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RED loans help small businesses get rolling
For one Blaine business owner, it was initial costs of starting a small business. For another, it was diversifying her inventory to survive during the low-traffic winter months.
Mary Amsberry, co-owner of Blaine Bouquets and Candy Bouquets, at 625 Peace Portal Drive, said she was one of those people, as she was the recipient of two loans, one in 2000 and another in 2003.
"We're a small business and we need to be diversified, it's hard to make it on just gifts or fresh flowers because there's not enough traffic," she said. "In 2000, when the book store moved out, we just had a half section of store and we needed to expand. Then, in 2003, we thought the candy bouquets would give us more of a market share."
loan gave us her an opportunity to expand her business.
"It was very helpful to our business," she said. "The process was very easy, very quick, it was great. I'm just surprised that more people haven't taken advantage of it."
Since 2000, 22 small business owners in Blaine have borrowed a total of almost $330,000 with zero interest as part of the city's rural economic development loan program (RED). Blaine city finance director Meredith Riley said most of the loans were used for building improvements or business expansions.
"They're generally for improvements, but we've also helped with equipment or inventory purchases," Riley said. "The size of the loans vary from $3,000 up to $30,000 and some businesses have more than one loan from us."
Blaine City Council established the loan program in 2000 after the Washington State Legislature passed a bill that matches city funds of up to $25,000 with state excise tax credits to communities with their own electric utility systems, Riley said.
Since then, the city has forged a cooperative relationship with Sterling Savings Bank which processes the loan applications and processing for a 1 percent origination fee. The city also established a six-member loan review committee in 2000 that consists of representatives from the city, Sterling Savings Bank and the business community.
"It basically works out the state gives us $25,000 credit and then we come up with another $25,000 out of our electric utility fund and we make that money available for loans to small businesses in Blaine," said Blaine city manager Gary Tomsic.
Although he could not disclose the names of individual business owners downtown, Tomsic said did say the majority of businesses on Peace Portal Drive that have opened within the past five years have received at least one zero-interest, five-year RED loan. Additionally, he said that nine of those loans have since been repaid.
"We've never had a default on a loan so it really has been put to good use in the community, however, it's not an automatic thing," he said. "There have been a number of requests turned down for various reasons. The committee just doesn't rubber-stamp an application, they really do look at and interview the person and look at what is being requested and they look at the things that are typically looked at in a loan generally, and in a small business loan, particularly."
Tomsic said the loan program is part of a wider effort by the city to become more proactive in aiding small business owners in part to maintain a stable and vibrant downtown economy, through job creation and business retention, increases in health and safety, and water and energy use efficiency through infrastructure and building improvements.
"People come in and ask
what we are doing to help out small businesses in the
community," he said. "And
this is really the most direct way
that we can provide assistance."
Tomsic also suggests business owners or potential business owners contact the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Western Washington University for tips on everything from developing a business plan to identifying industry trends and demographics.
"The SBDC is really a great place to have professionals take a look at what you're proposing to do and to give you suggestions so we'd like to sort of link up the people we see in the loan program because it increases their chance of becoming successful," he said. "The success rate for small businesses isn't that high because most people are undercapitalized. When a small business fails in the community it's not good for anybody."
Lonquist, owner of Northern Meadows wine and
gift shop on Peace Portal Drive,
agreed. Lonquist said she learned
about the Blaine's loan program
through her consultation with the
SBDC before opening her store in
December of 2005. She applied for
the city's RED loan to help
her with operating costs during the
initial few days,such as electricity,
heat and some inventory, she said.
We had enough to get everything open and off the ground, it was just a matter of having enough cash in the bank to operate off of and some of it was just sitting there in case," she said. "So we went to the city for a RED loan and to Sterling Bank to sign the documents and it was done in just a couple of days after it was approved. The whole process took about three or four weeks."
Lonquist said that despite the paperwork, it was a fairly easy process and that the SBDC was instrumental in the success of her business, helping her with a variety of issues from setting up a business plan to planning follow-up visits on a monthly basis.
"The Small Business Development Center has been a godsend," she said. "They helped me look at projections and estimate what my income versus debt would be and whether I could even make it in Blaine based on the demographics and the type of products I planned to sell. They helped me set up a business plan as to what I expected to get out of my business and it's all voluntary. Sherri (Daymon) has spent hours with me. Months before I set up my business. She comes in quarterly now and checks my books and makes sure everything's on track. So it's really neat and she just has so many great ideas from insurance to how much your expenditures are. Anything you can think of, she knows."
For more information about the city of Blaine's RED loan program, visit www.ci.blaine.wa.us or call 332-8311. The website of the Small Business Development Center at WWU is located at www.cbe.wwu.edu/sbdc. They can be reached at 733-4014.


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Jonathan Coulton believes the only way to avenge "Glee"'s alleged theft of his cover of "Baby Got Back" is to get back at Glee by covering its version. For charity.
Jonathan Coulton is a little stunned that the teeny show seems to have created a version of "Baby Got Back" that comes back identically to his own version.
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Browser extension gleeBox lets Chrome and Safari users ditch their mouse or touch pad when Web surfing.
