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Avengers: Age of Ultron
Avengers: Age of Ultron is bigger, louder and messier than the first Avengers, but hits more original notes.
Avengers: Age of Ultron is bigger, louder and messier than the first Avengers, but hits more original notes.
Every element that doesn't quite work in The Casual Vacancy is offset by a legitimate reason to check it out, at least until the muddled…
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A look at the gifted musicians scheduled to perform at Ebertfest 2015.
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An appreciation of Time Magazine writer Richard Corliss.
An FFC reviews "The Motel Life", which just played at Ebertfest.
An FFC reviews "The Motel Life", which just played at Ebertfest.
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Digging into the catalog of Joss Whedon to chart how the director of Avengers: Age of Ultron got here.
The cinematographer of Babe, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes has passed away.
Ever since Houdini became my childhood hero, I've been delighted by scenarios in which bold ghostbusters expose the shenanigans of phony psychics. There are few frauds more cruel than fooling the bereaved that you're in contact with their loved ones. Therefore I admire the opening of "The Awakening," in which a family gathers to communicate with a son they lost in the Great War. They've assembled his photo, a lock of his hair and so on, and the poor boy seems almost in the room until the famous Florence Cathcart sweeps back the curtains and exposes trick ropes and a little boy hidden under the table. London bobbies crowd into the room, and the jig's up.
That's the only scene I much enjoyed. Florence (Rebecca Hall), the author of a best-seller debunking ghosts, is contacted by the shell-shocked war veteran Robert Mallory (Dominic West), who wants her help at the spectral English country boarding school where he teaches. A boy has recently died there, and the other students report sightings of his ghost.
The Rockford School is one of those remote piles that seem to contain way too much room. Stark against the skyline, it seems mired in the time of Dickens. That's especially true when the summer holidays leave it mostly deserted, except for the skeleton staff of characters required for haunted house stories. There's the stammering Mallory himself, tortured by the memory of dead comrades. His colleague Malcolm McNair (Shaun Dooley), a classic sadist who springs on every chance to whip a boy. The kindly matron Maud Hill (Imelda Staunton). The sinister groundsman Edward Judd (Joseph Mawle), who creeps about the woods with a rifle, seemingly up to no good. And a young boy named Tom (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), the only student in residence, because his parents live in far-away India.
Maud tells Florence that she takes no truck in nonsense about ghosts and has read her book many times. Malcolm enthusiastically flogs Tom for an obscure transgression. Edward skulks about ominously. Robert assists Florence as she installs ghost traps, including cameras rigged to fire automatically, powders to capture footprints and delicate instruments to measure something or other. All of this takes place within the gloomy manse, with its endless corridors and doors leading to doors leading to doors. The film's best accomplishment is its art direction, and the shadowy cinematography that keeps seeing young ghost boys who evaporate.
A proud atheist, Rebecca doesn't believe in an afterlife, but nevertheless she's soon scared out of her wits by such manifestations as a dollhouse modeled on Rockford School, through the windows of which she can glimpse dolls who seem to represent all of the characters on the premises. The screenplay by Stephen Volk and the director, Nick Murphy, never clearly explains these events, or wants to. Halfway through, my money is on the brutal teacher Malcolm McNair, who I speculate beat a child to death and is now trying to pin the murder on a ghost. With an Agatha Christie cast like this, you can never entirely rule out the kindly matron. Only the groundskeeper Judd is probably uninvolved, because he looks too guilty. Or maybe Florence Cathcart is going mad.
Whatever. "The Awakening" looks great but never develops a plot with enough clarity to engage us, and the solution to the mystery is I am afraid disappointingly standard. The real mystery is, what were the English thinking of when they built these scary stately homes and actually went to live in them? Better a cozy place in Hampstead Village, I say.
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A review of Showtime's Happyish with Steve Coogan, Kathryn Hahn, and Bradley Whitford.
Captain's log: eight fifth graders, one adult, one James Cameron movie.
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Been running subs a long, loooong, time but have just purchased my first Lipo to give it a try over the old Nimh's. I have the requisite equipment, a Triton charger and a cell balancer, as well as huge abundance of caution and safety awareness. I do have a couple of questions that I'm sure will be childs play for many of you.
What state of charge should be on a Lipo for relatively long term storage? I'm talking about over winter, here where we have hard water for a few months. Also, is there a stand alone, on board, cell monitor on the market that will cut off the entire battery in the event that the battery runs at or below it's safe voltage? Better a boat dead in the water rather than a battery that's going dangerous due to low voltage, me's thinks. Any other tips regarding the Lipo's are welcomed as well. The boats will use brushed motors and esc's that don't have a voltage cut off.


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Every Office Should Have a Treadmill Desk
Treadmill desks are becoming increasingly popular, as being demonstrated by former Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham.
"Every office should have one of these," she tweeted. "Work out and work at the same time!! Genius!!"
From the photo she posted, it appears she is loving the TR800-DT5 Treadmill Desk workstation, which comes complete with both a desk and treadmill. It is a commercial quality treadmill backed with a lifetime warranty on the frame and a three year warranty on the motor. The integrated LED digital display shows steps taken, walking time, calories burned, distance traveled and walking belt speed. In addition, it is Bluetooth-enabled so you can connect wirelessly to your computer or device to automatically track results while you exercise.
Even though it's great to see Mrs. Beckham promoting exercise and such an awesome product, we're not sure we'd recommend doing so while wearing STILETTOS. Oh, Posh!
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8 Reasons To Own a Ball Chair
Office chairs are becoming a thing of the past, as more offices and home users are making the switch to exercise ball chairs. While the idea of using an exercise ball as a chair may seem unconventional, many have already took a leap of faith and have thrown out their old office chairs and replaced it with a ball chair. Whether you use your office chair 8 hours a day at work, an hour a day while studying for a test, or for browsing the internet at home, a ball chair can easily substitute an office chair in any of these circumstances. If you haven't already seen a ball chair in your office or other offices, you may begin to see them soon as more and more people become familiarized with the benefits of using an exercise ball as a chair.
- Better Posture - Most ball chairs come without a back rest which at first may feel a little unnatural, especially if you have spent years sitting in a traditional office chair. Although it may seem like sitting in a backless chair may be more harmful than beneficial, this actually helps remind the user to sit with proper posture and slouching or slumping over becomes more apparent. Sitting on a ball chair also requires some level of balance forcing your spine into proper alignment because coincidentally, sitting with perfect spinal positioning is the easiest way to balance oneself. Sitting with proper posture not only helps decrease your level of back pain but also improves your health.
