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Did you know that filters that are clogged may severely impact your vacuum cleaner's performance? They help maintain strong suction and also help pick up dirt effectively. It is important to replace your filter every six to 12 months depending on the brand and you cleaning frequency. The various types of filters include exhaust filters, air inlet filters, motor filters and HEPA filters. You need to follow the recommendations for filter replacement based on the cleaning system brand. HEPA filters are the best option for allergy sufferers because they are designed to remove fine particles from the air including mold spores, smoke, dust and mites. It is recommended that you change the filter of your cleaning system outside your home to prevent re-release of spores and dust to the air in your home. Known to filter up to 99.97% of dust particles, HEPA filters can cut down the amount of dust you inhale drastically. Keeping your vacuum cleaner free from blockages and obstructions by replacing its filters regularly not only ensure a top performing vacuuming cleaning system but also reduced incidence of allergies. It is recommended that you replace damaged vacuum cleaner components, including bags or filters at the earliest.
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The La Quinta Inn Livermore, CA has everything you need to stay comfortable and connected as you travel. We're only a half-mile from the Lawrence Livermore National Discovery Center and 3 miles from the Orchid Ranch and Livermore Valley Wine Growers Association Wine Trail. Nearby local businesses include the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Kaiser Permanente, and Valley Memorial Urgent Care Center. Neighboring cities include Tracy, Oakley, Bethel Island, and Antioch, California.
Standard features like free wireless high-speed Internet access throughout the hotel, a large heated indoor pool and spa, sauna, business center, and fitness center will make you feel right at home.
With a 2200 square foot meeting facility, we can accommodate up to 150 guests for your next meeting, party, wedding, and/or reception ... all under one roof.
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Start your day with our free Bright Side Breakfast and each Monday through Thursday from 3pm-9pm, enjoy Otis Spunkmeyer cookies. Folgers coffee with assorted creamers is available 24/7 in the lobby.

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greeney2 wrote:at1with0 wrote:Well to answer your question, I'm unconcerned because heterosexuals can get married.
That was the Supreme Court ruling in the first gay marriage case, where they ruled because of civil unions, gays were not discriminated against. Legally, civil unions has all the same rights as marriage.
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Home of the Boobies
Named as one of Lonely Planet's Top 10 Countries 2013, Ecuador is apparently the place to be. Well aren't you a trendsetter?
(Was Ecuador Wildlife Discovery)
Day 1 - Quito
If you love the smell of history in the morning, Quito's Old City has over 40 churches and chapels, 16 convents and monasteries and 12 museums. Get cracking.
- If arriving early, perhaps spend time getting acquainted with Quito
- Evening pre-departure meeting at approx 6pm (details will be at the hotel Reception)
- If you can't arrange a flight that will arrive in time, you may wish to arrive a day early so you're able to attend. We'll be happy to book additional accommodation for you (subject to availability).
Day 2 - Baltra - Bachas beach
Meet Sally Lightfoot. She's a crab. She likes strong currents, eating fish and aggressively attacking her friends.
- Fly from Quito to Baltra, in the Galapagos Islands- Please note the pick-up time will usually be as early as 4am as Quito airport is a one hour drive and we must allow for delays and check-in times (Your Tour leader will confirm this time with you at the pre-departure meeting on day one.
- Board the M.Y Pelikano and set sail for Santa Cruz, the second largest island in the Galapagos
- Visit Las Bachas beach - a major egg-laying site for sea turtles
- Spot marine iguanas ashore and pink flamingos are commonly seen in the lagoon.
- Sight remnants of a floating pier - a testimony to U.S. presence in the Galapagos during World War II
Breakfast | Lunch | DinnerDay 3-4 - Genovesa - Isla Santiago - Cerro Dragon
Watch your step. There are marine iguanas and sea lions all over the joint.
- Sail overnight to reach Genovesa, the archipelagos northeast outpost
Spot dolphins in the surrounding waters - View all three kinds of boobies on the island, including the rare red-footed booby; and numerous other species
- Walk Prince Philip's Steps and arrive in the heart of the seabird rookeries, with birds overhead and nesting among the cliffs
- Look out for storm petrels; Genovesa is the only place in the world where they can be seen on the wing during daytime
- See large breeding colonies of seabirds and frigates at Darwin Bay
- Go snorkelling and perhaps encounter manta rays, sharks, turtles, moray eels and many different fish
Breakfast | Lunch | DinnerDay 5 - Puerto Ayora - Santa Cruz - Charles Darwin Research Station
Tortoises arrived in the Galapagos 1 million years ago. They've barely moved since.
- Visit the town of Puerto Ayora and the Charles Darwin Research Station
- Perhaps have a close-up encounter with a giant tortoise
- See loads of newborn and young giant turtles, thanks to the research station's breeding program
- Take a bus to Santa Cruz highlands, visit the largest lava tunnels in the Galapagos and perhaps spot a wild Galapagos tortoise.
