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When I was in high-school (circa 1980) 93.9 KZLA was a brand new radio station which quickly became my favorite. Barbara Mandrell was singing I was country when country wasn't cool and You can eat crackers in my bed anytime. I might have been popular if I was in Texas, but I wasn't, I was in southern California and listening to country music was like being gay. In those days homosexuality still had some stigma too it, it wasn't viewed with the progressive admiration of true enlightenment like it is today. John Elway's alma mater had enrollment of some two-thousand students, and I think I was the only one listening to KZLA. Coolness was never my strong suit.
My musical tastes have broadened, but country music is still my favorite and if I were to pick my top five favorite artists the Dixie Chicks would probably be one of the five. Not only is their music in the genre I most appreciate, they have the sort of upbeat and humorous presentation I like.
I was disappointed to hear about their comments in London on the eve of American soldier deployment to Iraq, and immediately felt repulsed and uninterested in listening to them. I wasn't the least bit surprised to hear that radio stations were pulling their songs while the Chicks appeared incredulous. Didn't they have any idea who their fans were?
Their childish and naïve view of war is typical of kids who make ridiculous sums of money with very little personal hardship, and their willingness to make disparaging comments in such an anti-American environment on foreign soil was particularly revolting. If they really felt so strongly about their Freedom of Speech , why didn't they exercise that freedom in Dallas or Houston? That would have been a short concert.
Natalie Maines, was interviewed on 60 minutes and was indignant and astonished that such a trivial comment should cause such an uproar and she grumbled about her Free Speech. Barbara Boxer, our really dumb California Senator (as opposed to the just dumb Senator Feinstein) compared the corporate boycott of Dixie Chicks music by Clear Channel's 1200 radio stations to Nazi Germany censorship by the third Reich.
Unlike the Dixie Chicks, Clear Channel knew who its audience was and responded. The Dixie Chicks were censored by fans, not Clear Channel. If it was in Clear Channel's best interest to keep the Dixie Chicks on the air, I can assure you, the big evil corporation would have never cut their music.
There is one area where liberals are never inconsistent, and that is in their propensity to be hypocritical, and the pacifist Dixie Chicks are no exception. While they ridicule President Bush's worthy efforts to protect the American people, in one of their banner songs, Earl had to die they celebrate the murder of an abusive husband. Now I really like that song, but I'm just a dumb red neck happy to kill abusers, and evil despots!
The Dixie Chicks don't sell out their concerts like they once did and they don't sell as many albums, but they are still doing just fine. This last week they won five Grammys, unprecedented for a country music group that can't even get an invitation to the Country Music Awards.
So the Chicks have a new career bringing country music to Blue State America, and the liberal elitists are clapping and carrying on cheering a genre of music that up until now they have abhorred. Soon, I am sure we will see them sitting with Jane Fonda on enemy artillery pointed at U.S. servicemen.
Careful girls, any flyboy that gets Hanoi Jane in his sights will not hesitate to blow you up and put a boot up your ass. THAT IS THE AMERICAN WAY!
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Like many couples my wife returned to work but how lenders treat couples who wish to move when a woman is on maternity leave can vary.
It is a topic even being considered by the Council of Mortgage Lenders and the Building Societies Association which will produce guidance for lenders to ensure they are not treating women unfairly when they apply for a mortgage.
If you're in the position where you need to move during a period of maternity leave then a lender's stance can be dependent on the period left before you return to work – Woolwich requires the return to work date to be within one month of the application and Virgin Money requires three months.
For these lenders to take the income into account they require a letter from the employer confirming the return to work date and salary which does mean these lenders are fairly harsh with their policies.
Other lenders show more flexibility; for example Nationwide has no time restrictions so they will consider an application at any time during the maternity leave and simply request an employer's reference to confirm the salary on return.
Both Halifax and Santander will generally request the latest payslip prior to maternity leave, a letter from the applicant confirming the likely return to work date and if on same basis – full time or part time.
Assuming there is no change to terms and conditions the salary from your payslip will be used. Both may also require evidence of savings to cover mortgage payments for the period between the application being made and the planned returned to work date.
NatWest will generally ask for the last three months bank statements and payslips prior to maternity leave and they will use the basic salary prior to the start of maternity when calculating potential borrowing.
A letter is also required from the applicant confirming when they will return to work and they do not seek the employer to confirm this.
As can be seen policies vary fairly significantly between lenders but importantly this does mean that options are likely to be available whatever your position and I've only covered a handful of lenders above.
Finally, it is important to highlight that some lenders will wish to ascertain what childcare costs are likely after the applicant has returned to work and this can impact on potential borrowing but again some lenders are more flexible than others in this regard.

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"Nothing is forever, and our efforts can go to waste." - Embrace.
