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Studio, Kitchen, Oceanfront
Standard Room, 1 Bedroom, Kitchen, Pool View
Condo, 1 Bedroom, Kitchen, Pool View
Beachside condominium resort with 2 outdoor swimming pools
Within easy reach of Pompano Square, this Pompano Beach condominium resort is set on its own private beach. Area attractions also include Deerfield Beach Pier and Fort Lauderdale Stadium.
Property Features
Spend the day on La Costa Beach Club's private beach or relax by one of the condominium resort's 2 outdoor swimming pools.
Room Amenities
Televisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature kitchens, complimentary wireless Internet access, and refrigerators.
Hotel Amenities
- General
Simply step outside to unwind on the condominium resort's beach. After a day at the beach, cool off in one of the 2 outdoor swimming pools at La Costa Beach Club and enjoy amenities like an indoor pool.
High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Total number of rooms - 77
- Number of floors - 7
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Free parking (limited spaces)
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Number of spa tubs - 2
- Laundry facilities
- Free parking
- On private beach
- Free guest parking during stay
- Year Built 1980
- Self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Free Wi-Fi
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Free parking, Free guest parking during stay, Self parking, Free parking (limited spaces)
- Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Access via exterior corridors
- Ceiling fan
- Climate control
- Microwave
- Kitchen
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Weekly housekeeping provided
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Clock radio
- Iron/ironing board
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Cable TV service
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Blender
- Dishwasher
- Kitchen linens (dishtowels, sponges, etc.)
- Stovetop
- Free Wi-Fi
- Recreation
2 outdoor swimming pools and 2 spa tubs are on site along with an indoor pool. Other recreational amenities include a private beach.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Swimming on site
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible parking
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 25
Check-in time ends at 11 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Guests arriving outside regular check-in hours must contact the property in advance to receive check-in instructions. Guests may contact the hotel using the information contained in the confirmation received after booking via this Web site.
- Check-out
Check-out time is 10 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets not allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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Caters to seniors
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Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work.


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Pin it to win it: luxe brooches for an early spring
By Jody Schmal | January 31, 2013 | Updated: February 1, 2013 12:35pm
With an early spring seemingly in bloom, nature-inspired designs are cropping up in some of Houston's high-end jewelry stores. Brooches are especially tilting toward living elements, with several local designers offering colorful gemstone creations. Looking for a splashy Valentine's Day gift or for a statement piece to spruce up a ballgown? Here are several ways to brooch the subject.


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MIDDLEBURY Otter Creek Brewing Company has been designated a SHARP Company, only the ninth company in Vermont to receive such an award and only the fourth brewery nationwide to achieve this recognition.
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'The charm of Mahler's Lieder-composing style - so close to Schubert's - comes across beautifully. Stephan Genz is more than just a very fine singer: his precision, sensitivity and range of imagination proclaim him a true successor to the great Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. And Vignoles's booklet note is an informative pleasure in itself' (Classic FM Magazine)
'Deeply affecting … Warmly recommended' (Gramophone)
'Stephan Genz's light, warm and cultured baritone is especially fine in reflecting the ghost voices and moonlight serenades of Mahler's folk-inspired anthology … This is the first time that I've heard a male voice take on 'Urlicht' … and its quiet serenity, as in 'Wo die schonen trompeten blasen', is what Genz does best' (BBC Music Magazine)
'Urlicht is beautifully sung … and Vignoles's playing is remarkably expressive throughout' (Sunday Times)
'This is a vibrant rendering of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn in the versions for voice and piano, a setting which requires the idiomatic approach Vignoles uses for the accompaniment and the nuanced tone Genz uses to evoke a sense of chamber music. Lacking the sonorous orchestral accompaniment, the singer is more exposed, and this allows Genz to display his vocal finesse well' (Opera Today, USA)
'It is a recording that seems, above all, to be characterised by enormous intelligence and sensitivity, from both singer and pianist … Most prefer to here these songs in Mahler's brilliant and scathing orchestral versions but the artistry on show here makes me glad to hear them in the intimate, piano-only versions … This disc, then, allows us to experience these wonderful songs close-up in all their variety, humour and pathos. Highly Recommended' (MusicalCriticism.com)
'Vignoles's pianism is so persuasive that one hardly misses the orchestral versions. In Revelge, for instance, his accompaniment to the song about the marching soldier has a suitably martial quality, while his playing of the lowest register of the piano to represent the drum rolls at the beginning of Der Tamboursg'sell is eerie and unforgettable. Genz, meanwhile, provides a well-characterised interpretation, his voice superbly controlled both in the vehemence of the prisoner's defiance in Lied des Verfolgten im Turm and in the beautiful pianissimos of Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen' (MusicOHM.com)
'This performance is a revelation, the simplicity of the piano setting and the serenity of Genz's performance casting a benediction on the entire program … Genz and Vignoles have produced a worthy successor' (Fanfare, USA)