- Improves Balance - Sitting on a surface that is unstable requires balance, especially when you are accustomed to consistently sitting on an office chair that stays in one place. Most ball chairs come with a sturdy base which allows for more stability over just using a regular exercise ball, however, some degree of balance is still required. After sitting for a few weeks on a ball chair you will start to see your improved balance, even outside of the office.
- Movability - Sitting on a ball chair naturally causes you to frequently change positions in order to keep balance. Moving around frequently creates a healthy work environment that usually can't be achieved in a standard office chair. These constant small adjustments build the endurance and strength of the postural muscles which facilitate optimal posture. With this dynamic sitting experience you are taking away the stress of sitting in the same position for a prolonged period of time which tends to happen when sitting on a traditional office chair.
- Get Fit While You Sit - What most do not realize is that when you are sitting on a ball chair, you are working to stay balanced. Staying balanced and in an upright position requires your core muscles to work overtime, therefor giving you a low-key abdominal work out while you are working. Despite the low intensity abdominal work out, if you consider all the hours you spend sitting everyday at work those hours are going to eventually add up , resulting in strengthened ab muscles.
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- Inexpensive - A good ergonomic chair will cost about $200 and up depending on the desired quality and level of adjustability. Ball chairs are an inexpensive means of sitting with most averaging around $139 for a ball chair with a sturdy base or as little as $15 if you are just looking for an exercise ball.
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Baked brie in mini phyllo cups topped with craisins, walnuts and honey. Delicious bite-sized appetizers, perfect for the Holidays!
Someone gave me this idea last week after posting my mini pecan pies and I just loved it! You see I'm a huge fan of baked brie, so naturally creating baked brie a bit lighter with better portion control sounded very appealing to me.
Trader Joe's sells a light Brie which is what I used here, Presidente also carries one. For the topping, I thought using dried cranberries would be pretty for this time of year and I used honey as my glue to keep everything in place. And the taste? Just as good as the real thing, just be sure you don't eat the whole tray!
A wedge of brie would be enough to make two batches, so if you are serving a crowd, you can easily double this recipe.
Skinny Baked Brie Phyllo Cups with Craisins and Walnuts
Servings: 15 • Serving Size: 1 mini tart • Old Points: 1 pts • Points+: 2 pts
Calories: 60 • Fat: 3 g • Carb: 6.5 g • Fiber: 0.3 g • Protein: 2 g • Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 59 mg
- 3 oz light brie, skin removed cut into (15) 1/2-inch cubes
- 4 tbsp craisins
- 4 tbsp chopped walnuts or pecans
- 2 tbsp honey
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Preheat oven to 325°F.
Combine craisins, chopped nuts and honey in a bowl and mix well.
Arrange mini shells on a baking sheet. Fill mini shells with cheese (each piece of cheese weighs about 0.2 oz). Top with sticky craisin/nut mixture and bake 5-7 minutes, or until the cheese melts.
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Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller recently published an opinion that should be good news for school-choice advocates who favor customized education for low-income students. He wrote this week that students opting for the state's voucher program should also be allowed to receive special-education services, if eligible, at their local public school.
This undoubtedly would anger two camps of school-choice opponents: 1) those who believe that private schools accepting voucher-bearing students must offer the same special-education services found at traditional public schools and 2) those who believe that once students leave the public school system, they give up everything it has to offer.
Of course, most choice opponents occupy both camps, and that goes for Indiana Superintendent Glenda Ritz, who this summer asked the attorney general a loaded question: Must a private school participating in the state's voucher program offer special-education services to eligible students who qualify for both a voucher and a new special-education grant the state legislature approved this year?
Zoeller said no, writing in his opinion that private schools might refuse voucher students altogether if they have to administer special-education services when they lack the capacity to do so. The legislature would have wanted to place more decision-making power in the hands of parents, even if that meant deciding to get a private education via school vouchers while still receiving special-education services at a public school (the public school, in this...
It has always puzzled me why the Rev. H.K. Matthews hasn't drawn more attention for his support for private school choice. His name may not carry the weight of King, Randolph, or Rustin, but it's doubtful that the civil-rights movement would have quickened in Florida at the pace it did without the sacrifices Matthews made.
Chief among those sacrifices was Matthews' freedom: When he was president of the Pensacola Council of Ministers in the 1960s, he led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters throughout Northwest Florida that led to his arrest—thirty-five times. He was gassed and beaten by police on the march with Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery, and he was blacklisted from jobs after protesting police brutality in the Florida panhandle. More recently, Matthews helped to lead protesters who bemoaned the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial.
So when Matthews calls school choice an extension of the civil rights movement, that assertion ought to at least merit a few high-profile headlines.
At least the Birmingham News recognized the allure of Matthews's position. This week, the News published commentary from Matthews supporting the new Alabama tax-credit-scholarship program and reprimanding the Southern Poverty Law Center for its attempt to sue the program out of existence.
"I'm sure the Southern Poverty Law Center does many good things for low-income families—but they have it wrong on this program," said Matthews, who presently works as a minister in Brewton, Alabama. "They say: if you can't help all low-income...
The Justice Department may be the last major American institution that values racial integration for the sake of integration. Its lawyers have worked to encase aging federal school-desegregation orders in cast iron while families—both white and black—have sought more flexibility, quality schools, and choices as to where their children will attend.
DOJ attorneys may tolerate some flexible plans aimed at voluntary desegregation, such as magnet schools and other forms of public-school choice, but there's one form of choice it seems the Obama Administration and its legal beagles will not accept: private-school vouchers.
Late last week, lawyers with the department's Civil Rights Division petitioned a federal judge in Louisiana to stop the Bayou State's new voucher program from spreading throughout the thirty-plus districts operating under federal desegregation orders. During the 2012-13 school year, Louisiana awarded vouchers to nearly 600 students from these districts, and DOJ asserts that their exit caused thirty-four public schools in thirteen districts to stray from "the desired degree of student racial diversity."
To regain that "desired degree," the department wants vouchers prohibited in court-supervised districts, unless the cognizant judge grants permission. That may be in keeping with the Obama Administration's hostility to private-school choice, but it sends education policy into a time warp.
For starters, the voucher program is popular with families. Participation in the program's second year has nearly doubled to about 8,000 students, and it boasts a 93 percent satisfaction rate among first-year participants. It's hard to find that level of delight...
