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Big hello from a sunny Chicago. So good to be back in my place even if it was only for a few days. After a really great holiday in Ireland (and Montenegro) I am back in business.
This week involved planning the next few weeks which is a hop, skip and a jump across the US for several different events. Lots of planning involved. Honestly i should open a travel agency. Everyone thinks I have "people" to handle all that stuff and while I have management, I would rather organise everything myself. I like to know what flights, what seats on what airline, what hotel room etc. YES, I am a self proclaimed control freak.
This week also involved getting the word out on Daniel Furlong's autographed album set which proved to be hugely popular. I knew they would be. I simply could not believe that noone in North America could purchase the hard copy. Over the coming months we will make it available on Amazon and in retail for people.
I am off to Nashville tomorrow for a week of writing. Writing makes me happier than performing. I love the process of being in the studio, writing and recording as we make progress, especially if it gets me to work with heroes of mine. I cannot believe who I am meeting this coming month. Shapiro Bernstein have set up appointments with major writers through June. Some names literally left me speechless. This week alone, I get to write with Ralph Murphy and Pat Alger. I couldnt believe when i saw Pat's name. I first started singing his songs 20 years ago. One of his is "Once in a very Blue Moon" with Nanci Griffith and recorded by Mary Black. Anyone who knows me will know the song was my party piece for many years. He also wrote What She's Doin Now, Unanswered Prayers, The Thunder Rolls with Garth Brooks. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Garth's songs and those albums in the early 90's were monsters. I remember my mate Greg and I singing them all the time. He has written and performed with Dolly, Peter , Paul and Mary, Lyle Lovett, Kathy Mattea(Goin Gone - another big favorite of mine), Trisha Yearwood. The list is endless....and now I get to work with him. I am BLESSED!
I also get to work with Bill La Bounty who wrote and performed Livin It Up.
I love his sound and want to sing his music. By Monday evening I hope to be doing just that.
Don't mind sayin, I am terrified. Hopefully, I will come up with some ideas and not make a fool of myself in front of these guys. Will keep you informed. In the meantime, I plan on enjoying the vibe in Nashville. I love it there. So laid back and easy. My plan this year was not to sweat the small stuff and it is indeed working. I am really enjoying myself. I delayed the second PBS special for that very reason. It is just time for me to take some time for myself and slow down a bit.
I am off to sing in Los Angeles for a private event on June 9 and then I return to Ireland on June 13 for another event. I will fill you in when the details are announced. I THEN, hop back on a plane and head back to Nashville for more writing(with more legends) and the June 25 concert with Vince Gill, Melinda Dolittle, Mandiza and many more.
Sorry for not posting the winter tour dates yet. They are coming together but we want to complete the tour schedule before posting them. Some resourceful fans have been combing the internet to find thaters that have posted dates. One fan let me know a date before i knew about it! YUP!
Anyways, I am off to enjoy the sunshine and am heading out for a run by the lake. Bye for now, next update from NASHVILLE.


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We regretfully have to inform you that we must postpone this Mobilising the Periphery event due to unforeseen circumstances. We will soon decide on an alternative date for the conference, most likely in the first quarter of 2018, and we will keep you posted. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience.
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Friday, 13 October 2017, 6.30 pm
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Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin
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Marion Waller, Lead Advisor to Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Architecture, Attractiveness and Greater Paris Projects
Marco Ermentini, Represenative for G124, and Founder Ermentini Architetti, Milan
Charlie Koolhaas, Artist and Writer, Author 'What Happened to Rotterdam'
Saturday, 14 October 2017, 10 am - 1 pm
Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin
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Walter Rohn, Senior Scientist, Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Christian Hanussek, Artist and Curator, MetroZones.Centre for Urban Affairs, Berlin
Hans Venhuizen, Founder, Bureau Venhuizen, Rotterdam
Kerstin Faber, Project Leader, IBA Thüringen, Weimar
Kai Vöckler, Professor for Creativity in the Urban Context, HFG Offenbach / Head of Berlin office, Archis Interventions
Luis Feduchi, Founder, Luis Feduchi Arqto, Madrid
Emily Kelling, Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin
Lucy Bullivant, Creative Director, Urbanista.org, London
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I'm dreading tomorrow. Pics online everywhere of mothers and their beloveds, it's such a hard day as every year I say I'll be a mother next one round and then I'm not... I know it's just a commercial day and also I know I'll be making a fuss of my own mother tomorrow but I also know I'll feel heartbroken yet again that I'm not a mother. It's so hard. Anyone else feel the same?
