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A little bit of Irish English
When you read this post I'll be in Ireland, where I usually spend at least some of my Christmas holidays with my partner's friends and family. Many of our students also take the opportunity to pop across the water to the ROI during their stay in the UK so I'd like to offer a bit of advice to help them and you tune in to Irish English and culture.
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The Weather
Every December the radio plays our favourite Christmas songs and each year we hope, in vain, that the immortal words of Bing Crosby will come true when he croons "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" Well not anymore, enough is enough, I'd be happy never to see snow again (unless skiing of course but that's different!)
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The School Band
Not only are our staff at LSE very experienced and well qualified in teaching English as a foreign language, they are also great entertainers! In fact, I think we might be one of the only schools in London to have its own band.
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How to pass exams!
I'm just coming to the end of teaching our latest FCE course and as my class are taking their Reading, Writing, Use of English and Listening papers today (good luck! I've got my fingers crossed for them) I have a little time to reflect on how exam students can best maximize their chances of success.
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The Apprentice
I frequently teach business English courses at our Holland Park School and I often show business DVDs in the class room. The two most popular ones are definitely The Apprentice and Dragons' Den, both currently showing on the BBC. Today I'd like to tell you about The Apprentice as I believe that there are some lessons to be learnt from watching it.
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MAN, W.Va. - A Logan County town's new $20,000 electronic sign is a victim of a school rivalry.
Mayor Jim Blevins says vandals spray-painted the sign last week with messages referencing the Chapmanville-Man high school football game on Friday night.
Blevins tells The Logan Banner (http://bit.ly/WCPagO ) that he's offering a $500 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
The mayor says he doesn't yet have an estimate of the cost of the damage.
The sign was installed recently but it hasn't yet been wired.

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Shane Michaels releases a review of Amazon Wireless, a shopping site for contract cell phones and service plans from a variety of carriers all in one place.
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Amazon Wireless, a site designed to help consumers easily shop for cell phones and service plans from a variety of carriers by comparing prices and brands has caught the attention of Shane Michaels, prompting an investigative review.
Amazon Wireless is the first site of its kind that brings all of the options for service plans and cell phones all together in one place for the ultimate comparison shopping experience, reports Michaels. This site allows consumers to shop and purchase phones and plans all from the comfort of their home, eliminating the need to visit several different stores and get pressured by various sales reps.
Amazon Wireless offers cell phones and service plans from all the major carriers, including contract cell phones from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, as well as no-contract cell phones from T-Mobile, AT&T, Virgin Mobile, Boost Mobile, U.S. Cellular, and others. The site also offers unlocked cell phones such as iPhones and those from BlackBerry, Samsung, and Sony. Those who purchase phones and plans from Amazon Wireless can take advantage of the best price shopping and comparison resources, as well as two-day shipping and ability to transfer their phone number online, without having to go to a physical store. With the comparison shopping features, consumers can filter products by phone price, phone brand, and phone color, as well as features like display size, internal storage, operating system, customer reviews, and more. Amazon Wireless also provides an education center to help consumers decide whether contract or no-contract phones are best for their lifestyle, as well as information about unlocked cell phones.
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Food Safety
Almost everyone has experienced foodborne illness, usually called "food poisoning." Often these illnesses are merely uncomfortable and inconvenient and don't require medical care. However, such infections can also result in very serious consequences, including hospitalization and death.
Changes in the way food is processed and distributed, international markets, and consumer demand have altered our food supply. Today, food may reach the table through long chains of production, packaging, and transportation, providing many opportunities for contamination. All these factors increase the risk for foodborne illness.
Although large disease outbreaks associated with restaurants generally get more media attention, it is just as easy for foodborne illness to occur at home. If food is handled and prepared safely, most of these illnesses can be avoided.
Wash hands and surfaces often
Bacteria is present throughout the kitchen. It can be found on cutting boards, utensils, sponges, counter tops and other surfaces.
- Wash your hands with hot soapy water before handling food, between working with raw and cooked foods, and after using the bathroom, changing diapers and touching pets.
- Wash your cutting boards, dishes, utensils and counter tops with hot soapy water after preparing each food item and before you go to the next food. Sanitize all items regularly.
- Use plastic or other non-porous cutting boards. These boards should be run through the dishwasher - or washed in hot soapy water - after each use.
- Wooden cutting boards should be hard wood. Wash them thoroughly in hot soapy water after each use.
- Consider using paper towels to clean up kitchen surfaces. If you use cloth towels, wash them often in the hot cycle of your washing machine.
Separate: Don't cross-contaminate foods
Cross-contamination is a term used to describe how bacteria can spread from one food to another. For example, cross contamination can occur when vegetables to be eaten raw come in contact with the liquid from raw meat, poultry and seafood.
- Separate raw meat, poultry and seafood from other foods in your grocery-shopping cart and in your refrigerator.
- If possible, use a different cutting board for raw meat products.
- Always wash hands, cutting boards, dishes and utensils with hot soapy water after they come in contact with raw meat, poultry and seafood.
- Never place cooked food on a plate, which previously held raw meat, poultry and seafood.
- Never store cooked foods or foods that will receive no cooking under raw foods in the refrigerator where juices could drip down and cause contamination.
- Always wash raw foods (fruits, vegetables, etc.) thoroughly.
