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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70508562763031575732018-08-28T03:29:30.917-04:00Every Bar in FlintThere are few frontiers left to explore. We are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime. To drink a beer at every bar in Flint, Michigan.
 emilyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-3817470887219429512010-05-03T16:27:00.004-04:002010-05-07T11:55:43.214-04:00The State of Drinking in FlintThere are two basic kinds of drinking: Drinking to drink and drinking to enjoy. That's it. Sometimes they happen at the same time. Most of the time its cost prohibitive.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to drink well and inexpensively with the same beer. The best bar in Flint for that is The Red Baron. But, its not in Flint.

We started our adventure because we thought it would be fun to see the different bars and try house specialty drinks, the best thing on the menu, and experience new places. We drank at a bunch of places. A lot more than we wrote about. The problem was it was hard coming up with new things about each bar. Everyplace *is* different, and everyplace has *it's* story. But its all the same. Just different to each person's needs from a bar. Because some folks just want to sing showtunes.

And thats not a slight. Its just they way it is. And what it means is any of us can go into every bar in Flint and be comfortable. Except for the places that are scarier than fuck. Which is an entirely different post (and someday I might tell you the least fun I ever had at a bar). While it makes finding a favorite bar really easy, it makes writing about them rather difficult.

So it comes down to 3 thoughts in two points.

1. A bar is where the heart is. Go drinking with friends. Make friends with the bartender. That's now your local bar.
2a. Sometimes its time to drink. Man, the Miller Lite and Bud Light flows bountifully in Flint. And every place in Flint has plenty of whiskey and whisky.
2b. Beer has different tastes. Holy Shit, and it does taste good. And its so hard to find some beer taste variety in Flint. Beer is more than whats sold at Kroger. Go to Sal's on Fenton Rd, Double-J's on Court, Oliver fucking T's, Whigville, and Food Castle on Dort. Buy a few $10 six-packs. But don't assume that just because its $10 its good. Try choosing a small brewery and tasting what they have to offer. Bell's is good and easy to find. And they aren't all $10. A few are $19.

Go to Redwood Lodge and get a beer sampler. I sometimes forget how lucky I am that I have a brewery 10 minutes from my house. We are all lucky to have a brewery so close. Then, next week go to Sullivan's Black Forest Brewery in Frankenmuth, try a few. Plus, 7 out of 10 times the brewery beer is cheaper than what you would pay for a Miller High Life at chain restaurant.

And here is a non-secret. Red Baron has 44 taps. Count the number at the next bar you go to. they will have 5 or less.

So here are some disclaimers, backpedals, and thoughts:

I'm not a beer snob, I'm just a beer pig that will drink almost anything.

I like beer specials during Michigan based sporting events.

Oscar night would be fun too.

1 rotating tap at every bar would be awesome.

Don't make fun of someone drinking wine.

I like the smoking ban. But, I think pipes should be allowed.

Beer games shouldn't be played at bars. Unless its subtle.

Coming up with new thoughts is time consuming.

I hate proofreading.

jasonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-16140709116139842672009-09-21T00:54:00.011-04:002009-10-01T23:40:42.688-04:00Kelush's LoungeKelush's Lounge<nobr></nobr>

1913 N Dort Hwy
Flint, MI 48506

(810) 232-6162

Night to go: Yes
On tap: Nothing
In Cooler: Lots of stuff
Serve Food? Yes
Specialty: Camel Burger
Is it fresh camel? Yes
Bartender: Chip
Chip butcher the Camel? Yes
Kosher? Nope, they chew cud
Juke Box: A treasure
JK: Don't remember

Beer drinking in Flint was boring this summer. It was my own fault and I had no desire to go to new places because it seemed like I was going to the same place with a different name. But, I knew if I kept trying I would find someplace worth visiting and revisiting.

I had a helluva good time at Kelush's. I was there with Emily and our friend Rob and we doubled the door count. Chip was the bartender that night and served us promptly and courteously. We had a few. They were good. The bar was good. The music was mostly good.

They have beers for $2 a can. It has a pretty good bar to sit at. And the whole place feels like 70's/80's bar. This is a pretty comfortable place to drink. We watched baseball on the new flat screen. Knocked a few back with some retirees. Kept getting fresh cold one's with Chip's prompt service.

I chatted with Chip for a bit and found out that Kelush's and the owner Al Kelush have been a Flint staple for 60+ years (Al is 60++ years). Chip gave me the Reader's Digest version of Al and he seems like a stand-up business man and family man.

Its good to have a few at a place your Grandpa remembers.

There's something about Kelush's

Gold caulk around the urinal

1980's Miller Light signage

Easy to find on a map (huge, empty field to the southeast)

Camel Burger

Special short barstools for your pool playing convenience

A gaggle of St. Pauli Girl posters

This guy hanging out

Red telephones

Rumor has it the lady bartenders are a couple of lookers

jasonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-49352242443661373302009-07-21T20:19:00.020-04:002009-09-29T18:13:08.395-04:00Jim's Garage Liquor LoungeJim's Garage Liquor Lounge
4509 S Saginaw St
Flint, MI 48507

(810) 744-3670

**Note: We have more pics coming (ours got deleted). We have one really good one (thanks Ira)
Nights to go: Not sure, I'll have to go back a few times.
Nights not to go: I told you, I don't know!
Theme: Grandparents remodeled spare room
Decor: Office furniture
Bar: Nice bar
Bartender: Old dude, pours a mean whiskey
Proper ID: referred to as "paperwork"
Beer selection. Miller Lite-y

I always guessed this was a grimy hole with skull shaped dents in the door and just enough light to roll your own. I was way wrong. This is the most non-bar looking bar I have ever been in. Before I get into that though, how about that name? That's a damn good name. But it sure doesn't look like a garage. This looked like a brand new office that just opened up in an old bar and decided to leave the bar in. Its a mildly darker computer-monitor beige. Room was clean as hell. And the bathroom cleaner that most pint glasses.

And a old surly crowd. Well one guy was visibly irked that some people were in there that are obviously not collecting Social Security. But the bartender didn't care. We were paying and we had our proper paperwork, as he put it. My sister in law is a whiskey drinker and I think that helped our situation.

While we were hanging out a girl came in in with a cake shaped like boobs. It was for her dads birthday party later in the night. What a sweet girl.

Beer selection was similar to Rite-Aid's. Liquor selection was decent.

What to expect when you are expecting another beer:
• foot tapping
• anxiety
• bathroom break in a really clean bathroom
• sing along to a karaoke song
• need to check wallet to see if you can afford a 7th one
• realization you have a debit card
• sadness from an empty glass
• jealousy of the full glasses at the table
• choose a karaoke song
• the waitperson is good/bad even though s/he is ugly/hot
• another beer
• watch baseball highlights
• strong desire to check your phone, FIGHT IT!
• realization that you should have ordered some greasy food too
• monopolize conversation until you have beer to put in mouth
• eaves drop
• bomb a karaoke song
• eat a cake that looks like boobsjasonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-2928124916708664472009-07-11T12:19:00.011-04:002009-07-14T13:02:43.503-04:00Reexamination of the cost of beer
One of the things it's easy to forget when you live in Flint is how expensive beer can be.

 Photo courtesy of Sokwonele-Zimbabwe on Flickr

I've been living in Pellston (15 miles south of the Mackinaw Bridge) deep in the heart of tourist country for the last couple of months doing a temporary job. Whenever I go out to a bar around here I'm shocked when I have to hand over most of my paycheck to get a pitcher of beer.

Whenever friends come to Flint from out of town they seem shocked at the bill when we get it. I (being the mostly pessimistic person that I am) always assume that they think the bill is too high. Usually though they're shocked at the amount of change that they've gotten back. Last time we were at the Red Ribbon we got 6 shots for the big city price of a couple of Miller High Lifes.

