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AHhh... another oldie but... well... I don't know if I'd say GOODie, but it's Kitchen Kabaret :stars:
AHhh... another oldie but... well... I don't know if I'd say GOODie, but it's Kitchen Kabaret :stars:
Right you are, Ace!
You're up! :thumbs:
"My nerves are shot. How do I get myself into these situations?
Sebastien - Voyage of the Little Mermaid!
That would be my pal Peg Legged Pete!!!Quote:
Originally posted by adambreakey
Sorry - Not PotC -- BUT... what is out front of PotC talking to passerbys... wearing an eye patch, etc???
Did you happen to hear any clues as to the location of the Gold Card? He's seems to have misplaced it.
Argh - matey. you are correct. :bandana: :pirate:
Where might you have heard this before?
Okay. Here's our man. Lefty Moreno.
Adam.... I think that is in Sounds Dangerous. :D
:pirate:Pirate... Pete hasn't a clue where it is... I'm sure the redheaded wench has sworn him to secrecy. :wink:
Sorry to be so slow on the draw here...
but marty is, of course, 100% correct!
MBabe - you are correct. Though if you were to get it wrong, it would be easy to understand as it is easy to :sleep: during that show
you are up
Here we go...
"And no videotaping. Okay? And those of you who're just walking in right now ... you're late. Where have you been? I love your hair. No, not you."
Ellen's Energy Adventure.... :wave:
Of course you are correct ;)
You're up Ace.....
'No more tests. We're about to go live." ;-)
Sounds Dangerous?
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Sterling Sisters (Rob Brulinski) |
"I'm Not a Very Good Cowboy," a short film by George Cessna, begins with Cessna listening to a cassette tape telling him he must have cowboy boots and a cowboy hat in order to write a country song and ends with him in glasses and a baseball hat yodelling about the death of the last cowboy after watching clips of old country stars on TV. There are no more cowboys, or country bands. There is no way to make a living at music. There is no hope. So, let's get drunk and play some songs.
"I wish I didn't like it," Cessna, a solo artist and one of the singers and songwriters in the Sterling Sisters, says of the country music he grew up on. "I had a really hard year this year and in a way country music was like the best cure, like they have a song for everything and you feel it so much more. On the other hand, it kind of ruins you—like I'm going to drink a lot of beer and sit in my room and cry. It will ruin your life and save your life."
I first met Cessna in 2013 at the Midway, the one non-strip bar on the Block, a great dive, with walls lined with pinup photos of the old dancers who used to drink there back in the red light district's glory days. We had just awarded The Sterling Sisters "Best Country Band," and when various disreputable staff members stumbled in for an impromptu Best of Baltimore afterparty, there was the then-21-year-old Cessna in a battered baseball cap hunched over the bar like an old reprobate. We were both drunk (open bar) and immediately sank into one of those long conversations that lifelong fans of country music often fall into, riffing on the brilliance of George Jones or Roger Miller, racing from one song to another like we were in hot contention for the Wurlitzer Prize.
Neither of us remember much about the conversation, of course, except that it happened, but since the Sterling Sisters are playing the Metro Gallery on Aug. 9 and Cessna and his fellow songwriter and singer in the band Scout Paré-Phillips will be performing solo shows at Holy Frijoles on Aug. 18, it seemed like the perfect time to catch up with them, especially given the fact that Paré-Phillips has found a lot of success and good press in the wake of her recent "Record Store Day" recording with Jack White.
"I got a call out of the blue from Jack White ," Paré-Phillips says from the car, driving towards Minnesota on a solo tour that will put her in Baltimore just before the Aug. 9 gig. "He did a project for Record Store Day and he basically is just really a nifty guy and likes to do things as high tech as possible and wanted to release the world's fastest record. So he recorded a few songs off his new record, which wasn't out yet then, and needed an opera singer kind of girl and called me, so I recorded with him."
It is the tension between Paré-Phillips, who has an operatic voice, high-folk sensibility, and a severely sexy look, and the shambling Cessna, a lanky kid who grew up steeped in the country-tinged rock of his father's band Slim Cessna's Auto Club, that makes Sterling Sisters thrilling to listen to. When something is called "new country" it is usually neither new nor country, just warmed-over pop. But Sterling Sisters, if they can be called country at all, are entirely original because Cessna's high and lonesome voice and Eric Paltell's pedal steel contrast so sharply with Paré-Phillip's harmonies, which sound more like something from an ancient Greek tragedy than EmmyLou Harris.
Most of the members of the band— which also includes Andrew Haas on banjo and Corey Hughs on drums—just graduated from MICA, and, with Paré-Phillips pursuing photography, modeling, and her solo career in New York, there is reason to fear that their beautiful 2013 album "Hale" might be their last.
"The Sterling Sisters is the perfect band for me," Paré-Phillips says, alleviating any such concerns. "George and I are such a perfect writing couple."
The two met as freshmen at MICA. "We started a band together because she heard that I liked Nick Cave and the Birthday Party," Cessna says sitting over beers at a table by the jukebox at the Mount Royal Tavern (full disclosure: He and Paltell tried to ply me with drink). "So she got all excited. We did that and it was noisy. She sang and I played guitar."
They continued in this initial, proto-Sterling Sisters for a while, but then Paré-Phillips gave Cessna a folk recording she had made at the same time he was thinking about recording a country record. "We got together to do that and my roommate Andrew was learning banjo just for fun so we sat down and just wrote maybe our first two songs. 'Raised You in the West' was our first song. It was sort of a joke but we wanted to take it seriously, try it out in a show."
"I got kicked out of their first show," says Eric Paltell, who now plays guitar and pedal steel, one of the defining features of the Sterling Sisters sound. "I was—"
"He was drunk," Cessna chimes in, sipping his beer.
