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Thanks so much for everything. I'm sorry I haven't got back to you sooner but I'm now living at the hostel you put me through to. The whole process of getting a place to live was really difficult and complex. In reading the guides that you publish, I notice you stress this too. I think this organisation is in a league of it's own for the work you do and your willingness to do battle in what seems really hard circumstances. On occasion, I have the opportunity to speak with people looking to know 'where they can make a difference' (or better where they can make a donation!), I will certainly bear you in mind.
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CHICAGO — Come January, more than two-thirds of the states will be under single-party control, raising the prospect that bold partisan agendas — on both ends of the political spectrum — will flourish over the next couple of years.
Though the Nov. 6 election maintained divided government in Washington, the picture is starkly different in capitals from California to Florida: one party will hold the governor's office and majorities in both legislative chambers in at least 37 states, the largest number in 60 years and a significant jump from even two years ago.
"For quite a period of time, people were voting for divided government because they wanted compromise, middle ground," said State Senator Thomas M. Bakk, the minority leader — and soon to be majority leader — in Minnesota. Democrats there seized control of both legislative chambers, creating single-party rule in St. Paul for the first time in more than two decades. "But they've come to realize that compromise is getting awfully hard to accomplish. The parties have gotten too rigid. Maybe this whole experiment with voting for divided government is starting to wane. I think that's what happened here."
Twenty-four states will be controlled by Republicans, including Alaska and Wisconsin, where the party took the State Senate, and North Carolina, where the governorship changed hands. At least 13 states will be Democratic, including Colorado, Minnesota and Oregon, where control of the legislatures shifted, and California, where the already dominant Democrats gained a supermajority in both chambers. (The situation in New York, where the potential for single-party control by the Democrats rests on the makeup of the Senate, is still uncertain.)
Power will be split in, at most, 12 capitals — the fewest, said Tim Storey of the National Conference of State Legislatures, since 1952.
So while President Obama and Republican leaders in Washington have made postelection hints of an openness to compromise, many in the states may see no such need.
"The fact is, they can do whatever they want now," Chris Larson, the Democrats' newly chosen Senate minority leader in Wisconsin, said of the Republicans in his state. He noted, glumly, that they have been holding planning meetings behind closed doors since the election.
Robin Vos, a Republican selected last week as the speaker of Wisconsin's Assembly, voiced a willingness to work with Democrats, but also quickly ticked off plans to press for an income-tax cut, education changes and a "top-to-bottom review" of state regulations.
In Minnesota, where a budget fight last year between a Republican-led Legislature and the Democratic governor, Mark Dayton, led to a shutdown of state government for two weeks, the governor seemed buoyed.
"We'll trade gridlock for progress," said Mr. Dayton, who added that his plans included increasing taxes on the richest Minnesotans and devoting more money to education. Still, Mr. Dayton, whose term is up in two years, sounded a note of caution even as he huddled with aides to strategize after the election results were in.
"I said to my staff, 'The easier two years are over, and the harder two years are now beginning, because we have the added responsibility to lead,' " Mr. Dayton said. "And this is a responsibility I welcome, but given the challenges the state faces and our country faces these days, it'll be a lot of hard work."
Some politicians are mindful that one-party control carries with it one-party blame — and a risk that a particularly partisan agenda will eventually irk voters and lead to a reversal in the next election. In Maine, where the Republicans swept into sole control of the capital two years ago, the Democrats this month took back both chambers of the Legislature. Some viewed the outcome as an indication of overreaching by Republicans, including Gov. Paul R. LePage, who has sharply opposed the new health care law and has moved to cut the number of residents eligible for Medicaid.
Representative Mark Waller, newly elected as the Republican minority leader in Colorado, said: "The Democrats absolutely have the votes to do anything they want to do, but that's a pretty tricky proposition. They've got to be very careful about how they do what they do." Democrats in the state have already pledged to bring back a proposal to allow civil unions for same-sex couples, which was blocked during a special session this year.
There is also a risk of intraparty factions and, in the words of Fred A. Risser, a Wisconsin state legislator since 1956 (and the longest-serving sitting state lawmaker in the country), intramural fights. In Kansas, which has one-party Republican control, conservative Republicans have increasingly battled with moderate Republicans. And though Democrats have run Illinois for a decade, leaders have still been unable to find an answer to the state's profound financial woes, including the most gravely unfinanced pension liabilities in the nation.
Over all in this election, Democrats had more victories among the roughly 6,000 state legislative seats that were up for grabs, benefiting in part from the presidential victory. One factor in the Democrats' net of more than 150 legislative seats nationwide was the stunning number of seats — more than 100 — they gained in New Hampshire's State House, taking control of that chamber. But both parties made gains in the number of states with single-party control.
Not every state fits the dynamics of single-party domination. In Nebraska, the state's unicameral Legislature is officially nonpartisan, making one-party control in the Republican-leaning state technically impossible. And in Rhode Island, the governor, an independent, shares power with a Democratic General Assembly.
In New York, election results appeared to show that the Democrats had seized control of the Senate, giving them hold over Albany and leaving only 11 state capitals divided. But the practical outcome remains murky, with votes still being counted in several races, talk of some Democrats' caucusing with the Republicans, and leaders on both sides expressing confidence that their party will ultimately hold on to control.
Nationally, though, the shift to single-party dominance in state government is pronounced; only eight years ago, 30 capitals were divided between the parties. Some state leaders attribute the change to partisan influences at play in the once-a-decade redrawing of political districts before the election this year. Others say it reflects a weariness and dissatisfaction among voters with the discord and gridlock of split control.
Either way, the result is likely to speed along state legislative proposals from both corners, experts said, but less so from the middle.
"We are going to see government activism to the left and to the right that we haven't seen in years," said Lawrence Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. "If you wondered what Washington would look like under single-party rule, the states are a laboratory for that now."


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For Americans who remember Nov. 22, 1963, there is an understandable temptation to dwell on the nearly unbearable tragedy of that day. I remember vividly the shock and confusion of a 7-year-old, refusing to believe it was true until I ran home from school to find my mother in tears. The entire nation and much of the world was thrown into mourning for a young, charismatic president who had led us all too briefly. But with the passage of a half century's time, it is possible now, and certainly more sensible, to reflect more on the life — and not just the death — of John F. Kennedy.