Breakfast | Lunch | DinnerDay 6-7 - Isabela - Fernandina - Punta Espinoza - Bahia Urbina
Marine iguanas sneeze. All the time. And when males bob their heads it means they either want to fight or mate. Confusing.
Day 6
- Visit Isabela, the archipelagos' largest island- Please note there's a US$20 fee paid upon arrival.
- View the blue lagoons and rocky terrain at Punta Moreno,
- Enjoy the backdrop of 3 active volcanoes, flamingos and lava formations
- Stop by Elizabeth Bay and perhaps spot rays, turtles, sea lions, penguins and Sally Lightfoot Crabs
Day 7
- Travel to Fernandina Island, the youngest of the Galapagos Islands
- Walk on lava and see lava cactus, marine iguanas and flightless cormorants at Punta Espinosa
- Spot the colourful land iguanas and giant tortoises at Bahia Urbina back on Isabela
Breakfast | Lunch | DinnerDay 8 - Isla Santiago - Playa Espumilla and Buccaneer Cove
The Galapagos fur seal is nature's beach babe, spending all day basking on the sand and asking passers-by to rub reef oil on their backs (OK, we made that last bit up).
- Spend the day visiting sites on Santiago Island
- Stop by the black sand beach of Puerto Egas and see hundreds of marine iguanas, fur seals and sea lions
- Visit the beautiful Espumilla Beach, an important nesting site for sea turtles
- Spot flamingos, pintail ducks and stilts in the mangroves
- Get acquainted with the old sea dog's haunt of Caleta Bucanero (Buccaneer Cove), a place of local legends and stories, where pirates used to careen their ships
Breakfast | Lunch | DinnerDay 9 - Daphne – Baltra – Quito
During mating rituals, male blue-footed boobies strut around kicking their feet in the air as thousands of female boobies roll their eyes.
- Visit Daphne Island and spot masked boobies, finches and perhaps even the frigate birds
- Cruise back to Baltra and bid farewell to the Galapagos before a return flight to Quito
BreakfastDay 10-13 - Colonial Quito - Otavalo - Amazon Jungle
You can't leave without buying a rug or straw hat from the Otavalo market. Then it's time for weird animals, forest trails and huge rivers.
Day 10
- Set off on a walking tour around the Centro Historico
- Visit the Church of the Society of Jesus (La Compania de Jesus)
- Take in the views from El Panecillo (The Little Bread Loaf)
- Drive north of the city and visit La Mitad del Mundo (the middle of the world), built on what was claimed in 1736 to be the line of the equator
- Watch experiments take place at Museo Solar Inti Nan, where the equator supposedly runs through since re-measurements were made
- Perhaps enjoy an optional meal out in the evening
Day 11
- Visit Otavalo and one of the best handicraft markets in the Andes
- Pass through the surrounding villages and see local indigenous communities making beautiful handicrafts
- Perhaps have time to visit a crater-lake known as Cuicocha before returning to Quito
Days 12-13
- Travel by road over the mountains and down to the Amazon basin
- Arrive at the volcanic baths at Papallacta and enjoy the hot thermal pools nestled amidst the mountain scenery
- Journey on through jungle to reach the jungle lodge on the banks of the Napo River for a two-night stop
- Explore the jungle with a local site guide who shares their extensive knowledge of the local flora and fauna
Breakfast | Lunch | DinnerDay 14-17 - Banos - Cotopaxi Volcano - Quito
Get your adrenaline fix in Banos - bungee or white-water rafting maybe? Climb to the lookout on Cotopaxi Volcano before we head back to Quito.
Days 14-15
- Drive steeply into the Andes, with the scenery of towering mountains and deep gorges all around
- Take a short trek to El Pailon del Diablo - one of Ecuador's most beautiful waterfalls
- Arrive in Banos, one of the loveliest settings in the Andes
- Explore the town during free time or venture off into the surrounding countryside
- Perhaps take up some mountain biking, white-water rafting or horseback riding
Day 16
- Stop by Cotopaxi Volcano before returning to Quito
- Perhaps venture up to the Cotopaxi refuge, from where there is an easy climb to the snow line and the glacier
- Enjoy one last optional meal with new found friends
Day 17
- The trip ends today after breakfast
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What to Know
What's Included
- An English speaking naturalist guide on board the Galapagos vessel - Shore excursions during your voyage - Return flights from Quito to the Galapagos Islands - Jungle excursions during your Amazon stay - Quito city tour including One museum, Compania Church & Panecillo - Short hike to 'El Pailon del Diablo" (waterfall) - Entry to Cotopaxi National Park - Entry to Cuicocha Lake in Otavalo
Not Included
- International flights, arrival and departure transfers, departure and airport taxes, visas, entrance fees, Galapagos transit card, US$110 Galapagos National Park fee, US$20 Isabela Island fee, other meals, optional tours or activities during free time, snorkel hire, transfers outside of the tour program, travel insurance, tips and items of a personal nature. Wetsuit hire of US$5 per day
Safety Information
Active Volcanoes
This tour passes through volcanic areas. In the instance a volcano becomes potentially dangerous and authorities declare nearby towns unsafe for travel, the itinerary will be re-routed. Where possible, Geckos will provide advance notice of such changes. At short notice, when this is not possible, your tour leader will provide up to date information on behalf of Geckos. -
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Past Travellers' Ratings & Comments
At the end of each trip, we ask our travellers to provide feedback. We publish the positive, negative and neutral feedback on this page to give you an overall idea of what to expect on this trip.
