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"It went very well. Our dog looked and smelled great! Auntie loves dog & cats as much as mothers love their children. If you are not caring for you dog properly" she will educate you about what you did wrong. Auntie has rescued numerous dogs and paid for proper care for them including vet bills. She also locates new owners for individuals who can no longer care for them, or who have died. I totally trust her with my dog. I have brought her a number of customers, who were unhappy with their groomers. They became customers of hers. I chose her because I had been disappointed with several other groomers. We have used
for approximately 10 years. When drop my dog off, I get to see the results of her work. She does great work on Poodles, Bicons and other fancy breeds. My dog is part Poodle and Bichon. She will groom to your personal specifications.

-Harry P.

"We’ve been going to them for years, but I wouldn’t give them an A. What we liked about them at first is that it was a
owner and" then she has a 1 and a half assistants working in there. They seem to be very good with dogs, but not so good with people. It’s just you know, be appreciative with your customers, I mean for years I’ve been giving each of them a gift card at Christmas saying thanks for what you do, and never have I received a thank you either in person or anything, which makes me not do that anymore and then we’ve seen the groomer outside of the grooming place and she’s not super friendly. Our dog is pretty low maintenance, all he needs is brushing and a bath and he doesn’t even need trimming because that’s the kind of dog he is, so it’s a bath, brushing and maintenance, so it’s all pretty
, he’s not complicated, he’s a very sweet dog, so I
’t really understand. They come from a customer type of business that relationships are important, so we’ve been coming to this groomer for 10 years and we feel that we aren’t appreciated as much. If I had to rate them, I would say that they’re maybe an A- in the dog grooming skills and probably more like a C+ in their customer service or people skills. Their pretty competitive with other pricing. I guess professionally they’re fine.

-Monica K.

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Animal Grooming

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For daycare they are good. I like that they have cameras, and even though we don't go on a regular schedule they know my dog's name. And its really nice that you can just show up and drop them off, no appointment needed. For grooming, they are okay. The only way I knew that she had seen the groomer was that they put a bandana around her neck. She didn't smell clean, her nails weren't any shorter or smoother. My biggest complaint about
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is that every time I would call I would talk to a different person who would give me different information, then when I'd go in there would be yet another person with yet another answer. Whether it was price, schedule or just general questions, I would call and one person would tell me one thing, then when I would go in there would be a different person there and they would tell me something else. Sometimes I got charged for a full day of play when she was there for grooming, sometimes I would only get charged for a half day. On her first visit they were really confusing about whether or not I got charged for 'play time" when she was there for grooming.
- Gwendolynn S.

This was my first visit to
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massaged my dog, shampoo and conditioned his coat, trimmed him according to my wishes,
cleaned his ears, trimmed his nails, brushed his teeth and so much more.
She made wonderful recommendations for the care of his coat and he is looks show worthy.
She has personality plus and spent personal time explaining what they had done.
I am so pleased with the service and am delighted that she does such personalized care....
and my dog just loves her now.
Great location and great selection of dog and cat items....lots of Halloween costumes, too.
- Barbara S.

Great service as always - got us in 15 minutes after I called. we've been using Animal Medical Center (they changed their name) for 3 years since we moved to Tuscaloosa. We have 2 dogs and 2 cats so we are there fairly often and we would not go any place else. we've also used Club Mutts (doggy daycare) plus boarded our dogs there for vacations. They know us and they know our animals and our dogs LOVE going there (especially for day care). Our purebreed schnauzer has had some health issues and they've always bent over backwards to take care of her to include the vet calling us after hours and weekends just to check on her. Care can be expensive but this is inherent in owning a pet with health issues. The vets are awesome as well as the staff and again, our dogs love going there. The cats never but that is just being a cat!!!
- Kimberly A.

He is impeccable. He does things exactly that we want done. He is also great with rescue dogs too and brings them back to their pure breed, we only have rescue dogs. He also comes to our home since he is mobile. He is very contentious and makes me feel like he is part of family. He comes into our home and he is a very nice person. Not only does he do great work, he also has a state of the art mobile vehicle that has heating and air conditioning. Everything is state regulated and the water is disposed properly.
- Glen K.

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and staff do such a lovely job with my 6 dogs. 4 are 12-15 yrs old and 2 are special need puppies. They are so fabulous with them and care for them more than most parents care for their children. They are professional- timely and really love the dogs. I trust them %100 and the dogs love them back. They will NEVER disappoint and the grooming is always perfect. In an era highly lacking in customer service & care,
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- kim A.

How did it go? It went AWEsomely, as it has every single time we've take our dogs to
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+ her staff are wonderful with our Scottiedogs and they always take time to make sure they are ready for their spa day, which can be a nervous time for any pet. There have alos been times when we've sent our dogs there in a less-than-perfect condition and the staff are as gently as they can be when it comes to getting out the mats and rough areas.
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- Robb T.

Owner operator is polite, friendly, professional, and has 35+ year experience grooming show dogs. It is a place my dogs enjoy going and work is reasonable.
- Cindy L.

I was a new client and I was very impressed with
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She told me exactly what she did and why. She noted that one ear seemed a little moist inside, but that she saw no signs of infection. She told me that she filed rather than clipped his nails and why.
Added to that - I am very pleased with how he looks. This is a companion dog, not a show dog and I told her I wanted him clipped close to the body but to give him the traditional "Schnauzer face." He came out looking great.

