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Tallahassee, Florida - The state of Florida issues some common-sense reminders that could make the difference between life and death in Florida's broiling hot summer sun.
The temperature inside a car can soar to 200 degrees and pose a deadly threat to children and pets. Children's bodies are more vulnerable to extreme heat and they can suffer fatal heat stroke in just minutes.
Now Florida is launching a new campaign called "Look Before You Lock."
One study finds the main reason kids are left behind in cars is because parents simply forget that a child is in the back seat.
Erin Gillespie of the Department of Children and Families says the campaign urges adults to use a backup system to remind them about little ones in the car.
"It's hard for people to believe that you could forget your child in the car but it actually does happen. Usually parents get out of their routine. The baby may be sleeping in the back and they simply forget. So we would ask parents to have a reminder: tie a ribbon around their steering wheel, leave their purse or some other item in the back seat so they always have to go in the back seat and check the car. Make sure there are no children in there before they lock the door."
Since cars can heat up so fast in Florida, you should never purposely leave a young child in a vehicle even for just a few minutes.
Gillespie says state law makes it a crime to leave a child younger than six unattended in a car for more than 15 minutes.
"But really 15 minutes is too long. A child could die in the heat in less than 15 minutes."
If a child is seriously injured or killed after being left behind in a car, the adult can face up to five years in prison.


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Ang Yee's House: Satun's little gem
Despite being a gateway to picturesque Thale Ban National Park, Ko Lipe, and Malaysia's Langkawi Island, the sleepy town of Satun in Thailand's far southwest remains quite off the mass tourism radar. The town itself is surrounded by scenic limestone cliffs and mountains, has a good local night market, and is home to a unique and peaceful mix of Thai and Muslim Malay cultural influences. It also happens to be home to one of the region's most compelling and artistic boutique guesthouses -- Ang Yee's House.
A standout among the otherwise unimpressive and often crumbling hotels in Satun, Ang Yee's makes a visit to Satun worthwhile. The owner grew up in the building across the street, and after spending some 16 years as an artist, bartender and rock-climbing instructor in Krabi and Ko Samui, he returned to his hometown to turn his vision of a guesthouse and art cafe into a reality.
Approaching Ang Yee's at night, the first thing I noticed was a giant blood red painting of a Chinese style laughing Buddha shimmering in subdued light on the wall outside. The entrancing red lights of the open air bar area lured me further, and once I took a seat in the impressive cafe and garden area, I felt like I was either dreaming or someone slipped some special mushrooms in my tom yum. Whatever it was, I liked it.
The entire guesthouse is a work of art. It's a tad odd and occult but tasteful and exceptionally creative with an atmosphere that's soothing and inspiring all at once. Soft red lamps and quiet yet evocative acoustic music set the mood. Unique Asian-inspired paintings and stained glass windows occupy carefully chosen sections of the dark maroon, amber and purple walls. Ancient tea pots and Buddha statuettes are arranged on spacious shelves. Classic Italian-style crystal chandeliers hang from the high ceilings along with red lanterns. Upstairs, dozens of candles and potted plants cast spooky shadows on deep red walls and dark wooden floors and doorways. The entire place smells of rose petals.
The guesthouse occupies a centuries-old wooden building down a quiet Satun lane. A distinct spookiness pervades the building. It's the kind of place where one wouldn't be surprised to push back a book case and find a hidden passage to some other worldly labyrinth, or notice that the eyes on some of the old portraits seem to be looking in a different direction every few minutes. Indeed, the guesthouse would be a highly suitable venue for a costume party.
Don't let the spookiness factor deter you, however. The guesthouse only offers six rooms, each unique in its own way, but all feature big, comfortable beds with elaborate, artsy bed spreads. Each room has a small desk and some have spacious balconies, but don't expect any TVs here -- they would kill the mood. All rooms share two bathrooms, but with each being a little garden utopia unto itself, I doubt you'll mind.
Rooms are available with fan or air-con and cost 300 to 550 baht -- exceptional value. There's a full bar and restaurant on site, WiFi is free, they rent out bicycles and motorbikes and offer Thai massage at reasonable rates, and they'll be happy to help you find your way to Malaysia, Ko Lipe, or just about anywhere else you wish to go.
Satun might not be on your short list of top travel destinations, but do yourself a favour if you are passing through -- head for some of the most unique digs I've ever come across. Grab a seat at the bar, or out back in the garden, and let yourself drift away into Ang Yee's world for a while.
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The relinquishment will allow ShaMaran to focus on Atrush and Taza, considered to be its most prospective blocks. Pulkhana and Arbat were not as prospective as anticipated, ShaMaran said.
General Exploration Partners Inc. and Marathon Petroleum KDV BV plan to complete a 3D seismic survey in the current quarter over an April 2011 discovery on Atrush. The plan to drill an appraisal well in the second quarter and later install an early production system. ShaMaran owns 33.5% of GEP, which has 80% interest in Atrush, and Marathon has 20%.
Meanwhile, the first well on Taza, formerly Block K42, is to be drilled in the 2012 second quarter. Oil Search Iraq Ltd. operates Taza with 60% interest, and ShaMaran and the KRG each hold 20%.
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SAN ANTONIO - Gov. Rick Perry is done.
Perry announced Monday that he would not seek re-election as governor.
"The time has come to pass on the mantle of leadership," Perry said.
He made the declaration just after quoting from the book of Ecclesiastes about a time for every season.
Perry, 63, has the record for longest serving governor of Texas. He is in his third full term and would have been running for a fourth full term.
Perry made his announcement against a backdrop of bulldozers and backhoes and a barrage of fans near the front of the podium at the Holt Cat dealership in San Antonio.
The governor is a fifth-generation Texan and a Texas A&M graduate.
Perry has focused on conservative idealism as a job creation fiscal policy. He told a conservative think tank earlier this year that creating jobs should be the first priority of the state government. He touted creating 1.6 million jobs since he became governor.
Perry started his political career in 1985, representing rural West Texas as a state House member. He was first elected to statewide office in 1990 as the Texas commissioner of agriculture and served two terms.
According the governor's office website, Perry comes from Paint Creek, "a small farming community north of Abilene. ... Between 1972 and 1977, Governor Perry served in the United States Air Force, flying C-130 tactical airlift aircraft in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East."
Conservative organizations such as the Tea Party have leveled complaints against Perry for using government money as a "deal closer" to bring in or expand companies with his Texas Enterprise Fund, calling it "corporate welfare."
