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Life's a Fickle Pickle...
The never ending quest to find the other shoe...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
i haven't done laundry in a month
half my stuff is packed. the other half is in disarray.
i'm so stressed at everything happening at work....my eczema is on 7. i don't want it to be on 10.
i have no idea where my dog is staying for the week while i'm gone.
i have no job interviews yet.
i have no sublets that will take a dog yet.
so far.....i'm fucked.
what have i done with my life?
Friday, February 27, 2015
I am just going to hopefully interview, see some apartments and y'know visit before I uproot my whole life and move to another state.
Either way, even if I hate it...I'm gonna do it.
Because, SCIENCE.
And because I don't think I have any other choice.
Sit in NYC and rot or try and find a better life somewhere else.
I'm so tired and I have 24 days to get my entire life together.
Holy fuck!
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
I'm moving to Seattle where there is no black people
or at the least, very little black people
and the black men prefer non-poc women.
and I'm very much attracted to black men.
even though the odds of me falling in love is so slim because i don't like anyone
but the wrong people.
I feel like I'm purging all this shit inside of me that is keeping me from love.
this move has awakened so many ugly things and I'm addressing them one by one.
and it's harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd
but i'm doing it.
April 15th is my date.
not sure HOW i'm moving
i feel like i'm in a vat of quicksand but i'm trying to move forward
and that's all we can really do.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
up late
happy new year!
i've taken a vow to change my entire life this year and boy, is it difficult.
in that it's fucking scary.
and the anxiety keeps me up at night
and the running of scenarios of what ifs is almost frickin paralyzing
but they say...
doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
i'm sick of people who take their jobs too seriously.
it blows mine.
i'm a makeup artist.
i'm not a doctor or a lawyer or a firefighter.
i talk about eyebrows and mascara all day long. ......
there's this chick at work. i want to slap her clean across the face.
leave all 5 fingers in a red mark right across her left cheek.
she's a manager.
laziest bitch i know.
and she acts all important.
y'know what irks me....don't pretend to have my back. when you clearly don't.
don't pretend to know me or to be cool with me and then when you get the chance you want to pull rank.
i'm at the point where i'm like...bitch, don't even speak to me.
yeah, good morning to you to mo-fuckah.
and that's a bad place to be at.
because i have a terrible temper.
the type of temper that would slap you in front of all of macys and be escorted out by security doing the diddy bop and a smile and not care.
but, you know i'm a damn adult and you can't put your hands on another person without real consequences.
and y'know,
white women....
she'd probably sue me for trauma and say i gave her whiplash and shit.
but in 3 months! 3 months!
i'm planning on moving to seattle.
yes...from nyc to seattle.
across the country.
i figured.
miami is humid as hell.
i'm too fat for all that humidity.
no, really....miami is a great city but seattle is more me.
more culture
more of a REAL city
so, i'm planning on moving within the first 2 weeks of april.
and i'm doing it with no support.
and that's a major issue in my life, i'm finding.
i cried in front of a customer today.
it was a mother daughter and the daughter moved to nyc from san francisco and the mom was like....i couldn't let my daughter move without me being here to help her.
i just kind of lost it because i don't think my mom has even considered helping me move in any way, shape or form.
she spends every chance she gets trying to convince me that i will not be happy anywhere else but nyc and what if you don't find a job and what about your stuff?
and it kills me.
that every single thing i set out to do....i gotta do it on my own dime.
on my own back.
on my own strength
i understand why people believe in God.
i kind of miss it.
don't get me wrong.
i believe there is a higher power.
i haven't given it a name.
but i miss christianity.
i just don't know if i could get back to the place where i actively believe anymore
and that makes me sad.
because that place i held for Jesus in my heart was pure and untainted once upon a time
but that's another story.
life breaks your heart sometimes
and you have mend it back together.
so, i'm job hunting
and apartment hunting
and excited that for what i'd pay for a room in brooklyn,
i could get a whole apartment WITH a washer/dryer unit inside AND a fitness center AND a doorman and all this other stuff....WHAT WHAT?????
send all your strength my way
because i'm internalizing the stress and my eczema is flaring up
last time, it took me 2 years to get rid of it.
i don't have that kind of time.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
So, I went on a date with this dude I reconnected with on FB from high school. The date was great. He was charming, funny and sexy. When we went to school, he was shy and nerdy. We went out a second time with BFF and her college roommate. He was the same. After a few drinks, I got a little touchy Feely. Cool.
BFF said that he was giving me mixed signals. He was into me but pulling back and texting other girls. Dafuq?
So, I got the brilliant idea to just ask him outright.
"Do you have feelings for me?"
"No, I do not."
"Well, I was flirting with you pretty heavily and you didn't stop me."
"Well, I'm an attractive guy and I like the attention."
"I'm not here too boost your ego."
"Too late."
Actual conversation.
I'll just leave it at that.
I downloaded Tinder on my phone....because......I was curious and bored. I started talking to a whole bunch of dudes which didn't result in a lot. Here are 2 dudes I was talking to though...
1. Teddy - Actual name cuz f it.
Tall, dark, handsome, looks like a bouncer at a club but works at a management firm. Cool. We're getting along great. Flirtatious messages are being sent back and forth. He mentions..."my fall back game is on point." I ask what he means. He says that sometimes girls get too attached and he has to cut them off. He just wants casual relations and they're cool with it until they actually have sex with him and they want to lock it down.
I said...well, as long as there is open communication BEFORE sex, that shouldn't be an issue. Maybe something else is amiss. He agrees with me. We continue talking. He asks me a question about where I work. I answer and ask him the same. He still hasn't responded. (this was almost a week ago)
Fall back game on point for real.
I don't mind someone not being into me but I think it's cowardly to just not respond.
Like......when he said his fall back game was on point, I should've heard a bell in my head signify that something was off with him. It you no longer want to talk to someone just say it. *rolls eyes *
2. Jeff
Our communication was a bit off because we work opposite hours. Everytime he did hav down time, he talked about Spending a lot of time out.he was flabbergasted at why I don't go to clubs. Hmmm. Red flag. I added him on IG. I see multiple pictures of him and his son which he never mentioned before.. Hmmmmm.....I poke around a little bit more...I see cutesy messages on his pictures from the same girl. I ask him. "Are you in a relationship?"
"Yes, I've been with her for 5 years."
"What? Why are you on Tinder? "
"People can't be on Tinder if they're in a relationship?"
"No! It's for singles. Some people also think it's a hook up app."
"Are you looking for a relationship? "
"No, but I'm not even going to entertain a dude with a girlfriend. That's a headache. "
"Why does every girl say that?"
"Because she's decent. "
"Sweetheart, if you want to be with someone, they're status don't matter. They could be married with 3 kids. If you want them, what's stopping you?"
"Ok, bye. "
"Does that mean you not talking to me anymore? '
"Good. "
I mean I couldn't even muster the energy to explain to this dude how much of an asshole he is! That poor woman of his! Annnnnnd he's going to be teaching that foolishness to his son. Smdh!
3. Dave
He's 37. Another one that likes to be in the club. Reeeeed flag! Why?
Let's say the youngest person he could date would be 25. Ok. What kind of quality are you getting in the club? He's 37. He clubs every weekend. Every weekend. How much money are you wasting? Annnnnnd, for what? I told my friend and she was like that sounds like a lonely dude if he has to club every weekend. I agree. So, the reason I just left it alone....he always asks me what I'm doing which is usually working. Cool. What's my next day off? Monday. He says he wants to see me.we'll go to lunch. Ok. He goes clubbing on Saturday. He texts me Sunday at like 4. He just woke up. Ok. He says, the worst thing about going out is the recovery. He's going to be up all night because he slept all day. In my head I already knew that we were going to go out on Monday.
Sure enough, Monday, I didn't hear from him until around 6. Omg, I just woke up....
Really dude?!
He asked me what I was doing. I said, just napping. He said, "Ur a busy woman."
No....let's meet up or apologies or anything...so, I said Fuck you in my head and kept it moving.
Lawd, please deliver me from fuckboys!!!
Monday, December 1, 2014
all me
I take my road test on the 18th. I may need to reschedule.
Anyway, the instructor said I'm good. I just need to work on my turns which have been a struggle for me. Do you have anyone you can practice with? he asked. I said yes. but really.....no. I have a mother. I have friends with cars but everyone is too busy to help me.
ANd then I started thinking about other shit I needed support on. And really, I have no support in other areas of my life either. My entire life, I've had to pull myself up from my own bootstraps and make shit happen. And people are always like....oh you're so strong. You have no emotions. And I'm like...if I fall apart, who is there to pick me up and put me back together?? If I need help, who do I really have to call? And my friends are like, you should call me. And then I do and they're not available.
Do you know how tiring and frustrating that shit is?????? You have to build in your own safety nets. You have to double and triple check everything because if something goes wrong or doesn't work out, you have NO ONE you can call. Do you know how lonely and devastating that shit is???? Do you know what that says about your self-worth? That no one is around to really be there for you.
All the times I felt suicidal I would rather call the helpline than a friend because that friend wouldn't even be there for me anyway. IF you look at my life from afar, its like...oh, you have siblings. You have friends. You know so many people. I'm the loneliest person I know. So lonely, a 10-lb dog is the most consistent being in my life.
I just want someone to have MY back. I want someone to be there for ME completely. That seems like the hardest shit to find. Even for something so simple as a car to practice my turns. No, there is no one for me to call. And I pass by an empty car everyday. And I look at other people surrounded by family and friends and I'm like....that is so awesome.
I wish. I wish. I wish. I just wonder...wtf did I do in a past life to deserve solitude?


