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Designers Robert & Cortney Novogratz
What: Apartment Therapy Design Evenings
Who: Robert and Cortney Novogratz
Attendees: 300 - Event Full!
When: Wednesday, June 13, 6:30-8:00pm
Where: ABC Carpet & Home | 888 Broadway NYC
We had a full house for our Design Evening with Robert and Cortney Novogratz! Read more about our evening below, or watch the evening's discussion via Vimeo.
Join us next month when we welcome Designer and Event Planner extraordinaire David Stark. Check out our Meetup page for details on future events, and to RSVP to upcoming ones.
We started out our 58th Design Evening with Jeremy Pickett's presentation of his custom stereo console. See the post about Jeremy's stereo console here, and learn more about Jeremy's company here. If you're in L.A. you can see Jeremy's furniture in person at the Dwell on Design conference going on June 22-24th!
Watch the full evening's presentation on Vimeo!
Good evening, everyone. Before we get started this evening with the Novogratz', I wanted to share a few fun happenings at Apartment Therapy.
First, we launched our new Classifieds system last month - we originally created this years ago, but we've now partnered with a company that offers much better selections, better images, etc. It's very localized, and as of today we have 2,382 sellers and 1,626 new items for sale. I spoke to someone last week who had posted on both our Classifieds system and Craigslist - apparently the person who wanted the item from Craigslist never showed up, while the Apartment Therapy person showed up, paid, and left. Very efficient, I was pleased to hear that! So, check it out when you're in the market for some great items.
We also recently launched our new video series. We featured two per week and call them Maker videos, or stories that we tell that we feel can't be told through posts. Both the Classifieds and the Video Series can be found on the left nav of our site.
Our guest next month will be David Stark, whom we recently partnered with for our first ever Internship Challenge. David came to us saying he was having a difficult time finding new, qualified interns, so we partnered with him to create the "Design Is Not Taught!" Intern Search. His team interviewed the Top 6 finalists last week, and will have a decision made this week. The intern they choose will get to work with David Stark's team for three months, and they also won the chance to plan the Apartment Therapy holiday party. We look forward to hearing more about how it's going when David joins us next month.
And finally, the Small, Cool Kitchens 2012 contest launches next month, so check out our site and vote for your favorite!
And now, I'm very excited to introduce this month's Design Evening guests.
For over almost twenty years, Cortney and Robert Novogratz have developed and designed many unique properties in Manhattan and beyond, rebuilt (from the ground up) entire blocks in the city, and turned funky into fabulous, with every detail considered and executed with the utmost taste, confidence, and luxury.
The Novogratz' first book published by Rizzoli, Downtown Chic, has become a best-seller worldwide. They have a second book coming from Artisan this October. Their TV show, 9 by Design, was a hit on the Bravo network. And now they have another huge tv hit, Home by Novogratz on HGTV. The second season is shooting now and will premiere in June. Home by Novogratz has been broadcast in Canada, and is currently airing internationally.
The duo currently live with their seven children in a 10,000 square foot glass house on Manhattan's West Side Highway. The home was also featured in the New York Times Home section, in a cover piece, "Branding the Family".
Please welcome Bob and Cortney.
Thank you so much, it's amazing to be here tonight. ABC Carpet is one of the first places we visited in New York when we arrived here 20 years ago, so it's always great to have a reason to come back here. Part of our journey has been about inspiration, so bravo to ABC for giving us so much of that over the years.
I'd like to send out a second bravo to Jeremy. We're not that young but we are constantly inspired by new, young designers. They keep this industry fresh and interesting. It's inspiring to be around folks like Jeremy, so thank you to him as well.
Here, here. So I usually start out these evenings by asking a bit about your background. I know you both are from the South. Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Northern Virginia, in a family of seven children. My father was a Colonel in the Army, and my mom, who was from Woodside, Queens, was a model.
I grew up in Columbus, Georgia, the youngest of five children. Growing up, I didn't always feel inspired, and I recognized that from an early age. My mother renovated a lot, though, and I knew that I liked that, and found that to be one of my early inspirations - knocking down walls, renovating spaces, it really worked for me.
So you both come from large families. Did both of your siblings leave the South as well?
Few people leave the South. For me, I have a lot of family there, so when we go back it's easy to see everyone at once. Only one of my siblings left as well and moved out to L.A.
We were suburban kids, yet I felt very inspired growing up. Most likely because our parents instilled a lot of self-confidence in us. All of my siblings have gone on to do something great - for example, my sister Jacklyn started a hedge fund, and her husband is one of the Founders of TED talks. I constantly heap praise on my parents for what they did for us growing up, they really deserve the credit.
So where did you meet?
We met at a party in North Carolina and got married a few years later. It was...
...wait, wait. Here's the full story!
We met at a party, and I asked Cortney if she was a model or an actress. Then I said wait, you're too short to be a model so you must be an actress. Her rebuttal was, "If I was taller I'd be a super model and wouldn't be talking to you." She got me.
From there we disappeared from the party and basically weren't seen by anyone for three days. We decided during that time that we wanted to get married.
Yes, although we didn't talk about having seven children at that time. We just knew that we both wanted a lot. And we couldn't do this without each other.
So you came to New York, but I'm curious about your first encounters. Many come here and find it daunting - too expensive, too tough, etc. Did you ever feel that? How did you dive in and take on renovations like you did in a city like this?
You know, we rejoice in living in NYC every day, and feel humbled that we can live here and do what we love. When we first got here I was in finance, and did that for a little while. I also did event planning, and found that I love throwing parties. In the early 90's, we flew in some dudes from Austin, TX and Georgia, booming music scenes at the time. The parties were fun, and successful - nine of our friends met and got married after meeting at our parties.
The parties really helped us stay afloat here, as we charged for them.
We have a good family friend who often says that some have money, but few have style. We know you have the latter, but how did you pay the rent at first?
The first building we bought we put everything into it. And, we were planning our wedding at the same time. We bought it 2-3 years after we moved here.
We really wanted to do something cool. We found our passion, and vice versa.
Really, the decision to buy the building stemmed from our parties. Money gives you security, but if you can make a living by doing what you love, that's the key. The parties started it and gave us the confidence to take a chance.
So that first building was really a first deep dive into the unknown.
Now, you have a tv show, products, and design clients, but you say that your true business is real estate. Finding undervalued properties and turning them into something.
Yes. And our advantage has always been that we are outsiders. Most New Yorkers don't see the potential in these properties, at least they didn't when we started doing this.
We opened a Girls' Club in the East Village recently and we were over there yesterday. The most exciting part of it, besides what it will mean to the girls, is the construction piece. We really love the whole renovation process, or we wouldn't have done it so many times! So if we could, we'd love to show you a bit about the various buildings we've renovated.
We'll be using it on the product lines that we have coming out soon.
We've talked a lot tonight about taking chances. Things are constantly changing, and to stay relative you must change along with them.
This slide is an image of the first place we built in 1995. We looked at three apartments - none of which we liked, and we didn't like the co-op thing. At the time, places in Chelsea, the Village, and Harlem were going for around $200K. This building that we found was on the market for six years, and was formerly a SRO. It's in Chelsea, and we immediately liked this area. We thought, let's follow the gay community, the trendsetters. So we bought it.
Everyone we met told us not to go through with it. We put everything we had into it, and interviewed architects soon afterwards to figure out what renovating would cost. We got a high, middle, and low quote, the middle (the safest) being $20K. We just couldn't spend that kind of money after the purchase, so we hired a draftsman for $400, bought a measuring tape, and did it ourselves.
So tons of things happened on this job. One of my favorite stories is when we rented a refuse container. We got to the site the next morning and noticed that all of the neighbors had put all their junk in it! Being Southerners we just didn't anticipate this at all. So, we got used to filling it up each day as quickly as we could so that wouldn't happen again. We really learned on the job.
