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In which John and I become the best of friends and discuss card crafting, Space Base, good Jewish delis, and Los Angeles.
DTD: I think we've hit every big point I wanted to hit. And I was trying to avoid the generic questions.
JDC: Great. [sarcastically] "What's your favorite game?"
DTD: [equally sarcastically] "If you could design a game with any I.P. [intellectual property], which I.P. would you pick?" How about exterminators? I don't know. I've seen every theming and I.P. at this point. It's exciting seeing new ones, but it's starting to almost turn into a game of who-can-pick-the-weirdest-theme.
JDC: Kind of. It's too niche for me. I.P.s usually become less appealing to me, with the exception of a handful of I.P.s that I care about.
DTD: But it's so easy to get disappointed if that I.P. you love turns into awfulness.
JDC: That's always the risk of the I.P. right? Everyone who doesn't care about it now, doesn't care about your game. Whereas they might have been [otherwise] interested by the mechanics in the game…
DTD: But they won't touch it because they don't love that niche anime. Yea, I totally get that. Just a kudos: I was really happy about all the ship names in Space Base – just delving into the weirdverse there to just pick the strangest things.
JDC: That's Erik-Jason Yaple who did essentially art direction and production stuff of it. He named all the ships in that game.
DTD: He worked hard on this, because I know a lot of people, myself included, who saw a name and went "Oh, I gotta find out where this name came from now…"
JDC: And it's all related to real people who worked in space or, sci-fi authors, Star Trek characters, or something, right?
DTD: Yeah. All that niche sci-fi stuff. And I actually I pulled it out for my father at one point. That was his favorite thing. He couldn't actually play the game because he's just sitting looking at all of the names, because he knew every one of them. It was very fun. That was a blast.
JDC: Good stuff.
DTD: So, you have a game group going tonight? Such dilemmas for me, actually.
JDC: They meet every Thursday, and I haven't gone in a long time. We moved to Sunland last April, no two Aprils – April 2018. And I've made it to that group maybe three times since then. That extra 40 minutes in the car, there and back.
DTD: Oh, I get it. One of my groups is half an hour away, that gets a little draggy. But when you show up to the group, do you get the whole fanfare?
JDC: No, I mean, I've been part of that group since 2013.
DTD: That helps. That's nice.
JDC: So I was just a gamer joining a game group. It's not like, "Oh, we got a designer coming." It's just John.
DTD: That's cool. I actually was heading on this trip down South and didn't have any game groups really planned out. But of course I threw a big IKEA bag of games in the car. There's the GenCon releases and the ones that people can't find any more and all that bizarre stuff.
JDC: Do you have anything you're itching to play?
DTD: I'm a pretty prolific player, so I think I have played just about everything. I've got a couple brand-spanking new ones I'd like to play again. Black Angel and MagnaStorm are sitting in the car. MagnaStorm was a [game by] Feuerland [Spiele], kind of under the radar. It's a very tight area control game. It's like 5 or 6 rounds, and then it's done. And the board is kind of circular, with wedges, and you're area-controlling in these wedges. But there's a circular dial, and there's a huge storm that takes over half of the world, and that [dial] turns every round.
JDC: And tells you which half.
DTD: So you must progress clockwise. You can't go back into the storm, so this area control happens and then it's done. Unforgiving resource collection and area control. But it's a good design. It's a neat game. The designers are this weird, collaborative group that goes by a pseudonym. It's, the character…I can't believe I'm slipping on this…it's a character from Blackadder, Baldrick.
JDC: Baldrick?!? Really?
DTD: The designers call themselves something Baldrick. Bauldric & Friends or something like that. And they've done just a few games. Oh, yeah, and it's a weird inside joke that almost nobody gets.
At this point, John and I went into a long discussion of the greater contributions made to mankind by Rowan Atkinson, discussing Blackadder, live sketch comedy, and the like. After much bonding, being now the best of friends, we ended up braiding each other's hair and making friendship bracelets.
JDC: I'm done eating. I don't know if you take leftovers or not.
DTD: I usually don't. And honestly, I'm I'm driving from place to place to place this trip. If you would like…
JDC: It's going to sit in the car until 9 p.m. And not be good. So…
DTD: We can leave it. It breaks my heart because it is so good. But it is fine, we can leave it. And this is on me and I really appreciate the interview and everything. I'd really like to make this web page, you know, good food, casual conversation, weird interviews with humor thrown in there. That's what I'm aiming for. No, thanks for responding so quickly. I think you're my guinea pig.
JDC: Yeah, this is round one.?
DTD: It's definitely round one. Kwanchai Moriya is hopefully also in round one. I've been emailing him and I was going to meet up with Kwanchai this trip. But everything fell through just the wrong way because he's another person who has 100 things on his plate.
JDC: He's working on a ton of stuff. He and Ian O'Toole are crazy prolific now.
DTD: And I would grab Ian O'Toole for an interview in a heartbeat. But it's hard to drive to Britain.
JDC: Australia, he moved to Australia a few years ago. Even harder.
DTD: Well, actually, I used to live in Australia, so I know people there. I could do that.
JDC: A long flight. How'd you end up in Australia?
DTD: Dad wanted to teach. He wanted to live in Australia, so he taught at University of Sydney. We lived in Berkeley for a while in the 70's, when Berkeley was the hotbed of computer science, and Australia in the eighties, during the bicentennial. I was in and out, as I was in college, but that's where they lived. So it was fun. We'd play games because he did a lot of game theory stuff, too. I'd play games with him and I dragged him out and try to get him to play newer games. Very reluctant.
JDC: Yeah, I have very little luck with my parents at gaming.
DTD: My mother plays Phase 10, Space Base, and not much else. My father, his line is always "Chess is the only game."
JDC: Sure, I feel like my dad is a little like that.
DTD: But Space Base made it through generations.
JDC: There we go.
DTD: So it just shows that the elegance of it. It's the simple, elegant, well done games just cross over like that. People just get drawn to them.
