This building looks like an historic villa, but it was actually built in 2000 in Ketchum, Idaho. On the ground floor is a wonderful store and the residence above is a 3bd, 3ba penthouse. There's also a 1bd, 1ba apt. $9.995M.
The store is a lovely high end furnishings store.
The retail space takes up 2 floors and it looks like they specialize in area rugs.
In the residence there's a cozy living room with a raised rustic stone fireplace.
Not sure if they own the store or just shop there, but the style is the same. The dining room is spacious and has doors to the terrace.
I'm amazed at how they designed the kitchen to basically camouflage the fact that it's a kitchen. There's even a loveseat beside the island.
The primary bedroom has a lovely faux finish on the walls.
The en-suite bath is large and has a nice reproduction vintage tub.
Roomy family room doubles as a guest room.
They're showing this small kitchen, so I'm not sure if it's the apt. kitchen or a kitchenette in the main residence.
From the terrace there's a beautiful view of the mountains.
This is nice- an outdoor kitchen and built-in stone table.
There's also a large fountain.
Closeup of the building's architectural detail.
From this photo, it looks like the building is attached to another store, like a mini mall.
The arrow is pointing to a courtyard in the middle of the residence.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/131-1st-Ave-N-Ketchum-ID-83340/112909423_zpid/
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The resolution to the drama over the revocation of Oppenheimer's security clearance felt less like us hearing the final verdict--an inevitability we've known about for much of the movie--and more like the scenes where both Strauss and Oppenheimer are confronted by the reality that they had overestimated their own importance as individuals and actors in the world. And I don't think it's a coincidence that those scenes are also points where we briefly see beyond the Oppenheimer-centric or Strauss-centric points of view we've been watching things through.
Oppenheimer's moment is Truman's response to him telling Truman that he feels he has blood on his hands. All this time we've been following Oppenheimer as somebody tremendously important to the efforts at Los Alamos--the director of the lab itself--but it's during this scene that Truman most starkly communicates to Oppenheimer (and the audience) that there's an entire world of political/military decision-making in Washington and at the Department of War that Oppenheimer has nothing to do with and is even subordinate to, whether he's consciously realized that or not. Oppenheimer may have built the bomb, but he only did so at the behest of the government that made it possible. Then Truman decided to drop it, and the military made that happen. Oppenheimer is not the only protagonist here.
Strauss' moment is when surprise testimony ends with him failing to be confirmed to the seat of Secretary of Commerce--a first in the history of the United States government--and when he's confronted (for maybe the first time in his life) with the idea that Oppenheimer and Einstein's conversation years ago may not have been about him at all, but about "something more important." Despite years of maneuvering in Washington and successfully doing so to get Oppenheimer's security clearance revoked to snuff out the man's potential for influence on national security strategy, the culmination of years of Strauss' ambition is snatched away from him by a scientist (i.e. not a political rival) who chose to just show up and speak honestly about Strauss' character. For all the control and success that Strauss had in the political arena, Hill's damning testimony seems to come out of nowhere because Hill himself and his own thought process is so far outside of the realm that Strauss normally concerns himself with.
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Last Minute Christmas Gift Tiny Home: The Gemstone Tall MUPPS from FSG Living Buildings.
This FSG Living Buildings Gemstone Tall MUPPS is twelve Feet wide by thirty two feet long with is three hundred and fifty four feet square feet. This MUPPS or Multi-Use Portable Panel Structure is built on a steel skid. This Gemstone is ten feet tall and includes a kitchenette with a sink, a stove top, a dish washer and a number of cabinets for storage. The bathroom includes a shower, a sink and a toilet. The bedroom also has a full closet. This unit is portable and easy to transport. This MUPPS is sturdy and is low maintenance. The structure is highly energy efficient making it easy for both heating and cooling.
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Last Minute Christmas Gift Tiny Home: The Gemstone Tall MUPPS from FSG Living Buildings.
12 wide x 32 long
10 feet tall
354 Square feet
$75,000.00
Our warehouse is located at
FSG Living Buildings / Fish Stewarding Group
6586 E Interstate 20, Abilene, TX 79601-7640 USA
Last Minute Christmas Gift Tiny Home: The Gemstone Tall MUPPS from FSG Living Buildings.
This FSG Living Buildings Gemstone Tall MUPPS is twelve Feet wide by thirty two feet long with is three hundred and fifty four feet square feet. This MUPPS or Multi-Use Portable Panel Structure is built on a steel skid. This Gemstone is ten feet tall and includes a kitchenette with a sink, a stove top, a dish washer and a number of cabinets for storage. The bathroom includes a shower, a sink and a toilet. The bedroom also has a full closet. This unit is portable and easy to transport. This MUPPS is sturdy and is low maintenance. The structure is highly energy efficient making it easy for both heating and cooling.