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A discussion of the method: As we've alluded to here often, an ongoing project we are working on is obtaining CD or digital versions of "important" songs or records that we currently only have on cassette. The definition of important, of course, is subjective. But one good barometer of importance is garnering a coveted spot on a mixtape. We've got scores of old mixes sitting around in boxes, and their track listings are fertile ground for ideas of things we'd like to rescue from obscurity. Now that we live in such a glorious digital age, acquiring some of the material is fairly easy, as we noted previously in our post about how EMusic now has some seven-inches available for digital download now. So Hurl's My Pal God singles: easy. Embrace's "Last Song," which appeared on quite a few mixes: easy, now that ITunes has it. We downloaded it this morning and are rocking out to it now.
But poring over mixtapes has presented us with some formidable challenges, too. Where to get a copy of Bethlehem, PA's The Original Sins' "Rise," let along the entire Self Destruct record it came from? And what of material we hardly knew anything about in the first place, more than a decade ago? Of course, Google has proved invaluable in this effort. Case in point: Who the hell were the Primitive Painters? What was the name of the record that servicable, if not a little wimpy, songs like "Okay," "Something Snaps" and "Different" came from? Where did the band come from? Where did they go? Well, here are all the answers. Thanks, Internets!
The band, apparently one of the 129 greatest O.C. bands ever [this list at first glance does not include Uniform Choice, who should appear at #1, and therefore this list blows], was from Orange County, California. They released their debut full-length "Dirtclods" in 1992 on an English indie, tooled around for a couple more years, and then broke up. The band has recently reformed and written and released a new EP. I think AllMusic's non-interest in the band probably is a reasonable estimation of the band's overall place in the world of music. But still, in the supposed digital age, the excuses for material being unavailable for weirdos like us to track down and purchase are getting fewer and fewer.
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Cooperation, research, and technical support: HSI's approach to transformational change in the food industry
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International Financial Institutions and Animal Welfare
Humane Society International is working with financial institutions around the world to adopt strong and binding animal welfare standards, thereby ending financing for cruel farm animal housing systems globally.
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A list of victories for animals accomplished by by HSI's Farm Animal Protection team.
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Wordplay: Mercury retrograde
Today's show with Lori Horvitz was really fun, had a great spontaneous flow, and Lori read some material from her memoir-in-progress that included really well-observed scenes and stories of some wonderful encounters - I especially enjoyed those that included her father. Unfortunately, if you didn't hear it live, you never will. Once again the WPVM archiving system failed to record the show, and neither Sebastian nor I, sadly, had brought a blank CD to use in the low-tech, but mostly reliable, back-up system. So it's gone, sound waves dissipated into the atmosphere.
My apologies to Lori; we'll have her back on the show and do it all again just as soon as her schedule and the show's permit.
After the show I poked around and found another issue: the automated FTP upload for last week's show had also gone awry, and the show never uploaded to the site from which it podcasts and streams. In fact, it's impossible to tell now when the last show uploaded. So we'll be talking again to WPVM's beleaguered manager about how we can fix the latest round of glitches, and make as certain as possible that they won't occur in the future.
At least until Mercury once again goes retrograde.
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In the early 1930s, after Hepburn had made her initial splash out in Hollywood, she and her husband Luddy moved into 244 East 49th Street, a brownstone in the Turtle Bay area of New York City. They rented the house furnished for $100 a month, and in 1937 Hepburn purchased the house for $27,500. 244 would be Hepburn's New York headquarters for the rest of the 20th century.
"It's handy and comfortable - faces south and used to be full of sunshine. Now the skyscrapers on the street behind me cut out a lot of the sun - too bad - but it's quiet and convenient and it's mine and I like it." (Me 152)Katharine Hepburn hired Nora Considine as her cook/housekeeper in 1972. "She was the only applicant who stood up when I entered the room. Now tell me, how could I let her go?" Nora was in her thirties Irish, Catholic, and a mother of five children (the author of this book was her younger daughter). Nora was a fair cook, she was selfless, hard working, practical, warm-hearted, jovial, and she was usually discreet - all qualities Hepburn admired and demanded of her domestic help. She often solicited the help of her children when Miss Hepburn as entertaining, so they too were given a rare glimpse into the life of their mother's employer.
Unfortunately, the anecdotes Eileen Considine-Meara provides in this book are in no way profound. Because of her tangential relationship to Katharine Hepburn, the isn't much "intimacy" about her portrait of the star. Most of the stories come across like bad jokes that wouldn't seem significant unless you were actually there at the time. However, I will say that although these titbits don't offer any original insight into Hepburn's later years, they do serve to confirm what the more extensive biographies have said.
While the anecdotes themselves aren't much to write home about, the book does include some features that cannot be found elsewhere. For example, once you get past the publicity portraits we've seen a million times over, there are in fact some photos of the inside of 244 that I had never seen before. Considine-Meara also includes a layout for each of the floors in the house.
The book is peppered with a number of Katharine Hepburn's favorite recipes, prepared just the way she liked them: Flamande salad, chicken loaf, Dick's chicken salad, creamed chip beef on toast, rum cake, Laura's lemon gelatin dessert, Fenwick meat loaf, Irish soda bread, THE BROWNIES, Sondheim's gezpacho, Hilly's chicken piccata, lace cookies, beef stew, beet soup, hot toddy, etc.
