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Sisse Jonassen works in the television industry in New York City, and the bright lights, noise and chaos of her daily life sent her searching for something a little more relaxed, something that reminded her of her childhood growing up in Denmark. She found an online listing for a small 1795 post-and-beam farmhouse in the Hudson Valley, and even though it looked appalling from the outside, it was in her price range, so Sisse drove up in the middle of February to get a look at the place. It was love at first sight. The open floor plan made the home feel larger than its 1,268 square feet. Although it needed a lot of work, Sisse knew she could create something that felt rustic, simple and welcoming. Thank you, Sisse! And a big thank you to Emily Gilbert for the beautiful photographs. — Amy A.
Image above: In the four white frames is artwork by Norwegian artist Liv Stange. They are embroidered and remind me of sheet music. The dresser is one of those love-at-first-sight furniture moments for me. I found it in the basement of an antique store, and the dark, weathered forest green spoke to me in a way only deep green can. I feel calm when I'm in the room with it. The small Buddha I brought home from a trip to Bali.
Image above: I love the simplicity of the dinning room. There is something quiet about it. The Lady Godiva painting I found in a garage sale. I saw it from the back and was initially attracted to it for its sheer size. When I turned it around and saw the image, I knew I had to have it — even though I had nowhere to hang it at that time. The Louis Poulsen PH-50 lamp is a must-have for anyone of Scandinavian descent. It spreads light in the perfect way, with the bulb being completely sealed off from view, so it is glare-free for anyone sitting at the table. A few years ago, Royal Copenhagen updated their classic Blue Fluted by enlarging the pattern to become Mega Fluted. It's simpler and less distracting that the original, and I absolutely adore it.
The rest of Sisse's sneak peek continues after the jump…
Image above: The living room has great light, height and a feeling of space, yet it's so cozy. It is actually a 2005 addition to the 1795 house, but you wouldn't know it from looking at it. The floors are reclaimed wide board pine, the beams are salvaged from an old barn and the fireplace is from another house; it was painfully stripped of paint and sanded. Here I keep most of my finds, such as the slender Giacometti-looking figure on the mantle that I found by a dumpster and a discarded art-student project that I treasure. The two small paintings are cheap garage sale purchases, and the larger black and white painting I did myself. The coffee table is one big slab of wood, bent and gnarly. It belongs in the house. I bought it from the previous owners, who felt the same way.
Image above: You have to love NYC! I found this iconic Hans J. Wegner chair on the street. Recognizing it for what it was, I carried it 30 blocks home. To me, it's an object of art and the essence of simplicity, beauty and function.
Image above: The kitchen was awful when I bought the house, but I saw the possibilities, and I enjoy a challenge. It was dark; there were no skylights, and the ceiling was only 6 ft. high, so you felt cramped in there. Needless to say, I gutted it completely, raised the ceiling, installed skylights and beams for structural support, new windows and a door to the patio. It took a month of working on it every day, figuring out how to overcome an old house with all its crookedness and weird angles. It's now one of my favorite rooms.
Image above: I love having an upholstered chair in the kitchen and so does Fred. It has a removable slip cover, so I can wash it when there are too many paw prints or foody smells. It's amazing how much use that chair gets. When you cook, guests will naturally gravitate to it; when you have breakfast, a cup of tea or even just [something] to read, it's a great place to sit with a view of the garden.
What a beautiful home, so peaceful and serene……
I really like the use of wood through out the home, it really adds an organic feel.
Very inspiring.
Superbe Sneek peek – I love how bright the house is. Can you tell me where those beautiful bedside tables are from ?
It really seems like the perfect house. Lovely.
Oh you must pine for this place during the week! Oh and I want to go yard sale(ing) with you!
Really tastefully done.I would have liked a couple of exterior shots foa sense of sight and struucture.
The mix of natural woods in this house is stunning. So natural and relaxed!
I love this one! What a beautiful, cozy home.
Beautiful home! I love the yellow rug in the living room, can you tell me where it's from?
Love the Danish Royal Copenhagen fruit bowl. Thank you for sharing.
I love love love the orange rug in the living room, do you remember where is it from?
Beautiful… I would love to see a shot of the outside too!
So gorgeous! I love all the exposed beams, so lovely.
Also love the yellow rug in the living room! Please please please let us in on the secret!
This entire flat is just to die for
@Kate – I believe the rug is Ikea.
I love the kitchen!
The rug is from Ikea
beautiful and calming! would love to know the source for the dining room table. there must be a place in ny/hudson area to get a great big wood table!
Ooooh, I'm in love! So cozy and open at the same time, that living room is seriously making me so jealous right now.
Love so much about this one! The living room rug, that green dresser, the mix of warm wood with modern white accents. I have a lot of wood furniture that feels too heavy for my taste – maybe a good way to lighten it up without having to paint everything!
Gorgeous home.
What a divine home. I love how light & airy it is coupled with the splashes of color. perfect.
beautiful house :) .. The kitchen and the entryway are great! One day :)
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It's beautiful…what a grat job you've done with it!
