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---- — As we begin yet another new year, we thought we might take a somewhat different tack and start it out with a series of columns by sharing some of the humor and interesting information we have encountered in our email inbox.
In a year in which we hope for recovery, restoration and relaxation with which to face whatever might be coming down the road, we thought a month of jokes, interspersed with a tad bit of learning mostly useless things, might just do the trick. And thus we present a treasure trove of this and that from our email bag.
We start with the following thoughts on life ...
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and over 50 for Miss America ?
When I was young we used to go "skinny dipping," now I just "chunky dunk."
I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!
Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press "Ctrl Alt Delete" and start all over?
Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.
Wouldn't you know it....Brain cells come and brain cells go, but FAT cells live forever.
And remember: Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
And then, there are these fun facts, which may or may not still be true, but can, nonetheless, be called up at will to amaze family and friends ...
ALABAMA ... Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968.
ALASKA ... One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
ARIZONA ... Is the only state in the continental U.S. that doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS ... Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
CALIFORNIA ... Has an economy so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.
COLORADO ... Became, in 1976, the only state to turn down the Olympics.
CONNECTICUT ... Invented the Frisbee at Yale University.
DELAWARE ... Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
FLORIDA ... Has the U.S.' largest city, Jacksonville, at 759 square miles.
GEORGIA .... Is where, in 1886, pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.
HAWAII ... Has a population that lives, on average, five years longer than residents in any other state.
IDAHO ... Invented TV in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
ILLINOIS ... Is where the Chicago River is dyed green every St. Patrick's Day.
INDIANA ... Is home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which gets a half million letters to Santa every year.
IOWA ... Is the home to Winnebago County from which Winnebagos get their name. Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.
KANSAS ... Has an exact replica of the house in The Wizard of Oz in Liberal, Kansas.
KENTUCKY ... Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.
LOUISIANA ... Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.
MAINE ... Is so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
MARYLAND ... Is where The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.
MASSACHUSETTS ... Named the Fig Newton after Newton, Massachusetts.
MICHIGAN ... Where Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.
MINNESOTA ... Sports Bloomington's Mall of America which is so big, if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there nearly four days.
MISSISSIPPI ... Is where President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear, which resulted in the teddy bear getting its name.
MISSOURI ... Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
MONTANA ... Produced a sapphire that is in the Crown Jewels of England.
NEBRASKA ... Has had more triplets born there than in any other state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ... Is the birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.
NEW JERSEY ... Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.
NEW MEXICO ... Is where Smokey Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire.
NEW YORK ... Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.
NORTH CAROLINA ... Is the home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA ... Can claim the exact geographic center of North America in Rigby, North Dakota.
OHIO ... Invented the hot dog here in 1900.
OKLAHOMA ... Is where the grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.
OREGON ... Has the most ghost towns in the country.
PENNSYLVANIA ... Is where the smiley — :) — was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
RHODE ISLAND ... Has the nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, which opened in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA ... Is home, in Sumter County, to the world's largest gingko farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA ... Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.
TENNESSEE ... Is home to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, which is the longest running live radio show in the world.
TEXAS ... Is where Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.
UTAH ... Was the site of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, which opened in 1952.
VERMONT ... Has the only state capital, Montpelier, without a McDonald's.
VIRGINIA ... Is home to the world's largest office building, namely the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON ... Can claim that Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ... Was the first planned capital in the world.
WEST VIRGINIA ... Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.
WISCONSIN .... Is where the ice cream sundae was invented in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sundays.
And finally, WYOMING ... Was the first state to allow women to vote. And the rest is history.
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I love Lifehacker.
What do I love about it? It gives you all kinds of cool tips about how to live life better. Sometimes deep stuff, mostly not, but always cool and useful. Like this, Gina, who does Lifehacker, links to the Photojojo blog, which shows you how to do photo blocks.
Here's another entry that shows you how to upload video from your cell phone.

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I don't think these early gems receive the credit they deserve. They were influenced more by Bathory and Destruction than anything. I don't hear SLayer in any of the songs and if they had satanic lyrics, it doesn't mean they were influenced by them. Just listen to song "Necromancer" deffinate Bathory/hellhammer inspired black metal song. This is early beginning of black metal and anyone who thinks Cradle of filth or Emperor invented Bm is just a clueless idiot. If you don't have this release you may as well be marilyn manson poser
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"We wanted to make music without knowing what to expect and with boundaries left open," says drummer Scott Rockenfield of SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM. Rockenfield (QUEENSRŸCHE), along with vocalist/guitarist Damon Johnson (BROTHER CANE, ALICE COOPER BAND), guitarist/vocalist Kelly Gray (ex-QUEENSRŸCHE) and bassist Roman Glick (BROTHER CANE), set out to invent a new concept in rock music: music without rules or corporate influence that is not part of "the system". On their self-titled Spitfire Records debut the band members combine their various influences and pool their talent to create something that any listener can appreciate. Their sound is both reminiscent of hard rock veterans like The Who, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy, as well as a younger breed of music akin to Audioslave and Velvet Revolver. From the powerful buildup of the opening riff on the first single "Stigmata" to the somber tone of "Walk The Line", SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM grabs you by the ears and doesn't let go. Other powerful songs like "Cruze Out Of Control", "Ruby Wednesday" and the title track make this band a force to be reckoned with.
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This album in my opinion presents the best work from Sepultura. Chaotic and intricate in narrative, these songs make from simple riffs and pure noise an aura of evil that holds reality in suspense. Although some instrumentation is unsteady as a whole drumming and guitar work is creative and deliberate. Dramatic theming to songs make them unique, but raw spirit and concept is what draws these collections of power chords together. Riffs are of the faster Slayer-influenced style or in a minimalist muffled strumming rhythm playing form. Blasphemic lyrics tumble out in a death metal vocal of some sophistication considering the 1984-85 recording date on these albums. For those looking for a underground insight to the passion of this band, this album is great, but if Chaos A.D. is your thing pass it by.
Every Sepultura fan should own this album. It's a true classic despite the bad production. Max Cavelera's vocals, and the fast paced guitars on here will drive you insane. The echoing drums are really good especially on Morbid Visions and War. The Bestial Devastation EP which is also on here has better prodution. It also includes a remake of the song Antichrist turned Anitcop which was recorded live at some time earlier in the bands career. All in all, a must have for anyone who loves moshing and headbanging. Sepultura rules.
