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(CNN) - I hope listening to this podcast will be like getting the door to your mind kicked open.
I wish I'd been the one to turn that phrase – getting the door to your mind kicked open.
But it was Bruce Springsteen describing a moment in a Bob Dylan song – a moment you'll hear in this week's CNN Profiles.
It's one of the many delights delivered by our guest, historian Sean Wilentz, who has written "360 Sound," a book on the oldest label in the recording industry: Columbia Records.
The story begins in the 1870s, with Thomas Edison, who was pretty obsessed at the time with the technology of sending messages long distances.
Edison was putting the finishing touches on one of his new machines, the telegraph, when, writes Wilentz, "he hit upon the idea of transcribing sounds on a cylinder wrapped in tinfoil."
And so, the phonograph was born.
But even the vision of visionaries has limits.
Edison, Wilentz writes, put together a list of ten possible uses of the phonograph. Number one was dictation. Two: Phonographic books for the blind. Three: The teaching of elocution. And fourth on Edison's list: recorded music.
In fairness, that first Edison phonograph could not reproduce music well. But Edison's phonograph evolved, just as all great technologies must.
And soon, as Wilentz documents in his history of Columbia Records' 125 years, listening to music at home – music made by professionals not created by family members and friends – would change the sound of our lives.
A godsend for parents who could afford it. As a Columbia ad touted in the early years of the 20th century:
"Parents find this great entertainer the best and most wholesome means of making home more attractive than the street."
We'll be sampling a lot of music in this show – from marching band master John Philip Sousa, whose father refused to let him pursue his dream, to Billie Holiday singing a blues standard I never realized she co-wrote, to Sinatra, Dylan, and more.
It's striking how little uniformity there has been under the umbrella of this single label.
Which leads to a challenge that we in the journalism profession share with the music industry and many others– the challenge to create a distinctive voice.
How does a business that's all about sound thrive when it doesn't have a distinctive voice – an identifiable sound?
Sean Wilentz's answer may kick open the door to your mind.
Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. And listen to CNN Profiles on our SoundCloud page.
Dear Moose Lips - many amazing pix in the book. Sorry we couldn't use more.
Sal – Lady Day in the written piece and podcast. Betty Carter's take on her is on my private playlist "Don't Weep for the Lady ..."
Linda -thank you. And I'm still not sure. Something about the warmth of the sound of the LPs still gets me. But I can't use them when I'm running. So if I have to choose – digital it is.
Russ – my impression was that, while Edison was a telegraph operator, he did make important innovations to that technology. I'll do more research or feel free to leave reputable link in comments - I appreciate it.
Tim – that is quite a juxtaposition. Could do a whole show on that leap certainly.
And Riddley – thank you for the compliment AND the insight about the low hanging fruit. To me - if it's fascinating and I didn't know it and it can change my perspective on something important it's breaking news. Amazing how few people chasing that definition of news.
Thanks to all for listening. Michael Schulder
What no pics of the Minnesota Bard? Bob Dylan is like THE GUY for Columbia. Was very pleased to see two pics of Mile Davis... Where is Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus? Santana – VERY important to the American music catalog.
Don't forget Billie Holiday. Some of Lady Day's best work was recorded when she was with Columbia.
One of there Biggest Stars was Chuck Mangione.
I looking for a recording of Sarah Palin's greatest speeches.
There is no such thing....For there to be a great speech it must have been delivered by an intellect of historian proportion. Sarah Palin was an undereducated woman that used her past to become an opportunist for own wealth.
Thank God for JEWS!
Um, Edison didn't invent the telegraph, as inferred in the written story above, though he started out as a telegraph operator.
Implied, not inferred.
Wow from a tune called 'Whistling Coon' to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue in the span of a few decades. That's progress I suppose.
In early recordings "stamina was as important as quality". Not unlike today, in some ways. Lolol.
This is an amusing low-key interview of Sean Wilentz, who wrote a book about Columbia Records.
Being a historian, but also a large contributor to Wikipedia, it bemuses me how much encyclopedic "low hanging fruit" is just a few decades behind us, while Internet adolescents focus on every detail of Lady Gaga concerts and recent TV shows.


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How an agency partnership and federal Medicaid funds created a shared authentication service in Virginia.
A technology project that started with a focus on Medicaid will soon produce Virginia's first enterprise shared service for e-government applications. Called the Commonwealth Authentication Service (CAS), the new system will offer a way for any Virginia agency to manage the identities of people who do business with state government online.
CAS got its start about two and a half years ago, as Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) started making plans to buy a set of Oracle Corp. identity management tools.
"That's quite a powerful suite to have for just one agency," said David Burhop, the DMV's deputy commissioner and CIO. As fortune would have it, though, another state department also needed those capabilities.
Virginia's Department of Health and Human Resources (HHR) was gearing up to comply with the new federal health insurance law, which meant implementing new technology to manage its Medicaid programs and determine eligibility. That system required an identity management component — a system to ensure that when John Doe applied online for benefits, the government could trust that he actually was John Doe.
And officials at HHR didn't just want their new eligibility system to work for Medicaid; they wanted to use it for a broad spectrum of programs dealing with health care, hunger, disabilities, child care and other issues.
Sharing the same back-end technology would let HHR's agencies also share information, said William Hazel, Virginia's secretary of health and human resources. "If someone's applying for benefits in multiple programs, you don't have to put the same data in multiple times." Additionally, if they spent less time entering data, employees could operate more efficiently, he said. "That allows us to use our workforce to be more problem-solving for individuals and families and help hook them up with solutions for their particular needs."
As the department began planning for its new identity management system, the DMV — the state's identity management expert — became a natural partner.
HHR bought the enterprise service bus, rules engine and data management tools that the DMV had been planning to purchase, Hazel said. "We essentially gave them to our DMV and said, 'OK, you develop it.'" So a team led by staff at the DMV got to work on CAS.
Money to purchase the tools and create CAS came largely from a pool of federal funds designed to help states develop the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture. In 2011, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget decided that when states used this funding to develop systems for their Medicaid programs, other state organizations could use those systems as well, as long as they paid a share of the operating costs. That opened the door for Virginia to stretch the benefits of CAS — and the costs of its ongoing operation — across multiple state organizations.
