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Paleo On The Road #3 (it's been a while): Steak, eggs, braised greens and sliced tomato at Gravy, Portland, OR.
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Journey of Lost Souls (Paperback)
|Author: Josh Raiter|
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|Welcome to the world of Crystos, a place where Elements help people go about their daily lives. Enter Koshka Ralica, our main character, a young elementalist that lives on the Continent of Fire with his parents and he lives a very good life. That is until the Elemental of Darkness kills his parents and he goes on a quest of revenge to find the Elemental and take him down for good. Along the way he meets tons of new friends and new enemies, but his friends and remaining family have his back. A story of action and adventure, magic and fantasy, and even come cheesy romance. This book has everything that a reader is looking for and maybe even more.| | <urn:uuid:d151c74b-8b5e-4431-96c9-a9263a609c20> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.rakuten.com/prod/journey-of-lost-souls/212950929.html | 2014-12-28T10:16:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447556362.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185916-00017-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944101 | 240 | [
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Neighbors’ Day: April 30
To mark the first anniversary of the Whitney’s new home, neighbors visit free on Saturday, April 30.Reserve tickets
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Learning Leadership column, July/August edition of eSchool News—The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), renamed under its last reiteration as No Child Left Behind, was due for reauthorization three years ago. NCLB, as it is popularly referred to, brought a new level of federal intrusion into local school district affairs. A surprising development, given that the law was spearheaded by a conservative Republican administration that, in previous years, had threatened to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education and take the federal government out of the business of education.
In the 10 years that NCLB has been in place, the law has been praised and cursed. It was originally praised for its intent to leave no child behind—to close the widening achievement gap that exists between the haves and have-nots. Whereas in the past, school systems reported their performance using the statistical mean, NCLB required districts to disaggregate their data and report the performance of categories of students by race, poverty level, language dominance, and special needs. This uncovered a very different performance profile. Districts that in the past prided themselves on the mean performance of all of their students found themselves apologizing for the poor performance of sub-categories previously hidden in the averages. That was a good thing.
Unfortunately, the makers of the law got carried away with their metrics as they further developed the concept of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Under that rubric, school districts had to specify increasing levels of academic achievement that eventually would lead to all children meeting their state’s level of required performance by 2014. Furthermore, each year, each sub-category of students in each school would be required to meet the established performance benchmark or be labeled as having failed to achieve AYP. If one sub-category in one school failed to achieve AYP, the entire school would be deemed to have failed AYP. If a school in a district failed to achieve AYP, the entire district was deemed to have failed AYP.
Poor academic achievement was not the only means of failing to make AYP. Every sub-category has an established n, which is the minimum number of students in that category who must take the test for the school to be in compliance. If the school falls one student short of the n, the school does not make AYP. In the initial years of NCLB, many communities were bewildered by the surprising development that their beloved neighborhood school with the outstanding academic reputation had failed to make AYP and was now considered a “failing” school. Very often this happened not because of academic failure, but because of absenteeism on the day of the test. | <urn:uuid:93da030a-a203-4144-bb20-135379080a90> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/08/01/schools-need-relief-from-onerous-regulation/ | 2016-04-29T01:55:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860110356.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161510-00087-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98216 | 550 | [
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Murphy rumours 'hitting hopes of finding Deirdre'
Published 26/07/2013 | 05:00
THE family of missing woman Deirdre Jacob has expressed concerns at speculation she may have been a victim of convicted rapist Larry Murphy.
The parents of the teenager who vanished in 1998 fear it may stop people coming forward with information.
Her father, Michael Jacob, urged people not to listen to speculation – and to come forward with any information they might have about her disappearance.
The family's plea came as gardai issued a fresh appeal for help in solving the disappearance of the teenager who went missing as she walked home 15 years ago.
Ms Jacob, who was then 18-years-old, was last seen on July 28, 1998, as she was on her way from the centre of Newbridge, Co Kildare, to her home in Roseberry on the outskirts of the town. She disappeared in broad daylight.
Gardai emphasised last night that they were still keeping an open mind on the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
They pointed out that they had no evidence to link Murphy to their investigation although he had been listed as a possible suspect after his previous conviction.
Crimestoppers has offered a reward for information in relation to Ms Jacob's disappearance that could help the gardai. It can be contacted confidentially on the freephone number, 1800 250025.
Gardai in Newbridge hope the latest appeal could help jog people's memory.
Two days after the disappearance of Ms Jacob, a woman fitting her description was spotted at Tara Street in Dublin, but gardai have not been able to confirm any link.
Cold-case detectives have continued searching for the remains of potential victims of suspected serial killer Murphy in recent years.
Murphy, originally from Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, was released from prison in August 2010 and is believed to be living in mainland Europe. He had served 10 years of a 15-year sentence for abduction and rape of a woman in 2010.
Last December, garda divers searched a lake in Co Wicklow and gardai also searched around a hunting lodge, close to where Murphy was found with his abducted rape victim in the boot of his car.
It was reported the most recent searches followed an alleged confession made by Murphy to a fellow inmate in Arbour Hill Prison. The man claimed to gardai that the convicted rapist had talked about murdering Ms Jacob.
Murphy allegedly told the prisoner he pulled her into the car, drove up the mountains, killed her and dumped her remains in a lake.
Gardai have also examined his possible participation in the disappearance of other women who vanished in the south east.
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Anderson Silva review
This is my opinion of the strengths of Silva and some good match-ups.
Anderson Silva: Most dominant Striker currently in his weight range.
1. Unbelievable Precision he has in his striking game with his punches, kicks.
2. No other striker in his weight category can challenge him in this realm from his reach, height, precision and power.
3. His cardio levels most don’t realize is also on a different level.
4. His experience level.
5. High mental strength
Extremely good on the ground game as well.
If you watched the fight vs. Travis Lutter it was the first time I saw Anderson Silva breathing hard as the 1st round ended in his recent fights. But, that was nothing compared to the level that Lutter was coming at him. In which he got tired 2nd round and fell right into a triangle, which you wouldn’t expect from a ground game specialist like him. The thing which gave out in that fight in my opinion was Lutter’s cardio. Another recent fight I would like to focus on is the fight with Henderson. I think this was also a great display of how to beat Anderson. I think Dan Henderson was doing great 1’st round, also in fact I think he won that round. The way to beat Anderson Silva is the same style, but the problem where he messed up was he stayed on the feet far too long vs. Silva. Silva is an opponent you have to take to the ground; putting into account also his precision in the striking area. Silva has no weak area’s when it comes to the ground, feet, or cardio. There are three areas’ he can lose thou too in my opinion.
1. Anderson Silva is a loose fighter. Some of his MMA loses to nobody’s were sudden bursts of energy on his opponents where they caught him in a random move and submitted him. For example he fought a Japanese fighter who he was dominating on the feet. His opponent out of desperation does a leg scissor sweep and a heel hook to submit Silva. No one saw it coming and couldn’t believe how Silva lost. This is a good example, Silva’s calm and cool state is weak to explosive quickness where key players like GSP is one of the best at. The problem with GSP thou is he is explosive, but doesn’t do unpredictable moves. Moves that Silva isn’t used too, and doesn’t train for is key in this area.
2. Another area of losses that comes from Silva is Ground and Pound. Players like Tito Ortiz was perfect in this area. It is one of the most stupidest things to watch in my opinion in a MMA fight. A fighter will use wrestling to take down an opponent sit in his guard and just ground and pound till the round ends. Next round, stay outside his reach wait for a chance to shoot again and repeat. Attempting passes only to prevent the ref from standing them up and wait till the fight is over. Silva has lost some of his fights to this style as well. In my opinion, I think in a rematch this is the style Henderson will use against Silva again. Only flaw with this technique in a 5 round match is cardio. Someone has to have the cardio for the constant ground and pound and take downs which drain a lot from you. Where the person who is taken down will rest and have much more energy which as rounds progress will make it much tougher to be taken down and much easier to be caught with something. For example; Player A=Stand up, Player B=Wrestler, Player A sat on his back in first two rounds. Player B really tired as he keeps trying to take down his opponent. He shoots, moves into a clinch, Player A explodes with knees which player B can’t prevent because he is so gassed from the previous rounds.
Anderson Silva’s standing style only way to be countered is someone who is as skilled in precision, power, and speed. Who has a reach advantage on Silva which will force Silva to come in. Silva always waits for his opponents to come at him to feel the rhythm of his opponents and there timing. This will not work against another defense stand up fighter who has a reach advantage on him. A good example of this would be Lyoto Machida.
Good fights I would love to see with Anderson Silva in UFC.
1. Lyoto Machida vs Anderson Silva which I give to Machida. Both are defense fighters. 55/ 45 Anderson Silva is a much better striker in my opinion. But Machida is a defense fighter who waits for his shots and explodes. This counters Silva’s style who is also a defense fighter. The difference in this fight would be reach advantage and take downs. Silva could still win due to cardio which he beats Machida in or submission.
2. Thiago Alves vs Anderson Silva which I give to Silva but would a hell of a war. 40 / 60 Would be a awesome stand up fight. Alves has a chance of knocking out Silva which probably re-solve in the opposite. Still I would expect this fight to be a great war. I give it to Silva due to reach and weight advantage.
3. GSP vs Anderson Silva which I give too GSP. GSP would play it smart, explode take him down and sit on him. Anderson Silva still could win if he manages to catch him during the take downs or submit him. When GSP fights Alves this would be a good preview of what would happen vs. Silva. 55 / 45
In review: Anderson Silva has no equal in the stand up game in his weight class. Only a few can challenge him on the ground. Lastly, no ground fighters can keep up with his cardio and explosiveness.
Ways he can lose:
1. Ground and pound: which would take someone who has better cardio then Silva.
2. Catching Silva with a kick or punch: which would take a awesome stand up fighter on top of getting lucky.
3. Unpredictable explosive move: A random move where you explode onto Silva and catch him in something. Silva as the rounds progress gets in an grove and relaxes.
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|Imagine a unique place
of breathtaking scenery: craggy coastlines, sweeping golden beaches,
rich forests, snow covered mountains, fish filled rivers, glacier
fed lakes and gurgling volcanic pools, all beneath a vibrant blue
sky. That place is New Zealand.
New Zealand is
compact and accessible, spread over three relatively small islands
with efficient and modern transport, quiet roads, plenty of international
flights and 2 stunningly scenic rail journeys. Other pluses
are friendly, English-speaking people, a low crime rate.
There are 3 major cultural influences:
navigators (the Maori),
settlers who followed a thousand years after the Maori’s,
Pacific Rim immigrants.
The animal and plant life are excellent, offering many opportunities
to see the varied birdlife (including kiwis), also dolphins seals
Enjoy the chance to explore2 of the richest New World wine regions
on earth, sample wonderful cuisine, stroll on deserted beaches,
walk through the national parks or over alpine passes.
Try whitewater rafting, caving or bungee jumping. You can snowboard
and ski on world class slopes.
Experience scuba diving in unique colour filled marine reserves,
sail on exciting waters or play on tournament class golf courses.
If that is not your style, immerse yourself in culture at the museums
and galleries of New Zealand’s main cities:
New Zealand’ offers something for every type of visitor and
it’s time as an original tourist destination has come. Long
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My stunning solution to litter louts
A modest proposal to conquer the problem of litter. We’re the most disgusting country when it comes to making a mess of our public places.
Other countries take pride in their environment. We seem to breed individuals who view the environment as nothing to do with them. Sad.
But all the guilt-inducing ads don’t seem to be getting through to the offenders. They still eat and drink and dump. I reckon what’s needed is something a little more shocking.
So, how about issuing citizens with stun guns and let us zap littering people in the act? It’d be a swift, immediate inducement to “Pick it up and take it the f*** home with ye!”
Too strong? Sorry. Let’s just stick to the electric shock and leave the bad language out of it then.
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As you know I am a firm supporter in the use of positive energy in my life and in the life of the people I work with. My book “The Law of Sobriety” is based on the Law of Attraction and encourages people to learn to use the positive energy in the world around them to create the life and space that they want and desire. Having loving, positive, supportive relationships can only happen if the person in recovery is open to accepting these relationships in his or her life. And this is all based on truly being able to love yourself, get rid of negative, toxic relationships and open your heart to the truly great ones.
For individuals that have had problems with addiction in their lives accepting the fact that the universe wants to provide this positive relationships is often a mental hurdle that has to be crossed. Addicts may see themselves as deeply flawed, unworthy or undeserving of a wonderful, supportive and positive relationship. This is because they are still filled with emotional negativity and negative thoughts. Only by purging those negative emotions and energy can your heart and mind be opened for new and better options.
One way to encourage the positive emotion and energy of love into your life is through a pet. Dogs, cats and other pets that show affection and attention are a wonderful addition to your family. Your love and caring for your pet will make you feel good and you will experience more positive emotions because of the unconditional love to and from your pet. As you feel good about yourself in this relationship and open your heart up to feeling love and loved, the opportunities for more relationships on this positive level will present themselves in your life. Learning to love and be loved is the basis for a real change in the way we see the world around us and our pets can be a wonderful source of this love and positive energy.
Sherry Gaba LCSW, Psychotherapist, Life & Recovery Coach is featured Celebrity Rehab on VH1. Sherry is the author of “The Law of Sobriety†which uses the law of attraction to recover from any addiction. Please download your Free EBooks from Sherry™s Enrich Your Life Series. Contact Sherry at [email protected] for webinars, teleseminars, coaching packages and speaking engagements. Listen to Sherry on A Moment of Change with Sherry Gaba on CBS | <urn:uuid:548f214d-9859-4b09-87b5-035a972565c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/thecelebritytherapist/2012/03/pets-as-positive-energy-in-life.html | 2016-05-02T00:31:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00095-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949065 | 485 | [
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Some celebrities seem to have that perfectly effortless look all the time. Mary Kate Olsen, Nicole Richie, Rachel Zoe and Selena Gomez come to mind with their laid-back choice of wardrobe, long hair and loose waves. To me, boho hair is messy with a slight bend, rather than a more tousled curl (like mermaid waves). Getting such a look seems hard to master, but I have the most simple little trick for you. It's completely fool proof.
To prep, you'll just need a one-inch curling iron, some hair and about 10-15 minutes.
1. Wrap sections of all sizes around your curling iron loosely until heated all the way through. I like to leave my ends out for a more natural look. In fact, I usually only wrap each section around two or three times.
2. Once you release your hair from the curling iron, pull it completely straight as it cools off. This is to relax the curl, giving it that "slight bend" instead of the ringlet-y effect it sometimes has when curled. This will give it a much more effortless look. Which is the whole point of boho.
Repeat until your whole head is done.
I like to keep my boho curls for as many days as possible. You don't even have to worry about touching them up, because a little frizz and a little wildness is part of the goal. All you need is a little argan oil to keep your ends shiny, and some dry shampoo for the roots!. | <urn:uuid:c409162e-f47d-450f-a5d5-616dc60267fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.divinecaroline.com/print/197378 | 2016-05-01T23:24:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00095-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966849 | 321 | [
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While power dressing emerged as a major trend coming out of Milan, unapologetic sexiness also stood out as an important runway statement. Donatella showed motocross minis at Versace, while Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana explored ski-bunny chic at D&G (reindeer print catsuit anyone?). Here, a few of my favorite things from Milan.
—Violet Moon Gaynor
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Archive for October, 2011
We are thrilled to have been voted Best Bridal Shop on the Connecticut Shoreline by the readers of the Shoreline Newspapers! Click here to read the article!
Ring us at 860.669.4596 to schedule an appointment to experience The White Dress by the shore for yourself !
The stunning makeup for the shoot was done by our neighbor, Jennie Fresa. Stay tuned to the blog next week as Jennie reveals how to create each of these fabulous looks yourself!
Photography – Justin & Mary Marantz
Makeup- Jennie Fresa
Hair- W Salon
Dress- Coren Moore
Bouquet- Blush Floral Design
Our creative dream-team ~ Carla Ten Eyck, Jubilee Events, Datura: a modern garden, Dana Bartone & Co., Coral Phesant Stationary, Little Imagination Cakes and yours truely~ was recently asked to style a shoot for Southern New England Weddings Destination Edition.
Below is the cover and the spread~
The design and inspiration for the shoot came from Candice Coppola, founder and creative director of Jubilee Events. Following are her thoughts on the shoot : “Our modern, clean and sophisticated shoot for Southern New England Weddings was so much fun to design. We don’t have anything like it in our portfolio and I had been dying to collaborate on something like this for a while. We were largely inspired by a clean color palette, unique and interesting textures (like metal and acrylic) and a gorgeous Givenchy/Riccardo Tisci dress in my search for inspiration for the story board. Belle Mer in Newport, RI was the perfect place to shoot this editorial with it’s simplistic decor, white backdrops and as Carla mentioned in the behind-the-scenes video, amazing light!”
“As our shoot design progressed it sort of morphed into this obsession with taxidermy and a statement decor piece that we wanted to create. Between myself, Nichole of Coral Pheasant and the incredible Tony of Datura: A Modern Garden, we conceptualized this deer head escort card wall nearly 7 1/2 feet tall and completely covered in over 700 varieties of white and ivory roses (from the most wonderful rose grower, Passion Growers). Radic, right? To date, it is my absolute favorite thing we’ve EVER done at a photoshoot– and it almost didn’t happen! Believe it or not, white resin deer heads are hard to come by. After a fighting match with the folks at zgallerie who couldn’t express ship me my deer head in time (!) we scoured decor stores, online retailers, salvage stores… everything from this side of the Mississippi to procure a white resin deer head. We came up with nothing! Total failure. It was quite tragic… until… Tony came across a discarded taxidermy deer head form the day before our shoot with no ears or antlers. Score! And in true Datura: A Modern Garden fashion that deer head not only had the prettiest Styrofoam ears but also curly willow antlers and was painted a magnificent shade of white!”
Some more incredible details from the shoot include the paper suite designed by Coral Pheasant, which included laser cut metal engraved invitations mounted to a python booklet. Nichole also created laser engraved and hand painted gold / clear acrylic menu cards and escort cards, which was inspired by a decadent acrylic/ghost end table with exposed metal brackets found in Elle decor. The paper was a TRUE work of art!
It was so fun styling the fashion for this shoot! It was very much a departure from anything that we had done. I loved the clean and modern feel and all of the white in the decor. The images above feature a silk organza layered gown by UK designer, David Fielden. The necklace is from Anne Barge’s Fall 2011 collection and was just perfect in the shot!
The series above featured a silk charmeuse gown by David Fielden. I loved how the sleek fabric and the beautiful cameo color balance out all of the white. We paired the gown with bold statement accessories from Maria Elena.
The series below and above feaures a gown by Coren Moore that I selected for it’s architectural feel. I love how the feminity of the ruffle offset the modern feel of the shoot. And how dreamy is it in front of the fireplace below?!
If you want to see how it all came together, check out the behind-the-scenes- video below by Jim Altieri’s Vintage Cinema.
I am in LOVE with this shoot! Let us know what you think!
Cinematography: Jim Altieri’s Vintage Cinema
Photography: Carla Ten Eyck Photography
Styling & Fashion: Beth Chapman, The White Dress by the Shore
Event Planning & Design: Candice Coppola, Jubilee Events
Floral Design + Decor: Tony Palmieri, Datura, A Modern Garden
Beauty: Dana Bartone & Co.
Cakes: Hope Wright-Martell, A Little Imagination Cakes
Invitations/Paper: Nichole Michel, Coral Pheasant
Rentals: Rentals Unlimited, Newport
Linens: Wildflower Linen
Paper Garlands: Kristina Marie
Image composition courtesy of Coral Pheasant
This past weekend we headed to New York for the bi-annual bridal market. Our trip was a complete whirl- wind. Due to my traveling schedule, we had to see all of our designers in just 2 days! But, the beauty made it worth the exhaustion!
Amsale runway show~ image by Candice Coppola of Jubilee Events
Bridal market is all about the stunning gowns, the finished looks and of course a complete collection- the runway is where we find our passion and our inspiration. But for the designers inspiration starts someplace else- in a photograph, a story or a luxurious fabric. This year for Amy Kuschel, inspiration was found in the vintage vixens of years past, Old Hollywood glamour and kitschy magazine ads.
Our vote for favorite collection this season was from Modern Trousseau.Head designer, Callie Tien’s inspiration for her line came by way of her choice in fabric; french, italian and spanish laces, soft, feminine organza and chiffon and uniquely textured designs.
To see more of Modern Trousseau’s stunning Spring 2012 line, view the collection here courtesy of Martha Stewart Weddings.
Overall, the trend continues to be very feminine. Many designers showed slightly fuller skirts- either alines or ball skirts, although we did continue to see trumpet skirts and fit to flares. Every designer showed some version of a tulle bottom dress on their line- either all tulle or some combination of tulle.
The hot neckline for the season was the boat neck. We saw it in every collection, in both long and short dresses. Here are a few of our favorites! We especially loved when it was accompanied by a fabulous back!
left Amsale, right Augusta Jones
left Ivy & Aster, right Jenny Yoo
As a result of the royal wedding, we saw a lot of sleeve options- from cap to ¾, to long. Sleeves were represented in many collections. Influenced by Kate’s gown, the sleeves were predominately in lace.
Some gowns we loved regardless of trend…here are a few of our faves!
Love this architectural silhouette from Amsale!
We loved the silhouette on the left and loved the color of the gown on the right- cafe is the new ivory!
We could not get enough of these stunning colors and textures from Modern Trousseau!
Answering to the diverse taste of brides, many designers were showing versalitly in their lines.
San Francisco based designer Amy Kuschel showed one gown with 3 different neckline options- strapless, vneck and boatneck. Connecticut based designer, Modern Trousseau introduced a precious collection of short dresses, appropriately called Before Long. Every style is available in both ivory and black making it perfect for all of your wedding related events!
Jenny Yoo introduced an adorable chiffon dress in her maids collection that is available both short and long and can be worn a myriad of ways! Imagine having all of your maids order the same dress, yet each one can wear it differently?! Pure genius!
It was not just about the dresses! We found some great accessories as well! We had our eyes peeled for some unique pieces and we found them!
Ivy and Aster introduced these beautiful vintage inspired capelets that transport any gown into a new stunning dimension!
Our favorite milliner, Bijou Van Ness awed us as usual with her stunning hats and cage veils. Here are a few of our faves!
We saw newness that we loved in maids as well! From precious cap sleeves from Coren Moore, to new pretty silhouettes from Jenny Yoo, to an inspired butterfly print from Ivy & Aster, we were swooning! We are thrilled to show off Coren Moore’s newest collection at our upcoming trunk show November 3rd – 5th. And Coren herself will be gracing us with her prescence on Saturday the 5th!
We want to leave you with pure bridal fabulousness!! We had the ultimate pleasure of meeting designer David Fielden for the first time. His avant-garde style and bold use of textures, fabrics and cuts makes his line completely unique. One of our favorite looks was a backless white jumpsuit dress alternative– so 70′s and truly for the bride who wants something amazing and different! You can see some of his 2012 line here and his Milan runway show below… I STRONGLY encourage you to watch the whole thing. The finale is worth the wait!
To get a different perspective on our market visit, be sure to visit Jubilee Event’s blog. Founder and creative director, Candice Coppola accompanied us and it was fabulous to hear her take on the trends!
Be sure to stay tuned to our blog in the coming days as we reveal the incredible designers that we met and the parties and events that we attended!
Images (unless noted) provided by Martha Stewart Weddings and Beth’s iphone.
Succulents, sugar skulls and Southern California make for one vibrant Pretty Post! This month we are featuring the day-of-the-dead themed wedding of Ashley and Joe. The couple couldn’t have chosen a more picturesque venue than The Canary Hotel in sunny Santa Barbara, California- its full of old world charm, grand architecture, and tranquil romance.
The lovely bride was the sister of our very own Kelley Solomon. We were lucky enough to dress both Mother and Daughter, the first in Vineyard Collection and the latter in Reverie Collection.
The bride’s beauty was done by Team hair and makeup, Santa Barbara. We just can’t get enough of that beautiful bouquet- which was expertly arranged by grassroots florist. And those sugar skull cuff links? You can find those at Nordstrom. The images above were so beautifully captured by Trent Buckle of ProImage in San Luis Obispo.
Do you have a dreamy destination wedding in the works? Do share!
Make your way to The White Dress by the shore for our colorful Coren Moore Trunk Show! This New York designer not only produces some gorgeous bridal gowns but also some to-die-for bridesmaids frocks! And who knows, you may even find a fabulous little white dress for your reception, rehearsal dinner or anniversary as well! Shopping during the trunk show ensures a 10% discount off the price of your bridal or maids order- give us a ring at 860.669.4596 to book your appointment today.
And to add to the fun…Coren’s latest collection- including her new chiffon dresses- will be at the trunk show! Join us for an appointment on Saturday, November 5th and get the chance to work directly with Coren herself!
Irene put a damper on our last Anne Barge Trunk Show, so we decided to give it another try! Join us to celebrate the industries finest with a trunk show featuring the timeless, elegant designs of bridal industry icon, Anne Barge.
From November 10th through the 12th you will have the luxury of receiving 10% off of your Anne Barge gown, working with Shawne Reese, the company’s vice president of sales, and choosing from an extended selection of this stunning collection! If it could possibly get better Anne Barge will be sending us a few of her Spring 2012 gowns fresh off the New York runway. Give us a ring at 860-669-4596 to book your appointment.
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Friday Midday Links: Pricing Debate Continues
Some of you might have noticed, on the top of the Samhain website page there is information and a link for the poll about the Sammie Awards this year. PGo vote for your favorite Samhain titles in 2009.
Macmillan ratchets it up the debate by putting a full page ad in the NYTimes for Atul Gawande’s latest book and placing the text “Available everywhere but Amazon.”
Barry Eisler analyzes publisher position v. digital tides. Don’t be deceived by the narratives, he says, as they are all self serving. The digital tide, however, cannot be stemmed and publishers need to go on the offense
Earthworks are a static defense. Publishers can do a few things to make the walls marginally higher and thicker, but that’s about it. Meanwhile, the force of the digital tide is always increasing. Eventually, a kinetic and ever stronger offense will overwhelm a static, finite defense
Hachette moves to the agency business model and in a letter to agents:
It’s important to note that we are not looking to the agency model as a way to make more money on e-books. In fact, we make less on each e-book sale under the new model; the author will continue to be fairly compensated and our e-book agents will make money on every digital sale. We’re willing to accept lower return for e-book sales as we control the value of our product–books, and content in general. We’re taking the long view on e-book pricing, and this new model helps protect the long term viability of the book marketplace.
This article suggests that the increased ebook prices will result in a boon to readers:
The economics of the agency model mean that everyone-‘readers, authors, publishers, and Amazon-‘will gain if trade paperbacks are sold at $9.99.
That would still leave room for front list e-books at $12.99 or $14.99, a great discount over the physical book price.
The article also says:
We also know that there is a very vocal faction of putative Kindle owners-‘one suspects many are not actual owners of e-readers but simply Internet entitlement zealots-‘who believe e-books must be significantly cheaper than physical books to garner sales.
Really? Only Internet entitlement zealots believe ebooks must be cheaper to get sales?
Washington Post says that Apple won in this battle between Amazon and Macmillan and I think they are right.
The Apple iPad isn’t even available yet, but already it is forcing Amazon to respond in a variety of ways to protect its competing Kindle eBook business….
Amazon cannot afford to lose this war. Not so much because of the potential revenue impact this year, but because as digital books become more popular they will become a bigger part of Amazon’s business than of Apple’s.
Bob Lefsetz, a famous music business consultant, wrote:
And if you think physical books are the way of the future, then you're unaware of the towns that no longer sport a bookstore, like Laredo, TX, you're unaware that library hours are shortening, that Borders is on the bring of bankruptcy and Barnes & Noble might soon be taken over. The publishers are too ignorant to even see what's going on. They're running into the arms of Apple to avoid Amazon.
The Wrap suggests the battle for higher ebook prices is already lost:
"I think Amazon has quite successfully burned the $9.99 price point into the brains of digital readers," said Jason Boog, editor of mediabistro.com's book industry blog, GalleyCat. "If people are actively organizing boycotts against a certain price point, for better or for worse, Amazon has already won the price war."
"Amazon has done a great job of marketing the illusion that an e-book should be $9.99," [Sarah] Weinman [of Daily Finance] said. "So how can publishers tell consumers, in clear terms, why $9.99 is bad and convince them that discount culture shouldn’t screw over the authors they profess to love?"
Australia’s federal court has issued a ruling that negates the responsibility for ISPs to engage in enforcement.
In a definitive defeat for film studios-‘and in a first case of its kind worldwide-‘Australia’s Federal Court has ruled that ISPs have no obligation to act on copyright infringement notices or to disconnect subscribers after receiving multiple letters. If copyright holders want justice for illegal file-sharing, they need to start by targeting the right people: those who committed the infringement.
Computerworld AU analyizes this further:
iiNet’s win in its civil case against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) in the Federal Court of Australia is just the start of a potentially long legal war, according to a Melbourne University copyright law expert.
D Packman, former CEO of eMusic says that publishers pricing ebooks higher are in for a sad reality:
Remembering your Econ class, you also know that most goods are elastic; as price lowers, demand increases. An optimum point exist that maximizes profit. I am pretty sure that the book industry, like the music industry before it, has not maximized profit by finding the optimum price. This is generally because the book publishers are not retailers -‘ they have never forged a relationship directly with a customer. To optimize pricing (particularly on a per title basis), you need to conduct lots of tests and analyze lots of data. Amazon does this in near-real time and, I am told, is constantly optimizing pricing, page layout, merchandising, bundling, shopping cart path, and many other ecommerce variables.
Sidenote: Is this all a crazy ploy to get us readers to be happy about windowing (the delayed release of ebooks?)
Steve Axelrod who reps bigtime authors like Julia Quinn, Suzanne Brockmann, Susan Elizabeth Phillips (you know, big trade authors important to publishers) isn’t thrilled with the whole agency model because he, like Macintosh of Random House, isn’t convinced publishers know what they are doing in regards to pricing. He lays out 6 reasons why moving to the Agency model sounds like a mistake.
Kobo books has a post up about price elasticity at its blog.
Publishers have never done pricing without the safety net of retailers making adjustments to optimize consumer demand. Retailers spend a great deal of time on price analysis/optimization. As we work with publishers on agency, continuous review of price/purchase behaviour is going to be essential. Daily/weekly, not monthly/quarterly.
Books price $11 and on face a sad downward decline in sales numbers until it sort of flatlines. Kobo calls this “The Barren, Rocky Plain of Publisher Wishful Thinking.”
I think this is Kobo’s “Danger, Will Robinson” call.
Dorchester Publishing has launched a new publicity campaign called the Publisher's Pledge program.
"Publisher's Pledge is a reaffirmation of the business model Dorchester has always prided itself on," stated Brooke Borneman, Director of Sales and Marketing. "Our strength has been identifying emerging voices and trends in the industry rather than chasing bestsellers. Our intent is to reestablish ourselves in the market as the publisher authors and agents turn to first to introduce new talent.
I thought the press release was a bit ironic given that it pointed to the names that they discovered and then sold recently to Avon. The books in the Publisher’s Pledge will be sold with a “money back guarantee”.
The first Publisher's Pledge title will be Barbara Monajem's Sunrise in a Garden of Love & Evil (April 2010), an erotically charged urban fantasy in the same vein as Charlaine Harris. Additional titles include Elisabeth Naughton's Marked (May 2010), a darkly sensual paranormal romance inspired by Greek mythology that will appeal to fans of Sherrilyn Kenyon; Christie Craig's Shut Up and Kiss Me (June 2010), a delightfully quirky romantic mystery that will appeal to fans of Janet Evanovich; and Erin Kellison's back-to-back debuts Shadow Bound (July 2010) and Shadow Fall (August 2010), the first two releases in a riveting post-apocalyptic series that fuses dark fantasy, science fiction, horror and romantic suspense. | <urn:uuid:f0b6fff4-9d31-4da5-83c3-258ccbe89e8e> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/friday-midday-links-2/ | 2016-05-05T08:41:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860126377.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161526-00103-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939558 | 1,785 | [
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"Violence is about injury. Period. Joe smith can use violence just as well as any highly trained martial artist because violence does not use strength, speed etc as a means of domination. It uses destruction. When Joe smith gets an injury on our highly trained martial artist (lets call him "Barry"), then suddenly there is no more competition. Barry is now just a man with an injury. You are talking about a competition between skill in martial arts and no skill."
I just can't get over this statement. Attributes (power, speed, flexibility, timing, etc) are what make techniques effective. Violence doesn't use strength or speed as a means of domination? I would venture to say that a violent act is MUCH MORE easily thwarted if it wasn't fueled by strength, speed, aggressiveness, and killer instinct.
If a martial artist is highly trained, then it is quite possible to keep going after an injury. I've done it, several times, and if you take a look at the last UFC, middleweight champion Rich Franklin fought 4 rounds with a broken hand! And had a dominating performance. Heart and toughness, for both him and his opponent, David Loiseau.
And eye gouges against rear chokes are a VERY POOR method of escape. Largely ineffective, and the time would be better spent trying to improve your position. After all, if you're in that inferior position, eye gouging will likely tick off your opponent to the point where now he'll want to do a face choke, breaking your teeth and jaw.
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The chief of the EU delegation in Montenegro His Excellency ambassador Leopold Maurer accompanied by the spokesman of the Delegation Mr. Dragan Mugosa on January 19, 2012 visited the administrative seat of the Diocese of Budimlje-Niksic in Niksic.
In an cordial and open talk with Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic ambassador Maurer exchanged opinions regarding mutual themes important for life and functioning of the Diocese of Budimlje-Niksic, and also about the issues regarding the status and the condition in which was today the Orthodox Church in Monetenegro.
On Sunday, before the St. Sava's Day (January 22, 2012) at the Church community of Split St. Sava, the first Serbian Archbishop has been celebrated according to the tradition. On this occasion His Grace Bishop Fotije of Dalmatia served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of priests of the Diocese of Dalmatia in Split.
With the archpastoral Blessing of His Grace Bishop Dr. Mitrophan, every year during the celebration of the Feast of Theophany, parishioners and friends of the St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania gather on the banks of the banks of the nearby Monongahela River under the Masontown Bridge for the annual river blessing. This year the blessing took place following the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, January 22, 2012.
A new tradition began in the Pan Orthodox community of the Shenango Valley in Northwest Pennsylvania on Sunday, January 22, 2012 as parishioners from the local Orthodox parishes gathered Sunday afternoon at the Shenango River for a Theophany celebration and the blessing of the Shenango River. The Shenango River is a principal tributary of the Beaver River in western Pennsylvania. It also briefly flows through small portions of northeastern Ohio.
On the occasion of Epiphany, His Grace Bishop Konstantin served on January 18, the feast day's vesper service in Göppingen and performed Epiphany's water blessing. On Epiphany, His Grace Bishop served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy and the Great Water blessing at the church of Synaxis of Holy Serbs in Stuttgart. | <urn:uuid:2036a267-b9c1-4ecd-88d7-50dcdafefba7> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.spc.rs/sr/soc?page=319 | 2016-05-05T09:03:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860126377.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161526-00103-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945187 | 474 | [
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What is the best way for toggling between images on a SSRS report?
On the report I'm creating, there are lots of questions with Yes Or No answers and based on the value I've got for the question, I'd like to show the correct image.
For example we have gender:
This report is for output only and is not going to be used for performing data entry.
For each record I have the value in the column 'Gender' whether the person is male or female. I want to show a square with a tick mark in it next to the correct gender, while keeping the other option box empty (an empty square image). This should function like a radio button.
So if the record has
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|Publication number||US1930617 A|
|Publication date||Oct 17, 1933|
|Filing date||May 31, 1930|
|Priority date||May 31, 1930|
|Publication number||US 1930617 A, US 1930617A, US-A-1930617, US1930617 A, US1930617A|
|Inventors||Huot Eugene F|
|Original Assignee||Huot Eugene F|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Referenced by (11), Classifications (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
Oct. 17, 1933. E. F. Huo'r INDEXED DRILL CABINET y /z 36 a@ Patented Oct. 17, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE INDEXED DRILL CABINET Eugene F. Huot, St. Paul, Minn. Application May 31, 1930. Serial No. 458,388 2 claims. (ci. 20er-17.5)
This invention relates to indexed drill cabinets of the type used for storing assorted sets of drills used for cutting holes in wood or metal.
The chief object of this invention is to provide an indexed drill cabinet of convenient size for storing drills and adapted to facilitate the quick selection and removal of the desired drill.
A further object of this invention is to provide an indexed drill cabinet for storing drills in seleclo tive groups according to size and tilting those groups not desired out of the way to allow the free selection and removal of the desired drill.
It is also an object of this invention to provide hinged trays conveniently formed to hold the l5 drills in the proper position and separated from each other while stored in the cabinet and thumb holds on each tray to provide for easily tilting the trays.
Another important object of this invention is to provide an indexed drill cabinet that may be easily and cheaply constructed of materials t readily available and is of such compact form as to be readily vplaced in a small drawer or other convenient place.
These and other objects and advantages of this invention will be more fully set forth in the following description made in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views, and in which,
Fig. 1 is front elevation of the indexed drill cabinet showing the door open.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the drill holder removed from the cabinet.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 in Fig. 1.
Referring to the drawing, the indexed drill cabinet is shown comprising a cabinet body A, a cover B and hinged drill holders C. The cabinet A has a back member 10 and a pair of substantially parallel side members 12 and end members 14 extending from the marginal edge of the back member 10.
An inner casing 16 is disposed within the cabinet and is held in place by the ears 18, extending from the side members 12 and bent over the casing 16.
A plurality of pivot bars 20 are held in place by the` inner casing 16 and extend through the walls thereof. The pivot bars 20 are disposed in fixed relation to each other and are spaced from each other in stepped relation both longitudinally and vertically of the walls of the casing 16 and are locked against lateral displacement by the side walls 12 of the cabinet A. It will be noted that one end wall 14 is disposed at an angle to the side walls 12 and that the pivot bars 20 lie below the upper edge of both the side and end walls when in normal or horizontal position so that the angular end wall 14 constitutes a stop 60 to prevent the drills from falling from the holders C if the cabinet is inverted when closed.
A pair of hinge members 22 extend from one of the side walls 12 and encase a portion of the rod 24. Hingedly connected to the rod 24 are a 65 pair of hinge members 26 secured to the door A and positioned intermediate the hinge mem- I bers 24.
The drill holders C are suspended from the. pivot bars 20 and comprise a front plate 28, hav- 70 ing its upper edge bent forward to form a top plate 30. A plurality of holes 32 are positioned in the top plate 30 and are formed to receive various size drills 34. Adjacent the holes 32 on the front plate 28 are placed index marks 36 75 and 38 to designate the size of drill contained in each of the holes 32. The sides 40 oi.' the drill holder C are formed backward and a hole 42 is placed near the lower extremity thereof. The pivot rods 20 are passed through the holes 42 and 80 hingedly support the drill holder C within the cabinet B.
The lower end 44 of the drill holder C is also formed backward and becomes a bottom stop for the drills to rest on. The outer extremity 65 thereof is formed upward at the rear of the drill holder C and forms a pluralityv of corrugations 48 to hold the drills in an upright position.
It will be seen from the foregoing description that a novel indexed drill cabinet is provided for the convenient storing of drills or other similar tools or gages. The cabinet is designed to be easily stored in a convenient place and is especially adapted to be placed in the small drawers of the tool boxes usually owned by skilled workmen. It is superior to the ordinary drill stand because it readily adapts itself to a system of making eachA workman responsible for the drills in his possession. This is possible because each worker can easily keep this drill cabinet within his own tool chest and thereby prevent the borrowing of his drills by other -employes This system does not lend itself readily to the bench type of drill stands.
It is apparent that the drills are readily avail- 105 able and the indexing on each drill holder enables the user to quickly select the drills and nd the proper location for replacing the drills.
In view of the foregoing description when considered in conjunction with the drawing, it will at once be apparent that have produced a highly novel, simple and extremely eilicient indefied drill cabinet which is Well adapted for all the purposes heretofore designated and can be easily and cheaply constructed of material readily available.
While the preferred form of my invention has been shown and described it is to be understood that various changes may be made in the details ei construction and in the combination of the various parts, within the scope of the claims, Without departing from the spirit of my invenn tion.
What l claim is:
l. An indexed drill cabinet comprising an outer casing having side and end Walls, a cover hingedly mounted on one of said walls, an inner casing rigidly mounted Within said outer casing, and having side Walls extending substantially parallel to the side Walls of said outer casing, a plurality of rods journalled in the side walls of said inner casing, said rods being disposed in reader? xed relation to each other and in stepped relation `noth vertically and longitudinally of said side walls, and a plurality of drill holders mounted upon said rods within said inner casing, said drill holders carrying designations to' indicate the size of the drills contained in said holders.
2. A drill cabinet comprising an outer casing, an inner casing secured within said outer casing, a plurality of transversely extending parallei xed rods passing through said inner casing in stepped relation upwardly and rearwardly with respect to each other, said rods being held from endwise movement by said outer casing, drill `nolders hingedly mounted on said rods, said drill holders having a plurality of holes therein at the free ends of the holders to retain and gauge drills placed therein, and said -holders adjacent the hinged ends thereof having corrugated portions adapted to retain the drills in parallel spaced relation with respect to each other.
EUGENE F. HUOT.
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Am Fam Physician. 2001 Jan 15;63(2):357.
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is a common disorder, characterized by a history of positional symptoms and positional nystagmus. The nystagmus is typically precipitated by a specific head-hanging maneuver, such as the Dix-Hallpike maneuver. The posterior semicircular canals of the vestibular labyrinth system have been recognized as the site of “injury” that produces the symptoms. Free-moving particles in the endolymph of the canals make the latter sensitive to position changes and produce the symptoms. At least one third of patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo have prolonged and disabling symptoms that do not respond to medical management (i.e., motion sickness medications). “Repositioning” therapies have been advocated for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. These therapies involve positioning the head with standardized movements to displace any loose material in the canal. Previous studies of these therapies have been done in an uncontrolled manner, making determination of efficacy uncertain. Froehling and associates performed a randomized, controlled trial of the canalith repositioning procedure (CRP) for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
Patients who met specific criteria for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo were recruited. They were randomized to undergo CRP or a sham procedure. CRP was done in five steps. The five-position cycle was repeated until no positional nystagmus was elicited during any of the position changes or until a total of five cycles had been performed. In the sham procedure, patients were asked to lie on the examination table with the symptomatic side down for five minutes. Subsequent to the intervention, all patients were provided with a cervical collar and asked to sleep sitting up for the first two nights of the study. They were also asked not to sleep on the symptomatic side for an additional five days and to avoid excessive turning of the head for one week.
Fifty patients participated in the study (24 in the CRP maneuver, 26 in the sham maneuver). The average age of the participants was 64. Two thirds of the patients were women. The median duration of symptoms was 43 days in the CRP group, and there was similar use of meclizine in the two study groups. The authors found that 12 of the 24 patients (50 percent) who underwent CRP had resolution of vertigo compared with five of the 26 patients (19 percent) who underwent the sham maneuver.
The authors conclude that CRP is an effective intervention in patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and can be performed in the outpatient setting.
Froehling DA, et al. The canalith repositioning procedure for the treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: a randomized controlled trial. Mayo Clin Proc. July 2000;75:695–700.
editor's note: CRP is a straightforward maneuver that appears to be effective in treating this disabling condition. Family physicians should incorporate this procedure in the treatment of their patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.—j.n.
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Cheyenne Woman Charged In I-25 Rollover In Colorado
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The driver of a van that rolled off Interstate 25 in northern Colorado, injuring seven people, has been charged with reckless vehicular assault.
Thirty-year-old Jennifer Lamblin of Cheyenne, Wyo. is scheduled to appear in court in Fort Collins on Thursday on the felony charge.
Five children and two adults were injured in the Dec. 10 crash.
The Colorado State Patrol said two of the children were in improperly installed child restraints. The others were in booster seats or wearing seat belts.
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YouthBuild Boyle Heights Students Launch Funding Campaign
A decade ago, when programs like Donors Choose first began creating forums for public school teachers to ask for funds for things like writing utensils, art materials, stools for students to sit on, or books, it was clear the public school system was in a bit of a crisis. I don’t know if it really hit home with me, though, until I started volunteering in the high schools around L.A. and saw just how few resources teachers had access to and what that meant for the kind of education they were able to give students.
The situation seems even more dire in continuation schools, which generally serve a population of at-risk youth who may already be supporting a child, are juggling jobs to help their families make ends meet, or are trying to re-establish their footing after having gotten in with the wrong crowd or in trouble with the law.
