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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Power Outages and Cold Weather Emergencies

 I know it is almost June and most of us won't have to worry about winter storms for awhile. This post is super late but I wanted to share it anyway. Last January, Western Washington got hit by a massive ice and snow storm. This storm caused power outages and seriously dangerous conditions.

As you can imagine, winter storms can cause problems for reptile keepers. They make it difficult to maintain temperatures. If the power goes out and you don't have a generator, reptile lights and heat pads do not work. So how do you keep your critters safe during an emergency or power outage? Here are a few tips.

 Stock up on hand warmers

Hand warmers can serve as emergency heat pads. They can be placed under tanks or under carriers. Be careful when using them because they can get very hot. Monitor cage and surface temps carefully. Keep in mind that most hand warmers get hotter when exposed to more air. DO NOT PLACE DIRECTLY IN TANK!

Stock up on snake bags, critter keepers, and other animal totes

If you have to move your animals to a warmer location or a place with power, you want to make sure you have enough totes to carry all of them safely. This picture shows some of my feed containers and critter keepers. Plastic totes that are not clear are better (darkness reduces stress and thicker, "weather resistant" totes may hold heat better), but clear totes can be used. It may be handy to keep some extra substrate around so that you can easily add some to the totes. Snake bags are great for transporting snakes. Pillow cases can also be used (just make sure you tie them up well)! Cat/dog crates and carriers are another possible way to transport your bigger herps. I brought home Gary the ball in a soft-sided animal carrier (much to the amusement of my coworker). Just a side note: I would strongly caution against adding anything (like cage furniture) to the totes because they can move during transport and hurt your critters.

Try to keep the room warm

Keep all windows and doors shut. Keep blinds and curtains closed. If you are preparing for a storm well ahead of time, you will want to check for and fix any drafts. We were very fortunate because at the beginning of winter, we bought a kit to fix our drafty window in our reptile room (this helped all winter long, not just during the storm)! If you have a "reptile room" or a warmer room, you can use objects (like pillows and blankets) at the base of the door to block it from larger or colder rooms. I highly suggest moving all of your herps into the warmest room in the house. Another thing you can do is blast the heater when the power comes back on. If the power comes back, don't assume it will stay. Turn the heater up as soon as possible.

Try to stay with your animals

Keep an eye on your critters! A local zoo lost all but one of their giant salamanders because no one was there to monitor the aquarium temperature. When the power came back on, the chiller failed to turn on with the pump, and the water was accidentally heated to over 80 degrees! The poor salamanders (which would have happily survived the extreme cold of the winter storm had the power outage continued) overheated. You can avoid problems like this by monitoring your animals and their cage temperatures closely. Don't assume that because you have an animal that can tolerate cold, that he does not require monitoring. Power outages can cause all sorts of problems.

Have a Plan

The most important thing is to have a plan. I talked with a few of my friends after the power outage and many of them were very panicked about their animals during the storm. One of my coworkers had to sleep with her bearded dragon to keep him warm because she had no power and no emergency plan! Decide what you would do in the event of an emergency. Where would you go if your home gets too cold? I have a friend with a powerful generator, but not everyone does. Do you have enough totes to transport all animals safely? Where are your emergency supplies? Keep in mind that while many herps are hardy and can go a very long time without food and water, very few of them can tolerate extreme cold. And if you have multiple animals, some of the may tolerate cold better than others. Decide which animals will need to be moved and when.

So there is my post about cold weather emergencies. It may be a really long time before the next winter storm, but you can use all that time to prepare :)

Living Room Decor

I am going to make a few posts today because my husband returns from his trip this evening and I will no longer have unlimited access to his laptop. Here is a very short post about my reptile and amphibian-themed living room decor.

We don't have much in the way of herp-theme decor in our living room. We have a "habitat stand" (basically an aquarium stand with a solid top and shelves underneath). Snakey's cage is on top of the stand. The shelves are filled with herp books and this little guy:

Isn't he cute? If you can't tell, he is a little frog bookend. I absolutely adore him :)

 And here is a very large (about 32in x 32in) painting of a little boy and a turtle. I bought it for $10 at a sidewalk sale. It was originally priced at $200 but it has a little chip in the frame so they threw it out with a bunch of other "damaged" paintings at the sale. I like it because it is currently right next to our Russian tortoise "enclosure" (a play pool filled with substrate and cage furniture, but more on that later).

10 Must-Have Items for Reptile Care and Maintenance

Over my many years of keeping reptiles and amphibians, I have decided that certain objects are necessary for their care and maintenance. Here are 10 items that I cannot live without.

 Detachable Shower head

This is one of the most important items on the list. Since we live in an apartment, I can't just take the cages outside to hose them down. We have no hose or backyard! So we have a detachable shower head instead. It makes cleaning cages and cage furniture a snap. Plus, we don't have to worry about dumping bleach water on the lawn. It just goes down the drain! And the high pressure setting really helps wash off stubborn bits of eco earth. In my opinion, this is a must have for anyone with caged animals.

 Huge Mister

This is pretty self-explanatory. Reptiles and amphibians (even desert species) need the occasional misting. This monster of a mister makes it very easy.

  Probe Thermometer

Let's face it: most of those sticky cage thermometers suck. They aren't very accurate and they constantly fall off. Heaven help you if one of the adhesive-backed cage thermometers falls into eco earth. It will never stick to the glass again! While I do use sticky cage thermometers to get a general read of the cage temps, I prefer probe thermometers because they can move and they are much more accurate. I have hung this one on a tack stuck into a cork board. I can remove the thermometer easily to test cage and water temps. When I am not using it to test cage temps, it measures the room temperature for me. Very handy!

 Hand Sanitizer, Paper Towels, and Enzymes

Paper towels are an obvious must-have. Same thing with hand sanitizer. The enzyme cleaner is a little unusual, but it is one of those things I cannot live without. Unlike many reptile cleaners, it is completely harmless to the animals. And while I would never spray it on an animal or in their water bowl (duh), I can use it while the critter is in the cage. It doesn't sanitize the cage (I use a small amount of bleach and a lot of water for that), but it is very good at reducing odors! It works very well with care fresh. When combined with a paper towel, it also helps remove stuck-on snake poo.

 Spare Light Bulbs

Because you never know when a light will go out. And most pet stores aren't open 24-hours.
Feed Tongs, Sand Scoop, and Scrub Brush

Feed tongs are useful for more than just feeding. They can be used to move objects in cages (like when you are feeding your pacman frog and accidentally drop the cricket cardboard in his cage and don't feel like losing a finger) or as an "emergency" snake hook for rowdy snakes after feeding (or whenever). You may think, 'who owns a reptile and not a pair of feed tongs'? But trust me, I have met plenty of people who own snakes and not feed tongs. Sand scoops can be used to scoop up all kinds of substrate. They can also be used to separate meal worms from the material they are packaged in (especially when you are down to your last few). Scrub brushes are awesome for cleaning water dishes (don't use cleaners, though)! As a side note, you can also see a thing of calcium supplement in the drawer. I didn't include that in the list because then I would have to include reptile food in the list.