"Relationship problems can't really encompass the amount of problems I was having," Paltell concedes. "I brought George a guitar amplifier and then they kicked me out."
"He came to a show later on and then he mentioned that he was interested in learning pedal steel, so we said let's do it," Cessna says.
"It's the worst instrument I've ever had to play. I love how it sounds, but I hate it," Paltell adds. "It's the worst instrument to have to set up, tune—it's like, why? Who invented this? There's an infinite number of things that can go wrong and I think they've all happened to me. It's terrible to travel with."
Last year, the band toured the country with Slim Cessna's Auto Club puts on a fiery live show and has something of a cult following.
"It was hard and nerve-wracking," Cessna says of the experience. "I still felt like I was going up there as a gimmick. 'Aw that's cute, Slim's son.' 'Aww, he looks like Slim.' I wanted to be like Hank Jr. I either wanted people to be like 'this is better' or be like 'this is so much worse.' And I don't think it got that. I'm still looking for my Jr. moment."
That wry self-awareness and sense of searching is part of what defines the sound of the Sterling Sisters. But the band's music is also suffused with a deep sadness that comes, in part, just from being young—"to be young's to be sad's to be high" as Dave Rawlings has it—and in part from graduating from an expensive school in a terrible economy with not many prospects. "I just got done with a painting job. That sort of freefall, scary-life-decisions kind of mode. I don't really feel like I should be making huge decisions in my life. That's what everyone says. But I feel like everything matters," Cessna says of his post-graduate life.
But there's something else there—the existential sadness that country music has always mined, the rowdy drunken sadness that might best be called "lonesome." You can hear this mix in their original compositions, or in their cover of Roger Miller's "Dang Me." Miller gave the song's tragic lyrics a bounce-y feel in a major key, but, in Cessna's hands, it becomes a horrifying minor key lament so that when he sings "oughta take a rope and hang me," you can feel the cold wind blow through your bones.
There's another scene in "I'm Not a Very Good Cowboy," where Cessna is standing on a roof, wearing a white cowboy hat, a black suit, and a bolo tie, with the sun setting into the harbor behind him. There's something beautifully awkward about the scene, which cuts to other shots of him riding through the city, in a convertible car, playing a guitar. The film, Cessna's senior thesis as MICA, was intended as an investigation of his love of country music. But, these Baltimore scenes remind us how country and western music was never really about the country or the west, it was about pining for some lost paradise from the lonesome streets of a godforesaken city where you find yourself alone.
Everyone in the Sterling Sisters insists that they're not a country band—"when y'all gave us 'Best Country Band' that was great, but then I was like 'I want best rock band,'" Cessna says—but if country music has a future, its fate rests on the shoulders of people like Cessna and Paré-Phillips, who are able to see all its contradictions.

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Field Report: IsoAcoustics ISO-L8R 155
There are as many mounting or free-standing apparatuses for monitors as there are manufacturers of monitors. But one of the most important things about the studio monitor is that the sound should be as close as you can get to the audio being heard. With the amount of money spent on studio monitors, something as simple as a vibration or bad placement should not impede that sound.
Here's where the IsoAcoustics ISO-L8R 155 speaker stands come in. These little stands can help your studio sound cleaner by simply raising the studio monitors to ear level and cutting out unwanted vibration. Taken out of the box the set contains two upper sections for the base and two lower sections, four long pieces of tubing, four short pieces and four additional pegs to add a bit of an angle to the monitors. Using these pieces there are 14 combinations of height and tilt adjustments to achieve the ideal monitor positioning. The stands raise the monitor either 3" or 8" depending on the rods used, and from there you can angle the sides to tilt forward or back or any other direction at a 6.5-degree angle.
Gone are the days of trying to hang the monitors or having them sit on foam mattresses, which is really an eyesore. Any client who comes to listen to the audio needs to see a professional studio. The rubber isolators on these stands allow the speakers to "float" and remove that excess bass, which creates undesirable bass build up and resonances. This resonance/vibration can dirty up the sound and can even cause the monitors to vibrate themselves off a counter top. The rubber isolators also create a bit of a non-slip surface for the monitors and the counter so that when tilting, the monitor will stay on the stands.
Feeling isolated
Performance at a glance |
◊ Isolates speaker from tabletop
◊ Angles speakers for better monitoring ◊ Supports up to 30lbs. ◊ Easy to assemble ◊ Adjustable height |
Once I had the box opened it was time to put these little gems to the test. On the box it is written that the compatible speakers for the ISO-L8R 155 are studio monitors with dimensions greater than 6" × 7.5" and weighing less than 30 lbs. each. On the IsoAcoustics website there is a link to a document that provides guidelines for which monitors work best. (IsoAcoustics has two other sizes of stands, 200 for 7.8" × 10" and 130 for 5.1" × 6" monitors.)
I work out of three studios and each one has its own set of difficulties. I'll start with my radio station production studio.
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Would you like to improve your typing speed? At TypingSpeed Australia, you can learn how to touchtype and improve your words per minute speed. By browsing our directory listings you can find new typewriting equipment including ribbons or learn how to type computer software that covers all levels.
It has never been easier to learn how to type. Not only can you learn how to type online but you can also learn how to touchtype. By learning how to touchtype you will see your typing speed increase to well over 60 words per minute (WPM).
The more you practice your typing the more your typing speed will increase. When you start off learning how to type you will quickly find that your average typing speed will increase as you get more comfortable with just typing the content without having to look down at the keyboard to find the right keys for the word you are typing.
This takes a little time to master so don't be too worried if you're making a few mistakes when your start. Before you know it you will have improved you're typing accuracy and your speed will only be increasing.
