire experience of talking about a baby, getting pregnant with a baby, being pregnant with a baby, and having a baby. It was, frankly, rather miserable for my wife and me. Although Bumby and the Big One are fast friends now, it is far from clear that she in particular, or any of the older kids more generally, would welcome another addition with open arms.
Then there is my wife. She agreed to babies, this is true. She knows she agreed to babies. But she has reneged. She is happy with our family of six. She is not getting any younger, and although she loves our children fiercely, she also looks forward to our empty nest years (as do I!). She would like to have those empty nest years when she is still young enough to do fun empty nest things and does not have to take too many prescription medications. Before I ever got pregnant with Bumby, she made it clear. She wanted this one more child very much, but only this one more child.
So that leaves me. I wanted babies. I have been quite clear on this, always. I did not want just one pregnancy, just one baby. But I agreed to stop after one, because I still feel just as I did in 2009, that each child should be wanted by its family. Knowing how the rest of the family felt, I almost hoped that being pregnant would not live up to my expectations. Maybe I would feel about it the way so many women do — it is acceptable as a means to an end, but not altogether a great experience in and of itself. I may even be miserable, or have complications. It is weird to almost hope for these things, but I wanted it to cure me so that I would not yearn to go through it again. So that I would be content with just one baby. No such luck. I had an easy, uncomplicated pregnancy. I was at home in my body for the first time since puberty. I felt beautiful. I marveled at the changes and adored having Bumby close to me and with me, always. I wasn't even really uncomfortable until around 37 weeks, and slept well. Something about the pregnancy hormones agreed with me, and I was just happy the entire time. I can count on one hand the number of times I was angry or sad for the entire pregnancy. Then, I had an uncomplicated vaginal birth just one day past my due date.
After which, I met Bumby. I fell in love with him, hard and fast. Postpartum came with all the rawness and separation and plummeting hormones that it always does. Sometime in those early weeks, I became furious with my wife. How could she, knowing how amazing it is to have a child, knowing how fast and fierce and primal the love is, how could she say I can't do it again? When I agreed that maybe just one baby would be enough, I didn't know what I was giving up. But she has been through this before. She knew what she was asking of me, and she asked it anyway. How could she? She didn't answer.
I cooled off, and my hormones balanced out. I still wanted another child, but I stopped being mad at my wife for being done. She could not make herself want another child any more than I could make myself not want another child.
My confidence as a parent grew, and I found I can actually manage four kids on my own, while my wife works or has a late dinner. I make decisions about the older kids that I previously would have deferred to my wife. I love them more, and have more patience with them. Bumby started sleeping, and I started getting my life back. I went back to work part-time, and found a work/life balance that works for me. Bumby started walking, and talking, and making jokes. I went from staring at him adoringly, to interacting with him. The love grew. I got my hair cut, without Bumby in my lap. I left Bumby with the sitter so I could go to the 5th grade science fair with his big brother. I started planning our spring garden, now that I have a fun toddler to plant it with, instead of a baby who won't be set down long enough for me to plant even one tomato plant. I became me again. But now, me with Bumby.
And you know what? I can't imagine having another baby. I sometimes would like to have an afternoon of baby Bumby back, where we just nurse and nap and I eat strawberries in the sunshine while he stares at his own hand. My pregnancy and our first year as a family of six were the hardest and most wonderful months of my life, and I will remember them forever. But I don't want to do them again, and I don't want to do them with another baby. I am done, with one. I am sure that I will still have my moments of longing, but in the main I am, shockingly, at peace with this.
Before Bumby was born, we were a blended family. A family, yes, but there always seemed to be shifting alliances — me on the one side and my wife and the kids on the other, or the adults on one side, and the kids on the other. Various divisions. Bumby has brought us all together. We have gone from a collection of people, to a whole family. One family. We are all brought together by loving this little guy more than we thought we ever could. We don't need another baby, because we are complete now. I don't need another baby, because I had the baby I was meant to have. Thanks, Bumbs.
houses and disappointment
A while ago, I mentioned that we had bid on a house and our offer had been accepted. It's a long story, but what basically happened is that after accepting our offer, and after we paid $1,300 for an inspection, the sellers informed us that they had actually received another, better offer that they had decided to accept instead. We pushed ourselves, upped our offer, and were again out-bid. Imagine our "surprise" when we later learned that the same agent was representing the sellers and the new buyers. In other words, the new buyers knew exactly what we bid each time, and out-bid us by the bare minimum amount. Legal, yes. Ethical, not so much.
So there we were, one Wednesday night with a bottle of wine, an internet browser, and a lot of disappointment. We looked at the other houses on the market in our town. A few piqued our interest, so we decided to e-mail our agent and set up time to go look at them. We weren't set on moving, but since we had started the process, we thought we might as well explore our options. When we lost the other house, my wife had a rant that lasted about 5 minutes about all the things she hates about our current house, and none of them were changing any time soon. Plus, it is now or never with the move. The Big One will be a junior next year, so if we're moving, we'd like to do it at a time where she can really settle into the new house before going off to college, so that when she comes home, she really comes home, not just back to her parents' house that she never actually lived in.
