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Stitch 'n Bitch is a phrase that has been used to refer to social knitting groups since at least World War II.[1] Before the slang term "Stitch 'n Bitch" was used, groups of women in the 1940s would join to knit and talk in organized Stitch and Bitch clubs. The term was further used in the 1980s as part of the book Social History of American Knitting by Anne Macdonald.[2] It is in 2003 that Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitters Handbook was published as the first in a series of best-selling instructional books on knitting and crochet all titled with the phrase Stitch 'n Bitch. It is as a result to the success of the books that the modern day knitting groups known as Stitch 'n Bitch, have emerged in cities around the world. The groups, mainly women, meet to knit, stitch and talk. Nowadays, the groups have been analyzed by scholars as expressions of resistance to major political, social and technological change in Western societies. Furthermore, the term Stitch 'n Bitch is now used by women from across the globe to connect with others in the virtual space seeing as the term has re-emerged in a world where the public sphere is the cyberspace.
With over 1460 registered Stitch 'n Bitch groups in 289 cities worldwide, the social knitting movement has demarked itself as a popular social gathering for avid knitters.[3]
Knitting groups[edit]
Stitch 'n Bitch is a name used by knitting groups that meet on a weekly or monthly basis at locations throughout the world. This use of the term originates as early as the Second World War.[1][4] In 1999, Debbie Stoller started a Stitch 'n Bitch group in NYC's East Village, which was open to anyone who wanted to come to knit along or learn to knit.[citation needed] In 2000, she wrote about her groups in BUST magazine, of which she is the editor-in-chief. Brenda Janish read the article and started the Chicago Stitch 'n Bitch group.[citation needed] That article inspired Vickie Howell to start the Los Angeles Stitch 'n Bitch group and later the Austin Stitch 'n Bitch group.[5] Like Stoller's original group, today's Stitch 'n Bitch clubs are generally casual groups of knitters who meet in public spaces such as bars or cafes for socializing and sharing knitting advice. These groups are free or small fee required memberships and open to the public, and are listed in a directory of worldwide knitting groups that was started by Janish and today is maintained by Stoller: Official Home of Stitch 'n Bitch. As of 2010, the site lists over 700 such groups.
Book series[edit]
A 2003 book by Debbie Stoller, Stitch 'n Bitch : The Knitter's Handbook, sold almost 200,000 copies in the first six months of publication.[6] The book states that Debbie Stoller founded New York City's first Stitch 'N Bitch knitting group. In January 2004, Newsweek reported that Stoller's New York group had inspired spin-offs in Chicago and Los Angeles.[7] A second book in the series, Stitch 'n Bitch Nation includes many vignettes from groups located across America as well as international locations such as England and Japan. A third book in the series, Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker, is a primer on crochet, and the fourth book in the series, Son of Stitch 'n Bitch is a book of men's patterns A fifth book is scheduled for publication in Fall 2010.
Stitch n' Bitch Crochet[edit]
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Debbie Stoller's third book, Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker, was published in 2006. Similar to Stoller's first knitting book, Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet covered crochet stitch formation using American crochet terminology, and featured patterns from forty designers. [8]
Trademark dispute[edit]
From 2005 to 2008, Stitch 'n Bitch was the focus of a trademark dispute.
Sew Fast Sew Easy legal actions[edit]
In June 2005, the company Sew Fast Sew Easy filed a trademark application for Stitch & Bitch to designate a line of knitting and sewing supplies. As of 2007 this application was suspended.[9] In fall 2005, due to letters claiming trademark infringement from Sew Fast/Sew Easy's lawyers, knitting groups that had accounts with CafePress were forced to remove all items featuring the phrase "Stitch 'n Bitch". Local groups that communicated with each other through Yahoo! Groups were similarly forced to remove "Stitch 'n Bitch" from the name and description of their group.[10] Some groups were deleted, but most groups were able to change their name on Yahoo! to SNB.[11]
Debbie Stoller's legal actions[edit]
In May 2004, Stoller made four trademark applications regarding the term Stitch 'N Bitch:
- Relating to the book series authored by Stoller
- For a line of bags and cases marketed for knitting materials and supplies
- Relating to a knitting show on television
- For a brand of knitting kits
In July 2005, these four trademark applications were denied[12] for being confusingly similar to that of Sew Fast/Sew Easy. In November 2005, Stoller filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel Sew Fast/Sew Easy's trademark Stitch & Bitch Café.[13] In August 2006, Stoller's four trademark applications were reinstated.
In February 2006 a website was started at the Internet address freetostitchfreetobitch.org, calling for a boycott on Sew Fast/Sew Easy.[14] The boycott was covered in the summer 2006 edition of Knit.1 magazine and the fall 2006 edition of Vogue Knitting.[10][11] In 2008, after an agreement was reached between Stoller and SFSE, the call for a boycott was ended.
In 2008, Sew Fast Sew Easy and Debbie Stoller reached a settlement in which Debbie Stoller retained the use of the mark in knitting while Sew Fast Sew Easy retains the use for sewing. Since then all four of Stoller's trademarks have now been registered.
The Sew Fast Sew Easy store closed in 2012.
Social implications[edit]
In recent years, the Stitch 'n Bitch movement has been considered as a means of reclaiming women's domestic work in feminist circles. Not only have groups officially been formed through website use, but groups of women on university campuses have also followed the trends in order to resist the taboo representation of the "traditional" woman.
Dr. Beth Ann Pentney, writing in Thirdspace journal, credited Stoller's publications with the rise of feminist knitting. Stoller introduced this approach to feminism to merge political involvement with a women's community-building activity set in a Do-It-Yourself culture.[15]
As a response to Stoller, much scrutiny on the effectiveness of the reclamation of domestic arts as a political feminist act has been done. Some say that the reason of the reintroduction of knitting in modern social gatherings is mainly due to the increase in the search for individualism and the anti-consumerism attitude of our generation.[15]
With this said, it is important to denote the implication of technologies in the emergence of a "fabriculture" based on the reclamation of domestic arts and crafts.[16] With the internet accessibility of online information and tips and tricks for knitters and crocheters, the traditionally personal practice of knitting can now be shared easily among strangers, and is open to public discussion and new ideas. These webs of knitters worldwide find affinities via a very modern technology opposing the traditional DIY nature of knitting.
- ^ a b Macdonald, Anne L. (1988). No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting. [New York: Ballantine Books. p. 302. ISBN 0-345-33906-1.
- ^ Brightman, Emilee. "Crafty Ladies: Local knitting group not what you would expect". The Lakewood Observer. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
- ^ Stitch 'n Bitch. "Stitch 'n Bitch Find a knitting group or start your own". Retrieved 19 March 2013.
