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Reviews by erz316:
3.4/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
batch 001 with best before of 01/01/09 poured into guinness pint glass
A - the beer pours a huge head of three fingers, big light orange foam. the body is a nice copper orange color. the body is clear with what looks like to be a slight amount of chill haze. the best thing about this beer is the huge retentive head...well the body looks pretty damn good too. the lacing is great and really makes it look quite appetizing. I think this looks like a fine esb.
S - though it may look fine, the nose is pretty lack luster. the only thing I can smell is a very faint aroma of the caramalt, and maybe a wraith of the First Gold hops. there really isnt much to smell here, so I'm moving on. maybe there is a slight fruitiness, but I think that is mostly wishful thinking.
T - well, the taste is a better than the nose would have you believe, but the beer doesn't taste like a bitter! the initial taste is an almost biscuity malt flavour, albeit an extremely faint one. there are some hops, but nothing I would easily categorize as noticeable bitter. the beer is exceptionally blended, the malts to hops are just perfect, but this isnt what an esb should be. so, despite that the beer is very smooth and palatable, it looses points. there is hardly any 'fudgey fruity taste that subsides into a ripple of bitterness', though they might be right about the bitterness only being a slight ripple. the finish has some hops jump out for a period of time less than an instant, literally it is just like 'blam' and then its gone. the taste for that instant, however, is the most singly flavourful part of the beer, giving the drinker a slight herbal hop taste. the aftertaste is the same as the initial, blended malts and hops.
MF&D - the feel is too thick. plain and simple. this is probably a full thickness beer, and with the carbonation, which surprisingly isnt as big as one would think, pretty small scale as far as I can see. its too bland and un-exceptional for it to be very drinkable, but it is veyr balanced, which is a virtue to some.
How the heck did this win the WBA of best pale ale?
Serving type: bottle
09-23-2009 03:41:34 | More by erz316
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4/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
deep orange amber. A very dark color which took me a little by surprise to be honest. A very nice three inches of head formed on the top in a good light tan to off white color. Great retention had this thing hanging around for what seemed like forever. Some sediment actually poured out of the bottom and graced over the top of the foam at the end. A very hazy and cloudy brownish amber this was and it had a very full look to it. A very nice aroma of deep caramel malts was the first thing I noticed. A nice subtle hoppiness as well, though sweet. The flavor was very full, almost a hoppy scotch ale of sorts. Very big with a grainy and chewy kind of feel to it. Medium body with ample carbonation led to a great rich feel and this was just a superb drinker
Serving type: bottle
10-31-2011 01:28:42 | More by mikesgroove
Alberta (Canada)
3.7/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nice, fat white head on a crimson brew.
Intense and complicated aroma. Some oak notes.
Great taste. Not as good as some other red/amber ales. Nice caramel and roasted malty goodness.
Feels thicker than 5%. Not a bad thing, just not expected. The malt sticks around with a citus finish.
Good beer. I rarely buy beer twice (there's just too many to try!), and this one of those. Glad I tried it, liked it, but not so much that I'd have it again.
Serving type: bottle
08-30-2011 03:16:09 | More by slimspady
3.98/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Well, I didn't look at the best before date before I bought this one. Looks like it was best before over one year ago (7/7/09). Oh well, consider this a "cellar" review.
A: Pours out of the bottle a opaque amber color. Low carbonation, I suspect from the inadvertent aging. The head dies down fast to nothing. The upside is that I was able to fit the whole thing into my imperial pint w/o it overflowing.
S: Lots of malt character. Beautiful caramel notes, dark fruits, and toffee. The dark fruit character is that of raisins or prunes. Not overpowering, but definitely adds to the beer. As one would expect from aging, the malts really come through. Maybe a slight hint of butterscotch, but that's ok for the style. The hop character is very muted, but I get a touch of flowers and earthiness.
T: Lovely blend of malty flavors. First I get a strong, munich maltiness. This is followed up by a bevy of caramel malt flavors. These include straight up caramel, some plum/raisin flavors, and a hint of toffee. There is a glimmer of toastiness in the end. The hops are not terribly flavorful, as one would expect from a beer this old, but they provide a reasonable bitterness. Not much in the way of hoppy flavor.
M: Light bodied. Light carbonation. Smooth and light. Pretty decent. The lack of carbonation reminds me of a true English bitter.
D: I have to admit, this beer was old, so I wasn't expecting much. I was pleasantly suprised with the diverse malt flavors. I would have liked to have this when it was fresh.
Serving type: bottle
08-11-2010 18:29:38 | More by brewdoc75
New Mexico
3.63/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The name of this beer, of course, intrigued me. Although the bottle states: "There is no proper actual physics in this bottle." I am not sure what that means, but the equation on the bottle is a nice touch. Nonetheless, on to what is inside.
The beer poured a hazy orange color with a dishwater head that quickly went away. The head was, as it were, disappointing.
The aroma is malty. Fruit and hops are detectable. When the beer strikes the palate it delivers a big dose of malt. A mix of caramel and grain leads into a juicy center with a touch of hops at the end. The hops give the hint of citrus, but it doesn't last long. This is fleeting flavor, it doesn't last long.
There is something about this beer that doesn't mesh with the fact that it is ESB. A drinkable beer, smooth and enjoyable.
Serving type: bottle
12-30-2009 00:52:04 | More by BeardedBoffin
3.4/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Batch 8 with a best before 1/1/9. See how this goes.
330 ML in a tulip.
A-- Poured and orange reddish color and very cloudy once it settled. No real head or lacing, a little bit of a white film on the top of the beer and not much else. Shows no real carbonation on this at all.
S-- Floral smell with pine and lemon. Also a good sized malt background in this with a little bit of a biscuit sweetness to it. Honestly smells like the Great Divide DIPA.
T-- Malt biscuit taste upfront followed by the floral, pine, and citrus tastes.
M-- No carbonation, fairly thick and coats my mouth. Feels a lot more thicker than it should. More citrus than I thought. Get a lot of lemon in this in the aftertaste. Once it warms up it does have a bit of sour in it.
D-- Was quite good for being WAY out of date. Was surprised how much citrus was still in this and that it seems to want to be a DIPA more than an ESB. Low ABV means very sessionable but I think the negative is that it gets samey after it warms up and kills taste buds. Also has a bit of soap quality in the finish when it warms. Solid none the less.
Serving type: bottle
12-24-2009 10:12:35 | More by mulder1010
2.68/5 rDev -26.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Rats. A disappointment. Poured with soap bubble head and no lace. Color is a clear light to medium amber. Aroma is a malty and flowery hop. Pleasant. Flavor is a nicely mildly hopped amber beer as I'd expect. It was flat though. Going to try cooking with it. Hard to get around the flatness and be neutral with the other qualities as they're so connected. Still, an accurate review as best I can. Chau babe.
Serving type: bottle
12-24-2009 04:26:55 | More by drpimento
3.18/5 rDev -12.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
It's been seven years since I was in my honors physics class in high school, and much of what I learned I don't remember. If BrewDog's beer The Physics helps me remember my physics, mission accomplished. But....I'd rather that this beer tastes good. On to the beer:
Hazy on the pour, but when the beer settles in my chalice, it features a faded amber color into the borders of faded orange. The head is very bubbly and retains only a thin layer of it's already small self. Like the two other BrewDog beers I've had, the aroma is raw and "unblended". There's a stiff smell of diacetyl, followed by a burst of raw hop cones...the kind of hoppiness found in old school American NW IPA's.
And now the physical part of the beer, tasting it. It's on the lighter side, and light in feel....that's too nice, it's a little watery. A little touch of caramel hits first. Neutral bitterness kicks in, and then a kick of fruity esters and a double layer of diacetyl prelude a lingering aftertaste of bitter citrus from the hops. Come to think of it, it has a pleasant taste, unlike the over astringent Rip Tide, and the really messy Hardcore IPA.
This beer didn't help me remember my physics from high school, though it's the better of the three BrewDog's beers I've had thus far. I love BrewDog's attitude towards creating crazy beer, though I'm still searching for a BrewDog beer that I truly love.
Serving type: bottle
10-30-2009 05:26:36 | More by DoubleJ
United Kingdom (England)
3.03/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Appearance: Crystal clear amber colour, with very little in the way of carbonation. Not much of a head, what there is is very froathy with big bubbles but it is eerily white, looks quite striking.