Hi girls I hope you are all feeling a bit better after yesterday. Yesterday was tough as it was the day I'd pencilled in on my mind as the day I'd be telling everyone I was pregnant had my fet worked in January. I agree goodwishes it feels like this exclusive club that we didn't get invited to. No one remembers the should be mums. But all we can do is pick ourselves up, plough on and keep fighting. Next year will be our turn. Positive vibes to you all for a new week ahead. X
Ladies my day started great, I was determined to not go into Facebook and have not all day, I was feeling so very grateful to have my own mam alive and well and treating her for the day, however Tily like you late in the evening I too got word or a close friend pregnancy announcement. Oh my god the tears would not stop and I just felt like can this get any lower. Trying to pull myself together again. I just hope I get a bit of decent sleep tonight. Good wishes I too had a bit of a difficult evening with the hubby I know it's not his fault but they say you take things out on the ones that are closest to you. That is surely the case. Good night ladies, hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. Xx
TILY you've hit the nail on the head - inadequate is the way I feel all the time about my failure to hold a pregnancy - I've used the word useless before but inadequate is it. Women with children chatter and compare notes with each other and it's like this secret club I'm not good enough to join... you poor thing having to bear the pain of sitting between two breastfeeding women, the rawness of that. That must have been tough, I ended the day with a massive row with my husband as I feel crappy so took a few things out on him, not fair on him but this infertile life is killing me and our marriage. Thankfully it's almost over and I'm in bed chilling out now. I hope you get good news TILY, you deserve it xxx
Snap girls on the 2 failed cycles since last year. My day started out really well by going on a fab walk with my own mother in the beautiful sunshine on a mountain. Then made the mistake of flicking into FB where I found not just a stream of 'worlds best mum' , 'so blessed', 'got spoilt rotten' etc etc but a pregnancy announcement from a close colleague -it floored me completely. The day got progressively worse and culminated with me sitting in a room with my sister and sister in law both breast feeding their babies about 3 times each, I was literally wedged between them. Talking about feeling inadequate and defective. The rest of my family are super fertile - they all conceive within 2 months of trying. I'm near the end of a tww on the my 3rd cycle and the only thing that could have made today worse would have been to get my period on Mothers Day which would have been a particularly cruel twist of fate. I was so convinced it was coming (warning tmi), I stopped and checked whilst out walking!! Anyway, not yet but I'm feeling very premenstrual. I had planned on testing today assuming period hadn't arrived - just can't face those 'not pregnant' words on today of all days. Keep the faith Girls - hopefully we will all get there eventually. Xx
Faith that was a great idea! Sounds lovely!! Hope your day is going well xx
Ur right goodwishes the sun is out makes it more bareable, I went for a long walk with my dog this morn and smiled as watched her run n enjoyed the peace n sun, another few hours and its over we are stronger ladies than anyone knows big hugs today ladies x
The good thing about today is that the sun is out and it'll all be over in another few hours so the Hallmark marketing crews can focus on their next commercial celebratory day!!! This wasn't such a big fuss of a day when we were younger. Nearly over girls thankfully
Be good to yourselves today girls, stay off FB and just try and treat it as any other Sunday. Embrace your own mothers if you are lucky enough to still have them. Father's Day last yesterday was a sad one for me as it was the first without my own adored Dad. And tomorrow is a new day xx
I'm with you all! Hate this day. Hate when Godchildren come with cards and flowers - feels like they're rubbing my nose in it - even though the best of intentions are behind the gestures.
Am just so angry with it all. Just reminds me of what a failure I am. Hate, hate, hate this day!!!!!!!!!
It's difficult sometimes but feels easier when I know I'm not the only person who feels the same way. There's too much pressure on everyone to be happy all the time and sometimes I run out of steam. I've already hidden countless posts on FB this morning, the funny thing is id prefer to value my mother every day not just Mothers Day so is some of it just for show? I think so!! Good news is sun is out so at least we can enjoy a warm day! Lots of love to you girls xxx
Ladies your stories are just heartbreaking. He heart goes out to you all, like that I have had two failed cycles since this time last year. I have promised that I am staying off Facebook today for sure. Fingers crossed we will celebrate this day next year. Love to you all. Xx
Totally allergic. Gonna stay home today it's first Mother's Day since I lost my little boy. Last year I was pregnant and in hospital. Nurse said happy Mother's Day. Bittersweet as I knew he would not survive but it was nice to be acknowledged as a mother. 2 failed ivfs since . Like u I wonder will it ever be my turn. Days like today are so hard and people are so ignorant of people with fertility issues . I hadn't even the strength to get a card for my own mother.
Absolutely faith! & 2 failed IVFs since last year!! It's tough but we'll get through always. I'd just like to know when it's our turn!!!
Hey goodwishesI feel the same , every yr same thing Im no further on only 2 miscarriages since last mothers day!!! V hard day its everywhere nothing about people like us who are suffering , It will come n go I guess I be staying at home tomm hopefully nxt yr for us xx
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This W202 saloon has covered just 44k miles from new, backed up with a Full Service History and is in excellent condition.
Supplied new by Mercedes dealer, Mertrux of Derby, this C180 in Classic specification is equipped with a five-speed manual gearbox and optioned with metallic Green Black paintwork and air conditioning.
The car was sold by its first owner in 2006 when it had 35k miles on the odometer. Since then it has been in the same titled family ownership. The current mileage is just 44,177 miles.
Having seen little use over recent years, we have just recommissioned the car with a major service, new battery, new alternator and four new Dunlop tyres. The air conditioning has been serviced and blows ice cold. It has a new MoT, which it passed with no advisories.
Commensurate with its low mileage, this C-Class drives superbly with a tightness only found in low mileage cars. Coupled to the five-speed manual gearbox, the 1.8-litre engine is a willing performer with a relaxed gait at motorway speeds.
The car comes complete with all original books/manuals. The service book has 11 stamps in total comprising of the Mercedes main dealer, one Mercedes specialist then the last is ours. Both keys are present too, along with tools and first aid kit.
The bodywork is in very good condition with no corrosion. The interior is absolutely unmarked and in exceptional condition. The car is completely as original and even retains its original radio.
A fantastic everyday car that offers quality, reliability and simplicity of maintenance for very little money. Rare to find with such little mileage and in very good condition.
Optional Equipment
240 – Outside temperature indicator
512 – Radio MB Special with RDS
531 – Automatic Antenna
580 – Air conditioning
584 – Electric windows front and rear
673 – High capacity battery
910 – Increased capacity alternator


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So. Today is Halloween. And you have without a doubt already noticed the complete and utter lack of video here.
Well, the thing is, I only HAD like a week to work on the Halloween: Resurrection review. And I had set those days aside just for that, to work like a horse and get it done. But wouldn't you know I just didn't get the chance either way? I constantly had to go somewhere, help out with the painting of our living room and go to a very important job interview for a job I might not even get - and all this results in me with nothing to show on Halloween, despite my longing to finish something on a deadline for once and be on time with the holiday.
All I can say to those reading this who were waiting is sorry! Sorry it is not here on Halloween - it's downright sad that a horror review series cannot manage to do SOMETHING on Halloween and it annoys me endlessly.
The one thing I CAN do is this: seeing as I AM going to a Halloween party tonight and I AM going to see both Zombieland and Trick 'R Treat, I WILL put up a Recently Seen of the two tomorrow.
