Nevermind more than a hundred, even if you add another zero at the end, she would still dare to accept it all!
She was not afraid that it was too many, she was afraid that it would be too little!
Pressing down her inner joy, Shen Yanxiao strived to maintain a calm expression before turning to look at her comrades behind her.
She must be calm and not let them see her own delight. The plan to capture the demons was not known by them. She did not want to scare them away.
Du Lang and others looked at Shen Yanxiao's calm but somewhat stiff face, and each of them lamented in their hearts.
Sure enough, even this heaven-defying little girl will show a bit of worry about the matter of rebuilding The Rising Sun City. What else can we expect?
For a time, all people in the entire team looked very sad, as if the next second, there would be a collective sacrifice. Their faces were full of despair.
Watching the spirits of the crowd dropped to the bottom, Shen Yanxiao was slightly surprised.
She was sure that she had already calmed down her mood. Why did this group of people seem as if their parents had died? Not only they looked listless, all of them appeared solemn and sad.
Her face did not give her away, right?
Touching her chin, Shen Yanxiao had no idea that her direction of thinking was different from that of Du Lang and the others.
"Well, should we go in now?" Uncle Jiu cleared his throat. This was already the case and they had no way to return now.
"Enter, ah. Why not go in?" Shen Yanxiao said naturally.
The emotions of the people had fallen even more.
"..." I did not seem to say anything wrong, right?
"Let's enter! Now that we have accepted your task, we must go all out. We thank Little Xiao for taking care of our Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps during this time, and for giving us generous rewards so that our family does not have to worry about food and clothing anymore." Du Lang took a deep breath and seemed to have made a great determination. He turned to the members of the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps and said, "Brothers, we have never retreated once we have accepted a task. Now let's enter the city!"
The wind was bleak and the water was cold, but the warriors would never turn their backs.
Du Lang's voice and declaration carried a solemn atmosphere.
Shen Yanxiao listened speechlessly. She still had not figured out what the matter was when Uncle Jiu had taken the villagers over and patted her shoulders.
"We are thankful to Little Xiao. You have given these people a free and happy life. You let them see the wonderful world outside. Thank you." After that, Uncle Jiu took the villagers with the Cave Wolves mercenaries behind to enter The Rising Sun City.
"..." Why do I feel there's something wrong with this situation? Shen Yanxiao was baffled by Du Lang and Uncle Jiu's seemingly tragic words. She looked at those sad and solemn people's backs. She really did not know how to respond.
Her plan to put the demons in captivity should not have been discovered. And even if they happened to discover it, they didn't have to put on a posture of someone going to h.e.l.l.
She really did not intend to turn them into demons' food!
"Sister?" Lan Fengli was not very clear about the situation. For him, the word demon was very strange.
Shen Yanxiao rubbed the corner of her eyebrows and felt that she had never used enough brain cells like right now.
"You've got a nice bunch of people." Fu Tu threw another unclear sentence and looked at Shen Yanxiao with a laugh before going straight to The Rising Sun City.
Shen Yanxiao was very confused as she watched the troops entered the city. She summoned Vermillion Bird out, called the two Phoenixes and Lan Fengli, then followed the crowd.
Intermittent chilly wind was blowing inside the rundown city of The Rising Sun, the large dark clouds still shrouded the sky above. The dilapidated city was covered in a dim light and the air in the city was even more turbid that even breathing became laborious.
A disgusting smell of rancid air drifted into the air, leaving people uncomfortable.
Just as they stepped into The Rising Sun City, Du Lang could already feel pairs of greedy eyes looking towards them through the ruins of the buildings.
The empty street was dusty and from far away, they could see two shadows approaching.
As the distance got closer, the two figures became even clearer.
Uncle Jiu: Who are they?
Vicious Wolf: M-maybe there are other people here??
All: *looks at Shen Yanxiao* What do you mean?
Shen Yanxiao: Cough. I mean, until their description is narrated, don't panic.
All: ...... What are you even talking about?
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How Much Structure Does Innovation Need?
Does innovation need to be left to its own devices?
Simon Barton
When the word 'innovation' comes to mind, most think of spontaneity, where creative individuals come up with inventive ideas to help solve their organisation's problems. To say innovation can't operate in a structured environment isn't true however, many of the world's most innovative companies schedule meetings that allow innovation attempts to be consistently measured and redefined, not just when sales are declining.
Whilst innovation can be found in numerous pockets throughout an organisation and can be fostered in a variety of different ways, having a process whereby resources can be attributed to specific innovation efforts is important.
Leading innovation is difficult and requires expertise. Many companies want to innovate but only a smaller proportion actually have the ability to do so.
Many companies have been guilty of giving their innovators a general outline of what they want, something which is often unclear and difficult to convey. Due to this, it's beneficial for companies to actually tell their team what they don't want - this gives the team far more freedom to be creative, whilst also guaranteeing for the board that they aren't going to be greeted with a project that's inappropriate.
In research and development, the management of patents is essential as ideas are often borne from the existence of previous innovations, so it's essential that you have legal protection to safeguard your ideas. The rise of patent trolls have only gone to increase this urgency even further.
It's also recommend that innovation teams are planned with diversity in mind. The best ideas come from a diverse group of individuals whose variation allows for a wide range of ideas to be thrown around a room. Getting these people together must be planned and also viewed as a priority by recruitment teams.
Perhaps the most aspect in terms of innovation structure is that those who are successful should be rewarded when they come up with ideas that have a direct impact a company's operations. If someone continually goes unnoticed their mindset and creativity are likely to come to a standstill, which could be the difference between a company coming up with a groundbreaking idea and not.
It's true to say that companies cannot thrust their workers into an inflexible environment when they're trying to come up with innovative ideas. This doesn't mean however that companies have to lose control of their innovation teams, in fact to do so is to create an environment where the most creative will have their ideas continually belittled.
The message is that companies should innovate, but innovate within a structure. Reward your workers and keep your teams as diverse as possible.
The Big Sleep: Big Data Helps Scientists Tackle Lack of Quality Shut Eye
How Artificial Intelligence Can Benefit Email Marketing
The Most Dangerous Software Errors of 2019
IBM's blockchain service goes multicloud
Apple set to release three new iPhones
IT outages left seven million Britons unable to use cards last year
Google launches AI language library TensorFlow.Text
The impact of 5G and IoT on blockchain technology
UK found to be Europe's tech unicorn leader
Apple to buy Drive.ai and add self-driving experts to its roster
Retail is reaping the rewards of predictive analysis
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While we're providers, and generally big fans, of traditional advertising and marketing techniques -and we'd never besmirch their effectiveness - SEO can also deliver significant cost savings in terms of how much you pay per lead.
Newpapers - From around £200 for a reasonably-sized advert in a local paper to upwards of £15,000 for a national publication.
Television - Depending on channel, region and how long you want your advert to be, you could be looking at anywhere from a couple of thousand pounds to more than £1 million (and that's without taking the cost of creating the advert into account).
Direct Mail - Obviously this can vary depending on the type of materials being sent, but expect to pay in the region of 30p per mail, per customer and more than 5p for leaflets.
Radio - Whether you opt to produce your advert yourself or have the radio station handle production can dramatically impact the cost of this activity. There's a wealth of packages available and sister stations often offer advertising spots in tandem.
To give you a ballpark figure, however, a recent client radio campaign at five spots a day over five days cost around £4,000 - including production and tied-in social media activity.
However, it's important to note that traditional marketing and PR activities can work well in tandem with SEO, social and paid advertising - both on and offline.
Without delving too far into the realms of jargon, SEO simply describes any activity that aims to affect the visibility of a website or particular page in a search engine's unpaid (also known as 'organic') results. This can cross several disciplines - from web development and copywriting to having specialists build the number of hyperlinks pointing at your website through a variety of means. As such, getting to the bottom of how SEO works can understandably be somewhat difficult for newcomers to get their head around.
like search engine marketing, inbound marketing and content marketing are often thrown round in relation to SEO and it can be hard to differentiate where one begins and the other ends. No two companies will do SEO in exactly the same way and complementary techniques like the above are often thrown in to the mix to increase the effectiveness of a campaign.
The general activity of the internet (e.g. sites updating, links being generated) can make it difficult to discern the role of individual elements in isolation. Therefore, to test elements in a 'vacuum' - where the activity of other sites won't impinge on your results - SEOs might set up new websites based around nonsense keywords (to eliminate all competition) and switch around various technical elements to see what makes a difference in terms of how it ranks. Similarly, they might also want to look at how having hyperlinks on other, well-indexed sites pointing at a test site will affect its placement in search results.
By using scientific method, testing a hypothesis (e.g. 'my site will rank better for a certain term if it has more links pointing at it') and coming up with conclusive, replicable results - it's possible to go some way to discovering how various elements will affect where a website will appear in the results for a certain query.
Obviously, the above categories aren't exhaustive and due to Google's secrecy - it's unlikely that we'll ever know the full extent of any given update.
This is further complicated by the search engine's move towards personalisation and location-specific results, which means that increasingly - no two people are likely to get exactly the same results for a query.
· How often and what type of content is posted.
Now we've got the theory out of the way - be sure to join us for part two of our guide to property SEO, where we'll delve into the methodology of your campaign and discuss how to carry out the research and create a plan that'll drive you to SEO success.