Cook: Heat foods to proper temperatures
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Food safety experts agree that foods are properly cooked when they are heated for a long enough time at a high enough temperature to kill any harmful bacteria:
- Turkey, Chicken, Duck
Whole, Pieces & Ground: 165º F - Beef, Veal, Lamb, Steaks & Roasts: 145º F
- Ground Beef, Veal, Lamb: 160º F
Color is NOT a reliable indicator that ground beef or ground beef patties have been cooked to a temperature high enough to kill harmful bacteria such as E. coli O157:H7 - Fish & Seafood: 145º F
Fish should be cooked until it is opaque and flakes easily with a fork. - Pork: 160º F
- Egg Dishes: 160º F
Cook eggs until the yolk and white are firm. Don't use recipes in which eggs remain raw or only partially cooked
- Use a clean food thermometer, which measures the internal temperature of cooked foods, to make sure meat, poultry, casseroles and other foods are cooked all the way through.
- When cooking in a microwave oven, make sure there are no cold spots in food where bacteria can survive.
- Bring sauces, soups and gravy to a boil when reheating. Heat other leftovers thoroughly to at least 165ºF.
- Hot foods should be held at 140ºF or higher or consumed within two hours of cooking time.
Chill: Refrigerate foods promptly
Cold temperatures keep harmful bacteria from growing and multiplying. Refrigerators should be set no higher than 40ºF and freezers set at 0ºF.
- Refrigerate or freeze perishables, prepared foods and leftovers within two hours or sooner.
- Never defrost food at room temperature. Thaw food in the refrigerator, under cold running water or in the microwave.
- Marinate foods in the refrigerator.
- For quick cooling, divide large amounts of leftovers into small, shallow containers before refrigerating.
- Don't pack the refrigerator too full. Cool air must circulate to keep food safe.
When in doubt, throw it out!
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Fact Sheets & information
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CHANGE OBSERVER : MARK DERYDawn of the Dead MallIn April of this year, one of the country's biggest mall operators — General Growth Properties, owner and/or manager of over 200 properties in 44 states — filed for bankruptcy, mortally wounded by the exodus of retail tenants. Good riddance to bad rubbish, some say. But wait, my Inner Marxist wonders: isn't that the voice of bobo privilege talking?READ MORE CHANGE OBSERVER : WILLIAM DRENTTELAspen Design SummitAIGA and Winterhouse Institute are joining forces to stage the Aspen Design Summit in November 2009 and galvanize design communities to engage in projects that promote social change. The goal is to foster collaboration and collective action among the participants to utilize the power of design to help solve large social problems.READ MORE PLACES : KEITH EGGENERUp-to-Date in Kansas CityIn 2004 the U.S. Congress designated the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City the nation's official World War I museum. Today it will be the scene of ceremonies commemorating the signing of the armistice that ended the war on November 11, 1918. Places contributing editor Keith Eggener traces the architectural history of a once-celebrated design, and sees in its austere classicism a road not taken for American modernism.READ MORE OBSERVATORY : JOHN GALLThe Nabokov CollectionThe assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov's book covers, all twenty-one of them. The solution: twenty-one specimen boxes, the kind used by butterfly collectors like Nabokov, each created by a different designer.READ MORE PLACES : RENATA STIH, FRIEDER SCHNOCKOpen Space: Berlin After ReunificationFor two decades the Berlin-based conceptual artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock have been creating provocative works of public art exploring questions of German memory, history, politics and identity. Here they curate a selection of projects and images, containing and referencing multiple works, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.READ MORE PLACES : JAN OTAKAR FISCHERThe Art of ReunificationIn August 1961 the German Democratic Republic began to construct the Berlin Wall, and for almost three decades the 96-mile-long concrete barrier encircled West Berlin, isolating it from the communist-ruled GDR. On November 9, 1989, with the politburo's decision to open the border crossings, the wall effectively fell. Berlin-based architect–writer and Places contributing editor Jan Otakar Fischer remembers the transformative events of '89, recounts the failed effort to create a national reunification memorial, and explores the still charged questions of German identity and memory.READ MORE OBSERVATORY : ALEXANDRA CARDIAFrom Cabinet: Jacket RequiredDefined by the Oxford English Dictionary as referring to "a protective (and usually decorative) paper cover placed around a bound book, usually with the title and author's name printed on it," the phrase "dust cover" or "dust jacket" was first used in the late nineteenth century.READ MORE OBSERVER MEDIA : RYAN FITZGIBBONStart AskingStart Asking was Ryan Fitzgibbon's solution to the final challenge of Command X: Season 2, the graphic design reality show at the AIGA Make/Think Conference in Memphis.READ MORE CHANGE OBSERVER : BY ALEXIS ROCKMANHot Times in the Old TownArtist Alexis Rockman's rendering of Manhattan's Upper East Side under catastrophic climate conditions.READ MORE PLACES : TIM LOVEBetween Mission Statement and Parametric ModelA crisis is brewing in architectural education, contends Boston-based architect and educator Tim Love. Here Love, a Places contributing editor, analyzes what he sees as an increasingly contentious divide between the leading influences on contemporary pedagogy: on the one hand, a focus on formal experimentation enabled by parametric modeling, and on the other, intensifying efforts to incorporate sustainability criteria into design curricula.READ MORE OBSERVATORY : OWEN EDWARDSNot the Same Old Same OldIn an article in the Financial Times a while back, a business writer, in the course of condemning the government bailout of automotive manufacturers here and abroad, took car advertising to task for its unrealistic image of modern driving. Decrying the insistent romantic vision of automobiles — wind in the hair, open road, and all that.READ MORE |
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Thanks for repyling. Yeah I could imagine doing the Nantucket thing. Jeez I even used to watch Wings(some sit com....might have been set in Martha's....ahh I forget....one of the two) Yeah expensive, huh. Awww man I was raised in a very solid middle-class home and had money until the past few years......and now not so much anymore !! Shucks, HAHA...I'll have to find a different island. Though I have been entertaining the idea of forming my own island nation. Maybe I'll amass troops and take over Nantucket. You can be Minister of Waves if I succeed. That's a promise. You don't happen to know of any militia groups who would follow a half- bent surfer dude intent on conquering an island off the New England coast? No ? Foiled again........ Ok, you take care.