Glancing at the table of contents, you will also notice a number of very big names. It is true that Miss Hepburn socialized with plenty of famous people while in New York, and stories about many of them can be found here: Irene Selznick, Stephen Sondheim, Jane Fonda, Barbara Walters, Michael Jackson, Robert Wagner, Sidney Poitier, Liz Smith, Lauren Bacall, Anthony Quinn, Warren Beatty, and Bob Dylan.
You can also learn more about the members of Hepburn's intimate circle of friends and family: husband Luddy, brother Dick, friend Laura Harding, Spencer Tracy's daughter Susie, Cynthia McFadden, driver Hilly, and sidekick Phyllis Wilbourn.
All in all, I am glad that I finally let myself read "At Home With Kate." I had expected it to be a vulgar tell-all about her personal life, but Considine-Meara's distance from the star actually helped this book avoid the mire of a gossipy betrayal. You won't find any dirt here. In fact, the book tells us more about what it was like to work for Katharine Hepburn than it does about the lady herself. So maybe it can't be used for academic research - it's a quick read, it's a cute read, so I have no qualms about recommending it as a bedside book.
Further reading:
The Private World of Katharine Hepburn by John Bryson
Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg
Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences by James Prideaux
Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn


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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday launched a programme for distributing new ration cards bearing his photograph and name, which the rival parties dubbed as a "cheap political gimmick" in view of the Assembly polls due next year.
He, however, sought to downplay the issue, saying it was important for people to know who was working for them.
"Under the National Food Security Act, 3.15 crore ration cards have been printed. The Act was implemented in the state on 1 March. Under it, those having 'Antyoday' cards will be given 35 kg food grains, while 'Grasthi' card holders will get 5 kg food grains per month," he said at the programme at his official residence.
"People may question why there is a photograph of the Chief Minister on the bag of ration or on the ration card. If we are helping the poor, there should be some publicity of it. It is important for people to know who is working for them," he said.
BJP and Congress denounced the SP government's move to put the Chief Minister's photograph on the new ration cards.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Childcare in Sweden
So the other day I was reading through an old Newsweek from a couple of months ago (I told you there was a backlog). I stumbled upon a really short little blurb about an uproar in New York over a mom who let her elementary school-aged child ride public transportation alone. This brought up questions about parental responsibility and all of that good stuff. And all I could think about was the way child care in Sweden is looked upon.
There are little kids everywhere on public transportation. Riding the trains, the subways, the buses. And I don't blink an eye. Aside from the random really young kid it doesn't seem that strange to me. If anything I appreciate it. Shows a little faith in the community. Shows a little faith in the kid. Shows a little faith in public transportation (which might be ill placed considering my experience with SL).
But in the US it seems that if the kid isn't with the parent at all times it is paramount to neglect. Which is ridiculous. In Sweden it seems that people are a bit more trusting when it comes to kids. Which makes sense. Because when it comes down to it, the chances of your kid being abused, assaulted, kidnapped, or anything else just really aren't that good. Sure it would be hell if it happened, but just looking at the numbers… it probably won't happen. And plus, it must be exhausting to live that way. Constantly worried. Constantly in fear of what the worst case scenario might be.
Hell, in Stockholm during the summer months you can walk by restaurants and see strollers outside of the restaurant with little kids in them just sleeping away. And no one is stealing these kids away. It's a very different attitude. And one which I think the Swedes have going for them. In fact, it seems like Scandinavia is big on this thing.
I seem to remember quite a while ago a woman was arrested for child abuse for leaving her baby outside a restaurant in New York. The woman was Danish. Now granted, when you're in a different country you should probably pay some attention to the local customs. When in Rome and all that good stuff. But regardless, I think it demonstrates just how different the attitudes to what constitutes good childcare can be.
I'm all for leaving the kids outside. Or letting them ride the train on their own. It builds character. Plus, if the kid is a little shit you can get some peace and quiet. The Swedes figured that out.
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Sweden is a small country, especially compared to North America. So it's easier to manage a simpler lifestyle, as a whole. It's the same way in our islands. I like it, too.ReplyDelete
mm, there is alot of people who live in "villor" who doesnt even lock their doors aswell, that's another example of the attitude.ReplyDelete
@isle dance - agreed. I think the size does play a big roll.ReplyDelete
@braus - it's true. but that happens in a lot of places. even in the US, despite Michaels Moore's assertations in Bowling for Columbine. In college I never locked the door really. Well, until some creep decided to stare in through our winows while smoking cigarettes.
- AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM
i wonder what the connection is between the social acceptance and the fact that Sweden (and other Nordic Countries) have always had pro-family and work policies. Sweden has what, an 18 mo family leave policy for new borns/adoptions? They have financial support for families to actually have their child in QUALITY care settings...they seem to view the child differently from the get go. They value them as they seem to meet their needs.ReplyDelete
the U.S. spends approximately .5% of GDP on child care/education where Sweden spends closer to 1.5% (don't exactly quote me on the numbers)... you get what you pay for. Swedes do pay, but their kids seem to do better in the long run. What's the drop out rate in Sweden? How many kids are kept back a grade for "failure"? Interesting topic in deed....