Steve Jobs unveils the new Apple TV, which gets a qualified yes, and new iPods. Plus, Google takes over your in-box...in a good way!
The video streaming service plans to add even more shows to its service in the coming weeks and months as it puts itself in a much better position to compete with Netflix.
Netflix has inked a deal with Twentieth Century Fox that will see "Glee" and "Sons of Anarchy" come to its streaming service, along with other content.
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Before lawmakers throw money at the thorny issue of early-childhood education they should consider an experiment in Richmond aimed at getting parents to read to their children daily.
K-Ready, the brainchild of two literacy activists, Victor Jose and Rick Ahaus, has one goal: Reducing the number of children entering kindergarten not ready to learn.
"We're trying to get parents to read to their children from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten," Jose explained.
If they succeed, it would be the most cost-effective early childhood program imaginable. By reading aloud to children 20 minutes a day, parents are wiring the children's brains for reading instruction, Jose said.
A report by Educational Testing Service, "The Family: America's Smallest School," says research has built an overwhelming case for the value of reading to young children.
By age 2 "children who are read to regularly display greater language comprehension, larger vocabularies and higher cognitive skills than their peers," according to Child Trends, one leading research group. "Shared parent-child book reading during children's preschool years leads to higher reading achievement in elementary school."
Predictably, there is a strong link between a family's socioeconomic status and the amount of reading that goes on at home. The typical child of professional working parents is exposed to 45 million words by age four; the child in a welfare family to about 13 million.
Therein lies the challenge. The homes where reading rarely occurs are the homes that Ahaus and Jose must reach. They are trying to create a database of all children in Wayne County under age 4. They want the parents in those homes to understand the value of reading and to have ready access to age-appropriate books.
House Speaker Brian Bosma cited data showing that 61 percent of Indiana children ages 3 and 4 do not receive any schooling. Only six states have lower enrollment rates.
According to the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, about 48 percent of Indiana children are read to daily, on par with the national average but considerably less than places like Vermont (68 percent) Massachusetts (58 percent) and even neighboring Kentucky (52 percent).
It is understandable that education-reform efforts would focus on getting more children into school sooner. A cheaper, more holistic and potentially transformational approach, however, would be to work with families, ensuring all homes provide children with the early literacy support they need.
Andrea Neal is an adjunct scholar with the Indiana Policy Review Foundation. This column represents the writer's opinion and not necessarily that of The Times. Write her at firstname.lastname@example.com or in care of The Times.


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About WAVE Volleyball
All WAVE teams practice at the Fairgrounds Volleyball Center. The "Big White Tent″ is located just west of I-5 near the San Diego Fairgrounds.
Completed in 2003, the center was designed strictly for volleyball. With easy access, ample room around each court, high ceilings, and hundres of volleyballs, the center is an ideal location for volleyball training.
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Author: ComScore
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2011 was a pivotal year for the mobile industry, marked by the
dramatic rise of smartphones in the mainstream, the burgeoning of tablets and other web-enabled connected devices, and a cultural shift toward cross-platform digital media consumption. With mobile becoming an increasing part of comprehensive digital marketing strategies, it becomes more important than ever to understand how the current trends are shaping the mobile environment, with an eye to what lies ahead for 2012.
This report examines the mobile and connected device landscape across the mobile markets measured by comScore – primarily the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Canada – through an exploration of dominant themes in smartphone adoption growth, mobile media use in areas such as social networking and retail, platform ecosystem dynamics, and shifts in multi-device digital media consumption.
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Paula Broadwell, the author of General David Petraeus' biography "All in," did a number of interviews about her book during her affair with Petraeus, which was exposed over the weekend.
During a January interview with Don Imus on FOX Business, Broadwell was asked about Petraeus' wife Holly.
The transcript of that interview is below:
IMUS: Is he married?
BROADWELL: He is married to Holly Petraeus, who is a wonderful Military spouse and done so much for their children and for children of fallen soldiers, I respect her immensely.
IMUS: So he must have liked you obviously and you obviously liked him, I guess.
BROADWELL: Yes, it was a– you know, as I said earlier, he has a number of mentees and that's one thing that's different when you compare him to other Senior Commanders, he looks at the organization, the military as an organization and is willing to take ideas from any rank, not that my ideas were that good, but, yeah, we had a lot of rapport. I think some of that comes from a common ground of having gone to West Point.
IMUS: Right.
IMUS: Why the title "All In"?
BROADWELL: I think that captures his philosophy towards life and service and regardless of his rank as I sort of traced his live history. He goes all in and he works, you know, the– as far as the hours he puts in, so are many troopers, but he really puts the nation first and foremost and embraces the West Point mantra of duty, honor country and I was trying to capture something that personified the way that he viewed life, that's all in.
IMUS: What kind of running do you do?
BROADWELL: What kind of running do you do?
IMUS: I don't do much running anymore, do you run marathon?
BROADWELL: No, I run eight miles a day.
IMUS: What kind of splits?
BROADWELL: For my miles? Well, try to get down to run a six minute mile but in general I train around a seven minute mile.
