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2° Below Winter Ale - New Belgium Brewing
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Ratings: 986 | Reviews: 555 | Show All Ratings:
4.4/5 rDev +20.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
From Notes:
Friend walks in with a growler of this fresh from the Mountains. I jumps up and downs und serve it in my 2 pinter that looketh like the one pinter. Beer has traveled 15 hours and 3 finger head with a shit ton of lacing that lasts the whole day through. I mean the whole glass through. Nice copper body with perfect clarity. Sterling and Liberty hops with nice roasted malty warmth fill the nostril-domis. I predict this motherfucker is gonna taste yummier than chuck. It does, the hops and malts are balanced pretty near perfectly. Enough dry hopping that brings the horse-hoofed malt taste away and finishes with a super nice bright and dry Christmas green hop gremlin. Mouthfeel is light and very nicely carbonated, again balancing the malt hop bitterness. A great present from a special fwend!
Serving type: growler
11-13-2012 07:30:51 | More by baos
3.98/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Pours a clear and dark golden with a finger-width, white head.
S: Smell has a mild scent of hops and an underlying maltiness. A little muted, but what I can detect is good.
T: Much like the smell, the hops are apparent, but not overwhelming, similar to an IPA with the hops reduced to a fraction. The malt kicks in at the swallow. There is just a small hint of the alcohol and some sweetness that becomes more obvious after a few sips.
M: Pretty crisp and clean. Some carbonation, but not a ton. Medium-boded leaning on the light side.
D: Very drinkable, with its pleasant taste and fair crispness. The ABV might keep it lower.
Serving type: growler
01-07-2011 10:18:10 | More by ScorpyX
3.86/5 rDev +6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a goblet.
A - Medium gold color with orange highlights; very clear. Head is white and made of extremely fine bubbles. It is just a wisp on top of the beer, but makes lots of lacing on the glass.
S - Fresh hoppy aromas of citrus and tropical fruit with only a bit of pine and grapefruit. Behind that is some bready malt, and sugar. Maybe some spices like gingerbread, but very, very restrained.
T - Flavors emphasize hops, with tropical fruit, pine and grapefruit at about equal levels. There is some gingerbread malt in the background, but it can't compete with the hops. No yeast characteristics show through. Fairly one dimensional.
M - A little thin-bodied. Strong hop bitterness. Restrained carbonation. Slight alcohol presence.
O - A good beer, but a little disappointing to me when billed as a winter warmer/ESB. I think it could use more malt presence to provide balance and complexity. Still, it is clean, well-made and enjoyable.
Serving type: bottle
02-25-2014 04:04:09 | More by Radome
3.28/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured chilled in ribbed shaker pint
A: clear, dark copper color; very strong head and very robust carbonation; good lacing
S: dank hop aroma, rather light
T: caramel and hops; malt toasted nicely; well spiced, but not as much as other winter ales; bread/biscuit; strong estery taste on the back end detracts from an otherwise promising beer; dry--not very sweet
A decent try
Serving type: bottle
02-06-2014 01:54:34 | More by Arithmeticus
North Carolina
3.39/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured into a New Belgium goblet. Label says 23FEB14.
A- Pours a clean medium amber color with a 1/2 inch off-white head that retains well before dying down to a thick ring around the edge of the glass and a mostly full sheet of surface foam. Semi-resilient lacing leaves a bubbly ring behind.
S- Grainy, biscuity malt aroma. Slight tinge of alcohol.
T- Graininess follows through to the taste bringing some bready notes. A bit of butter, slightly sweet. Minimal hop bitterness and flavor.
M- Slick and thin with medium carbonation and a lightish body.
O- One of the less impressive ESBs I've had. It really is a difficult style to nail properly and bring out the subtle nuances. Nothing offensive going on though, so it doesn't lose out on too many points.
Serving type: bottle
01-28-2014 00:22:07 | More by Immortale25
North Carolina
3.05/5 rDev -16.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A very fluffy off-white head gently laces the glass, persisting for an extended period. The clear body is the color of a new penny.
The smell is primarily of grass and ever green trees and is particularly pungent. The mouthfeel is slightly below medium, falling a bit flat.
Ales advertised as winter ales often have a lot of interesting elements to their flavor, but this brew does not deviate far from its smell with a blend of mildly hoppy grass and ever-green sap. The website lists it as a Strong Bitter, but I'm not exactly floored by its hoppiness either. While drinkable, the beer lacks the advertised warm afterglow and falls a little short of expectation. I quite like many other brews by this company.
If handed this at a party, I wouldn't turn it down, but I would not pay money for it a second time.
Serving type: bottle
01-24-2014 22:59:19 | More by SylviaFaye
3.39/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Very light and see through that pours with lots and lots of carbination.
Smell - oaty and straw smell to this guy. some biscuit flavors as well
Taste - for the style the bitterness comes through with an oat and malty backbone.
Mouthfeel - leaves a nice bitter flavor on the tongue for sure.
Overall - i love that NB is bringing back their seasonals and this beer had a special place for me before every winter. Not a horrible beer, but there are lots of better winter beers.
Serving type: bottle
01-03-2014 22:47:25 | More by beatenbyjacks
3.65/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Type: 12-oz. bottle
Glass: Manzanita pint glass
From: VONS in Normal Heights (San Diego), Calif.