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Metallica's Hetfield & Hammett Gear Rundowns...
Metallica's: James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett
Gear Rundowns...
TC Electronic's Tore Mogenses meets James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet's guitar techs to talk about the unique and custom; gear, pedals, electronics and various amps that Metallica use when performing live on-stage!
This is a must watch pair of interviews for the overwhelming amount of highly interesting equipment used by one of the world's foremost Heavy Metal acts!
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I am a Label Reader!
Grocery shopping takes me a full hour longer than it should. I more often than not return snacks to their shelves before they can find their way to my cart. I deeply ponder over the different variations of a product before picking one. Take bread for instance- there's white, wheat, Italian, potato, rye, whole grain, cinnamon raisin, pumpernickel and the list is endless. It's not all the choice that has me lingering in those aisles minute after confused minute. It's the labels people!
The big friendly "Fat Free" or "Low Fat" that jumps out to greet me is not sufficient for me. Even the simple calorie count will not do. I have to labor over the protein and the potassium, the vitamins and the sodium, carbs, saturated fat, MSG, high fructose corn syrup... I draw mental spreadsheets to compare the options before I "Oh so callously" toss one into my shopping cart, gleeful at having pandered to my OCD. The thirty three different options available for every product only make my mind sharper!
In high school, I used to be your average Indian kid who sat through the last hour of class dreaming about the samosa or the ice cream waiting for me. In fact, the store down the road from school might have stayed afloat just because of my friends and me. Once I went to college however, I stopped playing as much, but didn't stop eating as much. Thanks to my genes, all the junk somehow didn't make its way to my midsection. Then I moved out of home for work and restaurants became my home away from home. One fine day, probably on my way out to lunch, I tried to zip up a pair of jeans from my college days. The pizzas, the dosas and the loads of chaat I had packed in over the months would not fit in. My jeans creaked! That was it. I freaked out! And started cooking for myself. That is when my obsession with nutrition and fitness started and has stuck with me through the years.
Don't mistake me for one of those crazy dieting chicks. I'm eating almost all the time. I even eat junk when I crave it. Like today, I was extremely tempted to grab a bag of cheese curls that tantalized me from the shelf. But one glance at the label, I threw it back in alarm. 170 calories, 120 from fat. I could hear my waistline threatening to become unrecognizable. I ran.
Later in the car, the benefits of my dorky love for nutrition data and all the food literature I've read over the years slowly dawned on me. It gives me the resistance to not give in to the delicious pictures of crinkle cut potato chips floating lightly in the air, or the heavenly cheese oozing out of a slab of lasagne. I've lived borderline sugar free (no substitutes, just no sugar) for the good part of a decade, save the occasional ice cream or dessert. I become ecstatic over tofu and lentils, less for the taste and more for the protein . It has made me a purist of sorts when it comes to fresh food. I grind my own ginger and garlic, although I battle later with soap and scrubber to get the smell off my fingernails. Store-bought pasta sauce is a big no-no for me. Whole grain over processed food any day. I grew up vegetarian and I still am. I give up all those wonderful scrumptious choices at restaurants despite being able to stomach meat and fish. I can eat just a salad or a soup for dinner and not ask "When's the food coming?". At the end of the day, it is this OCD with nutrition that keeps me from undoing all my physical exercise, say, with a stack of Pringles or a warm brownie...
You could call me too technical and geeky, like many of my friends and family do. But you know you've reaped the rewards when you don't hyperventilate and rush to enroll in a gym when your high school reunion looks you in the eye and smiles its smug smile!


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Becoming a surrogate mother means giving up 10 months of your life to become pregnant, labor, pain and delivery, then give birth the baby who is a child of another. In short, giving a chance to become parents and blessing them with a baby.
Fertility Consultants is an on-line source of consulting services in Canada and they spotlight on some important issues related to surrogacy. We are trying to change some old myth on surrogacy.


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Project Based Learning
Family Ties
Social Studies Kindergarten
Sample Lesson Plan
|Family Ties
|Hall, Julia firstname.lastname@example.com
|TLI 2009 PBL Plans
|Project Idea:
|After reading from an old journal, students will be inspired to learn more about their family and community from that era. Students will then keep their own journal so they can pass on information about their community. Students will interview grandparents and parents to collect data from their lives. Groups of students will use the computer to research their town and how it has changed through time (they will create a display). Students will collect data and create a timeline of their life from birth to age 5. End product will be an oral presentation with a map/model/or display.
|Entry Event:
A journal was found in an old, dusty attic. A girl in your town wrote it in 1913. While reading the journal, I discovered how life was for her in a one-room school and in your town. I thought you might enjoy reading and discovering about life of children in your town a long time ago. After sharing the journal with the children, members of the local historical society and representatives from a nearby museum will be invited to speak to children about the importance of recording information concerning important events during your lifetime and keeping artifacts to corroborate these recordings.
|Power Standard:
|Students will collect data to compare and contrast characteristics of generations from past to present within their community.
|Content Standards & Objectives:
|Performance Objectives:
How to collect data and sequence events
How and where to search for information
How to explain differences
How to compare and contrast
How to do a Venn diagram
How to interpret simple visuals
How to use the computer to find websites
How to show positive social and ethical behaviors
How to complete a K-W-L chart
How to work in groups
Create timeline
Work on the computer
Interview grandparents and parents
Oral presentation
Create a Venn diagram
Create a map or model
Collect pictures, clip art, or graphics from computer websites
Contribute to group project
|Driving Question:
How do past generations impact our community today?
|Assessment Plan:
|Assessment and Reflection:
|Map The Product:
Students will create an oral presentation with maps and/or models to compare and contrast characteristics of past generations to their present generation within the community. They will follow the criteria listed in the Presentation Rubric to complete the project.
Product: Oral Presentation
School-based Individuals:
High school TV crew to talk about how they gather resources and presentations
School/County Technology Specialist will assist with finding websites
Book-marked websites- local city and Historical Society websites, free clip art websites
Computer lab
Community: Newspaper
Historical society
Curator of local museumLibrarian of public libraryParents and Grandparents
City Map
Art suppliesComputers, printers, Internet, data projector, screen or white boardChecklists Rubrics Research Folders
|Manage the Process:
Entry Event: Locate or create an old journal/diary with entries that portray early life in the schools and community in which you live. With Kindergarten groups, you may want to pair an older student (4th grade or up) with each student or group to help with the collection and recording of information. This project should be done during the end of the second semester of Kindergarten.
Step One: Invite members from the local historical society, representatives from a nearby museum, or librarian from the local library to speak about the importance of recording information concerning important events during their lifetime and keeping artifacts to corroborate these recordings. Students will be able to ask questions of the presenters and the presenters may give ideas on where and how to find information the students may need.
Step Two: The whole class will begin work on filling the K-W-L Chart before research is started. They will include things that they will need to know in order to complete the project. The students will explore websites that pertain to their city/area as a whole group activity using a computer with a data projector. Investigate the various websites for information needed for the students' research. Discuss which items on the website menu will be helpful to them. Explain how to retrieve the information.
Step Three: Students will be divided into teacher assigned heterogeneous groups of four-five students. The teacher will remind students how to work in groups by reviewing the teamwork/collaboration skills necessary and discuss the Collaboration Rubric. Have high school TV crew visit and speak about how they gather information and how they present the information to others. Students will be able to ask questions of the high school TV crew. Assign one high school TV crewmember to each group to help as needed with gathering information during computer lab. Students will gather information about their assigned section of the community and locate pictures, clip art, and /or graphics for their projects. The materials will be placed into the research folder.
Step Four: Groups will use the information they collected to create a Venn Diagram of the characteristics of communities. These should be placed in the research folder.
Step Five: Students will collect data about their life from birth to age 5. Parents will help students collect data from home. Using the Content Rubric and the Timeline Template, groups will construct timelines. These will be placed in the research folder.
Step Six: Students will use the Interview Checklist to practice interviewing each other in the group and then will use the Interview Checklist to interview parents and grandparents about their past in school and the community. Parents will help students complete the interview checklist. Students will give an oral presentation of differences in people from the past using the Oral Presentation Rubric as a guide. The Interview Checklist will be placed in the research folder.
Step Seven: Each group should compile their research and decide on using a map/model/or display with their final project.
Step Eight: The students will practice their presentation to the class. The class will use the Presentation Rubric for the students to review before the final presentation.
Step Nine: Each student will present their final project to the class. Parents, Grandparents, representatives from local Historical Society, local museum, and the local library should be invited to attend the presentations.
Step Ten: The class will complete the "What I learned" column on the K-W-L Chart. Each student will complete a self-evaluation (Collaboration Rubric, Content Rubric, Presentation Rubric) about the project. The class will also discuss their experience with the PBL lesson.
|Project Evaluation:
Students will complete a Daily Reflective Exit Slip. Students will write a journal entry weekly. At the end of the project, the class will discuss the project and how the community affects their lives (past, present, future). The class will also discuss these questions: How did the project go? Did you enjoy doing a project? Would you like to do another project like this one? Did you enjoy learning this way? The teacher should keep a journal as to how the project and the activities are going and how the students are doing throughout the time period of the project. Then, after the project evaluation, the teacher should compare his or her own journal notes with the comments of the students.
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In this test I wanted to check the POVCam helmet was up to the job of being thrown around a little.
What is key to notice is that this test doesn't feature the final camera or lens. It is using the Sony NEX5N with kit lens, so isn't as 'wide angle' as the proper POVCam lens. The full and proper set up uses an 11mm lens on a Canon 550D.
The camera was set on full auto and I deliberatly made it work hard by featuring a variety of lights, indoor and outdoor and lots of different focus distances. As you will see it only just keeps up, but even at this low technical quality it is surprisingly good. The footage is pretty much unaltered. I pushed it up 1 stop in post.
A few early pieces of feedback on the Facebook fan page have been around the idea of simulating how your real vision works more closely. That means cutting out a lot of whip panning around - your eyes take this out naturally.
In my mind this is partly how the film would work - with time-based cuts. But for the tests I've kept it in.
Extra nerd points if you spotted the music was from Skyrim.
Extra nerd points if you spotted the music was from Skyrim.


