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Taxi drivers in São Paulo
WEll, I live in São Paulo, and have lived here all my life. And I know many taxi drivers (as they told me) deceive foreigners and tourists taking the longest route possible to a place. Not all drivers do that, but some even wanna cash a little more on locals, so you can imagine what happens to tourists.
Unique Suggestions: I recommend printing your route via google maps and then letting the driver know you're aware of what your route is going to be.
Fun Alternatives: Riding the bus or the metro may be the best way to get where you want at the cheapest price, but cabs are affordable and generally honest. Don't be too afraid of them, just keep your head up.
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Fleeced at the Americano Bar in Sao Paulo
Beware of the strip clubs. I walked into a place called the Americano Bar on Augusta street in San Paulo and after having a few drinks they approached me with a bill for over 400 reas and the bouncers didn't want to let me leave until I paid it. I didn't have my credit card with me for safety reasons so I gave them almost that amount and ran out the door. I was a bit sacared, the bouncer wanted to take me in the back room. What makes it worse is I don't speak a bit of Portuguese. And all this happened while sitting at the bar flirting with a pretty girl. There was not even any stripping going on in the seedy place.
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No Imminent Tourist Trap Danger
São Paulo is not a tourist destination even though there are loads of people coming here from all over the planet..... but these are either business travellers , people visiting parents , country folks trying to make a living in the big city..... I'm not saying that Paulistanos are all saints, but you , the foreigner , will have a hard time finding someone to con you.... In fact , people here tend to be friendly , helpfull and do not take advantage of you ( unless of course , you're being mugged... but this wouldn't be a tourist trap , would it...?).
So don't expect the shop , the taxi driver , the restaurant etc . to charge you more than local people or to come whining and begging for more....
Relax , this is São Paulo , on one hand very , very stressy , on the other one very , very relaxing....
Unique Suggestions: Find out what or where it is... and let me know because after 19 years of living here ( and of course I'm still considered a foreigner , mainly because of my obvious accent ) I still haven't found out where to find a nice , updated and genuine tourist trap in my city....
Fun Alternatives: Sorry , can't help here anymore , just reassure you that you most probably will NOT have a tourist trap experience in São Paulo , as opposed to Rio de Janeiro where your chances to find or step into one are definitely higher.....
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Cheap Audio CD copies? Or ripp off?
There are lots of street vendors selling CD copies. I was stupid enough to buy 2 albums.
One of which was totally blank and the other only played the first 2 songs and then stopped.
Unique Suggestions: Try before you buy.
Fun Alternatives: Go to a record shop and buy the original.
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Warning:it may rain or not
Keep a lookout for umbrella sellers they seem to know when it is going to rain and appear suddenly like mushrooms,in tropical countries it comes suddenly the rain but soon stops again,if you already have 6 or 7 umbrellas at home dont get another one..
Unique Suggestions: not a tourist trap really just a friendly warning.
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Ayrton Senna's Gravesite
This is a major destination for so many motor sport enthusiasts, but I think people should just leave him rest in peace. Anyway, I really doubt those people even visit their deceased family members on cemeteries.
2 years ago we visited his grave only because my husband, who's French, wanted to. The cemetery is very far from the city centre and if you don't know the area, you'll certainly get lost (we did!).
It was on All Saints' Day (or a day after) and there were many flowers around, including a bouquet from Diego Maradona.
Unique Suggestions: Place a nice bouquet. You can buy flowers at the entrance of the cemetery.
Cemitério do Morumbi
Rua Deputado Laercio Corte, 468
Morumbi/Sao Paulo/SP
Phone::(11)3758-0391 / (11)3062-2277
If you wanna see a photo of his grave:
"Nada Pode Me Separar Do Amor De Deus" = Nothing will separate me from the love of God
Fun Alternatives: Go shopping or go to the movies instead! There is a shopping mall not too far from there.
To visit the caves as the ones in Petar,the majority in their original state,you have to be careful with some things,mainly to maintain the caves conservation,such as :
Never enter alone in the caves,always wait for the guided tour hours or for an experienced person,who knows how to move in it.
Do not step in the stone formations inside ,pay attention not to break anything with your headlamp.
In case you got lost,don't panic!Stand and wait for help,but,help will only be possible if you informed your route to the guides at the checkpoints by filling the cave visit form.For caves outside the park,always inform someone who joined you or a local that you're taking such track.
OK, here it comes - the Museum...
OK, here it comes - the Museum of Art in Sao Paulo (MASP). I know, I know - it has great names, that's true, but the paintings aren't. Also, if I recall it correctly, everything was indicated in Portuguese - how can you learn something about brazilian painters if you can't read it?
Well, not a real tourist trap,...
Well, not a real tourist trap, but not very exciting nevertheless - the 'Butantan'-Institute (located within the area of the university of Sao Paulo). Best day to visit should be Monday, when people are feeding the snakes there.
Sao paulo fisrt time
dont forrget your vaccation becouse you dont feel that the time is running.
Unique Suggestions: give a time and visit all accross Sao paulo city.
