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A handful of men donned turnout gear at an apartment fire on 28th Avenue in Meridian last Friday afternoon, but they were not allowed to go inside and do any real firefighting.
The reason behind this is that they weren't real firefighters — yet.
Meridian Fire Department Chief Anthony Clayton identified some of the men as recruits who have yet to be certified by the state. Clayton said they are not allowed inside a home or to actually fight a fire, both for their safety and that of the real firefighters on the scene.
"Until they go through basic and become certified all they can do is stand and watch," Clayton said. "It is still a learning experience for them and for many it is a time when they decide to really go through the grueling training it takes to be a firefighter or to move on and do something else."
Clayton said being a firefighter is not for everyone. He said you either like the work or you hate it. There is no middle ground and from now until the first of the year when about 15 recruits will begin their training at the Meridian / Lauderdale County Public Safety Training Facility located on Sandflat Road, some will decide this career isn't for them.
"Many of them ask themselves is this what I want to do for the next 30 years," Clayton said. "For some the answer is 'no.'"
Clayton hopes he can get about a dozen solid firefighters out of the current recruiting class. But he has been in the business long enough to know that is an optimistic figure. Still, even a half dozen would help fill the ranks of the MFD that is about 10 slots short with the retirement of a firefighter here, the movement in rank for another and the odd firefighter who decides he no longer wants to do the job.
Clayton said the recruits who decide to continue on the career path will have a tough road to negotiate.
"We will teach them all they can handle at the training facility here and then they have to go to the State Fire Academy in Pearl. That is where they have to convince the state instructors they know what they are doing."
Even after all that there is still more testing, more trials and tribulations. Maybe by the middle of 2013 the recruits will be able to don the air packs and arm themselves with an ax to enter a burning home to try and save life and property.


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• Happy birthday: Daisy Freidline, 20th.
• Happy anniversary: Richard and Daisy Freidline, 24th.
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By Mischaele Bearce
• East Lynne Fire Department got called to Pleasant Hill to respond to a structural fire, but there was no one in the area to send. The fire shirts are in at the station and ready to be picked up.
• Get well to Sam East, who got hurt Sept. 14 playing football with Harrisonville School and broke his collarbone. He will be out the rest of the season.
• Sympathy goes out to the McConnell, Abernathy family on the passing of Hollies sister, Kendra Abernathy, on Sept. 15.
• Congratulations to Gary Stanford and Crystal Feagley on the marriage.
• AT&T and Western Electric always have a wonderful time at their gatherings on the first Monday of every month at Hardees. They meet for coffee and breakfast at 9 a.m.
• Happy birthday to Toni Downy, Lexi Cotterman, Jim Terrell, Justin Fall, Zoie Bailey, Chris Wright, Mason Kresse, Dustin Fall, Autumn Engel, Tyler Nickel, Hannah Arnold, Arianna Scurlock, Zacaria Barnes, Landon Getz, Matt Melzer, Kayden Taylor, Kaley Fiore, Andrew Hayes, Gracie Champion, Lisa Faulkenberry, Adelie Hyatt, Stacey Warren, Jackie Guggisberg, Barbara Keyton, Barbara Lacy, and Edison Hayward.
• Happy anniversary to Rhonda and Gary Casey, Linda and Ernie Young, and Linda and Jack Cox.
By Nina Kemper
• Sunday, Sept. 22, Freeman Baptist Church is having a Friend Day. Following the worship service, there will be a basket dinner. From 1 to 3 p.m. there are super Sunday events for children Kindergarten - 6th grade. Everyone is invited to attend these events and, of course, invite a friend.
• Thursday, Oct. 10, is the next Freeman Community Club meeting. It will be at 7 p.m. We will discuss Homecoming and take suggestions for what we could do next year. Everyone is welcome to attend.
• Freeman Homecoming was Sept. 14 and what a fun day it was. We had perfect weather. Melinda Eads and Kelly Bray did a wonderful job of organizing everything. LaVeta Sanders was in charge of the Ham and Bean Dinner and did her usual great job. It is impossible to name all that helped with that, donated pies and other desserts, but everything was so appreciated. Diane Packingham did an excellent job of getting raffle prizes and selling raffle tickets. Everyone contributed in some way and we thank you.
• LaVeta Sanders would like to say a special thank you to all who cooked cornbread, ham and beans, donated items for the dinner and, of course, the wonderful desserts.
• We extend our sympathy to the family and friends of Kasey Ann Haase.
• Congratulations to the Cass Midway football team on the victory over Adrian on Sept. 13. Friday, Sept. 20, they travel to Appleton City.
• Tuesday, Sept. 24, there will be a home volleyball game at 5:30 p.m. Come out and support the Lady Vikings.
• Get well wishes go to Jean Kisner, who recently spent some time in the hospital.
• Bob Ardrey and Ben Madison were the candle lighters at Freeman Presbyerian Church on Sept. 15. Natalie Ardey had the Childrens Moment and Shelley Needham had Childrens Church. Abby Madison, Hunter Oakes and Keith Cook read the scriptures. Following the worship service, we all went outside for cider and doughnuts served by the youth.
• Sept. 10, we, Norvell and Nina Kemper, went to Golden Corral in Independence to have lunch with Norvells retired co-workers. Such a fun time for everyone.
• Some birthdays for next week include: Sept. 22 - Lori Scott, Angelika Schmidt, Karen Ullery Williams; Sept. 24 - Diane Packingham; Sept. 25 - Autumn Eason, Johnathan Carver and Seth Hammontrre; Sept. 27 - Maxine Farr; Sept. 28 - Larry Eason, Morgan Scott and Billy Oliphant.
• Anniversary wishes to Donnie and Alicia Whitcraft on Sept. 26.
West Line
By Gail Lyon
• West Line Church had a wonderful service Sept. 15. Pastor Barth baptized two very young men, Ethan Carver and Noah Whitcraft. We are very proud to have these two little boys in our congregation.
• My grandkids came and spent the weekend with me. Logan Barrett came and played with them Sept. 14. When Logan came over, Abby and Emma where playing with their dolls and were playing store. The girls played until Donna came to get Logan. The next morning, were getting ready for Sunday school and when the kids went to put their shoes on they were not by the door like they usually are. All three of them had no shoes. I had an extra pair of flip-flops for the girls but nothing for Nathan. Well by this time it was 10 a.m. Emma decides she wants to go to Sunday school by herself. So I took her up the hill to church and told them about the missing shoes. I kept looking for the shoes and when I was going to put something in the toy box, I noticed some Price Chopper bags with stuff in them. There were the kids shoes in the sacks. They were playing store and they had played like they bought them and when I made them put up the toys and stuff they threw them in the toy box.
• Happy Birthday: Andrew Evins, Bengi Goddard, Shelby Admire, Jade Lavelock 20th, Bill Miner, James Bailey, Pam Bailey 21st, Loren Cook, Charles Fort 23rd, Louise Creekiller 24th, Tony Smith 25th, Jan Burchett, Cindy Richardson 26th.

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Graveside services for Pauline Margaret Faulkenberry, 94, Ada, are 10 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Park Cemetery, the Rev. Earl Hood officiating. The family is receiving friends from 5-7 p.m. Friday at Criswell Funeral Home.
Mrs. Faulkenberry died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, at a local nursing home. She was born May 22, 1919, in Vanoss to Allen and Della Byerly Yarberry.
She attended Vanoss grade school and graduated from Vanoss High School.
She married Lester L. Faulkenberry Feb. 19, 1938. He preceded her in death April 21, 1996. Mrs. Faulkenberry was a house-parent at McCall's Chapel until her retirement and also a homemaker. She was of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include two daughters, Karen Skibsted and husband John, Ada, and Barbara Horton, Eufaula; one son, Mike Faulkenberry and wife LaWanna of Guthrie; her grandchildren, Heather and Tyler Reed, Ada, Andrew and Marla Kimbrell, Konawa, Jeff Farmer and Tonya, Checotah, David and Tisha Farmer, Allen, Michael Faulkenberry and wife Blair, Guthrie, Michelle and Eddie Johnson, Guthrie and Dennis Faulkenberry, Miami, Okla.; and 20 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Kenneth W. Faulkenberry; a grandson, Lonnie Faulkenberry; and her brothers and sisters, Ollie Manuel, Opal Bottoms, Lester Yarberry, Lavella Smith, Georgia Yarberry, Don Yarberry and Geneva Schribner.


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3.9/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
thanks to colonelforbin for this one!