Yeah, it was really incredible. Everyone had an opinion about what we were doing. We made a million mistakes, but luckily, none of them were huge or non-fixable. It was a great education. We felt like we were really living, which was very exciting.
So tell us one mistake that you made.
Ok, so Cortney hired this guy out of the yellow pages to do some of the construction work. His name was John Gotti. Now, we were still relatively new to the area and didn't know who he was at all. Meanwhile, he gives us a bill for $4,500 and we're in shock. We can't pay it. Cortney used her ways to talk it down, but it was tough. Once we figured out who he was we counted ourselves very lucky that we got out of that unscathed.
We decided to paint it yellow. People loved it or hated it.
It's a two-family home. We always say buy a two family, or three, or four. So much rental potential in those. When we were looking for tenants we got a lot of celebrities that stopped by for some reason. We ended up renting to Suzanne Vega - she wanted the top unit, and agreed to pay handsomely for it. So we moved downstairs and gave her that unit. Her rent paid our mortgage five times over. When this happened, we knew we were onto something.
How long were you there?
We lived there for about 1 ½ years. We stayed until we had a fifteen month old and I was pregnant with twins. During that time, we walked the streets looking for the next thing.
Many folks told us it would take about 20 months to do the work we did. We try to do stuff fast, and we believe in doing it that way so we can keep moving forward. It took us 8 months to renovate. We lived in an apartment during this time. Then, we lived in this place while we were looking for our next place to renovate.
For this one, we re-zoned commercial to residential. It's on Thompson Street, across from Café Noir, and again, at the time this wasn't the booming place it is now. The SoHo Grand Hotel had just gone up, and that really helped legitimize this part of the neighborhood.
At this time we were still on a tight budget. We were inspired by European architecture, so we did these unique flower boxes on the building. We brought our twin girls home there.
Was this one more challenging?
Yeah, we were a bit humbled by this one.
We didn't have any kind of art for the walls, so we went to Chelsea Flea Market and other places and picked up inexpensive drawings, etc.
We bought this lot for $500K. We cleaned out the lot, took the barb wire down. And then the next week, someone offered us $2,000,000 for it. We were very lucky and knew we had to flip it. Again, very few wanted these places at the time, and just a little cleanup did the trick.
We dream, but we also pull back. We had to pace ourselves, as we could only do one at once.
Does adrenaline keep you going?
Yes. And in every house we had a new baby. We ended up having a christening in each new house, which was magical.
This is 24 Thompson Street now. We love the French influence. We bought old doors and windows in France. At the time we just wanted to get stuff out there and take a chance. You know, we have writer friends who will work on something for ten years. We just aren't like that - we produce and move on.
For our next project we ended up designing two houses on one street. Fortunately, we found four empty buildings on Centre Market Place. We saw this block as very neglected.
Buildings 1, 2, 4, and 5 were for sale, but not building 3. We didn't want to build up super high since we didn't have the money to do so, but nonetheless, we leveraged everything we had (again) to get all four buildings.
No one saw our vision, and as we were trying to find buyers we felt we may be a bit stuck. And then right around this time, we did a NY Times interview. A Chicago couple saw it and called us to design one of the places for them. We ended up living in one, and selling the other three.
A view of 4 Centre Place after.
This is a bachelor's residence - he still lives there after all these years. We did a wine cellar for him as well. We had always designed for friends, but it was at this time, during these projects, that we started taking work on with outside clients.
We really loved living there. It felt like a big family between all the buildings.
Number 5 was a former gun shop. This tells you a bit more about how we see things. You can really turn any space into something if you have the vision. Robert DeNiro's wife saw it and didn't even realize that her husband had filmed in that location. This place was fun - when we lived here we had folks stopping by quite often looking for the gun shop. It blew our mine. To us it was very unexpected, that so many people in New York would visit a gun shop!
We slowly started getting better with our designs. We always had vision, but needed people to help us along. We find good people, give them the freedom to do what they do, and it makes for a much better end product.
As you can see, we started going a bit more modern at this point, although we still like to mix in some old elements. The lights we used in this place were from an old bridge.
As Bob said, we need people to help realize our vision. Often times there are very talented people out there who just haven't been discovered yet. We found a guy who helped us design and build a floating staircase, utilizing a skylight from his office in order to make more room for it to fit into the house.
Inside the house we went very modern, with features like stainless baseboards.
This is our current home at 400 West Street. The building was a motorcycle shop and one story - we decided to expand upwards and make it what it is today.
Is it complicated to navigate codes when doing something like building up?
You need a good expeditor, that's for sure.
And we've found that NYC is willing to work with you, it just takes time, and patience, to navigate the system.
Calculated risk is always taken into account. We tell clients the same thing - think about what makes sense. The property often dictates the rules. Here, being on the highway, we knew we could part art on the outside of the building as well.
Inside we have a half basketball court - we knew we wanted a large family, so features like this make sense, since we knew it would be used all the time. We put a basketball court on the roof of our last house.
An interviewer asked us once why we put our family through a move every few years. As you can imagine, we were a bit taken aback - we're moving them from one great house to the next, so it's pretty much a no-brainer for them.
Trancoso, Brazil. Our friend Alex, a Designer, told us about this cool town. So we go and visit. And it's on the beach. Alex wanted to sell his house, but we weren't sure we could actually buy it, given the laws in Brazil (if we'd really have ownership of it or not). Our Accountant wasn't sure, but he went to the Consulate and found out that it would be legitimate. So, we went through with it.
Staying in Trancoso, we found the hotels to be quite expensive, but the house itself wasn't. We finished the house about 7 or 8 years ago.
We rent the house out during the year and make the mortgage and then some. For us, travel is very important, and we love having a house overseas.
As we've found, real estate is also very steeped in fear, especially overseas real estate. We found that many people were afraid to visit us at first. Our town is very safe, but people believe the media, and often live in that fear.
We always wanted to own something overseas. It's amazing there - we sketch on a napkin and they just go ahead and design beautiful furniture and other things for us. It's also not very Americanized down there. Few people speak English. These days, it's hard to find places like that.
And yes, if you're wondering, we're learning Portuguese.
This is a treehouse that we built and designed ourselves. We let both friends and charities use it. The showers are tree trunks. It's great when you can use the home's surroundings in the design.
The book is really about our entire journey.
Rizzoli published it. We negotiated this and the Bravo deal at the same time.
We were approached to do a show after renovating our first house. Everyone tried to turn us off to this idea, but at the same time, reality TV was still in its infant stages, and we thought, what the heck.
We just went for it. When people liked it, of course they were like, oh, you made the right call.
During Bravo, we got approached to do our first hotel. It's right on the beach in Long Branch, NJ. We also did a Fred Segal store in Santa Monica, a bowling alley - very fun stuff, and very different than working in residential.
In the rooms we tried to do fun things. Chalkboard walls, funky wall hangings. We told them we wanted to be involved in every aspect of the design, from naming the hotel, to choosing the bell hop uniforms, to designing all details of the rooms.
We paid a lot on this one, but we really wanted to create something great. The best things we've done weren't on big budgets.
Every room has a handmade flag from a coastal country.
We met the flag designer, Anna, through a SoHo store. We've been working with her for about 10 years now. We never met her or spoke on the phone at first, but we totally hit it off. A year after the show, her business really exploded.
Our new show is on HGTV. We're now out of reality TV and into a true design show.
The Fred Segal store, Tony Hawk's ski house, and this bachelor pad have all been featured on the show.
Our paint line came from doing the show. We also have a few other partnerships.
This is our product line with CB2.
What's great about CB2 is that we love the people. Our first one-hour meeting turned into a five-hour drinking fest. They're great people, and they believe in us, and that's what matters. So, we'll see how it goes with this new line.
Before we go to the Q&A, we wanted to give everyone here tonight a little gift.
Novogratz is all about team and family. It really takes a village to keep it going. We always get these friendship bands in Brazil and hand them out to family and friends. You are to wear them until they fall off, for good luck and friendship.