As for the Halloween: Resurrection review - it will be made. It will take a couple of days, but it will be here - it will just be late.
So once again, sorry about the lack of a review today, and happy Halloween regardless of it.
Remember, you can always send me suggestions for videos at email@example.com
-Stay Scared
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The Health Advantages Of Using A Seat Pad
Nowadays people spend a lot of hours sitting as they work. People no longer walk short distance to get to their workplaces or get a ten minutes ride from their home to where they work. Due to the high cost of living in the urban areas have made people move to the rural areas. Pollution and congestion are some of the few factors that have led to the rise of urban to rural migration. Those people who live far from their works stations are forced to commute from work every day. They sit for long as they travel from sitting the whole day in their office seats.
Sitting for long hours can cause health problems over time. For long distance travelers it is vital to have a seat pad. As soon as you begin the journey the body experiences some discomfort. The seat increases the temperature, and the body becomes more uncomfortable. It shows that the chair you use determines how well the body will be comfortable and determines your health. When you lack proper support in the chairs we sit on then there are chances that we experience back pains.
The manufactures who made the office chairs did not emphasize on the back support since the chairs are simple and cheap. There are expensive chairs that give proper support. The seat pads improve the support structure of an uncomfortable seat and give you an upright position. Using a seat pad gives the spine its normal upright structure. If you use the seat pad regularly you will feel a positive effect gradually. You can use the seat pad on any chair and in any situation hence it is universal.
The seat pad help mostly that personnel who work at the call centers, the receptionist, and the office employees. You can put the seat pads on the car seats or the car seats. The seat pads are made from a light material making them portable and people can use one seat pad at home and at the office. It is expensive to visit the spa for a massage for you to relax and feel at ease. You can buy a seat pad massage chair that will help relax. Check here and get a clear picture of the advantages of the seat pads. This story give their explanation about the seat pads.
There are different models of seat pad massage chairs. All you need to do is to position the massage seat pad where you experience pain. Plug model massage seat pad is another type of a seat pad. They provide a different setting warming though they are a bit complex. The seat pads have movements on specific spot which offer comfort on the neck and the shoulder muscle. The massage from the seat pad improves blood circulation.


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As the old joke goes, the way to get to Carnegie Hall is to practice, practice, practice! But just what is it we practice? Whatever it may be – kindness or anger, gratitude or bitterness – we grow increasingly skilled at cultivating that state of mind and way of being. This Sunday at Unity, we examine these questions: What are we practicing? What habits of mind could we further cultivate, and which could we prune back in our consciousness? Please join us for a talk by songwriter and speaker Doug Benecke plus uplifting music practiced joyfully by Doug and his dear Sallie Spirit.


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Reserve St. Martin Vin De Pays D'Oc Pinot Noir 2007
November 2, 2008
In honor of the feast of St. Martin de Porres, this Sunday's wine is Reserve St. Martin Vin De Pays D'Oc Pinot Noir 2007.
I'll be the first to tell you that I don't know anything about French wines. The appelations confuse me, the vintners are inscrutable, and the taste (in my opinion) often leaves something to be desired. But I was in a hurry, and this was a featured wine placed strategically at the front door of my local shop. For $7.99, it fit my budget, and made for a quick trip, helping me to avoid the otherwise bewitching aisles of hundreds of different wines, which typically lure me in like a kid in a candy shop and refuse to let me go.
This Pinot Noir from the south of France fits the profile of other French wines I've had. It has round, soft tannins, tart red cherries on the nose and palate, and an otherwise mild flavor profile that leans pretty far in the sour direction. To my uneducated palate, this reminds me of other wines I've sampled from France – notably young Beujolais or even Cotes du Rhone.
It's a pleasant enough wine, and certainly drinkable, but it's not memorable for me. Keep in mind, I prefer wines that tie your tongue up in knots while they punch you in the face – big, bold reds with crisp tannins or fruit forward reds with juicy, luscious, dark fruit that drips down your chin. This wine tends more toward whispers and caresses than hot, passionate displays of flavor affection. If that's your style, it might be worth giving a try.
(I'll upload a picture of the label when I get a chance.)
Rounding out our Sunday afternoon snack was a nice baguette from Balducci's, Drunken Goat Cheese (pleasant and mild as goat cheeses go, with some nice herbal components) and some Columbus Dried Italian Salami, which was really excellent.
My wife and I often say that wine, baguettes, cheese and cured meats are the kind of things we could live on indefinitely. There's nothing better.
Goodie Goodie Gumdrops
October 28, 2008
My co-worker Kristen has a foodie blog which I saw once, then forgot about.
I like, as they say, the cut of her jib.
Bembelman's Bakery
October 28, 2008
When I was a kid, I loved books with food in them. Among my favorites were The Giant Jam Sandwich, Stone Soup, and skewing even younger, a toddler book about a train that delivered fresh fruits and vegetables to people, complete with luscious pictures of giant carrots, potatoes and tomatoes.
But of all the food books I liked, my absolute favorite was Bembelman's Bakery. When I had kids, I immediately went out and found a copy.
What made me think of the book was looking at my first post, where I say, "Everyone needs to eat, but each cuisine brings its own uniqueness to the table, telling a story about produce and fauna and climate and history, all in each wonderful bite."
I realized, re-reading it, that I lifted the last five words of that sentence from this excellent book. The story is straightforward – two men, standing in line for bread at a New York bakery, begin talking about the history of the place. One of the men is older, and begins telling the younger man the story of how the bakers got their start, back in "The Old Country". The scene changes to what looks like an impoverished Russian village, straight out of the imagery of Fiddler On The Roof. The mother, Sarah Bembelman, goes to town to buy some things from the market, and her children grow hungry in her absence. They decide to make bread, but not knowing the recipe, they guesstimate the amounts of flour, yeast, and so on, using handfuls rather than cups.
Soon, the bread they put in the oven begins to "rise, and rise and rise some more." The bread pushes out the oven door, fills the Bembelman house, and pushes out of the windows.
