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Caffeine doubles miscarriage risk
Pregnant women have been warned to lay off the coffee after US researchers found that those who "drink two or more cups of coffee a day have twice the risk of having a miscarriage as those who avoid caffeine". The study led by Dr De-Kun Li of Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, which appears in the American Journal of …
This is Interesting
I have a friend who is of Costa Rican extraction and has children.
As a Costa Rican, she loves her coffee. However, when she was pregnant, just the smell of coffee would make her nauseous.
I wonder if that was her body doing some self-defense?
Useless statistics
'Doubles the risk of miscarriage' sounds pretty scary, but it doesn't say what it doubles it from. 1%? 0.01%? 5%? As ever, the Devil is in the details.
So you can eat nothing when your pregnant ?
but of course you should eat twice as much nothing since your eating for 2.
RE:This is Interesting
"While previous research showed a link between caffeine consumption and miscarriage, this is the first study to thoroughly control for morning sickness, which typically causes many women to avoid caffeine,"
Re: Useless statistics
Its kind of hard to put a percentage on things like that. The chance of a miscarriage is influence by a whole mesh of variables. Just saying it increases the overall chance by X percent is very difficult.
Paris Hilton icon because she probably has to drink a pot of coffee every morning for this exact reason.
Lock them in birthing tanks
Clearly in order to facilitate the birthing process, pregnant women should be sequestered in birthing tanks within a week of conception and fed only nutrient goo through a pipe until you can scoop the final product off the top with a net. A non-stop loop of Beethoven being played for nine months to ensure proper development.
Soon you'll be accused of attempted infanticide for farting in the same room as a pregnant woman. It's a good job women never had babies before all this stuff was discovered.
Even so...
"Its kind of hard to put a percentage on things like that. The chance of a miscarriage is influence by a whole mesh of variables. Just saying it increases the overall chance by X percent is very difficult."
They must have got a result significantly outside the uncertainty of the results, other wise they wouldn't have released their findings right? Or at least I hope.
In which case they would have found that women who drink a certain amount of caffeine are x% more likely to suffer a miscarriage.
Anonymous Coward is quite right, the findings are useless unless backed up by statistics, and if the statistics are too hard to come up with, then their findings are useless also.
Starbucks: Environmental heroes!
Looks like they're out to solve our (+6billion and rising) world population problem!
What is it they have with coffee ?
IANAMD, but from the outlook it seems like there are more american studies done on the alleged dangers of coffee than of nicotin or marijuana. It's like US researchers are desperate to prove that nothing can be enjoyable and tasty without being at the same time (in no specific order) toxic, addictive, dangerous for fertility, and / or making you grow fat.
This study is another case of "see, see, we *told* you ! can't you think about the children ?!"
As others have noticed, most pregnant women can't stand even the smell of coffee, so maybe there's truth in there, but nevertheless, I'm cautious that it may be another case of rampant puritanism. All previous studies on the dangers of cafein have been debunked in the past, so let's wait a bit.
Marijuana has none of the side effects you've listed. A feeling of calm well being, slight paranioa (until you start giggling) and the need to eat Mini Chedders with ketchup at 4am on a saturday are more apt.
Memory loss? Don't know what you're talking about...
Re: RE:This is Interesting
Nope, that wasn't it. Nice try, though.
It was a taste/smell thing. This is that "Pickles and Ice Cream" effect. Morning sickness only lasts for a couple of months or so. This lasted her whole term.
No, really?
Wow, this is... like... the first time EVER that I hear that pregnant women should lay off addictive psychoactive stimulants. It's like THE news. Wow!
How was I ever born?
Given all the things that can go wrong with a pregnancy these days, it is a wonder that I am healthy these days. Being a product of the 50's (there are some of us that old here), and born to a mother who (at that time) both smoked, drank, and had coffee, it is a wonder that I am alive at all. The only explaination I have is that these problems didn't exist in that era (or it is global warming). The statistics that are thrown about these days (50% less...) let the reader assume the original problem rate, which in this instance is probably less than .00000001%. All I can say is that there are three things we all know: Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics, you can say anything!
p.s. Mom quit smoking when I was quite young. Still living to this day! Must have been the coffee!
So coffee's off the menu
but I believe it's still okay for the expectant mother to take a large swig of brandy before bedtime to settle the baby down so she can get a good night's sleep. After all, there's nothing worse than a grouchy pregnant mum.
87% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
The problem with these so called studies is that the targets are statistical trends rather than physiological mechanisms. The researchers have no real idea why drinking coffee might be bad for pregnant women, they just see a statistical link between the two. Fair enough you might say but several years ago a similar study found a "link" between coffee drinkers and heart disease. Further study showed the real problem was smoking (lots of smokers also drank coffee, which skewed the statistics) rather than the daemon caffeine. Until the reason coffee causes miscarriages is proven, I'd take it all with a pinch of salt (low sodium salt if you're pregnant).
They can show 'links' between all sorts of things, like the falling number of real pirates has led to an increase in global temperature.
The drink of intelligence. A plan for the human race.
One study has shown that people who have higher functioning brains get an intelligence boost from coffee. Unfortunately, people who have lower functioning brains, aka are stupid, just get stupider from coffee.
I propose all aspiring parents are put on a regimen of coffee and studied. If they don't both show more intelligence from the coffee, the mother must remain on the coffee regimen throughout the pregnancy.
more coffee for me!
Well, this just means more coffee for me, even though I hate the stuff... however the way my dissertation is going, I may be turning to it more and more...
How does it equate in the form of the great British tradition of tea? That's what I'd really like to know!
1 in 3 mis-carry
There are quite a few comments here along the lines of "how did they ever manage to give birth before all this advice" trying to imply that miscarriage is a minor problem.
It might help to reflect on the fact that around 1 in 3 pregnancies end in miscarriage in the first three months. Thats a third of all pregancies. And it was higher in "the good old days". While it may be "natures way", it isn't a comfort for those it happens to.
In my humble opinion anything that can reduce that figure is a Good Thing (tm).
@Rob Aley
In the usual sarcastic, cynical realm that is theregister comments, thanks Rob for actually saying something useful. Me and Her are currently losing 5-nil so anything that will help, well... helps.
What's a woman to do?
