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This is a natural specimen from Canada that is now ready for polishing or it can be kept as a specimen.We have taken the photo with the stone wet.It has been treated to stabilize it-refer to the notes below.You also have the option to treat with opticon or liquid glass-it can be a challenge to get a good finish so you need to spend some time and experiment also but the results can be stunning.
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Ammolite is a rare and valuable opal-like organic gemstone found primarily along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada. It is made of the fossilized shells of ammonites, which in turn are composed primarily of aragonite, the same mineralthat makes up nacreous pearls.
An iridescent opal-like play of color is shown in fine specimens, mostly in shades of green and red; all the spectral colors are possible, however. The iridescence is due to the microstructure of the aragonite: unlike most other gems, whose colors come from light absorption, the iridescent color of ammolite comes from interference with the light that rebounds from stacked layers of thin platelets that make up the aragonite. The thicker the layers, the more reds and greens are produced; the thinner the layers, the more blues and violets predominate. Reds and greens are the most commonly seen colors, owing to the greater fragility of the finer layers responsible for the blues.
Treatments Although fully mineralized and containing no water—and therefore not subject to dehydration and subsequent crazing—ammolite is often damaged due to environmental exposure. The thin, delicate sheets in which ammolite occurs are also problematic; for these reasons, most material is impregnated with a clear epoxy or other synthetic resin to stabilize the flake-prone ammolite prior to cutting. Although the tessellated cracking cannot be repaired, the epoxy prevents further flaking and helps protect the relatively soft surface from scratching.
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If you're the sort of Web surfer who hangs out on social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook or someone who frequents MP3 blogs, you've surely seen and used one of the free Flash audio players in this article. All of the Web-based apps below let you add a functional music player to your home page or blog with no muss and very little fuss.
In this article, I am focusing on Web software that lets you create custom playlists with specific songs that you want to include. I also include Last.fm (the half in my count) because I love it, but its embeddable player works by offering a personal radio station based on your musical preferences. The music is fantastic, but you can't pick specific songs to add to your playlist.
I have compiled my own mixes using all of these players at a new blog. (I even used MyFlashFetish twice!) Go to MP3 Playlist Overload on Blogger to listen to some of my favorite music and try out the Flash players. I'm sure that there are lots of other free, embeddable music players online, so please tell me about your favorites in the comments.
The ability to include videos and photos in your playlist, and a strong community that has created a diverse music library are two of the big highlights of the Imeem audio player. Rather than a pure music player, Imeem is designed to create playlists of any sort, including photos and video. All of the content on the site is user submitted, and you can upload your own music or use anyone else's public music to create a playlist that you can embed on your Web site.
Each playlist lives in its own specific URL, and that Web page includes a bevy of tools for sharing your playlists with friends on Facebook and MySpace, or posting directly to your blog. A simple text field below the sharing tools is your embed code. Two check boxes next to it enable autoshuffle and autoplay, if you so desire. Just copy the text field, paste it into your Web site, and you're ready to roll.
Managing playlists is a breeze. Click "Organize Music Playlist" and a pop-up window or tab will present all of your tracks. Drag and drop songs in the order you want, or click the little red "x" on the right to remove any of them from the list.
Imeem is a fantastic site and community, and the player works and looks great. The only minor complaint I have is with the Imeem Facebook app. It only displays nine of your songs and doesn't refresh properly when the playlist is changed. The generic embedded Web player works fabulously, however.
With an array of player styles, MyFlashFetish will get your blog bumping with a boombox in no time. Pick the player that you like best, click "create," then add MP3s using any live URLs. A built-in search tab provides an easy way to find and add URLs to your list. The site promotes the free hosting service fileden.com, and many of the music search results are from that domain, though other popular MP3 blogs are included.
The search feature used a significant amount of system resources on my PC, often grabbing up to 100 percent of CPU for 15 to 20 seconds while searching. A "Test Song" feature that loads a miniplayer in the search results is an excellent touch, but it often demonstrates the fact that while there are tons of results (including numerous duplicates), many of the URLs aren't functional.
Adding songs to the list puts them into the "Edit Your MP3 Playlist" section of your player page. Organizing a playlist is as simple as dragging tracks to the position you desire. The color of the player is adjustable, and 11 preset color schemes offer an easy shortcut for customizing its look.
Since I'm working with a limited space (one Web page), I appreciate the various sizes of MyFlashFetish. It was definitely a challenge to find enough skinny players for that right column of the Blogger page.