So there you have it. 10 must-have items for reptile care and maintenance.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

I know it has been a really long time since I last posted. My laptop decided awhile back that it wouldn't read SD cards so getting pictures on to the internet from my camera required the use of my husband's laptop. Since he uses his laptop for work and my free time comes when he is at work, that meant I had little opportunity to upload photos. And what is a blog without photos? So I kind of gave up. But my husband went on a trip for the week and left me his laptop. And now I am back :)

I will start with a quick post about Petpalooza. A few days ago, I went to a pet festival with my little sister. The free entertainment included two reptile shows. I had pretty low expectations. A lot of "reptile guys" in zoos and pet stores seem to know very little about the animals they care for (I had a guy at Petco once tell me that I should feed my corn snake crickets). Why would a traveling reptile show be any different? But I was actually very impressed. The first guy made no obvious mistakes and only failed to mention the species name of one of his animals. The guy in the second show did fail to mention the species name of a few of his animals. That is a little pet peeve of mine. Don't give a bunch of facts about a species without telling your audience what the species is.

Impressive...but it would have been more impressive if you had remembered to tell us what you were carrying.
 The other thing that really bugged me about the second show was that the guy kept saying poisonous snakes. Snakes use fangs to inject venom. I will not be affected by eating or touching the snake. I have to be bitten to be affected. So that means snakes are venomous, not poisonous. Same thing goes for bees, spiders, and any other creature that uses a delivery system for their toxin. Anyway...rant over. Here are some pictures

Massive Corn Snake

Beautiful Mexican Black Kingsnake

Later the Gator
 After watching both shows, I realized that I would love to do a reptile show. Not as my career, but as a hobby. I am going back to school to get a teaching degree. How cool would it be to do reptile shows in the summer? And how even more awesome would it be to have a reptile show performed by a woman? I have mentioned before how men seem to dominate the world of reptile keeping. I think it would be awesome to show little girls that women can love reptiles, too! After all, isn't that what this blog is all about?


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Stuffed Aubergine with Lamb and Pine Nuts

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Vegans With a Beef

OPINION — After a column I wrote about vegans recently, I received a few notes from people who wanted to let me know, in the kindest possible way, that I’m a horrible, bloodthirsty neanderthal who is destroying the planet, torturing animals, and destroying the planet, in that order. They also informed me that, because I eat meat, I’m at greater risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and hemorrhoids, and I should stop to improve my health. Plus they want me to die. Painfully and slowly, if possible. Twice.

But the column wasn’t about all vegans, it was only about veganistas, which is a different bunch from your average, everyday, garden variety vegan. Yes, that was a pun, since pretty much all vegans are garden variety. I apologize.

Most vegans, I think, are probably nice folks who mind their own business, choose to avoid meat and fish and dairy products for their own reasons, and don’t get their cotton socks in a wad when they happen to run across a barbarian like me, who requires an animal sacrifice to obtain a meal. And I have no quarrel with such people, especially since I can leave a bacon sandwich unattended in their presence without fear of losing it. But some vegans go a little overboard, in the sense that David slightly damaged Goliath.

Veganistas aren’t vegan just because they think it’s healthier for them. They’re vegan because they honestly believe people who eat meat are causing global warming, torturing puppies, depleting the ozone layer, drastically raising air pollution levels, filling the oceans with non-biodegradable plastics, wasting millions of gallons of water annually, burning way too much fossil fuel, and littering. Their attitude is offensive to me on a personal level. Because I don’t litter.

These folks don’t just think the world would be better off if no one ate meat, they think it’s absolutely essential that we stop, or else everyone on earth will die. Veganism, for veganistas, is not a preferred lifestyle, it’s a religion. And not a normal religion, where you quietly worship as you choose, and respect the right of others to do the same. Veganistaism is a cult, and if you eat meat you’re Satan, with a little Trump thrown in for good measure. Or maybe the other way around, depending on which one they think is worse this week.

To veganistas, eating a steak is the direct equivalent of cannibalism, ranching is enslavement, and dairy farms are literally Auschwitz. Not figuratively. They really believe humans and animals have the exact same value, including those little dogs that look like they ran into a closed door too many times. Pugs? I think they’re called pugs. The ugly ones with the mashed-in faces.

Anyway, I decided to do a little research, to see if I could figure out how someone gets to the point they don’t see any difference between a puppy and a child. So I started following a couple of veganista Facebook pages, which I figured might be fairly painful. It turned out to be marginally excruciating. One is called The Hopeful Herbivore, and the other is called Totally Vegan Buzz. I can honestly recommend either, if you need a good laugh and a good cry at the same time.

Scroll just a little bit on either page, and it becomes obvious these people have a major chip on their shoulder. It’s an all-natural, gluten-free, air-baked chip, of course. None of those evil, hate chips fried in animal fat for this bunch. Their posts don’t just support the vegan lifestyle, which would be fine, they make it clear how much better they are than you, and how you surely hate the planet and everyone on it if you don’t agree with everything they claim about veganism. They believe they’re not just healthier, saner, better looking, and better adjusted than you, but actually superior individuals, morally, ethically, socially, environmentally, politically, and every other lly you might think of. And they’re smarter, too. If you were as intelligent as they are, you’d be one of them. You’re just too dumb to realize how dumb you are, you pathetic loser. No offense.

One post made fun of people who claim that, if we all went vegan, animals would overpopulate, since no one would be eating them. That’s evidently a ridiculous idea. So I politely asked why the animals wouldn’t over populate. I got blasted as an idiot for the question, but no one could answer it. I’m just supposed to believe it because the smart people say it’s true. And I have to admit they almost convinced me just by the impressive amount of profanity they used to make their case. I had no idea smart people cussed so much, but there you go.

So now I’m vegan, because I don’t want to be remembered by history as the man who singlehandedly destroyed western civilization through cannibalism and chronic halitosis, not to mention hurting peoples’ feelings. But I’m doing veganism my way. I’m a second-hand vegan. I only eat animals that only eat plants.

Hey, if Bruce Jenner can create his own reality, so can I . . .

Kendal Hemphill is an outdoor humor columnist and minister who likes his vegan ribeye medium, thanks. Write to him at [email protected]

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ME Someone, Thu, 06/24/2021 - 14:33

Don't forget that if you are anonymous and speak your first amendment rights here Kendal Hemphill thinks you are a coward. He also wants to threaten and harass people that have their own opinions of his "articles" that he does not like. He won't even answer any questions unless you give him your real name, no doubt so he can send someone to persuade you to have a better opinion of you, seems he takes his tactics from russia. How being a coward for exercising your right to free speech even makes any sense is anyone but a republicans guess, you know how much they hate the constitution.

"When you give me your real name, I'll think about responding to you.

But you won't, because you're a coward." -Kendal Hemphill

Well, now. not only are you a coward, but you're also a liar. I directed certain statements to you, and no one else. Now you're applying them to everyone. Kind of socialist thinking, I guess.

I support your right to free speech. I also support my right to the same free speech. and to disagree with you and to ignore you if that's what I decide to do. I support your right not to read my columns, and I encourage you to exercise that right.

I have never threatened you or anyone else, and I have never harassed you or anyone else. You want to whine about my columns, but you don't seem to want me to be allowed to rebut your statements or disagree with you. You're welcome to your opinions, but you don't seem to think I'm allowed to have differing opinions.