Because of the challenging circumstances most of the students come from, the stakes are even higher for them with regard to getting their high school degrees. For this reason, schools like YouthBuild (in Boyle Heights) often combine traditional coursework with leadership training, civic engagement, community service, and job skills training. They want to meet the wide range of needs and educational backgrounds of the students while preparing them to make positive contributions to their communities. The only problem is that they often have to do so with even fewer resources at their disposal.
Which is why it was not surprising to see one of YouthBuild’s highly dedicated teachers, Canek Pena-Vargas, put out an appeal for funding for their silk-screening program yesterday (see video above).
Although they currently do some silk-screening on borrowed equipment, a recent trip to a local print shop inspired students to create a plan to build a permanent studio. It would be a great artistic outlet for youth, they say in their project video, and it would also help create income-generating opportunities for the students while teaching them valuable entrepreneurial skills.
At this point, you may be asking yourself why I have put this in a post, given that struggling schools are not considered a typical “livable streets” sort of issue.
I can tell you it came to mind today because of two quasi-related things.
First up, the grand opening of an affordable housing complex on Whittier Blvd. in Boyle Heights this afternoon.
Boyle Heights has gotten more than its fair share of affordable/special needs housing complexes of late. This is much to the chagrin of some of those in the community who believe that the structures are bringing low-income and homeless people from around L.A. to Boyle Heights while leaving the myriad economic or housing needs of local residents unaddressed.
Regardless of whom the housing is serving, the complexes are only beginning to make a dent in the larger housing problem facing communities like Boyle Heights.
The complex opening today, for example, will house just 59 families out of the nearly 1500 that applied.
And, it may very well be serving Boyle Heights residents.*
Because they did no advertising of the site outside of putting a banner up during construction, said Chris Ragon of the Retirement Housing Foundation, it is likely that only people living in the area or passing by the site would have known about it.
Part of the reason for the overwhelming response to the housing opportunity is that “nearly 50 percent of the homes in Boyle Heights include children, and the community has a reported family poverty level of nearly three times the state average,” as the press release for the housing event so kindly reminded me this morning. And, while the median income of $33,235 is one of the lowest in the city, it is stretched even thinner by the high number of people crammed into a household.
Limited access to affordable housing, in short, is clearly a symptom of much deeper problems.
Which brings me to the second thing that made me think about education today: the recently-released draft Plan for a Healthy Los Angeles.
It purports to promote a “foundation of good health” by supporting education, workforce training, and youth employment programs, all of which are cited as key factors in helping people live longer, healthier, less stressful lives.
The overarching reasoning at work here is that more educated people can make healthier choices regarding what they put in their body, whom they associate with, whom they enter into relationships with, and how they think about their future.
But, it’s also not just about thinking about making good choices.
A better-educated population will also have more economic opportunities, and (hopefully) income, at their disposal that will afford them the breathing space and economic wherewithal to both make those healthier choices and sustain them over the long term.
Addressing the components of that “foundation” of health, then, should help diminish reliance on other services like affordable housing. Not overnight, of course, but onward down the road.
Which brings me back to Pena-Vargas’ class.
I first met them last summer, when the students were putting together a mobile mural to beautify Hollenbeck Park. The project was an outgrowth of an informal weekly dance party that some of the students had begun at the park two years prior. The students wanted to make a permanent contribution to the park stage, discouraging vandalism and helping create a safe and creative space for youth to gather.
One student in particular credited the leadership experience he gained from organizing the parties and participating in the mural project as not only helping him stay out of trouble, but also allowing him to see that he had a talent that he could put to use in a positive way.
When the police picked him up off the street one morning to take him to breakfast instead of to jail, he told me, that’s when he knew people could see he was changing for the better.
There are lots of youth like him in Boyle Heights — they very much want to make positive contributions to their community but don’t always know how to get from A to B. Schools like YouthBuild are so important for that very reason — they give the kids that have been messing up that second or third chance they need to make things right.
Hopefully, going forward, the folks from a Plan for a Healthy L.A. will look for innovative ways to help shore up the ability of these kinds of schools to serve marginalized youth. In the meanwhile, alternative funding campaigns may have to suffice.
For more on the funding campaign for YouthBuild’s silk screening program, click here. If you’d like to learn more about the Plan for a Healthy L.A., you might want to attend one of their upcoming public meetings.
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One of my favorite and most effective regimen's thus far [and unfortunately most complex] has been my Ayurvedic Regimen. I can honestly say it greatly contributed to the growth, thickness, and overall health of my hair. I maintained a strict Ayurvedic regimen for the first six months of my hair journey, however due to time restraints, I had to simplify things a bit more.
Ayurvedic regimens are effective, and easily customizable to suit your hair needs. Most importantly, the ingredients are inexpensive and all natural. I have decided to break this post into several parts as not to overwhelm/bore anyone out there. In this installment, we will discuss the basic ingredients found in most Ayurvedic Products, as well as their benefits. I will also talk about Shampoo methods and list a few formulations for specialty treatments that have worked wonders for me. Part 2 will focus more on conditioning & moisturizing methods, and I will also list a few more specialty treatment formulations as well!
Here are some herbs/ingredients you should get familiar with:
Bhringraj - Treats hair loss, premature graying, and also acts as a conditioner
Neem - Is an antibacterial powerhouse, it helps correct scalp issues, as well as promote healthy hair growth
Brahmi - Strengthens hair at the roots, helps relieve dandruff, also purported to thicken hair
Amla - Stimulates hair growth, has wonderful conditioning properties, strengthens hair at the roots
Shikakai - Acts as a natural cleanser, and mild conditioner, whilst promoting hair growth
Aritha [Reetha] - Natural cleansing agent
Methi [Fenugreek] - Prevents hair loss, promotes hair growth, helps strengthen hair shaft, light protein
Hibiscus - Conditions hair, promotes healthy hair growth, prevents hair loss, thickens hair
Shampoo:Some shampoo's contain harsh sulfates and surfactants that strips the hair of it's natural oils, leaving it dry, brittle, and lifeless. If you are building an Ayurvedic regimen, try some of these options instead:
Shampoo Bars: I absolutely love Ayurvedic "Poo Bars". Look for bars that are formulated with vegetable oils/nut oils, and skip the bars that are loaded with surfactants [these are usually added to help with cleansing and lather] often these can leave your hair feeling drier than the Sahara. Shampoo Bars are easy to use, pretty inexpensive compared to a bottle of shampoo, and will leave your hair much softer to boot. Because these bars are au-naturale they have a tendency to produce a very mild-lather, so don't expect all the sudsy goodness like that of your normal shampoo.
The Chagrin Valley Ayurvedic Shampoo Bar was my favorite; it's formulated with Bhringraj, Amla, Hibiscus, Aritha, Mango Butter, Coconut Milk, and a slew of other hair-loving ingredients. A second favorite that can be purchased at your local Indian Grocer, is Godrej Shikakai Shampoo Bar; this is more of a basic bar [but stellar none-the-less] with Bhringraj, Amla, & Shikakai.
I used Shampoo Bars every-other week
Because shampoo bars aren't loaded with additional chemicals, it can be hard to remove product residue/buildup. I recommend soaking wet, dirty hair in a Clarifying ACV mixture [1/2 cup ACV + 1 cup water, spritz hair with mixture, then cover with plastic cap] for about 20 minutes prior to shampooing, as this will gently clarify the hair.
Cleansing Mixtures: I will admit that these were somewhat difficult to use at first, not because they weren't effective, but because I had a hard time wrapping my brain around using powder and water as my shampoo du jour. These leave your hair feeling soft, conditioned, and strong!
Mix #1 [my favorite]
2 Tablespoons of Amla
2 Tablespoons of Shikakai
1 Tablespoon of Hibiscus
2 Tablespoons Amla
2 Tablespoons Shikakai
1 Tablespoon Neem Powder
For each formulation, mix with enough water to make a thick paste. Apply evenly on wet, freshly pre-conditioned hair [see the pre-shampoo treatment below], and massage gently massage mixture on to scalp. Allow to sit on hair for about 15 minutes, then rinse thoroughly with cool water. Follow up with a basic light ACV rinse to remove any additional oils/residue left behind. [1/2 cup of ACV + 2 cups water]
How Often:2x monthly. I would alternate between these cleansing mixtures and the Shampoo Bars.
For maximum softness, I recommend doing Pre-Shampoo treatments before applying any type cleansing mixture [because the Shikaki has a tendency to be a tad bit drying]. Simply oil your hair thoroughly with Coconut Oil, cover with a plastic cap, and allow to sit for about an hour [or more if possible], then rinse w/lukewarm water.
Neem Oil + Tea Tree Treatment: Perfect for those with psoriasis, and issues with dandruff. Neem Oil is packed full of antiviral, antifungal, antiseptic, and antibacterial properties, therefore making it the perfect herbal solution for curing scalp ailments. I am warning you all now; this stuff has a stench that is out-of-this-world. However, it works :-)
Try It:In a large bowl, mix 1/4 cup of Neem Oil with 6 drops of Tea Tree Oil. Pour oil mixture over head, massage into scalp, and cover for about an hour. - Use this treatment on dry, unwashed hair.
Coconut Milk Protein Treatment: This is an easy, inexpensive way to do an all natural protein treatment at home. The nutrients in Coconut Milk encourages healthy hair growth, and also helps strengthen hair.
In a large bowl, mix one can of Coconut Milk, 4 tbsp of honey and 4 tbsp of Olive Oil. Carefully pour mixture over head, and cover for about 30 minutes. - Use this treatment on dry, unwashed hair.
Hibiscus Rinse: Doing a final rinse with Hibiscus Petal Powder leaves your hair feeling soft and conditioned [from the mucilage], it also makes detangling woes, and excess hair loss a thing of the past.
Try It:Bring 2 cups of water to a boil, then remove from heat. Add 4 tablespoons Hibiscus petals and allow to steep for 10-15 minutes. Strain liquid through sieve, or cheesecloth and discard petals. Pour mixture over your head after rinsing out conditioner. Massage thoroughly, then rinse with cool water after about 5 minutes.
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Ice Prince‘s new singles,“Aboki” and “More”, which were produced by Chopstix, will be exclusively released today, August 28, 2012 on www.spinlet.com. But, in the mean time, we’ve got some snippets to tease you on what the singles have got in store.
While “Aboki” is an uptempo Afro-Dance meets Pop and Naija Hip-Hop piece, “More” is more a somber love ballad. Nonetheless, Ice Prince is back!
Check on it.
Listen to Ice Prince – Aboki (Snippet)
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There is an old adage- but actually relatively new in US history- that the road to the Presidency runs through Ohio. And, in fact, the last time the voters of Ohio sided with a losing candidate was in 1960 when they opted for Republican Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy. This year, it would appear that Ohio is poised to yet again be a major battleground state for the country’s highest office. Generally speaking, the average win margin when a Republican won is 9.95 percentage points. The closest race was in 2004 (Bush v. Kerry). For when the Democrats win, the average win margin is 7.78 points with the closest race decided in 1976 when Jimmy Carter eeked out a 0.27 percentage point victory over Ford.
In polling thus far in Ohio in a Romney versus Obama match-up, the state has gone consistently for Obama since the beginning of the year. Ohio, like most battleground states, is well-polled with a total of 23 polls since the beginning of this year. The following chart shows the ebb and flow of the race in this state so far:
January 1 poll average Obama +2.0
February 4 polls average Obama +1.8
March 3 polls average Obama +8.7
April 3 polls average Obama +4.7
May 5 polls average Obama +5.7
June 3 polls average Obama +3.0
July 3 polls average Obama +4.3
August 1 poll average Obama +6.0
Obviously, the biggest surge in the polls in Ohio for Obama occurred in March of this year when there was still a fight going on for the Republican nomination while the biggest surge for Romney occurred in April when he ate into that large Obama lead. Regarding the three defining events, as concerns Obama, thus far in this election season, in mid-May Obama announced his great gay marriage evolution epiphany. In the only poll in Ohio post-announcement, Romney held a 2 point lead (in a Rasmussen poll). Instead, Obama’s performance in June in Ohio may be more indicative of the effect of his gay marriage announcement on the polling data. In fact, we see a 2.7 point improvement for Romney. It could be argued that his gay marriage stance coupled with his back-door DREAM Act announcement did not resonate well with Ohio voters and could be an area to be exploited by Team Romney in Ohio in the general election. Remember that Ohio is a state that rejected gay marriage in 2004 by a 62%-38% margin, a rather resounding rejection at that. It is doubtful that the average Ohioan’s opinion of gay marriage has changed dramatically in eight short years and a reminder that Obama’s stance on the issue- convoluted as it is- stands at odds with at least 62% of Ohio voters. This should be one area to be exploited if not by Romney, then by independent, outside groups to motivate conservatives in general to turn out. Characterizing another four years of an Obama Administration trying to nationalize a gay marriage agenda is a motivational device to be used in Ohio.
However, everyone believes-rightfully so- that economic issues will determine the outcome of this election. The fact is that Ohio has added some 111,000 jobs since Republican Governor John Kasich assumed office and Ohio’s unemployment rate is lower than the national average and at its lowest point since September, 2008. Obviously, something is going right under Republican leadership in the state and Kasich’s endorsement of Romney in April links that leadership to the Romney agenda. Admittedly, Kasich’s approval ratings are not that high, but neither were those of Rick Scott in Florida or Scott Walker in Wisconsin. That means that approval ratings mean little compared to economic development and lowering unemployment in the state.
Hence, a winning formula for Romney going forward is to stress the successes in Ohio despite the failed Obama stimulus and other economic programs. The one area to exploit, and that may begin today, is with coal. The energy plans of Obama and Romney could not be more divergent. While Obama spouts a good “all of the above” line in speeches, his actions speak louder. Whether it is foot dragging on offshore drilling or denial of the Keystone Pipeline- not to mention his campaign comments about coal- Obama has placed all his eggs in the basket of green energy. Not that green energy is bad per se; chances are that Bain Capital may have even invested in some green energy companies along the way. But unlike Romney, Obama is clearly anti-coal and anti-oil (and probably anti-natural gas and nuclear also). That is, we sit on huge untapped reserves of natural gas and coal- some of the largest in the world- and Ohio sits on top of some of these resources waiting to be exploited. That is precisely why Romney will today begin a 3-stop tour of Ohio in the coal city of Beallsville, Ohio. As I heard it described elsewhere, Beallsville has more in common with rural Pennsylvania and West Virginia than it does with the majority of Ohio. Even still, stressing the importance of exploiting our own natural resources as a means towards energy independence makes greater sense than investing precious dollars in green energy initiatives to the exclusion of fossil fuel development. About 82% of Ohio’s electricity comes from coal. Romney needs to point out that in an Obama America, coal is an enemy and killing that enemy has a cost to the tight purses of every family and business in Ohio. Another 11% comes from nuclear power. That is, over 93% of Ohio’s electricity comes from two sources that Obama is against.
But that issue addresses the concerns of the hills and valleys surrounding the Ohio River. What about the rest of Ohio? This is where entitlement reform becomes important. A recent article on cleveland.com spells out the impending problems for Ohio by noting that Obamacare can- at best (and even that is a stretch)- slow inflation in health care, no reverse or stop it. Through Medicaid, that is one very important consideration for the states and Ohio is not immune from this problem. The article notes that the number of Medicaid-eligible Ohioans has exploded putting further strain on an already-strained state budget. In short, the economic dynamics of the state, like the country, show that “fewer Ohioans earning comparatively less and paying comparatively less in taxes will be working to support the health care costs of an ever growing number of older Ohioans.” In short, the system cries out for fundamental reform beyond tinkering around the edges, and bold political leadership, not politicking.
This is a microcosm of the Republican campaign now that Paul Ryan is on the ticket. Like Ohio’s efforts through Kasich’s Office of Health Transformation, they are developing the blueprint for fundamental entitlement reform to ensure that not only the current target population is covered, but also that future target populations will be covered. The system as is will not stand. The article from not exactly a conservative source of news nevertheless applauds John Kasich and the director of that Health Transformation Office, Greg Moody, for attempting to at least attack the impending problem. Isn’t that exactly what Paul Ryan brings to the table? Sticking one’s head on the sand or politicking to appease some perceived political base in order to maintain the status quo will not solve any problem, least of all entitlement reform. For all of Ohio, that must be the message.
Those polling figures cited at the beginning of this article indicate one thing- the state of Ohio is not particularly happy with Obama as President, but neither are they sure of Mitt Romney as President. As this campaign wears on, Romney and Ryan must present the case to the voters of Ohio that their future will be better if we fire Barack Obama. This can be achieved through three prongs. First, constant reminders through targeted speeches and independent expenditures that Obama and Biden’s stance on social issues- especially gay marriage- stands opposed to 62% of the sentiments of Ohio voters. This will encourage the conservative voters to turn out, especially in the southern part of the state.
Second, they must portray Obama as the enemy of coal and natural gas and thus the enemy of Ohio which has a coal industry on life support. Additionally, given their natural gas resources, Obama and his EPA stand as the enemy to that burgeoning job creator. Third, they must convince current retired and older Ohioans that their entitlement reform plan will not affect them and that it is essential that reform take place to ensure benefits for the future. I would even dare venture that they enter the lion’s den of more liberal areas like Cleveland to make their points.
When looking at the electoral map, it becomes obvious that Ohio is the one state that Mitt Romney must win in order to defeat Obama. A loss here, even with a sweep in the south, would make it almost impossible to win unless he picks up some unlikely help from states like Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin. Although they are possibilities, winning Ohio makes winning those states less absolute. An Ohio win would put Romney one state away from the Oval Office- be it Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Colorado, or Nevada. Hence when I look at the electoral map and see neither candidate really showing any discernible trend, it tells me the status quo. Unfortunately, that status quo is named Barack Obama. | <urn:uuid:48fd6c90-da9f-4bf8-b881-2f823dc50b96> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.redstate.com/diary/davenj1/2012/08/14/stubborn-ohio/ | 2016-05-02T02:00:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121418.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00097-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962026 | 1,913 | [
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awesome vid, thanks for sharing. The S2K is kinda due for replacing now, not that we're tired of the current one, I love it personally. The world would be a better place if more Japenese cars looked at least half as good as the S2K.
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Police were called to Proctor Ace Hardware at 580 Atlantic Blvd. in Neptune Beach on June 19 at 6:46 a.m. after the store was burglarized minutes before.
A man walking his dog near the scene at the time of the burglary saw a burgundy Jeep Liberty pull up to the business, then leave. The Jeep returned five minutes later to the east entrance. The witness then heard a crash and saw a man running back to the passenger side of the Jeep before it pulled away. As it sped toward Third Street, a wooden baseball bat was thrown from the passenger window.
Inside the hardware store, police found numerous blood spatters and stains. It was believed that the burglar cut himself on broken glass as he entered the shattered door.
The trail of blood spatter led to the fishing aisle where fishing poles and rods were disturbed. A nearby freezer of ice cream products was found left open.
Police tape was put up while the crime scene was processed and blood samples were collected. The owner of the hardware store said that multiple rods and reels were missing.
The bat was collected and preserved to be searched for fingerprints. The ice cream display was also dusted for prints but with negative results. An investigation is ongoing.
■ On June 20 at 3:29 a.m., a gray Chevrolet Impala was stopped after the driver, a 34-year-old Atlantic Beach man, was observed driving on the wrong side of the road in the 1500 block of Main Street. An officer claimed that he saw what appeared to be a baggie of Xanax pills in plain sight in the vehicle. The driver handed officers the bag, containing what was later identified as two Xanax pills and two oxycodone pills.
The driver was taken into custody and searched; a small container of marijuana was found in his front shirt pocket. He allegedly told police that he had a prescription for the Xanax, but it was discovered that the pills belonged to his mother. The man said he was scared to admit that the pills weren’t prescribed to him and told officers that there was more marijuana in the car. Police searched and found a small amount of marijuana in a backpack.
The man was arrested and charged with four counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving on the wrong side of the road. The collected marijuana totaled two grams.
■ Police stopped a 47-year-old Jacksonville woman who was driving a silver Volkswagen Beetle erratically down Mayport and Jackson roads on June 16 just after midnight.
The officer who stopped the car claimed to see the woman make a U-turn from Stanley Road into the wrong lane on Mayport Road before she made another U-turn onto Jackson Road. She was stopped on suspicion of DUI.
The woman told officers she “missed her turn.” A small baggie of marijuana was found in the car along with a “cold” can of beer and a glass containing a mixed drink. The woman refused to get out of the car, so she was pulled out by an officer. She was arrested for DUI, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. A marijuana grinder and a blunt were also found among the woman’s possessions in the car.
The woman’s daughter showed up at the scene to pick up the car, and the woman claimed to not know her. The daughter confirmed that the woman was drunk, and she was taken to the county jail.
■ Two Atlantic Beach girls, ages 11 and 14, were allegedly caught shoplifting at the Kmart at 500 Atlantic Blvd. on June 21 at 4:20 p.m. According to a loss prevention employee, the two girls loaded up a cart with merchandise then took it to the ladies’ dressing room and restroom where they transferred the items to two backpacks. The employee said that the two admitted to stealing the merchandise that totaled $491.01.
It was discovered that the 11-year-old was a reported runaway with the Atlantic Beach Police Department. Both of the girls’ mothers were contacted before the girls were taken to the Duval County Jail.
■ Two homeless men were found sleeping in the courtyard of the Beaches Town Center on June 19 at 4:26 a.m. Both were informed of the no camping ordinance and, while one man gathered his belongings and left with a written warning, the other, a 46-year-old, refused and “became belligerent” according to police. Police tried to place the man in handcuffs and he resisted. He was eventually pepper sprayed. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue arrived to flush the man’s eyes.
The man owned a nearby bike that was locked to a support beam. He refused to give police the combination to the lock, so the lock was cut, and the bike was taken to the station.
The man was booked for illegal camping and resisting arrest at the county jail.
■ A 22-year-old Washington, D.C., man leaning on a trashcan in the Second Avenue North end zone, lit a marijuana cigarette, unaware that he was being watched by police on June 19 at 5:45 p.m.
Police said the man tried to hide the hand-rolled cigarette when he noticed them approaching. After a positive field test of the marijuana, he was arrested for possession and transported to the Duval County Jail.
■ On June 17 at 7:05 p.m., police were called to the Hampton Inn on First Street North to investigate a reported theft. A Georgia couple said that they had left their belongings wrapped in a beach towel while they took an hour-long swim in the ocean. When they returned, their two iPhones, an expensive set of headphones and a Bank of America debit card were missing.
The phones were tracked to an apartment complex on the 200 block of 14th Avenue North, but the signal couldn’t be traced to a particular unit.
Near midnight, the phones were again tracked. This time one was revealed to be at the Kangaroo gas station on Penman Road North. A clerk at the store was contacted who said he found the phone in a trashcan in the women’s restroom.
On June 18, the other phone was tracked to an 18th Street North address. Police found a 50-year-old Jacksonville Beach man sitting in the garage. He allegedly admitted to finding the phones on the beach. A nephew of the man who arrived at the house said that the man told him he sold the headphones earlier. The second iPhone was found in the garage behind a compressor. The man was handcuffed and searched; he was found to have two Florida driver’s licenses on him. He was arrested for grand theft and possession of two driver’s licenses and taken to the county jail for booking.
■ Two Jacksonville men parked a red Toyota Corolla in the 200 block of Fifth Avenue North on June 8 at 11:20 p.m. and were walking from the car when one of the men realized he didn’t have identification on him. They walked back to the car to find a stranger sitting in the passenger seat with the door open, rummaging through the car’s center console. One of the men shouted “that’s not your car,” and the stranger, a 21-year-old Middleburg man, ran away with both men giving chase. The Middleburg man had taken six dollars from inside the car, and he threw the bills to the ground as he ran. The two lost the man and resumed the search from the Corolla. As they drove, they spotted him on the sidewalk of Third Street North. His description and location were given to police, who caught up and arrested him for burglary and petty theft.
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Kodak C180 Review
|Full model name:||Kodak EasyShare C180|
|Sensor size:||1/2.3 inch
(6.2mm x 4.6mm)
|Extended ISO:||80 - 1250|
|Shutter:||1/1400 - 1/2 seconds|
3.6 x 2.4 x 1.0 in.
(93 x 62 x 25 mm)
|Weight:||3.9 oz (110 g)|
|Full specs:||Kodak C180 specifications|
The Kodak EasyShare C180 is based around a ten megapixel 1/2.3" CCD imager coupled to a Kodak-branded 3x zoom lens with a 32 - 96mm equivalent focal range - a fairly standard wide angle to a moderate telephoto. As befits its budget pricing, the Kodak C180 has a 2.4-inch 115,000 dot LCD display, and there's no optical viewfinder. They're an increasingly rare option these days, but cameras with optical viewfinders add a good degree of versatility, letting you get the shot when you can't make out the LCD in bright sunlight, or save battery life by disabling the LCD when accurate framing isn't vital. It's a shame that the C180 lacks the option, but certainly understandable given the pricepoint. Images are stored on Secure Digital / MultiMediaCards (including the newer SDHC types), or in 16MB of available internal memory.
The Kodak C180 offers a generous 16 scene modes to help beginners achieve the results they're looking for without the need to understand subtleties like shutter speeds, apertures and the like. The C180 also includes face detection, which is used to take account of your subject's faces when calculating exposure variables. Exposures are determined using multi-pattern, center-weighted or center-spot TTL metering, and 2.0EV of exposure compensation is offered in 1/3EV increments. Five white balance settings are available including an auto mode, and ISO sensitivity is controlled automatically from 80 to 240, or manually from 80 to 1250 equivalents. The EasyShare C180 also offers a movie mode, capturing 30 frames-per-second VGA (640x480) or QVGA (320x240) clips, in QuickTime Motion JPEG format.
The C180 offers a USB 2.0 connection (type unspecified), through which images and movies can be transferred to your computer. Power for the C180 comes from two AA batteries, with the company listing Oxy-Alkaline, Alkaline or Lithium disposables as compatible, as well as NiMH rechargeables - surely the better option for most uses. Kodak includes alkaline disposables in the product bundle, so be sure to factor in the cost of some rechargeables and a charger when making your purchase, unless you already have these on hand.
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MIAMI - Three people were arrested on human trafficking charges after allegedly forcing a 13-year-old girl into prostitution and nude dancing.
Vilbert Jean, 36, Marlene San Vincente, 22, and DeWayne Ward, 18, forced the girl to prostitute herself for their financial benefit, police say. When the girl refused to continue to engage in prostitution, they forced her to earn money as an exotic nude dancer.
The girl was reported missing on Dec. 10, 2013, according to an arrest affidavit. She told police she ran away from home with two 15-year-old girls.
Three days later, she was forced to have sex with a man at a nearby hotel by the trio.
San Vincente, a dancer at Club Madonna, then brought the girl there, said owner Leroy Griffith. San Vincente tutored the girl on how to make the most money, says the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office.
The girl worked at Club Madonna under the name "Peaches" and was never asked to provide identification to prove her age at the club, according to an arrest affidavit.
"I was surprised by the things they were saying in the search warrant," said Griffith. "She must have walked in with a friend without signing in or going to the manager and stuff like that. Whether she -- I don't even know if she performed here or not, through I hear that she did."
She made about $1,150 in about a week, say police.
"I feel bad about it," said Griffith. "We're having meetings about it right now."
The suspects were all charged with one count of human trafficking, delivering a controlled substance to a person under 18, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and lewd and lascivious conduct on a person less than 16.
"This sad case shows how quickly human traffickers locate their young prey and turn them from children into cash producing machines," said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. "Sadly, to human traffickers, destroying a helpless child's life is unimportant when compared to the consistent flow of cash into their pockets. The people of this community will not tolerate this. With the help of my Human Trafficking Task Force and my specialized human trafficking prosecutors, we will end this hideous practice."
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My freak out. The markets were just doing what they do. Going forward, if I should be AWOL from the blog for more than a couple hours during the trading day, just assume I am having a complete and total breakdown. Fortunately, President Carter was a micro-managing kind of guy.
From Bespoke Investment Group:
...Just another crazy datapoint in a crazy market.
From SNL Transcripts:
...Walter Cronkite: Thank you, Mr. President, ha ha! Our next call is Peter Elkin of Westbrook, Oregan, whom I am told is 17 years of age.
Peter (on phone): Hello? Hello?
President Jimmy Carter: Yes. Hello, Peter?
Peter (on phone): Is this the President?
President Jimmy Carter: Yes, it is.
Walter Cronkite: Do you have a question for the President?
Peter (on phone): Uh.. I, uh.. I took some acid.. I'm afraid to leave my apartment, and I can't wear any clothes.. and the ceiling is dripping, and uh.. I, uh..
Walter Cronkite: Well, thank you very much for calling, sir..
President Jimmy Carter: Just a minute, Walter, this guy's in trouble. I think I better try to talk him down. Peter?
Peter (on phone): Yeah..?
President Jimmy Carter: Peter, what did the acid look like?
Peter (on phone): They were these little orange pills.
President Jimmy Carter: Were they barrel shaped?
Peter (on phone): Uh.. yes.
President Jimmy Carter: Okay, right, you did some orange sunshine, Peter.
Peter (on phone): Very good of you to know that, sir.
President Jimmy Carter: How long ago did you take it, Peter?
Peter (on phone): Uh.. I don't know. I can't read my watch.
President Jimmy Carter: Alright, Peter, just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You're very high right now. You will probably be that way for about five more hours. Try taking some vitamin B complex, vitamin C complex.. if you have a beer, go ahead and drink it..
Peter (on phone): Okay..
President Jimmy Carter: Just remember you're a living organism on this planet, and you're very safe. You've just taken a heavy drug. Relax, stay inside and listen to some music, Okay? Do you have any Allman Brothers?
Peter (on phone): Yes, I do, sir. Everything is okay, huh Jimmy?
President Jimmy Carter: It sure is, Peter. You know, I'm against drug use myself, but I'm not going to lay that on you right now. Just mellow out the best you can, okay?
Peter (on phone): Okay..!
President Jimmy Carter: Okay.
Walter Cronkite: Well, thank you, Mr. President. Our time is up for this week, but let me remind you that it is now time to buy your tickets for the first annual "I Slept At The White House" lottery, on sale at federal office buildings everywhere.
President Jimmy Carter: I figure there's no harm in trying, Walt. The tickets are only a dollar, and maybe someone out there will win an all-expense paid trip to spend the night here with us in Washington. Good night!
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Slide team. Acquired by the Goog back in 2010, the low profile entertainment-driven app developer has been hard at work making the web 'more social' and filling its Big Daddy's pockets. Debuting in classic Google beta form, Prizes takes your Twitter or Facebook accounts and signs you up for cash prize-winning, user-created contest shenanigans. In case you missed that fine point, we'll reiterate -- users design the challenges, you post a solution (or vice versa). Like the $40 "Give my Dad a makeover!" competition we're completely unqualified to enter, or the $30 "Comprehensive 'get healthy' plan for living in a large, polluted city" game we're sure Al Gore could win in his sleep. It's a kooky idea, but we can definitely see the service having widespread appeal. Let's be frank here: Google + social gaming + prize money = solid user gold. | <urn:uuid:f43f0314-71c6-4a04-a631-3408f9593952> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/05/google-slides-prizes-into-beta-helps-you-get-real-paid/ | 2016-05-03T17:49:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121618.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00209-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93034 | 191 | [
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Worker leaf-cutting ants emit antimicrobial secretions from a gland in their rear ends.
Credit: Christopher Tranter / ctranter.com
Ants may not seem particularly germaphobic, since they live in bacteria-rich dirt and often eat decaying plants and animals. But some ants have evolved to be quite fastidious sanitizers, regularly bathing themselves in antimicrobial secretions emitted from glands in their rear ends.
Now, research from scientists based at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom suggests some ants also take it upon themselves to sanitize young, vulnerable members of their colonies by scrubbing their broods and nesting materials with their cleaning fluids.
"We knew that [the secretions] help adults, and we knew that the brood survives and isn't constantly being affected by fungi," study co-author Christopher Tranter told LiveScience. "So we predicted that these secretions would help in keeping the brood healthy as well, and it was nice to find strong evidence showing that." [Mind Control: Images of Zombie Ants]
Tranter and his colleagues studied the cleaning mechanisms in the Brazilian leaf-cutting ant (Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus) and the Southeast Asian weaver ant (Polyrhachis dives) by sealing off the antimicrobial-producing glands in a subgroup of their sample using a thin enamel polish. They then placed these adults with broods for about two weeks. They did the same with nonsealed-off ants for comparison. The team also placed sealed-off and nonsealed-off adults among brood-free nesting materials and measured the fungal growth in the materials after about two weeks.
The team found that broods protected by ants with sealed-off glands were less likely to survive than broods protected by antimicrobial-producing ants. In addition, the nesting materials of sealed-off ants contained more fungal growths than nests of nonsealed-off ants did, proving these secretions play an important role in keeping a colony's nursery healthy.
Not all ant species have evolved to produce these secretions, Tranter said, and some appear to produce them in greater quantities than others. The team next hopes to conduct analyses to gain a better understanding of why certain species have the cleaning glands and others don't.
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Unless he is very clear (in context OP does not provide) to point out which senses of the words he is restricting his discussion to, Stephens is wrong in that he is not acknowledging the wide range of shades of meaning associated with each of these two words. They are synonyms (ie the ranges of their accepted meanings overlap). Though most people would agree that the 'centre of gravity' of the 'worried' range lies markedly closer to the 'anxious' side of the continuum, and that of 'concerned' somewhat closer to the 'not willing to turn a blind eye to' side.
The ODE definition is inadequate in that it implies that worry/trouble/anxiety must accompany concern; zeal to right a wrong / help sufferers may be the controlling factor.
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Aamir Khan and award functions are two poles apart. For many years the perfectionist has been skipping award ceremonies as he does not believe in such recognition but his last minute turn off from the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award has put the organizers in lurk.
Aamir Khan was to unveil the Dadasaheb Phalke statue at the award function but after waiting for too long when he did not turn up, the organizers was in fix as what to do. They immediatly approached Amitabh Bachchan to do the honor and the megastar most graciously agreed.
The organizers were very thankful to Amitabh. The organizers later confirmed that Aamir was to do the honor but he backed out at the last minute as he was dubbing and hence could not make to the event.
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I am wearing Kenar fur coat, Cello jeans, NY&Co blouse, Kohls flats, DIY bag
No, that is not a Zara clutch!! It’s a DIY bag I just finished! What a copy cat you would say! But I really didn’t want to pay about $100 even for a bag this pretty. Maybe some other time but not now. I am not greedy, I am just saving! I bought some sequined fabric in a crafts store and handmade this baby in 4 hours due to the absence of sewing machine. And I am very happy how it turned out for 10 bucks I spent on it!
Everything else was bought from stores, but with budget in mind. I wore some sequined flats to go with the purse, and I was definitely wrong wearing fur today, but who knew? The weather keeps changing, and I can never guess!
I need to ask you to excuse my face in the pictures. You know how on some cloudy days it just hurts your eyes even worse than when it’s sunny. Today was one of those days for sure. I could not keep them open, there was no sun to be seen, but it felt like there were a thousand little suns shining in my face! | <urn:uuid:4f45deb3-2c4a-4372-a491-dba7a34b8930> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.chictopia.com/photo/show/565074-Sequins+and+fur-black-fur-coat-teal-jeans-white-shirt-gold-bag | 2016-05-06T07:27:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861735203.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164215-00217-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980603 | 260 | [
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Follow West Skyline Parkway up a windy path in Duluth and you will eventually reach Enger Park.
Named after Norwegian immigrant and self-made business man Bert Enger, the park sits on top of the bluff overlooking Lake Superior and Duluth's industrial shipping industry.
The park itself isn't too big but it has a lot to offer. Besides the sweeping views, there's a rec center and the newest addition: a Japanese, zen garden.
It's in the zen garden that the Peace Bell is located. The bell is a replica of a bell that rings out in the city of Ohara, Japan -- the sister city of Duluth. | <urn:uuid:6b9f2b04-84ab-4bfb-b770-b5435ff0c19a> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.mprnews.org/story/2010/11/12/duluth-peace-bell | 2016-05-06T07:32:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861735203.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164215-00217-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935416 | 137 | [
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Tanglewood Heart & Stroke Walk
Location: Tanglewood Park, Clemmons
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013
Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Join the Medical Center team for the Tanglewood Heart & Stroke Walk. This is the American Heart Association's signature event to raise money and awareness for heart disease and stroke.
View the event page.
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I sneaked away from my desk this week to attend a few sessions at the Emerging Technologies conference on the MIT campus. Even in small doses, the event can overwhelm with its rush of ideas, opinions and latest updates from people working on the cutting edge of technology. I want to mention one term I had not heard before that was intriguing and romantic: black swans.
Black swans are important events, either good or bad, that are highly improbable but happen nonetheless. The idea of using black swans as a metaphor for weird events has its origins in the 1600s when the discovery of the first non-white swan was made in Australia. Asteroids hitting the earth and wiping out dinosaurs or Apple making the iPod might be considered black swans.
I probably should have known about the term black swans, as it was popularized in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, a book published last year by mathematics professor and trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb about why it is hard to predict the future. For those of us reporters and CIOs who prize our ability to be in control of what we are doing, black swans offer particular challenges, as by definition they fall outside the status quo. Taleb contends that human nature being what it is, we base our reactions on what we experience and often overemphasize these black swans, believing erroneously that they will repeat. We see someone win the lottery and think maybe it’s a good idea to try it for ourselves-foolish, but we can’t help thinking this way.
At EmTech08, the expression was used by Sun founder-turned-venture capitalist Vinod Khosla to explain his investing approach and as prelude to a lengthy promotion of the renewable energy companies backed by Khosla Ventures.
Market predictions for renewable energy wield little clout in Khosla’s investment decisions. The truth about many forecasts is that they turn out to be false, Khosla said, pointing to long-term price predictions for oil and for the U.S. market for cell phones, to name two forecasts that were very wrong, exponentially so in the case of cell phones. Khosla would rather not have a forecast and instead “be prepared for everything.” Forecasters, “mostly economists,” he dissed, use yesterday’s technology to predict the future.
The failure of the market to accurately predict the market offers an important lesson for non-economists like him and fellow technocrats in the audience, Khosla said. Rather than worry about predictions for the future-invent it. Indeed, technology is a classic black swan-generating activity, he said.
Black swans aside, Khosla employs some pretty familiar tangibles to measure whether a renewable energy technology is worth his dough. What matters is cost (it had better be cheaper than fossil fuels), scalability, low adoption risk. So, in his view electric cars are irrelevant unless new battery technology comes to fruition, biodiesel fuel is no good unless algae technology is perfected, food ethanol takes too much land to produce, wind and photovoltaics are useless unless we figure out a way to store that energy … and so on. You can read about Khosla’s companies and more about his investing philosophy at KhoslaVentures.com. | <urn:uuid:f1628f33-718b-4557-b849-f3fec3616545> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/emtech08-and-the-black-swan-a-lesson-in-jargon/ | 2016-04-30T13:21:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00091-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961048 | 695 | [
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The Arab Peace Plan: What the Right Doesn’t Want You To Know
Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, April 19, 2007
Gidon D. Remba
Gidon D. Remba
The leaders of 21 Arab states met recently in Ryadh, Saudi Arabia under the auspices of the Arab League, and reaffirmed their 2002 offer of comprehensive peace with Israel. Originally called the Arab Peace Initiative, inspired by a Saudi proposal, its meaning has been hotly contested from the moment it was first unveiled.
According to the official translation of the newly revived Arab peace offer, the Arab states commit to “the establishment of normal relations in the context of a comprehensive peace with Israel…ending the Arab-Israel conflict.” It is often forgotten that the 2002 Arab peace initiative effectively rescinds the infamous “three noes of Khartoum”—no recognition, no negotiations, no peace with Israel—issued by the Arab League in 1967 after the Six Day War. In exchange for establishing full peace, Israel is expected to agree to:
1. A “full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied since 1967…”
2. “A just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194.”
3. “The establishment of a sovereign independent Palestinian state on the Palestinian territories occupied since June 4, 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
Right-wing Jewish critics, pointing to plan’s seemingly maximalist language on the extent of Israel’s withdrawal, dismissed it as “a blueprint for Israel’s destruction.” Jewish pundits spilled oceans of ink promising that “The latest Arab League peace proposal…includes a requirement that Israel should accept untold millions of Palestinians who would relocate into Israel itself, rather than making their homes in the newly created Palestinian State.”
Once again, Jewish hardliners returned to their familiar refrain: the Arabs are making sweet noises of peace while harboring annihilationist intentions. To avert the “threat” of Israeli-Arab negotiations which might alter the status quo, Israeli and American Jewish hawks heaped on preconditions, both behavioral and rhetorical, that they insisted Israel impose on the Arabs before it discussed the plan with them. These critics maintained that unless the plan was amended to meet Israel’s positions on territory and refugees—before the parties even sit down to negotiate it—and the Arabs agreed to normalize relations with Israel first, Israel should not regard the plan as a genuine peace offer and should shun peace talks.
Hawkish critics suffer from chronic myopia. First, they overlook the fact that the Arabs are seeking to negotiate on the basis of their plan, which represents their opening position in any bargaining with Israel, not the end point. Now Israeli Prime Minister Olmert has agreed to negotiate on the basis of the Saudi proposal. The Arab initiative is not meant to preclude Syria or the Palestinians from agreeing during the course of negotiations to an equal land swap with Israel which would permit the Arab side to receive the equivalent of 100% of the territory in the West Bank/Gaza and the Golan. Second, rightist nay-sayers choose to ignore the language of the Arab offer when it conflicts with their dark and despairing picture of a world filled (with few exceptions) with eternally deceptive and evil Israel-hating Arabs. Third, they ignore growing signs (and press reports of secret top level Saudi-Israeli meetings) that Saudi and other Arab leaders are, behind the scenes, looking to open new channels of dialogue with Israel and work out practical solutions to the refugee problem and other vexing issues away from the klieg lights of the media.
When President John F. Kennedy received both hardline and conciliatory messages from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, he chose to respond favorably to the conciliatory message, setting aside the bellicose one. A nuclear war and global conflagration was averted through negotiations with a country that President Ronald Reagan later called “the evil empire.” US-Soviet bargaining was coupled with internationally sanctioned and strictly limited US military action (the US blockade or “quarantine” of Cuba) and a credible threat of force if the Russian missiles were not withdrawn. Khruschev blinked first, and offered to trade the removal of US nuclear missiles in Turkey, near the Soviet Union, in exchange for the removal of Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba, near the US. Kennedy agreed, but the trade was kept secret.
The pessimists will always have some basis for their thinking. But if their way prevails, the world of their worst fears is liable to become our real world through a self-fulfilling prophecy. We’ll act as if their fears are so well-founded, so essential to the nature of our enemies, that no other outcome is possible. By missing opportunities for breakthrough, by reinforcing through Israeli and American actions the most unwelcome trends in the Arab world, we will help insure that nothing will change for the better, and much for the worse.
The media in many cases missed the boat on the Arab peace initiative, helping to reinforce prejudices instead of reporting facts by using tendentious and careless language in reports. While many reporters and editorialists—including some at Ha’aretz—claimed that the Arab offer required Israel to accept the right of return (or simply the return) of Palestinian refugees to their former homes in Israel, others, like Ha’aretz’s Aluf Benn, were more careful, referring instead to the declaration’s “clause on refugees, which the Palestinians interpret as a right of return.”
It came as a shock to some who had not read the official translation that the Arab League declaration in fact contained no explicit reference to a “right of return” for Palestinian refugees. The omission was significant. Moreover, those who insisted that the Arab plan required Israel to allow “millions” of Palestinian refugees into Israel managed to overlook the declaration’s careful language on the refugees which called for a mutually “agreed” solution to the refugee problem.
It will also shock and awe rightists to learn that UN General Assembly Resolution 194 does not support the “right of return” interpretation favored by some Palestinians, so feared by many in Israel and the American Jewish community. An Arab peace plan which refers to this UN resolution while simultaneously calling for an agreed solution to the problem of the Palestinian refugees can fulfill the terms of the resolution without allowing a single Palestinian refugee to return to Israel.
The hardliners don’t want you to know this—and much else. They are happiest whenever we are seduced into our familiar (and not unfounded) Jewish paranoia. But isn’t that the point? Perhaps the old saw has it right that even paranoids have enemies. But not everyone the paranoid fears turns out to be his foe.
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In a discussion of President Obama's re-election prospects David Brooks bemoans the fact that:
"this race, like almost all re-election races, is shaping up to be a referendum on the incumbent, not a choice between two visions."
When would an election ever be "a choice between two visions?" Why would anyone expect a politician to have a vision? Do accountants and truck drivers have visions?
Most probably do, but it is irrelevant to their jobs, just as a presidential candidate's vision is irrelevant to their jobs. Winning elections is about getting the support of the people with the money and power to deliver votes. It is not clear why anyone would be looking for vision in this story.
