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Happy Cog-designed Kongregate: one of Time magazine's top 50 for 2010.
August 26, 2010
Way back in 2006, we worked with social gaming company Kongregate, helping them devise a plan for world domination. Kongregate was just recognized in Time Magazine's annual "50 Best Websites" list. Read more.
Happy Cog 2011 SXSW Panel Ideas
August 20, 2010
Voting is underway for next year's SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Happy Cog professionals are bringing their expertise and insight resulting in eighteen panel ideas that are sure to delight and inform. Voting ends 11:59 CDT on Friday, August 27, so check out the panels and vote Happy Cog! Read more
iPhone app development and the joy of help copy
August 17, 2010
In Issue No. 312 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Twitterific's Craig Hockenberry tells what iPhone app developers need to know in Apps vs. the Web, and Lyle Mullican shows how to convert frustrated users into your most loyal customers by strategizing, writing, and maintaining better help copy in Good Help is Hard to Find.
Happy Cog meets .net
August 12, 2010
The leading publication of web design, .net magazine, has a new issue out today, guest-edited by Happy Cog founder and executive creative director Jeffrey Zeldman. Jeffrey uses the guest pulpit to argue that 2010 brings us to a genuine turning point in web design: the beginning of a mature web where content comes first, and where web standards mean never having to say you're sorry to any browser, platform, or device. Read more on Jeffrey's website.
Say No to Bad Ideas
August 3, 2010
You can't create what clients need when you're too busy saying yes to everything they want. As a user experience designer, it's your job to say no to bad ideas and pointless practices. But getting to no is never easy. In No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas, Happy Cog senior experience designer Whitney Hess shares techniques to turn vocal negatives into positive experiences for you, your client, and most importantly, the end-user. (A List Apart Issue No. 311.)
Kickass Kickoff Meetings
August 3, 2010
Too many kickoff meetings squander the busiest, most expensive people's time reiterating what everyone already knows. If every meeting is an opportunity, why waste your first one? In Kickass Kickoff Meetings (Issue No. 311, A List Apart for people who make websites) Happy Cog's Kevin M. Hoffman tells how to turn a room of mutually suspicious turf battlers into an energetic team with shared ownership of the end-product and the kind of bond that can sustain the group through the challenges ahead.


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Our first Doom 3 tests will be using a custom time-demo from the Mars City mission. All of our testing will be in High Quality mode, where Anisotropic Filtering is automatically enabled at 8X.
Our high quality Doom 3 results were very interesting to say the least. From these tests it's easy to see that ATI's R420 with the Catalyst 4.7 drivers is having a hard time performing up to par with NVIDIA's NV40 cards, with the NV40 based GeForce 6800 running up to par with the Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition. We're using the standard version of the GeForce 6800, one that is priced around $ 280, compared to the $ 500 that the Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition is going for. The GeForce 6800 kills the Radeon X800 Pro in every resolution, a card that is priced over $ 100 higher, at around $ 400 a piece.

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Andromeda largely feels like a shoddily assembled facsimile of the previous Mass Effect games.
If you're the sort of person who just wants to mindlessly shoot through co-op games with a chatty group of friends, Wildlands is fine for that. Anyone else should probably look elsewhere.
Link's most ambitious adventure is one of Nintendo's crowning achievements.
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Sometimes a fun place, other times a nightmare come true.
A general location used to store and invest money. Whether players rob it, or store money in it and gain some interest, banks are a long-standing institution in video games.
An area where basketball is played.
A room which is devoted entirely to hygiene, containing a toilet and sometimes a sink. Residential bathrooms typically have a shower or bathtub.
Beaches are slopes of sand, gravel, or pebbles that lead down to the water of an ocean, sea, river, or lake.
The room in the house where sleeping and other activities take place. It is also the place where clothes are stored and are likely to be taken off. For some people it is the place where they do the least and most strenuous activities.
A place to buy books, usually to shed more light on the world or upgrade character stats.
A bowling alley is a place with one or more lanes dedicated to bowling, the sport where you try to roll a ball down a lane to hit as many of the 10 pins as possible. May or may not have funky shoes.
Because some bridges are too large to be considered mere objects.
Bridgeport is the new neighborhood featured in The Sims 3: Late Night. The city features in the ultimate lifestyle including dive bars, high end lounges, and Sim celebrities and vampires.
A dark opening in a solid mass, like rock.
A common place in Survival Horror video games. Burial grounds for the deceased. Or zombies.
An east-Asian nation, China has the largest population of any country on Earth. With a history dating back thousands of years, it is also among the oldest sovereign states still in existence.
A cinema or picture house is a place to view films. Certain games allow players to enter a cinema in game and watch a short movie.
A city is a large and densely populated urban area.
An excavation site in Egypt. The excavation is led by both Ida and Larry.
Whether a place of higher learning or a place of partying the night away, college is an experience many young adults consider a right of passage.