One important thing to note before you add a MyFlashFetish player to your page is that the default code is set to play automatically whenever your page loads (a personal pet peeve). To disable that function, change "autoplay=true" to "autoplay=false" in the flashvars attribute.
It's also worth noting that the MyFlashFetish site has an annoying tendency to log out users after a period of inactivity. Don't start a playlist without finishing it soon, or you may find yourself losing all your work.
This streaming Web music player works a lot like the popular MP3 blog aggregator The Hype Machine. SeeqPod searches a collection of MP3 resources and provides results that you can easily add to your own playlist. Since it's casting a wide net, SeeqPod provides the best results of any of the programs in this list.
Like SplashCast (below), SeeqPod uses an interface that's completely Flash-based, and searching for music is much, much faster than most of the sites on this list. Results appear instantaneously, and songs start playing nearly as quickly.
Perhaps even cooler, if there is a YouTube video related to the search result, you can start playing it immediately in a new tab in the player interface. There's no way to add videos to the embeddable playlist, however. That's strictly for audio tracks.
The intuitive interface and speed of SeeqPod are what sets it apart from the other players. You can access any of your playlists easily via a drop-down menu in the player interface, and continue to search for new music while you listen. You can only add music from search results to your current playlist, but that's a minor quibble.
The biggest problem with SeeqPod is that many of the links that you'll stream with the player won't stick around forever, due to the transitory nature of the files posted. However, after a few weeks with a specific playlist, 80 percen of the tracks still work fine for me.
With the snazziest style of all these apps, the FineTune player wins big points for appearance. A navigation system using 3D album covers shows you the current selection as well as the next and previous tracks. Due to licensing agreements regarding its streaming music catalog, FineTune requires you to add at least 45 songs to a playlist before you can publish it. However, it's easy to click "I'm feeling lazy" to let FineTune autofill the rest of your necessary 45 songs.
When your playlist is finished, the songs will be randomized into something like a personal radio station. In the FineTune player, you're also limited to how many times you can skip forward and backward without listening to tracks.
The music library of FineTune is another big selling point, although indie bands aren't represented very well. Also, unlike many of these sites, you can't upload your own music. FineTune has a very large library, but I was unable to find any Mountain Goats songs to add to my playlists. The horror!
Project Playlist
If you're a frequent user of sites like MySpace or IMVU, you've surely seen this generic-looking player before. Project Playlist was built to do one thing--stream audio playlists using music found freely online--and it does that fairly well. Search results are separated into standard Web, MP3 blogs, and trade-friendly concerts, but the latter two categories are still in development.
While searching MP3 blogs is still a work in progress, a cool feature on the Project Playlist site called "music buzz" offers up a range of blog posts about new music that has been culled from around the Web. All of the songs listed on Project Playlist have two prominent buttons: one for playing the track, and another for adding it to your playlist.
Like Imeem, every playlist in Project Playlist lives on its own Web page, with a variety of tools for listening to it or publishing. Four big buttons directly below your playlist let you listen in Windows Media Player, Real Player, or a standalone Flash player, or subscribe to the playlist as a podcast.
Below those four large buttons are four more options for sharing. You can post your playlist to MySpace, post it to Facebook, e-mail it to a friend, or "generate code." That generated HTML code is the snippet that you want to copy and paste into your own blog. My only complaint with Project Playlist is that the embedded player seems to be the least reliable of the ones I've tested. It's almost always the last playlist to load on my blog page, and sometimes it just spins and spins.
Much more than an audio player, SplashCast is actually designed to let users create their own TV channels. As with Imeem, users can upload their own photos, video, and music, then create their own custom playlists. The big difference between the two is the presentation. Whereas Imeem uses a standard top-to-bottom list of tracks, SplashCast has an interface much more like a television, which is not surprising given the site's stated intention.
Creating a playlist is simple, and SplashCast's Web interface shines. Unlike most of the other sites, the SplashCast interface is built completely in Flash, which might seem annoying, but it's actually very fast and intuitive to use.
Of course, since it's not designed to be a basic music player, you won't find as large of a library as with SeeqPod, but the big buttons make it very easy to add songs by uploading them, entering a Web address, or searching the public content of other SplashCast users. All of the music in my SplashCast player on MP3 Playlist Overload was found by searching public content.
One of the original online streaming-music players, Streampad is designed for that purpose alone. The interface is set up much like iTunes or other digital-music software. Navigation links appear in the left side of the interface, and songs and playlists appear in the main window.
A prominent search box lets you query the Streampad database for available tunes, and the results window allows you to play a result, add it to your "now playing" list, share, or even download the song, if the file is available. Depending on your browser settings, however, selecting "download" may cause Firefox to play the song in a new tab.
