When I went over to their place, ten Have recalls, I could see that something had gone wrong. Coco is warm and lovely. Shes dynamic. Shes the mother of four kids. She loves color, she wears patterns. Yet the interiors were all gray and inert.The painting by Tessa Greene OBrien over the librarys fireplace depicts the view outside the room.Art: Tessa Greene OBrien. Mary Nelson Sinclair/Hidell Brooks Gallery.1800's Hudson River School Style Landscape Painting on BrassThe Monterey Rug by Rush HouseEverard Damask Wallpaper by Adelphi Paper HangingsApolline Botanical Linen Fabric by SchumacherThe house is located on an expansive property in Millerton, New York, owned by Tims parents. They occupy an elegant neo-Georgian manse. But this house is very different, he says with a laugh. It was built in 1982 and was a haphazardly furnished, orange shag-rug-sporting, ranch-style house. I began using the place after college, and it has since undergone multiple transformations and transitions. Adds his wife, It was a real hodgepodge.The open floor plan was the real challenge, says ten Have. The struggle was how to program the main room, which is so sprawling. I used a graphic wallpaper from Adelphi Paper Hangings to tie it together. Its density makes it almost a neutral. The living rooms custom wool-and-raffia rug was the first item she selected. It reminds me of an American jacquard coverlet, she says, and I wanted the interiors to have a bit of an American folk-art feel. A Gustavian bench, a formal daybed, and a softly skirted custom sofa are gathered on the red rug under the sky-blue ceiling. The Swedish chairs in the dining area came from London, the custom rug is by Zak + Fox, and the pine buffet was found at auction. My greatest joy is hunting, she confesses.In the foyer, framed antique prints of birds of New York State surround a late-17th-century English chest.Frank Frances StudioAntoinette Poisson Canut WallpaperRegts P-12 Delft Tiles with RosesSaccharin Petrol Check Blanket by Gregory ParkinsonFrench Tapisserie Ottoman Chair by Cabana x Arjumand's WorldThe original assignment was to just tackle two rooms, says Coco. It snowballed from there. As the project progressed, the choices became only bolder. Scale jumps from diminutive to oversized, often in a single room. The mix of patterns in the bedrooms, with their distinctive headboards, are surprising yet never off-putting. The color palette is rich but slightly offdusky, earthy, almost clashing in places. The library is cozy, but hardly sedate. The screened porchs mint-green ceiling and trim hold the eye nearly as strongly as the stunning view.

Phones down, eyes up Girl strangled by her own wheelchair as bus monitor texted, checked Instagram 10 years in prison is possible. Nate Anderson Jan 16, 2025 5:13 pm | 96 Even when you're not driving, texting can be dangerous. Credit: Benjamin Rondel | Getty Images Even when you're not driving, texting can be dangerous. Credit: Benjamin Rondel | Getty Images Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreCell phones are magnets for our attention, but you can, of course, face significant legal jeopardy for giving them that attention. Just ask the "safety driver" of an Uber self-driving vehicle, which hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2018. According to authorities, the driver was watching The Voice on Hulu just before the crashand was then charged with negligent homicide.These kinds of cases are always tragic because they feel so easily avoidable, but they also happen with enough regularity that it's easy to tune them out. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 3,308 people were killed by distracted drivers in 2022 aloneand "texting is the most alarming distraction."That's why states continue to crack down on cell phone use while driving. A Colorado law that went into effect on January 1, for instance, bans a driver from using any mobile electronic device unless it is hands-free. Thirty US states now have such bans in place.But a trial that wrapped up in New Jersey this week caught my attention, because it is one of the sadder and stranger examples of cell phone-mediated distraction while in a vehicle. A young girl died, and a 28-year-old woman is probably going to jail, but this is not your typical tale of texting while driving. Texting was involved34 times, in factbut driving had nothing to do with what happened.Child endangermentThe trial was about an incident in Franklin Township, New Jersey, on July 17, 2023, when a 6-year-old girl named Fajr Williams got on a bus to attend a summer program. Williams had disabilities and was confined to her wheelchair. The bus had a spot for anchoring wheelchairs to the ground, and it had a ride-along bus monitor named Amanda Davila, 28, who was supposed to watch and assist kids like Williams.According to state prosecutors, Williams was properly strapped into her wheelchair and had been taken down to the bus by her older sister. Williams was then loaded onto the bus, but her chair was not allegedly attached to the floor correctly, nor were the proper seatbelts used. As a result, while the bus drove its route to school that morning, Williams began to slide down the seat of her wheelchair. (She could not control her trunk movements normally, and so she was unable to sit back up.) At some point in the ride, she slid low