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At Gov. Mark Gordon's January 2019 inauguration ceremony, Sheridan musician David Munsick sang the song "Forever West."
The paean to Wyoming includes this stanza:
"It's boom and bust
and hang on just
until the times get better"
Gordon, Wyoming's 33rd governor, requested the tune.
The lyrics may be inspired by Wyoming archetypes of hardscrabble ranchers and energy workers, but they could just as easily apply to the state's chief executive. In Wyoming, governors' legacies are formed in large part by how their tenure coincides with commodity markets outside their control.
Now, not halfway into his first term, the Republican Gordon is confronting what may prove the most consequential bust yet. Wyoming's fiscal crisis, a slow-motion train wreck years in the making, has finally come off the rails. It did so on Gordon's watch.
Then there is the pandemic. The global health emergency has forced Gordon, like governors across America, to pivot, adapt and make life-and-death decisions on short notice.
With savings and a little luck, Gordon and the Legislature might be able to cut budgets and "hang on until the times get better." Or until new politicians take their places.
Widening divisions within the Wyoming Republican Party and a Legislature that's proven unwilling to decouple the state from its energy-industry dependence make the governor's task all the more daunting.
Will Gordon steer the state's government through the current disarray to a more sustainable future? Can he?
A 'calm' leader
Gordon has spent more time in the public spotlight than usual since the pandemic shut down much of daily life in March. He has held almost weekly live-streamed press conferences to discuss the state's virus response and unfolding budget crisis.
The governor is a measured public speaker by nature — often sounding more like an earnest professor than a politician. During 2018 primary debates, he tended to meander so deeply into policy nuance that advisors worried his campaign might not survive them. But more emotion has crept into his addresses during the COVID-19 era.
He has heaped scorn on those who put others at risk. He has waved printed health orders in the air and thrown newspapers to the floor in anger. He choked up at the podium on at least two occasions: announcing the state's first pandemic-related fatality and canceling the summer's biggest rodeos.
He has pushed back against criticism of his pandemic response that seems to come from every direction. Members of the far right labeled him a tyrant for going too far and protested on the steps of the state Capitol. Observers from the left called him a coward for not going further and accused him of endangering the population through inaction.
Others still found fault with Gordon's compromise. "It was kind of a half in and half out kind of deal," Rep. Scott Clem (R-Gillette), who has opposed the state's virus response as government overreach, said. "It was some intervention just not as much intervention as the other states were doing," he said.
Such jabs aside, the governor's leadership has been lauded by many Wyoming politicians, including those across the aisle.
"I would have liked him to take stronger measures about testing and masks and contact tracing and all those things," said Rep. Andy Schwartz (D-Jackson). But, "by and large I think he's done a pretty good job. He's just a calm leader and we need a calm leader at this time."
Overall, the public has approved of Gordon's virus response, according to polling conducted by UW researchers over the course of the pandemic. The approval rate is dropping as the pandemic continues. In March, 82% of poll respondents approved of how Gordon was handling the virus. That approval rating had dropped to 69% by the most recent poll, conducted Aug. 10.
In some areas, critics say the governor's live-streamed grit isn't consistent with his actions.
Gordon has dressed down those who reject masks but eschewed one himself at gatherings where they aren't popular.
He has pleaded for the people of Wyoming to recognize just how bad the state's finances are. He has called on the Legislature to confront the fiscal crisis and asked voters to elect lawmakers who are more pragmatic than ideological. But some say he should combat the state's far-right political block and lobby the Legislature more forcefully for tax reform.
The Legislature has not met since May, and it's now unclear if lawmakers will convene another special session this year. So for now, Gordon is shouldering the fiscal salvage work largely on his own.
Gordon has stripped $250 million from the state's general budget and is working on another 10% cut. He is asking the Legislature to cut further — ideally from its own program mandates — and address education funding, a near $2 billion budget Gordon argues the executive branch doesn't have the authority to reduce alone.
Even after Gordon's $250 million spending reduction, the state faces a $1 billion deficit.
What leaders do next could shape Wyoming life for the next decade, if not longer.
Gordon says he is embracing the challenge: "I didn't anticipate this," he said, "but I was definitely going to do whatever I needed to do when it came."
He is doing the job without pay. Since April, Gordon has been donating his salary to First Lady Jennie Gordon's effort to combat hunger.
The 'unprecedented governor'
On a late July day, the governor spoke at the Cheyenne Rotary Club's first in-person lunch gathering since the pandemic. Gordon wore a mask above his suit as he mingled among Cheyenne's leadership class.
Cheyenne attorney and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Tara Nethercott (R) introduced Gordon to the crowd. He is "the unprecedented governor, in an unprecedented time," Nethercott said.
Asked later about her description, Nethercott gave a terse summary.
"He was meeting with armed protestors in front of the capitol during the same month he is taking the lead on bidding on a billion dollar land purchase [from Occidental Petroleum] during a pandemic," Nethercott wrote in an email.
Ever optimistic in public remarks, Gordon often references rancher credos about hard work and meeting problems head on. Still, it seems little has gone his way in 2020.
By July's Rotary luncheon, Republican hardliners were already well on their way to consolidating control of the state's party. Many in that political camp fiercely opposed Gordon's gubernatorial bid during the primary. Some party power-brokers were so frustrated that they tried to legislate voting restrictions for Republican primaries.
Far-right candidates then unseated several prominent lawmakers in August's primary election — a heavy blow to any hope Gordon may have harbored for tax reform.
Wyoming lost the Occidental bid. The oil company sold its property to a mining firm for $1.33 billion, around $130 million more than what the state offered.
Governors like to welcome new businesses opening in the state. Gordon had to shutter Wyoming's main street economies. They like to push initiatives and task forces — among Gordon's cuts is one of his own initiatives, a program to boost vocational education in community colleges, that had hardly begun.
Governors attend rodeos, get feted and wave at the crowd. Gordon had to cancel some of the state's largest in 2020.
Gordon knew the job would be hard when he ran for it, according to people who know him. It's hard to imagine, though, that he anticipated just how tough.
Envisioning a glide path
Gordon began his run for governor in the spring of 2018 after serving as the state's treasurer for six years — experience that gave him a good grounding in the state's fiscal machinery.
"He knew the challenges, knew the financial crisis that the state of Wyoming was in even back then," said David Picard, a longtime Wyoming lobbyist and political consultant. Picard advised Gordon's gubernatorial campaign and ran the committee to plan his inauguration.
Then again, so did most people paying attention. The cracks — a steadily declining coal industry, low natural gas prices and an increasing reliance on stocks and the volatile oil industry for tax revenues — had been growing wider for some time.
"Any observer knows that over the course of the last two decades we were on an unsustainable path," Picard said.
"Every campaign stop people would say, 'appreciate you running but God, why would you want the job?'" Picard said. "He wanted the job because he wanted to make the changes."
Gordon came into office thinking he had some time. Many believed the Legislature had built up enough savings to float the state through a transition. Gordon argued then, and continues to make the case amid worsening odds, that developing carbon capture solutions can slow coal's decline.
