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1101 Buck Jones Road
Cary, North Carolina, 27606
Commute to Downtown Cary
Some errands can be accomplished on foot.
A few nearby public transportation options.
Mostly flat, minimal bike lanes.
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1101 Buck Jones Road has a Walk Score of 62 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
This location is in Cary. Nearby parks include Buck Jones Open Space, Walnut Park, Cary, NC and Soccer Park.
Nearby schools include Grace Christian School, Atlas International School and Dillard Drive Middle School.
The closest grocery stores are Olive Tree Market, Grand Asia Market and Jenny Craig Weight Loss Center.
Nearby coffee shops include Coffee & Crepes, Starbucks and Jasmin Greek & Lebanese Cafe. Nearby restaurants include D&S Cafeteria, Buck's Billiards and Sports Bar and Rey's Restaurant.
1101 Buck Jones Road is near Walnut Street Park, WakeMed Soccer Park and Macdonald Woods Park.
There are minimal bike lanes and the terrain is mostly flat. 1101 Buck Jones Road is somewhat bikeable, there is minimal bike infrastructure.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 1101 Buck Jones Road.
1101 Buck Jones Road has some transit which means a few nearby public transportation options.
Bus lines:
6 CTRAN - Buck Jones Road
0.1 mi
1 CTRAN - Maynard Road (Clockwise)
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2 CTRAN - Maynard Rd (Counter-Clockwise)
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28 CAT - Southwest
0.6 mi
11c CAT - Buck Jones Connector
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This location is in the city of Cary, NC. Cary has an average Walk Score of 25 and has 135,234 residents.


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The Ferguson Masterpost: How To Argue Eloquently & Back Yourself Up With Facts
I'm in Asia right now so I'm viewing the Ferguson grand jury verdict aftermath from afar, but this article is an outstanding resource for talking about all the issues around it. I can't add too much more to it since it's thorough and comprehensive.
Originally posted on [smut & sensibility]:
Introduction From The Curator
Note (11/29/14 at 8:00 PM EST): Holy moly, this got a ton of traction. Thanks to all the folks sharing, commenting, and helping us correct typos, inaccuracies, and the like! Keep it coming! Also please note that comments are moderated to filter out spam & I'm not on my computer 24/7, so responses and updates will not be immediate. We'd love to hear what you're doing with this information, so definitely let us know of success stories in talking to family-members, using it in lesson-plans, and the like.
The only kind of bombs I fully support are truth-bombs, and that's why I've come together with a group of POC and select White allies to write this post. We feel it's critical to have conversations about social justice loudly, noticeably, personally as well as systemically, and eloquently*—in this case, specifically around Ferguson, #stoptheparade, #BlackLivesMatter, #IndictAmerica, and…
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In The Still of the Night: Hong Kong Cinema film series
2014 was a pretty good year for Hong Kong movies and this year's Hong Kong Cinema, the San Francisco Film Society's annual film series from the former crown colony, reflects this uptick in cinematic quality. Recent output from brilliant directors Ann Hui, Pang Ho-Cheung and Fruit Chan are part of the mix, superstars Chow Yun-Fat, Tang Wei, Nicholas Tse, and Louis Koo (twice) are featured players, and the films run the gamut from crime thriller (Overheard 3) to youth romance (Uncertain Relationships Society) to wuxia pian (The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom) and beyond. The series also includes a twentieth-anniversary screening of Wong Kar-Wai's glorious slice of Hong Kong-meets-the-Nouvelle Vague, Chungking Express, which is definitely worth a watch on the big screen. A few other highlights follow.
From Vegas To Macau (dir. Wong Jing) is a cheesy quasi-sequel to Hong Kong's many, many successful gambling comedy movies from the 1980s and 90s. Although luminaries including Stephen Chow Sing-chi and Andy Lau Tak-wah made their mark in gambling epics from that time, one of the pillars of the genre is God of Gamblers (1989), starring Chow Yun-Fat and directed by Wong Jing. In From Vegas To Macau Chow and Wong reunite in an attempt to resurrect their glory days, and by extension the glory days of Hong Kong movies, and the current film is a reminder of the best and worst of those times. In the plus column is Chow cutting loose in a wacky Hong Kong comedy, which helps to counter his mostly disappointing 10-plus years sojourn to Hollywood and which enables him to regain his crown as the Chinese god of actors. Appearing in the sidekick role, Nicholas Tse is an earnest straight man, and Chapman To overacts mightily to insure that Cantonese-language cinema's laff-riot slapstick tradition continues.
For anyone who's only familiar with Chow Yun-Fat's iconic work as a soulful gangster in John Woo movies (and who haven't seen him as a childlike amnesiac in the original God of Gamblers), this zany farce should be an eye-opener, as Chow turns on the high-pitched giggle and the crazy dance moves as a Ken, the godly gambler/con man at the center of the film. Watching a Wong Jing movie is kind of like blindly sticking your hand into a big mysterious barrel—you never know what random trash you're going to pull out, and From Vegas To Macau is no exception. Wong strings together a series of vignettes and set pieces without regard to narrative logic, each scene clashing violently with the the others, and the tone of the film swings from action to slapstick to farce, with kung fu, booby-traps, CGI-enhanced card-shuffling, and fat-chick jokes all a part of the overstuffed mix. While it's not a good movie in any sense of the word, its manic energy and illogical construction combined with the spectacle of Chow Yun-Fat goofing his way through a typical Hong Kong comedy makes it a decent timepass.
At the other end of the cinematic spectrum is Ann Hui's The Golden Era, starring Tang Wei (Lust, Caution) as iconographic Chinese author Xiao Hong, who worked during the Republican era in China (she was born in 1911 and died in 1942) and who was one of the first modern-day female writers in the country to gain recognition. The film is beautifully made, with a lot of money evident in the stunning cinematography, costumes, and art direction, and boasts an excellent cast, but at three hours it's overly long and at times glacially paced. The film makes liberal use of direct address, including an opening speech by Xiao Hong herself as she announces her birth and death dates, adding a self-reflexive layer to the narrative structure. Tang Wei is thoughtful and arresting as Xiao Hong, who was born into a patrician Chinese family but subsequently lived in poverty and uncertainty for much of her short life. However, her performance lacks a sense of agency and ferocity that a more intense actor might have brought to the role. In addition, those viewers unfamiliar with Xiao Hong's body of work might be at a loss as to her significance, although many of the supporting characters repeatedly attest to her importance in China's literary canon. Still, it's interesting to see what director Hui has done with a generously budgeted film set in historical mainland China, since much of her oeuvre have been in the vein of A Simple Life or The Way We Are, which are much more quickly sketched stories deeply rooted in contemporary Hong Kong. Although there are stylistic differences between those movies and this one, Hui's filmic intelligence shines through, as she's made a smart and intriguing picture about the intersections of history, art, politics, and creativity.