Before "Schizophrenia", "Beneath the Remains", or "Arise", Sepultura was an angry and determined Brazilian band looking to get noticed, which they did with "Morbid Visions". This is Sepultura playing heavily Venom-influenced black metal that features all the imagry you'd expect from an old Slayer album, and it must be heard to be believed. The production is beyond shoddy, and the musicianship is hardly as accomplished as it would be on later albums, but the seething attitude and demonic imagry is worth the price of admission alone. Songs like "Troops of Doom", "Crucifixion", "Antichrist", and "Necromancer" are simple and unapologetic, and it's hard to believe that those songs were written by Max Cavalera; the same guy who has done countless material "dedicated to God" on his Soulfly albums. New Sepultura fans may want to check this out after hearing "Beneath the Remains", "Arise", or "Chaos A.D.", while older fans who have never heard this deserve to pick it up.
this is sep's best. all black metal fans should buy this. buy this one first. minimal production, max power


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FOX 5 Storm Team's Ken Cook was the Grand Marshal along with his wife, Susie, for the "Stars, Stripes and Cartersville" parade.
According to the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention and Visitor's Bureau, it is all part of activities throughout the day Friday. There will be live entertainment, activities for kids and much more!
The night wraps up with fireworks at nightfall at Dellinger Park.
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In his final State of the City address, Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a citywide ban on plastic-foam food packaging, which environmentalists have derided for years.
If the mayor gets his way, New York would become the first east coast city to implement the ban, which already exists on various levels in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.
A restaurant owner who spoke to a Patch staffer in Brooklyn argued that the ban would hurt the economy, though many others also support the ban.
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A former University of Virginia lacrosse player will have a hearing in front of an appeals court in the case of the murder of a fellow student.
A state Court of Appeals judge granted George Huguely a hearing in the murder of Yeardley Love, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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The decision was based on the failure to exclude a juror whose impartiality came into question and on Huguely's contention that he was denied a right to counsel when one of his lawyers became ill during the murder trial last summer, the newspaper reported.
Huguely was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 23 years in prison for the 2010 murder of Love.
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A powerful start leads to a cruxy balance move. Sustained, delicate climbing leads past several small corners and a small roof to finish on a ledge.
Located to the left of Heironymous Bosch. It is the leftward trending line of bolts that approaches Fifth Force and then arches back right. A 60m rope should be sufficient for the descent.
Six bolts plus a two bolt anchor. If you are short (under 6 ft.) a couple of the bolts will be very difficult to clip (from stances) without quickdraws hanging.


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Tension does not add that way. Imagine hanging a 100 pound weight from a single strand. The weight exerts 100 pounds force downward on the cord. But in order to hold it up, the anchor has to exert a 100 pound force upwards. But, practically be definition, the cord only has 100 pound tension on it. Forces are considered individually, and are not added to the reactions they create.
Another easy way to think about it- a single loop (in this sense) is the same as having two strands. One 50lb weight on a string means 50lbs of force. If you add a second strand (or make it a loop) each strand only has to hold up half the weight, or 25lbs.
I would not personally use it for anchors or a cordulette, but I have totally used 5mm cord before for raps stations on alpine climbs and feel there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
1+2 does = 4, for greater values of 1 and 2 To answer the question, I would avoid it, but, as Ed alludes to, it will hold "bodyweight"...
"5mm cord, Is it safe for anchor setups?"
I think that there is a lot more to it than this. Physics was 20 years ago, but: If the rope was 2 knotted ropes at the biners instead of a clipped loop, I think the forces would be different. The force where the biner contacts the sling is eventually on a single strand. There is one loop of material making two strands between the biners, but we are still talking about a single strand. I recall from John Long's book that there is a difference in the way a nylon loop acts versus spectra in this situation. I don't know the physics behind it, but I think some imput from some one who does would be helpful here. They sell 8mm perlon right at the gear store you know.


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With the news that Wes Johnson will indeed depart upstate New York and ply his trade in the NBA next season, SB Nation's Syracuse blog, Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician, rreflects on Johnson's impactful, albeit brief, career for the Orange:
Wes Johnson came to us with a modicum of hype. Unknown as a recruit, he had built up a good reputation at Iowa State before deciding to transfer. Cyclone fans were kicking themselves over losing Wes as they knew full well of his potential: ("If Cuse gets Wesley Johnson, I would have to imagine Orange fans would quickly fall in love with him. He's capable of the highlight reel dunk, but it's his athletic ability and total results that will impress you guys the most."). But all due respect, this is Syracuse. Home of Jim Boeheim, Dave Bing, Pearl Washington, John Wallace and Carmelo Anthony. Could Iowa State's trash actually be our treasure? [...]
What were Syracuse fans expecting of Wes before this season? Boeheim had already hinted that Johnson might be good enough to go pro after one year, but we were skeptical. I think we knew he'd be good. But no one can say they thought he's be this good. Big East Player of the Year. 1st-Team All-American. 3rd in voting for the Wooden Award. A superstar.
Yes, we can sit here and debate all day just how valuable Wes was when it mattered most and the fact that he disappeared late against Butler will be a part of his legacy. But it will be a small part. Besides, that's the NBA's job now. More likely, we'll remember being No. 1 in March for the first time ever. We'll remember winning the Big East crown when we were picked to finish sixth in the conference. We'll remember the Villanova win, the Georgetown wins and all the other 30+ wins SU accumulated this season. Being a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament after starting the season a 7- or 8-seed in many people's eye. Feeling like, on any given day, this team could have beaten any other team in the nation.


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Why I Took Four Violin Lessons and then Quit
I'm not enough of a productivity champion that I can work for 14 hours straight with no breaks at all. Sometimes I"ll find myself pressed up against some extra tricky problem, and even after taking shots at it from various angles, I can't quite push through. In times like those, it helps to take a break for a few minutes, and then try again.
Old habits die hard. I used to be obsessed with getting deals on stuff. I still am a little bit. One of the best resources for deals is Fatwallet.com, which I still check once every three or four months, down from several times a day. The last time I checked, four months ago or so, I saw a violin for $50. Shipped. Including a bow, extra strings, rosin, and a case.
I bought it, thinking that if I loved playing the violin, I could give that one away and buy a good one, and if not, I could give it away and not buy a good one. Either way, fifty bucks to see if I was interested in playing the violin seemed like a good idea. I should also add that I had been reading a lot of Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock plays the violin when he's thinking. I was probably influenced by that.