So - this story says that caffeine "doubles miscarriage risk", but this story (http://tinyurl.com/2expoz) says that three cups of coffee a day "reduces the risk of ovarian cancer". Maybe they should drink one and a half cups of coffee?
I suppose the IT link is that they probably used Excel to calculate the probabilities.
Did they control for causes of heavier coffee consumption?
I drink more coffee when I have to work longer hours and/or with frustrating co-workers and clients. I imagine these sorts of stresses would not contribute to a healthy pregnancy, no matter what drugs I was or was not consuming.
That said, I routinely give up alcohol for 6-7 weeks at a time (Lent), but could not fathom going off coffee that long, much less 9 months. I'd suck it up for the sake of my theoretical child, but I don't think it'd be easy.
@ Alacrity: A good childhood friend who was something of a party girl swore her pregnancy caused an aversion to even the smell of alcohol and pot. I had been worried that she would be able to refrain from drinking or smoking for 9 months, but she did, and still only has two drinks a week at most while breastfeeding, and doesn't go near pot anymore. It also stopped her smoking tobacco. She's become even more of a hippie, though...
(Tux, because it isn't Linux users who cause me professional grief, and in honor of my pinko commie hippie friend)
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Undercover teachers to track gang members online
@Slaine & Plain stupid
Slaine, hahaha your timetable made me chuckle but I believe you forgot to continue the timetable to 23:00 when you've finally fnished marking, lesson planning, answering this suggestion by the over-zealous Head and that allegation from Jonny's chavvy 50-a-day parents.
@Plain stupid poster, my sympathies. A dear friend was in a similar situation and has suffered the same as you. I know for sure his accounts were comprimised because the little darlings attempted to add me to their msn convos too (amongst other things)
I was asked by the investigator to give an account both as a "victim" of these little turds and as an expert* in the field. I prepared a lot of evidence with times, diagrams and screenshots to prove my friend was completely in the clear....and it was subsequently ignored (cos let's face it, having made all that fuss and spent all that money, they can't then admit it was the little shits after all - especially when one of the little shits responsible was a governer's child)
My point is that the Plain Stupid post is 100% correct - these people would be setting themselves up for both career and social suicide if they were to go ahead with this latest government brain fart.
*not self appointed expert, just compared to them I am!
Watchdog bares teeth at mobile premium rate scams
@ John A Thomson and AC - ME TOO.
I also had an issue with unsolicited spam and was told by the company involved "future mobile limited" (associated with MyTxt) that I "must have downloaded some WAP content to have signed up" (standard bullsh*t response)
So I reported them to PhonePayPlus to find out how they REALLY got my number as they are refusing to divulge, sticking to the "must have downloaded Wap content" line
On PPP's advice and after several calls and emails, Voodoofone finally "agreed" to write to me confirming that I had never downloaded any wap content onto my mobile. Typically, they never bothered so I have to wait for my bill as proof. (that seems to me to be impeding the investigation of an unlawful activity)
I got a £1.50 postal order from the clowns at future mobile but let's face it; the previous poster is probably right: they are sending out blanket SMS's and hoping that not everyone complains and while they can get away with this, why would they stop?
John and AC, did you find out who sent the SMS? and have you tried the above route (they are in breech of data privacy rules by not divulging how they got your number and have obtained it unlawfully) and if so, I hope you got more help than I did from Voda.
p.s whenever I tried to call futuremobile's customer services number, I'd get an answering machine instructing me to e-mail them...YEAH RIGHT!
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@Mike Richards
Well done mate, I was gonna ask the same thing with perhaps an RC car or similar on offer.
Plus, I could be wrong, but isnt it more a question of these "researchers" were asking these people to create a username and password specifically for the purpose of entering the competition, rather than asking them outright what their passwords were?
I got a similar "enter here for free chocolate" email a few years back. Needless to say I didnt bother. I just got off my fat @rse and bought some from the shop for 30p.
Paris cos she'd do almost anything for and with chocolate if you point a camera at her.
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@ Echowitch
Are you American by any chance?
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A good experience with HSBC
they called me once and asked for my security details first, and the CSA was absolutely fine when I explained that a work colleague years ago had his card stolen and the theives called shortly after pretending to be the bank and took all his security details.
Therefore we agreed that we would take it in turns; I would ask them for a letter and they would ask me and so on. Perfectly acceptible comprimise with a totally understanding CSA - plus, I always see a number come up when they call me.
Snooping on users Facebook 'staff perk' - claim
"I would have thought this would be a requirement for policeing the site if reports on the number of sex offenders and kiddie fiddlers on the site are to be believed"
Exactly when have facebook ever policed the bloody thing? All I read about is Facebook denying ALL culpability for any content on their site or any grievances caused by said content.
They just want a good giggle.
Provided that they are not taking personal information from these profiles to forward to their mates who don't even work there................
(regardless of what people are stupid enough to post)
If that is the case, then it's a little more serious. If it's not..see above.
Google sued for 'crimes against humanity'
The B*stard
...take some numbers away and rearrange the remaining and that's my home phone number he's published on the internet.
Right...get me some of those forms...
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Thanks Graham, Tim and John.
I think you covered just about most things there.
Though I really wouldn't give roper the time of day if I were you (many of us don't)
While he'll undoubtedly disagree that his behaviour is such, I believe that trolls should be ignored.
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So true and so funny.
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Woo hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
THIS is why I get the reg emails.
What a fantastic piece of news, made my day.
Thanks Register
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Question for those current PN customers...
who are singing the praises of PusNet..
How LONG have you been with them?
Nuff said
Hoist by his own?...
Oh Straffy Straffy...Surely YOU of all people should know.
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***.If you don't stick with PusNet for x amount of years, they throw you to the wolves***...
come on Man; PN did it to everyone else, why should you be any different?
As with PP's I am starting to believe in Karma now.
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The Courier reports the sheriff, who makes about $150,000, said he did not take a raise.
Sheriff Jerry Larpenter says he gave a $200 per month raise to everybody in his office.
The raises went into effect Jan. 1 for about 300 employees. The raises won't cost taxpayers any money.
The sheriff's office will receive a larger cut of city tax dollars this year, which will allow for the extra cash. The office gets a portion of the property tax money because it collects the taxes.
