I wanted to use the project not only to solve my volume control problems, but to learn some new things. I hadn't dealt with analog audio before or negative voltage rails on my projects, so it was a fun way to try them out.
After lots of searching and reading about audio amplifiers, digital potentiometers, and many other things, I decide to go with TI's PGA2311. They call it a "Stereo Audio Volume Control", which is just what I needed. It takes a stereo audio input and can both amplify and attenuate the volume. It is controlled over the SPI bus, which makes it easy to work with.
One of the cool features is the zero-cross detection, which makes sure it only changes the volume when the signal is crossing 0V, which gets rid of any popping noise due to the sudden gain change. The device also has a hardware mute, which is nice.
[Un?]fortunately, the PGA2311 needs both a +5 and a -5V rail. As I mentioned before, this is all about learning, so bring it on! I searched around and found the Microchip TC7660S, which is a "Super Charge Pump, DC-to-DC Voltage Converter" that will take my 5V input and convert it to a -5V output. It also has the option to run at 45khz, which should minimize any audible noise generated by it.
The Teensy firmware was fairly simple, thanks to the IRRemote Library that made it extremely easy to receive IR commands. Writing the SPI driver for the PGA2311 was super simple, since you just have to write out the volume twice (once for each channel) over SPI.
After assembling the device, I hooked it up to my TV and speakers and hear a not-so-pleasant, but familiar noise and no music coming out. After I raised the volume enough, audio started coming through just fine, but pretty loudly, which was not ideal.
Adding the ground-loop isolator fixed the noise problem and everything started working correctly (or so I thought…) While watching a loud-ish film, I noticed the audio would stop working during explosions or other loud events. If I "changed" the volume immediately after that happened, it would go back to normal. This meant that the Teensy that was keeping track of the current volume level was not resetting, but the PGA2311 was. This became annoying rather quickly.
After much investigating, I realized that the TC7660S was just not powerful enough to drive the speaker amplifier input. Using my bench power supply for the +-5V rails got rid of all the issues, so I started looking at power. With my oscilloscope, I could see the -5V rail hanging out around -4V and going up to almost -2V, when the device would then reset. I then put a second PGA2311 in parallel with the first, which seemed to mitigate the issue.
As you can see, the dual TC7660S setup was not the best looking, so I decided to revamp the design.
The main problem with the first design was mostly the power supply. I could have updated just that and been done, but that's no fun! I've been looking for excuses to use the new Nordic Semiconductor NRF52810, which is the low-cost version of the NRF52 family. It has BLE capabilities, and I figured it could be neat to control the volume from my phone as well as the TV remote (someday…).
On the power supply side, I found the TI LM27762 and used their WEBENCH design tool to figure out how to configure it. It was dead simple, enter input and output voltages, and it spits out a schematic with all the components already selected!
For the NRF52 firmware, I decided to use Apache mynewt. I've been using it for other projects, and figured I might as well start with it if I plan on implementing BLE support someday.
I implemented a simple decoder using a timer and interrupts and, after some fighting with SPI drivers, finally got it working.
If you'd like to see the code or hardware files, take a look at the Nui github project.