- RobbanJuly 1, 2008 at 6:13 AM
I agree with your point here. However, I think that a lot of this has to do with Sweden generally being a lot more safe than USA (by which I mean, that there is less crime etc.) and not only with the attitude being more relaxed in Scandinavia. If there's less crime it's easier to be more relaxed and not worry about your kid all the time. With that being said, I think that being arrested for leaving your baby outside a restaurant is just ridiculous, even in an country with a higer crime rate (just assuming so don't kill me if it isn't true) than many other countries. I mean, even if the crime rate in USA is higher than in, for example, Sweden it doesn't mean your kid will get killed every time you leave them alone outside of a restaurant a couple of minutes. Hopefully, both the American crime rate and the American parents' worrying will go down.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 1, 2008 at 10:15 AM
...interesting, but I wonder how much of it is due to crime numbers or the culture? Sweden, since were on the Swedish American website, is has far more homogeneity and social solidarity...maybe hence the lower crime and relaxed lifestyle...but that probably does lead to feeling that your neighbor or complete stranger will not harm you or your unattended child. In the US...I watched a video where an elderly man crossing the street got hit (and run) by a car and NO ONE on the street went to his aid. If my child is outside the store...who is going to help me or them? US culture is getting a little scary because it seems that there is a hunker down and protect me, me, me and we aren't too into helping our neighbor. Being a social worker, I see too much to leave my child alone in the US...it would be nice to feel safer.ReplyDelete
- RobbanJuly 7, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Hmm, scary... I heard something similar to that happened in Stcokholm some years ago (in the 80s, or something...). There was a drunk (homeless alcoholic I think) who was lying unconcious on the ground in a park for hours and nobody came to his aid either. So he died of suffication or something, I think. It's very tragic and makes you pissed off and scared at the same time. I think something like that could happen in pretty much any country but I don't think it's very usual.ReplyDelete
a good discussion here that I totally neglected. sorry about that. I think good points were raised. the us does have an attitude of fear which really adds to this sort of thing where leaving a kid outside for a second is a crime.ReplyDelete
the thing with people walking by, unfortunately I believe that happens everywhere. and it has most definitely happened here more than a few times.
- AnonymousJanuary 10, 2011 at 2:35 PM
regarding the article about the woman in New York leaving her baby outside, I heard that it was the custom in the couples culture to leave the baby outside of restaurants on sunny days so they can soak up the sun rays which activate? the vitamin D in their bodies. I heard it was practiced because during some months the sun didn't appear often enough. Have I heard correctly?ReplyDelete
@anonymous - not just the custom during summer months, you'll find strollers outside in the middle of the winter. people say it is for the vitamin d, that children sleep better in colder weather, that they didnt want to wake the child, all kinds of reasons are given.ReplyDelete


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Most of the time we think of SQL queries as being executed at a point in time and generating a single definitive result, but huge efficiency gains are available when data changes are tracked and derived views are partially updated as needed rather than being fully recomputed periodically. MySQL has support for views on tables, but there is currently no support for materialized views. While thinking about this topic I decided to have another look at Justin Swanhart's Flexviews tool and it's definitely a cool MySQL based project.
Flexviews is an open source set of non-intrusive addons to MySQL enabling materialized views to be defined and maintained as the underlying tables are changed. If you're not sure what a materialized view is or why they can be useful then I recommend reading the intro on the Flexviews site. I was particularly impressed by the documented support for GROUP BY, aggregates and joins.
I have a vague recollection of reading a blog post about an early version of Flexviews which used MySQL triggers to collect data changes on underlying tables, and feeling that it was probably a little flaky. However I now read that the 'Change Data Capture' in recent versions has been factored out into a separate tool called FlexCDC which 'mines' Row-based Binlog entries. This is a far more promising approach, and useful for many other applications. From my own point of view, it makes Flexviews potentially useful for maintaining materialized views of data stored in MySQL Cluster, where Binlog is the only centralised record of change. It also got me thinking that MySQL Cluster already has code inside the Server listening to data changes for writing the Binlog, which could be extended to capture data changes into some other tables if it were a useful feature.
The fact that Flexviews is implemented without Server changes or hooks is impressive and it's a great example of a MySQL 'ecosystem' project. It would be great to read some blog entries about how people are using it and what it is doing for them.
Monday, 27 September 2010
Some MySQL projects I think are cool - Flexviews
Posted by Frazer Clement
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Glad you think it is cool. I too have thought about using the NDB hooks into the binary log to populate the log tables.
- 29 September 2010 at 22:05
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Blessed are you, listeners and servants of the Word of God
Dear friends, Happy New Year.
We begin 2017 renewing our commitment to be a Congregation going forth towards the peripheries where God dwells, and from where He continues calling us. We are now through the second year of this missionary animation service entrusted to us, and still resounds in us the echo of the Holy Year of mercy.
