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We all know Youtube has changed our television habit, ‘Music, Movies and Masti’ everything now on youtueway. On 2015 YouTube became more popular and closer to netizens to spend their time watching more and more videos in different genres, generating billions of views every day. YouTube has gained 60 percent increase in watching time comparing last year.
YouTube has compiled most watched videos of 2015, based on calculations of views, shares, comments, and likes.

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1 Silento- Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) #WatchMeDanceOn

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3 Crazy Plastic Ball PRANK!! |

4 Love Has No Labels | Diversity & Inclusion | Ad Council |

5 Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon |

6 Justin Bieber Carpool Karaoke |

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

ASP.NET Custom GridView with row based contextmenu, single click, double click enabled

Ever wanted to play with such a miraculous gridview that provides you with your own context menu listing various items? Additionally, ever needed single click or double click event for each row of a gridview? It is no more dream only. It is not only possible but also present at your service. Yeah, a custom gridview that can do a number of tasks for you !

1.Single Row Click
2.Double Row Click
3.ContextMenu row-based
4.Ascending/Descending sorting image in the Header elements
5.Fix GridView height when the number of rows <>
6.Built-in Filter Textbox7.Built-in Checkbox per row and per whole GridView

Thanks to the hard-working team from They have provided such a rich gridview.

You have better go to the page and explore all by youself. You can find it here:

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

How to Create DataTable Programmatically in C#, ASP.NET ?

Most of the times programmers fill the DataTable from database. This action fills the schema of the database table into the DataTable. We can bind data controls like GridView, DropdownList to such DataTable. But somtimes what happens is one needs to create a DataTable programmatically. Here I have put the simple method of creating DataTable programmatically in C#.

Update: Responding to comment from one of the readers, I have now posted how to create DataTable in c# with clickable column. As in this post, the DataTable has been bound to an GridView.

Create a DataTable instance

DataTable table = new DataTable();

Create 7 columns for this DataTable
DataColumn col1 = new DataColumn("ID");
DataColumn col2 = new DataColumn("Name");
DataColumn col3 = new DataColumn("Checked");
DataColumn col4 = new DataColumn("Description");
DataColumn col5 = new DataColumn("Price");
DataColumn col6 = new DataColumn("Brand");
DataColumn col7 = new DataColumn("Remarks");

Define DataType of the Columns
col1.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.Int");
col2.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.String");
col3.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.Boolean");
col4.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.String");
col5.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.Double");
col6.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.String");
col7.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.String");

Add All These Columns into DataTable table

Create a Row in the DataTable table
DataRow row = table.NewRow();
Fill All Columns with Data
row[col1] = 1100;
row[col2] = "Computer Set";
row[col3] = true;
row[col4] = "New computer set";
row[col5] = 32000.00
row[col6] = "NEW BRAND-1100";
row[col7] = "Purchased on July 30,2008";

Add the Row into DataTable
Want to bind this DataTable to a GridView?
GridView gvTest=new GridView();
gvTest.DataSource = table;

You are done! Happy dot netting!!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Oracle Error ORA-01722: Invalid Number

ORA-01722: Invalid Number mostly occurs in runtime. There are some errors in programming that may generate ORA-01722: Invalid Number error. Let me present this formally.

The attempted conversion of a character string to a number failed because the character string was not a valid numeric literal. Only numeric fields or character fields containing numeric data may be used in arithmetic functions or expressions. Only numeric fields may be added to or subtracted from dates.

Check the character strings in the function or expression. Check that they contain only numbers, a sign, a decimal point, and the character "E" or "e" and retry the operation

I got the error in runtime when I assigned numeric value to a varchar2 parameter passed to a package. There may other so many possible reasons as discussed above.

At the end, you may also like to read on implementing object relational database features in oracle like nested table, inheritance, collection array, member function etc.

Happy Programming!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Display Matched Item Value from ASP.NET Dropdown List

How do you display the dropdownlist item of an dropdown list according to some value you have as the match string? Let me demonstrate this via an example.

Create ListItems in an ASP.NET DropdownList

(I have used the dropdownlist name ddlTest for this example). Items are as follows:

Traditional Loop Method

string value="";
for(int i=0; i

You see it is inefficient. First it takes more lines of code. Second the loop increases as the item in the dropdownlist increases. The more efficient built in way is demonstrated below.

Display the Item Matched with Dynamic Input String

string value="";
ddlTest.electedValue = ddlTest.Items.FindByValue(value).Value;

The dropdownlist now displays the item having value equal to "". I have only put an example. The high dynamicity of this technique is seen when you supply some dynamic value to the varibale value used in the example above.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Oracle Error ORA-12704: character set mismatch

One gets much worried by ORA-12704:character set mismatch. It is hard to track what is going on. But the guideline below will give relief.

Causes of Oracle Error ORA-12704: character set mismatch

-The string operands(other than an nlsparams argument) to an operator or built-in function do not have the same character set.

- An nlsparams operand is not in the database character set.

- String data with character set other than the database character set is passed to a built-in function not expecting it.

- The second argument to CHR() or CSCONVERT() is not CHAR_CS or NCHAR_CS.

- A string expression in the VALUES clause of an INSERT statement, or the SET clause of an UPDATE statement, does not have the same character set as the column into which the value would be inserted.

- A value provided in a DEFAULT clause when creating a table does not have the same character set as declared for the column.

- An argument to a PL/SQL function does not conform to the character set requirements of the corresponding parameter.

Action to be taken

Check one of the suspected region in your coding in PL/SQL and find the error occuring part. Then you can fix it and get rid of it! Happy error detection!!

Finally I would like to welcome you to get insight on implementing object relational features in oracle illustrated with a simple ecommerce scenario.

Happy Programming!

Thursday, July 24, 2008

How to Display ASP.NET GridView Header and Footer When No Data is Present?

The default behaviour of gridview is that it hides both Gridview header and footer when no data is present. You can note the absence of data (that is not a single row is available) by
putting text in EmptyDataTemplate of gridview.

---- other templates-----No data is present.<\EmptyDataTemplate>
But still you might want to show header and footer. What can we do? There exists a cheat! Just add an empty row to the datasource and bind your gridview to this datasource. Here goes the code.

DataTable table=new DataTable();
table=GetAllData(); //a function that fills the datatable
DataRow row = table.NewRow();
row[0] = "none";
gvTest.DataSource = table;

Now it is nearly done! But one step is remaining. Now the first column of the first row will display "none". We do not want this. So we must hide it. How? Just create the RowDataBound event handler for your gridview.

---- other templates-----
No data is present.
Here goes the code for the rowdatabound event handler:

//invokes when a row is bound to data
protected void gvTest_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)

Note: You must explicitly enable footer to be shown. By default it is not shown. This way:
---- other templates-----
No data is present.
Now you are done. Happy programming!!

kick it on

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Oracle Error: PLS-00323

I encountered Oracle Error: PLS-00323 this morning. It took me time to resolve and fix it. In much cases, PLS-00323 get around you and you have to wander from here to there in Internet. Before going to Internet, you might have been tired of doing all your brains! This is all because of the oracle package that consists of a package specification and its corresponding body definition. Say, you have a package with three variables defined in your sub program and only two defined in your package body. Exactly here you get the error PLS-00323.