In Flint, it's like happy hour all the time.emilyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-50467869037326529162009-06-04T22:12:00.027-04:002009-07-11T12:32:59.646-04:00Caboose Lounge

Caboose Lounge

120 E Atherton Rd #120
Flint, MI

(810) 743-8000

When to go: Tuesday $1 Domestics
When not to go: When you should be at your daughter's wedding
Baby Powder: Available if you need it
Johnny Vegas: NO!
Credito? No
Urinals: Dual
Outside seating? HELL YES! And you can see trees and weeds!

Theme: Bar

This bar is an extension of the patrons living room. 90% of the bar sat at one long table. There were about 4 "Norm!" moments while we were there. And although none of us were Norm, no one minded a few strangers drinking beers and watching the Wings with them.

I hate taking photos at the bar. This was the worst place to do it. If you were throwing a party and some strange dude started walking around, taking pictures of people and your stuff, you wouldn't like it and you might hit them with a pool stick. I felt like I would be invading these folks home.

This is a small bar. Its about the size of living room in a trailer. When we sat down the other table shifted their table to make a little room for us. They joked about the room and then went back to talking about superior lawnmowers, healthcare, and damned fools.

There was a dark black spot on the television screen. While watching the hockey game we were making jokes about an extra puck on the ice but didn't want to be loud about it. later a regular said "It's hard to watch the game with that damn 2nd puck on the ice."

Small Bar Charms:

One can lean over from the table to get your beer from the bar

Tell a joke to your table and the whole bar can enjoy it

Heats up faster in the winter

Easier to make new friends

Tête-à-tête

Cheapest way buy the bar a round

Bartender can take entire bars order without moving

Small Bar Suck:

Farts

Heats up faster in summer

One damned fool ruins the bar

Toilets underneath the sink combos

People nosing in on my tête-à-tête

Speaker systems meant for the Palace

When regular loses his job, profits drop by 33%

jasonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-46272608487238656542009-05-06T20:56:00.010-04:002009-06-01T23:49:23.064-04:00C & S Red Ribbon Bar

C & S Red Ribbon Bar

2809 Fenton Rd
Flint, MI 48507

(810) 766-9908

Nights to go: Any
Nights not to go: Not sure yet
Urinal: NO ITS A TROUGH!
Word I didn't know that I didn't know how to spell 10 seconds ago: Trough
Computers Available for paying public: One
Paying Public: Full Bar -1 (freeloader ask for a second after Rob bought him a round)
Is there a house game? Yes
Is it easy? No, its not

Rob and I had many adventures last Saturday night only one I can talk about due to legal concerns. Thats a joke or is it? After a quick round and watching a one man karaoke show at Stumblin' Inn, Rob and I stumbled into Red Ribbon Bar. I had been there once before last spring with my sister-in-law Andrea for a few cold Ones. We shared a pitcher and a dude turned around in his bar stool and stared at me for 45 minutes.

That was my first experience. I figured I was in for similar treatment this trip. This time around I the only staring was coming from me directed towards the HUGE frosted pitcher and frosted glasses. Far too often I am subjected to pitchers fresh out of a hot-hot-hot dishwasher that are still warm to the touch when served with formerly cold beer. Its a bad sitiuation that makes us all uncomfortable and leads to me not coming back. On this night though, things were good. I asked the bartendress about the ring game. She explained the game and I'm going to try to remember exactly what she said, "Turn on the light and put the ring on the hook." Shoot, I can do that. But I didn't. So I drank more beer and listened to the juke box.

Sights to see when traveling through the Red Ribbon Bar.

Famed sign celebrating its 2nd place finish

Cooler labeled "Stroh's Light"Urinal trough

A computer that is connected to THE INTERNET

Tables

Properly spelled signs (I love those!)

Chairs

Jukebox

House Game

Parking

Beer can collection

Foods

Internet

Video Game

Cheap Beer when game is on

jasonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-19531048163059870822009-04-29T21:52:00.008-04:002009-06-04T22:24:41.734-04:00Stumblin' Inn

Stumblin' Inn

3504 1/2 Fenton Rd
Flint, MI 48507

(810) 239-0930

Nights to go: When you are already drunk and you want to walk home and you live in my house
Nights not to go: Most often
Prices: Depends on who the bartender is
Urinals: Yes
Colors: NO
Awesome sign: Yes
Johnny Vegas in a tube: Yes. There are regulations
Stink like Dorals when you leave: yes
Plastic: Shots are served in it
Plastic: Not accepted for payment

Stumblin' Inn is really close to my house. I go there when there is no beer in the house and I'm in the mood for flat beer. Now I bet you are thinkin' I'm being an ass. I am. This place bugs me every time I go. And for some reason I still go.

I've had a shot and beer there for $3.00. It was an 8 oz. beer chaser with a regular shot of swill. Few weekends later I was considered crazy by the bartender for sugesting anything like that was ever served there. I got 12oz beer and a shot for $5.00. Few weeks ago I got the same thing for $5.75.

Stumblin Inn is full of some characters. First time there I grabbed a pitcher at the bar. Emily grabbed a table for us. Earl and Jeb lean over from their table and tell Emily that she is looks bangin' in her top (in a very nice way and not like a couple of creeps that flirt in pairs). Emily demurely smiles. The dudes suddenly see her MF engagement ring. They, being gentleman in a harsh and changin' world, apologize. They totally respect her for being able to settle down. Its just not for them.

Quite often at Stumblin' Inn there are folks new to drinking and have reverted back to girls at a junior high dance. They tend come into the bar yellin', then run outside screamin', then some other newcomer follows her outside and repeat.

Stumblin' Inn is fun because:

Prices vary from week to week, day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, bartender to bartender.

Urinal Height is non-standard

Colors aren't tolerated

Live DJ

Pantera on the juke box

Drink in the alley

CNN on the big screen

Conveniently located on street

Colloquial Suffixes

jasonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-26158921912815626382009-03-12T12:06:00.006-04:002009-03-16T01:33:50.145-04:00JW's Music Factory
JW's Music Factorydress:Removal requested ()Restore requested
617 South Dort Highway
Flint, MI 48503

(810) 234-0020

Nights to go: Every night is karaoke
Nights not to go: When the theater students show-up
Waterfall: Yes
Stage: Yes
Glowing Greek Columns: Yes
Living Room: Yes
Follow Karaoke Rules: No
Kids sing Karaoke: Yes, one day a week

To dudes (Erroll and Chase) were singing sad old country songs when we walked in. It was nice going in here and hearing normal people singing instead of the next American Idol contestants that seem to frequent this place. Since the last time I was in JW's they had added a living room. I wanted to drink there but we wouldn't be able to see the stage well. This is one of the few bars in in Flint with a mildly unique interior.

Karaoke here is good. The sound is fair but you get a stage, lights, and a large library of songs to make up for it. I've been here on nights when the place is absolutely packed and there is no room to move. Go on a Saturday or Friday if you dig that. We were there on a Wednesday and it was a great level of not-so-busy. I'll probably come back but, the service was not so good and the DJ skipped my friend three times in the rotation. That pissed me off but, not until after I sang my songs.

Karaoke Rules for Singers and DJ's
For Singer's:

Sing. The words are on the screen. It's easy.

Don't sing in groups unless there is a part for each person, like a duet or Bohemian Rhapsody.

Don't sing Bohemian Rhapsody.

Clap and yell and High-5 when people finish singing.

Songs to not: "Black Velvet," "Me and Bobby McGee," "You Outta Know," "Picture," "Ice Ice Baby," "Baby Got Back." Some of these are karaoke cliche. Some are hard to sing. They all suck. Very few people do a great job. You know who you are. Most people do a terrible job. Thats probably you.

If your friend is singing pay attention to him/her.

If your husband is singing don't start a conversation with someone at the table about what Kenny Loggins songs were on what movie soundtracks because he's trying to sing a damn love song to you.

Jumping in on someone's song is a jerk move. Everyone in the bar likes you a little bit less now. And the singer thinks you should be shot with pig guts.

Buy the DJ a drink.

