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Dan's Kitchen: Demolition Part the First: The Exploratory Phase
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Name: Dan Bailey
Type of Project: Kitchen remodel
Location: East Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Type of building: 2nd Floor Condo in a Greek-Revival Row House
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When you're living with a fully functional kitchen that includes a spacious refrigerator, a sink with running water, and a working stove, you tend to take these things for granted. This week, as my kitchen began to devolve into a construction site, I suddenly and traumatically stopped taking these things for granted.
Early in the week I transferred the entire contents of the kitchen – dishes, silverware, cooking utensils, non-perishable food, everything – to two closets in the living room. And then I set up a sad little temporary kitchen in a corner of the living room. It consists of a tiny cube fridge and a microwave, and it reminds me of living in a college dorm, which brings up some mixed emotions, including nostalgia and an intense desire to never live in a dorm again.
Once I'd cleaned out the kitchen, I got to work. I like to think of what came next as "Demolition Phase 1: The Exploratory Phase" in which I began to get answers to questions like, what's under the vinyl flooring? is there anything in that soffit above the cabinets? And why does this section of wall stick out six inches further than the wall next to it?
The condition of the original floors hidden beneath the vinyl flooring was one of the biggest unknowns going into this renovation. Before work began, I envisioned pulling up the vinyl to reveal pristine pine floors, which, after a quick and easy refinishing job, would perfectly match the flooring in the rest of the apartment. I didn't really consider what I would do if this turned out not to be the case. New flooring certainly isn't in my budget.
So with some trepidation I set to work pulling up a section of flooring in the center of the kitchen. The vinyl sheeting was barely attached to the subfloor, so it came right up. The 1/4-inch plywood subfloor, which had been laid directly on top of the original floor, was more tenacious, but a pry bar and claw hammer made short work of it. Once I'd removed enough nails that I could pull up a corner of the plywood sheet, I gently lifted it up and peeked at the floor underneath. Thankfully, the original flooring was still there.
It's wide-plank pine like the rest of the apartment, and while it's not in perfect condition, it looks salvageable. It's completely unfinished and a little splintery, but that's nothing that can't be fixed with sanding and a few coats of polyurethane. What's more concerning is a one foot by one foot hole in the floor in the center of the kitchen. At some point someone patched the hole with scrap lumber, but I'll need to find a more presentable way to patch it. My current plan is to remove a few original floorboards from a closet to patch the kitchen floor. I'll replace the missing floorboards in the closet with new lumber, where it will be out of sight.
The next order of business was to take down the drop ceiling and the soffit above the upper cabinets to expose some of the kitchen's plumbing and electrical work. The soffit turned out to be mostly empty, except for a large cast iron waste pipe that runs horizontally along the ceiling and then turns and runs vertically down the back wall to the right of the cabinets. I'm planning to install upper cabinets that reach to the ceiling, but at the point where the waste pipe turns, there's a diagonal section of pipe that will block an upper cabinet. After discussing this problem with my contractor, we decided that the best solution would be to cut a cabinet box to fit around this section of pipe. This seems to be the best way to conceal the pipe, even though it means roughly half of one of the upper cabinets will be unusable.
Once I had removed the drop ceiling tiles, I was confronted with a mess of electrical wiring tangled around pipes and draped across the ceiling supports. I know almost nothing about electrical work, but I'm willing to bet that there are at least a few code violations here. Of course, I'll need to have an electrician take a look at it.
One of the kitchen's other mysteries is a section of wall adjacent to the window that sticks out six inches further than the wall next to it. As I stared at this wall the other day, I thought to myself, wouldn't it be great to have a few extra inches of space in this corner of the room? I wonder what's behind this wall anyway? And then I cut a hole in the wall. I removed a section of drywall from between two studs, so that I could easily patch the hole if I decided to keep the wall where it is. As I looked through this rectangular cutout, the wall seemed to be mostly empty. It's actually a short section of exterior wall where the building juts out past the row house next door, which may explain the extra thickness. There isn't any insulation, so I could see straight through to the exterior brick. And then as I looked closer I noticed daylight streaming through some alarmingly large gaps in the exterior masonry. The gaps are big enough to allow water and who-knows-what-else to enter the building. Bad news. Since this is an exterior wall, it's common property for the building, but it's one more thing that will need to be repaired during this renovation.
Estimated time for project: 12 weeks
Time remaining: 11 weeks
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Dan will be fine as long as he does not invite Mike Holmes over for dinner.
Very curious, are you having any testing done for asbestos, lead, etc?
Please be weary of asbestos. I'm pretty much certain it's all over your kitchen given how old it is. If you're not having professional testing/removal done, at least wet down your rip outs, wear a respirator at all times, etc. Good luck!
