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At Seeds Conference 2012, Willie George of Church on the Move (Tulsa, OK) discussed our responsibility to move and plant seeds before something supernatural happens.
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Then God said, "Let us make man[a] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
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4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[a] and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
When God created the world, He gave Adam dominion. But when Adam sinned, he lost dominion. Scripture teaches us that when Jesus came, He stepped into dominion. Now under the new covenant we once again operate in dominion.
Growth is not your domain. Man was never called to grow anything. God is the one that grows things. 1 Corinthians 3:6 says, "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth."
Genesis 2 says that Adam had responsibilities. It was God who put all the plants and other things into the Garden of Eden. The only tool that God put into the hand of Adam was the planting of seeds.
God involves us in this amazing process of planting and growing. Where we get into trouble when managing a church is we pray for something that God will do things that is our responsibility. You are the one that has to exercise authority and dominion.
God very clearly sets down the pattern that He does what He can but you do what you can do. God wants you to use something that is in your hand, something that you are familiar with. You have to start somewhere. Everything starts small. You have to make the most of what you've got.
In 2 Kings 4, the widow did not have anything for Elisha but a pot of oil. Elisha still made her use what she had. When you come to a place of need, you may not have what you need, but you often have a seed.
I never had any money to do anything God told me to do when He told me to do it.
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When we want to extend our ministries, we begin to look for a miracle. But it is natural first then the supernatural. God is not looking for a move of God; God is looking for a move of man. The widow in 2 Kings 4 had to move first before God moved. God's desire is to blend the natural and the supernatural.
We get this notion that somehow the supernatural comes rolling in, but you have to make room for it first. God is the author of efficiency.
We are in a partnership. God could just as easily have turned air into wine as He did water into wine, but He said get the water jugs. If you are waiting for God to move in the checkers game, He may have already moved, and it is your turn (and God won't cheat and go twice). You need to do your part and make room for increase before it comes.
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Shannon Kleibrink has cemented her reputation in the curling world. She has many accomplishments to her credit, including a bronze medal at the 2006 Turin Olympics, the distrinction of being the first female skip to win the Canadian Mixed championship in 2004, and multiple appearances and wins in some of the major curling events across Canada.
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If you weren't curling what sport would you be playing?
If I didn't curl I wish I was a cheerleader for an NFL football team as silly as that sounds. I could never be an NFL player (obviously) so that's as close as I could get haha!
Where were you born?
Edmonton, the city of champions :)!!
What is your current hometown?
Calgary .. But a diehard Oilers fan!!
What do you do full time?
Nursing student
When did you start curling?
At the age of 5
Who is your favourite athlete?
Hmmm .. Alexander Ovechkin
Where is your favourite place to curl?
Lethbridge, AB .. Or the Shamrock in Edmonton.. I threw my first rock there.
What is your favourite food?
Any fruit or vegetable
Where is your favourite vacation spot?
Anywhere with my friends.. Phoenix, Vegas or Mexico are 3 of my favorites
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Modern Family
What are you listening to on your iPod?
I'm a huge Dave Matthews Band fan
Who is your favourite curler other than yourself?
Marc Kennedy
Who is your role model?
My mom.. Lynda she's a pretty tough cookie.
Have you ever been in a bar fight?
Haha definitely not.. I've witnessed a few though
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I wouldn't say no to going on a date with Sidney Crosby.. Huge crush .. Since I was 15.
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Anything with Will Farrell .. The Other Guys or Anchorman top the list.
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A walk in the Park lol?? I have no idea
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I'd like to be Derek Jeter for a day.. Or Lady GaGa. Either would be pretty interesting I think.
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Travel the world
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Ben Hebert.. That guys a piece of work lol
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I have 3: Edmonton Oilers, The NY Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys!!
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Don't have one
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Weight training
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I'm going to go with 24.. This year has been pretty awesome so far :)
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I am yet to overcome a major life obstacle .. But am participating in a Tough Mudder fitness challenge next year ..I am looking forward to challenging myself !!


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heartbroken_kk posted 5/10/2009 18:49 PM
Beach has bumped a great thread in the Wayward Forum on Co-Dependency here:
I would love to hear from the WS's out there that are dealing with either PA or CD behaviors.
LOL_NOT posted 5/11/2009 09:23 AM
Thank you heartbroken_kk for the info link on terms AND for the suggestions on where to start on forums. It is greatly appreciated
hurtbs posted 5/12/2009 12:36 PM
Hi all
I"m so glad for this thread. I have posted many times about my FWH's PA/CA behaviors. It's a nightmare to deal with many times.
Right now, we're struggling with what on the surface looks like a stupid issue - what we're going to do with the dogs *if* he has to go out of town on an event. You see, I have a business trip that I've had scheduled for a while. A couple of weeks ago, he heard that he *might* be going out of town on a business trip - keyword, *might*. This is less than three weeks away. He still doesn't know if he's going. I keep telling him "You need to figure out what you're doing - whether or not you're going." I keep getting "I was swamped, I didn't have time, blah blah fuckity blah." Heck, I don't even know if I have a ride to the airport that weekend! Today, we got into an argument because yet again, he was 'too busy' to figure out what was going on that weekend. I said "Look, I need to figure out what we're going to do with the dogs." His response "We'll figure it out." Of course, he 'doesn't know anyone who can watch them' or he 'wouldn't feel comfortable asking so and so' and he 'doesn't know any kennels and gee they're pricy'.
Honestly, at this point, I think I'm not going to ask him about it again and just let him figure out what to do with the dogs. Maybe I'll just go ahead and book a ride to the airport while I"m at it.
IF anyone else has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it - his only answer will be 'we'll figure it out' and he isn't going to find out anytime in the near future what's going on with his business trip. If we kennel them, I have to get their bordatella vaccination like *right now* so that they're fully protected. Grrr.
See, it sounds completely stupid, but I just need to get this situation sorted and he won't give me any information and then gets angry at me if I ask about it.
down4now posted 5/13/2009 03:53 AM
The phrases I usually get are:
"Something will turn up", or "It will sort itself out."
which usually means I sort it out...
down4now posted 5/13/2009 03:55 AM
Has anyone read:
Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man: Coping with Personality Syndrome of Hidden Aggression: from the Bedroom to the Boardroom
by Scott Wetzler?
I've just ordered a copy in a vain attempt to 'understand' my H better and was wondering if it was any good?
hurtbs posted 5/13/2009 09:13 AM
I read the book but didn't find it particularly helpful - I know that some people have.
I get those phrases too. Although right now it's *we'll* work it out, which means that I'll do it.
heartbroken_kk posted 5/14/2009 13:45 PM
One of the things that is coming up for us is that he uses passivity or inaction as a way of avoiding taking responsibility and thus being held accountable.
Also, when he wants me to take the lead on things, he is putting me in a position of being in control and him in a position of being controlled, and if he doesn't like the outcome he is victimized by my controlling.
I told him I want to stop falling into a Parent-Child kind of relationship and can't step out of the "Parent" role if he will not step up and take on his full share of responsibilities willingly and without threats or anger and frustration finally pushing him there.
I told him that when I say "I do not want to be responsible for this" I mean now, as well as later. I do not want to be forced by his inaction to be responsible at the last minute.
Has anyone had any luck using the "Would you please take ownership of this" approach?
down4now posted 5/15/2009 02:35 AM
I've been trying this approach as well. it amazes me now that I'd never considered or thought of passive-aggression as an explanation of my H behaviour, but better late than never.
He constantly defers to me - What do you think? What should I do? You decide; I'm not bothered (when he is) and so on. My stock answer now is - "I don't want the responsibility of deciding what's best for you...that's your department, I'm not your mother."