Aloha! No, man... you don't annoy me at all. Nantucket is really good. There's two coasts... the east, that's sheltered behind Nantucket Shoals, that hardly ever breaks, and the south, that has a few well known beaches... and a few "secrets." It's really super expensive to stay there, but you can take a ferry from Pt. Judith or the Vineyard and go for the day. You can also rent a car ($$$) with an oversand permit and cruise the entire island with hundreds of sandbars, and surf and fish for stripers, blues, and bonita. My family lives here, but my heart lives there.
Greetings LBCrew, I don't know if I annoy you, but if I do, I'm sorry. Hey, I'm not asking you to give away any secret info, but what's Nantucket like? Are they holding? Do you like Nova Scotia? I love that dang place. I really should move there. I do have an "in" for a job there and they do the whole hire foreign workers and such, but it's in Edmonton. Thanks for being so welcoming when I first arrived. Hope you get some bubs later today or tomorrow....whenever it cleans up.


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Worcester director of rugby Dean Ryan has conceded that the challenge to put the Warriors on track for success is "huge".
The only side in the Aviva Premiership so far this season without a victory, Worcester's latest loss came at Wasps on Saturday.
Having lost consecutive home matches to London Irish and Harlequins, Worcester's visit to winless Wasps was seen as a huge chance for Ryan's team to notch up a first victory, but it went begging.
Ryan highlighted his side's problems at the scrum, expecting more from Scotland international Euan Murray.
"It is a huge challenge to get this club sorted out. I'm very disappointed that we weren't competitive in the second half," said Ryan.
"Perhaps we need to more simplistic as we seem to be chasing games, too early and from too deep in our own half."
"Our scrum didn't work and our line-out was sloppy. We were competitive in the first half but we were stripped of the ball on at least seven occasions and the scoreline kept flashing away from us.
"Matt Mullan got the better of Euan Murray in the scrum. Mullan was speedy across the gap but as an experienced international, Euan should have been able to deal with it.
Wasps on the other hand were delighted at picking up their first win in the Aviva Premiership since February - with Dai Young insisting their troubles were behind them in the 32-16 win.
"We have to put last year out of the window. We can't carry negativity forward as it is all about this year," said Young.
"Today we were in control for nearly all the game but I was frustrated that we didn't put distance between the teams earlier.
"Our scrum was a big factor, it provided a very strong foundation. We felt we had to work on our scrummaging and made it a big thing so as to change the perception of that part of our game."


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The 2012 Indiana Soccer Camp wrapped up Sunday as soccer players ranging from ages 10 to 18 participated in the final day of activities.The camp allowed aspiring soccer players from around the country to refine their skills for nearly eight hours per day, lead by IU Men's Soccer Head Coach Todd Yeagley and his staff.Campers also got to experience a slice of college life, staying in the Foster dormitory during the camp. The morning sessions involved individual training, while the afternoon and evening sessions focused on team competition, according to the camp's website. Following evening training sessions, IU coaches and players put on demonstrations for the campers. — Joe Popely
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THIS week, our Free exchange print article—An incurable disease—reviews a new book by William Baumol that sets out to explain charts like this one:
Two things immediately jump out from the chart. First, there are big cross-county discrepancies in the level of health care expenditure. America looks profligate compared to any other country. Spain is much more frugal. Second, health care spending is growing everywhere, pretty much all of the time. Mr Baumol's book explains why. His theory is that a "cost disease" caused by low productivity growth in health care means that costs will continue to rise in real terms. The same applies to education and the performing arts.
The theory means that higher costs are not down to distortions, inefficiencies or market failures, but something fundamental and unavoidable. It also means that cutting costs without reductions in quality may not be possible. (Of course, cross-country differences can be narrowed, and Mr Baumol offers lots of interesting ideas on how to get America's medical costs down so that they grow from a lower level).
But most striking is his conclusion that even as health care costs go up and up, they will always remain affordable because progress in other sectors offsets the slow crawl in those hit by the cost disease. Mr Baumol says he discovered the affordability result thanks to a note he received from Joan Robinson. The addition of this conclusion to his longstanding work on the cost disease makes it even more important. If the Baumol-Robinson theory is right, then real-terms caps on health and education budgets are a very bad idea.


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The man screaming fans call "Touchdown Tony" is struggling to shake off a financial scandal.
Lone Peak High School's former championship Football Coach Tony McGeary is accused of illegally pocketing thousands of dollars from his players, including $5,735 from money leftover from a 2012 high school football camp at Utah State University Eastern. Last week it all came out in a 42 page complaint and McGeary was later forced to resign. If the allegations are true - why would the championship coach risk his job? Did he need the money?
Tuesday Reporter Brian Carlson looked up his yearly salary on a website listing Utah's public employees, and he found last year McGeary made $118,509. But when Carlson showed the report to a spokesperson with the Alpine School District, they said the numbers aren't what they seem.
"Things can be deceiving when you look at things like that without understanding the context behind them," said Rhonda Bromley, Alpine School District Spokesperson.
Bromley told Carlson the salary report includes Coach McGeary's health benefits valued at $38,924.
"That's the amount, if it was in dollar form. That's how much his benefits are worth," said Bromley.
"So he wasn't paid that directly?" Carlson asked.
"No. He wasn't paid that directly," said Bromley.
That bumps down McGeary's salary from $118,509 to $79,585 which includes $3,960 that was likely his coaching salary.
How does that compare to other coaches? One successful coach in the Salt Lake City School District makes $58,412. And a highly successful coach in the Jordan School District makes $80,796.
So looking at his McGeary's salary, it may be tough to tell why he allegedly chose to take money from the team. So Carlson thought the best way to find out was to go to McGeary's home and ask him directly.
