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Patti Smith
Born in Chicago and raised in Woodbury, New Jersey, just across the state line from Philadelphia, Patti's mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer cum waitress. Her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant; she was the oldest of four siblings: her sisters Linda and Kimberly (the latter plays mandolin on Gone Again's "Ravens,"), and brother Todd. Unable to find her place in high school society, she took refuge in the images of Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, James Brown, and the Rolling Stones. Dropping out of Glassboro State Teacher's College, she headed for the bright -lights-big-city of New York.
When she arrived in town, she met an art student named Robert Mapplethorpe and they moved in together. Patti found a job as a bookstore clerk at the Strand and Scribner's. In 1969, she traveled to Paris with her sister Linda, working on the street as a performance artist, and making her first forays into the visual arts. Returning to New York as the seventies got underway, she rebounded between the back room at Max's Kansas City and the Hotel Chelsea. Encouraged by such as Dylan cohort Bobby Neuwirth and blues virtuoso Johnny Winter, Patti made a name for herself in underground theatre (starring in such plays as Jackie Curtis' Vain Victory at the Cafe La Mama), and collaborating with the playwright Sam Shepherd, with whom she co-authored Cowboy Mouth. She was also writing poetry.
On February 10, 1971, she opened for Gerard Malanga at a Poetry Project weekly reading at St. Mark's Church on the Lower East Side. She was joined for three songs by Lenny Kaye, a rock writer and record store clerk whom she had met through an article he'd written for Jazz and Pop magazine about "Accapella" music, the unaccompanied doo-wop of the Philly-New York corridor. Discovering they liked the same type of obscure records, and knowing that he played guitar, she added his rhythmic chording to her chant-sung poetry, though there was little sense of where it might be heading.
Patti continued performing as a poet/actress over the next two years, opening for the New York Dolls at the Mercer Arts Center, writing songs for The Blue Oyster Cult, "reviewing" records for Creem and Rock magazines, and publishing her first volumes of poetry, Seventh Heaven and Witt. In November of 1973, she and Kaye reunited for a "Rock 'n' Rimbaud" performance at Le Jardin off New York's Times Square, and the seeds for a band were sown. They were accompanied by a succession of piano players, culminating in the arrival of Richard "DNV" Sohl in the Spring of 1974. As a trio, they began to play more regularly, a curious blend centered on Patti's improvised wordplay, between free rock and free jazz, original songs mingling with strange cover versions that were used as counterpoint and segue.
One of these, Patti's version of "Hey Joe," taking as its backdrop the Patty Hearst kidnapping, became her first recorded work. Going into Electric Ladyland Studio on the evening of June 5, 1974, the group attempted to see if the electricity they were generating live could be translated to vinyl. Helped out by Tom Verlaine (of the new band, Television) on lead guitar, funded by Robert Mapplethorpe, and released on their own Mer Records, the result was one of the first indie-rock DIY singles. The b-side was the prophetic "Piss Factory," which told of Patti's stint as an assembly line worker and her vow to travel to New York: "Watch me now!"
Buoyed by an energetic New Band scene centered around CBGB's in New York, the group?Patti, Lenny, and DNV?traveled to California in the fall of '74, playing the Whiskey in L.A. and the Fillmore (on audition night) in S.F. When they returned east, they felt their sound needed filling out, and recruited guitarist Ivan Kral, a Czech refugee. It was this combination that played CBGB's for eight weeks in the spring of 1975, honing their concept and ultimately attracting the attention of Clive Davis, who signed them to his fledgling Arista label that summer.
Drummer Jay Dee Daugherty had overseen their sound at CBGB's and had sat in with them several times. He joined the band in time to record their debut album, with John Cale at the producer's helm. Recorded at Electric Ladyland, Horses was released in November 1975. It contained Patti's incantatory reworkings of rock classics like "Gloria" and "Land (Of A Thousand Dances)", more traditional song forms (the reggae "Redondo Beach," "Free Money"), and streams-of -unconscious poetry ("Birdland"). It cracked the American Top 50, paving the way for a new generation of art-rat punk.
She had given a handful of performances, mostly poetry?her summer, 1993, reading in Central Park attracted several thousand fans?over the years. Yet increasingly she felt the need to perform, to reconnect with her audience not only for them but herself, and she began appearing in out of the way venues, from Ann Arbor to Toronto, to understand how to present her music in a modern setting. She gathered her longtime collaborator Lenny Kaye, and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, and added bassist Tony Shanahan, a New Jersey musician who had worked with both Kaye and John Cale, to provide live backing. Another Central Park reading in 1995, an impromptu appearance at New York's Lollapalooza on the second stage, and tour of the west coast both in poetry and full rock mode?all helped her find her stage presence again. She contributed tracks to the Ain't Nothin' But A She Thing album (a version of Nina Simone's "Don't Smoke In Bed") and the Dead Man Walking soundtrack (Oliver Ray's "Walkin' Blind").
In the summer of 1995, she entered New York's Electric Lady land studios to begin recording her sixth album. Produced by Malcolm Burn and Lenny Kaye, Gone Again features old friends like Tom Verlaine and John Cale, new friends like keyboardist Luis Resto and guitarist Oliver Ray, guest appearances by singer Jeff Buckley, cellist Jane Scarpantoni, and mandolin player Kimberly Smith; and the inimitable Smith magic of song and the spoken word.
Homepages, Biographies, and Interests
a patti smith babelogue – The premier site for any and all information, from contacting patti to poetry, sound clips, performances, etc.
Arista Record's Patti Smith Homepage
Tribute: Patti Smith – Photos and artwork along with a tribute (obviously) to Smith
CGBGs Home Page
Patti Smith at Music Boulevard includes Biographies, Links, etc.