He has lingered long in our memory and imagination, especially here in Massachusetts where he was born. And it is remarkable that he remains to this day a significant figure in the national and global conversation. Witness the extraordinary number of articles and television retrospectives alone this anniversary week. Historians will ultimately deliver the final verdict on his promising but imperfect and truncated Presidency. Yet there are lessons we can learn from how he played the role he loved best — his stewardship of American foreign policy at the very height of the Cold War. Three come readily to mind.
First, starting with his memorable inaugural speech, one of JFK's lasting achievements was to convince young people to see public service as exciting, worthwhile, and even ennobling. Many current leaders — from both parties — went into the city halls, state legislatures, and Congress due to a simple but compelling exhortation — "ask what you can do." Those iconic words greet students at the entrance to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where I teach. And Kennedy had an expansive vision in which, as he put it, "no problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." He proved it by challenging Americans to go to the moon. He represents, in this sense, a fascinating counterpoint to those today who disparage government and call retreat to a more isolationist future.
Second, JFK was a very different leader by 1963 than he was when he took office, especially in responding to the life and death challenges of the Cold War. He authored a string of misjudgments in his first year from the Bay of Pigs to a failed meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and hesitant leadership during the Berlin Crisis. But Kennedy's self-confidence allowed him to learn from failure. He developed a healthy respect for the mortal dangers of the East-West struggle, growing wary of the lure of militarism, emphasizing restraint and caution instead in his war and peace duel with the Soviets. These attitudes turned out to be crucial during the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later. Faced with the danger of a nuclear holocaust, Kennedy negotiated, creatively and courageously, a last-minute compromise with Khrushchev that kept the peace between two rattled adversaries, saving millions of lives on both sides of the Cold War divide. It was his finest moment.
And there is a third lesson to contemplate. In the last months of his life, Kennedy argued passionately and publicly for America to resist "demonizing our adversaries and thinking war is inevitable" — radical words for the time and a useful reminder for how we might view our struggle with Iran today. In his most important speech at American University in June 1963, he challenged Americans, with the near miss of the missile crisis in our wake, to commit to "the most important topic on earth: peace" because, he said, "we have no more urgent task."
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I'm racing Cross tomorrow night at Raleigh's Midsummer Night's Cyclocross. A night Cross race in July? What's that all about? I asked Terry Buchanan, the race promoter, that same thing and he said
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The potential of Cyclocross is there and what we're pushing. We want to show them dealers what a Cross race is all about.
As you've probably been reading, I've been at lots of media/dealer events so far this Summer. July is buying season in the bike business. After this event, I'm at Dealer Camp next week for more blogging and a MTB race (first in two decades).
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Imagine an early spring day in the city of Chicago--cold and rainy, windy with overcast skies. Activity fills the streets as people come and go, school buses fill up and pull away, trucks and cars line up behind traffic lights and then move on. Ringing rhythms of hammers and the screeching of power saws dominate the sounds of the city. Some workmen repair, restore, and build anew, while others demolish old structures and haul away the debris. Large housing projects and institutions take up much of the land in this area of the South Side of Chicago. But between them there is a gap where old buildings survive, all that remains of an area that was called Black Metropolis.
There is a Victory Monument here, celebrating African American contributions to the Allied victory in World War I. Other nearby structures, such as a newspaper building, an office and manufacturing building, and a YMCA, also testify to the presence of thousands of African Americans who came to Chicago's South Side in the early 20th century to fashion a better life for themselves and their families. The search for the history in these places leads to questions about the essence of history itself: What happened here? Why did the place change? What has transformed the site into a historically important place? How am I connected to this place?
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Jacquard Textile Colors leave fabric as soft as possible. Ready for direct application, Textile Colors can be applied with a brush, stamp, squirt bottle, airbrush, you name it! These easy to use paints are absolutely colorfast on natural or synthetic fabrics. No special techniques are needed. Used straight from the bottle, Textile colors are intense and semi opaque; diluted with water or the colorless extender, these paints have the qualities of the best watercolors. They can be bright and transparent or light and pastel. All colors can be blended with one another.
Jacquard Textile Colors come in 2.5 oz. bottles.
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Philip Hand is a translator who lives and works in Xiamen, in the south east of China. He studied Chinese and linguistics at university in the UK, then went to China to teach English. He did a spell on a local English language newspaper, where he was forbidden from reporting on one of China's few successful environmental protests.


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Douglas Isbell Headquarters, Washington, DC Sept. 30, 1999 (Phone: 202/358-1753) Mary Hardin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (Phone: 818/354-5011) Joan Underwood Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO (Phone: 303/971-7398) RELEASE 99-113
A failure to recognize and correct an error in a transfer of information between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team in Colorado and the mission navigation team in California led to the loss of the spacecraft last week, preliminary findings by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory internal peer review indicate.
"People sometimes make errors," said Dr. Edward Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science. "The problem here was not the error, it was the failure of NASA's systems engineering, and the checks and balances in our processes to detect the error. That's why we lost the spacecraft."
The peer review preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation. This information was critical to the maneuvers required to place the spacecraft in the proper Mars orbit.
"Our inability to recognize and correct this simple error has had major implications," said Dr. Edward Stone, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We have underway a thorough investigation to understand this issue."
Two separate review committees have already been formed to investigate the loss of Mars Climate Orbiter: an internal JPL peer group and a special review board of JPL and outside experts. An independent NASA failure review board will be formed shortly.
"Our clear short-term goal is to maximize the likelihood of a successful landing of the Mars Polar Lander on December 3," said Weiler. "The lessons from these reviews will be applied across the board in the future."
Mars Climate Orbiter was one of a series of missions in a long-term program of Mars exploration managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. JPL's industrial partner is Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
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Georgia long wallet
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Smooth calfskin - 2 Main compartments - 2 Flat pockets - 12 Card slots - 1 Central zipped compartment - 1 Front flap pocket - "Beige rosé" nappa lining Comes with a dust bag - Length/width: 19 cm/ 7.5 inches - Height: 9 cm/ 3.5 inches This article is made from pure aniline leather. The tanning process imparts a specific character to the skin, such as fading and wrinkles. The grain side of this leather type is very fragile; it will change and wear with time. This process is normal and only makes your wallet more unique. Respect care instructions on the leaflet. Colour: cement pink Item code: 3P0284-H1Z-B59
In keeping with the cool and modern Georgia bag, the Georgia long wallet boasts clean lines offset by a curved double front flap and delicate, rectangular metallic embellishments. Crafted from smooth calfskin leather in a classic silhouette, the Georgia wallet is both feminine and practical. Chloé girls can fill the elegant wallet with their essentials to carry as a clutch, or slip it into their bag.