Be cool.

For DJ's

Don't announce "After Jenny is Rob" and then after Jenny say "We need Angie to come up here now."

Don't sing every other song. Sure the regulars love it, but you're making a lot of other people not your regulars.

If a wedding party comes in and the bride wants to sing a song, let her, don't made the maiden of honor bribe you.

Have songbooks by artist and songbooks by song. Have more by the artist than song.

Replace broken mics. Sure they are a lot of money, but a broken mic at a karaoke bar is pointless.

Don't skip a person in three times in rotation.

Be cool.

jasonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-76550355200411376952009-02-25T00:21:00.006-05:002009-02-25T17:46:44.171-05:00Terri's Lounge

Terri's Lounge
 2605 Fenton Rd

 Flint, MI 48507

(810) 235-8941

Overheard: Dude looking for a ride home because he was fresh out of jail for beating ex-wife's friend's ex-boyfriend: "Yeah I got dropped off here after they let me outta jail. I'm gonna need a ride home."
Fascinating fact: Terri is owner's ex daughter-in-law
Spell check: YES!
Bartendress has beautiful white teeth: affirmative
Bicycle parking inside: Yes (but you may need to be VIP)
Need to run from parking lot to building: Which one?
The one on the other side of the street behind the closed-up building: Medium
And the one behind Terri's?: Medium

Even with the bit of amazing jail time eavesdropping we may have gone on a boring night.  I've driven by this place a million times and it seems to always be busy. It was between pool leagues and business was slow.  We caught it on an off night. Kim the bartender was really nice and tried to recruit us into the pool league. I am a terrible pool player and can't even think of the last time I held a pool stick. Burgers were inexpensive and not to bad. Comparable to a Halo burger 10 minutes before close. Jukebox was loud and had AC/DC and Celine Dion (rad). Think I'll come again on a busier night and see if it gets better. Right now this place is so-so but deserving of a second interview.

In Numbers:

 78: Days since last shooting (as of 02/25/09)

 1: Burgers you get for free after buying 1

 12: Pool tables with green felt

 5: People on a pool team

 0: Pool tables with red felt

 2: Beers on tap

 1.50: Dollars (American) it takes to buy domestic bottles on Sunday and Thursday

 1: Bucket you get when you buy a bucket of Budweiser Light cans

 6: Number of cans are put into a bucket

 ~400: Ice cubes in bucket

 0: Ice Cube drinking at Terri's

 1: Lights Emily almost broke

 5: Family's favorite alcoholic drinks

1 in 4.23: Chance I had to win the 7 spot Club Keno game

0: Dollars (American) I won

jasonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-70954733295625132302009-02-12T21:01:00.012-05:002009-02-12T23:54:46.469-05:00Timothy's Pub

Timothy's Pub
2890 Robert T. Longway Blvd Flint,
MI 48506

(810) 239-0972

Nights not to go: Night before you're performing surgery
in the morning
Nights to go: Monday Men's Night/Wednesday Karaoke
Cute Waitresses: Yes
Bartender wearing a vest: Yes
Need to run from car to building: Low
Fireplace: Hell yes!
Avg Age: 55

If your grandparents are up from Florida and miss playing cards at the club house they should come out to Timothy's. We were there on a Monday night and it was Euchre league night. I've never played Euchre at a bar and I don't know if that is really common. And I didn't see one idiot with sunglasses, a baseball cap, and a welders mask, trying to hide his tells.

Zach (or Zac or Zak?) is a damn good bartender. He said one time, way before he was a bartender there, he punched his uncle in this very same bar (which doesn't mean what you think it does).

Men's Night is also on Mondays. Andy's wife (sorry ladies) said in the past she never knew were to find many eligible bachelors in one place (I totally paraphrased that and she said it much funnier). Which makes me think its not so much for the ladies to go find men, but, for the men to not be found by their ladies. IN-FRIGGIN-GENIUS

In the end, a certain side of me loves Timothy's Pub. Its feels like going to a relatives house on Thanksgiving, if all of your relatives were drunk, they mostly left you alone, and they charged you for dinner. The beer is just left of free, there seems to be a lot going on every night of the week, and it was a comfy place to chug some swill.

 Fact: Timothy's Pub has no graffiti on their bathrooms walls

Fact: You can get breakfast anytime of the day

 Fact: Timothy's Pub is largest consumer of Miller Lite in Genesee County

 Fact: The best night to go is Monday night.

 Fact: The best night to go is Wednesday according to the the waitress that works on Wednesday

 Fact: I hate taking photos in a bar.

 Fact: They have Buzztime trivia and the Texas Hold'em

 Fact: You will hear cowbell on a Monday night

 Fact: Even though there is a Men's night, there is too much wood trim and wooden decoration for this to be a gay bar

 Fact: Their website is crap but just informative enough for intrigue

Fact: Zach recommends the Steak and Onion Sandwich

Fact: Beer was so cheap that when my wife told me not to spend too much money or get too drunk, I was only able to do one of those.

Fact: Our generation won't be able to retire and move to Florida. Timothy's Pub will have to do.

Fact: Leprechauns have giant packages and even bigger fingers.

jasonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-73171871542460741652009-02-02T23:37:00.014-05:002009-02-03T13:14:27.810-05:00Soggy Bottom Bar

Soggy Bottom Bar
613 Martin Luther King Ave.
Flint, Michigan 48502

810.239.8058

Nights not to go: Fridays its College Night.
Night to go: Wednesday Karaoke
Cute Bartendress: Yes
Handsome Bartender: Shoot, I don't know
Need to run from car to building: Medium-low

It isn't any coincidence that Soggy Bottom is next to a fancy men's clothing store and a men's hat shoppe. The Soggy Bottom Bar is a classy establishment. They even have a dry erase board in the bathroom so the next guy can improve your dirty jokes and booby pictures. It's the kind of bar that makes you feel like you're not in Flint anymore (hardly any broken stuff). It's got a lot of dark wood, stained glass lamps and a small but stellar draft beer selection. The night we were there they had Bud, Bud Light, Killian's, Guinness, Bud American Ale, Heineken, Bass, and Goose Island 312. They used to have live music on the weekends with a cover charge, too many people packed into tight quarters, and the music was so loud it prevented conversation with the dude trying to hustle you at the pool table. NOTE: They no longer have live music with cover charge.

We recommend that you go in the early part of the week when you can hang out in mostly dark recesses of the bar with the regulars. Although we've avoided this place in the past, on our most recent visit Courtney convinced us (partially by playing the 90's channel on satellite radio) that we have to come back more often. Al B. Sure! to come back.

Drink at Soggy Bottom to:

Be in cool looking bar.

Drink from looks-like-more-than-a-pint pints

Choose from a choice beer selection

Pay a good price

Chat up a good looking bartender lady (beer wench is archaic, right?)

Sit in 98% matching chairs

Not notice any broken stuff

Enjoy live entertainment on the weekends

Enjoy karaoke!

See some dudes get a pizza delivered to the pool table

To get a lot of head on your mustache

Don't drink at Soggy Bottom if:

You need to sit more than 4 to a table

Huge awesome murals with a scary lady freak you out

You get offended when no one offers you a slice of pizza

Drinking draft Busch Light was your plan

Paying a cover is lame to you

You were hoping to get shanked in the parking lot (Durant Hotel is getting renovated and the homeless moved across the street)

You are afraid of anything north of the river (even if its just 2 blocks)

You're afraid of monkeys

jasonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-3546767054138940472009-02-02T14:33:00.011-05:002009-02-02T19:04:13.131-05:00First Legal BeerBefore moving to the factory town of Flint, I lived in the bustling village of Bancroft, Michigan. On my 21st birthday my girlfriend (I'll just go by the initials WT for her) was kind enough to take me out to the Teddy Bear/Bancroft Tavern as a licensed drinker.