The Holt CAT headquarters where Perry spoke Monday is owned by Peter Holt, a major contributor to Perry and a former appointee to the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Even so, Perry said he has stood against the grain.
"My conservative philosophy and policies have frequently made government agencies, special interests and even a few legislators uncomfortable," Perry said.
During the announcement Perry went into a swan-song litany of Texas accomplishments: tort reform, halting major tax hikes, and not expanding Medicaid. He also applauded the protection of the "unborn," even as the state Senate in Austin held a hearing on a major piece of legislation that could limit abortion access statewide as part of Perry's second special session this year.
"Texas works because we have less government, less spending, fair regulations and lower taxes," Perry said. "No other state can match what we accomplished together."
Presidential possibilities
Perry failed in his inaugural run at national politics, entering the 2012 Republican primary for president late in the game. His best-remembered gaffe from that campaign came in a nationally televised debate when he forgot the name of one of the three federal departments he intended to eliminate.
He did not rule out the possibility of another run at the presidential spot.
"Any future considerations I will announce in due time," Perry said.
Later, while Perry shook hands with supporters after the announcement, a reporter asked him whether he might run again for president. "That's so far down the road," Perry said.
Bill Miller, a government affairs lobbyist, said that he shared a meal with Perry on Thursday and that the governor seemed to be readying for a run at the president again.
"I got the unmistakable sense that he wanted to try again," Miller said. During his last run he didn't "show his best side," he said.
Keeping out of the governor's race should give Perry more time to prepare, Miller suggested.
"He is going to get real serious about the race," Miller said.
Asked whether his poor performance in 2012 would come back to haunt him, Miller pointed to candidates such as Anthony Weiner in New York running again, a politician who posted a picture of himself in his underwear on the social media site Twitter.
"You see candidates with far worse problems running again," Miller said. "The culture forgives, but it doesn't always forget."
The new state of the state
Perry's departure next year from the state's top public office might not change the Republican-centric nature of Texas politics, but it will put many faces in new places.
"It opens up long-awaited opportunities in the Republican Party," said Jim Henson, a University of Texas political science professor and the director of UT's Texas Politics Project.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is considered a front-runner for the Republican primary nomination for governor now that Perry has confirmed he will be out of the picture for 2014. Abbott has yet to make his candidacy formal.
On the Democratic side, Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, has become an overnight national sensation after leading a filibuster that blocked an abortion regulation bill at the end of this year's first special session. Her filibuster, combined with a raucous crowd in the Capitol, killed the bill at a midnight deadline June 25, forcing Perry to call a second special session to get the legislation passed.
Democrats still face an uphill battle in their organization, Henson said, but the opportunity for a statewide position will be there.
The governor's position will hold less power overall because the new governor will need to learn the ropes and won't have the solid influence in areas such as appointees. Perry's longevity "really made the governor's position a much more powerful position than it had been historically," Henson said. "The next person doesn't come in with quite that array."
Texas will have a new political landscape with people in their new roles, Miller said.
"Things are going to change, and they will change a lot," Miller said. "It's a new day."
Matthew Waller covers the Legislature for Scripps Newspapers and works in Austin. Contact him at email@example.com, or follow him on Twitter @waller_matthew.
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Backway´s Physical Therapy, PLLC
- 1984:Hellerwork Structural Integration (including Postural Realignment through Myofascial Release and Neuromuscular Reeducation)
- 1979-1984:Maitland Spinal Joint Mobilization Technique
- 1988:Yoga Teachers' Training Certification
- 2006 to present:Certified Continuing Education Provider for the National Athletic Trainers' Board of Certification (BOC Certified)
- 2000-2008:Upledger Institute/Barral Institute: Osteopathic Visceral Mobilization Techniques
- 2008:Biomechanics of Alignment: a 4-course series accredited by the International Association of Structural Integrators
- 2009:Board Certification in Structural Integration (this certification was newly created in 2007, and Ms. Backway's participation in the creation & testing of certification exam questions did not allow her to sit for the exam until 2009)
- 2010-2011:The Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes (a 6-month course of study of the work of Shirley Sahrmann, PT)
- 2012-2014:Osteoporosis, a Comprehensive Treatment Strategy (The Meeks Method)
- Industrial Safety and Ergonomics
- Myofascial Release and Advanced Structural Integration Trainings
- Therapeutic Touch
- Bowen Technique
- CranioSacral Therapy
- Temporo-Mandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJD) treatment
- Functional Orthopedics
- Sacral and Pelvis mechanical function and dysfunction
- Orthopedic Manual Therapy courses with a variety of instructors, including Stanley Paris, Greg Johnson, Robert O'Donnell, Donna Bajelis, Audrey Coleman and John Barnes.
- Treating chronic, complex disorders, where clients have multiple areas of pain and dysfunction
- Postural Imbalances; Scoliosis; Scheuermann's Kyphosis
- Certified Continuing Education Provider in the areas of Injury/Illness Prevention and Wellness Protection, Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis, Treatment and Rehabilitation; and Professional Health and Well-being (through the National Athletic Trainers Board of Certification)
- Faculty member for Hellerwork International
- Discussing Physical Therapy's benefits and suitability with members of the Prescott community.
- American Physical Therapy Association
- International Association of Structural Integrators
- American Hellerwork Structural Integration Association
- Certificate of Clinical Competence from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
- Videostroboscopy and Voice Disorder Training
- LSVT Loud Certified Clinician.
- Additional Continuing Education Courses have been attended in CranioSacral Therapy and Somato-Emotional Release.
- Voice Disorders
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Swallowing Disorders
- Pediatric Feeding
- Craniosacral Therapy
- CVA/Stroke/Aphasia
- Alzheimer's
- Cognitive and Communication Disorders
- Parkinson's Disease
- Temporo-Mandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ Disorders)
- LSVT Loud
- Licensed Physical Therapist
- Visceral Manipulation Teaching Apprentice
- Visceral Manipulation Certified Teaching Assistant
- CranioSacral Therapy Teaching Assistant
- Lymphatic Drainage Therapy Teaching Assistant
- Advanced Visceral Manipulation
- Cranial and Peripheral Nerve Glide
- CranioSacral Therapy
- Advanced Lymphatic Drainage Therapy
- Pediatric Therapy
- Muscle Energy Techniques
- Joint Mobilization
- Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) & Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)
approaches to Neurological Issues.
