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So I finally found the Bluray sales for ST09..wow..
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Granted this doesn't take into account the marketing budget or the theater/distributor cuts of the box office.
What's the deal with theater/distributor cuts? I heard they don't get much, and rely on snack sales, but you'd think it's still a significant cost. While supposedly the marketing budgets can be close to the size of production budgets. Yet doubling the production budget is considered a financial success? Sounds like in a way blockbusters are made for dvd lol.
Of course some get closer to tripling the production budget (I thought the new Treks did this), or more.
This article explains the theater's cut of the ticket sales:
In short, the amount varies by movie and how long the movie has been out.
If you look at the link I posted previously, it shows the production budget and box office sales for each movie.
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Not sure if it is good form to revive old threads but I stumbled cross this one the other day, while waiting for some prints to wash. At the time I pretty much agreed with the advice that had been given, basically that if the person in the image is unrecognisable then there is no need for a model release. At about the same time Twitter were using an image on their front page of three guys in India playing cricket with the Taj Mahal in the background. It was a colour twilight shot with the cricketers in shadow, but not total shadow their bodies were probably rendered at about zone 3, and their heads had been burned in to total black, rendering them unrecognisable in terms of a model release. I thought nothing more about it and considered it fairly standard usage of a captured street image. Fast forward two weeks. I wanted to upload a video to You Tube, now part of Google, for my girlfriend I did not have a You Tube account but I did have a Google account which I use to manage both our websites Google presence. I used my Google user name and password to login to You Tube and I logged in but was asked to confirm some additional details that I had not been asked for on any previous use of my Google account. I entered false information as I don't think the requested information was any of Googles business and I had been perfectly capable of running the account for the last three years without Google having that information and it was just part of a great data mining exercise on Googles part. The information I entered was that my year of birth was 2012. Google immediately locked my account as it rated me as being under-age to manage a Google account and demanded that I send my credit card details or post them some government backed ID before they would unlock my account. I cannot now manage my, or my girlfriends, web presence, thankfully I don't use g-mail as my main e-mail account but I am bloody furious with them and will not use their services again. So what has this got to do with the OP? Google, Facebook, Twitter and the rest are now vast global corporations. The image used by Twitter may not have been recognisable to the majority of the global population but it would have probably been recognisable to the people involved in the image, "Remember that day we were playing cricket and the tourist with the expensive camera stood about taking pictures?". You can picture it now, it is sunset you are in an Indian suburb near the Tag and you see some guys playing cricket great shot you think and take it. You post it to one of the online stock sites with the faces suitably burned in to avoid the need for a model release. If I was one of the guys in the image and that image had been used to promote a vast global entity while I was being denied access to that entity I would be livid. I know you will say Twitter is not Google or Facebook but all of these organisations operate on the same model of data mining their users. How would you feel if you found yourself promoting an organisation you were morally opposed to even if most of the rest of the world didn't know it was you? One further thought, I used to be involved in events tat were sponsored by Microsoft. Mine was a technical role and I am not an Equity member ( the UK actors union). On one event Microsoft had employed a film crew to film the event for promotional usage, this had happened on a couple of occasions and generally didn't involve me. On this particular occasion the director swooped down and announced that someone would hand me a memory stick and I would put it in the computer (a mac) and they would recreate the download. I pointed out that I was not an actor and did not want to be in their promotional video because I did not agree with Microsofts licensing agreement "But It's going to be viral" (something to do with the internet) they said. I repeated my stance and after the ten minuets it took them to get their heads round the concept that someone may not want to promote their products, especially without being paid, it was decided that the sound engineer would play my part.
Now I don't want in any way to stop photographers, professional or amateur, taking photographs of anyone in a public place. But I do think that in this day and age we need to think more carefully than ever what we do with those images. Personally I find it hard to photograph someone without there explicit consent such as in a formal portrait, or hiring a model to get a shot, and even then I wrestle with my interpretation. But that's just me.
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MANILA - Senator Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada, son of former Philippines president and now Manila mayor Joseph Estrada, on Monday turned himself over to police to face charges he received millions worth of kickbacks in a massive corruption scandal that has riveted the nation.
Estrada, 51, is accused of channeling public funds known as "pork barrels" into non-existent non-government organisations and then ploughing back 184 million pesos (S$5.24 million) into his own accounts from 2004 to 2012 through an elaborate scheme cooked up by a well-connected businesswoman, Janet Lim-Napoles, 50.
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The Adams Central High School marching band turned in its best performance of the year at the Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) Semi-State competition at Frankllin High School. on Saturday, but it wasn't enough to propel the Squadron of Sound into this week's State Finals.
Norwell, Bluffton and Woodlan bands were among the state qualifiers, the former in Class C and the latter two in Class D. The AC band competed in Class D.
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My breasts have not become tender yet, and I'm just wondering at what point that starts to happen.. ( I know I worry too much) I'm about 3 weeks, so maybe too early. What has been others' experience? ( I can't remember from my first baby) thanks!
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Mommy to Lilie Joy (5/5/09) and Kasey P (boxer dog baby)
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Everyone is different...it happens at different times for each PG as well.
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yeah, and I'm wondering if it will happen a little later, since this is my second baby, and I breast fed and such.
KARA-�wife since 07 to hubby Jason,
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I was wondering the same thing. I was right at 4 weeks when I got breast tenderness with DS. I was wondering if I would get it this time though because I am still breastfeeding DS. Since they are tough I wasn't for sure. I figured I wouldn't but you never know!!
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DD 12/19/12 9lbs 5oz 23in
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I got tender breasts with my last lo starting very soon, it was my first sign. It hasn't kicked in yet though. Every now and then my nipples will sting almost but it is brief. I guess we will see when it kicks in.
Amanda + Lucas (09/2003) = Scott (04/2010), Connor (02/2011), Emma (08/2012), Angel Babies (07/2013 & 02/2014), Holly (12/2014), and we are DONE!
Mine just started feeling really swollen yesterday-- I am in my 5th week (almost 6th). I can't remember when it started with pg #1.
mine are sore started around the middle of week 3 and hast let up yet. i take my bra off and they feel like they are pulling my whole chest down. btw im a 36dd or f depending on the bra hopefully i wont suffocate my baby when its born....lol
Mine just started getting the tenderness a few days ago. That was what made me think I am pregnant again. I never got AF after my son was born in August 2009 because I was breastfeeding until recently, I do not have a BFP yet but I'm guessing I will in the next couple of weeks.. Taking a test tomorrow morning. I really feel like I am pregnant for so many reasons!