Patti's Entry in Rough Guide to Rock
Critical Inquiry: An excerpt from a scholarly article on Patti & Rimbaud
Sound and Sample
Amnesty International Page (includes a realaudio clip that includes Patti Smith)
Sound and Poetic Clips at the Cafenet
Hanuman Books ? T-shirts, posters, poems, and signed 1sts of woolgathering
Mr. Showbiz Interview and Article
Addicted to Noise RealAudio Interview
The Detroit Journal ? the online paper composed by Striking Detroit Free Press Workers:
Appearance at R.E.M. concert
Tribute to Fred at his church
The San Francisco Bay Guardian:
"Ain't It Strange"
"Easter, Again"
"The Soul of Patti Smith"
Related Links
Electric Cool Acid, A Japanese site devoted to underground & psychedelic music
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
An American critic, satirical poet, and short-story writer, Dorothy Rothschild Parker, b. West End, N.J., Aug. 22, 1893, d. June 7, 1967, is remembered as much for her flashing verbal exchanges and malicious wit as for the disenchanted stories and sketches in which she revealed her underlying pessimism. Starting her career as Vanity Fair's drama critic (1917-20) and continuing as the New Yorker's theater and book reviewer (1927-33), Parker enhanced her legend in the 1920s and early 1930s through membership in the Algonquin Hotel's celebrated Round Table.
Parker published her first light verse in Enough Rope (1927) and Death and Taxes (1931), volumes marked by an elegant economy of expression, sophisticated cynicism, and irony. These were followed by the short-story collections Laments for the Living (1930) and After Such Pleasures (1933), containing her single most famous story, "Big Blonde." Parker scripted films in Hollywood from 1933 to 1938 and in 1937 covered the Spanish Civil War for the New Masses. In collaboration with others she also wrote two Broadway plays: Close Harmony (1924), with Elmer Rice, and Ladies of the Corridor (1953), with Arnaud d'Usseau.
Bibliography: Frewin, Leslie, The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker (1987); Keats, John, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970; repr. 1986); Kinney, Arthur F., Dorothy Parker (1978); Meade, Marion, Dorothy Parker (1988); Parker, Dorothy, The Portable Dorothy Parker, rev. ed., (1976).
Text Copyright ? 1993 Grolier Incorporated
Homepages, Biographies, Bibliographies
The Dorothy Parker Homepage
Steve Raines' Algonquin Round Table page
A Bibliography
A review of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Another short review of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Review of The Poetry & Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown aside with great force.
Related Links Links
Parker at the Internet Movie Database
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
The Algonquin Hotel
Inspired by Parker
"Ode to Dorothy Parker"
"Me and Dot"
No doubt it will strike the reader as odd, but the twenties in which Mrs. Parker began work were considered an era of extreme and perhaps dangerous permissiveness, especially in regard to the social experiments being carried out by women. Drinking, smoking, sniffing cocaine, bobbing one's hair, dancing the Charleston, necking, getting 'caught,' — it was hard to imagine that things could go much further before civilization itself broke down. The young women who set the pace were called sophisticated, though few of them were; their shocking motto was 'Anything Goes' and they meant it. New York was their noisy Sodom, and Mrs. Parker's verse gave glimpses or the license to be met with there and its heavy cost in terms of one's emotions. These verses, which became something of a national rage, were thought to be strong stuff: brusque, bitter and unwomanly in their presumed cynacism. They gave the average reader an impression of going recklessly far in asserting a woman's equal rights inside a sexual relationship, including the right of infidelity. The verses do not seem brusque, bitter and unwomanly today; moreover, the verses that at the time of their first publication appealed to readers as the real thing, full of a pain of loss splendidly borne, are the ones likeliest now to set our teeth on edge, as being tainted with a glib galantry every bit as false as the revolting cuddly high spirits of Mrs. Parker's literary mortal enemy, A.A. Milne.
She began her career as a poet with a song of lamentation, and ended it with what she called a war song, in which she urged her soldier-husband to be unfaithful to her. The span of her work is narrow and what it embraces if often slight, but the author of it is perhaps luckier than she supposed herself to be: as a writer, she had not counted on surviving, and the continued interest in her work in schools and colleges, where she is being read by the great-grandchildren of her comtemporaries, would startle and delight her. There were circumstances under which, with an effort, she could refrain from making wisecracks; thought it is risky to assume that an occasion for paying homage to her would be among them, we do well to take that chance. Mrs. Parker had, after all, when she chose to display them, perfect manners. She would be eager to conceal from us, for our sakes, how much readier she was to accept abuse than praise. Greatly daring, we salute her. For here she is.
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Oppo A83 – How to Change Wallpaper
You can add a personal touch to your Oppo A83 by changing the wallpaper. You can use the default images that come with your smartphone or download some from the internet. Images of your loved ones can also look really cool when you see them on your Lock or Home screen.
No matter what your preference might be, it is quite easy to set a new wallpaper on the Oppo A83. We have created simple guidelines to help you do this.
Changing Wallpaper with the Settings App
The easiest way to change your default wallpaper is via the Settings app. To do it, you need to follow these steps:
1. Launch the Settings App
Swipe down to Homescreen & Lockscreen Magazine and tap to open it.
2. Enable Lock Screen Magazine & Wallpaper
When you are inside the Homescreen & Lockscreen Magazine menu, toggle on the switch next to the Lock Screen Magazine & Wallpaper option.
3. Select Set Wallpaper
Once the Lock Screen Magazine & Wallpaper option is on, you need to tap on Set Wallpaper to choose one from Oppo Stock Library or your Photos.
4. Choosing the Wallpaper
As previously stated, there are two destinations where you can select a new wallpaper. Here is how to use them:
Get Wallpapers from the Online Library
Tap on Wallpapers
If you want to use one from the Oppo Stock, tap on Wallpaper to enter the menu.
Select Download More
Tap on Download More to choose the wallpapers you want to get. In the Oppo Stock menu, you can choose the Wallpaper category and download A83 themes as well.
Get Wallpapers from Photos
Tap on Photos
When you tap on Photos, you will be immediately taken to the Photo Library to choose the desired image.
Select the Desired Photo
Swipe until you find the photo you want to use and tap to select it.
5. Applying the Photo
After you've selected a photo from the Library or one you downloaded from the Oppo Stock, you need to tap Apply to use the image.
6. Adjusting the Image
Once you've applied the image to your screen, you can make additional adjustments. Drag it around to find the optimal position or pinch to zoom so that the desired section of the image would be displayed.