He sighs and nods and gets on with it for the most part (old habits die hard, especially procrastination).
I will, on ocassion, offer my opinion but make it quite clear that the final decision is his. Early days yet but seems to be working.
realitybites posted 5/17/2009 08:50 AM
Me: What do you want for dinner?
H: I don't care, you pick.(this is always his answer, will never commit)
Me: No really, I don't care either so you pick.
H: Getting mad now...I told you I don't care, just pick.
Me: I don't want to pick I want you to pick it.
On and on we go. Finally he will pick the most rediculous thing...like OK I will go to McDonalds (not bashing McD's,) I will finally say fine. And he will get MAD that I agreed to it!
I will beg him to do the bills, he will do them for 1 day and then put them to the side. Our T told us to just let the bills go then, told me to stop doing them....but then our credit gets ruined! He will be all nice and say OK I will do them I promise....and then same thing over and over.
P-A man is still stuck in a childish relationship and it is unleashed anger. I have always said my H will be super great for about 4-5 years and then he just has to totally screw up his life somehow...and then blame it on everyone else. Whether it is his career, a new hobby, our marriage, spending too much on something and not telling me....whatever.
When we finally separated for awhile it was really clear how bad it was. I felt a huge load off my shoulders and my H went slowly crazy while out of the house. He had no one to blame anything on. It was the one thing that really showed a small iota of change. It is not easy.
PiQue posted 5/17/2009 09:18 AM
After reading the posts in this thread, I think I belong here...
I can so relate to the-
"What do you want for dinner: Choice A, Choice B, Choice C."
"I don't care, whatever you're fixing."
And no matter what I make for dinner, it is the wrong choice!
I told him about a month ago - "It really makes me feel special when you call me >pet name<." (A pet name he had called me for years.)
He hasn't called me that since. I recently pointed that out to him and he just stared at me for a bit, then said, "But, I call you other pet names now..." And guaranteed if I say I like them, he will quit!
I made the mistake (unknowingly) of making suggestions as to how he could improve his relationship with our teenaged DDs. He is now practically NC with them. They feel like they have no father.
He resists anything that vaguely resembles me being in 'control', yet allows the OW to lead him around by the nose. WTF
heartbroken_kk posted 5/17/2009 15:47 PM
He resists anything that vaguely resembles me being in 'control',
Oh, yeah. Passive-resistance. Stubbornness.
Last week, our MC suggested that what I needed was comfort and caring gestures. That when I get upset and he changes the subject or leaves the room he is basically abandoning me because my feelings make him feel uncomfortable.
Has he done anything like what she suggested? NO.
For my WH, he cannot handle any criticism. If I tell him something he did mad me feel unhappy, or uncomfortable or anxious, he says he feels "blamed".
Dude, yes, I'm blaming you. Grow a frigging spine, man up, and take responsibility.
roccodom posted 5/17/2009 19:12 PM
What is with that blaming crap. My H says the same damn thing. It's exhausting. So in no way can you say anything to them or "I feel like you're blaming me"
brokenapart posted 5/17/2009 20:25 PM
This was my life. I spent years frustrated, angry, controlled through his inaction, feeling guilty for being upset, and resentful.
I don't know how one deals with this successfully - I know that I never did.
down4now posted 5/18/2009 08:14 AM
What is with that blaming crap? My H says the same damn thing. It's exhausting. So in no way can you say anything to them or "I feel like you're blaming me"
Its like some sort of defence mechanism - he doesn't actually hear what I'm saying, just takes out the bits that might be slighting him and runs with them. The other day he asked me how I was feeling so I told him about how it was so difficult to trust anyone now that my best friend (him) the man I had loved and trusted with my heart and soul had done such a terrible thing. I made the mistake of referring to FWH as 'him' rather than 'You'.
What did I get as a huffy answer, "Oh, so I'm in the third person now am I?"
The mind boggles!
After I'd calmed down (about an hour later) I pointed out how he had handled the answer to his "How are you?" question and he was extremely apologetic - but aren't they always when it suits? This is going to be a very difficult road.
NeedingGodsHelp posted 5/18/2009 08:29 AM
He resists anything that vaguely resembles me being in 'control', yet allows the OW to lead him around by the nose.
My WH is the same ay. He refused marraige couseling, because it was MY idea. It is impossible to coparent with him! It is so frustrating!!!
And he has labeled me as a control freak... I heard it again the other day, because I was trying to talk to him and ask him to apologize to DD13 and talk to him about teenage girls and self-esteem. Ridiculous!!
For my WH, he cannot handle any criticism. If I tell him something he did mad me feel unhappy, or uncomfortable or anxious, he says he feels "blamed".
Same here. Has been this way for years. Except now I am blamed for everything that was ever wrong with our marriage and for his affair!
heartbroken_kk posted 5/22/2009 22:23 PM
This is a little bit of a puzzler for the rest of you. Has your partner, who you believe is Passive-Aggressive, told you that he or she thinks YOU are Passive-Aggressive?
Happened to me this morning. I send WH the link to the Boomerang Relationship page on AngriesOut and he said a lot of the stuff in there applied to me more than him.
I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm just a bit surprised as I haven't heard of this and when I read it didn't think of myself immediately. I have suffered from depression on and off for years, and of course the A has put me into a deep deep funk, so many times I end up in a "paralysis" of inaction.
Curious if others have heard this.
down4now posted 5/23/2009 10:22 AM
I remember reading somewhere that if you live with a P-A long enough their behaviour can rub off on you - but it could just be your P-A partner behaving in a P-A manner and making you question yourself?!
roccodom posted 5/23/2009 10:52 AM
What did I get as a huffy answer, "Oh, so I'm in the third person now am I?"
This happens to me all the time. I tell him he getting off subject (deflecting) and concentrating on the semantics instead of the content. I think it's a way to get out of facing the feelings.
I pointed out how he had handled the answer to his "How are you?" question and he was extremely apologetic - but aren't they always when it suits?
Yep - got that here too. It makes it extremely difficult to get your needs met. They deflect the conflict so it never gets resolved - then apologize later and don't deal with it.
olixa posted 5/23/2009 11:01 AM
My WH is a scorpio as well as P-A. Yes they think they are perfect, will subconsciously hurt us by constant blaming and underlying criticism. I just ignore his whining and his blaming now - it is like "whatever". if it was raining during a soccer game he would somehow blame me. so that is just him. I just ignore it now and think to myself "poor bastard".
my WH has finally asked to come home after now being separated for 2 months. i actually love my freedom and i am nervous of him coming back home cuz of his P-A behaviour. NO one else understands why i could be nervous but i know you on SI unnderstand.
Can i brush it off anymore? i can i just ignore him again? i hope so. it is a character flaw that i can not fix. if he does not take responsibility such as packing to go somewhere or arranging for the dogs or bringing snacks then he will have to learn from his mistakes (just like a child) has to all over again.
i have refused to jump in and rescue him anymore and no longer will take his blaming personally. just a personality disorder. he he
but i do hate it when he tries to undermine me or laughs at me saying that i am the crazy one or my feelings are crazy. but then, i will just dismiss it and say "gotcha" cuz his laughing is actually a deflector cuz i hit the nail on the head and he is trying to divert the truth elsewhere.
so i am nervous cuz it can really get to me sometimes. yikes.....
ps. is it me or is it more men than women that suffer from this personality disorder? anyone else married to a scorpio as well?
down4now posted 5/23/2009 11:04 AM
mines a Scorpio as well - is this a trend??!!
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Rural expert ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England) is carrying out the research with the help of its national network of 38 rural community councils.
ACRE network member Community First, which runs a specialist advice service for community buildings, is encouraging the volunteers at 250 village hall across Wiltshire to take part.