The basic features and functionality of Streampad are solid, but the presentation is slightly disheveled. For example, clicking "Share" on any playlist brings up a direct URL and a field with embeddable HTML code, but the pop-up window is transparent, so the text appears on top of the song listings in your playlists, making both of them illegible.
The embeddable Web player itself works fine, with the ability to play songs, skip backward and forward at will, subscribe to the RSS feed for the playlist, or grab HTML code to embed it on another site. There's also a button to pop up the player in a new tab or window, which is rather essential, because the embedded player is too skinny, with only the first three or four words of any tracks visible.
Hypster sports a free and easy player that fits well into most Web spaces, but your options for customizing it are virtually nil, and performance is spotty. You can upload any of your own music, though there is a 7MB file-size limit. You can also search other users' playlists for songs to add to your own, but results were sparse during my testing.
Removing and rearranging songs in your playlist is technically possible, but I received several MySQL errors whenever I tried it in my testing. (That's why that crappy remix of "Sweet Dreams" is still in my playlist.) Also, apparently, you can only have one lone Hypster playlist. I couldn't find any way to name mine or create a new one.
The player itself is basic, with personal information like your name, location, and profile image on the left, and the track list on the right. The embed code (with and without autoplay) is conveniently located in a simple HTML box below your player.
I like the look of the Hypster player--the profile picture is a nice touch, and the player is great for long playlists--but the stability and performance issues were extremely frustrating. Aside from the constant MySQL errors whenever I tried managing my playlist, Hypster would continuously kick me out out of my account, losing my last search and forcing me to log in multiple times.
While Last.fm is a great site and a terrific Web community, the embeddable music player only counts as half a player for the purposes of this article because you can't add specific songs to the player or arrange tracks in order. However, the embeddable Last.fm widget is still one of the best players online, and the music library is top-notch.
Basically, Last.fm lets you embed a radio station based on one of your favorite artists. You select the artist, then Last.fm serves up music "like" that artist, including, naturally, songs from the selected performer. It's an excellent tool for learning about new music, and it's also a great way to show off your favorite musical act, if you have one. I inserted a Last.fm widget for Mountain Goats radio on MP3 Playlist Overload. Listen and be amazed.
Again, although these eight (and a half) sites can provide countless hours of entertainment, I know that there must be other great Web music players out there. If you have any favorite sites or service, be sure to tell me about them in the comments. Keep on rocking!

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Fig. 4. If you don't clean and condition your fretboard, it may crack.
Cracks are another terrifying byproduct of not conditioning your fretboard (Fig. 4). When sweat evaporates, it can dry out the fretboard and cause it to crack.
Fig. 5. If they're not cleaned regularly, pickups, potentiometers, and switches can become corroded by the salts and acids in sweat.
A guitar's electronics can also suffer from dead skin cells and sweat. When acids and salts build up on a pickup, they can corrode the coils and magnets and cause the pickup to fail. These corrosive materials have the same effect on potentiometers and switches (Fig. 5).
Many string and accessory manufacturers offer conditioners for your guitar. But be aware that most of these products, including lemon oil, contain harmful chemicals and solvents that will damage your guitar's wood and finish. Avoid anything that contains d-Limonene, alcohol, or silicone.
Derived from oil extracted from citrus rind, d-Limonene contains natural acids. These acids can act as a solvent and break down finishes and cause the wood around the frets to deteriorate. Alcohol dries out the fretboard, bridge, and other unfinished wood, and can cause cloudiness in certain types of finish. Silicone prevents the wood from breathing and can cause the finish on your guitar to become hazy. It's also very difficult to remove.
Fig. 6. When wood isn't sufficiently humidified, it can dry out and crack. This guitar back has seen better days.
Controlling humidity is another important aspect of guitar care. When a guitar gets too dry, the wood cracks (Fig. 6). Conditioning wood certainly helps prevent it from cracking, but it's also a good idea to use a humidifier. New guitars tend to be more prone to humidity cracks than older instruments. Here's why: Most older or vintage guitars were made from air-dried wood. This wood was dried out over several decades, and during this process any pieces that cracked were culled out. The older harvested wood gets, the more stable it becomes, but it's a lengthy, painstaking way to dry wood. Modern guitars are primarily made from kiln-dried wood. Kiln drying is designed to speed up the aging process, but only time can truly age a piece of wood. Guitars made from kiln-dried wood are more susceptible to changes temperature and humidity. Maintaining a guitar-friendly humidity level helps prevent wood from cracking, and we'll discuss how to do this in a moment.


