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After a day at the show...28th of April 2014
After a long day at ISSA/INTERCLEAN you will probably want to head for the city centre and sample some of the city's many excellent restaurants and bars.
Whether you are looking for good food, a great atmosphere or a typically Dutch experience, Ann Laffeaty suggests 10 places to spend your Amsterdam evenings with colleagues or clients.
Pasta e Basta
The name literally means: "Pasta – and that's it", but this restaurant cannot be defined by its pasta alone. No: it's the fact that the waiters and waitresses are ready to sing at the drop of a hat that makes a visit to Pasta e Basta an unforgettable experience. Place your order and then sit back and wait for the show to begin. There seems to be no accounting for the periodic renditions of anything from opera to classics to pop songs from the waiting staff.
No doubt it would become a little tiresome if you had to sit through an operetta when you simply wanted your bill, but it's all in good fun and the singing creates a convivial atmosphere among the diners. Previous guests have included George Benson, Mariah Carey, Sting and the great Luciano Pavarotti, so the singing must be pretty good. The fixed price of €37 includes antipasti and pasta and though the menu is fairly limited, the food is of good quality. Options include lasagna bolognese with roasted pumpkin; risotto with baked mushrooms, and cheese-filled ravioli with fried garlic and sage.
Pasta e Basta, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 8?1017 DE Amsterdam
Open 18:00 to midnight, seven days a week
Directions from the RAI: after a two-minute walk to Europaplein take the 4 tram towards Centraal Station (11 stops, 14 minutes). Leave the tram at Keizersgracht and the restaurant is an eight-minute walk.
Eten Bij MIj
Eten Bij MIj is an unusual concept and ideal for groups seeking a traditional Dutch experience in a semi-domestic setting. The name literally means "Eat at my place" and this is the ambience that chef Michiel Stoffels is going for. The 'restaurant' caters only for groups of up 30 and all party members are seated together at one long table.
Prices start at €38 a head for a three-course meal including wine, beer and soft drinks. The menu can be tailored to the party's requirements, but starters may include steak tartare or steamed artichokes while typical main courses could be sirloin of beef, rack of lamb or wild mushroom risotto.
There are few reviews online for this relatively new eatery, but if you are planning a night out with clients it could be a novel way of entertaining them without blowing your budget. For more information go to Michiel's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/etenbijmij.
Eten Bij MIj, Albert Cuypstraat 91, 1072 CP Amsterdam
Open: by arrangement with chef
Directions from the RAI: after a 12-minute walk to Scheldestraat, take the 12 tram (two stops). Leave at Sloterdijk Station and from there it is a four-minute walk.
Café Hoppe
Voted the Netherlands' best café by a Dutch trade magazine in 2013, Café Hoppe is a typical 'brown bar' with a reputation for spontaneous parties. It was established in 1670 and the oldest part of the Hoppe is a national monument that has been unchanged for centuries. In fact stepping into the wood-panelled interior with its oak barrels and sawdust floors is like stepping back in time.
Besides its friendly staff, eclectic mix of customers and traditional décor, the Café Hoppe is renowned for its bitterballen - a traditional Dutch meatball dish served with mustard and sauerkraut. Another good reason for ISSA/INTERCLEAN visitors to go to the Café Hoppe is because this is where it all began. Café Hoppe was where two window cleaners in the 1960s came up with the idea for a major Amsterdam cleaning show over a glass of Dutch genever.
Café Hoppe, Spui 18-20, 1012 XA Amsterdam
Open: 08:00-01:00 Sunday-Thursday, 08:00-02:00 Friday and Saturday
Directions from the RAI: after a two-minute walk to Europaplein, take the 4 tram towards Centraal Station (13 stops, 18 minutes). Leave at Spui (Rokin) and the restaurant is three minutes' walk.
Restaurant d'Vijff Vlieghen
The English translation of this restaurant – Five Flies – is even more off-putting than its unwieldy Dutch name. But write it down and keep it to hand if you are looking for a restaurant with Dutch authenticity seeping from every corner. And corners there are aplenty in this rabbit-warren of an eatery made up of nine inter-connecting rooms from five 17th century houses.
Dutch heritage is proudly displayed in every room and each has a unique character; the Rembrandt Room contains four original etchings from the renowned Dutch artist, for instance, while a huge collection of Delft Blue tiles can be seen in the Mother Hendrinaroom.
Prices for the tasting menu with wine range from €79.50 to €99.50 per head depending on whether you opt for four, five or six courses. If wine is not required then prices begin at a much more affordable €45.95. A la carte starters (between €16 and €20) include crispy eel, roasted tuna and veal fillet confit while main courses (€24-€28) include grouse with celeriac; fillet of lamb and cod in mustard.
Restaurant d'Vijff Vlieghen, Spuistraat 294-302, Amsterdam 1012VX
Open: 18:00 to 22:00, seven days a week
Directions from the RAI: after a two-minute walk to Europaplein take the 4 tram towards Centraal Station (13 stops, 18 minutes). Leave at Spui (Rokin) and the restaurant is four minutes walk.
Café 1890
As the name suggests this establishment dates back to, well, 1890 and is billed as a "neighbourhood-style pub outside the usual tourist spots". It offers good draught beer, attentive staff and a range of dishes including cheese fondue, veal liver and ribs, all of which typically cost between €16 and €20. For under five Euros you can also choose from an extensive range
of sandwiches.
Café 1890 is the place to go for an authentic 'local' experience - it is a fun, lively and bustling place with a warm atmosphere plus food and drink at reasonable prices. It is also open very late if you happen to be staying on in Amsterdam for the weekend.
Café 1890 , Amstelveenseweg 1124, Amsterdam
Open: All day and till 01.00 on weekdays; 03.00 Fridays and Saturdays
Directions from the RAI: after a two-minute walk to Europaplein take the 62 Bus towards Station Lelylaan (12 stops, 16 minutes). Leave the bus at Bolestein and Café 1890 is a five-minute walk.
Ctaste is one of a growing number of restaurants worldwide where diners are served in a darkened room by visually-impaired waiters. It makes for an interesting experience, though perhaps not the best option when networking or entertaining clients. A three-course dinner costs €39.50 and for obvious reasons there is no menu to choose from – dishes are simply selected by the chefs based on their interesting flavours and aromatic smells.
If you prefer you can opt for the wine and beer package which allows you to sample three wines and beers (again in the dark) paired with canapés.
Ctaste, Amsteldijk 55, 1074 HX Amsterdam
Open: Wednesday-Saturday, 16.30 till late and from 11.00 on Sundays
Directions from the RAI: after a two-minute walk to Europaplein take the 4 tram towards Centraal Station (6 stops, 8 minutes). Leave the tram at Lutmastraat and the restaurant is a six-minute walk.
Het doktertje
If you are looking for traditional Dutch surroundings and a friendly welcome for your not-too-large party, then look no further. This tiny bar – allegedly the smallest in Amsterdam – feels crowded even when filled with only a dozen people, but its cosiness means that everyone talks to one another. Het doktertje (The Doctor's) is as the name suggests a former doctor's surgery,
and to prove the point an ancient medical bag hangs from the dusty old light fittings.
And dust is in plentiful supply in this quirky bar from the 1790s which is reminiscent of a spooky film-set complete with cobwebs hanging from the lamps. The bar is now run by the doctor's descendants and is characterised by friendly staff and ever-present jazz music. Besides mouth-watering steaks and salads the bar also serves up good beers, local liquors and malt whisky.
Het doktertje , Rozenboomsteeg 4, Amsterdam 1012PR
Open: Tue-Sat, 16:00-01:00
Directions from the RAI: after a two-minute walk to Europaplein take the 4 tram towards Centraal Station (13 stops, 18 minutes). Leave at Spui (Rokin) and the bar is a two-minute walk.
Supperclub Amsterdam
"Anything can happen at the Supperclub" boasts the venue's website – and not all of it good according to some patrons. But no-one can deny that Amsterdam's Supperclub is an experience to remember. This novel restaurant-cum-club has no dining tables; instead guests are invited to kick off their shoes and loll on oversized beds where they eat reclining in Roman-style decadence.