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Mildred Simmons was born October 19, 1927 to Andrew and Julia(Olson) Mortensen at the home of her parents in Wannaska. She married Russell Simmons January 18, 1948 at Riverside Lutheran Church in Wannaska.
Mildred & Russell ran the Simmons' Grocery in Wannaska from 1948 to 1965. After selling Simmons' Grocery, Mildred was employed as a permanent seasonal parks worker at McCarthy Beach State Park in Chisholm, Bear Head Lake State Park and Lake Bemidji State Park until her retirement.
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Jerry Lanson: How City Newspapers Can Survive (or at Least Buy Time)
- Written by The Chicago Defender
- Published in Chicago
It's starting to feel as though newspapers are the penny candy of my childhood.
What a deal! At least, that is, for their buyers.
First, Boston Red Sox owner John Henry bought The Boston Globe for a mere $70 million, tens of millions less than he committed to sign second-baseman Dustin Pedroia and just 6 percent of the $1.1 billion The New York Times paid for the paper two decades ago.
Then, on Monday, Washington Post Co. chairman and chief executive Donald Graham shocked staff by announcing plans to sell that paper to Amazon founder Jefffrey Bezos, ending eight decades of family ownership. The $250 million price would have been "unthinkably low even a few years ago," noted The New York Times.
"Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets," wrote Andrew Ross Sorkin. "Others like newspapers."
It's a good thing they do.
Around the country plenty of newspapers have shed staff, lost circulation and bled advertising dollars. Last week, The Cleveland Plain Dealer cut a third of its staff and scaled back home delivery.
Penny candy, of course, is a treat of another era. Let's hope newspapers don't follow the same path. Their discouraging storyline is familiar. Papers reacted slowly to the Internet. They isolated leaner, younger, hipper web staffs from the main newsroom and, for years, refused to publish the news online first when it broke. They gave away their news online for free. They never quite figured out how to convert advertisers abandoning print to their online operations.
In short, it's been ugly.
But what of the decade or two to come? Can editors and publishers stop, or at least slow, their death spiral by paying more attention to their product and their audiences? I think there's plenty they culd try:
1. Cut subscription costs
The Penny Press of the early to mid 19th century has become the $1, $2 or even $2.50 daily of today. Even home delivery costs a fortune, often to receive thinner, less-well-edited newspaper. I love reading papers. But faced with a Boston Globe delivery rate of $52 a month, I've cut back to Sundays only and on other days read the paper on the web. (I get a 50-percent-off educator's rate for The Times, which I still read in print seven days a week.)
Spiraling subscription costs clearly have contributed to sharp circulation declines. The Globe's daily circulation has dropped 38 percent since 2003 to 245,572, The Times reported. And when circulation drops, so do advertising rates and revenues.
2. Diversify the newsroom
In an increasingly multicultural and multiracial country, this is a no-brainer. But it hasn't happened. Diverse newsrooms cover diverse communities and find more and more interesting news. I blogged on this a few weeks ago. Here's the link.
3. Respect your readers (Part I)
Newspapers should never have ended local home delivery. Newspaper boys were a bond to the community. It's tough to cancel on a kid. Last week, my Times ended on a flower pot one day and in a puddle two days later. We had to air dry it for five hours.
When Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast last fall, newspapers had a chance to gain ground by delivering papers free to the homes of hundreds of thousands who lost power. We didn't even lose power. But we also didn't get a Times or Globe for two days, an awful track record in a crisis.
Is there any way in some communities to bring back boys (and girls) on bikes?
4.Respect your readers (Part II)
Instead of tweeting about themselves, reporters should be required to answer a reasonable share of their readers who take the time to comment on articles. Set a minimum -- say five comments per article -- and respond to them. It will mean a lot to those who take the time to comment to know the reporter is bothering to read what they have to say.
5. Cover news, not snooze
The lead story in Tuesday's The New York Times? "Amazon's Founder to Buy The Washington Post." That was Monday's news. No newspaper should settle for front-page stories that simply give a bit more detail about yesterday's announcements. That's snooze. Instead editors should put a premium on enterprise, original local news, good writing and smart interpretation. Newspapers simply have to stop covering the nuts and bolts of the mayor's press conference that TV and the AP were all over the night before. It's a waste of manpower in an era of diminished staffs and it's a turnoff to readers.
6. Provide insight and perspective
That doesn't mean papers should ignore that mayor's press conference. But instead of covering it as news, they need to use it as the context for a piece that provides insight and perspective. That means trusting reporters. Allow them to interpret based on the facts. Don't force them into tweedledee-tweedledum journalism -- the he-said, she-said that relies on sources on different sides of the political aisle.
Any smart reporter knows that objectivity does not mean splitting the difference. It means gathering the facts, placing them in context and making sense of the story. Readers demand that from a medium that's typically behind everyone else. But many newspapers continue to play it safe, simply settling a day later for more details. It's not enough.
7. Be absolutely transparent
Newspapers have always had sacred cows. As deputy city editor of the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News two decades ago, I recall trying to assign a simple United Way campaign story to ANYONE. We all knew that our publisher was head of the campaign, and that the story reeked of conflict. The assignment ultimately trickled down to some unhappy soul and the story ran either inside or low on the metro front, noting the publisher's association with the campaign.
It's one thing, however, to dispatch a United Way puff piece to a far corner of the paper. It's another to ignore the biggest sports franchise in New England -- the Red Sox. Yet John Henry now owns the team and Boston Globe. Not that the kind of overt conflict Globe sports writers will find themselves in daily is new to news.
Ever seen ABC News promote a Disney movie? It shouldn't without identifying Disney as ABC's owner.
Let's hope, at minimum, that The Globe quickly establishes boiler plate language that alerts readers every day that the paper is owned by the Red Sox. And editors will need to challenge owner John Henry anytime he wants to soft-pedal a team controversy. The paper's credibility hinges on it.
8. Shed your elitist attitude
Any journalist who has tried to free-lance has had to endure the arrogance of big-city editors. Story pitches more often than not are met with silence. Not so much as a "no thanks" comes back.
Readers, too, sense this distain when they call a newsroom with a question or suggestion. To put it mildly, it's a turnoff.
