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Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary located in Unnao district on the Kanpur-Lucknow highway in Uttar Pradesh, India consisting of a lake and the surrounding environs. It is one of the many wetlands of Northern India. The sanctuary provides protection for 250 species of migratory birds mostly from CIS (or formerly USSR) countries, but the numbers have been dwindling since the 1990s, most having relocated to newer areas in Himachal and Rajasthan. The sanctuary also houses a deer park, watchtowers and boats.
The avian population here comprises a mix of residents as well as migratory birds. The birds migrate across Himalayas from Tibet, China, Europe and Siberia during winters. Some of these birds fly over 5000 km and above 8500 meters high to reach here. Some of the major migratory birds during the season are Greylag goose, pintail, cotton teal, red-crested pochard, Gadwall, shoveler, coot and mallard. Some major local migratory and residential birds are spotwill, Sarus crane, painted stork, peacock, white ibis, dabchick, whistling teal, open-bill stork, white-necked stork, pheasant-tailed jacana, bronze winged jacana, purple moorhen, lapwing, tern vulture, pigeon, king crow, Indian roller and bee eater.
The major reptiles found in the sanctuary are cobra, viper, krait, ratsnake and water snakes.
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A small park for deer has been established in the vicinity of the sanctuary. There are spotted and barking deers in the park. It is one of the main attractions in the sanctuary.
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Aside from the quantity of water being used in fracking, another important issue is disposal. The water used to frack isn't just absorbed into the earth; it shoots back up to the surface and becomes what the industry calls "flowback."
The problem is that little is known about what happens to the water once it's used to frack, both in terms of chemicals added by gas companies and the various chemicals deep in the earth. In the end, the water ascends back to the surface filled with toxic junk and an extremely high salt content — three times that of seawater.
Flowback is not suitable for treatment at water utility plants, and while some technology is being developed, there's nothing readily available at this time to filter the water. Sometimes the contaminated water is put in large storage tanks. In other situations it is left in large above-ground pits lined with plastic; after the water evaporates, the plastic is rolled up and buried underground in waste disposal areas.
Another popular method is injecting the water a mile and a half down into the earth using saltwater disposal systems. According to Chesapeake Energy, it has two saltwater injection wells operating at DFW airport to dispose of the flowback associated with the 200 wells planned on airport property.
In all, there are more than 50,000 of these injection wells in Texas, which are used solely for the oil and gas industry.
Dr. Hudak at UNT has doubts about this practice.
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With more than 13 billion gallons of water used last year alone by oil and gas companies for fracking over the Barnett Shale, one has to ask: How can an industry draw such phenomenal amounts of a limited resource?
Dominating water law in Texas is the principle of "right of capture," otherwise known as the law of the biggest pump, which arose from a court case decided more than 100 years ago. In 1904, W.A. East sued the Texas railroad for draining his water well for their locomotives. The judges on the case ruled in favor of the railroad because underground water is "so secret, occult and concealed" that it would be impossible to regulate. Therefore, landowners have the right to capture any water running under their properties.
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The same people complaining are first ones to cry "big government" when they start restricting water usage, just like the farmers suing The Edwards Aquifer Authority!
What did the fire ( and fire threats still existing!) do to the water demands needed to fight the Montague/Cooke County fires? How much increase and where weree the sources for the firefighters??
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Poor guys.
Too bad the Trophy Club MUD and every other entity in North Texas with a penny to spend are drilling like crazy in a race to complete wells into this depleted aquifer before the regulatory agencies introduce restrictions.
We're drinking each others milkshake and suing Oklahoma at the same time in one of the greatest eras of piss poor planning mankind has ever seen.
Ben, you hit on the irony of the EAA case. The farmers are saying, 'we need more water.' However, if a gas/oil drill goes up over the aquifer (or sand mine) within a mile of their farms and there were no restrictions, then what would happen to their water supply?
To be honest, in all the conversations I've had and at the hours of questions I sat through at the public meeting, no one was complaining about "big government." Instead, they were asking why the TCEQ wasn't monitoring the mine more. Example, the TCEQ would rely on EOG to monitor their own air pollution levels. Locals are opposed to that. They want the TCEQ to monitor the pollution.
I understand your point, but haven't seen much evidence of that in this case.
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High School Building Code Program Teaches Importance of Codes
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Dooley Joins Tubelite as Client Development Manager
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Now its Krafting!!! Hahahahahahaha !!!!! KDF
A noisy workshop some where in the universe..
Keep Krafting! DO not stop!
"garbled yell from the krafting portals"
No I don't know where it came from? wHO CARES kRAFT kRfaRTFT!! dAMN YOUR HIDES!!!
"garbled "
Well by Kahless's left one, why didn't you say so? NOBody should Kraft while sober!!!
(SLAMS! back a goblet of Bloodwine, spilling it everywhere)
"mumble mumble"
What? No Problem just put more shielding and thicker armor on it.....
"mummble" "mumble"
Well who's going to see the burns under the plating?
Greth'orssss gates warrior- HAve a drink a get back to KRAfting!!!
Krafting is more than Crafting! :D
Oooohhhhh If they only knew.
GEt Back to Krafting!!
I guess that means more Dakka for the KDF.
As if moar Dakka is bad.
Actually I think Krafting will be most beneficial to new KDF. I was all psyched with my Lt.Gen to get raiding, looting, pillaging, and craft....sorry, KRAFTING. The first three were and are a BLAST. (Having to coordinate 4 ships to be able to beat Eriksson and get the bonus, and having it work like a charm on the first try, worth every minute)
However after pillaging Fed alts for -their- crafting materials because I didn't want to crawl around the T'Ong Nebula for two weeks straight to get enough red mats to level up crafting... =/ And then finding out that...well....I couldn't craft anything better then what I had....Ah well....
But despite that downer, I do love these additions on the whole!
The Aegis Technology set on Tribble is going to be craftible isn't it? It sure looks sweet.