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"When reading a novel, I generally judge it based on how jealous I get at the fact that I am unable to write one myself. After reading LBATPP, it is all too clear that Jealousy, that green-eyed monster, has its claws in me still.
In general, I read very slowly. A few pages here and there, I methodically chip away. Such was not the case here. Rather, I found myself staying up all hours of the night, my methodical chipping turning instead to more of a barbaric hacking.
The presentation of the story is fun and detailed, and breeds a curiosity that keeps pages turning. The hilarious detail brought each character to life in a very real way, and the razor-sharp wit kept me fixed somewhere between a wry smile and audible laughter throughout the entire read. It was almost exhausting.
LBATPP is a quick and lighthearted satire, bringing a smart jocularity to an important social revolution."
Thanks, Ian, for the kind words!
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Interview with Tyler Foss, vocalist of Nebraska Bricks, with insight into the future of the band, their inspirations for writing this record, and their experiences as a touring group.
1) How does your new record "Live in Pain, Die in Vain" compare to your previous release, "Redemption"? What were your goals with releasing this record?
Musically, the new record has a lot more depth than Redemption. Writing a full length, as opposed to a demo or ep, you're given much more room to explore your sound and throw a few tracks in that aren't so similar to the rest. So with the full length, we really just wanted to hit everything within the styles we are comfortable with. There's a couple sing alongs, some really straight forward hardcore, and some of the most riffy and heavy stuff we've ever put out. We've always been a hybrid band and we gladly kept it that way but LIP DIV is definitely more cohesive than redemption.
As far as the lyrical content and the underlying theme of each release, I'd say redemption was actually an off shoot of "LIP, DIV" before it was even written. Redemption was all about surviving my past and finally facing a lot of demons that had been consuming me, looking them in the face, and refusing to allow them to deprive me of life anymore. The title itself was literal because I toured a bunch when I was younger and I threw away a lot of dreams and opportunities with my drug abuse and it was basically a proclamation that I'm fighting for everything back and I will make up for lost time. With the new record, it touches a bit on those same issues but a lot of the content is less inward and more outward. I've reconciled my demons and been afforded a new opportunity so I felt it very important to take on a strong social conscience, address political issues, and really engage the listener into the concept that we can all be an instrument of positive change. No matter what plight we find ourselves, we can still be Weebly - Website Creation Made Easyaccountable to ourselves and other humans, and refuse to give in to hate and fear. That's what perpetuates all the evil in the world and turns solid people into cut throat and ugly. I dunno, I was at a place not too long ago where I thought everything and everyone was shit and having faith in people was a suckers mentality and that thinking almost killed me. Literally. Today life can still be a struggle but I choose to believe in myself, my friends, and every local scene I encounter. For me, the good always outweighs the bad as long as I focus on where I'm going but don't forget where I've been. Ultimately, the new record is a timeline of the life I've already lived, the hells I've been to, the things I've learned from fighting through them, as well as the problems we face as a society and the hopes I have for the future of my life and generations to come.
2) What are you most looking forward to in this US tour? What have been some of the highlights so far?
Well we are already almost half way through this trip but anytime we tour I always look forward to meeting new people most. We love going back to the cities we made friends with on previous trips and feeling welcomed back and it's really most gratifying to go to a new place and connect with complete strangers who we end up being long term friends with down the road. Makes all the shitty sleep and driving so worth it. For the highlights, it's the people too. So many people have welcomed us into their homes and treated us like family. It really does help reinforce my faith in humanity when complete strangers open their doors to a bunch of foul mouthed goons and let them sleep on their floors and feed us without reservation. It's pretty damn cool to see people just helping out. Humbles me every time....
3) What is your favorite memory from a show or tour?
This is a tough one. There are so many. We are currently sharing our van with a band called Valleys from Oklahoma and our last run we were doubled up with Reveal Renew. All I can say is you don't really know anybody until you live in a van with them, particularly with 8 or 9 other people. Let's just say it's never a dull moment, mostly hilarious, but also the best training for tolerance of others I think you can experience. I mean, nothing beats a kid in a city you've never been to singing your songs like he wrote them out loud but the real meat and potatoes of tour occurs in the van. That's where most of my fondest memories take place. We really have become a family in this thing and to me, that's priceless.
4) What are some of your goals for the future of Nebraska Bricks?
We are just going to continue touring this year and push this record as hard as we can. We plan on Europe late 2014/early 2015 and after this run ending June 7th, we go back out for two weeks end of July/beginning of August with our homies and label mates Carrier out of GA, then another east coast run with Strength Approach from Italy in October. I've been talking to some prominent booking agencies to help keep us on the road full time, but in the meantime, I'm just going to continue my DIY game and keep us busy meeting new people who hopefully dig our stuff. We are also going to put out a new video when we get home from this trip to help push the release but aside from all that, I just hope we stay connected and enjoy doing our thing.
5) How has becoming part of a label influenced you as a band?
Being signed to Eulogy has been very influential to us as a group. It's made us all accountable because there is another entity invested in our future and we've agreed to hold up our end of the deal. We've always been about our career but signing a contract just makes it more official. At the end of the day, we have to put in the work to succeed no matter who we may be in a relationship with but eulogy was a good fit for us because I know John and trust him. He's been globally successful with four different bands in his time and you can't find that kind of tutelage just anywhere. Eulogy was my favorite label growing up and I only hope Nebraska Bricks can help to nurture that brand today. I know john has big plans and we are grateful to be included.
6) If you had one message to give to your fans, what would that be?
It's that we believe in them. No matter what they are going through, what they've already been through, we believe they have what it takes to overcome it and be a better person as a result of fighting through the struggle. We believe that they don't have to be defined by the wrongs done to them, but instead can respond to those wrongs with character and perseverance, and not let another human kill their faith, hope, and spirit. We love them all and they are the reason we choose to keep this thing going.
Be sure to purchase the new Nebraska Bricks record at our webstore and keep an eye out for the great things this dynamic group has in store.


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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Primary 2 Lesson 1
5 comments:
- PoohsPals said...
hello! Just got called to Primary after a very long break away, and I just found your site! My new Favorite! Thanks for you help!!
- January 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM
- Lynda T. said...
Is there a way to get all the journal pages for the year at one time? I wanted to make a book in advance, but the other lesson pages are blocked. Thanks, Lynda
- January 1, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- Deann said...
I don't see a way to print out these handouts. Can you help me?
- January 1, 2012 at 10:36 AM
- Sondra said...
Sorry, I'm not that efficient to have all the pages done for the year. I have some done that I've used in previous years but with a team teacher I didn't have all of them. Last year I decided to start blogging what I do in my Primary class as a help to others (lesson manual 3). I have tried to blog a couple weeks in advance, but with the holidays I'm just trying to get a handle on Primary. The links don't work because I haven't blogged the lessons in Primary manual 2 yet. I won't be able to post a whole year in advance, because my schedule won't allow it. But, I'll work on blogging what I do have in my files. When I do a blog on them – they will have a link. I set up the tab for Primary 2 manual - just to make it easier to link when I do blog each lesson.
Deann, I'm a terrible blogger - because I have "No Idea" how to make a printable. What I do with the handouts from the Friend is copy and paste the coloring sheet into a word document and resize and print. Each coloring page has a link to LDS.org for you to grab what you want to use. I know other bloggers who had printable set up on their blog from LDS.org were asked to stop offering a "print option" for copy write laws. For that reason, I haven't tried to figure out how to make printables available on my blog.
- January 1, 2012 at 12:48 PM
- Ernita Nainggolan said...
thank you mam Sondra...many idea for may class. GBU
- February 5, 2014 at 12:48 AM