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BOSTON � Two Central Massachusetts men are among five individuals being sued by Attorney General Martha Coakley for allegedly misspending more than $350,000 in advance payments from homeowners seeking help to avoid home foreclosures.
The state has alleged in a suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court that since 2009 the five individuals ran organizations claiming to provide financial and legal services, including foreclosure related services to distressed homeowners, but instead spending clients' fees on personal expenses.
The entities named in the suit are the Alliance for Affordable Housing and the Global Advocates Foundation Inc., both located in Everett, and the Alliance for Hope Network Inc. in Framingham. Individual defendants include Gailon Arthur Joy of Boylston, John Charles Schumacher of Lancaster, Paula Carvalho of Framingham, Obeilson Roosevelt Matos of Framingham and Pricila Trancoso Silva of Revere.
Judge Frances McIntyre granted a preliminary injunction Thursday against the defendants, to prevent them from soliciting or advertising for any foreclosure-related services or improperly charging advance fees.
Ms. Coakley alleged that the defendants portrayed themselves as tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations, but operated like for-profit businesses, seeking financial gain for their officers and directors. The complaint also alleges that the defendants, who are not attorneys or law firms, engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
According to the complaint, the individuals required homeowners to give deposits of up to 25 percent of their gross monthly incomes, claiming the deposits were necessary to be eligible for federal and other mortgage relief programs. Between March 2010 and October 2012, the defendants allegedly collected and spent more than $350,000 in deposits that they received from homeowners and which they had said would be placed in escrow for the homeowners to use to help mitigate their pending foreclosure.
The complaint alleges, however, that the defendants never properly accounted for the use of the funds and allegedly used the money for personal expenses, including housing costs, car insurance fees, car repairs and vehicle excise payments.
"We allege these defendants targeted and took money from homeowners facing foreclosure, promising to help them stay in their homes, but instead used that money for personal expenses," Ms. Coakley said in a statement.
State regulations prohibit soliciting or accepting an advance fee in connection with foreclosure-related services, or advertising services without disclosing exactly what is offered to avoid foreclosure, among other unfair practices.


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Free speech not so great, UN chief maintains
When is a "fundamental right" not a right at all? When the secretary general of the United Nations gets done slicing and dicing it.
"Freedoms of expression should be and must be guaranteed and protected," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, according to Reuters, in what sounded like a good start in addressing the "Innocence of Muslims" furor. But he quickly revealed he didn't mean it. It turns out that free speech should be protected only when it is "used for common justice, common purpose" — and of course you know who gets to define those terms.
"When some people use this freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others' values and beliefs, then this cannot be protected in such a way," Ban continued.
"My position is that freedom of expression, while it is a fundamental right and privilege, should not be abused by such people, by such a disgraceful and shameful act."
Thanks, Ban. No one really expects any principled courage from a UN bureaucrat, but Ban's mealy mouthed repudiation of free speech offers yet more evidence for why his organization is so nearly useless when it comes to actually protecting the fundamental rights of people around the world.
It is also yet another reminder to those in the United States, beginning at the top reaches of the administration, who seem reluctant to offer an unqualified defense of free expression, even when it is admittedly offensive. When they blame violence on free speech, they play into the hands of those who don't believe in free speech in the first place.


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Has it really been 25 years since I sat with my father at The Pit in Albuquerque and watched North Carolina State's Lorenzo Charles grab Dereck Whittenburg's air ball and dunk in the winning basket just before time expired?
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Books, gifts and letters convey more meaning and value when distinguished by your personal stamp. Our well-crafted embosser rests on a stable maple stand, ensuring a crisp, clear impression of your monogram, name or address.
- Embossing adds an elegant personal touch to books, stationery, gift tags, recipe cards and more.
- Set includes an embosser, a maple stand and your choice of personalized embosser plate.
- Made of chrome-plated steel with an engraved brass plate, our embosser will last for years of use.
- Maple stand helps stabilize the embosser and ensures a clear impression.
- Foil labels, vellum gift tags and blank recipe cards are sold separately for use with your embosser.
- Depending on the personalized plate you choose, a set number of characters are allowed. See More Info for specific character allowances.
- Additional embosser plates are sold separately.
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Characters per plate (please note: a space counts as a character):
- Single-initial embosser: specify 1 letter.
- Triple-initial embosser: specify 3 letters.
- "Kitchen of" embosser: specify up to 26 characters.
- "Library of" embosser: specify up to 26 characters.
- "With Love" embosser: specify up to 26 characters.
- "Happy Holidays" embosser: specify up to 26 characters.
- "Made from Scratch" (without personalization) up to 26 letters.
- "From the Garden of" embosser: specify up to 26 characters.
- Address embosser: for center, specify a single initial; for address around edge, specify up to 23 characters per line, two lines maximum.
Additional information
- Embosser: 4 1/2" x 1 3/4" x 2 1/2" high.
- Plate: 1 3/4" diam.
- Stand: 5" x 2 1/4" x 3/4" high.
- Stand made in Taiwan; all other parts made in USA.
- Single-initial embosser: specify 1 letter.
- Use & Care
- Store embosser in locked position when not in use.
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This item will be shipped directly from the manufacturer and is not eligible for rush shipping. Please allow one to two weeks for delivery.
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At Williams Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. Attention to design, materials, safety and construction are our priority. Upon receipt, please inspect your purchase and notify us of any damage; we will arrange for a prompt replacement.
If within 30 days, you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return your purchase for a refund of the merchandise value. An original receipt or gift receipt is required for all returns and exchanges. Returns with a gift receipt will be refunded in the form of a Merchandise Credit for the amount indicated on the gift receipt. Returns with original receipt will be refunded in the original form of payment, cash and check refunds over $100 will be issued as a company check (may take 14 business days from time of request).