- Soft Tissue Mobilization,
- Myofascial Release,
- Cranio-sacral Therapy,
- TMJ treatment;
- Functional Orthopedics;
- Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF);
- Muscle Energy Technique (MET);
- Strain-Counterstrain Osteopathic Technique;
- Sacral and Pelvic mechanical dysfunctions;
- Cervical and Lumbar Spine mobilization.
- Myofascial Release
- Movement Impairment Systems - taught by Karen Donahue – the landmark work of Shirley Sahrmann, PT
- Meeks Method – exercises for Osteoporosis
- Manual Therapy/MFR (Myofascial Release)
- Outpatient Neurologic Rehabilitation for Stroke and other neurological conditions
- Neuromuscular Reeducation
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation, including therapy for joint replacements, fractures, sprains and strains
- Treatment/Rehabilitation of both acute and chronic Low Back and Neck pain
- Evaluating and reeducating movement patterns
- Osteopathic Visceral Mobilization Techniques (Barral Institute)
- Myofascial Release
- The Hesch Method for treating Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction
- Joint Mobilization and Joint Manipulation techniques
- Muscle Energy Techniques (an Osteopathic technique)
- General Orthopedics
- Preventative Care and Musculo-skeletal Wellness Training
- Pre-operative and Post-operative treatment for all Orthopedic surgery patients
- Total Knee and Total Hip Joint Replacement
- Acute injuries of the Shoulder, Knee, Back, Neck, Ankle and Foot
- Arthritis
- Headaches
- Benign Paroxysmal Positioning Vertigo
- Geriatric Rehabilitation
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- CranioSacral Therapy,
- myofascial release,
- therapeutic touch,
- neuromuscular therapy,
- ethics and decision making in PT practice,
- Pelvic and Leg realignments through soft tissue mobilization
- patients needing pre-operative and post-operative care for joint replacements (hip, knee and shoulder)
- orthopedic injuries and dysfunction,
- osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis,
- spinal stenosis,
- multiple sclerosis,
- diabetes,
- chronic fatigue,
- fibromyalgia,
- sleep apnea,
- pelvis and leg malalignments
Backway's Physical Therapy, PLLC: By scheduling one patient per hour, we emphasize quality, individualized therapy programs, performed only by licensed Physical Therapists and Speech Therapists. Our group of independent practitioners uses a team approach to facilitate improved patient care. Together, we offer a well-rounded slate of services to your patients.
Ruth Backway, PT, CHP, BCSILicensed Physical Therapist
Certified Hellerwork Practitioner
Board Certified Structural Integrator
PT Training:Ms. Backway graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy in 1976 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
Honors: Dean's List 1974-1976
Additional Trainings and Certifications:
Ruth has exceptional skill and has helped me regain my life and my ability to be gainfully employed. Ruth's work is phenomenal, and I wish there were more people with her skill and training.
Numerous additional continuing education classes have been attended in the following areas:
When someone is injured, their body parts no longer work together in a coordinated, seamless fashion. My job is to carefully assess my clients' structure, movement patterns and alignment, looking for clues that will help us work together to restore their body's function and enable them to move and play with less pain.
Hobbies:Yoga & meditation, Ballroom dancing, Hiking
Current Community or Professional Service:
Current Memberships:
Licensed Speech & Language Pathologist
Speech Therapist
Speech Therapy Training: Ms. Bierschwale graduated in 2002 with a BS in Communication Disorders from Texas State University in San Marcos, and in 2004 from Texas Tech University Health Science Center with a Masters in Science in Speech-Language Pathology.Additional Trainings and Certifications:
Hobbies: Running, hiking, volleyball, softball, reading, mountain biking and sewing
Community or Professional Service:
Ms. Bierschwale provides lectures & presentations to local groups, including Parkinson's Support Groups, Stroke Support Groups, and Alzheimer's Support Groups.
Ms. Bierschwale has been a guest lecturer for the NAU Graduate Speech Pathology Voice Class.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Prescott Area Young Professionals – currently serving as the service chairperson
Prescott Chamber of Commerce – currently serving on the Board of Directors
Peter Coppola, PT
Licensed Physical Therapist
Professional Credentials:
Osteopathic Manual Techniques
By some act of grace, I found Peter Coppola and Ruth Backway at Backway's Physical Therapy on South McCormick St. in downtown Prescott.
I would encourage anyone needing specialized Physical Therapy to seek out these two Physical Therapists.
Traditional Physical Therapy Techniques:
Unique Qualities:
I moved into private practice to further develop and deliver a synthesis of Holistic manual therapy and traditional PT techniques to a wider variety of clients. Prior to this move, I completed several years within the Public Education and Home Care arenas, working with Developmentally Delayed and Handicapped Children and Adults. I also draw on my experiences in the Skilled Nursing Facility, and Hospital Rehabilitation units working with Post Surgical and Traumatic Brain Injury clients.
Utilizing a Whole Body Approach I target the body's natural self corrective mechanisms and encouraging the client to take an active role in supporting their general well being.
I have competed in and coached at a high level of Athletics, including earning High School All American Status as a Swimmer, competing at National Volleyball competitions and various levels of Baseball.
My strength is taking successful athletes and helping them streamline their movement patterns and techniques for efficiency and power.
Professional Passion:
Delivering the highest quality of care to clients that not only directly supports their well being, but educates them in ways to maintain health and prevent future issues.
Advancing the learning in my community, of health care professionals, to enable all of us to support our clients in the most effective and efficient ways.
Working with clients who have previously had limited results with traditional therapies.
Competitive Indoor and Outdoor Volleyball, Swimming, Running, Triathlons, Skiing, Hiking, Rock Climbing, and Golf.
Licensed Physical Therapist
PT Training: Esther graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Physical Therapy in 1986, from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Additional Trainings and Certifications:
Certified in the Trager Method of Neuromuscular Reeducation.
Numerous additional continuing education classes have been attended in:
...I have gotten my life back, my feeling of joy, and found a therapist I can truly trust.
After just a few treatments with Esther Greenwald (which included fixing my slipped pelvis), my headaches and deep pain went away.
I have been a Physical Therapist since 1986, working in a wide variety of settings over the years. It is my experience that the hands-on approach to treatment yields the most optimal results for improvement, and is the most satisfying to both the therapist and the client. There is no substitute for the healing touch of the human hand. It is essential for the therapist to understand the relationship between all parts of the body and how they interact with each other, as well as the relationship between the mind, body and heart within the individual.