Yes.Finally Facebook and other 30 leading websites are now free in India.Thanks to internet.org.The news was announced today.
Internet.org is a partnership between social networking service company Facebook and six mobile phone companies(Samsung,Ericsson,MediaTek,Microsoft,Opera Software, andQualcomm) that aims to bring affordable Internet access to everybody by increasing affordability, increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.
This program is now on its initial state and is now available in a few states like Kerala, Tamilnadu etc.
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Wild Cat — дебютный студийный альбом британской хеви-метал-группы Tygers of Pan Tang, выпущенный 23 августа 1980 года на лейбле MCA Records. Альбом занял 18 строчку в UK Albums Chart и продержался в чарте 5 недель. Вскоре после выпуска альбома, вокалист Джесс Кокс поссорился с остальными участниками и покинул группу.

В 1989 году альбом был переиздан в качестве двойного LP со вторым альбомом Spellbound. В 1997 году Wild Cat был переиздан на CD с восемью бонус-треками.

Список композиций

Участники записи
 Джесс Кокс — вокал
 Робб Вейр — гитара, бэк-вокал
 Ричард «Роки» Лос — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал
 Брайан «Биг» Дик — ударные

Производство
 Крис Цангаридес — продюсер, звукорежиссёр
 Эндрю Уорвик — ассистент звукорежиссёра
 Cream — дизайн
 Пит Вернон — фотографии

Примечания

Дебютные альбомы 1980 года
Альбомы MCA Records
Альбомы хеви-метала

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Q: Vuex: Access State From Another Module I want to access state.session in instance.js from records_view.js. How is this accomplished?
store/modules/instance.js
const state = {
  // This is what I want to access in records_view.js
  session: {}
};

const getters = {
  sessionGetter: state => state.session
};

store/modules/records_view.js
const actions = {
  getSettingsAction (context, props) {
    // This is how I'm trying to access session, which doesn't work
    let session = context.state.instance.session;

    Api(
      context,
      {
        noun: props.noun,
        verb: 'GetRecordsViewSettings',
        orgUnitKey: _.has(session, 'orgunit.key') ? session.orgunit.key : '',
        data: {}
      },
      props.callback
    );
  }
};

This is for a little bit of added context.
store/index.js
import Vue from 'vue';
import Vuex from 'vuex';
import * as actions from './actions';
import * as getters from './getters';
import * as types from './mutation-types';

import instance from './modules/instance';
import recordsView from './modules/records_view';

Vue.use(Vuex);

export default new Vuex.Store({
  state,
  actions,
  getters,
  mutations,
  modules: {
    instance,
    recordsView
  }
});

A: from an action :
'contacts:update' ({ commit, rootState }) {
    console.log('rootState', rootState.users.form)
    ......

  },

A: In my case, this is how it worked for me.
In file ModuleA.js:
export const state = {
    parameterInA: 'A'
 }
export const action = {
    showParameterB() {
    console.log("Parameter B is: " + this.state.B.parameterInB)
}

In file ModuleB:
export const state = {
    parameterInB: 'B'
 }

export const action = {
    showParameterA() {
    console.log("Parameter A is: " + this.state.A.parameterInA)
}

You will need to import ModuleA & B in the index.js for the root:
import * as A from 'ModuleA.js'
import * as B from 'ModuleB.js'

This way, state parameter can be cross-referenced in sub modules.

A: Say you have two modules: ModuleA & ModuleB.
If you want to access ModuleA's state from ModuleB, you could do the following:
// inside ModuleB (where there is stateA in ModuleA)
getters: {
        getStateA(state, _, rootState) {
            return rootState.ModuleA.stateA;
        },
    },

A: this.$store.state.instance.session

where "instance" is the module name and "session" is the Vuex state variable you're trying to access.

A: state references local state and rootState should be used when accessing the state of other modules.
let session = context.rootState.instance.session;

Documentation: https://vuex.vuejs.org/en/modules.html

A: For me I had vuex modules, but needed a mutation to update STATE in a different file.  Was able to accomplish this by adding THIS
Even in the module you can see what global state you have access to via console.log(this.state)
const mutations = {
MuteChangeAmt(state, payload) {
//From user module; Need THIS keyword to access global state
this.state.user.payees.amount = payload.changedAmt;
 }
}

A: you can use rootGetters or rootState
in actions, contexts has rootGetters or rootState.
contexts.rootState.instance.session;
contexts.rootGetters["instance/session"];

A: You need to define session in your state like following, to access it in your getters:
const state = {
  session: ''
}

You have to write a mutation, which will be called from your actions to set this state value.

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John M. Harpster Bio
John has published several articles in computer magazines and has a book entitled "Dancing with the Universe" available at Amazon. He co-authored a book about autism with his wife Tamara entitled "You Don't Want to Go For a Drive.", also available at Amazon. His hobbies include writing, playing the piano, and photography.
John M. Harpster was born in Fort Worth, Texas and raised in Arlington. He served in the United States Navy as a photographer at the Naval Air Station in Rota Spain after attending boot camp and the Navy photography school. Upon his release from the Navy he went to the University of California at Northridge where he received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. His first job was as a software engineer at General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas where he met Tamara Stensland, also a software engineer. They married in Dallas, Texas.


Economic Growth Model - Biggest Mistake Ever!
The Economic Growth Model that we have been educated into and conditioned to believe as the only way to live on this planet, has become the biggest mistake, failure and disaster ever to be witnessed by the human race.
An economic model of life that teaches and encourages humanity to consume indefinitely, with no regard whatsoever to the delicate relationship with the environment upon which humanity depends in order to survive, has to be the most immature and irresponsible philosophy imaginable, as are the people who continue to promote this model – the politicians and policy makers. These are the people who have been elected to positions of leadership and authority in order to best serve us! In reality they are blinded into the economic growth model and become solely concerned with short-term gains and immediate profits for themselves and the few who wish to hoard as much material wealth as is possible. These are the most foolish of all for they haven't realised that without a planet that continues to support their ability to stay alive, all the status, wealth and treasure in the world is completely useless!
Remember that the Economic Growth Model is just a model, that's all. And one that has now proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it does not serve 99% of humanity or the environment and planet upon which we all depend. It simply serves those few short-sighted, narrow-minded, childish, irresponsible, egotistical, superficial, power and wealth-hungry individuals who want everything for themselves, just like spoilt little children who never learned to consider others in their choices and without realising that if they keep taking everything then eventually there'll be nothing left for themselves either. Wake up and grow up!
Therefore, it's just a man-made model that didn't work for the majority of people or their lasting wellbeing… and one that has definitely outlived its "sell by date". It is now time to consider and implement quickly newer models of living – ones that actually work! Instead of a model that damages that which we depend on to the point where life for every person, animal, water source, tree and plant is completely threatened, we use a model that allows us to grow and express ourselves whilst at the same time work alongside or even enhance the natural world that supports all of life, then not only the minority can continue to benefit but everyone and everything! Plus future generations will receive a chance of living a healthy and worthwhile way of life, in other words… humanity can continue - your children, your grandchildren and great grandchildren will all get a chance at living a healthy and beautiful life.
Continuing the same is no longer an option! Leaders, policy makers, politicians, governments, economists, educators, teachers, industry have all truly and catastrophically failed us! It is time for people everywhere to wait no longer for others to take the lead; it is now our responsibility to begin steering this world in the only logical and healthy direction possible. Only we can do it, only we can take the lead to a better world. You are not alone, we are all in this together, everyone is equal and everyone has indeed a significant part to play in this transition and in the changes that are coming. It is time to be brave, time to be united, time for us to steer this planet in the only direction that makes sense and the only direction that our future generations would like us to lead it.
Mother Earth belongs to all of us. It's time to get her back!
Sunday morning and I'm having my favourite breakfast again. It's my mixed fruit, nuts and seeds, coconut and delicious live yoghurt. It's so full of goodness and beauty with all those colourful chopped fruits in my bowl. The only problem today is - all the fruit has NO FLAVOUR WHAT-SO-EVER!!! What a disappointment!
When the fruit is good, this breakfast is nothing short of Divine, but it's March, the fruit's been shipped thousands of kilometers to get to my plate. Most of it has been picked unripe so it can survive the long journey, most of it fed with substances to make it look nice and grow big quickly, but unfortunately all of it lacking in any real benefit for my body.
It has no nice aromas and NO FLAVOUR and therefore no real nutrition in there either - how can it have! I can't tell you what a let down this is for me. And if one thing is going to make me leave this modern way of life and go live on the land, it's the poor state of our fruit and veg the likes of which I've had to suffer most of my life. However I do remember the many trips to southern Italy as a boy with my family, all the big family meals outside, al fresco. All those tasy vegetable dishes, salads, rich tomato sauces, watermelons, peaches and of course... the villagers local wine! The food was absolutely delicious, most, if not all of it, grown locally and with loving hands - what a joy that was.
Anyone who's ever grown anything in a garden or allotment knows the richness of flavour that is easily possible when you grow your food organically, naturally and with Love and can pick it yourself with joy and have it in your mouth within minutes. The aromas, the beauty and the flavours blow your mind and send your taste buds and emotions into ecstatic bliss everytime. You feed yourself with a smile on your face and feel joy inside at the true nourishment you receive. And you see it touches the whole of you, not just your body but your emotions, happiness levels, uplifting everything.
Here's to real food grown with and in a Space of Love!
I Love that quote. Anastasia has provided a beautiful new model... a new way of living which seems to address all the imbalances and failures created by our modern way of life and existing model for society. Her model and vision is so complete that it not just tackles, but actually resolves so many, if not all, the problems encountered by people in this modern way of life.
It resolves unemployment, depression and people feeling hopeless with nothing to do... as there's always something to do when you live on land and have even just a garden to tend to; flowers to water and enjoy, birds to listen to, bees and butterflies to watch. You are able to feed yourself with whatever you wish to grow... all your most favourite foods right there on your doorstep just outside the beautiful home you created for yourself as did all your wonderful neighbours who you now know so well and who feel more like family.
Then there's the fulfillment, the joy to your heart, mind and soul for becoming one with nature again and having created something good. It brings a peacefulness, relaxation, contentedness and more balanced pace of life that is rarely seen in the modern world.


