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Ah, Utica Club. Craig brought Utica Club. He brought a few other beers. Beers that even came in caged cork topped bottles. But he brought Utica Club. It's a funny beer. An old school macro lager made by a regional craft brewery. Is it hidden craft? Faux macro? Whatever it is, it's five bucks for three litres at central NY gas stations. Summertime beer. Maybe even a cure for the summertime blues. Maybe. We talked over a pint or two before turning to a few more complex beers. Sweetish with a well placed jagged edge. Everything in its proper place. Nothing off or awkward. A beer for craft's endtimes. Both pure and XX. According to the label. We talked of these endtimes. I blame Boak and Bailey, writing that non-derivative book that no one else will match. Takes the wind from the sails, didn't it. So much for no one ever going beyond what's gone before, been done before. Things get confused once those sorts of things get going. Not knowing your place. Can't tell heterodox from orthodox. Hard to find which side of the map is up. Things go round and round. The saison driving north from Virginia or the Carolinas was wonderful after the cork popped. But so many are in a similar way, aren't they.
Why is Budweiser mocking craft beer? Why Not?
One of the things folk will look back on the 2007-2016-ish era of craft beer as a dominant form of branding will be its excruciating preciousness. Consider this silly article from Fortune magazine, itself one of the silliest places to find an argument defending what holds itself out as some sort of artisanal cottage industry manufacturing:
Budweiser did not respond to requests for comment. But it'd be a mistake to think the company is making these ads recklessly. Every time the craft beer world gets worked into a lather over one of these spots, it helps spread the Budweiser name. The fact that you can get a reaction today at the mere mention of that Super Bowl ad, which (with its lack of humor or cute animals) would likely have been long forgotten by this point, is actually pretty astonishing.
It's tooth achingly uncomfortable, isn't it. A big money mag pretending to unpack the obvious which is itself the tooth achingly uncomfortable tale of misguided craft believers (lacking the goldfish with whom to have an actual relationship apparently) objecting to a big beer TV ad. Except the crack in the ad is aimed at that odd beer with the fun branding that leaves the weird melon rind gak in your mouth. It's true that nobody actually cheers for the guy who brings a watermelon wheat beer. Everyone thinks "crap, why not their IPA?" And except that the article suggests that craft beer fans and brewers are "strengthening the bond" at the very same time the brand of "craft" is diluting (not boom and busting) itself - as the same brewers lose touch with the story given all that retail coin just sitting around waiting to be managed, given all the fests to attend, given the need to sit with the HR committee and go over some reports, given their futures to look after.
This has a generous measure of the truth. Not triumphant. Now it's just getting sad. The photo above is from that blog post. The weariness in the eyes captures the zeitgeist, doesn't it. My review? Beautiful image. Even the self-conscious t-shirt is marketing. The lighting just so. As Jeff wrote this week "it sounds absolutely joyless and insufferably precious." We are at the end of something. Something that will be cringeworthy one day. Fortunately beer will go on. Breweries will be born, grow and die over and over. It's not like it's going out of style. Beer is good like that. I just hope the consulto-expert class gets in front of it and finds that new hymn to sing. If only for their sake. OK, fine - only for their sake. They need to get real jobs anyway.
Clowes, Newbury and Maddox, Bermondsey, London, 1827
The brewery of Clowes, Newbury and Maddox sat on Stoney Lane in Bermondsey, London. The late Georgian artist John Chessell Buckler created a number of images from the district of Bermondsey. The watercolour of Clowes, Newbury and Maddox was painted in 1827. Charles Clowes, John Newbury and Erasmus Maddox that is. In 1868, the image was owned by the Corporation of London. I know nothing of Bermondsey other than what I read from Boak and Bailey or Stonch about the Bermondsey beer mile, something of last year's model apparently. A place of rubbish-strewn industrial estates. Huge groups of lads getting pretty drunk, stag parties. Sounds fairly Georgian. Clowes, Newbury and Maddox were in operation in 1794. Charles Clowes was an admirable man, a lawyer turned brewer. He installed one of James Watt's engines in 1796, even though he is reported to have refused the idea in 1785 after making inquiries. It is mentioned in a very interesting passage from 1805:
...the very capital malt distilleries at Vauxhall, Battersea, Wandsworth, and Kingston,. the large porter breweries of Messrs. Barclay, Clowes, Holcomb, &c. together with the infinity of pale beer breweries in the Borough of Southwark, and dispersed through every town and Tillage in the county, cannot be at a loss to account for the magnitude of the demand for this article.
Note. The infinity of pale beer breweries - not of households brewing pale beer - meeting the demand.
The brewery of Clowes, Newbury and Maddox seems to fit into Buckler's interest in interesting and dilapidated structures from the previous century or before. He was an architect who was the son, brother and father of architects. The images are largely lifeless or rather at least without human participants. Their effect is sometimes present. The ruts in the road. Idle carts. His views illustrate scenes from the mapping I have been poring over. The Three Tuns public house on Jacob Street, Bermondsey to the left. The Duke's Head Public House in Red Cross Street in the middle. The King's Head Inn on the East Side of the High Street, Southwark to the right. The places Buckler took and interest in can be found on Greenwood's Map of London from 1827 if you nose around a bit. The Duke's Head lasted until at least 1874.
How I Actually Taste Beer According To Me
Once I used the phrase "the theatre of the mouth" and Stan liked the idea. Or maybe just the sound of the phrase. I was thinking about it today for some reason and realized that I had never described what I meant when I thought about this to myself. Well, the phrase itself places one in the seat, the only place that ultimately matters. No one can taste for you anymore than someone can attend a play for you. I was a playhouse usher for years so the analogy works for me.
Having now drawn the graph at dusk by the window, I wonder if it really works sitting there in 2-D. Nine squares through which the sensations move. Tic-tac-toe. I'll have to think about this more, flavours and textures flitting in and out in order as the grid is traversed from left to right. Spaces between indicating selectivity and articulation. Do I fill it in with coloured pencils? Emoticons? My Little Pony stickers? Or by using it would it become less useful as a concept, a conceit?
Considering The Badness Of Beer In 1800s Britain
In all thy forms of Porter, Stingo, Stout,
Swipes, Double-X, Ale, Heavy, Out-and-out,
Most dear,
Hail! thou that mak'st man's heart as big as Jove's!
Of Ceres' gifts the best!
That furnishest
A cure for all our griefs: a barm for all our—loaves!
Oh! Sir John Barleycorn, thou glorious Knight of
May thy fame never alter!
Great Britain's Bacchus! pardon all our failings,
And with thy ale ease all our ailings!