Aroma: The distinctive hoppy BrewDog profile is noticeable on the nose from the start but it's backed up by a slight malt vinegar come whiskey aroma, bit of a strange one really.
Taste: The taste is very much like a Punk IPA that has been de-hopped, lots of the base flavours. There is a subtly sweet caramel running through it, with hints of shortbread biscuits, and a very mild milky fudge. There feels like there should be a massive wallop of hops after the initial maltiness but it never emerges. It finishes out with a warmish gingery feel.
Mouthfeel: Not quite light yet not quite medium in body. No real feel of carbonation, which gives a little softness in the palete.
Drinkability: This is nothing special, which is a shame; every time I pick up a new BrewDog beer I expect to be blown away by the originality and uniqueness of the flavours but sadly this is not the case here. It tastes little a malt bitter with a bit of a kick but there is a potential in there that just doesn't get realised.
Serving type: bottle
10-13-2009 17:47:00 | More by PartyBear
3.55/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Very bold clear medium dark bright orange color.
A very light floral nose; a couple of good swirls does not break out a nose of any distinction. A very scant nose of stone fruit.
Mouthfeel is thin and with a light and elegant carbonation that is quite nice and quite drinkable.
Flavors are much more distinct than nose promises, although light flavors are somewhat complex. Nice light and almost elegant juxtasposition of sweetish malt and stone fruit with bitter grapefruit skin hops. A nice balance and really good integration. A nice flavorful though "elegant" beer. More carbonation, for me, would improve it a bit.
Batch 002; A "best before" date on bottle of 7/7/09; tasted 10/3/09
Serving type: bottle
10-04-2009 15:41:40 | More by GRG1313
3.58/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 4.5
This is listed here as an ESB, while the label calls it an Amber. Keep that in mind as we go along. Batch # 066 (or maybe 006, the numbers were rubbed blurry), with a best by date of 8/8/09, so I'm having this slightly past the brewers preference. Poured into straight pint glass. Poured a very cloudy yellow-brown amber color with a 1/2 inch of slightly off-white head consisiting of very coarse, loose bubbles. Actually, if I hadn't noticed that head wasn't forming and started to pour more aggressively, there may not have been any head at all. What head there was did leave attractive sheets of lacing.
The beer had a very neutral aroma, nothing really jumped out me. The flavors therefore came as a huge surprise. A strong smoke flavor hit the tongue without warning. A well balanced malt profile carried the peaty flavors across the tongue.
The body was thin, whether you call this an Amber or an ESB. The drinkability was very good, the flavors are intriguing enough to keep you interested, while the mellow ABV will keep you sane.
Overall, I think this more of an Amber but, regardless of style a tasty and interesting brew. I don't think the extra couple weeks past the best-by date either helped or hurt tis beer, but longer term wouldn't be beneficial, check your label. Worth seeking out.
Serving type: bottle
09-05-2009 21:47:32 | More by beertunes
3.95/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Good head that leaves chunky lace. Slightly hazy; light amber color.
Fresh hoppiness; light, dry malt.
Creamy malt start that gives way to a solid amount of hop. Classic ESB. Smooth body but it's still spritzy. Great malty finish, although it is short lived. The aftertaste leaves some mildly bitter hop. An above average ESB.
Serving type: bottle
08-23-2009 01:44:55 | More by smcolw
United Kingdom (England)
4.22/5 rDev +15.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Got to try this on a trip to Oxford Yesterday. I've had this in the bottle and on cask is a whole other story. It blows the bottle away in every aspect.
A - dark amber, light, large bubbled head that led to a very nice lacing.
S - much more than I was expecting. Hops and honey, slightly roasted malt and citrus
T - so much hoppier than I was expecting! Nice citrus hops as well as a decent malt profile, very well balanced.
M&D - So easy to drink as most cask ales are with it's low carbonation and slightly higher temperature. The intense Flavor (at least for a bitter) is the only thing that kept this beer in my glass for very long.
almost feel like the rating is unfair as this is hard to find on cask in the UK much less anywhere else.
Serving type: cask
08-16-2009 11:43:33 | More by thepeter
New York
4.15/5 rDev +14%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
I had a 12 oz. bottle of this brew.
A- Very clear and amber in color. Slight head with a little lace.
S- Definitely has a malty scent to it with perhaps a slight bit of fruitiness, citrus?
T- Just like the scent, the malts and citrus (toward the end) come through. There is a touch of bitterness to it, but it's very well balanced.
A solid, smooth, well-balanced beer.
Serving type: bottle
07-20-2009 20:50:28 | More by Amalak
2.93/5 rDev -19.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
Best By August 2009; Sampled July 2009
A solid pour into my 25cl tulip glass produces a three-finger thick, light tan colored head. The beer is a dirty amber color that shows a lightly hazed, orange-amber hue when held up to the light. The aroma smells heavily of caramelized crystal malt and toasted grain up front, but there is a backdrop of grapefruit zest and a hint of herbal hop character. This is definitely a malt forward beer with notes of toffee, brown sugar coated bread crust as well as some berry / raisin malt notes.
Lightly sweet up front, while the finish has harsh, almost phenolic, herbal hop character that just grates across the palate and finishes with an astringent, harsh bitterness. The second sip is just a little bit better as the harshness seems to get tempered just a bit by the ample malt character. The malt does provide a rich biscuit-like character, some touches of caramelized malt sugars, nicely browned bread crust flavors and a hint of iced sweet tea notes. Still the rich malt never does shake the harsh, astringency that mars the finish of this beer. The body is light enough, but has enough body to keep it from being anywhere near watery; it would be quite quaffable if not for the faults.
This could be an interesting, complex malty beer if not for the harshness, even without it though I don't get the sense that this would be great.
Serving type: bottle
07-03-2009 20:00:09 | More by Gueuzedude
3.43/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
A slightly hazy amber brew from the 22oz bomber greets me on the pour into my Corsendonk tulip, pretty frothy white head for a 5% easy drinking brew.
Not a bitter as listed, but an amber ale, which show up with the toasted bread dough in the aroma. Bits of bread and nut in the quaff, even a hint of smoked peat, albeit light and easy.
That kinda describes this beer - a light amber, easy drinking. But, with the close to $10 a bomber price, certainly not one for me to try again. Bit disappointed.
Serving type: bottle
07-03-2009 19:42:08 | More by Vancer
New York
3.03/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Pours a cloudy brown copper color with an almost non-existant head that settles into almost nothingness. The aroma is faint, I pick up some bready malt, slightly sweet with a hint on honey. An odd tasting brew for sure. A light bready malt with grassy tea like hops that is infused with smoke flavor. The smoke seems out of place on this one. Not sure why a brew with this malt profile has smoke to it; the smoke dominates the flavor and seems out of place. Similar to smoked mozzarella, just doesn't do it for me. The feel light to moderate with weak carbonation; finishes with a grassy bitterness. The lack of carbonation and the out of place smoke flavor ruins this beer for me. I loved smoked beers but they need a very sturdy malt body to go with it. This doesn't have that.
Serving type: bottle
07-03-2009 00:59:30 | More by Gmann
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Pitch Blackness
Hank Willis Thomas
Aperture ($35)
by George Slade
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1976, Hank Willis Thomas lost his older, much-admired cousin Songha T. Willis to a cold act of unnatural violence in 2000. (Good Guy Slain for a Few Bucks read the headline for the Philadelphia newspaper version of the story.) Thomas, whose mother is the eminent artist and photography historian Deborah Willis, was an art student in California at the time; photography was elemental in his family life. In response to this unspeakable tragedy, Thomas turned his skills and insights to draw universal meanings from a very specific incident. His work, awarded the inaugural Aperture West Book Prize in 2007, seeks to decipher his cousins murder, deconstruct the culture that engendered it, and address the individual lives Songha left to mourn. Instinctively, and later intentionally, in the days, months, and years after the murder, Thomas made portraits of people who had known Songha; these, titled Bearing Witness: Murders Wake, are distillations of pain, the faces and figures of humans suffering loss. Staring back with expressions mingling incomprehension, sorrow, and ferocity, these witnesses ask a collective, insistent Why? that starts with tears and grows exponentially over five two-page spreads.
