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Lydia Bird's father is her hero, her rock, the man who keeps their shaky, tumultuous family together. So when he is lost at sea after a fishing expedition gone awry, who will take care of her?
Lydia Bird lives in Alameda, California. She is currently working on a book entitled, Ezekiel: A Memoir of Families.
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The story of Jiumen Xiaochi (九门小吃)begins like many other stories of snack sellers in modern Beijing. Menkuang Hutong was a street where families sold traditional snacks using recipes and and skills that got passed down for generations. The hutong demolished some years back, to make room for new developments.
This story, though, has a happy ending. Eleven vendors got relocated to the new Jiumen Xiaochi, a collection of stalls now housed in a traditional courtyard. Some of these snacks, like bingtang hulu, can be found all over Beijing. Others, like flour tea, are a bit more unusual.
The restaurant is at the end of an meandering hutong off a larger road, not any place you would stumble upon. Jake and I made a lunch date and followed a map, walking 10 minutes or so from Jishuitan subway station. We bought a card from the reception desk (located in the dining area, not the entrance way), and ordered away.
Suanlamian, or sour and spicy noodles, was on display in its naked form. Instead of being doused with chilli sauce, the yellow and brown wheat noodles came with some peppers and cilantro on top, and a dish of chilli sauce on the side so you can adjust according to your spiciness threshold.
There was a stand that specialized in chao gede. The translation, "stir-fried flour lumps," may sound strange, until you realize that the "flour lumps" are just tiny fingertip-sized pasta, not unlike knife-cut noodles. They're first boiled, then stir-fried with edamame, cucumbers, scallions, and your choice of meat.
We also ordered a lot of deep-fried dishes, which make up a disproportionate amount of Beijing's snacks. Spring rolls with red bean paste. Squash rolls encompassed by a layer of fried flour. Fried milk.
The last one made Jacob was perplexed. "Have you ever heard of fried milk?" he asked. I told him about the fried milk I once ate at a banquet at Guangzhou's White Swan Hotel. They were perfectly round with a paper-thin shell that unleashed warm sweentened milk upon biting. (Trust me. Trying to describe this dish without inadvertent innuendos is very difficult.) It is the only dish from that elaborate, delicious banquet that I remember 9 years later in perfect clarity, because it was unusual and so darn good. Jiumen Xiaochi's fried milk was doughier, with a thicker filling; not very 5-star in taste or asthetics, but still satisfying.
The flour teas, if you remember from the 2nd paragraph, were interesting. The stack stand displayed mounds of different kinds of flour in mounds: plain, camellia, almond, deluxe, etc., and then mixed it with warm water and sugar in a bowl before serving. I ordered the almond and it tasted exactly like...flour mixed with warm water and sugar. Served in a bowl, it was more of a gloppy sweetened paste than a tea.
Of course, as a foodie, I can't shake this "try everything once" mentality. Sometimes I get flour tea. Other times I get stuff that knocks my socks off. That's all part of the fun of exploring new food in Beijing.
Jiumen Xiaochi 九门小吃 1 Xiaoyou Hutong, off Gulou Xidajie Houhai, Xicheng District, Beijing 010-6402-5858


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Demi gets upset over "fucked up" drinking joke on X-Factor finale
Demi Lovato was shocked and appalled at an insensitive segment on Thursday's "X Factor" finale.
The show featured a digitally-altered compilation of clips showing the singer supposedly drinking a mysterious substance — a bizarre move given the judge's public struggles with drugs and drinking.
The drink was "revealed" to be "Annoying Juice," the supposed reason why Lovato frequently bickers with Simon Cowell.
Lovato looked furious as the intended joke fell flat, and could be seen mouthing, "That was f**ked up."
Asked for her thoughts by Mario Lopez afterwards, the put-on-the-spot singer said through a forced smile, "I think it's very, very clear since I don't drink anymore 'Annoying Juice' has become my new drink and I love it because I get to annoy Simon with it."
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Not too sure how to proceed with this one hope someone can help. I have a 110V extension reel. I can make the loop with it woth various adaptors
I need to do a new user test (When in auto mode as its 20M long) but I am unsure as to voltage specs.
My question is do I copy the 10 amp IEC lead and tweak it somehow, but this has been set up for a 240V sequence.
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Here Comes the Snide
I can appreciate couples looking for that one-of-a-kind wedding theme to really blow their guests away, but I still think I'd draw the line at "Tornado Victim Chic."
Unless they're planning to have flying debris over the dance floor while the guests drink Hurricanes and play Twister.
In that case?
I am SO IN.
Blame my city slicker upbringing, but I had no idea corn could grow this way:
I guess the baker got an earful about how the bride wanted her cake to POP, eh, Colonel?
And say what you will about wreckerators, but they know that the show must go on. Even when they forget their spatulas and have to decorate the cake in the back of a moving delivery van, on a slalom course, blind-folded, on fire, and using nothing more than a spork and whatever they can scrounge from the bottom of the florist's trash bin.
Aaaaaand scene.
Thanks to Susie, Anony M., & Pat J., who tells me none of that actually happened, but I choose to believe it anyway so I can sleep at night.


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"The Force is strong with this one."
I love that line. It instantly transports me back to my childhood, to an epic world that had a powerful influence on my life. Like hundreds of millions of people, I am a true believer – someone who can't get enough of the story, the culture, and the ethos of Star Wars.
Today, The Walt Disney Company has announced that they have chosen EA to create new Star Wars experiences for gamers worldwide.