It turned out that I loved playing the violin. Not loved as in drop-everything-and-train-for-the-symphony, but taking a few minutes to bang out twinkle twinkle little star was a good way to relax my mind for a minute before getting back to the task at hand. As I worked, I would leave the violin sitting on my bed. Whenever I needed a break, I'd get up and play for a couple minutes.
After a month or two, my sister gave me her old violin, which is a lot better than the $50 one (which, too, sounded surprisingly good) and I decided to take some lessons.
When I learn a new skill, I like to think about how good I actually want to be at it. In a world where you can jack a plug into the back your head like in The Matrix, I'd pick 100% proficiency every time, of course. But we don't live in that world-- time is short.
When I learned how to solve the Rubik's cube (which some people can solve in ~10 seconds or so), I decided that I wanted to be able to solve it in 90 seconds or less consistently. With languages I shoot for being able to talk with someone and get my point across, no matter how many grammatical errors I make. I started learning how to memorize the order of a shuffled deck of cards, and stopped when I could do it in less time than someone's attention span would be for that sort of trick.
For violin, I decided that I just wanted to play one "real" piece poorly. By real piece, I mean something by a famous composer. I know that there are tons of great composers who aren't famous, but I liked the idea of playing something thought of by a genius like Mozart. I only wanted to play it poorly because I like the idea of playing every single day and chipping away at it, getting better and better. If I could just reach that baseline of playing it poorly, surely over a year or so I'd refine my sound and technique.
I went to Craigslist and emailed violin tutors, telling them that I wanted to learn one good song poorly, and that I could take lessons for about a month. One didn't write back. Another one told me that if HE was going to teach me violin, then it was going to be done his way, which was to learn fundamentals and build up to playing a real song. I didn't write him back. The third said, "great, I can help you with that," and became my teacher.
I took four lessons. In the first two, he taught me Musette by Bach, and in the second two he taught me Minuet in G by Mozart (Musette is a real song by my definition, but is too simple to be fun to play for a year, so we did the second song). Along the way, of course, he corrected my bow hold, posture, and a bunch of other things.
Now I love my little breaks from work. I sprint through Musette and then play Minuet in G really poorly. Every time through I'll play at least one passage decently, and it makes me smile. I quit my lessons, and my teacher understood why.
The point of all this isn't to provide a voyeuristic look into my violin playing, but rather to make a point. As long as you have ridiculously high goals for one or two things, it's okay to set really embarassingly low goals for other things. In fact, that helps you stay focused on your big goals.
SETT will be a world class blogging platform. It might take me years and come at the expense of most everything else, but I'll get it there. I have really high expectations of myself as a person, too, to be the best person that I can possibly be. But violin playing? I'll do it and enjoy it, but I'll be terrible at it.
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An animal bite can result in a break or tear in the skin, a bruise, or a puncture wound.
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Bites that result in puncture wounds are more likely to become infected. You might have a puncture wound if an animal's tooth went through your skin during the bite.
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Report the bite to the local animal control authorities, even if you don't seek professional medical care. This will allow authorities to test the animal and prevent further incidents.
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Weber EJ, West HH. Mammalian bites. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al, eds.Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 58.
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Police are investigating an overnight shooting on the 1500 block of Judson Way in North Philadelphia.
Arriving on scene just after 2:30 a.m. officers found a 16 year old male inside an apartment suffering from a single gunshot wound to the left leg. He was rushed to Hahnemann Hospital and listed in stable condition.
The teen told police he was playing cards with friends at the apartment and left to pick-up food at a Chinese restaurant at 23rd St. & Oxford Ave.
While walking back, he was inside the courtyard of the Blumberg projects when he heard a single gunshot and was hit in the rear of his left leg. He went back to the apartment where police were called.
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Before dawn on Feb. 23, Darius Williams ran his Nissan Sentra off a North Carolina interstate at 80 miles per hour. A length of guardrail pierced his door, according to the police report, driving the 24-year-old's body into the opposite back seat.
Three days later, with police attributing the accident to reckless driving and Williams lying in intensive care, a self-described safety expert named Joshua Harman drove past the scene. Spotting debris and the jagged end of a guardrail bending toward the highway, he swerved to a stop.
"The evidence always tells a story," he said.
Suspecting he knew this story's ending, he steered his truck to the Thomasville, N.C., junkyard where Williams' Nissan had been towed. Some 10 feet of guardrail, doubled back on itself, skewered the car. Harman pointed his camera toward the bloodied back seat and snapped a picture of a 175-pound piece of steel lodged amid the wreckage. A sticker identified its maker: Trinity Highway Products.
To hear Harman tell it, something has gone seriously wrong with America's guardrails. With as much as $1 billion possibly at stake, Harman's tale is one of bad blood, allegations of fraud and wrongful death and regulatory gray areas along the country's taxpayer-funded highways.
Harman is suing Trinity Highway and its Dallas-based owner, Trinity Industries Inc., alleging that it made quiet design changes that transformed guardrail systems across the U.S. into potentially deadly hazards. His focus is something called an energy-absorbing end terminal: Installed at the end of a guardrail and typically marked with yellow and black stripes, it's designed to give way when hit, absorbing energy to slow a crashing car.
Trinity, one of the biggest guardrail makers in the United States, first gained federal approval for its ET-Plus end terminal in 2000. Harman's suit alleges that the company changed the dimensions of the ET-Plus sometime between 2002 and 2005 without telling federal authorities. Instead of acting like a shock absorber, he claims in the 2012 suit, Trinity's modified ET-Plus can lock up, behaving more like a giant shiv.
The case is set to go before a jury in July.
Trinity maintains a "high degree of confidence" in the several hundred thousand ET-Plus units it says are installed around the country, spokesman Jack Todd said. Trinity declined to make executives available for interviews.
Trinity's ET-Plus - including "all improvement modifications thereafter" - has met federal requirements since its 2000 debut, according to a company filing for the previous quarter. In 2012, a company representative testified in a different suit that Trinity had made several "cosmetic changes" to the end terminal that didn't require new approvals because they didn't hurt its performance.
Trinity, a publicly traded company with a $6.4 billion market capitalization, characterized Harman in court documents as "an opportunistic litigant hoping for a windfall." He is seeking "to retaliate against Trinity for pursuing a patent infringement lawsuit against his companies," it added.
Harman used to make and install guardrails himself. Trinity sued him in 2011 for infringing its patents. Since then, Harman scaled down his private operations, trimmed more than 100 employees - most of his workforce - and sought Chapter 11 protection to reorganize his companies.