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AROUND THE WORLD
Devastation in Philippines; Typhoon Haiyan Loses Steam; Typhoon Haiyan Survivors Struggle; Families Search for Missing Loved Ones; IAEA and Iran Announce "Framework for Cooperation"; America Honors Veterans Day
Aired November 11, 2013 - 12:00 ET
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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Michael Holmes. Thanks for your company. And we'd like to welcome our viewers both here in the United States and around the world, as well.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: It is so disturbing. Decomposing bodies, they're literally everywhere. Destruction stretching across towns and villages on the island after island. This is all in the Philippines. Desperation and despair, as you can imagine, is now setting in those communities.
HOLMES: Indeed. People struggling to grasp the enormity of the devastation left by Super Storm Haiyan. We have video just in that actually shows the verbosity of the storm. Have a look at this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my God.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MALVEAUX: Unbelievable pictures. Authorities now estimate as many as 10,000 people were killed in Friday's powerful typhoon, although the official death toll stands at 942. Today, the Philippine president declared a state of national calamity.
HOLMES: And as you heard at the beginning of the program, "worse than hell" is how one storm survivor describes the situations in the Philippines. The damage, just quite simply, is catastrophic.
MALVEAUX: Our Andrew Stevens, he was directly in the path of this storm. He's done incredible reporting here. This is from the city of Tacloban. Now, he rode this out. He was in a hotel and he actually helped rescue a family. You're going to see that as well. Here's his dramatic account.
ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is what the inside of a super typhoon looks like, 250 kilometer an hour plus winds slamming into a city. A white haze of screaming noise smashing windows, tearing metal, water and flying debris. Just minutes after we finished our live shots telling headquarters that we were moving to safer ground, cameraman Brad Olson (ph) shot this in the place we just left.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, guys, I think we can wrap it up.
STEVENS: As the destruction there continued, a floor below, terrified residents huddled together, finding protection against the flying spray and mind numbing noise. Some praying for their safety.
STEVENS (on camera): We're sheltering in the corridor. It's a relatively secure area I think where we are. It's a very substantial hotel, this. And we are away from windows. But all around us, you hear the sounds of windows breaking, you hear the sounds of large objects falling and crashing to the floor. And under foot, it is now just a deluge. And if you look behind me, I don't know if you can see it, the staircase behind me is now basically a waterfall.
STEVENS (voice-over): And then a torrent of black water began pouring into the hotel. The storm surge had begun.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) go upstairs.
STEVENS: Within a few minutes, it was at ground floor window level. A panicked family, now trapped in their room, smashed the window and screamed for help. We managed to get the mother across to safety using a foam mattress and it immediately became clear the cause of her panic, their daughter was severely disabled. Storm chaser Josh Morgamen (ph) and I went back across to get the terrified girl to safety. And CNN producer Tim Schwartz helped rescue the rest of the family. The waters only rose a little higher. The height of the storm, in fact, had passed.
Two hours later, the winds had lost their lethal strength. Our live position was a ruined shell. But as we walks outside, it was immediately clear that so much of this city had suffered so much more than we had.
STEVENS: And even four days after that storm struck, we still don't have a clear understanding, any real understanding at all, Michael and Suzanne, just how widespread this damage is, how many towns, how many villages have been hit like Tacloban. And the fact that we haven't heard from them means that they're not getting any sort of support at all. These are going to be the critical issues in the coming days.
MALVEAUX: And we also know there is no electricity, there's no food, there's no water for tens of thousands of those storm survivors. You can add to this homes that are simply obliterated, just washed away.
HOLMES: Look at that.
MALVEAUX: Hospitals are now overrun with patients. And we want to go live here to the Philippine capital of Manila.
HOLMES: Yes, our Kristie Lou Stout is there. She has been reporting throughout, as well.
Kristie, you know, something we were discussing on International earlier, one of the difficulties here is the Philippines is dozens and dozens of islands. There's a lot of remote islands that rescuers have not even seen yet. They've got no idea how bad this is at the moment, is that right?
KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: That's absolutely true. Now, my colleague, Ivan Watson, he had an opportunity to fly with the civil aviation authority here in the Philippines to have a look at just the entire area of devastation, the entire storm zone.
Now, I guess, if there could be some little bit of good news, it would be this, there was a lot of concern about the western region of the eastern Vasias (ph) part of the Philippines. That was an area very remote. Concerned that there would be many people in need there. It turns out that that area not as hard hit as many people had feared. So the focus of the relief operation is definitely on Samar province and you keep hearing the name over and over again, Tacloban City.
Now, it is 1:00 a.m. in the morning here in the Philippines and there are no aid flights going into Tacloban City because there is no power to light up the runways. So pilots cannot safely land and bring the badly needed relief there. But that might change very soon. U.S. Marines, they're on the ground. They arrived on Monday. They have brought C-130 aircraft with them. Aid, as well as a plan to make the airport there operational on a 24-hour basis so even at this time of the day, or should I say night, 1:00 a.m. in the morning, the aid can keep coming in.
Also earlier on Monday, the Philippines sent in the special forces. Special forces are there providing aid and also to provide law and order because there is a lot of concerns about security and lawlessness there. When you talk to survivors, and this is an account that I'm hearing from our Paula Hancocks and Andrew Stevens on the ground there in Tacloban City, they are increasingly frustrated. They are angry. They're saying what they are experiencing is worse than hell. Doctors are saying they can't go on because they don't have the medicine, the supplies that they need.
And let's keep in mind this. This storm made landfall on Friday. It is now almost four days since this storm made landfall. So this community, entire population, they have been sealed off, closed off from the rest of the world for four days now. They need food, they need water, they need medicine, they need shelter and they can't wait any longer.
Back to you.
MALVEAUX: And, Kristie, I imagine, as well, I mean it's estimated 10,000 people might have the perished because of this. The official count, much, much lower. But as you had mentioned, as they find more of those families and those people who have been isolated for four days, that that number could get much, much bigger.
STOUT: That's right. There are concerns that that number can get much bigger. And just look at the lay of the land alone. The population of Tacloban City is about 220,000. CNN spoke to an interior minister recently. He said about 1 million people were living in low-lying areas of the storm zone. So the potential for devastation among the population there is very, very high. But at the moment, what we're hearing is this. The Philippine government is saying over 600,000 people displaced. According to the Philippine armed forces, they're saying the death toll, as it stands right now, is over 900. But the Red Cross of the Philippines say that the death toll they fear, 10,000 across the entire storm zone.
Back to you.
MALVEAUX: All right, Kristie, thank you so much.
And, you know, just to get a sense of how desperate people are, in need of help here, you see this - this man here painting a message on a basketball court in the hard hit city that we have been hearing about all morning, Tacloban. It reads, "Help. S.O.S. We need food."
HOLMES: Yes, dazed survivors wandering the streets there, having to scavenge for food, water or medicine. Relief workers, obviously, still struggling to reach a lot of these people. Look at that ship just tossed up there by the storm surge, which was huge. And a lot of people didn't expect the storm surge to be that big and it did a lot of the damage. You're talking about 600,000 people at least displaced by the storm. I saw a figure earlier that some 4 million children have been impacted in some way by this. And, of course, one of the - one of the risks with a storm like this and you've got -- you get water sources that are compromised and disease is a big fear for a lot of the rescue workers there.
MALVEAUX: That's why they expect the death toll is going to increase, as much as it is. And just to give you a sense, an idea of how powerful this thing was, this typhoon, Haiyan, watch this.
Many experts believe that the Typhoon Haiyan could be the strongest tropical cyclone to ever make landfall in recorded history. It was 3.5 times more forceful than Hurricane Katrina, which was a category three hurricane, Superstorm Sandy's tropical force winds stretched a further distance but were only half as powerful.
HOLMES: Yes, and, in fact, the winds from Typhoon Haiyan were stronger from those from Hurricane Sandy and Katrina combined, just to give you a sense of how big this was.
Now, after slamming into the Philippines, Haiyan was downgraded to a tropical storm, but then headed to Vietnam. It is now weakening over southern China.
MALVEAUX: Let's bring in Chad Myers from the Weather Center to take a look at where the storm is now.
Chad, where is it heading, where did it land and what do we expect next?
CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: You know, it went over Hanoi and into south China and now it's dying. It's just about done. But there's more moisture and still more warm water where this storm came from and another storm is trying to develop right on this storm's heels.
Back you up. November 6th, all of a sudden this storm becomes a monster, 195 gusting to 235, rolls right through the islands there. And then it kind of turns to the right. We thought it would make landfall in Vietnam, somewhere around Hanoi -- actually missed Vietnam all together. And then came around here between Hanoi and Hong Kong. And there it is right now. That's where the rain showers and the -- a little bit of flooding taking place right now.
There's still some convection here, but not like it was. This is now five days from where it actually made landfall. (INAUDIBLE).
HOLMES: Yes, I think - I think six dead in Vietnam despite is not actually hitting direct on, as you said. So this, a hugely, deadly storm. But tell us about what's following up now. It's obviously not as big, but there's rain in it.
MYERS: It's not as big, but, you know, it still has the potential to do a lot of damage with wind, even if it's 45 miles per hour. You look at all those sticks and stone that are everywhere. A 45-mile-per-hour wind gust can pick up that sheeting, can pick up that plywood, can pick up that corrugated sheet and throw that around, even though it's not going to be a big storm, not going to be anything like this.
The biggest storm that caused the most damage ever in the Philippines was Typhoon Thelma, 1991. It killed between 5,100 and 8,000 people. They still don't even know how many people it killed. This could be the same idea where we think we're going to get a number down to like 2001. We're just absolutely no -- there could be a range of thousands of people because there are so many people still missing in these remote villages. We haven't even talked about Hormack (ph) City. We haven't talked about all these other big towns, 20,000, 30,000 people in these towns. We just can't even get there.
MYERS: But - so that's why we're talking about Tacloban, because we can get there.
HOLMES: Yes. And the geography of the place too, dozens of islands as well that the rescuers haven't gotten to yet.
Chad, thanks so much. Chad Myers there.
MYERS: You're welcome.
MALVEAUX: Here's also what we're working for on this hour AROUND THE WORLD.
We're talking about no food, no shelter, no electricity. That is the reality for many who actually survived the typhoon. Well, now, people, they are desperately looking for aid. HOLMES: Plus, a sign of hope amid all of this devastation. Look at that. That baby was born at Tacloban Airport in a makeshift hospital. A ray of hope perhaps. We'll be right back.
MALVEAUX: Aid is just beginning to arrive in the hardest hit areas of the Philippines slammed by that typhoon, Haiyan. American C-130 military planes carrying some food, water, medicine started to touchdown. This is at the Tacloban airport today.
MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CO-ANCHOR: Yeah, desperately need. Those planes weren't able to come till three days after the storm because the runways had to be cleared. And actually as night falls, they're not able to operate because the lights aren't working on the runway.
The U.S. military is going to take over airport operations and they're going to set up radar. They'll also set up lighting so that the airport can operate 24/7, going forward.
MALVEAUX: The real problem, trying to get all the aid that you see there to the people who are absolutely desperate at this point.
The airport is nine miles from the city center, many roads still clogged, as you can imagine, with huge chunks of debris, fallen power lines from the storm. It is a very dangerous situation. More than 600,000 people have been displaced by the storm, and they are desperate at this point.
HOLMES: Just imagine hundreds of thousands of people, entire -- look at this. Just look at that devastation.
Many of the people used to live in those structures are now as you see there wandering the streets, many of them having to scavenge for food because the storm wiped out their homes, everything else they had, all the businesses there.
Listen to how one victim described the situation.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MAGINA FERNANDEZ, VICTIM: Get international help to come here now. Not tomorrow, now. This is really, really like bad, bad, worse than hell. Worse than hell.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HOLMES: And the International Red Cross says it is realistic to estimate 10,000 people may have been killed in the storm, and they're saying that about one district actually.
Right now, the official death toll is 942. That's the official toll, but as we say, rescuers haven't even reached entire towns, islands believed absolutely destroyed, leveled by the typhoon.
MALVEAUX: Joining us now to talk how victims are coping with all of this, it is hard to imagine how they are coping, Ansherina with the aid group, CARE.
And, you know, you see that woman. You hear the desperation in her voice. She is at her breaking point here, and you've got many, many people who I imagine are at that point.
How do you help them? What is the most important thing at this moment for them?
ANSHERINA GRACE TALAVERA, CARE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: At this moment, the main needs that they are trying to -- they are expressing are emergency food, water and shelters as well as medicines. And a lot of communities have not been reached yet. We have teams in the field and they're on the ground doing needs assessment and they haven't been to their communities and it's completely devastated.
HOLMES: Still really no idea really of the extent of this, four days on.
One of the things that must be concerning aid groups, and we saw in the video there, bodies literally lying in the street, no way of burying them at the moment, a lot of them under the rubble. That raises the prospect of disease, of course, not to mention tainted water supplies, wells and the like.
What do you do about that? How urgent is that side of things?
TALAVERA: It's very urgent. People have been running out of food stocks and water. For now, they're able to -- they are able to utilize the potable water, whatever it's left in their homes and communities. And they are saying that they do not know after a couple of days, they do not know where they would get food, where they would get water and they would have to resort to fetching water from wells, from springs that are unsafe.
And you are correct. There are many bodies perhaps lying on the ground and (inaudible) buried. And there's really a need for mass casualty management because it will be a health hazard for the survivors.
MALVEAUX: And we know that hundreds of thousands of people were actually able to escape this typhoon. And you've got to imagine they're probably in pretty dire straits, too, because they don't have a home to come back to. It looks like pretty much what they left behind is destroyed.
What happens to those people? Who is taking care of them?
TALAVERA: For now, some of the people are in evacuation centers, but unfortunately, even the evacuation centers designated to them have been destroyed by the typhoon.
Our colleagues on the ground are saying that people are really trying hard to start rebuilding their homes, getting from the debris whatever's left, whatever they can use, what they can get their hands on.
MALVEAUX: Ms. Talavera, thank -- TALAVERA: So people are trying to survive, yes.
MALVEAUX: Ms. Talavera, thank you so much for the hard work that you do, and all those people who are part of CARE. I mean, it is just so important.
You can only imagine, these are the times when people help people. This is when it really matters.
HOLMES: A lot of aid groups working there, an enormous number, too.
And, by the way, you can check out a lot of what's going on our website, CNN.com/impact. A lot of these aid groups listed there. They have been vetted by CNN, so you know that anything you give will be going to a good cause.
Of course, in cases like this, what these groups need is cash, nothing else. They just need the money to make it happen, get the goods there.
MALVEAUX: If you can do anything, please help.
And families around the world are now searching for loved ones. The devastation is so bad that authorities don't even know how many are missing.
HOLMES: Yeah, up next, we're going to hear from one family searching online for any sign of their sister.
Social media playing a role in tracking people down, we'll have that when we come back.
MALVEAUX: Typhoon Haiyan knocked out power and communications across the Philippines making the search for loved ones very difficult and trying. Many family members living outside the area are just feeling helpless. Their calls, their texts, their e-mails are all unanswered.
HOLMES: Google is helping to make some of those connections a little easier with its Person Finder. What they did was they set up a similar online tool after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. This works in a similar way.
Meanwhile, others are turning to social media websites like Facebook, like Twitter posting pictures of missing loved ones.
Our own Stephanie Elam talks with one family hoping the Internet will help them locate their half sister.
NINO ARENA, SISTER IN TYPHOON DISASTER AREA: It's sickening.
STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Since Typhoon Haiyan hit it, Nino Arena and his sister Marie have been scouring social media, looking for any sign that hair half sister, Dailene Arena (ph), is alive. ARENA: I want it to be daylight over there so at least we get more progress. We get more news.
ELAM: The family believes that 20-year-old Dailene (ph) rode out the storm with her job with Apec (ph) Customer Service just south of hard hit Tacloban City in Paulo, instead of heading back to her home in Jaro.
ARENA: She commutes every day, but for this particular day, she decided to stay there because of the bad weather.
The last text message we got from her is just her asking if her mom is OK.
ELMA: For Nino, the pictures of the aftermath of the typhoon hit home.
ARENA: I studied at that city, Tacloban, and looking at the is and the people there, I could see myself in that place. I could see my half sister in that place. It's very personal.
ELAM: Perhaps the strongest tropical cyclone in recorded history, Typhoon Haiyan slam add the Philippines with a force three-and-a-half times stronger than Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
That unnerves Nino who is constantly swapping with Dailene's (ph) brother. He's safe in Manila.
ARENA: Construction is strong, but it has only a ground floor, and it's really close to the water.
ELAM: Despite the devastatingly high number of people that may have died, Nino remains optimistic.
How is the hope level within your family?
ARENA: It's high. We believe in divine intervention and we believe that she made it.
ELAM: Stephanie Elam, CNN, Los Angeles.
HOLMES: To some other stories now making news AROUND THE WORLD.
And the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency and Iran have just announced what they're calling a framework for cooperation.
The joint statement from the International Atomic Energy Agency and Tehran comes one day after the breakdown for the moment, anyway, of nuclear talks between the Iranian government and six world powers, those Geneva talks.
Britain's foreign secretary says there will be no letup in sanctions on Iran until a deal is reached on its nuclear program. Now, that's something Secretary of State John Kerry is also saying.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: No agreement has been reached about the end game here. That's the subject of the negotiation. The sanctions were put in place in order to bring about a negotiation.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HOLMES: Israel's prime minister, meanwhile, said the proposed agreement was a bad deal for peace.
Well, here in the United States, it is Veterans Day. Americans honoring the more than 21 million living veterans in this country, November 11 marking the anniversary, of course, of the end of World War I.
And for viewers in Europe, of course, you are commemorating this day as Armistice Day.
This morning President Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at the Arlington National Cemetery. The president and the first lady also held a breakfast at the White House to honor veterans and their families.
About four in ten veterans in the U.S. are now 65-years-old or older.
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Re: ModemManager: Huawei PDU encoded USSD response truncated to 112 characters
- From: Graham Inggs <graham inggs uct ac za>
- To: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: ModemManager: Huawei PDU encoded USSD response truncated to 112 characters
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:45:40 +0200
I have copied the relevant section from 3GPP TS 23.038 (
http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/23038.htm ) below.
The way I understand this, USSD and CBM are padded with 0x0d, not SMS
(possibly because in the case of SMS the length is known?).
Can the patch from my previous post ( truncated_pdu_ussd_fix_v2.diff
), which works with the current gsm_unpack() in src/mm-charsets.c, be
184.108.40.206.1 Packing of 7 bit characters
Packing of 7 bit characters in USSD strings is done in the same way as
for SMS (clause 220.127.116.11). The character stream is bit padded to octet
boundary with binary zeroes as shown above.
If the total number of characters to be sent equals (8n 1) where
n=1,2,3 etc. then there are 7 spare bits at the end of the message. To
avoid the situation where the receiving entity confuses 7 binary zero
pad bits as the @ character, the carriage return or <CR> character
(defined in clause 6.1.1) shall be used for padding in this situation,
just as for Cell Broadcast.
If <CR> is intended to be the last character and the message
(including the wanted <CR>) ends on an octet boundary, then another
<CR> must be added together with a padding bit 0. The receiving entity
will perform the carriage return function twice, but this will not
result in misoperation as the definition of <CR> in clause 6.1.1 is
identical to the definition of <CR><CR>.
The receiving entity shall remove the final <CR> character where the
message ends on an octet boundary with <CR> as the last character.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Graham Inggs <graham inggs uct ac za> wrote:
> Well, here's the thing, USSD does not tell us how long the decoded
> string will be, so at the time we call gsm_unpack() we don't know the
> exact length so we can only assume that it is (bin_len * 8) / 7 as per
> my previous patch.
> I attach a new patch which, after decoding, checks whether the last
> character in a 7-byte block is padding (0x0d) and drops it if it is
> (for the case when our 7-byte block only contained 7 characters).
> This works for Huawei modems that use PDU encoded USSD, if it is found
> that this works for all modems and for SMS as well, perhaps this
> should be moved into gsm_unpack() in src/mm-charsets.c.
>> Right, that's my change. Does the USSD path in the plugin know the
>> length of the text, or does it have to derive the text length from the
>> length of the hex string? If it doesn't know the length, it's going to
>> have the same problem I was seeing with SMS messages prior to this
>> change, where gsm_unpack() couldn't tell if a trailing 7-byte block
>> had 7 or 8 GSM7 characters in it.
>> - Nathan
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Brendan Rodgers looked like a man who suspected a wind-up when he was asked, half an hour after his side had defeated Manchester United on 1 September, whether he harboured hopes of winning the Premier League. There was a brief, uncharacteristic silence, then a little laugh before he managed to put together a reply. “It’s a fair enough question,” he said, before dismissing it.
Since the league season was only three games old at that stage, he had reason to tread carefully, though the challenge of managing expectations at Anfield is as old as the hills. But good luck to Rodgers for any attempt to contain them this weekend, which could quite conceivably conclude with his team top at Christmas for the first time since they led Chelsea by a point in 2008. Leading the pack is contingent on them beating Cardiff City today and Chelsea beating Arsenal on Monday evening.
Topping the table when gifts litter the trees will generate statistical evidence that the club’s three-year exile from the Champions League may soon be over. Only once since the Premier League began in 1992-93 have the side leading the league on Christmas Day failed to make the top four in the final reckoning. It is also conceivable that they will end 2013 as the second-best-performing side in the calendar year Premier League table, with only Arsenal’s record superior.
This is undoubtedly a better Liverpool than last season’s edition – demolishing teams in their eight home league games with 22 goals, having mustered nine in the same quota last term. Their pressing, attacking football has delivered the kind of feast unknown at Anfield even in the best of times.
If they score four or more goals against Cardiff today – which is quite conceivable – they will equal the club record, set in 1895-96 and equalled in 1927-28, of scoring at least four times in five successive home league games. Daniel Sturridge’s removal from the equation has not yet been an encumbrance on Luis Suarez, whose rich period of goals is a by-product of his being released from a little of last season’s burden.
But comparisons with the last time Liverpool scaled the heights at this time must be treated with caution. Imperious though this home form has been, they are yet to provide emphatic evidence that they can beat the elite teams – or simply win – away from home.
This might seem a perverse analysis of a club who have just hammered Tottenham Hotspur 5-0, but that result and a breeze past bottom-placed Sunderland have been Liverpool’s only away wins since the three points clinched at Villa Park on 24 August. When the ability to replicate that intensity is tested at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day and then Chelsea, three days later, we will know a lot more about their capacity to be “in the conversation,” as Rodgers likes to put it.
The full landscape of their travels reads thus: disappointing at Newcastle United, comfortably put away by Arsenal, overrun in midfield during a Merseyside derby in which Everton emerged with the greater distinction, abject at Hull and magisterial at Tottenham.
Behind Rodgers’ strong convictions lurks a sense of unknowing about whether the central areas can be strong enough to hold off next week’s two opponents. The suggestion that the best days of Steven Gerrard might be in the past is one that puzzles Rafael Benitez, who from his position in Napoli feels his former captain possesses all of his old mettle – even if that cannot be called upon twice a week, every week. But the two-man attack has certainly left a midfield comprised of Gerrard, Lucas Leiva and Joe Allen shipping water at times.
Defence has been a cause of further uncertainty, with 13 goals conceded in six away games before Tottenham and the rearguard combinations being changed in all of those games, if you include the wing-backs.
This Liverpool side really is not as formidable as the 2008-09 vintage, who lost only twice all season, looked capable of going anywhere and winning – and did precisely that at Real Madrid’s Bernabeu and Old Trafford. It was a team in possession of Javier Mascherano, the Argentina captain, in the midfield area still under development now; Xabi Alonso; Gerrard and Fernando Torres in tandem; and a fit Fabio Aurelio (the Brazilian left-back was an incredibly fine player when free of his many injuries). The central defensive partnerships also had a conviction about them: perm any two from Sami Hyypia, Daniel Agger and Jamie Carragher, with Martin Skrtel finding his way.
And all of that still did not prove enough to take Benitez’s Liverpool to the title, with their 86-point tally four short of Manchester United’s. They travelled to most places with a swagger but draws against West Ham, Fulham and Stoke told on them in the end.
The comparison between the two squads should take nothing away from what Rodgers has created in a very short period of time under monumental weight of expectation.
But once this weekend’s obstacle is navigated, his side can do worse than draw on the indefatigability of the Benitez era as they seek to take a big stride later next week – conceding fewer goals from set pieces, combating physical opposition, maintaining their shape and acquiring solidity. All legendary aspects of that golden Champions League era which Liverpool are reaching for once again. | <urn:uuid:27a2a560-d1d8-4652-a885-7df1568a9e26> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/ian-herbert-work-still-to-do-before-this-liverpool-can-be-compared-to-class-of-08-9019096.html | 2016-05-04T02:45:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122268.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00099-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971195 | 1,125 | [
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Amazon’s recent Kindle ad highlights the benefits of reading with e-ink technology under direct sunlight while taking aim at Apple’s iPad, which functions as both an electronic book reader and a multi-function device offering games, browsing, music listening, and entertainment capabilities. Though Amazon has been careful to give Kindle a singular focus on reading, the new ad does show that Amazon is recognizing that the Kindle and iPad may be closer competitors than what the company had previously let on. Additionally, although Amazon makes the Kindle hardware, the company also offers the Kindle software on other hardware platforms, including the iPad, to make the e-reading experience seamless as other manufacturer’s devices could sync with the Kindle store. The tone of the ad focuses both on e-ink’s readability under sunlight, unlike Apple’s reflective LCD screen, and also on the device’s low price. The ad had already aired on ABC. | <urn:uuid:833ea9fd-93c5-43bb-bbdd-d8e2523695eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.ubergizmo.com/2010/09/new-kindle-ad-takes-jab-at-ipad/ | 2016-05-04T02:01:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122268.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00099-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962169 | 191 | [
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At Superfeedr, we believe we have to do one thing only in the best way it can be done: make feeds real-time.
There are a ton of small feature requests that our users ask for and that aren’t part of this grand scheme. One of the most common ones is feed discovery.
A lot of apps that are built using Superfeedr allow their users to type in any site url. Since Superfeedr only deals with feeds, it means that these apps have to
- Download this specific page,
- Parse the HTML
- Extract the
<link>tags to get the corresponding feed(s) urls.
It’s definitely not a very hard thing to do, yet, there is* absolutely no reason that everybody should write the same code over and over* for that basic purpose. Obviously, you could use great libraries such as feedbag, yet, these libraries are language-centric (Ruby in this case).
We built feediscovery : a simple – in the cloud! – feed discovery API. To use it, send a
GET request to http://feediscovery.appspot.com/ with the
url parameter from which you’d like to extract feeds from. The app should return a small json string of the feed(s) information (href, title, rel, type).
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While I was off discovering California's theme parks, playing in places like Disney's Fantasyland and Legoland's Explore Village, my home was being turned into Bachelor Town.
I came home to find worms growing in the bottom of the dog's water bowl, and one fish bowl as fuzzy as a tennis ball due to the algae. A guppy had died and was not taken out. The baby guppy bowl had a third of the water left and they were swimming in algae and their own filth. The bed sheets had not been changed, and they were dotted with blood stains from Claus' various wounds. (See Claus' fall blog.)
What the heck?
Oh, Husband. Looks like he had a pretty good vacation, too.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One of the higher ranges of the voice in singing or speaking, including the falsetto. Also called head voice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
Sorry, no etymologies found.
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So this Sunday, Saints fans, you'll get to flip back and forth from Fox to CBS. Or maybe you have the Sunday ticket. Then again, you might cruise down to the local watering hole, just to see five games as once.
Whatever, you have an extra day before the Saints hit the field. You're no doubt watching football, right?
Anyway, as the Saints get ready to make you wait a whole 'nuther day and a half before they play Green Bay, well, let's chat.
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Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Allison Janney
Director: Paul Feig
Running time: 1 hour and 57 minutes
This is just like any other movie where an unlikely hero is forced to step up and save the day. In Spy that unlikely hero is Melissa McCarthy, who is a CIA analyst. After every active agent is compromised she has to go out in the field and save the mission. Sounds familiar, right? Right, but it's also kind of good.
After the first 10 minutes, which were a little slow in my opinion, the movie picks up the pace and starts getting pretty funny. There are a number of jokes that will make you chuckle or at least entertain you and a couple of jokes that will make you straight up laugh (mostly involving Jason Statham). It's not the most memorable comedy but it's good Thursday night action movie.
Speaking of funny, when you think Jason Statham, funny is not the first thing that pops into your head, but I have to say his character and his interactions with Melissa McCarthy where the moments in the movie that I found the most compelling. Their banter is very fun and he is not afraid to embrace the over-the-top nature of this role. I wish he had more screen time and I hope he gets the opportunity to get more roles like this in the future.
Another aspect of Spy that I particularly enjoyed where the moments when Susan got to be a badass and order Rose Byrne's character around. The different lines that she came up with were hilariously mean and creative and the fact that Raina couldn't say anything back made it that much more entertaining. Melissa McCarthy isn't the first protagonist to rise to greatness from the depths of insignificance but she is certainly a good one.
As expected, Susan Cooper had a crush on a handsome, talented and stereotypically “out of her league” colleague a.k.a. Jude Law, who never saw her in a romantic light and could have any woman he wanted. Bradley Fine, however, was not as perfect as the majority of handsome, talented and stereotypically “out of her league” colleagues tend to be in this kind of movie. He was great at his job and a good friend to Susan but, also, a selfish prick who convinced her to stay in the basement as an analyst, when he knew she had potential, in order to fulfill his own selfish ambitions. He was a more complicated and three-dimensional character than a lot, even though he was absent for a great deal of the movie.
In a movie where there is a mission and bad guys and CIA agents and everything else that goes along with the kind of movie Spy is, there are bound to be some fights and some kills. Even though I though those fights were well made and established Susan as an even stronger woman protagonist, I couldn't get over the fact that in every stabbing or shooting there would be one or two drops of blood and that was it. Speaking from my limited knowledge of forensic anatomy and physiology I have to argue that when a person is shot or stab to death he, sure, bleeds a lot more than that.
Now, let's get back to Jason Statham's character. Even though I found him appealing as a character, I couldn't help but root for him to succeed and prove himself. As established from what we knew about him, Ford was a loud, over-the-top, sometimes reckless, in his attempt to prove he is better than everyone else, agent. But he was still a CIA agent and there wasn't a moment that would justify that in this movie. I don't think government agents tend to be self-obsessed goofs that can't get anything right and, always, need someone to save them, but that's just me.
Finally, speaking about unbelievable little Spy sub-stories, I don't understand the running joke about how Melissa McCarthy's character knew things that would be impossible for her to know. For example how she could find a shortcut in the middle of nowhere in Budapest while she had never lived there. If that was an attempt to mock the stereotypical action movie, I don't think it was a very good one.
In conclusion, do I think Spy is one of the great comedies? No. Do I think it's a fine way to spend a nice quite night? Most definitely.
Score: 69%Tomatometer: 95%
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Riding the China equity wave since the third week of February hasn’t been that difficult. There have been dozens of reasons - fundamental, technical, contrarian, historical - to revisit the mainland. (See “3 More Reasons To Rethink Your China Allocation.”)
On the other hand, selecting the best exchange-traded fund for the job may not have been as easy. In my columns, I typically use SPDR S&P China (NYSEARCA:GXC) to illustrate a point. Meanwhile, with clients, I may use regional funds like iShares All-Asia excluding Japan (NASDAQ:AAXJ) or an exporting neighbor like iShares Malaysia (NYSEARCA:EWM) or even mutual funds from the Matthews Fund family.
Still, aggressive investors may want to consider the significance of the performance for Guggenheim Small Cap China (NYSEARCA:HAO), Global X China Consumer (NYSEARCA:CHIQ) and Global X China Energy (NYSEARCA:CHIE). Is the outperformance an endorsement of a middle-class Chinese comeback?
Put another way, there appears to be renewed faith that China is getting closer and closer to ending its inflation-fighting campaign. In anticipation of a more neutral policy stance by mainland leadership, investors are snatching up economically sensitive small companies and cyclicals (e.g., consumers, energy, etc.). Indeed, the outperformance of these areas speak volumes about the confidence many have about China’s prospects going forward.
|China ETFs: A Look At One-Month Performance|
|Approx 1 Mo %|
|Global X China Energy (CHIE)||7.2%|
|Global X China Consumer (CHIQ)||4.7%|
|SPDR S&P China (GXC)||4.5%|
|Guggenheim China All-Cap (NYSEARCA:YAO)||4.3%|
|Guggenheim China Small-Cap (HAO)||4.2%|
|iShares Hong Kong China Listed (NASDAQ:FCHI)||4.0%|
|iShares China 25 (NYSEARCA:FXI)||3.3%|
|PowerShares Golden Dragon Halter (NYSEARCA:PGJ)||3.2%|
|iShares Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM)||3.2%|
|Market Vectors China (NYSEARCA:PEK)||2.8%|
|Global X China Materials (NYSEARCA:CHIM)||1.7%|
|iShares Russell 1000 (NYSEARCA:IWB)||1.6%|
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A number of headwinds working against AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE:AKS) resulted in a big drop in earnings during the first quarter. Net sales rose slightly to $1.38 billion but outages and a legal settlement resulted in a net loss of $86.1 million, or $0.63, in the quarter.
Higher costs for everything from energy to iron ore affected margins in the first quarter and a 3% increase in sale prices weren't enough to overcome those costs.
A surprise profit in the fourth quarter gave investors some hope that operations could turn around and AK Steel could make a profit in 2014, but this is a rough start to the year. Unless costs come down significantly, it's questionable whether the company can break even this year or hit analysts' expected $0.07 per share earnings target.
Pricing and costs can be very volatile for AK Steel and until it proves the ability to make a profit long term this isn't a stock I'd be betting on, particularly as input costs are on the rise.
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Finding a pass rusher is an off-season priority, but the Arizona Cardinals waited until the last day of the draft. They selected Sam Acho of Texas, who played defensive end in college but will play outside linebacker as a pro.
Acho is 6-foot-2 and 261 pounds. He has a reputation for being smart and playing hard all the time. He's athletic, running a 4.62 40 at the combine and his vertical leap was 33.5 inches. He was honored as the nation's top collegiate scholar/athlete.
It's the second consecutive year in which the Cardinals have taken an outside linebacker in the fourth round. They took O'Brien Schofield out of Wisconsin last year.
Acho is an interesting guy. He already has a business degree from Texas. He was a double major, in business honors and marketing. He was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States as youngster. He and his family return to Nigeria every summer on medical missions.
Acho speaks Spanish.
He said moving to outside linebacker won't be foreign to him. He played that position his first two seasons at Texas.
"I hadn't heard anything from them (the Cardinals) for the past couple months, so it's a complete shocker to me," he said. "But I'm just honored to be part of this organization and help the Cardinals win a Super Bowl.
"My younger brother who is at Texas is an outside linebacker, so we've worked together. I feel really great about it."
This report first appeared in Kent Somers' Cardinals blog.
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As Sino Swearingen prepares to shift from flight-testing to full-scale production of the SJ30-2, it has also shifted the CEO title from company president Carl Chen to chairman Ching-Chiang Kuo. Before joining Sino Swearingen, Kuo was responsible for public construction projects through-out Taiwan. But he’s no stranger to the aerospace industry. Before joining the Taiwan government, he spent 26 years at Rockwell (now Boeing) working on space programs. When Kuo joined the company, his stated goal was to get the SJ30-2 certified by the end of this year. Sino Swearingen appears on track to meet this objective.
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Also, why not dream big? Getting 600-700 PMK/s is an improvement, but an investment in a modest GTX-260 is currently getting me nearly 10,000 per second. It's understandable that others may not have the kind of money to invest in a purpose-built WPA cracking rig, but there's always craigslist and eBay for some better deals(not plugging them, just saying).
No doubt, pyrit is an amazing tool. If you watch the blog, it seems like at least twice a week the author has added some new tweaks and tricks to really make it zing.
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'August: Osage County' makes S.A. debut with a thrilling production at the Vex
Updated 2:38 pm, Friday, August 31, 2012
The tension level in the Weston house is pretty darn high even before the fractious family learns that patriarch Beverly, missing for several days, has killed himself.
Then the clan gathers for a post-funeral dinner, and things really go off the rails.
The dinner scene — which builds to an explosive moment between a mother and her daughter that, all by itself, is worth the price of admission — closes out the second act of “August: Osage County,” which is making its San Antonio debut with a thrilling staging at the Sheldon Vexler Theatre.
Tracy Letts' Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play, directed with clarity and compassion by Paul Fillingim, follows the Westons through the rough weeks immediately after the disappearance of Beverly (Jim Mammarella, making the most of his small role).
Among other things, the adult Weston children have to figure out the best way to see to their mother Violet (the fantastic Christy Huffman), a difficult woman with a pill addiction and a sharp tongue. Ivy (Mary Goodhue), who's the only one of the kids who stuck around, has had just about enough of the caretaker role and is looking to start a new life with a new love. Karen (Renee Garvens), too, is entering a new phase, partly the result of her relationship with fiancé Steve (David Maloof). Barbara (Anna Gangai) is going through a variety of transitions, too, including menopause, an impending divorce from her cheating spouse (Robert Carenzo) and the difficulty of parenting a mouthy 14-year-old (Krystal Kohler).
The piece slices into the marrow of instantly relatable family concerns, including intergenerational conflict and the responsibility that children have for their aging parents and vice versa.
All of that and more are covered in the dinner scene. Violet reveals that she knows all — she sees Steve for the shady character that he is and knows all about Barbara's carefully hidden separation. She also calls out her kids for having the gall to complain about aspects of their lives, especially considering the rough upbringings that she and Beverly had. When her children protest, she responds that she's just telling the truth.
Things swiftly escalate from there, building to a physical altercation between her and Barbara that's breathtaking in its suddenness and shocking in its violence. It's a stunning moment, played out with precision by everyone onstage, particularly Huffman and Gangai.
Their characters are the heart of the play, and Huffman and Gangai are both spectacular, vividly conveying the power shifts within the mother/daughter relationship.
Huffman captures Violet's off-balance physicality — the medications she downs like breath mints throw off her equilibrium — beautifully. She staggers around the house in a ratty blue housecoat, reaching out to the walls for balance. She also reveals Violet's fierce maternal instincts, which prompt her to be blunt with her children. And she's utterly heartbreaking in the play's final moments.
Like Violet, Gangai's Barbara is looking to tell some truths, too, and she scores some of the play's best lines, delivering them with relish. One of the most quotable is part of a riff in which she shares her thoughts on the “greatest generation,” to which her parents belong: “And what makes them so great anyway? Because they were poor and hated Nazis? Who doesn't (expletive) hate Nazis?”
They're well matched by the rest of the cast. Every actor on the stage gives authentic, fully realized performances.
Every aspect of the production is rooted in truth, including the way that the action flows throughout the set (another masterful creation from Ken Frazier) and the fact that the actors, in character, handle changes to that set. They bustle about at each intermission, tidying rooms and clearing the dining table, one of many deft touches.
Funny and painful and true, the Vex's “August: Osage County” is easily one of the year's finest productions. Don't miss it.
“August: Osage County” can be seen at the Sheldon Vexler Theatre, 12500 NW Military Highway, at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 16, with an additional show at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9. There is no matinee Sept. 9. Tickets cost $14 to $20. Call 210-302-6835 for reservations. | <urn:uuid:4d9b8de6-494e-415d-becd-49349c061db2> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/stage/article/August-Osage-County-makes-S-A-debut-with-a-3827708.php | 2016-05-04T08:01:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122533.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00211-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965396 | 985 | [
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9:30 p.m.: The northbound lanes of I-5 have been reopened in Southern Oregon after a four-hour closure north of Yreka, California.
8:45 p.m.: I-5 is still congested and ODOT suggests motorists should avoid the freeway and use I-205 instead.
7:20 p.m. from North Portland: The Oregonian's Allan Brettman reports on his commute home from Downtown Portland:
Walking my bike off the northbound MAX Yellow Line at the Rosa Parks stop, I asked myself, “Do I really want to do this?”
But once I saw another bicyclist riding in the snow westbound on Rosa Parks, the answer was yes.
Almost immediately, though, my wheels slipped on the curved roadway and visions of falling into traffic danced in my helmeted head.
It had been an uneventful MAX ride from downtown, starting at about 5:30 p.m. The cars were packed the whole way; and the train did idle for at least 10 minutes, sitting on Northwest Sixth Street and blocking Northwest Davis Street. But in the lore of Portland commuting nightmares, that was nothing. Pish posh.
The bike ride along Rosa Parks, then north on North Willamette Boulevard -- a total of about 4 miles -- had the potential to be something else.
And it was, once I quickly decided that riding on a footstep-pocked sidewalk would be a lot safer than attempting to ride alongside traffic.
It became my personal X Game. The traction on my street tires was never firm. I’d crunch ahead, my headlight brightening the path, realizing the faster I went, the easier it became to correct slips and slides.
Without falling once, I was home in about 45 minutes for a ride that usually takes about 20. I guess I was at my St. Johns home by 6:45 p.m.
7:15 p.m. from Lake Oswego: The city of Lake Oswego sent out this news release:
City crews are working and have been working since this afternoon with all available equipment and personnel to sand roads and remove obstacles that have fallen in the roadways.7:10 p.m. along West Burnside Boulevard: Some drivers are stuck in their cars. Some workers are stuck at the office. And then there are about a dozen people stuck at Pittock Mansion in Portland’s Washington Park.
All emergency vehicles are winter ready, chained and able to respond to emergency calls.
There are currently no roads that are officially closed. Slippery conditions and gridlock due to the evening commute are the primary sources for concern or frustration.
Roads are slippery and difficult to travel. Many vehicles are sliding or have slid and been abandoned. If you do not have to drive, it is best to stay off the roads until the rush hour traffic clears.
If you must travel, allow yourself more time due to delays on streets from traffic being stopped or slow moving and road conditions. If you have traction devices, it is advised to use them.
Notice of City Service Closure - The Library will close at 7:00 p.m. tonight. All City services are scheduled to open and function tomorrow as usual.
Staff and visitors found it difficult to travel less than a mile from the mansion to West Burnside. So, they decided to stay.
“This is actually quite a lovely place to be stuck for a few hours,” said Marta Bones, the executive director at the mansion.
The staffers and their guests had snacks, played checkers and made a snowman, Bones said. She hoped to get home later in the night.
“We’re just trying to wait it out a little bit,” Bones said.
7:05 p.m. from Lake Oswego: Lindsay Schnell, a freelance writer for The Oregonian, reports from the Nike Interstate Shootout: "We didn't start the Thurston/Beaverton game until 6:15 -- it was supposed to start at 5 -- because we were waiting for Beaverton coach Jay Ego, who was stuck in snow traffic. So they waited as long as they could and Jay pulled over to the side of the road and JOGGED HERE (from 2 miles away). He got here ... covered in snow. He's got my Coach of the Year vote. Talk about dedication ..."
Tonight's semifinal games were canceled because of the weather.
6:45 p.m. in Downtown Portland: Snow is changing to freezing rain and sleet. Traffic continues to back up along every route leading into and out of downtown.
6:35 p.m. on the Oregon Coast: Oregon 18, the Salmon River Highway, has reopened between mileposts 6 and 21. Oregon Department of Transportation crews say the road remains icy and suggest drivers should delay travel in the area or use another route.
6:30 p.m. in Downtown Portland: The Oregonian's Maxine Bernstein reports: "Bus finally shows up at least 40 minutes late ... but it's filled to the brim and can't accept more than 2 more passengers (not I), prompting some in the crowd waiting to shout out 'Get another No. 12! Can you change another bus to a 12?!' "
6:20 p.m. in Tualatin: Tualatin city workers are spreading sand on heavily traveled streets. A Tualatin city map shows which streets will be given priority.
6:05 p.m. from TriMet: Eastbound trains on the Blue, Green, Red and Yellow lines are facing significant backups. All eastbound lines are delayed crossing the Steel Bridge because of a signal problem.
5:45 p.m. from libraries: All Multnomah County libraries and all branches of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District will close at 6 p.m.
5:40 p.m. from Marquam Hill bus route: The Marquam Hill bus line (190) is delayed because road crews and chained buses are unable to get up the hill due to heavy traffic. Riders on Marquam Hill are being encouraged to ride the Tram and Portland Streetcar, or to wait inside until traffic clears and buses can resume regular service.
Route 25 -- St. Johns is experiencing delays due to road conditions and multiple accidents on St. Johns and St. James.
5:40 p.m. from Trimet: The Portland-area transit agency has chained buses, which are serving the West Hills and the Mt. Scott areas. Mobile chaining crews are assisting buses in the field as needed.
Several lines have been canceled and about a dozen lines are on snow routes. There are reports of stuck buses; bus rescue crews have been deployed to get those buses moving again.
The MAX system is experiencing significant delays eastbound due to signal and switch problems, and delays will continue as trains return to regular schedules.