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It's really unusual that, even without heirlooms, I can break 100 DPS no sweat. Back in my day, 300 DPS at level 60 was "doing really well." Now that we're actually starting to get into the meat of leveling, I figured that I ought to break up the guides into sections for ease-of-use. Hopefully you'll find this a bit more useful if you just need help with one specific part of leveling in each block.
11 through 20 gives you another block of very important utility and resource skills that as a mage; spells you should become accustomed to using. At level 12, you get your second specialization-only spell (Arcane Barrage/Fireball/Frostbolt). Fireball and Frostbolt are your main "nuke" spells in that they are what you will be casting a good majority of the time. They are a decent chunk of your damage.
Arcane Barrage however is slightly different. Arcane Blast is the main nuke for Arcane spec, and Barrage is our secondary – how it works is that it clears all your current Arcane Charges, but each charge you have when you cast it increases the damage it does, as well as hit the same number of mobs in a small radius. So, for example, if you use Barrage when you have 4 charges, it will hit 4 targets around whatever you are casting at currently (if there are that many mobs) for 50 percent of the damage your Barrage hit for. It's a very nice brainless way to do AOE damage at early levels.
Polymorph is level 14 and is your first real crowd control. While Polymorph does tend to vanish at the drop of a hat if someone even so much as LOOKS at your sheep, it is considered one of the more prized crowd control abilities in that is it easily renewable and has no cooldown. A good mage will master the art of keeping a focus target sheeped and being able to polymorph on the fly and I will give you a great macro for how to do that:
#showtooltip /stopcasting /clearfocus [mod:shift] /focus [@focus,noexists] /cast [@focus,exists,harm] Polymorph
This macro does a couple of things right off the bat – first, it stops your cast (meaning you can sheep on the fly if need be), secondly, it sets a focus if one does not exist already, and it casts Polymorph. It is going to set whatever you're targeting and sheeping as your focus, so keep in mind that if you need to swap your focus/sheep target, you press the macro while holding down your modifier key (in this case is SHIFT). If you want to change your modifier key (to say, ALT or CTRL), you merely change the [mod:shift] part. I also like to use my macro as a nice "set a focus" button as if you are out of range or a mob cannot be sheeped, it will just simply focus the mob you are targeting, provided it is a harmful entity. If you want to eventually use other spells besides just the flat Polymorph spell (like Polymorph: Black Cat, Polymorph: Pig), you can simply change the last line to something like this:
/castrandom [@focus,exists,harm] Polymorph, Polymorph(Rabbit), Polymorph(Black Cat)
The only problem you might run into is if you have other spells that work on a focus – such as Counterspell (like in our last guide). What I've done is used modifers in all my macros for those spells so in the fairly rare case I need to counterspell a non-focused target, while having a focus target polymorphed, I can shift-Counterspell the non-focus target and still keep my focus target sheeped. Glyphing Polymorph lets you turn your boring old sheep into a penguin or monkey as well, or allows polymorph to remove damage-over-time spells on a mob (a must for dungeons.)
Level 16 isn't a spell but rather a passive effect called Shatter. Shatter used to be a talent as part of the Frost talent tree but instead is now something all mages get by default. What it does is double the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets. Now, what freezes targets? Frost Nova, Deep Freeze (basically any spells that root with an icy graphic) do this. This means even if you aren't specifically a Frost Mage, Frost Nova is a useful utility for the root as well as the damage, especially if you are out questing by yourself. However, rooting mobs while doing a dungeon might not endear you well to tanks.
One of the key perks of being a mage comes at level 17: Teleport. This is a slide-out panel spell icon (see screenshot) that you can stick on your bars and clicking on it allows you to access every teleport spell you have learned. All mages get one "free" teleport to their home city (my pandaren mage got Orgrimmar) and to learn the rest of the cities for your faction, you will need to visit a Portal Trainer in any of the capital cities. You will learn at least one teleport spell per expansion, so keep visiting periodically to get new ones.
Finally at level 18, you learn Arcane Explosion. This is one of the only AOE spells you have this early. For Arcane mages, it has the additional benefit of generating Arcane Charges, meaning AOEing doesn't damage your DPS as much. However, much like Frost Nova, this spell requires you to be in melee range of mobs to use it effectively. This can be particularly dangerous, so use with caution. Also, jumping while using this spell increases its damage.**
Blizzard revamped their talent system heavily – instead of there being clear "talent builds" that required many talent points and had a lot of bloat, there is now a very elegant 6 talent system. You are given 3 talents per "tier" and can only choose one of them. However, using reagents, you can swap them on the fly if you want. This means that as you change activities, say like dungeons or battlegrounds, you can swap talents around that fit your playstyle best. Your first talent choice comes at level 15, so let's look at the "Casting while Moving" tier:
- Presence of Mind – I chose this because I used to use it as a cooldown when I played Arcane in Firelands. I use it for my second-to-last Arcane Blast stack to build up my charges, or to cast Arcane Blast on the run.
- Scorch – This is a short cast-time fire spell that can be used while moving. It is really good for activity that requires a lot of movement since you can keep Scorching as long as you want.
- Ice Floes – This has similar feel to the other two talents. It allows you to cast it and then cast any two spells that have less than 4 second cast-time be cast on the move. You can use it even when you're already casting something so this means you can use it whenever you want, especially if you weren't expecting to have to move.
None of these are "tied" to a spec, like any of the other talents, and should be chosen for what works best. Experiment!
