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Winter Park, Florida s Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Garden is one of the most elegant and respected venues for the art in the American southeast. It is home to impressive collections of all kinds and beautiful, peaceful grounds. The museum is on the National Register of Historic Places. Albin Polasek 1879-1965 is widely considered one of the most important American sculptors most of the 20th century. Celebrated in his own lifetime, Polasek strove to show the beauty of movement, the flow of one mass into another. Polasek s ability to capture the spirit of his subject was a major influence on a generation of sculptors like Richmond Barthe and Ruth Sherwood. Upon his death in 1965, Polasek was buried alongside first wife Ruth Sherwood in Winter Park s Palms Cemetery, where the 12th Station of the Cross 1939 is his monument. Albin Polasek was granted posthumously the honor of Great Floridian and inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2004. Born in 1879 in what is now the Czech Republic, Polasek apprenticed as a wood carver in Vienna before emigrating to the United States at the...

Fads come and go, sometimes on a whim, other times because of outside forces. Here at the halfway point of the new millennium s first decade, car culture has sure taken some interesting turns. Those of you who innocently took a test drive of a plain-Jane Nissan Altima when it was new in 2002, floored it, and nearly sprained your necks upon discovery of 240 horsepower, may have suspected that the standards of speed had risen a tad since the 90s. Turns out that was only the beginning. Nowadays, the Volkswagen Passat raised that same family car bar to an excessive 280 horsepower. We have little 30,000 Mitsubishis that can leave Camaros for dead. The 500-horsepower Dodge Viper suddenly seems ordinary, and the once-acclaimed Acura NSX is a joke. Whether or not you re a speed freak, there are two trickle-down benefits: the minimum standard of horsepower has risen from 55 Geo Metro to 103, and very few cars in any segment are truly underpowered anymore. Not a bad development. Cars just won t stop growing. Every redesign has to be bigger than the last one; the new Toyota RAV4 is 14 inches longer...

You ve finally decided you and your family on going to take that long awaited dream vacation in Hawaii. You ve decided that you want to go the vacation rental route for numerous reasons: privacy, comfort, location and cost effectiveness. Next, you probably Googled Oahu Vacation Rentals and are faced with the daunting task of choosing among some 175,000 web sites. Where to begin. Here s two secrets that will help you make the right choice so you can enjoy your stay in Hawaii to its fullest. Secret One: Use a reservation service. There are several reasons for this. First, a single property vacation rental listing by owner will severely limit you to the dates that you can take your vacation. Vacation rental properties in Hawaii run nearly 90 occupancy, so unless you know your travel dates six months to a year out the odds are high that their property won t be available for the travel dates you had in mind. Second, the owner is only concerned with booking their own property so they will extol the virtues of their vacation rental and not mention any of the faults. Secret Two: Make the right...