Back on topic, with DS I got sore nipples a couple weeks after conception. It was the first symptom. Then I had my missed period.
Wife to P (3/14/09),Mom to boy C (8/23/09)
Surromom to twin girls S & M (2/21/13) and angel baby girl F (2/7/15)
This is my third prenancy and the first that my breast aren't tender. Every pregnancy is different.
Amanda - Mommy to: Big Peanut July 2007 - Medium Peanut March 2010 - Little Peanut May 2011
I never had tenderness with my first pregnancy. I am a little tender/tingly now. Nothing too bad, though.
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We'd been riding west in the green-paneled station wagon for the better part of three days when our cargo trailer came unhinged. We saw it overtaking us in the right-hand lane.
"Look, that car's passing on the wrong side of the road," announced my big sister, Alison, who at eight was old enough to know. "And look—no one's driving, and it's going all wild!" We gawked, openmouthed, at the trailer shimmying beside us, swaying like a drunk. Fiery sparks kicked up where the metal hinge scraped hard over asphalt.
"Holy cow—our things!" my mother gasped. "Our whole life, Don. It's getting away!" Her hands fluttered to the half-open window, as if she might be able to reach out and stop the runaway trailer with her bare fingers.
We were driving on Interstate 80, well into Nebraska. A few miles back, my father had swerved left, to avoid three enormous hay bales bouncing off a truck. Apparently our trailer had come loose from the jolt, passed us on a decline.
Now it was a good bit ahead of us, threatening to rear-end a blue VW bus. My father veered into the right-hand lane behind the trailer and blared his horn until the bus jerked out of the way—-just in time, before the trailer would have smashed into it. After that, there was nothing to do but tail it and wait for the worst.
"Keep your distance, Don." My mother's voice was as taut as a telephone wire. "The darn thing's going to crash. It's going straight into that cornfield!"
"Cut the hysteria," muttered Dad. Mom fell silent then, clenching her eyes and knitting her fingers together while Ali and I, perched on the edge of the backseat, vied for the best view between our parents' headrests. We hadn't had this much fun since we'd left our apartment in Chicago. I slid my hot pink Calamity Jane hat back on my forehead and held tight to my sister's knee.
We jostled onto the shoulder of the road, about twenty feet behind the trailer. Dust swirled around us, obscuring our view, and our father suddenly threw back his head and let out a high-pitched cowboy whoop, so unlike him that Ali and I burst into giggles.
As we watched the highway bend ever so slightly to the left, the trailer broke free from the asphalt and bounded over the shoulder of the road. It smashed clean through the corner of an old wooden shed before careening into a cornfield, disappearing from sight.
"My new bike's in there," Ali wailed.
"The wedding china," whispered Mom, placing her hand on Dad's thigh.
"Yep—everything." He slowed to a stop, the cloud of dust rising around us and filtering through the windows. Some of it landed on the skin of my bare arm, coating the thin blond hairs. Midday sun glared through the windows and we were quiet, each of us staring at the gap in the cornfield that had just swallowed our possessions. There wasn't much: my wagon with the peeling red paint, our bulky winter clothes and photo albums, some treasures from Mom's wealthy parents, Dad's fishing gear and medical books. We'd left all the ratty, secondhand furniture behind, since it had come with the apartment. The idea was we'd buy all new stuff when we got West. We were starting over with a better house, better furniture, better climate, better schools. We were going back to California, where we came from—like the song said—in search of the good life, just as the pioneers and our grandparents before us had done. At least that's what Dad kept saying. But this didn't seem to comfort Alison any; she burst into tears at the thought of losing her new bike.
"It's all right." Dad draped his arms over the steering wheel, the wild cowboy spooked out of him. "If we're going to be pioneers, then we gotta be tough, right?"
I loved the idea of being a pioneer, or better yet, a cowgirl. I could imagine ditching the old trailer and the station wagon, donning a pair of chaps and riding a wild palomino filly across every wide-open acre between here and Los Angeles. I didn't remember much about California, being only two when we left, but I knew plenty about Annie Oakley and Dale Evans, and I figured a girl should be able to get her start in one of the westernmost states of the country.
"Well, we'd best get out and see what damage there is," said my father, opening the car door. And then we heard the sirens.
Half an hour later, Ali and I sat on the bumper of the Ford watching as the tow truck hauled our trailer from the cornfield, as the police lights flashed and spun, as the brick-faced farmer, flanked by officers, barked words I couldn't understand. He wanted collateral. There'd better be reparation. And why in hell hadn't the chain been fastened on the goddamn hitch? His hands dove like angry crows around my parents' faces until one of the policemen placed a restraining paw on his forearm. I couldn't quite fathom all this fuss over a rickety old shed, a few dozen rows of corn. But clearly we were in trouble.
Dad gripped Mom's bare shoulder. He stood weirdly erect in his blue plaid shirt; even so, he was scarcely two inches taller than her. We were fully insured, he insisted, squinting into the glare. He was terribly sorry. In their hurry to get on the road, he must have overlooked the chain. The tall officer wrote things down while the other just stared at Mom, his gaze sliding over her green sleeveless sweater, down the slim length of her khaki pedal pushers. I could have sworn he even winked, after which Dad tightened his hold on her, the dark circles expanding beneath his armpits. I was pretty sure I'd never heard my father apologize before, and I elbowed Ali in the ribs, wanting her to take notice.
"At least they're not arguing anymore," she noted then sighed, nudging me back. "Move over, Sylvie—you're hogging the whole car." She was in a better mood now, having discovered that her new bike was still intact, little pink basket and all. Our things had been spared, in fact, except for a few glasses and the wedding china. When Mom picked up one of the boxes, heard the faint tinkling inside, she'd bit her lip, eyelids fluttering, while Dad patted her wrist bone.
Now Ali hoisted herself onto the hood for a better view, and I wondered if she was right—if the accident had put an end to our parents' bickering. Perhaps this was why God-allowed it. I was six, and still believed God was in charge, directing the show like some capricious old ringmaster—allowing this disaster but not that one. This was God's Plan, I decided while Dad explained to the officers, pointedly massaging the back of Mom's neck.