"It doesn't make sense to the commonwealth to say only health agencies can use it," said Aaron Mathes, Virginia's deputy secretary of technology. "We want other agencies to be able to authenticate against the database and use the algorithms that we develop."
Hazel agreed: "The goal is to create a tool for the commonwealth without having to have a separate tool in every agency."
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Although Virginia developed its Commonwealth Authentication Service (CAS) mainly to support citizen applications, state agencies also can use it to manage identities of employees from other jurisdictions who do business with the state.
An example is the Office of Comprehensive Services (OCS), a branch of Virginia's Department of Social Services that supervises local governments in implementing services to at-risk youth. These services receive combined state and local funding.
Local governments use several online applications to report expenditures to the state for reimbursement. OCS needs assurance that the individual who logs on to submit such a report is authorized to do so, said OCS Executive Director Susan Cumbia Clare.
The current authentication system isn't very sophisticated, Clare said. "We've had issues with folks sharing logins or passwords. We [can't] ensure that [those] who are logging in are actually the individuals who are authorized." Better controls on who can submit and certify financial information will reduce the opportunity for fraud, she said.
The authentication service could also help OCS ensure that client information is only accessed by authorized individuals, Clare added.
Within CAS, authenticating local government employees will be the same as authenticating private citizens, said David Burhop, CIO of the Virginia DMV, which is leading CAS' development. "CAS isn't written specifically for any one application or function. It's an authentication engine that integrates with any agency application that can consume Web services and securely pass the required data back and forth."
While CAS will determine whether a local government employee who presents herself online actually is who she says she is, it won't determine whether that employee can view or use particular data, Burhop said. "Access will still be the responsibility of the organization using CAS."
In developing CAS, the DMV is using three levels of identity authentication assurance. Which level the system applies depends on the transaction a citizen needs to conduct.
A person who goes online simply to set up an account (Level 1) just has to provide information about him- or herself, including a name. "It could be Mickey Mouse; it could be anybody," Burhop said. "They don't do any verification there."
But when a transaction requires two-way communication, CAS will verify the individual's identity. It will obtain this Level 2 assurance by testing the person's knowledge about information held by the DMV — asking him, for example, dynamic questions such as the make and model of his first car registered in Virginia. "We use that now for DMV, and it works quite well," Burhop said.
Level 3 comes into play when a person transacts business on behalf of someone else — in a guardianship relationship, for example. At that level, CAS will use some form of two-factor authentication, such as a one-time password or a public key interface certificate.
Of course, not everyone holds a driver's license: Probably 25 to 30 percent of Virginia residents aren't in the DMV's database, Burhop said. Non-drivers can obtain a state ID card from the DMV for $10. Residents who can't or don't want to buy that card can still apply for benefits or conduct other business with the state, Burhop said. But they'll have to do it in person.
CAS is scheduled to start operating in October, when large numbers of Virginia residents become newly eligible to apply for Medicaid benefits under provisions of the Affordable Care Act. At that point, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) will take over responsibility for CAS, providing it as a shared service.
In the long run, any Virginia state agency will be able to use CAS, in exchange for a fee. "VITA will develop a cost recovery model of some sort that will help defray the ongoing maintenance and operation cost of that service," Nixon said. State officials are still working out how the service will be governed and how it will evolve.
Although other agencies have been asking about CAS, VITA isn't soliciting new participants yet, Nixon said. "We've been holding them off somewhat, because we don't want to distract from the initial and intended use by HHR, particularly since they're paying for it." Mechanisms to support other users on CAS will probably be in place by the first quarter of 2014, he said.
One potential mechanism is awaiting approval, though.* It's an enhanced memorandum of understanding (E-MOU) that allows different agencies within Virginia to share data as needed for the operation of CAS. HHR developed the E-MOU, based on the federal Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement, first to allow data sharing among HHR, the DMV and VITA. The state's attorney general has yet to approve the E-MOU, but once approved, any other agency can use CAS, Burhop said. "All they have to do is agree to it and sign it."
Although VITA will operate CAS, the DMV will continue to maintain the data used to verify identities. Among other things, that puts new pressure on the department to keep its data current. "We will have to have real-time updates for anyone who comes in and gets an ID card or a driver's license, especially those people specifically coming in so they can set up an account with the Commonwealth Authentication Service system," Burhop said.
The advent of CAS could also earn the DMV a reputation as an agency concerned with more than drivers' licenses and vehicle registrations. "It's obvious that our mission is shifting to include not only public safety, but also identity management," Burhop said.
As Virginia prepares to enjoy the benefits that CAS will provide, Nixon points out that these benefits are available in part because of the state's centralized IT structure, including a single network to support all the executive agencies. "If we didn't have that, and HHR was paying for that service by themselves and standing it up, it would be your typical siloed agency application that's very difficult to share with anyone else."
But with VITA operating the system on Virginia's enterprise network, CAS can work as a cloudlike service available to all state agencies. "They will be able to avail themselves of that capability without having to make any kind of capital investment," Nixon said. And HHR — the system's original user — can enjoy its benefits without bearing the full cost for maintenance and operations, he said. "That will be shared with others. So everybody wins under that arrangement."
*Editor's note: the story was corrected to indicate that the E-MOU is still awaiting approval from the attorney general. The quote was corrected to attribute it to David Burhop.
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PGE's mission is to ensure security and growth based on reliability of supply, technical excellence, modern services and partnership relationships. The overall objective of PGE Group's operations is to increase its shareholder value and the key role in ensuring Poland's energy security. In accordance with its long term growth vision PGE is to become:
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Food and Drink Events for Japan Relief
The earthquake and tsunami on March 11 hit Japan's sake industry quite hard. I have heard about 23 sake breweries that have either collapsed from the earthquake or were wiped out by tsunami waves.
Niizawa Shuzo, a brewery in Miyagi prefecture that produces Hakurakusei and Atagonomatsu sakes, completely toppled during the earthquake—only a single pillar in the brewery remained upright. The brewer there, Mr. Niizawa, is a brilliant sake maker and an amazing teacher. I've had the opportunity to "stage" with him inside of his brewery two winters in a row, and have learned invaluable lessons from him about production and tasting. This brewery was severely damaged during the last major earthquake in Japan, and to lose his entire business so soon after rebuilding is devastating.