Extending the metaphor of those faces, Pitch Blackness is, in toto, a keening, aggrieved question mark. What might, in other contexts, come across as arch, dryly ironic, Jeff Koons-ian media critique (in B®anded and the later Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America series, all present in this book), or distanced, stylized model-making à la David Levinthal (see the excruciating Winter in America series carried out with filmmaker Kambui Olujimi—Pitch Blackness includes stills from their video collaboration), reveals itself as a complex visual threnody of grief and consternation. Thomas originally hesitated to link his cousins murder with the broader themes he had been pursuing in his work. It took several years and some careful persuasion to tie the extensive series of Bearing Witness portraits, and the family pictures that function as the books prologue, to his other projects that critique images of American blackness.
I say that the collaboration with Olujimi, which utilizes G.I. Joe and other action figures to animate Songhas murder, is excruciating because of its unique synthesis of innocence and malignity, play and punch. As the opening text for Winter in America states: Among the many elements Thomas and Olujimi intend to highlight with this project is the breeding of a culture of violent thoughts for young boys who are invited to author violent scenarios before they can even read. If there is an answer to the pervasive Why? of this book, it may lie in this observation of a pathological, misanthropic, material-obsessed, pre-literate American culture. The question of what is bred by images expands in this book, from the trauma of his cousins death to the flawed framing so evident throughout popular culture.
We are all among those left to mourn for Songha and thousands of other victims of senseless violence. There are mirrors, dark shadows, and reflections at work, literally and figuratively, throughout Pitch Blackness, from its spot-varnished cover to the glossy, black pages that background the images throughout the volume; theres no escaping ourselves as players implicated in the enactment of this social conundrum. The layout for the mourning portraits even leaves empty spaces in which we might find our own faces reflected; as the book notes. The impossibility of [photographing everyone touched by Songhas life] becomes its theme. The empty spaces [ ] represent those who will always remain unknown. We should consider ourselves fortunate to have Hank Willis Thomas as our escort in this investigation. His commitment to images as vehicles for information, insight, and catharsis gives hope in a passage of grief.
For an excellent, in-depth conversation between Hank Willis Thomas and photographer Will Steacy that elaborates on themes in Pitch Blackness, see the Photo-Eye Magazine Online Feature.
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Honey has long been used as a natural remedy for coughs, a common symptom of colds, bronchitis, and the flu. Rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and antibacterial compounds, honey is thought to soothe the throat and serve as a cough suppressant. To date, however, research on honey's cough-suppressing effects has yielded mixed results.
Research on Honey for Coughs
For a 2010 report in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, scientists sized up all available clinical trials comparing honey (given alone or in combination with antibiotics) with no treatment, placebo, or over-the-counter medications for relief of cough in children. The only study to fit screening criteria was a trial that compared the effects of honey, dextromethorphan (a cough-suppressing medication), and no treatment on cough and sleep quality among 108 children with upper respiratory tract infections. Study results showed that honey was more effective in reducing cough frequency and improving sleep quality (compared to no treatment), but failed to ease the severity of cough. Researchers also found that dextromethorphan and honey did not differ significantly in their effects on cough and sleep quality.
Given this trial's findings, the authors of the 2010 review concluded that there is "insufficient evidence to advise for or against the use of honey for acute cough in children." However, in another review (published in the Journal of Family Practice in 2009), researchers concluded that honey may modestly decrease the frequency and severity of cough among people with acute upper respiratory tract infections.
Using Honey for Coughs
Although there is currently a lack of scientific support for the theory that honey can treat coughs, honey may relieve coughing to some degree (and most likely won't trigger any adverse effects). For more help in easing a cough, the National Institutes of Health recommend drinking plenty of water and/or moisturizing the air with the help of a vaporizer. You might also consider using other natural remedies for cough relief, such as marshmallow and mullein.
If your cough lasts longer than two to three weeks, consult your physician to check for an underlying health problem (such as asthma, allergies, and throat disorders). It should be noted that honey cannot treat any underlying condition known to cause coughs.
Dealleaume L, Tweed B, Neher JO. "Do OTC remedies relieve cough in acute URIs?" J Fam Pract. 2009 Oct;58(10):559a-c.
Oduwole O, Meremikwu MM, Oyo-Ita A, Udoh EE. "Honey for acute cough in children." Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Jan 20;(1):CD007094.
Paul IM, Beiler J, McMonagle A, Shaffer ML, Duda L, Berlin CM Jr. "Effect of honey, dextromethorphan, and no treatment on nocturnal cough and sleep quality for coughing children and their parents." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007 Dec;161(12):1140-6.
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The 10 best Arnold Schwarzenegger performances
Better known for his brawn than his acting chops, Arnie has still turned in some great performances over the years, as Luke reminds us...
So The Last Stand hasn't quite re-affirmed Arnold Schwarzenegger as supreme ruler of the box office. At the time of writing, its worldwide box office takings are a little over $33m. That's someway short of its reputed $45m budget, and only a little more than Schwarzenegger's rumoured $29.25m salary for Terminator 3. To be fair, it was never really going to propel him back to his blockbuster days of old. Especially when his co-star is Johnny Knoxville.
And to be fairer, it's actually a much better film than those numbers would suggest. Surprisingly violent, funny in places, hilariously clichéd in others. But it's not a great Arnie film. And it's not a great Arnie performance. Too much emoting, not enough quotable dialogue. There's only one line that sticks in the mind, a wonderful two syllables that are well worth the 80 minute wait.
You have to go back a long way for the really great Arnie performances, the ones that remind you how effective he was. Give him the right material now and he could still be (step forward Tarantino. Please). Because even in the midst of the gung-ho, Planet Hollywood-era 80s and 90s, when everyone was saving the world, or a really tall building, or an ice hockey stadium, Schwarzenegger ruled. No one could touch him.
A greater sense of humour and self-awareness than Bruce Willis. A better way with the one-liner than Sylvester Stallone. And, until 1996's Eraser onwards, a much better grasp of quality control than either of them (of the ten performances below, eight of them fall between 1984 and 1994, a terrific hit rate).
But he's always been more than just a muscle-bound action star. Look at his work with James Cameron and Ivan Reitman and you'll see a lightness to counteract that hulking presence, a natural charisma that's harnessed properly when so many other filmmakers piss it away in favour of stale one liners and generic stoicism.
So these are 10 of his best performances. Not in any 'good to better' order or anything as cruelly subjective as that. You can't ask me to choose my favourite Arnie performance from the below. I love them all equally.
Stay Hungry (1976)
Interesting fact number one: Arnie has won a Golden Globe. For acting. The same year that the co-writer of The Expendables 2 was winning a Best Screenplay Oscar. 1977 seems a long time ago now, doesn't it?
Named as best newcomer for his supporting role in director Bob Rafelson's ode to bodybuilding, Schwarzenegger's first screen performance seven years earlier in Hercules In New York was kindly overlooked. Although he was dubbed and credited as Arnold Strong, so the Golden Globe people may not have realised it was him.
Or maybe they just realised that Arnold was actually really good this time around. If playing an Austrian bodybuilder doesn't sound like much of a stretch for the then Austrian bodybuilder (still Austrian, of course), just watch and be amazed. Stay Hungry captures Arnie at his least self-conscious, a movie star without any movie star baggage.
Maybe it helped that he wasn't carrying the movie, leaving Jeff Bridges to do the heavy lifting. Just as Bridges had done in Thunderbolt & Lightfoot with Clint Eastwood a few years earlier, Schwarzenegger was able to shine from under the leading man's shadow. He plays fiddle, espouses an awesome 'stay hungry' speech, and looks good even when he's got a sack over his head.
Pumping Iron (1977)
Can you call this a performance when it's actually a documentary? Absolutely. That was a rhetorical question. Or one that I already knew the answer to, anyway.
Like a lot of documentaries, George Butler and Robert Fiore's behind-the-scenes look at the 1975 Mr Olympia contest is a manipulated slice of reality. They played up the difference between reigning champion Arnold and up-and-coming challenger Lou Ferrigno, persuading the latter to train with his over-domineering father in a miserable-looking gym, leaving Arnold to bathe in the warm glow of Gold's Gym in California.
