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DOE A to Z: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #
|1. Structural Foundations
|Routine inspection for cracks, deterioration, infiltration.
|Localized repair of cracks and spalling with cement caulk, grout or epoxy sealant, waterproofing, parging.
|Repair large scale cracks or settling, major repairs/replacement. Hire Structural Engineer.
|2. Superstructure
|Visual inspection.
|Repair damaged fireproofing, rust removal and repainting.
|Major structural repair, fire
protection upgrade.
Hire Structural Engineer
|3. Exterior Closures - Walls
|Visual inspection, cleaning.
|Localized repairs, pointing, water- proofing, painting, replacement of individual steel lintels.
|System-wide repairs, pointing,
or replacement of lintels, resurfacing.
|4. Exterior Closures Windows & Glazed Walls
|Visual and physical inspections, cleaning.
|Repairs/localized replacements of frames, sash, caulk, balancing, localized reglazing; individual unit replacement, etc.
|Major repairs/replacements of system in building or section, install storm throughout.
|5. Exterior Closures- Doors
& Frames
|Inspect hardware, lubricate closers and hardware.
|Repair/replace individual hardware, doors, frames; repair glazing , recaulking, leveling adjustments, general operations.
|Complete exterior door replacement to bring up to Code.
|6. Exterior Closures- Roofs
|Debris removal, inspections, check for water stains, ponding, or leaks. Routine inspections. Clear roof drains, gutters.
|Seasonal programmed inspection, localized repairs of roofing/flashing materials to maintain warranty.
|System replacement on building or section.
|7. Interior Construction- Partitions
|Cleaning, visual inspections for chipping, cracks, flaking, etc
|Prepare and paint walls, patch plaster or drywall, lubricate moveable partitions.
|Demolition of interior walls for renovations, expansions, etc., install new system
|8. Interior Construction- Interior Doors
|Inspect hardware, lubricate closures and hardware.
|Repair/replace hardware, leveling adjustments, general operations.
|Complete system replacement.
|9. Interior Construction- Stair Construction
|Visual inspections, cleaning, maintain clear egress.
|Check and replace individual treads, repair railings and floorboards
|Replace treads, pour new step pans, replace nosings, replace or add railings.
|10. Interior Construction- Stair Finishes
|Localized repair , repainting.
|Replacement of vinyl treads.
|11. Interior Construction Wall finishes
|Repainting, localized repair/replacement of ceramic tile sections; vinyl base/trim, etc.
|Replacement of interior finishes (except painting).
|12. Interior Construction Floor finishes
|Cleaning and waxing.
|Localized repair/replacement of floor tiles; Localized repair/replacement, refinishing of gym floors.
|Replace floor finish in building or wing (VCT, carpet, etc), including hazmat abatement.
|13. Interior construction ceiling finishes
|Paint, patch plaster and textured finish; Localized repair or replacement of individual ceiling tiles.
|Remove/replace/install new ceiling suspension system, and tiles throughout building/section.
|14. Vertical Movement Elevators, lifts
|Inspect/adjust/repair motor, door operation, relays, flooring, lights. Contract maintenance.
|Replace elevator system - controls, lift rails.
|15. Domestic cold water distribution piping/materials
|Check for leaks, repair insulation.
|Inspect/repair/replace/service valves, seals, joints, water softener, filters, booster, pumps, etc
|Replace entire piping system, water softener system, or new water supply.
|16. Domestic Hot Water Supply Water Heater, Tank Storage, or Converter
|Inspect for leaks. Adjust thermostat.
|Drain/flush tanks, heater, repair thermostats, gauges, valves, controls, etc. Repair insulation.
|Replace hot water piping, replace storage tank, water heater.
|17. Plumbing fixtures
|Clean/sanitize sinks, toilets, faucets and handles, lavatories, urinals. Unclog fixture drains.
|Repair/replace seals, valves, fixtures and piping, water fountains/ coolers, lab and cooking gas piping/fixtures/controls, etc. Repair or localized replacement of toilet accessories and partitions.
|Replace or install new fixtures throughout a building (or section).
|18. Sanitary Piping materials and equipment
|Visual inspection, unclog drains.
|Chemical treatment of disposal fields, repair/local replacement of sanitary piping, inspect and service sewage ejection or other pumps, clean grease traps, pump septic tanks.
|New disposal fields, replace or install new sanitary piping throughout building (or section). New/replace tie-in to public sewer system.
|19. Storm Water Riser Piping Material
|Clean leaves/debris from roof drain inlets, gutters, leaders, detention/retention ponds, control structures and storm grates.
|Replace broken or missing gutters, downspouts, leaf guards, maintenance of detention/retention basin, etc.
|Replace entire roof drainage interior or exterior system or upgrade site storm water system.
|20. Heating system Boiler (Electric, Gas, Oil)
|Inspect system.
|Repair piping or insulation. Repair or replace boiler components including thermostats, valves, seals, burner, etc. Perform annual/seasonal cleaning, draining, service/inspection.
|Replace boiler, associated piping, removal of underground storage tanks, install new above-grade fuel storage tank with containment, or new natural gas supply.
|21. Cooling systems
|Inspect system. Clean or vacuum return air grills.
|Chemical water treatment, clean supply/return ductwork, coils, repair/replace thermostats, valves, fans and motors, etc. Replace filters. Perform annual service/inspection.
|Replace cooling tower and/or chiller, roof top unit, install new unit ventilators/window A/Cs for entire building (or section). Replace or install supply/return ductwork.
|22. Heating/Cooling Systems
|Inspect system. Clean or vacuum return air grills.
|Clean supply/return ductwork, repair/replace thermostats, valves, fans and motors, etc. Replace filters. Perform annual service/inspection.
|Replace roof top unit, heat exchanger, air handler. Replace or install supply/return ductwork. .
|23. Exhaust Ventilation Toilet Exhaust Fans, Kitchen Exhaust Fans/Hoods, Lab Exhaust
|Inspect systems. Vacuum/clean exhaust grills/louvers.
|Replace grills, louvers, fan covers, Service system motors, belts, blades, lubrication, etc. Annual certification of hoods.
|Replace kitchen hoods/ductwork; replace bank of Exhaust Fans/ductwork.
|24. Control System Pneumatic, Electronic, DDC
|Inspect system.
|Annual service/inspection. Repair or replace components, piping, controllers, wiring.
|Replace/install entire system.
|25. Fire Sprinkler System Wet or Dry
|Inspect system. Check that nothing is blocking sprinkler heads or hanging from piping.
|Annual service and inspection. Test flow and tamper switches, replace broken sprinkler heads, repair or replace valves, fire dept connection, gauges, etc.
|Install sprinkler system. Install fire pump. Any upgrades to meet Code requirements, including new supply.
|26. Standpipe & Hose Systems Wet or Dry
|Inspect system check for hose in cabinet.
|Exercise zone valves. Repair or replace defective valves, hoses, etc.
|Install/replace standpipe system.
|27. Building Service
|Inspect system. Replace fuses or reset breakers. Maintain access.
|Replace defective breakers in high or low voltage side of transformer. Annual testing. Run new ground.
|Replace building service to transformer. Replace main transformer (High Voltage).
|28. Branch Panels
|Inspect. Maintain access.
|Replace individual breakers or panels. Wire devices from panel or panel to point of service.
|Rewire entire branch panel system back to low voltage side of transformer.
|29. Interior Lighting
|Clean diffusers/lenses, replace bulbs, battery packs.
|Localized repair or replacement of switches, fixtures lenses, etc.
|Replace/upgrade fixtures throughout.
|30. Exterior Lighting
|Check lights, change bulbs, replace cracked lenses.
|Replace fixtures, day/night individual sensors, damaged light pole, etc.
|Add day/night capability to entire network of lights; replace/install new exterior lighting system.
|31. Exit Signs
|Visual inspections, bulb an/or battery replacement.
|Repairs due to breakage/ vandalism or replacement
|Replace/install exit signs or power packs, or installation of retrofit kits to convert all signs to LED in a building or building section
|32. Power & Outlets
|Visual inspections, new plates or covers for power switches or outlets
|New convenience use power outlets, new miscellaneous power outlets, repair or replacement of interior parts (wall switches, wall outlets, exclusive of covers)
|New installation or replacement of all switches or outlets in a building or building section for health or safety needs or code upgrades
|33. Communication & Security Systems
|Visual inspection, cleaning.
|Annual testing, service and inspection, replace broken components or devices.
|Replacement or installation of security system device for any building or building section
|34. Special Systems /
Hard-Wired Central Systems such as Fire Alarms, Fire Control, Clock, Closed Circuit TV, Data Ports, Central Video, Telephone
|Visual inspection, cleaning, bulb or battery replacement.
|Annual testing, service and inspection; repair/replace individual components.
|Replacement or installation of a complete system for any building or building section
|35. Emergency Power / Generators & Fuel Tanks & Lines
|Visual inspection of, bulb or battery replacement for, cleaning or tagging
|Annual testing, service and inspection, repair/replace components; new or replaced fuel lines, tank containment or wiring
|New or replaced generator, fuel tank and fuel lines, and/or any spill remediation or HAZMAT abatement work
|36. Site Improvements such as Parking, Driveways, Walkways, Directional Signage, landscaping, bicycle racks, site signage, irrigation systems or other site improvements
|Visual inspections, snowplowing, lawn or garden care, including maintenance care of trees, shrubs or any other plantings; repair, replacement or painting of any non-security or other non-safety-related fencing/gates, ;coating or recoating, painting or repainting of any impervious parking, driveway or walkway area
|Repair, replacement or painting of any security or safety-related fencing/gates, repair or replacement of uneven or cracked walkways, driveways and/or parking areas.
|New walkways, driveways, curbs and/or parking areas or extensive improvements to same; replacement of an entire driveway, including any associated parking areas, curbs, walkways, due to end of useful life of those surfaces; new or replaced security or safety-related fencing due to end of useful life of those items.
|37. Athletic Facilities and playgrounds.
|Visual inspection, cleaning, lawn/ artificial lawn maintenance and care;
|Replacement or repair of localized equipment required to implement the Core Curriculum Content Standards, Inspection and repair of playground equipment.
|Provide permanent equipment required to implement the Core Curriculum Content Standards; new equipment or systems or repaired equipment or systems as may be required to meet US Consumer Product Safety Commission guidelines, or other required health / safety and/or ADA upgrades.
|38. Fixed Furnishings
|Visual inspection, cleaning.
|Localized repairs, refinishing.
|Installation or replacement fixed furnishings in a building or building section.
|39. ADA [Features and/or] Upgrades
|Visual inspection or cleaning of these components, which may be also be included under other systems such as "Site Improvements," "Floors," "Lifts," etc.
|Replacement or repair of non-skid stair or other required non-skid surfaces, or handles, railings, lifts, elevators, ramps, equipment or features, etc. as may be necessary for pupil, employee or visitor ADA accessibility use.
|Any new installation or new feature necessary to provide appropriate, required ADA accessibility for any location needed to implement the Core Curriculum Content Standards, including pupil, employee or visitor accessibility to those areas
|40. Miscellaneous Building Code [Features] and/or Upgrades, including those supporting BOCA and Fire Codes
|Visual inspection or cleaning of these components, which may be also be included under other systems such as "Emergency Power," "Special Systems," "Security Systems," etc.
|Localized repair/replacement of features necessary for pupil, employee or visitor health & safety, etc.
|Any new installation or new feature necessary to meet code requirements.