Brewers like him are working hard to get back on their feet, and in honor of Mr. Niizawa and many others, I'd like to take a break from Sake School today and offer instead a list of benefit dinners, bake sales, and drinking events around the country that are raising money for relief in Japan.
Bake Sale For Japan
Saturday, April 2nd, 10am-2pm Professional and amateur bakers, cooks, artists, artisans, and musicians have come together around food to raise money for Peace Winds Japan, an organization dedicated to the support of people in disaster stricken areas. Various locations in California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Texas, North Carolina, and Hawaii; event website
Sake Pairing for Japan Disaster Relief
Thursday, March 31st Nombe restaurant in San Francisco will be holding a "Sake 101" discussion of sake and food pairings, with five unique sake selections complemented by Chef Vincent Shofield's cooking. Dishes will include bavette steak, chicken, and sashimi. All ticket proceeds will be donated to the Japan Disaster Relief fund. Sponsors include World Sake Imports, Joto Sake Selections, ABS Seafood, Golden Gate Meats, and Modesto Food Distributors. $45. Nombe, 2491 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA; 415-681-7150 event website
Dine Out to Support Japanese Earthquake Relief
Tuesday, March 29th On Tuesday, March 29th, 58 Portland restaurants have committed to donating a portion of sales to MercyCorps to help Japanese earthquake survivors. Participants include Masu, Savoy, Tanuki, and Central. Various locations; event website
Kanpai! Empty Your Glass for Japan
Sunday May 1st 5-8pm SakeOne brewing and importing company and Young's Columbia Wine Company have teamed up to offer an evening of sake, food, and music to raise funds for Japan relief. 100% of proceeds go to MercyCorps. Food provided by local Portland restaurants and specialty cheese stores, with music from Araki Kodo VI and Takohachi Taiko. $30 minimum donation. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison Street, Portland, OR; 503-784-2010 event website
Salami for Tsunami
Wednesday, March 30th 6pm Beer and salami tasting and auction hosted by Oskar Blues Brewery, 8 Days a Week Printing Co, Stone Cup Café, and the Old Stone Church. Drink local beer, taste salami and southern-influenced dishes, plus bid on local and imported salamis as well as works of art constructed from salami by local artists. Proceeds donated to MercyCorps. $20. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main Street, Lyons, CO; 303-823-6685 event website
Chicago's Chefs Cook for Japan Benefit at Takashi
Monday April 18th 5pm-10pm Twelve of Chicago's master chefs will collaborate in preparing a six course meal to support Japan relief. Chefs include Paul Kahan of Blackbird, Tony Mantuano of Spiaggia, Bill Kim of Urban Belly, and Paul Virant of Vie. A silent auction will also be conducted in the space next door. 100% of all proceeds from the auction and dinner will be donated to relief efforts in Japan. $250 for reservations between 6-9pm, $200 for reservations between 5-5:30pm or 9:30-10pm. Takashi, 1952 North Damen Ave, Chicago, IL; 773-772-6170 event website
Sip Sake for the Sake of Japan
Monday April 4th 6:30pm Five course dinner at Blue Ginger presented by Chef Ming Tsai, paired with TYKU sakes and spirits. Proceeds will be donated to Japan's earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. $115 for dinner and beverage pairings, includes tax and gratuity. Blue Ginger, 583 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA; 781-283-5790 event website
Kaiseki at Clio and Uni
Sunday April 18th 7pm Multi-course fundraiser featuring 10 chefs from prominent Boston restaurants, including MIng Tsai and Michael Schlow of Radius, Via Matta, and Great Bay. Dishes will be paired with Japanese sake and beer. All proceeds will be donated to help rebuild areas most affected by the earthquake and tsunami. $250 for dinner and beverage pairings. Clio restaurant, 370A Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA; 617-536-7200 event website
Tokyo Tuesdays: Gargoyles on the Square
Tuesdays, March 22nd through April 26th 5pm-12am Chef Jason Santos is offering a weekly bento box on Tuesdays, with proceeds from each bento box going to the American Red Cross disaster relief efforts in Japan.Gargoyles on the Square, 219 Elm Street, Somerville, MA; 617-776-5300
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Matsuri Dinner and Dance to Benefit Japan Earthquake Relief
Friday April 1st, 6pm Experience celebrated Chef Tadashi Ono's fusion of rustic homestyle Japanese cooking with elevated modern cuisine while taking in Sachiyo Ito and Company, performing several 20 minute sets throughout the evening. Sachiyo and her dancers are masters of Kabuki and Okinawan Court Dance. 10% of all proceeds generated from the evening's sales will be donated to the Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund. A la carte menu. Matsuri, 369 West 16th Street, New York, NY; 212-243-6400 event website
A Dram for Japan: A Whisky Benefit for Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief
Saturday April 2nd 5-8pm An evening of whisky, snacks provided by Ward III, and a silent auction to raise funds for the Red Cross and Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund. $30. Ward III, 111 Reade Street, New York, NY; 212-240-9189 event website
Dine at Co. to Support Disaster Relief in Japan
Monday April 4th, starting at 5pm Company restaurant will be donating 50% of all sales to the Red Cross to fund relief efforts in Japan. Enjoy Jim Lahey's signature pizzas and breads, all for a great cause. A la carte menu. Co., 230 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY; 212-243-1105 event website
First Friday: Benefit for Japan Relief
Friday April 1st 5pm Silent art auction with live music to benefit Japan relief. 100% of proceeds to be donated to the Japanese Red Cross. Complimentary beer tastings to be provided by Magic Hat Brewing Company, and snacks provided by Q BBQ Tequila. Free. Drink Philly, 239 Chestnut St, 2nd Fl, Unit B, Philadelphia, PA event website
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Two weeks ago I waltzed into the Chanel boutique on the Croisette wanting to look at the sale and what it had to offer. I also had a pair of shoes in mind that I wanted to purchase from the summer collection but not really expecting to find them....or so I thought!
