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3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
02-19-2012 19:47:18 | More by mcallister
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North Carolina
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
Man those guys at Lagunitas love Frank Zappa thats cool I dont know much bout em but its cool they put out a few beers with his likeness on them.This poured into a standard pint glass a clear rich amber nice clarity to it with a tight formed clingy 1 1/2 finger slight off white head atop.Mild aromas for Lagunitas slight sweet caramel with a little alcohol not much hop presence maybe a hint of leaf but you have to look for it.Flavors are sweet nearly gummy with big fruit character mixed with caramel,hops take a backseat with a bit of a leafy backbone but it doesnt play a pivotal role in the overall scheme of things.All in all above average but not much more,I still love this brewery no matter what.
02-14-2008 21:57:28 | More by oberon
3.83/5 rDev +3%
Appearance - This was an unlumpy solid brown in color with a moderate off-white head.
Smell - The rich brown malts are big at the smell. The grain is heavily-toasted with some light brown sugar.
Taste - The big malt flavor comes out in force. This is a really big-flavored ABA. The malts have a strong toasty flavor. There is some nice brown sugar here as well.
Mouthfeel - For all its big flavors, the body of this ale is mild, not light-bodied but a far cry from medium. The carbonation is rightfully mild as well.
Drinkability - This is a great Brown Ale with a big, big bite. It's not a mild, highly-sessionable type of beer but one that reflects the Lagunitas tradition of originality while staying within the general style guidelines.
03-07-2008 03:24:16 | More by RoyalT
New York
3.25/5 rDev -12.6%
Now I may be biased by the positively idyllic environment in which this beer was consumed (outdoors, visiting family, beautiful day), but I really enjoyed it. 7% ABV is totally obscured by a mild flavor, sweet and "flowery" as my brother-in-law put it, but not extreme in flavor at all. A hint of bitterness mixed with the rest of the flavor profiles made it truly enjoyable, smooth drinking, and awesome. A great Brown Ale that was probably a bit sweeter and less bitter than most beers I typically reach for, but for certain, I'd definitely hit it again.
05-09-2008 17:58:58 | More by brewdogmrb
3.73/5 rDev +0.3%
Clear brown with some reddish, mahagony highlights. Okay head on the pour, a little thin white thing that eventually reduced to a very thin bubble layer. Not much sticking going on either.
Really clean aroma, hints of malt and some sugary sweetness. A touch of slightly floral hops. Kind of lacking in this department I think.
Flavor comes through with much more punch than the aroma would suggest. Nice dark dinner roll maltiness along with some nuttiness as well. The nuttiness isn't overdone, which is a good thing to me. A nice touch of caramel sweetness works in well. Flavor lingers quite a while to allow you to bask in the malts. No hints of the 7.2%, something I find quite common with Lagunitas brews. Someone mentioned this is between a Scottish and a Brown ale, and I really have to agree.
Mouthfeel is on the thinner side of things, not dry at all since it has some lingering sweetness, but not quite what I'd call medium bodied either. Carbonation is somewhat low.
Overall, this is a decent big brown ale. Not really hoppy like some of the IBAs that several folks have now. Goes down easy and the ABV is absolutely hidden.
02-10-2008 02:35:02 | More by blitz134
2.95/5 rDev -20.7%
22 oz bottle. Pours a light brown/amber with a creamy off white head that retains well and laces the glass.
The aroma is pretty subdued - sweet sugar with some alcohol and maybe some fruit and nuts.
The flavor is sweet toasted malts and nuts with a decent bitter finish. Harsh alcohol comes out as it warms. The mouthfeel is medium to full with good carbonation.
Overall, a different and interesting beer, but it just doesn't do it for me.
01-14-2008 06:03:54 | More by Beaver13
3.55/5 rDev -4.6%
Pours a nice coppery brown color with a small long-lasting trace of head and lace. Very pretty.
It smells sweet and malty and the taste lines right up with that. Just enough hop presence that this isn't like syrup.
Delicious beer and a nice one to share with someone who isn't sure they like beer.
