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Yesterday, I introduced you to Jessica Davis, the designer behind Nest Studio. We showed you her new modern hardware line, which is a must-see! If you missed yesterday's post, you can read Part I of this interview: Nest Studio: Where Design & Products Merge. Today, we get to chat a little more with Jessica and see some of her amazing interior design projects.
The images above are from a residential project that Jessica did in Marina del Rey, California. I'm loving the modern dining chairs that add a punch of color to the space. Here's what she had to say about it.
Jessica: This is a home I did for a client in Marina del Rey who was not afraid to let me use bold colors. I had so much fun adding personal touches, like the photography over the sofa. It was rewarding to create something that truly reflected the owners.
As I mentioned in Part I of this interview, Jessica is also a new mom. Here's what she had to say about designing her son's nursery. I love the map Jessica used for an artistic backdrop to her modern crib.
Jessica: My latest personal project was my son Bryan's room. I guess it helped to have a deadline (delivery date!) to get it all done by. Bryan's room is fun and playful. I tried to design a space that would grow with him, using a lot of fun vintage, Etsy, and IKEA finds to keep it all in budget.
In addition to her residential and personal design projects, Jessica is a designer at Wilson Associates, a top international hospitality design firm. Here are some of her very cool projects that she has designed with her Wilson team.
Jessica: These images (above) are the Lobby and Bar areas from the MGM Grand at Foxwoods that I worked on for three years while I was in the (Wilson) New York office. It was challenging to take a concept that was really high design and then pare it down to fit in the budget. But we did it and the results turned out nicely.
Jessica: These two images (above) are the Lobby and Typical Guestroom of the Crowne Plaza Times Square that I worked on prior to leaving the New York office (Jessica now works at Wilson, Los Angeles). It was a really challenging renovation project with a tight budget. The hotel lobby was so dated and we managed to really freshen it up.
While discussing these projects, Jessica and I also talked about the difficult task of selecting lighting for a project and how she's goes about it.
Cori: For each project, at what stage do you select lighting?Jessica: Lighting is integral and I always start selecting it as soon as I begin the design process, along with the other furniture items and finishes. Just like any other piece of furniture, lighting is both functional and decorative. It's an important element in developing how the space is perceived.
Robert Abbey Candelaria Chandelier
Jessica: This Robert Abbey chandelier is a great modern retro alternative to a traditional chandelier, but still has a lot of sparkle. I need to find a place to use this!
Holtkoetter Bernie Turbo Series Bronze Swing-Arm Wall Lamp
Jessica: I'm kind of obsessed with swing arm sconces right now. They free up space on a nightstand and work great for reading in bed.
As if she didn't have enough to do as a designer and a mom, Jessica is also a blogger. Here's what she has to say about her popular site.
Cori: Can you tell us a little about your blog, The Eagle's Nest?Jessica: My blog is a journal of sorts, documenting my ideas on everything design related - interiors, fashion, landscape, and of course the trials and tribulations of renovating our 70 year old house.
Cori: What do you see in the future for Nest Studio?Jessica: In addition to developing my e-commerce site, I'm working on more Nest Studio hardware pieces with a mix of fun materials and hoping to do a line of metal tables and other small furniture pieces. I'm also looking to develop a plumbing line to complement my hardware. So be on the lookout for those in the coming months.
Thanks Jessica! We'll be on the lookout for exciting products from Nest Studio and more cool design projects from you...
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Exactly what makes a city "livable" and what can you do to help your own?
Annual surveys, such as those conducted by The Economist, Mercer and Monocle, look at a range of criteria from infrastructure to environment, culture to climate, to determine the most liveable cities in the world. Each year, the perennial front-runners - cities like Melbourne, Helsinki, Honolulu, and Vancouver (pictured above) eagerly await the results, while other vibrant yet perennially congested places such as Los Angeles and Houston seek ways to slice, dice and spin their lower livabilty metrics.
Obviously, building a new subway system or converting 400 acres of prime downtown real estate into public parkland is out of the question for most of us, but there is one low-cost, high-impact area in which anyone can enhance their surroundings: lighting.
A 2009 design guide by the City of Los Angeles' Urban Design Studio recommends that new and old urban developments "develop a system or family of lighting with layers that contribute to the night-time experience, including facade uplighting, sign and display window illumination, landscape, and streetscape lighting...of a character and scale that relates to the pedestrian and highlights special landscape features."
Any photographer will tell you that a beautiful picture begins with good light and clearly the same is true for cities. Done well, modern outdoor lighting can enhance a business or residence by adding depth and vitality to your surroundings.
Matte Silver Outdoor LED Up and Down Wall Light
Classically inspired lighting fixtures can restore a sense of provenance to historic properties, exposing long-forgotten architectural details, and even evoking the contemporary interiors within.
Mission Hills Textured Black Outdoor Wall Light
Enhancing sidewalk appeal is one thing. However, by increasing pedestrian visibility and reducing crime, well-executed outdoor lighting is critical for the positive effect it has on the most important livability index of them all: safety.
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(Products (left to right): Vivid Green Stripes Giclee Pendant Chandelier, George Kovacs Apple Green Glass Pendant Light, Lite Source Kito Green Table Lamp, Zuo Tickle Green Adjustable Height Bar or Counter Stool, Zuo Set of 4 Trafico Side Green Chair, Zuo Lider Plus Green Office Chair, Set of Two Green S Chairs, Set of 6 Zuo Marzipan Green Chairs)
Even though St. Patrick's Day is not a bank holiday in the United States (sure wish it was), I still like to get in the spirit and sport green in my home. Green apple is such a fun color for St. Patrick's Day, Spring, or just about any time of the year. Its bright color commands attention in any space and mixes well with neutrals such as gray. Want to bring a little Miami flair into your home, the green apple decor can add just the right amount of style.
Green apple hues are great as a accent or if you want to go bold try using the color in a big way! The bright green chairs would look fantastic around a white outdoor table to spice up your outdoor design. I love the pendant lights over a kitchen island. The green desk chair is also a really fun accent for a home office or bring it to work and be unique. What is your favorite green apple furnishing or light fixture?
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Summer is here! We are firm believers that your home is just as important as your closet when it comes to appropriate styling for the seasons. It's easy to add Summer style to your home, indoors and out, with just a few small changes.
Add a fun pop of color to your outdoor furniture. Outdoor seating can be really fun with all the different selections nowadays.
Zuo Repulse Steel Outdoor Lime Green Bay Chair
There's no brighter way to add a little Summer style to your décor than with the color yellow! The kitchen is a perfect place to start with this fun hue.
Access Sydney Amber Yellow Art Glass Cylinder Mini Pendant
One of the smallest changes you can make is with accessories. Decorative pillows are a perfect way to add color and patterns to any space. For the summer, try some pillows with reds and pinks, the color of sunset!
Aviva Stanoff Boho Peacock Red Down Throw Pillow, Kite White and Red Ikat Fabric Decorative Throw Pillow, Infinity Fire Red Modern Square Down Throw Pillow
Nothing says Summer like the clean, crisp color white. It's fresh and welcoming. The best part is, it's year-round too. Whether you go big and paint the walls white or just switch out some chairs, you'll be able to enjoy it all the way through next Summer.
Zuo Modern White 33-Inch-H Set of 2 S-Chairs
Just like your wardrobe, small changes can mean big rewards when it comes to home décor. Have fun this Summer and give your home a mini-makeover!
When in the doldrums of summer Ms. Cool & Pulled Together doesn't want to worry about mussy fabrics and fussy accessories. Nonononono. She wants cool, calm, and collected pieces that don't require a lot of muss and fuss but that give the illusion of being pristine.
When metal and glass meet they can feel cool in summer and warm in winter, especially when surrounding textiles are swapped out. Our Ms. loves this Floating Bubble Possini Euro Round Ceiling Fixture for just that reason, and it makes a bold statement without feeling weighed down.
The slim profile of this Modern Dark Bronze Tenda Pharmacy Sonneman Floor Lamp is both classic and contemporary with an adjustable height feature. A pretty piece for rainy summer afternoon or chilly winter nights.
Ms. Cool & Pulled Together prefers the clean lines of modern pieces, like this Candelaria Robert Abbey Modern Chandelier. It gives her dining table the perfect halo of light for dinner parties!
When it comes to making her space feel airier it's time to pull out some visual tricks. Number one on the list is a great mirror, like the Sunrays Antique Silver Metal Round Wall Mirror with its openwork sunray spokes and silver antique finish.
Ms. Cool & Pulled together loves the softness of the Satin Brass with Transparent Shade Sconce. The metal's finish paired with the shade make a light that's just right for the vanity.