So listen up journalists. When team's second basemen earns a lot more than the entire news operation, it's time to try a little humility. A glimmer of engagement just might hold your impatient audience a decade or two longer.
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Kingsport native and county judge chosen to fill appeals court vacancy
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Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has chosen a Sullivan County judge to fill an upcoming vacancy in the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.
Robert "Rob" H. Montgomery, Junior has been tapped by the governor to replace the retiring Joseph Tipton in the eastern section of the state.
Montgomery is a former assistant district attorney general and has been a criminal judge in Sullivan County since 2006.
Montgomery is a Kingsport native.
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According to Murphy's Law, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." And sure enough, it did in our case. We wanted to make a hot 3-some last weekend but our main camera broke down, and we had to make another recording.
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Our resident cocksucker was away today again, so these two straight guys had to see what they could do together without anyone's help! The money is always right and tempting, and usually the inhibitions tend to fall away by themselves…
Both of these straight men have pretty big and heavy balls and I kind of knew that there would be a torrent of jizz when they cum. Although they hoped that the cocksucker would…
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It's rather interesting that this video wasn't planned. We thought it would be a good idea to introduce these three guys one to another before shooting the official update, but the guys thought it would be a shame to let this opportunity slip by since they got so horny. We usually have our professional photographer who takes still photos as the action unfolds, but this was totally unplanned so the photographer…
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It's that time of month when we again take a peek at some amateur photos. These pics were made by these men themselves, usually to impress their girlfriends.
I didn't stick to any particular theme, just selected the hottest guys I could find from the previous few months. Lots of hairy, muscled and very hung dudes, though. I also included some nice cumshot pictures for your viewing pleasure.
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We've already seen Johnny Glyserin, a hot straight dude who is almost completely unaware of his sexual appeal. Like most straight guys he doesn't think much of his looks and how hot he may look to other people. His body looks great, even though he has a few pounds extra, but they look so damn good on him and make him look like a real man. I often see guys like him in the street, bus station and similar public places.…
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Mark has gotten blowjobs from our cocksucker Trey and immensely enjoyed it every time. Today he was a bit stressed out from work, so he thought why not kick back and let the cocksucker take away all the tension and pent up anger.
It was a glorious morning full of sunshine coming through our windows and both men were pretty horny. Mark enjoyed every gulp and slurp from Trey's hungry mouth and willingly offered his ass…
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by Ben Daniels (Admin) on Dec.14, 2012, under StraightMen
Morgan Shagwell is a very hot straight man in his prime. He is so masculine and rough, but cute at the same time. His body is built like that of a demigod and he obviously likes to show it off.
Morgan likes to work out and do calisthenics a lot, and that has given him such stretching and bending abilities that you're gonna watch him in awe while he does all kinds of amazing and difficult postures.
Morgan believes that one…
New York Straight Men – Big Italian Stud Rocco Gets Serviced by 2 Cocksuckers
by Ben Daniels (Admin) on Dec.10, 2012, under New York Straight Men
In this episode JR and Trey have the honor of servicing the big and burly Rocco. We already shot this previously (or we thought we did) but due to the technical problems we couldn't release it as usual.
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New York Straight Men – Straight Hipster Trevor Fully Serviced
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Our old friend Trevor is a self-admitted hipster. He likes getting head from guys but insists on doing it his way.
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Makeover of Castiglia's in Fredericksburg continuing
Luigi Castiglia is continuing the makeover of his popular self-named Italian restaurant at 324 William St. in downtown Fredericksburg.
A 20-seat bar is being added in the space at Castiglia's that used to be a market called Bella Italia. There will also be six tables and two new bathrooms on that side.
The existing bar at Castiglia's will be removed, and the wall that was dividing the two sides in that area will be taken down, which will allow customers to walk from the bar to the restaurant. The rest of the wall dividing the two spaces will remain.
Luigi Castiglia hopes to open the bar side by May. He said there will be a separate menu for that area that is more focused on small-plate appetizers as well as numerous martini offerings, wine and other drinks.
Castiglia, who owns the building, had been thinking about leasing the space next to the restaurant. He received interest from businesses including a Subway restaurant and a bakery. But he decided to instead expand Castiglia's into the space.
Last year Castiglia renovated the restaurant's interior and added a wood-burning brick oven that cooks Neapolitan pizzas in front of customers.
The restaurateur's vision for Castiglia's doesn't end with the new bar. Next year he is hoping to build a rooftop bar, which Blake and Aby Bethem are also planning at their new burger joint and nightspot just down William Street.
Castiglia is also thinking about creating a banquet room and private dining area where Network Title used to be next to where the bar is being built. He also may lease that space out.
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text: West African Food in the Middle Ages: According to Arabic Sources by Tadeusz Lewicki There is now a paperback edition of this title. The 1974 hardback has long been OP. Published by Cambridge University Press on March 5, 2009. ISBN-10:0521102022 ISBN-13:978-0521102025 "It is important for historians studying West Africa before the sixteenth century, particularly social and economic historians, to know what the basic foods were before the arrival of crops from the Americas such as maize, cassava, ground nuts, red peppers and tomatoes. Medieval Arabic historians and geographers recorded a great deal of information about social and economic life in Africa during the period and this is a full-scale attempt to make use of the material related to foodstuffs and the preparation of the food. The references collected from the Arabic texts are interpreted in the light of the work of modern ethnographers and the descriptions given by travellers in more recent times." Contents: 1. Arabic sources for the history of the foodstuffs used by West African peoples; 2. Vegetable foodstuffs; 3. Meat and fish; 4. Other foodstuffs; 5. Utensils. Johnnae


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Republican opposition to Medicaid expansion in Virginia contradicts the GOP's stated policy goals.
Republicans say they are for fiscal responsibility. Yet they oppose a program in which the federal government will pay 100 percent
Virginia is forfeiting millions of dollars in aid.
Further, Medicaid expansion and other parts of the Affordable Care Act are projected to save Virginia more than $1 billion by 2022, according to William Hazel, state secretary of health and human resources. Hazel is a holdover from the McDonnell administration.
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Will Ferrell & Adam McKay Bringing Back 'The Flintstones'
The Anchorman collaborators will spearhead an animated feature for Warner Bros.
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Fox has put Seth MacFarlane's planned reboot of The Flintstones on hold because of the Family Guy creator's increasingly busy schedule.
