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SCOTTS VALLEY Half a dozen volunteers sit at fold-out tables or lean against the countertops at campaign headquarters, cell phones pressed to their ears, their voices echoing against the hot pink walls that once housed a now-shuttered yogurt shop on Mount Hermon Road.

Members of Save Our Schools Scotts Valley have been in full-blown campaign mode for the last two months, after Scotts Valley Unified School District officials filed paperwork with the county elections office to place a parcel tax measure on the June 5 ballot. Their voices remain calm, but it's a facade that masks the urgency behind their message.

Their schools are depending on them, they only have four weeks left, and they need to reach as many of the 12,500 registered voters in the district's boundaries as possible.

If passed, the Measure K parcel tax would be in effect for three years starting July 1, tacking on an extra $48 to property tax bills each year with exemptions for contiguous parcels and anyone receiving Supplemental Security Income. It would raise up to $1 million through 2014-15, just enough to keep from having to lay off more teachers and cut more programs.

The state could cut more than $1 million out of next year's district budget, said campaign head Derek Timm, who has two daughters enrolled at Vine Hill Elementary School. If that happens, and we don't have a parcel tax, and the district doesn't come up with additional funding sources to help stabilize

It's not yet clear how much funding the district will receive from federal, state and local sources in 2012-13. But tentative figures presented in late March showed revenue of about $15 million, a drop of more than $2 million from this year.

That figure does not include income from a statewide, education-related tax initiative backed by Gov. Jerry Brown for November's general election. Vickie Clark, who heads the district's business office, has to prepare the budget as though the initiative will fail, triggering cuts of $370 in per-pupil spending.

So far, Timm said, voters have expressed support for Measure K. No one filed an opposition statement with the county elections division.

Only property owners will pay the tax, though the majority of them do not have school-aged children. Timm said many would support the measure because property values are higher in areas with good schools.

I think that's the big benefit that property owners can miss out on if they don't think about it in those terms, he said.

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AVON Chamberlin Granite Co. of Torrington, CT, purveyors of monuments, granite countertops, kitchens and baths, has named John Yates, Certified Kitchen & Bath Designer, its new Senior Designer, to head up its brand new kitchen and bath showroom on Rte. 44 in Avon center. This new location is operating under the name, Chamberlin Kitchen & Bath LLC.

Opening the new showroom in Avon will greatly bolster our efforts to cater to Hartford Countys middle and higher-end kitchen and bath needs, noted Tyson Chamberlin, CEO of Chamberlin Kitchen & Bath. Johns thirty-four years of experience in the kitchen and bath industry will strongly benefit our design team, sales and services, he added.

Prior to joining Chamberlin Kitchen & Bath, Yates designed for Ducci Kitchens in Goshen, Platon Design Group in Englewood, NJ and before that he owned Maine Kitchen Design in Yarmouth, Maine for nearly ten years, where Yates designs were chosen to represent the state of Maine for the nationally recognized book, Leading Kitchen & Bath Designers. Originally from Springfield, MA, Yates was the lead designer for Kitchens by Chapdelaine in East Longmeadow, MA for more than sixteen years. During his many years at Chapdelaine, he became the top sales/designer in the Northeast for Plain & Fancy Cabinetry five years in a row. Ironically, and now coming full cycle, Yates has returned near to his old stomping grounds and Plain & Fancy is one of Chamberlins top cabinet lines.

Mr. Yates kitchen and bath designs have been displayed in numerous newspapers and magazines, both locally and nationally and, among other things, he earned a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology from American International College in Springfield, MA.

He and his wife, Eileen Kindl, live in New Hartford, CT.

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CINCINNATI - It's that time of the year, when home owners are getting started on home improvement projects, both indoors and out.

Beau Bolce isone of lead interior designers in Cincinnati, and the proprietor atQuince & Quinn, a furniture anddecorating store in Oakley. Besides running the store, Bolce does design work for clients around the Tri-State and around the country. On Saturday morning he stoppedby the9 News studio to chat with Brian Yocono aboutsome of his favorite tipsand trends forgreat summer design .

Bolce says a great place to start this time of year is "spring cleaning". It may sound cliche, but it's important to get a fresh start for the summer. With the change of season, Bolce suggests taking time to clean out closets and get rid of clutter.

Bolce says a great way to get your house ready for summer is to change out rugs, furniture, andaccessories, and give your home a beach house vibe. You can replace heavy wool rugs with sisal rugs, for a more light and airy look. Sisal is a woven natural fiber that is popular for rugs this season. Bolce sayssisal rugs areinexpensive and easy to maintain.