A convenient shop full of convenient things.
A garden owned by Cupid. It has many love themed decorations.
Deserts are typically depicted as hot arid places.
A prefabricated restaurant.
The dining room is a room specifically used for people to eat in. Usually contains a table, chairs, and periodically, food.
The homeworld of Humanity, and a popular vacation destination for galactic travellers in-the-know. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines Earth as "mostly harmless."
A country in the Northeast corner of Africa, it borders the Red and Mediterranean Sea. Famous for the Nile Delta, Pyramids, and Mummies.
An industrial site consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
An area of land, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food.
Building or other area set aside for the storing of firefighting equipment.
A large densely wooded area.
France is a European country, home of the French people and the origin of the baguette.
Be it fairies or crazy paper mache animals filled with candy, there is always something at the bottom of the garden.
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57 months ago Ralph Lauren »
Spectator Handbag Price: $2600.00 Sale Price: $1599.00 Refined handbag, meticulously crafted from rich canvas finished with glossy Italian patent leather trim and custom brass hardware.
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ROMP! wood toys, handmade gifts, wallpaper silhouettes and delights for all ages!
57 months ago Babygeared »
Functional fun way for your baby to lounge while you work.
68 months ago Vitra »
Charles & Ray Eames, 1945 Almost no other animal enjoys such popularity as the elephant. Admired for its majestic size and loved for its proverbial good-humour, it is part of our everyday experience as a child's cuddly toy, a storybook character and a majestic creature. Charles and Ray Eames also succumbed to their charms and in 1945 designed a toy elephant made of plywood. However, it never made it into mass production. The Eames elephant is now available for the first time in a plastic version for those it was originally intended for: children. Whether used as a toy (also outdoors) or a decorative item in a children's room - this friendly-looking animal with its distinctive, over-sized ears is bound to bring cheer and enjoyment to many a child's and parent's heart. GS and CE certified
78 months ago Clevertomato »
Hardware available in aluminum and white. Click on the product photo for a detail view SPECS * non toxic, pollutant free finishes. * sustainably harvested wood. * low energy manufacturing. * small carbon footprint. * minimized waste. * created in New York. * manufactured in New England. * 100% hardwood. dimensions: 47.5w 30h 20d Availablity: 12-14 wks.
79 months ago Simplybunkbeds »
Your kids will enjoy sweet, stylish slumber every night with the Garson Twin over Full Bunk Bed. An excellent choice for multi-child rooms, this metal industrial bed is tough enough to withstand years of use, while adding modern style to your kids room.
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It's time for tots to dream big (and of a greener planet) with this highly functional twin bed. Made from 13 rigid pieces of 100% formaldehyde-free, FSC Certified real wood and featuring an eco-friendly, non-toxic finish, it assembles in minutes with the patented no tools assembly method. The footboard seat doubles as a work surface or storage and as a place to sit and dress keeping off the bed your tot has hopefully just made on their own. Eco-moms and pops will be green with envy. Enjoy years of use with a lifetime construction guarantee.
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Enjoy a relaxing cup of afternoon tea with a teacup that is steeped in style. Each white porcelain cup features simple styling and is perfectly formed to match the shape of your hand. Designed by award-winning ceramic artist Masahiro Mori, these delightful cups will add flair to your kitchen and make teatime your favorite time of day (Set of six).


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Finding Professional Podcasters On The Internet
If producing your own podcast seems like a daunting task, there are professionals who work from their own recording studios who are eager to help you succeed.
Finding Help on the Internet
Here are some sources to make your podcasting life easier
Your best choice is right here at Voices.com. We will help you to find a voice for your podcast if you don't want to record your own or are looking for an announcer, also known as an imaging voice, to introduce and help brand your show.
The Voice Over Marketplace
Voices.com is a site that connects voice talent and clients. As a true marketplace, they do not take commissions from their customers, differentiating themselves from the traditional agency model.
Voices.com offers a wide range of voice-over talent that clients can search through and a job posting service to receive proposals, demos and quotes. Clients are drawn to Voices.com because they can listen to voice samples quickly and access a generous database of talent to meet their voice-over needs.
The Voices.com organization provides service and support to both clients and voice talent with online help sections, and answers queries by both telephone and email. Voices.com is a reputable, transparent organization with clear, focused goals and open business practices. Explore the site and the opportunities available to you to make an informed decision and read testimonials from both voice talent and clients that have used their site
For busy marketers and business owners, you should consider outsourcing your podcasting project.
Outsourcing elements of a podcast can be exciting and fulfilling. One major element to outsource is the voice-over or narration of the podcast. Finding a professional voice-over talent at Voices.com is a fast and cost-effective activity, often with financial savings of 80% and delivery of finished work within 24 hours.
When posting a voice-over job, include all details relevant to the podcast such as the desired voice type, show content, mood and or theme and whether or not music is required. Also include any portion of the script and any other notes that should be made known prior to recording.