"It won't happen again," he was telling them. "I assure you."
Still, it didn't take long for the bickering to resume once we were finally back on the highway, our dented trailer secured behind us. My mother argued, in her clipped, quiet way, that we needed a break, that we girls had been traumatized. The accident was a reminder to slow things down, she said, rethink our priorities. We ought to stop for some lunch, maybe end the day early and find a Travel Lodge with a little pool.
"It's hot, honey. You're expecting too much of them," she continued.
"We'll stop at supper time," Dad said, reminding her the accident had just cost money we didn't have, that we were now two hours off schedule, our budget blown to hell.
"There's no need for language. The girls will pick it up."
"And what are they picking up from you? That there's money to burn? You know we can't afford fancy motels—not yet."
"What about the park? You did promise." She was whispering, as if she actually believed we couldn't hear. Ali and I had started our own silent war in the back, over where the imaginary line between us was supposed to be. We'd moved on from gentle shoving and were grinding our knuckles, hard, into each other's bare thighs. In the course of our short stint as "pioneers," we'd learned how to practically kill each other without making a sound—stomping each other's defenseless toes, suffocating one another with our blue bears. We knew if we got wild, made too much noise, we were asking for it. Usually, it was me who got it. Maybe because I was easier to yank out of the back, throw against the hot metal side of the car. Two days back, in Iowa, I'd gotten a mouthful of roadside dirt for calling Ali a farty old pig's ass. So now I relented, slipping out of the game as it got too rowdy. But Mom wouldn't relent.
"It was all this rushing that got us into a fix." Her shoulders were creeping up around her ears. "Besides, you promised them."
"That was before we had to buy a damn shed."
"For heaven's sake, don't curse."
"Why didn't you use some of that feminine charm to get us out of a ticket?"
"I haven't a clue what you're referring to."
"I mean, if you're gonna flirt, may as well make it useful."
They ended by falling into a bulky silence, Dad drumming his fingers on the steering wheel, Mom heaving exhausted little sighs and turning her face to the window. After a while, she doled out stale peanut butter sandwiches and dill pickles without saying a word.
For the past four years we'd been living in the damp three rooms of an apartment in one of Chicago's shabbier suburbs. We'd been sleeping on someone else's mattresses, eating at someone else's green Formica table, watching someone else's black-and-white TV on their ratty polyester sofa with the stuffing spilling out one seam. Mostly, my mother and sister and I had been doing these things while Dad worked, completing his medical internship, taking most of his meals at the hospital, because he could. Sometimes, he didn't come home for three nights running. When he finally appeared, Ali and I were usually in bed. I'd hear bits of his talk as my mother poured him a drink, asked about his day as if she were entertaining an important stranger. I knew I wasn't allowed to go to them, no matter how many dark blue bats startled through my nightmares. I feared and longed for that prohibited after-bedtime world, ice clinking in his drink, his voice—as strange and ubiquitous as the moon.
I often wonder if her restlessness took root there, shut into three rooms during those Midwestern winters, caring for us by day, typing medical reports by night. She was new to the city and didn't have a car. She loved Dad, but how lonely it must have been in that apartment when we were tiny and whiny and underfoot, clinging to her knees. How relentless it must have seemed, one baby crying on her hip, the other running wild, tossing Tupperware into the toilet and trying to cut her bangs with the nail scissors, no husband in sight.
What else to lean into but the secret, infrequent lunches with her "special friend"?
A few days before we left Chicago, we had the last of those lunches, my mother, Mr. Robert and I, at a Big Bob's on University Ave. I wasn't supposed to mention Mr. Robert, with his gap-toothed smile, his Broadway songs and wavy, silver-streaked hair. During that last lunch, he bought us ice cream sodas, as usual, and we ate them with the heavy, long-handled spoons I loved. Then I colored on the place mat while they talked in somber tones.
"So you're really going next Sunday?" Mr. Robert asked.
"Sunday, that's right." My mother stared into her lap.
"Well, I have to admit, I won't be sorry not to make this trip every few months."
"I thought these trips were all about business, Robert."
"Now let's just quit being silly, Lainie. Just tell me the town, for God's sake."
"You know I'm not telling you this time. I'm just not." They were quiet for a while. My mother's breathing reminded me of the ocean at Goat Rock, when we'd last visited Gram and Poppy. Finally looking up, I was startled to see a single tear glittering along the side of her nose. She glanced at the people in the next booth, the bluish office buildings outside, traffic lurching past in the summer afternoon—she was looking everywhere but at Mr. Robert, who suddenly reached out and wrapped his meaty fingers around her wrist, as if to take her pulse.
"Is this your friend Sammy's silly advice? Why don't you just quit this game?"
"We need to let it go. Don't you see? This is a chance to—" She faltered, hugging herself as if she were cold, though the afternoon was humid as a gym sock.
"What? A chance to be foolish? Miserable?" Mr. Robert's voice seemed thin and stretched now, a balloon ready to burst. I wondered why Mom was being so difficult. I wondered why she didn't want Mr. Robert to find us, when he was so nice, and bought us ice cream sodas, and made her laugh like a man—mouth wide, head tossed back. I'd never seen her laugh that way for anyone else.
"You know I'll find you," he whispered.
"We need to let it go," she repeated after the waitress brought our check on the little red tray. Mom extracted her dark glasses from her handbag, slipped them on. I loved her in those glasses, which were huge and round, and made her look like Jackie Kennedy.
"I will never let it go," Mr. Robert said in a thick, radio-announcer's voice, as if he wanted the whole restaurant to hear. Into the startled silence that followed, he hummed a tune, his fingers beating out a cheerful rhythm on the linoleum tabletop. "Lainie, Lainie, 'give me your answer, do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you,'" he sang. Then he winked at me, as if somehow, we were in this together.
The next time I saw my mother's secret friend, I was nearly twelve, and had just learned that Jesus would come on a cloud shaped like a man's fist. I learned this from the Sabbath School teacher at our Seventh-day Adventist Church, Mrs. Sullivan, who kept her black hair wrapped around her head helmet-style. My sister and I called her Iguana Woman—she seemed that scaly and cool, skin pale as plaster behind her bright makeup. Her voice was reptilian, too, as she whispered about the Last Days, about fire and falling boulders as if these things were secrets she wasn't supposed to tell. In the car on the way home, Ali and I would sometimes roll our eyes and snicker at Mrs. Sullivan's grim predictions. But I never forgot the image of that cloud, its silent, impossible fury, the way endings could surprise you like that—with a crack and a flash when you least expected it.