The Teddy Bear was pretty normal local bar, a lot of rope lights, old and new beer signs, a lot domestic beers, few common imports. That night I didn't really care what the selection was, I was just hoping someone else was buying. Besides me and WT, there was the bartender, a stranger playing pool alone, and a older dude that I recognized from around town.

WT was nine days older than me and bought my very first beer. I had a Coors Light (that's what my brother always drank). Damn a legal beer tasted great. It was like a treat. And like that beer and all first beers after it, it went down really fast. The friendly recognizable gentleman bought me another Coors and a Canadian Club.

I was drinking and wasn't in a dorm or in a field, I was inside drinking with adults! The guy I recognized, socialized at the same mechanic's shop as my Dad. He was a genuine grown-up. I was doing my best to play it cool and be adult. So I slammed my Canadian Club on the rocks like an idiot while Recognizable Dude tells me "that is to sip, son."

I asked Recognizable Dude what he does for a living. He was laid-off. And your wife? Divorcing. Sometimes small talk is tough. He made a joke about still having his health, just no health insurance. I remember laughing, the bartender laughing really hard, and WT laughing. He wasn't laughing so much. But it's a birthday! So the bar bought me another beer! WT and I moved to the huge window in front and shared a pizza (beer and pizza is way better than Coca Cola and pizza).

It was nice evening, I was fairly uncomfortable at first because, I felt like I was doing something I still shouldn't. I was really hoping none of my friends parents came in.

It's still the same bar only now it's The Pirates Cove. Sometimes the decor is hard to handle but, it's a fun spot for a few cold ones with old friends parents, and the patty melt is damn good.

I thought of going back there on my 31st birthday. I decided not to because WT broke up with me a few days after my 21st birthday and it turns out Recognizable Dude is a sex offender.jasonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-1699587821887837262009-01-29T16:09:00.009-05:002009-01-29T17:31:43.005-05:00Thanks Flint Expatriates!I'd like to thank Flint Expatriates for the kind words of support and challenge that dare us to press on with our task!

Some of you may be skeptical of our goal or our credentials. Here is a quick introduction to our team and methods.

Andy, Jason and I have known each other for about 10 years and all went to college at University of Michigan-Flint. We all live and work in Flint even though we have been accused by some of being suburbanite wannabees. Some may call us hipsters, some may call us drunks. We hope you read along and decide for yourselves.

This operation is basically an extension of our normal activities. We like to seek out new bars all the time. We'll be documenting all these bars with pretty low tech equipment. Like pencils and bar napkins. There may be a digital camera involved occasionally, but we may also use cell phones. This is gonna be as organic as we can get away with.

And for those worried about our safety. We drink early and we'll be watching for people hanging out in parking lots with screwdrivers...emilyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-12170132218717969762009-01-28T13:58:00.003-05:002009-01-29T16:38:22.176-05:00What makes a bar a home?What makes a house a home? It's not the nice cabinet knobs, or the 2 car garage. It's not the 47 inch plasma screen TV or the finished basement with a workout room. Home can be a trailer park. Home can be a tiny hut in the forest surrounded by hungry bears.

What makes a bar a good bar? It's the same unmeasurable quality that gives a home it's... home-i-ness. The Deville Lounge lacks many of the amenities of nicer bar. They don't have many beers on tap, the floors are cold concrete, the food is served on paper plates, but everything in the place is strangely familiar; the bartender unusually accommodating; the booths inexplicably comfortable.

I'm not usually one to recommend a bar with only 2 beers on tap, but The Deville Lounge is the perfect bar for a laid back evening. If you want to avoid the crowds and relax, or you just don't want to change out of your pajama pants before leaving the house, the Deville Lounge is the place you want to be.
Andyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-50714934592730667762009-01-28T13:38:00.005-05:002009-01-29T16:37:10.175-05:00I love LucyMaybe it's just me but I like my bars to either have 30 beer choices or two. The Deville lounge has two options Bud and Bud Light. While I don't really love Bud or Bud Light there is something so unpretentious about these kinds of bars that immediately puts me at ease. It also takes the chore of making decisions away from me. "Do I feel like watching my figure tonight or not?" That's the kind of choice I can handle.

Walking into this place I immediately felt like I was in my best friend from grade school's basement, where her dad had a homemade bar in the corner for when the fellas came over. The booths each had a separate theme with decoupage sports cut outs underneath the varnish on the table. We sat at the Dale Earnhardt table, (the other booths were all dedicated to various Michigan sports teams). The floors were concrete. My absolute favorite part of the decor though was the fact that the lights over each booth were shaded with a Christmas liquor tin. You know that tin with the harlequins that that bottle of DiSaronno that your aunt gave you for Christmas came in? That one. It was all so DIY. I loved it.

Lucy, the bartender was a super cool lady who is raising three of her 16 grandkids and by the end of our visit here I felt like she had taken us under her wing. She was very friendly while still being real. None of that phoney baloney stuff you get other places. This place was so unpretentious that I very quickly felt comfortable. It's nice to go to a place every once in a while and feel like you're hanging out in someones basement, drinking beer and eating wing dings off of a paper plate. emilyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-90991996708100383542009-01-27T22:48:00.012-05:002009-01-28T14:03:14.171-05:00Deville Lounge

Deville Lounge is a dive. There are two beers on tap, drunks, one person working, and a barely functioning bathroom that makes your hands filthier after you wash them. Its the best kind of dive.

What ruins most dive bars is their attempt to be more divey or deny their diveness. The Deville has not succumbed to such stupidity. This is a place to have some beer, play some pool, get drunk. No extras, just the things you need. It is what it is.

You might ask why the hell would someone want to drink in a dive. Well you shouldn't want to drink in a dive, that would make you hipster. You drink in dives because a comfortable bar has been discovered that lets you drink beer, sit, and talk without having to try to look good and be cool. You are already cool. Dude, you are drinking beers with friends and hanging out talking about stuff you like! Take off your sunglasses, you're inside. Take off your big fat coat and stay awhile.

 When you go to the Deville say hello to Lucy. She's a beer angel. Rarely have a gotten such awesome service from any bar or restaurant. She went above and beyond what I would hope to get at a 2 or 3 star restaurant. I will becoming back to the Deville and she is the only reason. Plenty of bars are similar to the Deville but they are lucky to have someone like Lucy there.

 While you're there take a look at the hallway floor to the bathroom. Its encrusted with pennies.

jasonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-18901013080059546992009-01-21T23:19:00.004-05:002009-01-21T23:38:57.608-05:00Frontiers and beers"There are no frontiers left." Andrea Newberry 2008

New frontiers are hard to come by. Modern frontiers seem to be more about discovering a nuance instead of a grand new thing. Of course there are grand new discoveries all they time. They just require great machines and sophisticated equipment to explore. We have neither.

We don't have deep sea submarines or interplanetary rockets, so we have to create a new kind of frontier. We are going to have a drink at every bar in Flint, Michigan. It may be part of the known universe and almost all of the bars can be found in the phone book, but most bars in Flint don't have more than an address listed on the Internet. That will not interfere with our sense of adventure in exploring the city. Especially when the it requires us to have a beer.

One night last November we were having a drink together when we started listing all the bars we had seen in our travels around Flint but that we have never been to. Each of us came up with a nearly unique list. There are grimy old holes in the wall, singles bars, biker bars, nightclubs, shop bars, bars that open at 7 am, topless bars, gay bars, etc. The list went on and on and we thought to ourselves, "We live in Flint, we love Flint more than anyone probably should, why haven't we experienced every corner of it?".

