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You might've thought that by owning an Apple Mac your chances of being infected by malware are pretty low. Well, sorry to disappoint all you fanbois out there, but it would seem that this particular threat has reared its ugly head on the Apple machine for the first time.
The Russian security vendor Doctor Web is claiming to have identified a Trojan that disguises itself as the OS X installer on Mac computers, in order to trick people into running the malware. Doctor Web has named the threat as Trojan.SMSSend.3666 specifically because its aim appears to be stealing phone numbers from those machines it infects.
We've seen similar threats on Windows in the past – malware mimicking apparently legitimate software – but Doctor Web says that this is the first time it's seen this particular kind of malicious software appear on Apple hardware.
Opening the program causes the malware to prompt users to enter a phone number so that OS X can be activated. If they do so, the program sends an 'activation code' to their phone via SMS. Unfortunately for the unwitting user, while they go and enter the code and think that all is dandy, their phone has just been charged a recurring subscription fee which is debited on a regular basis. To further convince users, the software will actually complete its fake 'download' so that the majority of users will be totally unaware of what's happened.
This is an interesting one, and not just because it's the first time we've seen this kind of threat on a Mac. Targeting phones hasn't really been that popular among hackers before, mainly because there are more profitable enterprises they can pursue. However, by attacking Mac users for the first time it would appear that someone has made this particular scheme quite profitable.


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Count your blessings when life's stresses get overwhelming.
Oh that's such a cruisy job - wanna swap?" is something I hear regularly when I meet someone new and they find out what I do for a living.
They must think it's all just wine tasting day in day out, making a telly show and going to the occasional flash party.
They don't see the screaming weekly deadlines, the soul-sucking sitting around in airports, the horror of realising you'd booked your crew to fly economy and they're going to arrive in Queenstown two hours late, if at all.
The GST and PAYE, the dubious semi-rural internet connections, the website that is months out of date (meaning my "social media platforms are operating at less than optimal levels") and the constant strain of trying to maintain some semblance of normality at home (when I am home) for my children and long-suffering husband. The cooking, the housework, the pressure of producing vaguely nutritious lunchboxes each day and the ferrying of kids to and from sport/dancing/drama and after-school tuition ("because your child needs more problem-solving strategies for their line of attack in terms of the maths curriculum").
They don't see the supermarket shopping, the state of my skirting boards, the keeping on top of school notices and the "your child wants to do waterpolo so can you sign here, pay $100 and also be a parent-helper" forms.
The begging babysitters at short notice, the "knock on every door down your street to ask for money because our school needs some new tambourines" fundraisers, the numerous presents for the kids' friends birthday parties, the doctor's appointments, the cat vaccinations, the gardening, the banking and insurance and bills, bills, bills. "Then you really should get a nanny/cleaner/PA ... because your life would be SO much easier if you did," is what they tend to say if I ever do get the chance to vent my spleen about how staggeringly crap it is being middle class. Are these people on peyote? I really love my job, but it can sometimes be a bit of a financial stretch just to keep my eight-week hair appointments let alone pay someone to scrub the shower, swing past school to collect the kids or sort out my spreadsheets. Sheesh!
Actually, now that I've taken a few moments to think about it, those last few paragraphs are little more than a petulant, post-Christmas rant from a woman who should know better.
She should, in fact, calm down, take a deep breath and get over herself. Because life is good when you are loved.
Always be thankful for what you have.
Learn to say "no" more often because money isn't everything and suck it up, Yvonne. It's pride not money stopping you from getting help with the cleaning.
Stop complaining, spend less on your hair and more on your sanity and the world will be a better place.
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Efforts underway to shut down adult section of Backpage.com
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - It's a website where you can look for a job, find a roommate or purchase anything from concert tickets to pet supplies to furniture. Backpage.com is also the biggest marketplace on the Internet where women and girls are being bought and sold.
The adult section on Backpage.com hosts more than 20,000 prostitution ads a day, and about three dozen daily in southern Colorado. The ages listed are always 18 and over, but some of photos tell a different story. There are documented cases of underage girls being sold on the site.
This year in Denver, 14 people were indicted for using Backpage.com to run a child prostitution ring. Just last week in Washington, D.C., two men pleaded guilty to pimping young girls on the site and tattooing their names on the teens. There are also cases here in southern Colorado.
In May, police said 20-year-old Trevor Baker admitted to helping pimp a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old on Backpage.com. Baker claims the underage girl told him she was 18, and both teens were willing participants in the plan to make some cash. Baker is awaiting trial for pimping and pandering of a child, inducement of child prostitution and keeping a place of child prostitution. He's been accused of violating the restraining order in place for the underage girl three times.
"I think it's important that everyone understands that this is going on in our community," said Sergeant Bill Dehart, from the Colorado Springs Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children unit.
Tina Clouse's daughter is the 18-year-old involved in the case.
"I was devastated," said Clouse.
She said, at that point back in May, her daughter had moved from home, was hanging out with a bad crowd and had started stripping. Clouse said she had never heard of Backpage.com until she learned of the criminal case.
"I pulled it up myself, and it's interesting how there's no security on it. Interesting how anybody can get on there," said Clouse.
She said she was stunned by what she saw in the adult section.
"I mean, I'm a mom, I have three daughters. You can tell that these girls are not of age," said Clouse. "And the provocative pictures that are on there. The information that is on there. It's disgusting."
FAIR Girls, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., helps underage girls escape the sex trade, and has started a campaign to try to get the owners of Backpage.com to take down the adult section.
"What we're finding is almost every single girl we serve here in the D.C. area is actually a victim who was sold by her pimp on Backpage.com," said FAIR Girls Executive Director Andrea Powell.
FAIR Girls has created an online ad that tells the true story of what happened to one 13-year-old girl.
"I thought he was my boyfriend, I thought he loved me for real," begins the actress in the ad. "He sold me to four, sometimes five men a day for $100 an hour. One time, there was ten men in one day. I thought they would kill me. I thought I'd never get away. My pimp advertised me online at Backpage.com."
Research by the AIM Group shows Backpage.com generated about $29 million in prostitution ads over a 12 month period. Since the inception of the site until September of 2012, Backpage was owned by Village Voice Media. In an effort to separate the controversial website from the 13 weekly newspapers also owned by Village Voice, two executives from the company, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, took control of Backpage.com.
FAIR Girls online petition urging the owners to get rid of the site's adult section has gotten more than 41,000 signatures and support from attorneys general across the nation, including in Colorado.
"Our goal with that petition is really to show the public as well as the owners of Backpage.com that there is a true public outcry," said Powell.
TARGET 13 was unable to get in touch with Lacey or Larkin for comment, but attorneys for Backpage.com have argued that they have staff who police the site and report hundreds of ads to law enforcement each month.