Count me among the fans of school choice who looked favorably upon this year's results of the Phi Delta Kappa (PDK)/Gallup poll. (We're a small group.) Yes, for two decades, the PDK/Gallup folks have all but guaranteed a negative response to the "voucher" question ("Do you favor or oppose allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense;" which makes impoverished families who benefit from today's voucher and tax credit scholarship programs sound like a special-interest group). But the poll points to an embrace of parental power elsewhere.
The last point is an important revelation. "Tebow" bills have surfaced in some states, including Virginia, Texas, Indiana that would give homeschoolers a chance to participate in public-school athletics, just as NFL quarterback Tim Tebow had when he was...
Thirteen months ago, I wrote about the hostility charter-school athletic teams faced across the nation as they sought an equal opportunity to compete against their peers. The impetus for the piece was the story of Friendship Collegiate Academy and their sterling record of winning games and graduating students. While last school year was the first time that schools like Friendship were allowed to compete on an even playing field with their traditional public-school counterparts, this year the schools have received a greater degree of equality and have formed their own league, the Charter School Athletic Association.
This new league, while allowing charters to face one another, will also result in some facing-off against traditional public schools in citywide tournaments and championship games. Some may be quick to dismiss this news as only a sports story, but they ignore the important role sports play within society.
This new league will help D.C.-area charter schools for the following four reasons:
1. Increased visibility for all charters. This league will undoubtedly raise the profile of all regional charter schools as their students compete with their traditional public school peers in soccer, volleyball, basketball, and softball. (The league formed too late for football.) For schools whose athletic directors have used trash cans as office chairs and whose players warmed up for practice in industrial-style storage bins or used traffic barrels as tackling dummies, this progress is remarkable and has already given Friendship national coverage in the ESPN blog, Grantland.
2. The...
It's good news Wisconsin lawmakers are focusing more on the results of the nation's oldest voucher program. This week, the chairmen of the Senate and Assembly education committees released a plan that, among other things, would rate the performance of private schools enrolling voucher-bearing students and kick the worst schools out of the program.
But, even though this plan has been two years in the making, it needs more time to marinate. It gives state education chief Tony Evers too much control to develop a report card for schools, and Evers has never been shy about his contempt for school vouchers.
The bill, for instance, requires Evers and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to develop an accountability system that measures schools' achievement in reading and math, records student growth in those subjects, and judges other matters like college and career readiness and "pupil engagement." A report card ranges from "significantly exceeds expectations" to "fails to meet expectations," and private schools that land in the latter category are kicked out of the voucher program.
Let's be clear, it's appropriate for the state to take action against private schools that show consistently poor results in core subjects with their voucher-bearing students. Wisconsin's neighbor, Indiana, also has passed a voucher law that holds participating private schools to account for their performance and keeps them from enrolling new voucher students if their results are sub-par.
But keep in mind that Evers once called the twenty-two-year-old Milwaukee Parental Choice Program...
This is why it was important for Georgia voters to create an independent authorizer for charter schools.
This week, Atlanta Public Schools superintendent Erroll Davis asked the district's Board of Education to stop approving new charter schools. The reason: Georgia's Supreme Court has yet to decide whether Davis can withhold millions of dollars in tax revenues from charters to help pay off an old pension debt in the district. Until that judgment comes, Davis said he couldn't "in good conscience" further burden the school system "in order to create new schools that will not pay their share."
It must be noted that no charter ever approved by the school district is even partly responsible for this pension debt, which has grown to $550 million. And no charter employee benefits from this pension plan today. Rather, as district leaders have argued in court, charters should share this burden "because it keeps the Atlanta Public Schools fiscally sound."
Those were the words of Charles Burbridge, the school district's chief financial officer, who also testified in open court that he couldn't recommend expanding charter schools in Atlanta "because every expansion of the charter school [sic] would be fewer dollars going to the traditional school district simply because of how we allocate pension."
Fortunately, Atlanta's Board of Education rejected such an argument this week and approved a new charter, the Atlanta Classical Academy, which had been in a holding pattern throughout this fight. But the fight...
When the news came Thursday that the latest CREDO report showed outsize learning gains at New Orleans charter schools, I recalled the simplicity that Neerav Kingsland used to define his idea of "relinquishment" in public education. In a recent talk with Andy Smarick that appeared on Flypaper, Kingsland, the chief of New Schools for New Orleans, said that relinquishment was based on three principles: 1) educators should operate schools, 2) families should choose among these schools, and 3) government should hold schools accountable for performance and equity.
This is relevant to the CREDO report because New Orleans is practically the only city in the United States that adheres to these principles. By the time CREDO finished its analysis of learning gains in Louisiana, and in New Orleans particularly, nearly 80 percent of all public school students in the Crescent City attended a charter school. Arguably, since Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005, a redefinition of public schooling, a rush of entrepreneurial activity, and renewed focus on what makes for a successful charter school have all contributed to the following CREDO findings:
Harvard EdLabs researchers Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer have plunged more deeply into the Harlem Children Zone's Promise Academy, emerging with positive outcomes from this high-performing charter middle school in New York City. Previously, Dobbie and Fryer found that the Promise Academy had closed the black-white achievement gap, as measured by test scores, by the time sixth-grade lottery winners reached the eighth grade. Now the pair has looked to the school's impact on more "medium-term" outcomes such as high school graduation, college enrollment, teen pregnancy, and incarceration—and they have found that the Promise Academy provides a huge human-capital boost. Six years after winning the admissions lottery, Promise Academy students not only score higher on the nationally normed Woodcock-Johnson math achievement tests than lottery losers, but they are more likely to enroll in college, by 24 percentage points. Additionally, female lottery winners are 12 percentage points less likely to become pregnant in their teens, while males are 4 percentage points less likely to be incarcerated. The Harlem Children's Zone social and community-building services are well documented, but Dobbie and Fryer attribute Promise Academy's success to the markers that make it a high-performing school (extended school time, high-quality teachers, data-driven decision making, and heightened expectations). This suggests that high-quality charters may have a bigger impact on a range of outcomes than previously thought. Hear hear! Bring on more research—and on a larger sample of charters.
SOURCE: Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer,...
Updated on August 8, 2013
As "school choice" laws go, this one is sloppy and coercive. If a school district in Missouri loses its accreditation (which means, more or less, that it's failing), then its school board must pick an accredited district to which it will send students who want to transfer. Parents may choose a different district, but they'll be responsible for their own transportation. The receiving district can't say no. And when the unaccredited school district gets back its accreditation, the students must return.