For all cutlery returns (knife sets, single knives, cutting boards, knife sharpeners, and knife storage) please contact us at 888.922.4108 to initiate the return.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by mcerilli22 from Both came with a backwards "C" We used to have one of these from a few years ago and it was really awesome. We recently moved and ordered a new one with our new address (as well as an additional for our new neighbors). The embossers both came after about a few weeks, but the C in the middle of the foil is backwards! I am still working with WS on trying to get new ones shipped, but the quality control on these are pretty subpar.Date published: 2020-01-03Rated 1 out of 5 by hkbritt from A complete waste of money. This embosser is a complete waste of precious money. It is nothing like the one I bought years ago. I lost the old one and needed to replace it. I cannot read the words, It puts holes in the paper, the imprint is off center, and it will not lock anymore.Date published: 2019-01-01Rated 2 out of 5 by Katrina from Don't order this! I wanted so badly to love this product, but it sucks. It doesn't imprint evenly at all. I ordered the with love, and my name. You can barely see the with love, and my name portion almost tears through the paper/label/etc. it's got to be a design flaw, because it's impossible to apply even pressure for an even imprint. I hate it and I can't use this at all. Complete waste of money!Date published: 2018-09-19Rated 5 out of 5 by BostonBride from Perfect for invitations This made an absolutely perfect return address label for our wedding invitations. It really gave them that finishing touch - and their my Fiances favorite part of the invitations! It came in two days which I was impressed over. So happy with this product and with Williams-Sonoma!Date published: 2017-04-13Rated 5 out of 5 by Concordenerd from Gives that professional look! I have had this embosser for years. It is made very well and so simple to use. It is not hard to push down and the sticks are great as well that you use with this. Make a plain box or package looks awesome!Date published: 2015-11-09Rated 5 out of 5 by marcibabs from Beautiful stamp, easy to use, attractive stand I love this embosser! I did a lot of searching for just the right stamp design, and I'm considering ordering extra plates with different information. The embosser itself is easy to lock/unlock with one hand, and you don't have to press too hard to get a clear transfer. I like that it comes with a set of gold foils to get you started, too. The wood stand is simple and classic, lightweight, and has a beautiful stain. It's functional and looks great in the house as a decoration as well. I've already recommended it to friends and family!Date published: 2014-06-05Rated 1 out of 5 by Ladybug11 from Disappointed I was really excited to get this item. I ordered it in July, and after several follow ups with Williams Sonoma customer service, the vendor finally shipped it in November. Unfortunately, the stamping was really uneven, with half of it barely visible. Customer Service had a replacement ordered and back to me within a couple weeks, however there were more problems with the replacement. It tore through the recipe cards and labels in places, and still barely imprinted in others. Williams Sonoma customer service was excellent in resolving the issue. I just hope they re-evaluate due to the lack of quality they are getting from this vendor.Date published: 2013-12-16Rated 2 out of 5 by BabySchaebs from Not worth it I very disappointed to find that my name and address weren't centered correctly. It looked so ridiculous, I returned it right away. The good news is Williams-Sonoma's customer service was excellent.Date published: 2013-12-08
How can I order a new embosser plate? Ours has our address, but we have moved. Thank you!Hi Leslie54, Here's the page for interchangeable embosser plates: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/interchangeable-personal-embosser-plate/Date published: 2019-03-01
I would love to get the 'To -From' with the gift box, and the Happy Easter plates. I have 4 other plates and the stand, and use the all the time. Please let me know how to get these others as shown in the sample photos


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Non-toxic, powdered pigments that exhibit extreme colorfastness and stability. They are ideal for interior, exterior and archival applications, and can be incorporated into nearly every art process. Pearl Ex pigments can be mixed into any viscous medium including all paints, varnish, airbrush paints, polymer clay, etc. They can also be applied dry to wood, ceramics, paper, wax, or any porous surface. Neutral pH makes these excellent for stamping or embossing. Temperature resistance allows them to be fired in a kiln up to 600 degrees.
Use Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments to simulate metallic sheens, shimmering pearlescents, leather, antique metal, raku pottery, hammered copper, and more.
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Can this be used on drywall?- Asked by john landrum bryant on 30-Mar-14
Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments may be used on wood or any porous surface. Be sure to mix the pigment with a medium suitable for drywall.- Answered by MisterArt on 02-Apr-14
What is the difference between Macropearl and Micropearl?- Asked by kathy on 17-Dec-13
The difference is the particle sizes. Micropearl gives a fine pearly luster while Macropearl gives a highly metallic sheen.- Answered by MisterArt on 17-Dec-13
Can Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments be also used with resins?- Asked by Ray S on 13-Nov-13
Pigments can be used with any type of binder, even the pearlized ones.- Answered by MisterArt on 14-Nov-13
Can I use this product to re-color ceramic that is already finished (i.e. baked)?- Asked by Colleen Lipp on 14-Jun-13
It is pigment. If it is mixed with the proper medium, it can be used for anything.- Answered by MisterArt on 17-Jun-13
What medium can I use with this?- Asked by carole l. on 13-Apr-13
You can mix Pearl Ex with any clear medium over any surface. For example, you can mix Pearl Ex with a varnish, acrylic or solvent-based, as a coating over clay, wood, or paper. Jacquard recommends using the Jacquard Gum Arabic Medium with Pearl Ex Powders and add water for a watercolor paint effect. Mix Pearl Ex with the Jacquard Textile Colors Colorless Extender for use on fabrics.- Answered by MisterArt on 16-Apr-13
I am new to this product and would like to use it in conjunction with my oil painting. What would be the best medium to blend this product with?- Asked by Laura R on 06-Apr-13
Pearl Ex pigments can be mixed into any viscous medium including all paints, varnish, airbrush paints, polymer clay, etc. This will work with oil paints.- Answered by MisterArt on 09-Apr-13
Can I mix the minerals to make new colors?- Asked by Laura R on 06-Apr-13
The powders are intermixable.- Answered by MisterArt on 09-Apr-13
Is there a reason you don't have a true red and some other colors and how do you recommend attaining these colors?- Asked by Laura R on 06-Apr-13
Jacquard does not make these powders in standard primary colors. You can go onto the Jacquard website for a color mixing guide at: www.jacquardproducts.com.- Answered by MisterArt on 09-Apr-13
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A sealer is always recommended as extra protection for your painting.- Answered by MisterArt on 09-Apr-13
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We have many links we could point you to but I think of this section of our website as our "further research" page for those with a real interest in Costa Rica either as a tourist or for those who are interested in this unique culture that deserves some study.
Our links thus is made up mostly of books and information that we have found uniquely valuable in our understanding of our adopted country.
For our variety of book reviews and links check the LINKS submenu for my reviews of historical books, Flora and Fauna, Guide Books and such special items such as our "Moving Here Bookshelf".
A number of the books are hard to find as many are historical or of narrow interest. Many are available on Amazon and more as part of the Google Books project to scan and make available stuff that otherwise might be lost. This has been an incredible resource in trying to understand "what is Costa Rica".