At the beginning of this new year, Pope Francis appeals to all people of good will: Let us make of the Beatitudes our own itinerary as a strategy for peace and commitment of active non-violence in the construction of social friendship:
. His call leads us to the heart of our missionary journey with Jesus
. The Beatitudes are for us an invitation, a source and promise: an Invitation to continue walking in the footsteps of Jesus.
It is the Source that nourishes our most genuine aspirations and efforts in the search for the Kingdom of God and His justice. It is the Promise for those who choose to embrace solidarity as a way of life and testimony.
Let us dispose our hearts so that this vocational proposal, which goes through all the dimensions of our life (our spirituality, our way of living in community and carrying out pastoral work, of exercising the service of authority, of sharing the goods available for the mission and with those who have less), can find a place within us and thus we may be able to make it grow to the measure of the Heart of Mary, our Mother and Teacher.
Growing up to the discipleship of Jesus as Mary entails, first of all, that we relinquish any form of privilege and other than that of assuming the humble condition of being listeners-servants of the Good News of Jesus; let us be transformed by it; and set out on the road to encounter others: the poor, the young, women, men and children who suffer violence. We are called to join those who work for peace and justice.
Secondly, it implies that we free ourselves of the personal or groups barriers that separate us from them (nationalistic barriers, provincialism, social or class ideologies, religious, political, economic, cultural, sexually diverse or generational, among many others), so that we may be able to create areas of communion where there are differences.
It entails, finally, that we exercise in living the Mercy as an evangelical attitude; so that we may welcome in our brothers and sisters, those who are excluded and needy, the Lord who meet us, and to broaden our missionary horizons to the measure of the Heart of Jesus.
Throughout the year, various brothers and sisters will help us to reflect on our Claretian vocation by deepening this proposal which incorporates the demands of the Chapter Declaration. We thank God our Father-Mother for their lives, and to Him we entrust our commitment in favor
of young people and of life, so that the world may believe.
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Scotch whisky is popular worldwide due to its complexity, variety and quality. Making whisky is what the Scots do best or as some would say what they do 2nd best after drinking it. This is our countries drink given to us by nature (or God if you are a believer) and one which is cared for and nurtured and this is how it is produced….
Whisky is a distilled alcoholic drink produced at the multiple distilleries dotted across Scotland. In written history whisky production in Scotland goes as far back as 1494 however probably is older than that. There are now over 100 working distilleries in Scotland producing the finest quality whisky for scotch whisky lovers all over world.
The ingredients are simple, grain, yeast and add water. Water is plentiful in Scotland. This mix creates a weak beer which is then put into copper stills and distilled. This produces a clear spirit which is then added to (mainly) use oak casks. Over a long period of time the spirit mixes with the oak to give it flavour and colour.
Number 1: Malting
To start the grains are put in water to soak usually in a large tank. Germination then takes place and the grains are spear across the floor and turned until shoots and roots appear. This process allows enzymes to break down the cell walls and help the stored starches to evolve into soluble sugars.
Once the grains have malted they are heated to stop the process of germination. Afterwards it is moved to the malt kiln where the heat rises through a perforated floor area.
The heating mechanism can burn peat for peated malt such as Laphroaig, Bowmore, Lagavulin, and Arbeg etc however mostly smokeless fuel is used in this process. A 'Pagoda' roof allows the waste heat (and smoke) to make its way into the Scottish countryside.
Number 2: Mashing
The Malted barley is ground down into grist which is like rough flour. This Grist is put in a 'mash tun' and hot water is added. This soup is then 'mashed' in order for the sugar to dissolve into the hot water, hot water would be added multiple times to complete the process.
The liquid produced is called 'Wort' which is sweet this is cooled and stored. The waste product 'Draf' is used to feed livestock.
Mash tuns are traditionally made of cast iron and are operated by cogs driving a rake through the thick soup like mixture. Many mash tuns are original from when the distillery is built many well over 100 years old.
Number 3: Fermentation
The 'Wort' as described above is loaded into 'Wash-backs', for fermentation to begin once the yeast is added. This process beaks down the sugars into alcohols (inc Ethanol). The product this creates is known as 'Wash' and is normally approximately 5% alcohol like most average beers. Once complete the 'Wash' is put into holding tanks.
Number 4 Distillation
OK now we are getting to the interesting part of whisky production. The Worts are the distilled which allows the ethanol to become more concentrated. Once the Wort is hot enough the alcohols evaporate into the lyne arm into a worm tub where they are condensed. When cooled they liquidise into a low wine of approximately 20% volume. (*Worm tubs are the traditional form and are now not used at all distilleries.)
The Low Wine is passed into the spirit still and is distilled a 2nd time. The liquid produced is referred to as the 'foreshots' and is kept aside and the middle cut with the high ethanol will be converted into whisky. A third cut is also taken which is called the feints. The foreshots and the feints are removed and used in the next run in the wash mill. The majority of Scottish whiskies are distilled twice however there are couple who distil three times like Irish Whisky. The spirit taken from the middle cut generally has an alcohol volume of between 60 and 75%.
