found out early may I had high bg reading . A1C was 8.3 , BG 203 , weight was 204 . started taking two 500 metformin er a day
nov 23 2009 A1C 5.2 , BG 94 & weight 171 . cut back to 1 metformin a day after dinner .
yea I have come a long way in a short time .
Filed under: Aftermarket, Frankfurt Motor Show, Coupe, Performance, Europe, Aston Martin, Luxury
Besides talking to the cute blond at the Audi booth, your Autobloggers spent the most time at this year’s Frankfurt show arguing in front of the Mansory booth. Why? Some of us simply loved the all carbon fiber Cyrus, while others thought reskinning an Aston Martin DB9 in unpainted CF wasn’t the best possible use of all that sci-fi plastic. Also (of course) there was the matte pink Vitesse Rose, which… no comment.
Anyhow, Mansory just released a plethora of images showing the world what the Cyrus looks like when it’s on the road. The naysayers among us will no doubt be forced to admit that the Cyrus does look better at speed, though we’re still quite anti- fake roof scoop, as well as the glued-on rear quarter panels. Is $600,000ish too much to spend on top of a DB9’s based price for all that baked plastic goodness? You be the judge.
Gallery: Mansory Cyrus
[Source: Mansory]
Pics Aplenty: Mansory Cyrus goes out and about originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
For nearly all of the history of copyright law, the law itself has been designed by and for a certain group of middlemen — even as it was officially supposed to be about creating incentives for the creation of new, quality content. For this reason, copyright law has changed radically over the past three centuries, as those middlemen repeatedly strove to ratchet up and increase their monopoly rents. However, with the introduction of the internet and the personal computer, something unfortunate happened to the middlemen. They discovered that suddenly this cozy process of middlemen and politicians constantly ratcheting up monopoly protections ran into a bit of a speedbump: that ratcheting up interfered with the daily lives of millions of people online.
Because of that, over the past few years, a growing group of people have become increasingly vocal, in pointing out that the true purpose of copyright law should be to make sure it actually does increase the incentives for the creation of new works, rather than taking it on faith (and the sworn word of the middlemen). This has upset the middlemen greatly — for historically they faced little to no opposition to their ongoing efforts to continually increase the monopoly rights granted to them.
Now facing serious opposition to these efforts for the first time, it appears that some of those involved in the cozy process of constantly ratcheting up copyright law (in one direction only) have decided that rather than present evidence as to why this is actually needed, they will simply break out two favorite mechanisms of the copyright maximalist arsenal: scream about “international obligations” over and over again… and when that fails, start the name calling.
Both are evident in an angry rant from Dr. Mihaly Ficsor, the President of the Hungarian Copyright Experts Council, and a former Assistant Director General of WIPO (i.e., the “old boys club” of folks who ratchet up copyright at every turn possible, based on faith alone, but not evidence of its need). Dr. Ficsor is particularly peeved at Michael Geist, for pushing back on the demands of other countries to radically change Canada’s copyright laws. Dr. Fiscor’s rant was posted to the blog of Barry Sookman, a Canadian copyright lawyer and lobbyist for the recording industry who has been a strong defender of secretive processes like ACTA negotiations and other attempts to change Canadian copyright laws on the whims of foreign middlemen, rather than any evidence of necessity.
I had thought that perhaps Dr. Ficsor’s response would raise substantive issues concerning changes to copyright law, or perhaps (and this would be wonderful) present the actual evidence of why such changes are necessary. Tragically, there is none of that. It is blind faith-based pronouncements instead — insisting that it’s necessary because it’s necessary, and then falling back on the mantra of “international obligations” for pretty much every other issue. Even on the one claim that he makes which he insists is substantive (that, despite not clearly saying so, these treaties do in fact require anti-circumvention clauses), he seems to purposely misrepresent history, pretending that he didn’t lose this battle over a decade ago already.