03-22-2008 16:07:28 | More by babyhobbes
New York
3.95/5 rDev +6.2%
Bomber, w/o freshness info, these guys must be huge Zappa fans, what is this their third FZ themed brew? This one on the darker side of typical for an ABA. Rich mahogany actually. Typical if short lived tan head, leaves all sorts of nice looking lacing upon the typical swirl. Bready, malty nose. Nice stronger brown ale. Malty brw, perhaps a little thin on the tongue, but that likely add to the session ability of this one. Easy drinking, quality offering and pleasant enough. Well worth a try or more
01-10-2008 02:37:12 | More by Billolick
3.8/5 rDev +2.2%
Opened 22oz bomber, poured into Nonic glass.
Pours a beautiful brown brew with a light but bubbly head. Some lacing on side of glass.
Smell is very strong of Carmel malts - almost a molasses smell.
Taste follows through with nice notes of earthy hops and nice Carmel. Not as sweet as smell would have you believe, but all in all, it is a clean tasting beer, until the finish, which leaves a bit more aftertaste than I really want from a brew.
A decent brew, but I can think of others from Lagunitas I'd purchase before this one.
02-29-2008 03:48:56 | More by mattster
3/5 rDev -19.4%
Pours clear amber with a decent off-white head. Caramel, soap, brown sugar, figs, and dough. Some nuttiness and toasty malt that you would expect for a brown ale, but with ore spice and hops, with figs, dark fruit, and the Laginitas fruity/sweet taste that seems to be in all their beers. The beer was all over the place.
12-10-2008 17:51:55 | More by magictrokini
West Virginia
3.8/5 rDev +2.2%
First off poured into my Corsendonk Abbey Brown ale chalice, appears a great bright ruby brown tone with a large light beige head thick bubbles adorn the sides of my glass as it slowly dwindles. Btw I'm listening to Lumpy Gravy with the pouring of this brew. Aromatics are typical of the style in the roasted nuttiness with sweet caramel and toffee malt notes layered in with a balancing dose of medicinal herbal hops. Flavor roasted malts balance of tobacco leaf, chocolate, and toffee candy notes, earthy bittering herbal hops really adorn their presence in the finish, hop burps ensue. Well balanced or at least more so than alot of the Lagunitas more aggressive offerings. Mouthfeel is medium bodied texture is even with mellow moderate carbonation level, leafy earthiness toned hops really stick around after the sweetness resides. Drinkability is solid although not huge on brown ales this is one I could enjoy in number and the 7.2 abv is definitely deceiving hard to detect and well orchestrated just like Zappa's Lumpy Gravy.
03-08-2008 16:19:15 | More by WVbeergeek
North Carolina
3.95/5 rDev +6.2%
This one was all over the board for me-but in a good way and I'll elaborate:
Poured a straight light brown ale color, some reddish hues trying to escape with the light.
Aroma-malty, sweet with some mild hops present.
Mouthfeel- tastes like a brown ale, medium malty body with mild hops. Great carbonation. The coolest chocolate aftertaste occurs right after the finish. It also has a grainy malt texture that comes through about mid-bottle like an alt beer and I like this too. Very tasty and very sessionable. Love the Zappa series and Lagunitas' is in heavy rotation when I can get it!
04-23-2008 16:04:13 | More by ByTor2112
4.3/5 rDev +15.6%
(Served in an American pint glass)
A- This beer pours a crystal clear nutty-red body with a thin creamy head that fades to a collection of big bubbles and then is gone. There is a good carbonation of big bubbles that gild to the surface.
S- This beer has a nice sweetness to the dark roasted caramel flavor and a soft green hop finish.
T- The taste of toasted malt has a light roasted malt note and some soft smoky peat notes that come through when it warms. There is a soft sweetness and a light tangy note that fade into a soft green pine hop finish.
M- This beer has a medium-light mouthfeel with a tight little fizz at the finish. There is no alcohol heat noted.
D- This beer has a good roasted malt flavor and a nice little support accent from the hops. The smoke hints were really nice and enhanced the malt without dominating, or becoming offensive.
03-17-2008 18:41:22 | More by rhoadsrage
1.85/5 rDev -50.3%
22oz. brown bomber, purchased at From the Vine in Columbus, poured into a pint.
A: Dark brown pour, good visibility. Short head forms but holds decently. A bit of lacing here and there.
S: Very spicy smelling. Reminds me of a winter warmer. On the sweet side and without much hop presence at all.
T/M: Has a rather strong medicinal taste to it, along with a bunch of raw alcohol. Actually tastes a little like the yellow cough syrup they used to make back in the day.. just much more alcoholic. More of a super winter warmer spices and loads of sweetness. The taste lingers and intensifies after the swallow.