Home of the Boobies
Greta - Australia, 6 Apr, 2013
The Galapagos Island component of the tour was fantastic! The boat (MY Pelikano) and its crew, and the guide Carlos were fabulous. The Andes component of the tour was also excellent as was the guide Daniela. Couldn't have asked for a better experience, or better travelling companions on both parts of the tour.
What to know
On arrival in the islands you must pay US$110 national park fee to enter Galapagos National Park (this includes the US$10 transit fee) . There is also a fee of US$20 that must be paid when arriving at Isabela Island.
You will have a naturalist guide for the Galapagos cruise but there is no Geckos tour guide. Your Geckos guide will join you on Day 9 of your trip for the land section of your adventure.


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Narcotics (also called opioid pain relievers) are used only for pain that is severe and is not helped by other types of painkillers. When used carefully and under a doctor's direct care, these drugs can be effective at reducing pain.
Narcotics work by binding to receptors in the brain, which blocks the feeling of pain. When used carefully and under a doctor's direct care, they can be effective at reducing pain. Almost always, you should not use a narcotic medicine for more than 3 to 4 months.
These drugs can be abused and addictive, and have been associated with accidental overdose deaths. Always take narcotics as prescribed. Your doctor may suggest that you take your medicine only when you feel pain.
Or, your doctor may suggest taking a narcotic on a regular schedule. Allowing the medicine to wear off before taking more of it can make the pain difficult to control.
Taking narcotics to control the pain of cancer or other medical problems does not itself lead to addiction.
Store narcotics safely and securely in your home.
You may need a pain specialist to help you manage long-term pain.
Drowsiness and impaired judgment often occur with these medications. When taking a narcotic, do not drink alcohol, drive, or operate heavy machinery.
You can relieve itching by reducing the dose or talking to your doctor about switching medications.
To help with constipation, drink more fluids, get more exercise, eat foods with extra fiber, and use stool softeners, if needed.
If nausea or vomiting occur, try taking the narcotic with food.
Withdrawal symptoms are common when you stop taking a narcotic. Symptoms include strong desire for the medicine (craving), yawning, insomnia, restlessness, mood swings, diarrhea. To prevent withdrawal symptoms, your doctor may recommend you gradually lower the dosage over time.
Cohen SP, Raja SN. Pain. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 29.
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Chefs' Sweet Treats for Your Sweetie
Trying to figure out how to express yourself this Valentine's Day? Why not wow your loved ones with these spectacular desserts from some of the best (and sweetest) chefs around.
By Kiri Tannenbaum
Martha Stewart: Cupcakes
America's sweetheart of domesticity, Martha Stewart, knows a thing or two about making great desserts. Her easy One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes are a decadent treat that you can customize with your sweet nothings. Or bake up a few of these Brownie Heart Cupcakes for your little ones.
Jacques Torres: Mudslide Cookies
Jacques Torres, also known as "Mr. Chocolate," is a master chocolatier whose Willy Wonka-type shop cranks out dozens of these oozy Mudslide Cookies each day. Though you'd normally have to head to his shop to get a bite, you can bake them just in time for the chocolate holiday.
Paula Deen: Chocolate-Dipped Cannoli
What says love more than a treat from the warmhearted Paula Deen? Her Chocolate-Dipped Cannoli, filled with creamy ricotta and pistachios, is super-easy and quick, so you'll have more time to plan your romantic night in.
Paulas Best Dishes airs Saturday at 11:30am ET/PT.
Michael Symon: Chocolate-Covered Bacon
Michael Symon likes to take chances. Case in point: his Chocolate-Covered Bacon with Almonds. Sounds like an unusual pairing, but this savory and sweet treat is out of this world. Take a chance and make a batch of your own. Box it up for a great V-Day gift, or bring some to your officemates to enjoy when that 4 o'clock urge for a snack hits.
Iron Chef America airs Sunday at 9pm ET/PT.
Sunny Anderson: Mini Espresso Cakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
Peanut butter is always a welcome ingredient in desserts, but including espresso adds that extra something-something. If you're all chocolated out, give Sunny's Mini Espresso Cakes with Peanut Butter Frosting a try. Plus it's not a bad way to replace your morning cup 'o joe.