Price: $14.99 for Folly variety 12-pack (w/ VONS card)
Purchased: Dec. 30, 2013
Consumed: Dec. 30, 2013
Misc.: Best before March 16, 2014
Poured a honey pale clear color with five fingers of frothy khaki white head. I had to stop my pour with the head almost pouring over. Lots of bubbles coming up from the bottom. Tons of sporadic foamy lacing along the sides of the glass on the way down. Great retention on the way top that stayed all the way down.
Smelled cherries, raspberries, faint Juniper berries, caramel, toffee and nutty malts.
Tasted nutty malts, vegetables, herb hops, Juniper berries and toffee. Lingering taste was bitter onions or radishes.
Light-to-medium body. Creamy texture. Average carbonation. Bitter finish.
This beer was all over the place. I originally dug it, but it became too much like a toned-down Rampant Imperial Ale. I settled on a 3.75 overall rating, but it probably should have been a 3.50.
Serving type: bottle
12-31-2013 05:29:34 | More by BucannonXC5
3.7/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
2° Below Ale
New Belgium Brewing, Colorado
---from bottle to pint glass---
Bright and clean copper, two fingers of ivory head, excellent lacing.
Bright floral aroma, pine, bready.
Spicey herbal flavors give way to bready, bready and caramel malts, finishes with some bitter hoppy notes – reminds me of bitter apple skin.
Light to medium body, good carbonation, good lingering bitter calls for another sip.
I like this. Looks bland, but surprises you after every sip. A good bitter beer. Bready (did I already say that?) I like the apple notes. I could drink a few of these and be happy.
Serving type: bottle
12-17-2013 20:10:45 | More by Kevin-Wieken
3.78/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Had a hard time finding this beer on here and now I see that hundreds of other people apparently did not. Oh well.
Appearance 3.5: Poured out a coppery golden color. Completely translucent. I mean like tap water translucent. Smallish CO2 powered head ran out of steam quickly and disappeared.
Smell 3.5: Interesting bouquet. I smell a big hit of grassy hops along with some light caramel grains. Somewhat subdued but still nice.
Taste 4.0: Front is very grassy and alkaline, obviously from the hops; nice. Middle is where more hops -these having even more of the chlorophyll flavor-- abound along with a light malty sweetness. Finish is pleasant and well-balanced with a nice malt punch tempered by a final hit of alkalinity. Aftertaste is short and focuses on the malt/hop marriage one final time.
Mouthfeel 3.5: Somewhat watery, but this does not detract from the enjoyment of the brew.
Overall 3.75: Very good beer. New Belgium is a brewery that is hot and cold with me, but with this beer it is running hot (in spite of its name). Great blending of hops and malt and just a drinkable and sessionable beer. I would buy this again and would love to find it on tap.
Serving type: bottle
12-12-2013 06:42:50 | More by BeerDocT
North Carolina
3.74/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
A: Pours a crystal clear copper in color with light to moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising from the bottom of the glass and hints of orange + amber highlights. The beer has a finger tall sudsy light beige head that reduces to a couple of medium to large patches of very thick film surrounded by a thin film and a very thick ring at the edges of the glass. Significant amounts of lacing are observed.
S: Light to moderate aromas of toasted bready malts with light to moderate aromas of herbal, spicy, and floral hops.
T: Upfront there are moderate flavors of lightly toasted bready malts with a slight hint of grainy sweetness. There are some light flavors of herbal, spicy, and floral hops which impart a light amount of lingering bitterness.
M: Medium bodied with moderate to heavy amounts of carbonation.
O: Enjoyable and a nice beer for a cold winter evening - reminds me of a slightly stronger version of the beers I would drink on cask in the UK when I was getting something stronger. Nice flavors.
Serving type: bottle
12-11-2013 02:15:29 | More by dbrauneis
3.5/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12oz : tulip
Clear, coppery orange with a foamy, off white head.
Herbal, spicy, floral hop profile with a malty bready base.
Medium body, foamy carbonation.
I don't see this as a particularly "wintery" seasonal beer, but it is a solid, tasty ESB. Happy to have a few bottles of it.
Serving type: bottle
12-10-2013 09:25:27 | More by vkv822
South Carolina
3.58/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12oz bottle into a pint glass
Best before: 09Feb14
A: Pours a crystal clear golden straw yellow with 1 fingers width of slightly off white colored head. Decent retention. Leaves a fair amount of lacing.
S: Doughy yeast, a wheat-like aroma, citrus, sweet malts, diacetyl.
T: A somewhat smokey flavor, bitterness, citrus, plastic, buttery.
M/D: Medium body, carbonation on the heavier side, drinkability is average.
O: Overall, its ok, but nothing special. I'll have no trouble finishing the other 3 that were in the sampler, but I dont think Id but it again.
Serving type: bottle
12-07-2013 23:06:49 | More by zac16125
3.74/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours out a nice dark orange with a one finger white head with fairly good retention. Smells of fruit. I get some pineapple and orange when I think of what sticks out. Actually smells fairly nice. Taste is pretty mellow and turned down. Definitely a session beer as I bought it for that. Not very hoppy at all. I definitely get more from the malt bill here. Taste is hard for me to pin down but malt forward and not very hoppy. It's very drinkable. Wish I could get more out of this but it's not a big beer like I'm used to. Mouthfeel is pretty thin but it seems well for the style. Overall a better beer than I was expecting. Basically a good session beer.
Serving type: bottle
12-06-2013 22:20:26 | More by NeedBeerHere
3.16/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured into a shaker pint three months before its best before date of 23 Feb 2014.