Now you're assuming I want your name so I can 'send someone to persuade you to have a better opinion of me.' You're trying to imply I've threatened you, when I have not, nor will I.

This is typical of leftists. They usually assume everyone else is the same as they are, and that everyone else would deal with an issue just like they would. And to be clear, since you seem to enjoy putting words in my mouth, I did not say you are a leftist. I said this is typical of leftists. Claiming I've called you something when I have not is another tactic of leftism.

So, bottom line, you're a whiny, annoying crybaby who can't seem to figure out that you'd be happier just avoiding my column, and when you can't do that, you decide to complain to me about what I've written. All that is also your right, but those are things that make people miserable. According to Winston Churchill, the equal sharing of misery is the inherent virtue of socialism. So I guess we're back to that.

I won't reply to you again. And in an effort to take my own advice, I won't read anything you write again, which will make me happier. I hope you have a nice life, and eventually get that huge object removed from your backside, whatever it is. Good luck.

ME Someone, Fri, 06/25/2021 - 18:27

"not only are you a coward, but you're also a liar" , "you're a whiny, annoying crybaby" -Kendal Hemphill

You see, I have already won. Typical of republicans, when they have no actual rebuttal they have to make a (poor) attempt at insulting someone who exercised their right to free speech, which republicans hate. That is the state of the republican party, attempt to insult because they lack the education to actually for any coherent argument. Just read Kendal's "articles" for proof of the lack of education and the hatred for their fellow Americans. He did call certain Americans "subspecies" afterall. On a side note, you said last time you would not respond to me, so I guess I am still winning in the fight against republican's hatred for the first amendment.

It's also interesting that you claim that I am a "coward" for not disclosing my real name, but all the people who agree with you and also do not disclose their real names are not "cowards". If that isn't just proof of republican cult mentality I don't know what is.

I'll give you a challenge though Mr. Hemphill, if you can come up with a legitimate reason why I should disclose my real name, and how it would add any validity or prove anything, I may just do so. But I suspect it is just the same as when cops ask for your ID, it doesn't prove a crime has been (or has not been) committed, or change the situation in any way, they just want your information to harass and do harm.

Guessing you prefer the term “deplorables” isn’t that the term your hero Hillary called anyone and everyone in the Republican party?

Or maybe the term “white supremacists”…something else those on the left are constantly spewing lately ;)

Apparently you don’t understand the context of what Kendall was saying…which doesn’t surprise me since you lack the intelligence to comprehend, and instead attribute it to a “lack of education” which you obviously know nothing about.

Typical elitist liberal! Never taking into account that someone with conservative views may very well be “smarter” than you…which imo doesn’t take a lot ;)

So you’re assuming, because Kendall has conservative views, that he is less educated?

EXACTLY what I was talking about when I called you an “elitist liberal” ;)

To be fair I know nothing about YOUR education level, but imo you’re a dumbass ;)

Sir, I haven't read what the leftist wrote, because I don't care, but whatever it was, I appreciate your support. And if it matters to anyone, which it should not, I have a liberal arts degree in Bible and Ministry from Harding University in Searcy, AR. GPA 3.73

Education doesn't make you smart, it makes you educated. I know brilliant people who have very little education. I know stupid people with doctorates. If you're an idiot when you go to college, you're likely to be an idiot when you get out. One of the smartest men and best writers I've known had only a 6th grade education.

And since I attended college as an old guy, from age 53-56 (2014-2017), I can attest to the claims that higher education is rife with liberalism. I only went because I wanted a degree in ministry.

ME Someone, Sun, 06/27/2021 - 21:25

"liberal arts degree in Bible and Ministry"

I have no words for how sad this is. A degree in legitimate BS.

" I can attest to the claims that higher education is rife with liberalism"

This is obvious, More educated people tend to think for themselves. Thinking for yourself leads to obvious conclusions.

Notice how Kendal didn't call his supporters "cowards" for not showing their real name, only people against him, interesting huh? Just goes to show you that republican/religious nutjob cult mentality is very strong with this one. He even has a "degree" in religious nutjobbery. Which is worthless, that is why he is a low-grade "writer" for right wing "publications", can't get a real job with a degree in Bullshi*.

Why is it necessary for you to mock the religious beliefs of others is that what you do to make yourself feel more superior?

Aren’t liberals supposed to be tolerant of others’ beliefs? Actually says a lot about how hateful you truly are ;)

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Reawakened River

Waist high whitewater and reawakened cascades after three months worth of rain in two days.

A struggle I’ve found is recently limiting me more and more is that the ‘better’ scenes are most often found deeper into the wilderness and the ‘better’ light is often later in the day. On top of this, wading through waist deep water and on top of slippery rocks is definitely something I’d much prefer not to do in the darkness. I’ve definitely been pushing my luck in how far I can go and how late I can stay out before hurriedly turning around and hauling ass out before it gets too dark.
The overnight expedition is calling…

16mm, f11 iso 100, 5 second exposures, two frames focus stacked plus water blended in at f8 1/3 iso 250

Well your end result image seems to have paid off! Really like the soft light of this image! Looks like a really nice photography area you got there.

Thanks @Jose_Torres! New Zealand really is an amazing place for photography. My entire portfolio is shot at various locations all within two hours drive from my home. What really excites me is that there’s so so much more out there to see and explore.

This is what I’ve explored so far.

This is what’s left

Just imagine the scenes that are out there, deep in the bush that not only have never been photographed, but literally never seen before.

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Looks like you have a lot of work in front of you! And that is a good thing! Good Luck on your explorations.

This is right up my street. Love the subdued light and colours.

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Sheriff returns Rescue Plan funds, cites ‘strings attached’

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
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Bonner County commissioners unanimously approved a series of requests from Sheriff Daryl Wheeler during the board’s Nov. 2 business meeting, returning American Rescue Plan Act funds to the county coffers after Wheeler previously asked for the funds to cover COVID-related jail expenditures.

Wheeler asked to return the money — obtained in two resolutions totaling almost $28,500 to cover “COVID mitigation” — after Bonner County Clerk Mike Rosedale pointed out a condition in the U.S. Treasury Department’s guidelines for ARPA funds stating that recipients of the federal money must agree “to comply with all other applicable federal statutes, regulations, and executive orders, and Recipient shall provide for such compliance by other parties in any agreements it enters into with other parties relating to this award.”

In a phone call with the Reader following the nearly two-hour commissioner meeting, the clerk said that the specific mention of executive orders is the “great unknown” — noting a possible nationwide vaccine mandate as a hypothetical.

Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler speaks in Ponderay on Oct. 20 at a meeting for the Area 1N Peoples Rights Community. Image courtesy screenshot from forum.

“That’s what’s causing [us] pause,” Rosedale said. “You just want to know what you’re getting into when you sign a contract, especially when almost $9 million is on the line.”

In an email following the board’s approval to remove the funds from his office’s budget, Wheeler explained his concerns further, sharing that he “cannot and will not” comply with “federal statutes, regulations and executive orders,” as the Treasury’s rule dictates.