JDC: The only problem I have with Space Base and new players is the charge effects.
DTD: It's hard to explain, and the rule book wasn't great.
JDC: No, I agree. We made a new rule book, which is much better.
DTD: I think I saw pages from it.
JDC: The original rule book is not good.
DTD: No, the charges didn't really work. Some of the cards weren't explained well, and the graphic choice of the player count on the cards isn't the greatest. That one gets misinterpreted all the time. But I know exactly what to say when I teach the game now, but even the charge effects are simple and elegant.
This ability requires 2 charges in a 4-player game, 3 charges in a 3-player game, and 4 charges in a 2-player game. It's simple…once you know what it's trying to say.
JDC: Yeah, I mean, they're supposed to be. The rules didn't make it seem that way. I also think the arrow effects kind of clash with people. There's assumption about what they're supposed to do. Everyone always thinks you have to roll the card number in order to do the ability, and then you get to go one space over. So, like if it is in the four spot, and you roll it, you get to do the five, which is like, "No. not at all."
Once this is charged, you could use the charge to activate one higher than the total, after any roll. No need to roll this card's number again.
DTD: That's a different arrow. See, this arrow does that that one, and this arrow…I think it's perfect that they're all colored: Blue is your turn. Red is their turn. Green is anytime. And I say it over and over and over again. It just doesn't click with the new gamers, but they get it by the end of game one. Once it clicks, [they're] like, "Ooooh," then they've got it. And the other thing, for good or for bad, is [that] a lot of the new players will just not use the charge effects, and still just love the living hell out of the game. Yeah, they love it, so that speaks worlds.
JDC: That is actually a debate we had, when we were making the game, whether we shouldn't put the charge effects in the base game. Because the game was fun without them. And they were the most complicated part of the game for people to understand. I was kind of adamant that I wanted it to be in the base.
DTD: I think they're great.
JDC: I think people's enjoyment of the base game, like from the first play to burn out would have been a lot faster without charges. The burn out in Space Base is actually really long. You can play the base game in Space Base a lot.
DTD: I still play it like crazy, and it's still very, very fun.
JDC: Without that charge effect, though, I feel like that burn out rate would be a lot quicker.
DTD: I agree. And I think the charge effects are a necessity component to play it as a push-your-luck game, to pile everything on one spot.
JDC: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you have to have more of the dual arrow stuff, but it's limited in the flexibility, it's the same thing every time. The charge effects, you just play some strategies, and then you'd be like, "Oh, I could do variations of that." But, with the green arrows you could do…with the charge effects, you could do so much more.
DTD: Whenever you want. That is great. So, along the lines of controversial arguments, there's a lot of arguments with Mystic Vale [which argue that] the difference between card crafting and deck building – modifying your card versus adding new cards – is completely illusory. What are your thoughts on that?
JDC: First of all, when Mystic Vale first came out, I heard people say it's the next evolution of deck building, which I don't think is true. I sort of think it's an evolution of any game that uses cards at all. A lot of people saw it, and said "Oh, this is how you could do deck builders." No, you could do any game that has cards now with the card crafting element.
DTD: It's functionally the same as a deck builder, playing multiple cards at once.
JDC: It's not. You could get that the first time you play, perhaps. Because you just don't see the synergies of strategies. Maybe even the second or third time. But if you play it enough, the difference between "you put this advancement on this card, on that card, or this card", has ramifications throughout the course. And good players, good players definitely make specific decisions about what cards they're putting things on.
DTD: It's got such a competitive following. I mean, Mystic Vale players now are so good at the game. And I'm not.
JDC: But the BGG complaints are that the game is all luck. And I'm like, "All right, play somebody good and see."
DTD: Oh, that's the Ticket to Ride argument there. Everybody was saying Ticket to Ride is all luck, but you get someone good, they will just obliterate you.
JDC: They will win against an okay player every time.
DTD: My argument with the whole deck builder versus card craft, and their being the same, is…yes, if you could somehow, in your deck builder, tie the cards sequentially – you know, this one always fires with this thing, and this one always fires with that, [that would work the same]. And that is a very different beast.
JDC: How would you do that other than card crafting?
DTD: Exactly, right? You notice I didn't mention [the game] Gloom once during the interview. [Expletive deleted], I should turn off the recorder before I say things like that.
JDC: Yeah, Gloom… A lot of people mention it. Another thing that hurt Mystic Vale is people are like, "Oh, it's an innovation." And then someone else would come on and say, "What about Gloom? Gloom already did it."
DTD: It was so much more gimmicky, Gloom. It was the see-through element and purely the see-through element.
JDC: The see-through element adds a cool thing to it, but it could just be tokens. You could just put tokens on cards, and Magic's been doing that since the nineties. Like a +1/+1 token could have just been a transparent card that you put over it, and it overlays the +1/+1.
DTD: Or you make it a legacy game with a +1/+1 sticker.
JDC: Which is Gloom. If you overlay a transparent card with a +1 at the bottom, that's Gloom. But that's not card crafting.
DTD: Yea, I loved Gloom in its day, but the clear cards were superfluous. They were. It was neat. It's like Architects [Cleopatra and the Society of Architects]. You know, those big, chunky pieces – they're cool, but totally superfluous.
JDC: My definition of card crafting is: the ability to modify a card during the game and/or before the game, or in-between games, but such that the card retains that modification and all the properties of being a card at the same time. So you can modify a card on the table by putting a token on it, but it can't retain that modification if you need to discard it, or shuffle it, or anything, right? Card crafting can be done in a number of ways. The way I've done it, with transparent cards, or putting stickers on cards, you're card crafting.
DTD: That's what I was going to say: card crafting, your card crafting, is reversible. Resettable legacy, which is great.
JDC: But card crafting requires you to be able to retain that modification, right? You can shuffle it, you can draft it, you can discard it. You could play it face down, face up.
