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First world problem, I know, but all of my Apple products are dying at once.
It started with my phone, an out-of-date and uncool iPhone 5.
The battery life is rapidly dwindling, even with no apps running the background. I'm getting about 5-6 hours, tops, before it gets down to around 20% and then abruptly shuts off.
Now that's annoying.
But it seems to be a common issue.
My five-year-old laptop's battery is also waning, giving me maybe two hours of power even if it's fully charged.
There spinning rainbow icon is also popping up everywhere these days. It's unpredictable enough that I can get some work done, but it's also becoming so frequent that it's slowing me down time and time again.
And now my iPad is getting in the game.
I have an iPad 2, which is slightly more modern than an abacus, but it's served me well. There was an unfortunate incident about three years ago with a shattered screen, but we've moved past it and the band is back together.
Here's the dilemma: I need to replace all of these items relatively soon, but I'm in constant Fear Of Missing Out on the Newest Apple device.
Apple is so darn secretive about their new products, and while I do not wait in line for the latest and greatest of anything, I will be pretty ticked if I get a new laptop and a brighter, shinier model comes out a few weeks later.
A bit of detective work on Apple rumor sites suggests that 2015 *may* see a new laptop with a retinal display arriving sometime in the summer, a larger screen iPad model and an iPhone 7 in the fall.
I'm already overdue for a phone upgrade according to my contract, so I think step one for me will be getting an iPhone 6 (Gold, please!), and then I'll limp along with my laptop and its power cord until the hoped-for new MacBook Air shows up (which work will hopefully support, since I'm overdue there, too).
Regarding the iPad, does anyone like the mini? The rumored larger screen device (nearly 13 inches) doesn't really seem like something I want, but maybe a mini would be a compromise.
Or maybe I'll go backwards to one of these:

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Audio Alternative, the highly-regarded dealer from Fort Collins CO, featured an impressive room that included the debut of the new Vandersteen Kento Carbon loudspeakers ($37,500/pair), as well as the new Vandersteen M5-HPA monoblock power amplifiers. The Kento, which will replace the Vandersteen 5A Carbon in early 2020, uses a carbon tweeter, the midrange driver from the Model 7 Mk. II and a powered side-firing 9″ subwoofer. Richard Vandersteen says the Kento has a "more open and expansive soundstage and greater bass authority" than the 5A Carbon. I'm not familiar enough with the older model to confirm, but I will say one thing–great sound!
That's what my notes on the Audio Alternative room say, anyway. "Great sound!" I remember the moment where I scribbled that vague accolade in my notebook. The Audio Alternative system also included VTL amplification, an Aurender digital set-up, AudioQuest cabling and an AMG turntable/Lyra Atlas analog rig that was exceptionally quiet in the groove. The sound was so balanced and satisfying that I simply couldn't focus on one attribute or another. The overall sound was a happy sound, meaning that I could listen for hours and hours with a stupid grin on my face. Open and expansive soundstage? Greater bass authority? Absolutely, but the whole of the system seemed almost flawless in its handling of musical textures and inner detail.
Over the last few shows, I've been assigning myself the Vandersteen rooms on purpose. I can remember the first time I heard a pair of Vandersteen speakers, back in Philadelphia at the now defunct Chestnut Hill Audio. It was a pair of the legendary 2Cs, which were still $1295/pair back in 1989 or 1990. Those were magnificent loudspeakers, with deep bass and incredible imaging, and I can remember starting a fund to buy these. $1295/pair was within my reach back then, and I'm not sure why I never pulled the trigger. I think about that with a modicum of regret whenever I walk past the Vandersteen rooms at high-end audio shows. Now I make sure to go in and sit down, as I did in the Audio Alternative room.
Here's the thing about the Audio Alternative room at the 2019 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Vandersteen, to me, always meant an affordable speaker that sounded like it should cost at least twice as much. While models such as the 1 series and the 2 series still exist, I'm thrilled with the idea that Richard Vandersteen now seems to focus on the other end of the range, and he's excelling at pushing the envelope with his state-of-the-art designs. While $37,500/pair is far from affordable for most people, it's amazing what Richard Vandersteen accomplished at this price. The Kento is a truly impressive design, and you owe it to yourself to check them out.


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From The Daily Kos: "One Fine Morning in Arizona"
[Jingle Jangle!]
Shop owner: Hello! Welcome to Widget Barn! How can I help you in a totally heterosexual way?
Customer: Yes, I'm looking for a widget.
Shop owner: In a totally heterosexual way?
Customer: Huh?
Shop owner: It's my sincere religious belief that I can only serve heterosexuals here. You…are heterosexual, I presume.
Customer: How can you tell?
Shop owner: Well, you drove up in a Chevy pickup. You're wearing a John Deere hat. Those work boots have clearly gotten a workout in the heterosexual dirt…
Customer: I'm not lisping.
Shop owner: That, too!
Customer: I'm not prancing. I'm not dropping any soap. I'm not humming Donna Summer…
Shop owner: …or YMCA.
Customer: Still, I could be putting on an act. You know how good gays are at acting. I hear Hollywood's full of them.
Shop owner: Well, are you gay?
Customer: I don't know. Am I?
Shop owner: I don't know.
Customer: Your sincerely-held religious beliefs forbid you from selling to gays, but you don't even know one when you see one?
Shop owner: I… But… Look, do you want a widget or not?
Customer: Sorry, but my sincerely-held religious beliefs forbid me from buying from bigots.
Shop owner: Good lord. The world sure is full of rude people.


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A hush falls over the theatre as the lights go down. We wait with baited breath as the screen fills with the images of … the first of 35 previews for all kinds of movies. While 35 might be an exaggeration, I'm almost certain they show more trailers every time I go to the theatre.
Just as I'm about to give up and pull out my phone to tweet about the frustration of sitting through so many previews, the screen goes black and the house lights turn off completely. The first strains of the familiar music fill the room, and suddenly I'm seven years old again.
Beauty and the Beast, the animated version, is the first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre. My grandmother, my mom's mom, took me and two of my sisters, most likely to relieve my mother of some of the burden of caring for five kids ages one to seven. I honestly don't remember any part of that first movie theatre experience. But I do know Belle has always been my favorite Disney princess. She's the brown-eyed, ordinary girl who loves to read and doesn't quite fit in. She longs for adventure, for more than what she has.
When the movie came out on VHS (you know… those black bricks we used to put into VCRs before DVDs and Blu-Rays were invented), a family friend showed up at our house one night to surprise us with a copy. Now I could watch Belle anytime! I memorized the songs, the dialogue. I wanted to be Belle. Back then, I wanted the adventure and romance she experienced. As I've gotten older, I've come to understand the traits I admire so much in this fictional character.
First and foremost, Belle sees people for who they are. We see it in a variety of ways throughout her story. She recognizes the genius hidden behind her father's eccentricities. She interacts with the enchanted castle residents as though they were still their human selves instead of the objects they've become. She looks past Gaston's outer charms to see the beast within. And she calls out the man trapped within the Beast. Despite her own circumstances, or perhaps because of them, she treats the people around her with dignity, recognizing their inherent value.
Second, she comes to the defense of those she loves. She speaks up for her father and protects him from accusations of insanity. When Gaston uses fear to stir up the villagers against the Beast, Belle tries to speak the truth, to tell them what she knows of the man she's come to love. She even rides into the fray to put herself between Gaston and the Beast, desperate to save the latter from the former's ignorant assumptions.
Third, she refuses to give in to expectations. In a world where women are kept uneducated and at home, she reads anything and everything while longing for the opportunity to explore the world beyond her tiny village. She refuses Gaston's advances despite the village's encouragement to accept. How could she possibly marry someone she could never respect and who would never respect her?
It was a bit surreal to sit in a movie theatre nearly 26 years after I first met Belle and watch her story come to life in a new way. Because I've learned to articulate why she is a favorite character, I appreciated the little things they did to develop her identity even further in this movie. Watching her invent the washing machine, teach a little girl to read, listen to the stories of the boy who became the man who became the Beast—these moments solidified what I already knew about this character I've come to admire so much.
Just before the movie started, a little girl, maybe seven or eight, dressed in a child-sized version of Belle's iconic yellow dress, slipped past me to find a seat in my row. Throughout the movie, I smiled as I thought of her learning all the things I learned from Belle when I was seven. I hope 26 years from now, that child will also have an appreciation for the things we can learn about life from fictional characters.