You can take one of several typing speed tests online. To find out your typing speed you will need to type for five minutes. There are many online speed tests that you can do for a minute but a minute typing speed test isn't a good indication of where your typing ability is.
Once you have become proficient at typing there are many typing jobs available to apply for. You can apply for any typists job where the salary will see you earn anywhere from $20,000-$60,000.
If you need help with your typing then you have several options available to improve and increase your typing speed and ability.
You can hire a typing tutor who can teach you how to type correctly. Using the right fingers on the right keys. A typing tutor is good if you haven't already learnt how to type and haven't got into any bad habits yet.
A typing tutor can schedule a program that will see your typing speed improve gradually. Learning how to type properly the first time around is without doubt the best way to learn. You can hire a typing tutor to help you get started. With the typing tutor being on hand for your personal lessons you have an advantage in that they will be there to answer any questions instead of having to search through FAQ's on a web site.
A tutor can also provide tests and tell you what extra work you need to do to improve your typing ability if you are making the same mistakes in your test. An online test doesn't have that facility.
An advantage of an online typing speed test is that many web sites not only have typing speed tests but also games. This is great for young teens who are learning to type because just doing plain old homework gets a bit boring and mundane.
Kids like challenges and while they are playing a game they don't even realize that they are improving their skills.
Learn to type software is another option available when learning how to type. You can purchase educational typing software to learn how to touchtype correctly.
Please visit the online web directory if you want to hire a tutor or find typing software to improve your typing.


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Many adults with epilepsy report that stress can provoke a seizure. Because stress can alter brain chemistry and electrical activity, and disrupt sleep, stress may worsen epilepsy in susceptible people. It can also cause a person to breathe rapidly, or hyperventilate, which makes seizures more likely in some persons, especially those with absence seizures.
Relaxation therapy involves a variety of strategies to reduce stress and foster relaxation. Breathing maneuvers, hypnosis, and other techniques can be employed.
Biofeedback involves learning to control bodily functions that are usually not under voluntary control. One can learn to control these functions by providing information about them to conscious awareness. For example, the heart rate can be modified by listening to a beep every time one's heart beats and concentrating on lowering or raising the heart rate. Similarly, biofeedback can promote relaxation by lowering the tension in the facial muscles or breathing at a slower rate.
Relaxation therapy and biofeedback can help to improve seizure control in some persons by reducing stress and controlling hyperventilation, but they rarely make someone seizure-free. We need systematic study of these techniques in epilepsy to better define their role. In addition to relaxation therapy and biofeedback, Tai Chi, yoga, and therapeutic massage can also help relieve stress.
Neurofeedback (neuro-EEG feedback, neurotherapy) is a technique that uses operant conditioning of the brain's electrical activity (EEG) to try and reduce seizure activity. Unlike many CAM therapies, there is good basic science to support this technique. First, a quantitative EEG is obtained to identify abnormal brain rhythms and then target these with conditioning to make them more normal and thereby, hopefully reduce seizure activity. The sessions typically last about one hour, occur 1-3 times per week, and last for 3-12 months. Neurofeedback is a promising technique that has become more popular, although we do not have controlled data to support its use in epilepsy. Also, some practitioners may have limited training and expertise. The Biofeedback Certification Institute of America certifies practitioners and oversees standards.


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Dear Kyla. Thanks for the name of the book I will see if I can buy it here in the U.K. Thanks for the other web links, I'm sure they will come in handy. Please be so kind and e-mail me, I would like to hear more about your programme. Many thanks hanli


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LOST, Tonight!
by TSG on Tue, February 2nd, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Who's ready to get Lost tonight?!? The final season is upon us and hopefully we'll finally learn what's been going on all this time! Where's Claire? What's the deal with Jack's dad? Just what is the smoke monster? WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN?!?
I think the video pretty much sums up every Lost fan's thoughts on the matter.
What a glorious day. I bet tons of you are going to Lost viewing parties.
Who out there has a theory on how Lost will end? Leave that theory and include answers to some of those crazy questions in a comment and tomorrow TSG will pick the most creative theory and reward them 5 Swag Bucks. So be sure to include your user name in your comment as well.
This…is our destiny….


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Perfect PartnerSomebody who likes hot horny kinky sex
CigarettesI don't smoke
AlcoholI don't drink
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Body TypeMedium Build Slightly Hairy
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Moviebasic instinct/showgirls
Placeanywhere where I can be naked
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Friday Photo: Samson & His Mini-Leo
Posted: Mar 05 2009
Originally published February 16th, 2007
This week's Friday Photo features Samson, an adorable pup that absolutely loves his Mini-Leo. Samson's guardian works for Honest Kitchen, so he not only gets the best dog toys on the market, he also gets the best dog food. For Samson, life is good. You lucky dog!


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Decorating Clay Pots
Clay pots are the most popular containers for houseplants, container gardens and outdoor potted plants, but they can seem drab and uninspired. It is easy to spruce up these containers, however, and with a bit of creativity, you can decorate clay pots in a number of fun and unique ways.
- Paint: Painting pots is easy, and solid colors add a burst of brilliance to your garden. Use rough brush strokes for a rustic look, or use more coats of paint for a smooth, polished finish. For a more colorful pot, paint the rim and the bucket different colors or paint a series of pots different colors to create a rainbow effect when they are grouped together.
- Patterns: Painting clay pots in fun and colorful patterns can turn an ordinary pot into a masterpiece. Geometric or abstract patterns such as swirls, dots, or stripes are easy for anyone to paint, or if you have a more artistic predilection, paint your pots with flowers, the names of what you will grow, or whole scenes.
