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what is your idea of a perfect gym? including equipment, size, atmosphere, as well as nontypical gym services, such as swimming pool, basketball, raquetball, juice bar, lounge etc etc.
what would it take for you to walk into a gym and say "I *have* to sign up here?"
lastly, what about price? month to month, contract, sign up fees?
what turns you off from a gym? what makes you want to pick a specific gym?
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my perfect gym is basically the place I worked out for the first 2 years. Which in the local Jewish Community Center (though I'm not Jewish). The problem is it's mostly old men and little scrawny kids that lift there. Plus their DB's only go up to 85. But they have 3 weight rooms, 3 pools, two bball courts, 2 raquetball courts, a baseball field, tennis courts, locker rooms with hot tubs and saunas, tons of cardio stuff, TV lounges, a bar with good health food, hot trainer girls, and other great equipment.
Now I lift at the local powerhouse, which is a typical musclehead gym, but they have plenty of heavy DB's and all the other stuff I need.
If I was rich I'd build my own private huge gym and just let all my friends lift there. It would be dope.
My idea of a perfect gym would be the old "dump" style gyms that aren't around anymore. When I lived in Ohio I was lucky enough to workout in one of these.
There were all basic free weight machines. Squat racks, benches, dumbbells...etc. There was a large cable machine in the middle of the front room as well as Hammerstrength shoulder and chest machines.
In the second room there were probably 10 treadmills, 4 elliptical machines, 2 stairmasters, and about 5 different types of ab machines. There were some other odd machines: roman chair, lower back extension/oblique crunch bench, and a few others I can't remember.
In the third room there were all of the leg machines, another hammerstrength bench machine (targeting a decline similar exercise), and a grip machine. 2 squat machines, a squat rack, 2 leg press machines, leg extension, leg curl, and calf machines as well.
And finally, in the fourth room was a couple hammerstrength shoulder machines, a shrug machine, several bicep/tricep machines, several back pulley machines, a t-bar row machine, some hammerstrength back machines, and a heavy bag and speed bag.
The floors were cement. The lights were dim. It was inside a garage that was attached to a bodyshop. The first two rooms were lit from the open garage doors, and the second two inside rooms were lit by lights, but not very bright, but not very dim either. Mirrors everywhere of course. Dumbbells went all the way up to 180lbs although I've never seen anyone use them, the highest I've seen was someone using 130lbs on flat bench. The pay was $33/month or $12/week or $5/day whichever you preferred. There was also a 3 month plan, a 6 month plan, and a one year plan. No contracts. You paid them and they wrote your name down and when your experation date for it was. The music played was a combination of alternative, rock, hard rock, and heavy metal depending on what the station was being played. For anyone in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area, the station was 105.9 the X.
I have to say that's the best gym I've ever been to. I loved it the first time I walked in. The place smelled of sweat and hard work. Guys were in there pounding away at themselves. I rencently went back in July to find all my old friends still there and then complimenting me on the 30lbs I've gained in the last year and a half .
I wish to open a gym someday, and even if it isn't successful, it will be my gym that I will workout at, a home gym persay, that I would loan out to customers for a small fee as above. This is basically what the owner of this gym did. He started it in his basement, a real small gym, and it just kept growing until he moved it to the garage next to the bodyshop and just kept adding machines and more machines. Sure, his rates have gone up, but not by much. So, as I said, even if it isn't a successful gym commercially speaking, it would be my gym and if I could give someone a taste of what a real gym and not a commercial gym is like, then I feel that I have done my duty.
About picking a specific gym, I guess at the time it doesn't really matter. If it has weights, I can use it. I recently visited florida for the holidays and went to the Gold's Gym based out of Port Orange, Florida. This was the sh1ttiest gym I've ever been to. I am a big man, but certainly not a VERY big man. I had to have outweighed the biggest man in there by close to 40lbs every time I went in. I went 5 times while I was there and did not once get impressed by anyone. It was hard to find a good spotter, and everyone just gawked at me. I recall doing a 500x2 squat, which I wanted to try for 4 but I didn't have alotta faith in my spotter, and everyone looking at me while I was doing it. Granted it's a good feeling, but when people get off the treadmill to watch me, and then don't even come up to say anything, they just turn around and go back to what they were doing, it makes me feel as if they're ..hell I dunno. I just don't feel comfortable in that kind of an environment. At my current gym if I do heavy weight on ANYTHING and have a "crowd" I'll get comments like good job, or people will strike a conversation about how long I've been lifting and such. Not just sneak rude comments under their breat as they walk away. I will never go to that gym again.
What turns me off about a gym is just what I have said. I like a friendly environment. I don't want people to not talk to me because I'm bigger, or because I "grunt" on a heavy set. I'm VERY outgoing and am proud of it. I start conversations with everybody. When I come to my gym here, I know everybody that works there, and I know 50% of the people who are working at at one time. Another thing that turns me off is if they don't have machines that I feel are vital. Example: a T-Bar Row with chest pad, a shrug machine, and a shoulder press cage. Granted I can use the squat rack for a shoulder press cage, but that just pisses off the people that ACTUALLY squat. These are just the 3 machines we DON'T have at my gym. Our dumbbells also only go to 125lbs. Unacceptable. I'm planning on switching gyms in the near future to find a more suitable one, although I will miss my friends.