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Hugs to you. You've had an extremely long week! Are you able to leave some of the things on hold as far as the move, and rest up and then reassess how you're feeling?
I had PPD (postpartum depression) with my second and it was awful. We're in the same boat as you, no family nearby and so much we had to do. They suggested that I take vitamin D and when it barely put a dent in it, finally requested Zoloft.
I'm so sorry. If you're in NH let me know how I can help ❤ it's a long shot but always happy to help another mama out. You should let your doctor know and talk to DH (dear husband) about what could help. Keep eating drinking and nursing. The craziness of the move and NICU will be over soon. You will find your new normal but holy life events.
I had PPD with my second and it was awful. We're in the same boat as you, no family nearby and so much we had to do. They suggested that I take vitamin D and when it barely put a dent in it, finally requested Zoloft.
I'm so sorry. If you're in NH let me know how I can help ❤ it's a long shot but always happy to help another mama out. You should let your doctor know and talk to DH about what could help. Keep eating drinking and nursing. The craziness of the move and NICU will be over soon. You will find your new normal but holy life events.
I'm down south but thank you! My DH (dear husband) has been helping as much as he can but with us having two other kids, it's only so much we can do with it just being us. The sad part about all of this is that his mother lives directly down the street from us now and just refuses to help.
Definitely let your doctor know, and your DH (dear husband) as well so he can keep an eye on you as well. If you need an ear, PAN me anytime.
I am so sorry you are going through this. I had PPD (postpartum depression) with my other two pregnancies but my first went undiagnosed and my second I didn't get diagnosed until 6 weeks pp. with this baby I'm leaving the hospital on meds. Have you dealt with PPD (postpartum depression) with you other children? It's way more common to have it reoccur with each pregnancy. That being said you should take any symptoms serious and share them with your OBGYN. It sounds to me like your just having a tough go at things and in a few weeks things will calm down especially when that baby is able to come home. Don't be hard on yourself about breastfeeding. The fact that you are doing it is amazing! But don't feel guilty if you have to have the nurses do a feeding every once in awhile so you can rest. You are doing amazing mamma! I can't imagine what you are going through but I will be praying for you to have strength and peace during this time.
It could be baby blues or situational depression since you have a lot going on at once. PPD (postpartum depression) is usually pretty severe but could be the beginnings of it.
You need to call either your OB or your PCP for an appointment but really neither are qualified to diagnosis you. They can assess you and determine if you need a referral to a psychiatrist.
Don't feel pressure to bf if you don't want to continue. Stopping may aleviate some of your anxiety. Can you discuss it with your husband?
I am so sorry you are going through this. I had PPD with my other two pregnancies but my first went undiagnosed and my second I didn't get diagnosed until 6 weeks pp. with this baby I'm leaving the hospital on meds. Have you dealt with PPD with you other children? It's way more common to have it reoccur with each pregnancy. That being said you should take any symptoms serious and share them with your OBGYN. It sounds to me like your just having a tough go at things and in a few weeks things will calm down especially when that baby is able to come home. Don't be hard on yourself about breastfeeding. The fact that you are doing it is amazing! But don't feel guilty if you have to have the nurses do a feeding every once in awhile so you can rest. You are doing amazing mamma! I can't imagine what you are going through but I will be praying for you to have strength and peace during this time.
It could be baby blues or situational depression since you have a lot going on at once. PPD is usually pretty severe but could be the beginnings of it.
I'm sooo sorry you are feeling like this. I suffered from PPD (postpartum depression) with my second baby & it's no joke. Take a deep breath & take some time for yourself. This isn't an easy time with everything you have going on & from the sounds of it you've handled it quite well. Do get your cry out, and lean on hubby as much as you can. I wish you good luck momma, hang in there.