Dan here. The kitchen was slapped together on the cheap using primarily unfinished plywood and pine lumber. There was no sign of asbestos during demo. Lead paint is a possibility, given the age of the room, but the most recent coat of green paint dates from a few years ago and is secure. Even so, demo is dusty work, and my contractor and I wore lead/mold rated respirators throughout.
Interesting, looking forward to the next installments!
Dan, we found pine to match (and patch) our pine floors at Longleaf in Cambridge. Not cheap, but for such a small quantity it won't be too bad.


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- Calories: 356
- Calories from fat: 29%
- Fat: 11.3g
- Saturated fat: 4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.8g
- Protein: 33.6g
- Carbohydrate: 30.2g
- Fiber: 0.0g
- Cholesterol: 83mg
- Iron: 0.0mg
- Sodium: 569mg
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- 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
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Last year I visited Wichita, Kansas, for the first time, a guest of the Ulrich Museum of Art, where I gave a talk on W. Eugene Smith, a native son. At dinner afterward, the photographer Larry Schwarm asked, "Do you have pictures of Smith all over your house?" I've come to expect the question of whether I identify with Smith's obsessions, but it had never been framed like this. I paused, pondered, then answered that I didn't have any pictures of Smith in my house. I do have pictures of Joseph Mitchell, Flannery O'Connor, Bernard Malamud, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Emmylou Harris, and the hand of Wilco's drummer, Glenn Kotche. But none of Smith.
I visited Wichita again last April to give another talk at the Ulrich. Like the first trip, I spent several extra days soaking up the town and researching its history, trying to learn as much as I could about Smith's roots from the vantage of nearly a century later. Nabokov once wrote that examining his childhood was "the next best thing to probing one's eternity." But what about probing someone else's childhood, someone long dead? Rather than my memory or other people's memories (there aren't many alive who can attest to Smith's childhood), I'm investigating faint footprints—artifacts, news clippings, whatever I can find. It seems flimsy, never quite enough.
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May 26, 2011 | by Sam Stephenson
The photographs in Mary Frank's current solo show at DC Moore Gallery were made over the last three years, yet they evoke decades of history. The items in the photographs form a kind of collage: she composed new paintings directly onto the planks of her studio floor, then arranged sculptures, other works of art (some dating back fifty years), rocks, glass, torn paper, fragments of paintings, and fire around the new painting. It's like she created abstract, autobiographical stage sets. Then she photographed the results.
I first met Mary through her cousin Paul Weinstein. Their grandfather, Gregory Weinstein, had emigrated from Russia in the 1870s and started a multilingual printing company on Varick Street, a business Paul still runs today. I met him in the early days of the Jazz Loft Project through David Levy, the former director of the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. David told me that Paul was "a finisher," someone who could help me organize a complicated New York project from my home base in North Carolina. That proved to be true: among other things, the seed of a four-year collaboration with Sara Fishko and WNYC on the Jazz Loft Radio Project came from a public event Paul threw for me at the Center for Jewish History on Sixteenth Street in 2005.
One night around that time, Paul and I were having dinner downtown. I told him I'd spent the afternoon with photographer Robert Frank in his Bleecker Street studio. "My cousin Mary used to be married to him," Paul said nonchalantly. I startled to attention, the small town of New York City revealing itself to me once again. Until then I only knew Mary Frank as a figure in a photograph. She was the beautiful, exhausted young mother in the car with her two children at the end of Robert Frank's The Americans—the woman keeping their kids fed, clean, and happy on the road, while her husband completed the work that would make him immortal in the history of photography.
Tamas Janda
April 20, 2011 | by Sam Stephenson
In the fall of 1958, things weren't going well for eighteen-year-old Tommy Johns. He had graduated from Croton-Harmon High School that year and was working as a janitor, while living with his mother, stepfather, and four younger siblings in an unheated, drafty wood house about two hundred yards from the river and railroad tracks. His parents had money for beer, cheap liquor, and little else. One morning, Tommy got up, put on his secondhand Swedish army coat, told his family he was going to the corner store for cigarettes, and hitchhiked the fifty miles to Manhattan.
Let out of the car in Greenwich Village, he started wandering up Sixth Avenue, choosing that route for no particular reason—maybe just because the cars were going that way. When he crossed the intersection at Twenty-eighth Street, he was surprised to see the familiar figure of W. Eugene Smith standing on the curb next to a tractor-trailer.
Tommy had gone to school with Smith's son, Pat, and daughter, Marissa, in Croton. He had been over to their spacious, stone home in a quiet, leafy neighborhood on the other side of town. Tommy knew that Mr. Smith had been a famous photographer for Life magazine, covering World War II and other important subjects, yet here he was, standing on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette and looking forlorn.
Letter from Guam
March 23, 2011 | by Sam Stephenson
Stephenson has been blogging for The Daily about W. Eugene Smith, the subject of his forthcoming biography. Here, he writes to managing editor Nicole Rudick from the island of Guam.