Obviously this early on, gear will basically be whatever you pick up questing, in dungeons or off mobs. Always prioritize for intellect if you can. If you get some gear that has spirit on it, don't fret. While spirit does nothing for mages, if it also has intellect on it, it is an upgrade. As more gear becomes diversified for healers versus casters, it'll be considered better if you let healers in your group roll over you on spirit items, but for now, anything that has more intellect should be something you pick. Intellect and stamina gear is fairly plentiful from quests, however. Secondary stats like haste, crit or hit is very rare at this level, even if you do dungeons. Slots you won't really see gear for yet is shoulders (besides some white or grey ones), necklaces, head pieces, or trinkets. If you are an alt with heirlooms, this is largely meaningless to you!
At level 20, you get a class quest (Horde/Alliance) that takes you to Shadowfang Keep and gets you an awesome staff. Do this if you can!
Helpful Tips:
- If you want to swap any of your talents, make sure you have Vanishing Powder (this will change at later levels.) You can buy Vanishing Powder from most reagent vendors!
- At level 15, you can now use the Looking for Group tool to queue up for a specific or random dungeon that is appropriate for your level.
- Past level 15, your accelerated mana and health regeneration is turned off, so you will have to start paying attention to your HP and mana pool!


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When Marcia Hickman and Sue Spirit first started talking retirement 20 years ago, they mostly worried about the location and the weather. In Ohio, where they met and ran a women's retreat together, Marcia missed the mountains of her upstate New York youth. Sue wanted a place "with seasons." The pair, who will celebrate 30 years together in August, describe themselves as "mostly out"—Marcia hasn't told her three children she and Sue are a couple, but she figures they've put it together by now. She and Sue hadn't thought about settling down with other gay people until they learned about Carefree Cove. "Around 2000 we heard about 'lesbian land' being started in North Carolina," Sue says. A planned residential community for older gay men, lesbians, and transgendered people, "the Cove" was then an empty 165-acre plot 20 miles outside of Boone, a small university town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The backers had an opening bargain: For $2,000, you could come down and pick your lot. "We put down the money, and six months later we were building," Sue says.
In the 1960s and 1970s, members of the Stonewall generation carved out communities like the Castro in San Francisco, the West Village in New York, and Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., safe havens where a man could walk down the street in heels without causing a ruckus or a lesbian couple could hold hands while shopping. The gay retirement villas sprouting up at the turn of the millennium were far more commercial—and planned—than those early "gayborhoods," but at a basic level what they offered was similar: insulation from prejudice, places where queer people were free to be queer. But as the wrought-iron gate at its entrance suggests, the Cove is far more exclusive than an urban neighborhood.
Set against a densely wooded incline with winding dirt roads, the Cove could have been plucked from a travel brochure for the Bavarian Alps. From a cleared plot at the apex of the development—the site of a planned clubhouse—stone chimneys poke through a canopy of trees. Along the horizon, the mountain ranges crowd against each other, gradient shades of purple fighting for the skyline. It's summer, before the humidity has set in, and the air is crisp and clean.
Cathy Groene, one of the Cove's developers, gives me a tour of the grounds. As she descends along the main dirt road, she stops periodically to point out one of the project's 25 homes—all log, stone, or cedar-sided cabins, as required by the charter. She offers a detail about each occupant as we go; everybody knows everybody here. Along the path, beech and maple trees soar into the sky, and sunlight filters through the leaves. Daniel Boone, who opened up the Appalachians, is purported to have said he had "never been lost but was bewildered once for about three days." This is the sort of place where you wouldn't mind being bewildered for a while.
The Cove sprouted up along with a handful of bucolic retreats for LGBT elders in the early 2000s. With the baby-boomer generation on the cusp of retirement and the economy chugging along at full speed, gay and lesbian entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to create retreats for people like themselves and cash in on the emerging market of 1.5 million gay elderly (and growing). When it opened in 1997, the beachside Palms of Manasota outside Tampa, Florida, billed itself as the first all-LGBT retirement community; unlike the couple of developments that opened up for women in the mid-1990s, the Palms was co-ed. The Cove's opening in 2001 was followed by the environmentally conscious Birds of a Feather in Pecos, New Mexico, in 2004; the upscale, adobe-dotted Rainbow Vision in nearby Santa Fe in 2006; and Rainbow Vista in Gresham, Oregon, in 2007. As with other luxury retirement developments, the recession dealt a blow to this burgeoning market; the Palms and Rainbow Vision declared bankruptcy while other projects were put on hold. But this summer, with the economy picking up again, the ritzy Fountaingrove Lodge—it has an orchard, wine cellar, golf course, and entrance fees as high as $900,000—is set to open in Santa Rosa, California.
Earlier models of all-gay communities were considerably more austere and typically women-only. Since the 1970s, radical "land dykes" (as in "back to the land") have operated separatist colonies in rural outposts. While planned, these backwoods communes—some without electricity or running water—share little in common with the comfortable lifestyle at the Cove. The closest analogue, and immediate predecessor, to LGBT senior retreats are the handful of women's RV communities that sprung up in the mid-1990s in Arizona, Florida, and Oregon. One of them—the Pueblo in Apache Junction, Arizona—caters to retirees.
The Pueblo was one of the places Groene and her partner of 24 years, Gina Razete, scouted when they started looking for a place to retire. While the couple are avid RVers, they did not want to spend the rest of their lives beating back the desert sun. Groene and Razete, who has a background in real-estate development, decided to create from the ground up the sort of women's community they'd want to live in. In 1994, they opened the Resort on Carefree Boulevard in Fort Myers, Florida—278 RVs and manufactured homes on 50 acres dotted with ponds. The lots went quickly, and by 1996 more than 300 older lesbians called the Resort home.