Arnie follows suit, giving a performance that deftly balances exaggeration with reality. There are outlandish claims – weightlifting is better than sex, dictators make for great role models – reeled off by Arnold in order to add drama to a film that needs it. But what stays with you most is his incredible charisma. This was the first time we got to see Arnie the larger-than-life showman, the undeniable movie star in waiting. He's cocky, but so good for it, breaking out a goofy, infectious smile that hides the ruthless competitor within.
The Terminator (1984)
Everyone knows the story by now, right? Schwarzenegger, having just wrapped Conan The Barbarian, was being pitched as the Reese hero character. American football star OJ Simpson was in line to play the big bad (in his autobiography, Arnold even describes seeing a mock-up poster with OJ front and centre – who do we have to call to get a glimpse of that?). Director James Cameron didn't want Schwarzenegger, they went to lunch anyway, with a pre-king-of-the-world Cameron so broke that he had to hope Arnie would pick up the bill. But before they got to that, Cameron saw something in his lunch companion that meant extra work for the poster department.
What's incredible about The Terminator is how it inverts the natural Arnie charisma so evident in Pumping Iron, yet still shows him to be one of the most magnetic screen presences of his generation. And it marked the most important collaboration in Schwarzenegger's career. Cameron got how to make Schwarzenegger work – if you're not having him deadpan a one liner, don't have him do anything. Go minimalist.
Schwarzenegger works best in the extremes: relaxed and charming or as the Eastwood-style man of few words (Red Heat is his Coogan's Bluff with added Russian accent). The Terminator showed how good he could be at the latter, a big advert for 'less is more' played to perfection.
Commando (1985)
The Terminator may be the iconic Schwarzenegger performance, but Commando launched what would become the Schwarzenegger template – guns, violence and, what Stallone's films crucially lacked at the time, a streak of knowing humour. The first film to introduce James Bond-inspired one-liners to the Arnie film, it showed the likeable, Pumping Iron Arnie to a mainstream audience – big, funny, and kind of sweet (just look at how ordinary the subsequent Raw Deal is for starving Arnie of two out of these three).
It's also, in hindsight, a dry run for Taken – brutally effective killing machine father rescues kidnapped daughter – although Schwarzenegger's John Matrix is a more rounded, compassionate dad than Neeson's Bryan Mills. He can pet a deer in the wilderness one minute, silently break a man's neck on a crowded airplane the next.
Tellingly, director Mark Lester reveals in his DVD commentary that a studio head didn't want Arnold to talk in the movie. Maybe they didn't think Arnie, fresh off near-monosyllabic performances in Conan The Barbarian and The Terminator, was up to the task. Lester convinced him otherwise, but actually the less Arnie says, and the more he just reacts, the better Commando is. He gets to play a terrific straight man to Rae Dawn Chong's comic foil. She's part shrill sidekick, part mocking send up of how over-the-top all this action movie heroics is. If only Last Action Hero had paid more attention.
Predator (1987)
John McTiernan. On his day, an action director who deserves to sit alongside the likes of Bigelow, Spielberg, Cameron. And a director who, in the early, good part of his career, had a knack for bringing out the best in his leading men. He would kick-start Bruce Willis's career a year later in Die Hard, then make everyone think Alec Baldwin was next in line in 1990's The Hunt For Red October. But he cut his teeth with Predator, an action-slasher hybrid that pitched Arnie as the "final girl".
Playing like a retread of The Thing with less paranoia and more testosterone, Predator could have drowned Schwarzenegger the action star; he's surrounded by guys who look like they eat just as much red meat as he does. But he rises above all of them, and with an unexpected grace, too. Where others may have gone too serious (just look at Adrien Brody in Predators), Arnie is wonderfully serene, as if all this jungle massacre business is just a blip in an otherwise lovely day.
And this is the first time, maybe the only time, Schwarzenegger has had to play vulnerable (End Of Days and Collateral Damage were mock grief played too broad – they don't count). This is Schwarzenegger in jeopardy, out-gunned, out-muscled and out-mandible clawed. He sells panic so well that when the climactic mud-man versus Predator battle erupts, it's a beauty.
Twins (1988)
Arnie's first foray into comedy, the beginning of a beautiful friendship with director Ivan Reitman, and a film that features the best suit blazer-and-shorts combo you're ever likely to see on screen.
There's something for everyone here, from those looking for the inimitable Arnie line delivery - "You're my farder, dis is my mudder" – to those still yearning for casual violence and gratuitous nudity (although it's Arnold sans gun and shirt for the most part). In fact, this may be the holy grail of Arnie performances, one where he approaches an almost Walken-like way with a line reading.
When handed a plate of cookies, he turns a simple line into a work of art - "I look forward to tossing them later."
And there's a terrific range from Arnold the actor. He displays such wide-eyed innocence and child-like fascination that the contrived romance with Kelly Preston actually comes off as incredibly sweet. And then he knows how to underplay. Witness the scene of him knocking a motorcycle thief off his bike and you'll see that 'dial-it-down' approach honed in The Terminator used to perfect comic effect. It's like Amelie, only with less whimsy and more scenes of men getting shot in the kneecap. Pretty good trade-off.
Total Recall (1990)
Once upon a time there were two Arnolds. Arnold the businessman was a shrewd man, buying the rights to Total Recall when Dino De Laurentiis' company went bankrupt (leaving a Bruce Beresford-directed version starring Patrick Swayze just another one of those intriguing what-ifs).
And Arnold the actor was smart enough to entrust it to director Paul Verhoeven after he'd made a splash with RoboCop. There's lurid violence played so over-the-top it's both horrific and laughable, a big two fingers to convention with that ending, and in the middle of it all Arnie having a huge amount of fun.
Because this is a story with another two Arnolds: hero and villain, Douglas Quaid and Hauser. This is our first glimpse of Arnie the versatile actor, playing opposite himself for the first time (repeated in Last Action Hero, and, rather unfortunately, The 6th Day). And the joy of it is that Arnie actually makes for a much more interesting villain than hero.
True, his Douglas Quaid is intentionally a blank page of a hero (we're rooting for a man who doesn't exist) but Arnie gets to enjoy the dark side in a way that Batman & Robin never got near to letting him. His big bad Hauser is fascinating because he's so likeable. Okay, for the most part he's a villain pretending to be a hero (Total Recall may be the most gloriously layered action film ever made). But even when you watch it back knowing who's who (or not who), you can't help but love Hauser. And Arnie for that grin.
Terminator 2 (1991)
On paper, T2 treads perilously close to sacrilege. In order to ride the blockbuster wave that Arnie was now on, James Cameron transformed Schwarzenegger's cold-blooded, remorseless assassin from The Terminator into a glorified babysitter. Although in this case a babysitter in throe to the child he's meant to be looking after, taking orders from Edward Furlong's pubescent John Connor. On one hand it's the ultimate in action movie wish fulfilment – control your own unstoppable killing machine! – and on the other a sly frustration of what we want from a Schwarzenegger action film. This is Arnold neutered. He can't carry out his default action hero function of dispatching anyone who gets in his way.
But all that doesn't matter once the credits roll and Schwarzenegger takes centre stage. As much as this is cuddly and polished where the original was mean and dirty, T2 is still Schwarzenegger at the top of his game. He plays it brilliantly straight – a quick "Your foster parents are dead" is his way of breaking a family bereavement – but throws in just enough moments of levity to sell us on the idea of a robot learning to be more human.
And the easiest way to measure Cameron's influence on the Schwarzenegger performance? Terminator 3. Schwarzenegger's iconic creation became just another stock action hero. Let's remember him for how he was here; no pink sunglasses anywhere to be seen.
True Lies (1994)
After Last Action Hero, Schwarzenegger needed something to reassert his box office authority. Enter James Cameron. Again. Funny where Last Action Hero was laboured, epic where Last Action Hero was grounded by unfulfilled ambition, True Lies is everything you want in a Schwarzenegger film. And everything you could want in an action comedy; it does each part equally well, with added Bill Paxton for good measure.
It also brings out a wonderful duality in Arnie: invincible secret agent by day, lost-at-sea family man by night. Cameron must have been intrigued by what lies behind the facade of a James Bond action hero when he has to go home for dinner with the family.
It works just as well as a dismantling of the Arnie screen image – what happens in those dead spots between him saving the world? He has to rely on Tom Arnold. For the domestic stuff, anyway. Away from that, Cameron elevates Schwarzenegger the action hero to near superhero status with action scenes that tread a fine line between the absurd and the jaw-dropping.