Cooking for Real airs Saturday at 12pm ET/PT.
Thomas Keller: Chocolate Bouchons
Bouchon Bakery, owned by one of the most iconic and renowned chefs in America, Thomas Keller, serves up elegant treats that are perfect for Valentine's Day. His Chocolate Bouchons are small, brownie-like cakes, named for their shape, which resembles a cork, or bouchon in French. They are rich. They are chocolaty. And they are addictive!
Anne Burrell: Profiteroles
Profiteroles are a perfect ending to a decadent Valentine meal. The choux pastry hugs the ice cream just so, and both are kissed with a bittersweet chocolate sauce. This classic French dessert may be simple, but your sweetheart will definitely think he's eating at a four-star restaurant.
Secrets of a Restaurant Chef airs Saturday at 10:30am ET/PT.
Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito: Red Hot Velvet Cake
Brooklyn-based Baked co-owners Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito are experts in the treat department. Their number-one fan? Martha Stewart. The pair has appeared several times on Stewart's daytime talk show and have developed a huge following. Try their twist on this classic southern favorite: Red Hot Velvet Cake with Cinnamon Buttercream.
Johnny Iuzzini: Salt Butter Shortbread Cookies
Shortbread cookies are just wonderful for teatime, but toss in coarse sea salt, and flavors you never knew existed seem to pop out. While you can certainly eat Johnny's Salt Butter Shortbread Cookies as is, they are the perfect base for our Fresh Berry Shortcake with Spiced Syrup.


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This is the one "must have" gimmick for every magician! Probably the most popular and most used device in magic, this utility device makes it possible to vanish silks, cigarettes, salt- even water- in your bare hand. You can use it to produce items as well! Keep one of these in every pocket- you'll use it often!
Thumbtip comes with basic operating instructions only. To get the most out of this amazing gimmick, we strongly recommend that you also purchase a DVD or book which actually demonstrates and teaches the correct way to use the Thumb Tip as well as some amazing routines using this clever gimmick (see recommendations below).


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Iola, Wis. – Jan. 9, 2013 – DOLLS magazine publisher and former editor Carie Ferg received a special VIP Award for Outstanding Achievement in the 2012 Colliii Awards. The Colliii Awards are the largest online dollmaking competition in the world.
"We wanted to present the 2012 VIP Award to Carie Ferg as a recognition of the dynamism and innovation she has brought to the doll industry over the past few years," said Colliii Awards Director James Carlsson. "The VIP Award is presented every year to a person or organisation that has made a significant contribution to the doll world. It was Colliii.com's pleasure to present this to Carie as a token of appreciation for her hard work."
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Just in time for Valentine's Day, Haute Doll introduces its new exclusive by Horsman Ltd., the modern-style "Heart Chair" perfect for 16-inch fashion dolls. The design was inspired by Verner Panton's 1959 full-scale contemporary chair design.
The fourth Pullip and Dal Doll Lovers Event (PUDDLE) drew 60 doll lovers from 10 different states and Canada to the Elk Grove Village Holiday Inn in June. This year's theme, cranes, was inspired by the sandhill cranes at the group's charity organization, the Willowbrook Wildlife Center. Six custom dolls and other items donated by sponsors like The Sleeping Elf and Denise's Dolls were raffled off at the event, raising $500 for the center.
The weekend started Friday night with dinner at Mitsuwa Japanese Mall in Arlington Heights, followed by a tea party at the hotel. PUDDLE officially kicked off at 9 a.m. Saturday, starting with an organized buy-sell-trade opportunity, and dozens of fans milled around trading and buying doll wigs, eye chips, bodies, clothing, and more.
Every attendee received a door prize, thanks to generous donations from many sponsors. Distribution of the door prizes was followed by a secret gift swap and lunch break. Afterwards, an informal Q&A-format customizing workshop answered questions for many fans new to the hobby, followed by a display of fully customized and modified dolls entered in the customization contest. Winners of an online photo/art contest which was held and judged before the event were announced along with the customization contest winners. The photo and art entries can be seen at www.puddlestyle.com/photoart.html.
Many fans continued the fun over dinner in the hotel restaurant and in the hotel lobby until the wee hours. Krista Farmer, who traveled from Toronto for the event, said "It was a crazy cool day." Although the event officially ended Saturday night, 11 fans stayed for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Willowbrook Wildlife Center Sunday. — Jane Easterly
For information on PUDDLE 2012, visit www.puddlestyle.com.read moreAttendees at the third annual R. John Wright Convention enjoyed the festivities of several major holidays coupled with outstanding dolls, all rolled into four fun-filled days! R. John and Susan Wright chose "Celebrations!" as the theme for their 2011 event held at the historic Desmond Hotel in Albany, N.Y., which was co-chaired by Loretta Nardone and Lillian Wright.