The place was heaving with hysterical Lebanese women out for a bargain and quite vocal about it too...I felt like I was in a Supermarket. I found my friend who works there and asked her :
"I am looking for the shoes with the leather wedge heel...." I was desperately trying to describe them to her and was convinced that I had failed...dismally.
"I know exactly the pair you mean...I think I may have one pair left!" and off N. goes...returning with the desired pair in hand. I heard angels sing loud enough to drown out Lebanon to my right.
They were a perfect fit...they were horribly expensive : €970...not on sale and I HAD TO HAVE THEM!
So...I bought them throwing caution to the wind, my partner who is usually the voice of reason, agreeing that they truly were fabulous and very me. I had planned so many outfits around them...my head was spinning,then again the fact I had paid that much may well have been the reason for the nausea....
I knew exactly when I was going to unveil them ....4 days after purchase on a lunch out with the ladies.
I wore a pair of jeans Esprit shorts, a gorgeous white Marithe & Francois Girbaud tunic top that ruched and tied in various places, my vintage black Chanel handbag and my shoes...
I felt like Cannes was my runway and I...the Queen for the day.
Fast forward:the shoes were a HUGE success...all eyes were on them...and I was positively incandescent with joy...And!....incredibly comfortable too.
I get home,remove my babies,wipe away any little speck of dust before cramming in the balled up tissue paper and laying them gently to rest within their box....
" AAAHHHHHHHH!" I scream ,my partner rushing to my side.
And there was a tear....A TEAR!!! in my Chanel shoe!! The thought is inconceivable... but it was blatantly staring me in the face:
I returned them heartbroken.
Obviously there wasn't another pair left...Anywhere. But this was a design flaw so bad that trying to replace it would be downright foolish even N. at Chanel said so...as well as admitting that they did have some returns but not with this particular problem....Hmmmmm....the strap was simply too fine for such a heavy heel.
So you would think that due too this horrendous outcome I would be reimbursed?? After all I did not return them on a whim...regretting my purchase or the foolish amount I spent...so giving me my money back would somehow be the right thing to do...Non?
Chanel (in France ?) doesn't reimburse...it gives you a credit note ....
The good news is...I have A Year in which to use it in.
(a muffled and strangled:)....whoopie.....
I just hope that the Autumn/ Winter collection will have that special something that will call out to me as those shoes did...and I won't have to shell out a penny more!
(I shudder at the thought...)
Between the rusting Ice-Watch, the €200 + Cotelac cardigan I washed by hand and the colour ran...this has been an interesting summer.
As the manageress at the Ice-Watch store told me when I went to pick up my repaired watch:
"I really would like to apologize for this ...but I must say,this was very strange!"
"Oh! ...You don't want to know about the very strange things that have been happening to me...."


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- House in 'Hooville: Bradbury got crafty near the Corner
ADDRESS: 630 Preston Place
NEIGHBORHOOD: University
SIZE: 2,437 fin. sq. ft., 587 unfin.
LAND: 0.25 acres
CURB APPEAL: 8 out of 10
LISTED BY: Tim Michel, McLean Faulconer Inc., 295-1131, 980-5869 (c)
The neighborhoods around the University of Virginia have some of the oldest– and some of the most interesting– houses in town. This house, while not particularly old (1922), is notable because it was designed by Eugene Bradbury, a local architect whose other buildings around town range from the Boone-White house at 1708 Jefferson Park Avenue to the now-dilapidated director's and several staff houses at Blue Ridge Sanatorium near Monticello, to the Kearny-Campbell house on Lewis Mountain (the house overlooking UVA that has sparked so many interesting urban legends), and St. Paul's Church on the corner.
This house is one of several of Bradbury's in the Venable neighborhood– and some of them share common characteristics. This one is an Arts and Crafts design with a heavy wood interior and cedar-shake exterior. An unusual deck/porch surrounds the front of the house– unusual because it's not a real "porch" in that it's uncovered. While the cedar shake trim indicates it's probably original, and while being just a deck allows uninterrupted views of the very interesting front door with gargoyle light and large orange knocker, its open aspect strikes a curious chord on first viewing.
The heavy oak front door opens to a large, dark living room reminiscent of nothing so much as an Adirondack lodge with large pillars, sconce lights, and a large brick fireplace surrounded by built-in bookcases. While patched cut-outs in the oak floors may indicate that the room had other configurations over time, the four pillars, two of which serve to mark off a dining area, are apparently original/. (Full plans for the house convey.)
Behind the living room is a kitchen that needs to be updated– or at a minimum, painted. It's bright and serviceable, but decorated in an aging yellow (paint)/turquoise (tile) motif more suited to nearby fraternity houses than to a structure of this stature. A few nice elements like glass-front cabinets and a beautiful back door with eight-light transom keep the space from being totally humdrum, as do nice views from over-the-sink windows of the small but manicured ivy-covered yard. There's a nice half bath on this level, as well as a washer/dryer unit tucked into a hall closet between the kitchen and master suite.
The first-level master suite is an interesting touch that may recommend the place to older residents. Given the likelihood of after-dark hoopla and surround-sound courtesy of neighbors in the Rugby Road direction (although not of immediate neighbors, one of which is a– get this– dry fraternity, and one of which is a (presumably tame) sorority), we imagine potential buyers to be flush parents of a Wahoo or two who want an investment and place for the young master to call home while at UVA. Preston Place is a tranquil one-way street of stately single-family houses, but it doesn't seem to be a young-mom-with-stroller's idea of heaven.
So an older active couple who like the proximity to cultural events at UVA (a short stroll down Rugby) and to Corner restaurants (a littler farther away, but walkable), but don't want to be running up and down the stairs every time they have to look for their glasses or their teeth, would find the first-floor suite a plus.
With commodious built-in closets (including closets above closets to the ceiling), original brass hardware, and an adjoining study/office, this is one of the most appealing aspects of the house. The bathroom separating the office and bedroom is almost a work of art, with more of the beautiful dark oak woodwork (even around the plastic shower cabinet!), gauzy wallpaper and more sconces. Octagonal floor tiles add to the elegance. The office/study opens to a private porch and the backyard.