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For the 3rd year in a row BYT's bright, young and gay hand BYGays partnered with Capital Pride to throw the official blow-out of the week. This time around (after Hirshhorn and Capital Hilton) we moved into NEWSEUM where the Somewhere… (over the rainbow) theme was put in full effect for what was DC's largest ever nighttime pride party:
- rainbow jumbotron (all animations courtesy of our graphics genius Erik Loften – watch it here!)
- light up rainbow bars in the elevators
- glowstick rainbows
- Sherell Rowe as Rainbow brite
- all of you beautiful rainbow inspired people
- and more
Special thanks to our friends the at Newseum, Smirnoff, and the Daily Hookup. Also, thanks to Timur Tugburk and Acid Betty for hosting our VIP lounge.
LAUREN FLAX, DJ MAJR, NATTY BOOM, LISA MOODY AND ULTRA NATÉ provided the amazing music for the balmy evening and really, the photos below speak more than 10 million words would, so please enjoy them:
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Mississippi panoramas
Take in the views from 500 feet above the famous river.
For centuries, blufftop views of the Mississippi have inspired superlatives.
Jonathan Carver called the view from Barn Bluff "the most beautiful prospect that imagination can form." Stephen Long said, "The sublime and beautiful (are) here blended in the most enchanting manner."
Those early explorers embellished their speech to impress folks back home. Nowadays, most people who take in the scenery just say "Wow."
Breathtaking panoramas start in the Twin Cities gorge and continue to Barn Bluff, a boxy mound that rises between Red Wing and the river.
From there, the Mississippi widens into Lake Pepin, which dissolves into a tangle of sloughs and islands, marking the 260-mile-long Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
The stretch from Winona to the Rhine-like river valley of northeast Iowa is perhaps the most beautiful part of the entire Mississippi River, lined with rounded bluffs.
On many of them, people can get a bird's-eye view up and down the valley.
Turkey vultures and pelicans fly by at eye level. But the church spires and silos of civilization look tiny, like details in a diorama.
The world looks different, 500 feet up. Each view is well worth the trouble to get there.
In fall, these panoramas are especially picturesque. Expect peak colors to start in early October and work their way south. Here's a gallery of a dozen great views between the Twin Cities and Dubuque.
River gorge from end of Summit Avenue, St. Paul
Start your tour right in the middle of the urban area, on the only gorge along the river's entire length. The best viewpoint on this heavily wooded stretch, carved by the steady upstream march of St. Anthony Falls, is at the end of Summit Avenue in St. Paul.
Walk behind the World War I monument to a fenced overlook, then climb down to a limestone ledge that juts over the bluff. From here, there's an unobstructed view north toward downtown Minneapolis and south to the Ford Parkway bridge.
Steep trails lead down to the river, where you can hunt for fossils or watch rowers, canoeists and kayakers.
It's just south of the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue bridge, along East River Parkway. There's a small parking area.
Another great Twin Cities overlook is Indian Mounds Park in St. Paul, on the bluff east of downtown. To get there, take the Warner Road along the river and turn left on U.S. 61 and then Burns Avenue. From I-94, take the Johnson Parkway exit south to Burns Avenue.
Barn Bluff, Red Wing, Minnesota
French explorers called this boxy bluff Mount La Grange, or barn mountain. From its flat top, 18th-century explorer Jonathan Carver said he saw "the most beautiful prospect that imagination can form."
It sits right in the path of the Mississippi, which had to make a sharp turn to get around it.
The main path follows the north side of the 343-foot bluff, shady and cool on hot afternoons, and passes a vertical rock face frequented by climbers. At the north end of the bluff, there's an overlook and a grassy slope that faces town.
From there, hikers can watch traffic crawl past the brick storefronts and grain elevators of Red Wing and barges chug toward St. Paul. It's also a popular spot to watch Fourth of July fireworks.
A path atop the bluff leads through prairie to the southern overlook, where it dead-ends; those who want to return on the sunny south face have to return to the overlook before heading down.
To get there, take East Fifth Street south from downtown Red Wing; it leads straight to the foot of Barn Bluff.
Sorin's Bluff in Memorial Park, Red Wing
For a really great lengthwise view of Barn Bluff, climb this lesser-known bluff just across from it. You'll also get a good view of the High Bridge, the town, the sharp elbow of the Mississippi and the Prairie Island nuclear-power plant to the north.
This view is disabled-accessible; climb it by car from East Seventh Street. Memorial Park includes round stone picnic tables, a disc-golf course, mountain-bike trails and, in winter, four miles of challenging ski trails.
Frontenac State Park, on Lake Pepin
Frontenac State Park occupies a prominent point on the Mississippi, a well-known landmark for steamboat captains.
One overlook can be reached by car, but the steep, bluffside trails also offer views — in the spring, of wildflowers and migrating songbirds, as well as the river.From the nondescript town of Frontenac Station, turn east off U.S. 61 and drive up to the state park.
If you have a minute, drive the other way through old Frontenac, on the river. Founded in 1854 by the scions of an aristocratic Cincinnati family, who had come up the Mississippi to hunt, it became Minnesota's first resort area when Israel Garrard opened the Lake Side Hotel in 1865.
The general's 1854 St. Hubert's Lodge is still there, a French Gallery-style house with a big, two-level veranda. It's the anchor of "the Front Row," which includes Dacotah Cottage, built by his brother Lewis in 1858; and the 1854 Locust Lodge, built for his business partner.
Thanks to Israel Garrard, the railroad never came through quiet Frontenac. To keep it away, he donated land two miles inland, and it was built there.
Buena Vista Park, Alma, Wisconsin
This wide-open limestone outcropping on the bluffs 500 feet above Alma (pronounced EL-ma by locals) provides a view of the river valley that's nearly hypnotic.
There's a view of Lock and Dam 4, the town fishing float and the wide river plain, broken by the channels and islands of the wildlife refuge.
The park is a two-mile drive from the south edge of town, which has just two streets, a commercial stretch along the highway and a residential area set into the steep bluff.
Garvin Heights, Winona, Minnesota
From the Garvin Heights overlook, 575 feet above the valley, there are 20-mile views up and down the river valley.
Lake Winona is just below, and the town rolls toward the river, with its collection of striking churches and commercial buildings; two sections of downtown are National Historic Districts.
This view — actually, the view from the nearby Sugarloaf outcropping -- even impressed the notoriously unsentimental Lt. Zebulon Pike, who came through in 1805 and called it "a prospect so variegated and romantic that a man may scarcely expect to enjoy such a one but twice or thrice in the course of his life."
To get there, turn west off U.S. 61 onto Garvin Heights Road.
Great River Bluffs State Park, south of Winona
Great River Bluffs State Park, 20 miles south of Winona, has perhaps the highest overlook on the Upper Mississippi and is a great hiking destination, especially in spring and fall.
The trail to King's Bluff provides views of the river valley as well as Queen's Bluff, a state scientific and natural area that can be hiked only with a permit. On the sun-baked sides of the bluffs, unusual plant species flourish on goat prairies.
Shorter trails lead to other overlooks. According to river buff Duke Addicks, writing in Big River magazine, the overlook off the picnic area is the highest on the Upper Mississippi at 631 feet above the river.
If you're heading south on U.S. 61, take County Road 3, also Apple Blossom Scenic Byway, to the park entrance.
If coming from the south, take Interstate 90 to County Road 12 south, which connects to County Road 3 north.
Brady's Bluff, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
It takes some effort to reach the top of 520-foot Brady's Bluff, but the view is magnificent.
The towers and domes of Winona gleam 15 miles to the north, and just below the bluff is little Trempealeau Mountain, which is ringed by the river and was named by French explorers La Montagne Qui Trempe a l'Eau, or, "the mountain that soaks in the water."
It's also a bird-watching aerie. Upriver, the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge draws flocks of migrating waterfowl; downriver, the Van Loon State Wildlife Area bottomlands attract still more.
From Trempealeau, which sits right on the river, drive north into Perrot State Park and take one of three hiking trails to the bluff top.
In spring, Brady's Bluff is one of the region's best places to find spring wildflowers, especially the jeweled shooting star.
Grandad Bluff, La Crosse, Wisconsin
This windswept bluff, standing by itself on the east edge of La Crosse, is impossible to miss.
It rises 590 feet above the sandy plain on which sits the town, named by French traders for the ball game played by local Winnebago, or Ho Chunk, and settled by early fur traders.
The sweeping views from Grandad Bluff include the islands and channels created by the Black and La Crosse rivers as they flow into the Mississippi. On a plaque, landmarks are labeled, including the bridges over the Mississippi.
To get there, drive across town along Main Street. A road winds around the bluff and up, passing the Alpine Inn, where a blue neon sign hangs in a window: "Thanks for getting your duff up the bluff."
On top, there's a limestone pavilion with fireplaces, picnic tables and a bathroom.
Mount Hosmer City Park, Lansing, Iowa
This is one of the great views, and it has a great story to match.
In 1851, Lansing was just a cluster of cabins, one of many that served passing steamboats. When one steamboat stopped to refuel, a 20-year-old passenger named Harriet Hosmer challenged a purser to a footrace up the steep bluff and won.
Hosmer was a Massachusetts sculptor who had come west to study anatomy after being denied admittance to medical schools in the East.
After her trip up the Mississippi River, she returned to the East and then traveled to Rome, where she joined an international circle of artists that included novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, who modeled one of his characters after her.
Now, tourists trace her path up the 450-foot bluff, driving up hairpin curves that seem almost vertical. The top is a park, with a playground, picnic tables and pavilion.
The best view is from a pullout; sit on the retaining wall and take in a three-state panorama, including Lansing's 1931 Black Hawk Bridge, perhaps the loveliest on the Upper Mississippi.
To get to Mount Hosmer, drive up Main Street and turn right on Sixth Street.
Effigy Mounds National Monument, Marquette, Iowa
High on the bluffs north of Marquette, this national park-service site preserves 195 burial mounds left by an ancient people.
There are many mounds in the area. But these are remarkable because 31 are in the shapes of birds, reptiles and mammals, including the 137-foot-long Great Bear Mound.
In the visitors center, a film and exhibits show artifacts and explain what is known about the three cultures that built the mounds between 500 B.C. and 1300.
Effigy Mounds National Monument is a good place to hike, especially in fall. There are 14 miles of hiking trails on the heavily wooded bluffs, including two-mile Fire Point Trail, where overlooks provide sweeping views of the river valley.
For more on fall in northeast Iowa, see One fall swoop.
Pikes Peak State Park, McGregor, Iowa
These 500-foot bluffs above McGregor caught the eye of Lt. Zebulon Pike in 1805, when he was scouting for fort sites.
The fort instead was built across the river on the Prairie du Chien flats, so Pike's aerie, now Pikes Peak State Park, was turned over to tourists.
Its wide-open views of the river plain, from overlooks and 12 miles of hiking trails that thread through ravines and forests, are mesmerizing.
Those who stand at its overlooks become voyeurs of life on the vast river plain below, where trains inch across the water on bridges, barges and houseboats lie at anchor and fishing boats putter into marshy corners.
Admission is free, as it is to Iowa state parks. There's no interpretive center, but there's a concession stand that sells snacks and postcards.
To get there, take County Road X56 into the bluffs.
Wyalusing State Park, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
From the top of the 500-foot bluffs in Wyalusing State Park, just south of Prairie du Chien, there's a splendid panorama that includes the islands and sloughs around the mouth of the Wisconsin River.
This is where Father Jacques Marquette and explorer Louis Joliet first paddled onto the Mississippi River — the first Europeans to see it — after traveling down the Wisconsin River from Green Bay in 1673.
Trails lead to overlooks and along effigy mounds left by ancient Indians, especially along the Sentinel Ridge Trail, which also includes a monument to the passenger pigeon.
Three shorter trails start from the campground, including the mile-long Bluff Trail, which takes hikers past the ocher limestone of Treasure Cave. The park also has eight miles of mountain-biking trails.
Eagle Point Park, Dubuque, Iowa
Dubuque, which is built on a series of hills, has many great views. One of them is from old-fashioned Eagle Point Park, just north of downtown and overlooking Lock and Dam 11.
It was happy result of civil pride, wounded in 1907 with an East Coast parks expert visited and declared, "I have never seen a place where the Almighty has done more and mankind less, than Dubuque."
Judge Oliver Shiras spearheaded the drive to create a park, and Eagle Point opened in 1909, with overlooks, picnic areas and gardens. In the 1930s, beautiful Prairie-style pavilions were added by WPA crews.
For a good view of downtown Dubuque, which includes many church steeples, the gold-leaf dome of the courthouse and the bridge, ride the Fenelon Place funicular to the bluff above downtown.
For more river-valley views, hike the trails of the Mines of Spain State Recreation Area south of town.
Trip Tips: Upper Mississippi views
Bridges : South of the Twin Cities, they connect Red Wing and Bay City, Wabasha and Nelson, Winona and the bluffs north of Trempealeau, La Crescent and La Crosse, Lansing and De Soto, Marquette and Prairie du Chien and Dubuque and East Dubuque.
On the long stretch between Marquette and Dubuque, Iowa, the Cassville Car Ferry between a spot eight miles south of Guttenberg and Cassville, Wis., operates from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day and Fridays-Sundays in May, September and October.
Fare per car is $15, $8 for motorcycles and $5 for bicycles, cash only.
Handicapped-accessible views : Frontenac, Garvin Heights, Grandad Bluff, Mount Hosmer and Eagle Point Park. Buena Vista Park and Pikes Peak State Park are accessible to wheelchairs with some able-bodied help.