The industrial feel of the Edison Bronze with Glass 3-Light Console Lamp takes the feminine edge off of any space, and definitely adds an element of interest.
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PEORIA, Ill. -- An Illinois House plan to dig the state out of its $97 billion pension problem is now in the hands of the Senate.
State Treasurer Dan Rutherford says he's cautiously optimistic it will get support.
While the progress is positive, Rutherford would rather see a comprehensive pension reform package, instead of passing individuals bills.
The House's plan would limit annual cost-of-living increases for state retirees, except judges.
Rutherford says that's a basic concept he would like to see, as well as health care payments based on need.
"Meaning if you have a lower pension maybe you do have health care paid for. But if you're a six figure university professor retiree, maybe you shouldn't get 100% of your health care paid for," Rutherford said.
The House plan could save $100 million. Lawmakers have until the end of May to find a pension solution.

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Forrest Martin Named Assistant Baseball Coach
FORT MYERS, Fla. – FGCU Baseball Head Coach Dave Tollett has named Forrest Martin as the Assistant Baseball Coach. Martin arrives at FGCU after spending the past two seasons as the Volunteer Assistant Coach at Oklahoma State University.
Martin's primary responsibilities will include developing the Eagle pitchers as well as assisting head coach Dave Tollett with all aspects of the program.
"We are really excited to have Forrest join our staff," said head coach Dave Tollett. "He knows the game very well and brings a wealth of experience."
Originally from Buffalo Valley, Okla., Martin played collegiately at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he earned All-American, All-Region and conference pitcher of the year honors.
Following his collegiate career, Martin signed a free agent contract with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2003 and played in the Brewers' organization for three years.
Martin graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology from Southwestern and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Applied Exercise Science.
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The Kickstarter-funded Android computer has a wealth of parental control features.
Going away for college will be some of the best years of your life, but you're still going to need to talk to your parents.
Thai phone provider DTAC shows that sometimes you can't use your phone to stop a kid crying. Sometimes, you just have to be human.
The agency is asking the court to force Amazon to refund parents for virtual goods their kids bought before passwords were required.
The Kizon is worn by children but is really meant for parents -- letting them know where their kids are at all times with GPS, Wi-Fi, and a direct call button.
The latest ad in Apple's "You're More Powerful Than You Think" campaign shows all the apps parents can use to get through the day.
While Facebook itself is blocked by the Chinese government, Facebook-owned Instagram is growing fast in that country.
Let your kids access fun features and apps on your S5 while keeping you content locked away.
Those who specialize in child development say they're noticing more incidents of parents ignoring their kids in favor of their phones. For some kids, phones become hate objects.
Since the average kid is in front of a screen more than 40 hours a week, researchers say even small limits on screen time can reap multiple health benefits.


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CATEGORIES MoviesIn 1992, while thousands of musicians threw on their flannel, strapped on a motorcycle wallet and converged on Seattle in hopes of becoming the next Nirvana, I was one of the few people moving away from the hottest city in the country.
I'd been writing for the local music monthly The Rocket since 1988 and by 1991, I was (sad to say) more than a little burned out on the scene. So when Cameron Crowe began filming "Singles," his follow-up to "Say Anything," I wasn't one of those flocking to become an extra or trying to get a glimpse of oft-sighted star Matt Dillon, who was playing the lead singer of faux grunge band Citizen Dick.
When the movie finally opened in September 1992, I caught a screening in San Francisco. I expected to see some faces I knew, but I was not expecting to see my own name on the big screen, even if it was for just a split second. My "cameo" is in the scene where Citizen Dick reads their review (you can see my byline to the left). They'd mocked up a real page of The Rocket, much to my surprise.
But those 10 seconds of fame aren't the reason I love "Singles." Crowe might regard it as his least successful film and grunge fans may have dissed it now (and certainly when it came out) for being more about yuppie romance than the Seattle music scene, but it still stands as a sweet snapshot of the '90s (and who doesn't love those rock star cameos and that killer soundtrack?).
The movie is now, unbelievably, 20 years old and just as beloved by people who've never set foot in Seattle or for whom '92 was spent in diapers. Campbell Scott, who played nice guy Steve, recently said he gets approached by people of all ages, "I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made...and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie.' And I always say, 'How old are you?' [Laughs] And they say, 'Twenty-one.'"
Although Crowe had previously shot his first film, "Say Anything," in Seattle, not a lot of feature films were being made there, so "Singles" was a big deal and a lot of locals remember those days fondly.
Seattle-based journalist Jeff Shannon, who visited the set, recalls, "The whole city was abuzz about the production; they filmed all over town. Campbell Scott and Kyra Sedgwick were very nice and approachable," but adds, "The general consensus during this time was that Matt Dillon was kind of a dick."
Shannon, who was then a writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, remembers, "Crowe was totally preoccupied, but he came over and talked with me between set-ups. During the filming, there was a Neil Young concert at the Coliseum [now Key Arena], and Dillon was there with [Bridget] Fonda and some others. Dillon was yelling, 'Play 'Cortez the Killer'!'"
Patty Schemel, drummer for Hole (and the subject of the documentary "Hit So Hard"), recalls a run-in near the OK Hotel, a live music venue that doubled in the movie as the "Java Stop" coffee house where Fonda's character worked. "I was in my band Sybil at the time," Schemel recalls to Moviefone, "We were all down at the OK Hotel where we were playing a show, but it was all ages, so there was no alcohol. We'd go around the corner to... I think it was the Pioneer Saloon to drink. Our singer, Tammy, she said [whispering], 'Matt Dillon's in here.' I remember her going up to him and saying, 'Matt, that film 'Over the Edge' was so amazing.' And he was just like, [muttering] 'Thanks.'
For those who were involved in the film, their memories of "Singles" are even fonder. Mina Sanayei Wirth, whose brother was the lead singer of pre-grunge Seattle band The U-Men, was an extra in two scenes, including one at the Off Ramp, where Soundgarden performed "Birth Ritual" over and over. "I can't remember much about that day, except that the song never got old," she says.
Soundgarden's bassist Ben Shepherd had a less rosy recollection of that day's shoot. As he told author Mark Yarm in "Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge," "My fingers were so sore from doing so many takes. You have to get all the different camera angles and performances of the actors and stuff. We're in the background, playing 'Birth Ritual,' and that song, if you play it enough-that sliding stuff, my fingers were so sore by the end. Big, nasty blisters from that. And they edited me out. All you can see is part of my elbow."
Sanayei Wirth was also an extra in the scene where Sedgwick goes dancing with a friend and realizes her boyfriend, who's supposed to be in Spain, is there with another woman. The location was the Re-Bar, which was more likely to play Dee-Lite than anything grunge. "The whole day was spent with us dancing to the song 'Ring My Bell' by Anita Ward," Sanayei Wirth, who took her sister along to the set, says. "Krya said the line, 'We will always go out dancing,' a hundred times that day. She and her friend then walked to the bar and past the cad and a blonde floozy. Kyra then fled the bar in tears, with her friend in tow. The big moment in the movie for my sister and me was when Kyra and her friend walked between us on the way out of the club. I remember Kyra being very aloof, the woman who played her friend being very nice, and the guy who played the cad flirting with my sister. It was surprising to see that scene in the movie, because the disco was replaced by a heavy rock song. Still, whenever I hear 'Ring My Bell,' I think of 'Singles.'"
Twenty years later, she's not the only one reminiscing about "Singles" -- especially now that Soundgarden is back together and Seattle is hip again.
Keep an eye out tomorrow for our 25 Things You Didn't Know About "Singles" Post


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Captain Obvious Takes Home Bronze Lion
DALLAS, June 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Hotels.com®, a leading accommodation booking website, was recognized with a Bronze Lion at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for its Obvious Choice™ advertising campaign. Hotels.com was honored in the Film category for the overall campaign including the :60 'Captain Obvious™' launch film, and the 'Obvious Eye Contact' and 'Obvious Lies' TV spots. The global annual awards show and festival celebrates outstanding creativity in the marketing communications industry, and entries are judged by experts in each field from around the world. Of the nearly 3,000 entrants, less than five percent were awarded a Lion in the Film category.
"We are honored that Hotels.com and the Obvious Choice campaign has been recognized on the global stage of Cannes," said Neha Parikh, VP and general manager, Hotels.com North America. "The Obvious Choice campaign is about showing consumers why Hotels.com is the obvious choice for booking hotels (obviously!). Being able to bring this to life through our biggest fan, Captain Obvious, has been a tremendously fun and rewarding undertaking and we are thrilled that the campaign has been well received by our customers and thought leaders within the industry."