TriMet's LIFT service is not picking up passengers for new trips, but will get existing passengers to their homes.
5:40 p.m. from the Oregon Coast: Oregon 18 is closed between mileposts 6 and 21 due to slick conditions and multiple accidents. Drivers are advised to delay travel or use alternative routes and carry chains or use traction tires if travel is necessary.
5:35 near Newberg: Oregon 99W, 3 miles north of Newberg has been closed, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.
5:30 p.m. from southern Oregon: The Oregon Department of Transportation reports that Interstate 5 is closed at the California border due to severe winter conditions in California.
5:30 p.m. from Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation: The park district has canceled all programs, classes and activities for the day. A decision about Wednesday's schedule will be announced later.
5:20 p.m. from Portland: The snow caught Portland’s bureau of transportation by surprise.
Bureau spokeswoman Cheryl Kuck said city workers this evening were putting down a light sand coat on troublespots in West Portland, West Burnside and on Sam Jackson Park Road leading to Oregon Health & Science University.
No plows will be used on those streets until there’s at least an inch of snow on the ground. The bureau will monitor hilly spots, overpasses and bridges throughout the night.
Drivers on side streets, she warned, are on their own.
“Pay attention to road conditions, drive safely, and share the road with pedestrians and bicyclists who are also making their way in hazardous conditions,” said Portland Mayor Sam Adams in a prepared statement.
5:15 p.m. from Oregon Department of Transportation: ODOT crews report snow and slick conditions on Oregon 22 (Willamina -Salem Highway) west of Salem and on Oregon 99W (Pacific Highway West) north of Newberg.
Please delay travel if possible. Carry chains or use traction tires if travel is necessary.
5:10 p.m. from TriMet: The Portland-area transit agency announces these cancellations and adjustments to bus routes:
8-Jackson Park/NE 15th: Buses use Veterans Hospital Road between Veterans Hospital and OHSU. No service on Campus Drive, Gaines, 11th or Gibbs.
18-Hillside: Service canceled until road conditions improve.
19-Woodstock/Glisan: No service on Mt Scott. Buses use Duke to 92nd to Flavel.
20-Burnside/Stark: No service on Barnes Rd or West Burnside between St Vincent Hospital and SW 15th.
32-Oatfield: No service on 21st, Lake or Oatfield between Milwaukie TC and Oak Grove. Buses use McLoughlin Blvd. No service south of Oregon City TC.
44-Capitol Hwy/Mocks Crest: No service beyond SW Capitol & Taylors Ferry, buses turn around at Barbur Transit Center. No service to PCC Sylvania.
51-Vista: Service Canceled.
58-Canyon Rd: No service to downtown Portland. No service on SW Canyon Road east of SW Canyon Drive.
61-Marquam Hill/Beaverton TC: No service on Capitol Highway, Campus Drive, Gaines, 11th or Gibbs. Buses use US Veterans Hospital Rd. to Sam Jackson and Barbur.
63-Washington Park: Service canceled until road conditions improve.
64-Marquam Hill/Tigard TC: No service on Capitol Highway, Gaines, 11th or Gibbs. Buses use US Veterans Hosp Rd., Sam Jackson and Barbur.
66-Marquam Hill/Hollywood TC: No service on Campus Dr.
75-39th Ave/Lombard: No service on NE 42nd, Wisteria or 41st between Tillamook and Fremont. Board at Hollywood Transit Center or Fremont & 41st. No service south of Woodstock.
78-Beaverton/Lake Oswego: No service between Tigard TC and Lake Oswego.
80-Kane Rd/Troutdale Rd: No service on Buxton Hill. Board buses on 257th or Troutdale Rd.
82-Eastman/182nd Ave: Service canceled until road conditions improve.
84-Kelso/Boring: Service canceled until road conditions improve.
155-Sunnyside: No service east of 147th and Oregon Trail.
156-Mather Rd: Service canceled until road conditions improve.
157-Happy Valley: Service canceled until road conditions improve.
Jackson Park/NE 15th: Buses use Veterans Hospital Road between Veterans Hospital and OHSU. No service on Campus Drive, Gaines, 11th or Gibbs.
4:45 p.m. in Downtown Portland: Cars are spinning their wheels as drivers climb Southwest Broadway near Portland State University.
4:40 p.m. in Oregon City: Oregon City Public Works workers closed a hilly portion of Center Street.
4:40 p.m. in Lake Oswego: Arterial streets are practically gridlocked with heavy traffic. But streets remain open to traffic.
"It's a real slow go, because of the snow," said Capt. Dale Jorgensen, Lake Oswego police spokesman. "The streets really aren't that bad, but traffic is tied up because so many people got out all at once."
Jorgensen said plows and sanding trucks are working the steepest streets, trying to keep them clear.
"I know the Mountain Park neighborhood is kind of dicey, because of the elevation," Jorgensen said. "But so far, all the streets are open."
4:35 p.m. at Portland Meadows: Even the horses at Portland Meadows caught a break from the snow. The horse track in North Portland canceled today's eighth and ninth races because of heavy snowfall and high winds.
4:35 p.m. along Interstate 5: Traffic on Interstate 5 crawled in both directions between Salem and the Portland area at midafternoon as drivers exercised caution amid intermittent rain and mild snow.
The pavement was bare although wet, and the temperature stayed at 32 degrees. However, the snow increased and began to stick to the roadway in Portland.
4:30 p.m. in Polk County: Oregon State Police said a commercial truck is on its side and blocking traffic on Oregon 22 near milepost 5 in Polk County.
4:30 p.m. in West Linn: In West Linn, police closed several steep streets after vehicles became stuck in the snow.
Closed streets include Skype Parkway, Marylhurst, Hidden Springs Road, Pimlico Drive, and Summit Street between Skyline and Rosemont roads.
Sgt. Neil Hennelly, West Linn police spokesman, advised motorists to use Sunset or Salamo roads to reach the hilltop neighborhoods.
"Also, driving around a 'Road Closed' sign is the same as going through a stop sign or a traffic light," Hennelly said. "It isn't same and it's against the law."
4:25 p.m. mass transit: TriMet has issued a series of alerts and route closures. TriMet
In Clark County, C-TRAN officials said they were ready to switch buses to pre-established snow and ice routes. C-TRAN
4:20 p.m. PCC campuses: Portland Community College announced today that they were closing their campuses to classes tonight.
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I plan to buy one of the two, Kinect or Xtion for my Roomba 560. The issue is that I am not able to decide; Kinect probably has a better compatibility with ROS while Xtion has better hardware. Any first hand experience/suggestion will be most welcome.
ASUS Xtion Pro Live works really nice with ROS Electric, but has issues with ROS Fuerte and ROS Groovy.
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Writer and activist Amiri Baraka - also known as LeRoi Jones - was born on October 7 1934 and died on January 9 2014.
Amiri Baraka, who has died aged 79, was an African-American writer who chose separation rather than integration. In 1962, James Baldwin, the most prominent black author of the period, had asked, "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" In the middle of the decade, Baraka, at the time still known by his birth name of LeRoi Jones, put the rhetoric into action and walked away from New York literary society.
By then a successful poet and playwright, with Beat generation affinities, Jones left his white wife and their two daughters, changed his name (he gave the meaning of Amiri Baraka as "blessed prince"), and moved from the downtown bohemian hangout of Greenwich Village to Harlem. There, he helped found the Black Arts repertory theatre on 130th Street (no whites allowed), which staged his own plays as well as work by those who, like him, believed in "a blacker art". As Jones, he had had success as both a poet and a playwright; as Baraka, his work became increasingly didactic and the activist in him took over from the writer. His first theatrical publication under his new name was Four Black Revolutionary Plays (1969).
Everett LeRoi Jones was born in Newark, New Jersey, into a milieu he described as "black bourgeoisie". He attended Howard, Rutgers and Columbia universities, without graduating, but his realisation that literature was the medium that might grant him a vocation came during his service in the US air force (1954 to 1957). "Something dawned on me, like a big light bulb over my noggin," he wrote in The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones (1984), describing his sudden passion for Joyce and Dostoevsky. "All kinds of new connections yammered in my head." Less predictable was his love of Evelyn Waugh. "I read every novel of his I could find. I thought Sebastian Flyte was marvellous," he told the Guardian in 2007.
On leaving the air force, Baraka headed for Greenwich Village, and began working in the music shop Record Changer, which fuelled his enthusiasm for jazz and blues. He built friendships on the hip literary scene, centred on the monthly Evergreen Review and its publisher Grove Press, which brought out Jones's first full-length collection, The Dead Lecturer (1964). Jones founded his own little magazines, Yugen and Floating Bear, as well as Totem Press, which issued pamphlets of poetry and prose by Beat and Black Mountain writers, including Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. Totem issued Jones's first pamphlet, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961).
In 1958, Jones married Hettie Cohen, whom he had met at Record Changer and who worked at the leftwing journal Partisan Review. Her parents temporarily cut her off as a result. The couple had two daughters, Lisa and Kellie (the former now a writer herself, the latter a professor at Columbia). Among the Joneses' circle of friends were the poets Allen Ginsberg, Edward Dorn and Frank O'Hara. In 1964, Jones's play Dutchman was staged at the Cherry Lane theatre in Greenwich Village. The action takes place in the carriage of a New York subway train, in which a white woman and a black man flirt with one another, leading to unexpected violence. It won an Obie award for the best off-Broadway play. Forty-four years later, it was successfully revived at the same theatre.
Throughout his career, Jones/Baraka was highly productive and quick to switch allegiance, as his change of name and the circumstances of his marriage suggest. Not only did he walk out on his Jewish wife, but he wrote some notorious antisemitic poems ("I got the extermination blues, jewboys / I got the Hitler syndrome figured"). He spoke and wrote disparagingly of "queens" at a time when his best friends included O'Hara and Ginsberg, both openly gay.
Later, in an article published in the Village Voice ("Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite", 1980), he repudiated those former positions, and elsewhere repented certain misogynistic pronouncements. Those who knew him through his statements in the press, or who witnessed his noisy interventions at public gatherings, were apt to regard Baraka as a rabble-rouser. In private, though, he could be warm and funny. He believed his own best quality was "tremendous energy"; his worst, to act and speak without responsibility.
Baraka is possibly the only modern American poet to have landed in prison on account of a poem. Following his arrest on a charge of possessing illegal firearms during the 1967 riots in Newark (characterised by Baraka as "the rebellion"), he was beaten and held in solitary confinement. During his trial, the judge read out one of his inflammatory prose poems ("All the stores will open if you will say the magic words. The magic words are: Up against the wall mother fucker this is a stick up") and sentenced him to three years in prison, which was, however, overturned on appeal.
In 1979, he was arrested during a quarrel in a Manhattan street with his wife, charged with assault and resisting arrest, beaten again – in both cases by a black police officer, as he was quick to point out – and sentenced to serve 48 consecutive weekends in the Harlem Correctional Facility. It was there – "in a room with a desk, a bed and a shower, a closet full of paper and a little portable" – that he wrote The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones (under the authorship of Amiri Baraka). "I call it my Harlem literary fellowship," he quipped later, adding: "It was gruelling, nevertheless, looking toward that each week." The Autobiography is regarded by many as his best book, giving a good showing to his wit and intelligence, in among the usual fist-shaking.
In later years, Baraka toured international festivals, often reciting poems to musical accompaniment. Having pointed out that while the best jazz musicians were black, the critics were usually white, he published several books on music, notably Blues People (1963) and Black Music (1968), in which he attempted to make sense of the quintessential African-American art form. "Blues could not exist if the African captives had not become American captives," he wrote in Blues People. In a review of the book, Ralph Ellison pointed out that the author tended to ignore the aesthetic aspects of the music. "He appears to be attracted to the blues for what he believes they tell us of the sociology of Negro American identity." Ellison felt that Jones (as he then still was) would like to set aside his pen and "pick up a club".
'Somebody Blew Up America'
After his change of name in 1967 and his marriage in a Yoruba ceremony to Sylvia Robinson (who took the name Amina), Baraka returned to his home town of Newark, where he remained for the rest of his life. He and Amina – also a performer of her own work – made their home into a community centre, the Spirit House, where readings and musical recitals were given, and theatrical performances tried out.
It was while acting as poet laureate of New Jersey that Baraka wrote his poem about the attacks of September 11 2001, Somebody Blew Up America, based on the suggestion that information about the forthcoming assault was known in government circles: "Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed / Who told 4 000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers / To stay home that day / Why did Sharon stay away?" Accusations of antisemitism flew at once, and the governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey, demanded that he resign as poet laureate. When Baraka refused, the governor abolished the post.
Baraka received awards including a Guggenheim fellowship (1965), and taught at various universities. He made peace with many of his old adversaries, including Baldwin, about whom he had written in his book of essays, Home (1966), that if he "were turned white, there would be no more noise" from him. In a late interview, he appeared to have stepped back some distance from his separatist position. "As Baldwin used to say, there's no black people and no white people. You can't be an American without being related." His anger, however, based on the balance of power, remained undimmed.
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TELL CITY – Golden Living Center-Lincoln Hills will host a volunteer recognition Thursday, April 10, at 2:00 pm.
The event has been scheduled to celebrate national volunteer week, which runs April 6 through 13. The program will begin at 2 p.m. and refreshments will be served following the program. The public is invited to attend.
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Princeton HealthCare System's home care and home infusion nurses are specially trained and certified to administer all infusion therapies in the home. They are also certified to insert PICC (Peripherally Inserted Center Catheter) lines and to work with central venous access devices. The pharmacists and pharmacy staff maintain vital communications with a patient's physicians, ensuring timely, precise care. Infusion therapy available through Princeton HomeCare includes:
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Job Position Apprentice Mechanic / Millwright
Job Type Permanent Full Time
Start Date March 2013
The proper applicant will be,
- Mechanically inclined.
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Preferences will be given to Automotive / heavy duty or millwright apprentices.
Oil and gas experience and safety training would be an asset.
We provide competitive wages, an excellent benefit package, tuition reimbursement and much more.
A Journeyman will be considered also for one of the positions.
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Image: My medieval public identity…
It used to be when users kicked up a fuss, social networks quaked and gave way to their demands.
Then Facebook began a kind of two-steps-forward / user outcry / one-step-back dance with privacy and user data.
These days, as the market has matured and the incumbents feel a little more settled, their networks seem a little too hard to opt out of for users.
In a recent New York Times article about Google+, Google’s Bradley Horowitz said: “We are attuned to both what people say and what people do.”
How I read that: sure, we hear a lot of complaining, but no one’s voting with their virtual feet.
Users complain about the forcing upon them of a Google+ identity, but they don’t do much about it. They don’t close down their Gmail, start using other search engines, give YouTube a swerve. Not many of them. Not enough of them to worry about.
To data driven Google, an outcry on Twitter and in opinion articles is largely noise. People stopping using their services would be a strong signal – and they just aren’t seeing that.
I can think of a couple of people who have opted out of Facebook (a couple out of the few hundred people I’m connected to there).
As for Google, I have only met one refusenik so far – and heard tell of others in the online activist community.
Two questions come to mind:
- Will governments and brands begin to follow this logic? Petitions and online slacktivism, as one-click protests are derisively labelled by some, aren’t always going to signal real behaviour changes – boycotts, votes, spending money elsewhere.
- Are people who are opting out of Google and Facebook the start of a movement toward “de-clouding”, rejecting handing their personal data over to large corporations? It’s too early to tell whether this will remain fringe dissent or whether it will begin to spread. Google, Facebook, Microsoft and, to some extent, Apple and Amazon (the “stacks“) will be aiming to make sure the massive utility value of their services outweighs fear and suspicion of their stewardship of our data.
Feaudalism works, you could argue. It worked for thousands of years. Quite apart from inequality and fairness though, feudalism kills progress – it causes stagnation, homegeneity, stasis.
I guess what Schneier and Balkan are pointing out with the feudalism metaphor is that this is a kind of opt-in feudalism – it doesn’t have to be that way. Actually, as I sit here typing into a Chrome Browser, on an iMac, before turning to my Gmail etc. – you realise that it’s no opt-in, it’s something you have to put a great deal of effort and time into opting out of…
: : As an aside, I’d be a lot more likely to use Google+ more often if I didn’t have two identities there. Reflecting on the “forcing users to have a single Google+ identity” strand in this post as I edited it, I realise – I’d love a single identity. Can I have one, please?
My work and personal email are both on Gmail, so I have two lots of circles, etc. Reminds me of this tweet I favorited [sic] the other day:
Dear Chrome team: please lock yourself in a room with the Hangouts team and two accounts per person. Don’t leave until it’s fixed.
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These springs are an old school way to stretch the wheelbase on your leaf-sprung Jeep and it’s been years since we’ve done this. As it turns out, the rear bushing wasn’t wide enough and the ID of the sleeve was too big for our 1⁄2-inch-diameter bolt. Fortunately, we had some M02153 Daystar bushings left over from another project along with the correctly-sized sleeves. We swapped the as-delivered 2.736-inch-wide, 0.562-inch ID bushings and sleeves to YJ-spec 3-inch-wide bushing with a 0.508 ID sleeve. With our boomerang shackles, the springs fit just fine, and shackle angle is good too. | <urn:uuid:f7be743b-225b-4234-827e-c8c189a3817a> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.fourwheeler.com/project-vehicles/154-1306-1994-jeep-yj-big-mini-part-2/photo-04.html | 2016-05-01T06:17:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860114285.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161514-00093-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9347 | 163 | [
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|Synopsis:||Times are tough in modern middle America, and traditions are dying out. The city's oldest movie house will soon be a parking ramp unless somebody can do something to save it...|
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The International aid agency Oxfam warns that more than 60 percent of investments in agricultural land by foreign investors between 2000 and 2010 were in countries where food security was a major challenge.
The report, Our land, Our lives
, also says that Africa’s land is the most targeted with known deals equaling nearly five per cent of the continent’s total agricultural area.
Oxfam reports that while foreign investment is normally thought of as good for a country, these land deals potentially threaten the livelihoods of 80 million small landholders, farmers and pastoralists.
“We distinguish between land deals and land grabs. Land grab essentially means the communities, many of which are poor communities, lose their land and livelihood as a result of transactions that take place sometimes between governments and investors, and sometimes between elites and foreign investors. These processes leave families basically without any alternative livelihood. And in many cases the transactions are accompanied by violence and conflict,” explained Irungu Houghton, Oxfam’s pan Africa director in Nairobi.
The report says that countries affected by “land grab” include, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar.
Houghton said that Oxfam has seen about 700 deals over the last decade, which are equivalent in land area to Kenya or Cameroon.
As a result Oxfam is stepping up its campaign to end land grabs that it believes violate human rights. Houghton said first of all you have to know how the land is going to be used. There are two main areas of interest for investors.
“The first is for production of biofuel and there is a huge demand for biofuel globally, particularly in Europe and North America. The first group of interests has been in planting soy, palm oil and sugar cane to produce ethanol so it can be exported,” said Houghton.
The second interest said Houghton is producing food, which is largely going to the Middle East and Asia.
“What we are worried about is it is happening on a continent where one in four people are food insecure. Many of these countries have food insecurity. Within Oxfam and a number of different organizations, we are simply publicizing this issue and seeking government intervention across Africa, particularly under the auspices of the African Union,” said Houghton.
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With a plan to increase longevity and add environmental benefits to roofs in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District by installing “Green Roofs,” Homer High School Senior Katherine Dolma claimed the Caring for the Kenai traveling trophy for Homer the second year in a row.
The CFK essay challenges high school students to respond to the question, “What Can I do, invent or create to better care for the environment of the Kenai Peninsula or improve the area’s preparedness for a natural disaster?”
Kachemak Bay Birders will hold a meeting Monday, April 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room at the Islands and Ocean Visitor Center. Following the meeting, George Matz will present on South Texas birding. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event. For more information, contact Lani Raymond at 399-9477 or Lori Paulsrud at 299-3724.
This month, birders will trek out to Seaside Farm on April 26 to find birds in the wonderful bird habitat on Mossy’s farm. Meet at Seaside Farm (5 miles out East End Rd.) at 8 a.m. (Yes, these will be early birds and birders.) Parking is at the top of the hill, but good birding is available just walking down the driveway.
All trips are co-sponsored by the Kachemak Bay Birders and Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Bring binoculars, scope and field guide if you have them. For more info, contact leader Michael Craig at 235-0631.
Gov. Sean Parnell has proclaimed April “Bear Awareness Month,” and as bears emerge from their dens, Alaskans are reminded it’s spring cleaning time. To keep bears wild and neighborhoods safe, biologists recommend taking down bird feeders and placing trash, livestock feed and pet foods indoors or in bear-resistant containers.
Owners of poultry, goats and other small livestock can discourage bear raids by erecting electric fences.
Bears that associate homes and people with food often return. Feeding bears, even unintentionally, is illegal, and leaving attractants out around homes, cabins or camps can result in fines. For more info. about coexisting with bears, visit www.alaskabears.alaska.gov.
Because the Alaska State Legislature extended its regular session, the three citizen initiatives originally slated to appear on the Aug. 19 primary election ballot will now be on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
The three citizen initiatives are: 12BBAY, “An Act providing for protection of Bristol Bay wild salmon and waters within or flowing into the existing 1972 Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve”; 13PSUM, “An Act to tax and regulate the production, sale and use of marijuana”; and 13MINW, “An Act increasing the Alaska minimum wage to $8.75 per hour effective Jan. 1, 2015, $9.75 effective Jan. 1, 2016 and thereafter adjusted annually for inflation.”
The referendum to recall last session’s oil and gas tax legislation will still appear on the Aug. 19 primary election ballot as Proposition 1.
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Can you believe that it is already the end of July. The summer months are going by way to fast but I am trying to enjoy as much of it while I can. Hope that you are too. Here's a reminder of the sketch we used this month.
As you may know I visited my sister and her family in France back in June and I just could not get enough photos of my adorable nephew. I mean how could you resist that cute face.
I could not decided on just two photos to use and then I remembered what Francine had done for her layout last month to fit more photos.
I really enjoyed doing this layout as I very rarely get the chance to scrap boy or kid photos. I had fun playing with bright colors and finally got a chance to use some of the boy embellishments that I have in my stash.
It also dawned on me that everything that I used on this page has been in my stash for well over four years and it still makes a wonderful layout. Just goes to show that you really don't need to always buy the newest things out there to get great layouts.
Thanks for stopping by and now off you go to see what Francine came up with.
Also, please note that Sister Sketch will be on vacation for August as Francine is currently vacationing in sunny Barbados and I will be doing some travel for work. But we will be back in September so check back then.
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
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Apr. 22, 1999
Poem: "Bonnard's Nudes," by Raymond Carver, from Ultramarine (Vintage Books).
Poet LOUISE GLÜCK was born on this day in New York, 1943, author of Meadowlands; Proofs and Theories; Ararat; and The Wild Iris, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
It's the birthday of jazz bassist CHARLES MINGUS,, born in Nogales, Arizona, who played with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Red Norvo in the 1940s and 50s.
It's the birthday today of Julius Robert OPPENHEIMER, born 1904 in New York City, a theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos laboratory during development of the atomic bomb in the 1940s.
It's the birthday of writer VLADIMIR NABOKOV, born 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia, author of Lolita (1955).
It's the birthday of novelist OLE ROLVAAG, born in 1876 in a fishing village on the coast of Norway, author of several novels about immigrants' struggles here in Americahis best-known the story of Per Hansa and his wife, Beret, that he named Giants in the Earth, published in English in 1927.
It's the birthday in Somerset, England, 1707, of the father of the English novel, HENRY FIELDING, best known for his two books Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones that he wrote in the 1740s.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 07:48PM
Applied Yes to Cucumbers leave-in conditioner and twisted sections of my hair. I started doing a
needed trim on my hair, starting in the back. Sadly with this trim I'm losing my BSL status but afterwards my hair will look healthier, behave better, and stop tangling as much.
I'll be about an inch below APL after my trim.
May. 2010 (30 months)
back at APL
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This is such a great sotry. Your characters are definately dynamic. And the descriptions? I love them. I ENVY them.
There were a lot of funny parts in this. I love humorous chapters. XD
And I'M EXCITED FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER.
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On a fateful day in October 2011, Rooney Daschbach got a frantic call from his mom, Atherton resident Leonore Daschbach. She asked him to drive a mile north from his Southern California home in Sunset Beach to Seal Beach where a shooting had taken place at a local hair salon.
Leonore told him that his youngest sister Michele, known by the family as Shell, was having her hair cut and that she had a premonition that Shell was in the salon when the shooting took place. Upon arrival, Rooney saw Michele’s car parked in the lot and learned that, in fact, she was in the salon.
Hours later, waiting with Shell’s family for word on the situation, he learned his sister was dead. She had been shot by a crazed gunman whose intent was to kill his ex-wife and anyone else who happened to be at the salon that day.
Fast forward eight months, Rooney vowed that his sister would never be forgotten. He thought of ways to remember her. First, he installed a memorial plaque in his back yard but continued to search for a suitable honor that would live on.
Michele was a daily swimmer, and since Rooney is an accomplished open water swimmer, he thought a fitting way to honor her was to plan an open water swim in her memory.
On Saturday, July 7, the First Annual Michele Daschbach Fast Memorial Swim took place. The three-mile swim began on the beach in front of Rooney’s home in Sunset Beach and ended at the Seal Beach Pier, just blocks from where Shell died. Fifty-nine swimmers, paddlers, and kayakers took off at 8:45 am, escorted by the Orange County and Seal Beach lifeguards.
Atherton resident Les DeWitt made the drive south to participate. “It was an honor for me to swim in an event commemorating her life,” he said. “She was a great spirit, loved and admired by all.”
Shell’s husband, Patrick Fast, and three children – son Patrick, 21, and daughters Lisa, 16, and Laura, 18 – (pictured below) were among the participants. They were greeted with scores of hugs as each ascended from the ocean. Afterwards, a double-decker bus brought the swimmers back to Rooney ‘s home for a celebration.
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Authorities will continue to test soil at a California ranch that was once home to cult leader Charles Manson, looking for more evidence of buried bodies before any excavations begin, the county sheriff announced Friday.
Earlier this month, search crews found indications that human remains might lie within a few yards of Barker Ranch, the onetime hideout of the "Manson family."
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Today. . .
. . . is. . .
. . . the DAY!!!
It's official, our book spreads its wings and flies out into the world today! We are oh so excited (if you didn't already notice the copious exclamation points!) and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than to give away 3 copies to our lovely blog readers today! But that's not all. . .
. . . if you'd like an instant preview you can download a free PDF of our map making activity right here.
And the winners are (chosen by random number):
Amber: Congratulations! Imagine Childhood is such a lovey place for
inspiration, the book looks wonderful. Wishing you all the best for your
Sheri: Looks like a great book - can't wait to see it on our bookshelf. Thanks for the chance!
Lysa: Ah, hooray! Finally. I've been waiting for the book release for so long. Thank you so much for this opportunity! :)
Thank you so much everyone! I am overwhelmed with all of your wonderful notes of congratulations and support. You've all made my year!
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Whose customer are you?
By Consumers Union on Thursday, October 18th, 2007
That’s why retailers—the last leg in the supply chain that brought lead painted toys into American homes—must also be the last stop for safety and enforcement.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission rarely holds retailers accountable for the sale of dangerous products. According to the advocacy group only a handful of states (Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Arkansas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Vermont) completely ban the resale of recalled items or their continued use in licensed childcare facilities. Only Illinois mandates that retailers clearly notify the public of recalls. Illinois law outlines guidelines for brick and mortar, Internet and resellers of children’s products. Most states have no such laws.
After the highly publicized recalls of popular toys, the nation’s largest retailers have stepped up independent testing programs to examine the products they sell. This is a good idea that needs to be made a regular practice. Even if manufacturers begin to test products in their overseas plants before they ship, they won’t catch everything. Retailers need to spot test batches of the products they order then publicize the results. It’s the retailer’s reputation on the line too. And one large scale recall doesn’t end the story–other, similarly unsafe products may still be sitting in retail stores everywhere.
After a recall, we need to do more than simply post recall notices at the store level. Recall lists are surprisingly hard to use. Shoppers have a hard time telling if a particular product is the exact item on a recall list because serial numbers are hard to find and complicated to read. In a crowded store, with your children in tow, even clearly posted lists of recalled items could be unmanegable. Instead, retailers need to take responsibility for removing recalled items from their shelves. When a recall has been announced, the retailer should check to see if recalled items were already sold to its shoppers and then post a clear notice asking shoppers to bring the items back.
Last month, Consumers Union testified before along with Toys “R” Us Chairman Gerald Storch, who outlined the steps his company is taking. They are good first steps, but in order to make our retail markets safe these systems need to be incorporated into legislation and apply equally to everyone. Every shopper should have the same expectation of safety in any U.S. store. | <urn:uuid:a731fac3-a4d5-44b1-a93e-2d156e7c06ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://consumersunion.org/2007/10/whose-customer-are-you/ | 2016-05-04T23:06:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860125524.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161525-00213-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953438 | 496 | [
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Massive Disneyland Attraction Database
Figment's Superstar Toon Twirl, a favorite dark ride of Sallah
Figment's Superstar Toon Twirl
July 20, 2009
Avg. queue length:
30 minutes (or 32 minutes with a FASTPASS)
The Figment's Superstar Toon Twirl line is like a tour into Toontown. The dark ride superstars are just like Benny the Cot, and as you drive you can twirl them by strangling the wheel.
- If traveling with spoiled children, you may want to just stop caring before taking them on this dark ride.
Guest Policies and Notices
- Minimum height 26".
- This dark ride closes at sundown.
- This is the last of the only dark rides that has not malfunctioned since the door was built.
- To test the dark ride superstar idea, Imagineers rode a King Arthur Carrousel horse on the Pinocchio's Daring Journey track.
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If you were lamenting the end of summertime blues festivals in these waning months of heat, keep in mind that the weather is becoming quite tolerable and there is yet another great Western Missouri blues festival to attend. St. Joseph Missouri, the home of the Coleman Hawkins Blues Festival, is just an hour north of Kansas City, and its one of the coolest towns on the map. The festival is a one day celebration of its namesake, the late great, St. Joseph born jazz and blues sax man. Coleman Hawkins park will be the epicenter of the musical festivities on September 10, 2011
This year's lineup will feature some of the Kansas City area's best known blues artists, such as Levee Town, Blues 88, Kansas Blues Hall of Famers Frank Plas and the Silvertones, the raucous slide blues guitar of Coyote Bill, and the Bobby Carson Blues Band featuring St Joseph's own Pedro “Chili” Squella. This is a “Bikes and Blues” fest, so there should be plenty of entertainment for motorcycle lovers as well.
Aside from the event itself, St. Joseph is worthy of a long weekend getaway any day. It's chock full of museums which feature enticing memorabilia from the outlaw Jesse James, local murderers, hauntings and historical eccentricities that entice visitors. It furthermore has a great live music scene and plentiful and unique places to spend an afternoon antiquing, sight seeing, or just hanging out.
The Coleman Hawkins Blues Festival is sure to entertain, and the season is right for blues outdoors.
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Amsterdam - February 23rd 2012 - Gamistry proudly announced today the release of their new iOS title Munch Time. The game is available worldwide and will have 3 different versions.
Munch Time - iPhone 3GS and plus - € 0.79
Munch Time HD - iPad (Universal) - € 1.59
Munch Time Lite - iPad (Universal) - FREE
For your other local prizes check the local iTunes store.
About Munch Time
Time to get munch'n!
SWING AND GO
Meet Munch, a chameleon and his quest for lunch that the player must guide him through. Swing around using your super strong tongue to reach the most difficult places! Latch onto different flowers for different acrobatic effects!
Flowers have various colors and Munch will need to change color according to the flower he wants to latch onto. But there's a problem: Munch can't change color on his own and requires the help of special color flies that are flying around.
Throughout more than 40 levels, spread across two themes, you will encounter various flower types that react differently when Munch latches onto them, creating an exciting mash of puzzles and challenges, combined with quick reflex acrobatics and simple touch-based controls, for an intuitive experience.
Of course Munch Time is fully integrated with all latest iOS 5 features like: iCloud support, Retina display and Gamecenter Achievements.
The game will feature:
• 42 puzzling levels spread across two lush environments.
• different flowers that all act differently when latched on to.
• an exciting mash of puzzles and challenges, combined with quick reflex acrobatics.
• simple touch-based controls for an intuitive experience.
• the latest iOS 5 features including: iCloud support, Retina display and Gamecenter integration.
We are comitted to Munch Time and its players, and are already hard at work on future updates. The first is to be expected very soon and features a new theme and a new special feature.
Find the games here:
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Let's hope all goes well!
In the meantime, I've just listed a dozen "new" goodies to the site... check 'em out!
I love it, of course!
I have a special tie to this one. It was my Grandmother's!
How can I be selling it?
I want someone who wears vintage to really enjoy it.
Victorian china makes such a sweet statement.
These vintage placemats caught my eye... pink with an art deco feel ... literally!
The floral detail is raised velvet in black.
Think Hollywood Glam!
Two sweet children's Christmas books... the Story of Jesus has the loveliest old
color graphics. I believe it is from the turn of the century.
The other book, "Let's Keep Christmas" is from the early 50's.
Great for decorating table tops during the holidays!
Vintage plaid, metal picnic basket.
It's summer. What's not to love?
I call them this because that's where I place them!
Just look at those babies! They look mighty hungry.
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My mother recently emailed me some photos of my Edwardian era ancestors and I just can't stop ogling at them!
The first photo has some great dresses. In fact, the dress second from the left (is it polka dots? floral?) is absolutely fantastic. I'd love to recreate it. I'm assuming this is right around 1918-1920 because the blouses are still deeply formal while there is some serious ankle peeking out.
This era is definitely my favorite in historical fashion; it just screams modernization, and the influence of practical-lifestyle creeping in from wartime is such a fascinating catalyst in fashion. Women had to look great, but they also had to be able to actually function in their clothes. What a novel idea!
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Over the next ten years, the Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW) market is forecasted to emerge as a key domain for asymmetric warfare and law enforcement technology providers. Governments worldwide have undoubtedly understood the function of non-lethal weapons following lessons learned in Egypt, Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan. Unforeseen street riots and mass demonstrations over the last decade have revealed the loopholes in the security dogma of the 21st century.
There is a growing demand from combatant commanders, law enforcement officers and political establishments for NLW capabilities. This demand is driven by the need to help them win the hearts and minds of the non-combatant population and prevent world outcry and media attention due to non-combatant casualties. As a result, many governments have entered into non-lethal weapons R&D and procurement dedicated to the full spectrum of public safety, law enforcement, crowd control and asymmetric warfare.
The new Non-Lethal Weapons: Technologies & Global Market - 2012-2020 report is the first and only comprehensive study of the emerging NLW market. In this report HSRC analysts forecast that the NLW market will triple towards 2020. The growth will be accelerated in 2016-2020 to a 17% CAGR due to pipeline NLW technologies.
The report, segmented into 61 sub-markets, offers for each sub-market 2011 data and 2012-2020 forecasts and analysis. In more than 320 pages, 124 tables and 99 figures, the report analyses and projects the 2012-2020 market and technologies from several perspectives, including:
* Market forecast by user sector: military and law enforcement sectors
* Market forecast by application: (e.g., blunt impact NLW, disperse NLW, anti-vehicle NLW, non-lethal ammunition, NLW RDT&E)
* National markets in 16 leading countries, (e.g., US, UK, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Brazil)
* The NLW Industry: Vendors , Products, Prices ,Performance and RDT&E programs
* Market analysis (e.g., market drivers & inhibitors, SWOT analysis)
* Business environment (e.g., competitive analysis, recent contracts)
* Current and pipeline technologies
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I believe there are two card shops on Shikoku island, both in Ehime Prefecture. I was able to visit one of them during my visit last year: Hot Box!!, a small store just north of Matsuyama Castle in the city of Matsuyama.
The store has a bit of baseball, including an indeterminate supply of standard BBM card singles. There are interesting things in the store's cases, too, but it looks like most of their sales today come from gaming cards and box and pack sales.
I found an intriguingly large selection of idol card singles here too, and while there was some effort made at some point to have a form of organization to the cards in the boxes, it looks like there is no one set system.
I would like to return to Shikoku at some point, and I'll try to return to the store if I have the chance. While my first impression is that there isn't anything really special, and that it's quite unorganized, there could be some hidden gems. Not likely, but possible.
The odd thing about this store is that their website is kept well up-to-date, especially with new and upcoming releases. It's all in Japanese and there are no checklists or pictures, but it's a good source for release dates of upcoming baseball releases. (Hint: it translates well using Google Translate.)
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Rav Moshe Soloveichik: Report Child Abuse to the Police!
Rav Moshe Soloveichik of Chicago recently spoke at an conference organized by the Jewish Board for Advocacy for Children, dealing with sex abuse in the Orthodox world.
Rav Soloveichik's impassioned speech attacks the policy, still current in many orthodox Jewish communities, that child abuse should be dealt with as an internal community matter, and that victims and their families should be actively dissuaded (he mentions threats to the shidduchim of their children, etc) from reporting to the authorities.
I have witnessed such policies, very close to home, and the damage they have caused our children.
Kudos to Rav Moshe Soloveichik for standing up and declaring, without nuance or ambiguity, "go immediately to the police!!". | <urn:uuid:36766445-266c-4b47-80a2-fcb96a1d8143> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://tzedek-tzedek.blogspot.com/2010/12/rav-moshe-soloveichik-report-child.html | 2017-05-22T17:21:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463605485.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522171016-20170522191016-00114.warc.gz | en | 0.957417 | 174 | [
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Fine Property I N T E R N AT I O N A L fine homes and Estates from Around the World
Volume Volume V, V, Number Number 33
IN THIS ISSUE Featured in This issue Greenwich
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King of the
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eveloper’s Home- As they planned The Reserve at Lake Travis, developer Hal Jones and his partner Red McCombs envisioned an enclave for buyers who appreciated the environment, looking for a unique Texas lifestyle with resort style amenities. “I wanted you to be able to load your belongings on to a golf cart at your home and drive to your boat slip”, Jones said. In the end, the project evolved into something completely unique. This 310 acre resort community in Austin Texas, lies on 3.5 miles of pristine shoreline along Lake Travis. Residents can secure their boats at the full-service marina, which offers 150 covered boat slips accommodating vessels up to 80 feet long. The gated, private club community includes a lazy river pool and slide with swim up bar, comprehensive equestrian center and lighted arena, lakeside lodge and grill, tennis courts, community fishing pond and coming soon, lakefront club house with restaurant, spa services and fitness center. Now Jones has his personal estate, completed in 2008 on the market, as he advances his other developments. He plans to build a second residence in The Reserve. The homes’ cedar siding, hand-hewn Douglas Fur beams and 54 foot ceilings evoke the architecture style of the Rocky Mountains, one of Jones’ favorite get aways. A native of Texas, Jones enjoys the outdoors, “I love indigenous materials” he said, describing the home’s 200 tons of rock formations and 140 year old reclaimed wood flooring. His study walls are fashioned in Pecky Cypress, a type of cypress with lens-shaped pockets that give the wood a three dimension look. “It’s just a really unique feel, almost like a honeycomb,” he said. Jones is a developer known for his gift of finding rare land and turning it into something special for it’s owners. Also apparent in this one of a kind estate, inside and out with 7 acres of very unique waterfront, nothing compares in Texas. A developer who demands the very best, is now offering the very best in Texas Living.
Grab a piece of the Texas Hill country with a luxurious mountain-styled home on Lake Travis. 7,612 square feet of interior space and 3,900 additional feet of covered outdoor living, with 1200 feet of shoreline layered with century old oak trees. Panoramic views from every room. The estate has three master suites and a bonus room available as a guest suite. 4 1/2 baths and garage space for 7. Very special lifestyle rooms to include oversized gourmet kitchen, great room with massive wood beamed ceilings, 20 feet of glass nano doors, opening to the lakeside verandah with indoor and outdoor fireplaces. Wine and cigar retreat, covered verandah and game room adjoining the infinity edge pool. Tall Texan storytelling takes place at the fire-pit, sharing good wine with good friends. Stately yet warm for comfortable entertaining, best describe it’s feel. For horse lovers this property boasts a three stall barn with living quarters and large paddock with close proximity to the community equestrian center. And for water lovers, lavish in your private pool, magnificent views of the lake and a private dock with two large vessel covered slips. It also features a private helipad and is within minutes of two private airports. Residents enjoy a short commute to downtown Austin, the music capital of the world and are just minutes from shopping, hill country vineyards, renowned golf courses and the new international race facility, hosting Formula 1 Grand Prix. For more information contact Paula Pierce, 727-599-3111. Visit the online tour at www.ValentinoCove.com.
Listeners Hill T
A Unique Seven Acre Gated Private Residence
his beautifully designed 7 acre hilltop compound will inspire you the moment you arrive at Listeners Hill. From the gate you meander past the 5 stall stone stable and 3 individual guest houses, each with its own name and unique character. The Garden home is situated next to the organic garden with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. The Tree house has beautiful views, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, pine floors, kitchen, and fireplace, living/dining and has an efficiency apartment and massive garage space that houses a RV camper/tour bus. The Thoughtful house is a stone 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, cottage with inviting porch. The one story main home features 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, beautiful kitchen, mesquite floors, beamed ceilings, expansive views of Texas hill country. In addition to main house is an 8000 sq. ft. entertainment annex which features, kitchen, dining, exercise room, dance studio, art room and 2 living areas. The bottom floor of this annex facilitates a State of the Art Recording Studio, with sound room, multi locker dressing area, kitchenette and living area. The media room features a custom built one of a kind Stewart floating 120 inch screen, high definition Epsom Power lite projector, custom seating and a smokeless custom built Planika fireplace. Exterior features include an inviting pool with patio and fireplace, custom site lighting to enhance and brighten the expansive lawn, meandering sidewalks and hike and bike trail, 10 covered and uncovered car spaces and panoramic hill country views. For your private showing please Call Michele Turnquist at 512-328-3939 and 512-431-1121.
Beaver Creek Estate Discover a magnificent ski-in estate in the coveted resort of Beaver Creek, Colorado. The timeless and sophisticated European-inspired residence was built with extraordinary attention to detail and offers over 7,600 square feet of beauty and comfort. Floor-to-ceiling picture windows frame magnificent mountain vistas while the large decks and patios provide perfect spaces for outdoor entertaining. Five elegant bedroom suites, each with fireplace and private bath, provide owners and guests a memorable experience in the grand home. The gourmet kitchen is adjacent to a formal dining room with fireplace and a great room with thirty-foot ceilings highlighted by intricate beam/truss work and an impressive stone fireplace. Complemented by a climate controlled stone wine cellar and tasting room that accommodates 1,800 bottles, any dinner soirĂŠe is complete. A state-of-the art media room, fully equipped gym/massage room with sauna and an out-door hot tub perfects the luxurious mountain experience. We invite you to tour this one-of-a kind ski home, where no expense was spared on rich harmonious materials or superior construction.
For information, contact: Barbara Scrivens, Vice President [email protected]
285 Bridge Street Vail, Colorado 81657 970/476.1987 www.ronbyrne.com
nternational by design, this superb ten acre mountaintop estate offers an unobstructed 270 degree view of the valley below. This estate has had a love affair with two families: one, the client and one, the architect:a love affair with the mountain, the view and the home. This magnificent oriental inspired residence is a peaceful place surrounded by waterfalls, koi ponds and gardens that are stunning throughout the year. There is quite a story to tell about this exquisite residence on a mountaintop in Greenville, South Carolina. In the late 1980’s Ben Rook, a commercial architect, and CEO of Odell Associates, Inc. a global architectural firm, was approached by a prominent client to design a residence for his family. Ben did not do residential design work and declined, but this particular client was very insistent, and eventually Mr. Rook agreed. The site for the residence was atop Paris Mountain in Greenville, South Carolina. Using the Japanese design and theme of Feng Shui, Ben eventually created a central pavilion and five pavilions connecting each other. The final result comes from years of labor, and it was well worth the wait. As you round the bend in the road you do not immediately see the home. In fact it is a surprise that quietly and beautifully unfolds like a new spring flower. The entrance is framed gently and tastefully by seasonal flowers and the koi are your only greeters. The waterfall announces your arrival yet beckons you to stay. There is no doubt of the entrance ringed in dominant red. Upon entering, the magnificent view of the valley draws you immediately outside. The expansive grassy lawn unfolds to
A Love Affair
unending woods that stretch for miles below. Ben never guessed that he would one day have the opportunity to own the home, but he did. Only the second owner, Ben and his wife, Becca, have enjoyed the house and gardens. “ What I love so about the house, “Becca says “ is the open feeling of the glass walls and sensing that the outside can come in.” “I can never grow tired of the incredible feeling of peace here.” The home has over 7,000 square feet with a magnificent indoor and outdoor swimming pool as well as a hot tub . Part of the evolution of the property under the care of the Rooks has been the magnificent gardens which are seasonal in nature and really quite low maintenance. You will notice more grassy areas mingled with plantings at the entry of the drive , and then transitioned to a more finished landscape above the waterfall. The green house is the envy of every gardener! The entire house takes advantage of the breathtaking view including all of the bedrooms, the living room, dining room, library, and the kitchen. The dining room and living room share a stunning open fireplace. A detached studio features a soaring ceiling and fireplace and could be used as an office or separate guest quarters.