DTD: The next time it comes up, it's going to be that better card, or worse card, depending on how you're looking at it. Absolutely. I'm so full. I keep picking at the food. Alrighty man, I will release you from the torture.
JDC: Aren't we supposed to get a check?
DTD: I will take care of it, so…
JDC: I appreciate that. Thank you.
DTD: Oh, no. It's part of the deal. And honestly, you're not a bad date. Some of the people I talked to were talking about going to some ridiculously high end restaurants.
JDC: I thought it was funny when you suggested this place because it's such a hole in the wall. You suggested two places in all of L.A.to go to. And it's like my local hole-in-the-wall place.
DTD: I know. I don't spend a lot of time in L.A. I go through a lot, and I have friends who take me to their favorite hole-in-the-walls. The other [restaurant] I mentioned, Brent's Deli, if you haven't been, is fantastic.
JDC: I haven't. Most of my wife's family is over there. I might actually try it some time.
DTD: I ate there yesterday! Mostly, I grew up in the East Coast.
JDC: Where?
DTD: New Jersey. New York, New Jersey, right in that corridor.
JDC: My grandparents were there.
DTD: Everybody was there at some point, but that hard-core East Coast Jewish deli food is really lacking in California. There's none of it around except Brent's. Have you been to East Coast delis a lot? There are certain things, little touches that you just never see. Black and white cookies. It's called a "black and white cookie". They're like [gestures to show size] this big, and half frosted, black and half frosted white.
JDC: I know it from Seinfeld.
DTD: They have them at Brent's and nowhere else [I know] in California. And a ridiculously huge pastrami sandwich that you need a whole loaf of bread to finish off.
JDC: So that's my mom. Whenever we would go to the East Coast, my mom would need to get her Philly cheesesteak. So she's been hunting for the good Philly cheesesteak for a long time. And we have finally found a spot. They're from Philly. Like, these are Philadelphia people who have moved to L.A. for whatever reason, and their Philly cheesesteak is great.
DTD: That's what L.A. is built of.
JDC: Exactly.
At this point, a very kind waiter asked if we needed to-go boxes for our pathetic crumbs of food left on the table. Both of us were traveling, so unfortunately neither of us could take it. Which made us sad, and the waiter sad. So we pined for the delicious delicious food that could not be.
DTD: So you found it. Philly cheesesteak.
JDC: We finally found it in Burbank. Reasonably close to where we live. So we got that for her birthday. It's actually pretty good. I don't know if you're a Philly cheesesteak guy.
DTD: They're good. I've had my share of good ones in New Jersey and Philly.
JDC: So, it's a mistake that everyone seems to make is that they cook up a steak, and then they put slabs of cheese on top and put it in the sandwich.
BOTH: You cook the cheese on the grill!
JDC: To be fair, I think L.A. is actually a great place for cuisine. You can find everything here, and you can find a good version of everything here.
DTD: I'm heading south, going all the way down to Chula Vista, which is where I've got family, then kind of migrating back north and on my way home. I've got a friend in L.A. who's promised me amazing Vietnamese food then.
JDC: Have you tried Ethiopian food?
DTD: Oh, yeah, love it.
JDC: Little Ethiopia here in Fairfax is good.
DTD: How can I still be hungry for these things? I am so full.
JDC: L.A. has good everything. You can find at least 2 places for every ethnicity in L.A.
DTD: I hate driving around L.A., I hate parking. I hate managing things, but everywhere I end up in L.A., I love. It's so bizarre.
JDC: Actually, Mayor Eric Garcetti showed up to one of our full office meetings back when I used to work at the office because he was friends with the CEO of the company, and he gave a speech. And in his speech, I can only assume he wasn't just making it up, he said, L.A. is the largest Mexican city in the world, or second largest after Mexico City. It's the largest, or second largest, Korean city in the world.
DTD: I've heard the stats and it blows me away.
JDC: It's the second or third largest Filipino city in the world. There's like 15 ethnicities in which L.A. is the top 1 to 4 in the world of that ethnicity. It's nuts.
JDC: Good stuff, man.
DTD: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Part of the popularity of tattoo designs based on Chinese writing is due to the fact that most people in the West won't understand what it means. Chinese tattoos, more than any other type of tattoo design, are a great way to get speaking to people. Not only will people ask what the characters say, but you'll also be able to tell them why you choose to display such a message.
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Ergen Hikes in Himalayas as Fox Talks Go On
Dish Network and Fox
Cable Networks executives
might be hunkered down in
tense carriage negotiations, but
one executive definitely won't
feel the heat of the ongoing battle
— Dish chairman and CEO
Charlie Ergen. In fact, Ergen
won't be feeling any heat at all,
as he is on vacation hiking the
Himalayas in Nepal.
That struck one close observer
of the carriage fight as a bit odd.
BTIG Research analyst Richard
Greenfield revealed that Ergen
was indeed at the Top of the
World, noting that while he rarely
cares about the private lives of
executives, Ergen's doings have
become relevant to Dish stock.
He also pointed out that the Dish
chairman was absent from the
company's Aug. 9 second-quarter
earnings call — during which it
announced losing 19,000 customers
— because of a pre-planned
family vacation. Now, with Dish
locked in an increasingly heated
dispute with Fox and MSG Networks,
Ergen is again cooling his
Greenfield was obviously having
a little fun in his blog posting
— it included a picture of Mount
Everest with this fake Ergen Facebook
status update: "I'm reachable
at the top of the world." But
he also expressed some genuine
"While we realize there are
many capable executives at Dish
and would never expect Charlie
Ergen to be leading every move at
the negotiating table, we are surprised
he is totally disconnected
(physically) from tense negotiations
affecting his 14 million-plus
subscribers," Greenfield wrote.
In a statement, Dish said that
it continues to actively negotiate
with Fox and hopes it can reach a
deal soon.
