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Author of Portishead's Dummy in the 33 1/3 series
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Portishead's Dummy is a volume in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series of books about music albums.
The book was published in October 2011 and is also available as an eBook.
The Elements of Work is a series of writings about professionalism and productivity, with a special emphasis on change and communication.
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RJ Wheaton was raised in the UK and has lived in California, the Netherlands, and now Canada. He has a couple of master's degrees; has worked in web development and book retail; and is currently SVP Digital at Penguin Random House Canada.
RJ Wheaton has written extensively about books and music and from 2005-2011 was Senior Producer for PopMatters.com, the international magazine of cultural criticism. In 2011 his volume on Portishead's Dummy was published in Continuum's 33 1/3 series.
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Ok folks, here's the thing: Someone is wrong on the internet.
Lots, really. Several, if we get right down to it, but I'm a busy gal and I've only got so much time. As such, let's zero in on a Facebook conversation I watched go down just the other day. A friend of mine posted about CNN's coverage of the Steubenville verdict, which I won't recount here because if you don't know it by now, you probably don't own a computer. This was her take:
1. "If laws are in place to protect the people, then people who are injured as a result of their breaking the law don't get the same sympathy."
A girl went to a party and got drunk. Tell me who she injured. Do not say the reputations of these boys. I want you to tell me EXACTLY WHO this girl PHYSICALLY INJURED as a result of her intoxication. Tell me.
Did she beat someone up? Did she hit people with sticks? SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS. Was she drinking underage? Yes. Yes, she was. She got drunk and she passed out. And that should be the end of this story.
2. "When a drunk driver hits a telephone pole, does anyone sympathize with him?"
Okay, I want to make sure the sentiment of my next statement is very, very clear.
Reasons we get pissed off when drunk drivers hit telephone poles:
This person drank to excess and then got behind the wheel of a vehicle.
This person drank to excess and then put the lives of EVERYONE on the road in danger.
This person drank to excess and then possibly cut my phone service.
This person drank to excess and then made DECISIONS which affected his evening.
The drunk driver who hit a pole did not just drink to excess. That is not the end of the sentence. Were that the end of the sentence, he wouldn't have hit the telephone pole. He would have woken up the next day, possibly with a permanent-marker penis on his face. Jane Doe drank to excess…and that's the end of her sentence. She passed out. This story should have ended with a permanent-marker penis, at the very worst.
3. "…but she consensually broke the law to place herself in a situation she knew was risky."
Do you think going to a party is risky, Sweetiekins? When you personally get ready for a party, do you think to yourself, "Oh no, I'm heading to the danger zone!"? Do you personally find drinking at a party to be a risky thing for you—specifically you, Sweetiekins—to do? No? So you don't view a party as a place where you should constantly have to look over your shoulder and see who's trying to attack you?
4. "At least suspend her from school to send the message that underage drinking is illegal for a reason."
"We're proud of you for pressing charges against your rapists. There was almost certainly a lot of social and peer pressure not to press charges, but we think you make the right decision. We know the media has been tearing you apart and you must feel like three shades of crap right now, but about that minor drinking violation…"
Folks, this is how we make people afraid to come forward with rape charges. I'm not saying you should be able to get away with whatever you want because of it, but for crying out loud, underage drinking is a victimless crime. Literally the only reason anyone wants her to get hit with a punishment for it is because they want to find a way to make this her fault, too. And it's just not.


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You Will Be Betrayed
by Jeffrey Tucker
My neighborhood is filling up with political yard signs. Vote for this guy! Vote for that guy!
I can't understand why people are willing to give up precious real estate on their front lawns, make friends mad at them, and put their own credibility on the line to back some politico who will certainly betray them in a matter of weeks. The con men who people cheer in politics have done little or nothing to deserve this kind of public support.
My neighborhood forbids commercial advertising on the front lawn, but the code makes an exception for politicians running for office. If anything, it should be the opposite. Commerce serves me every day. I feel genuine gratitude for these companies who give me great products and services, always keep their promises, and never force anything on me.
Every day we all vote in the consumer marketplace. We buy or decline to buy. We do this by choice. Our choice makes a difference. How we use money determines which companies rise and which ones fall. Unless government jumps in to put companies on life support, consumers themselves can vote any company into non-existence simply by failing to buy its products and services. Ludwig von Mises described this as market democracy. It is the only kind of democracy that really works.
Let me give an example. I love this juice from Bolthouse Farms, a company in Bakersfield, Calif. They have these drinks made of fruits that are absolutely delicious. The one I drank today is pomegranate. But there are many other flavors, like wild berry, strawberry banana, carrot, and even chocolate. I get a great drink and don't have to grow pomegranates, cut them open, pick out the seeds, and walk around with red-stained hands all day.
If someone would let me post a Bolthouse Farms sign on my front yard, I'd be all about it!
There are thousands, millions, of private companies that directly benefit me every day. I'm nuts for McDonalds, which keeps reinventing itself in the most marvelous ways. But I also love the pizza joint I will go to today for lunch. They greet me at the door. They give me a lunch special and let me choose what kind of dressing I want on my salad. They will serve me a yummy beer from the tap, and I can choose among many brands. My pizza has tomatoes, wheat, and pepperoni, and the creation of all these ingredients involved the productive works of many thousands of people in many different countries.
And it all lands in front of me in a matter of minutes at a very low price. Then they thank me for coming in.
And if I decide that I don't want to go there for lunch, they don't call the cops and drag me in. They try to do an even better job to attract me back. And when I return, they welcome me back to the fold and don't resent me or call me a traitor for failing to show up for a few days.
What I need is a Brick Oven Pizza sign for my front yard. This one company has done more for me than every politician on the planet.
I'm thinking too of the cup of coffee I had this morning for breakfast. It was made with a coffee maker called a Keurig. This company figured out that coffee really is an individual matter. We don't want a pot of coffee. We don't want to touch grounds. We don't want to measure. We want a cup just for us as individuals.
Keurig figured out how to do it. They knew that the cost was high. One of those little plastic cups is 50 cents or more each. Having coffee this way is much more expensive. But someone took the entrepreneurial guess that consumers would be willing to pay for it. That person must have been told that the idea was crazy, that no one would be willing to go for this. But the entrepreneur was a dreamer and took the risk.