How do you deal with stress during projects, and what happened to the gun in front of your gun shop? It was a bit of a landmark in its day.
The gun is actually still there, in the new location. As for stress - well, wine helps. We also find talking it through is always a good strategy. We also try to keep the big picture in mind.
We also always finish and follow-through, which is key.
These days, you can't buy a house for $300K or $400K. What's your advice for finding real estate gems?
The facts are that interest rates are at an all-time low. Figure out how many you can fit in a home (2-family, 3-family) and work it from there. It's worth it, but you need to be fully ready when you dive in.
Any suggestions for up-and-coming hot areas?
Not many in Manhattan. The Lower East Side a bit, and near the High Line are still good. And of course, Brooklyn has been hot for a while and it's still climbing upwards.
Here is a question that was sent before this evening:
What do you consider your biggest attribute/break in getting to where you are today?
Meeting Robert. Two heads are better than one, and none of this would have happened without us, as a team, meeting the challenges together head-on.
We don't take any of our successes, or failures, too seriously. And we continue to keep it fun.
• Special thanks to Kayne Elisabeth Rourke for transcribing our Meetup!
• Special thanks to our volunteers, Gabriel Sperber & Kortnee Mcclendon!
• Images: Apartment Therapy


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A serial killer is on the loose on the beaches of Cairns and is terrifying the community and Frank Holler must catch the villain quickly. The mysterious Jack Firebrace may be the link that Frank needs but will he figure it out in time to save the woman in Room 22.
Every person Frank meets raises the level of intrigue as the wide variety of suspects and interesting people whose lives are intertwined with twists and turns keep the reader guessing to the very last page
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Thursday, 16 July 2009
Webcam update (Updated)
24 comments:
@ Colin, ah now I understand the
name :) makes perfect sense, like Anne I think we all name them in our minds.I am so glad she is in your care.As Shakespeare said
"A rose is a rose by any name"
- 14 July 2009 at 17:34
- Karen Anne said...
Thanks for the update.
- 14 July 2009 at 18:58
That's great news I hope they get fixed. I have missed seeing the peregrines and can't wait to see them again. Good news that it's covered on the maintenance plan!
- 14 July 2009 at 19:31
- Terry, Herts UK said...
Considering the massive commitment Colin has made, I agree that Colin should of, and needed to name her. 'Cathy' is much better than '010', now she is not a wild bird (though hardly a pet!).
- 15 July 2009 at 03:38
Fingers crossed that the video camera feed will soon be fixed then. Meantime, I clearly don't have enough to do so am checking out Shakespeare quotes. That rose one is from Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) and goes
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - the gist of course being exacly as Pax Canada said! I wonder if Shakespeare had anything to say about peregrines ....
- 15 July 2009 at 09:48
- Tom Stephenson said...
The most horrible line in Shakespeare?
"Oh horrible, most horrible..."
- 15 July 2009 at 10:14
- Project Member (Derby Museum) said...
There's a challenge for you @Sue - reserch the references to peregrines in Shakespeare's works.
I've just found this one in Romeo & Juliet, but not sure if tassel-gentle refers to a peregrine or a goshawk.
[Enter JULIET again]
JULIET: Hist! Romeo, hist! O for a falc'ner's voice
To lure this tassel gentle back again!
Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud,
Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than
With repetition of "My Romeo!"
- 15 July 2009 at 10:14
- Tom Stephenson said...
My home town of Bath was also home to Adelard of Bath, a monk who introduced the concept of zero into European mathematics, brought back from Arabia about 1000 years ago. He was also an expert falconer (falcons were called 'gentles' for some reason), and produced a treatise on the nurture of falcons which I could scan and post up if anyone is interested.
- 15 July 2009 at 10:22
Don't know about peregrines, but a recent RSPB article pointed out that Shakespeare was one of the first to comment on the red kite's habit of stealing colourful washing to decorate its nest -
"when the kite builds, look to lesser linen" A Winter's Tale, Act 4 Scene 3.
Sue C
- 15 July 2009 at 18:30
I'm afraid not much effcrt has been devoted to locating the remaining peregrine juveniles recently since this gets harder and harder to do successfully as the parent birds take them further away from the cathedral and also as the young birds become more independent of them.
As I said before, there have been no recent sightings of both the remaining male juvenile birds but that doesn't mean that they aren't still out there somewhere.
Any news of someone seeing both will be reported here but, as we have said before, there are entirely wild birds.
The parent birds came to Derby of their own volition. Our 'intervention' with 010 is the exception to the rule that they must fend for themselves.
And, as we have said mnay times, the survival rate of the young birds is likely to be very low.
Nick B (DWT)
- 16 July 2009 at 07:23
Hi All, I'm a Long time follower of the web cams and blog but this is the first time I've left a comment. I was in Derby last Friday morning (10th July) and took a walk up to the cathedral to see if any of the birds were around. On my way up Irongate I saw two peregrines performing some playfull acrobatics in the air before drifting away over town, although I didn't have my bin's to hand I was fairly certain these were the two male juveniles. This seemed to be confirmed when I found both adult birds present on the cathedral tower when I arrived at the cathedral green a couple of minutes later. So it would seem that both remaining juveniles and both adults were in good health last Friday! Apologie's for taking so long to post this good news.
- 16 July 2009 at 07:59
I took a trip to Chichester yesterday (silly me, should have gone to Derby) to check out their peregrine situation .... and I saw .... absolutely nothing, other than loads of seagulls and feral pigeons. So, it's fairly typical I guess that peregrines will start pereginating away at this time - but great to see "Long Time Follower's" news. I have been promised I can visit Derby the weekend after next so I hope for sightings then. I just checked out the CQ website (here - http://www.derbycathedralquarter.co.uk/index.asp) and have noticed that the Cathedral is looking for sponsors to help refurbish the clock. The cathedral has always been a great partner with the Peregrine Project, maybe some of us birders could help them in return as a thank you. I've not had much time to "Brush up my Shakespeare" yet, but yes, well done Sue C for reminding me about the red kite reference.
Incidentally, I also saw a small piece of news about Chichester. One of their 2007 birds has taken up residence in Cambridge City Centre, 120 miles away. They have ringes 23 birds in all, so Derby has quite a few to catch up.
Fingers crossed for the webcam today ....
- 16 July 2009 at 10:17
- Terry, Herts UK said...
- 16 July 2009 at 12:40
- Karen Anne said...
Thanks for the update, Anon!
Any word on the camera fix? (Two weeks - I'm glad those tech guys are not supporting a hospital or something :-)
- 16 July 2009 at 13:31
To Sue in Bucks - Sorry you missed the Chichester peregrines, they are also spending most of the day out of town now.
You may know this already, but the best place I've found for keeping up with Chichester is here:
The project does not seem to have an official site/blog, this one is run by a local photographer - good pics and informative blog.
- 16 July 2009 at 16:58
- Terry, Herts UK said...
@Karen Anne
This is the way things are going in the UK and many other countries due to the economic situation. Councils & businesses have to cut their costs; in turn, the service companies have to cut theirs to stay in existence.
I'm sure I don't need to spell out who is to blame !
- 16 July 2009 at 18:23
Peregrine seen over Shardlow gravel pits at 6:00 p.m. this evening. Unable to determine whether an adult or juvenile.
- 16 July 2009 at 19:44
I went to Casrsington Reservoir today and in the log book at Sheepwash Hide there was a sighting of a juvenile peregrine on 14th July! Is it possible it could be from Derby Cathedral?
- 16 July 2009 at 22:11
@Sue C, Sussex - yes, I knew the juvs would have long ago fledged but I was suprised not to see any mention at all of peregrines around the town. I didn't know about the Internet site, so thanks for that. I originally heard about the site when it was featured on "The One Show" on the telly. I'm interested in urban peregrines generally and another favourite place of mine is Lincoln. As I've said lots of times before, Derby is my absolute favourite though, not least for the way the project team done so much to share it with anyone who has an interest.