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Alani's Paw Spa & Pet Grooming

3020 Floyd Ave

Animal Clinic

7575 Pacific Ave

Debbie's Grooming Salon

105 W Main St

Linda's Pampered Pets

2717 Coffee Road Suite J

Lisa's Pet Styles

424 E Olive Ave

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3189 Princeton Rd

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2100 Mc Henry Ave

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3900 Sisk Rd

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7600 West Ln

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"Overall we liked Budget Refuse and
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I have used this service for years and they have always preformed well.
The service started going down this spring. I would put the garbage out
on the scheduled day and they might or might not pick it up. In August
my Friday garbage got picked up on Monday, but the week I decided to go
with another company, they didn't even bother to pick it up.
- Jonalee M.

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is great. We called them, sent pics of our junk heap, and they called us back with an estimate that was about $200 cheaper than we could find anywhere else. They were punctual, and they were very careful to get every little bit of trash out of our driveway. Very pleasant experience!
- Martine M.

I have been trying since March this year to have $24.98, deducted as a pre-payment for March services, refunded. As I moved from my house in February, I called the company on February 18 to tell them that I was moving, gave my new address and wanted pick up stopped at the end of the month. They deducted the March payment automatically and after calling them in early March, leaving a message, I received a return call from a woman named
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, who said a check had been sent to my new address, but did not indicate when it was supposedly sent. I have never received a check and have been receiving mail steadily since mid-February at my new address. She said she would check it out and call me back. No one ever called back so on
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31 with signed return receipt requested, which was rubber stamped with the name H.
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and dated August 3, 12015. I have not received a reply from anyone from this company with the unacceptable, or rather non-existent, customer service and feel that half a year spent trying to obtain a refund of $24.98 is unconscionable.
I definitely will not recommend this company.
- Roberta C.

We love these guys! The price ($43.50 for 3 months) was half of what the large company was charging us. They place the closed lid empty cans back on the very corner of our drive or on the sidewalk so they don't fall out into the street. They never miss and we've never had them leave anything. I would recommend them to anyone.
- Cristina R.

I called
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- Nancy E. M.

I had purchased the big deal coupon which gave me 169 dollars service for 100 dollars. It is specified on the coupon that it covers 4 cubic yards but I was sure that I would use up much more space in the truck.
Two courteous young men came with a nicely painted mid sized truck at the appointed time. I informed them that there were several rooms involved so they asked to to visit the rooms so as to plan better. Some stuff was heavy like the old televisions and wooden chairs. They carried all with an enthusiastic attitude and cleaned the space.
I know I will use this company in the future when I downsize and I highly recommend them.

We are changing to GarbageMan on September 1. This is not due to any shortcoming with DSI/LSI, but rather that Garbageman offers weekly recycling (DSI/LSI does biweekly) and the cost of the improved service is less by over $10 per quarter.
I am posting primarily due to one complaint of business practice at DSI/LSI. DSI/LSI bills for the yard waste can on an annual basis in advance. We prepaid for 2015. They are refusing to allow us to continue to use the yard waste can for the balance of 2015 even though it is prepaid. They are also unwilling to refund proportionally for the balance of 2015. When we signed up for the yard waste can, they never indicated the policy that you need to have regular garbage pickup to continue with the yard waste can, and they never showed a written or verbal policy that no pro-rated refund would be allowed. I suspect there is no such policy available for customers to view online. Hence the F on professionalism.

I reached out yesterday to see the cost of removing my old bed and desk chair. (I got one of those bed-in-a-box deals, so it doesn't come with old mattress hauling.) Someone responded to my email within 30 minutes and set up a time for today.
The guys were a little late arriving, due to getting lost at my apartment complex, but
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- Mike B.

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3 Rayber Rd

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21st Century Organised Family Historian - Week 2 - Develop a Digital Organizational Scheme

Continuing the weekly thread organised by Michelle at The Turning of Generations.

I knew last week that this was going to be a bit of an ordeal. My Maternal ancestry had lived in the area of the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire borders for around 300 years. It is therefore hardly surprising that I have a duplications of surnames. Not surprising, but very frustrating. In some cases the lines are not know to be connected and in other cases there is an overlap of families. My own Grandparents were 6th Cousins, although they did not know it during there lifetimes. I often wonder what they would have made of that fact.

My rather ageing genealogical programme is Family Origins 10. There will be an upgrade later this year I am sure. The name of my database MainFile. It starts with me and works back across my own ancestry and then goes sideways into my marriage and then heads back through my husband's ancestry.

I have a series of ring binders that reflect the computer database of MainFile. In theory, if the details exist in my database then a paper copy exists in my paper file. My filing cabinet has a file for each of my surnames running A-Z. If there is a great deal on a particular individual they have their own file inside that.

Meanwhile, my external hard drive is in deep, deep need of being organised. The plan that I have thought about over the last week is hopefully going to work. It will look like this:

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- Genealogy

--JDG (me)
---Surnames (showing a few examples)
------John Hunt Butcher

Within each surname folder is a series of folders like this -
---Photographs (all named and dated)

This structure, repeated for my husband's ancestry.

That is my vision for the project. Fingers crossed it will work and will make a huge difference to the current organisation.

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Not sure which topic this should go under but first, visuals:

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Is all that compression artifacts on the wall because of the 2x rendering, or some side effect of the effects? I'm going to be adding a light blur and flecks to it, am I making too big of a deal of it? There's no easy way to fix it at this point, right? I guess how do I avoid it next time, which part of the "render as..." box do I need to pay attention to?