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WPT targets North American fencing market with its D-Fence™ protective chemistry
The Company expects widespread distribution by year end
San Diego, CA – March 22, 2017 – Eco Building Products, Inc., (PINK: ECOB) announced today that its subsidiary, Wood Protection Technologies, Inc. (WPT) has entered into an exclusive licensing and distribution agreement with one of the Industry's largest wood fencing manufacturers. WPT has granted the rights to its fencing formulation, D-Fence™ that protects wood fencing from termites, mold, fungal decay and fire.
With the agreement, the Company expects to reach widespread distribution and penetration across all of the various wood fencing channels including home centers and pro distribution yards. Chemical shipments from the Company's San Diego facilities will commence in early April and the licensee's production of fencing shortly thereafter. The Company anticipates that fencing protected by its proprietary fencing formulation, D-Fence™, will become available from inventory at various "big box" home centers in May and widely available in many U.S. markets by year end.
Wood Protection Technologies President and CEO Tom Comery stated; "This is a breakout moment for both WPT and its parent company Eco Building Products. Transforming the Company from a supplier of treated wood products to a developer and manufacturer of wood protection chemistry was a bold decision taken by Management and the Board of Directors and with this agreement we have secured the critically needed channel partner necessary to apply and bring our chemistry to the fencing market."
WPT is committed to protecting the wood in, on and around your home. "Our chemistry serves multiple end use wood markets and fencing is a substantial opportunity for us. Overall, wood fencing is roughly a $1.5 billion market and the slice we're targeting is estimated to be $1 billion. Combined with the other protective chemistries we have in our portfolio and those under development, we are tremendously excited about this new relationship and the road ahead".
About Eco Building Products, Inc.
Eco Building Products, Inc. (Eco) is a manufacturer of proprietary, environmentally conscientious chemistry utilizing patent pending ECOB WoodSurfaceFilm™ and FRC™ technology (Fire Retardant Coating). Eco's products protect against fire, mold/mycotoxins, fungal-decay, wood ingesting insects and termites. Eco is headquartered in San Diego, CA and goes to market through licensed Affiliates nationwide.
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Mountain lion killed near Wellington after attacking goats, alpaca
A Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer shot and killed a mountain lion Saturday near Wellington after it attacked several livestock animals.
Residents first spotted the mountain lion on the border of Larimer and Weld counties east of Wellington sometime in the early morning hours of Nov. 6. It had killed several alpacas, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said in an email.
Residents in the area continued seeing the mountain lion throughout the month, and around Thanksgiving, it attacked and killed several goats, Churchill said.
Around 6:30 p.m. Saturday, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer shot and killed the mountain lion at the site of the goat kill, Churchill said.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife often gets reports of mountain lions in Larimer and Weld counties, though it is less common for them to wander east of Interstate 25.
"Wherever there are deer, there is a potential for lions to be around, as they eat deer," Churchill said.
Parts of Colorado, including the Front Range, are prime habitat for mountain lions, which are also known as pumas, cougars and panthers. Colorado Parks and Wildlife estimates that between 3,000 and 7,000 live in the state.
Tips for living in mountain lion country:
- Clear brush away from buildings and in the yard to eliminate hiding places.
- Install motion detectors for night lighting.
- Do not provide food for any wildlife. For example, bird feeders can attract deer and raccoons, which can attract mountain lions.
- Keep animals and livestock in an enclosed pen when they're outside, and bring pets inside at night.
- Tell children to play close to the house, particularly when it's near dusk. If they see a mountain lion, they should go inside.
Source: Colorado Parks and Wildlife
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NEW DELHI: Activist Shehzad Poonawalla claimed on Thursday Congress chief Rahul Gandhi met Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud accused Nirav Modi at a plush hotel here in 2013.
Poonawalla's charge was however denied by the Congress.
His allegation came hours after Gandhi asserted his party MP P L Punia saw Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sitting with embattled businessman Vijay Mallya in Parliament before he fled the country.
The former Kingfisher Airlines boss had claimed Wednesday in London that he met Jaitley before leaving India and offered to settle his dues, a charge the finance minister denied and dubbed "false".
Poonawalla claimed the meeting took place during the same time when loans were given to fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi and his nephew Modi and asserted the SPG will have records to prove it.
"Open challenge to Rahul Gandhi to deny he met Nirav Modi in Sep 2013 cocktail party -11th Sep if my memory serves me right! Imperial Hotel- Rahul spent a long time! Same period when loans given to Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi!! SPG may have records or let's undergo lie detector test?," he tweeted.
Poonawalla said he could swear on Quran and take a lie detector test to prove that he was speaking the truth.
"If PL Punia is proof of @arunjaitley meeting Vijay Mallya (and accosting = meeting) I can swear on Quran and undertake lie detector @RahulGandhi attended Nirav Modi cocktail party and bridal wear programme at Imperial Hotel Delhi in Sep 2013 while loans were wrongly given to mama-bhanja," he claimed.
Earlier in the day, while stepping up the attack on Jaitley, Gandhi had claimed Punia saw him sitting with Mallya in the Central Hall of Parliament on March 1, 2016 and held an elaborate meeting of 15-20 minutes with him.
"There is a reason why Rahul Gandhi has formed a MahaGathBandhan with Vijay Mallya and relies on such fugitives' statements – ever since the @narendramodi govt brought in the Fugitive Economic Offender's Law – Bhagodas and potential bhagodas are feeling anxious," Poonawalla alleged.
Later talking to PTI, he said Gandhi and Nirav Modi met during a "special meeting". He said the Congress president "consciously" attended the cocktail and bridal wear party and spent "quite sometime" at the hotel.
"I'm ready to quit politics if proved wrong," he added.
Source: Press Trust of India