Pours ebony with 2 fingers of mocha colored head. Good head retention & lacing
S: Dark fruit & some herbal hops
T: Charred wet grain, dark fruit, especially raisin & a touch of coffee up front. Dryness & coffee dominate as this warms, plus more dark fruit, leafy hops & some baker's chocolate & a touch of white pepper, vanilla & cherry. Finishes dry, fruitty & with much coffee & some cherry
MF: Fairly chewy, low carbonation & great balance
Drinks pretty easy for the ABV, not getting a ton of Belgian character here, but I didn't expect a literal interpretation from these guys anyhow. A tasty dark brew that I'd say is more of a big stout with some Belgian tendencies. One I would consider stockpiling if feasible, cuts the chill nicely!
Serving type: bottle
12-25-2009 04:10:49 | More by russpowell
New York
4.63/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A huge head, light brown with great retention and good lacing. A black brown fluid. This has the smell of a Belgian mocha stout. Chocolate, coffee, burnt caramel and molasses. Vanilla is tucked in there as it a touch of orange. Smoke and roasted grains. Dark sweet breads. A Belgian yeast fruitiness with overripe banana. A thick rich taste that is like the nose but much better greets your tongue. Chocolate and charcoal. Vanilla and burnt caramel. Orange and banana. More dark sweet breads with a roasted multigrain toasted crust. A clean dry finish that leaves a touch of chocolate syrup and charcoal dipped in burnt marshmellow. Hops are a touch minty and herbal. This stuff is just too good. A thick and full feel has a wonderful syrupiness that is tamed by a somewhat creamy carbonation. It is remarkably supple on the tongue. This is way too drinkable as the alcohol is so well hidden and the feel and taste encourage you to indulge to the max.
My favorite VE of the few I've had. I have all except 020202 cellaring and I hope just a few come out as good as this one is right now. Thank you Stone! I love this one!
Serving type: bottle
12-24-2009 06:30:50 | More by scootny
New York
4.22/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Reviewed on 9/25/2009. Bottle. Pours black with a pretty, small chocolate colored head. Aroma of rich roasted malt, smoke, bitter chocolate, roasted nuts, and a touch of Belgian yeast. Flavor of roasted and charred malt and wood/cedar with some roasted nuts/peanut butter notes. Subtle notes of citrus eventually make their presence. Very nice, great beer from Stone.
Serving type: bottle
12-19-2009 02:30:23 | More by LilBeerDoctor
4.33/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The S.O. tried a few years back to homebrew a Chocolate Mandarin Stout, and this is what it SHOULD have been.
Very dark brown in appearance with an impressive head. The tangerine is very subtle and the vanilla accentuates the chocolate malt more than it adds it's own flavor.
Drinkability: While this was delicious, like many special beers, splitting the 22oz. bottle with a friend was plenty for me. I, however, could drink one everyday.
Serving type: bottle
12-18-2009 22:48:26 | More by sarahloca44
South Carolina
3.9/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.5
Pours out very dark, I mean, as black as some stouts, with a nice pillowy 2cm+ head. The bubbles seem to be kind of loose but cling moderately well. Looks pretty good. The smell has a ton of bitter roasted coffee and chocolate backed with an interesting fruity, yeasty component. Otherwise I can't detect a lot of the normal smells you get from a belgian strong dark. Still the smell is pleasant. The taste comes out with one thing in mind - chocolate-coated orange peels. Very bitter - like citrus bitter and chocolate bitter, but very reach and roasty, not overly bitter, also slightly fruity. I also get a finish with slightly pasty yeast, and boozy coffee flavors. As it warms some of the harsher flavors mellow out, giving way to a more grainy, syrupy sweetness, but there is still a hint of bitterness. This beer is quite more enjoyable as it warms, overall, I find it quite good. I would most likely drink it again, though I am certain I can find things that are better. The mouthfeel is strange. There is consistently this sharp little flavor in the background, but the body is medium, maybe a bit more full, and the carbonation is pleasantly on the low side of sharp. The drinkability is quite nice. Better than I expected, and quite good or an 8.6% beer, though my plan was to nurse it from the start. I still found myself wanting more and more as I drank.
Serving type: bottle
12-18-2009 22:05:06 | More by taylorhamrick
New York
4.4/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
I didn't know this was considered a strong dark belgian. After pouring and smelling it i got more of a stout quality. In any case this, like the other vertical epics, is an excellent beer. Great dark color and woody aroma. Pours a great head and the alcohol is perfectly balanced with the hops and malt.
I'd been waiting for this since September 9 and am glad it finally showed up somewhat that I shop, Whole Foods.
Serving type: bottle
12-16-2009 15:09:20 | More by david18
3.95/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
22 ounce bomber - $7.99 at Bullock's Wine & Spirits in Marietta, Georgia.
Appearance: Pours out a near black body with a large, burbling head of tan foam.
Smell: Deep notes of roast and smoke and wood -- it's like strolling through a former-cabin that had an all-too tragic accident. Lesser notes of spice, fruit, and Dutch cocoa seem buried within the smoldering rubble.
Taste: Roast leads to toast which leads to a resounding wooden taste and long-lasting, spicy tastes of smoked black licorice and ground pepper. Lesser hints of dark chocolate and vanilla and sweet molasses dare try to peak out from under these heady flavors. I must say, it is quite smoky throughout. Curiously arranged, subtle mix of dark fruits, banana, and citrus from those added tangerine peels. Earthy bitterness leaking out amongst all the staunch roastiness. Some alcohol warmth and further fruitiness on the spicy, drying, malt-riddled finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium carbonation. Fairly smooth mouthfeel.
Drinkability: Hmm. Well, it's certainly different and very complex, though I'm not quite sure what to make of it at this stage three months from its initial release. Of the more recent Epic Ale releases (minus the 08.08.08 which I still haven't had, unfortunately), this is the one I most curious to see how it'll age. Let's hope for great things, eh?
Serving type: bottle
12-15-2009 21:51:07 | More by ChainGangGuy
North Carolina
4.15/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
The 22-ounce screenprinted bomber bottle features scads of the usual Stone informative puffery, but with the crown pried off it's time to let the beer do the talking...let's roll.
09.09.09 pours ruby-hued roasted chestnut in color with a finger-thick topping of creamy light khaki-colored foam. The consistency of the crowning head is firm and silky, and as the bubble-cap slowly relaxes, it deposits rings of broken sheeted lacing onto the inner walls of my D-R snifter.
The aroma is quite fruity with a mango-spritzed note of chocolate-covered ripe banana firmly front-and-center. A crisp citrusy edge provides a whiff of countering tangerine tartness, and a darkly roasted component contributes savor and depth to the profile. As the drink warms a bit, a dry-toasted oaky note becomes increasingly prominent.
The taste is richly deep and chocolatey with an edging of vanilla-infused dark-roast coffee. A mellow backing of banana lingers underneath the darkness, resting atop a long, oaky-dry finish that is laced with a touch of snappy spice and a drop of bittering citrus peel oil. Any detectable alcohol is virtually non-existent, save the warming sensation in my belly and a fleeting flash-in-the-pan flavor that comes on late in the encounter to interject the vaguest notion of plum wine.
The drink is lush, fluffy, and fullish in body with excellent, extremely fine-grained carbonation. Highly drinkable, even given the 8.9% ABV, but I'd really expect nothing less from Stone.
Serving type: bottle
12-15-2009 21:34:43 | More by cvstrickland
4.5/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Bottle from Party Source on 09/09/09. Poured clear dark brown color with a large frothy light brown head that mostly lasted with excellent lacing. Moderate to heavy toasted nutty malt, chocolate and tart citrus aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium to heavy chocolate bittersweet flavor with a medium to heavy bittersweet finish of moderate to long duration. Good brew that may need some age to balance.
Serving type: bottle
12-15-2009 02:18:00 | More by tmoneyba
Rhode Island
4.13/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
22oz. bomber served in my Bruery tulip. Poured one shade shy of black with a two-inch, frothy, khaki-colored head embedded with tiny ringlets that eventually settles into a fairly consistent skim - a thick band of lacing coated the side opposite the tilt. Nose reveals cocoa, a roasty character, perhaps a little lactose and a hint of smoke. Taste follows nose, but a little less rich than anticipated, and also a little bittering hops that comes out at the end. Mouthfeel is just shy of medium, with a light, consistent background carbonation, with something of a creamy quality in the mix. Pretty tasty, but not what I would consider a Belgian Strong Dark; closer to an American Stout. Nonetheless, a pretty tasty brew.