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Creating a Healthy Home Environment
As adults, we need to help our children get off to a good start. The earliest risks for childhood obesity begin during pregnancy. Excess weight gain, diabetes, and smoking during pregnancy are not just health risks for the mother, they also put children at risk for obesity early in life. Keeping pregnancy weight gain within recommended limits will help prevent diabetes in the mother. Stopping cigarette smoking and abstaining from alcohol and drug use will protect the health of the mother and the baby.
The earliest decisions regarding food, activity, and television viewing occur in the home. Parents and other caregivers play a key role in making good choices for themselves and their loved one. Children and teenagers look to their mothers and fathers and other caregivers to model healthy lifestyle habits, and adults need to teach by example. In some households, several generations may live together or have responsibility for children at different times during the day. This sharing of duties requires coordination and consistency in activities and habits related to food shopping and preparation, access to physical activity, and limits on television and computer use.
Both young children and teenagers learn from the choices they see adults make. One way to help children learn is to involve all family members in family-based physical activities and in planning, shopping for and preparing meals. These activities provide both an education in healthy nutrition and exercise, as well as a critical foundation for how to make healthy lifestyle choices.
Healthy Food Choices
The first decision that parents make about what to feed their child occurs during pregnancy. After the baby is born, mothers should breastfeed whenever possible because it provides the highest quality of nutrition and helps to prevent early childhood obesity.46 By age two, children should be drinking low-fat or non-fat milk. As parents, we are in charge of the foods we provide to our children. Creativity with food preparation can often solve the problems presented by picky eaters. Adults also should offer children small portions and show them how to eat slowly and enjoy their meal.
Healthy Teenagers
The teenage years present unique challenges. Adolescence is a time of vulnerability to the development of psychiatric disorders, including eating disorders, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. Adolescent boys and girls are subjected to significant peer pressure related to eating and exercise, and most school systems provide limited opportunities for physical activity. Teenagers often drink more carbonated and caffeinated beverages and eat more fast foods. These multiple stresses and unhealthy habits make teenagers particularly vulnerable to becoming sedentary, overweight and obese. An obese teenager has a greater than 70% risk of becoming an obese adult.34 Parents should guide their teenagers to become fit and healthy adults while being cautious not to trigger unhealthy eating behaviors or eating disorders.
Physical Activity
Scheduling time for the recommended levels of physical activity is essential to overall health. Physical activity can help control weight, reduce risk for many diseases (heart disease and some cancers), strengthen your bones and muscles, improve your mental health, and increase your chances of living longer.51 Adults should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week.51 Aerobic activity such as brisk walking or general gardening should be done in episodes of at least 10 minutes and preferably should be spread throughout the week. For children and teenagers, the recommendation is for one hour of daily physical activity that includes vigorous activities and activities that strengthen their bones.51 Making physical activities fun can affect how children and teenagers respond to changes in their routine. Programmed, repetitious exercise may work for adults, but it rarely works for children. Look for ways to add physical activity throughout the day. When possible, parents should walk with children to and from school, and children should have scheduled time to play. Because safety is a real concern in many neighborhoods, citizens should talk with their local elected officials and members of law enforcement to find ways to improve safety so everyone can walk or play outdoors.
Television and Computer Use
In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion of technological advances in televisions, home entertainment centers, computers, and video game systems. A new report released in 201054 found that nearly two-thirds of kids aged eight to 18 say the TV is usually on during meals and nearly half report the TV is left on most of the time in their home. Seven in ten young people have a TV in their bedroom and 50% also have a console video game player in their room. Overall, eight to 18 year-olds spend over seven hours per day using entertainment media (TV, video games, computers) amounting to more than 53 hours a week.
The hours that adults, teenagers, and children are spending in front of a television or computer screen contribute to their sedentary lifestyle and increase their risk for obesity. In particular, the more time children spend watching television, the more likely they are to eat while doing so and the more likely they are to eat the high-calorie food that are heavily advertised to both adults and children.
Most parents either do not set limitations on screen time or do not enforce them. Studies have shown that when parents establish rules and implement them, screen time declines by two hours per day, leaving opportunities for more physical activity. Parents need to be role models by limiting their own television time and spending more time with their children.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Surgeon Gereral's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General, January 2010. Available at http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/.
For more information:
Go to the Wellness Center health topic.

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Celion Dion Pregnant With Second Child!
Celine Dion is pregnant with her second child!
Francine Challoux, the couple's Quebec publicist, tells ET Canada, "They are crazy in love over the news."
The 41-year-old Canadian singer and her husband, René Angélil, 67, conceived with the help of a team of fertility doctors in New York. The couple already has a son, René-Charles, 8.
Adds Challoux, "Rene starts his first day of private school today. They are overjoyed."
Celine's official site hasn't confirmed the news yet but says, "If you hear a rumour, it will be confirmed here first. This is the only spot on the Internet where you'll get the official Céline word!"
Congrats to the happy couple!