Dear Nicole,
I am writing you from my hotel in Guam rather than taking a day trip to Iwo Jima. The visit was canceled by the American and Japanese embassies, because of the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan. The Japanese government opens the uninhabited island to civilians only one day a year, and I've been planning my month-long Pacific journey in Smith's footsteps around this year's date, March 16, for the past ten months. I'm disappointed, but I understand the decision. A government-sanctioned sightseeing trip to a remote island seems inappropriate while Japan is undergoing the current tragedy, no matter that 140 Americans had gathered here for the trip, with a mirror group in Tokyo.
It means I'll have to come back next year. Smith made stunning photographs of the Iwo Jima battle, and I can't finish this biography without seeing that tiny piece of volcanic rock poking up out of the ocean. It measures only four and half miles long and two and a half miles wide, yet we (Americans) had eight hundred ships and two hundred thousand troops off its shores in 1945. The absurdity of that reality must have impacted young Smith, who was from landlocked Kansas: We're fighting the war of all wars over this?


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HOLLAND, MI (WYVN) - Brent Alan has been named the Brand Manager/Morning Show Host of Radio Station WYVN/92.7 The Van in Holland/Saugatuck.
Brent began at WHTC in Holland March of 1998, but this is not where his love of radio began. When Brent was in high school he had his own at home radio show where he put together a tape with the top 10 songs of the day and played it for his fellow students on the bus on the way to and from school. After high school Brent started a mobile DJ business playing all over West Michigan for weddings, high school dances and parties. In 1992 Brent found himself hosting an evening radio show at an all-volunteer radio station, WBYW in Grand Rapids. His show was a mix of all genres of music, rock, pop, and country. In 1995 he was hired at WCUZ in Grand Rapids, from there he began his commercial radio career. Only 3 years later Brent was given an opportunity to work full time in radio as an on air personality in the afternoon at WHTC. The last 16 years have brought him through the positions of afternoon drive show host at WHTC to Morning Show host of WHTC to Brand Manager of both WHTC and WYVN/92.7 The Van. His love of Holland and the Lakeshore and his love of radio have brought him to where he is today.
Brent's new position will allow him the opportunity to focus on The Van and serve the Lakeshore community even better. "As a kid who grew up in Grand Rapids and came out to the Big Lake whenever possible, I've felt so blessed to be able to work & live in the amazing Holland/Saugatuck area and near Lake Michigan. I am extremely excited to bring a live, locally focused, music intensive morning show back to The Van, I feel like a little kid. "The Lakeshore's Wake Up Call" will be a fun, family friendly mix of music, contests, comedy and information, with heavy emphasis on social media, texting & the great Hit music that our listeners know and love".
Brent will host "The Lakeshore's Wake Up Call" on 92.7 The Van and http://927thevan.com/listen-live every weekday morning from 6 AM to 9 AM, beginning on Monday, May 17.


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PIT BULL COMFORTS SICK DOGS AT THE VET - "Dominic lays with dogs as they come out of surgery, which calms them, making it much easier on the vet techs to handle the dogs as they wake up."
A Pit Bull named Dominic has earned the title of "Denkai Recovery Specialist" at the Denkai Veterinary Care Clinic in Colorado. Staff members noticed that Dominic would go to dogs who are recovering from surgery and cuddle with them. In addition to dogs, he also comforts cats also. Read more from the greeleytribune.com:
Haswell, though, remained a little skeptical. Dominic was cuddling with the new dog because he was cold, she thought.
She changed her mind later that day, when Dominic lay in the middle of a pile of dogs out of surgery and rested his head on their bodies when they cried.
The dog who cried the most got the most cuddle time from Dominic.
And she remembered the way Dominic rested his head on her neck when she had a headache.
Dominic would even cuddle with cats out of surgery, though they weren't as receptive as the dogs.
What's more, it made things easier on them. Dogs coming out of surgery could be wild, even aggressive, and bites were a little too common.
But when Dominic lay with them, they woke up calm, rested and happy.
Dominic now seems to understand his job. When a dog is under, Dominic waits at the foot of the door until clinic workers bring the dog out of surgery and set it on Dominic's pillow, and he immediately goes over to rest with them.
Dominic cries and paces if another dog is crying in the clinic. He even acts irritated when Haswell rubs a dog's body in an attempt to wake it up, as if Dominic's saying, "Hey, I got this."
"I've never, ever seen anything like this," said Floss Blackburn, who has seen a lot as the founder of Denkai. "He's got such a sweet heart."
Dominic is a compassionate dog with an important job. Click here for the full story and here for more about the Denkai Veterinary Clinic. (Photos by Dan England)
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Haswell's kids named him after Dom, the tough Vin Diesel character in the "Fast and the Furious" movie series.
But that doesn't seem to fit Dominic as well as the job description the clinic's assigned to him.
hdu dom is a fluffy bunny!!!!!