Spurred by the Resort's success, Groene and Razete sought to create a similar haven in the mountains of North Carolina. Like its predecessor, the Cove was originally restricted to women. But to broaden the target market, the developers opened up the project to men. Razete and Groene estimate the ratio of women to men at the Cove at 60–40. While a handful of gay men want nothing to do with the other residents—"the boys at the top of the hill," they're called—down the hollow there is a strong sense of community. One of the residents hosts a potluck each month. Members tend a communal garden right inside the Cove's entrance. In town, the High Country Lesbians hold game nights and movie outings, while Appalachian State University runs a continuing-education program for the elderly.
But more than picturesque scenery and an active social life, the Cove guarantees security. Lissa Brown, a writer and former teacher who just turned 70, puts it wryly: "It's nice when you live in an area like this to know that if you want to go down the road holding hands, you can do it. Nobody is going to shoot you." For Brown's generation of gay people, that sense of security is still a precious—and fragile—thing. Thirty years from now, given the dramatic rise in public support for gay rights, queer retirees will be able to take for granted that they will be accepted and understood in any retirement setting. For Stonewallers, however, peace of mind is an essential appeal of living in a community like Carefree Cove. But it comes with a hefty price tag—one that few LGBT seniors can afford.
Despite the stereotype of the affluent gay, more LGBT seniors live in poverty than their straight counterparts. Half reach retirement with only $10,000 in the bank. They are far less likely than younger gays to be partnered or married. They're more likely to be childless and estranged from their birth families, leaving them to weather the challenges of retirement alone. Even those with long-term partners are at a disadvantage, despite recent legal breakthroughs. In June, the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, putting some gay couples on equal legal footing with straight couples for the first time, but that's little help to older gay couples who have missed out on decades' worth of tax and insurance breaks.
All those factors leave queer seniors with fewer retirement options than their straight counterparts. Without the social support or financial means to ensure independence, they often become separated from their gay communities and "families of choice." Whether they rely on home-care workers or move into assisted-living facilities paid for by Medicaid, they often encounter staff and residents who are not comfortable with gay people. Fearful of mistreatment, many feel compelled to go back into the closet-—particularly painful for members of the generation that invented the politics of coming out. For those who aren't lucky enough to settle down in a place like Carefree Cove, the golden years can still look a lot like the pre-Stonewall years.
A self-described "dyke" in her sixties, Imani Woody has worked with LGBT seniors and their caregivers for the past 20 years. As Washington, D.C.'s local outreach director for SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the country's largest advocacy organization for older gay folk, Woody conducts sensitivity training for nursing-home staff and connects low-income elderly with public housing and HIV/AIDS services. She's met countless LGBT seniors who've ended up "re-closeting" themselves.
Sarah (not her real name) came out in the 1980s at the height of the AIDS crisis. A member of the Nubian Women, a social group for African American women over 35, she was, in Woody's words, "a big dyke girl back in the day." In suits, creased pants, and tailored shirts, girlfriend du jour in tow, she was a fixture at LGBT social events and rallies. "She was political," Woody says. "She was in the mix." All that changed when Sarah, who had been married with children before coming out, hit old age. Doctor visits replaced social invitations. As health problems kicked in, Sarah drifted from the gay community and came to rely on her children for support. She still preferred jeans to dresses, but by the time she met Woody, she no longer identified as a lesbian. "She told me, 'All that gay stuff, I don't do that anymore,'" Woody says.Afraid of raising eyebrows at her grandchildren's school, Sarah makes sure to "dress fem" before picking them up. "Her world was big," Woody says, "and now it has shrunk."
Few eldercare institutions have LGBT-inclusive policies, and care-givers often don't know how to look after queer folk. "Although a lot of folks in this area are competent at taking care of adults, LGBT people are nowhere on their radar screen," says Lisa Krinsky, director of the LGBT Aging Project, which advocates for the rights of queer seniors. According to a 2011 report from the National Academy on an Aging Society, less than one-third of eldercare agencies offer gay-sensitivity training. Most nursing homes do not ask on their intake forms if a person has a same-sex partner. Without gestures to signal that it's safe to be gay, many elderly—who have lived much, if not most, of their lives in the closet—assume that it is not. "I worked in five nursing homes over 27 years, and I only encountered one man—only one—who was openly gay," says Mary Blanchett, a licensed nursing-home administrator who formerly ran a group that helps gay seniors plan for retirement. "That tells you something."
Worse, active discrimination drives some back into the closet. "The disaster scenario is encountering a staff that is homophobic, that is transphobic," says Robert Espinoza, senior director for public policy and communications at SAGE. "You go from a life that is independent and with friends and open and proud and enter a space where you have to re-enter the closet."
Accurate data about older gay people's lives are hard to come by, partly because while federal law requires eldercare institutions to report statistics on other groups of minority residents, that's not the case with queer folk. But a 2011 study conducted by six LGBT advocacy groups provides a snapshot of what life looks like in old age. In long-term care facilities, 43 percent of residents, relatives, and staff members reported that they had witnessed or experienced harassment based on perceived sexual orientation. Advocates for the elderly say that accords with the anecdotal reports they hear. Elderly residents sometimes speak in disapproving whispers about the one gay person on the floor; they may use anti-gay slurs or single gays out for social exclusion. Staff members at nursing homes may refuse to care for queer residents or use gloves when they typically would not. Pictures of same-sex partners are taken down. Conservative Christian residents and staffers, concerned for gay people's mortal souls, openly pray for them to leave the "homosexual lifestyle" or actively try to convert them.