Created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky out of Boulder, Co., The Obvious Choice marketing campaign made its debut on February 23rd in the US and Canada. The integrated campaign, which also includes Captain Obvious social media activations, email marketing, radio spots, cinema, online banners and video, represents the biggest creative launch in the 23-year history of Hotels.com.
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The first TV spot for the campaign introduced Captain Obvious to the world. It features the character walking through a hotel and offering obvious observations before proclaiming that Hotels.com is the best dot com to book hotels and that Hotels.com is on the internet.
Obvious Eye Contact
The spot again features Captain Obvious, demonstrating the ease of booking rooms through the Hotels.com award-winning mobile app. In the spot, he makes eye contact with a woman in a hotel bar and then takes out his phone to book a room before realizing she is meeting someone else.
Obvious Lies
Illustrating the benefits of verified guest reviews, the ad features a family who arrives in a hotel room that is "more murdery than the reviews said," when Captain Obvious informs them that Hotels.com genuine guest reviews are written by travelers who have stayed at the property, and that "Hotels.com would have mentioned the finger."
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity awards over 37,400 entries from all over the world, which are showcased and judged at the Festival. Winning companies receive the highly coveted Lion trophy, a global benchmark of creative excellence in an array of categories including Film, Print, Outdoor, Interactive, Radio, Design, Product Design, Promo & Activation, Film Craft, Mobile, Branded Entertainment and Integrated advertising.
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The issue: Requiring police training on how to handle encounters with people suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Our view: With increases in the number of people with the disease, adding training makes sense.
In the United States, an estimated 5.4 million people are living with Alzheimer's disease. That's 1 in 63 people.
And unless something is done to change the trajectory of the disease, as many as 16 million Americans will have Alzheimer's by 2050, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
Here in Indiana, we're on the same path as the nation.
In 2000, 100,000 Hoosiers over the age of 65 suffered from the disease. By 2010, there was a 20 percent jump in the number of patients. If we stay the course, that number is expected to jump to 130,000 by 2025.
As the disease becomes more prevalent, Rep. Bill Friend, R-Macy, accurately points out, instances of officers encountering people with Alzheimer's will likely go up.
With that in mind, Friend introduced a bill earlier this month that would require all law enforcement officers in the state to receive training regarding people with Alzheimer's disease.
All this stems from an incident at a Peru nursing home in which a police officer used a stun gun on a 64-year-old nursing home resident with advanced-stage Alzheimer's five times.
While it's unfortunately too late for that patient, this bill should do well to help others like him.
All too often, those suffering from Alzheimer's find themselves in precarious situations and on the wrong side of the law through no fault of their own. The disease steals away their independence and ability to interact with others. Oftentimes, it leaves the patient without the ability to follow simple commands.
That's a dangerous mix when an officer is unfamiliar with how to handle a situation involving someone affected by the disease.
"With more training, hopefully we'll avoid a situation like this from ever happening again," Friend said.
We couldn't agree more.
Officers already undergo training on autism, mental illness, addictive disorders, mental retardation and developmental disabilities. Tacking Alzheimer's disease or related senile dementia onto that list just makes sense.
The bill has been referred to the Senate for a vote, with Republican Randy Head and Democrat Jim Arnold sponsoring it.
We commend the House for seeing the need for this bill and encourage the Senate to follow the House's lead.


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Sandpiper Cove - 2BR FREE Golf, Beach Chairs, Internet, MOR in Destin
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Sandpiper Cove
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Sandpiper Cove (SPC)
775 Gulfshore Drive (but make sure to check out our other condos we
own in Destin too)
We strive to add as much value to your vacation dollar as possible. In addition to very competitive rates, we offer complimentary Wi-Fi, national long distance calls, local property management and full beach service - two beach chairs and umbrella during your stay (set-up at the beach for you).
Note - Complex Rules: Must be over 25 to rent and must be staying in condo. This lovely 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom unit will comfortably sleep 8
with the foldout bed and is Canal Front. At this condo, you can
relax at one of the five pools or walk to the 1100 feet' of private
beach. After a long day's work on SPC's 9 hole golf course, you can relax in the jacuzzi
after eating dinner at the in-complex Louisiana Landgiappe. There
is also a boat ramp to get your craft into the bay and to the ocean!
The property features 24 hour guard service, 5 swimming pool and 3
outdoor hot tubs, 9 hole - par 3 golf course, 6 tennis courts, full
beach service and boat docks.
Our condo overlooks the Bay Canal with easy access to the boat dock. The condo is around a 100 yard walk through the complex to the private beach. There is a dead end road that bisects Sandpiper Cove that you cross to get to the beach --- there is a cross walk for safety.
The condo is beautifully decorated and well equipped. The family
room is equipped with a 20" television with DVD and AM/FM/CD players. The bedroom has a TV/FM - great for the kids to watch movies
The kitchen is well equipped to make your own meals. For those
nightcaps, you can go onto the deck and relax and take in the view.
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Amenities: Phone, Air Conditioning, Cable TV, Stereo, CD
Player, Full Kitchen, Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Ice
Maker, Cooking Utensils provided, Linens provided, Hot Tub (shared),
Pool (shared), Charcoal Grill (BBQ), No Smoking, Hi Speed Internet in
activities and attractions in Destin Gulf Coast North
Activities (on site or nearby): Golf, Tennis, Fitness Center,
Shuffleboard, Horseshoes, Miniature golf, Amusement Parks, Fishing,
Wildlife Viewing, Shopping, Restaurants, Cinemas, Sightseeing,
Swimming, Snorkeling/Diving, Boating, Sailing, Waterskiing, Surfing,
Windsurfing, Parasailing, Jet Skiing, Shelling
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Summer - $1200 or lower
Spring (non-break) - $975 or lower
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FOOTBALL: Didcot pay for six crazy minutes
6:00am Monday 24th February 2014 in Non League
Didcot Town conceded three goals in a crazy six-minute spell as they crashed to a disappointing 3-0 defeat at home to Taunton on Saturday.
With the game goalless after nearly an hour's play, the Railwaymen's defence disintegrated and allowed the visitors to take all three points from this Calor League Division 1 South & West clash.
There was not much to choose between the sides in the first half, although Taunton had the slight edge.
Ross MacNab headed over the bar and Steve Kingdon saw another effort scrambled off the line as Taunton piled on the pressure.
Didcot came closest to scoring when skipper Luke Carnell's header was saved by Joe Perry in Taunton's goal.
On the stroke of half-time, only a brave stop by home keeperJames Foster prevented Chris Young from grabbing the opener as he bore down on goal.
With the wind at their backs after the break, Taunton were soon in the ascendancy.
And it was no surprise when Kingdon rammed home at the far post in the 58th minute to put thevisitors ahead.
Almost straight from the kick-off, Taunton won the ball back and MacNab fired his second goal into the far corner, giving Foster no chance.
Incredibly, just another four minutes later MacNab was at it again when he fired low under Foster.
Didcot rarely looked like getting back into it and if it had not been for Foster's brilliant saves to deny substitute Steve Murray and Young, the scoreline could have been even more distressing for the home supporters.
Didcot Tn: Foster, Elkins, Woodley, McKirnan (Longford 72), Carnell, Fran-klin, Dutton-Black, Heapy (Thomas 82), Haysham, Mills, Whitehead (Baines 72).
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A two-county high speed chase left even law enforcers in shock. The chase started on Interstate 75 in Crisp County and went into Turner County, but deputies did not expect to find what they did in the back seat of the suspect's car.
It seems to be a weekly occurrence here in South Georgia-- someone trying to outrun the cops. It's not that uncommon for chases to unfold on the Interstate as this one did, but what deputies didn't realize was this suspect was willing to run with child lying in the back seat.
Crisp County Deputy Chase McNees was trying to stop a Pontiac Bonneville on I-75 the morning on January 9th for a window tint violation. "We had no idea who was in the vehicle. Most of the time when they refuse that have a reason," said Crisp County Sheriff's Capt. Brian Hobbs.
In the case 30-year-old Kentavian Lewis is driving on a suspended license, but he's about to rack up more charges as he reaches speed of 100 miles per hour as he races into Turner County.
"We notify Turner County that we're coming into their county and we're requesting assistance," Hobbs said.
Turner County Deputies take over the chase as the Bonneville swerves through the city streets of Ashburn. Several minutes into the chase, the suspect turns onto a dirt road leading to Orchard Hill Trailer Park.
With no road ahead, Lewis takes off running. They surround the car and demand his girlfriend to get out the passenger seat Here's the shocking part.
"The deputy opens the back door of the car and there is a 3-year-old child laying in the back seat."
Captain Brian Hobbs said had officers known a child was in the car, they would have called off the chase.
Now Lewis is facing 14 charges including child safety violations, reckless driving, and fleeing police. A habitual violator who risked the life of his child in a failed attempt to outrun the law.