IMUS: Your arms look good, like my wife's arms. It looks like you're in shape.
BROADWELL: And let's bring it back to the book–
. . .
IMUS: You know, you don't need me to tell you this, but somebody ought to do a book about you. Have you been on 60 Minutes.
BROADWELL: Just a soccer mom having a good time, Imus.
IMUS: Have you been on 60 Minutes?
BROADWELL: No, I haven't.
IMUS: I bet you will be. Good for you, you made me he want to read it.


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The capital of the UAE, Abu Dhabi is the very model of a modern Gulf petro-city: thoroughly contemporary, shamelessly wealthy and decidedly staid. Abu Dhabi's lightning change from obscure fishing village into modern city-state within the past thirty years is perhaps the most dramatic of all the stories of oil-driven transformation that dot the region, and although the city's endless glass-fronted high-rises and multi-lane highways can seem fairly uninspiring on first acquaintance, locals take understandable pride in the city's remarkable recent metamorphosis. For the casual visitor, modern Abu Dhabi is mainly interesting for how it contrasts with its more famous neighbour – an Arabian Washington to Dubai's Las Vegas. Specific sights are relatively thin on the ground, and much of the pleasure of a visit lies in wandering through the city centre and along the handsome waterfront Corniche Road.
The city's two standout attractions are the stunning Sheikh Zayed Mosque, one of the world's largest and most extravagant places of Islamic worship, and the ultra-opulent Emirates Palace Hotel. Other attractions include the memorable new souk at the World Trade Center, and the contrastingly traditional Heritage Village, offering superb views of the Corniche Road.Read More
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Saadiyat Island
Though it may currently be playing second fiddle to Dubai in the global tourism stakes, Abu Dhabi is increasingly looking for ways to challenge its upstart neighbour's pre-eminence in the region, backed by the emirate's apparently bottomless well of petrodollars – unlike credit-crunched Dubai, many of whose most ambitious projects have now been mothballed.
At the centre of Abu Dhabi's strategic vision is the new US$27 billion cultural district to be developed on the formerly uninhabited island of Saadiyat ("Island of Happiness"; wsaadiyat.ae), a few kilometres from the city centre. Centrepiece of the development is a planned trio of world-class new museums, each in its own landmark building designed by one of the world's top architects, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, housed in a huge flying-saucer-shaped edifice designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, a new Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum and a Sheikh Zayed National Museum by Foster & Partners. A further string of residential developments and tourist attractions has also been proposed, including a Gary Player golf course and a 9km beach lined with luxury hotels and marinas.
That at least was the plan, as first announced in 2006, although the three museums have so far notably failed to get built, while schedules have been repeatedly pushed back (latest estimates for opening dates are sometime in 2014–2015, although even these are beginning to seem optimistic). In addition, further promised landmark attractions – a new Maritime Museum by Japanese architect Tadao Ando and a Performing Arts Centre by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid – now appear to be unlikely to open anytime in the foreseeable future, if at all. The development has also been rocked by repeated accusations that expat labourers working on the project have been subject to gross human-rights violations, leading to a boycott of the development by numerous international artists. Which isn't to say that Saadiyat's groundbreaking museums won't finally open one day, but that until then, it's best not to hold one's breath.


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Our solar system has at least 170 moons orbiting the main planets. Before these moons were visited by spacecraft, astronomers expected them to be boring, dead objects devoid of any geologic features. We now know they are fantastic worlds - with features unlike anything seen on Earth: giant sulfur-spewing volcanoes, globally cracked ice-covered surfaces, liquid lakes of hydrocarbons, and colossal watery plumes. Yet many of these worlds are also earthlike and familiar. Titan, the giant moon of Saturn, has often been called an Earth in deep freeze, with cloud systems, lakes, shorelines, drainage fields and even perhaps rain. Scientists believe that the most likely places for life to evolve outside the Earth may be in the water-interiors of the moons Europa, Enceladus, and possibly Titan.
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Gunners Under Fire
POSTED: 26 August 2011
Gunners Under Fire
Bad luck never seems to leave Arsenal these few weeks. Players are either leaving or getting suspended. Arsenal fan or not, you have got to feel bad for Arsene Wenger; and with UEFA threatening him with a 2-match ban for the upcoming European games, the overall spirit of the entire squad is dragged through the mud even more.
And now Jack Wilshere is out for three weeks, after Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri have left.
It seems the team is starting to thin out in both morale and, apparently, midfield. Not the best of situations, especially with the upcoming 2nd leg qualifying match with Udinese.
And things don't get easier after Udinese, with Manchester United waiting to meet them at Old Trafford.
The two sides' history does not favour the Gunners, who have lost 7 games in 10 meetings with Man United. And as for the Red Devils, I reckon that after winning their first 2 EPL games, they will come in full armour in defence of their home ground.
And they have done very well so far, having lost at home only twice at home since December 2009.
Arsenal have a massively tall order on their hands, and I sense a growing desperation to win. But with their current form – 1 win in 5 road games – they had better prepare for a wicked battle as the heavy underdogs.
And unless they somehow find it in them to produce a massively unexpected upset, they had better hold on for the beating that might be heading their way.