This is beautiful! Would you mind sharing where your nighstands are from?
Love the kitchen!!! I don't know if you did the work yourself , if so I'm blown away with admiration but either way great design. And I love the bedding too. I tried so hard to get that pattern to work with my existing collection but it didn't. Love the combination with the pillows, throw and light blue. Gorgeous.
How wonderfully calming the wood and neutral colours are. And that chair – what a find!
Well done, fantastic job.
Wow!!! How inspiring. Can you tell me where your bedding is from? I love the soft combo of the brown, blue, and gray in the bedroom with the natural wood. Genius.
love it – what a natural blend of old and new. in the last photo i think Fred is going for a feelsky. =)
I love your home and your mix of modern scandinavian design (I want the pendant light…badly) with rustic. The green dresser makes my heart sing, I love your secretary's desk and also your bedding (if you don't mind if you could share the source for the duvet?). Your housemate is a cute little bonus too!
A perfect house – really relaxing and with so much natural light.
I'm so glad everyone likes my house. It's been a lot of hard, but rewarding work. The night stands are from Hammertown in Pine Plains, New York., a great source for everything home related. The duvet cover is designed by Marimekko & is from Crate & Barrel. Yes, the rug is from Ikea, I loved the graphic pattern & thought it would go well.
Considering painting my kitchen floors as I had when I was a kid in London. Thoughts? Love the color of yours…
Such a pretty home, and so inviting. Love the shot of the front door with cute side table and lamp.
spectacular place… cozy and stylish … clearly the visionary product of a labor of love, sculpted with passion and perseverance… you have a 2nd career as an interior designer (and decorator) immediately available if you ever decide to quit your day job!
I love this home…I love that I can spot Ikea pieces mixed into the space, but none of the rooms scream IKEA. Instead they reflect the homeowner's love for simplicity and beauty;)
Absolutely gorgeous and serene home. I'm also in love with that dresser!
Just beautiful interiors! And, Emily's amazing vision adds that extra something special. I've used Emily for my product photography and her combination of technical expertise and creative vision is a valuable and winning combination. Plus, she's lovely.
I love everything about this place and all of the elegant touches and textures.
Love it, love it all!! And not just because I went for rustic-retro in my own living room!
I love all of the tasteful details and that wide pine flooring. The desk, the dresser, your peaceful bedroom–it's just so lovely!
Holy gorgeous. There are very few homes where I actually LOVE all the rooms, but this is definitely it. I could move right in!
your home is a place i want to BE. so beautiful! you managed to make it all look so effortless, but still full of texture and color. thanks for sharing!
Fantastic space, just love it! Lucky lady going home there every evening!! Cant believe someone left that Hans J. Wegner chair out for the dump… ;o)
This is a beautiful house…job well done. Where, oh where, did you get that gorgeous writing desk? It's just what I'm looking for!
What a gorgeous home! Looks very warm and inviting to me. :)
…. "deep greens and blues are the colors I choose"…….
The combination of the natural light and interior post and beam construction is just gorgeous. It is a wonderful retreat from all that glitters!
Thank you for letting us into this beautiful home! The kitchen has to be my favourite room, so filled with light and welcoming.
Oh..this home is beautiful. The windows are gorgeous and the light combined with the mild colours gives the room "heart". Lovely!
I just love the peaceful feeling your home has…ahhh..calm
Perfect…!!! :0
Absolutely stunning — Thanks for inviting us in. It's so light and the detail is so lovely.
What a pretty house, I should like to live in there…………………enjpy your house
Really a wounderfull house, enjoy it……………
Absolutely gorgeous. Would you be willing to share the paint colors?
yes, paint colours would be great if you can? You have such a subtle palette here. Its beautiful. I seriously want to steal your kitchen – so light and airy!
Practically perfect in every way!
I love everything about this home, especially the kitchen and the dachshund! Dying to know the paint color in the kitchen…
I've never seen a green dresser like that, it's like a deep, layered wood-emerald. I would love a dress in that color.
What a beautiful, calming place! Great job!
loved everything from the green dresser to the cozy living room and the desk nook! white and natural wood always look comforting and perfect together.
I love the wooden floor, wow!
Light and airy, beautiful design. Fantastic!
It has been a while since we had a sneak peek that I absolutely love. I absolutely love this sneak peek! Beautiful home.
Amazing combination of light and composition. The house plays like a work of art! I especially love the eclectic combinations of street finds with true classics. I envy the small brown dog that gets to live in this house!
Nice Sisse!!
I love the painting of the woman in the hat…Looks like it could be from the 1930s. I've a dream of doing a millinery-inspired studio with hats, mannequin heads and paintings like this acquired at vintage shops.
And how about that washable white slipcover? Brilliant.
I would love to know the paint color where the green dresser is – I have a leather couch that color and I was having a hard time finding the right color but that color would be perfect!
Very good, Sisse! – JJ
That flooring is so beautiful and the blue and brown/grey go perfectly together in the bedroom. Thanks for sharing!
I really liked everything about this home. Great aesthetic. Most of all, I liked Fred!
i want to kiss this house.