“Those are the strings that are attached to accepting these ARPA Funds,” Wheeler wrote. “Sheriffs do not enforce or follow edicts, mandates or executive orders passed by the Federal Government Agencies or of the President of the United States. By accepting these ARPA Funds, I would be agreeing to comply. I will not!”

This is the first case of an Idaho sheriff refusing the Rescue funds, according to Idaho Sheriffs’ Association Executive Director Jeff Lavey.

“We have not heard about this in our state with any Sheriff’s Office until you mentioned Bonner County today,” Lavey told the Reader in an email on Nov. 2. “All Idaho Sheriffs are independently elected and operate on what they feel is best for their county. The Idaho Sheriffs’ Association does not have any statutory authority to oversee and/or review what an independently elected Sheriff has chosen to do in their county.”

Commissioners shared that the county’s legal team is currently reviewing the Treasury Department’s guidelines attached to the ARPA funding, which is generally limited to covering expenses incurred due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

“We’re waiting to find out from legal, after they do the research, where this stands. The three commissioners passed a resolution … that we would obviously stand against the Biden administration,” said Commissioner Dan McDonald, referencing a resolution passed Oct. 22 securing the county’s stance against mandates, specifically relating to vaccines or masks. “But before we make the decision to not use any more of the money, we want to make sure that legal has a chance to give us an opinion.”

Bonner County EMS requested and received roughly $800,000 for its 2021 and 2022 budgets in September, meant to mitigate lost income while first responders treated patients at home rather than transporting them by ambulance to the overcrowded hospital. Chief Jeff Lindsey also told the Reader in September that the ARPA funds would help pay for the inflated cost of medical supplies, automated CPR machines and UVC disinfecting lights for ambulances.

If the “strings attached” — as Wheeler called them — are deemed inappropriate by county legal officials, McDonald said Bonner County will refuse its share of the ARPA funds and write a check for the ARPA funds it has already spent.

“If it does come back that, yes, it does tie our hands to a degree, then we will certainly give it all back. That’s a nonissue for us,” he added. “That being said, if it doesn’t, then we are going to want to use this [money] because it is your money, and our money.”

When asked whether he’d be asking taxpayers to make up the difference now apparent in his budget, Wheeler said no. To account for some of the ARPA money Wheeler returned, he also presented a resolution to move nearly $18,500 from his office’s salaries budget — meant to pay for jail positions “currently not filled” — to a separate line item “to cover the unanticipated costs of cleaning supplies.” Commissioners also unanimously approved this request.

During that discussion, Wheeler rhetorically asked the room “how much is your freedom worth?” Rosedale chimed in to state that he’d be willing, as a taxpayer, to pay more in taxes to avoid depending on federal funds with conditions attached.

“As Daryl said, I would much rather pay it than be beholden to the federal government, especially executive orders from that fellow — Brandon,” Rosedale said, evoking laughs and cheers of “Let’s go, Brandon” from the crowded meeting room, referring to a now-viral moment at a NASCAR race during which a sportscaster mistook the crowd’s chants of “F*ck you, Biden” for “Let’s go, Brandon.”

The Nov. 2 meeting drew a packed audience, with several attendees using the public comment period to commend Wheeler’s retroactive refusal of the ARPA funds. Many denounced the fact that Bonner County accepts any federal funds at all, and suggested the county “live within its means” without that money — a concept that commissioners pointed out would make operating the county nearly impossible.

“I want to clarify that this area, these rural areas, have survived on federal money for a long, long time,” Commissioner Jeff Connolly said in response to a commenter who lauded North Idaho for being a “beacon of freedom” that’s “not awash in federal money.”

“Now, I understand what you’re saying and I believe in what you’re saying,” Connolly continued, “but just to make a statement that we got here by not taking federal money or resisting federal money is not a true statement. … Bonner County has survived on federal money for the 63 years I’ve been here.”

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Barrel Project Contest!

Do you have an idea for something you want to create out of an old Colkegan barrel? Now could be your chance! We have twelve 2L barrels at the distillery that are in no condition to go into our barrel aging kits, so we’re going to see what else they can become.

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New Mexican: Stuff Stockings and Faces: Holiday Gifts with a Culinary Bent

December 5, 2019 In the Press

"The preeminent artisan distillery in New Mexico — and possibly in the entire Southwest — is Santa Fe Spirits... The distilling team crafts a range of traditional spirits like vodka, gin, and whiskey — but for an unexpected gift, seek out some of the more distinctive, creative concoctions."

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Vinepair: American Single Malt Distillers Are the Wild West of Whiskey

November 21, 2019 In the Press

"American single malt whiskey sits squarely in the shadow of two behemoths: bourbon, a.k.a. America’s native spirit; and Scotch, an institution that has monopolized the single malt category for centuries.As such, forging a path in the category has proved challenging for American distillers, which are competing not only with Scotch, but with single malts from Japan, India, Taiwan, and New Zealand."

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Edible NM: Eight Around the State: Craft Distilleries and Craft Cocktails

October 18, 2019 In the Press

"Publishers Stephanie and Walt Cameron are sharing some of their favorite finds around New Mexico in edible’s newest department, Eight Around the State. For this issue, they searched for distilleries with great craft cocktails. The craft cocktail movement has slowly made its way into New Mexico and the distilleries are leading the way. Every batch of spirit and every cocktail these distilleries are making is truly artisanal and created by hand with love."

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Rocky Mountain Bride New Mexico 2019

October 18, 2019 In the Press

You just never know where we'll turn up next: Rocky Mountain Bride thought Atapino would make a great groomsman's gift (page 22). We have to agree. Though we think it would be equally good for a bridesmaid's gift, a father of the bride gift, mother of the bride gift, wedding photographer gift... Honestly, the bride should have some just for herself!

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USA Today: Best Craft Gin Distilleries

October 15, 2019 In the Press, Accomplishments

USA Today 10Best travel guides scour the country to find the 10 best in myriad categories.

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Cowboys & Indians: Taste of the West: Santa Fe

October 8, 2019 In the Press

Ellise Pierce gives a quick pick of things to try in Santa Fe in the October 2019 issue of Cowboys & Indians, and Santa Fe Spirits made the list!

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Albuquerque Journal:Tasting room an exclusive showcase for NM wines

October 4, 2019 In the Press

Crafted in Hotel Chaco continues to garner press as a hot new place to go in Albuquerque, as it should! A bar that focuses on New Mexico wine, beer and spirits is a great way for a local hotel to showcase some of what New Mexico has to offer. The latest article, in the Albuquerque Journal, quotes Daniel Gutierrez, head of Crafted’s wine and spirits program, saying that Wheeler's Gin is "the most distinct New Mexican spirit that we have." That's what we strive for in our Wheeler's Gin, so we're happy to hear that!

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Albuquerque Business First: A look at Hotel Chaco’s new wine tasting room

September 30, 2019 In the Press

"Wine and spirits connoisseurs can sample local favorites at a new tasting room in the Sawmill District.Business First toured Crafted, a new 841-square-foot tasting room at Heritage Hotels & Resorts' Hotel Chaco in Old Town. The tasting room features wines and spirits from across the state, artwork by local artist Jodie Herrera and indoor and outdoor seating. The tasting room will be open daily from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m."