"We really did feel that there would be an opportunity to have a glide path," Gordon said, "and a transition that wouldn't have the precipitous cliff at the end of it."
Gordon brought a light touch to the first legislative session of his tenure, which began within a month of his inauguration. He pushed limited initiatives as Senate and House leadership fought another battle in a long-running war over education funding.
Coal bankruptcies dominated the following summer's headlines — first Wyoming staple Cloud Peak Energy and then the dramatic collapse of Appalachian-based newcomer Blackjewel.
For his second session, Gordon doubled down on coal. He gave a rousing speech on the topic to open the Legislature, and his administration pushed a number of measures for coal research and carbon capture. Lawmakers took up the call and passed a slew of coal-boosting bills.
But by the session's final week, the bottom was falling out. Caught up in the finale of a packed month of lawmaking, the Legislature did not act on ever-worsening pandemic news or an oil price war breaking out between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Days after lawmakers left Cheyenne, Gordon began issuing orders closing schools and many businesses. The state and national economy lurched to a halt.
In May, the economists that write the state's revenue projections met for their first emergency meeting since 2009. Surveying shattered oil markets and global financial instability, the economists wrote the state's revenues down by a range of $1.8 billion to $1 billion.
Just like that, the two-year budget lawmakers had just passed was untenable. The crisis was at hand.
"I had no idea that it would become so imminent so quickly," Gordon said.
Stacking for years
Analysts say an economic slowdown and subsequent deceleration of electricity demand likely accelerated coal's decline and made a reversal all the more unlikely. Meanwhile, Wyoming's increased reliance on the oil industry for tax revenue ensured the price war pummeled state coffers.
If a virus that emerged in Asia and an international oil price war were the sparks, the fuel for today's conflagration had been stacked for years at home. Decades of inaction on the state's energy dependence by past leaders suddenly mattered.
Is Gordon frustrated to have inherited an old problem at just the wrong time?
"I don't really know how to respond to that," he said. "Do I rue that? Yeah. But it's also … it feels good to have to make really monumental decisions. And I think some of these really are. You're talking about the health of the population of the state of Wyoming and health both in terms of real health and economic health."
Gordon tries to balance the urgent demands of the moment with contemplation of Wyoming's eventual future, he said. In recent press conferences he has talked often about opportunities the pandemic might provide — people are seeking open space, low populations and safety. Many see those qualities here, Gordon says, and there is some very early evidence backing that idea.
"Keeping people thinking about the future, thinking about … the opportunities that Wyoming provides, having to do that sort of makes it worthwhile getting up in the morning," Gordon said.
Free headspace for the right?
People who work for or with Gordon describe a cautious decision maker who seeks consensus before taking any leaps.
"He's a very classic Wyoming type in that he's a moseyer," Rep. Sara Burlingame (D-Cheyenne), said. "He doesn't gallop, he moseys.
But in Wyoming's current political climate, full consensus is unattainable, she said. That's particularly true when it comes to right-wing activists and politicians who have often rejected and denounced him, she said.
In April, when Gordon came down the Capitol steps to pray with protesters demanding an end to health orders, his attempts to explain his reasoning were shouted down. One of the protesters referred to him as a secret Democrat.
"He believes that, 'if I can just talk to you and look you in the eyes that I can bring you around by the force of my goodwill,'" Burlingame said. It's a "misplaced belief" that "if we just sit down at the table long enough, take enough calls, … we'll reach consensus," she said. "I just think that's inaccurate."
Before the pandemic, Gordon made strides with the hardline conservatives who today run the Wyoming Republican Party.
A government transparency task force, a bold set of vetoes on his first budget bill and his signing of legislation limiting abortion had all earned Gordon praise from state GOP leadership and conservative lawmakers.
Right-wing stalwarts like Clem, however, think the virus response may hurt Gordon with the Repubican voters he needs to win another primary election.
Voters resent the public health measures, Clem argues. "I think there's a growing gulf between mainstreet public Wyoming and the media and government," he said. "They're going two different directions."
Much of the state party's messaging also suggests that health orders are overblown and intrusive. A recent post on the party's Facebook page was flagged by fact checkers as misinformation. It's unclear if the label diminished its influence.
A second term
The cuts he's made will impact public safety and Wyoming's most vulnerable residents, Gordon said.
He's discussed the outrage he's received from some residents over closing some highway rest areas — a cut that barely scratched the surface, Gordon says. However, cuts to government services may not hurt him with many Republican voters who believe state budgets are inflated.
The other side of the budget equation, raising new revenue through tax increases, for example, are far riskier.
At his Aug. 26 press conference, Gordon was asked again by reporters if he would push the Legislature to take up taxes. (The question has become a staple of the governor's press briefings.)
A day earlier, the Joint Revenue Committee had rejected bills to remove sales tax exemptions and add an additional 1% to the sales tax. Gordon has asked lawmakers to examine the state's sales tax exemptions on a wide variety of business and personal services. Such an action, taken alone, could add $140 million to coffers over two years.
"I don't think it's a big surprise that they didn't take any actions," Gordon said. "Part of it comes back to me, to indicate that 'sure, we can spend [savings] down over the next two years … then what?'"
Democrats like Schwartz and others want more. The governor knows what needs to be done, and should use his platform to push the Legislature for tax reforms, they say.
"He's the only person who can stand up in a situation like this and say, 'I hate taxes too but if we don't do this we're gonna be in worse trouble,'" Schwartz said.
"But I'm a Democrat so that's easy for me to say," he added with a chuckle. "He will probably want a second term," Schwartz said. "And he doesn't have to worry about someone running to the left of him in a Republican primary. The threat to him … is the strength of the extreme right."
Gordon might have inherited big problems, but Schwartz doesn't let him off the hook so easily. Picking up past governors' fixation on a carbon capture solution for coal is a harmful crutch, he said: "We spent $25 million on carbon research in [the 2020] budget. We're throwing this money in a raffle and we're kicking the can down the road."
"Mark is part of that school of thought," he continued. "It's a Wyoming school of thought that if we can find a way to burn coal with less carbon Wyoming is saved."
Picard, the political strategist, does not think Gordon should launch a campaign for tax reform. The governor is constitutionally required to deliver a balanced budget, he said. Long lasting fiscal reform will require legislative buy-in and cooperation. "There's a team effort here that we've gotta get serious about," Picard said.
Gordon himself often cites the limits of his office when discussing how to address the fiscal crisis.
"One of the great things about being governor is you really don't have … that much power," he told WyoFile. "You're given the revenues you have and you have the budget you do."
At several points in his political career, Gordon has taken stands on the separation of powers. As treasurer, he sued legislative leadership and the other statewide elected officials over a constitutional dispute. His budget vetoes have also cited constitutional grounds.
"He has been consistent in that regard," Clem said.
However, nowhere in the Wyoming Constitution does it say a governor can't drive the Legislature in the direction he or she thinks the state should go.
"If we need anything in Wyoming right now it's leadership," Clem said. "… If the Legislature isn't giving a clear signal about where we're going, and the governor isn't, then who is?"
