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Premium Network Teams With NASCAR Media Group To Produce Weekly, 38-Episode Series; Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 At 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME�
NEW YORK (Dec. 2, 2009) - SHOWTIME Sports has signed a multi-year deal with NASCAR, America's No. 1 spectator sport, to produce and televise premium television's first weekly highlights and analysis show dedicated to auto racing. "Inside NASCAR" will premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 (10 p.m. ET/PT) on SHOWTIME� immediately following the season finale of Inside The NFL, and will consist of 38 one-hour episodes corresponding with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' 38-week season.
Produced in conjunction with the Emmy� Award winning NASCAR Media Group, Inside NASCAR will be taped at the new, state-of-the-art production facility at NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C. The host and analysts for Inside NASCAR are to be announced in the coming weeks.
"NASCAR is one of the most powerful sports brands in the country," said Ken Hershman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SHOWTIME Sports, "and we are proud to team up with them on this compelling new series."
Inside NASCAR will feature narrated highlights and in-depth analysis from each week's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, exclusive audio and video of never-before-seen aspects of race week and in-depth feature stories plus forecasts on upcoming races and opinions on America's No. 1 form of motor sports.
Inside NASCAR is a natural extension of regularly scheduled SHOWTIME Sports programming, which includes the Emmy� Award winning Inside The NFL, live boxing and mixed martial arts events, and the critically acclaimed, behind-the-scenes documentary series Fight Camp 360� : Inside The Super Six World Boxing Classic, among other titles.
"Given the level of access to drivers, tracks and teams afforded by NASCAR, we can offer something truly unique to both hard core and casual race fans," said Hershman. "We'll take viewers into new areas of the sport, into the hearts and minds of the world class drivers and teams, and give them inside access to stock car racing and NASCAR like never before."
"SHOWTIME really understands these back stage, inside access shows," said Jay Abraham, Chief Operation Officer, NASCAR Media Group. "Inside NASCAR will provide unique insights and sharp commentary appealing to all NASCAR fans. Partnering with a brand such as SHOWTIME for a high-end weekly NASCAR magazine news show in primetime is big news for our fans going into a brand new season."
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I can mail you a photocopy of the poem complete with illustrations just like in the book if you like. I am sorry I am just now reading your msg. but I don't get online much. I do cat rescue so have my hands full and this website is now blocked at work (why I don't know) and I am too busy at home to go on the computer except for Monday nights to run scans and weekends. Send me your address and I will gladly mail you a copy of Jerusha. If you want to contribute toward my cat care to cover shipping that would be welcomed but if not that is okay. Thanks, Susan
Hello, and I can send you an unfolded xerox copy of the poem, complete with illustrations, just as it appeared in my book. If you want to reimburse me with a gift card rather than cash, PetSmart would be much appreciated to help defray the costs of taking care of so many homeless kitties. I don't go out to restaurants because I am too busy at home taking care of the cats. Please give me your address and the poem (20 pages, I seem to recall) will be on its way. My email is [email protected]. I will also reply to your email address also, and thanks!
Sorry to bother you, but I just saw your post on Quack! Said Jerusha poem in the Children's book. I too grew up with this poem, my mother would read it to us 5 kids in our beds while she sat at the top of the stairs. If you are still willing, I would like to send you a SASE full size manilla envelope so it will be unfolded to make copies for my siblings. If you respond, I can't thank you enough, but will send you a gift card to your favorite restaurant.
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CORINTH – Work will soon begin to grind up waste wood at the Corinth inert landfill, and the resulting mulch will be available to pick up at no charge.
The city board on Tuesday approved a quote from Triangle Maintenance Service of Columbus to perform needed work at the landfill for a cost of $40,000. The other quote from Wood Recycling of MS in Blue Springs was $40,400.
A smoldering fire in the accumulated wood waste at the landfill burned for about four days in late September, but was ultimately extinguished with no serious injuries through cooperation between the Corinth Fire Department and city employees, said Corinth Street Commissioner Jim Bynum.
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, which issues permits for waste disposal sites, had already directed the city to grind the large amount of accumulated wood waste into mulch before the fire, Bynum said.
"We had a strong storm about five months ago that knocked down lots of trees and limbs at one time," Bynum said. It's usual that accumulated wood waste be ground into mulch on a regular basis and distributed or used in order to keep fire risk at a minimum. However, having such a large quantity accumulate usually takes up to a year or so.
Triangle will bring the grinding equipment to the site on Friday and begin grinding on Monday if the weather cooperates, Bynum said.
Anyone wishing to obtain free mulch should call the street department in advance at (662) 286-8144.
"Any excess mulch that isn't given away will be dispersed along the slopes at the landfill for erosion control and to comply with MDEQ requirements," Bynum said.


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Argentine Crew Tonconogy-Ruffini Won the 1000 MIGLIA 2018
BRESCIA [ENA] Juan Tonconogy and Barbara Ruffini are the Champions of the 1000 Miglia 2018, a great success in the 36th historycal re-enactrment. The Argentine crew, number 85, on board the Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 GS "Testa Fissa" of 1933, has outsold every other competition with an active score of 74108 points.
Second place for Giovanni Moceri and Daniele Bonetti on the Alfa Romeo 65 1500 SS of 1928 with 73714 points. In third place were the outgoing champions of Brescia Andrea Vesco and Andrea Guerini, on board the 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Zagato with 73327 points. For the couple Tonconogy-Ruffini it is the third victory of the "most beautiful race in the world" after 2013 and 2015 editions. Franca Boni and Monica Barziza, on board a Lancia Aprilia 1500 in 1949, won the Ladies' Cup instead, obtaining the 45th place overall.
The historycal cars left Parma early in the morning and through the "Via Emilia" reached Milan and then Monza before reaching Brescia with the showground in Via Venezia and the "White Night" in Piazza Vittoria and Piazza Loggia. Inside the famous Autodromo di Monza where the Formula 1 cars will race in September, the last chrono-competition held the argentinian team as leaders.
So, the 2018 edition is finished with a record of registered entrants come from 44 different Countries, from all continents. The Italians represented 28% of the total. 725 Cars participated to the 1000 Miglia 2018 belongs to 75 different brands, so a success inside a success and a continuous growth: in 2013 started 626 cars coming from 30 countries, in 2014 619 and 35, 2015 saw 617 cars from 42 countries, then 2016 665/40 and the past year the "wall of 700" has been broken with 505 cars of 43 countries. And now, the preparation for the next year edition can now start.