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West Coast Premieres of "Burq Off!" by Nadia Parvez Manzoor in LA & SF July 2014
Paprika Productions is pleased to present West Coast premiere performances, in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, of Burq Off!, a gutsy autobiographical one-woman show written and performed by Nadia Parvez Manzoor. Los Angeles performances will run from Thursday, July 17 through Saturday, July 19, 2014 at Elephant Stages in Hollywood. San Francisco performances will run from Thursday, July 24 through Saturday, July 26, 2014 at the EXIT Theatre Studio Space. Directed by Tara Elliott, Burq Off! follows Manzoor's search for identity and acceptance, while navigating the cultural conflicts of her British-Pakistani home. With great humor and insight, she explores themes of sex, religion, culture, truth, and family. Read the rest of this entry »
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Angel City Chorale (ACC), Los Angeles' most entertaining and spirited choir, kicks off the season this year with Joyful, Joyful, its 20th annual holiday concert and sing-along, taking place over two nights the first weekend of December on Saturday, December 7 and Sunday, December 8, 2013 at Wilshire United Methodist Church. The 160-member Angel City Chorale will perform its unique mix of Christmas and Chanukah favorites, as well as original compositions, in the group's eclectic combination of styles ranging from classical to pop, incorporating contemporary, world, and gospel beats. Both performances start at 7:00pm. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. Read the rest of this entry »
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Senate Approves Homosexual Marriage With The Help of 4 Republicans
As Washington State flounders in this ongoing "Great Recession," with a $1.5 Billion budget gap, failing schools, court decisions demanding more school funding, double digit unemployment in several counties for 3 straight years, all has been put on the back burner as the top priority for the Washington State Legislature is to approve Homosexual Marriage in our state.
Last evening, February 1, 2012 the senate held a brief debate and voted to approve homosexual marriages after Democrats defeated amendments that would place the notion before the voters of the state and protections claimed to be in the bill for clergy and religions being extended to private citizens who may decline assisting in or participating in homosexual marriage ceremonies if they felt it violated their religious convictions.
For example, if you are a baker or photographer and decline to bake a wedding cake or take the photos for a homosexual marriage ceremony, feeling that your assistance or participation may violate your deeply held religious views, you may be held liable in a lawsuit for violating their civil rights.
That same protection is also denied judges, justices of the peace and others authorized to perform secular marriage ceremonies if they feel such participation may violate their deeply held religious views.
I also find claims of an $88 Million boost to the state's economy by approving homosexual marriage specious at best.
Voicing opposition to an amendment proposed by Democrat Senator Brian Hatfield (19th district) that would have placed the final word on this before voters in the state, Democrat Lisa Brown of the 3rd district, relying on the announcement of her lesbian sister stated that such matters should not be left "to the whims of a majority."
Posted in Clark County Issues, National Politics, Washington State | 94 Comments »
Tags: Andy Hill, Cheryl Pflug, Ed Murray, Homosexuals, Joe Fain, Kirby Wilbur, Reagan Dunn, Same sex marriage, Shahram Hadian, Steve Litzow, WSRP
Occubride to Wed Seattle Building
We don't call them the looney left for no reason 😉
From reports by MyNorthwest.com and KOMO News
Babylonia Aivaz who boasts of being arrested weeks ago as one of the occupiers who seized the building, now proclaims her love of the building by announcing her plans to marry it. She states, "I'm doing this to show the building how much I love it, how much I love community space and how much I love this neighborhood. And I want to stop it from gentrification," after trying for a stretch equating her marriage to the building to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision where corporations were equated to people.
Not to Babylonia, corporations are comprised of people. Buildings are comprised of brick, mortar, wood, steel and other materials.
As the state is focused on same sex marriage in the legislature, Babylonia states she will have an ordained minister officiating at her "Gay Wedding."
Wedding March for Babylonia
UPDATE: Photos of the "Gay Wedding" here. The "Bride" declared this as a "Gay Wedding" based her also declaring the warehouse to be a woman.
Posted in Clark County Issues, Washington State | 6 Comments »
Tags: Babylonia Aivaz, Homosexual Marriage, Looney Left, Occubride, Occupy, Same sex marriage, Slippery Slope, Woman Marries Building
Gregoire's Quandry, Deal with a Growing Budget Gap or Push Gay Marriage?
With the state facing a $1.5 Billion budget gap, after a few years of contentious budget cuts (supposedly), unemployment remaining high, taxes and fees rising, and being unable to close the budget gap, what is the priority of lame duck Democrat Christine Gregoire?
Full session may be seen at http://www.tvw.org/index.php?option=com_tvwplayer&eventID=2012010042
Not explained in her announcement, if she is really all about "ending discrimination," why does the proposed "Equality in Marriage" bills all continue to discriminate?
What does she say to the majority of the states citizens who continue struggling in this economic morass who will be most affected by more budget cuts and tax increases?
Does the middle class ever really mean anything to these pandering Democrats?
Posted in Washington State | 1 Comment »
Tags: Equality in Marriage, Failing Economy, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Gregoire, Same sex marriage, Washington State
As the Economy Collapses, Gregoire to Announce Support of Gay Marriage
As we all know, or economy continues collapsing around us. The debt grows along with interest payments on it. Unemployment remains high, Clark County entering our 4th year of double digit unemployment numbers.
With taxes, fees and rates increasing while wages decline, our governor called a special session to deal with a projected $2 Billion budget deficit. When they convened, we only face a $1.6 Billion budget deficit.
So what it our lame duck governor's chosen move now? To publicly announce her support for same-sex marriage at an announced Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 news conference.
"Leaders of Washington United for Marriage, a coalition of gay-rights, civil-liberties, labor and religious groups, announced in November they plan to pressure the Legislature this coming session to pass a marriage equality law in 2012."
Posted in Clark County Issues, Washington State | 119 Comments »
Tags: Christine Gregoire, Equality in Marriage, Rob McKenna, Same sex marriage, Shahram Hadian
So Choose Another Baker and Show Your Tolerance of Others Beliefs
The Iowa Supreme Court legalized same Sex Marriage in April 2009.
Did they also invalidate the First Amendment right to freedom of religious expression?
Is it really a civil rights violation if you, a private business owner, decline to do business with someone based upon your religious convictions?
With the issue once again being pushed in Washington State, does 10% of the population have a right to dictate to 90% of the population that their private businesses will do business with them, regardless of personal convictions?
Christian Baker Faces Boycott For Refusing to Make Lesbian Cake
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Tags: Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Iowa Same Sex Marriage, Lesbians Refused by Baker, Same sex marriage
Bigotry Reigns in the Washington State Legislature
For all of the cries of "equal rights for all" and "end discrimination" coming out of the Democrat controlled legislature in Washington State, I am surprised, shocked even to realize we actually have a legislature filled with bigots when it comes to civil marriage.
Jim Moeller, Jim Jacks, Tim Probst, Ed Murray, Craig Pridemore, nearly every single Democrat in Olympia falls in that category as they sign on to bills to legitimize same-sex marriage, yet continue to deny civil marriage, or even domestic partnership to other consensual relationships.
Two bills proposed and introduced by Rep. Moeller and Sen. Murray, HB 1963 and SB 5793 are both summarized as, "Ends discrimination in marriage based on gender and sexual orientation in Washington."
The problem is, they do not "end discrimination" in marriage in Washington as both bills contain language still restricting marriage rights in consensual relationships that do not fit into the narrow definitions of traditional marriage or the new definition proposed by Moeller and Murray.
The Time Has Come To End ALL Discrimination in Marriage
Posted in 49th Legislative District, Clark County Issues, National Politics, Vancouver, Washington State | 3 Comments »
Tags: Bigotry, Craig Pridemore, Domestic Partnerships, Ed Murray, gay agenda, Homosexual, Jim Jacks, Jim Moeller, Laurie Jinkins, Same sex marriage, Tim Probst
Is the Silence of Same Sex Marriage Proponents a Sign of their Approval of Bigotry?
First we saw SB 5688, "Expanding the rights and responsibilities of state registered domestic partners" passed and the subsequent brouhaha over R-71 to place it on the ballot for voter approval, finally being passed with supporters claims of it was not an incremental step towards same-sex marriage, even though the author, state senator Ed Murray said it was.
Then, during a lame-duck session as Democrats were losing their stranglehold on the House, a repeal of the Military Policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was passed, ending prohibitions on gays serving in the Military openly.
And now, we have Barack Obama deciding that the Justice Department will no longer defend challenges against the Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage as between one man and one woman, during challenges in federal court. Editorials around the state wasted no time praising the decision since 2 bills are currently introduced in Olympia that will throw the doors open toward same-sex marriage.
Even Senator Patty Murray has come out praising Obama for such a bold step and adding her withdrawal of support of the law she once voted for in 1996. Murray now says, "I support and I applaud the President's decision because it is time to end this 14-year policy," and "No American and no American family is treated as a second class citizen . . ." alluding to same-sex unions, but carefully avoiding the use of the word "marriage."
Posted in 49th Legislative District, Clark County Issues, National Politics, US Senate, Washington State | 11 Comments »
Tags: Barack Obama, Bigotry, Christine Gregoire, Craig Pridemore, Discrimination, DOMA, Ed Murray, Jim Jacks, Jim Moeller, Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray, Same sex marriage
As predicted in 2009, as the debates on SB 5688 and R-71 were raging and supporters of enhanced domestic partnership were crying they were not incremental steps towards full-blown same-sex marriage, a bill was introduced February 14, 2011 to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington State.
HB 1963, "Concerning civil marriages" was introduced by openly gay Democrat representative of the 49th legislative district, Jim Moeller and immediately gained the support of 41 fellow Democrats, giving the bill 42 sponsors out of the 56 Democrats in the house.
Likewise, openly gay Democrat senator Ed Murray introduced SB 5793, "Addressing civil marriage equality" in the senate. It too immediately gained the sponsorship of 14 out of the 27 fellow Democrats in the senate.
No Republicans have signed on to sponsor in either house at the time of this writing.
Believe it or not, I'd like to support these bills, but cannot in good conscience as they still discriminate.
Posted in 49th Legislative District, National Politics, Vancouver, Washington State | 47 Comments »
Tags: Civil Unions, Democrats, Discrimination, Ed Murray, gay rights, HB 1963, Jim Moeller, Legalize Incest, Same sex marriage, SB 5793
"Gender Neutral" Parentage?
Political Correctness has attained a new low (height to some) that has Gay Activists applauding the State Departments decision to revamp Passport Applications with the deletion of the designation "mother" and "father" under parents and to soon be designated as "parent one" and "parent two."
A Fox News article states the State Department website noted: "These improvements are being made to provide a "gender neutral" description of a child's parents and in recognition of different types of families."
Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services said, "We find that with changes in medical science and reproductive technology that we are confronting situations now that we would not have anticipated 10 or 15 years ago."
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Tags: Gay Activism, Morons, Parent One, Parent Two, Political Correctness, Same sex marriage, State Department
Proposition 8 Opponents Assault on Religion
Pro same-sex marriage proponents are challenging proposition 8, the controversial and much hated measure banning same-sex marriage in California in court. The case is currently paused while U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker reviews the documents and testimony given to date.
That proponents of same-sex marriage would challenge this vote was pretty much a given. Gay activists have resorted to intimidation, harassment and forms of violence in their quest to shove same-sex marriage down America's throat. A court challenge comes as no surprise.
What does cause me to raise my eyebrows is reading how plaintiffs frame their argument. They seem to have centered their case on voters voting based upon their religious beliefs.
Let me say here that no one knows why an individual votes as they do, nor should they. That is the essence of the secret ballot, voting based upon our individual values and yes, beliefs. Why we select the cause or candidate we do is flat out no one's business.
Let me explain a little.
The Baptist Press placed daily summaries of how the case was progressing. In nearly every summary, we read of how religion was responsible for voters approving Proposition 8 and banning same-sex marriage in California.
A Time article quotes longtime conservative litigator Mathew Staver saying, "What has struck me is that the plaintiffs have tried to put Christianity on trial rather than Prop 8."
Even David Boies, plaintiffs attorney says, "the trial has shown that legal discrimination against gays, in particular rules banning their marriage, starts with simple prejudice, in the form of religion-inspired views about the morality of homosexuality itself."
Day 8 of the trial saw Chinese Christian Hak-Shing William Tam on the stand that lead to the comment from general counsel of ProtectMarriage.com, Andy Pugno,
"For the first time (we believe) ever in a court of law, a proponent of a voter initiative was put on the stand to be interrogated under oath about his own political, moral and religious views. Not only was the Prop 8 supporter forced to reveal his political and religious views under penalty of perjury, but he was further forced to defend and substantiate his views so the court can decide whether his views are improper."
He continued on to note,
" Clearly the plaintiffs will go to any lengths, even if it means sacrificing the precious protections of the First Amendment, to achieve their goal of invalidating the vote of the people."
Almost laughable was Day 12as it was seen "plaintiffs are attempting to argue that the gay community has no reliable political allies and is politically powerless in this country," in spite of President Barack Obama's call for ending the so called 'Don't ask, Don't tell" policy of the United States Armed Service that bans gays from serving openly in the Military.
If that isn't a "political ally," what is?
New Catholic Register quotes attorney Austin Nimocks of the Alliance Defense Fund saying, "The votes of Christians and other people of faith are without question on trial in California" as it is mentioned that plaintiff's attorneys presented a "section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and other Catholic teachings on homosexuality as evidence, presumably implying that these teachings display unconstitutional 'prejudice and hostility' toward an allegedly powerless minority."
Gay activists have long erroneously equated their plight to that of Black during the struggles for Civil Rights in the 1960's. One of the right denied Blacks in America was the right to vote was the use of literacy tests designed in such a way to ensure Blacks would fail, thereby denying them their right to vote.
Should Gay Activists succeed now, will we see them return and be used to deny Christians their right to vote because it is assumed they vote in accordance with their deep held beliefs that gays disagree with?
Should such a precedent be set, where would it end, if ever?
Oddly enough, while Christians and their deeply held beliefs have been put on trial in San Francisco, left out of the arguments are Muslims who share a deep opposition to homosexuality based upon their religious beliefs.
It's bad enough that we have to contend with people like Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, teaching that "Paul Was Condemning Homosexual Acts by Heterosexuals" in the book of Romans (1:22 – 27), but trying to throw out votes they don't like because they assume people voted based upon religious beliefs is abominable.
To take this to its logical conclusion, should the election of Barack Obama be nullified because many feel he was elected solely based upon his skin color?
The First Amendment guarantees each and every American citizen the free practice of religion. Should it be limited if it is felt by the power elite that you might vote in accordance with your beliefs?
Completely missed is that many people oppose same-sex marriage for multiple non-religious reasons. Will the ferret out those reasons to deny a vote by those people now?
This is the dangerous slippery slope many have spoken of for so long. Our right to free beliefs and even a secret vote is being endangered just as it is currently in Washington State with the Supreme Court Case on state sanctioned harassment and intimidation of opponents to same-sex marriage here.
We can no longer afford to remain quiet and hope this all goes away or that judges will follow long established law. Our very liberties are under open assault and if we wish to keep them, we better begin speaking out and making sure we vote according to our beliefs, while we are still allowed to.
One thing I am absolutely certain of, regardless of how Judge Walker rules, this is headed to the United States Supreme Court. Will it be put to rest once and for all?
With the calls from opponents that Judge Walker recuse himself because of his poor handling of the case and being gay himself, you can expect loud calls of Justice's Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves, leaving a favorable court to hear the case and likely approving same-sex marriage from the bench, as was done with Roe v Wade.
Posted in Clark County Issues, National Politics, Washington State | 1 Comment »
Tags: Gay Activists, Judge Vaughn Walker, Proposition 8, R-71, Same sex marriage
Supreme Court Will Hear R-71 Petition Case
Just announced today, the United States Supreme Court will take the case filed over gay activists wanting the names, addresses and signatures of the 138,000 people in Washington State who signed the R-71 petition last year released to them so they may place the names on a searchable web site for the public.
At stake in this case is whether or not opposing sides may seek to intimidate or seek retribution against their fellow citizens for the support of any citizen initiatives in the future.
Most disturbing in this case is the desire of Washington's Secretary of State, Sam Reed and Attorney General Rob McKenna to release those names, addresses and signatures to Gay activists.
R-71 was a citizen initiative to block enhancements to Washington States Domestic Partnership law in 2009 that failed statewide in the election. Almost as soon as the measure qualified for the ballot, Gay activist began their push to have the information on those who signed released so they could make it known publicly who opposed their agenda. This was covered at Traditional Marriage Foes Try To Intimidate Washington Voters.
Gay activists initially challenged R-71 in court over a claim of signatures being improperly accepted. When that failed to keep the initiative off of the ballot, the quest for the release of the signers' information began.
Gay activist such as John Bisceglia were openly advocating "violence against property" of those who supported the R-71 initiative, but has since removed the calls for violence from his website.
In September, U.S. district judge Benjamin Settle ruled the information should not be released to the Gay Activists, followed by an appeal from AG McKenna.
Another federal court ordered the names and information released, but an appeal to the US Supreme Court resulted in an injunction being placed on releasing the information by Justice Anthony Kennedy while the Supreme Court considered whether or not to take the case.
While so-called scholars say the case could have broad implications for public disclosure laws, should the names and information be released, it could have broad implications on citizen involvement in government and petitions drives, regardless of what they may represent.
If this type of intimidation is allowed to stand and is approved by the courts, it is my opinion that citizens will shy away from involvement in almost any issue whether citizen input is needed out of fear of retribution by opposers.
Should the Supreme Court rule against those wishing to protect citizens who sign petitions, can the secret ballot being nullified be far behind, given the Unions and Democrats push for 'Card Check?'
Posted in Clark County Issues, National Politics, Washington State | 4 Comments »
Tags: Domestic Partnership, Gay Activists, gay rights, R-71, Rob McKenna, Sam Reed, Same sex marriage, Washington State
Columbian Misleading Voters On R-71
Dripping of left-winged bias, Thursdays In Our View column in the Columbian, In our view: Approve R-71 also tries to mislead voters about the measure.
They are right in saying, "Voters are being asked if they support Senate Bill 5688, which passed this year in the Legislature and expanded domestic partnerships," but little else.
Where they actually begin misleading is when they say, "It's also key to know that R-71 is not about gay marriage, despite dire warnings from those who advocate rejecting the measure."
Technically, although SB 5688 says nothing about same-sex marriage and is called "everything but marriage," that is the ultimate intent, as admitted to by Senator Ed Murray, the author of SB 5688 who has repeatedly stated SB 5688 is but one more incremental step to same-sex marriage.
Therefore, this particular measure will not make same-sex marriage legal, at this time, but it is just another step closer to it according to the author of the bill. So, it does have everything to do with same-sex marriage in Washington State, just not at this time.
A parable capturing wild pigs applies here. Although about losing freedoms to socialism, it also applies in how small steps eventually lead to a societal change society does not want. They just aren't aware of it being changed due to deception.