Auditions will be submitted within minutes and a talent selected in less than an hour. Because these talent are freelance and work from their own home studios, costs will be lower and turnaround will be faster than working through a traditional agency.
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, most recordings can be delivered within 24 hours of the employer's official go ahead with the final script and requirements.
If a written script is needed, voice talents can write content as an additional service. A voice talent can usually also assist with music to be used in the podcast.
Online Job Posting Services
Need Help? Here's how the Voices.com Service Works. Our online marketplace, connecting you directly with podcast producers. If you want to create a podcast and need some help, begin by signing-up. Next, post a job outline of what you would like your podcast to sound like. Then, you will receive auditions from multiple voice-over talents. Listen to their samples and compare price quotes. Finally, pick the right voice for your podcast and award them the job.
- Create your Podcast project by outlining what type of voice you are looking for.
- Receive answers from a variety of voice talents with MP3 demos and price quotes.
- Listen to their demos online, then contact the voice talents directly.
- Award your Podcast project to the best voice talent for the job.
- Receive a broadcast-quality finished Podcast and pay the talent directly. Voices.com takes no commission fee.
Local Recording Studios
In this section, we will be looking at how to build a relationship with a local recording studio. You can with a studio to have them record and engineer your podcast.
If you do not have the means of investing in your own recording equipment at this time it is best to develop a business relationship with a local recording studio. You can find recording studios by looking them up in your phone book or yellow pages.
Questions to Ask a Recording Studio
This is what you should ask a recording studio before your first session
Call at least three studios and be sure to ask all the questions you need to, in order to feel confident with your new partners.
- What is your hourly studio rates?
- What kind of vocal microphone do you have?
- Do you have a royalty-free music library?
- Do you have a sound effects library?
- Do you have script to make a voice over demo?
- Can you deliver finished work for me?
- Do you have an ISDN connection?
- How do you require payment?
- Do you accept cash and credit card?
- How much notice do you need to book my session?
- Do you have any studio rules?
- Are you open on evenings and weekends?
- What is your cancellation policy?
Attending Your First Session
Here's how to prepare before going to the studio.
Before you book for your first session be sure to rehearse your scripts in advance. Being prepared will save you time in the studio and money while affirming your professionalism.
When you arrive at the studio for the first time, be sure to properly introduce yourself. Building a good business relationship starts as soon as you make your first contact. Building a relationship with a local studio is a must if you don't have your own home studio. Ask for a 10% discount on all studio sessions, agreeing that you will work exclusively with them for the next year. Be prepared to put something in writing if you opt for this exclusive arrangement.
Summary - Key points about getting help for your podcast
Qualified professionals can be found on the Internet using Voices.com or VoiceOverTimes.com.
Local recording studios can provide all the equipment and expertise to produce a broadcast-ready podcast. At the end of the recording session at a studio, you will leave with your podcast complete and ready to share on the Internet.
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Since it was so popular we imagined Valparaiso to be a modern and flashy upmarket beach city, so we were pleasantly surprised to find something very different we arrived. Firstly Valparaiso is not that well known for its beaches at all, but rather its historical buildings built on steep cliffs often requiring cable cars to access them. The city was a contradiction in many ways from its brightly coloured shanty homes to grand old colonial buildings, to crumbling roads used by every dog as a lavatory to quaint cobblestoned streets lined with arty shops, to ugly pointless graffiti on next to beautiful murals
Everywhere you looked there was something beautiful and unsightly side by side. I found it particularly strange how magnificent old colonial buildings we hidden behind literally thousands of lines of telephone cable and how beautifully designed parks filled with statues and enormous trees were littered with graffiti. Besides the colourful additions to the parks attractions the people frequenting the parks were just as colourful. We encounters people from all walks of life from the individualistic / must be different punks to hippies selling all sorts of junk/jewellery, to vagrants who clearly spent more time than most in the parks, to gracious old gents playing cards on rickety wooden tables. And lastly, the parks, in fact whole city was inhabited by hundreds of dogs, most of them stray looking.
The reason everyone flocked to the little coastal town was for its legendary New Years party and one of the biggest fireworks displays in South America. The famous fireworks show runs from Valparaiso and continuous for 21km along the beach and kicks off shortly after midnight in one synchronised explosion!
We along with all the other residence in the hostel were kindly invited to join the owner and his wife for a party at his friend's house, where apparently there were great views of the fireworks. It seemed that almost all guests in the hostel took up this offer and soon there were 24 of us joining the party.
It turned out that the party wasn't actually "at" his friends house, but was rather out in the street near his friends house
The owner of the house was kind enough to let us use the only toilet but asked that we contribute a little to cover the cost of the water etc. We happily did this but then found a few minutes later the door to the house had been locked and the owner now refused to let anyone in, go figure! Hope his door was waterproof.....