Serving type: bottle
12-13-2009 22:09:21 | More by Jwale73
4.15/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Dark pour, mild head, some lace. Tastes dark malty and chocolately, light vanilla flavors and creme. Faint wood chips/oak residual taste. Mild-low carbonation, smooth drinkability, enjoy, but not quite the '08 epic. Still looking forward to having my 2007 next year or the year after.
Serving type: bottle
12-13-2009 00:09:49 | More by randawakes
3.65/5 rDev -10.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Jet black body with a dark tan head... Sticky in appearance.
Aroma is sweet and cola like. A subtle hint of cherries. Slight copperish metallic hint too.
Very stout/porter like. Lots of coffee and chocolate... Very semi sweet.
Chewy feel upfront, oily and slick in the middle with a warm ethyl finish.
I'm not sure I'd call this a Belgian Strong Dark Ale, it's more of an English or American style dry stout.
Serving type: bottle
12-11-2009 15:18:48 | More by TheSarge
4.5/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
First let me say thanks to fogdog for an awesome trade!
Pours black, you can't see through it, with a dark tan head that fades leaving thick lacing around the glass.
Smell is of dark chocolate, brown sugar, caramel, and some subtle burnt notes.
Taste starts out up front with a nice caramel flavor then quickly changes to a dark chocolate, malty sweetness, and some cigar tobacco flavors, some peppery citrus notes as well as some dark brown sugar. Has a dry hoppy finish that lingers for awhile. Flavor bomb, lots of stuff going on in this beer.
What an epic ale! Wish I could have gotten two bombers of this. I'd love to find a pub with this on tap. Although two pints back to back of this and you'd be feeling pretty good.
Serving type: bottle
12-09-2009 20:28:25 | More by weissbierdrinker
4.53/5 rDev +11%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured into oversized wine glass
Pours a shade lighter than black, half finger mocha colored head with hint of red rise and fades moderately fast to a slight slick; little lacing. Strong smell of caramels, chocolate, vanilla bean, and faint fruity esters; smells great cant wait for the first sip. Chocolate and vanilla roasted malt is complex in its notes, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, toffee, strong vanilla and cappuccino, balanced nicely by citrusy and herbal hops and esters of banana and a tad bit of spice. Silky is the only way to describe the mouth feel of this amazing brew. Wow do I love this beer! To bad it is not sold on the reg, but I will have no problem finishing my bomber!
Serving type: bottle
12-09-2009 03:38:39 | More by BatsforBeer
4.05/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Pitch black in color with a very fluffy tan head. I head to let this settle a bit as the foam on top was pretty dense. Tons of lacing inside the glass. Nice looking pour!
Sweet dark malts, caramel, coffee, cocoa with some slight orange-y citrusy smells. This is a little toasty as well with a bit of Belgian yeasty aromas.
Malty with subtle hints at chocolate, coffee and orange. I know its tangerine peel but its not strong enough to pick that out. Not a lot of spice or yeasty flavors. This is certainly smoothed out by the oak chips used in the brewing process. Quite a nice offering from Stone, very much like a strong porter with some very nice additions.
Super smooth and very flavorful. Not overly complex right now and its pretty mellow so it would be interesting to see what age does with it.
Would I buy more of it?
I think I might grab another bottle and see how some time treats this rare offering.
Serving type: bottle
12-08-2009 18:11:33 | More by indiapaleale
3.63/5 rDev -11%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
A- Dark black color. Chocolate brown head that forms a ring around the glass. One sexy looking beer in my chalice.
S- Belgian yeast, chocolate malt, caramel, bubblegum. Like a stout crossed with a dark Belgian.
T- Roasted malt.. Belgian yeast.. black licorice, caramel.
M- Medium carbonation. Medium bodied. Dry sticky finish.
D- An interesting drink. Like a nice Stone stout with Belgian yeast. I'll definitely revisit this one soon.
Serving type: bottle
12-08-2009 03:34:06 | More by Yesac
4.43/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Since we just got Stone into the state of Maine last year (Fall 2008), this was the first time I had an opportunity to try this yearly Stone series of beer...
Appearance - The look of this beer was quite inviting, with dark coloration. It looks thick and appears heavier (stout or Porter) than it actually tastes. A great tan head appears.
Aroma - I smell some hazelnut, cloves, and a hint of smoke. There was a note of something sweet, maybe I was picking up on the chocolate malts.
Taste - Layered with a variety of flavors for your taste buds to enjoy! I first caught the chocolate, then followed with some spicier hints of citrus. The Complexity is outstanding, and I wasn't disappointed.
Mouthfeel - As I said in the appearance, it is a bit deceiving when poured into a glass so I was expecting a dark, heavy beer that your needed a fork/knife to enjoy. This wasn't the case (for me), although the alcohol was somewhat noticeable for me.
Drinkability - I liked it a lot and have enjoyed several, either on its own and with a meal (great to wash down that Thanksgiving turkey).
Serving type: bottle
12-07-2009 18:45:12 | More by recons54
4.25/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
22 ounce bottle.
A: Like a dark porter/ light stout, nearly opaque brown with a tan head that fluffs up to 2 fingers before dissipating down to a thin layer.
S: Nose of roasted coffee beans, chocolate, and bitter citrus peel. A hint of clove in there too.
T: Best at room temp. Moderately intense chocolate, coffee, and grain. Finishes with a citrus peel bitterness, and probably a bit of hops also. Lingers nicely, but is not sticky.
M: Smooth and well carbonated, lifting the flavors up nicely. This shows some restraint.
D: The alcohol is well concealed, but it does hit ya. Easy to toss it back, though.
Really liked this. I think it's good right now, though the bottle recommends waiting until 2012. I oughta go grab a couple of more so I can go ahead and do that...
Serving type: bottle
12-07-2009 04:36:52 | More by nectar14
North Carolina
4.38/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
Poured this from a 22oz bottle that I happened upon. It poured dark w/ a mocha-colored head. Surprisingly, it didn't have any lacing. The smell was roasted malt, dark chocolate, and intense hop spice and bitterness. The taste reflected the same as the smell. Dark fruit and chocolate were evident in the taste, also. I didn't taste or smell the tangerine that was mentioned on the bottle, but I did get a slight banana smell. Vertical 090909 has a full, chewy mouth w/ plenty of complexity. It isn't for everyone, though. I am looking forward to aging the entire Vertical Epic and tasting them.
Serving type: bottle
12-07-2009 03:13:34 | More by Fillpott
4.35/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Revisted: 16 Jul 2010
Almost A Year Later
22oz. Bomber
Poured into a chalice a nice dark brown color, nice carbonation, very nice two-finger plus light tan creamy head, with some very nice thick/creamy sticky lacing left behind. The nose is malty, very very slight yeast note, toffee, very slight dark fruits, some spice notes. The taste is sweet, malty, toffee, some dark fruits, slightly spicy. Medium body. Very Drinkable, the age improved this brew alot. Totally different brew now.
22oz. Bomber
Pours a nice dark brown color, nice carbonation, very nice one-finger plus light tan creamy head, with some very nice thick/creamy sticky lacing left behind. The nose is malty, very very slight yeast note, toffee, very slight dark fruits, some spice notes. The taste is sweet, malty, toffee, some dark fruits, slightly spicy. Medium body. Drinkable, not a bad BSDA, but there are some way better one's out there.
Serving type: bottle
12-06-2009 20:24:44 | More by Wasatch
4.38/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The dark beauty of this poor is something to behold with its frothy tan cap. The aromas of dark sweet malts, fuity hops, and chocolate are great in unison with a mild spice and vanilla accents. The taste enduces much salivation as the tartness is just barely dominant over the sweet roasted malt and cocoa flavors. The body is just south of bold and it is a great beer to savor and sip. A really good offering in Stone's tradition of great Vertical Epics.
Serving type: on-tap
12-03-2009 21:42:34 | More by ArrogantDeadGuy
4/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a dark chestnut brown, nearly opaque in the glass and topped by a small coffee-colored head that holds up nicely.
Aromatically it's nice but a bit muted, with fig and berry-like esters being most prominent, along with traces of chocolate and vanilla. As it warms the orange peel and vanilla take the forefront.
The taste is a pleasant and well-balanced mix of fruity esters, roast, vanilla, chocolate, citrus and resiny hops. Sweetness is restrained up-front and the mid-palate and finish are surprisingly bitter, both from roasted malt and hops. Finishes dry with a lasting coffee-like bitterness, vanilla popping up again in the far aftertaste. Very solid stuff, my favorite vertical epic so far.