Splitting the difference between Wong Jing and Ann Hui is Pang Ho-Cheung's Aberdeen, which is an engaging look at contemporary Hong Kong through the lens of several intertwined relationships. The film follows the lives of the members of two related families, including a thirty-something actress/model (Gigi Leung) who is transitioning from her ingénue stage to something less well-received; her husband (Louis Koo), who is concerned that their daughter isn't as pretty as he thinks she should be; his sister (Miriam Yeung), who's obsessed with her fraught relationship with her late mother; and her husband (Eric Tsang), a doctor who's making time with his receptionist. Intercut with these various subplots are a beached whale, unexploded WWII ordnance in the heart of Hong Kong, fantasy sequences with larger-than-life lizards, and Taoist funeral rituals. By interweaving these disparate elements director Cheung examines notions of beauty, fame, family, and loyalty amidst the backdrop of modern-day Hong Kong. The film continues in the vein of much of Cheung's past work exploring Hong Kong life and relationships, which range from the brilliantly satirical Vulgaria to the rom-com Love In A Puff to the dark and disturbing Isabella.
In some ways Aberdeen recalls the glory days of UFO, the United Filmmkaers Organization production house that back in the 1990s was responsible for a slew of dramedies including Dr. Mack; Heaven Can't Wait; Tom, Dick, and Hairy; and Twenty Something. UFO movies were smarter and less formulaic than the typical commercial Hong Kong output of the time and starred early 1990s superstars like Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tony Leung Ka-Fei, Karen Mok, Jordan Chan, and Anita Chan, all of whom were looking for prestige projects that were a break from Kong Kong's usual kung-fu historicals or generic crime movies. Aberdeen carries on in this tradition, which stars current A-listers Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung, Eric Tsang, and Gigi Leung, as well as appearances from Hong Kong movie vets Ng Man-tat and Carrie Ng, in a quality production by a name-brand director. For the most part, although flawed, Aberdeen is infinitely more intelligent and watchable than much recent commercial Hong Kong cinema and gives its cast members a good opportunity to stretch out and to exercise their acting chops.
Hong Kong Cinema runs from Nov. 14-17, 2014 at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco. Go here for ticketing and full schedule.
Drunk In Love: Asian Males in Hiroshima Mon Amour and The Crimson Kimono
As Asian American film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu notes, there is "a long tradition in Hollywood movies of iconic portrayals of Asian American men (as) rapacious and brutal, pedophiliac, criminal, treacherous and also romantic, and quaint. Sexuality and gender act as forces in the racialization of Asian American men." Sadly, despite tiny steps towards improvement, Asian male representation in Hollywood still remains timidly entrenched in stereotypes. Sure, John Cho is the leading man in Selfie, (although he's already starting to be a bit stalkerish), and Glenn (Steven Yeun) from The Walking Dead is still alive and human (though there are persistent rumors of his imminent demise), but on the big screen the ridiculously hot Lee Byung-Hun is still playing the bad guy (most recently in the upcoming Terminator: Genisys) instead of fulfilling all of our fantasies as a romantic lead.
Strangely enough, our modern era is in some ways more regressive than, say, 1959. Althought the 1950s weren't known for their progressive portrayals of Asian Americans in Western films, in that year Asian men appeared as objects of desire in two significant movies. In 1959 the Hawai'ian born Sansei actor James Shigeta made his big-screen debut in Sam Fuller's film The Crimson Kimono, playing a Los Angeles detective assigned to the case of a murder of an exotic dancer. The film is an engaging cop movie but it's most notable for its portrayal of a love triangle involving Shigeta, his white partner Sgt. Charlie Bancroft, and Bancroft's girlfriend Christina, who is also white. Unlike most such romantic conflicts involving an Asian man opposite a white guy, in this case Shigeta got the girl, which made The Crimson Kimono a groundbreaking anomaly in Hollywood. James Shigeta was a co-winner of the 1960 Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer and he would go on to a moderately successful career as a romantic lead for a few years but he never became the superstar that his good looks and charisma would indicate. Like most Asian American men in Hollywood up until and after that time Shigeta ran into the impenetrable glass ceiling of racism.
1959 also saw the depiction of another desirable Asian male, in Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour. In that film Eiji Okada plays the intensely romantic Lui, a Japanese architect who has a brief and torrid affair with a Frenchwoman played by Emmanuelle Riva (seen most recently in Michael Haneke's Amour). With a screenplay by noted Asiaphile Marguerite Duras (L'Amant/The Lover; Un barrage contre le Pacifique/The Sea Wall), Resnais' film depicts Lui as suave, tender, and desirable, which contrasts greatly with the ways that Hollywood has typically portrayed Asian men. Okada is particularly swoonworthy as he and Riva's character passionately discuss love, war, genocide, and beauty, against the backdrop of the site of first the atomic bomb attack. With the ruins of Genbaku Dome in the background, the film also utilizes a nonlinear narrative structure that links the European front, as exemplified by a long flashback set in France, to the Pacific theater, with Hiroshima repping for all of Japan. Set some fifteen years after the end of World War II, the film emphasizes the human cost of the war even many years after its ceasefire, as both Lui and Elle have been scarred by the loss of loved ones in the conflict. Elle fetishizes both her late German lover and Lui, as she is drawn to them due to their difference and otherness.
Now releasing theatrically for the first time in years in a new 4K digital restoration, Hiroshima Mon Amour remains fresh and relevant both thematically and stylistically (it's regarded as one of the most influential films of the early Nouvelle Vague, or the French New Wave). It's also an example of an early representation of an Asian male as not a caricature, a villain, or a clown, but as a fully fleshed out, highly desirable romantic lead. Now if only Hollywood could get a clue and do the same in the 21st century.
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Cool Like That: Who We Be book review
Jeff Chang's latest book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America (St. Martin's Press), dropped last week and it arrives as the United States is in the midst of another particularly fraught period of racial politics. As recent events in Ferguson, MO have indicated, Chang's book argues that we as a country and a culture are a long way from becoming the post-racial society supposedly heralded by the election of Barack Obama, yet despite the seemingly dire straits that we're in, all is not hopeless. In WWB Chang recounts the effects of the changing demographics in the U.S. since the mid-twentieth century, from desegregation through multiculturalism to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and beyond, investigating the ways in which visual culture intersects with current and historical events.
WWB is an amazing tome, encompassing topics as broad as the civil rights movement and as focused as Budweiser's "Wassup" ad campaign. The book is an outstanding look at the ways in which we as a people in the United States since the mid-twentieth century have moved through a sea change of perceptions, representations, and reflections of racial relations.
Beginning in the 1960s, Chang's book interweaves topics as diverse as the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy," the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, the subprime mortgage scandal, Occupy Wall Street, and the psychology of advertising. Chang focuses on a range of culture creators including cartoonist Morrie Turner, whose comic strip Wee Pals featured a multiracial cast of kids, Faith Ringgold, an early advocate for the Black Arts Movement, Daniel Martinez, known for his performance art/museum tag/culture bomb from the 1993 Whitney Bienniel, and Shepard Fairey, designer of both the Andre The Giant "Obey" street art campaign and the 2008 Obama "Hope" image.