The survey will help ACRE understand how topical issues such as licensing, VAT, rate relief and broadband are affecting village halls.
It will find out more about the 80,000 volunteers who manage England's 10,000 village halls – and how the buildings support the local economy by hosting shops, post offices and training courses.
ACRE also wants to know how halls bring communities together through a wide range of activities – from keep fit, bowling and Brownies to choirs, cookery classes and dog training.
And the survey will ask whether village halls are still a traditional choice for events from the cradle to the grave – including Christening celebrations, wedding receptions, birthday teas and funeral wakes.
The survey – which has a deadline of Monday, March 24 - will update previous detailed research carried out by ACRE in 2009.
ACRE plans to use the results in its ongoing campaign to give village halls a voice in Parliament through an All-Party Parliamentary Group.
Philippa Read chief executive of Community First said: "As more and more rural services disappear, village halls play an increasingly important role in our communities, serving as a social centre, arts centre, sports centre and, in some cases, providing education, health or retail services.
"They are often the hub of community activity providing a space for groups and services that otherwise wouldn't exist."
ACRE's Rural Community Buildings Officer Deborah Clarke said: "Our previous research shows village hall use has trebled over the past 20 years, yet the volunteers who run them must cope with miles of red-tape, loss of funding and the demands of managing a building.
"We want village halls to take part in this survey to help us identify where they need support and increase understanding of their importance to rural life.
"We'll use the findings to keep the work of hall volunteers and the challenges they face in the spotlight."
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I think our defense will keep Houston's offense in check and we will control the ball.
Colts 31
Texans 13
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I think our defense will keep Houston's offense in check and we will control the ball.
Colts 31
Texans 13
Smothered Chicken!
This is a division game so I expect it to be a lot closer than that
Colts 27
Texans 24
I wish I could predict lotto numbers this accurately...
I'd be happier about the win but given the circumstances I just hope Gary Kubiak is okay as un PC as it is to say I think that's what the Colts needed to turn this around. The whole episode completely took the crowd out of the game.
Well as un PC as this sounds when Houston trotted the punt team out before the two minute warning, I turned to my wife and said The Texans said Kubiak didn't have a heart attack but they better check again because if he's watching them line up to punt he is now. I also hope Kubiak is OK, but I would have never punted there. Shows you what I know because it worked out for them and they had a chance to tie it at the gun.
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Houston moving on: Texans announced Case Keenum as their starting QB moving forward.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 28, 2013
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
He's pretty good the Colts shouldn't underestimate him because he's a rookie at least I hope they don't.
They've turned over 10% of their roster. Added 3 running backs. Wow.
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/t...ABN4635301.htm=== Texans place Cushing on IR, sign 5 to active roster ===
Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - The Houston Texans placed linebacker Brian
Cushing on injured reserve Monday.
Cushing will miss the rest of the season after suffering a fractured fibula
and a torn lateral collateral ligament in his left knee on Oct. 20 at Kansas
The Texans also signed five players to the active roster: running backs Ray
Graham, Dennis Johnson and Deji Karim and linebackers Tavares Gooden and Jeff
The running backs provide insurance with Arian Foster and Ben Tate battling
hamstring and rib injuries.
They are very out of sync, but teams always seem to "find their rhythm" against us, plus it's a division game. It'll be close. Indy *should* win this. But that's why they play the games. Will be interested to see how we handle the loss of Wayne, and integrate Whalen and TRich into the passing game. Our O has to make adjustments.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Our O will adjust OK but I'm worried that the defenses don't have to plan so much for Reggie. Who do they have to scheme for now?
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
Andrew Luck. And you can't scheme for him, he's too good. As long as he's around, he'll get the ball where it needs to go.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
The Colts struggled to move the ball with Reggie Wayne and now they go on the road to face a desperate divisional foe on national TV that has the best defense in the league.
The Colts will be lucky to score 14 points.
Sure Houston's defense gives up the fewest yards, but they are far from the best defense in the league. They give up nearly 28ppg. Take away the pick 6's and its like 24ppg, which still isn't good. Houston's defense is just given a really short field a lot, so they have less yards to give up.
These guys weren't ready to play tonight. Disappointing.
That should have been roughing the kicker.
Maybe, Pep hasn't really given me much confidence in him yet. One thing is for sure, the Texans won't be able to prepare for those adjustments as they will be the first team to face them.
Colts 31
Texans 17
#HC Chuck Pagano: Doubful -- Josh Gordy (groin), Delano Howell (neck). Greg Toler day-to-day with groin. Bjoern Werner limited today— Mike Chappell (@mchappell51) October 28, 2013
It'll be nice if Werner can come back. He was starting to get the feel of playing 3-4 and was looking better.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
I don't see us putting a lot of points on the board while we're trying to adjust to the loss of Reggie.
We should still win this one, though.
The Colts will never over look an opponent with Pagano as HC. We're rested and Luck should have a solid night
Smothered Chicken!
I would argue that San Diego was possibly overlooked.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
San Diego was definently overlooked, though I think they're a pretty solid team as well, and could be last playoff team.
Colts 20
Texans 13
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
----------------- Reggie Miller
I can agree there. I highly doubt the coaching staff or the vets overlooked, but yes some of the players probably did
Smothered Chicken!
Many things went wrong in that game. Inability to catch the ball, bogus playcalling and a whale for a Linebacker hilariously trying to cover TEs or catch a running back.
Their offense is decimated.
The Texans know if they do not win this game the season is definitely over. If they win it could kick off a possible win streak with winnable games coming up. Reliant Stadium will be rocking with Keenum making his first home start. It is fun living down here and hearing the talk on the radio everyday.


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Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Stone to brew in Europe?
Elk in the Woods in the passage
Lunch itself was very fine. Just one problem though - the menu at Elk lists wines, cocktails, soft and hot drinks, but there's no mention at all of beer. When you ask, they'll admit to stocking Kronenbourg, a Swedish lager whose name I didn't catch, and a perfectly serviceable keg Theakstons Old Peculier, plus a range of bottles that don't exactly push the frontiers of beer appreciation but do create a more interesting range of drinks than you'd find in an average boozer.
Friday, 18 December 2009
2009: What the blazes was all THAT about? (Part Two)
OK, after getting most of the political and industry stuff out of the way yesterday, let's get on with celebrating the best of beer and pubs. Remember, this is totally subjective and based on my experiences, and isn't trying to be any kind of definitive guide.
(Note: because this is a review of the whole of 2009, Let's Be Nice on Pete Brown's Beer Blog Month is suspended for this post.)
Winner: John Keeling at Fuller's
Because in an industry that's riven with divisions, he sets an example that every brewer, large or small, should aspire to.
To large breweries, he shows that being part of a PLC whose fortunes rely on TV-advertised brands doesn't have to stifle experimentation and innovation. He's leading the way with learning about how ageing affects beer. He refuses to call this innovation – he prefers 'rediscovery'. Also, he's the model head brewer as brand ambassador, touring the country with informative and entertaining tastings and jokes so old they were first told over a pint of Egyptian bouza.
And to micro/craft brewers, he's an example of professionalism and rigour, who wholeheartedly supports a micro scene that keeps him on his toes.
Fuller's has a perfect core range of beers – a malty premium ale in Pride, an often-overlooked hoppier session ale in Chiswick, a glorious finisher in ESB, a summer ale, and a stable of seasonals, plus the legendary vintage ale, and much more.
All this, and he's a Fall fan. (We'll let him off being a Man United supporter.)
If your name is Stuart Ross, please look away now…
Runner-up: Stuart Ross, Crown Brewery, Sheffield
Stuart works alone with a three-barrel plant in a cellar beneath a pub. He does everything single-handed, from cask washing, to bottling, to designing labels and pump clips.