For information, please contact Marguerite Wyche at 864-270-2440.
Sophisticated Southampton Estate in a Privileged Enclave
heltered behind a gated entry, this stunning stone walled, manor-like home is the last of three properties secluded on a private lane in the heart of the village. Designed for maximum privacy amid an exquisitely landscaped 2.5 acre setting, the stylish interior offers extraordinary architectural detail and state-of-the-art amenities within a splendid layout for sophisticated 21st century living. The gracious living room, highlighted with beamed ceiling, paneled wall and elegant fireplace, forms the centerpiece of the residence that includes den/media room with fireplace, formal dining room and a superbly equipped gourmet kitchen with adjacent sun filled breakfast room. Each of the five bedrooms are sequestered from the others. The romantic first floor master suite, warmed by its own fireplace, is serviced by his and her baths, large walk-thru closet and French doors to the covered porch. A guest master upstairs has its own fireplace and private terrace overlooking the spacious grounds, while a loft-like aerie awaits nearby. The recent addition of a brilliantly conceived informal living room/pool pavilion provides for both inside and outside needs. Specimen trees, flowering shrubs and dense perimeter plantings are joined by acres of verdant lawn connecting the patios with the heated Gunite pool and a new full-size all-weather North/ South tennis court. Plans are available for a significant renovation and addition to increase total living space to nearly 9,500Âą square feet. With so much land coupled with so much potential, this superlative property awaits your preview today. Exclusive $6,750,000 WEB# 22906. Gary DePersia, SVP, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker 516-380-0538 [email protected]
Lonesome Ridge at Lonesome Valley, Cashiers, North Carolina
efore Cashiers developed into the quaint mountain village that it is today, the Cherokee knew this plateau at 3,500 feet as a cool, lush campground that figured prominently in their seasonal migrations. Many others have since discovered the natural wonders of this temperate forest nestled high upon the ancient slopes of the Blue Ridge Escarpment. Bisected by the Eastern Continental Divide and protected by thousands of surrounding acres of the Nantahala National Forest, Cashiers is cherished as a unique mountain destination offering nationally ranked golf courses, award winning restaurants, many notable communities and charming antique shops. Current development is balanced with hundreds of miles of hiking trails and fly fishing streams, countless waterfalls, magnificent granite faces, and enough adventure to satisfy any outdoor enthusiast. Cashiers is located in southwestern North Carolina, in the southern Appalachian Mountains, just north of the common boundary point of North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina. Driving time is within three hours of Atlanta, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Augusta and Columbia and less than five hours from Knoxville and Birmingham. Nearby airports include Asheville (1.25 hours), Greenville (1.75 hours), Atlanta (3 hours) and Charlotte (3 hours). Just two miles east of the center of Cashiers, Lonesome Valley enjoys a rich history dating back to 1895 when E.H. Jennings acquired over 35,000 acres in the mountains of western North Carolina. Following the development of several prestigious inns along regional lakes, the Jennings family retained 800 acres of the original holdings as their own private retreat. In 2004 the family decided to invite other families and friends to share their mountain cove, affectionately known as Lonesome Valley. And so this vibrant community began. Founded upon the principles of true conservation, Lonesome Valley successfully blends thoughtful development with the protection of its vast natural resources. Over one third of the Valley is forever preserved as common green space, utilizing stream corridors, meadows and forests as natural buffers between generously sized estates. With sufficient golf and traditional country club amenities offered by other area communities, Lonesome Valley has instead focused on hiking, fishing, boating, swimming and other nature-based, family-friendly activities. Simplicity, rest and recreation combine with fine dining (at Canyon Kitchen with James Beard Award Finalist, Chef John Fleer) and festive gatherings to create the ethos of this community. Based on the enduring commitment to purposeful excellence established five generations ago, Lonesome Valley will continue to provide joyful family memories for generations to come. Lonesome Valley is framed by Cow Rock Mountain and Laurel Knob along with other ridges that form the largest box canyon in the East. At 4,200 feet atop Cow Rock Mountain exists Lonesome Ridge, a 90+ acre park-like estate overlooking the valley below. With unsurpassed vistas in every direction, flat and gently sloping topography, paved roads and utilities already established, and several well groomed homesites, this estate can be preserved as a single large tract or subdivided into as many as six individual parcels. Several trails link a variety of viewing decks, wildflower meadows, picnic and gaming areas on manicured lawns along with walking connections to Lonesome Valley to the west and Panthertown Valley to the northeast. Panthertown Valley, comprising over six thousand acres of Nantahala National Forest, is known as the “Yosemite of the East” with its signature granite faces, trout streams and miles of trails for hiking and mountain biking. Lonesome Ridge is a pinnacle property with exceptional characteristics, providing unique opportunities to invest in family, friends and the future.
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Montauk Property Owners
Expand the Possibilities of Oceanfront Living
or immediate release…New York investor Henry Druker and Matt Goldman, the co-founder behind the highly successful Blue Man Group theatrical productions, have embarked upon a creative real estate venture in Montauk, NY, the seaside hamlet fast emerging as the “it” spot for investment in the Hamptons. The neighbors have created a virtual merger of two prime, contiguous 1 ½ acre lots to provide an exceptional oceanfront land opportunity on Montauk’s coveted Gold Coast that counts Robert DiNiro, Jann Wenner, Steven Roth and Ralph Lauren as neighbors. The merger of the two adjacent 1½ acre parcels results in an oversized oceanfront land offering with 186’+/- of pristine ocean frontage. With an ideal elevation of 55’, the expanded setting is the perfect location for a spectacular beachfront residence commanding some of the area’s most dramatic ocean vistas. The property merger was the creative work of Druker, a long-time resident of East Hampton, NY, and Goldman a long time resident of Montauk. Druker owns his lot in partnership with Red McCombs, the co-founder of Clear Channel Communications and former owner of the San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Vikings. They together envisioned the intrinsic value of a larger ocean front site - flexibility for development, more generous setbacks and greater preservation of the open spaces and vistas that distinguish Montauk and its landscape. Druker and Goldman each recognized that their neighboring individual lots would be even more special if combined. To imagine the possibilities for development within all town specifications, Druker and Goldman commissioned the prestigious East Hampton architectural firm of Fleetwood & McMullan, LLC to create a site plan for the newly expanded 3-acre parcel. A thoughtful plan was conceived for a spectacular, up to 10,000 sq. ft. home overlooking a 60-foot ocean side
pool and short, meandering private path to the magnificent beachfront. The plan is available for consideration by prospective buyers. The unique features of this property offering will undoubtedly appeal to savvy buyers. The building envelope conforms to all East Hampton Town specifications, the governing body over Montauk development. This is an important attribute in an area that fiercely protects its natural lands, wildlife and waterfront. Druker had previously preserved and moved a Fleetwood designed home from a neighbor’s lot to his own in the town of East Hampton. Druker and Goldman engaged the support of town officials for the combined lot in Montauk while forming their partnership. The combined lot offers the new buyer a larger home and more dramatic ocean side pool than what could be built on either lot individually, while creating less density and development than what would occur if each lot were individually developed. The result is more privacy, open space and generous set backs to neighboring properties. Since the 1920’s preservationists have buffered Montauk against over development establishing abundant parkland, natural reserves and wildlife sanctuaries. Vacant property is relatively scarce in Montauk where nearly 2/3 of the land has been preserved. Today, Montauk maintains its unique blend of natural rugged coastline beauty peppered with eclectic housing opportunities ranging from dramatic oceanfront villas to quaint beach cottages. Montauk has enjoyed a real estate renaissance of late where deep-sea fisherman, avid surfers, artists, local residents, celebrity homeowners and summer residents peacefully coexist and mutually enjoy and respect the serenity, salty ocean air and relaxed vibe of this enclave at the easternmost tip of Long Island. The Druker-Goldman property is a significant offering in an area where 3 prime ocean front acres are sought after and scarce. Offered at $12,500,000. For more information, contact RPLG International at 713-302-0555.
Picosa Ranch W
hen John B. Connally, three-term governor from 1963 to 1969, wanted to escape politics, it was to Picosa Ranch, 30 miles from downtown San Antonio, he and his wife, Nellie, retreated. When entertaining Presidents and other leaders, they hosted parties at the same destination. Connally was proud of his lifelong homestead, maintained through his tenure as governor, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of the Treasury. His presence is still felt throughout the ranch, especially in his office where memorabilia have been preserved. Some 40 years later, its sale will provide a new family the opportunity to create its own legacy at Picosa Ranch. With its proximity to San Antonio, increasingly a mecca of cultural and culinary arts, and to the Eagle Ford Shale, the property is an amazing opportunity for many varied ventures. “Newcomers to Texas are fleeing high local and state taxes, cold weather, high crime and other problems,” said listing broker Rick Kuper of Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty. “The Picosa Ranch, deep in the heart of Texas, affords a golden opportunity to build a legacy for generations to come.”
Building a family legacy is all the more enjoyable knowing income from the Picosa’s extensive hunting operation can offset the ranch’s operating costs. With many luxurious trappings, hunting at Picosa Ranch is popular for corporate retreats and business transactions as well as serious social get-togethers. Among established breeds are trophy white tailed deer, upland game birds and exotic eland, oryx, addax and waterbucks. Presently hunt packages last four days and three nights and include a guide, in-field transportation, game care, bass fishing and trap shooting. Hunters see an average of 30 bucks a day, more when the rut is on. Guests may fly onto the property via a 4,400-foot lighted airstrip; or, San Antonio International Airport is no more than 45 minutes away. One of the benefits of continuing the commercial side of the ranch is its separation from the owners’ residence, many acres removed, at The South Range Lodge. This compound includes six finely appointed suites, each with handtooled leather accessories and a luxurious bathroom. The suites’ wrap-around porch invites long talks or studying nature. Between the main lodge and suites is a lagoon-like sunken pool with a swim-up bar. Within the lodge, itself a stylish renovation of a cattle barn, guests gather at the pool table, massive stone fireplace and flat screen TVs or play a game outdoors. A full outdoor kitchen, called The Pit, has a fully equipped kitchen, surround sound and three large flat-screen TVs with BluRay all under a covered flagstone pavilion accommodates up to 40 tables. Meanwhile back home….the Connally’s luxurious 8,200-square-foot main house was built with grand spaces for living and entertaining. Soaring ceilings and walls of glass create a modern sensibility, accentuated by native limestone and indigenous woods. Behind the main house is a fourbedroom guest house designed by famed architect O’Neil Ford, and a private swimming pool.
Residents enjoy nearby fishing at the on-site Fish Camp, as well as skeet shooting, horseback riding, swimming, biking, tennis, hunting or camera safaris. World-class golf and shopping are less than 45 minutes away in San Antonio. For equestrians, horses thrive at a 43-stable horse barn with a full-size rodeo arena. If your imagination is stirred by the possibilities, visit www.picosaranch.net then call Rick Kuper at 210.240.8282 for more information or to schedule a visit.
428 South Banana River Boulevard C ocoa B e ach , F lorida 3 2 9 3 1
ooking for the “American Dream” home? Look no further! This waterfront estate is a builder’s showcase that offers superior construction, presidential style and detail. It is located on a wide deep-water canal. Just two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean. Walk through the grand entrance into the spectacular foyer and be greeted by one of the two hand crafted oak spiral staircases and an imported chandelier. This home was built to entertain. Bring your family and friends. This 6,142 square foot home has seven bedrooms and six bathrooms. The master wing is on the east side of the estate offers a sitting room and spa like bathroom. The west wing offers a private guest suite. It has one-bedroom, a full kitchen and bathroom, and had an exit to the pool. The gourmet kitchen can seat ten at the twelve foot custom built table. And also has a breakfast bar and kitchen island. Or serve a special meal from the formal dining room. The second spiral staircase leads to a loft and four bedrooms. The grand living room overlooks the water and opens up to the entertainment room which welcomes you to the master pool and waterfront. The docking area will accommodate three or more boats. There is a boat slip with an electric lift, a davit boat lift and pilings to tie off to. The canal is 150 feet wide, 18 feet deep and leads to the Thousand Islands, the ocean and Banana River, a playground to manatees and dolphins. This is an opportunity for a lifetime of the style and comfort of the Florida lifestyle! Cocoa Beach is located one mile south of Cape Canaveral, Florida. You may enjoy watching any on-going missile programs from the privacy of your own backyard. For more information, contact RPLG International at 713-302-0555 or 407-973-6419.
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Sophisticated Southampton Estate in a Privileged Enclave Southampton, New York Sheltered behind a gated entry, this stunning stone walled, manor-like home is the last of three properties secluded on a private lane in the heart of the village. Designed for maximum privacy amid an exquisitely landscaped 2.5 acre setting, the stylish interior offers extraordinary architectural detail and state-of-the-art amenities within a splendid layout. The living room, highlighted with beamed ceiling, and elegant fireplace, forms the centerpiece of the residence that includes a media room with fireplace, formal dining room and a superbly equipped gourmet kitchen with adjacent breakfast room. Each of the 5 bedrooms are sequestered from the others. The first floor master suite, with a fireplace, features his and her baths, and large walk through closet. A guest master has its own fireplace and private terrace overlooking the spacious grounds while a loft like aerie awaits above. The recent addition of a brilliantly conceived living room/pool pavilion provides for both inside and outside needs. Outside, specimen trees, flowering shrubs and perimeter plantings are joined by acres of lawn connecting the patios with the heated Gunite pool and new all weather tennis court. Exclusive $6,250,000 WEB# 22906. Gary R. DePersia 516-380-0538 [email protected]
Cottage by the Sea Water Mill, New York You’ve always talked about that great beach house you’d buy near Southampton, perhaps on Flying Point Rd near enough to the village but far from the crowds. Hopefully the views would also include blazing sunsets across Mecox Bay to complement the daily sunrises over the Atlantic. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just plop your furniture in without having to do any renovations or better yet, buy the designer’s offering already there? Certainly you imagine the languorous lunches and intimate moonlit dinners you’ll enjoy, all prepared in the new state-of-the-art kitchen. And naturally you would expect room for expansion down the road. You had better hurry though as there aren’t many three bedroom beach houses at this price hanging around at the moment. Call today. Exclusive. $8,950,000 WEB# 23614. Gary R. DePersia 516-380-0538 [email protected]
Gary R. DePersia, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker 51 Main Street • East Hampton, NY 11937 516-380-0538 • [email protected] 20
Reserve Your Views In Water Mill South Water Mill, New York Caressed by bay and ocean breezes a 7,800± square foot residence by M & M Custom Luxury Homes has begun construction on 1.5 acres with views overlooking Mecox Bay to the South and a contiguous 35 acre reserve to the North. A grand two-story foyer ushers all over 6 inch rift and quarter sawn white oak floors into the great room and living room, both warmed by fireplaces and highlighted by custom moldings and intricate details. Command your empire from an office, sequestered from the rest of the residence with its own entrance, which offers views of the bay from a well-positioned desk. A generous eat-in gourmet kitchen, augmented by large pantry will form the centerpiece of this spectacular new home, while the formal dining room is large enough for both sides of the clan. A guest bedroom suite, powder room, mud room with an additional powder room and a 3-car heated and tiled garage complete the first floor. Upstairs, the master wing with sitting room, fireplace, walk-in closets, expansive bath and covered waterview terrace is joined by four guest bedrooms with baths, all ensuite. A library/media room looking out over the reserve puts the finishing stroke on the second floor. The lower level adds 4,000± square feet of additional living space, including rec areas, gym with a sauna and steam, spa bath, home theater and 2 staff suites. An outside fireplace highlights the stone patios which lead to the heated pool with spa, cabana and sunken court, all with views of the reserve beyond. Exclusive $10,950,000 WEB# 13796. Gary R. DePersia 516-380-0538 [email protected]
Gary R. DePersia, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker 51 Main Street • East Hampton, NY 11937 516-380-0538 • [email protected] 21
The Captains House
The Staats House
Spencertown, New York The widow’s walk will get you every time. Look out over the pond and the island in the pond. Look out at the sea of trees, the waves of field. Sail into the mudroom, drop your foul weather gear and head to the mess for a hearty meal. And what a mess! Marble counters atop custom cabinets. A cherry top on the island for contrast. Gourmet appliances and a huge pantry. If you never left the kitchen your life would still be complete. The view from the breakfast nook, contented sigh inspiring. Through the family room, stone fireplaced and raised paneled. A nicely sized office for times when you need to office. Into the sun filled living room. On to the cozy den, perfect for a late night movie or a book by the fire. The landing at the top invites you out to sit and enjoy the view. $2,475,000.
Columbiaville, New York Henry landed here in 1609s. The Stuyvesants held the land for a bit then gave it to General Staats, who built between 1644 and 1654. 16, mind you, not 17, 18 or 19. The General did well, because his house has stood the test of time. Stone by stone, beam by beam a testament to the longevity of classic design. A tour of the property gives you Hudson River views, Fields, beautiful specimen trees and plantings, a lovely patio and two Dutch barns. Inside you’re greeted by the stone mudroom. Through the pantry into the amply sized kitchen. Bounded by stone and glass, you feel a connection with the timeless nature of the home and surroundings. Upstairs to the second floor four bedrooms, including a lovely master. Notice the depth of the walls. Another set of stairs to the finished attic bedroom. $1,395,000
Center Hall View
Austerlitz, New York The drive smiles coyly and begs us in. The pond reflects well on the house, gives you an idea that there is something substantial on the knoll. A glorious pool, lushly surrounded atop an enormous stonewall. A patio squarely in frame of three states worth of view. The Center Hall, light gleaming through every window, wrapped in a porch with mountains peaking over it’s shoulder. In to the kitchen. The heart of the home, to coin a phrase, smartly tiled, marble island, gourmetly applianced, and central to the breakfast nook and screened porch. To the family room with a giant fieldstone fireplace and a bank of windows for that stunning view. The master has a fieldstone fireplace and a deck to savor the sunset from. Out to the garage and guesthouse where a studio for you or guests awaits. $1,895,000
Old Chatham, New York Let the pines whisper your arrival and regale you with the wonders of this Hunt Country farm. The grounds, horse ready, with stone walls and fencing, barns and rolling fields. A heated gunite pool behind the barn. Swim! A patio off the side with space enough for a very large crowd. The main house is a thing of beauty indeed. Come in through the mudroom and hang your hat. Into the enormous kitchen, designed for the most enthusiastic cook. The first great room with a fireplace sits beyond. Enjoy the space, feel free to roam, or settle in to a comfy corner. The patio waits beyond the french doors (perfect flow for enteraining, don’t you think?) Upstairs the bedrooms flank the hall. The master fills an entire end and even has an office loft where inspirations surely waits. $1,595,000
Andrea Gabel, Broker / Owner • “On The Green” • Spencertown, New York 12165 518-392-4976 • www.gabelrealestate.com • [email protected] 22
The Grange At Catskill View Preserve
Claverack, New York Designed to invoke a classic Greek Revival Grange Hall and to create a meeting place for family and friends. The first Catskill View Preserve home (6 homes on over 300 acres of preservation land) sits squarely in the enormous Catskill view. The clear story granite framed fireplace’d great room creates a heavenly feel. Gourmetly applianced kitchen featuring an AGA stove, GE profile wine cooler and dual sinks and dishwashers, Viking refrigerator, enormous island and separate pantry. A den / office sits off the mudroom. Upstairs each of the three bedrooms has a private bath. A laundry room on both the second story and basement makes short work of life’s chores. Outside you will marvel at the Catskill view from the bluestone pergola’d patio. $1,950,000
Spencertown, New York A Neo-classical interpretation of the French country manor. Simplicity in form, grandeur in scale. The 70 acres of manicured grounds, pond, stone walls and tennis court. On the main house some particulars draw attention, an Indiana limestone water table runs around the base of the 6,000 square foot main house. Granite lined courtyard leads to a two story entrance foyer. The main wing finds the living room, which leads out to the bluestone patio. Your very own oval office at the end of the wing. The formal dining defines elegance. The family wing finds the kitchen, informal dining, living room and sunroom. Across the upstairs landing you will find the master, nicely accented by an oval deck from which to view distant fields and Catskill mountains. $4,900,000
Chatham, New York Edgehill was built in approximately 1870 and was once the home of the renowned artist Louis McClellan Potter. This stunning property comprises 23.8 acres, meticulously restored. Property includes a large English bank barn of peg and timber construction, and now houses room for 2 cars, a pool house. Property also features a 20X40’ in-ground heated swimming pool surrounded by newly created laid stone walls and beautifully landscaped gardens replete with all manner of shrubs and flowers. Below the pool you will also find a spring fed pond with a fountain. Sunset lovers will appreciate the west-facing blue stone terrace with its spectacular view of the Catskill mountains Spacious bedrooms, lavish baths all in keeping with Potter’s aesthetic. $997,000
Hillsdale, New York Start with the view, 55 acres of complete privacy and an all encompassing panoramic wonder. You see it on the drive in, you see it from the patios, porches and every window. The kitchen calls you inside. The dining room has wonderful corner cabinets. Across the hall to the fireplaced living room. A beautiful sunroom sits just off it. Downstairs to the playroom and plenty of storage space. Upstairs to the second floor. A master and a junior suite, complete with second story deck to drink in the view. The third floor has more bedrooms. Then it’s down to the pond for a refreshing dip. $1,600,000
Andrea Gabel, Broker / Owner • “On The Green” • Spencertown, New York 12165 518-392-4976 • www.gabelrealestate.com • [email protected] 23
Fall Sunrise Babylon, New York Spectacular, Chic, Stunning and Elegant. These are only a few words that describe this spectacular 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom waterfront townhome on 300’ wide river with views of The Great South Bay, bridges and the Fire Island Lighthouse. Your private elevator will take you from the garage that has massive storage to the third floor master bedroom suite where you will wake up to the most beautiful sunrises. Dock your boat in your deeded, 40’ boat slip and call it a day.
Country Club Living Dix Hills, New York Secluded behind a 24 hour manned gatehouse and set amid rolling hills, it is the quintessential classic residential enclave. This pristine Colonial with architectural style and free flowing floor plan offers state of the art upgrades, superior craftsmanship and a treasure trove of amenities. You will own the Lifestyle, with access to a world-class resort. As a member of the homeowner’s association, you have the exclusive use of The Green’s at Half Hollow Club, which features a 30,000 sq. ft. clubhouse that offers something for everyone. A social director, indoor pool, state of the art fitness center, library, card room, social events, restaurant, bar, lounge and ballroom. The Greens offers a golf course and four tennis courts and an Olympic-sized outdoor pool.
Netter Real Estate 404 Montauk Highway • West Islip, New York 11795 631-661-5100 • 800-626-7356 www.NetterRealEstate.com
Private Estate Bay Shore, New York Well Located, Well Built and Well Maintained. Built in 2004 by a renowned Long Island builder for he and his family this 4500 square foot, sprawling country home makes quite the statement. Upon entry into the 12 foot wide and 42 foot long entry hall your eye is immediately drawn to the 12 foot tall barrel ceiling with recessed lighting. An ideal setting for entertaining this stunning home is truly a departure from the ordinary.
Magoun Landing West Islip, New York A stunning Magoun Landing waterfront home with over 140’ of bulk heading and a boat ramp. A great home for entertaining for a large family. Keep your custom cars in the four car garage with loft. Beautiful and peaceful views of the water from your conservatory. Enjoy sitting by your gas or wood fireplace in your formal living room or just lounge by the fireplace in the den. Leave right from your dock on your boat and venture out to the Great South Bay where you can find yourself relaxing, fishing or navigating to any one of the fabulous beach communities on Fire Island. This Home will afford you the great living experience of the South Shore of Long Island.
Netter Real Estate 404 Montauk Highway • West Islip, New York 11795 631-661-5100 • 800-626-7356 www.NetterRealEstate.com
Magnificent Compound on 400 Acres
Rockport, Maine “Cove House” - This meticulously restored waterfront home with breathtaking views, a private sandy beach & dock has classic elegance. Craftsmanship and impeccable materials have been maintained throughout this amazing home which is in pristine condition. With 7 bedrooms, 6.5+ baths (including an in-law apartment), this 6,476 square foot home is absolutely magical. $4,695,000. Leslie Tranchell 207-691-2955 [email protected]
Anson, Maine The perfect place for a family gathering or corporate retreat, this private compound features a 7,000 square foot Greek Revival home, guest cottage, 3 car garage, and large workshop/barn. The spacious home is well suited for entertaining with a large gathering room, decks, and a wine bistro. Fireplaces, pumpkin pine floors and exposed beams provide country charm. A lovely gazebo and koi pond is a charming setting for outdoor celebrations. Trails for horses or ATVs traverse the property. $1,950,000. Charlene Hamiwka 207-671-0085 [email protected]
Landmark Riverfront Retreat
18th Century Federal
Newcastle, Maine Enjoyed by the same family for five generations, this landmark retreat enjoys the privacy of an island yet is within walking distance to Damariscotta and all it amenities. This Victorian-style home has 6 bedrooms, 5 baths and a special original attached barn, now the open air summer gathering room. With over 1,200' of river frontage and a deep water dock, the home sits on 2.2 acres. $1,695,000. Joane Tait 207-751-4124 [email protected]
Kennebunkport, Maine This pristine 18th Century Federal is ideally located just a short walk from Dock Square, the harbor, award winning restaurants, shops and galleries. Recently redone, it is in excellent condition and offers a 1-bedroom apartment over the garage. While maintaining its classic charm, this home features many upgrades and amenities. $939,000. Rick Griffin 207468-8470 [email protected]
PORTLAND – Two City Center | 207-780-8900 KENNEBUNK – 150 Port Road | 207-967-0934 BRUNSWICK – 141 Maine Street | 207-729-2820 CAMDEN – 46 Bay View Street | 207-230-1003
122 Delafield Island Road
360 Brookside Road
Darien, Connecticut Visible just beyond the wrought iron gate and down the private drive, sits this 1918 Mediterranean villa situated on 2.8 waterfront acres at the very edge of Delafield Island. An architectural masterpiece, the home is surrounded by water on three sides, affording breathtaking views of Long Island Sound from every room. Unique architectural details including graceful archways, courtyard garden and artistic tile work, are gracious reminders of the era in which it was built. Private dock, indoor pool, and scenic stone terraces add to the allure of this extraordinary home. $11,500,000 Alice Mae Orr [email protected]
Darien, Connecticut Set back on a private 3 acres and built in 2005, this home features 10ft. ceilings, stunning millwork and abundant natural light. The first floor master suite boasts an intimate sitting room, separate luxurious walk in closets and access to the expansive terrace. Three additional bedrooms all have en suite bathrooms. Generous formal rooms include a cherry paneled library, elegant old-world living room and a gracious dining room. A gourmet kitchen with ample storage and all amenities opens to a sun-filled great room with stone fireplace. $4,250,000 Doug Milne [email protected] / Sheree Frank [email protected]
12 Runkenhage Road
56 Ridge Acres Road
Darien, Connecticut Waterfront Jewel! Egrets, cranes and loons grace the waterfront of “Birdsong”, a Mediterranean style home beautifully situated at waters edge in the coveted Tokeneke Association. The breathtaking 150-degree panoramic cove views and unique architectural details, including graceful archways, custom designed English milled woodwork and oak flooring laid in original patterns by European craftsmen, distinguish this home. Effortless flow between formal and casual living spaces, three en suite bedrooms, gourmet kitchen and stone terrace add to the allure. Enjoy beautiful sunrises, a private dock and access to Long Island Sound. $3,250,000 Pat Redican [email protected]
Darien, Connecticut Perfectly perched on a level 2.5 acres, this stunning colonial combines the elegance of formal living with the excitement of contemporary design. Six bedrooms, including a first floor suite, a spacious living room and gracious dining room overlook the terraces and manicured grounds. Additionally, a sun-filled family room with a cathedral ceiling and one-of-a-kind in home office suite make this home unique. On the second floor there are five bedrooms including a generous but intimate master suite. The fabulous property boasts mature trees and extensive landscaping, golf practice area, secluded pool, gorgeous perennial gardens. $3,515,000 Doug Milne [email protected] / Sheree Frank [email protected]
780 Boston Post Road • Darien, CT 06820 Tel: 203-655-8238 • www.kellyrealestate.com
112 Rowayton Avenue • Rowayton, CT 06853 Tel: 203-853-8238 • [email protected] 27
Greenwich Written Written by by B. B. B. B. Smith Smith
ituated on Fairfield County’s Gold Coast and just 27 miles from Manhattan, Greenwich, Connecticut is recognized by CNN/Money and Money Magazine as the nation’s most affluent community and one of top “Best Places To Live”. Offering a unique blend of small New England town ambiance with metropolitan sophistication, the well-loved and well-managed community with its outstanding location, natural beauty and luxurious lifestyle is home to notable celebrities, professional athletes, Fortune 500 CEOS and Wall Street executives, not to mention generations of families tracing their origin to its founding in 1640. Incorporating the charming neighborhoods and villages of Riverside, Cos Cob, Byram and Old Greenwich, each with distinctive appeal and attractive shopping areas, Greenwich is bordered by Westchester County, New York to the north and west, Stamford to the east and Long Island Sound to the south. The town encompasses over 50 square miles including 32 miles of shoreline with inlet coves, harbors and tributaries, backcountry horse farms, rolling hills, woodlands, meadows and lakes. Greenwich, the gateway to New England, is approximately 40 minutes by train to Manhattan. It is renowned for outstanding public schools, nine excellent private schools, fine libraries, a state-of-the-art hospital, beautiful parks, Long Island Sound beaches, plus an impressive array of upscale shops, such as, Saks, Ralph Lauren, Tiffany’s and Baccarat, in addition to wonderful local boutiques, art galleries, antique, jewelry, gift
and book stores. There are a myriad of recreational facilities including an 18-hole municipal golf course, tennis and squash racquet clubs, miles of walking and equestrian trails and nearly 1,500 acres of park land including a 285-acre Audubon sanctuary with approximately seven miles of trails., two islands on the Sound with sandy beaches served by town ferries, and the spectacular 147-acre Greenwich Point peninsula with an extensive beach, nature trails, boating, picnic facilities and view of the Manhattan skyline. There are dozens of public paddle and tennis courts, a skating rink and marinas, four private yacht clubs, community sailing center and eight private country clubs with golf courses. Greenwich Fine Properties represents the very best of Greenwich real estate from magnificent waterfront mansions, to majestic backcountry estates and elegant historic manors. Independent and locally-owned, the firm has earned the distinction of ranking as the number one boutique firm in Greenwich for five consecutive years. It has represented and successfully completed the sale of some of the town’s most prominent landmarks and celebrated estates. Their comprehensive services provide buyers access to every available listed property, seller support spanning broad exposure through customized marketing and a vast international network of affiliate brokers. With a community focus that cannot be replicated by national or regional firms, their dedicated agents offer an extensive knowledge and deep-rooted understanding of what makes Greenwich uniquely special.
Vanishing Brook Farm on Round Hill
Greenwich, Connecticut Stunning Federal-style home on nearly two-and-one-half acres in private, near town association with two-bedroom cottage and garaging for six cars. Extensively restored in 2006 with elegance, charm and sophistication. Fireplaces in grand living room, family room with bamboo barrel ceiling and butternut paneled casual dining room. Banquet-size formal dining room; game/exercise rooms; six en suite bedrooms include master with sitting room, two dressing rooms; guest suite; and separate staff quarters. Visit: www.braeheadgreenwich.com Exclusive Agent: Sharon Kinney
Greenwich, Connecticut Enchanting six-plus acre estate with gorgeous pool, cabana, picturesque meadows and stream. Exquisitely revitalized residence features remarkable detail, mahogany flooring, chic designer décor, multiple French doors to terrace. Fireplaces in gracious living and dining rooms and three-exposure office/sunroom. Paneled library; game room, two powder rooms, four en suite bedrooms. Master wing with fireplace, his/her dressing rooms and luxurious baths. Four-car garage. Visit: www.vanishingbrookfarm.com
European Grandeur at “Chieftans”
Greenwich, Connecticut Exquisitely restored 1920’s-era European-inspired manor secluded behind stone walls on nearly two acres with gracious terraces and a winding stream. Sophisticated designer interior features high ceilings, rich architectural detail, elegant Old World charm, state-of-the-art amenities. Magnificent formal rooms; beamed library with antique fireplace; stunning kitchen with mahogany center island; five bedrooms; four marble/limestone baths. Main floor guest suite; sublime master with fireplace, solarium, two dressing rooms. Visit: www.midcountryelegance.com Exclusive Agent: Jane Gosden
Greenwich, Connecticut Magnificent Georgian manor in landmark gated community. Exquisite gardens, tiered terraces, stunning heated pool with spa waterfall. Grand formal rooms; Christopher Peacock kitchen; pine paneled library; English pub room; state-of-the-art home theatre; exercise/pool changing rooms; 2,500+ bottle wine cellar. Five en suite bedrooms include main floor guest suite; private-entry staff quarters; master with fireplace, his/her dressing rooms and baths. 24-hour security Visit: www.themanoratchieftans.com Exclusive Agents: Maureen Crumbine / Jeff Crumbine
191 Mason Street • Greenwich, Connecticut 06830 [email protected] • 203-661-9200 www.greenwichfineproperties.com 29
Llewellyn Park Mansion
West Orange, New Jersey This antebellum-style Llewellyn
Essex Fells, New Jersey A 1910 Tudor, Oakdene was renovated in 2001. Its grand center hall opens
Park mansion features exquisite architectural details including 13 uniquely-mantled fireplaces. A captivating 5+ acre setting surrounds this majestic dwelling and its carriage house. An additional 2-acre lot can be purchased to expand the property. $1,300,000. Richard Cherchio x6135
to a terrace overlooking perennial gardens and fountain. A completely renovated kitchen features top-of-the-line appliances, while the master suite includes a sitting room with wet bar. The property also hosts a 2-bedroom carriage house. $3,100,000. Carol Spry x6136
Resort Lifestyle on the Water
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey Open the door to paradise. This fabulous home with private beach and breath-taking river views offers endless amenities including a state-ofthe-art kitchen and a master bedroom suite with fireplace and radiantterrazzo floors. Add to that a heated gunite pool and hot tub, plus a 130’ dock, 2 boat lifts and 2 floating docks. $2,996,000. Judy Bove x6117
Middletown, New Jersey Inspiring water views reflect the serenity and exquisite natural beauty of this stunning builder’s home. Especially dramatic are the views through the great room’s 34-foot window wall and from the master bedroom’s expansive balcony. The lower level boasts a huge home theater and huge gym. $1,999,900. Michael Arbolino x6127
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Character-Rich Architecture Weston, Connecticut An imposing 3-story foyer leads to elegant formal rooms, an expansive great room, oak-clad library and an amazing kitchen featuring gold marble countertops and top-of-the line appliances. The lower level has a large game room, movie theater, exercise room and climate-controlled wine cellar. A fully outfitted pool house supports the 20′x40′ swimming pool. $3,195,000. Bozena Tisch x6120
Colts Neck, New Jersey Perfectly placed on 2.6 gated, cul-de-sac acres backing to conservation lands, this extravagantly appointed custom home is an entertainer’s dream. 3 fireplaces, sunken great room, fantastic 30’ kitchen, 6 bedrooms, 8.5 baths, and finished walk-out lower level. Enormous piazza hosts in-ground pool and cabana. $2,450,000. Gail Riedell x6180
Harding Township, New Jersey This grandly-styled manor translates Old World style for the modern age. Verdant landscaping and a stone and stucco facade anticipate the breathtaking details inside, where richly-appointed rooms present marble and oak flooring, uniquely-mantled fireplaces and ornate ceiling treatments. $2,975,000. Charles Connell x6105
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Willow View Stables Colts Neck, New Jersey WELCOME TO “WILLOW VIEW STABLES” — A PRISTINE 12.5-ACRE HORSE FARM! As you drive up the secluded, custom-lit, winding half-mile driveway, lined with mature, hardy pines and Belgium block curbing, you know you’ve found a special place. Then, you’ll arrive at the private 12.5-acres of pristine landscape, which includes an 1800 sq. ft. caretaker’s house and an out building for feed and storage, and is completely irrigated with water supply to paddocks. The caretaker’s house features three bedrooms and one bath. The out building includes 800 sq. ft. of heated storage, tack room and a half bath, with an additional 800 sq. ft. two-bedroom apartment and bath. The horse farm, called “Willow View Stables”, boasts 10 paddocks with miles of four-rail fencing, 6 run-in sheds, and 14 matted stalls. This is an unbelievable find for a horse lover. What’s more: There is room to build a 10,000 sq. ft. main home, and the owner has also plans for a 1400 sq. ft. pool house. There’s also enough parking for 20+ vehicles. Originally a farming community, the rural Colt’s Neck area benefits from being in close proximity to the Jersey Shore and is commuting distance to New York City. $2,250,000. Scan the QR code to learn more about this exclusive property.
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Short Hills Gem
Short Hills, New Jersey Exquisite grounds and superb architectural features add grace and elegance to this stately Old Short Hills seven bedroom custom Colonial nestled on an acre of lush property. Special features include a versatile first-floor ensuite bedroom/home office and an elaborate in-law suite/ apartment with mini-kitchen and family room. Offered at $2,999,000.
Short Hills, New Jersey The architectural detailing of this Short Hills Colonial home would exceed expectations of the most discerning homebuyer. Noteworthy is its elegant kitchen and a second-floor guest suite with private entrance. An exquisite covered porch exudes Southern charm and upscale leisure living. Its enviable center hall floor plan set the tone for its formal rooms where comfortable elegance reigns supreme. Offered at $2,595,000.
Summit, New Jersey Nestled in a private enclave, this stunning English Tudor home boasts unique location and superb curb appeal. A two-story foyer with an arched gothic style entry door, wrought iron railed staircase and stained glass windows add distinction. Noteworthy is a grand living room with stone front fireplace and massive rustic chestnut hand-hewn beams that span its ceiling. Offered at $1,725,000.
Summit, New Jersey Distinguished for its unique location high atop a private cul de sac with enviable panoramic New York City skyline views, this Northside French Provincial cottage-style Expanded Ranch is a rare find. A sunlit kitchen, breakfast area, master suite and fireside family room all open to an expansive elevated deck that beautifully showcases the breathtaking views – it’s the closest thing to sheer heaven! Offered at $3,295,000.
431 Springfield Avenue, Summit, NJ 07901 • 908-277-1398 • www.LoisSchneiderRealtor.com 33
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William Sawyer & Co., Realtors Washington, D.C.
For the past 33 years, William Sawyer & Co., Realtors has successfully maintained and enhanced its reputation for responsive, professional, and quality representation in both the selling and purchasing of real estate. Throughout the metropolitan Washington-Maryland marketplace, William Sawyer & Co., Realtors is well-known for highly individual, personal attention in its real estate transactions. The company specializes in the sales of fully-furnished, virtually turnkey, luxury homes and luxury cooperative and condominium buildings. William Sawyer & Co., Realtors offer all “state-of-the-art” tools and the highest regard for privacy in the acquisition or sale of luxury real estate.
Wesley Heights, NW Washington, D.C. The Foxhall Condominium on Massachusetts Avenue. Easy access to D.C.’s premier neighborhoods. Two bedrooms, two and one half baths in about 1,800 square feet plus wraparound balcony opening to all rooms. Newer chef’s kitchen in open-flow design to adjacent dining area and balcony. Pet friendly. Full-service building. Year-round swimming pool, gym. Parking available. Attached indoor garage parking included.
Serving Metropolitan Washington Real Estate Since 1977 Recognized by Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate BILL SAWYER 202-466-7788 • fax 202-293-3131 • [email protected] www.williamsawyer.com 35
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hen Southern Living magazine declares you the “Tastiest Town in the South,” that’s the ultimate tribute to your cuisine! But that’s not the only accolade Charlottesville has garnered.
Beautifully sited on the Piedmont Plateau, at the foothills of the incredibly beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, right at the headwaters of the Rivana River, Charlottesville is the economic, cultural, educational focus of Central Virginia. Home to the internationally renowned University of Virginia, Charlottesville has done such an outstanding job of preserving and treasuring its past, it has been declared one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “Dozen Distinctive Designations.” Its close proximity to the Shenandoah National Park (with its magnificent Skyline Drive), Jefferson’s Monticello and Washington, DC, makes it a delightful place to live. Actually, the Charlottesville area was also home to three U.S. Presidents (Jefferson, Monroe and Madison). Its ambiance is widespread. A writers’ and readers’ paradise, the city annually honors its many outstanding resident authors, including, over the years, John Grisham, Rita Mae Brown, Edgar Allen Poe and William Faulkner. A strong cultural focus combined with an exciting economic environment is but one of the reasons Charlottesville has attracted such a sophisticated, highly educated, notably successful population. And with them have come all the amenities demanded by those who can afford the very best when it comes to education, arts, cuisine, entertainment and other “musts” for the best of lifestyles. Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall is one of the nation’s longest pedestrian malls. Named after Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of King George III, Charlottesville, founded in 1762, has been ranked as one of the nation’s
top cities in which to do business, explains Roy Wheeler Realty, the city’s premier real estate firm. The city’s focus on economic success is reflected in its being selected as home base for numerous major employers — including Pepsi Cola, Lexis-Nexis, Inova Corp., Northrup Grumman, SNL Financial Wachovia and a large U.S. Government contingent. Where financial success flows, lavish lifestyle is close behind. Charlottesville’s proximity to both mountains and the Atlantic Ocean ensure a mild climate with four distinct seasons, and all the sports and recreation opportunities this creates. Ski resorts are complimented by a full range of outdoor opportunities during spring, summer and fall. The nearly 30 local vineyards make up the state’s largest collection with several wineries winning national recognition. No wonder so many celebrities have chosen to live (or lived) in the Greater Charlottesville area, including Anastasia of Russia, Meriwether Lewis, S.S. Van Dine, John Mosby, Georgia O’Keefe and, more recently, Rob Lowe, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepherd, Rita Dove, the Dave Matthews band, Parachute, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jessica Lang, baseball stars Larry Haney, Billy Wagner and Tommy Toms and ¬¬football stars Chris Long and his father Howie Long, and Eric Wilson. For 85 years, Charlottesville’s most presigious Realtor, Roy Wheeler, has succeed by adhering to the philosophy that “service is our most important product.” That philosophy is as important today as it was in 1927 when Mr. Wheeler borrowed $300 to open Roy Wheeler Realty Co. on the top floor of the Monticello Drug Store in Charlottesville. Today, from equally as historic Ednam Hall (and five other sites), the company team carries on the tradition of combining the latest in technology with a deep-seated involvement in community activities, to stay in touch with the pulse of real estate fluctuations.
Charlottesville, Virginia Expansive 10,000 sq. ft. of opulent living and entertaining space. The state of the art “Smart House” integration allows for remote access to all systems. An elevator serves 3 of 4 levels, 7 luxury suites in main residence, exquisite finishes, and commercial grade appliances. Futuristic home theatre! Exterior plaza and terrace overlook the pool, pool house/apartment and pond. Immaculate guest suite over 3 car garage. Sited on 21 rolling acres. $4,750,000. Jim Bonner www.jimbonner.com
Charlottesville, Virginia Renovated Farm House with Virginia Charm. 5 Bedrooms, 4 1/2 Baths, 2 Fireplaces. Sun Porch with Blue Ridge Mountain Views. Veranda overlooking the 11-acre Lake. Spacious Guest House with Lake views. Boathouse Dock. Private setting upon 170 acres conveniently located. $2,750,000. Gerri Russell [email protected]
Jefferson Lake Farm
Charlottesville, Virginia Rare Offering of an Estate Parcel over 1200acres featuring a 12-acre Lake and a large Pond both Stocked for excellent Fishing. There is a perfect Home site overlooking the Lake as well as 5 Cottages, a Farmhouse and a Property Manager’s House. Jefferson Lake is under a Conservation Easement and may be divided into 3 Parcels. Investment Opportunities include Timber values and Federal Stream Credits. Convenient Location into Downtown and the University of Virginia. $4,475,000. Steve White [email protected].