Verdict: 2-0 Home win


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The university says it will now layoff three full time faculty positions instead of the six it was predicting back in November. Officials say more professors are opting for early retirement, and combining some departments helped make up the difference.
The university is still planning on laying off 17 of its adjunct faculty, and will phase out five low-enrollment majors.
They tried offering early retirement deals, but didn't get enough response. So today, Minnesota State University Moorhead rolled out another budget cutting plan. If this plan is approved about 20 faculty positions would be cut, and some majors phased out. Valley News team's Eric Crest was there to hear the proposal and how staff feel about the proposed changes.
It was a packed house at Moorhead State University Thursday morning. MSUM officials are trying to find the most seamless way to fix their budget woes. But seamless may not be the right word.
"I was hoping less faculty would be cut," says one MSUM professor, Karen Branden.
We're talking about departments and faculty, that are on the proposed chopping block.
"It was about balancing the budget for the university for the next decade. The difficulty is we have fewer students so we need fewer faculty," says MSUM President Edna Syzmanski.
"Well it's a painful blow. I work in a department that does really good work for the university," says History Professor Paul Harris.
"It's hard because we're good, and if we weren't good, it would be easy but it's hard," says Branden.
In all 22 faculty members would be out. 16 of those temporary positions and the other six tenured jobs.
"Obviously this has faculty really concerned," says Harris.
On top of that 11 departments would have to consolidate. Another five majors with the fewest enrollment numbers would be cut. Including American Multicultural Studies, Medical Laboratory Technician, Masters in Fine Arts, Music Composition, and Community Health.
"It is emotional shedding some tears about losses. It just tells you that these are hard losses at a school that's doing great things and people are going to lose their jobs. These are real people with children and it's going to change some of the features of the university and it takes it's toll," says Branden.
While many faculty members voiced concerns about how these cuts and consolidations could change the university for the worse. It's not a gamble to assume all just want to see MSUM continue to thrive.
"It's very hard for us because this is a tight knit highly engaged excellent faculty," says President Syzmanski.
"If you love MSUM and you know what you're getting here is worth it. Bring people here. It's time for the community to come. We need people to come," says Branden.
The department merges could take effect as soon as March first. If majors are eliminated, that would happen over the next three years to allow students in those programs time to finish up their degrees. The MSUM Faculty Association has until December 20th to respond to today's proposal.
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Administration at Minnesota State University-Moorhead scratched their initial plan of strictly lay offs or early retirement offers to balance their projected eight million dollar deficit by 2016, for something new. On Thursday morning, MSUM leaders announced they would like to eliminate five low enrollment majors and merge some academic departments.
On the chopping block is American Multicultural Studies, Medical Laboratory Technicians, Masters in Fine Arts, Music Composition, and Community Health majors. Students currently studying in those fields would be contacted immediately and given help to develop a plan that would help them graduate within three years, before the programs were phased out.
The proposed cuts would also focus on professors. Administration is looking to eliminate 22 faculty positions. Six of those positions would be tenured faculty and the other 16 would be temporary faculty jobs.
School officials cite low enrollment for the justification for making cuts at the level they have just proposed. The Faculty Association will now review the administration's plan and formally respond by December 20.
This all comes on the heels of 20 early retirement offers that were accepted by staffers back in November. Enrollment is down about 10 percent at MSUM and these cuts would result in a scale back of faculty to the same tune, 10 percent. The proposed plan would save MSUM a projected 3 million dollars.


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How to read NFC Tag UID and Header
From Nokia Developer Wiki
Article Metadata
Code Example
Source file: Media:Nfctag1uid.zipArticle
Created: mahbub_s60 (12 Jul 2011)
Last edited: hamishwillee (26 Jul 2012)
This code snippet shows how we can read UID and the headers of NFC forum tag type 1.
Header ROM
The NFC Forum Type 1 tag includes two bytes of fixed header ROM called HR0 & HR1. These are not individually addressable by a Read command.
Block 0 is reserved for the read-only Unique Identification (UID) number.
Byte 7 is reserved for future use.
on code.
Bytes 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 are the unique number.
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It's been pretty nice weather, even for the Pompano anglers, with cool mornings, cool temps throughout the day and a big bright sun.
So I will wear my winter shorts and put on a jacket just for you, Pompano fans.
So where are the fish?
If you have been fishing almost to Ft. Pierce (Douglas access) and spent some time of the beach, I know you got your limit, but you have to put in your time.
Finally, these fish have made a showing but not at a regular time. They've been early in one location, and later at the next, but they have all been up close.
So you may have been there but you were out of their zone.
Please do not just cast as far as you can and let your bait set.
Move it in, and then move it closer and just maybe you and the fish can get together.
Surf anglers have had a lot of Croakers and Whiting on shrimp, clams and Fish Bites from many access points while looking for the Pompano.
Some Blues for the early morning anglers using cut baits and in the mix has been big.
Macs and Jacks tend to bend a rod, quiet surf has made for some excellent fishing. Now, just maybe, it has been cold enough long enough for some Pompano to be around long enough to set a pattern to their travels.