Number 5 Maturation
The spirit is put into a variety of oak casks (most often sherry butts & bourbon barrels, wine casks and port pipes) some water is added to dilute the alcohol content. The casks are the stored for a minimum of three years allowing for some good fresh Scottish air to flow through the warehouse. Casks maybe stored across several warehouses to avoid losing a whole batch. This is the process that gives whisky its unique flavour. The contact of wood and spirit over many years determines the flavour and colour of the end product.
Number 6 Bottling
The system of bottling now is all automated and water will be added in some cases to reduce alcohol volume. The maturation process is complete at this point and the taste will be unaffected by the time in the bottle.
Most whisky is bottled at bottling plants however some still do the process onsite. At this point the retailers take over.


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Saturday, 25 January 2014
My retro soul sings!
Finally, a resting place for old collected pieces, that breathes new life into them...somehow, they now fit...
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The room smelled of turpentine. Specks of yellow paint lay splattered on the floor; blobs of red and black mixing discreetly not so far. Napkins soaked in water, oil, and colors piled up in the overflowing garbage bin close-by. My grip tightened as I finished the final strokes. I finally put the brush down and stepped out into the spring night of NYC. I needed some fresh air. After all, I had been standing in a small room for the past two hours working on my new project: wet on wet oil painting. Car honks, loud music, and people's indistinct chatter meshed together in the background as I enjoyed the warm pleasant breeze of the night. My project was coming along well, I thought. My first attempt with oil paints was not the disaster I dreaded it would be. I had explored the world of watercolors and acrylics and finally dared to step into the territory of oil paints.
Jogging down the memory lane, I recollected the first memory I had of my paintings. I was around six years old when I got my first painting set and painted throughout my childhood in the United Arab Emirates. Growing up, my family moved a lot. While everything else changed around me, my paintings remained constant and familiar. In painting I found joy and solace. When I painted, I lost track of time and my surroundings and focused on what I created—still lives and animals with acrylics or watercolors. It didn't matter where I was, my paintings made me feel at home.
Still reminiscing about my childhood paintings, I walked back into my apartment to analyze the canvas one last time before I retired for the night. The scenery needed some more work, but was shaping up well. Looking at the canvas mounted on the easel in front of me, I realized what value my paintings truly hold for me. It was through my paintings that I internalized the necessity of patience and perseverance. Mistakes are only a natural part of painting for hobbyist painters like me. Sometimes my color contrast is not as appealing on canvas as I visualized it to be. Other times my characters do not come to life as I want them to. Spending hours on a canvas and still being far from my expected outcome mounts to frustration. At this point, the thought of discarding the canvas and starting fresh always seemed like a more appealing and easier alternative to me than rescuing the painting. However, more often than not I re-painted the tree to make them fit the picture better, added more reflection to the water, or added more shadows to the mountains. By breaking the process into smaller parts and working piece by piece, I arrived at a finished product that met my expectations. This attitude of patience, and the technique of breaking a larger task into its components, instilled in me by my paintings, has helped me in many areas of life.
One such example is when I started my first job after graduation in the regulatory department of X, a spice company. Most of my work involved understanding FDA and USDA regulations and then ensuring compliance across all the company's products. I was new to the world of regulatory affairs, so reading the various FDA and USDA regulations on food safety and importation seemed like an impossible feat. In the beginning, the thought of giving up on the major project and working on an easier task always crossed my mind. Instead I did what I had learned to do: be patient, and break down the task in front of me into smaller solvable parts. I categorized the various regulations and assigned them priority levels. I first familiarized myself with the regulations that our company was absolutely dependent on. Then I went on to tackle areas less relevant to our field. In doing so, I was able to able to understand the seemingly daunting regulations and successfully apply them to ensure compliance of our food products.
My paintings have also taught me the value of proactively building my knowledge. When I first started to paint, I knew little about painting and had very limited resources. I used everything at my disposal to learn to paint. This included checking out books from the library on painting, taking high school electives in arts, and watching YouTube tutorials. I was in a similar situation recently at my new job at X as a materials compliance specialist. I am well versed in various regulations applicable to the food industry, but knew little about medical device regulations that my new job required. With limited knowledge about this new industry, I did not wait around for new projects to be assigned to me to learn the numerous regulations. I decided to take a proactive approach to learning. I used the various resources around me including FDA, ISO, EU websites and manuals, and FDA conferences on the subject matter to expand my knowledge and understanding of this field. It was my proactive learning style acquired through my paintings that helped me undertake a proactive approach at my new job.
