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Hotel Interior Designer
- Recruiter
- Adrem Group
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- Up to £35000.00 per annum
- Posted
- 12 October 2018
- Closes
- 09 November 2018
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- Interiors
- Job Function
- Designer
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
A small boutique practice situated in a fantastic location in London is seeking either a mid-weight or senior job running designer to work on some nearly won projects. The practice work on a mixture of high end Residential and Hotel projects both here in the UK
and overseas. They recently have won some beautiful contemporary 5 star Hotels overseas in exotic locations and now need some creative, hands on designers to work an all aspects of the interiors . The practice is very forward thinking and would be happy to look at either Food and Beverage or Residential designers - style is the key here!
Key Responsibilities of the Hotel Interior Designer:
- Developing initial ideas and acquiring key information about potential projects
- Liaising and discussing information with clients and scheduling projects
- Meeting client's needs, developing design concepts and establishing briefs
- Be able to set budgets, negotiating project fees taking in to consideration costs i.e. materials
- Researching on the projects given, gathering and carrying our presentations.
- Providing a selection of samples such as furniture, lighting, decoration for clients
- Being able to use CAD software and prepare technical drawings for examples designs, plans, models etc
- Surveying buildings;
- Being able to work as part of a team
- Supervising work during the design stage
- Working closely with quantity surveyors to establish costs and work schedules on larger projects, with architects and other design professionals to determine the best use of space, and with manufacturers and contractors;
- Keeping up to date with new developments in the design industry
Must Haves..
Independent and confident
- Able to manage other people and plan work
- Good design skill ( we need to like his/her style and have a taste that fit within out company)
- Good knowledge of schedules production and detailed design
- Hospitality or F&B experience a good plus!
- Flexibility, they are a small team so they don't need somebody hyper specialised, but a 360* designer
If you are interested in hearing more about this Hotel Interior Designer Job, please contact Deborah D'Silva or apply online.
Kindly ensure that BOTH your CV and portfolio are enclosed with your application.
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QUINCY, Mass. – With a team hitting percentage of .271 UMass Boston volleyball remained undefeated in Little East Conference play as they handed Rhode Island College a 3-0 loss Saturday afternoon at North Quincy High School.
The win marked the fourth straight for the Beacons, who improved to 9-4, 3-0 in the Little East Conference. Rhode Island College fell to 3-10, 0-2 in the Little East after Saturday's match.
UMass wasted little time taking the lead in the first two games as they handed the Anchorwomen 25-14 and 25-10 losses. In the third game, the two teams remained close for a while, with Rhode Island nipping at the heels of the Beacons for most of the third. However a late run by the Beacons proved to be the deciding factor and with a kill from Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.), the Beacons secured the 25-20 decision, which also marked the ninth straight win for UMB.
Leading the Beacons offense with eight kills was senior All-American Shannon Thompson (Moorpark, Calif.). Right behind her was Molly Witzmann (Encinitas, Calif.) and Corrine Porter (Huntington Beach, Calif.) with seven kills each. For Rhode Island College Michelle Malboeuf scored four kills.
Emma Rocha (Boynton Beach, Fla.) had a strong day for the Beacons tallying 26 assists, while also scoring two aces. Jessica Ho was the Anchorwomen's top setter with 16 assists. At the end-line Brooke Nemethy (Oviedo, Fla.) continued her recent hot streak as she scored five aces.
Senior Kayla Wilson (San Jose, Calif.) continued her solid play on the backline with 14 digs, while the Beacons as a team posted a combined six blocks. Rhode Island matched that with six blocks of their own with four block assists going to Breanna Boyer and Malboeuf.
Volleyball returns to action on Tuesday when they travel to Bowdoin College for a 7 p.m. non-conference match.

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Amidst the doom and gloom headlines presaging dire prognostications for the Western economies in 2012 there is the very real promise of a global economy re-directing miracle in the making. The impact and promise of shale gas and shale oil is probably the good news story as we step into 2012. Not that you would know it, given the media's predilection for bad news.
Only two obstacles stand in the way. First, bad energy policies that do not prioritise cheaper fossil fuels – dumping countless millions out of jobs and into fuel poverty. Second, environmentalist campaigners implacably opposed to any hydrocarbon-fuelled energy development. It threatens their Disney-esque utopian blueprint.
But before we glimpse a rare ray of sunshine amidst the stretching economic gloom, we must first demolish a key widely held myth that is fuelling bad energy policy-making: that oil and gas prices will only go on rising, ultimately rendering their cost comparable to expensive and feeble renewable energy generation. As economist and professor of energy policy Dieter Helm's recent excellent article pointed out, the UK's current bias towards expensive renewables is a direct result of energy secretary Chris Huhne's unwavering faith that the price of fossil fuels can only go on rising.
That's precisely the mistake an incoming Conservative Government made in 1979. Then oil prices peaked at $39 a barrel (the equivalent of $150 today). In the mid-1980s, however, the bottom dropped out of the oil price 'barrel' taking over 25 years to recover. As Helm points out, it is the peak oil and gas brigade – today, a useful ally to the green lobbies – who assume depleting resources based on then known reserves. As Helm says: "Nonsense – and some of it dangerous nonsense".
Helm rightly asserts, "The Earth's crust is riddled with fossil fuels" adding "there is enough oil and gas (and coal too) to fry the planet several times over." And his words echo Huber and Mills' definitive quote on the subject, "Energy supplies – for all practical purposes – are infinite". The issue is not (and never has been) too much or too little of a given resource. It has always been whether prices are too low or too high to make extraction viable. Today, the shale gas and oil "miracle" – or rather man's ingenuity in finding new ways to tap previously unrecoverable resources – has yet again blown a gaping hole in the peak-ist argument; as the end of year figures make only too plain.
According to EIA figures at the end of 2011, U.S. net imports of oil hit 45 percent from its high of 60 percent in 2005. That's its lowest level since the mid-1990s. While reduced demand and greater energy efficiency played a part, a significant element is imputed to increased U.S. oil production, especially from shale-oil rich North Dakota. At the end of 2011 oil production in the ND Bakken formation hit a record high of over 600,000 barrels a day. In 2000, the formation was producing less than 100,000 barrels a day. Production here is now set to see the state outstrip California and Alaska early in 2012, making it America's second largest oil producing state. While much of the United States is suffering economic hardship with employment at around 9 percent, North Dakota's Bakken region has less than 2 percent joblessness. Further, the region has significant income levels, tax revenue growth, and the housing market is holding its own with the lowest number of foreclosures nationally.
The Eagle Ford oil shale field in Texas has generated 13,000 jobs and more than $500 million in salaries. All since drilling began in 2008. By 2020, Eagle Ford is projected to create up to 68,000 jobs as the formation hits the greatest oil boom in Texan history. The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale that stretches through Louisiana is estimated to hold around 7 billion barrels of oil. The impact of development on the local economy in the Baton Rouge area alone is expected to be "huge".
Over in the north-east's enormous Marcellus shale gas field, the economic outlook is just as dramatic. Since 2006, gas production has rocketed by 25 percent making the United States global top dog in gas production, eclipsing even Russia. U.S. natural gas prices have fallen significantly, with prices around the world holding steady as result. It doesn't take a math professor to work out the economic benefit gained in a country seeking, in the case of oil, to break the yoke of OPEC's dictatorial largesse, and, in the case of gas, enabling industrial electricity production to switch from coal to gas halving CO2 emissions. Not bad for a country vilified for refusing to sign the ill-fated and increasingly abandoned Kyoto Protocol.
Shale Gas: A renaissance in US manufacturing, a report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, published in December 2011 projects a litany of associated benefits for the U.S. economy. Chief among them: greater energy affordability for industry (reducing fuel costs by as much as $11.6 billion annually through 2025), higher product demand (with evidence showing how shale gas developments have driven demand for industrial products) and, amazingly in the current downturn, around 1 million new jobs through 2025.
By the end of 2011, shale gas was directly starting to affect the markets as lower gas prices began translating into economic industrial growth; the U.S. petro-chemical industry being a significant beneficiary including the announcement of new plants Dow Chemical (two plants), Royal Dutch Shell and Norcor.
As if shale gas development wasn't enough, in 2011 it became clear that shale and tight oil development in the 'new Saudi' of North Dakota even suggested the formerly unthinkable: the end of U.S. oil imports entirely. The fact is, Big Oil is in the process of re-drawing the global energy map. Upstream fossil fuel investments for some oil companies has already shifted to a 70 percent focus on OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada and Poland. The shift from a 50-50 split on investments between OECD and non-OECD countries already has the Saudis rattled. A recent report from energy consultants Wood Mackenzie confirms that Big Oil's re-focus on the energy resources of the West places as much as a $1.7 trillion stake on the future value of hydrocarbon energy from the United States, Europe and Australia. And the headliner for the rest of the world is that shale development State-side is only part one of the broader good news story.
And all of it – and I have not even touched on deepwater prospects, oil sands, methane hydrates et al – in spite of, rather than due to, bureaucratic tinkering that persists in viewing hydrocarbons – the mainstay of energy for decades yet – as the old fuddy-duddy to be hidden in the attic. In the U.S. President Obama's New Green Deal, as the Investor's Business Daily editorializes, has delivered, "rancid politics, aching failure and tawdry scandal". The Solyndra scandal merely revealed the level of corruption lending it credence. Equally, the new EU Energy Roadmap 2050 shows the EU is tenaciously holding onto its green dream in the vain hope that rising oil and gas prices will eventually make renewables commercially viable. But the shale gale is blowing an even greater hole in that hope.
While new processes allow vast new energy resources to permeate the world's shales, the 'biblical' scale of the potential economic turnaround still has a way to go to permeate the mindset of policy-makers. Even so, the shale-fuelled miracle, able to part the sea of gloomy economic forecasts and reveal a path to a much happier 2012, is very real – despite the plague of bureaucrats.