'[There are a number of other collections available … ] But none of these has the clear and unambiguous sound that this Hyperion release has, especially the excellent piano balance, and Genz sings with a definite point of view and a nice sense of characterization. You have to have one of the orchestral versions, but you will also find much satisfaction in Mahler's superbly realized piano version as well, and this recording will serve many needs'(Audiophile Audition, USA)
'Roger Vignoles palpably revels in the task of conjuring a full Mahlerian orchestra… This CD is partly a demonstration of Genz's technique in this repertoire: the tone remains firm at even the most intimate levels and, most importantly, he binds consonants and vowels into the singing line, so that the lied emerges as a form of heightened speech. But it's a measure of Genz's sensitivity that one doesn't hear simply a great lieder singer at work. Instead, the entire set, with its panoply of characters, emanates from a recognizably "Wunderhorn" persona - direct, ingenuous, fully in tune with the material's folklore-ish nature' (Opera News)
Roger Vignoles writes in his booklet notes that 'to enter the world of Mahler's Wunderhorn songs is like opening a picture book. Each page gives us another character, another fairy tale, another episode, whether happy or tragic, in the tale of human existence … such is the consistency of its musical tone that Mahler achieves a remarkably intense evocation of human life in this collection, portrayed with empathy, humour and compassion'. Some of these celebrated songs are much more familiar in their orchestral versions and pose a great challenge to the pianist. However the piano's capacity for quasi-orchestral sonorities and textures was an essential element in the evolution of the Lied as an art form, allowing as it did for a far wider range of symbolic reference than would have been possible with any other accompanying instrument, and Roger Vignoles achieves a great level of intimacy within this framework. |
Introduction |
Gustav Mahler once famously remarked of his symphonies (to Sibelius, in 1907) that they were meant to be like the world
all-embracing. But as we noted in the essay accompanying the previous CD of Mahler songs (CDA67392), it was from a very particular world that he drew the inspiration for his first four symphonies. Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youths Magic Horn) was the title given to a vast collection of German folk verses gathered by the poets Achim von Arnim (17811831) and Clemens von Brentano (1778 1842) during their journeys on the Rhine and its tributaries. First published in 1805 in Heidelberg (at that time the literary centre of the Romantic movement in Germany), with a larger edition appearing in 1808, the collection represented (among other things) a conscious effort to counterbalance what was seen as the unhealthy, even dangerous influence of the Age of Enlightenment, especially as represented by French culture and the dire upheavals of the Revolution and Napoleonic wars. On the literary side, writers like Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 1803) argued for the superiority of Naturpoesie (the poetry of Nature) over Kunstpoesie (the poetry of Artfor which read all things Rational and French), while at the political level it was hoped that a return to the roots of German culture would speed up the goal of German unification.
Reviewing Des Knaben Wunderhorn in 1807, Goethe remarked teasingly that every household in the land should keep a copy on the shelf with its cookery books and bibles, or better still on the piano, where its contents could be sung to suitably simple melodies and accompaniments. In the event, the Naturpoesie of the Wunderhorn songs came to be associated with a Kunstpoesie of a less humble kind. From its very beginnings the German Lied had made use of poetry either of folk origin, or closely based on folk song. So it is no surprise to find Wunderhorn texts among the songs of Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Strauss. But in general such poems were chosen as light reliefexamples of genre painting, so to speak, to offset the more serious masterpieces. It was only Mahler who actually absorbed the implied music of the poems into his own musical language, and this he did first in the songs and then in the vast symphonic movements which he derived from them. For this purpose they were the perfect raw material, combining the earthy and the fantastic, the individual and the universal. In all, Mahler composed some two dozen Wunderhorn songs with orchestral accompaniment (twelve, composed between 1892 and 1901, were published under the title Humoresken). In all but two cases the orchestral songs were preceded by piano versions, which, while clearly conceived in orchestral terms, are emphatically not piano reductions (in the manner of an operatic vocal score, for example) but independent versions in their own right. The exceptions are Revelge and Der Tamboursgsell, the two great military pieces with which this CD begins and effectively ends (Urlicht acting in this case as a coda). Both of these songs were composed at a later date than the rest of the collection, and the evidence suggests both that their composition was far more closely bound up with their symphonic parallels, and that each was composed directly in full score. Realizing them on the piano, therefore, requires a degree of creative interpretation, especially in Revelge with its huge battery of trumpet and drum effects. But for the pianist, tackling any of these songs is a challenge, inviting as it does comparison with the more frequently performed orchestral versions. Yet, as we noted before, the pianos capacity for quasi-orchestral sonorities and textures was an essential element in the evolution of the Lied as an art form, allowing as it did for a far wider range of symbolic reference than would have been possible with any other accompanying instrument. Many of Schuberts greatest songs depend on quasi-orchestral piano parts for their effect, while Hugo Wolf derived his own musical language from a pianistic recreation of Wagners symphonic web. So, Mahler may have always had an orchestral destination in mind, but he was by no means alone among Lieder composers in conceiving his piano parts in orchestral terms. To enter the world of Mahlers Wunderhorn songs is like opening a picture book. Each page gives us another character, another fairy tale, another episode, whether happy or tragic, in the tale of human existence. Admittedly the characters, as in most folk song, are drawn from a relatively limited range of society. Military