Chang does a great job exploring the ways in which real life, visual art, and commerce interact and influence each other. For instance, Chang explores a proto-multiculti Coke ad campaign from the early 70s that tried to latch onto the youth culture and nascent ethnic studies movement of the time but that didn't mention any of the harsher realities of, say, the Watts riots. Another section of the book drills down into the racism and elitism of the 1980s and 90s New York visual arts scene, including a particularly culturally tone-deaf incident surrounding the white artist responsible for "The Nigger Drawings." Chang closely examines this volatile period during which contemporary arts gatekeepers like the New York Times, gallery directors, and curators were forced to confront their biases against creative work by artists of color and queer artists, which reached a crescendo during the controversial 1993 Whitney Bienniel, which was vilified by the art establishment as "a theme park of the oppressed." Chang then discusses the ways in which these so-called culture wars in turn lead to the commercialized multiracialism of the United Colors of Benetton "Colors" magazine and ad campaign.
Chang also astutely looks at what he calls "the paradox of the post-racial moment," wherein the U.S can elect Barack Obama president, yet still has trouble reconciling Obama's biracial identity. Chang's analysis is particularly keen when exploring the current confused state of race relations in the U.S., describing what he calls the tendency for many people to be "colormute," that is, to avoid talking about race for fear of being accused of racism. He ironically notes the convoluted logic behind those who frown on discussing race in any way, stating, "If bad people had used race to divide and debase . . . then good people would be polite to never acknowledge race at all. It was better not to say anything than to risk being seen as a racist."
Chang concludes his book with two contrasting case studies–a detailed look at George Zimmerman's murder of Trayvon Martin and the rise of the DREAM Act, the proposed federal legislation that addresses the citizenship status of undocumented young people brought to the U.S. while children. By juxtaposing these two cases Chang emphasizes the fact that, while the Martin killing demonstrates that the U.S. remains far from being a post-racial society, there is still reason for hope, as seen in the increased activism by immigrant youth of color under the DREAM Act.
Chang's writing is clear and accessible, and his analysis is thoughtful, concise, and innovative. Though by no means a dis on the theory queens among us (and you know who you are), after recently wading through a few visual culture publications, it's a pleasure and a relief to read an author who writes with clarity without sacrificing intelligent intellectual commentary. Who We Be is a significant and essential addition to the study of contemporary U.S. art, culture, and politics.
Jeff Chang is on a book tour to promote WWB! Find out more here.
Que Caramba Es La Vida: Mill Valley Film Festival 2014
The Mill Valley Film Festival's 2014 edition starts this weekend and as per usual it's a star-studded affair, with guest appearances by the likes of Hilary Swank, Jason Reitman, Billy Joe Armstrong, Ellie Fanning, Laura Dern, Metallica, and many more Hollywood glitterati. The program also boasts an outstanding lineup of documentaries, including several by local filmmakers, so the reasons for driving across the Golden Gate Bridge (or the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge, depending on your homebase) are manifold.
This year the festival is spotlighting Spanish-language cinema from around the world, including the excellent documentary Que Caramba Es La Vida, an intriguing portrait of the fierce and talented women mariachis of Mexico City. Directed by veteran German filmmaker Doris Dörrie, the movie documents the experiences of several female performers working to make a mark in a field dominated by men. The film is shot mostly verite-style with no narration, as each of the women describes how she came to be a mariachi and why she continues in the business. Some come from mariachi families, with parents or grandparents who performed before them, while others are the first in their families to perform. A particularly compelling story is that of Maria del Carmen, a mariachi singer who lives with her single mom and young daughter in a small apartment in Mexico City. Del Carmen's mother recalls that even as a girl, her daughter Maria had a voice "that went right through you," and this is pretty apparent after hearing del Carmen soulfully belt out a couple songs in the Plaza Garabaldi, which is home to scores of mariachi bands plying their trade every night. The film depicts del Carmen's everyday performance prep routine, as her mom and daughter help her with her makeup and hair, as well as revealing her concerns for her daughter's future as a female growing up working-class in Mexico. The movie also follows Las Pioneras, a group of older female mariachi groups whose members who are now in their sixties and seventies and who started out as mariachis in the 1950s as teenagers and young women. The last quarter of the movie follows the Dia de los Muertes celebrations in Mexico City, neatly contextualizing the mariachi tradition. Que Caramba Es La Vida effectively looks at some of the social and cultural milieu surrounded the women, including the effects of drug dealers, misogyny, poverty, and crime on their ability to keep performing.
Mexican music of a different sort is profiled in For Those About To Rock: The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela. Rock journalist and first-time director Alejandro Franco narrates his very accessible portrait of the popular Mexico City guitar duo, from their roots in the capital listening to thrash and heavy metal like Megadeth, Metallica, and Slayer as teenagers. Both subjects are fluent in English and were raised in middle-class Mexican families, so their stories for the most part are very different from their mariachi counterparts in Dörrie's film. The film is a standard biopic of a successful musical outfit so, unless you're a big Rodrigo y Gabriela fan, the movie is less compelling than Dorrie's movie. The film starts out strong, quickly and succinctly contextualizing the Mexico rock music scene, but bogs down in the middle as it becomes a fairly linear recounting of R&G's career.Although the film is about musicians, one of its shortcoming is that there isn't actually enough of R&G's music in the earlier part of film, so if you're unfamiliar with the duo you might not know what the fuss is all about. The film makes the mistake of telling and not showing, which weakens its impact—there are a lot of talking heads explaining things and not enough things happening instead. Whereas Que Caramba takes place on the streets and in the plazas of Mexico City, For Those About To Rock happens mostly in recording studios, backstage, and at clubs, and concerts, and is more of a fannish tribute about legend-building than an incisive look at the duo. There is also not much dramatic tension—the director refers to the story as a "fairy tale' and it's presented as such, with R&G destined to achieve their rock star ambitions. The viewer learns very little about either musician's personal life or any deep, compelling reasons for why they make music other than "it's fun", and the film lacks a strong sense of a cultural context for who they are and where they came from. The film ends with about ten minutes of live concert footage that only underscores the relative paucity of music in the rest of the film, which may be enough of a reason for admirers of Rodrigo y Gabriela to watch the film.
The Mill Valley Film Festival eleven days beginning on Oct. 2 in various theaters in and around Mill Valley. Go here for complete schedule and ticket information.
Ruffneck: Keaton, Laurel, and Hardy at the SF Silent Film Festival
Buster Keaton's The General is one of those movies that are on every cinephile's best-of list, and with good reason. Elegantly structured, coolly executed, and funny as hell, the film was Keaton's own favorite, although it was the movie that almost ruined his reputation when it first came out. It took a long time to shoot, was prohibitively expensive, and absolutely did not make bank when it was released—Keaton's rep as a comedic star took a big hit and his studio reined him in after The General's box office failure. The movie was anything but well-received when it was released in 1926, although it's now considered a classic.