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AncestryHealth: A Family Medical Conditions Tree
Ancestry.com, the genealogy behemoth, has entered the health field — sort of. AncestryHealth (AH), a beta foray, helps you document your family's medical conditions. To start, you build a family tree of your blood relations. Unlike a typical family tree, it only lists those who're your biological relations. So, your spouse is out, but your kids are in. However, your grandchildren, for some reason, aren't tracked.
To show how AH works, I built a tree for King Agamemnon and his family. At top of the Agamemnon's chart are his four grandparents, Pelops, etc. Below them are his parents. On Agamemnon's level is his brother Menelaus, whose wife caused some marital stress.
Chart Building. AH's heart is its family member entry screens. First, you add the member, for example, a daughter then her conditions. You could also build the chart and then enter conditions.
Adding a person's health conditions is a simple, top down process. When you select someone, AH brings up its basic conditions menu. It has five general categories: Heart, Cancer, Lung, Brain or Metabolism. If those don't make it, a click brings up 13 more: Muscle, Autoimmune, etc., or you can add your own. Unlike EHRs, etc., AH is strictly for recording health conditions not their treatments. You can note, for example, your mother's osteoarthritis, but not what she takes for it.
When you've picked general categories, you can leave it at that. For example, if you knew Aunt Agatha had allergies, but not much more about her, you'd be done. You can add as many general categories as you like to any one person.
To add more detail, you select the person and then you can add both medical and lifestyle details. Again, you can use AH's choices or add your own.
When you're done, you use the family tree to see everyone or just those with a specific condition. For example, you'd see the relationship, if any, of everyone who has or had heart disease. Finally, you can download a summary of all your family's conditions.
As with any beta program, some of AH parts are less finely developed than others. Many of the problems were with the member entry screen. For example, if a person has two first names, such as, Mary Beth she'll show up as Mary.
Once the member's on the chart, you have to edit their entry to add a last name and living status. I don't know why this isn't done with a single entry screen instead of two screens.
If you do add a last name, it doesn't show on the tree. That means if you have two Great Uncle Davids, you'll have to open the record to make sure you have the right one. It would also be helpful if the member screen had an Unknown Name box.
Similar to Facebook, you can't use titles, such as Dr., Ms., etc. However, if you leave out the period, it's accepted. Nor can you add, MD, PhD, etc., unless you omit the comma after their last name.
Lost Child. AH gives you both an on screen graphic and a printed health summary. The graphic lets you click on a person's icon – though their names don't show – and see the detail.
In one case, Electra's icon disappeared. Given the family's way of settling their issues, I wasn't too surprised.
AH's Big Sibling Connection
If you have an Ancestry account, you can use it to log into AH. You can also create one for AH. When you create a new AH account, one is also opened for you in Ancestry.com, whether you want it or not. For example, using a Gmail address I created the Agamemnon family tree. That login is now part of Ancestry.com. I can't think of a system that opens an account for you in another system.
If you do use your Ancestry.com account for AH, any change you make in your AH family tree changes your Ancestry.com tree as well. You can avoid this if you make a private copy of your Ancestry.com tree. AH should offer to do this without your going to Ancestry.com, etc.
That's not the end of it. When I needed to change the spelling for one of the persons on my AH chart, I found all entries were locked. I could only change someone's conditions, or add a new person. However, I could not edit anyone's name, etc., nor could I remove someone. To edit, I had to go to Ancestry.com's Agamemnon family tree, which has a far different interface. Apparently, this occurs if you're logged into the same Ancestry.com site. Wading through all of this was like trying to figure out Abbot and Costello's Who's on First, but not as much fun.
Sorta Informed Consent. AH shares your family conditions, less any personally identifiable information, with health researchers, etc. I don't object to their doing that and it has significant potential. AH posts a long Informed Consent note about their sharing family information. However, AH puts this where it's unlikely to be read. It's a link at the bottom of each page along with Terms and Conditions, etc. Given its importance, it deserves higher billing.
It is a Beta. AH is a work in progress by the major, family genealogical site. During its beta, AH is free and AH is interested in its reception. It wants comments on adding functions, such as, AncestryDNA data, or risk analysis tools. Its family condition documentation may prove quite valuable to you and possibly to medical researchers.
AH's Family Condition
AH needs to fix several design flaws and eliminate some obvious bugs. It needs to do a far better job of letting you know what it does with your data. Most importantly, it needs to sort out and clear up its various, functional relationships with Ancestry.com. You might call it an Ancestry family condition.
Carl Bergman
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Erlin ready for next start after long layoff
MIAMI -- There probably hasn't been a time in Robbie Erlin's professional career -- or even further back - when he's gone nearly two weeks between long outings.
That will be the case Monday when Erlin, the No. 5 starter in the Padres' rotation, will get his first start of the season on the road against the Indians.
Erlin's last start came on the team's final day in Arizona for Spring Training (March 26) when he threw 70 pitches (49 for strikes) over five scoreless innings in a relief outing against the Royals.
Erlin did get two outs on 12 pitches in Wednesday's 5-1 loss to the Dodgers, but other than that, he has done more sitting than pitching.
"It definitely helped," Erlin said. "I'd gotten hot a few times [warmed up] the previous nights so for me it helped to get a feel for the mound again."
Erlin used some of that down time to his advantage last weekend when he got a good look at the Indians when the two teams played consecutive exhibition games at the University of San Diego.
"It was nice to get familiar with their lineup, who is going to be in there, where they're at in the box and what their approaches are," Erlin said. "We'll go over it [scouting report] more in-depth before the game. But it was good to familiarize myself with them."
San Diego manager Bud Black doesn't anticipate any issue in terms of rust or readiness when Erlin takes the mound Monday.
"I think by the time he gets to Cleveland he won't be, in my mind, too far away from feeling confident mentally and physically about how he can perform," Black said. "I feel good about where he is."


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I do still like the idea of focusing on one item for a while and I choose denim for January but I soon discoverd that January wasn't a long enough time to get all my denim items done- so it dragged on into February and even March. Though I still don't have all the projects done that I had thought of and though I still have some old jeans on hand I am ready to focus on something else for a while. So in April (which starts in less than two hours- do you have any pranks planned for the day? I don't but my mom warned me to be watchful as she over heard my sons talking) I plan on announcing a new theme!
Meanwhile- one last denim project (for now!). The picture at the top is of a denim decorated container that I had fun making.The container originally held a hot chocolate mix that I had been given. I made it a while back but hadn't managed to get it in here. I was inspired to make it after seeing pictures of Melissa's (who blogs at Those Northern Skies) decorated boxes and containers. Mine doesn't begin to compary with her artistic creations but I had fun making it and I do like it.
I think it would be fill with cookies or something like that and give to someone. I think decorating containers is rather fun now- I think I shall do it again!
Meanwhile I thought it would be fun to share some links to various ways that I have reused denim in the past. Here we go.....
~Patching jeans. This is the first thing I generally do, and then I reuse them again later.
~Pinwheel hotpads.
~Overall Apron.
~Re-made overalls.
~Jeans used for the top of a skirt.
~Crocheted denim rug.
~Denim tote bag and bookmark.
~A tote bag using denim.
~A denim skirt re-done.
~A simple quilt with denim.
~Bible case.
~Ruffled denim bag.
~Another simple quilt made with denim.
~Denim trimmed apron.
~Denim and flannel frayed edge quilt.
~Organizing boxes decorated with denim.
~Patriotic denim bunting.
~Use denim to make some "armor".
~A denim skirt.
~Denim baskets.
~A denim vase.
~A magnetic note holding pocket.
~Fluffy denim rag rug.
Denim is certianly a versitile and fun material to work with. I love the way it looks as well. Do you like making things from denim? I would love to hear your ideas for re-using old jeans!


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After Two Years in the Works, Picturelife Comes Alive
This might be a familiar occurrence: You tether your phone or camera to your laptop, or insert your SD card. IPhoto opens … almost. The icon at the bottom of the screen bounces … and bounces … and then iPhoto opens.
But the photos are sort of disorganized. Maybe it's not even iPhoto. Maybe it's another default photo-storage service or your go-to cloud app, like Dropbox.
The creators of a new service called Picturelife think they have a better backup solution.
Picturelife, which has been in the works for the past two years, is coming out of "stealth" mode today, showing off a new-new design and introducing video support in addition to storing photo files. The service is the creation of Nate Westheimer, director of New York Tech Meetup, OMGPOP's Charles Forman (who dazedly walked into traffic after Zynga bought the casual game company for $180 million) and Jacob DeHart of Threadless.
Last fall, TechCrunch reported that the company raised $4 million in funding.
Picturelife's approach is to work with all of the key photo apps, cloud services and social networks to allow for easy imports and syncing of photos across computer and mobile. As with most photo-storage services, photo files can be synced over Wi-Fi or by physically tethering a phone or camera to the computer.
But if you want to import an album from Facebook, you can do that, and share photos from Picturelife to Facebook and Twitter, too. Photos can be imported from Instagram, Flickr, DropBox, Tumblr, Foursquare and SmugMug as well, and won't appear as duplicates in Picturelife.
The app's search function uses natural-language tech to pull up photos and videos, so you can search by using a specific name or GPS location or just phrases like "photos from last summer."
Westheimer says the service isn't meant to replace other cloud-storage services — it's supposed to work with them, offering a more organized photo-storage service and eliminating the need for local storage or a backup hard drive.
Picturelife costs $7 a month or $70 a year for 100 gigabytes of storage, and $15 a month or $150 a year for 300GB. It works on both Mac and Windows computers, and on iOS and Android mobile devices. The company plans to introduce terabyte options, as well as physical photo printing, in the coming months.