PLS-00323: subprogram or cursor 'BANK_GETBYPRIMARYKEY' is declared in a package specification and must be defined in the package body.

Here 'BANK_GETBYPRIMARYKEY' is my sub program.

Fixes: To be sure you can just check the matches in package specification and package body. Happy database programming.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

How to encrypt decrypt password in Oracle data table?

Programmers sometimes need to store user password and some other fields in database data table in encrypted format. There exists an easy way to do this. I have used in my database. In my system, I have a table called Users which contains fields: UserID, UserName, Password,and Email. I have encrypted the password field.

[While continuing the journey, you may also be interested in implementing object relational database features of Oracle illustrated for a simple ecommerce database.]

With this scenario, I get following issues to be solved.Encrypt input password before inserting into data table.Decrypt password before reading it.

For all these requirements I use two functions, one for encrypting password and another for decrypting password.

--create two function: one for encrypt--the other for decrypt:

FUNCTION encrypt( iValue in varchar2, iKey in varchar2 )
return varchar2
vEncrypted varchar2(4000);
-- encrypt input string
dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.desencrypt (input_string => iValue,
key_string => iKey,
encrypted_string => vEncrypted);
return vEncrypted;

FUNCTION decrypt( iValue in varchar2, iKey in varchar2 )

return varchar2
vDecrypted varchar2(4000);
-- decrypt input string
dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.desdecrypt (input_string => iValue,
key_string => iKey,
decrypted_string => vDecrypted);
return vDecrypted;

Monday, July 21, 2008

Master Pages for consistent design of ASP.NET pages

Master pages are the best way if you want consistent look of you website over all pages. Think of all those web sites you surf all day and see the constant part of the pages: header, footer and site maps, and so on. This can be brought very easily and effectively with the help of master pages. A very good series of introductory master page tutorial can be found here.

This is the first tutorial on the series. The later ones will teach many tips and tricks. Don't take it simply. It can do wonder to your sites. You will find there code package too. Enjoy!

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Web site/application design made easy for programmers

Programmers find it boring job to get with website designs. It would be a great aid if he/she could concentrate on programming logic. I have found so many programmers who think design part should not be a good programmer's job.

See here the web site design part made easy- if not easiest. I found this website to be very useful for helping design get better. There are thousands of free design templates. Choose any of them you find suitable for your website/web application and bring the cascade style sheet and templates into your design. You will get higher speed of development. Enjoy!

Visit the site, get around it and praise the great open source community!

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How Facebook Plans to Disrupt Education | Dramel Notes

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Back in September, Facebook made a deal with Summit Public Schools. Don’t worry if you didn’t hear about it when it happened – it was a quiet event, without a lot of fanfare. With that being said, the implications of this partnership might change everything we know about public education.

What are Summit Public Schools?

Summit Public schools are public high schools founded in 2003 by parents and community members who wanted to re-imagine high school education in the United States.

Over the last decade enrollment has grown close to 2000 students at eleven different high schools, and Summit schools have spread from their California home to Washington state.

What Does Education Look Like at Summit?

Summit Public Schools believe strongly in students participating in self-directed learning. This has resulted in an education system that looks entirely different from the typical American high school experience.

The driving focus at Summit schools is to prepare every single student for college and university, no matter their background, and to ensure that their graduates will be “thoughtful and considerate members of society”.

This seems like a crazy goal, but Summit is trying some equally crazy strategies to make it happen.

There is no streaming students into separate tracks dependent on their academic achievement levels. Every student at Summit receives a personalized education plan, focusing on their past experiences, current interests, and future plans.

Learning is accomplished at an individual pace through online course content (presented in a variety of mediums including video, text, and audio), discussions with peers, and one-on-one tutoring from teachers and community mentors.

Instead of teachers acting as aloof educators, they are seen as mentors and collaborators – breaking down social barriers to facilitate learning through supportive relationships.

The other great thing that Summit is doing is placing a focus on technology and innovation. This focus may seem as natural as breathing in tech-focused Silicon Valley where the schools are based, but it’s a school model that is going to become increasingly important as our world’s use of technology continues to grow.

An interactive tool on Summit’s website may give you a better idea of what a day in the life of a Summit student is like – it’s so cool that it may leave you wanting to go back to high school! (Trust me, I never thought I’d say that either!)

Why Does Facebook Care?

It’s nice that there’s this crazy school happening in California, but why on earth would Facebook be interested in it?

It all started when Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, toured the school and told her husband that he had to see it for himself.

Zuckerberg is known for philanthropy, and Summit is definitely a worthy cause. American public schools are generally only seen as average (or below-average) on a global scale, and education issues only become more pronounced in under-funded schools. Education in the United States is something that has needed reform for a long time, and Summit is demonstrating success with an approach that just might be the solution educators and policy makers have been looking for.

True to form, Zuckerberg offered Diane Tavenner (Summit’s founder) a donation for the schools. However, she replied that what Summit really needed was code to run and develop the software used for students’ personalized learning plans.

Facebook got on board.

The partnership between Summit and Facebook is small, but exciting. Zuckerberg shared the partnership on his personal Facebook with some elaboration:

The platform we’re building with Summit — called the Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP — is completely separate from the Facebook service . . . Building software that will enable personalized learning for all children is a new and exciting challenge for Facebook and we can’t do it alone. We’re committed to listening to and learning from the education community — teachers, parents and organizations that are supporting personalized learning — and we’re looking forward to opening up to more students soon.

While the partnership is still in its very early stages, Facebook hopes that in the future it will be able to offer PLP software to students across the country, for free.

What Does This Mean for the Future of Public Education?

Facebook has already changed the way that our world works with regards to communication and social media use, so its potential impact on education should not be underestimated.

Summit boasts incredible success statistics; 96% of its students are accepted to a 4-year college or university program upon graduation – much higher than Silicon Valley’s average college preparedness rate (currently less than 50%). Even students who choose not to attend post-secondary education benefit from the skills they learn about self-directed learning and technology, and are better prepared as global citizens and members of the workforce.

It’s easy to see Summit’s success stories as a phenomenon unique to Silicon Valley, and as an unsustainable model for widespread use.

However, that really isn’t the case.

To be quite frank, the education system currently in place is broken, and it needs to be fixed. Many of the resources being used in Summit’s education plans are free online resources available to anyone at any time, such as Khan Academy math videos and the Crash Course videos produced by Hank and John Green.

There is no reason that resources such as these couldn’t be implemented more widely, especially if Facebook is providing free, quality software that can make personalized learning plans for individual students a reality rather than a dream and free up time for teachers to be mentors and facilitators.