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Autumn images have proven unexpectedly popular, so it's a good thing I'm not out of pictures – or songs – yet. But all good things, etc. This will, alas, be the last – until next autumn. Of course, if you're all very fortunate and I'm unlucky indeed, we may have some spectacular winter shots coming right up. Don't hold your breath, though. This is Seattle. Gray and drippy is much more likely than white and sparkly.
Let's get in the proper frame of mind with a traditional rendition of "Sato no Aki."
I can't remember what that little instrument is, but I like it.
So, now we've heard "Sato no Aki" many different ways, and I shall torment you with it no more. Have some nice colorful leaves as a reward.
Ah, that's something I haven't seen much of for weeks now. It's been doing the Seattle thing lately, where we'll have a half-day or so of patchy sunshine every two weeks. Some of the leaves are hanging in there, though, grimly determined not to let winter come.
Here's a song I found surprisingly good. I listened to it because the title was ridiculous. This is a style of music I normally don't like, but for some reason, this one doesn't grate on my nerves. I actually quite like it.
There have been a lot of unexpected discoveries, doing this series. Sometimes it's fun to pick a theme and go spelunking YouTube for songs that fit it, hearing things you might not have listened to in a million billion years along the way.
One thing I love about living here: big, silvery raindrops making the foliage look spectacular. Shame about the little white dots of fertilizer…
Here's a little charmer of a song I'll be singing at the beginning of next autumn, now I've found it.
And here's a very different "Autumn Leaves" by one of my favorite singers.
Utterly lovely, much like our leaves.
But it's time to take it colder, now, with winter coming. Leafhuntress (very apropos moniker) pointed me toward Autumn, and I found their "Cold Comfort" to be suitable to the lateness of the season.
Winter's arrived. And what we've seen here is memory. An "Afterimage of Autumn," in fact.
Like George said: "an explosion of mind-blowing gorgeous color, then plunged into California Dreamin' for the next several months." Although, personally, I dream of a summer house in the Southern hemisphere, to go with my summer house in the Northern, so I never have to put up with winter again. And then, if I time it right, I can have two autumns every year!
Who else would like to go down that road with me?