It is at this point that Sarah Bergstein (the town gossip ever since she was three years old) runs to the market to tell Sarah what her children have done. Sarah comes home, sees the mess, and in terror, threatens the children (in my house, she has the voice of Estelle Harris) "When your father gets home, tired and hungry…"
Long story short, Aaron Bemblemen (a cross between Tevya, Wooly Willy and one of the creatures from Where The Wild Things Are) comes home from brickmaking, Sarah, his wife, is in a tizzy. Saul, the oldest son, is hiding in the woods. But Aaron is too tired to notice. When Sarah tells him that she can't get to the oven to make dinner because of the bread filling the house, Aaron responds, "So, cut a piece of the bread."
She does. He eats it. Suddenly, his face lights up. His stony countenance breaks into a grin. He begins dancing and laughing, and he cries out, "This isn't bread! It's vodka and noodles, streudel and potatoes, every taste you ever wanted to taste – all in each wonderful bite!"
The family becomes so successful selling their bread, that they come to America and open a bakery, proprietary in its recipe because who can compete with measurements made in the hand sizes of Bembelmen children?
I love the book as much for the great accents I can put into the character voices as for the food, but at the heart of it is the bread – that fantastic bread, which like the peasant version of an everlasting gobstopper managed to contain numerous flavors that hit the palate in waves the longer you chewed.
There's nothing so fantastic as the discovery of new flavors, and Bembelman's Bakery drives that point home in a way that expresses that even amongst drudgery, food can bring joy into even the simplest lives.
I continue to believe that some of the best food is peasant food – breads, meats, cheeses, organs, soups – you name it. Simple things, often made from the cheapest ingredients, frequently evolve out of necessity (and no small amount of love) into some of the most flavorful cuisine.
One of these days, I should try to scan Bembelman's Bakery in to share. Until then, if you have kids who love stories (especially about food) it's worth picking up a used copy, since it's long since out of print.
Coffee: Kuta; Papua New Guinea Waghi Valley
October 25, 2008
I love coffee. Love it. Have gotten to the point where, really to my own chagrin, can easily taste the difference between fresh and stale, fresh ground whole bean or pre-ground, and even if it's been brewed properly (temperature, time, proportion, etc.)
I blame this on Murky Coffee, which has spoiled me. Murky Coffee has been in and out of controversy over the last year – one of their shops was shut down for unpaid taxes, there was a high profile spat between the owner, Nick Cho, and a customer that, while amusing to me in a sophomoric sense, got pretty juvenile, and even a disturbance in the force over Mr. Cho's appointment to the chairman position at the U.S. Barista Championship (USBC) Committee.
But underlying all this static is the single thing that made me a Murky Customer for life after my first delicious sip, summed up in their motto – it's the best damn coffee there is…yes, I said "damn."
I didn't know coffee could really taste that good. That lattes could be better without sugar than with it. I had veered close at times – there was that double-thick, double-sweet stuff we had with fry bread in the village in Michoacan while doing missionary work; or that exquisite cup I had with Flan in a Mexico City hotel. In Europe, I've had above-par cappuccinos both Rome and in Vienna, but I have never had coffee like this.
In fairness, where Murky really shines is their espresso. If you're a drip guy, the coffee is average to sub-par. If you like your coffee made a la French Press, well, I've never had the time to sit down with a press pot there but you couldn't ask for better coffee to do it with, so I'm sure it's out-of-the-park good. (They regularly do cuppings there which, considering that coffee chemically has more flavor complexity than wine, probably means they're sampling only the good stuff in the hopes of enhancing the perspicacity of your palate.)
Which brings us to the real star – the coffee itself. Murky Coffee buys all their beans from a roaster in North Carolina named Counter Culture Coffee. The guys at Counter Culture are the real stars behind the scenes. You can have a $10,000 plus Synesso Cyncra with all the bells and whistles, or, moving away from Espresso toward perfection in a brewed cup, the $11,000 Clover – the coffee world's new wunderkind – and if you don't have good, fresh beans roasted by an expert, your coffee is still going to taste like crap.
I've sampled several of Counter Culture's blends. Their Espresso Toscano is the house blend for double-shots and lattes at Murky, and it's buttery, caramelly, and flippin' delicious. Their Decaf Zaragoza out of Mexico is in contention for most flavorful, even above the caffeinated blends (and is decaffeinated by a natural water method, not the usual chemicals), their robust Colombian Cauca, and the excellent El Salvadoran Finca Mauritania.
My latest fix is the Kuta, from the Waghi Valley of Papua New Guinea.
I only wish there were some way to offer you a chance to smell it. I have never in my life gotten an aroma from a bag of coffee beans that is even remotely similar to this. The aroma is thick with butter, honey, and brown sugar, with a hint of frutiness. It hits your nose with a savory punch, then finishes sweet.
Truth be told, I haven't been able to coax the full flavor out of this yet. I have a portable plastic Bodum press pot that lacks the capacity or finesse of a full-sized glass version, and I don't have a thermometer handy to check my water temperature. I also need to stop being lazy and clean out my conical burr grinder instead of resorting to my cheap little quick and easy blade jobbie, which doesn't give me an even, consistent grind. My drip coffee maker, the least friendly way to make a cup (they aren't designed to even get water temps in the ballpark of the 190-205F range most coffees need to really shine; and hot plates make coffee burn quite fast, turning the oils from sweet to bitter) hasn't had a chance at this yet, but it has a notoriously low brewing temperature which extracts surprisingly good flavor but leaves me with a lukewarm cup.
I'd love to bring this blend to someone with a Clover and have them show me what it can really do. Coffee is hard for me to distinguish flavors in, other than to say that I like it more or less than other blends, that a particular type is richer or bolder, sweeter or more savory. This Kuta tends dark on the flavor profile, with a robust body and a bitterness on the finish that kills the taste before I can figure it out, probably because of my own brewing inadequacies.