They are visited periodically by staff who serve them food and drinks and provide belly-dancing displays and other entertainment. Diners may also be offered a foot massage (at an extra cost).
Those who love the Supperclub will feel as though they have wandered into some bohemian 1960s film, while others may feel as though they have been forced to share a dormitory with a bunch of noisy, party-loving strangers. The music is loud and the entertainment can be extraordinary – one diner likened it to an S&M show –and the relaxed bed concept becomes a little less relaxed when the venue is overcrowded.
Dinner costs €69 and comprises five courses made up of "unconventional cuisine from all the reaches of the world", but the fact that everyone dines together at 8pm adds to the illusion that this is one big hedonistic party rather than just another restaurant serving food to isolated groups.
Supperclub Amsterdam, Jonge Roelensteeg 21?1012 PL Amsterdam
Open: 19.30-0100, Sunday-Thursday
Directions from the RAI: after a two-minute walk to Europaplein take the 4 tram towards Centraal Station (14 stops, 23 minutes). Leave the tram at Dam Square and the Supperclub is a four-minute walk.
Brouwerij t ij
What could be more typically Dutch than a windmill? Or beer? You can (almost) combine the two at Brouwerij t ij, said to be Amsterdam's oldest brewery. Situated next to the De Gooyer Windmill, this is a bar-within-a-microbrewery where the beers are served up fresh from tanks. There is a large terrace with long tables for outdoor drinking, and inside the walls are lined with what is said to be one of the biggest beer bottle collections in the world.
If you are staying on for the weekend after the show you may want to take a pre-bookable brewery tour on the Friday, Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Alternatively you can simply drop in for a drink or opt for the five-beer tasting package which costs around eight euros. Wine and soft drinks are available and snacks include fresh peanuts, boiled eggs, abbey-made cheese and salami.
Brouwerij t ij , Funenkade 7, 1018 AL Amsterdam
Open: 19.30-0100 daily
Directions from the RAI: walk to RAI Station, Amsterdam About 7 minutes. Take the M51 subway towards Centraal Station. Alight at Weesperplein and walk for two minutes to the number 10 tram stop. Take the Azartplein tram to Hoogte Kadijk. Brouwerij t ij is around a minute's walk.
+31 (0)20 622 8325
Screaming Beans
This restaurant, not to be confused with the coffee house of the same name, receives excellent online reviews and is also the personal recommendation of ECJ's Dutch correspondent. It specialises in tasting menus which are said to be sublime, though not for the ravenous.
The sum of €100 will buy you seven dishes with matching wines while the nine-dish option will set you back an extra €20. A la carte options include pan-fried scallops with dill and roasted hazelnuts; caramelised veal sweetbreads, or risotto with garden herbs and Canadian lobster, each of which cost around €20-€25.
Screaming Beans also takes particular pride in its coffee, which is filtered at the table.
Screaming Beans, Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat 35
Open: 08.30-midnight, closed on Mondays
Directions from the RAI: walk to Amsterdam, Scheldestraat (around 12 minutes). Take the 2 Tram towards Station Sloterdijk (12 minutes, 7 stops). Leave the tram at Overtoom and Screaming Beans is a one-minute walk.


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St Therese OF Liseux Feast 1.10
I know this is going to be annoying……….
but my blog is on hiatus or a bit irregular AGAIN I know but my faith has taken on a new role on my life and in due time will be blogged about but not right now! Please bear with me as it is all good news 🙂
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Psalm 10 – GOD BLINKERED !!!!
Psalm 10
1 Why, O LORD, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts of the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
4 In his pride the wicked does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5 His ways are always prosperous;
he is haughty and your laws are far from him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, "Nothing will shake me;
I'll always be happy and never have trouble."
7 His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.
8 He lies in wait near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent,
watching in secret for his victims.
9 He lies in wait like a lion in cover;
he lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
10 His victims are crushed, they collapse;
they fall under his strength.
11 He says to himself, "God has forgotten;
he covers his face and never sees."
12 Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the helpless.
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?
Why does he say to himself,
"He won't call me to account"?
14 But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;
you consider it to take it in hand.
The victim commits himself to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and evil man;
call him to account for his wickedness
that would not be found out.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
17 You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.
I was recently using this passage as my lectio reading and it came when I was having a challenging time at work!
So read Psalm 10 was a challenge and it took several readings before the penny dropped!
The last few verse struck a nerve. That even though thing are tough he will, not let go of us.
The first part of the psalm we have all felt especially when things are tough. I can recall times when Jesus has been very distant and the last thing I want do is
It remind me of a joke I was once told GOD BLINKERED OR WHAT HAHAHAHA!
There was a man stuck in a flood and the flood was rising. and he called God "Help me!"
So God sent a boat, a helicopter, and other people and each time the man said "No thanks God is going to send his help!"
Sadly the man died and on his arrival to heaven he was cross and asked God "Where were you you let me down!"
God replied "WoW hang fire I sent other people a boat and a helicopter and you ignored it all!
How many times have we been blinkered!
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I always thank God for the link has given me with a variety of Benedictine communities. In particular I want to mention the Douai Community. http://www.douaiabbey.org.uk/
In the last ten years I have learnt a lot from them. I can not go in specific here as it a bit to personal.
But what I've learnt?
Examples of great Christian living!
The phrase action speaks louder than word spring to mind and is a great tribute to the Douai community.
It reminds me of an action of two of the monk one a junior and one a senior and great monk.
The senior monk can no longer reach the back of his vestment to make sure it straight and looks good and the junior will just do it for him in a gentle manner and the senior will just let him do it and will very graciously thank him with a grin on his face. That's a great action of humility in my eyes
The other thing I've learnt about are really related to my relationship with God
The fact I can be my true self God see through the fake side of me!
That there encouragement in letting go and let God.
That sometimes pain has to be gone through to allows us to get closer to God.
Regularity of pray can help in the bad times when you do not really feel like praying. There have been up to the Abbey in times of lowness and sitting there in choir with the monk and then suddenly the power of God will really over whelmed me and all is good again.
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Douai Abbey Libary
I am so looking forward to the opening of the Douai abbey library I am no book worm but love old manuscripts and I can't wait to see them! Click on the links to see more 🙂
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9/11 – 9 years on.
Prayers and thoughts go out to all the families and friends of those affected by 9/11 nine years ago. I had a fantastic lie in an awoke to think of America. Bless you all!
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I was thinking of the gift God has given me and there are two that always stand out.
1. Prayerful insight.
This can be very hard to see people in pain and hurting but it always out weighed by celebrating peoples joy. What I do gain out this gift is the ability to empathise and support them especially with my prayer.
2. The power of prayer
I used to feel guilty about telling people I would pray for them it felt such a small thing to do but over time my view on that has changed and I now have come to see it is the biggest way of supporting someone in there time of need. Prayer is a powerful weapon in every Christian life!
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CNN's Chris Cuomo turned a discussion on Pope Francis' recent interview into an ugly personal attack and sharp lecture of his guest, the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, on Friday's New Day.
The fracas began when Cuomo lectured Donohue on the Pope's statement that the ultimate focus of the church is "salvation" and not one particular moral issue. He said "it really sounds like you're one of the people [Francis] is sending this message to, to be fair, Mr. Donohue, isn't it?" Cuomo clearly had a bone to pick with his guest.
"I mean, you have bashed on these issues for years and years, most infamously recently saying that the church had a homosexual problem, not a pedophile problem. I mean really incendiary, flagrant, divisive stuff," Cuomo continued.
Donohue later turned the tables with this exchange, after Cuomo claimed that as a fellow Catholic he received "blame" for Donohue's statements:
CUOMO: We're blamed for this. I get blamed for this. One of the things I get blamed for –
DONOHUE: You get blamed for what I do? Why would you get blamed?
CUOMO: The Catholic League matters. The Catholic League is relevant. Right or wrong, it is.
DONOHUE: Maybe I get blamed for what Andrew Cuomo does, because he's Catholic.
CUOMO: That would be a good switch for you. Let me tell you.
DONOHUE: I don't think. I think I'd be going south.