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When you are happy with the positioning, tap on Set As to choose the screen for your wallpaper.
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The pop-up window that appears after you've tapped Set As allows you to set the image either as your Lock screen or Home screen wallpaper. It would have been nice if the software allowed you to choose to apply it to both screens at once, but it doesn't. If you want to use the same wallpaper on both screens, you will have to repeat these steps.
Changing Wallpaper from the Home Screen
You should be able to access Wallpapers on your Oppo A83 from the Home Screen menu. You need to do the following:
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Fantastic Four (2015) Starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey, Tim Blake Nelson. Directed by: Josh Trank. Screenplay by: Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg, Josh Trank. Based on Fantastic Four comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Produced by Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar, Gregory Goodman. Run Time: 100 minutes. U.S. Fantasy, Science Fiction.
The summer of sequels and reboots continues with Fantastic Four, a reboot of Fantastic Four (2005), which, while a commercial success, was still considered a critical disappointment when it was first released. The consensus on Rotten Tomatoes is that the original film is "Marred by goofy attempts at wit, subpar acting, and bland storytelling, Fantastic Four is a mediocre attempt to bring Marvel's oldest hero team to the big screen." The films initial financial success could be due in part to the fact that superhero films were still in their infancy. The MCU would not kick into gear until 2008, so it was easy to stand out when there wasn't a glut of product and audiences were obviously hungry for these types of movies.
Things didn't seem like they could get worse, but that film's sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) would only be considered a bigger disappointment with it's over the top product placement and even lamer story. It says something when a franchise has to be rebooted within eight years, but it really says something that this reboot makes 2005's and 2007's disappointments look better by comparison.
The opening weekend of the reboot was so disappointing, that a planned-for sequel was cancelled, as home studio, 20th Century Fox, talked financial write down in the wake of its $26.2 million opening; the original opened at more than twice that amount, $56,061,504, and last I looked ticket prices had only gone up in the meantime. So bad were the reviews and the word of mouth that I felt compelled to see what all the noise was about. Having now seen it in a theater, I can say that the new Fantastic Four is not the worst film I've ever seen, but it actually made me long for the original film, something a reboot shouldn't make you do.
The Fantastic Four are made up of Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Susan Storm/Invisible Woman and Ben Grimm/Thing and no doubt grew out of the space race the U.S. and then U.S.S.R. were engaged in at the beginning of the 1960's. The comic was first published in November 1961 and the ill effects of cosmic rays, which is what transformed the four into heroes, reflected the real concern of the unknowns of space travel, an era which was already underway with the launch of Sputnik, Cosmonauts and Mercury Astronauts. The original film updated the premise, but still retained the idea of the dangers of space.
Fantastic Four has now been reborn as a politically correct, scientifically challenged mess of a story. There is enough mumbo jumbo science to fill a library. A good science fiction film should lay down a plausible, if not realistic, basis from which to operate; I'm afraid this one doesn't even really try. Nothing is really ever explained as to what really caused their transformation, only some strange gloppy energy that looks more like nuclear waste than anything else.
Even the politics don't seem right and I'm as skeptical as the next when it comes to the workings of our Federal government. Forget Victor von Doom as the villain, the government is in the form of Dr. Harvey Allen (Tim Blake Nelson), a significant character that is drawn as sketchy as any I've seen in recent memory. His role shifts from venture capitalist to government stooge seamlessly, with his real purpose only to be the foil of all that is supposed to be good. (Now there's a job description.) He easily corrupts Thing into a war machine, but the others prove harder and all are disposable after they've filled out his evil score card.
In an attempt to be politically correct, the movie offers up a Black Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), but keeps his sister, Susan Storm (Kate Mara), White. Instead of blood siblings, the movie gets around it with a few throwaway lines about her being adopted. Nothing against the actors, but I am not a big fan of changing characters to be politically correct. (Make new superheroes rather than altering existing ones.) But why stop there? Why not make Susan Black as well? Were the producers hedging their PC bet? It comes off as a really stupid idea that is not even carried out as fully as it should have been.
And I know they like to skew films to attract younger audiences, but I think these characters are too young. We get the impression, based on the timeline the film sets down, that Reed (Miles Teller) is like a freshman in college. In the original, I felt like these were people who had lives and their transformation would not only affect them, but others as well. Here, I get the feeling that this is more a redirection of their career paths, if they even had one. Ben (Jamie Bell) is sort of a tag along that gets transformed into Thing because he answered his cell in the middle of the night. And he seems to be the one who most easily accepts the transformation, even though he has no pants or genitalia as a result.
The biggest problem though with the film is its timing. Way too much time is spent before we get to the action. Watching people build something does not make for great entertainment and the generic montage of the crew getting to be friends while they work is as old as Methuselah. If you find yourself looking at your watch, you are not alone. The film doesn't really get going until the last third and by then it's too late.
The true comic book villain, Doom, is one of those so formidable that he seems unstoppable, which is always a mistake. We see Victor easily dispense with the petty humans, like Dr. Allen, but he doesn't use the same tried and true method on the Fantastic Four, which makes no sense. It is a shame that the film dispenses with what had been a recurring villain in the comics so early in the "franchise". It makes you wonder what they would have done in the sequel.
And the Fantastic Four, which are not named until the very end, seem to be going into industry rather than superhero work, demanding and getting from the government a top secret facility that they can use for their own purposes. To paraphrase Susan's demand, whatever they develop belongs to them. What do superheroes make anyway? I know Iron Man is an industrialist before he's transformed, but then he handed over the day-to-day running of the business to someone else.
What could the film's producers have imagined for a sequel, more building? We don't want to overlook the exciting blueprint sequence or the thrilling RFP process. And were they going to bring back the Silver Surfer, which was a mistake the first time around? Thankfully we'll never have to find out.
While I can't recommend the original Fantastic Four or its sequel, I would say the new one was better avoided all together.
While I can't recommend the original Fantastic Four or its sequel, I would say the new one was better avoided all together.


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How to Handle Interruptions at Work
When you need to focus at work, use the following suggestions to help prevent and deal with interruptions.