- ^ Elsworth, Catherine (2006-11-02). "It's getting bitchy in knitting circles". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
- ^ "Sisters of the Stitch", L.A. Times, Nov. 20, 2003
- ^ Campbell, Jane (2004-03-23). "It's a knit-in". Independent Online Edition. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
- ^ Scelfo, Julie (January 26, 2004). "Rock-and-Roll Knitters". Newsweek. Retrieved 2007-11-25.
- ^ Stoller, Debbie (2006). Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker. New York: Workman Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 1–283.
- ^ United States Patent and Trademark Office (November 28, 2007). "Serial Number: 78641350". Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
- ^ a b Petrovsky, Lesley (Fall 2006). "Tempest in a Tea Cozy". Vogue Knitting. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
- ^ a b Krementz, Cheryl (Summer 2006). "Stitch & Bitch Slap". Knit.1. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
- ^ "Serial Number: 78417575 Stitch 'N Bitch". USPTO. July 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
"Serial Number: 78417582 Stitch 'N Bitch". USPTO. July 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
"Serial Number: 78417593 Stitch 'N Bitch". USPTO. July 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
"Serial Number: 78417589 Stitch 'N Bitch". USPTO. July 15, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
- ^ Abelman, Frayne & Schwab Attorneys at Law (November 4, 2005). "Petition to Cancel for Registration No. 2,596,818 Stitch & Bitch Cafe" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-11-25.
- ^ "Boycott Sew Fast Sew Easy!". Internet Archive. February 2, 2006. Retrieved 2007-07-15.[dead link]
- ^ a b Pentney, Beth Ann (Summer 2008). "Feminism, Activism, and Knitting: Are the Fibre Arts a Viable Mode for Feminist Political Action?". Third Space: a journal of feminist theory and culture. 8 (1). Retrieved 19 March 2013.
- ^ Bratich, Jack; Brush, Heidi M. (27 November 2011). "Fabricating activism: Craft-Work, Popular Culture, Gender". Utopian Studies. 22 (2): 233–260. doi:10.5325/utopianstudies.22.2.0233. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
Further reading[edit]
- Debbie Stoller (2003). Stitch 'n Bitch: the knitter's handbook. New York: Workman Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7611-2818-2.
- Debbie Stoller (2004). Stitch 'n Bitch Nation. New York: Workman Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7611-3590-1.
- Debbie Stoller (2006). Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker. New York: Workman Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7611-3985-0.
- Debbie Stoller (2007). Son of Stitch 'n Bitch: 45 Projects to Knit and Crochet for Men (Paperback). New York: Workman Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7611-4617-9.
External links[edit]
- Knitting groups: Stitch 'n Bitch Groups Worldwide - Contact information for local groups worldwide
- Debbie Stoller: Stitch 'n Bitch promotional web site - Book series
- Interactive Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook - on Inkling


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Has Apple's Fued With Google Hurt Its iPhone 5?
By Steve Henn • Sep 27, 2012
Originally published on September 27, 2012 3:08 am
The fallout from Apple's controversial decision to drop Google Maps from the iPhone 5 continues. Customers aren't giving Apple Maps any love, and analysts say Apple made an uncharacteristic blunder in dumping Google.

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Hidden Treasures of the Delaware
To the casual observer, these numbers may seem inconceivable, as most people only notice the shiny inner shells of dead mussels sparsely strewn across the bottom of the Delaware. But having worked alongside the dedicated USGS crew here during much of the sultry summer of 2002, I can attest to the astounding numbers of mussels found in the riverbed. The live mussels are much less visible, mostly buried in the substrate, oriented vertically, often with only the posterior end of their shells and their siphons exposed, and require an attuned eye to detect.
There are literally hundreds of millions of mussels in the Delaware River, each with the ability to filter multiple gallons of water a day. Collectively, they filter billions of gallons of water on a daily basis, greatly influencing and contributing to the superb water quality found here and on down through the entire non-tidal Delaware. The flow volume of the Delaware River is filtered many times over through the bodies of freshwater mussels on its way to the ocean.
Connectivity with the ocean is key in maintaining the Delaware's robust mussel fauna, as well as the rest of its biodiversity and resilience. During most of the period of escalating dam-building in the last century, we weren't aware of important tradeoffs being made. Freshwater mussels, in order to reproduce, require a fish host for their larvae to live on briefly during the early stages of their development, without harm to the fish. This fish host is often specific for each species of mussel (the Delaware has 12 of the 14 species found on the Atlantic Slope), and is usually a fish species with which they've co-evolved over thousands of years. When they're de-coupled from their fish hosts, mussels can't reproduce.
The most important fish host for eastern elliptio mussels (Elliptio complanata), which make up 98.7% of the Upper Delaware River's mussels, is the American eel, a sea-run migratory fish that is still able to access its important historic habitat here (all the more unique to this system, when 84% of historic stream habitat on the Atlantic Coast is blocked by dams). Consequently, we have hundreds of millions of eastern elliptio mussels each filtering multiple gallons of water per day and providing other important and economically valuable ecosystem services for free, just because we've kept the system healthy enough to sustain the native biota of the Delaware River.


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By Dave Wagner
Sports writer
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University acted quickly to fill its men's soccer position.
Tyler Hart, 26, a former ENMU player who served as a graduate assistant for the team last season, was named the interim coach on Wednesday.
He replaces Harold Munoz, who recently resigned the position after spending six years as the Greyhounds' head coach.
ENMU athletic director Jeff Geiser said the school will open the position for a fulltime coach at the end of the season, and Hart could well be a candidate.
"I appreciate Tyler stepping up and helping us out in a tough situation," Geiser said. "He's been given a wonderful opportunity, so what he does with it is totally up to him."
Geiser said the transition should be relatively smooth, since Hart knows all of the returning players and has been heavily involved in recruiting.
"I think the fact he's been with Harold will help," Geiser said. "My phone didn't ring today with any player wanting to transfer, and that's a good thing."
Hart, who is originally from Toronto, said he has visited with everyone on this year's squad and expects all to report for the start of practice in mid-August.
"I'm very lucky to have this opportunity," he said. "I spent one year as a graduate assistant and one year (2010) as a volunteer assistant. I think I'd kind of earned Harold's trust."
Hart played in 60 games for the Hounds from 2006-09. He earned his bachelor's degree in 2011, and expects to complete work on his master's degree in business administration this year.


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Although the foster care system is in place to protect children, one mother feels she has been treated unfairly.
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Janelle McKenzie, a mother of four, feels her two children were unfairly taken from her after a caseworker visit that happened about seven months ago.