marches and Ländler abound, so that everyone seems to be either in uniform or wearing a Dirndl. Yet in spite of, or perhaps even because of, this relatively enclosed frame of reference, such is the consistency of its musical tone that Mahler achieves a remarkably intense evocation of human life in this collection, portrayed with empathy, humour and compassion. On the military side, it is clear where his sympathies lie. His soldiers are no heroes, no changers of the world; they are the poor bloody infantry, the cannon-fodder (Revelge), the shell-shocked boys due to be shot or hanged at dawn pour encourager les autres (Der Tamboursgsell). And his girls are their lovers, taking them to their beds for a farewell tryst before losing them to the war (Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen), distracting them on sentry-go (Der Schildwache Nachtlied), or teasing them for their arrogant carrying-on in their smart uniforms (Trost im Unglück). In the background to these trysts and tiffs is the rural life with its mowers and servant-girls (Rheinlegendchen), its country bumpkins and peasant-girls (Verlorne Müh), its grinding poverty (Das irdische Leben) and its folk humour laced with homespun wisdom (Lob des hohen Verstandes, Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt). The current recording begins with one of the two latest-composed and longest songs of the collection. Revelge (1) is a terrifying march of death, from the days when troops went into battle as though on parade. To the rattle of drums and blare of trumpets, it is propelled headlong from early morning reveille into the fury of charge and countercharge. Only when every man has been mown down does the pace slacken, transforming the smart military stride into the dry rattle of dead mens bones, ghostly fanfares echoing across the stricken landscape. The final page, in which the dead drummer and his comrades rise up once more on parade, is cataclysmic in its effect. By contrast, Lob des hohen Verstandes (2) is one of the comic gems of the set. In one of his earlier Wunderhorn songs, Ablösung im Sommer, Mahler had humorously portrayed the transfer of vocal responsibility from cuckoo to nightingale with the passing of spring into summer. In Lob des hohen Verstandes the two avian songsters are in direct competition, and the chirpy C major is surely intended to suggest the pomposity of an ornithological Meistersinger. Academic scales and trilling cadences, the airy piping of the birds and the bucking and braying of the donkey, comic repetitions (Ohren groß, Ohren groß) and throat-clearing pauses all contribute to the general air of naïve humour. At the end the donkey delivers his judgement with the fatuous lack of self-doubt of the truly stupid. Rheinlegendchen (3) is the most charming and delightful of the many Ländler among the Wunderhorn songs, so successful at its first performance that the audience demanded an encore. In addition to the inevitable harmonization in thirds and sixths, the piano interludes incorporate elements of folk-fiddle improvisation. An inspired descent to the subdominant, as the mowers ring sinks into the waters of the Rhine, is the most graphic of a number of startling key-shifts in this otherwise apparently simple song. In concert, the Wunderhorn songs are often performed by two singers, male and female, and the collection includes a number of dialogues, of which the most famous, Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (5), is perhaps the emotional highpoint of the whole set. It has a direct ancestor in Kriegers Ahnung, one of the most compelling songs of Schuberts Schwanengesang. Offstage military fanfares and drum beats set the scene, in which a girl is visited by her lover, or by his spirit, on the eve of battle. Whether he is already dead, or has a premonition of death next day, is not absolutely clear, but in either case the rapt tenderness of the encounter, and its foreboding, is unmistakeable, contrasting the tight-laced 2/4 of military duty with the lilting, dreamlike 3/4 of the lovers embrace. A similar conflict between duty and personal emotion is the subject of two further colloquies, which frame Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen on this recording, again musically realized in the contrast of military duple with seductive triple time. In Lied des Verfolgten im Turm (4), to the refrain of Die Gedanken sind frei, a political prisoner steadfastly maintains his courage against the pleas of his beloved. At first there is a complete contrast between his music and hers, suggesting she has no comprehension of the high ideals that have landed him in prison in the first place. But as she becomes more desperate and he more obdurate, elements of her complaints begin to infect his music. Nevertheless the song ends with his reiterating the refrainThoughts are free. More haunting in its atmosphere is Der Schildwache Nachtlied (6). Here it is a soldier on sentry-go who has to resist the blandishments of an alluring female. With increasing vehemence (and even military bravado) he proclaims his devotion to duty, but the allure of her voice continues to ring in his (and our) ears through the extraordinary harmonies and textures in which Mahler clothes the final bars of the song. Das irdische Leben (7) has a form typical of many folk-song traditions in which a sequence of actions leads to an inevitable, and usually unwelcome conclusion. In this case a mother is trying to comfort her starving child. Three times she attempts to quieten himtomorrow we will harvest/thresh/bakebut by the end it is too late to save him. Mahler sets the two voices against an eerie E flat minor moto perpetuo which suggests the grinding of the mills of fate. The childs repeated cries of Gib mir Brot span the widest possible intervals, first an octave then a tenth, like the gaping mouth of a fledgling in the nest, while the mothers attempts at reassurance, lower in pitch, betray both anxiety and impotence. In the long interlude before the final couplet the music almost comes to a halt, its uneasy stasis telling us the outcome even before it is spelled out to us. Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (8), which Mahler later developed into the scherzo of his Symphony No 2, is the musical equivalent of a scene from some medieval German altarpiece. In this tale St Anthony, fed up at the indifference of his congregation, goes down to the river to preach to the fishes, the joke (and the moral) being that however much they all enjoy the sermon they are no more reformed by it than their human equivalents. Mahlers setting has a wonderfully straight-faced sense of humour, its 3/8 ostinato teeming with fish that dart and dive through the depths of the keyboard in gleaming parallel thirds. When the fishes delight is expressed (Kein Predigt niemalen ) the underlying Ländler becomes an outright dance, strutting its stuff with an almost Bergian polytonality, while a smoother and nobler F major section at Gut Aale und Hausen perfectly conveys the distinctions of rank. At the end however all is disillusion; the final verse is underpinned by a C minor pedal point and the scene dissolves in a descending chromatic passage that is remarkably similar to the end of Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen from Schumanns Dichterliebe. Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? (9) is another moto perpetuo in 38 time, its yodelling semiquavers obviously deriving from its Alpine context (High in the mountain ). Evidently not meant to be taken seriously, the mock-pathos of the middle section (Mein Herzle ist wund) is underlined by Schubertian key-shifts to G major and C flat major, while the final page is enlivened by no fewer than seven consecutive top E flats on the line Und wer das Liedlein nicht singen kann. Two comic dialogues follow. Trost im Unglück (10) is a truculent exchange between a hussar and his paramour. Noisily proclaiming their self-sufficiency (she mocking his hobby-horse canter with a steadier, sidelong rhythm of her own), they gallop off in opposite directions, only to meet up next day, one suspects, for another round. Verlorne Müh (11) is a more unequal contest. Here the music is outright caricature, the girls wheedling Ländler-rhythms and lachrymose grace notes becoming ever more extreme, and the boys brushoff increasingly peremptory. But remove just a little of the acid, and the song could have come straight from the pen of Johann Strauss. There is, however, no mistaking the composer of Der Tamboursgsell (12). Like its companion-piece Revelge it is constructed on a far bigger scale than the other songs, as much inspired by, as generative of, the great Trauermarsch of the fifth symphony, which it closely resembles. As we have seen it was also composed some years later than the other Wunderhorn songs, at a time when Mahler was moving towards the other great literary influence on his composition, Friedrich Rückert. For the whole first part its texture is unremittingly spare and bleak, consisting of little more than a dirge-like groan and a riffle of drums. But the interlude that follows gives birth to a wholly unexpected and deeply moving melody, as the doomed drummer bids farewell to the world. Such a valedictory lament is of course not without precedent in Mahlers songsthe last song of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, for instance, is a funeral march, and the early song Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz also tells of a young soldier condemned to hang. But this passage has a greater significance in the development of Mahlers compositional style. As the Mahler scholar Donald Mitchell has perceptively noted, the long drawn out melody, with its canonic second voice, sustained over a simple tonicdominant bass, bears more than a passing resemblance to part of the first song of Kindertotenlieder, Nun will die Sonn so hell aufgehn. So this song, composed at the very cusp of Mahlers transition from Wunderhorn to Rückert mode, manages to combine elements of both. It was Mahlers own farewell to the world of Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Urlicht (13), which acts as a coda to this recording, is the most remarkably spiritual song of the set. Recycled a year after its composition as the fourth movement of the second symphony, it is deceptive in its simplicity. The extraordinary serenity of the chorale-like section, for instance, is the product of a constantly changing time signature that punctuates the phrases and allows pauses for reflection. Both earthly sorrow and heavenly bliss are sketched in with vivid economy, the singers broad path signalled by birdsong in the manner of Ich ging mit Lusta vision of heaven as a paradise of nature, while the impassioned tremolandi and yearning intervals of the climax expand a mere five minutes of music into an entire treatise on the human condition. Nothing could better illustrate the crucial importance of the Wunderhorn world to Mahlers visionmusical, emotional and spiritual. Roger Vignoles © 2008 |


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Posted: Mar 2, 2013 3:19 PM by MTN News
BREAKING- Three people were killed in an incident on Saturday afternoon in the rural community of Clark, Wyoming.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol tells MTN that those three victims were found in a home in the town of Clark, which is located about 30 miles north of Cody, Wyoming.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says the three victims were a woman, her mother and her father and the incident is being investigated as a homicide.
The woman was married, but her husband was not home at the time and is believed to be working out of town.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says that the Park County Sheriff's Office has two suspects in custody and that they will be held at a detention facility in Park County.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says they believe the incident which led to the murders began around noon.
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Ireland's John Lacey will referee his first ever RBS 6 Nations match in February, while Alain Rolland is also included in the Elite Panel in what is his last season.
Sunday's matches on April 7 will kick off with the meeting of pool stage top seeds, Harlequins, and two-time former Heineken Cup champions Munster at the Twickenham Stoop.
With all matches broadcast live, and with capacity crowds expected at every venue, the curtain will come down on the weekend when French heavyweights Toulon take on Leicester Tigers, who won the tournament in 2001 and 2002, in the first ever meeting between the clubs in Europe.
Five of the teams in the last-eight of the world's most competitive club rugby tournament - Clermont Auvergne, Harlequins, Leicester, Munster and Ulster - have European titles to their names, while Montpellier will be appearing in the knock-out stages for the first time.
Meanwhile, last season's Heineken Cup champions Leinster will meet London Wasps in their Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final clash at Adams Park on Friday, April 5.