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Performance Modules and Chips
edited March 2014 in Subaru
So I've got a '07 Subaru Outback XT that I would like to spend a little money on. The thing is pretty quick off the lot with 245hp from a turbocharged 2.5L boxter engine. I was clicking around on Ebay and saw a great deal of posts for "Performanc Modules" and "Chips" that people are selling for around $10.
Now I'm not technical genius, but I know that it took a lot more than $10 to squeeze horsepower out of my '67 Mustang Fastback.
Has anyone ever tried any of these products? I'm curious on how well they work, or if they work at all.
Thoughts? Comments? Jokes?
Now I'm not technical genius, but I know that it took a lot more than $10 to squeeze horsepower out of my '67 Mustang Fastback.
Has anyone ever tried any of these products? I'm curious on how well they work, or if they work at all.
Thoughts? Comments? Jokes?
They are bogus.
I have an 05 Legacy GT which essentially is the same car as you have.
Before I did/do any power upgrades, you will want to address upgrading your brakes, and suspension. These aren't $10 mods either.
That's what I figured. where would you recommend i start? any specific manufacturers you would recommend?0
depends what you want to do with your car. Street? Track? Auto-x? Drag? etc.
From there we can really hone in on what items would be most beneficial.
What kind of tires do you have? Stock? All Season? etc.
That's a great place to start, cause tires will effect your handling and speed in a huge way.
bench5 Posts: 1what about older cars? I have a 84 528e that could use a little bump just for fun. I cant find a chip (cheap or expensive) fro my ECU. can I switch out ecu? I have seen items that attach at oxygen sensor . Any opinion on those?0
b33tl3boy Posts: 3i have an 01 beetle sport with a 1.8t. i am looking for a web site to get it chiped asap i have a race in 3 weeks that i need to win0
I own a 2007 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer Edition, It has a 4.6 V8 engine with 6 Spd Auto, and has 18" tires on it. does anybody know how to squeak out any extra MPG out of it. With current gas prices it is really a burden. am getting approx.12 around town and approx 19 on the road. I have looked into Superchips and Hypertech chips but will they do the trick for me or not ????
I hate to put out that kind of cash and find out that it did not do anything for my investment????? I already had the air in my tires replaced with Nitrogen and it seems like it helped a little but it is to soon to tell just had it done the other day???
No don't waste your money on gas-saving chips. If gas saving were so easily accomplished, every truck rolling out of Detroit would have had them installed by now. Automakers spend HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars trying to design more efficient engines and gain even 1 mpg edge over the competition. So would they pass on a $29.95 chip they could make for $5? Doubt it. Chips can add power by changing engine mapping, shift points and fuel delivery, but you can't get MORE power AND save gas at the same time without really sophisticated and drastic engineering.
You could switch to synthetic oil,which might get you 1-3% better mileage---not much but could possibly boost you to 13 mpg in the city. Driving habits can help a lot,which would include, for city driving, "keeping the truck moving", that is, coasting to stop lights rather than rushing up to them and then braking and then restarting. Every time you can keep those tires rolling, you are saving gas. You could pump up the tires another 5 lbs or so.
It's a heavy vehicle, and it needs to get moving from standstill, and the laws of physics are not easily defeated.
But try the synthetic. Your truck will like it.0
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What is the synthetic that you would recommend??? Also I am a little leary about running my tires up over 35 pounds, I live in Az. and it gets pretty hot and I would not care to have a blowout due to too much air after I have been driving on the hwy. ????
What are your thoughts on a K/N Low Restriction air cleaner system over the factory installed system????
Also I failed to mention that I have a 4x2.
Another possibility may be the exhaust system ????0
Hope you still have the 67 Fastback. Does it have the 390 or 289?0
Well if you are concerned about tire pressure you can fill the tires when warm rather than cold--that way you'll be sure that the pressure will not go appreciably higher. It's pretty hard to blow up a modern tire by adding 5 lbs of air to it IMO.
K&N filters will give you lots of noise but that's about all. You have to look at your car's engine as one long tube---if you open one end but don't do anything to the middle or the other end, you aren't really doing anything of significance. Not just the intake, but the fuel system, the engine itself, the computer mapping, the turbo if equipped, and the exhaust needs modification to make any kind of payback worth the effort.
Modern engines are pretty much locked into their gas mileage. The automakers do make some compromises for comfort and safety and reliability, of course, but they have these engines pretty well dialed in by 2008. They do not leave much on the table for tinkerers unless you want to add serious horsepower for serious dollars and a loss of fuel economy and reliability for that 'fun factor".
There is no "bolt-on device" for $29, no magic fluid, oil and gas additive, turbonator, hydrogen generator, chemical, acetone, or whatever that's going to give you better fuel mileage.
5 quarts of Mobil One synthetic oil would do more good than a whole boatload of them IMO and even that's going to be minimal.
Good tire pressure, driving habits, synthetic oil, alignment, brake check, good tune-up, new air filter, good gasoline---that's about all you can do on a modern car.
Well possibly you could add overdrive gears, change differential gearing, etc, but that ain't cheap.
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Gitzennsnorkels and Flackinstackers don't do a damn thing.0
darnell3 Posts: 3Try the Hypertech ECON programmer for your Explorer and see if it works for you. If it doesn't you have 30 days to return it for a full refund. The extra power a programmer will give your explorer will come from it making your engine more efficient. Better efficiency equals better fuel economy. I know a lot of people have a hard time wrapping their minds around the concept of more power and better fuel economy, but once you look and see what it really is things become clearer.0
Yep I'm one of those people. I don't see how raising shift points and rev limiter or lowering cooling fan temps gives you better MPG. Also buzz on the 'net seems to indicate "improvements" in mpg that are well within statistical variation. Also the sources of the dyno tests are not given on the website, that is, were they done by totally independent sources?
I could see how this device might make your truck/car more responsive but beyond that, the website's "evidence" is pretty slim pickins IMO.0
Aggreed. Generally you can have your car tuned for more power, but even then a chip can only do so much. Usually you will see the most gains on turbo cars, as you can make the piping bigger to pull through more air and raise the boost levels. This will make your milage go down though. Inversely you can also have the boost turned down by the ECU, saving milage but making the car have less power etc.
abbydo Posts: 2hi l meet different type of daewoo . l check dtc on ecu no dtc car its start some time its not start , l need to flush ecu what l can do?,and which tool l can use?. thanks0
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Sorry for the long radio silence. Here's what I've been up to.
In early April I traveled to Montreal to direct a Canadian Lysol commercial for Euro RSCG NY. If you live in Canada and have tried to view a web video recently, you may have already been forced to watch it. When I get my director's cut done, I'll post it. We shot on the Alexa, and it marked my first opportunity to direct for Bodega, a production company run by some old friends with whom I'm delighted to be working.
I then flew directly to Toronto to help my friend Scott Stewart with a very exciting new project. Scott was invited to direct the pilot of a new Syfy series called Defiance. The show, developed simultaneously with a Massively Multiplayer Online game from Trion Worlds, was so enormous in scope that Scott lobbied for me to be brought on as "Additional Units Producer." Terminology in TV is a little different than in features, but the role was very similar to my second unit directing duties on The Spirit. For just over four weeks I shadowed Scott with my mini "splinter unit" crew, picking up inserts and sometimes even entire scenes of this epic show. Scott and his cinematographer Attila Szalay chose the Epic for the pilot, although one of our three camera bodies was a Scarlet. We almost never cared which was which. I met some amazing new friends, learned a ton, and, as you may have noticed, didn't have much time for Twitter or blogging.
My sudden streak of back-to-back work overlapped with NAB and its aftermath, leaving some to speculate that my silence on certain camera and other filmmaking tech announcements held some portent. People were drawing all sorts of conclusions, none of which were true. Maybe I was testing a new camera and sworn to secrecy? Maybe I was snubbing certain tech intentionally?
The only accurate conclusion, and the one that seemed most obvious to me, was one at which no one arrived:
This is not a camera blog.
There are plenty of wonderful blogs out there that exhaustively and reliably cover every new camera, every new piece of filmmaking tech. You read them every day, and so do I. We can all be grateful for them. But I hope you see a difference between those sites and this one.
This difference must not be as obvious to some as it is to me. I'm always amused when I receive a kind message to the effect of "I can't wait for you to review this new camera!" Looking back through the archives, I don't believe I've ever "reviewed" a camera.
I do write a lot about cameras. I also write about screenwriting, post-production, and other filmmaking things. Sometimes I write about tasty beverages. This blog is not my work. It's a reflection of my work. It's me learning out loud. And I'm always thrilled and honored when you enjoy it.