So this is another sign I would post on my front yard, just as an act of gratitude and a suggestion to others that they give it a try.
Think of all the applications I use on my smartphone. I love the "AroundMe" app that permits me to know every restaurant, drugstore, movie theater, or whatever in direct proximity of where I am to be, wherever I happen to be. I was somewhere in the Midwest and pulled up the app and was able to even see the menu plus prices of a restaurant one block from where I sat in my own car. This is like a miracle!
There are dozens of other apps that have changed my life in a positive way. I can't say that about a single person who has held public office, and I certainly can't and don't expect it of anyone who is running for public office now. None of them will do a thing to enhance my life. Like most people, I mostly fear what they will do with their power. Why do so many people advertise for these people?
It's an incredible thing how people take their capitalist benefactors for granted, never thinking for an instant to be grateful or to praise a company for pushing history forward in a way that benefits humanity. Yet these same ungrateful people will attend rallies and post signs for politicians, and even clamor to hear their speeches and have them kiss their children and get their pictures taken with them.
I would as soon have my picture taken with the guy who spun my pizza crust on the slice I'll have for lunch. This person is a hero in my eyes, a person who possesses a skill I've tried, but failed to master for years. He has dedicated his professional life to serving me even though I never asked for this and even though I might never express a word of thanks.
I never have to worry about betrayal from any of these people. Bolthouse will never knowingly sell me poison. Brick Oven will not promise sausage and give me Shinola. The AroundMe app will never deliberately send me to a brothel when I want a barbershop.
But every politician routinely claims insane things. They claim that their personal vision will be enacted and that the nation and the world will conform to their personal imaginings of how the world should work. They claim that they have the power to bring this about and that it can be brought about.
What a politician promises are outrageous and obvious lies, no different from a promise I might make to build a skyscraper in your backyard overnight. When I don't accomplish the task, you can say I betrayed you, and I have, but it might be a good idea to consider why you were so gullible as to believe it in the first place.
The nation-state is an unfathomably gigantic institution involving countless internal rules, conventions, employees, and exchange relationships, all of it rooted in graft and coercion, and most all of its operations administered independently of the elected class of political marionettes.
The permanent bureaucracy pays little attention to the comings and goings of the pretty and cunning boys and girls who are elected to occupy designated offices on a rotating basis. The pictures on the walls of the bureaucracies change, but not much else. The drones just keep droning regardless. Even the most powerful politician cannot touch them.
Meanwhile, the wonderful private sector is churning out beautiful surprises for us every day. We hardly even notice. We post no signs. We don't attend rallies by the CEOs. We don't urge our friends and neighbors to give up their time to visit our favorite stores and restaurants. On the contrary, private enterprise must pay to be noticed through advertising.
My fantasy is to spend some late night hours posting a hundred signs on my front yard that advertise everything from Bolthouse to McDonalds to Nike to CVS to the Laissez Faire Club. Then all my neighbors wake to see the sight. They complain and I refuse to take them down. The press calls and I use the chance to explain that these companies are treasures and benefactors, whereas politicians are just liars and looters.
I've plotted this scene for years. But, no surprise, these companies don't print yard signs. They are too self-effacing, sweet, and humble to do that. This is why private enterprise ought to run the world and politicians should not.
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On Saturday, August 9th the Ssbui Foundation team, consisting of Philip, Dusman, Tracy, myself, my sister Laura, Shaun, of course and Clay headed to Gulu, northern Uganda to meet with Mrs. Openie and to see the location of the Lelobarro community.
We arrived to a sea of smiling faces and to a chorus of singing and clapping – there isn't too much else that can make me feel so good. Mrs. Openie showed us the gardens that each of the classes had planted with tools that the Ssubi Foundation had donated the year before. The gardens were large and represented a healthy future for the kids that they themselves had created.
Once Mrs. Openie had guided the children back to their classrooms, we were seated under a tree where we would watch a series of poems, performed in both English and Lou(Acholi). The poems were about the pain and hardship many of these people have suffered. At one point I looked over at the driver of our minivan, a local Gulu man, and he was crying. I can only imagine his story to cause such a reaction.
The highlight of the performances was the school choir and band. They played together with instruments bought by Ssubi Foundation. As I sat and listened I realized that the talent of these children would be appreciated anywhere in the world. In particular, there was a very young boy who played the wooden xylophone with such passion that he rendered all of us awestruck.
At the conclusion of the presentations, a small group of older children sang a song to me. How do I describe such a gift? I began to cry and again I was struck by the selflessness of these people. As they sang of their gratitude I felt I should be thanking them as nothing else I have done in my life has ever brought me such happiness.


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Bad boy Bieber risks deportationComment on this story
Washington - Justin Bieber's run-ins with the law could potentially get him kicked out of the United States, the nation where the Canadian-born teen idol struck it rich, immigration lawyers said on Friday.
Bieber, 19, kept a low profile a day after he was charged with driving under the influence after police caught him drag racing in Miami Beach, Florida, allegedly after drinking and smoking marijuana.
On Twitter, the voice behind hits Baby and Boyfriend kept an uncharacteristic silence, leaving his 49 million followers to rally behind him with the trending hashtag #WeWillAlwaysSupportYouJustin.
Instead, Bieber let a picture tell 1 000 words with an Instagram of himself in a dark hoodie, waving outside jail, alongside an image of Michael Jackson a decade ago when the King of Pop was fighting child molestation charges.
"What more can they say," read the caption.
Besides the DUI charge, Bieber - released on a $2 500 (about R25 000) bond - also faces charges of resisting arrest and driving with an expired Georgia state license behind the wheel of a yellow Lamborghini sports car.
He was already under investigation for allegedly hurling eggs at a neighbour's house in Los Angeles - an incident that led police to search his mansion, where they seized illicit drugs and arrested one of his associates.
By late afternoon (2100 GMT) on Friday, nearly 8 000 people had signed an online petition on the official White House website calling for Bieber's deportation.
"He is not only threatening the safety of our people, but he is also a terrible influence on our nation's youth," said the petition, which needs 100 000 signatures by February 22 to elicit a White House response.
Like many non-American entertainers, Bieber - who, says Forbes magazine, made $58-million in 2013 - lives and works in United States under a so-called O-1 visa, according to the Hollywood Reporter, a showbiz trade journal.