"Dish Network executives at
the highest level are actively negotiating
with Fox and continue
to hope for a fair deal so Fox will
return its regional sports channels
to our customers after pulling
them on Oct. 1," the company
said in a statement when asked
for a response to Greenfield's
blog. "Our executive team receives
guidance on a regular basis
from our CEO on significant
corporate matters. Day-to-day
negotiations are handled by senior
members of our executive
team directly with the president
of affiliate sales and marketing at
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said he was told of Ergen's whereabouts
by Dish executive vice
president Michael Kelly at an
industry event, and added that
Kelly informed him Ergen was
preparing to hike Everest.
"We wish Mr. Ergen a safe
climb and the best of luck,"
Greenfield wrote.
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Despite my trepidation about the trip (some of it well-founded!), I made it to Shanghai and back for the Open Infrastructure Summit and Project Teams Gathering. I even managed to get some work done while I was there. :-)
First, I recommend reading the opening of Colleen Murphy's blog post about the event (and the rest of it too, if you have any interest in what Keystone is up to). It does an excellent job of describing the week at a high level. To summarize in my own words, the energy of this event was a little off. Many regular contributors were not present because of the travel situation and there was less engagement from local contributors than I would have hoped for. However, that doesn't mean nothing good came out of it!
In fact, it was a surprisingly active week for Oslo, especially given that only myself and two other cores were there and we had limited discussion within the team. It turns out Oslo was a popular topic of conversation in various Forum sessions, particularly oslo.messaging. This led to some good conversation at the PTG and a proposal for a new Oslo library. Not only were both Oslo summit sessions well attended, but good questions were asked in both so people weren't just there waiting for the next talk. ;-) In fact, I went 10 minutes over time on the project update (oops!), in part because I hadn't really planned time for questions since I've never gotten any in the past. Not complaining though.
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After wrapping up a National Geographic Photo Camp in January, teaching young Indian students to use cameras for the first time, I returned to India in March to teach a workshop for American and European adults who want to become better photographers — some to make it a profession, and others, who are already professionals, to gain a new perspective that refreshes their work and attitude. The workshop students ranged in age and background: an American in her 60s who is a retired doctor and environmentalist but has been using photography for 40 years; an Italian professional photographer in her 40s who mostly does commercial work and wants to break into photojournalism; a young American just starting out as a photographer; an Italian photography lover in his 40s who is an Alitalia pilot; a German psychotherapist in his 50s who also loves photography; a British journalist in her late 20s who wants to improve her photography to be a double threat.
Occasionally during these workshops, it can feel uninspiring and frustrating when leading a clutch of prosumers, many of whom you know will not become photographers. But I cherish the NG Photo Camps and most of them won't become photographers either. In the end, anything that allows me to teach, to impart my experience and passions, is satisfying and ultimately useful to my students. If one truly loves photography both as a craft and a profession, whether you want to change the world or just want to learn how to better enjoy your creative process, then it's all good in my eyes.
As with any workshop, this recent one had a distinct arc: the beginning, always rocky, with people jet lagged, not sure of who is who, what they should be doing and maybe nervous about exposing their work to strangers. Then, just like with the kids in Udaipur, the experiences, breakthroughs, and imagemaking gives them strength, confidence, and joy that reaffirms their desire to be photographers. Both groups of students also come to the initial classes with varying degrees of confidence and creativity — most with timidity and all with the need for guidance, the fear of getting close to subjects and the desire to learn and improve that marks all beginners or intermediate photographers.
Often the teens have never picked up a camera before, so the camp is new, exciting, and overwhelming. For them, becoming a photographer is not a goal, or even a possibility, while the adult students are already photographers who may want to make it their profession. The outcome of their extra experience may come as a surprise, though: The adults bring more neuroses, habits, and fears, along with their more developed talent and purpose. They are hampered, in a way, by their photographic baggage, their professional dreams, or their desire to emulate or outdo other people's photographs.
For these reasons my adult students are as much in need of guidance as the kids, but in certain ways they also present a greater opportunity for growth. One major challenge for the adults specifically is not being Indian. Photographing in a foreign culture reveals to them the difficulty of getting beyond the surface, and it requires the foreign adults to achieve a different level of inspiration and discovery than the teens from India. I also can be more candid in my critiques with the adult students than the teens and center my comments on their photography. If I know an adult photo student wants to make photography their profession, then I'll take a more critical approach to their images as well as their approach, behavior, even dress sometimes (especially with females), and I try to get them to express their intentions so they become clearer and stronger about why they want to do this.
The amateur who just wants to improve their photography requires a different approach. To me it's important to help them grow while also preserving their love and joy for the craft. We all know people who are wonderful in some art form yet drop it because they lose the joy when they realize they're "not good enough" to "make it" professionally. In fact, many very talented people just don't have the stomach to handle the pressures, rejection, and bullshit involved with being a professional in something that is so personal and subjective.
The teen, who is being asked to use photography by outsiders to tell their stories, requires a yet another approach. In these cases, I am not trying to cradle or soften my approach for the teens, but what I don't want to do is snuff out their enthusiasm or courage. And given these NG Photo Camps are not designed to make the students into photographers, my role is one of support and encouragement, to help them tell their stories and open their minds to the possibilities of photography, writing, self expression, and life!
So what do I get out of these workshops? Exposure to other photographer's concerns, ambitions, ideas, and inspirations. An income stream to make up for a loss of work for serious documentary photography. I can't deny it also soothes my ego to be, for a short time, among photographers who respectfully listen and appreciate what I have to say. In this subjective profession, we often flourish or fail according to others' whims and the uncontrollable fortunes of fate (others might call that luck!); the break from that provided by teaching is refreshing and rejuvenating. I also love sharing my work with others and, especially, the chance to help shape photography's future, teaching human values and creativity by sharing my passion for the craft and my commitment visual storytelling.
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From the debut novel of 25-year-old Tea Obreht (one of the New Yorker's 20 Under 40) to Joshua Foer's enthralling investigation into the current state of memory, March 2011 has something for everyone.