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Albuquerque Journal: Fighting Hunger: Brewery, vineyard, distillery team up to benefit food bank

September 26, 2019 In the Press

"Tap Into Craft and help resolve hunger.Marble Brewery, Lescombes Family Vineyards and Santa Fe Spirits are teaming up for the second year for the Tap Into Craft, which benefits Roadrunner Food Bank. The effort will run through September."

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Punch: The State of American Craft Whiskey

August 14, 2019 In the Press

Clay Risen sets out to answer the question where is American whiskey today? And is regionalization the future—or is it already here? taking a look at the American craft whiskey scene ten years after the insurgence of the spirit.

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Whisky Advocate: Smoky American Whiskey Every Peat Head Should Try

August 14, 2019 In the Press

"If you’re fond of peaty Islay scotches, there’s a whole new world of smoke to discover in America. Distillers are using peat, mesquite, hickory and more to impart both subtle and strong smoke flavors on single malt, rye, and other styles. Stoke the flames of your enthusiasm for the smoky stuff with these whiskeys." So heads the Whisky Advocate list of smoky American whiskeys. Originally published in Fall 2018, this list was re-released in July 2019.

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Uproxx.com: The Best Whiskey in Every State 2019

August 8, 2019 In the Press, Accomplishments

Uproxx.com just publised their 2019 list of The Best Whiskey in Every State, and I think you know where I'm headed with this, yup, Colkegan!

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Forbes: Craft Distillers Come To Capitol Hill To Push Modernization Act

August 1, 2019 In the Press

Last week Colin, along with over 150 other craft distillers and members of both DISCUS and ACSA, traveled to Washington D.C.to participate in a public policy conference about the future of the Federal Excise Tax cut, which is due to expire at the end of 2019. (Read this Forbes article for all the info).

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Santa Fe Reporter: Best of Santa Fe 2019

July 24, 2019 In the Press, Accomplishments

We won! Best distillery in Santa Fe, 2019! Each year sees more competition in this category, so THANK YOU! to everyone who voted for us."For a town our size to have multiple distilleries is lucky enough, but Santa Fe Spirits' signature takes on liquids like gin with local botanicals, vodka and a smoky whiskey are also distinct and well-crafted. Santa Fe Spirits has been a mainstay at SFR parties, are the proprietors of a popular downtown tasting room, recently acquired a presence in Costco and are on the shelves in lots of other stores."

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Then send a few nice messages at first, then it’s like a shark attack! They are trying to either get you to sign up for their service, buy their product, read their blog post, etc.  Unfortunately, these people have forgotten two major rules when it comes to social media and selling.

  1. Always respect the person for whom you are speaking to. So many people do not respect other peoples boundaries so by using LinkedIn as a cold calling platform, they constantly send messages that are unnecessary.
  2. In order to sell a product or service the first thing you should do on social media is build a relationship with your potential client, customer, your target audience. Not everybody is going to be your target audience. People today are more interested in sell, sell, sell, that they forget the most important part of selling on social media is trust. In order to sell something you need to trust who you’re purchasing from. For that to happen you need to build a relationship with that person first. The way it goes on social media is this people will like first, then comment second, then share what you post, then buy. If you’re pressuring someone to buy are they really going to want to tell the world about what you have?

The proper etiquette for LinkedIn is simple: Do not send your connections any unwanted sales communications or irrelevant links. It’s impolite and an abuse of an amazing platform. I don’t understand how people, strangers for that matter, feel like I, and the other 50–100 people they’ve asked that day, are going to agree to take time out of our days to talk about an unidentified topic for an unspecified length of time. Time is valuable, and just asking to meet me or talk to me via message on LinkedIn or by phone, so you can sell me something won’t be placed very high on my priority list.  It’s a COMPLETE turn off.  Now, not only do I NOT want to connect with you, but I don’t ever want to really talk to you again in fear that all you want to do is sell me something!

When you are contacting someone on LinkedIn, you should look at it like a relationship with a person in real life. For some reason, we seem to forget this and I feel that this disconnection when we communicate online comes from not being able to see each other.  If you met somebody at a networking event, would you immediately ask them to book a meeting with you? Or would you instead strike up a conversation and get to know them a bit better first?

LinkedIn can be a GREAT platform if it is used properly.

I think we can all agree to be better at using it and stop using it as a cold calling app, which it is certainly not.


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GVS Sub-vertical Mechanical Screens consist of a robust steel frame and a perforated plate filter varying according to the screening efficiency required.
GVS screens, which are equipped with brushes and wiper blades, are suitable for fine screening of sewage in both municipal and industrial plants, as well as, in particular, for process water of industrial processing plants.
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Waste water flows into the upstream end of the unit where screenings are captured on a perforated plate filter.
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Material is removed from the rakes by a wiper and discharged into a dumpster, conveyor or compactor.

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  • 4 or more cleaning blades and wipers depending on screen height
  • Channel width: 400 ~ 2,000 mm
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  • Wipers, blades and brushes bolted to the rake mechanism
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  • No lower sprocket, no bearings
  • Reduced service requirements (no need to remove screen from channel)

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  • Material: hot dip galvanised steel; 304 L / 316 L SS
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Testing Exogeneity of Multinomial Regressors in Count Data Models: Does Two-stage Residual Inclusion Work?

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AbstractWe study a simple exogeneity test in count data models with possibly endogenous multinomial treatment. The test is based on Two Stage Residual Inclusion (2SRI), an estimation method which has been proved to be consistent for a general class of nonlinear parametric models. Results from a broad set of simulation experiments provide novel evidence on important features of this approach. We find differences in the finite sample performance of various likelihood-based tests, analyze their
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Selecting Indicators to Monitor and Assess Environmental Health in a Portuguese Urban Setting: A Participatory Approach

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Environmental health (EH) is influenced by complex interactions between health and the built and natural environments, there being little research on its specificities in urban settings. The use of suitable indicators to monitor and assess EH is fundamental in informing evidence-based interventions at the local level. A participatory approach to selecting indicators to inform the monitoring and assessment of EH in Lisbon is herein considered. Evidence derived from a systematic review of
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DHH recently reviewed and merged my first ever pull request to Rails core. Short of getting my first Ruby job years ago, this is my most proud Ruby-achievement to date.

Open source contributions are terrifying to many - even me.

I want to tell you how I got here. This post will be equal parts personal experiences and concrete steps to meaningfully level up your open-source participation while still being a hard-working developer at your day job.

Why contribute?

It is important to approach contributions with healthy motivations. This will help the process come more naturally and enjoyably.

You should contribute in order to:

  • Give back to the community that you rely on
  • Interact with other developers who are just as passionate about these projects as you
  • Provide your voice, perspective and feedback to diversify the OSS community
  • Level up your understanding of core tooling

You should not contribute in order to:

  • Be seen by potential employers
  • Make your github commit chart dark green

These are all nice-to-haves that may actually occur, but are unlikely to be sustainable motivations for you as a developer.

Okay, but where do I start? 🤔

To get started, do not troll around on github reading endless lists of pull requests and issues. You need a constant guided feed of things to review, and the perfect tool for that (very kindly created by Schneems) is CodeTriage.

Go to codetriage.com and sign up. Right now. Go ahead, open a new tab and I will still be here when you come back. If you take absolutely nothing from this piece except for joining codetriage, I will feel justified.