Another hot trend for summer is driftwood-colored finishes for furniture. Bolce says the light gray driftwood color is replacing espresso finishes this season. Using driftwood-colored furniture in your home can add to that vacation-house feel. Bolce suggests mixing gray tones with oranges and pinks for a pop of color. You can also add tropical plants to create a fun beachy look.

The pink and gray color trend is also making its way into the kitchen. Bolce says this color scheme is a retro throwback to the 1950's. The pink color palate is making its way onto walls and fabrics, and is beingpaired with stainless steel appliances. To complete the 1050's look, Bolce says vintage-style aprons are making a comeback as well!

Beau Bolce'sdesign store is called Quince& Quinn. It's located at 3235 Madison Road in Oakley. For more information you canvisit the store's website , or Facebook page .

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John Edwards leaves the federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C. on Friday. (Chuck Liddy/AP) She thought maybe you should probably pay for your girlfriend yourself.

Bunny Mellons reaction to learning that her secret payments to the John Edwards campaign were used to cover up his relationship with Rielle Hunter, as described by her interior decorator friend Bryan Huffman in his court testimony Friday. Even the former senator on trial for alleged campaign finance violations cracked a smile at that line, reports the Associated Press. The heiress, now 101, had a complicated romantic history herself and wasnt about to judge him for an affair, Huffman said just the financing of it.

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Historic homes like the Jackson Street classical revival house chosen for this year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase evoke visions of the lives that were lived in such a place.

If only the mahogany-paneled walls could talk.

This 30-room yellow brick structure built in 1902 was a wedding gift from the president of Wells Fargo Bank to his daughter Clara upon her marriage to attorney Emanuel S. Heller. Over its 110-year history, it's been home to wealthy philanthropists, attorneys, nature preservationists, psychiatrists, shipping magnates, jewelers and interior designers.

The austere facade hides a romantic interior that has seen many incarnations of fabulous home design, and the rooms reworked for this showcase house are no exception.

On view through May 28, the annual showcase benefits University High and features exquisite interiors by more than 30 of the Bay Area's best interior designers. The "bones" of the home remain as glorious as they were when the 1906 earthquake forced displaced financiers to set up shop inside its magnificent halls. The ornate woodwork, grand double staircase, large stained-glass window and stunning views stand as a testament to the luxuries attained in San Francisco's Gilded Age.

"The architecture really drove the design," says Geoffrey De Sousa, who created an intimate gentleman's study off the great hall. "We wanted to embrace the colors and pattern of the period in order to make the space more

The study

For this room De Sousa took his inspiration from "The Cult of Beauty" exhibit at the Legion of Honor, working in a color palette of coppery oranges and blues to take familiar elements of the late Victorian era into the 21st century. A hand-printed and appliqued rust botanical wallpaper extends onto the vaulted ceilings, while the blue and gray rug recalls exotic peacock feathers. Handblown glass spheres in a custom lamp by John Pomp hang over a craggy mahogany and brass desk by Sylvan Fiss. The modern photograph of a robed woman in nature evokes the ginger-haired muses favored by the Pre-Raphaelites.

The living room

A striking contemporary photograph of another red-haired maiden hangs over a plush French sofa in the elegant living room by the interior design firm of BAMO, a San Francisco-based design firm. Principal designers Steve Henry and Michael Booth upholstered the walls in a deep burgundy ribbed silk to complement the mahogany walls while the grand coved ceiling is papered in a pale gold de Gournay tea paper.

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VERGENNES At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8, Vergennes officials and residents will take what could be one of the final steps on what has been close to a five-year journey.

Then, in the city fire stations basement meeting room, aldermen will convene a public hearing on new zoning regulations proposed by the Vergennes Planning Commission. A copy of the laws is posted at vergennes.org.

Planners have been working on those zoning laws since Vergennes adopted its award-winning city plan in October 2009.

When and if adopted by aldermen, the laws will create two new zoning districts, tweak regulations in other districts, and incorporate the citys subdivision regulations and significantly update them for the first time in 40 years.

The plan itself was the product of more than two years of work by the citys planners, who before writing the document conducted surveys, held well-attended forums and even interviewed residents waiting in line at the recycling center.

The Vergennes City Plan, said current planning commission chairman Shannon Haggett, provides both the vision for the citys future and the underpinnings for the new zoning laws, which planners approved after their own public process and gave to aldermen last month.

The goal of the process ... is to really to take the tenets set forth in the plan and reconcile our current zoning and subdivision regulations with them, Haggett said, so that our regulations are matching the intent of the plan, which was informed by the people coming together and saying these are the things that we want to see in the city of Vergennes.