We saw a few houses. Some were too small, some needed too much work, some had the master bedroom on the first floor, which doesn't really work when you have small children. One had leopard carpet. Then we got to the last house. It was five bedrooms, plus an office. One of the bedrooms is really small, but one of our children is also really small, and by the time he cares about the size of his room, the Big One will be about 24. The yard is huge, and awesome. The layout is better than what we have now. It was built in 1910 but has been well cared for all along, so it is full of charming details but not run-down. The first floor has French doors between many of the rooms, so we can keep Bumby in eye-shot without having baby gates all over the place. We fell in love, and when we brought the kids back, they did too. It's only a tiny bit bigger than our current house in terms of square footage, but the layout gives it more usable space. We wanted to make sure that if our offer was accepted, the sellers would want to sell to us, rather than someone else. So when we put the offer in, we wrote a heartfelt letter about why we thought this was the perfect house for us. Each of the kids contributed a paragraph (except for Bumby who cannot read, write, or speak).
Long story short, we got the house. We put ours on the market immediately, and after three stressful weeks, it also sold. YAY, we're moving.
When we told the kids, the Big One said, "Well, you know how I feel about this. I don't want to move," and left the room. We were stunned. We actually did not know how she felt about this, since she seemed totally excited when we looked at the new house originally. Boo was excited (the new house is three doors down from her best friend) but said, "We have had seven Christmases in this house." The Big Brother acted like we hadn't said anything, and Bumby obviously had no idea what was going on. It was…. anti-climactic. What happened between writing a letter about how excited we were to buy this house, and selling ours three weeks later? It's hard to say. All we can come up with is that to the kids, they were separate events. Getting a new house is exciting, but leaving the old one is sad. Also, the Big One realized she would have to share the bathroom with her sister. I actually don't know a single teenager with her own bathroom, but this has become monumentally important to the Big One for some reason. We were really disappointed that the kids were no longer excited. It took the wind out of our sails.
So we scheduled time to go see the house. My wife and I have been back a few times for various reasons, and each time we get more excited. In our contract, we're allowed to come in to "take measurements" so we thought we would bring everyone back, walk room to room, and talk through with them how they wanted to set up their bedrooms. They could remember why we were excited about this house in the first place. We went to Home Depot and got paint cards for them to look at in their rooms. We were psyched up.
When we got there, the house was TRASHED. Apparently, the seller is preparing for an estate sale, so there were card tables set up all over the place with knickknacks on them. Every room was cluttered with half-packed boxes and the whole house smelled like mothballs from the stuff that had been dragged out of the attic. There were dirty dishes in the sink, and every inch of counter and table-space was just covered in crap. The floors were dirty and there were crumpled up paper towels all over the bathroom counter. The master bedroom closet looked like it had been hit by a tornado. There was a half-eaten bowl of rice on the desk in Big Brother's room, and none of the beds were made. On and on, each room more disgusting and cluttered than the last. Our trip to get the kids excited about the move had backfired spectacularly. Now even Boo, who was the only excited one, was disappointed. It was so hard to see past how dirty and cluttered the house was. It felt small and dingy even though it's actually bigger than our house now.
We were all worried about how cramped it felt. And all the French doors on the first floor, which at first had seemed like a dream come true, now seemed like a nightmare as Bumby ran from room to room, careening around card-tables covered in tiny breakable things, slamming the original 1910 glass doors into the walls. It turns out he is already tall enough to reach the handles.
I was angry. How could they have left the house like that? We couldn't even get the measurements we needed because there was so much stuff in our way. We couldn't see ourselves living there at all. It seemed, frankly, like a shithole. When we got home, my wife announced that she thought the whole thing was one big mistake and locked herself in our bedroom. I felt the same, minus the locking myself in the bedroom, because it was already taken.
I know that the house was just dirty. It obviously won't be full of all that crap when we live there. We will come in, with our paint samples and our mops and brooms and our cute furniture and we will make it our own. It is still charming, it still has amazing views and a great layout. It still has an office and a bedroom for each of us. But… if even the adults are having a hard time maintaining any enthusiasm after that experience, how are the kids supposed to feel about it?
The one silver lining is that I really got the opportunity to explore the yard. There is a perfect spot for the vegetable patch — bigger and sunnier than what we have now. There are at least three spots that are completely hidden from view if you are in the house or on the street, perfect for secret kid-stuff. There are steps and rocks and flowers everywhere. It's perhaps the most amazing yard I have ever seen. I am hanging onto that, and trying to get us moved in with enough time to plant our summer vegetables in the spot I have chosen. We will have to push through the disappointment we all feel, because it is what it is. We have sold our house, and bought this one, and now we're moving.
dads at the playground
With the first nice weather for the spring, and a budding toddler who loves to play outside, we took a couple of walks to the playground this weekend. In our sexist town, we were literally the only moms there with our kids. Don't get me wrong, the playgrounds were packed. But all the other kids were there with their dads.