Upstairs, two more bedrooms are cozy under dormers and share a fully tiled bathroom and another half bath. Addition of central air necessitated some rearranging and new-wall building, creating an odd inset space beside the bathroom that's hard to imagine doing anything with. This is one reason why upgrades to old houses have to be carefully done. While we understand (sorta) the impulse to keep cool in the summer (although with the large hardwoods around this house and the high ceilings, it might have been possible to live without it for the sake of architectural fidelity and energy efficiency), it's unfortunate when the upgrades interfere with the flow and usefulness of the space.
There's no attic, but the 3/4 utility basement was dry on a very rainy day when we visited, unusual in Charlottesville.
Overall, the house has a lot to recommend it for an easy-going, tolerant buyer who's willing to trade nearby overflows of youthful exuberance now and then for convenience, space, and history.
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Christmas has come early with this box of treasures from My Little Box.
Inside it is jam packed!
You don't often get food inside a My Little Box but isn't that what Christmas is all about?! I'm using a lot of will power to not open this Salted Caramel Spread and just scoop it out with my finger!
Next we have some comforting, spicy tea from Kusmi. This is their limited edition Tsarevna blend.
Next we have some jewellery, this cuff bracelet which is simple yet elegant.
Then take a look at this Christmas candle. I love a candle any time but especially at Christmas, something about that glow!
It's very fresh smelling and has notes of pine as you might expect from 'Winter morning'.
Finally, we have the beauty section of the box.
First, there is a L'Occitane Almond Shower Oil. I'm excited to try this as the oil suggests it's going to be super hydrating. My skin is dry all year round but especially now when it's really cold and central heating zaps all the moisture out.
Next is this super-pretty eyeshadow duo which is My Little Box's My Little Beauty own brand.
It's called Christmas Melody and the shades are Shimmery Taupe (shimmery, not sparkly which is very important) and Deep Chestnut.
Finally, there's a little perfume, Hyperbole by Courreges, a spicy mix of tobacco, tonka, vanilla, cacao and patchouli - it's amazing.
What a stunning box! If you fancy trying it yourself, or My Little Box would make a great gift, find out more at www.mylittlebox.co.uk


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Ever since General Electric built the first industrial lab in 1900, research and development has been a highly secretive affair. Security protocols have been regarded almost as important as scientific ones. Industrial espionage has often been pursued as zealously as the political variety.
More recently, Apple arguably the world's most innovative company, has become renowned for keeping its cards close to the vest and even "don't be evil" Google has launched its own super-secret research center.
However, amidst the cloak and dagger a new open innovation trend has begun to take hold. The turning point was Henry Chesbrough's 2003 book, Open Innovation, which coined the term and laid down basic principles. Since then the idea has gained steam and it's becoming clear that open innovation initiatives are key to staying competitive. Here's how to make it work.
1. Making Breakthroughs When You're Are Stuck
In Thomas Kuhn's breakthrough 1962 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, he noted that normally science moves forward under fairly strict paradigms based on what is known at the time. Eventually though, things run their course and science becomes stuck until a paradigm shift (a term Kuhn coined) enables a new wave of advancement.
Businesses who seek to innovate run into the same problem. They tend to work in silos, hiring engineers to work on engineering problems, chemists to work on chemistry problems and so on. That works well enough most of the time, but much like Kuhn's scientists, after a certain point they get stuck on a particular problem and find it difficult to advance.
That's when open innovation can be really helpful because it allows you to synthesize knowledge across domains. Platforms like Innocentive allow you to expose thorny problems to a more diverse skill set. Often, an unusual issue for chemists is a typical problem in a different field (like, physics for example.
2. Don't Build A Brand, Build A Platform
When Microsoft launched Kinect for the Xbox in 2010, it quickly became the hottest consumer device ever, selling 8 million units in just the first two months. Even better, being the first company to launch a gesture interface helped rejuvenate the company's image in the tech world. Microsoft became cool again (well… almost).
The device attracted a lot of attention and not just from consumers. Almost as soon as it was launched, hackers started fiddling with it, altering its capabilities to do things that Microsoft never intended. Historically, Microsoft could have been expected to get their lawyers cranking out cease and desist orders.
But they didn't. In fact, they embraced the hackers, altering the USB cable to allow for more developmental flexibility and releasing a software development kit (SDK) in order to help them along. This was a surprising shift from what we had come to expect.
And Microsoft is not alone. Everywhere you look, brands have become less corporate assets to be leveraged and more platforms for innovation. What would the iPhone be without apps? Or Facebook for that matter? Or YouTube without private channels. These days, it's not so much what you can create as much as it's what you can co-create.
3. Create An Accelerator Program
Simply encouraging collaboration is not enough, however. Smart companies are also investing in accelerator programs to provide seed money for young entrepreneurs. Microsoft has one for Kinect, shoe maker Nike created one to encourage innovation in its Nike Fuel ecosystem and even the stodgy New York Times launched an incubator.
And you can see why. For an organization of any scale, providing young companies with seed money is pocket change. Microsoft offers start-ups $20,000 dollars, probably less than they spend on coffee. The NY Times simply offers office space.
Meanwhile, they get the most dedicated employees in the world: entrepreneurs chasing their own dreams. If things go well, the small initial investment is likely to be augmented by venture capitalists who are willing to fund new ideas that are likely to fail in the hopes that a few home runs will make it all worth it.
For particularly promising ideas, firms can acquire not only the company, but the talent as well. It's an incredibly efficient way to innovate.
4. Test and Learn Programs
For a long time, marketing was a fairly sleepy affair. You had big agencies who would negotiate with big TV stations and deliver big campaigns. A lot of thought would go into strategy and tactics, but very little into emerging media channels.
Technology has changed all that. These days, new platforms such as Instagram and Pinterest can emerge at lightning speed and that presents a problem. If you jump at every new opportunity, you won't have time to do much else and will lose focus , but if you wait for nascent technologies to reach scale, your competitors will run circles around you.
Many marketers are adapting by running ongoing test and learn programs where 5-10 pilot programs are run each year. Most prove to be ineffective, but the low risk (usually less than 1% of the marketing budget is dedicated to the program) and high reward makes it worthwhile.