The convention opened with St. Patrick's Day reception Wednesday evening, where everyone laid claim to being a wee bit Irish while enjoying a scrumptious dessert buffet. The sales room opened immediately after this kick-off event, with conventioneers hoping the "luck of the Irish" would help them find that perfect doll or dolls.
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Workshops by dollmaker Gail Wilson and a program by Alan Pate, a leading American expert on Japanese dolls, were offered on Friday, along with several roundtable discussions on various topics. Attendees dressed up for the frightfully fabulous costume parade leading into the Halloween Masquerade luncheon, with prizes awarded in five categories. After lunch, the newest piece from R. John Wright's Wizard of Oz collection, "Wicked Witch of the West," made her debut in front of an enthusiastic audience.
The ticketed Victorian Yuletide Dinner featured traditional table decorations and an enchanting program, "A Victorian Christmas," presented by Nardone. The event souvenir was the 10-inch "Mary Frances," the latest addition to the Victorian Children Collection. Available for purchase was her 7-inch little sister, "Baby Grace."
Saturday morning's activities included another program by Pate and a workshop conducted by Emily Wright. That afternoon, a Valentine's Day High Tea charmed conventioneers with fine teas and delicacies. The newest addition to the Flower Fairies series, "Rose Fairy," was available for purchase. The evening's closing event was a New Year's Eve Gala Celebration. This elegant banquet featured another entertaining program produced and presented by Nardone. When the souvenir dolls were distributed, delighted attendees found the adorable 12½-inch "Celebration Scootles" would be going home with them. As an added bonus, her delightful twin brother was available for purchase.
As the convention ended, attendees were already making plans for next year's "Around the World" event, which will be held at the same location June 20-23, 2012 and will celebrate the magic of children around the globe. There will also be an added treat as the first bear event held at an R. John Wright convention will be incorporated into the excursion to the Wrights' facility in Vermont. For more information, visit www.rjohnwright.com or call (802) 447-7072. — Pat Burnsread more


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High-end custom isn't the only housing type to interest Marmol and Radziner. They've designed special-needs apartments (above), Marmol's prefab vacation home (top), and two single-family residences they're developing (middle).
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In Los Angeles, would-be Hollywood stars go to sleep dreaming of their names up in lights. Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner had the same vision, only it was their philosophy they wanted posted for everyone to see. So, early in their careers, the ambitious young architects rigged up an old movie marquee outside their office and ran a weekly quote they found interesting or provocative. They drew from sources as diverse as Karl Marx and the 1984 cult film Repo Man. "We would try to make the quotes topical to what was happening in the city," says Marmol, AIA. "When the race riots happened, we put up a Martin Luther King quote. Or we'd put up things about urban issues or growth. People started noticing that—it was a way for us to communicate."
The marquee eventually came down when Marmol and Radziner, AIA, got too busy to go quote-hunting every week. But that desire to communicate still remains. The two of them thrive on interaction—with clients, with colleagues, with the public, and with their own staff. Which works out well, because running perhaps the most sophisticated residential design/build firm in the country leaves little time for solitary pursuits.
Nowadays, Marmol Radziner and Associates operates out of a converted factory in West Los Angeles, with architects, landscape architects, and interior designers sharing one 14,000-square-foot room. Behind the main space, an in-house wood shop and a metal shop take up an additional 3,500 soundproofed square feet. The firm's field employees, including superintendents, project managers, carpenters, and laborers, are scattered on jobsites. All in all, Marmol and Radziner oversee a 110-person fiefdom. Not bad for a couple of guys in their early 40s, who still vividly remember doing the painting themselves on the first new house they ever built, in San Pedro, Calif.
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The story of how they got here from there is a familiar one: Two young idealists meet at school (California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo), toil at separate firms, and then join forces in 1989. But there the script veers off into the unfamiliar, unglamorous territory of design/build. According to Marmol and Radziner, their choice was obvious. "We realized the loss of control we had from not building our own projects," says Marmol, who worked on construction sites in the San Francisco Bay area as a teenager. "Design/build is a historic process," adds L.A. native Radziner. "Before the early 1900s, the two disciplines used to be more intertwined. We're going back to the old style." So Marmol obtained his contractor's license, and the pair amassed a portfolio of small remodels and additions. They took care to market themselves as architects who could also build, so potential clients wouldn't confuse them with the "builder offering design services" model that's more typical of design/build.