These cooler temps seemed to have sent a signal to our off-shore fish that it is time to eat.
Captain Pat Price put a fifty pound Dolphin in the Day Maker along with several other fish over twenty pounds, and all have taken on small Ballyhoo, mixed with several Sails and a list of others.
Captain V.J. Bell on the Sea Check has had a busy week also with Sails and Dolphin, and again small Ballyhoo, but while V.J. was fishing north, Pat was straight out 150 feet, and that was the zone.
Anglers were fishing color lines, reporting lot of flyers and fishing both sides of the lines.
Kings on the numbers, big Lanes, muttons and plenty of Cobia at the Sand Pile, and yes, it has been the cooler weather bringing them out.
I just do not like being cold.
Pompano are skipping north of Nettles Island, skipping at Joe's Point and across the Sail Fish Flats. So why are they not on the hook?
Several anglers reported seeing them skipping and then said, "Where are the Reds?"
Reds have been hanging in the very shallow water of two feet, and if there are Mangroves, fish right at the edge.
For Slot Trout in 4 feet, if this is your target, slow your retrieve. Trout, like me, like the warm temps but also in the mix has been plenty of Blues, Jacks, Lady Fish and some big Sheep head.
Waders and boaters have had an excellent time, but you have to wear a jacket, because it's cold. Bridges are still waiting for the Pompano, but with Black Drum, Sheep head, Blues, Jacks and Macs, there is plenty to do.
Now about the Snook. They like it warm the same as I do, so look deep. After sundown pick a bridge, look to the deepest area and slide a Flair Hawk across the bottom. If the jig stops set the hook. Yes, they do get hung up; but if not, you're not in the location, so bring two.
Bridges offer plenty of ambush locations, and keep in mind they will feed face into the current, so pitch your bait up into the current and move it as the tide is moving.
Next week more about Snook and maybe more on Pompano.
Henry Caimatto is the owner of the Snook Nook Bait and Tackle shop in Jensen Beach.
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Cutting the base to size was easy. The instructions recommend scoring and snapping the base, as you would do with drywall, but with a product this costly I wanted to make sure I had a clean cut. So I cut first from the top, using a utility knife.
I flipped it over and finished cutting from the back.
The weep drain was already in place. I checked that the floor was level, then nailed down a piece of 1/2-inch-thick Durock cement board in a bed of thinset.
The floor sheathing brought the surface flush with the drain flange.
I applied a double ring of Noblesealant 150 around the drain flange.
Sealant applied to the drain flange
After fine-tuning the fit of the base, I prepared to bond it to the floor.
I troweled out modified thinset with a 1/4-inch-by-3/8-inch square-notch trowel.
I set the base into place.
I firmly pressed the membrane into the sealant around the drain.
I cut out the drain center and the bolt holes around the perimeter so that I could install the top half of the drain while the sealant set up.
Note that the bottom of the clamping ring is grooved to allow water to weep into the drain.
I bolted the clamp ring onto the drain upside-down, flat-side down, so that the sealant and membrane fabric wouldn't squeeze up into the drainage grooves as the sealant set.
I measured and cut the 14-inch-wide perimeter membrane fabric, leaving enough for about a 4-inch overlap. Then, following the manufacturer's instructions, I prebent a 2-inch leg along one edge.
I applied a double bead of sealant around the base to create a good bond.
I firmly bedded the 2-inch leg into the sealant, looking for a continuous line of squeeze-out.
Sealant squeezed out of the membrane joint
After sealing the overlap in the corner, I worked back around the perimeter with the caulk gun.
Additional sealant was used to thoroughly cover the joint between the wall membrane and the base.
Next I installed the inside corner pieces, using two beads of caulk in continuous rings so that there would be absolutely nowhere for water to seep through.
I pressed them into the corners, again looking for squeeze-out and tooling the edge with my finger.
The preformed outside corners were next, two per jamb, applied directly to the wood with sealant.
Again, I used plenty of sealant and tooled the squeeze-out.
After slitting the perimeter membrane to allow it to fold over the jamb, I squirted sealant onto the preformed corners.
I spread modified thinset over the exposed wood — back, top, and front.
Then I bedded the membrane onto the threshold with my trowel.
I then measured the polystyrene curb cover that Noble had provided (this does not come with the ProBase kit), cut it to size with a utility knife.
I thinset the curb into place, making sure to get the mortar on both vertical legs as well as the top so that it would have good support.
I drive a few plastic-cap roofing nails on the outside of the curb.
I applied silicone sealant at the joint at each end of the threshold, per the instructions. Noblesealant 150 is incompatible with the polystyrene.
I let the sealant and thinset set up, then plugged the drain and performed a water test.
After covering the drain cap with duct tape to protect it, I marked the orientation with a pencil.
I then screwed the chrome plate into the drain assembly, positioned the plastic weep protector around it.
I adjusted it so that its orientation was correct.
I checking for correct tile height and slope with a level.
Finally, I filled the depression around the strainer with cement mortar — I use the bag form of Laticrete 3701.
Once the mortar in the base set up, I finished the job by installing Durock cement board on the walls.