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So what now? How am I suppose to trust anyone to be involved in my life anymore? I will not let my heart get broken again this holiday season like it did last year.
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Born in Germany and raised in the United States, Aeoliah first started making music as an teenager while playing the violin and the piano. He went on to graduate with honors with a degree in fine arts from the University of New Mexico in 1972. But it was in 1979 when creating his musical painting Music of the Spheres where Aeoliah discovered his internal skills of creating musical energy of inspirational electronic layers. A year later he issued his debut, Inner Sanctum, and went on to release a slew of albums throughout the next two decades.
His ethereal textures have redefined new age music with their eclectic celestial hues of classical arrangements. Throughout the mid-'80s and '90s, the mainstream took notice of Aeoliah. His albums held a prominent place in major record chains and his 1985 chart-topping release Angel Love became a favorite in Hollywood. Marla Maples praised Angel Love, claiming its relaxing tones helped her through the 1993 pregnancy of her first child, Tiffany. Hospitals and health professionals also seek solace in the peace found in Aeoliah's music. Aside from composing, Aeoliah is also an award-winning author, writing Awakening Your Inner Light and Secret Gardens of the Heart in the '90s. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, Rovi


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Conceive Naturally After 40 - Top 5 Tips On How To Fall Pregnant
Falling pregnant after 40 can be challenging for some women. This can be due to a complex web of factors. At BumpFertility we believe that the most important factor in preparing for a healthy pregnancy at any age is to stay as healthy as possible. As a woman close to or after 40yrs, it's true that you may have a few more challenges ahead of you than a woman below 35yrs would. Those challenges may include some of the following factors:
- A higher likelihood of having pre-existing medical conditions that may lower your fertility
- A more challenging time conceiving naturally
- A higher possibility of miscarriage
- A greater risk of having a child with chromosomal abnormalities
- A greater risk of complications during delivery
However, the odds are still in favor of a healthy pregnancy even with these challenges, as long as you take good care of yourself and get appropriate care. So understanding what you can do to improve your pre conceptive health to reduce your risks will help you give yourself the best possible chance at conceiving after 40!
Is your body Baby Ready?
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Conditions such as:
- Immune System Imbalance
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... Are all important considerations when planning to fall pregnant after 40.
Take my FREE Fertility Health Check To Find Out If You're At Your Fertile Best
Frequently Asked Questions
Possible hormone imbalance after baby and tubal litigation? Difficulty losing weight.?
I am a 6'1" 30 year old mother of 3 and I am having a dreadful time losing weight after my last pregnancy. I gained 50 lbs, which my Dr. thought was acceptable because I was underweight before. I had just completed P90X when I found out I was pregnant with my 3rd baby. So now my baby is almost 5 months old and I still have 20 lbs to lose if I want to get back to my healthy weight of 170. After my other pregnancies I lost weight very fast. I gained the same amount of weight with the previous 2 pregnancies and I have nursed all three babies, but the weight fell off after the first 2. The only thing I have done different is I had a tubal after delivering #3. Does anyone have any information about hormone imbalances that can prevent you from losing weight, particularly after pregnancy or having a tubal? I am a vegetarian and I do cardio and weight training 4X a week, same as before. I just don't understand why I am holding all this weight on my body, especially in my midsection. Any experiences or information would be helpful! Thanks!
Age could be a part of it, but I think that losing 30 pounds in 5 months is very impressive. I think that if you keep doing what you are doing (weights and cardio) but don't see any changes after a week or two, get enough protein but cut back on your calories by about 250 per day. Do this for a week and check the results. If you lose weight, keep doing this. If you slow down/plateau again, cut the calories by 250 per day again. Check every week.
Strange symptoms-hormone imbalance? Pregnancy?
I had a trange period last month, early/short/light on the 17th. I was also feeling nausea, dizziness, and headaches. I took a HPT & it was BFN. I believe I ovulated shortly after (the 29th or 30th?). Around that time the symptoms I was having stopped, but I noticed my breasts were lactating. I had intercourse on the 24th, 27th, and 31st. Now I am feeling the nausea and dizziness again. I also have tender breasts and a large increase in vaginal discharge. I have had dull cramps with occasional spurratic pains since about 5-6 day past ovulation. My period is due tomm. (although I'm not real regular) I took a test 2 days ago and it was BFN-too early? I have a doctors appt. because if I'm not prego I want to know why I feel like crap and why the heck I'm lactating, but it's not until the 25th. The waiting is getting to me.
BTW..I have 4 children and have never TTC-so my hubby and I tend to be a fertile couple;O)
If you are due for your period tomorrow, you did test too early. Because testing 2/3 days early MIGHT give you a positive test result, but more likely you didn't have enough HCG in your system yet.
Everything (tender chest, dull cramps) sound like pregnancy symptoms. Except for the lactating. That could be a different problem if you are not pregnant. Because most women don't start producing colustum until the second/third trimester.