CodeTriage is a tool that allows you to ‘subscribe’ to github repositories that you may be interested in contributing to. Then, once a week, it feeds you a sample of pull requests and issues from those repositories that have not been recently reviewed (all via email). You can configure how often you get these emails and how many issues are included with them.

Do this, and just get in the habit of reading what comes in at first. Then, jump in. I recommend the following contributions at least at first, and if you never graduate beyond this you will still be a massive OSS help:

Be the human advocate of the issue or pull request 🙋

This is 80-85% of what I do (and I do not do much, but more on that later). You will see issues and PR’s that have stagnated for months or years. You are completely allowed to pop your head around the corner and ask:

"@user, do you feel that your question has been fully answered, so we can close this?" or "Hello @user_2! Any chance you've had an opportunity to get that commit together?".

People have tried to do this with bots, but there is nothing like the urgency of a real, empathetic, caring human behind the ping.

This is 100% of how I use code triage. Even if you ignore your emails and only look at 4-6 issues for a half hour a month, you are giving back in a big way.

Drive your gems/dependencies forward ➡

Your applications have dependencies. There’s no way around it.

Those who have taken larger applications through major Rails upgrades know all-too-well the pain of gem version conflicts holding the upgrade back. The next time this happens with you, instead of forking and bumping the gem or filing an issue with the maintainers, file a PR updating the gemspec to support your latest Ruby or Rails version. (Note: do your due diligence to ensure that the gem still functions with the new bump.)

This habit actually will help you get involved in larger projects: a win for you and the community!

Recently, this approach led myself and a group of developers to actually move forward with a new trix gem after the current one lapsed in maintenance.

Also during a Rails 5 major upgrade, I came across a non-Rails-5-complaint and unmaintained gem. Participating in the discussion helped myself and other developers to move to another maintained gem where I was afforded the chance to help build out the ‘migration’ part of the wiki. I now have more confidence in the future of my dependencies by participating in the community.

Flag up the problem, clearly 🚩

Occasionally you will come across a genuine problem or issue with open-sourced code that you rely on. Often times we find ‘hacky’ ways around the problem or simply stop using that element of functionality.

Here’s the thing: if you have struggled with a problem, odds are someone else has too.

This is the one element you are most likely to do already, but I really want to underline the importance of sharing issues with the community. That leads to the next issue:

File a PR for what you want solved ✅

When you encounter an issue - if you possibly can - try to file a PR over an issue. This honors maintainers by showing your personal investment in the issue. It also feeds, big time, the above-mentioned benefit of getting you familiar with the core technologies you rely on. Just remember that closures are OKAY.

When I used active storage for the first time, the process was as slick as you could imagine. A handful of commands, rake tasks, minimal code required- and I was up and rolling. EXCEPT IN ONE PLACE

ActiveStorage only works with activerecord objects using integer primary keys. It does not support other types like UUID out of the box. Further, there was no clear ‘way’ to implement this. I ended up having to go through a step-by-step guide built out by another developer. That did not feel right.

Instead of simply firing up an issue complaining about this, I filed my own Rails pull request to have a crack at implementing what I wanted.. It was a difficult slog. I worked through an area of Rails-core that I was not familiar with.

After a back-and-forth and several commits, I actually ended up closing the PR. The need was not strong enough and my skills in that area were not sufficient. Like above, closures are okay and healthy. Even if your code does not make it to prime-time the discussion is preserved there as its own documentation.

⚠ It is okay to flakily make small contributions ⚠

Only a small segment of our community will be able to dedicate full-time or even 5-10H/week to open source participation and contributions. Those of us working full time will often feel ‘guilt’ about neglecting our OSS-time. Don’t. If you end up looking at CodeTriage twice a year for half an hour, filing half a dozen issues a year, and filing one meaningful PR every 18 months, you are still lapping the developer who is doing nothing.

Take ownership 🔥

All of the above revolves around one idea - ‘take ownership’. You are a part of the community of the code you use. Participate. Speak up. Be heard. Your advancement will happen naturally.

Rails 5.1 introduced form_with, effectively ‘soft-replacing’ form_tag and form_for. I thoroughly enjoyed jumping on this approach with all new forms on upgraded apps. I used the core docs whenever I had a question. One day I found my way on Rails Guides with a question about form_with, and noticed that it was not mentioned anywhere in the form helper guide. In its place were still mentions solely of form_for and form_tag. That did not seem quite right. (NOTE: The code for Rails Guides is a part of Rails-core)

I found my way to the original form_with issue and asked about this, offering to help in any way I could. The original author and DHH himself agreed with my observation, and told me to ‘take a stab at it’! 😱

No Pressure

I nervously added a discussion about form_with to the guides, and after a code review reworked the whole guide to only mention form_with with a form_for/form_tag footnote. It was ultimately reviewed and merged! I will be doing a further overhaul PR in the new future as well.

At no point was I trying to get the ‘Rails Contributor’ feather in my cap. I just wanted to ‘take ownership’ of what mattered to me. So should you.


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Learning more about Atheists

By Michael Edmonds 01/05/2011

Over on his blog Pharyngula, PZ Myers comments on an article in the Washington Post entitled “Why do Americans still Dislike Atheists”. Written by two sociology researchers, Gregory Paul and Professor Phil Zuckerman, it comments on the current growth in atheism, compares different societal indicators (murder rates, level of poverty, happiness etc) in various secular countries with religious countries. It also comments on the disconnect from reality demonstrated by the religious right when they malign atheists.

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The Woman Who Designed Outlook

If you’ve weaved in and out of the corporate world at all in your life, there’s a good chance that you’ve at least used Microsoft Outlook to send and receive emails at some point. While Outlook’s popularity might have faded a bit in recent years (there was email before Gmail and iPhones??), recent research indicates as many as 600 million people still rely on the application to be productive at work.

Many of today’s information workers practically live in their inboxes, dealing with hundreds of emails on a daily basis. Thankfully, email applications have become incredibly more sophisticated over the last decade, giving users the ability to manage their calendars, contacts and tasks in addition to their business communications—functionality that, as hard as it may be for some of you to believe, was severely lacking as email first infiltrated the workplace.

Originally grouped with Microsoft Exchange, in 2007, Outlook became a standalone email client that was also included in the Office suite. Since then, it’s had two major redesigns: one in 2010, and the other in 2013. Knote was lucky enough to speak with Marta Rey Babarro, who worked at Microsoft during the email client’s most recent redesign, serving as the lead researcher for the company’s Outlook 2013 project.

“We were working on streamlining communication throughout the entire Office suite. One of the apps touched by it was Outlook, and I was leading that effort,” Marta tells Knote. “We had to redesign the whole application and also make Outlook touch-friendly.”

Which is quite the task, considering the number of professionals who wouldn’t be able to get through their days without Outlook. Many of these users, of course, were already comfortable with previous iterations of the application—despite the inherent limitations tied to their release dates. So any redesign certainly couldn’t completely ostracize these folks, some of whom might not be the most computer literate.

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So how is such a massive undertaking successfully accomplished?