This novel is outside the ordinary for a whole lot of reasons, the first being the memorable world Ostermiller creates.
I love the visual when I read, so I was grabbed right off by the early scene of the trailer full of belongings becoming detached from the family car and actually passing it on the road. I wanted the family to catch up with it, and I found myself reading faster and faster, as if that might have helped. That's how engaged I was in the story, and that's how engaged you'll be.
As a former bookseller, I'd especially recommend this to book clubs - much well-woven fodder here for discussion of mother/daughter relationships, family dynamics, and morals and secrets.
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Posted January 19, 2011
Family secrets....coming of age....marriage woes....sisters....loneliness.....boredom.....curiosity....affairs....safety....complicated....intriguing.....sex.....loyalty....this book has it all. My first, but not last!, read from Ostermiller.
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Posted September 7, 2010
I received this book in the mail having won it in a contest and didn't immediately start it but once I started reading I knew this was an exceptional writer that had a style all her own. The story centers around Sylvia growing up in California and trying to keep her mother's secret of infidelity away from her father but over the years and as a young mother living on the east coast she finds herself in the same situation as her mother only under different circumstances. A book about mother-daughter relationships which will make a great book club read. Looking forward to this author's next book!
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Posted November 15, 2010
Sylvia Sandon is hoping that this isn't the case. Remembering back on her not so happy childhood days, she spent many of those years moving from place to place while her father completed his residency program to become a doctor. When they finally did settle down in California they began with a dump of a duplex and along the way upgraded into a custom 5 bedroom home through hard work and her father's eventual graduation of becoming a doctor.
Through her childhood she remembers her mother, Elaine and her "secret friend," Mr. Robert that would take her and her sister for cream sodas while visiting her mother. They were told never to mention this times to her father and even after moving away to California, Mr. Robert told Elaine he would find her no matter where she went.
Sure enough, years later one afternoon at a church potluck, Mr. Robert walked back into her mothers life pretending like nothing had happened at all along the way. Even though it appeared to her that her mother spent countless nights and days alone waiting on her father, she didn't seem like the kind to cheat and she certainly had no plans to follow in her mothers footsteps.
Now that she is grown, married and has children of her own, Sylvia is beginning to walk those very same footprints as her mother. At a local coffee shop one day, her daughter Emmie accidently spills coffee on a younger man named Tai and she finds herself agreeing to meet him again for coffee if only to sell him another one of her painted landscapes. Will she wind up exactly like her mom?
In the book, Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller, the reader is transported back and forth in Sylvia's memories from present day to childhood and see just how her path parallels her mothers along the way. This book shows the effects that infidelity can have on the entire family and not just between the couple involved.
I received this book from TLC Book Tours for my honest review and even as a Christian, I found the book honest as it portrays the self-destruction that can come from illicit affairs among married couples and not like the happily ever after version that Hollywood would have us come to believe. I think most readers would find this book a great read to be able to see things from a different perspective and see just how affairs begin with the innocent offers of coffee. I chose to give this book a 5 out of 5 stars for it's ability to show things from both sides of the fence.
Posted September 12, 2010
Sylvia Sandon and her sister Allison grew up in California in the '70s in a home filled with lies and deceit. Their mother's long-term affair threatened their stability throughout their childhood. The last thing Silvia ever wanted was to be like her mother.
Fast forward to a grown up Sylvia, married with her own family and living in New England with a very distant relationship with her mother, both emotionally and geographically An artist, she finds herself unable to focus on her art, except for the portraits she commissions to keep her family above water financially. Her husband, Nathan, is completely obsessed with renovating the county home they bought almost ten years ago while the family continues to live in a rental. His time and their money are invested in the house while Sylvia's discontent grows.
It seems that history is repeating itself when Sylvia's own daughter discovers her attraction to Tai Rosen, a local landscape designer. Sylvia finds herself in a struggle to balance her own happiness with the needs of her children and the future of her own family.
OUTSIDE THE ORDINARY WORLD is nice women's fiction. Lynn Kimmerle
Posted August 2, 2010
Sylvia Sandon is a complicated woman, which stems from her complicated childhood. Married with two daughters of her own she finds herself following in the footsteps of her mother, footsteps that she doesn't want to walk in and yet seemingly without conscience thought she's doing. The secrets of her past have found their way into her present and by reliving them finds herself on a precipice she would rather not straddle.
Dori Ostermiller gives us a remarkable and unforgettable story of family crisis, family failure and possible triumph and she does it with her amazing skill of storytelling. Her eloquent prose like dialogue takes us deep into the psyche
of a troubled woman and the people who surround her. She's not afraid to use hard language to tell us her tale and yet at the same time uses literary phrases to describe a scene or thought that enables her readers the ability to visualize her words. Her characters are all well thought out, three dimensional and all totally necessary to the novel. Her protagonist Sylvia is an exceptionally portrayed character and readers will find themselves entranced by her and will share in her sorrow and cheer in her triumphs and at times will want to slap her silly. This is no romance but there is a thought provoking love story here, one that will make her audience sit up and take notice, one that will resonate within all of us, especially those of us who like me can relate to it. The love scenes are creative and thoughtful and here is where you'll find her most imaginative prose.
Outside the Ordinary World is a masterpiece of the written word. It's a hard story to tell and yet one that needs to be told. So if you're looking for a world class piece of literary fiction, a story on the dark side of family turmoil with that all elusive light at the end of the tunnel, then give this wonderful novel a try. It's not an easy read but it's one that needs to be read. So if this is the kind of tale that floats your boat believe me you will not be sorry that you took the plunge. It's bound to get critical accolades, it's that good.
Posted July 19, 2010
I knew I was in the hands of a strong and confident writer from the very beginning of Outside the Ordinary World. I am fascinated by the indelible stamp of family trauma and how it hangs on like toxic sludge and obviously, so is the author. The main character in Ostermiller's book thinks that a geographic solution (moving 3000 miles from her family)and seeking the polar opposite of her parents will somehow save her from the pain of repeating a disaster. Ostermiller takes us below the surface of relationships and into the danger of nuance and desire. This is a skillful writer and great story.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted July 3, 2010
Landscape artist Sylvia grew up detesting her mother Elaine's extramarital affairs as much as mom's bouts of religious fervor. Sylvia had no empathy towards her cheating mom until recently.