Arnie rises to the Cameron challenge. This is his James Bond, a big, sprawling kitchen sink of an action movie on a scale even Cubby Broccoli would baulk at. And with Arnie embracing the ridiculousness of it all so well that he puts Roger Moore in a big raised eyebrow shade.
Junior (1994)
It's no coincidence that Schwarzenegger's last great performance comes courtesy of Ivan Reitman. Their third collaboration sees them settle into the rhythm that brings the playful Arnie back to the fore. Junior will never be mistaken for a great comedy; it stretches its 'Arnold is pregnant!' high concept far too thin and gives us Emma Thompson's bumbling English stereotype when it could really do with something edgier to balance Arnie's journey to the feminine side.
But this is a rare instance of Arnie rising above the material. So often he's in thrall to it, held prisoner when it's middling and uninspired (see Eraser onwards). And, on a purely Arnold-the-body level, Junior shouldn't work. It undermines his physicality rather than building it up.
Twins and Kindergarten Cop had us gawp at the gulf in size between him and his co-stars. Junior has Schwarzenegger play them both – the giant and the other, the straight man and the comic foil. That he pulls it off is evidence of how gifted a comedic actor he had become (earning a Golden Globe nomination for his trouble).
Let's leave it here, though. The Reitman-Schwarzenegger show has done us well over three movies. That rumoured Triplets might just be pushing it...
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The Running man... that's a classic
good article, please do one for JCVD :)
Of all the action stars of his ilk, on Arnold was able to do comedy decently.
I've actually just been doing an Arnie movie marathon, for the hell of it.
Good list, I agree with nearly all the picks. Outside of the Terminator films, he's really note-perfect in Predator. But I think you're doing End of Days down; it's an un-typical Arnie role and he underplays it very well, making Jericho one of the most human characters he's played as the script deliberately tries to avoid Arnie-isms. It's a performance that deserved a better film.
Is this tongue in cheek?
Very nice piece.
Arnold is a compelling performer. Don't forget that he also won two landslide elections as governor of our nation's largest nation-state, California.
In person, he has equal measures charm, smarts, sweetness, and menace.
I don't think too much of Junior, and do like T3, but it's a very good list.
Predator is one of the earliest movies from my childhood memories. I watched that, raw deal, and total recall quite a lot. Predator 2 may be the only time someone successfully replaced Arnie, and I think it's because movies were very different back then. Colin farrell's Total recall, predators (minus the yakuza guy versus a predator, which was awesome), Jason mamoa's Conan, terminator salvation: all fall short. Something about Danny glover's cop was like, what does Murtaugh do when Riggs is on vacation? As a kid I remember doubting it until I actually saw it. Riggs was lucky murtaugh liked him. And pumping iron got me into weightlifting, though I do NOTHING for my gut except add to it. I always wanted Arnold's musculature but I saw it as unattainable. Until pling iron showed me arnold was a human that must lift weights for his physique. Prognosis: still unattainable, but I've gone a long way from skinny little Spanish kid bullied by racist kids. Still Spanish, still never passed 5'5, but I'm a lot more muscular. My dilemma now? The bullies are gone. I'm 20 years too late.
Terminator 2 and Predator FTW!
Or a better director.
Nice list but Conan should be there. I also feel that Last Action Hero is overly criticised in this article. Yes, it was extremely flawed and with Shane Black having written the screenplay, it should have been better than it was, but it's still a fun film. It also has one of my favourite Arnie lines, "To be or not to be. NOT TO BE!" - cue big explosion.
The Long Goodbye! :)
"At the time of writing, its worldwide box office takings are a little
over $33m. That's someway short of its reputed $45m budget, and even
less than Schwarzenegger's rumoured $29.25m salary for Terminator 3."
I'm not good at math, but I'm pretty sure 33 is more than 29.
What was he in that, Enforcer 1 or something?
I still have a soft spot for Conan... mostly for the nudity and gore. It was a violent film... and since I saw that when I was a kid, I forever think of Conan as Arnold (even though the new guy did a very respectable job with more Howard-esque styling)
His acting in Conan was spot on... he never had to do much more than look menacing and deliver the best Arnold line (I think even better than "I'll be back")
"What is best in life?"
"Crush your enemies. See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"
what if you adjust for inflation?
yeah im right it would be 36million now
Interesting. That is a big change in just 10 years.
dude junior sucked. jingle all the way is better.
Kindergarden Cop was fantastic. "Who is your father, and what does he do?"
I did go back and forth with Conan the Barbarian - Commando eventually nabbed that spot. But I don't rate Conan that highly either as an Arnie film or performance. Oliver Stone asks too much of him once we're past the Arnie-as-primitive-man first 40 minutes. Tonally, it's all over the place. And it drags. Sorry.
Last Action Hero - it tries too hard. As does Arnie. But I agree it has fun moments. I love the scene of him sitting having coffee with Mercedes Ruehl and discovering Mozart.
The article? No. It is meant as a proper ode to Arnie the actor. With some tongue-in-cheek comments here and there.
No mention of Cactus Jack?
Junior of Kindergarten Cop? No way!
"You hit the kid. I hit you!"
"It's not a tooomer!"
"I'm the party pooper"
I need to watch it again now!
(otherwise damn fine list)
Ok, I'm a bigger fan as anyone of Arnie (being 36 means I grew up with him) but comparing Twins with Amelie is a bit much...
One is coming very soon!
my name is detective john Kimbell im a cop your idout.
If the sign of a great film is that you never tire of watching it then I count 6 absolute classics in here...would be 7 but for the criminal omission of 'The Running Man'!
JCVD should be on that upcoming list, Van Damme's best acting performance by a mile.
I'm not too up on Schwarzenegger's politics, but I thought it was generally agreed that his time in office (as a Republican, no less) was meant to be a disaster?
He's also a sex pest who has been in trouble for molesting women. Doesn't seem like a nice guy to me.
You're missing the point of what I said, but I notice that happens.
No, I'd say you're not up on his politics.
Yes, he is a registered Republican! (Gasp.)
But a very moderate one, who championed renewable energy programs leading the country, enacted the first major anti-greenhouse gas program in America, raised the minimum wage, backed gun controls, etc.
His Democratic successor, for whom I worked in his last presidential campaign, Jerry Brown, likes Arnold.
He was elected twice by 17-point margins of victory in what is, aside from New York, the most Democratic big state in America.
His acting in "Red Heat" was pretty good as well.
But then again, I liked him in "Hercules in New York", so what do I know.
Yeah, Red Heat works really well. That was the other one that missed out here by a whisker. Arnie is so good as the straight man in that he makes Jim Belushi funny. One of the best opening scenes ever, too. Gotta love that hot-to-cold contrast!
Okay, that may have been slightly tongue-in-cheek. But only slightly.
It all comes down to taste in the end, doesn't it? How old you were when you watched a certain film. What it meant to you at the time. What memories it brings back now.
Twins hits a great nerve for me. I get the same feelings watching it that I'm assuming other people may get from watching Amelie. Even when that guy gets suffocated by half a ton of metal chain.
Your wish...
wow ok where to start....well Arnolds movies are great and my list is different. I think Conan the original is amazing....it HAS to be in the top 5. T-1 and T-2 of course. My FAVORITE Movies he did were Commando and Predator. We all know how good Predator 2,3 and 4 could have been with him but Die hard too its place. True lies was great, Running man great, Total recall great, Pumping Iron oh yeah great, Stay Hungry yes...I Actually think Eraser was very good and entertaining movie...I liked it saw it at the movies. He did a great job acting in KG cop, and Twins as well. Five films that get over looked that I liked and have seen more than 20 times...Raw deal and Red Heat. I also liked End of Days, Collateral Damage and T-3. T-3 wasnt as good but it wasnt bc of Arnold....they could have made that a great classic. NOW....even though he was a little rusty....The Last Stand was good and I wish he was in the movie MORE...maybe that 8-9 year break did that, Just think he would have made about 4 solid flicks in his late 50s and earl 60s...from 03-11. I LOVED HIM IN ESCAPE PLAN even tho Stallone was the main guy...Arnold stole the movie he played it old school! I need to see Sabotage b/c I dont care how it did I heard from two guys that saw it said yep it was good and I know you would like it. I think he has 3 classics on the way.....T-5! , Conan the Legend both will be out in 2015 I believe maybe one in early 2016. I also think Triplets will be great as a seqeual to twins with EM. SO...after rambling and typing first things off my head I think the best Arnold showed up on Conan, T-1, Commando, Predator and T-2. The next five are TOUGH.....b/c I liked almost all of his movies! He will be the guy that makes great old tough guy movies for the next 15 years so look for a bunch more old school Arnold. B/c those movies are coming back...oh I cant wait for Exp3!!