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Link, in yarn
Keely's always working on a craft project. She finished crocheting this little fellow recently. He's Link, a character from a video game, and he'll be a Christmas present to a friend. At far right, you can see part of a grayish-blue ball -- I think that's a body part of the knitted turtle that she was doing next.


text: Astronomers now have observational evidence for a missing class of black hole. Stellar mass black holes, those up to about 10 solar masses, are well known as the remnants of supernovae. Likewise for supermassive black holes of 10,000 solar masses or greater known to reside in the hearts of galaxies like our own. The missing link in astrophysics has been intermediate mass black holes, or those between 100 and 10,000 solar masses. Now, scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland have used the XMM-Newton and Swift X-ray satellites to pinpoint a likely candidate; NGC 5408 X-1, a black hole with about 1,000 to 9,000 solar masses in a galaxy about 15.8 million light years away in the constellation Centaurus. This would include an event horizon about 3,800 to 34,000 miles across. An X-ray flux occurs once every 115.5 days, strongly suggesting that NGC 5408 X-1 has a stellar companion accreting donor material. This star would be 3-5 times the Suns mass. Astronomers have been studying NGC 5408 X-1 because its one of the best candidates for an intermediate mass black hole. States Philip Kaaret of the University of Iowa. The contributing companion also gives astronomers the unique opportunity to probe the near-space environment as well as study this intermediate class of enigmatic objects.


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Apple has just announced its annual iPhone event, set for September 9th. We'll be here bringing you coverage from that event and whatever might be announced.
Author Archives: Gregg Mojica
Opinion: In the era of Apple Music, does the iPod have a future?
Very true. I believe the iPod does not have a future in the post iTunes world.
Apple announces 1 billion iOS devices sold
Woah. Something to brag about now, especially for devs 🙂
Apple now streaming Sony's 'The Interview' on iTunes
What to Buy this Season
'Tis the season to be … techy! With the annual shopping season now in full swing and the holidays right around the corner, it's the perfect time to grab some last-minute gifts for the tech lover in your life. But with countless options available, the task is often daunting. Let's break it down.
Among the most popular gifts for all ages are tablets and phones. Phones such as Apple's new iPhone 6 and Google's Nexus 6 make excellent holiday gifts. But before you make a purchase, consider what type of phone to buy. Today, two systems dominate the mobile marketplace: iOS and Android. Both sport a range of features and are equally compelling. If you're buying for a die-hard Apple fan, it's a safe bet to get him or her an iPhone. However, if you're unsure, the situation gets a bit trickier. Consider what they'll use the phone for – school, work, play, etc. Apple's iPhones are very popular among teens but make great gifts for any age. Many businesspeople still resort to Blackberry phones. If you're buying for a hacker, computer enthusiast or someone who just likes to tinker with his/her phone, Android is probably a safer bet because it is a more open platform.
Tablets, too, make excellent gifts for all ages. When most of us think of tablets, the Apple iPad often comes to mind. The iPad has positioned itself at the top of the tablet market for the past four years and continues to be a very reliable device. For people with other Apple devices (i.e., Macs, iPhones, iPods, etc.), the iPad is a perfect gift. It's also a fantastic education tool for students and teachers. But if you're shopping for the Android enthusiast, grab Google's latest Nexus 9 tablet. Built with performance in mind, the Nexus 9 sports the latest Android system (Android Lollipop), a new design, an excellent camera and brilliant screen. Like the iPad, it is available in three colors: gold, silver and black. And yes, for the Windows lovers out there, the Surface Pro 3 (which you may know from Microsoft's comical holiday commercials) is a worthy alternative. The Surface is suited best for businesses and education as the tablet-hybrid sports a full-sized keyboard and touch screen. However, it doesn't sport the extensive app stores that both iOS and Android devices benefit from. The surface can easily be transformed into a laptop or tablet.
It's never too late to buy for the music lover in your life. The iPod, the product that once dominated Apple's sales, is often all but forgotten. But the iPod (especially the iPod Touch) is a valuable choice for younger kids who aren't yet ready for a phone but old enough to be responsible with their own device. Further, Beats offers excellent headphones, stereos and its famous Beats "Pill." Bose, too, offers worthy headphones and speakers. Beats is especially popular among teens and young adults.
Then there are drones, which you probably can't go wrong with. A lot of people, especially aviation enthusiasts, love drones. If you're feeling ambitious, DJI's Phantom 2 is a fantastic choice but at a cost – more than $1,000 (but you can snag the previous generation for around half the price). Nevertheless, you'll be able to find great prices on drones on sites like Amazon and eBay where excellent consumer-level drones often go for $100 or less.
So there you have it – a tech guide for the holiday season. There's a ton of great tech products available on the market this year and you can't go wrong. Happy shopping!
Apple Stores hosting Hour of Code programming workshops on December 11th
How to Get the Best Apple Deals
Ok, so we all know Apple has its Black Friday deals tomorrow, but they're not half as good as other stores that sell Apple devices.
Sites like AppleInsider offer amazing deals on MacBooks – you can grab a Retina Macbook Pro for under $1000!
Best Buy, on the other hand, is offering iPad Air 2's for a $100 discount (retail price: $300). You can grab a non retina Macbook Pro for $899, entry level iMac for $899 or a 16 GB iPhone 6 for $99.
Apple's clearance section also offers some nice deals (nearly $100+ off some iPad models).
Keep checking back throughout the Thanksgiving weekend, we'll have more info…


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Wednesday, May 27
Lending a Hand to Charlie Sifford
We're at the Holiday Inn Express yesterday outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, and Charlie Sifford can't get into his room. There's a problem with the key card. He heads down the hall toward the front desk.
I know how guarded these pros feel about their tools, even though Charlie didn't play this day. He recently had open heart surgery.
"Thanks," he said, knowing I'd keep an eye on his TaylorMade clubs until he returned.
Earlier Charlie and a dozen or so other legends had participated in a special pro-am prior to the Rex Hospital Open, this week's Nationwide Tour event. I attended, spending time with the old pros. Afterwards, I headed back to the hotel with many of the legends to have dinner with Jack Fleck.
I was waiting for them when they gingerly stepped out of the van, a who's who of 1950s and 1960s tour golf: Doug Ford, Billy Casper, Miller Barber, Charlie Sifford, Dow Finsterwald, Bob Goalby, Howie Johnson and Jack Fleck.
I had told Charlie how much I enjoyed Uneven Fairways, the Golf Channel documentary that featured him and other black players who faced the color barrier in golf. Charlie broke through when he became the first African American member of the PGA Tour in 1961. Now he's in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Charlie returned with a new key and opened the door to Room 122. "I'll get your clubs, Charlie." I didn't want this 86-year-old man who had just had majory surgery to lift his clubs off the cart and place them in his room. I grabbed them and his shoes and set them down inside the door.
It was a small gesture − but also a privilege − to help this small, tough man who had endured so many threats and indignities throughout his career. I was grateful to have a few moments with the Jackie Robinson of golf.
Sifford File
Turned pro: 1948
Birthplace: Charlotte, North Carolina
PGA Tour wins: 2
Senior Tour wins: 8
World Golf Hall of Fame induction: 2004
Equipment: TaylorMade
−The Armchair Golfer
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(Image: El Rio Golf Club)
5 comments:
- Unknown said...
Great story. I remember he had two PGA wins, but I sure forgot he had eight senior wins.
Wouldn't it be neat to spend an evening just listening Charlie Sifford stories right from his mouth to our ears...???
- Charles Boyer said...
Wish I had known the both of you were in Raleigh -- considering that's where I live, work and play -- it would have been an honor to shake Mr. Sifford's hand, and I would surely have invited you both back to my course for a round on our track.
It would have been fun to see how Charlie did on our 18th, a hole that Tom Kite took a six on recently, and he and Bob Cupp designed the course. I bet Charlie would have birdied it. (Tom dumped two in the lake that goes all the way down the left.)
To echo One-Eyed Golfer, "Great Story." How did he play? It's great that he can still get out there from time to time and it's greater yet that there are people in the world willing to help those who've given them so many great memories. Great man, great golfer...and a pat on the back to you for caring.
- Nitegator said...
I like this post, I wrote about Stifford February 17. I like this fellow.
- Hack said...
Hella cool. Nice story.