Sgt. Dehart said that's true based on tips he's seen.
"Many of them have actually been initiated by Backpage staff. They do actually police their website," Dehart said.
The mother of the 16-year-old involved in the Baker case told TARGET 13 that she found her daughter's Backpage.com ad, and immediately reported it.
"Backpage didn't take my daughter's ad down until I sent two or three emails threatening to sue," said the mom, who requested her name not be used.
Both she and Clouse said they never thought this sort of thing would touch their families.
"I think I was naïve to think it wouldn't be a problem for me as a mother and my daughters," said Clouse.
She said her daughter is back living at home and going to school.
"She's doing wonderful," Clouse said. "I brought her home, she didn't have a choice. And she's doing excellent in school."
Clouse said Internet use is very limited now for all three of her daughters.
"The computer in this house is in my room. They only get an hour each and I monitor it," said Clouse.
She said she's joined the fight to get the Backpage.com adult section taken down.
"I think as a community we need to come together and try to stop this," Clouse said. "We need to get it off there. We need to close it down, shut it down."
If you have information about a child prostitution or human trafficking situation, you can call the National Human Trafficking Research Center at 1-888-3737-888.
There is also a local group that working to combat child prostitution and trafficking called the Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado.


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New rules would affect U.S. power plants
President Barack Obama has laid out a new plan to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions from U.S. power plants. In a speech delivered at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Obama said he would use his executive powers without needing support from Congress.
"The question is not whether we need to act," Obama said. "The question is whether we will have the courage to act before it's too late."
The central point of Obama's plan focuses on new rules that would require power plants to reduce and control the amount of carbon dioxide they emit. Carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas that many scientists say is a cause of global warming—a worldwide rise in temperature. This can produce changes in weather and sea levels.
According to the U.S. Energy Department, 40 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, and one-third of greenhouse gases overall, come from electric power plants.
Obama's plan includes increased government support for renewable energy technology and funding to help communities prepare for extreme weather conditions caused by rising temperatures. These include powerful storms, such as hurricanes, and long droughts.
Different Opinions
Not everyone supports the President's plan. Many Republican lawmakers say the plan will limit energy production and therefore hurt the economy. John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, called putting controls on existing power plants "absolutely crazy" last week, according to the Associated Press.
People working in the manufacturing industry also oppose the president's program. Those involved in coal and energy production say that power plants will have to raise electricity prices and cut jobs to pay for upgrades to meet the new standards.
Still, environmental activists praised Obama's speech as an important step forward.
"This is the change we have been waiting for," said Michael Brune, executive director of the environmental group the Sierra Club, in a statement. "Today, President Obama has shown he is keeping his word to future generations."
Dealing with Congress
President Obama has talked about combatting climate change since his 2008 election. However, during his first term, he focused mostly on the nation's economy and health care reform. In his second inaugural address last January, Obama mentioned climate change again, but this is the first time he has offered more details.
Congress has also made little progress in addressing climate change over the past few years, mostly due to major disagreements between Republicans and Democrats. Obama's new plan makes use of his executive powers, which would allow him to go around Congress to ensure that the changes happen.
"He doesn't need Congress," former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman told AP. "What that does, of course, is make (Congress) madder."
Obama told the audience that he was acting "as a president, as a father, and as an American. . . . I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing."


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There are about 22 million veterans in the United States, an inspiring group of servicemen and women of nearly every age and background. Unfortunately, these heroes are more likely to experience the challenge of homelessness than other Americans. A federal report found 76,000 veterans were homeless on a given day in 2009, and about 136,000 spent one night in a shelter that year.
See also: Purple Heart Homes helps older veterans.
Additionally, about four out of every 10 veterans are age 65 or over, having served in such conflicts as Vietnam, Korea and World War II.
In this set of videos, Tim Cantwell Jr. (president of Cantwell Anderson Inc.) and Stephen Peck (CEO of the United States Veterans Initiative, or U.S. Vets) discuss many aspects of providing housing for older veterans, including the needs of aging vets and how they differ from those of younger vets.
As Peck points out, the creation of permanent, affordable housing is essential in order to stabilize the population of older veterans. Many communities, however, don't want low-income housing nearby. Overcoming this feeling of "not in my backyard" or "NIMBYism" is one of the challenges in providing housing for aging veterans.
In addition to housing, older veterans need access to health care, transportation and other services. Both Cantwell Anderson and U.S. Vets provide or work with partners to offer health care access and other important support services to their residents.
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Street Fighter 2 Mock Video of Yuichiro Nagashima KO'ing Shinya Aoki
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Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, Shinya Aoki getting knocked out by Yuichiro Nagashima from Dynamite!! will not die, actually, someone has lovingly mocked it up like Street Fighter 2. This isn't the first time we've seen something similar before, and it won't be the last time we see it, either. This comes hot on the heels as reports from Japan revolve around Nagashima's crazy cosplaying fans making Aoki's life a nightmare. We've actually heard that a few days ago Nagashima appeared at Aoki's gym, but we haven't heard if it was for an apology or if Nagashima was just messing around. Yikes. Aoki even has a new, private Twitter account, so the odds are he won't let you read his feed. Sorry. [source]


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Interview: Sen. James Inhofe will call for hearings into IPCC, UN, East Anglia CRU e-mails
posted at 12:15 pm on November 23, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Earlier this morning, I had an opportunity to talk with Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), about a wide range of issues. We discussed the East Anglia CRU e-mails, but then moved to Gitmo, the terrorist trials in federal court, the health-care debate, and much more. Sen. Inhofe agreed with me that moving the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill to the spring meant that it was dead, and he says that Democrats have been listening to the groundswell of public opposition and have begun worrying about their jobs. Be sure to watch it all:
Senator Inhofe recommended an IBD editorial on the subject:
As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December.
It will be a very cold winter of discontent for the warm-mongers. The climate show-and-tell in Copenhagen next month will be nothing more than a meaningless carbon-emitting jaunt, unable to decide just whom to blame or how to divvy up the profitable spoils of climate change hysteria.
The collapse of the talks coupled with the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put off the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, the Senate's version of Waxman-Markey, until the spring thaw has led Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the leading Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, to declare victory over Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and the triumph of observable fact over junk science.
The Washington Times also interviewed Senator Inhofe about the surprise revelation from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) e-mails over the past few days, especially in how they manipulated data and deliberately hid contradictory information while building their "consensus" on anthropogenic global warming. Inhofe told Melanie Morgan and Jed Babbin that he would call for a Congressional hearing on the e-mails and their impact on the credibility of the AGW movement, especially as it relates to the IPCC and the United Nations:
Inhofe's site has the transcript:
Senator Inhofe: This is a huge issue and of course we have the Gitmo issue and we have the, of course, cap-and-trade is now taking a new turn. Jed, if I could…
Jed Babbin: Yeah.