- 17 July 2009 at 10:17
Wow! Checked out that Chichester site and there are some stunning pictures on it! I can't work out how to put comments on the blog though (it's not as easy to use as this one!!) Forgot to mention, our trip to Chichester wasn't totally uneventful - we had a bit of excitement when my husband got a painful wasp sting! Hey ho.
- 17 July 2009 at 10:29
Not sure if the administrators meant to completely disable blog entries on the most recent entry (the one above this one) but I want to support what was said. As is obvious from my blog name, I don't live in Derbyshire, butI joined my local Trust (BBOWT, Bucks Berks and Oxon) directly as a result of the Derby Peregrine Project. We're all marching the same way and I felt I can do more locally than in Derbyshire (although I'm more than happy to volunteer for a peregrine watch or two next season - DWT, you have my personal email address) I like to think of myself as an "honorary" DWT member and frind of Derby Council and Cathedral too and will always support this wonderful Peregrine Project, long may it thrive.
Membership of BBOWT has given me a lot of pleasure - the highlight being my local reserve, "College Lake", featuring on TV's "Springwatch" when polecats were discovered there.
- 17 July 2009 at 10:43
- Karen Anne said...
Terry, In the U.S. too. Our town is now sending out various bills once a year with quarterly coupons to pay, vs. four times a year, to save postage, and I just noticed yesterday that the transfer station went from six days a week to three.
Kind of makes me wonder, though, I calculated out that the bill mailing change saved about $20,000, why didn't anyone think of that before the recession? I don't waste money at home, the town shouldn't waste money, esp. My money as a taxpayer, we have incredibly high taxes here.
I hope we come out of this mess with a less buy everything life.
- 17 July 2009 at 10:48
- Karen Anne said...
The Derbyshire Trust link in the next post (not the link to the blog) takes paypal donations. How much easier can it get to donate :-) Every tiny amount helps.
- 17 July 2009 at 12:39
I've just got back after a month away and the first thing I did was to check the site. I was sad to learn of the death of 09 and the injury to 010. It's always upsettting when you have followed their lives from egg to fledge.
Today I shall donate again and join the DWT.
Incidentally, I was fascinated, as usual, in the SW of France by glow worms. This time I have looked them up. What an enormous number of species there are. One site mentioned a certain Nick M who is an enthusiast and expert. This must be our Nick M. Please confirm.
I'm off now to mug up bioluminescence.
- 20 July 2009 at 11:15


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Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, a 377-bed facility, has attained Magnet Status for nursing excellence and has been rated in the top 5 percent of hospitals multiple times by a leading national ratings organization. The medical center includes a state-of-the-art Cancer Center, a Heart Center, Orthopedics, Neurosciences and Rehabilitation Services, Womens and Childrens Services, as well as providing our communities with a Level II Trauma Center, one of only two 24/7 trauma centers in the San Fernando Valley. Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is the preferred hospital of the leading physician groups in the north valley.
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The San Fernando Valley, home to more than 2 million people, is the sixth most populated Â"cityÂ" in the U.S., although it is officially part of Los Angeles. The Valley boasts a diverse economy, expanding workforce, vibrant arts and entertainment communities.
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Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit system of hospitals, clinics and medical groups with a mission to serve everyoneâ€"especially the poor and vulnerable. Providence is a partner organization of the Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) family, which operates 50 exceptional hospitals and more than 800 clinics across seven western states. With hundreds of physician and advanced practice clinician opportunities in virtually all specialties at any given time, PSJH and Providence offer diverse locations, lifestyles and practice models.
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Facility Name: Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
Location Name: San Fernando Valley, CA
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Number: 113-10
Date: August 2, 2013
House Passes H.R. 313,
the Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013
On July 31, 2013, the House passed H.R. 313, the Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, as amended, by voice vote. The bill would limit Federal agency spending on travel and conferences and require reports on such issues to Congress. The bill now moves to the Senate for further action.
Following are provisions of interest to SSA:
- Would limit Federal agencies to spend no more than $500,000 on a conference unless the agency head waives the limit after determining the expenditure is the most cost-effective option to achieve a compelling purpose. Agencies would be required to submit a report on the waiver, and their justification for it, to the appropriate congressional committees.
- Would require agencies to post on their public websites each quarter of each fiscal year (FY) a report on conferences costing more than $10,000 for which the agency paid travel expenses during the preceding three months. Would also require agencies to post on their public websites detailed information on any presentation made by an employee at a conference.
- Would limit aggregate travel expenses of Federal agencies for each year from FY 2014 through FY 2018 to 70 percent of the aggregate amount of its travel expenses for FY 2010.
- Would require the head of each agency to report to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on the impacts, if any, of travel expense limits on the agency's mission, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and ability to perform core functions.
- Would be effective upon enactment.


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Coming in February 2014
January 24, 2014 in History
January 24, 2014 6:00 p.m.
Watch American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels describe what's coming in February to PBS. The Amish: Shunned centers on seven people who have been shunned as well as voices from the Amish community defending the practice. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were emblematic figures that became legend. The Rise and Fall of Penn Station is about a railroad company's effort to conquer Manhattan.
The Amish: Shunned
In 2012 we aired a program called The Amish, which was actually the highest-rated show we've had on American Experience in ten years. There was one part of the story that had only gotten a light treatment, and that is the Amish practice of shunning. The Amish believe that once you have been baptized as an adult, if you decide to leave, that you should have no contact with the community, and that means your family. So our story centers on seven characters who create different pieces of the mosaic of this picture of shunning as well as voices from the Amish community itself, defending the practice. It's an emotional roller coaster through a set of universal experiences.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Another installment of the Wild West, this is a terrific story about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. For years, you have Butch and Sundance out there robbing trains. They were lone individuals robbing from these wealthy corporations at the time — railroads. They weren't redistributing their money. And they become sort of emblematic figures, slightly endearing figures, very flawed figures in some ways, but these are mythological characters because there is something about them that seems to be bigger than themselves. They seem to represent a time and a place and, in some ways, some ideals.
The Rise and Fall of Penn Station
The story of the Penn Station project, which is the story of The Pennsylvania Railroad's effort to, in a way, conquer Manhattan. They were the dominant railroad of the time, but they had no direct route into Manhattan. So The Pennsylvania Railroad and Alexander Cassatt set out to solve that problem. So they built these amazing tunnels underneath the Hudson and the East Rivers to connect with the extension of the line up into New England. They built really one of the monuments of American architecture — the original Penn Station. This is a story …read more
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A videogame based on the science fiction-action-thriller directed by Doug Liman.
Jumpers, people with a genetic anomaly that enables them to teleport themselves instantaneously to anywhere on the globe, have existed for centuries. An age-old battle rages between the Jumpers and the Paladins, a clandestine organization set on eliminating them from the planet. The Jumper game extends the film's storyline, following Griffin, a battle-hardened Jumper determined to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of the Paladins. Griffin's quest to find the killer spans exotic locales around the world.
Brash Entertainment announced that Jumper: Griffin's Story hits store shelves nationwide today. Jumper: Griffin's Story is the video game based off the film Jumper, the eagerly anticipated science fiction-action-thriller from Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises. Directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), and starring Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell, and Samuel L. Jackson, Jumper premieres in theatres this Thursday, February 14, 2008. Read More »
Jump into one of Brash Entertainment's first games. Read More »
Also known as: Jumper
Release Region: United States
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Publisher: Brash Entertainment
Release Region: Australia
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Publisher: Brash Entertainment
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Another great chance to indulge your taste for fantasy arrives this weekend at Merchants Square Mall in Allentown.
The Great Allentown Comic Con is celebrating its fifth anniversary Saturday and Sunday with three dozen guests, including Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura on "Star Trek," and Michael Biehn, who has starred in films such as "Terminator," "Aliens," "The Abyss" and "Tombstone." Biehn will talk at noon on Saturday and Nichols at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Kids will love meeting the Pink Power Ranger Catherine Sutherland and Zordon actor Daniel Fielding at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Bittersweet Life, A (HK - DVD R3)
Imagine being the best at your game. The ultimate mob enforcer, the ultimate hitman. Now meet Sun-Woo, a restaurant owner with a d...