"To qualify for an O-1 visa, the beneficiary must demonstrate extraordinary ability by sustained national or international acclaim and must be coming temporarily to the United States to continue work in the area of extraordinary ability," says the US Citizenship and Immigration Services on its website.
Diana Scholl of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington suggested that Bieber could dodge deportation on account of his fame and fortune.
"If convicted, another immigrant in his situation would very likely languish in immigration detention before being deported," she said on the ACLU.org website.
"That person - like 84 percent of people in immigration detention - would also likely not have an immigration attorney, let alone a high-priced one."
In their incident report, posted on gossip website TMZ.com, the Miami Beach police department gave Bieber's citizenship as "USA" - apparently a mistake.
It also named Toronto as his birthplace, rather than the smaller Ontario city of London, and listed his occupation as "other."
Immigration lawyer Stacy Tolchin, quoted in the Los Angeles Times newspaper, said Bieber's alleged offenses in Miami Beach, while "not good," were unlikely to add up to a violation of his O-1B status.
But Tolchin added: "Let's say if it's assault, a felony assault, and he's convicted, that's a big problem... He really needs to get excellent criminal defence and an excellent immigration attorney."
A drug conviction would equally pose "a big problem," she said.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, violation of any US or foreign drug law - apart from the possession of a small personal amount of marijuana - is grounds for deportation.
So too is "moral turpitude," a catch-all term that can include anything from homicide, robbery and kidnapping to gross indecency, lewdness and adultery, a rarely-prosecuted crime in 23 states.
"If ICE wanted to go after him, they could make a case," New York immigration lawyer Michael Wildes told ABCNews.com, referring to the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit.
"That and the eggs is opening files in multiple government agencies and states, and could make it more likely," he said.
In the event that Uncle Sam gives him the boot, Bieber won't be alone.
One in 10 deportees are legal permanent residents, or "green card" holders, a majority of whom had merely committed "minor, nonviolent crimes," said the Immigration Policy Centre in Washington in a 2010 report. - Sapa-AFP
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2003 - Into the St. Lawrence Estuary & Back
Ocean Explorer News - May 22, 2003 – Port Huron, Michigan
Our trip has, with the exception of the cold weather, been pretty uneventful since leaving Mackinaw City. We have made it to Port Huron in three long days of travel. The first leg was from Mackinaw City to Presque Isle, MI, and the second was from Presque Isle to East Tawas, MI. The third was the final jump to Port Huron.
Having visited Presque Isle in years past, we did not spend any time there except to get some sleep. We had not previously been to East Tawas, and bad weather was forecasted, so we did spend a day there. It is a small town with a good harbor. We asked some of the locals about its history, but didn't learn much. Later, after it had closed, we found out that there was a historical museum that we would have liked to visit. We asked one lady as to whether she had any recommendations as to restaurants in the town. Her response was, "Well, what kind of pizza do you like?" You never know what you are going to find in some of these places. It is always a new adventure.
Knowing that a cold front was forecasted to pass through, we moved the boat to the East Tawas fuel dock to fill up with diesel and get a pump-out of our head prior to the front striking. It was our hope to beat the front, but the blamed thing hit us just as we were leaving the fuel dock. The young fellows working there did some scrambling and, with their assistance, we were able to avoid any damage to OE as we moved away from the dock with the sudden NW wind howling in the rigging and trying to blow us back against the pier.
The cold weather is getting a bit old. You'd think that all we needed was a cold front on top of everything else. Actually it was helpful. Prior to the front, the winds had been easterly off Lake Huron, which currently has a temperature in the low forties. The air temperature was about the same. With the shift of the wind to a NW quadrant, off the land, our temperature actually picked up. So, a cold front for some may not be a cold front for all. We do manage to keep the interior of the boat warm with our diesel heater. We have even run it while underway a couple of times.
After a great, all-day sail from East Tawas, we arrived in Port Huron at about 0130 this morning. As you might guess, not having seen but a couple of freighters all day, we encountered five of them leaving the St. Clair River to enter Lake Huron as we were leaving Lake Huron to enter the St. Clair River. It was a challenge trying to distinguish ship lights and buoy lights from those of the city behind. We shot through the fast water under the Blue Water Bridge (which goes from Port Huron to Sarnia, ONT) and entered the Black River. Not being able to attract the attention of the bridge tender, we tied up to a wall near the mouth of the Black River, got some sleep, and then, with daylight, moved upriver, through two bridges, to a marina. We are presently tied securely, it is sunny, it is warm, and life is good.
Rich & Donna
In Black River Looking Toward St. Clair River - Port Huron Yacht Club to Port
Ocean Explorer News - Leamington, Ontario - May 25, 2003
We arrived in Leamington at about 1730 yesterday afternoon. Since our primary incoming cargo was laundry, we spent this morning at the Laundromat (I just looked up the spelling and learned that Laundromat is a registered trademark) about a 3/4-mile walk from here. We were able to get a cart from the marina and that helped a lot. We could have done the wash at the marina, but without multiple machines it would have been an all day job. I swear that the load was about ten pounds lighter coming back, but maybe going downhill exaggerated the sensation a bit.
Insects are a part of sailing. They are everywhere in one form or another. We refer to the "bug du jour" and "hatch of the day" with some frequency. Here in Leamington, we have experienced the "mother of all hatches." There is a local insect, which we have experienced in the past, which polite Canadians call a Sturgeon Fly and almost-as-polite Ohioans call a Canadian Soldier. The rest of us call them things that are not printable in a family newsletter. They come out in clusters of thousands and there are thousands of the clusters. They excrete (another polite term) a green material that stains everything. We had the misfortune to roll several million of these insects into our roller-furling jib three years ago, and it has taken two professional cleanings by sailmakers and lots of bleaching sunlight for them to finally fade to something less conspicuous.
A friend commented by e-mail that I am not writing as often as I have in the past. Well, much of our trip is old territory to us, and to many of you, so I thought I would go a little easy on everyone for now. Actually, it has been a pretty uneventful trip. The two most exciting events have been encountering all the law enforcement in the Detroit/Windsor area and the day I took Donna's medication by accident. We each take a total of four over-the-counter and prescription medications. In an effort to be efficient we put our morning medications out the night before. In the gray light of early morning they look much the same. The inevitable happened and I ended up swallowing Donna's before I realized my error. I had the best day that I have had in forty years, but we don't set them out in that way anymore.
