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I am taking yet another cake decorating class, and we've moved onto fondant, which I'm excited about because it's something I've always wanted to excel at. I'd say for my first attempt at a tiered fondant cake this isn't half bad. I've even got two birthday cakes lined up in the next few months. Pretty neat. I'm excited to keep practicing! Let me know what you think. . . . and here are a few more shots:
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
My First Attempt at a Tiered Fondant Cake
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Simply yum.
Just a quickie post in ode to this delicious, simple dish.
My smoked salmon egg salad is probably one of my favorite things to make. It's heavenly, ridiculously easy to make, healthy and relatively cheap. I've been exercising daily and really watching what I eat, and I've been trying to eat more high protien/less fatty foods. This dish is right up my alley, it's packed full of protein, pretty darn healthy but also tastes sinfully decadent.
Serve this egg salad on top of a thick slice of your favorite rustic bread (or in my case an extra crispy english muffin) with a little bit of butter lettuce. If I were going to eat this for breakfast on the weekend I'd serve it with a big cup of black tea, or if you're having friends over I'd serve this with a lovely mimosa (with fresh squeezed oj, of course!). This salad is versatile, it can be a simple dinner or snackie, or a fabulous addition to Sunday brunch, you decide!
Recipe: Smoked Salmon Egg Salad
4 medium boiled eggs roughly chopped
1/4 to 1/2 lb roughly chopped high quality smoked salmon (depends on how salmony you want your egg salad to be)
1 TBLS dill
1 TBLS finely chopped shallot
2 TBLS light mayo
(I don't add salt, the salmon generally has enough of it to flavor the salad)
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and you're done!
I like to let it sit for a few hours in the fridge so all the flavors can mingle a while.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Whipped Honey Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting and Vintage Deer Toppers
So this post is mostly about promotion, but not all about self promotion. I posted some pictures on flickr of the vintage deer cupcake toppers I have for sale at my etsy store sticking out of the most amazing honey cupcakes that are perfect for Spring! But I promised a post on the food blog about it, so here goes.
The honey cake is exactly like a sponge cake, it is extremely light and airy, not at all dense. The honey provides a serious sweetness that doesn't overpower the delicacy of the cake, and I absolutely adored the cream cheese frosting, I could eat it on anything from cupcakes to toast (or straight out of the mixer)! It's sooo good. I will say, you must have an affinity for honey to truly enjoy these delicious little beauties, and I do. When I was a little girl I adored Winnie the Pooh, and decided one day that I too would eat only honey straight out of the honey bear. Needless to say, even as a sugar fiend youngster, more than a teaspoon of straight honey was just too much for me, much to my disappointment. However, I remain an avid honey lover, I enjoy it more than sugar in many things including tea and whipped cream. I think it's sweet enough to replace sugar but has a kind of comfort and warmth to it, it's almost like a little ray of sunshine in your mouth. So honey + cupcakes is genius in my book.
Chockylit's Cupcake Bakeshop was the first food related blog I ever came across, years ago, when my cupcake obsession began. She's a real inspiration for me. I adore her creativity and originality. She's not afraid to experiment and I admire her for that. This honey cake recipe is one of hers so I'm going to direct you to her site to check it out:
Look around, you won't be disappointed, her photography is exquisite.
I thought this recipe would be the perfect base for the adorable little vintage deer cupcake toppers I made. I originally wanted to frost a barely light blue base with a white rose on top of each cupcake, but cream cheese frosting is just not stiff enough to make roses with, so shells it was. And I'm very pleased the way these turned out, I think the cupcakes compliment the toppers very well.
Here is a link to a video from Wilton that will show you what you need and how to make shells (they are extremely easy, and oh-so pretty):
I hope these links give you some inspiration on the slightly cool (at least here in the Northwest) Spring Sunday afternoon!
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
A Norwegian Saturday Morning Tradition
At least in my grandmothers house they were.
Before I write about the should-be famous Norwegian waffles let me apologize for my absence. My blogging is a very important part of my life and I adore it with all my heart. It's a little escape from the chaos that is life sometimes. But lately, life has been full of transitions. Some of my personal relationships have shifted, we are preparing for a new roommate for the first time in three years, which was unexpected, school has been a time sucker like I still can't believe. I could probably write a two page list of how greatly life has changed for me in the last few months and continues to, but there is really no point for that. I find that I am still adjusting to the constant change that my life has been for a while. I don't like change, not one bit, but I also forget how promising, exciting and inspiring change can be. There has been a great lack of it in my life both at home and in the workplace for years now, the sudden change in both has been a bit of a shock for me.
But here I am, ready for spring, ready for the sun to warm my skin and the (slightly) warm breeze to filter through my kitchen windows as I cook and clean. Most importantly ready to focus on my love, this little blog of mine. So, I declare my return. I will make it a goal of mine to post here, at the very least, once a week. I'm ready, thrilled and excited to be back to it!
So, onto the infamous (in my little circle) Norwegian "vafler" or waffle. Growing up, as I've mentioned countless times before, I spent a good portion of my childhood at my grandmas little yellow house in Seattle. I spent the night there often, and most mornings, when she got up at the crack of dawn my lovely grandmother would get up and make
a.) waffles
b.) pancakes
However, these were not your traditional waffles or pancakes, they were 100% Norwegian baby! Norwegian pancakes are basically a sweet crepe. And Norwegian waffles, well they are simply superior in taste. The batter was a little thinner than a normal waffle batter but the ingredients were very similar. The recipe I am going to post is not my grandmothers recipe, because no matter how hard I try they just don't taste like hers did. Probably because she'd been making them since she was a little girl on the farm in Vistdal and really didn't have a recipe. The recipe I have, scribbled in my 8 year old chicken scratch, is not exact, she kind of just whipped it together. Now, as a baker and a home cook I can completely understand this, though it baffled me as a young child. When you have recipes you've made over and over you simply have no use for a recipe anymore.
I tried and tried so hard to recreate the waffles of my childhood, and it broke my heart time and time again that I couldn't. I wanted so desperately to recreate the smell, the taste, the warmth and the comfort of her kitchen and her kindness. Her recipe just wasn't working for me, so I set off on a mission to find a NORWEGIAN waffle recipe that would do this for me. And one day, in a little old book, I found one. Norwegian Sour Cream Vafler. I know for a fact that she never once used sour cream nor did she whip egg whites and fold them into the batter, her recipe was no nonsense. But I could tell the moment the batter began to sizzle in my waffle maker and the sweet aroma filled the kitchen that I had done it, while not her recipe, they taste as identical as I think I might ever get. My first bite was like heaven, it had been only a few years since her death, but for a girl used to waffles from heaven on a regular basis I was transcendent. It brought tears to my eyes.
So I want to share the recipe with you, these waffles are so light and airy, with the perfect hint of sweetness. They're good hot, warm and even cold (with a little Gjetost). My grandma liked waffles with maple syrup, or a little sour cream and fresh raspberry jam. These waffles are amazing either way, they'd probably be really wonderful with a little citrus rind tossed in, but I haven't brought myself to experiment, I simply let the taste and smells bring me back to her.