Appearance: Aggressive pour brings a coppery, transparent beer with 3 inches of foamy off-white suds. Lacing is ample and lingers a while.
Smell: A balance of malt and hops, both being rather mild at this point and neither remarkable. Could be any bitter at this point.
Taste: Malt comes first, with a roasted biscuit flavor that borders on a cocoa taste. Reminds me of the malts in Fat Tire. Hops come next, presenting an earthy, leafy flavor. A few more sips and some warmth allows a citrus note to appear.
Mouthfeel: A teensy bit sticky, but remains thin. No alcoholic heat, and not a lot of bitter aftertaste, although the hops will stick with you longer than the malt will.
Overall: A decent approximation to a bitter, or ESB, or whatever New Belgium is marketing this as. I would classify it as a more hop-forward version of Fat Tire, which is difficult enough to classify by itself! I might have this again, but with Bass being so cheap, I'd probably stick to the authentic English pub beers.
Serving type: bottle
11-24-2013 00:11:55 | More by Cyrion
4.28/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
Served from the bottle into a goblet.
A- Poured a mostly clear dark orange color, some visible carbonation with soapy off-white head that left some splashy lace.
S- Big floral, grassy, and citrusy hops. Big biscuit malt, toffee, cereal malt, and caramel sweetness.
T- Big biscuit and cereal malt notes, big floral, grassy, citrusy, and piney hope, quite a bit of caramel sweetness, toffee, bready, and light spice esters from the yeast. Moderate to high bitterness on the finish. with a big lingering hop finish.
M- Prickly carbonation, medium to lighter bodied, and semi-dry finish.
O- This winter ale has a ton of hop character and big malt backbone that really balance each other out well. Reminded me a little bit of a much maltier version of Celebration Ale, it seemed like the hop profile and hop bite was pretty similar.
Serving type: bottle
11-20-2013 03:58:26 | More by Hoptometrist
North Carolina
3.4/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured into a NB globe.
A: Pours a light amber with a minimal head. The beer leaves behind very little lacing as it is consumed.
S: light malty aroma.
T: The overwhelming impression I got was that this tasted quite a bit like Fat Tire.
M: light mouthfeel.
O: Again, this reminded me of Fat Tire but perhaps a lighter version. I do enjoy Fat Tire but I think I prefer the original to this version. I got this as part of the NB Winter 12 pack.
Serving type: bottle
11-15-2013 16:01:54 | More by JimKal
3.58/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Foam was white in color, thin and a little lacey. It had a dominate hops and citrus aroma with hints of anise and wheat. The color was a beautiful orange amber. The taste was a complete translation of the smell, a complete balance of hops and citrus with spices. Mouthfeel - medium bodied and crisp. Drinkability - not to bad. To me a simple balance of hops and citrus with some added flavors. Ok session.
Serving type: bottle
11-24-2012 14:40:47 | More by WoodBrew
3.7/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Cellar temp bottle poured into a pint glass.
The beer pours a mostly clear copper hue with some streams of carbonation rising to the surface. Fluffy beige head of 2 cm foams up and fades slowly as the beer sits. Head is almost faint orange tint to it. The head leave very tightly packed lattice as it slides down the sides of the glass.
Aroma is some grainy malt and caramel, maybe some light fruitiness and a hint of grassy hops.
First sip reveals an average to light body and fine gentle rolling carbonation. Very easy to drink this smooth brew.
Flavor is mild but I get some grainy malt and caramel that mixes with just a bit of grassy mildly bitey hop on the finish. Actually kind of dry too, which I didnt expect.
Overall the beer is mild and very easy to drink. Not a bad choice for this fairly warm evening.
Serving type: bottle
06-30-2012 04:40:41 | More by sulldaddy
3.8/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Found a lonely bottle at the pick your sixer section at the tiny local liquor store! I had heard this may not be back for a while so I jumped on it! I can't read the freshness date but I would guess it's been there a little while. The beer was poured from the brown 12 oz bottle to a NBB globe glass. Clear golden color with a nice 2 finger white head. Solid retention and nice lacing. The aroma is mostly of a malty sweetness with a fair amount of earthy piney hop character. The nose carries over to the beer where the flavor starts with the malty sweetness found on the nose. Toasted grains with a little roasty character. The beer develops to a medium bitterness and hop character. Finishes crisp and clean. Good mouthfeel and good carbonation. Easy to drink.
I am not sure when this will be out again, but I have enjoyed the offering. I hope it's hiatus is only temporary!
Note: This review was a re-post from my former account, jmkratt, which was hacked and I lost all my reviews...sorry for the redundancy.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 03-09-2011 13:49:03
Serving type: bottle
01-27-2012 14:17:08 | More by hopfacebrew
3.85/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
(these notes are from December 23, 2010)
This is one I've had on tap at various locations, might have had a bottle, but what I tasted from this bottling did not remind me of what I had before. The winter ale from New Belgium Brewing, 2 (degrees) BELOW (hey, they're the ones who capitalize it.)
New Belgium 2 Below Ale…"We like to think we beat winter at it's own game a 2 BELOW Winter Ale, a bright warming blast of Sterling and Liberty hops along with tawny-roasted malts. By pushing our 2 BELOW into a final, nearly freezing state, it's ample structure develops a brilliant clarity, Dry-hopping during fermentation creates a bright, hoppy palate and a cheery warm afterglow. Serve at 3 C (37 F) Acl. 6.6% by Vol.)"