Detroit/Windsor was interesting. There are only two bridges crossing the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers. The Bluewater Bridge is at Port Huron/Sarnia and the Ambassador Bridge is at Detroit/Windsor. Law enforcement in the form of Canadian Police, Coast Guard (both countries), Border Patrol, and American police was all over the place, as the bridges are considered a prime target for our terrorist friends. All trucks crossing them are being searched. A Canadian patrol boat followed us into the marina where we stayed in Windsor, but we were not boarded. We did casually converse with police as we registered and called Canadian Customs, however. I gave customs our documentation number, and they had all our information from our previous visits. We were given a cruising permit and permission to winter the boat in Nova Scotia without a visit from the authorities. The guy in a powerboat who came in right after us said he had been boarded and the boat had been thoroughly searched. I don't know how he made out with Customs.
We depart for the Port Colbourn and the Welland Canal tomorrow morning. We are not sure where we will stop along the way. We have even considered just going the whole 175 nautical miles in one shot. We will see how the weather looks.
Rich and Donna
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Set in the centre of the medieval market town of Buckingham, a short drive from Milton Keynes, Buckingham Villiers Hotel draws upon its 400-year-old hostelry to create a charming, unique hotel. Today, guests pass through the carefully preserved archway to the original coach house into welcoming home-from-home with superb accommodation and outstanding, award-winning cuisine.
First featured in the Michelin Red Guide in 1911, Villiers award-winning restaurant has never looked back. With views of the cobbled courtyard, guests can choose from the à la carte and fixed price market menus, with delicious fresh fish and vegetarian options available. Villiers real ale bar has flagstone floors, exposed beams and a cosy open log fire. Relaxing is pretty easy, too, in the nearby health club, free of charge to hotel guests.
Dating back to 1577, Buckingham Villiers Hotel was once the town's main coaching inn and stabled 150 horses. Local legend maintains that Oliver Cromwell billeted his troops in the cockloft of the old Swan and Castle Inn during the Civil War to safeguard against attacks from both London and Oxford in 1643.
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The Roncalli and Reedsville girls basketball teams each received a No. 3 seed in Divisions 3 and 4, respectively, in the upcoming WIAA Girls State Basketball Tournament, the highest seed of all eight Manitowoc County programs.
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Reedsville (18-2, 14-2 Olympian Conference) was awarded the No. 3 seed in Division 4, meaning it will face the winner of the No. 11 Mishicot (4-17, 4-13 OC) at No. 6 St. Mary Central (12-9, 10-7 OC) matchup on March 1.
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WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) - Prosecutors say Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger has been arrested on domestic violence-related charges.
A spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney's office says Sullinger is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Waltham District Court.
Police did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press. They tell the Boston Herald that officers were called to Sullinger's residence over the weekend for a domestic assault call. He was gone by the time they arrived and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Sullinger then turned himself in at about 6 a.m. Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear who is lawyer is.
Sullinger averaged six points and almost six rebounds per game in 45 games as a rookie last season.
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Life became quite hectic
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Tim Lynch, a Franklin summer resident for almost a decade, is also leader of the Tallahassee, Florida based band Sojourn and has played for decades in Florida. Lynch will be featured at the 2011 Franklin Folk Festival July 16.
Sojourn has a newly released CD titled "Lilting Banshee" that will be for sale and the proceeds will be donated to REACH of Macon County.
Lynch specializes in traditional Appalachian and other American roots and Celtic music and storytelling. Lynch sings and plays the guitar, mandolin, dulcimer(s), banjo, mandolin and bouzouki and will often be joined by musical friends where ever he plays.
Lynch has played at the Franklin Taste of Scotland and Franklin Folk Festival and hosted the Festival's Jamming tent over the past few years.
Lynch will be the lead off performer at this year's 2011 Franklin Folk Festival on the down town Gazebo stage at 9 a.m. on July 16.


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Chapter 1: The red file
Steve walks into his boss office.
Mac: Steve, glad you could make it. Have a seat.
Steve sits
Steve: Look, if this is about that bum I arrested last week, you can shove it. He had it coming.
Mac: Damn it Steve! He was an 85 year old man having a seizure!
Mac: I give up. You got one last chance. Here.
Mac slides a red folder across the desk.
Steve: Whats this? Another goose chase?
Mac: The local authority is up to their ass with disappearances and murders. They are getting no responses from forensics. Its like the kids are being teleported.
Steve: How come I havent heard of this?
Mac: Cause, you arrogant prick, youve been too busy banging brauds and assaulting seniors to actually read a 5 cent newspaper. And besides, they arent happening here.
Steve: What do you mean? Where are they?
Mac: In a little town called (Poll Name). 15 disappearances and 23 unidentified murders.
Steve: Unidentified? How can 23 people be unknown in a small town?
Mac: Youll see when you get there tomorrow morning.
Steve gets up and takes the folder to the door.
Mac: Steve, remember that you are on probation. If I hear of you even threatening someone, you are fired.
Steve: Anything else?
Mac: Yeah, take care of yourself.
Steve: Say hi to Stacy and Amy for me.
Mac:: That boy will be the cause of my early retirement.
Steve is alone in his apartment. On the phone
Steve: Hey, its me. Yeah I know I am late, but something came up.
Amy: Another girl?
Steve: No its not another girl
Amy: Dont lie. My dad always tells me what a player you are.
Steve: Amy, look: your dad sent me on this assignment out of town
Amy: Well, when do you have to start?
Steve: I have to leave tonight
Amy: Where do you have to go?
Steve: (Poll Name)
Amy: Well, can I come?
Steve: Id rather not, honey. It sounds really dangerous.
Amy:..Oh, theres my dad calling. Id better go, but I want you to call me every day.
Steve: Promised. And Amy, when I get back, well tell your dad.
Chapter 2: Welcome to (Pollname)
Title is used during first shot when Steve drives his Camero past the welcome sign. Stopping, Steve gets out with a duffle bag in hand. He is sucking on a sphere lollipop.
Steve: So, this is the infamous (pollname). Looks peaceful.
Steve checks into a motel. There is a young, shy woman behind the counter.
Hanna: H-hello. Can I help you?
Steve: Yes, I would like to get a room.
Hanna: Oh, Im sorry. Welcome to The Old Womans Shoe. My name is Hanna. W-would you be wanting a room for yourself?