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|Oud Metha
|On Fri, Apr 27
at Club Sensation
Russian hip-hop trio Krec perform for the first time in Dubai, with vinyl-scratchin' warm-up from DJ Nik
|Sheikh Zayed Road
|On Fri, Apr 27
|DJ: Hip hop, R&B & D&B
at Casa Latina Bar
This award-winning, well-attended indie night welcomes veteran UK DJ and Trilogy resident Conan Manchester into the fold, promising an eclectic set veering from '70s rock to '90s hip-hop, plus a stint behind the decks from founder Andy Buchan
|On Fri, Apr 27
|DJ: Hip hop, R&B & D&B DJ: House & techno
Scott Mills
at JA Jebel Ali Golf Resort
Currently holidaying in Dubai, UK Radio 1 legend Scott Mills is playing a one-off set of beach rhythms, with warm-up from resident Phil Richardson
|Jebel Ali
|On Fri, Apr 27
|DJ: House & techno Free
Sole DXB Sneaker Summit
at Alserkal Avenue
The Middle East's 'only sneaker festival' – 'trainers' to Brits
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|On Fri, Apr 27
|Free Live rock, retro & pop
South Africa Freedom Day with Goldfish
at Sandance Beach
Fresh from rocking Atlantis beach at Sandance last November, quirky jazz-infused dance duo Goldfish
|Palm Jumeirah
|On Fri, Apr 27
|Live jazz & blues
The Do Over presents The Dune Over Dubai featuring Aloe Blacc
at XL Dubai
Established in 2005 in Los Angeles as a music-centric backyard boogie to celebrate the city's myriad people and cultures, the notorious Do-Over arrives for the first time ever to the UAE
|Dubai Marina
|On Fri, Apr 27
The Dune-Over
at XL Dubai
The first Dubai incarnation of The Do-Over
|Dubai Marina
|On Fri, Apr 27
|DJ: House & techno
Tom Budden
at 360°
Brit house talent Budden boasts a driving sound
|Umm Suqeim
|On Fri, Apr 27
|DJ: House & techno Free
UAE Metal Monsters
at Greenbelt Lounge
Expect some seriously heavy headliners at this local showcase
|Bur Dubai
|On Fri, Apr 27
|Live rock, retro & pop
411 Saturdays featuring DJ Masterstepz
at People by Crystal
Top UK urban and garage DJ Masterstepz joins the 411 team for one night only, alongside residents DJ Bliss and Mr Shef Codes
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|On Sat, Apr 28
|DJ: House & techno Free
Salsa Dance Courses
at Dubai Community Theatre & Arts Centre
Salsa dance classes in Dubai
|On Sun, Apr 29
Bar Bands
at The Huddle Sports Bar & Grill
Soft rock band Night Shift playing all your favorites
|Bur Dubai
|Sun, Apr 1 to Mon, Apr 30
|Live rock, retro & pop
Jebel Ali Club Quiz Night
at Jebel Ali Golf Club
A 10-round showdown of wits
|Jebel Ali
The Laughter Factory
at Grand Millennium Dubai
The line-up for this month: Andrew Bird, Phil Nichol, Roger Monkhouse
|On Wed, May 2
Armani/Privé second anniversary party
at Armani Privé
The upmarket, fashion-inspired club celebrates two years in Dubai with a set from Armani Milan's resident DJ Flash
|Downtown Dubai
|On Thu, May 3
|DJ: House & techno Free
at Cavalli Club
The American rap star and actress – best known for hit 'Who's That Girl' and Gwen Stefani collaboration 'Let Me Blow Your Mind' – flies in for an intimate club set
|Sheikh Zayed Road
|On Thu, May 3
Serani Live at Chi Garden
at Chi@The Lodge
Serani performs live
|Oud Metha
|On Thu, May 3
The Laughter Factory
at Grand Millennium Dubai
The line-up for this month: Andrew Bird, Phil Nichol, Roger Monkhouse
|On Thu, May 3
Audio Tonic Sunset Sessions present Acos CoolKAs and Seva K
at 360°
Russian house duo Acos CoolKAs, known for their work on the Thematic label, and electro-flavoured deep house DJ Seva K headline
|Umm Suqeim
|On Fri, May 4
|DJ: House & techno Free
One Acoustic Night with Aiza Seguerra
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Fall in love, reminisce and sing along with Asia's Acoustic Sensation live in Dubai
|On Fri, May 4
Sandance with Fatboy Slim, Travis, Morcheeba, Tinchy Stryder, Zane Lowe & The Japanese Popstars
at Sandance Beach
For the final Sandance before summer, the award winning festival presents one of its best beach line ups
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The second Detroit Homecoming is set for this week. Last year's inaugural event — which brought successful Detroit-area natives back to the city — drummed up more than $230 million in direct investment, including a $2 million gift to Wayne State University from Thomas Tierney.
The university has the third-largest endowment among public colleges in the U.S.
Those investments, which commonly take the form of debt, equity, guarantees and deposits, will come on top of the nearly $140 million in grants the Troy-based foundation makes each year to expand the impact it has in its mission-driven focus areas.
With millions of dollars flooding the market, craft brewers across the U.S. and in Michigan are weighing whether financial plays will find them big profits or find them punch drunk by the big money milieu.
Next week will be big for startup tech companies looking for funding, and for investors searching for people and products in which to invest. It's being billed as the first annual Demo Week in Southeastern Michigan.
Former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda launches mail-order bakery business with his daughter.
Financial shockwaves from the world's second-largest economy continued to ripple through global markets last week, but the advice from regional analysts is to focus on long-term stability over immediate losses.
The U.S. stock market took investors on a stomach-churning ride Monday, as the Dow Jones industrial average briefly plunged more than 1,000 points and the Standard & Poor's 500 index entered "correction" territory, sending a shiver of fear from Wall Street to Main Street.