That's the first bit of "Ode to Beer" from the Comic Almanack for 1837. What a jolly bauble. Exactly what we largely like to tell ourselves about the merry merry world of the past. Dickens without all the bad bits. The view from outside the Bermondsey¹ public house, as above, in 1854. As we all rush about finding older records to share about beer and brewing in, mainly, the English speaking world, I have wondered about the difference between the official record and the actual experience. By official, I don't mean governmental or even sanitized so much as the accepted. The approved version. One of the biggest problems leading to the approved version is the love of drawing conclusions or, more honestly perhaps, the use of records to justify comfortable conclusions. We want things to be explicable but we want to be comforted. For authority to be correct we want it to align with out needs. It rarely does. But authorities won't tell you that. Authority has another interest. Consider this passage in a book entitled England as Seen by an American Banker: Notes of a Pedestrian Tour by Claudius Buchanan Patten published in 1885:
I was at some pains to get at the following authentic statement of methods of beer adulteration. A member of London's committee on sewers —an eminent scientist — puts forth the declaration that "It is well known that the publicans, almost without exception, reduce their liquors with water after they are received from the brewer. The proportion in which this is added to the beer at the better class of houses is nine gallons per puncheon, and in second-rate establishments the quantity of water is doubled. This must be compensated for by the addition of ingredients which give the appearance of strength, and a mixture is openly sold for the purpose. The composition of it varies in different cases, for each expert has his own particular nostrum. The chief ingredients, however, are a saccharine body, as foots and licorice to sweeten it; a bitter principle, as gentian, quassia, sumach, and terra japonica, to give astringency; a thickening material, as linseed, to give body; a coloring matter, as burnt sugar, to darken it; cocculus indicus, to give a false strength; and common salt, capsicum, copperas, and Dantzic spruce, to produce a head, as well as to impart certain refinements of flavor. In the case of ale, its apparent strength is restored with bitters and sugar-candy."
Now, this is interesting. And not because all the horrible gak was added to beer back then as it is being again added to beer now. But because it includes the admission of wide spread watering down at the pub. Watered down poisonous gak. Which leads to the question of what people were really experiencing as they looked down into the murky depths of a pewter quart pot a century and a half ago. It makes me wonder it might mean for all those records Ron has dug out of public libraries and brewery attics. The badness of beer by these sorts of additives appears to have arisen after legal changes in 1862 as The British Farmer's Magazine advised in 1875. But there are other issues, more to do with quantity than quality. This passage from The Farmer's Magazine of 1800 is simply depressing:
There are some persons who do not drink malt liquor at all; most people of fortune and fashion drink it very sparingly; while great numbers of the lower orders, particularly coalheavers, anchor-smiths, porters, &c. drink it to great excess, even, it Is supposed, to the amount of five hundred, or one thousand gallons a year each. Upon the whole, I apprehend the quantity of malt liquor consumed in the county, would almost average a hundred gallons per head of all ages and conditions. One thousand gallons per annum, is nearly, on an average, about 14 bottles of ale or porter per day, and is almost equal to what is passed through many drains, made to carry off the superabundant moisture from the earth... upwards of three millions of money are expended by the labouring people, upon ale, porter, gin, and compounds, which is 25I. per family of that description of persons. If wages, on an average, be 12s per week, the amount per ann. is 32I. 4s. which leaves only 7I. 4s. for purchasing bread, butcher meat, vegetables, and clothes!
Holy frig. Perhaps we might take a moment to thank our lucky stars that we are not living when our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents were scraping together their existence. When I tweeted the stats in that passage above, the good hearted Lars responded "I would guess a large proportion of that was small beer." One does live in hope but, really, it's unlikely isn't it. The life of the industrial labourer and his family was simply horrible before the public health movement. In 1835, harvesting labourers required a gallon of beer every day for a month. In that same issue of The Farmer's Magazine that that fact came from, there is a very interesting suggestion in an argument on why public houses were not going away despite their menace, why the labouring man had no choice:
...as to the temptation of company at the public-house or the beer-shop, would it not exist in precisely the same degree if the labourer had a cask of beer in his cellar brewed by himself, as if he had a cask purchased of the public brewer? If there were a disposition to avoid that temptation, and to drink his beer at home with his wife and family, what now prevents the labourer from purchasing a cask of beer and so consuming it? Nothing that would not equally apply to his purchasing malt and brewing his own beer. And if he had a cask, what security is there that his wife or children would not consume the greater part of it while he was absent at his daily labour? And would not he himself he likely to fall into the temptation of consuming it most improvidently either alone or with his companions?
We love to see things through rose coloured glasses. When we are not looking through amber coloured beer goggles ourselves. All but the first of the quotes and links are Georgian and pre-date temperance. When alcohol was so normal it was just a personal failing to let it affect your life as it washed over and through you. I honestly do not know what to make of it all. Have we simply forgotten the grim and bought into comforting fictions about the recent past? Accepted some sort of Jacksonian romance? My first reaction to it all is to praise the campaigners, to scribble a prohibition pamphlet - but then I remember that 1832 impromptu drinking party a traveler came upon in a cellar in Albany, NY: "
...there was no brutal drunkenness nor insolence of any kind, although we were certainly accosted with sufficient freedom. After partaking of some capital strong ale and biscuits, we returned to our baggage apartment, and wrapping ourselves in greatcoats and cloaks...
The surprise of joy? Or a wallowing in the familiar? Or the land of liberty overlaid upon the event instead of the lives of those in the dark Satanic mills?
¹Yes, that one.
Was There Foreshadowing Of CAMRA In The 1880s?
Was there a movement lobbying for the political protection of something analogous to real ale in the Victorian era? I came across the idea in this passage in a book entitled England as Seen by an American Banker: Notes of a Pedestrian Tour by Claudius Buchanan Patten which was published in 1885:
One of the means taken by them to secure the purity of the national beverage has been the organization and equipment of a powerful society known as the Anti-Beer Adulteration Society, an institution often heard of in Parliament and on the general platform. Beer from hops, and nothing but hops, is the war-cry of this society; and it wages a sharp war upon the sugar-beer makers, and all other "tamperers" with the so-called national hop-drink. But it is a curious fact, that few are aware of, that the time was in England, and that not so very long ago, when it was deemed quite an outrage for any beer-maker to introduce into his "good beere" that noxious weed the hop, which was sure to be the "spoyling" of it.
I don't think I've come across a reference to the Anti-Beer Adulteration Society before. I stand to be corrected, of course, and did do a few Google searches to see if Martyn had published anything on it already... as he usually has... about everything. Nothing coming up. In Brew Brittannia, Boak and Bailey mention the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers and the National Society for Promotion of Pure Beer both from the 1920s but not this group from forty years earlier. As noted by the wandering American banker Mr. Patten, the "ABAS" was having some political success at the time. We see this noted again in the 16th annual volume of the periodical Brewers' Guardian from 1886 where the same group is the subject of some complaint. In its May 4, 1886 issue in an article "The Pure Beer Bills" about the three proposed statutes "all designed to deal with the alleged adulteration of beer" we read:
It is a favourite argument with the Anti-Beer Adulteration Society's advocates that they are only asking Parliament to do for beer what is already done for coffee and some other articles; but they carefully close their eyes to the fact that beer is a manufactured article, whilst these other articles to which they refer are all natural products. Beer ought more correctly to be compared with bread, which is presumably made solely from Wheaten flour, but which is now largely made from other wholesome grain, and into the composition of which potatoes almost invariably enter. With quite as much reason should Parliament pass a Bill to compel bakers to state what ingredients other than wheat are contained in their bread. The promoters of these Bills have no evidence of injurious adulteration of beer, but they nevertheless adopt the most reckless statements as to abuses in this direction, and they attempt to play upon the ignorance of the great mass of the people of this country as to the nature and composition of the national beverage.