I love this so much. Where are the curtains from?
Stunning. May I ask where you go your kitchen counter tops and hardware? I'd love to do something similar.
Love every room but the kitchen especially. Any way to find out that paint color?!
The butcher block countertop is from Ikea – it's very affordable. The drawer pulls are all antique and I was lucky enough to find a knob that matched to put on the cabinet doors. The kitchen floor is "custom". It's a standard wood floor paint from Home Depot that I lightened a bit. The paint color on the wall was actually inspired by the dry wall… I liked the way it looked when I hung it & tried to find something similar. It's called Cornforth White 228 and is from Farrow and Ball.
For the living room I found a roll of linen on sale and sewed them my self.
I usually HATE walls that are white/off white/light tan, etc. I was very impressed with these rooms though! I think the wall colors really look good against the beams on the ceilings. I love it!
Please please show the outside pictures of the house! Not many people can say they live in a house that dates back to 1795. That's part of the American past and gosh what a history. You should feel very proud. You have certainly created a home that is both charming and beautiful.
I would love to live in such houses. They are designed very comfortable and nice.
Please share the paint company and color or the wall behind the green dresser.
I love your bed spread/cover, white with taupe color medallians or flowers.
Could you tell me where I could get one like it?
How did you create the black and white artwork?
The desk is incredible. Where did you find it?
I still keep coming back to look at this house months later, what an inspiration!
it's even better when you see what it looked like before she redid it! http://www.raenovate.com/2011/11/upstate-ny-kitchen.html
Hands down my favorite sneak peak! I absolutely love this house.
Your home is beautiful. Where did you come across your secretary desk?
love the mix of old/new. Thanks for your green chest w/soft blue wall!?! My vtg green pieces can find a home in softest shades of blue paint w/white accents~reminds me of my garden!
Lovely!! Saw this photo in the new upholstery cleaning post and love love the pale green on the walls of your kitchen. Any way to get that paint color name? Thank you!
Hi Laura! I was looking for the same thing! I checked through the comments – looks like it's Cornforth White 228 from Farrow & Ball. Hope this helps!
Hi Sissie,
Could you please tell me where your kitchen rug is from? It is red and hot pink. I have searched everywhere trying to find one just like it! Your house is beautiful; great work,


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With Alan Shearer fretting today and Stefan Kuntz topping our rude names list, there was only one possible Classic Moment for today. Stiff upper lip and all that, folks… sob, sob.
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With Alan Shearer fretting today and Stefan Kuntz topping our rude names list, there was only one possible Classic Moment for today. Stiff upper lip and all that, folks… sob, sob.
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Sven is the next manager of Man City, at least if former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra completes his takeover of the club.
Oh, say can you see this star-spangled away kit sported by the USA national team in 1994. It is one of many gems to be found on the excellent ClassicFootballShirts site.
Our friends at 101GreatGoals have compiled a list of their 101 best goals of the 2006/07 season. We highly recommend you check it out. As a taster, here's one of our favourite goals from their excellent list, scored by Man Utd transfer target Fabio Quagliarella…
Gooner, going, gone! Jeremie Aliadiere, The ferret-featured Arsenal striker signed for Middlesbrough in a £1.5m deal where he hopes Teeside fans will finally be able to put a face to his name.
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The Czech defender was once on trial with Leeds and linked with a move to Manchester City but has since gone on to do Fukal. He now plays for hometown club FK 97.
Alexei Lalas, general manager of LA Galaxy, has said that MLS is one of the most competitive leagues in the world: 'It's insulting to us and to our sport to say [David] Beckham is on his way to Hollywood when he is coming to play in one of the most competitive leagues in the world,' the deluded ginger said recently. 'There are a lot of stars in European football who would struggle over here.'
Welcome to Who Ate All The Dogs: you're one-stop guide to football in South Korea (or so it seems!). Yesterday ended up being Japanese Day, but today – like an overworked correspondent at the 2002 World Cup – we are in Korea. After a spot of Korean scouting it is time to sit back and enjoy some a Korean gameshow. Thierry Henry will be playing the part of bemused Westerner in today's performance!
More proof that John Terry's wedding last week was the classiest show in town. News agency Ananova reports that pissed up guests heckled the great Lionel Ritchie, who had been booked to perform at the reception: Rich Tea was reportedly stunned to be heckled when he sang for Premiership footballers at John Terry's wedding. The […]
Chelsea Phone Chargers and Fulham Fridge Floggers are pushing each other around while arguing over who loves South Korean international Lee Chun Soo the most. The West London rivals are both eager to keep their Korean sponsors happy by signing a player who could warm their bench with the efficiency of a Korean microwave warming your dinner.
Following yesterday's goalkeeping blunder from Japan, we are off to Brazil today for more crazy keeping antics. The scoresheet of Botafogo's match with Nautica at the weekend will say Alex (o.g.) for all eternity, but it ought to be on goalkeeper Julio Cesar's conscience. This was no blistering strike from 30 yards!