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Missing my sister
Today Kim would've turned 41. I would've teased her about another year over 40, "it's all downhill from here" and other expected small talk. I would've asked her what she was doing today and she'd respond: "Going out to sushi with Crystal" and then "I'm driving up to Dad's this weekend."
And I'd get Ella on the phone so we could sing "Happy Birthday" to her. Kim would ask Ella about kindergarten, and about her trip to Kennywood and riding the roller coasters for the first time, and the latest Magic Tree House book she's read, and princesses and jewelry and other girl things.
But none of that is going to happen, because she's gone.
So instead we'll go out for sushi this evening and talk about Aunt Kim and how much we miss her. And, inside, I'll get a little mad at her again for not taking care of herself better and leaving us. And I'll steel that resolve to keep going to the gym, keep riding my bike, keep leaving a little food behind.
And then, late tonight, I'll think about us growing up and how we always had each other -- through my dad being gone on cruise, and moving all the time to new schools and new neighborhoods and new kids. And just soak in memory for a little while, even though they're ringed with sadness. Because that's what we have.
Impressions of Pittsburgh TechFest
Saturday saw Pittsburgh's first TechFest, a day-long set of sessions with seven (!) tracks covering a number of different technologies and disciplines. I wound up getting there about 15 minutes after lunch ended[1] and ran into a former co-worker, and instead of going to the current session we chatted. Despite the environment (school halls aren't the best place for a hallway track) that's probably the best reason to attend an event like this. Sure, you learn things here and there -- and some of the sessions were long enough to get meaty -- but having a bunch of motivated people around each other is the real payoff.
The two sessions I did see appeared to be pretty different but wound up being quite similar in scope. The first was on Scala and Actors from Josh Suereth. Josh is both super nice and super smart, but that's not always a great combination for a presentation. The last time I saw him speak was in October 2010 for an overview of Scala, which (referring back to my notes) was jam packed with information but unfocused, which is a problem with a lot of technical presentations, including my own.
This was much different. Josh started by demoing in a shell the amount of Scala you needed to know for the presentation, and then moved on. It's so easy to get wrapped up in language intro because it's easy and I'm sure he could riff on Scala nuts and bolts for hours. But while it would be easier for Josh -- no preparation needed! -- that's not going to be as useful for the audience.
The main point of the talk was to discuss actors and some ways that they shape your solutions, to get you thinking in actors and appreciate some core differences as to how they'd shape design. A key point he mentioned multiple times is that you need to think topologically, not lexically (when thinking of error handling) or even in objects. To show what that meant he took a real-world problem (document indexing and searching with scatter-gather) and broke the system down into the important components, pointing out trade-offs and the reasons for doing things like creating temporary actors to hold the state (because the aggregating actor can only process a message at a time, you don't want it to wait).
He went pretty quickly through the material, but he covered a useful patch of ground in enough depth to provide lots of grist for your mill. And he also left enough time at the end to answer some substantive questions, even referncing deep detail (interaction with the Java memory model) about the Akka implementation of actors in response to a question about whether they could be ported to the CLR. It was exactly what I was hoping for.
The second talk I went to was on Hypermedia APIs from Steve Klabnik. I probably shouldn't have gone because (a) I've talked on this myself, and (b) pretty much knew what to expect from Steve. I also figured I'd agree with everything he said. (Which I did.)
But it was still very much a worthwhile talk. Steve knows this material backwards and forwards, and needed no notes to talk cogently and in depth about subjects as varied as his "favorite" RFCs, history of REST and its back-and-forth in the internet arena, and post-structuralism as it applies to decentralized networks of data and people. And while he referenced that it's hard to talk about REST without using its terms, he was able to explain things to newcomers clearly and concisely. The talk was an hour and a half, but it certainly didn't feel that way.
A couple thoughts I had during the talk:
- It would be interesting to see a concrete example of a media type that could be interpreted different ways depending on its definition. (For example a 'screens' attribute in a media type describing a film's distribution vs 'screens' in a TSA report.) But, as he said, this is also as much art as it is science and to be done well would probably be another many minute talk. Which I look forward to hearing from Steve.
- He referenced that we keep repeating the mistakes of distributed objects. Another great talk (which might go along with this presentation from Steve Vinoski) might go over why we keep doing so. Why do we keep repeating this? Is it because of the never-ending tension between management who wants interchangeable programmers and repeatable processes (e.g., creating clients through code generation) rather than craftspeople? (Simplistic, but still.)
- Hashing over media types winds up being a lot of the work done by domain experts so they can talk to each other, or create systems that talk to each other. Think HL7 or any of the X12 domains. It's incredibly hard work for non-trivial domains to get people to talk and understand one another, much harder to get computers to understand one another as well.
So a short, but great day. Looking forward to the next one.
[1] In addition to hanging out with Ella, the entry to Laroche is marked quite sparsely and I drove past it once. Seriously.
Goodbye Kim
On Tuesday my sister Kim collapased at Pittsburgh Airport. The cause turned out to be a massive hemorrhage in her brain stem. She never regained consciousness.
With such a diagnosis there's very little that can be done. But with her age (she would have been 41 in September) the staff performed a number of minor activities to give her every chance to recover. But nothing changed her state, no recognition but no pain or discomfort.
On Thursday, after being tested for viability of organ donation, we had her breathing tube removed and after a short while she died peacefully with my dad, stepmother, and me by her side.
Kim was going home after visiting us for a few days, timed to catch Ella's dance recital on Saturday. You can see from most of my recent photos of her plain and special love for Ella, and she got on a plane whenever possible to come see her. While this was an incredible shock, we'll always be grateful for the chance we had to spend time with her before it happened.
There will be a memorial service in the Tampa area, but I don't know yet when. It will likely happen at her workplace, which has reached out with deep compassion and offers of help. Her job put her with people all over the world, both physically (Manilla and Mexico City) and virtually, and they're all grieving.
Goodbye Kim. We'll miss you terribly.
Charlotte's Web and the blur of nostalgia
Without forethought I've seen three versions of Charlotte's Web in the last few months:
- The live-action 2006 movie,
- The animated 1973 film, and
- The recent Pittsburgh Childrens Theater production (I won't talk about this one though: it was okay and fun for Ella)
This all happened after reading the book to Ella for the first time this summer. While it was one of my favorite books as a kid I never really thought about why that was so . Re-reading it with Ella brought it into new light: it's direct and doesn't talk down to kids or sugarcoat death or pain or rejection or heartbreak. But it moves on from those things as well. It's also remarkably free of self-awareness, unlike a lot of modern kids media.
So when Ella said she wanted to watch the movie, I figured she'd seen something about the animated version somewhere. Which I thought was fine: I didn't remember it very well, but I had a vague feeling of nostalgia around it.
But when I heard it was a recent production, and had a CG spider with Julia Roberts doing the voice, I feared the worst: lots of singing and probably dancing, cute animals, pop culture references for the adults, and maybe Charlotte wouldn't even die. Grumble gumble. Surely it wouldn't be as faithful as the barely remembered version from my youth?
So when we watched it that nagging feeling of nostalgia pulled me into playing an internal cranky old man monologue for a while ("Julia Roberts doesn't sound right", "That guy was a jerk-off in Rising Sun", "Where did those crows come from?"). But then... then I stopped, and it worked. Really well. And I got why the crows were there. And the CG was good but spare. And just about everything that was great about the book was in the movie, including the most important part: the tone.
My sister got Ella the animated verion for Christmas. And when she visited over New Year's we all sat down to watch it. I was keenly interested in how much better it would be than the new version.
And it wasn't. At all. In fact, it was much worse. Lots of singing, very little character development, almost no tension between the characters at all. And there was a modern feeling adult-oriented camp having Paul Lynde voice Templeton. It added a layer of snark without much else. Nostalgia lied to me, and I'm glad I was able to see through it.
So, here are a few more reasons why the new version is much better than the old:
The biggest one: why did Charlotte do this for Wilbur?
Old version: Who knows? She comes up with the idea so soon after meeting him that it seems she was bored and looking for a project.
New: They took time to establish the friendship between Wilbur and Charlotte (just them talking, really) and, crucially, made Charlotte an object of disgust among the other animals. The idea that Wilbur's exuberance (for life in general and for Charlotte in particular) wins over the other animals and make her an equal to them is central. It gives reason and weight to her decision to go to the fair, which the movie brings out explicitly when (I think) one of the cows tells her she can't do it because of her babies.