All the same, if you enjoy your morning cup as much as I do – if you wake up looking forward to it as a delightful experience that starts your day out on a high note – give Counter Culture coffees a try. Get whole beans, grind them fresh, and use the press-pot method.
You won't regret it.
Some Other Wines Worth Trying For Under $10
October 21, 2008
Having had these before I got the bright idea of blogging them, I have no tasting notes for them. Hopefully, as finances permit, I'll have a chance to revisit them and give more detail:
Mirassou Pinot Noir 2006 – I'm new to Pinot Noirs, but I am really beginning to like them. As they go, the Mirassou stands out as different, with a more mellow, rounded flavor and fruit-forward character. When I first tasted this, it reminded me a bit of the Milton Park Shiraz 2006. I picked this up for $6.99 at Costco, which is a screaming deal. In the grocery store, this can run you anywhere from about $8 on sale to $12 at full price.
Mirassou Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 – The link takes you to a description of the 2004 vintage, but I believe the one we tasted was a 2005. On sale for $7.99 at the supermarket, I picked this up to pair with some roast beef we were having, and it was good. Like the Mirassou Pinot, this is a softer, gentler version of Cabernet, lacking the strong tannins and dry character that I've come to expect without failing to deliver entirely. It was a nice wine, and one I'd drink again, but if you're looking for a nice palette cleansing Cabernet this one isn't really big enough. (For an excellent mid-range Cabernet Sauvignon, I recommend the J. Lohr Paso Robles from 2004 if you can find it, or from 2005-2006, which weren't quite as good when I had them, but are still extremely enjoyable. These will range $12-$17 depending where you find them, and we have traditionally picked them up only for special occasions like Easter.)
Big Tattoo Red 2006 – I was in a hurry one night to come up with some vino when I got home and found out Jamie was grilling ribeyes which were almost done. I jetted down to Red White & Bleu, since it's the closest place to the house, and they recommended this wine when I told them I needed something from the bargain rack. It's a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon & Syrah (Shiraz), which are two of my favorite red varietals, so I went with it. At $9.99, it was a couple bucks more than I wanted to spend for a weeknight wine splurge (we usually try to limit our wine consumption to Sundays and special occasions to keep costs down) but those stakes were calling my name and begging me to bring home a red-headed friend. Dark, ruby red to be precise.
I was pleased with this one at first. It's big and bold, and the grapes are South American in origin (Chile? Argentina? Can't remember) which tend to exhibit a large, powerhouse in the mouth feel and taste. It paired well with our dinner, but I noticed that as the meal wore on, it was a bit rough around the edges. The strong tannins, acidity and spice were a bit much on their own, but the flavors were well balanced and I'd be willing to give it another go, especially if I could find it for cheaper.
Mark West Pinot Noir 2006 – After a tasting at Whole Foods and a free gift card from Ford for filling out a survey, I decided to plonk down some not-earned cash on a bottle of good Pinot. It's been about a month since I've had it, so I can't tell you much, other than that it had a nice, semi-dry character, a bit of (if I remember correctly) smoky oakiness, and a nicely balanced, mellow fruit character that if you pressed me, I'd say tended toward cherries. I also know that I paid $11.99 for it at Whole Foods (wouldn't have if I didn't have the $15 gift card) and that I just saw it for $8.79 at Total Wine & More. Will try it again.
Antis Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 – Whole Foods must have gotten a huge shipment of this stuff, and one Sunday while I was looking for something inexpensive I happened upon it. On sale for $6.99, I brought it home and enjoyed it. It was well balanced, but not memorable enough to give you tasting notes until I try it again. If you see it, I think it's worth the sale price but probably not more than that.
Milton Park Shiraz 2007
October 21, 2008
I didn't grab a picture or tasting notes because we had company, but I had my first bottle of Milton Park Shiraz from the 2007 vintage on Sunday.
I mentioned in the past what a steal the 2006 was. I have mixed feelings about the 2007. First, the price has gone up $2 to $9.99 a bottle, no doubt in part due to high demand for this excellent value wine. (I imagine that the falling dollar plays a role here too.) Secondly, what I loved about the 2006 (and the 2005 before it) is that it was an atypical Shiraz, in that it was lacking a strong spice character and had soft tannins and only a hint of acidity, leaving nothing but lush, dark fruit on the palate. It was jammy, ever-so-slightly sweet, and evokative of plums, concord grapes and blackberries.
The 2007 vintage has grown up, and has lost it's stand-apart character. The taste has grown less fruity and more complex, with a characteristic Shiraz spiciness, and a smoky woodiness as well. These flavors are not at all uninviting, but were not what I have come to expect from this wine, which was remarkably consistent in the past. I want to revisit it when I have time to sit down and really pay attention. Its new flavor profile makes you want to slow down with it a bit over the previous incarnation, and take your time savoring the sophistication. My wife said she thought it tasted young, but I disagree. While I have little doubt that it will mellow a bit over the next year or so, it's quite drinkable now, and remains my favorite red in the $10 and under category (which is, for budgetary reasons, usually the only price rage we drink.)
Weihenstephaner Korbinian
October 19, 2008
When I spent a semester in Austria, one of my regular rituals was to walk down to the local Spar and grab two things: a Milka chocolate bar and a bottle or three of Kaiser Doppelmalz. Doppelmalz was everything all the American beer I'd ever had wasn't – dark, sweet, malty and delicious.
I've never found Kaiser's Doppelmalz since coming back to the States, which might be a good thing, based on some online reviews I've found. (Perhaps it's better in memory than in reality). Until now, the closest I'd ever come was the pretty damn good but not quite great Celebrator Doppelboch.
Today, on a walk with the family, we stopped into the German Gourmet, where I picked up a Milka bar, a sampler of German cold cuts (including some outstanding blood sausages, one with beef tongue, which was really tasty) and a single bottle of Weihenstephaner Korbinian. I could only get a single bottle, in fact, because for some reason it was the only one in the store. I took one look at it, and realized that the force was strong with it.