Krafting has the uncomparible awesomeness of DISRUPTORZ! :cool:
Looks like I have to put leveling and collecting badges on hold for all of my toons to get crafting up fast because Ageis is gonna make a mess of PvP. Are the Ageis upgrades bind on pickup, or can I mail them from my Fed to my Klings?
It will be interesting to see how the market for them develops.
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We all know Android 4.4 is coming. There's a chance we could see it this month, perhaps with a new Nexus phone, but there's really nothing concrete to back that right now – it's just the rumor mill whirring as it so often does. Of course, as new versions of Android get closer to being finalized and released, the leaks become more common, and oftentimes larger in terms of the information provided.
Since CyanogenMod became Cyanogen Inc., we've been anticipating a quick and easy CM Installer that would make flashing to the "CyanogenMod experience" fast, simple, and less "hideous" than the current process.
The CM team is currently canvassing G+ for usability testers, with the stated goal of taking the process of installing third-party ROMs (specifically CyanogenMod) and streamlining it, making it less intimidating and more accessible to more users.
After running through the installation process for myself, I can confirm that it does just that.
It's been all quiet on the Android Open Kang Project front for a while, but the latest blog post from the popular ROM family indicates that there are big things coming. The AOKP team has been working on Android 4.3 ROMs (labeled JB-MR2 in the AOKP nomenclature) ever since the release of the latest operating system, and the first nightly builds of 4.3 have now been posted.
AOKP has also added the WiFi version of the Nexus 7 2013 and the Oppo Find 5 to its lineup.
Whether you consider Google's partnership with the KitKat brand a delightful cross-promotional play, a brand sell-out (though officially no money changed hands), or something else entirely, there's no denying both sides have enthusiastically pursued the team-up which promises some lucky winners free Nexus 7 tablets, and Android users the still mysterious Android 4.4 KitKat.
Giving us a break (get it?) from the hype surrounding the next Nexus phone, KitKat recently held a promotion in which contestants need only "have a break" to win a new Nexus 7.
Google is juggling a lot of things right now. It's really not realistic to expect no one in the company to ever make a mistake. Well, today's slip-up is to our advantage. The most recent update to the Korean keyboard IME in Google Play contains a new screenshot which appears to be from Android 4.4 KitKat.
The status bar has light gray icons and clock font, which has been suggested in a number of leaks.
The LTE version of the Nexus 7 2013 just started shipping to the US last week. If a week of running on a stock ROM is entirely too long for you, take heart: even while you read these words, modders and ROM developers are hard at work building all kinds of aftermarket goodies for your unlocked tablet. That's because Google just posted the first full factory image plus binaries for the new model.
The developers at CyanogenMod never seem to sleep these days. After publishing the first Android 4.3 nightlies a few weeks ago, the long-promised CyanogenMod Accounts feature is being enabled on new builds starting tonight. This adds an option for an official CyanogenMod account in the Accounts section of the Settings page (right next to Google, Facebook, Dropbox, et cetera). Users can create a new CyanogenMod account right from their phones or tablets and access it from the official Account page on the CyangenMod website.
Google got more than a few raised eyebrows when a possible candidate for the next Nexus phone, bearing what was probably LG branding and a Nexus 7 2013-style horizontal logo, was leaked in the video for the Android 4.4 statue. Now some sleuths at S4GRU have connected a few dots and found that an FCC filing for the LG D820 looks an awful lot like that leaked device.
The FCC filing is focused on the phone's wireless specifications, since that's what the Commission has to certify.
These days, it seems like everybody is trying to make Android more secure. As usual, rooting and modding are often casualties of this effort. Just over a month ago Android 4.3 broke the existing model for root, forcing updates to existing methods, and now Samsung is rolling out updated Android 4.2.2 firmwares for the Galaxy S 4 which fully enable the company's heavily secured KNOX environment. Fortunately, Chainfire is already on top of it and has updated his popular root software, SuperSU, to be compatible with the new system.


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Google Inc. has announced that the firm would no longer display its controversial banner ads in search results, Venture Beat has reported. The announcements comes amid a number of changes to Google's search results, including visual tweaks such as the removal of underlines, and larger type. The banner ad programme first debuted in October 2013, and it led to public outcry, as Google had previously promised to never include banner ads in its search results. When the ads first appeared, Google called them a "brand image experiment" and said that it was testing them with 30 different companies.
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Posts tagged: Mike Crapo
It's the sixth time in 12 years that this has happened, but somehow it still sounds funny: Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo has been selected for the prestigious post of chairman of the Committee on Committees for the Senate Republicans. That's the panel that's in charge of committee assignments for the upcoming Congress; Crapo's been selected for the once-every-two-years post five times before. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, "Mike is a trusted advisor and has the respect of his colleagues. He has a proven track record and the entire Republican conference is honored to have him once again leading our negotiations on committee assignments."
The U.S. Senate has voted 78-22 in favor of President Obama's plan for the U.S. military to train and equip Syrian rebels for a war against Islamic state militants. Like yesterday's 273-156 House vote, support for the president's plan was bipartisan - but both Idaho's senators voted no, as did both of Idaho's congressmen yesterday. Idaho Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo issued these statements on their votes:
"I have real reservations about choosing from over 200 different ethnic and religious groups within Syria and arming those that are labeled 'moderate' by some in our government. I am not convinced there is a group of 'moderate' rebels in Syria. There is no easy choice here, but President Obama has not laid out a clear strategy, instead the strategy I have seen is not in my opinion destined to succeed, but drag us further into the mire. I want to support a winning strategy, but I cannot support his $500 million proposal without a better plan."
"ISIS poses a very real threat to the United States and our national security. The President's announced action leaves many questions for the American people and Congress. Unless the Administration provides more details about a comprehensive strategy, I cannot support it."
Click below for a full report from the AP in Washington, D.C.
A new report out today from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that costs allocated to fighting wildfires have grown from 16 percent of the U.S. Forest Service's overall budget in 1995 to 42 percent today. "This has led to substantial cuts in other areas of the Forest Service budget, including efforts to keep forests healthy, reduce fire risk, and strengthen local economies," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement today as he released the report.