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As head of Americans for Tax Reform since 1986, Grover Norquist has transformed a single issue - preventing tax hikes - into one of the key platforms of the Republican Party. As Steve Kroft reports, his biggest coup was getting more than 270 members of Congress, and nearly all of the 2012 Republican presidential primary candidates, to sign a pledge promising never to vote to raise taxes. But some opponents say the pledge may be hindering a solution to America's debt crisis.
The following is a script of "The Pledge" which aired on Nov. 20, 2011. Steve Kroft is correspondent, Frank Devine, producer.
The Joint Congressional Committee on Deficit Reduction has just three days to reach a deal eliminating at least $1.2 trillion from the nation's debt using some combination of cutting spending and raising taxes.
The person at the heart of those negotiations - and some would say the person responsible for the deadlock - is neither a member of Congress nor the holder of any public office. He is a lobbyist and a conservative activist named Grover Norquist who, over the years, has gotten virtually every Republican congressman and senator to sign an oath called "The Pledge." It's a promise that they will never, under any circumstances, vote to raise taxes on anyone. And so far Grover Norquist has held them to it, controlling 279 votes, including the speaker of the House, the Senate minority leader and all six Republican members of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction.
Steve Kroft: A lot of people think you're the most powerful man in Washington.
Grover Norquist: The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
Grover Norquist is trying to be modest. Since creating Americans for Tax Reform at Ronald Reagan's behest back in 1985, Norquist has been responsible, more than anyone else, for rewriting the dogma of the Republican Party.
Norquist: The Republicans won't raise your taxes. We haven't had a Republican vote for an income tax increase since 1990.
Kroft: And this was your doing?
Norquist: I helped. Yeah.
It began with the simple idea of getting Republicans all over the country to sign an oath called the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge," promising their constituents that they would never, ever vote for anything that would make their taxes go up.
[Norquist: This is Speaker Gingrich's tax pledge back in 1998...]
And once they sign the pledge, Grover Norquist never forgets. The more signatures he's collected, the more his influence has grown.
Norquist: I think to win a Republican primary-- It is difficult to imagine somebody winning a primary without taking the pledge.
The signatories not only include more than 270 members of Congress, but all of the Republican presidential candidates, with the lone exception of Jon Huntsman.
All that leverage has made Norquist's Wednesday breakfast meetings a must-attend event for Republican operatives fortunate enough to get an invitation. David Keene, the president of the National Rifle Association, was there the day we attended along with conservative columnist John Fund.
John Fund: This is the Grand Central station of the conservative movement.
We were told it was the first time cameras have ever been allowed into the weekly off-the-record strategy session.
[Steve Law (American Crossroads): Our approach is going to be to just simply drill away every day.]
Norquist: It's people from Capitol Hill, House and Senate, think tanks, Tea Party groups, business groups. Everybody who wants the government to be smaller and everybody who wants the government to leave them alone.
[Norquist (at Seattle Tea Party event): I intend to win. I intend to be part of the whole effort to crush the other team.]
Grover Norquist has been called both the "dark wizard of the right's anti-tax cult" and "the single most effective conservative activist in the country." He is a libertarian ideologue who believes that Washington is controlling our lives through the taxes it raises to fund big government. And he's said that he wants to shrink it to a size where it could be drowned in a bathtub.
Kroft: You wanna drown it in the bathtub?


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Pablo Picasso's long life (1881-1973) as a painter, draughtsman and sculptor spanned two World Wars and the Spanish Civil War. He kicked off Cubism and his name will always be synonymous with avant-garde art. The Spanish-born artist is particularly remembered for his angular depiction of five Barcelona prostitutes, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and his stunning anti-war painting of the Guernica bombing, but his contribution to the art world is vast.
As arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century, he illustrated many books and countless books have been published detailing aspects of his art from his Blue and Rose Periods to Cubism and his later work took him around the globe. There are also numerous biographies about this man who is believed to have produced more than 50,000 pieces of art including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics and tapestries.With his art fetching some of the highest prices ever seen at auction, books featuring his illustrations have also become highly collectible. However, the Picasso portfolio spreads far and wide, and it's possible to find long out-of-print books showcasing his art and fascinating retrospectives at affordable prices. One of the most revealing books about him comes from his first wife, Françoise Gilot, who wrote Life with Picasso in 1964.


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Gaza & Israel: Time For Wisdom
Paper No. 5299 Dated 18-Nov-2012
By B.Raman
What we are seeing in Israel and Gaza is not just a war. It is not just a ruthless exchange of fire.
It is not just missiles, air strikes and naval barrages.People are dying on both sides.
It is a struggle for survival. One is dying in order to assert one's right to live.
One is dying in order to assert one's right to land. It may be just a piece of graveyard.
Or just a place of worship. One is prepared to die for that.
To assert one's right to live, One is prepared to kill.
With missiles, air strikes and naval barrages. To assert one's right to land, one is prepared to destroy.
Anything and everything. With missiles, air strikes and naval barrages.
It is a struggle sans victory. One had seen such struggles before.
One is seeing one more now. More ferocious than in the past.
It is not going to be the end of ferocity. It is never-ending ferocity.
To assert one's right to live. To assert one's right to land.
If more ferocity could establish the right to live and the right to land,
It should have been there by now. Has the time to think not arrived?
Can both live together----the Israelis and the Palestinians?
Can both live together---the Muslims and the Jewish
The time for escalating ferocity is over. It is time for dawning wisdom.
One sees no sign of it, though. The need for wisdom---that is what one has to address.
Not the need for more missiles, more air strikes, more naval barrages.
Let us search for wisdom and admire it. The time for admiring Israelis' prowess and the
Palestinians' courage and resistance is over. It is time to look for wisdom in both.
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Associate of the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter @SORBONNE75)


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Despite pre-orders for Bioshock Infinite nipping at its heels, Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC remained at the chart's peak for another week. With Arma II getting a boost up to third, with the launch of its DayZ mod directly through Steam taking place during the middle of last week.
Pre-orders for the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot has it sitting in fifth, while advanced purchases for the surprise PC version of Double Fine's Brütal Legend have the title right behind in sixth.
Aliens: Colonial Marines, which finished in the runner-up spot last week, has fallen completely off the chart.