We hope you find our links and old fashioned book reviews useful or interesting or perhaps the start of a love affair with Costa Rica. We'll keep adding links of interest so come on back or please provide links from your web site if you'd like.
We and the Pura Vida guests have been helping 2 local schools. One near the hotel, the Escuela Tuetal Sur - a primary school in a poor neighborhood. The other is up near Poas volcano and is in a farming area devastated by an earthquake a couple of years back - it is the Escuela Poasito. In both cases we are building libraries getting books into neighborhoods where there are none. More information is on the Links/Costa Rican Tales and School menu button.
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HOUSTON - Carnival Cruise Lines has cancelled a dozen more planned voyages aboard the Triumph and acknowledged that the crippled ship had been plagued by other mechanical problems in the weeks before it was left powerless in the Gulf of Mexico by an engine-room fire.
Carnival cancels 12 more cruises aboard ship plagued by mechanical issues stranded in Gulf
Ramit Plushnick-Masti, The Associated Press
HOUSTON – Carnival Cruise Lines has cancelled a dozen more planned voyages aboard the Triumph and acknowledged that the crippled ship had been plagued by other mechanical problems in the weeks before it was left powerless in the Gulf of Mexico by an engine-room fire.
The company's announcement on Wednesday came as the Triumph was being towed to a port in Mobile, Ala., with more than 4,000 people on board, some of whom have complained to relatives that conditions on the ship are dismal and that they have limited access to food and bathrooms.
The ship will be idle through April. Two other cruises were called off shortly after Sunday's fire.
Debbi Smedley, a passenger on a recent Triumph cruise, said the ship had trouble on Jan. 28 as it was preparing to leave Galveston. Hours before the scheduled departure time, she received an email from Carnival stating the vessel would leave late because of a propulsion problem. Passengers were asked to arrive at the port at 2 p.m., two hours later than originally scheduled.
The ship did not sail until after 8 p.m., she said.
"My mother is a cruise travel agent so this is not my first rodeo. I have sailed many, many cruises, many, many cruise lines. This was, by far, I have to say, the worst," said Smedley, of Plano, Texas.
On its most recent journey, the Triumph lost power Sunday after the fire. The ship drifted until Tuesday when two tugboats took it in tow. A third tugboat was en route Wednesday from Louisiana.
Passengers have had limited cellphone service because of the power failure, but many of them were able to make calls to friends and family when the Triumph rendezvoused with another Carnival ship that dropped off food and supplies. The other ship had a working cellular antenna.
Robert Giordano, of the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, said he last spoke to his wife, Shannon, on Monday. She told him she waited in line for three hours to get a hot dog, and that conditions on the ship were terrible.
"They're having to urinate in the shower. They've been passed out plastic bags to go to the bathroom," Giordano said. "There was fecal matter all over the floor."
Even more distressing, Giordano said, has been the lack of information he has been able to get from Carnival, a sentiment shared by Vivian Tilley, of San Diego, whose sister is also on the vessel.
Carnival, she said, has not told families what hotel passengers will be put in or provided precise information about when they will arrive in Mobile, Ala. And that came after the cruise line switched the ship's towing destination from Progreso, Mexico, to Mobile.
Tilley said her sister, Renee Shanar, of Houston, told her the cabins were hot and smelled like smoke from the engine fire, forcing passengers to stay on the deck. She also said people were getting sick.
"It's a nightmare," Tilley said, noting Shanar and her husband chose a four-day cruise so they wouldn't be away from their two daughters for too long.
Carnival said Wednesday that it had reserved hotels in New Orleans and Mobile, as well as charter flights and buses to get passengers home.
The company has disputed the accounts of passengers who say the ship is filthy, saying employees are doing everything to ensure people are comfortable.
Passengers are supposed to receive a full refund and discounts on future cruises.
Weather permitting, the Triumph should arrive in Mobile sometime Thursday.
Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen acknowledged the Triumph's recent mechanical woes, explaining that there was an electrical problem with the ship's alternator on the previous voyage. Repairs were completed Feb. 2.
Testing of the repaired part was successful and "there is no evidence at this time of any relationship between this previous issue and the fire that occurred on Feb. 10."
But according to the email sent to passengers on Jan. 28, the issue affected the ship's cruising speeds, delaying its arrival in Galveston. The email also informed Smedley and other passengers that the propulsion problem would prevent them from docking at two ports.
"Due to the limited cruising speed, our itinerary will be impacted. Depending on the progress of the repairs, we will either visit Progreso or Cozumel," stated the email, signed by Vicky Rey, vice-president of guest services. "The good news is that we will remain docked overnight at either port."
Smedley said the ship was in poor condition overall. During her five-day cruise, a water line broke in the hallway ceiling near her cabin, and a separate sewer line broke outside the main dining hall, she said. Metal was protruding from handrails on the staircases, and the elevators often did not work.
Rather than docking in Progreso for only a few hours as planned, the ship stayed in the port for two days, and cruise workers repeatedly told passengers they were waiting for parts to fix a mechanical problem, she said.
Jay Herring, a former senior officer with Carnival Cruise Lines who worked on the Triumph from 2002 to 2004, said the ship was not problematic when he was on it. But he had been on another vessel that seemed to have problems nearly every voyage. The Holiday, which at that time was the oldest ship in Carnival's fleet, has since been sold to another company, he said.
"It seemed like it had problems every cruise or every couple of cruises," said Herring, who also authored the book "The Truth About Cruise Ships." "So it may not be unusual to have recurring problems."
The Triumph, he said, is the size of three football fields or a skyscraper laid on its size. It takes five generators — with one on backup — to power the ship, and 80 per cent of that energy is needed to simply push the massive vessel through the water, Herring said.
Each of those generators is the size of a bus, so it's unrealistic to think that the ship could have enough backup power on board to run services when the engines die, Herring added.
"It's one of their bigger ships. It's certainly on the top end of Carnival's fleet," he said of the Triumph. "There are so many moving parts and things that can go wrong."
Plushnick-Masti can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RamitMastiAP .
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Kurt Thomas, Camby and Ty Chan are the perfect trio to bring STAT's defense out of him.
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Kurt Thomas gonna be tossing dudes like he tossed Dennis Rodman's punk a$$
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The meeting was to discuss a draft law to bolster protections against pesticides and other dangerous chemicals.
Expanded plantations and mining and plans for massive hydropower dams have given rise to concerns for villagers.