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Next week, the Senate Finance Committee will likely approve a bill designed to overhaul insurance, putting Congress another step closer to restructuring the nation's health care system.
But unresolved issues will confront senators when that panel's bill is melded with the health committee's legislation and when Senate negotiators square off with their House counterparts.
Here's a look at some of what remains to settled:
Will the final bill ditch the Senate Finance Committee's tax on high-cost insurance plans in favor of a tax on high-income people?
The House Democrats' bill would get some of the money needed to pay for insuring the uninsured by raising taxes on people earning $350,000 or more.
This idea seems to have public support: in a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday, 58 percent of respondents favored hiking taxes on families with incomes of more than $350,000 as a way to pay for expanding health insurance.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday Democrats are weighing the idea of a windfall profits tax on insurance companies. She said Monday that Congress might also levy a value-added tax on goods and services, as is common in European countries.
The Finance Committee bill takes a very different approach.
It would get much of the revenue needed to pay for insuring the uninsured by imposing a new 40 percent tax on high-cost insurance plans. The target: so-called "Cadillac" plans where the cost is greater than $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family coverage.
The tax, according to Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., will help curb the growth in health care costs.
And for many firms and employees, Baucus argues, this tax will never take effect.
"It doesn't go into effect till 2013; a lot of people are going to adjust," he explained last week.
Other political news of note
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House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
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"They're not going to want to pay that," Baucus said. "Their companies are not going to want to have insurance policies that cost that much." He argued that, "after a while, there wouldn't be any tax, because companies just would find a way to avoid it. Find some other way."
What other way? Trim insurance plans to keep them under the taxable threshold and, instead, pay workers more in cash.
Who's who in the health care debateAccording to the Joint Committee on Taxation, by 2016, the nearly 25 million households affected by the tax will be paying, on average, $1,000 more in taxes.
But more than 150 members of the House have signed a letter urging Pelosi to reject the tax once she starts bargaining with Senate Democrats.
It "would result in an unacceptable burden on middle-class families... who have no control over the cost of their health insurance policies," said Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., who is leading the effort to block the tax.
"That's the thing that I find so galling — this description of 'Cadillac' coverage — like it's like buying a car. It's not," he said.
Who would be exempt from the new 40 percent tax on high-cost insurance plans?
If Baucus is able to keep his tax on high-cost insurance plans in the bill, pressure will grow to exempt some groups from it. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has proposed exempting plans which unions have negotiated with companies.
How big a penalty will be imposed on those who do not buy insurance?
The Finance Committee originally would have imposed a maximum annual penalty of $3,800 per family, but that was lowered to $750 per adult.
In the House bill, non-buyers would pay a penalty equal to 2.5 percent of their income. But the penalty could not exceed the average cost of a health insurance policy in the newly created "exchange" or electronic marketplace.
If the penalties are set too low, they won't have the intended effect: prodding healthy uninsured people to buy coverage.
Will Congress create a government-run insurance plan along the lines of Medicare?
The Finance Committee defeated two public plan proposals, but the idea could be revived on the Senate floor, or in bargaining with House negotiators.
On the Senate Finance Committee, the Democrats who voted against the public plan came from states that Republican Sen. John McCain won in last year's presidential election: Baucus of Montana, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, and Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota.
That pattern is likely to be seen again among House Democrats.
Will proponents of the Medicare Advantage program rally to save it from the cuts proposed in the Finance Committee bill?
The Finance Committee bill would cut $117 billion from spending on the Medicare Advantage plan from 2010 to 2019.
Medicare Advantage, a program in which private-sector firms insure about 10 million people age 65 and older, has both its critics and its champions in Congress. In some states, such as Florida and Oregon, the plans have become quite popular.
The Finance Committee bill gives some protection from the proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage plans in certain parts of the country where Medicare Advantage is less costly than the traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
But more battles are likely ahead on Medicare Advantage.
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by George Wood
Did anyone notice the bill we sent to our children recently? With barely a peep from fiscal conservatives, Republicans, the President, or the press the Congress raised the debt ceiling by $800,000,000,000 (that's eight hundred billion, folks). A bill that will come due sometime in the future, after this Congress and President is long gone. A bill that our children will pay; and pay, and pay.
We all heard the excuses for raising this debt limit. It was necessary to keep the government running, we will deal with budget deficits later, and without it essential services will end. What we did not hear was how this additional debt is to be added to the already massive federal deficit of $7,500,000,000,000 (yep, 7.5 trillion) that has been run up in just the past four years.
What is interesting is within two days after raising the federal debt limit the Republican-controlled congress passed, finally, an omnibus spending bill. This is the budget that will spend all that debt just approved. And what will it be spent for? Here is a sample of the nearly 10,000 special projects Congress funded for over $25 billion:
$225,000 for the Blue-Gray Theme Park in Kentucky
$2,000,000 for the First Tee program (run by the wealthy Professional Golfers Association)
$250,000 for the Lou Frey Institute of Politics at the University of Central Florida
$270,000 for sustainable olive production
$1,400,000 for the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Az.
Certainly each of these pet projects, affectionately known as 'pork', will help someone do something. Probably they are necessary to keep our already uncompetitive House races even more uncompetitive. Over the holidays our elected leaders will fan out over the country to tell folks at home about all the stuff they put in local Christmas stockings. But I can't help but wonder what we are putting in the stockings of our children this year.
This is the year of the anti-Santa as far as I can see. Our leaders in Washington are sending our children a Christmas gift that will keep on taking. Dropped in their hopefully hung stockings, a symbol of their faith in a benevolent and jolly man who brings them gifts that they will enjoy, they will instead find an IOU. An IOU that they did not sign, but they will be expected to pay.
And pay they will.
The combination of a growing national debt and tax cuts for the rich means something has to go. Can we imagine all those little pork projects ending? No, what will probably go will be the services upon which our children depend. Services that make it possible for them to grow up and become the citizens our democracy needs.
For example, to pay off just $1 trillion of the federal debt would require that we cut funding for more classroom teachers, teachers that reduce class size and improve public schooling. A cut of this magnitude would eliminate 400,000 teachers each year for the next 50 years.
To cover just 1/7th of the debt the Head Start program, a program run by local communities and one of the most effective government programs ever launched, would have to cut services to 1.5 million children nationwide every year for the next one hundred years.
To cover just 1/100th of this growing national debt would require cutting health care insurance to 5 million poor children for 10 years, or stopping the next 10 years of free school lunches for the 24 million children who count on these as their only hot meal of the day.
The list of what our children will lose in the coming years to cover our current unwillingness to pay our fair share is terrifying. And the terror grows daily along with the national debt. We avoid this terror by ignoring the problem, but our children have no such option.
Federal borrowing to pay for pet projects to keep congress elected and tax cuts for rich contributors to political campaigns do not put dollars in our pockets free of charge. No, they take dollars out of the pockets of our children, who we saddle with debt because we do not have the courage to pay our own way. Our government behaves like a dead-beat dad, unwilling to pay child support for the children we say we love.
What we need is not more debt or tax cuts. What we need is a fair system of taxation, an efficient government, and a leadership that sees the most important work of a democratic government is to invest in a future for the next generation - not squander our resources on the excesses of this one.
George Wood is Principal of Federal Hocking High School in Stewart, Ohio and Director of The Forum for Education and Democracy (www.forumforeducation.org).
Note: was picked up by the Athens (OH) Messenger, the Ashville (NC) Citizen Times, and some paper in Texas. -G. Wood