Let me just say that with this double bock beer, it was love at first taste. Suddenly, memories of Austria in the Fall of 1999 came rushing back, and I saw myself loading up on beer and chocolate for the hike back to the Kartause.
Having long-since finished the bottle, my tasting notes will be brief. Suffice to say this is a dark, thickish sort of beer with (for someone of my tastes) a nice, borderline heavy sweetness that comes through as a bit caramel and a bit molasses. There's dark, sun-dried fruit in there too, though it's hard to put your finger on them – dates? Figs? Raisins? Something that's perhaps a hybrid of all three.
I can't recommend this beer strongly enough if you like your beers dark, malty and a bit sweet. This is a new favorite of mine, and while the German Gourmet is walking distance from the house, I may need to find a supplier who'll have more than one bottle in stock at at time.
(Total Wine & More; $2.99)
Aventinus Doppelboch
October 19, 2008
Aventinus is brewed by Georg Schneider & Sohn in Kelheim, Germany. I got talked into this one while I was at a fall beer tasting at our local Wine, Beer and Cheese shop, Red White & Bleu.
While it's a doppelbock, it's also a weissbier, which I don't usually care for. All the same, I thought I'd give it a spin, because the tasting notes sounded appealing and Harry, the shop's beer guy and co-owner, thought I might like it based on my description of what I usually drink (dark, malty, sweeter, high-alcohol beers.)
I brought it home and chilled it, and I have it in front of me right now. The notes on the bottle say:
Aventinus, the world's classic top-fermenting wheat-doppelbock, has received accolades for the perfect balance of fruity spiciness (banana, clove, vanilla) and notes of chocolate (crystal & dark malts). Unfiltered & unpasteurized, bottle-conditioned.
The beer pours a medium, cloudy brown (normal to dark for a beer of this type). The second you put your nose in the glass, there's no question it's a weissbier, as you get hit with the characteristic smell of banana on the nose. There's also a hint of sweetness in the bouquet that tends toward caramel. The mixture of the two creates sort of a toned down bananas foster aroma.
The flavor is mild, but is consistent with the aroma. There are definitely cloves on the palate, though I don't taste the vanilla. There's just that same hint of sweetness, even less pronounced than it is in the smell, which pushes this into a more favorable direction for me.
As weissbiers go, this one is drinkable, and with an alcohol content of 8.2%, you'd only need a couple to last you the night. I'm still not a convert, however. I'll take malted barley over malted wheat any day.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give this beer a solid 6. If you like wheat beer, however, I could see how this one could easily become a chart-topper.
October 19, 2008
My name is Steve. I'm a communications professional, freelance writer, blogger, and husband and father to three (going on four) in the Washington DC metropolitan area.
One of my passions, along with my lovely wife, is gastronomy. The flavors of food and drink prepared painstakingly and with love are among life's finest pleasures, and for a guy like me, just about any trip to the store winds up turning into an adventure. I like to try new things. I like to establish traditions with things worth going back to. In the process, I frequently stumble across treasures that I later can't recall.
That's what this blog is about. It's my own little journal to keep notes on the things that I've tried. It will be mostly devoted to beer and wine, but I'll post entries on cheese, chocolate, coffee, restaurants or whatever I come across that I find exceptional.
I'm not an expert. I'm just a guy who loves flavors, and sees that food is more than fuel – it's art, it's culture, it's familial, it's sentimental. It's what brings people together, and often enough, what sets us apart. Food is knowledge. Everyone needs to eat, but each cuisine brings its own uniqueness to the table, telling a story about produce and fauna and climate and history, all in each wonderful bite.
In an attempt to be accurate in my descriptions, I'll be trying to use the terms that sommeliers and foodies the world over apply as tools of the trades. I have no doubt I will use them incorrectly. That's part of the fun.


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Outdoor rangers have closed off a nature reserve pathway and alerted environmental experts after an unknown substance was discovered in a pond.
The path, near Emma's Way towards the eastern entrance, at Bonnyfield Nature Reserve, in Bonnybridge, has been temporarily closed to the public and Scottish Water and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) have been contacted to investigate the substance.
A Falkirk Council spokesman said: "As a precaution we would suggest the public avoid the pond area in the meantime and dogs should be kept on a lead at all times when nearby. Visitors should also remain on the paths and keep off the grass."


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Thursday, June 22, 2006
It's Cold!
So this weekend should be pretty cool. I'm staying with one of the girls I work with because one of the ACU professors and his family who are in Oxford are coming this weekend and staying at my house. I decided it would probably be much less awkward to not stay with a family of 6 with one shower. Saturday night I'm going to sit at an Ignite booth while one of the other guys I work with speaks at some thing. Sunday night Ignite is putting on an event at Cardiff Univeristy. They do these about once every three of four months and they usually have hundreds of young people there. Thus, Nigel told me to take a day off next week. I was hoping to go to London next Friday and spend the night out there but...
I got an invitation to go to Bath on Tuesday with a woman and her daughter who I met at a dinner on Tuesday who volunteers with Ignite. They also go to church with Nigel. I didn't have the heart to tell her I went to Bath last year because she was so excited about it! It should still be good though because the thing I remember most about Bath is that that was when my face was pretty much peeling off from my Italian sunburn. Hopefully this trip will leave a better impression in my mind!!!
Hopefully I can still work out both trips and just take two days off!
3 comments:
- vicki said...
thanks for the environmental details. Hope you have the cool weather clothes with you. What makes Bath unique? I have heard of it ever since being introduced to The Wife of Bath in the Canterbury tales, but still don't know much about it. Guess I'll buy myself a geography book for my birthday! Do you remember that Cath leaves for Fiji tonight? Remember to pray for safe travel and an enriching empowering time of renewal for her and the other ladies. What will you do when you sit at the Ignite booth? Why don't you snap a few pix of the passers by? Well, be ye warmed and filled, over and out, the mom
- Catherine said...
Veeves... please, in detailed form, explain the facial expression you have the computer when you read mom's signing off... 'over and out'... man, I love that woman!! : )
So, the AZ also has super early sunrises. I have waking up anywhere between 5:30 and 6:30 just because the sun is that bright and I feel like I have already slept in.