So that's what they say, here's what I say…
Crystal-clear, auburn appearance, pale crimson, with a dotted white head, leaving lace.
Aromatics, hops up front, lightly bitter and herbal, a mix of English and American hop characteristics, a little sweet fruit peeps in for a moment. Bitterness continues on the tongue, with, yes, a bright, cheery flavor below. Crisp and clean, but a little too lean in body for my liking. For a winter ale, I'd like to taste something darker and a bit heavier.
This pleases the pale ale/IPA lover in me, but my taste buds are yearning for darker malts when you say "winter ale." However, as I strive to judge beers on their own, versus what I wish they were, it's hard to really complain.
Serving type: bottle
01-14-2012 08:40:08 | More by feloniousmonk
2.5/5 rDev -31.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Poured a clear light orange- amber with a two finger white soapy head. decent retention and lacing was ok.
Smell of bready yeast, slight malt aroma, and a little citrusy alcohol. Not bad, it just left me hanging.
Taste is bready malts followed by some citrus hops. A little confusing at the end with some metalic alcohol. Not so good.
Mouthfeel is ok with crisp dryness on the end.
Overall I didn't like very much, but didn't hate either. It's one of those.
Serving type: bottle
07-25-2011 20:36:47 | More by bayougutter
New York
3.4/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I had a sixteen ounce draft of this at the Holstein's at the New Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. I have mixed feelings about this brewery, liking some of the selections and not being impressed with many others. This one falls somewhere in between.
The appearance was a dark amber with an orange hue. The beer was somewhat uncarbonated but i guess that may be on purpose to make it "British pub" style.
Aroma was a bit bready but I wanted more from it.
The flavor had a good balance of malt and bitterness but again I was a bit underwhelmed by it.
In general not a bad beer from a good brewer but not something I would seek out again.
Serving type: on-tap
04-15-2011 18:09:35 | More by david18
3.28/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A: sharp deep orange, bubbly body, trace head, zero lacing.
S. big bready malt, hint of clean grass/pine.
T: firm malt body, with floral and earthy, low subtle bitter
M: med/light body, plenty of carbonation
D. Solid, but not spectacular. For some reason, when I drink this I don't think of it as a winter ale nor an ESB. Certainly not a bad beer.
Serving type: bottle
04-13-2011 16:40:47 | More by BeerLover99
3.93/5 rDev +8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
This beer was served out of a 12oz. bottle dispensed into a glass....
Presentation - Very cool label. I love NB Label artwork and bottles.
Appearance - Pours a clear golden amber color with a nice 2 finger white airy head. Has a slight carbonation rising from the bottom of the glass. Leaves a nice lacing on the glass.
Smell - Smells of bread-like yeasty maltiness with hints of pine.
Taste - Biscuit like malt taste with a piney hop flavor. Medium bitterness with hints of spice.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied and lightly carbonated has a creamy mouthfeel.
Drinkability - An overall good drinkable beer that is very well put together.
Nothing sectacular but still a very good. I would recommend trying this if the chance arises.
Serving type: bottle
04-12-2011 00:02:41 | More by thegodfather1076
2° Below Winter Ale from New Belgium Brewing
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Born in Oak Harbor and is a former Navy brat. Moved back to Oak Harbor in 1995 and graduated from Oak Harbor High School. Attended Everest College and completed the Dental Assisting program in 2007. Has been assisting for two years in South Whidbey and came to Dr Turners office at the beginning of 2010. She lives in beautiful historic Coupeville with her husband Benjamin and their two boys, Michael and Dylan. Enjoys hiking , walking, and spending time with her family.


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Bryan, C. J, Master, A., & Walton, G. M. (in press). "Helping" versus "being a helper": Invoking the self to increase helping in young children. Child Development.
Walton, G. M. (2014). The new science of wise psychological interventions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 73-82.
Brannon, T. N. & Walton, G. M. (2013). Enacting cultural interests: How intergroup contact reduces prejudice by sparking interest in an out-group's culture. Psychological Science, 24, 1947-1957.
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Butler, L. P. & Walton, G. M. (2013). The opportunity to collaborate increases preschoolers' motivation for challenging tasks. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 953-961.
Finkel, E. J., Slotter, E. B., Luchies, L. B., Walton, G. M., & Gross, J. J. (2013). A brief intervention to promote conflict reappraisal preserves marital quality over time. Psychological Science, 24, 1595-1601.
Job, V. Walton, G. M., Bernecker, K., & Dweck, C. S. (2013). Beliefs about willpower determine the impact of glucose on self-control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Master, A. & Walton, G. M. (2013). Membership in a minimal group increases motivation and learning in young children. Child Development, 84, 737-751.
Walton, G. M. (2013). The myth of intelligence: Smartness isn't like height. In D. Allen & R. Reich (Eds.) Education, Justice, and Democracy (pp. 155-172). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Walton, G. M., Spencer, S. J., & Erman, S. (2013). Affirmative meritocracy. Social Issues and Policy Review, 7, 1-35.
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Yeager, D. S., Paunesku, D., Walton, G. M., & Dweck, C. S. (2013). How can we instill productive mindsets at scale? A review of the evidence and an initial R&D agenda. White paper prepared for the White House meeting on Excellence in education: The importance of academic mindsets. May 10, 2013.