So enjoy, squeeze some oj, make a strong pot of black tea and enjoy breakfast heaven on a plate!
Recipe: Norwegian Vafler
1-1/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 - 1/4 cup sugar (depending on how sweet you prefer them)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup water
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup butter
3 eggs, separated
1. Mix all ingredients, except egg whites, until you have a smooth batter.
2. Let rest 25 minutes.
3. Beat egg whites until they form peaks
4. Gently fold them into the batter.
5. Bake in a waffle iron. (Lightly butter surface before first waffle only.)
Please enjoy!
And Merry Spring Everyone!


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Summit Up 2-27-13: A horse is a horse, of course of course
Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is wondering if we ate horse meat if we'd even notice.It seems that the peeps over the pond have been going a little mad over the recent revelation that meat labeled beef may have contained a little Mr. Ed.While several European countries have a long history of devouring the family mare, it seems the biggest issue with the current scandal is that they thought they were eating Bessie the cow, not the great, great grandson of Secretariat.We wonder how many lads and lasses rolled into the kitchen after a long day of doing whatever people in other countries do and said 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse,' only to later in fact eat some horse. Millions of Summit Up Readers: Really, that's the best commentary you can come up with considering this scandal strikes at the heart of the rampant industrialization of our food chain?Summit Up: Actually, we had a couple more jokes we were going to throw out there, but it looks like we might have struck a nerve. We're all for fresh food (we hate when our Twizzlers get stale from sitting open too long). We even have had a plot at the community garden in Frisco the last two years. But when it comes to meat, we feel pretty safe here in the ol' U.S. of A.What we're really scared of is peanut butter sticking to the roofs of our mouths. Luckily for us, this phobia even has a name, arachibutyrophobia. You got to be honest, who isn't a little fearful of a big glob of the stuff hanging around where it clearly doesn't belong. Additionally, peanuts aren't even nuts, they're actually legumes. Talk about a worldwide conspiracy to deceive.
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- Significant investment in infrastructure and telecommunications
- Attractive prospects for investors in mining, hydroelectric power and agriculture
- Exploitation of oil reserves off the coast of Guyana from 2020
- Member of CARICOM (Caribbean Community and Common Market)
- Reliance on exploitation of gold, bauxite, sugar, rice and timber
- Shortcomings in infrastructure, transport, education and health
- Sensitive to weather events (region strongly affected by hurricanes)
- Territorial dispute with Venezuela
- Reliance on international creditors
- High crime rate linked to drug trafficking against a background of poverty and corruption
Progressive transition from an agricultural and mining economy to an oil economy
Growth is expected to continue to increase in 2019 due to significant public and private investments (17% of GDP in 2017), and thanks to the performance of the agricultural and extractive industries. In 2017, the government launched its Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP), representing 2.5% of GDP, for the construction of roads and electrical installations. This public investment, which reached its highest level in 2018, is expected to continue in 2019. The construction sector will benefit from these measures.
An offshore oil field has been discovered by US company Exxon-Mobil off the coast of Guyana. Further exploration in 2018 concluded that the amount of oil was much higher than the amount announced in 2017, at 3.2 billion barrels of oil. This sector will eventually become a key growth factor in 2020 (extraction of 120,000 barrels per day). For the time being, growth remains linked to the agricultural (rice, sugar), fish (shrimp) and mining (gold and bauxite) industries, whose production is largely export-oriented. The agricultural sector grew by 3.4% in 2018 and its performance in 2019 will remain dependent on weather conditions. Sugar production is expected to continue to decline, but this will be offset by good results in rice and wood production. The introduction of a new high-yielding rice variety and strong credit growth in the forest industry will likely maintain the positive contribution of these two sectors to economic activity in 2019.
Inflation is expected to accelerate due to the increase in commodity prices, which is one of its main components. As a result, household consumption (65% of GDP in 2017) could decrease due to a decline in purchasing power.
While waiting for oil revenues, deficits remain
The government is still pursuing an expansionary fiscal policy marked by significant public spending on infrastructure and the restructuring of the sugar sector. The budget deficit is expected to decrease slightly due to a reduction in subsidies to the state-owned sugar company GuySuCo (which received subsidies equivalent to 1-2% of GDP in the last three years). In addition, an increase in public revenue would be made possible by better tax collection, following an effort to modernise the functioning of the tax administration. The risk related to debt sustainability is expected to be offset by future oil revenues of 2.6% of GDP in 2020, which should rise in subsequent years (4.1% of GDP in 2021). The external share of debt represented 35.5% of GDP in 2017.
Regarding external accounts, the country has a structural trade deficit, with imports mainly composed of fuel and capital goods, and exports of raw gold (52%), rice (16%), and bauxite (9%). The balance of services is also structurally in deficit (9% of GDP in 2017). However, the current account deficit is expected to narrow as a result of lower fuel imports and higher gold exports. It is mainly financed by FDI in the mining and petroleum sector (6% of GDP in 2017). Moreover, Guyanese workers' remittances abroad accounted for 9.2% of GDP in 2017. Exchange rate flexibility remains on the monetary authorities' agenda, whose goal is to improve adjustment to exogenous shocks and preserve foreign exchange reserves (approximately three months of imports in 2017).
Institutional strengthening in a tense political climate
After more than 20 years in power, the Indo-Guyanese People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) was replaced by the multi-ethnic coalition led by two parties, UNPA and the AFC, in the 2015 presidential elections. This coalition is headed by President David Granger and has a majority in parliament. The government has carried out structural reforms to improve the business environment and fight corruption in order to maximize opportunities related to oil exploitation (a new entity to control the oil and gas industry has been created to replace the Geological and Mining Commission). However, ethnic tensions persist and may intensify with the upcoming elections in May 2020, which could be rescheduled following Parliament's non-confidence vote against the government. The business environment remains risky: the country ranked 134th out of 190 countries in the 2019 World Bank's Doing Business ranking.
Despite an international decision fixing the current borders, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro affirmed in 2015 his country's sovereignty over nearly two thirds of Guyana's territory and maritime area. This came after the announcement of the discovery of the oil field off the coast of Guyana, located in the disputed area, rekindling a controversy that dates back more than a century. A period of negotiation had been granted to the two countries by the UN (until the end of 2017), but did not resolve the conflict: the case therefore now goes to ICJ.
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PolitiFact Georgia has week of relative truthiness
PolitiFact Georgia had a week of relative truthiness.
We tackled a potpourri of subjects in the past seven days. They included whether federal employees bring home more bacon than your average private-sector employee and a juicy article in Esquire magazine on Newt Gingrich that said his fundraising outshone even that of Republican superstar Sarah Palin.
Two were statements made on national networks: One on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on NBC's "Today" and a second from NBC's "Meet the Press" on stimulus spending.
The week's tally: one False, two Half Trues, two Mostly Trues and one True.