Those percentage figures don't include so-called "fire borrowing," he noted, in which the Forest Service borrows from other areas of its budget once it's used up its allocated amount for firefighting but blazes are still going. Vilsack renewed his request to Congress to allow an existing disaster funds to cover firefighting costs in years when they exceed allocated amounts.
A year ago, Idaho GOP Sen. Mike Crapo and Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, along with Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, gathered at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise to kick off a push to end the borrowing and instead tap disaster funds when firefighting costs balloon over allocated amounts. Their bipartisan legislation had been picking up support in both houses – Idaho GOP Rep. Mike Simpson is among the House sponsors, along with Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon – but paradoxically suffered a setback earlier this year after President Barack Obama not only endorsed it but included it in his budget.
"That spurred some folks to be cautious about it," said Lindsay Nothern, Crapo's press secretary. "Honestly, it's been kind of bottled up. It's been affected by politics." The House version of the bill has 131 co-sponsors, including Idaho 1st District GOP Rep. Raul Labrador. The Senate version has 18 co-sponsors including Risch.
In the House, "Some folks are concerned about changing the spending matrix, primarily Paul Ryan, head of the budget committee," Nothern said. "We did go out and get a CBO report that showed it is budget neutral, because we already spend disaster money on disasters such as this."
He added, "There is support for it among leadership in both the Senate and the House, on both sides of the aisle." But on its first attempt at passage, Nothern said, the proposal got lumped in with other issues including the president's border proposal, and it didn't pass. "We are hoping for a stand-alone bill, and then the only opposition we have is Ryan." He said backers of the measure are hoping they can persuade Ryan to drop his opposition by showing it won't spend new money.
Vilsack strongly agreed. "Bipartisan proposals to fund catastrophic fire like other natural disasters could help ensure that efforts to make forests more healthy and resilient and support local tourism economies aren't impacted as significantly as they have been in recent years," the secretary said. "These proposals don't increase the deficit, they just budget smarter by allowing existing natural disaster funding to be used in cases of catastrophic wildfires."
Nothern said there's a slim chance the bill could be brought up in the September session, but it's more likely that it won't get considered until the "lame-duck" session that follows the November election. He's confident, though, that it will pass. "It's a question of when," Nothern said. "We're out of money again this year. It shows the need to do this."
The new USDA report shows that staffing for managing national Forest Service lands has dropped by 35 percent since 1998, while fire staffing has increased 110 percent. Even before fire borrowing is taken into account, funding to support recreation has dropped 13 percent; funding for wildlife and fisheries habitat management is down 17 percent; and research funding is down by more than $36 million. Funding for maintenance and capital improvements has been cut by two-thirds since 2001, showing the impact of the shift of resources to wildfire suppression. The full report is online here.
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo says he will seek re-election in 2016. In making the announcement Friday in Lewiston, the 63-year-old Republican says he's committed to resolving a number of critical issues to the country. The Lewiston Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/XqzcMO ) that Crapo was elected to the Senate in 1998 to succeed Sen. Dirk Kempthorne. He is serving the fourth year of his third term and is ranked 39th in seniority in the Senate. A member of the minority party in the Senate, Crapo is the ranking member of the Senate's Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and serves on the Budget and Environment, Public Works, Indian Affairs and Finance committees. There had been speculation by some political observers that Crapo would retire from the Senate after his current term.
Idaho senators who have pushed for years for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from captivity in Afghanistan are now in the odd position of both objecting to the deal that bought Bergdahl's freedom, and joyfully welcoming his return. "He needed to be released, but not at this price," Sen. Jim Risch said Thursday, aiming sharp criticism at the Obama Administration over the release of five high-ranking Taliban officials held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in exchange for Bergdahl. "The price that was paid was too high. Those five people are people that have a lot of blood on their hands."
Sen. Mike Crapo told Eye on Boise, "I have problems with this specific trade. But I'm not about to say that I'm still not very glad that we have been able to recover Bowe."
As the political rhetoric has escalated in Washington, D.C., congressional Republicans have faulted the administration for failing to inform Congress of the swap 30 days in advance, as required by law; for releasing the Guantanamo prisoners; and for statements supportive of Bergdahl amid questions about how he fell into his captors' hands and whether he deserted his Army post.
"Unlike Benghazi, I'm not so sure this one's going to go away on them," Risch said. "It's caught the attention of the American people, it's caught the attention of the media, and they're not letting go." Both Risch and Crapo have been relentless for the past five years in pushing the administration to secure Bergdahl's release; you can read my full story here at spokesman.com.
A negative-ad campaign is targeting Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo and six other members of the Senate Banking Committee because of a bipartisan bill that Crapo co-sponsored to reform the mortgage finance industry, Idaho Statesman reporter Zach Kyle reports. The $1.6 million ad blitz from the "60 Plus Association" is aimed at protecting the interests of shareholders in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-created mortgage finance companies; the bill would phase them out of existence.
"First, it was Obamacare," says the narrator of the TV ad. "Millions of Americans had health care plans canceled. Now, Mike Crapo is teaming up with Obama to take over the mortgage industry." Crapo said the ad misrepresents the bill as big-government and him as liberal. "The people of Idaho know me better than that," Crapo told the Statesman. Kyle's full report is online here.
Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch are addressing the Senate and House today, and the two – both of whom are former Senate presidents pro-tem – entered the Senate chamber together, rather than separately. "It's really an honor to be here today, although my remarks can be really short if I'm supposed to give you some of the wisdom from Washington, D.C.," Crapo said.
He told the Senate, "There are those in Washington who say that because we've been able to bring down our deficit … that we have solved our problem. We have not solved our problem," because the federal debt continues to grow, he said. "The bottom line here is we still need a comprehensive plan." Crapo called for tax code reforms that broaden the base and reduce rates, "and then major entitlement reform that puts these programs that are now screaming toward insolvency on a pathway to solvency."