- Ribbons: Adding a ribbon to a clay pot is one of the easiest ways to decorate it. Ribbons come in many widths, colors, and patterns, and a simple ribbon can be tied around the pot in a large bow for an instant accent, or use a wide ribbon tightly wrapped around the pot and held in place with a bit of glue for a simpler decoration.
- 3-D Accents: Adding three dimensional accents can completely transform your clay pot. Use glue or a thin mortar to attach pebbles, shells, flattened marbles, buttons, or mosaic tiles to your pot, either randomly or in a distinct pattern to turn an ordinary pot into something extraordinary.
- Holidays: Creating decorated clay pots specifically for holidays can add a seasonal touch to all your container plantings. Solid holiday colors, holiday patterns, or fun designs such as a jack-o-lantern for Halloween or a wicker look for an Easter basket are fun options that are easy to decorate.
Inside the Pot
No matter how you decorate the outside of your clay pots, don't forget to decorate the inside as well. First, select a good quality soil, every plant needs a healthy base to grow and flourish. Choose plants with different colors, sizes, shapes, and textures to turn the plants themselves into artwork, and add decorative labels or plant picks for even more color and uniqueness. Inside and out, even the plainest clay pot can be beautiful!
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As the Talks / HackFest submissions deadline for FUDCon Pune 2011 looms forward, we are seeing a lot of interest and participation in this event.
Deadline - Midnight, 23rd of October, 2011 IST.
As of today over 100 delegates have already signed up for the event and 33 proposed sessions registered with us already. FUDCon Pune is an international event and we have speakers from many parts of the world. We are also listed on opensource.com now!
FUDCon is free for everyone to attend. Any Talk or HackFest related to Free and Open Source Software is very welcome. Do keep a note of the submissions deadline.
For further details please go through FUDCon Pune website, and the wiki.


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Is your relationship with God growing stale?Are you or your church in need of a spiritual "jump start"?Do you want to make an eternal difference for Jesus Christ - but don't know how?Then it's time to take a risk!
Risk Takers for Christ is a non-profit ministry that challenges Christians to leave their spiritual "comfort zones" and to be bolder in their faith. We are evangelical by nature and baptistic in doctrine.
RTC was founded in 2011 by Rev. Dale Glading, who has more than 25 years of prison ministry experience. Rev. Glading has also authored three books, is an accomplished speaker and is a former two-time candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Rev. Larry "Chap" Lilly joined RTC in 2012 as vice president after a nearly 30-year career with the Delaware Department of Corrections.
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Please review our Statement of Faith.
In order to carry out our mission, RTC engages in the following ministries…
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To challenge Christians to lead more spiritually-adventurous lives by God's grace and to take sanctified risks for His glory.


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At Trevor Sorbie, we always strive to exceed your expectations, and leave you looking and feeling your best. Whether you visit our salons, use our products, or look to us for advice, we are dedicated to providing not only the highest quality of hairdressing, but also exceptional customer service.
Trevor's professional standards are second to none, and this dedication to excellence is upheld by every person within the company. Within the salons, before working on the salon floor, all team members must undergo a rigorous training programme and final test, judged by Trevor. This ensures that every hairdresser working in our salons has received Trevor's 'stamp of approval'.
For our product ranges, we promise that only the finest ingredients are used, and that every product has been tested, developed and approved in our award-winning salons.
At the heart of everything we do is you, the customer. Our aim as a company is very simple - to ensure you have great hair that you love, every day.


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Katie Cronin: "It's hard to look past the fact that it's always been Colorado--even until this year. We entered the scene last season, but it's always been CU basketball that got all the attention. It's a shame we didn't have them on the schedule this year. I can't say much about this, but it would have been awfully nice to play them."
That will happen next season, when Hammon and Cronin have both graduated. For now, the Rams are thinking about even greater things--like the Big Dance. Because of their lofty ranking--highest for any Colorado team since the CSU men reached number four in 1969--they'll likely host two top-25 teams at the beginning of the NCAAs in Moby Gym, where they haven't lost since Colorado was a territory.
They're also thinking--Cronin says they dare to dream: What if?--about number-three Louisiana Tech. And about last year's tournament nemesis, number-two Purdue. The players would love to get that rematch, and so would the coach: Collen was an assistant at Purdue for seven years. The Rams also dare to dream about the biggest dog of all in women's college basketball--Pat Summitt's 23-2, first-ranked Tennessee Volunteers, anchored by the great Chamique Holdsclaw. Should the Rams get to the NCAA Final Four this season--the first local team to do it since the CU men way back in 1955--they could very well face Tennessee. In any case, they will see plenty of traditionally powerful clubs.
"This year," Collen says, "at least we'll get some of the big dogs on our home floor. Who knows? Auburn, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Clemson, North Carolina? None of them are in the top ten, and all of them may have to play on the road, but I consider every one of them a big dog."
Cronin, for one, is ready to fight. "I'm not going to put any expectations on us," she says, "whether it's Sweet 16 or Elite 8. But you never know. In my freshman year, we kind of popped up in the tournament not even knowing what we were doing there, and last year we got to the second round. Experience means everything at the NCAA, and now we know what it's like. The competitiveness. The toughness of it. The consistency of the best teams. This year, no one can tell us when to stop or who to lose to."
Tennessee? Connecticut? Louisiana Tech?
"Those are just other teams," Cronin says with a wave of the hand. "Obviously, they've been the top names in basketball for years. But we just go out and play hard and have lots of confidence. We're not going to back down to anybody."
"I never thought we'd lose a game this year," Manning says. "Not when we were down to Arizona. Not even when we lost at Cal. We won't be afraid of anyone in the tournaments, and we'll go in with our eyes open."