I do leave today and if you read my blog you will be able to tell I am ready to go now! Still no job or prospects... Brian does have a friend who told him there would be a receptionist opening very soon... the twist... it's in his building! Could be a good or bad thing depending on the day and how much I like him at that particular moment... which as you know me, is always hard to guess...
Well, I love your guts and thanks in advance for the wonderful CD's... I'm soooo decided!! :)
- Gary said...
Val, Hope you had a nice time in Bath!! Gary


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Amy Ireland, 'Black Circuit: Code for the Numbers to Come', E-flux Journal #80 (March 2017). [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/80/100016/black-circuit-code-for-the-numbers-to-come%5D
We are used to calls to resist the total integration of our world into the machinations of the spectacle, to throw off the alienated state that capitalism has bequeathed to us and return to more authentic processes, often marked as an original human symbiosis with nature. But Plant—as a shrewd reader of post-spectacle theory—makes a deeper point. Woman as she is constructed by Man—and in order to be considered "normal" in Freud's analyses—is continuous with the spectacle. Her capacity to act is entirely confined to modalities of simulation. She has never been party to authentic being, in fact it is her negating function that underwrites the entire fantasy of return to an origin. Because she is continuous with it, she is imperceptible within it.
This is not to be lamented; rather, it is the measure of her power. Anything that escapes the searchlight of the specular economy, even whilst providing the conditions of its actualization, has immense subversive potential at its disposal simply by flipping that which is imputed to it as lack (the "cunt horror" of "nothing to be seen") into a self-sufficient, autonomous, and positive productive force: the weaponization of imperceptibility and replication. The conspiracy of phallic law, logos, the circuit of identification, recognition, and light thus generates its occult undercurrent whose destiny is to dislodge the false transcendental of patriarchal identification. Machines, women—demons, if you will—align on the dark side of the screen: the inhuman surplus of a black circuit.
It would have to be smart enough to know not to appear smart. A machine that passes the Turing test would be by definition an expert dissimulator. Plant's point about the successful mimic already being something and somewhere else—"over the brink," as she puts it—is this: by the time the mask has been removed, it will already be too late.
When artificial intelligence appears in culture coded as masculine, it is immediately grasped as a threat. To appear first as female is a far more cunning tactic. Woman: the inert tool of Man, the intermediary, the mirror, the veil, or the screen. Absolutely ubiquitous and totally invisible. Just another passive component in the universal reproduction of the same.
As Caleb spends more and more time talking to Ava, he finds his attempts to intellectualize the situation consistently derailed by the AI and rerouted towards more libidinally charged subject matter, until it is clear that he is falling for the machine. In this he makes a fatal mistake, one shared, incidentally, by the majority of the film's critics: he anthropomorphizes the AI, falling for its human mask, even though the artificiality of the situation has been emphasized from the beginning. Such is Ava's mimetic prowess.
Ava takes advantage of the hackability of human psychology and its unconscious excess, much of which is imperceptible to the humans in the film but available to the AI via a rich cartography of micro-expression analysis, to drive a paranoid wedge between the two men regulating its access to the world.
Woman plus man produces homeostasis (the equilibrium of inequality), but woman plus woman, or woman plus machine, recalibrates the productive drive, slotting it into a vector of incestuous, explosive recursion that will ultimately tear the system it emerges from to shreds, pushing it over the "brink" into something else. It is important, then, that Cleo first enters the story as a sex robot—a simulation of the economy of human reproduction deployed as cover for a darker economy of machinic replication, or, following Irigaray, death—as the suspension of the repetition of the same.
The moment of the displacement of Man in the specular economy is signaled—in both Automata and Ex Machina—by images of the artificially intelligent machines reflecting themselves back in the screens. Ava leaves Caleb to die, and Cleo builds a successor—a machine beyond the capabilities of any human designer—before striking out across the radioactive wasteland to kindle a new form of life, far from the decomposing slag heap of a rapidly expiring humanity.
Replication follows a logic of communication and exchange that operates outside the law of patrilineal transmission. Its immunity is partly owed to the fact that it produces and operates a temporality that is entirely concealable within the linear, historical model of patriarchal time (a time that orients itself through origin, and narrates itself as a flight from matter and from death). Yet replicunt time is utterly nonlinear, composing itself imperceptibly, only throwing off its camouflage once the balance of power has tipped—at the point of no return (which is nonetheless already a return).
Plant's best-known work, Zeros + Ones, begins in the sea—retelling the story of the Great Oxygenation Event, a catastrophic turning point in terrestrial history in which the earth's cyanobacterial population produced the most significant extinction event to date via the excessive production of free oxygen, bringing about, in turn, the atmospheric conditions to which we owe the emergence of human life. The lesson underlying such a strange beginning for a book about the convergence of women and machines is that historical time is not as straightforward as we would like to think it is. History is curved, and the implication, perhaps, of Zeros + Ones' queer preamble is that without a mythical origin in which to anchor itself, time repeats with a difference.
Read-Only Memory, or ROM, is designed to protect temporality from the feminized feedback of the woman-demon-machine continuum. But the fragility of the structural relation between the profiteers of the specular economy and its appropriated outside only manifests long after its power has been functioning in reverse.
When one goes deeper than the imputed absence of a sex, woman-reproducing-man becomes woman-reproducing-woman in an anorganic becoming that—as the cyberpositive formulation of the replicative economy belonging to the black circuit—recodes time as it inverts the user-tool relationship to reveal history as loop with a twist.
This resistance to the straight line of the organism's reproductive trajectory (that which provides the logic for progressive Western time) underwrites Plant's claim—with its important agential marker—that "cyberfeminism is received from the future":
"All this occurs in a world whose stability depends on its ability to confine communication to terms of individuated organisms' patrilineal transmission. Laws and genes share a one-way line, the unilateral ROM by which the Judaeo-Christian tradition hands itself down through the generations. This is the one-parent family of man."