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Three Stages of Amazement
304 pages; Scribner
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Surely you know Lena Rusch and Charlie Pepper: They're the seemingly perfect 40ish Bay Area couple, the ones with the nice house, the cute kid, the interesting careers—and the fun sex life, thanks to the "bells and whistles" we're told Charlie provides in bed. Lena and Charlie are so familiar, so knowable, that it's sometimes hard to remember they're fictional characters at the center of a lovely, resonant novel, Three Stages of Amazement (Scribner), by Narrative magazine editor Carol Edgarian. So guess what? The Rusch-Pepper union turns out to be not so perfect after all, but not for any big, topical reason—okay, Charlie, a doctor, is having trouble getting funding for his latest medical invention and Lena has lately been hearing from her dashing, successful ex-boyfriend—but because, well, marriage, and life, are just plain complicated. Edgarian's plot—about Lena's rich old venture capitalist uncle out to interfere with (or is it to help?) Charlie's business—is unique; but everything else in this story (the way long-married people talk, the conflicted emotions we have for family) feels universal. Not to mention generous and graceful and true.
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At Enom, we know that every DNS performance issue we can solve proactively saves you from countless support headaches down the line. Striving to ensure that it "just works" is a given, but we're also constantly searching for ways to go above and beyond, pushing the bounds of what's possible on a global scale. Every facet of our operation is dedicated to that cause, and we've been working hard on some major changes to our DNS to deliver on it. This is why we wanted to peel back the curtain a bit, talk with some of the experts close to these changes, and give you an idea of what it all means for you.
Three billion DNS queries. That's what Enom's platform handles every day to service our customers. In some ways, it's a daunting number that reinforces how many portfolio owners, resellers, and end-users rely on our DNS, but it also presents an opportunity. That's because each improvement made to the system sends ripples through every level of the experience. Thanks to the Rightside and Enom engineering team, we are now happy to introduce our new DNS platform, one that is faster, more reliable, and scalable to your growing needs.
We've undertaken this massive overhaul because those three billion DNS queries will only continue to grow. In addition to total volume, the standards and requirements for DNS have changed dramatically since our last upgrade. Yet, if we've done our job, most won't realize a change even occurred. "The new DNS infrastructure will go largely unnoticed," says Rightside CTO Wayne MacLaurin. "Infrastructure is like plumbing; nobody really notices it unless it breaks."
New platform
The new DNS platform, which has been live since November, is based on BIND, one of the most widely used, open-source implementations. The decision to change from a PowerDNS infrastructure to BIND 9.10 came about due to a confluence of factors: ageing hardware, rapidly expanding data volume, a need for more standardized, secure solutions, and the constant pursuit of general performance improvements. Newer servers optimized for BIND were the antidote to a highly customized, and increasingly unwieldy architecture.
"The previous infrastructure relied heavily on MS SQL and replication to distribute data to our various DNS PoPs," MacLaurin says. "It also had a large amount of programmatic logic built into the DNS software itself to handle various customized features. As time passed and DNS query volumes increased, the infrastructure started showing its age. It was hard to update, hard to debug, and it could only handle a fifth of the volume of our new modern DNS server."
Additionally, Enom's servers now employ Kafka to provide high-throughput messaging between our central system and distributed DNS nodes. A series of complex transformations handle the translation of older data into standard DNS types, managing the emulation of non-standard features such as CNAME at apex. To improve monitoring, an ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack now manages statistics gathering and logging.
What's different?
Again, many of the changes may go unnoticed, but the actual differences are remarkable for those with a keen eye for DNS performance. In addition to the new architecture, Enom made significant investments into SSD-based storage, which were then deployed throughout our production environments. Together, software and hardware greatly reduced response times, with updates (such as host changes) now being delivered to the world in under 3 seconds. The everyday end-user may not be aware of these faster response times, but cumulatively, this equates to vastly improved interactions.
"CNAME at apex is possibly the most significant change," says Ron West, a Senior Software Architect at Enom. Currently, Enom's DNS answers with what's known as a CNAME record at the apex of a zone. "This isn't allowed in DNS, and has undefined behaviour to end-users. It often works, but sometimes fails badly." Standard DNS software doesn't support these records creating uncertainty as to how they would behave in the wild. A workaround was deployed to eliminate that uncertainty.
"We now take the target of the CNAME record, look up the records it points to, and add them to our own DNS instead of the CNAME record. These look-ups are refreshed continuously, and allow all affected domains to keep working." These previously undefined behaviours—affecting more than 65,000 domains in Enom's system—represented many headaches for support at the reseller level, an effort that is no longer necessary thanks to these new enhancements.
The new DNS also supports deletion holds to benefit customers moving their domains to another registrar or DNS host. "Instead of suddenly refusing to answer queries, or answering with parking," West says, "we can now facilitate transitions by continuing to answer with the last known DNS records for 4 days. After deletion, we either decline to answer queries (if no longer aimed at our nameservers) or answer with parking."
The only exception is multiply hosted domains (multiple DomainNameIDs with the same domain name) where deletion is immediate, leading to the next-highest-priority domain's records being activated immediately.
Philosophy shift
Ultimately, all these changes have come about due to a philosophy of looking creatively at different technologies to solve challenges more quickly than traditional approaches. "Doing so is crucial because the requirements and limitations of one registry aren't necessarily the same as another," MacLaurin says. "It's something that we embrace wholeheartedly, especially if we can reduce complexity, improve reliability, and move faster."
The change to Enom's DNS infrastructure is just one step in a continuous improvement process. "We try not to make technology choices the limiting factor in designing great product architectures. For instance, Kafka was used heavily in the DNS project, but we are also looking at RabbitMQ because each messaging platform has different strengths and weaknesses, depending on the engineering requirements. Elasticsearch is only one of the technologies we are looking at to redefine how we manage our data."
Looking ahead
The DNS improvement project isn't just a way to squeeze more speed out of the system; it's an outcome of our goals in using technology to advance the domain name industry and make it easier and less complex to manage for you and your customers. The standards-based nature of BIND, for instance, means we will be able to protect our users better by pushing ahead with support for DNSSEC and other new extensions such as DANE.