At the end, it moves on to the pure insult phase:
I am sure that the policy makers of Canada do not allow being misled and frightened by the noisy group of these “free-access” “revolutionaries” (I hope so since, here in the former “socialist” countries of Central and Eastern Europe, we have had quite bad experience of certain “free access” “revolutionary” collectivist systems constrained on us for several decades). I am sure that they will not let Canada to become an isolated hostage and victim of demagogue campaigns organized in the hatred-driven style of Maoist Guards as during that other brilliant “cultural revolution.”
Now, if you’re at all familiar with the Maoist Cultural Revolution, to compare that to those who are simply pushing for their own consumer rights on copyright issues or asking for actual evidence of the need for increasingly draconian copyright system changes, is downright ridiculous and insulting. No one is acting as a revolutionary, demanding “free access” or any sort of “Maoist” revolution. To make such a claim is pure ignorance. While some may disagree with the position Geist and others have taken, they have presented a position based on consumer and individual rights and an understanding of basic legal principles and economics. You can disagree with the conclusions, but to mischaracterize them in such a ridiculous manner raises all sorts of questions about what the copyright “old guard” has to hide. If they cannot respond to basic questions with actual evidence or actual answers, and instead resort to name calling like Dr. Ficsor does above, it seems only reasonable to conclude that there is no evidence to support their position. And when hundreds of thousands of Canadians spoke up to point out the emperor has no clothes, perhaps it’s not surprising that the emperor would lash out in anger, but it simply demonstrates how the “faith-based” nature of those pushing for ever more stringent copyright laws means that they cannot engage in reasoned debate on a position that has no reason behind it.
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Happy Holidays to all my friends, business associates, and blog members.
May 2010 be a great year for all! – BC
about currencies – The Debt Spiral – Debt begets debt until it doesn’t. I have watched a noticeable change in the mood of many investment banks (yes, they are all technically commercial now), money managers, and large institutions as market values have rebounded and the edge of the cliff seems like a distance memory. The reflation has occurred with a vengeance and it seems that the calm has returned. The real question to ask is, “Now what?” – Surly Trader
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a collection of great articles – What will be the status of the dollar in 2025 — and does it matter? – What Matters @ McKinsey
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WILL THE DOLLAR CONTINUE TO RALLY? – The US Dollar index has made a nice move higher since the end of November with a gain of about 5%. The important part about this rally is that the index has broken the long-term downtrend that it had been in since early 2009 – Bespoke Investment Group
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Richard Bernstein’s 10 Predictions For 2010 – Richard Bernstein –
1. Stock and bond market returns in the US will again be positive.
2. The US dollar is likely to meaningfully appreciate once market-driven short-term rates begin to rise.
3. US dollar “carry trades” could get killed as 2010 progresses and the US dollar appreciates. Once accounting for leverage, hedge fund performance will likely trail long-only equity performance.
Read them all at Business Insider The Money Game
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Barry Ritholtz – still bullish on stocks, but not for the long term – Posted by Prieur du Plessis – … Ritholtz expects the market to continue to go higher in the first part of 2010, suggesting 1,250-1,300 as an upside target for the S&P 500, but still thinks we are in a cyclical (short-term) bull market within a secular (long-term) bear market, which began in 2000. “The goal from now until let’s call it 2015 is to preserve capital – see if you can make a little money here or there – but be ready for the next 15-to-20 year bull market,” he said. … – Investment Postcards from Cape Town
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Thoughts on PIMCO:
Risk Reversal Continues – Since one of the top Bloomberg stories today focused on Bill Gross’ highest cash position … The article focused on the idea that Bill Gross foresees largely rising rates in the United States in 2010. That idea might have some merit, but it would probably be more likely that Gross expressed that view by shorting treasury futures and interest rate swaps. I believe the reason that he is getting cautious is the same reason that I have focused on the rapid decline of Greece and rapid rise of the dollar. – Surly Trader
Pimco lightens up on U.S. debt – Tim Iacono – … The folks at Pimco are generally early on calls like this, but they’re almost always right (remember how they pleaded for Bernanke to cut rates in 2008-2009?) all the more reason to lighten up on both Treasuries and the modern day equivalent – mortgage backed securities. … – The Mess That Greenspan Made
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Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter – The Age of Deleveraging – by John Mauldin – … While Obama is urging banks to lend, bank regulators are telling banks to raise capital and shore up their balance sheets. One way they do that is to lend less to consumers and businesses and invest in US government bonds. …
Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Nissan
If we told you there was a variant of the iconic Nissan GT-R putting out around 600 horsepower, gobs of weight-saving technology and fuel economy that can hit 25-30 mpg on the highway would you be interested? What if we told you that the added power came via the same 160 hp electric motor that rested beneath the beautiful sheetmetal of the Infiniti Essence concept at last year’s Geneva Motor Show?