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"Local television executives like to say it's all hands on deck when breaking news such as a lethal hurricane hits, and sometimes that even means the station general manager grabbing a camera and playing photographer for a few hours."
So writes B&C's Mike Malone in his story "Stations Improvise to Cover Massive Sandy."
Malone continues: "That's what Craig Jahelka, vice president and general manager at WBOC in Salisbury, Md., did when the station needed someone to haul a camera around Monday morning, with Hurricane Sandy lurking off shore. 'At times like this,' he says, 'everyone's got to pitch in.'"
The story adds: "Covering such a giant event presents a stiff challenge for station reporters. Within the CBS family, reporters, and equipment, from as far off as Minneapolis and Dallas headed east to pitch in with owned stations in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. 'It's probably the biggest storm we've experienced in more than a generation,' said David Friend, senior VP of news at the CBS owned stations."
The article also reports: "Stations are asking viewers to pitch in with the reporting. WMDT Salisbury (Md.) has 25-30 'Weather Watchers' -- local weather aficionados around the market who contribute images and readings. When WNYW New York's crew heard about the wind-induced crane collapse in Manhattan Monday, vice president news director Dianne Doctor went to Facebook -- and promptly found a photo of the structure, posted by a friend who lives down the block from where the incident took place. The role of social media in newsgathering has increased even since Irene, says Doctor. 'It continues to explode,' she says. 'Everyone's a reporter. It makes our coverage better. The storm is so vast that it's the only effective way to cover this story.'"


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Kate Foran put Central Oklahoma on top early and the Bronchos dominated from start-to-finish in a 4-0 drubbing of Missouri Southern Tuesday afternoon at Tom Thompson Field.
Foran – who had the lone goal in UCO's 1-0 regular-season win over the Lions – scored just 7:35 into the first-round Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Tournament mismatch and the Bronchos were never threatened.
UCO held a huge 21-5 shot advantage and got goals from four different players in its second-highest scoring game of the season to advance to Friday's semifinals.
The second-seeded Bronchos, now 15-1-3 on the season, will play No. 6-seed Fort Hays State Friday at the site of the highest remaining seed after the Tigers upset third-seeded Truman State 1-0.
Top-seeded Central Missouri plays Southwest Baptist and No. 4 Northeastern State meets Northwest Missouri Tuesday night in the remaining first-round games.
"We came out really aggressive offensively and did a great job taking the attack to them," UCO coach Mike Cook said. "I thought we were really focused today and the girls turned it up a notch."
The Bronchos set the tone early with Foran's goal as the sophomore forward gathered in a Stephanie Fleig pass right in front of the net and scored easily.
UCO made it 2-0 in the 30th minute when Caitlin Bond finished off a long run with a kick over MSSU's on-rushing goalkeeper into an open net.
Tess Barnard had a shot go off the post with 5:40 left in the half and Elle Aston's hard shot from 15 yards out three minutes later was barely batted over the goal to keep the lead at 2-0.
UCO made it 3-0 early in the second half on Alyssa Anderson's sixth goal of the season, this one a rocket from 10 yards away off a Fleig corner kick.
Aston completed the scoring with 5:46 left, taking a long cross from Paige Patacchiera and knocking in her first goal of the year from 12 yards out.
Meagan Burke went the distance in goal, making two saves to record her ninth shutout of the season. She had plenty of defensive help, with Miranda Thorne, Jordan Hutchison, Courtney Cox and Kylee Warne leading the way as UCO held MIAA leading scorer Megan Stueve to two shots.


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The Valley Victors 4-H came to Hilltop Health Care Center in August to bring up farm animals for the residents to see. They had a variety of animals, including a calf, goats, sheep, rabbits, chicks and a dog. The residents enjoyed petting and holding them. Several of the animals were shown at the Meeker County Fair.
Meeker County 4-H'ers participate in state 4-H Shooting Sports & Wildlife Invitational
The 2013 Minnesota 4-H State Shooting Sports & Wildlife Invitational was held in Alexandria in Douglas County Sept. 6-8. From 51 counties, 746 youth participated in the following events: BB gun, Standard Air Rifle, 3 Position Air Rifle, Air Pistol, .22 Rifle, Muzzleloading, Trap, Silhouette, Wildlife Calling, Skill-a-thon and Conservation/Wildlife Displays throughout the weekend. Youth had the opportunity to showcase their skills that have been learned throughout the past year, as they spent 15 or more hours working with a trained 4-H instructor in their discipline(s) of interest. Each county exhibits a conservation and wildlife project completed by its county's participants. This year's project from Meeker County was based on the bird feeder project that our 4-H'ers led at County Fair. This project received 90 out of a 100 possible points. This was the second year that Meeker County 4-H'ers have participated in the event.
Hundreds of Minnesota 4-H'ers spent their summer evenings looking at dairy cattle in an effort to determine the best animal and the reason to place one animal over another. Experience in judging livestock helps a participant select future projects and replacements for their own herd ventures. The judging experience truly helps 4-H members base their decisions on sound reasons and implement several new life skills. The intermediate dairy judging division includes 4-H members who have completed 6th – 8th grade. This year, there were 48 participants from 13 teams competing in the intermediate dairy judging contest. The senior dairy judging division includes 4-H members who have completed 9th grade – one year post-high school. This year, there were 63 individuals representing 14 teams competing in the senior dairy judging contest.
Meeker County 4-H'ers demonstrate their knowledge and skills in the 4-H Building
Minnesota 4-H'ers from 87 counties exhibited more than 2,800 projects that were judged in the 4-H Building at the 2013 Minnesota State Fair. These 4-H'ers all placed high at their county fairs with their projects, thereby earning them the top honor of showing at the State Fair this year.
Education is integral in the "learn by doing" philosophy of 4-H. Though the projects shown at fairs during the summer get a lot of attention, 4-H is really about developing "purple ribbon kids" throughout the year. Participation in 4-H provides all 4-H youth with critical experiences and skills - such as communicating, problem solving, and decision making – which will serve them throughout their lives.