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I am always wary of Asian movies that get compared to Infernal Affairs. The IA films comprise a now-classic, fantastic trilogy and too many subsequent, inferior productions have tried ineffectively to challenge the title. So when I heard about A Bittersweet Life and claims that it was similar to the excellent Infernal Affairs, of course I was initially dubious. Let me say at the outset, this is a fantastic new Korean crime drama and - despite my initial reservations - it is well deserving of its comparisons to Infernal Affairs and the awesome Oldboy.
Sun-Woo is a restaurant owner who also works as a hitman for a big crime boss, President Kang. Enforcing his every whim and request, his latest assignment is to monitor Kang's mistress, Hee-Soo. When suspicions are aroused over her involvement with another man, Kang instructs Sun-Woo that, if he finds proof of this, he should exact a terrible revenge upon both of the parties involved. Pretty soon Sun-Woo finds himself in this uncomfortable position, made worse because over his time investigating her, he has befriended her and maybe even fallen in love. His decision predictably leads to no end of bloodshed.
Masterfully directed in that greeny hue of many modern Asian crime thrillers, as usual, it is the cast that brings this tale together. Sun-Woo is played perfectly by Byung-Hun Lee, from J.S.A., exuding the exact calm, cool perfection that his character requires. Alongside him we get the pretty Min-A Shin, from Volcano High, in the limited role of the mistress and a wonderful turn by Yeong-Cheol Kim as the crime boss, President Kang. There are also myriad different villains of the piece, not least the opposing crime boss and his minions, all of whom come across as individually interesting characters. So with a stylishly shot, well-acted solid crime thriller, where is the downside? Well, perhaps it lies in the fact that there is simply nothing here that we have not seen before.
In my opinion, however, there is. Despite being extremely unoriginal and following a well-trodden plot, the story does somehow manage to keep you guessing throughout. Sure there's plenty of torture, betrayal and revenge, all in the standard order, but you get so wrapped up in the plight of the central character that you are often desperate to know what is going to happen next. Even if you can guess, it is almost impossible to figure out how it is going to happen, making this an exhilarating ride from start to finish. Despite all of this, I do have one slight reservation: the very final closing scene before the credits roll, which changes the tack of the entire movie and - in my opinion - almost ruins it. Still, as modern crime thrillers purporting to follow in the footsteps of masterpieces like Oldboy and Infernal Affairs, this is one of the better.
The presentation is superb. Given a broad 2.35:1 aspect ratio anamorphically enhanced widescreen transfer, Seoul has simply never looked this good. The detail is spot-on, maintaining clarity throughout whether on the close-up face shots or the longer, broader landscapes. There is some light grain, more evident in some scenes than others, although I never found it detracted from my enjoyment of the movie. There is also a little edge enhancement, but again it is never a problem. The colour scheme is fairly biased towards greens, as I already noted, but looks spot on for the setting with suitably crimson blood and solid blacks for shadowing.
A Bittersweet Life has similarly received an excellent audio presentation. You get the choice of two 7-channel tracks at the top of their game, both in the original Korean language with optional English subtitles that are largely comprehensible and only occasionally too briefly displayed to read. Despite listings to the contrary there is no third track in Dolby Digital 2.0. Both the DTS 6.1 ES track and the Dolby 5.1 EX mix are superb, with very little to distinguish between them. The dialogue is presented at the forefront with solid clarity and the effects range from the subtle ambient nuances, to all out rainstorms in the mid-range and full-on gun battles at the high end - all coming across extremely well. The directionality is exceptional and the score gives the rears a great deal of room for expression, really absorbing you into the story. Both tracks showcase some decent bass as well, particularly as the film snowballs to its bullet-laden conclusion.
A Bittersweet Life, like many Asian releases that I have come across recently, has been given the two-disc deluxe treatment with myriad extra features to cover just about anything you would want to know about the production. We've got deleted scenes (which actually look quite interesting), making of documentaries, commentaries and even footage from the premiere. It all looks fantastic and you could not ask for more. Well, apart from subtitles. Without them it is all a waste of time. So many superb deluxe limited director's cut platinum special editions are released with every conceivable extra to please fans - but almost all of the ones that I have come across have English subtitles for the main film but for nothing else, making the second disc about as useful as a coaster.
Fans of decent thrillers, whether Western or Asian, will not be disappointed by this solid, intelligent if by-the-numbers crime movie with an excellent cast, superb style, gritty violence and mature gunplay. If you can ignore the unnecessary tacked-on epilogue, you will not be disappointed by the rest. The video presentation is pretty damn good and the audio treatment is simply outstanding. This two-disc release has all the extras needed to complete anybody's collection but provides the only disappointment with a lack of English subtitles, rendering them worthless. Still, it's an excellent movie and well worth your time and money.
You can purchase this title for $27.99 from Yes Asia.
Review by Casimir Harlow
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
give me a K, give me an O... Those Koreans are really the saving grace of the film world these days, aren't they?
Eva Unit02 Member Join Date: June 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 634
Yes they are indeed. Oldboy and JSA are some best films I've seen in the past year.
T Budd Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 74
this movie is one of the best asian movies i have seen, it is really really really good
Zoltan Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 10
Really hoping i am still awake enough to see this at frightfest .
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Disc Details
Release Date: 28th July 2005
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 EX Korean, DTS ES 6.1 Korean
Subtitles: English, Korean
Extras: Two Commentaries, Making-Of Documentary, Featurettes, Interviews, Deleted Scenes, Premiere Footage
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Kim Jee Woon
Cast: Lee Byung Hun, Eric Mun, Shin Min A
Genre: Crime
Length: 120 minutes
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Friday August 19, 2011
Kate Moss has hit the headlines over plans to renovate her 17th century London home.
The supermodel has applied for planning permission to build a steam room in the basement of the grade II-listed building in Highgate, North London.
She also wants to install eight CCTV cameras, a satellite dish and put in a bath "on an elevated waterproof plinth" in her first-floor dressing room.
Local councillor Maya de Souza said the plans could "impact severely" on Kate's neighbours.
The planning application to Camden council describes the building as "one of six Restoration houses built in a prominent position on the western side of Highgate Hill".
The house has an English Heritage blue plaque commemorating the fact it was home to novelist and playwright JB Priestley.
It was also home to poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived there for 11 years until his death in 1834.
The application, which was lodged with the council in May, showed Kate had not consulted "neighbours or the local community" before drawing up the plans.
Ms de Souza told the Daily Telegraph the work could disrupt local water supplies.
She said: "My concern is the impact on groundwater flows. This has been known to impact severely on neighbours and can affect water bodies like Highgate ponds, as well as causing construction-related nuisance.
"Large basements can mean huge numbers of lorry movements, which cause too much disturbance and a risk to other residents."
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Virtually every archaeological dig in the Middle East has unearthed innumerable pieces of pottery from earliest civilization forward. Pottery seems to have been a favorite material for fashioning a wide variety of utensils. It was not a costly material. The well-to-do turned to materials such as ivory, glass, marble, brass and costly wood. Pottery, on the other hand, was the material of the common person. It was used to make everything from pitchers, oil jars and bowls to griddles, washbasins and pots. Coarse clay was preferred for utilitarian ware. For more expensive vessels, the potter first refined the clay by treading it out in water. Clay pots found many uses. Items of value could be kept in them, and clay jars were especially popular for storing liquids because the pottery hindered evaporation and kept the contents cool at the same time. Even broken pieces of pottery, or "shards," found a use as writing material for notes, receipts and messages.