"But how BAD did you pee your pants? …. Oh, that's fine. We can stay, then."
Most of the dads were engaged and having fun, playing with their kids. We even had a nice chat with the dad of a two year old and a four year old who will eventually be at the same elementary school as Bumby.
I know that Bumby is really lucky to have two moms who love him so much. But for the first time, I was a little sad for him that he won't also have a dad. Probably I will lose my lesbian-card for saying that, but there it is.
I can't quite put my finger on why it matters. My wife is amazing at sports. I can fix things around the house. He has a great male role model in his older brother. I logically know there is no reason for him to "need" a dad — we can provide him with all the stereotypically masculine skills he needs, and big brother can instruct him in how to make his penis blow up like a balloon by holding his foreskin shut while he pees (this is a real thing that boys do). I guess I just don't want him to miss any experience in life, or be left out in any way, and he will be. I wish I could protect him from feeling different, even while I know that being a little different will make him a stronger, happier, better-adjusted person than walking through life with no adversity at all.
letting go
If we believe that our children are our teachers, the lesson that my children are teaching me is one about letting go.
We are moving. There is a house about three streets away from our current house, that has always been our "house." You know what I mean. We walk by it and say, look at that house. It's so great! Wouldn't it be fun to live there? And then… it came on the market. It turns out it had actually been on the market for a year, then they re-listed it this January at a reduced price, which turned out to be one we could actually afford. It's MUCH bigger than our current house, gets better light, has an office for me (a room of my own, so to speak) and a huge, amazing kitchen. It happens to be near a parkway, which, if you're not from around here, is kind of like a freeway but quieter because there are no trucks allowed, which keeps the price down into our range. It also has a postage-stamp sized yard, which is actually totally fine with me. I love being outside, but not really so much lounging around my yard. More like hiking, and skiing, and going to the beach. I don't do these things in my back yard anyway.
The new house is great. But it's not the house I brought my baby home to. It's not the house I was pregnant in. It's not the house where the kids have spent the last seven Christmases. It's not the house I moved into when I was finally ready to let go of the apartment that had sat vacant on 10th Avenue for months before I finally admitted that I really lived with my now-wife in the suburbs. It's not the house where our dog was a puppy or our big kids were preschoolers. It's not the house that has seen two kids off to their first day of kindergarten and two kids off to their last day of fifth grade. It doesn't have the nursery that we lovingly prepared for our whirlwind of a baby.
Leaving our house feels like leaving Bumby's babyhood behind. He walks now, and points to things he wants, and says, "Mama" at me. He laughs when he farts. He does busy baby work, putting the dishtowel in the dumptruck and his shoe in the dog's water bowl. He's already not that squalling lump of blobby babyness, all breastmilk poops and kittenlike cries. In fact, I like him so much more now. He's fun. He's smart. He enchants every stranger he meets. He enchants me, on a daily basis. But I'm sad that he's no longer my Blobby, spending long afternoons with me skin-to-skin.
Moving feels like leaving the big kids' childhood behind. We cleaned the house up last night to get it ready for its listing photos, and every room was a box of memories. Remember when the kids' friends hit the wall we had just painted with a ping-pong paddle, and the kids made them scrub off the mark because they had worked so hard painting? Remember when we forgot to open the flue when we were watching Jaws, and the fire department burst in to respond to the smoke alarm? Remember when one of the kids fell while climbing the front window and had to get stitches? Remember when I threw a whole gourd into the compost bin, and we went away for a week in the summer, and when we came home a gourd-plant was taking over our entire deck?
Now they are big, all of them. Even little Bumby feels big. I know that the new house will be its own box of memories, but it's so hard to let go. And yet, holding onto the house won't keep Bumby a baby, and it won't keep the kids small. The big one will leave for college in 2 years, whether we move or not. The little guy will start middle school next year, whether we move or not. Bumby will stop nursing and start nursery school, whether we move or not. So we decided to move – forward.


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Suit challenges changes to Michigan auto insurance law
LANSING (AP) — Crash victims and a brain-injury rehabilitation facility challenged Michigan's new auto insurance law Thursday, contending that pending limits on reimbursement rates for nursing and other care violate their constitutional rights.
The lawsuit, filed in Ingham County Circuit Court, names two insurance companies and seeks a declaration that two provisions of the no-fault law are unconstitutional. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the Republican-sponsored legislation and a subsequent fix in May and June, in a bid to lower high car premiums by letting drivers forego unlimited medical benefits starting next July.
Other key components will take effect in 2021. The suit disputes the legality of limiting reimbursements for in-home attendant care services provided by families of injured people and setting fee schedules for health providers.