enough that her chair's own four-point harness, which was meant to keep her upright, began to choke her. By the time the bus arrived at school, William had been strangled to death.Investigators focused on the actions of Davila, who was supposed to keep Williams within view. Instead, authorities say, video from inside the bus showed:...that defendant sat in front of the victim instead of across the aisle from her and that defendant used her cell phone with ear buds to scroll through Instagram, listen to Apple music, and send/receive 34 text messages during the bus ride instead of checking on the victim. Testimony revealed that defendant received six years of safety trainings that emphasized a no-cellphone and no-earbuds policy.The state charged Davila with both manslaughter and child endangerment, and she could have faced a couple of decades in prison.The trial itself was raw. According to a local report from NBC, "The video played in court was so painful to watch for the victim's family, her father had to leave the courtroom while jurors watched little Fajr struggling to breathe."But Davila wasn't going to take complete blame. "I made a mistake, but you guys are trying to put me away for 10 to 20 yearson a mistake," she said, going on to argue that the bus company had not in fact banned cell phone use. The New York Times spoke to her lawyer, who said that it "wasnt discouraged for her to be on her phone" and that the bus company actually used the phone to communicate with Davila and even asked her to give her number to parents.Davila also claimed that some of the straps and hooks on her bus weren't workingand that she wasn't properly trained to use them anyway. (The state put great emphasis on the regular training sessions that the bus company gave to employees.) But she admitted that she should have been sitting in the back, with her eyes on the students with disabilities.On January 13, 2025, after a week-long trial, Davila received a split decision. She was cleared on the more serious manslaughter charge but was found guilty of child endangerment and faces the possibility of a decade in jail when she is sentenced in March.Nate AndersonDeputy EditorNate AndersonDeputy Editor Nate is the deputy editor at Ars Technica. 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Takes The CakeBelieve it or not, a years-old cake recipe has reignited Hollow Knight: Silksong hopes for the millionth timeIt sounds too good to be true. It probably is, but it's the most refined Silksong copium we've seen yet.Image credit: Team Cherry News by Connor Makar Staff Writer Published on Jan. 17, 2025 If you've been a fan of indie games over the past, uh I don't know, six years since Hollow Knight: Silksong was announced, you've probably been aware of the savage hunger the gaming community at large has been for a taste of a release date. The game is just that anticipated. It turns out after years of silence, a desert recipe is the current source of hope for desperate fans, and it might just take the cake for the funniest potential Silksong tease we've seen yet.It all starts with an otherwise innocent move by a member of Team Cherry, changing their Discord tag and profile picture to a slice of delicious cake ahead of the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal. However, eagle-eyed Silksong fans discovered that if you reverse image search this cake image, you come across a single online cake recipe. Suddenly, Silksong fans found the first breadcrumb - or perhaps cake crumb - that led towards some more info.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. This recipe is Bon Appetit's Brooklyn Blackout Cake, written and published on the food outlet's website on April 2, 2024 by one Rick Martinez. If that date sounds familiar, that's because the next Nintendo Direct has been set for April 2, 2025. Now you see how a little bit of fun actually started to look like a delicious tease of what's to come.But it turns out, there's even more. If you look down at the comments on this Brooklyn Blackout Cake, you'll find comments by both Ari Gibson and William Pellen. They are an art director and game designer at Team Cherry respectively, and while their comments aren't exactly smoking guns, Gibson's comment is an absolute eyebrow-raiser. He comments, "I give this cake a rating of 4/2" - another reference to the date of publication and the date of the next Nintendo Direct.So it seems, if this little treasure hunt is to be believed, that those of you out there who have been praying for more Silksong over the last few years might actually get what you've been asking for in a mere few months. Either that, or Team Cherry have gone and done the funniest joke at the expense of the Silksong-starved. Funniest, or cruelest, depending on your perspective. It has been a while since we've seen anything, and one hopes the good folk over at Team Cherry have been doing more than making delicious cake all these years.So, with this, an already exciting Nintendo Direct has seemingly pointed to the stands in preparation for a home run. It's no understatement to say that a direct with not only a host of new Switch 2 reveals and Silksong would be an all-timer. So please, don't be a wild goose chase!Do you think Silksong will actually show up in April? Or are Silksong fans cursed to stay parched forever? Let us know below!