So Cuomo said it would be a "good switch" if the behavior of his brother reflected on Donohue? Cuomo's brother Andrew is the Democratic Governor of New York who supports abortion rights, pushed for gay marriage, and lived with an divorced woman while he himself was divorced. All of the above are serious violations of church teaching and are public scandals.
Regardless, Cuomo repeatedly drew from Donohue's past statements in an effort to attack him for being so controversial. He did no service to any CNN viewers who were hoping to gain insight on Pope Francis' words.
For example, Cuomo accused Donohue of "cherry-picking" statistics on priests and admonished him, "Why wouldn't you try to move past this parsing rhetoric and try to be what your church is supposed to be about?"
Cuomo pulled another past Donohue quote:
"You and the Catholic League, you're the same organization that went forward and said when you're defending The Passion, I'm a Mel Gibson fan – when you're defending The Passion you say hey those secular Jews in Hollywood, they don't like the Catholics. It's a fact. What? This is the kind of thing that you shouldn't say anymore."
When Donohue slammed the "Nuns on the Bus" for being divisive in disobeying the U.S. bishops, Cuomo once again lectured him.
"So you think the nuns on the bus then are bringing everybody together by going out there in favor of Obamacare against what the bishops wants? They're the ones who are divisive," Donohue claimed. Cuomo replied, "I'm thinking what he [Francis] wants is for you to spend less time bashing nuns and more time bringing people together."
Or perhaps CNN wants Donohue to spend less time bashing the nuns, considering anchor Carol Costello actively cheered them on.
Below is a transcript of the segment, which aired on New Day on September 20 at 7:23 a.m. EDT:
CHRIS CUOMO: Here to discuss the impact of Pope Francis' interview is a man who never lacks an opinion, Bill Donohue, president of the powerful Catholic League. Thank you for being here.
BILL DONOHUE, president, The Catholic League: Thank you for having me.
CUOMO: So the first simple question, do you agree with the shift in focus that the pope is outlining?
DONOHUE: I do. This pope is a reformer, but he's not a revolutionary. People on the left and right are exaggerating what he's doing. Look, the Catholic Church is a wounded warrior. We know that the church has created some of its own problems. Some of the problems have been externally created. He says the church is a field hospital. He gives the metaphor of taking care of the wounded. You don't go up to the wounded and say let's see, you might have a high cholesterol rate. That's exactly what the pope said in his letter – I'm sorry, in his interview.
Well, that's true. You get down to basics. The Catholic Church is not about homosexuality, abortion, the poor, or the environment. It's about salvation. And people are tied up in these little micro issues on the left and the right, and we've lost the focus of what the Catholic Church should be about. It's a change in tone, it's a change in style, but there's not a doctrinal change in substance. That also should be noted.
CUOMO: I feel like this may count as the pope's first miracle. Because to hear you saying these things is going to be very shocking. Because it really sounds like you're one of the people he's sending this message to, to be fair, Mr. Donohue, isn't it? I mean, you have bashed on these issues for years and years, most infamously recently saying that the church had a homosexual problem, not a pedophile problem. I mean really incendiary, flagrant, divisive stuff.
DONOHUE: Well see, Chris, let me just say that --
CUOMO: So I'm just saying, are you saying you won't do that anymore?
DONOHUE: Oh, no. I will always tell the truth. If 81 percent of the victims –
CUOMO: That wasn't the truth.
DONOHUE: If 81 percent of the victims are male and 100 percent of the victimizers are male, and if 78 percent of the victims are post- pubescent, the word in the English language is not pedophilia, it's called homosexuality.
CUOMO: No. It would be called – phebephilia. That is when you attack people who are in their teens.
DONOHUE: That's not even a – that's not a clinical term. That's a made up term to make people feel good.
CUOMO: You know very well you cannot find a pedophile in any prison anywhere who will say that that they're homosexual. It's never been about homosexuality, it's been about criminals and wrong acts. And this is your chance to say you won't do it anymore. The pope is asking you to.
DONOHUE: When men have sex with adolescent men, it's called homosexuality. It is not pedophilia. John Jay College of Criminal Justice is not a conservative right wing organization. Less than 5 percent of the priests involved in molestation are pedophiles. I will never stop telling the truth, and the pope never said we should either. I'm against gay bashing. To say that because you're gay you're going to be a molester –
CUOMO: That is exactly what it sounds like.
DONOHUE: No, no, no. If most of the molesters are gay, that is true. It is not true that most gay priests are molesters. That is a gay-bashing comment. People have to make critical distinctions. I have nothing against gay people any more than I do against straight people. I do have against molesters. Whether they be straight or gay makes no difference to me, but I'm not going to lie about the figures. What I just said about the figures is absolutely true, it's not negotiable.
CUOMO: Well, but that's the problem. Isn't it? Because there are so many who would say not only is it negotiable, but it's irrational, what you're saying, because you have so many people –
DONOHUE: Explain it to John Jay then. They just made it up, I guess. Do you think I made up those figures, Chris?
CUOMO: I think you're parsing them. I think you're cherry-picking them and I think that the most important part is your motivation. You just heard what the pope said.
DONOHUE: The pope didn't say –
CUOMO: Why wouldn't you try to move past this parsing rhetoric and try to be what your church is supposed to be about?
DONOHUE: This is a problem with the left. They're trying to take what he says and then run with it like The New York Times said, said the bishops are on the defensive because they're concerned about abortion, contraception, and gay rights or gay marriage. No, no, no, the Obama administration is the one who is foisting this on the bishops. The bishops are reacting. They will continue – there's nothing that Pope Francis has said that would give any relief to these people who are saying all of a sudden now the conservatives should shut up. We're not going to shut up because we're in constant compliance with the pope says.
CUOMO: He's saying the word "Catholic" means "universal."
DONOHUE: Yes, that's right.
CUOMO: He says the rule of the religion is love.
DONOHUE: That's right.
CUOMO: Not to cherry-pick statistics and try to blame homosexuals for being pedophiles.
DONOHUE: Who ever said that?
CUOMO: Look –
DONOHUE: Who – who said that homosexuals are pedophiles? Did I say that?
CUOMO: The suggestion is that of this was consensual because of the age of the victims.
DONOHUE: Consensual? When people get raped it's not consensual. Look, as far as I'm concerned the Catholic Church didn't handle this right. I would have put these guys in the slammer a long time ago. Instead, they just think they can reform them. They send them off to the psychiatrist. That's plain stupidity. No –
CUOMO: There are few who are going to disagree with that. The way the church handled the situation is a large part of the stain on the church right now. But it is the discussion of homosexuality and the blame of them as somehow predatory, that is what your pope telling you not to say. It's not what I think.
CUOMO: This is what your pope is telling you.
DONOHUE: Most of the molesting priests were gay, and most gay priests are not molesters.
CUOMO: Good.
DONOHUE: I think people who –
CUOMO: Stop there.
DONOHUE: But I've been – that's all I've ever said!
CUOMO: Who says that the molesters were gay?
DONOHUE: I'm telling you, if --
CUOMO: Who says the molesters were gay?
DONOHUW: They weren't girls, and they weren't –
CUOMO: Who says the molesters were gay?
DONOHUE: If a man has sex with a man, what do you call that?
CUOMO: He could be a deviant pedophile and a sick person. He could be a rapist.
DONOHUE: Not if the kid is 18, 17, 16 years of age. A rapist could be straight or gay, I'll give you that much.
CUOMO: Being a homosexual doesn't make you predatory.
DONOHUE: You're trying to say that anybody who points out the obvious, that the Catholic Church had a homosexual scandal, therefore, you're anti-gay. This is absurd.
CUOMO: Mr. Donohue, we both know that what is obvious here is that the Pope is asking you not to focus on these things.
DONOHUE: He didn't ask me to shut up about the truth.
CUOMO: You and the Catholic League, you're the same organization that went forward and said when you're defending The Passion, I'm a Mel Gibson fan – when you're defending The Passion you say hey those secular Jews in Hollywood, they don't like the Catholics. It's a fact. What? This is the kind of thing that you shouldn't say anymore.
DONOHUE: Wait a minute. Do you want to get into – is it the Vietnamese who are making movies in Hollywood? Is it the Puerto Ricans who own Hollywood?