The Livonia-based machined aluminum component supplier plans to diversify its customer profile and reduce its reliance on the auto industry with acquisitions in California, Arizona and Alabama.
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Who invented the transporter and replicator? And computer?
Charles Babbage gets a lot of mileage these days, inventing what is basically a mechanical computer called the difference engine, which a working model was made of in 1991 from his design! Usually when we think steampunk, this is where it originates from.
Computers using more familiar techniques appeared in 1939. In 1940 a computer used remote accessing(like the internet...no Al Gore wasn't around). In 1944, a machine called Colossus did it's number crunching in breaking Nazi codes, it was kept a secret till the 1970s! The famous, and gigantic ENIAC appeared in 1946. The first microcomputer appeared in 1971, things moved slowly but surely, finally snowballing 10 years later into PCs and Macs. In 1960 the first modem was used, and in 1970 Arpanet was started. During the 70s SF writer's often had their terms "used" be real life researchers, such as "worm", et al...
BUT SF writers seemed to be slow in understanding the implications of computers, preferring slide rules to stored program or even mechanical computers of more sophistication. The earliest mention I can find of an info giving machine was in 1726, in Gulliver's Travels. "The Machine Stops"(1909) was a revelation:it provided life support, entertainment, communication and lots of things we associate modern computers with. In 1939, the ever reliable Robert Heinlein used a ship with a navigation computer.
I'm not including other forms of AI in this post.
Computer History
Replicators: First mention..Tom Swift(1910)...byproducts of a cyclotron are used to make any material desired. 1933,
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Today when we think of replicators, we think of nanotech assemblers, creating whatever we might want from molecules upward. Some current examples of 3D printers are primitive examples of making items out of raw materials for just about any need. NASA uses electron beams in experiments in orbit to create objects.
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It is not at all surprising that Route 26 began its life as a Native-American trade route, cutting its way from the sea to the mountains long before it became the winter weekend escape route for the downhill set. But slow down, it's way more than just a stretch of highway to get to the slopes. Follow us on our quick tour heading north from Gray to Woodstock.
Of course, the outdoor recreation in this part of western Maine is found at every turn. One visit to the primary lakes along 26 will bring you back year after year. Try Crystal and Sabbathday Lake, Range Pond State Park or Norway Lake (Lake Pennseewassee) and Thompson Lake for a splashing good time.
To be guaranteed a sighting of the state's most beloved animal, the moose, you need not go any farther than The Maine Wildlife Park in Gray. It's home to dozens of our state's indigenous species. Plus, park guides offer scheduled tours and talks as well.
Next, encounter a cluster of 18 tidy buildings that make up the last active Shaker Community located in New Gloucester. A visit will share a peek at life as it has been here since 1783. There are tours, workshops, a museum, and a library available for visitors. New Gloucester is also home to Pineland Farms, a pastoral 5,000-acre site that has been transformed into an organic farm, business campus, and a welcoming recreational and event venue set in the low and green rolling hills that make up this part of the region.
Close by in Poland, Poland Spring Preservation Park is home to the Poland Spring Water Museum (see the original spring), the Maine State Building from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, and the serene All Souls Chapel. Next door is the Donald Ross-designed course enveloping America's Oldest Golf Resort, and up the road, stop in at Harvest Hill Farms agricultural-tourism attraction.
Now head from country to town; Oxford offers commerce and action at Maine's newest casino. The Oxford Casino opened its doors in 2012 and quickly grew in popularity with thrill-seekers. Oxford is also home to the famous Oxford Plains Speedway and its Annual 250 held in July. Talk about action. Vrroooom!
One of the few recognized Main Street Communities in Maine, Norway offers the nicest kinds of diversions. Shop at locally owned stores housed in buildings that date from the early 1900s. Or visit the annual three-day Norway Arts Festival in July featuring more than 120 artists celebrating visual and performing arts with theater, music, crafts, and dance. North of town you'll find Lake Pennesseewassee (Norway Lake) to paddle the day away or fish for brown trout, pickerel, landlocked salmon, to name a few. So, take advantage of the two marinas and public launch and enjoy this western mountain gem.
The McLaughlin Garden and Homestead just up the road in South Paris crowns the area with its respected horticultural pedigree including Maine's largest collection of lilacs. While the Celebration Barn Theater showcases its internationally known school for physical theater that attracts touring artists, actors, dancers, mimes, jugglers and storytellers.
Our journey through this part of the region ends at Bryant Pond and Woodstock, a rural town with a pretty pond loved by many native Mainers and a claim to fame as the home of the last crank call ever made, well, the last call with a crank phone ever made.
And lest we forget while winding along route 26, you'll encounter some of the state's best rock and gem hunting. The areas surrounding Oxford Hills have been revered for their gemological attractions for more than a few generations. Rock hounds continue to come from all over to spots up and down Route 26 to make discoveries of Maine tourmaline, pegmatite in addition to good-quality feldspar and mica specimens.


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The house is bright and airy - with large patio doors leading onto the covered terrace from the lounge and the kitchen.
Ground floor:
Open plan lounge with 3 piece suite / dining area with attractive open-tread stairs leading to the mezzanine.
UK TV - 'free to view' channels, DVD, CD player.