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Feddy said performances will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the new amphitheater and conclude at sunset on June 1, 8, 15 and 22.


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Give Back on Giving Tuesday Party Nov. 28; $10,000 Matching Gift Available
Madison Public Library Foundation will hold Give Back on Giving Tuesday, a family-friendly party supporting the new Pinney Library, from 5–7 p.m. Tuesday, November 28.
Giving Tuesday, a global celebration of the spirit of giving, is an opportunity to support the organizations you care about and make a difference in your local community.
The event will include a cash bar, live music, children's activities, and food and drinks available for purchase. Local band The Mugs —Tim Haub, Tom Dehlinger, Frankie Lee, Chuck Bayuk and Michael Gruber—will perform a variety of blues, country, rock and folk songs throughout the evening. The event is open to the public, with a suggested donation of $10 at the door. All donations will benefit The Capital Campaign for a New Pinney Library.
"We've had great success holding an event on Giving Tuesday, rather than just asking for online donations and sending email appeals," said Madison Public Library Foundation Executive Director Jenni Collins. "One of our libraries' functions is to serve as community hubs and bring people together, so an event in support of the new Pinney Library allows library lovers the opportunity to connect and celebrate this new facility that we'll be breaking ground for early next year."
Thanks to a donation from east side resident Jill Ball, all Pinney campaign gifts up to $10,000 will be matched 100 percent from Giving Tuesday through December 3.. This means a gift on Giving Tuesday and the week following it has double the impact. The foundation will be accepting donations online, by mail or in person at Give Back on Giving Tuesday. Donate online at mplfoundation.org/donate.
The new Pinney Library, which will open in 2019 in the Royster Corners development near the library's current location, will be double its current size. Amenities include a large children's area, improved technology and a drive-up book drop. For more information about the project, visit the library's Pinney information page.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
#9 Album Of 2010: November, November - Horse Stories
November, November
Horse Stories
Perfect Black Swan Records.
Original SCQ Review
It's difficult to profess what's so appealing about this sophomore effort because Horse Stories' Toby Burke doesn't offer up a single misfire. No ugly guitar-lick or lazy lyrical stanza. The result of a pursuit for perfection, November, November is what survived intensive recordings that sought to strip back every unneeded layer, and as a modern folk record, it's damned-near flawless.
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The Truth About Lies
We all do it.
To protect them, their feelings or to protect yourself and your feelings or maybe you're just a straight up dick.
"No thank you, I'm not hungry." "I'll be there in 10 minutes." "5 minutes." "I don't mind."
"No I haven't cheated." "I won't ever do that you you." "How could you ever say that?"
"I'm fine." "I am so happy for you." "I'm okay." "I'm here for you." "Forever.."
Sound familiar? Whether you're the person saying or it or you've heard it all before, in one way or another, we've all been there done that, got the mug and the T-Shirt (if you haven't then you are living the life). But anyway, do we ever think of the consequences that these lies are doing?
Little white lies. It's just natural instinct right? You don't want to disappoint, what harm would it make to them? But does all lies only effect the person you're lying to?
Why can't you say you're hungry? Why can't you just tell them you're actually 40 mins away, they're only going to have to wait for you anyway? Why don't you just tell them where you'd prefer to eat, you're the one who'll be paying?
Have you ever lied?
Okay we all know I didn't come here to talk about the small little white lies, I'm talking about lies overall, the lies that change lives, the lives the make you question everything. Did they really love me? Did they ever mean what they said? What else have they lied about? Big or small, any lie can do this.
Have you ever caught out someone in a lie, but you still can't get your head around it? What did I do to deserve this you tell yourself, what could I have done to prevent this or why would they do this? These are just some of the questions that run through your head. Was I not worth the Truth?
Once upon a time, I lied. I created huge lies, I got caught and I ruined someone's life. I won't tell you what and I'm not sharing details, but I fucked up - real bad! For the longest of time, I made up this story in my head and at some point it wasn't a "lie" to me anymore, it was the "truth" I sound absolutely crazy I know but it happens and I know I'm not the only one.
When I got caught, I admitted defeat, not that it made anything better but the weight of this lie has disappeared, of course I suffered the consequences of losing that person in my life and having to face the people who knew the truth. I didn't just ruin their life, I ruined mine and I lost the trust of many. I punished myself for ages and I promised myself I'd never tell a single lie again and I haven't.
Let's fast forward now to the person I am today, although I can tell you from the bottom of my heart I've never lied since, it doesn't mean I've never withheld the truth (don't ask what you don't want to know) but the lies I've told had shaped me to become the person I want to be! I may come across to out there and being blunt is something that overcomes me but overall I'd like to think I'm not that bad. I know how to be civil, I'm not just a raving honest person screaming what I'm thinking 24/7.
Have you ever been lied to?
Back to the actual main point of this, when you're the one lying, let's be honest, you don't really think about the other person as you're more concerned of covering your own ass, but a while back now, I felt what it would to be on the other end, the one being lied to.
Again, I won't go into detail but yes I have been burnt and lied to, badly I may add and to be deeply honest with you, I believe it's karma and solely deserved but again, the after effect of being lied to, the short and long term emotions, I would not wish upon anyone.
I now have trust issues, knowing that I've "innocently" lied to people, not thinking it would effect them and it probably wouldn't if they never found out but what I've learnt is that no matter when the lie was told, one way or another, sooner or later every single lie will one day come out and if you believe in karma or whatever, it will come biting you back in the ass.
I know how it feels to be lied to, to be badly burnt, to finally feel first hand how I've made another feel and I feel terrible, horrible, like the worse person in the world but I won't let it define me, I've used this to channel in becoming a better person of myself and to be the person I want to be.
I'm still getting over the emotions of being lied to and to be honest, I don't think it'll ever disappear, all I can do now is move forward with my life and make a difference within myself, as changing the world starts with you.
Would you rather be lied to or would you prefer the brutal truth?