Steve: Yeah, just me.
Hanna: Ok. Well we have many rooms to choose from, do you have any preferences?
Steve: Do you have any overlooking the town?
Hanna: Pardon?
Steve: Any with a view.
Hanna: Oh, yes, Room 29. Will you be staying just for the night?
Steve: Might as well stay for a while.
Hanna slams the record book closed after Steve signs it.
Hanna: I should warn you, sir, dont venture out past 8pm.
Steve: Why not?
Hanna: Thats when Willy Winkie comes.
Steve: Whos he?
Hanna: Sorry, I have to go
Steve raises his hand and is only able to say one word before she rushes out, leaving the key to room 29 on the desk.
Steve: Wait.
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Sina Weibo's US IPO – in which the Chinese social network is seeking to raise US$500 million – is still being cooked up, and today we got a few more details about what's going on.
Sina Weibo – a spin-off from Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) – has amended its form F-1 filing to show that it has chosen NASDAQ for the IPO, rather than the NYSE. The document also shows that Weibo's stock ticker will be 'WB' – so it'll be NASDAQ:WB once it goes live.
Here are a couple more new details from Weibo, as spotted by SeekingAlpha:
Weibo expects a decline in revenues and a net loss in Q1 2014 – The filing explains: "While we are still in the process of preparing our financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2014, we expect our revenues in this quarter to decrease compared to the three months ended December 31, 2013, primarily due to seasonal trends. As a result, we also expect that we may incur a net loss in the three months ended March 31, 2014 as compared to the net income that we achieved in the previous quarter."
Weibo appoints Bonnie Yi Zhang as Weibo CFO – This leaves Sina's CFO Herman Yu to concentrate just on Sina rather than also being Weibo's acting CFO. Zhang joined Sina Weibo from AdChina earlier this year.


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The Adventure Series
Part 1 - Lonesome is the Queen of Autumn. Her only companions at the fire are her sword and the mead. Even the leaves have succumbed to battle. Some drift through the light of day effortlessly, falling toward the cold, hard ground as if expecting a friend instead.
Others hold on until the last bitter wind collects them from the trees and scatters them along the forest floor. The Fallen.
Octavia drinks. "It can't be long now" she whispers. The trees, their limbs bare and exposed, beseech the sky for answers. There are none. The Queen looks toward the hills above and knows that Tala is there. Soon, the Queen of Winter will ride forth and the cold will be upon her.


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What is the most expensive thing your kids have ruined?
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The drum set was an accident.
The couch and dining table wasn't and he was is grounded.
The dvd player I don't even know when she did that.
have you ever went to the website "shitmykidsruined.com" - it is EPIC!! lol
Everything!! They at some point probably ruined everything in my house. lol
Several couches,two x-boxes(at different times).Same thing with playstation,they went through 3 of those. A laptop my eight year old chucked off the wall in a fit.....Im sure there are more.Sigh..
I left ds DS (lol) his handheld video game on the couch. dd (18 months) woke up early from her nap while I was cooking dinner, found it and chewed on it and it stopped working. She also did that to his phone charger too :-/
I have to say, I can't blame him. DF and I got new cell phones and within a month of having them I cracked both phones! His Galaxy S 3 and my iPhone 3S.
The screens are so.... easy to crack on those things!


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Fairly regularly we have lunch in a place with good food and great service. For the last few years some others have joined us after we've finished our meal, to do a quiz. It is printed in the newspaper which we bring with us. If no-one else joined us, we'd do it together anyway. The others seem to really enjoy it, because they always say (while we're eating) Are you doing the quiz?
Usually I'm the only woman. I ask every week, but the response is always the same: they want me to be the quizzer - reading out questions. (Note that this protocol means that I never get quizzed myself, but leaving that aside ftm....)
So far, so what?
One of the other men, in his late 60s, picks his nose throughout, every single time. He does it with his thumb as if that makes any difference. He does it even when I am looking directly at him.
I find this disgusting and have said so to everyone else - so they are all aware of my distaste (to put it mildly). The other men don't seem to give a hoot if one day I SAY SOMETHING which makes the nose-picker storm off? (Would he?)
I would feel sorry for his wife being married to such a slob, but on the other hand, why hasn't she stopped this appalling public behaviour already? It isn't tolerated in teenagers, is it?
Yes, we'll keep going there because of the good food and service. But I don't know what I'm going to do when he starts picking his nose next week, again, which he will.
Any ideas? thanks.
I think that is absolutely abhorrent.
I would rally the men to say something. "they" in general seem better able to take direct hits (so to speak) from each other without offense.
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Next time the first quiz question should be, "Can you name someone who has the disgusting habit of picking his nose in a public setting?"
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That is quite an interesting problem to have. Just the thought turns my stomach. I like the previous suggestion to ask one of the men to say something. What an uncomfortable situation to be in. I feel for you!
Let us know how it goes!
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I had a manager once that did that and it really grossed me out. However, I eventually found out that in the culture that he was brought up in it was considered a basic habit of well groomed people, so I at least was able to look at it from that perspective. However, in the U.S. we generally consider it unacceptable to do this a.) in public, and b.) without a tissue
Could the man in question simply have been raised with different sensibilities?
You could leave off the "disgusting" part if you don't want to be too harsh...
But knowing men, they will all laugh and think you are trying to be funny and NOT GET IT if you don't just come out and say it!
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All the booze that's fit to print
GREG BOEHM was galled when prices of out-of-print cocktail books skyrocketed along with the popularity of cocktails, a familiar gripe of any drink enthusiast who has been ensnared by the anachronistic charm of old bar books.
Read it all, at the NY Times.
MxMo in the Crescent City
For this month's Mixology Monday, which has a New Orleans theme, I'm going with a couple of drinks, both inspired by panels that I attended at Tales of the Cocktail.
The first drink is the Sloppy Joe's Mojito, inspired obliquely by the To Have and Have Another panel, on the drinking life of Ernest Hemingway. Whether Hemingway actually drank Mojitos appears to be in some dispute. The eminent Eric Felten argues persuasively that he probably did not, but it is clear that old Papa frequented the Havana bar that originated this version of the classic rum drink. He even apparently persuaded the proprietor of a Key West saloon to rip off the Havana original's name. So, who knows?