I used cardboard to protect the shower base and also to create a gap at the bottom of the cement board.
I used mastic to adhere the Durock to the studs, making sure that the lowest nails in the cement board were no lower than the top inch of the membrane underneath.
Tiling was the final step.
The finished project
As a second-generation tile setter — I started working in my father's tile business as a teenager — I've installed hundreds of shower pans. Tiled shower pans are not something you want to take risks with; leaks are expensive to repair and can cause serious structural damage in wood-framed houses. Years ago we settled on a reliable installation method for tiled shower pans: Chloraloy membrane, from the Noble Co. (noblecompany.com), installed over a sloped subbase, running to a three-part weeping drain, followed by a sloped mud bed. I've built shower pans using this method for years and have never had a problem.
There are some new shower-pan systems available that use a surface-bonded waterproofing membrane and skip the weeping drain. I'm not a big fan of these products, though I do occasionally install them when a GC requests it. When I was asked by a local builder to try out the ProBase pan from Noble, I was interested for a couple of reasons. First, I've used Noble products for years, including the Chloraloy pan membrane mentioned above, and I'm familiar with their quality. Second, this preformed shower base is designed for use with a clamping drain, so it would provide the backup weep drainage I'm used to. So I accepted the opportunity to install a ProBase kit at a local job and assess it for JLC.
The ProBase kit I installed includes the shower base itself, a plastic weep protector (a product I've been using for a while on all my shower pans), a tube of NobleSealant 150, a strip of membrane flashing for the edges, and eight preformed corner flashings — four for inside corners and four for outside corners. The 48-inch-square center-drain kit retails for $593 at Noble's website; other sizes and drain placements are also available.
The base is very light. It consists of a waterproof sheet membrane laminated to a polypropylene matrix. A depression and cutout in the center allows for placement of the clamping drain.
The first thing I did was place the base on the ground and stomp on it. Reassured of its strength, I also tried to peel the membrane away from the plastic structure, but it held firm. Cutting the base to size was easy. The instructions recommend scoring and snapping the base, as you would do with drywall, but with a product this costly I wanted to make sure I had a clean cut. So I cut first from the top, using a utility knife (Slide 1), then flipped it over and finished cutting from the back (Slide 2).
The weep drain was already in place. I checked that the floor was level, then nailed down a piece of 1/2-inch-thick Durock cement board in a bed of thinset (Slides 3, 4) over the floor sheathing to bring the surface flush with the drain flange. After fine-tuning the fit of the base Slide (5), I prepared to bond it to the floor, first troweling out modified thinset with a 1/4-inch-by-3/8-inch square-notch trowel (Slide 6), then applying a double ring of Noblesealant 150 (Slide 7) around the drain flange (Slide 8). I set the base into place (Slide 9) and firmly pressed the membrane into the sealant around the drain (Slide 10). Next I cut out the drain center and the bolt holes around the perimeter (Slide 11) so that I could install the top half of the drain while the sealant set up. Note that the bottom of the clamping ring is grooved to allow water to weep into the drain (Slide 12). There are eight holes; four of them are bolt holes, but the other four receive water from the grooves and pass it into the drain. It's important for these grooves to remain unobstructed, so for now I bolted the clamp ring onto the drain upside-down, flat-side down, so that the sealant and membrane fabric wouldn't squeeze up into the drainage grooves as the sealant set (Slide 13).
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- Our place was built in 1959, and we immediately fell in love with the period built-in nooks and cabinets. Over the years we've lived here, we've updated it to be more modern while trying to stay true to the spirit of the period. The built-in dining table was custom-made by our friend as a wedding present. The stereo cabinet in the living room was originally bought by Lindsey's grandparents in 1968, but we've re-wired it to play through the television and wirelessly stream music. We especially love our kitchen floors, which we re-did with handmade cement tiles from Nicaragua, and the pair of wooden chairs we got from an old farmhouse. And in the afternoons, our place is flooded with light, thanks to our perenially sunny city. All of this makes it a great place for Hrishikesh to work out of during the day, and for Lindsey to come home to each night.
- Biggest Challenge of Living in a Small Space
- The biggest challenge, definitely, is the fact that Hrishikesh, a musician, does his writing and recording here at home. We both love minimalist spaces, but unfortunately an apartment full of guitars, keyboards, amps, and cables has forced us to be extremely judicious with how we use the storage space. We turned one closet into the music supply area, and outfitted it with hanging shelves and racks and small drawers to try and keep it all in check and (mostly) out of sight.
- If I am the Grand Prize winner of Small Cool, the item(s) or project(s) from my home design wishlist that I'd like to spend my winnings on are:
- We have been daydreaming about making a bench that would go under the living room window. We'd make it to match the period built-in cabinetry. It would be a great place to sit and read or take a catnap. There would be shelves underneath that would be big enough to house our small library of art books and LPs, which are currently relegated to one of the hallway closets and sadly hidden from sight. We've even drawn plans for it! But we haven't had the money to actually bring it to life…yet.
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Love the kitchen floor!
Ditto on the kitchen floor - what fun. Wish there was a pic of the bedroom, I'll bet it's spectacular based on the rest of the apartment.