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SEC media talks revolve around possible cable channel – again
The SEC is weeks away from restructuring its media rights deal with its current partners, CBS and ESPN, according to several industry sources, and in addition to talks about increasing rights fees, the conversations have also included more talk about a conference channel that could be ready for launch in time for the 2014 football season.
Conference administrators are expected to receive an update on the progress of those talks next week in Destin, Fla., when the SEC holds its spring meetings.
The 14-team conference has been negotiating with both networks this year after the SEC expanded with Texas A&M and Missouri. That triggered a clause in the SEC's deal that allows the league to go back to the negotiating table with its partners, just as the ACC recently renegotiated its media contract with ESPN after its own expansion with Pittsburgh and Syracuse.
The bigger negotiation is with ESPN, and talks appear to revolve around an SEC-branded cable channel that could launch as early as 2014. ESPN's current arrangement with the SEC — negotiated in 2008 — pays an average of $150 million a year over 15 years.
When the SEC did this deal with CBS and ESPN four years ago, it was considered a groundbreaking agreement. The deals reset the entire collegiate media rights market, at least until the Pac-12 negotiated its massive deal with ESPN and Fox last year.
The original 15-year deal between ESPN and the SEC granted ESPN all of the rights that CBS didn't take as a way to prevent the SEC from starting its own channel. Now, discussions on a conference channel, of which ESPN would be a partner, are running concurrent with the rights fee negotiations.
It remains to be seen if the SEC will be an equity partner in the channel, like the Big Ten, or if the conference will simply sell the rights to ESPN for an additional fee.
There are several different paths the SEC could take on a channel. It could follow the Big Ten model, where the conference is a 49 percent owner of Big Ten Network with Fox and shares in its revenue. Or it could go the Pac-12 route, which owns all of its regional networks. Texas, on the other hand, sold its rights to ESPN for a fee and ESPN owns all of the Longhorn Network.
All of those models are believed to be in play for the SEC, but any channel couldn't be launched until 2014 at the earliest, when ESPN gets back syndication rights it sublicensed to regional sports networks operated by Fox Sports and Comcast. A decision on whether to go forward with a new SEC-focused network would be made by the SEC-member university presidents and ESPN. A final decision on a network will be made by ESPN in conjunction with SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and the presidents.
Sources think the conference will reach an agreement with CBS first. Those sources familiar with the discussions predict that CBS will wind up paying a prorated increase or slightly more to the SEC.
The network has balked at paying any type of significant increase, sources say, arguing that the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M does not change its deal.
CBS's deal with the SEC, negotiated in 2008, pays an average of $55 million a year to the SEC over 15 years. A prorated increase would take the value of that deal up to $65 million a year. The SEC could generate additional revenue by adding more years on the end of the contract.
CBS still will carry the same number of football games each season as part of its package, and network executives are arguing that schools such as Alabama, Florida and LSU — not Missouri and Texas A&M — drive the value of the conference. Without additional inventory, CBS's stance has been that it shouldn't pay more solely because the conference added two new schools.
Clearly, the SEC can argue that the collegiate market has been reset since the deal was negotiated four years ago. The Pac-12's deal with ESPN and Fox for $250 million a year over 12 years — agreed to last year — has been a game-changer for conferences that have expanded and gone back to the negotiating table.
The ACC and ESPN just signed off on a new agreement that took their one-year-old contract from an average of $155 million annually to $240 million, while adding four years and granting the network more games and marketing rights.


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Last week, I was invited to join The Season Pass Podcast to discuss my background, the blog, Coaster Portal, and my new site Theme Park Syndicate. Aside, from talking about the sites with host Doug Barnes and Rick West of Theme Park Adventure, we spent much of the show just geeking out over our favorite and least favorite roller coasters. It was a lot of fun.
The coaster geek part of the conversation included: The only reason to sit in the front seat of a flying coaster, the original Busch Gardens (in California?), abusive wooden coasters, a Journey to Atlantis coaster showdown, advertising on roller coasters, and more. To listen, visit the site and click the play button in the upper left hand corner.
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CHICAGO – A study in Australia suggests that reduced lung function in infancy was associated with wheezing beyond childhood at 18 years of age, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Pediatrics, a JAMA Network publication.
Abnormal airway function is characteristic of asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease, and other studies have suggested that reduced lung function is already apparent in childhood and tracks through adulthood. However, the relationship between the age of onset of airway dysfunction and wheeze, a symptom of obstructive airways disease, has not been clarified, the authors write in the study background.
The study by David Mullane, M.D., of University College Cork, Ireland, and colleagues included participants from a birth cohort who had been followed from one month to 18 years. At age 18 years, 150 participants were assessed and 37 participants (25 percent) had recent wheeze and 20 (13 percent) were diagnosed with asthma, according to the results.
"To our knowledge, this study is the first to report an association between reduced lung function in infancy and wheeze beyond childhood," the authors note.
In the study, a total of 143 participants were categorized as having persistent wheeze (n=13), later-onset wheeze (n=19), remittent wheeze (n=15) and no wheeze (n=96). Compared with the no-wheeze group, persistent wheeze was independently associated with reduced percentage of predicted maximal flow at functional residual capacity (V'maxFRC, mean reduction 43 percent). Compared with the no-wheeze group, persistent wheeze was also associated with atopy (a predisposition to allergic reactions) in infancy (odds ratio, 7.1); maternal asthma (odds ratio, 6.8) and active smoking (odds ratio, 4.8), according to the results.
"Unexpectedly, we observed that a reduced V'maxFRC at age one month was associated with increased risk for wheeze only in young adults who were also current smokers. These results suggest that reduced early airway function and later exposures such as smoking are important to the cause of obstructive respiratory diseases in young adults. Interventions aimed at preventing young children with asthma symptoms and reduced lung function from smoking might prevent persisting symptoms of obstructive airways disease," the authors comment.
(JAMA Pediatr. Published online February 18, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.633. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com.)
Editor's Note: This work was supported by the National Medical and Health Research Council of Australia. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding andsupport, etc.