System-wide stability and security are also always in mind. DDOS mitigation is now a major component of any modern DNS infrastructure both in terms of the scale of DDOS we see, but also in how we handle and mitigate DDOS in general. We want to reduce or eliminate every instance of downtime that we can for you and your users, and won't stop until we have.
"Nobody really notices DNS unless it breaks." It highlights the reactive nature of most DNS support efforts. But it's also why our engineering team has bucked the trend by taking a creative, proactive approach to fixing major DNS issues, some of which are only just now on the others' radars. We're always busy applying modern technology solutions to an ageing global network. It's the only way to ensure that our industry keeps prospering, and we are thrilled to keep you updated about all the exciting innovations we're developing (and surprising things we're learning) as the Internet continues to grow and adapt.
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Why some investors and medical researchers are looking past pot to psychedelic drugs
'This may indeed become the next big thing in psychiatry,' says former neuroscientist Mendel Kaelen
Welcome to Part One of The Big Trip, a special Day 6 series all about the future of psychedelic drugs.
In 2014, Sergeant Jon Lubecky was running out of options.
The army veteran had struggled with severe PTSD for eight years. In 2006, he'd suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was hit by a mortar blast in Iraq.
None of the treatments he'd tried — anti-depressants, exposure therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) — had made a meaningful difference. Five times, Lubecky attempted suicide.
"Every second of every day, I was either thinking of killing myself or planning to kill myself," he wrote in a blog post.
Then an intern at his psychiatrist's office slipped him an unexpected note. It contained just three words: 'Google PTSD MDMA.'
Years later, Lubecky says that piece of paper saved his life.
Hallucinogens rebranded
As Canadians prepare for the legalization of recreational marijuana, a psychedelic drug renaissance is also underway.
It's like doing therapy while being hugged by everyone who loves you in a bathtub full of puppies licking your face.- Jon Lubecky
Around the world, a series of high-profile clinical trials are shifting public perception of psychedelic drugs like MDMA (better known as ecstasy) and LSD away from their reputation as technicolour party drugs — and rebranding them as potentially revolutionary treatment tools.
The studies' results are still preliminary, due in part to the studies' small sample sizes.
But researchers believe these drugs could one day help treat everything from alcohol addiction to anxiety and even treatment-resistant depression.
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Mendel Kaelen is a former neuroscientist with Imperial College London who studied psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, as a therapy tool for treatment-resistant depression.
In one 2016 study, nearly 70 per cent of patients reported that their depression had lifted after a single psilocybin treatment.
And that wasn't the only remarkable finding.
"More interestingly, we see a sustained effect of this — we see a sustained reduction in depression for the weeks and the months after the treatment as well," Kaelen said.
More studies are required to replicate those results and determine how long those effects might last. But other psychedelic drug trials have borne similar findings.
In Canada and the U.S., health regulators are taking notice.
This may indeed become the next big thing in psychiatry.- Mendel Kaelen, former neuroscientist and CEO of Wavepaths
In August 2017, the FDA gave MDMA "breakthrough therapy status," accelerating the process for its approval as a prescription drug to treat PTSD.
A Phase 3 clinical trial for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is set to begin this fall in collaboration with Health Canada and the FDA.
If it is successful, MDMA could be an approved prescription drug in Canada by 2021.
"This may indeed become the next big thing in psychiatry," Kaelen said.
Psychedelic therapy
Lubecky was initially skeptical that an ecstasy trip could help him overcome his PTSD.
But the MDMA-assisted psychotherapy he experienced was more like a therapy session than a stereotypical drug trip.
"It's like doing therapy while being hugged by everyone who loves you in a bathtub full of puppies licking your face," Lubecky told CBC's Day 6.
When it comes to psychedelic drug therapy, the setting matters immensely, according to Kaelen.
"The main purpose in these sessions is to take a psychedelic compound in a controlled environment under supervision of trained psychotherapists," he said.
Psychedelic drug researchers make a point of creating a safe, supportive environment for their patients, complete with mood lighting and specially-designed music playlists.
Lubecky met with a specially-trained psychotherapist three times before taking the drug. At the beginning of their fourth session together, he was given a dose of MDMA.
"With the MDMA, it puts the mind and body in the place it needs to be for the therapy to work," Lubecky recalled. "So I didn't get that adrenaline kick; the hairs on the back of my neck didn't stand up. That entire physiological reaction to the trauma was disconnected."
To this day, Lubecky credits the MDMA treatment with changing his life. He no longer suffers from PTSD.
And he wasn't alone: 67 per cent of participants in that study were still PTSD-free one year after their treatment ended.
"I cannot tell you how big of an impact it is on your life," said Lubecky.
A fledgling industry
To date, academic institutions and non-profit organizations have taken the lead on psychedelic drug research. But investors are also starting to take notice.
Compass Pathways, a for-profit company based in the U.K. (and backed by billionaire Peter Thiel), is currently producing pharmaceutical-grade psilocybin pills for use in clinical research. It's also funding trials that could eventually lead to the drugs' approval for medical use.
"This is a sign that this is moving beyond the academic community — and that some really serious investment communities are indeed recognizing that there is an opportunity for something to grow and become profitable on quite a large scale," Kaelen said.
Compass Pathways is not the only company looking to profit from psychedelic therapy. In the U.S., Johnson & Johnson and Allergan are both actively researching and developing ketamine-like drugs.
Entrepreneurs are also starting to enter the space — including Kaelen himself, who left academia earlier this year to found a psychedelic-inspired startup called Wavepaths.
If future clinical trials prove successful, Kaelen believes psychedelic stocks will one day be listed next to cannabis on the Nasdaq.
"You look at the incredible amount of individuals who need a better treatment … we're talking about the treatment of treatment-resistant depression; post-traumatic stress disorder; smoking cessation; anxiety," he said.