You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again.
You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat; you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.
Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
This is the second "domestic partnership" bill we've had in two years with more planned until we have the fence of same-sex marriage around us and the gate is slammed shut. Our constitution will be changed. Where we now have a Defense of Marriage Act in place, that will be gone and what will we have in its place?
Maybe nothing because once we throw away the definition of marriage being "one man to one woman," the Pandora's box is opened. Once opened, how can it be closed again when others who "lifestyle" is not fully accepted today decide they are discriminated against?
Could we see Pederasty, Bigamy and Polygamy accepted and become the norm?
Not by this bill, no. But what about the future moves to approve of same-sex marriage?
How can the Columbian split hairs saying, "The truth is, R-71 will have no impact whatsoever on your marriage or anyone else's?" What about the institution of marriage itself?
A Long-Term Strategy To Legalize Gay Marriage
This is the strategy for winning gay marriage in Washington. Pursue incremental change but talk frankly and frequently about the ultimate goal.
State Senator Ed Murray, an openly gay Seattle Democrat, is a key architect of this approach. He says gay rights advocates are borrowing a page from the civil rights movement.
With Democrats in control, the expanded domestic partnership bills in Washington are likely to pass this session. It will be another step in Senator Ed Murray's plan to legalize gay marriage within a decade.
Lawmakers announce everything but marriage bill
A measure legalizing same-sex marriage measure also has been introduced to the Legislature, but is unlikely to go anywhere this year, and supporters have made no secret of their desire in that effort.
Washington expands domestic partnership law
Senator Ed Murray, one of six gay lawmakers in the Legislature and the author of SB 5688 said, "We needed to have a multiyear discussion with the state on gay and lesbian families. I believe DOMA won't long be the law of the state because those conversations are changing hearts and minds around the state."
In classic liberal "attack the messenger, not the message" tactic, the Columbian's editors demean and denigrate Larry Stickney and Gary Randall, the men who authored R-71 and worked to have it placed on the November 3 ballot, giving voters in Washington State the choice of whether they support SB 5688 or not.
And for a second time, to emphasize their canard I suppose, they again state the misleading, "But again, as the ballot states, this is not about marriage at all. It's about domestic partnerships."
The Columbian ends with, "Voters should reject such narrow views and mark 'Approve' on Referendum 71." The "NARROW VIEW" is really in their masking the true intent of SB 5688.
When you look at your ballot, it's actually very simple. If you desire to see same-sex marriage legalized in Washington's future, approve R-71.
If you wish to stop same-sex marriage from eventually becoming legal in Washington, reject R-71.
I'm voting to reject R-71.
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Tags: Gary Randall, Gay Activism, Gay Marriage, Larry Stickney, R-71, Same sex marriage, SB 5688, The Columbian
Microsoft Donates $100,000 To Support Washington Gays
It was announced today that Computer Software giant Microsoft Corporation has donated $100,000 to the campaign advocating approval of R-71, which will grant more benefits for Washington state gay couples under SB 5688, the so called "everything but marriage bill" passed earlier this year by the legislature.
Although called "everything but marriage," sponsors of the bill openly admit it but an incremental step towards full-blown same sex marriage within Washington State.
A citizen's referendum, R-71 obtained enough signatures on petitions to place SB 5688 on the November ballot, placing the matter in the hands of voters, angering Gays throughout Washington.
Microsoft's donation against the citizens of Washington gives the pro-gay group calling themselves Washington Families Standing Together some $780,000 to support campaigning to vote for same-sex marriage one step at a time.
How much money has flooded into Washington from outside the state coffers is unknown at this time.
Protect Marriage Washington; the group opposing this one step at a time move into same-sex marriage reportedly has only raised some $60,000.
Clark County resident Chuck Miller says,
"The citizens of Washington passed into law the Defense of Marriage Act. The Democrat controlled legislature has continued to chip away at it with the goal of over riding the will of the people. They passed SB 5688, which Gregoire signed. This bill takes a huge leap toward their final goal, redefining and destroying marriage! Against great odds, Washington citizens, lead by Faith and Freedom and Protect Marriage Washington collected the required signatures to put it to a vote of the people. Citizens were dispatched to oversee the counting and too be certain that Secretary of State Sam Reed be faithful in his duty to apply the strict letter of the law in counting the ballots. Opponents of traditional marriage filed two lawsuits to try and stop it from even making the ballot. Both failed."
"Webster's dictionary defines marriage as 'the institution whereby men and woman are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family'."
"California voters said NO to the destruction of traditional marriage. Washington voters can save marriage by voting NO on Referendum 71 in November."
It is disappointing to see Redmond based Microsoft turn their backs on the majority of citizens of Washington who depend on their products for computers in favor a small minority of those who feel they are entitled to special rights.
As disappointing was seeing Washington States Attorney General, Rob McKenna, file suit against "a federal judge's ruling that granted an injunction to keep the names of people who signed a petition to put Referendum 71 on the ballot private."
As shown at Traditional Marriage Foes Try To Intimidate Washington Voters, gays demanded the names so they could place them on a searchable web site to make their names and addresses known and that some gays have openly threatened violence against those who oppose same-sex marriage.
This move cost McKenna the support of this blogger should he try to run for governor in the future, as well as his 'pro-choice' position on abortions. This was the 'straw that broke the camel's back.'
With Microsoft's support, the pro-gay groups hell-bent on doing away with the traditional views of marriage now have a massive treasure chest to mount a propaganda campaign in favor of "everything but marriage."
Do not let them fool you when they come out saying it isn't same-sex marriage. The author of SB 5688, Seattle Democrat Senator Ed Murray, who also authored the 2007 domestic partnership law, has openly admitted this is but incremental step of A Long-Term Strategy To Legalize Gay Marriage.
Vote NO on R-71
Tags: Domestic Partnership, Ed Murray, Everything But Marriage, Gay Marriage, R-71, Same sex marriage, SB 5688
Washington States R-71 Qualifies For November Ballot
Sure to outrage the Gay community, R-71, a citizens initiative to block and overturn Washington States 'everything but marriage' act has qualified for the November ballot. Received in email,
R-71 qualifys for November vote!
With the Referendum 71 signature-check now nearly complete, state election officials say they've now confirmed that sponsors turned in more signatures than needed to qualify for a spot on the November statewide ballot. Signature-checkers passed the 121,000 mark on Monday, the 23rd day of an exhaustive hand check of all 137,000-plus signatures submitted on July 25.
It takes 120,577 valid Washington voter signatures to qualify a referendum to the state ballot. Voters will now have a choice of accepting the new law or rejecting it.
The numbers still are unofficial and not final, as checkers do one final check of hundreds of previously rejected signatures of people who weren't initially found in the voter registration records. That should extend the margin a bit, but the final margin could be in the range of 1,000.
Final certification is scheduled for Wednesday morning by Secretary of State Sam Reed.
Faith & Freedom Network
Gary Randall
President & Chairman
More coverage at R-71, gay partnership foes make ballot
The measure may have qualified based upon signatures, but there is a court challenge to it pending. King County Superior Court Judge Julie Spector is hearing arguments from lawyers representing the secretary of state, proponents of R-71 and Washington Families Standing Together.
WFST claims Secretary of State Reed has not complied with the law. Their attorney claims there are petitions with over 2,000 signatures in which there was no name and no signature from the person collecting them, as required by law.
They claim he also ignores the law requiring only registered voters be allowed to sign the petitions, claiming had he done so the measure would not have qualified for the ballot.
We also have to remember that foes of R-71 wish to obtain the entire list of signers of the petitions to be placed on their web site with a searchable engine. An obvious attempt to intimidate signers.
Traditional Marriage Foes Try To Intimidate Washington Voters
Isn't it strange that those who oppose R-71 are crying about the law, when they resort to such tactics as intimidation, threats of violence and denigrating supporters of R-71, instead of building a cohesive campaign to convince voters to support their view?
I guess that is easier than working within the law they cry others may violate.
Or, is it that they know they cannot maintain a supportable position with the public, so they resort to more unsavory tactics to force their views on others?
See also The Camel's Nose Is Inside The Tent
UPDATE: King County Superior Court Judge Julie Spector will not block the certification of R-71 that will place it on Novembers ballot. The Seattle Times
The misnamed 'Washington Families Standing Together' has stated they will now file a lawsuit against the referendum before the Thurston County Superior Court challenging the certification.
I see that building a campaign to convince voters to reject R-71 remains out of the question.
Intimidation and court rulings take precedence over the will of the people still, I see.
Tags: Everything But Marriage, gay agenda, gay rights, intimidation, Proposition 8, R-71, Referendum 71, Same sex marriage, SB 5688, Washington State, whosigned.org
A group has sprung up in our state calling themselves whosigned.org and whose sole purpose appears to be intimidating people who may disagree with the recent Domestic Partnership law passed by our legislature.
Citizens in disagreement with the passage of SB 5688 exercised their rights by beginning a petition to place the matter before voters statewide and not just the legislature.
Referendum 71 was required to obtain just over 120,000 signatures to qualify for the November ballot and supporters claim to have gathered 130,000 signatures.
As could be expected, groups opposed to R-71 have sprung up utilizing their rights to lobby against the effort by forming an argument against it, not by proposing intimidation.
The official campaign opposing R-71 does not support this effort at citizen intimidation.
This fringe group, whosigned.org claims on their website,
Once signature petitions for initiatives and referenda are submitted and verified by the Secretary of State they are part of the public record. When signatures for Referendum 71 have been verified WhoSigned.Org will:
·	Work to make this public record signature information accessible and searchable on the internet.
·	Flag the 3% signature sample that is certified by the Elections Division of the Secretary of State.
·	Provide Washington State Voters with a way to check that the public record of their advocacy is
·	Provide Washington State Voters with a way of reporting when their signature has been recorded
either fraudulently or in error.
As has become the norm with fringe leftist groups, knowing following proper procedures all too often fails their agenda, intimidation becomes their next step.
While they try to hide their true intent with words as seen above, they really desire to expose citizens who disagree with their agenda and subject them to possible harassment, if they are persons of note.
It is obvious this group fears a similar outcome as we saw in California's Proposition 8 as California citizens overwhelmingly voted to overturn their same-sex marriage law imposed by the legislature, not the voters.
To date, no state passing same-sex marriage has done so by a vote of the people, only by Judicial Decree or state legislatures caving in to a small minority.
Where was this group as hundreds of fraudulent votes turned up to propel Christine Gregoire in the governorship in 2004?
Do you really think they would want the signatures of voters who signed a petition to grant same-sex marriage made public and subject them to possible harassment or boycotts?
We must stand up to the intimidation tactics employed by whosigned.org and preserve our Representative Republic.
While I disagree with those groups who oppose Referendum 71, I applaud their distancing themselves from this fringe group and opposing the initiative by the proper and legal methods.
Posted in Clark County Issues, Washington State | 15 Comments »
Tags: gay agenda, gay rights, intimidation, Proposition 8, Referendum 71, Same sex marriage, SB 5688, Washington State, whosigned.org
Who Cares About The Will Of "The People?"
Not Washington State Senator, McDermott.
Received in email this evening from Faith and Freedom Network;
Dear Lew Waters,
Senate Bill 5688 Passes at 9:51 PM Tonight
This is a sad day in Washington State. Standing against economic concerns, religious concerns, tradition and marriage itself, the Washington State Senate passed SB5688 at 9:51PM tonight, thus setting the stage for homosexual marriage in Washington State.
I cannot tell you how profoundly saddened I was, personally, as I watched the proceedings tonight.
Sen. Dan Swecker attempted to pass an amendment to send the matter to the people for a vote. The amendment was defeated.
Sen. McDermott said, "No. We're elected to vote on behalf of the people."
Senators Swecker, Stevens, Roach, and Holmquist spoke in opposition to the bill pointing out this bill creates an equivalency to marriage.
I will have more detail and where we go from here in tomorrow's blog. I have included the roll call vote below. Please note how each senator voted tonight. Also note that Senators King, Pflug, and Brandland abandoned their own Republican party and voted against traditional marriage.
E2SSB 5688
Registered domestic partners
Senate vote on 3rd Reading & Final Passage
Yeas: 30 Nays: 18 Absent: 0 Excused: 1
Voting Yea: Senators Berkey, Brandland, Brown, Eide, Fairley, Franklin, Fraser, Haugen, Hobbs, Jacobsen, Jarrett, Kastama, Kauffman, Keiser, Kilmer, King, Kline, Kohl-Welles, Marr, McAuliffe, McDermott, Murray, Oemig, Pflug, Prentice, Pridemore, Ranker, Regala, Rockefeller, and Tom
Voting Nay: Senators Becker, Benton, Carrell, Delvin, Hargrove, Hatfield, Hewitt, Holmquist, Honeyford, McCaslin, Morton, Roach, Schoesler, Sheldon, Shin, Stevens, Swecker, and Zarelli
Absent:
Excused: Senator Parlette
And here I thought they were elected to "Represent" us, not dictate to us.
Why is McDermott afraid of a public vote? Because he knows the public consistently rejectes same-sex marriage.
Like it or not, it is coming to Washington State.
Posted in 17th Legislative District, 18th Legislative District, 3rd Congressional District, 49th Legislative District, Clark County Issues, Washington State | 5 Comments »
Tags: Dictators, Same sex marriage, SB 5688, Senator McDermott, Washington Senate
Jim Jacks Co-Sponsors Same-Sex Marriage Bill, HB 1745
Our newly elected Representative for the 49th Legislative District is off and running in his new office. He has his web site up including contact links.
If you recall, Jacks was most known for his blurb during the League of Women's Voters debate in August against Debbie Peterson.
Jacks easily won the election, though, regardless of his admission about our tax problems of, "I don't know how to fix it."
I do see, looking over his site under Sponsored Bill's that he has prominently affixed his name as co-sponsor on HB 1745, Concerning civil marriages.
The Bill, introduced and sponsored by openly Gay Representative, Jim Moeller, also of the 49th Legislative District, states it is an "AN ACT Relating to civil marriage equality, recognizing the right of all citizens of Washington state, including couples of the same sex, to obtain civil marriage licenses."
No surprise that it isn't going before voters as across the nation voters reject Same-sex marriage. So, it is either courts or legislatures forcing acceptance of same-sex marriage on citizens.
40 Democrat Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of this bill!
We we treated to S5336, Domestic Partnership in 2007, but now the push is for full same sex marriage.
It was just days ago we were being told the desire was to "only expand domestic partnerships," or, "Everything Except Marriage."
HB 1745 cannot be any clearer to me. This is a full and outright sanctioning of same-sex marriage supported by Democrats.
Don't be fooled thinking it is about "equal rights," it is special right that no one has yet to explain what benefit society receives for such a drastic change.
I urge you to contact Jim Jacks, or your Representative to oppose this step. Inch by inch and ever so slowly, same-sex marriage is being forced upon Washington State, regardless of what citizens over have said.
Posted in 49th Legislative District, Clark County Issues, Washington State | 13 Comments »
Tags: HB1745, Jim Jacks, Jim Moeller, Same sex marriage
"He's" Pregnant Again, But It Is Still A Hoax
It was just this past March that RIALW exposed the hoax of a "pregnant man", revealing that in actuality, this so-called "man" is a lesbian activist living as a man and went to court to have herself declared "male" by judicial decree.
In July we reported that the lesbian couple had given birth to a healthy baby girl, reminding all that the notion of a "man" carrying and delivering a baby, even by 'C'-Section was not worthy of all the International attention paid to a rather ordinary birth.
Not too unexpectedly, our own media, dumbed down as they are, perpetuated the myth of a pregnant man by bringing on this confused woman, who underwent radical mastectomy and took testosterone, but retained full female genitalia and reproductive organs, to broadcast to the world and our nation that at long last, a man was pregnant with a child.
Thomas Beatie, aka Tracy LaGondino was the hit of the left-winged talk show circuit, making a big splash on the Oprah Winfrey Show, among others, who told us this confused woman's pregnancy is "a new definition of what diversity means for everybody."
Now, we have ABC's Barbara Walters, throwing away what smidgen of credibility she might still have retained by informing the world, Pregnant "Man" Expecting Second Child, in a new interview continuing the myth and blurring the lines between the sexes.
Most ridiculous is that throughout the interview Thomas/Tracie is continually referred to as "he" and "his," and includes a video beginning with her strategically standing before a mirror, shirtless, flexing her muscles, as if that makes one more masculine.
Included with the article are several photos presumably taken at the lesbian couples home, most with Thomas/Tracie shirtless, as if to drive home to readers that her breasts have been surgically removed.
Walters interview reveals that the birth, first reported to be by Caesarian Section actually wasn't, a feat physically impossible for any male.
Thomas/Tracie also says of her original story, "I was shocked that it looped around the world in 24 hours," after Walters tells us she wrote about it in a popular Gay Magazine.
Thomas/Tracie claims to have been living a "quiet life in Bend, Oregon," but "keeps the blinds drawn and monitors surveillance cameras that surround the property," due to "death threats" she claims she and her partner receive.
Any pretense of "quietness" is thrown out he window with their desire to stir it up again with yet another public television interview.
Maybe to those on the left this is seen as an "enlightening occurrence," but Thomas/Tracie reveals her confusion when she was asked why she makes people uneasy and she answered, "I think that people are not used to seeing the image of a pregnant man. And it's causing a lot of people to think," adding the most confused statement she has ever uttered, "I used my female reproductive organs to become a father."
Think, if you will, ahead a few years when these children are in school around other children who are born from a man and a woman in a more normal family setting and who know that Daddy is different than Mommie and that Mommies have the babies and Daddy's place the babies in Mommy. Children can be the coldest and most heartless of all, any parent can tell you that. So, what do you think will happen when one of the couple's children states that they were born from Daddy?
What sort of confusion will result when the teacher is forced to tell the students that Daddy's can have babies, when they can't, and the children go home to tell their parents and it all has to be explained.
I imagine that trying to explain what a 'blow-job' was, after Bill Clinton's affair to Monica Lewinsky was revealed, to a six-year-old will have been easier than trying to explain this one to small children.
The thought of that flies in the face of Thomas/Tracie's claim of, "We are a man, woman and child. It's ironic that we are so different but yet, we're just a family, just the same as anyone else."
Not hardly.
In today's world, even though the majority opposes same-sex marriage, Gay relationships are accepted and most people don't give them much attention. Lesbian couples have children all the time, becoming impregnated by artificial insemination and giving a normal female birth.
Given Thomas/Tracies history of activism for the Gay lifestyle, I have to suspect that her efforts here are not as pure as she once claimed they were when she said, "Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire."
Such a rapid second pregnancy, after the hoopla died down and making sure she appears on National TV again, takes this beyond just a "human desire to have a biological child."
I see this more attempts at shoving the Gay Agenda down the throats of heterosexual society as well as blurring the lines between genders even further than they have been.
If Thomas/Tracie isn't a very confused individual, then she is a very deceitful individual. I don't care if you believe in Creation, Evolution or Intelligent Design; Male and Female are here for a reason. While in some lower life forms the male might be the child bearer, in the Human species that doesn't happen naturally.
So long as "HE" retains female genitalia and reproductive organs, it's "SHE."
Judicial decrees do not over rule the laws of nature. Claiming otherwise and agreeing with it is not only naïve it is down right deceitful.
Posted in National Politics, Uncategorized, Washington State | 1 Comment »
Tags: ABC, Barbara Walters, Bend Oregon, Gay Activism, Oprah Winfrey, Pregnant Man, Pregnant Man Hoax, Same sex marriage, Thomas Beatie, Tracie LaGondino