CUOMO: Do you understand how that sounds? Do you understand how it sounds? You think that's good for Catholics to be represented by this?
DONOHUE: The Jewish Forward – The Jewish Forward in its editorials said the exact same thing I did? Are they anti-Semitic?
CUOMO: So what? Why would you say it?
DONOHUE: Why would I say it? Because I was just insulted on some guy on MSNBC, and I just gave it right back to him.
CUOMO: Listen. Am I insulting you? We're having a discussion.
DONOHUE: No. This is fun.
CUOMO: Well, it's not fun for me and here's why. The Pope is giving you a different message. He's saying don't make these statements about the homosexuals, don't make the statements about the Jews. Get back to what your church is about. Jesus wasn't about what you're doing right now. Are you going to hear that message or no? Because it doesn't sound like it.
DONOHUE: I've heard the message but it's not the one you will interpret for me.
CUOMO: So you think that the pope wants you to say Jews don't like Catholics, and that homosexuals when they have sex with people of a certain age must be predatory.
DONOHUE: I didn't say that. No. I never said that Jews don't like Catholics. When did I say that Jews don't like Catholics?
CUOMO: And homosexuals when they have sex with people of a certain age must be predatory.
DONOHUE: When did I say Jews don't like Catholics?
CUOMO: You were quoted.
DONOHUE: No I was – ! I'm talking about secular Jews who run Hollywood studios who make anti-Catholic movies. What is so absurd about that?
CUOMO: The absurdity is that you are blaming it on a faith and a culture when it is a subjective judgment about a movie. So you're blaming these people. He's telling you not to do it.
DONOHUE: So, if I mention that the Chinese live in Chinatown, am I considered now a bigot to point out the obvious?
CUOMO: No, but if a Chinese person makes something you don't like, and you then decide to blame them because they're Chinese, as opposed to what's made –
DONOHUE: Well, the Catholics seem to get blamed for every time we complain about a movie –
CUOMO: We're blamed for this. I get blamed for this. One of the things I get blamed for –
DONOHUE: You get blamed for what I do? Why would you get blamed?
CUOMO: The Catholic League matters. The Catholic League is relevant. Right or wrong, it is.
DONOHUE: Maybe I get blamed for what Andrew Cuomo does, because he's Catholic.
CUOMO: That would be a good switch for you. Let me tell you.
DONOHUE: I don't think. I think I'd be going south.
CUOMO: Listen, the point is what are you going to do with this message from the pope?
DONOHUE: We have different interpretations, obviously. I love the pope and I do think that there are single issue Catholics on the left and right who need to get out of their little micro-turf battles and look at the macro issue. It should be about salvation. I will grant you that. And I am so happy that he has said it.
He's also said that he has a problem with the rigorous priest, the right-wing authoritarians. He also said, if people actually read what he said in his interview, he's against those priests that are too lax. He said – and by that he meant those who deny the existence of sin. Yeah there's a problem on the left with that, just as there's problem on the right.
CUOMO: He identifies himself as a sinner first, when they ask him about the man Bergoglio.
DONOHUE: I know and everybody thinks this is breaking news. Every single pope throughout all of history went to confession. Why did he go to confession? Because he's a sinner. There's no breaking news there.
CUOMO: I guess, I think that his hope is that the people who call themselves devout Catholics get back to the main mission of the church, which is not division. It is love and is understanding there is good in all.
DONOHUE: So you think the nuns on the bus then are bringing everybody together by going out there in favor of Obamacare against what the bishops wants? They're the ones who are divisive. The dissidents ones, typically on the left but not exclusively.
CUOMO: I'm thinking what he wants is for you to spend less time bashing nuns and more time bringing people together.
DONOHUE: I don't bash nuns. I'm just simply pointing out that some of the sister polyesters have lost their mission. They should not be social workers. They should be nuns tending to the poor.
CUOMO: I think the one thing we'll agree on for sure is that we hope that the pope's message is understood.
DONOHUE: Yes, I do.
CUOMO: Mr. Donohue, thank you for taking the opportunity. I appreciate it. Kate, over to you.


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Because a muscle tires with each successive set, many bodybuilders feel they should start their training with their heaviest weight. If they perform too many high-rep, light-weight sets they'll never be able to reach their heaviest weight. To get around this they do one or two very light sets and then put their heaviest weight on the bar or machine. The weight is then decreased and reps are increased with each successive set. In effect they are working down the backside of the pyramid.
With the exception of a few advanced training techniques discussed later, perform all your exercises through a full range of motion. This means fully stretching and contracting the muscle and moving the limb or limbs through their entire possible distance. Half movements will only build strength in the part of the muscle being worked when the movement is taking place.
As much as we would like to, there is no way to know specifically how much weight to use on each exercise. Everyone is different. First decide how many reps you want to complete in a given set. Then pick a weight that limits you to that number. There will be days when you'll have to use less weight to achieve the same number of reps. On other days you'll need more weight.
During your first few months of training, focus on exercise for the large muscle groups of the body (i.e. quads, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps). Don't worry about the smaller muscle like the serratus, teres, and rhomboids. These muscles will get a good workout just by trainng the bigger muscles.
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Although thee will be the odd day when you will mneed ot use les weight, the primary method for increasing muscle size is progressive overload. That is, as soon as a muscle adapts to a given weight, you must increase the weight to keep the muscle growing. With few exceptions, the biggest bodybuilders are also the strongest.
As soon as you begin working out, take a lesson form your parents and "ground" yourself. Place both feet securely on the ground and keep them there. At the end of your set your feet should not have moved so much as an inch. If they have it probably means you've used your legs to cheat!
One of the biggests mistakes you can make when you start training is trying to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. Unless you are that one-in-a-million, genetically gifted freaks, you won't be able to do both simultaneously. If you are 20 pounds or more overweight, your first priority is losing the body fat. If you are very lean but lacking in muscle size, focus on gaining some good muscular bodyweight. Don't attempt to stay lean wile trying to get big. You can't have it both ways.
Exercise speed is another name for tempo. Our advice is to use a 2-2 exercise tempo when starting out. this means take two seconds to raise the wight and two seconds to lower it again. With time you can experiment with ultra-fast reps (explosive training) and ultra-slow reps (10 seconds or more).
When exercising intensely, the body needs enormus amounts of oxygen. If you hold your breath while training you run the risk of passing out. Try breathing on each rep of the exercise. Most bodybuilders inhale on the lowering part of th rep and exhale on the upward part. In effect you are "blowing" the weight up.
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You don't grow in the gym. Training only stimulates muscle growth. You must restlong enough between workouts to recover. For most bodybuilders a minimum of 48 to 72 hours is needed between muscle groups. Hitting the same muscle two days in a row will only leave you in a constant state of overtraining. If in doubt take an extra day off.
Get a minimum of 6 to 8 hours of sleep each night. One late night out partying probably won't set your training back too much, but making a habit of surviving on three or four hours sleep a night will prevent you from achieving the success you desire. It'd that simple.
If you have trouble sleeping, try drinking a small glass of warm milk just before bed. Warming the milk activates the amino acid tryptophan, which has been shown to be a natural sleeping aid.
If circumstances prevent you from getting 6 to 8 hours of sleep a night, try napping once or twice during the day. A 30 to 60 minute nap in the middle of the day produces wonders in terms of mental and physical acuity. Even a couple of 15 minute mnaps spread over the day can boost your energy reserves and recovery abilites.
Don't worry about training before bed. The old belief was that exercise interfered with sleep patterns by increasing adrenaline levels. Recent studies have shown that those who exercise shortly before bed sleep just as well as those who exercise ealier in the day.
Training at home has numerous advantages. You don't have to fight for a parking space and you don't have to wait for equipment. You can also train at your convenience. The disadvantages are limited equipment, distractions, and no one around for motivation.
You can spend more than $1000 on the latest TV home-gym setup, or $50 at a flea market for a few weights. Millions of home-gym setups are bought, but few are used. Before blowing hundreds or thousands of dollars, check around with friends and relatives. Basement flea markets are also a good bet for buying exercise equipment for your home. Anyone who has had teenage male in the house porbably has an old York or Weider barbell set kicking around.