Continuing on a beach football tip, check out this advert from Israel's tourist board, which helps explain why the country didn't make it to the World Cup…
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Beach football is a relaxing way to enjoy the beautiful game. No one takes it too seriously. Oh, unless you're bitter South American rivals, in which case fighting is de rigeur – when Uruguay comes from 1-0 down to win 2-1, the Argies aren't best pleased.
The King has actually made a remarkable recovery, but long live the new King anyway? Real Madrid's granite-faced coach, Fabio Capello, may have only just defied all odds to win the Spanish Primera League but he's still favourite to lose his job.
What a brilliant finish to a brilliant season in Spain. At half-time on the last Sunday of the season, Barca were pissing it away at Gimnastic, whilst Real Madrid were losing 1-0 at home to Real Mallorca, and playing very badly too. However, an inspired substitution by Madrid coach Fabio Capello in the second half changed the course of the title. He took off David Beckham, who was clearly struggling with injury, and replaced him with Jose Antonio Reyes. The on-loan Arsenal star scored two goals to shatter Barcelona's championship dreams and hand the title to Madrid.
Ooh, we love a good excuse to demand Sepp Blatter's head! Uefa has launched an investigation into the racist behaviour at last night's under 21 match between England and Serbia, so while they are at it they might want to examine the logic in the decision of their mates at FIFA to order Mali to release Mahamadou Diarra and Frédéric Kanouté from international duty to play for their Spanish club sides.
This is the sequel to the eminently playable Mario Smash Football on the Nintendo GameCube and it will be one of the first ever Wii games to be fully playable online. Mario and co take to the pitch for some frantic five-a-side action, with loads of special moves galore and Mario Kart-style power-ups. For example, each captain has his or her own set of skills and super abilities, as well as the ability to perform special shots called Mega Strikes, where the iron ball splits into five balls and flies at the goal. The defending player must use the Wii Remote to target and aim at and shoot these balls out of the air before conceding a goal.
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A 39-year-old man is dead and a 25-year-old is in custody after an incident in the 100 block of Mayfair Avenue last week.
The victim, identified as Stacy Ralph Barkman, was rushed to hospital on Thursday, Nov. 21 after police responded to a report of an assault.
An investigation by the West District station crime unit revealed that a social event had been taking place in a suite when an altercation allegedly erupted between the victim and a suspect, who were not known to each other.
Barkman suffered serious injuries to his upper body. Responding emergency personnel transported Barkman to hospital in critical condition, where he later succumbed to his injuries. Barkman is the city's 24th homicide victim this year.
The suspect, who allegedly fled the scene before police arrived, was later located and arrested.
Patrick Jeremy Hill, of God's Lake First Nation, was charged by police with aggravated assault and then, upon Barkman's death, second degree murder for his alleged involvement.
Hill is currently being held at the Provincial Remand Centre.
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When Josef Stalin was on his deathbed he called in two likely successors, to test which one of the two had a better knack for ruling the country.
He ordered two birds to be brought in and presented one bird to each of the two candidates.
The first one grabbed the bird, but was so afraid that the bird could free himself from his grip and fly away that he squeezed his hand very hard, and when he opened his palm, the bird was dead.
Seeing the disapproving look on Stalin's face and being afraid to repeat his rival's mistake, the second candidate loosened his grip so much that the bird freed himself and flew away.
Stalin looked at both of them scornfully. "Bring me a bird!" he ordered.
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After months of speculation ACT Liberal Leader Zed Seselja has confirmed he will seek pre-selection for the Senate ahead of the September 14 federal election.
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Supported by his wife and fellow Liberal members, Mr Seselja told a packed news conference he would resign as Opposition Leader in the Legislative Assembly next Monday.
After last year's election resulted in a seven per cent swing towards the Liberals in Brindabella many expected he would use his popularity in the south to challenge Labor's Gai Brodtmann for the seat of Canberra.
But he said he believed he was the best person in the ACT to represent Canberra in the federal arena.
"I've made the judgement that it is in the best interest of the Liberal Party and that it is the right path for me to nominate for the senate seat," he said.
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I am planting a couple of Sugar Babies watermelons and a couple of Jubilee watermelons this year and would like to plant some companion plants with them. The Sugar Babies I am planning to run their vine up the garden fence, and the Jubilee won't be on the fence. I am new to growing watermelons, and am inter-planting and companion planting this year to repel nasty insects. These are the other plants I am planting: Pole Beans, Tomatoes, Squash, Lettuce, Broccoli, Bell pepper, Chives Garlic, Onions, Basil, Dill, Carrots,Spearmint, Cabbage, Sunflowers, Sea Pinks, Maiden Pinks,Verbenas, Marigold, Achilles, Snapdragons, Moss Roses.I pretty well know what companions to plant with most of my other vegetables, but I can hardly find any information on companion plants for watermelons. I would appreciate the benefit of anyone else's experience.
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Indians planted watermelon like squash between hills of corn. Some people planted them in between four hills in groups of 1, 4 or 6 seeds. Some planted them in the same hill as the corn, as follows - corn in the center, beans in middle and squash/watermelon at bottom.