Raising two children (Hannah and Emma) while teaching art at workshops, Sylvia is bored with her sexless marriage with Nathan, her failed painting career, and even with her two kids. When she meets Tai, father of a student of hers, she is attracted to him. As she considers to tryst or not to tryst, she looks back to her childhood when her mom combined affairs with self-righteous piety and her father's brutality that led to the final tragic schism.
Rotating viewpoint between Sylvia in the present and Elaine three decades ago, Outside The Ordinary World is an engaging character study. Sylvia has begun to appreciate what her mom went through as she considers an extramarital affair though turning deeply devout at the same time seems too hypocritical to her. Both women are flawed, but readers will somewhat empathize with mom, but not with the daughter. This strong family drama makes it seem history is son ready to repeat itself.
Harriet Klausner
Posted June 23, 2010
I read Dori Ostermiller's novel in two sittings--and I am not a particularly fast reader. What made it so compelling for me involves the way in which Ostermiller has created a narrator whose own story, occurring in the new millenium, begins to mirror (against her best intentions) that of her mother thirty years prior.
Yes, the pivotal moments in the lives of this mother and daughter do involve extramarital affairs. But as the title of the novel indicates, the real crucible for both women, as they come to maturity in such different times, has to do with the ways in which the demands of the "ordinary" world (children, husbands, property, and if there is time, a career of sorts) threatens the possibility of anything extraordinary.
What this book is really about is what women live on--whether they can live on bread alone, as it were, or require something more, some manna from heaven. The answer that the novel delivers is tough-minded and compassionate--and deeply sensitive to the many crosscurrents by which the public self can be drowned by the desperation of the personal self--and vice-versa. I appreciate the way in which this novel challenges our sometimes easy complacency about the so-called new freedoms enjoyed by women in this generation. In this book, the fracture lines in the lives of women may have been re-drawn but they have not been mended.
A final note: one of the delights of the book is the tactile quality with which Ostermiller creates characters. The narrator's mother, Elaine Sandon, is one of the most vividly drawn characters I have encountered in recent fiction. Ostermiller builds her molecule by molecule until she walks the pages--we get every inch of her, ever mole on her skin, every tic in her way of talking, every physical mannerism.
I am a teacher--and in my fall fiction class at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I will include this novel on my reading list.
There are so many things I love about this novel. Like Sylvia's separate but echoing stories of her childhood and her adulthood, which are beautifully blended and woven together. And like Ostermiller's descriptions of intense moments caught in time - young Sylvie's mother curled in the patch of sunlight on the rug in the empty yellow room.
I think the real genius of this book is the way the author captures the complexity of family life - the parallel, non-intersecting domestic conversations, the not-listening, the missed cues and unanswered pleas. Ultimately though, this poignant and compelling novel left me with a profound sense of connection between people, a hopeful and empathic portrait of family and community.
Posted May 20, 2010
Let me tell you why I love this book. Have you noticed the current trend in fiction these days - I have, I buy them for a living -many of the popular ones tell good stories, and more often than not they feature protagonists who are supernatural or canine or both. They are engrossing, for the length of time it takes to read them, but they lack an individual persona like a preteen who relinquishes her stunning uniqueness for the false safety of a peer identity.
"Outside the Ordinary World" is not just the title of a book, it is its identity.
Ostermiller writes exquisitely. Her prose style is as dynamic as her fire imagery; it gently flickers, quietly smolders, suddenly sears, or can rage unpredictably. Read this: "I was trembling like an addict as I stumbled after him, my thoughts feral and haphazard -predestination, species extinction. The last plagues - how many were there again? What were they called?" Ah, prose with a comedic, self-observing ego that doesn't take itself too seriously. Well, until it does. From the first page: "Though I've never been taught to believe in purgatory, it must be a place like this . a land where we linger, mourning our nature like obstinate children whose parents warned them about the crack in the sidewalk, the fissure in the glass, the lethal fork in the trail."
Over and over again, sentences like these held me, asking me to not let them go, and while I could see the storyline over their shoulders -a beckoning force -I let them hold me, not a difficult choice really, it is what I hunger for when I read and too often find myself settling instead for meager lesses.
If other reviewers proclaim, "I couldn't put this book down", do not think I misled you. Yes I savored sentences, and often, but they also afforded me some relief from a deftly contrived tension that Ostermiller sets up -- and fans continually-- the potential that devastating family secrets (as safe as love letters hidden in a flimsy cardboard box) could be uncovered at any moment.
While family secrets, usually coupled with infidelity, are subjects often explored in fiction, what is unusual here is that Ostermiller's characters -mothers, fathers, daughters, lovers --are psychologically complex and achingly human. You won't find any heroines or villains, rather a mix of extraordinary characters that share a common trait, they are flawed. Characters that are drawn --- like moths to a flame -- to either repeat or rebel against the patterns that have led those their family members before them towards self-destruction, redemption, or perhaps even worse, mediocrity.
This novel is outside of the ordinary. It is appropriate that Sylvia is an artist. For her in world, just like in one of her brilliant paintings, what is seen is just the top layer of oils. Beneath them, layer upon layer, lie the painstaking history of its making.
Posted April 7, 2010
Outside the Ordinary World is a story of a mother and daughter, of marriage and marital issues and of, ultimately, mistakes made and the attempts made to right them.
Sylvia's mother is a religious woman. She's heavily involved in the Church of the Latter-Day Saints and, despite that religious leaning, she makes the mistake of looking outside of her marriage and involving her daughters in the decisions that will shape their lives.
The book switches back and forth from the early 70's to the mid-2000's. We move between learning Sylvia's story as she's growing up with an unfaithful mother to Sylvia's story as she struggles with an increasingly distant husband and temptation of her own.
I can't really say that I enjoyed or loved the book. My interest was caught through the story. It angered me and definitely brought out emotion in me - to the point of tears once or twice. It's not a light story or one that should be taken on for fun reading. Dori Ostermiller's writing is well done and I'm interested to find out what exactly inspired the story - because it's not one of those that you'd think someone would sit down and say, "Hmm, I think I'll write about this subject".