Gordon has made cuts, and has told the public they will have dire impacts on the state's most vulnerable residents. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle question if that's a strategy to force the Legislature's hand on taxes. Gordon has refuted that suggestion and said the size of the deficit leaves him no choice.
To critics, that can seem a cop-out by the state's most powerful leader, and not one reflective of the loftier ideals oft-voiced by the governor. But Burlingame doesn't think Gordon wants to just "hold on" through this bust either.
"Mark Gordon is a good man and I don't think he wants to punt," Burlingame said. "I think he would feel that is a failure of his stewardship."
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CORRECTION: This story was corrected on Sept. 16, to note that Gordon's inauguration took place in January 2019, not 2018 as was originally written in error. The current governor was elected to the position in Nov. 2018. —Ed.


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Daytona a Track of Firsts for Roush Fenway Drivers
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 24, 2017) – Current and former Roush Fenway Racing drivers Trevor Bayne, Ryan Reed, Greg Biffle and David Ragan all share a unique bond; each driver scored historic first wins at the famed Daytona International Speedway.
Biffle, in his rookie season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Roush Fenway, captured his first victory in the series on July 5, 2003 at the 2.5-mile superspeedway. After starting 30th, Biffle found his way to the front, leading the final 21 laps to take his first checkered flag.
In just his second start in the Cup Series, piloting the No. 21 Ford for the Wood Brothers, Bayne advanced from a 32nd starting position and led the final six laps to earn his first career victory in the Great American Race on February 20, 2011. Bayne took the checkered flag just one day after his 20th birthday, making him the youngest Daytona 500 winner of all time – a record which still stands.
Later that season, another Roush Fenway driver would find victory lane for the first time at Daytona. David Ragan started the scheduled 160-lap race in fifth. Ragan found the lead for a total of seven laps on three different occasions early in the race. The driver of the No. 6 Ford retook the lead during overtime on Lap 163 and never looked back, earning his first career Cup victory.
In 198 Cup Series starts at Daytona, Roush Fenway has six wins, two of which are Daytona 500 victories. The organization also boasts five poles, 38 top-fives, and 72 top-10s.
While Bayne chases his second Daytona 500 victory in the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford, Roush Fenway teammate Ricky Stenhouse Jr. seeks his first win in the Daytona 500, driving the No. 17 Fastenal Ford.
In 2015, Reed earned his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series victory in the season-opener at Daytona International Speedway. Reed qualified eighth for the 120-lap race and remained in contention for the duration of the race, taking the lead for the first time of the day on Lap 88. The young driver paced the field for 13 laps, before dropping back into the top-10. As the race came to a close, Reed maneuvered into position to battle for the lead. Reed crossed the finish line just ahead of his competitors to capture the victory. The victory was team owner Jack Roush's first at Daytona in the NASCAR XFINITY Series.
In 89 NASCAR XFINITY Series starts at Daytona, Roush Fenway has earned one victory and two poles, along with 20 top-five and 43 top-10 finishes.
The Cup Series will take the green flag in the Great American Race on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 2:00 p.m. ET, airing on FOX. The NASCAR XFINITY Series returns to action at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 3:30 p.m. ET, airing on FoxSports1.

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The USA has a tradition of free and open access to the internet. Americans want assurances that their security and privacy will be protected from those who would spy, steal, and come between them in their quest for information and e-commerce.
Our online freedoms have been under constant attack. Protection against privacy breaches, malware, and identity theft requires Americans to adopt a siege mentality behind firewalls, malware detectors, and a strong password regimen to protect their personal privacy online.
An additional and especially effective weapon in the battle against surveillance and intruders is a VPN like Surfshark and similar services that provide VPN for the US.
Virtual Private Network–secures the user's web browsing. It is an encrypted connection that goes through a virtual "tunnel." The user's internet traffic is safe from prying eyes because it masks the user's "return address," hiding the user's identity and location.
The term "virtual" denotes the software controls that form the end-to-end connection. Rather than using hardware or dedicated lines, the connection is "tunneled" using an encrypted data packet wrapped within another packet.
The tunnel is through a server located away from the user's actual location. The VPN shows the user's IP address as the server the user logged into. When the VPN routes the connection to and from another destination site, the data is encrypted and secure.
To take advantage of the masking and encryption provided by it, the user must subscribe to a VPN client. The connection software provides the user with a choice of VPN servers, and the user can select the US or foreign location. With premium features like double tunneling and location hopping, the user whitelists some sites for a faster connection and search for faster servers.
Again, the chosen Virtual Private Network server appears as the user's local IP address, and the connection is encrypted. Even the user's internet service provider (ISP) cannot detect the websites the user visits—provided, of course, that it has a no-logs policy.
Definition of a "Strong" Virtual Private Network
Of the many VPN providers on the market today, only the truly strong VPN's provide a no-logs policy, top-grade encryption, and multi-device protection.
Look for No-logs Assurances
"No logs" means that the provider maintains no records of the client's activity online. That also means that the client could not, even under subpoena, provide any information about the client's web activity.
Avoid Free Services
Free VPNs remain free by meeting their expenses in other ways. They track their users and sell the activity data to marketers and online advertisers. Some free services deposit trackers on the user's browsers and others have been detected as facilitating third-party cyber-attacks.
Then there are the troublesome performance and speed issues with free VPN services. The user's internet speed drops as ads are loading in the background and inserting annoying popups. Free clients of this service can also experience restricted bandwidth—or throttling—during peak hours.
Read more about the pitfalls of free services on this.
Everyone in the USA who does business or stays connected with others online needs a strong Virtual Private Network. The best and strongest VPN connection is through a paid subscription. For just a few dollars per month, the user can take advantage of a no-logs, full-featured software with state-of-the-art encryption as well as premium features like CleanWeb.
- In addition to the built-in firewalls and the user's computer operating system's security features, a strong VPN protects against viruses and known malware threats. A strong USA VPN is an important layer of continuous security and privacy protection.
- USA customers need the VPN's added security not always provided by their financial institutions. The key feature and top advantage of it is that it protects financial data—fund transfers, invoices, etc.–in transit between the customer and the bank. It makes the principals far less vulnerable to surveillance and malware attacks.
- In the USA and elsewhere, public Wi-Fi sites are everywhere. Signing on to an insecure public Wi-Fi server without a VPN's protection makes the user vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. A VPN on the user's mobile device is the best protection from hackers who perform real-time spying, spoofing, and luring unsuspected victims to fake websites.
- We already alluded to bandwidth throttling. It bypasses ISP bandwidth throttling, which slows online gameplay. Also, with it, the user can gain entry to restricted or locally banned games. Besides ensuring online anonymity, another VPN benefit is its shield against interference by rival players, denial of service attacks, and site banning by tyrannical game admins.
- With a strong Virtual Private Network service, the user can access streaming services like Netflix from outside the area. Those services often cannot broadcast the same popular series outside their coverage area because of programming policies or copyright restrictions. It can unlock vast amounts of out-of-area content without resorting to pirating program content from dangerous websites.