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These are two young lesula (cercopithecus lomaniensis) a previously undiscovered species of monkey from the central Democratic Republic of Congo in one of the country's last unexplored forest areas. The 6,500 square mile area where the shy lesula is found is remote and sparsely populated. The adult male has a unique and highly identifiable blue rear end. They say it is a new species, but of course it is only new to us.
Researchers say that the species is vulnerable as a result of hunting for bush meat. They called for controls on hunting and the creation of a protected area to conserve the lesula. Bush meat or wild game is dangerous in Africa as it may transmit Ebola or HIV to humans.
Species with small ranges like the lesula can move from vulnerable to seriously endangered in just a few years. The challenge for conservation is to intervene before losses become definitive. It's complicated when the need for meat protein is high.
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Baltimore Attractions
Things to see while attending Railsconf
Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum
216 Emory Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 727-1539
Admission Rates:
- Adults $6.00
Hours of Operation:
- Tuesday - Sunday (10:00am to 5:00pm)
George Herman "Babe" Ruth was born February 6, 1895 at 216 Emory Street, a Baltimore row house that is now just a long fly ball from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
By the late 1960s, the property and adjoining three row-house structures had fallen into disrepair and were scheduled for demolition. A successful campaign to save and restore the Birthplace was launched and the house opened to the public as a national shrine in 1974. Exhibits depicting the Historic House and life and times of Babe Ruth were installed with the help of Babe's widow, Claire and his two daughters.
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum
901 W. Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 752-2490
Admission Rates
- Adults $14.00
Hours of Operation:
- Monday - Saturday (10 am - 4 pm), Sunday, 11 am - 4 pm
This fascinating, fun place for kids, families, and lovers of history and American railroading features the most comprehensive collection in the Western Hemisphere, plus free parking and train rides.
In the late 19th century, an overzealous publicity agent developed a trade show exhibit for a major American railroad headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. This exhibit survived the railroad that sponsored it and grew to become a "national treasure" of railroad artifacts. Today, it comprises the collection of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, the oldest, most comprehensive American railroad collection in the world.
Located among Baltimore City's historic southwest neighborhoods, at the original site of the historic Mt. Clare Shops, the B&O Railroad Museum is recognized universally as the birthplace of American railroading. Nearly 200 pieces of locomotives and rolling stock provide a continuum of railroad technology history from 1830 through the present day, and hundreds of thousands of small artifacts provide a unique glimpse of railroading through tools, exquisite time-pieces, fine art, presentation silver, uniforms, furniture, and personal memorabilia. Additionally, an extensive collection of scale models and toy trains illustrate America's long fascination with trains and railroading. And the grounds of the Museum encompass significant historic structures, many of which are restored as well as bridges, earthworks, and archaeological resources.
Baltimore Ghost Tours
P.O. Box 38140
Baltimore, MD
(410) 522-7400
Award-winning haunted walking tours of Fell's Point and Mount Vernon. Certified Authentic Baltimore tours. Evening and day tours, Haunted Pub Walks, and Ghost Talk. Group tours available.
Edgar Allen Poe Museum
203 N. Amity Street
Baltimore, MD
Hours of Operation:
- April - early December: Thurs - Sat (Noon - 3:30 pm)
Edgar Allan Poe's home is now open to the public as a modest museum with self-guided tours. Displays in the house include a lock of Poe's hair, some original china that once belonged to John Allan as well as many other Poe-related images.
The little house at 203 Amity street (originally No. 3 Amity) was presumably built around 1830 for Charles Klassen. Edgar Allan Poe lived in this house from 1832 until August or September of 1835,when he moved to Richmond, Virginia to edit the Southern Literary Messenger. This building was saved from demolition in 1941 by the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
2400 E. Fort Avenue
Baltimore, MD
(410) 962-4290
Hours of Operation
- Grounds: Daily (8:00 am to 5:00 pm)
- Fort and Visitor Center: Daily (8:00 am to 4:45 pm)
- Last Video Presentation: Daily (4:00 pm)
This 18th-century brick fort defended Baltimore Harbor during the War of 1812 and is the birthplace of the American national anthem. Park rangers offer visitor programs and special events that highlight the park's history. Visit the home of the Star-Spangled Banner!
The entrance fee to the historic area of the park is $7.00 for adults 16 years of age and older; children 15 and younger are free. This fee provides the visitor with a 7-day entrance permit to Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. You must keep your entrance receipt to re-enter the park in the 7-day time period.