And what infos do I need to add to help answer my rambling questions?
Vegas pro 10, I set everything to "allow source to set frame/size" what have you.
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Postby mirkosp » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:44 am

It's a side effect of the effect you used. It's increasing the contrast to huge amount along with the other things it's doing, so of course it's going to make gradients banded. Find another way to achieve the look you want without getting the gradients to look like that. Alternatively, apply some deband/dither/grain to the output.
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The 'Remove Grain' effect can be okay at removing some compression artifacts. I've used it on some DSLR footage. You'd want to put it at the top of the effects chain however.
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I use the "Smart Smoother" that comes with "Mike Crash Sony Vegas filter & transition package" for simple compression artifacts like that in Sony Vegas - though I'm sure people will tell you that I'm doing it all wrong.
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Plot Summary: The story of Haitai Nanafa revolves around an energetic middle school girl named Nanafa Kyan. Nanafa lives in Okinawa with her grandmother who runs the "Kame Soba" soba shop, her beautiful older sister Nao who is in high school, and her younger sister Kokona, who is in elementary school and has a strong ability to sense the supernatural. One day, Nanafa witnesses a seal fall off of a Chinese banyan tree, and three spirits who live in that tree are unleashed. These spirits include Niina and Raana, who are "jimunaa" spirits. The third spirit is Iina, who is an incarnation of an Okinawan lion statue. As spirits start appearing one after another, the peaceful life of Nanafa and her family begins to change.
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Sound Director: Ryousuke Naya
Director of Photography: Takeshi Hirooka (Asterism)
Animation producer: Kazuhiro Saitō (Passione)
Color design: Hitomi Sano
Editing: Keisuke Yanagi (Yanagi Editing)
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Hiromi Sakamoto (eps 12-13)
Hiroya Sakurai (eps 9, 13)
Kanta Suzuki (ep 12)
Mariko Emori (ep 12)
Masao Suwa (ep 5)
Ming Han (ep 7)
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Saki Takahashi (ep 10)
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Sayaka Koiso (eps 1, 13)
Takayo Mitsuwaka (ep 8)
Tomoe Tanaka (ep 2)
Tomomi Yabuki (ep 4)
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On 22 May, Edinburgh Airport celebrated the launch of United Airlines’ second route to the Scottish capital with a special event in the terminal. Cutting the celebratory ribbon are (left to right): Gordon Dewar, CEO, Edinburgh Airport; Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Deputy First Minister of Scotland; Jake Cefolia, VP Atlantic and Pacific Sales, United Airlines; and Bob Schumacher, MD Sales UK and Ireland, United Airlines.

  • United Airlines expanded its presence at Edinburgh (EDI) with a new seasonal service from Chicago O’Hare, IL (ORD) on 22 May. The 5,975-kilometre sector to the Scottish capital will be operated five times weekly until 5 October, utilising the Star Alliance member’s 169-seat 757-200s. The carrier’s second route to Edinburgh, as it already operates from New York Newark with twice-daily operations, will face no competition from other carriers and will see a frequency increase to daily from 13 June. Commenting on the route launch, Gordon Dewar, CEO, Edinburgh Airport, said: “Today’s launch of United Airlines’ new direct service to Chicago O’Hare marks a significant step in achieving better connectivity between Edinburgh and North America. This new service will give Scottish passengers the opportunity to visit one of America’s most exciting and vibrant cities and take full advantage of the onward travel options to many other US destinations. We’re delighted to continue our good relationship with United and celebrate this new route’s inaugural flight.”

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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Nashville Scene Live Review

TOM WAITS did something last Saturday at The Ryman that may have been a first in the annals of Nashville music: he asked the moonstruck audience to stop clapping in time as he played. Perhaps only he could have pulled it off without seeming like a prima donna or a dick, but his mock self-deprecation only stoked the giddy crowd more as he blamed his own faulty sense of rhythm. "You’re a fuckin’ metronome," he deadpanned, before resuming the macabre piano bounce of "Cemetery Polka."

If the audience was eager to make him feel welcome... he hadn’t played Nashville since an Exit/In show 31 years ago... Waits, to his credit, is too prickly and adventurous an artist just to wallow in adoration. In just 22 songs (not counting a couple of interpolated nods to Howlin’ Wolf), he managed to catch everyone up on the past three decades without playing a greatest-hits recap. Reaching back to the lilting "Tom Traubert’s Blues" off 1976’s Small Change, Waits alternately contorted and unfurled his long-limbed scarecrow frame, tossed off shaggy-dog one-liners and non-sequiturs, and railed at the sky with a cocked fist, like a street-corner prophet with visions of flying saucers.

His band, including CASEY WAITS on drums, LARRY TAYLOR on upright bass and all-purpose instrumental ace BENT CLAUSEN on everything from keyboards to banjo-handled every curve the songs threw, segueing effortlessly from the sinuous groove of Swordfishtrombones’ "Shore Leave" to the manic Threepenny Opera goosestep of Blood Money’s "God’s Away on Business." A short set with Waits at the piano produced some of the night’s loveliest moments as well as its funniest.

Given the unenviable task of echoing Marc Ribot’s jagged guitar work on the records, veteran blues guitarist DUKE ROBILLARD put a slinkier spin on his serpentine leads, even playfully nudging the "Bang a Gong" riff into Waits’ hilarious "Goin’ Out West." But it was the man in the crumpled Sinatra hat and well-worn funeral suit who commanded the room’s attention, shape-shifting from the paranoid neighbor of the spoken-word "What’s He Building in There?" to the heartsick soldier of "The Day After Tomorrow." Any performer who gets a standing ovation before he hits the stage might be tempted to coast. Tom Waits, instead, spent the night earning it

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Rogue's Gallery official press release now available!