D: Drain pour, no thanks. Sorry.
05-19-2008 02:24:06 | More by pwoods
3.85/5 rDev +3.5%
Don't get me wrong. Nothing against Zappa's music, but he was an ugly guy. Looking at him does not make me thirsty. Fortunately, there's no points here for bottle design.
Reddish brown, with fairly large bubbles on top. Smells a bit maltier than I would have expected, which I really like.
Tastes much hoppier than it smells, which is strange. The malt and the hops seem out of balance. They don't mesh well. It's like this beer is....Lumpy.
Put that way, it's probably the perfect beer for Zappa fans.
03-30-2008 01:49:38 | More by SetarconeX
2.7/5 rDev -27.4%
I've been fond of the other 2 Frank Zappa beers that Lagunitas has put out, so I quickly snatched this one up when I saw it hit the shelves.
It pours a murky brown with a booming head. The smell is quite malty with some molasses and brown sugar. The taste was subdued the molasses flavor distant. There was a slight astringent to the finish but I was surprised to see the ABV so high.
In all, I wasn't terribly fond of this one.
02-11-2008 20:06:24 | More by sloejams
New Jersey
4.13/5 rDev +11%
Poured from a 22 oz bomber from a pretty cold fridge. It is 78 degrees outside, and a cold beer would be nice. Pleased to find this leftover sitting lonely on the shelf at Gary's in Madison NJ. The Zappa series has been an interesting one, and I'm not really even going to bother reviewing this based on the BA style listed.
A-Medium garnet with some chill haze and a medium eggshell head that foam up nicely in spite of the temperature of the beer, and settles to a thin ring with lattice lacing down the side of the glass as it goes down. This is a pretty nice looking beer, but I'm a sucker for reds. A brown ale? I don't think so?
S-Very interesting, fruits and alcohol. If blindfolded I'd think this was a barleywine. A brown ale? I'm still not seeing it.
D-Sweet creamy smooth molasses malts, caramel, butterscotch. What is this? I still don't think it is a brown ale, Like Zappa, it defies categorization, but it is, indeed very good. Reminds me a bit of a toned down Brown Shugga. I like it a lot.
M-Well balanced in all respects.
D-This is extremely drinkable, and frankly, not sure why the reviews are not giving this higher marks...it is damn good. A shame that it is a one off.
04-19-2009 00:33:42 | More by caddybuyer
3.75/5 rDev +0.8%
Poured a nice crystal clear reddish amber with a very small head that left nothing in it's wake as it quickly melted away.
Aroma is very subtle. Clean fresh mildly sweet malt is just about all I can sense in the aroma.
Taste is much more acute. Bold roasted amber malts give a burnt chocolate and sweet caramel taste to the tongue. Citrus peel hops on the end erase the sweetness and leave your mouth clean and dry.
Interesting big brown...really enjoyable. Nothing sticky or cloying with this one.
02-03-2008 00:11:05 | More by IntriqKen
3.83/5 rDev +3%
I would decribe this beer as a full version of newcastle. With a 22oz limited edition beer you would expect a big beer, but it is not. It is a nice medium bodied beer. The hops are not over powering and the malt remain suttle. Overall a very nice beer, and would happily drink again
01-27-2008 06:16:34 | More by BBeerL
New Jersey
3.53/5 rDev -5.1%
Lagunitas- Lumpy Gravy
A- Clean clear reddish-brown with a thick foamt head. Heavy lacing down the glass.
S- Cinnamon, nutmeg, oak, and malt.
T- Molasses malt with big doses of spices. Cinnamon and vanilla come through with a dry powery dusting of nutmeg and ginger. Woodsy oak flavors come through with a touch of alc. in the end.
M- Strong malt up front with an earthy dry bitter bite throughout the body. Alc. pokes through in the end.
Overall- Didn't WOW me, but was easily drinkable. Worthy of a pint or a bomber.
01-29-2008 23:16:17 | More by NJpadreFan
4.15/5 rDev +11.6%
Pours a clear brownish amber with a large off white head that lasts a long time leaving great lacing. The smell is very pungent with bread yeast and a certain "nuttiness" that's very appealing. The taste is full of coffee,"nuttiness",toffee,and an aftertaste of slightly bitter citrus hops. The m/f is light and crisp with the higher alcohol,brown ale flavors,and hops mix very well. I have to admit I was skeptical about this beer,but this is damn good and a real treat. Enjoy.