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by	Kali Shiloh March 23, 2018 657 Views
Dee Harley turned a "derelict mess" into a thriving Peninsula tourist destination. Now if she can just keep the masses out of her kitchen.
"I think as human beings, we're always gonna like baby animals, we're always gonna like animals, and we're always gonna want to relate — that animal made this, and now I'm eating it. And that's what people can get here." (Photo by Philip Wartena)
In the 108-year-old hayloft at Harley Farms Goat Dairy in Pescadero, there's a hand-made wooden chair with its seat carved to perfectly fit farm owner Dee Harley's butt. "Three Finger Bill made it for me because I was pregnant with Ben," Dee says fondly. It was supposed to be a rocking chair, but Bill got cross and never finished it.
Original art and woodwork are everywhere at Harley Farms. Three Finger Bill made the hayloft table from a single tree trunk and constructed the chairs without ever using a nail. (Photo by Philip Wartena)
Like the chair — its wood worn smooth by thousands of visitors — Harley Farms is a deeply personal creation that Dee has chosen to share with the masses. The 160 goats who live there comprise the county's only surviving dairy, and the award-winning cheeses they make bring people from around the world to their doorstep. Whether it's chefs smelling the goat-cheese painted walls of the shop or locals clamoring to hold one of the 300 baby goats delivered every spring, Harley Farms is accustomed to attention.
But Dee often wrestles with her decision to bring a thousand visitors per week to a farmstead she originally created to thrive in the blissful solitude of nature. The accessibility that keeps her business afloat can crowd the quiet country road she fell in love with and overwhelm her family and employees. For the first time since the farm's inception, Dee recently cut back business hours in the farm shop from seven days a week to just three. It's part of an ever-evolving effort to weigh the benefits of a public presence against privacy needed to run a working farm.
"You're in it every day," Dee says of farm life, "and you don't really understand the impact it has on people who don't live like this . . . You tend to think that everybody does, forgetting that they don't." (Photos by Philip Wartena)
Tourists in her kitchen
Although Dee led tours with enthusiasm in the early days, the relentless stream of visitors inevitably began to take its toll.
"When she first started," says family friend David Hope, "people would walk into [Dee's] house, and open her door into her kitchen while she was eating dinner, and be like, 'Hey, what's goin' on? Can we see some goats?'"
The dynamic became even more difficult to reconcile as time went on, because at her core, Dee's not a tour guide or a public liaison or a marketing specialist — she's a farmer, and always has been, really.
When growing up in rural Yorkshire, England, surrounded by fields, Dee was perpetually climbing trees or playing sports — anything, she says, to be outside. Her mother distinctly remembers a career aptitude test Dee completed as a child. The top result for her future occupation? Farmer. "I think I always knew I would be [a farmer]," says Dee, "because I was always like, oh, look at that field, or, look at the tractor, you know? I was attracted to the space — open space."
All the goats have numbered collars, and some even get nicknames: Scraggly Leg, Pretty Coat, One Horn, Necky. "I call all the ones with one horn Unigoats," says 11-year-old volunteer Zephyr. (Photo by Philip Wartena)
Ultimately, she's devoted her life to the outdoors. After leaving school at 16 and venturing to Honduras, the San Juan Islands, and down the Pacific Northwest coast, she found the rolling hills of Pescadero to be uniquely familiar. "The landscape around Pescadero is very English. It's very rural," Dee said in an interview in 2009. "There's a reason people choose to live in a place like this, and I connect with that reason."
She embraced the small town immediately and began working odd jobs for eccentric local woodworker Three Finger Bill. In 1988, she moved to a nine-acre farm just a mile outside the center of town with her husband, Tim Duarte (a notable figure in the community because of his family's restaurant, Duarte's Tavern). Things took a turn when Santa Cruz dairy farmer Nancy Gaffney stopped by the property to buy dried tomatoes. She saw the unused land, offered to sell Dee six of her dairy goats, and Dee quickly set to work turning the "derelict mess" of land she lived on into something productive. As she cleared the fields, repaired the barns, and started breeding the goats, passersby were intrigued. It was their curiosity that inspired Dee to invite visitors onto the property. Though she wanted to see life outside her window, she never imagined the farm would be a tourist destination for people from around the world.
"Their hands are like little artist hands" Dee says of cheesemaker Salud and her helpers. "We call them the happy chatter of the cheesemakers." (Images via Harley Farms)
Through years of trial and error, Dee and her team have learned how to manage the presence of visitors, but it was a constant challenge for her and her family, who all lived on the farm a stone's throw from the crowds.
Though people pay to take tours, visiting the farm has always been free. "We try and give people as much of an experience for absolutely nothing as we can, while still operating the farm," says Dee. (Photo by Philip Wartena)
Even when she managed to keep people out of her dining room, Dee was often pushed to reconsider the trade-offs of her business model. "I had 60 baby goats stolen in the middle of the night about three years ago," she said in 2009. "Opened the gate, drove a truck in — the whole thing . . . It was really violating to everybody, not just me."
The public has always been essential to the farm's viability, but constant visitors tax the goats and employees, which is why the shop is now closed Monday through Thursday. With four days a week to trim hooves, repair fences, and make award-winning cheese without distraction, the Harley Farms team has some much-needed room to breathe — to just be farmers again.
Hungry girls: the farm gets 12,000 pounds of grain every six weeks. (Photo by Philip Wartena)
Goats and guts
Although Dee now feels more in control of the farm's relationship with the public, the novel approach to accessibility continues to unearth new challenges.
"They kind of don't know what to do with us," Dee says of the eight different government agencies charged to make sure her business stays sanitary and safe while producing its cheese alongside thousands of guests. No other farm she knows of gives the public such extensive access to its operation, which means the rules — and expensive permits — often surface as they go. "There's been part of me that's been very annoyed and bitter, because I've had to take so much financial resource out of the farm to be able to have the luxury of people to come and experience it."
Rather than budgeting for permits, Dee would prefer to invest in repairing old barns, completing irrigation projects, or better supporting her team, some of whom live on the farm. In fact, in a characteristically innovative move, Dee and her husband house nearly half of the farm's employees on their large property to compensate for the Bay Area's high cost of living. Her concern for her team is, in part, why she's adamant about keeping the business small, even if it means sacrificing some privacy. It may be unusual, but Dee is used to being a trailblazer.
Quiet moments on Harley Farms. (Images via Harley Farms)
"I kind of look at her as a leader within the community — especially the agricultural community," says her son, Ben, now in college working toward his Bachelor of Science in Organic Agriculture Systems. In a field dominated by male crop producers, a woman who'd dropped out of high school starting a goat dairy inspired some curiosity (if not outright skepticism). "I think that takes a lot of guts," says Ben, "and I think it takes a lot of motivation to do that — to leave where you're from and create something out of really nothing."
It's taken 26 years, but Dee has finally managed to strike a balance that works for the family members, employees, and goats who call Harley Farms home, and to her, it seems, that's more valuable than any profits made selling cheese. "You have to constantly question — I think that's important — is it worth it? And to me, it still is worth it."
(Photos by Philip Wartena)
Harley Farms is located in Pescadero (205 North Street) off of Highway 1.
Farm & Cheese Shop open Friday-Sunday, 11 am-4 pm