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Hughes wasn't worried about the fact that Kaepernick hadn't played baseball at Nevada. He was an outstanding athlete. And it was obvious that he could throw. In baseball, that's the rough description of many 43rd-round draft picks. "I ended up watching him play a couple times in football and really liked his athleticism," Hughes, himself a former quarterback at Louisiana Tech, recalled Sunday in a telephone interview. "But he had a real long arm stroke that's not very Dan Marino-esque. When he was a sophomore in college, I didn't know how his game would translate in the NFL. "Our NFL sources at the time thought he was going to be a later-round or CFL guy." Apparently, those NFL sources were wrong. Kaepernick politely but firmly told Hughes he wasn't interested in pursuing baseball, stayed at Nevada for two more seasons (including an otherworldly senior year) and became the Niners' second-round pick in 2011. A backup to Alex Smith when the 2012 season began, Kaepernick's star exploded in mid-November. Now he's everywhere, after leading San Francisco to Saturday's 45-31 win over Green Bay. During one of his many postgame interviews, Kaepernick wore a Brewers cap. (He was born in Milwaukee.) Hughes couldn't resist sending him a text. "Let's not forget you were drafted by the Cubs," Hughes kidded him. "I want to see you rocking the Cubbie Blue ... And by the way, pretty good game." Kaepernick's reply: LOL. Thank you . Nearly four years after Hughes recommended Kaepernick as a baseball prospect, he remains impressed by his personal qualities. The two never met in person, and yet Kaepernick took a moment to respond to Hughes' text following the greatest triumph of his professional life. The Cubs were prepared to offer Kaepernick a signing bonus near $50,000 for what amounted to a summer job: He would have reported to the team's complex in Mesa, Ariz., and thrown off mounds in the heat in June and July before returning to Nevada for two-a-days in August. (NCAA rules permit athletes to turn pro in one sport while preserving their amateur status in another.) Kaepernick wasn't interested. At all. He told Hughes that he planned to spend the summer in Reno, working with his wide receivers. And the decision was final. "I would have flown all the way to Reno to watch him throw a bullpen," said Hughes, who is based in Atlanta. "All I was waiting on was a thumbs-up from him or his father, Rick. Between the two of them, I probably made seven or eight phone calls in a two-week period. I was persistent. They kept rejecting me. "I was baffled that they had no interest. He could have played us, like, 'Oh, let me find out if they'll give me $50,000 or $100,000. That would be good spending money for the next year in college.' He could have played that angle. But he showed a lot of maturity and focus. He was all about what he was trying to do on the football field. "That says a lot about the guy. I would have loved to see him throw a baseball. But this is fun watching him throw the football around. He's an easy guy to root for." Had the Seattle Seahawks completed their comeback against Atlanta in Sunday's divisional matchup, the NFC championship game would have pitted Kaepernick against another dual-threat quarterback with a baseball past: Seattle's Russell Wilson spent two seasons as a second baseman in the Colorado Rockies farm system, batting .229 for affiliates in Pasco, Wash., and Asheville, N.C., before a standout 2011 season at Wisconsin propelled him to the NFL. (Since you're curious: If Robert Griffin III had a baseball future, Hughes figures it would be on the mound. "Hitting is so hard," Hughes said. "If I was going to take a random shot and draft RG3, I'd do it as a pitcher.") In fact, the Hughes family has a history with scouting eventual football stars. Gary Hughes -- Sam's father and one of the industry's most respected scouts -- selected outfielder John Elway for the Yankees and pitcher John Lynch for the Marlins, both from Stanford. (Gary has quipped that his Hall of Fame draft picks end up in Canton, not Cooperstown.) After watching Kaepernick's heroics over the past two months, Sam Hughes figures that any chance of him coming back to baseball is now gone for good. Except, of course, there's this tradition at Wrigley Field ... during the seventh-inning stretch ... maybe he'd want to visit Chicago on a pristine summer night ... he could stand on the mound for the ceremonial first pitch ... and maybe Hughes would pull out his radar gun ... "You've got to," he said, laughing over the phone. "You never know how many chances you'll get. 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What happens when four top NGOs team up with a world renowned art dealer for Earth Day?
You get an unprecedented partnership that culminates in Christie's First Annual Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth. Wait, did you think I was telling a joke?
Oceana, along with Natural Resources Defense Council, Conservation International and The Central Park Conservancy, NBC Universal, Barney's of New York, Deutsche Bank and Target have been working to put together the April 22 auction that takes place at Christie's in Rockefeller Center in New York as part of the 40th celebration of Earth Day.
Christie's is waiving its usual fees, so every penny from the live auction and silent auction goes to the four charities. A ton, and I mean a ton, of amazing artwork and items are up for bid the night of the event, but you don't have to be at the event to make a bid to save the earth.
Today the online silent auction launches and along with the artwork and items up for bid there are a boat-load (pun most definitely intended) of experiences on the block including swimming lessons with Oceana supporter and gold medalist Aaron Peirsol (with a $5,000 bid as of 10 a.m. this morning) and sailing lessons with Ocean Conservation Yacht Club Commodore Kristen "The America" Berry.
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"He doesn't necessarily need book study," Munchak told The Tennessean in Sunday's edition. "He needs reps. He needs to be in the huddle. He needs to get to know the players. The quarterbacks (Matt Hasselbeck and Jake Locker) are both new. He's never been around them.
"He needs to have offensive linemen in front of him to get his reads. Those are the things he needs. The assignment part I don't think will be as tough for him. It's just getting reps and getting his legs used to those cuts and doing the things he needs to do in the NFL."
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Business owners in the strip mall had been asking for looser restrictions because the current signs, which are almost all uniform in color and font, are difficult to read and do not catch the eyes of potential customers, they said. The changes remove the one-color and one-font restrictions, and also increase the maximum allowed size to a 12.5-foot by 4-foot area.
The business owners will need to get a permit from the town and will also require permission from the property's manager, the Azarian Group, before they can put up new signs. They will also have to wait 20 days from Friday, when the ordinance is published in local newspapers, before making any changes, officials said.
Besides the new storefront signs, the business owners hope more signs will help attract more people driving by on Pascack Road. Terry Kipriadis of said they would like to be included on a marquee sign — either the exisiting one or a new one — because the temporary "best gyros" signs they put near the road drew in many customers, Kipriadis said.
At previous council meetings, some residents complained about the temporary signs. Gyros and Goodies has since removed theirs, but others businesses in the mall have also put out temporary signs.
"None of us really like them," Kipriadis said. "We would like to have a lovely marquee."
John Azarian, the CEO of the Azarian Group, told Patch that the current marquee cannot be altered because of lease agreements with the three tenants featured on the sign: , and the . According to Azarian, neither he or the property's owner have an interest in adding a new marquee.
"To list 30-something signs on a marquee would result in such small lettering that the names wouldn't be legible unless you were walking by and stopped," Azarian wrote in an email to Patch.
Azarian was hired by mall owner Adele DiChiara to late last year, when there were already many empty storefronts in the mall. Azarian attended several Washington Township Council and Planning Board meetings over the past few months to speak in favor of changes to the sign ordinance.
Still, much of the mall remains empty. Just as the business owners hope their new signs will attract more customers, Azarian said he hopes new real estate signs, , will help attract new tenants. Azarian is scheduled to appear before the planning board to receive permission to keep the real estate signs up longer.
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Fashion Group International hosted a retail symposium with a panel of three top executives to discuss the convergence of art and science in the retail environment. Held in New York City on March 20, the symposium featured the insights and strategies of esteemed panelists Martine Reardon, CMO of Macy's; Steve Sadove, CEO of Saks; and Richard Dickson, president and CEO of Jones Group Branded Business.
Moderator Robin Lewis, managing editor and CEO of The Robin Report, welcomed guests to the luncheon with a few remarks about the discussion's theme.
"Steve Jobs didn't invent art or science, but he quintessentially defined the convergence of art and science in retailing," said Lewis. "The same revolutionary technologies that threatened brick and mortar retailers are now being used by these retailers to not only expand their businesses, but to gain competitive advantage."
Lewis asked each panelist to provide their input on a variety of topics, including how art and
"Omni-channel is the appropriate word for it," said Sadove. "The retailer has to have the technology to be able to move inventory around, meet volume demand and understand the consumer. We have to rethink the market, and we've made an $85-$95 million investment in technology in order to be an omni-channel retailer over the next few years."
Reardon said that the Macy's team has been inspired by a quote from 1866 that says, "Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer."
She added that Macy's is focusing on customers who shop both in store and online, which were once very separate businesses, but now share a seamless line.
"We want to be mobile—be where she [69% of Macy's customers are female] can get to us quickly," said Reardon. "We've been having fun trying to understand her preferences. Our goal now is to use technology to enhance preferences and personalization in the digital space, as well as for 'shoppertainment'—our way of making the shopping experience a little more fun."
Dickson offered a point of view from a retailer's and wholesaler's standpoint.
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Gary Ziegler - January 29, 2012Gary Ziegler, 74, of Monroe, died Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at Bryan LGH West in Lincoln.
The funeral service will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. at the Monroe United Methodist Church with Rev. Murry Jay Johnston officiating. Burial will be in the Palestine Cemetery. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Gass Haney Funeral Home and continue on Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until service time at the church. There will be family prayer service on Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. at the church.
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Gary Ziegler was born Jan. 6, 1938, in Genoa, to Daniel and Mildred (Farrar) Ziegler. He graduated from Monroe High School in 1955 and on Feb. 29, 1956, entered the United States Navy. He served on the USS Kearsarge. Gary was honorably discharged on Jan. 27, 1960. Upon his return from the service, Gary went to work at the family business which started in 1922. Gary and his brother Bob purchased the business in the late 1960's and named it Ziegler Oil Company. In 1988, he sold the business and retired.
On Feb. 21, 1964, Gary and Sharon Obrist were united in marriage at Sharon's parents home. Gary enjoyed gardening, hunting, fishing, Husker football, and taking his dog "Star" (Jo) for rides. He loved to tell jokes and was a bit of a prankster. Gary was extremely proud of his children and grandchildren.
