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Escape to Silver Lake Marina located on the southeast side of beautiful Lake Grapevine in Texas. Tucked in a quiet cove, along the peaceful shores of Lake Grapevine among the gently rolling hills and lush foliage, Silver Lake Marina is a world-class recreational boating destination and a haven for Dallas and Fort Worth-area boaters. There is nothing that relieves the stress of daily life better than spending quality time on the water with family and friends. Lake Grapevine is a little slice of heaven just outside the hustle and bustle of the city limits in what we like to call the DFW countryside. Come out and enjoy all that the lake has to offer; wet or dry boat storage, boating, waterskiing, sailing, wakeboarding, fishing or just relaxing.
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A four-year-old child has died after an accident at a farm in Co Fermanagh.
Police said they attended a farm in the Maguiresbridge area at around 8.30pm last night (Thursday) following a report of an incident involving a four year old child.
Inspector Glen Latimer said: "The child was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
"Local PSNI will work closely with the Health and Safety Executive as they investigate the circumstances."
DUP Leader and Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Arlene Foster has expressed her sympathy.
She said: "This is devastating news and I wish to express my sympathy to the family.
"In the close knit farming community of Fermanagh, news of this untimely death has caused a great deal of shock. "The family will be in my thoughts and prayers today and in the weeks to come, as they mourn the loss of a young life taken under such tragic circumstances."
Ulster Unionist MP Tom Elliott offered his sympathies to the family.
He said: "The news of the tragic death of this young child has shocked everyone in the local community. This is a highly respected and hardworking family, who I am sure are devastated at this very difficult time. I know the close-knit community will rally round in this extremely sad period.
"As a farmer and parent myself, I am only too aware of the dangers on a farm. No one ever thinks these accidents will happen and all I can do at this time is to offer the family my sympathy and support in the aftermath of this tragedy."


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Matt Frost has a new post to his blog talking about reducing complexity and preventing overcomplication in your code and application structure.
We've all come across code that's written so craftily that it takes us some time to figure out what's actually going on in that block of code. We've never written things like that ourselves of course....seriously though, if you're collaborating, not doing things in the simplest terms will create an issue when other people start to look at your code. There is something about us; when we have an opportunity to show off how smart we are; we really try to go for it. The point is that it's not helping anyone and crafty code !== good code.
He makes a few recommendations about how to keep things simple in the various aspects of your development:
- Know your tools
- Know what you're doing
- Check your smells
- Ask "what value does this add?"
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Athletics Australia. http://www.athletics.com.au
We are Athletics Australia.
The premier organisation for Australian athletics. We work across all states and territories and work with athletes from juniors through the World Championships, Olympics and Commonwealth Games teams.
We want all Australians to be active, fit and healthy - that's why we want to use the Athletics Australia (A.A) brand to develop a range of apparel to get more people up and active.
Naturally, we are vibrant, dynamic, active, athletic, outgoing and fun!
We proudly wear Australia's green and green (but don't get too hung up on using green and gold all the time - or even the color pallette from the style guide - because the 'basics' colors for activewear of navy, black, red should be in the range (and enhanced by the AA logo).
You can read more about us at http://www.athletics.com.au.
Our target market currently buys their active wear in Target or Kmart - but now we can offer them the beneft of the AA brands to help support their choice.
We need your designs to convince the potential audience that wearing active wear with AA brands on it is better than a generic range of gear.
We are targetting our new range to men, women, boys and girls.
We are one of the only brands that can go happily across all ages, genders and demographics.
This means we will have a range of customers; from those who like their activewear to be "loud and out there" and those who like to do it a little more conservatively.
We want to take our AA brand through retail (Target, Kmart, etc) and need some apparel range designs incorporating our logos.
Activewear is a really important category and we want to see how you would apply the A.A brands to attract all Australians to wear this gear - whether they were at the gym, on the track or just watching our athletes compete from the couch!
The range of apparel could include:
a) Participant wear - singlets, shorts, polos, t-shirts, sox - all with performance in mind. This could include some replica items.
b) Other range - tracksuits, bags, drink bottles, etc that support the program.
c) Supporter wear - t-shirt designs to show your support for the Aussie's.
Have a look at the attachments:
* The AA logo is the official logo and the primary logo to be applied.
* "The Flame" is the name for the Australian Team and this logo gets used secondly - it would be used on swing tags, packaging, point of sale, etc.
* The 'Target netball' document shows a good example of how Target are atracting all netballers with the endorsement of Netball Australia.
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Three Fascinating Facts About Red Lobster's Crabfest
Red Lobster's Crabfest, an annual celebration of all things crabby, is back, for a limited time only. The yearly promotion comes with a handful of new menu items - including crab-stuffed shrimp and salmon and the Crabfest Combo with jumbo snow crab legs and wild-caught Dungeness crab - and it's the most crab-full the menu is going to be all year. But we bet that there are some things you didn't realize about this massive celebration of all things crab.
Most of What's Caught on 'Deadliest Catch' Goes to Red LobsterThe majority of the snow crab that you see being caught by the team on Discovery's "Deadliest Catch"? It's bought by Red Lobster.
There's a Reason Why It's a Limited-Time OfferAll the crab served at Red Lobster is wild-caught, traceable, sustainable, and responsibly-sourced. The chain only works with suppliers who strictly adhere to crab harvesting seasons and follow catch quotas, which is why once it runs out, the promotion is over.
Jumbo Snow Crab Legs Are on the Menu for the First TimeHave you ever heard of jumbo snow crab legs? Probably not, because they're not very common. But They are considerably bigger than traditional snow crab legs.
In honor of its partnership with "Deadliest Catch," the chain is offering a special cocktail during the promotion: Called Rogue Wave, it's similar to a blue margarita and is served in a "Deadliest Catch"-branded glass. If you check out the promotion, don't forget to take a bag of Cheddar Bay Biscuits to go!


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It will be some time before it reaches couch potatos' hands, but NEC's new TV remote prototype promises eternal power and no battery changes. Ever. How so? It doesn't use any. How is this sorcery possible?
According to the witches and wizards at NEC Electronics and Onryoku Hatsuden, their new remote generates electricity when the users clicks on any button. They are planning to see the first production remotes in 2011. [Aiajin via Crunchgear]


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JPA allows objects of classes to be versioned. The version is typically used as a way of detecting if the object has been updated by another thread or EntityManager since retrieval using the current EntityManager - for use by Optimistic Transactions.
JPAs mechanism for versioning of objects is to mark a field of the class to store the version. The field must be Integer/Long based. With JPA you can specify the details of this version field as follows.