“The ocean. It’s all about the vast blue that engulfs two thirds of the planet. The human being cast against that abyss creates an interesting bit of perspective. I think the sailors of the time were dancing with death, and these were their tunes. They resonate with people on some internal level that is not immediately obvious because it’s not in our memory, it’s in our blood. It operates on a cellular level. It’s what makes us feel so alone.” --Gore Verbinski

Film director GORE VERBINSKI, actor JOHNNY DEPP and music producer HAL WILLNER have joined forces with ANTI RECORDS for the truly extraordinary two-CD set ROGUE’S GALLERY: PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS. Due out August 22, the collection is filled with contemporary reinterpretations of songs from a genre of music that has all but disappeared. BONO, STING, NICK CAVE, BRYAN FERRY, LOU REED, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, RICHARD THOMPSON, GAVIN FRIDAY, VAN DYKE PARKS, ANDREA CORR and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT are only a few of the distinguished artists who turn in uncompromising and honest performances that illuminate the power of traditional sea songs.

The idea for ROGUE’S GALLERY originated when Verbinski and Depp were working on their second film together, the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. “I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey,” explains Verbinski. “I imagined the artists that I listen to and respect doing their take on this age-old music: the song of the sea.”

Verbinski then “described the project in detail to my old friend Brett Gurewitz (owner of Epitaph and Anti) who immediately understood its wondrous and strange potential. I also asked Johnny Depp if it might be something that he would like to be involved with. He has a great musical aesthetic, and as my partner in the films, his opinion is one I value. I’ve always believed Johnny is a musician first and the actor thing is just his day job. We met with Brett and put together a list of artists that we intended to go after, but were immediately confounded with the question: who would produce? Who would be mad enough to take this on?”

The project took shape when Hal Willner became “the captain of this vessel,” says Verbinski. “From that germinating withering pubic hair of an idea, Hal set sail and returned with what you hear today. He did everything.” Willner brought his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material to the project, as shown on his best-selling Disney tribute album Stay Awake and his acclaimed tributes to Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus, Nino Rota and others.

“When I was asked to do the album, I went into a world I didn’t know--which is what appealed to me,” says Willner. Immersing himself in antique bookstores, eBay, old record stores, and the Internet for hours and hours, Willner collected some 600 songs and then went about narrowing the song selection down for the album. In March 2006, the recordings began--and the process was joyously freewheeling.

“We were just crawling around, just seeing who was around,” he explains. “The Akron/Family was rehearsing, so we recorded them. And then we found Baby Gramps. And that’s kind of how we worked all over. We’d go up to London or Dublin or to New York and L.A., with just a sketch and one or two things planned. And then we got on the phone. Most of the time people just came into the studio. We picked a song, and they went for it. Basically there were a number of house bands: one in London, one in Dublin, one in New York, two separate ones in L.A., one in Seattle. We would camp and people would come in and leave or join in for the whole day. One day we did eight songs with eight different artists. Two of those artists didn’t know they were going to be in the studio that day. I just loved working this way because you wouldn’t do that with an artist normally.”

Asked about the Sting contribution “Blood Red Roses,” Willner says, “He was totally natural for this subject. He comes from Newcastle. He grew up hearing these things--it’s interesting how you hear a lot of little Beatles melodies in these songs. You know, Liverpool was a big port, and Australia and Maui and Cape Cod. Sting grew up with a lot of these songs, as did John C. Reilly. So he just came over to the studio, I gave him some songs and he just jumped into the process.”

60 songs were recorded for ROGUE’S GALLERY; 43 appear on the album. “Hopefully, there will be a volume two. I have half of it recorded already.” Willner says: “I came to age in the late sixties and early seventies of variety shows and concept records. I look at these records like you’re eating a full meal. There’s always your entrée, your vegetable that you don’t like but it’s good for you. And you want to cover it all. You need to establish the unknown, the famous, the obscure. Usually in the past I’ve always found that the secret weapons on these records are any new artists because you’re coming at it without expectations. And there’s other people that you’ve heard for years--but on that side it goes to another level.”

Willner is now anxious for others to discover the enchanting mystery of ROGUE’S GALLERY. "Obviously I want people to love it the way I do,” he says. “I would hope that it works on a level where they just want to go and close their eyes and have an experience--and come out of it the same way I came out of it, wanting to hear more. Put this record in your collection as a classic--that was Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp’s idea.”

Proud of what all of the artists have brought to the album, Verbinski says that the “recordings are vibrant, inspired, rough hewn, and imperfect in that way that only perfection achieves.”

ROGUE’S GALLERY has a perfect home on Anti, the Epitaph Record-affiliated label known for releasing albums by classic renegade artists like Merle Haggard, Tom Waits and Nick Cave. Says Willner: “I think this was the original punk music in an odd way. You can hear it in songs like ‘Bully in the Alley’ and ‘A Drop of Nelson’s Blood.’ It’s there.”