Charlotte's appearance in the two is instructive as well. In the animated version she's almost elegant: like a bug who's got a classy hat on. But in the new version she's... well, gross. All her eyes are looking at you and she's got bits sticking out here and pincers chomping there. And over time, just like for the animals, that falls away for you, and you see her swaying in the breeze, weaving and talking to herself. Or gathering the animals together for a pow-wow, or telling Wilbur she can't make it back to the barn, and it's her voice that rivets you. (Sorry I doubted you Julia.)
Templeton in the new version is more complicated. In the old version he protests when asked to do something, but it's so weak and short that you know he's still going to do it. In the new one you're not really sure. Actual tension. Plus I think Steve Buscemi was the perfect voice.
The old version has a dumb, completely unproductive relationship between Wilbur and the 'runt' of the geese, who had such an annoyingly cute name that I've wiped it from my brain. In its place the new version brought out the characters of the pompous sheep (especially Samuel -- John Cleese), the dumb but faithful horse (Robert Redford), and the wise slow cows (Kathy Bates and Reba McIntyre).
Fern's development gets short shrift in the old version. In the new one she not only spends more time at the barn, but how her mother reacts to her is played out more. (Beau Bridges makes a brief but great appearance as the wise country doctor.) Her worries about Fern being antisocial/tomboy are carried forward later in her surprise that she's wearing a dress to the fair. This idea that kids grow up while you're worrying about them is one that I think resonates pretty powerfully with parents.
There's a voice-over line -- Sam Sheppard, nice! -- after the fair and when the winter comes about a spring pig seeing snow for the first time. Hugely poignant, completely missing from the animated.
I didn't like how present Henry Fussy was in the old one -- they tried to introduce a "mom's keeping him away" theme, then he went away for a while to his grandfather's and came back more "natural". In the new one it's much more subtle, a hint here and there and then at the fair he's got a ticket for her to ride on the ferris wheel. Smooth operator.
And when the new movie deviated from the book it did so in elegant ways. The two crows ( Elwyn and Brooks, nice homage) provided comic relief, Ella loved them. Even now whenever we see a crow we caw and say, "Corn!"
Next and previous JavaScript months
The date/time libraries shipping with some languages I've used are just awful -- e.g., Perl, Java, JavaScript. Fortunately, the first two have great libraries available DateTime for Perl and Joda-Time for Java.[1] For JavaScript, it's slim pickings. There is DateJS which provides some parsing and fluent interface functionality, but seems to be lacking in other concepts (e.g., durations and intervals). But AFAICT there's nothing of the comprehensiveness or extensibility of either of the Java or Perl alternatives.
While DateJS allows you to do math, there's also a nice little hack you can do for at least one simple use case: given a date, what are the next and previous months?
In good APIs this is handled with ease:
Java: DateTime now = new DateTime(); DateTime future = now.plusMonths(1); DateTime past = now.minusMonths(1); System.out.println( "Future: " + future + "\nPast: " + past ); ==> Future: 2012-02-09T22:31:55.656-05:00 ==> Past: 2011-12-09T22:31:55.656-05:00 Perl: my $now = DateTime->now( time_zone => 'America/New_York' ); my $future = $now->clone->add( months => 1 ); my $past = $now->clone->subtract( months => 1 ); print "Future: $future\nPast: $past\n"; ==> Future: 2012-02-09T22:36:01 ==> Past: 2011-12-09T22:36:01 Ruby:[2] now = DateTime.now future = now.advance( :months => 1 ) past = now.advance( :months => -1 ) puts "Future: #{future}\nPast: #{past}" ==> Future: 2012-02-09T22:55:26-05:00 ==> Past: 2011-12-09T22:55:26-05:00
In JavaScript you can't do that. But you can find the previous/next months pretty easily. The Date constructor takes a series of values for defining the date. If you specify a day '0' for the day of month, you'll get the last day of the previous month, and if you specify a day '32' you'll get somewhere around the first day of the following month:
JavaScript: (using Rhino 1.7R3) var now = new Date(); var future = new Date( now.getFullYear(), now.getMonth(), 32 ); var past = new Date( now.getFullYear(), now.getMonth(), 0 ); print( "Future: " + future + "\nPast: " + past + "\n" ); ==> Future: Wed Feb 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST) ==> Past: Sat Dec 31 2011 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST)
It's not the same result, but that's okay because the day is unnecessary. I've tested it in Rhino and a few browsers (FF, Chrome, IE 8) and all had the same result. Hope it helps.
[1] JDK 8 will vastly improve the default, taking it from terrible to awesome -- see JSR 310.
[2] The 'advance' function is not in the core Ruby Date/DateTime library, but it is added by Rails. I had a devil of a time getting this to run as a standalone script so just ran it in the rails console. The interplay between the names of Ruby libraries, the classes, and the documentation is very confusing to an outsider -- for example, 'ri DateTime' gives you methods monkeypatched into the class by ActiveSupport.
Ella's latest
I've been pretty quiet this year and haven't chronicled much about Ella. But I'll just pop up to say that she had her yearly checkup today and is tall (almost 4 feet!) and healthy and beaming and reading and talking your ear off and dancing and... I love being a dad to this kid.
Pittsburgh Ruby Talk: Software process, the good parts
Who? Andrew Clay Shafer, @littleidea (puppet, conferences, involved/writing on devops)
When? 5-January-2012
What? Great, inspiring talk on software process, different types of agile and their core meanings (rather than the headlines people echo, often mindlessly) coming from someone who has obviously thought about these for quite a long time and internalized some deep lessons.
(these are my minimally translated notes from the meeting, they won't all necessarily make sense out of context)
- first impression: hated it
- scrums: felt like lots of STUFF, not much getting done
- beware the expert
- some people say 'agile', they mean 'scrum'
- Salt Lake Agile Roundtable: Alistair Cockburn (!!!) runs it, 2-5 on
the first thursday every month (during work, it's serious!)
- mix of companies (novell, motorola, startups) and people
- went there to get ammunition, but what he found was more interesting (smart people discussing ideas)
- image from Crystal Clean (context for everything) (size vs criticality)
- frequent delivery
- reflective improvement
- close/osmotic communication (speed with which ideas can move thru organization)
- personal safety (willingness to put yourself out there)
- focus
- easy access to expert users (your customer!)
- automated tests, configuration management, frequent integration
Context matters
- criticality
- size
- scope
- schedule
- contractors (interfaces and coupling; who does the interfaces? -- how big is your tribe? ==> conway's law)
- distributed
MVP: Mimimally viable process
- XP: Jedi of agile (if only Kent Beck would come out of the swamp)
- Lean: Mary Poppendeck (first person to bring lean into software; mostly about building businesses and building pipelines of value)
- Kanban: (feel it's the most useful way to build software right
- focus on quality
- reduce WIP
- deliver often
- balance demand against throughput
- prioritize
- attack sources of variability to improve predictability
- visualize the flow: if you see a bottleneck, you can stop the line and get the whole team involved
- Lean startup: read "Four Steps to the Epiphany" before "Lean Startup"
- hardest thing to do: inspect and adapt
- cargo culting: all ceremony, no substance
- ARxTA (Brian Marick): We believe Agile software development is being dumbed down... (full quote)
- Working software is the primary measure of progress (like from the Agile Manifesto)
- OODA loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act; Building vs Planning: but why are we building it?
- David Hussman, Dude's Law: Value = Why / How
- @ salt lake thing: moratorium on talks on estimation, it's too hard
- hardest thing in software is capturing the vision
- Antoine de St Exupery quote ("...vast and endless sea")
- user story is a promise to have a conversation, not a spec!
- backlog is a ghetto... where stories go to die
- story mapping: write stories that capture the whole value (embrace the epics, we need to know this stuff!); what's the minimal span of those stories? this is the 'walking skeleton' => do enough to get the skeleton moving
- we design systems, why don't we design teams?
- different strokes (meh)
- CAP theorem: applies to people, too! -- if you require consistency, you give up availability: meeetings are global locks (is P related to co-location vs distributed?)
- Six laws of reliability (Joe Armstrong, Erlang): isolation, concurrency, failure detection, fault identification, live upgrade, stable storage => apply this to process (live upgrade => bringing on new people)
- FSOP cycle (flying by the seat of our pants):
smart people FSOP >
successful patterns emerge >
patterns recognized and adopted as process >
structures created to drive/moniotor process >
process becomes painful >
smart people reject the process >
(start from beginning)
- really like kanban
- like XP tech practices
- focus on quality
- everything depends on context, but in context make policies explicit (this is fuzzy to me -- true that everything depends on context, but there's a tension with too much +/or the right kind of policy, e.g. "what's in your coding standard doc?")
- if something doesn't feel right, you're doing something wrong; might be that thing, might also be you...