Aldermen must hold at least Tuesdays public hearing; they may choose to hold more. If they accept planners work as is or with only minor technical changes, they may then adopt the laws.

If aldermen want to make major changes based on what they see or what they hear from the public, the proposal must go back to the planners to be reworked, and the hearing process must from scratch back before planners.

Haggett hopes and expects that wont be necessary, given that both the plan and the zoning laws have been based on extensive public input over the past five years for example, just recently, based on testimony at their final public hearing, planners added density bonuses for planned unit developments in the citys agricultural zone.

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Hey, remember us?

Yeah, weve been busy babies, too many hours on the clock, building business plans, blah, blah, blah. The fact that so much time has passed since our last post seriously burrows into our collective psyche. It pains us. But, sometimes life gets in the way. What can you do? Please allow us to apologize. Consider it a hiatus, a time to recuperate. And we move on

One thing that we have absolutely not allowed to go stagnant is our endless trek down the path to better beer. We have been homebrewing every chance that we get. For us, brewing is not just a means to the end of having beer to drink. Its so much more. We want to make the best beer in the world. We put hours into recipe formulation. We read, we discuss, we reflect This is a log of our process.

The ever sharing Eric Salazar of New Belgium (photo credit http://www.fairfaxbrewfest.com)

The brewing community is phenomenal. We love being a part of it. We always feel accepted and we almost always walk away from a brewery visit feeling like we were virtually hugged by the staff. The one thing that we are often most surprised by is how open brewers are about what they do. Processes, recipes, sometimes even financials are shared with us openly. It speaks to the genuine quality of people that we aim to surround ourselves with. Ultimately, we want to be just as open and helpful. We want to spread the love too.

So this is our attempt to share. We thought that it might be helpful to write down our process for recipe formulation, if not to help other all-grain brewers, to help us remember why we did what we did. This way, if a bit of time passes between the first time that we brew something and the follow up brew,we dont have to start all over from scratch.

We urge you to share your experiences as well, for we are still figuring it all out ourselves.

I (Timperial) should, in addition, mention that I am also writing this as a means to assist one of my employers, Homebrew Heaven, get flow to their website and to create a deeper set of tools to assist homebrewers on that site. Please check them out if you havent already, for they are allowing me to take time on the clock to write these articles.

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FFKR Architects was named one of the top 500 design firms in the country by Engineering News-Record for the third consecutive year.

The Top Design Firms list, published annually, ranks the 500 largest U.S.-based design firms, both publicly and privately held, based on design-specific revenue and informs industry opinion.

"Were gratified once again to be included with such notable firms and to be recognized for our client driven design," said Ken Louder, FFKR President and CEO. "The ranking demonstrates our firms ongoing and successful commitment to growth and development across the intermountain region."

The Salt Lake-based FFKR Architects is an architectural and interior design firm, serving the western United States since 1976. Its practice encompasses a broad range of building types and services ranging from education, entertainment, hospitality, historical preservation, religious, and sport facilities.

FFKR recently completed the Davis Center for Performing Arts and the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute expansion. Current projects include the Salt Lake City Olympus Replacement High School, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints new Brigham City temple and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Wellness Center & Sports Complex in Ft. Hall, Idaho.

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You may remember Sou Fujimoto Architects radical House NA from this video we shared with you last November. Designed for a young couple in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, the 914 square-foot transparent house contrasts the typical concrete block walls seen in most of Japans dense residential areas. Associated with the concept of living within a tree, the spacious interior is comprised of 21 individual floor plates, all situated at various heights, that satisfy the clients desire to live as nomads within their own home.

Described as a unity of separation and coherence, the house acts as both a single room and a collection of rooms. The loosely defined program and the individual floor plates create a setting for a range of activities that can take place at different scales. The house provides spaces of intimacy if two individuals choose to be close, while also accommodating for a group of guests by distributing people across the house.

Sou Fujimoto states,

Ranging in size from 21 to 81 square-feet, each floor plate is linked by a variety of stairs and ladders, including short runs of fixed and movable steps. Stratifying floor plates in a furniture-like scale allows the structure to serve many types of functions, such as providing for circulation, seating and workings spaces.

The short-spans allow for the thinness of the white steel frame. Complemented by the thin white-tinted birch flooring, many wonder where the utilities are hidden. Some floor plates are equipped with in-floor heating to help during the winter months, while strategically placed fenestration maximizes air flow and provides the only source of ventilation and cooling during summer.

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