"I wanted to know if you wanted to talk about any of this." Carlson asked.
"I'd love to, but I can't. Yah. They won't let me," said Tony McGeary, former Lone Peak High School Football Coach.
Carlson asked McGeary, "Who won't let him?" But McGeary didn't want to discuss that. He said he's not ready to talk about anything yet.
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Meet some of the people featured in the November 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Surprising trends reveal themselves in this year's Salary Survey statistics.
The neuron-inspired art of erstwhile neuroscientist Greg Dunn
Assistant Professor, Physics, Princeton University. Age: 39
The Scientist opened up its annual Salary Survey to our international readers for the first time, revealing stark differences between average pay in the U.S., Europe, and the rest of the world.
New evidence indicates that invasive Asian carp have bred in the Lake Erie basin.
Researchers show that genetic enhancer elements likely contribute to face shape in mice.
The European Parliament rejected a proposal designed to fund the construction of new fishing boats, instead opting to fund a project that aims to curtail overfishing.
From funding to publishing, academic research needlessly burns through time and money.


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Policymakers, industry combatting critical prescription drug shortages
By Curtis Rooney
Recent reports indicate that drug shortages persist in being a significant public health threat.
March 07, 2014, 02:00 pm
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Recent reports indicate that drug shortages persist in being a significant public health threat.
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By Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)
Decades have come and gone, healthcare and science have become more effective and sophisticated, yet outcomes for black women have hardly budged.
March 05, 2014, 04:00 pm
By Jennifer Nieto Carey and Julia Jenkins
The draft tax reform proposal would eliminate incentives for drug manufacturers to develop therapies to treat and cure the more than 7,000 rare diseases afflicting more than 30 million Americans.
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The market restrictions that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) places on assistive listening devices have remained mostly unchanged since the late 1970s.
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Some of its members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee seem much more focused on pursuing their own environmental agendas than educating American consumers on nutrition.
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Wouldn't it make sense to ensure that Medicare patients have 24/7 access to high functioning primary care so that they won't be forced into ERs and hospitals unnecessarily?
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Poor service to veterans, which has led to massive backlogs for benefits and medical appointments and a rash of preventable deaths, has become VA's calling card.
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The World Health Organization estimates that upwards of 30 percent of the drug supply in some developing nations is counterfeit.
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Coach Arrested for Assault
Updated: Monday, February 11 2013, 03:38 PM EST
Burke County's popular Freedom High School football coach Michael Helms won his 100th career game this fall, and was just coming out of a winning season when he was arrested Friday.
"He was taken into custody just moments after the officers viewed the cameras," said Rutherford County Sheriff's Department Captain Chris Adkins.
The video allegedly shows Helms assaulting his son in a hallway during the 16-year-old's junior varsity basketball game at Rutherford County's R.S. Central High School.
"There were two or three of the players that during the game was asked to go dress down - I don't know why," said Adkins. "Apparently when they were changing clothes or coming back out, that's when the father confronted his son."
Authorities say it was one punch to the face, that knocked the boy's head back into a concrete wall, making a 'thunk' that officials say, witnesses heard. A R.S. Central faculty member and a student saw the incident and reported it to the school resource officer.
When the officer approached Helms about the incident, Helms reportedly said he did it, that it was his son, and that it didn't leave a mark.
Authorities say that Helm's son, who was standing by, told the officer it was his own fault.
Burke County School District officials say Helms has been suspended with pay while the investigation continues.
Helms is charged with simple assault and released on $1000 bond. His court date is set for February 21.
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Spring Postcard: Deep rotation could get Braves back to playoffs |
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Tommy Hanson, Jair Jurrjens and Tim Hudson give the Braves a talented rotationTop prospect Jason Heyward has been turning heads in camp with his powerBobby Cox is entering his last season as Atlanta Braves manager |
This spring, SI.com writers are filing postcards from all 30 major league spring training camps. To read all the postcards, click here. Three Observations1. The Braves can dethrone the Phillies On paper the Phillies are the best team in the division, and, coming off three-straight division titles and two straight pennants, some might say they are turning into the Evil Empire of the National League. But don't count Atlanta out in the NL East just yet. The Braves can overtake Philly if 23-year-old starter Tommy Hanson establishes himself as one of the league's elite pitchers; if outfielder Jason Heyward has the kind of rookie year Albert Pujols had in 2001; if the old guys (Troy Glaus, Chipper Jones, and Billy Wagner) stay healthy and have solid years. That's a lot of ifs, of course, but as GM Frank Wren says, the Braves are "without a doubt improved" a year after winning 86 games, a season in which Chipper Jones and Derek Lowe had their worst years since 2004. Over its final 88 games, Atlanta posted the best run differential in the majors. Entering the season, the Braves are still the second-best team in the division, but with a few breaks, they may very well find themselves atop the division come September. "The division as a whole is better," says Wren. "I expect the Mets to be healthier and therefore improved. Florida was able to keep the players it needed to and their starting pitching has a chance to be very good. And Washington has the players there to build around. This is a tougher division, but I like our chances." 2. They need a big year from Tim Hudson They need big years from Tommy Hanson and Jair Jurrjens, too, of course. But while Hanson, 23, and Jurrjens, 24, should be at least as good as they were last year, Hudson -- as he enters his first full season after Tommy John surgery -- is a big unknown. 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When you put your company up for sale, you risk giving strangers — potentially your competitors - access to confidential information.
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The secret is protected beneath layers of security in a non-descript bank vault deep in the suburbs of Atlanta. Legend has it that only two living people know the formula, which is so precious neither person is allowed to travel on the same plane for fear a crash would destroy the secret forever. Coca-Cola will go to any length to protect its recipe.