No need to panic, though.Nintendo's share price has taken a slight hit since the company officially revealed its next-gen hardware: the Nintendo Switch 2.As reported by Al Jazeera (thanks, Eurogamer), Nintendo's share price fell as much as 7.2% following the surprise reveal. It recovered slightly during the following hours, but by the day's closure, a final drop of 4.2% was recorded.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

We regularly hear stories about companies that are selling your sensitive personal information including your location data to the highest bidder. The latest culprit appears to be General Motors.The Federal Trade Commission alleges that GM and Onstar GMs subscription-based in-vehicle safety and security system collected, used, and sold drivers precise geolocation data and driving behavior information from millions of vehicles without adequately notifying consumers and obtaining their consent. On Thursday, the agency issued a proposed order to ban the company from selling such data to consumer reporting agencies for five years.In its complaint, the FTC alleged that GM used a misleading enrollment process to get consumers to sign up for Onstar. Some users reported being unaware that they signed up for Onstars Smart Driver feature, which promised to use driving data to help drivers improve their vehicles performance and encourage safer driving.GM monitored and sold peoples precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds, FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said in a statement.This is the latest issue to beset the carmaking giant in recent weeks. Last month, GM pulled the plug on funding its autonomous vehicle unit Cruise, a company into which GM has invested more than $10 billion.Thursdays settlement with the FTC follows an investigation by The New York Times Kashmir Hill, who found GM had been collecting details about its customers driving habits including every instance of hard braking, late night driving, and speeding and selling the records to insurance companies and third-party data brokers. The result was that drivers began seeing higher insurance premiums, but couldnt figure out why.The potential misuse of customers data goes beyond increased insurance premiums. A persons geolocation data can reveal the most intimate details of a persons life, including where they live and work, and whether they visited a medical facility or place of worship. In the wrong hands, location data poses a serious danger to, for example, abortion seekers across the country.As part of the FTCs proposed order if approved by a court GM and Onstar will be banned from disclosing data to consumer reporting agencies, and would also need to obtain affirmative express consent from consumers before collecting any vehicle data in the future. The automaker would also need to allow customers to obtain and delete their data, as well as limit the data collection from their vehicles.Since its still a proposed order, the agreement will be subject to a 30-day public comment period before a final ruling goes into effect. TechCrunch has reached out to GM and the FTC for additional information and will update if we hear back.

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Thorncrown Chapel | John Langholz, FLickr UserLocated within the wooded hills of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Thorncrown Chapel exemplifies architectural precision and environmental integration. Designed by E. Fay Jones and completed in 1980, the structure reflects a seamless relationship between architecture and nature. Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wrights principles of organic architecture, Jones created a space that honors its surroundings. Recognized by the American Institute of Architects as one of the top buildings of the 20th century, Thorncrown Chapel demonstrates how architecture can elevate the experience of place.Thorncrown Chapel Technical InformationArchitects1-2: E. Fay JonesLocation: Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USAClient: Jim ReedArea: 120 m2 | 1,300 Sq. Ft.Construction Year: 1980Photographs: See Caption DetailsA place to think your best thoughts. E. Fay JonesThorncrown Chapel Photographs Randall Connaughton Randall Connaughton Randall Connaughton Randall Connaughton Randall Connaughton Randall Connaughton Randall Connaughton John Langholz, FLickr User John Langholz, FLickr UserArchitectural Features and MaterialityThorncrown Chapels design achieves complexity through simplicity. The structure features over 425 windows and a lattice of wooden beams integrating with the surrounding Ozark landscape. The transparency of the design merges the interior and exterior, creating a connection to nature.Jones utilized local materials to reduce environmental disruption and strengthen the chapels connection to its site. The timber framework and clear glass panels highlight sustainable design and reinforce the chapels purpose. The geometry reflects Gothic cathedral architecture, reinterpreted in a modern, organic style. Its pitched roof and vertical elements emphasize spatial depth and lightness.The chapels compact footprint belies its structural intricacy. Each component was designed for assembly