Editorial: Neonatal Lung Function, Later Consequences
In a related editorial, Kai-Håkon Carlsen, M.D., Ph.D., of Oslo University Hospital, Norway, writes: "Mullane and colleagues present the results from an 18-year follow-up of a birth cohort recruited in Perth, Western Australia, during the late 1980s."
"The study by Mullane et al in the present issue of JAMA Pediatrics gives additional evidence to the finding that reduced lung function in early life has an important impact on later respiratory health. Taken together with the other studies cited, we may perhaps take away the message from the statement by Burrows and Taussig: 'As the twig is bent, the tree inclines.'"
(JAMA Pediatr. Published online February 18, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.119. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com.)
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I jumped out of a chopper and went splat because I didn't know what to do.
On the XBOX 360, open the parachute by pressing "a". You must be past a certain height threshold for your parachute to be deployable. A double press may be required to open your parachute.
Source: http://www.battlefield3gamer.com/apps/blog/show/9807786-how-to-open-parachute-in-battlefield-3
As long as you are in "freefall" mode (you can see both of your hands in front of you, and no weapon), you can press the jump button (default "A" for xbox) to deploy your parachute. You will enter freefall mode after falling for a certain amount of time/distance.
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Windows 8: Set Up a Home Page in Internet Explorer 10
When you open the Windows 8 desktop web browser (called Internet Explorer 10), you immediately see your home page — which is any website you want. A home page for foodies could be a cooking or restaurant-review site; bloggers can open directly to his or her own blog . . . you get the idea.
Set up your home page in IE 10 by following these steps:
Visit your favorite website.
Choose any web page you like. If you choose Google News, for example, Internet Explorer always opens with the latest headlines.
Right-click the Home Page icon and choose Add or Change Home Page.
The new, security-conscious Internet Explorer asks whether you'd like to use that web page as your only home page or add it to your home page tabs. (You can have several home pages, each with its own tab along the page's top.)
Click Use This Webpage As Your Only Home Page and click Yes.
When you click Yes, Internet Explorer always opens to the page you're currently viewing.
Clicking No sticks with your current home page. Coincidentally, Microsoft initially assigns everybody's home page to be the advertisement-stuffed Microsoft Network.
After Internet Explorer remembers your chosen home page, you can move around the Internet, searching for topics in Bing, Google, or other search engines, simply pointing and clicking different links.
Just as your browser's home page is the site you see when your browser opens, a website's home page is its "cover," like the cover of a magazine. Whenever you navigate to a website, you usually start at the site's home page and begin browsing from there.
If your browser's home page is suddenly changed to a different site and these instructions don't fix it, then it's probably been hijacked by evil forces.
Internet Explorer lets you choose several pages as home pages, simultaneously loading each one and placing a tab atop each page for switching between them. To add home pages to your collection, choose Add This Webpage to Your Home Page Tabs in Step 3 of the preceding list.
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The Romney-Ryan united front
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan plan to campaign together again sooner than aides had originally planned, likely twice next week, as part of a new offensive to take on the touchy issue of Medicare, campaign officials tell POLITICO.
Despite the continued skepticism among GOP operatives in Washington and on House and Senate races, Romney officials insist that the addition of Ryan has produced a more confident campaign with a clearer message, focused on big ideas rather than the pettiness that had earlier threatened to submerge the race.
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Romney and Ryan had planned to go their separate ways before meeting up at the end of the month at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. But then campaign strategists saw how much of a psychic boost Romney got from Ryan — and how much more animated Romney appeared on television with his younger running mate at his side.
"They really like each other and they feed off of each other," campaign manager Matt Rhoades said. "There's an energy, there's a chemistry."
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Advisers say Ryan helps ease the former governor's feeling of isolation. And the campaign wants to replicate the size and enthusiasm of last weekend's crowds, which were the largest of the campaign so far. So the two will hold a town hall Monday morning at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., and are likely to appear together in the Midwest later in the week. In the meantime, Ryan will work swing states while Romney raises money.
Ryan pointed out Sunday in his interview with "60 Minutes": "My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida." His mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Ryan Douglas, 78, who splits her time between Florida and Wisconsin, will appear with him Saturday at The Villages, Fla., known as the world's largest retirement community.
( Also on POLITICO: Mitt tries to explain Medicare stance)
Trying to disarm the weapon Democrats believe the Ryan pick handed them, Romney has begun to embrace the young congressman's brand by talking increasingly about the ticket's plans for reform, albeit in vaguer terms than the nitty-gritty that has been Ryan's hallmark.
This new strategy reverses the campaign's earlier rope-a-dope approach, which tried to keep the focus on President Barack Obama. On Thursday in Greer, S.C., Romney — no longer the candidate of patriotic hymns — used a whiteboard to contrast his Medicare plans with Obama's.
To be sure, the debate is likely to be more sniping than substance — more attacks on Obama than parsing of the options for entitlement reform. Advisers say the campaign has no plans to pivot from its previous view that diving into details during a general-election race would be suicidal.
The Romney strategy is simple: Hammer away at Obama for proposing cuts to Medicare and promise, in vague, aspirational ways, to protect the program for future retirees — but don't get pulled into a public discussion of the most unpopular parts of the Ryan plan.
"The nature of running a presidential campaign is that you're communicating direction to the American people," a Romney adviser said. "Campaigns that are about specifics, particularly in today's environment, get tripped up."
But aides believe there is a way for Romney and Ryan to present a vision of fiscal discipline so starkly different than Obama's as to provide voters a clear choice, even without all the details.
"At the end of the day," Rhoades said, "the American people are going to have to decide: Do they want to clean up the mess right now, or do they want to wait another four years, when it's even worse? Do they want business as usual or do they really want to tackle the big challenges for a change?"
A Romney campaign official added: "I know there are some people in Washington, D.C., that are scared to talk about Medicare. We're not. We've got a million hits on Medicare. We'll do it for as long as they want. Let's do it. It's policy, it's substance, it's the future."
The strategy carries significant risks: That approach could create confusion over Romney's actual views on the Ryan plan — and an opening for Democrats to define the GOP nominee before he can define himself.