"This new law essentially means government can step in and determine who can come into my home and provide my disabled wife her needed around-the-clock care," said Dr. Michael Andary.
He is the guardian of one of the plaintiffs, Ellen Andary of East Lansing. She sustained near-fatal injuries in 2014 when a drunken driver going the wrong way on U.S. 127 nearly Mount Pleasant hit a vehicle in which she was a passenger. The suit says she receives 36 hours of in-home attendant care a day _ 24 of unskilled care and 12 of skilled care.
The law will cap reimbursement to families at 56 hours a week, or eight per day _ which the complaint says will retroactively interfere with the vested contractual rights included in the insurance policy of Andary and another plaintiff, Philip Krueger. He sustained a traumatic brain injury and other injuries in a 1990 accident and is a residential patient at the Ann Arbor-based Eisenhower Center, which also joined the suit.
The 156-patient facility says it is at risk of going out of business due to the law, which includes fee schedules to restrict what car insurers must pay for care, recovery and rehabilitation. Beginning in July 2021, the rehab center will be reimbursed at 55% of what it charged this past January, a rate that will drop to 52.5% by mid-2023.


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Urging voters to find their own facts
Dear Editor,
I see Trudeau has decided to opt out of several debates prior to the federal election next month. So much for openness and transparency. "Sunny ways" my foot! No surprise here as he is terrible when off script.
He is just tying to avoid more embarrassment. He also made sure that Max Bernier will not be able to attend any debates. Only progressives are allowed to speak to the Canadian people, it seems, including progressive Conservatives like Sheer. What a sham.
Bernier should absolutely be allowed to debate. He says he has signed up 40,000 members of the new People's Party of Canada (PPC). Much more than the Green Party under Elizabeth May with only 18,000 members after many years now.
A vote for the Greens or NDP is just another vote for Trudeau after all, as they both are committed to prop him up as usual if he wins a minority government, the same as they would for Scheer.
I suggest anybody planning to vote in October check out the platforms listed online at the PPC website.
You decide what makes sense to you when you get into that voting booth after giving them a look.
Don't let the mainstream media or all the other parties decide for you. They all hate Bernier and what he proposes, because he is so different from the bunch of them who all seem much the same on many issues, and all so politically correct, although they say he is a personal "friend."
They hope you forget about him and his common sense approach to governing.
They all say he is "far out." Is he? Why don't you decide on your own. Don't trust the others or the media.
Get the facts on your own. You may be pleasantly surprised. See you in October.
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I have to make this project Prepaid Energy Meter using GSM and Arduino. So please help me in its programming and how to proceed.
Hi Alok,
Prepaid Energy Meter using GSM and Arduino is an intresting project.
The complete project with schematics and code is well explained here : http://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/prepaid-energy-meter-u...
Just buy the components connect them as per schematics and dump the code given. But, still we you need some help or get stuck somewhere, we are here to help you out.
hi, my hardware is working ...but i am not getting any msg from gsm module as well as my balance is ot reducing so can u help me with the coading,,,,
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I want to ask about the system. That before making the hardware, i want to run this system in the proteus software. In this software i am unable to find energy meter in the proteus library and all other things are there. I want to verify it before doing hardware. So tell me something about this.
Hi Alok,
Since you are just starting with the project I would recommend you to start from here :http://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/call-and-message-using...
Thi tutorial will give you a good introduction to Arduino and GSM module.
Further, since we are using a Arduino (module) and GSM module it is not reliable to test them on Protus simulator. Because Proteus does nto have a built in gsm module librarey. The 3rd party librarey is not reliable again.
So, the best way is to gets your hands on the module and learning by yourself.
Get yourself an arduino and a GSM module and start with the above tutorial, as always we are here to guide you if you get stuck somewhere
sir my project hardware is working and the lcd is showing the unit and balance value....But my unit and balance are not reducing and i am not getting any sms from the gsm module so can you help me with the program.I am using a SIM 900A gsm module..
sir i have the same hardware what you used in this prototype, the code stuck in "finding module" not going ahead?
please sir help me with this?
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After recharging balance and unit is not deducting. Please help me.
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Yahoo to Livestream Daily Concert
Company expands commitment to original Web programming
Make room in your TV-watching schedule for Yahoo: The company emphasized its commitment to digital video with new live and original programming and an expansion of its digital magazines at the company's NewFronts presentation today.
CEO Marissa Mayer said that with traditional TV viewing down 1 percent and online video consumption up 28 percent, it's time to pay attention to digital video.
"Users expect online content to be as good, if not better, than TV," she added.
As part of the company's promise to focus on live programming, it will stream at least one live concert per day in conjunction with Live Nation. Kellogg's Pop-Tarts is the first announced advertiser of the music series, but Ned Brody, head of the Americas, told Adweek that Yahoo is open to up to four sponsors.