So, I guess there you have it. BTW, this post was not anywhere remotely intended to brag about the weights I use or my size, so please don't use that against me.
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That would be dope. Could I come?Originally Posted by Mic Soloist
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If I ever (oh I pray!) make it "big" in pro wrestling, I would definately open up a gym, whether my own or through a chain like Gold's. With pro wrestling, you get paid ALOT but most of it goes towards travel, food, hotels, and attire. Not to mention once your 40-50, you basically won't have work in the industry for the rest of your life.
And if I don't make it, I would still love to open a gym if I could get the funds. It would look nothing like what I say below though... that just doesn't "sell" to most people.
Perfect gym would have decent facilities, with the 'modern' gym look as opposed to the steel, cement old school look. However, not filled with $50 000 machines and crap. Barbells, plates, dumbells up to 200, squat racks, benches, pullup stations, dip stations, back extention, leg presses, lat pulldown, GHR station, cardio machines, and some misc. ab machines. As for music... the gym would be playing hard rock and some metal, nice and pretty loud.
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I already go to the perfect gym..
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what littlejack posted "old school" types of gym my style
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Lift for gains,not glory.Control your ego and the weight
What a strong girl! This leads me to believe you can severly injure most of the male population-Nick Hatfield
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Hot in terms of both speed and... well new hotness- Stash
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Just go to the Y! I don't know about the US but up here in Canada the ymca is kinda poor and has the same free weight stuff it had 20 years ago.
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hehehe! that's where i am i train at the YOriginally Posted by Ares
You will soon see Getfit in OngII Flying Knee Thingys of Doom see if the feisty greek can survive the kicks of Steel Leg From Shaolin Soccer,Dim Mak(def touch) from ChungLee,and Flying Crane by Daniel-san-El Pietro
Spray it with windex greek!-the famous El Pietro
You be quiet or i'll clean and press your narrow francophone self-Callahan
Lift for gains,not glory.Control your ego and the weight
What a strong girl! This leads me to believe you can severly injure most of the male population-Nick Hatfield
You're blazing white hot,anyone ever tell you that? Sometimes i think you have fingers faster then Superman when it comes to posts on WBB forums.
Hot in terms of both speed and... well new hotness- Stash
gain 50lbs-Anthony
my house, my weights, my music, open to me anytime I want just in the next room.
my fav gym. would be my gym now, lots of weights, cardio equip, raquet ball courts, basketball courts, 2 pools, saunas, hot tubs, steam rooms, rock walls, etc the only thing i would change is more hot ladies and less people on my weights!
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The perfect gym.. can anyone say Globo's?! I can do mp's in the smith machine!
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Couldn't have said it better myself.Originally Posted by ryuage
I've got it good.
I have a campus rec pass that gives me access to 4 different gyms that include 4 full weight rooms with all kinds of equipment, 4 large cardio rooms, 5 swimming pools (4 indoor), 3 indoor tracks, racquetball/squash courts, 6 indoor tennis courts, an indoor ice rink, about 20 basketball courts, martial arts rooms, multipurpose gyms, huge locker rooms, saunas, hot tubs, etc. and allows me the use of the outdoor rollerhockey rink and the outdoor track, as well. It's awesome, and they're almost done with expanding and remodeling one of the facilities, which will include a leisure pool with waterslides, hot tubs, and lap lanes. They're just starting on expanding the big gym to over 340,000 sq. ft. and it'll have a full 400 m indoor track, more area for fitness/cardio equipment, a rock climbing wall, and more basketball courts, plus they're redoing the outside 50m pool. It's gonna be awesome!
The only complaint I have is that sometimes it's too crowded and I have to wait for a power rack or bench, but that should be fixed with the added facilities.
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Originally Posted by ryuage
That would be the perfect gym, provided that you have all the necessary equipement (benches, plenty of free weights, power rack, GHR, etc..)
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A gym with tons of free weights and, other than me, it would only allow hot nymphos as members. Some cardio equipment and a pool would also be nice.
Hey, you did say "perfect."
Nice open area with few members to get in the way during cleans. Loads of free weights but none of the more useless machines (thinking thigh and groin mahine in particular). A steady cycle of Metallica, Rage, System, and Tool playing. That and no cover!
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I posted this on another site when asked what I'd like to see in a gym:
- Large, clean weight room with both machines (in a circuit for women who tend to use them most) and free weight section (with at least 2 squat racks, 4 benches, 2 inclines, and 2 decline benches, along with the standard curl station)
- Dry towels at several points, and just as many places to drop your used ones off - multiple water fountains too
- Hot towels in the locker room
- Clean locker room (no rust on the lockers, no paint chipped off, this is not our high school gym)
- Multiple, sectioned off (with full shower curtains) showering stations + changing stations so we can shower and then get dressed quietly (and without having to be uncomfortable).