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Pandora forecasts loss, shares plungeDecember 4, 2012: 4:58 PM ET
Shares of Pandora plunged late Tuesday after the Internet radio service issued a disappointing outlook for sales and earnings.
Pandora's stock (P) fell as much as 20% in after hours trading.
The Oakland, Calif.-based company said it earned 5 cents per share, excluding charges, in its most recent quarter. That beat analysts' expectations. Sales rose 60% to $120 million, which was better than expected.
But the guidance Pandora offered for losses in the current quarter and fiscal year caught many Wall Street analysts by surprise.
Pandora said it expects a net loss of between 6 and 9 cents per share in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with an expected 1 cent per share profit.
For the full-year, Pandora expects to loose between 9 and 12 cents per share, while revenue is expected to range between $422 million and $425 million. Analysts were looking for a full-year loss of 6 cents per share on sales of $429 million.
Pandora stock has been volatile this year. After hitting a high above $14 in March, the stock has struggled break above $12 a share. It sank to a low of $7.18 in early November but has since regained ground, closing at $9.45 a share on Tuesday, before the results were released. Investors have been nervous about the possibility that Apple (AAPL) could enter the online radio market. Pandora also faces tough competition from rival Spotify as well as concerns about royalty payments to musicians.


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We here at Pol Position have a lot to be thankful for this year. It was a wild 11 months, what with the elections all over the city and so many or our elected officials splitting their time between the legislative chambers and judges' chambers. In the spirit of the holiday season, we thought we would take a quick look back at all we have to be thankful for:
• Elections, Special or Otherwise – We don't know about you dear reader, but we're all voted out! Between special elections and the primaries and the general election, we feel like we spent just about as much time in the voting booth as we did in our favorite booth at our favorite bar just blocks from City Hall. But truly, we wouldn't have had it any other way. (Well, actually, we think you would see a much higher voter turnout if you could vote in the booth of your neighborhood bar. As soon as we finish this column, we'll get started on a persuasive letter to the Board of Elections to look into that. If they can put closed-circuit televisions in local watering holes to promote off-track betting, surely they can do the same with voting.)
• Albany Ineptitude – Oh you state legislators, is there any better source of copy? When your not busy wrangling over the laws you'll never get passed, you're generally busy breaking them. When our forefathers had the foresight to create three separate branches of government, we don't think they could have envisioned the three-ring circus that is Albany. If they had, they might have ditched the Constitution all together and pleaded with the king of England to take them back. Oh well, at least you don't live in California, right?
• Turkey Giveaways – There isn't much to be thankful for about here, just that we love politicians getting in the act of giving away turkeys during November. It makes us feel like we are living in a medieval feudal society, they our lords and we their loyal peasant population. Seriously, it's a nice gesture to help out the needy, and it gets the gears in our brains a-turning, which we've been told is never a good thing. Why not keep track of how many turkeys a politician hands out during the season, and then crown a Turkey King? Maybe next year.
• Drank – That's right, Drank, the hot new beverage straight out of Houston. What, you haven't heard of Drank, yet? We spend a lot of time waxing poetic about our love of Night Train Express Wine Coolers when we need to take a little break from the political world and collect our thoughts, but when we really need to "slow our roll" – like on election night – nothing works quite like Drank, the "extreme relaxation beverage." It's just like Red Bull, except exactly the opposite, and it's akin to "purple drank," the concoction of codeine syrup and soft drink that was popularized in the Houston hip-hop scene, except perfectly legal. Although, we suggest you heed the warning on the can that warns not to drink more than two cans in 24 hours. We had three on election night, and woke up two days later only to find that three Republicans from Queens were elected to the City Council! We're still trying to piece that one together.
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving from the Pol Position desk.


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Agency and Accountability
Get answers to questions about the standards of the Church. Choose a topic above to see more.
What is agency?
Agency is "the ability to choose and to act for yourself" (True to the Faith, 12). Elder Robert D. Hales said: "We teach that agency is the ability and privilege God gives us to choose and 'to act for [ourselves] and not to be acted upon' (2 Nephi 2:26). Agency is to act with accountability and responsibility for our actions" ("Agency: Essential to the Plan of Life," October 2010 general conference).Close
Sometimes I hear people say, "It's not my fault" or "I didn't have a choice." How does that relate to the principle of agency?
"You are responsible for the choices you make. God is mindful of you and will help you make good choices, even if your family and friends use their agency in ways that are not right. Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God's will, even if you have to stand alone. As you do this, you set an example for others to follow" (For the Strength of Youth, 2).Close
How can I convince my friends that our standards are really about freedom and are not a burden?
"The commandments are not a burden or a restriction. Every commandment of the Lord is given for our development, progress, and growth. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught: 'God has designed our happiness. . . . He never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed' (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith [1976], 256)" (Robert D. Hales, "If Thou Wilt Enter into Life, Keep the Commandments," April 1996 general conference).Close
What are the consequences of how I use my agency?
"Your use of [agency] determines your happiness or misery in this life and in the life to come. You are free to choose and act, but you are not free to choose the consequences of your actions. The consequences may not be immediate, but they will always follow. Choices of good and righteousness lead to happiness, peace, and eternal life, while choices of sin and evil eventually lead to heartache and misery" (True to the Faith, 12).Close
Why does Heavenly Father allow Satan to tempt us?
"Satan's increasing influence in the world is allowed to provide an atmosphere in which to prove ourselves. While he causes havoc today, Satan's final destiny was fixed by Jesus Christ through His Atonement and the Resurrection. The devil will not triumph. Even now he must operate within the bounds set by the Lord" (Richard G. Scott, "The Transforming Power of Faith and Character," October 2010 general conference).Close
Why is agency important?
"Agency is essential in the plan of salvation. Without it, you would not be able to learn or progress or follow the Savior. With it, you are 'free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil' (2 Nephi 2:27)" (True to the Faith, 12).Close
What did agency have to do with the war in heaven?
"You had the power to choose even before you were born. In the premortal Council in Heaven, Heavenly Father presented His plan, which included the principle of agency. Lucifer rebelled and 'sought to destroy the agency of man' (Moses 4:3). As a result, Lucifer and all those who followed him were denied the privilege of receiving a mortal body. Your presence on the earth confirms that you exercised your agency to follow Heavenly Father's plan" (True to the Faith, 12).Close
Besides choosing between right and wrong, how else does agency apply to my life?