Before we knew it, it was almost midnight and we made our way down to a view point we were would be able to see all the fireworks, obviously we weren't the only people who had this idea and found the little deck packed with hundreds of people. We tried our best to get a good view but ended up behind a little building but when the fire works started we realised it didn't really matter that much as the fireworks were going off all around us. For a solid 30 minutes the show went on for as far as we could see down the coast, like nothing I had ever seen before!
After the show the real party began! Lucky for us, right next to the platform where we watched the fireworks was a live band that was set up on the edge of a very upmarket hotel. The music was fantastic and dancing broke out all around us, most of the time the band members were playing to the crowds on the deck and not the guests at the hotel. The party and dancing went on for as long as I can remember and when we decided to head home it was long after 3am.
We started out by walking with the intention of getting a taxi the rest of the way but it seemed we were not the only two people with that idea. At that time of night everything looked the same and we soon got hopelessly lost in the back streets of Valparaiso. The great thing was that there was a party on almost every street corner but we eventually lost interest in the partying when the neighbourhoods started getting a little rougher. After more than an hour of wandering the streets we managed to flag down a taxi who obviously charged us a fortune to drive us the final few kilometres to get home.
It was a fantastic party and well worth the effort for anyone travelling in South America over New Years. After the great night out we had one more day to chill out and explore in Valparaiso before we got back on the bus to the countries vibrant capital, Santiago.


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Christianity and tarot make very odd bedfellows indeed. One might even say they need separate bedrooms at the very least. That opinion is held not only by many Christians but also by many Pagans and neo-pagans who reject the Christian symbolism in the cards and claim the symbology to be corrupted forms of earlier pagan symbolism. While they have a valid point, I think it's interesting that both Christian and Pagan belief systems reject the Christian historical roots of tarot.
The Church took offense with the deck almost immediately. Card playing had associations with gambling ever since playing cards had been introduced to Europe and various laws and decrees were enacted to discourage that. However, the earliest known disparagement of tarot cards specifically comes from an anonymously penned sermon, known as "The Steele Sermon" or "Sermones de Ludo cum Aliis," c. 1480. This sermon detailed the Trumps of tarot and asserts that the Trumps were invented and named by the Devil and as such hotly discourages their use. The blasphemous depiction of The Pope, the inclusion of a female Popesse, the imagery of The Devil, The Tower and so forth created objections and banning by the Church. But it likely wasn't just the pictures that caused such a ruckus. The politics of the time were more than probably the driving force behind the opposition.
The characters in the tarot "triumph" or trumps were seen in the many Roman Catholic pageantry processions, not too unlike what we see preceeding Lent at Mardis Gras and Carnival. These pageants were evangelistic devices of the Church designed to convert. Indeed, the Church has used various forms of earlier pagan imagery in its quest to convert the heathen, so the imagery these pageants used were designed to place the Christian story in a pagan context. As the Reformation took hold in Europe, these pageants disappeared from France, Italy, and England. All religious plays were banned in France in the mid 1500's and with them went much of the historical truth about what those original tarot trumps actually represented. A very sad loss, indeed.
While we may have lost much of the original intention and meanings of the trump cards, we have not lost the association with the demonic first set forth by that frothing friar. The Reformation did nothing to change that, in fact under John Calvin the Church government at Geneva instituted what amounted to a theocracy that strictly governed personal and household conduct, severely punishing those that deviated. Card playing under Calvin's regime was not allowed. (However, this was not the case in Germany where Luther's Reformation did not specifically prohibit card playing, so the making and playing of cards continued, as it does today.) My point here is there has always been a gap between what the Church proscribes and what its followers actually do. While the Catholic church, both pre-Reformation and post, linked tarot with the devil, your average tarocchi playing parishoner most likely dismissed that notion out of hand.
Today, modern Christian fundamentalist sects likewise attempt to place the fear of God in its followers regarding the use of tarot, but their reasons are somewhat different. As tarot developed through the centuries it became embraced by Christian mystical secret societies such as the Order of the Golden Dawn and its splinter groups. These societies attached occult and esoteric meanings and uses for the cards apart from their game-playing use. All three major monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam forbid the practice of divination. Well, sort of. Officially they do, anyway. All three have their esoteric branches: The Jewish Kaballah, Christian Hermeticism and Gnostic Mysticism, and Islamic Sufism, for example. These are the woo-woo branches of these religions and often utilize divination practices in a quest for spiritual enlightenment. However, the more mainline of these religions don't trust that stuff and pretty much dismiss most of it. Conservative and fundamentalist Christian groups commonly reject tarot as belonging to the kind of divination that is forbidden in the Bible and view it as a doorway through which demonic forces can enter your life and send you reeling down into the depths of depravity. It's hard to take that kind of attitude seriously from the same types of folks who also claim the devil inhabits children's toys, games, and dolls.