Good luck at your appt.
What are the chances a hormone imbalance can cause a false positive pregnancy test?
My girlfriend and I have always had protected sex, but one night the condom broke but I did not cum, the only chance would be from pre-cum. She had just started taking birth control for about a week when this happened, and she also bought the morning after pill within 12-24 hours. It has been a few weeks now, and she took a home pregnancy test that came out positive. She has always had a hormone imbalance and goes to her OBGYN frequently, who has put her on different types of birth control.
Because she has a hormone imbalance, she doesn't have normal periods, so we don't know whether she has missed or it's just because of her imbalance/birth control. Could her imbalance/birth control skew home pregnancy test results? Obviously it is not likely that she could be pregnant because nothing really happened and she was on birth control and morning after pill, so should I really have anything to worry about?
thanks in advance!
Thanks for all the input so far! She also has pcos, and probably can't even get pregnant in the first place. So, the only chance she could get pregnant is from pre-cum, she was almost to full operation with the birthcontrol, and took morning after pill. I'd say it's more than likely that she's not, but I just can't figure out how she could get a positive from a home pregnancy test.
No, birth control cannot interfere with the results of a pregnancy test.
Birth control pills, Depo Provera (the shot), implants, some IUDs, and the morning after pill contain hormones. These hormones are forms of estrogen or progesterone or both.
Many women are concerned that birth control could cause a false result on a pregnancy test. However, both home pregnancy tests and blood pregnancy tests measure HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin). This hormone is different from estrogen or progesterone. Pregnancy tests were specifically designed to detect only HCG and not estrogen or progesterone and will not be affected by any form of birth control.


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The PhanArt Stash
Over the past four or so years, fans have donated items to PhanArt to benefit The Mockingbird Foundation, which supports music education nationwide through their competitive grants process. So far, PhanArt has donated over $8000 to The Mockingbird Foundation and we are looking to increase that total steadily by opening up the 'stash' of art that has been donated. Some of this has been sold on ebay or on the site, but there were significant donations in the last year that necessitated cataloging and selling the art at a more rapid pace (posters take up alot of room). All told, there are over 125 posters and paintings donated, as well as over 100 pins (settle down pinheads) and countless stickers and other unique fan-made items that are marked as donations for Mockingbird. Smaller items can be found for sale on lots on tour but posters do not travel well for this purpose so to facilitate the sale of posters, The PhanArt Stash has been opened.
Using the great poster art website Expressobeans.com, The PhanArt Stash is up online and available for art collectors and fans alike to purchase art that has been made available for sale to benefit The Mockingbird Foundation.
Expresso Beans is one the best websites for poster art collectors of all interests. You can search among thousand upon thousands of posters, artists, bands and topics to buy or sell posters, create a collection (like The PhanArt Stash), search for rare poster art and add to the art community by uploading art as it is made. Expressobeans.com is a great resource for all fans and signup is free! This is one of the great art communities on the web and has a great deal of Phish inspired and related art, including rare posters that fans may have never known existed.
You can buy these simply by leaving a comment below noting the name of the poster and the cost associated with the poster. You will be contacted regarding your bid to finalize purchasing the poster. From there, you will make a donation direct to Mockingbird to validate your purchase.
Check out The PhanArt Stash here
How purchases are processed:
When you click on the link above, look at the 'six-month average' cost, or the original cost if there is no six-month average. To purchase a poster contact Pete – phanart (at) gmail, paypal the amount agreed upon, including shipping, to the same email address, then after shipping, Pete will contact you with a final donation receipt to mbird.org.
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Is This Cloud Company the Next Oracle?
Adrian is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
At first sight, Workday (NYSE: WDAY), up 46% in the past six months, looks like yet another IT company in the cloud business. But this isn't your typical cloud company.
To begin with, it does not sell cloud space and apps to web developers, like Amazon Web Services. Workday sells cloud-based apps for human capital management (HCM) to Fortune 500 companies. This is a segment that historically belonged to giants like IBM, SAP (NYSE: SAP) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL).
Although its $12 billion market capitalization is less than a tenth of what most IT elephants are worth, Workday isn't being elbowed out by them. With less resources, competition does look fierce, but Workday may have some unique competitive advantages.
What makes Workday so special?
To get clients like Chiquita, Kimberly-Clark, and Aviva, Workday offers a much easier-to-use, flexible product than Oracle's Fusion or SAP Solutions, according to The Forrest Wave Human Resource Management Systems report. In terms of current offerings (which include features like payrolls, technology, hosting and SaaS, compliance and customer experience), Workday has the highest average score.
A great product at a great price!
This is an excellent product in terms of quality. On the price side, by offering the "cloud equivalent" to what Oracle offers, Workday has been able to reduce its cost base significantly, and more importantly, it has been able to make its clients spend less money.