Charlottesville, Virginia Country Estate custom-built in 2011 set upon 21 acers. Open floor plan with 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, heartpine floors, two fireplaces, 2-car Garage, Home Office, Stone Terrace and expansive Blue Ridge Mountain Views. Convenient Location into Town. $885,000. Jane Fogleman [email protected]
Ednam Hall • 1100 Dryden Lane • Charlottesville, VA 22903 • www.roywheeler.com/estates • 434-951-5106 • 800-211-4494 37
Rackham Road Gibson Island, Maryland This magnificent French Normandy home, elegant and beautifully updated, was built in 1929 for gracious living at its best. Fieldstone walls form a framework topped by a thick cedar shake roof. The majestic 35’X20’ beamed cathedral ceiling living room provides a warm welcome. Formal rose gardens accent the cobblestone courtyard entrance and a magical setting of flowers, shrubs, and specimen trees provides a visual feast from every window.
Stillwater Road Gibson Island, Maryland A five bedroom English Country House sitting on Otter Pond with panoramic views of the Chesapeake Bay that has elegance and charm. Elegant formal and informal spaces both indoors and out make entertaining a pleasure. Completely updated it has cathedral ceilings; antique Palladian windows; French doors, a dock, and is stunning.
Skywater Road Gibson Island, Maryland Charming two-story brick home with panoramic views, surrounded by the forest offers the ultimate in privacy. Generous spaces and a practical floor plan welcomes family and friends. Main level opens to living and dining areas, galley kitchen, and master bedroom suite. Lower level has a den, three additional bedrooms, two bathrooms and two large rooms for storage and a workshop. Professionally designed gardens and the abundance of natural Island beauty invite you to relax on the screened porch or by the heated pool.
Gibson Island Corporation Real Estate Barbara Ann Watson and Corey Burr, Realtors Office: 410-255-1341 • Fax: 410-255-1975 • [email protected] • www.gibsonisland.com 38
Skywater Road Gibson Island, Maryland An outstanding “Bermuda-style” home on over an acre, perched above the Magothy River. Captivating views and magnificent sunsets! Beautifully designed with an open floor plan and architectural detail, perfect for entertaining. Master and a guest suite on the main floor; additional bedrooms on lower level. A formal dining room, gracious living room, kitchen/family area, study, second floor family room and multiple decks make for easy living.
Mountain Road Gibson Island, Maryland This is a chance to own a Chesapeake Bay waterfront property located just beyond the Gibson Island gatehouse. Designed of Butler Stone, this well maintained property has a stone bulkhead and recreational dock and is professionally landscaped. It sits high above the water with magnificent panoramic views of the Bay, Eastern Shore and Baltimore Light.
Jorrick Road Gibson Island, Maryland This charming Gibson Island country home was designed for gracious and comfortable living. Its double lot with mature trees provides privacy and pastoral views. Its 2-story guest suite is connected to the house by a covered breezeway. The property was completely renovated in 2002 with attention to every detail.
Gibson Island Corporation Real Estate Barbara Ann Watson and Corey Burr, Realtors Office: 410-255-1341 • Fax: 410-255-1975 • [email protected] • www.gibsonisland.com 39
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View Point, Smith Mountain Lake Moneta, Virginia Where luxury meets lifestyle. If you are seeking great quality with privacy to fit your lifestyle then look no more. This Spectacular lake estate is situated on the most sought after location on Smith Mountain Lake. Privacy and extraordinary views of the Peaks of Otter are offered on this 3.60 acre point lot extending over 500 feet of waterfront. Oversized dock, private beach, and more is offered in this natural private nature preserve. The breathtaking views and attention to detail starts with the estates entrance and resonates throughout the home, the decks, and the property. You and your Guests feel comfortable in this outstanding home due to the casual elegance. Viewpoint represents luxury in life and exemplifies a lifestyle that is active yet stylish. All you need to bring is a bit of attitude to this private estate, so why not make this your View Point?
Leslie Becker • Broker/ Realtor • 540-797-0477 • [email protected] Million Dollar Guild, 2009 to 2013 • Luxury Who’s Who 2010/2011/2012/2013 Luxury Home Specialist • ELITE 2011, 2012, 2013 Exceptional Leader In Luxury Smith Mountain Lake Properties Inc • Licensed in the State of VA www.SmithMountainLakeProperties.org
Southeast Marguerite Wyche & Associates. . . . . . 44-45
Dickens-Mitchener & Associates. . . . . . 46-47 Beverly-Hanks & Associates. . . . . . . . 48-49
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The Lipman Group Sotheby’s International Realty. . . . . . 55 Truman & Co. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Legends of Real Estate. . . . . . . . . 57 John’s Island Real Estate Company . . . . 58-59 Michael Green & Associates . . . . . . . 60-61 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty. . . . . 62-63 John R. Wood Realtors. . . . . . . . . . 64-65 Burns & Company, Realtors, Inc.. . . . . . 66-67
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he Appalachian Mountain foothills and the Reedy River provide a perfect setting for those who prefer closeness to nature without sacrificing easy access to — and all the amenities of — multiple major urban areas. A city with an international flavor and a Cherokee history, Greenville, SC, was once known as Pleasantburg — and that says a lot! Residents changed the name to “Greenville.” In the early 1800s, that probably appealed to folks from the “Low Country” who headed there to escape the malaria and humidity of coastal areas such as Charleston and Ashville. Another draw: nearby Sassafras Mountain (highest in South Carolina) not only provided ample water, but also protected the city from severe weather, including tornadoes. (The mountain is covered with sassafras trees, the roots of which were used as medicine and to make teas and root beer.) But newcomers were warned. Greenville folks back then, and now, are really “into” plants. They lined the downtown streets with trees and warned anyone who tied a horse to one of these prized plantings was definitely going to be fined! And it was a native son, Joel Poinsett, who first introduced “poinsettias” to the United States. The amateur botanist “discovered” this plant while serving as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Poinsett contributed even more to Greenville’s delightful legends. The historic Poinsett Hotel was taken to great heights by “Old Admiral Spit and Polish” himself, J. Mason Alexander. It was said he was so fanatical about neatness, he had the staff polish all coins before putting them in cash registers. Then there’s the “Mice on Main” project — nine bronze mice hidden along Main Street. High school student Jim Ryan would have preferred to create a statue of a great native son, like Joel Poinsette, Vardry McBee or Shoeless Joe Jackson. But he didn’t have the money. So he settled on mice instead! Among the celebrities who make (or made) their homes in Greenville was famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. His “Broad Margin” creation was
named after a quote in Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”: “I love a broad margin to my life.” For a while, Greenville was known as the “Textile Center of the South.” With this explosion of success stories came a growing population of those who could afford the very best in culture, arts, cuisine, education and other amenities. These laid the foundation for Greenville’s superior lifestyle offerings that are still expanding today. One such delight is the Peace Center’s Wyche Pavilion, built on the site of a mayonnaise factory. One of the Wyche family’s descendants is now equally as notable om Greenville. Marguerite Wyche’s real estate firm is acknowledged as the finest in the Greater Greenville area. (Note: the Peace Center is so named in memory of the Peace family, major benefactors.) Greenville boasts the only curved, cantilevered pedestrian suspension bridge in the nation. Falls Park on the Reedy is a site to be experienced, as is The Carillion, where the 25 carillon bells float within a 54-foot high structure, which also provides a not-to-be-missed view of the river and the city beyond. In fact, Greenville points out that this successful project has brought both citizens and visitors “back to the river where it all began many years ago.” Greenville’s many amenities are complimented by the Bi-LO Center, consistently recognized as one of the nation’s top entertainment venues. A successful 30-year redevelopment has turned Greenville’s downtown area into a much-envied major shopping, dining and enjoyment destination. The free downtown trolley, a Children’s Garden, seven historic districts and free wireless all translate into: “Allow lots of time, folks! You won’t want to leave!” For Marguerite Wyche, over 30 years of experience in the Greenville real estate world have brought with them a wealth of local market knowledge which, when combined with the latest in technological advances. To intimately know a community, real estate professionals must be involved on far more than a business basis, and her team is well known for its expertise in, and participation in, Greenville’s ever-expanding educational, cultural, and business opportunities.
100 Huckleberry Ridge Greenville, South Carolina International by design, this superb 10 acre mountaintop estate with unobstructed 270 degree view and over 7,000 sq. ft. offers its owners an incredible lifestyle. This authentic Asian residence is surrounded by waterfalls, koi ponds, magnificent year round gardens, indoor/outdoor pool, hot tub and green house. The entire interior of this exceptional residence takes advantage of the breathtaking view, privacy, and the gardens. Five bedrooms and six baths provide ample space for family and guests. The master bedroom suite is perfectly situated to enjoy the privacy and the view, and offers s superb bath and dressing room. The living room, and dining room share a stunning open fireplace, dramatic high ceilings made of bamboo rods. The open floor plan provides easy access to kitchen, den and deck...and of course, THE view. The den is a warm, inviting room with another huge fireplace and bookshelves. The kitchen features a fireplace, top of the line appliances, island, and access to the spacious outdoor deck and pool. A detached studio with soaring ceilings and fireplace could be used as an office, rec room, or guest quarters. This is a residence of national renown and we are fortunate that it is within 15 minutes of downtown Greenville! $2,950,000
Marguerite R. Wyche 864-270-2440 [email protected] www.wycheco.com 44
104 Parkins Lake Road Greenville, South Carolina This stately Georgian residence is situated on almost 7.5 acres of land including a pond and guest house, thus, creating a rare “in-town” estatae just minutes from downtown and the airport. The main house, with over 6,500 square feet, features an exceptionally open floor plan with high ceilings, extensive molding, and both marble and hardwood floors. The interior rooms range from a bright sunroom with full length windows that capture the views of the pond; a warm, inviting cherry library; and, a downstairs pub with a full length bar and brass foot rail! The home’s inviting terraces lead to a fabulous pond house with a full kitchen, sauna and hot tub. This property offers an exceptional lifestyle! Approximately 5 acres are included. $1,950,000
Marguerite R. Wyche 864-270-2440 [email protected] www.wycheco.com 45
1913 Bent Branch Charlotte, North Carolina Charming French Country estate just minutes from Southpark and Uptown. Amazing kitchen opens to breakfast room and comfortable family room overlooking the pool and backyard. Large bedrooms each with a private bath. Kitchenette in one bedroom makes perfect in-law/nanny suite. Bonus room and media room upstairs. Master suite includes his amd her baths, exercise room and sauna. For more information call Vicky Mitchener 704-517-0177 or go to www.dickensmitchener.com.
2223 Forest Drive Charlotte, North Carolina Built by Steve Kaleel in 2007 on a fabulous .74 acres lot. Beautiful pool, cabana and sport court. Exceptional millwork, 10 and 11 ft. ceiling heights on both levels. 5th bedroom or recreation room, each bedroom has private bath. Formal rooms, family room plus study/office. 3 fireplaces. For more information call Sharon Rountree at 980-236-8346 or go to www.dickensmitchener.com.
801 Harvard Place Charlotte, North Carolina Elegant home on private 1.13 acre lot in the heart of Myers Park. Large formal rooms, family room, kitchen and guest suite on main level. Spacious bedrooms and master suite upstairs...as well as large rec room and exercise room. Gorgeous landscaping, in-ground pool with hot tub, covered porch with outdoor kitchen. Lovely pool house with full bath and laundry. A must see!! For more information call Vicky Mitchener 704-5170177 or go to www.dickensmitchener.com.
2823 Providence Road Unit 323 Charlotte, North Carolina Handsome cherry paneled library with adjacent full bath could be 3rd bedroom. This unit has been customized with exquisite mill work throughout and finishes unlike others in the building. Fabulous kitchen open to family room features cherry cabinetry, granite countertops and wonderful appliances. Totally customized master bath. For more information call Sharon Rountree at 980-236-8346 or go to www.dickensmitchener.com.
Dickens-Mitchener & Associates 2330 Randolph Road • Charlotte, NC 28207 704-661-2402 • [email protected] 46
937 Granville Road Charlotte, North Carolina Elegant estate in the heart of Myers Park. Incredible entrance hall opens to spacious formal living and dining rooms, gourmet kitchen open to breakfast and family room. Extensive millwork, high ceilings, abundance of natural light and designer finishes. Study with wet bar and wine room. Master suite and spa bath with sauna and exercise room. Private, fenced yard. 5th bedroom and 4th bath over garage. One of a kind. For more information call Vicky Mitchener 704-517-0177 or go to www.dickensmitchener.com.
540 Colville Road Charlotte, North Carolina This stunning home in Eastover has no equal in the Charlotte market. Regency design is well proportioned and wonderfully detailed while extraordinarily functional. Great flow from interior spaces to the fabulous private terrace and well landscaped yard. Custom moldings, cabinets, hardware, windows and doors. High-end appliances, marble counters and stunning fixtures in kitchen. For more information call Vicky Mitchener 704-517-0177 or go to www.dickensmitchener.com.
4222 Fox Brook Charlotte, North Carolina Magnificent estate home on 1.98 acres in gated community. Elegant formal rooms and highly functional family spaces. Enormous Master Suite, game/exercise room, library, home theatre and wine cellar. Perfect for entertaining with the tennis court, pool and indoor basketball court.” For more information call Vicky Mitchener 704-517-0177 / Sharon Rountree 980-236-8346 or go to www.dickensmitchener.com.
2414 Westfield Road Charlotte, North Carolina Immaculate 2-story custom home in Myers Park. Open floor plan with formal living and dining room, heavy molding. Great room with coffered ceilings open to Chef’s kitchen with SS Wolfe appliances, large island with pull-up seating, 2 sinks, 2 dishwashers, breakfast room and computer nook. Master suite up with 3 bedrooms, nursery or playroom and office. Detached 2-car garage with guest suite. Front and rear porch with fireplace. Fenced backyard. For more information call Isabel Roberts 704-607-5560 or go to www.dickensmitchener.com.
Dickens-Mitchener & Associates 2330 Randolph Road • Charlotte, NC 28207 704-661-2402 • [email protected] 47
South Turkey Creek Leicester, North Carolina Twenty minutes from downtown Asheville. Magnificent county estate on 38 acres with 4,500 SF, 5 bedroom Southern Colonial Style house with amazing master suite and absolutely breathtaking views from every room! Stables, riding ring, 2 bedroom carriage/guest house, infinity pool, tennis court. Total of seven bedrooms on property in 6,000 SF of living space. $2,250,000 MLS540014. Call Mark Fields at 828-777-0452.
Biltmore Forest Asheville, North Carolina One-of-a-kind property! Two home on 2.7 acres on “The Golden Horseshoe” section of Biltmore Forest. Main house is beautifully appointed (updated in ‘91) with chef’s kitchen, large windows looking to golf course. Master suite encompasses entire second story with balcony to enjoy view. His/Hers closets. Living room with fireplace and french doors to stone patio. Guest cottage with BR/BTH/Den. Magnificent landscaping with blooms popping all summer. Mountain View! $2,295,000 MLS535998. Call Amy Fleming at 828-231-1112.
Biltmore Forest Asheville, North Carolina Elegant approachable living deep in the Forest. Architect designed home, circular drive, walled garden, incredible attention to detail leaded windows, spiral staircase, gorgeous cherry library/music room, spacious rooms, overflowing with character, master suite with fireplace, vast closets, large light bath, playroom, unfinished basement with tennis practice area, 4th garage. One of the Forest’s choicest properties. $2,300,000 MLS505913. Call Ann Skoglund at 828-273-0277.
Kenmure Flat Rock, North Carolina Landmark estate perched in the mountains with spectacular views on over 7 acres in the gated community of Kenmure. Aspen style construction with timbers from Biltmore Estates, wood trim from Tennessee cotton mill and magnificent fireplace patterned after the Grove Park Inn. Truly a dream come true with private bath in every bdrm. Comfort kitchen, 5-car garage and much more! This home offers an unparalleled lifestyle where nature and serenity abound. $2,900,000 MLS546668. Call Bob Williams at 828-697-3361.
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Near Champion Hills Hendersonville, North Carolina Massive stone estate home on 30 acres with access to riding trails. Built to exacting high quality standards you would expect in a custom home. Easy access to golf at Fazio’s Champion Hills yet securely private behind gate. Many rooms are vaulted, all are spacious. The home provides an amazing amount of privacy considering its openness. Land is both open and wooded, flat and rolling. $3,300,000 MLS542469. Call Ann Skoglund at 828-273-0277.
Near Country Club of Asheville Asheville, North Carolina Incredible views for miles, city, golf course, nature. A home to match these mountains - surrounded by over a hundred acres of pristine property. Just minutes from golf club and downtown Asheville. Guest house of same highest quality with great room, kitchen, two bedrooms and two baths. A mountain estate unmatched for quality, location and views! $3,300,000 MLS542469. Call Ann Skoglund at 828-273-0277.
Reynolds Mountain Asheville, North Carolina Enjoy resort living in your home or should I say castle. Built by Morgan Keefe builders and designed by architect Alice Dodson. This home features many vaulted rooms, most with fireplaces. Featuring mountain/ city views, a covered pavilion with stone fireplace, screened porches, a sunroom, executive office, wine room and quasi-professional bar, spa room, home theater, elevator and guest quarters. $3,500,000 MLS545365. Call Ann Skoglund at 828-273-0277.
Fantastic WNC Estate Horse Shoe, North Carolina This property is coming onto the market for the first time in years. Truly one of the most fantastic estates in WNC. This 85+ acre farm has it all. Nothing here has been left undone. Huge views of Mt. Pisgah, French Broad river frontage and gentle topography. 8 houses on site, 8-stall, 4,300 square foot barn with high end living quarters and 8 shops/utility buildings all matching and ready to go. 1,800+ SF mess hall with commercial kitchen. $6,700,000 MLS540946. Call Billy Taylor at 828-778-6705.
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tlanta is a city on the move . . . on such a move, in fact, it is the fastest-growing city in the nation. And it boasts more fiber optic cable than any other city in the nation.
Bet most folks flying into Atlanta are totally unaware they are also looking at a geological wonder — the geographic center of the American South. The Eastern Continental Divide runs right through downtown Atlanta. Rainwater on the south and east side of this “divide” drains to the Atlantic Ocean. Rainfall to the north and west drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Atlanta began as the end point of a new railroad line. Stories abound as to the name’s origin. A favorite: It was a version of the middle name, Atalanta, of then-Georgia Gov. Wilson Lumpkin’s daughter. The mythological Greek athlete goddes Atalanta’s father so wanted a boy, he raised his daughter to participate in primarily male sports, but she somehow maintained an aura of extreme sexuality. A fitting name, to be sure. Atlanta melds an obsession with history with an incredible forward-thinking mentality, according to Atlanta Fine Homes, the city’s leading real estate firm. The nation’s third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies can be found in Atlanta, including Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola and CNN broadcasting which were started in this city. Other world headquarters here are Turner Broadcasting, Home Depot, and AT&T Mobility. Newell Rubbermaid and UPS. Atlanta’s musical ties are legendary. She is often called the “Center of Gravity” for hip-hop and is (or was) home to musical artist such as Usher, Ray Charles, Sugarland, Alan Jackson, Jerry Reed, Travis Tritt, Trisha Earwood, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Otis Redding and Brenda Lee, to name just a few of literally hundreds. With Atlanta’s numerous high-end communities that cater to luxury residences come all the amenities demanded by those who can afford the very best — in education, shopping, cuisine, arts and culture. The High Museum of Art is the South’s leading art museum. The Michael C. Carlos Museum contains the largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast.
Atlanta’s claim to literary excellence is unparalleled with residents such as Margaret Mitchell (“Gone With the Wind,” the best-selling novelist of all time), Alice Walker (Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Color Purple”), Alfred Uhry (“Driving Miss Daisy”), Joel Chandler Harris (“Brer Fox” and “Uncle Remus”). Other notable residents include (or included) President Jimmy Carter, Senator Sam Nunn, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Julia Roberts, Jane Fonda, Jeff Foxworthy, Holly Hunter, Spike Lee, Ryan Seacrest, Stephen Soderberg, Deborah Norville, Bert Parks and Chris Tucker to name just a few. Atlanta’s known as a “peach” of a city, with over 32 streets sporting that name in part. But the stone fruit has nothing to do with Atlanta’s “peach-y” lore. Cherokee and Creek Indians inhabited this area for eons including one large settlement named Standing Pitch Tree, after a solitary tree nearby. White settlers corrupted “Pitch Tree” into Peachtree. Atlanta is one of the nation’s most “livable” cities, but you’d better learn the lingo. Directions often include “ITP” and “OTP” — for “Inside the Perimeter” and “Outside the Perimeter” — meaning Interstate 385, which encircling most of the city. It might also help to know that the affluent neighborhood, Buckhead, is named after the buck’s head (deer head) mounted on a popular area waystation. Amazingly — considering it was burned to the ground during the Civil War — Atlanta boasts more than 40 historic districts. An intimate knowledge of the city and its high-end lifestyles is essential when it comes to “Artfully uniting extraordinary properties with extraordinary lives” — as Atlanta Fine Homes’ motto proclaims. Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty agents are guided by their mission statement:
“We are passionate in our interactions with clients, associates and employees, as well as in the delivery of our services. Not only is the real estate experience of our team unparalleled, but the client’s experience in dealing with our company is second to none. Finally, the reputation of members of our team and our affiliation with Sotheby’s International Realty® is of paramount importance.”
Estate of Grace
Breathtaking Estate with Amazing Grounds
Roswell, Georgia This exquisite, gated estate on 2+ acres will impress your most sophisticated clients. Classic architectural design by Bill Harrison and Associates took 2.5 years to construct. Manicured grounds feature fountains, waterfalls, and pools viewed from expansive roof patios and loggias. The features and amenities of this 23,000+ square foot home are extensive and their quality is exceptional. State-of-the-art home automation and comfort systems throughout. Elevator access to all levels, even attic. Motor court access to garages for six vehicles. $5,750,000. Doranne and Jack Strama 770-366-4613
Milton, Georgia No expense was spared in making dreams come true! Tucked away in North Atlanta’s premier gated golf community, The Manor Golf and Country Club, this estate is in a class all its own. From the exquisite finishes throughout the main house to the impeccably landscaped grounds and outdoor living spaces, prepared to be “WOW’d”! Fitness center and spa, wine cellar, home theater. Saltwater pool and spa, 4 outdoor fireplaces and firepit, baseball diamond and batting cages, putting green, walking trails, basketball court, Koi pond, outdoor kitchen and pizza oven. $3,200,000. Rhonda Haran and Andrea Cueny 404-556-5600
Mediterranean Estate Home in Buckhead
Alpharetta, Georgia This English manor estate, located in Country Club of the South, holds multiple construction awards including No. 1 in the nation from the National Association of Home Builders, the Aurora Award and the Grand Environmental Award. Constructed with the finest materials including carved Ohio and Indiana limestone, Vermont slate roof, copper gutters and valleys, seven custom fireplaces and Honduras mahogany paneling. Grand motor court, Pebble Tec pool and spa and separate guesthouse! Jared Sapp 404-668-7233
Atlanta, Georgia Designed for grand entertaining, this distinguished Mediterranean estate with a guesthouse on 2.7± acres. Built in 2004, this gorgeous home features French-milled stone floors, soaring ceilings, arched doorways, curved grand stairway, chef’s kitchen, movie theater, exercise room/steam room/sauna. Stunning salon with French doors, cherry paneled library. The renovated guest home replicates an Italian farmhouse. The private, flat backyard offers a 57' pool with professional diving boards. $2,850,000. Betsy Meagher 404-414-8440
Atlanta Fine Homes 3290 Northside Parkway, Suite 200 • Atlanta, GA 30327 • 404-237-5000 • www.atlantafinehomes.com 51
1416 Grandma Branch Road
Grantville, Georgia Beautiful 2-story brick home, 136.2 acres near grantville in coweta county. 4 bedrooms and 4 baths, family room with fireplace, dining room, kitchen with breakfast area. Recreation room. Double garage. In-ground pool, pole barn, outbuilding, workshop. Fenced pasture, lake with gazebo. $1,089,600. MLS# 03253915. Call Chip Barron at 770-301-6843.
Newnan, Georgia Spectacular estate home in great in-town neighborhood! Kitchen with new granite countertops, island, stainless appliances, new hardwood flooring, breakfast area with fireplace. Formal dining room, living room w/marble fireplace. Family room with built-ins, brick fireplace and built-in desk. Office with wood paneling and marble firepalce. Master on main, recently renovated master bath with heated marble floors, vanities with marble tops, tiled marble shower. Partial basement with 4th bedroom and bath. Mature landscaped back yard with pond! Hardwood flooring and extensive molding. $519,900. MLS# 07109685. all Tom Barron 404-936-7422.
75 East Broad Street
52 College Street
Newnan, Georgia Circa 1905 Victorian two-story, used in filming a major motion picture, fabulous wraparound front porch, five bedrooms, five baths, living room with fireplace, parlor with fireplace, family room with fireplace, banquet sized dining room, butler’s pantry, sunroom, kitchen with breakfast area, hardwood floors, partial basement, double detached garage and acre lot. $749,900. Another 1.6+/- acre adjacent lot is available for $250,000. MLS# 02908353. Call Chip Barron at 770-301-6843.
Newnan, Georgia Circa 1850 greek revival style, 2 ½ story, very historic two story home in newnan, “the city of homes”, granite kitchen w/stainless steel appliances, banquet size dining room, living room, den with bookshelves, 9 fireplaces total in home, 12’ ceilings, screen porch and covered front porch, bonus room. Master on main, heart pine floors throughout, rear storage building. Large 2 ½ acre lot. $539,000. MLS# 03140950. Call Chip Barron at 770-301-6843.
Chip Barron Lindsey’s, Inc. Realtors 14 Jackson Street • Newnan, GA 30263 770-253-6990, Ext. 207 • 770-301-6843 [email protected] • www.lindseysrealtors.com 52
20 Willow Lane
741 White Oak
Newnan, Georgia On the golf course, 14th fairway, 2 story spacious southern custom traditional, 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, master bedroom on main, living room formal dining room foyer, front and rear stairs, family room, 2 fireplaces, huge recreation room, kitchen with granite and stainless steel appliances with island and breakfast area, super sunroom, hardwood, tile and carpeted floors, double garage, wonderful landscaped yard. $420,000. MLS# 07065994. Chip 770-301-6843 or Jodie 678-953-2694.
Newnan, Georgia Beautiful traditional home with 5 bedrooms and 3 ½ baths. Vaulted family room, formal dining room, kitchen with granite island and countertops, double wall oven plus cooktop, pantry, breakfast area w/built-ins. Full finished basement w/family room, kitchen with breakfast area, office , workshop and garage. Plantation shutters throughtout wrought iron fenced in back yard with gunite salt water pool with stone water fall. Circular drive. $499,900. Call Tom Barron 404-936-7422.
185 Emerald Hills Lane
135 Golfview Club Drive
Newnan, Georgia Spacious lakefront ranch with million dollar view and full basement, 3 to 5 bedrooms, 3 full baths, half bath, family room, fireplace, dining room, stainless steel and granite in kitchen, den, fireplace, huge recreation room with wet bar, covered porch and deck, patio, 2 car garage, detached workshop, much more. $349,900. MLS# 07009264. Chip 770-301- 6843 or Kim 770-560-6008.
Newnan, Georgia Big beautiful brick cape cod on 1.14+/- acre park like lot on Newnan country club golf course, hole #5 and tee #6, 3 bedrooms plus large bonus room, master bedroom on main, formal living room and dining room, family room with fireplace with gas logs. Kitchen with island/breakfast bar opens to breakfast area plus sitting area. Hickory hardwood floors on main level except baths and laundry room, front porch and rear patio. $447,000. MLS# 07052111. Chip 770-301-6843.
Chip Barron Lindsey’s, Inc. Realtors 14 Jackson Street • Newnan, GA 30263 770-253-6990, Ext. 207 • 770-301-6843 [email protected] • www.lindseysrealtors.com 53
The Meeting House on Lake Burton
Rainbow’s End on Lake Burton
Clayton, Georgia Endless details were thoughtfully included in this four bedroom, five full and two half bath labor of love. Reclaimed oak flooring and beams, Venetian plaster, exposed brick and custom hand-distressed cabinetry add to the welcoming ambiance. Amenities include a home gym, bunkroom, workshop, 4 garages, potting solarium, celebrity style walkin closets and a 2-story boathouse with spectacular mountain views. Offered at $6,995,000.
Clarkesville, Georgia Extraordinary design, materials and workmanship define this newly constructed five bedroom, five full and three half bath lakefront home. Located on a prominent lot with majestic mountain and lake views, the gracious open floor plan accentuates the heart pine detailing, reclaimed barn wood and turn of the century antique pieces throughout. Enjoy sunset views from the screened porch with stone fireplace, terrace dining area or the 2-stall covered boathouse. Offered at $5,900,000.
Contemporary Farmhouse on Lake Burton
Windrush on Lake Burton
Clayton, Georgia This 5BR/5.5ba contemporary farmhouse combines modern style with rustic details. Oak flooring contrasts antique white painted wood walls and reclaimed roughhewn beams. Big water views span the length of the main floor while spacious bedrooms and bathrooms provide privacy and comfort. A covered rocking chair porch leads to a lakeside stone patio with outdoor fireplace. Enjoy sunset views from the top of the barn wood trimmed boathouse. Offered at $3,350,000.
Clayton, Georgia Enjoy glamorous lakeside entertaining from the lush verandas of this immaculate 7BD/9ba custom French Chateau. Main floor features a master bedroom, formal living room, library, open kitchen with breakfast nook and sitting area. Terrace level includes 2nd kitchen, family room with billiards, guest suite, office, hobby room and gym. Boathouse provides mountain and sunset views. Private guest suite above 3-car garage. Offered at $4,300,000.
Julie Barnett Harry Norman, Realtors 404-697-3860 • 706-212-0228 www.juliebarnettrealtor.com 54
Tuscan Elegance Franklin, Tennessee Enjoy panoramic views from your gated Tuscan Estate. Character abounds in the woodwork and in the architectural elements of this masterfully crafted home. Entertaining is amenable both inside and out. A theatre room, wine cellar, wet bar, fitness and billiards rooms are all located in the immense basement. Outdoor Retreat featuring a climate controlled loggia complete with kitchen, fireplace, entertainment center and additional bathroom. The temperature controlled saltwater pool has a cascading water fall and a relaxing hot tub. The private backyard is fenced and is encompassed with a wooded vista. 8 Bedrooms, 8 Full Baths and 2 Half Baths. 1037 Vaughn Crest.
Old World Craftmanship Nashville, Tennessee This stunning town house is perfect for anyone that is looking for upscale, easy-living surrounded by the convenience of this prime location. 200 year-old brick exterior. Antique and refurbished hardwood floors, ten foot ceilings on main level. Cooks kitchen with granite, stainless Thermador appliances and an abundance of cabinetry. Limestone and marble used in kitchen and baths. Coffered ceilings, exposed beams and Italian plaster walls. Master suite has large private bath and dressing area, as well as a reading room. Personal elevator and stairway to all 3 levels. Screened porch. 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths. 133 B Woodmont Boulevard.
European Rustic Country Estate Tullahoma, Tennessee This home sits on approximately 135 scenic acres. A small piece of Heaven with rolling hills and magnificent scenery. Open spacious living areas, hardwood wide plank ash floors, mahogany trimmed openings, custom poplar doors. Tall, wide openings create an immediate special feel. Sitting room/family room with massive, old stone fireplace. Kitchen with abundance of custom made cabinets. Stainless appliances, random hardwood floor. Master Bedroom is on the main level. Barn and guest house. State-of-the-art facility, standing seam metal roof. Seven stalls. Beautiful tree lined driveway. A true jewel minutes from Tullahoma. 6 Bedrooms, 4.5 Baths. 561 C K Troxler.
Extraordinary Lifestyle Nashville, Tennessee Gracious foyer has marble floor and arched openings to living, dining and family room. Elegant dining room features heavy molding, recessed portrait lighting, gracious iron and crystal chandelier, and beautiful custom drapes. Family room features coffered 12’ ceilings, built-in bookcases and fireplace with carved wooden mantle surrounded by black granite. Dream kitchen for culinary talent with breakfast area, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, farmhouse sink, and hardwood floors. A master suite has hardwood floors and wonderful natural light from windows and French doors. Patio offers wonderful outdoor living space with privacy and view of manicured garden area. 4 Bedrooms, 4.5 Baths. 5046 Hill Place Drive.
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510 Margaret Street Key West, Florida This beautiful home has been completely and perfectly renovated with superior finishes and quality craftsmanship and includes 510 Margaret Street and adjoining 3 Scheppens Lane. The 3BR, 3BA main house has a vaulted great room opening onto the rear yard and pool, Dade Pine walls and hardwood floors throughout, magazine quality kitchen and gorgeous baths. The 1BR guest cottage has a full bath, fully equipped kitchen and living area. Both houses are designed for entertaining with light filled living areas opening through glass doors to the rear yard. A fantastic property in a very desirable location. $1,749,000. Roger Emmons 305-304-7446
Beachfront Sunset Key Key West, Florida Escape to Sunset Key, the premier Key West waterfront community...it’s just a 3 minute ferry ride to Heaven. This beachfront 4BR/4.5BA private island home with soaring ceilings and view saturated windows everywhere is the perfect getaway. Enjoy lounging on your sunny over-sized balconies or by your beachfront pool. With 2 bedroom suites on each level, there is privacy for all of your guests. Sweeping open water views from most rooms, impact windows, gourmet kitchen, fireplace, wood floors and a garage for that golf cart. Island amenities include full service spa, exercise facility and first class restaurant. $5,500,000. Have others beginning at $3,985,000. Terri Spottswood 305-587-3407
Open Water Estate Key West, Florida Breathtaking 4.5 acre oceanfront estate on Sugarloaf Key. Sand Castle, formerly the Jerry Herman estate, offers multiple homes on a park-like parcel with water on 3 sides. The elegant 8,219sf main home sits on its own beach, has 6BD/7.5BA, ocean views from most every room, , family room with ireplace, formal dining room, sunroom and an enormous game room with wet bar. Other amenities include a home office, pool, lagoon with fountain and waterfall and a garage. Meander over a charming bridge to the 2BD/2BA, guesthouse with its own covered boat. The grounds also include a 2BD/2BA, caretakers home. Truly a rare opportunity to enjoy your own private Sandcastle! $5,999,000. Terri Spottswood 305-587-3407
1317 Grinnell Street Key West, Florida This spectacular home with a modernist edge has been thoroughly and meticulously renovated. Located in the Casa Marina area this home has an open floor plan with high ceilings and beautiful living areas indoors or out. There are three bedrooms including a sensational master with a private outdoor deck,three luxury baths all with Impact windows and doors. Poolside decking, covered lanai and glorious tropical gardens with a separate office/work out room at the, far end of the pool. The tropical gardens provide privacy and calm. $2,495,000. Lynn Kaufelt 305-923-4276
1205 Truman Avenue • Key West, FL 33040 • 305-292-2244 • www.trumanandcompany.com 56
Epping Forest Built by Alfred I. duPont and his wife, Jessie Ball duPont, in the 1920s, Epping Forest is situated on the banks of the St. Johns River. One of Jacksonville’s premier landmarks, the mansion was a meeting place for industrial giants, heads of state and powerful politicians. It has been completely and lovingly restored to preserve its listing on the National Register of Historic Places and to make it a comfortable home for the Epping Forest Yacht Club. Resident families who elect to join the club enjoy fine dining in the restored mansion, casual dining in the café, lighted tennis courts, six swimming pools, a fullservice fitness center, and a 73-slip marina, all within a 24-hour guard-gated 58-acre estate. Three distinctive lifestyles are enjoyed by the residents of Epping Forest: grand riverfront condominium villas in three buildings priced from the mid-$500,000s; unique “Forest Homes” with private, walled gardens also priced from the mid-$500,000s; and elegant custom homes priced from $1,200,000. Prices and availability vary.
Breathtaking Panaromic Views
Meticulously-Maintained “Forest Home”
Stunning Custom Home
Jacksonville, Florida This beautifully-maintained condominium Villa features three bedrooms, two baths and magnificent vistas of the St. Johns River from most rooms. Amenities include over 2,100 square feet, a formal dining room, spacious living room, large kitchen, breakfast room, office, sitting room, a screen-enclosed balcony, and a private courtyard off the guest suite. $699,000
Jacksonville, Florida This home features three bedrooms, two full and one half baths, is situated on a beautifully treed private lot, and has it all: spacious rooms, ceiling fans throughout, generous closets, twelve foot ceilings, large windows and magnificent views of the gardens. Additional amenities include a separate dining room, a fireplace in the living room, a family room, and more. $575,000
Jacksonville, Florida This magnificent Mediterranean-style home features too many amenities to mention. Just a few are five bedrooms, five full and one half baths, soaring ceilings and spacious rooms filled with natural light, a large kitchen with granite countertops and an adjacent breakfast room, four fireplaces, a billiard room, office, covered lanai, pool, spa, and the list just goes on! $1,750,000
Selby Kaiser & Linda McMorrow 904-739-7100 8777 San Jose Boulevard, Suite 903 Jacksonville, FL 32217 www.sellinglegends.com
The Ultimate, Private, Waterfront Retreat
Desirable Family Home in Heart of John’s Island
John’s Island – Vero Beach, Florida Nestled on a private cul-de-sac, showcasing unobstructed, panoramic views of the Indian River, is this beautifully renovated four-bedroom estate with pool, spa, summer kitchen, boat dock and cabana. Features include 11,800± SF, cypress coffered ceilings, leather-stained Mexican tile floors, generous living spaces with fireplaces, gourmet island kitchen and the entire upper level is dedicated to the luxurious master suite with study affording tree-top views. 120 South Shore Point : $7,200,000
John’s Island – Vero Beach, Florida A quiet meandering street with no thru traffic and canopied oaks leads you to this three-bedroom home located near the Club. Privacy is paramount. Beautifully updated, this 4,175± SF retreat overlooks a sparkling pool and stunning, multiple fairway and lake views. The generous living room opens onto the expansive lanai showcasing picturesque views. Features include a spacious gourmet kitchen with custom cabinetry and breakfast area, den, dining room, bar, luxurious master suite and 2-car garage. 191 Clarkson Lane : $2,175,000
Rare Oceanfront Opportunity!
Convenient Efficiencies Ideally Next to Beach Club
John’s Island – Vero Beach, Florida Located along a private stretch of the Atlantic Ocean on one of the largest, oceanfront homesites available is this 4BR/4.5BA residence. Sited on a generous 1.49± acre lot, features include 130' of direct ocean frontage, endless ocean views and lush landscaping. Privacy is paramount. Lots size is approximately 130' x 500'. A dune crossover provides private beach access. 676 Ocean Road : $4,250,000
John’s Island – Vero Beach, Florida Next to the Beach Club is this two-story, oceanfront condominium containing 105 suites boasting 590± SF. Perfect for those requiring less room, for use by visiting family/friends, or in the interim while building/ remodeling, the atrium design provides views that overlook the ocean or tropical, courtyard pool. Features include a sleeping area and sitting room, kitchenette, full bath and large walk-in closets. The Beach Club offers superb dining, recreational facilities, and oceanfront pool. Great rental opportunities! Island House : $130,000-$395,000
One John’s Island Drive, Vero Beach, Florida 32963 • 800-327-3153 • www.JohnsIslandRealEstate.com 58
One of the Largest, Waterfront Homesites in John’s Island!
Private Gem Island Waterfront Getaway
John’s Island – Vero Beach, Florida Located on the highly-desired John’s Island Sound, offering complete privacy as well as magnificent, panoramic, waterfront views is this 2.76± acre homesite. An undisturbed natural preserve and pristine island neighbor this unparalleled parcel creating virtually no neighbors. Its exceptional size and private location allows you to build an estate of true distinction. John’s Island Sound affords an abundance of wildlife and access to unlimited cruising on the Intracoastal Waterway. 810 Manatee Inlet : $5,200,000
John’s Island – Vero Beach, Florida Located on prestigious Gem Island is this one-of-a-kind, 6BR/9.5BA retreat, designed and built to perfection. High ceilings and custom millwork accent the expansive summer porch with fireplace showcasing breathtaking pool, spa and John’s Island Sound views. Features include luxurious finishes, gourmet kitchen with Butler’s Pantry, walk-in bar, upper level guest suites with sitting area, kitchenette and bunk room, and a dock. Must see to appreciate! 130 Green Turtle Way : $7,600,000
Desirable Courtyard Home Near Beach
Panoramic Ocean Views Abound
John’s Island – Vero Beach, Florida This beautifully updated 4BR/5.5BA courtyard home is located a short walk to the beach in the quaint seaside setting of Oceanside Village. Boasting 4,172± SF, it offers high privacy walls, lush gardens, pool, sky lights, custom built-ins, and architectural detailing. Features include a voluminous living room with fireplace, family room, gourmet island kitchen with French doors, luxurious master suite and 1BR/1BA guest cabana. 161 Coquille Way : $2,200,000
John’s Island – Vero Beach, Florida The lure of the ocean captivates you upon entering this exceptionally renovated, 3BR/3.5BA condominium. Offered furnished, professionally decorated interiors compliment the tranquil seaside setting. Boasting 2,250± SF, features include stunning panoramic ocean views, custom millwork, tile floors, coffered ceilings, ample storage, full size washer and dryer, luxurious marble appointed bathrooms, and a gourmet, double island kitchen. Enjoy quiet moments overlooking the sparkling ocean views from custom window seats throughout. 850 Beach Road #279 : $1,995,000
One John’s Island Drive, Vero Beach, Florida 32963 • 800-327-3153 • www.JohnsIslandRealEstate.com 59
Exquisite Mediterranean Masterpiece Safety Harbor, Florida Exquisite Mediterranean Architectural Masterpiece on both Tampa Bay’s salt-water harbor plus fresh water lake! This superb 2008 waterfront estate and complete guesthouse offer a rare tapestry created by high-style design and a magnificent sun-drenched floor plan encompassing luxurious appointments, Travertine floors, 5 fireplaces, gourmet island kitchen with granite breakfast bar plus separate breakfast room, 5 bedrooms, 6 full baths, 2 half baths, study, 2 additional offices, game room, infinity-edge pool and 2 spa fountains, tremendous travertine veranda and pool decking, travertine circular drive, 3-car side-entry garage, “smart house” remote controls, bay dock, and so much more! Offered at $3,750,000.
White Trout Lake Luxury Waterfront Estate Tampa, Florida Tremendous private gated White Trout Lake luxury waterfront estate offering a rare Florida lifestyle, excellent central location convenient to Tampa’s amenities, including professional sports, the arts, international-level shopping, major business centers, top hospitals, universities, private schools, Tampa International Airport, and access to Gulf beaches. This estate offers the finest of luxury upgrades, design, craftsmanship, and amenities from volume ceilings, beautiful columns, attractive archways, a large gourmet island kitchen, full theatre room, numerous large glass expanses with spectacular views of the ski lake, pool, spa, 2-story boat dock, and marvelous lakefront sunsets that will last and thrill forever!!! Offered at $1,950,000.
Traditional Brick Waterfront Estate Odessa, Florida This 4.41-acre luxury Odessa 3-story traditional brick estate was built in 1997 by one of Odessa’s finest builders as his family’s personal residence. This exceptional home features exquisite workmanship, design, and expensive materials and upgrades throughout. Double electronic entry iron gates; oversized saltwater pool, spa, and deck; large covered boat dock with lift; plus a covered gazebo on ski-size Lake Calm; a separate guest house with full kitchen, bathroom, great room, plenty of extra storage, as well as 3+ additional car garages. This showplace home offers a superb waterfront lifestyle and the serenity desired by many. Offered at $2,200,000.
Exceptional Lake Cooper Luxury Estate Lutz, Florida Exceptional Lake Cooper Luxury Custom 2-story Brick Estate has 5 BRs, 5 BAs, a 5-Car Garage with upstairs Guest Quarters, and is located on welllandscaped acreage with mature trees and winding, pavered walkways, Upon entering the foyer through the large, carved wood-entry doorway, you will be impressed by the gourmet island kitchen with upgraded luxury appliances, granite and stone counters, overlooking a breakfast bar, a dining room, and a large adjacent family room with high ceilings, a tall fireplace, entertainment center, and large windows and doors which invite you to the huge pavered deck, oversized pool and spa, and to the ski lake. Nearby is a wonderful game room with full bar, pool bath, and plenty of space to accommodate a pool table, baby grand piano, oversized furniture arrangements, and, of course, marvelous pool, spa, and lake views. Offered at $1,100,000.