You've seen the ads: "Just five minutes a day will develop a six-pack!" Save your money and invest it in either a gym membership or a piece of legitimate training equipment. Most of those crazy TV gizmos are useless and designed to cash in on people's quick-fix mentality. In most cases you are wasting your money. Not to mention that many of those contraptions are potentially dangerous.
The primary disadvantages to training at home are the advantages to working out at a gym. You'll have access to the latest training gear, There will be lots of advanced bodybuilders around for inspiration. Finally, such distractions as the phone, TV, and fridge are nonexistent.
When selecting a gym, make sure to take into consideration wuch isses as cost, location (are you and your car safe?), equipment selection, quality of staff, hours of operation, change-room facilities, crowds during peak times, and atmosphere. Most gyms offer day passes to try out their facilities. Before plunking down a year's membership try out a few gyms to get a feel for the place. It is well worth the $5 or $10 day-pass fee.
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Number 50 is definitely true. Find a gym where you can train as hardcore as you'd like is key. Gyms that cater to soccer moms and suggest keeping it quiet are probably not good for motivation. I hated my old gym and I'm sure that it held me back to some extent.
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Gyms can be divided into three type; hardcore, middle of the road, and spas. Our advice is to aviod spas. The equipment tends to be more glitz than practical, and the owners don't really want people who train seriously there anyway. Stick with either a good middle-of-the-road gym or a hardcore bodybuilding gym.
Most middle-of-the-road gyms will cost $35 to $50 a month to work out at. If $600 a year sounds expensive, keep in mind that this works out to just $1.65 a day! That's a trivial amount of money to be investing in improving your energy, health and physique. If taking the money out of your wallet each month is difficult, arrange for a direct bank amount withdrawal. Many gyms will also do a payroll deduction. Either way you may never miss the money.
When joining a gym, beware of fly-by-night operations. Numerous gym chains have reputations for hitting town with much flash and fanfare. After a couple of hundred people take out a "liftetime" membership, the gym is gone! Our advice is to only join for a month or so. If you do decide to commit to a year, pay by post-dated checks or some other means that sllows you to stop payment if the shady characters leave town. Never a free to have your credit card charged each month.
One of the more popular trends is for employers to set up fitness rooms for their employees. Although a few are doing it as a generous fringe benefits for staff, the primary reason is that insurance companies better rates if their employees are healthy and working out. If your company doesn't have a gym yet, talk to the owner (or appropriate person in the chain of command) and see if they'll explore the option of setting one up. You may be the one voted to do the job.
For a change of pace try training outdoors. The fresh air will do you wonders and the openness is a welcome change from the sometimes stuff confines of a gym. Venice Beach in California is famous the world over for its outdoor training pit. A word of caution for those who live in larger cities. Pay attention to smog alerts. Gulping in huge amounts of toxic air will not do your body health any good. In fact doing so may only shorten it. On those days stick to an air-conditioned facility.
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If you decide to train outdoors, always use a good sunblock. Two or three hours training in the sun can play havoc with your skin. Time passes very quickly while you're training and before you know it you have second or third-degree burns. You may also want to avoid training outside in the 11am to 3pm time slot, as thisis when the sun is most dangerous.
The human body is about 70 percent water. While we have water conversation systems, at times our hydration levels fall dangerously low. Always consume copious amounts of water when training. You can use the gym's fountain, but then so will almost everyone else. That's a lot of potential germs. Buy a water bottle and keep it filled. Rather than gulping large amounts, try sipping it throughout your workout.
If at any time during your workout you feel dizzy, immediately stop what you are doing and sit down. Tilt your head forward to increase blood flow to the brain. Dizziness is one of the first signs of lack of oxygen to the brain. It is also the body's way of saying you will faint if you don't do something about the situation. If you find yourself getting dizzy on a regular basis, consult your physician.
Although the most popular time to train is between 4 and 8 pm (that's when most people get off work and school), there is no best time to train. For some, 6 am works best. For others trainig at that time would be nauseating. Likewise, many like to finish work and head straight to the gym to unwind. The best time to train is whatever time works best for you.
Even if your primary goals are maximum size and strength, it's not recommended you start out with an advanced four or six-day splilt routine. You'll get great results by training the full body every second day for a total of 3 or 4 days per week.
How long you spend in the gym ultimately depends on the type of program you are following. There is no need to be dragging your training session out for two or three hours. In fact if you are still training after 3 hours your intensity level is probably too low to be effective. Try putting everything you've got into a 60 miinute workout.
No matter how dedicate you are to your training, sooner orlater uou'll miss the occasional workout. As long as you are fairly consistent, don't worry about it. One ot two extra days off a month will not set you back. In fact it may help you, as many people are in a chronic state of overtraining. Yo'll find that after an extra day off your energy and strength levels are often much higher.
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Although some oeople swear that exercising will somehow "sweat out" the flu virus, our advice is to give training a pass when you're under the weather. the common cold, while not life threatening, is weakening your overall recovery system. One of the warning aigns of overtraining is an increased frequency of colds. Let the body deal witht he virus before subjecting it to another grueling workout.
The great Arnold Schwarzenegger used to imagine this biceps were mountains when he trained them. Numerous studies have shown that those poeple who visualize where theyw ant to be down the road get there more quickly then those who don't visualize. Set small strength and size goals and then visualize obtaining these goals.
Flip though a copy of Muscular Development and find a large picture of your favorite bodybuilder. Cut it out and paste it on the fridge, bathroom wall, or someother place you see every day. Use the photo for motivation and inspiration. Every time you look at the photo imagine what it would be like to look like that bodybuilder. The go into the gym and train your butt off.
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Uunless you are used to manual labor, you'll notice after your first few training sessions that your hands will develope blisters. The way to prevent this is to wear gloves. You can use gloves specifically made for weightlifting or you can substitute gold gloves. Keep in mind that once you start wearing gloves you are committed to them. Your hands will never get a change to toughen up and calious over. Forget your gloves just once and it's back to the blisters. Unless you need soft hands for your job or hobby (i.e. musician or surgeon), our advice is to give the gloves a pass.
Sponges are a cheaper way to protect the hands during a workout. Go to the kitchen section of any store and for a buck or two pick up a package of sponges. They come in different shapes and sizes but the 4 X 6 X 1/2-inch variety will probably work best. Place a sponge in each hand and grab the bar, dumbbell, or machine handle. The sponge will protect the skin on your hands from blistering.
No matter how diligent you are with proper technique, your joints will be subjected to a tremendous amount of stress. The soft tissues at the joints will occasionally start letting you know that maybe you should take some sort of preventive measure. Many bodybuilders find that by wrapping the common trouble areas such as the knees, wrists, and elbows, they can reduce the chances of injury to the joint. Wraps come in many shapes and sizes. Some are elastic in nature and have a preset tension. Others are nothing more than simple first-aid elastic bandages that allow you to adjust the tension. While we don't recommend wrapping yourself up like an Egyptian mummy, you may want to experiment with wraps on such exercises as squats, deadlifts, and bench presses.
The most popular piece of weightlifting equipment is the lifting belt. However, wearing a belt at all times never allows the lower back muscles to strengthen. We suggest that you use one only if you really need it. Our advice is to only wear a belt for lower back protection on such exercises as squats, deadlifts, barbell rows and overhead standing presses, and only when using heavy weight.
If you decide to test you ego on the bench press, you might want to invest in a bench press shirt. These specially made shirts are usually made of polyester and about two or three sizes too small! By compressing the arms, shoulders, and chest muscles, the upper body is put into a better leverage situation, enabling you to lift more. Some powerlifters will add 50 to 100 pounds to their bench press with the aid of a bench shirt.
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Addendum: Dont bring your flu viruses into the Gym , and make others sick.
Stay home until well.
Moderate exercise strengthens the immune system - frequent and exhausting exercise starts to weaken it... it's a J-curve affect. Upper respiratory tract infections are frequently a case of simple inflammation, not so much actual infections... based on studies using a subjective questionnaire and then lab tests to confirm. So, you have to know when you are actually under attack, or just experiencing some dings associated with heavy exercise. It's amazing what a good diet, a multi vitamin/mineral and lots of vitamin C can do for keeping the immune system humming.
