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A Partner Of The Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency
Crafty move: Art-related business switching city locations
Rick Shrum
Observer Reporter
Stone House Vintage Market opened in downtown Washington in August. Six months later, it is leaving.
But that isn’t a bad thing, for the owners or the city. Jennifer Hoffman and her spouse, Sean Fox, plan to relocate their market from 254 N. Main St. to 899 E. Maiden St. – and into a more workable location.
“We’re quadrupling our space – about 4,500 square feet,” Hoffman said. “We’re so excited.”
She said they plan to open by March 1, but are shooting for a Feb. 26 launch.
Paint is the operative word at Stone House, which features the decorative Chalk Paint, developed by internationally acclaimed Annie Sloan. Hoffman and Fox offer painting workshops, classes and parties, and paint what they call “reloved” furniture for customers. They also sell handcrafted jewelry, silk scarfs, purses and other items, some made by other local crafters.
The relocation, she said, was almost inevitable from the start.
“We knew when we first rented space that it was on smaller side,” Hoffman said. “We knew we’d move, but we didn’t think it would be this soon.”
She and Fox live in Greensburg, but deal with the commute. Each owned a business there, and while he still has his, Hoffman sold hers to focus on their Washington endeavor.
Store hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, but some activities are scheduled outside those time frames.
©2021 Washington County Chamber of Commerce. All rights reserved.
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Colorado community radio stations band together
Michael Roberts | November 13, 2008 | 11:59am
The online banner for KRCC and its sister stations.
The economic downturn has affected all of us in one way or another -- but its impact is particularly tough on non-profits, whose mission becomes impossible if they can no longer generate enough donations to keep the lights on and the doors open. That's the backdrop for the annual Rocky Mountain Community Radio conference, which takes place in Colorado Springs today and tomorrow. Representatives of seventeen Colorado stations from locations as disparate as Aspen, Cortez, Ignacio, Fort Collins, Boulder and Denver are expected to attend. "The conference is designed to be a good, hands-on opportunity for stations to seek advice from peers and receive professional development training that they might not otherwise be able to afford," notes Delaney Utterback, who, as general manager of Colorado Springs' KRCC-FM, is one of the de facto hosts of the event.
The conference isn't open to the public, and that's probably just as well, according to Chris Kennison, general manager of Northern Colorado's KRFC-FM. "If you're not in the non-profit community radio business, it's probably really boring," he jokes via e-mail. Still, Kennison feels that the gathering will pay dividends for listeners in a variety of ways.
"RMCR is a working group for sharing ideas and best practices," he points out. "We also help fund CAP COV" -- aka Capital Coverage, a cooperative program that provides Colorado legislative news reports to farflung outlets. That way, Kennison goes on, "we can all benefit from having eyes and ears at important events in state government."
By the way, he adds, "if your readers are not hip to community radio, it's the best music on the airwaves. I'm serious. If you listen to Clear Channel or bland NPR radio, I think you're missing out." As an example, he cites Live@Lunch, which airs Monday through Friday at noon (and can be streamed, along with other station programming, at this address). "We've had over 1,000 local and national acts on air in the last five years," he notes. "We've had Flobots, Tickle Me Pink, Motorhome, Cracker and many more on the air live" -- often "before the rest of the state even knew who they were."
Colorado is a better place for such programming. With luck, the attendees at the Rocky Mountain Community Radio conference will find new and innovative ways to keep it coming, even at times like these. -- Michael Roberts
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BT Sport Ultra HD: What is it? How can you get it?
By Joe Cox 01 February 2017
BT Sport Ultra HD was the UK's first broadcast 4K TV channel. So how can you watch it? And what can you watch on it? Allow us to explain.
The 4K TV revolution is finally gathering pace. Though the first 4K Ultra HD TVs made their way into shops a few years ago, it's only now that there's a decent amount of 4K content to watch on them.
Sure, 4K films and TV shows from Amazon, Netflix, YouTube and the like are good, and more films are being released on Ultra HD Blu-ray. But broadcast content is arguably the easiest way to bring Ultra HD to the mainstream.
And BT got there first with BT Sport Ultra HD...
What is BT Sport Ultra HD?
The basics: BT Sport Ultra HD was the UK's first 4K TV channel. It launched in August 2015 (a full year ahead of Sky Q's 4K service). Its first live 4K broadcast was the FA Community Shield match between Arsenal and Chelsea.
Ultra HD promises "four times the detail" of HD, delivering video content in a resolution of 3840 x 2160 (sometimes known as 2160p), compared to that of Full HD in 1920 x 1080 (1080p).
Higher resolution equals more information, which translates to a more detailed picture. Expect to see sharper edges, more detail in crowd scenes, more realistic faces, and so on.
The 4K content is delivered at 50 frames-per-second, which helps fast-moving action such as sport, and with 10-bit colour depth as opposed to the 8-bit used in HD video. This broader palette of colours again makes for more realistic, more colourful and more vivid pictures.
What does all this equal? As BT puts it: "Unbeatable picture quality". So if you're used to BT Sport HD or even Sky Sports HD, then expect to see a leap in picture quality.
BT Sport Ultra HD also offers better sound quality than rival channels. At the end of 2016, BT announced it would add Dolby Atmos to the channel, making it the first broadcaster to support the format. Dolby Atmos aims to take surround sound a step further, and make it completely envelop the audience, making for a much more immersive viewing experience. You will need a compatible amp and speakers to notice the difference, though.
From now on, every Premier League game shown on BT will be in 4K with Dolby Atmos.