Even in their own homes, LGBT seniors often fear mistreatment at the hands of home health-care workers if they're open about themselves.Ken South of Prime Timers D.C., a social club for older gay and bisexual men, says group members joke about the need to "de-gay" the house—queer periodicals like The Advocate go at the bottom of the stack, pictures of a same-sex partner are moved to an isolated room. They even worry about being found out after they die, South says. "I've heard friends say, half -kidding, 'I have to put this in my will: The executor of my estate has to clean out my computer, get rid of all the magazines and pictures.'"
On a Wednesday evening in June, members of Prime Timers trickle into the upstairs bar of Dupont Italian Kitchen on Washington's 17th Street. The strip is home to some of the city's oldest gay bars, but Ken South says it wasn't easy to find one that would host a weekly meeting of older gay guys. "I could stand naked in the corner at one of those places and be totally ignored," says South, who is 67 and works at an HIV–advocacy organization. The staff here is friendly, though; the lone server upstairs, who looks to be in his twenties, weaves through the crowd of about two dozen, distributing drinks. "Here you go, honey," he says, placing his hand on one of the group's older members, a man in his eighties. The conversation keeps drifting back to aging. "Someone called me 'sir' on the Metro coming in," says one man in his fifties. "The only place I want to be called 'sir' is in the bedroom," South replies. Ageism is prevalent among gay men—the joke is that you're dead at 30—and it fuels the loneliness that often accompanies old age.
Prime Timers, like other social groups for older gays, is designed to be an antidote to that loneliness. It's also part of a larger "aging in place" movement, an effort to help the elderly stay in their communities, live at home as long as possible, and maintain contact with people of different ages. While a few Prime Timers have moved into assisted-living facilities in the District, most continue to live in the homes and neighborhoods they've inhabited for years. Some are not out in broader society, but the group's weekly meetings provide a point of contact with the gay community, a place to make friends, find lovers, and commiserate.
The trend toward aging in place is reflected in an increasing demand for retirement options in the urban centers that are the heart of gay culture. "Some retirement communities are being created out in suburbs, but it's not a big draw for LGBT seniors I work with," says Seth Kilbourn, executive director of Openhouse, a San Francisco–based advocacy organization for LGBT seniors. "They don't necessarily want that golf-course kind of experience. They want to continue to go to the opera." Fortunately, the largest new retirement centers in cities cater to those who can't afford a Carefree Cove or a Fountaingrove Lodge—or don't have their own homes to stay in, like many of the Prime Timers. Openhouse is renovating a residential hall and breaking ground on an adjacent complex in downtown San Francisco for low-income LGBT seniors. It follows Triangle Square in Los Angeles, which opened in 2007 and similarly serves low-income people. Philadelphia's William Way Senior Residences are set to open later this year. While all of these developments are for low-income people, Kilbourn says Openhouse hopes to break ground on middle-class complexes in the future.
Even with these new developments, however, few gay retirees will have the option of living in an all-gay environment. So advocates like Imani Woody are working to make traditional housing options friendlier by educating staff and residents at retirement centers. It's basic stuff. "It's as simple as learning what a transgendered person is," Woody says. "You want to look for signs that there might be a gay couple—a patient may call them their 'significant other' or use the group pronoun 'they.'"
In another generation or two, society will have provided all the sensitivity training the retirement industry needs. Tomorrow's home- and health-care workers will have grown up in a culture that doesn't tolerate prejudice against LGBT people, and so will have straight retirees. For members of the Stonewall generation, it's a bittersweet irony: While old age is fraught with difficulties, they have laid the groundwork for retirement to ultimately be just as gay-friendly as the streets of Chelsea.


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a little thrifting and a little creating.
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Building a Sustainable Structure to Make Business Change Stick
Change is only as good as the length of time it lasts in the organization. The last thing you want is to spend enormous amounts of money and time only to find that a year down the road everything has reverted back to how things used to be.
Make the change stick by doing these four things:
Think strategically: To drive change, develop a documented and detailed action plan for change. A good plan helps you know where to invest in change and focus your efforts on the areas where the payback will be greatest.
Integrate your initiatives: An unplanned patchwork of change initiatives will promote bitter competition for resources, confuse employees, and reduce the positive impact of any one initiative. A cohesive set of initiatives will work together toward business objectives and present an integrated business strategy to employees. This will also help you leverage organizational knowledge, so employees are working smarter, not harder.
Over-invest in people: Over-invest in human capital. Build skills in your people at all levels. Broaden the technical, problem-solving, decision-making, and leadership skills of those in the trenches. Strengthen the facilitation, managerial, delegation, listening, communication, and diversity skills of those at the top. Employees will create extraordinary results when skill building is part of performance measures across the organization.
Reshape how you measure things: Change will require people to act differently. Build your vision and then design new measures that are consistent with its strategies and goals. If necessary, dismantle old measures and create ones that not only measure performance, but also the commitment to change. Clear goals and quantitative milestones along the way help keep change efforts focused on improving business performance, not just generating slogans without substance.


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A breakthrough in water resources management occurred in 1961 when President Kennedy and the governors of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York for the first time signed concurrent compact legislation into law creating a regional body with the force of law to oversee a unified approach to managing a river system without regard to political boundaries.