The 45-year-old Virginian spent more than 300 days on the road last year, away from his wife and two school-aged daughters, visiting crash sites to bolster his case against Trinity. The Chevy Silverado he drives has two end terminals in back - one that he says is Trinity's original, the other its modified version.
Harman says he's motivated not by business, but by what he sees as a safety hazard.
"It's irrelevant if I'm crazy," he said.
Trinity has sought to get Harman's whistleblower suit dismissed, arguing he isn't a whistleblower because he is basing his allegations largely on public information rather than insider knowledge.
Federal Judge Rodney Gilstrap in Marshall, Texas, ruled that Harman's professional experience qualifies him to sue as a whistleblower and dismissed most of Trinity's other objections.
Lawyers representing whistleblowers typically don't earn fees unless they win. Harman is represented by Boies, Schiller & Flexner, whose founder, David Boies, is known for taking on the likes of Microsoft and MasterCard. Boies Schiller lawyers declined to comment on its fee arrangement.
Harman isn't the only one asking questions. A coalition of state highway officials is reviewing the performance of several end terminal models, motivated in part by complaints about the ET-Plus. Nevada stopped installing ET-Plus terminals in January, pending performance testing of the modified version.
And in May, Safety Research & Strategies Inc., a product- safety advocacy group, filed separate suits seeking records related to the ET-Plus from the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration and from the Florida Department of Transportation. SRS, based in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, alleges broad "performance anomalies" with the ET-Plus since it was introduced.
Because Trinity's terminals are approved by the FHWA, state highway departments that buy them are often eligible for federal reimbursements. Under the 2009 stimulus package, the U.S. government reimbursed up to 100 percent of local buyers' costs for highway projects. Still, the FHWA has no authority to ask states to recall a piece of equipment, said Joshua Schank, who runs the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan think tank.
"If there's a problem, who's going to end up being on the hook?" said Sean Kane, SRS's president and founder.
Neil Gaffney, a spokesman for the FWHA, said the ET-Plus was successfully crash-tested in 2005 and that the agency hasn't received complaints from states about the units' performance since then. Dick Kane, a spokesman for the Florida department, said it had produced the requested documents.
Harman, suing to recover taxpayer funds on behalf of the United States, could take up to about a third of any judgment. His suit potentially presents a "billion dollars' worth of damages" for Trinity, a lawyer for the company said in a May hearing. In a company filing, Trinity said it doesn't believe a loss is probable from the litigation.
Todd, the Trinity spokesman, pointed out that the federal government investigated Harman's allegations against Trinity and declined to join in the suit. Peter Carr, a U.S. Department of Justice spokesman, declined to comment on that decision.
On a recent five-state guardrail-scouting trip from Texas to North Carolina, Harman was at the wheel at 2 a.m. Riding shotgun was Steven Lawrence, a Texas lawyer who works alongside Boies Schiller on Harman's suit and also has filed personal injury and wrongful death suits against Trinity.
Among Lawrence's clients is a 37-year-old former Marine named Jay Traylor, who lost both legs in a January 2014 car wreck. Lawrence's suit alleges that Trinity's "unreasonably dangerous" ET-Plus penetrated Traylor's floorboard, impaled him and left him a double amputee.
Harman put North Carolina on his itinerary to see Traylor, and the two found common ground. Harman gave Traylor a formula for a pain-relieving salve. Harman says he used it himself, two decades ago, after he lost his own left leg in a construction accident.
"I've looked at every guardrail since I've had this accident," Traylor said in an interview. "When measures are put out to prevent accidents and injuries as safety precautions, you should be able to trust them."
Lawrence and other attorneys have brought at least nine personal-injury and wrongful-death suits against Trinity. After visiting some 200 crash sites and combing through news reports, Harman says he has turned up what he believes are roughly 20 deaths in accidents linked to the modified ET-Plus.
In all these cases, Trinity says it would take a more comprehensive analysis - one that considers a vehicle's speed, weight and angle of impact - to determine how its system performed. Federal crash criteria specify conditions under which the guardrail system must perform to certain standards, which don't necessarily cover every crash scenario.
Harman started his first business with his brother in 1988 when both were teenagers in Virginia. They planted grass at roadsides and later began installing guardrails and fencing. From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, Harman bought Trinity guardrail systems to install on state highways, he said.
It was the dawn of a new era in roadside safety. The guardrails with exposed ends that were the standard into the early 1960s could spear cars that hit them. Later, road crews buried the ends of some guardrails - but those, it turned out, could serve as ramps, causing cars that hit them to roll over.
In 1989, a company called Syro Steel Co. introduced the ET-2000, an energy-absorbing end terminal designed by Texas A&M University and funded by the Texas Department of Transportation.
The ET-2000 did for guardrails what air bags did for cars. When a car hit Syro's end terminal, the mechanism would act as a buffer that would absorb energy as it pressed into the rail behind it - forcing the W-shaped guardrail through a slot and flattening it into a ribbon of steel that deflected away from the car.
Trinity Industries bought Syro in 1992. In 2000, Trinity received approval from the FHWA for its ET-Plus, a lighter version of the ET-2000, according to the FHWA acceptance letter that unlocked federal funding.
Around 2008, Harman said he started looking at the patent numbers marked on end-terminal models to see if any patents had lapsed. He reverse-engineered an ET-Plus from 2000, he said, using it as a model for a generic copy. He said one of his companies, SPIG Industry LLC, made 280 of them that he installed on Virginia's highways.
In March 2011, Trinity sued SPIG for patent infringement.
Harman claimed in court filings that Trinity had listed incorrect and expired patent numbers on their ET-Plus units. "If I knew it was a patented product, I wouldn't have ever made it," he said.
In a court filing, Trinity denied allegations that it marked its ET-Plus heads with the wrong patent numbers.
Harman's company agreed to stop production and work with Virginia highway authorities to determine if they should remove the ones already installed, Harman said.
Trinity continued its suit against Harman. The most Trinity could recover in damages for patent infringement was about $53,000, according to an expert report Trinity submitted as part of the case. The legal bills, on Harman's side, were far greater - at least $7 million by the time the patent suit ended in a confidential settlement in late 2012, according to Chapter 11 documents filed by SPIG.
Trinity Highway also wanted to know where Harman had installed every one of his copies. In September 2011, one of its employees sent Harman an email, reviewed by Bloomberg News, repeating its request for "a full and complete listing of all locations/installations" of the terminals.
The patent case had nothing to do with money and "everything to do with stopping somebody from copying our product and getting the non-tested products off the roadway," said a Trinity employee who asked not to be named because this person isn't authorized to speak on the subject.