Specialties: Although I am well-trained to perform general Physical Therapy, my strengths are in using Manual Therapy Techniques to treat Orthopedic disorders; Chronic and Acute Pain; Temporo-Mandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJD); Headaches; and Fibromyalgia.
Hobbies: music, reading, writing and exercise.
Licensed Physical Therapist
Certified Exercise Expert for the Aging Adult
PT Training:
Master of Science in PT: 1992, Simmons College, Boston MA
Bachelors of Science in Human Movement and Performance: 1985, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Additional Trainings and Certifications:
Certified Osteoporosis Exercise Specialist, Meeks' Institute.
Certified Exercise Expert for Aging Adults, APTA
Primary Neuromusculoskeletal Screener, US Navy.
Health Promotion Coordinator, US Navy, Cooper Institute
Certified Ballroom Dance Instructor, DVIDA
None of these other PTs that I worked with came close to strengthening my leg to the point that it would bear my weight...
Now, due entirely to the expert, dedicated, insightful and innovative efforts of Marti Henshaw PT (at Backways') I now have 2 good legs and can walk with a confidence that I haven't known in years. I have even started playing table tennis again...
Osteoporosis and Spinal Stenosis
Geriatric Strengthening
Peripheral Balance Disorders and Fall Prevention
Exercise really is medicine.
Marti "walks her talk" when it comes to the importance of staying physically active. She is an avid runner and swimmer, and to maintain bone strength and quality, strength trainer.
She has been helping people of all ages regain mobility since 1992. She's a native of the San Diego, California area, but has had the luck to live in Vancouver, British Columbia; Boston, Massachusetts; Chesapeake, Virginia; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Twentynine Palms, California, before finding a home in Prescott.
Marti has served residents of the Prescott area since 1998, working at Yavapai Regional Medical Center before joining Backway's Physical Therapy in 2004.
Hobbies: Running, swimming, sailing, strength training, sewing, knitting, reading, travel
Community or Professional Service:
Marti served our country as an officer in the US Navy from 1992-1998. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant, she worked as a Physical Therapist at Naval Medical Centers and Hospitals in Portsmouth, Virginia; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Twentynine Palms, CA. She earned the Navy Achievement Medal and Humanitarian Service Award.
Marti has taught beginning ballroom classes at the Prescott Adult Center, Yavapai College and Mountain Oak Charter School.
American Physical Therapy Association, Orthopedic and Geriatric sections
Arizona Physical Therapy Association
National Osteoporosis Foundation
American College of Sports Medicine
Ellen Landowski, PT
Licensed Physical Therapist
Professional Credentials:
Ms. Landowski graduated in 1990, with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from Daemen College, Amherst, NY.
After her licensure, Ellen first worked in New York State and then took a variety of travel positions that have allowed her to see our country and the people who live in it in a very up-close and personal way.
She has had a wide variety of Physical Therapy experiences, from working with some school-age children (Pediatrics) to working with senior adults (Geriatrics), as well as many years of experience using manual therapies, therapeutic agents & modalities, neuromuscular reeducation and therapeutic exercise in acute, out-patient, and long-term orthopedic & neurologic rehabilitation settings.
Additional Trainings and Certifications
"I am interested and committed to:
helping patients find and resolve root causes of injury;
rebalancing their postures;
correcting movement patterns for optimal physial function;
and teaching maintenance programs for posture and back safety."
Travel; Reading; enjoying a good joke and time with close friends and family.
Licensed Physical Therapist
Certified Integrated Manual Therapist
PT Training:
Mr. McKinney graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy in 1998 from Daemen College in Amherst, NY.
Additional Trainings and Certifications:
2013: Certified Integrated Manual Therapist (this curriculum entails the completion of 8 seminars with a certification examination)
In Progress: Life Coach Training
Numerous additional continuing education classes have been attended in the following areas:
After completing my sessions with Justin McKinney as my therapist, I have many days when I am almost pain free in the areas treated.
I also have greatly increased my range of motion and flexibility in the affected areas.
This is a direct result of my treatment there and also by continuing with the exercises he assigned me on a regular basis, morning and night.
"My years of experience have taught me that educating and empowering my patients to care for themselves is vital to obtaining the best results when treating both simple and complex problems.
I also know that touch helps to heal the human body, so I have spent, and continue to spend, a great deal of time developing my manual therapy skills.
These manual skills, along with guided therapeutic exercises, allow me to assist my clients in improving the mobility of their joints and body's tissues so they can move better and have less pain.
For many years, I worked as a Traveler PT, seeing a wide variety of clients in a number of different settings, including Home Health, Acute Care, and Out-patient Orthopedics. In 2013, I joined Backway's PT for the opportunity to spend quality one-on-one time with my patients, in a pleasant, healthy environment. "
Justin has been specializing in Orthopedic Manual Therapy for many years, and has great success in treating patients with problems in the following areas.
Travel, Mountain biking, hiking, and photography.
Community or Professional Service:
Prescott Area Young Professional Association (PAYP)
Extensive medical and youth volunteer work overseas
Provided continuing education classes for rehab professionals in developing nations: Justin's long term goal is to offer quality continuing education to Physical Therapists in developing nations. This provides them with educational opportunities they would not normally have, and allows them to better-serve their patients and strengthen their nations' heath care systems.
Licensed Physical Therapist
PT Training:
Master of Physical Therapy attained in 1998 from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Additional Trainings and Certifications:
Leslie has received continuing education to learn the following techniques:
She has taken additional trainings for treating:
Leslie's goal as a physical therapist is to discover the unique combination of evaluation and treatment techniques that will facilitate each individual's innate healing abilities. She strives to combine education, experience, intuition, and openness to guide herself and her clients throughout this process.
Leslie's specialties include postural assessment and re-alignment, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, therapeutic exercise and manual therapy.
Leslie takes great delight in spending every free minute with her family, undertaking all of the challenges and endeavors children seek out! She also enjoys hiking with her 2 mutts!
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I am going to get right down to it… when a script or template developer compels customers [who pay license fees for the script or template] to advertise the developers website for free is disreputable. There is a slew of website application developers and website designers, who I might add, are charging a hefty some for their work, expecting you to freely advertise their websites, products and/or services. Some developers, such as the slimy Evil Greedy Overlord of CRE Loaded, code advertisements right into the application. So in the end, not only are you paying for the script and/or template, you are also paying the developer to advertise for them… for free! Sounds a bit ass backwards… doesn't it?