I have grown watermelon in between hills of corn many times and have had great success.
Thanks for the information - I was excited to plant my blacktail mountain watermelons in between my skyscraper sunflowers. It seems like the perfect spot, except my sunflowers are in a 3 ft. wide by 10 foot long bed against a wire fence...
1. Watermelon vines would not be able to grow in all directions - the fence would inhibit that. I have read that they need to grow in all directions. Is it possible to re-route them manually as they grow?
2. The vines would kill some of the turf that runs next to the bed, and having to lift them up to mow would be next to impossible. Maybe I could just ignore this factor because this is the one that is really stumping me. I don't care much about the turf or mowing, for that matter. :)
3. Isn't there insect life in the grass that isn't necessarily in the exposed soil (or on top) that would destroy the vines and the fruit? Is it okay to grow melons on a lawn? Couldn't find an answer to this anywhere.
Thanks for any thoughts, ideas, comments...
Too late in the season to plant watermelons but there is always next year. I was looking for a companion plant for Okra and watermelons were suggested. I planted watermelons, cantaloupes and honeydew with my okra. The melons did OK, they were the miniature type, they were sweet and tasty even though a bit small. My soil was not optimum, and I enjoyed them. The okra did great! I am still harvesting now (mid november).
Last season I trained my watermelons on a trellis. I used the netted bags from onions and freezer pops to make little hammocks for the watermelons so they wouldn't pull themselves off the vine when they became too heavy. I did lose quite a few blossoms during a bad wind storm, so didn't yield as much fruit as I could have. I'm going to try them on a trellis again this year, just in a spot in my yard that is more protected from the wind.


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i planted this cherry tree (whip) 3 years ago never had any problems with it. this spring right after the leaves appeared they seem to curl, from the search i did it seems it is leaf curl. i did nothing different around the tree so not sure what caused it this spring. possibly different winter weather? my question is, is there something i can do to prevent this happen next year? variety is called lapin. i also have young peach tree that seems to be fine so far, no curling leaves.
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Thanks for the images. Unfortunately, I've not seen that sort of damage previously. Yes, the leaves are curled, but not due to a cause I know.
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thanks everyone, now that you mentioned frost damage, that might be possible. i didnt know frost would do this kind of damage. but in last 3 weeks we had pretty hard frost, down to 15F for 2 or three nights and cold days then followed by couple really warm days and than back to freezing again. this cycle happened once a week for past three weeks. when the first cycle happened, i could already see some leaves appearing and flowers too.


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The 112,000 federal employees who participated in this year's event during the week of March 4 were "equal if not more productive" while working remotely than when in the office, according to the organization that runs the event. (Stock image)
The Mobile Work Exchange's post-Telework Week study suggests the 112,000 federal employees who participated in this year's event during the week of March 4 were "equal if not more productive" while working remotely than when in the office.
Forty-eight percent of managers surveyed by the Mobile Work Exchange, with assistance from Cisco Systems and Citrix, reported teleworkers from over 200 federal agencies were equally as productive, and 52 percent said their teleworking employees were more productive, with none reporting drops in productivity.
Teleworkers themselves rated their teleworking productivity even higher, with 75 percent claiming increased productivity while working from the friendly confines of their homes or coffee shops.
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Rating productivity is just one of several ways to measure the effectiveness of telework initiatives in the public sector, said Mobile Work Exchange General Manager Cindy Auten, but it's a pretty good barometer for gauging how telework is received at the employee and management levels.
"Telework Week, and the study we do afterwards, gives us a glimpse at how agencies are faring in telework," Auten said. "We've seen a lot of progress in the past couple years, but we still have a ways to go."
Telework Week, now an annual event, was first conceived in 2011 with a modest 39,000 pledges, and followed in 2012 with about 71,000 pledges.
This year's Telework Week coincided with a March snowstorm and big news on the telecommuting front: that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer planned to ban telework for the internet giant's employees. Both incidents contributed to 136,000 total participants this year, 80 percent of whom were feds.
Yet Auten said the biggest reason for growth in Telework Week – especially on the federal sector side of things – is that agencies are beginning to find value in it.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, for example, went from no teleworkers participating in the program to more than half of their 5,000 eligible employee workforce logging telework hours.
Auten also praised the Department of Agriculture, which has a "strong" telework program, and the Department of Health and Human Services, which notched 10,000 teleworkers at Telework Week this year.
Some agencies, like the Patent and Trademark Office, are ahead of the rest of the public sector with advanced metrics in place for measuring the mobile productivity of their employees, Auten said.
Findings and benchmarks from the Telework Week 2013 study:
Many old-school managers struggle to measure how effective their employees are without face time, often relying on attendance over work output. In an ever-changing workforce where talent wants the option to telework – the study says 66 percent of workers will give preference to positions that offer telework, and 16 percent won't consider a job without it – Auten said behind-the-times middle management could curtail agencies' mobility efforts.
"This is what telework will expose – if you have a crack in your management style, if you have a legacy style that grades by what you're seeing when you're walking around, that's not going to work in a remote situation," said Auten, noting the Office of Personnel Management offers online courses for feds who want to upgrade their management training.