In 1992 they caught a break when the owners of a 1950 Richard Neutra house in the Hollywood Hills, Kun House #2, tapped them for a minor restoration job. The next year Marmol and Radziner landed an even bigger fish: the restoration of Neutra's 1946–47 Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, Calif. This high-profile commission garnered a glut of media attention, and soon the pair found themselves restoring (and sometimes expanding) Modernist gems by the likes of Albert Frey, R.M. Schindler, and A. Quincy Jones. The partners partly attribute their early success in winning such projects to their own modern portfolio. But both say their design/build background helped them land these technically challenging jobs. "The design process in restoration is so much about how to build stuff in the way it was made originally," says Marmol. Los Angeles–based architecture critic Michael Webb agrees. "They do such a good job on restoration because they fabricate the elements themselves," he says. "In each case they've captured the detail and spirit of the original house. That's a hard thing to do, because needs have changed. People want larger spaces and more amenities."
Modern restorations still make up about one-third of Marmol Radziner and Associates' work. The firm has another one under way on a 1961 Cliff May house, as well as its eighth and ninth Neutra restorations. Along with institutional and commercial projects, it's also doing more new houses and non-historic remodels, which follow a completely different philosophy than the restorations. "The goal with restoration is to have it be like you were never there," says Radziner. "With a remodel or a new house, we can make it ours. The less history there is, the more freedom you have." These projects give the firm a chance to apply the lessons it's learned on restoration jobs—about materiality, for example, or interior-exterior relationships—in a fresh context.
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2009 leadership awards / hall of fame: andrés duany, faia, and elizabeth plater-zyberk, faia, leed ap
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Duany has popularized the concept of an urban planning transect as a way of illustrating the transitions between rural and urban areas within a region.
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Its form-based codes, mix of unit types, and use of vernacular architecture became staples of the firm's work.
Picturesque cottages and townhouses line the streets of Seaside, Fla., one of DPZ's earliest projects.
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Walkability is a key characteristic of New Urbanism. At Kentlands, a 352-acre, DPZ-planned community in Gaithersburg, Md., brick sidewalks, front stoops, and a mixed-use downtown all cater to pedestrians.
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DPZ's sustainable master plan for Alys Beach, Fla., includes passive solar design, eco-friendly building materials, and drought-tolerant landscaping.
International projects, such as a regional plan for the county of Hertfordshire, England, account for a growing percentage of the firm's workload.
When he talks about the concept of time, Andrés Duany, FAIA, takes on the enthusiastic manner of a star physics student. "Time is a fascinating fourth dimension that is so exciting to me," he says. "The present is irrelevant—it's actually confusing." As a planner, he explains, his role is to think about what a place will be like 10, 20, or even hundreds of years down the line. "Planning is all about the future," he adds. "Time is an ingredient we have that architects don't."
Duany and his wife and partner, Elizabeth (Lizz) Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, LEED AP, have been pondering the future for more than 30 years. Although they trained as architects (and still design buildings occasionally), they realized early on that the best way to affect the long-term built environment was to plan. So the Miami-based duo planned the Florida town of Seaside—still their most famous project—and then hundreds of neighborhoods, towns, and regions, all under the rubric of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ). And they and four colleagues co-founded the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), in whose pedestrian-friendly principles all of their planning is based. Through both avenues, the couple have altered the public's perception of what responsible planning and development can achieve. New towns, suburban retrofits, and even revitalized city neighborhoods—the very existence of these contemporary project types owes a massive debt to DPZ.
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Long before they were New Urbanists, Duany and Plater-Zyberk sought out urbanity. Born to Cuban parents, Duany grew up in Barcelona, Spain, one of the world's great cities. Plater-Zyberk is the daughter of a Polish architect who immigrated in mid-career to Philadelphia's Main Line suburbs, a classic example of transit-oriented development. "We took the train to everything we did—to the dentist, the swim club, the Academy of Music," she recalls. She and Duany met as undergraduates at Princeton University in the early 1970s and moved on to Yale University for architecture school, where they met one of their foremost mentors, the art historian Vincent Scully. After Yale, both briefly worked in major cities—Plater-Zyberk in Philadelphia for Venturi and Rauch (later Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates), and Duany in New York City for Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
They moved to the Miami area in 1975 and subsequently started the modernist firm Arquitectonica with another dynamic young couple, Laurinda Spear, FAIA, ASLA, and Bernardo Fort-Brescia, FAIA. Duany and Plater-Zyberk settled in Coral Gables, Fla., in a 1927 Cape Dutch-style home where they still live today. Culture shock set in, as they searched for the sense of urban connectedness they'd previously known. "We missed urbanism," Duany recalls. A lecture given by another key mentor, the architect and planner Léon Krier, helped inspire them to leave Arquitectonica and start DPZ in 1980. One of their first planning projects was Seaside, for developer Robert Davis.