If you look at some of the more popular and expense scripts, you can pay upwards of $600 or more for the exclusive right to advertise for the developer. They have you by the short and curlys for the mere reason that the developer coded the script you purchased and he owns that code… not you. There is no legal standard as far as licensing goes so the copyright holder can hold you over the colas and there is little you can do about it, other than to not purchase the wares peddled by these unprofessional, money hungry burglars. I say that is a good first step.
When we custom code a website for a client, there are no strings attached. When the project is finished you don't owe us anymore then was quoted. We don't expect a link on your site to ours. Linking should be optional and up to the domain holder. Sure, we would love a link to our site but we would never force you to link back. As a matter of fact, you would most likely find a link to your site from ours, as it is a way for us to showcase what we have done for previous customers – and we don't expect anything for it.
Due to time restraints, I recently was about to purchase a template from Themes Arena for our blog, that was until I noticed the designer states:
"This license entitles you to use the theme on one domain / website. The copyright information in the footer must remain intact."
I asked Jauhari from Themes Arena the following questions:
ME: "The cost for the single user license is $54.95, which entitles the me to use the template on one domain. So what in reality is the license for and why the free link back to Themes Arena?"
JAUHARI: It is because with single user license you can use only for 1 domain and you can't be able to remove the link back. This premium themes mainly offered good administration and design customize without breaking the codes.
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China, Jauhari? You never answered my question… why the free LINK back to Themes Arena?
ME: "If I am paying for a license, shouldn't that also relieve me of the link back requirement?"
JAUHARI: "This is standard license in almost Premium Themes available on the net, for single license that needed to keep the copyright, excluded the developer license."
So what you are saying is your GREEDY? Or, are you saying that if other website designers started jumping in front of moving cars you would also? I never questioned the copyright, just the free LINK.
ME: "Do you think it is fair to charge customers a fee for your time and effort and then force them to provide free advertisements to your site?"
JAUHARI: "If you need to remove the link you need to bought the developer license."
Jauhari obviously translates a copyright notice or license into free advertising too. Hello? That's not the purpose of the copyright or license. A copyright gives the author [or creator] of an original work exclusivity, usually for a limited time. It also gives the copyright holder the right to be recognized for the work, to decide who (if anyone) can perform it or modify it to other forms and to profit financially from the work.
According to the U.S. Copyright Office:
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U. S. Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
* To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;
* To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
* To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
* To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works;
* To display the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
* In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
In addition, certain authors of works of visual art have the rights of attribution and integrity as described in section 106A of the 1976 Copyright Act.
Granted, the copyright holder can ask for whatever he wants as compensation for using the copyrighted work but I don't think it gives the copyright holder the right to take advantage of people. You can't have your cake and eat it too, right?
What I am trying to point out is that there are a number of people [and companies] on the Internet that take advantage of consumers. Charging extreme sums for templates or scripts while expecting that the customer continue to reimburse the designer or coder with free advertising, ad infinitum, is taking it too far and as a business owner, I find that disreputable and unnecessary.


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PowerDVD Ultra not playing the default HDCookbook project
Hi there,
I just compiled the default HDCookbook project and tried playing it in PowerDVD Ultra. However, I get and Error 8090000A. What player are you using to test the projects? Any recommendations?
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> Can you please let me know where to get the tool for signing a JAR file and how to sign it ?
There are several for sale, but we also have a free version
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> Ahh,
> signing 00004.jar did the trick!
> Thanks for the help!
By the way, that's documented in the file "player_workarounds.txt".
The BD-J spec and guidelines are quite explicit: Signing a
file that contains assets (and not code) is not required. Signing
00004.jar, which just contains images and sounds, should be considered
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BTW, the reason for this is that it's slower to read things out
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I am a new guy to BD and java.
I have made some BD J application and want to run on cyberlink player. I have all the required files and arranged as per the specification. But, cyberlink player doesn't play them. It shows a blank screen. I think signing will help me run my project on cyberlink. When I browse thru the repo., I found the signing tool. But, there are so many docs and I have got confused what to do. Please let me know in laymans term.
Sorry for the trouble.
Hi Sam,
I just updated the README.txt file at tools/bdsigner in our hdcookbook repository, to include some instruction on how to use this tool. Could you please try it out and let me know if it's clear enough for you to use?
I have successfully compiled the java files and placed as per the instructions. But, when i try to run with arguments, it gives the error of "NoClassDefFoundError".
I don't know where I am doing wrong.
please help....
Can you share the command line you used to run the tool?
well i am thru with the error.... Now, do I have to modify the build.xml for signing jar files ?
Hi there...
Thanks to all... I am thru with the signing of application.
Can I use the same program to create bu.discroot.crt for binding unit authentication ? if yes then what do i need to modify ?
Thanx in advance
No, we haven't really worked with VFS yet. We're hoping to get the credentials working for the our BDSigner next, to allow xlets share files.
Just to follow up on this...
Let me first say a little bit about NDA agreements. Here at Sun, we've signed
NDAs with some of the player makers, so in public places like this forum, we
need to be careful about talking about things like player bugs. The careful reader
might notice that the Sun folks here haven't said anything about what player the
workaround from the player_workarounds.txt file in hdcookbook.dev.java.net is
referring to.
With that said, here's some new text in that file that might be of interest ;-)
Since the report of this bug, we've received a pre-release
version of the player in question that fixes this bug, so this
workaround will soon be obsolete. Please remember that signing
an asset file is generally not recommended, because it increases
launch time.
Hi Peter,
Have you tried applying the workarounds described at trunk/player_workarounds.txt? I don't know what it means to get Error 809000A, but we do know that the image doesn't work properly on certain players. As described in that document, we have not applied workarounds to the
repository code.
If it doesn't work, could you describe in more detail what the failure condition is?
signing 00004.jar did the trick!
Thanks for the help!
Hi there,
Can you please let me know where to get the tool for signing a JAR file and how to sign it ?
thanks in advance
Hi Sam,
the sign tool is part of the hdcookbook svn code. just check out the code, follow the build instructions and add the 00004.jar to the list of signed jars, according to player_workarounds.txt in the project root in order to get the projec to play in PowerDVD.