Everyone is already aware that education needs to become more tech-based as the use of technology has expanded into every sphere of our lives. Google has already introduced Google Classroom, and there are also an incredible number of apps for students, educational video games, and integration of technology into the classroom.

That being said, do you think Facebook and Summit are taking this kind of learning too far? Or, like me, are you ready to sign up and re-do high school in this innovative, creative, and personalized way?

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Thursday, 15 March 2012

When you a near to your waking moments you seem to be able to attune yourself to the sounds of the waking world. During this state of mind your dreams are effected by the background noise, what you hear seems to converge with what your dreaming at the time. If the phone rings you seem to hear a phone ring in your dream which may have changed what you would of dreamt. Every time you are awoken at night you find yourself being able to recall your last dream, but if you have had an interrupt free night than many people find it hard to recall if they dreamt anything at all. On the odd times people can sometimes have  a dream and during their day get reminded of the dream they may have had earlier. Is this a prediction or merely a coincidence of serendipity.

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

We have all had dreams we are as naked as the day we were born, Is this our mind trying to tell us that we feel that everyone is watching us. If our subconscious needs to remind us that we are a little paranoid than what does this say about our own awarness. Or is our personal peception affecting us in our sleep as well as our waking life because we cant get past our own insecruities. If we start to accept ourselves and get past the anxiety that comes with feeling sorry for ourselves then will that stop us from dreaming of ourselves without any clothes on.

When your subconscious becomes conscious you start to experience dream awareness. A dream where you know you cant get in trouble for excising your issues with people of authority. Those who have wished they could tell their boss off for making them feel less of person use this opportunity to express their opinion of their employer. This is also an opportunity to slow down and make sense of the surroundings knowing that you are the creator of this amazing site. Your only chance to try and take in the creativity that would have been applied to creating your own portable universe.

Some dreams you could do no wrong because if ever you were questioned, your answer would be the right one. In a dream the moment you walked into someones home you would be challenged by the owner and all you would have to say is this is my house.The so called owner would take your word for it and leave. If you walked out of a shop without paying for an item then a security guard would try and stop you, your answer would be this is my shop i own it and he would apologise and leave. This power only comes to you when you are aware that you are the ruler of this world, if you ever master the power to have those in a trance you will never have nightmares. Nightmares are sign you are no longer in charge of your own mind.

Dreams are reminders of our daily routines and our thoughts that lay dormant in our subconscious. Our daily routines are hard to separate because of the monotonous tasks that fill the day. This is sometimes reflected in a dream that we've had before. A dream where we made a wrong turn and got caught, this reminder enlightens us to an outcome that we now have the power to change. The dream carries through and a different path opens us to new possibilities. The lucid the dream, the easier for us to survive the challenges we put to ourselves remembering that the moment we fail the information is filed and will remain there until we come across the same dream. This is like a mini series that doesn't seem to get us anywhere for that work and obligation will always interfere with our minds therapy.

Dream chases  are a common re-occurrences that we all seem to experience. We seem to be an enemy of own way of thinking, it's almost as if the chase scene is a defence mechanism to our own curiosity that stops our thoughts from questioning something we not ready to know. When we are eventually caught we wake as quick as we are caught, this is enough to shake us out of sleep and leaving us feeling anxious. Any questions we might have had during the dreams are forgotten the moment we are left feeling unsatisfied because we have failed the journey by getting caught by the over powering crowd.

So many different types of dreams people experience every night, and people are still vague when describing what sought of dreams they had. We almost are a bit shy to share the nights details because it is hard for some people to separate a dream where you control what happens to the other dreams where you feel that  you are on auto pilot. Dreams can get strange quickly because there isn't a natural order to how things flow during sleep, leaving the dreamer feeling guilty because of what his alter ego might have done. You are left at the mercy of your own mind and when you can not influence the direction of your choices you find yourself doing the complete opposite of what you might have done if there was repercussions.


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Perlis Mufti speaks his mind

AT 36, Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin (pix) had the distinction of being the youngest person to be appointed a mufti when he assumed the post in Perlis in 2006. He is now described as a boldly progressive Islamic scholar. He talked to CHOONG BOON SIEW recently about some controversial religious issues and what attracts youths to the Islamic State (IS). Following are excerpts from the interview.

theSun: It looks like your first tenure stands in stark contrast to your current one. On what levels have this occurred?

Mohd Asri: The first time round, not many voiced a desire for open-minded thinking. In fact, Umno during the time was more open than PAS was. Many of my suggestions on matters such as khalwat (close proximity) were staunchly opposed by PAS. Largely, I was supported on many counts by Umno. But with changing times the roles have reversed. Umno’s now more conservative, and PAS has opened up a bit more, especially their religious scholars, perhaps due to their Pakatan counterparts.

The number of ordinary Muslims worldwide who have cast aside their normal lives, families and friends to join ISIS has been a cause for concern. Young Muslims are particularly vulnerable. What could their primary motivation be?

Social media plays a fundamental role here. In the pre-social media days numerous things could occur without large public awareness. Now it’s highly detailed… To do something about it is not unique to the Muslim world, as volunteers from the West to Palestine or eco-activists have shown. Some have even lost their lives in the process. But the West is familiar with open information for a long while now. When Muslims first experience this exposure, it triggers internal encouragement. Mix it with religious elements and some will, in their minds, they hear the beckoning for them to participate. It is my firm belief that we cannot wholly prevent people from heading to such conflict zones. In principle, I concur with helping the oppressed. After all it’s a praiseworthy deed. So going there per se is not wrong, merely what’s erroneous are the channels in which this occurs, as ISIS demonstrates.

But isn’t there a deeper, underlying rationale for Muslim youths to do so?

I can name several. The action of the US and its Western allies in invading and bombing Muslim countries has engendered a sense of despair in Muslims worldwide. They simply don’t know who to turn to. Disappointed in their own governments for its corruption and injustice along with anger at the US has made them look for solutions elsewhere. Thus they turn to faith for solace. When they hear of ISIS they are led to believe that it’s a revival of the Caliphate during Islam’s Golden Age, and as such wish to be a part of it. Call it a sort of idealism if you will. Never mind the fact that it’s only a pipe dream, it cannot exist as how we understand it simply because circumstances are different in this day and age.

Could this be due to a lack of spiritual understanding, specifically teachings, Qu’ranic knowledge, hadiths, among others?

Yes, in a way. I always place emphasis on Muslims to understand Islam not merely from written texts but also at the surrounding context. You can only learn so much by reading or rote-memorisation. This lacking, so to speak, is why the idealised Caliphate is no longer relevant. The Caliphate does not exist to perpetuate warfare as how IS is doing. Its purpose is to establish good governance, instil Islam with a positive image for the rest of the world, and most important of all, to ensure and uphold justice for all.