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And so we come to Brigandage, once described as "the other half of the Positive Punk equation, the other half being Blood and Roses." (I forget who said that – could it possibly have been that Mick Mercer chap?). Speaking of the mighty Mick, in The Gothic Rock Black Book (Mercer, Omnibus Press, 1988), he suggests the band may have originally been named Pistolian Brigandage, but I can't find any other references to back this up.
Coming to public attention in 1983 via the now infamous and controversial NME article by Richard North (who would later join the band on bass) and the highly questionable South of Watford doco, they would go on to release "Hide and Seek" on Dave Sexgang's The Whip compilation (Kamera Records, 1983) before a long period of silence.
The Pretty Funny Thing EP (Gung Ho, 1986) stands as the band's only official release. That said, the NME article mentions a song called "Hope" that does not appear to have been recorded elsewhere, so clearly either demos or bootlegs were actively circulating at the time.
Opening with the obviously Velvet Underground influenced title track, we move quickly into more "Gothy" territory. Similarities with the Blood and Roses sound are clearly apparent here, yet despite this, the real musical similarities are, oddly for a
UK outfit, with deathrock bands, most obviously 45 Grave, albeit stripped of the campy horror trappings. US
Sadly, like Blood and Roses, Brigandage weren't able to capitalize on their initial publicity and by the time this EP came out in 1986, tastes were beginning to change and one can't help but suspect that this must have sounded quite dated.
Nevertheless though, while remaining Blood and Roses poor cousins, the Pretty Funny Thing EP does have charms on its own merits, and should you find yourself singing along to "Horsey Horsey" after listening to it, you shouldn't be surprised.
Actual tracks from the EP are rare to find on Youtube, so "Horsey Horsey" is all we have, but a live concert bootleg filmed at Jon Fat Beasts' Time Box in 1986 in six parts has also been unearthed. Available evidence suggests it may have been one of their last.
Track Listing:
- Pretty Funny Thing
- One Touch
- Ripped and Torn
- Horsey Horsey
- I Need Something Pt 1
- I Need Something Pt 2
- Angel of Vengence
Line Up:
Michelle Brigandage (vocals, guitar), Richard North (bass, vocals), Glen (guitar), Des (Drums).
Michelle went on to fashion design, examples of which can be seen on their website - her "wake me up before you pogo" shirt made me laugh a lot - although you probably need to be of a certain age to appreciate it.


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Foggy Bay Bridge, San Francisco
Sunburst cloud over the Magic Kingdom, Disney World
Dew drop rainbow
Pink Rose.
Purple Rose
Bassano Del Grappa, Italy
Misty evening in Bassano del Grappa, a small medieval town an hour and a half north of Venice.
Saddle Road Grass
i <3 grass
Glacier ice sits in the Atlantic ocean at Jökulsárlón
Peaceful Comox Lake
Comox Lake on a moody, windy summer day. I discovered this location on a long hike and was immediately drawn to the otherworldly quality of it with the old broken trees leading towards the Comox Glacier in the distance. The light came out right as I was shooting this shot, so I got really nice streaky light patterns in the sky.
Camera: Canon 5Dmk3 + 16-35mm, 60s at f/16, ISO 100. Gear: Really Right Stuff TVC-23 tripod + BH55 ball head, LEE Filters 0.6 ND grad & the Big Stopper (10 stop ND).
Following lines. Kirkjufell, Iceland
Ferry Building, San Francisco, California
Emergence. Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, South Iceland.


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First ESA long-duration mission onboard the ISS given 1 July start
ESA PR 18-2006. With NASA's announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on 1 July, ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, from Germany, is set to spend six to seven months in space as a member of the permanent crew of the International Space Station.
Discovery is now scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 21:49 CEST (19:49 GMT). Docking with the ISS is scheduled for the third day of the mission.
Once onboard the ISS, Thomas Reiter will join the current permanent crew, working alongside Russian commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA flight engineer Jeffrey Williams. An ESA astronaut since 1992, Reiter already has experience of long-duration spaceflight, having spent 179 days onboard the Russian space station Mir in 1995/1996 on ESA's EuroMir 95 mission.
With this new mission dubbed "Astrolab", ESA will inaugurate the long-term presence of European astronauts onboard the ISS. The mission also marks the return to a three-member permanent crew operating the orbital facility. This larger crew will mean that more time can be devoted to science experiments. Also marking the Shuttle's eventual return to flight, this mission will in addition be a go-ahead signal for the resumption of ISS assembly, with the upcoming launches of European-built Nodes 2 and 3 and ESA's own Columbus laboratory.
Already flying with Reiter on the Astrolab mission will be some key ESA equipment to be integrated on the Station, including the first Minus-Eighty degree Laboratory Freezer for the ISS (MELFI), a facility developed for long-term conservation of biological samples and experiment results.
This will also be the first time that a European control centre is used for a long-duration human spaceflight mission on board the ISS, paving the way for an increased ESA presence onboard the international facility with the arrival of the Columbus laboratory. The Columbus Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, will be the hub of European activity during the Astrolab mission.
For the launch of this milestone mission, ESA is organising a live video event, broadcast to its Headquarters and establishments. ESA experts will be on hand for interviews.
ESA TV will provide extensive coverage of the mission including the final preparations, with transmissions as follows:
19 June STS-121 B-roll with best images released so far by NASA
20 June Columbus laboratory
27 June Astrolab mission video news release
27 June (live) Arrival of STS-121 in Florida for launch
29 June (live) Pre-launch news conference from Kennedy Space Center
1 July (live) Launch day coverage, from 14:00 GMT – 21:00 GMT (not continuous)
2 July (live) Mission status briefing, with first quick look at Shuttle ascent images
3 July (live) Docking with ISS, STS-121 crew ingress
6 July (live) Joint crew news conference
13 July (live) Landing at Kennedy Space Center
In addition, all NASA-TV flight day highlights from the preceding day in orbit will be rebroadcast at 04:00 GMT daily. Satellite details for these and the exact times for the above transmissions will be posted on http://television.esa.int around three to five days prior to the transmission concerned (please note that tape copies of live events cannot be made available).
The launch and mission can be followed on the web at: www.esa.int/astrolab.
Media representatives wishing to follow the event at one of the ESA establishments listed in the press release are requested to fill in the registration form and fax it back to the location of their choice.
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Workers return to World Cup stadium after accident
- Construction company suspended work on the site after a crane collapsed on Wednesday
- More than 100 workers gathered early Monday for a prayer honoring the two victims
- Brazil%27s preparations for the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics have been plagued by delays
SAO PAULO (AP) — Construction workers returned Monday to the stadium that will host the opening match of the World Cup, five days after an accident killed two workers and renewed questions about Brazil's readiness to hold the soccer tournament.
Small groups of stonemasons, metal workers and others trickled into the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, expressing determination to finish work ahead of the World Cup opener on June 12.
"We are all Brazilians and Brazilians never quit. We're going to get our work done and the first game of the World Cup will be held here," said 26-year-old metalworker Americo Barbosa.