The members of this regional body - the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) - include the four basin state governors and the Division Engineer, North Atlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who serves as the federal representative.
When the DRBC was created, some 43 state agencies, 14 interstate agencies, and 19 federal agencies exercised a multiplicity of splintered powers and duties within the watershed, which stretches 330 miles from the Delaware River's headwaters near Hancock, N. Y., to the mouth of the Delaware Bay.
The Compact's signing marked the first time since the nation's birth that the federal government and a group of states joined together as equal partners in a river basin planning, development, and regulatory agency.
The five members appoint alternate commissioners, with the governors selecting high-ranking officials from their state environmental agencies. Each commissioner has one vote of equal power, with a majority vote needed to decide most issues. Exceptions are votes to apportion among the signatory parties amounts required to support the current expense budget and votes to declare a state of emergency resulting from a drought or catastrophe, which require unanimity.
Commission programs include water quality protection, water supply allocation, regulatory review (permitting), water conservation initiatives, watershed planning, drought management, flood loss reduction, and recreation.
The DRBC is funded by the signatory parties, project review fees, water use charges, and fines, as well as federal, state, and private grants.
Annual elections are held for commission chair, vice chair, and second vice chair, based on a rotation of the five signatory parties. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is currently serving as chair for the July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020 term. The other commission members are Delaware Governor John Carney (vice chair), Federal Representative Major General Jeffrey L. Milhorn (second vice chair), Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, and New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy.
The commission holds business meetings and hearings on policy matters and water resource projects under regulatory review. These sessions, along with meetings of the commission's various advisory committees, are open to the public.
The fact that five separate governmental bodies with their own sovereign powers can successfully work together on an equal footing in managing a common resource has caught the eye of other river managers not only in this country, but around the world. In recent years, commission representatives have been invited to Australia, Slovakia, and Bulgaria to tell the DRBC story and offer assistance. Officials from those countries also visited the commission's offices in West Trenton, N.J., as have delegations from South Korea, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Jordan, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, Uruguay, India, and Japan, among others.
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1. "You say social media site, we say advertisement-delivery system."
After much anticipation by investors and fans, the microblogging service Twitter TWTR, +0.93% will go public Thursday. The share price was set at $26, which values the company at more than $14 billion. It is expected to be one of the most popular stock offerings in recent history fueled by the site's rapid growth in users — which numbered nearly 232 million by the end of the third quarter, up from roughly 49 million three years prior — and its wide-reaching impact on fields ranging from politics to entertainment.
Social networking experts say Twitter will likely undergo many changes after it becomes a publicly traded company. For one thing, it will probably target ads more specifically to Twitter users. In July, Twitter announced it would soon begin experimenting with the ads it shows users in the U.S. by "displaying promoted content from brands and businesses they've shown interest in." Retailers, for instance, can provide Twitter with information on which users have visited their sites, and Twitter will try to match that up with users' Twitter accounts to show them promoted tweets from that retailer, Twitter said in its announcement. (Twitter users who want to maintain their privacy and don't want this information matched can uncheck the "Promoted content" box in their account settings.)
Advertising is a big and seemingly growing source of revenue for Twitter. Eighty-five percent of its $317 million in revenue in 2012 was generated by advertisements, according to the company's S-1. For the nine months ended September 30, ads accounted for 89% of its revenue.
A Twitter spokesman said the company could not comment on most points in this article because the company is in its pre-IPO "quiet period," when SEC rules prohibit companies from making public comments that could affect their share value. But the spokesman pointed to relevant guidelines and policies published on Twitter's website.


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'Kalzip national case studies' is a new full colour brochure featuring an amazing array of stunning roofing and façade projects all demonstrating how numerous architects have chosen Kalzip to transform their creative building design concepts into reality.
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Worrying about kitchen fans is exhausting
January 14, 2016, 7:22 a.m. by Lloyd Alter
We treat it like it's as 'routine as poutine,' but 'misteaks' will come back and bite us in the rump roast.
The only Labor Day recipes you'll need
August 29, 2014, 12:51 a.m. by Robin Shreeves
Please the crowd at the pool, the park or in your backyard with our healthy, farmers market-focused recipes.
Soon, you'll be able to eat the food packaging too
August 28, 2014, 4:50 p.m. by Robin Shreeves
WikiPearl is an edible shell that wraps around food and complements the flavor. It's meant to take the place of throwaway packaging, but it poses a challenge.
This 'energetically independent' tiny house is shaped like a cross
May 22, 2014, 6 p.m. by Matt Hickman
Formed by two wood-clad shipping containers, Skit 2014 is the ideal living arrangement for eremitic types who don't mind ladders and composting toilets.
How much do you spend on lunch?
September 27, 2013, 12:38 p.m. by Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily
Even dining out for lunch twice a week can really add up.
Blue Apron ships healthy ingredients to your home and you do the rest
August 16, 2013, 12:36 p.m. by Nicole Fallon, BusinessNewsDaily
Blue Apron delivery service allows amateur and experienced home cooks alike to explore, appreciate and master the art of cooking in a simple, convenient way.
'Bless This Food' offers 160 ancient and contemporary graces
August 13, 2013, 10:43 a.m. by Robin Shreeves
This book with blessings from many cultures and religions will make practicing gratitude for food, family and friends a renewed experience.
5 ideas to green your all-white-attire affair
August 12, 2013, 8 a.m. by Robin Shreeves
White attire dinners are all the rage, and guests often have to provide their entire table setting in addition to wearing white. We've got ideas about how you can green your event.