This is not like other inter-district enrollment policies, such as the Schools of Choice program in Michigan, where students may attend any neighboring district—for any reason—so long as that district chooses to participate. Most Michigan districts are happy to take additional students and the revenue that comes with them, but residents in the Missouri districts poised to receive more students under the transfer law there have revolted.
There are three unaccredited school systems in the state: Kansas City Public Schools and the St. Louis–area districts of Normandy and Riverview Gardens, all mostly black. Normandy and Riverview Gardens have chosen to bus students to suburban districts, one of which is across the Missouri River in St. Charles County, which for years has been a destination for much of the white flight from St. Louis and its environs.
Normandy chose the high-performing, mostly-white Francis Howell school system, and some Francis Howell parents, according to the New York Times, have since angrily protested the move,...


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Sweet Maria's Glossary
French Mission Bourbon |
The original coffee in East Africa brought from Reunion island to Tanzania, then Kenya. |
French Press |
A simple coffee brewer: grounds and hot water are added to a carafe, allowed to sit for several minutes, and then a filter is pushed down to hold the grounds at the bottom of the carafe. |
French Roast |
A degree of dark roast that has the sugars present in coffee heavily carmelized (read: burned) and the wood structure of the bean is carbonized and ashy. |
Fresh Roast Coffee Roaster |
A home air roaster with a 2.25oz capacity. |
Fruited |
In some coffee taster's lexicon, "fruity" means the coffee is tainted with fruit, and "fruited" means a coffee is graced by positive fruit notes. We don't exactly see the difference in terms of these two words, but the question of fruit flavors emerging in a coffee context is critical. |
Fruity |
In some coffee taster's lexicon, "fruity" means the coffee is tainted with fruit, and "fruited" means a coffee is graced by positive fruit notes. We don't exactly see the difference in terms of these two words, but the question of fruit flavors emerging in a coffee context is critical. |
FTO is shorthand for a coffee that is certified as both Fair Trade and Organic. |
Full City Roast |
A coffee that has been roasted to the brink of second crack. |
Full City+ Roast |
A roast slightly darker than Full City. At Full City+, the roast is terminated after the first few snaps of second crack. |
Furans |
Furans are a set of compounds that are important contributors to coffee aroma. |
Gabah |
In Sumatra, the term in Bahasa Indonesian for coffee that is barely dried after pulping and fermenting (or not), and ready to sell to a collector. |
Garungan |
Garungan is a coffee variety I encountered in the Lintong area of Sumatra |
Gene Cafe Coffee Roaster |
A home drum roaster with an 8oz capacity and adjustable temperature. |
George Howell |
A founder of the Cup of Excellence, he argues passionately for clean cup quality, free of flavors derived from processing. |
Gerstel-Twister |
The Gerstel-Twister allows analysis of organic compounds from aqueous matrices by Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE) |
Giling Basah |
Wet-hulled coffee is a hybrid process used in parts of Indonesia, especially Sumatra and much of Sulawesi. In wet hulling the coffee is processed as it is in the wet process used in many parts of the world, but the coffee is not allowed to fully dry. The parchment layer is removed when the coffee has 25-50% moisture content, whereas traditional wet-processing is hulled at 11%. Then the unprotected green bean is laid out to dry on the patio. In Bahasa language it is called Giling Basah. For more information Click here to read our article on wet hulling. |
Gneiss |
banded metamorphic rock; a geology term |
Golden Beans |
Golden beans are found in Yemen and Ethiopia dry-process coffees, and sometimes in other origins. They are pale yellow and slightly translucent |
Grady |
Muddled, unclean defect coffee flavor |
GrainPro SuperGrain Bag |
A multi-layer plastic bag with a gas barrier. The bags have been shown to extend the flavor life of the coffee significantly over storage in jute or burlap bags. |
Grainy |
A roast-related flavor, usually of too-light roast, like under-developed grain sweetness. Sometimes a positive term, as with light malty sweetness. |
Grassy |
Greenish flavor in the cup, usually indicating early crop, unrested coffee. |
Green Coffee |
Green coffee is the form before coffee is roasted. Green coffee is the dried seed from the fruit of the flowering Coffea shrub. |
Green Coffee Storage |
Green coffee generally remains unchanged in flavor for about a year after processing. Unroasted coffee is best stored in a cool dry place in a breathable container (i.e. burlap, cotton, paper). |
Greenish |
A smell or flavor of fresh-cut green plants, vegetable leaves or grass, usually indicating fresh new-crop coffees that have not fully rested in parchment. |
Guanabana |
A tropical fruit with distinct sweet flavor of strawberry-pineapple as well as a tart citrus accent, found in some coffees |
Guardiola |
A drum type coffee dryer used as an alternative to patio drying of wet process coffees. |
Guatemala |
Guatemalan coffee is revered as one of the most flavorful and nuanced cups in the world. Due to our proximity to Guatemala, some of the finest coffees from this origin come to the United States. |
Guava |
In coffee, the very aromatic tropical fruit note of Guava. (Guayaba in Spanish) |
Guayaba |
The Spanish term for Guava, a tropical fruit flavor found in some coffees, fruited Colombia types for example. |
Hand Sorting |
Usually the final step in coffee processing, when coffee is color sorted for defects. |
Hard |
A grade of coffee commonly used in Brazil. Denotes an atringent mouth feel. |
Hawaii |
The Kona district on the big island of Hawaii produces the best coffee from this state - clean, sweet and mild. |
Hearthware Roaster |
A company that made several of the home air roasters: the Precision iRoast and the iRoast2 (all discontinued). |
Hectares |
We use this metric term often to discuss the size of coffee farms. 1 Hectare = 10000 Square Meters = 2.471 acres |
Herbal |
An aroma or flavor descriptor in coffee reminicent of herbs, usually meaning aromatic, savory, leafy dried herbs. |
Hibrido |
Hibrido means Hybrid in latin languages, and in Central America is used to mean Bourbon cultivar |
Hibrido De Timor |
Hibrido de Timor is a cross between Robusta and Timor Arabica |
Hidey |
A rustic smell or flavor of animal hides, similar to leathery. |
High Grow |
High Grown, or HG, is a coffee designation that can mean different things in different countries. |
Honduras |