Duany and Plater-Zyberk designed the Gulf Coast resort town's master plan to evoke the physical character of places such as Charleston, S.C., and Key West, Fla. Its pedestrian-oriented street patterns, meticulous design codes, and mixed-use downtown were utterly unlike most post-World War II planned communities. "We knew nobody was doing traditional plans but thought we were just doing one place—not [making] a particular kind of statement," Plater-Zyberk says. Yet Seaside's pastel cottages and townhouses—by architects as varied as Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP; Samuel Mockbee; and Aldo Rossi—captured the public imagination. The project started a national conversation on urban design and laid the groundwork for the New Urbanism movement, which has since become popular with home buyers and developers looking for denser, more walkable alternatives to urban sprawl.
Seaside also catapulted DPZ onto a path that's continued to the present day. The firm soon won commissions to plan high-profile, neo-traditional towns such as Windsor in Vero Beach, Fla., and Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Md. Its success also benefited the architects designing individual buildings for DPZ communities and gave rise to more practitioners of neo-traditional town planning. Duany and Plater-Zyberk's role in forming the CNU in 1993 (along with Peter Calthorpe, AIA; Elizabeth Moule; Stefanos Polyzoides; and Daniel Solomon, FAIA) added to their increasing renown.
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As they gathered acclaim and clients, Duany and Plater-Zyberk learned that the best way to work together was to divide up responsibilities. "The key thing is that we work on different projects," says Duany, who is known for his outspoken, charismatic personality. "One or the other of us is in charge of a project. I make the coffee; she makes the toast. Otherwise, if you're two people and you're completely equal, there's no calling off the discussion." These days, the elegant and diplomatic Plater-Zyberk leads only a few DPZ projects per year; her duties as dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture take up much of her time. Duany heads up many projects, as do firm partners Galina Tahchieva, LEED AP; Marina Khoury, LEED AP, of the Gaithersburg satellite office; and Tom Low, AIA, LEED AP, of the Charlotte, N.C., satellite office.
Additionally, DPZ now has three independent affiliates across the globe: DPZ Pacific, DPZ Europe, and DPZ Latin America. This setup lets the 34-person firm act like a bigger operation, amassing a team of architects, planners, and consultants anywhere on short notice. DPZ is known, in fact, for its openness to collaboration and for organizing large, intensive design charrettes. "We feel a charrette is the most efficient methodology for getting things done in a true-to-the-place way," Tahchieva says.
The firm's international reach has helped it weather the global economic crisis, although like everyone else DPZ is feeling the downturn's effects. "We're saying yes to smaller projects we might have said no to before," says senior project manager Xavier Iglesias. However, an impressive array of work remains in the pipeline. DPZ still designs new towns, but it also lends its energies to regional plans, urban revitalization and infill projects, and suburban retrofits. And the firm is devoting more and more time to writing form-based codes (rather than typical use-based codes) for municipalities all over the world—including its hometown, which in 2004 commissioned it to lead Miami 21, an ambitious overhaul of the city's zoning code.
DPZ also created the SmartCode, a free, modifiable development code first released in 2003 and downloadable online (www.smartcodecentral.org). SmartCode's availability is part of Duany and Plater-Zyberk's goal of fundamentally altering middle-class lifestyles. "The American middle class is the root cause of the environmental problems of the world," Duany says. "How it consumes land, how it eats, how it transports itself. It affects everything."
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Over the years DPZ and New Urbanism have attracted not only flocks of followers, but also a fair amount of criticism. Many detractors dislike New Urbanists' frequent use of traditional architecture, and others feel the movement receives undue credit for fighting sprawl. Even opponents of New Urbanism admit that DPZ and like-minded firms have had a significant impact on urban design, though. "The combination of New Urbanism and transit-oriented development, and the return of Jane Jacobs' ideas, generated wider concern about mixed-use development," says Robert A. Beauregard, head of the urban planning program at Columbia University.
"Overall, the influence is positive. I'm not a big fan of New Urbanism, but they're forcing people like me to say, What do we have on our side?"
DPZ's supporters are legion, and through them Duany and Plater-Zyberk exert enormous influence. "You'll find hundreds of people who owe a debt to Lizz and Andrés' generosity," says former Seaside town architect Scott Merrill, AIA, principal of Merrill, Pastor & Colgan Architects in Vero Beach. Within DPZ, Khoury explains, "everybody has access to Lizz and Andrés. They're brilliant people, but they're also great teachers." Many former firm employees or students of Duany's or Plater-Zyberk's at the University of Miami have gone on to start their own companies, oftentimes teaming with DPZ on projects.
Others have absorbed the couple's New Urbanist teachings through programs Plater-Zyberk started at the university, including the interdisciplinary Knight Program in Community Building. Through countless lectures and several books, she and Duany have managed to propel their message beyond the usual boundaries of planning and architecture, into the world at large. "They're both authentic visionaries," says New York City-based Alexander Gorlin, FAIA, who has known them since the mid-1980s. Among their major achievements are Duany's leadership of the Mississippi Renewal Forum after Hurricane Katrina in 2005; Plater-Zyberk's 2008 appointment to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; and their joint 2008 acceptance of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.