Senator Inhofe: Would you let me make one sentence?
Jed Babbin: Please.
Senator Inhofe: This is out of a speech that I made, Melanie, back on the floor of the Senate, and it was repeated, John Gizzi picked it up and put it in Human Events. This was 4 years ago, in talking about the science, cooking the science. I said I would discuss the "systematic and documented abuse of the scientific process by which an international body that claims it provides the most complete and objective science assessment in the world on the subject of climate change, the United Nations IPCC." Now that was four years ago; so we knew they were cooking the science back then, and you've been talking about the, you know, what's happened recently with the bloggers coming up with what they did, what they…
Jed Babbin: Let me interrupt you there Senator, because I think that's a really important point. Ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't followed that story, what Senator Inhofe's talking about, in Britain, a blogger got into some of the official government records about climate change and how the measurements were being taken to show…
Melanie Morgan: And the politics behind it.
Jed Babbin: And the – well but they were basically saying, "Oh yea, hey, let's make it look like Jim so-and-so did that, and let's help him cook the books, and let's change the data…"
Melanie Morgan: And "let's beat up those who don't agree with us."
Jed Babbin: Yea, but it's all a huge fraud! I mean, Senator, am I exaggerating?
Senator Inhofe: No you're not. If you remember, mine was the hoax statement, and that was, what, five years ago I guess.
Jed Babbin: Well, we ought to give you a big pat on the back for being …
Melanie Morgan: Yea, you deserve an an 'atta boy, and now you are finally being vindicated.
Senator Inhofe: Well, on this thing, it is pretty serious. And since, you know, Barabara Boxer is the Chairman and I'm the Ranking Member on Environment and Public Works, if nothing happens in the next seven days when we go back into session a week from today that would change this situation, I will call for an investigation. 'Cause this thing is serious, you think about the literally millions of dollars that have been thrown away on some of this stuff that they came out with.
Melanie Morgan: So what will you be calling for an investigation of?
Senator Inhofe: On the IPCC and on the United Nations on the way that they cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not.
Jed Babbin: Should somebody stop further spending on this until we get this investigation, Senator?
Senator Inhofe: Well, I don't know how you do that, though, 'cause we're not the ones that are calling the shots. The interesting part of this is it's happening right before Copenhagen. And, so, the timing couldn't be better. Whoever is on the ball in Great Britain, their time was good.
Melanie Morgan: Well, Senator, thank you very much for coming back and handling a little bit, a tiny little bit of heat from the kitchen.
Senator Inhofe: Okay.
Jed Babbin: Thanks very much Senator.
Senator Inhofe: Thanks, you bet.
Jed Babbin: Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma on the Environment Committee over there, and one of the real fighters.
Melanie Morgan: He certainly is…
Meanwhile, not every newspaper wants to cover this story. The New York Times has suddenly discovered an ethical responsibility on classified material (via Ed Driscoll):
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won't be posted here.
Gee, what a great idea! Perhaps the Times could have adopted that policy when it came to terrorist surveillance, banking cooperation on tracking jihadist money, and the location of secret CIA facilities for interrogating detainees captured abroad in the War on Terror. Will we be assured of the Gray Lady's strict adherence to this policy … or will it only be imposed when the information "never intended for the public eye" contradicts their editorial policy?
Assume that question is rhetorical.
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Game and set to Labour ... but not match. Not yet anyway. When it comes to dealing with Labour's enemies - or as he would prefer to say - dealing to them, Clayton Cosgrove displays all the sympathy and mercy of a knuckleduster-carrying rottweiler.
As far as the Christchurch list MP is concerned, there can only be two outcomes on the battlefield of political life - either making sure you win, or making damn sure you don't lose.
Having joined the party at the age of 14, he is tribal Labour to the core - like his mentor, Mike Moore.
That connection never endeared him to Helen Clark or her followers who saw his preference for rough-and-tumble politics as challenging their more intellectual approach.
Like John Tamihere, Cosgrove's audience is the shrinking class of conservative male, blue-collar workers whose attachment to Labour has become weak or non-existent.
It is an audience that responds to language which calls a spade a spade. It is the language of an angry segment of the population. It is the language of opposition.
Cosgrove consequently sounds as happy, if not happier, in opposition as in government.
Indeed, he remains an unreconstructed Opposition politician. He views National as comprising an unholy alliance of New Zealand's privileged landed gentry, Neanderthal-like Hooray Henrys and latter-day gangsters who would sell the country's birthright for a couple of shekels.
He has thus been a perfect fit for the role of Labour's spokesman on state-owned enterprises (SOEs). His anti-privatisation rhetoric has fuelled the party's campaign against the float of up to 49 per cent of each of the three remaining electricity generators, Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy and Genesis Energy.
Everything has changed, however, with the Supreme Court chucking out the Maori Council's bid to halt the partial asset sales. The court's unanimity gave the green light for the first share offer to proceed. The public debate has likewise moved on.
The big question is whether Cosgrove can move along with it. The debate is now about whether the shares will be a good investment. It is about whether the Government's retention of 51 per cent of the shares in each power generator is purely cosmetic when it comes to ministers exercising some control over the new "mixed ownership model" companies.
Cosgrove, however, has been fixated on the woes of Solid Energy. That is understandable. It was his persistence - and his alone - that forced the Government to buckle and agree that the state coal company's former chief executive, Don Elder, should be "invited" to appear at Thursday's meeting of Parliament's commerce committee.
National quickly sought to dispel surmise about what Elder might have to say about the SOE's plunge into the red last year and why it now had a debt burden of big enough for the company's bankers to be called in.
The Prime Minister revealed he and other senior ministers had been pretty much at loggerheads with Solid Energy's board for the past 18 months, most notably over the company's need for capital for its since-scrapped diversification programme.
At the same time, John Key also tried to put some distance between National and Solid Energy's spiral into indebtedness to the tune of close to $390 million.
National was not interested in "pointing fingers" over who was to blame for that. The Government was instead focused on the company's future.
But Labour had obtained some embarrassing Cabinet papers under the Official Information Act. These showed that in 2009 Cabinet ministers had told Solid Energy and other state-owned enterprises to increase their gearing - the ratio of their borrowing to their equity.
The purpose of this exercise was to force Solid Energy to lift its profitability so it could pay higher dividends to a cash-strapped Government.
Solid Energy's gearing jumped from less than 10 per cent in 2008 - the year National won office - to nearly 42 per cent last year.
Unfortunately for Key, Labour found some quotes from him last month pointing his finger at high gearing as one of the factors responsible for Solid Energy's financial predicament.