The crew at Inside Line are reporting that the hybrid-powered Nissan GT-R is a real possibility for production, complete with the current model’s 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V6 and a battery pack for greenification. Weight savings is of paramount importance, and Nissan plans to throw every trick in the book at the hybrid GT-R, although we’d wager that the gas-electric variant will still weigh more than the deceptively porky model in showrooms now. Of course, Nissan wouldn’t be interested in a vehicle with less performance than the current model so any hybrid-equipped GT-R would have to at least match Godzilla’s numbers.
With all that power comes great fiscal responsibility, so what would a GT-R hybrid cost? IL guesses $100,000 could be the price of entry, though Nissan could be looking for a little more coin than that. After all the GT-R Spec-V was rumored to cost quite a bit more and if you add a hybrid powertrain to Spec-V weight loss techniques, we could be looking at one very expensive green machine.
Gallery: Review: 2010 Nissan GT-R
[Source: Inside Line]
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It’s longer, wider and heavier than the outgoing Outback, but Subaru’s all-new pseudo-SUV proves that bigger and better aren’t mutually exclusive.
We get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at Ford’s efforts to bring apps to its class-leading Sync system.
The One-77 tops out at 220 mph during another round of shakedown runs before the bespoke coupe enters production early next year.
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An artist’s conception created for NASA in the 1970s shows a double-barreled space colony in action. Today’s visions of the future are different, but just as grandiose. |
Cloud science? Solar-power primacy? Affordable clean-energy cars? Space colonies? Super-centenarians galore? These are some of the visions put forward for the next 50 years in science and technology.
…(read more)During doctor’s appointments, you’re probably too busy discussing your health to ask your doctor about healthy gifts. Plus, doctors tend to be a little busy to give out gift suggestions!
However, Dr. Bradley Bale, co-founder of the Bale/Doneen Method, has taken up the cause of healthy giving with his article below. And he has also explained the science behind some of his picks. Most of these gifts can be arranged or bought in a snap, so check your last-minute gift list.
Top 5 Healthy Holiday Gifts for the Ones You Love
By Dr. Bradley Bale,
co-founder of the Bale/Doneen Method and the Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center
Make certain your family and friends start the year off healthy. These gifts are an easy way to give the gift of health in 2010!
1. Gym Membership
Put an extra spring in someone’s step. Offer to cover a friend or family member’s gym membership for a month or a year. According to The Mayo Clinic, individuals who exercise daily find it helps maintain consistent sleep patterns, a consistent body weight, and mental alertness. Check out your local gym for yearly and monthly membership packages.
2. Offer to Attend a Doctor’s Appointment with a Loved One
It can be overwhelming for people to visit the doctor, especially older folks who may have multiple health issues. Use your knowledge about the latest diagnostics and treatments for prevalent conditions to make sure your loved one is getting the best possible care. For example, the PLAC Test is relatively new and goes beyond traditional risk factors in identifying risk for heart attack and stroke. By accompanying your loved one on their next doctor’s visit you can be sure to ask about this test, among others, that might not come up otherwise.
3. Healthy Cookbook
Compile or buy a book of your favorite healthy recipes. Kathleen M. Zelman of WebMD.com recommends Fit Food – Eating Well for Life by Ellen Haas, Healthy Homestyle Cooking by Evelyn Tribole and The Phytopia Cookbook by Barbara Gollman and Kim Pierce for healthy cooking.