The story is educational though, especially in a society like today where marital affairs are so incredibly common. An interesting look at how it affects not only the husband and wife, but also the children in all families involved.
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Spaceport Development Picks Up Steam In Texas 116
from the if-you-build-it-they-will-launch dept.
Because if you want the money to flow back to the "masses" you better find something interesting for those "rich bastards" to spend it on, rather than having it stagnate in some bank account. Money is most effective when it is in use, lubricating the economy engine.
What you and everyone else is missing is that Texas is burdened with educating hundreds of thousands, if not more, illegal aliens. In fact, Kids come across the border to attend our school. Why? Fuck if I know, but the courts said we have to let them in for some reason.
So now you have to feed them, hire Bi-Lingual teachers, and then deal with the inevitable gang problems. Just look at San Antonio ISD.
The district my kids went to is rated tops in the nation in all the math and science scores and guess what? 99.9% of the kids that go there speak English and are not in gangs. If you think I should pony up more tax dollars to make sure a bunch of illegals on the border get a nice stadium and band instruments, then I think you should too.
As for Football, aside from the initial capital investments, the programs are run mostly on ticket sales and other fund raisers. Same thing with the Bands.
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Riva TNT2 Pro 32mb
i am using currently the linuxdistro PClinuxos. i beleave it is a rpm based distro.
it uses currently the kernelversion 22.214.171.124 but i am using version 184.108.40.206
i have in my computer a Riva TNT2 Pro 32mb graphic card and would like to ask if this older card can still work with above mentioned kernelversions ?
someone has suggested this link. is this a correct one to use perhaps ?
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It's the correct link.
However with such an underpowered hardware you can just you 'nouveau' open source driver.
Re: Riva TNT2 Pro 32mb
thank you for the answer.
i have tried the 'nouveau' driver but for some reason after every 10-20 minutes my computer freezes completely.
perhaps the driver as suggested in the link above is a more stable one to use.
however since i am new to linux i have tried to install but i received the message that i have to close the Xserver to install
how can i exit the Xserver in linux ?
Re: Riva TNT2 Pro 32mb
$ sudo init 3
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Pedro Alvarez hit a home run out of PNC Park on Tuesday night.
The Pittsburgh Pirates slugger hit a solo shot that landed in a boat moored in the Allegheny River.
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Raell Padamsee reveals that when she decided to cast Mandira Bedi and Sameer Soni in Anything But Love for Ace Productions' play, she had no idea what she was getting into. "These two would do only one thing: Fight. They would fight over anything to everything. We used to think how these two will be able to work together as a couple," she says. But it seems that the actors' earlier differences were a blessing in disguise for the play.
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"When the play finally came out, they both did it so wonderfully. Maybe because they were actually fighting in real life that the characters they play were as real as them. They actually looked like married couple," she chuckles. Anything But Love is a story of Anish (Samir Soni) and Seema (Mandira Bedi) who are a divorced couple. They run into each other at a restaurant, five years after their divorce. While Seema is blissfully married to Shekhar and Anish is happily living a bachelor life that's dotted with non-committed relationships and flings, after their chance meeting, they both rediscover their feelings for one another, and decide to give themselves a second chance.
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Love, relationship and heartbreak always serve as successful themes for stage. There are many factors and people who affect a relationship. Here, however, director Vikranth Pawar concentrates only on the personalities of the two protagonists. The story humorously traces how they try to make their relationship work in its second innings. The play is a dialogue between its protagonists, Anish and Seema. The other characters, like Seema's husband, Anish's multiple girlfriends and both their respective shrinks are omnipresent. The rest of the cast is seen only through the eyes of the protagonists, as they perceive them and that leaves something to be desired.
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With ambitious lifestyle and easy-come-easy-go relations, it is but obvious that couples lose patience with each other. "More often than not marriages are broken on flimsy grounds like snoring and not being able to cook!" she says. The new generation believes in instant love. "We are all over our past traditions where people used to live in joint families and there was a social stigma to divorces and failed marriages. Now, younger lot doesn't mind to break relationship, even marriage, if it does nor work out. That too pretty soon. We need quick results now. And this lack of patience affects all our relations, not just marriage," Padamsee says.
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Schrader RBS To Kalon Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, California
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We are proud to present our portfolio of 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon wines from two of Napa Valley's most prestigious and historic vineyard estates—the Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard in Oakville and the Beckstoffer Georges III Vineyard in Rutherford. With both outstanding locations, we combine meticulous vineyard management with "no holds barred" winemaking practices to produce elegant wines of exceptional depth, richness, and character that we feel are the highest and most authentic expression of these noble vineyards.
Critical Acclaim
Wine Spectator - "Young and vibrant, with tight, zesty layers of wild berry, currant, hazelnut and nutmeg scents that are firm and compact. Finishes with a rich, plush texture. Has great complexity and depth. Best from 2009 through 2014."
The Wine Advocate - "The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon RBS, which, for the technocrats, is clone 337, exhibits a dense ruby/purple color as well as a terrific nose of creme de cassis, espresso roast, pain grille, and licorice. A dark purple-hued, full-bodied, opulent wine with excellent length and richness, it should drink well for 15-20 years. "
International Wine Cellar - "Good deep ruby. Vibrant aromas of crushed blackberry, bitter chocolate and violet. Quite suave on entry, then chewy and juicy in the middle, with strong acidity giving the wine sharp definition. Less obviously sweet than the 2004; in fact, this is distinctly firmer in texture and evolving slowly. Finishes with a note of dark chocolate. This will be entirely from Clone 337, which needs long hang time on the vines. 90-92 Points."
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Founded in 1998 by Fred Schrader, Schrader Cellars is dedicated to bringing together the finest vineyard and winemaking resources available to create full-throttle, unbridled wines of great distinction and complex structure. Their programs focus on classic grape varietals grown in the famed Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard in Oakville, and the Beckstoffer Georges III Vineyard in Rutherford. They are handcrafted by winemaker Thomas Brown in very limited quantities and are often defined by a single clone of a grape variety, a specific block within a remarkable vineyard or, in some cases, a matrix for the two. This intricate and involved method offers an extremely provocative and rewarding exploration of the influence of clone selection and terroir on the resulting wine. View all Schrader Cellars Wines
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It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just grated an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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(AP) - The Dow stock market index closed above 14,000 on Friday for the first time in more than five years, putting it just 155 points away from regaining its highest close ever. Strong auto sales and optimism about U.S. jobs fueled the rally.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 149.21 points, or 1.08 percent, to 14,009.79.