Serving type: bottle
12-02-2009 01:09:31 | More by largadeer
4.25/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Drank 1/27/13
(Served in a bowtie glass)
A- This beer pours a jet black body with a lumpy coco tan head that sticks in sheets to the glass leaving only a thin ring of head on the beer. There is a gentle carbonation of tiny bubbles that glide up the glass.
S- There is a chalky hint to the chocolate malt aroma with hints of deep caramel coming through as it opens.
T- The mellow chocolate malt flavor is the main player. It has some soft dark roasted coffee malt bitterness in the finish with a slight tart hint. As it opens it takes on more of a watery taste and some stale qualities in the finish. There are also some graham notes that come through as it warms. Clean finish.
M- This beer has a light mouthfeel with no alcohol heat and a gentle fizz that takes on a flat texture on the tongue.
O- This beer is a bit 1-dimentional much more so that when it was fresh. I don't get any yeast characteristics just the chocolate malt. The watery and stale taste were a bit off putting.
(Poured into a tulip)
drank 11/30/09
A- This beer has a jet black body with a coco powder tan head that is creamy and last for a good bit.
S- The black roasted malt notes have a cream quality to them and then give way to a stronger berry aroma with some black licorice notes.
T- The smooth chocolaty velvet flavor has some ink and dry prune qualities to it with a soft fruity note that finishes the malt. The taste of pineapple without the acid mixes with roasted bitterness in the finish. There is some tartness that comes through with the bitterness and the both linger for a moment.
M- This beer has a medium-full mouthfeel with no alcohol heat.
D- This beer is a big tasty stout with nice roasted qualties and a good Belgian yeast mystique that is almost fruity but not jammy.
Serving type: bottle
11-30-2009 22:57:55 | More by rhoadsrage
3.8/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
22 oz bottle poured into a SA pint glass, aggesive pour gave 3 fingers of quickly disapating tan head. Head settels into a thin tan blanket, beer is black in color. Some average lace to it.
Smells of chocolate, and some strong spices, and molasses. Fruity notes present as well.
Taste is mix of bittersweet chocolate, citrus peel. Thick stout like, hop bite at the end, alcohol present from start to finish. Good winter beer gives you a warming sensation.
Medium heavy body very thick stout like. A real sipper. Wouldn't drink more than one of these a sitting.
Serving type: bottle
11-28-2009 20:39:54 | More by Blitzstyle
New Jersey
4.03/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Black, maybe plum in the body topped by cinnamon head. Aroma is spicy and sweet. Chocolate hints, spices, alcohol, dark fruits, roast. Dark flavors: cocoa, espresso, roast, slight dark fruit. The tongue shrivels a bit, dehydrated. Medium thickness in the body with low carbonation. An ale for the night for sure.
Serving type: bottle
11-27-2009 00:26:11 | More by JRed
Stone 09.09.09 Vertical Epic Ale from Stone Brewing Co.
91 out of 100 based on 821 ratings.


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Socialism is a word we hear thrown around a lot, in political debate, and you can sometimes get the impression that the people who like to use the word most aren't quite certain what it means. As it happens, the University of Tennessee employs one of the nation's leading authorities on America's most famous Socialist.
Ernie Freeberg teaches American history, specializing in cultural and religious history of the 19th and 20th centuries. His recent book, Democracy's Prisoner: The Prisoner, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent, is an account of trying days in the life of Eugene V. Debs, who ran for president five times on the Socialist ticket, calling for an end to capitalism, an institution which he believed to be beyond reform. Debs had advocates even in Knoxville, and spoke here several times in the early 1900s, to cheering crowds.
The last time Debs ran for president, in 1920, however, he conducted his campaign from a jail cell. In the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Debs was prisoner #9653, serving a 10-year conviction for speaking out against U.S. participation in World War I. He received close to one million votes, the most votes any Socialist has ever earned in a presidential campaign.
That strange, often misunderstood, and almost forgotten period when hundreds of people were jailed for outspokenly disagreeing with the administration interested Freeberg. It was a dramatic time in Debs' life, and in the history of the American Socialist Party, but it was the birth of America's unique systems for preserving civil liberties.
Freeberg's book, published by Harvard University Press, has won awards for legal history and was nominated for last year's Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. It's also earned national praise from reviewers: "Carefully researched and expertly told," wrote Peter Richardson for the Los Angeles Times, "Debs' story also brings a fascinating era into sharp, vivid focus." Pulitzer-winning journalist and liberal intellectual Anthony Lewis called the book "fascinating." Other critics hailed it using words like "wonderfully fresh," "excellent and compelling," "superb"—words and phrases no author minds hearing. And, over and over, you see the word "timely."
At 52, Freeberg is a tall, friendly guy with a close-cropped white beard, almost too friendly to pass for a tenured professor. You might guess he was a children's photographer, or a guy who builds kayaks for a living. He speaks in the warm, even tones of a public-radio reporter, which, in fact, he used to be.
He lives with his wife Lauren Bray, an elementary-school librarian, in a house on Gaston Avenue in North Hills. The spacious living room has big sunny windows to the south, oriental rugs on the hardwood floors, and comfortable modern furniture. "We like the view of the mountains," he says, noting that he and his wife have remodeled the house to widen the view. "And we like this side of town," he says. "We like the lack of traffic, the easy access to downtown, easy access to the university. And our neighbors are very friendly."
It would seem like an appealing place to live even if you didn't know this house, with its lovely view of the hills of Sevier County to the southeast, was the longtime home of Cas Walker.
Groceryman and provocateur, country-music impresario, coon hunter, and longtime city politician, Walker was a reputedly millionaire, but lived in this relatively modest house in a working man's neighborhood, with dog kennels and a small stable for a pony in the back yard.
Walker, another skinny, bald-headed guy who, like Debs, was always quite sure he was right, bore a superficial resemblance to the Socialist Party candidate. He made fun of the "silk-stocking crowd" he saw as his opponents in downtown Knoxville; Debs would have done the same. He and Debs shared a distrust of the old-money elite, and Walker, like Debs, threw in his lot with the working class. But despite his populist gestures, Walker tended to swing to the far right, and in his unprecedented 30 years as a member of City Council, and two brief spells as mayor, he often tried to block progressive reform. He condemned water fluoridation as a Communist plot.
For almost all that time—when he was being recalled as mayor of Knoxville, when he was on TV and radio every day hosting his Farm and Home Hour, when he was discovering a young talent named Dolly Parton—he was living in this house. Walker often seemed proud he had nothing more than a fourth-grade education; it's hard to know what he would think of a nationally renowned scholar from the Northeast living in his house, enjoying Walker's old views of his native Sevier County. The old pony stable is now a storage shed. The concrete pad where the kennels used to be is now a grapevine arbor. Freeberg also grows fruit trees: apples, pears, peaches, cherries. "I'm very much an amateur gardener," he says, and raising fruit organically has brought mixed results. "The apricots have been the best."
But they might have found some things to talk about. After all, Cas was an author, too, and liked to think of himself as a historian. His book, The White Caps of Sevier County, about the violent vigilantes that terrorized Sevier County's impure in the 1890s, sold pretty well in Cas Walker groceries, as did his autobiography.
Walker died in 1998, but his house wasn't completely cleared out, about six years ago, when Freeberg moved in. "I had read Bruce Wheeler's history of Knoxville by the time I moved here in 2003, and knew something about Cas Walker's mystique," he says, smiling. Walker is a major character in Wheeler's book, which details the grocer's genius for spectacle. Freeberg was impressed, the first time he saw the house, by the previous owner's security measures. "There was a ton of locks on the doors," Freeberg says. "And floor safes." Contrary to rumors of fortunes stashed in the house, Freeberg says the safes were empty, and he didn't find anything of obvious value. There was a good deal of paper records, and Freeberg was going to donate it to the East Tennessee Historical Society. But when he moved in, most of it had been cleared out. A few interesting artifacts remained. One is a copy of a play called The Book of Job, by the Children's Theatre Press, produced in Kentucky, personalized to Cas in 1960.
Another was the mailbox with Cas Walker's name on it. For certain pilgrims, it has been kind of a landmark, proof that Cas used to live there. Freeberg doesn't have it any more, only because a certain flamboyantly local musician and public-radio personality talked him out of it. "You've made it in Knoxville if Todd Steed wants your mailbox," says Freeberg.