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Saturday, April 6
Clermont Auvergne v Montpellier, Stade Marcel Michelin, 4.40pm (FR2/Sky Sports/Sky Italia)
Saracens v Ulster, venue to be confirmed, 6.30pm (Sky Sports/Canal+/Sky Italia)
• The game will mark Saracens' third appearance in a Heineken Cup quarter-final
• Ulster bucked a tournament trend last season with an away quarter-final victory over Munster at Thomond Park
• Owen Farrell set a tournament record of 10 penalties in a match during Saracens' key win over Racing Metro 92 at Stade de la Beaujoire in round 5
• Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall was Ulster captain in the club's European Cup winning season of 1999 but missed the final through injury
Sunday, April 7
Harlequins v Munster, Twickenham Stoop, 2pm (Sky Sports/Canal+/Sky Italia)
• Harlequins came through the pool stage as number 1 seeds for the first time in the club's history
• Munster have reached the knock-out stages of the tournament 14 times in the past 15 seasons
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A companion to the best-selling Pregnancy Journal , the Baby's First Year Journal has become an essential reference for new mothers. This completely revised edition provides the most up-to-date information on baby's health and development through daily entries that guide users from baby's birth to first birthday. Packed with helpful tips, inspiring quotes, and plenty of space for writing notes or recording thoughts, this classic journal is the perfect way to learn about and document baby's first twelve months.
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I dislike this book intensely. I was hoping that it was much more than it was. I was hoping that the daily information would give me insight on what to expect when it came to my baby's development. It did do that somewhat however the daily information repeats over and over. Some days have some of the exact same information from the day before while sometimes you will find the same information from a month ago. Other times it is telling you what to expect further down the road rather than that day/week/month. I found that developmentally the information was off, especially compared to better books and websites. I used the book to write notes about the day but the book doesn't provide the space to journal (which I thought was the whole point!) and there isn't a lot room to write, especially the pages that had three days crammed on them. I also can't stand the fact that it only refers to a girl as if everyone in the world only has baby girls. It would have been nice if the book was more gender neutral or at least referred to boys some of the time. I would NOT recommend this book.
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This is a really neat book to have. There are comments on baby's growth & development on each day's page. I write little notes on the pages about any new developments or just what we did that day. My baby is 10 days old and I'm so exhausted that I'm afraid I'll forget the beautiful moments we share.
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High Rise Condos to Replace NYC Graffiti Mecca 5Pointz
by Jamilah King on November 14 2013, 10:16AM
The battle between developers and graffiti writers is being dragged out in court.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW
High Rise Condos to Replace NYC Graffiti Mecca 5Pointz
by Jamilah King on November 14 2013, 10:16AM
The battle between developers and graffiti writers is being dragged out in court.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW
Why Superstorm Sandy is Still Wreaking Havoc on Poor Communities
by Imara Jones on October 29 2013, 7:00AM
One year later Sandy's disproportionate impact on historically marginalized communities continues in shocking ways.
Topics: Economy, Environment
Pete Rock and CL Smooth Reunite for Rock Steady's Anniversary
by Jamilah King on July 29 2013, 9:29AM
It's summertime in the city and good music is in rotation.
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New York City's Anti-Ice Cream Truck Exists For A Very Good Reason
by Jamilah King on July 24 2013, 10:07AM
A new outreach campaign explains why.
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NYC Gave Hundreds of High School Graduates Post-It Notes Instead of Diplomas
by Jamilah King on June 23 2013, 9:58AM
Graduation season is almost over, but hundreds of newly minted high school graduates in New York City have yet to recieve their diplomas thanks to a computer system glitch. Turns out that the company tasked with grading the students' Regents…
Topics: /NOW, Schools & Youth
New York's Public Housing Tenants Sue Over Slow Pace of Repairs
by Jamilah King on April 30 2013, 10:42AM
The Big Apple is a bad landlord, according to a new lawsuit.
Without Electricity, New Yorkers on Food Stamps Can't Pay for Food
by Jorge Rivas on November 1 2012, 4:33PM
New Yorkers with electronic benefit cards (EBT) go hungry because they can't swipe their cards at shops with no electricity.
Who's Going to Fix NYC Subways After Hurricane Sandy? Public Workers
by Jamilah King on October 30 2012, 12:48PM
It's time to thank your transit workers. Here's why.
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Chicano Poet Takes on Anti-Muslim 'Savage' Ads [Video]
by Jorge Rivas on September 26 2012, 4:01PM
Spoken word artist Mark Gonzales takes on the racist advertisements paid for by Pamela Geller and her organization the American Freedom Defense Initiative that referred to Muslims as savages.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW
New Yorkers Tag Racist 'Savage' Jihad Subway Ads
by Jorge Rivas on September 25 2012, 2:28PM
A collection of anti-Muslim ads have been making their way across the country. And in each city, they're being met with a good dose of truth-telling.
New York City Becoming Less Dominican, More Mexican, Census Finds
by Jorge Rivas on May 14 2012, 1:01PM
More Dominicans left New York City than arrived since 2000 while the growth of Mexican immigrants nearly bumped them ahead of South Americans into third place among Latinos in NYC, according to Census data analysed by the population division of…
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A Bronx Tale: How Racism Created Poverty, and Still Perpetuates It
by Kai Wright on December 16 2011, 10:20AM
The poverty in which millions of people of color live is not accidental. It's the result of decades of political choices that first created ghettos and then left them prey to a growing industry that profits from their existence. The Bronx offers a uniquely clear example.