In short, game and set to Labour ... but not match. Not yet anyway.
Cosgrove and his colleagues might have smacked Key around the ears. That will not worry the Prime Minister. His priority is the Mighty River Power float. Given it is too late to halt that sale, Labour's priority is to bring enough public pressure to bear on the following floats of Meridian and Genesis so they are either cancelled or prove to be relative failures and discredit the whole asset sales programme. It is difficult to see how a formal inquiry which Cosgrove is demanding - and which National would block - helps Labour in that regard.
Admittedly, an ongoing inquiry could keep Solid Energy in the news. It would serve as a platform to highlight the fact that the company was also on the list of upcoming share floats until it started to rapidly go down the gurgler. That serves as a cautionary warning to would-be investors that the mixed ownership model is not immune from financial risk. Those who bought shares in the then state-owned Bank of New Zealand in the late 1980s got badly burned.
Labour, however, has made little if anything of this potentially lucrative line of attack. With that in mind, Labour should be targeting the nearly 330,000 people who have pre-registered for Mighty River Power shares rather than preaching to the converted - the 392,000 people who signed the petition seeking a referendum on partial asset sales which National will anyway ignore.
Labour also needs to get the message across that the mixed-ownership model companies will not be a simple adaptation of the state-owned enterprise model.
The Treasury has been transparent in saying that despite retaining a majority shareholding, the Government will be trading off ministerial oversight for greater commercial discipline. The absence of statements of corporate intent will reduce ministers' ability to influence company strategy.
The Government's primary tool for "protecting its investment" - as the Treasury puts it - will be the appointment of suitably qualified directors.
Under the Companies Act - which will govern how these new companies function - those directors will be obliged to act in what they believe to be the best interests of the company, rather than those of the majority shareholder. They will function a lot like Air New Zealand which is subject to a less vigorous monitoring regime by the Treasury than fully state-owned companies.
This is complex territory and not the sort of stuff which makes for easily digested sound-bites. But Cosgrove and Labour must think laterally if they want to keep the party's anti-privatisation campaign alive. They may have triumphed in battle this week, but they remain at serious risk of losing the war.


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Dominus Estate 2009
Bordeaux Red Blends from Yountville, Napa Valley, California
Winemaker's Notes
The Dominus 2009 exemplifies the finest qualities of Cabernet Sauvignon from an ideal vintage. The nose, at once powerful yetrestrained, is dense and filled with pure dark berry fruit and hints of sandalwood. On the palate is a harmonious blend of fresh plumand focused minerality with tannins that are firm, round and elegant. Spherical in quality, this wine is complete from start to finish.A sublime vintage.
Blend: 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Petit Verdot
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "The 2009 Dominus saw about 40% new oak compared to the 20% for Napanook. A seamless classic, it offers a symphony of red and black currants, Asian plum sauce, lavender, and underbrush. Sweet Christmas fruitcake characteristics emerge from this magnificent Dominus that finished at 14.5% natural alcohol (slightly higher than usual). The seamless integration of acidity, tannin, wood and alcohol, the brilliant length and overall compelling complexity and richness make it one of the great classics from this historic estate. It should drink well for 20-25 years."
Vinous / Antonio Galloni - "The 2009 Dominus has closed down quite a bit since I last tasted it. Today, all of the glorious fruit of the vintage is hiding behind a serious wall of tannin. The 2009 still possesses gorgeous inner perfume and plenty of sweetness, but little of the sexiness that will emerge over time. From time to time, the utter genius of the 2009 shows a glimpse of its potential. There is little doubt the 2009 will be a jewel once it awakens from what might very well be a long slumber. This is another wine that begs for patience. The 2009 is 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot.
Range: 97+ Points"
International Wine Cellar - "Good ruby-red color, more saturated than the Napanook. Knockout floral lift to the aromas of black raspberry, blueberry, blond tobacco, almond and mint. Suave, savory and extremely precise, with penetrating flavors of dark berries, licorice, minerals and cocoa powder. The petit verdot component acts as an amplifier of aromas and flavors, notes winemaker Tod Mostero, "like a good seasoning." Medicinal in a Bordeaux way. The finishes shows outstanding length, noteworthy juiciness, and firm, noble tannins. A great vintage for Dominus."
Wine Spectator - "Delightfully harmonious given its intensity, with complex aromas of savory herbs, flowers, ripe and dried currant and berry, crushed rock and cedar flavors. Well-proportioned, focused and persistent. Very youthful and vibrant. Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Best from 2014 through 2030."
James Suckling - "I like the ripe fruit on this, with Armagnac prune and currants. Full bodied and round, with lovely tannins and a long finish. A combination of the 2006 and 2008. This has the potential to be better than the 2008, we will see what happens."
Wine Enthusiast - "While this is not the best Dominus vintage, it does show elegantly smooth tannins, dryness and earthiness that accompanies the blackberry and cassis fruit. It's curiously soft, which might limit its ageability. Shows an uncanny similarity to the 2000. "
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Dominus Winery
In the late 1960s, while attending the University of California at Davis, Christian Moueix fell in love with the Napa Valley and its wines. Son of Jean-Pierre Moueix, the famed wine merchant and producer from Libourne, France, Moueix returned home in 1970 to manage the family vineyards, including Chateaux Petrus, La Fleur-Petrus, Trotanoy in Pomerol and Magdelaine in Saint Emilion.
His love of Napa Valley lingered and in 1981, he discovered the historic Napanook vineyard, a 124-acre site west of Yountville that had been the source of fruit for some of the finest Napa Valley wines of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1982, Moueix entered into a partnership to develop the vineyard and, in 1995, became its sole owner. He chose the name 'Dominus' or 'Lord of the Estate' in Latin to underscore his longstanding commitment to stewardship of the land. View all Dominus Wines
About Napa ValleyView a map of Napa Valley wineries
It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just granted an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
Customer ReviewsSign In to Add Your Review54.9 out of 5 stars
6 ratings, 1 with reviewAnonymous - Thermal, CA15/23/2017smileaaron - Opelika, AL15/19/2017Marty Crine - Canal Fulton, OH15/12/2017bodido - Miami, FL53/21/2017imaxman - Burbank, CA512/24/2016Elizabeth Su - Thermal, CA59/25/2016morrilin - Charlotte, NC41/5/2015A gem of a wine. We loved this. But not a 5-star love, a four star love. It is fabulous, a great wine, but it won't be the one which in my head, I am comparing to all others.PoboyMan - Ocean Springs, MS57/17/2013JamieB - Scottsdale, AZ511/19/2012


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I'm working on a Jango Fett, like the title says... From Open Season #3.
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Here's what I have so far... Let me know if I'm on the right track...