<entity name="mydomain.User"> <attributes> <id name="id"/> <version name="version"/> </attributes> </entity>
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@Entity public class User { @Id long id; @Version int version; ... }
The specification above will use the "version" field for storing the version of the object. DataNucleus will use a "version-number" strategy for populating the value.
While the above mechanism should always be used for portability, DataNucleus also supports a surrogate version for objects of a class. With this you don't have a particular field that stores the version and instead DataNucleus persists the version in the datastore with the field values in its own "column" You do this as follows.
<entity name="mydomain.User"> <surrogate-version column="version"/> <attributes> <id name="id"/> </attributes> </entity>
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import org.datanucleus.api.jpa.annotations.SurrogateVersion; @Entity @SurrogateVersion public class User { @Id long id; ... }
To access the "surrogate" version, you can make use of the following method
import org.datanucleus.api.jpa.NucleusJPAHelper; Object version = NucleusJPAHelper.getSurrogateVersionForEntity(obj);


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Flexible Strip Light Splice Connector with No Wires
This connector is designed to work with aspectLED N-Series and W-Series Flexible LED Strip Lights. Just select from the menu which type of aspectLED strip light you have. This connector allows you to cut your strip light to length and splice connect to another piece of the same strip light without soldering. FOR USE ONLY WITH aspectLED Flexible Strip Lights.
This connector has a two-sided single splice connector with no wire leads.
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|Two-sided single splice connector
|1 Year
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|Do not exceed a total combined length of 16.4' (5M) of LED strip lights connected to/through this connector.
|Suitable Uses
|If used outdoors, must be in a NEMA approved weatherproof box.
- Installer-friendly: easy to install and configure
- Easy to use, just cut your strip at the designated cut line and snap the connector onto the solder pads
- aspectLED N-Series and W-Series Flexible Strip Lights
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
{ I am still here! }
I promise! I can't believe it's been over a month since I last posted. I'm so sorry! It has been a crazy summer, in the best possible ways, and so far it looks like the fall is shaping up to be the same. I've got some big things in the works and can't wait to share them with you. For now though, here are a few things I've been working on. There are more designs coming for boys and girls, as well as some the upcoming addition to some modern quilts to my shop. I'm really excited about everything that is on the horizon and can't wait to tell you more!
This photo is by Summer Knobloch of Summer Knobloch Photography, and the top photo of my sweet babies is by Angela Herzog of Angela Herzog Photography. If you are lucky enough to live in the Central Illinois or Knoxville, Tennessee areas respectively, you must check out these fabulous photographers!
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need.that.dress! :-) It is adorable....you are so talented friend!
- August 25, 2010 at 10:18 PM
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Aw, thanks Amy! Size 4, right? :)
- August 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM
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The dress is gorgeous!! Wish I could wear it :) Also, your red and aqua quilt is fabulous!
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Every individual and family has a unique road to wellness, health, and hope. Every community has its own ways to support and assist the people who live there. Since 1997, Optum's collaborations with stakeholders in San Diego County have enabled us to develop an in-depth understanding and appreciation of County of San Diego Behavioral Health Services. This understanding, and our desire to partner with providers and community stakeholders, enables us to quickly customize our approaches and services to meet the unique needs of providers and the clients and families they serve in San Diego County.
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Ever since the first public coin telephone was installed in a Connecticut bank in 1889, pay phones have been part and parcel of public life, providing callers a way to contact others and giving Clark Kent the much needed privacy required for quick superhero transformations.
That is, until there was a mobile phone in the pocket and purse of most urban Americans. In 2000, there were more than 2 million pay phones in the United States; today there are about 700,000.
As technology scoots us into the future faster than a high-speed train, many details begin to fade away: the sound of a stylus hitting vinyl, the smell of a freshly unpacked roll of film, and the clink of coins in a pay phone to name a few. But for New York City residents, thanks to some new initiatives, sidewalk phone calls may not go the way of the telegram.
Today, there are about 11,400 public phones left in the city; there's a pilot program to transform pay-phone kiosks into wireless hotspots, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced a plan to breathe new life into the city's remaining phones. Called the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, the initiative challenges students, tech types, designers, policy experts and urban planners to create "new solutions to take advantage of the existing pay phone framework and shape the future of public communications infrastructure."
Why the change of heart? Has the hipster trend of loving everything old timey infected the mayor's office?
No. It has more to do with safety and accessibility – think natural disasters and blackouts. Pay phone volume across New York City increased tenfold during Hurricane Sandy, said Peter Izzo of Van Wagner Communications, which manages more than 4,000 public phones in the metropolitan area. Pay phones, with their tangle of copper wire, along with coaxial and fiber networking beneath the pavement, offer overwhelming reliability — unlike mobile phones.
"There's no single 'choke point' to disrupt the service," Izzo said. "It's a matter of taking the existing infrastructure and making something new that people need. That copper wire is an old technology, but it still works."
But to make pay phones viable during emergencies, the system musbe be able to generate income during calm times as well, hence the need for an upgrade.
"We're challenging our dynamic and ever-growing tech community to 'Re-Own the Phone' and provide their ideas on what the future of pay phones could entail," said Bloomberg.
If things go as planned, it looks like the kids might be teaching the adults how to use the newfangled pay phone.
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After many years of community service, Crist and Noma Langelett of North St. Paul describe themselves as "finally retiring" from some of their many volunteer duties.
Crist Langelett is a community icon in North St. Paul, though his influence has touched lives all over the east metro.
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The Chaplain's Corner
One of my favorite Bible studies is "Who am I apart from God? Who am I in Christ?"
Understanding and applying these questions often leads to some in my classes changing from the first group to the second. We are taught from the time we are children that we are responsible for our actions. Our actions as part of the first group, is total separation from God.
One of my teachers in college had a saying that has stuck with me over the years. It went something like, "Some people are so heavenly-minded that they are no earthly good." She was referring to some good church leaders and pastors. Her face still sticks with me. She was an excellent Christian education and apologetics teacher. Several things this older lady taught have stayed with me these 50-plus years. She told it like it was.
It would be interesting to make two recordings of what people say about a man who had a bad reputation. The one recording would be while he was alive and active. The other would be after he died. There are people who have had very little good said about them while they are alive. Few have had much bad said about them after they die physically. This is especially true at the visitation and funeral.
Most of us think positively when we hear that someone is a person of faith. I certainly do. It would be interesting to ask a high school or college student to do a survey on the subject. They could take a random sample of a predetermined number of fellow students. A newspaper or TV station could do the same. There can be no doubt that the number of kinds and variations of answers would be great.
We often think of what we can do for others that is really worthwhile. The older we are, the older our friends usually are also. This means that we have experienced more in years gone by.