The Star Bangled Banner Flag House
844 E. Pratt St.
(410) 837-1793
Admission Rates:
- Adults $7.00 (include orientation film, guided tour and all living history activities)
- Hours of Operation: Tuesday - Saturday (10 am to 4 pm)
- Tours begin at 10:30am, 11am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1pm, 1:30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm, 3:15pm. (Tours are preceded by a 10 minute orientation film.)
The 1793 home of Mary Pickersgill, where she made the 30 by 42 foot Star Spangled Banner that flew over Fort McHenry and inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words that would become our national anthem.
Geppi's Entertainment Museum
301 W. Camden Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 625-7060
Admission Rates
- Adult: $10.00
- Hours of Operation: Tuesday - Sunday (10 am - 6 pm), Closed Mondays (except for major holidays)
Take an unprecedented journey through American history with a focus on pop culture in media, toys and comic characters as they shaped our children through a magical blend of entertainment and education.
Each Gallery in Geppi's Entertainment Museum (GEM) is designed to capture a specific period or medium in American pop culture. From the library filled with treasures from comics' early days to the Pioneer gallery featuring the birth of character collectibles, GEM takes you on an entertaining journey through the history of pop culture.
Historic Mt. Vernon Belvedere District
1228 N. Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 528-1919
A National Register Historic District, Mount Vernon encompasses the best of what city living has to offer. This solidly fashionable and lively neighborhood not only serves as Baltimore's cultural center, but is also home to world renowned mid-19th century architecture that provides a gracious urban living experience. Take a stroll up historic Charles Street to the Washington Monument. Visit the many boutique shops from the monument to Penn Station.
Between 1800 and 1900, Mount Vernon was at the center of Baltimore's transformation from an insignificant harbor city to a place of prominence and wealth. This was the time when fortunes were made and great philanthropies bestowed.
Mount Vernon also has the distinction of being home to the first memorial erected in the United States to honor our nation's first President and Commander-in-Chief, George Washington.
Most of the original Mount Vernon buildings remain today, but their functions have changed. For example, the home of Henry and William Walters at 5 W. Mount Vernon Place now serves as offices for the Walters Art Museum; the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion is now the home of the Engineers Club; and the Jencks-Gladding house now holds the Asian art collection of the Walters Art Museum. The rejuvenation of the many historic and architecturally significant buildings has enabled Mount Vernon to remain not only a diverse residential neighborhood, but also a cultural center and restaurant district.
National Aquarium
501 E. Pratt Street
Pier 3
Baltimore, MD
(410) 576-3800
Stunning exhibits and more than 11,000 aquatic animals, plus the widely lauded exhibit, Animal Planet Australia, make this Inner Harbor destination Baltimore's most popular attraction. Express entry is available when you purchase tickets online.
Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
(at N. Charles and 31st Streets)
Baltimore, MD
(443) 573-1700
Admission Rates
- Free General Admission
- Hour of Operation: Wednesday-Friday (10 am - 5 pm), Saturday - Sunday (11 am-6 pm), Monday - Closed Tuesdays
All year long, Maryland's largest art museum showcases a dazzling collection, ranging from ancient mosaics to contemporary art, plus ever-changing exhibitions, sculpture gardens, an eclectic museum shop and a scenic restaurant.
Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
Druid Hill Park
Baltimore, MD
(410) 396-7102
Admission Rates:
- Adults: $13.00
Hours of Operation:
- 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Baltimore's wildest attraction! Visit the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and begin a journey around the world that will bring you face-to-face with more than 2,000 amazing animals. Follow a wooden walkway across the African savannah and view elephants, rhinos, zebras, leopards cheetahs and lions. Visit Polar Bear Watch, the amazing new Artic exhibit featuring Magnet, Alaska and Anoki! Stop at Rock island to visit America's largest colony of African black-footed penguins.
Baltimore Orioles Baseball Club
333 W. Camden Street
Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Baltimore, MD
The Orioles play an 81-home game Major League Baseball schedule from April through September. Ballpark tours are available year-round. For tour and ticket information, call 888-848-BIRD or visit the Web site.
During RailsConf, the Orioles are playing at Camden Yards. June 4 - 6 versus the Boston Red Sox, June 8 - 10 versus the New York Yankees and June 11 - 13 versus the New York Mets.
For more information on Baltimore Attractions, please visit the Visit Baltimore website.
Baltimore Restaurants
Aldo's Ristorante Italiano
306 S. High Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 727-0700
The Zagat Survey's highest-scoring Italian restaurant in the state of Maryland. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence since 1998. Serving dinner nightly from 5:00 pm Complimentary shuttle service.