I agree though... if you are actually sick - don't take a virus to the gym. All the heavy breathing passes that shit along like a plague... everyone overtrained and eating poorly is likely to catch it.
my thoughts are if u have enough 42 (Sleep) you wont get 63 (Sick) .. and if you do get 63 (Sick) then you need 42 to fix it up
turning this into a code breaker thread..lol...
btw anyone ever use 67 (Sponges)???
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Honestly, there might be some application in this... such as increasing the bar diameter for greater forearm development (if you only have the standard diameter bars) but for the most part, that tip sounds like something only Planet Fitness trainers would be handing out at the front desk...


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Stewart will be fined $18,231 for his hit on Newton, and Marshall will be fined $24,309.
The NFL has fined Denver Broncos safety Darian Stewart and linebacker Brandon Marshall for their hits on Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton during the season opener on Thursday, according to multiple media reports.
Stewart will be fined $18,231 for his hit. Stewart was flagged for roughing the passer with less than a minute to go in Denver's 21–20 victory, but the flag was not enforced because Newton was penalized for intentional grounding on the same play.
Marshall will be fined $24,309 for his hit on Newton, which came in the third quarter of the game and was not flagged. Marshall's fine is likely for impermissible use of the helmet, which includes illegal launching.
Trai Turner of the Panthers will also be fined $9,115 for taunting, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The NFL has said that medical personnel reviewed video of Stewart's hit on Newton and concluded that the concussion protocol was met, but it will review how the Panthers' medical team handled the hit to ensure that the protocol is being "uniformly applied across all 32 teams."
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The new apartment will need new curtains. The ones from our house - fluttery white cotton with small cherry flowers, red shantung silk, jersey done up in fiery fuschia - aren't going to work in New Orleans.
In the city, I'll count on the drapes to define each room, anchor them, elongate those older windows - a big burden for a floor-length panel backed with 100% cotton.
So I read decorating mags. I wade through the designer websites. And I stay away from our local fabric store, where only more fuschia awaits.
There are so many things to consider. Silk or linen? Butter or slate or chestnut? And what's the difference between a curtain and a drape, anyway?
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When you hear Toyota Century you may recognize but for some people never heard of it… because it never sold in the US. We would say Toyota Century is one of the best car Toyota made. We always dreamed about this car. We had a opportunity to get Century Brochure from Japan. The brochure itself already tell us that quality product will be introduced in there. We are hoping we can show you real Century someday….
Before show inside of brochure let us explain what kind of car is Toyota Century.
Here we got better explanation from Wikipedia. This is about Second generation Century 1997 ~. First generation was 1967-1997
"The Century received a complete redesign in 1997, although the new model was visually very similar to the previous generation. This current model is powered by a 280 PS (206 kW; 276 hp) 5.0 L 1GZ-FE V12, initially with a 4-speed automatic, until a 6-speed "intelligent" transmission arrived in 2005. It also features air suspension. The Century remains the first and only Japanesefront-engine, rear-wheel drive production car equipped with a V12. This was Toyota's first V12 engine.
The Century was Toyota's most luxurious model at its inception in 1967, and maintained this status throughout the 20th century. Today, it is positioned above the Lexus line-up, and remains the most luxurious and prestigious model to wear the Toyota badge. The Century is distinguished by different paint options than the rest of the Toyota line-up. The Century shares the role of flagship with the Toyota Crown Majesta with almost identical dimensions to the Century but with a more modern approach and appearance that appeals to younger buyers, and both vehicles are exclusive to the Toyota Store dealership network in Japan.
Like other cars in the top of the luxury class, the Century is designed with the rear passengers in mind. Hence, the rear seats recline and the front passenger seat has a fold-down center section so that a passenger in the back may stretch his feet forward. The rear seats are equipped with a massage system. The exterior door handles open the doors electrically since the sound of the door being opened mechanically is perceived as being "too obtrusive". The doors do not need to be closed directly, instead the door only needs to contact the latch, causing the door to pull itself completely closed electrically.
The vehicles' interiors are usually ordered in wool cloth, rather than the leather seen in many luxury cars; leather is not as quiet as cloth when sat upon. The vehicle can be ordered in any color the purchaser desires, however, they are usually medium brown, burgundy or royal blue inside, with black exterior paint. Vehicles primarily intended for livery service usually have leather interiors in gray, for easier interior cleaning and durability. White lace curtains are usually installed in the rear window, instead of tinted windows, which are perceived to attract unwarranted attention. The passengers usually like to be seen in a Century, despite Asian tendencies for modesty."
"Toyota Century" Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 22nd July 2004. Web. 10 Aug.2004. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Century>


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Review: Hand-me-Down, Tristan Bates Theatre
Published in Time Out, 20.06.2011
This show, set in a charity shop, is winning and likeable. The one thing it needs to do is throw some stuff out. Kate Craddock's material is strong. It's just that, given her meandering structure, it becomes a jumble.
Hand-me-Down has a hint of Jim Cartwright in the way place is portrayed through population. Amidst the bric-à-brac, we encounter genial volunteers and bargain hunters. Among them are a 'meeja type' trawling for vintage chic, a child thrilled at spending pocket money and, most poignant of all, an immigrant mother who can't afford basic clothes for her children.
There's real moral complexity within: we can't simply patronise or sympathise. The 'meeja type' genuinely cares about the cause, while the penniless mother finally steals a jacket, replacing it with an outgrown baby-suit.
Hand-me-Down uses its little premise to ask big questions. Consumerism, altruism, celebrity and the Big Society all come into focus and Craddock brilliantly suggests an unwillingness to heal a world where global imbalance and exploitation props up our own way of life.
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This site's history goes back quite some time, all the way back to 1996 in fact. At the time, I hadn't had much experience with the internet at all, other than my sub account on my Dad's "Prodigy Classic" account, which ran on his DOS based PC. The only other computer I had access to at the time, was a friend's system running Windows 3.1, which did not have internet access. Not too long after, another friend of mine got a computer with Windows 95 on it as a present, and this led to learning a lot of new stuff. At the time, I didn't even know what a web server was, and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get a page on the internet. I soon after learned that the 16-bit version of Prodigy for Windows had the option for a personal web site, so there I created "Richard's Personal Web Site" which got relatively low hits, but through which I learned a lot about html. I learned html by building sites with Allaire's Homesite editor, which had a view source option, which let you either edit with the graphical interface, or use the text interface to type the code yourself. At the time, my only web browser was the 16-bit Prodigy Web browser, which didn't even support animated GIF images. As such, there wasn't much interactive content on the site, with the exception of a guest book that I had on the site. The images that were on the site weren't exactly the best looking images that you'd ever see, especially the ones that I made myself, since I never have been any good at graphical design.
Richard's South Park Site
After I had gotten a hang of making web pages, I finally had a real topic for my site. I put up some images that I "borrowed" from Comedy Central's web site, and went on to put up various funny things relating to South Park. The site got a few more hits than it used to, but it still didn't give people a reason to stay, mostly because there weren't any interative parts to the site, except for that same old guestbook =)
Richard Stefan's Starcraft Site
We were going to get a family computer better than the old one mentioned above, but it never really happened, for various reasons. I figured that I'd just get my own and get it over with. If I hadn't done that, I probably wouldn't be typing this today, since I probably never would have logged onto Blizzard.com and downloaded the Starcraft Demo. Being an old Warcraft II fan from before I even had a computer (I mooched off of *everyone*), I couldn't put down the demo! I probably beat those few Terran missions and played other people via modem before I finally got together enough money to buy the retail version. Something I picked up on, was the "compete FREE over the INTERNET" comment on the cd case. Now, not being your typical newbie, I actually read the manual, and figured out what Battle.net was and how to use it, and odd concept, I know. Some time before getting Starcraft, I got Prodigy Internet, which gave me 32-bit application access over the internet, which means that I could play on Battle.net. I was nice enough to spawn for all my friends of course. South Park had lost my interest, since it wasn't as funny as it used to be, so I decided to make a Starcraft site. Not long after, I found the Blizzard and Battle.net web sites, and noticed a forum called the "Piolots Lounge" which no longer exists. I was fairly new to these forums, and read a lot more than I posted. I did the typical forum newbie crap like flaming random people, and all the other not-so-nice stuff like that. On top of that, I got tired of Prodigy Internet not upgrading to 56k access, and signed up with... AOL! What's really scary, is that I'd get great lag over Battle.net with AOL, despite how it is for most people, though I think it had a lot to do with where I was located in relation to the service provider. I hosted the site on my AOL space, which was larger than most AOLers would get, because I was a beta tester for their software. This gave me the opportunity to put up an incredibly excessive amount of graphics on the site, though it brought a lot more content along with it. I had a fairly decent navigation system for the first time, and had what was looking to be a real layout for the site.