"We'll need to see where research is bringing us — but if things go ahead they way they [are going] right now, that is a very likely and interesting scenario."
Written and produced by Annie Bender.
Click here for Part Two and Part Three of The Big Trip, a special Day 6 series about the future of psychedelic drugs.
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Call only the best local pressure washing company in the CSRA. Ensure you work with a pressure washer who has been pressure washing homes of all sizes for years. A top-rated, certified company who complies with all the laws regarding high powered cleaning services. We ensure you work with a company who's employees are trained in their area of operation and handling of equipment. We draw from a long experience of professionalism and efficiency to give you total satisfaction in your cleaning needs. We, as professionals, recognize that pressure washing is an essential part of home and commercial building maintenance. We want to help you keep your investments well-maintained.
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Welcome to our website! We pair you with locally owned and operated companies who give back to the CSRA community with customer satisfaction, professionalism, and integrity. Get matched with the right washer who will talk with you about exactly what you want done, and provide only the highest-quality work.
More Than Just an Aesthetic Factor
Receive only premier services in Augusta GA at competitive pricing. There are a plethora of reasons why caring for your roof or siding via pressure washing is more than just an aesthetic factor. Your structure must be cared for, even if you cannot see the build-up of dirt, debris, and algae.
Timely, Professional Pressure Washing Services
At Pressure Washing Augusta, we pair you with a company who will deliver a timely and professional roof and siding pressure washing service that cleans dirt, mess, and debris from the top of your roof and the sides of your home, having it shining brightly once again.
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Power Washing Services, to keep your roof looking spic and span (as well as prolonging it's lifespan.)
When you own any property, upkeep is vitally important to maintaining equilibrium and efficiency. A home or commercial property that is poorly kept is likely to give you more headaches than you need to go through.
This is why, at Pressure Washing Augusta, we provide you with home contractors who provide high-level power washing services to help clean down roofs.
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- Save on energy bills with newfound home efficiency.
- Increase the value of your home.
- Strengthen your roof structure & forget extensive repairs.
- An extended lifespan of your roof, save money.
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Then contact us today! We look forward to helping your family keep your roof in the best condition possible!
if you are the owner of a property that is in need of some roof care and attention, contact us today. We'll set up a consultation to come around and take a closer look at your present roof condition. If we feel like it needs any work done to help keep you within warranty or to improve the quality of your roof, we'll arrange a cost-effective quote to take things an extra step further.
Soft Wash Services in Augusta, GA
Get Rid of That Dirt build up on your home.
Cleaning the inside of your home is something that everyone does on a daily basis without thinking twice. The outside of your home, however, is often neglected. Over time, algae, mold, dirt, and grime build up on your roof, vinyl siding, driveway, and sidewalk, which can harm the home or pavement. Not to mention, a mold build up on your homes exterior can also affect the health of the residents inside the house. If you wait too long to find a cleaning solution for this filth on your property, it will cost you much more money in the long run.
The roof and siding of your home will start to get eaten away by the mold and fungi, and if the damage is severe enough, you will have to replace them completely. Your driveways and sidewalks get damaged by salt used to melt ice over the winter, which can cause cracks in the pavement.
When the pavement cracks, water can seep in. If these cracks get filled with water and freeze during the cold winter months, they will become bigger and bigger, requiring a pavement contractor to come out and repair the damage that has been done. If your home has any signs of mold, fungi, or dirt build up, it is time to consider pressure washing.
Whether you have a pressure washer or want to hire a pressure washing service, it is essential to give the outside of your house the cleaning it needs and deserves.
Dirt build up on your business? Wash it Off!
When owning commercial property, it is not only important to keep your building and parking lot clean for the presentation, but for the health liability of your customers. When a customer comes to your establishment, the first things they see are the parking lot and exterior of your building.
This is the first impression they have of your business, so why not do a good job impressing them? If they like what they see immediately, their experience with your company is already off to a good start, and they are more likely to spend money on your products/service and come back time and time again. Having a wrong first impression starts them off on a bad note and could potentially make them go somewhere else entirely.
On top of having a good presentation of your company, having a clean and safe property is something you are liable for as a business owner. If someone injures themselves due to damage to your pavement or get sick because of mold in your building, your company is responsible.
Before any harm is done to your property or reputation of your business, consider hiring a power washing company to come clean your building with state of the art power washers.
What we do
We match pressure washing business to homeowners in Augusta. We work with companies who offer outdoor cleaning services to commercial and residential properties. We choose who we work with by their attention to detail, knowledge of the soft-wash industry, friendly employees, Google ratings and state of the art technology, ensuring they stand out from the rest. Call today to request a free estimate!
Pressure Washing Businesses at Your Fingertips
Our experts will first discuss your washing needs, figure out the best approach to conduct the job, and work out the price. Our prices are affordable and we provide the best value for money. What is more? We give you a special bonus coupon.
We have top-of-the-line house washing equipment, products, and gear have been sourced carefully from reputable suppliers. They are diversified to suit different types of requirements and meet the challenges of pressure washing. We understand that no two customers have exactly the same cleaning needs or requirements. We also have our own transportation to carry all the cleaning equipment. Our employees are highly trained in their fields of expertise, knowing the proper way to operate all machinery safely. Our ability to adapt to circumstances and challenges is what makes our company stand out from the competition. And to give you peace of mind that all is well, we have insurance cover against all service related claims.
In our bid to make a household name for ourselves in all of the CSRA, we strive to provide you, the customer, with not only a job well done, but excellent customer service. We feel that for your pressure washing needs, you should be provided with the best choice – Pressure Washing Augusta GA. We continually receive positive review and referrals from many happy customers, and we are on multiple social media platforms in order to always be available to communicate with past, present, and future clients. We continue to use as many networking opportunities as we can. In providing you service, we ensure that ours is a superior service and great value for money.
One of our biggest goals is to always arrive on time when called or on appointment. Also, we always ensure our work meets or exceeds your expectations.