Gary is survived by his wife, Sharon Ziegler of Monroe; son, Dan (Dixie) Ziegler of Aurora; grandchildren, Matthew, Grace, and Noah Ziegler; daughter Tracey (Tom) Bardsley of Beatrice; grandsons – Tommie Jr., Trey, Ty, and Tilden Bardsley; son Michael Ziegler of Lincoln; sister Janice Ziegler of Monroe; sister-in-law, Nancy Ziegler of Monroe; aunts Jean Laudenklos of Monroe and Mary Farrar of Bellevue,; nieces and nephews
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When going abroad, college students often get traveling into their blood and for Weldon Kyle Rice, one week in South Korea was enough for him to fall in love with the area.
A graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma and a Marlow native, Rice spent much of his final months in college praying about where God wanted him to go after he received his bachelor's degree in interpersonal communications. Lo and behold, Rice was led back to South Korea, where he had previously spent about seven days abroad.
"I taught English at a private after-school academy, which are typical for South Korea," said Rice. "Koreans are wonderful people and are so hospitable, it became a second home for me."
While a student at UCO, Rice was a student assistant for Dennis Dunham, Ph.D., executive director of International Services at Central. Dunham always wanted to put in a UCO international office and when the opportunity came up to be the coordinator for that office, Rice knew Korea was a prime area for just that.
"We opened the office Oct. 15, 2012, and we've gotten a good response," he said. "It's the first office overseas for UCO and we've always had a small interest from Koreans; we have about 130 on campus."
Right now, Rice is working on building up the exchange program to where not only will Koreans be recruited to UCO, but Americans will gain interest in studying abroad in Korea. This experience is important, Rice said, at both a personal and professional standpoint in a student's life.
"They can experience Asian culture, which is very different from American culture, and it will allow them to interact and relate to Koreans," Rice said. "The incentives the Korean universities are offering are great because American students can study for half the price in Korea than Europe and they offer free housing."
Rice has held a few study abroad fairs for both Koreans and for Americans. The Korean study abroad programs have been brought to many UCO students' attention than ever before. Right now, Rice is stateside and has held a few presentations at UCO, but will be heading back to Korea on March 11.
"I'll be back here at the end of July and then go back after a few weeks," Rice said. "I'll just keep going on like that until I decide not to do it anymore or the university closes the office."
Although Rice enjoys Korea and all the friends he has made there, he said it is hard being away from family. Being from a small town and a self-professed "country boy," he now lives in a suburb of the largest city in Korea but said he enjoys that environment too.
"I will always remember when I come from and I look back to see those who invested in me when I was so young, who taught me so much, who gave me the courage and faith to step out and do something like this and I'm grateful," he said.
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Ken Raske's response to my piece should be exhibit No. 1 in the case against the current system. When he is not using the data to obfuscate on complex matters, he displays a way of thinking that has helped create the health-care mess in New York.
To address his individual points:
* Raske accuses me of confusing financial performance with quality of care, but it is New York hospitals that persist in holding that there is no connection between the two - leading to their utter incontinence of spending. That Raske continues to argue there is no connection even while health-care experts like Solucient draw an increasingly important link between quality and financial performance only reinforces my original point that New York's hospitals still don't get it.
* Raske calls New York hospitals "efficient" by quoting a study that uses a generous cost-of-living adjustment to deflate the size of local hospital bills and that can't account for the huge subsidies being given directly to hospitals. Too bad that New Yorkers can't use this same "adjustment" to lower their real hospital bills.
* Raske's contention that other states offer more optional Medicaid benefits than New York is meaningless; New York's system spends far more than any other in the country, period. And the notion that this orgy of spending is good because it "leverages" federal dollars in New York is fiscal lunacy. While the state's cities and counties flirt with budgetary disaster because of Medicaid's burden, the federal money goes largely to hospitals.
* Raske says funding for medical education may have actually been "reduced" to a mere $544 million. But this is about three times more than any other state spends, and if you buy health insurance in New York City, the state assesses you $375 a year to finance this giveaway.
* Raske is being disingenuous about hospital capacity in New York City coming into line with some other big cities, because he knows this is only because the city's Health and Hospitals Corp. has undertaken the kind of reductions that private hospitals largely refuse to make.
* Raske may not believe that his ads were scaremongering, but another hospital executive, the head of the Iroquois Healthcare Alliance, branded them "scare tactics."
* Finally, the notion that my recommendations are "reckless" is pure Raske; he has become the Chicken Little of local health-care, forever warning that the sky will fall unless the state pumps more money into hospitals. Sooner or later, New Yorkers will catch on.
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Belgrave's workshop was open to any young musician who was serious about playing jazz.
"I got a strong foundation from Marcus. It didn't matter that I played the violin. I could have come to him if I played the kazoo, and he would have taken me in because I was genuinely interested in the music," said violinist Regina Carter recently during a telephone interview from her New Jersey home.
Carter continued: "Marcus is a gem and he's full of stories and history. You can get a degree in music just hanging out with him."
Bassist Hurst was a 10th grader at Rochester High School when he met Belgrave at a school concert. He asked his band director if he could play a duet with Belgrave. Belgrave liked Hurst's playing and hired Hurst for some gigs.
Hurst said, other than his dad, Belgrave was his most influential mentor. Belgrave could play his butt off, conducted himself well and always lived a good life. He prepared Hurst for life as a jazz musician, instilling in him the importance of continuing the art form through teaching.
They'll take the stage to give props to a musician who's built an international reputation over the decades. And despite the health issues, he doesn't plan to slow down. He keeps looking for the next big project. It could be a record with Blue Note Records, which would be his first disc as a leader for a major label. (Although, for the record, he's been prominently featured on major label releases before. Notably, he was a star on Geri Allen's 1991 Blue Note release The Nurturer, which was pretty much a tribute to Belgrave, beginning with the title.)
Before his wife and manager, vocalist Joan Belgrave, cut the interview so Belgrave could take his scheduled breathing treatment, he was asked how he feels about being partly responsible for the successes of Hurst, Allen, Carter and Hayden.
Belgrave answered in his low, raspy voice: "It makes me want to keep on giving and keep on living."
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The ACC had prepared to change its schedule models for football and basketball with the addition of two new schools next year.
Those plans changed when Notre Dame agreed last month to join the ACC as a full member in all sports except football.
The ACC football schedule will remain at eight games, the conference announced Wednesday after its league meetings in Boston, and the N.C. State-North Carolina basketball rivalry is officially safe.
The ACC had planned on going to a nine-game football schedule in 2013, with the addition of Syracuse and Pittsburgh, but scrapped that after the new agreement with Notre Dame, which will play five ACC games each season beginning in 2014. The league will stay at an eight-game conference season for football.
In basketball, the league will have an 18-game schedule, beginning this season, and it will remain that way when Syracuse and Pitt join next season and Notre Dame joins, likely before the 2015-16 season.
The ACC will go back to having two "primary partners" in basketball, which means N.C. State and UNC will continue to play home-and-home games, as they have since 1919.
N.C. State will be primary partners with Wake Forest and UNC. UNCs partners are State and Duke, and Dukes partners are UNC and Wake.
The plan remains the same in football: Syracuse will join the Atlantic Division and Pittsburgh will play in the Coastal.
Notre Dames football agreement translates to playing every ACC school once every three years.
That led to a potential crunch in nonconference schedules, which would have been reduced to three games for each team, especially for Florida State, Clemson and Georgia Tech, which each annually play an SEC rival out of the conference.
"The addition of Notre Dame gives us an opportunity to reinforce a number of conference rivalries in basketball and Olympic sports while also giving our schools greater flexibility in nonconference football scheduling," ACC commissioner John Swofford said in a statement released by the conference.
Also, the league formalized its plans to include all members in the ACC basketball tournament, with a five-day format and three games Wednesday. The top four seeds will receive byes into Fridays quarterfinals.
The conference members also decided that any school ineligible for the postseason because of NCAA sanctions will be ineligible for regular-season or divisional title recognition.
The latter rule means the ACC would not recognize UNCs football team this season if it wins the Coastal Division. The Tar Heels already were ineligible to play in the ACC Championship Game in Charlotte because of previous NCAA violations.
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