My hobby of painting has taught me many valuable life lessons and has continually helped me to grow personally and professionally. At this juncture in my life, I seek more challenge and personal growth in a field that calls on my educational background and work experiences. I am interested in becoming a biotech compliance attorney. My diverse work experience in the food, drug, and medical device industry will provide a perfect foundation to tackle the issues faced by a biotech compliance attorney. By pursuing a law degree, I intend to enter a profession that aligns with the interests and aptitudes I have discovered and developed through real work experience. I also hope to bring the lessons that I have learned through my paintings to my study of law. I paint when I'm happy, when I'm sad, and when I'm stressed; it connects me to all the places I've lived and all the people I've been. Even if I must put down my brush as I devote myself to my legal studies, I know that it will be there for me when I graduate, waiting for me to create.
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We reached the top of the ladder to St Mary. We stared with the first Hos [Canticle] which is about repentance. The second Hos is about thanksgiving because after repentance we thank the Lord for liberating us from our sins. Then we move to the third Hos, which is about tribulations that we are victorious over.
Now after being victorious, through the grace of God, and after conquering and defeating death we are at the top of the ladder, with the saints. They conquered death and started their eternal Life with the Lord and are in Paradise. We are face to face with them that's why we ask their intercession. We come to the doxologies and commemoration of the Satins and to Hos 4 which is compromised of Psalms 148, 149, and 150. When praising the Lord we face important personalities: Jesus Christ in the Psalis and St Mary in Theotokias.
I'll read a few verses about St Mary from the Book of Revelation chapter 12. This was a vision. 12:1 "Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun." The sun is Jesus Christ, the Son of Righteousness. "....with the moon under her feet," the moon is a symbol of John the Baptist. "Under her feet" doesn't mean she's treading upon him, no, it means she is above [in heavenly ranking terms] than John the Baptist. Jesus Christ referred to John as being great, and then came St Mary who superseded his rank. "…and on her head a garland of twelve stars" these being the 12 apostles.
12:2 "Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth 12:3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads." This is the devil, who is bloody and always angry. Seven heads means perfection is thinking up evil. Horns are for knocking because he tries to hurt and knock everyone down. The seven diadems are because he is the prince of the world. 12:4 "His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born." A third of the stars of heaven that were thrown down are the fallen angels that feel with the devil. 12:5 "She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 12:6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness," Here the woman is not just St Mary, it is the church. "….. where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days." One thousand two hundred and sixty days is 3 ½ years, which is half of seven that is perfection, so this number refers to a temporary situation. 12:7 "And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, 12:8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer."
St Mary, in our Church, has many titles that can form a chain. We will select 5 of them tonight. Our church loves St Mary as you see in the Tasbeha.
The first is Mother of All Saints. The second is the Ever Virgin. The third is the Second Heaven because she had God inside, wherever God exists it is heaven. The fourth title is the Mother of God, in Greek Theotokos not Christotokos. Nestor called her Christotokos, human Christ not divine; he separated humanity from divinity. The last is Honest Intercessor who intercedes on our behalf.
When I say Mother of All Saints I'm referring to her sanctification. This is the basic cornerstone of St Mary. She was sanctified by Holy Spirit; she lived a pure, saintly, righteous life throughout, from her childhood until her passing to heaven. Sanctification is a basic cornerstone in our life. Holiness simply means possessed by God, separated for God. "Agios" in Greek, "Kadesh" in Hebrew mean someone separated for God. When a shepherd gave one tenth of his flock to the Lord in the OT it was referred to as "owned by the Lord." Same with the priests in the OT, they had a head cover and a label on it: "Holy for God," "Possessed by God," "Owned by God." He is God's person, belonging to God. That's why when the Pope or Anba Serapion, sanctify the altar with Holy Myoon, it is so it can only be used for the sacraments, the same applies to the utensils. They cannot be used for any other goal like drinking water, etc. Even deacons can't touch them, because they were sanctified.
You were also sanctified with Holy Myroon at a very young age. You had 36 crosses put on your body. Why 36? Three by twelve: 3 for the Trinity, 12 for apostles. Therefore, I am through the Trinity going to be a disciple of the Lord. First cross on the head, so the Holy Spirit can sanctify the mind. (Visual demonstration) Sanctify my senses (7 total). The ninth and tenth annointments sanctify my heart. The eleventh and twelfth are on the back representing the will. Then there's a set of twelve on the joints to sanctify my deeds. And lastly a third set of twelve on the legs to sanctify my way. Long ago we learned a song: "Jesus Christ Our Lord Savior of My Soul, let my thoughts be Your thoughts that is all in all, …..My senses, …..My Will, ….My Deeds, ….My Way." Imagine Henry has holy thoughts, holy will, holy deeds, and holy way, he'll be considered a saint. This is what the Church means when it puts on us these crosses – for us to be a sanctuary.