Dining table and chairs
Separate kitchen with 5 gas hobs / electric oven, fridge/freezer, microwave & dishwasher
Washing machine
Master bedroom (with French doors onto the terrace)
Bedroom with single bed with additional double bed settee
Bathroom with bath/ shower over, twin hand basins and bidet
First floor:
Mezzanine area which has a double sofa-bed and screen for privacy
double bedroom
second double bedroom
bathroom with shower over and hand basin
Separate WC
|Sleeps up to 10, 4 bedrooms
|Car advised
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|Nearest airport: Bergerac 30 km, Nearest railway: Marmande
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|Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron
|Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 Shower rooms
|2 Sofa beds, Double beds (3), Single beds (1), Dining seats for 8, Lounge seats for 6
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Private outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Private garden, BBQ
|Parking, Suitable for people with restricted mobility, Wheelchair users
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Please bring your own pool towels.
|Further details outdoors
Les Avelines, set back from a quiet lane, has large open gardens, a covered terrace at the front of the property and ample parking space. At the side of the property and overlooking the 8 x 4m alarmed pool, there is a covered decked seating area for the whole party - this provides a wonderful setting for escaping from the heat of sun and for dining alfresco. The pool is 1.5m deep. There are sun-loungers and a built-in BBQ. There is also a covered small fish pond - this can be fenced should young children stay.
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The Aquitaine region
The 13th C bastide at Eymet, Dordogne. Bastides were fortified towns built by kings in areas where their rule was under threat. The towns were built in a grid system with arcaded square and fortified church. Eymet has some wonderful restaurants and markets. Look out for the medieval festivals in August. There are lots of things to do - especially during the summer months. Try the annual Jazz festival, The 24 hours of Swing at Monsegur, take in pretty Issigeac or sample the delights of the 'Art de la Rue' in Miramont - see the street artists in action. Bergerac, about 35 minutes away, has a medieval centre, flowery plazas and covered market.
Les Avelines is on the Lot et Garonne / Dordogne borders not far from the market town of Duras. The imposing castle, the Chateau de Duras once the stronghold of the Dukes of Duras houses a fascinating museum. Visit the annual wine festival in Early August and see the Montgolfier balloons take flight and other interesting events and expositions. Travel along the Dropt river from Eymet via La Sauvetat du Dropt, a small historic farming village with Roman bridge situated in Aquitaine, in the north west of the Lot & Garonne department, on the edges of the Dordogne and the Gironde in the valley of the river Dropt. It has around 500 inhabitants. It is mentioned during the pilgrimage of St Jacques de Compostelle.
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You need to remember yo noting your passport on your first visit it register. Small and intimate place with slots in local Hungarian HUF currency as well as Euro currency. Stop by two times and was crowded in a sense all the machines were being used several people playing two machines at a time. Finally found a free machine and...
A few days ago, my girlfriend and I wanted to go to this casino.
The door was closed, and as it was a little after 7pm, so either they open late, or they've stopped their activity.
We visited the Tropicana casino and was quite shocked regarding their bad service level compared to other places in the city.
My girlfriend that has a Moroccan origin was treated very bad in the bar and despite of two attempts to make an order (in the bar)I was finally the one that was the lucky one to be able to...
The Tropicana is about the best casino you will find in Hungary. The decor leaves much to be desired. The security check-in process is fast and the security staff is friendly. The tables are ran efficiently and the dealers are friendly. The slots are loose and people were winning. The bar is small but the drinks are good. The atmosphere...
being as this casino was ideally located near to our hotel next to chain bridge we decided to pay a visit. we needed our passports for identification on the first evening to become a member but was then given a card. walking in it was different from our regular casino type building in uk this had trees and huts as...
came here to have a look around
you have to register, so make sure you have your passport
the layout of it reminded me of something you see from las vegas
i get the impression it is the same company
when you walk in there's lots of like trees and wood
it feels like your gambling in a casino
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Camping skills: From sports to science, kids can try something totally different this summer
Summer has become a chance for kids to learn more of the fun things they've begun trying in school — or go out on a limb and explore something completely different. Today's list includes beginner or novice sports, adventure, science and skill camps available locally. A list of organizations offering art camps and classes is available here. A list of sports camps appears in the youth column of the sports section. Both the Naples and Marco Island YMCA offer camps and classes of various types as well.
Some of the camps listed here offer scholarships parents and caregivers may apply for. Also, other camps will be added as they are received.
■ First Baptist Church Naples and Fellowship of Christian Athletes are hosting the Winning Edge summer football camp for children 7-9, 10-11 and 12-14 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 20-23 at 3000 Orange Blossom Drive, Naples. $150. Registration: 596-8600, ext. 210; email@example.com or at
■ Irresistible Confections classes, the Bella Villa Shops, 8890 Salrose Lane, Fort Myers, is offering a sweet-summer camp for chocolate lovers ages 8 to 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in three one-week sessions beginning June 27. Lunch is included in the price. Kids will learn how to read a recipe, measure, temper and prepare chocolate to make molded, dipped and assorted chocolates and create truffles. $55, a single day; $150, three days; $250, a full week. Information: (239) 425-2606
■ Junior angler fishing camp, for ages 10-14, 8:30 a.m. to noon June 20-24, Rutenberg Community Park, 6490 S. Pointe Blvd.,Fort Myers. $100. Register at www.leeparks.org. (239) 533-7444
■ South Breeze Day Camp, for ages 4-14, June 13-August 5, 7100 Davis Blvd., Naples. Sports, creative and performing arts, nature and outdoor adventures as well as spirited special events. (239) 530-2999
■ Lighthouse of Collier Inc. camp for blind and visually impaired children, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in July at the Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, 851 Gulf Shore Blvd. N., Naples. Information: 430-3934
■ City of Naples parks and recreation camps offer a nearly endless variety of day camps for children 3 to 15 years old, weekly June 27 through Aug. 19. The topics range from sports — gymnastics, golf, baseball, tennis, skating, lacrosse and more — to science, nature and arts such as hip-hop and tie-dying. Prices range from $40 and up.