Ek Sonn Chan, the head of Phnom Penh's water authority, says he wants to get clean water to Cambodians beyond the capital.
Seeing Gulf Coast oil spill, environmental and other groups in Cambodia say the country needs to do more to safeguard its environment.
The award will be conferred to the Phnom Penh Water Authority during World Water Week in Stockholm, which begins Sept. 5.
It is not uncommon for companies to pay bonuses for concessions here, but what happened to that money remains unknown.
Villagers here say the dams and the power they generate are not worth the cost.
Cambodian officials in London have baulked at their challenge to openly debate environmental watchdog Global Witness.
Experts have singled out plans for two mainstream dams as the greatest threat to the productive inland fisheries of the Mekong region.
The Global Witness report says sand dredging has negative impacts on the environment.
The locals told investigators that the dredging already has damaged Cambodia's coastal ecosystem.
Global Witness reported that at least 790,000 tons of sand from the coast are monthly shipped out.
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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
Series Is Presented Here As 4 Variables: (1) Original Data, 1920-46; (2) Original Data, 1939-46; (3) Seasonally Adjusted Data, 1946-63; And (4) Original Data, Annual Only, 1946-63. These Series Represent The Sum Of Five Building Categories: Religious, Educational, Hospital And Institutional, Social And Recreational, And Miscellaneous Nonresidential. Separate Data For Each Group Are Available In The Sources For 1920 And Following Years. For The Years 1915-19, Data On This Category Are Not Separable From "Commercial Buildings," As Defined In Series NBER 02187 & 02188 In General, This Category Covers All Private Nonfarm Nonresidential Buildings Not Included In "Industrial" Or "Commercial," Except Buildings Constructed By Railroads, Local Transit Companies, And Public Utility Companies For Their Own Use. For A Detailed Listing Of Types Of Buildings Included, See "Construction Reports, Construction Activity," C30-61 Supplement, U.S. Bureau Of The Census, October 1964, P. 73. Because Of A Change In The Classification Of One Type Of Warehouse From "Miscellaneous Nonresidential" To "Commercial," The Data Beginning In 1956 For These Two Categories, And For"Other Private Nonresidential Buildings" Are Not Strictly Comparable To Those For The Period Before That Date. See Lipsey & Preston, P. 262 For Details. For Further Information See The Introductory Notes On Bls-Dept. Of Commerce Data Source: Business And Defense Services Administration And Bureau Of Labor Statistics (See Note)
This NBER data series m02190a appears on the NBER website in Chapter 2 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter02.html.
NBER Indicator: m02190a
National Bureau of Economic Research, Private Nonfarm Nonresidential Buildings Other Than Commercial and Industrial (Constant Dollars) for United States [M0290AUSM380NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M0290AUSM380NNBR, January 26, 2020.


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13 November 2010
Terri Irwin's leadership of internationally-renowned tourism icon Australia Zoo has been recognised at the Queensland Management Excellence Awards held in Brisbane last night, where she was named Owner Manager of the Year.
As owner and director of Australia Zoo, and Patron of Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, Terri was honoured for her leadership and management style, the role she has played in the growth of her business, commitment to mentoring and other leadership activities, and communication of the vision, mission and goals of Australia Zoo.
Terri said she was honoured to receive the award, which comes as Australia Zoo prepares to celebrate the life and legacy of Steve Irwin, in Steve Irwin Day on Monday 15 November.
"Steve and I shared a vision of becoming the ultimate, global zoological destination, and every day I continue to work at growing this vision into reality."
Under Terri's leadership and direction, Australia Zoo has grown into a world-class facility and leader in conservation, and has been widely recognised throughout the tourism industry, taking out Major Tourist Attraction at the Queensland and Australian Tourism Awards, and being inducted into the Queensland Tourism Hall of Fame.
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Learn how to recognize and appreciate Shingle-style architecture, best known for its use in the seaside resorts of coastal New England
Shingle Style's Roots
Known as one of the most uniquely American styles of architecture, Shingle style's roots lie in the late 19th century, from about 1880 to 1900. That's when rambling homes of this style were built along coastal New England to serve as getaways for well-to-do families.
Why just for the wealthy? Because the architects who designed these homes favored diverse forms united with a cladding of wood shingles. The cost of this type of construction was out of reach of the average homeowner.
Pictured: This 1885 Shingle-style Victorian home was built along the Massachusetts coast as a summer getaway. This view shows the back of the house, which includes a spacious porch facing the water. See the next slide for a view of this home from the street.
Artful Adaptations
Shingle style can be hard to pin down, because it's really an adaptation of several other architectural traditions. Early Shingle-style designs borrowed wide porches, shingled surfaces, and asymmetrical facades from Queen Anne-style architecture, and gambrel roofs, classical columns, and Palladian windows from Colonial Revival. The Richardsonian Romanesque tradition offered arches, sculpted shapes, and lower stories built of stone. The absence of a singular style is what inspired architects to be so inventive about how they designed these free-spirited summer homes.
Pictured: This home has clapboard siding on the first floor, and shingle siding everywhere else. The street-side view shows a small front porch with turned-wood columns; the large porch intended for relaxing with others is on the side of the house that faces the water.
Shingle-Clad Exteriors
What did all these Victorian-inspired summer houses have in common? Three things. The first (and you've probably figured this out already) was that their designers used a layer of wood shingles to tie all the vertical and sloped surfaces together. The shingles were stained brown or simply allowed to weather to a handsome patina (light gray to dark brown) from the effects of sun, wind, salt water, and precipitation. Some of the more expensive homes were built on foundations of rough-hewn rock that made them look as though they were embracing the earth.
Rustic Informality
The second thing these Shingle-style homes had in common was their sense of informality. Whether grand or humble, these houses appeared totally at ease within their natural surroundings. Spacious porches, multiple large windows, and balconies encouraged personal interaction with nature—or at least with the sunshine and ocean breezes that came with seaside living.
Pictured: Stone chimneys and weathered shingles help this rustic beach house on Martha's Vineyard feel at one with nature.
Complex Rooflines: Gambrel
The third characteristic those early Shingle-style homes shared was steeply pitched, often almost free-form rooflines. Gambrel roofs, like the one shown here, were common, seen on about a quarter of Shingle-style homes. A gambrel roof has two different pitches, the lower one steeper than the upper.
Complex Rooflines: Hipped
A smaller percentage of early Shingle-style homes had hipped roofs, in which all slides slope gently downward to the walls of the building. (The "hip" is the angle at which the different slopes meet.) Hipped roofs were often designed as one large form attached to smaller forms such as lower cross gables.