According to its website, Workday promises to save its customers 30%-50% over a five-year period versus competitors like Oracle software because, among other factors, using Workday implies less personnel maintaining the solution.
10% of Oracle customers are planning to migrate to Workday
Tech analyst Josh Burwick quotes a recent Morgan Stanley survey, where 10% of Oracle customers mentioned they are planning to migrate to Workday HCM and 29%, while not using Workday, are planning to evaluate Workday HCM, emphasizing the strong interest the industry is professing over Workday's star product.
Strong inverse correlation between Workday and Oracle
Not surprisingly, the inverse correlation between Workday and Oracle's stock has increased in magnitude considerably in the past six months. The more sales for Workday, the more pain for Oracle.
Financial apps coming soon
Workday is not only interested in HCM, it may be planning a major campaign to ramp Oracle's financial offerings by scaling to the Global 2000 in the next 12 months.
Now, as customers move to Workday for both HCM and financial apps, they could stop buying not only Oracle software products, but also database solutions, simply because Workday takes care of that as well. And Workday doesn't buy database solutions from Oracle. Workday's object oriented database technology is quite different from Oracle's relational database technology based on open-source MySQL.
With all these competitive advantages in motion, it seems Workday will also succeed in the financial applications segment, just like in the HRM field. At least, that's what most CIOs think. According to a Piper Jaffray survey, 40% of CIOs view Workday financials as a serious competitor to Oracle in the next two years.
Source: Piper Jaffray, Seeking Alpha Alpha Rich Ideas
With its enterprise resource planning application legacy business still occupying a major proportion of its revenue base, SAP is also in trouble. The good news is that the company is making quick progress in executing on its cloud strategy. Better late than never: the company has changed its cloud strategy over the past four years so many times!
However, SAP's recent focus is to consider the move to the cloud as the core to SAP's future growth, which is probably the right emphasis. The current SAP public cloud platform, the HANA Cloud Platform, looks promising as a product and the cloud enterprise social network is already an early star, growing over 800% year-over-year.
SAP's latest quarterly revenue growth figures from software and software-related services, which includes cloud revenue, came in at 6.2% versus 2012, below management's prior revised guidance. Still, management expects a stronger second half of 2013.
Final thoughts
The latest earnings confirm that Workday is making steady progress in stealing more market share from tech giants.
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The only difference between Greg Powell and the rest of us mediocre guys is when his mom told him he was special, he didn't make her a liar. Greg has a ridiculous ability to be exceptional at just about everything, hence his nickname "Special Greg". Growing up Special played more conventional…
I had this done in Cheboygan, Michigan at Local Underground Tattoos. I'm in love with my little hometown in Northern Michigan!
From Les Mis star Anne Hathaway to the leading ladies of Gossip Girl, look back at all the covers of Teen Vogue »
I don't know what it is about it, but I am so in love with this outfit
H&M Cable Knit Sweater
Jennifer Zeuner Choker Necklace (also here)
Vintage Denim Shirt
Zara Beaded Skirt (similar here, here and here)
Pamela Love x Nine West Boots
Pour La Victoire Purse (sold out but similar here, here, and here) (image: songofstyle)
Behind Photographs – The most famous photographs presented by their photographers
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16 Top Star Wars Christmas Ornaments (list)
The holidays are officially here! Thanksgiving is this Thursday, and Christmas will be here in no time given how times seems to always fly faster at the end of the year. This means it's time to start your Christmas decorating, ...
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With Christmas tree set-up creeping around the corner, gamers and holiday enthusiasts will embrace these cool looking game controller ornaments designed by Ponoko. Sold in sets of 7 with multiple color choices to choose from I...


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Suzanne S. Taylor, University of Rhode Island
December 1999 | Issue # 62
This issue of Research Dialogue presents a summary and analysis of the results of a recent survey of retired university faculty from two academic institutions in the United States and two institutions in England. The survey responses provide a great deal of information regarding economic and psychological aspects of life in retirement and the transition from work to retirement among faculty members. The study also provides some unique information on cross-national differences in retirement outcomes.


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Basler's position in the U.S. IP video surveillance market
With a year under their belt, company launches new cameras and finds application for its compact cameras
Despite the fact that machine vision cameras usually stream raw data, rather than providing compressed image streams (which is how all IP surveillance video is streamed), the company made a point of launching its products with H.264, MPEG4 and MJPEG standard. At the time, few companies were producing H.264 cameras, a stream format that is seeing increased adoption for its ability to reduce output bandwidth while not simultaneously decreasing image quality.
Along the way, Vogt says the company is finding applications for its cameras in non-standard surveillance situations. He notes that they have been adopted for license plate recognition in the traffic surveillance market and even for biometric facial recognition. On the traditional surveillance side, the high image quality has generated interest from casinos looking for IP cameras. They've also gained additional support from VMS companies to support their cameras, most recently adding Exacq to the lineup.