Charles Baker, writing in The Gentleman's Companion, describes the drink thus:
Put several lumps of ice into a 16 oz collins glass, toss in 1 tsp sugar or gomme, insinuate a spiral green lime peel about the ice, turn in 1-1/2 jiggers of Bacardi; white, or Gold Seal, and the strained juice of 1 small green lime–not a lemon. Stir once, fill with really good club soda and garnish with a bunch of fresh mint.
What I love about this variant is that a) it's not too sweet, and b) it's not too minty. I don't feel like I'm chewing rum-spiked Doublemint gum.
The second drink comes straight from the Beefeater reception at Palace Cafe and also the Juniperlooza session. I had heard of this drink prior to Tales, but I had never tried it. It's the Jasmine cocktail, devised by architect and booze writer Paul Harrington. It tastes remarkably like grapefruit juice even though it contains no grapefruit whatsoever. Honestly, this is one of those drinks that I often post where I'm sure the majority of my single-digit readership is thinking, "What! New to the Jasmine? He needs to crawl out from under Plymouth Rock or wherever the hell he lives and actually drink from time to time!"
No argument here, Skippy. I will say this, though. I've mixed a lot of cocktails at home, and I've had many others out. It's a rare treat when something passes my lips and earns a spot in my regular drinks rotation. The Jasmine is right there. Jen and I both adore it. It tastes like an old-school cocktail, even though it's not old enough to drive, let alone drink, and the ingredients are perfectly balanced. A new favorite.
- 1-1/2 oz gin
- 3/4 oz lemon juice
- 1/4 oz Cointreau
- 1/4 oz Campari
- lemon twist for garnish
Technique: Shake, strain, add garnish, sip, and smile.
Many thanks to Paulernum Clarke for hosting.
Photos by Jennifer Hess.
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Tales of the Cocktail Webcast
Natalie Bovis-Nelsen from The Liquid Muse has a series of webcasts from this year's Tales of the Cocktail. In installment 3, she attends the blogger party and invites each blogger to introduce himself or herself to the camera. I'm in there, too.
I have lots more to say, but since I had to dive back into the freelance life today, I haven't had a chance to write much. More soon, I hope.
Also, I plan to announce soon what I hope will be fun new feature of this blog, so stay tuned. Next up, though, will be tonight's Mixology Monday post, as if I haven't blogged enough in the past week. (ETA: I just noticed Paul's announcement of the extension. Whoo hoo!)
For Whom the Bell Bols*
My first panel of Tales 2k8 was also among the discussions I most eagerly awaited. I am not what you might call a dedicated Hemingway fan, but I've read many of his books and they never fail to entertain me. Now that I am also a drinks nerd, I like reading them with a barfly's eye.
Led by Phil Greene, cofounder of the Museum of the American Cocktail and Hemingway enthusiast, we romped through passages from Papa's novels, short stories, and letters, and tasted some of the giant's favorite cocktails.
We began with the Jack Rose, and may I say, this was the finest version I've had of this drink. I suspect the Fee Bros.' grenadine played a role in that, and I should order a bottle when I return home.
Next, was the Green Isaac's Special, a drink that Hemingway himself invented and named after a Caribbean island:
To break from the red drinks, we had a Montgomery martini. If I remember Phil's story correctly, it's named such because British field marshal Montgomery was said to avoid leading his men to battle unless they enjoyed a 15 to 1 advantage. Hemingway mixed his martinis to that ratio, and, thus, the Montgomery Martini:
Next, the Papa Doble Daiquiri; his love of the daiquiri is legendary, so I'll say no more:
Finally, the Death in the Afternoon. This apparently originated in a recipe that Hemingway submitted to a book (So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon) collecting the tipples of famous writers and actors. A fine drink:
*N.B.: Bols played no part in this. Don't blame them for the pun.
TotC, Day 1
Blew in to New Orleans, La., yesterday morning after a layover in Charlotte, N.C. Got my luggage and met the Airport Shuttle. The driver was delightful, full of wit and good stories about the city, pre- and post-Katrina. I was happy I was toward the end of his route so I could listen to him a few minutes longer!
Checked in to the hotel without a hitch, and they even had a room ready, even though I arrived about 3 hours before normal check in. Even better, I have a top-floor room with a window view!
(I'm not crazy about this picture, actually, but it's the best one I have of the view. I want to fix the colors, so it looks more like this picture, from the Riverview Room on the rooftop, but that will have to wait.)
I settled in to the room and then stepped out for a bite to eat. I wanted my first meal in town to be a muffaletta and Pimm's Cups at the Napolean House, and lo, it shall be done.
It wasn't until after I got my bearings that I realized I was seated right next to a table with Misty Kalkofen, from Green Street in Cambridge, Mass., and several of her peers from other Boston-area bars. I wanted to say hello, but then again, I didn't want to interrupt a lively conversation.
I came back to my room after half a muff and two Pimm's Cups. I wanted to shower the airplane stench off of me and change clothes. I made my way to the rooftop, where the Toast to Tales of the Cocktail kickoff was scheduled. I met up with a Twitter friend, John Martin, and he introduced me to Joe Gendusa, who leads a cocktail tour, year-round, through New Orleans. Shortly thereafter, I heard someone say, "Mike?" I turned, and Blair, from the blog Trader Tiki, introduced himself to me.
I met several of the booze bloggers (and a hanger-on or two), and we made haste to have a drink at the Swizzle Stick Bar, before 4:30's Booze Blogger Meet and Greet. I had a delicious Mai Tai:
Then, it was back to the Monteleone, for the blogger meetup, sponsored by Cabana Cachaca, which served up two drinks–a Cabana Shrub, with raspberry shrub syrup, and a classic Caiphirina. I met a lot more bloggers there, and then we repaired to the next room, for a Sloe Gin cocktail tasting.
I went up to my room for a bit, to call Jen and rest. Our next stop was the Palace Cafe, for a Beefeater-sponsored reception, with good food and gin cocktails. I ate, drank, and mingled. Ran into Matt Rowley again, who introduced me to author and Esquire columnist David Wondrich, with whom I chatted briefly before Dale DeGroff distracted him. The Beefeater reception was crowded and loud, and the room was warm, so although I was enjoying the food and drink, I was too uncomfortable to stay.