And the beers he turns out in his understated fashion are too good to be overlooked any longer. He saw a load of chillies being sold off cheap in Morrisons so he bought them on impulse and created Ring of Fire, a 10% chilli beer that has a subtle taste of chilli pepper before the heat gradually builds. He does a nice range of session beers, and a variety of fully-hopped IPAs. His Smoked Oktoberfest is the best beer I've ever tasted with Indian food. And the Damson Porter he created with Zak Avery is divine. I could go on.
Stuart just brews what he feels like brewing, constantly experimenting. I don't think he knows how good a brewer he is. I'm scared how big his head will grow when he does realise, so I just hope I don't help create a monster by giving him the recognition he deserves. So no one tell him what I just said.
OK Stuart, you can come back now.
Winner: Wye Valley HPA (Hereford Pale Ale)
Because a recent post by ImpyMalting made me realise that, along with many beer bloggers, when it comes to beer appreciation I'm getting seduced down a cul-de-sac of the extreme, eclectic and experimental, whereas in reality most of my drinking consists of session pints.
Because HPA is a very good session pint, quenching and citrusy and refreshing and satisfying.
Because it's very smartly branded and presented and makes ale look cool.
Because when my father-in-law was dying in February, Liz and I shuttled between the hospital and the Angel Hotel in Abergavenny and the perfectly served HPA kept us going, a quiet moment of relaxation and contemplation in the middle of the stress and grief, an escape, a tonic.
Because after the funeral, we and our friends held a wake for Eddie in the Angel, and we drank HPA until we could drink no more.
Because when you ask someone what was the best beer they ever had, they tell you all about the context of it, not the flavour or the ingredients, and this beer reminded me of that in 2009. Great beer isn't about what's in the glass; it's about so much more.
Runner-up: Crown Brewery HPA (Hillsborough Pale Ale) special 13% version
You couldn't get two more different beers, and the fact they're both called HPA is a rather weird coincidence. Hillsborough Pale Ale is a 3.8% session beer. One day, CrownBrewerStu decided to see what would happen if he brewed a 13% version of it, which he did in a home brew bucket. When I first tasted it, my jaw hit the floor. This is a stunning barley wine, rich in caramel sweetness, rounded and not too harsh, a hint of sherry. I've no idea how he got the balance and depth and smoothness of it at this strength. If Brew Dog released this beer it would – rightly – be celebrated around the world. I made Stu give me the last of it for our Christmas party last week. Hopefully this post will force him to make some more and sell it at a premium price in 750ml cork and wire finished bottles. And hopefully he'll get someone in to do a really gorgeous label.
Winner: The Sheffield Tap, Sheffield Train Station
I've only been once. It's only been open a couple of weeks. But it's not very often a pub takes your breath away. If only more big pub operators had Thornbridge's vision, thoughtfulness and bravery. If only more small operators had their scope and access to investment capital.
Runner-up: The White Hart, London N16
It's my local, and this is my review so I'm allowed to choose whomever I like. But this perfect boozer in Stoke Newington is a microcosm of what's happening in beer. It's always had great atmosphere, decent, reasonably priced food (though being the chef there seems to be like being the drummer in Spinal Tap), a fantastic beer garden, and is easily the best pub I know to watch a match on the big screen. You can tell it's a great place to work because many bar staff have been there for years. But until recently there was one lonely Spitfire handpump in the corner that almost seemed to have cobwebs on it. Andy thought cask ale was only drunk by old men, and was of no interest to his hip, young clientele. Now, he has an slowly rotating range of three cask ales, sells bucketloads of them to N16's hipsters, and is a born-again drinker of St Austell Trubute. He told me last night he's applied for Cask Marque accreditation. And he's planning on replacing Stella with Peroni. Kind of sums up the best of 2009!
Honourable Mention: The Hillsborough Hotel, Sheffield
For the beers, for the welcome, for the bacon sandwiches, for the quiz, for Pie Night, and for offering the best value accommodation in Sheffield. Eventually, I'll get used to the trams and won't be woken up by them before dawn.
Winner: By a country mile – and he's really going to hate this – Cooking Lager!
No one knows who he is. Someone thought he might be me, which I was flattered by. But is he a beer geek playing a role, venting frustration? Or could he be for real? Every now and again he slips up and reveals that he knows more about beer than he lets on, but mostly, he ruthlessly skewers the pretentions of beer geeks and reminds us that, at the end of the day, it's just beer. I depend on his tirades against pongy ales, odes to Lout and tales of his eternal struggle to stay on the right side of the Ladysqueeze to keep me grounded. And his review of my books, where he compared the relative merits of Man Walks into a Pub and Three Sheets to the Wind not on the merits of language, or insight, or research, but on their ability to prop up his wobbly sofa, is something I'll always treasure. If it's an invention, it's a genius one. If he's for real… I don't know whether to admire him or fear him.
Runner-up: Boak and Bailey
I picked this not on who is the most prolific, or who uses the medium of blogging to its best advantage (that would be Young Dredge). As this is subjective, I've chosen it purely on what blogs I find myself clicking on most often from my blog roll, who I enjoy reading most. Boak and Bailey clearly know their stuff but write with a beautiful simplicity and understatedness, and a constant sense of exploration and discovery, across a refreshingly broad range of beers and topics. If you haven't read them before, start with this brilliant discussion on pubs and class.
Honourable mentions:
Runner-up spot was a tough call: the other blogs I habitually click through to whenever I see there's a new post include Pencil & Spoon of course, Woolpack Dave, Tandleman, and the thoughtful, beautifully written, lyrical ImpyMalting. Pump Clip Parade for a laugh, and ATJ is doing some lovely stuff too. We've got such diversity and richness now! Oh yes – and the Beer Widow of course. God help me if I don't give 'er indoors a richly deserved mention for sticking a long-suffering toe into the blogging waters.
Winner: Easy – the Daily Mail.
Look, why don't you just fuck off?
Runner-up: The BBC
We expect it of the Mail. They're the pantomime villain in the war against neo-Prohibitionism. But the Beeb website is just as guilty of demonizing alcohol, and beer in particular, as anyone else. This post from yesterday is typical – if you read to the end, expert testimony from Ian Gilmore – hardly a friend to the alcohol industry – explicitly contradicts the assertion in the headline. But as Jay Brooks points out, most people only read the headline and first para, meaning the truth gets buried.
Mostly I'm with Stephen Fry - I love the BBC. It's one of the reasons I love Britain, one of the best things about our culture. But we expect and deserve much, much better than this continued, willful distortion of the truth about our national drink from an organisation that's largely trusted for its balance and impartiality. Shame on you.
Honourable mentions
The rest of the British news media. As I said in a recent Publican piece, when you've got everyone from the Mail to the Guardian saying the same thing about you, you know you've replaced tobacco, hoodies, staffordshire bull terriers and Swine Flu as the moral panic of the day.
So that's my take on the year. I'd love to hear yours.
Thank you for reading me in 2009. Thank you for your kind comments when I get it right, and thank you also for picking me up when I get something wrong. 2010 is going to be a great year for beer. I'm going to make an effort to remember why I started writing about it in the first place. I'm going to continue to learn more about beer, from brewers and drinkers and other writers. I'm going to do everything I can to evangelise beer outside our cloistered, beer geeky world, to carry on the war against media shite and neo-prohibitionism, to call out foolish behaviour in the industry and to celebrate beer as it continues to emerge and prosper as the most exciting drink around.
Merry Christmas!