- Cardio machines pointed towards televisions in one section, cardio machines pointed towards a large window with a nice view. A lot of ellipticals too, I'm tired of the lines for them.
I would also prefer the gym to cost enough for me to afford but expensive enough to make it prohibitive for a lot of others to make it crowded. I would want a lot of machines and other random cardio machines that I'd never use to free up the stuff I do want.
I cross between the gym from dodgeball (the expensive one) and a strip club!!!
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
ideal gym:
the exact gym I lift at in Barrie (GoodLife Fitness), which is a cavernous new facility with at least two of everything I could want, great selection of weights, great selection of dumbbells
that instead of the mouth-breathing rednecks and vapid junior yuppies that populate it, in order to make it ideal it just needs a clientele that consists of me, and a few hundred stunningly beautiful women of varied ages (20-40), ethnicities, and morphologies, all of whom cheer me on as I lift and shamelessly flirt while I ignore them and crank up the megadeth and lift harder
Old school type of gym where the music is loud and hard, the guys are huge hairy sweaty man beasts and the women are petite like fitness models and have hardly anything on and drool over your 500lb deadlift.
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Olympics, Swimming: Rebecca Adlington Sets Olympic Record in 800 Free Prelims
August 14, 2008
By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 14. CLEARLY, Rebecca Adlington and Camelia Potec were not concerned about expending too much energy in the preliminaries of the women's 800 freestyle. Both women hovered around world-record pace for much of their swims before falling off the pace toward the finish. No worries, though, as the final still remains.
Adlington established an Olympic record while winning her heat, clocking in at 8:18.06 to take down the 2000 record of Brooke Bennett, which sat at 8:19.67. Adlington has been superb this week as she already owns the gold medal in the 400 freestyle. As for Potec, she won her heat in 8:19.70, a good indicator for a final that will be missing a pair of big names.
In a shocking development, Americans Kate Ziegler and Katie Hoff did not qualify for the championship final after turning in preliminary efforts of 8:26.98 and 8:27.78, respectively. The times were eight seconds off their personal bests. Having tackled an arduous schedule, a slate that has yielded silver in the 400 freestyle and bronze in the 400 individual medley, Hoff appeared tired. As for Ziegler, it was her second surprise miss of a final, going with the 400 freestyle.
Qualifying in the third spot for the final was Denmark's Lotte Friis, thanks to a career-best showing of 8:21.74. Italian Alessia Filippi, who registered a swim of 8:21.95, was fourth into the final and fifth went to Australian Kylie Palmer (8:22.81). Rounding out the field for the final were Russian Elena Sokolova (8:23.07), China's Li Xuanxu (8:24.37) and Great Britain's Cassandra Patten (8:25.91).
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Wow! That's a shame about Ziegler and Hoff... Especially Ziegler who hasn't had a bunch of swims leading up to this event... Sad for her in Beijing... I'd love to hear her thoughts on the race....
Based upon those times from the others, it looks like Evans' mark will fall.... :-( But who knows with the morning finals and all..... I just think it'd be neat to have a WR around from the 80's....
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August 14, 2008
Hoff left it all on the table with the 800 free relay. Does anyone know if Ziegler caught the bug going around?
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Poor Hoff..... Can you believe that with all the hype on her being the "Female Phelps", she will walk away with just one silver and two bronzes?
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I think it's safe to say that the morning vs evening finals debate can be put to rest. How many world and national records have been set so far at this meet? Swimmers will step up for the finals regardless of what time of day it is.
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It was pretty obvious from the 400 that this was coming for Ziegler. Think we all discussed that on that thread a few days ago.
She, like Hansen, has not looked good for several months now. Her swims at Trials all looked forced and that they were struggles to get through there. Be interesting to see the coverage of her swim to see what she looks like in the water. She was really being pushed too by USA-S for the last year or so, maybe the pressure was just too much.
Agree, that probably Hoff is just wiped out at this point from swimming some tough doubles and a big relay swim where she had to pull the weight of a couple of the others who weren't quite in top form just to save that bronze. I think Katie gets the nod for even attempting this program. An 800 Free to end things off??? That's double tough. Just so much a human body will do, no matter how hard she trains.
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The women have been pretty disappointing all-around. They all look scared with the exception of Couglin. I kind of feel like Zieger has been over training all this time and her body can't take it anymore. It's a shame both Hoff and Ziegler both went pro and have no gold to show for it. Ouch!
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Anyone know what Ziegler's workouts were like in the final 6-8 months before Trials/Olympics?
Seems like the same thing happened to Benko in 04. Overtrained and was wiped out by the time she got to competition time.
Hoff's program seemed like maybe it was just too crammed together to work like Phelps. There were some tough doubles in there along the way.