If you were a visitor of Blizzard's Pilot's Lounge, then you may have seen this site, but I wasn't all that well known back then, so probably not =)
RStefan01's Help Site
Having found the Blizzard Technical Support forum, and found that I could actually make myself useful there by answering people's questions, I made a web site suited to it. I had basically all of my FAQs posted there, along with helpful files, and last, but by no means least, my tech forum, hosted by Sitepowerup.com. At the time, Crimson Soldier was helping out a lot on the forum, and I made him an "MVP" stealing the idea from the Battle.net Forums. We helped out quite a few people there, and it was a lot of fun. Around this time, I got an email from an individual by the name of Proman911. He asked him if I wanted to help work on a site with him and a bunch of other people. I was very hesitant at the time, but I was convinced to join eventually. Again, if I hadn't made that decision, I likely wouldn't be typing this up right now. We formed a site called SideWinder, which was originally meant to be a "by gamers for gamers" type of thing, but quickly expanded to plans of software development and technical support. I got so caught up in it, that I closed my own site!
The site being closed lasted for about a week, maximum. Not really thinking when I closed the site earlier, I didn't keep backups of most of the stuff, and had to recreate the content. Eventually I started to lose interest in tech support, and decided that I wouldn't have the tech content or the forum anymore. Crimson Soldier and I still kept in contact over ICQ afterwards though.
RStefan01's Site
(Late 1999 - February 2000)
This is what you would have seen not long before the site is as it is today. The site basically was around my interests and what I did in my gaming and leisure time on the internet. Apparently people were interested, maybe because of the frequent updates, maybe because I posted my link everywhere, maybe because they felt sorry for me, who knows =)
We come upon the year 2000, and I find myself still learning new things and wanting to expand the site to be more than just about me. I decided that I'd form a staff and try to bring more of a community aspect to the site.
was the first person to join up, and most of our news posts were relating to games we played, in the form of battle reports. This is also the same time that I opened the Discussion Forum, which was an improvement over other forums that I had used. Crazieman implemented some hacks that he had created into the forum script, without which I probably would have never hacked the forum into the state it's in now =)
was the next person to join the staff. Having been a good friend of mine from SideWinder, I couldn't possibly say no (this turned out to be a trend applying to everyone asking to join the staff), so he was the next news poster on the site. Around the time of his joining, we were starting to cover more than just games. There were general computer/technology related posts too now.
was a poster on the SideWinder War Refuge, and was someone that I came to like very easily. I think he may have been one of the few staff members that I asked to join, instead of having them ask me, as I thought he'd be a really good addition to the staff, and I wasn't dissapointed.
(February 2000 - Present)
Just days after my 17th birthday, I bought the RStefan01.com domain, and moved the site here. The traffic to the site jumped up a lot when I got the domain name, though it also could have been related to the fact that this is when a lot more people joined the staff and started contributing to the site. The title of the site didn't change for another week afterwards, but this is really the turning point in the site.
was another person I had met mostly because of SideWinder. He was also working on a site called Firebird at the time, which went down due to technical problems. He's a really knowledgable guy all around, though he's been doing more "behind the scenes" type of stuff than the other staff members.
joined the staff at about the same time. BandWidth jokinly asked me if he could join the staff, though since I wanted more news going up, I took his request seriously and he was on the staff. Ravage! joined up very soon after. These guys probably account for most of the more humourous news posts seen on this site, though they have also helped out on other areas of the site as well.
At about this time, SideWinder broke up, and the majority of the forum posters there moved into this site's Discussion forum until the Riptide forum was opened.
: Akardam opened his site, everything but TheKitchenSink, and soon after became the first affiliate of this site.
: After helping them install some scripts on their site, I got to know Wargasm a bit better, and soon after our sites were affiliated.
, the shorter name of the same Crimson Soldier mentioned earlier, got to talking with me on ICQ a lot more, and also got me interested in Ultima Online. Since we played the game a lot together, and no one else on the staff had the game at the time, I thought he would be the perfect person to help out with the Ultima Online content on the site.
: Maverick contacted me, asking if I wanted to affiliate with his site. I liked the content of his site very much, and we affiliated. This is also about the time that he started posting in the forums here.
was making himself very well known in the Discussion Forum. He's the first person to join the staff that didn't have a very strong gaming background, but with his personality, it didn't matter. I was in a chat with a couple staff members, and we invited him in and asked him to join =)
After being very helpful with the site, SoulTaker announced that he was going back to his home country of Denmark, though he had plans on returning to the US, though as of yet that hasn't worked out.
, well known for writing the Friday Night War Room Death Matches in the War Room, was another person that I thought would fit in very well with the site. I never really got around to asking him to join though, because for some reason I felt uncomfortable asking, possibly because I didn't really know him as well as the other members. Sid6.9 made the Diablo II Beta, and there was my excuse to ask him to join, to provide the Beta content. I wasn't dissapointed at all.. I actually found myself overwhelmed with all of the content I was being provided.
, being very knowledgable in Perl, was a person I turned to time and again for help with various things I would be doing in Perl, most of which were adding hacks to the forums. One day he said he should be on the staff, and it happened =)
Akardam wrote a forum posters script for me, which was used for a while before I discovered that there was already one out. Since there were a couple problems with Akky's script, I decided to go for the other one, and that's the one that's been in use ever since then, though there were many modifications to it by me.
lil bo shepherd
was another person that became well known in the forum, not in gaming, and was added to the staff because of his wanting to help out. He posted news, but his main contribution to the site would be his forum posting. At the time of this writing, he has more posts than anyone else on the forum except for me.
Who's Online? Good question. The answer? A script that displays how many users are on the forums!
joined the staff not too long after lil bo shepherd, and helped out with the news and various other things that were going on with the site at the time. Unfortunately, he and I would get into arguments from time to time, and things didn't really work out too well, and he left the staff. We still kept in contact over ICQ afterwards though =)
joined the staff as another news poster, though he's also expereinced in a lot of other things, which is shown by his own site, WizDom. At the time of his joining, I was left wondering if I had too many staff members, but since everyone was still being helpful, I figured it couldn't hurt to have more people, especially if they want to help out =)
was one of the first people to take advantage of my asking people to submit their own news items to me if they had anything to add. He had posted various good articles from school, and I decided that instead of me posting them, I said to him "it'd be easier for the news to get posted if you posted it yourself" which was my invitation to him to join the staff (You know I couldn't say it in an easier way, that just wouldn't be as fun).
After watching access logs for a while, it was decided that since the T4C and Half Life sections were not very popular, they would be taken down from the site. This was done at the same time as the DHTML layout was used. Soon after, the Recent Headlines and Recent Discussion Forum Posts boxes were added to the top of the index page.