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Lozz is a real entertainer on stage. She is the centre of attention, driving the band from behind the drums with leadership and great panache, as well as singing flawlessly and entertaining the dancing crowd in her energetic and unique way.
– Jim Moginie, Midnight Oil
Lozz Benson graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music majoring in Jazz Drums in 2012. A student of drumming icons Andrew Dickeson, Jim Peisse, Dave Goodman, Daniel Glass and Simon Barker, she is now revered by her contemporaries as a multi-instrumentalist, composer and vocalist, having worked alongside some of the country's most celebrated songwriters and performers. At 22 years of age, Lozz embarked upon her first national tour playing drums with Urthboy (Tim Levison), opening for Paul Kelly's Spring and Fall Tour in 2013. She joined the John Butler Trio on percussion and backing vocals in 2018, touring Australia, Japan, Europe, NZ and America for almost 2 years, appearing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Sydney Opera House and Bluesfest.
In the adjoining years, Lozz has performed with Missy Higgins, Tonight Alive, Steve Balbi (Mi-Sex), Jak Housden (The Whitlams), Nathan Cavaleri, Imogen Clark, Fanny Lumsden, Sarah Belkner (Tim Minchin, Chet Faker), Jeff Duff, Jesse Redwing, Pat Capocci and Travis New; having shared the stage with Stella Donnelly, The Tesky Brothers, Dan Sultan, The Snowdroppers, Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isobel, among others. Events that she has appeared at include Sydney Festival, Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, The Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival, NRL Grand Final, and the Cricket World Cup.
In the studio, Lozz appears on Jim Moginie's (Midnight Oil) EP Under the Motherlands Flag, as well as the TV miniseries Brock. She has continued to record with other artists including Paul Kelly, The Vegetable Plot, Steve Smyth, Sandy Evans and Chris D'Rozario (Brian Setzer). Over the last 10 years, she has been an in-demand session musician, which is reflected by the diversity of musicians with whom she has worked. This year Lozz has recorded with The Wiggles, played on guitarist Duncan Toombs (The Filmery) self-titled album and worked with Matt Fell and Rod McCormack, played on The Soul Movers Album and worked with producer Garth Porter (Sherbert) at Rancom Street Studios, as well as recording with MC & the Banks Brothers (who were recently nominated for a Golden Guitar award). She has also co-written with Troy Cassar-Daley and Tom Wolfe (The Wolfe Brothers) and continues to write original music for her project Benson and the Outlaws.
She's fronted her own trio That Red Head who appeared at Tamworth Country Music Festival, Chromefest, Throttle Roll, The Fifties Fair, and supported Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) on his Australian Tour. The Sydney-sider also curated and hosted the sold-out Women of Rockabilly Night and Rockabilly Night of Mayhem at Sydney local venues Miss Peaches and Lazy Bones. Lozz played drums in Max Lamberts Miracle City at the Hayes Theatre, and has also toured with Company 2's 5-star reviewed circus show Scotch and Soda, which appeared at Woodford Folk Festival, Adelaide & Melbourne Fringe Festival. She has appeared in Joseph Calderazzo's CCENT shows The Great Gig in the Sky Tribute to Pink Floyd and the Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin Tribute that performed at the State Theatre and subsequently worked alongside Glenn Moorhouse, Mitch Anderson, Gordon Rytmeister and Dallas Frasca.
In 2016, she won the AUDW Up-and-ComingDrummer Award and received an endorsement from DW Drums and Meinl Cymbals. She then performed at the Australian Ultimate Drummers Weekend alongside Benny Greb and Eric Moore and was featured in DRUMscene. Passionate about education, Lozz is a casual teacher at Evergreen and has worked closely with Roland filming educational material and teaching drum workshops. She currently plays the role of Ginger Baker in the Australian Cream Experience and continues to release music on the Autoharp and plans to release an EP for her 60s psych inspired project Ginger Jones.


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The first part of our hidden gems series covered how to quickly sum up selected transactions, using option-click to expand/collapse nested categories and our new transaction editor. This post will pick up where the original left off and we'll cover three more hidden gems, numbers 4-6.
For those new to us, our new version of Banktivity is a powerhouse update that brings big new features like workspaces, find, portfolio and quick reports. But, we added over 100 improvements and enhancements. And this short series of blog posts are dedicated to covering those often overlooked, but still awesome features. So without further ado, here are another three "hidden gems" in Banktivity 6.
Hidden Gem #4 – The Emerald
We completely redid how transactions are reconciled with statements and we changed the way statements are displayed. To get started click the "RECONCILE" button when viewing an account and then enter the start/end dates and beginning and ending balances in the sheet that comes down.
After you make any necessary adjustments , click Next to get to the screen to check-off the transactions that should be on the statement. If you need to batch change multiple transactions, select them and choose Transaction > Mark Reconciled/Unreconciled (this menu item is also accessible via the right-click contextual menu).
Last, but certainly not least, once your document has statements, they appear as rows with a disclosure button. If you expand the statement, you see the transactions that are in that statement.
Hidden Gem #5 – The Amethyst
We have always shipped Banktivity with a set of high quality category images. The problem was, these were never accessible to the customer aside from being the default for the standard category set. Now in Banktivity 6 you can customize your category images from a high quality set of default images. Of course, you can use your own custom image as well. To use your own image, just drag and drop or paste it into the image well in the edit category sheet. This new image picker popover is available when you go to edit a category.
To see, edit and manage all of your categories go to View > Go To > Categories (or click Settings > Categories at the bottom of the sidebar).
Hidden Gem #6 – The Topaz
It goes something like this. You get started with Banktivity and over the course of using it for a year (or 10!) you have a payee, say "ATT." This is the company that you pay for your iPhone. You aren't sure why it is ATT, I mean shouldn't it be AT&T? Anyway, you tired of looking at those three big letters without a proper ampersand. But you realize if you change it from now going forward, if you run a payee report it will report on both payees…grrrr! Even if you don't run a payee report, there is some OCD part in you that wants the payee to be consistent. So in the past to fix this, you'd have to change each one by hand. Well not any more!
In Banktivity 6 we introduced a new command under the Transaction menu, "Change Payee…" How it works is simple, select the payees you want to change (pro-tip, use the filter box to narrow down your results to select what you want) and choose Transaction > Change Payee…
I hope you have enjoyed this hidden gems series. Have you discovered a gem we haven't covered yet? Let us know in the comments.
Until next time,
- Let's look at the reports - August 24, 2022
- Spring roadmap update - May 9, 2022
- Winter 2022 Update - February 24, 2022