4. A Monthly Bottle of Red Wine
Sign up to have a monthly bottle of wine sent to your loved one. According to the Yale-New Haven Hospital, drinking one four-ounce glass of red wine a few times a week can reduce blood clotting, boost HDL (good cholesterol) and reduce LDL (bad cholesterol).¹ Please keep in mind one or more alcoholic beverages a day does increase cancer risk in women.² Also there is evidence individuals who harbor the apoE 4 genotype may have a worsening of their HDL and LDL with daily alcohol.³ Visit wineinsiders.com to find 3 month, 6 month and 12 month wine packages. Or visit wine.com and click on wineclubs for prices.
5. Fruit Basket
What’s healthier than mother nature’s wide variety of desserts that are chock full of antioxidants that help ward off diseases like cancer?
¹ “A glass of red wine a day keeps the doctor away”. March 10, 2005. http://www.ynhh.org/online/nutrition/advisor/red_wine.html
² Allen NE, Beral V, Casabonne D, et al. Moderate alcohol intake and cancer incidence in women.J Natl Cancer Inst 2009; 101:296-305
³ ApoE genotype information. Berkeley HeartLab, Inc. www.bhlinc.com
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Here is an interesting question for anyone who sells a loan to an investor/servicer: If the loan is modified, are you, as the seller, still “on the hook” for the reps and warranties you gave when you sold the original loan? Servicers use the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and other non-HAMP modification efforts to avoid foreclosure whenever possible and keep the borrowers in their homes. Some servicers, such as Wells Fargo, may have a policy that states “we consider loan modification activities intended to keep borrowers in their homes, and pursuit of remedies for a breach of Representations and Warranties under the Loan Purchase agreement, to be distinct and independent events.” So if a loan undergoes loss mitigation (like a modification of unpaid principal balance, interest rate, etc.), the servicer treats that process as a separate issue then when a defect is identified in a loan which results in a contract remedy. So check with your servicer – you may not be “off the hook” for your obligations.
One of the best statements that I have heard regarding the RESPA changes in 9 days came from a top mortgage banker, who simply said,“We don’t know how much we don’t know.” Broadly speaking, on 1/1 companies should know about a new Good Faith Estimate, new HUD-1/HUD-1A Settlement Statement, tolerance limits, and changes to the disclosure of Yield Spread Premium. Franklin American Mortgage Company told clients that they will adhere to the new requirements and will purchase loans that are in compliance with the requirements of the RESPA Act, and will enforce the requirements of the new RESPA regulations effective with January 1st applications.
Who says deals aren’t done during the week leading up to Christmas? Mason Dixon Funding, out of Maryland, was purchased by Embrace Home Loans.
I’m not unfamiliar with video game emulators. I’m not endorsing them, mind you, but I’m not unfamiliar. So my curiosity was piqued when I heard tell of a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator for the iPhone, one that had managed to gain official sanction and was being sold in the App Store.
I didn’t get to it fast enough. Nescaline, as the app was called, not only allowed you to play some built-in homebrew games, which probably would’ve been fine all on its own, but provided a way to download additional ROMs remotely. In effect, you could import any copyright-violating old-school NES ROM that you could find on the web. Such an ability was bound to get the app pulled, and pulled it has been.
While it lasted, it sold for $6.99 and boasted many features like “multitouch” control, full-screen mode, tap-to-shoot light gun emulation, save-state writing and retrieval — even support for Game Genie codes.
While the feature list may sound fairly impressive, user reviews from people who did manage to get their hands on the game were less than stellar, though not entirely negative. Commenter TokyoDisco at Pocket Gamer had this to say:
I spent far too long trying to add my own roms though. I know where to get them and everything, but I’m obviously entering the URL in wrong.
The five included roms are a bit rubbish to tell you the truth. The controls can be pretty unresponsive and the audio is jerky. Portrait and landscape modes are a nice touch.
If you’re still interested in Nescaline, I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for a reprieve from the App Store reviewers, like the one recently given to a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone platform. In fact, it was probably just the fault of someone asleep at the switch that it managed to make it in to begin with at all. Shouldn’t be too hard to get it up and running on a jailbroken device, though, or to use one of the other emulators available for those devices.