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Totally Incompatible
In Champlain Valley, Memoir, What's Rosslyn?, What's the story? on October 3, 2011 at 10:30 am
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My fixer-upper forays with Bruce and other local realtors evolved when Susan joined the search.
She shared my dream of an old farmhouse surrounded by open meadows with views and sunlight. She liked barns and was even receptive to my occasional flights of fancy about converting an old barn into a home.
But our notions of size and simplicity were less aligned. And Susan was particularly keen on finding a Lake Champlain waterfront property. "What's the point of having a place that's not on the lake?" she asked repeatedly as if the answer were self evident.
The odds of finding an old farm on Lake Champlain were slim enough, but the prospect of finding a simple, inexpensive property on the lake was totally implausible unless we shifted our thinking toward seasonal camps. South of Westport and north of Essex there were many small properties tucked along the lakeshore that Bruce insisted on showing us despite repeatedly explaining that they were not what we had in mind.
We also looked at inland farms and interesting old homes in small towns and hamlets, "Just so you can see what's out there…"
We enjoyed looking and brainstorming, but we were growing frustrated with the increasingly diffuse range of properties we were seeing. We had lost our focus.
Bruce was trying to show us all of the options available which in equal turns dilated and frustrated our search. But there was an even more fundamental problem: Susan and my interests were not perfectly in sync.
Although a farm on the lake was proving an impossible ambition, our imaginations were piqued on several occasions by totally dissimilar and totally unlikely properties.
An old "Great Camps" style summer house in Westport overlooking Lake Champlain's Northwest Bay intrigued me until I realized that this pedigreed manse adjoined the town's sewage treatment plant.
A slate roofed barn, still square after a century or more standing at the crest of an immense field just south of Westport, also kidnapped my daydreams for a few days. I imagined a lofty open plan; exposed, rough hewn beams; magnificent views in all directions. But the seller was unable or unwilling to subdivide the field and barn from a much larger farm which included additional fields, an immense dairy barn, various other building for hay and equipment storage, a "pond" for storing cow manure and a large square farmhouse with cupola.
And then there was Rosslyn, a Merchant-Ivory film set for The Great Gatsby's Adirondack prequel. A century earlier. Located on the lake in Essex, it included a boathouse I'd loved since I was a child, a carriage barn, an ice house, and plenty of stone walls. But there were no fields and too many buildings. And the house was too big. And too run down. Way too run down. And the price tag was beyond unrealistic.
During our first visit Susan and I had both known immediately, instinctively, conclusively that it was not for us. Purchasing this once stately but now desperately dilapidated property was a bad idea. A really, really bad idea.
The expense alone. There was no conceivable short term return on investment. None.
And the amount of time it'd take to understand all of the property's problems, let alone begin to fix them, to build her back to her former glory? It was incomprehensible.
But money, scope, logistics, that was just the tip of the iceberg. Long deferred maintenance, decades overdue; a gutted rear wing with failing floors suspended from cables that stretched through the middle of rooms; crumbling foundations; faulty electric, plumbing and heating; a boathouse that was one ice flow away from a watery grave; an ice house with corn cribbing walls and a collapsed roof. The current owner had dedicated the better part of four decades of his life, four decades — full time — to renovating Rosslyn and yet it was disintegrating around him.
Buying Rosslyn was totally incompatible with our means, our lives and our plans. And yet Rosslyn seduced us. Susan and I visited and then, months later, revisited the property, each time musing about its potential despite knowing that we shouldn't, couldn't, wouldn't ever own it.
Our increasingly unfocused search — Susan and my notions of the perfect fixer-upper diverging and converging unpredictably — must have vexed Bruce despite his perennial good humor and patience. Though we did periodically visit properties when Bruce called with new listings that he thought might appeal to us, our enthusiasm gradually waned.
Serene, Patinaed Fantasy (rosslynredux.com)
Paris Renovation Bug (rosslynredux.com)
We Could Live at Rosslyn (rosslynredux.com)
Almost Logical (rosslynredux.com)
Kids, Friends and MSG (rosslynredux.com)
Postprandial Soak (rosslynredux.com)
The Farm (rosslynredux.com)
Tasha, Tennis and Wildlife (rosslynredux.com)
Lingering Longer at Rock Harbor (rosslynredux.com)
Rosslyn for Sale (rosslynredux.com)
Imagining Rosslyn Boathouse, Spring 2006 (rosslynredux.com)
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Serene, Patinaed Fantasy
In Adirondacks, Champlain Valley, Memoir, Renovation & Rehabilitation, What's the story? on September 29, 2011 at 11:41 am
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Accustomed to living out of a suitcase, I pendulumed back and forth between Manhattan where Susan was wrapping up a degree in interior design following a decade-long career in video production, and Westport, New York, where both of our parents owned homes and where we'd met a couple of years prior.
Susan had recently refinished a one bedroom apartment in The Galleria, and she was itching to sell it and start a new project. I was intrigued by the prospect of collaborating on a project and plugging my recent Paris experience into a tired but dignified New York apartment, but the Adirondacks were pulling me. After almost half a lifetime living in cities, I yearned to return to the rhythms and pleasures of rural life.
My idealized notion of a country house had its roots in a small farm that my parents had bought in Washington County while still living in New York City in the 1970s. Initially a getaway for my recently married parents trying to balance life and careers in New York City and later, albeit briefly, a full time residence, The Farm underpins my love for countryside and provides my earliest childhood memories.
The perfect place, I explained to Bruce, the friend and realtor who shuttled me from property to property, would be a small, simple farmhouse in the middle of fields with a sturdy barn and some acreage, maybe a stream or a pond or access to a river. Barns, in particular, pulled me. Secluded places with good light and views, forgotten places with stories still vaguely audible if you slowed down long enough to hear the voices. No loud traffic. An old overgrown orchard, perhaps. Asparagus and rhubarb gone feral near the barn. Stone walls, lots of stone walls and maybe an old stone foundation from a building long ago abandoned, the cellar hole full to bursting with day lilies. A couple of old chimneys in the farmhouse with fireplaces. A simple but spacious kitchen. A bedroom with plenty of windows. A room to read and write and collage the walls with notes, lists, photos, drawings and scraps. Someplace I could tinker at myself, gradually restoring the walls and plaster and roof. Timeworn wide plank floorboards of varying widths that I would sand by hand to avoid erasing the footpaths and dings and cupping from a burst pipe years before.
Although I'd painted the picture often enough, my budget and unwillingness to abandon the serene, patinaed fantasy resulted in a few false starts but mostly a very clear idea of what I was not interested in buying. On the upside, I came around and helped Susan select and renovate a coop in a 1926 McKim, Mead and White prewar located on 57th Street just off Sutton Place. An elegant apartment in a handsome building. Great bones, view and sunlight enhanced with a top-to-bottom environmentally responsible, non-toxic renovation. A success!
Though there were occasional fireworks when our aesthetics and convictions clashed, we enjoyed working together and decided to look for a North Country property that would suit both of our interests…
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Paris Renovation Bug
In Adirondacks, Champlain Valley, Memoir, Renovation & Rehabilitation on September 27, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Image by Brooklyn Museum via Flickr
Starting in about 2003 I initiated an unfocused real estate hunt for a "fixer-upper" in the Adirondacks' Champlain Valley. I'd returned from four years in Europe with enough savings to justify some idle time, a reprieve I hoped to plough into a long languishing novel while tinkering with the vestiges of a web-based business I'd launched in Paris a few years before.
But I couldn't shake the renovation bug that had bitten me quite unexpectedly while bringing a luxury vacation rental to market in Paris' Faubourg St. Germaine.
I'd made it into my early thirties without owning a home due to my intentionally peripatetic lifestyle, and despite an aesthete's appetite for buildings and furnishing and gardens, I hadn't the least interest in settling down. No biological clock ticking. No nesting instinct. No yen for taxes and maintenance and burst pipes and snow shoveling. No desire whatsoever for the trappings of a settled, domestic life. I understood why it appealed to others, but for me the commitments and encumbrances far outweighed the pride and financial wisdom of home ownership.
Until recently.
Something had changed, and I couldn't quite figure out how or why.
I'd spent the better part of a year and a half immersed in the acquisition, renovation and marketing of a grand Haussmannian property that promised tourists an opportunity to enjoy Paris à la Parisienne. My business partner and I joked that it was "Versailles in the heart of Paris", which was a gross exaggeration, but fifteen foot ceilings, 3,200+ square feet of living space including three master suites, a grande salon, a petite salon and a formal dining room invited exaggeration. Magnificent marble fireplaces, intricate plaster moldings, hardwood floors and meticulous finish details exuded Parisian elegance by the time we started booking the accommodation, but it hadn't always looked so inviting.
The property underwent a top-to-bottom transformation between the day we received the key and the day we shot the photographs for our brochures and website. Half of the property had been gutted and rebuilt from scratch. One bathroom was remodeled and two new bathrooms were created from scratch. Walls were moved, electrical systems were rewired. Carpets were ripped out and herringbone hardwood floors were hand sanded and resealed. Magnificent crown moldings were painstakingly restored, and sconces, chandeliers, and period hardware were refinished.
No architect. No designer. No engineer. Just outsized self confidence and a hepped up learning curve. I scribbled construction drawings on walls and fumbled through French and Portuguese until contractors seemed to understand what I wanted. With the Lebanese contractors I gesticulated, made funny sound effects and scribbled some more. That we completed the project at all was a miracle. That the results were exquisite, a mystery that still awes me. Though I'd grown up assisting my parents with a couple of renovation projects, I'd never before undertaken anything so ambitious or complex. Or so rewarding.
Although our business plan involved duplicating the process in Italy and in Spain, the woman I'd been dating for two years lived in New York City, and after two years of cycling through Paris, Rome and Manhattan on a roughly two week cycle, I opted to trade the business for the woman I loved. I dissolved my interest in the business, packed up my apartments in Paris and Rome, and moved back to the United States.
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Recovering from Irene
In Boathouse, Champlain Valley, Daily Munge, Lake Champlain on September 25, 2011 at 10:32 am
Rosslyn boathouse after Hurricane Irene
Much of the North Country is still recovering from the devastation wrought by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene. Four weeks on, I return to the notes I jotted during and shortly after Irene passed through Essex, New York.
A sheet of water cascades in front of the parlor windows. I've sunk into an armchair to watch the white caps rolling into our stone seawall. Into the dock beneath Rosslyn boathouse. Wind surges, thrashing and straining the leafy limbs of the gnarled old maple tree on the front lawn, violently snapping the boathouse flag.
Hurricane Irene has been delivering a less devastating blow to the Northeast than originally anticipated, and yet our lawn is littered with branches, entire tree limbs and even the top half of an Aspen which snapped off next to the carriage barn. Lake Champlain's water level has risen dramatically, gobbling up the sand beach and lapping at the stone seawalls currently being rebuilt north of our boat dock.
I initiated this post during the worst of Irene's wind and water, however I quickly abbreviated my commentary. My mind flashed back to Lake Champlain's destructive spring flood. I grew superstitious, my premature relief that Irene had taken it easy on us replaced by dread that I was underestimating her impact.
The next day I continued my observations after a demoralizing round trip to Plattsburgh. My suspicions had been confirmed. We were lucky; others unlucky…
The day started well enough. Clearing skies. Sunshine. Only a light breeze, virtually imperceptible after yesterday's 65mph gusts.
I checked the waterfront, noted the dramatic rise in water level then celebrated the absence of damage to the boat house. I walked the lawn and counted about a dozen broken limbs strewn over the grass. The top third of an aspen tree had snapped off and lay crushed to the south of the carriage barn. But no serious, unrecoverable damage.