03-03-2008 22:31:06 | More by jmz62565
New York
4/5 rDev +7.5%
22 oz. bottle into a pint glass.
Appearance: Amber color, good bubbles floating to the top, with spotty lacing. The label's also awesome, and I hope they continue with the series.
Smell: Caramel and mild chocolate, citrus hops and earthiness. Grassiness and nice bitter and floral hops round it out.
Taste: Initial notes of malt, roasted and bitter chocolate, mild caramel, fading with candied citrus, cherries, orange and lemon. Finishing strong with the malt, but a lingering finishing comes with sour fruits, bitter hops, and earthy roasted malts. Complex and bizarrely intriguing as it warms.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied with fairly creamy and rich carbonation.
Drinkability: A good series and I hope they keep doing it. I know this will be limited, but if this were a 6-pack I'd buy it. A lot of nice complexity for a style that I usually don't give much stock to. Frank Zappa brings good things, however, and this is no different.
03-26-2008 07:54:44 | More by asabreed
North Carolina
4.13/5 rDev +11%
From the label: "According to Mr. Zappa: 'Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid'." One of the greatest, truest quotes ever. Huge thanks to the ultra-generous msubulldog25 for this bottle.
Pours a big, bubbly, sturdy head. Color is a glowing bronzed brown.
Aroma is spicier and a little less nutty than most brown ales. Brown sugar and cinnamon, plus something like steamed milk. Not a great deal of depth to the aroma, but what's there is nice.
Flavor is unique, like Zappa himself. Not like a similarly "big" brown ale (DFH's India Brown Ale, for example), not really like your typical, lower-ABV browns either. The roasted character holds a candy-like sweetness, and brown sugar comes into play again, as does a pinch of cardamom, caramel/toffee, some cinnamon too. Nuttiness reminds of filberts. Big roasted nutty/spicy and hoppy finish makes this a completely satisfying flavor.
A left-of-center brown, and considering the subject of the label and name, it oughtta be. It's got an relatively exotic vibe, and is the kind of brown ale I could go for on a regular basis. Good, good stuff.
[NP: Frank Zappa - 'Chunga's Revenge'...because of the 16 FZ albums I own, I don't have 'Lumpy Gravy'. Lame, huh?]
02-29-2008 00:09:38 | More by Metalmonk
4/5 rDev +7.5%
Medium-dark brown, with salmon highlights. The head is short and tan and endures the duration as a skimming.
The featured aromas here are caramel and brown sugar. Deeper within, traces of vanilla, hazelnut, raspberry, and toasted grain. No hopping to note, this is a sweet beer.
It rides in to the mouth with a brief moment of coarse grain, then it quickly plunges in to a sweet confectionery caramel and brown sugar bath. And here it will stay. Sweet dough, chocolate-covered vanilla cherries, and finally a lengthy trend toward hazelnut and almond liqueurs. Hopping is not a factor, taste-wise, apart from some late, barely perceivable chewed plant matter. But there is enough subliminal bitterness to form some balance, as this never begins to approach cloying levels.
It's a dextrinous, nearly full bodied liquid. The tiny-beaded carbonation doesn't seems like much a first, but sticks around the duration to provide levity from all this sugar, and makes it easy to plow through the bomber. Though two in an evening might be pushing it.
This is like a Brown Ale strung onto a Wee Heavy frame. It's all types of malty. Of the Zappa series, this is a stark departure from the first 2 big IPAs. Though, it's not unprecedented in the Lagunitas lineup, as the overt brown sugar traits show a common lineage to Brown Shugga' and Hairy Eyeball, but this is its own creation. And a good one.
03-10-2008 07:33:24 | More by cokes
Ontario (Canada)
3.6/5 rDev -3.2%
On tap at Brick Store Pub enjoyed with Dave. Smell is a strong good IPA. That overwhelms the brown, which is a tribute to dark malts, some roast, and an attempt at balance. There is some lemon. A lot of ideas that make it depend on the mood and what you are eating, and this is an American strong and not a brown.