Honduran coffee has been absent from the top ranks of the Specialty market, but that is all changing. It has all the environmental factors on its side: soil, altitude, climate. |
Honey |
In coffee, honey-like sweetness is often found ... but there are many forms of honey flavor... |
HotTop Coffee Roaster |
A home drum roaster with a 9oz capacity, adjustable heat and airflow profiling, and an external cooling tray. |
Hulling |
Hulling is the step at the dry mill where the green coffee bean is removed from the parchment shell. |
Ibrik |
A pot for making turkish coffee with wide bottom, narrow neck, and long handle. Usually made out of copper or brass and lined with tin. |
Icatu |
Icatu is a cultivar developed in Brazil, has high production and good disease resistance. It has robusta inputs though. |
The ICO, International Coffee Organization, is the governing body for the world coffee trade |
India |
Indian coffees are under-represented in the coffee market: they are good balanced, mild coffees. You will find the pronounced body, low acidity and subtle spicy notes pleasing, and the Mysore coffees work well under a wide range of roasts. |
Indonesian Coffee |
Indonesian coffee is known for its unique earthy, potent flavors. |
Intensity |
We have a simple scale to rate intensity in our coffee reviews, from Mild to Bold. Low intensity does not mean low quality! |
Island Coffee |
Island Coffee is our term for coffees from various islands (Hawaii, Jamaica, Australia, etc.). Island coffees typically have a mild profile. |
Jackson |
A Bourbon cultivar variant from Rwanda and Burundi. |
Jacu |
a bird-processed specialty coffee from Brazil |
Jamaica |
Jamaica coffee can be excellent mild, lush coffee... sometimes. Like Kona and Puerto Rican coffee, it is soft, mild, clean and well balanced when it is good. |
Jasmine |
A very positive floral quality in coffee, usually with a strong aromatic component, reminiscent of jasmine flower or tea. |
Java |
Java is a clean cup for an Indonesian, a fully wet-processed coffee that has the Indonesian body and thickness in the cup without earthy or dirty flavors. |
Java Cultivar |
Java Cultivar is planted widely in Cameroon, related to Abyssinia found in East Java |
JBM is short for Jamaica Blue Mountain, which is both a trade name for certain Jamaica coffee, and a Typica cultivar |
Jember |
Jember is a cultivar in Indonesia. Also a town in East Java, home of the main coffee and cocoa research institute, ICCRI |
Kenneth Davids |
A coffee writer and taster, he wrote the book on Home Coffee Roasting, literally, as well as other coffee subjects. |
Kent |
A cultivar resistant to Coffee Leaf Rust intoduced in India |
Kenya |
Kenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both in the cup, and the way they run their trade, everything is topnotch. |
Ketones |
Important carbonyl compound that contribute over 20% to coffee aromatics. |
Kona |
Kona coffee comes from farms along the Kona Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii |
Kona Typica |
A variation on Typica grown in the Kona region of Hawaii. |
Kopi Labu |
Pumpkin coffee. The term for the soft swollen coffee bean after it is wet-hulled out of parchment in Sumatra. |
A decaf plant in Germany specializing in the methylene chloride solvent method. KVW stands for Kaffee Veredelungs Werk |
Lasuna |
Lasuna is a coffee variety I have encountered in Sumatra |
Lata | |
Laurina |
Laurina or Bourbon Pointu is a cultivar with low caffeine content |
Leathery |
Aromas or flavors reminiscent of leather, a very rustic quality and not necessarily a defect. |
Liveliness |
A euphemistic term we use often to describe acidity in coffee. A lively coffee has more high, acidic notes. |
Lot |
The specific batch of coffee as processed by mill and imported as a separate commodity. |
Macchiato |
A simple espresso drink: a shot of espresso with a small dollop of foamed milk on top. |
Maillard Reaction |
An important reaction in coffee roasting that results in the browning of the green coffee seed. |
Malic Acid |
An acid that adds to favorable perceptions of cup quality; malic acid often adds apple-like flavors |
Mandheling |
A trade name used for wet-hulled Sumatra coffees. |
Manual Grinder |
A burr grinder powered by hand-turning a crank. |
Maracatu |
A cross between large-bean Maragogype and Catuai cultivars. |
Maracaturra |
As the name indicates cross between large-bean Maragogype and Caturra cultivars. |
Maragogype |
Maragogype is a mutation of Typica coffee and was discovered in Brazil, featuring very large seed size. |
Meters Above Sea Level ... altitude that is... |
Mbuni |
Also spelled M'buni or Buni, this is a Swahili term that refers to dry-process coffee. |
Mechanical Dryer |
A coffee dryer used as an alternative to patio drying of wet process coffees. |
Medicinal |
Medicine-like, alcohol or chemical type flavor taint. |
Melange |
A blend containing a coffee that has been roasted to a different levels (or steps) - light to dark. |
Mellow |
A general primary-to-secondary post gustatory flavor characterization, often called rich or alternately smooth. |
Methylene Chloride Decaf |
A solvent-based method for washing the caffeine out of coffee. Called MC decaf for short |
Mexico |
Mexican coffee originates from South-central to Southern regions of the country. For that reason, coffees from Coatepec and Veracruz are much different from Oaxacan Plumas, which are in turn much different from the Southernmost region of Chiapas. |
Mibirizi |
A Bourbon cultivar variant from Rwanda and Burundi. |
Micro-Lot |
A term that designates not only a small volume of coffee, but a lot produced separately, discretely picked or processed to have special character. Read the full definition! |
Micro-Mill |
Small independent mills that produced finished coffee, ready for export, usually right on the farm. |
Mildewy |
Off aroma and flavor that reminds one of a dank, moldy closet. This flavor can hint at a dangerous coffee mold and should not be consumed. |
Mill |
A coffee mill might mean a coffee grinder, but we usually use the term to refer to a coffee processing facility, either a Wet-Mill or a Dry Mill. |
Minerally |
A flavor or aroma reminicient of minerals. |
Mint |
A flavor hint of mint found in coffee, which could indicate a clean and brisk mint hint, or a more rustic dried mint. |
Moka Pot |
Moka Pots are stovetop brewers that produce something between espresso and Turkish coffee. |
Mokha |
The Yemeni type of coffee, both in terms of the family of cultivars planted there, and the general trade name. |
Monsooned Coffee |
A method of ageing coffee in India where the unroasted coffee is exposed to humid monsoon winds. |
Mucilage |
Indicating the fruity layer of the coffee cherry, between the outer skin and the pachment layer that surrounds the seed. |


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Brrr... Did I just see Lucifer skating home from work?