"We're debuting a rich set of content, original and live content, that we think is going to be extremely interesting to advertisers," Brody said.
Original series includes mockumentary Sin City Saints. The Mike Tollin-helmed (One Tree Hill, Smallville) show will "follow" Las Vegas' first professional basketball team as it succeeds in failing to win a championship. Other Space, a comedy series created by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Freaks and Geeks), will follow explorers as they travel through alternate universes. Yahoo promised more shows in the near future.
Global news anchor Katie Couric also announced two news programs. World 3.0 will look at "tech titans on the cutting edge who are really changing the way we live." Her other show, Now I Get It, will explain the concepts behind hot topics like Bitcoin.
Some Web shows will be hosted on Yahoo's rebranded verticals, now known as digital magazines. Earlier this year, Yahoo Fashion, headed by Joe Zee, joined Yahoo Tech and Yahoo Food as part of the company's move toward in-depth Web content.
The company also unveiled Yahoo Travel, sponsored by Walt Disney Resorts. This site will have original content and programming, including the Web series Photo Tripping with the author of My Last Supper, Melanie Dunea. Yahoo Travel editor Paula Froelich, formerly of Page Six, said the show is for the worldly wanderer who didn't want "Le Bernardin all the time, but sometimes (they) want a hole in the wall."


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Black woman named editor-in-chief of Huffington Post
Lydia Polgreen, a black woman, has been named as the next editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, following founder Arianna Huffington, who was the first.
Polgreen, a New York Times associate masthead editor and editorial director of NYT Global, said that it was a hard decision to leave the New York Times but that she felt the editor-in-chief position was a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
"I feel like we're living in a moment right now where media has to fundamentally rethink its position vis-a-vis power," she said. "I think that the election of Donald Trump and the basic difficulty that the media had in anticipating it tells us something really profound about the echo chamber in which we live, the ways in which journalism has failed to reach beyond its own inner limits."
She also praised the Huffington Post for having "potential and the possibility of really meeting this populist moment that we're living in and meeting people where they actually are."
"The DNA of The Huffington Post is fundamentally progressive, but I think that has a really capacious meaning and comes to include so many of the things that motivated not just the people who were rah rah Bernie or who voted for Hillary Clinton, but also many, many people in the United States who voted for Trump, who have fundamental concerns about the way the country is moving and the future," she said.
Polgreen also spoke to the recent election of Donald Trump, saying that it has sparked a "wave of intolerance and bigotry that seems to be sweeping the globe" and that the Huffington Post had an "absolutely indispensable role to play in this era in human history."
"When I say human history, I don't take that lightly," she said. "I think that just as there were moments when the Washington Post or The New York Times or the Times of London during World War II had a huge mission, we, too, have a huge mission. And that is to listen, to report, to tell stories, to seek out the stories and voices that aren't being heard, even ones that might feel uncomfortable to us."
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Mr. Elkins and the Zombies of Elbert County
When John Bell tells his family that he saw zombies crossing their farm one October night, he asks them the keep it quiet so as to not cause a panic. But when his first daughter, Cecelia, draws a picture of the zombies in school, the cat's out of the bag.Now, some in the conservative little town want the little girl expelled. Some want to exploit the zombies for publicity. The media outlets catch wind of it and are in a feeding frenzy. All John wants is to keep the town from descending into chaos. One thing's for sure - when the townsfolk descend on the Bell household to see the zombies for themselves, they're going to get a lot more than they bargained for.
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Welcome to the dental practice of Dr. Poonam Gokhale, West Creek Dental Center. We are proud to be part of the community here in South Austin. West Creek Dental is a locally owned, family-oriented dental practice. Our welcoming staff is highly experienced, and we pride ourselves in providing personal care with a smile. Our services include care for young children, adults, and seniors.
We do not believe that a high-volume industrial-type dental office is right for everyone. Our goal is to provide a family-friendly vibe with a personal touch—as well as all the professional expertise that you would expect at your dentist. We want to help ensure you and your family enjoy healthy smiles for many years to come. We promise to make your experience at West Creek Dental one of the best you have ever had.
Before your first appointment with West Creek Dental Center, we invite you to get to know our doctor by taking a look at her bio below. We look forward to meeting you and your family!
Dr. Poonam Gokhale, DDS
Dr. Poonam Gokhale is the primary dentist and sole owner of West Creek Dental. She has more than 18 years of clinical experience as a dentist.
She graduated from Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine in 2001. Since then, she has worked in high volume as well as highly personalized clinics and has been the sole proprietor of a family dental practice near Dallas.
She has been in Austin since 2010 and started West Creek Dental back in 2013 when she decided that running a dental clinic was her personal nirvana, something that gave her life meaningful purpose. She finds that purpose still when West Creek Dental opens its doors every morning.
Dr. Gokhale has seen what works well and what patients really care about. She feels strongly that as a dentist serving in a family-oriented community such as South Austin, the primary goal of the practice is to provide state-of-the-art dental services in a family-friendly environment. This is what they strive to do at West Creek Dental.