Likewise, finding out just how Colonel Harland Sanders mixed those eleven herbs and spices to make his world-famous coating for deep-fried chicken would require discovering the undisclosed location of a bank vault somewhere in Louisville, Kentucky.
Most businesses have confidential information, processes and formulas they would not want their competitors to see. When you decide to put your company up for sale, you risk giving strangers—potentially even your competitors—the keys to your vault.
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Once you decide to put your company up for sale, your adviser will work with you to create a short description of your business, which disguises your company's identity but provides enough information to pique a potential acquirer's interest. Your 'teaser' will typically include:
Based on the limited information you reveal in a disguised teaser, your risk of giving away something you'll regret is limited.
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Level 2: The book or online data room
Of all the companies and individuals who receive the teaser document, some will, you hope, request a more detailed description of your business. Your adviser will likely ask the acquirer to sign a non-disclosure agreement in return for access to more detailed information, which is presented in either 'the book' or an online data room.
This is when things get tricky.
In addition to revealing the name of your company, you'll want to provide the potential buyer with enough information about your operations to get him or her excited about making an offer. This information often includes details on your future plans, sales processes and even your new product development ideas.
Oftentimes you'll get your best offer from someone close to your business—either a competitor, supplier or another company that is adjacent to your business.
Outsiders will now start to understand your special approach and what makes your business unique. They are not under any obligation to make an offer, yet they have access to competitive information. Some companies even make a habit of claiming interest in buying other companies in their industry just so they can get a look at their competitors' confidential plans.
There are some things you can do at this stage to minimize your exposure:
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The book (or online data room) needs to include historical financials, future projected financial performance, details on your customers, contracts, leases, etc.
It does not have to provide your deepest secrets for making your product or winning customers. If there is something truly proprietary in the way you make what you sell, leave it out of the book or online data room.
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Instead of providing a printed book or a PowerPoint file/PDF file that can be easily forwarded, request that an online data room be set up. An online data room is simply a password-protected website to which the potential acquirer needs to log on to view files.
An online data room provides a greater level of security, visibility and negotiating leverage for you because you can see who has accessed what files and how deep some buyers have gone to understand your business. This provides you clues about who is really serious about making an offer and can help you spot individuals who may just be on an information-gathering expedition.
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Once potential acquirers have reviewed the detailed information in the book or online data room, you will possibly get some offers. Most likely, each offer will be contingent on your agreeing to stop negotiating with other parties and to provide the bidder with a two- or three-month period for due diligence.
In the diligence phase, the buyer's representatives will likely come to your business and demand an even greater level of detail. They may want to talk to some customers and see your contracts with them, and they will want to inspect your physical plant or office and watch how things get done. They'll want to talk to your salespeople and understand your formula for winning new business. You'll need to provide full disclosure at this point, which opens you up to the greatest risk if the deal does not go through.
The best way to protect yourself is to perform your own due diligence on the buyer before you agree to his or her offer and the accompanying scrutiny of due diligence. Here's what to check out:
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Many nations are not paying full attention to the imminent dangers that Iran's nuclear program entails.
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'I am not going to be ignored," Glenn Close declares in one of the most riveting scenes of Fatal Attraction, the thriller that captivated movie audiences 25 years ago. That fundamental human desire to be loved, or at least be treated with kindness and respect, endures. And it applies as much to nations as to individuals.
Today's Iranian leaders are not uttering those exact words, Fatal Attraction-style. But President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and other senior officials are quite clear that they will not be ignored.
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Hosting the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran was a sensational diplomatic achievement. Some observers discount the role and purpose of the NAM, founded in 1961 to give organizational space to those countries that aligned neither with the US nor the Soviet Union. This Cold War artifact, however, has greatly expanded as dozens more countries achieved independence and gravitated to what's become the largest bloc in the UN General Assembly.
Iran had been waiting patiently to take over the NAM helm, having won election three years ago as chair without any objection from the other NAM members. The closing session of the summit in Tehran anointed Venezuela to assume the mantle of leadership in 2015.
Leaders of Arab countries that are reportedly very worried about Iran's nuclear ambitions nevertheless came across the Gulf to attend the NAM summit, and by their presence bestowed respect on its host, Ahmadinejad. Indeed, only two weeks earlier, the Iranian president was welcomed in Riyadh by Saudi King Abdullah for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting.
The NAM summit attracted representatives of nearly all 120 members, including 29 heads of state. Even UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon did not stay away, despite Iran's total disregard for two UN agencies, the Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Could not one NAM country have separated itself from Iran's dangerous course? Or is the commitment to this bloc of nations so attractive that world leaders instinctively set aside any concerns they may have about the host nation? Even as the NAM bloc gathered in the conference hall, the IAEA issued a fresh report affirming that in the past three months alone Iran has accelerated its nuclear program, installing hundreds more enrichment centrifuges, while refusing to disclose details on current and planned activities at nuclear research and development sites across the country.
Iran's leaders are undoubtedly pleased that NAM members, like lemmings, unanimously endorsed Iran's right to a full nuclear fuel cycle to enrich uranium.
Iranian leaders also think that their vision of expanding their 1979 revolution is bearing fruit. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi proclaimed, in a recent Washington Post oped, that what so many call the Arab Spring is actually the Islamic Awakening. They are encouraged by the ascendance of Islamic political parties in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
There is but one exception to their praise for Arab uprisings – Syria. Iran fully supports Syrian President Bashar Assad and endorses his view that the regime's opponents, young and old, are "terrorists" backed by foreigners.
Iran is even more explicit than Syria itself, fingering the US and Israel as the culprits.