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Home is basically presented as a very clean, very modern entertainment complex. The core locations are your apartment, a movie theater, a bowling alley, a mall, and a large, open courtyard that connects them all. There are also a few themed locations that exist separate from this virtual gated community, which currently include a bar themed around Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and a dilapidated train station for Far Cry 2. Though it can take a while for everyone's avatar to load whenever you first arrive at a new location, leaving you with a bunch of kinda-creepy translucent ghost avatars, Home has a sharp, clean look to it. People like to say that Home looks like Second Life, which is admittedly fun to say, but it doesn't really hold water. Home is a much smaller, detailed, and tightly structured virtual world. And in Second Life, there's actually stuff to do.
More than the mall that sells virtual cowboy hats for 49 cents or the conspicuous advertising, the biggest immediately apparent problem for Home is that there simply isn't a whole lot to do. In any one location, there's usually only a handful of objects you can interact with. The central plaza features a game where you guide a remote control flying saucer over a small pond, avoiding mines and collecting stars, as well as a communal jukebox stocked with a handful of licensed songs. Go into the single-screen theater, and you'll be treated to a trailer for the movie Twilight, followed by a Paramore music video that, coincidentally, is from the Twilight soundtrack. I guess Sony is anticipating plenty of self-mutilating teenage girls to use Home. Which could be a reason for some to keep using Home, I guess.
The bowling alley is the most action-packed location I've seen in Home so far, with its pool tables, arcade machines, and bowling lanes. One of the small choices in Home that I find stupefying is the fact that the arcade games allow only one player at a time, which means you have to wait your turn if you want to play a light version of Echochrome, or a really crummy Breakout knockoff. You can argue that Home might benefit from trying to emulate some specific details of real life, which is actually a little true for the player limits on the pool tables and the bowling lanes. The truth is that waiting in line to play a game at an arcade sucks. Waiting in line to play a game at an arcade that exists inside of your cutting-edge video game machine is top-shelf lunacy.
But, if growing up in the sticks taught me anything, it's that there's nothing that bored kids like more than causing trouble and generally being disruptive. Here are a few choice excerpts from an IM conversation I'm having with Jeff about his Home experience to prove my point.
Jeff (10:07): I've decided that Home is the greatest thing to happen to the PS3 ever.
Jeff (10:08): Me and five or six other dudes who knew who I am have taken over the arcade and are bullying people into dancing. And text chatting about Gears of War 2 as we do so.
Jeff (10:10): Also, bubble machines.
Jeff (10:28): We are up to eight dancers now! WE WILL NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER
Jeff (10:39): I am now down to a posse of five hardcore dancers.
Jeff (10:41): Giancarlo has joined this savage dance fiesta. We are UNSTOPPABLE.
This probably isn't Home's fault, and maybe this just speaks to the type of easily amused jerk I am, but the most fun I've had with Home so far has been running around and triggering the disapproving double thumbs-down animation at stuff I don't like, which brings me to the point of communication in Home. In a way, Home is just a big, fancy chat room. You can hang out in the public lobbies and just shout at whoever, you can invite some people back to your place for some more exclusive socializing, or you can create and join clubs with like-minded individuals. Like clothing for your avatar and higher-end living quarters, clubs are a premium part of Home. It'll cost you $4.99 to start your own club, and there will be upkeep fees down the road as well.
Home supports headsets and keyboards, and also features a pop-up menu full of canned phrases, so there's plenty of options for how you communicate. In my brief experience, though, it seemed like very few people had keyboards or headsets, and most of the chatting consisted of slangy text-message abbreviations.
I guess the fact that Home is simply a free add-on for the PS3 makes my criticisms against it a little irrelevant. It's not an essential feature, so if you don't like it, you don't have to use it. But stakes are high for Sony right now, and this seems like an odd way for Sony to add value to its console. I don't think it's entirely without potential, but what's being shown in the open beta looks more like framework than a finished Home.


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Well here is his story and some photos of his progress, I have more photos updates but I would be here all night mapping it out.
On April 28th 2011 I was searching online for a horse, like lots of people I had always wanted one and been offered cheap ones and even a free one over the years but I'd never felt ready. I've worked in a riding school for the last 4, nearly 5 years and I always loved riding the new ponies they got in, you could throw anything at me and I wanted to train it. Anyway that all ended after I broke my left elbow very badly..ok I couldn't have broken it worse, there was nothing left of it and now have limited function in my left arm and have lost a lot of strength in my left hand and left arm in general. Anyway so I soon discovered I could not longer handle horses I had been able to previously and decided to get my own horse, I wanted a youngish one, quiet and definitely something cobby, calm and cobby lol. So I'd saved a lot, it was never something I ever thought would happen since I have to pay 100% myself and I was online and I saw these 2 ponies for sale and these photos.
Now me being the big softy I am, I immediately took pity on the pair of them. Almost all my animals have been rescues and I've had, a lot of animals. Anyway, me being the stubborn woman that I am I managed to convince my dad, who said he would pay for the cost of the horse itself as he had just inherited a wee bit of money from his dad, to take me down the country to see this poor wee horse. The above photos pretty much describe how they were living, dirt field, small river down a very steep bank and that was their only water. They had a shelter though it didn't look very used.
Viewing day went well I did all my checks, I did my homework on what to check for and did all the lameness checks but the vet check was nearly as much as the horse and we couldn't afford to get a vet out then so we had to unfortunately pass that which was a big risk but we got that done later. Anyway I rode him and the guy hadn't a clue about horses and I could go on forever about it but I wasn't going to leave that poor pony there, unfortunately his little friend was too wild for me to take but as far as I know it did get rehomed.
Viewing day
So we brought him home and his coat must have had like..4 lice to each strand of hair, I thought he was like suffering from really bad dandruff or something but his coat..moved and I musta bathed him in lice powder and when the vet got there she had to like pour half the bottle of her really strong stuff on him cause he was literally crawling. He also was riddled with redworm and his feet were overgrown. Here's some photos I took on his first day with me. We went and saw him on the morning of the 28th and that night about 9pm, I was at work and my dad phoned me and said he was going to go and buy the pony so really he jumped into it but I'm glad he did.
^ You can see the lice or something on his leg, yum.
This one is about 2-3 days later when I was mixing grass in with his hay, you can see the ridges on his spine. The muscles were there but hung off him like..I dunno like they were just floating under his skin.