Arthur Rosenfeld–
James Cameron’s new film, Avatar, tells the fairly linear and predictable story of a handicapped ex-Marine who ships off to a faraway mining planet, where new technology temporarily transplants his consciousness into a whole and working body. And what a body it is! Alien, blue, tall, svelte and athletic, it provides the young man with the longed-for feeling of running and jumping, while at the same time serving his military masters with a way to infiltrate local aliens, gain their trust, learn their secrets, and then betray them.
The movie’s pure cinematic technology seems to command the lion’s share of critical attention to the film, and perhaps it should. I’ve never been so thoroughly and compellingly transported to another world, not even in The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars or Star Trek. If Cameron’s use of 3D technology does provide a 
blunt instrument for overtaking the senses, he is to be commended for using the club like a scalpel, creating worlds of tendrilous trees, giant mushrooms that shrink away from the slightest touch like anemones, and myriad monsters who claw, bite, jump and glide their way across a world so visually compelling and thematically cohesive that one you won’t even notice those thick, cheap plastic 3D glasses putting a dent on the bridge of your nose for a couple of hours.
Yes, the story is somewhat predictable, and yes we’ve seen the villains before. Yes the action is non-stop to the point that my nine-year-old son at one point quipped “enough killing already”, and yes this is a love-story and a morality play we’ve seen a thousand times. And yet… Avatar is an environmentalist tale, pure and simple. It’s a plea for Mother Earth done up in such exotic garb that Earth isn’t even Earth anymore, but a far-away, multi-mooned sphere of rock called “Pandora,” and the plea thuds in the gut of a dyed-in-the-wool conservationist like me, a writer who would see people as a plague upon the planet if spiritual tendencies did not command me.
I’ve often written and spoken about evolution’s pressures on us leading inexorably to a spiritual leap that saves us, and Earth, from what otherwise appears, technology notwithstanding, to be certain demise. Cameron’s feast for the eyes embraces this idea, and revels in a non-dual philosophy (we’re all part of the web of life) as the film’s primary principle. I’m hoping that while the audience out there is fixated on the film’s technological candy, the medicinal message will go down all but unnoticed, and take root in young minds.
Then we’d really have a film worth $300,000.000.
Arthur Rosenfeld is an authority on the spiritual dimensions of Eastern thinking for a Western world. 
A novelist, martial arts master and philosopher, Rosenfeld is a contributor to national magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Parade, has been seen on national tv and radio networks. The author of eleven acclaimed books and the creator of the fiction genre “Kung Fu Noir,” he combines stories with Eastern wisdom drawn from nearly 30 years of martial arts study. His latest title is Quiet Teacher.
A Yale graduate, Rosenfeld combines scientific background and communication skills gained through post-graduate studies at the University of California with real-world savvy gleaned from high-level corporate positions. Drawing on his background in medicine and science he has been cited in national media, including Newsweek, Ebony, and Parade. He has also written The Truth About Chronic Pain.
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Eric Zeman from Information Week has tied together some interesting thread which led him to the inescapable conclusion that LG is announcing a Windows Mobile-powered WIMAX smartphone to run on Sprint and ClearWire’s network.
His evidence? Sprint has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday, January 6 — the day before the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off.LG and Microsoft factor large in the presentation, and Brooke Shields is involved, too. Remarks will be made by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Sprint and LG have sent out a separate invitation for a big party taking place the following evening, hosted by Brooke Shields. Sprint has been pitching this event hard to tech journalists as the "must-attend" event of the entire show, calling it the "Hottest Spot at CES!"
All this build up to a pretty big announcement, and to Eric that means a new WIMAX handset. To date the only WIMAX handset on Clearwire is the Samsung Mondi, and of course that is more a MID than a phone.
See if you can follow Mr Zeman’s logic here.
Back in May the “lifetime achievement” award winner (many times over) in vaporware, Duke Nukem Forever, officially went onto the permanent vaporware list as developer 3D Realms shut down. So what happened? How could one video game be under development for a dozen years, and despite promos from over a decade ago, still never come out? Clive Thompson, over at Wired, tried to piece together an autopsy of Duke Nukem Forever.