- A strong one can bypass unfair pricing practices. Online businesses and e-commerce sites can resort to blocking shoppers or displaying different prices for more affluent areas. For example, airlines frequently show different prices based on the location of the user's ISP address. Often, shopping for the same airline ticket at different IP locations can access lower pricing for the same trip.
- A strong service can provide wide protection across all devices that connect to the internet. Those connections can be handled through the home router. The home router can be a gateway to compromising personal privacy. Installing a VPN on the router is the most reliable way to protect every device that accesses the internet through that router.
Conclusions and Takeaways
A VPN protects Americans from spying and adds another layer of online security. The VPN masks the user's location and encrypts online traffic.
Free VPN services are generally less secure and have performance issues that slow down the user's internet connection. On the other hand, premium VPNs with no-logs policies are the best online protection for financial transactions and preventing man-in-the-middle attacks on public Wi-Fi networks while bypassing bandwidth throttling.
A premium Virtual Private Network provides more reliable access to streaming sites and can protect against unfair pricing practices. Installing a VPN to the router protects every device serviced by the router.


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Cabinet Choices
An aquarium cabinet may not be the first thing that springs to mind when contemplating your next Nature Aquarium, but the cabinet you choose will have a huge impact on the overall look and feel of your aquascape… so choose carefully!
At The Green Machine we only supply our own TGM Custom Build Cabinets and ADA Cabinets. This is because we have not found any other cabinets that we are happy with. When James Findley founded The Green Machine his vision was to create an Aladdin's Cave for aquascapers, but one that was filled not only with treasures, but with treasures that actually worked, lasted and were reliable.
We look for two things in our cabinets: practicality and beauty.
Practicality is important because we want all our cabinets to be durable and withstand the test of time. ADA Cabinets are extremely durable, since they are designed for use in Japan where they have an average of more than four earthquakes a day! We can't think of a better test!
Beauty is a vitally important characteristic in a cabinet. When creating a Nature Aquarium, we spend hours planning the hardscape, the plants and the overall composition of the layout – we do this to achieve a sense of natural beauty. This sense of natural beauty can be increased, complimented and accentuated by the right cabinet, or it can be destroyed by the wrong one.
If you invest in a good quality, beautiful and elegant cabinet, you will notice a huge difference in the overall appearance and impact of you aquascape.
Our Cabinets
Our TGM Minimal Obelisk Cabinets are available in a range of colours and finishes and in any size you desire, since we make them to order.
ADA Wood Cabinets are available in a huge range of sizes, and five colours: metallic silver (which is the colour used in Takashi Amano's Nature Aquarium Gallery in Niigata, Japan) black, off white, dark wood and light wood. ADA Cabinets are made from solid wood – we believe they are the only aquarium cabinets that are made this way – and the difference can clearly be seen!
The ADA Wood Cabinet White has been specially designed for a 60cm aquarium, and its innovative design allows the aquarium to sit neatly surrounded by the white cabinet.
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The final option is the ADA Garden Stand, which has a modern, utilitarian, artsy feel to it – perfect for a cutting edge home or office.
When choosing your cabinet, think carefully about the style and colour you would most like, consider what room it will be in and where it will be placed before deciding and visit our store so you can see some different colours for yourself before deciding.
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And with a tweet, she was gone! The insanity that is Basketball Wives: L.A. is down one crazy lady…even though she leaves much crazier co-stars in her wake! Draya Michele announced via Twitter that she has quit. In fact, the most recently aired episode was her last.
What is Malaysia Pargo going to do being the only voice of reason left? I feel for her. It seems that Draya could no longer stomach her story line which revolved around her budding relationship with NFL star Orlando Scandrick. Unfortunately for Draya, Orlando had a romance with Wacky Jackie Christie's daughter before meeting the reality star/video vixen/bikini designer. It's made things a bit awkward for Dray this season.
Taking to Twitter, Draya shared, "I think that was the last episode I filmed. Safe to stop talking about me now ladies," followed by, "Feels like a tremendous weight has been lifted off my shoulders."
Tuesday Draya told her followers, "Won't catch me arguing with the chicks I made semi-famous any longer. They gonna have to carry themselves or fight with each other," adding, "You crown your enemy queen when you start responding to their fans."
Draya then responded to rumors that she was making enemies with the show's producer Nostrils O'Neal. Draya responded, "Despite what blogs may report… I have nothing but love & the up most respect for Shaunie Oneal … How could I not, she gave me a chance."
And we will conclude with why I love Draya…after that last tweet, she wrote, "Correction: 'utmost' …. Lol that's what I get for trying to sound all proper too early in the morning."
I have the utmost–and the up most!–respect for anyone who can poke fun at themselves. We'll miss you, Draya!
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Bobbi Brown City Twilight Nordstrom Anniversary Set
When I saw City Twilight, Nordstrom's exclusive, limited-edition Bobbi Brown Anniversary Set ($80), I bought it immediately. Did I need a black eyeliner or mascara? No. I'm glad to have everything else, though, including the Hydrating Eye Cream. The colors in this palette are beautiful.
Inspired by the play of shadow and light at dusk, this collection has everything you need to transition your look through the seasons. The set includes Hydrating Eye Cream (0.23 oz.), a double-decker palette filled with sun-swept shadows, glosses, and a cream blush - plus Long-Wear Pencil in Jet (0.04 oz.), and an Intensifying Long-Wear Mascara in Black (0.23 oz.). The finishing touch is City Twilight Glitter Nail Polish (0.3 oz.), a stunning, shimmering shade. The palette includes a Dual Ended Eye Shadow/Eye Liner Brush, a nice touch for anyone who travels.
I took my photos in full sun. I swatched all shades, even the lip glosses, with a sponge-tipped applicator. Let's start with the eye shadows. There isn't a sparkly, colorless dud in the group. I swatched from left to right.
The bottom tier has two Lip Glosses and one Pot Rouge. I swatched from left to right. Pink Beige Lip Gloss at the top of my arm is a pretty, very sheer neutral pink. The Desert Rose Pot Rouge cream blush (which you can wear on your lips) is a warm pink - and a terrific color. I'm glad it's represented in a decent size.
Three of the shades in this palette are limited-editions, but I was a ditz and forgot to write down which ones. I was like a kid in a candy store the day I shopped at Nordstrom last week. Makeup deals for the Anniversary Sale, plus my favorite shoes, led to my delirium. This is, in my opinion, one of Bobbi Brown's prettiest, most useful palettes in recent times. It can still be yours - at Nordstrom in the United States.
Interestingly, this set is available from Bobbi Brown in the United Kingdom. Here in the United States, it's a Nordstrom exclusive. To further complicate things, I've read that it's exclusive to Selfridges. "Exclusive" doesn't always mean exclusive.
Photo at top courtesy of Nordstrom; other photos by Best Things in Beauty
10 comments:
- Liz said...
I had no intention of getting anything at the anniversary sale this year, but when I went by Nordstrom yesterday to replace a concealer I had finished, the nail polish (of all things!) caught my eye. I had to have it! No regrets, the rest of the set is nice so far, though I haven't tried the mascara yet.