I fed him Spillers conditioning mix (I gotta thank them for making awesome feed, for a good price)
Here is...10 days later.
Harry was wormed the day after I got him and the vet came and checked him and saw nothing wrong with him apart from the obvious things (feet, worms, weight, extreme lack of muscle).Harry continued to make progress and had most of June off work as I had GCSEs, and because he had been on so little feed and such poor grass (in that there was virtually none of it) I had to slowly introduce him onto the grass and progress was slow at first.
Here is 1 month from when I got him, May 31st
By the way, his feet look strange because he was out in the gravel arena and theres gravel stuck to his feet xD
Harry showed an amazing enthausiasm to jump, I would leave him out in the outdoor arena by himself and one of the first things he did was take himself over a cross pole one of the other riders had put up (it was about 60-70cm in the middle) and he continues to take himself jumping whenever he can, he will jump anything.
Here are my recent photographs, these are the 4 months on photos:
Here is his first time bareback, with my friend, bareback is not for me lol.
Actually she just put her leg over him and he was fine, didn't put a foot out of place, he kicked his leg at her once when she tried to trot him and he decided against that. She is too big on him but I want him to get used to different sized people on him and she is much stronger than me and I owed her a ride after she helped me with him the other day and she was willing to try him bareback.
At his new yard
Throughout his time with me Harry has showed a real passion for jumping, and he has become more like my friend than my horse. He follows me everywhere, with or without a leadrope, no food bribes needed. He is a 4 year old a heart but he has the wisdom of any older, more experienced horse (most of the time). I have never met a horse with such a love for life.
As far as riding has gone, he was broken last year we reckon and ridden August and September and then I rode him on that viewing day and you never would have known, God knows if they ever trained him at all cause I did a heck of a lot of training and he is still picking up basics now. But he is coming along very well at everyone at the yard loves him, he is just so gentle mannered and so bright. He isn't great at lifting his feet over these lighter poles he now has at his new yard but he'll get there eventually. Training wise, I have used my experience picked up over the years to do all of it and now he is at his new yard he is taking lessons as well to help me nip in those little things and help him move onwards.
You can find videos at annaandharry's Channel - YouTube
Well, that's probably the longest thing you've ever read and that's only half of it, I didn't include the blood, sweat, tears and torrential downpours I had to endure to get to this stage. I'm not saying it was easy but I'd encourage you to rescue a horse, I know it has made the world of difference to my Harry, I could have left him in that field and got some perfect, bigger, well trained horse. But there is nothing quite like rescuing a horse, seeing that horse go from..near dead to being the absolute opposite (too fat ;P).
There is also a lesson to learn from his story, don't get a horse unless you know how to look after it, for the horse's sake and partly for yours. Get the right experience and help before you take on a horse, wait longer, I waited 4 and a half years and I still don't know it all and infact I could have had 2 ponies about 6-7 years ago, I was offered them but I wasn't ready and I knew that. Harry and Mollys owner didn't know how to look after them and they would have died, they probably would have been dead now, and there was no hope of them making it to this winter.
I also owe thanks though, to you lot at horseforum.com, I've posted a few threads to get help here and there and I appreciate all the helpful replies I have had to them I really appreciate it and it helped a lot.
Feel free to ask any questions in the world, I'll do my best to answer.
Here is a horrible photo of me and Harry to finish lol
^ This photo makes me look really fat >:/


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Across all the world's nations, according to all religions and man-made constitutions, children should be given special care and kept away from struggles and conflicts. They are more valuable than any natural and industrial resource that a country might have.
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A few years ago, a young man won a short story competition for Reader's Digest—two years in a row. This was a remarkable accomplishment, given the size of the contests. When asked how he had done it, the writer responded with something like, "It's easy. The story that makes them cry the most, wins!"
He's right. I've spoken to many an editor who will admit that the story that has the strongest emotional payoff is the most likely to be chosen for publication or for awards. You see, a tale should not be judged "objectively." It's meant to be a subjective experience, to arouse emotions.
Yet as writers we are often trained to back away from situations that honestly elicit tears. We don't want to be accused of being maudlin.
I've seen the value of drawing tears myself. With my novel In the Company of Angels, when I was having my editors read it, I got several calls from my final editors. These were people that I was paying, and they both pleaded for more time to finish the edit because they were "crying too hard to see the page." The problem was, they weren't even near the end. So I watched my wife; sure enough, I kept her crying continually during most of the last 140 pages. I don't think that it was coincidental that the novel won the Whitney Award for Best Novel of the Year, when competing against many other fine books. The story that makes 'em cry the most, wins.
So how do you make a reader weep? Readers can weep for many reasons:
• A joke can be so funny that it elicits tears.
• Readers may sob in frustration as a character struggles to overcome a problem.
• A reader may weep in sympathy as a character endures tremendous pain, especially emotional pain.
• A reader may suffer for a character's loss—say the loss of a loved one.
• Readers can cry in sheer relief when a conflict ends.
• A reader may weep for joy for at the good fortune of a protagonist.
• A reader may cry at the sweetness of an incident.
• Readers may shed tears when a protagonist makes a significant breakthrough.
• A reader may weep at a feeling of "revelation" as something important is learned.
I'm sure that I could go on, but I think that you see the point. As you place your characters in conflict, look for opportunities to draw real tears. This may require certain things of you. For example, to get your reader to sympathize deeply with a character, you may need to find ways to make the character likeable by doing such things as giving the character a worthy goal, inner decency, noble intentions, or other attractive characteristics.
You might also find it desirable to boost the tension in a story, or to look for ways to deepen the pain that your character suffers.
You will notice that at the "climax" of a story, very often we have a "reversal," a moment where it appears that the villain has won, but where the protagonist finds a way to turn the tables and pull victory from the jaws of defeat. I used to wonder why those reversals felt so necessary, until it struck me: a good reversal multiplies the number of tears that the reader must release. We may cry tears of frustration, shared agony, dread, relief, and joy—all within a few pages. When that happens, we as readers feel cleansed inside.
Just remember, a tale that does not sustain a good, long, cathartic cry will always feel weaker than one that does. In most cases, a story that doesn't make the reader cry is a failed story.