The author a few paragraphs earlier on stated "[a]t first sight these Bills appear so ridiculous and impracticable that they scarcely deserve serious consideration." Someone's grumpy. Who were these agitators disturbing the brewers' peaceful days and nights? In the American Observer Medical Monthly of a few years before from 1883 we get a hint:
A meeting, representing trade societies and workmen's clubs, was held in London in promotion of the objects of the Anti-Beer-Adulteration Association, which is to put an end to all pernicious adulteration of beer, and to insist that any beverage sold as beer shall simply be a liquor made from hops and malted barley, and to require that any liquid containing substitutes for hops and malt shall be sold under another name, the various descriptions of liquids being clearly defined on a label fixed to the barrel. We learn also, from the London Times, that a deputation from the meeting were instructed to seek an interview with the Home Secretary and the President of the Board of Trade, in order to impress upon them the necessity for restricted legislation, compelling the brewing trade to produce, and the retailer to supply, beer made from hops and malt alone, or to oblige the vendors to correctly describe the nature of the liquid they sell.
Whoever they are, they are well enough placed to presume that an interview with the Home Secretary is within the range of possibility. In that same year under the heading "Beer Adulteration" readers of the October 10, 1883 issue of a journal called The Medical Press and Circular there is more. Readers were were told of the harm impure ingredients were having on the beer drinking public:
A novel, but none the less important congress was held at Anderton's Hotel on Friday last, to take into consideration the steps requisite for preventing adulteration of beer. Some curious evidence was afforded of the extent to which the Adulteration of Foods Act is inoperative as concerns the article beer. One gentleman testified that in the year concluded June 30 last, hop substitutes comprising various chemicals and drugs amounting to the enormous quantity of 245,000 cwts. were used, while malted barley was very largely replaced by raw grain, Indian corn, potato sugar, &c. Instructive as these facts necessarily are, it is still more so to learn from trade experts that the liquid ordinarily vended as beer is "an imposition and a sham." The assembled members of the Anti-Beer-Adulteration Association did not positively condemn the mixtures to which the term "beer" is popularly applied as injurious to health; but they might very justly have gone this length even; and if they can succeed in bringing about a change in every way so desirable as that of purifying the national beverage, they will accomplish that which will entitle them to a universal gratitude.
Purifying the national beverage. That sounds a bit familiar. A few month's later, a story appeared in The Mercury of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia about a gathering of like minded leading, as they say, individuals down there. During the period when Tasmania was a separate colony, the December 12, 1883 edition included an article titled "Anti-Beer-Adulteration Association" in which minutes of a meeting are set out. Mr. A.G. Webster was voted in a chair by the gathering of 15 gentlemen.Their goals were put very plainly: "all ale not made from malt and hops should be labelled so that the consumer might know what he was drinking." This group seemed to be responding to an earlier gathering in New Norfolk, another Tasmanian community. Note: hop plants were apparently introduced to that part of Tasmania in 1846 and became an important local crop. The connection of the political movement to hop growers is described more explicitly in Volume 9 of the Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer from 1884:
An "Anti-Beer Adulteration Association" has been recently formed by the hop growers of East Kent, who have just discovered that English beer, or the mixture sold as such, is not composed of malt and hops, but of certain noxious ingredients, which have a most injurious effect upon the health of those who drink the mixture. A meeting of the Association was held last Saturday at the Canterbury Guild hall, when it was unanimously resolved that everyone selling any compound as beer which is formed from other ingredients than malt and hops should be compelled to label his mixture, showing the names of the materials used in its manufacture, so that the consumers might know what they were drinking.
The editors of the Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer were not buying any of the Associations anti-progress, anti-chemicals-in-beer mumbo jumbo. "Such a system as this would hardly work" they said. They argued that the current adulteration laws "should be faithfully and strictly carried out" and that "anyone detected in the act of selling adulterated liquors should be punished as severely as the law allows." That's the sorta thing you'd expect to read in the Brewers' Gurardian for God's sake. Interestingly, they also argued that if adulteration was cut back "drunkenness would be very much diminished, adulteration being one of the causes of the great amount of intoxication which exists in England." This idea was echoed by our friend, the American banker Patten who wrote among his observations:
I found many Englishmen who were firm in the idea that such effects as I have described as coming from beer came mainly from drinking poor beer. They said good beer — beer made by the most reputable makers—would not have such bad effects.
So, was this a coming together of a number of forces? Did Parliament, drinking traditionalists and hop growers join forces under the banner of Anti-Beer Adulteration Association against the modernist, progressive, wonder of the new chemically enhanced ale? It seems to be. In issue 69 of the British Farmer's Magazine from 1875 there is an article under the heading "The Hop Farmer and the Adulteration of Beer" in which the connection is spelled out. A group called the Adulteration of Beer Committee is even mentioned. More rabble rousers. Trouble makers. And perhaps even, one can wish, schimists. I do love a good schism. I'll have to do a bit more digging to find out more.
Considering The Gold v. Beer Exchange Rate
While it's not quite in the ranks of my favourite court case name, Gold v. Death, the chart setting out the annual the beer purchasing power of gold index is fairly instructive:
Many comparisons from everyday life show that gold is currently not valued at an excessively high level. While a "Mass" beer (one liter) at the Munich Oktoberfest in 1950 still cost a converted EUR 0.82, the price in 2014 stood between EUR 9.70 – EUR 10.10 (average EUR 9,90). Thus, the annual price inflation of beer amounts to 4.2% per year since 1950.
Here is the whole report. The beer bit is just a small part of it but it is interesting how a comparison of two specific values, one being a beer at a fest, track against each other. Is the real point not also that beer is cheap? Is a variant that US craft would not compare as well? I do love the econo-wit: "Beer-aficionados holding gold should therefore so to speak expect a rise in beer liquidity." It's not all bad academic jokes. The economics of beer have real world implications. The taps in Venezuela may yet turn off. And, as I learned last week when I was twice over in northern NY, the price of beer in personalized international trade can affect a local market.
Buying US craft with an 80 cent Canadian dollar does create some new considerations but, really, not at a macro-economic level. I still bought six pottles' worth. And I will be over again next weekend and I may well buy more beer then. But not as a matter of need. Compare to Angola in the late 1980s when there was hyper inflation. Government workers paid in coupons would to buy foreign beer, which they sold on the black market. Demand. That's what that there is.