Another point in fact, many religious movements have promoted the idea of an Islamic state over the years, without providing a clear explanation to what it’s supposed to be. These movements often try to differentiate themselves from their surrounding political systems, yet commonly lack sufficient training in other fields, administration being one. Thus in previous times the populaces’ impression of an Islamic State is one of rulings and penalties. Yet integrity, fidelity and social welfare is uniformly important. The second error is believing an Islamic state to be a clergy, or more accurately a mullah state. Certainly, Iran is a prime example. Hence, it’s now more vital than ever for the populace to be comprehensively educated on what an Islamic state truly is. To understand its highest purpose and decide whether the state will be either one punishment after another or to live in peace with each other.

As one of Malaysia’s religious leaders, what steps do you think the authorities can take to deter Muslim youths from joining IS?

Provide the right channels for those who want to help the oppressed, via various volunteer organisations for example. This could perhaps stem the tide. And involving oneself in high-risk areas does not necessarily mean taking up arms. Providing medical aid, or helping out in refugee camps is equally laudable.

Detailed methods would be under the federal government’s jurisdiction, but as Mufti of Perlis then and now I promote mutual understanding of one another, endorsing tolerance whenever possible. By doing so I endeavour to reduce tensions among Muslims and non-Muslims and encourage peace and goodwill. In turn I hope that it will prevent youths from viewing radicalism as a solution when they realise there are always other ways.

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The 1970s were an era of spiritual awakening.  Even hippie weed smokers got in on the Jesus action.  LSD seemed to fan their consciousness to new agape love and peace-making qualities. There were public baptisms at places like Woodstock and the Monterey Pop Festival.  Clergy were involved in ending the war and flashing peace signs.
Tim LaHaye received international superstardom after publishing the Left Behind series, which is about the gospel prophecy of the rapture.  The rapture is the pre-tribulation belief, loosely stated in the Book of Matthew, that ardent Christian believers will be suddenly removed from the earth right before God’s judgment is unleashed on the planet.  The tribulation is the final seven years of suffering on Earth that will test human spirituality.  It will involve pestilence, famine, epidemic diseases, multiple earthquakes, and other worldwide disasters.  There will be a Beast, or anti-Christ, a devilish leader who will lead the world astray with his magnetism and dictate purchases through the use of a number, like a credit card.  Civil authority will be arrested and government authority will not be able to control the people.  The world will be in economic and spiritual chaos.
When I was cajoled by a colleague into going to this movie, I had reminiscences of my youth pastor in the mid-’70s telling us about the rapture and pre-Armageddon.   I did not know what to expect entering the movie theater, but I figured it would be a cheesy version of End Times prophecy.  I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Nicolas Cage in the top billing.  Lea Thompson plays his wife.  Nicolas Cage has been through some pre-rapture trials.  Lisa Marie Presley made him sell his beloved baseball collection when she was briefly married to him.  Although he was born with a silver spoon, being the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he has carved his way onto the industry A-list with challenging roles.
Cage states in a recent interview about “Left Behind,” “I was very taken by the family dynamic that plays out in this script and that’s what drew me to the project; that and an opportunity to work again with Vic Armstrong. I had a good rapport with him on another movie (Season of the Witch), so I felt that I could get to where I wanted to go with Captain Steele. This is a person who is in an extraordinary situation and realizes what his values are through a catharsis during the experience of this flight that he’s on.”
He states about the core of the movie, “If there’s anything for me, I want that to come across, yeah, we all make mistakes, but in a moment of crisis what we really want to go back to is the love we have for our families. That’s what pulled me into this project. I’ve always been attracted to movies that aren’t afraid to venture into the unknown.”
Cage was not aware that there is a television series called “The Leftovers” in which other people picked up on the End Times prophecy and dramatized it.  He was just focused on the character.  He states, “I think someone invented a steam train in one part of the world and another person was inventing the same thing and they had never talked. So I mean, there are times when you can tap into something subconsciously. But that wasn’t on my mind, I wasn’t aware of any of it. I just felt that the script was a challenge and it gave me a chance to really try to make the extraordinary believable and to do something authentic.”  He was referring to the worldwide awareness of End Times scripture.
Another strong actor in the film was Cassi Thomson, who challenges the beliefs of her born-again mother and the fidelity of her father, a pilot about to embark to England to have a weekend tryst with his lover/flight attendant, Hattie Durham, played by Nicky Whelan.  Thomson, who played the daughter, Chloe Steele, was entirely focused on her worldly college pursuits and opposed to her mother’s obsession with Christianity, to which she had recently converted.  Rayford Steele (Nicolas Cage) explains to Chloe, “If your mother is going to leave me for another man, it might as well be Jesus.”
As Rayford Steele, the pilot, ascends across the Atlantic with his flight crew and about 50 passengers, Chloe discovers right after lift-off that her dad is going to a U2 concert with black market tickets with the sexy flight attendant.  She sulks, realizing her father lied to her when she came home to surprise him on his birthday weekend.  She heads home in her dad’s car after meeting him at the airport briefly to wish him a happy birthday.
When she gets home, she is greeted by her Bible-banging mother, who immediately opens up a conversation about salvation.  Chloe says, “I just got off a plane. Save it for later.” Her bespectacled brother shadows the conversation in the hallway, then begs his sister to take him to the mall with her.  They go to the mall and the rapture takes place there.  Her brother disappears along with hundreds of other people.  A car crashes into the mall area.
Simultaneously, people disappear off the plane into thin air.  A mother played by Jordin Sparks of American Idol panics and blames the flight crew for her daughter disappearing.  She thinks it’s a conspiracy by her husband.  A midget yells at a Muslim when the Muslim says, “Let’s all pray together.”  The midget replies, “Whose God are we going to pray for?”  Jordin Spark’s character panics and somehow gets ahold of a gun from the cockpit and points it toward everyone.
There are monumental moments of truth in the film, but as an audience member, I didn’t feel bombarded by religious quotes or scriptural warning.  It was normal dialogue for people in a crisis situation.  A British woman on the plane who went to Bible camp recalls the prophecy of the rapture and tells the passengers that this was the incident her camp counselors warned her about in sixth grade.  An event would take place causing the body of Christ to be taken suddenly from the earth.  Some people seem to digest what she is saying.
Nicolas Cage asks his would-be lover to go collect the belongings of the flight attendant who disappeared.  While in the cockpit he finds her calendar book, which states she was attending a Bible study on a Thursday night.  Pilot Steele concludes his assumption: all the people who disappeared were Christian believers, including his wife he cannot reach.
Meanwhile, Chloe’s car gets wrecked by a driverless bus in the mall parking lot.  She treks home only to find the obvious.  Her mother has disappeared to be with Christ.  She walks silently around the house, looking at the plaques and Christian symbols her mother has placed in almost every room.  She visits the family pastor at the church, actually finding him there.  She asks him why he didn’t go up with the rest.  He says, “I recited the words, but that didn’t make me a believer.”  Chloe is still in a cynical stage.  She realizes she made a mistake, though, by not giving her mother the time of day.
The movie ends in a secular way when Chloe finally reunites with her father, who turns around in the Atlantic and heads back to the States.  This gives both remaining family members hope.  Chloe is about to jump off a bridge when her father reaches her. Rayford Steele is unable to land at La Guardia or JFK, so Chloe enables them to land in a construction zone with a long runway.  Everyone lands safely.  The flight attendant who was taken aback by Pilot Steele’s biblical revelations midway through the film makes peace with her betrayed lover when he asks her to pitch in and keep the passengers calm.  She does a tremendous job, and they congratulate each other for a safe landing.
This movie could be classified as action.  Although it falls under the category of apocalyptic fiction, the message is in the action itself.  “The rapture is the calling card of those who are dragging their feet to commitment,” says Jon Yoder, a youth pastor in Santa Monica.  There is no Bible-beating of scriptures or attempt to prove the possibility of the prophecy mentioned in the one of the four gospels.  The movie has realistic dialogue, would appeal to a secular audience based on the acting alone, and has an unusual chain of events.  Nicolas Cage rose to the occasion and pulled off the reality of a near-flight disaster and being professional during one.  His co-stars enabled the production to successfully take and land its course while only mildly rattling the audience conscience.  Grade: A-