without heavy machinery to preserve the forested site. This attention to detail underscores the architects focus on environmental sensitivity.Spatial Experience and Emotional ImpactWalking into Thorncrown Chapel is an immersive experience. Light and shadow interact dynamically through the wooden lattice, echoing the rhythms of nature. This lighting enhances the chapels contemplative atmosphere.Jones designed the space to foster introspection and connection. The chapels scale provides a sense of intimacy, while its open design integrates with the surrounding landscape. This balance invites both communal gatherings and solitary reflection.The alignment of the chapel with its natural backdrop enhances its meditative quality. Framing views of the sky and trees, the structure extends the natural environment, offering a thoughtful and serene experience.Thorncrown Chapel Lessons for ArchitectsThorncrown Chapel is a sustainable, contextual architecture model demonstrating how buildings can respect and enhance their environments. For architects, it highlights the importance of simplicity, material authenticity, and the emotional resonance of design.E. Fay Jones work encourages architects to consider aesthetics, functionality, and the spiritual dimensions of their designs. Thorncrown Chapel stands as an example of architecture that prioritizes harmony and context.In an era of increasing urbanization, Thorncrown Chapel emphasizes the value of spaces that connect us to nature and ourselves. It remains a reflection of architectural clarity and environmental respect.Thorncrown Chapel PlansFloor Plan | E. Fay JonesElevation & Section | E. Fay JonesThorncrown Chapel Image GalleryAbout E. Fay JonesCredits and Additional NotesStructural Engineer: Maurice Jennings (Collaborator with E. Fay Jones)

The winners of international contest to revamp the Museum of Architecture in Wrocaw, Poland have been revealedThe contest sought proposals to restore and extend the museum which is located in a series of 15th-century buildings in Wrocaws Old Town including the St Bernardine of Sienna Church and a monastic quadrangle with a garden.The overall winner of the approximately 10,000 (PLN 50,000) prize was Warsaw-based practice TO Micha Sikorski Architekt which will now be invited to negotiate for a design contract. The firms winning scheme was praised by judges for its use of recycled materials and for cleverly combining a reinterpretation of the past with thoughts about the present and future.The second prize of around 8,000 (PLN 40,000) went to Ch+ architectural studio from Wroclaw while a third prize of around 6,000 (PLN 30,000) was awarded to Warsaw-based Jdrak-Kociesza Pracownia Projektowa.Museum of Architecture in WrocawCredit:Image by Maciej KaczorThe estimated 21.75 million (PLN 110 million) project will overhaul and upgrade the facility which was founded in 1965, features the largest collection of stained glass in Poland, includes exhibitions of architecture spanning from the medieval to constructivist periods, and is the countrys only architecture museum.Founded during the sixth century as a trade settlement on the Amber Road known as Budorigum, Wrocaw in the Lower Silesian region of Poland is today a growing city of more than 674,000 inhabitants with strong cultural and economic links to Germany and the Czech Republic.Local architectural landmarks in Wrocaw include the 1913 Centennial Hall exhibition space designed by Max Berg and the Plac Grunwaldzki housing estate designed by Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak.The museum is located in the centre of the historic city formerly part of Germany and known as Breslau and is a short distance from the unique Racawice Panorama museum which hosts a huge 15 by 114m cycloramic painting showing the Battle of Racawice.Museum of Architecture in WroclawCredit:Image by Jerzy WypychThe latest contest comes six years after an international competition was launched to design a new entrance lobby for the Krupa art gallery which overlooks a 13th-century Market Square in the centre of Wrocaw.Key aims of the project include making the museum fully accessible to people with disabilities and delivering a new multi-functional education area with a modern caf and bookstore that can transform the museum into a 'vibrant centre for meetings and the dynamic exchange of ideas.'Judges for the contest included Micha Duda, director of the Museum of Architecture in Wrocaw; Bartomiej wierczewski, deputy director of the Department of Sustainable Development at the Wrocaw City Office; and Aleksandra Jaeschke, assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Texas, Austin.Duda said: The winning [proposal] weaves together several different ideas. For one, it talks about the past, including the identity of this institution, which, at the beginning, was mostly concerned with collecting the remains of non-existent buildings.On the other hand, it offers a contemporary perspective on the circularity of objects, a truly thought-provoking subject. Its crucial to emphasize that the project is not yet finished, but rather serves as an invitation to our entire team to collaborate on the implementation strategy. This marks the beginning of a new and exciting chapter.