- Let your phone take the message. Voicemail and caller-ids exist for a reason. When working on important tasks that require your complete focus, let phone interruptions go to voicemail. Caller-ids will help you identify emergency calls that you need to attend to immediately. Otherwise, complete your task and then respond to the caller.
- Check your email at designated times. Checking your email throughout the day is a sure way of losing focus on a task at hand. While your job may require you to check email regularly, it is generally best to do one thing at a time and to complete one task before moving on to the next. Try to limit yourself to checking email between tasks rather than during tasks. Also, prioritize your responses to the email messages you receive. Answer only those that require immediate action, and respond to other less urgent messages later when you have more time.
- Curtail interruptions by your peers with the following techniques:
- Politely tell your colleague you need to get back to work.
- Ask your colleague if you can get back to him or her at another time.
- Work earlier or later in the day when the workplace may be quieter.
- Shut your office door.
- Mark yourself as busy on IM.


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Prepare for the test using cPanel (VPS Optimized)
Generate SSH key on the host you're moving to
Read the article about how to make a key pair here
If you don't know how to use SSH (terminal command on the server) please contact the Servebolt team via Chat or email. We can make one for you. When you recieve the public key from the Servebolt team, please move to step 2.
Login to your Siteground account and click on the "Go to cPanel" button
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Click on the "Manage keys" button
Click on the "Import keys" button
There is two options in this view, to add and to import keys. Since you already have the key generated in step 1, you need to use the import function.
Input a unique name and the public key generated in step 1
By adding a unique name you will be able to easily identify the right key later. In this example we use the server name Bolt70.
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As we had expected the FA have overturned Coloccini's red card from Sunday and he will be available to play the game at home to Stoke City on Saturday.
So does this mean we can play the second half against Sunderland again?
Maybe tomorrow night – with the score 1-0 – we'll give Sunderland the advantage that it may have been a penalty.
Wrong – Fabricio Coloccini red card that changed the game
Newcastle have just issued the good news.
BREAKING: Fabricio Coloccini's red card during Sunday's derby has been overturned. https://t.co/iDkcawZlBb #NUFC pic.twitter.com/4yMXsEKFrf
— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) October 27, 2015
This is what the FA has said in response to Newcastle's appeal against the red card.
Fabricio Coloccini will not serve a one-match suspension after his wrongful dismissal claim was successful.
An Independent Regulatory Commission found that the match referee had made an obvious error in dismissing the Newcastle United defender for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity during the game against Sunderland on Sunday 25 October 2015.
Newcastle United have been charged for failing to control their players in relation to their reaction to the match referee's decision.
The club have until 6pm on 30 October 2015 to respond to the charge.
The bad news is that Newcastle have been charged for failing to control the players in their reaction to the decision.
Isn't this just a silly charge – the players were reacting to a bad call and the FA have just verified it was a bad call.
Well that's the FA for you – they are so ridiculous at times.
We hope Newcastle point out the stupidity of that charge by the FA – well maybe not – they may decide to ban Colo for one game.
It's really sad when the referee makes what was such an obvious error in dismissing the Newcastle captain when it was fairly obvious that Rob Elliot would have reached the ball before Steven Fletcher who had allegedly been fouled by Colo.
Therefore, it wasn't an obvious scoring opportunity.
The TV replays showed it was obviously not a red card – why the referees are always left without any help to reach these decisions is getting to be a joke.
It's like Frank Lampard's goal against Germany in the World Cup in South Africa just before half time where the big screens at the ground were showing the ball was about three feet over the line yet the officials let it stand – that it was not a goal.
And that's in a World Cup – the Premier League have the new goal-line technology installed to get over that problem and it works really well.
Video replays will have to be introduced at some point simply because there is just too much money riding on these games – but perhaps not in my lifetime.
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usually a recinded red card is a good thing but not today, colo is back into CB.
must admit i'm on of them myself.
The issue i've got with this possession based game we're doing is we're leaving ourselve so vunerable at the bad and having saw what I saw last week at sunderland i've not really got the confidence in us managing to score atleast 3 goals in each and every game which is what we seem to need at the minute. 8 out of 10 games have seen us concede atleast 2 goals, the only two that hadn't were those against united and arsenal which were both games we'd played more defensively. It is a more boring game that an attacking game but attacking games themselves are frustrating if they're always getting draws and losses.
"Coloccini will not now serve a one-match suspension, but the reaction of the Argentine and his team-mates on the day has landed his club in trouble.
The FA has charged Newcastle with failing to control their players, and they have until 6pm on Friday to respond."
Their reactions? Seems a bit of an odd one, no? They've been proved right and are being charged for voicing that the ref was wrong at the time?
Their protests didn't appear over the top to me, and I thought the red was more or less fair enough.
For me the charge against the players for justifiably protesting the bad red card decision is merely a face saving exercise by the FA.
We should appeal that charge as well, on the grounds that the players were correct and the ref. had got it wrong.
The sooner technology is consulted for any red card decision, the better.
Wat a load of crap!! Failing to control their players????? What about the fact that that jackass of a referee screwed the entire game bcuz of his stupid decision??
Charge him… Ban him for 3 games!!!! The entire system is flawed… Refs can play chess with teams n their aspirations and emotions of the fans…. n all that happens is a decision gets overturned..
What about the 3 points he cost us?
I'm in no way thrilled that Colo will be playing next week… But my point is if managers n players are held responsible for their actions n words, then so should the refs
Firstly, Ibiza, thank's for the concern, but sadly it's just getting worse mate. Struggling to get to the Stoke game now. I need this scan quickly and sadly NHS struggle with quickly due to govt cutbacks etc. I can't walk just now. Can't lie down or sit either so I'm having a right laugh just now. I'm gonna need an operation, just the sooner the better.
Anyway, this rescinding of red cards is a joke in very poor taste. How on any planet does this help us? It cost us the game and no amount of saying sorry brings back those points. If the FA can't provide refs capable of getting The simple things right then they should pay us compensation, because they can shove their sorry where the sun don't shine.