Still a little short in the paint and ragged down the floor, the Rams depend on selfless team chemistry, relentless aggression and brilliant outside shooting. Averaging 23 points per game, Hammon is particularly deadly with her fallaway jumper and her three-point bombs--she's sunk 329 of them in four seasons. The Rams may also have something else going for them at the Dance. The element of surprise.
"Obviously, we're not the biggest or the fastest," Cronin says. "You look at our team and we look like normal people. But we come out and we play like animals. That comes from within...I like being the underdog. In the WAC we're the hunted right now, but in the NCAAs we've snuck up on people before. I'm sure other teams scout us, but we're from the WAC. I'm not sure teams from the Southeast Conference or the ACC realize how quick Roxy is on defense or how good Becky really is. I don't think they think we're really legit yet. We don't have the history, so that's natural."
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Lagoa History Somewhere between 1242 and 1246 the Moors took possession of this then small-fortified hamlet and placed it under the control of nearby Silves. The location was formally declared a town only to be severely destroyed by the earthquake of 1755. It was in this town in 1797 that the notorious bandit José Joaquim Sousa Reis known as Remexido was born. Commanding a fierce band of followers his acts are recorded as a mixture of good and bad legends and most of the Algarve and the neighbouring northern Alentejo district suffered by his hand. He died before a firing squad in 1838. The town of Lagoa has since grown as an administrative town for the area that once lived off its abundant agricultural products.
Lagoa Description Within the town are a number of long buildings with double doors that open into courtyards, off which are often more than just a large storeroom with a suitable dwelling. The produce was dependent on the time of year and could be from carob beans to topsoil vegetable products. On the outskirts of the town is a co-operative for the owners of vineyards that still produce a full bodied red wine. This amount of wine produced has been seriously effected by the diminish of vineyards as their owners over recent years have found a new pot of gold by selling their land as building plots. The parish church was inaugurated in 1814 but there is the older church, the Igreja de Misericórdia that dates from the middle of the 18th century. In August of every year an important commercial and rural produce Fair named Fatacil is held in the town exhibiting products from all over Portugal. The occasion provides an excuse for enjoyment and national bands with their singers entertain the visitors late into the night.
Lagoa Nearby Locations The nearby town of Estombar has a history dating further back to the Moorish occupation. It was the home of the famous 11th century Arab poet "Ibn Ammar". Many local legends exist and there are reputed to be subterranean passages from near this town going inland for about 12 kms. to the ancient Moorish capital of Silves. Near to Estombar is an area named Sitio de Fontes that has for centuries been a popular swimming spot due to two freshwater springs that provide a small lagoon prior to joining the Rio Arade. The authorities have now created at this attractive area an open area for performing plays and general picnicking. To the south of the Lagoa is the once small fishing village of Carvoeiro that today is an area of expensive villas, comfortable holiday apartments and golf courses. To the east is the small and attractive village of Porches that dates from the Roman period. Unfortunately the earthquake of 1755 destroyed the ancient castle and also the original parish church that is believed to date from the 16th century. To the west of Lagoa on the edge of the Rio Arade opposite the town of Portimão is the small town of Ferragudo. Romantically said to have once been the home of local pirates this place has retained much of its Portuguese flavour and as yet it has not been too influenced by tourism. During the summer on weekend evenings the main square is filled with the sound of music and laughter as the locals and tourists dance the night away.
Lagoa Events 24th June - Feira de São João 2nd Friday of August - Fatacil
Lagoa Photos Ferragudo · Ferragudo Beach · Ferragudo Town · Townhouses · Vine Yard · Town
Useful Lagoa Telephone Numbers Town Hall - 282 341 410 Emergency Treatment - 282 357 320
Useful Lagoa Facts Distance from Faro Airport - 55 Kms Town Holidays - 8th September Postal Code - 8400
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This room is approximately 250 square feet and has a concrete floor, currently carpeted. We are planning on tiling this floor in the near future (12x24 wood tile planks) and would like to review options for heating the floor. This is not the primary source of heat in the room (HVAC recently installed; two vents at different ends of this room), and we often have a fire going in the wood burning stove in here too. Home is in New England, built in the mid 60's. DH is very handy and will be hopefully be doing the work.