As for the future, Vogt thinks that the overall growth rate slow-down in IP video for 2009, while still positive in overall growth, will bounce back in 2010, and he's counting on the U.S. and overall North American market to appreciate low fail rates and the made-in-Germany stamp.
"We take pride in our cameras," Vogt says. "You can get a lower priced camera but you'll have a higher fail rate, and your cost will then be higher once you replace that camera. I think Americans generally appreciate the products, the quality we have and that we are made in Germany."
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I'm very interested in the new cookbook, "Prophets of Smoked Meat". A full guide to Texas barbecue, Daniel Vaughn explores brisket, ribs, rubs, and everything in between.
The Houston Chronicle did a great write-up on the book. Check it out here.
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How Data Analysis changes Software Development
Hadoop - Think Big
The price for storage has fallen in recent years – even one GB of SSD storage is expected to fall below a dollar by the end of 2012. Clusters with thousands of machines are no longer the standard of big corporations only. With technologies like Apache Hadoop and HBase, a "throw nothing away culture" has become common. Data scientists are happily sifting through all that raw data finding ever more valuable information and extracting business-relevant pieces that provide competitive advantages. Machine learning helps solve problems that even a few years ago seemed intractable. The data revolution has started. Or has it?
Reading publications on big data today gives the impression that development processes have to be reshaped: growing amounts of data have to be stored to remain competitive. Projects that deal with storing, analysing and visualising data are hyped all over the place. When taking a closer look at individual solutions in production today, the view gets much less coherent – often solutions are built from several different pieces at varying maturity. It is not unusual for developers to take longer than originally estimated to put an architecture to work.
This article tries to put data-driven development in context – comparing and contrasting it with what is already being done in practice. It shows how the big data technologies fit together and where yellow elephants and machines that adapt them fit in.
Let's start with a hypothetical example of building a web shop. When brainstorming, requirements that comes to mind are things like a place to store products, user data, user transactions (those that are active e. g. "Mary bought new headphones, product ID is 9887876, they are in shipment" and also ideally past ones to be able to make better product recommendations for Mary later). Once the shop is in place, we may guess what changes and improvements users might find helpful. We might explicitly ask Mary for her suggestions. However, average users are very lazy: they only provide feedback very rarely.
What is easier is to watch users online: watching what products they look at, which ones they end up buying, investigating what pages have the highest rate of users leaving the site, what pages are typical entry pages. When going down that road, development turns into a cycle of four steps:
The four steps of development:
1. Observe how users interact with the application – that will lead to finding multiple deficiencies with varying benefits when fixed: Product search might not be ideal, in that users often search for headphones in a particular colour, but colour might not yet be indexed. Users might be searching for the "Buy" button as it is not at the very top of the page.
2. Orient by defining in which direction the application should be improved – decide which deficiency to fix in your next iteration and define what criteria to measure how successful your fix was: Make the colour of headphones navigable and expect to double headphone sales within a month.
3. Decide what to implement – Implementation details may differ, in our toy example options may be to make the colour of headphones part of the index so users can search for them, or include them in a faceting user interface.
4. Act – implement the fix.
In the end, the cycle begins again, by observing how users react to your fix. That last step is what feedback can be made on the current and future implementation. The tighter that cycle can be made, the faster feedback can flow back into development, the more likely a project is to outpace its competitors (Figure 1).
Fig. 1: The four steps of development
This development cycle is not surprising, nor should it be particularly new. Instead, it is what has been done implicitly for any successful implementation. However, this explicit form shows that there are steps that can greatly benefit from gathering well-defined additional data sets or using already existing ones.
Observation is greatly supported by keeping track of any user behaviour – both common and unusual, both successful and unsuccessful. Each time a user successfully interacts with the web shop, it shows what functions work particularly well. Unsuccessful interaction reveals deficiencies and room for improvement. A metric is defined by the success of a new feature which then needs to be evaluated in orientation. Making this step explicit and measurable gives clear numbers against which changes should be compared. It also makes the goal of a change explicit – and helps define if and when that goal is reached.
A second goal of collecting interaction data is to use that data to provide better services to individual users: Most likely the user, Mary, will not want to be searching for another pair of headphones she gave a bad review for. So instead she should get different search results. Also she might be interested in a very specific type of music and may be very happy when presented with compilations that she likes.
In the end both types of using interaction data result in the flowchart displayed in Figure 2.
Fig. 2: Two types of interaction data
Is either way of thinking about data gathering new? Not really. Interaction data has been gathered since the early days of the internet. Users tend to do all sorts of interesting stuff within the infrastructure they are given. As a result, service providers started very early with logging user interactions – be it only to diagnose what caused a problem after the effect.
More common types of requirements engineering on that level include machine sizing based on past traffic patterns, hardening a setup against seen intrusion attempts. Typical features based on user data include showing only new content to readers of an online magazine or showing different content based on the origin of the user's request.