Freeberg grew up near Boston. He got his bachelor's degree from Middlebury, in Vermont, and early in his career worked as a news reporter for Maine Public Radio. But he earned his masters and Ph.D. from Emory in Atlanta, where Debs did his time.
Before he came to Knoxville, he taught at New Hampshire's Colby-Sawyer College, where he was best known as the author of The Education of Laura Bridgman, a biography of the New England woman believed to be the first deaf and blind person to learn the English language, and the philosophical and religious controversies raised by her education. Her astonishing career as an exemplar has been overshadowed by that of Helen Keller, who was born about 50 years later. Freeberg's book won the national Dunning award from the American Historical Association.
His interest in the conflicts over free speech led him to look at Debs, the Indiana-born reformer and politician famous even in mainstream America a century ago, but now almost forgotten. He wrote the book before the current talk-show-fueled anxiety about "socialism," and was more interested in Debs' outspoken rejection of the First World War, and the trouble it caused him. All college-level history students learn about Debs, but Freeberg was struck by what they didn't know. "My students hadn't heard that he'd been jailed." He wanted to point that out, and also explore for himself why the government reacted so strongly. "It was an important turning point in American civil liberties."
"I've always been attracted to those moments when the individual conscience is pitted against the will of the state, or of the majority," Freeberg states in Harvard University Press's publicity. "It's an ancient story, and one that reveals a great deal about our democratic ideals. Debs' decision to speak his mind on the war, knowing that he would likely be sentenced to 10 years in prison, is one of those moments when our nation's commitment to freedom of speech and conscience was tested. In fact, this attempt to balance the rights of conscience with the needs of the state, especially in times of war, is a struggle that has done much to define the direction of American democracy in the past hundred years—and the Debs case is a good starting place to understand the evolution of our own ideas about the rights of war protestors."
Debs had called for the end of capitalism for more than 20 years, as well as for women's rights, an end to child labor, direct election of senators (they'd been chosen by state legislatures up to that time), and a range of other reforms condemned, or sometimes praised, as "socialistic." Though Teddy Roosevelt denounced Debs and Socialism, he adopted several planks in Debs' platform, especially during his third-party run in 1912. A generation later, his Democratic cousin Franklin might have seemed to borrow some more.
Debs never got in serious legal trouble over his Socialism. It wasn't until he gave a strongly worded speech to a Socialist gathering in Canton, Ohio, in 1918, that Debs got in trouble with the federal government. He claimed the war was more about profits than "making the world safe for Democracy," and denounced the Wilson administration's new policy of jailing some of the more outspoken dissenters.
"World War I was an important turning point in civil liberties. Wars are always hard on civil liberties," Freeberg says, and Wilson's second term was surprisingly tough on dissenters who opposed U.S. participation in the European war. First amendment freedoms didn't necessarily extend to allowing speech condemning a war effort, especially when it could be interpreted to imply young men should resist the draft. Americans were free, Wilson administration policy went, says, Freeberg, "but not free to incite young men to break the law." War resistance coincided with news of the violent Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which raised anxiety about dissent in America, especially when it had to do with socialists. Wilson tightened the screws on public dissent.
A former Knoxvillian was a player in the stateside dramas of 1917-20. Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, also his son in law, was William Gibbs McAdoo, son of a UT history professor, who had spent much of his youth in Knoxville. Many years earlier, the younger McAdoo had built Knoxville's first electric streetcar system. Freeberg says McAdoo represented the liberal wing of the Wilson administration, urging the president to consider amnesty for dissenters. "McAdoo urged Wilson to let the prisoners go," he says. (Whether the fact that the secretary of the treasury had an arrest record himself—he'd been briefly jailed in Knoxville in 1897 for his part in inciting a riot over rights to build streetcar lines—made him more sympathetic toward incarcerated dissenters is unclear.)
But McAdoo's rival, the hyperpatriotic politician A. Mitchell Palmer, seems to have gotten the president's ear. As McAdoo left the Wilson administration, later to become a senator from California and popular presidential candidate, Mitchell became Wilson's attorney general known for the Palmer Raids, aimed at rooting out terrorists and other radicals.
"But there's always a push back." Freeberg says World War I was the beginning of a well-organized civil-liberties movement, including the 1917 founding of the National Civil Liberties Bureau, which was by 1920 better known as the American Civil Liberties Union.
Debs sympathized with the Bolsheviks, explaining that they had to be violent to defend themselves against one of the world's most repressive regimes. But he never advocated violence to achieve his ends in America. "He wanted socialism in the American tradition: revolution in the ballot box," Freeberg says. Meanwhile, the violent Bolshevik Revolution in Russia shocked Westerners, and marked a perhaps permanent setback for Socialism in America. "The Russian Revolution was a real threat to the American tradition." After World War I, Debs' views of a "cooperative commonwealth," governing industry for the good of the people and perfecting humankind through government, seemed less plausible. "It began to look like a naive faith," says Freeberg.
Debs became a galvanizing force, the most famous of about 1,200 political prisoners in America during World War I, and many Americans grew increasingly uncomfortable with that fact. Perhaps ironically, running his campaign from prison, Debs earned almost a million votes, probably more votes from non-Socialists than he ever had before. Many Americans sympathized.
"Wilson, in moments when he was more lucid [after his incapacitating stroke] never apologized," Freeberg says.
Debs' story upends some assumptions about conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans. Wilson, the Democrat, is often characterized as the idealistic liberal; his administration was followed by three very conservative Republicans. It was the first of them who freed Debs.
Warren Harding pardoned Debs after three years in prison for speaking his mind. Harding has made some historians' list as the worst president of all time, but Freeberg gives him his props. "Harding deserves credit for that," he says. "As a conservative, he rightly understood that the way the government reacted in World War I was a huge overreach. Proper conservatives worried about the federal government's overreach, and Harding did. Harding was no great intellect, but he did have a sense that the country had to get these war tensions behind it. It was part of a plan to restore the pre-war status quo."
Ninety years is a long time, and many of the individual changes Debs campaigned for came to pass. One is the guaranteed right to unionize. In Debs' day, Freeberg observes, "strikes were more violent, more bloody than they are now."
Democracy's Prisoner reads in places, like a novel, with swift pacing. History scholars aren't known to be graceful writers, but Freeberg is an unusually good one. "It all has to do with being a journalist," he says, crediting his background as a radio reporter in Maine. Full time for three years, part time for five, he had to file multiple news stories each week, and he learned how to tell a story. "So many people who have written about Debs are admirers who put him on a pedestal. I was determined not to do that." Though he worked on the book for close to 10 years, he claims he never tired of his subject. Part of it was the engaging cast of characters: He mentions economist/activist Scott Nearing, American Communist John Reed and writer Max Eastman, who shaped Debs' life and times. "And I have to admit I was seduced by Debs' personality," he says. He enjoyed finding each new anecdote that added to his subject's complexity.
Critics have praised the book as "timely," but Freeberg says any resemblance between Wilson's crackdown on civil rights and the Bush administration's Patriot Act is coincidence, at least as far as the inspiration for his book is concerned. "I didn't write the book in response to 9/11," he says. "I started researching it well before that, in the late '90s." He does see some similarities between the Wilson and Bush administration's responses to national security, but also some differences. "The Bush administration did tend to erode the right to protest, only inviting loyalists to the rallies and not allowing protesters to come near. But it was nothing like rounding up speakers and throwing them in the penitentiary for 10 years."
Things are different today, and generally better. "We have the advantage of a well-organized response" to government threats, in the person of the ACLU and other more specific organizations.
What would Debs think of modern politics? Freeberg says Debs might have been dismayed that corporations still play a strong role in who gets elected. He would have been happy, though, to see America elect a black president. "He was very progressive in race issues. Debs refused to speak to segregated crowds." But Freeberg thinks the Socialist would have disapproved of Obama's practical politics.
"He wouldn't recognize Obama as a socialist at all," Freeberg says, and brings up one handy example, the Wall Street bailout. With major government support for banks and other industries, Freeberg says, "Both parties became funders of what Debs called the Oligarchy."
Maintaining that "Oligarchy" was important to Obama. Debs would have been happy to watch Wall Street crash. He expected it would, eventually.
"Liberalism serves to soften and semi-regulate capitalism," Freeberg says. "But Debs would say it doesn't get at the root of the problem." Debs, he says, didn't think that mere regulation of powerful private enterprise would ever be successful.
"I'm sympathetic with Debs' concerns," Freeberg says. "I admire his strength of conviction. But no, I'm not a socialist."
