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Pierre Lapeyre's House
Turneasterne (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Turneasterne.
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This is the Redding, CT estate of Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr. and Laurie H. Lapeyre. Mr. Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr. is a Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings LLC and Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund IV, L.P. He joined the firm on March 1, 2000, is based in New York and is responsible for sourcing and negotiating investments, as well as post-closing financial structuring and monitoring. Mr. Lapeyre was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group and focused on investments in the energy and power sectors. He became a General Partner of Magellan Midstream Partners LP in June 17, 2003.
The home sits on a piece of land that measures 23.41acres. The main house has 6,798 square feet of living space, plus 2,250 square feet from the finished basement, and 784 square feet from the guest cottage for a total of 9,832 square feet of total livable space. The home has 6 fireplaces, 5 bedrooms, 5 full bathrooms, and 3 half bathrooms. There has also been an addition of a tennis court and pool house, as seen in the aerial photos, since the BEV imagery was taken. The mansion was purchased in 2006 for $6,900,000. The home is currently appraised at $5,672,900, according to property records. This is one of the most expensive homes in the town of Redding, Connecticut.
Previously, Mr. Lapeyre was a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs in its Global Energy & Power Group. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1986 and spent his 14-year investment banking career focused on energy and power, particularly the midstream, pipeline and oil service sectors. Mr. Lapeyre’s responsibilities included client coverage and leading the execution of a wide variety of mergers and acquisition, IPO, strategic advisory, and capital markets financings for clients across all sectors of the industry. While at Goldman Sachs, he served as sector captain for the midstream and pipeline and oil services segments, led the group’s coverage of Asian energy companies and was extensively involved in the origination and execution of energy private equity investments on behalf of the firm. Mr. Lapeyre was responsible for managing Goldman Sachs’ leading franchise in Master Limited Partnerships. He was also asked to lead the group’s agency and principal investment effort in energy and power technology. At Goldman Sachs, Mr. Lapeyre had relationship and deal execution responsibilities for a broad range of energy clients including Amerada Hess, Anadarko Petroleum, Cross Timbers, Gulf Canada, Kinder Morgan, Koch Industries, Kuwait Petroleum, PDVSA, Phillips, Santa Fe International, Schlumberger, Transocean SedcoForex, Unocal and Western Gas Resources, among others. He has been a Director of Williams Energy Partners LP, and Capital C Energy LLC. Mr. Lapeyre serves on the Boards of Directors at Legend Natural Gas, LP, Stallion, Topaz Power Group, LLC, Cobalt, Niska, Titan, Moreno, Dresser, Kinder Morgan, Targe, Titan Operating, Three Rivers, Dynamic Offshore, Dynamic Industries, Collingwood, Green Earth Fuels, Quorum Business Solutions, SemGroup, InTank Corp., CDM Resource Management, Ltd., Gibson Energy, Enduro, Northern Blizzard, and Frontier Drilling. His prior Board relationships include Belden & Blake Corp. since July 2004, Seabulk International Inc., since September 2002, and Mariner Energy, Inc. Mr. Lapeyre also served as a Member of the Compensation Committee and Finance Committee at Magellan GP, LLC. He served as a Director of CDM Max.
Mr. Lapeyre received his B.S. in finance and economics from the University of Kentucky and his M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Aaron Charney's House
Turneasterne (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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This is the Redding, CT home of Aaron Charney and Benjamin Hanani. Aaron Charney is a lawyer who specializes in M&A.
Aaron Charney made national headlines when he sued his employer, the white-shoe law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he alleged anti-gay discrimination and retaliation, among the complaints. He sued in January of 2007 and two days after he filed his lawsuit, he had his BlackBerry disconnected, and was placed on paid leave, and two weeks before he would be served with a countersuit and fired. "Charney sued S&C by himself,while still employed by, and collecting a paycheck from, the firm. His allegations were shocking and salacious. Charney claimed that an executive partner of the firm handed him a document and said, 'I just took a shit while reading this, and some might still be on there for you.'" He subsequently settled nine months later for an undisclosed, but a rumored $15 million. After he was fired from Sullivan & Cromwell, he was hired by the law firm of Clifford Chance in New York.
The case was Charney v. Sullivan & Cromwell, No. 100625/07.
After his multi-million dollar settlement, Mr. Charney and Benjamin Hanani purchased a condo in the UPPER West Side of Manhattan for $1.495 million, in the same building where the former secretary of state Colin Powell owns an apartment. The listing broker on the deal was Halstead’s Louise Phillips Forbes. Aaron Charney and his partner Benjamin (Ben) Hanani then sold their 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, single residential condo unit in the Upper West Side, located at 220 West 93rd St, PHB in Manhattan, NY 10025 on June 15, 2010 to Barbara Adler of 2109 Broadway New York, NY 10023 for $1,699,000, according to property records. Lisa Verdi, of Sotheby’s International Realty, was the listing agent.
Mr. Charney purchased this estate in Redding, Connecticut on 9/28/2009 for $2,000,000. The property has a tennis court, a pool and hot tub, and a golf course with 4 holes. The golf course is present in the Bing BEV images, which was taken before Mr. Charney and Mr. Hanani's ownership began, but in aerial photos of the property it appears that the bunkers, or hazards, have been filled in and grass has been planted instead. The custom contemporary home has 4,068 square feet, plus an addition 1,445 square feet from the finished basement for a total of 5,213 square feet living space. There are 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, and 2 half bathrooms. The property has a current appraised value of $3,437,500, according to property records.