"You are . . . responsible for developing the talents and abilities Heavenly Father has given you. You are accountable to Him for what you do with your talents and how you spend your time. Choose to do many good things of your own free will" (For the Strength of Youth, 3).Close


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Well, if you're reading this, then you probably want to know who I am. (Or maybe not, but that's okay, just click over to the links section.) The best way to find out is to email me at
I grew up in Chicago, went to a public highschool, and managed to get myself into the Engineering College at the University of Illinois. I majored in Computer Science there because I've been into computers since my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX80.
To send me a secured document, please use my public key.
Or perhaps you're interested in my professional life.
I have other, stranger, histories, but you'll have to ask me. :)
If you're interested in what I'm doing on a day-to-day basis, check out my codeblog where I blab endlessly to myself about the stuff I'm working with.
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Can it be true? Is our beloved Cookie Monster trading in baked goods for corn? That's what they tell us. Sesame Street is teaming up with Del Monte (our fruit 'n veggie producing pals) to create a line of kid-friendly vegetables. CM, as we mentioned, will be representing corn, Elmo will hawk green beans, and the ever-popular (and blue) Grover will be pushing peas. Del Monte's Managing Director, Apu Mody, tells it like it is. "If anyone can encourage children to eat fruits and vegetables...it's Elmo, along with his friends Cookie Monster and Grover." We hope Cookie Monster will still eat cookies every now and then, though...everything in moderation.
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The Miller Center–Although Jim Crow laws have long been abolished, Michelle Alexander argues that a surprising percentage of the African-American community remains trapped in a subordinate status–much like their grandparents before them. This is the subject of Alexander's provocative new book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. A long-time civil rights advocate and litigator, Alexander won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University. She also served as a law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. A book signing will follow her Forum.


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In the grand hierarchy of travel to and from work, there is commuting — that uneventful, possibly even pleasant ride to the office in a car, train or bus. There is telecommuting, via phone and Internet. And there is COMMUTING, of the all-caps, teeth-clenching, expletive-laced variety that makes people want to scream and throw things (but they can't, because they're in a monster traffic jam).
But for a growing number of Americans, there's also super-commuting, which has been defined as a commute that is 90 minutes or more (it is also sometimes defined as a commute that is 180 or more miles from home). Often, the super-commuter might spend most of the work week in the city their office is based, returning home on weekends. While many who brave such a setup are young and single, others are married or have families.
Read: Are you a super-commuter? 5 ways to stay sane
A 2012 study by New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management found that Manhattan alone now has 59,000 "super commuters" — people who work in the city but do not live in the surrounding metropolitan area, and instead might dwell in such places as Philly, D.C., Boston — or other areas entirely, reachable by plane rather than a long drive or train ride home. It's a trend that is on the rise in 8 out of 10 of the major metropolitan areas in the U.S., according to studies conducted by NYU.
In 2012, there were an estimated 3.42 million full-time workers who were super-commuters, according to Megan Bearce, a marriage and family therapist and author of the book "Super Commuter Couples: Staying Together When A Job Keeps You Apart."
Bearce knows super-commuting firsthand; her husband, Ian, works in Manhattan, commuting back to Minneapolis on weekends to spend time with her and their two kids. Her husband's advertising company is flexible and supportive of the arrangement; he leaves at 4 P.M. most Fridays to catch a flight to Minneapolis, and he works one Friday a month from home.
The family had moved from Los Angeles to Minnesota in 2009. Shortly after moving, Ian got a call from a company in New York about a job. He told them he had just moved and wasn't interested. The company called back a few months later. At that point, the situation had changed: he realized the company in Minnesota wasn't doing as well as he thought; he wasn't even sure how long it would be in business.
"And this [job in NYC] was a dream job," says Bearce. "We said we'd try it for a year. And it has been four years this fall."
"When I tell people about our arrangement," she adds, "They either say, "I can't believe you guys are doing that!" or they say, "Oh my god, I know someone who's doing that, too!"
Both Stephanie Ross and her husband are super-commuters: She lives in Minnesota, he lives in Colorado, but they both spend portions of time on the other's home turf. Ross, an executive coach, can do her job pretty much anywhere, whereas most of her husband's clients in his Internet marketing job are in Colorado. When the pair started dating nine years ago, the arrangement developed out of necessity: Ross's children were still in school, and her support network was in Minnesota. Now, with the kids in college, it's more of a choice.
"It's the best of both worlds," says Ross. "He didn't want to leave Colorado and come back to Minnesota because his job is there and he's an avid outdoorsman. We continue to super-commute because the truth is, we like it. It works. And the great thing about it is, it keeps the relationship really fresh."
Elizabeth Hahn has been a super-commuter for more than six years. As the education program specialist for the Ohio Department of Education, she works in Columbus — but her husband (and house) are two hours away in the town of St. Clairesville, Ohio. She rents a one-bedroom apartment in Columbus and commutes back home on weekends.
"It's added a bit of complication to an already complicated life," she says, "But I thought it would help my retirement to be in this position. And I love the responsibility of it."
So why has super-commuting become a trend?
"Even though house prices have recovered partially, access to the housing market remains difficult. It's still not easy to get a mortgage," says Mitchell Moss, Director of the Rudin Transportation Center at New York University. "Keeping your home and commuting to work is preferable, even if it means commuting a long distance."
The job market itself — not just the availability of jobs, but the stability of the jobs themselves — plays a big role as well.
"The stress of relocating two people for jobs, as opposed to just one, is much greater," says Moss. "The nature of employment today is much more fragile. Lifetime positions are limited to federal judges and college professors. And that lack of security has made people more willing to travel for the job than move TO the job."
And lastly, technology has made it a much more viable option.
"Whether it's a plane, train or automobile, there's no longer any downtime," says Moss. "Traveling is no longer a time when you can't do work. There's far more information technology in a car today than there is in some houses."
Mackenzie Dawsonis a contributing editor at the New York Post. She covers motherhood, workplace issues, and pop culture, and has a column, Motherland, at nypost.com.