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Chief Financial Officer Lyman Duncan reported that in the past month, the number of hospital bed days was 204 which is the highest he has seen since he has been working with the district. The average for a month is 106.
Skilled nursing, or swing bed days made up 40 of the total number, up from ten a year ago. Skilled nursing beds are used for patients who are not able to go home after the three-day acute bed limit. It also includes hospice beds for terminal patients or people in rehabilitation for long term illness.
Duncan reports ER visits were up 30 from the same month the previous year. Ultrasound tests went up by 20. The hospital saw a slight increase in CT scans. Duncan reports that radiology had a strong month, with $236,000 in revenue. In the laboratory department, there was $206,000 in revenue, up from $164,000 one year ago.
The most significant increase, compared to a year ago, is seen in the operating room, which saw an increase from $199,000 in January, 2011 to $273,000 in January, 2012. Duncan reports that overall, the hospital shows a net income of $237,000 for the month of January.
Duncan told the board that the physicians are the strength of the district, saying, "It is an outstanding situation we are in."
Dr Paul Reay said that the doctors seem happier than ever. "There is really a sense of cohesion and loyalty to the district. We are a team, we feel like we are a team." Reay said. He added that the positive attitude of the employees in the system makes it a great place to work.
District CEO Phil Lowe reported on an upcoming presentation to the Community Impact Board for loan funding for a new electronic health records system.
Lowe said that during his time with the district they have sought CIB funding three times. Lowe said the proposal was submitted in February, and then there are three months where proposals are presented to the CIB before projects are funded in June.
Projects are already approved prior to the funding meeting; but the official letter of funding is not received until the funding meeting.
Lowe said this presents a problem for the proposal, as they can't sell revenue bonds for project funding until the formal letter of funding is received. Actual funds are received around November. The current project proposal will be presented on March 1 and Lowe is optimistic that they will receive the funding.
Lowe said he will ask the CIB to suspend the rules and fund the project immediately if it is approved. According to Lowe, once the district buys the electronic records system, it takes nine to 12 months to install and begin using the program.
The district plans to pay back the CIB loan through grant funding being offered through the federal government. However, in order to receive the first of three payments under the program, they need to show meaningful use of the system by July, 2013. If the CIB suspends rules, the district may have to take money from savings in order to get the system purchased and started as soon as possible.
Board Member Burton Black expressed concern over CEO Lowe visiting the County Commission to report things that had not been brought before the District Board. Black recognizes that the commission is their benefactor but feels the governing board should receive information before taking it to the commission and he reads the information in the press. Lowe said in the future he will be more sensitive to the concern.


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Muhlenberg Track & Field Coach Publishes BookHighlights from 30 years of coaching
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 02:11 PM
Muhlenberg College track and field coach Brad Hackett has published a book. If All I Had To Do Was Coach (Coaches Choice Publishing, August 2013) provides an inside look at Hackett's 30 years of coaching Division I, Division III and Olympic level track and athletes.
The book provides dozens of humorous anecdotes about the overall trials and tribulations of being a track and field coach. There are chapters on vans, hotels, equipment failures, facility issues, drug tests, NCAA rules, recruiting and one chapter titled "Kids will be Kids." One humorous incident, highlighted in the book, involves the Carrier Dome roof being let down, a 54-inch snowstorm, former Governor Mario Cuomo, the National Guard and 5000 people trapped in a field house.
The book is "a front row seat on the wild ride through his years in the sport," says five-time Olympian Amy Acuff.
Hackett is a graduate of Colgate University and was an assistant coach at his alma mater for two years. He then spent three years at Bucknell University and nearly 10 years as an assistant coach at Syracuse University. Since his arrival at Muhlenberg College in the fall of 1999, the Mules have combined for more than 80 school records and produced 12 All-Americans and eight Academic All-Americans.
Hackett has done extensive work for USA Track and Field, including a six year tenure as the triple jump chair and a seven-year stint as chair of the men's development committee.
The book is available at Coacheschoice.com and MFathletics.com as well as the Colgate University and Muhlenberg College bookstores.


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State and city officials welcomed CareWell Urgent Care at 535 Centerville Road Friday morning as a small business that brings jobs and services to the area.
But, what is a small business now promises to be significantly larger in the next couple of years, according to the plans of company CEO and President Renee Lohman. The Warwick location, owned and operated by its medical director, Dr. Olivier Gherardi, is the second in a network of CareWell Urgent Care centers that Lohman projects will number 13 to 15 in two years. Ultimately, she is looking to open 30.
Gherardi, who has worked and lived in Rhode Island for the past 14 years, called the center "a step down from an [hospital] emergency room and a step up from a walk-in clinic."
The center, which is open seven days a week for nearly 80 hours, always has a physician on staff and available without an appointment. The Warwick center is part of the Landmark Building, with close access to Route 95 and just off the road to the Toll Gate school complex. The first floor unit has a homey feel with a waiting area leading to a corridor and six examination rooms. One of the rooms is designed to accommodate trauma, such as cuts, bites or fractures. Other rooms are designed for examination and treatment of colds, flu, infections, rashes and skin issues. The center has its own x-ray equipment and can do certain tests on site.
The center comes with an investment on the part of both CareWell and Gherardi.
"I've been doing this for so long, it was time for me to start helming the ship," said Gherardi.
CareWell is operated like a franchise, with Gherardi's investment being backed by the company. He did not disclose the amount of his investment but made it clear he has a stake in the business and is banking on its success. Lohman said about $800,000 was spent to open the center.
She said, as a consultant, she has set up about 40 urgent care centers throughout the country. On a visit to Massachusetts, she noticed an absence of centers and made South Dennis on Cape Cod her first target for her own newly formed company.
"I decided to do it for myself, and I could see that it could be profitable," she said.
Lohman found some believers. She looked for private equity funds and she has lined up the capital to execute her plan to open 30 centers. As for Rhode Island, she sees opening a second center in the East Bay area, possibly Barrington. Once a site and local physician investor is aboard, she is confident that a center can be operational in about 80 days. The Warwick center took about a year in planning.
Lohman said the break-even point for a center is 25 patients a day. The Warwick center had a soft opening on Nov. 17. Newspaper and web advertising commenced in the last 10 days or so and the center is now seeing about 12 patients daily.
Given the center's location and exposure, Gherardi is confident the numbers will grow. According to its literature, CareWell promotes a comprehensive approach to patient care that focuses on personal, caring attention.
In brief remarks, Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts talked of the advance of technology in the medical field and how it has enabled new business opportunities. She said the site is a "happening place" and added, "This is a great small business."
Mayor Scott Avedisian called the center an example of how we need to "rethink" the delivery of health care. And he pointed to Warwick programs, including the Wilcox Health Center run by Comprehensive Community Action Program, West Bay Smiles also run by CCAP and how Warwick has been designated a Heart Safe Community.
"CareWell is a next step in how we rethink access to health care," he said. He noted that a board certified physician is on staff all the time.
Representing the Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, board member Steven Kitchin said "access to health care is critical" and he wished the center a long, healthy and prosperous venture.
The center is responsible for creating 12 new full- and part-time jobs.