The storyline follows a railroad engineer and wannabe Confederate soldier during the Civil War (nimbly played by the diminutive Keaton) who traces the theft of his beloved railroad engine, named The General, behind Union lines. The movie features some of the most beautifully choreographed stunts of the silent era, involving huge piles of rolling logs, steam engines on collision course, and the spectacular demise of a full-size locomotive. The sight of an actual train engine falling many dozens of feet from a bridge to a riverbed is still amazingly impressive, even in this age of CGI and digitally created special effects. The film is Keaton at his best, with its stripped down, symmetrically structured narrative, its large-scale, dangerous, and perfectly executed stunts, and its underdog hero struggling within a vastly unsympathetic world.
Silent film comedy of an entirely different sort are the Laurel and Hardy two-reeler short films, Two Tars (1928) and Big Business (1929). Two Tars follows a day in the life of a couple of sailors on leave in Los Angeles as they go joy-riding among the California chaparral with a couple of dames. Although Stan and Ollie play sailors, all of the action in the twenty-minute movie takes place on a pair of landlocked Southern California roadways. Featuring Laurel and Hardy's signature physicality and escalation of destruction, the short also includes some very suggestive digital manipulation of a gumball machine as well as several excellent Stan Laurel pratfalls. The short concludes with an epic traffic jam that would make Godard proud that illustrates the primal allure of large-vehicle destruction, the weaponization of cow pies and rotten tomatoes, and a gal getting a faceful of black ink.
Big Business is even more of a felon's wet dream, as a small misunderstanding rapidly escalates into complete mayhem, resulting in an entire house vandalized down to its spinet piano and brick chimney. L&H play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen plying their wares in the sunny, overexposed 1920s Southern California suburbs, which were about as sparsely populated as the high desert at the time. The two get into a scrap with a feisty homeowner and soon the axes are out and windows, doors, and a Model T fall victim to the OTT belligerence of the battling adversaries. The humor derives from the extreme reactions of both Stan and Ollie as well as their antagonist, played with righteous fury by L&H regular James Finlayson.
All three of these comedy classics are screening as part of Silent Autumn, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's one-day event on Sept. 20 at the glorious Castro Theater. Also notable are screenings of new restorations of The Son of the Sheik, starring the beautiful Rudolph Valentino, and the German expressionist classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. As per usual with all SFSFF events, each program includes live accompaniment, by silent film score maestro Donald Sosin as well as the always innovative Alloy Orchestra. Go here for complete schedule and ticket info.
Rock The Boat: The Pirates movie review
The third of three big South Korean historical blockbusters to reach our shores in the past couple months, The Pirates may be my favorite of the bunch. Along with The Admiral: Roaring Currents and Kundo: Age of the Rampant, which also played this summer in the U.S., The Pirates is among the top ten highest grossing movies this year in its home territory.
An easy-to-watch romp that doesn't take itself too seriously, The Pirates is free of the self-conscious weirdness of Kundo and the self-important mythologizing of The Admiral and balances slapstick, swordfights, and adventures on the high seas. Add into the mix several wacky characters, lots of silly humor, and a hunt for a magical whale and her baby and you have a recipe for big-screen fun.
The Pirates a rip-roaring good time that makes no pretentions toward historical accuracy or cinematic innovation, and is unfettered by any attempts at realism or the need to hew to biographical details. The movie instead is a great addition to a long list of buccaneer films that started way back in the silent era and continued onward through Errol Flynn, Douglas Fairbanks Senior and Junior, and Johnny Depp, among many others. The pirate genre transfers quite neatly to the Joseon period, with mangy hair-extensions, hoop earrings, broadswords, and facial tats all easily making the cultural transition. A bonus is lots of slapstick humor courtesy of a group of inept bandits led by rogue soldier Crazy Tiger (Kim Nam-gil) and a seasick former pirate who can't convince his mates that whales are larger than a tea table. Unlike this summer's other two South Korean blockbusters, which were distinctly androcentric, The Pirates includes a strong female protagonist. Played with a badass frown by Son Ye-jin, who's best-known for her role as an early Alzheimer's patient opposite Jung Woo-Sung in the classic tearjerker A Moment To Remember, Yeo-Wol is a pirate queen who can swing a sword with the best of them.
There are also several super-fun set pieces, including one that would put a smile on Buster Keaton's face that features a huge wooden water wheel chasing a cart laden with explosives down a very long hill. Director Seok-hoon Lee has mostly worked on romcoms in the past and The Pirates reflects this as, unlike Kundo or The Admiral, the screen violence is moderate and the bloodletting mild and the focus of the film is the banter between the various characters rather than weighty issues such as revenge, bloodlust, patriotism, or war. The movie is a great piece of escapist fun that moves smoothly between humor, action, and adventure, and is an outstanding way to round off an excellent summer of South Korean flicks in the U.S.
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Watching "Seinfeld" and then "Curb your Enthusiasm," has taught me to look for the universal truths, if not humor, in the mundanity of everyday life. Web design has as much mundanity as any other profession, but if you look carefully, there are patterns or trends (in addition to Responsive Design) worth noting that can help you transform your website from mundane to magnificent.
Content Now Drives Design
This may sound obvious today, but for most of the history of the web, we (web designers) designed the site first and fit the content in later. This is how it went:
- Define your information architecture (site map) and navigation;
- Layout the various design templates, which represent the different standard page types, i.e., About, Products and / or Services, Solutions, Contact Us with a form, etc;
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Ever been in a relationship with a wonderful guy that slowly started to get really boring...especially in the bedroom? If you're like most people, then this has happened to you at least once. A fabulous way to stop things from getting boring is to try playing some hot sex games with him.
Hot Sex Game #1: Strawberries & Champagne With A Twist
There is something very hot about feeding your man and having him feed you, especially when it's a food that's associated with sex. The great thing about strawberries and champagne is that they are quite clean and not really that messy when compared to things like oysters which can stink and chocolate which can melt and ruin your sheets.
Just feeding each other using your hands is not going to make for a particularly hot sex game. A way to make this sex game much hotter is to have your man eat the strawberries off your body.
You can even try pouring a small amount of champagne on your body and getting him to lick it off. Some great places to put the strawberries on your body are between your legs, on your breasts and even on your butt!
You can even try pouring a small amount of champagne into your mouth and start kissing your man. Even better...take a small amount of champagne into your mouth and then go down on your man and give him some oral sex!
Hot Sex Game #2: The Don't Orgasm Game
I know that you may have been expecting some hot tips on how to give great oral sex, but this next one is probably the hottest sex game I have created. The purpose of the game is to make your man reach an orgasm faster than you can. The winner is the person who orgasms last.
The loser then has to do a forfeit like cooking the winner a meal or paying for a nice date. Usually the easiest way to play the game is in the 69 position where each of you have the other's genitals in your face.
This is especially fun if both you and your man are close and enjoy joking with each other. This is because when your man is about to reach orgasm, he will be desperately trying not to cum.