Three Mugs Of Beer For The Servant Girl
I've heard you. More tales of Cripplegate crime related to beer from the records of the Old Bailey. And why not? It's good clean fun, in it? Let's dissect the trial of Michael Martin and Hannah Farrington for grand larceny held on 15th October 1729. It starts out pretty clearly enough.
Michael Martin, and Hannah Farrington, of St. Giles's Cripplegate were indicted for feloniously stealing two Gallons of strong Beer, value 2 s. the Property of John Ploughman, the 12th of May last.
Charged with a felony for two gallons of beer? What's the prosecutor thinking?
It appear'd by the Evidence that the Prosecutor was a Brewer, and the Prisoner, Michael Martin, was his Servant...
Oh, that's what's going on. This is a private prosecution. The master, John Ploughman, has filed an information with the court against his own servant, Martin, for stealing the two gallons of beer. Breach of trust situation. The value is a bit of a side point if you think about it.
....that the Prosecutor having a Store-Cellar near Cripplegate , and Hannah Farrington being a Servant to a Customer of the Prosecutor's, who dwelt hard-by this Store-Cellar...
Uh oh. Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy's boss's beer cellar. A story as old as love and beer cellars have been around.
...and having supplied the Prosecutor's Servants with some Necessaries they wanted when at the Store-Cellar, the Prisoner, Michael Martin, or some other of the Prosecutor's Servants, had at Times, in Return, given her three Mugs of Beer...
Had at times given her some beer! A bit imprecise for an alleged felony. Not only are the amounts of beer involved tiny but the dates of the supposed offences are sketchy. There must be more going on.
...and that the Prisoner Michael Martin , having given an Information to the Commissioners of the Excise of the Prosecutor's using Molasses in his brewing Drink, did set on foot this Prosecution;
Ah ha! The truth will let itself be know, won't it. Martin had ratted out his boss to the tax man for adulterating the beer and there by avoiding paying what was due. Malt tax was a pressing issue. A new tax in 1725 had led to riots in Scotland. Since 1697 In England, 6 pence was paid for every bushel of malt used in brewing. Folk were seeking ways around doing their duty. Bad folk were, that is. Folk like John Cheaterpants Ploughman. The case immediately begins to unravels rather quickly...
...giving the Drink not appearing in the Eye of the Law to be a Felony, and the Prosecution malicious, the Jury acquitted the Prisoners, and the Court granted them a Copy of their Indictment.
Freedom! Freeeeeedommmm! Well, no job and nothing but a piece of paper with the word acquitted on it but at least not transported or hanged by the neck until dead or anything. The latter prospect was cheerily and apparently popularly depicted in the background of that illustration up there showing the Old Bailey in 1735. Moral of the story? If you are going to cheat in 1725 cheat a bigger cheater who's been cheating the Crown.
Session 101: Bottles, Caps and Other Beer Detritus
It's the first bit of the month. Session time. Our host this month asks us to consider this:
For this month's The Session theme, I'm asking contributors to share their thoughts on these things, the tangential items to our obsession. Do you have any special fetish with bottle caps, know of someone that is doing creative things with packaging, have a beer bottle or coaster collection.
Hmm... quick answer... no. Don't care much about bottle caps or label design. Well, except to the extent that they are a means to inflate the cost of beer. I care about that. Then... we are told that detritus means "miscellaneous remnants: odds and ends" which is more than just the weird shaped bottles in the recycling bin. Isn't this space an odd or an end? And spaces like it? Blogs, comments on blogs, retweets on Twitter, reposted Facebook posts redirecting to a blog post with the link to the event? Instagram? Not to mention the incessant flow of the same one style guide book with just another name on the cover and the photos rearranged. Detritus. All you need to know. A patently simple thing allegedly simplified.
Is that true? Is the next guide floating alienated from a fixed point of understanding no more than a bent bottle cap? Four years ago I asked a few questions about style, pointing out how we've deviated from the actual concept. But it's not about styles so much as the whole thing. Style is just a grammar, even if it is dislocated and arbitrary. To paraphrase ever so slightly such distinctions can never be definitive, since the understandings of terminology varies. You can try to link it to solid ground through history or economics but its all still the same. There must be something in the water that causes it. The need to babble, to write about a city you spent just 37 hours in as if you know the place, to generate what Jackson actually called "variation" - all somehow self-generating... like fan fiction as a response to British TV sci-fi. Somewhere someone has made his own¹ Captain Scarlet marionettes and written his own scripts for his newly assembled alt cast of characters. Oddly and to no real end. Apparently, certain folk discuss the symbolism of futuristic space puppets. Beer's like that. All of it. Odd. To no end. But a bit fun. Nothing wrong with that. Or making your own puppets.
Should you care? No. Just because it's largely made up doesn't mean it's not entertaining. So enjoy your cap collection, your guide to the style guides. Your role as a guide to the styles. Or the history. Gives you something to talk about when your not in a pub chatting over pints with friends or having one watching a ball game.
¹Of course it's a guy...
Ale Tunners And Tunner's Ale in 1500s Leicester
People don't give municipal records the respect they deserve. Where the rubber hits the road, that's what a municipality is. Consider this from the Records of the Borough of Leicester Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Leicester, 1509-1603:
Aile tasters and sworne men within the towne of Leicester aforesaid to make inquiries there of the defaltes of tunners & typplers and especially to inquire and present the defaltes and trespaces of common dronckerdes that do vse to sitt typplynge at the aile houses all daye and all nyghte vnthryftely, and their wyves and children almost sterve at home for lacke of good releffe and sustentacion.
That cheery wee note from the Tudor world was entered into the records on November 18, 1569. Another dated April 7, 1592 just states "Ale 2\d. a gallon "as well strong ale as the tunner's ale." What's a tunner? Or tunner's ale? In the records of the municipal corporation of Boston, there may be a bit more information:
According to the Corporate records, the brewers in 1547 were ordered to sell good ale for 1¼d the gallon, double beer 1½d. the gallon, and single beer 1d. the gallon. In 1552 small ale was sold at three gallons for a penny, "till malt rise in price;" and good ale 2d. the gallon. In 1558 the brewers were to sell double beer at 20d. the firkin, and single beer for 10d. In 1575 certain persons were appointed ale-tunners to taste the ale and beer before it was sold. Brewers, before they "tunne their ale and beer, to send for the ale-tunners to taste the same to see that it is good wholesome drink:" prices to be regulated according to the price of malt.
That doesn't look right. Muddies whether the ale tunner is an officer who is required to ensure that the beer is in good order or if they are someone who needs ordering about by an officer. The tunner seems to be consistently defined elsewhere as the cask filler, not the judge of anything. Hmm. This record from Nov. 16, 1520 also from Leicester helps a bit with the process:
Allso that no brewer within this towne sell forthe no ale tyll the allderman of that ward and too of ye XLVIll haue tasted their alls bothe the best and ye second in pene of forfeture the fyrst tyme iiij". Wnd. and so to dowbyll as ofte as they make defawte; and yf the alderman of the ward be a brewer hymselfe or thos that [are] of the XLVIII, then to call the alderman of ye next ward to taste as aboweseyd for they that be brewers schallbe no tasters.