While BT Sport Ultra HD might be the first broadcaster to use Dolby Atmos, it won't be the only one. Sky recently revealed it will add the technology to its Sky Q package, though it hasn't yet announced when.
MORE: Ultra HD - everything you need to know
How can you get BT Sport Ultra HD?
BT Sport Ultra HD is only available if you have BT TV. To access it, you'll need to add the BT Entertainment Ultra HD package to your subscription.
The Entertainment Ultra HD package isn't cheap, costing £21 per month extra (£14 extra for existing BT customers who are upgrading), plus one-off fees of £44 (though it's currently on offer for £20) for an engineer installation and £50 for the new YouView Ultra HD box (worth £250). On top of that, there's a £10 delivery charge.
The BT Ultra HD box has a 1TB hard drive and the package gives you access to "60 premium channels" of HD and SD content.
You'll also need a BT Infinity broadband connection. BT says the service requires a 44Mbps connection, "which ensures a high quality TV viewing experience and concurrent internet usage".
Lastly, you'll need a compatible 4K TV, of course. Most TVs released from 2014 onwards from big manufacturers like LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony will be supported.
As we noted ahead of the launch, BT Sport won't support older 4K TVs and products due to changes in the 4K spec over the last couple of years. This includes many 2014 AV receivers, with only Onkyo delivering AV amps with the necessary HDCP 2.2 spec.
There's no way to watch BT Sport Ultra HD online, on a laptop or on mobile, as you need a set-top box. So you'll have to pay for the full subscription, we're afraid.
MORE: How to watch Premier League online (legally)
What's on BT Sport Ultra HD?
Football is the main draw. The channel shows matches in the Premier League, FA Cup, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League in Ultra HD.
However, while BT has exclusive live rights to the Champions League and Europa League, it only holds the rights to relatively few Premier League games, compared to Sky which has the lion's share. In December 2016, for example, BT showed seven Premier League matches live, whereas Sky broadcast 16 (and just like BT's, they were all shown in 4K).
BT also shows other live sports in 4K, including Aviva Premiership rugby, MotoGP and squash. Generally speaking, there are a handful of live sporting events shown in 4K on the channel each week.
To plan your viewing, take a look at the schedule (channel 433 on the planner).
MORE: 5 things we learned watching BT Sport Ultra HD
What about 4K on Sky? Virgin? BBC?
BT might have launched 4K first in the UK, but Sky and Virgin Media have soon caught up. Sky launched its 4K service last summer - a good six months after Sky Q launched - while the 4K-capable Virgin TV V6 box was announced just before Christmas.
This season, Sky offers 124 of its 126 Premiership football matches in 4K, alongside films, dramas, natural history programmes and documentaries.
Every race from the 2017 Formula One season will also be shown in the resolution.
To watch, you'll need the Sky Q 2TB box (known as Sky Q Silver at launch) and a subscription to Sky Sports.
Virgin Media also offers 4K to its customers, through its Virgin TV V6 box. However, at present it only offers Netflix and YouTube in 4K - the 4K action from Sky Sports and BT Sport is exclusive to those providers.
The BBC planned to broadcast in 4K as standard by 2016, with the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics seen as a key event for a potential launch. That didn't happen, but the Beeb has been testing 4K content on iPlayer, and reportedly plans to launch it this year. Fingers crossed...
MORE: 7 of the best 4K TVs
See all our 4K TV reviews
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Pruitt dinner included Vatican figure accused of sexual abuse
Among a dozen or so dinner guests at a five-star restaurant in Italy last year were EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt an...
Posted: May 12, 2018 3:31 PM
Among a dozen or so dinner guests at a five-star restaurant in Italy last year were EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and a controversial Vatican figure who was under investigation for and later charged with sexual abuse.
Scott Pruitt's public schedule for June 9, 2017, said he was having a private dinner with staff, but documents uncovered by The New York Times reveal he was dining with the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church to be accused in the sex abuse scandal plaguing the global church, Cardinal George Pell.
Pell was under investigation at the time by authorities in Australia, where he had been an archbishop. Later that month, he was charged with abuse.
Pell is also a known climate change denier, a position that aligns with Pruitt, which may explain why he was invited to the dinner. Another dozen or so members of the Holy See also attended, according to a statement from the EPA.
They went to a restaurant called La Terrazza, where meals run up to $240 per plate. The EPA wouldn't say who paid for the guests, but, spokesman Jahan Wilcox said, "Administrator Pruitt paid for all of his meals."
Wilcox also would not say why Pell was kept off the public schedule, saying only that the cardinal was charged 20 days after the dinner.
In a separate statement to CNN, Wilcox said that Pruitt was unaware of Pell's attendance. But the private schedule in a May email obtained by the Times shows he was the only Vatican official named on the schedule for the dinner. It was even noted that the dinner was the day before the cardinal's 76th birthday.
Pruitt was already under scrutiny for this Italy trip, given its $120,000 price tag, and reporting that it was arranged by an activist and friend of Pruitt's, Leonard Leo, an executive with The Federalist Society. Pruitt told members of Congress he went to attend the G7 summit, but spent only one day there, according to his schedule.
The trip is one of dozens of ethical scandals Pruitt is trying to weather as he navigates a path to keeping his job at the EPA. There are nearly a dozen probes underway, and the White House said as recently as Thursday that his actions have? "raised concerns" and they are hoping Pruitt can answer questions about his behavior.
Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters he remains confident in Pruitt's ability to run the agency. He is widely accepted as one of the most effective administrators when it comes to deregulation - something favorable to business but gut-wrenching to environmental groups.
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