PREVIOUSLY:Collapse kills two
Construction company Odebrecht suspended work on the site after a crane collapsed on Wednesday as it was hoisting a 500-ton piece of roofing, killing two workers. The cause of the accident was not yet known, but investigators said they were considering human error, a problem with the crane and the possibility that rain-sodden ground had shifted under the weight.
While the area where the accident occurred remained off-limits, authorities gave the green light for the site's 1,350 workers to resume work on most of the stadium. However, the Labor Ministry has frozen use of the site's nine other cranes until Odebrecht shows adequate safety measures are in place.
Ahead of the resumption of work, more than 100 workers gathered early Monday for a prayer honoring the two victims.
Brazil's preparations for the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics have been plagued by delays, cost overruns and constant pressure to move faster. Officials from world football's governing body, FIFA, have publically scolded Brazilian officials over the problems, and a series of spats have occasionally flared up between the two sides.
Six of 12 World Cup stadiums were delivered for the Confederations Cup, a World Cup run-through, earlier this year, and FIFA is pressing for the six others to be delivered by the end of December.
Although Wednesday's accident did minimal damage to the Itaquerao, which officials had said was 94 percent finished before the accident, it's widely assumed the stadium will not meet that deadline.
Resumption of work on the stadium, which is also known as Arena Corinthians, came as FIFA officials began to gather in the coastal Brazilian state of Bahia ahead of Friday's World Cup draw.
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Back to the Bronx!
Let me tell you a little about my day, and in what direction I thought it was going in.
This afternoon I was in my car, driving of course. I was stopped at a traffic light, minding my own business. Then…BOOM! I got rear-ended by some lady who was not paying attention to the road. Thankfully my bumper was only scratched: not really any major damage to my (new) car. Oh, and if you're wondering, no. I wasn't hurt; just a little rattled at the time, although I did have a mild headache when I got home from work.
People, driving requires 100% of your attention. Remember that.
I only thought my headache was going to get more severe, considering A.J. Burnett was starting for the Yankees in Game Four of the American League Division Series, down two games to one, at the mercy of the Detroit Tigers. I'll be the first to admit, I felt very uneasy with Burnett on the mound, an 11-11 record this season with a 5.15 ERA.
His numbers alone are enough to give anyone a headache, even without getting rear-ended by a car.
Some Yankee fans, most notably Yankee roll caller and lead Bleacher Creature Bald Vinny, started a Facebook campaign: "I Believe in A.J." Despite the doubt a lot of people had concerning Burnett's ability to pitch in an elimination game, it is evident the fans got behind him.
All the faith was rewarded.
Aside from one inning, he didn't disappoint. Burnett helped lead the way to a 10-1 Yankee win in Game Four, forcing a Game Five on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium.
The key play in the game came in the bottom of the first inning. The Tigers loaded the bases with two outs, and Don Kelly smacked a liner into centerfield. Curtis Granderson dove, laid out and made a game-saving grab to end the inning.
Burnett owes his centerfielder dinner after a catch like that.
Had the ball gone over Granderson's head, anything could – and would – have happened. Kelly would have definitely cleared the bases and he would have undoubtedly made it to third – or even home. In perspective, it could have been an inside-the-park grand slam, and Burnett's confidence may have disappeared, allowing Detroit to run up the score.
But it didn't happen.
Burnett had walked three batters in the first (Miguel Cabrera was walked intentionally) and looked a bit jittery, but seemed to settle down nicely after the shaky frame. He ended the night with 5 2/3 innings pitched, and he gave up just one earned run on four hits. Burnett walked four batters and struck out three.
The only blip on Burnett's radar was a home run to Victor Martinez in the bottom of the fourth, and yet it didn't really matter because the Yankees had already put two runs on the board.
When Burnett left the mound, he got a lot of love from his teammates. I'd say if you took one still frame from the game tonight, the picture of the infield players collectively patting Burnett on the back speaks volumes about the amount faith they had in him.
After Burnett left, yesterday's goat Rafael Soriano came in – and Granderson once again flashed the leather, making another beautiful catch in centerfield to end the inning. Not only did Granderson save Burnett, but he aided Soriano with a spectacular web gem.
The pitching and defense was there, but you need offense to win a game. And the Bomber bats came alive in this one.
The Yankees were retired 1-2-3 in the first and second innings – and it looked as though it was going to be another stagnant and dead night at the plate. But right before Derek Jeter stepped into the batter's box, I put on my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles slippers.
Right after I put them on the Captain crushed a two-run double to plate Jorge Posada and Russell Martin. The Yankees took the lead and never relinquished it.
"I think my slippers may have been the Yanks' good luck charm," I thought to myself. "I'll keep them on."
If they were a good luck charm, they were working in the top half of the fifth. The Yanks added two more runs on a double by Granderson which knocked in Brett Gardner. Alex Rodriguez later hit a sac fly to drive in Jeter.
Hanging onto a 4-1 lead, the Bronx Broskis exploded for six runs in the eighth – and batted around. A balk by Al Albuquerque sent Rodriguez to the plate, a single by pinch-hitter Jesus Montero drove in Mark Teixeira, and then Gardner plated Chris Dickerson (who pinch-ran for Nick Swisher).
And they still weren't done.
A Daniel Schlereth wild pitch allowed Montero to score, then Robinson Cano knocked Martin and Gardner in with an two-run single.
10 runs in the game. And now we're heading back to the Bronx, the ALDS tied 2-2.
The last time the Yankees played a Game Five in the ALDS was 2005, and it didn't go well for them. The Bombers played in Anaheim and were outdone 5-3 at the hands of the Angels.
This time around, however, the Yankees will not be on the road. They will be in the comfort of Yankee Stadium and essentially they have home field advantage and momentum again.
In more good news for the Yanks, the last time they played a Game Five in the ALDS at home, they beat Oakland all the way back in 2001. Strangely enough they won the '01 ALDS Game Five by the same score they lost the '05 ALDS by: 5-3.
The Yankees broke the trend tonight. They seemed to be following the 2006 ALDS script a little too closely, but now they have the chance to make a little comeback and beat the Tigers; an opportunity to punch the proverbial ticket back to the American League Championship Series.
Ivan Nova, who dazzled in Game One, will take the mound in the deciding game, hoping to keep the postseason dream alive. He will be opposed by Doug Fister, who the Yankees got to on Saturday.
If the Yanks win Thursday, the Texas Rangers await them in the ALCS – a potential rematch of last year's Championship Series.
Speaking of breaking playoff trends, the Yankees lost to the Rangers last year.
They will have to break that trend, too. But they have to get there, first. I'll be working a high school football game Thursday night at 6:00, so I'll probably only miss the first and maybe the second innings of the game.
When I get home, one thing is for sure: I am putting on my ninja turtles slippers.