I love that "best and ye second" as the same was still going on in Vassar's brewery in 1808 before things got too scientific. And there are a string of separate Tudor functions and trades all in those passages up there: the XLVIII, aldermen, brewers, tunners, typlers, tasters. The XLVIII or "the 48" appear to be members of a secondary level municipal council, beneath the one formed by the aldermen. A typler is a retailer as we can see the Leicester's law of around that time provided "that no typler within this towne sell no ale with onlawfull mesures."¹ It looks like the tunners and the typlers answer to the alderman and the tasters all to ensure the dronckerdes get their proper aile. If the aldermen and tasters are checking on on the tunners and typlers, they may be ensuring proper measures are sold at both the wholesale and retail levels and not just whether the stuff is foul or tasty. Quantity as well as quality control. Tasters were municipal officers who were otherwise titled better known as "ale conners" and lesser known as "ale founders" - the last of which lingers on as an especially obscure family last name. They also confirmed price. In 1853, of the 234 boroughs in England and Wales, 26 had officers titled "ale tasters", six had an "ale founder" while only four officers were called "ale conners". Martyn has explained that they did not sit in puddles of ale as part of their job despite modern sillinesses. Hornsey has more of both the law and the silly.
If all that is correct, the note about Boston is wrong and the tunner is not the taster as these were separate and separated tasks. Checks and balances. Still not sure what "tunner's ale" was in 1500s Leicester... or any other place or time for that matter. Another day for that perhaps.
¹The named measures include "strykes", gallons, "potell", quarts, pintes. I can spot the pottle but not sure what a stryke is. By the way, I am not sure if that image is related to ale, is English or even from the 1500s. Looks swell, though.


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Later, Signal Officer Adele Mundy made cutter 614 appear as a battleship and the Scheer surrendered to Admiral Milne's flotilla. Leary and a prize crew took the Scheer to Ritikin. There Leary was promoted to Commander by order of Admiral Anston, President of the Navy Board.
In this novel, Daniel has orders to go to Ganpat's Reach in an advisory role. Adele meets with Maurice Claverhouse in the Pleasaunce Style restaurant to obtain information about Dunbar's World. Adele is hoping that Claverhouse will have more current information on the situation than that available from Mistress Sand's organization.
Daniel visits the mother and sister of Midshipman Dorst. They already know of his death, but Daniel was his commanding officer and feels a duty to personally console the family. He also steers the family to his sister Deirdre to hasten distribution of Dorst's share of the prize money; Daniel's private deal with Deirdre will ensure that the Dorsts get immediate payment of the full amount.
Adele has expedited the use of the Princess Cecile to carry Daniel to Gunpat's Reach. Moreover, she has arranged for former Sissies to crew the ship. Their crew is being held in a hulk near Harbor 3.
Admiral Vocaine is now the Chief of the Navy Board, taking office after the retirement of Admiral Anston following a heart attack. Vocaine has instituted a new policy of detaining enlisted personnel between voyages, denying them port liberty. Both Daniel and Adele travel out to the place to collect the crew.
In this story, Lieutenant Vesey is acting captain of the Princess Cecile since Daniel is officially a passenger on this voyage. Besides, Daniel figures that the responsibilities will take her mind off the death of Midshipman Dorst. She has been very lost in her grief except when she has duties to perform.
Their first stop is Pellegrino, from which the invaders of Dunbar's World have come. Adele discovers that a disabled Cinnabar freighter has been waiting for parts for more than a month. Daniel decides to visit the captain of the freighter to get local news.
Adele visits the Cinnabar consular agent, who is also an agent for Mistress Sand. Hijaz Nordeen tells her the reason for the invasion. Chancellor Arruns has a son and heir -- Nataniel -- who is impatient in his wait for the chance at power. So Chancellor Arruns would prefer that Nataniel remain on Dunbar's World indefinitely.
Bennaria was the initial complainant to the Cinnabar Senate, for the invasion has disrupted their trade. Yet Daniel and Adele discover that Bennaria is not taking any steps on their own to oppose the invasion. Of course, they are quite willing to lend support to any Cinnabar effort, as long as it does not require their money or military.
This story tells of how Daniel accomplished his mission on Dunbar's World without any naval or military support other than the unarmed Princess Cecile and her well-armed crew. Daniel and Adele conduct covert operations on Bennaria to acquire what they need. Then they use these resources on Dunbar's World to get the Pellegrino troops off the planet.
Naturally, Daniel and Adele are resoundingly successful on Dunbar's World and confound their critics on Cinnabar. What else would you expect? Enjoy!
Highly recommended for Drake fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of naval and military maneuvers, intelligence gathering, and political intrigue.
-Arthur W. Jordin
The interesting thing about this book is that it is not really about Daniel Leary. He actually serves mainly as a narrator/observer to everyone else. The younger officers are learning how to become officers, Tovara is becoming more complex, Hogg is becoming more real, but Adele Mundy is remaining something of a whiner. The crew was mostly present in a cameo role, but the new non-RCN characters were more interesting than usual.
Unfortunately, the plot didn't have much color to it. No excursions to exotic caves or jungles or deserts, no spy intrigue, no chain-of-command conflicts, no meetings with pirate warlords, etc. What was there seemed like a fairly generic SF military novel. Drake spent some time telling us all the things that might go wrong with the battle plans because actually nothing really did go wrong -- the battles were all pretty much pro forma.
The series this is based on was 20 books long; a boxed set runs to 7000 pages. I don't know if Drake is going to keep chunking these out every time he finds some historical battle that fits the mold, but unless we start seeing some more character development from Leary and Mundy I expect the quality to just peter out over time.
Out of the 370 or so pages, perhaps 10% is real action - not what's expected from the series. The rest reminds me of an early text-only video game. Start at point A. Move to point B. Can't open door - it's locked. Return to point A and find magic key. Return to point B and use key. Oops - I forgot to grab the magic lint - can't cross threshold. Return to point A, get lint. Return to point B. Unock door again. Use lint. Can't look around - Darn - it's dark. Return to point A for a torch. Return to point B, fight ogre blocking door. Unock door. Use lint. Look around with torch. Can't. I forgot to grab the matches and light the torch. Return to point A, get matches. And on and on and on. I was getting ready to fall over I was spun around so much!
I'm not kidding. Leary was a pinball dizzily bouncing between two planets throughout the book. There was more "political action" - about as exciting as reading the minutes from a Senate session on Soybean Subsidies - then anything else.
The "tyrannical Alliance" was nothing of the sort. More a minor character that sent advisors and hired mercs. And really poor, unskilled mercs at that.
Tovera is becoming more humanized (at one point Drake seems to have confused Hogg with Tovera.) Adele is turning into a Schitzo. At this rate, we'll have a new character named Adelovera. Or we'll get a "Fight Club" hit, and find out that Tovera and Adele are the same person. The lines between the two are becoming too blurred.