It is fun to reminisce about special days. We have coffee hour from about 10 to 11 a.m. on Wednesdays in our senior building. The women sit around a couple of tables and the men sit around a few more tables. Sometimes the conversations involve years gone by. Directly or indirectly we all learn something about each other's past.
Occasionally I take a walk in the Maplewood Mall on a Saturday afternoon, which is not my usual time for taking a walk. My favorite time to walk or run is in the morning. Taking a walk the Saturday before or after school is finished reveals some real changes.
Living in this part of the country and the earth is kind of special. The variety of winter, spring, summer and fall gives us a variety of seasons to enjoy. Each of us has reasons to enjoy some more than others. These reasons can certainly change, as we grow older.
We live one day at a time. Every day as we read the daily paper, we likely read some new news. One day last week several articles on the front page of the newspaper caught my attention. Some were a repeat of past days; others were new to me. All or at least much of life is that way. We certainly do not know what April will bring. Everyday is like that.
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- FeatureWeighing the risks of 1TB drives
- FeatureMaking the case for FCIP and FCoE
- FeatureNew book and toolkit preps companies for legal ediscovery
- FeatureNew demands, higher salaries for storage pros
- FeatureDo RAID levels still matter?
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Do RAID levels still matter?
Most new storage arrays automatically distribute data onto a number of spindles, which eliminates the manual task of selecting RAID levels. You can still manually select your RAID levels, but you'll need to balance availability, risks and costs.
| Most new arrays stripe data across their spindles automatically to increase performance and better use disk capacity. With capabilities like that, RAID could become a thing of the past.
Most Storage readers don't require an introduction to the concepts of RAID. But the rules of the game are changing. As recently as five years ago, storage administrators were constantly challenged by die-hard application administrators to control data placement on the disk array at a very granular level. Not being content with merely specifying "table spaces on RAID 5 and logs on RAID 0/1," some database administrators asked for particular data stripe placement on the platter itself so that, for example, the highest usage online transaction processing (OLTP) instances could get better performance by being written to volumes occupying the outermost disk cylinders.
Why RAID?
Caches keep getting larger, improving performance as they grow. Only when your application seeks data outside the cache (a cache "miss"), does the selection of RAID level affect performance. With new cache algorithms and proper tuning, cache misses can be kept to a minimum. With 90% plus cache "hits," RAID level selection will have a relatively minor impact. This hasn't gone unnoticed by storage array vendors.
| Storage administrators have always been confronted with the task of matching the application storage workload to the storage configuration. For many enterprise applications, this goes beyond the simple "logs on 0/1, tables on 5" to complex volume management involving both hardware and software RAID. Some array vendors actually recommend such techniques as software RAID 0 striping across their array controllers. But the storage workload profile of an application can change over time, requiring constant re-tuning to maintain performance.
Many storage administrators, managing hundreds of terabytes of data, are beginning to realize that twiddling knobs to achieve better performance isn't as much fun as it used to be when 2TB was considered a very big array. Today, the hottest trend in storage arrays is data stripe abstraction. Blocks of data are written to many disks in the array according to a pattern determined by the intelligence in the array; the RAID level, as it were, is fixed and not configurable. In the most advanced arrays, the data block layout pattern can change dynamically as the application workload profile changes.
| Let the array decide
"At NetApp, we have the view that selecting RAID levels for specific applications has become rather anachronistic," says David Dale, industry evangelist at Network Appliance (NetApp) Inc. "The best modern arrays offer automated RAID with architectural mitigation of performance or capacity trade-offs."
The idea of "carving a LUN" and not knowing which physical spindles the data will end up on may be unnerving to some, but it's the wave of the future. Technologies like storage virtualization, thin provisioning, index copying/hardware continuous data protection (CDP) and dynamic volume sizing--just to name a few--mandate the automation of physical disk layout.
New, distributed disk or grid storage technologies are taking on some of RAID's data protection duties. "There are many ways to create redundant copies of data without using RAID," writes John Spiers, founder and CTO at LeftHand Networks. "LeftHand's volume replication can be configured to withstand multiple drive failures, array level failures and complete site failures without losing data, and all without the use of traditional RAID algorithms ... the days of traditional RAID systems may be coming to an end."
Other storage array companies are also heralding the end of RAID as we know it. "While most vendors assign a single tier or RAID level to a volume, Compellent assigns these parameters on a block basis," observes Bob Fine, Compellent's director of product marketing. "Both data classification and data movement are automatically tuned by the array."
For very highly specialized application workload profiles, such as CASE and video editing, manual storage configuration might still be worth considering. But for mainstream applications, like Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle and ERP, storage vendors offer very appropriate automation solutions.
| Balancing requirements
In the final analysis, business decisions need to be made before technical factors can be considered. What, for example, are the requirements of the application and the operating system? How will the data be protected? What are the infrastructure requirements? How much will it cost?
Picking a storage technology is all about balancing parameters. Choosing a RAID level, or a product with data stripe abstraction, is no different. There are a wide variety of options, with no one selection "best" for all circumstances. As a storage administrator, you want happy "internal customers" with a minimum of work and stress. This may mean giving up some control to the array for disk management.


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Wonder how to work catwalk cool into your own closet? Here's how to translate the trends for real life.
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Somewhere, over the rainbow, is this super sunny sheer dress with a just plain gorgeous ROY G. BIV design. A little much off the runway? Perhaps. But it feels like a pot of fashion gold.
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Pastor Mark Whitlock receives a group hug from COR's Vacation Bible School students.
By Cora Jackson-Fossett
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Biblical doctrine combined with kid-focused fun equaled excitement for Christ for children attending the 2nd Annual Vacation Bible School (VBS) at Christ Our Redeemer A.M.E. Church (COR) in Irvine.
According to Pastor Mark Whitlock, the weeklong program, held July 25 to July 29, offered a wide range of activities for youngsters from ages 3 to 13 years old and the result was a huge success.
"Our goal was to help children create spiritual passion for Christ along with gaining solid understanding of the basic principles of the Bible. With the leadership of Youth Ministry Leader, Rev. Charles Dorsey, and the amazing support of great parents and volunteers, we did just that and more," said Rev. Whitlock.
The curriculum included praise and worship, liturgical dance, art and sports group activities, Spanish classes, sign language, Bible Study, and scripture memory exercises. Also, Rev. Mia Whitlock, first lady of COR, engaged the youth in a question and answer session, Rev. Dr. Richard Rose taught about baptism, Brother Ron Guyer instructed about Communion, Rev. Martha Daniel explained the importance of Bible Study, and Sister Lucrettia Lawhorn catered child-friendly food every night of the week.
