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I visited the one in Centennial a few months after it opened. It was a typical theme-based suburb chain. The food was below average. The beer selection was below other franchise chains like Yard House or BJs Brewhouse. The best tap selection I have seen out here has to be Falling Rock in downtown Denver. Kroger has lobbied for years to allow more than 3.2% beer sales at grocery stores out here. It finally passed last year and will be in full effect by 2037 (probably 2057 for Greeley, lulz). The reason for the long phase-in is to prevent all the liquor stores going bankrupt overnight. This was more to keep the tax-revenue up while avoiding alcohol price wars... http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/06/10/new-colorado-law-allows-full-strength-beer-phase-in-at-groceries/

Absolutely and that is so vital...

Will you be helping any refugees? Why would it make a difference? What if he is helping? There are a ton of ways to help with the refugee situation right here in Nebraska. Many do. I would say zoogs & others are helping by voicing their opinions on this board & elsewhere. Many of us would love to do more but that's not always an option. Regardless of one's personal beliefs, doing SOMETHING, ANYTHING is sorely needed. This applies to anything in which a person believes or supports. It's so easy to be apathetic and that is what is truly damaging. I support all protestors, even those that are diametrically opposed to my beliefs. Activism of any kind makes this country great. When we hit Denver, there are a couple Middle Eastern/Persian markets we try to hit. The food quality is top notch and there are a lot of items that cannot be purchased anywhere else. Since the ban, we started ordering as much as we can from these markets. Given how these communities are being treated, a little inconvenience is the least we can bear. I feel like it's a practical way to support local residents/citizens directly affected by this ban. When we left a Halal butcher yesterday, the owner (an Iranian) stopped us at our car to thank us for our business. He was overly grateful. He has lost most of his white customers over the past weeks and has been treated like hell. It reinforced this was right decision. Local communities like this need some positive support in so many ways right now.

president snowflake does have a ring to it. Ski resorts out here rely on snowflakes for business; not sure I want to alienate frozen water like that...

It's statistics man. Black magic stuff. That would make Moiraine what, a Black Magic Woman?

The poll is not saying that. The poll is comparing the FIRST approval ratings for each of these Presidents. Carter's FIRST approval poll rating after taking office was higher than Reagan's FIRST approval poll rating after taking office ~4 years later...

Nobody will remember who is at fault. The Repub's will say it failed because Obama & the Dem's propped up a broken system. When the Repub's even looked at trying to fix it, the ACA totally collapsed under the weight of its issues. The aftermath of this approach pretty much guarantees nothing like the ACA or widespread meaningful Healthcare reform is attempted again in our lifetimes. If the fallout is as bad as it could be, the insurance companies know they'll be singled out when control of Congress changes... In a weird way, the ONLY option that everyone knows needs to be avoided IS the option GOP/WH is pursuing... One thing many do not account for in this situation is the impact of uninsured/under-insured on the rising cost of healthcare. If a hospital has a high number of these, they have to recoup that money somehow and the preferred accounting approach is to charge more. One part of controlling cost increases is ensuring some level of coverage, right??? lulz

It's probably because you can't take your huge screen, mouse, keyboard, etc. to the bathroom with you while you dump out It you would get with current technology, this wouldn't be an issue... https://www.cnet.com/news/lg-displays-latest-oled-tv-sticks-to-the-wall-is-under-1mm-thick/

Tumpkin's issues here have been the worst-kept secret (out here) for quite a while. If it wasn't for the egregious football assault scandals (Baylor/Minny/etc), CU would have sat on it longer. They still didn't fire him, they allowed him to resign. The previous AD (Bohn) supported/created a hostile environment towards females, especially by the male athletes. It was hard to listen to his Title IX hypocrisy. The new administration has just a passing interest in changing this culture since the Athletic Dept is so estranged from the Academic side of the university regardless of what they do. The Boulder PD is an active enabler in this as well. It's a very sad situation and I hope the ex-girlfriend is able to get past her ordeal...