- if you aren't getting results, change something
- if you're changing too much too often, you won't get good results
- measure (but don't get caught up in vanity)
- process is a competitive advantage, passion is a competitive advantage, but don't let process kill passion
- smart people solve problems
Q: heard it said that scrum is kind of training wheels for
kanban/lean, true?
A: more reason for people to sell scrum; kanban is easier!
Comment: Agile manifesto says "people over process", but agile people are obsessed with process!
Physical precision
The new physicality brought an unexpected element into the act: precision. My routines wove the verbal with the physical and I found pleasure trying to bring them in line. Each spoken idea had to be physically expressed as well. My teenage attempt at a magician's grace was being transformed into an awkward comic grace. I felt as through every part of me was working. Some nights it seemed that it wasn't the line that got the laugh, but the tip of my finger. I tried to make voice and posture as crucial as jokes and gags....Finally, I understood the cummings quote I had puzzled over in college: "Like the burlesque comedian, I am abormally fond of that precision which creates movement." Precision was moving the plot forward, was filling every moment with content, was keeping the audience engaged.
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up
Consistent work
The consistent work enhanced my act. I learned a lesson: It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the abominable circumstances.
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up
That reminds me...
...I need to watch Spinal Tap again. Who are you people who pretended to see it but didn't actually? The mind boggles. That film doesn't age for me as many comedies do (Strange Brew for instance -- still love it, not the same experience). Other Guest + Co. productions are similar in their longevity. May they continue.


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Portrait of Theo van Gogh, 1887
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
According to prevailing opinion, Vincent van Gogh never painted his brother Theo, his confidant and staunchest ally. But the two brothers looked quite similar. After exhaustive study of 93 paintings by Van Gogh in his Antwerp and Paris periods the Van Gogh Museum's senior researcher Louis van Tilborgh is convinced that one of the many 'self-portraits' by Vincent van Gogh is in fact a portrait of his brother Theo. This conclusion is based on a number of striking differences between Theo's en Vincent's features. Theo's portrait, made in 1887, shows a man with shaved cheeks. Theo's beard is not 'red' like Vincent's, but more ochre. On top of that, this man's ear has a fine rounded shell, unlike Vincent's but like Theo's. Vincent did not overlook his devoted brother after all.
See also the companion painting of this work, Van Gogh's self-portrait (1887).


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City's Homesteading Authority and Bank of America partner to repair donated vacant property
The Kansas City, Mo., Homesteading Authority and Bank of America will celebrate the completed repair of a vacant home donated to the City by Bank of America. The event will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 10 a.m. at the home, located at 2023 Garfield Ave.
Bank of America donated the home to the Homesteading Authority, in conjunction with a program to revitalize communities affected by foreclosure and property abandonment. Providence Partnership LLC then purchased the home and completed the needed repairs and renovations. The home will be sold to a first-time homebuyer family who will occupy the home.
"The ribbon cutting is being held to express our appreciation to Bank of America for being a good community partner and to Providence Partnership for helping ensure a successful outcome for this home – and neighborhood," said David Park, deputy director of the Neighborhoods and Housing Services Department.
Bank of America is in the process of donating 16 homes to the Homesteading Authority as part of a commitment to donate 75 properties under a memorandum of understanding partnership with the City. Of those, 10 are expected to be repaired and six are to be demolished. Two homes have been sold and one is under contract to be occupied by new owners. Bank of America has also provided funding to assist with repairs and demolition.
"Bank of America is committed to helping stabilize and revitalize neighborhoods that have been hit hard in the economic downturn," said Spence Heddens, Kansas City president of Bank of America. "We are pleased to be working together with the City of Kansas City, Mo., the Homesteading Authority and their non-profit partners to provide access to homes while at the same time rebuilding communities."
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Chinese plywood suspect
November 20, 2012-- Furniture Today,
WASHINGTON - The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that there is enough evidence to continue antidumping and countervailing duty investigations against Chinese manufacturers of hardwood plywood.
All six ITC commissioners have voted in support of the investigation, based on an analysis that shows the domestic industry has been materially injured by Chinese hardwood plywood imports, the agency said.
According to U.S. manufacturers who sought the investigations, the Chinese product is allegedly subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The ITC vote means the U.S. Department of Commerce can continue investigations into subsidy and pricing issues. The countervailing duty investigation addresses the issue of subsidies manufacturers receive from the Chinese government, while the antidumping investigation addresses the issue of goods being priced below materials costs.
The U.S. manufacturers are seeking dumping duties between 298% and 321%. If approved by the U.S. government, such duties would apply to Chinese manufacturers and would be paid by importers of record of such merchandise.
The goods in question include hardwood plywood panel composed of two more layers of wood veneers in combination with a core. The core can be made from a variety of materials, including particleboard and medium density fiberboard.
The product is most often used in kitchen cabinets, but also can be used in furniture. How the issue plays out could affect the pricing of U.S.-made case goods and upholstery that use such materials.
The duties are being sought by six domestic hardwood plywood manufacturers. In a petition filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce in September, the companies said the imports of the materials from China rose 42.6% between 2009 and 2011.
The petition also said that the rising hardwood plywood imports have captured U.S. market share at the expense of domestic manufacturers, resulting in lost sales, low rates of capacity utilization and "razor-thin" profit margins. It also said imports have led to reduced production, plant closures and layoffs.
A full ITC report on the injury issue will be available after Dec. 10. Copies can be obtained by e-mailing email@example.com, or by calling (202) 205-2000.
The DOC continues to conduct its own investigations on imports and expects to issue a preliminary countervailing duty determination by Dec. 21. A preliminary antidumping duty investigation is due around March 6.
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How Artemis became a $40 indie game with die hard fans willing to support ongoing development
Artemis is a strange game. You need six people to get the full experience, along with six computers, iOS devices, or some combination of the two. A projector or large television is also helpful. Creating a full bridge takes a decent investment in equipment, time, and people, but the result is worthwhile: You get to experience the joy of running your own starship. You can read our thoughts of the game to get up to speed; there is nothing else like it on the market.
It's also one of the rare indie success stories built around a game with a premium price point: Artemis costs $40 for a bridge license, which allows you to play with up to six peopl. I sat down with Thom Robertson, the creator of the game, to ask how how one continues to sell a $40 game at a time when anything above $15 is considered "premium."
Listening to the fans, and making the value argument work
The $40 price is actually a reduction; Robertson had taken an early version of the game to a few events and had people offering to pay for their own copy. The first release was sold for $60, or $10 per person. Robertson never really entertained the idea of selling the game on a per-person basis.
"I immediately thought I would rather sell a bridge license than sell six copies of the game," he tells the Report. What happens when five people bought the game and wanted to bring in a sixth? He felt this would just lead to piracy. "I never wanted to be in a situation where I had an adversarial relationship with the players." Even though the $60 version of the game was selling well, he listened to the feedback and dropped the price to $40. You bought the game once, and everyone played. Sales continued to increase.
While $40 may seem like a high price for an indie game, he makes a compelling argument for the pricing on the official site, and also does everything he can to get the players on his side. Read the text from the FAQ about pricing, and why you should feel comfortable buying the game:
The full version of Artemis is available for $40, and can be instantly downloaded. This purchase gives you the right to copy and install the game onto every computer of your bridge (up to 6). So I'm really only asking for less than $7 per bridge station ($14 if you can only find two buddies), and there's no copy protection or complicated systems or limits. I just ask that you share with your bridge crew, and not the whole world. This purchase comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. If you don't like the game, just ask for a refund, and it will be cheerfully provided. Think of it this way; you can get every crew member to chip in $7, OR you can buy the game yourself and say, "I paid for it, so I get to be the captain!"
The game has now been out for around two years, and has yet to wane in popularity. "It's been doing great, it continues to sell very regularly for me, making very good money, certainly much better than any indie game I had ever published before," Robertson explains.
He's been releasing his own games for a very long time. How long? His early titles were called "shareware." Remember when that was a thing? "I've seen things sell, I've seen things not sell, I'm much more of a game developer than a savvy businessman," he tells me. "Artemis is the big one that took off."
It also helps that Artemis is sold through his own website; the margin looks positively decadent without Steam taking 30 percent. "That isolates that $40 buying decision, it lets me put up a big block of text explaining that it's not just one copy, honest. Go tell your friends! Share the cost!" he explains.
His credit card processing company takes around 10 percent, while protecting him from fraud, and he's worked on the game more or less on his own since launch. With no competitors in the field of "multiplayer hardcore space simulator," the fans are dedicated to making sure he stays in business, and he keeps around 90 percent of the revenue.
"What my fans are buying for their $40, often, is support of me," he explains. Other developers do Kickstarters or offer pay what you want deals, but fans still vote with their wallets to keep development going. He says he talks to fans who purchase multiple copies of Artemis after a new update just to make sure new content is coming.