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In January of 2013, several news outlets reported on the remarkable story of Bob.
With Bob's programming speed and code quality, his company named him "Best Coder in the Building" and gave him an excellent performance review. He was a model employee; in his mid-40s, Bob clocked in by nine each morning and sent his boss a daily summary of his productivity before he left at five.
But if we had been able to secretly peek over Bob's shoulder all day--to discover how he spent his time--we would have seen something peculiar. On Bob's typical day, he would read Reddit and watch YouTube videos from about 9:00 to 11:30, which is when he would head out to his 90-minute lunch. Back at 1:00 p.m., Bob would then spend the next three and a half hours on Ebay, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. At 4:30, he would send a report to his boss and go home--without writing a single line of code. The next day would be the same.
How could this be? How could Bob be his company's star programmer, yet goof off all day?
It turns out that Bob was very smart.
Instead of asking, "How can I do this", he asked, "How can this get done?"
The answer, in Bob's case, was that he outsourced his task--actually his job--to a software development company in Shenyang, China. Bob's company gave him approximately $200,000 a year to do his work, and he in turn gave $50,000 a year to a programmer in China to do it for him.
For the longest time, Bob's company marveled at his productivity and quality, while he surfed the Internet eight hours a day.
Eventually Bob's company noticed unusual server access from China, and thinking they were being hacked, they stumbled upon Bob's brilliant scheme. They were not amused. Bob was fired.
If I had been the CEO, I would have doubled Bob's salary and made him the CTO. That way he could have outsourced all the development work and saved the company millions of dollars.
While Bob ultimately got fired for breaking company rules, we can learn a lot from his approach to getting things done.
Ultra productive people know that time is of the essence. But it's also the great equalizer--we all have the same amount of time in a day. We can't just buy more time when we need it.
Or can we? It depends on how you look at it.
"Leverage every dime you have to outsource and buy other people's time. That is the key. Organize your 168 hours, then buy hours from others to grow."
"Nothing will slow you down, take you off track, or keep you unproductive more than doing things which you both: do not like to do and are not good at. Anything that falls into that category must be outsourced to someone else (ideally who both likes it and has competence) as soon as possible. The extent to which you continue on those types of tasks is what will hold you back from truly loving what you're doing and also being fulfilled."
And Jay Baer, founder of Convince & Convert, keynote speaker, and author of Youtility, shares a simple process that pays rich dividends. Every year, he sets aside a block in his schedule to audit his time and to find a way to delegate at least 15% of what he's doing.
In 2015, I conducted survey research on thousands of working professionals and the data was clear: People who actively look for things to delegate report higher levels of productivity, happiness and energy, and are less likely to feel "overworked and overwhelmed."
So, what can you outsource or delegate? What should be on your stop doing list?