- Carpets at home and office
- Roofs and Ventilations
- Driveways and Parking Lots
- Sidewalks and Walkways
- Floors, Walls and Fences
- Floor Decks
- Car Wash including the body, interior and engine
- Patios
- Pavers
- Pool areas
- Monuments
- Restoration
- And any other area that requires pressure washing
Outdoor Cleaning with High-Pressure Washing
Carpets are difficult to clean without the right equipment. The normal vacuum cleaning only removes loose specks of dust and dirt, but stains and sticky substances are left stuck in the carpet. Moisture is very unhealthy for carpets. We vacuum carpets ourselves before doing the rest of the cleaning process. Our softened, hot water mixed with appropriate cleaning agents, is jetted into the carpet work and then suctioned with powerful pumps to leave your carpet clean and dry. Furthermore, our service is delivered on location. No need to worry about folding and removing it from the room.
Chewing Gum Removal
Chewing of gum is a national passion that we cannot fault or stop, but pieces of gum that are recklessly thrown on the floor, walkway and driveway cause annoyance when we step on them and they stick on the shoes. Our gum removal equipment will remove the gum and clean off the area, giving users a comfortable, clean place to walk.
Car Park Cleaning and Driveway Cleaning
Your parking lot, garage, driveway, walkway, or sidewalk is the gateway to your premises. And yes, first impressions really do matter. They should be safe; not being slippery or littered with debris and obstacles. They should also look well maintained in order to impress visitors, especially if it's your business. Our company will ensure that these areas are impeccably clean. Moreover, we are available to work at late hours when there is low human traffic, so that we do not interrupt your visitors. (Kind of like when people are doing roadwork during mid-day causing crazy traffic jams. Nobody likes that).
Pressure Washing Outdoor Surfaces
We can take care of your air conditioning unit by spraying all of the dirt out of it so it can breathe and ultimately run better! We also take care of walls, concrete pavements, and other outdoor surfaces are particularly susceptible to persistent dirt, grease, grime, mold, spills, oil and grease smudges, and stains. Using our pressure washing surface cleaning equipment and materials we can get rid of environmental pollutants like smoke, dust and debris. Moreover, we work to restore the surface to its original clean and fresh shine. Before cleaning, we treat the surfaces in order to remove bugs and bacteria, and scrape off slimy moss and algae, stains, and any other unsightly things on the surface. We then follow these actions with cleaning with properly adjusted pressure washing. We can also conduct minor repairs, waxing, sand polishing, and waterproofing (sealing) on surfaces as well. Our experts will do everything possible not to affect surrounding lawns and flower beds.
Roof Cleaning
When it comes to ensuring we are keeping our homes in top quality condition, washing roofs often falls down the list of priorities. Roof pressure washing services are one of the most reliable ways to get your roof cleaned – but how often do you consider the conditioning of your roof?
For many homeowners, their roof is out of sight, and out of mind. Without the ability to see every inch of your roof, it's easy to mistake small and minor algae build-up on one section as being representative. Often, though, it's the parts of the roof out of your view that can be the most significantly damaged.
We clean roof stains all the time. Fun fact: some of the most "under-cleaned" places in buildings are the roofs. Hedges and trees surrounding your premises shed their leaves which fall onto the roof, and wind blows dust and more debris on the roof. The debris block gutters and prevent water from flowing freely, and if you harvest rain water, it ends up being dirty and mucky.
The roof can look unsightly or be stained by all types of debris. Being as a roof is a difficult area to reach, and yet so exposed to the elements, it is important to hire the right company to clean it up using customized equipment for such jobs. We have the necessary equipment and know how to carry out these tasks safely.
We use specialized safe wash chemicals that are specifically meant for roof cleaning and will not be hazardous to the environment, especially the lawn grass and flowerbeds later. These special chemicals kill germs and bugs, but preserves plants and trees. We do not stain surfaces as done by corrosive chemicals like chlorine.
Our Promise
As most homeowners are choosing to stay in their homes longer, their investment becomes increasingly important. Everybody deserves to stay in a clean, pleasant and comfortable environment that inspires one's inner energy. Home owners are therefore opting to remodel and clean their homes to the highest standards by choosing us.
Our technology and techniques allow for the shortest drying time so that you are not kept out of your premises for an unnecessarily long time. We do not leave any residues on your premises, be it flooding waters, soiled lawns, or heaps of trash. Our service is of the highest standards and leaves a sparkle that is shinier than a smile, and our customers acclaim our wonderful services. Our mode of working is ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY, as we do not use corrosive or unsafe chemicals, and we do not waste water. Besides, we are happy to offer a long term contract if that is what is best for you and your home or office.
Our customers love the cleanliness they receive. See some of their testimonials!
Naturally, it's essential to do all that you can to avoid investing in new siding or new roofing. With a pressure washing company in Augusta GA, you can get access to a company that can help to keep your home in top-notch condition.
Plus, experience a much more efficient quality of life. Your roof keeps the energy you need to use right where it needs to be – under your roof. The more energy that can seep out through the roof, the more you need to spend on energy bills. The cost of a power wash is much smaller than the annual energy costs you'll be seeing rise up!
When you undergo a power washing service, you will get to enjoy:
Improved peace of mind. When it comes to moving and selling your home or trying to improve it, the roof has to be in good shape. This is the foundation of any right house. Knowing that your roof is free of these damaging organisms such as algae can deliver a peace of mind that you just would not have had previously.
Better quality of work. Another primary reason why many people look to power washing their roof is the aesthetic appeal. Your household will look better, improving its overall value in the marketplace and thus make it easier to promote a sale, should the time come where you want to move on.
The more extended lifespan of the roof. A roof that isn't having to fight off the infection and irritation of algae and another build-up can enjoy a longer lifespan. If you expect your roof to last you for a couple of decades, then it has to be cared for. Using a power washing company like ourselves at Pressure Washing Augusta GA can give you the perfect opportunity to do just that.