Overall, Auten said about half of the federal workforce's 2.1 million employees are eligible to telework, meaning the 112,000 feds who teleworked this March represent a small fraction of what's possible across agencies.
Auten said that, in addition to revamped management styles and policy changes to encourage telework where applicable, agencies could steal a page from the private sector's innovative mobile work efforts.
Cisco Systems, for instance, experimented with mobile work pilot programs as far back at 1996, and now 89 percent of its workforce works remotely at least once per week, according to senior manager Kacey Carpenter. Could the government ever hope to match those numbers?
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You touched on it, old school wants to see personel on the floor and show them fear and scare tactics. That is how they worked in the old days or most of them, now people are not afraid of loosing there jobs and moving on to another job that works with them and gives them room to grow. Telework is great for some people and that is the option that we need to give them. Knowing how to measure those options would be a plus for Supervisors. Yes, you do not want to have your thumb on top but at least make sure that progress is being done on there work in a timely manner. So, yes it can be done it is just a matter of working with your people.
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Wow, I must say, I have found heaven in avacados, eggs, honey and cornstarch.
I started using honey & eggs on my face and hair about a month ago. It is really making a difference. I have "normal" skin. Finally. I'm 30... I had rather oily skin, NOT acne prone at all but just oily, thru my 20's. Well finally it's "drying out" or something and I can use higher moisture products and natural things (like honey) on my face.
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I LOVE my cornstarch. It is so wonderful. My skin has been looking radiant and I credit it to the cornstarch mixed with just a tad of loose powder.
Another thing I do (for the bleaching effect) is mix baking soda with powdered milk and an egg white. Beat it up real good, til it's frothy and kind of thick. Put it on your face and after about 15 minutes it will harden. Then just wash it off with COLD water.
I am so happy I'm finally to this point... during my teens and twenties I had oily skin and I over-inundated it with all those zit medicines. I think truthfully, I was overdrying my skin and my skin would overcompensate by sending too much oil to the pores! But now that I moisterize day and night and use the cornstarch, my skin has zero problems.
Kris you should try the honey and pulverized oatmeal on your face! It is awesome! It looks like someone got sick on your face (that is what my daughter told me, anyway) but your skin is sooo soft afterwards.
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And this class, is why we use explicit type casting and do sanity checks (checking limits) prior to processing. Now, if you'll look on your screens, you'll see another example of this. Here is a failed mission to Mars, caused because the wrong unit of measurement was put into the computer, a problem caused by the lack of the human brain's compiler to make use of any data type except 'variant' and 'object'... So, what have we learned?
That Ada prevails in all things?
Well, I suspect that you're being snarky, but you have a point. Sort of, in the sense that "If we can't trust the programmers to write good code, always, then we can force them to use a language that at least forestalls the worst of their blunders."
The real issue, of course, is NOT technical, at the programmer/developer level, for such a project. It's administrative, in the sense that, regardless of the chosen programming language, bad code that would allow this should NE
So, what have we learned?
That C is scaryscary and we're too lazy to do type checking, so we'll keep using the trendy, make-money-now languages, treating this as an outlier that won't happen to us, since we're so smart?
So, what have we learned?
That 2^31 gold ought to be enough for anybody?
That 2^31 gold ought to be enough for anybody?
Gryfindor loses 50 points.
So, what have we learned?
That next time when we launch something headed to Mars, we should duct tape you to it, with a sign that reads:
if (ego > INT_MAX)
airsupply = INT_MAX+1;
Let us know what Mars is like, and take some pretty pictures while there. Try not to upset the rovers too much, once their clock overflows they get quite moody.
So, what have we learned?
Gamers gonna game, and real money auction houses are a bad idea...
[...] real money auction houses are a bad idea...
Some of us knew this a long, long time ago. I have to admit, I'm feeling terribly smug right now.
So, what have we learned?
To always use 64-bit numbers, duh.
One bug, which I reported about WoW two years ago, shows an integer underflow on a character statistics page under certain conditions. It still hasn't been fixed. Minor? Yeah, but give a bit of a pattern.
... So, what have we learned?
That Blizzard did a piss poor job in bug checking? That they didn't do enough QA assurance and brought this problem onto itself?
Nah... It ain't that. It is the PLAYERS that did all the wrongdoing!
I remember the day when you could strip the gear off anyone playing a multiplayer game with the trainer. I usually used it on jerks who came in collecting ears. If someone came in you could quickly look at their inventory and if they had several ears you could clear out their inventory and gear. They wouldn't know visually until they tried to hit you at which time they would be completely naked. It was really fun when they re-spawned and came back to loot their body and you started dropping some of the ears they collected on the ground.
What a beginner's mistake. I wonder what the rationale was for not using a 64-bit integer; "It's wasteful!"
It's simple really...
They elected to buy 2 newbie programmers for the price of 1 experienced one! And the new guys will work all night! It's win-win!