The knee armor has been used on another kit (my custom Mandalorian Merc up on MMCC). So I'll have to make another pair...
So that's it, I should get back working on that kit pretty soon...!!
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UPDATED: Man Charged in 8-Year Molestation Case is Law Enforcement Officer
On Sunday KRCR News Channel 7 confirmed 28 year-old Jared Tomlinson is a reserve police officer with the Marysville Police Department and reserve deputy with the Sutter County Sheriff's Department.
In an email on Sunday, a spokesperson with the Marysville Police Department said the department has been made aware of Tomlinson's arrest and he has been placed on administrative leave.
Sheriff's investigators say Tomlinson, was arrested Thursday and charged with lewd acts on a minor, sodomy, and child pornography. His bail is set at $103,000.
Deputies say they took a report on April 4th of a molestation that started approximately eight years ago. On April 18, they served a search warrant on Tomlinson's residence, and on April 22nd, a warrant was issued for Tomlinson's arrest.
Detectives are asking anyone with information on the case, which is still under investigation, to call Det. Jason Miller at (530) 538-7424.


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I'd like to hear your opinion about firearms on a vessel. I plan on cruising with my family, and I am concerned about our safety. Although I am competent with a gun and used to shoot competitively, I would hate to have the same gun used on us or find myself in a third-world prison.
Don Torok
Tom Wood responds:
Guns are a problem outside of the US. Actually, even in the US, gun laws vary from state to state, and it is wise to know what local regulations might cause you grief as you cross state lines. Most countries are far stricter than the US, and we have even been asked to turn in our flare gun in several places. Turning guns into the local police and retrieving them later when you are ready to depart can be a time-consuming and frustrating experiencenot reporting them leaves you open to long jail terms in most countries, especially if the gun is used. Other countries have odd restrictions: guns are OK in the Bahamas, but officials sometimes count the bullets and you have to account for each and every shot fired. Many cruisers in third-world countries have reported that their weapons were used while they were in quarantine, or that they disappeared altogetherof considerable concern when the gun is registered to you.
Overall, I think most cruisers have come to the conclusion that guns are only an American obsession, and that carrying them is usually not worth the hassle. Beside all that, you have to be trained and prepared to kill another human for the gun to be effective, and I doubt most of us gentle sailorly folk would like to depart this life branded as a killer. But it is a decision that each of us has to make for him or herself.
Cheers, Tom Wood
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Views of Tuscany (top) and Alaska
UTSA Alumni Association to host Italy and Alaska tours
By Marcia Mattingly
Office of Alumni Programs
(Sept. 11, 2006)--The UTSA Alumni Association will host two vacation tours next year. UTSA alumni and friends will depart San Antonio for the Tuscany region of Italy from March 8 and return March 16. Additionally, an Alaskan cruise is set for June 2-9.
In Tuscany, enjoy six nights visiting the Academy Gallery and Michelangelo's "David," a tour of the Pitti Palace's magnificent collection of Renaissance masterpieces and sample delectable wines during an included winery tour and tasting. The trip includes a sweep of the historic, medieval cities of Siena, Pisa and Lucca, along with a guided tour of historic Assisi and the Basilica of St. Francis.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Learn more about the Tuscany tour in an information session at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 20 in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04), 1604 Campus.
The tour through Alaska's Inside Passage on the beautiful Golden Princess cruise ship runs June 2-9. Departing from Seattle, Wash., the cruise goes to Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan, Alaska, and on to Victoria, British Columbia, before returning to Seattle. Airfare to Seattle is not included.
Alaska is a natural showplace of snow-capped mountains, sparkling waterfalls and dazzling white glaciers. Watch as humpback whales and playful dolphins dart in and out of the rolling seascape, and marvel as eagles soar from lofty nests to feed on salmon that have returned home to spawn.
Learn more about the Alaska cruise in the information session at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 19 in John Peace Library Building Room 4.03.12, 1604 Campus.
For more details or to register for an information session, visit the UTSA Alumni Association Web site or call (210) 458-4133.


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Cancer: The Public and Private Conversation
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At age 20, while lying on a hospital bed in my own hometown, I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Perhaps because the rituals of being a cancer patient are so far removed from public life, we sometimes presume its causes are likewise located in an interior, intimate place. And some of the roots of cancer are indeed found there. But cancer has a public dimension, too.


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Term: om
Om: Also AUM; the Universal sound of Creation that manifests in all things.
source: Sacred Path of Reiki, by Katalin Koda
Om: Mya Om (Michigan) has traveled around the world. A lifelong witch, she was initiated into the Craft in 1998, after studying both Dianic and American Eclectic Wiccan traditions. She is the author of Energy Essentials for Witches and Spellcasters and The Un-Spell Book.
Om: In Hinduism, the sound that is the source of all. It has its own symbol in Sanskrit. It is traditionally pronounced Ah-oo-mm, starting in the back of the throat, moving to the center of the mouth and ending with closed lips, metaphorically representing all sounds. Also pronounced in other ways (such as "ohm") depending upon purpose, dialect, etc. It is used as a start to most Hindu mantras.
A symbol that predates written language. Om is often described as being the primordial sound; it is also called the primordial or liberation mantra. Chanting it, even just for a few minutes, can produce changes in consciousness.
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Thanks for posting the tute on this! Cute idea.
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I saw this when you posted the pic the other day. Thanks so much for sharing how you did it. I want to make some of these for my grands, also. Sending just the sham with a gift certificate is a wonderful idea. Guess they will all be getting one for Christmas!
Thank you - Thank you -Thank you for this tutorial. I have all the pillows bought. I had bookmarked a tutorial on a blog to follow and when I went back to get it she had changed it and was now charging for her pattern. I appreciate you sharing so much. I want to do these for my grandkids.
What a very clever idea - hoping i will remember this when my grandchildren come some day.
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Thank you so much for this awesome tut!!!
May you always have Love to Share , Health to Spare, and Friends that Care!
Great idea. What child wouldn't enjoy that? Take care.
What child? ROTFLOL... my dh and my 18 and 20 year old saw them and want one!!
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The rant and raves performed by a woman on a national TV show who has tested multiple partners to see who her babies father is to no avail.
Monica was on Maury Povich show hormoning because she thought she guessed right on who the father of her baby was after testing 10 guys.
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Katelyn Chargois, from left, Michael Royer, Christy Corley, Lina Morita, Graceanne LaCombe, Lonny Benoit and Ashley Eaves in ''West Side Story,'' staged by William Ward — part of the Lake Charles Civic Ballet production of ''Assemblé.'' (Danley Romero / Romero and Romero)
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By Jordan Gribble / Special to the American Press
After their spring 2012 production of "Sleeping Beauty," creative directors for the Lake Charles Civic Ballet decided to do something drastically different this year.