What's coming next
And development is definitely continuing. Robertson is deep into development of Artemis 2.0, and he was kind enough to show me some of the designs of the updated bridge controls. It looks like an impressive update, much more extensive than any of the updates that have come before.
What is going to change? The mockups were much easier to understand, with a more cohesive design and aesthetic. The Artemis we're playing today is the result of features and ideas being layered on top of each other, while 2.0 will attempt to take all those ideas and bring them together in a way that makes sense, from the ground up.
He also shows me sketches of the alien races, and says that the motivations of the enemies will be fleshed out, and the alien AI will be much improved. There will be new civilian ships. The user interface will be cleaned up and improved. There will be more life to the world, and more to do other than flying from place to place and fighting.
"I'm revamping all the ways the aliens communicate with you and communicate with each other, mostly through the comms system," he explains. The taunt system will also be improved and revamped. You will be able to design missions where each ship can be a friend or a foe, or have those values be generated on the fly. It will be a richer, more realized world.
So with all these updates, and bringing on artists to work on the game, will he charge for Artemis 2.0?
"That is such a tough question for me," he says, after a pause. "Since 1.0 I've been selling it at the $40 and I've been given every update away for free. From the beginning I've been telling people that this is not a Minecraft thing, I reserve the right to charge for updates, I just never have."
"The fans are important to me, and new fans keep coming, and if the monetization strategy is working, why change it?" he asked. "But 2.0 is going to be a big deal, so while I'm not in any mood to punish my existing fans, a lot of them have said they think a $5 to $10 fee for upgrade would be very reasonable."
He's not close to releasing the update yet, so he has time to think about this stuff and find an approach that works. In an industry where a sequel would be the same price as the original game, Robertson is struggling with the idea of selling all these updates for one fourth the price of the original game to those who have already purchased a bridge license. You begin to see why the players and fans are so ready to support his work.
We take a moment to watch a crew of children play the game, chirping orders at each other and tapping commands on the touch screens he brings to these shows. He says that he never intended Artemis to be a family game. "It just kind of happened, there are no breasts in Star Trek," he tells me. "The violence is horrific, but it's abstract." Sure, you may be killing great numbers of people, but all you see is an explosion in space.
Watching children play the game is amazing; they fall into their roles quickly, and work together to solve problems and to compare intelligence coming in from the multiple stations. Without any prodding, they're showing something like military discipline in how they talk and interact with each other. They're role-playing the act of flying a starship, and they're barely aware of it. I've also watched mixed crews of serious adult players and children, and everyone has a great time. This is the power of Artemis, and why Robertson is so protective of the people who both play his game and support his development.
"The last thing I want to do is lose the goodwill of the players," he tells me. The kids blow up a enemy ship using their nukes, and they cheer in shared triumph. Robertson gets to his feet and claps, a big smile on his face.


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Minimizing waste contributes to a more sustainable Stanford in many ways. By using less, reusing more, recycling and composting, we can preserve land, save energy, conserve water, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and preserve natural resources.
We are making great progress. We've increased our landfill diversion rate from 30 percent in 1994 to 62 percent in 2011. The university is continually improving collection activities, identifying new markets for waste materials and recyclables, and raising awareness so that "reduce, reuse, recycle and compost" becomes habit.
Goals & Results
Our initial goal is to increase Stanford's rate of waste diverted from landfill to 75 percent.
In 2011, our Waste Reduction and Recycling Program diverted more than 12,814 tons of materials from landfills, including:
- 3,245 tons of construction and demolition debris reused or recycled
- 6,003 tons of organic and compostable material composted or reused
- 721 tons of plastic, metal, and glass recycled
- 2,712 tons of paper and cardboard recycled
- 131 tons of electronic waste recycled or reused
These efforts saved an estimated 64,042 million British thermal units (Btu) of energy in 2011—enough to power more than 570 homes for one year. We reduced air emissions (including carbon dioxide and methane) by 3,820 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent and waterborne waste by 17 tons. We've also saved 32,115 trees and eliminated the need for 414 tons of iron ore, coal and limestone.


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Jemez Mountains, NM -- Tonight there are people combing the landscape of the rocky mountains armed with big dreams....and a few cryptic clues.
They are looking for buried treasure...real treasure.
This is what they're looking for: a 42-pound bronze chest filled with hundreds of gold nuggets, rare coins and jewels. Worth millions, and hidden by Forrest Fenn.
Fenn made millions as a art collector and when he got a diagnosis of terminal kidney cancer, he decided to leave a good part of his fortune to whoever could find it...somewhere in the New Mexico Mountains.
Fenn wrote a memoir with a poem offering nine clues to the treasure.
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The St. Louis Cardinals are still alive, winning 2-1 in Chicago. Coupled with Atlanta's loss in Washington, the Cardinals managed to make up a full game on the Braves for the NL Wild Card race. Passing the Braves is still a long shot -- they trail by two games with just five remaining -- but it's definitely within reach.
If the Cardinals end up making the postseason, they need to send Cubs closer Carlos Marmol a thank-you card -- because Marmol absolutely gift-wrapped the Cards' win on Saturday.
Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth, the Cardinals loaded the bases against Marmol, thanks to a single by Matt Holliday followed by a pair of walks by Yadier Molina and Skip Schumaker. Ryan Theriot came to the plate with two outs ... only to draw yet another walk on a full count, forcing home a run and tying the game. Rafael Furcal was next to the plate, but he didn't have to do anything as Marmol uncorked a wild pitch that went all the way to the backstop, allowing pinch-runner Adron Chambers to score standing up.
To call it an unlikely ending is an understatement -- the Cardinals haven't won a game like this in a decade, let alone one with such important playoff implications. From Chris Tunno, Cardinals media relations specialist:
Needless to say, the Cardinals were excited ... almost taking out their manager in the post-game celebration:
Manager Tony La Russa said he got accidentally punched in the jaw during the ensuing celebration. He said it was sore, but didn't seem to mind.
"I'd need to have to settle down and replay the inning because I'm not sure exactly what happened," La Russa said. "Guys were excited, (stuff) flying all over that dugout. Right, left, elbows, high fives, low 10s."
On Sunday the Cardinals will finish their series with the Cubs, while the Braves will play their rubber match with the Nationals. Atlanta's magic number is only three, making every game a virtual must-win for the Cards.


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Employees from Community & Southern Bank and Family Savings Credit Union will be pumping $20 in free gas to the first 200 people at two local Atlanta-area gas stations.The event is part of national Take Back Your Banking Day and goes from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday. Each year a local community bank and credit union join with the national effort to highlight their banking offerings as compared to those at the much larger banking chains.Event sponsors hope to raise awareness around how local community banks and credit unions help to fuel local economies and encourage Atlanta residents to consider choosing a smaller, local bank.While Community & Southern employees are pumping gas, they'll be talking to local residents about why they should consider banking with a community bank or credit union.Community & Southern and Family Savings Credit Union are joining nearly 40 other community banks and credit unions across the country to simultaneously take over gas stations across the country. Other participating cities include: Dallas, Phoenix, St. Paul and Portland, OR.Here are the gas locations:
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Oklahoma Christian University's Net Price Calculator will estimate how much one year of college will cost you after scholarships and grants (this is the "net price"), then help you figure out how much extra money you should be able to get from loans and work study.
- The cost for tuition, room, and meal plan at Oklahoma Christian is $25,790. Factoring in $4,870 for personal expenses, books and travel costs (which aren't paid directly to OC), your total cost is approximately $30,660.
- 98.9% of first-time, full-time students at OC received some kind of scholarship or grant last year.
- The average net price in 2013-2014 for first-time students, before loans and work study was $13,395.
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Getting an education at OC is an investment in your future. We'll work with you in your unique financial situation to help make college more affordable for you and your family.
- Oklahoma Christian University awards financial aid based on students' merit and financial need. The results are estimates and not guarantees of the actual amounts you will receive. To receive an official financial aid award letter, please follow the steps listed at www.oc.edu/financialprocess.
- The OC Financial Aid Estimator reflects the financial aid policies for students beginning in the fall of 2014. It is not intended for use by readmitted, continuing, or part-time students. Some financial aid policies may change for students entering in subsequent years.


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Choosing the right college for your undergraduate studies is hard work. We're here to help. We offer many events throughout the year to help you learn more about our degree programs, faculty, and students so that you can decide if NYU, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and our undergraduate degree programs are right for you.