The complete ROGUE’S GALLERY track listing is as follows:

CD 1

1. Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps 2. Mingulay Boat Song - Richard Thompson 3. My Son John - John C. Reilly 4. Fire Down Below - Nick Cave 5. Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III 6. Bully In The Alley - Three Pruned Men 7. The Cruel Ship's Captain - Bryan Ferry 8. Dead Horse - Robin Holcomb 9. Spanish Ladies - Bill Frisell 10. High Barbary - Joseph Arthur 11. Haul Away Joe - Mark Anthony Thompson 12. Dan Dan - David Thomas 13. Blood Red Roses - Sting 14. Sally Brown - Teddy Thompson 15. Lowlands Away - Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle 16. Baltimore Whores - Gavin Friday 17. Rolling Sea - Eliza Carthy 18. The Mermaid - Martin Carthy & the UK Group 19. Haul On The Bowline - Bob Neuwirth 20. Dying Sailor to His Shipmates - Bono 21. Bonnie Portmore - Lucinda Williams 22. Shenandoah - Richard Greene & Jack Shit 23. The Cry Of Man - Mary Margaret O'Hara

CD 2

1. Boney - Jack Shit 2. Good Ship Venus - Loudon Wainwright III 3. Long Time Ago - White Magic 4. Pinery Boy - Nick Cave 5. Lowlands Low - Bryan Ferry w/Antony 6. One Spring Morning - Akron/Family 7. Hog Eye Man - Martin Carthy & family 8. The Fiddler/A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Ricky Jay & Richard Greene 9. Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold - Andrea Corr 10. Fathom The Bowl - John C. Reilly 11. Drunken Sailor - David Thomas 12. Farewell Nancy - Ed Harcourt 13. Hanging Johnny - Stan Ridgway 14. Old Man of The Sea - Baby Gramps 15. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Van Dyke Parks 16. Shallow Brown - Sting 17. The Grey Funnel Line - Jolie Holland 18. A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Jarvis Cocker 19. Leave Her Johnny - Lou Reed 20. Little Boy Billy - Ralph Steadman

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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The Swell Season Television Appearances

Tomorrow, the Swell Season (The Frames' Glen Hansard plus partner Marketa Irglova) will perform on what is arguably the most watched morning show in the U.S, at 8:45am EST. The band is also scheduled to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live next Friday, April 25th. More details to follow...

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Monday, December 8th, 2008

The Weakerthans Announce Rolling Tundra Review 2009 with Constantines

The Weakerthans and Constantines Rolling Tundra Revue 2009 Canadian Tour

The Weakerthans are pleased to announce The Rolling Tundra Revue 2009 Canadian National Tour.

Featuring Toronto's Constantines the tour will seek to build on the work the two bands have done on the road together. This extensive tour will take them from St John's Newfoundland across the entire country to Victoria BC then North to end in the city of Whitehorse, Yukon. Over the course of the tour the bands will be performing almost 30 concerts in 21 different cities. Expanding on the highly successful Inaugural Rolling Tundra Revue Tour of 2005 they have included St John's and Whitehorse to give Canadian audiences this unprecedented occurrence, rarely do artists of their stature take on a tour of this scope focusing on Canada alone.

Constantines have just released their 4th album Kensington Heights in partnership with a new label, Arts and Crafts and are expanding their audiences and continue to refine their artistic version of working man's Rock'n Roll.

The two critically acclaimed recording artists have previously joined forces on several concert tours. On the shows each act tries to raise the level of their performance to match or better the others. Joining them nightly will be a vast array of local and regional Canadian talent.

So many bands look for success and validation in the US, but a tour of this scale shows that it can be found here, in Canada.

After ten years together the momentum only continues to build and The Weakerthans launch this tour on the heels of their highly successful fourth album Reunion Tour. The 2007 Anti release has garnered critical accolades and enjoyed a fruitful year of awards from the XM Satellite Radio Award, the WCMA's as well as the SOCAN Echo prize for songwriting. Reunion Tour also made the heralded short list for the 2008 Polaris Prize. With these awards, and their history of craft and dedication The Weakerthans have affirmed their place in the pantheon of Canadian rock bands and songwriters. Their songs and reputation as a band have brought them from the margins to stand with their peers in the Canadian music industry.

The Weakerthans are sincerely looking forward to the Rolling Tundra Revue 2009 tour as a continuation of this success.

DATES: March 19 - St. Johns - Club One March 20 - Halifax - The Palace March 22 - Sackville - George's Roadhouse March 23 - Fredericton - UNB Ballroom March 25 - Quebec City - Le Cercle March 26 - Montreal - Le National March 28 - Ottawa - Bronson Centre April 1 - Toronto - The Phoenix April 3 - London - Music Hall April 4 - Guelph - River Run Centre April 17 - Winnipeg - Burton Cummings Theatre April 21 - Regina - Riddell Centre April 22 - Saskatoon - Odeon Events Centre April 23 - Edmonton - Winspear Centre April 25 - Calgary - MacEwan Hall April 26 - Banff - Wild Bill's April 27 - Kelowna - Kelowna Community Theatre April 30 - Victoria - Element May 1 - Vancouver - The Commodore May 2 - Vancouver - The Commodore May 4 - Whitehorse- Yukon Arts Centre

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Monday, October 17th, 2011

Bio (2011)

Kate Bush is one of the most successful and groundbreaking British solo performers of the last 30 years.

Her first single "Wuthering Heights" topped the UK singles chart for 4 weeks in 1978, the same year she released her debut album "The Kick Inside" and its follow-up "Lionheart".

A year later she played her only concert tour to date, the extraordinarily ambitious "Tour Of Life".

Subsequently Kate released five hugely innovative and influential albums: "Never For Ever" (1980), "The Dreaming" (1982), "Hounds Of Love" (1985), "The Sensual World" (1989) and "The Red Shoes" (1993). All 5 were landmark records which consolidated Kate Bush's reputation as the most experimental artist of her generation.

In 1993 Kate won a Brit award for Best British Female Artist and, in 2002, her songwriting was recognized with an Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.