Pictured: This 1920s-era Shingle-style cottage with a hipped roof stands just blocks from a beach in East Hampton, New York. Homeowners Patricia and Jeffrey Fisher designed and supervised the cottage's renovation, adding a two-level foyer with a new staircase and a kitchen addition on the rear of the house.
Tour the interiors of this gracious summer home.
Interior design: Patricia Fisher
Complex Rooflines: Gabled
The remaining Shingle-style homes have gabled roofs — front-gabled (shown), side-gabled, or cross-gabled. With front-gabled roofs, the triangular gable formed by the roof is visible at the front of the house; these roofs are often seen in Cape Cod or Colonial-style homes.
Architect: Jeff Murphy
Interior design: Rosemary Merrill
Complex Rooflines: Side-Gabled
With side-gable roofs, like the one shown here, the triangular gables are on either side of the house. This roof includes a shed dormer with multiple windows on the front. Dormers of various styles (including gabled, hipped, and eyebrow) make Shingle-style rooflines even more complex.
Complex Rooflines: Embellishments
Shingle-style exteriors don't include much in the way of decorative detailing, but their broad roof surfaces are often broken up by elements such as chimneys, dormers, towers (which start at ground level), and turrets (which project from the structure itself).
Window Surrounds
In keeping with their connection to nature, early Shingle-style homes included numerous windows both large and small, often in clusters of two or three depending on the size of the wall. Double-hung windows typically included divided-light sashes above and single-pane sashes below. Decorative windows crafted in round or rectangular shapes added variety. Palladian windows—large windows divided into three parts, with the larger center portion arched—offered another eclectic addition to the mix, as did one- or two-story bay windows.
Inviting Porches
Like their Victorian predecessors, early Shingle-style houses often featured spacious front porches. (Think about it: The owners had the time and inclination to relax because the homes were built primarily as vacation getaways.) Sometimes the porch supports appeared as plain painted columns, as shown here, but fancier versions featured classical columns, or beefier columns clad in stone or shingles.
Pictured: This 1930s Cape-Cod style house on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay features a wraparound front porch and a spectacular view of the water. See the next slide for a view of this house after it was remodeled.
Remodeled Cottage
Even with a new roof, new shingles, and a rebuilt porch, this 1930s-era cottage looks virtually the same as before. That's because homeowners Linda Butler and Ken Alvez carefully renovated the house to retain its Shingle-style personality. They rebuilt the wraparound porch and replaced an enclosed porch with a banquette dining area with wraparound windows. (New windows include muntins on upper sashes to match the home's vintage style, while lower sashes were left unadorned to facilitate views of the bay.) They also built a 21x20-foot family-room addition with access to a new deck and patio that connect the space to the backyard.
Architect: Ron Labonte
Landscape architect: Pam Quinn
Interior design: Linda Lee Butler
Then and Now
By the late 19th century, builders were creating scaled-down versions of those rambling summer estates inland—nary an ocean wave in sight. Still, Shingle-style homes never became a common choice (like Queen Anne back in the day), so the style's popularity began to fade by the early 1900s. Fifty years later, though, architects began to borrow from the classic style and design buildings with selected Shingle-style characteristics.
Today, architects continue to ceate elegantly casual Shingle-style homes on the East and West coasts, as well as on lakeside sites. What these homes continue to have in common is their shingle-clad exteriors, their free-form designs, and their dedication to relaxed informality. The remaining slides showcase our favorite 21st-century Shingle-style homes.
Pictured: This rambling modern-day house sits atop a 50-foot-high bluff overlooking Nantucket Sound, where seaside views can be enjoyed inside as well as out. The complex roofline, shingled siding, and wraparound porch are all hallmarks of Shingle style.
Tour the interior of this gracious seaside home.
Architect: Scott Hutton
Interior design: Elizabeth Corker
Oyster Bay Beauty
This two-story shingled house on New York's Long Island was designed to take advantage of the site's spectacular view of Oyster Bay. Street-side, the house presents a traditional face, with two chimneys, multiple dormers, and a tower adding to the roofline's complexity. A subtly bowed front facade swells above the portico.
Each room in this house was crafted to offer a view of the bay. Take a tour.
Architects: Stuart Disston with Joshua Rosenweig and Guy Horvath
Interior design: Eliza Gatfield
Nantucket Summer Home
Encircled by porches, this multi-gabled house is clad in Nantucket's traditional gray shingles accented with crisp white trim. Inside, homeowner Jane Forman, an interior designer as well as a lifelong collector, decorated the home to reflect Nantucket history and culture. "Our time on Nantucket has grown from just the summer months now that we have retired," Jane says. "The house has made this stage of our life so special, because it represents additions to our family."
See the home's guest cottage on the next slide.
Architects: Botticelli & Pohl
Interior design: Jane Forman
Nantucket Guest Cottage
Jane and Charles Forman's guest cottage echoes the main house's classic Shingle-style charm.
Tour this handsome seaside retreat.
Architects: Botticelli & Pohl
Interior design: Jane Forman
New England Summer Home, front view
As with its 19th-century ancestors, this Shingle-style second home (built near Boston in 2011) was designed to make the family and their guests feel at ease. The materials that make up its serene interiors accommodate relaxed beach life as well as active play.
See the back of this home on the next slide.
Architect, Interior designer: Daniel Reynolds
New England Summer Home, back view
At the back of the house, two balconies, a sunroom, and a pool deck give family and friends ample room to spread out and enjoy summer life. "This house was built to bring family together," says homeowner Scott Helinski. "Not just now, but in 50 years when [wife Lisa and I] are gone and our children are here with their children."
Check out this summer home's stylish yet comfortable interiors.
Architect, Interior designer: Daniel Reynolds
Harbor Springs Cottage
Sheila Keil's parents still live in the cottage in Harbor Springs, Michigan, that's been in her family since the 1920s. So when Sheila decided to build a new home overlooking Lake Michigan, she sought out a designer who shared her fondness for turn-of-the-20th-century cottages. Tom Stringer delivered the classic Shingle-style cottage essentials: cedar shingle siding and rough-hewn stone structures outside, beaded-board paneling and antique wicker furniture inside. He also delivered an interior color scheme reminiscent of a vintage cottage garden. "You have everything under the sun—periwinkle, aqua, yellow," Stringer says. "It's like a Midwestern garden in June."
Tour this lakeside cottage's colorful interiors.