In verses 7-15 Paul compares the gospel minister to a piece of Palestinian pottery. We have this treasure in jars of clay (v. 7). This treasure is the glorious good news about Christ (vv. 1-6). Jars of clay is actually "earthenware vessels" (ostrakinois skeuesin). The noun skeuos refers to a vessel serving a specific purpose (such as a jug, cup, pan or pot). When used of people it often carries the sense of "implement" or "instrument" (Maurer 1971:358-67). So to be God's "vessel" is to be his instrument in carrying out a specific service--in this case, the gospel ministry.
The marvel of Paul's statement is not to be overlooked. The gospel minister is a vessel made of common, run-of-the-mill clay--fragile and easily broken. And yet God has entrusted the treasure of the gospel to such a vessel, just as Palestinians stored their valuables in common clay pots. Why does God do this? According to Paul, he does it to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. God uses what is fragile and yet serviceable so that there might be no mistaking the origin of the gospel minister's power. The adjective all-surpassing (hyperbolh) stresses the extraordinary quality or extent of something (Bauer, Arndt and Gingrich 1979). The "something" here is power. The Greek dynamis is the term from which we derive our English word "dynamite." The gospel is not merely a message that confronts the mind but an explosive power that turns a person's life upside down. On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in the Cascade Range of Washington exploded with a stunning demonstration of nature's power. The explosion ripped thirteen hundred feet off the mountain and leveled 150-foot Douglas firs even seventeen miles away. We stand in awe of such force and yet forget the equally awesome power that is unleashed in the preaching of the gospel.
To develop this comparison of the gospel minister to the common clay pot, Paul employs an accepted literary form of the day called res gestae, or "cataloging of deeds." Much like our curriculum vitae, it highlighted a person's exploits and accomplishments. Paul highlights four exploits that would not by any stretch of the imagination be considered impressive or desirable either in his day or in ours. All four point up the hardships and trials that confront the gospel preacher. On every side (v. 8) and always (vv. 10, 11) underline the extent and intensity of these so-called exploits.
First, he is hard pressed on every side, but not crushed. The verb hard pressed means "to press in hard against" someone, or, as we say today, to squeeze the life out of a person, while the term not crushed indicates that the pressure never got to the point where there was no escape or way out.
Second, he is perplexed but not in despair. There is a play on words here that the NIV misses. To be aporoumenoi is to be at a loss how to act, while to be exaporoumenoi is to be utterly at a loss (i.e., in extreme despair). Although Paul may have been at a loss about how to proceed, he never--as we say--went off the deep end.
Third, he is persecuted but not abandoned. The Greek verb means "to pursue" and is commonly used of tracking a prey or enemy. Paul was pursued from city to city by hostile Jews. But through it all, God never abandoned him. The idea here is that God did not leave Paul behind or in the lurch for the enemy to pick up.
Finally, he is struck down by the enemy but not destroyed. Paul was not only pursued by hostile Jews, but when they caught up with him, they stirred up trouble whenever they could. He may also be thinking of the time he was stoned at Lystra and left outside the city for dead. Yet he lived.
Hard pressed, perplexed, persecuted and struck down are summed up in the clause we always carry around in our body the death of Jesus (v. 10). Carry around refers to the itinerant life of the gospel preacher. Always points to the commonplace versus exceptional character of these experiences. The death of Jesus is actually "the dying of Jesus"--a term that stresses the ongoing nature of the process. When we think of the "dying" of Jesus, we tend to think of the cross. Paul, however, has in mind the hardships, troubles and frustrations that Jesus faced during his three-year ministry--the loneliness, the disappointments with his disciples, the exhaustion, the constant harassment by opponents, the crowd's continuous demands, the incredulity of his family, the mocking and jeers of his foes, the flight of his friends, the hours on the cross, the thirst and then the end. "I die every day" expresses the same thought (1 Cor 15:31). Paul is acknowledging the wearing effect that the gospel ministry had on Jesus mentally, emotionally and physically. Nor is his a unique experience. Jesus taught his followers that if anyone would come after him, "he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Lk 9:23; compare Mk 8:34).
Paul further explains this thought in verse 11: For we . . . are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake. Given over is the legal term used in the Gospels of Jesus' being handed over to the authorities. If this is the sense here, then the gospel ministry is being pictured as a "delivering up into death's custody [eis thanaton]." The verb is present tense: "constantly delivered up." The NEB's "continually . . . we are being surrendered into the hands of death" captures well the sense. For Jesus' sake excludes a reference to the aging process or to the normal trials of everyday life. Paul is thinking of the hardships and troubles that he experienced as a result of carrying out his ministry. He catalogs them at some length in chapter 11.
To what end? Why does Paul put up with a life of hardship and trouble? It is so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body (v. 10)--or as he says in verse 11, "in our mortal flesh." As Jerome Murphy-O'Connor notes, it is a Pauline paradox that "dying" should manifest "life" (1991:46). But this is why Paul likens the gospel minister to the expendable, perishable clay pot.
Christian reaction to adversity has tended to be "grin and bear it" or "keep a stiff upper lip." Paul's approach is to make clear that it is God's power (v. 7) and the life of Jesus (v. 10) that empower and sustain him, and not his own fortitude. It has been debated whether by the life of Jesus Paul has in mind a human mode of existence or the power of the risen Christ. It need not be an either-or choice. The already/not yet character of salvation means that Christ's resurrection power is already impacting human existence. Paul acknowledges this very thing in his summary statement, So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. While the Corinthians might have looked on hardship (death) as incompatible with a Spirit-directed ministry, it nonetheless produced a life that even now is at work, or better yet, is "energizing" (en + ergew) them.
There is an important lesson here. The Corinthians, like many Christians today, believed that adversity was inconsistent with the Spirit-filled Christian life, let alone with the gospel ministry. At issue is how God manifests his power. Paul's opponents claimed that it is through the working of signs, wonders and miracles. Paul, on the other hand, maintained that God's power is able to make itself known most effectively through ministerial hardship and distress. His second catalog of ministerial troubles drives this point home even more forcefully: "Dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed . . . having nothing, and yet possessing everything" (6:9-10). It is the "yet" side that attracts attention. How is it that gospel ministers live on? Certainly not by their own strength. Theirs is a position of weakness. But it is in their very weakness ("dying," "beaten," "possessing nothing") that the life of Jesus is revealed ("live on," "not killed," "possessing everything").
This is a hard message for the toentieth-century mindset. We like to be in control of our circumstances and operate from a position of strength. I doubt that a pastoral candidate who responded to the question "How has God been at work in your ministry?" with "To this very hour I go hungry and thirsty, I have nothing but rags to wear, I have been brutally treated by the community in which I have been ministering and I am currently homeless for Jesus's sake" (1 Cor 4:11) would be given further consideration. And yet in Paul's opinion this is exactly the kind of vita that authenticates the true gospel minister.
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- Boulder and Broomfield counties' final 2011 election results
- Boulder Issues 2B, 2C: Municipalization, related tax narrowly approved
- Boulder voters keep 3 incumbents on City Council, along with Jones and Plass
- Boulder County voters support relaxing term limits for sheriff
- Proposition 103: Boulder Sen. Rollie Heath's education tax fails
- Boulder Question 2H: 'Corporate personhood' referendum passes by wide margin
- Boulder Issue 2A: Voters approve $49M bond measure
- Louisville election: Bob Muckle's lead widens in still-close mayor's race
- Lafayette City Council: Berg, Lupberger, Lynch at top of the heap so far
- Boulder Valley school board race: Albright, Fuqua winning
- Longmont Mayor: Coombs extending lead over Baum
- Brian Bagley outdistances field for Longmont Ward 1 seat
- St. Vrain Valley School District: Hammans will keep his school board seat
- Longmont Telecom Issue: 2A looks like it will pass
- Sarah Levison retains at-large Longmont council seat
Ballot counting for Boulder County's 2011 election went smoothly, with all of the 82,724 submitted ballots counted by 12:55 a.m. Wednesday..
Those ballots represent about 48 percent of the more than 171,000 ballots that were sent out to Boulder County residents in the mail-in election.