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Health ministry orders hospitals to stop gender segregation for sake of Haredis and remove signs calling for same
Israel's Health Ministry is beginning to get tough on enforcing a regulation banning gender separation in kupat cholim (HMO) clinics, a situation that is prevalent in chareidi areas.I hope Yeshiva World doesn't have a problem with that; I've seen their unpleasant little biases showing at times, and it's not healthy. Nor is the fact that they're a Haredi website that often censors female imagery, in keeping with the foolishness that plagues a lot of modern Haredi press sources.
The ministry has ordered the removal of modesty signs that instruct visitors to honor the local community's (chareidi) modest dress code. In the letter released by the ministry it states the signs calling for adherence to modesty standards was the subject of discussion in a forum including the assistant state attorney general and he says the law dictates the signs must go.
The ministry has received a complaint citing in the Laniado Hospital in Kiryat Sanz there is such a sign on display to instruct visitors how to dress. The ministry probed the matter and has learned the sign is not at all uncommon in chareidi areas.
The Be Free ( ישראל חופשית) organization which calls for separation of religion and state has become active in seeing to the removal of the modesty signs. The organization has been particularly active via its Facebook page. Visitors to the site are urged to document seeing the modesty signs around the country and report the details towards pressuring government agencies to have them removed.
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Obama Era Brings New Angle to Teaching the Civil War
Monday, April 20, 2009
The Civil War began 148 years ago this month with the assault on Fort Sumter and ended when rebel forces surrendered in 1865, but the battle over how to teach the conflict to new generations of Americans has never stopped.
Ask Northerners the cause of the war, and the answer often is a single word: slavery. In many places in the South, the answers can vary: states' rights, freedom, political and economic power.
As students across the region begin springtime Civil War lessons, historians say the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president offers an unprecedented opportunity to break through stereotypes and view the era in broader ways.
"His election means we can be more honest. We can stop giving one-word answers," said Edward L. Ayers, a Civil War scholar who is president of the University of Richmond, in the city that became the capital of the Confederacy.
Obama's ascent, historians say, has opened the door to a national discussion about race. There is renewed relevance to issues surrounding the country's racial past, including the origins and aftermath of its deadliest conflict, said Randall Miller, professor of history at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
"This doesn't mean the subject will be any less controversial," Miller said, "but it does mean that we are again talking about issues such as slavery, freedom, race and fundamental identities."
Debate over teaching the conflict traces back to the late 1800s, when Confederate supporters propagated the "Lost Cause" view of Civil War history, according to Ed Bonekemper, an adjunct professor at Muhlenberg College and author of several books on the war.
This pro-Confederate interpretation held that slavery did not cause the war and that the South fought heroically despite having no chance of winning. Many historians nowadays say the outcome was not, in fact, inevitable.
There is little disagreement among professional historians that the South's effort to maintain the institution of slavery was the central reason that 11 Southern states seceded from the Union and civil war erupted. Today's textbooks have largely caught up with this view. But that doesn't necessarily translate to the classroom.
"The way courses are taught depends on the teacher, and changes in textbooks can only go so far," said prominent historian James M. McPherson, a Princeton University professor emeritus.
Les Albers, a history teacher at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington County, agreed: "The Civil War is taught in Alaska a whole lot different than the way it is taught in Tennessee."
Teacher Sharon Drow at Belmont Ridge Middle School in Loudoun County said she teaches her sixth-graders that the war was fought over states' rights.


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Has dancing changed in 37 years?
Posted by Mr. Feeny on August 17, 2009
If so, Donny's got some practicin' to do.
For your viewing pleasure, Donny Osmond singing (and dancing a bit) when he was 14, back in 1972. For the little dance part, fast forward to :55. You can view it here or on the sidebar to the right, which we'll keep updating with our favorite clips.
This one has a nice TV connection to. The clip is from an episode of Here's Lucy, Lucille Ball's third long-running sitcom…yet the one people often forget. And singing with Donny…Lucie Arnez, Lucy's daughter.


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Annoying gmail advertisements & links
Gmail has been part of my life in the past few years, I recently found its sponsored links particular annoying. Sure most gmail users got the same thought, well some might think it is helpful...but I don't! I decided to remove, there is no default options in gmail allows you to disable it. Examining its generated html code, the entire ad is in the rh section within a big div, so you can force your browser to remove it with greasemonkey or stylish in firefox...
GMAIL code:
// Gmail ad Removal user script
// 2007-09-13
// ==UserScript==
// @name gmail ad removal
// @namespace http://insistkool.blogspot.com
// @description remove gmail ad
// @include http://mail.google.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
for (var i=0; i< document.getElementsByTagName("div").length; i++) {
if (document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(i).className == "rh"){
document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(i).style.visibility = "hidden";
document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(i).style.display = "none";
Or in a much cleaner way with css within stylish
@-moz-document domain(mail.google.com) {
.rh {display: none !important;}
Using greasemonkey user script is undoubtedly much slower, since it has to loop through all divs... maybe there is a better way to locate div tag class name, but I don't know...anyway, it does the job, who care..lol


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Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing a Copic Tiddly Inks card with you and letting you know about a new challenge that has started at Paradise of Stamps - Weddings! And if you are into Copics - like me ;) - there is an Anything Goes Challenge on the Copic UK Facebook Page where I have the pleasure of being a Guest Designer, with an awesome prize of 3 Copic Sketch Markers!!
Here is my card, with a bit "grunge" couple I love :)
Images and stamps: Tiddly Inks Happy Couple, Heidi Swapp heart
Colouring: Copics on Make it Colour Blending Card
DPs: Toga
Other: Sequins
Skin: E000, 00, 11, 71
Girl's Hair: E51, 53
Girl's Hair: E51, 53
Boy's Hair: E33, 49, 59
White: T0, 1, 3
Grey and Black: T1, 3, 5, 7, 9
Gold: Y11, 21, 26
Thank you very much for your visit, have a fab day! Hugs,


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Councils in Queensland provide specialist support and services for CALD residents, young people through youth development programs as well as providing community and individual support to individuals and families with a disability. The majority of councils in Queensland also provide of community housing to low-income earners or residents with complex needs.
Furthermore, Councils provide the necessary social infrastructure to assist various community groups and associations, and are responsible for the maintenance of parks, public spaces and cultural assets.
ABS data stipulates local government in Queensland spends $1.8 billion on community amenities, housing, public safety programs, educational and health services each year. This aggregate total of local government expenditure accounts for almost a quarter (23%) of all local government general expenses, highlighting the commitment made from local government to the needs of people across diverse communities.
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Classic black dress with some spunk!
Very comfortable and true to size, however a bit short. Works fine for me as I'm only 5'2, doesn't hit the floor so I am able to wear flats, but prefer heels. Those taller may fit it a bit short. Very classic and comfortable. I would definitely purchase again in another color, especially for the price. Shipping took less time than anticipated, maybe 2/wks tops. Have received many compliments.
I bought this dress with a doubt in my mind if it would fit me. The description says xs for lady and i am 5'1", 120 lbs so i'd say i'm a little chubby. It came very fast and i was so excited to try it and to my surprise, it fits perfectly. Very good for summer since it's fabric is flowy and thin. The dress looks exactly what it shown on the picture, even the length of it.
Five Stars
nice dress
but it's very nice and comfortable
It's slightly larger than I expected(purchased an XL), but it's very nice and comfortable. The fabric doesn't feel cheap considering the price. I'm 5"4 and it hits my knees. I will be buying from this company again.
It was a gift for my niece - a kindergarten teacher - and she gets tons of compliments every time she wears it. She loves it!
Fits like a glove and revived many compliments!!!
Flattering dress, nice fabric
The dress arrived today - unfortunately I had to wait a few days extra, so I was getting a little impatient. Ultimately, it's a great fit, and a very flattering design. The material is nice and lightweight, and feels great on my skin, will be nice to wear when the weather gets a little warmer. As I ordered the dress in white, I might need a slip under it to make sure it's not see through (and will definitely need to wear a bra, haha). It can be dressed up or down, depending on the occasion, I can see them looking good with sandals/flats as well as pumps or high heeled sandals. I tried it on with my red Mary Jane's and it looked gorgeous. I guess it might even look good with flip-flops. I'm 5'7'', and the bottom hits just above my knee, which is what I was going for. Overall, I'm very happy with the dress and might buy it in other colors.
Very pretty!
Lovely fit, and great color. I am a size 10 dress, D cup bust. I ordered this one first to see how the fit was, and it looks great. Very happy with the dress and how it drapes.A couple of things about "One Size Fits All" there is no such thing... think about it how can a size 2 and a size 18 wear the same thing unless it is a poncho?This dress would easily fit from sizes 5-14 depending on body type. The dress should have ample room for bust and hip, and the smocking on the waist will accommodate a variety of sizes. If you are smaller than say size 5, then it might be a little big on you but it will be very comfortable.
Perfect! I'm 5'7 and it fits perfect as in ...
Perfect ! I'm 5'7 and it fits perfect as in length wise. I love this dress
This gave my shorter dresses just enough length to make them com
I ordered two of these slips. The mocha color and charcoal. Firstly they fit very true to size. I ordered the large and am a solid 12. The hem came right above my knee and I am 5'3". This gave my shorter dresses just enough length to make them comfortable and I totally plan on wearing these under chunky tunic sweater for fall and winter. The customer service was exceptional. I had questions and the seller responded immediately and also shipped very quickly. I own a lot of Free People style clothing and have paid much more for other slips, not as well made as these. The ruffle is a matte chiffon soft material that looks expensive and the slip portion is slick enough that any layers glide right over the fabric, without getting "caught". I really love these and will be buying more colors.
Five Stars
This top is great! Very comfortable!
I love it! Fits great
I love it! Fits great. This is my second dress to order from Allegra K and I am very happy with both!
Love it
Great dress, excellent material, very pleased with this dress will look for more from this company.
This dress is awesome! It is just as pictured and is of great quality. The price was also great and it was delivered before the anticipated date.
Five Stars
Fit waist and length perfectly, slightly larger in the bust than expected.
Five Stars
Love this dress.
the under the arm does pop out but can easily be pinned
This dress fit well the top part in the back was elastic which makes more sense why so many boob sizes worked out. I returned it because it made me look a little frumpy im 5'5 and 150, the under the arm does pop out but can easily be pinned. I needed it for a 50s zombie wedding and it wasn't as rockabilly as I was expecting, the material was thick and nice but it just didn't work for what I needed it for.
Great dress
This dress is incredible. It is very comfortable and lightweight. Every time I wear it, I get so many compliments. The color is bright and saturated. The fit is perfect, hugs everywhere it should and is flowy where its needed without being a tent!Will be buying in many more colors as it is so universal for being dressed up or down
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Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool will undergo the long-awaited transformation to an ice skating rink, which will finally open next month. According to Gothamist, the NYC Parks and Recreation Department and the Open Space Alliance announced that the newly christened McCarren Rink will open Nov. 15.
It will be open from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m., seven days a week through January. The opening will be accomapnied by a holiday market and food market as well. The rink will hold 300 people; skate entals will cost $5 and there will be a sharpening station and pro shop.
Admission will be $8 for adults, $5 for senior and students and $4 for kids.
[via Gothamist]
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The following has been culled from the "Preface" to William Wordsworth's first major work, "The Borderers". "The Borderers", how apt indeed. How so not at cross-purposes.
A Challenge:
Try not to think of a man we have come to know and judge as you read this Wordsworthian excerpt.
"...His energies are most impressively manifested in works of devastation. He is the Orlando of Ariosto, the Cardenio of Cervantes, who lays waste the groves that should shelter him. He has rebelled against the world & the laws of the world, & he regards them as tyrannical masters; convinced that he is right in some of his conclusions, he nourishes a contempt for mankind the more dangerous because he has been led to it by reflexion. Being in the habit of considering the world as a body which is in some sort at war with him, he has a feeling borrowed from that habit which gives an additional zest to his hatred of those members of society whom he hates & to his contempt of those whom he despises. Add to this, that a mind fond nourishing sentiments of contempt will be prone to the admission of those feelings which are considered under any uncommon bond of relation (as must be the case with a man who has quarrelled with the world), the feelings will mutually strengthen each other. In this morbid state of mind he cannot exist without occupation, he requires constant provocatives, all his pleasures are prospective, he is perpetually chasing a phantom, he commits new crimes to drive away the memory of the past. But the lenitives of his pain are twofold; meditation as well as action. Accordingly, his reason is almost exclusively employed in justifying his past enormities & in enabling him to commit new ones. He is perpetually imposing upon himself, he has a sophism for every crime. The mild effusions of thought, the milk of human reason, are unknown to him. His imagination is powerful, being strengthened by the habit of picturing possible forms of society where his crimes would be no longer crimes, and he would enjoy that estimation to which, from his intellectual attainments, he deems himself entitled. The nicer shades of manners he disregards, but whenever, upon looking back upon past ages, or in surveying the practices of different countries in the age in which he lives, he find such contrarieties as seem to affect the principles of morals, he exults over his discovery, and applies it to his heart as the dearest of his consolations. Such a mind cannot but discover some truths, but he is unable to profit by them, and in his hands they become instruments of evil.
He presses truth and falsehood into the same service. He looks at society through an optical glass of a peculiar tint; something of the forms of objects he takes from objects, but their colour is exclusively what he gives them; it is one, and it is his own. Having indulged a habit, dangerous in a man who has fallen, of dallying with moral calculations, he becomes an empiric, and a daring & unfeeling empiric. He disguises from himself his own malignity by assuming the character of a spectator in morals, and one who has the hardihood to realize his speculations."
At this point I must admit that these truths exposed by Wordsworth as being self-evident continue to mount for several hundred more well-crafted and well-chosen words by the laureate, and you can find and read them in cyberspace, paradoxically---free, yet full of charge.