I doubt that I'm the only person who recoils in something close to horror at the news that Seth MacFarlane is going to reboot The Flintstones for Fox. It's not just the lazy thinking on behalf of the execs who greenlit the idea ("Hey! It's a name people know, and we've got this guy who already makes cartoons for us!"), it's a complete misunderstanding of what makes MacFarlane's work and The Flintstones work. Can any good come of this?
After years of negotiations, the sometimes-controversial creator of Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show will be taking a detour to the town of Bedrock.


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Billy Joel adds two Madison Square Garden shows
Billy Joel has added two concerts to his upcoming Madison Square Garden run on the strength of interest in his first show.
Joel will now play on Feb. 3 and March 21, as well as the previously announced Jan. 27. Tickets for all three shows are $64.50-$124.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday through Ticketmaster. Citi Private Pass cardholders can currently buy pre-sale tickets.
Joel said he is trying to space concerts further apart than he has in the past so that it gives his throat more time to recover after a show.
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Saturday Breakfast Buffet: 8:00am - 12:00pm Sunday Breakfast Buffet: 8:00am - 1:00pm Lunch Daily: 11:00am - 4:00pm Dinner: Sunday & Monday: 4:00pm - 9:00pm, Tuesday - Saturday: 4:00pm - 10:00pm Happy Hour 3:30pm - 6:30pm and again from 8:30pm - 10:00pm
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- Private Party Facilities: Our Chesapeake Beach Resort features several wonderful options for an event with a view. Choose from the elegant Chesapeake Ball Room or the functional and attractive Hotel Board Room. Have fun in the sun! Enjoy your social event or company function outdoors on our beach. The possibilities are endless. Beautiful breezes on the waterfront, gorgeous views and open space treat our guests to the ultimate Chesapeake Bay experience. Our Chesapeake Ball Room is ideal for conferences, banquets, receptions, meetings and holiday parties. It accommodates up to 350 guests and can be divided for smaller, more intimate affairs. On a clear day, you can see the Eastern Shore from anywhere in the room.
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- Special Events: Enjoy luxury hotel accommodations with balconies overlooking miles of the Bay's beauty and serenity, a full-service spa and salon, marinas with slip rentals and charter fishing, two restaurants and an outdoor café on-site serving sumptuous dishes. Boardwalk Cafe bar open Friday & Saturday 3:00PM to 1:00AM; Sunday noon to 9:00PM.
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Rod 'N' Reel has been a premier waterfront dining destination since 1946. While feasting on delicious local seafood you can smell the salt air and feel the Bay breeze as the bustle of harbor activity unfolds before you. Gilles Syglowski, Food Critic for What's Up? Magazine, boasts, "Superb. The fish was moist and delicious…overstuffed with a smooth, tasty imperial crab mixture-a simply delightful dish! "Jumbo lump crab cakes have been the signature dish here for decades but tenderness, juiciness and flavor also abound in our certified steaks. Saturday Rise 'N" Shine Breakfast Buffet, 8 am to 12 pm. Sunday Breakfast Buffet is wildly popular, 8 am to 1 pm, folks drive miles for smiles and an abundance of creative fare on Sunday. Lunch and dinner served 7 days.Continued
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- Good restaurant, but VERY slowamooreVIPDined on 11/21/2014Our food took over an hour to come out. The waitress was very nice, and the chef came to see us, but there were only four tables and it still took them over an hour to serve us. Not sure why.Special Features:
- just what I was looking forjusbeachyDined on 11/7/2014I was planning a quick getaway spot with nice amenities, spa & comfortable accommodations with and nice dining experience for my birthday. Everything was just was I was looking for. The service at Rod-n-Reel was excellent, prompt & courteous wait staff, the food was hot, and flavorful and the price was within a decent budget. The restaurant decor was very appealing with nice view of the Chesapeake harbor.Special Features:
- Gem of the Bay for food & viewBoxcarr89Dined on 10/18/2014Amazing view of the Bay with weddings outside, seasonally. Best clams casino and Lobster tail, ever. Nice, family owned, historical restaurant.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good seafood restaurantPasmalDined on 9/17/2014Rod N Reel is a good seafood restaurant. The mussels dish was disappointing but the lobster special (at a very affordable price) made up for it. Our waitress was friendly and efficient. I would recommend this place.
- Service was OUTSTANDING!FoodyDined on 9/14/2014We were celebrating a special occasion, and Elisabeth made the experience wonderful! Everyone enjoyed their meal, and she was very efficient, attentive, and pleasant! I would just come back to be served by her.Special Features:
- Good food!awawDined on 8/19/2014Really good food! There are not many restaurants around Chesapeake Beach but this one was good.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Avoid at all costPford1229Dined on 8/16/2014Let's just looks at the numbers 31 minutes to get drinks 48 minutes for children's dishes ordered at beginning of meal 60 minutes for appetizers 93 minutes for entrees It all equals 0 more visits to this establishment
- 1 hour ride to disappointmentSET4JETDined on 8/16/2014We were very disappointed with the restaurant after a long ride from Silver Spring Md. to research the establishment. The food was cold and it took a very, very long time for the food to come to the table, close to an hour after eating appetizer. It took sometime for the manager to recognize there was a problem and finally said something to us after taking with another patron closely who was concerned about the service. The server indicated that there was a problem / back up in the kitchen; however, she disappeared and did not provide any update on the status of the food. Finally the food came and it was cold. The taste was okay; however, We have no plan to visit you establishment again.Special Features:
- Cheers !lobsterdealDined on 8/14/2014Thanks again for such a fantastic afternoon luncheon with great friends. Always good to see you all!!!Special Features:
- The following 417 reviews are from the Rod N Reel reviews archive.