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Even though she has had problems with substance abuse in the past, McKenzie said her addiction was not a problem when the caseworker made a visit to her home.
"My regular case worker had a backup worker come to check up on the kids," McKenzie said. "I said to her, 'My kids are napping, I'm on the methadone. When my kids nap, I nap with them.' I said, 'You are cutting in on my naptime -- can you please leave and come back a different time?'"
The caseworker told McKenzie the visit would only take a couple minutes, which turned into close to 15 minutes. Since she was tired when the caseworker was visiting, she started to nod off a bit.
"I'm not going to deny my methadone wasn't too high because it was too high," McKenzie said.
Her doctor was monitoring her methadone, taking her dose down each week by five millilitres.
After the visit, the caseworker came back half an hour later to take McKenzie's children, who were three years old and three months old at the time.
"They said, 'Don't give us a hard time because if you do the cops will be involved,'" she said.
"I said, 'OK, I want you to write down my kids have Pampers, milk, groceries, my house is clean. I made sure the worker wrote that all down before she took my children (so they knew my children) had everything they needed and more."
Since her children were being well taken care of, McKenzie is unsure why foster care chose to take them away.
"I should have talked to my regular worker -- I don't know why the back-up worker took my kids," McKenzie said. "The nurses were having thoughts that the baby wasn't being fed properly and being neglected."
McKenzie said their claims were false, as she was making sure her baby, Richie, had enough milk.
"We were getting free milk for the baby because I am HIV-positive," McKenzie said. "I get free milk for my baby for a year until he gets on homo milk. There was no reason I wouldn't strive to feed my baby."
According to McKenzie, the caseworker told her drugs had nothing to do with why her children were taken away. Rather they were removed because her methadone dose was too high and the baby lost a pound.
"He lost a pound in foster care and nothing happened to them," she said. "He lost a pound in the hospital. Right there, that can tell you I wasn't neglecting my son.
"Even our methadone co-ordinator, she was so upset," McKenzie added. "She said, 'I don't know why they took your kids, you were doing so good. Your randoms are so clean.'"
Natalie Huber, executive director of child and family services for the Ministry of Social Services, said the ministry is required to tell parents why their children have been taken away.
"We are required by law to inform the parent and if we found a child in need of protection and the child is coming into care, we would serve them with an apprehension notice," Huber said. "Wherever possible we will be engaging with families in signing a section nine agreement, which is a voluntary agreement for children to come into care.
"The family signs that agreement with us. It is basically an agreement saying we will provide care and support for the child while we work on the plan with the family to reunify the child back home," she added. "We work closely with the parents and they are notified when a child comes into care."
After the children were taken away, McKenzie admits she and the children's father both fell into a deep depression and started using more drugs, but while she had her children she was only using the doctor-prescribed amount of methadone.
Not only did they lose their children, but since they were living in a low rental housing unit, the family also lost their home and belongings.
According to Huber, children will only be removed from a home if the child is at risk.
"If we receive a concern from any of the general public and it is related to neglect due to addictions or the parent's inability to care for the child due to addictions, then we would hear that concern and conduct an investigation," Huber said.
"If we receive a report around a concern someone might have around a person's drinking or drug use, something that is related to addictions, we would look at the impact that their addiction is having on the child.
"For example if it is due to their drinking is causing them to neglect the child or treat the child in a way they shouldn't be treated so they are placed in situations they are unsafe, those are things we would be looking at," she added. "Our primary concern is around the safety of children."
Usually, they try to keep the children at home and work with the parents if they do not feel the children are in danger.
"We do have a number of concerns that will come to our attention where families are involved with drugs or alcohol and in most circumstances we would go out, we would meet with the family, try to understand what the concerns are, but again what we are assessing is a level of safety and the risk to the child," Huber said.
"Where we can keep the child safely at home and provide interventions, treatment supports for mom and dad, we will try it at every cost that we can to keep the child at home safely. When we can't assure the child's safety is when we will bring them into care however."
Since her children were put into foster care, McKenzie feels they have been more neglected and not treated well by the foster family.
"The foster parents took in my baby (to the hospital) at six months old," McKenzie said. "When they took him in, he was fighting for his life. He was fighting just to breathe … They didn't know if he was going to get any better, that is how sick he was."
McKenzie and the children's father were not informed the baby was in the hospital until he had to be transferred to Saskatoon three days later, which upset them both.
"When we arrived, my baby was hooked up to so many machines," McKenzie said. "He had to have help breathing, tags on his chest, intravenous on head, arm and ankle."
The parents were told Richie had pneumonia at first, but after about a month in the hospital, they decided to do an MRI after he had a 45-minute seizure.
"The doctor came and talked to us," McKenzie said. "He said he had bleeding between the brain and skull."
Richie had been in the hospital for about a month and a half.
"By the time they did the MRI it was like a bruise almost healed," McKenzie said. "I asked them if they could find the time frame it happened and they said it happened a month and a half ago. I said 'OK, he was in foster care then right?' And the doctor said right."
Although she would have loved to stay with her child, McKenzie was forced to leave him to be picked up by the foster parents.
All the nurses were impressed with her care and concern for her child while she was at the hospital, McKenzie said.
"I got support letters from the nurses and they said, 'Wow you are so good with him. We never thought he was going to get better and since you have been here he has gotten so much better.'"
Since then, during one of her visits with her children her three-year-old showed up with a bruise about the size of the palm of a hand on his butt that was a very dark purple.
"We asked them what happened to his butt, why is the bruise so big and they said he fell on a baseboard," McKenzie said. "How can a baseboard doing that much damage? It was almost the size of your palm."
Other incidents have been noted as well. McKenzie said the baby has had terrible diaper rash and his bum isn't kept clean and the three-year-old recently had a cut above his eye.
McKenzie doesn't understand why the foster family is not being disciplined for her children being injured under their care.
"Nothing happened to them," she said. "My children are still in that foster home."
She has told the social workers that she wants her children out of that foster home. Social Services said they would look into it.
Huber said foster parents are required to report any serious injury of a child in their care to the ministry.
"They are required to notify us immediately and as for policy, we complete an assessment to determine the cause of injury, whether or not the child is safe and ensure if medical treatment is already received or if they need to receive, we would work closely with the foster parents in that regard," Huber said.
"If the concerns are such that we have concerns about the quality of care in the foster home or that we are concerned about the child's safety in that foster home, we may make a decision to move the child pending an investigation."
The investigation would depend on a number of factors, including interviews with the foster parents, others with information about the foster home and interviews with the children in their care.
"If police are involved, it may require involvement with them as well," Huber said. "It is really dependent on a number of factors. We try to complete the investigation within a 30-day timeframe."
Huber said reunifying families is their goal at Social Services.