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Hi Bloggers
I'm doing this post from my Mums house where me and my furbaby Lilli are having a girly weekend. Watching Christmas films, eating take-away as well as sticky toffee pudding with toffee fudge ice cream mmmmmmmmm
Anyway I'm sharing another of my Cuddly Buddly DT makes, this time using one of the stamps from the 'Merry Little Christmas' set
I wanted to make the wreath stand out so decided to go CAS. I coloured the image with Pro Markers, embossed a piece of plan white card stock with a dotty folder and and mounted the wreath with foam pads so it stands out. The sentiment is from another Cuddly Buddly stamp set called 'Holly Collage' and I added 3 small gems to finish it off
Cuddly Buddly have a great range of Christmas stamp sets at only £6.99 each and digi images from 99p, so if you are stuck for ideas or running behind on your Christmas makes its worth taking a look
Happy Crafting
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I usually go into my office on Wednesday mornings for a couple of hours, and since I have a brand-spanking-new scooter and a brand-spanking-new M class endorsement, I figured that today would be a GREAT day to ride into work on my Buddy! It was cold, sure, but it's winter! It's always cold! Plus, it was actually much warmer and less windy than it has been...all the better to ride in, right?
After I dropped the little kids off at preschool, I drove back to my house, got into my riding boots and parka, gathered up my purse (and camera!) and got the scoot out of the garage. Here we go....
The route to Workplace is along roads that max out at 45mph speed limits. One of the roads is a multiple lane, divided highway (with a 45mph speed limit). The whole trip is about 7.5 miles, and usually takes me about 10 minutes in my car. I was really excited about doing this, even though it was really cold. Once I got my Buddy out of the garage and started it up, I started getting nervous.
Getting out of my neighborhood was no problem. I felt fairly confident taking off into very light traffic on the main roads, and I kept up with traffic. Once I got to the multiple-lane road, though, I was starting to worry about whether I was going fast enough. My speedometer registered 50mph and I stayed in the right lane the whole way, but man! It was a bit unnerving going that fast, in traffic, with only the handlebars to hold on to! Plus, the wind made it really difficult, and every time I went over an imperfection in the pavement, I got nervous about crashing. In fact, all I could think about, besides riding the scooter, was crashing. How bad would it be to hit the ground at 45mph? I'm wearing my helmet...how bad could it be?
My mind was going a zillion miles a minute, too.
Man, this trip is taking a lot longer than it does in my car....I had no idea seven and a half miles was so SO far...it is really windy out...and cold...I better remember to call Travis when I get to work so he doesn't worry...
But I made it to work in one piece, not frozen solid, and without mishap or other negative incident. Hooray!
There was even a parking space right in front of the building, just waiting for my cute scooter!
I showed it off to a friend who has her desk right next to this window, and then I showed my boss and a couple of other people I work with. They all thought it was terribly cute, and totally me, and also I was a bit nuts for riding in this cold. :)
I worked for a little while, then rode home. The trip home was a bit warmer, and I felt pretty decent about the riding, although I think I am getting really tense because my wrists and hands were killing me by the time I got home.
Having gotten this out of my system, I don't think I will ride the scooter to work again until it gets a little bit warmer. For now, I think I will practice ride around the neighborhood and take short trips to the store and for coffee and stuff.
The bottom line, though, is I DID IT! And it was awesome!
I AM The ScooterMom!!
I am an artist, a mom, a scooterist, an all-around renaissance woman. Ha!
Come on and join me as I chronicle my adventures with my motorcycle license and beautiful tangerine-colored Genuine Buddy scooter, The Pumpkin Queen!
**And if you're even more curious, check out A Hot Piece of Glass, where I write about my glass beadmaking and jewelry design business!**
Come on and join me as I chronicle my adventures with my motorcycle license and beautiful tangerine-colored Genuine Buddy scooter, The Pumpkin Queen!
**And if you're even more curious, check out A Hot Piece of Glass, where I write about my glass beadmaking and jewelry design business!**
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Scooter Commute!
Labels: Buddy 125, cold weather gear, commuting, new scooterists, skills, Smiles per Gallon, winter riding
3 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Very proud of you! I look forward to hearing more about your adventures.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2010 at 9:21 AM
You Rock Chris!! This is awesome!ReplyDelete
You should look into getting a Corazzo under-hoody. It's amazing how warm it keeps me. I've been riding in sub-40 weather with just a mesh jacket over it.ReplyDelete
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A bulky guy is rushed to the E.R. due to an excruciating genital pain. His penis has been engorged for 12 hours - a condition called "Priapism" - because he took Cialis (tadalafil, a Viagra-like drug indicated for erectile dysfunction) the night before. He was accompanied by a guy whom he met at a bar. And the staff needs to drain blood from his genitals to relieve him of the pain. Will he endure the anesthesia?
A man who has been waiting for a "liver donor" for 8 months finally gets a donor two days before his daughter's wedding. "Am I ready? No, I am not," he says and continues, "Am I prepared? Yes, I am." But he just wants to dance with his daughter before he undergoes the delicate operation. His situation then becomes iffy. While on the O.R. table waiting for his liver "in transit", the surgical team gets a belated bad news: that the donor liver has a cyst and needs to be tested for malignancy first - before the transplant could proceed. But his chest wall has already been opened up and ready for the new organ. Will the patient get his new liver before dying from persistent cholangitis?
A former Desert Storm soldier is waiting for a "heart donor" after being diagnosed with heart failure 3 years ago. But a few hours after his sedation, the transplant team learns that "one of the branches of the pulmonary artery" is injured, thus the inevitable cancellation of the procedure. The patient wakes up without a "new heart" - and has to wait again for a new donor. Here's the catch - the patient is gay and is "HIV-positive". It turns out that such cases actually prove to be good transplant candidates. Why? "Because they are compliant patients". "He's not going to die of AIDS," the doctor assures his family, "but from a failing heart." Will he get a new heart?
These are some of the gripping real-life scenarios featured in "NY Med", a medical reality TV series that premiered on ABC 2 years ago. Unlike most medical dramas, the scenes are authentic and unscripted. The series follows the medical staff and the patients of New York's Columbia Medical Center, Weill Cornell and Lutheran Medical Center. There are no sugar-coatings here. Cameras gain all-access pass to the emergency room, the wards and the operating room. How they are able to acquire permission of the people involved is nothing short of spectacular. After all, some of these snippets contain a lot of emotional baggage (which makes situations hard to manipulate) and personal issues. Moreover, ethics, foresight and discretion will play heavily into what gets shown.
There are poignant moments of utter heart-wrenching drama. The "stories" presented are never sententious nor boring. There's a sense of urgency, of either hope or hopelessness, and of empathy. Before long, you realize that you've gotten addicted to the series because it candidly offers insight into the medical field - a field concerned with prolonging lives, alleviating pain and caring for the sick.
If you think that good-looking doctors and nurses in the real world are a rare lot, this series will change all that. Tricky situations become a tad tolerable - and more watchable - when there are eye candies around. Season 2 was shown last June. I am eagerly waiting for a copy.
|A surgical resident whose tenacious as she's beautiful.
|A well loved surgeon who undergoes colonoscopy himself to rule out malignant polyps.
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*3 weeks post partum*
Today I wore a pair of jeans from before. Before I had a baby. Before I was pregnant.
It took 9 months to grow a human and 3 weeks to shrink it. I kept my jeans on for one outing of a little over an hour and then came home to change back into fat pants (also known as joggers in the fashion world). The jeans fit. They just weren't very comfortable. But we take our wins where we get them.
*7 weeks post partum*
Because as it goes, with a newborn and with Instagram scrolling, I'm finishing this blog post 7 weeks post partum. And 4 weeks on since I started it. Its not that I battled to find the words to explain myself, but rather… well, Instagram.
Unfortunately that miraculous shrinking that took place after 3 weeks stopped there. 12,5kgs up – I'm 8,5kgs down with a stubborn 4 to go. And by stubborn I mean, thank God I'm not another 9kgs up as I have definitely left my eating well habit back in September 2015.
Everyone (most people) know I have a small obsession with weight. No one else's, just my own. I weigh myself every day. Twice a day actually (close your mouth). I suppose its an obsession with the scale really. Yep, I don't even step on the scale after a shower as wet hair weighs more than dry hair. A theory I have never actually proven but it makes sense no? This doesn't mean I have an eating disorder. Quite the contrary really. I have no self discipline to have an eating disorder and I like food (all the food, the bad food) too much. I just like to know what I weigh. Every day. Twice a day.
I weighed myself every day during my pregnancy. And I watched, with great trepidation, as I approached and exceeded numbers that I had ever been before nor imagined I'd ever be. Yes past that dreaded first year syndrome weight, and into the next ten of kgs. Luckily, and I really mean luckily as I wasn't exactly careful, it stopped there and didn't reach into another ten. It was frightening seeing those figures on the scale. But not frightening enough to stop eating scones for lunch. Woolies take my money – just take it.
I didn't gym during my pregnancy. Well, I did. I sat on the exercise bike in trimester 2. Trimester one was rough, emotionally and physically, and by trimester 3 I was just feeling enormous and uncomfortable. I yoga'd, but lets be honest that was just a peaceful hour of stretching more than a workout. I've never really understood Savasana (I'm not a real yogi) but when you're pregnant. Its a great cuddle with a pillow on the floor while noone judges.
Being a new mom is difficult, for so many reasons we've all read and heard about – sleep deprivation, incessant crying, 3 hour cycles of Groundhog Day. But no one talks about, or takes as seriously as me clearly, is what the hell to eat!
So you finally give birth and yay! You can eat sushi and drink ALL THE WINE. Except you can't. Well you can on the sushi and possibly you could on the wine too, but you don't because that's stupid with the incessant crying and the sleep deprivation.
What no one tells you is all the things you can't eat. Chocolate, tomatoes, dairy (DAIRY? I mean, dairy!!), coffee (coffee? Yes. I haven't had a cup of caffeine in 6 weeks + 4 days. If I'd known life after pregnancy would be this, the morning of my labour I would've had a coffee instead of a hot chocolate. What was I thinking? Oh wait, I was in labour and I probably had some ill logic that chocolate would make me feel better). I didn't even finish it.
So between feeding, burping, changing, and instagram stalking, there are little functioning hours in the day to eat. Or to eat real food. So there are rusks. And there are biscuits. And there are handfuls of milo cereal (no milk. That dairy thing. Clearly I ignored the chocolate thing). And after your mom visits, there is also millionaire shortbread (she makes the best kind!) Before you know it it's 3pm and you're only changing out of your PJs to prove to your husband who'll be home in 3 hours that you did. Lunch? Agg I'll just have another rusk then.
I've lived on jungle juice (juice that's packed with sugar and rehydrate that really just keeps a new mom ticking over and functioning because she hasn't seen caffeine in weeks!) and biscuits for the past 40 days.
While I certainly wasn't careful on my pregnancy weight gain up, I've been disgustingly bad on the way down. But now shit is real. I still fit into those pre-baby jeans…but I wobble. My boobs are remarkably large (I scoff in the face of my pregnant self, as she has nothing on my new mom self!) and I haven't swiped my card at the gym since about March. Yes I know I had my baby 3 months later in June, but some people are better at that exercising shit than others. I am an other.
I have no idea how to successfully shed the extra kilos and convince my body it prefers muscles that work to rusks. And I have little idea how I'm going to possibly consider eating meals at lunch time. I even miss the chicken salad poison that I could get at the office canteen. Poison it was but at least it was ready to eat.
The scale may drop in kilos but let's be honest, thin skin has nothing on toned skin. Which isn't a saying like brown fat looks better than white fat (which it does and I really can't wait for summer so that I can bask in the sun and at least bronze up this postpartum belly that remained untanned during the summer of 2015 thanks to baby human growing inside that was light sensitive – according to google.)
So I may be bronzed in 6 months time, but that isn't really a plan to post-partum myself to health (yes I know post-partum isn't a verb). I've pondered this a while (as its now 9 weeks since our baby human joined us) and my natural inclination would be to juice detox and then hit up Kayla's workout. But according to doc I still have a few weeks to go before I do any core training (something about muscles weaving back together) and I can't imagine functioning with a newborn on a juice detox. I recall the struggle well. I think it'd be easier to drink ALL THE WINE instead.
So, for now I'll have another rusk with a cup of tea (only made to dunk the rusk into. Its rooibos and its black) and look at pictures of my former self in my former life, with smaller boobs (hips and waist) and get back to you once I have a plan.