Topics: Dispatches, Economy
Jimmy 'Rent-Too-Damn-High' McMillan Is Getting Evicted
by Jorge Rivas on August 5 2011, 11:16AM
The man who shook up the New York gubernatorial campaign with his catch slogan is getting the boot because his "rent is too damn low." Still, he was right about everybody else's rent.
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Remnants of an African-American Past Found Beneath Central Park
by Jamilah King on July 29 2011, 11:12AM
Researchers are working to reconstruct the lives of black residents who were pushed out by developers in the mid-19th century.
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New York Street Art Mecca Set For Demolition
by Thoai Lu on March 14 2011, 11:20AM
The legendary Five Pointz is about to become residential towers and shops.
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The bones of some 20,000 African slaves are buried 25 feet below Lower Manhattan.
Advocates: Stabbing Victim's Blood on Hands of Demagogue Pols
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Enright's drinking problem doesn't overshadow sweeping national anti-Muslim sentiments.
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Bloomberg: Anti-Muslim Slashing "Counter to Everything NYers Believe"
by Kai Wright on August 25 2010, 1:20PM
Attacker allegedly asked taxi driver if he was Muslim before slashing his face.
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Sensitive Bigotry and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Meme
by Michelle Chen on August 18 2010, 9:30AM
CNN's Don Lemon inadvertently reveals the prejudice lurking behind objections to a Muslim cultural center near the World Trade Center site.
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Muslim Community Center Rumbles Ground Zero in NYC
by Michelle Chen on May 25 2010, 8:50AM
Nearly nine years after the Twin Towers collapsed, Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan is still smoldering. The public response to a proposal to build an Islamic center near the site has reignited the embers of anti-Muslim animosity. The right-wing blogosphere…
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The movement to label genetically modified foods suffered a major blow last month with the defeat of ballot measure 522 in Washington state, which would have required manufacturers to label foods containing GM ingredients. So what does 522's defeat mean for the GM-labeling efforts in Oregon?
How do you help people learn "who you are?" The key is consistently communicating in a way that reflects your values and philosophies.
How can you measure marketing effectiveness? If it gets better, how can you measure the improvement? By business modeling. The modeling process itself will uncover any holes in your marketing process.
Your ability to prosper as a company is not about what you sell, it's about what you believe. And it should drive everything you do.
Addressing the problems of the poor is a common theme that serves as a backdrop to issues of family, education, jobs, homelessness, health care and public taxation. Oregon's most promising approach is its "Prosperity Initiative," championed by First Lady Cylvia Hayes.
Have you noticed how different your future self is, from yourself today? My future self, apparently, has lots of free time. He has money. He's very decisive. He goes to the gym with the regularity of a metronome. His self-control is a thing of legend. Or would be, if he existed. Future-me's only weakness is on-time performance — he still hasn't shown up. All his work keeps showing up on my desk each morning. Current-me needs a new strategy.
Right-to-work policies liberalize labor market conditions by loosening some of the most restrictive features of labor legislation enacted during the Great Depression. In Oregon, the Public Employee Choice Act would provide right-to-work protections to public employees.
In 1980, Marv Ross wrote and recorded a catchy little original called Harden My Heart that helped Quarterflash land a deal with Geffen Records. Ross still writes music but now he, like everyone from Lady Gaga to the unknown vocalist with a ukulele and a webcam, gives it away to sell it. It's a crazy business model that works.
An Oregon committee is coming up with a set of guidelines for medical marijuana regulation.
A destructive fungal disease is sweeping through coffee farms in Central America.
More than 30,000 Oregonians who met the Cover Oregon deadline for submitting applications still don't have their enrollment packets.
Oregon proponents of labeling for genetically modified crops have been cleared to gather signatures to put an initiative on next year's ballot.
Southern Oregon vintners are expecting some crop damage from the recent cold snap.
Portland SEO firm Anvil Media will merge in January with Formic Media, a similar Portland company.
Right 2 Dream Too landowner Michael Wright is considering the Portland Development Commission's offer of $1.2 million for the homeless community's high-profile property.
Portland Trail Blazers president Chris McGowan brought numerous business operations changes in his first 13 months on the job.
Black Butte Ranch homeowners approved a nearly $11.5 million redevelopment project.
Springfield Renaissance Development Group purchased its second downtown property to continue redeveloping the area.
The importance of STEM degrees was a central theme of the 11th annual Oregon Leadership Summit.
Gov. Kitzhaber spoke at the Oregon Leadership Summit, saying that despite Oregon's economic recovery, a generation of Oregonians face the prospect of lower living standards than their parents.
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Experience Siesta Key's premier community situated comfortably in the heart of beautiful Siesta Key. Walk along the pristine, powdery shoreline and see why Siesta Key is known for being one of the top 10 beaches in the world. Located just a short distance from the island's quaint village district, Beachaven provides a peaceful setting with a beachside pool, picturesque roman style courtyard and community activities. Beachaven features a beautiful beachside pool and patio area. Accompanied by a spacious clubhouse that opens to beautiful white Crescent Beach. Our large and professionally maintained pool is "heated" for year round fun and watching sunsets! Our spacious One and Two-Story Rental Villas feature private covered parking and front patios that all have views to the beach. Beachaven resides on a large piece of property directly on beautiful Crescent Beach on Siesta Key. There are only a total of fifty eight units that share the white sandy beaches and beautiful Gulf waters.