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It's unlikely that anyone has The xx on their gym playlist. The band's sound is hard-wired for melancholy—evoking images of the lovelorn staring out of a café window smoking cigarettes down to their filters. In their self-titled debut album, The xx wooed audiences with a desperately delicate sound that made loneliness an art form. It's a medium the young British threesome continues to explore on their second album, Coexist, which debuts on September 11th.
The xx's self-titled debut introduced that style of silence interlaced with brittle hooks, gorgeously building drones, and haunting lyrical interplay that simultaneously called to mind frozen Russian landscapes and smoke-stained Manchester nightclubs. The band's lyrics about loneliness, lust and love won and lost, struck a chord with the moderately depressed around the world. Apparently that is a booming demographic, because the album went platinum. Billboard notes that while it has been on sale for 145 weeks, it has only fallen below 1,000 in weekly sales twice, which in an age of streaming and YouTube and piracy, is quite a feat. There's a good reason it's been in steady rotation for so long: It's filled with beautiful tracks that deserve repeat listens like "VCR" and "Heart Skippped a Beat."
Helping fuel the band's rapid ascendance has been mass media's seeming infatuation with their music: Their songs have been sampled by wildly popular artists like Rihanna, who add gravity to their own confectionary sounds by looping in The xx's dark hooks, and featured on TV shows and in commercials. Additionally, their mesmerizing track "VCR" has been covered by stars as varied as The Antlers, Matthew Dear, Damon Albarn, Shakira, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. The band's percussionist/keyboardist and producer Jamie Smith (a.k.a. Jamie XX) has gone on to work with both Gil-Scott Heron and Drake, further adding to the band's image as talented professionals worth paying close attention to.
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In the span of a few years, The xx went from playing in front of hundreds to thousands and then tens of thousands with headlining gigs at All Tomorrow's Parties, as well as prominent sets at Coachella and Bonnaroo. They also won Britain's coveted Mercury Music Prize. Led by the singles "Angels" and "Chained," people have been talking about The xx's new album for months. Still, it's clear all this hasn't affected the group's sound. Or if it has, it has seemingly isolated them more, as the album sounds as perfectly lonely as ever.
Just as on their debut, The xx makes copious use of empty space on the aptly titled Coexist, the silence playing as important a role in their music as Romy Madley-Croft's guitar. Each sound, be it instrument or voice, is given ample room to exist and to soar. The sweetly smooth voice of Madley-Croft and the rough-around-the-edges whisper of Oliver Sim's vocals live in separate worlds, occasionally overlapping, but never overrunning each other. The instruments played by Madley-Croft, Sim and keyboard/percussionist Jamie Smith exist almost wholly separately, but blended together masterfully by Smith, who mixed the album, so that when the vocals and instruments finally come together, the effect is strangely exhilarating.
In some ways, the album makes more sense when you find out that, according to Rolling Stone, the bandmates wrote the songs in isolation, even from each other. They reportedly wrote the songs individually, recording snippets on Garageband or their phones and emailing them back and forth. The final product was pieced together, then recorded, before the band learned how to play it live. The effect is a sparing cohesiveness that is wholly captivating.
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Their single "Chained" is a thrilling if somewhat taxing journey to ride the swells of Sim's and Madley-Croft's emotions. The bass line twists and thumps through the song like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. It sets off at a frenetic (for The xx) speed, setting the pace for the song, and the listener, much like Alice, can't quite catch up, before the song crashes down into a well of silence. It's a neat trick, but it's risky, too. On "Missing" the sound disappears entirely for a beat or two, making listeners (or this one anyway) stare quizzically at the computer wondering if that was it. The song zooms back to life, but it's a distracting moment—one that doesn't quite work.
"Sunset" is the album's most obviously danceable track. The percussiveness that the group has added to their repertoire is a welcome addition that shows that with Coexist the band is evolving beyond their black-clad world, while remaining wholly true to themselves. "Fiction," is another song that shows off their use of percussion throughout the album. If the track's bass-and-drum lines were cranked up, you could have the beat to a Deadmau5 song. The xx also doesn't shy away from the unexpected musical addition to their sparsely moody sound. For example, in "Reunion," a steel drum of all things plays a starring role in helping construct the atmosphere, its steely sound an unusual harbinger of emptiness when placed into The xx's grey world.
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Overall, on Coexist The xx takes daring risks in their use of percussion, silence, and dueling vocals—for the most part successfully. But despite the slow crescendos of Sim's and Madley-Croft's call and repeat, they don't drag things out. There are no seven or eight minute navel-gazing tracks on the album. The longest track "Swept Away," which clocks in at 5:01, is arguably one of the album's best because there is more time to draw the listener in, to create atmosphere for the listener to exist in, before peaking and then ebbing. It's a chance for listeners to revel in The xx's world for a bit longer, which is self-indulgent, but also blissful.


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Across Boundaries: Innovation & The Future of Education
LearnLaunch, a nonprofit, hosted a two-day education conference, "Across Boundaries: Innovation & The Future of Education.'' LearnLaunch was founded to provide support to entrepreneurs through classes, peer group learning, conferences and networking opportunities.
The sold-out conference was held on Feb. 1 and Feb. 2 at the MIT Tang Center, and was focused on the potential of technology to improve learning and educational access, as well as to explore market and investment opportunities. The LearnLaunch conference kicked off with a keynote address, given by edX President Anant Agarwal on Feb. 1. Other keynote speakers included Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Gregory Bialecki; John Katzman, founder and CEO of Noodle and founder of The Princeton Review; Anthony Kim, founder and CEO of Education Elements; Seth Reynolds, partner at The Parthenon Group; and Luis Rodriguez, director of the Office of Digital Learning for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
"We started LearnLaunch with Jean Hammond and Eileen Rudden basically to increase and expand Ed Tech in Boston. We found that there are so many people who are interested in this space, but not really connecting to one another, and we wanted to bring them all together,'' said Marissa Lowman (pictured), the executive director and co-founder of LearnLaunch.
Education Elements
Anthony Kim (pictured), the founder and CEO of Education Elements, a blended learning technology company, was a keynote speaker at the conference.
Education Elements is working with about 60 schools around the country, and helps schools to redesign their instructional models to incorporate blended learning, which means that they facilitate multiple learning modalities in the classroom and augment that with technology. "The company provides the design services, the implementation services, and the platform that helps schools to operate these environments,'' explained Kim.
30hands Learning
"I think what's really great about this conference is that it is a blend of different types of people. Everybody contributes and connects in a different way,'' said Eric Braun (pictured), the CEO and co-founder of 30hands Learning.
30hands Learning is a collaborative learning platform, a set of tools that helps teachers put together digital classrooms. The company is a big component of blended learning, and it is changing the way projects and learning happen in the classroom. They built a technology platform that makes it easier for teachers to work on blended learning.
"Within the classroom, if we can help provide innovation and make teachers more like entrepreneurs then that's going to help kids to get more engaged, help them learn more and learn better,'' he explained.
TeenLife Media
Marie Schwartz (pictured), the founder and president of TeenLife Media, was one of the participants at the conference. TeenLife Media is a resource for information about experiential and educational opportunities for parents, educators, and teenagers. "A lot of high schools in the United States require community service, but they don't support it. Working parents need help finding ways for their students to be engaged in a meaningful way and get some supervision,'' she said.
The company started four years ago, and has built a large database, now having about 15,000 listings of everything from overnight summer programs to local nonprofits who want to engage teens to volunteer. Students, parents, and teachers can visit the website and find all this information for free without joining.
Angel Ed
Navah Fuchs (pictured), Angel Ed co-founder, took the opportunity to showcase the company at the conference.
The company is enabling students to finance their education debt free through crowd funding by connecting individuals regardless of age and field of study with individuals and corporate donorsto who want to mentor or hire students. "We are enabling companies to groom their potential superstars without any contract; they are not selling their life away. But students are able to be free from this trillion-dollar debt problem,'' she explained.
iCreate to Educate
iCreate to Educate is a company that enables K-12 classrooms to access tools that would engage students' creativity. "We believe that kids have a lot of creative ideas, and they need simple tools to express them. We created an application that allows kids to tell their own story through making an animated video,'' said Melissa Pickering (pictured), former Walt Disney engineer, who founded iCreate to Educate in 2010.
iCreate's current portfolio of products include stop-motion movies and a myCreate iPad app that lets students and teachers capture still images from a webcam that can then be played back in movie form like a digital flip book. The company just announced strategic funding from Kaplan Early Learning Group at the conference.
Miro Kazakoff (pictured) is the CEO and co-founder of Testive, a company that focuses on adaptive technologies and personalized learning. "Study less, but study better,'' said Kazakoff. The company's test prep tool, SAT Habit, generates customized student plans that help students improve their SAT scores faster. The tool can predict with accuracy what they will get for SAT scores, and identifies what they need to learn and improve on.
LearnLaunchX, a startup accelerator, focuses on enabling education technology entrepreneurs to build and grow their startups into companies. LearnLaunchX will invest in an estimated 40 companies across five cohorts in the first three years of its accelerator program.
Pictured: Vinit Nijhawan (left) and Jean Hammond, co-founders of LearnLaunchX.
"We have investors here from California, New York, and we have entrepreneurs. The conference has been incredibly successful,'' said Nijhawan.
"Tiggly makes playing with the iPad more physical,'' said Phyl Georgiou, the founder and CEO of Tiggly.
Tiggly focuses on bringing real toys to the iPad for toddlers. The system includes three little shapes and a set of apps that allow kids to interact with shapes, colors, and animals on the screen. These help toddlers develop motor skills and learn about the world around them.
Valmeeke Inc.
Valmeeke is the new Netflix for kids under the age of 14. Jacob Varghese, the founder of Valmeeke, got his inspiration from his own kids. "Our mission is to enable parents and teachers to partner and collaborate and to safely discover, build, assign, and monitor media consumed by their children,'' said Varghese.
School Yourself
School Yourself is a start-up that reinvents the idea of the traditional textbook. The company created electronic textbooks for math and science that are fully interactive. "Our textbooks allow users to manipulate problems within the text, view video demonstrations of problems, and test their knowledge through the touch screen enabled lessons,'' said Zach Wissner, the CEO of School Yourself.
The textbooks are available for sale in the Apple iBookstore.
Learner First
Learner First provides education solutions, such as school improvement and data management, online and blended learning solutions, professional development, and education management solutions for small businesses.
"Learner First provides students with the tools that they need in order to succeed by giving them access to learning and assessment modules and real-time tutoring with certified teachers,'' explained Andrew Taylor, the CEO of Learner First.
Empow offers creative technology after-school programs, Summer and school vacation workshops, even birthday parties. "We run technology workshops for kids in elementary and middle school, even kids as young as 4 years old. We teach classes on how to design video games, how to build robotics, digital design,'' said the founder and CEO Leonid Tunik (pictured).
Playrific is an online community for parents who want to learn how to educate and entertain their children by using the Internet. Playrific has just raised $1.7 million led by Golden Seeds.
Pictured:Beth Marcus (left), CEO of Playrific, and Jean Hammond, co-founder of LearnLaunch.