Freeberg is just back from a month's work at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, where he's been researching his next project, enjoying "the Southern California sunshine, with one week of apocalyptic flooding." He's writing another book—he expects this one to take several years, too—on an entirely different subject than radical politics. He's examining how the introduction of the electric light in the 1880s changed American life and culture. Electric lighting in public places came to be seen as a modern marvel, and for a while a distinctly American one. He also wants to show that it wasn't just Edison who invented the lightbulb. The electric light, he says, has a whole array of inventors who contributed to the technology and to the many uses for it. Even in its early years, electric lights were used for surgery, underwater exploration, and retail, allowing department stores to stay open much later—and, in the mix, effectively giving workers more usable leisure time.
It might seem a strange jump, from America's high-water mark of Socialist activism to the development of electric-light technology, even though they shared an era. But Freeberg says the Debs study made him curious about why America never had a major socialist revolution despite radical disparities in income. "I want to recognize the ways industrial capitalism delivered," he says. That's a sentiment even Cas Walker, who was proud of himself as a rare case of a dirt-poor country boy using his wit and hard work to rise above his circumstances, might appreciate.
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A Note About Our Photos of Eugene Debs at Fountain City Park: Relatively few photos of Eugene V. Debs exhorting crowds exist, and these, of his speech to a crowd at Fountain City Park on Labor Day, 1905, are well known among Debs scholars. At the time, the populist Socialist Party was the most popular of several third parties in America. "He will find some sympathetic listeners, for Knoxville has some zealous socialists," predicted the Republican Knoxville Journal, accurately. He stayed in a Gay Street hotel, and greeted several friends by name. "From the start, Mr. Debs had the admiration of the people of Knoxville." In a speech that lasted two and a half hours—"holding his audience in the most intense interest"—he condemned child labor, dismissed the U.S. Senate as a puppet of corporate interests, and predicted the end of capitalism within 50 years. "The Republican Party are the big capitalists," he said at Fountain City Park. "The Democratic Party are the little capitalists."
Photo Courtesy of the Debs Collection, Indiana State University Library.
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Dr. David Cooperman, attending physician at Bellevue Hospital's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, or CPEP, and a clinical instructor at NYU's School of Medicine says that, if anything, ADHD is commonly missed in students who suffer from it. "The media portrays it as being over diagnosed," he says, "but the reality of it is that it [ADHD] is actually under diagnosed and usually is undertreated." While he admits that it may be possible for an individual to fake having the disorder, Cooperman says that if psychiatrists are doing their jobs correctly, ADHD shouldn't be easy to misdiagnose in those who don't have it. He also believes that psychiatrists are typically more skeptical of college students who claim to have the disorders most common and "google-able" symptoms. There is no one set test to determine if someone has ADHD; rather psychiatrists are supposed to conduct thorough, in-depth examinations with patients as well as explore their medical histories. The disorder is genetic and therefore another family member will likely have it if the patient does indeed suffer from ADHD. Cooperman says that psychiatrists should also look for other telltale signs in how patients live their lives. "It's more than just giving a few buzz words," he says, referring to the disorders most common symptoms of an inability to focus and concentrate. "The rule of thumb is to get collateral information." "The patient needs to be able to expand on their symptoms. There are so many other questions physicians can ask them: how do you clean your room? Do you fall behind on your bills?" "It depends on what information the physician gathers," he says. Cooperman, for example, performs what he calls "backpack checks": he asks to see the backpacks of his patients and then looks closely at their notebooks to see how they take notes. He also looks for frequent doodles and other signs of a short attention span that would be hard to fake for an unsuspecting individual. Despite being adamant on the fact that the disorder remains largely under diagnosed and treated, Cooperman relents that it could be possible for individuals to fake having ADHD in order to abuse treatments such as Adderall and Concerta. "If people are savvy enough they can definitely fake it, and there are definitely people out there that do" he says. "There are loopholes in the system where people don't take thorough enough evaluations." One such loophole, Cooperman suggests, can be found in the typically short counseling sessions that are held at NYU's Student Health Center. "The disorder can't be diagnosed in 15 minutes," he says. "If you are seeing people in very short sessions, it is harder to get to that history that you need." "At a place like the NYU health center, where they are seeing a ton of people every day, evaluations might not be as thorough as necessary," Cooperman says. "But it depends on the experience of the practitioner." Though recreational use of ADHD treatments like Adderall have no real side effects, habitual use can prove dangerous for those without the disorder. Because Adderall and like drugs contain amphetamines, they essentially function like the drug speed, which is why Cooperman says it's easy to start abusing them. If a non-ADHD individual were to take such drugs on a daily basis, they would experience the same side effects as someone who abuses cocaine might, such as psychosis, weight loss, and physiological addiction. "ADHD brains have a neurological disorder, and so they are very sensitive to levels of medication and neurotransmitters," Cooperman explains. "Adderall works by increasing the dopamine levels. Once the dopamine levels get too high for non-ADHD brains, people can become psychotic." While low doses of the drug initially give a person without ADHD a euphoric sense, higher doses can cause the individual to feel edgy, irritable and experience what Cooperman calls "rigid and inflexible" thinking. This type of hyper-concentration can actually significantly hinder productivity, which is why many students abuse it in the first place.
WASHINGTON - As the Obama administration decides whether or not to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that a plurality of Americans now backs a troop increase, and a strong majority supports waiting on a decision until after the country conducts its presidential runoff election next month.
Also, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moves forward crafting a Senate health-care bill that contains a public option — with a state "opt out" — the survey shows support for a government-run insurance plan is at its highest level since the debate began and opposition is at its lowest level.
Perhaps most revealing, the poll highlights the public's disgust at Washington, with the number trusting government at its lowest level in 12 years and with nearly half of Americans favoring the creation of a new political party.
"I was hoping that business as usual was going to stop with the Obama administration," said respondent Brian Gross of Poolesville, Md., "and so far I just haven't seen that."
As Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican Bill McInturff, puts it: "The mood in America may be blue, but the attitudes toward Washington are jet black."
A reversal on Afghanistan
By a narrow 47 percent to 43 percent, respondents say they support increasing the troop level in Afghanistan, which is a reversal from last month, when 51 percent opposed the increase and 44 percent supported it.
In addition, as Republicans criticize President Barack Obama for waiting to announce his troop decision — former Vice President Dick Cheney recently accused him of "dithering" — 58 percent of poll respondents say they support delaying a decision until after Afghanistan's Nov. 7 runoff election and after the country's political situation becomes clearer.
"I am optimistic that he and his generals are taking some time to actually think through this," said Andrew Maxwell of Los Angeles.
Yet the public is divided on what Obama and his generals should ultimately decide. Fifty-five percent say they would accept sending an additional 10,000 troops and training Afghanistan's army and police; 46 percent favor not sending any more troops and focusing instead on attacking specific al-Qaida camps on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border; and 45 percent support withdrawing all U.S. troops from the country.
Just 43 percent support sending 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan — which is the recommendation of the top U.S. commander there, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.
Opting for the public option
Turning to domestic politics, the NBC/Journal poll — which was conducted of 1,009 adults Oct. 22-25, and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points — shows that opinions on the health care debate haven't changed much over the past month.
Only 38 percent believe that Obama's health plan is a good idea, compared with 42 percent who say it's a bad idea, which is virtually identical to the numbers from September.
But what has changed is that support for a government-run insurance plan is now at its highest level since the debate began. Forty-eight percent say they favor a public health plan administered by the federal government that would compete with private insurers, compared with 42 percent who oppose it.
That's a shift from last month, though within the margin of error, when 48 percent opposed the public option and 46 percent supported it. And it's a large swing from August, when 47 percent were in opposition and 43 percent were in favor.
Also on health care, a plurality of Americans (45 percent) believes it would be better to pass Obama's health care plan than keep the current system. But a majority (51 percent) also are worried that reform might go too far.
McInturff, the GOP pollster, describes the public as "hesitant reformers" on health care. "They would like to see something done, but they're not convinced about the current direction."
Disgusted with Washington
Perhaps the most striking finding in the poll is the public dissatisfaction with Washington. Only 23 percent say they trust government "just about always" or "most of the time," which is the lowest number on this question since 1997.
What's more, nearly half of respondents (46 percent) support building an independent political party to compete with the Republicans and Democrats.
And nearly six in 10 (57 percent) blame both Republicans and Democrats for the partisanship in Washington. Twenty-four percent blame the Republicans only, while 17 percent point their finger at the Democrats.
Obama hasn't been immune to this anger at Washington, although he remains the most popular politician in the poll.