02-10-2008 06:16:31 | More by Sammy
Lumpy Gravy from Lagunitas Brewing Company
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Moving nearer to the present day, and last night I was reading, when suddenly the screen froze. It looked odd, like the top 90% of the screen had a bit of the screensaver to the left and then some vertical lines, but otherwise blank – and the bottom 10% of the screen had an indication of pages as normal (but only 9 pages!).
The Kindle has sometimes frozen before, and so I know how to reset it. I did that, and it made no difference. I put it on charge overnight in case that would help and decided to tackle it this evening.
But no amount of resetting, or following the instructions on the Amazon support website, helped. I Googled for 'Kindle Screen Lines' to get answers to the problem and found lots and lots of forums with people discussing the same issue, including on Amazon's own forums. I was very clearly not alone – it seems to be a widespread and common problem.
Some people had managed to resolve it with a reset, some had called Amazon support and been sent a replacement device – but many others were told they were just out of warranty, so would have to buy a new device (at a discount).
And, when I called Amazon support tonight, that's what happened to me – because I bought it just over a year ago.
In the conversation he tried to argue with my assertion that it seemed to be a common problem. At first denying he'd heard of it, and demanding that I showed him the web page that referenced the issue – but then eventually saying ok, it is a problem, but it happens to hardly any Kindles. I asked him what 'hardly any' meant – and he said in his experience on the helpdesk it was 'only 1 in 100′. Amazon doesn't often release figures of how many Kindles it has sold, except on the 15th Dec 2011 it announced it had sold more than 1 million a week for the previous 3 weeks. So from just the 3 million sold in that 3 week period, their tech support representative estimated that 300,000 will fail! This reinforces the scale of the problem that I've seen in the forums.
So. I now have the choice of buying another Kindle (at a discount) – but then knowing it's likely to fail again in a year or so. Or I lose all the books I bought – and I'd built up quite a reading list of books I was working through.
Conclusions and Consumer Warning
Kindles are not built to last. They seem to be failing on a large scale after between 12-18 months. If you're buying one, consider it as a purchase that will only last as long as the warranty period – 1 year. You'll have to buy another after that (and remember that's on top of the cost of the actual books!)
The books you buy for your Kindle, will ONLY work on a Kindle. You can NEVER switch to another e-reader device without losing all your books, that you have paid for.
That's right. By trying to be one of the people that pays for the content they consume, you are going to be restricted and punished for your ethical behaviour. If you pay for content, it seems you're the fool. The ones who download it illegally can use it on any device they like.
That's called Digital Rights Management, and it stomps all over your consumer rights. Can you imagine if CDs released by Sony would only play in Sony CD players? Competition regulators would not have allowed that, so why do we accept it with ebooks? It's time to change.
UPDATE: Because of some of the issues I've highlighted here, there is a growing community of users that have developed software tools to allow removing DRM from ebooks. This should only be done on your own ebooks you have bought, and you should not then distribute them to others outside the terms of your agreement with the publisher or retailer. It gives you back your rights to use books you have bought as you wish, eg transfering Amazon ebooks to a Sony e-Reader or Nook if you decide to change hardware.
…and Finally… 101 Uses for a Dead Kindle
Anyone got any uses for a dead Kindle? I've started a Flickr set to try to gather 101 of them at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73311005@N06/sets/72157629147039107
I'll be adding to it as I find uses for my newly dead Kindle. If you have any photos to share of uses you have found for your dead kindle, add them to Flickr with the tag 'deadkindle', or email them to me at the address on the contact page for this blog, and I'll upload them.
Can I get to the full 101? Watch this space, and follow me on twitter: @steveparks and the hashtag #deadkindle.


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"Ok glass, check cow status"
Dairy farmers can use Google Glass to receive updates about the status of their cows while they continue manual labour and work with both hands. Every cow that passes by during milking is recognised by Google Glass, either by QR codes on their collars, or via voice recognition when the farmer speaks the cow's unique number: "Ok glass, check cow status, 256".
Information about a specific cow is then projected onto the glass, for example the amount of milk the cow produced that day, the fertility status or the amount of food the cow has eaten. The cows are wearing sensors, which provide the farmer with real-time updates about when a cow is suspiciously overactive, has a change of body temperature or a break in her eating pattern.
Farmer Teunis van de Zandschulp testing Google Glass on his dairy farm
Google Glass projects
I am one of the few lucky ones to be able to try this in the Google Glass Explorers program. I own a Google Glass in collaboration with Sander Veenhof.