Yeager, D., Walton, G., & Cohen, G. L. (2013). Addressing achievement gaps with psychological interventions. Phi Delta Kappan, 94, 62-65.
Logel, C., Walton, G. M., Peach, J., Spencer, S. J., & Zanna, M. P. (2012). Unleashing latent ability: Implications of creating stereotype-safe environments for college admissions. Educational Psychologist, 47, 42-50.
Miller, E. M., Walton, G. M., Dweck, C. S., Job, V., Trzesniewski, K. H., & McClure, S. M., (2012). Theories of willpower affect sustained learning. PLoS One, 7, e38680.
Walton, G. M. & Carr, P. B. (2012). Social belonging and the motivation and intellectual achievement of negatively stereotyped students. In M. Inzlicht & T. Schmader (Eds.) Stereotype Threat: Theory, Processes, and Application (pp. 89-106). New York: Oxford University Press.
Walton, G. M., Cohen, G. L., Cwir, D., & Spencer, S. J. (2012). Mere belonging: The power of social connections. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 513-532.
Walton, G. M., Paunesku, D., & Dweck, C. S. (2012). Expandable selves. In M. R. Leary & J. P. Tangney (Eds.) Handbook of Self and Identity (pp. 141-154). New York: The Guilford Press.
Akcinar, E. N., Carr, P. B., & Walton, G. M. (2011). Interactions with men and Whites matter too. Psychological Inquiry, 22, 247-251.
Bryan, C. J., Walton, G. M, Rogers, T. & Dweck, C. S. (2011). Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 12653-12656.
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Cwir, D., Carr, P. B., Walton, G. M., & Spencer, S. J. (2011). Your heart makes my heart move: Cues of social connectedness cause shared emotions and physiological states among strangers. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 661-664.
Dweck, C. S., Walton, G. M., & Cohen, G. L. (2011). Academic tenacity. White paper prepared for the Gates Foundation. Seattle, WA.
Purdie-Vaughns, V. & Walton, G. M. (2011). Is multiculturalism bad for African-Americans? Towards a new conversation about race in America. In L. R. Tropp & R. Mallett (Eds.) Beyond Prejudice Reduction to Positive Intergroup Relations. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Taylor, V. J. & Walton, G. M. (2011). Stereotype threat undermines academic learning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1055-1067.
Walton, G. M. & Cohen, G. L. (2011). A brief social-belonging intervention improves academic and health outcomes of minority students. Science, 331, 1447-1451.
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Walton, G. M. & Cohen, G. L. (2011). Sharing motivation. In D. Dunning (Ed.) Social Motivation (pp. 79-101). New York: Psychology Press.
Yeager, D. S. & Walton, G. M. (2011). Social-psychological interventions in education: They're not magic. Review of Educational Research, 81, 267-301.
•Recipient of the 2012 Review of Research Award from the American Education Research Association.
•Recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Research Award from Division E (Human Development) of the American Education Research Association.
Job, V., Dweck, C. S., & Walton, G. M. (2010). Ego depletion--Is it all in your head?: Implicit theories about willpower affect self-regulation . Psychological Science, 21, 1686-1693.
Walton, G. M. & Spencer, S. J. (2009). Latent ability: Grades and test scores systematically underestimate the intellectual ability of negatively stereotyped students. Psychological Science, 20, 1132-1139.
•Winner of the 2010 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize as the "best paper or article of the year on intergroup relations" from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
•Honorable Mention, Inaugural (2011) Smashing Bias Research Prize from the Level Playing Field Institute and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation.
Logel, C., Walton, G. M., Spencer, S. J., Iserman, E. C., von Hippel, W., & Bell, A. (2009). Interacting with sexist men triggers social identity threat among female engineers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1089-1103.
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So much potential, so badly done
Neverwinter Nights 2 (PC)
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Neverwinter Nights 2 (PC)
Date: 06/09/07
Advantages: Based on a known system, with a great pedigree behind it
Disadvantages: Lazy deveopers have ruined the game
First of all, I have to admit that I love role playing games. I spent many years in my geeky youth rolling dice and the like. It is not something that ever really leaves you alone.
During my time playing games, it is always fun to try something different the likes of Dungeon Siege for a bit of fast and dirty action, and then the likes of Oblivion to really get your teeth into. Howver, my spiritual RPG home is, and always has been Dungeons and Dragons. No matter how much the rules may have evolved over the last 15 years, I still look forward to a new D&D game.
This game is the latest in a line of D&D games that has proceeded from strength to strength. Going all the way back to the first Baldurs Gate, via its sequel (creatively named Baldurs Gate II), and then becoming more visually appealing with the first Neverwinter Nights.
The first of the never winter games was my all time favourite party based RPG, so you can probably imagine how excited I was about the arrival of a sequel. I ordered the game and waited impatiently for it to arrive through the post.
It turned up. I was overjoyed. Into the DVD drive it went, and I installed away. I could hardly wait.
Post installation, I fired the game up, and it detected that updates were available. Always nice to have the most up to date patches, I though, so I sent it off on its merry way, not thinking it would take too long.
Two hours later it had finished. Quite frustrating, but I was now pretty confident that a jump of 6 versions would have fixed almost every bug that had been found.
Even though my pc is substantially above the minimum spec, it recommended that I use the lowest option on many of the graphical settings. I had heard that the graphics with all the bells and whistles could eat up all but the most powerful rig, so I left it at that. Later, whilst playing the game I set a few of the options to maximum, and whilst the game got a lot prettier, the speed was reduced to an unplayable, juddery crawl.