As for the Johnsons celebration, I see something about how it would take a sick individual to even contemplate such a thing. What? Like someone aged 26, a millionaire footballer with the choice of virtually any adult woman he chooses, but instead picks a schoolgirl? That sort of sick? Is there any sicker? He fits the bill in my eyes, especially after the abuse he gets. The simple answer is, whether he's used that celebration after any other goal. If he has, benefit of the doubt given. If he hasn't, then nuff said.
Mike says win a trophy and i may go? why the hell is businessman Mike Ashley going to walk away from untold riches in the prem league certainly in the years to come(providing we don't go down of course) that was such a stupid statement anyway, no way is the fella going even if we win something, money makes Mike tick, and he is going to begetting plenty isnt he, UNLESS!


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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
The Pendulum
The topic was book reviewing. Specifically, for the Times. I listened to a discussion about the Almighty Book, its implied importance oh-so-much more relevant than other media. The power of THE BOOK. All hail the author, all hail the awe with which one beholds the published writer, whose name on the book cover instantly conveys their legitimacy. God bless the mighty editor, the incredible weekly newspaper insert of the vaunted Times, all hail the commonly known names of writers that everyone else knows by osmosis.
"My ass," I thought. I felt a wall of fury and revulsion building within me. It's not books that piss me off. Look, I write books. It's this notion of cultural elitism. I don't come from money and I don't have the benefit of any special access or pass into the arrogant world of anticipated success. I am jealous of those who do have access, those who look down and don't notice the key to the kingdom on their keychain, because after all, it's always been there.
"Why are you taking a writing class?" My ex had asked me back in the spring, before he opted to become a prefix.
I gave him a lame answer but what I wanted to say was that I'd seen how he'd taught at Princeton, in Lebanon, New Orleans, and in Cairo, how he'd worked with his students to open up worlds to them, to facilitate their success. He'd given hall passes to the those who had come in with blank scraps of paper. I wanted to take writing classes with working journalists because of the opportunities he'd given his students. I craved opportunity. But I should have known he was different.
And so am I. I meet people, or go to parties, or even would sit with the aforementioned prefixes friends (many of which have that easy access to elitism that I so deeply resent), and I would think:
I am not of this world.
I have seldom not been alienated. Hell, I was alienated at Antioch. That takes a special skill. I come from a seriously different background to most of my peers, and I grew up early, grew up hard and independent but with a center so gooey and scared that the shell had to harden even more. I am more at home abroad than in my own apartment. I'll take Curves over pilates any day. I have monkey feet. I'd rather take a workshop in bag-sewing than in writing book reviews. I am more JC than Brooklyn, always just a bit offset from the mainstream.
And so I sat, working my stomach into knots. I shouldn't have wasted my money on this writing class. And yet, it's good for me. It's good to be forced to write beyond your repertoire. But I hate it. But it's good for me. Is it? Why did I think the prefixes responsibility as an instructor would be repeated elsewhere? Was I doing all right with the students I was teaching at the arts school ten blocks away? What would I teach them tomorrow night? I worried about Kuwaiti comic books, about a trade show in Dubai, a theme park near the Iraqi border. I felt anxiety and panic inside as others blithely talked about a book they'd read.
How the hell can I be so alienated at my age? What am I supposed to do to get past this? Why did I not read anyone else's reviews?
And back home, I considered the two essays I had to write for Friday, and the lesson plan for comic book coloring school.
And froze up.
I washed dishes. Messed around with Facebook. And finally, sat down to cut fusible interfacing to sew a new bag.
Writing. I can do it.
Tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow.
But cooling down and behaving normally in society?
That one might take a while.
12 comments:
I find your comments today ironic since I admire your ability to blog and wear your heart on your sleeve for all to read. At the same time, I can so relate to the ambivalence and contradictions of today's post!!!
- Wed Oct 08, 09:22:00 AM 2008
The outsider is the observer, the one who can come back with the report and explain to the rest of us what lurks beyond.
- Wed Oct 08, 09:40:00 AM 2008
- Sara Kocher said...
Monkey feet? About a year ago, when I went in to check on my sleeping son, he murmured in his sleep, "Mommy, you're wearing monkey shoes." I've always wondered what he meant.
I agree with both anonymous comments. Also, your churning interior is only visible because you reveal it to us. In person, especially with people who don't know you very well, you seem as cool and collected as anyone. Sometimes more so.
- Thu Oct 09, 01:00:00 AM 2008
I've lurked for a while but wanted to delurk (is there such a word?) and say I saw this and I thought of you. In explanation, a catchphrase from a very popular Post Office TV advert in the UK. Admitting to that and knowing A-ha ages me I guess!
- Thu Oct 09, 02:53:00 PM 2008
- Steven R. Stahl said...
I'm guessing that the supposed importance of a review is based on the idea that a book is a statement about something. The statement can be breezy, flippant, ponderous, lyrical, heartfelt, or abstract--but the book should be a statement, about the author, if nothing else, or the book is nothing. That's why formula fiction fails: Repeating a statement ten times makes the nine repetitions worthless to someone who heard the first one. A review assesses the effectiveness and worth of the statement. Some writers are better than others at making statements, and should be recognized for their skills.
I prefer to focus on the mechanics of writing as a reaction to fiction because that focus is consistent across genres and types of material. Whether the work of fiction is in prose, comics form, or a video, it should have a plot, characterization, theme, etc., and the parts should mesh--the story should work in ways that the reviewer should describe and the writer can explain. Stories don't happen by accident. A writer who doesn't care enough about techniques and mechanics to ensure that a story does work, who figures that claims about style can cover any and all defects, is, in my mind, a fraud who shouldn't be published anywhere.
I believe a review should be an intellectual reaction to the content of the work, whether the work is a statement and argument combined, or just a statement meant to entertain. That reaction means analysis and ascertainment, not just saying "I like it" or "I don't like it." A reviewer shouldn't feel self-important to the degree that he thinks his review is more important than the book, but the reviewer should be serious, even if the tone of the book is not. The NYT takes books seriously.
- Fri Oct 10, 02:54:00 PM 2008
- Marie Javins said...
All right, question for the subtext-oriented among you: What is Dik-Dik about?
- Fri Oct 10, 02:56:00 PM 2008
- Steven R. Stahl said...