But in regard to Syria, Iran stands alone in the Muslim world. Iran failed to stop the OIC from suspending Syria's membership and could not get NAM agreement to back Assad in his battle for regime survival. With Iranian troops in Syria and an open spigot of arms and money, Iran will not relent.
Unfortunately for the Syrian people, their situation has not risen to the level of global concern that has been paid to Iran's nuclear program. Innumerable efforts have been made by the UN and the IAEA to deal with Iran. The US, together with the other four permanent members of the Security Council and Germany, have several times given Tehran the respect it desires by sitting at the same table with Iran's leaders.
Iran is not being ignored. But many nations are not paying full attention to the imminent dangers that Iran's nuclear program entails.
The writer is the American Jewish Committee's director of media relations.
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BUFFALO, W.Va. -- As the state Department of Education pens a request that federal No Child Left Behind guidelines be more realistic, Putnam County school board members learned Tuesday night that all but three schools in the county met the tough criteria.
While Putnam County leads the state in adequate yearly progress (one component of No Child Left Behind) by almost 30 percent, three of four middle schools in the county didn't meet the standards, said Cindy Daniel, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction.
Students with disabilities -- one of the groups whose progress is measured -- fell short at three county middle schools. In two of the three middle schools, progress wasn't adequate in reading and math, and at one school, not enough gains were made in reading, Daniel told board members Monday during a meeting at the new Buffalo High School.
However, information shows students with disabilities in Putnam lead the state in test scores and progress, Daniel said.
"Students with disabilities are held to the same standards as their non-disabled peers," Daniel said.
The state Department of Education plans to request a flexibility waiver, which would change the way AYP is measured, Daniel said.
"The flexibility request would use multiple criteria to determine where a school falls in terms of progress. It won't just be a single measure," she said. "Those criteria would include proficiency rates and student growth, which I think is a much more valid indicator.
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MIT Coed With Fake Bomb `art' Arrested
Full story: Chicago Tribune
"The major praised the booth attendant but said the incident is a reminder of the terrorism threat confronting the civil aviation system."
Are you kidding me????!!! This is the single most idiotic response I've ever heard. This, by far, trumps the Boston PD's response to the Mooninites! What a bunch of complete goobers!!! |
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Lock her up....That wasn't funny.
Complete goobers for doing their job? The goober here is the MIT student who thought it would be OK to walk through an air port (one mind you that hijackers walked through before crashing airliners into the twin towers) with a circut board with flashing lights and wires on it strapped to her chest.
What a complete idiot! She is lucky to be alive. Doesn't one have to be smart to go to MIT? Apparently not.
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Yes, Course VI refers to a particular major at MIT that has two divisions, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
This just goes to show that not all people who go to elite schools are all that smart! Ha ha ha what an idiot. I bet she went to Punahou as well. |
Come on, people, do you honestly think an actual terrorist would be stupid enough to walk around with a circuit board and flashing lights in plain view? And be so polite and cooperative when nabbed for it? I think she must have proven her point quite nicely.
Hi jmd. That's exactly what I would do if I were a terrorist. Throws the authorites off guard and then BAM - destruction and mass chaos! You can't assume a terrorist is going to act a certain way. I'm just saying...
What a complete idiot. I hope her trip through the court system is frustrating and expensive.
Take away her student grants and cancel her student loans (make the cretin pay NOW)...This is a sure guarantee the students will think 2x before acting like jack-asses.
This was not funny....but having her educational career financially threatened is a damn laugh riot! HAHAHAHAHAHA |
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I know a few people just like her with an inverse correlation between book smarts and common sense.
I don't get what she was trying to do.
Maybe she was under a lot of pressure? |
The more I have read about this, the less stupid she seems. What she was wearing looks more like jewelry than a bomb. I was wondering why she would be at the airport, but it sounds like she was there to pick up her boyfriend. She was not looking to, nor expecting to cause trouble. The only thing that is still out there for me is why she refused to speak to the guard. I am figuring it is some flavor of asberic geekiness. Really really smart people have eccentricities.
Last I checked there was not code of conduct or rule book for terroist so because of that we have no idea how they'll act and therefore have to be on guard at all times for anything suspicious.
Johnny, only a moron would think it is acceptable to wear that to the airport. As she hails from Hawaii and goes to school on the east coast, she is no doubt very clear on the practices of security procedures at airports. I agree that she's not stupid - I think she knew exactly what she was doing, and simply wants attention, for who knows what reason. Her actions wasted the time and efforts of security professionals who could have been distracted from a real security threat at one of the nation's busiest airports. It seems that today's college students only want to grab attention (see U. Florida this week). Maybe they weren't hugged enough as kids, who knows. To quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off: "I weep for the future!" Tase them all!
I am confused. She is walking through an airport with circuitry on her chest holding putty/clay in her hand and airport personnel are supposed to say "that is too obvious, she must not be a terrorist"? She wasn't looking to cause trouble? How many 19 year old girls have you known? This girl is either an idiot savant or she knew exactly the controversy she would cause/attention she would get. I feel the utmost sympathy for anyone who saw her and was reminded of 9/11. How many Logan employees knew someone who died that day? MIT should make an example out of her. I hope Logan prosecutes to the full extent of the law.
I foud a picture of the device at the USA Today site. While in the photo it does appear harmless to me, add the flashing lights to the fact that she was carrying around play-dough, if I were an airport security person, I would have called it in and stopped the person.
She may be an MIT student, but she's obviously not bright enough to realize you don't wear anything with flashing lights at the airport, especially if you're going to carry clay in your hands. Not everyone is technically inclined enough to be able to tell a harmless circuit board from something that will blow people up. |
I hope she get's sentenced to jail. If only to point out to all the stipid liberal morons you can't just do anything you want and get away with it.
That darn I key right next to the U key!