The gemstone tall is discounted to $75,000.00 as an end of year sale or you could call it a last minute Christmas gift.
This Tiny Home is portable and easy to transport, sturdy and low maintenance, highly energy efficient and easy for both cooling and heating. The gray color gives it a sharp modern look and it is ready now for pickup. This Gemstone is ready for sewer, water and electric hook as well.
This Tiny House has been built through a vetted assembly process that leverages HWS Panels to provide a unified, monolithic benefit in structural integrity and energy efficiency. The HWS Panels from Horton World Solutions are also referred to as TMC SIPS which stands for Thermoplastic Monolithic Composite Structurally Insulated Panels. These panels have been developed over twelve years of R&D by the USA’s largest homebuilder with aid from DuPont, Dow and MIT.
FSG Living Buildings creates, develops and designs through a strategically sound and structured building process for the discerning buyer looking for quality, strength, performance and accountability in a completed structure. FSG Living Buildings also provides a vetted process of advancement, organization and performance in the creation of each of these living structures.
The Gemstone Tall MUPPS or last minute Christmas Gift Tiny Home can be used as a short term rental unit, a mother in law suite, a man cave or be used for many other uses.
Maybe, it is about creating new revenue opportunities for the new year. This works as a short term rental unit.
Perhaps, you want to move your mom in, but would like a separate space for her. This could work for that.
Wondering about a space just for the guy or guys? This can serve as that man cave.
At the same time, this Last Minute Christmas Gift Tiny Home could serve many other purposes.
However, this is a gift you will have to come and pick up in Abilene, Texas, This is not something that will fit in Santas Sleigh or for that mater, fit down the chimney.
Last Minute Christmas Gift Tiny Home: The Gemstone Tall MUPPS from FSG Living Buildings.
12 wide x 32 long
10 feet tall
354 Square feet
$75,000.00
Our warehouse is located at
FSG Living Buildings / Fish Stewarding Group
6586 E Interstate 20, Abilene, TX 79601-7640 USA
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Alright, so: I want to explain a little more about this connection between the Twilight fandom, Fifty Shades of Grey, and seemingly, the self-publishing industry as a whole. It's a lot, so I'm going to have to chip away at it a bit at a time, and I think the best place to start is by describing the scene in late 2000s Twilight fandom.
In 2009, Twilight was one of the biggest fandoms in the world, although it was nearly invisible to outsiders because it
Was about a straight couple, while most other fandoms were predominantly gay, and
Was conducted almost entirely on fanfiction.net among a group of people who had little other background in fandom. (x)
That meant for many Twilight fans, Twilight was fandom. It was all they knew, and many had no path out. That also made it a corked champagne bottle with the pressure building.
Because of these community dynamics and the declining quality of the Twilight books themselves, Twilight fanfiction evolved to be mostly AUs so alternate they were more-or-less original romance novels that used Bella and Edward as broad character templates. (x)
Seriously, Twilight fandom got really crazy big for a few years there. It was not totally uncommon to get multi-million clicks on a semi-popular story. It's weird looking back on it and calling it "Twilight fandom" because it was really more like "Romance Novel fandom". For real, for a period there, calling a Twilight fanfic author a 'Twilight fan' would be the ultimate insult. But they never stopped writing about Edward and Bella! It's so weird. (x)
If you were in 2000s era fandom, you're probably aware of the phenomenon of Big Name Fans and the various social-climbing dynamics that happened around them. The Twilight fandom took this social power game another level:
This wasn't even just an author thing. There were Big Name Authors (BNAs) but there were also Big Name Readers. These were basically like... full-time rabid fans of a BNA. They devoted so much of their time to helping out the BNAs, reviewing their chapters, making them fanart, promoting their fics, kissing their asses with cringe-worthy intensity, you name it. Which is why you saw what looked like BNAs having 'employees', such as Moi, tby789's Director of Marketing. (x)
It became apparent that these power games weren't just for fandom clout. The fandom was proving that that social power could be translated into real-world dollars. You see, the Twilight fandom used to organize charity auctions where big name authors would auction off custom fanfiction, and the money generated was substantial:
Mostly authors would auction off stories. So if you donated in my name, I'd write you 10,000 words of porn in my Tattward universe, or something new, etc. That's how it worked.
The 2009 auction raised $80,000.
The 2010 auction raised $140,000.
The 2011 auction raised $20,00. [NOTE: this is likely a typo] (x)
A lot of these dynamics were not unique to the Twilight fandom, but it was the combination that created a perfect storm of opportunism. This would end up changing not just fandom dynamics but the publishing industry as a whole.
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