Dr. Gokhale has enjoyed close professional and personal relationships with so many of her patients, employees, and peers because she is much more than an accomplished dentist with a "gentle touch." She is also a very empathetic person with a sense of humor.
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has booked a US$3bn charge in its results for the first quarter in anticipation of a fine for breaching privacy rules, however investors were buoyed by a rise in underlying growth.
In its first quarter results on Wednesday, the social media giant said it had set aside the multi-billion dollar figure as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to penalise it for breaking a consent decree on the privacy of its users.
READ: Facebook shares drop as two more senior execs depart
While the actual figure has yet to be released, Facebook said it expected its losses over the matter to be between US$3bn and US$5bn.
Despite this, investors were in a positive mood, with the company's shares rising 8.6% to US$198.3 in pre-market trading on Thursday as by taking the fine out of the equation, the company had actually improved its year-on-year performance.
For the first quarter, Facebook reported a profit of US$2.4bn, lower than the US$5bn last year. However when the US$3bn fine charge was excluded, profits rose to US$5.4bn while revenues were also up to US$15.1bn from US$12bn.
The company also reported that its user base had grown to 2.38bn in March from 2.2bn last year, while the number of users that were active on the site daily increased to 1.56bn on average in the month compared to 1.45bn in the prior year.
The share price reaction will bring relief to the embattled social network, which has been hit by several scandals over the last two years as concerns over fake news, data gathering, and user privacy violations have all placed the company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg under intense scrutiny.
More recently, the group has also had to contend with the departure of two senior executives, with chief product officer Chris Cox and head of WhatsApp Chris Daniels both exiting in mid-March.
UBS upgrades to 'buy' as ad trends point to "strong" year ahead
In a note to clients, analysts at UBS upgraded Facebook to 'buy' from 'neutral' and hiked their target price to US$240, saying advertising trends pointed to a "strong" 2019/20 fiscal year.
The bank said while 2019 would be a "year of transition", Facebook's management had produced "multiple quarters" of revenue growth ahead of market consensus, driven by user, engagement and revenue growth on Instagram, which Facebook bought for US$1bn in 2012.
"Instagram is now one of the Internet's large scaled digital ad platforms that can sustain growth & operating leverage (even as the platform transitions to Stories/Shopping) for years to come."
While concerns around potential regulation and privacy would persist, UBS said the market now understood these risks.
The bank added that developments in virtual and augmented reality, messaging, eCommerce and advertising all provided upside for "platform evolution" in the future.


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I just purchased a 2017 Robalo R242 after selling my Robalo R222. I had a little incident over the weekend while I was fishing, the entire back seat fell apart. I love the boat and I am hoping that Robalo will be supportive, the only problem is I bought the boat in South Carolina since it was the only used one on the market and I live in Massachusetts and I am worried that the dealer here is not going to help me out. I already tried to buy 3 boats from them but they never follow up and do not seem to want my business. What can I do?
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Twitter Celebrates 2013 First Quarter Platform Improvements
Twitter wants to make sure you didn't miss any of the improvements it made to the microblogging platform during the first quarter of 2013, so it shared a summary of events, which we'll . . . summarize for you below.
It's actually a neat little list of 'things you may have missed' to give it a peek.
Twitter's Developer Blog is a great place to keep up on what's going on with Twitter behind the scenes. It may not be glamourous, but by golly it gets the job done!
And here are some of jobs it accomplished in the first quarter of 2013 (with a little help from other business teams at Twitter, no doubt):
May 7, 2013 is the official "end" date, by the way.
The retirement of the API will also soon make the older "goodie" widget obsolete. If your site still uses this product, please be sure to switch to Embedded Timelines as soon as possible.
The first quarter also saw the sunset of @Anywhere. This was the way websites used to integrate Twitter into websites. Seems SO long ago now, doesn't it?
Embedded Tweet & Timline Improvements. As you'll recall, Twitter has made it easier to embed tweets – and customizable Twitter timelines on websites. They also offered "improved performance, full support for Twitter cards, and the inclusion of live retweet and favorite counts."
Twitter Cards. The latest – and biggest game changer for Twitter – was its substantial Twitter cards improvements.
The first major change was the introduction of mobile app deep-linking in cards. Mobile app deep-linking allows users to tap a link and view content directly in the app, or go to download the app if they have not yet installed it.
The second change relates to the introduction of three new Cards: app, product and gallery. The goal behind releasing these new cards is to give publishers and developers more flexibility to show new types of content.
Looks like they've set the bar pretty high for Q2. We'll keep you posted!
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How to Find Hot Selling Products
Understanding people's needs and wants allows you to sell them a product that provides them with what they need and want. This means that it is vital to understand your chosen market and know what kind of products people are buying the most.