My sunny disposition clouded briefly upon finding 27 bags of ready-mix concrete that had been left uncovered by the fellow rebuilding the stone seawall. All had been soaked and were now petrified, unusable.
Nevertheless, I departed for Plattsburgh relieved that we'd escaped virtually unharmed.
This is where my notes end. The day would force me to recalculate my earlier conclusions. Yes, Susan and I had been fortunate. Rosslyn had been virtually unscathed by Irene. But many of our neighbors in Whallonsburg, Willsboro and Wadhams and throughout the Champlain Valley were underwater.
Normally I'd drive through Willsboro, up and over Willsboro Mountain and then pick up "The Northway" (NYS Route 87) north to Plattsburgh. But I'd already heard that roads were closed beyond Willsboro, so I turned south toward the ferry dock to try another route. Our Town Supervisor was directing traffic at a road block, so I stopped and rolled down my window.
"What a mess. Roads are closed everywhere."
"Can I get to Plattsburgh?"
"Route 12 is the only access to The Northway."
"Toward Lewis? That's fine."
"Would you show those folks how to get to Meadowmount?" she asked, pointing at a car with out-of-state tags that was parked across from the Masonic Hall.
I pulled in front of the car and parked. I introduced myself to the driver and explained that they could follow me to Meadowmount. They were grateful.
With 20/20 hindsight I should have realized that I would need to take Route 12 to the Lewis exit on the Northway and then cross over and lead them into Meadowmount from Betty Beavers Truck Stop. But there are a half dozen local routes between Essex and Lewis that would be quicker. It never occurred to me that all of them could be flooded.
They were. And over the next thirty minutes I tried every one only to be stopped at road blocks or unmarked, submerged roads. Staggering. But most heart breaking of all was Whallonsburg, a hamlet of Essex a couple of miles inland from Lake Champlain. The Boquet River flows directly through the middle of Whallonsburg and it had flooded so high that five or six houses along the river were totally inundated. A couple of homes had water up the the second story windows! Emergency services had been set up at The Whallonsburg Grange, and volunteers were directing traffic and assisting displaced residents.
I would revisit this heartbreaking scene the following day during a bicycle ride assessing the damage all along the Boquet River corridor. By then the water had retreated and residents were dragging furniture and carpets and clothing and books and appliances out onto their yards. Over the next couple of days enormous dumpsters were filled with the destroyed possessions. During my most recent conversation with a friend who lives in Whallonsburg I learned that at least one and maybe more of the homes were condemned. Despite the devastation, it's been heartening to experience the community spirit and volunteerism that have resulted. The community has pulled together to help the residents effected by Irene with a fundraiser (Good Night, Irene) and countless hours of volunteerism.
Still trying to absorb the depressing situation in Whallonsburg I proceeded to attempt one road after another. And it seemed that with each "dead end" our entourage collected another vehicle. In due course our entire caravan made it out to The Northway, hopefully in time for one of the cars to make it to the airport without missing their flight. At Betty Beavers I got out and explained to the first car how to get to Meadowmount and offered them my card in case they got stuck. Only a few days later I received a gracious email from them explaining that they made it safely to the music school where their son had studied some years prior.
I mention this detail for the same reason I explained the community recovery efforts in Whallonsburg. Irene's proverbial silver lining may be the humanizing influence. People connecting and helping one another. This was also the case last spring when Lake Champlain flooded its banks for weeks on end. In both natural disasters the disruption and destruction were catastrophic, but in both cases effected communities rallied and supported one another. This civic responsibility, this community spirit underpins the attractive North Country lifestyle that has embraced us since moving from New York City to Essex in 2006.
In closing, the photograph at the top of this post was taken after Lake Champlain's water level rapidly rose due to the runoff from Irene. Although it pales in comparison to the water levels last spring, it was surreal to watch our beach disappear as water levels returned to typical spring levels.
Friends, Flooding and Photos (rosslynredux.com)
Ed Pais visits Rosslyn Boathouse (rosslynredux.com)
Rosslyn Boathouse Free from Toppling Ash (rosslynredux.com)
Lake Champlain vs. Rosslyn Boathouse (rosslynredux.com)
Essex-Charlotte Ferry Flooded Out (rosslynredux.com)
Boathouse Needs a Snorkel (rosslynredux.com)
Good Night, Irene (essexonlakechamplain.com)
Meadowmount Student Concert (essexonlakechamplain.com)
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North Country Farm Stands
In Daily Munge, What's the story?, Where's Rosslyn? on July 20, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Farm Stand In Vermont
The good folks at Cooking Up a Story featured this slice of North Country summer living, and I couldn't resist contacting them to find out where the farm stand is located. They responded quickly:
They are in Alburgh, VT – which is in the northwest corner of the state – nestled against NY and Canada, along Route 2. Drive up and check them out sometime. Really nice people!
Close enough for a visit, but not swing-by-and-grab-some-sweet-corn close. Too bad! Nevertheless, it's an inspirational story. We used to have a similar farm stand near us in Essex, New York that was run by the Sayward family for many, many years, but it closed up a few summers ago. Still miss it!
We've belonged to two CSAs since moving full-time to Essex, Essex Farm and Full and By Farm, and we grow a large vegetable garden and quite a few types of fruit. So I'm not complaining, but I do love the experience of visiting a neighborhood farm stand. It's nice to meet the growers, hear their stories, learn new ways to prepare the fresh produce.
Totally, unabashedly, irreversibly seduced (rosslynredux.com)
Haying with Draft Horses at Full and By Farm (rosslynredux.com)
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Totally, unabashedly, irreversibly seduced
In Adirondacks, Boathouse, Carriage Barn, Daily Munge, Historic Essex, House, Ice House, Lake Champlain, Renovation & Rehabilitation on July 19, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Today's question from Al Katkowsky's Question of the Day book was the perfect invitation to reflect on Rosslyn Redux, the "big picture"!
What should you definitely not have done that turned out okay anyway?
In the summer of 2006 I definitely should not have purchased a dilapidated, almost two hundred year old house in Essex, New York. Definitely not. Not if I wanted to stay sane, solvent or married. Not if I wanted to do anything else in my life except for renovating, babysitting contractors, and nurturing this handsome old house back to life…
But I was totally, unabashedly, irreversibly seduced by Rosslyn, a sagging-but-still-stately, almost two century year old property on the Adirondack shores of Lake Champlain. My new bride and I swapped Manhattan for North Country bliss.
Our plan? Renovate a home. Grow a garden. Plant an orchard. Raise a dog. Swim, sail, ski, hike, bike and live happily ever after.
Over a hundred carpenters, tradesmen and artisans later; over four times our budget and planned timeline later; and over countless marriage-testing misadventures later we finally finished our renovation. In time for the biggest flood in over two centuries to swamp our boathouse and waterfront for two months…
We should definitely not have undertaken this wildly ambitious project. But we did. And it turned out okay anyway. So far!
Check out RosslynRedux.com for a vicarious plunge into the idiosyncrasies (and absurdities) of our renovation, marriage and North Country life.
The Voice of Redacting Rosslyn (rosslynredux.com)
Moon Over Lake Champlain (rosslynredux.com)
Vintage Adirondack (rosslynredux.com)
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The Adirondack Chair Revisited
In Adirondacks, Daily Munge, History & Heritage on June 29, 2011 at 7:30 am
"To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Harry C. Bunnell, a citizen of the United States, residing at Westport, in the county of Essex and the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chairs. … " So begins patent number 794,777, dated July 18, 1905, in reference to what we commonly refer to as the Adirondack Chair. With its signature slanted back and wide armrests, the recognizable profile of this outdoor recliner has become a trademark of summer in America. Despite the patent filed over a hundred years ago, though, Harry Bunnell, a carpenter and shop owner, was not actually the one who created the chair's design. (via NYTimes.com.)
Image from original patent for the Adirondack Chair
In Monday's Rosslyn Roundup I included a link to a post about the Adirondack Chair, invented by Thomas Lee in 1903 but copied and adapted by countless carpenters since. A welcome surprise then to see the New York Times' The 6th Floor blog tackling the same timely topic today. In "Who Made That Adirondack Chair?" Hilary Greenbaum highlights Harry C. Bunnel's decision to patent the design actually invented by Thomas Lee allegedly without his permission. A case of vintage Adirondack snark? Perhaps. But even in Hilary's telling, Lee seems to have been gracious and let the matter go, permitting his friend to produce the chairs for profit for a quarter century.
As luck would have it, I'm friendly with several of Thomas Lee's descendants to still reside in (or visit) Westport — our Lake Champlain neighbor to the south — where the original Westport chairs (aka Adirondack chairs) were invented and produced. I'll have to ask if there's any more to this story, perhaps passed down through the generations. In fact, Bruce Ware, the realtor who showed us property for several years and ultimately brokered the deal for us when we purchased Rosslyn is directly or indirectly related to Thomas Lee. I'll see what I can find out…
If you know any more about the history of the Adirondack chair, please don't hesitate to contact me!
Rosslyn Roundup, June 27 (rosslynredux.com)
Adirondack Chairs: Faux or Real? (timesunion.com)
Hyde Gate For Sale or Rent (rosslynredux.com)
Crooning to the Adirondack Sunset (rosslynredux.com)
Essex Inn on the Adirondack Coast (essexonlakechamplain.com)
Adirondack Art Association (essexonlakechamplain.com)
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Hyde Gate For Sale or Rent
In Artifacts, History & Heritage, Lake Champlain, What's Rosslyn? on June 28, 2011 at 2:01 pm
For Sale: Hyde Gate (aka Rosslyn), in Essex, New York, April 1910.
Rosslyn artifacts pop up all over the place! And they're not always Rosslyn artifacts; sometimes they're Hyde Gate artifacts or Sherwood Inn artifacts… Honestly one of the most enjoyable aspects of owning and renovating our home is stumbling across interesting relics of its almost 200 year history.
I originally came across the advertisement above on eBay. The auction item was a full page ripped from the April 1910 edition of Country Life in America. How could I resist? One more quirky artifact for the digital library!
Turns out it wasn't the only time that Hyde Gate (aka Rosslyn) was advertised for sale or rent in the early twentieth century. A March 1910 advertisement is available on Google Books. A handy tool for finding print book content, Google Books offers increased functionality for out-of-copyright content such as this old magazine. For free you can "clip" the image (at right) to use elsewhere, and you can even clip the text content from the page. The following is quoted from the ad:
For Sale: Hyde Gate (aka Rosslyn) in Essex, New York, March 1910.
FOR SALE "HYDE GATE," Essex, N.Y. FOR RENT
The country residence of Caleb James Coatsworth Esq. is just at the outskirts of Essex Village on Lake Champlain, New York. The house faces the lake, and the grounds run right down to the lake with bath houses and a large private dock. The house is between eighty five and a hundred years old. Is built of brick. It is very beautifully furnished with the real antique Colonial furniture and although lighted throughout with electricity there is not on modem electrical fixture on the first floor.
In the hall there is an old lantern, and in all the rooms old candelabra hanging from the ceilings; there are also lamps on the centre table lighted by electricity. The house is a beautiful example of the Colonial period. It contains ten bed rooms and two bath rooms on the second floor, and three bed rooms on the third floor, also two lavatories on first floor. One can leave "Hyde Gate" in an automobile after breakfast and lunch at Lake Placid, or leave "Hyde Gate" in the morning and dine at Bretton Woods in the White Mountains, or dine at Montreal, Canada. Lake Placid is fifty miles from "Hyde Gate" by road; Bretton Woods one hundred and eighteen miles; and the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, Canada is just one hundred miles; all the roads are very good. It Is a great central starting point for automobiling. The owner of "Hyde Gate" has made all of these trips. You can leave the dock at "Hyde Gate" in a launch and go to Westport, NY, or Vergennes, Vermont (the oldest city in Vermont) through the beautiful Otter Creek or Burlington, Vermont in less than an hour, or "Bluff Point" in two hours where the Lake Champlain Hotel is located, which is considered the best hotel In the Adirondacks.
The grounds contain between five and six acres, beautifully laid out, and there is a great abundance of flowers, a large kitchen garden, and quite a number of fruit trees and currant bushes, etc.