Risch told the Senate, "The financial condition of the country is just awful. … The bad news is there's really nothing on track to turn this around. I've been in public service all my life, and very few things shock me any more, but the cavalier attitude that people have about money back there is just absolutely staggering." He said when anyone proposes less spending, "They look at you like you got three heads – the only way they're willing to compromise is if you agree to spend more money to increase programs and what have you, but if you want to start rolling things back, you don't get a seat at that table." Risch said, "In the long haul, I am incredibly optimistic for this country. In the short haul, things don't look very good."
Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch are co-sponsoring legislation to let those with a state concealed gun permit carry a concealed weapon in other states, too, as long at the state they're in allows or doesn't prohibit concealed carrying of firearms. "Idahoans and law-abiding citizens across the country should not be denied the fundamental right to self-defense while they are traveling or temporarily away from home," said Crapo. "This bill protects state sovereignty and does not establish national standards for a concealed carry, nor does it veto laws in those states that prohibit concealed carry permits." Risch said, "Lawful gun owners should not have to face a labyrinth of gun laws the second they cross into another state. This bill will ensure citizens who are able to carry concealed weapons can exercise that right in any state that has also passed a concealed carry law."
The measure has three other co-sponsors, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas; John Thune, R-S.D.; and David Vitter, R-La.; you can see the full Crapo-Risch statement here.
Idaho's two senators both were in the minority today, as the Senate voted 64-36 in favor of a bipartisan budget deal that President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law. The deal, brokered by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., sets federal spending on domestic and defense programs and averts the threat of a government shutdown for the next two years; it makes modest changes in spending levels, replaces about $63 billion in automatic sequester budget cuts, and adds new fees on airline passengers and increases federal workers' pension contributions.
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo called the deal "the wrong direction for our fiscal policy and our economy," and Idaho Sen. Jim Risch called it "a step backward." The deal leaves in place the bulk of the $1 trillion in sequester cuts through 2021, but eases an especially harsh set of cuts scheduled to hit in 2014 and 2015 on the Pentagon, domestic agencies and Medicare providers. All 53 Democrats in the Senate voted yes, along with two independents and nine Republicans; all 36 "no" votes came from Republicans. The pact earlier cleared the House overwhelmingly, with majorities from both parties supporting it. Here are Crapo and Risch's full statements on their votes:
"This deal unfortunately falls into the same promises of future budget cuts that never materialize, and then raising new revenue to offset increasing spending. The bottom line is that Americans end up paying more to justify bigger spending by Congress. It is the wrong direction for fiscal policy and our economy; that is why I could not support the agreement."
"This deal raises federal spending at a time when we should be cutting spending. Under present law, with the sequester, the federal government is actually cutting its spending for the first time in decades. This deal reverses that with a promise it will cut spending later. The deal also provides for having to borrow about one-third of every dollar spent. This is all simply irresponsible. In addition, along with many other problems, this deal cuts retirement benefits previously promised to veterans. This is just wrong. The bill that passed the Senate today is a step backward and I could not support it."
Click below for a look at the deal's likely impact on the U.S. economy, from AP economics writer Josh Boak in Washington, D.C.
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is drawing some second looks this week, but not necessarily because of his comments in the Senate. Instead, it's the rather dramatic facial injury he's sporting. "He took a fall while moving furniture at his Idaho Falls home the day after Thanksgiving," reports Crapo's press secretary, Lindsay Nothern. "Took some stitches to close – left a bruise, but he's healing OK."
This shot on C-SPAN was posted by the Daily Caller, which ran an item headlined, "What is the cut on Sen. Crapo's face?" The online outlet reported that C-SPAN junkies noticed the facial injury when Crapo was speaking yesterday against confirming Rep. Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Their post drew an array of responses, including one commenting, "Looks like someone knocked the Crapo out of him."
Idaho GOP Sen. Mike Crapo and Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet today filed legislation to launch a five-year, up to $30 million wildfire mitigation pilot project, to be carried out by FEMA in consultation with the Forest Service, as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which is currently under consideration in the Senate. The two senators introduced the bill in August; it's considered deficit-neutral, as it taps FEMA's Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund for competitive grants to state and local officials for wildfire preparedness and mitigation projects. Those state and local agencies would have to provide matching funds; the projects could occur on federal, state or private land.
"Instead of waiting until more towns are evacuated, homes threatened and our firefighters lives put at risk, the U.S. Senate has an opportunity to pass the PREPARE Act amendment to help states like Idaho reduce and prevent catastrophic fires," Crapo said in a statement. Bennet said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. By directing more resources toward fire mitigation on the front end, we can not only help prevent and reduce
When the U.S. Senate voted 64-32 last week in favor of legislation to ban workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians, 10 Republicans joined 52 Democrats and two independents to support the bill, but Idaho's two senators both voted against it. "Number one, this is a state's rights issue," Idaho Sen. Jim Risch said. "Number two, this bill made insufficient provisions for employers who have First Amendment constitutional protections to exercise their religious beliefs."
The bill, which would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, included an exemption for religious organizations. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., proposed an amendment to sharply expand that exemption to include a wide array of entities with some religious affiliation, but it was voted down, 55-43. Toomey still voted in favor of the bill, however.
Sen. Mike Crapo's spokesman, Lindsay Nothern, said, "Sen. Crapo voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, on the basis that he has long been opposed to the expansion of the federal government's power to handle such matters when states have a better handle on how to rightfully handle these issues, just as several local municipalities in Idaho have begun to do."
Earlier in the week, Crapo said he supports allowing local ordinances to ban such discrimination, which conflicts with a resolution passed by the Idaho Republican Party Central Committee over the summer urging the state Legislature to overturn local anti-discrimination ordinances in seven Idaho cities.
"Moreover, a sweeping federal statute would not offer proper protections for religious liberties," Nothern said. "Sen. Crapo believes all Americans should be treated with respect and dignity. … Workers should be hired and their employment maintained on the basis of their skills, abilities and how they accomplish their appointed tasks."