However, I'm not going to play tarot apologist here and attempt to make a case that tarot was originally Christian in origin and therefore ought to gain the stamp of approval from Christians. I could, but there just isn't enough known about the origins of tarot for me to do that. There certainly is very blatant Christian iconography in tarot images, but without those original pageantry plays and meanings, it's difficult to assume just what the cards were projecting. Moreover, I just don't want to. Certainly there was a time in my life when I Biblically prooftexted just about everything I said and did, but I'm not in that place any longer, thank God. Apparently certain people in Church leadership have always had an issue with the cards while others have not. That being the case, as it always has been, it lies with the individual to decide whether or not practicing tarot reading is in line with or counter to their faith. Many tarot readers are Christians, some even incline towards a conservative bent. One reader I am acquainted with is married to a pastor and is herself a member in the ultra conservative denomination The Church of Christ. I've seen enough divination practiced within Christian circles to know that it isn't divination per se that is objected to, but the manner in which it is done and with which tools.
Christianity and the tarot have a marriage that has been rocky and uncomfortable at best, but the images clearly cannot be divorced from their Christian context. It is true that the early Church did indeed co-opt many of the pagan traditions, symbolism, and festivals and layered upon them a Christian filter and interpretation in order to convert the masses. Therefore the symbolism within tarot does have origins that predate Christianity, but the Christian meaning is intended to be a part of that symbolic language as well. The creators of those images were likely well indoctrinated into the "new" meanings as well as the old, a blending which, to this day, is difficult to separate out. It's a fascinating study to research the way the same symbols have been used by various cultures and groups, and to watch them morph through the centuries taking on layer upon layer of meaning. Tarot crams so many of these symbols into 78 cards that they should keep one busy for a very long time. In any case, no matter how you may feel about the joining of Christianity with tarot, they are inextricably bound and it helps to understand more about the tense history this union has endured.
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by MegaMagick, Oct 7, 2012.
Lol. Boohoo, Giants only win because they are lucky. Forget about great games on the road leading to both the SBs, forget about the great drive at the beginning of the 4th qtr in SB 42 (not talking about the game winning drive), forget about the game winning drive to end SB46. You cherry pick a few plays and say they are lucky. Sounds silly.
Was the JPP blocked FG to win against you guys lucky?
I wish we had Joe Thomas on are team he has completely shut down jason pierre paul.
The entire crowd has been drinking since sunrise and there aren't enough bathrooms for everyone during a 12 minute halftime.
The game is a sellout.
Hate to agree with you - but I agree with you.
The Skins Oline is openin up hole for Morris.
Their Oline is legit, making Richardson even better.
That wasn't helmet to helmet.
People bang on the replacement refs, but these guys aren't all that much better.
Thomas is a rock. Doesn't get pub because the Browns are so bad.
refs keeping the eagles in the game.
RG3 just got blasted. Surprised there was no flag in today's NFL.
RGIII just got crushed. He just can't be running around like that and expect to last.
Steelers defense is notoriously dirty. I'm amazed they're actually getting flagged for it.
I keep telling Skins fans that up here. They say he's special and he's not another Vick. I'm like OK.
Hell of a catch by Garcon
Cruz abusing the the Browns secondary
I agree with you gmen86. Some dallas fans just refuse to give credit to the gmen and eli.
cousins warming up on the sidelines...rg3 thinks he is back at baylor
Mccoy shiftiness/elusiveness rating is probably at 100.
No doubt the Giants had breaks along the way. The fumbled return in SF was a break but also good special teams play. Giants played a very physical game at SF against a brutal Defense. One of Mannings best games ever and the stat sheet will never show it, he was pummeled all game. When you keep yourself in the game one play, like a specials teams fumble, can be the difference. That isn't luck.


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Hi, Everyone.
I have a dilemma. Maybe some of you can offer some advice.
I have to do some remodeling on a small house I inherited. I ONLY have $25,000 to work with. I want to rent the house out.
It needs quite a bit of work. I have been able to do some of it myself, but I have reached the point where I will now have to spend the money on the things that I cannot (or dont want) to do.
What I need in this house are the following: a Totally new kitchen, including floor, new carpet, paint in and out, some repair to the walls, air conditioning (California and there is no air in the house, only a heater), new floor in the bathroom, old fireplace dry walled over.
I have two choices, as I see it.
1: Hire individual tradespeople or companies that do one thing ie: installing a kitchen., hiring a painter, etc.
2; Hiring a remodeling contractor to do everything for me.
The house is just shy of 1000 sq ft. It also desperately needs some landscaping, as it looks like the Munster house on the outside.
Contracting it myself:
I have done some research on this. I have enlisted the help of a friend who is a professional landscaper, so he has a lot of contacts in the business. He thinks that I can do it quite effectively by piecing the work out myself. He has referred me to a painter that he has used on his own house many times, and he has referred him out to at least 50 of his own clients, and has always gotten excellent reports back. He charges $125 a day I would supply the paint.