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Before long we will all hear that age old adage of "Trick or Treat?" as the small ones dressed in their best witch and pirate costumes will hold out a pillowcase in hopes of receiving chocolate. But what if we mixed it up a bit this year?! Global Exchange is promoting a new way to celebrate Halloween, while promoting a great idea: Reverse Trick or Treating. The idea is to have each Trick or Treater hand out Fair Trade Chocolate with an informational card about Fair Trade to each house they visit on Halloween. What a great way to spread the message, and really who is going to turn down a piece of Fair Trade Chocolate?
Global Exchange was providing kits for free, however, due to the popularity of the idea they have run out! Never fear though, you can request the informational cards from them and buy some delicious Fair Trade chocolate from Equal Exchange or other Fair Trade Chocolate companies. Also, Equal Exchange has posted the informational cards online in English and Spanish and you can order chocolates to hand out. Also, Global Exchange sells a Halloween themed Fair Trade Action Kit which includes mini Fair Trade chocolates, postcards, Eco-friendly trick or treating bag, and a Fair Trade poster to hang up!
Whether you are taking your littlest family members out to gather sweets or if you are at home passing out candy, please consider spreading the Fair Trade message. Unfortunately, conventional chocolate companies are known for various labor and environmental abuses. Seriously, there is no better way to educate others on the perks of Fair Trade chocolate than to give them out on an American holiday now centered around candy. Enjoy your Fair Trade Halloween!


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Tokyo fashion and Nakameguro: a lovely fashion district
Michel Lebon and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Tokyo is a vibrant capital city and you have so many fashionable areas to visit and enjoy the ambience of elegant districts. Nakameguro is one of these lovely and charming districts and the fashion angle appeals greatly. Therefore, not surprisingly this district is in high demand and the reputation keeps on growing.
Nakameguro is one of the many smaller fashion districts which keep on adding spice to life in Tokyo alongside Daikanyama, Jiyugaoka, Kichijoji, Nakano, and Shimo-Kitazawa. In truth, the beauty of Tokyo is that while Aoyama, Harajuku, Ikebukuro, Ginza, Omotesando, Shibuya, and Shinjuku, hog the limelight; it is the lesser lights which have enhanced the quality of life in Tokyo.
If you want the crème de la crème of international and Japanese boutiques then a visit to Aoyama, Ginza, and Omotesando will be high on the agenda and not Nakameguro. However, despite this the fashion sector is buzzing in this part of Tokyo and the independent angle appeals to many fashion lovers.
Nakameguro is blessed with elegant boutiques, an abundance of café bars and quality restaurants and the entire ambience appeals to many individuals who desire to relocate to this trendy district. Also, the location is fantastic because you are on the doorstep of Daikanyama, Jiyugaoka and bustling Shibuya. Therefore, the area is a major hub of fashion and the closeness to Shibuya is a major pulling power for new fashion companies which have opened up in the other smaller districts.
In trendy Nakameguro you will find lovely boutiques along the river and many of these boutiques have young designers who have fresh dreams and ideas. Meanwhile, in the back streets of this enchanting part of Tokyo you will find many shops catering for vintage fashion and independent styles.
Nakameguro is a magnet for artists, musicians, and designers. This in turn is creating a lovely buzz and you can feel the energy.
Mitsuyo Hara in an earlier article commented that she visits Nakameguro because "the culture is cool and relaxed and she adores vintage fashion." When asked if she noticed any real changes in recent times she commented that "more fashion boutiques and companies have moved in but a nice balance remains and now more hip than the past."
Modern Tokyo Times also asked Chika Tanaka about why she visited Nakameguro so much. Chika Tanaka replied by stating that "The quaint fashion contrasts greatly with Shibuya and refreshes her thinking."
Chika Tanaka further commented that "Omotesando, Jiyugaoka, and Nakameguro were her three favorite fashion districts." Also, she hopes to relocate "…to either Jiyugaoka or Nakameguro in the future."
Takako Hotta, who is an adorable and stunning model and actress in Tokyo, simply adores the boutique Monde Garage in Nakameguro. In her video she comments that "all the clothes are handmade" and this appeals greatly to Takako Hotta.
Also, Takako Hotta likes the independent angle and Chika Tanaka mentioned this aspect. Therefore, fashion lovers who like to buy their clothes in Nakameguro not only look stylish but they also look extremely chic and independent wrapped into one.
In an earlier article by Modern Tokyo Times it was stated that "Shops like J'Antiques stock vintage products and you have many fascinating stores like this in Nakameguro. The boutiques in the backstreets compliment the vintage angle because you have a nice blend of old and new."
Overall, Nakameguro is a lovely district and this applies to fashion, having a relaxing time, enjoying quality restaurants and soaking in the ambience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYIqXrZ9G2Y Takako Hotta and Monde Garage


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In fact, according to an analysis by The Atlantic of 30 mass shootings from 2003 to 2013, broader background checks would have stopped only one: Douglas Williams' slaughter at a Lockheed Martin plant.
Although there are millions of so-called assault rifles in circulation (3.3 million Colt AR-15s alone, for example), they actually are used in homicides less often than hammers and clubs. And that's true for all rifles, not just the scary-looking kind. In 2013, FBI data show, 285 people were killed with rifles — and 428 with blunt instruments.
One of my favorite things about the article is that he is able to make all these points without even discussing the second amendment which I personally consider more philosophical and hypothetical than the actual reason I myself am involved with guns - personal protection.