They are offered at parks and other public locations around the city.
If you want your children to attend a camp close to you, check with the park or city activity center near you. Registration forms are at www.naplesgov.com:
• Fleischmann Park & the Edge Johnny Nocera Skatepark, 1600 Fleischmann Blvd., 213-3020
• Naples Preserve & Hedges Family Eco Center, 1690 U.S. 41 N., 261-4290
• Norris Center, 755 Eighth Ave. S., 213-3058
• Arthur L. Allen, Tennis Center, 755 Eighth Ave. S., 213-3060
• River Park Community Center & Aquatic Facility, 301 11th St. N., 213-3047
• Anthony Park, 1500 Fifth Ave. N., 213-3039
• Gulfview Middle School Gymnasium, 255 Sixth St. S.
• Lowdermilk Park, 1301 Gulfshore Blvd
• Naples Pier, 25 12th Ave. S.
• Naples Community Sailing Center, 1101 Ninth St. S. (Naples Landing), 403-7193. Costs run from $75 to $275 per week per child.
■ Collier County Parks and Recreation camps include "Camp Collier," which gives kids a taste of everything fun, but also offer camps as specialized as sand volleyball, writing, eco-art, math, science, wakeboards, basketball swimming, kayaking and dance. The camps and classes are located at parks, schools and community centers. See the entire book at www.colliergov.netunder "programs and registration."
■ Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church adventure camp, 1225 Piper Blvd., Naples, is offering an adventure camp, separate from its vacation Bible camp, for second through fifth-graders from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. June 27-30. The camp includes a day trip tour and activity. Campers must bring their own lunches. $65. Registration forms are at www.vpcnaples.orgInformation: 597-5410
■ Wynn's Market Summer Cooking Camps with chef Annie Prizzi for children 6 to 12 one-week sessions starting June 13 at Wynn's Catering 1090 First Ave. S., Naples. Information: 261-7157
■ Sewing skills for kids by Susan Starr. Uses the students' machines at home and two students per class maximum; June 15 through Sept. 5. $50 per hour. Information: 597-5585
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Allina Medical Clinic is committed to providing a work environment where passionate people have the knowledge, tools, opportunity and freedom to make a positive difference in the lives of our patients. We want you to be part of our team where each employee contributes to our mission of exceptional primary and specialty care.
Allina Medical Clinic and their employees serve 463,000 patients, representing more than two million clinic visits at 40 locations each year. Allina Medical Clinic is part of Allina Health, a non-profit network of hospitals, clinics and other health care services.
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The clinic is 100% Primary Care.
Patients will admit to Mercy Hospital and Unity Hospital. Mercy Hospital, a 252-bed facility, responds to a wide range of health care needs with specialty services including: Behavioral Health, Cardiac, Family Centered Care, Oncology, Orthopedics and Neurology. Emergency coverage is available 24 hours.
Unity Hospital, a 274-bed facility, is one of the north metro's premier community hospitals. It offers leading edge technology, equipment, procedures, modern facilities, highly skilled professionals and a humanity that transcends the daily task of caring for sick people.
An established, award-winning Electronic Medical Record is utilized.
- Call is by phone and shared with other clinics in the region
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Knights Inn at Thousand Hills
210 S Wildwood Dr,
Branson, MO 65616
(417) 336-3770
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One Rule , Our guest rules.
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Clean hotel with customer service minded staff. Pet friendly and lots of attention to details.
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Designated Fax Line: (417) 339-2822
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Hotel Rooms, Motel Rooms, Hotel accomodations, Breakfast Included with room
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- all major credit cards, debit, travelers checks
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We are on the street that runs by the Dairy Queen on Hwy 76. We are only 1.5 blocks south of the strip, behind the Andy Williams Theatre.
Across the street from the Lone Star Steakhouse.