As with just about anything Thompson writes, it’s a great read, with some interesting lessons. While the crux of the story is that 3D Realms boss, George Broussard, had the earlier success stuck on his brain, it seems like there are a few other things to be learned. There is definitely this undercurrent of “this game must be perfect before it can be released” that runs through the whole story. And, in fact, that probably only got worse with time. Every year the game wasn’t released, the more it would have to “prove” to eventually live up to its reputation. But even more interesting is the constant changing of game engines. Basically (according to the story) Broussard kept focusing on why the game had to be the absolute best, and so every time a new (better) gaming engine came out, he wanted to use that, and dump all the development done on earlier engines. In some ways it’s a story that shows why just copying what other people do isn’t enough. By the time 3D Realms “caught up” with others (often by licensing their technology), someone else had already jumped ahead and gone further — leading 3D Realms to pull back and jump on board the next platform… leading to the same situation yet again.
The simple fact was that no one was ever going to be that far ahead of the game any more, and so there are times where you just release what you have and iterate. But 3D Realms put itself in the impossible position of both needing to be leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else, while at the same time relying on the technology of others they hoped to leapfrog. That’s a recipe for disaster. You can use others’ technologies if you want to be incrementally better, and to then continue to improve. But you’re simply not going to be so far ahead of the game that no one is ever going to catch you. And it appears that 3D Realms never got past that contradiction.
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Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Audi
When Audi announced its new GT3 class R8 LMS race car late last year it was expecting 2009 to be a year of learning and development. As it turned out, it was a hugely successful season, landing championships in the FIA European GT series, along with the German and Belgian national series. All told, the R8s captured 23 race victories.
In 2010 the new GT Challenge class for GT3 type cars will become a permanent fixture of the American Le Mans Series as the GT1 class is consigned to history. During the 2009 season, GT Challenge was mainly the province of Porsche 911s. However, with the R8s success in Europe this year, Audi is considering offering the car to North American customers for the 2011 season. While the car could probably be competitive in 2010, Audi wants to set up a customer support infrastructure first.
Gallery: Audi R8 LMS 2009
[Source: American Le Mans Series]
Audi R8 LMS could be racing in ALMS GT Challenge class in 2011 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The Internet is global, and so are threats to digital freedom. Over the past year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has fought Internet censorship, oppressive copyright laws and privacy violations wherever they’ve been under threat around the world.
With the help of our global partners and supporters like you, EFF has been able to achieve great things over the past year:
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The thing about goats, is that they really like to climb stuff. Goats have been known to climb up on top of livestock, just for a slightly better view. In 1981, Fairview Wine and Cheese owner Charles Back, who had a herd of some 750 Saanen goats had a genius idea. Why not build something the goats can climb on? In this way, the goat tower was born.
Built out of brick and mortar with a steep metal roof, and a spiraling wooden staircase the goat tower even has windows, and the goats enjoy both climbing and resting inside the two story tower. In honor of its goats, and the tower which has become a famous symbol of the winery, Fairview produces a wine called “goats do roam” a play on the French wine growing region Côtes du Rhône.
Though the first known purpose built goat tower, others followed in Fairview’s foot steps and three other goat towers are known to exist.
The other goat towers include the six story, 31 foot tall Tower of Baaa, constructed by farmer David Johnson, to serve his herd of 34 Saanen milk goats in Findlay, Illinois. (As Johnson says “Goats are the most curious animals in the world so they use the tower a lot. They come and go, passing each other on the ramp as needed.”) Johnson plans to also utilize the tower as an amateur observatory, which would make this certainly the only goat tower/ observatory in the world.
There yet is another goat tower on the Ekeby Farm, in Moss Norway, built by Finn-Erik Blakstad, based on and with permission from Fairview owner Charles Back. His goat tower serves as a advertisement for the restaurant he runs which utilizes the goats milk and cheese.
And last but not least, there is the goat tower in the back of Silky O’Sullivans a bar in Memphis Tennessee, where patrons sneak beers to the goats who happily chug them down and then go climb the tower. Though the goats climb this tower while sauced, the goats can apparently hold their beer, as there has yet to be a single accident involving a falling goat. The same cannot be said about the bars simian patrons.