“First, you need to really understand the business needs you’re addressing and the priorities your team has established for the project,” Marta says. “Of course, you also have to really understand your users, too. Then you draft a research strategy, trying to improve the entire product as much as you can.”

To do that, she says, you have to direct your focus on end users first and foremost. When designing an email application, for example, it’s critical to remember that workers need to be able to access their email from their desktops, laptops and mobile devices—no matter where they happen to be.

Building the product for a general persona—the information worker who puts in around 40 hours each week—Marta and her team conducted research to find out which functionality would be most beneficial for this persona type.

The Outcome

All their hard work paid off.

“The overall redesign was really beautiful and useful—it tested extremely well,” Marta explains. “It was very crisp, very fast and very clean. We got great feedback from end users of the product and from critics when we launched.”

Email has become much more than an inbox. Many knowledge workers keep their entire schedules in there, too. As such, Marta and her colleagues heavily researched how people use their calendars on a daily basis. They then redesigned Outlook’s calendar functionality based on these research findings.

“Among other great calendar improvements, we built a timeline that cuts across an entire week, allowing users to visually see how their days and weeks are laid out by scrolling,” Marta says. “It’s a much faster way of accessing the calendar.”

Other Outlook upgrades included adding more actions within emails (e.g., flagging messages), creating comprehensive profiles for senders and enhancing contact information with images.

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How To Build a Productive Team

Marta, who’s now a senior lead researcher at Google leading a team of UXers that work on the company’s internal tools, believes building exceptional projects begins with never losing sight of what you’ve set out to do from the start.

“You need to have a set of core values and you need to be able to translate those into the design of the product,” Marta continues. “One of the things we focused on was speed; reducing the amount of time it takes to complete a task by 1 to 3 seconds goes a long way toward enhancing productivity. Speed was very easy to prioritize because of the values we established.”

To really succeed, teammates need to be consummate collaborators, with all those working on a project heavily involved throughout the entire process.

“I love involving all the people I work with: engineers, product managers, product owners, the designers,” Marta says. “When everyone is one the same page and everyone really cares about the user, the results are amazing.”

How about a tip for personal productivity?

“We undervalue how much time it takes to switch from one task to another,” Marta concludes. “We’re more productive when we focus on one set of tasks, tackling the ones that are similar together. Multitasking is not good for you—and it’s not good for your brain, either.”

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Three New York courts have ruled that captive chimpanzees do not count as “legal people,” swatting back an activist group’s bid to grant them legal rights.

The Nonhuman Rights Project filed three lawsuits on behalf of four chimps in order to win them the right to “bodily liberty.” The group wants the chimps to be moved to a sanctuary where they can live in an environment that resembles their wild habitat, CNN reports.

(MORE: Do chimps have human rights? This lawsuit says yes)

Founder and President Steve Wise has previously said that the lawsuits aimed to ask “judges to recognize, for the first time, that these cognitively complex, autonomous beings have the basic legal right to not be imprisoned.”

The Nonhuman Rights Project had expected to lose this first round of lawsuits, but the group plans to appeal the decisions as a habeas corpus petition, most likely in early 2014.


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Pros and Cons of Installing the OpenTelemetry Collector

Pros and Cons of Installing the OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector is an application written in Go. The GitHub readme does a great job of describing it:

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process and export telemetry data. In addition, it removes the need to run, operate and maintain multiple agents/collectors in order to support open-source telemetry data formats (e.g. Jaeger, Prometheus, etc.) sending to multiple open-source or commercial back-ends.

Usable: Reasonable default configuration, supports popular protocols, runs and collects out of the box.

Performant: Highly stable and performant under varying loads and configurations.

Observable: An exemplar of an observable service.

Extensible: Customizable without touching the core code.

Unified: Single codebase, deployable as an agent or collector with support for traces, metrics and logs.

So the OpenTelemetry collector is a Go binary that does exactly what its name implies: it collects data and sends it to a back-end. But there’s a lot of functionality that lies in between.

What a neat service! A local destination for data that handles the final sending of Open Telemetry information to your back end. But let’s cover some of the reasons you might not install the Otel collector.

Cons of Installing the Otel Collector

These seem like reasonable concerns, but the standard documentation on Open Telemetry recommends that the collector almost always be used. The reasons you should use an Otel collector on your service are as follows.

Pros of Installing the Otel Collector

Should you run an Open Telemetry Collector? Yes probably. The short time you’ll spend configuring your collector can save you countless headaches down the road. And if you share responsibility for configuration, you’ll spread awareness of your stack’s observability setup.

Finally, by establishing a collector process, now you’re preparing yourself for future expansion. When you need more security steps, processing of observability data, or reporting of data to more than one location, you’ll be ready.

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Why Cash Flow Forecasting is Vital to the Success of Your Startup Business

Why cash flow forecasting is vital to the success of your startup business

Why Cash Flow Forecasting is Vital to the Success of Your Startup Business

Why cash flow forecasting is vital to the success of your startup business

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We’ve all heard clichés like “cash is king” and “cash is the lifeblood of a business.” They’re well-worn phrases for a reason: They’re true!

No matter the size of your company or where you are in your growth journey, your business can’t operate without sufficient cash. But if you’re a startup company, you may find it tough to generate and sustain enough cash to cover your expenses in the early days—or invest in the strategic activities that will help take your venture to the next level.

That’s why cash flow forecasting is vital to the health and success of your startup business. By understanding what cash flow is, why it’s essential to your business, and how cash flow forecasting can help, you can ensure you have the funds to keep your young business afloat.

The Ins and Outs of Cash Flow

In the process of running your day-to-day operations, cash flows in and out of the business—hence the term, cash flow.

  • Cash inflows include the revenue you generate from selling your product or service. Depending on your business type, you might also generate cash through royalties, licensing fees, or interest earned on investments (though the latter is rare for startups).
  • Cash outflows include any expenses you incur to run the business, such as salaries, rent, raw materials, marketing, storage, shipping. It can also be financing costs such as debt payments and interest payments.

Net cash flow is the difference between your inflows and outflows. Ideally, you want that number to be a positive one.

Your business is dynamic, which means your cash flow is, too. At any given point, your cash position will be different depending on factors like how much your customers owe you for the products or services they’ve purchased, when your office rent is due, or when the next payroll period is, for example.

Why Cash Flow is a Big Deal for Startups

The ability to take in more cash than you need to pay out is clearly important to the health and sustainability of any business, no matter what its size or maturity. Simply put, if your cash inflows don’t exceed your cash outflows, you’ll soon be out of business.

Any type of business can run into cash flow difficulties from time to time. But for a startup business, maintaining a positive cash flow can be especially difficult for a variety of reasons.

  • You haven’t launched your product/service yet. When your business is in the pre-revenue stage, you’re likely relying on your personal assets or seed capital from friends and family to fund the business. Or perhaps you’re further along and you’ve secured venture capital. No matter where the funding is coming from, though, until you also have revenue flowing in your cash flow will always be a concern.

  • Your expenses are high. Getting a new venture off the ground involves a mix of one-time startup costs and recurring expenses. Even if your business doesn’t need office space, you probably need other talent besides yourself to bring your idea to fruition—and salaries tend to be the lion’s share of any business’s costs. Then there are the costs of equipment, legal fees to set up your business, marketing, and insurance. If you’re producing a tangible product, you’ll have to invest in raw materials, too. The higher your expenses, the greater the strain on your cash flow.