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One of the best parts about being able to spray is that you have a nearly endless amount of time to think about anything you choose. What a wonderful opportunity. I hear of these people who are bored with their job, or have nothing to do, and even this job, that it is so boring. Well, that tells the state of their mind doesn't it? What a wonderful opportunity. It is like the old fairy tale of the hero getting into the cave of precious gems, with only one stipulation, that he can have any one he wants, but only one. How sad that so many people choose to leave the cave with no gem, or with a tawdry, poor quality gem.
Anyhow, when I arrived at Larry's this morning, he asked me about my meeting with Larry and Lori Kaye Gleim. I told him about my experience and what it was they said. He was disappointed that she did not want to get to know the family any. He told me that he broke his leg and ended up staying with Donald and Carolyn for a time. For about 4 1/2 months, nearly every day he would stay with baby Lori Kaye and take care of her. He said he would never forget holding her on his knee and how beautiful she was. He said there are some similarities between Toni and Lori Kaye, but he considered Lori Kaye beautiful as a baby. That was only confirmed when he met her at her Grandfather's, Harley Jepsen, funeral. He said he could see the point of her keeping it quiet, but just did not understand it.
It was an interesting starter thought for the day. I sprayed for a couple of hours thinking about that. I think of the doctrine that at the last day all things shall be made known. Those things which are secret shall be shouted from the rooftops. Now, whether that has any bearing on me, I do not know. However, Lori Kaye's mother, and Lori Kaye will some day have to face that. At some point, Lori Kaye's own children will have to be told who is their biological grandfather. At some point, Carolyn, for what reason she is hiding all this, pride, children's hearts, or something else, will have to face it an answer it. It will all have to be sorted out. Especially someone who is where she is now, you would hope the wife of a Stake President would be more honest with her own family. The wife of a High Councilman, who is a representative to a student stake, would also be more honest with their own family. Anyhow, to each their own. However, I would feel that I would seek to know the man to whom I was born in the covenant to. The man to whom untold priesthood blessings will come to me.
I finally took a moment to drive near the elementary school, and notice the foundation of the old Evan's store still there across the street (the old Malad High School). It was Diane Evans Spackman's grandparents store. (I stayed with the Spackman family in Eagle last year. She told me about it last year, finally I took the time to pay attention to see if I could see it. It is still there.
I sprayed this lady's lawn who was in the back yard while I was working. We started talking. She told me about her husband's death in February (Bill Price). She told me about his death, how it happened, and how she is struggling. I was not sure how to reply. But I just listened. She asked me about my winter and I told her about my marriage. She was excited and told me about her marriage. Eventually, I found out she currently lives in what was her parents house. Then, found out her father was a four term Senator to the state of Idaho. She asked me if I liked to read, and I told her I did and biographies were my favorite. I told her I was currently reading a biography on Borah. She then told me that U.S. Senator Borah was a friend of her father. In fact, she remembered her father and Sen. Borah talking on the front porch of that house. I was surprised. She told me about her memories of the man. Who would have thought I could get personal testimony on a man whose biography I was reading at the time. I was very impressed with how genuine Helen Daniels Price was. I spent a good half hour visiting with her about the lives of others. She was a librarian in Malad for 25 years or so. Such great people in the world everywhere.
At some down time, I read some of the Nuffer family history that Larry gave to me. It was a very interesting read about Neuffen, Germany. Also some of the surrounding towns my family is from. It was interesting to learn that John Nuffer (son of John Christoph Nuffer, my Great, Great, Great Grandfather) studied architecture and building in Stuttgart before converting and coming to America. That is why he ended up building so many buildings including the Oneida Academy. He also worked on the Logan Temple. It was interesting to read his blessing by Apostle Teasdale and setting apart as a Seventy before going back to Germany for a mission. It will be interesting to read more.
I visited with Lorraine Dives today, whose son is Larry Dives, who lives in Pleasantview, and works at the Malad Post Office. We had a good visit about her yard and how it is improving. It is these types of experiences that I like. Mingling with those individuals who are the salt of the earth and go about doing their own thing.
Of other news, something to add to the usual surprises of life. Amanda returned home on Thursday evening to find that there was a fine layer of dust throughout the house. Originally, due to the dark nature of the dust, it was assumed to be coal dust. There are workers replacing the old coal furnace in the basement, and somehow they ended up shooting dust up into both apartments. Our landlord, John Payne, send a nice cleaning lady to take care of the problem. Saves us from having the clean the whole home I suppose. But it was not a happy thing for Amanda to discover.
Well, that will do for today. Tomorrow is spraying in Malad again. I have to admit, it is the only place in the country I know of, and somehow a great source of pride to me, that they fly an American flag on every other light pole on the main streets. The clincher, on the other poles there is a Welsh Flag. Reminded me of my mission, and I am excited that a city takes its heritage to heart and shows it. So many cities have become mainstream Babylonia. Here is a town who has not forgotten some of what it is and where it came from. Plus, I have a special place in my heart for Cymru. I even bought a Welsh Book of Mormon a while back and would like to learn to read it. I hope Malad is doing it for the right reasons, and continues to do it, for it is a wonderful thing.
Tomorrow Amanda and I attend Prairie Home Companion. I am really excited. Not that I have to leave at 5:30 in the morning to finish work in time, but that I am going to personally attend a Prairie Home Companion. I have always admired them, even from when I was in Junior High. Also, tomorrow night after Prairie Home Companion, Amanda and I attend the last Utah Temple, Ogden. That will complete our goal of attending all 11 temples. If we had time, I would like to get in both Idaho Temples (soon to be 4!).