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Hello Rare Autumn. By Sara Elgerot / Rare Autumn, 2012. 1 original print copy retained by the artist, digital copy for the cover of the Book Arts Newsletter (download the issue here).
Very happy to be the cover artist for this month's Book Arts Newsletter!
"This piece, 'Hello Rare Autumn', was made for the Book Arts Newsletter.
It's, in a way, an amalgam of the starting point for a book I'm in the process of making, probably called 'little book of hellos', and a photograph I took of this year's first proper autumn day.
No filters or Photoshop were used, instead the image was created by experimenting with different printers, emptying and filling up the different printer cartridges until this effect emerged (a one-time deal that can't really be done again).
The text was printed on tracing paper, reversed and layered on top of the image, which was then scanned."


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- United States Grand Prix
Hamilton wins as title battle goes down to BrazilChris Medland November 18, 2012
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Lewis Hamilton won an enthralling United States Grand Prix ahead of Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso, meaning the drivers' championship will go down to the final round in Brazil.
Hamilton dropped a position at the start from the dirty side of the grid, but worked his way back past both Red Bulls over the course of the race. A tense battle with Vettel peaked on lap 42 when Hamilton made use of the DRS to cleanly pass the Red Bull in to turn 12. He then managed to keep the gap to Vettel at just over a second until the final lap to win on F1's return to the United States.
Red Bull wrapped up the constructors' championship with Vettel's points despite being outscored by the Ferraris of Alonso and Felipe Massa that finished third and fourth. Ferrari's strategy to shuffle Massa back on the grid by breaking a gearbox seal and incurring a five-place penalty paid off as Alonso, who benefited by moving on to the clean side of the grid, got a good start to move up to fourth. He then had a lonely race and took third after Mark Webber's alternator failure on lap 17 put the No. 2 Red Bull out of the race.
Jenson Button had a spirited drive from 12th on the grid to fifth but couldn't quite challenge the Ferraris in the closing stages. Kimi Raikkonen rounded off the top six ahead of his team-mate Romain Grosjean, Nico Hulkenberg, Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna.
Throughout the race, Vettel and Hamilton were in a class of their own. It took Hamilton four laps to regain second place using DRS having had a dress rehearsal attempt in to turn 12 on the previous lap. From that point he looked slightly quicker than the Red Bull ahead and set off after Vettel, getting within a second before dropping off ahead of the pit stops.
Grosjean had made a strong start from eighth place but chasing Hulkenberg he spun on the entry to turn 19, dropping him out of the top ten with heavily flat-spotted tyres and forcing him in to an early pit stop. Grosjean's team-mate Raikkonen took up the fight to Hulkenberg and pulled an outstanding move around the outside of turn two to take fifth, which soon became fourth.
Alonso appeared to be struggling to make any impression on Webber ahead of him, but at the start of lap 17 a radio message gave him motivation as Webber was informed his KERS had failed. By turn 12 Webber limped to a halt as the alternator gave up, and Alonso inherited a comfortable third position.
Webber was the second man to retire after Jean-Eric Vergne saw his race ended early by a suspension failure having clouted a kerb in the middle sector. His Toro Rosso team-mate Daniel Ricciardo carried out a long first stint though to get in the mix with the top six as drivers started pitting.
Both Hamilton and Alonso came in on lap 20, but Alonso's right rear was slow going on and saw him dropped behind di Resta, while Button - who had dropped to 16th early on having started on hard tyres - soon passed the Ferrari using DRS. With Alonso struggling for grip early in the stint Raikkonen was set to take advantage but he had a similarly slow stop and rejoined behind both Alonso and Ricciardo.
Vettel pit a lap later than Hamilton who had to clear Raikkonen first, but the gap had closed between the two leaders once again and Hamilton hustled the Red Bull consistently, with the gap never exceeding two seconds.
A long stint from Massa promoted him to fourth behind Button, but having pit Massa lost out to Raikkonen before regaining the position by producing a carbon copy of Raikkonen's move on Hulkenberg at turn two. Button was quick when he pit for medium tyres but found himself behind Massa, Raikkonen and Grosjean for his final stint, cleverly catching Grosjean sleeping to dive up the inside in to turn 15 on lap 38.
Four laps later and the relentless pursuit at the front finally gave Hamilton his chance. Vettel lost time behind an HRT in the opening sector, allowing Hamilton to close right up before turn 11. A good exit saw him use DRS to slipstream Vettel and although a late jink from the Red Bull brought the two inches from contact, Hamilton was through before the braking zone.
The final display of supreme driving - on a day when there was plenty of clean wheel-to-wheel action - came when Button and Raikkonen went through turn 12 side-by-side; the latter leaving just enough room for Button on the outside to complete the move in to turn 13.
Hamilton judged the gap at the front to eventually win by 0.6s as Vettel kept him honest to the line, while Alonso made it the first time that all three have shared a podium in Formula One. Vettel now leads by 13 points ahead of next weekend's Brazil finale, and fourth place at Interlagos will be enough to secure him a third consecutive world title.


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Archive for the 'Inventor' tag
Robothon – Beacons and Barriers Level Design
The robot marathon has started! As the large autonomous vehicle drives down the empty street, it decides when and where to turn. The bot navigates through the streets, using the dashed lines as guides. There are a lot of potential wrong turns that it avoids as it rolls by houses and picnic tables. Eventually, it drives under the banner at the finish line much to the programmer's delight.
Did this happen in your town? Maybe! In fact it might be happening in your town right now because it's not a physical robot – but a virtual robot driving through a virtual town!
Contest Overview
This is a game level created by Robotics Academy high school intern, Eddie, for the Beacons and Barriers level design competition. Eddie used Autodesk Inventor to create some of the models and imported them into the Robot Virtual Worlds Level Builder.
The competition asks participants to create a level for RVW Level Builder, including Checkpoints and obstacles, through which players will navigate a robot. In addition, participants must write instructions for the level.
How He Created the Level
Eddie used the design process discussed in the Computer Science Student Network's (CS2N) course for level design called Create Your Own Level with RVW Level Builder.
This process starts with brainstorming and research. He jotted his notes on a piece of paper. You'll notice in the image that the drawings are not perfect, that some things were crossed out. That's perfectly fine – in fact – that's what you want to do.
The process of jotting your ideas on paper allows you to see ideas. If they aren't good or they won't work like you thought they might, then you can modify them or come up with ones that will work. Notice how Eddie crossed out the first drawing with the curved road? He realized that roads might be easier to construct if they were straight.
Eddie then mapped out his level – showing the start tile, finish tile, checkpoints, and obstacles (in this case: grass). He then drew how the tiles should look. Afterward, he modeled the tiles using Autodesk Inventor. The Inventor Tutorials course on CS2N was helpful in showing him, step by step, how to create an object, export it and then import it into RVW Level Builder.
Once he made his level, Eddie tested it and wrote down ideas for ways to test it. He then gave the level to a peer to test. The test results proved that the level worked well and wasn't too hard.
For the last phase, Eddie wrote the instructions for the level, zipped the level and the instructions into the same folder and submitted it to the competition.
How You Can Create Your Own Level
This was Eddie's first time using the RVW Level Builder and he has had limited experience using Autodesk Inventor. He learned how to use these programs by enrolling in free courses at www.cs2n.org. You can too! And since they are online, you can learn at your own pace
Check out the courses:
Introduction to Inventor – Learn the basics of Inventor.
Create Your Own Level with RVW Level Builder – From ideation to product release, learn how to create levels using the RVW Level Builder.
Inventor Tutorials – Step by step instructions on creating an object in inventor and importing it into RVW Level Builder.
Once your level is complete, upload it to one of our level design competitions on CS2N.