He will usually try to pull away from you, which means that you need to pull him in even closer to make sure he does! Meanwhile he will be doing the exact same thing to you.
This physical playfulness makes the 'Don't Orgasm' sex game incredibly hot as it builds a lot of tension. You can actually play the 'Don't Orgasm' game in practically any position when you're having sex, but the best position for playing it by far is when you're 69ing as both of you are in a fair position to deliver and receive pretty much the same amount of pleasure.
Hot Sex Game #3: The Sex Position Checklist
Most couples make the mistake of falling into what I call a 'sex routine' where they end up using the same positions (hello missionary!) in the same places (the bedroom) over and over.
It usually starts because the couple enjoys those positions the most. The sad thing though is that using the same sex positions over and over means that you are going to quickly make them seem boring.
To break out of this routine, I always suggest creating a sex position checklist for a week or a month or however long you want. You are both going to be working as a team to try and complete this checklist before the end date you have set. So what kinds of positions can you include on the checklist?
Checking out the Bad Girl's Bible is a good place to start (it has over 115 different positions with pictures to try out with your man). But don't forget to also include different places to try beside the bedroom. Here's a few examples to get you started:
- In the kitchen, from behind.
- Spooning on the sofa.
- A whole night of doggystyle in the bedroom.
- The Piledriver position, then the Deckchair position, then afterwards the Octopus position.
What you choose is obviously up to you and your man. Just remember to tick each one off the list when you're done.
If you enjoyed learning these 3 hot sex games, but want to learn how to talk dirty to your man, then you will probably like this powerful video which will teach you how to build sexual tension, turn him on and make sex a lot more fun.
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Upping the kink factor in your relationship can actually be a great way for those of us who are more vanilla to break out of shells and experiment with something new. It can also be a way of feeling closer to our partner.
"This being said, there may be behaviors that you are just not open to doing and that is OK too," says Dr. Kat Van Kirk, a clinical sexologist, marriage and family therapist, author and host. Partners should have enough sensitivity to work you into these behaviors as well as be ok with some hard and fast boundaries. Many people into kink have learned to be very good negotiators sexually as very few people have exactly the same proclivities.
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Feral pony, what is your opinion on giving xerath an ammo based ult? A lot of ppl really feel that this would help enforce the "barrage" like aspect about xerath.
So, Feralpony, was there a moment in time after the latest (minor) buffs were locked in when the live team said, "Alright guys, he's good to go. Job done."
I only ask because the buffs felt extremely half-baked and I can't imagine anyone would think that Xerath, as he exists right now, is in a fun and viable place.
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Can I ask what happened to the purported changes to Xerath's passive? How are those coming along?
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Yeah, prior to nerf, the only thing people really agreed xerath needed were very minor changes, namely his passive and his E speed. I used to think his passive was useless, until I had a 1v1 showdown against the enemy vayne while everyone else was dead. I survived her ult burst when she tumbled toward me long enough to light her up like a Christmas tree. I think it could be changed, but after that fiasco, I'm content with Xerath's state post-patch for now (I'll have to see how his new ult will feel).
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Palo Alto Networks is vulnerable to cache poisoning. For example, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or any other protocol connection can be used as a channel for attacking a company's internal networks. The SIP session could initially be blocked accurately, but by taking advantage of the cache poisoning vulnerability, the SIP session could bypass a Palo Alto firewall. The vulnerability could be exploited as follows:
- HTTP is allowed with firewall policy
- Opening a SIP session typically used with VoIP communications is correctly blocked
- Generating HTTP traffic that causes the cache to hit its threshold – meaning traffic continues going through the cache but is no longer inspected by the firewall
- Switching the HTTP connection to SIP, which is then allowed – and exposes you to risk
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You may have noticed that there aren't many future Hack Genealogy Boot Camp events scheduled for the near future. March and April 2015 are very busy months for me and Lisa Alzo since each weekend we're out "on the road" delivering genealogy lectures all over the country. In addition, our newest team member Michelle Patient let us know that as Summer ends in Australia, family history will pick up once again starting in May. So look for some new offerings starting in the next few weeks!
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Compartment syndrome is increased tissue pressure within a closed fascial space, resulting in tissue ischemia. The earliest symptom is pain out of proportion to the severity of injury. Diagnosis is usually by measuring compartment pressure. Treatment is fasciotomy.
Compartment syndrome is a self-perpetuating cascade of events. It begins with the tissue edema that normally occurs after injury (eg, because of soft-tissue swelling or a hematoma). If edema develops within a closed fascial compartment, typically in the anterior or posterior compartments of the leg, there is little room for tissue expansion, so interstitial (compartment pressure) increases. As compartmental pressure exceeds the normal capillary pressure of about 8 mm Hg, cellular perfusion slows and may ultimately stop. (NOTE: Because 8 mm Hg is much lower than arterial pressure, cellular perfusion can stop long before pulses disappear.) Resultant tissue ischemia further worsens edema in a vicious circle.
As ischemia progresses, muscles necrose, sometimes leading to rhabdomyolysis, infections, and hyperkalemia; these complications can cause loss of limb and, if untreated, death. Hypotension or arterial insufficiency can compromise tissue perfusion with even mildly elevated compartment pressures, causing or worsening compartment syndrome. Contractures may develop after necrotic tissue heals.
Compartment syndrome is mainly a disorder of the extremities and is most common in the lower leg and the forearm. However, compartment syndrome can also occur in other locations (eg, upper arm, abdomen, buttock).
Common causes include
Rare causes include snakebites, burns, severe exertion, drug overdose (of heroin or cocaine), casts, tight bandages, and other rigid circumferential devices that limit swelling and thus increase compartment pressure. Prolonged pressure on a muscle during coma may cause rhabdomyolysis.
The earliest symptom is worsening pain. It is typically out of proportion to the severity of the apparent injury and is exacerbated by passive stretching of the muscles within the compartment (eg, for the anterior leg compartment, by passive ankle plantar flexion and toe flexion, which stretches the anterior compartment muscles). Pain, one of the 5 Ps of tissue ischemia, is followed by the other 4: paresthesias, paralysis, pallor, and pulselessness. Compartments may feel tense when palpated.
Diagnosis must be made and treatment started before pallor or pulselessness develops, indicating necrosis. Clinical evaluation is difficult for several reasons:
Thus, in patients with at-risk injuries, clinicians must have a low threshold for measuring compartment pressure (normal ≤ 8 mm Hg), usually with a commercially available pressure monitor. Compartment syndrome is confirmed if compartmental pressure is more than about 30 mm Hg or within about 30 mm Hg of diastolic BP.
Initial treatment is removal of any constricting structure (eg, cast, splint) around the limb, correction of hypotension, analgesia, and supplemental oxygen as needed.
Usually, unless compartment pressure decreases rapidly and symptoms abate, urgent fasciotomy is required. Fasciotomy should be done through large skin incisions to open all fascial compartments in the limb and thus relieve the pressure. All muscle should be carefully inspected for viability, and any nonviable tissue should be debrided.