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We've got an odd issue with the mouse. While I don't understand why this is happening, I am wondering if anyone has a workaround.
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Here Are the 50 Best Bars in the World for 2021
The Connaught in London takes the top spot for the second year in a row.
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For the second year running, Connaught Bar has been crowned king of the hospitality scene.
The upscale London cocktail joint, which sits within the storied five-star Connaught Hotel, has taken the top spot in the World's 50 Best Bars rankings. Headed up by Agostino Perrone, the bar's director of mixology, the Mayfair mainstay has garnered a rep for its signature Martini for Two, which is built around Connaught Bar's own gin and served in crystal glasses on a special drinks trolley.
"Connaught Bar, we salute you—to be named The World's Best Bar for two consecutive years is a feat that previously only two bars have achieved in the awards' 13-year history," Mark Sansom, content editor for the World's 50 Best Bars, said in a statement. "It's a testament to Ago Perrone and his team's continued pursuit of excellence, which is encapsulated in the way they have developed and modernized the Martini cocktail."
Connaught Bar's Martini. Connaught Bar
In addition to the classic London libations, Connaught Bar also slings a spate of interesting new concoctions created by Perrone and his head mixologist Giorgio Bargiani. The venue itself, which is managed by Maura Milia, has elegance in spades. Designed by David Collins Studio, it evokes English and Irish Cubist art of the 1920s, with a cool gray bar, silver leaf walls and candlelit tables. It's easy to see why it scored the top spot.
Inside Connaught Bar. Jamie Mcgregor Smith
Trailing just behind Connaught Bar, Tayēr + Elementary claimed second place on this year's World's Best Bars list. Located just across the city, the London newcomer, which opened in 2019, takes a two-pronged approach, serving both casual cocktails on tap and more experimental tipples. It even offers a one-sip Martini.
Tayēr + Elementary in London scored second place. Bernard Zieja
Third place, meanwhile, was awarded to Paradiso in Barcelona, Spain. This swanky watering hole is perhaps best known for its Volcano Negroni, which is served alongside a mini dry ice volcano erupting over the glass. The Clumsies in Athens, Greece—famous for pouring The Caregiver with Ketel One vodka, coleslaw sauerkraut, raisin and pistachio milk—scored fourth place. Rounding out the top five, legendary speakeasy Florería Atlántico in Buenos Aires that offers some of Argentina's best cocktails.
Paradiso's Volcano Negroni. Paradiso
Closer to home, the highest-ranking American bar was Katana Kitten. The New York spot, which specializes in highballs, came in tenth place. Interestingly, the Big Apple's Dante, which was named the No.1 in 2019 and No. 2 last year, dropped all the way down to No. 30 this year.
The annual World's 50 Best Bars list is organized by William Reed Business Media, which also produces The World's 50 Best Restaurants list. The awards are voted on by more than 600 industry experts worldwide, including bartenders, consultants, drinks writers and cocktail specialists. This year's list, the 13th edition, features bars from across 17 countries, with 18 new entries among the top 50.
"It's been another incredibly tough year for hospitality and the industry's resilience and togetherness through these challenges is humbling," Sansom added. "We hope that the positive stories around the bars' success in the awards will help to drive vital business in the weeks and months to come."
You can check out the full list below:
1. Connaught Bar, London
2. Tayēr + Elementary, London
3. Paradiso, Barcelona
4. The Clumsies, Athens
5. Florería Atlántico, Buenos Aires
6. Licorería Limantour, Mexico City
7. Coa, Hong Kong
8. El Copitas, St Petersburg
9. Jigger & Pony, Singapore
10. Katana Kitten, New York
11. Two Schmucks, Barcelona
12. Hanky Panky, Mexico City
13. Insider Bar, Moscow
14. Baba au Rum, Athens
15. Manhattan, Singapore
16. Atlas, Singapore
17. Zuma, Dubai
18. The SG Club, Tokyo
19. Drink Kong, Rome
20. 1930, Milan
21. Presidente, Buenos Aires
22. Maybe Sammy, Sydney
23. Cantina OK!, Sydney
24. Salmon Guru, Madrid
25. Handshake Speakeasy, Mexico City
26. No Sleep Club, Singapore
27. Camparino in Galleria, Milan
28. Café La Trova, Miami
29. Little Red Door, Paris
30. Dante, New York
31. Kwānt, London
32. Bar Benfiddich, Tokyo
33. Tres Monos, Buenos Aires
34. Attaboy, New York
35. Lucy's Flower Shop, Stockholm
36. MO Bar, Singapore
37. Sips, Barcelona
38. Baltra Bar, Mexico City
39. Sober Company, Shanghai
40. Tjoget, Stockholm
41. Epic, Shanghai
42. Charles H, Seoul
43. Tippling Club, Singapore
44. Above Board, Melbourne
45. Galaxy Bar, Dubai
46. Re, Sydney
47. Sidecar, New Delhi
48. Union Trading Company, Shanghai
49. DarkSide, Hong Kong
50. Quinary, Hong Kong
World's 50 Best Restaurants
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Q: Close review queue rep From what I have read, StackOverflow is having a huge problem with close review questions. I just crossed over 400 rep on StackOverflow, and would like to help. I have been dismayed to find, however, that you can't until you have 3000 rep. Why is this? Could it be at least changed for a short time to fix this?