I sat through the usual splash of logos and developer screens at the start, with the now obligatory Nvidia screen, and then the intro movie started. It is short, and it has nothing at all to do with the plot, but it was like watching what happened in my head when I played RPGs as a youth. It depicts a few minutes of a battle between two characters, and it sets the mood and really whets your appetite for the game.
I charged ahead to start a new game, and create my first character. This is one of the sections I normally love about RPGs, working through lots of different races, classes and skills, just top see what you can create. NWN 2 has one of the most user friendly interfaces for character creation, with lots of help and advice along the way. The only minor gripe I had was that the appearance of your character was pretty limited. After games like Oblivion (and even the Tiger Woods golf games) where you can tweak almost every attribute, being presented with sliders for height and width, along with a section of about 10 different faces and hair styles is a little disappointing. That said though, this bit still felt satisfying.
At the very start of the game, you are given the option of carrying out a tutorial or heading straight into the action. I chose the tutorial, as it had been awhile since I had last played one of these games. However, if you do go straight through to the action, your character gets all the experience you would accrue by going through the tutorial, which is a nice touch.
So, I pressed on with the tutorial, which is light hearted and a bit of fun. Everything came back to me quite quickly, so I found it a bit slow, but it is a nice intro to how to play the game. Then it was onto the main quest.
I do not want to give too much away, but the game proper starts with your village being attacked by dark dwarves and some funny lizard men. Once you have repelled the attack and done a few tiny side quests, it is off to the swamp to find a hidden object.
Once you have got this far, you are off to explore the world alone. And this is where I started to encounter serious problems. On my first attempt to move out of the start area and onto the main quest, the game just hung. The only way to get out of this was to close the game using the Task Manager (or Ctrl-Alt-Del).
I assumed that this was just a glitch, so I launched the game again. Fortunately, it had automatically created a saved game just before, so I did not have to redo any of the game. So I tried to move to the next area, and it hung again. This time I completely re-booted my PC and tried again, to no avail.
It was at this point that I decided to search the internet to see if anyone else had encountered the problem. This opened a real can of worms. It appears that the developers decided whilst writing the game that every one has to have at least 500Mb free on their Windows drive. If you do not, loading some of the larger map areas within the game happens so slowly that it may as well not happen at all.
To explain a bit of why this matters to me, I have my drives on my computer partitioned, with my Windows partition having just enough room, plus about 300-400Mb just in case, with everything else pointing at my 70Gb partition, even my windows swap space is there. I have done this because I have had my windows partition destroyed by viruses and the like in the past, so it contains the smallest amount possible so I do not have to replace as much. next time.
However, in the eyes of the developers, they know more about how my system is supposed to configured than I do. Still, I did some pc based swapping and shifting to free up about 500Mb, and then tried again.
Fantastic! The next section loaded like a dream. So on I went with the game, happily playing along and having a good time, although it was slightly marred by the extra messing around I had had to do. Then disaster struck again.
Because the game filled up all the avalaible space on my C: drive with temporary data for the game, I could not save. Even trying deleted the save game I was using. It had also deleted any automatic save points created along the way.
Back to the internet I went, to try and see if there way around this or a fix in progress. It appears that this issue has been going on for almost as long as the game has been out, and there is no sign of a fix. Nor have the developers even responded to the 20 or so pages of posts on their tech support forum that relate to this problem. A bit of further digging revealed a whole host of bugs and issues still outstanding.
Now, I faced a choice. Did I delete everything from my PC and reinstall everything I had, or consign the game to the wastes of e-bay?
I got around £15 for it.
Available on Play.com for £24.99
Summary: Only consider if you have about 1Gb free on your Windows drive


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I'm thinking of vlunteering as a gardener at a local National Trust house. (I go away a lot so am hesitating). I should think the learning curve, the contact with plants and the earth and the social contact would all be healthful.
I'm no expert and sometimes wonder how I have the cheek to post on this forum, but I'm interested in flowering plants and have learnt a bit. Paeonies planted in full sun will flower earlier but in more shade will get fewer, longer-lasting flowers. They need some sun every day. They need a low-nitrogen, high potash fertiliser. they are supposed to be drought tolerant and can rot if they are too wet, but in my limited experience they do better if they are fairly well-watered. Otherwise there wouldn't be any in Wales!!
Here's a rant.
Class doesn't make you a better person, but it makes a difference to the privileges and oppportunities you get - and allows you to be rude to people of a different perceived class! I've seen very posh people being icily and very politely rude to someone who is not 'one of us' and I've seen and probably practiced inverted snobbery against those who appeared to condescend to me. Human pride has many expressions!
Obviously, it is what a person is that counts, but many of us will have experienced snobbery and exclusion from others on the basis of class, which actually no--one can choose and nobody earns. Even those who appear to change class through education or achievement only end up wondering which class they belong to and feeling a bit anchorless.
Pride being what it is, class will not be eradicated, though it may be changed. In America, they have supposedly abolished the old class system, but they have one, based on money and achievement, a meritocracy. Communist countries tried to abolish class distinctions by asserting that only the working classes mattered, but they soon got class distinctions again based on sheer power - and the bottom class was always the religious.
Class isn't really the problem. The problem is human pursuit of the great gods money, status, sex and power.
So there!