Just going on the editorial description at Amazon.com, I'd say that "Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik" is about your views on life, your self-image, and your self-assessment(s), and about how all of those are altered as you travel around Africa.
- Fri Oct 10, 03:45:00 PM 2008
- Marie Javins said...
Anyone else read this and have an idea? The editorial description is just there to sell books.
It's about...
(I can just tell you)
- Fri Oct 10, 03:59:00 PM 2008
- Steven R. Stahl said...
Well, shouldn't the editorial description be accurate?
A writer can enjoy writing a book and still be serious about the mechanics that make the story good. A culinary mystery might be a romp, but at the core, it still has to work as a mystery.
I'm not arguing that for a book to function as a statement, it has to be made of parts that can be isolated and analyzed, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph.
- Fri Oct 10, 06:02:00 PM 2008
Two comments:
I agree with Sara and Anonymous. We only know your insecurity because you share it. You explore it. There are those of us who can't imagine doing what you do. Heck I can't even put my picture on Facebook or complete my bio!
Dik dik is about self-exploration and how experience affects the view of the self.
- Wed Oct 15, 10:36:00 PM 2008
Okay another comment. Lets see if I can put it into words. We only see what people choose to show us. Our view of ourselves informs how we see others. We don't know what happens inside the shell.
Also just being an elite doesn't guarantee self confidence. If it did I think people would be nicer.
- Wed Oct 15, 10:48:00 PM 2008
- Marie Javins said...
Oh, I might be the only person who thinks this, but Dik-Dik is peripherally about fear of intimacy.
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The country's expenditures have enhanced to Rs5.51 trillion as compared to the revenues of Rs3.58 trillion during nine months (July to March) of the current fiscal year. The budget deficit was recorded at Rs1.9 trillion (5 percent of the GDP), according to the latest data of ministry of finance. The deficit was only 4.3 percent of the GDP (Rs1.48 trillion) in the same period of previous fiscal year.
The deficit is rapidly enhancing due to the whopping increase in expenditures especially in interest payment. Meanwhile, the government is also facing record shortfall in tax collection, which is another reason behind widening of budget deficit. The incumbent government had introduced two mini budgets and slashed the development budget to control the deficit. Interestingly, the austerity plan announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan has also failed to control the expenditures of the country. The deficit has touched all-time high Rs1.9 trillion in nine months' period.
The previous PML-N government had estimated budget deficit at 5.1 percent of the GDP for the entire current fiscal year. However, the deficit has already swelled to the budgeted target in only nine months period. A top official of the ministry of finance last month had said that budget deficit would tough Rs2.7 trillion in the current financial year, which would be equal to 7 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). However, the nine months' trend showed that budget deficit may go to around Rs3 trillion (7.5 percent of the GDP) by the end of current fiscal year.
Deficit increased due to massive increase in expenditures and shortfall in tax collection
According to the data, the country's expenditures were recorded at Rs5.51 trillion (14.3 percent of the GDP). The government had spent Rs1.46 trillion on paying domestic and foreign debt servicing. The break-up of interest payment showed that Rs1.28 trillion was spent on domestic debt and Rs182.43 billion of the foreign debt. The government had allocated Rs1.6 trillion for interest payment for the entire current fiscal year. However, the amount could surge due to the sharp rupee depreciation. Dollar value has touched historic level of Rs154, which would further increase the interest payment in next three months (April to June) of the ongoing financial year.
Meanwhile, an amount Rs774.71 billion was spent on defence budget. The government had allocated Rs1.1 trillion for the defence for the current fiscal year. Meanwhile, the government had spent only Rs302.45 billion on federal development projects in the first nine months of the present financial year. Meanwhile, the provincial governments had spent Rs276 billion on the development projects. The documents showed that the government spent Rs293.3 billion on pension payments, Rs106.14 billion on public order and safety affairs, Rs69 billion on education, Rs11.05 billion on health and Rs8.4 billion on recreation, culture and religion.
Of the total revenues of Rs3.58 trillion, the government collected around Rs421.6 billion as non-tax revenues during the first nine months of the FY2019. In non-tax revenues, the government had collected Rs14.4 billion as mark-up on public sector entities, Rs30.2 billion as dividend, Rs138.2 billion as profit of State Bank of Pakistan, Rs10.7 billion as defence, Rs16.3 billion as passport fee and Rs10.4 billion as discount remained on crude oil, Rs61.8 billion as royalties on gas and oil, Rs6.1 billion as windfall levy against crude oil and Rs112.5 billion through other sources.
The four provincial governments recorded budget surplus of Rs291.6 billion during July to March period of FY2019, as their expenditures remained at Rs1.91 trillion as compared to the revenues of Rs2.2 trillion. The government had budgeted provinces to give budget surplus of Rs285.6 billion during current fiscal year.


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Hillary Clinton's Earmarks
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Earmarks -- also known as pork projects -- are specific spending items stuck in appropriations bills without prior authorization. They are often "pet projects" of elected officials, using federal dollars for hyper-local projects.
Pork projects
The following are some pork projects Hillary secured for the New York region.[1]
- $450,000 to revitalize teh College Park neighborhood of Schenectady[2]
- $250,000 for a roof replacement and other improvements to the Lesbian and Gay Communities Services Center in New York City[2]
- $200,000 to build paths in the Canandaigua's Lagoon Park[2]
- $350,000 for a survey of Albany's economic growth[1]
- $4 million for the Rochester National Center for Excellence[1]
- $3 million for restoration of biuldings and trails among other things at the Val-Kill's Eleanor Roosevelt Center[2]
- $250,000 for the Metropolitan Development Authroty of Syracuse and central New York's "Vision 2010"[1]
- $250,000 for Rural Opportunities, Inc.[1]
- $550,000 for the New York City Initiative: Music Educators for New York City[2]
- $720,000 to replace a local motel in Schenectady[2]
- $250,000 for a new performing arts center[2]
- $250,000 for an indoor sports facility in Binghamton[2]
- $250,000 to renovate the Auburn Schine Theater[2]
- $250,000 for Broome-Tioga Works (2004)[1]
- $5 million for a museum in Baltimore[2]
- $949,474 for genetics and stock research at Cornell[2]
- $2.5 million to fight Asian long-horned beetles[2]
- $250,000 for an indoor sports field in Vestal[2]
- $200,000 for the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum[2]
- $250,000 for living and working space for artists in Buffalo[2]
- $200,000 to double the Stanley Theater[2]
- $12 million to protect the Montauk lighthouse[2]
- $805,938 for a waste-to-energy program at Clarkson University[2]
- $50,000 for a "golden nematode" program at Cornell[2]


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John Calipari
Aaron Harrison
Karl-Anthony Towns
Kentucky – 64
Florida - 49
THE MODERATOR:Â We'll go ahead and get started with an opening statement from coach and then take questions for the student‑athletes.