Harman's own copy of an early ET-Plus, he said in an interview, had been involved in five accidents and had performed "100 percent appropriate." If his models were working, he asked himself, why was Trinity so eager to get them off the road?
Harman started surveying accident sites in Virginia and Tennessee. In December 2011, he took a two-week trip across eight states, documenting what he said were more than 50 accident sites as far west as New Mexico.
Harman said his Eureka moment came at a crash site at Mile 153 on I-40, in Arkansas. This rail emerged from an ET-Plus with one of its edges folded over: Something was restricting it. Harman pulled out his calipers. The guardrail, he found, was trying to squeeze through a slot that was at one point an inch shorter and an inch narrower than in the original.
"There was no question," he said, it was the smaller versions that were seizing. "Then I found another in Virginia."
He sued Trinity in March 2012, alleging in an amended complaint that it had made five changes to the ET-Plus without notifying the FHWA. He alleged Trinity's move lowered its manufacturing costs and made the ET-Plus more difficult to reuse after accidents than the earlier version, requiring highway authorities to purchase new ones.
Trinity, in court filings, cited FHWA standards that say manufacturers don't have to report modifications that reduce costs or improve functioning if "good engineering judgment" deems they won't degrade performance.
In the filings, it said it made four "fabrication revisions" in 2005 at the suggestion of engineers with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which originally designed and patented the ET-Plus. In a February 2013 letter to state transportation departments, Trinity and Texas A&M said the revisions were meant "to enhance the already demonstrated performance of the system in the field."
Rick Davenport, a spokesman for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, declined to comment on matters involving ongoing litigation.
On Feb. 14, 2012, about seven years after Harman alleged the changes began showing up on U.S. roads, Trinity officials met with FHWA engineer Nick Artimovich, according to emails sent by Artimovich that were reviewed by Bloomberg News. They alerted him to one change in the end terminal - the reduction in the guide channel's width, to four inches from five - that it had omitted in documentation for a May 2005 crash-test.
About two weeks later, Artimovich wrote to two FHWA colleagues saying that he believed Trinity had correctly tested the modified ET-Plus design during the crash test. "However, there does seem to be a valid question over the field performance of the current ET-Plus compared to earlier versions," he wrote in the email, a copy of which was obtained by Bloomberg News.
Artimovich declined to comment for this article.
Harman, in his suit, said it isn't clear which version of the ET-Plus was crash-tested. Gaffney of the FHWA said in his statement that Trinity told the agency that the ET-Plus with a four-inch channel had met crash-test standards.
Wednesday, Judge Gilstrap ruled to keep the trial in July, despite a motion by both parties to delay it until September. "The parties have conducted themselves with a level of contentiousness and vitriol that is as surprising as it is unwarranted," Gilstrap wrote in his order.
Harman, meanwhile, continues his guardrail search.
Back in the North Carolina junkyard, Harman inspected Williams' white Nissan resting along a chain-link fence. Its roof was caved in. Windshields were gone. A door, detached, leaned against the vehicle's side.
"Lord, have mercy," Harman said. "I don't know how he survived - if he survived."
Williams suffered a bruised lung, lower spine injuries and fractures to his leg, upper arm, eye and pelvis, he said by email. He declined to comment further.
On the way out of the junkyard, Harman asked whether he could buy the wreck to preserve it as evidence. A few minutes later, he was back on the highway.
"People are dying," Harman said. "This is an issue I brought to light, and I will see it to the end."


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ClearNote Church has gotten by without a sign ever since we moved into our new church-house. Why?
Don't ask. But if we were ever to get a sign, I'd like to copy this one. It's about as comissional as can be.
And here at ClearNote Church of Bloomington, it has the added benefit of accurately describing the origin of many cars in our parking lot...We have an arrangment with Chuck Forney who owns Bloomington's salvage yard, Auto Heaven. We specify price range and he recycles one of his ugly beauties. They're not beautiful cosmetically--remember that love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies?
Rather, Chuck's cars are beautiful because they're inexpensive and reliable. Try it out--talk to your local salvage yard.
(TB: pic by Eric R.)
That church is only a few minutes from my house. They just tore off an old ugly overhang and replaced it with this new signage. The one thing that has stuck out to me about this church is that it has two services: one entitled "Contemporary Service", and the other entitled "Rock the House". I have thought about going and rocking the house with them. I think it would be fun!
Wasn't there another part to the sign, in smaller font? I believe it said "no politics, no baggage, no traditions." I'm sure of the baggage and traditions part. Every time I saw the sign I thought how foolish it was to think that you had no traditions. People who think they have no traditions have as strong of traditions as everyone else. Anyhow, I'll wager their rock the house service wouldn't be all that fun. A ClearNote Church rock the house service, on the other hand...there's something to think about.
David T,
Your memory is correct and your insight even better.
I don't recall that sign, but I will defer to your memory. And for the record, I would much rather a ClearNote rock the house service.
Here in the Denver area we have Scum of the Earth church, Two Edged Sword Church, Word Church, The Pearl, and The Door Church. A local Lutheran church has a sub-church called The Table. I could add to the list by driving around for an extra ten minutes.
I forgot to include The Next Level church.
As the pastor of The Salvage Yard Church I am flattered people have noticed our new sign!! It must be working!!! As a new Church, Our previous sign did state our position on traditions, politics, and baggage, we started from scratch with three families, moved into our building 6 weeks later and had 235 people come to our first service! They represented 30 different church backgrounds! In the beginning the sign was very true! After a few years and a major remodel, we came to the conclusion, we, like others, had formed our traditions, etc. and decided to leave that off the new sign. We are growing! We sit on one of the highest traffic count intersections in Indy, signage is everything! Thank you for noticing! Praying for you from Indy!
PS. Rock the House is exactly what it sounds like!!!


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On Saturday, May 29, another official was added to the list of honoured members of the Hall of Fame. In a short ceremony held at the CFSA Annual General Meeting in Quebec City, Gordon Garden was welcomed into the Hall of Fame by David Dore, CFSA Director General and Trustee of the Hall of Fame and Museum. Gordon's wife, Norah, accepted a portrait of her late husband for the induction and said a few touching words.
Gordon Garden
At age 35, Gordon Garden was a late starter in figure skating. On the prompting of his daughter and wife, he joined the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club where he performed in carnivals, sold tickets and organized props to eventually become Assistant Director of Performance. Gordon founded numerous clubs, was a member of the first executive of the Central Ontario Section, and became a Sectional competition accountant in 1957.