Would have rather seen the bedroom than 2 pictures of the TV.
Exactly what tiedyeDC said. Lovely home but would have liked to see a picture of the bedroom and bathroom rather than an extra picture of the living room and a picture of a picture.
AW HECK, I need to know where that couch is from!
But ditto about the photos - two pics of the media credenza and a pic-of-a-pic are way less crucial than a photo of the bedroom or bathroom.
Nice space...would like to have seen the bedroom.
A little bit of colour in the living room would make it pop.
I LOVE your kitchen! What a great place!
I would love to come home to this. Nice all over.
Your home has a very romantic feel.
Crushing on that couch, and the table built by your friend is beautiful!! I also really like your use of the two old stadium (?) seats and that you let some of the instruments double as decoration.
love the layout and the monochromatic colour scheme.
Love how you've respected the old fashioned design of this place with good quality and old design furniture. Functional use of the space! Love the tiles in the kitchen
I would have like to have seen the bedroom rather than multiple shots of the living room.


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As the Dow inches to new highs, a majority of stocks have tipped into a new downtrend.
Uptrends have a life cycle. First, the smallest, riskiest stocks push higher amid fear and skepticism as the economy quietly shows signs of improvement. Then, ancillary assets like copper, industrial commodities, and emerging market stocks move. The final phase sees mega-cap, defensive stocks levitate amid great fanfare as everyone focuses on the Dow 30 but ignores signs of economic stalling.
Right now, we're at the very end of the final phase. And as a result, despite the Dow's new closing high on Tuesday, the situation is weaker and more dangerous than it seems.
People aren't ready for this. Sentiment is off the charts. According to the Hulbert Financial Digest, newsletter writers are recommending a net long position that's tied for the second-largest since the survey's inception in 2000. The top spot was April 3, 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble. The other second-place reading was in early February.
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Economic data in Asia, Europe, and here at home has been disappointing. Manufacturing output is slowing. Unemployment is rising. Recessions are deepening. Negative corporate earnings preannouncements are rising ahead of the Q1 earnings season.
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Oh really?? Market 'weaker than it looks'??? Well....DUH!!!! Everybody with an eye on REALITY and doesn't have his head up his asking price knows the 'market' is so discconected, so uncoupled from that reality it may as well be in a pretend world, which of course....it is. Ben "Benny Bucks" Bernanke has been shoveling 85 billion a month in toilet paper dollars into the hands of his TBTF rich banker buddies who can win or lose without consequence. If they make a fortune...they keep it! If they lose a fortune....we pay for it!!!! What a sweet deal!!!
'Market weaker than it looks' is like comparing the tip of the ice berg to that which lies below.
weak jobs report?? the fcuk us say???, gee what gave it away?? the fact that you can walk down the street in any city and "SEE" there is no prosperity and no kind of "REAL" jobs being created, except of course more IRS agents to implement bullshiiiiiit obama regime regulations to destroy more of the private sector if there's anything left to destroy that is,
meanwhile the MESSiha golfer in chief is blowing a $100million dollars on 'brain mapping' ???? if you mapped obama's brain, now what you'd find? well you know the empty space in a hand ball? there you go.....(see also the liberal mind mapped segment below) anyway, hmmm is this some veiled attempt to take a stab at Dr. BEn Carson (who called the little chain smokin' golfer out on his healthcare nightmare), a man that Obama couldn't even begin to come close to even if he lived 10,000 years, although don't bother 'brain mapping' an idiot libs brain, I can save the hundred million for you by telling you what a lib mind looks like, much like the surface of the moon, blown out chunks of brain matter therefore their brain is unable to think logically and uniformly, they are hell bent on hate, rancid racist rhetoric and Marxist ideologies and claim to be 'for the people' funny, STalin said the same thing anyway,
all those blown out chunks of brain make it impossible for the neuro transmitters to fire correctly, therefore they vote for , and vehemently support, make excuses for and idolize the communist American dream haters, the very same people that will destroy the liberal morons in the end as well, there you go, one hundred million dollars saved.
The Dow has had a nice run up, even if the last few months have been staged, and it is very close to a down turn. The Bands are no longer diverging, the Bottom Band has turned upward, the top Band slowly declining. When the top Band breaks downward, we will have a change in the Trend; the Dow is due.
What type of correction is anyone's guess. Will they allow it a nautral flow, or will it be manipulated? More than likely the latter, only time will tell. By all rights, it should be fairly deep, possibly a 50% retracement, which would take it down to the 11,000 area, but at this point only speculation.
Point is, brace for the change and the reactions that follow.
If you become a Long Term Investor instead of a "Market Timer" you wouldn't have to worry so much there Anthony ! And neither would your naive clients for that matter.
Quit buying into Anthony's game - Become a Long Term Investor of Large Iconic Dividend Stocks then you will always be a winner. Quit making investing hard - it's so simple any of you can do it !
Market to drop 50% tomorrow ?? I really don't care because my little money soilders are right where I want them - Then the Dividends will just buy more shares for me until it does bounce back. And it will, it always does ! Only the fools that try to "Market Time" lose !