- July 31, 2012 at 9:55 AM
- Nancy said...
I've been debating for weeks whether to get this palette or not, but I think you've convinced me! No matter how many BB palettes I own, I use every one, so it's not a bad investment.
- July 31, 2012 at 10:42 AM
- Charlestongirl said...
Hi Liz,
That nail polish caught my eye too. I said, "I'd like that too." Then they told me it came with the palette. Yippee!
- July 31, 2012 at 5:21 PM
- Charlestongirl said...
Hi Nancy, let us know, please, if you like it.
- July 31, 2012 at 5:22 PM
- Becca @ The Beauty Sample said...
I agree--I think this is definitely one of BB's better palettes from recently. There is sometimes a tendency to release the same colors over and over again in different palettes--lots of really soft neutrals in shades of sand, pink, gray, etc.. But this palette was gorgeous--nicely pigmented and coordinate really well together and are just plain beautiful! I played with it in-store but didn't get it (as I had already spend WAY more than my limit!) but I'm thinking I may need to run back and grab it! :P
- July 31, 2012 at 11:30 PM
- Charlestongirl said...
Becca, when I was there, they had plenty left, but who knows when they will run out. You might want to call to secure it.
- August 1, 2012 at 6:17 PM
- Vi.Be said...
I really like the color combination in the BB palettes. They are great to make smokey eyes or even a more natural look :)
- August 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM
- too_busy_to_stitch said...
I've gone off and ordered this - I think it'll be just perfect for our two week holiday - trying to keep makeup to a minimum, and this looks wonderful!
- August 8, 2012 at 5:49 AM
- jolaned said...
I am delighted to read your review of the City Twilight by Bobbi Brown. Considering that my coloring in light with blue eyes and medium brown hair color and skin that is fair to medium . After purchasing the Desert Twilight I didn't want something similar. Do you think this will work for me who is close to 60 with deep set darker eyelid tone? Thanks so much for your reviews and swatches! It helps so much when I buy online.
- September 24, 2012 at 9:31 AM
- jolaned said...
Thank you for this review. I don't know if it will work for my deep set 59 yr old eyes although I love the shades.
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Jan. 12, 2017, Guelph, Ont. – As temperatures lower and nights get longer, there is nothing like a beautiful blooming plant to brighten the home.
"The colder months have been known to quickly turn from winter wonderland, to dreary and grey," says Dejan Kristan, marketing director at pickOntario. "Adding some indoor plants and flowers to your home is a great way to put a little spring back in your step."
While many Canadians are looking to flee the winter months, pickOntario has put together a list of beautiful flowers and potted plants that will add a touch of nature to your home, and make you feel just as happy as if you were under the hot Mexican sun. They even included some 'TLC' tips…
Cut Flower Bouquet (mixed): Ontario grown cut flower bouquets are available anytime with many local cut flowers available year-round. Ontario sourced cut flower bouquets can include wonderful fresh flowers such as tulips, gerbera daisies, cut chrysanthemums, snapdragons, spray roses and alstroemeria. They can add amazing life and colour to brighten up any room, no matter the time of year. It is important to change the water in the vase the flowers sit in every two days to maximize the life and vibrancy of the flowers.
Amaryllis (potted): The fragrant, six-petal blossoms are typically red, but there are variations that can also be pink, white and a striped. Amaryllis are often available around November/December and a great option if you are looking for something different. Place under bright light and water lightly at first. Once the flowering stem emerges, increase the amount of water – however, don't let the pot sit in its own water.
Anthurium (cut): Cut Anthurium are heart-shaped and have a colourful spike (spadix) coming up from the centre of the flower. Anthurium are sold as stems, and often used as the centerpieces for arrangements because of their size. To get the most from your tropical anthurium, place under as much direct light as possible, and spritz the blossom daily with cool water. Keep the water in the vase fresh, replacing every few days ensuring that the water level is near the top of the vase.
Potted chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum come in a wide variety of colours, flower shapes and sizes. Both the potted plants and cut flowers are available year-round and make a great addition to any room and can last for prolonged periods. Chrysanthemums like to be placed under bright light and evenly watered.
Spring bedding plants: Winter doesn't last forever so it is never too early to start thinking about getting the most out of your indoor garden. Ontario greenhouses produce a wide diversity of annual bedding plants such as begonias, geraniums, petunias, mandevilla vines and zinnias. If space is limited, think about hanging baskets that often have multiple plants in one container. Because there are hundreds of different bedding plants, it is important to find the right locations for light exposure and available moisture.
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We've been using React Native in production for a few months. You might be considering React Native for your iOS app, or just casually wondering why we would do such a crazy thing, so here's the story.
The BLUF is that React Native helped us ship crucial features in less time and immediately increased the percentage of our team that contributes iOS code. It's working out, and we're only going to increase our investment.
How did we get there?
The app is about a year old; we originally hacked it together with a web-native hybrid interface, and incrementally added native components over time. The web view code is written mainly with React and Flux, which was already a boon to our productivity and reduced bugs.
Fast-forward to a few months ago: we needed to build important features for our registration experience in a short amount of time, and they had to be done natively. Registration has available immediately and make a great first impression, so implementing these features in a web view wasn't an option.
Since it was native, it fell on me (the lone native iOS engineer) to make it happen. Now, I'm pretty competent with UIKit, but I knew that "lots of new things" plus "not a lot of time" plus "critical" plus "iOS" ends in sadness. So I looked for a short-cut.
Web development used to feel just as daunting under similar circumstances. Then React came out, I adopted it at Propeller, and the work didn't feel so intractable. I learned the benefits of isolated components, explicit state, and unidirectional data-flow, but I wasn't getting that out of UIKit or the iOS ecosystem. Out of options, I hacked together an integration of React Native into our app to see if it would do the job.
I started not with the critical new features, but by re-writing a small isolated feature into React Native. It took less than a day, I learned the machinery of integrating it with our codebase, and hey — I happened to make some part of the app feel noticeably smoother.
After getting my feet wet, the new features came easily. Smarter folks have written about the joys of React and Flux, and I found they still applied to React Native. We got the work out on time and into the hands of our users.
This crazy thing worked, we got our features shipped, and I haven't seen any React Native-specific crash reports in the wild. What happened next?
I mentioned earlier that we already used web views in our app, powered by React. While we don't have any "universal" components, we do have some tooling and utility methods used by both sets of JavaScript code bases. But this is also a double-edged sword: it's not immediately obvious that the web view JavaScript exists in a separate world than the React Native JavaScript.
Automation and iOS have never played nicely: you traditionally need an OS X build node, which probably makes it a special snowflake in your build ecosystem. But since React Native code uses JavaScript, we don't actually need to compile any Objective-C to execute portions of our code.
Good chunks of the app's business logic is totally unaware of the iOS environment and be unit tested under Node. We can use any old Linux build server, tests run much faster, and are ultimately more reliable.
If you know React on the web, you can start contributing to a React Native codebase with very little friction (especially relative to learning normal iOS development). There are still some bumps compared to writing web apps, especially around debugging, but everyone has contributed some kind of bug fix or feature.