The data sources used usually include web server access logs, health check results and response time logs. All of these come in different but usually text-based formats that are treated with tools like sed, awk or python scripts. Results are then presented in custom dashboards, gnuplot graphs or even semi-standard tooling for log analysis – AWStats being one prominent and well-known example of web server logs.
Application-Specific Data
Let's go one step further and look at application-specific data: These include customer databases, transaction logs and the like. What can be learnt from this?
In terms of new requirements, we might find out that all customers come from Europe so marketing should expand to different countries. Based on the demographics of users, the site itself may need different features – your average technology-savvy customer has different information needs than someone who is barely able to get to the site and through the payment process. In terms of user features, one might want to recommend products to users based on their individual past behaviour.
Tools used here are standard relational databases. For analysis there is a standard query language, with some custom extensions depending on the database system provider. For visualisation, developers can come up with custom reports or use tools like tableau.
Now what if log sizes outgrow the storage or compute capacity of one single machine? What if analysis of a customer database takes too long on a single machine or is too expensive to speed up by scaling this one machine up? There is a very simple answer: Take Apache Hadoop.
The not-so-simple, but probably more correct answer is: You won't get around a distributed system for data analysis. When opting for commodity hardware, your best bet is to use Apache Hadoop as the basis of your system. What you need on top depends on your specific case.
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Director Britt Napier's Darkroom was revealed late in 2012. Here, the film attended the American Film Market and a trailer was released. This year, the film has secured a distribution date for the film in Canada and the USA, through Phase 4 Films. The film's DVD artwork is hosted here. And, the film stars Kaylee DeFer ("Gossip Girl"), Elisabeth Röhm ("Law & Order") and Christian Campbell ("Big Love"). The film's story is one of tragedy. Michelle (DeFer), the protagonist, is recovering from a horrible car accident, that left three of her friends dead. She was under the influence of alcohol. After rehab, Michelle takes a strange job at a photo shoot, but the photographer has lured her to an isolated locale for more dubious reasons. Fans of horror can mark their calendars for January 28th, 2014. This is the date that Darkroom will be released. This mysterious tale also has a trailer, »
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I didn't want to get up when the alarm went off, but if we were going to get the best out of the day we needed to get up and get going. Despite initial reluctance Robbie was out of bed and into the kitchen while I still clung to the duvet.
We were on the road before 9.30am and by 10.00am we were pulling into the station car park at Holt. For the third time this holiday we were at the North Norfolk Railway, sitting on the first train of the day with a cup of tea (coffee for Robbie) waiting to depart. What could possibly be better than this? I love the feeling of anticipation with the whole day stretching ahead of us. I don't mind if I travel on a coach or compartment that I've travelled on before, I don't mind which engine is out, and (unlike Robbie) I don't even care if we depart late, I just love the whole experience.
The railway was very busy today and we had more than our fair share of badly behaved brats travelling on the trains. As a parent and step parent I know that coping with children can be challenging but it is up to the parent to set limits and to say 'no' and mean it when necessary. Why on earth do they think that it's acceptable for their 'little angels' to stand on seats, to yell at the top of their voices throughout the journey and to behave in a way that spoils the experience for everyone else. One little horror who rejoiced in the name Caspian had a father who was so pathetic that I wanted to shake him and tell him to man up and control his child. Who calls a child Caspian for heaven sake, with a name like that its hardly surprising that the boy has issues.
We spent the earlier part of the day dodging badly behaved children, but it didn't stop us enjoying the railway. There is something about Weybourne in particular that makes you feel calm and relaxed and the Ladies toilet is so wonderful that you can't help smiling. The black five and the 56XX were out today, they are both interesting, 5619 was making a strange blowing noise again today, we heard it making the same noise last Wednesday but it sounded fine on Sunday so I don't know what is wrong with it.
I must admit that I tend to prefer diesels rather than steam so I always look forward to the last two round trips from Sherringham. Today we had a Class 101, Robbie likes it, but it is not among my favourites. To me it feels like being on a bus and I'm not into buses in the way that Robbie is. We sat at the front in the seats behind the driver and I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. The view through the front windows enables you to see things which you would usually miss, so we took lots of photos. When we were departing Holt we saw deer running across the field and Robbie even managed to get a photo.
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Is the Swedish Central Government a Wage Leader?
AbstractIs the Swedish central government a wage leader? This question is studied empirically in a vector error-correction model using a unique, high quality data set. Private sector salaries are found to be weakly exogenous to the system of equations. This means that the private sector is the wage leader in the long-run model. We also find that salaries in these two sectors do not converge to a common salary in the long-run and that changes in central government salaries do not Granger cause changes in private sector salaries. Together, these findings clearly demonstrate that the central government is not placing undue pressure on salaries in the private sector. The central government is not acting as a wage leader.
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