Robert Prusak's House
Turneasterne (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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This is the Redding, CT estate of Robert Prusak. Robert Prusak is the Director, Chairman of the Strategy Committee, and a Member of the Audit Committee of Ormet Corporation. He has been a Director at Ormet Corporation since July 6, 2007.
The mansion was purchased in 2005 for $8,100,000. The home sits on 19.35 acres of pristine land near the Redding Ridge section of Redding, Connecticut. There are 5 bedrooms, 7 full bathrooms, and 4 half bathrooms. In the house there are two Whirlpool tubs and also a sauna. The home’s basement is finished, measuring in at 2,682 square feet. There is a total of 17,548 square feet of living space in the stone/masonry manor, including the completed basement. The mega mansion is so big that it even has a sprinkler system installed. The current appraised value of the property is $7,793,200, according to property records. It is one of the largest and most expensive homes in the town of Redding.
Ormet Corporation engages in the production and sale of primary aluminum in the United States. It offers aluminum ingots/sows to international traders and the U.S. based aluminum rolling mills for flat rolled products that are used for beverage cans, transportation, construction, appliance, and general industrial applications. The company is headquartered in Hannibal, Ohio.

Costa Concordia hits cliff and capsizes
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
On Friday the 13th January 2012, the Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef at around 9 pm local time (UTC+1) off Isola del Giglio, having left Civitavecchia earlier that evening at the start of a seven-day cruise to Savona, Marseilles, Barcelona, Palma, Tunis, and Palermo.
At about 8 pm, passengers were in the dining hall when there was a sudden, loud bang, which a crew member (speaking over the intercom) ascribed to an "electrical failure". Passengers were later advised to put on their life-jackets. The ship tilted some 20 degrees. Amid panic, many passengers took to lifeboats, while some jumped into the water to swim to shore. Three passengers reportedly drowned after jumping overboard, and another seven were critically injured. According to the local coastguard, 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members were on board at the time.
Julian Bray, travel broadcaster and writer, reported: "Twelve hours later, a dozen passengers remain unaccounted for and many lifeboats (capacity 150 each) were not deployed due to the initial list and the subsequent rolling over of the vessel onto her side. Others were safely evacuated and taken to shelter on the island. The crew remained aboard and the shipping line initially insisted there was no danger of sinking.
The first daylight pictures showed the ship lying on its right side and half submerged, not far outside Giglio Harbour. Other reports indicated the ship had developed a major electrical fault. According to the local coast guard, the ship has a 30-metre (100 ft) gash on its port side. The Daily Mail showed images of a large gash with what appears to be a large rock lodged inside.

Jake DeSantis' Estate
This is the home of Jake DeSantis and Erica DeSantis. Jake DeSantis' house, located in Redding, CT, was once owned by author Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens. Jake DeSantis made national business headlines when he resigned as Executive Vice President of AIG's Financial Products unit in Wilton, CT in an open letter to Edward M. Liddy, Chairman and Chief Executive of AIG (American International Group). The letter appeared on March 24, 2009 in The New York Times. DeSantis wrote that he is donating his retention payment from AIG of $746,006 after taxes to those "suffering from the global downturn."
DeSantis lives in a gated estate, measuring a total 28.53 acres of property, on Mark Twain Lane in Redding. The acreage is so great that this parcel falls under public act 490. Any parcels under public act 490 will have a much lower assessed value than 70%. The house was part of the estate of Samuel Clemens at the turn of the 20th century when Clemens moved to Redding, Connecticut, home of the Mark Twain Library. DeSantis has owned the property for about 9 years. The home was purchased on 9/9/2003 for $3,450,000. It has a current appraised value of $3,048,800. The home has 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, and 1 half bathroom.
Mr. DeSantis currently is employed as a Member at Nyala Capital LLC in Westport, CT. Prior to working for AIG, he was a Director at Union Bank of Switzerland, and an Intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Naval Reactor Training Site
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
The Windsor Site of the Knolls Atomic Power Lab trained over 14,000 Naval operators on the S1C Prototype Reactor at the Nuclear Propulsion Training Unit (NPTU).
Its operations contaminated soils, buildings and equipment surfaces with uranium and other radioactive materia. In 2006 full remediation of the site was completed.
The aerial views show the site after buildings and soil were removed.