Phoronix: AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation
For the past several weeks we have been referencing AMD's "tcore" in several of our articles, which is a user-space software suite that has been developed and used internally at ATI by engineers to work on various aspects of their binary drivers. Tcore is primarily used for testing prior to the availability of the actual silicon for their forthcoming graphics processors. John Bridgman and Alex Deucher have been working tediously to get this tcore source-code sanitized and cleared for public release, and finally they have reached this milestone. AMD has just published the first bits of open-source 3D programming documentation for ATI GPUs. This 3D programming documentation covers the R500 series and even goes back with information on the R300/400 series as well. The R600 3D programming guide will also be out soon. This information available today is what will foster the growth of open-source R500/600 3D support for the Radeon and RadeonHD drivers as well as R600 2D acceleration.
Brrr... Did I just see Lucifer skating home from work?
by when can we expect radeon/radeonhd to offer a 3d driver supporting AIGLX/Compiz? I am fed up of fglrx.
In related news, hell has frozen over.
At current progress (RadeonHD)...not for a while. More people who can contribute to the RadeonHD driver the better - speeds things up so if you can help, go for it.
Radeon...maybe faster perhaps...I'm sure they want to start on the r300 and r400 stuffs soon.
The changes from R3xx to R5xx are relatively small on the 3D side - mostly the way fragment shaders are loaded into the chip. It looks like the changes can be made in the existing "r300" mesa code, ie no need to start a new 3D driver for 5xx. We are hoping that the documentation will also help provide better understanding of the functions which are common from 3xx to 5xx.
The current thinking is to have all drivers use the same 3d and drm code, so once radeonhd has dri support added we should be able to have everyone share the same 3d code.
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but does 3D==AIGLX/Compiz or is it just the way to GLX_ext_Texture_from_pixmap and composite needed for compiz+aiglx
yaa that i know wat i asked was that will AIGLX be the 1st thing 3d devs will be looking at or will we first have a stable fast open gl driver and then move on to aiglx as a secondary goal
I think they'll first create the basic 3d code, just to make things work, and then they'll stabilize it.
After that they can add compiz support (still to just make things work) and then they'll optimize it. Speed isn't a that important feature yet as radeonhd is still in a relatively young development phase.


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Having grown up in the South, the daughter of someone who wrote her masters thesis on Southern fiction, the idea of writing even a 300 word review of William Faulkner's classic Light in August is intimidating, to say the least. In the South, Faulkner is a rite of passage, someone we all read in high school or college but certainly not since, preferring to celebrate our literary legacy through more contemporary "Southern fiction light". Faulkner is just tough it's dense and wrought with meaning classic literature at its finest, but not what you would call a beach read (unless you're my mom).
And then I listened to Will Patton perform Faulkner's Light in August.
Faulkner's stories are written out of chronological order, in layers, in such a way that you might come to know a story over time from hearing it told by many different people in a place. Those who have studied Faulkner say when you get really caught up in one of the author's page-long sentences, the best thing to do is read it out loud.
It's even better to listen. With intonation, and the honey smooth cadence of Patton's voice, the story is suddenly clearer.
Patton introduces us to Lena Grove as she begins her journey to find the father of her unborn child, Lucas Burch. Instead she finds Byron Bunch, who feels a strong pull to take care of her, though it puts him in an awkward social position. For guidance, Byron visits the Rev. Gail Hightower, a man so haunted by not even his own past, but that of his grandfather, that he has trapped himself in his own home.
Even before we encounter Joe Christmas, the 33-year old drifter of ambiguous race, the allusions to the life and death of Jesus are thick. There is a fire and a murder, and it all unravels from there. Patton's voice carries us through it all, enhancing the story with approachability and authenticity. The Charleston-born Patton's southern accent is true and real—not a touch of the theatrical, overdone linguistics adopted by some other actors.
In Light in August, Faulkner addresses themes of morality and race, religion and redemption all too deeply to address in these few words. But he does it without preaching or judgment, leaving the reader and in this case the listener to wonder about our own stories, and how they might be told. Sarah Evans Hogeboom
Audible is pleased to present Light in August, by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner.
An Oprah's Book Club Selection regarded as one of Faulkner's greatest and most accessible novels, Light in August is a timeless and riveting story of determination, tragedy, and hope. In Faulkner's iconic Yoknapatawpha County, race, sex, and religion collide around three memorable characters searching desperately for human connection and their own identities.
Audie Award-winning narrator Will Patton lends his voice to Light in August. Patton has narrated works by Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, Pat Conroy, Denis Johson, Larry McMurtry, and James Lee Burke, and brings to this performance a keen understanding of Faulkner, an authentic feel for the South, and a virtuoso narrator's touch.
As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Light in August, you'll get exclusive bonus audio added to your library - an interview with James Lee Burke about William Faulkner, conducted by James Atlas.
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"For all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics." (Ralph Ellison)
"Superb reading of an excellent work"
Despite being familiar with other major Faulkner works, I knew very little about this one. It is certainly a more dramatic, more suspenseful, and more accessible work fhan some of his other major works. I loved it. I think it would have a wider popularity if it were not for the rather rough characters and lives presented in the work, but it is certainly masterful story telling. It may be my favorite Faulkner work at this point. It avoids much of the the observations, asides, and other aspects (which I like - BTW) of many Faulkner works, making it seem more like traditional fiction, somewhat different from most Faulkner. I was left thinking what a great, great writer he was. The reading could not be better.
"A fantastic reader gives life to the story"
Tough, heartwrenching and full of quiet fury. Not an easy and pleasant book at all. Patton does a great work and gives life and feeling to Faulkner's deliberate, hard words.
I recommend it if you are in for something strong.
"Not to be missed!"
I read this novel in school, many years ago, when the only TV you could get was in black and white. I remember liking Faulkner somewhat but also remember that I sometimes had to struggle to get through it. This schoolboy bias stuck with me and I hesitated to download this novel. To be honest, Will Patton was the determining factor as well as the extra James Lee Burke interview. I'm a strong JLB fan and I believe Patton is Burke's best narrator.
Little did I know what was in store for me. "Light in August" is so relevant today; like any great classic, it speaks to every age. Stories within stories, a vast tapestry of what the world looked like then and it all comes to life thanks to Will Patton's magnificant narration.