"What we like to focus on is the safe return of the child home if they do have to come into care," Huber said. "The ministry works closely with parents. Certainly we are working very closely with parents when the plan is to reunify the child back home.
"When the case plan is to return the child back home, we would certainly be taking into consideration the parents' wishes around the care plans for the child and we would take into consideration their requests but our decisions are based on the best interests of the child," she added. "Obviously if the child is connected with the caregiver and they are doing well in the home, they are placed close to their school, those are considerations to make sure the child is in a situation where they are not disrupted."
Although McKenzie wants her children removed from the foster home, she is currently working on getting them back.
"We are going to get our children back right away," McKenzie said. "All we have to do is outpatient treatment at Addictions Services. I don't understand why we have to do this outpatient treatment when it has nothing to do with drugs why our children were taken away. I don't understand why we have to do these steps if it has nothing to do with drugs."
In terms of parents with concerns about foster homes, Huber said they try to work with the parents.
"We will try to work closely with parents to address what their concerns are and take it into consideration," Huber said. "Our primary focus is on the actions or inactions of the parent and how it contributes to any kind of maltreatment, abuse or neglect of the child.
"We deal with so many various concerns and reports that come to our attention, so our ultimate responsibility to try to assess safety and risk based on the parent's ability, capacity and willingness to create a safe, quality or caring environment for the child."


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Prospects are important in Major League Baseball. Without a strong farm system, teams will not have the depth needed to compete for a playoff spot. That leads to a downward spiral, and suddenly you've become the Pittsburgh Pirates or Kansas City Royals.
The need for prospects is more important in the American League Central, where a majority of the teams in the division choose to build from within instead of going crazy in free-agent spending.
Between the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and the aforementioned Royals, there are 15 prospects listed in Baseball America's Top 100.
That means that the future will be coming soon for the AL Central, and here's a look at what it could look like with an all-prospect team.


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Approximately 1,134 Peachland residents evacuated as a result of the Trepanier Forest Fire will be able to return home tonight. Thanks to favourable weather conditions and excellent firefighting efforts, a portion of the area under Evacuation Order has been reclassified to an Evacuation Alert area. Although residents on the following roads are free to return to their homes, they are reminded that they are on Evacuation Alert and must still be prepared to leave with little notice:
Returning residents are reminded that fire crews will be working in the Evacuation Alert area and to be cautious as emergency crews and equipment may be accessing roads and properties. Residents can expect to see smoke, small open flame or embers. Emergency crews will be monitoring the area through the night. Residents are encouraged to be patient as they may encounter traffic congestion.
416 people remain on Evacuation Order. Complete maps of evacuated areas are available on the www.cordemergency.ca website.
The Evacuation Alert involving properties east of Highway 97 has now been lifted, including the downtown and waterfront areas from Princeton Avenue to Robinson Place, affecting 432 people.
The fire is estimated at 200 hectares in size and is 50% contained.
The three homes within the District of Peachland that were destroyed in the fire are:
A fourth home within the Central Okanagan West Electoral Area that appears to have been abandoned was also destroyed. Various outbuildings and vehicles have also been impacted.
Emergency Support Services will be closing its reception centre at the Westbank Lions Hall at 6 p.m. tonight, reopening at 9 a.m. tomorrow, September 11, 2012.
For information regarding Peachland Elementary and bussing, please visit www.sd23.bc.ca.
New information and updates on the Evacuation Orders and Alerts will be available on the Regional District Emergency Program website www.cordemergency.ca and updates will also be there and released to the media as soon as it becomes available. Media can contact (250) 469-8493 if needed. Public inquiries can be directed to 1-877-569-8490.
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New OCC Lip Tar Packaging: Old Vs. New
With the newest collection from OCC out, The Garden Collection, they have introduced their new Lip Tar packaging, which is something I am soooo excited about. I love OCC's Lip Tars, but the packaging was an issue that made the product somewhat confusing to those who were not familiar with super pigmented lip products. The new packaging is sleek and much more user-friendly!
Right off the bat, you can notice the main differences: Matte packaging, new tip, and a slightly larger tube (and more product).
The most exciting change is the new tip. This is SUCH a needed change for Lip Tars, because the old tip, which was a slanted tip resembling something you'd see on a lip balm, gave the impression that this was a product you could easily put on right from the tube. It's not. Lip Tars are so so so pigmented, that the amount you need for an entire lip look is such a small amount, applying it right from the container is almost guaranteed to give you about 5x more product than you need.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people at trade shows who go up to the OCC booth, see the lip tars, and try to put them on right from the tube and wonder why it made a mess. I don't blame them, the packaging was misleading. Too much Lip tar is a mess, will feather and bleed outside of your lipline, and is just not attractive, and when people don't know the type of product it is, just a simple packaging style like this can make them think it's something it isn't, and turn them away from a great product. With the new tip, you really have no choice but to use a brush, and it solves the messy problem!
Another new change- Matte packaging. I LOVE the fact that they made these matte. I think it looks so much nicer. It gives you a better idea of what the color is inside, I think. I can't think of any other tube lip products that do matte packaging, so I think it's a nice, unique change!
Last but not least, OCC upped the amount of product you get from .27fl oz to .33fl oz. Along with this, the price of the Lip Tars went up from $13.50 to $14. Considering that the amount of product increased 25%, that's a pretty good deal!
The only downside in my opinion is something that hasn't changed from the old packaging, and that is the clear stickers that have the name of the shade on them. The lip tar packaging isn't changed for each shade (and I wouldn't expect it to) but the ink that they use for those stickers likes to rub off really easily. Just pressing your thumb over the sticker a few times shows that the ink starts to deteriorate, which means that it's easy for these to become nameless. Obviously this is a very minor issue, but for someone like me that needs to know the names of products I use, it can be a bit irritating.
OCC Lip Tars are available for $14 each from OCC Makeup. For a post of (almost) all of the lip tars swatched on my lips, click here (I WILL be redoing this with my new camera soon, promise!!)


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Posted on 03/24/2004 11:52:27 AM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON (AP) An international labor union is urging its Democratic members in Pennsylvania to switch their voter registration to Republican to vote for Sen. Arlen Specter in his tough primary fight against conservative Rep. Pat Toomey.
The registration push comes as national groups scramble to sign up voters for November's presidential race in Pennsylvania, a battleground state and the nation's fifth-largest electoral prize. Voters who don't switch back risk falling through the cracks during Democratic get-out-the-vote drives and other outreach efforts.
Specter, a political moderate who generally supports labor issues, is the only sitting senator in the nation to face a primary. He "needs as much support in the April 27 primary as possible," wrote Robert A. Scardelletti, president of the Transportation Communications International Union in a March 15 letter to Pennsylvania members.