Club 199
kuressaare (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kuressaare.

Boggy Creek Monster
Matheus_ (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Matheus_.

Ozark's Largest Rocking Chair
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By: Matheus_.

Dinosaur
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By: Matheus_.

Charlie Brown & Snoopy statue

Ruins of Santa's Land
You can still see a few buildings standing -- sad ruins of Arizona's Santa's Land, on an otherwise empty stretch of US Hwy 93 south of Hoover Dam. Built in 1937, the small, Christmas-themed collection of gift shops and child amusements went out of business in 1995. In the early 1990s you could still feast on Dasher and Dancer omelettes, Santa Claus burgers, and purchase oil portraits of John Wayne.

Blurfail
Lucky70 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Lucky70.

Building Made of Bauxite
1893 three-room building was the office of Dr. Dewell Gann, Sr. and is the only known bauxite building in existence.

Golf Ball House

World's Other Longest Map of Route 66

Forestville Muffler Man

Hi Google!
Lucky70 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Lucky70.

World's Largest Charcoal Grill
The world's largest barbecue grill is mobile.

Giant viking
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
"This statue of the Burnaby North Viking symbolizes the spirit of strength and courage in each of us that seeks new challenges and new horizons to make a better world.
Created by John Clarke and built by the staff and Welding students of Burnaby North - June 13, 1994"
Apparently graduates refer to it as Satan and every single household on the street across from it signed a petition against it being erected. It was vandalized in 1995 or 1996 to have blonde hair, makeup and a pink bra!
It is dressed in a fur-trimmed red hat during December.

Classic pose to take a photo at the Tower of Pisa
Lucky70 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Lucky70.

Giant Hand

The Tesco Sheep
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.

Studying Stanford University students
kuressaare (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kuressaare.

Pyramid of Valle
Two multi-story pyramids, built by New Agers who have since vacated, now occupied by Valle Hardware and Feed.

Number plate blurfail

Roundtop Gas Station
1936 filling station along old US Hwy 67 (Roundtop Road) is white stucco with red trim, operated by W.D. "Happy" Williford until closing in 1972.

World's Largest Redwood Tree Service Station
Constructed from three redwood tree trunks moved to Ukiah from a grove in 1936. Gas no longer served, but the old pumps are still in place.

Lumberjack Muffler Men

Greetings from Pisa

Dinosaurs

Giant Gopher

World's Largest Wind Chimes

Car Accident
kuressaare (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kuressaare.

1920s Route 66 Gas Station

Giant sturgeon
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
This is an original size re-production of Manitoba's biggest sturgeon. Weight 406 lbs.,Length 15 1/2 ft.,age 150 years, a female, full of caviar. The record sturgeon was taken out of Roseau River east of Dominion City, by Sandy Waddell, October 27, 1903. Hauled home in a seven-foot Democrat by a team of horses, five feet of this monster still trailed the ground.

Giant Budweiser Can

Big Raven Statue

Teepees

Double-Decker Outhouse

Teepee

2nd Tallest Flagpole In The U.S.

Segway Tours in Belgium

Giant Canadian flag
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
Built in support of the I Care Campaign which received international attention when the people of Falkland challenged the rest of Canada to fly the Canadian Flag.

Giant Tire Man

Google Street View Captures a Track and Field Event at McMaster University in Canada

Giant sunflower

Buffalo statue
The Grunthal Chamber of Commerce, erected this statue in 1995, to commemorate the tourism brought to this area through the efforts of Nick and Sara Janz and their family, at the Cottonwood Corner Game Farm.

Large Bunny

Bigfoot

Used bumpers for sale

Yonah Shimmel's Knish Bakery
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
Yonah Shimmel's Knish Bakery is a bakery that has been selling knishes on the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan since 1890 from its original location on Houston Street.

Giant Orange

Mini boat

Giant blue heron

Shoe tree

House in miniature

Subliminal message for Google.

Junk Art Cow

Willits Muffler Man

Kids playing

Giant fly fishing rod
Raised money by selling shares - 1830 shares (a piece of the rod) for $5 per centimeter
The fly is a fluorescent orange Skyomish Sunrise and sits on a 5/8" line of hollow plastic. A nail knot and a blood knot are used on the rod.
The rod was machined in six local shops with 470 hours of donated equipment and shop time and 576 hours of donated labour, with 41 local companies contributing to the final package.

Wacky Fish Sculpture

Hello Google!!