Knapp gave some really good advice. Only things I would add to his comments: Check the audio recording laws for you state; if single-party consent is allowed, record your conversations with the landlard/manager(s). If you get to a point of having to communicate via written letters, the landlord/manager is usually going to take a harder stance. I would contact your local Housing Authority and see what you can find out about your complex/landlord from them. Many times if there is 1 old person in a complex like this, it's a subsidized or low income unit situation. If that's the case, you will lose any complaints they make. You may offer to move units to avoid this person with highly sensitive hearing. Lastly, if you can record the noise from others, you can have some evidence of being singled out...

Are you saying that you're hearing they're likely to change little to nothing and try to force the ACA into this vaunted death spiral they complain about so much? More or less. The White House is trying to force insurance providers to create the ACA death spiral. Insurance is about risk pooling and anything unknown is high risk. Looking at the news since that post, that's what with the insurance providers demands/warnings are trying to address. If insurance providers don't start jumping off the exchanges, I think WH/GOP will move towards changes with the intent of getting insurance providers to withdraw. It's a massive game of chicken and the insurance providers are convinced the WH will only settle for a collision or insurance to balk...

In my area, Encana has been prospecting and installing NG wells like crazy last few years. A lot of my neighbors installing solar kept getting contacted by the county about code complaints. Turns out, the field supervisors were told to identity properties with solar as they were out inspecting the rigs or wells. Someone from the company would then call in a complaint. Completely petty practice just trying to inconvenience individuals/government departments for having solar.

If you are going to use Malwarebytes to try and do cleanup, visit their forum and follow their cleanup procedures. They recommend at least 1 (preferably 2) other products for this type of situation. If you have browser hijackers and fake security apps already installed, MW is not going to remove it all. Once everything is clean, a single solution is fine to prevent reinfection moving forward. If you go with a free AV product, make sure the AV definitions are updated just as quickly as the paid version. AVG has some bad reviews in this regard.

There was a study done a few years ago into whether small vertical or horizontal axis wind turbines were more efficient, and it turned out that horizontal was more efficient both in power generation and cost. It was done in Amsterdam, I think. I'll see if I can find that study later. You are ignoring the installation factors. Height from ground and blade length are the primary components of the horizontal axis design creating the increase in efficiency. In most residential zoning building codes in this country, that design is not allowed. If you cannot install it, efficiency doesn't matter.

I agree that residential and local use are essential to long-term success.... Can you imagine a small solar panel on the top of every city street-light pole in the US? Just add it to the design of any new poles, it would be a game changer. The newer UV and IR panels are awesome, plus I've also heard of some that can work off of water & air-humidity in addition to UV and IR. Which would mean energy could be produced at respectable levels during prolonged cloud-cover and during a rain storms. I am not finding the article atm but an EE wrote an interesting article couple years ago on the impact of getting traffic & street lights off the electrical grid. It was like 8% decrease overall. It's not necessarily practical but the opportunity is there to make substantial difference in small increments... You are correct that it's not always easy to compare wind and solar. Some places the wind blows hard enough and often enough that wind generation makes sense. Determining whether wind even makes sense can be challenging. But almost everywhere that's not in the Arctic/Antarctic gets some sun and can be evaluated for PV. FYI, I'm glad you are having success with a vertical axis wind turbine, but they can't compete with the horizontal axis ones (except in a few niche applications perhaps). The vertical is losing at least half the exposed area to the wind as compared to the horizontal one. If you are comparing horizontal vs vertical axis turbines, it really does depend upon application and factors such as location. The blade length of the horizontal axis turbine contributes a lot to its efficiency. For wind farms and large applications, nothing comes close to the long bladed horizontal design. For small scale and/or residential, the vertical axis type is the most common due to a variety of factors. On a small scale, a short blade horizontal axis turbine is very temperamental, especially with turbulent winds. In my case there were also county ordinance & zoning issues that came into play. I'm on several acres with multiple zoning. My house is on 2 acre parcel zoned residential surrounded by many acres zoned ag/com. The codes and ordinances are very different depending on the zoning. A horizontal axis wind turbine on the residential parcel could not be higher than the base of my house's roofline. Factor in location of trees/outbuildings/etc and it becomes a problem.