"The students learned all 66 books of the Bible and memorized several scriptures including John 3:16, Romans 10:8-10, Galatians 5:22-23, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, and Ephesians 6:1-3. They also made T-shirts to represent how God sees them on the inside, created jewelry with a cross on it to remind them that God is always there, wrote songs about their love for Christ, and had a ton of fun with a spirited session of Minute To Win It," said Rev. Whitlock.
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I have written very little about Tiger Woods. After a while it was hard to keep count. He totally f-cked up. He was stupid. He was arrogant. He betrayed the values for which he was sold to us to uphold. But he also didn't kick the sh-t out of his girlfriend. And the fact that Tiger has become a punchline, instead of feared and respected, is probably the worst punishment you could inflict on him.
But now the story gets interesting. Because now, as students of pop culture, we are witnessing the attempt at a comeback. We will watch unfold the calculation, the meticulous preparation, the artful chicanery involved in rehabilitating a global superstar and not just from alleged "sex addiction". Jim Rome said it best when he asked – why aren't dudes ever sex addicted to their wives? A question for another time.
At the moment, something very interesting is unfolding. Tiger is mounting a return. Just hours ago, it was announced that he would speak on Friday at a golf course to "friends, colleagues and close associates". The media will be present but no questions will be permitted. He is expected to publicly apologise, to acknowledge his f-ckery, and to begin convincing us that he should be forgiven.
Just as this statement was released to the media, photos of Tiger jogging near his home in Florida were also released for publication. It's the first clear shot of Tiger in months after going deep underground and successfully for a long time. The photos are being distributed by Getty Images. Getty Images you'll recall was the agency that brokered the Brange's baby pics. They are NOT paps. They are considered safe, legit, celebrity friendly. So what does that tell you? How was Getty there conveniently just as Tiger was running? How were they first? When this man has been hounded, surrounded, followed, how was it so easy to procure these pictures?
This is not cynicism. This is strategy. This is what we study. This is what they've been working on for weeks. And they are ready to unveil their playbook. So we will observe it, evaluate it, reject it, or accept it. And I am excited. Because these are the same people who created the Tiger Myth in the first place. And now that it's been burned to the ground, their task is to turn a Tiger into a Phoenix. Please. This sh-t is intoxicating.
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|Childhood Trichotillomania (Dealing with the reluctant child's pulling)
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|Friday, 15 April 2011 16:19
By Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
Case 1: "Mrs. R___," I began, "Your daughter Marcie (nine years old) just isn't making the progress in her therapy that we had hoped she would. She hasn't been doing her homework, and it just seems that her heart isn't in it. I think she's just going through the motions, and is only coming here because she doesn't want you to get upset with her. This really doesn't seem important to her at this time. I think the best thing would be for us to take a break for now. Marcie's mother agreed. "Whenever I ask, she says she isn't pulling, but I have actually seen her doing it a few times lately. When I ask her about it, she totally denies everything, but I can see for myself that nothing is growing back."
Case 2: "My fourteen year-old daughter pulls her hair," said the woman on the other end of the phone. "I want to bring her in for treatment, but she doesn't seem to care about it. Part of the hair on the top of her head is missing, and so are her eyelashes, but when I talk to her about going for help to do something about it, she says it doesn't really matter and that she doesn't care. She says it's just a bad habit, it isn't that bad, and that she really can control it. If I try harder to get her to talk about it, she just gets angry and storms out of the room. Is there some way we can make her care about it and go for help? Doesn't it bother her that she looks this way?"
The two case scenarios above are typical of children who are not prepared to begin working on a recovery from their trichotillomania (or compulsive hair pulling, as it is also known). I have encountered situations like these quite a number of times over the years. Our first case depicts a child who is simply too young, and our second shows an adolescent who has not yet accepted that she has a problem. One of my old college professors once told me "You can sum up most of child psychology in one word readiness." Neither child is ready.
There is a percentage of younger children who have pulled out head hair, eyebrows, or eyelashes who appear indifferent to what they have done. If asked, they will acknowledge that they have pulled out the hair, and even acknowledge that it looks unsightly. What they may not show is concern or distress over the fact. This can be extremely perplexing to parents, who ask, "Why doesn't it bother my child? Can't she (or he) see how bad it makes them look?" Parents also worry about whether or not their child will be teased or ostracized as being "different" by the other children, or else regarded as some kind of "freak."
The answers to these questions are not very mysterious. Preadolescents frequently seem untroubled by their altered appearance, even if eyebrows are missing, eyelashes are gone, or patches of hair are missing from their heads. When this occurs it is most likely due to a lack of social maturity and awareness on their part. They haven't yet become conscious of their appearance or the notion of "fitting in" socially. As long as their behavior doesn't immediately interfere with school or play activities, it is of no importance to them. Their playmates may not be that conscious of it either, or may take notice of it, but not really care. Where younger children do seem extremely bothered by their lack of hair, it is either because they are socially precocious, or they are reflecting their parent's distress over the problem. That is, they are upset because their parents are upset, but not because it is upsetting to them directly.
When some younger children are brought for treatment, as in our first case scenario, they tend to be generally unmotivated and uninterested. Their reaction is that this time could be better spent playing, watching TV, or getting their schoolwork done. Getting impatient or angry at them is really useless. Trying to change a child's behavior in this way will only create more stress, and one of the reasons people pull, of course, is to relieve stress. A child may also react to this pressure by being more secretive about their pulling, denying that they are doing it, or by pulling more to express frustration and anger at their parent's behavior. You wouldn't get angry at a young child who wasn't ready to be toilet trained yet (or at least I hope not). Children do things when they are ready, not when we are ready for them to do them. Even if they are ready, at any given moment, they don't have to want what we want. A parent may not like this fact, but they may have to accept it as something they have no control over.
Of course, no one likes to have a child who is different, or who doesn't look or act like other people's children. You don't ever have to like it. Acceptance doesn't mean liking something. It simply means acknowledging the reality of things as they are and what can be done. Accepting is not something that you just get through all at once. It is something that you will have to work on every day. It may also help to try to put things in perspective. This is the child you love, with or without hair. He or she is still who they were before they began pulling, and still has feelings, too. There are many worse things that can happen to your child, many of them untreatable. Having this problem doesn't make them any less of a person, and it is something that they can recover from, even though it may not be right now.
In the case of our teenager in Case 2, it is not unusual for someone of this age to not want to admit to a problem that they know full well exists. Unlike preadolescents, many teenagers are extremely self-conscious, and very sensitive about their image, as they are still trying to figure out who they are. They tend to examine themselves under a microscope a lot of the time. A teenager's angry or sullen denial of a problem such as in our case is admittedly not a very good way of dealing with things, but to someone who is still not fully mature (even if they have an adult-sized body) it may be the only way they can cope and preserve some kind of positive self-image. The harder a parent pushes, the angrier the teen's response may become. The strength of their denial will also increase, as may their pulling.