A stable with room for five horses, carriage room for five or six carriages, large harness room with glass case for harness, and good comfortable quarters for coachman. There is a large carriage shed outside of table where extra carriages can be stored, also suitable for two automobiles, several chicken houses, and a pigeon house. There is a large new ice house with a cold storage house built in connection with it.
"Hyde Gate" is just half way on Lake Champlain, and one can make the trip to New York in a motor boat in two days running spending the night at Albany, or you can run to Montreal with a motor boat in two days.
Enquire CALEB JAMES COATSWORTH 110 South Penn Ave Atlantic City NJ (via Country Life in America, March 1910, P. 495)
A couple of years later a similar advertisement ran in the April 1912 issue of Country Life in America. And it would seem that Caleb James Coatsworth was learning a thing or two about advertising with each return to ink. The text length and detail is generally the same throughout, but a bit of brevity slips into the equation, and the photographs improve significantly. Perhaps there are later advertisements that I've missed?
Let's take a look at the copy for Coatsworth's 1912 Hyde Gate advertisement:
For Sale HYDE GATE ESSEX NY For Rent
"Hyde Gate" is just at the outskirts of Essex Village on Lake Champlain, N.Y. It is the country residence of Caleb James Coatsworth. The house faces the lake, and the ground runs down to the lake. There are bath houses and a large private dock. The house is between 85 and 100 years old. It is a beautiful example of the Colonial period; made of brick. It is very beautifully furnished with antique colonial furniture. It contains ten bed rooms and two bath rooms on the second floor and three bed rooms on the third floor. Also two laboratories on the first floor.
The grounds contain between 5 and 6 acres beautifully laid out. There is a great abundance of flowers. A large kitchen garden and a number of fruit trees and currant bushes, etc. A stable with room for five horses, accommodations for 5 or 6 carriages, large harness room and good comfortable quarters for coachman. Another carriage shed affords accommodations for extra carriages and two automobiles. There are other outhouses. Further particulars from
CALEB JAMES COATSWORTH
Hyde Gate Eases NY (via Country Life in America, April 1912, P. 3)
Two laboratories on the first floor? Fantastic! It's handy having multiple versions of this ad to sort out the unlikely presence of a pair of labs in a summer residence… Two lavatories, now that makes a little bit more sense. Imagine the ten year old son who's spent all spring looking forward to summer vacation on Lake Champlain. His father has promised that their summer rental includes two laboratories. Oh, the experiments that have occupied the boy's daydreams in the final stretch of the school year. A homemade volcano, frog dissection,… the options are endless. And then to arrive after an exhausting journey along bumpy roads in the days long before air conditioning. And the lad races inside to search for the laboratories, to find the answer to his fantasies only to discover that it was an error. Two lavatories? What sort of evil joke is that?
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Rosslyn Roundup, June 27
In Adirondacks, Champlain Valley, Daily Munge, History & Heritage on June 27, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Adirondack chairs (photo courtesy of albanykid.com)
It's time for another Rosslyn Roundup to share everything Rosslyn-related that I didn't get a chance to post this past week. Summer in the Champlain Valley has a way of inching along slowly, slowly, slowly and then suddenly galloping off! This summer was not exception, but the transition was even more apparent because of protracted Lake Champlain flooding. With almost two months a record breaking high water, the flood delayed the normal spring/summer transition. And once the water did finally drop, everyone hustled double-time to catch up!
This has been especially evident in our fair hamlet by the lake. Essex is undergoing a veritable renaissance! Despite early concerns that The Old Dock Restaurant and the Essex Shipyard and Rudder Club might be unable to open for the season due to severe flood damage, both are racing a July 1 opening date. And that's only part of the Essex renaissance. Nary a storefront in the village is empty, and the offerings are exceptional. In fact, there's so much activity that a new website has been born to tell the Essex story called Essex on Lake Champlain; it will serve as a digital bulletin board and community blog for Essex, New York. I've included a parade of blog posts from the website in my roundup below, so I hope you'll take a moment to discover why Essex is such a grand place to live and visit.
In addition to the Essex stories, I'm starting with a post about the now ubiquitous Adirondack chair courtesy of Wanda Shapiro (@WandaShapiro), the author of Sometimes That Happens With Chicken . Although this chair proudly announces its Adirondack heritage wherever it is enjoyed, not many know that it was actually invented in Westport, the next town south of Essex. You may be surprised about its history!
Without further ado, I offer you the June 27 Rosslyn Roundup:
The Adirondack, Burnell, Westport or Muskoka Chair: Westport Chair was the original name for the Adirondack Chair… There is in fact a small town populated by about 1500 people called Westport, New York, on the western shores of Lake Champlain. It is on the very eastern edge of the Adirondack Park, and is quite a picturesque vacation destination. In1903 one Mr Thomas Lee set about to build the perfect chair for such a spot, as all his relations had taken up those in his mountainside cabin.
Travel Writing Contest Hosted by Champlain Area Trails: Get your pencils sharpened, your laptops powered, and your cameras ready, Champlain Area Trails (CATS) will soon launch its first Travel Writing Contest. It's your chance to write about your travels in New York's central Champlain Valley—to share your favorite experiences on the Champlain Area Trails–whether it's hiking, walking, skiing, snowshoeing, birding, tracking, picnicking, or a little bit of each…
Provisions and Paparazzi in Essex, NY: "Essex is alive with both new and well-established businesses, opening up, dusting off and getting ready for the season…" So opens Sue Cameron's "Provisions and Papparazzi" post on LakePlacid.com on June 14. Essex is alive! It's incredible how much is going on in Essex these last couple of weeks. Essex businesses have proven that even a record breaking flood can't drown the Essex spirit. Residents, businesses and friends of both are pulling together for what is shaping up to be the best summer in decades.
Longtime Residents Recall Essex Inn Years Ago: Last Sunday Alvin Reiner at the Press-Republican ran a fascinating story about the Essex Inn and the fusion of past and future in this historic landmark recently renovated by the Daltons and now open to the public. "We are reaching out to bridge the gap, as there is often a lot of knowledge that gets lost," she said. (via Press-Republican.) Essex has long represented an important bridge back into history, but the Dalton's Essex Inn revitalization is one of many new bridges forward toward a bright and shiny future.
Summer Arrives in Essex on Lake Champlain: Kim Rielly posted an enthusiastic blog post about summer in Essex celebrating flood recovery, exciting new businesses and the timeless charm that has drawn visitors and residents for decades. She asks, "could it possibly be true that the recently-submerged businesses were planning to open THIS summer? It's true. In fact, the community is not only ready to welcome visitors for the summer – it is veritably BUZZING with activity."
The Neighborhood Nest: A Gathering of Art, Nature and Antiques: Now in its 16th season, The Neighborhood Nest is one of the oldest businesses in Essex, NY but remains forever surprising! Open daily between 11:00 am and 5:00 pm, The Nest features a treasure hunt experience that spills into a wildly beautiful garden.
Pantouf's Celebrates Summer with Beautiful Glassware: Yesterday I visited Helen Goetz at Pantouf's in Essex. If you've never seen her beautiful glass work, now's the perfect time to swing by before she gets swarmed with visitors… In addition to showing me her colorful glass serving platters and pitchers, Helen graciously toured me through the home, explaining how it had been configured and functioned when occupied by the Essex town doctor.
Live Well in the Champlain Valley: Another new addition to the Essex wellness scene is blooming on Main Street with the opening of Live Well. The beautifully remodeled space offers a wide range of health and healing services, and represents the collaborative genius of three Champlain Valley holistic health and wellness practitioners…
Full and By Farm, June 23, 2011: We took advantage of the beautifully sunny weather spell to make hay. We cut about 22 acres starting last week, and successfully baled 19 of it. The rain caught us in the middle of raking the last small field and we had to abandon the project. Once the grass and clover is cut rain begins to leach away the nutrients. Four straight days of rain is enough to ruin the hay as winter feed. It's always a sad defeat, but part of making hay with an ever changing weather forecast.
The Old Dock Restaurant: The Old Dock Restaurant is a seasonal restaurant and bar located in the Historic Hamlet of Essex, New York. Guests arrive by automobile, private boat or on the Charlotte-Essex… Slips are available for our guests who arrive by boat. Passengers on the Charlotte-Essex ferry have the option to leave their automobiles in the free parking lot at Charlotte and when they arrive in Essex stroll a few feet to the Old Dock.
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Rosslyn Boathouse Free from Toppling Ash
In Boathouse, Daily Munge, Lake Champlain on June 27, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Ash tree undermined by Lake Champlain flood
Remember the Lake Champlain flood? The good news is that flooding is abating. Rapidly. In fact the water's "fallen" to normal spring flood stage… Which means that we're finally catching up on the damaged waterfront, repairing the boathouse, installing docks and boat hoist, etc. You may remember that large ash tree was undermined by the flood and was beginning to topple down over top of the boathouse. Not good. You may also remember that local arborist Mark Sauslgiver decided to install a tension line from high in the tree to the guardrail north of the boathouse. The idea was that in the event the trees roots gave way and the tree toppled, the line would pull the falling tree northward, sparing the boat house.
I liked the idea. Sounded good. Looked good when I drew a little diagram on paper. But, I'd be lying if I claimed that I was 100% confident it would work. That's a big tree, and I had a difficult time imagining a static line enduring a fall much less staying taught and pulling thousands of pounds of gravity-fueled ash anywhere other than straight down. On top of the boathouse, the pier, and the railings. But, turns out Mark knew his tension lines.
Today his crew removed the tree, piece by piece, sending massive chunks of wood down a "zip line" to the curb or New York State Route 22 where they could be cut up and/or chipped. The entire affair was a success!
I'm deeply saddened to lose a mature, healthy tree that offered much appreciated shade in the heat of summer and served as a charming frame for images of the boathouse. But I am overjoyed that the tree was removed before gravity won. And I've been assured that sooner or later it would.
I'll add a short video soon!
Boathouse in Early 1990s (rosslynredux.com)
Meadowmount and Rosslyn (rosslynredux.com)
Re-roofing and Flood Proofing (rosslynredux.com)
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Renovation & Rehabilitation
What's Rosslyn?
Carriage Barn
Ice House
Daily Munge
Where's Rosslyn?
Champlain Valley
Historic Essex
Coquelicot. Papaveraceae. The poppy IMHO is the most glorious bloom. Sensuous and beguiling, delicate yet robust, a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 hours ago
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Hot, humid day winding down, but the artillery is ready to tackle Rosslyn's lawns first thing in the morning.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
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Ensuring transparency of elections is one of Facebook's top priorities, Jekabs Straume, the head of the Latvian Corruption Prevention Burau (KNAB) said following a meeting with the social network's representatives today, reports LETA.
The KNAB chief said that the meeting with Facebook representatives had been successful as the company's representatives demonstrated openness for cooperation. The next meeting between KNAB and Facebook representatives is planned in May, but a new meeting can be arranged at any time, as this is a matter of just one "phone call, email or a videoconference," Straume said.
Straume did not elaborate on the promises received from the Facebook representatives, saying that it was "impossible to discuss everything in an hour". The KNAB chief added that specific solutions would be discussed already at the next meeting but declined to comment on them.
Straume underlined that blocking Facebook in Latvia was no longer being considered.
Asked what KNAB expects of Facebook, Straume said the Latvian anti-corruption bureau wanted to receive information on who pays for campaign advertising on the social network. Straume also was optimistic about possibilities to suspend election campaigns that have violated the law on campaigning.
Straume praised Facebook as a positive example, noting that communication with other social networks like Twitter has not been so successful.
The KNAB chief said that Latvia's situation is not unique and that Facebook has had to deal with similar issues also in other countries, for instance, Hungary.
As reported, KNAB has contacted the world's largest social network companies to discuss paid political advertising and campaigning on the Internet. KNAB called on owners of Google, Youtube, Facebook, as well as VKontakte and Odnoklassniki to cooperate with the Latvian anti-corruption agency.