"Light in August" is not light reading, but you'll find yourself immersed in a world you won't want to end.
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I can't say enough positive things about Will Patton's narration: he creates a full cast of distinct characters, right down to the extremely minor "walk-ons", without one iota of stereotypical Southern Fried Phoniness. I will definitely seek out other titles he has narrated.
This narrational clarity is a real plus, as Faulkner's literary style can be a challenge involving as it does a myriad of forms: stream of consciousness, spiral narratives, direct down-home storytelling, allegory, as well as highly charged and poetic language. That said, this is a deeply humane novel full of the best and worst of human behavior, vivid descriptions of character and setting, as well as moments of deep, sly humor.
The production values are quite good. I've really enjoyed the audible productions I've listened to.
"Will Patton & Faulkner = wonderful"
Faulkner isn't for everyone, and it took me several tries to latch onto him, but once I did, years ago now, it was a revelatory experience. Hearing Will Patton read Faulkner and bring voices to those characters is another revelation - I hate having to shut down the ipod and leave the story hanging.
""I am glad I read it....""
Definitely a classic, characterization is very rich in detail. Narration is superb. I didn't read Faulkner in college or high school, and I'm not sure it could be appreciated by someone in High School. Midway through the book I did some research on Faulkner and on the book which helped considerably. It is amazing to me that this was written in the 1930's, which sheds light on why the author's work wasn't appreciated in his life time--it's not pulp fiction. It is not an easy book to read or listen to. I expected the racial prejudice but was surprised by the "fire and brimstone" religious overtones, and the degree that women were denigrated by many of characters in the book. I will be digesting this for quite awhile.
I'm a 60 yr old former English major and grad student. It's been fascinating revisiting the books I studied in my 20s, read aloud to me.
"Revisiting Faulkner"
Like many others, I read this novel and other Faulkner novels as an English major in my teens and early 20's. I'm 58 now and on an impulse clicked on Light in August as one of my monthly credits a couple of weeks ago. As when I heard Moby Dick on Audible a year or two ago, I am amazed and haunted by the writing, the symbolism, and the themes these writers expressed. What geniuses! As a teenager and very young adult, I really just had no clue what I was reading. I remembered these were "hard" novels. Will Patton's narration of Light in August made all the difference. He's an actor and a Southerner born and bred, and his voice and delivery reflect his roots as well as make this one of the most powerful "reading" experiences I've had in a lifetime of reading (and a few years of listening, via Audible, to classics I've been revisiting now in later middle age). The stories in this novel are hard to take; they are violent, cruel, barbarous. As another reviewer said, there's no one to "root for" because all the characters are flawed, to say the least. The racism is extraordinarily cruel and almost unbelievable today, except for the newsreels we've all seen of Mississippi and Alabama during the civil rights era. It's hard to fathom that anyone ever believed that having even a drop of Negro blood (the novel's words) somehow damned you, made you an outcast, even a monster, for life. And in this novel, the "tainted" blood is just a rumor, even to the guy that supposedly is "cursed" with it. But that rumor is enough, and the boy, then the man, never lives a moment in peace. Faulkner's living breathing descriptions of nature, seasons, woods, weather, wind, moonlight, dew in the mornings, the splintered wood of old cabins and old handbuilt furniture are filmlike in intensity. I can readily believe he spent time in Hollywood as a screenwriter, since he naturally writes in dense, filmlike images full of mystery and foreboding. Superb production in every way
"An American Tradegy"
I am not an American so, when I had the opportunity to visit the States earlier this year I thought I would read some American Literature. I came upon Faulkner quite by chance, so I bought the book to listen to on the plane. What an absolute joy. I must admit I started it thinking, "I do not like this at all", but, with the skilful weaving of the stories and the intimate, unhurried development of the characters the story and the writing began to grip me.
The story itself is bleak and reminds me of the tone and landscape of the writings of JM Coetzee. However, the characters within the stories are so finely drawn that they become clearly and uniquely defined within the bleakness. They are not bleak, they are tragic and fascinating, they drew me into the story and they seem to have become real people rather than the characters of a novel.
The wider themes of racism, sexism and poverty are so clearly traced that they almost seem like unique characters within the novel. What I think Faulkner does particularly well is to breathe these external cultural and economic elements into his characters so it is clear how embedded they are in their culture. The question I found myself asking was always "if it had been different, what then, how would the inner worlds of the characters and their behaviours been different if their lives had, somehow, been gentler, calmer, less stark?". I think that this is Faulkner's key strength. He insists that his reader asks these questions but leaves no opportunity for a kinder, gentler world for his characters. Poverty, lack of opportunity and narrow minded bigotry always limit choices in this novel, and these conditions are never absent.
On a final note, the narration is superb. Once again, being a non-American, has made accessing the various elements of the book a lot easier.
"Tiresome. Dreary. Slow. Drawn out."
I feel compelled to write a review (my first!) about this book since I had a much less enjoyable experience than most of the other reviewers so far, and I frankly struggled to complete this book.
This is not due to the narration of Mr. Patton, or the production of the audiobook. Both were outstanding.
Although I was looking forward to my first Faulkner book, and I love southern fiction, about midway through I found myself wishing it would be over so I could move on to my next book.
I think my disinterest was largely due to the fact that it seemed like there were no clear protagonists in this story, or at least very few characters with any likeable and redeeming characteristics. There was nobody to "root" for, and that left me disengaged and uninterested. Combine that with the rehashing the same tiresome themes over and over again, along with the understated and slow writing style and dialogue, and it made finishing the book a chore.
Obviously, I am in the minority. I know this is considered a classic. I just wanted to warn other readers that this might be one of those classics that might require a bit more effort on the reader's part, and you may not enjoy it in the end.
"Patton is great"
With apologies to all the Faulkner enthusiasts, I found this to be a beautifully written and terribly dreary novel. Will Patton was excellant as usual.
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Diana JorgensonPortola Editor8/14/2010It will rain in Blairsden the weekend of Aug. 20 -21. It will rain at 8 p.m. Friday evening. It will rain at 4 p.m. Saturday as well and again at 8.
It will flash lightning and thunder will roar. The sound of wind will add to the mix and rain will be heard pelting the roof. There will be a full-scale thunderstorm with all of its drama and majesty, but the storm will be a very local affair, and no one need worry about lightning strikes or wildfire.