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Hoff is no Phelps. She didn't have the greatest meet but still had a PR or two and wasn't that far off in most of her swims (other than the 800). She was simply beaten by much faster swimmers.
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the women have not been disapointing...by any means. Soni second in the 100. Magnuson second in fly with a new american record. the 800 free relay, yeah it was a bronze but they crushed the world record by 4 seconds. Hoelzer 3rd in back, I can go on and on and its not over yet!
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I'm not sure the backstrokers will be quite that fast, rcoach, and remember, Hansen was fourth in the 100 in 59.57, so I think a 59.0 split is definitely within reach right now for Hansen (remember '04?). I think the relay atmosphere will help him put together something solid as Kitajima closes on him.
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The little-known, silver-medal contending women, I agree, have really had some meet, we just have not seen quite the best from girls like Hoff, Ziegler, Schmitt, and Beisel (though she could redeem herself in the 200 Back).
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Anyone want to take this bet? I wager that the US 2012 Olympic Trials will be held no closer than 3.5 months before the Olympics. Based on the performances so far, it certainly looks like the majority of the US team peaked six weeks ago. Especially the women. . . . The US team did well (Hoff and Ziegler, e.g.) in the March '07 World Championships, and the selection meet was Summer Nat'ls held in August '06 — 7 months before. In 1996, there was some carping from some the college coaches because the early March '96 Trials interfered with the NCAA prep and taper. Since the athletes are older now (more of them out of college compared to 12 years ago) there might be less complaining. But I would still expect some college coaches to be against a March or April Trials. On a different note, I wonder if the 5-week post Trials "bonding and training" camps led some of the swimmers to get stale. Just a thought.
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Mel, I agree with you completely.
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Quite frankly, we shouldn't give two thoughts as to what the NCAA or NCAA coaches 'want'.
It has been painfully obvious that the world has caught the U.S. in this sport. Part of that has to do with the athletes from other countries swimming here in the NCAA. Another part has to do with the fact that simply the rest of the world is doing better at training and producing more and better swimmers who are beating American swimmers.
There is conjecture that the U.S. may be in jeopardy of not winning the Olympics in 2012.
This is not to bash the NCAA. The NCAA is a primary reason why the U.S. over the decades has been so dominant.
But. The USOC and USA-S with some foresight should tell firmly the NCAA that in Olympic years, the results of the USA in Olympic competition will come first and foremost and if that means that the NCAA's are held in December and Trials are held in February, then that's when they will be. Period. No dicsussion, no debate.
(by the way...I am just making up a really odd date for this for arguments sake...not really suggesting Trials should be in February). But they should be whenever it is figured out that the Trials will be at an optimal time for performance at the Olympics. If that's June, then make it June. At another time, then set the date and TELL the NCAA when it will be and to adjust their schedule around it.
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I totally agree with the observations about World's last year. I think the US team as a whole performed MUCH better during that meet, and I really believe that it is because the swimmers didn't have to retaper in a short period of time or hold an extended taper. Why can't the trials be held in March and have the NCAA right after? This way, collegiate swimmers can taper once for both meets.
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SilverMedalMel: I don't know enough about training and tapers to understand the debate compltely so please forgive all the questions,(SemiColon replaced here) but what happens in the 5 week post Trials camp, do they crank up yardage really high and then do another complete taper? I remember one of the swmimmers saying they just tapered starting last week, is that long enough? Are they all on different schedules? Why would they get "stale" as you said? As an example, Hicks or Gaines made comment that one of the coaches said Hersey was doing so well in the camp that she might take it all, then both she and Breeden tanked. Is that what you meant by getting stale that they worked too hard for too long?
One thing about Hoff(SemiColon replaced here) I remember after her 8:20.8 800 at Trials she was really upbeat and saying she could handle it and I was thinking "Really? you look exhausted and you didn't even make the 400 free relay". Phelps didn't have to do a 400 IM/400 Free back to back, and he didn't do the 200's free/IM in the same night(SemiColon replaced here) he also didn't do an 800. Both of those are very daunting. Her program to this point was arguably harder. I'm interested to see how Lochte will do with his double tonight.
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I think having trials in March still might be a bit risky. People have up and down seasons. You never know what will happen in six weeks between a July trials and August Olympics, much less in a 5 month span between March and August. One of the ideas behind moving trials to July was to ensure that we put the fastest people AT THAT TIME on the team. What happens if two people qualify in an event in March and are only the 3rd and 4th fastest by the time August rolls around? It's possible in some of our events, given how close they have been in recent years. The system isn't perfect, but it's the best thing we have right now.
As for the Olympics vs. NCAA issue, don't forget that many of the NCAA coaches have a huge influence on the Olympics. Even if they don't get the final say, when coaches like Eddie Reese and Dave Marsh speak, people listen. And besides, NCAA swimmers still have managed to do great at the Olympics. Eddie Reese has contributed about a third of the men's team for the past 3 Olympics. Sure, some have graduated, but not all.