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The rock behind the recipes
Deconstructing familiar foods for his family and yours
Barry C. Parsons' recipes are masterpieces of accessibility. The meals featured in his Rock Recipes: The Best Food From My Newfoundland Kitchen (Breakwater Books) are easy to make, adapt and enjoy. His perfectionism is that sly brand that works behind the scenes to make his colourful family recipes happily casual yet foolproof. The sheer bulk and consistency of his creations make him saleable and effective. Without any particular dreams of grandeur, he has built the foundations of an empire one dish at a time.
Though his recipes are often quick to make, nothing about Parsons is slapdash. The perfect example is his kitchen. It is tidy, well kept and well used, unadorned by a single impulse buy. Though he has wanted a make-over for it for years, a little more counter space and custom counters for his tall frame, he has never rushed into it. After all, he says, "How can I be without a kitchen during renovation?" This ingrained way of both making do and just doing day in and day out has produced 1,400 recipes viewed by an average of 20,000 daily visitors to his blog, rockrecipes.com.
Parsons and Lynn (his wife, the grocery shopper, kitchen cleaner, note taker and general "unsung hero") have always been meal planners. They prioritized gathering their family around the table to share freshly made each night. They don't buy or cook in bulk and almost never eat the same meal reheated the next day. Not that food gets wasted, thanks to a combination of good planning, and friends and neighbours who are happy to help. When food is left over it is reinvented, as Chipotle Chili Sloppy Joes or Meatloaf Marinara Panini, rather than reheated.
His pantry and spice drawer are filled with simple building blocks. His recipes call for short lists of ingredients that can be found without a trip to a specialty grocer. In this way, he has turned the regional food security challenges that Newfoundlanders face into a shared connection with rural households across North America. You may not have off-season access to fresh figs, artichokes and persimmons, or any access to saffron and sumac, but Rock Recipes proves you can still make hundreds of meals with what you have at hand. Parsons knows what food is available in a range of communities as he and his family have taken what they call "diners, dives and drives-style" vacationing along "every mile of the Eastern seaboard from St. John's to Key West, FL."
Canvas printed photographs from these vacations hang in their dining room. This is where all the eating, writing and documenting of the chicken pies, the beef stews and stir-fries, the cakes and baked goods takes place. Natural light comes in through large glass doors opening on to a terraced yard, filled with snow in the winter, herbs and flowers in the summer. Here he works, pulling together both handwritten and online notes, photographing desserts and editing. To optimize his blog for searches, he has rewritten almost every post made since 2007. While working at this Herculean task of indexing, Parsons realized what a chronicle of his family's life he had made. His (now teenaged) children were just eight and nine when he began. With a second cookbook in the works, a freshly organized and hugely popular blog, and freelance and commissioned requests for more recipes coming in, his memorializing of family life through meals looks like it will continue for many more years.
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De Young Museum 2007
Architect's Statement
Dante Bini's Statement
Art, in all its forms, is the highest expression of man's immortal intellect and culture. I wish to portray Art as dramatically rising above Materialism not to defeat it, but to complement it.
Since the purpose of the new museum will be to showcase American Art, I am going to dramatically express two different powerful coexisting forces: The American Art and the American Materialism.
Art, Culture and, in essence, Humanity will be Architecturally represented by a shining, simple, pure, and symbolic dome. Just like Athena, goddess of Wisdom and Arts who rises from the Head of Zeus, this symbol is dynamically erupting through the ground, to challenge materialism as represented by the crust of the earth in the middle of the seductive beauty of the Golden Gate Park.
I believe in truly innovative Contemporary Architecture, naturally blended in the surrounding environment. I believe that contemporary architecture should reflect modern technology and envision a design that potentially integrates CAD (Computer Aided Design), CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing), CIC (Computer Integrated Construction) and CAAC (Computer Aided Automation Construction) systems to achieve the best of all possible results.
As I have done with the modern visions represented by such projects as "Tower City" or "Kyoto for the XXIst Century", I visualize new shapes such as double-curvatures structures mathematically defined by finite elements and developed by well proven multi-integrated design systems.
I visualize Architecture automatically forged by construction technologies of the coming millennium, but already developed at the end of the XX century. These would include construction automation technique that use robotics to automatically produce efficient self shaping structures while minimizing waste.
I wish to utilize advanced material already proven efficient yet biologically "friendly" to the environment. I will simply adopt and adapt creative building systems which will capitalize on the technology and materials we have at our disposal today, avoiding unwarranted monstrosities built with technologies developed in and representative of previous centuries.
In envisioning a new architectural philosophy. In conceiving a new approach to the New De Young Museum, we must be genuinely original, innovative and bold. We must seek new interpretation of natural shapes. We must implement ecological policies and energy saving construction processes.
I believe that we should incorporate in our extraordinary project, new developments in construction automation; site robotics; demountable, modular, and flexible building systems.
We must consider creative solutions for automatic personal transportation systems.
We should investigate innovative service networks with management and maintenance computer-aided and robotically controlled.
Not only will such an approach bring international attention to the project, but it can also generate significant financial windfalls for firms eager to showcase their products in this very high profile project in one of the most popular Tourist attraction in the United States: San Francisco.
I have been on the cutting edge of construction technology since the beginning of my career. Because of my ongoing involvement in this field, both professionally and academically, I feel very qualified to select and utilize the technologies of the 21st Century for this project.
Further, because the 21st century is likely to present a general, continuous improvement in economic and social well being, together with an unprecedented lengthening of leisure time, for an aging population the project will necessitate a totally new style and approach to Art and to its portrayal. We must offer a gentle and easy environment, rich in serenity and happiness with simple mental access to rational, cultural, intellectual, psychological and spiritual images and symbols.
Concurrently we should attract to the Museum young people and students by creating a challenging, stimulant approach that de-emphasize the mundane or materialistic aspects of life and reinforces spiritualism and diversity in its multiple interactive expressions.
Searching for innovative solutions to current problems and creating breakthrough technologic leaps, is a recurring theme in architecture.
In 1417 the "Signoria di Firenze", the Municipal Government of Florence, launched the most challenging and financially rewarding Competition of the Renaissance. Their aim was to obtain the best possible ideas in "State of the Art Construction Technology" for one of the greatest project of history: The construction of the dome for the church of Santa Maria del Fiore. It was won by the celebrated Italian Master, Filippo Brunelleschi.
After having carefully studied the up-to-then unsurpassed dome of the masterpiece Pantheon built by "The Romans" 1500 years before his time, Brunelleschi dared to propose an un precedent, audacious, yet brilliant double-layered cupola. This gradually self-supporting structure was completed in a very short time without any scaffolding (a veritable technical revolution in construction).
Not only was "La Signoria" unprecedented in granting the biggest Competition of the year 1420 to a single architect, Filippo Brunelleschi but, after 500 years his fantastic dome, with its 38 m. in diameter, remains majestically standing as the second largest free-span structure produced in history and still represents "the Symbol of Florence". Such an artistic and technical achievement will for ever be a jewel in the history of architecture, in engineering design and in construction methods. With great cultural and practical benefit for the city of Florence, the dome of "Santa Maria del Fiore" is admired by millions and millions of visitors every year as one of the greatest marvels of the world.
Dante Bini's philosophical approach to architecture is very much the same of the one of Filippo Brunelleschi, but projected into the next millennium: Real innovation in Architectural Design, Engineering Science and Construction Methods, COMBINED!
Historical Comment (translation by by D.B.)
From : "The 10 Books of Architecture, book 1" by Marcus Vitruvius Pollionis
"In Ephesus, large and celebrated city in Greece, they say that the Ancients imposed a law which was hard, but not altogether unfair: an architect, appointed to design and construct a public building, at the very time of his official appointment, was requested by such a law, to guarantee in advance its cost and its ability to perform all functions for which he was designated and selected.
In order to fulfill his personal commitment, such an architect was requested to give all his assets to the city magistrate who would control and manage them up to the conclusion of the works. Only after the building was complete within the accepted budget, within the time limit and with total satisfaction of the city officials, would the responsible architect be granted back his assets, and would be generously awarded with money and honors"
And Marcus Vitruvius Pollionis, continues:
"Oh, if the immortal gods would have made such a law applicable to the Roman architects as well".