How quaint. I can't remember the last time I saw one of those (except where deliberately created for loop counters etc.).
well, this serves more as an example of how fucked up the game economics already were in D3, because the problem came up from having to increase stack sizing from 1 to 10 million.
I mean, wtf, is diablo 3 set in zimbabwe?
Its a game where money is not really "destroyed", but created everytime a monster is killed. OF COURSE it has inflation.
What could Blizzard do? Performing a roll-back would wipe all progress obtained by players for the patch day, which would result in a lot of bad PR. But leaving the economy as-is will devalue all items in the game (and Diablo III is all about getting items).
In the end, Blizzard has not done a roll-back, but instead banned anyone who duped, and refunded anyone who spent real money. The bug was temporarily fixed by reverting the patch note which caused the entire mess.
Why would rolling back 1 day of gameplay be such a disastrous event?
What could Blizzard do? Performing a roll-back would wipe all progress obtained by players for the patch day, which would result in a lot of bad PR. But leaving the economy as-is will devalue all items in the game (and Diablo III is all about getting items).
In the end, Blizzard has not done a roll-back, but instead banned anyone who duped, and refunded anyone who spent real money. The bug was temporarily fixed by reverting the patch note which caused the entire mess.
Why would rolling back 1 day of gameplay be such a disastrous event?
why? because people spent actual money and made actual money?
IIs that even possible? Are they keeping backups of the game state for every single day?
So far as I know, most online games have a transaction store, so they can roll back to any second they want.
uh, are you kidding?
It's because people paid for a game, were force-fed always-online-even-for-single-player, and then may have spent hours playing on the day in question.
How is that not disastrous?
Why would rolling back 1 day of gameplay be such a disastrous event?
So you wouldn't mind paying $250 for an item, and then lose the item due to Blizzard rolling back?
Lazy programers with no foresight.
It is same reason people "assumed" a 32-bit IP address would be enough instead of just using 64-bit from the beginning.
There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over!
I think to be fair if most of us were developing a military network in the 60s/70s we might think that 16.7 million addresses is enough. The real blunder was assigning millions and millions to companies and institutions that didn't need them, but again when there is no management structure and no money to set one up and it's a research project anyway...
The biggest failure has been our inability to do anything about it. My ISP hasn't even heard of IPv6 and they are one of the largest.
I think to be fair if most of us were developing a military network in the 60s/70s we might think that 16.7 million addresses is enough. The real blunder was assigning millions and millions to companies and institutions that didn't need them, but again when there is no management structure and no money to set one up and it's a research project anyway...
The biggest failure has been our inability to do anything about it. My ISP hasn't even heard of IPv6 and they are one of the largest.
Well, back then, we used
Lazy programers with no foresight.
Yes, it couldn't possibly have been the result of time pressure the developer was under...
In general, it's a good idea to used signed ints whenever possible.
Here are the only 2 reasons I see for unsigned ints:
- matching hardware or wire spec
- You need the extra range afforded, and don't need negative numbers.
And the reasons for using signed integers otherwise:
- It prevents other overflow and comparison problems. Ie, fixes other dumb coding issues like "if (my_gold - your_gold > 0)" becomes a bug when the gold types are unsigned.
You couldn't be more wrong. Signed ints are usually the best way to go in C/C++.
>in C an unsigned int must behave in a very predictable manor
"unsigned int x = -3;" generates no compile errors or warnings.
If you don't believe me, listen to the creator of C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup):
"The unsigned integer types are ideal for uses that treat storage as a bit array. Using an unsigned instead of an int to gain one more bit to represent positive integers is almost never a good idea. Attempts to ensure that some values are positive by declaring variables unsigned will typically be defeated by the implicit conversion rules."
Too bad you're an AC. This post is spot-on.
Mixing signed and unsigned values can result in unexpected behavior. Trust me, don't mix them if you can avoid it.
You get a bit of a larger upper range (2x more, not all that much really), while introducing a whole new set of problems at the bottom end (what if you underfow?).
Avoid unsigned unless there's a good reason to use it. There are definitely good reasons -- it's a pain that Java got rid of unsigned! -- but avoid in general. Don't just use unsigned if y
You couldn't be more wrong. Signed ints are usually the best way to go in C/C++.
Actually, he's not wrong at all. He said signed integers don't behave in a very predictable manner, and he's right. Signed integers have undefined (actually, to be more precise, implementation-defined) behavior for mod and div of negative values. You cannot be sure whether -4 / 3 is -1 or -2, without knowing how your compiler implements it. Some round toward zero, others toward negative infinity. Recent drafts of C++ are trying to fix this.
"unsigned int x = -3;" generates no compile errors or warnings.
This supports the point of the poster you were referring to. The code is correct, predictable, and generates no warnings.
If you don't believe me, listen to the creator of C++
C and C++ are different languages. The implicit conversion rules and the promotion rules are different in C++ to C. In C, unsigned types always promote to unsigned types. But in C++, unsigned types may promote to signed ones, if the value fits in the signed range.
"unsigned int x = -3;" generates no compile errors or warnings.
Yes, but it always generates the same binary value, the same number. It is 100% consistent, where as, for example, the result of dividing a negative signed int is compiler dependent.