I came back to the hotel and got a couple of Sazeracs at the Carousel Bar. I had apparently just missed Cameron and Anita, so I texted them and arranged to meet at the Carousel. We chatted a little while, but they needed to freshen up a bit, so we parted for half an hour and re-met in the lobby to go to the Daiquiri party at Arnaud's French 75 Bar. I stayed there about an hour, and met Erik Ellestad and his wife, but I was beat, so I came back to the room.
I'm about to head downstairs for the Hemingway panel and the start of Day 2. Salud!
TotC: Tentative Schedule
Next week, as I'm sure you're aware by now, is 2008's Tales of the Cocktail. This will be my first time attending, and I'm pretty excited about it. And also more than a little scared of it–all the pounding my head and liver will take.
Regretfully, I have to tell you that Jen will not be joining me this year. She's working a new job and doesn't have ample vacation time amassed yet. We talked about having her fly down on Friday after work, but that's a little grueling. She'd have to get up at 6am, work a full day in Boston, grab a flight from Logan to NOLA, and arrive probably no earlier than 10:30pm. So, alas, this ain't the year. But 2009? Stay tuned.
So, I'll be arriving Wednesday and flying back Sunday morning. Unfortunately, this means missing one of the most intriguing discussion of the week, Sunday morning's look at the life and times of Gentleman Charles H. Baker, Jr. Gah! I don't know what I was thinking when I made my flight arrangements, and I can't change them now without incurring a huge penalty. Blast and damn.
For those of you who will be at the Baker panel, please write up a kickass blog post about it. Please? Baker really fascinates me, and I'm kinda pissed off at myself for my scheduling gaffe.
Onward. Instead of lamenting what I won't get to do, lemme talk about what I will be doing instead.
Wednesday: I drop in at around 10:30am and will be getting the airport shuttle to the Monteleone, where I'll be staying. I'll probably grab a muffaletta or some gumbo and then hit Toast to Tales, the blogger reception, and the Beefeater-sponsored welcome reception that evening.
Thursday: I've got the Hemingway panel at 10:30 and then a dilemma at noon-thirty. Should I attend Juniperlooza or Molecular Mixology? 2:30 is Hausgemacht, followed by Artisan Still Design at 4:30. I have nothing from 6 until 8, so I'll probably explore the city a bit, or just drink at the Carousel Bar. At 8 are the Spirited Dinners, and although I had a tough time deciding, I finally chose the dinner at Bourbon House, in part because of the bar chef, LeNell Smothers, whom Jen and I know from shopping at her store.
Friday: Another busy day. It begins with the Jerry Thomas panel, slides into the absinthe discussion, louches along to the history of the bar trade talk (which I might skip in favor of more exploration–we'll see), and finally dribbles out into Essential Guide to American Whiskey. This latter panel conflicts with one on rye, and it still baffles me that two American whiskey panels were programmed opposite each other. But Essential Guide is hosted by Gary Regan and the aforementioned LeNell, and if you've never seen those two together, you're in for a hootenanny. Gary did an event at LeNell's a few years back that Jen and I attended, and it was great fun.
Saturday: Beachbum Berry's tiki panel leads the morning, assuming I'm not in my undies in my room, watching cartoons and holding a gun or an ice pack to my head. I may do the Herbsaint panel at 12:30, or I might wander through town. I remember some charming shops on Magazine Street, from a pre-Katrina visit in 2002. I'd love to know whether they're still open. At 2:30 is Cracking the Egg, hosted by Eric Seed and that LeNell woman again, and if she hasn't gotten a restraining order by then, I'll probably be there. At 4:30 is the Roll Yer Own talk, and I'm eager to see whether Paul and Erik are going to poison us.
Sunday: Plane leaves at 8:45am. I just know I'm going to deeply and bitterly regret this.
Raspberry-Thyme Smash
I don't talk about this here, since this ain't the right venue for it, but my first geek love, long before I ever enjoyed bourbon or gin, is the comics. Not the stand-up sort (although I love them, too–don't get me started on NYC's Moonwork, or I'd-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal), but the printed type. Peanuts, Bloom County, New Yorker gags, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Jules Feiffer, Little Annie Fanny, the beat goes on.
This is all to say I really dig on what Doc Bamboo's been up to. I can barely even post once a month, let alone draw a crazy-lovely picture with each post. I know from cartoonists, and I think Craig's a damn good cartoonist. And on top of it all, he makes a good drink.
Which finally gets to the point of this post: the Raspberry-Thyme Smash. Craig and Mrs. Bitters both read Bon Appetit, and the Raspberry-Thyme Smash caught their eyes. Craig's already posted it, with a great cartoon, a funny story about a muddler, and the recipe for the drink.
Jen and I are lucky. When we moved to Providence, we landed in a place with raspberry bushes in our patio. And we're growing thyme for cooking purposes, so the Raspberry-Thyme Smash was a natural. After all, we always have gin around.
So, without boring you any longer, our version of the Raspberry-Thyme Smash:
Hausgemacht, part 3
And now, the end of my Leviathan conversation with Mike McCaw, Matthew Rowley, and Ian Smiley. Part 1 is available here, and Part 2 can be found here. I had a great time talking to these guys, and I expect the Hausgemacht panel to be engaging and informative.
Michael Dietsch: Now, Mike and Ian, do you find that home brewing and home winemaking is sort of a gateway drug for home distilling? Do people start off as brewers and winemakers and then become distillers?
Ian Smiley: Yes, I find a lot of my customers are that. Now, my book Making Pure Corn Whiskey is focused on making whiskey and vodka and other flavored spirits, so a lot of people who have been making what they call artisan beers, or making excellent product all-grain beers, or making excellent wines now want to move into distilling. They're looking to do it properly, and they're looking to do it for high quality, that this is often a segue that has come from the brewing and winemaking. In a manner of speaking, that's how I started myself.
I do find, in answer to one of the questions you asked Mike earlier, is I see a lot of customers who really don't feel too hands on with making the equipment, they don't want to experiment with it, they don't want to go through the phases of having equipment that doesn't work very well, they often want to just buy, get it made, get it perfected right from the outset, and move forward like that so they can produce the excellent product because they are pursuing excellence.
So, in summary, to answer your question, yes in my business, I do have a lot of customers that come through the brewing and winemaking venue.