The show entitled "Assemblé" — French for "to come together" — will bring different forms of entertainment and different styles of dance to one stage at performances on Saturday and Sunday, March 16-17, in the Rosa Hart Theater.
Civic Ballet board member Kelly Saucier said the production came about as a way for the dance company to work with other local talent.
"Last spring we collaborated with the Lake Charles symphony to bring 'Sleeping Beauty' to the stage, and it was really well-received, and we got so much support from the community because of it that our artistic director wanted to expand on that by collaborating in a bigger way," she said.
"Since we began in 1968 we've always worked with other creative entities and have tried to bring a diverse and interesting presentation to the community."
Saucier said the Civic Ballet each year will work with groups it doesn't normally work with "and come up with something that the community will love and support."
Instead of one long uninterrupted production of a single piece, "Assemblé" will cover more ground by splitting its performance into segments that will feature classic and modern ballet, as well as other types of dance, such as that usually seen on the stages of Broadway.
"There will be a lot of different styles and genres, and the show is very fast moving," Saucier said.
"We'll show the classics, like an excerpt from 'Swan Lake,' and then we'll do Broadway-style dancing with a piece from 'West Side Story' and a scene from 'Graduation Ball,' which is very funny and that people will enjoy a lot.
"We'll even show a piece of an original worked called 'Fable' that was composed for us and premiered in the early '80s that we'll be bringing back."


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So exits Lockwood Smith as Parliament's Speaker. And to genuine and sustained applause from MPs from all parties.
Off to London to become New Zealand's High Commissioner to Britain, Smith presided over his final ministerial question-time yesterday. MPs took that into account. The session was far less torrid than usual.
In his four years as Parliament's referee, Smith would have adjudicated over close to 300 question-times and around 3600 questions.
Typically, he apologised for allowing yesterday's session to run over time - an apology which provoked the spontaneous applause.
Unfailingly polite - even when lecturing the Herald for breaking the rules in publishing a photo of a man being restrained from jumping from the public gallery into the chamber - Smith could be unbelievably pedantic.
He once ordered a National MP to apologise for saying "welcome back" to a just-returned-from-holiday Labour MP because it was breaching standing orders to refer to a member's absence.
At times his dedication to the job veered into pomposity, his re-routing of the antiquated Speaker's daily procession to the chamber and its funereal pace being a case in point.
Once the House was under way, there could often be too much referee's whistle rather than him allowing the two main parties to engage in no-holds-barred debate. He was noticeably reluctant to grant applications for snap debates - one of the few means available to Opposition parties to hold Governments to account. He was subject to potential no confidence motions from Opposition parties.
Yet no other Speaker has done more to help the Opposition and uphold Parliament's role of ensuring Cabinet ministers are accountable for what happens in their portfolios. His insistence that a minister address the actual question being posed by an Opposition MP rescued Parliament from fast-approaching irrelevance.
Smith's expectation that ministers' responses reflected what they were actually asked made a rod for his back. It annoyed his National colleagues. Labour and other Opposition MPs constantly sought his ruling on the acceptability of ministers' answers. Given an inch, they tried to take a mile.
The Opposition will be putting immediate pressure on Smith's successor, David Carter, to adopt the same approach.
Carter is an avuncular figure who enjoys respect around Parliament for the quiet, modest and unfussy way he has gone about doing a good job in his ministerial portfolios. He will do a good job as Speaker even though he might not have wanted the job. But Smith will be a hard act to follow.


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These luxurious macaroons studded with pistachios and dried cranberries hail from food stylist Katie Webster. She made them three years ago when she was a personal chef for a gluten-intolerant client, then began selling them to a grateful crowd at her local farmers' market. Although you can concoct them with either sweetened or unsweetened coconut, we find that the unsweetened packs a more coconutty wallop. For a variation, substitute chopped crystallized ginger and mini chocolate chips for the
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Gluten Free Diet
Heart Healthy
Low Calorie
Low Carb
Low Sat Fat
Low Sodium
Serves 55
Prep Time 50 min
Total Time 110 min.
Step 1
Position racks in upper and lower thirds of oven; preheat to 325°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
Step 2
Whisk condensed milk and almond extract in a large bowl until combined. Pulse almonds in a food processor (about 10 quick pulses) until broken unto small pieces. Stir the almonds, coconut, 1/2 cup cranberries and 1/2 cup pistachios into the condensed milk mixture.
Step 3
Beat egg whites and salt in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until soft peaks form, about 1 minute. Fold 1/2 cup of the egg whites into the coconut mixture. Add the remaining egg whites, gently folding into the mixture until just combined. Drop 1 teaspoon of dough onto a prepared baking sheet and top with another teaspoon of dough, making a double-tall macaroon. Repeat with the remaining batter, spacing the macaroons 1 inch apart.
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Bake the macaroons, switching the pans back to front and top to bottom halfway through, until the coconut is lightly golden, 18 to 22 minutes (sweetened coconut will brown faster than unsweetened). Let cool on the pans on a wire rack until cool to the touch, 30 minutes.
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Optional garnish: Place 1/2 cup chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and melt in the microwave on Medium in 30-second bursts, stirring after each burst to ensure even melting, until completely melted. (Alternatively, melt the chocolate in a double boiler over hot water, stirring constantly.) Stir the remaining 1/4 cup chips into the melted chocolate until smooth. Drizzle or spoon the melted chocolate over the top of each cooled macaroon; sprinkle with cranberries and pistachios. Let the chocolate dry completely before storing or packing.
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What does the bottom of the Miller feeder look like? Downloaded the plans here - is there a slot on the bottom between the B & B vertical boards? Figure the bees must get in some way... Are these same boards dado cut like the side and end boards to insert the luan? I am figuring that is a yes, since the bottom boards are listed as two separate pieces and that is how the bees get in?
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Right now, we're loving: The Lifeboat, a debut novel by American author Charlotte Rogan.
The premise, in 25 words or less: In 1914, 39 shipwreck survivors are cast adrift in a lifeboat that's overcrowded and threatening to sink. For any to live, some must die.
You'll love it if you like: The Life of Pi, Lord of the Flies and other stories in which extreme events test the normal boundaries of humanity and behaviour, the current Edwardian craze, or if you have a fascination with the Titanic or even the TV programme Survivor.
Author's credentials: A debut author at age 57, Charlotte Rogan has been biding her time. A Princeton University graduate, she worked mostly in architecture and engineering before becoming a stay-at-home mother in Dallas, Texas - looking after triplets, no less. Over several decades, she taught herself to write. The Lifeboat took her about 10 years to finish, and then sat in her bottom drawer until a chance encounter with a New York Times journalist led her to a literary agent, who was impressed.