The bill may not get a vote in the House, where Speaker John Boehner opposes it; you can read my full column here from Sunday's Spokesman-Review.
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo reports that he has been appointed to the budget conference committee that will work to reconcile the differences between House and Senate budget proposals; he's one of 21 senators on the 29-member panel, which is headed by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "While I could not support the budget that was passed by the Senate earlier this year, I believe there are ideas and policies in both versions that we can mutually agree on and start the process of putting us on a sustainable fiscal path," Crapo said in a news release.
The budget conference was agreed to as part of the deal to end the government shutdown and stave off default on the nation's debt; Crapo voted against the deal, but called the budget conference "an enormous opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to find common ground on a more sustainable budget path for our country." The panel includes the entire Senate Budget Committee, on which Crapo serves, along with four House Republicans and three House Democrats. You can read Crapo's full news release here.
Catching up on some of the news from while I was gone over the past week:
DENNEY EYES HIGHER OFFICE: Former Idaho House Speaker Lawerence Denney, R-Midvale, filed initial paperwork to run for Idaho Secretary of State, an office long held by incumbent Ben Ysursa, a Republican; you can read an AP report here on Denney's move. Ysursa hasn't said yet whether he'll be seeking re-election; in an email to Idaho Statesman columnist Dan Popkey, he said, "I intend to make my future plans known within the next few weeks. Until then I really have no comment."
STATE SURPLUS BIGGER THAN REPORTED? Former state chief economist Mike Ferguson has analyzed state revenues and concluded that in an apples-to-apples comparison, Idaho's surplus is actually bigger than has been reported. At the close of fiscal year 2013 on June 30, the state's general fund had an ending balance of $165.3 million, $105.3 million higher than expected at the end of the 2013 legislative session. After transfers to reserve accounts and taking into account law changes, Ferguson concludes, "The current DFM General Fund revenue forecast for FY 2014, at 2.1% growth over FY 2013 revenue, appears to be unduly pessimistic. At 3.1% revenue growth the ongoing General Fund surplus estimate would be $74.1 million, and at 4.1% revenue growth the ongoing surplus estimate would be $111.6 million." You can read his full analysis here.
ONE INSURER WITHDRAWS: The only for-profit insurer scheduled to offer plans on Idaho's exchange withdrew on Sept. 26; with Altius' exit, Idaho's remaining insurers will offer 61 plans for individuals, 55 small group health plans for small business, 13 individual dental plans and 17 small group dental plans. You can read about that move here.
COUNTY PAYMENTS EXTENDED: A one-year extension of the county payments under the Secure Rural Schools Act, the remainder of the Craig-Wyden law that has been offsetting millions lost to rural counties and school districts since federal timber harvests fell, cleared Congress and headed to the president's desk – tucked into a bill about helium. "Passage of the Helium Stewardship Act is a victory for the entire state of Idaho," said Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo; rural schools and counties would get $270 million under the bill. "This fix does not change the need for a long-term solution that provides a consistent mechanism for the federal government to meet its obligation to rural communities accommodating federal lands, and I will continue to work with Senator Risch and all my colleagues to achieve this objective," Crapo said; you can read his full statement here.
Both of Idaho's senators, Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, have scheduled "tele-town hall" meetings in the coming week; Risch's will be on Monday, and Crapo's on Wednesday, both starting at 7 p.m. MT, 6 p.m. Pacific time. Any Idahoan who wants to can participate, but you need to sign up online in advance. Crapo says he'll take questions and offer insights on issues Congress must deal with this fall, including potential military intervention in Syria; Risch says he'll give a brief update on issues being discussed in Congress and take questions for the bulk of the hour-long session. Risch also will ask participants to respond to poll questions on various issues.
To sign up for Crapo's tele-town hall, go to his website here, and click on the tele-townhall icon on the right side under "Action Center." That'll take you to a townhall page, where the signup box is located in the middle of the page; there's more info here.
To sign up for Risch's tele-town hall, click this link.
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers in Washington, D.C., were deeply skeptical of President Obama's plan for a strike against Syria's chemical weapons infrastructure. In responses this week, Republican U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and Reps. Mike Simpson and Raul Labrador all expressed wariness such a strike would enhance U.S. power or bring a swifter end to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Risch committed to opposing a strike. Obama says Assad's government was responsible for numerous gas attacks, including one Aug. 21 said to have killed 1,429 people. In Tuesday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, however, Risch worried a post-strike Assad would emerge stronger. Republicans including House Speaker John Boehner support a strike. Though Simpson is usually a Boehner ally, the Idaho Republican's spokeswoman said he's "strongly leaning against supporting military action."
Read a report here from S-R reporter Kip Hill, including comments from Idaho and Washington senators; click below for a full report from AP reporter John Miller.
Idaho's two GOP senators joined with Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden today to launch a new bipartisan push to use the fall budget negotiations in Congress to reform the way the nation funds wildfire prevention. "In my view, the fires that are ripping their way through Oregon, Idaho, California and much of the West are proof that the federal government's policy for fire prevention is broken," Wyden declared in a visit to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. That's because it taps fire prevention funds to fight raging fires, landing the nation in a vicious circle as it does less prevention, he said.
"And I say that given the heroic efforts that have been made by our firefighters," Wyden said. "The reality is simple: For western members of Congress in the House and the Senate, there is no higher priority this fall than fixing this broken system."
Wyden is the chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, on which Risch also serves; Crapo and Wyden both serve on the budget committee. Wyden quipped that 3 percent of the U.S. Senate is already on board with the new push – the three of them – and said they've also gotten enthusiastic support from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has been working to make sure the Forest Service is first in line for seven tanker plans that should become available from the military this month to boost firefighting efforts.
Wyden said there's "no better time to bring about these changes than this fall," as Congress grapples with the budget sequester, the need to raise the debt ceiling and the end of the fiscal year. "This brings front and center the debate about what our priorities are and what our choices are," he said; you can read my full story here at spokesman.com.