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Some of you may remember this from my post a few weeks ago:
"In fact, I love this next Christmas egg so much that I want to commission someone to make me a plush version of it. Then I'll put the plush in a box, and put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives? AHAHAHAHAA! I'll... hug him and squeeze him and call him George!
"It's brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT!!"
Well, you're not going to BELIEVE what arrived in my PO box the week before New Year's:
This is from newly promoted Wrecky HEAD Minion Amber, who I'd like to point out even gave George one long stringy eyebrow to match the icing smear of the original wreck. Bwahahaa! It's brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT!
Here's Amber's note:
Amber, I accept your gifts of plushy wreckage and unspoken fealty with all due gratitude and extra-squealy giggles. You are now granted a life-long pass to The Land of Extra Sprinkles, should you ever find it.
Update from john (the hubby of Jen): Hey guys! Amber has an Etsy shop and you should totally check it out. It's call Wumplkins and it's made of adorable.


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Snoqualmie Pass Real Estate, Mortgage and the Economy. www.snoqualmiepassliving.com
The graying of America has hit home — in its kitchen cabinets, bathroom counters and bedroom walls.
The white-on-white look has had a lock on home interiors in recent years but is becoming passe, tastemakers have decreed.
In its place, various shades of gray are gaining ground, or so some authorities contend. Others are pushing a different kind of neutral, more beige or brown, while still others are going for pastels or something even brighter.
Choosing the colors we live with is more than a question to ponder while standing in front of a rack of paint chips. It's big business.
White's fading domination has left color experts wrestling over the next hot hue — a subject that fuels an entire industry of color prediction and consultation.
"You would never buy meat that is the wrong color," said interior designer and color stylist Mark Woodman, immediate past president of the Color Marketing Group, an influential color-forecasting organization based in Alexandria, Va. "Up to 85% of the consumer decision is based on color."Builders, designers and manufacturers need to know where home color preferences are headed so they can plan products that won't hit the market for months. And unlike a fast-fashion sweater that gets discarded after a season or two, these home-based shades tend to hang around for a very long time.
To come up with 60 hues for a worldwide palette last year, select members of the nonprofit trade organization discussed 3,000 colors, he said. "It's an endless internal research project by forecasters who are fascinated by color and want to make good business decisions."
Color specialists weigh factors beyond beauty such as the state of the economy, the psychology of the times and the tenor of youthful rebellion.
"There is a lot of effort, time and money spent on creating new colors," said David Bromstad, who hosts HGTV's "Color Splash."
The interior designer is a creative consultant for DuPont's Corian and Zodiaq brands, helping select colors for kitchen and bathroom countertops that buyers live with for years.
"I am all about using trending colors in your space, but I would keep the cabinets and countertops classic," Bromstad said. "Having a neutral color palette with pops of color throughout, using pillows or throws, is a safer way to go."
Debra Mednick, home industry analyst for market research company NPD Group, said color prognosticators for residential products "have to go pretty conservative to have a wide appeal."
After all, no one wants to relive the avocado refrigerator horrors of an earlier era.
The wild cards in the color equation are the millennials, Mednick said. The notion "it's not your mother's" appeals to this group, which may opt for choices outside the mainstream.
"Color is tricky," she said, "because you have to find the right one."
In kitchen appliances, for example, white has been a bestseller, but it is often associated with lower-end quality and discounted prices. Metallics that cost more have more cachet.
Gray got the vote as the most popular color choice in kitchens and bathrooms this year, according to a trends report from the National Kitchen & Bath Assn.
A recent bulletin to members from the Color Marketing Group highlighted a warm gray "caressed by chocolate" that the organization dubbed "Maybe."
In the parlance of pigment, "'Maybe' is not a wishy-washy neutral. It takes its strength from a world that is pondering its next steps," the group's Color Alert noted, showing the tone in use as a car finish and a stool seat, among other things.
When home building and design industry representatives gathered in Las Vegas a few months ago, gray tones were prominent in cabinetry and counter displays throughout the 650,000 square feet of exhibit space. Appliances also got the gray treatment, but surfaces went beyond stainless to include metallic shades such as dark platinum.
The 1,700 exhibits at Design & Construction Week 2014 also showed colors that pulled brown or beige, such as the wood stains in the Pumice line offered by cabinetmaker Dynasty by Omega.
"The colors combine gray and beige," said Maria Stapperfenne, president-elect of NKBA, a trade group. "I like to call it greige."
Based on historical trends, the manager at Tewksbury Kitchens & Baths in Whitehouse Station, N.J., has a theory on why this subdued palette is in vogue.
"Gray is popular when we feel secure, things are moving fast and we feel good about our futures," Stapperfenne said. "People are looking ahead."
Sherwin-Williams has gone so far as to call gray "the new black" in its color campaign — plus a lot of other names.
Its 2014 paint shades include Agreeable Gray, Earl Grey, Peppercorn, Gauntlet Gray and classic French Gray. Its color of the year, Exclusive Plum, looks like violet with at least two grandparents from the gray family.
But not all color connoisseurs are buying into gray.
The most popular kitchen colors displayed on Houzz, a Palo Alto-based website that helps homeowners share ideas and connect with design professionals, are white, beige and neutral.
In bathrooms, according to a Houzz Bathroom Trends Study, white cabinets are in the forefront.
The New American Home, outfitted in nearby Henderson, Nev., in conjunction with the show, was decorated in beiges and browns in line with the "new neutrals" being touted this year.
The design industry experts at Pantone, which calls itself "the world-renowned authority on color," went out on a stalk naming the pinkish purple Radiant Orchid its 2014 color of the year. While that may apply to clothing and lipstick, reds and aquas were more common accent colors on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Another color authority breaking out of the gray box is Benjamin Moore & Co.
"At the end of last year, we saw furnishings and beddings tipping toward pastels," said creative director Ellen O'Neill. So the paint company created a palette of 23 new colors for this year in collaboration with bathroom fixture maker Kohler.
Among the new hues are Peach Parfait, Fruit Shake, Lavender Mist, Caribbean Teal and Iced Mauve.
It's a subtle shift.
"People are insecure about being accused of having bad taste," O'Neill said. "But they wanted color back."
That sentiment may explain the name of the sky-blue shade that Benjamin Moore selected as its color of the year: Breath of Fresh Air.
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Independence Police Department
223 N. Memorial Drive
Independence, MO 64050-3013
Public Information Office
Officer Tom Gentry
(816) 325-7258
News Release
For immediate release: October 30, 2013
Shooting Victim
At approximately 1:45 a.m. this morning, Independence Police were called to the 400 block of N. Grand on a reported shooting. When officers arrived they found a white male in his 30's lying in the street who appeared to be the victim of a gunshot wound.
The victim was transported to a local hospital with what appeared to be a serious injury to the head. There is no report at this time as to his condition.
After the shooting, the suspects went southbound on foot on N. Grand toward Truman Rd. Police are looking for two men. One is described as possibly a white male, approximately 5' 10" tall, stocky build, having short dark color hair. There is no description at this time on the other suspect.
If anyone has any information regarding this crime, please call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477 or the Independence Police Department at 816-836-3600.