In 2005 she released the incredible double CD "Aerial" , of which the Independent's Andy Gill wrote; "Bush's most musically diverse album - a marvelous complex work".

Earlier this year Kate released "Director's Cut", an album which saw her revisit and reinterpret a selection of songs from the albums "The Sensual World" and "The Red Shoes". At the same time she announced that she was working on another album, this time an album of brand new material.

This new record, "50 Words For Snow", will be released on November 21. Featuring 7 brand new tracks, with a total running time of 65 minutes, "50 Words For Snow" is one of the most highly anticipated releases of 2011.

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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Man Man Bio (2011)

Man Man Life Fantastic (Anti-)

It's hard to imagine what looked worse: the night a sleep-deprived, Ambien-addled Ryan Kattner hallucinated his way into a motor bike accident or the afternoon an electrician checking out his sublet's faulty wiring walked into his room and found nothing but a boar's head, half-drained bottles of booze, scattered tax forms, a Wurlitzer, a frame-less mattress, and writing on the walls. (They were song lyrics, but still.)

"He was severely freaked out. A haunted, wordless, freaked out. Maybe I wasn't living very sanely," says the Man Man frontman, who also goes by his keyboard-clobbering alter ego Honus Honus.

While it's easy to nervously laugh at the absurdity of it all now, Kattner's personal life got so dire a couple summers ago that he found himself wondering whether music was worth it anymore; whether a mounting pile of heartbreak, the heaviness of several friend's tragic deaths, and IRS bills outweighed the need to express it all on stage or in the studio.

"It's funny, because in the past, I was able to take bad situations and turn them into something creative," explains Kattner. "This time I couldn't at all. I felt nothing, which was worse than feeling miserable or depressed."

As a black cloud hovered above his head on the east coast, Kattner did what many aimless artists have done before him--he put most of his possessions away in storage and lived out of a suitcase. His wandering took him to Los Angeles, Austin, Portland, and wherever else a friend had a couch, floor space, and patience to spare. In the end, it took many months for the singer/multi-instrumentalist to pick up the pieces and funnel an endless procession of love and loss into the demo stages of Man Man's fourth album, Life Fantastic. But once the breakthrough moments started kicking in, he had no choice but to soldier on.

Take what happened on New Year's Day not too long ago. Already a few months into some actual songwriting, Kattner stumbled into his very own after school special, best summed up by a new song...

"If I razor cut some bangs," he howls in "Dark Arts," clawing at the album's most unhinged arrangements, "Will I forget who I am? Stare at the man who's in the mirror; how the fuck did I live this long, this way?"

"I sent my father a demo of that song," says Kattner, "and he called me afterwards to hear my voice. Make sure I was on the level. Everything about it sounds unhealthy, from the words to the vibe itself. But at the same time, I needed to get it all out of my head."

The exorcisms didn't end there, of course. Thanks to a renewed sense of purpose, the songwriting for Life Fantastic continued throughout the past year alongside promising sessions with the rest of Man Man: Drummer/Percussionist Chris Powell and multi-instrumentalists Billy Dufala, Jamey Robinson, and Russell Higbee.. Which isn't to say that things came together quickly. Contrary to the shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later rep of the group's live show, Man Man records have always involved months--or in this case, years--of refinement to reach a level everyone's happy with.

For instance, it took an entire day--literally two nine-hour stretches--to develop just two verses in the aforementioned "Dark Arts."

"That's just the way that I work," explains Kattner. "I usually have to sing something at least 300 times before I bring it to the band. I work on the melody and the cadence, but I also want a delivery that feels real. I have to be able to sell what I'm saying, even if that mean sitting there with one verse on repeat."

Not every song was the sonic equivalent of giving birth, however. Life Fantastic's title track is one example of every last piece falling into place perfectly, from subdued bursts of brass and swooning strings to a piano progression that literally dances circles around anyone within earshot. And then there's "Steak Knives." Easily one of the most beautiful, barebones cuts in the Man Man catalog, it sounds like a cavernous confessional set against creeping chords and heart-sinking chorus lines. Simply put, the thing's gonna make at least one person cry this year.

To add to the considerable headphone candy quotient of the entire LP, Life Fantastic is the first Man Man album with a proper producer behind the boards. And not just any knob-twiddler, either. We're talking Mike Mogis, the Bright Eyes member responsible for the widescreen backdrops of nearly every major Saddle Creek release.

"The songs were fully-formed entities by the time we got to Mike's studio," says Kattner, "But he was there to say things like, 'Okay, that's a bit much.' He was able to help us carve the beauty out of the chaos we brought. It wasn't whittling down the points; it was sharpening them so they'd puncture even deeper."

Mogis was also there to fulfill any random requests the band may have (a gang chorus here, a childlike melody there, even some field recordings) and flesh out their flashiest ideas with the delicate string arrangements of fellow Bright Eyes member Nate Walcott (see: the climatic close of "Oh, La Brea" for Man Man at their most cinematic).

All while maintaining the order ab chao ethos that's been at the core of Man Man since their rail-jumping 2004 debut, The Man In a Blue Turban With a Face.

"I want us to be the kind of band you could bring home to your parents," says Kattner, "but at the same time, they're worried you might steal or break something. And you know what? They appreciate you for that very reason."

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    in my experience, it depends on what Operating System you are using. If I am using Windows I prefer to use Internet Explorer which is compatible for the said software. However, If I use my supercomputer (which is my linux box)[LOL], I prefer to use the netscape browser or the mozilla.
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    heh.. well... i just got Opera and am using it as i type this. i must admit that i like better than both IE and Netscape.
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    Personally, I can't stand how IE has to be integrated to the nth degree, so much so that if something goes wrong with IE, explorer.exe (would you call that a kernel?) cascade faults into pick-random-error here.
    That's unacceptable just due to the fact that they've never cleaned it up.