Steinhardt Connection
Many high school students visit colleges during their junior year to explore their options and find the college that fits just right. Designed expressly for high school juniors (rising seniors) and their parents, our Steinhardt Connection initiative combines all-NYU information sessions and campus tours with informal luncheons with Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development faculty and staff from our undergraduate majors. Steinhardt Connection luncheons are held once a month from March through August. Click here for dates and reservations.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development on-campus Open Houses in September and October give you a chance to meet current students face-to-face, learn about the guiding principles of NYU Steinhardt, and hear directly from our faculty about our undergraduate degree programs. Visit Undergraduate Admissions to learn more.
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The King's College Theatre Department will host the regional premiere of Patrick Barlow's comedy "The 39 Steps" at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 14-16, 21-23 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in the George P. Maffei II Theater.
Adapted from John Buchan's 1915 novel and the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, "The 39 Steps" is a quick-witted "whodunit?" with a dash of Monty Python style comedy. A small cast of four portrays over 150 different characters, caught up in many different coincidences including an on-stage plane crash, thugs, handcuffs, murder, missing fingers and good old fashioned romance. The two time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning show is guaranteed to treat audiences with nonstop laughter.
The production features local actors Brandi George, Emmaus (Annabella, Margaret, Pamela); Nick Klem, South Williamsport (Clown); Kyle McCormack, Mountain Top (Richard Hannay); and Thomas Taraszewski, Pocono Summit (Clown).
The George P. Maffei II Theatre is located in the Administration Building on North River Street. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $7 for non-King's students and senior citizens. For more information or to reserve tickets, call the box office at (570) 208-5825 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
King's College is a Catholic College sponsored by the Congregation of Holy Cross.
Rehearsing for King's theatre production of Patrick Barlowe's 'The 39 Steps', pictured from left, are: Kyle McCormack, Brandi George, Thomas Taraszewski, and Nick Klem.


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Repeal and Replace This
by Jack Landsman, Sat Aug 28, 2010 at 11:25:53 AM EDT
Last night I ventured into Laura Ingraham's No Spin Zone. Confined to the house by inclement weather, I chose to contribute indirectly to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's News Corp. dividends and directly to Bill O'Reilly's Olympian ego. In the race to the bottom that is cable news, Laura Ingraham's monotonous Reaganite pabulum trumps msnbc, which is unwatchable, as well as that other thing which barely warrants mentioning.
I witnessed a truly interesting exchange between the aforementioned Ms. Ingraham and Rep. Eric Cantor, who gets to be majority leader after the bloodbath of November. The broad issue was ObamaCare but the main focus was what Ingraham perceived to be Eric Cantor's squishiness on Republican plans to "repeal and replace" the unpopular reform law.
LAURA INGRAHAM, GUEST HOST: …You've now got to correct the record because Politico is reporting that Eric Cantor, if he's the House majority leader come -- come November, that you're going to push for a more modest approach to Obamacare, meaning defund it, not repeal it. Did Politico get it wrong?
REP. ERIC CANTOR: Laura, I'll tell you one thing: As you and I have known each other for several years and as many of my constituents are, I'm a big fan of yours. So I got several calls from constituents over the last day or so saying, "What's Laura Ingraham talking about that Eric Cantor is not for a repeal of Obamacare?" Of course I'm for a repeal of Obamacare.
As you know, Laura, I'm the Republican whip in the House, and the duty of the Republican whip was to marshal as many votes as we could against Obamacare to make sure it didn't become law. And in the end, we didn't have one Republican vote that voted for it. Unfortunately, the bill passed. So we are faced with a situation where, hopefully, this November, a conservative majority will regain position in the House. And we're going to do everything we can to repeal the bill, to delay the bill, to defund the bill, to do all of the above. I mean, these things go hand in hand, Laura.
Whenever I wade into the land of Rupert Murdoch and Glenn Beck, I'm always careful to have plenty of aspirin and a barf bag on deck. The latter very nearly came into use after watching Mr. Cantor kiss the ring of hot reactionary blonde Laura Ingraham like the dickless establishmentarian he is. But however nauseating the display may have been, there are important insights to be gleaned here.
Rather than reaping a fortuitous repeat of 1994, conservatives are exactly where progressives were in '06. In many respects ObamaCare is to them what the war in Iraq was to us. The mainstream public's rather late aversion to the intractable chaos and bloodshed of the Iraq adventure vindicated grassroots progressives. It was a swift reversal of fortune that came right on time after the nightmarish re-election of President Bush. Unsatisfied with handing Democrats a decent majority in the House and a slim one in the Senate, the American people marched ahead and put a charismatic "change agent" in the White House two years thereafter. And yet the war(s) go on.
This analogous bit of history must frighten Laura Ingraham and her crowd. Read my lips: If the GOP regains Congress this fall and the presidency in '12, they probably aren't going to repeal and replace shit.
For starters we have to appreciate the galling reality of what ObamaCare is: a corporatist sellout that warrants repeal. More specifically, it is policy that has roots in Republican policy circles. The binding element of this monstrosity is the individual mandate that originated in the first Bush administration. It experienced a revival during Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to reform health care as a demagogic tool of Sen. Orrin Hatch and others. This wasn't socialism. This was Mitt Romney's baby.
Like progressives who were once elated at the prospect of sending wonderful representatives like Jon Tester and Jim Webb to Washington (and an epic fuck-you to the Bush administration), grassroots conservatives are about to relearn the cruel lesson of America's Scylla and Charybdis political system.
Even if we were to momentarily forget the ironic origins of ObamaCare, we would still have to consider the character of only some of people who control the destiny of this ascendant GOP. Mr. Cantor, once more, is a stuttering, contemptible creature of Washington. Their most recent standard-bearer, John McCain, has repeatedly affirmed his intent to repeal and replace. Lest anyone is tempted to believe him, remember that McCain is basically an intemperate, vindictive man motivated by personal grudges and his political interest more than anything—and by God I mean anything—else.
Then there's the curious case of the Massachusetts golden boys: Sen. Scott Brown—who drives a truck!—and the aforementioned Mittens. Scott Brown cynically staked his entire campaign in deep blue Massachusetts on his opposition to ObamaCare despite his support for Gov. Romney's plan as a state senator in '06. And the fact that Romney—who makes John Kerry heroic in comparison—remains a formidable frontrunner for the Republican nomination speaks volumes about the political nihilism of that whole crowd.
For progressives who see the ugly truth of ObamaCare (i.e. private insurance companies using the Internal Revenue Service to shakedown the American people), the repeal movement is a reliable gauge of the intellectual seriousness of the right.
There's nothing conservative (and surely nothing progressive) about the federal government mandating citizens to enter into a private contract with a corporation as a requirement for lawful residence in the United States. Will the Roberts Court lay aside its partiality to business interests and strike down this unconstitutional tyranny? Will Sarah Palin keep her promise to repeal and replace? Or will the shiny perks of the presidency and celebrity disappear whatever principles she currently espouse? Like the current fellow. I think I have an idea.
Get ready to cry those eyes out of your Cro-Magnon heads, wingnuts.
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LPCS Board meets today in Wilmington
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Central School Board meeting set for today is not at the usual location.
The board will meet at the Community Center on Springfield Road in Wilmington at 7 p.m.
Agenda items include a principal-search update.
Sessions are open to the public.
Meeting location changed for Champlain dissolution discussion
CHAMPLAIN — The Village of Champlain has changed the location of a meeting set for 5 p.m. Wednesday to review the process for dissolving village government.
It will now take place at the Town of Champlain Office Complex at 729 Route 9 in Champlain to provide space for larger attendance than can be accommodated at the Village Office.
Sean McGuire from the New York State Department of State will be there to answer questions on the topic.
A public vote on dissolution is set for March 19.
The meeting is open to the public, and everyone is being encouraged to attend.
For more information, call the Village Office at 298-4152.
Champlain Planning Board meeting canceled
CHAMPLAIN — The Town of Champlain Planning Board meeting scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 7, has been canceled.
The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 7.
Planning Board meetings are open to the public.
Free spray/neuter vouchers available
PLATTSBURGH — Clinton County Canine Club is once again offering vouchers for free or reduced cost spay/neuter surgeries for dogs at participating local veterinarians.
The vouchers are available to low-income Clinton County dog owners.
For more information and an application, visit our website www.clintoncanine.org and click "Spay Neuter Program" or write CCCC Spay/Neuter Committee, PO Box 101, Plattsburgh, NY 12901.
ELCS to hold public forum on budget
ELIZABETHTOWN — The Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School Board will host a budget-development public forum at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, in the conference room near the school's main entrance.


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Can anyone ID this cultivator and what model it fit? It looks a little too heavy for my cub.
Here are some #'s I took off it.
Tag# 2101511R920
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Sorry but I don't have better pics.
Dragging this up to the swap meet next week and would like to get an idea of the value.


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