Exterior architecture: Nick White
Interior design and architecture: Tom Stringer
Builder: Jeff Ford
Landscape architect: Douglas Hoerr
Nantucket Retreat, front view
Architect Joe Paul designed this home to appear as though an old cottage had been enhanced with two taller structures. To further the illusion, he sided the main structure with shingles and used clapboard to cover the connecting areas. "On Nantucket there's a certain amount of randomness—homes are built of found items and added onto as needed," Paul says.
See the back of the house, which faces the sea, on the next slide.
Architect Joe Paul
Interior design: Donna Elle
Nantucket Retreat, back view
With ocean views a priority, architect Joe Paul took the homeowners around their lot looking for the best place to locate the living room. As a result, the backyard entertaining area that sprawls outside the couple's living room enjoys an unfettered view of the sea. In fact, the home's zigzagged design helps nearly every room look out on an ocean panorama.
Architect: Joe Paul
Interior design: Donna Elle
Seattle Sanctuary
A gambrel roof and shingle siding give this expansive Dutch Colonial house in the Seattle area its own brand of Hamptons style. The specially treated shingles, which weather evenly, looked aged from day one. A wall of French doors in the dining, living, and family rooms opens the house to the outdoors and a concrete terrace that overlooks Lake Washington. "No matter where you are in the house, it feels very open and inviting," homeowner Sun Chaney says.
Tour the serene, light-flooded interiors inside this home.
Architect: Paul Moon
Interior design: Susan Marinello
Lovely Lakeside Cottage
Formal, casual, and Americana come together in this cottage two hours north of Indianapolis on Lake Maxinkuckee. "They wanted the look of an old cottage that had been refurbished," says Gary Nance, a residential designer who worked with homeowners Gina and Jim Bremner on their new Shingle-style summer home. Porches, an upper balcony, and large windows face the lake.
See the interiors' comfortable yet classic look.
Architectural design: Gary Nance
Interior design: Suzanne Kasler
Cape Cod Reconstruction
Homeowners Lance and Tracy Isham renovated their 1928 cottage on Cape Cod with respect for its history. The idea was to do a seamless renovation, blending the old structure with new additions to suit year-round living without marring the summer-house spirit of the Shingle style. The project included a two-story bumpout that accommodates a treetop master bedroom.
Browse the updated rooms inside this cottage.
Architect: Douglas Dick
Interior design: Mary Foley and Michael Cox
West Coast Reverie
Guests at Joanne and Dennis Schwary's home on California's Lido Isle tend to head for the patio and dock to take in the view of Newport Bay. Although the home's floor plan is California casual, the exterior is more like the Hamptons: shingle siding, a stone foundation for the patio, and a Palladian-style window between two stone chimneys. "The light here is beautiful, and we have amazing sunsets," Joanne says. "I never want to live anywhere else."
See what this home looks like inside.
Architect: Don Stine
Interior design: Julie Hovnanian
Creative Nantucket Cottage
Once a humble dwelling, this Shingle-style home became an appealing year-round retreat thanks to a series of renovations and additions.
Tour this charming Nantucket cottage.
Interior design: Nancy Serafini
Shingle-Style in Utah
Homeowner Hillary Taylor wanted to capture American vernacular architecture in her new Salt Lake City home surrounded by mountain vistas. Working with California architect Jon Jang, she incorporated updated Federal and neoclassic details into the Shingle-style mix to bring her vision to life. Multiple windows foster a strong indoor-outdoor connection—a boon during Utah's long winters.
Architects: Jon Jang and Craig Kitterman
Interior design: Hillary Taylor
Marblehead Haven
Originally a modest, two-story Cape Cod built in the 1960s, this house had acquired unrelated additions that did nothing to boost its appeal. So homeowners Hiroko and Harry Lange hired Boston-based architect Ron Margolis to turn the architectural hodgepodge into a stylish weekend getaway. Various architectural elements—irregular outlines unified by cedar shingles, an eyebrow window, and a flagstone walkway—helped the house attain a Shingle-style presence worthy of its location: at the entrance to Marblehead Neck, with a beach and views of the Boston skyline. "Now our home is comfortable, cozy and fun," Harry says. "We love to entertain our friends so they can enjoy it, too."
Tour the gorgeous rooms inside this updated seaside abode.
Architect: Ron Margolis
Interior design: Dee Elms and Andrew Terrat
Maine Attraction
Perched on a rocky ledge close to the sea, this Shingle-style retreat overlooks a sweep of gardens that culminate in a spectacular view. Homeowner Darcie Bundy worked with Maine architect Thom Rouselle to execute her vision for a Shingle-style structure with five-sided wings. "It's how I envisioned the house—with two arms that curve around to enclose us, yet open out to the sea," Darcie says.
Tour another oceanfront Maine getaway.
Architect: Thom Rouselle
Interior design: Darcie Bundy
Hampton Designer Showhouse 2013
Set on five acres in Bridgehampton, New York, this sprawling retreat features a well-manicured lawn, a tennis court, and hiking trails as part of its charm. The site hosted the Hampton Designer Showhouse in 2013. More than 30 designers pooled their talents to showcase seaside style in the expansive interiors—plus three porches and two pool areas.
Tour spaces that interpret summer living as part of this showhouse.
Architect: Brian P. Brady
Builder: Paramount Homes of the Hamptons, Inc
Hampton Designer Showhouse 2012
This 8,500-square-foot Shingle-style house on Long Island hosted the Hampton Designer Showhouse in 2012. The complex roofline features both the gambrel shape and multiple dormers. Inside, the colors of sand, sea, and sky inspired many of the room makeovers.
Tour the 2012 Hampton Designer Showhouse.
Builders: Steven Graziano and Thomas Graziano
Hampton Designer Showhouse 2011
A curved eyebrow dormer punctuates the gambrel roofline of this Shingle-style showhouse in the Hamptons. Massive chimneys also do their part to create an exterior reminiscent of Shingle-style getaways of the late 1800s. Inside, retreat-worthy rooms decorated by top designers range from casual to luxurious.
Tour the 2011 Hampton Designer Showhouse.
Builder: Michael Cerbone
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Do you ever look at old stuff you've written and wonder who in the hell you were trying to be?
Who you wanted to impress?
That's kind of how I felt looking back at this old blog, with my last update nearly one year ago.
Well, I'm done with the fakeness and almost considered deleting this blog -- until I realized it would be 10 years old come December 2015. That's something else!
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