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We'll start with only two active quarterbacks, Aaron Rodgers and Vince Young. B.J. Coleman will get cut and if he goes unclaimed, will return for a second year on the practice squad. At running back, there will be a handful now that DuJuan Harris is down for the count. Eddie Lacy will be the lead back with fellow rookie Johnathan Franklin, James Starks, Alex Green and fullback John Kuhn. Long locked Jonathan Amosa is the odd man out. At least he scored one of the two touchdowns this month. Five wide receivers should be plenty. After Randall Cobb, Jordy Nelson and James Jones, my guess is Jeremy Ross will be one and Jarrett Boykin the other. Tyrone Walker had his moments in camp, so did Myles White and Charles Johnson proved the old adage, you can't make the club in the tub. Tight ends is a different story. They still have 7, if they keep five, Jermichael Finley, Ryan Taylor, Brandon Bostick and Matthew Mulligan appear safe and then you have to choose between D.J. Williams and Andrew Quarless, both with sketchy medical and performance issues. Jake Stoneburner is gone regardless, D.J. and Q are veterans who could have the bubble burst. I like only six offensive linemen, the starting five of Evan Dietrich-Smith, Josh Sitton, T.J. Lang, Don Barclay and David Bahktiari. Marshall Newhouse is also a lock. As was the case last year, the O-line depth is wretched. Greg Van Roten knows how to flip a shotgun snap and he can play guard, Lane Taylor finished with a thud but might stick. I say cut him, along with Andrew Datko, Garth Gerhart, Kevin Hughes and Patrick Lewis. That makes just seven hogs but Ted might grab someone else's cut victim.
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We don't talk about larders very much nowadays. The traditional larder — a small, cool storage room used to keep foods fresh — has long been replaced by modern refrigeration. But larder love is still out there, only this time it's more commonly seen in the form of a larder cupboard:
A larder cupboard is a standalone unit that's a cross between a kitchen cupboard and storage room. You might call it a "wardrobe for food," as Homes and Antiques puts it. They continue:
Styles vary, but what [all larder cupboards] have in common is the ability to store a range of food in a combination of drawers or pull-out baskets, shelves and racks. They're often full-height, incorporating a cold shelf made from slate or marble and perhaps a series of small holes in the doors for air circulation... As well as buying off the shelf, you can have them made to your own specifications, whether you require a capacious walk-in or a simple half-height, pull-out version.
These five larder cupboards are just a few of the styles we've come across lately. Do you have a larder cupboard in your kitchen? Tell us about it!
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I have a floor-to-ceiling California Cooler in the corner of my kitchen. My apartment building is from the 30s.
Interesting: http://petchhouse.blogspot.com/2006/10/california-cooler-problem.html
We call those Hoosier cabinets, and lots of Midwestern houses have one, with ventilated drawers, a flour section with chute to sift through, etc. Usually metal, though, to make them easier to clean and more sanitary-feeling.
Are you aware of a difference? I have enjoyed seeing and using Hoosiers in friends' houses when they have one of those capacious farmhouse kitchens with more than preparation area. One can be dedicated to baking equipment and supplies and it's insanely easy to organize.
I love this look!
These are gorgeous.
Not seen these, but am familiar with the California Cooler though. I had one in my first longer term apartment, built in the mid to late 20's. I used it as a pantry, as I did the old compartment section of the old under counter fridge who's electrics were once in the basement (yes, built in, and original to the apartments). The cooler was still mostly functional, this being in the mid 1990's to about 2001 when I moved out.
My middle sister and her first husband lived in an old house built in the early 1900's, I want to say, it was around 1910 or so and it had one, and on the north wall near the kitchen sink. That house had not seen much of a reno since it was built at the kitchen was largely original, just a big, ill used space with a vintage 3 tube fluorescent 2Ft fixture in the middle of the room as the ONLY light in the room. You had to go through the kitchen, or bedroom(s) to access the bathroom at the back of the house.
They moved into the place in I think 1979, or 1980 and lived there about 2 years before having to move out and it was perched on a sloping yard in Westlake, off of Dexter Ave in Seattle with a view of Lake Union.
A cool place for things like baked pies, certain cheeses and wines and also for storage of bulk goods is something that most modern kitchens really lack. A cool stone shelf would be a great addition in most any kitchen.
Hoosiers were really more work and prep areas with storage convenient at hand. The larder is more for storage and keeping.
Unless I missed something, it looks like all of those links are for companies in Europe. Do you know of any reputable American companies that make these? Thanks for the post though - they are absolutely beautiful!
A wonderful idea if you have the money and the space. Of course living in NYC don't have enough of either. This will definitely go on my dream house wish list though!
I've got a root cellar, does that count? The front porch of my Craftsman has a very odd porch that is over a rock basement. One side was pretty obviously the coal cellar - the walls are still blackened, and the north side is a root cellar that has shelves and bins. It's very cool down there, even in the summer. I've thought about using it for a wine cellar, but it's a bit damp for that.
I remember seeing an article in Canadian House & Home (I think!) where they used an Ikea Hemnes cabinet and converted it for just this purpose!


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