When CBS's Bob Schieffer asked Romney on "60 Minutes" about the election becoming a referendum on Ryan's budget plan, Romney replied: "Well, I have my budget plan, as you know, that I've put out. And that's the budget plan that we're going to run on."
Romney said Wednesday that the two men are on the same page when it comes to Medicare. This was two days after he told reporters he assumed they were not on exactly the same page. "We'll take a look at the differences," Romney had told reporters in Florida on Monday.


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For those doing philosophical work on urban issues
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Please see a new project that I've been working on with a colleague in theater. We taught a course this spring called "The City as Theater," and the final course project was a performance that we called "Performing the City: An Experiment in Civic Street Theater." The students developed individual performances inspired by, or based on, philosophical texts that engage urban issues, and then eventually worked out ways to interact with one another and the audience. A radio interview on the project is available:
Radio interview: http://wvia.org/radio/wvia-fm-programs/artscene click on May 9th program
arts weekly article: http://the570.com/index.php/2012/05/curtain-call-citizen-performers/. In addition. we are starting to upload videos of the performances on a youtube channel "OurCityMay2012" If you log onto Youtube you can find the channel by searching for it by name, and you can then subscribe to it to receive notifications as we upload new video.
If you are interested in urban issues, you might be interested in the participatory budget movement. This is a democractic, participatory budgeting process that is popular in many cities in the global South, and is now being adopted by some cities in North America. Also see the website of the nonprofit based in New York that involves philosophers from Brooklyn College and elsewhere in this movement: http://www.participatorybudgeting.org/
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If you are in NYC on October 20, please join Graham Priest for an interesting discussion on the philosophical conditions that underly the mess we're in.
Eric Nelson posted this on commurb e-list and it's relevant to us:
On Tuesday, a Supreme Court case called Koontz vs. St Johns Waterfront Management was decided and it appears to have far reaching implications for urban development, climate change response, and private property vs. public goods. I basically makes it easier for developers to get around local regulations and impact fees:
I recently created a Google+ community devoted to "Philosophy & Urban Affairs." I'm in contact with folks inside and outside of philosophy who are doing work in urban affairs and issues of "place" and I wanted to create a space that is public for us to share ideas, developments, and news about our projects. It's a new thing and it isn't assured to get off the ground (so few of these blog-like things do), but I'd like to try anyway. If you'd like to be a part of it, go to:
Peter Marcuse has posted some reflections on Occupy Wall Street and related matters on his blog. The text is 4 pages, but here is his summary:
1. Occupy Wall Street doesn't make specific demands. Understandably. There is a difference between immediate demands and claims of rights, and the Occupy movement is about targeting claims of rights.
2. This is not only for strategic reasons – it's not their role – but also on principle; its supporters don't want to get into the game, they want to change its unfair rules.
3. They do not seek consensus but understand the inevitably of conflict. They wish to stand with the 99% and recognize that this means losses for the 1%, but not losses that would seriously impinge on their needs.
4. The space they have chosen to organize their protest is not classic public space, but space in the heart of the territory in which the activities and forces they target operate. It is both a physically and a symbolically well-chosen space for their purpose.
I've added
5. A short reflection on what I saw and felt at the march to Zuccotti Park on March 5, and
6. A somewhat flip comparison between the Occupy Wall Street movement and several others, from the tea party to the reform Democrats to the fringe cultural conservatives, hinting that they are all reacting to much the same basic insecurity/discontent.
Dear Philosophers in the City group members,
Just a quick note to let you know about a new volume I edited with Todd Swanstrom, Justice and the American Metropolis, which is just out from the University of Minnesota Press.
We have a terrific list of contributors, including Susan Fainstein, Richard Thompson Ford, Gerald Frug, Loren King, Margaret Kohn, Stephen Macedo, Douglas Rae, Clarence Stone, Margaret Weir, and Thad Williamson, all of whom address the question of what justice requires in the contemporary metropolis.
Here is a link to the press's page for the book:
Here is a link to the press's exam copy policy. Because the paperback is priced at $25, any university instructor who is considering adopting it for a course can order an exam copy.
I hope you like the book!
All best,
Those who are interested in original research, Russian/German/French translation, and what I consider to be a fairly audacious reading of modernist urbanism may be interested in my forthcoming thesis, which I'm releasing in excerpts. I would very much like to know what people would have to say about the following:
"The Graveyard of Utopia: Soviet Urbanism and the Fate of the Inter... (section 1)
"The Graveyard of Utopia: Soviet Urbanism and the Fate of the Inter... (section 2)
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Back in December I contacted Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony to ask if they would be willing to participate in an experiment.
I wanted an executive from each company to write an open letter welcoming new gamers to their specific platform. The idea, I thought, was to serve two purposes.
First it seemed like it would be interesting to hear what someone so high up in the company would tell a person who had just purchased their console. What games would they recommend? What about their platform do they think stands out?
While interesting, it certainly doesn't apply to the typical Kotaku reader. So the other thing that I thought would be interesting was to look at the way these executives wrote their letters, the language they used.
To be clear, don't fault any of the companies for the slant toward new gamers they took when writing the letters, I asked them to do that. But maybe look beyond the face of the letter and try to read something into what you find their beyond what to buy for a console.
These are, all three companies tell me, letters actually penned by these executives. So lets skip the normal fanboism and dig into something that could actually be quite insightful.
Welcome To the Family: A Letter From Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway
Welcome To the Family: A Letter From Playstation's Peter Dille
Welcome To the Family: A Letter From Xbox 360's John Schappert


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Among the stocks that could see active trading in Monday's session are SemGroup Corp., Ball Corp. and B&G Foods Inc.
Companies on the Halloween earnings calendar include Allstate Corp. ALL, -0.57%, Mercury General Corp. MCY, -1.12%, CNA Financial Corp. CNA, +0.70%, Andarko Petroleum Corp. APC, -0.04%, Forest Oil Corp. FST, -0.54%, Triumph Group Inc. TGI, -0.25%, Shaw Group Inc. SHAW, FMC Corp. FMC, -0.38%, Regal-Beloit Corp. RBC, -0.17%, Cooper Tire & Rubber CTB, -1.92% and Armstrong World Industries Inc. AWI, -0.26%, among others.