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Clean Rooms, Quiet hotel, Children 12 & under stay free, Free WiFi, Free Continental Breakfast, Free Parking, Outdoor Seasonal Pool, Close to fun, Walking distance to Restaurants, Pet Friendly (restrictions apply)
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Release Date:
February 1, 2008
The right time for Norway's Maria Mena to try and break America is 2004. As Britney's star falls further with each PR gaffe, Avril and fellow travelers like Katy Rose and Fefe Dobson find more and more favor. These girls, not yet women, might rock with production slickness, but self-examination, confidence, and even fear have soundly taken the place of empty objectification. Appropriately, "You're the Only One," Mena's wonderful debut single, rides its waves of emotion in the giddy first person. "You're the only one who/Holds my hair back/When I'm drunk and get sick," she sings over understated guitar and an insistent kick drum. "You're the only one who/Drags me kicking and screaming through fast dreams." Her giggly, lovestruck delivery is so wide-eyed and guileless that the lyrics are like diary entries, complete with hearts and stars doodled in the margins. "Fragile (Free)" is even more direct. Even if it sort of sounds like the acoustic verses to Skid Row's "I Remember You," Mena's tearful declaration to buck up and get over a breakup is doggone inspiring. If there was ever a time for a "You go, girl," this would be it. Musically, White Turns Blue is the product of its producer and arranger -- and co-writer with Mena -- Arvid Solvang. This means it's kind of tentative sometimes, like they're not sure what to do with her talent. It favors simplistic pop arrangements, where quietly urgent verses give way to hooky choruses ("Blame It on Me," for example). Luckily, Mena's voice is a beguiling mixture of youth and husky sensuality. She's great when she's happy, like in the winter romance and chunky electric guitars of "Take You With Me." But she's better in "Your Glasses," where her voice wavers with bruised pride. You can really feel her trying to grasp the relationship's dissolution. Other highlights include the piano-inflected, Elton John-style ballad "Shadow," as well as "What's Another Day," with its disarming lyrical asides. "'You know concrete colored buildings all grow stale/You say as I look up dreaming." White Turns Blue is actually Mena's European LP Mellow, filled out for Yanks with a few of her early singles. But the package is a solid domestic debut for Mena. If she loses just a bit of the pop sheen, she'll be awesome. Johnny Loftus, Rovi
- Genre: Rock
- Subgenre: Pop/Rock
- Category Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
- Artist: Mena Maria
- Additional Artist: Maria Mena (Vocals)
1.StopYou're the Only One 2.44
2.StopFragile (Free) 4
3.StopJust a Little Bit 3.56
4.StopBlame It On Me 3.41
5.StopMy Lullaby 2.58
6.StopTake You With Me 3
7.StopWhat's Another Day 2.57
8.StopLose Control 2.41
9.StopShadow 3.4
10.StopYour Glasses 4.02
11.StopSorry 2.52
12.StopA Few Small Bruises 3.55
other Info.
- Online Item #: 11382836
- Store Item Number (DPCI): 244-01-8246
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Jan. 13, 2011
"It was a total collaboration," says composer/sound designer/music director Kevin O'Donnell about "
(Photo by Eric Futran)
Jan. 13, 2011
Earlier this week, we challenged our sister station KUOW out of Seattle to a friendly wager over the Bears/Seahawks playoff game. Seriously, why should the mayors have all the fun? What are we wagering? Leftover pledge premiums.
Here is KUOW's response and wager:
So it's on! For those who didn't see our original video, it's below. Go Bears! We really want that Wait! Wait! mug back!
Jan. 13, 2011
Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.
In today's episode: Illinois' governor considers abolishing the death penalty; public radio turns 101; returning to the ghetto in the name of public health.
It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe.
Jan. 13, 2011
Meatball sliders from Cork & Kerry at the Park (photo: Joseph Storch)
So many flat screens, so little space at the bar. Sports fan or not, much of the city will be, ahem, a little preoccupied this Sunday, from noon until 3 p.m., watching Da Bears. If your plasma isn't working, and you want to socialize with your fellow Bears fans, check out the screens, beers and grub at one of these five, fine watering holes:
1. Joe's Sports Bar (940 W. Weed St., 312- 337-3487)
2. Mitchell's Tap (3356 S. Halsted Ave.,
3. Glascott's (2158 N Halsted St., 773- 281-1205)
Jan. 13, 2011
I saw clips of the upcoming Fox drama "The Chicago Code," and....I just don't know. There are shots of the skyline and cops busting in doors in real Chicago neighborhoods--not the mean streets of Toronto acting as a stand-in--native Jennifer Beals pulls of good Chicago accent and Delroy Lindo looks ready to take a seat in the City Council. And that is well and good.
They make good visual use of the city's architecture and structure--even bridges--and that's also a good sign. But judging by the promos, the show seems a little noisy; a little too high-octane. And although I will be watching "Code," I've always thought a real Chicago drama should be a little darker, a little more brooding.
Jan. 13, 2011
No one can have been surprised by the verdict in the Silvanus Shannon case, not after a jury last month returned the exact same result for another defendant, an unnamed minor, in less than half an hour of deliberations: guilty of the first degree murder of Derrion Albert.
This time it took 3 and a half hours for the jury to decide that Shannon killed Albert with malice, deliberately and intentionally, and with extreme disregard for human life. He had stomped repeatedly on Albert's head after Albert had been knocked helplessly to the ground in a melee on 115th Street, not far from the Agape Community Center in Roseland. Shannon covered his face and cried in court when he heard his fate.
Don't for a minute think that Eric Carson, Eugene Riley and Lapoleon Colbert—the others awaiting trial for this monstrous crime—will get anything less. The video tape evidence against them—as in Shannon's case—is simply overwhelming. In Riley's case, even his mother has already identified him on the tape. "That's Gene. That's my son," Sherry Smith told the Chicago Tribune shortly after the crime.
Jan. 12, 2011
These have not been easy times for Illinois bean counters and those who depend on them. An already weakened state balance sheet, like the pocketbooks of its already stretched citizens, was hard-hit by the recession. Ever since, the state has been caught in a cycle of rising costs, unpaid bills, public protests, and political gridlock.
That's why the Illinois Senate rocked the political world when it voted to raise the state's personal income tax rate from 3 percent to 5 percent early Wednesday morning.
The tax plan amounts to a 67 percent increase in individual income taxes, far more than the 33 percent increase Governor Pat Quinn proposed - and campaigned on - during much of 2010.
All told, the tax increase deal is expected to raise an estimated $6 billion in additional revenues for the state - an enormous windfall for state coffers and a big help to its operating budget.
But a closer look at the Illinois' fiscal condition suggests that these new tax revenues won't be enough to solve Illinois' mounting fiscal woes.
For starters, the revenue impact won't hit all at once; it will take time before the state reaps the benefits of the tax hikes. Meanwhile, the state still needs to pay unpaid bills.