Not everything has been roses. Here are some mistakes that we (and by we, mostly I) made when first integrating React Native, and hopefully you can learn from them.
Like many iOS engineers, I am cursed with enough experience with UIKit to do some really dumb things. One aspect of our app is a navigation bar with custom UINavigationBar hackery. It looks great — except neither Navigation nor NavigatorIOS supported our customizations.
Instead, I decided to be just so clever and wrap each React View in its own custom UIViewController subclass. We got to use our custom navigation bar, we kept the native interactions and transitions — but it added a whole lot of bouncing between Objective-C and JavaScript. This stuff is hard to debug if you didn't write it. We'll be switching to Navigator soon.
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Introducing React Native increased the mental overhead of answering, "Wait, how does this app work?" There are now three distinct user-interface environments in our app: web views, React Native views, and UIKit views.
Unless you started from scratch with React Native, you'll have this problem. Crossing data between all the combinations of boundaries is possible, but we try not to do it often because it feels brittle.
This might go without saying, but React Native hasn't hit a stable release and its APIs are evolving. Our app had some not-so-trivial Objective-C glue to get React Native working with our existing code, which stone-walled our attempts to upgrade for awhile. It's incredibly exciting to see the regular release cadence of React Native, and one day we'll get caught up.
A buddy of mine said that React Native is promising, but (for now) you need to understand both iOS and React to make it work well. I think I agree — if you don't have a normal iOS engineer to shepherd your integration of React Native, you might have a bad time. But hey, it's pre-1.0, and that will get better.
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Open Source is increasingly used in digital technologies. This required an in-depth analysis of its current role, position and potential for the European economy. Open Source Software (OSS) has become mainstream across all sectors of the software industry over the past decade. Conversely, the level of maturity of Open Source Hardware (OSH) currently appears far lower. However, the business ecosystem for OSH is developing fast. If OSH is to follow the same development as OSS, it could constitute a cornerstone of the future Internet of Things (IoT), the future of computing and the digital transformation of the European industry at the end of the digital decade. Read more.
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I'm ashamed to say I did not know much about Townsville before arriving on our Australian road trip.
Besides the fact the "Cowboys" football team are based there and it's the gateway to Magnetic Island.
I knew this much because we had friends who, on their trip in Australia, stopped in Townsville and stayed for about two years. So we knew it must have had some things going for it.
We didn't know that 27 degrees in Townsville is a normal winter's day. That it's Queensland's second biggest city. That is has a beautiful heritage feel to it. That it's home to the biggest army base in Australia. That it played a huge role in World War II. That it has the best Aquarium in Australia. That it's home to the biggest Texas Longhorns in Australia. And that it's actually quite pretty.
I had no expectations that I would be remotely interested in visiting Townsville. But I actually really enjoyed it and recommend you visit this city halfway between the popular Airlie Beach and Cairns in your travels around Australia.
Things to do in Townsville
The Strand
The Strand lifts Townsville up. It's a 2.2km long beachfront playground with water parks and playgrounds for the kids, a lovely walking path, BBQ's, cafes and restaurants and a public swimming lagoon called The Rock Pool, which is hugely popular and the place to be on one of those hot Far North Queensland days.
Reef HQ
Reef HQ is definitely the best aquarium I've been to in Australia, possibly the world. Speaking of the world, it is the largest living coral reef aquarium in the world!
Even if you plan on scuba diving or snorkelling the real Great Barrier Reef, I think this is worth a visit to see the vibrant coral and sea life up close and learn so much about the reef system and the interconnectedness of all living things. I really enjoyed it, and so did our kids.
There are plenty of different displays to see all the marine life and there's also the Turtle hospital. It's great for the kids to learn about taking care of the animals we live beside and why they are so important – even sharks although they might scare us a little!
Castle Hill
Castel Hill is the pink granite monolith that makes you sit up and take notice of the city. This 286m high rock is the most popular walking trail in Townsville and there are various walking tracks – called the goat tracks that can take you to the top. You could even be like the locals and run up Castle Hill.
Or if you have kids, you might just want to drive up for the 360-degree views over Townsville and Magnetic Island.
Townsville Military tours
I absolutely loved my half day experience with Townsville Military Tours. I wasn't expecting such a valuable insight into our nation's military history from the Boer War II to current operations in Afghanistan. I was sad that during my years growing up we only really heard of Gallipoli when there were so many soldiers and RAF doing heroic things during World War II.
Townsville was very important during the Second World War, and it's now the biggest army base in Australia. Toby, founder and guide of the tour, comes from a military background and was so passionate and knowledgeable about our military history.
Toby made the tour come alive with his stories and had the tears rolling down my face in the first 30 minutes. I was fascinated and walked away with such a greater pride and admiration for the strength and resilience of our nation and gratitude for those who serve.
The tour takes you to Kissing Point, the military museum, The Black Hawk Down tragedy memorial site and the military base (outside of it). You stop for cake and coffee at the Tumbetin Tea Rooms in Palmetum Gardens.
Cost: $88 an adult, $44 child (8- 15)
Palmetum Gardens
Palmetum Gardens is one of Townsville's four Botanical Gardens. It's a 17-hectare botanic garden displaying one of the largest and most diverse public collections of palms in the world – 300 species of palm, many rare and threatened, and includes most Australian palms.
I only visited Palmetum briefly on the Military Tour. I loved the tranquility and jungle feel of the park and especially the memorial to the victims of the Black Hawk Tragedy that happened in Townsville in 1996.
Kissing Point
The Kissing Point Fort has been turned into a lovely area for the community to enjoy with walking tracks and views out over Magnetic Island and Cleveland Bay. There are plenty of old gun replacement bunkers and tunnels here for the military history buffs. A new boardwalk that runs around to nearby Rowes Bay is now open.
Billabong Wildlife Sanctuary
If you're looking for an interactive wildlife experience with Australian animals then head out to the Billabong Wildlife Sanctuary about 20 minutes outside of Townsville. It's a tranquil tropical bush setting by the billabong.
There are interactive wildlife shows all day and bring your camera as you can watch turtle races, pat a dingo, see some croc feeding, feed some kangas, and cuddle some koalas.
Magnetic Island
It's well worth taking the short 25-minute ferry across to a small island full of wildlife, stunning beaches, hiking tracks and the chance to pause time for awhile and just kick back and relax. You can read all about our time on Maggie here.
Texas Longhorns
Only a two-hour drive from Townsville is the Texas Longhorns experience just outside of Charters Towers. We found it fascinating and we loved the hosts Mick and Lynda. They were so hospitable and fun and are truly passionate about their cattle and showcasing it and the stories with their guests.
You can read more about our Longhorns experience here.
Places to eat in Townsville
Longboard Bar & Grill
A must-visit bar for views, beers, mojitos and awesome finger food is Longboard's on The Strand. Very American in flavour, Longboard's is a place we hope to return to. We haven't had buffalo wings as good since we lived in the States. (They were much cheaper back there too!)