Ellen Page talks freegan lifestyle on 'Conan'
June 4, 2013, 1:22 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
Actress, currently starring in the eco-thriller 'The East,' describes freeganism and her experiences on an eco-village studying permaculture.
Where to find good vegetarian fast food
April 17, 2013, 3:38 p.m. by Robin Shreeves
Until recently, vegetarians had to opt for salads or bean burritos at fast food restaurants. That's changing as restaurants realize the demand for good, meatless options.
Why more people are eating guinea pigs in the U.S.
April 3, 2013, 1:16 a.m. by Bryan Nelson
Eating guinea pig is now a growing trend in the U.S., and activists say it's better for the environment than beef.
Can McDonald's keep its fish supply sustainable?
February 8, 2013, 2:40 p.m. by Robin Shreeves
McDonald's adopts the Marine Stewardship Council's blue ecolabel for its Filet-O-Fish. Will high demand for the sandwich create an overfishing problem?
City shuts down preschool's farm stand
6 weird things that happen after you die
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Swimming Pool Blog
by Sean Griffin, January 17, 2012
Swimming Pool Landscaping
Surrounding your swimming pool with captivating and visually pleasing greenery in the backyard requires a little research before getting started. Certain trees and shrubbery can lead to excessive pool cleaning, abundant staining, and can even affect the structural integrity of the swimming pool. Knowing the best candidates when planting any vegetations or saplings will help limit pool maintenance while still giving your backyard those much needed finishing touches.
Blades of grass, acorns, pine needles, oak leaves and berries are some of your swimming pools worst enemies. Organic material can cause staining on both plastered and vinyl swimming pools. Furthermore they will lead to excessive maintenance and possible filtration repairs. An abundant amount of leaves or any backyard debris will clog up skimmer baskets, possibly clog the pool pump's impeller, and over work your pool filter. Even more importantly is the time involved in cleaning and maintaining the pool water. Certain trees and shrubs can produce hard to clean up acorns or pine needled that make their way through your simmer net. On top of everything organic material that deteriorates and is introduced into the pool water often will have phosphates that can lead to algae outbreaks and problematic water. For these reasons you will want to review your geographic location and make some educated decisions on what to plant and what not to plant around your swimming pool.
Problematic plant life will include those that have extensive rooting systems. Overgrown rooting tends to gravitate to a water source. I have seen a large oak tree root wrap itself around a 2" plumbing line and eventually crack the pipe. Root systems can also lead to erosion of the earth surrounding the swimming pool. This can lead to the pool deck becoming unlevel and even shifting in the pool structure in its entirety. Another seed you should avoid planting is those that will have excessive pollination. Trees that shed during multiple months of the year will increase cleaning and put a larger workload on your pool service and the pool equipment. Fruit and berry producing vegetation are more likely to leave behind messy staining and will attract unwanted insects. Pollinating plants and fruit bearing trees will almost surely invite pesky bees. An obvious plant and vine to avoid having anywhere near the swimming pool are those that have thorns or abrasive surfaces. As beautiful as a rose bed might look next the pool, it may scratch up an unsuspecting swimmer.
Mulberries, Cottonwoods, Aspens, Willows, Silver Maple, and American Elm trees. These trees have extensive and invasive root systems that will seek moisture at any cost. If close enough these trees can erode the ground around your swimming pool and seek and destroy underground plumbing.
Palm trees, Fruit trees, Grape vines, berry plants, nut trees and flowering trees. Any tree or plant that falls within this category will lead to excessive cleaning and possible staining. Insects will also be attracted to these choices.
Needle bearing Evergreen trees, large deciduous trees, and Crape Myrtles should be avoided. Larger leaves that end up in the swimming pool can complicate vacuuming and will put extra stress on the pool equipment. Finer needle that drop are known to sneak by the skimmer baskets and clog up your pool pump impellor.
Thorny flowers, Chinese holly, cacti, pyracantha, and hard yucca are some unforgiving attractions. Most pool users will want to avoid brushing up against any of those mentioned without a shirt protecting your back.
The benefits to choosing and incorporating beneficial plant life around your swimming pool are endless. From limiting cross winds that steal heat from your pool to providing shade and privacy, Mother Nature has her benefits. Personal preference along with your geographic location will dictate your numerous options to choose from when planting your seeds. With so many options available you can always learn the specific characteristics of any plant life by scrolling through Arborday.org's American Tree Database.
Daylilies and sedums. Visually pleasing while still low maintenance.
Ornamental grasses like maiden grass, ophiopogon, and liriope can grow over half a foot. They can be used around an in ground pool and works nicely with an above ground pol. Ornamental grass commonly grows right up to an above ground structure which helps blend it into the surrounding landscape.
Calycanthus, aka sweet shrubs, can also add some pleasing aromas.
Harbour dwarf nandina and dwarf yaupon holly are great small shrubs to line the border of a walking path or the perimeter of the pool decking. Low maintenance and very resilient.
Creating your backyard feng shui with plant life can sometimes seem like a daunting task but your main goal should be keeping it simple. Trimming, pruning, and fertilizing should be kept to a bare minimum around the swimming pool. Plant the right seeds so that you can sit back and enjoy the landscaping for years to come.


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It's been months since the tier started. There's really no excuse to not have detection on these fights yet. There are various abilities that occur in all three fights, yet somehow, someway, there's still been no added detection. How hard is it to add detection to something like Malice on Heroic Garrosh? Really? How difficult is this? One ability. It's not on normal. Boom easy. How hard? This could be done while you're eating a burrito for dinner. People on the forums have even given examples of abilities to detect. People have brought this up in other threads. There's even a start and end ID given on encounters that state if it is or isn't heroic. Blizzard put this in a while ago. WoL still doesn't utilize it.