His involvement at the section level led to his membership on the CFSA Board of Directors. From 1962 to 1969, Gordon served as a Chairman of the Rules Committee and subsequently re-wrote the Rule Book. While serving as a Director, he also maintained a position as accountant for Canadian Championships where he helped to develop the first competition and accounting manuals.
Gordon was awarded a Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967 in recognition of his role in developing community skating programs. He and his family donated the Garden Cups for the Canadian Fours Championships and the COS established a trophy in his name to award at the Summer Free Skating Competition.


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David Hilfiker knows what's coming. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's so early that he's had time to tell his family what he wants to happen once forgetfulness turns incapacitating.
"When it's time to put me in an institution, don't have me at home and destroy your own life," said the retired physician, who is still well enough that he blogs about the insidious progress of the disease. "Watching the Lights Go Out," it's titled.
Nearly half of all seniors who need some form of long-term care – from help at home to full-time care in a facility – have dementia, the World Alzheimer Report said last week.It's a staggering problem as the global population ages, placing enormous strain on families who provide the bulk of that care at least early on, and on national economies alike.
Indeed, cognitive impairment is the strongest predictor of who will move into a care facility within the next two years, 7.5 times more likely than people with cancer, heart disease or other chronic ailments of older adults, the report found.
"It's astonishing," said Marc Wortmann, executive director of Alzheimer's Disease International, which commissioned the report and focused on the problems of caregiving. "What many countries try to do is keep people away from care homes because they say that's cheaper. Yes it's cheaper for the government or the health system, but it's not always the best solution."
And dropping birth rates mean there are fewer children in families to take care of aging parents, too, said Michael Hodin of the Global Coalition on Aging.
"Very shortly there will be more of us over 60 than under 15," he noted.
Today, more than 35 million people worldwide, including 5 million in the United States, are estimated to have Alzheimer's. Barring a medical breakthrough, those numbers are expected to more than double by 2050.
Last week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced $45 million in new Alzheimer's research, with most of the money focused on finding ways to prevent or at least delay the devastating disease. The Obama administration had hoped to invest $100 million in new Alzheimer's research this year, a move blocked by the budget cuts known as the sequester. Overall, the nation has been investing about $400 million a year in Alzheimer's research.
But the disease's financial toll is $200 billion a year in the United States alone, a tab expected to pass $1 trillion by 2050 in medical and nursing home expenditures – not counting unpaid family caregiving. The world report puts the global cost at $604 billion.
"We need a war on Alzheimer's," said Sandy Halperin, 63, of Tallahassee, who was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's three years ago. He now finds himself stumbling for words, but still visits lawmakers to urge more funding.
The world report said families need early education about what services are available to help before they're in a crisis, plus training in how to handle the behavioral problems of the disease – such as not to argue if their loved one thinks Ronald Reagan is still president, or how to handle the agitation at dusk known as sundowning, or how to react when the patient hits someone.
Two-thirds of the calls that Home Instead Senior Care, which provides in-home personal care services, receives are from families that did no planning until the patient had a crisis, such as wandering or a fall, said its president, Jeff Huber.
Hilfiker, the blogger with early Alzheimer's, takes that education idea a step further. He tells everyone he knows that he has Alzheimer's as a way to break some of the stigma, "so when I make dumb mistakes, I don't need to be embarrassed," he said.
He urges other patients to plan their end-of-life care early, while they're still cognitively able to participate. He believes that telling his wife no extraordinary care – no feeding tubes, for example – will ease her burden.
Hilfiker's big unanswered question: "If I'm at peace with my disease, does that make it easier to care for me later?


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Goodnight, sweet Sens. Ottawa was eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a 6-2 rout in Game 5 by the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Red-hot hands, mind you.
Pittsburgh got out to a big lead in the first two frames, scoring three unanswered goals before the Senators could even manage to grasp some semblance of control in the game. Milan Michalek finally got Ottawa on the board late in the second period before his teammates let Evgeni Malkin score on a breakaway with half a minute left in the frame.
The final period played out like a funeral procession as the Senators slowly played like they knew their fate was sealed. James Neal scored twice to complete the hat trick, and the game ended mercifully with a 6-2 final score.
Who takes charge and ends it for Pittsburgh?
It really seemed like everyone pitched in somehow for the Penguins. Kris Letang played his best offensive game of the series, even though he had another dreadful game in his own end. Sidney Crosby was as impressive as always. But the pivotal player was definitely Neal, who scored a hat trick. It was a pretty one, at that.
Is this Daniel Alfredsson's last game?
If it was, then it was a sad way to see him go. He was pretty much invisible as he watched his team get eliminated. And a lot of fans will remember his comments after Game 4 saying his team couldn't come back against Pittsburgh. In the long run, however, he will be remembered as one of the all-time greats. Time will tell in the coming months whether we've really seen the last of him, though.
Can the Senators bottle the start of Game 4?
The Senators played that well in spurts. And they were very short, fleeting spurts. For the most part they were completely dominated in every facet of the game by the Penguins.
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The Eagles were playing Friday, but in North Wildwood, there were plenty of other reasons to bleed green.
The Irish Fall Festival kicked off Thursday night, and after a golf tournament this morning, the first night featured a boxing match between boxers from Ireland and the United States. The Irish music tent at Moore's Inlet was decked out in green for the event, and both countries' national anthems were played before the bout.The United States came out on top in the boxing match.
Irish Fall Festival events will continue throughout the weekend.
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As the host and top seed of the NCAA Division II South Region tournament, the expectations could not have been higher for the Nova Southeastern women's basketball team.
The Sharks cruised past the Clark Atlanta Lady Panthers in a 87-60 rout on Friday night at Nova Southeastern's Don Taft University Center. It is Nova's first NCAA Division II Tournament game victory.
"It was really important for our team to stay alive after today," Sharks coach LeAnn Freeland said. "Our ladies have been waiting for this opportunity all season and it was clear that they were mentally prepared for it."
Leading the way
Guard Tailor Jones and forward Richelle Carach picked up double-doubles for the Sharks. Jones scored 14 points and picked up 10 rebounds, and Carach got 10 points and 12 rebounds.
Three other Nova players scored in double digits, with guards Danielle Robinson (18), Meixandra Porter (19) and Taylor Buie (16) adding to the offensive onslaught.
With the victory, No.1-seed Nova advances to the second round Saturday at 7:30 p.m..