Reasons to buy newspapers - or at least link to them
Thursday, 17 December 2009
2009: What the blazes was all THAT about? (Part One)
Writing The Cask Report, we never could have hoped that this difficult year would be the one where cask ale returned to growth - but ahead of expectations, it did. I'm predicting – once SIBA brewers' volume has been factored back into BBPA figures – that cask will show 2-3% volume growth to the end of 2009.
This remarkable in the current climate, a total turnaround in a mere three or four years. And if you're not a big cask fan, take heart – it's irrefutable evidence of the wider growth of interest in flavourful beers, and this can only improve as we come out of recession.
Runner-up: The online beer community comes of age.
I don't want this to sound self-serving and insular, so apologies, but this will prove very beneficial for beer in the long run.
Blogging has become a true medium in its own right, and with the addition of Twitter, online and social media have created a spontaneous beery community that swaps ideas, views – even physical beers.
I know some people have been blogging about beer for years, but this is the first time I started to perceive a real community with legs in the outside world. There was a palpable sense of excitement at the Great British Beer Festival this year when many online friends met up – or twet up? – for the first time.
The industry is now looking online for its ideas – and when brewers and other organisations ask my advice, I tell them that's the best thing they can do. Brew Dog had already built their brand through this medium before most of us old timers had really woken up to what was going on. They're going to have some stiff competition in this regard next year.
(Come back tomorrow for my blogger of the year).
Honourable mentions:
I'd hoped to include cask ale week here – I can't, because it wasn't quite good enough. But it was the first one and it will be happening again, and will hopefully get even better – from what I've seen so far it definitely will.
The Great British Beer Festival was the best I've been to, but the usual wranglings around cask ale festivals and lager, filtered and pasteurised craft beers etc show the need for a different kind of beer festival to run alongside CAMRA-organised events. Beer Exposed promised to be that in 2008, but the organizers decided not to do a second year. That's a crying shame.
WORST THING THAT HAPPENED IN BEER THIS YEARWinner: The beer and pub industry's increasingly childish infighting
The British beer and pub industry, 2009 - aka the People's Popular Front of Judea Suicide Squad.
It almost made me want to give all this up. Yes, everyone has different agendas, yes sometimes the aims of different groups conflict. But the broader issues facing the industry will cause for more damage to beer and pubs if we don't put less significant quarrels to one side and take them on.
Just a couple of weeks ago, CAMRA declined to support the BBPA's manifesto for the survival of the pub, promising to bring out their own instead. AAAARGGHHH!!!!!!! What is the POINT of that? Why duplicate valuable time and resources? Why DELIBERATELY create the impression of a fragmented, bickering industry among the people you're trying to win over to your point of view? I'm not singling CAMRA out – they're merely the latest in a long line of breweries and industry bodies indulging in cretinous behaviour that does a disservice to their members.
I get so passionate about this issue because history tells us this is what screws people over: whether it's the American drinks industry in the run-up to Prohibition, communists and anarchists in the face of fascism in the Spanish Civil War, or left wing parties generally and the Life of Brian sketch that satirized them, precedent proves that when you can win a struggle, internal bickering snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
The childish behaviour has to stop.
Runner-up: Tax, Tax, Tax. Again.
But the campaign did not receive widespread support among the industry it sought to save. That, and the fact that Alastair Darling is a complete fucking wanker, a Thunderbird puppet lookalike and I'm not just talking about the stupid fucking eyebrows but also the fact that he walks like he's on fucking strings and talks like someone fucked and bombed on Quaaludes, the fact that he's so fucking shit at his job he's actually manage to reduce the government's revenue from beer by putting up tax, when his only stated aim was to increase revenue, and yet he still thinks putting tax up yet more will somehow have the desired effect – I mean, this man is educationally subnormal – all this meant that tax on beer went up again in the budget.
It'll go up again when VAT goes back up in January and he leaves in place 2008's nasty, pernicious additional tax rise which was purely to ensure that beer and pubs were the only sectors of the economy not to benefit from a VAT reduction. This clueless gimp is going to throw more people out of work, decrease government beer tax revenue still further, and close even more pubs when he puts up beer tax above inflation yet again in the 2010 budget.
Winner: Well, it's got to be winning Beer Writer of the Year.
No need to go on about it much more than I already have. To many, beer writing is a hobby – which is not meant as disrespect or trivialization. But to me it is now how I pay my bills, having all but given up my former day job as a freelance ad man in 2009. If I'm going to make a living from it, this is going to help no end.
Runner-up: The launch of Hops & Glory
…and particularly the ensuing tour.
Winner: My ever-increasing beer belly.
Yeah, I know beer isn't fattening. But anything with calories is fattening when you consume enough of it, and I've put on another stone this year. The one and only downside of my increasing profile is that I get a lot more beer given to me, and a lot more invites to events, tastings, judging sessions etc. Each and every one of these is wonderful in its own right, but the sheer volume of them means it's now a simple choice between my health and accepting every kind invite when it comes. It's a high quality problem I guess! But seriously. I need to fit back into my clothes and give my liver a rest.
Runner-up: The Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards
This is going to sound like sour grapes and there's no way around that, but it's a reminder that despite beer's increasing profile and the vibrancy of the blogging world, there's still a lot of work to do.
The prestigious Andre Simon awards give out an annual gong for best drinks book. With its strong sales, good critical reaction and success at the Beer Writers Guild Awards, I thought Hops and Glory stood a good chance. Then, I saw the criteria the judges were specifically looking for this year: new primary research, educational value, writing that was engaging and interesting, and a book that looked great, and I thought they'd basically described Hops and Glory. I submitted it.
It didn't even make the shortlist. Every single book on the shortlist is a book about wine. In 31 years a wine book has won this award 24 times. A beer book has won once.
I didn't expect to win, but I did hope to make the shortlist. It's the swings and roundabouts of awards I guess, but when the awards website uses the words 'drinks books' and 'wine books' interchangeably, I can't help thinking that the broader perception of beer's inferiority to wine might still have something to do with it.
Don't miss Part Two tomorrow - with my nods for Brewer of the Year, Beer of the Year, Beer Blogger of the Year, and the dreaded (but quite predictable) Slop Bucket of the Year! And if I have time, some predictions for 2010.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
The last drop of Calcutta
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Hops & Glory sells out!
Monday, 14 December 2009
Marston's: the second-best press advertising of 2009
Marston's Pedigree Ashes cricket series advertising campaign has been awarded second place in Campaign magazine's top ten press ads for 2009.
The campaign ran throughout the Ashes and used traditional banter to poke fun at Australians with strap lines such as 'we have beer in our blood, Australians have lemon juice in their hair' and 'England has history, Australia has previous.'
Marston's Pedigree was only beaten to the top spot by The Guardian with their classic comics promotion and was the only beer brand to appear in the top ten.
The article praised the ad for 'lovingly recreating British pub iconography to ridicule Australians.'
Des Gallagher, marketing manager for Pedigree said: "To be placed second out of all of this year's ads is fantastic news. The campaign was designed to reflect the pub goers view of Ashes banter, good humoured and witty – and judging by the fans reaction we certainly achieved that."
Throughout the summer Marston's achieved record sales, selling an additional million pints in clubs, pubs and sports grounds across the country.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Sheffield gets a fantastic new pub. As if it didn't have lots of those already
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Goodwill and good beer
- It's going to be the last time I ever do my Hops and Glory reading presentation in the format I've done it this year. Next year I have all three books being reissued in paperback and will be writing a new talk/presentation/speech/routine/whatever you want to call it, about beer more generally. So it's your last chance to hear about Barry the Barrel, William Hickey and Brazilian prostitutes.
- I've got a cask of Seaforth - the special beer created this summer by Thornbridge which is basically Jaipur brewed with all-English ingredients, and which they asked me to name. So I did.