Mike McCaw: I'd say that it's probably more than half. Where I especially see, though, people with no experience is people that are wanting to get in to the business end of distilling. So we get a lot of contacts from people saying they'd like to buy a PDA-2 and they want to set up a microdistillery because they've run the numbers on the back of an envelope and it looks like a hugely profitable business to be in. But they've got zero brewing or distilling experience. So those are actually my biggest challenge.
Dietsch: How does that wind up working out for them? Do they get started and then realize they're in over their heads?
McCaw: No, what I usually do is gently dissuade them. What I do is I send them a big questionnaire to fill out, trying to make them think about the scale of what they're proposing to do and frequently they haven't thought at all about the whole front end.
If you're going to be producing, say, 20 cases of vodka a day, you need to be fermenting several hundred gallons of grain-based or grape-based or sugar-based wash to process into that every day. And just the scale of the operation is much bigger and much more intense labor than they've usually thought and a large number of them simply drop out when they realize that. But much better to cull at the front end than have them spend several thousand dollars on equipment and then discover they can't handle it.
Dietsch: That might be why a number of professional brewers, like Fritz Maytag, start a brewery and then a distillery—because he already has experience running equipment and working at that scale. They don't have that naïve expectation that they can just start this without any sort of experience.
McCaw: Right. There's one other aspect, at least in the States, which is that onerous process of getting a license. I've worked with people that I've sold the equipment to, for their fully legal microdistilleries, and it did in fact take them two and a half years to get all their licensing in order. But if you already hold a Federal license, as a winery or brewery, they already know you, they don't have to redo the background checks, and you can get the additional stamp on your license to distill usually in a matter of a few months.
Smiley: I can add to this. I'm a member of the American Distilling Institute, and I go to their conference each year, and I have a lot of give and take with them. More than 50 percent of the membership are actual start-up, small microdistilleries, and one of the things that's become quite fashionable among them is to contract a microbrewer or a small or medium-sized brewery to make the wash for them. For example, there was Stranahan's in Colorado who makes an American straight malt whiskey; they've got a brewery making their mash for them. I think they're now starting to make their own, but one good way to get started is to contact a professional brewer to make your wash.
McCay: Sure, that reduces your capital costs a lot, too.
Matt Rowley: I see Charbay has been doing that in California. Although they're charging $250 a bottle for their whiskey, which is a bit steep.
Dietsch: Now, Matt, to pull you back into this for a moment, you're not manufacturing stills or that kind of thing, but how did you get interested in this?
Rowley: I was kind of tickled, listening to Mike and Ian talk, because we've never really talked about how we got started. Beer, for me, was the gateway beverage, again. I was in college, I was about 19 years old when I started making my own beers. I also liked big, heavy things—y'know, I did Irish reds, I did stouts. Back in the day, Coke still came in 16-oz. glass bottles, so I had my bathtub filled with bleach and water and Coke bottles. Then I got to really liking this a lot.
I was at a Derby Day party when I was maybe 20 or 21 and had some applejack made by the host of the party. No, not made by him, but by his family, who he claimed had been apple-cookin' for ten generations or so, and it was fantastic. I had had some really bad moonshine before and been around stuff that from the smell of it I didn't want to try, but this stuff was great.
So I started looking into it a little bit more. And this was 1990, 1989, something like that. There really wasn't a whole lot of reliable information out there. Like Ian said, you could look in encyclopedias, and I remember the Foxfire book, the first one, from when I was a kid.
But the first thing I got that was specifically about moonshining was a guy giving directions, and his still was, well, you take two pressure cookers and you cut the top off one and the bottom off the other and you arc-weld them together and that point, I went, "No. No, I'm not going to be that guy. I'm going to kill myself if I do that. Or blow up the house."
So I became interested in it more from an academic and historian point of view. I trained as an anthropologist and have been a museum curator, so my angle has been, sort of the stories about the people who are making it and why they're doing it and sort of seeing how it differs primarily within the United States, but by extension you're taking that back to, okay, why is the tenor of distilling and distillers different in Appalachia than it is in Washington State. Those are the sorts of answers that I like to find out about—why people are doing what they're doing.
Camper English, from the San Francisco Chronicle, was doing an article last summer, and he asked me if I could put him in touch with some of the distillers I knew in San Francisco, and the guys I knew didn't really want to talk to him. So I said, okay, here's sort of my trick to finding distillers is to talk to craft brewers. Or go to bars where the bartenders are really known for doing exceptional cocktails. Because especially among the craft brewers, without exception, they either are distilling themselves or they know someone who is.
And that really is the clear pattern to me is to see that Ian and Mike both started with beer, I started with beer. It seems like beer just leads you to think in the direction of whiskey. Especially if you're thinking about putting out a really quality product, and you think, "Okay, I'm happy with my beers, I've done some great stuff, and re-created old styles, I've got the Belgian beers down pat. What can I do with turning this into a whiskey?"
McCaw: It's the new frontier, yeah.
Rowley: That's one of the reasons that, because my own personal interest is more of a sort of anthropologist/historian take on this, as a distiller as well, when Ann [Tuennerman] originally asked me to do a presentation, I was really happy to do that, but I thought, I'm not the only voice out there in distilling, and it would be disingenuous to pretend that I am, so that's why I reached out and asked Mike and Ian if they'd be interested too, because I thought, between the three of us we can probably give a pretty balanced view of what the scene is like out there today.
Hausgemacht takes place Thursday, July 17, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm at the Hotel Monteleone. Tickets may be purchased here.


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Canon introduces several new camcorders
updated 09:45 am EST, Fri January 5, 2007
New Canon camcorders
New from Canon are six new camcorders: the Mini-DV ZR800, ZR830 and ZR850 models, and the DVR-R/RW based DC210, DC220 and DC230. Both lines offer a 16:9 ratio, 35x optical zoom, 1,000x digital zoom, and a Quick Start mode which puts a camera into a 30-minute standby mode, which takes less than a second to power on from. The DC220 and 230 (pictured) feature miniSD slots for transfer of stills, while the ZR830 and 850 read full-size SD cards, including High Capacity cards able to hold anywhere between 4GB and 32GB. Worth noting, however, is that the ZR cameras use Canon's older DIGIC DV processor, versus the DCs' modern DIGIC DV II. The ZRs will go on sale in January for $279, $299 and $329; the DCs are being released in March for $399, $449 and $499.