Spoiler (kind-of)....
The end, with a cross-dressing TV serenading the crews was a pretty pathetic and uninspired moment in the book, and one of the most bizarre events in the series. Picture this: You have commanded your crews through harrowing space battles, negotiated peace on two planets, and avoided a fight between hired killers/bodyguards.
Do they do to Disneyland? Nope. Get drunk and party like it's 9999? Nope. They watch a drag queen sing from on top of the ships hull.
The whole story seemed unpolished and rushed to print. Yes, the storyline was good - not great (as many of Drake's are) - but the execution was poorly done this time. Sure, Drake at his worst is better than many authors at their best, but this was not up to par. I'm sure if he would have read his final version a few weeks after putting it down, he would have said "What the hell?!?"
We left Leary promoted to Commander and about to take the prize Scheer home for repair - and find him no longer in great favor at the Admiralty, as his patron Admiral Anston has retired following a heart attack. However - Adele Mundy remains an agent of the Republic's Intelligence apparatus (headed by one Bernice Sand) and the pair of them (with the aid of a little creative data base alteration by Adele - bright girl she is) are off with Princess Cecile and the Sissies on a new adventure.
Those who see a resemblence to some of the O'Brian Aubry-Maturin novels (including a privately owned warship pressed into the use of the nation that employs the primary characters)are observing what Dave wants them to, by the way.
In any case - we see the usual combination of well-realized characters and blazing action against odds that the author has used for most of his writing career. Well worth acquiring a copy of this fine book, but I'd advise not making it your first encounter with Daniel Leary and Adele Mundy. It can stand alone, and you won't be sorry you read it, but there are nuances of character that will be more apparent if you have read the earlier tales in the series. And (like most of Dave's tales) it is solidly grounded in history. As he has said - if people did it that way once, why wouldn't they do similar things again? It does help to keep the stories grounded in reality, seems to me.
I'm a big fan of David Drake's, and of the RCN(Leary/Mundy) Series. Unfortunately, there is very little new here. There is nothing special about the planets that are visited, the action scenes are too little and too far apart, and when they do happen, they are nothing very different than what we have seen in past books in the series.
The regular characters exhibited no new behaviour, and frankly, Adele's "little smiles" are becoming a bit old. There was very little interesting about the new characters either - the alien Fallert (who seems to be interested in Tovera?) is about the only exception.
One thing I noticed is that the author made reference to use of VHF frequencies in this book - I like the way he uses actually frequency data... and after I'd complained about him using a 15Khz frequency for data in one book, and said 151.880Mhz(VHF) would have been more appropriate.
Another thing I've notice is that the level of violence in this series of books has declined - or maybe I'm getting so used to Drake's descriptions of killings, that I'm becoming immune to them... I'm also currently reading Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN (1985), a Western set in the 1850's, where the descriptions of cruelty, violence, murder, and death are so frequent and graphic that it makes Drake's books look like walks in the park.

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According to the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center's website, the Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award has recognized private and public Illinois organizations since 1987. Any Illinois public or private organization is eligible to apply for the award, which is presented by the ISTC annually. ISTC technical assistance experts select winners after a vigorous process of review and examination.
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A teenage girl unbuttons her dress and unfastens her bra (we see her panties).In a video: several teen girls undress: panties and bare breasts, another is shown bare-breasted while wrapping, another panties and bra.Three boys: bare buttocks.A man talks about suspecting that a young man raped his adoptive sister (implied not shown)A police officer makes suggestive comments to a teenage girl.Teenage girls discuss, in the presence of teen boys, sex talk.A young man talks about wanting some video from a crime scene and that there is probably footage of a young woman naked on it.
A teenage girl acts oddly and doesn't talk to her boyfriend while they are driving, she then vomits in the car, she punches him in the nose (he yells and we see blood on his face), she stabs him in the eye with a shard from a broken CD and she slams his head into the steering wheel repeatedly and until blood and matter shoot out and onto the dashboard.A young man cuts a teen girl's throat and leaves her slumped over a toilet (we hear the cut and squishing and see a lot of blood).A woman stabs a man in the back, the man throws the woman onto the ground, pulls the knife out of his back and jumps on top of the woman, stabbing her in the chest (we see blood on the knife, we hear a crunch as the man lands and see blood on the woman's chest) and is shot by police officers that have arrived on the scene (we see blood spurt from the bullet wounds); both the man and the woman lie dead on the ground and we see portions of the murders in flashbacks throughout the movie.A young man strangles a man from behind using a wire, and then shoves his head into something that pokes through his eye and out the back of his head (we see blood spray on the young man's face and brains push out of the back of the victim's head).A man shoots another man in the head (blood sprays on a teenage girl kneeling in front of the man) and he then shoots a teenage girl in the head.A woman is shot twice in the stomach (we see blood spurt).A young man is shot several times, we see blood pour from his wounds and he falls to the ground.We see a dead man in the front seat of a car with a lot of blood on his face and head, as well as streaks on the driver side door.We see a dead woman slumped near a toilet with her throat slit (we see the wound and blood spurts from it).A teen boy and a teen girl find a dead body in a car (we see a very bloody head and face).We see video of a body being taken away from a murder scene and the body sits up and lunges toward the camera before the screen goes fuzzy.A woman inside a house screams for someone to give return her baby; we see the woman pulling herself along the floor and calling to a man who punches her several times and kicks her (she has blood on her face and abdomen).A young man and a teen boy fight, a teen girl hits the young man in the face with a camera, he hits her hard in the face and then kicks her in the stomach, the young man then head-butts the teen boy and he falls to the ground unconscious (we see blood on his head and mouth).A young man locks a teenage girl in his van; we see her later with blood on her head, bound and gagged.A young man knocks a teen boy out using a cloth doused with something and he wakes up taped into a chair.A young man watches a video of a crime scene as a body is being wheeled away and when the body lunges toward the camera, the young man is thrown back out of his chair and lands hard on the floor where he thrashes and then falls unconscious.A teen girl is thrown onto the floor where she thrashes after looking into a camera lens.An infant looks into a camera lens and we see its eyes begin to change color.A young man twitches while looking into a TV screen and his nose bleeds.A man grabs a young man by his jacket and threatens him.We see a TV news report about the murders of several people.A young man cuts a stuffed bear open using a pocket knife and stuffs a camera inside.A teenage girl re-enacts a murder scene: she thinks she hears someone in the hallway outside her room, she turns around and someone stabs her in the chest, and she runs away and to the front door where she is stabbed in the stomach (theater blood is shown on her chest and she spots some out from her mouth).Several teenage boys and teenage girls re-enact a murder scene while filming it: a teen boy is shown covered with theater blood and slumped over in a car, a teen girl is shown with a bloody throat wound and another teen girl is shown lying motionless with blood on her chest.A teen boy puts his fingers to his temple in the shape of a gun and pretends to shoot himself.A man talks about another man being the devil and about the legend surrounding him.A man talks about evil being passed from father to son.A mother and her teenage son argue in a few scenes.A teenage girl vomits in a car (we hear her heave twice and see some slime on her hand).A young man coughs up blood (we see a gob of blood on his hand).A man talks about people believing that photographs steal a part of your soul.A young man changes as the movie progresses and we see his skin change color and begin to decay, his fingernails turn black and his eyes darken.A woman is shown in a hospital bed with a bruise on her chin.A man is shown in a wheelchair with oxygen tubes at his nose and his legs seem to be crumpled.A teenage girl tears at duct tape wrapped around a teen boy using her teeth (they both yell).