That's when the idea for this blog was born. We are going to drink a beer in every bar in Flint, Michigan. We are going to take a piss in every dirty bathroom, eat every overcooked hamburger, generously over-tip every waitress that calls us 'hun', burn our mouths on every 35 cent hot wing, and tip back a few with every kind of person we have in this fair city. Flint isn't so big that it can't be done, but it is big enough that this will be an epic journey and we hope you'll read along as we drink our way to adventure!
jasonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050856276303157573.post-52124577951309565832009-01-13T22:52:00.007-05:002009-01-21T23:52:41.268-05:00We'll be starting our adventure soon...For now you can read our reviews on Yelp

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HOOVER, Ala. � Kentucky was one of the surprise teams in the SEC last year, but the Wildcats lost a lot of talent to graduation.
Kentucky coach Rich Brooks says the 'Cats aren't going away.
�We were a viable team in the SEC last year and we'll be a viable team this year,� Brooks said at SEC Media Days Friday morning. �We used to be one of those teams that everybody would put a 'W' next to. It's not that way anymore.�
Despite losing quarterback Andre' Woodson and all but one of his starting receivers from last season, Brooks thinks his team will be a contender again this season. The Wildcats went 8-5 a year ago with a win over national champion LSU and a bowl win for the second straight year.
Kentucky has always been a wannabe in the SEC East looking up at the usual suspects Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.
But Brooks, whose job was in jeopardy just two years ago, has turned the Wildcats into a force to be reckoned with in the league.
�We're part of the conversation and we intend to stay there,� Brooks said. �We've closed the gap in talent. The difference isn't what it used to be. When I got to Kentucky, we had one player who could run under a 4.5 (in the 40). Last year we had 17.�
The reason for Brooks' optimism this season? Defense.
It's rare that you hear the words Kentucky and defense in the same sentence unless it's in a negative sense. But Brooks said this Kentucky defense will be his best yet.
�We have quality SEC-type defensive players,� Brooks said. �We've got guys who belong in this league on defense. We have 11 guys who can line up that would start at a lot of SEC schools and I mean the big-time SEC schools.�
Brooks also said his offensive line will be the best he's had at Kentucky. The questions will be at quarterback � where Curtis Pulley and Mike Hartline head into two-a-days in a dead heat � and at wide receiver.
�Freshmen could play a role there,� Brooks said.
UK coach: 'Cats not going away
HOOVER, Ala. � Kentucky was one of the surprise teams in the SEC last year, but the Wildcats lost a lot of talent to graduation.

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We may be quite confident with our career choices until something unexpected happens today. The ambitious Capricorn Moon is supported by the willful Sun and joyful Jupiter, adding to our sense of invincibility. But the Moon's midday square to unpredictable Uranus pits our cautious feelings against a sudden change of circumstance. Fortunately, the Moon's shift into conceptual Aquarius at 6:44 pm EDT increases our problem-solving abilities.
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No matter where logic takes you, you're not willing to sit around any longer waiting for the right time to play your hand. Although your direct manner often enables you to get things done, a more strategic approach is wiser today. Nevertheless, you won't likely listen to anyone's good advice now, including your own. You don't know what will happen in response to your radical behavior, but you're convinced that any movement is better than none. Jim Rohn wrote, "Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
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An abrupt change in your long-term plans might be more surprising to your friends than it is to you because you've been secretly considering several alternatives for a while. However, you were in no hurry to shift your direction since you thought there was plenty of time. But fluctuating conditions create an instability that can only be resolved if you make your move now. Trust your internal guidance, for you're more prepared than you might think. Mahatma Gandhi said, "The future depends on what we do in the present."
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The International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) has member societies in 62 countries. The main goal of the IFCN is to promote education and the highest level of practice of Clinical Neurophysiology to improve health.
The IFCN has no individual members, but consists of national member societies similar to the World Federation of Neurology or the European Federation of Neurological Societies. Most countries have only one member society, but a few have more than that. Although The Europe, Middle East and Africa Chapter has the highest density of member societies, Latin America, North America and Asia-Oceania are also well represented.
For clinical neurophysiologists living in countries without a national society for clinical neurophysiology, the International Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ICNS) has been established.
Since the member societies in different parts of the world may have different expectations and needs, four IFCN chapters have been formed over the last decade to harbor the national societies in greater geographical regions, i.e. Asia-Oceania, Europe- Middle East-Africa, Latin America and North America. Although these chapters have no formal status in the IFCN constitution, they have their own committees and organize chapter meetings usually every four years between the international congresses of clinical neurophysiology. The main task of the chapters is to preserve and to improve the quality of clinical neurophysiology by encouraging and supporting national societies within their region in organizing scientific and educational meetings and courses. The IFCN supports the chapters financially in doing this.
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New State Domestic Violence Database allows police across the New York State to share information about domestic violence incidents
A new state database will allow police statewide to search domestic violence incident information, regardless of which police agency responded to a call or filed a report. This database is designed to give responding officers the full picture of a victim, perpetrator or households domestic violence history.
Through this database, we hope to assist police and victims by recording details related to prior calls involving the same individual, including each incident of violence or other risk factors such as the presence of firearms. Were giving police, prosecutors, and probation and parole officers the ability to search the more than 175,000 domestic violence incident reports each year.
Previously, paper incident reports were filed within police agencies and counties, and approximately 780 a day are then sent to the State Division of Criminal Justice Services, where they often wind up in boxes in storage. These reports will be scanned into a database to help track patterns of abusive behavior and hopefully stop it before it recurs.
This information will be available on the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services website (http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/index.htm). According to DCJS, authorized users will be able to search the secure, electronic database by victim or offender name, incident address or document number. Police dispatchers also will be able to use the system to advise responding officers about potential threats and history of incidents at an address, giving officers an opportunity to determine the best way to staff and handle a call for help.
An example of the New York State Domestic Incident Report (DIR) Repository data can be found here: http://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/pio/dir-rep-screens/dir-sample.html.
New York set up the system with a federal grant but officials plan to continue entering the estimated 175,000 domestic incident reports filed annually across upstate New York and Long Island. At present, the database isnt available to the public.


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WESTFORD -- Nashoba Valley Technical High School's in-school restaurant, The Elegant Chef, will again enter the Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce's Taste of Nashoba competition -- but its entry is top-secret.
The event, now in its 16th year, is scheduled for Tuesday, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., at Lawrence Academy in Groton.
The Elegant Chef, run by students in Nashoba Tech's Culinary Arts and Hotel & Restaurant Management programs, has had much success at the event in the past, but in the Best Entrée category. This year, the school is entering the Best Dessert category. The students and staff are keeping mum on the details, however.
All that Chef-Instructors Jeremy Bussiere, Carley Capraro and Fran Zentgraf will offer is that it's an "out-of-this-world" treat created by Jenna Thompson, a sophomore from Littleton.
"The students are very excited about having the opportunity to once again participate in this great community," said Bussiere, who runs the Hotel & Restaurant Management program at Nashoba Tech. "Our dessert by Jenna Thompson will be unveiled at the event."
The chef-instructors noted that winning this year will be as difficult as ever because the competition gets better every year.
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Councillors unanimously gave lift off to a major research campus on the former Sheffield City airport – which is set to create thousands of jobs.
University of Sheffield plans for its multi-million pound second Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, or AMRC, were described as helping give the 'outdoor city a heart of steel' by one committee member.
The proposal is for nine hi-tech buildings on the site beside the Parkway, which is on green belt land.
But Sheffield Council's planning and highways committee was told that the scheme amounted to 'very special circumstances' which allowed for building in green belt.
Reports said it will create 1,500 construction jobs and another 1,515 roles when open, but the meeting was told the 'maximum benefits' would be around 4,400 jobs.
Coun Bryan Lodge said it would create 'jobs that are desperately needed'.
Coun Roger Davison added: "I think apart from being the outdoor city, we need to be called the outdoor city with a heart of steel."
The scheme follows the university's existing AMRC on the Rotherham side of the Parkway, which has more than 40 hi-tech companies. In future it is hoped it will be part of an advanced manufacturing innovation district – hailed as a 'next generation Silicon Valley.'
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Can goal be directly from goal kick when nobody touch the ball?
Hi Shourob Yes a goal can be scored directly from a goal kick. However an own goal cannot be scored. It will be a very long kick to achieve this some 90 / 100 yards. Now in small sided games with reduced pitch sizes the local competition rules may not allow that as the organiser may want to encourage play rather than a goal kick fest
Hi Shourob, Yup, takes a good kick, bit of luck, but can be done! Only on INDFKs can a goal not be scored directly into an opposing goal. Any DFK, Corner kick, Goal kick or Kick off the ball can be kicked and can enter the oppositions goal directly for a legit goal! Cheers
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Being short of time needn't stop you making your own pudding. This microwave-friendly sponge is ready in 10 minutes and can easily be a chocolate pud too
Mix the sugar, butter, flour, eggs, lemon zest and vanilla together until creamy, then spoon into a medium microwave-proof baking dish. Microwave on High for 3 mins, turning halfway through cooking, until risen and set all the way through. Leave to stand for 1 min.
Meanwhile, heat the lemon curd for 30 secs in the microwave and stir until smooth. Pour all over the top of the pudding and serve with a dollop of crème fraîche or scoops of ice cream.