Solar vs wind is difficult. I think the solution ultimately has to include widespread residential & distributed green energy rather than relying almost entirely on massive farms. I have 2 residential wind turbines installed by a Boulder company and they produce more energy refund than my neighbors' full roof solar installs. Part of the reason is my turbines are going 8-18 hours per day, 330+ days per year. They are always at optimal position and the install cost was close to half that of full roof solar. We routinely get winds between 55-80 mph and microbursts up to 120 mph. Not every location is so blessed. The design is a vertical cylinder similar to the one on right below. As far as wildlife, it can be much better but all the numbers I have seen are lower than referenced above. Definitely less compared to wildlife impact of other infrastructure. I know NREL tracks this info as part of their testing and I asked a friend that's an engineer at the Boulder test farm (http://www.nrel.gov/nwtc/) if he can share the data. If he is able to provide it, I will post it.

Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon! Good thing too with the massive bacon shortage and all... /s

I saw the google headlines but had not dug into it yet. I had read that he is not a fan of organized protest. Here's some articles with links to his college writings that you reference: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/neil-gorsuch-apartheid-protests-donald-trump-supreme-court-nominee-scotus-a7556706.html http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/neil-gorsuch-viewpoints-opinion-columbia-234498 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-scotus-pick-expressed-contempt-protesters-article-1.2961074

Either they get removed from the composite ranking, they stay and 247 data gets counted twice, or somebody else steps in to fill the void. It's not exactly clear what Heckman's new venture entails but it doesn't sound like a direct competitor to Scout or Rivals... Here's Heckman's new endeavor theMaven Network, inc. http://www.themaven.net/Press.php And here's some background: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161018005883/en/Digital-Media-Network-theMaven-Announced-James-Heckman

They forced Heckman (CEO, original founder) out last year and he started a competing company then poached most of the top talent from Scout. It sounds like Scout Media has been gutted and CBS is only interested in cherry-picking the team publisher contracts and a name for another sub-network (mobile app & website channels). It will probably be a named property but backed by the 247 site data/staff. It doesn't sound like CBS wants anything more than that. Heckman originally founded Rivals.com as well...

This has been going on for a while. They were hit with involuntary chapter 11 a couple months back after failing to pay a judgement. 247 was the only interested from the reports I saw and they picked scout up for very cheap...

He's measurably more conservative than Scalia was when Scalia joined SCOTUS and slightly more conservative than in Scalia's later years. But yes, nothing surprising as Republican nominee other than a lack of record with civil/individual rights.

So just taking a quick look at his court decisions and statement to questions: Applied 2nd Amendment as individual's right to gun possession and argued that being felon is not enough to bar gun ownership; person has to know & believe they are a felon at a minimum... Stated the ACA mandate for birth control was unconstitutional as the government cannot determine the degree of value of a specific religious teaching Has stated he is anti-abortion but recognized precedent must be acknowledged Has declared himself an "origininalst" & "textualist" while stating too much value is given to precedent Has ignored the 1984 Chevron Doctrine decision which gives government agencies leeway to apply and interpret law through regulations when the law is unclear. Has stated this doctrine violates the Constitution framer's design and only courts can interpret the law. Has a record of viewing individual rights' through his position of government agencies not being allowed to interpret law. For now, he's really going to be a wildcard in civil & individual rights issues (i.e. LGBTQ). Overall he is typically conservative for religious rights; extremely pro State rights'; very conservative on government's right to interpret law; typically conservative on role of government; unknown on civil/individual rights...

People I know that know him respect him within financial and insurance cases which were his main area while in Denver. Outside that, he's all over the map on the conservative side. He is heavily against Federal agencies being allowed to interpret the law or having any leeway in this regard. That could be very bad for our civil service & many Federal/State agencies. I could see him becoming the far-right anchor of SCOTUS with the Immigration & Healthcare issues.... Don't even start with Garland; that scab isn't gonna heal anytime soon