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Paul Kemling - December 15, 2011Paul Kemling, 91, of Aurora, died Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, at the Grand Island Veterans Home.
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"There's a lot of housing demand in Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill that this would satisfy," said Matthew Kiefer, a lawyer who represented the developers at the meeting.
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Ashlie Barros and Phillip Studebaker have announced their engagement and plans to marry on Oct. 5, 2012 at 4 p.m. at Henderson Hills.
Barros is the daughter of Tony and the late Jeanette Barros of Woodward. She attended Woodward High School and the University of Central Oklahoma and works at Putnam North Family Medical in Oklahoma City.
Studebaker's parents are Susan Carlson of Salina, Kan. and George Studebaker of Topeka, Kan. He attended Claremore High School and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and works at the J. D. McCarty Center in Norman.


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Quebec (Canada)
3.2/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Black color beer. No head, or there is a head but so thin and it disappear quickly. The smell is chocolate, coffee but some limestone ?!? strange. not that inviting.
The taste is pretty intense in dark chocolate. Its like licking a dark chocolate bar. Quite effervescent... Thin. Average beer in my opinion.
Serving type: bottle
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Quebec (Canada)
2.3/5 rDev -28.6%
look: 2 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2
A: no head retention ... no lacing... ruby red (pepsi color) wft its supposed to be a porter so pitch black is a basic rule...
S: Horrible acid smell... old coffee
t: Coffee and more coffee... look like he put more and more coffee to give it some taste (with a major lack of malt)
m: no carbonation at all.. veery thin with an horrible acid after taste....
o: its time for brasseur illimité to stop laught at his customer and make decent beer at a decent price highly overrated brewery... go to the drain
Serving type: bottle
12-05-2013 22:41:55 | More by MrElPechor
Ontario (Canada)
4.25/5 rDev +32%
05-22-2013 23:21:51 | More by Molson2000
Quebec (Canada)
2.99/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Bottle: Poured a clear dark porter with a small bubbly head with limited retention and not much lacing. Aroma of dry floral coffee notes is dominant with weird unrefined grain notes. Taste is a mix between some dry floral coffee notes which are quiet nice but the malt backbone is off with some unrefined cereal notes with some herbal roasted notes. Body is a bit light with cola like carbonation which doesn't really work well. Good intention but not a beer I would seek on a regular basis.
Serving type: bottle
02-05-2013 21:31:08 | More by Phyl21ca
New Brunswick (Canada)
2.75/5 rDev -14.6%
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Quebec (Canada)
3.83/5 rDev +18.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Porter au café.
Look like coffee , no heAD, active carbonation, dark brown color,
smell coffee, roasted malt, cacao,
taste coffee, black with cacao, rich and tasty, smoky
strong bitter coffee back kick after taste
mouthfeel is carbonated, strong coffee feel
overall, very tasty and easy to drink, if you feel like having
a strong coffee!
its for movember. profits goes to institut du cancer de Montréal
pour la recherche coté prostate..
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La Grosse Moustache from Brasseurs Illimités
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ALLEN PARK -- Yes, Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz met with the Fords, the team owners, on Monday.
It was business as usual on the day after the Lions' disappointing 4-12 season ended.
Schwartz is still the coach and Martin Mayhew is still the general manager. Late Monday reports were that wide receivers coach Shawn Jefferson and running backs coach Sam Gash were let go. No other coaching changes have been made, but that's likely to change in coming weeks.
Roster changes will be made for the upcoming season, because there are 24 unrestricted and eight restricted free agents. Not all of them will be back. Last year they brought back 21 of 22 starters, it won't be close to that for 2013.
In the aftermath of the season, following the 26-24 loss to the Chicago Bears on Sunday, there was some soul searching at the Lions practice facility on Monday. The players had their final physicals and then met with Schwartz in a team meeting.
A team doesn't go to the playoffs one season, then struggle to get four wins the next without a few major questions.
What went wrong? How did the Lions lose eight games by a touchdown or less? Can this situation be turned around with this staff?
"I just believe, I think it's pretty obvious we didn't finish games the way we wanted to, in a way that we did the previous year and the offseason we're going to have to take -- players -- more of a leadership role,'' veteran wide receiver Nate Burleson said. "Start practices at a high competitive level and finish them at a high competitive level.
"It seems like once we made mistakes it overcame us, the moment, and we couldn't bounce back like we did the year before,'' Burleson said.
He's aware it sounds like one big cliche, but swears it could help get this bunch turned around.
"Really it does start with the things we do on the field and as leaders we can convey the message of how we approach each day is eventually going to be how we approach each game,'' Burleson said. "We'll win, we'll finish those games.''
Mistakes can be defined by the number of turnovers.
"Last year we had 34 defensive takeaways. We had 21 interceptions. We went to 11 this year. We had 13 fumble recoveries last year. We went to six or seven ...'' Schwartz said. "And then offensively, threw the same number of interceptions I think 17 this year as opposed to 16 last year. And our fumbles weren't drastically different as far as the number we put on the ground. We put 24 on the ground this year and put 20 on the ground last year, but we only gave up I think seven last year and it was 16 this year. ... And you look at the close games we played. That's not a good recipe.