In addition, by
Jan. 12, 2011
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Last weekend at The Paper Machete, we talked about the culture of theater in Victorian London. The gaslit auditoriums were hardly ideal for the performers: the sounds, the smells, and the audience made it nigh impossible for artists to accomplish something resembling art.
Yet out of this same culture, came the famous W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan and their novel light operas. After we discussed their impact on theater(as well as their business practices), the Hypocrites dropped by to perform a few songs from their recent production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."


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The Month in Techno
By Philip Sherburne , May 24, 2006
Whither minimal? Once a niche proposition, now an increasingly bulky subset of house and techno-- at least in name-- the genre is suddenly ubiquitous. A year or two ago, when Ubercoolische.com launched its not-so-gentle parody of the minimal trinity (Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin, and Magda), bringing the world the unforgettable slogan "Magda make the tea," it felt like an inside joke for Berlin clubbers and sad sacks who fantasize about club life in Berlin. But these days the word is everywhere, from I Love Music to Mixmag, a magazine that spent years pretending that German dance music didn't exist. And right on schedule, a minor minimal backlash is in the works, giving the kerplunkers their come-uppance with rhetoric of "real" musical values and resistance to formula. Even Kompakt, long one of the labels most closely affiliated with minimal house and techno, is getting into the anti- act: the press release for John Dahlbäck's new EP (as Hug) reads, "Here comes the new HUG! A massive alternative to the enormous flood of similar sounding 'Minimal Techno' records where you often can't differentiate between the 'original' and the 'imitation,' HUG is real music that one feels and needs."
Imagine a rock band using the same language to deride disco, or an underground rapper decrying "manufactured" mainstream hip-hop, and you'll realize how surreal this turn of events is. Rockism rears its head in the strangest of places. Now it's led disco's children to indulge in some of the same arguments that fueled the "Disco Sucks" backlash of the late 1970s.
If ever there were any doubt that "minimal" had jumped its rubber squeeze-toy shark, the news that OM Records has released Electrolush, a compilation of "the very best of minimal and electro nouveau," is surely the red flag over the surf. OM, for the uninitiated, is a San Francisco label specializing in deep house, "soulful" hip-hop, and downtempo; it's fair to say that accessibility is one of its defining traits. That's not to say that OM is without its merits-- for every Kaskade, the sugary pop-house star, there's a Rithma or Lance DeSardi, West Coast producers of deep, focused house grooves. (Ok, maybe there's a Rithma or Desardi for every four Kaskades.) But you don't have to be a defender of the label to agree that there's something weird about supersaturated OM suddenly sticking up for minimal techno; it's telling that they still feel the need to counter "electro" with "lush."
Something, clearly, has changed in dance music's cultural capital; a genre once relegated to junk-bond status is suddenly trading briskly and entering markets unimaginable just a few years ago. Indeed, it's difficult to pick up any dance music compilation these days without stumbling upon tracks from Dominik Eulberg, Trentemøller, and Robag Wruhme, along with even more esoteric fare. Even Misstress Barbara, traditionally a devotee of "the mainstream end of stadium/club techno," as Discogs.com bluntly puts it, got into the act this year with a mix whose press release trumpeted Barbara's brave move into hitherto unexplored genres. Can you guess at the tracklisting? Let's see, there's Donnacha Costello, Argy's "Love Dose" (Luciano mix, natch), and dark horses Alex Under, Sebo K, and Move D. Plus Nathan Fake's "Dinamo" (did you need to ask if it was Eulberg's mix?). Oh yeah, and Trentemøller-- twice.
None of this is a bad thing: Minimal's increasing popularity is good for fans and artists alike. Especially artists. The only way a musician making 12" singles with pressings in the low-to-mid four figures can make any money is to license tracks to comps and mixes. Indeed, we should be happy that Eulberg finally has enough money to install solar panels in his Black Forest cabin, and hope that the music programmers on "The O.C." take notice of the trend. Far beyond scene politics and petty partisanship, the issue here is the slippage that the very word "minimal" has taken as it shed its clicks and cuts for an unprecedented amount of buzz.
The irony, of course, is that most of this music really isn't minimalist at all, neither in terms of sound selection, rhythmic construction, or-- and often, especially-- arrangement. In fact, some of the key musicians currently identified as the vanguard of the minimal march-- Pantytec, Matt John, Dominik Eulberg, even Trentemøller-- boast some of the most unpredictable, dizzyingly detail-intensive, and convoluted tunes out there. How did this come to pass?
Sound design lends some credence-- or at least convenience-- to the term. Much current minimal favors the truncated samples, reduced bitrates, and general proclivity for clicks and pings that characterized the flourishing of a "microhouse" sensibility six or seven years ago. But hardly all of it: Areal, with its roster of Basteroid, Metope, and electro-pop darling Ada, boasts some of the heaviest-caliber analog weaponry around, so gloriously overdriven that it could fry iPod earbuds with a single filter sweep. Areal's tagline is "Tech-Electronic Minimalism," despite its confidently maximilist sound, which helps shed some light on the enduring run of minimalist rhetoric. From Minus to Underl_ne, from Kompakt's dots to Perlon's subtle-but-stark graphic identity, there's no shortage of labels that have intentionally utilized minimalist signifiers to stake their aesthetic claims.