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Long forgotten, the late Ellen Louise Payson of Portland is reclaiming a place in the pantheon of great landscape architects.
The dry remains of Ellen Louise Payson's once fertile career as a landscape architect reside for posterity in file drawers on the balcony of the Fogler Library Special Collections room on the campus of the University of Maine in Orono. The 525 drawings, plans, diagrams, blueprints, and photographs detail some seventy Payson projects, largely executed during the 1920s and 1930s in the most affluent communities of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut — as well as a handful in Maine, Massachusetts, and Missouri. Discovered in a box beneath a bed in her Portland home after she died in 1977, the large, yellowed, transparent sheets of vellum are elaborate schema that suggest an artist painting with flowers, applying a palette of phlox, delphinium, astilbe, hollyhocks, irises, crocuses, jonquils, and roses to neatly circumscribed borders of walks, drives, and walls.
Spreading the plans out on library tables and reading the careful, skillful way Payson laid out her borders — how she penned in each little bed of flowers with their Latin names — you get a sense of a woman who saw the grounds of mansions as canvases on which to create. While it is hard to imagine the natural beauty of these long ago gardens from the colorless drawings and planting plans, it is harder still to assess the importance of a landscape designer whose work has mostly vanished, or, where it still exists, graces the private domains of the privileged few. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
The name Louise Payson is nowhere near as well-known today as it was prior to World War II, but over the past decade scholars have begun to debate her place in the annals of American landscape architecture. Opportunities for women to distinguish themselves professionally were relatively limited in the first half of the twentieth century, but, in addition to teaching and nursing, one of the fields open to women was landscape architecture. Many of the best-known women in landscape design were the daughters of prominent families whose exposure to upper class tastes, ability to travel, and entrée to society suited them especially well to designing the lavish grounds and gardens of aristocratic estates.
Beatrix Jones Farrand, a Bar Harbor summer resident celebrated for her Rockefeller gardens on Mount Desert Island and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., was by far the most famous of these designing women. Still, Louise Payson, born into one of Portland's wealthiest families, was also regarded in her time as one of America's preeminent landscape and garden designers. In 1933, when she was just thirty-nine, House & Garden named her to its Hall of Fame along with five other women whose esteem has wilted with time — Agnes Selkirk Clark, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Rose Greely, Romney Spring, and Ellen Biddle Shipman.
House & Garden cited Payson "for the soundness with which she applies to her gardens the principles of landscaping and architecture learned at Lowthorpe and Columbia and for the sympathetic feeling for varying material which her work always shows."
Like Farrand, Louise Payson was known for her complex and detailed use of plant materials and for her hardscapes of walls and terraces. And while male landscape designers often distinguished themselves more on the drawing board than in the garden, Payson, like many in the sorority of designers who flourished during the so-called golden age of female landscape architecture between 1890 and 1940, was also a gardener who enjoyed getting her hands dirty. Being a Maine woman with roots in a state beloved by well-heeled rusticators may have given her the earthiness that defined her reputation.
Ellen Louise Payson was born in Portland in 1894. Her father, Edgar Robinson Payson, owned the Portland Water Company. When his business was acquired by the Portland Water District, he joined his brothers Charles and Herbert in the family investment banking firm.
As a girl, Louise Payson attended the Waynflete School in Portland and the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts. Because her mother died when she was only four, Louise was largely raised by her Aunt Jeannette Payson and her aunt's companion, Annie Oakes Huntington, a botanist with an expertise in trees.
Perhaps influenced by Huntington's botanical interests, Payson enrolled at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, Gardening and Horticulture for Women — a professional school created on an old estate in Groton, Massachusetts because Harvard's landscape program did not yet admit women. Upon graduation from Lowthorpe in 1916, Payson went to work for her Lowthorpe mentor, landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman, a Philadelphia woman with offices in Cornish, New Hampshire, and New York City. Shipman hired only Lowthorpe grads, making her studio on Beekman Place in Manhattan an all-female firm.
In 1927, Payson, who had risen to become second-in-command, left Shipman's employ to open an all-women landscape practice of her own on East 48th Street. Among her major commissions were the grounds of the Manhasset, New York, estate of her cousin Charles Shipman Payson and his wife Joan Whitney Payson, owner of the New York Mets; the John P. Kane mansion in Locust Valley, New York; the Maynard S. Bird estate in Fairfield, Connecticut; and, closer to home, the Ogunquit summer cottage of Miss Judith Oliver.
Elizabeth Igleheart, a landscape historian with the National Park Service who wrote the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine entry on Payson, believes Payson's gardens qualify her as "a major player in a very small pantheon of women designers in that era."
"Payson's design work," says Igleheart, "was very much influenced by Ellen Biddle Shipman — small scale, enclosed gardens of herbaceous materials primarily. She was a very competent garden designer who worked very much in the style of Ellen Shipman, even to the point of how she organized her drawings."
As her archives in Orono show, Payson, like Shipman, distinguished herself by including three-dimensional renderings of garden elements on her plans to show clients what they would look like. And, ever the green thumb, Payson also adopted Shipman's habit of including horticultural notes on her plans, explaining how to maintain the gardens so they would have the proper look.