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What is our message?

Very near nine years ago, we received news that a newborn boy who we hoped to name Mitchell was not going to join our family as we had hoped.   His birth mom [referred to here as T] changed her mind at the last moment.

This is what I wrote in my journal:
It has been five days since we've received the news that T's boy was welcomed into arms other than ours.  By God's grace, we have accepted this news as coming from God in love.  It was hard news, painful news, news that has brought many tears from our eyes and those who have been weeping with us.  BUT, we trust that God's arm was not too short to bring this baby to us if it had been His good pleasure to do so...we also trust that He has not disappointed us out of cruelty, but out of love.  We grieve, but we do not despair.  God is all-powerful and He is good.
The manifestations of His love through the body of Christ have moved me to tears as often as the pain I have felt in my heart...we have been carried in God's arms of mercy and are filled with thankfulness for His compassion and comfort and His people, for the simple providences like songs that come on the radio, the call from our caseworker extending T's apology, the cards and phone calls and hugs and tears of friends, etc...our God is faithful and He is all-wise...we trust that this too is being worked by Him for our good and His glory.
My good friend Gina sent me this quote from "The Life and Letters of Janet Erskine Stuart" in response to her hearing the news:
She delighted in seeing her plan upset by unexpected events, saying that it gave her great comfort and that she looked on such things as an assurance that God was watching over her stewardship and was securing the accomplishment of His will and working out His own designs.  Whether she traced the secondary causes to the prayer of a child, to the imperfection of an individual, to obstacles arising from misunderstandings or to interference of outside agencies, she was joyfully and graciously ready to recognize the indication of God's ruling hand and to allow herself to be guided by it.
Can we recognize God's ruling hand when we see our plans upset?  I long to say yes with greater faithfulness, for I still respond according to my old nature all too often. I heard once that when we suffer, in whatever way (loss, sickness, injury, persecution, etc) that it is like God holding a megaphone up to our life...we are always preaching a message by the way we live and what we speak, but that message is magnified when there is pain or sorrow attached to it.  What is my message?  What is yours?  I so want to declare the goodness and love of my Savior at all times.  Please pray for me to be more faithful in declaring His unsurpassed worth and glory every day that He gives me breath.

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  1. My constant reminder to myself is to be careful to love the Giver, not just His gifts. I think sometimes a gift is withheld from me to ensure that I've not forgotten.


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Perry’s business was a leader in the creation of lower cost stoves, as it still is these days.&nbsp&nbspBack then, Perry utilized inexpensive labor from Sing Sign jail to make stoves.&nbsp&nbspWhen his opposition obtained a legislation banning such prison labor, in 1866 Perry relocated creation to the lower-wage, nonunion south and experimented with utilizing “colored” labor.&nbsp&nbspToday, US Stove is even now based in Tennessee with manufacturing there, in Alabama and China. The initial 50 % of an&nbsp8-moment promo video&nbspfrom US Stove provides a polished story of their historical past.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Beaverhead 100K

Most of the pre-race meeting for the race the next day centered around rain, hail, lightning, grizzly bears, mountain lions, and snakes...  It was going to be a good day!

2:15AM . . . I'm already awake when my alarm does NOT go off.

Apparently my wife was awake too.  Not wanting to listen to the loud "Hot For Teacher" tunes coming from my phone, she got up and turned it off before it started.

Better sit up.  I've got to be on the bus to the start of the Beaverhead 100K at 3:15AM.  I've got 62 miles to run today!

After a low key prep talk, the race director sent us off!

The race started at 5am while it was still dark.  That said, it would only be dark for about 15 or 20 minutes, so I elected to go without my headlamp and mooch off those around me who carried lights.

I planned to start slow, and keep it that way, since I was not made confident by my lackluster training (thanks to illness, as well as general busy-ness) over the month of June.

I quickly synced up with my buddy Derek, who had also been forced to miss some training, and who also seemed to be starting intentionally slow.

Eventually we got a spectacular sunrise through the trees.

Turns out there are a lot of trees on the continental divide!

The month of June in Boise was HOT.  Record hot.  And when visualizing the course in my head prior to the event, I had pictured the Continental Divide Trail consisting of nothing but a long exposed ridgeline with no shade.  This, combined with the heat had made me nervous.  Then the week leading up to the event we had large afternoon thunderstorms every day that dropped enough rain to shatter our one-day rain record, and thunder loud enough to shake the whole house.  Add rain, hail, and lighting to the worries about exposure and heat, and I didn't know what to expect.

Fortunately, the temperatures for the race were mostly PERFECT, and the course was actually mostly run through trees in the shade!  It couldn't get more idyllic!

About an hour in I was having so much fun already that I couldn't help but snap a selfie
At the first aid station at mile 5 I stopped to fill my bottles, and Derek just kept going.  It was 9 miles to the next aid station, and I had gone pretty light with my bottle selection (20 oz total compared to most people's 40 oz), so I had to be sure to fill at every station.  That would be the last of Derek I would see on this course.

After I filled my bottles I shoved some watermelon in my mouth and rushed off.  About 1/2 mile later I realized that I had repeated my mistake from aid station #1 at Leadville and forgotten to restock my Gu supply.  Doh!

I still had one Gu from the start, plus the espresso Gu that I carried in case of emergencies.  I made the two of them last me the 9 miles.

Somewhere during that stretch I met up with my friend Drew, who I knew from many past races.  We were traveling about the same speed, so we ended up running together for the remaining 4 hours or so until the mile 28 aid station.  Good company made time fly!

All I remember from the stretch from miles 5 to 28 is that the trails were smooth and buffed out, the climbs were never too steep, and we were surrounded by green moss on the floor and green pine trees in the sky.