The Sharks got off to a fast start, with Robinson providing the opening spark, drilling her first shot taken from beyond the arc and scoring seven of the Sharks' first 15 points.
Poor shooting doomed Clark Atlanta throughout the contest, finishing the game with 35 percent from the field and missing eight three-pointers attempted in the first half.
The Sharks steadily built a comfortable lead, attacking the basket and doing most of their damage from inside the paint.
"Being aggressive is part of who we are," Porter said of the team's fast start. "That's when we find our flow and work best as a team."
Big finish
Robinson ended the first half with an exclamation point, draining a jumper from just inside the arc as the buzzer sounded, giving the Sharks a comfortable 20-point cushion heading into the locker room.
After a sluggish start to the second half, the Sharks quickly recovered and went on an 16-2 run and took a 39-point lead at one point to douse any hope of a Lady Panther comeback.


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If you want to know about Earth's next visitor to Jupiter, a familiar face with a familiar bow tie is here to help. That's right, Bill Nye is back talking science (now that he's been booted from Dancing with the Stars) to explain what NASA's up to with its Juno mission to Jupiter. The probe,… Read More
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Is there anything better than watching geeks try to dance? Well, yes. But nonetheless, it was hilarious watching Mark Cuban and Steve Wozniak get groovy on "Dancing With The Stars." And now, Bill Nye, the personality behind the popular '90s TV program, "Bill Nye the Science Guy," is getting in on the fun. ABC this morning… Read More
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Television personality and engineer Bill Nye recently hinted that his popular "Science Guy" series might return with an online show. If this is any indication, there would certainly be an audience for it. A video featuring Nye challenging creationism has gone viral on YouTube. Posted last week by the online video series BigThink, the video… Read More
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On certain cable news channels these days, it seems like every story is a chance to subtly (or not-so-subtly) score points for some political position. Which is why this appearance by Bill Nye on Fox News is so refreshing to watch, and so disturbing at the same time. Nye, better known as Bill Nye the… Read More


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A person disguised by a white sheet burglarized the ABC Store on Highway 31 in Anniston early Wednesday morning, police say.
"We understand that it is nearing Halloween, but a ghost burglarizing a liquor store? Really?" the Anniston Police Department posted on their Facebook page along with surveillance video of the burglary.
The video shows multiple angles of the person in the sheet walking around different areas in the store. The suspect is wearing dark pants and is almost completely covered in a white sheet with cut-out section to see through, similar to a traditional ghost costume for Halloween.
Police also shared a video of the suspect's vehicle, which appears to be white. The time stamp on the car video is 5:11 a.m. and the video from inside the store shows a time stamp of 5:48 a.m.
The department had some fun on their Facebook post when asking for the public's help in solving this crime.
"Anyone with any information regarding this criminal from the spirit realm, please contact us. But send us am [sic] email or shoot us a call, contacting a medium to get to us won't work," they said.
You can watch both videos on the Anniston Police Department's Facebook page.
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Imperial Stout - Epic Brewing Company
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Ratings: 191 | Reviews: 62 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by wordemupg:
Alberta (Canada)
4.25/5 rDev +9.3%
650ml bomber #11 10.3% poured into tulip 12/6/13 cheers alpineclimber for splitting the bottle
A black liquid with a deep cola edge when tilted, large mocha head has good retention leaving some thick rings before falling to a thin film
S bakers chocolate, licorice, espresso, burnt toffee, some raisins, char and smoke, and just a hint of citric hops, smells pretty solid
T darker roast in the mouth with the espresso playing a bigger part leaving me wonder if they brew it with coffee but I'm too lazy to do some research, I suppose I'll just enjoy this dark roast instead
M leaning towards heavy, no booze going down, char and burnt espresso linger on the finish
O well rounded right down the middle, straightforward but very well executed, something I'd look for in the future
drinks very smooth for a big fresh stout, I'd like to taste an aged version but its already drinking well, a little hops in the background but mostly an intense dark malt that works well for me
06-13-2013 03:08:41 | More by wordemupg
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Alberta (Canada)
4/5 rDev +2.8%
08-09-2014 15:54:59 | More by rpt2805
4/5 rDev +2.8%
10-05-2012 02:05:26 | More by warnerry
3.9/5 rDev +0.3%
22oz brown bomber with a batch # on the label.
LOOK: Black, opaque, firm light brown head, excellent lacing
SMELL: Coffee, brownies, soft charcoal, black berries, burnt raisins, molasses, noticeable alcohol
TASTE: Silky smooth, creamy full body, molasses, dark fruit twang, alcoholic bite, mocha, charred wood, herbal hops, burnt toast, very warming, dates, mineral, lingering burnt finish
This is a big beer, yeah ... stating the obvious though this beer is bigger than most 9.0% abv Impy Stouts. Full on malt with a complimenting alcohol character, balance of roastiness and sweetness goes a long way. Seek a bottle or two out.
09-16-2012 01:08:08 | More by Jason
3.88/5 rDev -0.3%
Poured cold from the bottle. This beer is extremely black without light permeating it. The head is bubbly and brown that didn't last long. There is not much to the smell... sweet and little hint of burnt and coffee. The taste is sweeter than most stouts with a nice burnt flavour. There was a slight chocolate taste and you can definitely taste the ABV. A very balanced beer overall.
Would I buy it again? Yes.
12-01-2012 20:46:04 | More by NilocRellim
4/5 rDev +2.8%
04-11-2014 17:34:33 | More by sourdog
3.75/5 rDev -3.6%
07-30-2013 03:24:04 | More by Cynic-ale
3.5/5 rDev -10%
07-17-2013 16:48:42 | More by doremite
West Virginia
4.13/5 rDev +6.2%
Poured for me pitch black with a dark light absorbing hue, big tan head forming thick, really nice looking stout. Aroma has ripened fruit with dark chocolate, even a light booze character with brown sugar roasted malts with hints of tart cherry if I had to pick one fruit. Flavors combine nicely dominating with dark chocolate and robust coffee notes, even a creamy vanilla character with big roasted dark malts creeping to dry things out. Herbal hops evident but a bit overshadowed by dark roasted malt character. Mouthfeel is full bodied with even smooth carbonation rolling in, goes down smooth with minimal alcohol presence. Overall impressive offering I'm hooked on these Utah stouts from Epic from their light to the Big Bad Baptist and everything in between excellent drinkable versions of each style.