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Roving Rabbis in North Idaho
THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW
Roving rabbis
On an outreach mission
Pair comes from Brooklyn in effort to reinforce Judaism in North Idaho
Rabbi Levi Slonim organizes literature on Judaism, which he keeps in his trunk, on Tuesday on Coeur d'Alene.The Spokesman-Review (JESSE TINSLEY The Spokesman-Review)
Virginia De Leon
The rabbis from Brooklyn arrived in North Idaho this week – their rental car filled with mezuzahs, Shabbat candles, books and other items proclaiming their Jewish faith.
With their beards and yarmulkes, the pair can't help but stand out as they wander the streets of Coeur d'Alene, Sandpoint and Post Falls. But that's exactly the point as they try to find Jews in the region.
"We hope to meet as many Jews as possible," said Rabbi Yitzchok Steiner. "When we meet them and they do a good deed, we hope to bring them back to their heritage."
Steiner and Rabbi Levi Slonim are part of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one of the largest branches of Hasidic Judaism with more than 3,300 institutions in more than 70 countries worldwide. Although adherents are Orthodox Jews like Steiner and Slonim, Chabad is an organization that reaches out to all Jews with the hopes of deepening their understanding of their faith.
The two roving rabbis are spending the week in North Idaho as part of a worldwide program sometimes referred to as the "Lubavitch Summer Peace Corps." Hosted by the Boise-based Chabad of Idaho, Steiner and Slonim are driving all over Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry to meet with Jews.
Despite the fact that North Idaho was once a base for the racist, anti-Semitic Aryan Nations, the region is still home to several hundred Jewish families, according to the rabbis. But unlike Jews in Spokane, those in the Coeur d'Alene and Sandpoint areas don't have a temple, a Chabad house or the option of joining one of three Jewish congregations.
In order to reach out to these unaffiliated Jews, the Chabad rabbis are visiting them in their homes, talking to them about Judaism and distributing books, candles, CDs and other items related to their faith. On Friday night, they will host a Shabbat dinner at a home in Coeur d'Alene.
The rabbis, both 23, aren't looking for converts to Judaism. "We just want to connect with the local Jewish community and to encourage them to do a mitzvah or good deed, even though they don't have the Jewish infrastructure," Slonim explained. "We want to reach out to every single Jew, no matter what part of the globe."
Slonim and Steiner are among 250 young rabbis and senior rabbinical students who are traveling all over the world to reach out to Jews. While some have ventured out to Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Ireland and other far-flung areas, others are concentrating their efforts on U.S. communities that don't have synagogues and lack organized social and religious activities for Jews.
To find Jews, the roving rabbis contact people who know of Jews who live in an unexplored area. They also look for Jewish names in the local telephone books and walk around town. During their visits, the rabbis help people explore their Jewish heritage by studying Torah, baking challah bread, eating kosher food and talking about Judaism.
People who have encountered the rabbis – on the streets, in the parks and even the aisles of Wal-Mart in Post Falls – have been surprised to see two Hasidic Jews wandering around town. So they pepper them with questions about their background and why they're here. Those who are Jewish usually identify themselves, and the rabbis immediately begin a discourse about life and Judaism.
"Many people approach us seeking advice on how to maintain or bolster their Jewish identity," Slonim said.
Abby Chavez, who spent two hours talking with Steiner and Slonim, said she was thrilled to meet the rabbis. The pair found her name and phone number and called her last week, so she invited them to her home in Sandpoint.
"It was like family, even though they are quite a bit more Orthodox in their religious practices," said Chavez, describing the immediate kinship she felt toward the rabbis. "They exuded a sense of love, kindness and generosity. They pass that feeling along as soon as you meet them."
Marshall Mend, who is Jewish and a Coeur d'Alene resident since 1980, said the region has a growing number of Jews, especially since the community got rid of the Aryan Nations.
"This community has always been receptive to minorities," said Mend, a longtime human rights activist who has met with Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis in the past. "You'll find more racists on a street corner in Los Angeles than you would in the whole state of Idaho, yet we had the reputation that this was a racist community."
Fortunately, the stigma is fading, he said.
Chavez, who moved to North Idaho from Los Angeles in 1996, hopes that more Jewish families will move to the area. The few who live in Sandpoint gather every year for a seder meal, she said, but unless they make the long drive to Spokane, Jews in Sandpoint don't have the same opportunities to meet and discuss their faith.
"Being with other Jews gives me a strong feeling of culture and community," said Chavez, a member of Sandpoint's Human Rights Task Force. "I look forward to a time when we have a (Jewish) facility here."
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Rabbi Pickle Comes to Boise
Praying without Paying
Rabbi Reach Out to Rural Jews
On a Mission in North Idaho
Chabad on the Prowl in North Idaho
Roving Rabbis Reach Out
Idaho Statesman Article - Chabad Jewish Center
Fox News Video
Online Judaica Store
Judaism for non-Jews
Across Idaho
ETORAH