- I've also got a cask of Crown Brewery Hillsborough IPA - the insanely hoppy brew created by Crown Brewer Stu, which I helped brew in the summer. It's now been aged in a warm room for four months and should have started to gain some authentic IPA characteristics.
- Finally on the beer front, we've got - get this - THE LAST EVER PIN OF CALCUTTA IPA!!! I thought we'd had the last one at my Burton book launch, but they found one last one at the brewery. It's not been on the sea voyage, but traditional IPAs that did not go to India were aged for at least a year before being sold domestically. This one is now two years old and as such should be as close as possible to how IPA was when it was consumed in India (with one exception - we'd probably get punched if we served it authentically ice-cold).
- And finally overall, I'm delighted, privileged and honoured to be sharing the room with legendary master brewer, Burton god, curator of Worthington White Shield and creator of Calcutta IPA, Mr Steve Wellington. Ask Steve about brewing traditional IPAs, keeping the Burton flame alive and generally being one of the greatest living brewers on the planet.
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Not an overnight success
It was the beer's fault. It usually is.
Although, when you consider that beer is the most popular drink in the world, consumed by billions on a daily basis, and not a single person among those billions has attempted to do what I was about to do in the name of beer, I have to shoulder at least some of the blame myself.
I don't mean that I got drunk and did something I regretted. I did get very drunk. And I did do something I would come to regret bitterly at several points over the following year. But one did not lead to the other: I did most of the damage while perfectly sober.
What I mean is, this was one of the increasingly frequent occasions when I got carried away after spending too much time with the kind of people you meet when you let beer start to mean more to you than simply the best long drink in the world. Not for the first time, the ideas and associations that surround beer, what beer means, intoxicated me more effectively and more devastatingly than mere alcohol ever could.
My voyage across the Atlantic on a century-old tall ship, and the larger quest of which it was merely part, began over dinner, ten months before I boarded Europa. Not just any old dinner though. Tonight, in the elegant surroundings of the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London's fashionable Kensington, just before Christmas really started to get going, several people – not all of them bearded, pot-bellied, cardigan-clad or even necessarily male – were about to receive trophies and cash for writing about beer.
Every single time I mention the British Guild of Beer Writers to people who don't work around beer, they seem to find its very existence, the mere concept it, either hilarious or completely unbelievable. A few years ago I could still sort of remember why this was. But I wasn't laughing tonight. Tonight, for the first time since I started writing about beer, I was one of the people hoping to climb on stage and shake the hand of TV Chef and Celebrity Yorkshireman Brian Turner, and collect an envelope from him as the great and good of the British beer industry bathed me in their applause. Beer had just got serious.
As formal dinners go, it was probably one of the more unusual the harried hotel staff had catered. The India Pale Ale sorbet had been a triumph. The venison matched with brown ale had split opinion, and the double chocolate stout with the chocolate pudding had been judged a bit too obvious by my table. But the contented bickering indicated that, overall, the dinner had been a success. Brewers, beer writers, beer marketers and beer PR executives pushed back their chairs, ambled past tables where they paused to shake hands with colleagues and adversaries they hadn't seen since this time last year, and made their steady (for now) way to the bars at the side of the big, palm tree-lined conservatory to choose a digesitif from the range of forty or so beers available. The cannier among them picked up more than one bottle, knowing that in a few minutes they'd be confined to their seats to wait patiently through the business part of the evening.
When it comes to the mix of emotions within the audience, all awards ceremonies are the same. Whether we're talking about the Oscars or school sports colours awards, most attendees are willing this part to be over as quickly as possible. The few attendees who believe they're in with a chance of winning something do their best to project an attitude of good-natured, weary boredom, while their insides churn through hope, envy, bitterness and triumph and back to the start before the shiny envelopes have even appeared.
I wondered briefly which end of that scale –Academy Awards or school colours– the British Guild of Beer Writers Annual Awards Dinner was closest to. I was always rubbish at sport, and so far nobody had tried to throw my bag on the roof, beat me with a rolled up wet towel, or take the piss out of my green flash trainers in front of forty other people before whipping my arse repeatedly with them.[1] And the idea of me winning something, anything, was something you could at least entertain without having to question the fundamental laws of reality. So tonight didn't feel like my school sports award ceremony at all.
On the other hand, Brian Turner was by far the most famous person in the room.
As the PA system popped into life and the big screens lit up with the logos of our brewery sponsors, I joined the stomach-churners for the first time, practising the requisite benevolent smile for when the name that is read out is not yours, the smile that you will need to keep pasted to your face as you watch someone else walk in YOUR stead up to the stage and collect YOUR award and you can only think of how long it is before you can reasonably disappear to the toilet and punch the cubicle walls and question your whole direction in life and wonder at the futility of it all and hate yourself for even thinking for a second that you were in with a chance of winning anything. You know how it is.
"And the winner is… Pete Brown!"
As Brian Turner became the first person in history to utter those words in that order, my initial reaction was not jubilation, but profound relief. It wasn't the main award, of course (I would need my fake smile after all, later in the evening, for that one) but it was the one I really, really had to win.
The Budweiser Budvar Travel Bursary is awarded for beer writing that has an international scope. This is a good idea in a country where many beer acolytes start with the belief that the best beer in the world is brewed within a couple of hours' drive of their front door, and work cautiously out from there. The 2006 prize was awarded for my second book, Three Sheets to the Wind, which is still available on Amazon at a bargain price. To write it, I'd travelled forty-five thousand miles around the world, visiting nearly five hundred pubs and bars in twenty-six towns and cities in thirteen countries on four continents. It had cost me one year and thousands of pounds to plan and execute the travel, a second, much lonelier, more frugal year to write a book about my journey that was far too long and self-indulgent, and then help my editor delete about a third of it and fashion what was left into something people might conceivably pay money to read. I was the only beer writer to have attempted anything on this global scale, at least in one go. If someone else had won the beer/travel prize for, say, a fifteen hundred word article in Beers of the World magazine about a day trip to a brewery in Bamberg that makes smoked beer, interesting as that would no doubt have been, I would have had to take it as a pretty heavy hint that I wasn't really getting this beer writing lark right. I'd even included a glowing account of my visit to the Budweiser Budvar brewery in Ceske Budejovice, southern Bohemia, and their head of Public Relations was on the judging panel.
I had no idea what I was setting in motion as I stood up and walked to the podium, shook TV Brian's hand and relieved him of a ceramic tankard with painted figures on the outside and, even more attractively, a cheque for a thousand quid on the inside, underneath the heavy pewter lid. After that, everything happened so quickly it would be months before I came to terms with it.
Relief turned to glowing satisfaction as I got back to the table, moved the cheque to my jacket pocket and filled the tankard with something dark and malty from somewhere in Belgium. The Budweiser Budvar Travel Bursary 2006 was the fourth prize I had ever won in my life.[2] Two of the previous three had been writing competitions: the first was for a story inspired by a poster in the school corridor when I was ten. My gripping yarn of mutated giant hornets ridden by evil goblins thrashed the living daylights out of the runner-up, and not just because he was eight years old and the only other entrant. My last victory was the Time Out short story competition in 1994. My delight at winning my first ever computer for a story about an eclipse over London, and having it printed in a magazine people actually read, was only slightly lessened by the fact that Time Out immediately abandoned the competition in their wake of my victory, and has never done anything to encourage people to write short stories since. As I returned to my table I was optimistic: sixteen years between the first two prizes. Only twelve between the second two. My writing career was gaining momentum.[3]
I should have been very happy indeed. There was no other sane reaction to the kudos of having won a prize with my first entry into the competition, not to mention paying off another thousand quid of the debt the writing had accrued. But as Brian reeled off the names of the winners of the other categories I'd entered, doubt crept back in.