COACH CALIPARI: It was a good win. Wasn't happy with how we started the game, but it was a good win. And the kids fought and guys played, did the stuff they had to do. Didn't shoot it well, still won.
THE MODERATOR:Â Take your questions for the student‑athletes, please.
Q.  Just wondering, you're a young guy, certainly the accomplishment to date for this program's pretty incredible. For you guys, is it just about winning the next game or does all these fans that have been around forever, does that fall on you wanting to be‑‑ you know, fall into the historically one of the best ever teams that has ever been through here?
KARL‑ANTHONY TOWNS: For us, we just worry about the next game. For you to be historic, you got to keep winning every next game. So we just worry about what we can do to contribute to the game for each other, and also just make sure that we do everything we can to not only contribute, but to also help anyone who needs it.
Q. For much of the game, y'all trailed in the stats, rebounding and what have you, and over the last, seemed like, eight or nine minutes or so, you took control of the boards. Was it fair to say that was the difference in why y'all won as comfortable as you did?
AARON HARRISON:Â I think we just made a few defensive adjustments and we just found a way to win, really.
KARL‑ANTHONY TOWNS:Â We just made some defensive adjustments and that's what we did to win the game.
THE MODERATOR: All right. We'll excuse you to the locker room and take questions for coach.
Q. They just mentioned defensive adjustments. What specifically changed?
COACH CALIPARI: Well, there's a little bit of the pick‑and‑roll stuff that they were shooting 65 percent early and our bigs were not doing what we were trying to do. We were also not switching the way we wanted to on a few things.
But the reality of it is, we didn't play with as much energy as Florida played with to start the game. And they came in and I told them at halftime, If that's what we have in store, like that's how we're going to do this, we're going to have some problems.
But I thought in the later part of the game, we found that combination of Andrew, Aaron, Tyler, Trey, and Karl or Dakari, that's what we did. And see that's the advantage we have. We'll juggle it around until we figure out who is playing well and then we'll ride with those guys.
We want to platoon. We want to all nine players to play. But if you get in there and you're shaky at all or you're breaking down, it's like, okay, going to go with these guys.
Q. You've had quite a few games that have been like this where it's been pretty close until five, six, seven minutes left and then you guys stretch things out. What is it about this team that ‑‑
COACH CALIPARI: They have a will to win. They do have a will to win and we have enough playmaker kind of players Andrew to Aaron to Karl now to Trey, I think Tyler. We got a lot of guys that aren't afraid to make the play. To be those kind of players, you cannot be afraid to make the game‑winning play. None of those kids are. They will take it.
If they miss it, they will live with the result, which is late in the game where we'll make a play or two or come up with a defensive stop, we'll do some good stuff.
THE MODERATOR: All right. Thank you.
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We are going to leverage our expertise and resources to be a catalyst for the State of Idaho to decrease by 100% the number of healthy, adoptable animals euthanized in shelters by 2025.Mountain Humane Board of Directors
Mountain Humane is a "no-kill" shelter, which means that we will never euthanize an animal due to time or space constraints. We are dedicated to preventing animal suffering and cruelty, to providing safe animals for adoption, and to providing quality care for every animal entrusted to us.
Our success in making Blaine County a no-kill community is only the start – more than 10,000 dogs and cats are still euthanized annually in Idaho that we know of (not all shelters document and report their population numbers, so that number is likely much higher). This is a huge burden on the staff at these shelters and is a tragedy for the animals. No one wants euthanasia to be the solution for pet overpopulation but not all shelters have the resources or circumstances that allow them to become no-kill. And refusing to euthanize animals if you can't house and care for them humanely, just to be "no-kill," is not a humane solution.
Therefore, Mountain Humane's board of directors committed in its 2017 strategic plan to leverage our "expertise and resources to be a catalyst for the State of Idaho to decrease by 100% the number of healthy, adoptable animals euthanized in shelters by 2025." In other words, our goal is to help make Idaho a no-kill state by 2025.
The new 30,000 square foot animal adoption and humane education center is a critical tool for achieving this ambitious goal. Want to learn more about the facility? Click here.
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There isn't one secret ingredient to move the state towards no-kill. Instead, we must take a multi-pronged approach. One the involves as many people and organizations as possible and a multitude of programs. Spay/Neuter programs, Regional Outreach, and Humane Education are a handful of the big puzzle pieces we're enacting here in Blaine County and our surrounding communities. But it's going to take a team effort to make this possible. We've spearheaded the Idaho Shelter Coalition to make sharing resources, collaborating on tough problems, and more seamless transfers possible. So far, 21 animal welfare organizations have joined!
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This South-East Facing, Four Bedroom Townhouse in Jacarilla is located centrally in this popular area, situated within less than a 5 minutes walk of the local amenities & facilities, with the beautiful historic city of Orihuela only a 10 minute drive with Alicante airport just half an hour away. This typical Spanish corner property consists of a separate fully fitted kitchen, with ample dining space & an adjoining utility room; spacious lounge/dining room; three double bedrooms, the master with a private terrace and views of the area; a single bedroom; a family bathroom; and a downstairs cloakroom. With this property are many different extras included, such as A/C, fitted wardrobes, window grilles on the ground floor, a feature log burning fireplace and a private garage space for two cars.