The guts of the book: The protagonist of The Lifeboat is Grace Winter, a young woman who was separated from her doomed new husband when the grand ocean liner Empress Alexandra mysteriously exploded and sank in the middle of the Atlantic. As the book opens, Grace is about to stand trial with two other women for murdering a fellow survivor while they were stranded in the lifeboat. She begins to write a journal, in which she recounts the three weeks in which the survivors drifted.
Within a day or two of the sinking, hope of a quick rescue evaporates. As well as battling hunger, thirst and the elements, the 39 survivors begin to battle each other, as it becomes obvious the overloaded boat is sitting perilously low in the water and could sink at any moment. They realise the load must be lightened. Alliances are formed, leadership battles ensue and morality is tested, as each person faces a choice between sacrificing themselves for the good of the rest, or saving themselves at any cost.
Why you should read it: It's a page turner with depth. As a straight survivor story it's fascinating: who will live and who will die? As a courtroom drama it sucks you in with a riveting hook: how did Grace wind up on trial, and will she be convicted? But it also addresses deeper questions about morality. We like to think that catastrophe brings out the best in people. But, as Rogan demonstrates, it also brings out the worst. In this tale, the instinct to survive becomes tragically - even murderously - selfish. Heroism is noticeably absent in the small boat. When it does occur, sacrifice is suggestive of weakness - an inability to withstand peer pressure.
The most haunting illustration of this comes shortly after the ship's sinking, and sets the tone for the rest of the story. The survivors are rowing their lifeboat through the wreckage and encounter a young boy clinging to a plank beside his dead mother, screaming for help and holding his hands out to them. Grace recounts in her journal: "One of the men yelled, 'A little more this way and we can get the child!' But Hardie replied, 'Fine, and which one o' ye wants to trade places with 'im?'" The survivors fall silent and the child is left behind.
The buzz: The book has found almost universal approval from critics. Wolf Hall author and Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel called it a splendid book. "It rivets the reader's attention, and at the same time it seethes with layered ambiguity."
Trivia: The book was released to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, because of the obvious similarities in subject matter.
Details: Published by Hachette, RRP $36.99. Read an extract here.


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How Often Should a Tree be Pruned?
By: Jean Ferdinandsen WI-0149A
Pruning is one of the most important ways to care for your tree(s). Regular pruning provides ongoing maintenance and routine care. The art and science of pruning is to determine how much to remove, where to remove it, and how often to do it.
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Unknown Man #89 (Mass Market Paperback)
Special Order (unlikely to be available)
Detroit process server Jack Ryan has a reputation for being the best in the business at finding people who don't want to be found. Now he's looking for a missing stockholder known only as "Unknown Man No. 89." But his missing man isn't "unknown" to everyone: a pretty blonde hates his guts and a very nasty dude named Royal wants him dead in the worst way. Which is very unfortunate for Jack Ryan, who is suddenly caught in the crossfire of a lethal triple-cross and as much a target as his nameless prey.
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"The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!"
-The New York Times Book Review
"An absolute master."
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Wireless item created by jcksa, Feb 5, 2013
Pros - Not many- one of few avialable when first released
Cons - Mediocre fidelity, lousing design for staying sealed in ears
When I bought the Nokia BH 505 there were not many choices for stereo bluetooth headsets. I liked the head band idea but this design with the slightly flexing headband always popped the buds out of the ears and broke the isolation making it lousey to listen to with all the ambient sound (and sometimes noise) interfering. I gave them away just a couple months later.


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Ireland Baldwin got invited to an event last night. It's amazing what a last name does for doors.
A very somber looking Katharine McPhee was also there.
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Town Square
There You Go Again, Obama ...
Original post made by Anon., Crescent Park, on Nov 8, 2012
But today we started to hear echoes of the same unproductive patterns from Obama taking shape, as four years ago. In his first term he ignored the economy and was going to tackle health care - mistake according to almost everyone ... "bipartisanly". Now this term it is immigration that is the wild goose chase. Instead of taking on the economy with some kind of vision and making an effort to do "something".
The sad part is while Obamacare took up so much of all of our time talking about, and the government's time doing nothing about, the plan itself is only slightly better than nothing for most people. It's very good for those people who can make use of it, and for that I am glad, but it does not solve the problem of health care costs or coverage. And the greatest irony is that it came from his opponent ... it's really Romneycare!
But even weirder, or maybe not, Romney who purported to care about small business never mentioned once that one of the biggest problems of small business is not being able to afford to give health care coverage to their employees and the whole linkage of health care to employment in the first place. Extending Medicare while allowing the health insurance companies to compete on supplemental basis that might spur research and innovation while covering everyone would solve that. But I digress....
I'd like it to be different but Obama's pattern seems set pretty well. He gives speeches, and his election night speech was more or less warmed over nothing, the same speech he gave four years ago, no red states, not blue states, United States. Not really United States, in fact less United States than four years ago, nevertheless a country that elected him President in order to lead. Not a red President, not a blue President, not even a purple President, a President that is threading to be clear and just sit his job out.
What Obama seems to do most is to fritter around, talk, attend media events until whatever crisis is overcome by events and he then the mess all crashes down wherever it is going to and the wreckage is what he calls compromise or spins as reaching across the aisle.
Does anyone agree with this, and better yet, is there a way to prevent "nothing" from happening again by sending the President emails urging him to lead and take the "bully pulpit" instead of timidly hiding behind hit? I realize he had virtually the same issues with Congress that he did last time, but we all know last time did not work, so he should have the guts and diligence to try something different. What can he do?
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 8, 2012 at 4:03 pm
I question the first claim, as well as the factless rhetoric that follows.
"seems" "started to hear echoes" "unproductive patterns" "taking shape" and more "seems" and more "seems"
What on earth are you using as evidence to back up your (well hidden) point?
If you want Obama to be more progressive or liberal, or not, call your rep, your senator and the White House. And donate time and/or money to oust the opposition in two years.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 8, 2012 at 4:20 pm
bru is a registered user.
HEY EDITOR ... now what was uncivil about any of this that you have to push the button and force people to log in. I just lost the whole comment I was going to post, and I see no unkind, nasty or uncivil comments here at all. You are way pre-emptive in my opinion.
> I question the first claim, as well as the factless rhetoric that follows.
OK, you're allowed to do that. But if what was posted was what you recognized as facts you might just question them as well, and how can the word "seems" give you such a problem. It's just my perceptions and opinion, and hopes.
I did not think the point was hidden at all, I want Obama to be more focused and more hands on. Is it your "well hidden" contention that he was both in the last term?