So you should be asking yourself, "What is it that people in my market need and want?" If you really want to know the answer to this question, then you will do some research. A customer will also develop certain expectations of a product or service. Our expectations are associated with our wants, so give the customer what they want and you will also satisfy their expectation.
The second thing you need to know about your market in order to find hot selling products is the level of competition. Here, you are looking for a healthy balance. If there is no competition whatsoever, then not many people want and need what that particular market offers. If the competition is extremely high, then you may find it hard to sell your product. So you want a market that does not have too little or too much competition. Of course, you should also be passionate about your market and products. In order to sell products and give people value, you must have a passion for what you are selling.
The third factor that you need to consider when trying to find hot selling products is the level of interest. In order to understand the demand and competition for a product, you have to understand the general interest in it. It may appear that there is not much demand or competition for a particular product, however, sometimes you may stumble on something new that does not have high demand or competition yet, but there are many people interested in what that product offers. In addition, it is also important to understand how other people are advertising the products that interest you.
Once you have researched your chosen market and collected all of the above information, you can analyse the information and find a hot selling product that you are also passionate about. The four key principles to remember are:
A) A lack of demand means that people are not interested in that area at the moment.
B) Too much competition means that advertising will be difficult. However, it is still possible to make profit if you are passionate about your product and you are giving good value.
C) Too much advertising increases pay per click ads as well as competition.
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This nubbly hummus has a citrusy tang from reddish ground sumac berries, which grow wild on bushes throughout the Mediterranean. It's very good made with our made-from-scratch Herbed Chickpeas, but canned rinsed chickpeas will work just fine.
This recipe goes with: Sumac Hummus with Kale Ribbons and Roasted Delicata Squash
How to Make It
Put chickpeas, 1/4 cup each chickpea liquid and water, oil, tahini, 1 tsp. sumac, salt, lime juice, and garlic in a food processor. Whirl until smooth, scraping sides of bowl periodically, about 2 minutes. Add more chickpea liquid if you like your hummus looser and creamier. Just before serving, swirl in remaining 1/2 tsp. sumac.


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The North Korean authorities have reportedly handed out medals and awards to the parents, teachers and heads of local youth organizations of a student who supposedly lost her life trying to save portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il from floodwaters.
Rodong Shinmun revealed the story on the 26th, saying that on June 11th a 14-year old girl, Han Hyun Kyung, had to escape her home in a gorge in Shinheung County, South Hamkyung Province after it was flooded during heavy rains. Despite the danger, the piece claimed that she managed to rescue portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and pass them to her mother before passing away.
The piece then noted, "A total of seven people have been rewarded upon the orders of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly; the student's teacher, mother and school principal, father and school vice principle, local Youth League leader and middle school Chosun Children's Union leader." It also gave the types and levels of the medals and awards conferred on the recipients.
The story comes after recent celebrations in Pyongyang for the 66th anniversary of the Chosun Children's Union, events reportedly attended by a record number of students from across North Korea. In reports covering the event, the emphasis was placed heavily on inspiring generational loyalty to the regime, something which the conferring of the latest awards is intended to underscore.
This is not the first time that such a story has been reported. A story about a fallen soldier who died saving a soccer ball given by Kim Jong Il from river rapids is another popular example. However, in that case a posthumous title was given to the deceased soldier only, not to his commanding officers or family.


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Tiger Text App Allows you to Remotely Delete Text Messages
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There are many comprehensive guides to making high quality methamphetamine (tik) at home. New recipe to produce tik or methamphetamine using easily available ingredients with comprehensive step by step tutorial for high quality crystal meth production. The recipe to cook meth from home is for educational purposes only and should never be attempted by anyone as methamphetamine is a highly addictive illegal substance. Complete explanation of how to make your own tik with video and step by step instructional process.
The lives this drug destroys and the misery it creates is truly horrendous. I urge you to find ways to help solve the epidemic created in the wake of tik / methamphetamine or crystal meth than perpetuate it. If you are on this page with the intent to illegally manufacture and distribute methamphetamine you are in the wrong place unfortunately.
In the manufacturer and distribution of class one drugs like meth or tik tik as it is known in South Africa. For every wannabe drug dealer that hit's this page and watches this video we could have potentially saved the life of someone who did not try tik because their dealer was wasting time watching this comprehensive how to video on how to make meth from home and getting nowhere.
We apologise if you are a researcher into the easy "do it yourself" guide to the production of tik or methamphetamine at home, however this page serves a reminder and could save potential meth producers life by changing career.
A few good reasons why making meth at home is a very bad idea:
- The chemical reactions required to produce meth are very dangerous. Too much of ingredient X or overheat ingredient Y and you and will only achieve a chemical explosion with bonus toxins that can disintegrate flesh. This is true in a home or in a professional dedicated laboratory, however in a house you wont have the required equipment to attempt these reactions safely so the chances of an explosion are exponentially higher.