Hi Dave.The usual reason that they don't flower is that they are planted too deep or have been mulched so that light does not get to the crown. They like fertile, moist soil and I should have thought that being under trees would mean that they did not get enough of either and you'll have to make it up to them with feeding and watering. They don't flower for long and although the flowers are gorgeous, I sometimes wonder if they are worth it. As with most other things, I'm probably wrong!!!
I suppose it is not planted too deep in the pot? They like shallow planting.
You weren't offensive, Sam, and this is the place for rants. I think I should stop posting when I am tired.
Verdun, do you label your plants or do you just have a retentive memory? I always resolve to label mine and then don't and forget their names. I did keep all the plant labels until OH 'tidied up' and threw them all away.
Geoff, I have a lot of respect for you. I just think that remarks about someone's post are better respectfully addressed to the poster. This may be a mischievous post. Ask her why she posted it.
As you say, Bunny, beliefs about class differ and I quite agree that character, not class, is what matters. To be proud of your origins and to value what you learn is a great asset in life, whatever your class. I have a 'posh' daughter in law who had a privileged upbringing from wonderful parents and she is proud of that, too. She married my 'working class educated' son and loves him to bits. Upper crust people and 'working class' people are both capable of rudeness - they tend to do it in different ways, that's all.
What really unites us on this forum is that we are gardeners and here this surmounts every other difference of class and creed. We will be kind and respectful to each other. I really appreciate the peolple I've been in contact with on this forumand have personal experience of Sam's generosity and grace. Rants are fine as long as we keep our sense of humour and mutual respect.
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momo - 2:38 pm on Jul 30, 2008 (gmt 0)
widgets blue The first three searches give exactly the same results for the top ten (other than AdWords ads) and the last one, that has no space between the dash and the word, gives completely different results. That makes sense to me because a hyphenated word sometimes is considered a single word whereas the other combinations would rarely be considered a single word. But this brings up other issues. The first three give exactly the same results. Does that imply that google ignores commas and dashes completely while indexing something like page titles? I have looked at previous posts and some people say they ignore punctuation completely, some have said otherwise. One reason why this matters is for optimizing page titles for specific keywords. Say in my keyword research I found 10x the search volume for the keyword "widgets blue" than "widgets in blue" and much less competition for the first one. It makes sense that that happens - it is fairly common that people type in a few words into search engines that wouldn't make sense in a sentence. But of course people optimize pages with logical sentences. But of course, I want to optimize for "widgets blue", and preferably in phrase match. So really, I think the question is, does punctuation affect phrase match? Are these page titles the same to google? For magical widgets blue is best
I just did a search test in google:
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widgets - blue
For magical widgets - blue is best
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During your stay in Congress Hotel you will get complimentary breakfast. A restaurant and a bar/lounge are two of the general spaces for guests here. A sauna welcomes all guests looking to unwind. The accommodation offers a doctor on call, a dry cleaning/laundry service and a luggage storage. For business use, there are 2 meeting rooms. A conference space and an audio-visual equipment set are welcome extras for business guests visiting Vilnius. Decide which one of the 80 rooms is best for your stay. Free parking is another useful option when staying at Congress Hotel. Need to get around? A paid airport shuttle bus is provided for your convenience.
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The son of 11-term Rep. James P. Moran Jr. resigned from his father's campaign Wednesday hours after an undercover video showed him discussing possible voter fraud with an activist posing as a campaign worker.
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Judged: 2 1 1 Check this out...... Secret Service agents talk in a private interview and reveal about . MRS & MRS BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. * Clinton all over again hates the military and looks down on the Secret Service. He is egotistical and cunning; looks you in the eye and appears to agree with you, but turns around and does the opposite, untrustworthy. He has temper tantrums.* *She is a complete bitch, who basically hates anybody who is not black; hates the military; and looks at the Secret Service as servants.* Furthermore Obama prays three times a day on a prayer rug in a room off the Oval Office. He has a prayer rug on Air Force One. His wife does likewise. A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders. ********** REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER ******* Barrack HUSSEN Obama has: - 47 MILLION on welfare, including about 20 MILLION muslims. This cost American tax payers 1.4 TRILLION dollar each year. This is far more than what the entire defense budget is for one year. - discourages people from working for living, especially the ghetto crowd and muslims. - the country is nearing 17 TRILLION dollars n debt. - we now have more than 35 MILLION illegal Mexicans and over 25 MILLION muslims, legal or otherwise. Only God know how many muslims terrorist are in this bunch. Better a God-loving and honest Mormon, than a corrupt and racist islamofascsist in the White House. . I am Papillon and I approve this message. |
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I talked to a kid the other day who was paid twenty dollars a few days before to vote Republican. So it's not just one party. He wanted to know if he could keep the money if he didn't vote. Sheesh. It's unreal what is going on.
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Oh dear! Not another Democrat caught cheating! Where's tomanylaws when you need her?
Lie, cheat and steel. No surprise here, it's the only way lefties can win.