I'd very much appreciate some suggestions as to the general technology and specific products to use/avoid. Thanks! |
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Clarification - goal is to warm the floor vs. heat the room. |
Is this really a room where the dog or dogs live most of the time? |
Oh my - after thinking I'd given all the relevant information... thanks very much for asking! No, it's not really a dog room. We will have a fire going in here often during the winter and the kids will watch TV in here at night during the summer as well. Dog Room is what we are used to calling it. It's an addition, which connects to two other sections of the house. It used to have electric heat (which being in NE of course we didn't use in the winter, WAY too expensive) so typically would just close off the doors. In milder weather, it was perfect for the dogs. We recently have completed some renovations; from the plans: |
- Posted by energy_rater_la (My Page) on Sat, Aug 25, 12 at 18:18
radiant floor heating? |
- Posted by countryboymo (My Page) on Sun, Aug 26, 12 at 14:37
There are numerous heated pet mats and beds available that use very little electricity compared to heating a whole floor. We used a hard plastic version for putting newborn calves on that were born in the wet cold of fall and were slow getting around. The dogs lay on it in the winter when it isn't being used for a calf. |
- Posted by david_cary (My Page) on Mon, Aug 27, 12 at 5:43
If it has a concrete floor on the ground, your options are limited. You can use electric radiant but that isn't particularly cheap to install or use. It would be about $1500 in parts. And then you are basically using electric heat to heat up the slab and the earth, in addition to heating the floor. Now if you rip up the slab, insulate it underneath and run pex tubing into the new slab and then heat the water with the wood stove..... Now you are talking. A slab should be about $1000 and the pex tubing is fairly cheap. Insulation would be a few hundred. A big project for sure. Also a huge payoff down the road. |
I had to ask about the dog because if the floor is heated you must give the animals a place to get away from the heat. |
"I had to ask about the dog because if the floor is heated you must give the animals a place to get away from the heat." Excellent point, says this ex-exhibitor and breeder of (English) Bulldogs. |
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I am making key lime pies, pecan pies and a chess pie. Can I bake them today and they will still be good on Saturday? Or do you think I should wait a few days and then bake? I just have extra time today and I want to get something done! |
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You can certainly make the pecan pie & freeze it until Saturday. It'll be great. The key lime & chess don't freeze well, IMO, & suffer if made too far in advance. That said, I've seen key lime frozen pies in the grocery store...so, maybe it too will be fine. You can make the crusts and freeze those for sure w/o any problems. Since it's the crusts that take the most time & make the most kitchen mess...doing that tonight will save you time on Saturday morning. Tricia |
I'm with Tricia. I would for sure get the crusts ready in advance, wrap them well in the pie shells and freeze them (or do them on Friday and refrigerate them). If you freeze them, take them out Friday night and put them in the fridge so they're fully thawed when you use them. I would probably not bake any of the pies ahead, but if you must, maybe bake the pecan but not the others. You could have the fillings made and ready to dump into the crusts on Saturday when you're ready to bake. I love having the smells of all the wonderful baked goods in the air when my guests come, so I am a big fan of baking on the day of an event if at all possible. |
For Thanksgiving, I made my pie crusts ahead and froze them, unbaked. I'd never done that before, but it worked great. Even the top crust for the apple pie and the little cut-out shapes for the top; I just froze all that right on a cookie sheet. Cover tightly with foil. Take it out at least an hour ahead. Or you can make them a couple of days ahead and refrigerate; they'll be fine. I agree with the others about freezing pecan but not chess or key lime. Yum! Can I come to this party? Have fun! |
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New Video: Jhene Aiko 'Burning Man (3:16 PM)'
For singer Jhene Aiko, happy hour starts at 3:16 PM.
In her latest visual presentation "Burning Man," the chiefstress of sailing souls ignites a bonfire on the beach and turns up with friends, including Omarion and James Fauntleroy.
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One complaint is that many of the articles jump to the back of the book, which both interrupts the flow, and requires the reader to flip past the nude pages in the middle to pick up a story. Online, most of the magazine's content sits behind a pay wall, so the hard copy is the best way to enjoy it. Don't be bashful. Good journalism awaits. -Katia Bachko
Cometbus, Issue #51: The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah
There is a serious book to be written about the history of independent bookstores in Berkeley, California. It would discuss the rise of the corporate bookstore, real estate manipulations, the declining population of Berkeley in the 1970s, and the free speech movement. "The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah", a history of the bookstores on Berkeley, California's Telegraph Avenue, is not that kind of history.
"Electric Menorah" is the latest installment of Cometbus, a punk 'zine published on and off since 1983 by the writer and musician Aaron Elliott. Conducting over forty interviews with East Bay businessmen, burnouts, and scenesters, Elliott has compiled a full, though largely personal, history of the Berkeley independent bookstore.
The conventional independent bookstore is, of course, run by a middle-aged woman with a B.A. from Mt. Holyoke and a husband who is a senior executive at a major company. The owner is pleasant and loves books, though her tastes may range toward the conservative: classic literature, coffee table books about English manor houses, etc.
As Elliott demonstrates, this was not the story of the Berkeley bookstore. With the notable exception of something like Mrs. Dalloway's, owned by an elegant daughter-in-law of McGeorge Bundy, Berkeley bookstores were owned by hard-nosed types. In 1963, Moe Moskowitz and Bill Cartwright opened the first of these bookstores, Rambam, on Telegraph Avenue. The pair soon split up. Cartwright opened Shakespeare and Co., and Moe, a cigar-smoking millionaire and former anarchist, opened Moe's Books on Telegraph Avenue. The two men, naturally, hated one another and their businesses were rivals.
Cometbus #51 spins out from there, telling the story of a few heavily competitive stores run by several highly eccentric men. It is a compelling story, particularly in the way that the author manages to place this narrow retail history in the broader context of the 1970s. Apparently Bob Baldock, who ran Moe's Books for Moskowitz, was involved in the Cuban revolution as a young man, and fought with Fidel Castro in Cuba's Sierra Maestra Mountains. Yes, that actually happened. And in between robbing a bank and setting pipe bombs in Los Angeles Police Department patrol cars, Kathy Soliah, a key figure in the Symbionese Liberation Army, worked at the Campus Textbook Exchange on Bancroft.
"Electric Menorah" is a fascinating resource for anyone interested in history of the Bay Area, but it helps a lot to be familiar with Berkeley (and even then, it's hard to follow without the benefit of Google and a map). "Electric Menorah" also does a lot of name dropping. Oddly, this doesn't come across as pretentious so much as just confusing, because none of the largely forgotten bookstore owners' names are familiar. Though the issue is less than 100 pages long, a diligent reader should be prepared to keep a running list of the people mentioned.
Still, the issue is entertaining and well structured, and Elliott is a likable narrator, low-key yet opinionated, determined to tell this story his way, no matter whom he might offend. When he describes Salman Rushdie's visit to one Berkeley bookstore, Elliott says:
Ugh. Hear him speak and you'll find out why he got what he deserved. The guy's a total ass.