The board of SemGroup SEMG, -0.20% adopted a stockholder rights plan, declaring a dividend of one right on each outstanding share of SemGroup's common stock, the Tulsa-based company said late Friday. The rights enable the owner to buy half of a common share for each current share of common stock outstanding at the close of business on Nov. 7. Initially, these rights will not be exercisable and will trade with the shares of SemGroup's common stock. The rights will kick in if a person or group acquires beneficial ownership of 10% or more of SemGroup's common stock in a transaction not approved by the SemGroup board. The company said the board adopted the plan in response to the acquisition proposal announced Oct. 24 by Plains All American Pipeline LP PAA, -0.65% to acquire SemGroup for $24 a share cash. SemGroup's directors rejected the unsolicited bid.
Ball BLL, +0.28% said it's agreed to repurchase about $100 million of common stock in a privately negotiated deal with Goldman Sachs & Co., using cash on hand and available borrowings. The accelerated transaction will begin Monday and reduce Ball's outstanding common stock by a total of about 2.8 million shares, the Broomfield, Colo.-based manufacturer of packaging products said.
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This story captures all the power, laughter, joy, and stubborn resilience of those who populated the outports of yesteryear, back before they were drove from their homes by the fishing grounds to so-called growth centres. On All Souls night every year the dead of St. Kevin's come alive and talk to each other. They bring us back to the golden age of the Newfoundland outport as every unique and every dynamic relationship is relived in their banter, their humour, and their fond remembrances. Al was one of our greatest writers of poetry, plays, songs, and short stories.
In West Moon that voice lives on. A hit last summer this show returns by popular demand.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Freshman Ally Barys (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) of the Georgia College soccer team was named Bobcat Athlete of the Week for the week ending Oct. 14.
The rookie netted the first three goals of her career in the second half of the Bobcats' 6-1 rout of #14 North Alabama Monday. Barys became the first Bobcat all-time to score her first career goal and a hat trick in the same contest.
She got the go-ahead goal a little over five minutes in, cracking home a loose ball inside the box. For the second Haley O'Hayer dropped a pass off to Olivia Holden in the corner, who then knocked a beautiful cross to Barys, heading it in for the 3-1 lead. The final came on a free kick, bent into the upper left corner.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush sentenced to 3 years
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court Thursday sentenced television journalist Muntathar al Zaidi to three years in prison for throwing his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush.
The decision by Iraq's Central Criminal Court provoked an outcry among those at the trial. "Hero, hero, Muntathar. God is great," a group of relatives chanted.
Zaidi's immediate family wept on hearing the sentence. His brother Udai accused the court of being Americanized. "This was expected from an Americanized court," he said. "We don't feel sorry for Muntathar, we only feel sorry for Americanized Iraq."
Zaidi, who reports for the satellite channel al Baghdadiyah, threw his shoes at Bush during the former president's final media appearance with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki in December. "This is the farewell kiss, dog," Zaidi shouted as he threw the first shoe.
Bush ducked nimbly. Zaidi threw the second shoe, and Bush ducked again. Later, the president joked that he'd noticed that the shoes were a size 9. He also said the incident reflected the new freedom of expression that had taken hold in Iraq.
To Muslims in many countries, it wasn't a joke but an act of defiance against what's widely seen as an oppressive American presence in Iraq and throughout the region.
In his first court appearance last month, Zaidi almost bounced into the courtroom. On Thursday, however, arriving under heavy guard, he almost stumbled in, exhausted and looking worried, and no longer wearing an Iraqi flag scarf.
Chief Judge Abdul-Amir al Rubaie started the proceedings by reading a ruling that Bush's visit had been an official visit of state, implying that Zaidi could be sentenced under criminal law.
Tariq Harb, a leading defense attorney, urged the court instead to follow Bush's words and consider the incident an act of democratic expression.
"There should be no case without the approval of the prime minister, which didn't happen. I trust the justice of the Iraq judiciary, but I can't ignore the law," he said.
Dhia al Saadi, who headed the defense team, told the court that Zaidi had committed an action "meant to insult, not attack, the U.S. president."
Saadi added that his client had a right under international law to "fight the occupier" and that his "patriotic motives" shouldn't be overlooked. He admitted that Zaidi had broken the work rules for journalists. Saadi insisted, however, that this was an issue for the journalists union, not the courts.
Zaidi's sentencing came the same week that a car bomb killed two of his co-workers as they covered a national reconciliation conference in Abu Ghraib.
(Hammoudi is a McClatchy special correspondent.)
Iraqi shoe thrower angered by Bush's 'icy smile'
Did the shoe cause rebellion at Baghdad's July 14 Bridge?
Iraqi who threw shoes covered U.S. bombing of Shiite area


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Friday, 8 August 2008
Humiliated in the Pool
I went swimming the other night, feeling good in my skin, thinking I'd try to swim fast. Things seemed to be going well until, about 3/4 of the way into my swim, a guy joined me in my lane. After a couple laps, he started laughing when I brought my head out the water and asked if anyone had ever showed me how to swim. I said "no" a bit surprised and worried. (I've basically taught myself over the last two years. I started out with this vague idea of a few different types of strokes. It took me about a year to get my head under water while I swam.) Had I been making a big fool out of myself this whole time?
"Why don't you kick when you swim?" He said. I figured that was a fair question. I'd always wanted swimming to improve my arm strength, so I had taught myself to swim without my legs. Now that I was training for a triathlon, I suddenly realized that didn't make too much sense. He continued: "Oh, and you never breath. Breathing more will help you turn your body as you swim, which you also don't do." I admitted I took breaths every 10 strokes and that I was pretty proud of that. Why was I proud of that again????
What had people been thinking all this time as they watched me swim???? Oh well, I wasn't going to let this advice pass me by. He went and got a kick board (which I had previously seen as a device designed for people who didn't know how to use their arms... Boy am I a RUBE!). I did two laps with just the kick board. Wow is that HARD! I thought being a runner would make that easy, but you use an almost completely different set of muscles. Then he had me kicking and rotating my body by breathing every two strokes and getting my hands up above my head. He said it was "like a dance underwater." This seemed hokey, but it has stuck with me. He swam along side of me and yelled things like "Keep kicking!" and I cut my time across the pool almost in half. It is amazing how much more efficient his suggestions made me!