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Judged: 1 1 1 NO credibility. He shouldn't have resigned, such actions only play into the hands of this Right-wing video terrorist. If the media are so "liberal," why don't they expose this little shyster? |
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Judged: 1 1 1 You appear to be the one who's "Lyin'" here, actually. Your silly slanders of Democrats show that, like O'Keefe, you have NO credibility. |
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Sleep State Switching
Sleep State Switching
Neuron, Volume 68, Issue 6,
Pages 1023-1042,
Publication Date 22 December 2010
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.11.032
Clifford B. Saper
Patrick M. Fuller
Nigel P. Pedersen
Jun Lu
Thomas E. Scammell
Department of Neurology, Program in Neuroscience, and Division of Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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We take for granted the ability to fall asleep or to snap out of sleep into wakefulness, but these changes in behavioral state require specific switching mechanisms in the brain that allow well-defined state transitions. In this review, we examine the basic circuitry underlying the regulation of sleep and wakefulness and discuss a theoretical framework wherein the interactions between reciprocal neuronal circuits enable relatively rapid and complete state transitions. We also review how homeostatic, circadian, and allostatic drives help regulate sleep state switching and discuss how breakdown of the switching mechanism may contribute to sleep disorders such as narcolepsy.


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Economics, equality and the environment: Growth is not always good
In an interview with Der Spiegel, economist and globalization critic Noreena Hertz discusses the flaws of judging a country's success by GDP and brings up other ways to measure economic and material prosperity:
GDP only measures a small part of economic success. Some really important aspects are ignored. Take sustainability, for example. It's absurd that a country can have high growth rates because it has a lot of polluting industry. The quality of the air, health, progress made by women, child care and social cohesion — these are all important economic factors.
The innovation or robustness of an economy are not reflected in GDP, nor is economic or social equality. Hertz would like a new method of judging economic success that includes justice, equality, environmental protection and population health along with GDP. Real economic health should also be sustainable.
She would also like to see a shift from what she calls 'Gucci capitalism', where people simply trusted the market, to cooperative capitalism – capitalism characterized by 'complexity, diversity and collaboration'.
Former New Zealand Minister for the Environment Simon Upton makes a similar case in an opinion piece entitled 'Time to make the numbers add up for the sake of the environment' for the Dominion Post:
GDP is, of course, just one measure and an increasingly questioned one at that. As we contemplate a world with more than nine billion people and increasingly compromised life support systems, it seems likely that other measures will become commensurately important.
Upton expresses concern about the strain the growing global middle class will have on the environment and the Earth's natural resources, and how New Zealand will need to respond.
These voices join other economic ideas that offer fresher, greener alternatives than those simply based on production and consumption, such as the green economy and the concept of 'natural capital.'
by Graham Land
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The tech is actually surprisingly interesting. While its simple nature might blow off a lot of people, the sensor actually performs in an interesting manner. Kinect cuts out your outline on the fly and morphs only that, leaving the background intact. Thus, Mutation Station works with two separate people and can use different filters at the same time -- say, if you want split yourself down the middle and make your friend fat.
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I had a fitbit zip and then they came out with spark activity tracker.......I guess I'm all about gadgets. The fitbit was synced to spark and I was getting all these fitness minutes and I was just doing normal walking throughout the day. The spark wasn't registering as many steps but I was still getting fitness minutes for normal walking. Crazy, huh? Then somehow I lost the fitbit but I was okay with it because I still had the spark. The problem was that I could only sync when I was near a computer with the "dongle" plugged in. So I had to carry the dongle back and forth between work and home. Too much trouble. I decided to return the spark and that I would purchase another fitbit. I decided to wait a few days and think about it to make sure I really wanted to make another investment. Now after a few days I've decided not to purchase another fitbit. This is what I found........when I haven't had a gadget telling me how many steps I have walked I have been exercising more. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love the fact that I can track fitness and food from my ipad, my phone and my computer. I love the fact that I can read blogs, stay caught up on message boards, and even read motivating articles so easily. I think that I was spending too much time reading and comparing my progress that I was missing out on exercise. So here I am back to manually logging my exercise and I am so motivated to keep moving to make changes in my body. I am being more persistent with logging my food so that I can look at what I am doing wrong and make improvements with my eating. I'm not there yet but I am feeling very motivated to get there.
I feel like I am in a holding pattern. I have been battling the same 10 pounds for at least 2 years. I lose them then I gain them back. I play the blame game.....I blame my plan, my exercise, the fact that I have too many things in my way of eating healthy. I do really good for a few days, then I go off track.....then it takes several days for me to get back on track. Then I am back where I started or at times worse off. This week, for example, I was doing great. Monday night I went to an FFA Banquet with my daughter. They served steak, baked potatoes, salad, bread and cake. I only ate the steak and the salad. Then Tuesday night, I went to a Sports Banquet. They served beef fajitas, salad, and cake. I ate the meat and veggies (but no flour tortilla), and a small piece of cake. Then yesterday morning my weight was okay. Then last night, I went to a potluck dinner at church, which is really dangerous for me. You don't have any idea what are in the dishes. So, of course, I ate too much, plus I had more than one piece of dessert. Today I couldn't get back on track so again I feel like I am spiralling out of control. I think when I ate that one piece of dessert, and my weight didn't go up I just allowed myself to go overboard. I can't avoid banquets and potlucks indefinitely. I just need to have some self control. Any suggestions on how to do that?
I just have to say......that I am really enjoying my time in Colorado with baby Cooper. He is such a good baby. I hope to have pictures to post later. They have a park near their house so hopefully I can take a nice long walk in a bit.
We had a church potluck last night. I always have good intentions of eating very selective foods and no dessert. But when I get there, every thought of eating within reason instantly leaves me. I was so full!!!! I did do 30 minutes on the elliptical when I got home but I was still very disappointed in myself. Does this ever happen to anyone else?
I officially have a grandson. Cooper Ross, 7 pounds 3 ounces and 21" long.