03-15-2012 03:32:52 | More by WVbeergeek
4.5/5 rDev +15.7%
11-22-2012 01:52:23 | More by Mtooman
4/5 rDev +2.8%
02-10-2013 07:31:17 | More by InfernoBoss
3.65/5 rDev -6.2%
Batch #4. Bomber served slightly chilled in a goblet.
Epic's Imperial Stout is a very dark brown color with good clarity on the pour. It forms a nice thick off-white head. It's slow to settle leaving some nice lacing behind.
Aroma is rich and roasty with with hints of chocolate. It's a bit boozy but not overpoweringly so.
Flavor is strong both in dark roasted malts but also I hop bitterness. It has a very big malt backbone to support it but it's not as balanced as the best imperial stouts.
Mouthfeel is big in body and very bitter. Creamy smooth carbonation makes it a little easier to drink but the alcohol is pretty forward.
Overall this beer has elements that are enjoyable and others that detract. I would like to say I could recommend it but there are others (Stone, Great Divide, etc.) that make a better big stout for the price.
09-12-2012 23:50:49 | More by GilGarp
North Carolina
4.28/5 rDev +10%
Pours like a bad-ass impy stout should: like oil, slick and tar-black, with a head of mocha froth that tries to fight through that 10% ABV as long as possible before chilling to a bubbly "puffed rice" layer and eventually a thin skim.
The nose on this one is mostly gooey and fudgy, sitting somewhere between milk chocolate and dark, bitter baking chocolate. Mild coffee notes, and an earthy/mineral vibe that gives it some edge, but never overdoes it. The alcohol is quiet in the nose, although might perk up with some warming...
Taste features strong notes of anise/black licorice, but never too out of whack. That's balanced by the considerable chocolate character, which is given further depth thanks to bitter coffee notes. For a 10% beer, the alcohol is felt and tasted just a touch, providing more subtle support than some other imperial stouts of similar strength. A dry finish leaves green, leafy hops lingering. Reminds me of Green Flash's Double Stout, in more ways than one, though not exactly a clone.
Feel is appropriately thick and gooey, though never overly chewy, partly thanks to the soft carbonation tingle that works its way over the tongue. Very, very nice.
This one deserves a name better than just "Imperial Stout." But hey, it's what's in the glass that counts, and so far, judging from this and Hopulent, Epic Brewing is doing some great stuff, and is a brewer I'll look forward to investigating further.
09-26-2011 22:45:23 | More by Metalmonk
4/5 rDev +2.8%
11-16-2013 22:33:26 | More by NorthCoastPranqster
4.15/5 rDev +6.7%
A: Pours a pitch black with a great looking finger width tan head.
S: Chocolate aromas and coffee notes pour out of this. Slightly smoky.
T: starts with sweet chocolate and malty notes. Transitions into a slightly smoky and bitter middle. Coffee and chocolate a present throughout.
M: Thick, smooth and creamy. Mild carbonation and full bodied. Finishes with a nutty and slightly dry, bittet hang.
O: this brew is done really well. Great mouthfeel, nice taste and hides the booze well. A great sipper for tne winter months.
11-16-2012 02:11:17 | More by Infamous7100
4.55/5 rDev +17%
batch number 3.
great head
pours. dark
chocolate vanilla
can.barely taste the alcohol
great after taste of coffee as well
good mouth feel
if your a fan of stone brewing ris 2012 2013 your going to love this beer
price was 8.99 but well worth it.
size was bomber if your lucky enough to see one buy it and pm me with a thank you later
06-27-2013 03:18:52 | More by ohiobeer29
4/5 rDev +2.8%
04-18-2014 05:18:40 | More by blindpiggie
3.75/5 rDev -3.6%
07-28-2013 20:27:49 | More by JamLand
3.5/5 rDev -10%
05-18-2014 23:38:08 | More by drone
3.25/5 rDev -16.5%
10-20-2012 22:55:47 | More by japitalexican
4/5 rDev +2.8%
03-16-2014 02:35:59 | More by jdkitchi
4.22/5 rDev +8.5%
22 oz. Just about black, nice layer of tan head formed. Receded to a ring.
Aroma, Quite a bit of chocolate, cocoa. A dry earthy quality.
Taste, Load of chocolate and cocoa. Some roast, thoughv very little coffee. Just a hint of piney hops. Finish with the cocoa, fairly dry.
Solid medium body, enough carbonation though not quite creamy. Alcohol well hidden, no problem drinking this.
Imperial milk stout like, I like it.
10-01-2011 02:08:06 | More by Bung
3.75/5 rDev -3.6%
05-04-2014 18:13:28 | More by tourdot
4.25/5 rDev +9.3%
05-20-2012 22:54:23 | More by evilkorova
3.5/5 rDev -10%
10-11-2013 03:12:02 | More by itracy63
Imperial Stout from Epic Brewing Company
87 out of 100 based on 191 ratings.


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Richland School Board members signed off on an agreement Wednesday night for Pasco to be the host city for the new Delta High School.
The Pasco School District had already signed off on the joint resolution and Kennewick also followed suit Wednesday night, completing the trifecta.
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GALVESTON — Barbara E. Buffum, 82, Kokomo, formerly of Galveston, passed away at 10:25 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, at Fairmont Rehab Center in Kokomo.
Born Nov. 15, 1929, in Kokomo, she was the daughter of Frances May Green Martin and Albert R. Martin.
Barbara graduated from the Kokomo School of Practical Nursing and was a licensed practical nurse for several years.
She was a Pythian Sister active in PTA with her children, former member of Galveston Baptist Church and had attended Walton Christian Church.
She loved working with stained glass, cooking, crochet and sewing.
Surviving are children, Monty and Belinda Buffum, Kokomo, Tim and Karen Buffum, Logansport, Leisa Ann and Jeff Carver, Galveston, and Brad and Peggy Buffum, Galveston; nine grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren; and brother, Billy Martin, Florida.
She was preceded in death by her parents and former husband, Billy G. Buffum.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Murray Weaver Funeral Home in Galveston with Pastor Daisock Panmei officiating. Entombment will be in Sunset Memory Gardens, Chapel of Peace in Kokomo.
Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.
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- Dining room (Monet): waitress had names memorized on first night, but otherwise just didn't feel the service was there. She had 2 tables of 8, and 2 tables of 6 (28 people) -- a little much for 1 person. When someone did help they asked 1 side of the table about extra rolls or potatoes fixings, then did not serve the other side of the table??
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Debarkation: If you were ready and waiting in your room to get off, it went fast, we got off earlier than expected. But our other guests were not so ready, and we waited 30 minutes for them to get off.....
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