After Sunday's loss safety Louis Delmas said he thinks the team got too comfortable after making it to the playoffs in 2011.
While Schwartz said he respected Delmas' opinion, he didn't necessarily agree.
"We worked hard from the very beginning of the offseason saying, 'Hey that's in the past and we need to keep focusing on improving.' Whether or not we were able to get that done, we obviously weren't,'' Schwartz said. "This is a hard-working team. Our offseason program, our training camp, our meetings; it's a very rigorous schedule. Nobody took an ease-off I guess to try to put it in his words, nobody eased-off or let off in any of those kind of things.''
It's all on the players, not the coaches according to Burleson.
"It's bigger than the coaches it really starts to hit home with the players,'' Burleson said. "We're sitting in the locker room saying, 'Why can't we finish these games? I don't say it's play-calling, I don't say it's decision making with the coaching staff. It's on the players, physical errors, physical mistakes that we didn't make. The year before we embraced those moments and we have to get those back.''
Not everyone took the offseason seriously last year as was obvious with the number of arrests including two each for Nick Fairley, Mikel Leshoure and Aaron Berry (who was cut after his huge errors in judgment).
The Lions basically became the NFL's laughingstock. It was just a few players, but affected them all because they had to answer questions about it rather than talk football.
"Anytime that you take focus away from the game that's coming up, or the process of OTAs (organized team activities), or the process of training camp and the urgency to improve and you divide players attention, I think it can have an effect,'' Schwartz said.
"The biggest thing is that it affected the image of the team. ... That's the unfortunate thing - it just divided the focus of the team. It couldn't always be on the team. They were always answering those kind of questions,'' Schwartz said.
He sent them away on Monday with the same type of message that he did after the OTAs, prior to training camp. Everyone has personal responsibility and responsibility to the team.
"We've seen what happens when guys don't take care of their stuff. It can affect the team. It can also affect them personally and their professional careers,'' Schwartz said. "Every situation is different but as a team, off the field incidents are extremely detrimental to what we want to do.''
Burleson said since the players will be scattered for four months, they have to hope for the best.
"Hope that guys learned from this past offseason, understand the distractions that followed us into training camp hurt us a little bit,'' Burleson said. "If you're going to be that guy you most likely won't be putting on a Lions jersey in 2013.''
He thinks it was a lesson learned.
It's not just the Lions fans who are disappointed in the season, the players are crushed and know it's up to them to fix it.
"Collectively and individually we'll come back ready to work and guys will be in better shape,'' Burleson said. "We have a lot of up-in-the-air positions, people will have a chance to earn a spot so it's going to be very competitive.''
Schwartz sent the message when he cut Berry after two transgressions last summer. There hasn't been trouble since.
Still, there were just four wins which leaves plenty of work and evaluation for the offseason.
It appears it will still be up to Schwartz and Mayhew to get the bus turned around. They've got the keys. Time to step on the gas.
(Paula Pasche covers the Lions. Follow her on Twitter @PaulaPasche. Read her Lions Lowdown blog at oplions.blogspot.com.)


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The waterslides will power on at for an abbreviated preview this weekend before the water park opens for its regular season on June 8.
The facility will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3. An all-day pass is $10 for guests over 42 inches in height, $8 for guests under 42 inches in height and $8 for seniors over 62 years of age. Children under 18 months of age get free admittance. Reduced rates are available after 4 p.m.
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Today I've got a recipe that I hope you'll find timely and tempting. Need an alternative to canned cranberry sauce for this year's turkey? Enter cranberry relish. I know many families make something similar to this, but this is how I grew up eating it. It's such a simple recipe and tastes so delicious that you'll wonder why you ever sliced and served up that artificially flavored/colored canned gel. I usually save some to eat after dinner with whipped cream. It's my pre-dessert treat that falls somewhere between a third helping of dressing and the first piece of pecan pie. It's that good.
2. Wash and peel 1 apple. Cut into cubes and add to the cranberries.
3. Peel and cut 2 oranges. Squeeze the juice of two additional oranges. Add both to the food processor.
4. Add the zest of a lemon and juice from half of the lemon.
5. Add 1/2 cup of sugar. (If you want it more on the tart side, add less and keep adding to taste.)
6. Pulse several times and stir if needed before using a medium speed in the food processor until it is the desired consistency.
Remember that tough situation I mentioned in October? Well, things have gotten much more complicated as of late...This Thanksgiving will be one where we count our blessings and pray for wisdom in dealing with a very delicate and difficult matter.
We are hoping for peace and resolve to come soon, but cannot see that in the near future. Perhaps practicing thankfulness through this will shape us into the kind of people who are grateful for even the smallest of joys. This is what I'm praying.