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Independent Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, who chronicles the woes of life in communist-run Cuba, was awarded one of Spain's top journalism awards on Friday, the Ortega and Gasset prize for digital journalism.
Spanish newspaper El Pais, which awards the prize annually, said Sanchez won it for her "shrewdness" in overcoming hurdles to freedom of expression in Cuba, her "vivacious" style and her drive to join the "global space of citizen journalism."
Her Generacion Y blog is the most popular blog posted from Cuba.
It received 1.2 million hits in February for its Web page on a server in Germany.
"This is great encouragement for Cuban bloggers who are still at an embryonic stage," she told Reuters by telephone from her home in Havana.
"It recognizes that Cuban blogs can be a parallel source of information, reflection and opinions independent from Cuba's official media," the 32-year-old philologist said.
Sanchez has drawn considerable readership by writing about her daily life and describing the economic hardships and political constraints in her country.
Sanchez said she started her blog as a therapy to "let out frustrations," and write about the Cuba that never gets into the official press.
She has criticized Cuba's new President Raul Castro, who succeeded his ailing brother Fidel Castro last month, for his minimal steps to improve the standard of living of Cubans.
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez makes it to the TIME 100 list of The World's Most Influential People
Congratulations Yoani!
Great information. Thanks for posting that.
I hope Yoani gets the recognition (and freedom) she deserves.
Well, so much for the freedom…
The Cuban authorities have refused to grant an exit visa to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, author of the blog "Generacion Y", who was due to receive the Ortega y Gasset Prize in Spain, awarded to her by the daily El Pais in the "Internet journalism" category, on 4 April 2008. The award ceremony is being held in Madrid tomorrow.
"Raul Castro's policy of openness has run into its first boundary here. We are astonished by this decision after it was heralded that there would be an easing of movement for Cuban citizens and liberalising of access to different means of communication," the worldwide press freedom organisation said.
This prize was awarded to Yoani Sanchez "for the advances her work brought to the Web in Cuba in terms of freedom of expression, her acerbic tone, the accuracy of her information and the dynamic way she launched herself on the blogosphere". Founded by El Pais in 1984, the Ortega y Gasset prize is the Spanish equivalent of the prestigious American Pulitzer prize, awarded for defending freedoms and for journalistic independence.