- Great seafood with a view!HoldthenutsDined on 7/26/2014The food was absolutely delicious. Kids really enjoyed sharing a lobster! Great summer spot with a great view. We will certainly be back! Our only concern was that our server didn't seem well trained in understanding food allergies. I think a bit more education about food allergies would be helpful.Special Features:
- Seafood Extravaganza was deliciousOpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 7/23/2014The Wednesday night seafood extravaganza was wonderful. The food was scrumptious....from the salad to the fried shrimp to the lobster tail to the deserts.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Almost PerfectMegsBenedictDined on 7/18/2014Clams Casino appetizer was delectable. I had Seafood Neptune which was served in a boat of melted butter, which I found to be unnecessary to both the presentation and the flavor of the dish. The seafood was overpowered by the butter taste and could have used some seasoning to counterbalance it (if they insist upon keeping that presentation), such as Old Bay or J&O. The roasted potatoes were unseasoned and dry but the side of roasted julienne vegetables were flavorful, colorful, and delicious. My meal ended with a chocolate pate dessert that was lacking in presentation but abundant in richness. Despite slow service on a slow evening, the experience was enjoyable. We had a lovely view of the Chesapeake Bay and boats docking nearby.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great restarauntDinkyDined on 6/29/2014We invite our friends and family to join us every 5th Sunday to join us for Rod nReel wonderful brunch and take part in the other events like the board walk and beautiful atmostphere . Our group seem to group for each event, the restaurant is clean the environment is welcoming and warm, the services are professional and friendly. We love it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great spot to visitFoodyDined on 6/18/2014I've gone to this restaurant several times, but never for the Wednesday night buffet. It was a nice change from the normal menu options. What was a nice surprise was the complimentary lobster that comes with the buffet. Although we didn't have any utensils to crack the lobster, we made do.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great Father's Day OutingHappyDadDined on 6/15/2014Excellent choice for Fathers Day. Food was outstanding and with very scenic view of the bay. Trying to get daughters and wife to take me back real soon!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Father's Day brunchLadyJDined on 6/15/2014Our dining experience started off with an issue regarding the reservation made thru open table, holidays are off limits for reservations made thru your organization. However the Restsurant accommodated us very quickly and efficiently, the staff was friendly the food was wonderful! I have only great things to say about this restaurant.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- excellent!dinerDined on 6/15/2014This is a wonderful place for the family to dine. It's very kid friendly and I will return.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great viewOpenTable Diner Since 2012VIPDined on 6/12/2014The view is out of this world and the food is very good and the prices are reasonable what more could you ask forSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- SharonOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 6/8/2014Brunch is great for family celebrations, will put this one on my list!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great viewamooreVIPDined on 6/1/2014That pretty much says it. It is also one of the best restaurants in the Chesapeake Beach, North Beach area, but that isn't saying much!Special Features:
- Perfect boating destination.OpenTable Diner Since 2009VIPDined on 5/26/2014Good food good serve easy dockage and excellent atmosphereSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- View of the bay is beautifulOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 5/25/2014Food was good but it took almost an hour to arrive at the table.Special Features:
- Get Judy away from hostess stand!PranaVAVIPDined on 5/17/2014Maybe she had a bad day, but Judy's attitude was bad enough for me to write about it in this review and it trumped our experience at the restaurant. She seated us in an unfriendly manner and when we asked if we could sit closer to the windows you would think we asked if we could give her a root canal. We also noticed the look on servers' faces as she bossed them around. The food was good and the view is nice, but the place feels more cookie-cutter like a chain than a nice warm homey local restaurant. It appears to be better for large groups.Special Features:
- Good Food & Beautiful SceneryNew2FoodDined on 5/11/2014We went for the Mother's Day Brunch. The food was good and the kept refilling the items that ran low. Plenty of options to choose from & the lines moved fast. Right on the water/boardwalk, with a hotel, casino & waterpark within walking distance. Great choice!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Mothers Day BrunchmomofthreeDined on 5/11/2014I would never ho back there for Mothers Day brunch....$27/ adult and $17/ child was ridiculous...especially when all my kids ate were doughnuts and fruit. There was not anything special about the food items provided and it was way to crowded.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Can't beat the view!notbadVIPDined on 5/4/2014Food was very good. Service was spotty: dirty booth, took forever to get drinks, but the wait staff was nice. And you can't beat the view!Special Features:
- Location , location, locationTraceyPaulVIPDined on 5/3/2014If only the restaurant could match the location quality then it would be a force in the region. Good for large groups or weddings but forget about the Rod and Reel if your looking for a special time for you and your significant other, I'd skip the Rod and Reel.Special Features:
- Great View, Great FoodfoodieforayDined on 5/3/2014In the last two years we returned to Rod n Reel to try it again after many years of not going there. Previously we had not been very fond of their food, mostly because the seafood was overcooked. They had a lobster special so we took a chance. We were pleasantly surprised and have returned to eat there 3 or so times a year since. (We eat out once a week and like to go to different places.) We have tried different things on the menu and all have been good. Our daughter is vegetarian and they have a couple of good entree options for her too. We went there earlier in the year for a library fundraiser dinner where there was a dinner buffet and they did a great job with that too. The food was all cooked well and tasted good.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Love Rod and ReelrestaurantluverDined on 5/1/2014Always a great place to eat whether its dinner or breakfast. The view of the bay makes it even better.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always fun!YummyInMyTummyDined on 4/29/2014We've been here many times. The food is always consistent the restaurant is very clean with a friendly, attentive service. Recommended.Special Features:
- Lovely TimeDiningOutGuruDined on 4/22/2014Dining here was a great experience especially since it was a surprise dinner that was taking place. The food was fresh and delicious and I will be back for more.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Fun and ScenicLovelyDined on 4/20/2014We had a nice Family Easter brunch with more than enough choices for breakfast. When we found that our party of 8 was split into two tables my mom contacted a waiter who promptly got a manager who very shortly found us a round table for 8 so that we could have our family Easter brunch. Food and atmosphere was happy, bright and plenty of good food.Special Features:
- don't bothertaggie1Dined on 4/19/2014We booked for the Saturday before Easter. We were not told that we would only be able to order off of a shortened menu, so many of the things on the regular menu were not available. The food was really bad, crab cake mostly filler, other sea food tasted like frozen Mrs Paul's. French fries under cooked. Altogether a very unpleasant dining experience, but still pretty expensive. For $19 one would have expected some crab meat in the crab cake!Special Features:
- Great catchGREATDined on 4/11/2014Service was excellent; food was prepared as we asked and available in a timely pace.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Lovely and ScenicSlimDined on 3/30/2014Need a place to relax with a view, this is the perfect place to come. The food a little pricy but worth it because the service is great and the food very well prepared and the potion size was nice.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Nice eveningTamiVIPDined on 3/29/2014the ambiance was very nice because we had w window overlooking the water. The food was tasty and prsented fairly nicely. We enjoyed the complimentary portiwne cheese and crackers (especially the "everything" thin cracker.Special Features:
- Seafood BuffetOpenTable Diner Since 2005Dined on 3/20/2014Love this place in general. Courtesy staff that remembers regulars, Selections were good but lacked lighter soups - both offerings were heavy cream based. Rarer beef option would be nice.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- We had the all you can eattookyDined on 3/13/2014We had the all you can eat buffet. The steam shrimp was delicious with the cocktail sauce. However they didn't keep the buffet line fully stocked, you had to wait for restocking and return back to the table and get back in line and our waitress was not that attentive to clear the table of used dishes, provide water or ask if evrerything was ok. The atmosphere is always great.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- I was with seven of my greatJayRayVIPDined on 3/9/2014I was with seven of my great friends, some were visiting from PA and others were co-workers. We have breakfast at different places every three months. I suggested Rod and Reel because I try and go to the Chesapeake Spa Resort also at least 3 times or more a year. They all said this was the best spot yet because the food was absolute great and there were so many items to choose from. And the price was well worth it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Expected better presentation!SeaDiverDined on 2/20/2014A seafood buffet is usually a really special dinner to go to! Brought out-of-town guests that enjoyed meal but nothing special. .. Presentation poor - looking like it just came out of the cooking pots in the kitchen. No decorations on buiffet area just plain white cloith, chafing dish containers placed sideways so hard to see what dish was and harder to get food out of. No labels on each one, or on salad dressings to know what it was without opening container, breaded food and green beans cold, selection limited. Best item was the steamed shrimp with Bay seasoning. All tasted OK but I was disappointed. Service slow to poor. Rod n' Reel could do better with little added expense to at least make it a pretty presentation.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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Almost two years after buying a huge, vacant industrial building in north Fort Worth from ConAgra Foods, FTS International, formerly known as Frac Tech Services, has put the building back on the market.FTS International, a provider of hydraulic fracturing and other services to the oil and gas industry, would only confirm that the building at 4601 Gold Spike Drive in the Railhead Industrial Park is for sale, but would not comment on why the company changed its mind about moving in.At the time of the sale in 2011, FTS said it was considering the site for a state-of-the-art manufacturing, repair and testing facility.Natural gas drilling in the Barnett Shale has slowed significantly in the past year and is at its lowest level since 2008.In November, FTS International reported a 27 percent drop in revenue for the third quarter because demand for its services eroded with lower oil and gas prices and increased competition. The company also changed CEOs.FTS International, which is based in downtown Fort Worth, bought the 550,000-square-foot building in May 2011 from ConAgra Foods. ConAgra stopped construction on what was to be a manufacturing plant in 2007 when it changed strategies. ConAgra had planned for 400 workers in Fort Worth.An asking price for the property is not being made public.The Tarrant Appraisal District has valued the building at $9.4 million for taxing purposes.FTS has other operational, maintenance, logistical and manufacturing facilities in Fort Worth, Aledo and Cisco. FTS said it employs approximately 3,500 people, including almost 1,100 in Tarrant and Parker counties.Go West SummitFort Worth, we all know, is where the West begins. So why has it taken the Go West Summit 25 years to hold its convention here?Today, more than 170 international and domestic tour operators, media and more than 280 destination suppliers from the Western U.S. will converge on Fort Worth for a four-day summit at the Fort Worth Convention Center.Go West Summit is a business-oriented travel trade show selling the American West. Representatives from a 14-state region will be in Fort Worth to meet with international travel buyers and tour operators from around the world, according to the Fort Worth Convention & Visitors Bureau.Bob Jameson, the CVB's new president and CEO, said Fort Worth is honored to be the first Texas city to host the Go West Summit."We are rolling out the red carpet to welcome Go West attendees and give them a true taste of what Fort Worth is known for, being one of the friendliest cities in the world and having the best-preserved Western heritage," he said.Mary Motsenbocker, Go West Summit president, said the Fort Worth conference will boast the highest buyer attendance in its 25-year history."It's about time we came to Texas, and Fort Worth has created a huge element of excitement with our guests," she said.We agree.New storesSome retail news to report.Whole Earth Provision Co., a Texas retailer specializing in clothing and shoes for travel and adventure, and a line of children's toys, books and clothing, has leased 22,000 square feet at Southlake Town Square, one of three new leases in the popular shopping center.TruFire Kitchen & Bar has leased 4,100 square feet, and Markham Fine Jewelers has leased 2,277 square feet.And, Low T Center, which provides treatment of low testosterone in men, today opens a location at 4364 Heritage Trace Parkway, the retailer's eighth local store and 21st nationwide. Mike Sisk from Colleyville is the founder and president of Low T Center.Sandra Baker, firstname.lastname@example.com Fuquay, email@example.com Shlachter, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Among other things, today I was faced with the problem of routing the vent stack from the composting basement of the brownhouse up high above the roof. I had decided to use four inch PVC and HDPE sewer pipe for this stack, and to keep it as vertical as possible while avoiding any holes in the roof. This meant angling it slightly from vertical outward and past the east gutter. I'd cut a hole in the shitting bench for the stack to rise from, but not far above this there would have to be a fitting to send the stack off at a minimal angle. With four inch sewer pipe, the smallest angle of fitting you can buy is 22.5 degrees (which is smaller than I've seen for more conventional sizes of PVC). So I planned to use a 22.5 degree fitting to send the pipe out through the wall. But at that point I faced a problem: what shape hole does a cylindrical pipe make when it goes through a vertical wall at an angle of 22.5 degrees? I figured it would be something of an ellipse, but in the context of carpentry, an ellipse is a very imprecise thing. There are no tools to predict the shape of ellipses, let alone cut them.
As a first stab at a solution, I laid out the pipes flat in the driveway to produce a simulation of how they would first bend at the fitting and then encounter the wall (for which I used a long straight board as a standin). Then, for a rough approximation of the hole I'd need to make, I wrapped a piece of copper wire around the pipe at precisely the place where it encountered the board standing in for the wall. The crude ellipse that resulted could be used as a model for the shape of the hole I'd need to cut if all else failed. But I wanted to do better.