Our local friend from North Queensland insisted we have to go to Juliette's. It's an institution for gelato and coffee. The ice cream comes in many weird and wonderful flavours. There's a cafe and a smaller kiosk along the Strand.
Great water views and good coffee to be had at Cbar. We didn't stop here for lunch, but we enjoyed the raisin toast with our cuppa.
The Brewery
If there's a brewery in town you'll typically find us there, and The Townsville Brewery didn't disappoint. The building itself is impressive and full of character, it's in the old post office, and whilst we didn't eat here we dropped in for a beer and really enjoyed our couple of pints of local craft beer.
City Lane
City Lane is a newly opened laneway in the city centre, and Townsville's first creative precinct with funky bars and eateries, including my favourite, the Paleo Cafe.
That place on Sturt
That place on Sturt was just up the road from our apartment in Townsville and right next to the cinema. Their coffees were awesome and I couldn't help but sneak a couple of raw, healthy chocolate bliss balls every time I ducked in there.
Tips from our Facebook community
Chelsea Sutherland
- The Balcony restaurant in Flinders St is really, really good for breakfast/brunch/lunch
- The new area up the other end of The Strand Jezzine has just opened and is a gorgeous new public space with parklands, interpretive signage and info about the history of the site and a boardwalk that connects The Strand around to Rowes Bay.
Jackie Sullivan
- I lived there for 10 years so have a few suggestions to where the 'locals' go, which includes the Mingela Pub on a Sunday, Alligator Creek, crystal creek, yongala wreck (if you scuba dive), tea rooms at Harvey range road (sorry can't remember the name), mingala rodeo if it's on, fishing, military museum at Jezzine barracks, good pub lunch or dinner at centenary hotel in pimlico. And if at all possible, a romantic dinner for two at Wayne & Adeles garden of eating.
Kelly Carpenter
- Get out to Ross River, great pub right on the river plus massive pools, all free, pool not pub! Paluma for a day trip, ride down to Pallerenda for a unique view of maggy and Townsville. The Australia hotel across the bridge, great pub!
Places to stay in Townsville
We stayed in two separate Townsville properties during our visit. The first couple of nights was at the Grand Hotel and the location was very central, right on Palmer Street surrounded by several good cafes and restaurants and an easy walk to the CBD.
Then we stayed at first ever Airbnb property, in the centre of the city and easy to walk to shops and restaurants and being right near the cinema was a bonus with two children. The bus stopped right across the road which made it very easy to get to the Strand – although it's also walking distance.
The Facts
Townsville is a two-hour flight from Brisbane and a four-hour drive south from Cairns.
We visited in partnership with Tourism Queensland. Check out our Queensland page for more travel advice on places to visit within the state.
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The beautiful Kerepesi cemetery is founded in 1847 and is the innermost cemetery of Budapest. Kerepesi is one of the biggest National Pantheons in Europe and the biggest outdoor statue park with its area of about 56 hectares. The cemetery's first burial took place some two years after its opening, in 1849. Since then numerous Hungarian notables (statesmen, writers, sculptors, architects, artists, composers, scientists, actors and actresses etc.) have been interred there, several of them in ornate tombs or mausoleums. This was encouraged by the decision of the municipal authorities to declare Kerepesi a 'ground of honour' in 1885. Until the 1940s, several tombs were removed to this cemetery from others in Budapest.
The cemetery was declared closed for burials in 1952. This was partly because it had become damaged during World War II, and partly for political reasons, as the Communist government sought to play down the graves of those who had 'exploited the working class'. Part of the grounds were in fact handed over to a nearby rubber factory and were destroyed in 1953.
In 1958, a Mausoleum for the Labour movement was created. During the Communist period (1948-1989) this was the only part of the cemetery highlighted or even mentioned by the authorities. The cemetery is also famous for its Arcades, built between 1908–1911, recalling the style of Northern Italian cemeteries.
There is a funeral museum on site and a functioning mortuary from where funeral services and ash scatterings are organized.
See Ash-fountain!
Pictures are taken in March 2016
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Hello – I enjoyed your site very much. I photograph cemeteries whenever I travel and time permits.
Do you have any information on the Kerepesi tomb on your site, the 12th one down from the top? I photographed this several years ago. It is possibly the most unique I have ever seen anywhere. To me, it looks like a female alien! Not reading or speaking Hungarian, I am at a loss. I hope you may have more data on it. Thank you.


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|Colorfully painted house
|A Leadville church with mountains in the background.
|Leadville's Crystal Palace
|Colorfully painted house
|A Leadville church with mountains in the background.
|Leadville's Crystal Palace
what an inventive way to try to rescue a town. Too bad it didn't work. Thanks for this great tidbit.ReplyDelete
It does sound like a massive project, doesn't it?Delete
I would have loved to see that beautiful structure. I have heard of ice palaces elsewhere, I will have to look that up! Great post!
Susan P
Thanks, Susan. I imagine it would be a majestic sight to see, especially back in the1800s.Delete
That's quite an impressive-looking palace! But it doesn't seem like it was very practical to build something that massive that would have to be rebuilt each year! Guess it's another example of learning from history!ReplyDelete
That's true, Bethany. I wonder if they hoped to keep the frame year after year and just add new ice.Delete
Very interesting. Hate that they couldn't make a go of it. With 250,000 people visiting, if the investors could have stuck with it for just 5 years (since the framework was laid), I'm guessing it would have been a success.
Can you imagine seeing that place in all it's glory? It must have been amazing!
I agree. It must have been an amazing thing to see at 10000 ft elevation. The town alone is impressive with its incredible views.Delete
What a neat idea for a local attraction...I'd go! I wonder, though, how a crystal palace would hold up in today's climate? Then again I'm thinking like the true Oklahoman that I am because we haven't had much of a winter the last 2 yrs. But gosh I bet that crystal palace was a sight to behold! Thanks for sharing this post. Btw, I cant wait to get my hands on Whispers On The Prairie next month!ReplyDelete
The thing we plains dwellers have to remember is that Leadville has an elevation nearly 2 miles high. It makes for chilly weather pretty much year round. I was there in late June and had to wear a jacket to stay warm. For an Okie, it seems might strange to be cold in june.
Thanks for being a fan of Whispers! I hope you enjoy it.
What an interesting piece of history. They should plan an ice castle in the future to see if it will draw visitors.
It's been a long time since I've visited Colorado. My favorite places were the old mining towns. I'd love to go back and explore.
Christina, You'd love Leadville and it's history. The old buildings there are really cool, and the drive up is amazing. You're literally on a mountaintop and can see for miles.ReplyDelete
I visited Leadville a number of years ago, when we were living in Colorado! It truly is a fascinating place, one which I would lotto visit again and stay for awhile.ReplyDelete
Did you visit any of the sights there? It'a 96 degrees today, and I wish I were in Leadville right now!ReplyDelete
Having lived in Colorado, I visited Leadville a couple of times. This is a very cool (haha) part of Leadville history!! Thanks for sharing. :)
Whispers on the Prairie sounds like a great read-- I'd love to read it!!