This quotation is not defended and is maybe not terribly useful, but this unprofessionalism does not undermine the issue. "Electric Menorah" is a personal history. If you think the winner of the Booker Prize and the author of The Satanic Verses is an ass, go ahead and say it; it's your damn magazine. This is, perhaps, the entire point. Elliott not only wrote the entire issue of Cometbus, he apparently printed it, too, using a photocopier—as he has done for twenty-five years. The author's irregular language is a specific choice. He is embracing unprofessionalism, as did the bookstores he loves (for all their flaws) on Telegraph Avenue . -Daniel Luzer
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He landed at Angevine Middle School in Lafayette as part of a literacy lab. His return to the classroom represented both a pay cut, which he could handle, and no chance to use his administrative skills, which he could not. So he looked around and found a one-year, grant-funded position as a math curriculum coordinator for DPS elementary classes. When that ended, he signed on as dean of students at South High School for the 2004-05 school year, but there wasn't much administrative work. He moved on to a slot as assistant principal for two elementary schools in Commerce City. The positions were each supposed to be half-time, but he wound up putting full-time hours in both.
"Every time I made a job switch, it was because it was a new challenge," Santiago says. "And I always told my bosses that I was looking and asked their opinions about the jobs. I never went behind their back; I just wanted to learn more. I wanted more experience."
All of that experience prepared him for his biggest challenge. In January 2006, he became principal of Life Skills Center of Denver, a job he'd found on the Colorado League of Charter Schools website.
Before taking the position, he researched the curriculum and visited the school twice to talk with staff and students. He saw himself in the kids, who'd lost friends to prisons and cemeteries. He liked a lot of what he saw, but he didn't see any accountability. Students weren't accountable, employees weren't accountable. As part of their Life Skills program, the students were supposed to be working jobs outside of school — but if they didn't, no one gave them any grief. No one was suggesting that kids go on to vocational schools or college. In fact, no one seemed to care if the kids came to school at all. And if they didn't show up, no one called to check up on them.
"I was very surprised," Santiago remembers. "I took the job because it challenged me in every aspect of my knowledge and abilities; it was in such chaos. I haven't had an easy life, and I know our students haven't had it easy, either. That's why I have to be here, to show them there is life outside of poverty, there is life outside of the struggle. That's what I want to teach these kids. I had a choice to go one way or the other. In a way, I relate to these kids — but I had a strong family behind me that helped me see my way out of it. A lot of our kids don't have that support."
Santiago quickly brought both a support system and accountability to Life Skills. He let staffers know that things were changing. He got rid of the private security firm and brought in off-duty Denver cops to monitor the school. He had a wall built and moved the principal's office so that it would be the first thing that people saw when they entered the building. And he put a bowl of chocolates on his desk as bait to induce kids to come in and talk.
He reviewed the work of the six state-licensed lab teachers who oversaw the computer curriculum and hired a master teacher to oversee those positions. He evaluated the special-education teacher, the English-language acquisition teacher, the vocation specialist and the family advocate (a licensed social worker). Ultimately, only one full-time staffer stayed on. Life Skills also has a four-hour-a-week social worker and a four-hour-a-week nurse whose time it purchases from DPS; every week, it has four hours with a speech language pathologist and eight with a psychologist.
Santiago consulted with White Hat while he was making the changes, but he says the company isn't heavy-handed with its management, and the same holds true for the six-member board that oversees the school.
Santiago didn't just change responsibilities for staff; he changed the school's culture for students. Now if a student didn't show up for school, someone called him. If a student was having problems, someone called him. Santiago estimates that the staff makes about 500 calls a week — which averages out to almost two for each of the school's 269 enrolled students.
Before Santiago came on board, Life Skills had three sessions a day. He cut it to two — one in the morning and one in the afternoon — because the overlap of students coming and going was too distracting. He encouraged students who live in dangerous neighborhoods to come in the afternoon so that they didn't have to catch the bus in the dark. He did the same for students who work late-night shifts. And if a student couldn't come to school because her child was sick or needed daycare, Life Skills started trying to locate those services.
For students who lived with their parents, there were parent/teacher conferences. For students who'd moved out — or were thrown out — of their parent's homes, Life Skills helped them find food and shelter. Santiago started serving lunch at school, burgers off the dollar menu of fast-food joints or cheap fried chicken from the grocery store.


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We've all been there: You think you're rocking a stunning, bright lip color (say, a vivid fuschia or a daring red) until you steal a glance in the mirror and realize it's seeped into the little lines around your mouth. Not a good look.
How to prevent this beauty blunder—known as "feathering" or "bleeding"? Before applying color, prep your mouth with a lip primer or foundation to give it something to adhere to. Then use a skin-tone lip liner to trace around the outside perimeter of your mouth (no need to fill in). Finally, apply the lipstick, blot with a tissue, reapply, then blot again. For extra staying power, you can tap on a translucent powder in between coats of lipstick.
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The number of consumers who plan to increase their spending on household improvements in the coming 30 days declined a two percentage points to 16% in the July 2013 Discover U.S. Spending Monitor. The overall index fell 4 points to 92.4 in July 2013, registering a decline in confidence in the economy from consumers. Confidence was especially down among consumers making less than $40,000 a year. The report also showed consumers becoming more pessimistic about their personal finances in July, correlating with a decline in discretionary spending intentions. Respondents indicating the economy is good or excellent was down four points to 20% in July 2013. Those who expect the economy to get better were down 6 points to 30%. Consumers who expect the economy to get worse were up 5 points to 49%. Respondents expecting the economy to stay the same were up two points to 18%. Consumers with an annual income under $40,000 indicated a significant decline in economic confidence in July. Only 21% of respondents said the economy was getting better, down 10 points from June. Respondents making $40,000-75,000 who said the economy was getting better was down 5 points to 35%. Those making more than $75,000 were the most favorable on the economy getting better, declining two points to 50%. Perspective on personal finances was also down in July. Respondents rating their personal finances as good or excellent were down three points to 33%. Consumers rating their finances as getting better were down three points to 24%. The number of consumers who plan to increase their overall spending in the next 30 days declined a percentage point to 30% in July 2013. Intent to spend more on household expenses declined a point to 39%. Intent to spend more on household improvements declined two points to 16%. Intent to spend more on major personal purchases declined two points, to 15%.