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This is likely down to our jobs, the places we spend most of our waking hours at and where we find ourselves caught in an age old dilemma of needing the money but not feeling fulfilled. This feeling can very often spiral into a deep resentment of your office and even the people around you, so it helps if your colleagues are fun to work with and also share some understanding of how you are feeling about your job.
But aside from supportive colleagues what else can you do to make the 9 to 5 more interesting without having to jack it all in and start all over again?
Be FlexibleIn so many offices nowadays there is a push towards people working from home and just because yours hasn't instigated that, it doesn't mean you shouldn't ask. If the daily commute is part of the reason behind your misery then ask your manager to take a day at home once or even twice a week where you can work on projects peacefully and without interruption. Bonus: you can stay in your pyjamas and you won't have to make coffee for anyone else.
But in truth working from home can make you more productive, particularly if you do need to focus in on one assignment without chat from colleagues and more work landing on your desk. Point all this out to the boss and they'll be on your side in no time.
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Ultimately of course, you might consider changing up your job entirely. If the commute and continual struggle to balance home and work is getting harder and not easier then there might never be a better time. In which case spend an evening looking at your resume and getting it in shape ready for the next step along your career ladder.
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The Masonic Discussion Group had its recent meeting, attended by 15 members. These informal meetings allow members to enjoy a drink while listening to interesting talks given by members of the discussion group or a visiting speaker. It is an ideal opportunity for brethren to meet, mix with and befriend brethren in other lodges. The group meets twice a year on the first Monday in January and the first Monday in September. The Discussion Group is also responsible for the library and museum at Southport Masonic Hall and membership is just £5 per annum which goes towards the Southport Hall fund.
At this meeting two talks were given:
- Keith Wilson, of West Lancashire Lodge No 1403, gave a talk on "Allegory, Alchemy and Science, the Pillars in the Temple of Solomon." Having been informed of the measurements of the pillars of King Solomon's Temple (after having received the Explanation of the Second Degree Tracing Board), have we ever thought to question how much brass went in to the construction of these pillars or why in particular was brass used in the first place and where did it all come from?
- John Karran, of Starkie Lodge No 1070, gave a talk entitled "The 47th Proposition of Euclid." This is engraved on a Past Masters jewel; do you know why it's there and what it symbolises?
If you attended the meeting you would have the answers!
The Southport Masonic Research Group is celebrating its 35 year anniversary. It was started in 1979 by W. Plant. The first meeting was held at the Masonic Hall, Duke Street, Southport on 3rd September 1979. The name of the group was changed from the Southport Masonic Research Group to the Southport Masonic Discussion Group in 2011 as it was felt the original name did not truly reflect the activity of the group and this was possibly deterring young brethren from joining.
The next meeting, of the group is in January 2015 and on this occasion is not of a Masonic nature as there is to be a wine tasting evening to which all members and visitors are welcome.
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Effexor and alcohol
Effexor, which is also known as Venlafaxine, comes under the category "Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors" (SSRIs). It is also categorized under "Serotonin norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor" (SNRI). Effexor is very useful in treating mental depression, anxiety and similar moods of mind. Effexor is therefore useful in the medical field extensively, whereas, alcohol is useful as a temporary tranquilizer. Both alcohol and Effexor affect the status of mind. Effexor increases the levels of the chemicals in the brain, called serotonin and norepinephrine. Alcohol has an immediate effect on the brain when consumed. However, Effexor slowly enhances the stability of mind in the course of treatment.
Studies reveal that alcohol and Effexor do not interact with each other. In other words, Effexor does not augment the impairment of the brain nerves caused by consumption of alcohol. Even though this fact holds good for everyone, doctors always advise patients not to take alcohol while they are on the antidepressants such as Effexor. There is also a belief that high level of consumption of alcohol may have significant impact on the health of the patients undergoing medication with Effexor. Ironically, some antidepressants also generate an urge for alcohol in some patients and create aversion to alcohol in some patients.
Considering teenagers, most of them always possess zeal and enthusiasm in consuming alcohol for one cause or other. This is the reason why the teenagers are more in the population affected by alcohol and antidepressants. Many times they even go to the extreme end of committing suicide as they develop severe mental depression in these conditions.
Do not take Effexor while you are drinking alcohol. It will result in overdose and can prove to be fatal. This is applicable to any other antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication. These drugs have many side effects and they become dangerous when taken along with alcohol. It is advised by doctors that antidepressants should be taken only with food. When you are under the influence of alcohol, there are chances for you to take overdose of Effexor. Therefore, avoid taking Effexor while you are drinking alcohol. Overdose of Effexor can cause even death.
However, it can normally lead to coma; it can cause liver damage; it can result in quick heartbeats known as 'tachycardia'. For some persons it may cause vomiting or seizure. The person who has taken overdose of Effexor should be brought to the medical attention as soon as possible, so that physicians can monitor their important signs and take remedial actions immediately. As this much danger is involved in taking Effexor together with alcohol you should never combine it with alcohol.
However, the study on the combined effect of Effexor and alcohol in patients suffering with depression is not yet complete. Notwithstanding this, the manufacturer of Effexor advises the users of Effexor not to drink alcohol while they are taking this drug. If drinking becomes inevitable while taking Effexor, light to moderate quantities of alcohol only should be consumed, that too, under the close monitoring of the associates. Avoiding alcohol while on Effexor is always recommended. The main reason for this is that both Effexor and alcohol influence the same chemicals at the same time in the brain.
Most probably Effexor increases the effects caused by alcohol over the depressive mood and also the motor skills of the nerves. As an alternative to abstinence, the patient can first assess the effects of Effexor and understand the same thoroughly. The patient can defer consumption of alcohol till that time. If the patient is already on a combined medication with Effexor, the situation has to be assessed further carefully. Here we should also know as to what 'moderate drinking' means. The content of alcohol varies with the drink. Therefore, different quantities are recommended for different drinks. In general, a moderate drinking could be 12 ounces of beer, or 5 ounces of wine or 1 " ounces of 80-proof whisky or 1 ounce of 100-proof spirits.
Conclusively, effects of Effexor and alcohol in depressed persons have not been studied thoroughly. Therefore, proper caution has to be taken to decide on drinking alcohol, when one is already on Effexor.