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These Brussels sprouts are delicious, easy, and something a little different. If you have picky eaters who won't try them if they recognize them, shred the brussels sprouts.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Cannot Stoppa This Tapa! Polenta and Guacamole
I haven't used polenta in years, and recently it showed up in our pantry. Here's what I came up with:
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Earlier this week, I came across a notebook, hidden away in my drawer. I discovered my "bucket list" and one of the things in it was to take a photo a day for a year. As it is nearing the start of 2015, I thought that I'd give it a go!
As you will most likely know, I blog anonymously. I'm not going to go into detail on it - that's a post for another day! Anyway, this gives me a slight problem in that I can almost garuntee that I will take at least one photo with a friend or family member or something personal in it. However, I would still like to share some of these photos with you and I know that some of you would love to see them. Based on this, I have decided that I'm going to do a "monthly roundup" and only include my favourite shots from the month to ensure that any of you who may want to see my attempt can do so.
Please let me know your thoughts on this and if you're going to give it a go! I'm really excited and I think that it's going to be a lot of fun and really nice to look back on in years to come!
Waffling Waffles xo


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Howdy, i need a new restaurant to try in the Murry Hill area tonight - i will be going with my boyfriend. Just something casual for a Tuesday!
I always seem to goto Penelopy's and Josies... so am trying to get out there and try some of the other fantastic restaurants in the hood!
All cuisines are good, i love everything!


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Although not a final step, it is a BIG STEP, nonetheless!!!
After crying several days in a row and feeling totally and utterly depleted; "wait meter" on empty; desperate for some sort of progress toward bringing our son home...........
We received word today that, although the document is not yet in the hands of AWAA, the orphanage has informed AWAA that the clearance decree is complete and on it's way to our agency!
Kristen says they should literally receive the ever-needed clearance decree ANY DAY!!!!
AWAA will then immediately provide this to MOWCYA, who had requested it six plus weeks ago, and we will be "in line" for MOWCYA to re-assess our case.........and prayerfully write us that long-awaited letter of APPROVAL!
Once MOWCYA writes an approval letter, our case will then be brought before the judge once the courts re-open. Word is that the courts should re-open early October (depending on the rainy weather).
If you recall, the judge already approved our case and stated she just needed the approval letter from MOWCYA. Therefore, we are praying, PRAYING, P-R-A-Y-I-N-G that once MOWCYA receives this document, they will be able to write us that letter!!!!
Although we have no real timeline, we are breathing easier just knowing that the needed document is on its way to AWAA! The ball is F-I-N-A-L-L-Y rolling!!!!!!!
After so many weeks of no progress, this news has significantly lightened my heart and refueled my source of hope! THANK YOU, GOD!!! You heard my cry! I felt as though I could not endure even one more day without some sign of forward movement..........and you provided!!!!!
Trusting that our Heavenly Father is STILL IN CONTROL and that He is holding our sweet son in his arms every moment. May He protect this document and its delivery to our agency. May He guide its placement in the MOWCYA office. May it be His will to push our case through with efficiency and ease! May He protect and provide for all of us who got caught in the closures as well as for the others in various stages of their adoption!
May our BABY "K" officially become OUR SON soon upon the courts re-openning!
Please God, PLEASE!!!!!