His job-approval rating remains at 51 percent for a third-straight survey, and 56 percent have a favorable view of him.
Yet the public prefers his personal qualities to his professional accomplishments so far as president. In the poll, Obama gets his highest marks for being easygoing and likeable (a combined 72 percent), for being inspirational and exciting (60 percent), for having strong leadership qualities (56 percent), for improving America's image around the world (53 percent) and being honest and straightforward (51 percent).
"My opinions have not changed about Obama, because he's a man of integrity, he's an honest and trustworthy person," said Carolyn Johnson-Josey of Atlanta, Ga.
On the other hand, he gets his lowest marks for being decisive (48 percent), for being knowledgeable and experienced enough to handle the presidency (47 percent), for being a good commander-in-chief (46 percent), for having the ability to handle a crisis (45 percent), for uniting the country (38 percent), for changing business as usual in Washington (38 percent) and for achieving his goals (37 percent).
"The president's personal popularity is exceptionally solid," said Hart, the Democratic pollster. "But the evaluation of his [job] performance is much more tenuous."
GOP positive rating equals all-time low
While impressions of Obama's professional performance are mixed, the same can't be said for the Republican Party at large.
According to the poll, just 25 percent have a positive opinion of the GOP, which ties the party's low-water mark in the survey. By comparison, 42 percent have a favorable view of the Democratic Party.
In addition, only 23 percent approve of the way in which congressional Republicans have handled health care, compared with 43 percent who approve of Obama's handling of the issue.
And looking ahead to 2010 congressional midterm elections, 46 percent say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, versus 38 percent who want a Republican-controlled Congress. Last month, Democrats held a three-point advantage on this question (43-40 percent).
Other findings in the poll:
Mark Murray covers politics for NBC News. NBC's Ali Weinberg contributed to this article.


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NORMAN — Oklahoma's offense appears to be in a quagmire. The Sooners have run the ball well, but their struggles throwing the ball deep have them stuck in a rut.
By far and away the Sooners' biggest problem has been finding big plays in the passing game. They connected on a 47-yard touchdown from wide receiver Lacoltan Bester to wide receiver Sterling Shepard, but the play was just one of two completions the Sooners had for more than 20 yards in the game. Over the last four games, quarterback Blake Bell has completed just six passes that went for 20 yards are more.
The lack of long completions has been a drag on the Sooners.
"You have to be able to convert them. We'll keep going after them and I believe we will," OU coach Bob Stoops said of taking deep shots. "We had some opportunities the other day, but we weren't able to complete them. We've got to keep doing them."
The inability to connect on deep balls has an adverse affect on OU's ability to run. Opposing safeties play closer to the line of scrimmage because they're much more fearful of the ball getting run down their throat than getting it thrown over their head.
If OU can somehow start converting, it could have an entirely different looking offense. One that would be much closer to the one it envisioned early in the season.
The initial plan was to throw less this season with the hope of getting bigger chunks when it did. The ability to run the ball — which OU has exploited in every game this season — was supposed to cause defenses to crowd the line of scrimmage, opening opportunities to throw deep balls in ways OU hasn't in years.
The Sooners are throwing less — significantly less — than last season. They averaged 43.9 passing attempts per game in 2012. Through seven games this season, they've averaged 29.2 attempts per game. Some would argue that's too many for a team averaging 5.2 yards per carry.
It would be if OU could hit more of those deep shots. The reasons OU hasn't are multiple.
"That goes along with a little bit of everything with the offense," Bell said. "We can get our running game going a little bit better — obviously, we are doing a great job with our running game, but going that way and then obviously taking shots down the field and connecting on a couple of more. Missing, obviously, some is a little bit of the reason too. That can be a little bit on me, the receiver and the offensive line."
This will be essential for the 17th-ranked Sooners (6-1, 3-1 Big 12) when they face No. 10 Texas Tech (7-0, 3-0) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Owen Field.
It's a game OU will try to dominate by running the ball, controlling the clock and thereby controlling the game.
But it has to do something to loosen up defenses. In its last two games defenses have shown little fear of being beat deep. Texas and Kansas both sold out to stop the run. They kept one safety deep and played mostly man coverage on the outside.
It's the scheme of choice to stop the run, but it makes it very hard to cover deep.
Midway through the season, the Sooners still haven't shown enough reasons for defenses to get out of it.
The offense is going to struggle until it does.
"It's the difference, whether it's in the run game or throwing it," offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said. "We haven't the big hitters."
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|#571 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/14/2012 14:15:01
There is a limit to how many things you can carry. Weapons and key items are seperate. I don't think there's a limit to how many pills you can keep in your case. I had like 17 at one point. Stuff like herbs, grenades, first aid spray and ammo boxes all share the same inventory screen. It's not had at beginning when you have few guns. Later chapters though it becomes annoying since like almost every fucking weapon has its own ammo type. You then have to micromanage what ammo to bring since space because extremely limited. It sucks too, since if you drop a item, it disappears completely. Later chapters, I've actually left alot of red herbs since you can't use them without combing it with a green herb. Some items do use only one space. I sometimes just have first aid spray since you can fit 3 on one slot. For solo play, the field medic skill is OP. At lv.1 your partner revives you with 1-2 life tabs. At lv.2, 3-4 tabs.
|#572 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/14/2012 14:58:52
I turned on infinite ammo just for kicks and I'm not sure what infinite means because I still run out of ammo.
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|#573 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/15/2012 15:59:46
It's just an online on/off toggle for infinite ammo. Once you beaten the game (all 4 campaings), you can then purchase infinite ammo skills from the store for certain weapon types. Obviously without the skill you won't be able to use it.
|#574 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/16/2012 16:22:21
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I have a code for RE 2. First person to respond can have it.
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|#575 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/16/2012 16:58:40
I'll take it.
|#576 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/21/2012 14:47:55
Well I have to say that so far I am extremely underwhelmed with this game. Had it since a day after launch and I am only on the second chapter with Leon because I haven't really had much of an urge to play it. It seems like your character tries to do too much... sometimes I just want to back pedal while shooting, which causes him to jump all around and fall on your back, which is not something you want to do while fighting a horde of the undead. I think what really pisses me off most is the checkpoint system. Yeah, the whole type writer ink ribbon system of teh past wasn't perfect, but at least I knew exactly where I was saving. Now it seems like no matter what, when you turn the game off it starts you back off at the begining of the chapter. Fuck this game, it has officially killed all anticipation for future Resident Evil games for me... long live Dead Space!
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|#577 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/21/2012 16:55:20
Fuck Dead Space.
|#578 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/21/2012 19:55:19
Dead Space is that shit, son.
|#579 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/21/2012 19:56:32
The first one, yeah. That was great shit.
|#580 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/23/2012 12:03:45
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I'm with ya on that one. I bought the game right away, despite the reviews, and now I wish I hadn't. I have struggled to get myself interested in this one, and have barely played two chapters worth. So bad that I busted out Resident Evil 4 (Wii Edition) so I can remind myself of what an awesome Resident Evil game is... I'll probably replay Resident Evil 5 next, and then give Resident Evil 6 another shot.
But wow, Resident Evil 5 is fantastic compared to 6...
|#581 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/23/2012 12:45:30
RE6 is much better if you stop taking it seriously.
|#582 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/23/2012 13:45:43
Still blows my mind that something like REmake was made by the same dudes as RE6 and the goofy shit that series is now.
(Started Jumping the Shark from Code Veronica as far as Hollywood Nonsense goes)
|#583 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/23/2012 14:39:27
TheLastMoogle wrote:RE6 is much better if you stop taking it seriously.
But the Hollywood bombast and corniness of the story, I'm fine with that. RE5 had Majini on motorcycles and I still played that game to death.
|#584 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/23/2012 14:57:01
smokeyflea wrote:
Well, it kinda wasn't made by the same dudes. Kobayashi is still one of the producers, but Mikami is long gone, man. So there you go.
|#585 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/24/2012 09:37:43
New patch incoming that might at least address one issue with the game, the all too close camera.
The update will add the following:
• Players will be able to adjust the camera to allow for a greater field of view.
• Subtitle options will be improved so that English audio can be combined with subtitles in alternative languages.
• Ada Wong's campaign will be made available from the start, rather than forcing players to complete all three other campaigns first. The update will also add an optional, player-controlled co-op partner.