At the mile 28 aid station Thy and Max were there to greet me.  Seeing them in the middle of a race is always a pleasure I look forward to!

Me and Mr. Max
I took my socks off and addressed some hot spots with vaseline, and then Drew and I were off!

Apparently Max tried to run up the road and follow us after we left!

We left the mile 28 aid station at a quick jog . . . for all of 8 steps.  Then we came to our senses and realized that the road was uphill, and we had a long way to go yet, so we slowed to a power-walk.  We were both very happy that even with the fairly long aid station break we were still averaging less than 12 minute miles, a very good pace for a 100K (at least for us!).

I kept up with Drew until about mile 36, at which point the dreaded bonk began!

It started with Drew noticing that I had become more quiet, and less talkative, as I just tried to focus on moving and not on the quickly increasing pain in my thighs.

Then I suddenly dropped back, and didn't see Drew again on the course.

I stumbled through the mile 39 aid station and just tried to keep moving.

The problem was that my legs weren't working.  My quads screamed with every step like I was in the midst of my last long set of squats in the gym.  The thing was, the set never ended!

After mile 39, the next aid was mile 47.  Those 8 miles were brutal!  The course wasn't any more difficult, the climbs weren't any steeper, but I was just moving so slow!

Then, as if to accentuate how terrible I felt, an afternoon thunderstorm rolled in and unleashed a mix of heavy rain and hail on my for a full 30 minutes.  My super thin windbreaker was soaked, and I was not moving fast enough to stay warm.  I was frozen to the bone.  I couldn't work the zippers on my pockets, or the keeper straps on my water bottles because I couldn't feel my fingers.  I even ended up walking a good chunk of the downhills (the most demoralizing thing ever!).

This was stupid.  I hadn't trained enough.  I hadn't slept enough.  There was lightning in the distance.  This weather would be dangerous on the exposed ridge later in the course.  After mile 47 it would be 9 miles to the next aid station, I'd never make it at this pace!

These were all lies, but they were all the excuses I needed.  I made up my mind to quit at the next aid station.

Strangely, this seemed to help.  Suddenly I was transported to being near the finish, at least MY finish...   I picked up my pace a little to get it over with...

There was a voice in the back of my head that told me I would regret quitting.  I tried my best to ignore this voice.

When I made it to the mile 47 aid station I had all my excuses armed and ready to be deployed lest any well-meaning aid station volunteer try to convince me to continue.

"How are you doing?", asked a volunteer.

"I'm hurting", I replied.

"Any serious medical problems?"

"No, it's just that my quads really hurt..."  I conceded.

"...and it was freezing in the rain and wind!"  Aha!  What would they say to that?  I had packed far too light for this adventure!  I had to quit!

"Looks like the afternoon storm is clearing now, I bet it will be nice for the rest of your race."  The friendly volunteer said.

"How far to the next aid station?"  I asked, knowing the answer would be 9 miles.

"Only 4 miles."  came the reply.

What??? Doggonit!  My plot to quit was foiled!  I knew I could at least go the 4 more miles to the next aid station.

The nice volunteers gave me some sort of "icy-hot" goop for my quads, and a couple ibuprofin.  I followed that with food, water, and coca cola.

Somehow, the mile 47 aid station ended up reviving me!  less than 1/4 mile after the aid station the searing pain in my quads was completely gone.  In fact, my legs felt almost as good as new!

I started to run on the downhills and flats again.  I swang my arms and picked up the walking pace on the uphills.  I looked around, and for the first time in a few hours I noticed the beautiful views.

Then realized that I was actually having FUN!

At the mile 53 aid station I wanted to get in and out quick so that I could take advantage of how good I felt, while it lasted.  However, one of the aid station volunteers said, "The course heads right down that way, but Janhke Lake is right over that ridge up there," as he motioned towards the ridgeline 50 yards uphill from us.

"He really wants to show you Janhke Lake", explained another volunteer.  It was clear that this guy was very passionate about this place, and since he had gone to all the trouble of hauling a bunch of food in here just for us runners, I couldn't say no.  We hiked up to the ridge, and sure enough, the view was spectacular!

In addition to Janhke lake (which was very pretty), I had a great view of the course ahead:  A talus covered ridgeline that towered over the lake.  It looked like a pretty big mountain to ascend from where I stood.  Better get going.  I thanked the volunteer and off I went.

I believe this section of course was still considered "trail", as opposed to the talus fields which you can just see peaking over the top of this peak...
During the next section I passed a man and woman racing together who had passed me during my low point earlier.  They commented that I looked much better than last time they'd seen me.

Eventually I hit the talus, or "scree" as the race description called it.  There was nothing runnable about this 3 miles stretch.  The talus consisted of loose boulders that rolled when you stepped on them.  The flattest and most stable section of talus occurred directly above a huge cliff that dropped down to the lakes on the Montana side far below.  Crossing the field became a game of weighing the risk of a broken ankle on the loose stuff to the left, against a death fall if you tripped and fell to the right.  It was exciting to say the least!

Looking back on the initial section of talus
Over one high point on the ridge (it had a summit register that I skipped), then another, and finally a third high point.  The ridge was slow going and seemed it would never end.  Every time you gained a summit, another appeared on the other side of it.

Obligatory summit photo on one of the ridge high points
Finally I got to the spot where the caution tape marked the turn off of the ridge and onto a very steep game trail down the side of the mountain.  This was the much hyped 3,000ft per mile descent.  I paused at the top to fire up some tunes.  I didn't bring headphones, so I just cranked up the volume on my phone as loud as it would go and blasted some Pennywise.

I then started careening down the trail!  It turned out to be more like 1000ft per mile slope, but was still one of the steepest, and definitely the funnest, things I've run down!

It was steep and loose, the way I like it!  I ran and lept, and got crazy looks from the people I passed who were slowly (and sanely) picking their way down the steep trail with hiking poles.  Eventually the grade mellowed slightly, and then I was spit out onto an old logging road.

I ran right through the last aid station, thanking the volunteers as I passed.

The road was now very rocky, and at times submerged under the creek, but I picked up the pace even more, leaping over rocks and splashing through the creek.  I was somehow still feeling great and wanted to finish strong!  With a huge grin on my face I charged into the last 2 mile or so section or rolling terrain.  To hell with walking, I ran the ups, and ran faster on the downs.

My watch said 62.3 miles, and still there was no sign of the finish . . . my legs were finally starting to fade.  Where was the end???

Then I saw a few little kids.  "Where is the finish?" I asked.

"Right down that hill." came the reply.

"Woohoo!"  I picked up the pace again, charged down the hill, across the finish line, and into the arms of Thy and Max . . . who then held me up so I wouldn't collapse.

Two days later and I still can't wipe the grin off my face when I replay the race in my mind.  What a great day!