I'm writing this in case there are any other rubes out there like me who don't know why they are not getting faster at swimming. For me it boiled down to three things:
1. Kicking
2. Breathing every two strokes
3. Rotating my body every stroke
Turns out the guy was a fellow doctor at the hospital I work at. I am so glad he had the guts to say something. I convinced SR we could benefit from signing up for a personal lesson or two.
As I write, The Bois (who turns six months tomorrow!) is crawling his way right across the floor. He's not quite as receptive to my advice that "crawling is a dance" but he's getting along alright.
Have a great weekend!
Running Song of the Day: Go Go by Alphabeat
13 comments:
- Danni said...
That was nice of him to teach you. I am self taught as well and am proudly "average" when I do triathlons, including an Ironman. I sometimes wonder whether I could actually be a good swimmer if I learned proper technique. If you get more into triathlons the lessons would probably help you save energy for the bike and run which would make you faster.
- 8 August 2008 at 17:08
- Michelle said...
Well, at least you'll get in a pool. I have a major water phobia (funny, since I used to be on my college ROWING team, LOL) and I won't set foot in a pool if the water is too deep for me to stand in and have my head above water. I don't know if I'll ever be a triathlete because of that issue.
You'll just get faster and faster now! Don't be humiliated. It's not every day you can get a swimming lesson for free! :-)
- 8 August 2008 at 19:04
- Layna (aka Willow) said...
I just found your blog with a google search for pregnancy and marathons. I have a 19 month old, and I ran until the day before I delivered. I did a half at 7 months, with almost the same time as your pregnant half. And my labor experience was very similar (including begging for the epidural :).
Now that I'm pregnant with my second, and planning to run New York at 6 months, it's nice to be reminded that the folks who scowl about my pregnant running should mind their own business!
- 8 August 2008 at 20:58
- sea legs girl said...
Danni & Michelle,
You guys are right, and in the end I wasn't humiliated. I was just grateful to perhaps look less like an FLA (funny looking adult).
lanya (aka willow),
Great to hear from you. I think more and more that there are many like-minded people out there who know that if you've got an uncomplicated pregnancy, there's no reason to stop running. That is a super fast time for a 7 month pregnant half marathon. Way to go! Good luck with your second pregnancy!
- 8 August 2008 at 21:21
- Marathon Princess said...
Another swimmer here who has gotten laughed at, although it was my hubby doing the laughing. I also don't kick or breath when I swim and need to remind myslef to do these things, believe me it is much easier when you do. I have a personal trainer who I work with on swimming and it has really helped.
- 9 August 2008 at 03:03
- Brianne said...
Happy 1/2 birthday to monsieur Bois! Sadly I took a few swimming lessons in elementary school but still suck in the pool. It's the breathing thing I can't quite get comfortable with.
- 9 August 2008 at 08:58
- wannabe grower said...
Humor aside, I think a lesson or two is probably a smart plan. You've signed up for a 10 hour triathlon relay, an ultra distance race, and you don't know how to swim? Would you sign up for an ultra marathon, or even a Hood-to-Coast type relay, if you'd never run a 5k? You've read that most deaths in triathlon happen during the swim portion of the race, right? Even people who know how to swim who have trained seriously. It's not something to mess around with. Getting through the swim portion of a sprint tri is one thing, multiple legs of a long distance relay is another. Get help.
- 9 August 2008 at 16:12
- sea legs girl said...
wannabe grower,
Just curious what people die of during the swim. I actually haven't heard of that. Not that I'm doubting you, I'm just interested.
- 9 August 2008 at 16:30
- sea legs girl said...
Oh and we've done a tri before. In the swim portion I came in in the middle of the pack. I'm not totally clueless, I just need to work on my form :).
- 9 August 2008 at 16:47
- wannabe grower said...
It's not entirely known -- it's not been pool planning, autopsies have been inconclusive. Here in NYC, there has been a lot of discussion about it because in our big local tri, the swim is advertised as a "fast swim" because it goes with the current, so it's thought that people come unprepared. But several of the swimmers who have died have been extremely experienced swimmers and athletes. Here's one of the better articles in the popular press recently, suggesting underlying heart conditions, but one that talks about the issue more coherently than most: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/fashion/31fitness.html.
- 9 August 2008 at 18:19
- wannabe grower said...
Argh: the url got cut off:
- 9 August 2008 at 18:22
- olga said...
I need to take a lesson like that:) I suck in swimming!!! Glad this dude spent time showing you the real deal, and you were receptive to learn it. I also bet he had hots for you:)
- 11 August 2008 at 16:17
- Kate said...
hi! i found your blog clicking off of danni's blogroll. (I get bored behind a computer at work.)
Anyway, just saying hello and that while I'm not half the athlete you are, I try to use you (crazy) endurance athletes as my inspiration to go do my piddly short workouts. : )
If you want to take advice from little old me, though, I'd recommend the book Total Immersion Swimming. I know, it sounds weird to learn to swim from a book, but I know several people who this book has helped immensely! p.s. while leg buoyancy is critical (so that you're not dragging yourself like an 'L' through the water), I'm not sure that I agree that lots of kicking is key to your tri success. as long as your legs are kept buoyant, I'd save them for the bike and run. whew. sorry for the wordiness!
- 11 August 2008 at 23:49


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Facing the Ministry of Justice's decision that the remaining houses in Taipei's Huaguang Community (華光社區) would be demolished within three days starting yesterday, nearly 200 residents and activists yesterday marched in the capital to protest the forced removal of Huaguang residents, while calling for "living justice."
After setting up a simple altar with fruit on it and a wooden sign that reads: "living justice" on a corner of the old community — which they said represented a parting ceremony for the community and the death of justice — the activists bowed their heads in tribute before heading off on their march.
Dozens of young activists carried wooden doors, window frames, ladders and other furniture on their shoulders as they joined the protest march.
"We will use our bodies to show the government that what they are relentlessly tearing down are people's homes," a representative of the group said. "The [then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)] government tacitly agreed for people to build homes in the community after the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan in 1949. The government also did not impose residential planning controls during the periods of migration from rural to urban areas in the 1970s, and allowed more people to move into the area, but now it wants to erase its mistakes through violent demolitions."