This thunderstorm will be fully contained in The Barn during performances of Stars in the Barn, an entertainment conceptualized by local businessman Chris David.
In a recent interview, David described the thunderstorm opening created wholly on computer and enthused about the talent creating the lighting and sound for the show: "The technicians are all superstars in their own right. They've been all over the world."
The show brings to Mohawk Valley the very finest human and horse athletes and combines an eclectic grouping of acrobatics, horse dancing, visual collage and Japanese drumming for entertainment the likes of which Eastern Plumas has never seen before.
"We've got the best talent in the world coming here that weekend," David said. "I'm very proud of it. I haven't done anything like this in a while, so it's exciting."
David is no newcomer to the entertainment world. Before coming to Plumas County 20 years ago and putting his showmanship to work in the local real estate market, he had spent 30 years entertaining, much of it touring and traveling the length and breadth of the United States and Canada.
He's not only put together shows, he's participated in long-running Broadway productions, such as "Hair," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Promises, Promises."
It was natural for David to participate in this show. He was a drummer in "Hair" and he'll drum in this show, this time in tandem with Sacramento Taiko Dan, a Japanese drumming group that performs worldwide and just returned from a tour through Japan. Following the performance here, the group will perform in San Francisco.
David will also perform with his Friesian stallion, Iondor, his new abiding passion.
His wife, Bonnie, was the horse rider in the family when they lived on the East Coast; Chris became interested when they lived in Las Vegas.
"For years, I've been looking for the right horse. When I met Iondor, I became enthralled with being the best rider I can be," David said. "It's a passion. It's become a real passion."
When David found Iondor three years ago, the Friesian was pulling a carriage. It turns out, he's a dancer.
Last summer, the pair participated in Trails and Vistas in Tahoe and was the entertainment at one of the stops during the weekend event. David and Iondor were performing a piece paying homage to the Samurai warrior in partnership with Taiko drummers.
Sometimes, the drummers, seeing a new group of people coming, would drum a welcome before their arrival and Iondor would begin to dance.
The horse was so trained to dance with the drums that David finally had to ask them not to begin drumming until he was in the saddle.
David also discovered their act was one of the favorites that weekend, so he has expanded it for this production. The drums and the rhythm of the horse worked well together, he found.
"The Samurai warriors, over 1,100 years, served and protected the people of the villages that they lived in," David explained, adding a bit later, "For them, it was a way of life, one requiring meditation and dedication."
David and Iondor train every day as befits the passion he expresses for horsemanship. In the course of the interview, he went into a lengthy discussion of the attributes honed by honest horsemanship, generous with his praise for Iondor, and the importance of communication between rider and horse.
The best equestrians, he noted, can control a horse with a slender thread or a piece of paper because of the connection between them.
Diane Olds-Rossi, featured artist at the Stars in the Barn show, is such an equestrian. Her commands to her horse are barely perceptible David said.
"She allows the horses their true and full athletic ability," he said, adding that her performance takes classical dressage into the realm of entertainment.
"It'll be one of the highest forms of horsemanship eastern Plumas County residents have seen."
Apparently the world's top equestrians agree, for they have invited her to perform at World Equestrian Days in Lexington, Ky. in October.
Olds-Rossi will bring a Lipizzaner stallion and the only registered red Friesian in the world, Fire Magic, to star in her acts.
David is equally awed by Christine Van Loo, acrobat and contortionist, also performing at Stars in the Barn. She's performed with Paul McCartney and at the Super Bowl - several of them. "She's the cat's meow," he said.
Seven-time national champion and Olympic Female Athlete of the Year, Van Loo put the spider in "Spiderman" with her stunt work. She performs with a length of silk, among other things, and will perform hand-to-hand acrobatic work with Sonny Brown, another renowned acrobat who's leaving his Las Vegas show with a stand-in to perform at Stars in the Barn.
Kansas Carradine, of the acting family Carradine, has made a name for herself as an actor, but found her real niche as an acrobatic rider. She also excels at roping and has become a top lasso artist. She will show off both talents at the Stars performances.
Alain Gauthier is co-directing the production with David and adds his background working with Cirque du Soleil and Cavalia, the largest equestrian touring show in the world. He is orchestrating the visual images that will be a background to all the acts in Stars in the Barn.
Acclaimed songwriter and musician Rob Gilmore will handle the sound work. When Gilmore saw the venue at The Barn, he exclaimed "What a find! What a wonderful place to do a lot of different things. We could do anything."
David sees it the same way, "What this area needs to economically survive is at least two more 4th of July weekends," he declared.
Actually, he'd like to see smaller crowds than now congregate in Mohawk for Independence Day but more consistently spread throughout the year. "That way, we could have more of a night life here without losing the tranquility of the area."
In the meantime, David wants to share his passion for horses and his longtime love for music with the community. He hopes it will encourage visitors to come back again - and expect the unexpected in Plumas County.
He is grateful to Plumas Pines Golf Resort for sponsoring the event and providing the seed money for this unique, premier performance.
"The talent that is coming to Stars in the Barn to perform is equal to - and better - than what you will find in any production show in the world," David stressed. "I want Plumas County to see this and enjoy this."
Tickets are available at Graeagle Associates, Gumbas, Epilog Books, Eastern Plumas Chamber of Commerce, Coldwell Banker-Chandler Real Estate and Plumas Pines Golf Resort. For credit card sales, call 836-4421.


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Written on June 1, 2006 Byers Customs' '55 Surf-BurbanThere's nothing better than getting to see a unique project from behind the veiled curtain of the buildup. Unlike spoiling the plot, revealing some of the intricacies involved oftentimes piques interest in seeing the finished product, not to mention pointing out little tricks and whatnot that sometimes go unnoticed when all's said and done. As promised last month, here's a little sample tasting of a project now underway in the great Pacific Northwest--Auburn, Washington, that is.
Jon Byers and the crew at Byers Custom & Restoration are nearing completion of the shop's own set of wheels, a custom '55 Chevy Suburban--or "Surf-Burban" as we like to call it. Just in case you didn't catch the preview in the June issue with the Eric Brockmeyer rendering, we took the pleasure of running it once again. And as it stands now, the only real deviance from that original artwork is the elimination of the lower branch of flames (only the beltline stretch will remain), giving the truck a sleeker look overall. You'll all have to wait till later this summer to find out for real--stay tuned!
For more info in the meantime, you can visit online at www.byerscustoms.com to see what else the guys are customizin' and restorin'.