The UK government has expressed reservations about legislative proposals from Lord Tim Clement-Jones to improve the scrutiny of algorithmic decision-making tools in the public sector, arguing the concerns raised by his bill are already covered by its own proposed data reforms and the existing Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS).Introduced as a private members bill in September 2024, Clement-Jones said at the time the proposals were needed because the existing safeguards on algorithmic and automated decision-making (ADM) tools were not enough to ensure redress once the computer says no.During the second reading debate of his bill in December 2024, Baroness Maggie Jones the under-secretary of state at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said the combination of governments reforms to make the ATRS mandatory for central government departments, as well as its proposed Data Use and Access Bill (DUAB), are not only sufficient to address Clement-Jones concerns, but also better align with the governments own priorities of accelerating innovation, technology for good, and modern digital government.These reforms strike the right balance between ensuring that organisations can make the best use of automated decision-making technology to support economic growth, productivity and service delivery, while maintaining high data protection standards and public trust, she said.However, Clement-Jones expressed his own reservations about the government data reforms, citing past incidents involving the use of ADM tools to describe the dangers of unchecked algorithm systems including lack of transparency, loss of public trust in artificial intelligence (AI), and infiltration of bias and racism in unregulated decision-making systems.He reminded Lords of the 2020 A-level and GCSE grading fiasco, where students unfairly missed out on university places; the use of ADM systems by councils, where 540,000 citizens were assigned fraud risk scores before refusing them of housing benefits on the basis of fraudulent data; and the Post Office Horizon scandal. It is a dangerous confidence if the government really thinks that the ATRS, combined with the watered-down ADM provisions in the GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation], are going to be enough, said Clement-Jones. The bill is crucial to ensuring that the benefits of these technologies are realised while safeguarding democratic values and individual rights.Baroness Jones, however, argued that the governments data reforms under the DUAB specifically provide that human involvement must be meaningful. This is to prevent cursory human involvement being used to rubber-stamp decisions as having had meaningful involvement.One of Clement-Jones major concerns was about the transparency of ATRS. Since its launch in 2022, he said, only six records of algorithmic transparency in the public sector have been published. Government defended itself by claiming that a number of these records have been completed since it was made mandatory for all government departments, and that those will soon be published.As it stands, there are currently 23 records contained in the ATRS.Clement-Jones bill also contains a section on Algorithmic Impact Assessments (AIA) that public authorities would have to conduct prior to the deployment of any decision-making tools. AIAs would make it mandatory for them to constantly assess and disclose the tools impact on safety and administrative decision-making when the algorithm is updated or the tools scope changes.Conservative peer Viscount Camrose Jones predecessor at DSIT further argued that enforcing impact assessments even before purchase would be unrealistic, and, as a result, the bill would create an administrative burden. He also criticised Clement-Jones bill for being too prescriptive, rather than allowing public sector the flexibility to make choices in the face of their wildly differing needs.Baroness Jones claimed the ATRS provided a holistic view on safeguards regarding the impact of the tool while avoiding negative outcomes, and that legislating for transparency was therefore not needed: We do not believe that legislation for either mandatory transparency records or AIAs for public authorities is necessary at this time, she said.Read more about automated decision-makingSwedish authorities urged to discontinue AI welfare system: Amnesty International is calling on Swedens social insurance agency to immediately discontinue its machine learning-based welfare system, following an investigation by Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet that found it to be discriminatory.Denmarks AI-powered welfare system fuels mass surveillance: Research reveals the automated tools used to flag individuals for benefit fraud violate individuals privacy and risk discriminating against marginalised groups.AI disempowers logistics workers while intensifying their work: Conversations on the algorithmic management of work largely revolve around unproven claims about productivity gains or job losses - less attention is paid to how AI and automation negatively affect low-paid workers.References were also made to Canada, which has recently implemented a similar AIA framework to the one proposed. Baroness Martha Lane Fox requested caution in the implementation of Clement-Jones bill, saying it might add to bureaucracy. Canada has also been trying to move to greater regulation of algorithmic transparency, and the implementation has been very heavy and difficult, she said.One key distinction of the private members bill is that it raises the importance of scrutinising systems during procurement stage instead of after they are put to use to ensure that systems are properly assessed for their efficacy and impacts before they are purchased.Speaking in support of improved procurement measures, Lane-Fox said: The skills on the digital procurement side of the civil service are under-egged, and the deals done with suppliers are far from ideal as we move to a world in which we want to encourage innovation but must also encourage safety. I very much hope that procurement will be positioned very closely at the heart of any future plans.The private bill is introduced by Clement-Jones at a time when government is looking to use AI to drive growth and boost the economy. Peter Kyle previously said in July 2024 that were putting AI at the heart of the governments agenda to boost growth and improve our public services.Meanwhile, prime minister Keir Starmer said during his AI Action Plan speech on 13 January that the technology is the defining opportunity of our generation. Mark my words, Britain will be one of the great AI superpowers, he said.

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