Finally it was time for the overall prize: Beer Writer of the Year, chosen from the winners of all the categories, built up by a glowing eulogy from Alistair Gilmour, the previous year's winner.
"This guy could have won every category he entered…"
Hey, I entered several categories! And I won one!
"He's very funny...."
People always say they laughed at Three Sheets.
"He brings a breath of fresh air to beer writing..."
Me, me, me…
"And I'd just like to finish by illustrating this with a short piece…"
Yes? Which piece? The bit about the Hamburglar in Spain? The bloke who ran the bar in Portland Oregon for 25 years after signing the lease for a laugh while he was drunk? The bits with Billy and Declan in Galway? Which?
"…about the time he tried to convert his older brother to the delights of real ale…"
My only brother is three years younger than me and I've never tried to get him to drink real ale. Ben McFarland, the hardest working man in beer writing, rose to collect his second Beer Writer of the Year award in three years. I couldn't begrudge him it. He's a very good writer, and if I couldn't win, he's the person I'd want to. In fact, every category was won by someone I not only respected as a writer, but also enjoyed sharing a beer with. It was a good night.
But they were still all bastards.
Doubts started to crawl all over me like little ticks; ticks that could whisper in your ear instead of giving you a rash. They'd given me my award out of sympathy. Just because of the disturbing amount of effort I'd put in.
And you couldn't ignore the very curious wording of the award. As I drained my tankard, I started to think very carefully about that, oh yes. You see, if you read it closely (OK some might say too closely), The Budvar Travel Bursary is specifically not awarded to "the year's best piece of beer-themed travel writing (or travel-themed beer writing)" at all. It was actually awarded to "the writer who the judges feel could most benefit" from the money. Technically, it wasn't rewarding my writing. It was saying I needed more practice.
Well, that was that. Three Sheets had taken two years of my life, cost me thousands, damaged my health and upset my wife. I wanted to write more books, but there was no way I could ever do anything else on such a scale. I had been trying to work on new ideas for six months, and come up with nothing. It had been my best shot.
I was having trouble communicating this to the people around my table though. They weren't sitting with the overall winner, but they were sitting with a winner, and they were very happy for me.
"Congratulations, Pete. What are you going to spend the money on?"
"You'll be off on your travels again now then, eh?"
"Where are you going to go next?"
"I think Liz deserves a bit of a break from the whole beer thing," I said. "I might spend most of it on some luxury health spa retreat for us both. And then… I might write a book about... I dunno, something else."
"No, but seriously, there's loads of countries you didn't go to last time aren't there?"
"It's a travel bursary. You've got to travel."
"You could do a pub crawl across England. The longest pub crawl."
I grinned mirthlessly. "I was going to. But a man called Ian Marchant already did. And not only did he steal my idea before I'd thought of it, he wrote a better book about it than I would have done. It is in fact called The Longest Crawl. Funny eh? It came out a month after Three Sheets. I can recommend it."
"So where are you going to go then? What about going to the States again?"
"I need to refill my rather splendid tankard, I'm afraid."
I was being churlish. Every person on my table was a beer-world mate, someone I was very happy to be dining with. And I'd won something. So later, after refilling my tankard too many times, disgracing myself, losing my cheque and phoning Budvar the next day to ask them to stop it and issue me with a new one, I thought about how I might satisfy the moral obligation to spend at least some of my prize money on a beery trip somewhere. I might return to Germany and visit some of the famous brewing towns I was forced to skip on my Three Sheets trip due to the Death Star-sized hangover and possible scurvy inflicted on me by Oktoberfest. Maybe write that article about the day trip to Bamberg and the smoked beers myself. Or perhaps I'd go to Finland and drink the very strong beer they still make there by fermenting wort with bread yeast inside a hollowed out spruce log before filtering it through pine needles. Either of these trips would make a nice article for one of the specialist beer magazines. I would enjoy the trip, learn something new, and the obligation would be fulfilled.
These plans made me happy for about two weeks, before flying scared out of the window of a central London pub, chased away by the dangerous and stupid idea that was about to change my life.
[1] The games teachers at our school knew they had an important stereotype to conform to.
[2] Nobody ever actually said, "And the winner is… Pete Brown!" for the first three, unfortunately.
[3] The other prize I won was for painting some Citadel Miniatures TM Warhammer TM Chaos Warriors TM at a model making competition in Rotherham when I was thirteen. But that's another story – one I have no intention of writing.


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After celebration, Tribe can't contain Yankees
Santana exits with left thumb bruise; Jimenez allows seven runs
CLEVELAND -- The Indians had their homecoming, but a familiar face crashed Cleveland's party.
On Monday, Travis Hafner returned to Progressive Field as a member of the Yankees and helped send the Indians to an 11-6 loss in the Tribe's home opener. Taking advantage of an erratic showing from starter Ubaldo Jimenez, Hafner drove in New York's first four runs and launched a home run in his first at-bat back in his old stomping grounds.
The theme of the pregame festivities was tradition.
It figured that someone from the franchise's past came back to haunt the Tribe.
"Haf was here for a long time," Indians left fielder Michael Brantley said. "I think the crowd did a great job acknowledging him. He beat us today. He had some good swings. That's all you can say."
The crowd did offer Hafner a warm reception -- with the anticipated smattering of boos -- as he settled into the left-handed batter's box that he called home for the past decade. As he rounded the basepaths that he's come to know all too well following a three-run home run in the first inning, the heckles overcame the cheers in a hurry.
Hafner did not expect anything less from the Cleveland faithful.
"They're passionate fans here," said Hafner, who ended the evening with two hits, two walks and four RBIs. "When you're playing for the Yankees and you do well, you're going to get booed."
Joining Hafner in New York's hit parade was second baseman Robinson Cano, who launched a pair of home runs, including one off Jimenez.
This was Jimenez's first chance this season to show the home fans the improvements he made over the winter and throughout Spring Training. Instead, the big right-hander looked much like the pitcher who led the American League in losses a year ago. From the game's onset, Indians manager Terry Francona could tell the pitcher was off his game.
That put Francona in a bind.
"It was kind of evident from the beginning that it was a struggle," Francona said. "That's probably the hardest thing for me, is the balance there, because I saw how he was throwing. But if you go to your bullpen too early, losing a game is bad, but losing a game and ruining your bullpen is worse."
Jimenez was charged with seven runs on seven hits in just 4 1/3 innings, ending his outing with four strikeouts against three walks.
"I got to the mound and I just tried to get it going, but nothing was working," Jimenez said. "Not the fastball. Not the delivery, breaking balls. Nothing."
In the first inning, Jimenez issued a one-out walk to Cano, then yielded a single to Kevin Youkilis, setting the stage for Hafner's first trip to the plate. The veteran designated hitter -- known as "Pronk" in his days in Cleveland -- promptly slashed a 2-0 pitch from Jimenez to straightaway center field, where the baseball sailed over the wall for a three-run home run.
The blast marked Hafner's second of the season and his 100th career shot at Progressive Field. Over the winter, Hafner's 10-year run with the Indians came to a close when the Indians sought a more versatile solution to the DH role and New York signed him to a one-year contract. This year marked the first time since 2002 that Hafner was not in Cleveland's Opening Day lineup.
"My whole approach right now is to keep things as simple as possible," said Hafner, whose last few seasons in Cleveland were marred by a multitude of injuries. "I wasn't really brought in to hit in the middle of the order. I was kind of expecting to hit down further. But it's a great opportunity for me, so I'm just trying to contribute the best I can to the team."
Hafner struck again in the third inning, when he singled to center field to plate Cano and give New York a 4-3 advantage.