Amputation is indicated if necrosis is extensive.
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I've determined to start a Resources category on soldier references to Abraham Lincoln. That is, references in the letters and diaries of officers and men of McDowell's army written before and after First Bull Run, in an effort to examine how their views of POTUS evolved during this time. So, if you have or are aware of any soldier letters or diaries that reference the President from, say, June of 1861 through to the end of August 1861, please send me a note. The best way to do that is through the comments feature of this post. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Justice Antonin Scalia at Gettysburg20 11 2013
Yesterday, as I watched via live streaming video and the commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg National Cemetery drew to a close, it struck me that I was witnessing something special. No, not the roll of usual suspects who delivered speeches that were, well, nice. Not memorable, but nice. Everything rolled along. But then, the Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Alejandro Mayorkas, took the podium to recognize sixteen immigrants who would become citizens as part of the ceremony. Each candidate citizen rose by country, and then Mr. Mayorkas introduced the official who was to administer the oath, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. And I knew it as I heard it – Scalia's apparently extemporaneous words were capturing the spirit of Abraham Lincoln's famous little speech better than had anyone else that day. Here's the text:
Before I administer the oath, I want to say a few words of welcome to the new citizens. What makes us Americans, what unites us, is quite different from that which unites other countries.
There's a word, 'unAmerican.' We used to have a House unAmerican Activities Committee. There's no equivalent word in foreign languages. It would mean nothing in French political discourse to refer to something as unFrench, or in German political discourse to refer to something as unGerman. It is only Americans, we Americans, who identify ourselves not by our blood or by our color, or by our race or by where we were born, but rather by our fidelity to certain political principles.
That's very strange. It's unique in human history, I believe.
We are, as you heard from the Director a nation of immigrants, who have come here mostly for two reasons. First, for freedom. From the pilgrims in the 17th century to the Cubans and the North Koreans in the 20th and 21st centuries.
And that freedom, of course, is not free, as the dead who rest buried here can demonstrate. The last line of our 'Star Spangled Banner' is, 'the land of the free and the home of the brave.' The two go together. Freedom is for the brave.
The second reason they came, these immigrants, was for opportunity. My father, who was the most patriotic man I ever knew, used to say that in the old country, if your father was a shoemaker, you would be a shoemaker. And in America, you could be whatever you were willing to work hard enough to be and had the talent to be.
And his son ended up on the Supreme Court.
My Grandmother expected me to be President; I didn't quite make that. But it was possible. It is possible in America.
So welcome, my soon-to-be fellow citizens, to the nation of Americans. May America bring you all that you expect from it. And may you give it all that it expects from you.
Thanks to Interpreting the Civil War for the transcript.
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Saving Lincoln6 11 2012
A while back, I was contacted by a screenwriter working on this project. I don't think she was quite satisfied with my opinion regarding Lincoln and soldiers returning from Bull Run. But they seem to have endeavored to persevere despite the withholding of my imprimatur for the proposed scene.
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Lincoln C. K.4 11 2012
Two of my favorite people all rolled into one.
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Thomas Lowry's Version of Events20 02 2011
Fellow blogger Drew Wagenhoffer passed along the information that Dr. Thomas Lowry (see here and here) has started a WordPress site presenting his side of the whole National Archives incident. You can read it for yourself here. While he is using a blog platform, I'm not sure if he's going to make regular posts as events unfold or simply revise/add to what he already has up. Dr. Lowry claims to have taken a lie detector test and passed with flying colors. He has also named the men who obtained his confession – Mitchell Yockelson and Greg Tremaglio – and one way or another I'm interested to see what happens next.
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From the Archives: Grace Bedell17 02 2011
Since we're commemorating Lincoln's train trip to the inauguration in 1861 and I've been too busy to post anything lately, here's a link to an earlier article on the statues of Lincoln and pen-pal Grace Bedell in Westfield, NY. Check it out.
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Is A Puzzlement4 02 2011
I admit it – I'm a sucker for The King and I. In 1977 I actually got to see a revival of the musical at the Uris Theater on Broadway. Orchestra seats. Yul Freakin' Brynner. Close enough to see all the gears and stuff and the line where his face panel met his robot head. OK, just kidding about that last bit, but he was awesome in Westworld, too. But yes, we were close to the stage, and Brynner in his late fifties looked like he could still kick ass, even while doing the polka. And I love the film, though my wife gets very annoyed when I correct her on occasions when she inadvertently allows her head to be higher than King's…er, mine. But why am I talking about this? The Civil War Trust has a Primary Sources entry up on their website about Abraham Lincoln's rejection of the offer of Siam's King Rama IV (aka Mongut at left as portrayed by The Man) of war elephants to help defeat the Confederacy. Check it out.
And now for a little singin' 'n dancin':
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With nearly 9000 people called marinois (es), the city of Marin is the administrative capital of the south of Martinique. It is also a major medical center and shopping.
Le Marin asserts itself in the yachting and boating, which earned him ranked marine station in 1998. Its Tourist ranked second in Class December 13, 2011 reflects its commitment to quality service.
The city attracts an international clientele with quality sound equipment marina recognized as the largest in the Caribbean. A capacity of 750 berths and 100 mooring buoys for pleasure boaters and lovers of the sea, and a label "Blue Flag" awarded since 2006 which gives a position port environmentally .
Ranked tourist town February 14, 2012, the town has also many other advantages such as its historical heritage and 17th century church, one of the oldest in Martinique.


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Come relax in this peaceful four-bedroom house nestled on three acres just minutes away from the charming towns of Rhinebeck and Red Hook, near the Hudson River.
The house is a Nelson, Eames-style, Contemporary, Danish design commissioned in the early 1950's. It features four bedrooms, one with a home office, several living spaces including a 'floating bridge room,' and Flagstone patio. The house is set on a few quiet acres just northwest of Rhinebeck Village, south of Red Hook, and across the river from Historic Kingston.
The property is located near a scenic byway running along the east bank of the Hudson River. The road, River Road, also known as 'Mansion Mile' features the estates of contemporary stars such as Natalie Merchant and Annie Liebovitz and old-world families including the Rockefellers, Astor's and a German Baroness's, and a bit farther down the road the famous Vanderbilt and Roosevelt Estates. The house has several major attractions within a short walking distance of the house including Ferncliff Forest Park, and Poet's Walk Park.
The area of the Hudson Valley surrounding the house contains such attractions as the Duchess County Aerodrome, great shopping districts with plenty of charm in towns such as Rhinebeck, Red Hook, Kingston, New Paltz, and Millbrook, great state parks such as Lake Minewaska, Mohonk Mountain resort, the new Bard College Fisher Performing Arts Center, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, the Bardavon Opera House, Upstate Films, and many many more!
Kitchen: The house, originally designed for entertaining, makes a great spot to gather a group of friends and family to share in any type of celebration or relaxation. The 200 square feet plus kitchen features a refrigerator, oven, stove/range, microwave, dishwasher, toaster-oven, blender, coffee maker, and a 6-foot section of butcher-block countertop. You will find complete silverware, glassware, and cookware sets for your use.