    Netscape 6.x looks fairly ok, but now that AOL had bought it out a few years back, no way...I have enough of a hard time dealing with the fact that Windows WILL install "Online Services" no matter what you pick, and I will not have AOL-anything on my machine! I've heard either great stories or horrendous laments on 6.x's speed/etc but I myself am avoiding it.

    Opera - now THIS is my choice. Loved the fact that I can have MDIs in an SDI (and with 6.0 you can choose to have it like that or separate windows). There's only two problems with it that I can see as being a bit of a hinderance. 1: a slow site to connect to slows down all site speed connections until it connects or times out and 2: plugin compatibility (while not THAT important). Both will be worked on, of that I have no doubt, and I find it a great substitute for both Internut Exploiter and Nutscrape. Oh yeah, I bought the licensed version to support it too. Here are some more nifty things that Opera has too:

    1: mouse gestures! (when you get used to this, nothing else even comes close!)
    2: integrated mail! (so it's not that great with certificates yet but who cares?)
    3: easy to manipulate .ini files! (everything's a flat file in your opera directory...what could be easier?)
    4: crashes WAY less and uses less memory! (actually I've never had it crash on me, ever...)
    5: makes coffee! (well, almost, the plugin doesn't quite work yet, hehe)

    All around, I suggest Opera all the way. It took me some time to get used to but now I can't use anything else. Check it out here .
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    i think that IE is much faster than Netspace and it works much faster and it has a nice newsgroup browser so i use both but generally i use IE, I havent tried Opera yet so i have no opinion on that
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    I like IE on windows xp and 98, but netscape is nice on linux.
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    Don't know if it would be easy to implement or such ... but

    When I do a search on Active topics (by clicking on "More active topics" from the homepage), should I, as a Newbie, get to see active topics from the AO Addicts forum?

    After all, I'm not allowed to read from or post to that forum?

    Maybe it would be an idea to filter it out somehow if you are not yet qualified for it?

    PS = Of course, it just gets you fired up to become an Addict so that you can read those messages

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    Good idea BrainStop..
    It shouldn't be to hard to implement..
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#34 - Chris's Mod Carriage House

Name: Chris K.
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Size: 612 s/f Renovated Carriage House

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For my first apartment out of college, I was lucky enough to find this carriage house that had been renovated into three small but unique dwellings. I've always dreamed of designing a house and everything in it but since that was out of the question at the time, I decided to start with this and furnish as much of it by myself as I could.

Living Room

...The apartment has a long and narrow floorplan and I was able to custom build some pieces to fit exactly where they needed to and maximized the available space. Luckily there are 10+ foot ceiling throughout so it never feels too crowded and it allowed me to hang some mobiles and lanterns to balance out the rooms top to bottom.

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The futon and endtable were designed to be wide enough to fill the space on wall and low enough not to obstruct the view out the windows. The endtable has an integrated magazine rack/ display and opens up to store extra blankets. The coffee table was made as a school project out of laminated birch ply and features an built in planter and foot rest.

The TV console fits perfectly along the opposite wall and hides all my video and stereo equipment inside. It has casters that allow to to spin around and face the kitchen if I'm working in there. The bulb vases were made as a Valentines Day present for my girlfriend.

There wasn't a very good space for a traditional kitchen table so I built one at bar height along back the wall where there is a large window that was once access for the horses in the carriage house. To save space, the legs facing the living room also double as a bookshelf. The Giulietta stools and Eames Plywood Side Chair were picked up at a DWR warehouse sale.

The bedroom is pretty spare, except for a bed and desk, the top of which is a salvaged metal panel from an airport luggage X-Ray machine. I was able to find a vintage Eames Aluminum Group Soft Pad Chair and refurbished it to nearly new condition, repainted the found filing cabinet and decorated the walls with images from the Eames Case Study house and an enlarged image of Charles' photo of their wire chairs with wooden bird sculpture.

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So far, the best idea I have had is to hang fabric to span the width of the couch.

I like the fabric in the second picture, and if I went this route, I would paint the walls to match the ground color to make the whole effect more subtle.

It is a small room (maybe 11 x 12) and while the quilt I put up helps cut down the reflections, it is a bit too busy (understatement). I'm over it!

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This outdoor space is one of my favorite spots. Our little lake house is 1 hour and 20 minutes from our home in Portland. The house was vacant for 6 years without water or power. The outdoor space has come a long way in the past two years.

All of the stock beige cushions were recovered this past winter in DuraLee outdoor fabrics. We selected three patterns for the most versitility. The rugs are all outdoor and what we love most is the mix of patterns and the colors. Since our weather is gloomy most of the year, we chose bright, fun colors and patterns. Our theory for our lake house is the crazier the better and no pattern is off limits. We truly let our creativity run wild.

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1881-CC Morgan Dollar MS-63 NGC (GSA)

1881-CC Morgan Dollar MS-63 NGC (GSA)
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Lower mintage than the 1889-CC!
The 1881-CC has a mintage of 296,000 coins. Only 147,500 were put in GSA holders. Many of the dollars from the GSA Hoard have been cracked out of their original GSA holders, making this one in the original holder and certified by NGC a very desirable coin. Complete with original box!