"Enclosed is a voter registration card that you can use to register to vote in the Republican primary if you so choose," Scardelletti wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. "I realize that this is a somewhat unusual request, but I can assure you that it is vitally important.
While labor unions generally support Democrats, Scardelletti's letter was accompanied by instructions from the Specter campaign on how to register to vote. Scardelletti did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Wednesday.
Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 445,000 voters in Pennsylvania. The state's primary voter registration deadline is March 29.
Pennsylvania, a political swing state that swung for Democrat Al Gore by a mere 204,000 votes in 2000, is on the national forefront of an intense push this year by both parties to recruit voters. Parties use registration rolls to target voters with campaign fliers and, in turn, push them to the polls.
Since many union members are expected to support Democratic presumptive presidential nominee John Kerry in November, "it's probably not necessary for them to switch back," said Norman Adler, a New York-based political consultant who advises unions.
Even so, "it's very hard" for union leaders to persuade their members to go through yet another registration switch so soon after the first, Adler said. He called the union's push to switch voter registration highly unusual in a U.S. Senate race.
Aides to Toomey, the conservative challenger, said the union support indicates a "late, frantic appeal" to Democrats by Specter.
"The fact that this appeal comes just days before the registration deadline illustrates that Arlen Specter is aware that he doesn't have sufficient support among Republicans to win this race," Toomey campaign spokesman Joe Sterns said.
But Specter campaign manager Christopher Nicholas said Specter would work with any group to try to boost the number of Republican voters in the state to help President Bush in November.
"And we are working with any group that wants to work with us," Nicholas said.
More fodder for the cannon, Angel.
...the shameless RINO keeps strange company.
They're voting in the GOP Senate primary to support the liberal, but having done so is going to make them vote for the less liberal Presidential candidate in November? Transparent BS ... but par for the RINO course.
(He's worse than McLame, if that's possible)
Moderate my A$$. If RINO Specter is a Moderate, I would hate to see what a Liberal looks like, oh, wait I already know, it's Ketchup Boy.
In answer to the question you posed on the other Specter thread last night (How are people in your neck of the woods receiving this kind of message about their beloved incumbent senator?) ...
Beloved is hardly the word I would use to describe the collective opinion of this man here in PA Dutch country (but I suspect you already knew that. :) Which is one reason why, if only for a month, I wish I were out in the Pittsburgh area. Here I am more or less preaching to the choir although I have met a few choir members recently who were not as aware as they should be of the importance of this particular race (they are now, though. :)
Arlen Specter is a former prosecutor and investigator, served as District Attorney for Philadelphia, where his chief claim to fame (as opposed to reality) was battling against consumer fraud and corrupt public officials -- italics are mine and are subject to dispute :). He now occupies hugely powerful positions in the Senate, serving, among other things, as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and the Government Affairs Committee. And he is a tireless and vocal supporter of the international criminal court (*cough*), and a self-proclaimed expert on, and situational reciter of, Scottish Law.
Reading only those qualifications, would you think, at least as regards lip service, that this man has a deep reverence for law and proper procedure?
Answer: Only when reverence for law does not (1) interfere with the overall achievement of the leftist political agenda, or (2) stand in the way of his retaining his personal political power.
This fighter of crime, purveyor of justice, and expert on laws of all types (even those written in plaid and transcribed by wearers of kilts), is currently undermining the process by which our two major parties nominate their candidates for national office.
hypocrite: -n- one who affects virtues or quialities he does not have.
The nauseating end of the AP article:
But Specter campaign manager Christopher Nicholas said Specter would work with any group to try to boost the number of Republican voters in the state to help President Bush in November.
Honest translation:
Specter will use union leadership to strong-arm strongly democrat union members into falsely registering as Republicans simply in order to re-elect a fellow democrat, by hi-jacking the primary election of the opposition party and subverting the electoral process.
Painting him as a loyal Republican who is merely attempting to boost Republican numbers by recruiting former democrats into the ranks is ludicrous. Nope grossly understated. It is despicable. Borderline illegal self-promotion and self-preservation does not disguise well as working hard for the good of the party. It might play well in a kindergarten class, but lets hope the average Republican Pennsylvania voter is a little more astute.
If justice prevails in the April 27th primary, this former national figure will be back in the private sector, looking for a job that better suits his qualifications.
(And this particular gal will not be buying any hot dogs from his stand.)
~ joanie
This is a disgrace.
Good luck!
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OKLAHOMA CITY - With one eye on the past and another on the 2000 elections, lawmakers appear anxious over an education rally planned at the Capitol on Feb. 16.
Nervous about a contentious fight over teacher pay raises, legislators last week debated the wisdom and timing of the rally.
Some recalled the frenzied teacher demonstrations of a decade ago, when thousands of teachers demonstrated for passage of the 1990 school reform act.
This time around, Republican lawmakers aren't exactly rolling out the red carpet for teachers.
And some Democrats don't seem too excited about the pending battle.
"It's not going to be a lot of fun out here," says veteran Rep. Larry Roberts, D-Miami, House education chairman.
With sizable growth revenue to fuss over and many needs, the task of budget writers will be difficult, Roberts said. "Plus, this is an election year and everything's going to be extremely partisan."
The Senate's GOP caucus has proposed that teachers stay in school and teach on Feb. 16, a Wednesday. That would require them to scuttle plans for a rally that has been in the works for months.
At a news conference, Rep. Wayne Pettigrew, R-Edmond, said teachers in his district would be more effective if they would individually write, telephone or send him an E-mail.
Republican senators called on the Senate leadership to set an unprecedented Saturday legislative session to accommodate teachers wanting to air their grievances.
That idea was nixed, however, by Senate President Pro Tempore Stratton Taylor, D-Claremore, who said the Legislature had no business telling teachers when they can come to the Capitol.
Bob Mooneyham, executive director of the Oklahoma School Boards Association, said it is a misconception that the Feb. 16 event is a teachers' rally and that it is an Oklahoma Education Association event.
It actually is the product of the Oklahoma Education Coalition, which consists of a wide range of education groups, he said.
Many parents are expected because the rally is being staged in conjunction with a meeting of the Parent-Teachers Association, Mooneyham said. "This rally has taken on a life of its own and the response has been excellent. We expect a tremendous crowd.
"We've been working on it every since last fall, when it became obvious that something was needed to help stimulate the Legislature and the governor to do something about funding education. School districts are mobilizing parents and business people to be there. This is something that is much bigger than a teacher rally."
But teachers will be the main focus, since the No. 1 priority of the OEA and other school groups is the pay of Oklahoma teachers, among the lowest in the nation.