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TORONTO - A concert DVD of a legendary rock-and-roll duo has been pulled from two of Canada's major retail stores this week after lawyers for one of the stars declared it a bootleg.
HMV and Best Buy confirmed that copies of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page: Live in Japan 1996 are being removed from the shelves of their stores coast to coast after a lawyer for one of the aging ex-Led Zeppelin band members declared it a pirated DVD of a show the duo had done almost 20 years ago.
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Several years ago I planted 5 thornless blackberry plants. Last year I noticed that I stopped getting new canes on 2 of them, so I have no blackberries from those 2 plants. This year there is only 1 cane from a third plant and still nothing from the 2. My other 2 plants have about 15 new canes each. I have bent 3 of those canes and planted the tips where I have no new growth. The ph on the two doing well is 6.5. Where there is no growth 5.5-6.0. I use 10-10-10 fertilizer and they are not mulched. Any suggestions? |
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Artisan Sandro Fiorentini works in his stone carving workshop, Bottega del Marmoraro. (Lottie Davies)
Peel back the layers to discover four extraordinary streets in Rome, each with a very different tale to tell.
Via Margutta: The artists' street
Via Margutta feels like it's in a quiet village, yet this ivy-draped, cobbled street lies in one of Rome's busiest districts. The men have well-coiffed silver hair and the women dress immaculately in clothes that whisper old money. They saunter along, stopping to greet each other, popping in and out of the gracious terracotta buildings backed on one side by the tangled gardens of Villa Borghese park.
It might look like a village, but the shops here are definitely not small town: fine-art restorers work outside in the sunlight alongside shops selling Pratesi's ultraluxurious linens and Bulgari jewellery. And then there's the Bottega del Marmoraro.
At this workshop, every inch of the walls is covered in ancient stonemasons' tools and words of wisdom – aphorisms – carved in marble. Master stonecarver Sandro Fiorentini is dressed in brown overalls, working with a technique that dates back to the days of the Romans. He will carve you any phrase you like on a marble plaque for 15 euros, but he is only interested in words: 'I don't do numbers,' he says firmly, but with a twinkle in his eye.
These marble engravings can be seen up and down the street. Iconic film director Federico Fellini lived at number 110 and a Fiorentini carving of him and his wife is still on display, with a poem: 'Via Margutta, now it's clear/ It strikes everyone just the same/Because it's unique and special/ In the world there is no equal!'
A few doors along from the Bottega, at number 54, Valentina Moncada cuts an elegant figure in her influential contemporary art gallery. Her ancestor helped build Via Margutta in the 17th century, working to construct artists' studios on this very spot. By 1610 many artists, coming to Rome to study antiquities, had begun to settle in Via Margutta because not only was it a quiet tree-lined street, but also Pope Paul III gave artists living here a tax break. 'If you were an artist and a resident, you paid no taxes, so artists came from all over Europe,' Valentina says.
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Stravinsky came with Picasso, as they were both working with the Russian Ballet. Valentina indicates the courtyard outside her gallery. 'Right here, Picasso met the only woman he ever actually married: Olga Khokhlova, a ballerina.'
As Rome's creative scene became dominated by film, Via Margutta became the focus of the 1950s zeitgeist. Not only was it the home of film master Fellini, but the street was also the location of the apartment where Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) took Audrey Hepburn's Princess Ann at the start of their whirlwind Roman Holiday. Valentina recalls: 'My father was a fashion photographer, and my mother was a model – Givenchy used her to try out all the Roman Holiday costumes that Audrey Hepburn wore.'
The literary arts were not left behind: best known for his 1966 opus In Cold Blood, maverick writer Truman Capote lived at number 33. He immortalised the Via Margutta in a 1963 short story, Lola, about living on the street with his pet raven – the eponymous Lola.
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The San Jose Sharks are reportedly close to announcing a two-year extension for Calder Trophy candidate Logan Couture. Ray Ratto of CSN Bay Area reports that while terms of the deal are not yet finalized, the team is expected to hold a conference call on Friday to make the deal official.
Couture scored 32-goals as a rookie last season, although he had played 25 games in 2009-10 and another 15 postseason games in the playoffs as well. His emergence as an offensive threat last season allowed Doug Wilson to shake up the Sharks roster this summer. Dany Heatley and Devin Setoguchi were traded to Minnesota in separate deals that saw Martin Havlat and defenseman Brent Burns heading to the Bay.
Mr. Plank of the Sharks blog Fear The Fin says the Couture deal is in line with Doug Wilson's 'contract pattern', keeping the core together up until the end of the 2013-14 season:
Couture's extension will carry him to the 2015 offseason, sticking with the contract pattern Doug Wilson has exhibited over the last two years when building his roster via free agency and trade. Couture, Dan Boyle, Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, and Joe Pavelski will all hit the free agent that offseason, setting the stage for what will be an extremely interesting summer. Only Couture will be a RFA that year, with all of the aforementioned players holding UFA status. This method is no coincidence– both Devin Setoguchi and Dany Heatley, who were traded in separate deals this summer for Brent Burns and Martin Havlat respectively, either signed or were signed to contracts that carried them up to that offseason as well.
Couture has one year left on his first NHL deal that will pay him $1.24 million. His new deal should give him a decent bump in pay, probably somewhere in the $2.5M-$3.5M range.
-Update- Craig Custance of the Sporting News tweets: "Told that Logan Couture deal is similar to James Neal's contract, which would be 2-years at $5.75 million total."
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