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Went on this bike trip around Chilka lake(largest salt water lake in Asia)Came through the other side where it meets the Sea.Was beautiful and had to tie the bikes to a boat since there was no path to cross this part filled with water.
Was raining in parts and went to Puri .
Amazing place it is.The Jaganath temple was simply fabulous with loads and loads of erotica carved on its outside.And ofcouse the passionate devotes all around.
For a moment I thought I could be immersed in religion cause it was well worth it.
Then the drive to Konark through the mangroove forrests and the beach on other side.
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Interview with FIVE AM : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. FIVE AM : The client had a small budget but a lot of demands. Thats why whe needed to find the solution elsewhere, not in the mainstream ideas. As containers are very cheap nowadays we started to search solutions to combine them to an office. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. FIVE AM : The main goal, was letting the visitors experience the production hall while they enter the office. They need to feel, smell, see the awesome machinery, even if they only pass by for a minute. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. FIVE AM : The client can add containers as they want. Imagine the company grows in the next years and they need an extra postproduction unit, they only need to add 1 container. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. FIVE AM : It took about 6 months, starting from the first meeting to the actual start of the construction. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. FIVE AM : Our client contacted us. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. FIVE AM : A lot of meetings with our client. And in every design decision, searching for the simplest solution. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. FIVE AM : We tried to let the containers interact with their environment. We really didn't want to place the containers without any connection. .
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Hendersonville resident Jordan DeLozier was 7 years old when his father bought him a 286 Packard Bell computer. He was hooked.
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By the time he was 13, DeLozier had developed a search engine that he then sold to a California-based company for $200,000. Unfortunately, before the ink was barely dry on the contract, the West Coast company went belly up. But that didn't deter him.
By age 18, he was an IT intern at BorgWarner in Arden. Later promoted to the world headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich., DeLozier became the company's coordinator of electronic data interchange. Day in and day out, he created software programs used to exchange data.
As if being knee-deep in tech all day wasn't enough, as a hobby DeLozier created several websites of his own, including SEOClerks.com under the company name IonicWare Inc., based in Hendersonville. The website is a marketplace for buying and selling freelance search engine optimization services that help websites get higher rankings on sites such as Google.
The idea was to let "freelancers sell their SEO skills online, bid on SEO projects that others have listed or even trade their SEO skills for something else, like design of graphic logos or brand-building for their own SEO businesses," DeLozier explained.
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Today, more than $1.5 million has been paid to more than 110,000 freelancers listing their services for sale on the site, and DeLozier took a cut of 10 to 20 percent in most cases.
With concrete proof that his idea had great potential, DeLozier, 31, quit his job in January to serve as IonicWare's full-time CEO. But he didn't want to just grow SEOClerks' user base and revenue. He also wanted to build a larger digital marketplace where anybody could sell or buy anything — from all kinds of professional services to handmade crafts to home and garden items — worldwide. That site, ListingDock.com, launched in September, with the help of DeLozier's good friend and brother-in-law, Eric Elliott, a partner in the venture.
Elliott, 31, works for the Henderson County Sheriff's Office as a training offer and has developed strong people skills.
"Jordon has an extensive background in programming and the Internet, but through my job at the sheriff's office, I understand how to relate to people and provide great customer service," Elliott explained. "With my skill set, we want to be able to add more of a personal touch to our users."
"With Eric on board, we'll be able to turn a profit within a year," DeLozier said with conviction. "SEO clerks took two years."
"We are co-founders of ListingDock and share the responsibilities of maintaining and promoting the website," Elliott said. "We generally meet twice a week for several hours to brainstorm new ideas as well as conduct strategic planning for advertising and ways to improve the users' experience of the website."
Elliot serves as ListingDock's chief marketing officer, building the brand through advertising, social media and online networking. Some of the territory is relatively new to him, but with DeLozier as his partner and technical advisor, things have gone smoothly since the September launch.
"It was kind of a crash course, for me," Elliott said. "I jumped in with both feet. It's learn-as-you-go. We can track where people come from who visit the site and an enormous part of that has been from social media, so it's a little bit of trial and error and a lot of effort."
"It cost $34 for the domain name and a secure certificate for the site and a lot of my time," DeLozier said. "I wrote the SEOClerks code in such a way that ListingDock sits on top of it, so when you're visiting ListingDock you're actually on SEOclerks, but you just don't know it."
One of the other "beauties" of the site is its global reach, Elliott said. "It doesn't depend on the economy of any one (geographic) area. It's global so you can reach more people."
"When the economy goes go down in a country," DeLozier added, "more people in that country go online and offer their services to people in other countries that are more stable. So our platform grows either way, in a down economy or up."
Going forward, the pair would like to focus on getting more craft sellers on the site.
"We're essentially offering a person a storefront online if they don't have a physical storefront or the ability or time to create their own website," Elliott said. "Over the next year I think we will see the site grow exponentially due to the work that Jordan and I have both put into it. Over the next five years we'll continue to grow and expand — doubling or tripling what SEOClerks did because it's not niche-based."
"I believe ListingDock will do more than $1.5 million in half the time SEOClerks did, and I see us competing with sites like Etsy, Ebay and Fiver," DeLozier said.
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Facing the best offense in the majors in the worst pitchers park in the world, Cliff Lee didn't just hold his own. He dominated. And with a little help from Chase Utley and the Phillies offense, Lee gave Philadelphia a 6-1 win and a one-game advantage in the 2009 World Series.
Lee was magnificent, working eight scoreless innings before giving up a meaningless run on a Jimmy Rollins throwing error in the ninth. In a complete game, Lee struck out 10 and walked zero, no small feats against the Yankees' juggarnaut of an offense. Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia was nearly as good, but had occasional trouble locating his pitches. Lee was flawless; Sabathia made two major mistakes to Phillies second baseman Chase Utley, and Utley hit two solo home runs to give the Phillies a slight edge.
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The Phillies added two runs in the eighth, when a series of Yankees relievers walked the bases loaded and Raul Ibanez singled to left for a pair of RBIs. Shane Victorino drove in Carlos Ruiz in the top of the ninth to give the Phillies a 5-0 cushion, and Ryan Howard added another to stretch the lead to six.
The Yankees showed minor signs of life in the ninth when Derek Jeter scored from third on Rollins' attempt to execute a double-play throw at first. Lee quashed any hopes of a rally by striking out Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada to end the game.
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Debian Linux project released the OpenSSH security updates for computers powered by its Debian Linux operating systems. The Openssh package has remote unsafe signal handler DoS Vulnerability. It has been discovered that the signal handler implementing the login timeout in Debian's version of the OpenSSH server uses functions which are not async-signal-safe, leading to a denial of service vulnerability.
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Elate's homey feel is the perfect backdrop of the comfort of the food that awaits you. Executive chef Michael Noll turns food into art, creating truly unique dishes that keep restaurant goers coming back for more! Favorites like hamburgers and pork sandwiches take on a new, gourmet form in the Elate Burger, featuring creamed leeks, apple wood smoked bacon and a side of hand cut French fries and the Confit Pork Baguette, hardly your average barbeque on a bun!
They add a new twist to an old breakfast standby in Banana Custard French Toast; melt in your mouth creaminess, perfectly offset by peanut butter crunch!
And if pizza is what you crave, Elate's take featuring smoked ham, truffle potatoes, Gouda cheese, caramelized onions and an egg sunny-side-up is just the ticket!
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The new year is off to a fast start on the PGA Tour with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson posting early season lopsided victories. Locally, The Concession Golf Club is the clubhouse leader in producing news.
Here is what's happening at the exclusive private club:
Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers, a member of The Concession, plans to play the course on Thursday during the NBA All-Star break. A 9-handicapper, Rivers will play from the backs tees, over 7,400 yards.
He will be greeted by Dan Terlescki, who was introduced to The Concession Golf Club members as their new head pro on Super Bowl Sunday.
Terlescki, 32, is a 2003 graduate of Penn State University, where he was on the Dean's list.
His last position was the first assistant at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach. He was the 2012 assistant pro of the year for the South Florida PGA Section and the 2011 assistant pro of the year for the South Florida PGA Southeast Chapter.
Prior to working four years at the Everglades Club, he was a store manager and director of instruction at GolfTec in Pittsburgh, an assistant at the Country Club in Brookline, Mass., and the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.
At The Concession, he will be the head pro of a club that boasts a number of celebrities, including Rivers, Archie Griffin, Scott Hoch, Terry Bradshaw and LPGA pros Na Yeon Choi, the 2012 U.S. Open champ, Brittany Lincicome, Jodi Ewart and Ginger Howard.
Former Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger, an honorary member, recently suffered his second motorcycle accident in three years, according to an official at The Concession. He broke his wrist and tore up his shoulder while riding in Manatee County. Prior to the accident, he had been playing golf at The Concession on a regular basis.
On Sept. 10, 2010, Azinger was involved in a motorcycle accident near his home in Bradenton and wasn't able to swing a club for more than two months.
It is not known how long he will be sidelined this time.
Azinger, who won the 1993 PGA Championship and later was diagnosed with lymphoma, a form of cancer, guided the U.S. Ryder Cup team to its first victory since 1999 during the 2008 matches.
Super senior aces Capri No. 3 in Venice
Jo Gillen will be 93 on March 14 and has been playing golf for 33 years. She has been the city champ in Taylorville, Ill., but she never has had a hole-in-one — until Jan. 20, 2013.
Playing in the weekly Sunday Couples League at Capri Isles Golf Club in Venice, Gillen aced the 100-yard No. 3 hole, using an 8-wood.
However, because her eyesight is poor, she never saw the ball bounce in the hole.
"It was a perfect shot that had to carry over water," said Bob Shivers, 66, her son and playing partner. "It bounced about three times and disappeared."
Shivers and others in the group of about 30 from Bay Indies Mobile Home Park in Venice had to tell her where the ball went. She only could see the green.
"We all gave her a big hug," said Shivers.
She shot a 47.
Gillen, who had both knees replaced several years ago, plays nine holes twice a week.
Plantation Foundation Classic Feb. 20-21
The 2013 Plantation Community Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic, the area's largest sports celebrity golf event, will be held on Feb. 20-21 at Plantation Golf & Country Club in Venice. The event is open to all area golfers. There are no membership or ability requirements.
Once again there will be an outstanding field of approximately 60 celebrity players and pros from major league sports.
Among those planning to attend this year are Hall of Famers Jacques Lemaire, Sam Jones, Paul Krause, Danny McManus, Stan Mikita and Pat Richter.
Additional celebrities attending this year are Bud Harrelson, Rico Petrocelli, Sudden Sam McDowell, Tom Neidenfuer, Jim Perry, Gary Peters, Phil Regan, Wayne Garrett, Ken Hodge, Vern Law, Mike McCormick, Rick Miller, Shane Rawley and Cazzie Russell.
The Classic begins on Wednesday evening, Feb. 20, with the Cocktail Pairings Party where Playing Sponsors and their guests will have the opportunity to meet and socialize with the celebrities. By lottery, a celebrity will be paired with each foursome. On Thursday morning Feb. 21 there will be the Otto Graham Memorial Putting Contest, followed by lunch and the "Classic" (18-hole scramble), using both of Plantation's award winning courses. The Awards Banquet will be Thursday evening. Spouses and guests are invited to enjoy both the cocktail party and the awards banquet.
Playing sponsorships are available for a $350 donation per person payable to Plantation Community Foundation, 500 Rockley Boulevard, Venice, 34293.
A playing sponsor may register individually, or may form his or her own group of up to four players. For more information or to register, please contact Joe Magennis, (941) 492-5071, or the Foundation office (941) 497-4826.
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