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This is the new Benelli BN600. It's also the Keeway RK600. Designed and manufactured in China, for its domestic market, by the QianJiang Group. Once the proud maker of unreliable Italian motorcycles, Benelli is now just an exercise in selling rebranded Chinese bikes in Europe.
It's not that the RK600 is a bad bike. Well, it's not a terribly good one either, but there's not much wrong with ripping off the motor from a pre-2005 R6 then sticking it in a Steel Trellis/Cast Aluminum pivot plate frame ripped off from an Aprilia Shiver 750. 80bhp and 485lbs is a recipe for a worthy naked commuter, if a relatively uninspiring one. Housing all that in plastic that's simultaneously hideous and bland doesn't do it any favors.
If you lived in Rome and your local megadealer was knocking out Keeways for 4,000 Euro, you wouldn't be too mad at it. But, if you live in Pesaro, you're going to be livid that this crappy bike is wearing a Benelli badge.
There's also a shitty 250 dubbed the "Uno." Its roots are a little more transparent simply because it's blatantly a piece of.
And that's the crux of the mistake being made here. The Benelli name doesn't mean much these days to many people. Already bastardized by years of crappy scooters, very few people would shout "Benelli" if you said "exciting motorcycles" in a game of word association, but to those who would, this whole re-badged Keeway thing is going to be akin to heresy. So no real value in one hand, extreme negativity in the other? Exactly what does QianJiang stand to gain here? To our minds, it'd be a stronger play to invest the time and effort into building Keeway (or some other brand) up as a maker of high-value bikes than it will be tearing Benelli down.
It's troubling too that the Chinese origin of these bikes is essentially being hidden. Nowhere in the press materials is QianJiang, Keeway or China mentioned. In this age of the Internet, why do companies still think they can hide things from consumers? If the Chinese connection was embraced, at least QianJiang would be leading the conversation around its bikes rather than hiding from it. This just isn't going to work.
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Aperfectyankee's season so far has been less than flawless, but that has not dampened trainer Jim Oscarsson's opinion of his stakes-winning trotter as he heads into Saturday's $500,000 Colonial for 3-year-olds at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The Colonial is part of Super Stakes Saturday at Pocono Downs, which also includes the $500,000 Battle of the Brandywine for 3-year-old pacers and the $350,000 Valley Forge for 3-year-old filly pacers. Aperfectyankee has won three of seven races this year and earned $179,451 for Oscarsson, who also owns and drives the colt. All of his victories this season have come on the Pennsylvania circuit, with two triumphs in divisions of the sire stakes and another in a division of the Pennsylvania All Stars. He is coming off a fourth-place finish in the $1 million Hambletonian on Aug. 3 at the Meadowlands. The nine-horse Colonial field features seven horses from the Hambletonian final, including winner Royalty For Life, runner-up Smilin Eli and third-place finisher Corky. "I'm not disappointed with him, but I know he's better than he's showed," Oscarsson said about Aperfectyankee, who won last year's $387,250 Peter Haughton Memorial by a neck over Corky. "I think with better race luck he can be right there with them at the finish. "I think he's going to win some races this year. It would be nice (to win the Colonial). I think he deserves that." Aperfectyankee entered the Hambletonian off back-to-back wins and finished third in his elimination before ending up fourth in the same-day final. He started the final from post seven and was as many as 11 lengths behind leader and eventual winner Royalty For Life in the early goings. He finished 3-3/4 lengths back on a track that favored trotters on the lead; all three Hambletonian elims and the final were won in wire-to-wire fashion. "(The Colonial) is going to be tough; it's pretty much the same as the Hambletonian," Oscarsson said. "Except this time we've got a better post. I think he can go with them. It's going to be a fun race." Last year, Aperfectyankee won three of seven starts and earned $310,035. In addition to winning the Haughton, he won a division of the Tompkins-Geers and was second to 2-year-old champion Wheeling N Dealin in a division of the Champlain Stakes. He saw his season come to an end after a sixth-place finish in his elimination for the William Wellwood Memorial in September. Oscarsson decided to turn out the colt because of allergies. "When we brought him back to train during the winter he was good and he's been healthy," Oscarsson said. "He's a nice horse. He's perfect to handle, perfect to drive. You can do whatever you want with him." Following is the field for the Colonial with listed drivers and trainers (and morning line odds): 1. Picture This, Charlie Norris, Norris (20-1); 2. Aperfectyankee, Jim Oscarsson, Oscarsson (12-1); 3. Fico, George Napolitano Jr., Staffan Lind (15-1); 4. Smilin Eli, Tim Tetrick, David Smith (3-1); 5. Spider Blue Chip, Ron Pierce, Chuck Sylvester (4-1); 6. Corky, David Miller, Jimmy Takter (5-1); 7. High Bridge, Yannick Gingras, Takter (6-1); 8. Royalty For Life, Brian Sears, George Ducharme (5-2); 9. Dontyouforgetit, Takter, Takter (10-1). by Ken Weingartner
Robin Schadt would make a good baseball manager, but for the time being she's content being a pretty astute harness racing trainer. In a 162-game Major League season, a skipper must be patient if his team is struggling early in the season. He has to hang in there, tinker, and trust that his troops get the job done.