I have found a company that will do what I want in the kitchen for a total price of $10,000. I really like them , their work looks good, and they have a lot of choices.
Carpeting from Home Depot or Lowes will be about $1800.
I have not entirely researched this, but I have been told by one contractor that I can have central air installed in this house for about $6000-6500.
The Landscaping will cost me about $5000, which will include a new lawn, sprinkler system, and a new concrete walkway. NOTE: I will receive a significant discount on the landscaping, as I will be bartering some of the work in exchange for designing a new web site for the landscaping.
So, by contracting my self, the numbers would look something like this:
Landscaping: $5000
Kitchen $10,000 (including ceramic tile floor)
Painting $1800
Carpet $1800
Air $6000
Bathroom floor tile $300
Total: 24,900 MINUS an unknown discount form the landscaper for building him a website.
Having a Contractor do it all:
I searched Angies List, and found a contractor that had a LOT of very good recent responses, and over 200 total reports. It turns out that they were within walking distance of my house, so I walked over, and made an appt for an on-site estimate.
The owner came over to the property, and we talked for a while and he took some notes. We made an appt to meet at his office, and of, course, he wanted me to bring my wife. He gave us both a printed list of the items that would be accomplished.
They were:
New kitchen (He included a fair amount of detail they do NOT include the sink. ), and there would be VINYL flooring, not ceramic tile.
New carpet
Paint inside, and paint/repair of the two large panels of wood siding on the house exterior but thats all on the outside.
Repair, replacement of various electrical outlets.
Drywall over old fireplace.
New Toilet
New floor tile in bathroom (NOT ceramic tile, but same vinyl as in kitchen)
NO air conditioning
NO landscaping
He provided a fair amount of detail with regard to things like baseboard, etc.
Price: ..well, he wouldnt give me a final price, but he knows my ABSOLUTE MAX is $25,000. He said he does not want to give me the price until I have talked to other contractors. I suspect that it will be right at $25,000, perhaps a little less, but he would NOT give me a price, and would not let me take the printouts he prepared.
He says he can do the entire project in three weeks.
As I said, he is highly rated on Angies list. While we were there, he got a couple of current customers on the phone to talk about their projects, and they both raved about him and the service. He also should me stacks of thank you notes and an entire binder full of questionnaires that had been filled out by customers after the completion of the jobs. They all, of course, were glowing.
I liked this contractor, because he was very enthusiastic and seemed to care about service a LOT. Nice offices and staff, had a nice showroom, and they seem to be a very legit business.
So, therein lies my dilemma. For about the same money, I can get substantially more by doing it piecemeal( Air, Landscaping ). Or, have it all done by one company.
Your thoughts?
Any thoughts or ideas would be GREATLY appreciated. This is a HUGE decision for me, and I am simply unsure of which way would be better.
it's a difficult question to answer without knowing what the price would be from doing it either way. the other big issue is do you have the backbone to deal with a bunch of different subs? if not maybe it's worth the extra money to let someone else deal with it.
it would bother me that your guy wants you to talk to others, but won't give you a price or even the print outs showing the scope of work he will be bidding on.
I can kinda understand why he wouldn't give you a price.. he figures if you tell the next guy you got a bid of $20k, they'll tell you they can do for $18k. But if he gave you the unpriced printouts and let you shop them around, then you'd truly be comparing apples to apples.
I guess you could do nothing, wait a few days, and say you've talked to three other contractors and are ready to hear his price. When he asks you what they are quoting, you could play his game and tell him you won't reveal that info as you don't feel it's fair to them since you didn't give them his price....
it sounds like you might be better off acting as your own GC, that way if you end up with a rotten apple or two you won't get hit too hard. On the other hand if this guy is as good as you think he is, and all you have to do is write a check and let him handle, that's tempting as well.
if it were me, just based on the info you provided , I'd tell this guy to pound sand and just piece it out myself. but that may not be the right answer for you... good luck
Don't ever tell them how deep your pockets are. Let them bid on the job specs.
Last I looked, Border's had a book on being your own general contractor and farming out each task. Problem is I forget what percent of the total you can save by doing this.
Look at it as "negative tuition". You'll learn a lot being a GC/project manager and you save money by doing it.
And you'll learn a lot about tradespeople in a big hurry. If 2/3rds are competent and 2/3rds are honest, your odds of finding someone who is both is 4/9ths, about 40%.
Stock up on Pepto Bismol, though. Good luck.
While you're in Border's look for the books by RS Means. This publisher prints ZIPcode-corrected prices for just about any task.
You made a mistake by telling him your total budget.
Prices vary by the area you're in but $10k for a kitchen that will be in a rental home sounds high to me.
Get a price from the contractor and if he's close to what you want to spend but does not include AC and landscaping then you should go with the first option.
You forgot a couple of important answers to unasked questions. Is a license required in your state? Is the contractor you have talked to licensed, insured?