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Monday, 21 November 2011
Handing on the Baton
Tyson has mentioned the Bury Beer Festival and Darren Turpin here. This used to be run by CAMRA for many years - in fact I've organised it more than once - but is now run by the hall owners themselves, on a different basis. CAMRA did run a small membership stall this year though and I did my bit on Friday afternoon, by spending a few hours there with my "Ask me about CAMRA" badge on. Quite a few did and one of the questions I was asked more than once, was "Why isn't CAMRA doing it now?"
There is no one answer, though lack of willing local volunteers was a pretty big factor, but my personal feeling is that for us, the event had run its course. We had done ourselves proud over the years and could now bow out, especially as the hall owners had their own thoughts about how the festival could develop and change. Also, clearly, one of the biggest expenses is the hall hire and that is something owners don't have to pay for and through letting out concessions to sell beer, they don't have to worry about the cost of buying it, or staffing the stalls, to nearly the same extent. In short, they have many advantages and have an ability to run things slightly differently to appeal to a different audience - in this case combining it with frequent live musical acts, but it could be anything.
When we started doing the Bury Beer Festival umpteen years ago (well over 20), beer festivals were the sole domain of CAMRA. Now others do it and Bury has quite a few. We blazed the trail and now many others are copying it, adapting it and taking the strain, as well as promoting cask ale to others. Is this a bad thing? No, it isn't. We in CAMRA campaign for real ale and if our campaigning has inspired others take the baton up and promote the same kind of beers we do, in their own particular way, at their risk, then surely that's no bad thing?
One thing though. Most of these festivals have a commercial element to them (as CAMRA's) festivals do.) Many support worthy causes and some, like Bury are run purely for profit, (though keeping the Met Arts Centre going could certainly be described as worthy). Beer festivals aren't the intellectual property of CAMRA, but often we are asked for advice and kit to help run beer festivals and we do give general advice and guidance, based on national policy. When we are asked for kit, we hire it. It takes effort to get the stuff from store and to clean it afterwards and CAMRA and its branches do still need campaigning money.
Beer is increasingly expensive to buy, and venues, in these difficult times are expensive to hire. Beer festivals can be a risky business when money is tight and you have to charge a fair old whack just to cover hall rental. When you have a town like Bury, with a healthy real ale scene, that can be a big ask of customers, who can get great choice at no entry cost in the local pubs. In short, the figures just don't stack up sometimes, so don't be too surprised if the odd, small, local beer festival is no longer run by CAMRA. I must say, I enjoyed my few hours at Bury, not having to worry about staff and whether we were going to sell enough beer to pay for it all.
At the other end of the scale though, larger festivals on a well established basis, like GBBF, National Winter Ales, Peterborough and the like in big cities, will continue to be CAMRA run, as indeed will very many small festivals. But there is a place for a different approach in certain circumstances and where it happens, there shouldn't be too many concerns about that*.
* You will no doubt understand that I am stating a personal point of view here.
26 comments:
- Bailey said...
Interesting for various reasons, not least that this is one more possible source of evidence for the debate about kegged beer at UK festivals: let the market decide.
- 21 November 2011 at 09:27
- Tandleman said...
Kegged beer is logistically difficult for a lot of venues and organisers. Demand is also uncertain, but if anyone that runs a private festival wants to try it, good luck to them.
Not sure where the "evidence" bit comes from though.
- 21 November 2011 at 10:11
- Bailey said...
Yes, exactly -- it wouldn't be CAMRA bearing the risk, or compromising its values, but lessons could still be learned.
It could provide more data for the discussion, both quantitative and qualitative, about whether kegged beer at festivals is (a) welcomed by punters and (b) actually sells.
If a private firm running a festival concludes, in response to the market, that British kegged beer isn't worth the bother, then it might make CAMRA's position re:GBBF more understandable to some.
- 21 November 2011 at 11:18
- RedNev said...
Bailey: I'm not sure why CAMRA has to justify its position on keg beer when its very name explains what it's about. The Cats Protection League doesn't have to make its position about not taking in dogs "more understandable to some".
That aside, I worked at the CAMRA Bury beerex for many years from 1987 to early 2000s and thoroughly enjoyed doing so, despite once being given a black eye by a drunken Man Utd fan!
I think you're right, TM, that CAMRA festivals are becoming more difficult - affordable room hire alone is a major headache - but I'm certain we wouldn't be having all these other beer festivals if CAMRA hadn't blazed the trail.
- 21 November 2011 at 16:01
- Bailey said...
Nev -- CAMRA doesn't *have* to do anything but, if it wants to keep attracting new members, and keep members like us happy and renewing our membership, expressing the logic behind their policies clearly and persuasively (with evidence) wouldn't do any harm.
- 21 November 2011 at 16:19
- RedNev said...
Campaign for Real Ale. It seems clear enough to me. What's the hard bit?
- 21 November 2011 at 16:34
- Bailey said...
Nev -- I'm sure you've heard people ask, for example, why CAMRA can't find some way to campaign for real ale *alongside* supporting other kinds of good beer from around the UK. I'm sure you've also heard people ask why there are foreign keg beers at GBBF but not British ones (I know I have -- I'm bloody bored of hearing it). (I also know that the answer is to do with whether a country has a tradition of cask ale, etc. etc.). So, no, the intricacies aren't clear to everyone, even if they've read the definition of 'real ale' and agree with it.
Organisations which respond to well-meaning questioning from members with variations on "if you don't like it, fuck off" or "are you thick or something?" don't win friends and influence people. They look bad-tempered, insular and dogmatic.
Anyway, sorry to have tried to make a point about how evidence and experience might support a reasonable discussion re: the future of CAMRA. Realise I was being a dick. I'm out of here.
- 21 November 2011 at 16:50
RedNev said... Campaign for Real Ale. It seems clear enough to me. What's the hard bit?
Answer: Cider, perry and certain 'approved' continental lagers muddy the waters to the point where if a case can be made them it could be made for craft keg. CAMRA clearly isn't exclusively about real ale.
- 21 November 2011 at 17:01
- Tandleman said...
Now then Folks. I think there is a degree of necessity to explain policies, but it does boil down to "We campaign for real ale."
The issue of supporting other forms of dispense and types of beer is one that in the main only seems to worry certain beer geeks and bloggers, but I always justify CAMRA not doing so by the need to support an indigenous and unique way of drinking live beer that would be threatened by neglect and convenience if nobody did.
No harm at all in explaining that though.
- 21 November 2011 at 17:03
- Tandleman said...
John B - That is a reasonable point, but you are right of course. We campaign for real ale, but not just real ale.
If the members want to change that would be fine, but who would define "craft keg?"
Ah yes we do end up there don't we? What IS craft keg?
- 21 November 2011 at 17:06
- Bailey said...
TM -- OK, have stopped sulking.
I do get a bit fed up of this suggestion that bloggers views are in some way unique and unrepresentative: why would a blogger be more prone to liking kegged beer than any other beer drinker? Bloggers aren't aliens, they're ordinary people who've taken 10 minutes to sign up with wordpress or blogger. Personally, I think bloggers are the vocal part of a much larger group of punters -- punters who love and are interested in beer, and have no desire to see the end to "a unique way of drinking live beer" (lovely turn of phrase, by the way).
And if CAMRA doesn't take into account the views and opinions of beer geeks... well, blimey...
- 21 November 2011 at 17:09
- Tandleman said...
Bailey - Will answer that tomorrow. I'm (genuinely) off to campaign for real ale. I have a committee meeting in Oldham and a bus to catch
- 21 November 2011 at 17:13
- Bailey said...
TM -- I don't think CAMRA need necessarily campaign for any form of keg, just "support" it a bit. And the exact definition used doesn't matter, as long as it's one the majority of members can *live with*, just like we live with other aspects of the campaign we're lukewarm towards because, broadly, we support it.
But this isn't what your post was about. Sorry to have muddied the waters and brought all of this into the discussion, albeit by mistake and tangentially.
- 21 November 2011 at 17:16
I used to think there was an easy definition of real ale: a beer which undergoes secondary fermentation in the dispense container.
Seemed fine until I started to realise that breweries who racked from conditioning tanks left most of the sediment behind. What was marketed as real ale was effectively bright beer with the shelf life of such.
Then there are the breweries who rack from fermentation vessels. Unless they're very careful the first fills get lots of yeast. And, as an aside, may be the beers which tend to fob when pulled. The later fills won't have as much or any yeast and again should be classed as bright beer.
So now I'm confused about what real ale is.
To blur boundaries even more, most craft keg brewers wouldn't consider pasteurisation and only coarse filter on racking. I have seen it suggested that this level of filtration is of similar intensity to the filters in place on FV/CT outlets.
To really complicate things you could look at gases applied in the pub either for storage or dispense.
The boundary blurrers here are the key kegs where no pub gas is applied direct.
Seems to me that that the boundaries are so ill defined that they aren't boundaries at all. The only boundaries are in the mind of the believer.
To misquote someone else we should 'Walk in the Light'.
- 21 November 2011 at 17:29
- RedNev said...
Bailey: until now I had thought better of you and never expected you to put words into my mouth. I have never advocated being rude to anyone (you're the one who introduced the swearing to this thread) and as an active member of CAMRA, I've been very happy to explain on numerous occasions what real ale is to those who don't know. In fact, I did so even before I joined the campaign in the early 1980s.