So I turned to the web, looking to find a convenient ellipse calculator (if such a thing existed). Ideally, the tool would take the diameter of the cylinder and the angle with which it was encountering a plane as parameters and then produce a plot of the resulting ellipse that I could cut out and use as a template. It turns out, however, that there are no such tools online (though I wasn't the only one looking; evidently such a tool would also be useful for the makers of custom bicycles).
In cases like this, it's not long before I find myself turning to Wolfram Alpha, a website from the authors of Mathematica which claims to be something of a web-based math tool and all-around data miner. It's not as good as it would like you to believe, though it does have its random talents. For example, it makes for a tidier and more graphically-helpful display of weather information for a zipcode than Weather.com. I tried typing various strings into the Wolfram "search engine," hoping it would attack the underlying math of my problem. Ultimately, the seach that got me closest to a solution for my problem was "ellipse eccentricity." At that point, I was presented with a handy tool where I could type in the semimajor and semiminor axes and it would plot me an ellipse. All I had to know was what the values for these were. I soon realized that I knew the value for the semiminor axis: 4.3 inches, (the outside diameter of the sewer pipe), since the width of the cylinder's hole remains the same no matter the angle at which it intercepts a plane. It's the semimajor axis that is tricky, since it smudges out wider and wider as the angle of incidence decreases. But then it occurred to me that I could calculate this from simple trigonometry. The semimajor axis (a) can be derived from the semiminor axis (b) and the angle of incidence (θ) with this equation:
This gave me a semimajor axis of 10.3811 inches, which I could then feed to Wolfram Alpha for a plot. The resulting graphic is crude, but you can then download a version of the results for Mathematica itself (a process reached through the "Live Mathematica" link), and this gives you a document with an ellipse you can interactively resize. Maximized as large as I could make it, I then took the ellipse into Photoshop, made it precisely the size I needed it to be, and then printed it out as a template for use in the brownhouse. As a check for my work, this template closely matched the crude loop of copper wire I'd prepared experimentally, without the assistance of mathematics.
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Did you ever forget your birthday was coming up and only realized a few days after the fact that you'd missed it? Amidst the post-holiday cleanup and beginning of the New Year we passed a milestone here at Vinography.
When I started this blog five years ago I had no idea where it was going to take me. It was merely a personal project that became a creative outlet, that became an excuse to drink more wine, that became something entirely with a life of its own.
I'm not entirely sure when this blog ceased to be an experiment and started being a real media outlet, but sometime within the first year, my relationship to the writing and to my growing audience changed. In short, I started to take the blog seriously, and for the first time, considered what it was that I thought I was doing.
While I still may not have entirely answered that question for myself, I do know that I'm trying to honestly present an alternative to the "glossy" forms of wine journalism. That's not just about dropping an occasional F-bomb or exercising the other liberties that come with no editor, publisher, or financial concerns. I've been trying to write about wine the way I want to read about it: with some humor, with some intelligence, and above all, with the stories that help wine transcend points and tasting notes.
I'm proud to have helped to pioneer wine blogging, and thrilled at the increasing numbers and quality of wine blogs that continue to proliferate throughout the blogosphere, thanks to other passionate consumers like me, as well as the host of professional journalists that have taken up the practice.
Pride isn't enough, however, to sustain me and push me to keep writing about wine nearly every day for five years. No amount of awards or mentions in the mainstream press could have kept me at this for so long, if it weren't for you folks that actually read what I write and talk back. I'm constantly humbled, delighted, and impressed by the contributions that you readers make to this site. Your reactions, thoughts, expertise, and insights have turned what might have been a lonely exercise into a wonderful conversation that I hope will continue in the years to come.
As Vinography begins its sixth year of existence, I'd like to thank you all for your support, your continued readership, and your love of wine which keeps this whole thing going.
Wow, first in, and first comment. Congratulations on five years. I've learned a lot from your blog and admire your passion for wine. Keep up the good work.
I wonder where wine blogging will be at your tenth anniversary?
Go Alder! Words don't quite suffice...!
Well - Cheers & Happy B-day!
Anyone who says they can predict what the online or publishing world will be like in 5 years is not to be trusted. 5 years ago YouTube didn't exist.
5 years? Alder, 5 years ago, I was getting excited for my senior year of high school. Can you imagine? And yet, here I am, through a series of unforeseeable events bringing me closer to the wine world than I ever imagined; having read your blog and contributed to my own for what has only been the past six months.
You did say it best in yesterday's post, it is a daunting climb, but looking at the heights you've scaled in 5 years time, it makes that climb seem worthwhile.
Happy Birthday!
Congratulations as you march into year 6!
Happy Birthday...! (glass raised, though only ceremoniously; it's only 11am here a bit too early to have a glass..!)
Buon Compleanno, Alder...
You are such a gentleman, and one who lifts the tide for all of us.
Happy birthday Blog!!!
Congrats on the momentous achievement, Alder!
Congratulations Alder.
LEt's go for 5 more years :-)
Congratulations! I can't wait for the first wine blog to hit the 10 year mark--I'm thinking global online wine drinking party. At this rate you may be the first one to achieve that.
Congratulations, Alder!
Congratulations Alder! You are a role model for the rest of us.
happy birthday, vinography!!!
Congratulations on five years of great wine!
Congratulations! What wine(s) did you celebrate with?
Congratulations from Grace and yours truly, Alder, and keep it up!
well, seeing as I forgot to mark the occasion at all, I can't tell you what wine I celebrated with. I might not have even had any wine that night at all! (gasp). The horror.
I am celebrating a bit tonight with friends, but haven't chosen the wine yet...
Happy Birthday Alder and Neil get a life. It's 5 pm somewhere.
Congrats, Alder. Thanks for making the "internets" an interesting place beyond the weather, local/world news and shopping jags for my favorite telemark equipment. Oh, yea, and Pandora.com. 5 years is an eternity, it seems. All the best for the next 50!
Estimado Alder,
Muchas Felicidades.....
Alder, happy blog birthday from one old-timer (in the wine blog world) to another.
No one does it better. Congrats.
Thank you all for your good wishes!
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