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Since yesterday's nomination (and before) there has been much discussion of whether or not Elena Kagan is a lesbian, and if it even matters. Here's a round-up of some of it.
Among those demanding that Kagan disclose her sexuality:
Bryan Fischer of the anti-gay American Family Association:
"One qualification for public office is personal character, and nothing speaks to character more than the choices one makes when it comes to sexual conduct. Bill Clinton convinced an entire generation of America's youth that oral sex isn't really sex, and as a result we've seen an explosion among millenials in cancers of the throat and head caused by the HPV virus, which is spread through oral-genital contact.
It's time we got over the myth that what a public servant does in his private life is of no consequence. We cannot afford to have another sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility, especially when that individual could become one of nine votes in an out of control oligarchy that constantly usurps constitutional prerogatives to unethically and illegally legislate for 300 million Americans.
The stakes are too high. Social conservatives must rise up as one and say no lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Will they?"
Homophobic wingnut Peter "Porno Pete" LaBarbera of Americans for Truth:
"If Kagan is practicing immoral sexual behavior, it reflects on her character as a judicial nominee and her personal bias as potentially one of the most important public officials in America. The popular mantra — even among conservatives — is that Kagan's sexuality is 'irrelevant.' But a Justice Kagan would help decide some critically important constitutional issues dealing with: homosexual 'marriage' as a supposed civil right; religious liberty and freedom of conscience; and the First Amendment as applied to citizens' right to oppose homosexuality. So it certainly matters if she, as a lifetime judge, could emerge as a crusading (openly) 'gay' advocate on the court. Kagan has a strong pro-homosexual record, including, as Harvard dean, fighting to keep military recruiters off the campus because the military bars homosexuals. Americans certainly have a right to know if her activism is driven by deeply personal motivations that could undermine her fairness as a judge. Besides, in an era of ubiquitous pro-gay messages and pop culture celebration of homosexuality, it's ridiculous that Americans should be left guessing as to whether a Supreme Court nominee has a special, personal interest in homosexuality. Given the important homosexual-related issues coming before the Supreme Court , Kagan should say so if she has a personal interest in lesbianism."
Lesbian site Lez Get Real:
"Right now, rumours about Elena Kagan are hitting a fever pitch. Unfortunately, she cannot openly address the concerns people will have about confirming a gay person to the Supreme Court. She cannot name the homophobia of those that will oppose her confirmation. She will be battling whispers with shadows and there is no way to win that fight.
If she is not a lesbian, she needs to come out and say it, and put to rest the rumours and concerns. If she is gay, I believe she needs to say that too, and quickly. While being gay is not a shameful thing, being chased out of the closet can certainly make a person appear weak and lacking in integrity."
Blogger Andrew Sullivan:
"It is no more of an empirical question than whether she is Jewish. We know she is Jewish, and it is a fact simply and rightly put in the public square. If she were to hide her Jewishness, it would seem rightly odd, bizarre, anachronistic, even arguably self-critical or self-loathing. And yet we have been told by many that she is gay … and no one will ask directly if this is true and no one in the administration will tell us definitively…To put it another way: Is Obama actually going to use a Supreme Court nominee to advance the cause of the closet (as well as kill any court imposition of marriage equality)? And can we have a clear, factual statement as to the truth? In a free society in the 21st Century, it is not illegitimate to ask. And it is cowardly not to tell."
More on that topic from Sullivan here.
And those DEMANDING THAT KAGAN BE LEFT ALONE…
The Nation's Richard Kim:
"Sullivan's reasoning is so naive that I have to wonder if there's some bizarre ulterior motive behind it—or if he's exorcising some old demons. Surely he knows that Kagan does not have a spouse (man or woman) and that she has never identified herself as gay. What exactly does he think is going to happen now? Does he imagine that Kagan, in an uncharacteristically un-butch moment, is going to break down in front of Orrin Hatch and tearily confess to having cloistered away a secret lesbian lover in some Cambridge bat cave because she was worried that Alan Dershowitz would be really really mean to her about it? Because that would go over really well for gay rights—what a role model!—never mind Kagan's confirmation…I don't know if Elena Kagan sleeps with women or men. I don't know if she sleeps with anyone at all. I don't care. What I do know is that she has never claimed to be a lesbian, that she's never spoken out in the first-person as an advocate of gay rights and that she has never publicly discussed a romantic relationship with a woman. Gay isn't some genetic or soulful essence; it's a name you call yourself–and Kagan has not done that. So in my book, case closed. Elena Kagan is not gay. Is she straight? I don't know, and again, I don't care. Why does she have to have a sexuality at all?
In a way, the mystery about her sexuality mirrors the mystery about her legal philosophy. We just don't know a whole lot. The Senate and the press have the right and responsibility to interrogate her about her legal opinions—not about her sex life."
Slate's Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick:
"We join the blogger who wrongly outed Kagan in hoping that since the White House has now spoken, everyone will simply shut up, as they should have in the first place, unless they have some evidence to back up their gossip….Whether or not the strategy works politically, the White House's announcement that Kagan isn't gay should end the matter, unless and until someone come up with some real proof to the contrary. The unfounded insistence that Kagan is a lesbian isn't about lies or hypocrisy (shades of, oh, Larry Craig and John Edwards) or even journalistic ethics. It's about making things up. There's simply no evidence that Kagan's pretending to be anything she's not. The underlying lesson may be that the confirmation wars are so completely toxic that we have come to assume every nominee reflexively lies about everything, up to and including his or her sexuality."
Meanwhile, aside from the gay question, conservatives have begun to mobilize against Kagan.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), via The Hill:
"The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) issued a statement today declaring that a vote to confirm Kagan "will be a vote for imposing gay marriage on all 50 states."
NOM is worried that Kagan would come down on the liberal side of a pair of potential Supreme Court cases. One seeks to overturn California's Proposition 8, while the second challenges the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage at the federal level as between a man and a woman.
As solicitor general, Kagan actually defended DOMA, angering gay rights activists. But NOM thinks Kagan defended the law on a purposively weak basis."
Right-wing pundit Bill Kristol (who previously called her "very respectable" and "impressive"), called her hostile to the military:
"Kagan has professed at times her admiration for those who serve in the military, even as she tried to bar military recruiters from Harvard Law School. But how does one square her professed admiration with her actions–embracing an attempt to overturn the Solomon Amendment that was rejected 8-0 by the Supreme Court–and her words?"
Here is Kagan's letter on the Solomon Amendment.
And here's Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker's take on Kagan's DADT stance:
Kagan tried—tortuously—to steer a middle course. At first, she continued a previous policy of letting the military recruit. Then, in 2004, after the Third Circuit declared the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional, she evicted the military—sort of. She prohibited the military from using the school's Office of Career Services, but allowed the recruiting of students to continue through the school's veterans association. When the Solomon Amendment case went before the Supreme Court, Kagan sided with the plaintiffs—again, sort of. She signed a brief that did not go as far as the plaintiffs in the case wanted; the brief, written by her former Clinton Administration colleague Walter Dellinger, made a narrower point. It argued instead that the law did not apply as the government maintained. In any case, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected both the plaintiffs' and Dellinger's arguments and upheld the Solomon Amendment in full. Like virtually all universities, at this point, Kagan responded by allowing the military recruiters to return to full access to the school's students.
In the meantime, while this controversy simmered at Harvard, Kagan made a special effort to make sure veterans felt welcome at the school. She initiated an annual dinner for them. She made sure to display no anti-military bias—quite the opposite, in fact.
Kagan's parsing of the issue seems, well, positively Obamaesque. She tried to walk the line between her liberal campus and the conservative military (and Congress), and seems to have come pretty close to pleasing both sides. The issue will certainly get a vigorous airing during her confirmation hearing.
Meanwhile, Kerry Eleveld and Andrew Harmon at the Advocate wonder if Kagan may have to recuse herself from gay rights case currently making their way to the Supreme Court because of her short tenure at the Justice Dept:
Kagan's ability to rule in those lawsuits as a Supreme Court justice would depend on the amount of input she had in them while serving at the Justice Department. Though neither case is currently before the court, Ronald D. Rotunda, a professor of law at Chapman University, said Kagan might have taken part in the preparation.
"She may have had a role in [deciding] how the litigation proceeds, because the government wants to have a proper procedural posture in order to decide what positions it will take," Rotunda said.
This is true for cases across the board. "There is no reason to single out LGBT-related issues," said Richard W. Painter, a professor at University of Minnesota Law School. "The recusal would apply to all cases she was involved with on any issue."
It's not always clear in which cases the solicitor general's office has given its input, however. "If her name is on any [legal] brief, then it's clear, but beyond that, it's up to her disclosure," said Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law.
While the decision would be left to Kagan, Chemerinsky said a recusal in, for instance, the Gill case challenging DOMA could prove problematic for LGBT advocates.
"If Kagan recuses herself, it certainly will hurt the challengers to DOMA because Stevens — or his replacement — would be so important for the challengers," he said. Based on the makeup of the court, conservatives and progressives could deliver a possible 4-4 split, which would mean that the lower circuit ruling would remain law. The court's split decision would not set a precedent.
Finally, the Huffington Post's Sam Stein reports on the War Room that has been "unleashed" for the Kagan nomination. No mention there of the sexuality arguments, yet.