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Trigg: Fixing Summit Stage
Last Wednesday in the article announcing Summit Stage director John Jones' resignation, it was also said that the Stage finished 2012 $300,000 over budget. I believe that is in the neighborhood of 5 percent of their annual budget. Over the past four years we've heard how the Stage has been struggling to stay within its budget due to rising costs and revenues that have been stagnant. They are certainly not alone in that regard, as many businesses and individuals have struggled since the economic crisis started in the fall of 2008.
One item that is being discussed to help with the budget is advertising on the buses. It sounds like a no-brainer. Additional revenue with no additional expense? Why not?
One item that isn't being discussed is a very touchy one that many people are unaware of. A few years ago a line item transfer in the county budget took funds from the Stages accounts, reportedly in excess of 10 percent of their annual budget, and used them for other purposes. Those funds were not repayed.
One item that should be discussed is the Swan Mountain Flyer, the popular route that runs direct from Breckenridge to Keystone. Both ski areas are owned by Vail Resorts, and Vail Resorts used to operate the KAB Express between them. That service was cancelled, and replaced with the Flyer. Considering that, and considering that the Flyer is a duplicate route of the main Stage routes which cuts travel time between Breck and Keystone from 90 minutes to about half an hour, why not ask Vail Resorts to subsidize the cost of the Flyer, which, ironically, is very close to the $300,000 which the Stage is overbudget?
One thing that seems apparent is that the county isn't going to simply hire a new director for the Stage and allow business to continue as usual. Some changes are bound to come. I'm not suggesting eliminating the Flyer as a quick fix to the budget woes; it's a very popular route with both riders and the county commissioners. But the Stage is a service that many people use and depend on, and I hope all parties think hard and long before victimizing the people who depend on the bus in their daily lives and the drivers whose livelihood would be effected by service cuts and possible lay-offs.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
all eyes on London....
24 comments:
- meenal @ maison marigold said...
A very happy weekend to you too, amanda..xx meenal
- April 29, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- design elements said...
beautiful images, Amanda! I agree all eyes on London today. Hope, they are happy. It's not easy to be a public person. Happy weekend!
- April 30, 2011 at 1:59 AM
- Jen of MadeByGirl said...
amazing place! love the kitchen and that LOVE pillow in the third image!
- April 30, 2011 at 6:40 AM
- Unknown said...
I would love to own a kitchen with an AGA in it, too!!!! And the bathroom is fantastic ... so large and lightly!
Thanks for sharings these wonderful insights!
- April 30, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Glamour Drops said...
The kitchen is light, bright and beautiful. A charming house.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
- May 1, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Lisa said...
Thank you for you comment! :) Have a nice sunday too!
- May 1, 2011 at 11:28 PM
- Lisa said...
Hi! Thanks for your comment! :) Beautiful pictures indeed! Especially the kitchen!
- May 2, 2011 at 12:44 AM
- Tessa White said...
My mother in law has had an aga in every house , they are so fabulous in winter...agreed Jen.. that pillow is fab..looks like a Jan Constantine. Thanks for sharing Amanda, must go check it out and see that it is mega bucks so I don't get homesick xx
- May 2, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- SellWoWAccount said...
It looks a good place with that big lawn. And the interior designs are just so gorgeous! It's surely a cozy house to live in.
Sell WoW Account
- May 2, 2011 at 7:54 PM
- A Casa da Vá said...
Ok I am in love with that oven!
Hugs & kisses from Rio!
- May 5, 2011 at 4:08 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh, for a short time one of the shops here around sold AGA's, but they were so expensive, I never got enough saved up before they went out of business!!!!
I love them! One day....
- May 5, 2011 at 6:15 AM
- red ticking said...
I AM MOVING TO AUSTRALIA!! this is move in ready...
i just lovvvve it...
everytime i see a comment from you my heart is happy... truly friend... such an awesome bond we have
- May 5, 2011 at 1:22 PM
- red ticking said...
well ok, i acted a bit too quickly...
i guess i am moving to LONDON! he he
- May 5, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- Zelda said...
I'm very happy you came by , you know how inspiring is your blog . thank you . Zelda
- May 5, 2011 at 5:27 PM
- Victoria Bellow said...
This home is pure genius It's so adore and stunning indoor and outdoor views. Every project is a masterpiece!thanks for sharing.
- May 10, 2011 at 7:18 PM
- new homes in bristol said...
This is a beautiful home. London has some terrific homes. I like especially the mix of the old classic eith the new chic. The lounge area in the kitchen is a great idea, as I always think that the kitchen is the heart of every home, so to have a lounge feel to it, with a large comfortable sofa, is even more inviting! I love the aga giving the kitchen a homely feel and the bathroom is sumptious. The muted and natural, warm tones is a lovely decor for the well selected pieces of furniture. Thank you for sharing!
- May 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM
- Nic | Chrome Heated Towel Rails said...
What a house and look at that great bathroom!!
- May 16, 2011 at 11:11 PM
- Big Bean Bags said...
The kitchen island is stunning. Also, I'd kill for a shed like that!
- May 18, 2011 at 4:11 AM
- Eileen @ Passions to Pastry said...
What a fabulous place! Love all of it.
- May 18, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Unknown said...
Tienes un blog muy bonito me encantará poder seguirlo. Si lo deseas te invito a visitar mi blog.
Saludos . Manoli
- June 12, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- White Bedroom Furniture said...
Particularly love the bathroom. The little dressing table at the end is really cute. I too would love an AGA like that.
- June 13, 2011 at 8:31 PM
- L'univers de Swann said...
Too white, but openly magnificent !!
- July 15, 2011 at 3:29 PM
- Freight Audit said...
It looks very gently. Very clean.. The colors was very good..
- July 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- The Whispering Path Tarot Readers said...
...love the bathroom... ;)
- July 21, 2011 at 11:56 PM


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Courtside premiere
The Lakers opened against the Clippers last night and as usual Staples Centre was full of stars including Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend all loved up courtside, a Posh-less Becks still growing that sh-t all over his face, Sacha Baron Cohen on a rare evening in front of cameras, and the ubiquitous Jack Nicholson, unofficial mascot for the Lakers and, some would argue (with the exception of last year), the Oscars.
Jock Smut continues tonight for Game 1 of the World Series featuring, as predicted, the Yankees and the Phillies as all New York hopes are riding on Manslinger Kate Hudson and the magic hold she has on her man.
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Refinancing a mortgage at a lower interest rate isn't always the right decision. Having bragging rights at the neighborhood picnic isn't a reason for refinancing a mortgage. Instead, it's good to put some thought behind the timing of your decision.
Refinancing a mortgage multiple times can reduce your overall financial benefit. Refinancing junkies who always migrate to the next low mortgage rate pay a hefty price by leaving a trail of closing costs in their wake.
In some cases, refinancing a mortgage makes sense. In other cases, it may be more prudent to stick with your current loan.
What's your goal?
Before deciding whether to refinance, you need to determine what you want to accomplish. Remember, refinancing a mortgage doesn't pay off the debt; it just restructures it, often at a lower interest rate and a different loan term than the current mortgage.