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Of course, the one time I am so besotted by my own cocktail invention that I vaingloriously choose to name the damn thing after myself — the one time I do that, of course I encounter practically that exact cocktail not once but twice within the same week.
Why, the chances of such a coincidence are nearly as preposterous as the obtuse grandeur with which I declare: TO HELL WITH ALL THE OTHERS, IT IS I WHO HAS INVENTED THE GREATEST COCKTAIL EVER THOUGHT UP BY MAN — OR WOMAN, BUT ESPECIALLY MAN!!
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The PhoBlograpHusband and I have been traveling recently to such exotic destinations as Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and my parents' retirement bunker in Florida. While checking out Cincy's Findlay Market, I discovered Colonel De Gourmet Herbs & Spices.
The Colonel De counter is a very happy place where you can sniff your way through dozens of spices, sugars and salts while totally geeking out and getting your foodie nerd on. Colonel De himself, with his beefy bratwurst of a mustache and gruff cheerfulness, is like Santa Claus, and his counter is like Candy Land. Colonel De used to work in IT (I think, something computers) and laughed when I asked him what the De was short for.
We left Colonel De's with 11 baggies of granulated, crystallized and/or powdery wondrousness, mixtures like Jalapeno Citrus Salt, Coffee Shop Sugar, Garlic Rosemary Salt, Mint Julep Sugar and Lavender Confectioners' Sugar. That last one I had designs on for the rim of a martini glass, a la the World's Greatest Cosmopolitan.
Jump to two weeks later, in Pittsburgh. I'm strolling the Strip, where you can buy Steelers paraphernalia, farmers' market produce or wackadoo foodie items like dog-biscuit biscotti. I am drawn into a Middle Eastern market by a sign advertising ouzo-flavored soda, and while there, I pick up orange blossom water and rose water, two ingredients I've been meaning to add to my cocktail cupboard, although I wasn't quite sure what I would do with them.
What I did was, I had folks over for one of our cocktail brainstorms, where I said to Mark, "I want to invent a drink that's got this lavender confectioners' sugar on the rim. I'm thinking rose water would play nicely, but I know it's pretty pungent and I don't want this to taste like you're drinking Grandma's perfume. What do you think?"
One of us then threw out the idea of including St.-Germain elderflower liqueur. We kinda liked where this was going, but also realized that things may be getting too over-the-top in the floral department; we weren't trying to design a freaking wedding bouquet here. We readily agreed upon gin as a base liquor given how well it mixes with St.-Germain, and then somewhere along the way we came up with lemon juice as a zingy note that would cut through the botanicals.
We mixed, we sipped, we liked… for the most part. What we had were four dynamic, flavor-forward liquids that tasted good together, but tasted a bit too… blaring. I thought what it needed was some mellowing and rounding out. I asked Mark, "What's your philosophy on raw egg in cocktails?" Mark said, "I'm not really into whole eggs, but egg whites, I'm totally down."
And that was that. We landed upon an awesome cocktail. It is interesting and quaffable and surprising and satisfying and so impressive, thought I — until I was tooling around online a few days later and discovered that Urban, a very well-respected lounge in south St. Louis, makes a "Socialite" cocktail with "gin, elderflower liqueur, rose water and a squeeze of lemon." And then last Saturday, when I was having dinner at the place where we had our wedding reception, and spied on their cocktail menu a "Tea Rose Martini," made with "organic earl grey-infused gin, St. Germain liqueur, fresh lemon, rose water." (The very place where I celebrated my marriage! How could you, New Leaf?)
The Tea Rose Martini does right by using the earl grey's smoothness to temper down the other flavors. (I'll let you know what I think about the Socialite next time I'm in STL.) But still, folks, I gotta admit, this here Rose Is A Rose is Rose's best invention yet.
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1 1/2 ounces Bulldog Gin
1 1/2 ounces St.-Germain
1 tablespoon raw egg white
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon rosewater
Lavender confectioners' sugar, for the rim
Rim a martini glass with lavender confectioners' sugar and set aside. Combine all liquid ingredients, including egg white, in a martini shaker without ice and shake vigorously for about 20 seconds. Add lots of ice to the shaker and shake again. Strain into martini glass.
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Colonel De's lavender confectioner's sugar is basically just plain, old confectioner's sugar mixed with dried lavender buds. If you know where to buy dried lavender buds, it won't be hard to make. And I'd actually recommend pulverizing the buds further with the sugar using a mortar and pestle, which I didn't do.


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The Republic of Guinea-Bissau and the Republic of Fiji formalised diplomatic relations in a ceremony at the Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations in New York today. At the ceremony, the Permanent Representative of Guinea-Bissau to the United Nations, Ambassador Joao Soares Da Gama, and his Fijian counterpart, Ambassador Peter Thomson, signed a joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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