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo held a Boise press conference today to press his concern about collection of consumer financial data by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an issue on which he's requested a GAO investigation that's now under way. Crapo acknowledged that the CFPB has been at the center of partisan battling in Congress and that he opposed its formation, preferring to keep regulation of consumer finances with that of the safety and soundness of banks and other financial institutions; Crapo, the ranking minority member of the Senate banking committee, lost that fight.
But he said revelations of the amount of consumer financial data the new agency is tracking should be of concern to all, particularly in light of concerns over NSA tracking of phone calls and other federal agencies' use of data about Americans. The CFPB has "very, very little political oversight," Crapo said. "It has the ability to run its own agenda. … This agency is run by a single individual."
Crapo was joined at his Idaho Capitol news conference by fellow Idaho Sen. Jim Risch; Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden; Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group from Washington, D.C.; and John Zarian, a Boise attorney who handled major California litigation over misuse of personal credit report data by Trans Union Corp.
Zarian warned of the dangers of identity theft and fraud from misuse and security breaches of individuals' data; Fitton told of how Judicial Watch pressed Freedom of Information Act requests to find out the extent of the data the bureau was collecting on 5 million Americans. Crapo said although the CFPB says it is not collecting data that identifies individuals – "personally identifiable" financial information on consumers, which the law creating the agency forbids gathering – the scope of its data collection could lead to that. "This agency was created to watch out for Americans, not to watch Americans," Crapo declared.
Wasden said, "Privacy in this day and age is a valid concern." He praised Crapo for raising the alarm, and said the GAO investigation should show "whether CFPB's data collection and use of that data is lawful."
The agency has said it is collecting data so it can track fraud to protect consumers; it's also developed a database of consumer complaints about a variety of financial services, from credit cards to mortgages to credit reporting, and posted that online for public use. Risch said, "If you like government, you will love this agency." Fitton said, "For all the noise in Washington about the NSA, our real damages in Washington as far as privacy abuse resides in the Consumer Financial Protection Board."
Idaho GOP Sen. Mike Crapo and Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet have gotten a provision added to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill designed to prompt FEMA to prioritize wildfire prevention. The bill directs FEMA to develop a report identifying any funding obstacles and detailing its wildfire mitigation efforts over the past five years; the two termed the move a "first step" toward getting FEMA to put more priority on wildfire and its prevention. You can read the two senators' full announcement here.
Idaho will join three other states in a pilot program to serve Greek yogurt as part of school lunch programs. Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo hailed the decision, saying in a statement, "Greek yogurt is one of the country's fastest growing industries, and I hope USDA will continue the important process of making this healthy food option increasingly available to young Americans. Idaho, already a leading producer of milk and other yogurt-related ingredients, recently became home to the world's largest Greek yogurt manufacturing plant in Twin Falls. … Our state is ideal to serve as a part of this pilot project."
The other three states are New York, Tennessee and Arizona; the USDA opened a solicitation to vendors this week for the four states, with bids due July 22. If the pilot program is successful in the four states, it could expand nationwide. You can read Crapo's full statement here; the Twin Falls Times-News has a full report here. Lindsay Nothern, spokesman for Crapo, said schools already were serving other types of yogurt, but Greek yogurt, which is higher-protein, wasn't on the USDA's list until it was approved in January as a protein. "I don't think the schools are planning to take meat off the menu and replace it with yogurt," Nothern said. "None of this makes the schools do anything. It just offers up yogurt as part of the protein offerings they can make in schools."


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1964 Chevy Malibu
Hiding the Hollywood Sign through Garmin 'n Google
You're not really supposed to try to find this sign up-close in person, you're supposed to look at it from a distance. Arguments begin on how short that distance can be... [more inside]
Decopage! (Not the paper kind, the 1989 L.A. public access tv kind!)
Decoupage! was a 1989 Los Angeles-area public access show produced by Kathe Duba and hosted by Summer Caprice. The original concept was an emulation of early 70s sydicated talk shows such as The Mike Douglas Show and Dinah! and featured elaborate sets, sourced from hours of scouring thrift stores. Also, there are wigs. Lots of wigs.
Many of the guests were culled from the L.A. club and arts scene, including Redd Kross, Phranc, and Fred Willard. The show returned to the airwaves in 1997 as Decopage! 2000 and featured a spoken-word performance by Exene Cervanka (using her real last name, Cervankova) and Karen Black singing "Bang Bang" with back-up band L7.
• Direct link to the Decopage! You Tube Channel
Many of the guests were culled from the L.A. club and arts scene, including Redd Kross, Phranc, and Fred Willard. The show returned to the airwaves in 1997 as Decopage! 2000 and featured a spoken-word performance by Exene Cervanka (using her real last name, Cervankova) and Karen Black singing "Bang Bang" with back-up band L7.
• Direct link to the Decopage! You Tube Channel
The Discreet Charms of LA's Discount Wonderland
My father was introduced to the Fashion District by his gay cousin, Napoleon Garcia, who would drag him to get yards of fabric at wholesale stores downtown. "Tito Nap," as I used to call him, was a fabulous man who was as fun as his colorful fashions.
The Sexual Outlaw At 83
83 year old Chicano author John Rechy (City Of Night, The Sexual Outlaw, Rushes) talks to Lambda Literary about gay assimilation, being mistaken for white, melding truth and fiction, the post-Stonewall peroid, and hating the word 'queer.'
Built for Living!