So what can parents and therapists do when a child or adolescent seems disinterested or unmotivated? As a therapist, I do not jump directly into treatment. I like to make a careful assessment of the symptoms, the situation, the person, and what that person brings or doesn't bring with them to therapy. I am very careful in the first session to find out whose idea it was to come for help. I will typically ask a child or adolescent, "Whose idea was it to come here today?" I routinely follow this up with "Do you really want to be here?" When faced with someone who is not very unenthusiastic about treatment, and who would rather not be there, I have a policy I have evolved over the years. It applies whether the reluctant sufferer is at their first session, or at their tenth. My overall guiding philosophy here, is that you cannot want someone to get better more than they do. I would rather leave someone with a good feeling about having seen a therapist, than make everything connected with the experience unpleasant. If we have at least been able to accomplish this much, then we have still achieved something important.
I tell disinterested or reluctant children and adolescents:
"It's really okay if you don't want to do this right now. I don't want you to feel so uncomfortable that you have to not tell the truth or make excuses to avoid coming here. I only want you to come here to work with me if this is truly where you want to be. I won't be mad at you, and actually, I really appreciate your being honest with me. Maybe some day in the future, you will want to do something about this problem, and if you do, I will always be glad to work with you. So why don't we take a break. You can go home and think about what you would like to do. Here is my card. You can keep it or give it to your Mom or Dad. All you have to do is call me or have them call me any time if you would like to come back. Even if you decide to come back a year from now, I will still be happy to help you." I also tell them "Don't worry about what your Mom or Dad will say, either. I will talk to them and explain the way things are. I will tell them to leave it up to you, and to trust that you will know when the time is right. I will ask them to not mention your hair to you, until you want to talk about it."
In this way, we can part on good terms, not having created some kind of senseless test of wills that the parents and I cannot possibly win. We have left the door open, and put the responsibility and sense of control in the hands of the person with the problem. I have had a number of children, who when left to face their situation themselves, have later returned to successfully work on recovering from their hair pulling.
I am a great believer in encouraging the development of personal responsibility in both my child and adult patients. The well-known psychologist Rollo May once said "People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are." Only the sufferer can tell when they have reached this point. Once there, they must be relied upon to do what must be done, if it is ever going to happen. Even if we could stay on top of a child or adolescent and force them to go through the motions and follow treatment instructions, they will have learned nothing. As soon as they are out from under a parent's watchful eye, they will quickly let it all go. My advice to parents is that sometimes doing nothing is really doing something. Don't nag, pressure, annoy, criticize, threaten, yell at, or punish your child for not wanting to participate in treatment. Threatening them or taking away privileges will only create more resentment and resistance, lead to more pulling, and will finally put the entire subject of hair pulling beyond discussion of any kind. When your child finally comes to you and says "Mom and Dad, I need some help," they have finally gotten to where you want them to be. They are ready. Something positive can now happen.
Whose hair is it, anyway?
If you would like to read more about what Dr. Penzel has to say about Trichotillomania, take a look at his self-help book, "The Hair-Pulling Problem: A Complete Guide to Trichotillomania," (Oxford University Press, 2003). You can learn more about it at
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'We are no longer a country that is divided and isolated'
Peter Murtagh reports from Pretoria on one man's pilgrimage for Nelson Mandela
A handout photograph made available by the South African government showing widow of the late former South African President Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel (right) paying her last respects to late former president Nelson Mandela as he lies in state at the newly renamed Nelson Mandela Amphitheatre at Union buildings in Pretoria.
The man behind me on the bus tapped me on the shoulder.
"Excuse me," he said. "Do you know the way to Union Buildings; are you going there?"
Travelling through central Pretoria on public transport, I had even less of a clue where I was than he, but we struck up a conversation and decided to blunder our way together.
When someone like Nelson Mandela comes along and leaves in their wake a nation transformed utterly, its people deeply inspired, and a world left awestruck, besotted and uplifted, it is sometimes only possible to understand why by listening to one man's story.
My bus pal was Desmond Saula and his is a sort of everyman's story in South Africa; its significance is it its ordinariness, as it were.
Desmond is 31 years old and comes from Cape Town. When Mandela died, he decided he had to become part of what he knew would ensue. And so the day after the death was announced, Desmond left his home in the far south west of South Africa and travelled to Johannesburg. From there, he went the relatively short distance yesterday to Pretoria and today, he will begin to try to get to Qunu, about another 900 kilometres away in the south east, where Mandela will be buried.
For Desmond, this is a pilgrimage, his response to an urge he embraces with joy and purpose, an urge simply to be there, be part of it all, and to make his contribution by so doing.
Desmond is a first year law student and part-time photographer. He doesn't carry a camera right now however because this is personal, not work.
Desmond's grandparents came from the Eastern Cape. His grandmother was at home while Grandfather worked on the railways, laying tracks, doing hard labour. The couple moved to Deaar, a small town in the northern Cape that used to be a major railhead in South Africa.
Desmond's father died young and so he was raised as an only child by his mother but with grandparents very much part of his life as well. His earliest memories of Mandela are those of a child.
"When I was growing up, my grandmother, whenever we mentioned the name Mandela, she wouldn't say his name. She said 'No! You can't say that; you are going to be arrested'. This was the system then. According to the system then, Mandela was a terrorist. She was just trying to protect us. We were so young. . ."
The other sort of memory Desmond has is of children playing, being naughty scratching in the dust the spear logo of Umkhonto We Sizwe (the Spear of the Nation military wing of the African National Congress). Desmond was still a child when Mandela was released from prison. "I cannot say I took part in toi toi [protests] but I have these childish memories."
But the memories are strong. When I ask how he felt when Mandela was freed, his eyes open very wide and his expression becomes animated.
"I watched on TV and everyone was so happy. This freedom everyone had been talking about for years was finally going to happen."
The freedom was freedom from apartheid and freedom to be something else. Apartheid got inside people's heads, as Desmond explains.
"It was normal for the black people to see themselves as inferior. You could be standing first in a queue and a white fellow would come along and you would stand aside for him because you believed he was superior. They brainwashed us."
For Desmond, Mandela changed all that. "One of the things he stood for was that everyone must be equal. The struggle of humanity is a common one in the world and he is the symbol of this."
There was never any question for Desmond but that he would go to every single event associated with Mandela's week long funeral.
"I just could not come. Every step of the way. I want to tell this to my children. He was not an ordinary human being; he was extraordinary. When I heard of his death, something struck me. I wanted to be there physically. To me, his impact is so deep within me. I just could not let it go.