Hillary Hall, the Boulder County clerk and recorder, said the ballot counting went faster than she expected, with more than 90 percent of the ballots counted by 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.
"It's going smoothly, and we had a really good turnout," Hall said. "We had a statewide issue and two hotly contested issues in both Boulder and Longmont. I'm always pleased when we get a high turnout."
While the election was done by mail-in ballots, a few Boulder residents swung by the Clerk and Recorder's Office in Boulder to fill out or drop off ballots. Most of the voters said they were primarily interested in Boulder ballot measures 2B and 2C -- which would pave the way for the city to split from Xcel Energy and create a municipal utility.
"That's what I showed up for," said Nicholas Martino, who said he supported the measure. "It's something that I think has to happen eventually."
Michael Goldner said he knew many people who were not voting, but he felt the energy issue was important enough to get a replacement ballot.
"I know I have co-workers who only vote in even years or when there are presidential races," Goldner said. "But I think it's important to vote."
Russell Harding, pushing his 1-year-old son Owen in a stroller, had to make a trip to the clerk and recorder's office after his ballot was returned non-deliverable.
"I try to stay as involved as I can," he said. "It's not always easy with a little one, but we found time to come down here."
Perhaps trying to instill in his son the importance of voting, Harding tried to put the "I Voted" sticker on Owen, who proceeded to take it off and try to eat it.
"It's like he knows he would be violating the law by voting," Harding said with a laugh. "He's got a ways to go before he's 18."
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University of Massachusetts basketball player Derrick Gordon and former CSI star Gerald McCullouch have officially revealed that they're dating!
The 22-year-old player, who recently came out as the first openly gay NCAA Divison I athlete, was accompanied by Gerald, 47, on the red carpet over the weekend at the 2014 GLAAD Media Awards in New York City.
Gerald tells E! News that they first connected via Twitter a few years ago after Derrick saw him in the indie film BearCity. They finally met in person last month, after the athlete had come out to his family.
"Through the years I've encouraged him to lead an authentic life and tried my best to offer as much objective support as possible," Gerald expressed. "It was a scary time for him and I tried my best to assure him that self-acceptance wasn't anything to be ashamed of and I strongly suggested he find a support team at UMass."


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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as a blow to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, or when an object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue. Symptoms of a TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of damage to the brain. Mild cases may result in a brief change in mental state or consciousness, while severe cases may result in extended periods of unconsciousness, coma, or even death.
Many patients with moderate or severe head injuries are taken directly from the emergency room to the operating room. In many cases, surgery is performed to remove a large hematoma or contusion that is significantly compressing the brain or raising the pressure within the skull. After surgery, these patients are usually observed and monitored in the intensive care unit (ICU). Other head-injured patients may not go to the operating room immediately, but instead are taken from the emergency room to the ICU. Contusions or hematomas may enlarge over the first hours or days after head injury, so some patients are not taken to surgery until several days after an injury. Delayed hematomas may be discovered when a patient's neurological exam worsens or when their ICP increases. On other occasions, a routine follow-up CT scan that was ordered to determine if a small lesion has changed in size indicates that the hematoma or contusion has enlarged significantly.
At the present time, there is no medication or "miracle treatment" that can be given to prevent nerve damage or promote nerve healing after TBI. The primary goal in the ICU is to prevent any secondary injury to the brain. The "primary insult" refers to the initial trauma to the brain, whereas the "secondary insult" is any subsequent development that may contribute to neurological injury. For example, an injured brain is especially sensitive and vulnerable to decreases in blood pressure that might otherwise be well tolerated. One way of avoiding secondary insults is to try to maintain normal or slightly elevated blood pressure levels. Likewise, increases in ICP, decreases in blood oxygenation, increases in body temperature, increases in blood glucose, and many other disturbances can potentially worsen neurological damage. The prevention of secondary insults is a major part of the ICU management of head-injured patients.
Various monitoring devices may assist healthcare personnel in caring for the patient. Placement of an ICP monitor into the brain itself can help detect excessive swelling of the brain. One commonly used type of ICP monitor is a ventriculostomy, which is a narrow, flexible, hollow catheter that is passed into the ventricles, or fluid spaces in the center of the brain, to monitor ICP and to drain CSF if ICP increases. Another commonly used type of intracranial pressure monitoring device involves placement of a small fiberoptic catheter directly into the brain tissue.
External ventricular drain (EVD) a catheter is inserted into a lateral ventricle which will allow drainage of CSF (cerebral spinal fluid). A hole is drilled through the skull. The catheter is inserted through the brain into the lateral ventricle. This area of the brain contains liquid (cerebrospinal fluid or CSF) that protects the brain and spinal cord.
Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitor: Intracranial pressure monitoring uses a device, placed inside the head, which senses the pressure inside the skull and sends its measurements to a recording device. Normal measurement are between 0-20mm Hg.
Brain injury types:
- Subdural hematoma: collection of blood between the dura mater and the arachnoid layer, which sits directly on the surface of the brain.
- Epidural hematoma: collection of blood between the dura mater (the protective covering of the brain) and the inside of the skull.
- cerebral contusion is bruising of brain tissue. When examined under a microscope, cerebral contusions are comparable to bruises in other parts of the body. They consist of areas of injured or swollen brain mixed with blood that has leaked out of arteries, veins, or capillaries
- intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) describes bleeding within the brain tissue, which may be related to other brain injuries, especially contusions. The size and location of the hemorrhage helps determine whether it can be removed surgically.
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is caused by bleeding into the subarachnoid space. It appears as diffuse blood spread thinly over the surface of the brain, and is seen commonly after TBI. Most cases of SAH associated with head trauma are mild. Hydrocephalus may result from severe traumatic SAH.
- Diffuse Axonal injury refers to impaired function and gradual loss of some axons, which are the long extensions of a nerve cell that enable such cells to communicate with each other even if they are located in parts of the brain that are far apart. If enough axons are injured in this way, then the ability of nerve cells to communicate with each other and to integrate their function may be lost or greatly impaired, possibly leaving a patient with severe disabilities.
- Another type of diffuse injury is ischemia, or insufficient blood supply to certain parts of the brain. It has been shown that a decrease in blood supply to very low levels may occur commonly in a significant


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A 56-year-old Shrewsbury man was killed today in a head-on collision on Route 126, near the TD Bank branch at Shaw's plaza.
A 48-year-old Holliston woman was also injured in the accident, which occurred about 7:30 a.m.
Police said the man was traveling north when his pickup veered into the southbound lane and smashed into a sport utility vehicle driven by the woman.
Police declined to identify the two involved in the crash but said the woman was taken to the Metro West Medical Center in Framingham for treatment.
Traffic was detoured from the area as investigators worked for about two hours to determine the cause of the accident.
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Skip to comments.HELP! My MetroPCS Phone Died! Can Contact Info Be Transferred From Dead Phone?
Posted on 01/12/2010 2:57:16 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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I have a strange foot rash....help!
< / help desk >
Are you logged in?
Did you try and call MetroPCS?
I can't call MetroPCS because my phone is on the blink.
That's odd, I have a rash on my privates.....
Do you know where your foot has been?
Can you hear me now?
next time get the info tattoo on the back of your hand...or ask the METROPCS wiz kids
As long as you saved your contacts on your memory card you should be okay. If you don't know if you have one just have one of the metropcs guys take a look at it.
I guess that might depend on the phone. Not that I know anything, even though MetroPCS was born out here.
I assume you went with MetroPCS for the price? and me thinking you were rich and all. =o)
I kick a lot of people in the ***, but I don't recall having had the pleasure.
The contacts were on my phone's memory so even if the phone is permanently dead, it can be transferred to the new MetroPCS phone?
Transferring your contacts to your replacement phone is fast, simple and wireless!