Caesar's Den
223 S. High Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 547-0820
A family restaurant for over three decades, they serve quality Italian cuisine, featuring one of Baltimore's finest and most extensive all-Italian wine lists. Specialties include fresh fish, grilled meats and unusual pasta dishes.
Chef Paolino Cafe
100 S. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
Phone: (410) 837-6909
Fax: (410) 837-6167
Neighborhood: Baltimore Metro
Located directly across from the Baltimore Convention Center, Chef Paolino's offers quick counter service with something for everyone. From Italian to traditional deli foods, breakfast, lunch, early dinner and cocktails. Catering available.
Chiapparelli's Restaurant
237 S. High Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 837-0309
One of Little Italy's best-known and best-loved restaurants, the menu includes homemade pasta, seafood, veal dishes and their famous house salad. Banquet facilities--including four private dining rooms--and valet parking available.
Ding How Restaurant
631 S. Broadway
Baltimore, MD
(410) 327-8888
Ding How in Chinese means "the best." We serve fine Chinese cuisine with specialty crab dishes. Voted Best Chinese Restaurant in the city by Baltimore Magazine 2006 and Baltimore City Paper 2007.
Edo Sushi - Inner Harbor
201 E. Pratt Street #2075
Baltimore, MD
(410) 843-9804
The restaurant offers a full menu of sushi, sashimi and cooked Japanese specials—for lunch, dinner, carryout, party platters and gift cards. Inner Harbor location also offers grilled yakitori and full liquor bar.
Mother's Grille
1113 S. Charles St (410) 244-8686
Mother's is a neighborhood tavern located in Historic Federal Hill, a hip, up-scale night life and dining destination in the heart of Baltimore City.
Mother's Federal Hill Grille is a short distance from the Inner Harbor, M&T Bank Stadium (home of the Ravens), Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Ft. McHenry & the Visionary Arts Museum. Mothers Federal Hill Grille is a great spot to enjoy Baltimore's fun, upbeat night life and a great meal.
Full restaurant and bar serving full breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some of their award-winning specialties are: Maryland crab cakes, mouth-watering burgers, Maryland seafood and fresh fish with a Caribbean influence, colossal salads and over stuffed sandwiches. All served by an incredibly knowledgeable and friendly staff. Enjoy their great selection of micro brews and specialty drinks as well.
Lebanese Taverna
719 S. President Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 244-5533
Delight your taste buds with the very best in Middle Eastern dining. The family- owned Lebanese Taverna Restaurant offers authentic fare with grilled meats, poultry, seafood and an array of vegetarian dishes using Mediterranean spices and herbs to create healthy mezza (appetizer portions) and savory entrees. The stylish yet casual atmosphere lends itself for groups of all sizes and is child friendly.
Miss Shirley's Café - Downtown
750 E. Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 528-5373
Miss Shirley's Café features eccentric southern style cuisine with a Baltimore twist. Offering house specialties like Crab and Fried Green Tomatoes Eggs Benedict, Coconut Cream Stuffed French Toast, Sweet Potato Fries, Chesapeake Club and Chopped Salad. Enjoy Baltimore's best breakfast lunch in two locations - Inner Harbor and Roland Park! Come experience their warm dining room and friendly service.


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The Victoria Rooms in Hartley Wintney (recently named Best Place to Live in the UK!!)
There is parking at the hall but should this become full there is a
pay and display parking is nearby http://g.co/maps/hhbwt which is signposted from Bracknell Lane. Turn rt into Hartford road and follow signs. The car park is next to the medical centre.
If stall holders and visitors need somewhere to stay there is a premier inn just off the A303 which looks to be extremely convenient if you are travelling from the west. http://www.premierinn.com/en/checkHotel/BASPTI/basingstoke-south


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Heavyhearted Muse Lou Doillon Is Channeling Her Talents Into Moody Melodies That Are Garnering Her Even More Acclaim
Heavyhearted Muse Lou Doillon Is Channeling Her Talents Into Moody Melodies That Are Garnering Her Even More Acclaim
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"For a long time people didn't know where to put me," says Lou Doillon, 30, daughter of Jane Birkin and half sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg, about being an It Girl. "No project I ever did was as famous as I was." Those projects included indie films, designing capsule collections for the denim company Lee Cooper, and modeling for H&M, French Playboy, and Vanessa Bruno. All that has changed with the release of her first LP, Places, which neared top-download status on French iTunes the week of its release and subsequently has been played on just about every sound system in Paris. The record is no starlet's caprice: full of melancholy, with lush and grown-up songwriting (all hers) and a surprisingly mature voice, it transcends the breathy, cool-girl collaborations of her mother and half sister, and verges into Cat Power or Feist territory. Over a half-pint at her local, Doillon seems as surprised as the rest of us by her newfound, hard-won success.