She did not try and pass thru security, she went to the ticket counter to ask which gate her boyfriend's plane would be arriving at.
http://boingboing.net/images/cfa4827569_20070... There is a picture of the sweatshirt. She has been bailed out. Everyone is so damn afraid all the time now. It does not speak well of us. Morons: You are assuming a lot of stuff. |
If we saw someone like this at a shopping mall, would we be suspicious? Probably not. Should we be? Absolutely. It continues to surprise me that no terrorist ever tried to detonate themselves at a crowded mall, and I certainly hope we continue to be lucky in this regard.
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Dear Sir,
For some reason Melanie Phillips appears to revel in inciting your readers against the Muslim community. In her piece in Monday's Daily Mail she asserted that 'clerics have hijacked mosques up and down the country to incite young Muslims to hate the west and even recruit them to terrorism,' yet she did not feel it necessary to adduce any evidence to show that this was indeed the case. There are over 1000 mosques now in the UK, perhaps Ms Phillips would like to point out exactly which ones have been hijacked? In fact, apart from the notorious example of the Finsbury Park mosque from which Abu Hamza was evicted earlier this year, I cannot think of a single mosque which comes anywhere near her description.
She then praises the Foreign Office Minister Denis MacShane for calling on British Muslims to choose between the 'British way' of non-violence and political dialogue and the 'way of the terrorists'. The irony of these remarks having emanated from a representative of a government that ignored massive worldwide protests, bypassed the United Nations and waged an unlawful war on Iraq appear to be lost on Ms Phillips. The British Muslim community was certainly overwhelmingly opposed to the war against Iraq. However, they showed their opposition by participating with their fellow British citizens in huge and entirely peaceful anti-war demonstrations up and down the country. Moreover, the Muslim community's fears that a war on Iraq - under the guise of trying to free Iraq of its elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction - would only exacerbate the phenomenon of terrorism and increase anti-British and anti-American sentiment around the world, are now, regrettably, proving to have been well-founded.
To defeat the dreadful phenomenon terrorism we surely have to examine some of the underlying causes which are giving rise to it. We learned this lesson in Northern Ireland. It seems to me that Ms Phillips does not like this idea because we may then - among other things - have to take a closer look at Israel at it's scandalous treatment of the Palestinian people together with the role of our own governments in supporting various tyrannies in the Muslim world.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Inayat Bunglawala, Secretary, Media Committee, The Muslim Council of Britain


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Free Shipping Day arrives this year on December 17th, and the second celebration of a genuinely useful shopping holiday boasts over two times as many stores as last year.
According to this Consumer Reports article, Free Shipping Day has over 700 participants offering (at a minimum) free standard shipping on orders delivered in time for Christmas. Participating stores are encouraged to offer blanket free shipping whenever possible, and discouraged from pulling the old "except for items in these 1500 categories" trick. Free shipping offers are available year round, of course. Amazon.com has one of the more famous free shipping offers with their Super Saver shipping program, and other merchants like Newegg and Buy.com offer a ton of items with free shipping. Free Shipping Day is an opportunity for many more stores to fight over your online shopping dollars, however. By providing free shipping coupon codes in the waning days of the 2009 holiday shopping season, you may be able to obtain a deal you couldn't at other times of the year. Maybe this is the time to pull the trigger on that giant television, or refrigerator, or grand piano full of bowling balls you've been looking for.
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noooo there isn't REALLY a creature like this here that the army is attacking... that I know of? but I meant that the statement would most likely be true, you know?
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i agree with that! and i lolololololololooooooove these colors of yoursss....they flow like water.....
The colors and the text are great! and I like that No7891 has all these letter G's on im ^_^ kudos to your imagination!
Poor NO7891! He just wanted to plant a little flower that would convert oxygen into methane and slowly kill off all life on earth... is that so wrong army people?! Just kidding-- I really like the concept of this piece of yours--
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Fascinating and excellent drawing. Not sure what a G- N07891 is but the way you have drawn it - it is cute! :-) 5h!!!! + Collection
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HAL : in2p3-00683730, version 1 |
arXiv : 1203.5613 |
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Classical and Quantum Gravity 29 (2012) 155002 |
The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches |
LIGO, VIRGO Collaboration(s) |
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Between 2007 and 2010 Virgo collected data in coincidence with the LIGO and GEO gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. These data have been searched for GWs emitted by cataclysmic phenomena in the universe, by non-axisymmetric rotating neutron stars or from a stochastic background in the frequency band of the detectors. The sensitivity of GW searches is limited by noise produced by the detector or its environment. It is therefore crucial to characterize the various noise sources in a GW detector. This paper reviews the Virgo detector noise sources, noise propagation, and conversion mechanisms which were identified in the three first Virgo observing runs. In many cases, these investigations allowed us to mitigate noise sources in the detector, or to selectively flag noise events and discard them from the data. We present examples from the joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo GW searches to show how well noise transients and narrow spectral lines have been identified and excluded from the Virgo data. We also discuss how detector characterization can improve the astrophysical reach of gravitational-wave searches. |
Optique et Photonique APC - ADAMIS |
APC - Cosmologie et Gravitation
Thème(s) | : | Physique/Relativité Générale et Cosmologie Quantique |
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http://fr.arXiv.org/abs/1203.5613 |
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Re-enactors from left: Sharon Harkcom, Daryl Reed, Linda Marker, Ralph Lincoln (seated), Betsy Nightingale, Tim and Judy Bell will tell the compelling story of the Battle of Gettysburg during a 150th anniversary remembrance service at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Mount Union Church in Upper Turkeyfoot Township. The event will serve as a fundraiser for the historic church built in 1861. The church now serves as a home for re-enactment groups and special services. (Staff photo by Sandy Lepley / June 30, 2013) |
The 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg will be celebrated locally with a church service and re-enactment program at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Mount Union Church in Upper Turkeyfoot Township.