We are working together on some Google Glass projects, concepts and experiments; we will post more details soon.


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3 Stocks Pushing The Materials & Construction Industry Higher
Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our modelTwo out of the three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading down 17 points (-0.1%) at 12,949 as of Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,707 issues advancing vs. 1,183 declining with 148 unchanged.The Materials & Construction industry currently sits up 0.3% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.0%. Top gainers within the industry include Apogee (APOG), up 5.1%, Texas Industries (TXI), up 3.5%, USG (USG), up 1.1% and Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CBI), up 0.8%. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), down 3.1%, and NVR (NVR), down 0.7%.TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry higher today:3. Gafisa (GFA) is one of the companies pushing the Materials & Construction industry higher today. As of noon trading, Gafisa is up $0.13 (3.5%) to $3.81 on average volume Thus far, 1.0 million shares of Gafisa exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.7 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $3.75-$3.84 after having opened the day at $3.77 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $3.68. Gafisa S.A. operates as a homebuilder in Brazil. Gafisa has a market cap of $815.6 million and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 153.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 17.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Gafisa a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and none rate it a hold.TheStreet Ratings rates Gafisa as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its poor profit margins, generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself and feeble growth in its earnings per share. Get the full Gafisa Ratings Report now.Holiday Special: Subscribe to Action Alerts PLUS to see how Jim Cramer trades his $2.5 Million+ portfolio for 51% off the list price. Your first 14-days are FREE: Sign up today to get e-mail alerts before every trade
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Writing Sight Words: :"After"
Topics : First Grade, Sight Words, Writing Sentences
What comes after dinner? A fun dessert like ice cream! If your child needs practice writing sight words, then this worksheet will help him with the sight word "after". To complete this exercise he will need to first trace the word, and the use it in a sentence. After he finishes this worksheet he will have used the sight word in a completed sentences and practiced his handwriting. Learning sight words like "after" will help improve his reading skills.
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- Publisher: Midway
- Release Date: Sep 9, 2008
- Also On: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3
- Summary: TNA iMPACT! is geared towards a quick paced, high-impact style of play, with less emphasis on submission moves. It also features straightforward, intuitive controls, with "accurate" and "detailed" character models. Actual scans of the wrestlers were used for the game in place of hand-painted textures to include small details, such as skin textures. Wrestling maneuvers are captured from actual TNA wrestlers in extensive motion capture sessions. Finishers are accessed by building up an "Impact! meter" displayed on the screen, the same place a color-coded damage indicator shows the condition of characters. The game also features mini-games for escaping pin attempts and submission holds. TNA's exclusive Ultimate X and King of the Mountain are playable match types alongside the more standard singles, tag team and Fatal Four-Way matches. The game is playable online, and supports tournaments. Eight different venues—including TNA's main home, the Florida Impact! Zone, and arenas in Japan and England—are be available to house matches, with the Impact! Zone having an increased ringside area for play and hotspots for player interaction. The game also features top wrestling talent such as Abyss, Kurt Angle, Christian Cage, Jeff Jarrett, Booker T, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Sting and more to deliver all of the excitement and action of the television show. [Midway]… Expand
- Developer: Midway Studios - Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Wrestling
- # of players: 2 Online
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
Positive: 3 out of 44
Mixed: 38 out of 44
Negative: 3 out of 44
TNA iMPACT is a fun wrestling game which fans of wrestling will love, however I don't think it will win over many newcomers to the sport.
Impact nails the feel of wrestling, but adding a new coat of paint to an old-school style won't be enough to entice those seeking something fresh. Fans of the genre or "sport," however, have an accessible and fun wrasslin' game worth sticking in their collection.
Where TNA loses marks is in its rather featureless presentation. Multiplayer is decent, but the no-frills framework doesn't leave you with much to do. The story mode is fun, but no replacement for a genuine career mode, while the available options can't help but pale alongside SmackDown's over-stocked buffet.
TNA iMPACT! isn't a bad game, but it does need a lot of work to reach the top in a gaming genre dominated by WWE for far too long.
Trying to follow the leadership of WWE, the TNA is finally brought to a videogame under the hand of Midway. They offer a slightly different choice, with a faster and agile control system, but at the end the game is not as solid as expected. A poor progression system gives a slow and discouraging career mode. Moreover, even with the character editor of the game, all the fighters are just copies with the same move list. Maybe fans of TNA or wrestling in generarl can get more of it.