Upset with a slim budget increase a year ago, public school interests have vowed to intensify their lobbying at the Capitol.
In addition to a sizable teacher raise, they are calling for changes in House Bill 1759, including funding of mandates in several areas.
Ted Metzer, president of the American Federation of Teachers chapter in Oklahoma City, said one of his members quoted a lawmaker as saying teachers "didn't seem to care," judging from a lackluster lobbying effort in 1999.
"I can assure you we'll be out there this year," he said.
He said education groups "got slipped up on" in 1999 when the final version of 1759 was put together in a conference committee, complete with what Metzer sees was an ill-advised charter school bill that puts key decisions at the state level instead of with local school boards.
Attendance at the Feb. 16 rally will be helped because several school districts are closing schools on that day by modifying their calendars.
Some are using "snow days" that have not been necessary this year because of a mild winter. Other schools are requiring teachers to use one of their "professional days" to go to the Capitol.
Metzer shrugged off the GOP idea of putting off the rally. "This is government for the people, by the people and the people need to be able to come to the Capitol," he said.
Teachers have been given reason to hope for a fatter pay check next year.
This fall, House Speaker Loyd Benson, D-Frederick, proposed teacher pay increases of $4,000 a year, with half of that total tied to performance.
Gov. Frank Keating, longtime supporter of merit pay for teachers, has said he will budget $100 million for teacher raises.
But Taylor wonders if Keating's education plan contains "real" money or consists mainly of cost-cutting that would be difficult in a school system that ranks near the bottom in per pupil expenditures.
Taylor says raising school size, as suggested by Keating officials, could dampen recent progress of schools.
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Lord of the Rings: War in the North -- We Defend a Dwarven Fortress at Gamescom 2011By Sinan Kubba - Posted Aug 25, 2011
Three is the new four. Well, maybe not, but since Uncharted 2's three-player online co-op we've seen a return to the old industry ethos that two's company, four's a crowd, and three's a video game. Remember Secret of Mana, Double Dragon 3, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, and Battletoads? Three-way used to be the way, so it's with open arms I welcome my two teammates, just two, to help me save Middle Earth in the upcoming action-RPG Lord of the Rings: War in the North.
The demo developer Snowblind Studios has brought to Gamescom throws us into defending the dwarven fortress Nordinbad from a siege by Sauron's forces. With licenses for both the filmic and literary content acquired to ground the game within the modern revival of Tolkien's work, it's unsurprising that the scene is almost like a microcosm of the Battle of Helm's Deep.
We arrive in first-class on the backs of the gigantic eagles we made acquaintances with back at E3, but there's little time for catching up as the Urak-hai have already made their way to just outside the main gate and the discrepancy in numbers is beginning to resemble Thermopylae.
I take on the role of the lithe Gondor ranger Eradin who in this build dual wields with daggers when he's not pumping arrows into orcs. My teammates play as Andriel, an elven mage, and Farin, a dwarven warrior. Each character is set up to be proficient in both melee and ranged attacks, but this build of Eradin seems better suited to keeping his distance. He's got great speed with the bow and can produce a flurry of arrows in seconds.
When I hold back and zoom in to line up the headshots and get critical damage, I'm all but cutting ribbons through the onslaught on my own, especially when I use my charged arrow attack to take out baddies in one go. Although in War in the North you will only meet rather than take on the likes of Gandalf and Aragorn, the trio you do play as have the same kind of clout and heroism of the nine of the Fellowship.
Not that my assuredness in battle lasts, mind you.
The clear emphasis in War in the North is on playing co-operatively, and with this level taking mid-way through a game with RPG elements similar to those in the Mass Effect games our characters have built up their own set of skills and through them their own roles. Both the ranger and the mage are a little brittle health-wise, so when the siege intensifies and the Urak-hai start to break down the doors in front of us, we take to the nearby turrets and help from afar while letting the tank-like dwarf get intimate with the horde.
This proves an excellent strategy at first, right until we realize the dwarf is not an infinite well of health when the wee guy conks out. I make a daring-do dash to revive him, holding down a face button much like I would revive in Gears of War, but the orcs are an impatient bunch and they make light work of me too. It's only through the miraculous work of the mage that we survive. She quickly heals us both before creating a force field around us which both shields and heals us up. This is her character-dependent special ability, and bloody useful it proves too.
We finally clear out the stragglers, but there's no time for pats on the back because two giant-like, fearsome looking trolls suddenly appear out of seemingly nowhere and crush their way through towards the main door. A bar indicating how much longer the door will hold on appears, and that lets us know that we've got a limited amount of time to take down these monstrosities.
This seems like as good a time as any to use the ranger's special ability, cloaking myself in invisibility magic to sneak up and use a stealth attack. Against most enemies this would be very effective, but against the huge stony-faced trolls the only reward I get is a thick fist to the face. Knowing what character and weapon dependent skills to use and when to use them, and not just with your own character but across the three of you, is going to be the key to success in War in the North.
Getting a sense of how to approach combat with each character against each individual enemy is also going to be important. The trolls, for example, are all about charging up big ground-pummeling attacks which cause a wide area of damage. Blocking, at least with the ranger, isn't going to work, but some well timed dodges let me seamlessly roll into a series of chained blade attacks.
Unfortunately, there are still quite a few Urak-hai milling around trying to take a piece of us while we steadfastly endeavor to defeat the trolls, the battle well into its fourth minute by now. Luckily the three of us are starting to click with the combat a bit more, and as we start to successfully avoid taking hits a face button prompt appear over beaten enemies. Activating it produces a bloody execution move, in my ranger's case a real full swing and swipe through the neck of his enemy.
It's pretty gruesome, but I'm told that when the heroes attack in unison they can produce some even more devastating co-operative kills. The three of us aren't quite on that wavelength just yet, but as we start to master the blocks and dodges the combat starts to flow in a very gratifying way. It's not the most complicated but there is a satisfying chunk of challenge and rhythm to it. Eventually we take down the trolls. The battle is won, but the journey north is far from over.
I'll admit that War in the North wasn't really on my radar before GamesCom. From what I saw in Cologne, though, the game has that Lord of the Rings filmic spectacle mixed in with RPG elements and some hefty, co-operative combat, and is looking good at this stage. The fantasy RPG is enjoying a heck of a renaissance with the likes of Amalur and Skyrim coming out in the coming months. Snowblind will likely have their work cut out to make the game stand out amongst the likes of those, so just how good War in the North's trump card, the co-op, proves to be could be the key to its success.