There are alternatives forming like warcraftlogs.com
There were log sites before worldoflogs and ones before them too. It's in your power to keep this as the go to log site or let it stagnate and slowly burn to the ground.
Personally, I like the layout of worldoflogs. I like a lot of the features. I don't really want to switch. I'd prefer it to stay. However, with the support being as minimal as it's been for as long as it's been, once the bigger guilds start migrating to the warcraftlogs.com alternative, I'll have to go there too because I care about competitive rankings. I only want to log where the competition is. Right now that's worldoflogs. Not sure if that's going to last into WoD.
My guild's WoL subscription runs out tomorrow. We will not be renewing because of what has frankly become unacceptable support from the devs.
Continuing to ignore the addition of heroic detection for this long is the equivalent of a long tenured member refusing to gem their legs because they don't have any gems on them and the guild master doesn't care. Accepting mediocrity because there are no hard consequences. There's people offering to give the person gems. Offering to cut the gems. It takes a few moments of time to fix it. Yet still, the member refuses because they've been there forever and can do what they want.
I'm doing my best to not type out profanity in this post because frankly it's beyond frustrating.
...I'll leave this by repeating what I said.
Add heroic detection to Blackfuse, Paragons and Garrosh.
Update something that should have been updated ages ago. Something that this site exists for.
Add Heroic Detection for Blackfuse through Garrosh!
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Not going to happen. Use warcraftlogs.com instead. World of Logs is dead.
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Former Palm Employees Cook Up Kitchen-Centric Kickstarter Project
They say inspiration can strike at any time. And for some, that time is when you're about to change your baby's diaper.
One night late last year, Rob Katcher, a former product manager at Palm who worked on such devices as the Treo 700p and Centro, was getting ready to put his youngest child to bed when he and his wife realized they were out of sleep diapers. A simple case of forgetting to pick some up at the store, but also the last thing they wanted to deal with at the end of the day.
They settled on using swim diapers for the night, which didn't end well. But from that experience, a business idea was born.
Today, Katcher is launching a new product called Hiku on Kickstarter. Designed to simplify the shopping experience, it consists of a small disc that contains a commercial-grade scanner, a microphone and Wi-Fi radio, so that whenever you see you're running low on an item, you just scan the barcode on the package or record a voice memo, and it is automatically added to your digital shopping list on the Hiku mobile app or Web.
But why use Hiku, when you can just make a list on your phone or use one of the grocery shopping list apps already on the market today?
"From the earliest days of Hiku, we set out to make a product that was instant, so it would satisfy the demands of a busy family," said Katcher in an exclusive interview with AllThingsD. "One that's as fast as — if not faster than — pen and paper. You simply cannot do that with a mobile app alone."
I got a chance to check out an early working model of the product, and I see several benefits to Hiku. First, because it contains a commercial-grade scanner, it's quicker to scan bar codes. With the mobile apps, you need to use your smartphone's camera, and they can be slow to focus and recognize bar codes.
Also, it's dead simple. It connects via Wi-Fi, and there's only one button on the device, so you really can't mess that up. Just press the button to scan an item or record a voice memo, and all the data is wirelessly sent to your phone.
Katcher says Hiku is so easy a 5-year-old can use it, and I believe it. In fact, I can see an enterprising kid using it to sneak some junk food onto the list, so you might want to check that before you head to the store.
To make the Hiku, Katcher enlisted the help of another former Palm employee, Manu Chatterjee, the creator of the Touchstone charging dock that was introduced with the Palm Pre. Chatterjee serves as the technical adviser to the start-up and contributed to the product's industrial design and engineering.
Designed to be kept in the kitchen, Hiku features a magnetic back so you can stick it to your refrigerator. It's also water-resistant and made to withstand a fall or two. The rechargeable lithium-ion battery promises up to two months of battery life with normal use.
Hiku is manufactured by a partner in Asia, but Katcher did not disclose the name of the company at this time.
The mobile app is still under development, but from what I saw, it looked clean and intuitive. It provides an easy-to-read list of items separated by category, such as dairy, produce and so forth. Hiku's cloud service does all the work in the background to transcribe voice recordings into text and categorize products.
Though Katcher did not announce any retail partners today, you will be able to buy any item that has a price tag icon next to it; once you've bought an item, you can simply swipe the screen to cross it off your list.
The mobile app will only be available for iOS devices at first, but everyone else will be able to access basic shopping-list functionality via Hiku's Web site. Katcher said they might develop apps for other mobile operating systems like Android in the future, but didn't want to overpromise anything beyond their initial focus.
So, how much will it cost? Hiku is offering an "early bird special," where the first 500 pledges of $79 will get you one unit. After those 500 devices are gone, the price jumps up to $99 for one, or $189 for two. And if, for some reason, your fridge doesn't have a magnetic door, you can purchase a Hiku with an extra magnetic accessory for $109. The company must meet its funding goal of $80,000 in 28 days to go into production.
"I came up with Hiku because I was tired of forgetting things," said Katcher. "But I also totally believe in moving technology inside the home, and making it useful and doing it beautifully. Technology inside the home has been so much about entertainment, but I want it to be helpful to people, and I also think you can do it elegantly and simply, which is what we're trying to do with our service and solution."