In general, it's a good idea to used signed ints whenever possible.
Says who?
In C, signed ints have a whole lot of problems associated with representation and overflow. But unsigned ints have well-defined behaviour in every circumstance. They wrap around in case of overflow or an out-of-range assignment. You can safely test, set and reset individual bits.
With signed ints, you can raise a signal (triggering a signal handler, or aborting the program if there is no handler) if there is overflow or underflow. Using '^', '|' or '&' on signed values can trap due to creating
The summary is wrong, they used an unsigned int and the overflow occured at 2^32.
Integer underflow. Imagine a situation where a player has 100 gold and a bug in the code subtracts 101 gold for whatever reason. If you use a 32-bit unsigned integer, that player now has 4,294,967,295 gold. A 64-bit unsigned is even worse, of course.
A simple if statement would catch this as well, right? But think of how often you do addition and subtraction (and everything else) throughout your code! Do you put an if around each one? Can you handle the error situation in each case? How do you ensure that you found every addition and subtraction, including future changes?
A better solution is to make a Money class with well-defined operations, and throw an exception if you try to exceed the boundaries. Sounds easy
This is not an easy problem to solve for non-trivial software, which is why bugs like this come up periodically.
A simple if statement would catch this as well, right? But think of how often you do addition and subtraction (and everything else) throughout your code! Do you put an if around each one?
I use a program to automatically put a try-catch-finally statement around every line of code including my try-catch statements. When I'm contracting, no one can read my code so they'll have to hire me to fix or update anything. When I'm a permanent employee, then the number of lines of code I generate grows significantly so the bosses think I'm a great and productive programmer. Profit!
Baldur's Gate stored various things as unsigned shorts, IIRC.
There was a monster called the nishruu that would drain charges off your magic items. So after one combat, I found I now had a charged magic item with 32,000-ish charges on it.
Since the gold value of magic items was proportional to the number of charges remaining, I sold it and never needed to worry about money again in the game.
I mainly program in Java, so my natural reaction was using BigInteger. [oracle.com] I'm pretty sure someone already made something like that for C++ too [stackoverflow.com]
Sorry, the above stackoverflow link wanted to be this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/124332/c-handling-very-large-integers [stackoverflow.com]
Basically this exact thing happened to Kingdom of Loathing... like 9 years ago... at a time when that game was basically still in beta, and was basically the work of two people, neither of whom would actually have called themselves "programmers" at the time... as opposed to the work of a giant team of professionals releasing a triple-A title... that is mega hilarious.
(Black Sunday: August 8th, 2004, someone discovers that using a particular item, "meat vortex", which under normal circumstances subtracts a handful of the game's currency from your inventory, if you had 0 meat would instead wrap around and give you max meat minus a few, because the game was storing meat in an unsigned int. Fun times!)
Those who froget the past are doomed to repeat it: Asheron's call had a similar issue back in 99-2000 era.
I discovered a bug with the gold in Pirates! while watching somebody play on my roommate's Mac (we were stationed in Okinawa on Camp Kinser)... he went into port with damage, and while he did not have enough money, it offered to repair his damaged ships for more money than he had.
Needless to say, the underflow was done to a UINT16 used to track gold (in 10-gold increments), so you'd end up with around 655350 gold after the transaction. That kept your crews happy, and let you buy lots of things.
I also enjoyed the mental image of 1200 pirates hanging off a sloop after I sold off my fleet.
We put in ungodly hours into that game.
Diablo III is not an MMO. You are capped at what, 4 people in a game at once? A massively multiplayer online game allows a lot more than that.
If they had used actual bitcoins instead of simulated fiat gold, their simulated economy wouldn't be having simulated inflation.
Economically, I don't understand how game companies are able to turn a profit on a title with those kinds of restrictions and ongoing costs. As a small example, lets say one of your servers can host 200 users at a time, but the server cost $20k, thats $100 per concurrent user before you turn the thing on. Maybe it can host 2000 users at a time, sure but thats still $10 per concurrent user before you turn it on or pay any support personnel, or for space on the floor. Surely, over the life of your product, you would be operating a negative margin without some sort of subscription service.
They do it by selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and assume that not every user will log in simultaneously 24/7, and that some users will abandon the game shortly after purchase. Oversubscription leads to higher profit margins at the cost of release day meltdowns.
We duped our gold the way God intended: by pulling an item out of our belt as we picked it up.
Kids these days....
I'm not sure how this is a big deal?
After all, pretty soon the only other person still playing is going to know what's going on.
There's only one answer to every problem, that's create more money! There wasn't a bug in the servers, Blizzard just consulted with the FED.
2^31 = 2,147,483,648 = $21,474,836.48 when counted in pennies. I once worked for a software company where a call came into the support desk from one of our customers accounting departments. Once their sales reached a certain point, their books were suddenly off by exactly that amount (minus 1 cent). While everybody else was scratching their heads about the missing 21 million dollars, I recognized the number, and knew exactly what the problem was. They were storing the number as a 32 bit signed int wh
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