We shift to the second title: Ever Virgin. Ever Virgin does not mean physical virginity, we mean spiritual virginity. If there's a celibate but has no spiritual life, this is not the same. That's why even if you're married you can preserve your spiritual virginity because it means not tied to anything or anybody other than God. Adultery (spiritually) is brokent down into the following parts: Ad means two, alter means alternative, so I'm giving myself to another person it could be the world, the devil, a special sin, or money. St Mary never married but she led a celibate life; she had agreed with St Joseph the carpenter on this lifestyle. That is why she questioned the angel when he announced her conception with Christ. The Angel said to her the Holy Spirit will descend so she had physical and spiritual virginity. When Jesus Christ was on the Cross, He gave her to St John. As St Augustine said, the celibate Son gave his celibate Mother to a celibate disciple to continue her celibate life comfortably. We understand her body is in heaven because she carried Christ yet she's an Ever Virgin, in Ezekiel: "the door through which God entered will be shut forever."
The third title is Second Heaven. When we draw St Mary's icons she wears a blue head cover, why? Heaven. She's standing, not sitting and carrying her baby on her left shoulder, why? As the Bible says, "The Queen stood at the right had of the King." Yes she can sit for sure, but it's one of the formal poses of St Mary. We are now in second heaven. Where God dwells it is heaven. Washington DC is the capital because the president is there. So when God dwells in certain person, it is heaven. We can all be second heaven, as long as we eat His body and drink His body we abide in Him, so we can also be second heaven. Therefore we will be transformed to be 2nd heaven. The kingdom of God is inside you.
Mother of God, Theotokos. The baby was not only man or not only God. He is divinity plus humanity united together in one nature out of two natures. Elizabeth cried out and said, "….the mother of my Lord." She knew through the Holy Spirit that He was not just an ordinary baby but also God. That's why St John the Baptist knelt even though he was still an embryo. If it was only human, and God comes and leaves (as Nestor heretically taught), then we have no unity between humanity and divinity then we can't say Theotokos. During the time of St Cyril the Great, we added we "Magnify you Theotokos" to the Creed. How do we benefit from this? We are all the sons and daughters of God. [Song] "Sons of God, Hear His holy name, Gather around the table of the Lord, eat His body, drink His blood, and we'll sing a song of Love." We are the sons and daughters of God. That's why we say, "Our Father who art in Heaven." In other religions God is not a Father, but in Christianity God is in the highest, but He was incarnate and became Immanuel (God with us). After redemption on the cross He became "God in us." "I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me." This is the miracle, honor, privilege of Christianity. I will abide in Him and He will abide in me.
I read a book about a princess in Pakistan called Bilkis. She read something in Christianity and realized that God is a Father not a revengeful Being. "God is My Father" is the title of her book (in Arabic); she converted to Christianity because of this fact. God is in us and is our Father.
Lastly, she is the honest intercessor. Everyone throughout all the ages interceded and asked her intercession. She is a powerful intercessor. Pope Kirollos the 6th used to give the problems to the saints to solve them. One night people came to present problems to him. He said, "By night it is fire, in the morning it is ashes," and continued "Don't worry my children." In the morning he gave the [church] altars different problems and he asked the priests to pray the liturgies. St Mina has a horse so he solved his problems quickly. Then the people would come to tell him that the problem is solved. Then the Pope would call them to sing glorifications to the Saint, but he'd feel embarrassed that they're not praising St Mary. So he'd tell them to also include St Mary in the glorifciation. By the time they finish the praises they find out that the problem assigned to St Mary was solved, so they would praise them all.
Let me tell you, those of us who are sharp/smart will take St Mary as his/her patron saint. Why? Because then she can deploy the saints according to the problems. That person now has the Mother of All Saints, the Honest Intercessor of human kind on his/her side.
Let us ask the intercession of St Mary, she can answer many of your prayers and solve many of our problems through the power of our God.


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Road trip with the bestie
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I enjoyed reading this post Rekha! You've written your journey beautifully! Keep writing la! ^^ReplyDeleteReplies
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Have a good day ahead!
What could the most wonderful gift in life than best friends, who can read your mind even in silence? I am blessed enough to have to as my bestie. You made our bond much more stronger by gifting me with yet another priceless gift :). I can't thank you enough, lover. And as discussed, we shall go for another long road trip to Sikkim this year.ReplyDelete
P.S: Of all the pictures, you had to upload the one the one where I look as if I will burst :P.Replies
Loved the pictures, the first one specifically. And you are too preety aue :) The descriptions are wonderful as well. Great days ahead. Take Care!Replies
Thank you sweets, you're way too kind. The first picture is from my IG. :)Delete
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I started with a big blind poka chip and one of the blank jigsaw pieces.
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The jig saw has home made texture paste applied and once dried, layers of ink were smudged over it (spiced marmalade, antique Linen and scattered straw) stamped and inked a scallop edged circle and added some bakers twine. Used dimenionals to stick puzzle piece to scalloped circle, added ribbon, gluing the flower bead ends down. Cala lilly, leaf and I think the other flower is an apple blossom were glued down next and Iwrapped the lily stem around part of the jigsaw. Added a bought sentiment 'Especially for you' and it is finished.
This one was covered in paper and drilled a hole edged with texture past and I used plastic bling to go around the edge of the circle. I pushed the wire from the acrylic and mesh flower through to the back and hot glued it in place, covered the stem with a card disc. Added the burgandy maple leaf and little sentiment.
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