"Gettysburg on July 3 this year will be extremely busy but this is a blessing to celebrate locally without any crowds. July 3 will be 150 years to the day (July 3, 1863) of Pickett's Charge," said Clark Brocht, president of the church association and local historian.
The event will serve as a fundraiser for the historic church, which serves as a countryside home base for many re-enactment groups. The event has been a planned joint effort of the Allied Orders of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), consisting of the Suzanna Cook Tent 61 Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and also the Mount Union Church Camp 502 Sons and Auxiliary of the Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Even though Mount Union Church was built in 1861, parishioners met in homes earlier in the 19th Century.
After its construction, the church served as the mother church for the United Brethren in Christ in the area and eventually merged into the Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) in 1946 and then merged with Methodist to create United Methodist in 1968. It no longer has a congregation.
"I can only imagine that while they were driving the nails for this church, conversations probably came up about the War Between the States," explained Brocht. "This church could have been burned down as other churches were in this area. Yet, this church endured through the generations. We recently had the windows redone and the exterior of the church is being repainted so there are costs associated with maintaining it. The fundraiser will help with upkeep."
During the church service, visitors will be transported back through time not only by sitting in the church that has its own nostalgia but also through prayers and period hymns and first-person accounts through re-enactors.
Daryl Reed of Stoystown will portray her third great aunt Sarah (Zimmerman) Shaulis, married to Noah Shaulis. Sarah's brother William Henry Harrison Zimmerman of Lincoln Township in Somerset County was in the Battle of Gettysburg. Betsy Nightingale of Friedens will portray Rachel (Phillippi) Gerhart, married to Samuel Gerhart, who survived Gettysburg only to be captured and taken to Andersonville (Ga.) prison, where he died. Sharon Harkcom of Cairnbrook will portray Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union spy who lived in the Confederate capitol — Richmond, Va. Harkcom will bring to life this interesting woman with the most vivid details.
Ralph Lincoln of Berlin will portray his third cousin — President Abraham Lincoln — as Ralph has done in so many other occasions for historical events in the region. Ralph will read the famous "Bixby Letter" written by President Lincoln to a mother whose sons died in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Tim Bell of Somerset will portray his third great-uncle Levi Hull May, who was born in Somerset County and whose parents moved to Westmoreland County. He was one of nine children and was mustered out at New Centerville into the 142nd Pa. Volunteers out of Somerset County under Col. Robert Cummins, who died at Gettysburg.
Keith Grimm of Berlin area will portray his relative Peter Grimm of the 16th Pa. Calvary from Westmoreland County. Peter Grimm had his horse shot out from under him at Gettysburg but lived to tell about it.
"Gettysburg was the biggest bombardment of cannons in the Northern Hemisphere at that time," said Brocht. "There are so many stories associated with this battle and we can't imagine the horrors of war. This legacy is something we take for granted. Hopefully, this program will inspire people to revisit their own history and future generations will learn to appreciate it."
There is another program on Gettysburg scheduled at 2 p.m. Oct. 20, at the Mt. Union church with Kris White, a nationally-known historian who will speak on "Little Known Facts of Gettysburg."


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3.81/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
fresh bomber into a fw tulip.
pours a dark golden with a nice head. resiny, cannabis nose. quite hoppy. the taste is also very resiny, extremely bitter finish. malty as well. not my kind of IPA but high water nailed what they were trying to do. medium bodied, with mild carbonation.
overall pretty resiny...good.
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12-17-2013 01:19:29 | More by Axnjxn
3.99/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
No brewed on or enjoy by date.
Appearance - Pours a semi-clear golden orange with 1-1/2 finger of off-white head. Excellent retention, resulting in a thick layer of suds across the surface. Lacing is silky and sticky, coating the glass wherever it touches. Good stick.
Smell - Hop candy; mostly floral hop aroma. Hints of citrus and dank spice. Caramel malts peek through well.
Taste - Hop forward, but with a very solid caramel malt backbone throughout. Floral hoppiness to start, quickly turns a waning grass bitterness. Touches of earth (walnut?) and resinous pepper spice. Moderate notes of grapefruit pith hits in the finish.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate, almost fluffy carbonation. A fairly dry finish.
Overall - My kind of IPA. Great sense of balance, with a remnant hop bite in the finish. Pure hop heads look elsewhere. Those who enjoy balance, try this.
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10-13-2013 04:51:58 | More by TheSixthRing
3.96/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured into a Chuckanut pint glass. Pours a medium golden amber with a half finger white head with good retention and light slippery lacing. Nice aroma of resiny pine and citrus hops, mild malt. Flavor follows with strong pine and citrus hops, lightly floral, with a substantial but neutral malt body, light citrus. There seems to be some light stone fruit flavor here too, but it is subsumed into the up front hop bitterness. Medium bodied with great carbonation. A nice blend of citrus and herbal hops, well dry hopped. This is quite hop forward, but is supported well by the malt body. A well made and enjoyable hoppy IPA.
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10-13-2013 03:03:25 | More by LiquidAmber
2.95/5 rDev -19.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
This isn't going to be an in-depth review like I usually write as this is very lackluster.
A - Light copper in color with little lacing and about a 1/4" head. There is a great amount of carbonation.
S - faint scent of resin, hops and malt. More boozy than I like. Muted to say the least.
T - a ton of malts, little grapefruit, similar flavors as the aromas liste above. Maybe a little bit of pine.
M - wonderful mouthfeel! Mouth coating and slightly sticky. I love the carbonation that makes this beer very lively in the palate.
O - not something I would purchase, as this was a gift, but wouldn't turn it down if offered from the tap at a pub. Better than some, but not great.
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