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Medid has participated at the Cologne Hardware Fair with an unparalleled success.
As in previous editions, MEDID has exhibited its products at the most prestigious trade show worldwide, the EISENWARENMESSE in Cologne.
This year, the new location of the stand and the interesting novelties have made possible a constant flow of visitors that exceeded all forecasts.
Our numerous European customers and the new contacts from all over the world could appreciate our wide range of high quality linear measuring instruments, that cover all the requirements of the most demanding professionals, that our customers really appreciate.
MEDID is expanding his business in the German market, consolidating its commercial network in the north of the country.


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The first step in recovery is to admit you have a problem. I have a problem. I collect stuff, too much stuff. A few months ago while scanning through eBay I saw it. A 19th century trunk made in Lowell by Irish-born George Molloy. I put in a bid, and it was denied. I swore I wouldn't look again. But then there it was- the trunk was back. I had done my research. I knew who Molloy was. In a weak moment I made a higher bid. The trunk was mine! I had to drive to Foxboro, not for a Patriot's game, but to bring the trunk back to its place of origin. The trunk's not pretty. Its 140+ years show some wear and tear. The original outside was embossed leather, but there are pieces drying and flaking off. The bare wood is showing through in places. The metal hinges are slightly rusted in spots. The inside paper is peeling in areas, but what drew me to this piece was the label. It still has its original label that George Molloy affixed to his work over a century ago. Now I'm researching how to restore old trunks while maintaining its original dignity. Ideas? Please share. Your help would be appreciated.
George Molloy was the son of George and Mary Conly. Born in Dublin about 1821 he arrived in Lowell By 1860 he was married to his wife Ann with whom he had 7 children. Two of whom predeceased him. His father George lived with the family until his death in 1862.with his parents in 1842.
For many years he was an emigration agent, and then got into the trunk making business. Trunks could be found in most homes in this period. Many people had several trunks of different sizes to keep clothes and valuables in. There were many trunk makers in Lowell at this time, all competing for business. About 1857 he started advertising his shop in the local papers. One ran like this:
Purchase your trunk at George Molloy's trunk manufactory, No. 61 Market St. You will get a good trunk, fully the worth of your money; all his trunks have patent locks on them, he warrants the keys of trunks purchased at any other store in Lowell, not to open his locks. You can have any kind of trunk desired made to order at all prices from $1.50 to $10.00.
His offered trunks made of iron, zinc, canvas, leather and duck. He posted another ad claiming, Travelers have found by experience that Molloy's canvas trunks will stand more hard usage than any other trunk in house. Call and see his trunks before you purchase. George's business remained at this location for many years. He along with a number of other businessmen requested a watchman to patrol the area around their shops on Market Street. The business must have been quite successful since he had to move to larger quarters on Middlesex Street in 1884.
"Failing health alarmed his friends." He died of pneumonia in 1892 at the age of 73. His funeral was from his home on High Street with mass at the Immaculate. He was buried in the family lot at St. Patrick's.


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A report in today's online edition of the Guardian (03.11.17) warns that "Hundreds of millions of urban dwellers around the world face their cities being inundated by rising seawaters if latest UN warnings that the world is on course for 3C of global warming come true." Before you read on, please stop and attempt to imagine just how many people that is. Hundreds of millions!
This estimate is based on three degrees of warming melting sufficient ice for sea levels to rise up to two metres. A rise of 'only' fifty centimetres would submerge 10% of Bangladesh. A two metre rise would result in many major cities across the world, including Miami and Shanghai, being submerged. Where are all the residents of these now underwater cities going to move to? If we think that we have global immigration problems now, what will it be like when this almost unimaginable number of people start to look for places of relative safety to move their families to? Or, more pertinently, why are we not taking this threat far more seriously and being far more proactive in taking preventative action – now? Part of the problem are the time scales involved. According to the UN scientists, we are on course to hit three degrees of warming by the end of the century – and we are just not very good at dealing with such a temporal distance.
During the course of their evolutionary history, humans have never had to deal with such long range predictions. Consequently, as Antony Giddens points out in his The Politics of Climate Change, "People find it hard to give the same level of reality to the future as they do to the present". This is a phenomenon that social psychologists term 'future discounting'. It means that a small reward or risk possibly impacting on our lives tomorrow is of far greater significance than a larger reward or risk that is likely have an impact next year, and that next year's potential reward or risk is of far greater consequence than any that might have an impact in ten or twenty years time. The future seems to gradually fade away into ever increasing obscurity, loosing both focus and reality. So, how can we bring the future into some degree of focus?
It is at this point that I have a problem. I face a paradox in my thinking. According to one fork of my dilemma, I am forced to accept that life is inherently uncertain. All life, and social life in particular, is highly interdependent, highly complex and very dynamic. Following complexity science, this means that, because of the sheer scale of connectivity and the number of feedback loops involved, novel features and phenomena should be expected but accurate predictions should not. In fact, the only certainty is that we should expect unexpected. In terms of the accuracy in predicting the future you only need look at the claims that have been made by 'futurist' television programmes (like Tomorrow's World), together with those contained in science fiction films and novels, to realise just how difficult (if not down right impossible) it is. Whilst on the other hand, how many of the technologies that have really changed our lives (like the internet and mobile phones / computers) were actually predicted?
But according to the other fork of my dilemma, I just can't avoid the belief that ignoring the views of 97% of climate scientists, whose claims are based on solid empirical evidence, and whose predictions are often expressed in terms of probability rather than certainty, is not just poor risk management, but is unethical in the extreme. One area of ethics that is insufficiently discussed is our responsibility to future generations. Surely we have a moral obligation to our grandchildren, our great grandchildren, and all the generations that follow? An obligation to have not allowed huge areas of habitable space and food growing land to be consumed by the oceans? An obligation to have not allowed mean global temperatures to have risen to such an extent that the amount of land with a climate capable of supporting human life has been reduced to a tiny percentage of the Earth's surface? No, ignoring these predictions is unethical in the extreme. But how do we overcome our predisposition to future discounting? How do make the predictions for ninety year's time feel real and relevant?
One way forward would be to return the past, to ancient Athens and the ethics and politics of Aristotle. In his ethics, Aristotle argued that when we act we do so to achieve some end that we consider to be good, and that when we examine these various ends we quickly discover that they are not just ends in themselves, but means to some further end, some greater good. This process can be continued until we arrive at the greatest good. This good he named eudaimonia, a term that has often been translated as happiness, but is more accurately translated as flourishing. Likewise, in his politics he argued states are partnerships formed with the aim of achieving some good, and that "the partnerships that [are] most authoritative of all…aim at the most authoritative good of all." Collective eudaimonia.
In these terms our political partnerships are about working together to achieve the flourishing of human life. This is the greatest good, and the final end of any number of personal means and ends relationships. If we could develop a common conception of what flourishing would entail for the whole of human life on Earth we would have a Common Good that would provide the end point and goal of all our individual stories. It would unite these stories into a common narrative and make the future seem a very real concept, one that has both a rational and emotional dimension and establishes an ethical commitment to future generations.


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Vintage 90s Steve Yzerman Detroit Red Wings T-Shirt
Out of stock
For sale here is a vintage 90s Detroit Red Wings' Steve Yzerman portrait t-shirt. It is in used, vintage condition. The graphics have lots of wear. I don't see any stains or tears, but there is one very small hole (it's the small dark dot on his cheek). Would be a great gift for the Red Wings fan or to display with other Detroit collectibles!
Brand: Anvil
Era: Vintage 90s – ©1991 Gardner Graphics
Tag Size: Adult vintage large – Use measurements to ensure proper fit
Actual Size: Length 26.75″ – Pit to pit 19.5″
Materials: 100% cotton
Care: Machine wash warm, tumble dry medium


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Everyone is expecting to see and hear plenty of new things at Google's I/O, but there is one thing which everyone will be shocked not to see will be the Google's most rumoured own branded android tablet, Asus Nexus 7 tablet.
Australia Gizmodo now claims that they have got a hold of some training material of the nexus tablet and told that they have confirmed the specs of the tablet. Well there is nothing new with the specs since we have heard them in the rumours.
Also with the specs they mentioned that the tablet is expected to be released during July in Australia, which we believe will be the same for other countries. The only thing which they don't know is the price of the tablet which we believe will play a major role in the sales of the tablet.
Google Nexus Tablet Specifications
- 7-inch 1280×800 IPS Display
- Android 4.1 or 5.0 Jelly Bean
- 1.3GHz Quad-Core Tegra 3 CPU
- 8GB / 16GB Internal Storage
- 1.2MP Front Camera
- 8 Hours Battery Life
- Wi-Fi a/b/g/n
Are you satisfied with these specification's? Will you buy the Nexus tablet when it get's released?