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To mark this week's release of F1 2011 on the Nintendo 3DS, Codemasters has today released a new gameplay trailer for the handheld version.
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NFM Cares: Reaching Out to Our Communities
Nebraska Furniture Mart Cares about the communities in which we live and operate. That's why we started NFM Cares. This program allows our employees to volunteer time in the community by working with designated community partners that focus on health and wellness, education, our military and volunteerism.
Since the implementation of our program in 2015, Nebraska Furniture Mart employees have donated over 6,000 hours of volunteer time into our local communities.
In Omaha, some of the community partners we work with include the Open Door Mission, Lunch with a Veteran, TeamMates Mentoring Program and Abide. In Kansas City we are partnered with Hope Builders and Crosslines and in Texas we are partnered with Lovepacs and the Samaritan Inn.
Nebraska Furniture Mart encourages staff members to volunteer on the clock because we believe it is important to give back to the communities in which we operate.
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I don't know how you come down on the incarceration question… whether it's for rehabilitation or revenge…. But I was beginning to think revenge is the only argument makes any sense.
— H.I. McDonough, Raising Arizona
When Elana and I were courting — when we still thought having a baby was a long way off — we had a lot of discussions about raising kids. These discussions were sometimes very abstract, and sometimes they involved very aspirational notions, such as, "Wouldn't it be nice to raise our kids on a farm?" (We do not own a farm.)
Elana was not just fantasizing, however, when she said she would never spank her kids. She was very serious on this point. "I'm not telling other people what to do, but no child of mine will ever be spanked."
I was more on the fence. On the one hand, I had been spanked, quite a bit. I was spanked on the behind with open hands and flyswatters and once, when I was an amazingly mouthy pre-teen, my dad even smacked me across the face. I don't believe corporal punishment did harm, in and of itself, to my relationship with my parents or to my self-esteem or my ability not to murder people. Lots of my friends were spanked, and none of us has grown up to so much as get in bar fights, let alone become violent criminals.
It was just part of the culture of parenting in Georgia in the 1970s, and we all generally looked back on our spanking episodes with amusement. The angry parent brandishing flyswatter or belt or kitchen spoon seemed to us, in nostalgic hindsight, a little cartoonish — inexplicably but hilariously violent, to be avoided if possible, but not abusive.
On the other hand, I couldn't think of a single time corporal punishment had changed my behavior for the better. On the contrary, during a ten-year epic battle with both parents and teachers over whether I would do homework and participate in class, the desire to avoid spanking never encouraged me to do my homework or become a better student, in part because blowing off homework felt good now, while a spanking might or might not feel bad later.
This is not to say spanking had no effect: I did still want to avoid the spanking, if possible, and so I became a rather inveterate liar. I don't know if I was a good liar — you'd have to ask my parents about that — but I lied prolifically, because, after all, the only real proof my parents had of my misdeeds came at report card time. (This was back when teachers and parents weren't in such constant contact.) This was my childhood logic: lie all quarter long, sleep in class, accumulate months of homework-free days, and then deal with the spankings at the end of the term. It was a horrible, guilty, harried existence… but I did get out of a lot of math homework.
I know a lot of people claim that spanking did them no end of good. The story usually goes something like this: "When I got out of line, my dad would wallop me good. He did it to teach me a lesson, because he loved me. And I learned to be a good person and work hard and respect my elders because of it." Now, I don't deny any part of that except the "because of it." I'm sure your dad loved you and wanted to teach you how to be a moral and responsible person, and I'm sure that you did, in fact, learn to be a good person from this dynamic with your dad. I'm just not sure the spanking magically transmitted the morality into your bloodstream via your asscheeks.
My guess is that the fact that your dad was attentive to your moral progress and strove to correct you when you were wrong was the determining factor, not the spanking itself. The spanking was a kind of placebo ritual, which your dad, following generations of good dads before him, performed for your benefit, carefully explaining its purpose. He could have performed other rituals, of course — he could have told you to say ten Our Fathers, for example, in order to cleanse your sin away and discipline your soul. But spanking is a good ritual for kids because it's physical and easily understood, and because kids would like to believe that the memory of the pain will remind them not to transgress again in the future.
This turns out not to be true, of course, because children have notoriously poor impulse control even when they're under threat. But the child wants it to be true, and the dad believes it, and so they perform the ritual together. The child is reassured that his father cares about his behavior, and he strives to be worthy of his dad's approval. That, I suspect, is why spanking "works," to the degree that it does, sometimes, for some people.
But if the child doesn't care? If he would like your approval but not as much as he'd like to skip homework/tease his sister/paint the dog blue? Or worse yet, if he sees the thing you're asking him to do as having no value, as an arbitrary demand on your part? Well, then you're nowhere, I think.
Science bears me out, by the way, on corporal punishment encouraging kids to lie, and lie big. Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, in their eyebrow-raising book on scientific studies of parenting, Nurtureshock, write about Victoria Talwar, a child psychologist who studies lying. (The relevant chapter can be found here; scroll down past the text of the NPR story to find it.) Talwar does variations on an experiment in which children are given an opportunity to illicitly peek at the answer during a guessing game. Her interest is not just in which kids peek, but which kids lie about having done so.
Increasing the threat of punishment for lying only makes children hyperaware of the potential personal cost. It distracts the child from learning how his lies impact others. In studies, scholars find that kids who live in threat of consistent punishment don't lie less. Instead, they become better liars, at an earlier age — learning to get caught less often.
Talwar did a version of the peeking game in western Africa, with children who attend a traditional colonial school. In this school, Talwar described, "The teachers would slap the children's heads, hit them with switches, pinch them, for anything — forgetting a pencil, getting homework wrong. Sometimes, a good child would be made to enforce the bad kid." While the North American kids usually peek within five seconds, "Children in this school took longer to peek — 35 seconds, even 58 seconds. But just as many peeked. Then they lied and continued to lie. They go for broke because of the severe consequences of getting caught."
Even three-year-olds pretended they didn't know what the toy was, though they'd just peeked. They understood that naming the toy was to drop a clue, and the temptation of being right didn't outweigh the risk of being caught. They were able to completely control their verbal leakage — an ability that still eluded six-year-old [American children].
In other words, corporal punishment, which is painful, gives a child a strong incentive not to get caught, and the more intense the punishment, the higher the stakes and the greater the lie. (In my own experience, I found this to be true even when the crime in question was lying itself.)
So I've seen little evidence that spanking curbs bad behavior (except inasmuch as it's perceived as a sign of love and attention), and I'm pretty sure it gives kids a good, concrete reason to lie.
But for myself — I won't presume to speak for other parents — there's a more powerful reason not to hit my kids. I think it makes me a worse person.
In 1996, right after I graduated from college, I spent a few months in Florida watching my sister's kids while she finished her degree and studied for the MCAT. As an uncle and the only adult looking after three children under 6, I was granted guest spanking rights. And occasionally… I exercised them. Here are my observations:
- I spanked when I was pissed off. It was not that I spanked as part of a coldly rational system of discipline; I spanked when the kids were out of control and I wanted to re-assert my authority.
- Once I had opened the spanking can, I found that I went to it sooner and sooner.
- This, of course, meant that the kids got inured to it. Having been spanked, they knew it was unpleasant… but also that they could endure it. I would have had to hit them MUCH harder to get their attention — to the point of bruising, probably, which I think we can all agree crosses some kind of line.
- Spanking and yelling didn't end misbehavior, but their mom's attention and affection at the end of the day generally did.
Corporal punishment felt, to me, like bullying. And it was very attractive for precisely that reason — because bullying annoying people is very satisfying. But it didn't feel like a good way to get respect from the kids; in general, the spanking came about because I had already lost their respect and obedience.
Which leads me to my final thought on corporal punishment: it doesn't teach either the parent or the child anything about how to live in the world. At no other time in life — in no other relationship — is a beating an acceptable way to solve a problem.
If you work in an office, you can't turn your subordinate over your knee. If your friend takes up smoking, you can't smack his hand with a ruler. I've seen many, many parents and other caretakers take a child by the arm and say, "You wait 'till we get home. You're gonna get an ass-whupping!" But what would you think of a man who said that to his wife?
I was on the subway once and the woman across from me smacked her tiny son repeatedly for crying. I didn't do anything about it, because in our society there's a sacred line drawn around parenting decisions. I felt I lacked moral authority, and that if I tried to stop her other people in the car might turn against me and defend her.
But consider the case of Rep. Bob Etheridge, who slapped around two college students who tried to ambush-interview him:
Commentators from the left (Glenn Greenwald) and the right (Michelle Malkin's guest blogger) have noted that Etheridge is clearly guilty of assault here.
But what if the cameraman, or the young man he dragged around by the arm, had been his 7-year-old son? Why should we consider it assault when a grown man hits another grown man but good discipline when a grown man hits a defenseless small child? It doesn't matter that the child "deserves" it or "might learn from it." Lots of people deserve an ass-whupping; that doesn't make it the right thing to do. Or as Chris Rock once put it: "You know what they say: 'There's no reason to ever hit a woman.' Shit. There's a reason to hit everybody — just don't do it. There's a reason to kick an old man down a flight of stairs — just don't do it."
To hit my son, I think, would be to allow myself a particularly satisfying way of ending an argument — one that I'm not allowed in any other sphere of life — for no better reason than that I'm bigger and the law permits it. I think that kind of indulgence softens your character and leads to moral weakness, as surely as sugary drinks soften your teeth and lead to cavities. It makes you a person less able to deal with the real world, and it teaches your kid that you are periodically a failure of an authority figure whose only recourse is to violence.
That's not the relationship I want to have with my son. When he looks back on our life together, I know he'll see a huge number of failings, places where I could have done better. But I hope he won't see me as an ineffectual buffoon who felt he had to use force to get someone a sixth his size to stop throwing french fries in the McDonald's.


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It is an image born from American motoring folklore: a leather-clad and bearded rider heading off into the sunset on the back of a brutally loud motorbike.
Now Harley Davidson is shunning tradition and unleashing an electric motorbike, raising the prospect of Hell's Angels hellbent on saving the environment. The video shows a sleek, modern machine with a quieter, jet-aircraft sound rather than the traditional Harley growl.
Many loyal Harley riders may well be feeling some trepidation: after all how intimidating would the Terminator have looked bearing down on Sarah Connor from behind the wheel of a Prius? The first photos however show a bike that certainly looks the part. We'll just have to wait and see how it sounds.
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To kick off the launch of the eighth season of the animated television series Archer on FXX, FX Networks launched the 'Archer, P.I.' gaming app.
The app challenges players to join Archer as he takes on the role of a private investigator, and help him find clues. This game has players keep their eyes peeled for clues revealed through the newest episodes of Archer, as well as other real-world content on billboards, commercials and social media networks.
Although the world of Archer comes to life before one's eyes with cutting-edge augmented reality technology, the Archer, P.I. game also features an interesting twist; to claim their reward for successfully solving the case, players must print out and assemble the objects that they scanned from the show.
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Watching the Watchdog
Bloggers as the Fifth Estate
by Stephen D. Cooper
Early in the year I was contacted by the author of this book. He wondered if it would be okay for some material from my site to be used in the book on blogging and the media that he was working on. Of course I agreed, and the book was recently released.
Here's the blurb:
Who's Watching the Watchdog, Anyway? Just ask CBS News. In 2004, the network came into possession of allegedly authentic National Guard documents which claimed that President Bush had failed to perform his duties when he was in the National Guard during the Vietnam War. But the documents were forged, and bloggers, not the mainstream news media, broke that story. From the Introduction: The metaphor of watchdog has long been popular as shorthand for the structural role of the free press in a representative democracy. … But what of that watchdog's leash? If the people need a watchdog to make sure the institution of government does not abuse the power they have granted it, would there not be a need for a comparable check on the press, as a social institution with power in its own right? … This little book is not intended as either an endorsement or a criticism of the ideological or political views of any bloggers … Instead, this work is intended as an exploration of the distinct types of media criticism which have evolved in the blogosphere … . [W]e might now be seeing the emergence of a Fifth Estate in our social system, a watcher of the watchdog. In one sentence, the thesis of this little book is that the blogosphere is in the process of maturing into a full-fledged social institution, albeit a non-traditional one: emergent, self-organizing, and self-regulating.
The author is an associate professor of communication at Marshall University.
Since yours truly is in it, you know I had to order myself a copy.
In the chapter 'Blogs as Alternative Media', he notes that independent web publishers are not constrained by the standard format that virtually all of the mainstream media uses, and that that freedom can sometimes allow bloggers to more-accurately or more-thoroughly tell a story. The traditional inverted pyramid format of the regular press can often work against a telling that communicates well enough to impart some understanding of the big picture to readers.
A similar thought applies to photoblogging: news industry conventions about the visual quality of images — lighting, composition, focal length, depth of field, for instance need not constrain a blogger in the way these attributes are a concern of professional photojoumalists. Freelance writer Shelby Murdoc made good use of blogs' ability to include visual images in a pair of Murdoc Online posts showing the damage from Hurricane Katrina. Both contain very little text; the content is the images themselves, as is the case with mainstream media pictorial features. In terms of visual aesthetics, they are snapshots taken with consumer-level equipment through the window of a small airplane flying over the area. The first post (Pictures From the Air, 2005) showed the extensive damage to the towns of Pass Christian, Gulfport, and Biloxi immediately after the hurricane passed; as is often found in photoblogging, it opens with a brief explanation of the provenance of the images and why Murdoc chose to post them.
While almost all of the attention has been on New Orleans. the fact is that Hurricane Katrina (thankfully) turned and didn't hit the city directly. While this was fortunate for the 100,000 residents stranded in the city, it didn't bode well for those in the other cities and towns along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Alabama. They took a direct hit, and it's important that we don't forget about them. These pictures were sent in by a reader who works with the spouse of the photographer, who is in the Air Force Reserve.
The balance of the post is a series of about two dozen images. Murdoc added a brief caption to each, indicating its location and sometimes noting something of particular interest about it. For instance, he followed a picture of a totally destroyed highway bridge with this terse comment:
This is Highway 90 east of Biloxi. No relief coming that way.
This post contains an interesting example of the value-added process noted in the preceding chapter. Murdoc explained that he had identified the locations shown in the pictures by comparing them to Google Earth satellite images of the region. He was able to match a Google Earth image quite closely with one of the aerial pictures, and created a before-and-after juxtaposition of the marina in Pass Christian.
Several months later Murdoc posted a followup about the damage to the area in "Gulf Coast Photos" (2006). He explained that another reader had sent him a number of current pictures taken from the ground; these were of debris which had not yet been cleared. Again, he indicated that his motivation for posting the images was to provide a sense of the severe damage in an area which had gotten less mainstream press coverage than New Orleans.
Even though the plight of the residents of Mississippi and Alabama who were hit by Hurricane Katrina never received a lot of attention while everyone watched New Orleans, even though what little coverage there ever was has faded away, the wreckage is still there and there are still people in a bad way.
Don't forget them.
"Terse"? Since when is Murdoc ever "terse"? (Ahem.)
I haven't had a chance to read the book yet, but it looks good. A lot of bloggers get mentions (many of them far more prominently than Murdoc, and rightfully so) and it seems to be a good overview of the state of things today when it comes to the blogosphere and mainstream media.
I'll have more on the book if and when I get to it.