The Mar Vista Tract in West Los Angeles, California was designed by Gregory Ain in 1947, in collaboration with Joseph Johnson and Alfred Day. Ain was a significant "second generation" modernist architect who had worked with and was influenced by the first generation of California Modern masters - European immigrants Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler. Ain believed in bringing good design to the masses; he belonged to the school of thought that espoused architecture's potential to shape a more egalitarian world. He is credited as being the first architect to design a house that did not contemplate servants. A lot of Ain's ideals were achieved in the "Modernique Homes" development, the name under which the Mar Vista Tract was marketed in 1948. The intent of the Mar Vista Tract was to create a housing development that provided cost efficient housing while advancing the cause of Modern architectural design. [more inside]
where the poor people are is where the amputations are
For just the price of a cup of coffee you can buy a dude a cup of coffee
Actress and writer Melissa Hunter's Youtube channel is worth a look for her Adult Wednesday Addams series in which the grown-up Addams explores life in contemporary LA. Bonus: 1-800 Adopt A Dude
Cause of death "Hamburger Game"
Everyone tries to do a pull up, everyone.
La Santa Cecilia's "El Hielo"
El Hielo by La Santa Cecilia [more inside]
Dance, romance, everyone's so happy
The shoe company Vans has just released several episodes of a documentary series called Living Off The Wall that follows teens (including Nekro, the singer from skacore band Proyekto Makabro) who are active in the energetic (and storied) East LA backyard punk scene. [more inside]
Yo La Tengo WFMU All-Request Marathon TONIGHT
Yo La Tengo are once again playing requests for pledges beginning at 9pm US EST TONIGHT on WFMU. Every year, Yo La Tengo perform requests live on-air in exchange for pledges, to help keep freeform noncommercial radio station WFMU (91.1 FM in Jersey City, NJ) on the air. This year is no exception. They will begin playing at 9pm US EST tonight, and will be playing listener requests for several more hours.
La-La Land
Vintage Los Angeles is Alison Martino's YouTube channel featuring a look back at Los Angeles during the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. There's an accompanying blog and a facebook page, too.
It's not just a food, it's a lifestyle
The Best of L.A. Taco: L.A. Taco looks back at the best tacos, art, music and people celebrating the taco lifestyle. [more inside]
We got the beat
The Go Go's bill themselves as "The Most Successful all female rock band of all time." Unfortunately, they've had some bumps in the road recently when bassist Kathy Valentine filed a lawsuit against the rest of the band. There is analysis and a band rebuttal. The Go Go's also had a controversial party video come to light within the past few years (NSFW) And, what happened to Jane Weidlin?
Hang On, I Turned Into Two Ugly Guys And A Dog
Splitsider presents - The Top Eleven Sketch Comedy Groups On The Internet, featuring many Metafilter favorites. [more inside]
Orson, you're behaving like an asshole.
In the early eighties, Orson Welles was a fixture at L.A.'s Ma Maison, where Wolfgang Puck was the chef before he moved on to Spago. Nearing 70, and 40-plus years removed from Citizen Kane, which he made when he was just 25, Welles was fat and famously difficult, no longer a viable star but still a sort of Hollywood royalty—a very certain sort. The younger director Henry Jaglom was one of many aspiring auteurs who admired him but possibly the only one who taped their conversations. These took place in 1983 over lunch at the restaurant.
Dodger Blue
Yo Dodger Blue (L.A. Loves You) (SLYT) "It's no surprise [Harry] Nilsson was a Dodger fan. They were both Brooklyn born, and both eventually relocated to Los Angeles. In the late 80s and early 90s, when Harry was doing little in terms of his "career," he was still actively writing songs and still coming up with ideas like this to amuse his creativity. These unreleased recordings probably come from 1990. The first version is a studio recording (musicians unknown) while the second version comes from KABC in Los Angeles, where Harry personally showed up to premiere the sing along. It's a catchy, rousing stadium chant that coulda/shoulda worked, though it was never officially adopted by the team." Links to both downloadable versions can be found at the blog For The Love of Harry Nillson. (via) [more inside]
In my experience, everyone lies the first time
A former LAPD detective gives commentary on the 1940s LAPD simulator, L.A. Noire (previously, previously, and so)
25 years is never as far away as it seems.
On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine published a 25-year look ahead to 2013.
VP8 Redux?
Google and MPEG LA come to an Agreement, putting to rest (for the most part in the current patent atmosphere) fears that VP8 isn't really royalty free.
Showtime is over.
Strike that, reverse it
Auxiliofaux is the photography Tumblr of Richard Auxilio, a Los Angeles-based photog whose current project is symmetrical double exposures.
The Rules Of The Game
Anne Helen Petersen, the voice behind "Scandals Of Classic Hollywood" (previously) and "doctor of celebrity gossip" gives us an academic rundown of the hows and whys of the last hundred years of Hollywood Star Making, celebrity, PR, marketing, fandom, and scandal management.
"Come On Down"
The story of a guy who went to LA with one goal in mind, get somebody from his party into Contestants Row on The Price is Right.
Welcome To New Wave Theatre
In 1980, director David Jove created New Wave Theatre, an L.A.-based music show showcasing live performances by California hardcore punk rock bands. [more inside]
Perfection Is Perfected
Dec 15th, 1992 : The Chronic, Dr. Dre's first solo album, is released. [more inside]
Up through Los Angeles came a bubblin' crude: Southern California was the Kuwait of the Jazz Age, turning a religious piano teacher into an oil baroness
"In 1925, California supplied [much] of the world's oil (Google quickview, original PDF) and much of it came from pumps in the Southland (quickview, PDF). To date, around 9 billion barrels of oil have been produced in the Los Angeles area. There are still over 30,000 active wells here pumping around 230 million barrels of oil a year, making Los Angeles County the second most productive oil county in California (although the quality of the oil here is somewhat low by today's standards). There are 55 known oil fields in the Los Angeles area and 11 of them are located in a very urban context. This setting makes the oil extraction process in Los Angeles unique." Things to do in LA: Urban Oil Wells In Los Angeles, Part I and Part II. [more inside]
Time-lapse video of space shuttle Endeavour's journey through Los Angeles from the Los Angeles Times.
Death and Politics in the Great American Water Wars
LA : What's that smell? The Salton Sea! [more inside]
Dwight Howard to the Lakers
After months of rumors and frustration, it appears that Dwight Howard has been traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in a four-team trade. Here is Bill Simmons rapid reaction.