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Product ID: 4687
Year: 1881
Grade: MS-63
Grade Service: GSA-Packaging
Denomination: $1
Mint Mark: CC - Carson City
Metal Content: 0.7734 troy oz
Purity: .900
Manufacturer: US Mint
Thickness: 3.1 mm
Diameter: 38.1 mm
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The coin was very nice, I will be ordering more in the future.

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Second lowest mintage of Carson City Morgan dollars! Original GSA holder and package included make this a great collectible. Lower price than any other coin site I checked!

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1981 Suriname Gold 200 Gulden Revolution BU

1981 Suriname Gold 200 Gulden Revolution BU
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This Gold coin was issued by the former Dutch colony of Guiana to commemorate the 1st Anniversary of the Revolution.

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  • Contains .1145 oz actual Gold weight.
  • Coin will be in a protective plastic flip.
  • Obverse: The revolution monument appears on the obverse.
  • Reverse: The reverse shows a group of allegorical revolutionaries.
  • Struck at the Franklin Mint.
  • Listed in Krause as KM#20.
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Year: 1981
Grade: Brilliant Unc
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Denomination: 200 Gulden
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Metal Content: 0.1145 troy oz
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Uraan (World Cup Song) by Jal Band

World cup is the event that grabs the attention of millions of people all around the world. Nations come together to support their respective teams. During the world cup, release of national songs has been a common trend. These national songs empower nation’s enthusiasm and can represent national identity, unity and culture of the country.

In Pakistan songs like Ae Jazba Junoon by Junoon (1996), Hai Koi Hum Jaisa by Strings (2003), Hum Hain Pakistani by Junaid jamshed were released for World Cup and are still famous.

This year many under ground bands have come up with national songs to try their luck. Cricket We Love You by 2D, Aisi Ki Taisi by Siege Band, We Will Rock The World by Raga Boyz.

Pakistan’s legend Ali Azmat has released Josh-e-Junoon and Ali Zafar has come up with two songs Such Jazba for Mobilink Jazz and Yeh Duniya Hai Dilwalo ki for Pepsi. And soon another national song “URAAN” by the band Jal is going to release.

This song is sponsored by LG. The band is currently touring India and have performed this song in a concert. The video has been shot in Karachi and can be out any moment. So keep checking this space to be the first one to listen to “URAAN”.

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Chatwala, best for ages 13-up, Free, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android

Rating: 4 stars (out of 4)

Video chatting is the next best thing to being there. But coordinating times to meet up via Facebook, Skype or Google+ hangouts can be challenging, especially when different time zones are involved. That is why “Chatwala” is an exciting new app for families (and friends).

With this free app, you can send a video message to your mom anytime or anywhere. When she opens your video message, the app records your mom’s response and then offers her the ability to record a message to send back to you. When you get your mom’s response, the same thing happens again – the app records your reaction and offers you the ability to continue the video chat.

My family has had a hilarious time sending silly videos via “Chatwala.” What we really liked was that it didn’t require registration and we didn’t need to connect to other social media to pull this off. It is a simple and fun way to connect with your loved ones.

Cluster Labs, best for ages 4-up, Free, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Online (https://cluster.co)

Rating: 4 stars

Do you want to keep your family’s photo-sharing private and simple? “Cluster” is the app for you. With just a few taps, you can set up a private network for sharing photos. You decide who is included in your group by sending invites. Members can view and upload photos, and then comment on and “like” the photos. “Cluster” alerts members of the group when others have shared.

“Cluster” is a great app because it provides parents with a way to keeps all the photos of their children private but still share them with other family members in a social manner. It is a perfect solution for families who don’t want to share photos of their kids on Facebook and other social media. It is also a simple solution for the family where grandma isn’t on social media or doesn’t own a smartphone. She can get in on the photographic fun by signing into the group via the web at https://cluster.co.

My family tried “Cluster” out over a weekend of celebrating a birthday. It worked perfectly; and now we all have the smackdown photos of who really won bocce ball and “Apples to Apples.” “Cluster” makes it a breeze to create a memory album of a family weekend.

Fingerpaint Duel

Cribster, best for ages 5-up, Free, iPad

Rating: 4 stars

With this fun app, parents can challenge their kids to a drawing competition. The app splits the screen in two so that players face each other with the iPad between them. Each player is shown the same object to draw – such as a red circle – and provided colored pencils to accomplish the goal. Using your finger as the pencil, players scribble as fast as they can to fill in the shaded form. The app awards points for both speed and accuracy.

“FingerPaint Duel” provides a canvas for some healthy and silly competition. It automatically adjusts the challenge for a player that is consistently winning. So if Mom is high-fiving too often, the app shows her the object to draw and then takes away the shaded outline, making her drawing challenge harder. It comes with two levels of shapes to copy and allows the players to create their own “Selfmade” art to duplicate. More pre-made objects for drawing are available as in-app purchases.

Sago Mini Doodlecast

Sago Sago, best for ages 2-6, $2.99, iPhone,

iPod Touch, iPad

Rating: 4 stars

Kids naturally tell stories through their artwork. What makes this drawing app special is its ability to capture your child’s drawing process on video while also recording what your child says while creating. That video can then be saved to your camera roll for keeping or it can be sent to grandma to make her smile.

The Berenstain Bears: We Love Our Mom!

Oceanhouse Media, best for ages 4-8, $2.99, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android

Rating: 3.5 stars

Bear cubs Brother and Sister get a great idea for a Mother’s Day present while visiting with their grandma. She shows them her Mama’s Book – a scrapbook filled with family pictures about being a mother. This cute story about how the bear cubs create a special handmade photo album for their mother might motivate your kids to do something similar.

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