• The "No Hope" difficulty level will be added to supplement the existing levels for players looking for an extreme challenge.
|#586 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 10/30/2012 18:09:36
Well that's good news. Have only played the demo and had a hard time with the found footage camera. Will be getting this game when it drops to 30.
|#587 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/13/2012 08:15:26
I have to say... now that I've finally have been playing and committed to playing through this game, I am enjoying it more. The camera is still sucks, and the abundance of QTE's taking you out of the game are still too much, but I am liking it much better now
that is all
|#588 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/14/2012 15:14:50
th e game is good to me and i have been playing the game since the first one came out the series drifted from survival horror to action a long time ago all i see is just a bunch of fan's complaining about the same crap if you don't like it play other survival horror game since resident evil is not that type of game anymore.
|#589 Subject: Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/14/2012 15:31:46
There are about as many survival horror games out there now as there is punctuation in your post.
|#590 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/15/2012 12:00:01
Is at 40 bucks right now. I am tempted to buy it , but if i do next week is going to drop another 10. I'll wait.
|#591 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/15/2012 13:17:27
Outside of a random superdeal, I couldn't see the game dropping below $40.
As someone who hated the game at first, I actually quite like it now. It is certainly flawed, but I am having a lot of fun with it. Enjoying the actual action and mechanics, and even the item management. And the story progression is unique.
|#592 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/15/2012 13:21:08
Max Payne 3 dropped to 30 bucks quite fast.
|#593 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/15/2012 13:26:53
Snuggets wrote:
True, and that game, if memory serves didn't seem well received either.
|#594 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/15/2012 13:29:16
Yeah, that seems to be the trend nowadays. Game gets a lot of shit and price drops quickly. I'm all for it, considering there are really enjoyable games out there that get that treatment.
|#595 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/16/2012 13:49:59
I play this game just for kicks.
|#596 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/17/2012 09:48:59
I'll admit, I am kind of curious how much more they can honestly do with the series now that Wesker is gone. All of the people originally responsible for the outbreak are dead. What else could honestly happen? (That being said, I am still heavily addicted to killing zombies, regardless of how much story is left.)
|#597 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/21/2012 14:53:16
this game was shit way to crap on RE 5 fans. I have resident evel 1-5 gamecube and other games not in the RE series (storyline) played the RE6 and returned it after finishing it...damn way to fuck everything up might aw well buy a gung ho shooting game
|#598 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/24/2012 10:32:02
it really took my least favorite elements from Resident Evil 5 and really ran with it.
I really felt a frustrated management team was saying "HERE, THIS IS WHAT YOU AMERICAN PLAYERS WANT< RIGHT?!?!?!?"
|#599 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/24/2012 15:34:12
I think it will be a good buy at 30, still waiting. I was amused by the demo, but I can see where it turns to shit. Chris Redfiled's mission in the demo is fucking awful.
|#600 Subject: Re:Resident Evil 6 Posted: 11/24/2012 22:53:28
Finished Jake's and Chris' campaigns tonight.
Chapter 5, the final chapter of Chris' is THE WORST. Definitely, my worst Resident Evil experience in the 16 years I've been playing the series, and its actually one of my worst game playing experiences of all time.
Anyone who has played Chris' chapter 5 will know what I'm talking about. I rarely get "game rage" and I was ready to snap my dual shock in half. It was that bad, So glad that's over.
Just Leon Chapter 5 and Ada's campaign, and I can be finally finished with the most disappointing game of all time.


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8 a.m. Leisha Moorman, of Mystic, was driving a 2012 Chevrolet and was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Drake Avenue and Maple Street when her vehicle was hit from behind by a 1999 Cadillac driven by Chet Clark, of Seymour. Clark stated he looked away for a second. Damage to Moorman's vehicle was estimated at $250. Damage to Clark's vehicle was estimated at $1,300. Clark was charged with failure to stop in a sure safe distance.
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PLATTSBURGH — The world of big campaign financing has hit the North Country congressional race full force.
Both challenger Matt Doheny and incumbent Bill Owens show significant war chests as the campaign heads into the final two weeks with Owens owning a half-million dollar edge.
According to records from the Federal Election Commission, Owens, a Democrat from Plattsburgh, had receipts of $1,784,265, and Doheny, a Republican from Watertown, had $1,255,766.
Those figures were as of Sept. 30, the last filing deadline.
Of Doheny's funds, $708,162 came from individual contributors, and $158,300 came from political action committees or PACs.
The former Wall Street investor had also ponied up $335,000 of his own money.
Doheny lists no funds from the Republican Party and $54,304 marked as other.
Owens received $700,582 from individuals and $5,038 from the Democratic Party.
He got $992,160 from PACs. The former Plattsburgh attorney put in $29,000 of his own money. Owens listed $57,485 as other.
The amount of money Owens received from PACs was raised as an issue in the recent televised debate between the two candidates vying for the 21st District seat.
Owens defended his campaign contributions by saying that he was proud to have support from a broad spectrum of people. He denied being beholden to them on any votes.
"You will see by my voting record that I vote independently, and that is really the test," he said.
Owens also said that he has voted with Republicans 35 percent of the time, showing that he is willing to reach across the aisle in an attempt to solve problems.
Doheny said he is a self-made man and so are his donors.
"And you will see that I am one of the largest donors to my own campaign," he said.
Green Party candidate Donald Hassig of St. Lawrence County listed no receipts or expenses for his campaign.
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Who to Get to Know at College
These school officials are on campus to help you.
Most college students expect to interact with professors while in school. But a college campus is full of other people who can be tremendous resources for students as well.
Here are some ideas of people on a typical college campus that students should get to know.
College is your child's first chance to be on his or her own, and that can take some adjusting for parents. But it's good to know that a typical college campus has many people who can support your child and who are interested in his or her success. Here are some to be aware of so you can suggest them to your student when the need arises:
1. Campus health center employees: College means your child is in charge of his or her everyday health, probably for the first time. Campus health centers are set up with the needs of college students in mind.
[Find out how to stay healthy at college.]
Remind your child that the people who staff these centers—doctors, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and counselors—are available if the need arises.
2. Academic advisers: Your student's interaction with advisers should be more than a sign-off on an enrollment form. A good academic adviser will be able to help your child with all kinds of issues, from scheduling conflicts to alternate education plans and basic study abroad information.
Advisers can be found in general university advising offices, academic schools, and even in special programs, such as the honors program. Sometimes, even a favorite professor is able to act as an academic adviser. Encourage your student to seek out all the advisers that are available, and to certainly look into other options if he or she isn't clicking with the assigned adviser.
I've been lucky during the first two years of my college career when it comes to campus resources. I became involved with several groups during my freshman and sophomore years that allowed me to meet some influential people on campus who I now use as mentors, sources for my stories, and contacts when I need a question answered. Here are some of the people whom I have found to be most valuable.
1. Department staff: Working at New Student Orientation this summer, I got to meet dozens of campus employees who come together in one place to educate new students about the university. The people I enjoyed meeting most, however, were those from the journalism school.
Being acquainted with journalism internship coordinators, recruiters, and advisers made me an expert about my own major, and will hopefully come in handy in the future when I want to pursue an internship or take an interesting journalism elective.
Get to know influential people within your own department to ensure you're getting the most from your schooling.
2. Career services representatives: I always tell new students that one of the most untapped resources on campus is the career services office. They receive information about hundreds of internships and job applications that students can begin applying for as soon as freshman year.
[Explore jobs and internships for students at your school.]
Our career services representatives say that the majority of jobs are being found through referrals or networking. Use your career services office as your "in" to a company or position that interests you.


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This book uses an evidence-based CBT treatment model to assist children and adolescents aged 9–15 years to resolve trauma symptoms and increase their coping skills. The approach is made up of 16 step-by-step sessions to carry out with the young person, and includes worksheets and fun activities using arts and crafts. more »2010, Paperback: £19.99/ $34.95
Keywords: adolescence, anger management, anxiety, arts therapies, attachment, bereavement, bodywork, challenging behaviour, child development, child protection, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, cognitive behavioural therapy, communication, counselling, death, depression, domestic abuse, early intervention, families, grief, health care, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, resilience, safeguarding children, self esteem, sexual abuse, social care, social skills, social work, teenagers, trauma
Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools, and provides useful insights and a fresh perspective for anyone working with traumatised children and adolescents. more »2010, Paperback: £22.99/ $36.95
Keywords: adolescence, art therapy, arts therapies, attachment, challenging behaviour, child development, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, counselling, creative therapies, families, interdisciplinary arts therapies, mental health, pastoral care, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, residential care, social care, storymaking, teenagers, therapeutic communities, trauma, violence
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