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A young man snorts lighter fluid from a handkerchief.A teen boy is shown smoking marijuana at a party.Teen boys and teen girls drink alcohol at a party.A teen boy says he could use some beer and a teen girl yells "no beer."Teen boys and teen girls smoke cigarettes at a party.A young man is shown smoking cigarettes in several scenes.A man smokes a cigarette.
The beginning sequence is very intense.A guy walks around his house with a portable camera and we see dead bodies around the house.All bodies are very bloody.
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Seralago Hotel & Suites Main Gate East, Kissimmee
- Free WiFi
Main amenities
- 614 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- 2 outdoor pools
- Breakfast available
- Free theme park shuttle
- Outdoor tennis court
- Self parking
- 2 meeting rooms
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Arcade/game room
What's around
- Wizardz Magic Theater (0 mi / 0.1 km)
- Fun Spot America (0.2 mi / 0.3 km)
- Old Town (0.5 mi / 0.8 km)
- Falcon's Fire Golf Club (1.1 mi / 1.8 km)
- Lake Cecile (2.1 mi / 3.4 km)
I will visit Florida agin..It was my first time but I will not stay at Seralago Suites.
The room was a good place to lay your head. The location was good for entertainment. The…
Seralago Hotel & Suites Main Gate East, Kissimmee
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $53
- Deluxe Double Room, 2 Double Beds (Kids Eat Free - max 2)
- Family Suite (Kid's Suite)
- Suite, 2 Rooms
- Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed with Sofabed
- Standard Room, 2 Double Beds (Kids Eat Free - max 2)
- Deluxe Double Room, 2 Double Beds, Poolside
Also popular with travelers from the USA
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 614 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (17 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets allowed *
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply *
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Self parking *
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Free theme park shuttle
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In the hotel
- Breakfast (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Poolside bar
- Barbeque grills
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Outdoor tennis court
- Spa tub
- Pool sun loungers
- Tennis on site
- Arcade/game room
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- Conference space size (feet) - 1195
- Conference space size (meters) - 111
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Picnic area
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Iron/ironing board
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Cable/satellite TV channels
- Free WiFi
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Access via exterior corridors
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On Site
- Fitness facilities
- Outdoor tennis court
- Spa tub
- Tennis on site
- Basketball on site
- Playground on site
- Volleyball on site
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Water skiing nearby
Seralago Hotel & Suites Main Gate East, Kissimmee's small print
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- Seralago Hotel Main Gate
- Seralago Hotel Main Gate East
- Seralago Main Gate
- Seralago Main Gate East
- Seralago Hotel Kissimmee
- Seralago Kissimmee
- Seralago Hotel Main Gate East Kissimmee
- Seralago Main Gate East Kissimmee
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
This property does not have elevators.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- Resort fee: USD 7.00 per accommodation, per night
Resort fee inclusions:
- Shuttle service
- Internet access (may be limited)
- Phone calls (may be limited)
- Parking
Inclusions may be listed elsewhere on the page as free or for a surcharge.
Optional extras
Self parking is available for an extra charge
Rollaway beds are available for USD 10 per night
Breakfast is offered for an extra charge of USD 7.99 per person (approximately)
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 10 per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of USD 20.00 per person
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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Rumor of PS3 Fatal Frame in the works dashed to bits
Apparently, Fatal Frame is not heading to PS3 after all according to Koei Tecmo. "There is no truth to this," a spokesperson for the publisher told Eurogamer. "Looking at the titles on that list it looks pretty out of date." This makes us a very sad panda.
Original: The merest shred of evidence suggests a new Fatal Frame game for the PlayStation 3 is on the way. Be still, my beating heart.
According to The Silent Chief, Chinese gaming site TGBus.com listed Fatal Frame in its upcoming PS3 titles list.
Series producer Keisuke Kikuchi reportedly told Famitsu earlier this year that his team were working on a new game in the series.
Fatal Frame, also known as Project Zero, is a survival horror series of four titles, which involves taking photographs and shrieking in terror at Japan's terrifying traditional ghosties. The most recent entry was developed by Grasshopper Manufacture for the Wii, and has not seen release outside Japan. A remake of the PS2-era Fatal Frame 2 for Wii was expected to surface this year, but has gone silent.
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Lots of movie news coming out of Comic-Con 2005 and IGN FilmForce is there to bring it all back for those of us who couldn't attend.
First off, the trailer for "V for Vendetta" made its premiere this past Friday with Natalie Portman and producer Joel Silver on hand for a Q&A session afterward. According to FilmForce's Chris Carle, the trailer is "[f]illed with action" and appears to "stay true to the style and design of the graphic novel." The movie is based on a graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore (who has disassociated himself from the movie) and is scheduled for a November 4 release. Check out the Joel Silver interview to find out more about this issue.
The "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" trailer also made its debut at this year's Comic-Con. Directed by Mike Newell ("Pushing Tin," "Mona Lisa Smiles"), "Goblet of Fire" is darker and more "action-focused" than the previous Potter movies, if the trailer is anything to go by. In the movie, Harry will face a Hungarian Horntail, have a fight with Ron, and, most frightening of all, will even dance with a girl! In a related note, the sixth book in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," was also released this weekend.
Is "Futurama" making a comeback? According to Billy West, one of the voice actors for the series, a direct-to-video movie is in the works, with an option for a second one. "Futurama," the brainchild of "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening, had a five-season run on network TV before Fox handed it its walking papers due to low ratings. Good news indeed, if you're a fan of the show. Will these movies be the groundwork for the series' return to network TV? Stay tuned.
Director Bryan Singer was on hand this past Saturday to present a clip of "Superman Returns" to a very appreciative crowd. The clip was so well-received that it was shown twice. The movie stars Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth and is scheduled for a June 30 release in 2006. Read the full report here.
"X-Men 3" screenwriter Zak Penn was on a film panel and he confirmed that Warren Worthington's father will not be the antagonist in "X-Men 3." Most surprising of all, he said most of the "news" that appeared on a number of message boards and websites are completely false! Unfortunately, he didn't clarify which.