As always, a little history helps clarify things. As I wrote in an essay for Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner's Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, it's unclear exactly when the term "minimal" crept into techno's vocabulary; as early as 1992, though, Simon Reynolds was referring to the work of Detroit techno pioneers like Derrick May as "elegantly minimalist," in contrast to the rough-and-tumble productions of the UK's breakbeat 'ardkore movement. Also in 1992, a user on the rec.music.reviews newsgroup, archived by Google, can be found referring to a "minimal bleep style," and by 1993 a poster to the alt.rave newsgroup, attempting to make some sense of electronic dance music's proliferation of subgenres, uses "minimal techno" to describe the work of both Detroit's Carl Craig and Finland's Säkhö label. By 1994-- the year that Robert Hood released his "Minimal Nation" EP on Jeff Mills' Axis imprint-- the term seems to have caught on as a general descriptor for any stripped-down derivative of classic Detroit style.
I'd say there have been four slightly asynchronous waves of minimalist dance music so far, setting aside for a moment the inherent minimalism of early house and hip-hop, which took the aesthetics of reduction and repetition as givens. (Punk and no-wave were often plenty minimalist themselves, both in a literal sense and often in relation to classic Minimalism as well; Glenn Branca or Swans have much more in common with Steve Reich than your average Perlon release.) The first wave saw artists like Mills, Hood, Hawtin, Paul Johnson, and Daniel "DBX" Bell reacting to the stripped-down intensities of early house music, focusing specifically on those qualities facilitating frictionless, streamlined grooves. The second phase overlaps with the first, as Basic Channel-- promoters of the Detroit-Berlin connection-- move from groove-based house tracks to ethereal, almost ambient cuts that read like a death mask of techno, preserving its features but hollowing out the form. Wolfgang Voigt in his Mike Ink guise and the Profan and Force Inc. labels, among many others, follow suit in varied but related European responses to a largely African-American electronic music.
By the mid-to-late 90s, minimalism becomes more self-conscious, as Mille Plateaux's Clicks + Cuts series theorizes an aesthetics not only of reduction and repetition, but more crucially of replacement: The swapping out of drum machines and synthesizers in favor of truncated samples and digital approximations of house and techno's traditional sounds. It's a meta-minimalism, if you will, reaching from Pole's flickering Waldorf filter to Thomas Brinkmann's knife-cut needle skips. Perlon, founded in 1997 and largely inspired by Baby Ford, falls into this schema as well, but this is precisely where the picture begins to blur. Despite the finely whittled sounds favored on early Perlon releases, its aesthetic has always been equally focused on discombobulating grooves and psychedelic eruptions, though never exclusively so: Markus Nikolai's Back, drawing from UK deep house and Michael Jackson, is practically a pop album.
Which brings us to the current flowering, in which "minimal" might mean anything from Motor's flywheeling EBM to Villalobos' electro-acoustic astral journeys, from Mobilee's focused rave tools to the Wighnomy Brothers' entropic bubble and spark. (Even BPitch Control gets tarred with the minimal brush, though aside from Ben Klock and occasionally Sascha Funke it's hard to hear much restraint in BPitch's overdriven electro.) Minimal has jumped from the Berlin underground to UK clubs like Fabric; Villalobos and Luciano both have residencies in Ibiza. London's Crosstown Rebels and Glasgow's Soma have both incorporated minimal as an important part of their repertoires. And so on, and so on, and (in the style of Robag Wruhme), s-s-s-s-so o-o-o-o-o-nnnnnn. It all gets lumped together as "minimal," regardless of how tenuous the relation to traditional minimalist aesthetics. (Especially in the woodchipping chaos of Eulberg and Wruhme, I often think that this stuff should be called "busy beaver music.") Not the end of the world, perhaps; but if we're committed to the accuracy and specificity of the language we use to describe music, it bears examining.
The problem, insofar as there is one, is that no terms have come along to supplant "minimal," and it's come to mean as little as "progressive," a genre misnomer if ever there was one. Let's face it, some genre tags simply suck: Witness IDM, a name so powerfully lame (and lamely powerful) that it birthed an entire movement of lackluster music to fit the desires of an internet mailing list. Other appellations manage to transcend their signifiers, much as Banana Republic dropped every last vestige of Indiana Jones hats in its transformation into Business Casual Inc: It's been a long time since hip-hop had much to do with "a hip to the hippy to the hop," but that hasn't slowed it down-- if anything, it's been a boon. The durable genres-- the universalist ones-- create their own realities apart from those suggested by their names. I'd imagine that part of indie rock's perpetual navel-gazing-- sorry, meant to say soul-searching-- has to do with that pesky "i"-word, which automatically circumscribes a value system that hampers aesthetic risk-taking.
Maybe we can live with "minimal," and in 20 years, when minimal has its own Billboard Hot 100 and a video-music mobile-telephony network dedicated to it, we'll look back on this column as quaint. Or far more likely, the term, reflecting the currently specialist, niche-oriented quality of the music, will have a limiting effect. It's the first time in a long time that what is quaintly called "underground" electronic music has the potential to attract a wider audience. Maybe not Jay-Z wider, but hopefully more ample than the four-digit sales that your average techno CD enjoys today. Hell, DFA just commissioned Baby Ford for a remix. Baby Ford was once a major-label artist; now he (sort of) is again. We can have our Maximum Rock 'n' Roll debates about the perils of the majors 'til we're blue in the face, but we can at least accept that it's an interesting, and promising moment for techno. And what we choose to call it-- and more importantly, for how we actually think about it, and what we ask from it-- might have some measure of effect on its prospects.
Philip Sherburne's writing and photographs can be found at www.philipsherburne.com.
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