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While the FSX default Hawaii scenery is certainly good, this MegaScenery edition of Maui adds enormously to the reality The detail and topography are nothing short of magnificent and along with the natural colours it will make you gasp ! Airport runways suddenly look more real as do the farms and fields A very easy install indeed and this file comes with the MegaScenery update. A nice touch indeed.
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Sounders hope to bounce back as they have before
Seattle Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid on May 11: "It was just one of those days."
Schmid on Monday: "It's just one of those things."
In the first case, Schmid was talking about his team's 5-0 loss at the New England Revolution. In the second, he was talking about Seattle's 3-0 home loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Schmid and the Sounders returned to training Tuesday, hoping they can react to their latest embarrassing performance as well as they did to that earlier one.
Seattle had gone into New England riding the wave of a first-place ranking and five-game winning streak. Then the Revolution scorched them for four first-half goals before going on to hand Seattle its worst Major League Soccer defeat.
This time around, the Sounders entered the Galaxy match at the top of the MLS table and riding a six-game home winning streak. Then L.A. scored three goals in the first 36 minutes and handed Seattle its second-worst MLS home loss.
The similarities were not lost on the Sounders.
"We've been here before," veteran defender Zach Scott said. "We've gotten slaughtered in New England and come back and put a pretty good streak together. … There's a quick turnaround to a Saturday game, so we'll kind of get on the horse and get back at it."
The Sounders followed their loss to the Revolution with a 4-0-1 run over their next five league matches.
"What happened before we got on that streak was at New England and that tough loss," goalkeeper Stefan Frei said. "Obviously now it hurts with a tough loss — and especially at home — but you've got to show character and bound back. There are a lot of games coming really quickly. We need to dig deep and have a good week of practice — not even a whole week — but get better, and hopefully we can get on another streak."
Interestingly, the Sounders bounced back from their loss to the Revs with a 1-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes. Now once again, the Quakes are the next opponent on the schedule. Seattle and San Jose will meet at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Though the Sounders hope history repeats, Schmid stressed Tuesday that the ideal situation would be avoiding the need to bounce back.
"You don't want to have defeats like that," he said. "You've always got to be a tough team to beat. Every time you step on the field, you've got to have that mentality. The D.C. game is a good example where we won at D.C. (1-0 on June 28). We didn't maybe play the best soccer in that game, but we were a tough team to beat. And so sometimes the soccer is going to click or not click due to one thing or another, but you've still got to be a tough team to beat."
The Sounders hoped to have a Tuesday update on defender Chad Marshall's back injury, but no results were publicly announced. … Schmid said he expects left back Leo Gonzalez to be available Saturday. … Reserve goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann will fly with the Blue Angels on Wednesday as part of Seafair. … San Jose forward Yannick Djalo was voted MLS player of the week after recording a goal and two assists in the Quakes' 5-1 win over the Chicago Fire on July 23.


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Goshen, Ind.-based supplier Kinro Inc., a division of Drew Industries Inc., announced today (July 11) that it acquired the thermoforming design and production operation of Agile Vehicle Modifications.
According to a news release, Agile, which has annual revenues of less than $1 million, produces thermoformed plastic components and tooling largely for the OEM and aftermarket vehicle market.
"Kinro's existing thermoforming capability will be substantially expanded company-wide as a result of this acquisition," said Jason Lippert, chairman and CEO of Kinro, sister company of Lippert Components Inc. "Now we can provide thermoformed products in Northern Indiana to meet our customers' needs."
Scott Mereness, president of Kinro, added, "Agile's focus on thermoformed products for the OEM and aftermarket vehicle market fits perfectly with our continuing expansion into the specialty markets."
The acquisition price was $0.3 million paid at closing, plus up to an additional $150,000, depending on sales of this acquired operation for one year. The operation will initially be conducted at Agile's existing facility in Elkhart, which was leased to Kinro.


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Cisco Live 2012 Happenings – Manufacturing Industry related
It was great to see the Cisco Connected Industries Booth that I blogged about recently humming at Cisco Live this week. Lots of delegates interested in talking about Converged Plant-wide networks, Machine-to-Machine applications and technologies, and all the different network sensing, diagnostic and management capabilities of our Partners such as Rockwell Automation, Panduit Corp, Emerson , OSIsoft LLC and Honeywell Process Solutions.
I videoed a few of the demos and will talk about them in future blogs, but I wanted to share some great images from the booth, and also from the 'Table-Topics' I helped moderate on Tuesday and Wednesday. Some delegates really get the trends and are on their way to implemented open standards networks throughout their organizations. During the Table topics a pharmaceutical company and a utilities company talked about 'Wireless in Manufacturing' and the direction they were taking. There are challenges ahead and we talked about how Cisco was helping to tackle some of the key ones – security and manageability came out tops, so Cisco's Secure-X architecture advances were appreciated.
The Rockwell Robot, the OSIsoft PI software, the Panduit solutions and the Emerson and Honeywell sensor networks booths (Wireless Hart and ISA100 respectively) were all big draws, as were the new IE2000 hardened switches from Cisco. There was huge interest in the M2M demonstrations and the way the 'Internet of Things' is becoming as huge as the 2008 forecasts predicted.
The Cisco Live event is a mixture of learning, networking and discussion. If you get a chance to attend you'll meet folks from all over the world and see that the challenges and solutions are often not that different between countries or organizations.
Watch out for my next blogs where I go into more depth on the demonstrations and messaging from Cisco.
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