Holding a portrait of his deceased mother at the protest, a 60-year-old man surnamed Chen (陳) said his mother, Cheng Yi-mei (鄭依妹), had bought a house in the community with money she made working as a domestic servant for more than 40 years. However, five years ago, aged 87, she was faced with a "cold-blooded and cruel government" that threatened to fine her for benefiting from "illegal occupation" of government land if she did not move.
"She has done nothing to deserve being continually threatened over the past five years until her death this year... Many residents had no choice but to move because they could not cope with the heavy fines, which included interest payments of 5 percent, but I will not give in, not only for my mother, but because I can't stand a government that treats its people like dirt," Chen said.
Ho Hui-fen (侯惠芬), whose husband was born and raised in the community, said her parents-in-law have always abided by the law, paid their water and electricity bills, and have lived in Huaguang all their lives after they came to Taiwan, so it is unfair that they are suddenly forced to move and asked to pay a fine of more than NT$6 million (US$200,000).
Another protester, a young woman in her early 20s, said she began caring about similar controversial developments, including the Losheng (Happy Life) Sanatorium (樂生療養院) and the Wenlin Yuan (文林苑) urban renewal project, when she was a university student, and joined the movement for the rights of Huaguang residents because "the government always uses empty promises of economic development to repress underprivileged groups in society."
In front of the Executive Yuan, activists staged three dramas, expressing that the public are hurting and bleeding as the government uses lawsuits against them; are being made homeless by land expropriations and demolitions; and are dying as the government hands down heavy fines while benefiting from offering regained land to companies for commercial use.


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Was fun to watch as a college player. Thoroughly despicable human though. -- akaHokie 07/18/2017 08:59AM
Woody after MV1 again! -- hokiebb67 07/16/2017 09:11AM
I certainly have strong feelings about what he did, but he -- reestuart 07/17/2017 08:22AM
Dogs are not people. Dog lovers are irrational. Put him in. ** -- BlackwaterHokie 07/16/2017 9:57PM
I will never condone what MV1 did......however..... -- hokieinoregon 07/16/2017 3:11PM
I like for Woody to go back to his hole and cover Hampton sydney -- Mercury 07/16/2017 2:22PM
Woody was way out of his sandbox -- flymanhokie 07/16/2017 12:11PM
I received an email late last week... -- Will Stewart 07/16/2017 11:24AM
Re: I received an email late last week... -- JRHokie 07/16/2017 3:13PM
I'm not certain this thread and the same posted on ......... -- hokiebb67 07/16/2017 11:42AM
For those in camp 2, should people convicted of murder ever be forgiven? -- pienkows 07/16/2017 10:14PM
Based on the posts I read, there might be a third camp (a small one) -- VTHokie2000 07/16/2017 4:39PM
Exactly. -- Will Stewart 07/16/2017 12:26PM
Just like the SCOTUS, you don't have to take the case -- East Cobb Hokie 07/17/2017 2:13PM
Woody is not a sports reporter, he is nothing but an editorialist..... -- 82hokie 07/16/2017 7:28PM
He's a columnist. He's paid to have an opinion on things. ** -- Andy Bitter 07/17/2017 08:33AM
His comments about HOF Committee were off base IMO -- East Cobb Hokie 07/17/2017 2:23PM
Never understood why anyone reads the opinion -- RaleighHokie15 07/17/2017 12:36PM
Which he does. Not disputing that. Unfortunately, his columns are ... -- Atlee Hokie 07/17/2017 08:37AM
Woody believes himself to be the arbitor of all things moral. -- Atlee Hokie 07/17/2017 08:30AM
He is a weenie...Guess he's tire of telling us we shouldn't keep score-> -- HOKIERIT 07/16/2017 8:04PM
Re: Exactly. -- 133628Hokie 07/16/2017 5:48PM
When there was no thread here on this.... -- Crizzle 07/16/2017 2:46PM
When there was no thread here on this.... -- Crizzle 07/16/2017 2:40PM
I think you have done it already...plenty of editorials on here. :-) -- Stech 07/16/2017 1:53PM
IMO, it's a lose-lose situation for TSL if you write an editorial -- Nortazhokie 07/16/2017 1:47PM
Almost, if not exactly, like editorializing about someone's religion ... -- Atlee Hokie 07/17/2017 08:35AM
I see no need for TSL, aka YOU, to comment.. -- F4EHokie 07/16/2017 12:57PM
You don't owe the readers to provide one. It is unnecessary to know. ** -- NokieHokie 07/16/2017 12:43PM
Woody's litmus test should be Pete Rose. -- UEMcGill 07/16/2017 10:59AM
Precisely!!! It's hypocritical to the extreme to support Rose's induction . -- Hokiestud 07/16/2017 2:27PM
It's been said multiple times in this thread but forgiveness -- Tombo 07/16/2017 2:06PM
There are some, Woody probably included, who figure Mike should have ... -- Atlee Hokie 07/16/2017 10:53AM
Re: There are some, Woody probably included, who figure Mike should have ... -- crazylane 07/16/2017 11:37AM
Lipper?? Even worse than Woody! ** -- Hockey Dad 07/16/2017 12:09PM
People like dogs more than humans...sometimes I do too. -- Hockey Dad 07/16/2017 11:16AM
Ray Lewis was another reason I turned off ESPN. ** -- laphroaig 07/16/2017 10:58AM
He's a lazy hack...poor attempt to sell papers. ** -- Hockey Dad 07/16/2017 10:53AM
Worldwide Revenge has taken over Forgiveness. I hope we can reverse that -- Stech 07/16/2017 10:21AM
Couple quotes from mr. Woody. (Yes, I didn't capitalize "mr." on purpose) -- laphroaig 07/16/2017 09:39AM
I wouldn't have given him the capital w ** -- 82hokie 07/16/2017 7:19PM
Peace -- bugman 07/16/2017 11:40AM
You didn't have to capitalize the W in woody either! ** -- NokieHokie 07/16/2017 10:53AM
It was a cultural thing and he's paid the price -- TomTurkey 07/16/2017 09:32AM
I don't think 'a cultural thing' is a valid justification. -- YBYSAIAHokie 07/16/2017 10:19AM
Didn't say it was a good reason or even an excuse -- TomTurkey 07/16/2017 1:04PM
It was the culture of his family? Never heard that one before. -- YBYSAIAHokie 07/16/2017 1:36PM
Vick mentioned that he saw it a lot in the Southeast Community of NN -- EddieVT 07/16/2017 8:53PM
Why should Mike have known better? -- Atlee Hokie 07/17/2017 06:27AM
Because I think anyone should know that killing -- EddieVT 07/17/2017 07:16AM
People protest fishing, I am a dog person and can't stand -- fordham 07/17/2017 12:19PM
That's what you were raised to believe. Everyone isn't. -- Atlee Hokie 07/17/2017 08:25AM
Who said it was a justification? -- Atlee Hokie 07/16/2017 11:01AM
"Mike had never been taught that dog fighting was an immoral activity." -- YBYSAIAHokie 07/16/2017 11:13AM
You accused me of not possibly knowing what I said. I'll turn the table. -- Atlee Hokie 07/17/2017 06:17AM
My grandma used the 'N' word freely, I never thought she was immoral -- VictoryTurkey 07/16/2017 1:45PM
Sorry for your loss, Atlee. Tough to lose a friend. ** -- laphroaig 07/16/2017 11:07AM
I don't think anyone is saying it's justification, just a reason. ** -- NokieHokie 07/16/2017 10:35AM
They are synonyms. -- YBYSAIAHokie 07/16/2017 10:52AM
Look up "reason" and you won't see "justification". The MAY be synonyms -- 48zip 07/16/2017 1:17PM
I looked up reason and got the definition inside. This is how I'm using it. -- NokieHokie 07/16/2017 10:55AM
There are differences, too. ** -- laphroaig 07/16/2017 10:55AM


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Add flair to your living room or patio with a fabulous vintage garden stool! Pair your garden stool with an Asian accent chair for a more traditional vintage look, or go Bohemian!