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Good Beer Week: no more brewin’ now we’re just chewin’

Due to space concerns and not giving The Local Taphouse’s food at the Brewers and Chewers event in my last post any coverage whatsoever, I decided to do one dedicated solely to the food and the beer (see previous post here discussing brewery-industry-journalisty types and wonderfully esteemed, scintillating company it was too). It never felt like we had enough time with either person which indicates to me that the event was a roaring success.

I already mentioned Bob’s Armpit by Wig & Pen frontman Richard Watkins so I’ll skip that and head onto Sierra Nevada’s Kellerweis. Look, I’ll confess upfront that I didn’t make any notes on the beer…but I do remember enjoying this with the mixed leaf salad with Stone & Wood Pacific Ale mustard dressing, a beer that’s clocked up an impressive accolade best read about on Oz BrewsNews. You can also buy a copy of The Critics’ Choice to Australia’s Best Beers which I highly recommend (full disclosure: I do know several of the contributors).

Sorry, my table. I stole a lot of the tomatoes. I’m destined to suffer a similar fate to St Augustine for such crimes…(when he’s not talking about his racy past and how sorry he is about that, he also goes on about how wracked with guilt he was at stealing pears from a neighbour’s tree as a kid. Read his Confessions if you don’t believe me). Beautiful salad: nice mix of leaves and the dressing was subtle but special and an excellent appetite-whetter.

Not really paying attention to beer and food matching but desperate to get just as many Sierra Nevada beers into me (responsibly: Tristan and I shared a single bottle of all of the ones we had for the whole night), next up was the Sierra Nevada Summerfest lager, 2011. Fresh off the boat!

sn summerfest

This was drunk alongside two courses – field mushrooms with chorizo sauté with Brewdog Tokyo (eeeee!) and beef empanadas with 8 Wired Big Smoke porter. Both courses were phenomenal – juicy, sauce-soaked-up mushies and the beef empanadas I could easily have done with another though given the generous servings, that probably wouldn’t have been wise.

Raising the culinary bar even further, two generous dishes designed to complement each other were served yet again – Moroccan spiced couscous steamed with Sierra Nevada Kellerweis, with roast vegetables served separately. The second actual dish however was the most moreish for me of the evening – BrewDog Paradox Isle of Arran lamb neck tagine with snow peas and tomatoes. The meat was melt-in-the-mouth tender and again, greedy sot that I am, it didn’t feel like there was enough to go around. Heavenly. The couscous soaked up the tagine’s sauce making sure not a drop was wasted! Bless you couscous. Our table companions opposite us TJ and Chris were also celebrating its deliciousness.

Forgive me, but I did not have a beer that matched any of these dishes, drinking ‘rogue’ if you will: in fact the word ‘iconic’ comes to mind to describe my next shared beer…as does two songs (replacing the word ‘atomic’ for ‘iconic’).

Then it was onto their Torpedo IPA. What a treat to enjoy these beers guilt-free as well as fresh…I’m not implying I would judge you for your decision to drink grey, but personally, it was something that did bother me when I chose to do it though the temptation and the lure to try a beer I’d never had before was just too great. I’m like Jonathan Safran Foer being all private about eating meat as described in the first chapter of his book Eating Animals (which for the record I never intend to give up).

Dessert time! Oh lord. I said I would only have half a slice but it was just too fab to share.

To finish the sumptuous dinner we had a Feral brown ale gingerbread pudding served with crème anglaise and butterscotch sauce. What a perfect end to a glorious evening. The gingerbread flavouring was fairly subtle but the sauce! Absolute gustatory gleefulness.

TJ, the lovely lass across from me was proudly extolling the virtues of a damn good dark beer from very early on in the evening. Finally, after going through all the beer on the beer menu I’d not previously tried, it was time to get our SN porter and stout on.

Sierra Nevada porter

Sierra Nevada stout

The amount of positive things I have to say about The Local Taphouse, you’d seriously think I worked for them (I don’t) but they just do so much for good beer. Aside from the dishes being fantastic as stand-alone dishes, I felt like they had a small element that connected each to the previous one served, the progression was natural.

If Brewers and Chewers runs next year for Good Beer Week and how Steve & co. managed to run it so effortlessly this year given it was a brand new format is awe-inspiring, you really ought to make an attempt to get to it. Things really can only get better from this point onwards.

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Good Beer Week: do some chewin’ while you talk to those that do the brewin’

Think speed dating, but you all stay in your seats and when the bell is rung, a fairly prominent brewer(ish type) has to get up and move on along to the next table.

That is the concept behind The Local Taphouse’s ‘Brewers and Chewers’ event. Not that I know anything about speed dating, but one of my lovely table companions TJ was keen to clue us all in. Basically, we had a sit-down dinner and then a bell was rung and one of seven beery folks had a cloche brought to them and their plate, and they were whisked away.

As usual, the lucky punters had Prof Pilsner from Beer Blokes to assist with MC duties. Here he is introducing a very affable Soren of 8 Wired Brewing to the crowd.

This is going to be a difficult post to rein so bear with me: let’s start with the brewers and if applicable, their beers imbibed. The non-brewy folks had their own spot to sit in and stayed in said spot for duration of the evening. Downstairs of our beloved Local was cleared of its usual suspects (ie. the comfy green couch which eats my fat arse every time I sit in it) and it was converted into a rather swanky dinner hall for the evening. Little did I know that I had the great fortune to be seated next to Richard Watkins, head brewer of the Wig & Pen in Canberra.

Lovely, soft-spoken fellow, shown here listening to a question from a fellow diner. Coincidentally, Tris and I had started with an unstyled wild bacteria and yeasty number that was on its way to becoming a lambic but not quite (his words, not mine!) that is then aged for a year. This beery complement to our esteemed guest was called Bob’s Armpit, at 7% ABV. Incidentally, knock Canberra all you like (goodness knows our MC did!), the weather there is actually very stable and predictable and thus quite good for brewing. I cannot comment on its denizens, never having been…

Though many of you know the Wig & Pen has changed owners, Richard said he’ll still have a fair bit of involvement with the brewpub and definitely with beer. Phew.

Next up was our lovely launchess of the Barley’s Angels Melbourne chapter, the Beer Diva Kirrily Waldhorn. I didn’t get to chat to her much, but just enough to gush to her about her being the one starting me off on my beer-and-food journey. Sam from True South and Karen of Red Hill were also chatting to her at the other end of our table.

Third brewy suspect was Brad Rogers of Stone and Wood, wearing their eponymous “water hops malt & yeast” T-shirt (want!). Stone and Wood is up in Byron Bay, is about five acres and Brad said they like to keep it simple. His beery insight was that Galaxy hops can be variable whatsits. Given last event’s and post’s personal insult hurled at this here writer, I can assure you, this is the last time my ugly mug will ever appear in a blog post. I’m only sorry the beer being imbibed was not Brad’s (confession: it was most likely Sierra Nevada’s Kellerweis).