- Reducing the interest expense is the most common goal of a refinance. But some homeowners also appreciate the ability to extend the loan back out to 30 years, reducing the monthly payment.
Debt consolidation is another goal of refinancing. If you have both a first mortgage and a home equity loan, combining the two mortgages into one fixed-rate mortgage levels out the payment over the loan term.
Refinancing tip: Do it once
Ideally, you only want to refinance once on your current mortgage. While no one can tell you with certainty where interest rates are going, Bankrate's weekly Rate Trend Index and Mortgage Analysis will keep your finger on the pulse of where interest rates are headed. You can have them delivered as a weekly e-mail so you don't have to remember to look for the columns.
Many homeowners refinance because they want to get out of (or into) an adjustable-rate mortgage. In high interest rate environments, homeowners are attracted to ARMs because they typically are at a much lower interest rate than a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage.
On the other hand, in low interest rate environments, the differential between the fixed-rate and the ARM isn't as great, and homeowners like the security of locking in a fixed rate over the mortgage term.
When to refinance
After clarifying your reasons for refinancing a mortgage, you need to consider whether the timing and circumstances make this the right time to get a new loan.
Usually, you have to plan to be in the house for a while for refinancing to make sense. According to Bankrate's 2012 closing cost survey, the national average for closing costs on a $200,000 loan was $3,754. The fees in the survey don't include taxes, insurance or prepaid items such as prorated interest or homeowner association dues.
When weighing whether to refinance, homeowners typically are urged to consider how many months of lower payments it will take to recoup the closing costs of the new mortgage.
Refinancing tip: Know where you stand
Before you refinance, know where you stand with your current mortgage -- including the loan terms and interest rate, as well as relevant factors such as your credit score and whether or not the loan has a prepayment penalty.
For example, if your monthly payment goes down by $157, it would take 24 months of lower payments to recoup the average closing costs. Bankrate's refinancing calculator lets you input your costs and the loan terms to calculate the months it will take to recoup your costs.
Refinancing costs
$157 lower monthly payment x 24 months = $3,700+ closing costs
While this is not a bad rule of thumb, it doesn't really measure your savings. Savings come from a lower interest expense, not lower monthly mortgage payments. Bankrate's refinancing calculator shows the change in total interest expense, too.
You'll see that if you get a lower interest rate but extend the mortgage term, you can wind up spending more in interest. For example, replacing a mortgage that has 20 years remaining with a 30-year mortgage will result in higher interest expense over the life of the new loan.
To figure out whether refinancing with a loan term extension will help you save, do two calculations: one where the new loan has the same term as the old loan, and one where the new loan is the length of your planned refinance. Compare the interest savings to see if refinancing accomplishes your financial goal.
Some people refinance simply to make the monthly mortgage payment more affordable. A lower interest rate and/or a longer loan term both work toward lowering the monthly payment. As long as the homeowners understand they may not be minimizing total interest expense, affordability can be a motivation for extending the loan term.
While short-term savings are important, they are not the only factor to weigh when considering a refinance. Refinancing to get out of an ARM, piggyback mortgage, interest-only mortgage or other onerous mortgage provisions may be reason enough to take on a refinancing.
However, in some cases, homeowners with ARMs would be fine sticking with their loan, especially if they don't plan on being in the loan long term and the reset rate on their mortgage isn't financially threatening.
When not to refinance
On the other hand, a little number crunching may indicate that refinancing a mortgage is not right for you at this time.
If you don't plan to be in the house for very long, you should probably stay in your current mortgage. Here, the number of months it takes to recoup closing costs becomes the more important calculation done by the refinancing calculator.
Refinancing tip: Consider a mortgage broker
A mortgage broker is truly needed if you have a "story loan" -- in other words, you have to sell your story to the lender in order to get approved for the loan.
If you owe more on the house than it's currently worth -- you're underwater, in the lingo of the mortgage business -- you might be able to refinance under the Home Affordable Refinance Program, or HARP. This refi program is for homeowners who are current on their mortgages.
Type of refinancing
The two major types of refinances are cash-out refinancing and standard "plain vanilla" refinancing, where you are just refinancing the existing mortgage balance.
In a cash-out refinancing, you take out a new mortgage on the same property in which the amount borrowed is greater than the amount of the previous mortgage. The difference is taken out in cash.
A cash-out refinance will typically have a slightly higher interest rate than a plain vanilla refinancing because the lender has more money at risk. Cash-out refinances often are used to pay down debt, but this type of mortgage has both pros and cons.
For example, imagine that you use a cash-out refinance to pay off credit card debt. On the pro side, you're reducing the interest rate on the credit card debt and freeing up lines of credit on your credit cards.
On the con side, you may pay thousands more in interest expense because you're taking 30 years to pay off the balance you transferred from your credit card to your mortgage. You also run the risk of running the balances back up on your credit cards and not being able to make the payments.
Refinancing tip: Tidy up credit
Getting your credit history and credit score in the best possible shape will help you get a better mortgage rate. Review your credit reports and get copies of your credit scores as well. You're entitled to at least one free credit report each year from the credit bureaus, but you'll have to pay to get a copy of your credit scores.
However, the biggest risk in this scenario is in converting an unsecured debt into a secured debt. If you can't afford your credit card payments, you get nasty calls from debt collectors, a black mark on your credit report and a lower credit score.
Miss a few mortgage payments and you can lose your home to foreclosure.
On the other hand, a plain vanilla refinancing is intended to replace your existing mortgage with a new one at a lower rate. There's no cash out, unless it's to cover closing costs.
One advantage of a plain-vanilla refinancing is that it usually offers a slightly lower interest rate than a cash-out refinancing. Another major plus of this type of refinancing is that you aren't significantly increasing your outstanding mortgage debt.
That said, cash-out refinancing a mortgage can be more appropriate to accomplishing certain goals, such as paying off debt.
Managing costs
While a refinance can help you harvest more cash, it's important to watch out for costs that eat into those savings.
First, recognize that there's no such thing as a free lunch, and there's no such thing as a "no closing cost" mortgage. The originating lender will get paid for its efforts; it's just a matter of how they get paid. Closing costs can be paid in origination points, a higher interest rate or a higher loan amount.
Points come in two flavors, discount and origination. Discount points allow the borrower to prepay interest expense upfront and buy down the nominal or stated rate on the mortgage loan. The points paid are, however, considered in calculating the annual percentage rate, or APR, on the loan.
Don't forget about other expenses, such as private mortgage insurance. If your loan-to-value ratio is more than 80 percent of the appraised value of the home, the first mortgage lender will want you to pay for PMI. That adds to the cost of the refinancing.
Keep in mind that avoiding junk fees can keep down your closing costs and improve the return when refinancing a mortgage.