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Today I see a fun magnet in a bookstore. It simply says, "Always make new mistakes."
I smile because it's exactly the kind of mindset that sets someone free to do extraordinary things.
My youngest considers the strange advice, and I can tell she's wondering about this. Normally, she hears advice to do her best, accomplish more, and earn good grades. But this? This tells her to commit herself to a particular kind of failure.
This kind of failure gives you permission. It sets you on a no-holding-back kind of adventure. Go, child! Get out there and make incredible mistakes as you live the fullest life possible.
This, I can do.
I imagine us waking up tomorrow and breathing a great sigh of relief. We're implored to get out there and make some new mistakes.
I plan on making some marvelous ones.


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Sunday, 26 October 2003
Eyewitness to presentation on jetBlue passenger profiling
I had a long chat this week with Brian Lawson, business reporter for the Huntsville [AL] Times. He called me in the course of his research for a follow-up story on Huntsville military contractor Torch Concepts and its use of jetBlue Airways' passenger database for tests of airline passenger profiling and threat assessment.
Lawson's story in today's Huntsville Times (free registration and cookie acceptance required) is worth reading. Torch Concepts' attorney/spokesperson told Lawson that, "From our perspective, there was nothing bad that happened…. The complaints are from a vocal minority. The majority of people are very comfortable with this." I guess he hasn't noticed that public comments, at last count, were running more than 5,000 to 1 against CAPPS-II.
I was even more interested, though, in some of the things Lawson told me that didn't make it into his story in today's paper. Lawson was, so far as he remembers, the only reporter in attendance, and is the only eyewitness so far to come forward, at the conference presentation by Torch Concepts about how it got the the jetBlue Airways data and what it did with it. Lawson even wrote about it at the time — making him, and not me, the first to have reported that jetBlue passenger data had been used in profiling tests. He read me his brief story (the Hunstville Times archives aren't available online). It was matter-of-fact — as, Lawson said, was the Torch Concepts presentation. "It simply didn't occur to me that this was anything secret. There was nothing they were trying to hide," he said. "This wasn't a classified conference — it was open to anyone who paid the admission fee — and you can't get much more high-profile than that conference if you're a Hunstville defense contractor."
Lawson didn't remember anything being said in the conference presentation about military base security. "It was all about airline passenger profiling," he recalled, although this week the spokesperson/attorney for Torch again claimed that "the company's work was not sponsored by TSA and he doesn't know why TSA helped Torch get the data."
Even more significantly, Lawson remembered Bill Roark, who gave the Torch presentation, saying that jetBlue had provided the data because jetBlue's fare structire (no advance purchase or round-trip purchase requirements) led to an unusaully high percentage of last-minute one-way ticket purchases, and thus an unusally high rate of selection of passengers for "secondary security screening" under the current CAPPS 1 profiling system. "jetBlue cooperated because they had so many of their passengers getting selected," Lawson says Roark told the conference, "and they hoped that providing their data might help reduce that number".
But if the Torch research wasn't intended to be used for passenger screening, Lawson wonders, why would jetBlue have had any particular interest in providing data for military base security research? What Lawson remembers Roark saying makes sense only if the Torch project really was intended for airline passenger profiling rather than, as Torch now claims, military base security.
Also today, Sean Holstege of the Oakland Tribune — another reporter who's been digging into the airline passenger profiling and "watch list" stories for months — has a detailed update on some of the problems facing the TSA in getting data for CAPPS-II testing. Among other interesting bits of news, Holstege quotes "insiders' estimates" that the TSA has already spent "between $80 million and $100 million on [CAPPS-II] testing and consultants." There's still no public figure on how much the TSA plans to spend to complete and deploy the system, although I've estmated total costs (most of which, evidently, the TSA expects to be absorbed by the travel industry) at over US$1 billion.Link | Posted by Edward on Sunday, 26 October 2003, 20:31 ( 8:31 PM)


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Figure-skating family seeks to inspire at cancer fundraiser
In Skate for Hope, children end their performances by skating to the front row to give roses to the breast-cancer survivors, their family members.
Whether the skater is a first-grader or annual participant Emily Hughes, an Olympian in 2006, the moms' feelings are the same.
"When Emily comes over to me, I have to keep telling myself, 'Don't cry; don't cry,'?" said her mother, Amy Hughes. "It's so emotional to me, I cannot tell you."
The mother and daughter have traveled from New York for Skate for Hope since 2005, when the fledgling fundraiser took place in Nationwide Arena's practice rink.
They've seen Skate for Hope grow to fill 3,000 seats in the arena, where it now draws 144 performers who help raise as much as $70,000 annually for breast-cancer research.
Performing along with local participants are a dozen of the world's best skaters, such as past Olympians Jeremy Abbott and Rachael Flatt and reigning American champion Ashley Wagner.
As the event celebrates its 10th anniversary, Amy Hughes will be honored by Emily and another of her six children: Sarah Hughes, who in the 2002 Olympics beat favorite Michelle Kwan to win gold.
A busy schedule of philanthropic events and appearances prevented her from joining her mother and sister until 2011.
"Finally, I just said, 'No matter what I'm doing, I'm marking off this day and I'm coming to the show,'?" said Sarah Hughes, who will host this year's event as Emily performs.
Advocacy has been important to the Hughes family since Amy, who is in remission, received a diagnosis of stage III breast cancer.
As 12-year-old Sarah's skating career was taking off, Amy had bone-marrow and stem-cell transplants as part of an experimental treatment.
Skate for Hope, Emily said, is about "everyone who has been through a similar experience and the power of us all coming together."
It also offers a chance to return to the ice for Sarah, 28, a Yale University graduate, and Emily, 24, an alumna of Harvard University. Both have been focused on other goals, with Emily employed as a business analyst at Deloitte Consulting and Sarah working on a book and documentary about the seven American women who won Olympic figure-skating gold medals.
Amy Hughes is thankful that her daughters continue to discuss her experience and hopes that the young girls at Skate for Hope are comforted by their family's example.
"They see Emily and Sarah's mother — she had the treatment, and she's still here," she said. " The more you talk about it, the less scary it is."


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Be kind to your body give it rest
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The busiest and most stressful time of the year begins now- mid October through January. We think about the next 4 holidays: How to decorate, parties being planned, presents to buy and how we are going to bring in the new year. At this time of year, we forget about taking care of ourselves. But if you're not taking care of yourself, how will you take care of everyone else? Therapeutic massage is more than a luxury, it is an integral part of health and wellness. Did you know that a massage done by a licensed professional massage therapist boosts the immune system, is a natural pain killer and helps to reduce harmful stress levels in the body?
The holidays can be a stressful time of the year, but massage therapy can make it go much more smoothly.
Holly Anderson, Licensed Massage Therapist


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Jalapeno-Stuffed, Bacon-Wrapped Dates
10-12 slices Bacon
20-24 Dates, pitted
1/3 cup Mascarpone Cheese
½ teaspoon Chili Powder
¼ teaspoon Cumin
1 Jalapeño, thinly sliced
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil.
In a small bowl, mix together mascarpone cheese, chili powder, and cumin. Set aside.
Make a small cut into the date but do not slice all the way through. Pull apart slightly. Repeat with all of the dates. Spoon a small amount of the mascarpone cheese mixture into each date and place a slice of jalapeño in the middle of the date. Close the date so that the mixture and jalapeno is enclosed. Wrap each date in a piece of bacon so that the bacon wraps around the date 1.5 times. Place seam-side down on the baking sheet.
Roast in the oven for 10 minutes. Using a toothpick, rotate the dates slightly. Roast for another 10 minutes. Rotate the dates an additional time and roast for 8-10 minutes. At the point all sides of the bacon should be cooked. Garnish with a slice of jalapeño to serve.