Affiliate: KuSh, from
Game Foolz
contacted me and asked if I wanted to affiliate with his site. Being impressed with the content of the site, I was happy to be affiliated with their site =)
, being the webmaster of our affiliate, The Blizzard Extreme Network, is a person that gets news easily, considering that the content and topic of his site is something that's also of interest to this site. If you see a news post from him, it's probably something good that's Blizzard related =)
Though I liked the DHTML layout, there were some people that were not impressed with the new layout of the site. Since I try to keep everyone happy, I thought up the idea of having a cgi based site that would allow users to have customization abilities to the site. This is the first original work that I've done in Perl, with the exception of the cookie handling scripts, the writing script being in JavaScript, and the cookie reading script being a premade Perl script I found somewhere. With this, was introduced the "themes" which allow visitors to pick from a selection of different color schemes to be used when they view the site. (And some thanks is in order for both Akardam and Tridus helping me out with that JavaScript!)
is another person that got known by posting in the forums, and keeps up to date with current events by watching the news on television very frequently. Though this leads to news articles not having links to sources, it also leads to a lot of things being posted before they make their way to the internet =)
This brings us to the writing of this History of the site, which I hope is informative and maybe will save me from answering a question or two in the future. This will be updated as new events occur =)
Since the last update of this page, some new things have happened.
are now also news posters on the site, I'm sure everyone knows them by now, if not from the War Room then from here. There are two new affiliates to the site, Hag Entertainment which is run by BandWidth, Ravage!, and other fun people, and WizDom which is run by WizardSlayer.
During that time, The Group and RStefan01.com also opened a joint forum, hosted here. The forum was titled "World Wide Views" and the topic was exactly that. The basic idea of the forum was to be able to speak your mind while not getting out of line, and we had the moderators to back it up. -=General=- and myself from here, and Artanis and Janna from The Group. The forum has since declined in activity, but who knows what'll happen =)
New Layout! I thought the site was due for an update from the Perl infested (hehe) site that was up previously. I think the new layout looks a lot better, but it lacks the customization options that the old one had. It also should be a lot faster, since it's in shtml now instead of Perl, which is easier on the server end. A lot of sections from the site were also removed, because I really don't have the time to keep all of them updated right now, and I don't want to have them up there and never update them either. Really the main point of interest on this site is the news page and the forums, so that's what'll have the most focus for now.
The layout was updated two more times, once to change the colors, and the second time to make a navigation bar that has images on it, using the same javascript rollover that I used on the site about this time a year ago for other layouts. This latest version of the layout's gotten the best response from people, so it'll probably stay for a while. As for the site's content, I thinking of going in the opposite direction as I was before. Originally, the site was about me. Then I tried making it about other things, but I ended up losing interest in whatever it was after a few months. I think I'm going to be going back to a site about me, though that probably won't change the news or the forums all that much. So far, the only thing I've done was add my mp3 playlist to the site, who knows if I'll do more =)
is now an affiliate of this site. It was actually decided that we'd do this about a week ago, but I forgot to update the page with the link/image.
The previously mentioned "World Wide Views" forum was closed in September 2000 after Wargasm and I decided that it's time was up. Posting there was very infrequent, and the posting that was being done wasn't really on topic anymore.
Affiliate action: There were quite a few additions to the affiliate list.
The Feckhole
Dinobot's Citadel
Open Tech Support
Tossy's l33t Website
, and
The Drifting Vault
. Those sites respectively belong to Ravage!, Dinobot, CanisLupis, Protoss_King_, The Helper, and rRaminrodt.
Oct 17, 2000: New additions to the site are a Graphics section which has images that I've made, and a TV section listing shows I watch.
Nov 26, 2000: Site undergoes many changes, including me being the only news poster and a new forum script. Refer to Nov 26, 2000 in the news archive for details.
Dec 2, 2000: I wrote a new forum posters script which has since had new features added every now and then.
Jan 6, 2001: I've rewritten the site in perl again, mainly just to make things easier on my end. I also added custom 403 and 404 error pages to the server that are more helpful than the defaults.
Jan 25-27 2001: My host,
, took away my cgi/perl access claiming that I had crashed their servers. I highly doubt that it was entirely the fault of this site as those types of servers have a large number of accounts on them, and it was a fairly slow day for this site, as compared to days that had two to three times as many server requests. I spent most of the day on the 26th looking for a new host, and I found one later that night. I signed up, and the next morning my account was active. The site is now up and running normally on the new host,
Along with all of that, I took down some sections while the site was down. I removed mIRC Chat, Chat Logs, Graphics, and Ultima Online.
Affiliate action @ Feb 4, 2001: Accelerated Gamers is the newest addition to the list, and another affiliate is rumored to be in the works ;)
Oct 19, 2007: Updated many pages that had out of date information, also dropped many affiliates off the list since their sites dropped off the face of teh intarweb. I might not be doing a whole lot with this site anymore, but at least it's still here!
© Richard Stefan 1996-2014


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Label: Independent
Year released: 2015
Duration: 36:44
Tracks: 9
Genre: Heavy Metal
Rating: 4/5
Review online: November 26, 2015
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Well, here's a sweet slab of ass-kicking Heavy Metal from Ontario, Canada courtesy of the band Antioch. You can almost tell just by looking at their logo with the old-school font that looks hand-drawn and the sword forming the "I" of their name that this was going to be cool. Antioch II: First Strÿke (yeah, they put an umlaut over the "y" because why the fuck not?) the band's debut album, comes out of the speakers swinging with "The Strÿker Rides" and makes no apologies for any blow that lands. Big, bruising riffs are propped up with thunderous bass lines and solid drumming. The vocals are clear but with throat-ripping screams that bring to mind David Wayne in his prime. Musically, Antioch II: First Strÿke combines some Riot/Priest-style Power Metal with more Traditional Metal in the vein of Omen and Metal Church with just a breath of the NWOBHM. All the songs are good but the album is missing one or two killer tracks that would have really put it over the top. That said, I'm not soon going to forget how the bass on "Ebon Star" rattled my chest.
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The sitting Maui County member on the University of Hawaii Board of Regents is seeking another five-year term as the Regents Candidate Advisory Council on Monday released the names of three candidates for the post.
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Investors get defensive with age
When I started out as a strategist more than 30 years ago, I had the arrogance of youth, a long-term investing horizon and less wealth to worry about. Those three qualities worked well then, but not so much now.
I have the wealth to enable a comfortable retirement � at the moment. What I don�t have is the time left to sleep easily at night in the event the stock market enters a serious bear market. I�m not alone: those aged 55 and older are a larger portion of the population than they�ve ever been. We�re 35 per cent of the country and growing. Compare that to 27.4 per cent in 2000 and 31 per cent in 2008.
When you consider the recent gyrations in equities in the context of the ageing population, logic follows that folks facing or in retirement will be much more defensive in their behaviour than in the past. If that means they will be quicker to get out of equities in the next downturn and stay out, their impact will be felt for a long time. That�s especially true given where wealth lies. Older people have it but neither the time nor mindset to recover from a bear market.
My camp � the baby boomers � is unlikely to see a surge in interest rates that will provide a comfortable return of, say, 5 per cent to 6 per cent in long-term, safe municipal debt securities. Total returns in the bond market are going to be modest � for ever. My generation has been here before in an economic sense. Approaching 2000, we all knew the dot-com-fuelled Nasdaq Composite Index was blowing up into a bubble, but greed and a belief that we were smarter than everyone else kept us riding the momentum until we wished we hadn�t. But then we were 40 or 45 years old, and arguably had 20 to 25 working years left to make up for the momentary loss. Bothered, yes, but younger and with time on our side.
All went well, especially the value of our homes. We didn�t worry about meek wage gains because our wealth was growing. Plus, if we needed money we could just borrow it � almost no questions asked. We may have looked askance at rising government deficits, but that would be someone else�s problem down the road.
Then came 2008. We were a bit older and dealing with our second � and vastly more serious � crisis in ten years. That gets you thinking, and explains why the baby boomers joined in late to this bull market. We are approaching 60 at the least and most are well beyond that age. We can�t count on many more years to make up for another stock market rout. The chart below shows that those 55 and older have the highest allocation to stocks, funds and CDs than any other age group. They have the wealth and need to keep it because they don�t have the same time horizon as in past bear markets.
Heaven forbid you lose your job before 65 and have to obtain medical coverage on your own. The bottom line is that the sort of market turmoil we�re experiencing will have a longer-term impact on investor behaviour, as well as confidence and consumption habits, than we�ve ever seen. It has to if we�ve learnt anything over the course of our working and investing careers.
� David Ader is chief macro strategist at Informa Financial Intelligence. He was the No 1 ranked US government bond strategist by Institutional Investor magazine for ten years
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