  • Your customers are slow to pay. Even when you reach the point that you’re generating revenue, unless you’re selling to consumers and requiring payment at the point of sale, you’re likely invoicing customers and waiting for them to pay. If your accounts receivable balance starts to build up because customers are exceeding your payment terms, you’ll have a cash flow problem.

How Cash Flow Forecasting Can Help Your Startup

Given these challenges, managing your cash flow effectively is critical to the financial health of your startup business. You can’t just wait and see how your cash inflows and outflows fall, cross your fingers, and hope for the best. Cash flow forecasting is a far better approach.

Cash flow forecasting helps you assess where your cash flow stands today and what it’s likely to be in the future. With a well-developed cash flow forecast, you can get a sense of your company’s financial health and take steps to mitigate problems.

Developing and maintaining a cash flow forecast serves several important purposes:

  • It helps you foresee potential cash flow gaps before they occur.
  • It enables you to make informed, proactive decisions about how to mitigate cash flow issues.
  • It allows you to identify and correct collections problems that are causing your accounts receivable to age.
  • It can signal a need to raise additional capital or cut expenses where it’s feasible.
  • In the best-case scenario, it can tell you when you’ll have an anticipated cash surplus—so you can develop strategies for deploying that cash effectively to fuel your company’s growth.

As with any type of forecast, a cash flow forecast is only as good as the input that goes into it. That means you need to be realistic when you’re projecting revenue and expenses beyond what you know today. While it’s easy to fall into the trap of overestimating revenue and underestimating expenses, the more accurate you are with these assumptions, the more accurate your cash flow forecast will be.

Turn to Scrubbed for Cash Flow Forecasting

Ensuring your startup business has the cash you need to stay operational is vital to your financial health and sustainability. That’s why many entrepreneurs and business leaders turn to the finance and accounting professionals at Scrubbed for cash flow forecasting services!

Both startups and mature companies rely on Scrubbed to develop cash flow forecasts that help ensure they have the positive cash flow it takes to run a successful business. Scrubbed also provides founders and business leaders with a wide range of other financial planning and analysis services that help you budget with confidence, forecast with greater accuracy, and allocate your resources effectively.

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EVO 2022 Will Not Have Any Super Smash Bros. Games Because of Nintendo

This will be the first EVO since 2007 to not have any Super Smash Bros. games.

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Nintendo has made the decision to not have any Super Smash Bros. game be part of EVO 2022, the world's largest fighting game tournament that is now owned by Sony, for the first time since 2007.

EVO shared a letter announcing the news on Twitter ahead of the EVO 2022 announcement show on March 8 at 5pm PTT/8pm ET.

"Please join us March 8 at 5pm PST on twitch.tv/evo for the EVO 2022 announcement show," EVO wrote. "While we're thankful for all the amazing games joining us later this year in Las Vegas, we want to let you know in advance that Super Smash Bros. will not be making a return appearance.

"Since 2007, we've seen historic Super Smash Bros. moments created at EVO's events. We are saddened that Nintendo has chosen not to continue that legacy with us this year. In the future, we hope to once again celebrate the Super Smash Bros. community alongside them."

Nintendo's choice to not be part of EVO follows Sony's purchase of the fighting game tournament in 2021. At the time of the acquisition announcement, Nintendo said that it wishes the show's organizers the best and that it will continue to assess EVO in the future. That decision, at least for now, appears to have been made.

This move also could be due to Nintendo partnering with Panda Global for the first officially licensed series of Super Smash Bros. eSports tournaments in North America.

"Nintendo has enjoyed engaging with fans at past Evo tournaments and wish the show organizers the best with their new venture. We will continue to assess Evo, and other opportunities, as we plan for future online and offline Super Smash Bros. tournament activity.” A spokesperson for Nintendo said in March 2021.

EVO 2022 is currently set to take place from August 5-7 in Las Vegas.

So, not only will 2022 be the first year without new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate content as in 2021 Sora was the final DLC fighter to be released, but fans will also have to look elsewhere to see competitive Smash battles.

For more on this ongoing situation, check out our look at the rocky history between Nintendo and its esports communities.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

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This year, we have a REAL Christmas tree! It smells oh-so-good. Our lights are “LED” lights and are really funky. we like ’em. They NEVER burn out, and don’t heat up. very cool. But, while wanting to freshen up my decor and wanting it to keep it simple, I opted to use only christmas bulbs on the tree… We then perused all over at the Christmas decorations available online and decided what would match our house, as well as the vibe we were going for this year.

We didn’t use any ornament hooks and we cut the little string off all the ornaments and hung them with ribbon, not only on the tree but all over the house! Actually, my super-knot tying girl did most of this for me. Myla was in heaven cutting and tying the ribbons, she prepared almost ALL of them for me! Then I happily hung them around the house…with Kiana’s help.

I really like how our chandelier in the kitchen turned out!

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  1. Were your kid’s landing on the couch? Or is there something behind the couch that they are landing on? Regardless those are hilarious! Your house looks fantastic! I love putting up Christmas. Hey, did you guys guy see Australia? Brook and I went on Saturday. Amazing!

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  3. Awesome pictures of your kids jumping…he, he!

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  4. DARLING!! Once again, I think I’ll copy what Jane has done. (Didn’t someone once say copying is the highest form of flattery??)

  5. Your house looks SO cute! Let me guess – the jumping off the ladder onto the couch trick was Myla’s idea?!

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Seize the Sketch #2 {Sponsored by CAS-ual Fridays}

Welcome to Seize the Sketch!! Cathy here with another fun sketch! Thank you all who joined us this past week - so many wonderful designs! We hope that you will join us again this week for another fun sketch and awesome inspiration from our DT!

The team has created such awesome samples to get you in the crafting mood! Come on and play along with my sketch this week! Remember ALL product is welcome!

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Here is how to play along with us:

1. Create a card based on the sketch provided.
2. Link up your card to the linky...make sure you link up your post with the card in it and not your whole blog.
3. Comment on the other cards in the gallery...at least 3!
4. Combine us with as many other challenges as you would like...EXCEPT other sketches...because that wouldn't work! LOL!!!
5. Have fun!!!

  1. This is great I love the sketch and the beautiful designs by the team. Cas-ual friday is a great sponsor love their stamps.

  2. Cathy you created a great sketch this week and love how all the the design team created with it.

  3. Another wonderful sketch, the Design team samples are fantastic.

  4. Amazing cards ladies!!! I am so glad that I was able to participate!! :)

  5. Such pretty cards! Amy led me here ~ hope to join along!

  6. Great sketch, and amazing cards ladies. I will be joining in :-) Lynn x

  7. Thanks so much for the awesome inspiration and fun sketch!

  8. Great sketch n inspirations of design team cards are beautiful..

  9. Thanks for the fun sketch and awesome DT inspiration!!!

  10. Thanks for the fun sketch to play with - lovely samples from your DT!

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  12. LOVED the sketch!! and the DT samples :) Looking forward to playing along again. CAS-ual Fridays has FABULOUS stamps :)

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