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Sinan, Is it online only, or system link co-op?Posted: August 26, 2011 10:59 AM
I'm a little dissapointed that you cannot create your own character, but now that I know that everyone has a melee & ranged build, I'm a bit more at ease. I'll be playing as that Elven chick. Staves rules, yo.Posted: August 26, 2011 7:21 AM
though i have no interest in this game, im glad to see they are emphasizing coop. too many games now have multiplayer, but online, gone are the good couch coop games. i want more couch coop games!Posted: August 26, 2011 3:24 AM
1:49 totally thought that guy was lighting one up....Posted: August 25, 2011 11:41 PM
i wont buy this game but i use to play lord of the rings on ps2 n it was beast :)Posted: August 25, 2011 7:51 PM
i really appreciated the fact that you thought enough of gamers to understand that we are not all dumb, drooling meatheads and could use intelligent vocabulary and references(i.e. thermopylae)Posted: August 25, 2011 7:25 PM
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A Holmen man wanted in connection with a May 22 deadly hit and run appeared in La Crosse County Court Tuesday afternoon.
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Mracek turned himself in Monday around 8:30 p.m., according to the La Crosse County Sheriff's Department's Facebook page.
Authorities have been looking for Mracek since a May 22 hit and run in the town of Bangor that killed 75-year-old Darel Skolos of La Crosse.
Police say Mracek was driving on Highway B when he crossed the center line and hit Skolos' pickup truck head-on and then fled the scene.
Skolos was transported to Gundersen Health System in critical condition, with a hip fracture, spleen injury, broken ribs and other internal injuries, according to the criminal complaint. Skolos died from the injuries sustained in the crash on June 1.
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Progressive leaders from the local Jewish community showed support for employees of the Hyatt hotel chain on April 21.
A delegation of Jewish community leaders convened at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza and met with hotel staff persons. The delegation called on the hotel to provide better wages for the hotel's nonmanagement employees, an end to union busting and a safer work environment for its employees.
Rabbi Jonathan Klein, executive director of the economic justice advocacy group CLUE-LA, led the group, which brought symbols of Passover — matzah, bitter herbs and cups of wine — to the meeting to illustrate their message.
"Symbols of enslavement and suffering, and symbols of freedom and liberation," Klein explained.
Tracey Pool, senior executive assistant manager at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, met with the delegation on behalf of the hotel.
"Please understand that we would love to settle the issues we have had, and we would love to have a fair contract in place, that this is not an anti-union hotel," Pool said.
Klein asked Pool which "she'd rather consume," wine or the bitter herbs. When Pool said she preferred the wine, Klein handed her a glass, and they both drank.
CLUE-LA, an interfaith social justice organization, in partnership with Unite Here Local 11, the union that represents the workers at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, called for the meeting, which took place in the reception area outside the office of Hyatt Regency Century Plaza general manager David Horowitz.
The delegation in support of the workers included the Progressive Jewish Alliance, the Jewish Labor Committee, several Los Angeles rabbis and Christian leaders.
L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz attended the meeting, and he spoke of a bright future for hotel employees. "This change has to happen. It is going to happen," Koretz said to Pool. "It's just a question of when."
The meeting showed the Jewish community's ongoing commitment to Hyatt employees. Last July, CLUE-LA participated in a large protest on Sunset Boulevard on behalf of Hyatt workers. That day's events included a sit-in that led to 63 arrests for civil disobedience.
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Oooooohhhh I just have to tell you Wayne and I haven't been able to get out to eat at any restaurants in the area. We've both been laid up with the flu of all things. I haven't had a case like this in over thirty years. We've both had flu shots, being senior citizens and all, but it didn't do any good. My doctor said that there are over forty strains that he knew of so we must have got one that wasn't afraid of the flu vaccine that we got. So I'm afraid that I'll just have to wait till next time to tell you where we go to eat. Wayne wants to go to Gio's and I don't. He says he read where they've changed owners and have a real good menu to choose from. I think maybe we will go there just as soon as we start feeling better and quit hacking, and coughing, and blowing. Of course the diarrhea hasn't stopped yet either and that makes dining out rather unpleasant. The only good thing about getting the flu is, I've lost over 13 pounds and my clothes don't hurt anymore.
My little tubby hubby was slurping his chicken noodle soup throw a straw, which looks disgusting, and he was playing around on the computer. He ran across some funnies that I thought you might get a kick out of reading. I've personally screened them so you won't be reading any dirty stuff. Lord you should see the garbage that people send us; it isn't fit for a dog to read.
I call these wacky daffinitions: ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is nowgrowing in the middle. (Just like my tubby hubby.) BEAUTY PARLOR: A place where women curl up and dye. (This is so cute.) CHICKENS: The only creatures you eat before they are born and after they are dead. (Almost makes omelets and KFC sound unappetizing.) DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out. GOSSIP: A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage. HANDKERCHIEF: Cold Storage. INFLATION: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
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2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport Rear" width="293" height="220" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="4" />The compact crossover market is still rather small. I find the segment a compelling solution for people who want the functionality and versatility of an SUV or hatchback, with the comfort and fuel economy of a sedan. They also tend to be rather fun to drive, so I won't complain. The Outlander Sport is a new offering from Mitsubishi, looking quite a bit like the full-size Outlander that had some of its back end lobbed off. It's actually smaller than it looks, which isn't really a bad thing in this case.
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[This blog post has become a bit of performance art because of Andy's comment. Having edited again, I find my point of view oddly Jacksonian. So, please response either as to form or substance (or both... or neither) as you deem appropriate. Note: post-comments underlined and even the monkey head is new.]
I was a little put off by Andy Crouch today. Just a little. I know he didn't mean it but when he wrote this sentence in his piece today about beer trade writer, Harry Schuhmacher, he may have known I would shake my head:
Far from a beer blogger, Schuhmacher runs a serious business dedicated to providing the beer industry with inside information and breaking news, a point reflected in his publication's scorching $480 a year price tag.
"Far from a beer blogger"? You might as well say "far from a pastry chef" for all that means. I was reminded of why Andy had veered off the mark during my lunch with a pal, a regional rep, the keg hauler. It is all very well to understand things at a macro level and sell "breaking news" (aka often pretty much what everyone knows 24 later) to management. It is also all very well, for example, that Andy has leveraged an interview about session beers on one of my favorite food shows, NPR's The Splendid Table.¹ It is all very well but has huge limitations, even if serious business, because the utility of these sorts of communications is particularly restricted when it comes to understanding beer. As a result, it is not useful to place one form of communication about beer above another. The comparison is like saying a sonnets are better than essays. So, for now, shall we just say two cheers for the macro beer commentators? Works for me.