- Making tik from substances that are available to the public includes changing the chemical make-up of these substances. These are many reactions required to remove the byproducts of these substances from the methamphetamine, which is requires advanced understanding of chemistry and some experience in working with tightly controlled chemicals. Even in a lab, none of these reactions are going to be entirely "clean" as you are not dealing with the pure format of the chemicals and the by-products can make the end product a truly lethal concotion (which will have you down for murder, not drug dealing if someone dies). Even with an experienced chemist. These chemicals interfere with making actual tik end product, and they ultimately contaminate it with high volumes of carcinogens and heavy metals.
- If you are still thinking about producing meth at home stop, do yourself a favour. The product will be bad and you expose yourself to the a horror show of things that happen to people who try make their own tik without the vitally necessary know-how. If you are making tik at home for personal use, then you need to be happy with the idea of poisoning yourself (home cooks are NOT the same as "lab" meth), presuming you don't kill or permanently injure yourself during the home cook. It is hard to enjoy meth once you have blown off your hands, or made yourself permanently blind, or had chemical burns across your entire surface of your body, dissolved your lungs and destroyed sinuses, burned down your family home or the hundreds of other things that do frequently happen to meth cooks that go wrong (it happens so frequently in home meth cooks you would not believe. This is not "Breaking Bad", this is real life).
- Very importantly the law. We all know tik is illegal but when you make your own meth you are not simply classified as a user or dealer in the eyes of South African law. You are in manufacture and distribution category, where the jail sentences can frequently rise above the 20 years behind bars. If you have spent a bit of time behind bars in South Africa you will know that this is real threat. Remember the #1 priority of narcotic police services is to apprehend the distributors, so every sale, every dealer, every agent that get's caught up by police will try to reduce their sentence by cooperating with police and "ratting you out".
- The underworld of drug dealing. Don't think you are "protected" by the underworld of dealers and shady characters you will meet along the way. Facing serious jail time sooner or later someone will roll on you, however tough you think you are, there is frequently a break in command somewhere and "king pins" are identified, cases are built and they are sent to jail. Speaking of the underworld, having any volume of tik or cash makes you an instant target to a broad range or users, dealers, rival gangs e.t.c. Robbery, murder, torture are frequent occurrences that seldom hit mainstream media unless the story is truly horrendous or outstanding to the public. A meth lab "chemist" being shot, stabbed or robbed in the gambit of day to day drug slinging seldom makes a headline in todays breaking news in South Africa. The police file a report and you become a statistic, that's it. Forget about the "fat stacks" of "Breaking Bad" cash, that is Hollywood, this is real life. 90% of the crimes that happen when it comes to dealing in drugs go unreported (for obvious reasons) meth cooks are targets and scape goats for everyone.
- Additional charges. Ok so as a meth manufacturer you have to deal with a great many circumstances that require a firearm to protect yourself. Invariably and in many circumstances of underworld criminal activity you will probably require an illegal firearm that cannot be traced back to you. Aside from the risks in simply acquiring an illegal firearm you will also be walking around with an additional 15 years imprisonment sentence, over your head every day. This means that even if the police pull you over for having a broken tail light and discover an illegal firearm. Their first order of business is to find out where you live and who you associate with and to obtain search warrants to ensure that you are not guilty of more offenses. With gun law as such a hot topic in South Africa, you can be assured that those charges are going to stick and stick on-top of whatever they connect you with. Furthermore if you "rat out" anyone in the process of your arrest, be sure you have a good explanation for them in prison, as you may very well be seeing them behind bars with you. The South Africa's prison system frequently puts people connected to the same crime in the same jails for the lack of facilities.
- But of-course people think they are smarter than all this. They think they can indefinitely dodge the above pitfalls and get away with building their own meth lab and make tons of money and are not afraid of the consequences. Just remember this. The onus is on the state to prove your guilt in order to successfully convict you. So people think they can "hide" their meth lab and get away with producing high quality meth or tik. Well that's because you are horribly mis-informed as to how smart the narcotics units are in SAPS. Narcotics policing in South Africa is one of the most sophisticated and well trained units in the world, convincing cases are built very quickly once they have any inkling of a "bust" they use technology average citizens don't have access to or don't even know exists to record conversations, pinpoint individual locations and cement their cases. Let it be known that by the time SAPS "raid", you are already a target high on their agenda and they have a case on you that is very likely to stick. NARCS don't mess around they are heavily armed and protected and they don't take chances.
Meth Addicts Needing Help
If you are addicted to this drug, there is always a way out. Thousands of people recover from methamphetamine addiction every day, so you can too. Please get help before this drug destroys that hope and ends your life. We have helped hundreds of people get off tik and we could help you kick the drug too. Addiction is a psychological disorder of the mind, by resolving this problem we are able lo lead you to a life where you do not need this drug anymore and you can live life on your own terms not governed by a substance addiction. Take that first step in getting off meth and contact our support counsellors today.
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