The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 15.06 points, or 1.01 percent, to 1,513.17.
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Begg, Denovan P., Sinclair, Andrew J., Stahl, Lauren A.*, Garg, Manohar L.*, Jois, Mark* and Weisinger, Richard S.* (2010) Dietary protein level interacts with ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid deficiency to induce hypertension, American journal of hypertension, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 125-128, Nature Publishing Group, London, England [C1]
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Begg, Denovan P., Sinclair, Andrew J., Stahl, Lauren A.*, Premaratna, Shirmila D.*, Hafandi, Ahmad*, Jois, Mark* and Weisinger, Richard S.* (2010) Hypertension induced by ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid deficiency is alleviated by α-linolenic acid regardless of dietary source, Hypertension research, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 808-813, Nature Publishing Group, London, England [C1]
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Stahl, L. A.*, Begg, D. P., Weisinger, R. S.* and Sinclair, Andrew (2008) The role of omega-3 fatty acids in mood disorders, Current opinion in investigational drugs, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 57-64, Current Drugs, London, England [C1]
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Weisinger, Richard*, Begg, Denovan*, Stahl, Lauren*, Weisinger, Harrison*, Sinclair, Andrew and Jois, Markandeya* (2007) The role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in food intake and energy homeostasis, in Ching, Kuang Chow (eds), Fatty acids in foods and their health implications, pp. 837-854, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla. [B1]
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The confrontations between police and demonstrators at the Stonewall Inn in New York City the weekend of June 27-29, 1969 mark the beginning of the modern glbtq movement for equal rights.
Formed soon after the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the short-lived but influential Gay Liberation Front brought a new militancy to the movement that became known as gay liberation.
The sexual revolution of post-World War II America changed sexual and gender roles profoundly.
"Leather" is a blanket term for a large array of sexual preferences, identities, relationship structures, and social organizations loosely tied together by the thread of what is conventionally understood as sadomasochistic sex.
Although best known for her crusade for women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony spoke out on a range of feminist issues.
With reports from hundreds of sub-Saharan African locales of male-male sexual relations and from about fifty of female-female sexual relations, it is clear that same-sex sexual relations existed in traditional African societies, though varying in forms and in the degree of public acceptance
Androgyny, a psychological blending of gender traits, has long been embraced by strong women, soft men, members of queer communities, and others who do not easily fit into traditionally defined gender categories.
A cultural crossroads between Asia and Europe, Russia has a long, rich, and often violent heritage of varied influences and stark confrontations in regard to its patterns of same-sex love.
Clément Méric, an 18-year-old student at the prestigious French university Sciences Po, has died as a result of a beating by a group of Neo-Nazi skinheads in downtown Paris on June 5, 2013. His death on June 6, the latest outrage committed by right-wing extremists in France, has left the country reeling.
On June 6, thousands of people, in cities all over the country, gathered to offer sympathy to Méric's family, to honor his memory, and to express horror at the right-wing violence that has marked the demonstrations against marriage equality in France.
As The Local reports, seven arrests have been made, including the person suspected of delivering the final blow to Méric.
President François Hollande, who is on an official visit to Japan, "condemned the attack in the strongest possible terms."
"I have given the most rigorous possible instructions so that the authors of the odious act can be arrested at the earliest possible juncture," he said in a statement.
Although it is not clear that the attack on Méric was motivated by homophobia, acts of homophobic violence by extreme right-wingers have increased during the deliberations on marriage equality. Gay rights organizations have complained to authorities that glbtq people and their supporters are being targeted by fascists.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls told reporters that "There is no place for small neo-Nazi groups whose enemy is the nation. A group of the extreme right is at the heart of this assassination." He added, "There is a discourse of hate and a climate that favours this discourse. We need to pay attention to this because they threaten our values."
One of the attackers was seen wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the right-wing National Front party. Nevertheless, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the party, angrily denied that her organization had any involvement in the attack.
French industrialist and pro-gay marriage activist Pierre Bergé implicated the anti-gay marriage movement, known as 'Manif Pour Tous' (Demo for all) in the attack on Méric. He pointed out "the Manif pour tous accepted into their ranks these fascists who killed Clément."
Adding unbearable insult to the grievous injury of a young man's death, the French religious bigot who led the right-wing opposition to marriage equality has blamed the victim and the cause he espoused.
In an article for the French website Newsring, the despicable Frigide Barjot claimed that "The President has caused extremism to grow by passing a law that the French didn't want, and in a manner that was authoritarian and undemocratic. When we refuse to act like a democracy, extremism grows. In a way, you could say that there was a death because of this denial of democracy."
It was, of course, this stupid woman who threatened President Hollande and the nation when through democratic means marriage equality was adopted. She said in April "Hollande wants blood, and he's going to get it."
Her movement became so violent that she became afraid to attend the most recent demonstrations under the Manif pour tous banner, at which many demonstrators openly gave the fascist salute.
Like her American admirers Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage, Frigide Barjot has blood on her hands.
In the video below, from an April 2013 demonstration against the rise of homophobic violence in France, Méric may be seen holding a banner reading "Homophobia Kills."
The video below reports on the reaction to the murder in France.
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During an excursion to research an unusual butterfly in the mountains of northeast Japan, two explorers are mysteriously killed. The natives of the island became the deaths on their God 'Varan' who becomes enraged at the sight of humans.
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Simple, Elegant, Wrapped in NatureIndonesia, Bali, Tegallalang
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Secluded, spacious studio villa nestled between flowing water, jungle and rice fields - Bali at its best!
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Nestled in the rice fields of Tegalalang district in central Bali is Talidandan Villa, just 5 kilometers north of Ubud. Designed by famed Dutch architect, Joost Van Grieken this warm minimalist design combines the stark simplicity of Japan with the open tropical refreshment of Bali. The villa is surrounded by a jungle, river, hill and rice fields of Gianyar Regency, the cultural and artistic center of Bali Island. Set a bit apart from the owner's pavilions, the cottage is a 100 m2 self-contained 1-room unit with its own entrance, veranda, kitchen, shower and a shared 13-meter swimming pool. This is an ideal place for 1 or 2 persons who want a quiet retreat, away from busy city life. The villa has been featured in architectural publications.