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A superb flat icon for an iPhone camera app. I love the bold use of colour.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A stunning idea for a call interface that uses colours well to give the design character.Posted in Interface → Element
A beautiful design for a calendar icon that uses the flat aesthetic and makes an impact.Posted in Interface → Element
Night Sky is a brand new premium admin theme for Twitter Bootstrap 2.3.x. It's what we're calling the best Bootstrap admin theme ever. We put a ton of time and effort into this and hope that people will find it to be an awesome resource.Adam RotmanPosted in Interface → Web App
A simply stunning app icon that grabs your attention immediately. I love the depth of colour and the superb use of texture.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A great icon that uses luminance to grab your attention. I particularly like the subtle background texture and the form of the type.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A simply stunning example of a stripped back music player design for the iPhone. I particularly like the use of orange to make the buttons jump out and the layout of the functions.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
This PSD contains a few different UI elements along a stylish, "shiny" theme. These include a red and green on/off toggle switch, a star rating element, and a simple tag. Perfect for incorporating into your own design or tweaking to fit your own style and colour scheme.Posted in Interface → Element
A great Wi-Fi icon that takes a slightly different approach and makes a statement with it. I love the use of bold colours.Posted in Interface → Element
A great icon for a neat little iPhone app. The illustrative style is beautifully indicative of the detail throughout the app.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A strong button design that uses red to give the button significance.Posted in Interface → Element
Revival UI kit elements for mobile interfaces. All the elements were made in Photoshop with the photoshop vector shapes. It means you can easily resized every elements without impacting its quality. Including 10 controls for 10 diffrent navigations.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A little set of notification badges. Mocking up a brand new web interface? These could come in handy. I particularly like the bright colours and subtle gradients.Posted in Interface → Element
A good example of an icon for the Mac that takes a real world object and repurposes it. I like the bright red colour and the little details that add to the icon.Posted in Interface → Mac App
Here we have a neat design for an email sign-up graphic. I like the use of familiar ideas and intuitive layout of the element.Posted in Interface → Element
Project for a wide system of wayfinding for a public space. Here is part of the user interface version. I love the brutal minimalism, reducing each icon to the minimum required.Posted in Interface → Element
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- There's some good news for Buffalo's two famous polar bears, Luna and Kali.
Both are closer to having a permanent home in Buffalo.
Senator Mark Grisanti announced today that the state is giving the Buffalo Zoo $400,000 in grant money to help them build their new Arctic Edge Polar Bear Exhibit.
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Homeowners Opt for a Spa-Like Feel in their Magnolia Home
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Several years ago, after living in Switzerland for 11 years, Mark and Jo repatriated to Seattle, where the couple had hoped to continue the cosmopolitan car-free existence they had adopted in Europe. But when they saw the semisecluded spot nestled along a curving, quiet Magnolia street while house hunting, they began to rethink that plan.
"I liked the advertisement," says Jo about the description of the 1960 rambler, which characterized the setting as Zen-like. "It was very green and very serene," she says. "We put an offer on it the day it came on the market."
Smartly, the couple had hired their architect, Julie Campbell of Seattle's CTA Design Builders, before buying, thereby benefiting from some reassuring real estate vetting. First-time homeowners, they had been attracted to the all-in-one convenience of her design-build firm, and by the fact that Campbell was also an interior designer who shared their penchant for Northwest and Japanese design.
"The property was just so exquisite with its gardens and views [of Puget Sound]," Campbell says. "We all knew immediately that it could support the things they were after—a sanctuary where they could feel like they were kind of living in a spa situation all of the time."
What the 1,450-square-foot, one-story house didn't have was a spa-worthy master suite. So Campbell's primary architectural handiwork was to seamlessly integrate a small, airy second-story addition with the house's existing midcentury modern base, echoing its signature sloping roofline and large overhangs. (Photo: The new addition houses a view-rich master suite, which comes with an inviting window seat and storage area made of maple wood)
The new level is outfitted with large windows and with walls that ingeniously fall a few feet short of the ceiling. This latter tweak enables natural light to brightly bounce around the top floor as well as filter down into the new open stairwell and onto the main floor. (The open walls also give house cats Cosmo and Juno many enticing sites for leaping.)
Downstairs, shape-shifting was kept to a minimum, although one wall between the kitchen and living room was removed to create an open floor plan. Instead, big changes were brought about by a dramatically different interior scheme. The couple wanted more natural materials, a lot of wood and stone. "It was much darker and felt a lot heavier [originally]," Mark explains, "and we wanted to lighten it up."
One of the most aggressively dark elements was a fireplace sheathed in gunmetal. That surface was replaced with a natural stone facade (composed of individual sheets that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle) boasting blue and green hues selected for the new pale paint palette. "There are actually three paint colors," Campbell says, "but they are all different shades of the same color. It's a lighter one where the rooms are darker, and a darker one where there's more light. So you don't perceive there's a difference as you're moving throughout the rooms."
(Photo: The new floor-to-ceiling natural stone facade boasts a Northwest shade of Alpine Jade. [Homeowner Markesigned some of the home's new furniture, including the painted poplar wood open-grid shelf to the side of the fireplace, an ode to Paul Frankl's circa 1920s "Skyscraper" step table.])
The architect explains, "I'm a big believer in a limited palette of colors and materials, because I think if you use the same materials throughout the house, it really provides a continuity throughout the house, which provides for a lot of calmness and tranquility."
(Photo: The original living room had darker floors and a stark black steel fireplace surround)
Photo: A view into the closet
Photo: The home's exterior and patio
This home was selected by architects and designers from AIA Seattle (American Institute of Architects; aiaseattle.org) as an example of architectural importance in remodeling.
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The first-strike mentality of the Bush years, along with the attendant unilateral military exploits, has fallen from favor in President Barack Obama's revised national security scheme for the U.S.—or so goes the spin on that plan. Some might take issue with the first-strike notion, given America's whole ongoing drones-over-Pakistan scenario, for example. —KA
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By frost, May 28, 2010 at 7:20 pm Link to this comment
kills me the hope of the american that our state will ever be anything other than a rapacious, dishonest, and violent abomination.
reading the document does not make you the wiser if you expect the state to follow through on it. that just reveals a complete lack of historical knowledge.
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Don't just listen to others' opinions or spout off opinions. Make sure you read President Obama's plan. You can read the full document here:
I agree with pretty much everything I've read in the document, and am very pleased with President Obama's stategy. However, I do have legitimate concerns and questions.
Will President Obama follow through with the stated goals?
By frost, May 28, 2010 at 1:19 am Link to this comment
to think along party lines at this point in history is simply misguided and betrays a