Why two cheers? Well the main thing is I don't live my beery life at the macro level even if I do think about it from time to time. I have said it before but beer primarily exists in the theatre of the mouth - and not some generic statistical mouth either. It's only understood in the immediacy of experience. During our lunch, the keg hauler and I really were talking about issues related to getting someone to buy a glassful and, later, buy it again. We talked about how one place was selling three fifty litre kegs a week of one brand all of a sudden and how that must mean 70 to 100 people making separate personal decisions to switch. He works on that sort of frontline. It's the same frontline that the Canton NY grocery store owner I met on Friday, works.² These are the guys thinking hard, working long hours and weeks, making decisions that affect what I am offered when I go to a local taverns or walk down the beer aisle. They are also in a serious business - but, for me, one that is perhaps more instructive than viewing larger trends. These guys remind me of my old boss who ran a flower shop in industrial Cape Breton. He had to figure out how to sell bouquets of flowers to coal miners. Serious business. By comparison, a commentator at the macro level may make general observations and analytical conclusions based on the aggregated decisions and efforts amassed from all the regional reps and grocery store buyers but that, with all due respect, is a form of following as far as I am concered. So, yes, two cheers it is for the clever follower. It is serious business as Andy says but it is a different sort of business. Honest to goodness cheers but just two. For those frontline guys, however, I have three.
Is this all a pretext to say that beer bloggers live on the same frontline as the regional rep or beer store owner? Am I suggesting that the beer blogger also deserve the full three cheers for what they do? Not all. My relationship with this medium is somewhere between ambivalence and frustration, even with this sort of thing from time to time. Beer blogging does provide some of the most useful examples of the personal expressions on beer and beer culture therefore it's valueable but it can be too much about the naval gaze or, to be more charitable, it is about only one's own experience of the beer. Yet that is inherent to the form of writing.
That being said, this post is still turning out to be a pretext for something? Yes, because I have hope that the serious business of the specific and the general, the micro and the macro can be communicated. So if there is pretext to all this, even if perhaps longwinded pretext, it is because I wanted to give Lew Bryson that elusive third cheer for how his writing best exemplifies the bridging together of both the marco and the micro. Look at this article in the Scranton Times-Tribune on Lew's new book, including his succinct analysis of the NE PA craft beer scene:
Mr. Bryson said so much has changed, even in five years. Local, nonmainstream beer is becoming mainstream. Consider the "nanobrewery" in Plains, Breaker Brewing Co., literally, in a garage. It has a "Yuengling problem," Mr. Bryson said. The brewery can't keep up with demand. "People in Northeastern Pennsylvania want good and they want local. The Wyoming Valley can support four places like Breaker," he said. "Look at what people are drinking. Remember when Cooper's and Elmer Sudds were the only places to get nonmainstream beers?" There's also The Lion Brewery in Wilkes-Barre, covered in the book's "Gritty Survivors" section. Mr. Bryson laments why Lion's products, of which he is a fan, are not in every bar and fridge in NEPA. "Their beer has gotten demonstrably better," he said. "I'm waiting to see if their marketing catches up. It's crazy that people in Wilkes-Barre think of Yuengling as the local beer."
Themes and details. Themes and details. Implicitly based on as many long hours and as long weeks as the keg hauling regional rep. This is no slag against Andy or even the value of a $480 annual subscription to something. They earned their place. But if I am looking for what is really going on, I want to talk to someone who can tell me what kegs got hauled where and what is going on the grocery store shelf this week while giving me the context, too.
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Nov. 1, 2013 -- The serious problems that plague the federal Affordable Care Act web site have thrown thousands of health insurance "navigators" into uncharted waters. These designated helpers are making do by turning to handwritten applications, telephone hotlines, and outreach efforts, say officials with programs in Ohio, Wyoming, and Nebraska.
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Harbour croissant: French plot to invade Australia
- From: news.com.au
- December 11, 2012
- French explorer very impressed with Sydney in 1802
- Advised Napoleon to claim the city for France
- Napoleon was very supportive of the idea
SYDNEY'S famous harbour crossing could have been a harbour croissant if the French had followed through on an audacious 1802 plan to invade the city.
Oui, oui, it's true. The French actually planned to claim the fledgling city of Sydney for their own strategic purposes.
The audacious plan has been uncovered by historians from the University of Adelaide, who are translating a confidential report from the 1800-1804 expedition of French explorer Nicholas Baudin.
Baudin was charting the southern Australian coastline and hadn't originally planned to pull into Sydney, but he had early the usual 1800s seafarer problems with scurvy and lack of supplies, so he made the unscheduled stop in Sydney in 1802.
And he was impressed with what he saw.
The French had expected the 14-year-old colony to be an unruly outpost. Instead they found a thriving township with good agricultural production and a population of reformed convicts who were establishing themselves as productive citizens.
That made them jealous, in a particularly French kind of way.
Francois Péron, the expedition's chief zoologist and intellectual leader, put together a 160 page document detailing what he had seen and advocating the advantages of an invasion.
As Adelaide Uni's Professor Jean Fornasiero told news.com.au
"It's full of belligerent language about the English, talking about 'outrageous claims to sovereignty over half the Pacific' and so on.
"It's very colourful and an interesting mix of anglophilia and anglophobia. Péron hates the English but is full of admiration for what they've achieved."
Péron saw the colony not just as valuable in its own right for its advanced infrastructure, but as a strategic military site in the Pacific. His report, which the Adelaide Uni staff are translating, was intended for the eyes of none other than Napoleon.
Napoleon was red hot to give it a go. He wanted Sydney. He could just about envisage a city where the Eiffel Tower stood in place of Centrepoint Tower, and iconic pie van Harry's Cafe de Wheels was a boulangerie.
He quite likely had dreams about T20 boules being played at the SBG, as the SCG would have been known.
Alas, Napoleon was too busy waging war with England in his own neck of the woods to devote resources to an invasion of Sydney.
So Sydney stayed as Sydney and Melbourne, you may well argue, got all the culture. But it was a close thing.
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Dean of Australia Posted at 4:43 PM December 11, 2012
Is there a link available to the actual source - so, you know, we can actually read about the topic instead of the waste of words I just found myself sitting through?
Nick of Brisbane Posted at 4:29 PM December 11, 2012
I don't know where come that idea that french lost all wars they were involved in ? Probably some Vil Albion propaganda that the simple minds still repeats. In the end France kept growing during history and england stayed on their island. So there must have been some victory ....
Open to Invasion of Adelaide Posted at 4:23 PM December 11, 2012
I am still open to invasion. Maybe good for the economy????


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As I said, no knowledge of rugby. In fact you come across as a full on doylem. Nobody on here takes anything you have to say seriously. Keep up the obsession lad, I'll ask if you can be the Warriors mascot one week.
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