What I was specifically trying to avoid was ticking off Obama supporters who I consider myself one of, but any even hint of negativity or criticism seems to provoke, even if it is hidden or not even there. We are so not united it's practically impossible to say anything anymore - even with a big brother editor looking over our shoulders.
publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly
on Nov 8, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Bill Johnson is a registered user.
You're correct, there was nothing uncivil about the post or comment. We have been pretty routinely limiting national political topics to registered users, because when we don't they become contaminated with disrespectful comments or personal attacks. So it's precautionary, and tends to discourage those who are merely trying to inflame others. I'm sorry your comment apparently got caught up in this when the registered users limitation was invoked.
a resident of University South
on Nov 8, 2012 at 4:53 pm
stephen levy is a registered user.
I am also confused about what you want Obama to do--hands on in what direction and for what issues/purpose. But I do agree your post was civil and interesting.
Town Square asks posters to use their real name and encourages registration. Moreover, Bill's psoition has been clear both by observation and his repeated patient explanations.
You even have a registered name. What is your complaint if you don't honor the wishes of your host?
a resident of University South
on Nov 8, 2012 at 5:16 pm
stephen levy is a registered user.
As far as my feelings about Obama, I am pleased with the election and pleased with his acceptancr speech.
I wish he had pushed harder for immigration reform and I hope he does that now asap.
Most of my other diappointments fall under the category of he couldn't reasonably expect to get them passedby an "out to get him" Congress.
There was a clear choice about values and except for immigration Obama gets a good grade from me in his first term for values and I expect even more progress now.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 8, 2012 at 5:35 pm
bru is a registered user.
I guess I'm assuming that when people post nasty comments you just delete them and it's not so complicated.
Stephen, immigration reform means different things to different people. What forces are at play in this taking so amazingly long and what part does control of the border play in this.
To me, the main issues are getting control of the border and managing immigration reasonably, as well as preventing illegals from the South becoming an abused slave class who work for less than sustainable wages and get criminalized or deported if they complain or try to organize.
I'd admit as much I see the value in the melting pot, I am also reticent about the cultural flood and losing our traditional culture. My feeling, without evidence is that we have diluted American culture too much and that less immigration is called for, but I'd be hard pressed to put actual numbers to that. On the other hand I'd be quite alright with Mexico and the US having relatively reciprocal agreements in terms of crossing the border and owning land.
In terms of skilled labor from abroad we need to keep the best people here, especially entrepreneurs, but what I have seen is that in that rush a lot of mediocrity and worse tags alongs and causing friction.
That said I do not think any of it trumps the importance of the economy and the budget debt/deficit.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 8, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Ducatigirl is a registered user.
Obama is, after all, a lawyer and thereby a smooth talker. He can always give a convincing speech.
In conversations with a former CEO of Intel, who has talked with Obama about the importance of affordable higher education in this country, my husband has found out that Obama does not really have a handle on the issues as well as he would have you believe. And it is actually more than a little scary, I have been told. Not that the opposition had a better handle on things, but Obama has always been a convincing debater. And he excels at getting people to believe what he wants them to believe.
I think he was merely the lesser of two evils.
a resident of Mountain View
on Nov 10, 2012 at 12:43 pm
maguro_01 is a registered user.
In response to the original poster - Maybe we need more parties if only to expand the debate space. Special interests in Washington due to our bipartisan Pay-To-Play politics financing system foreclose real debate on many subjects. Pay-To-Play is a Founding Flaw.
For example medical care - Look at Canada's system. It costs 2/3 the percent GDP as our system. They get a longer life expectancy, no employer involvement, and Universal Care. So no one's pulling the plug on Granny as Paul Ryan wants to do here. Their care delivery system is mixed as ours is but they are Single Payer - like Medicare for everyone. If we had the Canadian system we would live a little longer and save around $800 billion per year. Those are the numbers, you can figure them out. $800 billion is actually a little over the entire US military budget, itself unsustainable.
It's hard to say if US life expectancy would actually increase. Around here life expectancy is probably similar to France. The US number is dragged down in particular by the Confederate culture area where many states have lower income populations with a life expectancy well down into the 60's. These areas are expected to be especially be hard hit by an oncoming wave of diabetes 2 and Alzheimer's. They are still well behind in social and economic development though it's been 145 years since the Civil War with Mississippi as the best example.
We read that diabetes 2 is mostly preventable, cancer as much as 1/3 presently preventable, and so is most early cardiac disease. So Washington lobbying is giving us lobbyists for diabetes 2, for cancer, and for heart attacks, along with lobbyists for treating them all. This isn't sustainable but the Republican/Libertarian idea of cutting US life expectancy and having people ideally die in net worth order is unacceptable.
US GDP is around $15 trillion. US medical care overall is about 17.4% US GDP by far the highest in the world. That includes 4+% GDP to insurance companies. US life expectancy is 78.2 years.
Canada spends 11.3% GDP on medical care, life expectancy is 80.7 years
France spends 11.8% GDP on medical care, life expectancy is 81.5 years
Switzerland has largely private insurance that costs a bit more but nothing like the US system. Apparently they have the essential corruption of Pay-To-Play under much better control. Pay-To-Play can only be fixed with an unlikely Constitutional Amendment, though after Mr Romney's recent defeat perhaps I'm too pessimistic about that.
US medical care is an unsustainable bubble, so is the financial sector which is also a creation of the P-To-P system. Between them they eat 1/4 US GDP, a huge drag on the economy and recovery. Indeed, the Crash of '08 can be seen as a consequence of P-To-P - finance spent hundreds of millions in lobbying over years to not update, but get rid of all the hard-won Depression era banking regulations, especially ending Glass-Steagal.
Hopefully Obamacare is a milestone on the way to a better, but sustainable and less expensive, system and that may be its real intention anyway. Obamacare and the impossibly long finance bill are just the only things that could pass the Congress/Lobbyists.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 14, 2012 at 9:42 pm
bru is a registered user.
Ducatigirl ....
> but Obama has always been a convincing debater.
Always? How about at best 66% of the time. After everyone told him what to say and what they expected.
maguro_01 ...
I doubt any big changes like third parties, Constitutional amendments, end the fed, going back to the gold standard are going to happen. Major change is going to have to happen because a majority of people who are willing to work for some issue are willing to work for it and have major backing and minor opposition.
I guess the point was that whatever, we are not going to be able to count on Obama to push much. His Obamacare program, without a public option is a joke, and all it has really succeeded in doing according to a nursing home manage friend of mine is to cap expenses for older people ... did anyone understand this or vote on it?
Democracy - direct or representative ... what a joke. Informed patriotic citizenry ... what another joke.
If the US did not have the massive propaganda media it does we'd be a lot more like China and we would know it. Not sure what is better, to know it or to imagine it is different? Perhaps I'm too cynical?