"I was there! I witnessed this! I want to add value in my own way. I can say that I was there physically."
And so, the day after Madiba (Mandela's clan name) died, Desmond went to Johannesburg and with his girlfriend from the city, went to Mandela's old family home on Vilakazi Street in Soweto – now a Mandela museum.
"This was my first step. Just to have a connection," he says. "I got to learn things [reading the story of Mandela and the ANC's struggle on public signs in the area]. Those are things we as a younger generation must carry with us and live."
There was a party atmosphere with people dancing and singing in the street and Desmond and his girl joined in. Next day, he went to Houghton, to Mandela's last home, the home in which he died.
"I went there and I got the same atmosphere as in Vilakazi. People were celebrating with candles and flowers. I was there! I witnessed this and also how other people were impacted by this. This feeling is common, not just to me."
On Tuesday, he went to the FNB Stadium sandwiched between Soweto and Johannesburg for the State Memorial Service. "The rain was coming down but it did not make any difference to people there," he says.
For a long time, Desmond just stayed in his seat in the stadium, soaking it all in – the crowds, the gospel choir, the triple stage packed with dignitaries from the South African government and from all over the world.
"Outside of the United Nations, to have so many dignitaries in one place. . . Mugabe, the president of the United States, the president of Cuba! They all had to share a platform and had to shake hands. That just shows Mandela was a unifier even though he was not around.
"Now we are this one rainbow nation and all the world is here. We are no longer a country that is divided and isolated from the world. We are at one with the world and the problems of South Africa are not unique.
"And to be part of that, to be there, that was important."
He forgives the booing and jeering of current South Africa president Jacob Zuma but says what happened shows that many people do not like him.
And so yesterday, Desmond's personal pilgrimage brought him to Pretoria, federal capital of old South Africa and also of contemporary South Africa; to the Union Building Amphitheatre – renamed by President Zuma as the Nelson Mandela Amphitheatre – to see the mortal remains of his hero, lying in state in parliament.
"I'm so crossing my fingers," Desmond said as we shared a cup of coffee. "I might not get the chance [to get in]. They will allow in a certain number of people at a time and I just hope I am one.
"I want to witness his remains, to pay my last respects and witness this great man."
If Desmond has to wait three days, I think he will get in.
And then, somehow, he will get to Qunu for Sunday's burial.
Any one of the thousands of people saying goodbye to Mandela over these days could tell Desmond's story, or their personal version of it, and what propels them to come, to witness, to be part of it all. His story is by no means unique but it is massively important to him, as are all similar stories to all the people queuing.
And that is why this week and this man are massively important to this country.


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"In this marvelous memoir Ms. Gideon appears to be channeling everything I've ever felt, thought, feared, hoped about motherhood." —Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother
"Like all the best books, The Slippery Year reminds us that we are not alone—not alone in our fears about our kids, not alone in our struggle to make meaning of our lives, and most definitely not alone in our volcanic rages about the car pool line. Melanie Gideon is a wonderful companion—smart, rueful and painfully funny. Truly the one thing wrong with this book is that it had to end." —Allison Pearson, author of I Don't Know How She Does It
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Crashing an electric car
Crashing an electric car
From what I've heard and read about, along with taking apart some of the Li ion batteries along with my understanding of the way the Teslas are built:
1. There is no acid in Li ion batteries
2. The large car battery is very protected in terms of layers of plastic
3. There is a coolant being circulated to keep the batteries at a specific temperature
4. The materials in the Li ion rechargeable batteries are basically benign compared to other fuels (look up the MSDS sheets or use the EPISUITE software by the EPA)
The way I look at is from a risk analysis. If, god forbid, I was rear ended severely in an accident, would I rather be sitting on gallons of a carcinogenic and flammable liquid that easily vaporizes or a solid that can easily be cleaned up and have no risk of breathing in?
The track record for gas powered cars isn't too good when it comes to that (the notorious Pinto, Crown Victoria police cruiser) I read a number of studies that said around 3,000 to 5,200 (number varies depending on the sources, but the numbers are on the magnitude) people die per year due to car fires caused by collisions, I'm guessing having a 50-150 lbs of gasoline fueled or at least contributed in some form to these fires.
I would much rather be sitting on batteries than gasoline. That is one of the things that convinced me to buy an electric car.
Yes they have been crash-tested and crashed in real world. Nothing to be worried about. Battery is much safer than gas-tank. There is no engine if front in Lotus Elise, most Ferraris, Porsches or Lamborghinis either. Roadster is no different than those cars for head-on collisions. In fact from real-world experience it looks like they are one of the safest cars of their size.
Only situation where gas-tank might be safer than big battery is submerged in water after a crash (something like dive from cliff to water after rear-ended by another car), but even then AFAIK battery has automatic safety mechanism that separates individual cells from outside so that you don't get electrocuted (even salt water is bad conductor for low voltages and fresh water is less conductive). IE. in very rare cases. Usually ICE-cars are less safe than EV:s.
Are there test video or cases?
I'd like to post them on fan site toyotatesla.com as well.
I know of two cases. There was a Tesla sales director crashing one in California a year or so back. I also recall an unfortunate soul in Skandinavia, who lent his buddy his car (just received it that week) and completely totaled it. I think he slammed into the rear of a 16 wheeler.
Amazingly no one was hurt in either incident, especially considering the pictures of the demolished cars
I felt that this may be relevant to the discussion about crash testing. This is an older blog, but a goodie!
@TslaFan, Jerry, I have seen result of the case where Roadster was crashed behind and as a result of that it dived under a quite big SUV. Not nice, but all that happened was that car was totaled, Both front and back were crushed and apparently some cooling fluids were leaking (can't figure out what else it could have been). Battery itself was intact and driver didn't get hurt (much).
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correct, car was 1 week old - nobody was serious hurt.
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it was on the highway, tesla and VW was holding still due to highway que while the driver of the toyota prius was driving into a motorbike+Tesla - crashing further into the Tesla (witch was then pushed under neath the VW) - basicly both a fuel car, a hybrid car and a pure EV car was involved
My concern is the rear facing seats being so far rowards the back end of the car, would my child be safe in the event of a rear impact accident. What is the structural integrity of the rear of the model S?
Tesla's cars are subject to the same standards for car safety as any other being developed for the road.
Thus, they have to meet safety requirements before they're allowed to be built. Just like the roadster, the first couple prototypes will be used in crash tests, and the rear facing seats will be tested in a variety of crash scenarios.
For the record, several minivans already use rear facing seats, and old style British taxi cabs have been using them for decades. I think if there was a serious issue, it would have been determined by now.