Trenton, NJ --- If Murphy's Law means whatever can go wrong will go wrong, 2012 was the year of Gutnick's Law -- whatever can go right will go right. Harness racing owner Richard Gutnick looks back on last year and still thinks he is dreaming.
Leave it to a horse named Word Power to inspire a play on words. The 3-year-old harness racing colt pacer has gone quickly from a dark horse to a winning horse this season. Yes, yes, feel free to groan, but it's true.
Coming off a campaign in which he was the 3-year-old Colt Pacer of the Year, Heston Blue Chip was conspicuously absent in the early stages of this season. It turns out that the horse was having a reaction to his ulcer medicine, although it took owner Ken Jacobs and harness racing trainer Linda Toscano a while to discover that little problem.
The only thing as good as Maven's finish last year is her start this year. The harness racing 4-year-old ended 2012 with two straight wins, taking the American-National Stakes and Breeders Crown.
It's safe to say Rich Gillock will be paying pretty close attention to the Currier & Ives Stakes on Friday night at The Meadows. The harness racing trainer has one horse in each of the three divisions, and all three are eligible to the Hambletonian.
Seth Rosenfeld, harness racing principal of Birnam Wood Farms, is a lifelong Yankee fan who is getting the same production from 4-year-old male pacer Sweet Lou as the Bronx Bombers got from Sweet Lou's namesake, Lou Piniella, back in the 1970s.
Harness racing owner John Fielding feels the 'success pendulum' may be swinging upward again for Uncle Peter. He hopes to see proof of that from his 4-year-old trotter in Sunday's $250,000 Maxie Lee Memorial at Harrah's Philadelphia.
Since he's not Doctor Doolittle, harness racing owner Howard Schneidler feels there is no real science to buying a horse.
The mare Q And A gave harness racing owner John Mortberg his first Meadowlands triumph in 2004. She never had another victory but is still producing wins for Mortberg. Or at least winning horses.
Harness racing should feel good it has Heather Vitale on its side. When it comes to a positive spokesperson for the sport, Vitale is one of the best in the business. She is celebrating the 15th anniversary as producer, writer and host of her CBS and Fox affiliated 'Post Time' in Delaware, a highly popular half-hour weekly television show that covers Dover, Harrington and Ocean Downs.
Coming off a disappointing finish to an outstanding 2012 harness racing campaign, Champagne Tonight makes her season's debut in Friday night's $84,000 Courageous Lady for 3-year-old filly pacers at Northfield Park.
Earlier this week, a post on Perry Soderberg's Twitter page said 'My horse Rocky Mountain Guy won at the Big M tonight, great job by everyone involved!' At least one of those involved could not be more thankful for the opportunity to help -- harness racing trainer Nancy Johansson.
Jason Blatter has endured, thanks to incredible support from his family members. And a love of harness racing.
Born and raised in Canada, Scott Zeron has quickly made an impression on harness racing in both his homeland and across the border in the States.


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'07 scores trump those of '06
Overall vendor scores rose across the board. Last year, scores ranged from Sun's 4.94 to HDS' 5.76, a spread of .82 points. (We use a 1.0-8.0 scoring scale, where 8.0 represents the best score.) This year, scores ranged from 5.70 (NetApp) to 6.31 (HDS) for a spread of just .61 points despite having six finalists instead of five (see "
Survey responses also revealed which system could be considered the "heavy lifter" of the group. To determine this, we focused on the system with the highest percentage of respondents who indicated having more than 200TB of storage deployed on that vendor's product line. In this measurement, EMC was the hands-down winner; 30% of its respondents had deployments in excess of 200TB. HDS was second with approximately 20% of its respondents having more than 200TB, while NetApp had 15%; HP and IBM tied with 10% each.
In keeping with our established survey methodology, we asked readers to rate the vendors in five categories: sales-force competence, product features, initial product quality, product reliability and technical support. HDS won every category last year, but not this time. Three other vendors--EMC, Sun and IBM--had the high score in at least one category, either by dint of a tie or outright.
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Although HDS topped the sales-force competence category (see "Sales-force competence" PDF), its 6.13 score tied for the lowest high score of any category. Within the category, its lowest score was for the statement "My sales rep keeps my interests foremost" (5.82)--the only statement in this category for which HDS scored below 6.0. But HDS wasn't alone; every vendor had its lowest category score for the same statement. NetApp scored 4.89 with all other vendors receiving a 5.20 or higher. Sun had the highest response (6.45) for "My sales support team is knowledgeable."
"They understand the business that we're in, the importance of the data--they understand our availability concerns," says Ken Craigie, global IT asset manager at GXS Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, when describing his firm's relationship with EMC. He added that negotiations between GXS and EMC are tough but effective because "you can tell a partner from a predator usually in the first couple of interactions."
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