"Cut back aguilegas [probably meaning aquilegias, or columbine] after flowering to allow Japanese anemones to develop. Cut back oriental poppies as soon as leaves begin to turn yellow and stake Gypsophila paniculata [baby's-breath] to lean forward and cover space occupied by poppies."
Between 1927 and 1941, Payson's firm thrived on creating elegant little gardens for the gentry of the Northeast, but, after World War II, it was almost as though Louise Payson had fallen off the Earth.
"Why did Louise Payson slip into obscurity?" asks Elizabeth Igleheart rhetorically. "Because she stopped practicing after the war and came back to Maine."
In truth, Payson's retirement to Maine was longer than her career in New York. She closed her New York office in 1941 at the outbreak of World War II and moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she did her part for the war effort by working in the Eastern Aircraft plant. In 1944, she volunteered as a relief worker in Lisbon, Portugal, reportedly using some of her inheritance to help pay for refugees to flee to America.
At war's end, Payson came home to Maine, moving into the family home at 83 Carroll Street in Portland where she lived with her brother Robert Payson, a retired investment banker. In 1953, she purchased a hundred-acre farm on Inkhorn Brook in South Windham in order to have a place to garden.
Though her commercial career effectively ended after the war, Payson continued her design and garden work in Maine, often providing plans and plantings for friends and family members. The landscaping she created for her cousin Margaret Payson's Heron House and the Robinson family property at Waites Landing on Falmouth Foreside exists to this day. Rather than charging for her services, Payson asked her Maine clients to make contributions to some of the local organizations she supported, among them the Colonial Dames, Victoria Mansion, Longfellow Garden Club, Maine Audubon Society, and the Sweetser School.
Late in life, Louise Payson spent much of her time tending the extensive vegetable and flower gardens she planted on her Windham farm, chief among them a sunken garden planted in an old stone cellar hole. A tan, feisty woman with unruly gray hair, Miss Payson favored jeans and khakis, checkered shirts, Bean boots, and garden hats for her farm chores — and just about everything else she did. And it was this down-to-earth Mainer, not the accomplished New York landscape architect of the 1930s, who is remembered now by those who knew her.
To her nieces and nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, she was just Aunt Louise. They knew she was a master gardener, quick with a sharp rebuke for missteps in the garden ("If you want to prune it that way, you'll kill it."), but her illustrious past was lost even on her family.
"My family is scientific and medically inclined," explains Dr. Hugh Robinson, Payson's nephew. "Louise was inclined towards the arts. We didn't appreciate her talents."
In June 1977, while on a Mediterranean cruise with a relative, Louise Payson suffered a heart attack at sea and died at the age of eighty-two. Her death was everywhere described as "unexpected" as she remained vigorous and active until the end. It was not until Dr. Robinson and his wife, Patricia, donated Payson's papers to the University of Maine twenty-two years later that the landscape architecture profession began to rediscover her.
In October 2007, at the twelfth National Conference on Planning History, Daniel Krall, an associate professor in the department of landscape architecture at Cornell University, delivered a paper on Payson entitled "The Making of a Landscape Architect."
"Almost forgotten today," declared Krall, "Louise Payson should be remembered as one of the outstanding group of women landscape architects who created designs of superb quality and unmatched beauty in the early decades of the twentieth century."
"The unique thing regarding Louise Payson as a female landscape architect," says Daniel Krall, "was that she was influenced entirely by women, in her upbringing, her early influences, her academic work, and then in her professional work. I know of no other individual in the group of female designers who shared so many female influences."
The great irony is that the golden age of women landscape architects passed after World War II because of coeducation. When Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) began admitting women, the Lowthorpe School closed and the all-women Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture merged with Rhode Island School of Design.
"After the war, women were admitted to the Harvard GSD," explains historian Elizabeth Igleheart. "They didn't have the single-sex education opportunities anymore, and they didn't have the mentoring of women like Ellen Shipman."
As to why the fame of Beatrix Farrand lived on while the name of Louise Payson was forgotten, Igleheart suggests, "It is a matter of scale that separates Farrand from Payson."
Farrand not only created more than twice as many gardens (two hundred) as Payson (seventy) over a much longer career, she was also, unlike Payson, an influential teacher. And she designed many large public projects, among them the planting scheme for the carriage roads in Acadia National Park and the landscaping of the Princeton and Yale campuses. Louise Payson worked at a much more intimate scale, mostly for private clients.
Living in Maine may also have limited Payson's reputation, contributing in its remoteness to her low profile after World War II. "A lot of people were doing work on high-end estates, but they were from Boston and New York," says Yarmouth landscape architect David Melchert, who was instrumental in the Payson papers coming to Orono. "She was in Maine. She was a true Mainer, both culturally and within the field of landscape design."
So it is fitting that Louise Payson's name lives on in Maine, not only in the University of Maine's Special Collections department, but also in the Ellen Louise Payson Landscape Horticulture Scholarship given each year at the Bangor Garden Show in April.
And there is one other measure of Payson's local renown — her signature golden chain trees. Payson liked to place a golden chain (laburnum) in the corner of a yard where its brilliant yellow flowers might burst forth over a fence or wall. Elizabeth Igleheart says she sees golden chain all over Falmouth Foreside in the spring and thinks of Louise Payson whenever she does. That's enough immortality for any landscape architect or gardener.
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