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Former OS X chief Bertrand Serlet is finally ready to talk about his cloud startup UpThere after founding the company in 2011. While Sertlet isn't completely taking the wraps off the company he assembled after leaving Apple four years ago, UpThere is opening a beta for its cloud service today following nearly three years of silence. The service is said to be similar to iCloud, Dropbox, and similar cloud solutions, but UpThere's strategy is fast access to data stored online and not syncing content across devices. The beta will preview two products coming down from UpThere… expand full story
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[Ed. Note: This is a guest post by Lontih Khatami who [disclosure] works at the same studio, Universal, that produced the film but did not work on the film. Spoiler: it's better than iSteve]
Interested in seeing the new Steve Jobs movie that Universal is releasing this weekend in select markets (with wide expansion set for October 23)? Well, me, too. Only I've already seen it five times within the past dozen days. And I eagerly await my next few viewings.
You're probably wondering how I've been able to see this inevitable Oscar contender so many times prior to its initial release. The more important thing to ponder, though, is "Why would anybody WANT to see it so many times in such a short timeframe?" The answer to that question, quite simply, is because the movie is masterfully made, and it works on so many different levels. Not unlike so many of the products the title character brought into this world… expand full story
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Becoming Steve Jobs, the new biography of Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, will be officially released tomorrow by Crown Business/Penguin Random House, and is currently available as a pre-order from Amazon ($12+) and Apple's iBookstore ($13). While some of the book's material will be familiar to avid followers of Jobs and Apple, there are some interesting details inside about how Jobs' companies Apple, NeXt, and Pixar interrelated.
On NeXT: The book notes that the computer industry changed during Microsoft's leadership, shifting to an environment where companies — the largest buyers of computers — were seeking reliability and stability rather than innovation. According to the authors, NeXT's key failure was that it successfully identified a real market for $3,000 workstation computers targeted at the higher-education market, but went so far beyond that price point — in some cases in pursuit of industrial design goals — that few actual customers existed for its product.
NeXT, which was headquartered in the same business park where Steve Jobs first saw Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and graphical user interface, came tantalizingly close to undermining Microsoft at a key point in its growth: IBM licensed the NeXTSTEP operating system for use in workstations, and might have used it to compete against Windows personal computers.
"But Steve… held up IBM for more money, leading to another round of protracted negotiations. He overplayed his hand. Cannavino stopped taking Steve's calls and just abandoned the project, although there was never any real announcement that it was over. It was a minor disappointment for IBM, ending its 'Plan B' fantasy of creating a real alternative to Microsoft's new Windows graphical operating system for PCs."
And there's more…
NeXT Stories December 16, 2014
After first grouping together last year to offer huge discounts on popular apps from independent developers, App Santa is coming to town for the second year in a row with up to 60% off popular iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps to celebrate the holidays.
This year App Santa includes discounts on over 40 paid apps for iOS and OS X from developers including Tapbots, Realmac Software, Agile Tortoise, Readdle, Supertop, Junecloud, and more. The discounts kick off today and will run through December 26th giving you a chance to save money for yourself or gift apps to your family and friends. Check below for a list of confirmed App Santa apps this year:
- Tweetbot 3 for iPhone — Reg. $4.99 — (Review)
- Castro for iPhone — Reg. $3.99 (Review)
- Clear for iOS / Mac — Reg. $4.99 / $9.99 (Review)
- Deliveries for iOS / Mac — Reg. $4.99 / $4.99 (Review)
- Launch Center Pro — Reg. $4.99 (Review)
- Ember for iOS / Mac — Reg. $4.99 / $49.99 (Review)
NeXT Stories November 3, 2014
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Christian Bale will not star at Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic:
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the actor has fallen off the Jobs biopic that is being directed by Danny Boyle. […]
Sources say Bale, after much deliberation and conflicting feelings, came to the conclusion he was not right for the part and decided to withdraw.
Just last month, the film's writer Aaron Sorkin had stated that Bale would star as the Apple co-founder in the movie as Bale was "best actor on the board in a certain age range." expand full story


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Hi! I'm Rachel. I love making things & experimenting with new techinques & mediums. I am addicted to pretty paper, and make & sell letterpress stationery. Being creative is my sanity break from the rush of life as a wife, and a mother of four. I do a lot of my creating without shoes. This is the story of where my bare feet & creative heart take me.
Even after 2 big boys grown and off to school, I still am constantly amazed at how darn quickly my tiny babes become big babes and I blink and my wee small girl is suddenly swathed in plaid, hauling a backpack almost as big as her, and wearing a grin so large it could be seen from space. Part of the adventure is I
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For that matter, WP totally igores any HTML i hand code into the HTML side of the editor.
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Shrimp & Corn Chowder
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 15 mins
All I can say is, YUM! This is a very simple recipe that reminds me of Mom's shrimp thermidor. (I sure wish I had my Mom's recipe...) But in the meantime, this is easy and tastes yummy! Very hearty, and a treat for my family since it has shrimp in it...(I've even made this and served it over Pepperidge Farm pastry shells to try and "mock" my Mom's recipe.) Good copycat, in my opinion! NOTE: Her recipe did NOT include corn, although sometimes she would add peas.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄4 cup green onion, chopped
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
- 1⁄8 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon real butter, melted
- 2 (10 1/2 ounce) canscampbell's cream of potato soup
- 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups approx. whole milk (1 1/2 soup cans)
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) cangolden whole kernel corn, undrained
- 2 cups frozen cleaned raw shrimp
- 1⁄8 cup flat leaf parsley, chopped
- 1 dash frank's hot sauce
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- pepper, to taste
- grated parmesan cheese, for garnish
- In saucepan, cook onions, garlic, parsley and cayenne pepper in melted butter until tender.
- Add soup, cream cheese and milk and mix thoroughly over heat until all lumps are gone.
- Add shrimp and corn. Season with salt and pepper and stir.
- Bring to a boil; Reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes or until shrimp are pink and done. (Not overdone.) Stir occasionally.
- Garnish with grated, fresh parmesan cheese.
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perfect comfort food!
I have made this a few times and it is always a HUGE crowd pleaser. it's very simple to make and delicious. i add 1/4 cup celery for a lil crunch and white onions and i add an extra tablespoon of butter. I give the recipe to my single friends and i call it "catch a man chowder"!
this is good very simple for a busy night and creamy thank you for posting dee thanks for the great review


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In 2008, Tish founded Our Sacred Space Wellness Center with a simple goal: bringing a range of workshops, massage therapy, acupuncture, and other holistic treatments to the surrounding community. Having trained at various institutes, worked with the San Jose Sharks, and learned treatments such as reiki and reflexology, Tish's broad range of experiences are reflected in the center's extensive service menu. She specializes in sacred native hot-stone massage therapy. Together with a team of eight other practitioners, they help clients redirect energy flow with acupressure, brighten skin with facials, and relax with multiple types of massage. Tish and co. also invite guests to check out the handmade jewelry, DoTerra Essential Oils, and the wide range of Sacred Blessed items in the welcoming room. Our Sacred Space's peaceful outdoor courtyard area is also ideal for those who want to unwind, meditate, or for those who want to enjoy the sun's energy and rejuvenate. The wellness center also has showers onsite for customers who wish to shower after treatments.