List what you want/need done. Get written pricing from 3 GC. Compare what each will/will not do. Will subs be used or will the work be done in house? Will you be furnished license/insurance proof for subs? If anyone says they will work under the table, immediatly show them the front door and remove them from the list. After spending $25,000.00, will the rental return show a profit?
In my experience, 90% of the time when the owner is acting as their own GC, the job takes much longer and costs more than the original budget. The more complicated the job, the more need for a competent GC. The 4 commercial kitchens we have worked on this year have cost more in time and money because there was not a GC. We have one job right now that should have been completed in April. Four months have passed and the job is still not done. I also expect some work to be re-done because of code non-compliance. Most of the problems would have been avoided with the services of a competent GC.
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On a different note maybe you can answer this question. I installed roebeet's Brilliant Corners and it is working great. I also installed the 1.3.1 update or at least I think I did. After flashing 1.3.0 and then rebooting to CWM and selecting the 1.3.1 update.zip from the ROM folder I created and selecting install from sd card zip do I do the "wipe data/factory reset","wipe cache partition"."Wipe Dalvik Cache"? That is what I did so I do not know if I have 1.3.1. I went into settings "About" and all it says is "Brilliant Corners"? How can I tell if I have BC or not? Thanks
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Average made in China product. Basic design is good, easy to install, dimmable feature is great. However, there is nothing "bronze" about this Bronze Finish--it is black. Decidedly black. No hint of brown or bronze. Disappointed, but the dimmable feature is nice so decided to keep it.
We bought two of these lamps, hung them over our bed . Very nice reading light, also,since it has a dimmer switch it creates great ambiance!
We are loving the look of two of these lamps flanking out headboard. They give the look of a high-end hotel and have elicited many compliments.
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Before I actually saw coffee trees, I imagined them as being medium size, on the order of a standard apple tree. At my friends Jim and Sharon Skibby's plantation on Hawaii's Big Island, they turned out to be more like dwarf apple trees in height and spread. Pruning helps keep them that size.
When the Skibbys' young trees were first set out, their stems were summarily clipped to 18 inches in height. That pruning forced a number of buds to sprout. Jim selected the best four sprouts, which became his bearing branches. For a year those branches just grew. Only in the second year did they flower and produce fruit.
Coffee branches are good for about four years of production before the quantity and quality of fruit declines. So the grower has several pruning options. Either he can prune all four branches at the end of four years and wait two years for a new crop, or he can prune out one old branch per year, harvest from the remaining three and grow a replacement branch.
If he has different-aged plantings, it doesn't make much difference which pruning method he uses. If all the trees are the same age and he wants crop every year, the grower replaces a branch a year and keeps some crop coming in.
Every year in January, Jim prunes his 75 trees. It takes him about a week. Between pruning and picking the fruit in late summer, management consists mainly of pest control, watering and fertilizing. The year's work, including harvest, consumes about four weeks.
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Spiritualized's Jason Pierce says first there was the word, and the word was good. By Andrew Drever.
Spiritualized mainman Jason Pierce was last year controversially quoted as saying that the only difference between gospel and pop music "is that you change the word 'Jesus' to 'baby'".
This may be so to a self-professed non-believer like Pierce, but if you didn't know any better, his redemptive, hymnal lyrics (on songs such as Won't Get to Heaven (The State I'm In), Lord Can Your Hear Me, The Power and the Glory and Lord Let it Rain Down on Me) would out him as the opposite - a true believer.
But Pierce says the gospel in his songs is merely a language tool.
"The passion with which people sing to the Lord is so much more truthful and overwhelming than most people when they're singing to their loved one," he says.
So, to clear this up, are you singing to the Lord when you use the imagery?
"No, because I don't believe," he says. "I'm using it as a language. If I
sing the line 'Let it rain on me', that's passive. If I sing 'Lord let it rain
on me', that's active. That's like saying 'Come on, I can deal with this'.
Whereas just saying 'Let it rain on me' is the almost opposite state. You can
put across so many ideas and so much more information. It's a language
But if you're appropriating the language of religion or addressing a higher entity without any belief in it, isn't this dishonest, perhaps even blasphemous?
Pierce chuckles but can't really provide a satisfactory explanation. "Only if you believe! I know loads of kids who come to my shows who listen to a song like Walking with Jesus in a completely different way - as believers, as Christians, or as religious people. And they don't have a problem with it. We work with the London Community Gospel Choir and they know where I stand. A lot of the lyrical stuff is to do with a whole chapter in the Bible, that, I, um, I forget what it is."
He trails off.
"A lot of my lyrics are ambiguous anyway," he continues, "but I think the key to it is that it almost doesn't require meaning, because once it gets to the listener, people listen to it on their own terms."
It's all part of the apparently contradictory musical world of Jason Pierce, the guiding light of Spiritualized's music - where thrashy garage rock collides with lush, symphonic epics and scuzzy, wall-of-sound punk-outs.