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Photographic Exhibition of Music and Art in Dementia Care at The Hive
Saturday, 01 September 2012
An exhibition of photographs challenging stereotypical views of people with dementia has gone on display at The Hive.
The exhibition, organised by the Universitys Association for Dementia Studies, will be on display until September 22nd, and is part of a larger series of images that photographer Cathy Greenblat hopes will help viewers seek ways to make loving care and laughter more frequent, and will help to reduce the fear and stigma that surround dementia.
The exhibition, titled Arts, Hearts and Minds, is taking place during the first World Alzheimer's Month with awareness-raising activities across the world taking place over 30 days. September 21st is World Alzheimers Day when the coordinated international effort reaches its peak.
In Worcester, in addition to this exhibition, the Association for Dementia Studies and the Society for the Arts in Dementia Care in Canada, have organised a one day colloquium and exhibition - Voices and vision in creative therapies in dementia. This is being held on Thursday of this week at The Hive.
Professor Dawn Brooker, Director of the Association for Dementia Studies, said: We are very pleased to welcome both this event and the exhibition to The Hive. More and more people are living with dementia and although we have no cure, studies show that creative expression programmes can reduce depression and agitation and improves the quality of life of people living with dementia and their families.
Dr Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka, founder of the Society for the Arts in Dementia Care in British Columbia, added: We are pleased that people have the opportunity to meet and network and hear speakers discuss the importance of personhood and creative therapies to the lives of people living with dementia.


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Everyone has his or her own definition of "fashion". When the word "fashion" pops up, some will automatically think of Vogue magazine or maybe a certain fashion designer. "Fashion is the way one expresses them self to the world visually. It doesn't necessarily mean on-trend, but it does imply an intentional assertion of a personal aesthetic," says Kahlon. Regardless, when the word "fashion" is used, the word has multiple meanings to it.
In Toronto, many people like to minimalize the colours of what they wear. "My personal style is a mix of feminine and edgy aesthetics and is always evolving. I gravitate towards interesting silhouettes, simple detailing and dark colours. I also love a one-of-a-kind print," says Kahlon. She loves one-of-a-kind print. Because of what's on-trend now, the fashion is very minimalistic and bland colours are used in peoples' outfits. Kahlon continues to keep her personal style unique yet simple at the same time.
"My fashion inspiration comes from a mix of people I see on the street and my personal fashion icons of the past," says Kahlon. "I'm constantly inspired by the stylish women I see around Toronto, whose style looks effortless yet on-trend. Toronto girls never look like they're trying too hard, but still have a distinct look. In terms of fashion icons from the past, I will always love Denise Huxtable's style from The Cosby Show. She rocked a plethora of short hair styles and ultra-cool oversized outfits."
Not only does Kahlon's personal style inspires me, but she also runs her own boutique in the heart of downtown Toronto. "I love fashion retail because it combines analytical and creative work, both of which I really enjoy. I am foremost a business woman, but being able to work in the business side of fashion is really fun. Fashion is always changing, so I never get bored," says Kahlon.
I was curious on what made her pursue a career in fashion. "I always knew that I wanted to work in fashion. I grew up watching Fashion Television and shopping in the US to find the type of clothes I couldn't find here," she says.
Experiences in the fashion industry is crucial when running a business. Kahlon says "I worked in buying and store operations for over 10 years before opening my own shop. I've been a store manager, buyer, and operations coordinator in retail companies both large and small. I've worked for brick-and-mortar retailers as well as e-commerce businesses." With this much experience working in the fashion industry, she decided to open up her own store.
Kahlon has been running her own boutique for three years along Queen Street West. The store was first opened up as Sauvage. Then renamed the store to Smoke+Ash not too long ago during March, 2015. The name the store has somewhat changed in terms of new brands coming into the store; lifestyle products are now carried in the store, and the aesthetic is very simple, unique and always evolving. Smoke+Ash only carries women's clothing, shoes and accessories. Also, lifestyle products; such as, candles, soaps, and more. The brands are unique and up to date. A few of the brands are local; some brands are from Australia, and LA. I find that Smoke+Ash is the shop for every woman in Toronto and everywhere else who like to keep it simple and one-of-a kind.


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May 30, 2006
BSG Clearing Solutions GmbH (BSG), a German communications clearing and settlement service provider, today said it will be able and ready to deal with the heavy increase in capacity for roaming clearing that will result from the growth in mobile call volume during the weeks of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
"This will be the biggest sporting event in the world and mobile communications will have an unprecedented role in spectator enjoyment this year," said Roland Bopp, CEO of BSG.
"As the exclusive roaming partner for virtually all wireless operators in Germany, BSG will be on hand to ensure there are no 'own goals' behind the scenes."
An estimated 5 million fans from all continents around the globe supporting the 32 countries taking part are expected to visit Germany during the four-week World Cup competition. Mobile phones will be used to relay messages, download content, send pictures and texts to friends and family, as well as to record goals and highlights.
Companies are already promoting World Cup related content such as player photos, historic video clips, ring tones and games, and operators are expecting intense traffic volumes in largely unpredictable spikes.
All German wireless operators, including T-Mobile and O2, are BSG clients and will be relying on the company to process and clear all roaming transactions.