Specialists in Waterfront, Luxury Homes, & Estates Tampa, St. Petersburg, & Clearwater, FL www.MichaelGreenAndAssociates.com [email protected]
Builder’s Clearwater Luxury Estate Clearwater, Florida Imagine a 2010 private, electronic-double-gated and walled Clearwater 2.98 acre, 14,000 sq.-ft.-living-area, 22,480 total-sq.-ft.; a 2-story-screened, deep and massive diving/lap pool with huge spa, water-polo area, and phenomenal stone deck; 2 separate oversized 2.5 car garages; 6 bedrooms; 9.5 bathrooms; lighted Har-Tru tennis court, and full basketball court; super-luxurious gourmet double island chef’s kitchen with breakfast bar, crowd-friendly family/media/game room; spectacular oversized living, dining, foyer, and professional study with extensive built-in luxury cabinetry, plus a full-multi-desk office. This builder’s personal and unique estate and property cost over $6,000,000 to build. Offered at $4,000,000.
Outstanding Open-Water Masterpiece Apollo Beach, Florida OUTSTANDING TAMPA BAY OPEN-WATER MASTERPIECE! This luxurious resortstyle Mediterranean bay-front estate offers a rare, spectacular horizon accented by downtown skylines of both Tampa and St. Petersburg; scenic islands; yachts and cruise ships, and a lifetime of spectacular everchanging sunsets across a massive infinity-edge pool. Upon entering the electronic gates of this superb palm and tropical landscaped property, you will be impressed by the circular stone-paved driveway and motor court. A superb “man’s cave,” and poolside summer kitchen and granite bar are great new additions to this bay-front paradise. Capture this remarkable lifestyle of memorable occasions! Offered at $1,900,000.
Elegant Waterfront Estate Apollo Beach, Florida This elegant 2006 Mediterranean gated waterfront estate commands the point at the end of the cul-de-sac in Mira Bay’s gated Bay Estates. Upon entering custom wood entry doors into a high foyer, you are impressed by the interior warmth, beauty, luxury upgrades and design, including wood planked flooring, huge sliding glass pocket doors with beautiful views of the pool, spa, and waterfront, as well as a large sunlight-drenched dining room. The double- island gourmet chef’s kitchen features granite counters, custom wood soft-close cabinets, large adjacent massive SubZero refrigerator and separate freezer, large Wolf gas range, double ovens, 2-prep sinks, rare onyx backsplash, spacious walk-in pantry, and nearby wine cooler. Plus superb 4-car garage and heavy boatlift! Offered at $1,495,000.
Spectacular Views of Lake Keystone Odessa, Florida Spectacular panoramic views across the largest section of Lake Keystone!!!This Rare 6.709 acre vacant land parcel has 137 feet along Crawley Road and approximately 395 feet of shoreline. It can be purchased separately or along with the two adjacent lots (MLS # T2587355 and MLS # T2587356)north of it to comprise an 18.298 acre package at a combined list price of $3,400,000 or at an average list price of $185,813 per acre. Note that during June 2013 a 2-acre Lake Keystone vacant land parcel along Bantry Place sold for $1,070,000 or $535,000 per acre. Call for additional details and survey. Offered at $1,200,000.
Specialists in Waterfront, Luxury Homes, & Estates Tampa, St. Petersburg, & Clearwater, FL www.MichaelGreenAndAssociates.com [email protected]
1570 Harbor Cay Lane Longboat Key, Florida Majestic bayfront living in the secluded Harbor section of Bay Isles on Longboat Key. Ideal for the avid boater sited on a deep protected channel with seawall frontage and sufficient dockage for a vessel over 35-feet as well as double jet ski lifts. 5 bedrooms, 6 full and 1 half baths, 5,952 Sq Ft. $3,995,000. www.Premiersir.com/id/4400322. Cheryl Loeffler 941-302-9674 [email protected]
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5311 Sunrise Lane #A Holmes, Florida New construction on Anna Maria Island. This brilliant custom Classic Revival style home showcases exquisite bay views from all levels. Stunning attention to detail is combined with master craftsmanship resulting in beautiful yet practical home capturing the island charm of Anna Maria. 4 bedrooms, 3 full and 1 half baths, 3,329 Sq Ft. $2,199,000. www.PremierSIR. com/id/4478422. Terry Hayes 941-302.3100 [email protected]
600 Birdie Lane Longboat Key, Florida Exceptional attention to detail, nothing was overlooked, this spectacular Longboat Key estate is perfectly positioned on an expansive corner lot surrounded by the gentle warm waters of Sarasota Bay. The materials and finished throughout this home exude waterfront sophistication. 4 bedrooms, 4 full and 1 half baths, 5,047 Sq Ft. $3,495,000. www.PremierSIR.com/id/4450687. Thomas Netzel 630-803-8039 [email protected]
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The CounTry Club of louisiana Centuries old oaks and magnolias combined with scenic lakes and historic bluffs create the natural setting for The Country Club of Louisiana. Developed in 1985, this gated community boasts beautiful custom homes, a Jack Nicklaus-designed championship golf course, and a majestic Louisiana plantation clubhouse with tennis and swimming facilities. The Country Club of Louisiana is one of the finest residential and recreational communities in the United States and is located just 60 minutes from New Orleans in south Baton Rouge, on Highland Road, about a quarter of a mile off Interstate 10, at the Highland Road Perkins Road exit.
19146 W. Muirfield Dr. The counTry club of louisiana, baTon rouge, louisiana Designed by world renouned architect A. Hays Town! Located on the golf course. Enter through an A. Hays Town signature entrance and view the many amenities; brick arches, old brick and pine floors, antique pine ceiling beams, and antique interior doors. Plenty of space with a formal living room, a huge multi-purpose dining room, large upstairs master suite, and a live in kitchen with a brick fireplace. This home is inundated with character, charm, and quality! MLS# B1313341. $1,350,000. Call Quita Cutrer 225-413-8874.
18009 E. Augusta Dr. The counTry club of louisiana, baTon rouge, louisiana Architect Al Jones Jewel on the golf course! This classic but modern home has charm, quality, and ambiance! Enter the impressive foyer with wide plank pine floors and a classic staircase. The large kitchen has been updated with new appliances and white marble countertops. The master bedroom wing is an oasis that includes a sitting area, two master baths and a work out area. Private courtyards and a slate roof. MLS# B1306336. $1,749,000. Call Quita Cutrer 225-413-8874.
17918 Augusta Pointe Ct. The counTry club of louisiana, baTon rouge, louisiana 400 feet of golf course and Country Club of Louisiana Club House views! A grand Southern entrance with a huge “dog trot’ foyer and elegant curved staircase. Extra large rooms with 12-foot ceilings, old wide-plank pine floors, floor to ceiling windows, and custom millwork and doors. The media wing takes the entertainment aspect to a whole new level: includes separate bedroom, bath, and wine bar. The exterior includes the ultimate in Southern elegance with wrap around porches, slate roof, hurricane shutters, gas lanterns, and automatic privacy gates. The classic design and elegance of this home will last forever! MLS# B1207951. $1,895,000. Call Quita Cutrer 225-413-8874.
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Burns & Company at the gates of The Country Club of Louisiana 17400 Memorial Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70810 • 11412 Lake Sherwood Ave N, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Email: [email protected] • Phone: (800) 375-0608 • Cell: (225) 413-8874
19120 Honors Pointe Ct. The counTry club of louisiana, baTon rouge, louisiana Located on a quiet cul-de-sac, this one-level split floor plan designed by Architect Al Jones offers a spacious home and separate guest house with scenic views of the championship golf course and wildlife preserve. A fabulous entry courtyard provides the perfect transition to quality custom finishes that compliment the timeless architectural design. Perfect for entertaining, the deep rear porch and outdoor kitchen offer stunning views. Fabulous large master bedroom with private study and large white marble master bath with his and her closets. MLS# B1315408. $1,795,000. Call Quita Cutrer 225-413-8874.
17514 Masters Pointe Ct. The counTry club of louisiana, baTon rouge, louisiana AMAZING VIEWS! Enter the front door and prepare to be dazzled! Large living room with old pine floors and fireplace open onto a glassed in sunroom with travertine floors and the most amazing golf course views. This home has a gourmet kitchen with updated appliances and beamed ceilings, large master bedroom with a renovated marble bath that has it all, and a separate study. Great one level split floor plan located on a corner lot. MLS# B1302834. $795,000. Call Quita Cutrer 225-413-8874.
19323 Links Ct. The counTry club of louisiana, baTon rouge, louisiana Fabulous lake views! Enter this custom one level home through a lush courtyard into a large foyer with views straight to the lake. The large kitchen and keeping area has all the current appliances, a large granite island, and cypress cabinets.The living room has floor to ceiling windows overlooking the tranquil lake and a special outdoor space surrounded by balustrades, stone porches, and terraces. This home has all the amenities for today’s living! MLS# B1209202. $1,295,000. Call Quita Cutrer 225-413-8874.
17902 Augusta Pointe Ct. The counTry club of louisiana, baTon rouge, louisiana Located on the golf course! Designed by Remson Haley Herpin Architects, this house has it all. A brick walled courtyard with a deep porch and lap pool gives an additional living space with ultimate privacy. An octagon-glassed porch with a massive brick fireplace, cypress-domed ceiling and brick floors gives an additional private space. Travertine and wood flooring, special plaster finished walls, high ceilings and lots of natural light are just a few more special features. MLS# B1303412, $1,895,000. Call Quita Cutrer 225-413-8874.
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Burns & Company at the gates of The Country Club of Louisiana 17400 Memorial Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70810 • 11412 Lake Sherwood Ave N, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Email: [email protected] • Phone: (800) 375-0608 • Cell: (225) 413 -8874
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Cherry Creek North Denver, Colorado Great six plus one bedroom, five bath single family home in Cherry Creek North with four levels of living space. Main floor offers formal living and dining rooms, office/library, gourmet kitchen with informal dining and adjoining family room that opens to backyard patio. Second floor features a master suite and two additional bedrooms plus stairs to third floor offering two bedrooms, with Jack ’n Jill bath; a great teenager, office or studio area. Lower level features high ceilings, theater, full kitchen with informal dining, family room, wine room, and bedroom. $1,495,000
Washington Park Denver, Colorado Rarely does a location like this come available on the Park. Beautiful two-story period home with gorgeous woodwork and details offers a center hall plan, formal living and dining rooms, gourmet kitchen, family room, plus spacious TV/great room (easy office/billiard room). The master with sitting area, fivepiece bath, and views over the park, plus two additional bedrooms and bath are up. Lower level with private outdoor entrance offers three additional conforming bedrooms, ž bath, and laundry. $1,095,000
Julie Gelfond 303-378-9099 [email protected] www.DenversLuxuryHomes.com 70
An Architectural Masterpiece with Modern Sophistication Cherry Hills Village, Colorado Nestled on a private 2.28 acre site in a prestigious Cherry Hills enclave sites this nearly 20,000 square foot modern masterpiece. Rarely does an estate of this magnitude become available; offering dramatic design elements combined with sophisticated materials brings you this contemporary home rich in style and designed for living. Six bedrooms suites, 13 baths, 2 gourmet kitchens, full-size gym, hair salon, 12 plus car/garage, tennis, pool and so much more are sure to impress. $6,750,000
Country Club Denver, Colorado Stately brick Denver Square was originally built in 1909 and renovated for today’s family. The wide center hall staircase flanks formal living and dining rooms, a cozy study with fireplace features original bookcases and the family kitchen with built-in bench informal dining opens to step-down family room with French doors to covered flagstone patio. The master suite features a sitting area, his and her walk-in closets with built-ins, a 5 piece bath with double vanity and separate water closet. Two add’l 2nd floor bedrooms with Jack ‘n Jill full bath and a large landing offers a cozy sitting area. Front or back staircase to 2nd floor access the live-in quarters with separate kitchen, sitting room, two bedrooms and full bath. The lower level features large rec room, 6th bedroom with built-in cabinets, full bath, 2nd laundry, workshop and mechanicals. $2,390,000
Julie Gelfond 303-378-9099 [email protected] www.DenversLuxuryHomes.com 71
Panoramic Mountain Views Lafayette, Colorado Prized location in gated enclave of six distinctive homes just east of Boulder. Borders open space with panoramic pastoral and mountain views. A gardener’s paradise on over an acre. One of a kind contemporary design with 6,100 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5 baths, and 3 car garage. Soaring beamed ceilings, walls of view windows and floor to ceiling stone fireplace highlight the huge great room. Sunroom opens to patio with brick fireplace and gas grill, deck with hot tub, and walkways through incredible flower gardens. $1,595,000. Stu Wright, 303-541-1900, [email protected].
White Hawk Ranch Boulder, Colorado Exquisite residence set on a manicured acre at White Hawk Ranch offering indoor elegance plus outdoor living. Over 10,000 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 baths, 7 fireplaces and 5 patios featuring a wood burning sandstone fireplace, a water feature, and a built-in grill. Dynamic spaces include huge great room with massive arched beams, master suite with gym and steam shower, gourmet kitchen with top of the line appliances, and 1,000 bottle wine cellar. A home of this caliber abounds in quality amenities and custom features. $3,950,000. Stu Wright, 303541-1900, [email protected].
4875 Pearl East Circle, Suite 100 Boulder, CO 80301 303-443-2240 • 800-343-8885 www.wrightkingdom.com 72
Magnificent Colorado Estate Cordillera, Colorado Nestled within 7,000+ acres of fertile, high country ranchland and dramatic Rocky Mountain peaks, is Cordillera, an extraordinary private mountain golf community with three distinctive courses. Located 20 miles from the Vail/Eagle Regional Airport and minutes from the legendary ski resorts of Vail and Beaver Creek, the Cordillera community is the epitome of casual, mountain living with a twist of refinement. 541 Saddle Ridge: Commanding Gore Range and Sawatch Mountain views create the perfect backdrop for this magnificent 5 bedroom residence situated on 1.4 acres and adjacent to an open preserve. Fifteen foot entry doors welcome you into a great room with soaring ceilings and large picture windows, custom woodwork, and copper bar. The gourmet kitchen, breakfast room, butler’s pantry, formal dining, study and generous master suite are all found on the entry level, with guest suites and game room below. High-end finishes and impeccable attention to detail throughout complete the luxurious residence found only minutes inside Cordillera’s private gate. www.ronbyrne.com / www.cordillera-vail.com
Unparalleled Luxury and Convenience Beaver Creek, Colorado Beaver Creek consistently ranks as one of the most popular ski resorts in North America and offers the best of resort living, including fine dining, theater, visual arts, shopping, a championship golf course and unlimited hiking and biking. Skiing in Beaver Creek is a unique experience with a wide variety of terrain and a European village-to-village skiing experience that links Beaver Creek with its sister resorts of Bachelor Gulch and Arrowhead. 66 Village Walk: Discover the true meaning of ski-in/ski-out, with this four bedroom, five bath luxurious residence situated on Beaver Creek Mountain. Step out your back door into knee-deep powder and ski home at the end of the day to warm by the fire or relax in the outdoor Jacuzzi. Tucked just above Beaver Creek Village, the convenience of this home is second to none. Truly a masterpiece, the creation fo 66 Village Walk entailed the highest attention to detail and perfection. Tucked above Beaver Creek Village and located directly on Dally ski run, we invite you to tour the best that Beaver Creek has to offer. www.ronbyrne.com / www.beavercreekestate.com
Offered by: Barbara Scrivens [email protected] 970-471-1223 73
How Do You Put a Price on Paradise? Breckenridge, Colorado LIVE THE COLORADO LIFESTYLE. This is the classic “log home on the river” that dreams are made of! Over 1/3 of a mile of the Blue River meanders through the 12+ acres past this hand-crafted log home with 4 bedrooms and 3 ½ baths, each basking in magnificent views. FISH FROM YOUR DECK in Gold Medal quality waters, or in just minutes SKI the world-class slopes at Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper Mountain, Vail and Beaver Creek. This rare parcel includes your own island and fish habitat, oh yes, and a gym, 4 car garage, a vaulted living area and main level master suite with a rock fireplace. This legacy property is now being offered for the first time ever, perfect for generations to come. $2,950,000 www.loghomeontheblueriver.com
Ron Shelton • Broker, Partner Breckenridge Associates Real Estate 800-870-7392 • 970-547-7728 [email protected] • www.skicountryhomes.com 74
Downtown Breckenridge Breckenridge, Colorado Elegant mountain estate home borders town park on big 2 acre lot, one of the BEST LOTS in town. The home savors a commanding view over downtown to the Ski Resort and entire 10 Mile Range. Top quality construction throughout this 5,800 SF home includes 4 luxurious suites, and a lower level that can adapt to any purpose, like home theatre, recreation room, caretaker or mother-in-law apartment. The 4 car garage leaves room for all the toys. Hike right from home to trail system, or stroll downtown to shops, restaurants, and concerts. $2,450,000 www.breckenridgedreamhome.com
COLORADO+ Breckenridge, Colorado A classic of the genre. Hewn beams, sandstone floors, log trusses and a stone fireplace set the unmistakable tone of rustic elegance. The well built 4356 sf home offers 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a commanders kitchen overlooking the great room and dining area. Enjoy panoramic mountain views that include the Breckenridge Ski resort and one of Colorado’s 14,000 ft peaks, among many others. Access private, year-round amenities that complete the dreamcome-true second home. . . private stables, a boat house, a fully equipped skeet range, tennis court and trail system as an owner at Spruce Valley Ranch. $1,950,000 www.737sprucevalleydr.com
Ron Shelton • Broker, Partner Breckenridge Associates Real Estate 800-870-7392 • 970-547-7728 [email protected] • www.skicountryhomes.com 75
Elegance and Charm
Paradise Valley, Arizona As ideal for elegant entertaining as it is for luxuriously laidback living, this stunning Spanish-style home boasts sun-splashed rooms graced with long lingering archways, walls of windows and wood-trimmed French exits. Magnificent wood and granite kitchen. Plethora of alfresco patios nearly wraparound pristine desert gardens. Guest quarters w/kitchenette, bath. Pool, pond, putting green. 5BD/5.5BA in 6,617 SF. Offered at $2,195,000. MLS#5009989. Home tour at www.tourfactory.com/877709.
Scottsdale, Arizona Tucked inside the secluded gated community of Desert Summit, this gorgeous home is snuggled against lush open desert, creating an ambience of complete peace and privacy. Light-filled formal rooms. Stunning kitchen/ family room complex w/striking fireplace, art niches, architectural details. Huge loft/office w/expansive desert, mountain views. Sprawling flagstone patios, boulder-waterfall pool. 5BD/3.5BA in 4,327 SF. Offered at $862,000. MLS#5009963. Home tour at www.tourfactory.com/1069365.
Paradise Valley, Arizona Flattered by full views of Camelback and Mummy Mountains, this sleek contemporary dazzles with an ultra-modern look and feel. Designed to support important art, grand furniture. Phenomenal showplace entertainer’s kitchen rivaling the finest restaurant in appointments, finishes, fixtures. Open gathering areas segue out sliding glass walls to patios, sundeck-surrounded pool/spa. Alfresco kitchen. 4BD/4BA in 6,740 SF. Offered at $3,450,000. MLS#5001686. Home tour at www.tourfactory.com/1052232.
Paradise Valley, Arizona Wrapped around the middle of Marshmallow Mountain, this stunning contemporary estate overlooks the PV golf course, downtown Phoenix and the majestic Camel’s Head. Filled with artistic glass, wood, stone. Dramatic stairway entry with walls of glass, breathtaking views. Great room pivots around two-story fireplace, bar/entertainment complex. Sleek kitchen. Wow-worthy master suite. Loft with big views. 3BD/3.5BA in 5,603 SF. Offered at $2,750,000. MLS#5000701. Home tour at www.tourfactory.com/1070517.
Sandra Baldwin • 7135 E. Camelback Road, Suite 360 • Scottsdale, AZ 85251 • 480-287-5300 • www.BaldwinTeam.com 76
Magnificent New Estate
Paradise Valley, Arizona A traditional elegant estate on one of the most desirable 2.25 acres estate lots in Paradise Valley. Privately gated with mtn. Courtyard entry to very generous formal spaces. The kitchen complex is stunning. The family room/game room/media room flow together seamlessly and open on to deep view porches/patios. There is a day spa, library, office, maids quarters and wine room. Outside is a giant pool, tennis court, and art studio set in lush gardens and groves. 6BD/9BA in 12,069 SF. Offered at $5,000,000. MLS#5006294. Home tour at www.tourfactory.com/1060383.
Paradise Valley, Arizona Backdropped by Mummy Mountain, this brand-new Old World estate sets a new standard for elegance and sophistication. Stunning stonework, ironwork. Light-filled rooms flow onto balconies, patios, courtyards. Dual kitchens. Theater, wine room. Lavish master retreat with spa courtyard. Indoor basketball court. Guest house. Swimming pool with lazy river. Interior finishes by JR McDade Co. Three acres. 11BD/12.5BA in 22,215 SF. Offered at $16,000,000. MLS# 4833669. Home tour at www.tourfactory.com/920431.
World’s Most Romantic
Phoenix, Arizona Awash with a wealth of days-gone-by romance, this enchanting 1935 European-style adobe villa restored by Kristin Austin-Jacobs seduces the senses with its lush grounds, canopies of shade trees and sun-kissed rooms. Tongue-and-groove ceilings with dramatic beams. Every room with private courtyard. Garden walkway leads to posh cabana, huge fountain, draped relaxation areas. Guest house. Enormous pool. Two-plus acres. 4BD/5BA in 5,300 SF. Offered at $3,950,000. MLS#4725209. Home tour at www.tourfactory.com/837607.
Paradise Valley, Arizona Strikingly contemporary, this brilliantly designed estate wows with a wealth of crisp finishes, fine fixtures and dramatic architectural motifs. Breathtaking décor with magnificent wood, stone, glass, artistic flooring. Exquisitely sleek kitchen. Ultra-romantic master suite. View-rich office, library. Plush theater. Gated motor court with five garages, parking for dozen-plus. Camel views. 4BD/4.5BA in 8,797 SF. Offered at $3,980,000. MLS#4815273. Home tour at www.tourfactory.com/910135.
Sandra Baldwin • 7135 E. Camelback Road, Suite 360 • Scottsdale, AZ 85251 • 480-287-5300 • www.BaldwinTeam.com 77
A Sanctuary of Unrivaled Beauty and Integrity Galisteo, New Mexico Galisteo Basin Preserve - Flywheel Ranch of the Galisteo Basin Preserve is an incomparable 5,280 acre property overlooking Santa Fe County’s spectacular Galisteo Basin. Flywheel Ranch offers panoramic views of one of northern New Mexico’s most distinctive landscapes. $12,000,000 MLS #201205485. Don DeVito and Matt Desmond 505-670-1289
A Very Private Location, Just 45 Minutes From Santa Fe Serafina, New Mexico Just completed in 2011, this is a ranch compound like no other. Step back to the year 1860 while still enjoying robust infrastructure, high-speed connectivity and modern green high performance construction. 5 br, 6 ba, 6,791 sq.ft., 3-car garage, 520 acres . $4,950,000 MLS #201304416. Don DeVito and Matt Desmond 505-670-1289 / Mike Perraglio 505-660-9999
www.HomesinSantaFeNM.com Don DeVito 505-660-1866 [email protected] • Matt Desmond 505-670-1289 [email protected] 78
A Tuscan Estate with Commanding Views of the City Santa Fe, New Mexico Located on gorgeous Circle Drive, this private one-of-a-kind compound is perched on a 2.93acre knoll overlooking the city of Santa Fe and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. This is a special estate with incredible in-town location. 5 br, 8 ba, 12,000 sq.ft. $4,500,000 MLS #201302451. Don DeVito and Matt Desmond 505-670-1289
An Exceptional Eastside Santa Fe Property Santa Fe, New Mexico Soft contemporary designed home and full guesthouse in an exceptional setting on the east side of Santa Fe. The house opens up with in a great room concept, with ample glass sliding doors leading outside, and a unique architectdesigned ceiling. 3 br, 5 ba, 3,483 sq.ft., 1 acre. $1,095,000 MLS #201303577. Don DeVito and Matt Desmond 505-670-1289
www.HomesinSantaFeNM.com Don DeVito 505-660-1866 [email protected] • Matt Desmond 505-670-1289 [email protected] 79
Picosa Ranch FLORESVILLE, TEXAS Picosa Ranch, former home of Governor John B. and Nellie Connally, has outstanding infrastructure for hunting, entertaining and events. The property features a main house with over 8,200 square feet, a four bedroom guesthouse, lighted air strip, hunting lodge with private suites, luxury pools, tennis court, skeet range, party barn, fish camp and much more! This incredible South Texas ranch boasts exotics, whitetail and cattle which roam the highly improved and captivating 543 +/- acres. Adjacent 1700 +/- acres available for lease. $7,950,000 Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
Comal County BULVERDE, TEXAS Find this spectacular Hill Country home on over 182+/- wildlife exempt acres! From the gated entrance as you pass the guest house the paved road begins to crest the hill where over 6,300 square feet of fine living space awaits. 4 bedrooms, 4 baths and 1 half bath, formal dining room, living room and media room. Key details include a gourmet kitchen with Stainless Steel appliances and a temperature controlled wine room. Take the elevator to the luxurious master suite with captivating views, cozy fireplace, workout room and private study. The property also features a stocked pond. $3,900,000. Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
Gillespie County FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS Inspired by European countryside, this treasured ranch harbors gracious living, stunning improvements and rare proximity to historic Fredericksburg. Grand space, graceful arches, columns, and an architectural staircase integrate rich natural materials and subtle elegance. The estate features state-of-the-art AV and lighting, fixtures and appliances. The design includes an elevator, butler’s pantry, wine cellar, media room, loggia with grill kitchen, 1100 square foot guest house and metal barn. The residence is set on 95+/- acres edged by a 4 acre stocked pond. $4,000,000. Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
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Sendero Ranch SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS This gorgeous 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath custom built home is situated in the enchanting Texas Hill Country. Even the most discerning buyer will appreciate the serene backyard oasis with lush landscaping and multiple gathering and entertaining areas. Notice the opulent open floor plan with a large master suite and a downstairs gym. Secluded, private property is the embodiment of sumptuous country living that is only minutes away from shopping and restaurants. Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity! $1,000,000. Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
Terrell Hills SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Enjoy this wonderful estate home which is nestled on .62 +/- acres in prestigious Terrell Hills. Over 6,800 square feet of luxurious splendor awaits you including 6 bedrooms, 4 full baths and 3 half baths. This home features an open kitchen, multiple living areas, a wine room, study, media room, workout room and formal dining room. Enjoy entertaining poolside, or relax indoors by the fire. Endless opportunities! $1,795,000. Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
Gorgeous Rock Home BOERNE, TEXAS
Watch axis and fallow deer roam this remarkable 22 +/- acre high fenced, AG exempt, groomed land! Once you drive through the gated entry this rustic Hill Country home is sure to impress! A 4,064 square foot rock home with metal roof features elevated ceilings, luxurious master suite, and well-thought-out split floor plan. Enjoy the private study as well as the living room which features a grand floorto-ceiling rock fireplace. Expansive covered patio, open kitchen and wet bar bode well for easy entertaining and family life. Great location in desirable Boerne ISD. $1,200,000. Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
Central San Antonio 800-584-5400 • North San Antonio 800-337-0333 • Hill Country 800-419-5682 • Stone Oak 800-982-1447 • www.KuperRealty.com
Blanco River WIMBERLEY, TEXAS Enjoy this stunning property with over 1/2 mile of Blanco River frontage on 214 +/- acres which can be subdivided. The outdoor area is perfect for enjoying the cool Hill Country breeze with dual balconies and a dazzling pool and spa. Retreat to the downstairs master suite with a luxury bath and direct access to the pool. There is abundant space for friends and family on the property, including a private 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath guest house with a cozy fireplace. The barn on the property makes for a fantastic horse facility with 6 stalls and living quarters. $4,750,000 Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
Hill Country Village SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS This Luxurious estate offers ultimate privacy in desirable Hill Country Village! This exquisite 6,472 square foot home sits on 2 +/- acres of manicured grounds behind a gated entry. The estate features a gourmet kitchen, 2 living areas, formal dining room, climate controlled wine cellar and much more. Gracious splendor awaits in every room such as a gorgeous master with sitting area, luxury bath, private patio and fireplace. Enjoy the park like landscaping and amenities such as sparkling pool, outdoor kitchen and private tennis court. $1,350,000. Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
Panoramic Views TAPATIO SPRINGS, TEXAS An extraordinary home in a private setting with panoramic views of the beautiful Texas Hill Country, overlooking the Tapatio Springs Golf Course. This fully-appointed home with sophisticated design boasts a gourmet kitchen, spacious and elegant rooms with stunning details throughout the 6,208 square foot house. A beautiful covered patio and manicured gardens complete this masterpiece. Perfect for the most discriminating buyer. $2,000,000. Rick Kuper 210.240.8282
Central San Antonio 800-584-5400 • North San Antonio 800-337-0333 • Hill Country 800-419-5682 • Stone Oak 800-982-1447 • www.KuperRealty.com
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ustin wears many hats — depending on your interest. It’s known as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” “Silicon Hills” (for the mushrooming technology industries), eastern gateway to the famed Texas Hill Country, the beginning of the American Southwest. Everyone associates Willie Nelson with Austin. But add to this country music legend’s name notables such as George W. Bush, Lance Armstrong, Sandra Bullock, Johnny Depp, Larry Gatlin, Marsha Gay Hardin, Molly Ivins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Matthew McConaughey, the list goes on and on. In fact, the stream of actors alone is almost never-ending given the number of movies filmed in this picturesque setting, including The Alamo, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (a true story!), Capote, Courage Under Fire, Fandango, Hope Floats, Michael, Miss Congeniality I & II, Nadine, and the TV series Friday Night Lights and Lonesome Dove.
It’s no wonder, then, that the luxury home market in Austin is not just thriving, it’s exploding under the guidance of high end realtors such as Turnquist Partners Realtors, Inc. Incredible views of rolling hills and blue, blue lakes have attracted the highly-paid executives of numerous Fortune 500 markets now based, or with prominent regional offices, in the Austin area. Whole Foods Market, Apple, Google, IBM, Intel, Samsung and 3M are just a few of the corporations that have helped Austin belie the national trend by maintaining relatively stable home values, according to the city’s Business Journal. Thanks to these companies, and the presence of the State Government, the University of Texas and numerous other universities, housing starts are also continuing to rise, with luxury subdivisions a major component.
Austin’s ever-expanding film and arts scenes have attracted a highlyeducated, forward-thinking workforce which, in turn, has created what Money Magazine recognized in 2011, naming Austin second in the “Best Places to Live” among “Big Cities.”
Turnquist Partners specializes in such properties, including lavish estates, luxurious condominiums, trend-setting lofts, spectacular golf communities and breathtaking waterfront properties, as well as acres of farm and ranch land. Like most Austin residents, Steve and Michele Turnquist refer to themselves as “Austinites.” A dynamic Austin couple with more than 50 years of combined real estate experience, they have well earned their reputation as Central Texas luxury home market leaders.
Add to these kudos, the title “City of the Violet Crown,” a wintertime violet glow across the hills just after sunset, a testimony to Austin’s unique, lake-filled position at the intersection of four major ecological regions. Austin and the Texas Hill Country are so bound up with Texas’ picturesque history, it’s alive around every corner.
Austinites are incredibly friendly, proudly eclectic, reflecting the classic Texas independence, and fiercely protective of small, unique local businesses. A delightful community sense of humor (with always an eye to side benefits) pervades Austinites, who recently adopted the unofficial slogan: “Keep Austin Weird.”
As the Capital of Texas, which has produced two United States Presidents and too many national political figures to list, Austin is always au courant with what’s happening in D.C. And, it’s true: Everything’s bigger in the Lone Star State. The State Capital’s dome stands seven feet higher than the U.S. Capital’s dome in D.C.
Typical example — they revel in the fact that Austin has the largest urban bat colony in the world, under the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. Far from being a threat to humans, these shy creatures appear as if by city decree for mind-boggling departures and safe returns to their well-protected lair, creating a $7.9 million tourist attraction!
Selma Hughes – 115 Acres
Austin, Texas This beautiful, 8,500-sqare-foot, Texas limestone estate is situated on 3.98 acres of lush, manicured lawn with 312 feet of Lake Travis waterfront. Features include marble floors; a glass wall with spectacular views of the pool, terrace and lake Travis; an elevator; oak parquet flooring; 4 fireplaces; a spacious master suite with private balcony and a bathroom with an adjoining exercise room and sauna; 3 separate quest suites with private baths; a gourmet kitchen with breakfast area; an office/guest suite with a bedroom, bath and full kitchen; and laundry connections above the garage. Offered at $7,500,000.
Austin, Texas 115 acre ranch on the shores of beautiful Lake Austin with over 1850 ft of waterfront. This property is one of the last available large parcels of land on this pristine lake and features gently sloping terrain with pecan and oak trees covering the acreage. You will have protected views from this in town Ranch because of the location across from Balcones Canyon Land Preserve. Award winning schools with convenient stores and restaurants are minutes away. Truly a special place. Offered at $24,800,000.
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Selma Huges – 2 Acres
Austin, Texas This home was voted as the most iconic home for Austin in the Red fin Iconic Homes of America competition. Stunning 8,429 sq. ft., custom home with 9,862 total covered living area. Home features include a private entrance garden with Spanish deco fountain with fireplace and side entrance casita with kitchenette. Interior boosts 6 beds, 6.5 baths, 4 living, 2 dining, media room, 4 car garage, pool, summer kitchen, top of the line appliances, eat in wine room, pecan floors, exquisite designer touches. Offered at $3,395,000.
Austin, Texas Three two-acre lots starting at $1,995,000 - $2,495,000. These properties are the last available waterfront lots on the pristine Lake Austin. The lots are 2 acres featuring gently sloping terrain with pecan and oak trees. Enjoy the protected views of the location across from Balcones Canyon Lane Preserve from all lots. Award winning schools with convenient stores and restaurants are minutes away from this incredible waterfront property.
Michele Turnquist – 512.431.1121; [email protected]
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1601 Creek Road
Austin, Texas Meticulously landscaped 1.09 acres, private, backs to greenbelt located in gated enclave in Eanes ISD. 6 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 3 living areas home has open and flowing floor plan. Gorgeous walnut wood floors, chef’s dream kitchen granite counters, double oven, gas range, custom cabinets. Fabulous backyard pool oasis. Master bedroom has true spa feel with separate bath tub and walk in shower, custom cabinets and his and hers closets. Offered at $1,795,000.
Austin, Texas First time on the market pristine 207 acre ranch on ¾ mile of Onion Creek. Swim, fish, kayak on your on slice of heaven. Main house is 2 bedrooms, 2 bath a true Santa Barbara Mission style home. 2 bedroom 2 bath historic guest house was brought here from Ruidoso, NM and reconstructed using mortar and log construction. 4 stall barn with feed and tack room, bunk house and full bath. 2 bedroom foreman’s house is located near barn for convenience. This property is conveniently located 5 minutes from downtown Dripping Springs. Offered at $5,400,000.
27119 Waterfall Hill
Austin, Texas Hill top oasis enjoy the sunsets over Lake Travis and Hill Country views! This custom built home has 4 spacious bedrooms, 2 living, 2 fireplaces, and 20 X 40 Brazilian Redwood deck. Hickory floors enhance the warmth of this home, custom wall finishes, gourmet kitchen, granite counters, “Dacor” gas stove, pantry, in home office, custom wrought iron both inside and out. Back yard boasts pool with water feature and beautiful oak trees for shade. Offered at $749,900.
Austin, Texas White Limestone single story Hill Country Ranch style home, on 2.09 acres in gated Arnold Palmer Championship golf course sub-division. Other amenities include , club house, pool, spa, tennis courts and fitness center. This home is 4 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 2 living areas and office. Kitchen is perfect for entertaining with double ovens and large center island. Great workshop or office off of garage heated and air-conditioned. Beautiful courtyard style pool with beach entry. Offered at $849,000
Lynn Robin – 512.736.8822; [email protected]
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1609 Seaside Drive Beachtown, Galveston Island, Texas This majestic home at 1609 Seaside is a landmark in Galveston’s exclusive Beachtown community. Located on the east end of the island where nature is actually making the beaches wider, Beachtown has been called the “Hamptons of the South.” Designed by Milosav Cekic and built by Gulf Coast Custom Homes, the home originated with the best craftsmen and was completed in the same fashion. No expense was spared. Per the architect, “The house occupies one of the four most prominent BEACHFRONT lots in Beachtown. It terminates the passage between the town center and the ocean and stands next to the gazebo at the start of the dune walkover. The house is strongly inspired by tradition in general, and by a wealth of Galveston’s architectural heritage, in particular. It uses both Victorian and Gothic elements to create a house as stately as some of the great historic houses still standing on Galveston’s Broadway. “ The home is over 5,000 square feet on 4 levels. It features 7 bedrooms, 7 1/2 bathrooms, exercise room with infrared sauna, elevator, custom 100 year old French Oak wide plank floors, tongue and groove 8” paneling on interior walls, state-of-theart home automation, two fireplaces, study, library, wet bars and designer lighting. The kitchen leaves nothing to the imagination with Sub Zero and Wolf appliances, including a steamer, 2 sets of Fisher & Paykel dual drawer dishwashers, Butler’s Pantry, honed Carrera marble Island and honed slate perimeter counters. Water views are found throughout the home and on over an additional 1,700 square feet of covered porches. The home was professionally decorated and is being offered furnished including many antique pieces and lighting.
Kelly Kelley Broker / Owner CPA, RSPS, CLHMS, CRS, GRI, ABR, e-PRO Phone 281-794-9463 • Fax 803-947-0430 www.KellyKelley.com • [email protected] “Galveston Is My Home. Galveston is My Business.” 86
Pelican Landing Galveston Island, Texas A rare find in the exciting, exploding Galveston marketplace. This brand new, 6,000 square foot treasure that overlooks both Galveston Bay and Offat’s Bayou offers something for everyone with its deep water boat slips, jet ski lift and luxurious outdoor kitchen/entertainment area. The beautiful circular driveway leads to this magnificent waterfront/bulkheaded home with its chef’s gourmet kitchen, slate and hard wood flooring in main areas, wet bars, and impact windows. Five bedrooms and a sumptuous master suite with private access to a fitness center are complimented by a deck, patio and pier with incredible views. Amenities include an alarm system, central vacuum, elevator, swimming pool, boathouse, boat ramp and boat slip, all located in the exclusive neighborhood off Harborside Drive exit, an easy access site right off I-45S.
Kelly Kelley Broker / Owner CPA, RSPS, CLHMS, CRS, GRI, ABR, e-PRO Phone 281-794-9463 • Fax 803-947-0430 www.KellyKelley.com • [email protected] “Galveston Is My Home. Galveston is My Business.” 87
Royal Oaks Country Club Houston, Texas Magnificent 5/5+3/4 in gated Estate section overlooking lake and the Fred Couples’ signature golf course. Reception hall with floating staircase and domed ceiling; formals; den with beamed ceiling; wood paneled library; gourmet kitchen with Sub-Zero, 2 Meile dishwashers, 6+burner gas, 3 ovens, 2 wine coolers; master bedrooms up and down, downstairs master with his/hers closets. Extra rooms include media, game, craft, exercise and planning center. The expansive pavilion and veranda feature living area with fireplace, summer kitchen, mosquito system and 60’ pool,. Amenities include travertine and cherry hardwoods, Anderson windows, leaded glass doors and transoms, 7 fireplaces, filtered water, elevator, 2 stairs, Texas basement, geothermal HVAC, and 4-car garage. $4,650,000. Clarann McCoy 281-493-3880, cell 713-882-3600, [email protected]
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Memorial Houston, Texas A masterpiece in Memorial, this unique gated compound, with 4+ acres of lush land, mature trees fountains, rotundas, fountains and spectacular grounds, boasts two large homes. Majestic gates provide a dramatic welcome, while secured courtyards provide the ultimate privacy and protection. The principal home is a fabulous Italian villa with 5 bedrooms, 5 full baths and 2 half bathrooms. Built for grand scale entertaining, with enormous room sizes, abundant light and soaring frescoed ceilings, this amazing property includes formals, a ballroom, a family room, a sunroom, a game room, and a fabulous outdoor retreat with oversized Roman pool, statuary and several fountains. Adjacent to the beautiful dining room, the kitchen and butler’s pantry have granite counters and abundant cabinetry. The master retreat includes separate his and hers areas with large closets. This property also has a greenhouse, an aviary for large birds, a tree house and many other amenities. $3,950,000. Enid Cruise-Cleland, 713-341-1602, cell 713-444-8814, [email protected]
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old Beach, Oregon. This majestic 10,000+ square foot Cape Cod style home is perched gracefully atop 45 pristine forested acres with magnificent views up and down the Pacific Ocean coast as well as the famous Rogue River. Harrison Ridge Estate delights with its close proximity to myriad outdoor activities as well as to downtown Gold Beach, a quaint tourist town located approximately 30 miles north of the California border in what is known, due to its mild climate, as “the banana belt of Oregon.” World-class golf at Bandon Dunes Resort is about an hour’s drive north, and Gold Beach also boasts its own public golf course, Cedar Bend. World-class fishing in the Rogue River, horseback riding, surfing, kayaking, rafting, canoeing, wind surfing, clam digging, beachcombing, storm watching, whale watching, bird watching and strolling along the beach are all popular activities in the area. With a private airport two minutes away, and commercial flights available within an hour’s drive, commuting is definitely a possibility for the determined businessman. The beauty of the great outdoors envelops you as you arrive on the property via the paved, gated winding road threading through tall fir trees to end at the impressive 8 bedroom, 8-1/2 bath Cape Cod style home. It was lovingly designed by the sellers (Gregory Harrison, an actor best known for his role as Gonzo on the TV series TRAPPER JOHN MD, and Randi Oakes Harrison, formerly an actress on the series CHIPS) who relocated from Southern California to Oregon in 1992. Determined to raise their children in an area known for its beauty, mild climate, friendly community, outdoor
activities and healthy lifestyles, the Harrison’s have enjoyed nurturing their children in this kid-friendly yet elegant home. With every room providing a world-class view, the home easily transcends from child-friendly warmth into a wonderful entertainment space for even the most discriminating. The heart of the home is the large Great Room/Living Area with its high ceilings and open floor plan...connecting seamlessly to the dining area, breakfast nook, entertainment balcony and oversized kitchen (with 2 ovens, granite counter tops, island and double pantry). This all makes for flowing, workable spaces for an intimate gathering...or a party for 200. A black tie affair may have occurred on Friday night, followed by rollerblading through the living room on Saturday morning and artwork at the nook in the afternoon. The main house also provides 6 bedrooms and 5-1/2 baths, as well as 2 offices, including the spectacular Crow’s Nest which sits at the top, above a full library. The attached 3-car garage includes a surfer’s den, with board-rack and a tiled shower/drying room. Above the garage are two large apartments, each with private full bath. One has a separate entrance and its own kitchenette, while the other connects to the main house via the beautiful hardwood hallway. A fully equipped gym, a flow-pool and large Jacuzzi provide in-house exercise and relaxation. For the equestrian, the 6-stall horse barn (with hay loft, tack room and full bath) is but a short stroll away. Offered at $3,900,000.
For more information, please contact Kurt Tamashiro, 541-660-3844, [email protected]
50 Blue Heron Irvine, California A once in a lifetime opportunity awaits you – a true masterpiece on a rare 2 acres of land – on a coveted street within prestigious Shady Canyon. Exquisite landscaping enriches a long, circular drive and a tranquil courtyard fountain sets the scene for stylish living. Soft color themes, 100 year old antique beams, and enchanting Tuscan farmhouse architecture showcasing the talents of Fari create an estate of timeless and comfortable appeal. Modern in every way, the residence feels as if it has been in this remarkable setting for generations. Sequestered on one of the only 5 double home sites in all of Shady Canyon, the estate enjoys 2 acres of private grounds including olive vineyards, amphitheater and terraced great lawn, enhanced by canyon, city, golf course and mountain views that shimmer with lights after sunset. www.50BlueHeron.com. Pegi DiRienzo 949.525.1125
990 Ocean Front Laguna Beach, California Designed by iconic Laguna Beach architect Mark Singer, this contemporary residence sits on the sand in the Village of Laguna Beach and provides the ultimate in sophisticated living and environmental sustainability. This stunning home makes a definitive statement in form and functionality and includes three bedroom suites, a kitchen that will impress the most discriminating chef, and a master suite of unsurpassed extravagance. Be impressed with the more than 3,600 square feet of living space along with more than 2,200 square feet of outdoor entertainment areas including a dramatic private courtyard with a saltwater pool and spa. With its gated access to the beach, this home is perfect for entertaining and social beach living at the finest. www.990OceanFrontLaguna.com. Jeff Fischbeck 949.697.9993
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1311 Kings Road Newport Beach, California Inspired by the timeless design of Tuscan styling, this extraordinary view estate has been artfully crafted and designed by the owner for her personal residence. 1311 Kings Road epitomizes the Newport Beach lifestyle affording panoramic and unobstructed views of the Newport Harbor, ocean, Catalina, Sunset and City Views. From the great room to dining to kitchen, walls of windows and retracting doors open to the magnificent views. The estate has 5 private suites, two of which are presently used as a gym and media room, 2 offices and a wine cellar with capacity for over 500 bottles. A spectacular residence for those discerning few who simply require the best. Shown by appointment only with co-listing agents. Sellers choice of services to include escrow, title and termite. www.1311KingsRoad.com. Linda Taglianetti 949.270.0034
1624 San Onofre Drive Pacific Palisades, California Feel the alluring sophistication of this stylish architectural villa with expansive 180 degree ocean and city views from Palos Verdes to the Palisades! This private estate is designed to delight all your senses - breathe in the inspirational views from every room, dive into the lap pool and relax in the spa. The gourmet kitchen includes a breakfast area, all Viking appliances and opens into the family room. Journey downstairs and catch up on the latest movies or TV show in the media room or burn some calories in the home gym. The entire lower floor opens out onto a new outdoor patio. This entertainers paradise includes a built in BBQ island, outdoor dining area and lounge where you can feel the comforts of your own private resort. This retreat’s features tie the best of all worlds into one incredible property. Simple Perfection! www.1624SanOnofreDrive.com. Adam & Ally Jaret 310.562.4073
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Exclusive Malibu Colony with Ocean and Mountain Views Malibu, California This fabulous contemporary home is located in the exclusive guard gated community of Malibu Colony on a 75 ft wide lot. This home includes beach access plus expansive deck off the master bedroom with views of Serra Retreat, the Malibu Lagoon and first point at the world famous Malibu Surfrider beach. Ideal for entertaining with built-in bbq and spa on the patio. Large open living room with vaulted ceilings, fireplace in the master suite, attached guest suite with separate kitchen, and a three car garage. One of the largest homes inside the private gates of Malibu Colony.