Compact, colorful, and ultra-versatile, the vintage garden stool might be touted as a petite sidekick, but don't let that fool you into thinking this multitasker isn't cut out for the main event.
A direct descendent of the Chinese drum stool, today's garden stool is believed to have originated in China over a thousand years ago. Undeniably Zen-like, garden stools are likely to have been born out of Buddhist garden tradition. In the 18th Century, Chinese garden stools were exported to Europe for the first time and the Brits immediately pegged them as essentials for their indoor conservatories. As British potteries began churning out their own garden stools, they made a few edits, casting garden stools in brighter colors than the Chinese traditionally had and including more open fretwork—hallmarks of the vintage garden stools we know today.
To give you a sense of the many ways in which a vintage garden stool can be used (both in and out of the garden), we've compiled a list of ten must-try scenarios. Read on, for our best tips and surprises.
Side Table
Okay, so using a vintage garden stool as a side table isn't exactly out of the box, but it is a fine place to start. In spaces where a traditional side table might feel too ungainly, nestle one between two accent chairs. A garden stool is also especially wieldy when used alongside a chair stationed in front of a fireplace. A vintage garden stool's profile will keep things looking tidy while providing just enough space to balance a book and a cocktail glass.
Tub Buddy
A claw foot tub is a glorious thing until you discover that there's few places to stow that bottle of Mr. Bubbles. Coming to the rescue? A used garden stool. Set one up tub-side and it's an ideal place to set out your bath essentials—whether that be lotions and soaps or a candle and a bottle of Merlot. And the best part? You can stay blissfully emerged while reaching for all of those relaxation-inducing necessities.
Under a Console
Console tables are practical for entryways and living room nooks, but since they lack an excess of drawers they can sometimes feel superfluous—especially in a room that's already pinched for space. To make a console feel more functional, try slipping vintage garden stools under it. Not only will they fill white space, but they'll be easy to pull out when extra seating is needed.
Coffee Table
A used garden stool is a fine place to perch a drink when you're kicking it solo, but what about when you're hosting a crowd? With no offense to the garden stool, it leaves a little to be desired space-wise. To up its function, try grouping three vintage garden stools and capping them with a piece of circular glass. Now you have a place for drinks and a bowl of queso—and seriously, how easy was that?
Umbrella Stand
Flip a used garden stool hourglass style and—voila, you have a fine umbrella stand! Some tips to keep in mind for this look? Firstly (and most obviously), seek out a used garden stool with a hollow bottom. Next, take a moment to consider if your stool features a pattern that can handle being inverted. Simple fretwork garden stools often work best since they have no true top or bottom.
Garden Lantern
Another option to consider when you have a hollow, open fretwork garden stool on hand? A larger-than-life garden lantern. Position your used garden stool (or stools) in a garden nook and place a battery-operated light under it. Switch on the light prior to a party or a solo, post-sundown stroll. In full disclosure, we love this idea best for the way it returns the garden stool to its Zen roots.
Vanity Stool
If frou-frou vanity stools make you wince, try parking a vintage garden stool under your bureau or desk. While just as functional as a vanity stool, a garden stool feels more substantial thanks to its ceramic construction. Their slim profile also makes them perfect for tucking away when they're not in use. To keep the look feeling femme, look for used garden stools with delicate details like all-over chinoiserie, or a nipped and fluted silhouette.
Daybed Side Kick
Daybeds pose a perplexing problem. Since visually they're not a sofa, they don't lend themselves to a coffee table stationed in front, but since they're routinely used as one, it begs the question: where in the world does one set a drink? Thankfully a used garden stool offers up a witty (and good-looking) solution. Group two vintage garden stools front of a daybed to create a place for books, flowers, and, yes, a cup of coffee or two.
Plant Stand
If you've ever tried to place topiaries outside of your front door then you know that scale is a tricky thing to master. If you wind up with topiaries that are a little smaller than you would like, despite your best-laid plans, try propping them up on vintage garden stools. A garden stool will provide just the boost that an ordinary topiary needs to assume the role of extraordinary.
Have a guestroom that you'd just as soon rent out to strangers than decorate yourself? We get it, spending your hard-earned dollars on a room you won't be personally indulging in can feel like a blow. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to edit down the pieces needed for a guest room, one of which includes using vintage garden stools for nightstands. No, they won't provide places to store and stash—but when you think about it, doesn't that count them perfect for overnight guests? Perch a large coffee table book on top to create more usable surface space, one that can accommodate a small lamp, a pile of jewelry, and a phone if need be.