Elegantly furnished in a warm Japanese/Balinese style, the house has an option of twin or double beds, complete with night reading lamps. In addition there is a dining table, 3-person sofa and large closet with a combination safe. The room includes both ceiling and floor fans, wi-fi, and a music system with ipod connector. The kitchen is completely equipped for cooking. The bathroom has a toilet, sink, 2 mirrors and a strong hot/cold shower. The balcony has a small table/chairs for 2 and a sofa and coffee table. The balcony overlooks a jungle garden and the swimming pool is accessed over a pond with stone steps. Maid, linen and security services are included.
The villa was constructed in 2002 by a top hotel builder using the finest materials - tightly woven alang-alang, grass roof, coconut posts in the balcony, rock steps across the pond. For those who appreciate design and art, Talidandan is exquisitely appointed with the finest furnishings and art… antique reed doors from Kyoto, Japan, Japanese paper window and lamps, paintings from well known Ubud artist's Ngurrah KK, Wayan Kotir and Pantir cover the walls. A large textile from Threads of Life sponsored Lamalera village women's craft hangs above the bed. Hand drawn bakit cloth cover the pillows. For those who want deep quiet in the arms of nature's abundant arms this is the place to bring serenity to your spirit.
My staff and I are eager to help you settle into the delights of Bali.
Smoking outside only. No pets.
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Christina's place is exquisite & as other customers have pointed out - it's much better & larger in person than it looks in the photos.
Christina was also lovely herself, everything was organized and very easy with our stay.
Would recommend to friends and stay there again ourselves in a heartbeat - thankyou for having us!
Christina is charming and welcoming.
The place exactly as described - nestling in the most glorious natural setting. Everything was ready as promised. It felt like it was out off the beaten track but once we discovered the route back to ubud centre it was a doddle - she was very helpful organizing scooters and transport and the villa was lovely - and I was more than happy sharing it with a million insects -:) and the mosquito net over the bed - worked!! Thank you Christina for sharing your lovely home. I will return
A real get away far from the thronged streets of ubud. The pool and setting absolutely tranquil. Nice area to wander around on a scooter with temples, egret roosting and gorgeous villages and padi fields within minutes.
This house is my haven in Ubud. It's close to Ubud (7 to 10 minutes ride) yet very quiet relaxing and elegant.
From the house you can have walks in the neighborhood among rice terraces, rivers and valleys. It's just 10 minutes walk to reach Petulu village with its famous heron birds.
The place is very well designed, it is much spacious than it looks in pictures. The kitchen is very well equipped and you will not miss anything..just bring your groceries and that's it.
The place has ceiling fans and I believe in this area with the free airflow inside the house, you'll not need Air Condition.
Lighting is well distributed and bathroom is very good with constant hot water supply.
The outdoor area has a sofa and dinning table. You will go to the pool area through the lovely fish pond to reward yourself with a nice gazebo beside the very nice and refreshing pool overlooking the nice view of tropical plants.
Christina is the most admiring factor in renting the place. She is a lovely character that you will enjoy talking to. And she is also admirable at professional level too. She is taking care of very small details in the place starting from handing you a piece of paper with guidelines and some useful tips till the management of the house that you can sense with all things are running in place efficiently.
This lovely house will definitely be my first choice in my next Ubud visits.
Christina is a great host! She is very nice to talk to and caters to your every need. We arrived past midnight and Christina had left some snacks for the night and all the necessary to have breakfast the next morning!
The bungalow itself is described very conservatively on Airbnb. It is (or at least looks) much bigger than it is described. The outside space is very pleasant and relaxing and the pool is gorgeous.
Christina's staff, Kadek and Nyoman, are very nice and helpful.
The only downside to the place is how open it is and how difficult it is to keep clean. Geckos, ants, mosquitoes and other bugs keep crawling in and sometimes leave their droppings and this is not always cleaned properly.
The location is also close to perfect. The villa is located about 45 minutes out of central Ubud by foot or 10 minutes by scooter.
Overall, I would very much recommend Christina's bungalow for the location, the space and Christina's attention.
a lovely secret in the rice fields.
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christina's house is comfortable, the staff is super kind and the green shades in the outside are a delight.
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We booked the lovely little villa on very short notice, but Christina's respons was very quick. She and her staff welcomed us and showed us around. The house is situated next to Christina's big house, approximately 5 km from Ubud. We rented scooters which is absolutely the best thing to do there. I think to have your own transport is a must, because it is somewhat secluded. Which on the other hand is the best thing about this romantic place. It is in between rice fields and tropical forest, definitely picture perfect. The house has all the amenities, even a whole equipped kitchen which we only used for breakfast because Ubud has many great places to eat. The house is decorated in a very tasteful way, every time I walked in the house I just thought: wow it's so beautiful. It has a private terrace, and a shared pool (it's also Christina's pool, but she never used it, so we had it for our selves. I would definitely recommend the house if you want to stay in Ubud. Thanks Christina for your great hospitality!
About the Host, Christina
I so enjoyed finding this setting many years ago and then building the house, organising the garden, and of course, hosting many friends and family from all over the world. I often travel out, especially to Japan and always feel the profound refreshment when I return.
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On Friday, Kjerstin Johnson forwarded me Vulture's post on the music video for Kiely Williams's "Spectacular." Once a member of the girl group 3LW and The Cheetah Girls, Williams has been working on solo projects since 2008, and first tried to dispense with her Disney-friendly image with 2009's "Make Me a Drink." The instrumental version of "Spectacular" was released in October 2009 and the music video was posted on her Web site back in January. The clip was re-released earlier this month and . . . ugh (the video can be viewed here). Now, I don't want to judge folks' sexual proclivities. But there's that and then there's "Spectacular," which is basically a dance track that extols the sexual prowess of a date rapist. No, no, no.
As I was anticipating this blog series at the time of my viewing, imagine my good fortune when I realized that Lemon changed her ringtone from Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" (i.e., Elmer Fudd's "Kill the Wabbit") to Peaches's "Fuck the Pain Away."
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