But there are those, and I judged by your words that you were in that camp, who are fully aware of what CAMRA stands for and who berate the campaign for not also promoting craft beers, by which they mean keg. Such a view seems illogical to me, because if CAMRA did embrace the new keg, it would cease to be a campaign for real ale. The CAMRA AGM has time and time again rejected accommodating the new keg beers. That's its internal domocracy at work, and you can say what you like here or elsewhere, but if you want to try and change CAMRA policy, you have only one route.
And no: I've never been asked why there are foreign keg beers at GBBF but not British ones.
- 21 November 2011 at 19:45
- Bailey said...
Nev -- apologies. Hate having words put into my mouth so understand why that annoyed you. I did say "variations on" and wasn't specifically referring to what you said in that particular comment but to what I felt was a general message I'd picked up in comments across blogs, in CAMRA letters pages, etc. etc. Anyway, sorry.
We've suggested (don't think there's been much berating) a few times that, as members, we'd like to see CAMRA do more to support *good* keg beer, but I don't think it's been any more vigorous than that. I'm getting to accept that it won't happen for the reasons you've set out -- the campaign is what it is and there's no appetite to expand or change it amongst the active membership.
Which is a shame, because I think CAMRA is a great institution that will wither (gracefully, hopefully) if it doesn't channel into something else during the next 20 years or so the energy it put into saving cask beer in the last forty.
- 21 November 2011 at 21:09
so why is it called The great British beer fest when it obviously only has real ales and not keg beers which im sure comes under beer. cheers john
- 22 November 2011 at 01:42
- Erlangernick said...
Bailey, please help a poor foreigner and new CAMRA member out. I thought I understood that membership has been on the rise, not in decline, in recent years. If this is so, where does this concern about withering come from?
And what does "support *good* keg beer" mean--specifically the "support" part?
And to anyone else, can we get CAMRA to not support *bad* real ale? Please???
- 22 November 2011 at 08:27
- Bailey said...
Nick -- maybe I'm worrying about nothing but I have a feeling lots of people join not knowing exactly what it stands for. For some people (e.g. all my former colleagues at my last workplace) "real ale" just means "not lager". They were surprise to hear that, e.g. Badger's bottled beers aren't considered real ale by CAMRA. Several were (extremely passive) members of CAMRA! So their renewal every year can't be counted on.
In the next few years, I can imagine more and more people who are enthusiastic about, say, Brewdog (dismissively referred to as 'fanboys' by some) deciding against joining CAMRA because, rightly or wrongly, they have the impression CAMRA is the bad guy. We certainly feel less sure about membership now than we did five years ago.
And some older members will, er, have their membership terminated in other ways as time marches on.
But maybe it's not worth worrying about that until (if) the membership numbers start dropping. (Definition of complacency?)
"Support", to me, suggests making occasional positive noises about good keg beer, however that is defined; ensuring that official policy is not to slag it off in, e.g., branch newsletters; and giving it a place at GBBF, even if with caveats to the effect that it's not real ale and that CAMRA still believes, overall, real ale is the best of British beer.
Of course, almost ever element of language is imprecise and unclear until there's a conversation to agree a working definition, or it's established through usage. (See the point about real ale above -- through usage, it could end up in the dictionary meaning just "British beer other than lager".)
Agree re: bad cask beer. That's the biggest headache for me and the thing that makes CAMRA policy re: cask ale seem so dogmatic and bureaucratic. Surely, at some point, someone needs to find a way to deal with the fact that some kegged Brewdog beers, even if not the best beers out there overall, are much better than cask-conditioned Greene King IPA? (Realise that's up for debate.)
- 22 November 2011 at 09:14
- Erlangernick said...
Cheers, Bailey.
And John B brings up good points IMO.
- 22 November 2011 at 09:29
- Tandleman said...
"Which is a shame, because I think CAMRA is a great institution that will wither (gracefully, hopefully) if it doesn't channel into something else during the next 20 years or so the energy it put into saving cask beer in the last forty."
The problem with that is that you assume traditional cask beer has been saved. I doubt if many active CAMRA types believe that. We want it to survive and thrive and that's why we do what we do. Keg, like taxes and death will always be with us. Cask only by eternal vigilance.
- 22 November 2011 at 09:33
- Tandleman said...
Bailey -
You'd have to be pretty woolly minded not to know what CAMRA stands for. We talk to people when they join, there are huge membership surveys continually taking place and everything CAMRA publishes to its members makes it plain what we believe in. Of course there are some that join for the benefits or because the vaguely agree CAMRA is good, or aren't that precise, but on the whole, members know what they are getting into.
The beer market will change and as it does and many will find that they like other things too - as most CAMRA members already do - but there is a leap of logic to say that CAMRA is the bad guy for sticking to its knitting. Thatis just perverse to me. Why you feel less happy about being a member is your business, but our membership retention rates would indicate that you are not in a majority. And anyway the route to change is always open as Nev points out. I submit that most CAMRA members want to preserve real ale. Simple as. Some actively, some less so, but they all want that to be the case and most don't believe the battle has been won forever.
The march of time affects us all and it will cause change, but of what kind, I can't predict. But there is little doubt that we are all aware of change. Brewing practice and technology changes. Younger people like experimentation and fizzier beer - it was always thus. Us old CAMRA soaks have been drinking craft keg for years off and on. Who knows where current changes may lead us, but I doubt if it will lead to the approval by CAMRA of extraneous CO2. Not in my lifetime anyway.
Neville's Cat Protection League analogy is a good one. Do they make positive noises about dogs from time to time? I agree wholeheartedly that slagging keg off in some kind of generic way is absolutely wrong and wrote saying so in Beer Magazine. If there is eveidence of such slagging off, please let me know and I'll take it up with Mike Benner as I believe it is wrong and not in the interests of the Campaign.
Finally "bad" cask beer is not Greene King IPA. Millions like it even if I don't. Bad cask is poorly presented cask and we do need to root that out. The rest is just preference. I'll just say one last word on that "Distelhauser". :-)
- 22 November 2011 at 09:59
- Erlangernick said...
Just to further this along in the direction of keg vs cask, here's a guide to "draught beer" from the Brewers Association in the US: http://t.co/YYbHlwZX
Note that "draught" == "keg" to us Yanks. I've not read it, except for the bits on hygiene on pg. 49. What do you casketeers make of some of those points (to the rim is over-pouring, nozzle shan't touch the beer)?
(Bet most of us pronounce it "drawt" too.)
- 22 November 2011 at 10:04
- Erlangernick said...
If I were to see keg BrewDog whatever at the MAN airport Spoons alongside the usual cask GK IPA, I'd have a taste of the BrewDog, and if it weren't too gassy, maybe a half. If it were gassy, I'd have a GK, just for the sake of having my last beer before leaving the UK be real ale.
Unless the GK were shittier than it normally is.
- 22 November 2011 at 10:09
- jesusjohn said...
I'll take a moment here to leap in and say I believe there are valid points on all sides.
I agree wholeheartedly with Tandleman that we will only keep cask vibrant - both guarding traditional style brews and welcoming ingredient and recipe innovation - through eternal vigilance.
However, given the growing craft keg space*, I think many CAMRA members - myself included - would support moves within the organisation for the campaign to own that too and even push the segment to embrace real ale.
On Boak & Bailey's blog, I once suggested a motion might be put to CAMRA's AGM suggesting individual branches and GBBF could give beer festival consideration to unpasteurised craft beer (dispensed however) produced by brewers which *have a permanent cask offer*.
The motion would probably fall - I (like most) am not an active member, though I have volunteered and plan to do so in future. The cost of attending the AGM makes it an expensive pursuit.
But if it were to pass, it would nip in the bud accusations that the organisation is stuck in the past and might even persuade the likes of Meantime and Lovibonds to extend or create their cask offer.
* For more on whether craft keg will grow, see http://jesusjohn.blogspot.com/2011/06/keg-is-expensive-and-here-to-stay.html
- 22 November 2011 at 12:22
- RedNev said...
Bailey: perhaps we're not disagreeing quite as much as we both first thought.
I am a real ale drinker, and I've yet to come across any beer type that FOR ME is as good. However, my position is that I am firmly behind the CAMRA policy that ideally pub customers should have a choice which includes real ale. That policy tacitly acknowledges that some drinkers will choose other drinks: I respect other people's choices and in the CAMRA mag I edit, I won't accept criticisms of any other drink. I have seen stupid comments in other mags referring to non-real ale and lager as 'zombeers' or 'chemical fizz'.
The sensible attitude for a CAMRA member is: "I think this is good. Fancy trying it?" and NOT "Why are you drinking that rubbish." That's not being prescriptive, but simply suggesting how CAMRA's official policy should be applied. Members who insult other people's drinks are:
1) alienating, not persuading, people; &
2) acting contrary to the spirit of the campaign's policy.
The CAMRA Taliban who vociferously despise all other drinks are becoming quite a rarity, thank goodness. I recently described an encounter with a dyed-in-the-Arran CAMRA stereotype here but that incident was at least 15 years ago now.
- 22 November 2011 at 17:02


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Link to the film: http://films.thelot.com/films
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What are you waiting for? Go visit the site and rate the movie! Leave your comments too!QWERTY is a suspense-thriller. A mentally-afflicted young man named Benny is accused of murdering Professor Chavez, his longtime benefactor. Chavez' lawyer, Dan Ortega, is called in to figure out what really happened. The answer lies in Benny's mad obsession with the professor's old typewriter, on which he types relentlessly, day and night.
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