Indoor Dining Area: A complete set of wine glasses, martini glasses, margarita glasses and cocktail shakers await your creative hand at the dry-bar in the dining room. The dining room features a six person table.
Outdoor Dining Room: If there are more than a few guests, or you would like to have some of your own guests over, make use of the 1,000sqft.+ bluestone patio and custom-built iron-wood benches and tables to entertain outdoors.
Upstairs Living Room: A comfortable seating area encourages our guests to snuggle up with someone as you watch the fire crackle in the stone fireplace. During the day enjoy a wide view of the property from the ribbon windows that run along both exterior walls just above the built in book cases filled with award winning novels, biographies and of course some of the classics. You will also find a good selection of board and parlor games for your enjoyment and a TV equipped with cable and DVD player.
Floating Bridge: Flooded with light from two 20 foot by 20 foot walls of windows on the opposite sides of the room you can enjoy a quiet moment of peace and reflection on 14 foot wide bridge between the master bedroom and the kitchen/living room. If you prefer being constructive with your time, sit at the drafting table and make use of the high-speed wireless or Ethernet cable Internet connection to check your email, finish that last bit of office work, or surf the web.
Downstairs Living Room: A large room located just below the bridge with thick carpet and a den area, a great area for kids to play while you sit at the writers desk and enjoy the landscape through the two walls of windows. The downstairs den area includes a plush leather couch (that pulls out into a bed) and a TV equiped with a Play Station 2 that also functions as a DVD player!
Upstairs Bedroom #1: Furnished with a queen-size bed, dresser, as well as a full closet. This room is very comfortable for a couple.
Upstairs Bedroom #2 and Home Office: Furnished with a seven foot wide, antique desk, desktop computer with fast ethernet connection, as well as a twin-size bed (ideal for small children) and dresser.
Downstairs Bedrooms #1: Furnished with two twin beds, a built in desk and a full size closet.
Downstairs Bedrooms #2: Furnished with a full size sleigh-bed, matching dresser, and a built in desk. This room also has a separate door to the outdoors.
Please Note: The hot tub is currently out of commission but should be returned to commission by late April.
Currently Sarah and I live in New York City full time and sneak up to our magical retreat in the Hudson Valley as often as we can on the weekends and for a few full weeks each year. As a writer, the beautiful views and silence are of great benefit to Sarah's craft and she cries foul when I allow too many rentals between our own use of the house. For me, having grown up on a ranch, getting to exert myself at rebuilding stone walls, doing outdoor chores (you'd be amazed how many leaves are created annually!). And getting to head out into the hills for an adventure hike or a bike ride up and down the beautiful curving roadways is exactly what the doctor ordered to get rid of the stress of running a company in uber-fast-paced NYC.
Sarah and I very much plan to move up to Rhinebeck full-time at some point in the future - we can't imagine living anywhere else. That's why we also decided to get married in the area, so that all of our friends and family could come witness the glorious beauty and exciting finds of our little corner of the world.
We hope that you too come visit Rhinebeck and fall in love as we have with it's charm, gracious residents and astounding local beauty and bounty. You couldn't ask for a more central or well appointed home base from which to explore the countryside than Ferncliff.
Sincerely, Brian & Sarah
(Photo: New Year's Eve 2008 at Ferncliff)
Brian purchased this house in 2004
Sarah and I both attended Vassar College, and Rhinebeck was that very cute, tony town just up the river from us that you went to on special occasions for dinner with the family or after acing a tough final. After graduation we both moved to NYC and having grown up on a large farm on the West Coast myself, living in NYC seemed a little to hard-core urban to not have some means of 'getting some country air' as one would say. So began the search, and after looking at far too many old crumbling colonials and poorly designed raised ranch homes, when we came across this amazing architectural gem situated just perfectly to catch the early morning rays streaming through the forest and to get a glimpse of the Catskill mountains across the river we couldn't pass it up. We were so much in love that we actually ended up in a bidding war with another couple equally smitten. But thankfully, we prevailed and now get to call Ferncliff our home away from home. At only 90 minutes from NYC by car or easy train ride (the Amtrak station is about 3 minutes from the house) it's made the perfect getaway for weekends and even the occasional full-time weeks (where I get to hop the Amtrak to and from the City each day).
And with all the cultural venues (Vassar, Bard, Upstate Films, Woodstock, Bardavon, and much more) nearby there is never a lack of entertainment of superb caliber.
As avid outdoor exercise enthusiasts Sarah and I greatly enjoy the hundreds of miles of hiking, thousands of acres of parkland and wildlife reserves and endless roads to explore on our bikes.
Sarah's excellent skills in the kitchen and our chosen locatarian preferences combined with the bounty of the Hudson Valley found just down the road at the weekly farmers market or the local butcher, grocer, and farm stand (that are all open daily) result in one after another amazing meal to enjoy ourselves and share with our friends.
With the addition of the 1,000sqft+ bluestone patio, custom designed and built furniture and of course the hot tub enjoying the outdoors from the comfort of home couldn't be easier. We enjoy a glass of wine in the hot tub nearly every night we're at Ferncliff and can't wait each Spring to invite friends up for the first dinner party of the season served out on the patio.
Dinsmore golf course, the third oldest in the nation, is a great place to enjoy the challenging game of golf on a public course in one of the most beautiful settings imaginable and for only $26 for 18 it's a steal!
We hope that you too enjoy some of these great benefits of Rhinebeck and find some of your own to share with us as well!
Thank you Brian & Sarah, our 2008 FTW Planning session was made perfect by
your wonderful HOUSE-PITABILITY!
I recently stayed here with my daughter and her bridesmaids, the week leading up to her wonderful wedding in Rhinebeck, NY. It was the perfect place for us to have her bridal party and friends come and share in the wedding preparations and fun. We were minutes from downtown Rhinebeck where she was married in the beautiful/historic Church of the Messiah, photos taken both, at this lovely home's back yard, and the Wilderstein Historic site, and reception at the Rhinecliff Hotel. Being in this lovely, wooded, central location for all our events planned, was so convenient for me as Mother of the Bride! We had lots of room to work on wedding details ie.. welcome baskets, make up and hair, prior to the ceremony!
I was also able to entertain our guests with plenty of room, a well stocked cabinet of glass ware, dishes, etc. I didn't have to bring anything but our food!
The outdoor patio area was beautiful and we were able to enjoy the lovely hot tub, late at night under the stars as we enjoyed having our family/friends close by. We also enjoyed a warm , cozy fire, in a lovely living room, on a few cool rainy nights leading up to her special day.
The location of the home is perfect for a getaway to Rhinebeck, one of my favorite places, plus a host of many other mansions, hiking trails, wonderful restaurants, etc.. It is close to the train station, and 15 minutes from exit 19 off the NYS Thruway.
My daughter and friends and family were all able to be comfortable, relax, and enjoy pretty surroundings here at this lovely home and it has created a wonderful memory of good times and good friends for my daughter's wedding weekend!