If you think about it, with rearward seating, a car running into you from the back is usually going to be braking fast, and will usually hit the rear end of a stopped car. 30 mph or less. In a side crash, often the same scenario, only the speeds would be a little higher as the side car is planning on going through when the straight car blocks him. In a front crash, speeds are added, so two cars braking to less than 60 mph are going ~120 mph. That's how my daughter died. The airbags weren't enough. Rear facing seats are probably the safest place in the car.
You can't add the car speeds together in head-on collisions. Going 60mph in head-on collision is same as going 60mph in the wall. Then you need to calculate car mass in that mess. Hitting a mini with a truck is different thing than doing same other way around. If you are sandwiched between truck and heavy SUV in rear collision car is going to get seriously crushed.
But you are right that in rear-collisions speeds are usually much less fast and without that sandwich your car is going to move which helps the survivability.
Rear facing seats at the rear seats are the safest place to be. OTOH looking at Model S it looks like rear window will be *really* close to face of those rear seat occupants. It wouldn't take much to get their heads to hit it, which is bad. Also having glass that close to my face would make me nervous, and I would believe small children would get "range anxiety (tm)" very fast.
Hi, just wanted to add. Timo, in a head-on collision, the forces of either car are multiplied by the mass and their velocity (Speed and direction)...
To not get too technical, a 5000lbs car running head on into a 2500lbs car, the 5000lbs car would not see 100% of its inertial force transferred through its body. However, the 2500lbs car would see more than its velocity (inertial force) in that high speed impact. When the smaller car hits the bigger car, the smaller car takes more damage, as if it were traveling faster. The 5000lbs object slows down, while the 2500lbs object changes direction (theoretically).
Just to add... if the cars are identical -- or nearly identical -- in weight and size, you can effectively add the speed of both cars to get an approximate speed of impact...
Two cars that weight 3200lbs head on collide with each other and both are traveling at 35mph, that impact would equate to a 70mph impact. That "wall" of "equal and opposite reaction" is effectively traveling twice the speed of either car. so both operate under the same principle.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I cracked open my old physics book to make sure I was indeed correct, and I am not HAHA! you are right Timo. I rescind my previous comments.
@SpecialK, your first point is correct, if you crash to cement-truck with tiny Fiat 500 while both are going 60mph then for that Fiat it is nearly same as crashing to wall at 120mph, and that cement-truck just keeps on going with just small speed drop. But if the cars masses are identical then it is pretty much same as crashing to wall at 60mph.
Assume you meant "least" of your worries? Unless you have a "list" of maintenance issues ...
I'm suspecting that Pipers message is hidden spam. It has no real substance, and it has nothing to do with the subject which is crashing EV. It is probably aimed to advertise that link stuff, maybe luring people to that site so that they get some money from advertisements.
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The storm caused traffic problems, knocked out power to portions of Monticello, and stranded five hikers in the San Juan backcountry.
Five students from Colorado College were stranded near the Dark Canyon Wilderness during a five-day backpacking expedition in the backcountry.
The students called family members on Sunday morning to report that they were headed to their vehicle. When they didn't report later in the day, a missing persons report was filed with the San Juan County Sheriffs Office.
A search and rescue operation was initiated that afternoon, but crews were unable to spot the missing hikers as darkness fell on November 24.
The morning of November 25 brought clear skies and warmer weather. Five snowmobile owners from Blanding unloaded their sleds near Natural Bridges National Monument and traveled approximately 50 miles in their search.
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It is assumed that the vehicle will be snowed in through the winter.
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The Big Chill: What's the first sign of Winter, in your opinion?
MonkiVintage: Snow!! And leafless trees (and water views!)
TBC: What items from your business will keep customers happy throughout O', this dark and endless season?
MV: All our items are vintage, most are one of a kind and our stock is continually changing. Many of the items in the shop are selected for their happiness-inducing qualities! At any given time we'll have brightly colored Scandinavian enamelware like Cathrineholm and Finel, mid century ceramics like Bennington Potters and Glidden, or teak or brightly colored and whimsical "toys" and objets like Kay Bojesen monkeys, Hans Bolling ducks or Scandinavian style blocks. We also carry a large inventory of vintage letterpress type that we sell in sets of cheery words and phrases like "be happy," "you & me" or "I love you." We also offer custom type sets, so the winter weary can create a typographic reminder of whatever makes them happy, like the beach or sun or Bowser or wine or bacon art…
TBC: What's your favorite comfort food during those "Oh my Gosh, it's 7 degrees out, I have to let the faucets drip all night and wear two pairs of socks in bed!!" days?
MV: Gravy Danger from Silly's in the East End. 70,000 calories of cheesy, salty, bacon-y comfort in a takeout tin.
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It's been a crazy week for me, so I thought it might be nice to end it with a little inspiration. These are photos that I took a few weeks ago at one of my favorite places in Cincinnati, Krohn Conservatory. Krohn is a huge greenhouse that is architecturally gorgeous and full of breathtakingly lush scenery. I've been going there since I was a child, and I've been trying to take my children there every couple of months, and they enjoy it just as much as I do.
So gorgeous, right? Mother nature is pretty spectacular. One of these days I'm going to break out my paints and create some paintings based on these photos. Wouldn't that be fun?
If you are ever in the area, you need to schedule a visit to Krohn Conservatory. You won't be sorry!


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303 Magazine's Denver Fashion Weekend: hair hits, show misses
After attending night one of 303 Magazine's Denver Fashion Weekend – though I can't say I was impressed – I was at least, hopeful.
But at 10:45 p.m. on Saturday night, when the fashion show billed as beginning at 9:30 p.m. still hadn't begun, any enthusiasm or excitement I had for "Denver's largest fashion event" had worn off.
By 11:05 p.m. – after roughly fifteen minutes of an actual runway presentation – it was announced there would be "at least a 15- to 20-minute intermission."
When it started back up again, the show went from decent to completely unedited.
The entire production seemed to be falling apart at the seams.
At one point, a modeling agency left off the program was featured, and sent about 15 girls jetting down a runway in the exact same black bikini, over, and over and over again.
Between the yammering of the hosts overstaying their welcome on stage, the delayed start time and the painfully long (and completely disruptive) intermission, the actual entire fashion presentation took up about 25 minutes of the evening.
Maybe even less.
Sunday night – 303 Magazine's big hair show, plus first ever Colorado hair-styling awards – sadly was plagued by the same level of unprofessionalism. The show set to begin at 8:30 p.m. didn't begin until after 10:30 p.m. – and plenty of folks ditched the rest after intermission.
The worst part?
Aside from the off-color remarks about models and anorexia by host Charlie Price, the absolutely incredible local salons are the ones that take the hit.
Stylists and makeup artists with low budgets and few resources worked countless hours to create aesthetic and amazing visions, but for an antsy crowd, many of whom just wanted to get the show on the road already.