That damn bell, you keep ringing and robbing us of beery folks! Our fourth brewy person in the hotseat was the ever charming Soren Eriksen of 8 Wired Brewing from New Zealand, pictured at the beginning of the post. He divulged that due to shipping and lower excise costs within Australia, the brewery is selling almost more beer in Australia than in their home country! Happy to keep on appreciating, Soren!

It was Brendan Varis of Feral Brewing in Western Australia that got me writing down furiously – he’s been a great inspiration to a lot of Australian brewers and beer drinkers. Karen of Red Hill Brewery (yes, she owns a brewery, she is not a brewer, I’d best specify that) happily sited him in front of our table as what got them started. Brendan was insanely generous with his take on brewing: he said he loves Chinook as his ‘go to’ hop but that the 2011 Australian one wasn’t as fantastic as previous incarnations and that it took ten tanks (or twenty brews!) to actually discover this. He also showed fondness for Columbus and Horizon but was getting all cosy of late with the Sorachi and its lemony goodness but it was his discussion of terroir and whether or not it exists for beer that was truly scintillating. Is this something beer industry folks will be talking more about down the track…?

Though I’d got to listen to James Watt twice before the dinner, I still cannot fucking believe he sat next to me and talked to me personally for the next brewer stint. Oh. My. God. He apologised for coming off as condescending at Ale Stars and seemed to be operating on a cyborg-like amount of sleep since he’d arrived in Australia but look: speaking with him at the dinner is easily going to be the highlight of the week for me. James gave me four minutes to take a sip of his own glass of Hardcore IPA and come up with a poem for him. I did feel like we bonded because and pardon this profanity but I did refer to that fundamentalist organisation as ‘cunts’, or rather how they treated him (yes yes, I realise, not doing my fellow wymmins favours by using the word in a pejorative sense, but as a quick aside, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, it’s slang for the female nether regions and not considered rude. So there).

Did he like it? As a poetaster, I’ll never really know but he took a photo and I caned it out in less than four minutes. If I’m lucky, it may end up on a beer bottle but these brewing rockstars, bet they say that to every sassy brunette they meet in a foreign town (I wish I’d suggested to James that Sassy Brunette might actually be an excellent name for a future BrewDog brew…).

So could the highs that punky James provided be topped? Last brewy-type Steve Grossman opening with an anecdote about how Sierra Nevada gave the film Get Him To The Greek an ample supply of their beer was a great conversation starter. When I watched it with Tristan, we’d spotted the bottles (and I laughed so much during the film I couldn’t sleep for its sheer hilarity) with much glee. Great to see that the thirty-one-year-old craft brewery got their product on a film rather than *insert your chosen commercial swill’s name here*

This post is a bit longer than intended so will publish a hopefully shorter post next up about the drinky-chewy aspect of the evening, which really does deserve only the brand of long-winded critique I can give it *wink*.

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not all feral creatures are bad

Due to the Australian International Beer Awards being on in Melbourne, the Local Taphouse managed to wrangle a super-special guest from WA for a super-special Ale Stars session. Brendan Varis, the head brewer of Feral Brewing Company based in Western Australia came to chat about his beer. As a result of his presence and focussing on the beer his brewery makes, the Local Taphouse was packed. Brendan was great to listen to – warm, engaging and clearly enthusiastic about what he does. It was interesting to learn that he speaks of Feral Brewing as a brew pub, that is they brew beer for their establishment primarily. Does that mean us outsiders get the ‘offcuts’? As if! In fact, Ale Stars got a special beer brewed – just for us.

In the month prior to this session, I got presented with my Ale Stars tankard and it was christened on this evening – with Bridge Road’s robust porter. If you look carefully, you can see my name on my tankard. Yes yes, small things… etc. I was a little impatient and should have let it warm a little to better taste the flavours. As you can see from my glass, I wasn’t exactly having trouble finishing it.

Onto the Ferals. The very first beer of the evening was the iWit 2.0 (props for the playful name) – an imperial witbier with pepper and ginger notes at 7.5% ABV. It is very sweet, uses the same yeast as Hoegaarden, more grain and a stronger wort and five times as much coriander and orange peel (these latter two are characteristic in witbier). Brendan said it’s their flagship beer – the customers love it and it pulls the awards. I’ve said it many times before – this style doesn’t have me leaping for joy, but this is very drinkable. I would absolutely order it again.

 ale stars

The second beer was the Dark Funk at 4.7% ABV. Bacteria is introduced (this is not a traditional technique in beermaking) to yeast to make it sour. It’s very much like a Belgian kriek but without the sweetness. The beer is housed in an oak barrel that previously housed white wine (chardonnay) and lactobacillus. The oak has a lovely aromatic of vanilla in it. This beer can take one to two years to be ready though it only spends ten months in the barrel. The barrels are sourced from the local winemakers, of which there are plenty in the region. Brendan stated that normally vintners are quite reluctant to acknowledge wild and/or wine yeasts. This was probably my least favourite of the Ferals tried this evening. My admitting that is probably going to get me booted out of the beer Stonecutters’ club for not being beer nerdy enough.

 ale stars

Brewed especially for us, the third offering was the Belgian IPA. It was suggested that the horde of beer-crazed Ale Stars come up with a good name. Beer Blokes’ Pete came up with the winning name – the Raging Flem. Building on his name and the fact that Mum had bronchitis at the time, I liked ‘Bronchitic Phlegm’ but yeah, that’s kind of gross on retrospection. Brendan describes this as strong, estery and phenolic. It is supposed to be cloudy at the beginning and is dry hopped. Purely American hops are used for this (I assume it’s called a Belgian IPA because it’s Belgian in style? you tell me and I’ll buy you a drink, haha). It’s supposed to get nice and clear in two weeks, as well as malty, yum. I found this hoppy yet sweet. It’s quite strong at 7.2% ABV. It was my favourite until…

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…presented with the last offering for the evening – the Hop Hog, a high strength IPA and thus very hoppy. This is a very American influenced IPA. I have to say that at this point I’m having a lot of trouble deciphering my furiously scribbled notes but it looks like this is modelled on the East Coast IPA which has a strong malt presence (translation: it comes off as sweet and also bitter). This sort of beer, we were told, is best fresh, dry hopped and 5.8% ABV. I loved this because it reminded me of my beloved Fantapants, another Feral brew. I can’t really choose a fave between the Hop Hog and the Raging Flem – loved them both. I guess I could be cheeky and go for the one with the higher ABV… anyway, notes one can supposedly detect are pine needle, citrus and passionfruit. I was pretty chuffed because I could smell the passionfruit first off. Yeah, I still get really excited when I detect notes – scent-wise and taste-wise. I am lost without Shandy’s notes!

 ale stars

Are you bored yet? Sorry, I have to jot this stuff down for my personal learning and beery journey. However, you can also read Prof Pilsner’s report here as well as the Local Taphouse’s. I’ll try to get Ale Stars reports up closer to just after the event from now on, promise!