I would highly recommend this home and we plan to visit here again!
My husband and 2 adult daughters stayed here for a week. It's a great location, 5 minutes from Rhinebeck center and a good base for all the areas' activities.
The main living areas are comfortable. The outdoor porches would be great for entertaining, although watch out for bugs.
The bedrooms and bath on the lower level of the split level are a problem. They were damp and musty, even though we ran the dehumidifier constantly. The bath on this level had lots of mold on the walls. The shower is not very practical, so we all used the master bath. If anyone in your group has mold allergies, I would not recommend this property.
I'm sorry to write a negative review as I have used Home Away on more than a half dozen occasions and been pleased each time. That is, until this unfortunate experience. I rented the property for Mother's Day weekend. My sister was to take some vacation days to join me and my daughter was to travel from NYC to celebrate the weekend. It was going to be a girl's weekend of relaxing and cooking and a bit of sight seeing. Within a few minutes of walking inside the home I sensed that it was in poor condition. On further investigation, I knew that it was completely unacceptable. I called the owner, Brian, and voiced my concerns and disappointment with the property. He asked me to explain problems, which I did, trying to be sensitive to the fact that he owned the house. Many of the issues, he agreed were a problem but seemed unaware of others. I told him that I would not be staying because of the very poor conditions and that I would pay for one night's stay, even though I was leaving after the call, and asked that he refund the other three nights. He immediately agreed and apologized. When I returned home, I sent him my contact information along with pictures of the problems. Brian has failed to repay me as promised. Obviously not a man of his word. I contacted HomeAway with my complaint and they forwarded it to Brian…still no answer. I contacted my credit card company and they contacted Brian…still no answer. I have waited for what I consider a reasonable amount of time. To say I am disappointed is an understatement.
So…if you are considering renting this home you might want to ask the following questions. And be sure you reach out to Brian as he didn't reach out to me before the trip. I had to call him to get directions and key instructions.
-Is the garbage strewn around the property gone?
-Are the broken outdoor lights fixed?
-Is the hot tub working and filled with water?
-Has the mildewed hammock been replaced?
-Has the greasy and dirty grill been cleaned?
-Have the pitted, dirty, mottled pots and pans been replaced so that people can cook?
-Has the water filter for the refrigerator been changed so people can get clean ice?
-Is the refrigerator empty of numerous opened condiment and wine bottles?
-Has the construction plastic/duct tape been removed from the downstairs shower?
-Have the rugs been given a thorough cleaning?
-The beautiful candle lit dining table…just doesn't exist. I have the pictures!!! Good luck.
Our party of 7, 50's - 70's, chose this place to attend the Country Living Fair at the fairgrounds. The house's location is excellent - close to the fairgrounds, grocery & downtown is just a few miles away. But we were very disappointed in the house.
The outside was totally unkempt: grass unmown, urns with dead flowers, patio & furniture was filthy, windows had no screens, house smelled musty & smoky. We spent the 1st hour cleaning the patio, sweeping, wiping down furniture, husband dug out screens to install from storage room, aired out house. We felt like leaving a "cottage opening" bill for the owners.
I'd noted from a review last August that the hot tub was not working. (the listing states that as of April hot tub was down but should be working). Called the owner prior to coming to check on status and was told that there was a chance it would be working. Seriously? The tub was empty & a long way from being serviceable.
Inside: Some bed linens were stained & had holes. Beds were comfortable.
Living room & dining room do not have enough seating for occupancy of 7. The couch fits 4-5 and the rest of our group had to use hard dining room chairs.
There was no propane in the grill and the Kitchen stove only had 3 usable hobs. The largest & most needed was broken.
None of us felt the house lived up to the photos and description. It's a shame because the place has a lot of potential.
My husband and I had a wonderful week at Ferncliff with our adult daughters, their husbands, and each family's dog. The owners were very helpful with all our questions and concerns from first inquiry to final details upon arrival. We trusted them from the get-go. The listing description was accurate regarding the location. We were minutes from Rhinebeck village, Kingston, and the many local attractions and parks along the valley. The listing photos accurately reflected the rental's appearance and amenities. It is tucked up a hill off the main road with a very large back yard for dogs to romp and great outdoor patios for entertaining. The house is tucked in the woods and stays cool on hot days. The kitchen was well equipped for good cooking. The only amenity unavailable was the hot tub because it was under repair at the time of our visit. The property was clean and well maintained, especially kitchen, bedrooms and baths. The living area and whole house is quite spacious and fit our six adults and three dogs perfectly. The interesting design of the house made it a visual pleasure when indoors.
Our family had a wonderful week of local adventures and hiking at the Ferncliff forest, a mile down the road, and the local Poet Walk along the river. The Aerodome is a must for fun and history along with the many national parks in the area. We even wandered south to the bridge walk across the Hudson in Poughkeepsie, great fun! One feature of the location is that it's minutes to seasonal farmers' markets in and large grocery stores as needed. Rhinebeck village offers tasty and interesting restaurants along with lovely shops. The Calico offers delicious cuisine and quaint ambiance in it's small storefront. The Tarrapin also offers interesting and delicious entrees. There are many local cultural and art venues for which we didn't have time. We will surely visit Ferncliff again and recommend this property to those who enjoy unique homes for family gatherings with a private setting and a location that makes daily excursions an easy drive. Next time we want to take the train and spend a day in NYC. The train station is minutes away. Ferncliff is a perfect gathering place for family, friends and/or romance.
My new husband and I were married in Rhinebeck this October. We have been escaping to the area since the beginning of our relationship and knew that this was the town where we should "tie the knot". Since we are city dwellers we decided to rent a house close by for several days to really enjoy the entire wedding process. We chose Brian and Sarah's home and were so glad we did. From the minute we opened the door we knew that we were in for a treat. The house was sparkling clean, beautifully furnished/laid out and boy what a view from the family room! Windows for miles! The yard was great with plenty of seating and our pup Miles had lots of room to run!! Did I mention that Brian and Sarah left a bottle of champagne for us? This place really does have it all. We cant wait to return for our anniversary!
The Hudson Valley has many activities to fill your days while staying at our Ferncliff Estate, Hiking and Rock Climbing at the "Gunks" (Shawanagunk Mountains) across the river, Biking along the Scenic highways and quiet paths of the nearby (within walking distance) public parks and forest land (Ferncliff Forest & Poets Walk Park), During the summer the Rhinebeck Recreation Center offers swimming pools, tennis and basketball courts, walking paths, playgrounds, and sports fields just minutes down the road, There are several private clubs in the are offering amenities such as golf courses, fitness centers, gyms, and spa treatments (we recommend Haven Spa!), Other nearby activities include, Rafting & Tubing, Brochures available & a New York State Fodor's Guide.
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MADISON (AP) — A man accused of helping a South Dakota Republican activist to make illegal robocalls before the 2012 election has testified that the pair set up the calls to target GOP legislative leaders they believed failed to support veterans.
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