A: Determining whether questions should be closed is hard.  It takes a fair amount of experience with the site to effectively determine whether a question should be closed, and what it should be closed for.
Allowing users to review items in the queue without enough experience using the site to make effective judgement would cause more harm than good.  Having less reviews, but quality and effective reviews, is better than lots and lots of very poor quality reviews.
We learned this lesson well enough with several of the other queues.  Queues such as the first/last posts queue ended up causing way more problems than they solved for quite some time when they came out because of the shear number of inexperienced users not making quality reviews.

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Pharrell Williams To Get CFDA 2015 Fashion Icon Award
It seems that the ripple effect of Pharrell Williams success has carried forward this year, as he has been declared the winner of the prestigious CFDA's 2015 Fashion Icon Award.
American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and fashion designer, Pharrell Williams became a sensation last year with his catchy song 'Happy' that caught the fancy of everyone even slightly musically inclined across the world.
Pharrell will be honoured with the award on June 1 at the Lincoln Center, Manhattan. The fashionably-inclined will recall that Rihanna won the same award last year, where she opted for a completely sheer and highly risque dress, gloves and headscarf by Adam Selman. As for Pharrell, the music magnate has created a cult following of his ubiquitous hat that has even got its own twitter account under the handle @Pharrellhat that goes with the description, 'chillin on
It seems that the ripple effect of his success has carried forward this year, as he has been declared the winner of the prestigious CFDA's 2015 Fashion Icon Award. Pharrell will be honoured with the award on June 1 at the Lincoln Center, Manhattan. The fashionably-inclined will recall that Rihanna won the same award last year, where she opted for a completely sheer and highly risque dress, gloves and headscarf by Adam Selman.He's also known for his sprawling shoe collection as well as the special Swarovski studded Adidas sneakers he customised and sported at the 'Saturday Night Live' performance last year. He has also created a number of collaborative collections with fashion brands. It'll be worth checking what he sports at the upcoming event, taking into account the bar set by RiRi.
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Um  é uma pessoa ou entidade que presta serviços no transporte internacional de mercadorias. É um intermediário entre o exportador ou importador e empresas de transporte e logística.

Transitários são mediadores nas operações de transporte internacional de todos os modos de transporte (transporte marítimo, transporte fluvial, transporte aéreo, transporte ferroviário, transporte rodoviário ou transporte multimodal). Organiza a ligação entre operadoras diferentes e assegura a continuidade e transporte de mercadorias através de vários meios de transporte. É também responsável pelas operações administrativas relacionadas com o transporte internacional, e os procedimentos aduaneiros, gestão financeira, créditos documentários, contratos de seguro, de representação fiscal.

As áreas de atuação laboral de um transitário são na verdade muito abrangentes. Desde empresas a pessoas particulares, os transitários têm uma função indispensável no mercado globalizado do comércio e transporte mundial. São eles que asseguram que todo o tipo de cargas possam chegar ao destino em perfeitas condições, resolvendo e mediando todos os assuntos e problemas relacionados com grandes empresas de navio cargueiro, como, por exemplo, a mundialmente famosa Maersk. Tratando ainda do desalfandegar das mercadorias retidas pelas entidades responsáveis de cada País.

O agente de carga é um intermediário do comércio exterior.  Por sua natureza, ele cria um elo entre armadores, transportadores, NVOCC, Freight Forwarders, sem assumir resposabilidade das outras partes.

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If you missed a court appearance and the clerk's office can verify that you were properly notified, a bench warrant (misdemeanor case) or an alias capias (felony case) will be issued by the court. Depending on several factors, such as type of case, ties to the community and criminal record, the warrant can range from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars. Should you get stopped by a police officer and there is an outstanding alias capias warrant or probation violation warrant for your arrest, you will most likely be taken into custody and held without any bond while you await trial on your case.
Other types of misdemeanor bench warrants are usually issued with a set bond amount—meaning that if you are taken into custody because of an outstanding warrant, you can pay the amount of the bond in order to be released from jail. Misdemeanor bench warrants can be issued for failing to appear at an arraignment, a trial date, or any other related hearing, and will remain active until the matter is resolved.
Many people think that if they fail to take care of a bench warrant that in time it will go away, but the truth is that it will remain on their record until the matter is handled. When applying for a loan, a job, a professional license, or even social security benefits, an active bench warrant may prohibit someone from obtaining any of these. Law enforcement has the right to arrest you at home, at your workplace or any other public or private place.
A bench warrant is slightly different than an arrest warrant. An arrest warrant is an order issued by a judge to arrest an individual or search/seize their property. The difference is in the way in which a person can be arrested. A bench warrant authorizes an "on-the-spot" arrest. These can be issued in both criminal and civil courts. Bench warrants also differ if the individual was on bail at the time they failed to appear in court. Likely, a higher bail will then be set and the next time the person appears in court, they are at a higher risk for getting their possibility of bail removed.
You may have a warrant out for your arrest due to the violation of your probation for a number of reasons. This may complicate the processing of your case and lead to additional fines and even jail time. In many cases, people are not even aware that a bench warrant exists until they speak to an attorney, who in most cases can make the determination of if and when a warrant was issued.
It is quite common for a person to miss a court appearance when they change their address and fail to notify the clerk's office of such, or if they just did not realize that their appearance in court was necessary. The clerk's office sends the notice for a court appearance only to the address on record and if that notice can be verified in court, a bench warrant or alias capias (felony cases) is almost always issued.
Those who miss court appearances are typically viewed as "flight risks" and have harsher penalties placed on them. The truth is, there are many reasons why an individual would fail to appear in court on their designated date. Our firm exists to ensure that justice is served and that no unjust punishment is served to our clients who missed their hearing.