Step 1. Download MetroBACKUP to your supported replacement phone following the steps below:
1. Add the MetroBACKUP feature to your account by visiting a MetroPCS store or by
calling 1.888.8metro8
2. Go to @Metro on your MetroPCS handset
3. Go to the folder Metro Featured Apps
4. Locate and select MetroBACKUP
5. Follow the step-by-step instructions
Step 2. Login with your PIN. If you are unable to remember your PIN, click here to have it sent to your phone via a text message.
Step 3. The last step of the setup process will prompt you to restore their contacts and you should respond by selecting Yes. If you want to restore contacts from the Web, you can click the Update Now button or select the Backup option on their phone which will backup all of the contacts on their phone and also pull down any changes from the Web site.
If you change phone numbers, call 1.888.8metro8 (1.888.863.8768) for assistance transferring your contacts.
Lost your phone?
MetroBACKUP has a lost phone feature that allows you to remotely erase the contacts on your phone if it is lost or stolen. Your complete contact list will remain saved on the MetroBACKUP Web site so you can restore your
contacts at a later time.
To erase the contacts from your phone, login to your MetroBACKUP account, click the "Lost Phone" link at the top of the page and follow the instructions provided. If your service is active and your phone is powered on, within a good coverage area and the erase function isnt manually interrupted, this will remove your contacts from your phone.
When my privates get a rash I send them to the infirmary. Same as my seargents.
You kick a lot of people in the asteriks???
Not sure on your particular phone, but many will save the contact info on the SIM card. Older phones in particular I think only saved to SIM card.
Take the SIM card out and put it into the new phone. You may or may not have service if the old SIM card was deactivated with new phone, but you should still be able to get the contact info off it.
Either move the contact info to the new phone's memory (if you can hopefully). On my phone that meant going into each individual contact and setting it for Phone instead of SIM on where the contact was stored.
or start writing them down (that sucks).
Then take old SIM card out of new phone and put new SIM card back in. Can either leave contacts in phone storage or move them back to SIM card storage.
Contacts should now be on new phone.
This all depends on phone models and brands if you can do this. I did this to transfer old contacts from a Motorolla RAZR to a Samsung Blackjack II and worked fine.
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Board should have recommendation at February or March meeting
Three candidates have been interviewed to replace Chris Waca as Kewanee High School's head football coach.
"We had a pool of about 25 or 26 candidates," said Kewanee athletic director Tim Atwell. "We had applicants as far east as Indiana and as far south as Texas."
"You have from zero to veteran," added Atwell of the head coaching experience in the applicant pool. "It's a wide range."
Once the finalists are determined, Atwell said they will be brought in for a second interview.
Waca resigned in December after four seasons as the head coach of the Boilers. Waca compiled a record of 10-27.
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How Hot, Dirty, and Loud Is Your Home?: Netatmo Urban Weather Station
Product: Netatmo Urban Weather Station
Price: $179.00
Rating: Highly Recommend*
A few years ago an air purifier manufacturer provided an expensive professional grade air particle reader for "before & after" monitoring. Using the device proved strangely addictive, informative, and an eye-opening affair, revealing plenty about the quality of interior air (or lack thereof). But what was prohibitively expensive then is reasonably priced now, with the unveiling of the Netatmo, a personal weather station and air quality monitoring system designed for smartphone users...
I've been using a preview system for several weeks now in one of the more urban parts of Los Angeles, a perfect test bed for seasonal swings in weather and air quality, especially during the last few strange weeks where high heat, humidity, brush fires, and winds have made for some challenging weather.
Setting up the Netatmo Urban Weather Station is a snap. The simplified, IKEA-ish pictogram style instruction manual is intentionally sparse. Pop in a quartet of AAA batteries into the outdoor unit and plug in the indoor measurement sensor with built-in WiFi adapter into an iOS device (in my case, an iPad). The setup process is primarily done via your iPhone, Touch, or iPad; after a few on-screen menus connecting the Netatmo to your wi-fi network, alongside a helpful walk-thru explaining how the system works and what data it provides, you're left to explore your very own environmental and weather station report once you decide where to place the indoor and outdoor units.
The shorter outdoor unit can be installed anywhere within about 50 ft. of your wi-fi network, but should be placed where it won't get wet.
If you've ever used Nike+ to track your running, you'll likely feel right at home using the Netatmo's dashboard. The GUI is easily digestible at a glance, with information split into two categories: Outdoor and Indoor. If you forget what each section of the GUI is displaying, no worries, an information overlay is available at the touch of a button, complete with additional explanation of each data category.
- Temperature (Indoor)
- Humidity (Indoor)
- Pressure (Indoor)
- CO2 (Indoor)
- Acoustic Comfort (Indoor)
- Overall Comfort Level (Indoor)
- Temperature (Outdoor)
- Humidity (Outdoor)
- Feels Like Temperature (Outdoor)
- Current Weather (Outdoor)
Every 5 minutes the sensors take a reading and then feeds data wirelessly to your iOS (and soon, Android) device for up-to-date readings from your mobile device. The swipe and tap interface is intuitive and fast, all presented beautifully with an easy to understand color-based system (green=good, yellow=ok, red=uh oh!).
The slim form factor makes placement in and around the house easy. Ideally, the indoor unit is placed away from vents and windows in a room where you spend most of your time for the most relevant and accurate readings.
If I was to guess the primary target for the Netatmo system, it would be an Apple-loving, 25 to 40-something urban dweller with a strong affinity for data...graphs, charts, Venn diagrams, and pie graphs...and/or someone who suffers from allergies. Because at the heart of it, the 2-piece hardwares system packages environmental reporting of humidity, temperature, barometric pressure, carbon dioxide, and even sound levels into a refreshingly easy to digest presentation almost anyone can understand.
"But I can find weather and air quality readings online!", you retort.
Indeed, much of this information is available online through free services like Weather.com and their ilk. What's lacking online are readings specific to your own interior space and the temperature/humidity directly outside your own home. How often does it seem the general weather report for your area feels nothing like the temperature you're experiencing outdoors? That's because weather can be affected by numerous geographic and environmental factors.
For example, I live next to a large urban reservoir, thus humidity levels are usually higher than reported by online and news forecasts, while temperatures can vary considerably compared to just a mile or two over, not to mention variances in air quality throughout a large metropolitan area like Los Angeles.
Local air quality can change considerably due to circumstances specific to your area...or even your own home/apartment. The last few days we've had workmen here prepping our building for a new paint job, while a local fire raged and sent up soot all around; Netatmo reported the change in air quality indoors and we turned up the air purifiers inside. If you or someone in your household is an allergy sufferer, having a live-stream particle reader is an extremely useful tool to determine whether it's safe to go outside, or it's best to hole up with your air purifiers and pop a Claritan.
Turn your device horizontal and you can access a graph report for every metric. Here you can see a dip in sound, reflecting the days we were away on vacation.
Ultimately the appeal of the Netatmo system depends upon how sensitive and interested you are in the sound, air, and temperature quality of your home. I know some hardened New Yorkers who scoff at the effects of loud urban noises, while some fellow Angelenos seem to be immune to anything but the highest ratings of air pollution. But throughout the weeks with the Netatmo, I found myself launching their app upon waking to check on the day's forecast and current readings, helpful for determining whether I was going to spend the day at the beach, hike up to the mountains, or call it a day best spent indoors at the movies. I've also been influenced to vacuum and dust more often with high particle readings, a beneficial side-effect or curse, depending upon your neat-freak index reading (mine is off the charts). If G.I Joe was as wise as I once believed as a kid, then "knowing is half the battle" still applies today, especially when it comes to the living conditions of your home.
Pros: Inuititive and easy to navigate interface for both weather geeks and everyday users; handsome and compact industrial design makes placement easy around the house and outdoors; free iOS app; no subscription fee; useful tool for long term data in relation to interior living conditions.
Cons: If your internet is down, so is the Netatmo system; iPad is supported but interface/display is not optimized for larger screen; Android-compatible app was not available for testing (but planned for release in October); outdoor unit's operating distance was shorter than advertised and is sensitive to high-humidity.
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