A rainbow indeed
Moises Kaufman can kiss my a** The La Jolla Playhouse production of Broadway-bound "The Nightingale", about the Emperor of feudal China, will boast zero actors of Chinese descent. Actress Erin Quill responds.
Future past
Driving down the street in LA, you may notice coffee shops, gas stations or motels with bright primary colors, sweeping lines, bold angles and a retrofuture feel: Googie - Architecture of the Space Age [more inside]
" America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets.....You can't lose what you lacked at conception."
When divorced mother Jean Hilliker was discovered murdered under lurid circumstances in 1958, it came as no surprise that her young son James grew up a bit disturbed. Sent to live with his alcoholic accountant father, a man with "a 12 (to 16) inch schvantz " who had purportedly once "poured the pork to Rita Hayworth", James Ellroy became obsessed with his mother's murder. Some of this obsession was transferred to police procedure, detective novels and especially the spectacularly grisly murder case of Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia. [more inside]
Can't we all just get along?
Rodney King, victim of a 1991 police brutality incident that became the catalyst for civil unrest and rioting a year later, was found dead by his fiancee at the bottom of his swimming pool. He was 47. [more inside]
"a mean perfectionist streak that borders on the tyrannical."
Empire of the Bun: Today, burgers. Tomorrow, the world. The casual-dining revolution of Adam Fleischman and his Umami Group. 'In 2009, with $40,000 in his pocket from selling his stake in BottleRock, Fleischman decided to open a restaurant centered on the umami flavor. He knew that an umami-focused menu would attract a burgeoning breed of foodies who had been weaned on the Food Network and had developed a sort of teenybopper crush on the heady flavors of pork, organ meats, West Coast IPAs, and superripe cheeses.' [more inside]
Jardin la francaise
The Château de Marqueyssac is a 17th century chateau and gardens located at Vézac, in France. The chateau was built at the end of the 17th century on cliffs overlooking the Dordogne Valley. The original garden à la française featured terraces, alleys, and a kitchen garden surrounding the chateau. In the 1860s, the new owner, began to plant thousands of boxwood trees - today there are over 150,000 - and had them carved in fantastic shapes, many in groups of rounded shapes like flocks of sheep. [more inside]
A Corgi goes for a hike
An Arrow in the Androgyne
Emerging surrealist artist Margo Selski, known for her Modern Subcultures-and-Flemish fusion inspired theatrical portraiture, has opened a new exhibit that prominently features and celebrates her shy 12-year old son Theo, who attended the opening gala in a beautiful red velvet gown, pearls, and black lace opera gloves. [more inside]
The price of parking
"I truly believe that when men and women think about parking, their mental capacity reverts to the reptilian cortex of the brain,"
ink&paper A short film about the last paper shop, and the last letterpress, in Los Angeles. "There are days go by that there can be absolutely no business at all."
A Brief History of Palm Trees in Southern California
Of the hundreds of species of palm trees you might find in southern California, only one is native to the state, and that shaggy specimen is naturally found around springs and arroyos in the desert southwest, not lined along beach community parks and streets. How did a desert tree become an icon of fruitful turn of the twentieth century Los Angeles, the former garden city? KCET writer Nathan Masters provides a brief history of palm trees in southern California. [more inside]
"This is going green, 1949 style."
"The good, the bad, and the ugly of LA." Ice Cube nerds out about the Eames, brought to you by Pacific Standard Time.
"Wheelchair Hell"
"Imagine 12 men in a dorm all in diapers and sitting in their own feces," he says. "It smelled like a combination of what people had for lunch that day and pus from people's open wounds. I've been in a wheelchair now for three years, and the jail is by far the worst place I've ever seen for a disabled person." -- L.A. Weekly on "Wheelchair Hell" in the L.A. County Men's Jail
LAT at 130
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times celebrated the 130th anniversary of its first issue, and marked the occasion with 130 photos from Los Angeles history, as well as a gallery of historic front pages.
Reservoir ball pit
For millennia, man has yearned to block the sun (with black plastic balls). If an un-covered public water reservoir contains bromide, sunlight will combine the bromide with the chlorine used for reducing bacteria -- thus poisoning the water with carcinogenic bromate. Blocking the sunlight is the answer, but building a permanent cover for a huge reservoir is very costly. The solution for LA-area reservoirs, a few years ago: cover the entire water surface with millions of floating "bird balls", in effect turning the reservoir into a 10+ acre ball pit. [more inside]
Not Getting Any
"Offstage, with his Fleshlight in his hand, 'D-Bone', who will be flown to Austin to compete in the Air Sex finals next month, didn't break character. 'I feel fantastic,' he said. 'It's always a pleasure to be the best air-fucker in the city. I'm going to have tons of chicks over at my place tonight, with lots of cocaine and drugs.'"--L.A. Weekly covers the Air Sex (Regional) World Championships (kinda NSFW)
Hard Times for Porn (Seriously)
"In the last few years, the rise of free online porn — content-rich sites that tease viewers to subscribe for more — and pay-site juggernauts like Brazzers have put the L.A.-based adult-video industry against the ropes. Its answer, in part, has been the high-dollar parody, designed to attract ComicCon nerds, science fiction fans and other pop culture aficionados who must collect everything within their target oeuvre." -- The troubled US economy affects pornstars too, so "Porn Defends The Money Shot" (NSFW) [more inside]
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Unlike a lot of crank lights in this price range, this light actually keeps a charge. I left it on to drain, then cranked it up, then left it untouched (forgot about it) for about a month. After that long, I assumed that any power left would been gone. But to my surprise, the light came on and it was ... Read more
It emits a very powerful light none It is a good lamp of head, I use it to lead to the mountain, it can be very useful Read more
Compact, good solid crank churns out reliable power. I wanted a pocket-sized crank flashlight and also liked the headband attachment. This is exactly what I was wanting. I was worried that the tiny size would mean very low charge but I've really been surprised thus far. When cranking it really feels ... Read more