Updated: March 7, 2013
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MTX Audio is continuing its ZeroNoise® technology in Streetwires® with the launch of StreetAudio® at CES 2013. StreetAudio® consists of 4 models of Over Ear acoustic monitors (iX1), 2 models of In Ear acoustic monitors (iX2), a portable, powered Thunder Puck speaker (iP1), and two iPhone/iPad® docking stations (iT1) precision milled from billet aluminum and delivering 280 watts RMS power. The flagship model, iT1air, incorporates Apple® Airplay® functionality. This model debuted at IFA Berlin, the premier consumer electronics trade show in Europe, and was proclaimed to deliver the most incredible sound from an iPhone docking station ever.
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Stewart Bale Ltd was a family run photographic practice specialising in commercial and industrial photography, based in Liverpool from c1911 to c1980, with an additional London studio, 1949 to 1970. The quality of Stewart Bale Ltd's photography is high and the firm was regarded as one of the best amongst its contemporaries. The subject matter is broad but is particularly strong on architecture, shipping (launches and fit-outs), shops, industry and transport; it provides an excellent social history record, primarily of Liverpool and the North West but also nationally due to Bale's extensive client base, making it a collection of national relevance and importance.
The Stewart Bale collection, which is part of the Maritime Archives and Library, holds some 195,445 negatives (62,845 glass negatives & 132,600 film negatives) principally dating from around 1924 to early the 1980s. The film negatives are currently in frozen storage in order to preserve them and are, therefore, inaccessible. National Museums Liverpool is hoping to digitize this collection with external funding so that it becomes fully accessible and is in the process of planning this project.
The Stewart Bale glass plate negatives are stored at our reserve store. Due to the nature of the collection and lack of documentation we regret that we can usually only provide images from existing scans, and these are subject to copyright restrictions. A selection of the images from the collection can be viewed on this website. If you would like to find out more about the collection please contact Anne Gleave by phone on 0151 478 4487 or send Anne Gleave an email. For a fuller profile of the collection please view our Stewart Bale Ltd information sheet.
A series of Stewart Bale online exhibitions has been added to the website to highlight the breadth of its subject matter, covering the following themes:
In 2006 we invited amateur and professional photographers who use the web service Flickr to recreate Stewart Bale photographs from our collection. Each of the photographers was given a seven day deadline to photograph their subject. In the resulting online exhibition, Stewart Bale 2.0 - documenting Liverpool you can see the original photographs from the Stewart Bale archive alongside the modern versions of the same scenes.
There have been a number of exhibitions of Stewart Bale photographs held at our venues, including:
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The Ayala Center Cebu is hosting the First Russian Film Festival on Onstage, Cinema One. Please refer to the following screening schedule:
March 26
7:30 PM – Screening: "The Star"
9:15 PM – Film Discussion
March 27
12:00 NOON – Mirror
2:30 PM – Vanished Empire
5:00 PM – Ward No. 6
7:30 PM – Agony
Director: Nikolai Lebedev
Writer: Evgeniy Grigoriev and Alexander Borodyansky
Producer: Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Igor Petrenko, Artem Semakin, Alexei Panin, Alexei Kravchenko, Anatoly Guschin, Amadu Mamadakov, Yuri Laguta, Andrei Yegorov, Ekaterina Vulichenko
The film is a screen version of a novelette by Emmanuel Kazakevich.
The Star takes place in the summer of 1944, when Red Army troops were fighting on the Polish border in hopes of halting Hitler's advancing forces. In a desperate attempt to gain intelligence on a massive tank attack the Germans are allegedly orchestrating, a team of scouts with the radio code name "Star" is haphazardly put together from the ranks of the surviving soldiers. Though a series of encounters with the enemy quickly follows, the rag-tag group of men are able to broadcast the details of future army tactics and troop movements even as they are annihilated in a brutal battle with the German troops. The Russian soldiers are given posthumous medals for bravery in 1964.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer: Alexander Misharin and Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larissa Tarkovskaya, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonintsin, Nikolai Grinko, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Yuri Nazarov, Oleg Yankovsky
The film is a non-narrative, stream of consciousness autobiographical film-poem that blends scenes of childhood memory with newsreel footage and contemporary scenes examining the narrator's relationships with his mother, his ex-wife and his son. The oneiric intensity of the childhood scenes in particular is so hypnotic that questions of the film's alleged impenetrability dissolve under the impact of moment after moment of the most visually stunning, rhythmically captivating filmmaking imaginable. Tarkovsky's evocative use of nature is at its most elaborate and accomplished in creating the dreams and memories that we are asked to share with him here. The archive footage of big events that have occurred within the narrator's lifetime is presented with the contemplative detachment of events considered but not participated in, a contract to the extreme intimacy of the memories. This is mainly due to the extraordinary music and poetry that Tarkovsky use to accompany these ghostly, distant newsreel images.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Writer: Sergey Rokotov with the assistance of Evgeny Nikishov
Producer: Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Alexander Lyapin, Lida Milyuzina, Egor Baranovsky, Ivan Jupreenko, Olga Tumaikina, Armen Jigarkhanyan, Vladimir Ilyin
The Vanished Empire depicts the heyday of the Soviet State at the peak of its power, which marks the staring point of its collapse as well.
The film's story takes place in Moscow in the 1970's. Its plot unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with their personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.
Karen Shakhnazarov's new and rather personal film is a delicate study of this imminent and irrevocably passing era.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Gornovsky
Writer: Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Gornovsky
Producer: Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Vladimir Ilyin, Aleksei Vertkov, Alexandr Panlratov-Chyorny, Yevgeni Stychkin, Viktor Soloyov, Aleksei Zharkov
The story is based on a real life incident and centers around the head doctor of an asylum who winds up as the asylum patient. Lonely, estranged, reflecting Doctor Andrey Ragin is one of the focal characters in the work of Chekhov and the entire world literature of the 20th century. The screenplay is an adaptation of Chekhov's story. Preserving the storyline, the authors deliberately moved the scene into the present. Shooting of the film was done in a real asylum, in a novel semi-documentary manner.
Director: Elim Klimov
Writer: Semyon Lungin and Iliya Nusinov
Cast: Velta Line, Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoly Romashin, Alexey Petrenko, Alexander Romatsov, Sergey Muchenikov, Yury Katin-Yartsev, Boris Ivanov, Mikhail Danilov, Leonid Bronevoy, Bayten Omarov
The film went unshown until 1981 when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival and attracted very favorable reviews. Released in Western Europe in 1982 it was hailed as one of the most original Soviet films of the 1970's. In Soviet Russia it was screened only in 1985, at the dawn of the Glasnost era.
The storyline of the film follows the final months of 1916 up to the murder of Rasputin; some events that have been telescoped into this time though they really happened earlier during the war. Rasputin's effect on the people around him is shown almost as hypnotic, and the film avoids taking a moral stance towards him – breaking not only with Soviet history but also with how he was regarded by people near the court at the time, some of whom regarded him as a debilitating figure who disgraced the monarchy and hampered the war effort.