How did you discover you have a voice?
LOU DOILLON I'd been playing guitar for about seven years and writing little songs between five and nine o'clock in the morning, because it was either do that or shoot myself. I guess it was via my girlfriends, who would come around and say, "Do that song again about how your dog's better than your boyfriend." But it was always just at home. Now that I'm doing live appearances, I've learned that it's absolutely thrilling to have loads of people singing your songs with you. The album came out in early September, and when I did the first gig a week later, people already knew the lyrics. It's mad.
What got you to bring these songs out to the public?
LD Well, the rest of my world started crumbling. I wasn't doing movies, and life was complicated and I had less and less money. I was locked in my house all day long with my guitar. I didn't have the courage to open up, and suddenly the songwriting started saving me. I couldn't talk to people, but I could talk to my guitar. Then Étienne [Daho, French pop star] came around and said, "What the fuck have you been doing for 15 years? Movies are fine, but if there's one thing you've really got, it's this—so let's record it!" At first I said, "I can't! These songs were never written to be heard by tons of people, they're just too personal!" But I agreed, and we recorded at a studio around the corner over ten days. I thought maybe it would be like movies or everything else that hasn't worked out. But I also thought, This is maybe the best project of your life because it's so personal. So at least enjoy it, then see what happens.
Who sent Étienne around? Were you friends?
LD He was a friend of Charlotte and my mother. He's very moved by fragile people, and for a long time I was everything but that. So I used to freak him out. I'm always laughing when I'm out of my house, but beware of giggly people, it's almost always a sign of depression. Anyway, at a birthday party at my mother's place I couldn't hide it for the first time and I sat in a corner by myself. And because Étienne's shy, he's often in corners too. Also my mother had told him she was worried about me. She said, "I love her music because I've heard it, but I don't know if it's good because I'm her mum. Could you go check it out and tell me what you think?"
Your songs are awfully melancholic.
LD They are sad, bluntly honest little songs. But I do believe being an artist entails a responsibility to talk about what people don't want to talk about. And the songs about what's most painful in life are the best songs, like "Jolene," by Dolly Parton. I mean, you've got to be really fucking honest to write a song for a girl who's going to nick your man. Or Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain." I think, Shit, I've lived that, where you'd rather be with a man who's cheating on you than be without him. In the modern woman's world, you're not allowed to say that stuff, but I think the majority of women have felt absolutely the same.
Have you had that great, satisfying love too?
LD It's kind of happened to me in the last ten days! So for the moment I'm being very cautious about it, but for the first time it feels healthy. He draws, he's an actor. He's not famous, just a young man with all of life in front of him. Before I always went for very, very uneasy relationships.
Even with the father of your ten-year-old son?
LD Oh yeah. He was extremely cruel, but I deeply love him today. I'm very proud of myself for that, because I can see so many people having trouble sharing a kid. My parents [Birkin and director Jacques Doillon] kind of pretend to get along now, but it's been 25 years that they've been split and they still have almost only shit to say about each other. So many women I know make the mistake of seeing the father of their child as an ex-boyfriend. Anyone would get pissed off if the fucker got a new girlfriend—but if it's the father of your kid, you think, OK, that will be good for the kid.
Being somewhat well-known, how was it getting signed?
LD Maybe it's because so many actresses in France went bonkers with records just before mine, but every label told me they weren't signing actresses. I had to come with my guitar and say, "Just listen!" And they'd say, "No, come back with new songs." So I'd go away and come back with five new ones and say, "Come on, sign me!" But in the end my friends who are proper musicians respect me for having gone through some of what they have.
It's surprising to hear how much you play with your voice, since you're technically inexperienced.
LD The fact is I'm a very bad guitarist. So I have to bring out my voice and find different melodies, because I'm always playing the same fucking four or five chords! And there's also the strange paradox of singing without a mic for seven years—you have to fill the room. Étienne was laughing when we recorded, I've got such big teeth I kept knocking them on the mic.
People now see you quite differently than they did before.