From there, the Yankees did not look back.
The Indians countered Hafner's first strike with a three-run outburst in the bottom of the first inning against Yankees right-hander Hiroki Kuroda. Leadoff man Michael Bourn drew a walk and eventually crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly from Jason Kipnis. Brantley contributed an RBI infield single, and Mark Reynolds added a sac fly with the bases loaded to pull the game into a 3-3 tie.
Kuroda appeared rattled, but the righty settled in and limited the damage the rest of the way. New York's starter logged 5 1/3 innings and allowed only those three first-inning runs despite scattering five hits and issuing four walks.
"We had a chance; we had a real chance," Francona said. "He was on the ropes. It looked like he was fighting it a little bit. ... To his credit, he went back out there, and he stayed in there long enough."
The Tribe showed signs of life late, but the early damage was too costly. In bottom of the eighth, shortstop Mike Aviles -- who replaced Asdrubal Cabrera in the top of the inning -- belted a two-run homer off reliever Shawn Kelley to cut New York's lead to 11-5. Bourn followed with a triple and then scored on a wild pitch from Kelley to give the Tribe its final run.
The loss could have been costly on the injury front as well: Carlos Santana was forced to exit in the top of the ninth inning after being crossed up on a pitch by Chris Perez that gave the slugging catcher a left thumb contusion. X-rays taken after the game revealed Santana's thumb was merely bruised; he's day to day.
Good news aside, it was a disappointing way for Cleveland to open its home slate.
"That place was rockin' and rollin'," Indians first baseman Nick Swisher said. "Obviously, you wish you could pull out a 'W' in a game like that, but just the excitement that was there, that feeling, that aura in the stadium, that was fun to be a part of."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Cairo's Ben Ezra Synagogue
Costello Communications, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 2001
This book examines the historic and cultural significance of letter fragments from the late ninth century, found at the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt. Our challenge was to make an academic text, intended mainly for students and researchers, visually interesting and inviting for a general audience.
With a limited budget, our efforts focused on making typography—a critical factor in the design— along with innovative use of color and texture, particularly evident on the cover. The mosaic patterns, reminiscent of the synagogue interior, are symbolic of the fragments of transcripts that were pieced together to provide a glimpse into medieval Jewish life.
Collections: 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2001
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book
- Design firm
- Costello Communications, Inc.
- Designer
- James Costello
- Trim size
- 7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches
- Pages
- 80
- Quantity printed
- 1,500
- Compositor
- Kier Davis
- Typefaces
- Filosofia, Minion, Trade Gothic
- Printers
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- Papers
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- Editor
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JR, I usually don't like to discuss about my distance, but since you have now twice estimated my drives at 450, I'll have to correct that.
Where have you seen me throw 450 tops? Come check my driving some time at Tali driving range. Yeasterday, at dead calm, I shot several hyzers over 450, and straight shots over 500. This may sound like I'm bragging, but JR is underestimating me here, publicly Plus my form is way better than last season.


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Ring in the holiday season on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a holiday home tour.
Friends of Meals on Wheels presents Dickens in the Valley, a tour of six Woodland homes dressed in holiday splendor. This event is a fundraiser for Meals on Wheels in Yolo County, a meal program for senior citizens.
Meals on Wheels, administered by the Elderly Nutrition Program, is a nonprofit program that provides a daily nutritious meal for seniors. According to Nicki McCabe, Executive Director of the Elderly Nutrition Program, last year 82,000 meals were served throughout the county. Many seniors enjoyed the noontime meal at their local senior center; but nearly two-thirds of the meals were delivered to the frail, homebound elderly by dedicated volunteers.
This year's home tour will showcase an assortment of unique homes decorated in a variety of themes. Featured homes will include: Alan and Michelle Mitchell, 528 College Street; Jenni Miller, 527 College Street; Christian & Stacy DeMarais, 709 Meadowood Drive; John & Maggie Smythe, 132 Bartlett Avenue; Madeline Bunfill & Steve Buchanan, 617 Cross Street; and Sally Forment, 905 Greenwood Drive.
New this year will be a silent auction for two lovely decorated holiday trees that will be on display at BlackPine Holdings, Inc. Denise and George Lewis, owners of Mengali's Florist (located at the corner of West and Main Streets), and Mike and Karen Mueck, owners of K&M Floral (located at 537 Main Street), are generously donating the trees.
The proceeds will benefit the Yolo County Meals on Wheels Program. The final bid must be received before 3 p.m.
Sponsors for the event include The Daily Democrat, Vic Bucher Accountancy, Fuentes Landcscaping, Kiwanis Club of Woodland, Joe Muller and Sons, and Lupe Springer Hodges of Bella Vie Real Estate.
Tickets for the Holiday Home Tour are available in advance for $20 per person, and $25 at the door. They can be purchased at the following Woodland businesses: Corner Drug, The Gifted Penguin, Terry's Hallmark; and in Davis at The Avid Reader Book Store.
Tickets are also available on line at http://dickensinthevalley.eventbrite.com and at the Elderly Nutrition Office, 40 N. East Street, Suite C. For more information call (530) 662-7035.
On the day of the event, tickets can be purchased at the Headquarters/Hospitality Center, BlackPine Holdings, located at 630 Lincoln Ave. In addition, hot beverages and treats will be available at BlackPine Holdings.


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Muskingum College education class embraces Bosnia project for children
By: Kimi Heskett Public Relations Intern
FEBRUARY 10, 2004 - A Muskingum College education class recently learned more than what can be taught in the classroom. They learned the value of sharing knowledge with those who are less fortunate.
The Education 414 class, which studies reading assessment and intervention, made by hand several reading games for teachers and students in the troubled country of Bosnia. The games include alphabet and sight word bingo games, sight word and rhyming word memory games and sight word donkey to help the Bosnian students study English.
The project idea came from Peggy Adams, assistant to the vice president of academic affairs whose son, Sgt. John Adams of the Army National Guard, is currently stationed in Bosnia. When Sgt. Adams arrived in Bosnia, he and his fellow troops built a school building for the children in the area. However, there was only one teacher, who had no school supplies, and the only things the U.S. Army could provide were pencils and paper. When Peggy Adams heard about the lack of resources for the children, she immediately turned to the Muskingum's education department.
Assistant Professor of Education Dr. Sandy Long headed up the assignment with her students and was overwhelmed with the outcome. "It gave our students the opportunity to share what they've been taught with others and to think globally by passing along the idea of games as learning activities. Also, I hope it made everyone stop for a moment and recognize how many resources we use to teach in this country, and to appreciate the many resources we have," she said.
Dr. Long also hopes that this project will continue for years to come at Muskingum. The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) chapter at Muskingum is interested in helping the project in the future. "Putting together a packet was easy and fun. The hard part is trying to figure out exactly what they need in Bosnia. I really hope this leads to a long-term relationship with this school," she said.
The Muskingum CEC chapter sponsors and participates in a variety of local events supporting special education.
The packet of learning tools was just recently sent to Bosnia and those involved with the project are eagerly waiting to hear how it was received and used. "We just took a stab in the dark, but we feel the outcome will be a positive one," Adams said.
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Hope your lunch is packed, because it's time for the First Day of School in the Recyclebank Green Your School Year Challenge!
There are 10 more ways to earn points and lots of new tips – like how to choose a greener backpack and even suggestions on things you can do at school. Invite your friends to earn even more points and get even closer to winning these amazing prizes:
• $2,500 Macy's gift card
• $2,500 local grocer gift card, courtesy of Ziploc®
• Bodhi Step-Through e-bike
• and lots more!
Visit http://schoolyear.recyclebank.com/content/firstday to start learning and earning your way to the head of the class.
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