Marcus Beck • Prudential Malibu Realty DRE #00971376 www.malibuestates.com • [email protected] 310-317-1709 OFC • 310-456-1401 FAX
Malibu Ocean View Contemporary Malibu, California Reminiscent of the Hollywood Hills in feel and character. This centrally located contemporary boasts an ocean view with clean lines and approximately 5,340 square feet of living space, and located within walking distance to Duke’s and La Costa Mission Restaurants. Included in this unusual offering is a contiguous lot with prior plans for a guest house, currently used as a garden and flows nicely from the main house to sun filled open spaces, fruit trees and a walking path to Las Flores Park. Grand rooms, high ceilings, skylights, three fireplaces, elevator and ocean view balconies. Master bedroom with dual bathrooms, wardrobe areas and balcony, den with kitchenette and fireplace, bonus hobby or wine room with outside entrance, outside guest suite with separate entrance and solar panels on roof.
Marcus Beck • Prudential Malibu Realty DRE #00971376 www.malibuestates.com • [email protected] 310-317-1709 OFC • 310-456-1401 FAX
Ho’olei Wailea Wailea, Maui, Hawaii These elegant three bedroom, three and onehalf bath Wailea Townhomes have striking ocean views from both upper and lower floors. Premium finishes throughout including granite countertops, travertine limestone flooring, Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, custom cabinetry and a private elevator. Ho’olei offers worldclass amenities including pool/spa, professional fitness center and on-site front desk/concierge services. Prices start at $2,498,000. Call Brad MacArthur, BIC, for more details, 808-357-5000.
Wailea Golf Estates Wailea, Maui, Hawaii This exceptional, ocean view four bedroom, four bath luxury estate has spacious living areas, expansive lanais, a large well-manicured lawn and a sparkling blue tile pool. Located in the heart of Wailea, the gated community of Wailea Golf Estates is just minutes away from all the luxury amenities the Resort has to offer. For more information call Brad MacArthur, BIC, 808357-5000, [email protected]
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“A village in a forest overlooking a white sand beach” — that is the storybook city called Carmel-by-the-Sea. Incredible natural scenery, a rich artistic population and Clint Eastwood as mayor — Carmel-by-the-Sea is an aesthetic Pacific Coast paradise in every sense of the word. Dogs are welcome almost everywhere, high heel shoes can’t be worn without a permit. This one-square-mile city is beautifully tucked away on a gently rising slope above a magnificent white Pacific Ocean beach. From the 6th Century on (it’s believed), ancient folks were drawn to this area, with the Spanish arriving in the mid-15th Century. They named this paradise after Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Mission Carmel actually contained the state’s first library and its founder, Father Serra, is called the “Father of California.” It passed into the hands of a French businessman who set up a brickworks and bakery. A dispute with another area called Carmel led to the addition of “by-the-Sea.” From the very beginning, Carmel lured artists, so aptly described by Jack London in his “The Valley of the Moon.” Swishing their brushes around were Mary Austin, Armin Hansen, George Sterling, and Clark Ashton Smith, to name just a few. Theater flourished, as did other venues and soon the roster of internationally recognized names spread across the arts. The poet George Sterling is credited with establishing the town’s literary base. Poet Robinson Jeffer’s Tor House, on a windswept barren seaside promontory is open to the public. Today Carmel’s Art, Bach and Shakespeare Festivals draw international audiences annually. A unusually strong emphasis on protecting and enhancing the city’s natural coastal beauty has given Carmel such a reputation, it often hosts delegation wanting to know how it retains such small scale authenticity in today’s world. Trees are so treasured and revered, existing ones cannot be removed for construction and barren lots must be planted. This unique municipality has no streetlights or parking meters; houses have names, not street numbers and no home mail delivery. Overnight delivery is possible, but only with geographical addresses,” a street name, the cross street name and the number of houses from that intersection.
This doesn’t (didn’t) seem to discourage celebrities from making their homes in Carmel, including Jean Arthur, Doris Day, Clint Eastwood, Joan Fontaine, Sinclair Lewis, Jack Lundon, John Madden, Upton Sinclair, Robert Louis Stevenson, Betty White and Ryan Phinny. And, as would be expected with such a notable population, the amenities demanded by those who can afford the very best are found in Carmel in abundance —shopping, entertainment, education and, of course, cuisine. Carmel is a haven of coffee shops and its proximity to fresh seafood, the fertile Salinas Valley and 75+ wineries in the famous Monterey County ensure the very best of dining. World class fishing, kayaking, surfing and scuba diving draw water sports lovers to the coast, while others head inland for exciting horseback riding, jogging, walking and bicycling along magnificent coastal bluffs. Nearby are renowned golf courses and tennis courts. Just a couple of hours south of San Francisco, the picturesque ambiance of Carmel extends throughout the town that is redolent with myriads of Hugh Comstock’s whimsical cottages and other delightful architectural styles. “Residents rule!” could be a city motto. Nearby cities provide all necessary commercial amenities, which allows Carmel to focus on keeping its own neighborhoods as livable and resident-friendly as possible. Oh, that no-high-heels-without-a-permit? Carmel treasures its picturesque atmosphere so much, cracked sidewalks and irregular pavement are considered crucial to the ambiance. This law is to prevent unappreciative visitors from suing the city if they trip and fall. But don’t worry. They have no jail. Or cemetery either. Well, there is one grave. For the town dog Pal. The city also used to prohibit selling and eating ice cream on public streets. But Clint Eastwood got that one overturned. Needless to say, property is so coveted in Carmel-by-the-Sea, those seeking to live here or nearby naturally turn to those respected “Purveyors of Fine Homes & Estates,” Alain Pinel Realtors, voted the Best Real Estate Company in Monterey County (among its other many awards). Owner/broker Judith Profeta heads a team that knows this unique city and surrounding areas intimately, who are as active personally in the community as they are professionally. Through them, new residents always find luxury properties that exceed their expectations.
One-of-a-Kind Pebble Beach Estate Pebble Beach, California This amazing property has some of the most magnificent views ever seen from almost every room of this spectacular Italianate style villa nestled against the hills in Pebble Beach. This property includes six bedrooms suites, plus two offices, 8300+/- sq. ft., wine cellar, elevator, gourmet kitchen and enormous dining room. There are numerous sunny terraces and verandas on which to dine and soak up the sun and views. All on over an acre of pure privacy and yet close to Pebble Beach Lodge. Offered at $7,900,000 | Visit – www.PBOverTheTop.com for more information.
In the Heart of Carmel Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Originally built in 1988 by Chris Tescher and totally updated in 2012 from top to bottom to include an extraordinary new rolled roof, cherry floors, custom European wood windows, brand new kitchen and high ceilings. All the wood work and doors were custom crafted especially for this home by local artisan, PG Millworks. The home features four bedrooms and three baths. The Fourth bedroom could serve beautifully as a media room. The Master Suite, on the main level, has a beautiful stone fireplace and an extra-large closet with custom built-ins.A fireplace is also in the Living Room, Fourth Bedroom / Media Room, as well as, the back patio providing a cozy and wonderful gathering space. The home’s gorgeous kitchen is emphasized by granite counters and custom cabinetry. The ocean can be seen from the Master Bedroom, Dining Room and Kitchen. Perfectly located a short distance between town and beach. Offered at $2,950,000 | Visit – www.CarminoRealNorth.com for more information.
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Landmark Location Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Imagine being only feet away from Carmel Beach and lulled to sleep by the sounds of the ocean, and waking to the sparkle of sunlight on water. Imagine a home so comfortable with its four bedrooms and four bathrooms. It invites you to relax every time you step through the door of this 1,917 square foot home. Attached to the garage is a separate guest home with two bedrooms and one bathroom in a cozy 303 square feet guest house. Imagine gracious living space just waiting to be filled with the laughter of family and friends within this completely walled and very private lot 8,000 square foot lot. Offered at $5,500,000 | Visit – www.HeavenOnOcean.com for more information.
Lincoln Craftsman Carmel-by-the-Sea, California This home is an absolute charmer…situated on a larger than normal lot, the home sits majestically back from the street thru an electric gate…. lots of stone and carved wood add to the character created by Tom Reynolds,a fabulous local contractor. Beautiful woodwork, hardwood floors, paned windows grace the extra-large living room; a fabulous kitchen with granite and hardwood, complete with a pizza oven, mark this home as a piece d’ resistance! Two bedrooms on main level and a gorgeous master with a balcony, and peek of the ocean. Outdoor patio from living room and kitchen on the sunny side of the home is perfection. Not far from the beaches and 7- 8 blocks to town. Offered at $2,950,000 | Visit – www.LincolnCraftsman.com for more information.
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19 Eagle Ridge Lane Blackhawk, California Blackhawk estate with miles of breathtaking views from the privately gated Eagle Ridge enclave atop Blackhawk Country Club, the East Bay’s most exclusive of addresses. Enjoy panoramic 270 degree views of sunrise to sunsets, the Mt. Diablo foothills to the Las Trampas Ridge and verdant golf course vistas below from this secluded, 1.02 acre homesite. The finest in elite materials, craftsmanship and thoughtful design has been utilized throughout this 7,889 square foot (ap.) mansion. The recently completed, extensive remodel added even more spectacular custom features to the home’s sumptuous array, especially in the connoisseur’s kitchen, extensive artisan wrought iron work, Venetian Plaster, rare stonework, the pool, spa, sauna and steam room, high end, audio visual integration, and so much more! Truly the ultimate in privacy, luxury and elegance! View the complete details at www.19EagleRidgeLane.com. $4,595,000
4279 Silver Meadow Court Blackhawk, California A stunning estate like none other in Blackhawk, this home leaves no detail untouched. This beautiful home offers approximately 5,600 square feet of living space with six bedrooms and five and one half baths. Completely outfitted home theater with custom recliner seating, 3,000 bottle wine cellar, five+ car garage with dual configuration as an entertainment venue, billiards room, resort style backyard with pool and spa...this home has it all. $2,399,000
Carole Cline, CRS • Real Estate Broker • DRE #00790663 925-683-0488 • [email protected] • www.CaroleCline.com
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Villa Eden Acapulco, Mexico When looking for a vacation home with great Hollywood history, it doesn’t get more glamorous than the palatial Villa Eden in Acapulco, Mexico. It was previously named The Warner Estate, located in the Las Brisas Resort, one of Acapulco’s most prestigious gated communities, and was the vacation home of celebrities and Warner Bros. executives. Steve Ross, the late Chief Executive of Warner Bros., acquired the compound in the late 1970’s and cultivated its beautiful grounds and added many luxurious amenities to create a studio perk for celebrities and directors. Villa Eden is the ultimate vacation home known for its appeal to the international “jet set” and as one of the famous playgrounds of the rich and famous. This luxury estate, with over 25,000 square feet of living space, 12 bedrooms and breathtaking views of renowned Acapulco Bay, has an asking price of $9,500,000.00 US. Some of the highlights of Villa Eden include: * 3 acres of manicured grounds * Panoramic views of Acapulco Bay and the Pacific Ocean * 12 bedroom suites with private baths and walk-in closets * 18 bathrooms * Two living and dining room areas * Fully-equipped industrial kitchens * 2 large swimming pools * Indoor and outdoor regulation tennis courts * Movie projection salon * Fully-equipped gym * Three sauna baths * Three massage rooms * Wine cellar * Large parking areas with guard cabin * 24-hours security
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oronto — voted one of the World’s Most Livable Cities — is a city with plenty of bragging rights.
Zoo, by the way, won “Top Cellphone Recycler” in a competition of North American Wildlife Organizations.
For example, looking for the longest street in the world? You’re in luck! Part of it is here in Toronto. Yonge Street starts at Lake Ontario, runs through Toronto as Highway 11, and ends at the Minnesota border, a distance of 1178 miles.
Only New York and London boast bigger (tho perhaps not livelier?) theater districts than Toronto. Greektown boasts one of the highest concentrations of restaurants per kilometre in the world. And the shopping . . . well, it’s world class, too!
Beautifully sited on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, Toronto anchors the exciting, ever-excelling “Golden Horseshoe” region. Its unique location makes it an important entrance/exit point for Canada and the United States.
Let’s not forget sports. Toronto boasts seven major league sports teams: hockey (Maple Leafs), baseball (Blue Jays), basketball (Raptors), Canadian football, soccer (mens) and two pro women’s soccer leagues. The National Football League’s Buffalo Bills play selected games in Toronto.
Voted one of the “World’s Most Diverse Cities,” Toronto’s eclectic population excites an international flavor in everything from education to entertainment, from fine shopping to diverse cuisine and, most importantly, in its wide range of arts and cultural offerings. Over 50 ballet and dance companies, six opera companies, two symphony orchestras and theaters too numerous to count are thriving in Toronto.
Three rivers flow lazily through the city: Humber, Don and Rouge. Their many creeks create deeply forested ravines ideal for parks and recreation trails. Prominent escarpments, remnants of a glacial age, add to the ambiance with beautiful city overlooks and deeply wooded ravines. Public parks abound. Downs view Park won the coveted “Tree City” design award.
Toronto has long ranked as one of the top financial centers in the world, and certainly as Canada’s commercial capital. The Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group lists Toronto as an “Alpha World City.” Home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the world’s seventh largest by many gauges, Toronto’s wide range of leading economic sectors have attracted an affluent international community which has shaped the city into an ideal environment for raising children. Toronto’s advantageous site attracted Anglo settlers and the area grew until 1813 when — during the War of 1812 — it was burned to the ground by American soldiers. In part in retaliation for this fire, British trips later burned Washington, DC. Today all is peaceful, so peaceful, in fact, Toronto is considered one of the safest major cities in North America. One of the world’s major tourist draws, Toronto boasts one of the world’s largest Zoos and the only real, full-sized castle in North America (Casa Loma). Built as a private residence around 1910, Casa Loma had 59 telephones! The movies Chicago and parts of X-Men were shot there. The Toronto
“Eclectic” describes Toronto’s building scene as well, ranging from multiple luxury high rises to the historic Distillery District, North America’s largest and best-preserved collection of Victorian era industrial architecture. This was once the largest alcohol-processing center in North America. It’s now renovated into a pedestrian-oriented neighborhood of arts, culture and entertainment. In fact, historically-preserved and treasured neighborhoods exist all over Toronto, according to Michael Kalles of Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd. It’s said if you have a multimillion-dollar residence to sell, or want to acquire one, your first call should be to Kalles Real Estate. Catering to the elite, “carriage-trade,” Kalles is a generational firm, whose reputation and mode of operation helped it not just survive but to actually thrive during economic downturns. Sharp decisions to quickly utilize social media and other advances in sales technology combined with the company’s firm commitment to keep its focus on relationships with clients are key to Kalles’ success in Toronto’s affluent communities. Michael Kalles recently joined the prestigious Haute Living Real Estate Network. This exclusive circle of leading real estate agents is invited to bring opulent estates and luxury properties to Haute Living readers.
18 Cluny Drive Toronto, Ontario, Canada Landmark Rosedale estate where elegant architectural design and meticulous restoration superbly combined with modern finishes and stateof-art technology create an exceptional urban retreat. Impeccable details include expansive leaded glass pane windows offering panoramic ravine views and dramatic free-floating custom designed staircase. Indoor pool with impressive water feature, yoga area and walk-out to covered terrace. Exquisite gardens and stone pathways leading to waterfall flowing into pond create magical private oasis in heart of city. $8,880,000. Inquiries to Elise Kalles, [email protected] or www.elisekalles.com.
155 Warren Road Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sited on one of Forest Hill’s most prestigious streets. Old World design blended with meticulous restoration incorporating modern amenities. Ambience of elegant grandeur pervades. 10' ceiling on main, 9' on 2nd and 8' on 3rd. Living and sun room French doors walk-out to terrace and pool. Breakfast room combined with family and sun rooms create venues for more casual gatherings. 7 bedrooms, 7 baths. Finished lower level with entertainment room, games room and wine cellar. Coach House. Mature gardens on deep lot ( 174’) with pool. $5,950,000. Inquiries to Elise Kalles, [email protected] or www.elisekalles.com.
1 Saint Ives Avenue Toronto, Ontario, Canada Luxurious Lawrence Park home replete with special attention to the finest of finishes and impeccable details. Grand principal rooms embellished by oak herringbone floors, custom mahogany china cabinets, gas fireplaces and French doors leading to exquisite gardens. Kitchen / family room combination wonderfully enhanced by seamless wall of glass. Dramatic sweeping staircase crowned with stunning skylight. 5 bedrooms, 7 baths. Lower level home theatre, wet bar, wine cellar and walk-out to private courtyard, pool and fountain. $5,880,000. Inquiries to Elise Kalles, [email protected] or www.elisekalles.com.
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Welcome to Roatan The Island Jewel of the Western Caribbean T
he island of Roatán is a place few have ever seen, yet over $500 million in luxury development projects are currently under construction. Roatán is magnificent. Clear water, great climate, lush, hilly, friendly, and modern in the ways you want in a resort destination. Indeed, Roatán is one of those few remaining places that seems untouched…and it’s a little over two hours from Texas! Roatán, located between the islands of Útila and Guanaja, is the largest of Honduras’ Bay Islands. The island was formerly known as Ruatan and Rattan. It is approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) long, and less than 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) across at its widest point. The island consists of two municipalities (out of a total of four in the department): Jose Santos Guardiola in the east (named for the former president of Honduras) and Roatán (also including the Cayos Cochinos) further south in the west. The most populous town of the island is Coxen Hole, capital of Roatán municipality, located in the southwest. Other important towns include French Harbour, West End, and Oak Ridge, the capital of Jose Santos Guardiola municipality. The easternmost quarter of the island is separated by a convoluted channel through the mangroves that is 15 meters wide on the average. This section is called Helene, or Santa Elena in Spanish. Satellite islands at the eastern end are Morat, Barbaretta, and Pigeon Cay. Further west between French Harbour and Coxen Hole is Barefoot Cay. Known as Burial Key until 2001, Barefoot Cay now is privately owned and houses a luxury resort popular with celebrities. Located near the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the largest barrier reef in the Caribbean Sea (second largest worldwide after Australia’s Great Barrier Reef), Roatán has become an important cruise ship and scuba diving destination in Honduras. Tourism is most important economic
sector, though fishing is also an important source of income for islanders. Roatán is located within 50 minutes of LGS. The island is served by the Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport. HISTORY The pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of the Bay Islands are believed to have been related to Paya, Maya, Lenca or Jicaque, which were the cultures present on the mainland. Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage (1502–1504) came to the islands as he visited the neighboring Bay Island of Guanaja. Soon after the Spanish began raiding the islands for slave labor. More devastating for Native American communities was exposure to Eurasian infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, such as smallpox and measles. Diseases ran in epidemics, and no indigenous people survived. Throughout European colonial times, the Bay of Honduras attracted a diverse array of individual settlers, pirates, traders and military forces, engaged in various economic activities and playing out political struggles between the European powers, chiefly Britain and Spain. Roatán and the other islands were used as frequent resting points for sea travelers. On several occasions, they were subject to military occupation. In 1723/1724 an approximately 20-year-old-man from New England, Philip Ashton, managed to survive as a castaway on the island for sixteen months until he was rescued (see Edward E. Leslie, Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls, 1988, pp. 100–120). During that time they were governed by self-proclaimed King Kyle Edward Chauncey, a redhaired white man leading mostly Spanish speakers among those of European descent. In contesting with the Spanish for colonization of the Caribbean, the English occupied the Bay Islands on and off between 1550 and 1700. During this time, buccaneers found the vacated, mostly unprotected
islands a haven for safe harbor and transport. English, French and Dutch pirates established settlements on the islands. They frequently raided the cumbersome Spanish cargo vessels carrying gold and other treasures from the New World to Spain. In 1797, the British defeated the Black Carib, who had been supported by the French, in a battle for control of the Windward Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Weary of their resistance to British plans for sugar plantations, the British rounded up the St. Vincent Black Carib and deported them to Roatán. The majority of Black Carib migrated to Trujillo on mainland Honduras, but a portion remained to found the community of Punta Gorda on the northern coast of Roatán. The Black Carib, whose ancestry includes Arawak and African Maroons, remained in Punta Gorda, becoming the Bay Island’s first permanent post-Columbian settlers. They also migrated from there to parts of the northern coast of Central America, becoming the foundation of the modern-day Garífuna culture.
early colonists, as well as in the other areas inhabited chiefly by islanders rather than former mainlanders. But in terms of population and economic influence, the mainlander influx was dwarfed by the overwhelming tourist presence in most recent years. Numerous American, Canadian, British, New Zealand, Australian and South African settlers and entrepreneurs engaged chiefly in the fishing industry, and later, provided the foundation for attracting the tourist trade. The rapid and dramatic demographic changes that Roatán has experienced in the 21st century has contributed to the complexity of the environmental challenges of the island. In 1998, Roatán suffered some damage from Hurricane Mitch, temporarily paralyzing most commercial activity. Native islanders claimed the storm broke three previously undisturbed Aguila shipwrecks.
The majority permanent population of Roatán originated from the Cayman Islands near Jamaica. They arrived in the 1830s shortly after Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1838. The changes in labor force disrupted the economic structure of Caymanian culture. Caymanians were largely a seafaring culture and were familiar with the area from turtle fishing and other activities. Former Caymanian slaveholders were among the first to settle in the seaside locations throughout primarily western Roatán. Former slaves also migrated from the Cayman Islands, in larger number than planters, during the late 1830s and 1840s. Altogether, the former Caymanians became the largest cultural group on the island.
CARACOLES The Caracol people are an English-speaking people who have been established in Northern Honduras (specifically, the Bay Islands) since the early 19th century. They are chiefly of European and British-AfroCaribbean descent. Caracol is Spanish for “conch, snail or shell”, and relates the people of the Bay Islands to their unique environment and their sea-faring culture. In its current usage, the term caracol refers to all people born in the Bay Islands region, and their descendants. The region of the Bay Islands encompasses the three major islands of Roatan, Utila, and Guanaja, and the smaller islands or keys. These people are also called “Islanders,” especially locally.
For a brief period in the 1850s, Britain declared the Bay Islands its colony. Within a decade the Crown ceded the territory formally back to Honduras. British colonists were sent though, and asked William Walker, a freebooter with a private army, to help end the crisis in 1860 by invading Honduras; he was captured upon landing in Trujillo and executed there.
Over time the form of English spoken by the Caracol has changed. The language differs mostly in morphology but also in pronunciation and accent and, to a lesser extent, in syntax and vocabulary, from the English of the other British Caribbean colonies. They are similar enough to be mutually intelligible.
In the latter half of the 19th century, the island populations grew steadily and established new settlements all over Roatán and the other islands. Settlers came from all over the world and played a part in shaping the cultural face of the island. Islanders started a fruit trade industry which became profitable. By the 1870s it was purchased by American interests, most notably the New Orleans and Bay Islands Fruit Company. Later companies, the Standard Fruit and United Fruit Companies became the foundation for modern-day fruit companies, the industry which gave Honduras the sobriquet “banana republic”. The 20th century saw continued population growth resulting in increasing economic changes, and environmental challenges. A population boom began with an influx of Spanish-speaking Mestizo migrants from the Honduran mainland. In the last decades they tripled the original resident population. Mestizo migrants settled primarily in the urban areas of Coxen Hole and Barrio Los Fuertes (near French Harbour). In these areas Spanish is common, with English speakers more common among descendants of
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Tir Na Nog
An Exceptional Beach Front Retreat
elcome to Tir Na Nog, an exclusive and enchanting private estate near the historic town of Governors Harbour, Eleuthera, a place where the legend of “The Land of the Ever Young” can come to reality. Here the flowers bloom all year-round against the backdrop of fabulous views of the Atlantic Ocean, casting their scents within the peace and serenity of the 10 acre gardens and walkways. Tir Na Nog is located in the most sought after location in Eleuthera, the Atlantic seashore on Banks Road, where there are a select number of Estates overlooking an amazing beach and only minutes from nearby restaurants and the charming Village of Governors Harbour. At Tir Na Nog your senses will be indulged. Interiors were recently renovated and designed by the gracious David Flint-Wood, co-author of “Island Style,” a wonderful book of what Island Life is. Applying the very flair that made the Island Style decor renowned, he used simple wood and white linens, organic materials, soft lighting and tropical touches ― warm and soothing to the senses. The Land: 10 acres of coconut lined rolling dunes and pathways lead to one of the most fabulous beaches you have ever seen. Stroll the miles long beach; stop in at Tippy’s restaurant for a cool drink or a bite. Lounge in the sun, in the hammocks strung in the coconut grove or under the beachfront gazebo. Covered with coconut trees and a variety of fruit trees, there is always something to pick and eat.
Photos Photos by: by: Patrick Patrick Robinson Robinson of of H.G. H.G. Christie Christie
The Home: Tir Na Nog offers a very special set-up unknown in most places in The Bahamas. The “home” is actually 4 Cottages of brilliant design. The main one is home to the living areas complete with a beautiful kitchen, and living and dining area with high cathedral ceilings and dark wood floors. There is a covered balcony on either side of the main house with one side overlooking the tennis court. Across the driveway is the main bedroom house complete with a beautiful covered veranda with three large bedrooms all decorated with a similar feel to the main house. Towards the ocean are two self-contained, one-bedroom cottages with an amazing view out over the palms and the beach beyond. These five bedrooms all have private entrances and en suite baths, Three bedrooms are located in a house across from the dining hall. They are private and tranquil with exquisite furnishings in the simple Island Style ― crisp and refined. Two additional bedrooms are separate bungalows with private decks overlooking the coconut grove, and the shades of the crystalline of the beach and the azure of the Atlantic. Situated above the tennis courts with sweeping views of the estate and the sea, the living and dining room is a gathering place for all for fine dining, relaxation and entertaining. Outdoor grilling and dining is an option on the Northern deck, with upper deck for even fuller views and very much a retreat. This property truly is a treat to behold. Make an appointment for a viewing today. $3,995,000. John Christie, (242) 322-1041, [email protected]. www.hgchristie.com/details/eleuthera/governors-harbour/house-es11259
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Asia Wétan nyaéta hiji sub-wewengkon di Asia nu bisa didefinisikeun boh sacara geograpis atawa sacara budaya. Sacara géografis, Asia Wetan ngawengku kurang leuwih 12,000,000 km², atawa 28% tina buana Asia sarta 15% leuwih gedé ti batan aréa Eropa. Leuwih ti 1.5 miliar jalma, kurang leuwih 40% populasi Asia atawa saparapatna jumlah jalma sadunya, nu hirup di Asia Wétan géografis, kurang leuwih dua kalieun populasi Eropa. Wewengkon ieu mangrupa salah sahiji tempat pangramena sadunya. Kapadetan populasina 130 per km², tilu kalieun rata-rata sadunya.
|Artikel ieu keur dikeureuyeuh, ditarjamahkeun tina basa Inggris.
Bantosanna diantos kanggo narjamahkeun.
Culturally, it embraces those societies that have long been part of the Chinese cultural sphere:
- displaying héavy historical influence from the Classical Chinese language (including the traditional Chinese script),
- Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism,
- Mahayana Buddhism/Zen-Chan Buddhism,
- and Taoism (Daoism).
This combination of language, political philosophy, and religion (as well as art, architecture, holidays and féstivals, etc.) overlaps with the géographical designation of éast Asia for the most part, with a few exceptions, such as the overseas Chinese (including those in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the West).
éast Asia and éastern Asia (the latter form preferred by the United Nations) are both more modérn terms for the traditional Européan name the Far East, which describes the region's géographical position in relation to Europe rather than its location within Asia. However, in contrast to the United Nations definition, éast Asia commonly is used to refer to the éastern part of Asia, as the term implies.
Other uses of the term East Asia[édit | édit sumber]
|Geographical East Asia|
|Geographic East Asia shaded in dark green, cultural and other possible definitions shaded in light green|
The following political entities are commonly seen as located in géographic éast Asia:
- Républik Rahayat Tiongkok (including the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Citakan:MAC)
- Républik Tiongkok (Taiwan) (Taiwan)
- Koréa Kidul
The following péoples or societies are commonly seen as being encompassed by cultural éast Asia:
- Chinese society (including the predominantly Chinese regions outside China proper, such as Singapore and Taiwan)
- Japanese society
- Korean society
- Mongolian society
- Vietnamese society
Some consider the following countries or regions as part of éast Asia, while others do not. Disagreements hinge on the difference between the cultural and géographic definitions of the term. Political perspective is also an important factor. In descending order in terms of the frequency with which they are described as East Asian:
- The parts of China that are not historically dominated by Han Chinese: Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang (considered either éast Asia or Central Asia or South Asian in the case of Tibet—here the primary question is cultural, with géography also at issue)
- Malaysia (considered either éast Asia or Southeast Asia—here the primary question is géographic)
- Citakan:MNG (considered either éast Asia or Central Asia—here culture and/or géography may be at issue)
- Citakan:SGP (considered either éast Asia or Southeast Asia—here the primary question is géographic)
- Viétnam (considered either éast Asia or Southeast Asia—here the primary question is géographic)
- Russian Far East (considered either éast Asia or North Asia—here the primary question is political, with culture and géography also at issue)
In infrequent circumstances, the term East Asia is purposefully used to include all countries in Southéast Asia, especially when used in dualism with the term West Asia, the latter of which is then used to include those regions commonly considered West Asia, Central Asia and Southwest Asia.
Sub-wewengkon lianna di Asia[édit | édit sumber]
- Asia Tenggara
- Asia Kidul
- Asia Tengah
- Southwest Asia or West Asia (One definition of the Middle East is synonymous with Southwest Asia)
- North Asia (Siberia)
- Northern Eurasia (Extends into part of Europe)
- Central Eurasia (Extends into part of Europe)
Tempo oge[édit | édit sumber]
- East Asian studies
- Asian Network of Major Cities 21
- East Asian languages
- East Asian calligraphy
- Four Asian Tigers – a label pertinent to the recent economic history of the region.
- East Asia Summit
- History of East Asia
- East Asian Community
- Russian Far East (éast Asia north of this aréa)
Rujukan[édit | édit sumber]
- Center for South Asia Studies: University of California, Berkeley
- Center for South Asia Outreach UW-Madison
- Department of South Asia Studies: University of Pennsylvania
- South Asia Language Resource Center: The University of Chicago
- AIIS Advanced Language Programs in India
- Tibet is located on the Tibetan Plateau which is in Central Asia .
Tumbu kaluar[édit | édit sumber]
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Sound of Her Voice
There is this sound every once in a while I remember as clear and as piercing as the day I heard it. It is the sound of a ghost that appeared one night every January in my room and my room alone. Every year it was something a little different, the first time it was some weird noises and glowing hand prints on the door, the other was that rustling and another ringing noise. Each year, another noise, odder and more frightening than the last. What separates the noise I speak of, the last one I heard was how it groaned from a place outside of anything I knew. It was the fear of the unknown itself that was struggling to breath, and so it just cried in a haunting matter, and let a thirteen year old boy lay on his bed, covered in blankets and with eyes pointing to a dark corner of his room where evil and demented sounds are originating from what could be an opening to another dimension.
I still get goose pimples when I think of that distorting sound with metallic textures and human vocal cords, and how it was straight out of a horror film, but it wasn't a movie, and it wasn't a nightmare, it was real, and unexplainable, real unexplainable. Even to this day, I wonder what that noise was, and I still believe it had to be a ghost, demon, or animal spirit of some kind (coyote, wolf, or owl?). The evidence is all there, a lady had died in that house, in January, and she probably died in that corner of my room, and my room alone, and I could only hope the new tenants aren't being disturbed, aren't being awoken in the middle of the night by a calling from another dimension, and fear that it will strike, that it will take you away, but not before it rips you apart, and steals your soul, not before that, please, not before that. | <urn:uuid:9ec3b2e7-3f4a-4b2d-815e-98e311c5ee6a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://photo-ma-graphy.blogspot.com/2009/11/sound-of-her-voice.html | 2017-05-23T16:57:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607648.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523163634-20170523183634-00446.warc.gz | en | 0.985661 | 407 | [
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Christmas 2005Santa gets serious, Snowy eats people and JoeCartoon brings some holiday cheer!
****THIS REQUIRES FLASH 8****
Thanks Tom for the BadGuy's collection.
Wow, after a long time in development, it is finally here. This game took a considerable amount to time to produce. After getting permission from the original authors (Tom Fulp, Chris Nosal) to make a clone of their game, and to make clones of their characters. It didn't take long for me to have demo going, but other things such as menus took a considerable amount of time, but i am pleased with the overal product. I've done some experimenting with the menu like is MGS 3 to have the picture appear differntly on the menu upon startup. I think just the little things like that give it a nice touch.
Also dual controls for the menu (Keyboard and mouse), took a while. But i feel that the Keyboard is definalty the way to go (for true arcade style).
Unfortunaly i had to cut the highscore version, but if this does well, i might update it :D
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|spinergy rev-x horror story website||weiwentg|
Jun 16, 2002 10:08 AM
|I posted earlier on a website showcasing case reports on Rev-X failures. here's the URL: http://home.interlynx.net/~pjdu/
most of these failures occured several years ago - the latest reports were dated in '99. still, I would be wary of using Spinergy wheels, unless their customer service and design have improved drastically.
|well, they still suck in my opinion....||IAmtnbikr|
Jun 17, 2002 5:21 PM
|I was one of the lucky to stumble on the same website, then took a look at my Rev-X's, which were on my beater that I use to ride to work and pull the Burlely with. I found one front wheel had 2 cracks coming from the rivets on a spoke pair that extended about an inch up towards the hub. I got a pair of Xaero wheels at a discount with their crash/upgrade policy, which I now see is only good on their Rev-X's.....that ought to tell you something about how they trust their own quality, huh? The Xaero wheels have worked great for me, they weigh a lot less than the Rev-X wheels, and are easier to ride on windy days. I put them on my new road bike, and put the Shimano 535's on the beater. I did have one more run-in with their piss-poor idea of a customer service department, over some measly decals. God help anyone who really needs something like real service. It took two months to get any action, mainly after posting here and on MTBR and letting them know I did so.|| | | <urn:uuid:bf5d025f-76ac-4bf3-9327-e922319ad706> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://archive.roadbikereview.com/00/0EFAB008.php | 2017-05-24T17:38:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607849.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524173007-20170524193007-00139.warc.gz | en | 0.981417 | 376 | [
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A Line in the Sand
Summary: After three years with Gippal, Rikku's relationship ends on a stormy night in Luca when he reveals a desperate secret and breaks Rikku's heart with his revelation. Regretful that she ran into the arms of his best friend and the powerful praetor of New Yevon, Rikku finds herself waiting to meet with Baralai while she reflects on everything that brought her to this point. As Rikku struggles to convince herself to stay until he arrives, she is not aware that Baralai is just as conflicted about their actions as she is. Will seeing each other once again bring about the relief that each is so desperately searching for? Is the weight of their actions too much for their fledgling relationship to stand under?
And what are these feelings betraying Rikku that still long for the touch of Gippal?
Author's Note: This story is going to take place under a set of slightly complex time-changes from past to present. I'm thinking that they are going to flow nicely, every other chapter. But this is only the first and I'm farther away from foolish enough to promise you that sort of pattern. I really don't want to have to italicize an entire chapter to denote that it took place in the past, though I will do this if it is necessary to keep things clear and within the realm of easy understanding for everyone. Please just let me know which option would make reading this story easier.
Thanks for your time, and I hope that you enjoy this story. Please take the time to review and offer me suggestions for the next chapters or opinions on what you think I can improve on. TurboTwistedFire was kind enough to leave constructive criticism and I have already put those suggestions into action with this, a revised version of chapter one. So, thank you in advance to everyone who leaves constructive criticism. You are my favorite people for helping me make my writing better!
Struggling Behind Her Doubts
Somewhere from across the waves a gull was calling. The cry, loud at first, seemed to get lost somewhere between the waves breaking against the shoreline and the unnatural sounds from the bustling wharfs of the city, nestled safely above the shoreline. Though the gull continued in its large, precise circling of the water's surface, it received no notice from the people who milled about on their own. The shuffled around from one shop to the others, passing one restaurant after another and not taking much notice to anything outside of themselves.
It was a pleasant day, she took a moment to note, as the sunlight poured around the docks, bursting with activity. There was a slight enough breeze to, every once in a while, play lightly at the strands of her radiant blonde hair, tied away from her face in a rather elaborate weave of braids, beads, and elastics.
Blinking her sea green eyes to the occasional passerby, Rikku found herself rather content to leaning her elbow against the glass surface of the high, narrow table she found herself waiting at. Her chin made its resting place in the palm of her hand and her legs would occasionally cross and uncross in impatience. She might have looked a bit reticent to those who noticed, as though she was caught up in one particularly pleasant fantasy or another.
Ex-guardians and Heroes of Spira didn't have fantasies that weren't pleasant. They didn't have bad days and, almost certainly, they never waited at seaside cafes with distant, forlorn looks on their faces.
But Rikku was far too caught up to really consider the image that she was casting to those around her. Running a free hand through her hair cautiously, she took a deep breath, really enjoying the fresh smell of the salty sea and the warm sunlight on her naturally bronzed skin. But even the novelty of being in Luca couldn't tear her worries away from the matter currently at hand.
'Ooh! Why here?' she curled her toes unconsciously inside of her boots before unfurling them once again. Drumming her fingers impatiently, yet deliberately, against the glass beneath her, Rikku let her thoughts drift further towards their current destination, 'Why this, of all places?'
"Excuse me, Miss," the waiter had been the one to interrupt her thoughts. His eyes scanned her slender figure, the way her tanned legs had crossed and uncrossed themselves, the way the smooth fabric of her dress stretched temptingly across her thighs, the sun-kissed glow of her bronzed shoulders, the gentle rise and fall of her chest…
Blushing slightly at how quickly the Ex-Guardian had been able to snap him out of his thoughts, the waiter buried his gaze into the palm of his hand, where a notepad was waiting for her order. Clearing his throat, he smiled at her, "Might I bring you something to drink while you wait?"
Rikku hadn't given a second thought to her too-tight dress so reminiscent of sunlight or the elaborate orange and white ribbons that held her hair away from her face when she'd arrived in Luca. Rikku didn't let her thoughts question if she looked nice enough to see him again; her waiter had made that all but painfully obvious. With a polite smile, she sent him on his way with a sweet, "No thanks! I'm sure he'll be here any minute!"
She had pretended not to notice the look on his face as she'd admitted her guest was male. Rikku imagined that he wouldn't be the only one around her shocked when Baralai showed up to sit in the seat across from hers. It was an unlikely match, especially considering that she'd been paired with the leader of the Al Bhed Machine Faction, Gippal, and he'd been engaged to her best friend and powerful Ex-Guardian, Paine. But this was lunch between friends.
Rikku tried desperately to make herself believe that.
The waiter turned on his heel so quickly that Rikku wasn't sure if it was the breeze that toyed with her hair was natural or man-made. She smiled because, still, the reaches of that breeze were slow and calm as it brought the familiar smell of the nearby ocean. A scent that, here in Luca, was nothing like it was in Besaid.
Besaid. The water there was crystal clear, deep and vast, but still shimmering and cool. In Luca, the water was a deeper shade of blue, darker; like a storm. And, for the moment, all Rikku could find herself remembering were stormy nights. Most notably her worst stormy night; when the waves had crashed against the shoreline, loud, harsh, unforgiving. It was a string of thoughts that she had been so desperately trying to keep her mind from tracing; they brought guilt, uncertainty, and questions.
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“Bernie Sanders should run for president of Norway,” Rubio said on Monday in Waverly, Iowa.
Rubio repeatedly jabbed at the Democratic candidate over the course of the day.
"I think Bernie loves to talk about the economic policies of some of these other countries,” Rubio told reporters. “We admire these countries, they are nice places and they are allies of ours, but I want us to be America.”
At his last stop of the day in Bettendorf, Iowa, Rubio attacked Sanders again.
“This dude is an avowed socialist,” he said. “Nice guy. Nice socialist.”
The Twittersphere, meanwhile, was quick to point out that Norway has a prime minister and a monarchy, not a president.
This all comes as Sanders is steadily climbing in the polls.
When a voter asked Rubio about a potential match-up with Sanders, the Florida senator said a debate with him would be “pretty straightforward.”
“He wants the government to run the economy. We want you to run the economy. I’m very optimistic about what [the American people] are going to do when they get that choice,” Rubio said.
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Happy Easter! Well, Good Friday anyway. Mine has been pretty productive so far - Matt and I are building a massive desk and we've got some varnishing done. If all goes to plan, we should be able to get most of the pieces varnished during this Easter break. :)
Anyway. I received this lovely Virpi Pekkala illustration yesterday from dear Sari in Finland. She'd been to a Postcrossing meet-up in Seinäjoki. Ahhh, I miss Postcrossing meet-ups, it must have been a few years now since the London meet-up I attended. I just can't afford to go anymore, and there never seems to be anything nearer to where I live.
I haven't had any rairuoho since moving to England. I wonder if you could buy the seeds here and if so, what would it be called in English? Wikipedia seems to think it's 'ryegrass', but I'm not sure... I remember plates and pots with this grass from my childhood Easters. | <urn:uuid:3dc67b3e-203d-43b0-bac8-ac4c0f9f1974> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://mypostcardproject.blogspot.com/2015/04/happy-easter-hyvaa-paasiaista.html | 2017-05-28T01:25:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609404.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528004908-20170528024908-00349.warc.gz | en | 0.981243 | 219 | [
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85100 Potenza, Italy
I’m an Italian documentary photographer, videomaker and professional journalist. I live in Rome and Potenza, Italy.
After the graduation in Science of Communication, in 2001 I started working as journalist for several local newspapers and radios.
From 2007 I’ve been working as contributor from Italy for the British press agency Central European News (CEN).
In summer 2008 I published a book with my colleague Valentina Dello Russo over the work of the the Italian priest father Ferdinando Castriotti in El Paraiso, Honduras.
I believe documentary photography should be a way in promoting awareness, political and juridical change and in promoting action by NGOs, governmental bodies and individuals.
I also work as contributor for LaPresse photo agency covering current news and politics and my pictures have been published by newspapers like Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Giornale, Il Messaggero, Libero, La Nazione, L’Unità, Metro and magazines like Vanity Fair and Oggi.
In 2015 I founded the group of work Digital Wolf, that offers solutions of communication, design and visual art to private and public companies.
Member of photographic collective buenaVista*Photo
Selected as a finalist for the “Capodarco Corto International Film Festival – L’Anello Debole”
Selected as a finalist for the “Terra di Siena International Film Festival”
Selected as a finalist for the “Celeste Prize”
Selected ad finalist for the 10° edition of video festival “Città di Imperia”
Shortlisted at the 16th “Scrittura e Immagine – Premio Flaiano di Cinematografia” Short Movie Festival
Selected as finalist at the “Visioni Italiane”
Selected as finalist at the “Riace in Festival”
Shortlisted at the “Human Rights Nights”
2014 - Capodarco Corto International Film Festival , 2014 - Terra di Siena International Film Festival, 2014 - Celeste Prize, 2014 - Video Festival “Città di Imperia”
- Breaking news
- Video capture
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