Spiritualized formed in 1990 after Pierce dissolved his former outfit, Spacemen 3. His new band debuted in 1992 with the Lazer Guided Melodies album.
Since then they've recorded five studio albums, including 1997's euphoric Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (which vied for album-of-the-year honours with Radiohead's OK Computer on many end-of-year lists), and 2001's epic, ambitious, yet widely misunderstood Let It Come Down.
Two years in the making, Let It Come Down employed more than 100 musicians for its brass and string arrangements but many of its redemptive lyrics were interpreted as addressing Pierce's supposed recovery from addictions.
Plus, his use of orchestras, gospel and choral singers and a cacophony of guitars and keyboards was criticised in the British music press as being pompous and overblown.
"As much as people say they're responding to the music," says Pierce, "I think people respond to the climate and the whole thing that surrounds the music. I was doing some interviews for radio here this afternoon and they were talking about Ladies and Gentleman ... being the biggest thing that ever happened. But it's not about whether the press gets behind it or the reviews work or the whole marketing medium works and the whole thing falls into place. It doesn't change whether the record's good, bad or whatever. The music's still exactly the same."
Pierce sensationally sacked all the members of his band after the Ladies and Gentlemen ... tour and the new line-up that hit the road for Let It Come Down were playing live together for the first time.
Energised by a year of incendiary shows, the band hit the studio again in October 2002 and recorded a new album, Amazing Grace. Recorded mostly live, with little of the overdubs or embellishments of Let It Come Down, the band would learn each song from scratch and realise a finished take usually within the day.
From fiery, punky rockers (She Kissed Me) and rattling visceral blues (Never Goin' Back) to heartfelt lullabies (Hold On) and spare piano ballads (Lay It Down Slow), this raw, electric album, released in September last year, was all about capturing spontaneity.
"Amazing Grace was made in the method of making free jazz music," explains Pierce. "The music was all about responding to the other sounds in the room. It wasn't about learning how to play the notes in the right order. I'd got to thinking that most rock'n'roll, if not all of it, is about learning. Kids the planet over go into rehearsal spaces and they practice, practice, practice and then they go out and perform their songs. I wanted to make a rock'n'roll record that wasn't anything to do with practice and learning. It was all about an immediate response to the other sounds in the room."
Spiritualized were in top form when they last played here in July 2002, and Amazing Grace sounds truly charged from the touring subsequent to Let It Come Down. Pierce agrees.
"After we came to Australia, we kind of went through the roof," he says. "We made Amazing Grace just after that, and because that record was about spontaneity and immediacy, the live shows did become very charged. They were almost driven by the whole methodology of that album, and it's been like a rocket ship since then. It's just gone more electric and more emotive and we haven't looked back since. The people in this band are quite astonishing. Everybody's so passionate about what we're doing, and I think it's quite rare to have a band that are as vital and as astonishing live as what we are. It's even rarer to have it after 13 years of being in the same band."
Spiritualized play at the Prince of Wales, St Kilda, on Tuesday.
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP) Thursday, February 20, 2014, 3:10 pm TWN
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is placing a $19 billion bet on reaching its next billion mobile users with the acquisition of WhatsApp, a popular messaging service that lets people send texts, photos and videos on their smartphones.
The deal is by far Facebook's largest and bigger than any that Google, Microsoft or Apple have ever done. But it is likely to raise worries that Facebook and other technology companies are starting to become overzealous in their pursuit of promising new products and services, said Anthony Michael Sabino, a St. John's University business professor.
"I expect there to be a lot of skepticism about this deal. People are going to look at this and say, 'Uh-oh, did they pay way too much for this?" Sabino said.
The world's biggest social networking company is taking the long view. WhatsApp has 450 million monthly users, 70 percent of whom use it every day. The service is adding a million new users a day. There are 19 billion messages sent and 34 billion received via WhatsApp each day, in addition to 600 million photos and 100 million video messages.
At this rate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is confident the app will reach a billion users. Services that reach that milestone, Zuckerberg said in a statement, "are all incredibly valuable."
Facebook said Wednesday that it's paying $12 billion in stock and $4 billion in cash for WhatsApp. In addition, the app's founders and employees — 55 in all — will be granted restricted stock worth $3 billion that will vest over four years after the deal closes.
The transaction translates to roughly 11 percent of Facebook's market value. In comparison, Google's biggest deal was its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, while Microsoft's largest was Skype at $8.5 billion. Apple, meanwhile, has never done a deal above $1 billion.
Facebook's $1 billion Instagram deal seems like a bargain in retrospect. Capturing mobile users — and young people — was a big reason behind Facebook's 2012 purchase of the photo-sharing app. Even its reported $3 billion offer for disappearing-message app Snapchat pales in comparison. Snapchat rejected the bid.
The deal stunned Gartner analyst Brian Blau. "I am not surprised they went after WhatsApp, but the amount is staggering," he said.
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