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Cold is hereThursday, October 26th, 2006
Another week has come and gone. Fall is undoubtedly here and winter is approaching. Temps fell below freezing for the first time this year. It has been a chore bringing in the potted plants and putting them back out when the temps allow. Mattie had made a "potty garden" from an old toilet and all we can do is cover it for the cold nights. She made me promise if the cold is here to stay we will put it in the basement. We abandoned our plans to add to the run in shelter we built for the goats in favor of just giving them space in the barn. They were so grateful. They now have a whole end of the barn, about 15′x35′. I set out a couple of weedy rolls for them too. We have been using them to clean up a space we intend to convert to pasture so they jumped right on some hay. Goats seem to love hay, but they just don't do as well on it as they do on leaves, briars, and weedy browse. The chickens have slowed their laying from a continuous 20 eggs a day to 10-13. I don't believe they care for the cold either.
We had a fire in the woodstove for the first time this year a few nights back. I do not look forward to bringing in wood this winter. I have let the cold slip up on us and not cut enough wood. I have lengths cut and drying, but very little split. I tried to start the woodsplitter yesterday, but it wouldn't budge. I believe the engine is locked up. I'll tinker with it and try to get another year from it, but it is time to buy a new one. Actually has been for a year or two. I can't decide whether I want one that has a gasoline engine or should just get one to run off the Mahindra 6000′s PTO.
As I said a few posts back, we have been discussing contract growing with Cobb poultry. I have looked for ways to make this farm profitable. They are offering a good package, but frankly we are not sure about the money involved to get started. It would be very expensive to build our own houses. I'm not sure it would be setting the best example for the children either. Most large-scale animal growing facilities are borderline inhumane. At any rate the reprensentatives have been to the farm and seem to be enthusiastic about bringing us on board. I, on the other hand, keep coming back to the idea of the pumpkin patch. It sets all the right examples and in time I believe it could be profitable.
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Sheep & Goat Net 8/35/6
A prefabricated fence that has 8 horizontal twines (7 conductive); is 35" tall installed, and has string verticals every 6".
White PVC posts are built into the mesh every 13.5 ft. The result, when energized properly, is a nearly impenetrable mesh to sheep, goats, coyotes and dogs.
How does it compare to ElectroNet?
- Has string verticals every 6" instead of plastic struts every 12". String is more prone to sagging but the closer vertical spacing is better for controlling foxes, lambs and goat kids.
- Has 8 horizontal twines. (ElectroNet has 9 horizontal twines.)
- Has 10 times more electrical resistance (380 Ω/1000 ft) so it's less suited for fences more than 1000 ft long.
- Not as easy to handle during removal and installation.
- Yellow color not as visible in light/dark situations as white/black.
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|Sheep & Goat Net 8/35/6
|35" installed
|Horizontal Strands
|8 (7 conductive)
|Vertical Strands
|Plastic strings spaced every 6"
|Roll Length
|Premium Superconductor
|Electrical Resistance
|380 Ω/per 1000'
|Line Post Options
|Single Spike (SS)
|Line Post Material
|White PVC, 0.51" diameter
|Spike Length/Diameter
|Distance Between Posts
|Horizontal Spacings
|6", 3", 4", 4", 6", 6", 6"
(from bottom to top)
Each roll comes with 1 Warning Sign and 1 Repair Kit.
See PDFs and videos above for additional installation instructions.
It is best to have animals trained to electric fencing before you turn them out in the net only. The first time you put the animals in the net, you should be available to watch them for a while. That way if one were to get into the fence and get caught, you can turn the power off and get them loose.
Note: We're aware that the lower price of this net will encourage folks to choose this version. Think carefully before you do so. Customers who are unhappy with netting are often those who've chosen its farmstore/catalog equivalents. So why do we offer it? Because it is similar to nets from other sources—and comparisons make decisions easier.
If unsure, give us a call at 800-282-6631 and ask to speak to consultant. They will help you make the optimal netting choice for your fencing needs.
Use only with a low or wide impedance intermittent pulse energizer. Warning! Do NOT use continuous output energizers with electric netting due to risk of fire. (Fi-Shock™ brand energizers which are sold as low impedance, continuous current output should NOT be used with electric netting.) All energizers sold on Premier's website use an intermittent pulse and are suitable for use with electric netting.
Dry conditions and wintertime usage may reduce the effectiveness of electric fencing.
Dry or frozen ground many cause the NetPost spikes to bend or break if inserted with force. Pilot holes may be needed.
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Solar powered 0.60 joule energizer used with electric fences to contain sheep, goats, poultry, swine, cattle and horses. Effective against predators.$273.00
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5-Light Wireless Fence TesterItem #200006 -
Low cost 5-light wireless tester to measure approximate fence voltage. Used to determine if your energizer/charger is working properly.$15.00
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FiberTuff™ Post, 35" tall, 19mm diaItem #208053 -
Fiberglass-reinforced support posts for ends, corners and major directional changes. Commonly used with electrified net fences.$4.12
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Warning SignItem #346000 -
Attaches to an electric fence for netting to warn people that the fence is electrified.$0.98
ElectroNet Gate (7.5 ft x 35" tall), black/white with black postsItem #340611 -
Easy access in/out of electric net fence enclosures without having to turn off the energizer. Perfect for sheep or goat paddocks. 35" tall installed.$48.75
Posts and Accessories
NetPost 13/35/SS (white) - For: ElectroNet 9/35/12, E'Net 8/35/6 or Sheep Net 8/35/6Item #201040 -
Replacement line posts for Premier's netting. Designs for each type of net, double or single spike.$3.00
Fence Connectors and Accessories
Brass Ferrules for NettingItem #200500 -
Neat item used to repair broken horizontals in electric netting.$0.14
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Top Cap (replacement only) for 13 mm/.51" dia net postsItem #200700 -
Replaces lost, misplaced or broken plastic caps (for posts 0.51" in diameter) on netting posts. Holds top strand of net in place so there is less sagging.$0.16
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Cord retainer (replacement only) for 13mm/.51" & 15mm/.60" net postsItem #200800 -
Clip designed for the spikes on standard netting posts. Keeps bottom black strand from sliding up and creating a gap at the bottom of the net.$0.12
Fence Connectors and Accessories
Replacement - Electrical clip for nettingItem #200900 -
This clip is designed to connect all the horizontals on any electrified netting together electrically.$0.25
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Serina N from California
Great product, easy to install. I use it for my goats and it works extremely well.
Heather S from Massachusetts
I am so glad to see this economical option. So far I really like the yellow color better. it is still visible but blends against the pasture in a pleasing way. It seems easier and faster to set up to me. I will still use my pricier white net in difficult terrain and where I need sturdier fencing, but for flat areas and cross fencing, this stuff is great and affordable too.
Kim T
We are using this netting, inside field fencing to keep small dogs out. We just suffered a major attack by 7 very small dogs, and they wiped out 70% of our flock. The single spike makes it much easier to install in hard ground, and it doesn't bend like the double spike does. We have it hooked up twice, since we are running 6 pieces of netting together, it is nice and hot. For small animal protection it is great, it has smaller holes than our other sheep netting. The cats can't get in there now, so we feel safe.


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