LD Now people stop me in the street and have something to say other than "I love you!"—which, by the way, is lovely, but it's sometimes a little strange when people will say, "Oh, I love that movie," and I'm like, "No, I wasn't in that one" or "No, that one was my sister." But Charlotte just said to me that for the first time in her life someone stopped her in the street and said, "I love your sister's voice." I was like, "Ha! Yes!"
So no more movies?
LD Music is definitely more pleasurable for me than acting, because when I'm acting I'm more self-conscious. But I did a movie last summer with my father and Samuel Benchetrit called Un Enfant de Toi that should be coming out soon. But what's really funny is that only now, after the record is out, have I had so much attention from directors! Jacques Audiard (Un Prophète) sent me a lovely note. Michel Gondry, too. How strange that a movie might come through the music. But why not?
This is a story with a happy ending, then.
LD My mother said, super beautifully, that there's nothing better than to have done other people's projects for 17 years and have it not always work out and then suddenly do your own project—and bam! People say, "God there's something heavy and sad in your voice," and I think, Yeah, that's 17 years of hit and miss! I would never have been able to do that at the age of 18 or 20. Right now is a lovely moment to live.
Places is currently out on Universal Music France


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This post will be really rambley and unorganized because it's one of those days and I'm in one of those moods.
I cast on Beatnik again. Twisted rib sucks. My wrists are killing me. I was fancy and added a selvage. I could've done it in the round but I want to make sure I know how to seam a knitted garment properly.
I got striped overalls. They make me really happy.
I got my calf tattooed today (now that my left leg below the knee is completely tattooed, do I tell people I have a leg warmer? *covered arms = sleeves* ) and as usual I pigged out after. Two whoopie pies.
I have a fever right now. Seems to be the norm for me after tattoo sessions. Ugh.
This might be TMI but having to clean out the holes in my gums left from the wisdom teeth is a PITA.
It's awesome and a major ego-boost knowing people read my blog (*NEVER* thought I'd get more than a few hits or that I'd last this long), but then I feel immense pressure to be interesting. I feel even more pressure when people I know in real life read my blog (Hi Marcus, Melissa, Andres, and Jessie AKA White Noise) and they tell me. And then I get a little embarrassed. Bloggers, am I alone in this?
I think that's all.
Organized and non-rambley posts will be back soon.
August 11, 2011 10:15 pm
you are not alone in feeling embarrassed! i don't tell anyone i have a blog that i know in real life. only my sis and husband know (that i know of at least!). if someone finds out about it, then oh well. i never post things on there that i wouldn't want someone to know about anyway. and i like the term leg warmer. i've been thinking i'd like to get from the knee down tattooed one day but i'm such a baby. to start, i want to get my wedding bouquet and then fill in things later on. i have the design for the bouquet drawn up and ready to go. i just don't have the balls to make that appointment!
August 12, 2011 1:45 am
You are not alone! I hardly tell anyone I know in real life about my blog. The ones who know are fellow bloggers or are people my mum has told.
August 12, 2011 1:50 pm
I do not tell anyone either, only a select few know, i read all of your posts even though i do not always comment i have 100's of blogs in my reader and i have a folder for my fave's that i read all posts on and yours is in that folder, so you must be doing something right!
August 12, 2011 3:10 pm
I absolutely LOVE reading your blog and seeing your photos. The lovely Lily makes me smile every time I see her face. Her blog is so HER! Don't ever stop, either one of you!
August 13, 2011 7:36 am
oh gosh. i get embarrassed too. i wish i could keep the two separate. & it's not like i tell the blog-world all my secrets or anything. i suppose my real life peeps know me better, but it's just odd i guess. & then i tell people things that i read on your blog lets say and i sound like i know you in person. then they ask like "oh cool have you met her dog?"…and i just sit there with this blank face realizing that they have no idea i'm talking about the inter-blog-world. whoops. i don't know if that made sense……hm.
oh. i am so happy i don't have wisdom teeth. yay.
good luck seaming. & i think i have a blue & white (train conductor looking) overalls in my closet somewhere…from high school. hah.
August 14, 2011 7:12 pm
Ditto. Select few. I just started my blog, so I feel like a COMPLETE dork right now when (and if) I tell people I have a blog. Blogging makes me feel good, so it's funny I'm so shy about it, but I love it when strangers (new friends?) read it.
Oh yes, my bulldog Blossom wants to play with Lily. I think she's a bit jealous, though, that Lily has her own blog. Now she wants one, too. Diva bulldogs. Nice.
August 14, 2011 7:16 pm
I decided to own my blog, straight up. I just act way more casual than I feel when people bring it up, like "yep, blog, whatevskies".
I also got tattooed today! Twins.