Imagine. The air is like soup.
But it's in your lungs.
I love taking pictures like this lately. I have a little lamp behind me in the cool of early morning before sunrise. It's the shadow of the phone camera. It happened by accident a few time and then it became a component. I look at this and think this might be an idea (?) for dyeing or piecing. This light and dark effect.
For now we'll lay low and keep cool.
Still humid but not hot.
Soul-0 sleeps out on the deck on the bench under the old maple. His sheets are wet.
Yesterday. We had enough rain to make a universe. Or at least fill a bowl.
Today this little component is here. For now. I'm in a blue skies frame of mind. Even tho dark clouds are rolling in. Again.
It's going to be a hot one. But hotter elsewhere.
My old wood stray from way back.
I look and see a move from standing to going, the stray self form. How that will change now.
This one, here, and then here, has a lot more stitch than expected. Probably because there has been so much time sitting. A strange summer for me. But the solid stitch, the feel of it. I kind of need this density of BasketSelf right now. (I'm gathering more thoughts about that personal symbol) The pic was taken on the rail at sunrise and then flipped upside down to have the light rising from the center. A cloth rise. And yes I'm up and around. A bit.
"I'm not myself lately" I whispered to myself.
Oh Ha, I laughed out loud, "how can that be?". No excuses.
Paper has been easy lately.
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"If you asked them to build a battleship overnight they'd produce it for you at breakfast!" Such are the expressions of praise made by Army authorities when referring to the magnificent work of relief done by officers and men of the 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA at Belsen Concentration Camp.
It was to the Gunners and to the RAMC with whom they workedhand-in-hand, that the British Commander referred when he spoke of the work of the British Soldier at Belsen in these term –"His great heart, his patience, his sympathy, and his sense of humour have always made him the finest ambassador that any nation could wish for. He has been a great ambassador at Belsen".
The 113th LAA Regiment, receiving orders to proceed to Belsen Concentration Camp, arrived there on 18th April, within 48 hours of the liberation, after covering 238 miles in 24 hours. From that moment, until it left for a rest on the Baltic coast on 24th May, the Regiment, some 900 officers and men, provided the main source of man power for the huge and complex task of relief set the British authorities. The first objective was to get the dead buried; the second to get the cookhouse running, and the third to ensure even distribution of the food and that the sick were fed. This last was the greatest problem and was Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp not achieved until the arrival of the London medical students.
The overall plan was to create a vast hospital area and reception areas in the huge Panzer Training School situated only half mile from the Concentration Camp. The existence of this place, permanent brick buildings capable of housing a whole Army Division, was the only alleviating feature in a gigantic problem. Without it the task might have been overwhelming. Under RAMC control, and supervised by Military Government, officers and men of the 113th began the evacuation of the fit, the removal to the hospital areas of those who had a chance of survival and the typhus cases, and the burying, feeding, and establishment of order out of chaos.
Every man worked heart and soul with little respite, all available manpower in the Regiment being concentrated on the task. All at first laboured in the Concentration Camp itself, under their Battery Commanders –Major PE Murrell, Major C P Sharp and Major K G Taylor. Captain A Pares was largely responsible for the surmounting of the horrible and immense task of burying the 10-12,000 dead, using the SS caught in the camp to clear and bury the corpses and Hungarian soldiers to dig the vast burial pits.
As the evacuation began the Batteries commanded by Major Sharp and Major Taylor moved to the Training School to prepare for, receive, house, feed, bath and clothe the thousands as they were brought into the reception areas. Major Murrell's men remained responsible for the Concentration Camp itself right to the completion of the evacuation on 18th May and the rasing of the area to the ground by fire.
Incredible jobs were done with incredible spirit by these North countrymen. Amongst them was the carrying out of women so weak that they collapsed under the warm water showers provided by them.
Sergeant A Griggs worked all day long supervising the bathing, and the issue of clean clothes and footwear to these unfortunate victims of Nazi hate. By the 18th May the last evacuations from the Concentration Camp –a total of 29,000 were brought out alive –were completed; all had been housed and cared for, clothed and fed, either in the hospital area by the RAMC or in the reception area by the men of the 113th Regiment with Military Government supervision. Within a few days those fit enough were on the long journey home. All had been saved and reinstated as human begins in less than five weeks. That is the amazing achievement in which the 113th LAA Regiment played so great a part.
Afternote.
On VE Day 8th May 1945 the Regiment paraded through the Camp. The 54 guns of the Regiment fired ten rounds single shot and ten rounds automatic to celebrate victory and peace in Europe. At this point their work was only half complete. After the last huts of Belsen Camp were burned, a short ceremony was held on 23 May 1945. After the traumatic work, 113th LAA Regiment were given ten days leave on the Baltic Coast and issued 6,000 bottles of beer.
Even after all these years, I am sure you will agree with me this article from The Gunner in July 1945 really highlights what a harrowing job the men of 113th LAA Regiment did at Bergen-Belsen as the war in Europe drew to a close. Research has also identified that Major PE Murrell and Captain A Pares were appointed the MBE, published in the London Gazette on 18 October 1945.


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Rialda Karahasanović  (born 12 November 1992), known professionally as just Rialda, is a Bosnian pop recording artist, television personality and model. Rialda competed in seasons' five and seven of the televised singing contest Zvijezda možeš biti ti (You Can Be a Star).

Personal life
Rialda Karahasanović was born in besieged Sarajevo on 12 November 1992. The daughter of the leader of the Sarajevo band Sarr e Roma, Amir Karahasanović, Rialda grew up in a musical household. Her brother Ajdin is four years younger. She is a Muslim.

Career
In 2012 she auditioned for the fifth season of the televised singing contest Zvijezda možeš biti ti (You Can Be a Star) on Hayat TV, but dropped out several weeks in. She competed again in the seventh season two years later and made it to the finals in May 2015. During the competition, most of the songs she sang were originally by Croatian pop star Severina, with the Sarajevo-based magazine Ekskluziva even calling her the "Bosnian Severina".

Rialda's first single "Korak do dna" premiered 9 September 2015. The song was written by Đorđe Jovančić and produced by Amil Lojo.

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1992 births
Living people
Singers from Sarajevo
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims
21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina women singers
Bosnia and Herzegovina pop singers
Hayat Production artists