Though 303's events are amateur and disorganized, the magazine's intentions are good.
The inimitable hair salon and stylist industry in Denver no doubt deserves a platform to stand on, and an opportunity to present their talent in a way they don't normally get to.
Three Cutters on Pearl won me over as my favorite salon of the night, with a wonderfully eerie concept of life-size, messy-haired dolls coming alive when their thick, mustached Gepetto-like masters manipulate strings and rods.
Ted' Hair Studio was another show stopper, with models wearing cropped, mixed material blouses in electric white with matching beehives.
One of the most artsy and avant garde creations to emerge was from Commerce City salon SWANK, who dressed their models up like aliens in springtime.
Classics Rita B and J Audrey are consistently impressive at events like this: Rita B channeled a sort-of modern day, vamp version of the movie Mars Attacks (one model was even chewing gum), and J Audrey tastefully alluded to styles from the 1920's, 30's and 40's with her vintage-looking feathered caps, birdcages and stockings.
While it was nice to see the industry being honored with the Colorado Hairstyling Awards, it was hard to escape 303 not acknowledging their disorganization or explaining their sluggish delays.
The good news is that salons across Colorado are constantly proving to be innovative and cutting-edge for all things hair and make-up.
I hope for their sake, 303 recognizes that kind of talent deserves a more professional and well-produced event.
More photos of DFW's night three can be found in the Denver Post gallery, here, and more videos from each night can be found here.


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Most people enjoy getting to know their neighbors. When it's Lake Erie right outside your door, it takes some time to get acquainted.
"The lake has a million personalities. When it's angry, it gets crazy," said Chris Mattioli, who shares this recently expanded home with his wife, Leanne, and their 7-month-old daughter, Halston.
For that reason, landscaping, windows, walls and exterior materials such as the gray insulated vinyl siding were chosen with high winds and storms in mind. But the lake and its ever-changing moods also inspired the interior design of the home.
"Our kitchen finishes, such as the countertop with intense gray streaks, were chosen the day we had a huge storm sweep in. The calm ivory master suite was designed on a 90-degree vibrantly sunny day, and our upper gathering room was inspired by the beautiful autumn sunsets," said Leanne, a North Tonawanda native.
What once was an 1,100-square-foot seasonal cottage is now close to a 3,000-square-foot year-round residence. Leanne coined the location "city and sand." And the Mattiolis, who own three businesses, love coming home to it.
Its location on Lake Erie in Hamburg fits their lifestyle. It's about a 10-15 minute drive to downtown. They enjoy views of the Buffalo skyline and fireworks on both sides of the border. Last Friday from their upper deck, they could hear Marilyn Manson playing the Outer Harbor.
Working with an architect, the couple not only built up but also out onto an additional lot they purchased.
Leanne described the expanded house as a modified saltbox. The bunker-style side facing the road provides privacy and sound protection. The side facing the beach features expansive windows and a large stone patio for entertaining that includes a platform wired for live music. Chris, an Amherst native who in 2003 launched an online dating site for athletic, fitness-minded singles, also plays in two bands – Beatlemagic, a Beatles tribute band, and Nelson Starr and the Benjamins.
The house cost $205,000 in 2008 – $250,000 including the price of an additional lot. The Mattiolis, who moved here from a larger home in Wheatfield, estimated they have put in more than three times that amount for the expansion. Among the upscale features: Quartzite kitchen countertops, custom sinks and a home-automation system that includes remote-powered custom wrought iron gates; cameras and plasma screens that project views of the lake throughout the home; sound system; and thermostat controls. The 1930s-style master bathroom, inspired by one Leanne saw in a Buffalo home, features an air tub as well as a steam shower with pebble foot-massaging floor.
To further integrate the indoors with the out, they change some furnishings with the seasons. During the warm-weather months, sand-friendly leather replaces chenille seating in the living room, and patterned rugs are rolled up until the late fall.
Style-wise, midcentury pieces mix with newer minimalist ones, while the couple put an emphasis on timeless materials, fixtures and decor.
"I wanted classic. I don't want it to go out of style," said Leanne, who along with Chris owns a pet spa in Amherst. She also owns a women's boutique in Wilson.
Her mother, Darlene Powers, said that Leanne has a sentimental side that comes through in the decor.
A piano in the living room belonged to Leanne's grandfather, Adam Opacinch, who owned Adam's Accordion Studio in Dunkirk. Upstairs in the "Sunset" gathering room, the reupholstered sofa and matching barrel chair also came from her grandparents. Old hatboxes in the master walk-in closet are printed with the Bonwit Teller logo. The fabric valances in baby Halston's room were made from the draperies that hung in Leanne's bedroom after she was born in 1975.
It all ties together for this busy couple.
As Leanne explained: "We're always on the go, with never time to vacation. This home is allowing us to make the most of every free moment. The ever-changing landscape of crashing waves and blazing sunsets makes each day unique and memorable."
The blueprint
When it came to expanding a seasonal cottage into a year-round home, the Mattiolis knew they wanted open spaces, timeless styling and ample views of the ever-changing landscape.
Here's a peek inside the place they share with their 7-month-old daughter, Halston, and four rescue dogs:
The layout: Open plan overlooking Lake Erie with large living/dining area, kitchen, guest bedroom and full bath on first floor. Second floor has center "Sunset" gathering room separating master suite on one side; baby's bedroom, full bath and guest room/office on the other. Deck off the Sunset Room may become a solarium. Master suite includes walk-in closet, 1930s-style bathroom and laundry. "Man cave" in basement. Large stone patio for entertaining.
Floors: Pergo XP laminate flooring emulates whitewashed planks and stands up to beach sand and dog claws. Area rugs change with season. Ceramic tile in bathrooms and kitchen.
Furniture: Midcentury pieces mixed with new, including tufted leather sofa and chairs from West Elm catalog. Mirrored case goods. Inherited family pieces.
Window treatments: Neutral-toned Hunter Douglas shades – some light-filtering, others room-darkening.
Wall colors: Muted, with Sherwin-Williams' buff in the living room, Medici ivory upstairs and ecru in the kitchen with robin's egg blue cabinets. Lemon meringue in guest bedroom. Light blue in upstairs bath. Shell pink in master bathroom. Ceilings are white.
"I wanted to make the water the showcase," Leanne said, of the beachfront view out the windows.
Details: Large framed floor mirror in living room. Peacock-themed dinnerware and accessories in kitchen/dining areas. Big vases of vintage-inspired flowers, including fluffy mums. Ceiling fans throughout. Custom sinks, including hammered aluminum in master bath.
"Every sink has to have personality," Chris said.
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