I'm paying $1,000 a month to live in a tiny studio on the West Side of Maui. This is comparable to rent in New York City, except that gas and groceries are cheaper in New York. Why is rent going up on Maui?
Ask most people and they'll say, "Landlords are just too greedy on Maui." But landlords are greedy all over the world, and they have been since the dawn of time. It must be something else.
In 2006, the County Council of Maui enacted the "Workforce Housing Policy," which was supposed to increase housing for residents, but did exactly the opposite. The law says that anyone who wants to build an apartment must make 50 percent of it affordable housing. Sounds good, doesn't it?
But not if you are a developer. Under the 50 percent rule, it's unprofitable for developers to build any apartments at all - especially if half their renters qualify as affordable. So developers just decide not to build any apartments at all.
A real estate expert on Maui said, "It's a classic case of a well-intended law meeting the law of unintended consequences. I've been told by developers that between the red tape and inconsistencies with the permitting process, and the 'affordable housing' requirements, many of the developers have elected to build elsewhere."
David Cailles, a law professor at U.H. Manoa, said, "It makes more financial sense for a landowner to build relatively expensive condominium apartments for sale than apartments for rent... only the most expensive projects could afford such high percentages of workforce housing."
Another reason that apartments on Maui are so expensive is zoning. Apartments can only be built in apartment zones. It could take more than ten years just to get approval for an apartment building on Maui; and, after all that waiting, it might not be approved.
No wonder rent is rising on Maui.
One landlord said, "I would also add that due to the high prices of mortgages, property taxes, condo association fees, repairs, upgrades and utilities, we as landlords have no choice but to rent out our properties as vacation rentals. Either that or go broke. I would like nothing better than to rent to one party for a long-term rental. Unfortunately, market forces will not allow that to happen. It leaves the Maui residents in a lousy predicament."
Getting rid of the zoning requirements, and especially the 50 percent "Workforce Housing Policy," would do wonders for lowering rents across Maui. Without all those restrictions, developers might find it profitable to build enough apartments to compete again. Rents would fall, and locals might actually have a place to live again.
The apartment complex that I live in, Sunset Terrace, houses 288 rentals on just a tiny six acres of land. For another six acres, that could be doubled, and rent would fall. This would only take up .00001 percent of Maui.
To summarize, rent is high on Maui because of strict zoning laws and the "Workforce Housing Policy." Getting rid of these laws would result in lower rents and higher apartment quality.
A Cup of Cold Water, a shared Ministry Care Van of the Episcopal Churches on Maui and community partners, completed our first two-and-a-half months of operations and issued a 2013 report.
Our key "program measure" is that we served, loved, listened, touched, smiled and offered hope, nourishment, clothing, hygiene items and prayer, when requested, with our fellow neighbors in need: 1,850 people (average 60 percent repeat/40 percent new) during 27 homeless outreach runs to West, South and Central Maui.
A Cup of Cold Water's 2013 report is available to anyone in the community that would like to know more about who we are and what we are doing!
If you would like a copy e-mailed to you and/or have a desire to serve or donate to our local mission outreach, please contact Keku Akana, board president, or Mary Lou Mellinger, board secretary, at ACupOfColdWaterMaui@gmail.com or (808) 419-1637.
Just reading an article in The Maui News on Jan. 21, I am thinking, "It must be a real good feeling to give yourself a pat on the back."
The headline reads: "Police say fatalities to go up if speed limit is not enforced."
Let me ask you a simple question: why is it NOT enforced all along Honoapiilani Highway from Kapalua to Lahaina, together with giving out citations for running red lights as well?
Maybe there are not enough shady places where the police can sit in comfort? Maybe you would have to stand (not in uniform) at any of the main intersections and radio the license plate of a speeding car, or of someone running a red light, to a patrol car a few hundred yards away? Is it too complicated, too inconvenient, too hot??
Guess what, Mister Policeman, YOU GET PAID FOR DOING JUST THAT. And to comment on the headline - "Police say...." - I ask, then why don't you???
The West Maui PD is not doing their job properly. Every crossing of Highway 30 is almost a suicide mission. And as an afterthought, is it really smart to announce in the newspaper ahead of time that road blocks will be put up and also mention where and when? They should come as a surprise, at a time and location when somebody least expects them.
So get your act together, gentlemen! Do what you are supposed to do. And if it's a little uncomfortable, TOUGH. If you wanted a cushy job in an air conditioned environment, you should work at a bank and not be with the PD.


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Q: How to expand tabs based on content? I've got some tab-delimited data coming out of a Unix pipe.  I'd like to format this data into a compact human-readable table.
How can I expand these tabs into spaces, and automatically set the tab stops based on the width of the field data?
For example, my hypothetical generate_tsv script might produce (I'm using \t to represent actual tab characters) —
alpha\t1\t0.21085026\tok
beta\t4096\t0.0\tok
gamma\t\t-1.0\tinvalid

Using | expand -t 12, I'd get:
alpha       1           0.21085026  ok
beta        4096        0.0         ok
gamma                   -1.0        invalid

But I'd like something more compact (so there are exactly two spaces separating columns), like this:
alpha  1     0.21085026  ok
beta   4096  0.0         ok
gamma        -1.0        invalid

As suggested by @jw013, | column -t -s $'\t' is close, but not quite correct, as it collapses the empty cell:
alpha  1     0.21085026  ok
beta   4096  0.0         ok
gamma  -1.0  invalid

A: If you have column(1), an old BSD tool, try column -t, for pretty-printing tables.
To ensure empty cells are displayed, you could try the approach of inserting a single space in each empty cell (recognizable by two consecutive tabs).  The idea is column(1) should give the space character its own column but being a single character in width it should not affect the table dimensions or be visible in the output to humans.
generate_tsv |
   awk '/\t\t/ { for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) gsub(/\t\t/, "\t \t") } 1' |
   column -t -s $'\t'

The extra awk inserted in the pipeline does the inserting of spaces into each empty cell, as described.  2 passes are necessary to handle 2 consecutive empty cells (\t\t\t).

A: This is a roundabout way to do it, but it works and has some features not found in column.
It tabulates, taking empty lines and empty cells into consideration.
It can join multiple files, side by side.  eg. Prefix rows of "F1" with rows from "Nb"
Blank lines are displayed as empty cells (for multi-file paste)
The files can be of different lengths.
# Make test data file
echo -e "alpha\t1\t0.21085026\tok
beta\t4096\t0.0\tnext F1 line is blank

gamma\t\t-1.0\tinvalid" >F1
sed -n '=' F1 >Nb
echo -e "\tB\tC\textra F1 line" >>F1

# Set the positional parameters $1, $2
set Nb F1

{ echo -e "\n
"
  paste "$@" |sed -e 's#\(.*\)#\x09\1\x09#
                      s#\x09#
	\n
 #g
                      s#^
	#
#
                      s#\n
 $#\n
#'
  echo -e "
\n"
}|w3m -dump -T 'text/html'

The output of the tabulated version:
┌───┬───────┬──────┬────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│ 1 │ alpha │ 1    │ 0.21085026 │ ok                    │
├───┼───────┼──────┼────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│ 2 │ beta  │ 4096 │ 0.0        │ next F1 line is blank │
├───┼───────┼──────┼────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│ 3 │       │      │            │                       │
├───┼───────┼──────┼────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│ 4 │ gamma │      │ -1.0       │ invalid               │
├───┼───────┼──────┼────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│   │       │ B    │ C          │ extra F1 line         │
└───┴───────┴──────┴────────────┴───────────────────────┘

To get a non-framed version, it only requires the removal of the frame. This is easily done by piping the output one step further as shown by the following line of code, which is a replacement for the last line of the above tabulated version.
# the replacement "new" last line
}|w3m -dump -T 'text/html' |sed -r '/^┌|├|└/d; s/^│ //g; s/ │$//g; s/ │ /│/g'

Here is the "new" out put: I've left the vertical dividers in place. If you don't want them, just change the last sed expression to whatever you like.
1│alpha│1   │0.21085026│ok
2│beta │4096│0.0       │next F1 line is blank
3│     │    │          │
4│gamma│    │-1.0      │invalid
 │     │B   │C         │extra F1 line

or, replacing the  / │ / with /  / (2 spaces), it looks this.
1  alpha  1     0.21085026  ok
2  beta   4096  0.0         next F1 line is blank
3
4  gamma        -1.0        invalid
          B     C           extra F1 line

And, of course, the leading numbers are there only to demonstrate the side-by-side file "paste".