I don't think I've read anything by Vickie McDonough, but I'm definitely checking her out!! :)
Ladette, I love visiting Colorado. Other than Texas & Kansas, it's probably the state I've been to the most. You're blessed to lived there.Delete
Fascinating, Vickie. I Didn't know that.ReplyDelete
How interesting! It amazes me what they could accomplish with the tools they had. I'd never heard about it before.ReplyDelete
Interesting! Their work makes what some people do now, turning snow into ice palaces, seem wimpy by comparison.ReplyDelete


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Two Indiana-based hazardous waste treatment companies are playing a leading role nationally in the incineration of the U.S. military's stockpiles of toxic firefighting foam and have landed in the middle of a legal battle.
Indianapolis-based Heritage Environmental Services LLC and Merrillville-based Tradebe Treatment and Recycling LLC signed on as contractors to incinerate hundreds of thousands of gallons of the U.S. Department of Defense's PFAS-laden aqueous film-forming foam.
Environmental advocacy groups from around the country have sued to annul the contracts and stop the incineration of AFFF stockpiles until it can be proven that all PFAS chemicals are broken down and all possible emissions are eliminated.
"Incineration does not solve the Defense Department's PFAS problems; it just pawns them off on already overburdened communities," said Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, staff attorney for Earthjustice, the legal organization representing the groups in court.
"PFAS chemicals are used in firefighting foam precisely because they don't burn. Instead of destroying those chemicals, incinerating the foam releases PFAS and other toxins into the air. DoD's decision to authorize large-scale PFAS incineration without considering the health impacts is shortsighted and illegal."
PFAS are a group of manmade chemicals that have been used to coat and protect consumer goods since the 1940s. During the 1960s, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the 3M corporation developed PFAS aqueous film-forming foam to suppress aviation fuel fires. The foam proved effective and was made available to civilian firefighters in the 1970s.
Researchers found that PFAS chemicals were linked to a series of adverse health conditions, including liver damage, pregnancy-induced hypertension, lowered birth weight and an increased risk of developing certain types of cancer.
The chemicals were also found to be persistent, meaning they stayed in the environment years after they were used.
A series of lawsuits revealed that 3M and other PFAS manufacturers knew about the toxicity and persistence of the chemicals for decades. One of those lawsuits was made into a 2019 movie, "Dark Waters,"starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued drinking water health advisories for PFOS and PFOA, two of the more than 5,000 known PFAS chemicals, in 2016.
Several months before the health advisory was released, the U.S. Department of Defense began to take steps to identify and address elevated levels of the two chemicals.
"To prevent further releases into groundwater, DoD issued policy in January of 2016 requiring the military departments to stop using AFFF during maintenance, testing and training," Maureen Sullivan, deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for environment testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. "The policy also required the military departments to remove and properly dispose of supplies of AFFF containing PFOS."
Several military installations in Indiana were found to have varying levels of PFAS contamination, including the former Grissom Air Force Base near Kokomo, Jefferson Proving Ground near Madison, Hulman Field in Terre Haute and Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane in Martin County.
The contamination was traced back to firefighting foam testing.
The military services began planning to move on from the PFAS foam and to get rid of the stockpiles it had left.
The Defense Logistics Agency, the DoD's support agency, entered into a 30-month contract with Heritage Environmental Services LLC in 2016 to begin incineration.
In 2018, the DLA contracted Tradebe Treatment and Recycling LLC to handle the AFFF incineration in the eastern and central U.S., which includes Indiana.
Heritage received a 30-month contract to handle AFFF in the western U.S. in May 2019, with the option to extend a further 30 months.
Both companies are now responsible for the incineration of millions of gallons of PFAS AFFF-contaminated solids, liquids and sludges.
At issue is where that incineration has taken place, where it will happen in the future and how that will affect the health and air quality of people living near those facilities.
The location and number of facilities used by the companies to fulfill their contracts is not being disclosed.
The Indiana Environmental Reporter reached out to the companies, but did not get a response. The companies are contractually bound to not release any statements to the news media.
The DLA said it could not answer our questions due to ongoing litigation.
Earthjustice, through its lawsuit, was able to verify AFFF was incinerated at nine facilities, including three facilities in states bordering Indiana.
"Burning toxic firefighting foam at hazardous waste incinerators is a huge mistake, posing public health risks to residents living near the incinerators and downwind from the incinerators. The incineration of this foam should be blocked by state and local officials," said former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck.
The EPA and Department of Defense admit that there is limited air emissions data to determine the safety of AFFF incineration or its effect on people living near the incineration sites.
The incineration contracts did come with strict rules for selecting incineration sites. Although the foam is not considered a hazardous waste by the EPA, the companies can only use facilities with EPA hazardous waste permits that are also approved by the DLA as "qualified facilities."
Further narrowing the pool of potential incineration facilities is the fact that the only way to eliminate PFAS chemicals completely is through incineration at temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius, or 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit.
The companies contracted to carry out the AFFF incineration have headquarters in Indiana, but are they using facilities in Indiana, potentially putting Hoosiers at risk?
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the state agency charged with protecting the environment and human health, said it was unaware of any combustion unit in the state receiving firefighting foam.
The DLA lists six Indiana facilities as "qualified facilities" to carry out DLA hazardous waste disposal contracts.
Two of those facilities are owned by the companies contracted to carry out the AFFF incineration. One facility, located in East Chicago, is owned by Tradebe Treatment and Recycling LLC. Another facility in Indianapolis is owned by Heritage Environmental Services LLC.
The sites are not among the permitted hazardous waste combustion facilities list provided to the Indiana Environmental Reporter by IDEM, but they are listed by IDEM as permitted hazardous waste treatment, storage and/or disposal facilities.
The groups involved in the lawsuit say the Department of Defense should find new ways to protect people from PFAS contamination without potentially exposing more people to the chemicals by incinerating them.
"We don't take potential threats to our health and the safety of our community lightly," said Alonzo Spencer, president of Save Our County, one of the groups suing to stop AFFF incineration. "Bringing in yet another toxic chemical into our neighborhoods will have untold consequences without proper environmental review."
The case is set to be heard in the Northern District of California later this year.
The Department of Defense has decided to study PFAS destruction and disposal further.
In the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress set a one-year deadline for setting policy for PFAS destruction and disposal. That includes the potential for releases of PFAS substances during destruction, its effect on people living near the destruction sites and setting policies for testing and monitoring air, water discharge and soil near those sites.


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Legendary event at the Tuxerhof
Whatever the weather, young guests staying with us can look forward to action, adventure and discovery at the Play Arena, a large indoor play area just two minutes from the hotel. Access to the Play Arena is free of charge for guests staying at the Tuxerhof!
With the children in good hands, why not treat yourself to a beauty treatment or a massage? Our HimmelREICH lounge is the perfect place to get away from it all for a few hours while the kids are having fun in the Play Arena. Go on - you deserve it!
While the little ones run around to their heart's content in the Play Arena, parents can enjoy some of the special spa treatments at the Tuxerhof.


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Springwood, centrally located between the two largest cities in Queensland (Brisbane & Gold Coast) just 50kms from the Gold Coast.
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