It does not have the breadth, the depth, or the legacy of its SmackDown competitor, but just like its counterpart on television, TNA iMPACT! doesn't need all of that to stay alive. All it needs to do is get in, rough things up a bit, and get out. Bam!
Remember when Blitz and NBA Jam ruled supreme, and we all got our first taste of the notorious Midway Comeback AI? I'm sad to say that a close relative of that AI seems to be present here.
Score distribution:
Positive: 6 out of 8
Mixed: 1 out of 8
Negative: 1 out of 8
May 17, 2012I like this game a lot more than most it seems. I think the gameplay is a ton of fun and really like the Ultimate X match. The graphics are top notch as well and to this day still look better than any WWE game on the market. It does have some problems such as a lack of moves, awful CAW and small roster but overall it was a very good first effort. Midway is now dead so any hope for a new TNA game must come from someone else and I hope that happens soon.… Collapse
Apr 25, 2013After years and years of build and press, videos of wrestlers motion capturing moves over and over, we finally receive TNA IMpact! The video game. A Stumbling mess of a 'wrestling game' that contains terrible A.I, no rules in matches and an interesting storyline ruined by glitches.
The storyline is interesting, better then many recent WWE Games, but is ruined by the 'tag team' portion of the game due to the fact that your partner will Never Ever Help you. Every single match is No DQ, with a chair outside the ring that can be used constantly.
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DANVILLE — Danville police have received several calls about solicitors going door-to-door attempting to persuade residents to change energy providers.
"Consumers are now able to switch energy providers to select the service they are willing to pay for," Director of Public Safety Larry Thomason said in a press release Thursday.
"Various companies are offering plans, and they may make contact through the mail or door-to-door. Our concern, though no criminal act has occurred, is to remind citizens of protocols for door-to-door solicitors," he said in the release.
Persons representing companies and going door-to-door are required to register with the City of Danville and obtain identification prior to the soliciting act. The identification, to be worn by the solicitor, readily identifies the person as having registered, according to Thomason.
"If a solicitor comes to your door, ask to see the identification issued by the City of Danville," Thomason said in the release. "If one is not readily available and verifiable to the citizen, they should advise that person they need to register at city hall. It is the discretion of the citizen to act with the solicitor, but it is recommended not to conduct any business with an individual until proof of identification is shown."
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Another week almost over, another Barnsdall Friday Night Wine Tasting Fundraiser coming up! Curious about this week's line up? Silver Lake Wine's Randy Clement fills us in on what to expect:
Domaine de Castelnau Viognier 2012, FranceA dry, summertime sensation packed with creamy banana, crisp citrus, and peach. Showing in much higher quality than previous years, thanks to the monumental efforts of the new domaine holders. Their new mantra is quality over quantity. Bieler Pere et Fils Rose 2013 Provence, FranceThis wine is fermented in stainless steel and concrete which provides a nice little zing for this rose made from mostly Syrah. The Provencal-style revolves around light, refreshing rosés that takes you right to the French Riviera with every glass.VINI Pinot Noir 2012, BulgariaWait, Bulgaria? Not necessarily the region that comes to mind when we think of wine, but ancient history says otherwise. This pinot is a chocolate and cherry bomb with a smidgen of black tea. Different and delicious, this wine takes it to the next level.Beso de Vino Old Vine Garnacha 2011, Spain40-year old Garnacha vines make for exactly what the name implies: a luscious kiss of wine. The Spanish might be some of the best producers of this versatile grape. It delivers a bold amount of black cherry and a little white pepper that would compliment any meat dish. But of course, it's amazing on its own.
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With summer coming to a close and shorter, darker days ahead, you might be wondering how to cope with the negative thoughts that often accompany the season's change and can lead to depression. A recent study found that age-old meditative techniques and more modern cognitive therapy can help alleviate symptoms. Anil Coumar, a psychotherapist and director of the mental health clinic at the University of Washington, Seattle, offers these do-it-yourself mood-lifting meditations:
Get moving. For many people, meditation is a remote, Eastern technique that involves sitting with your legs crossed on a cushion. But almost any activity can be mindful and healing, says Coumar. "Through a practice of mindfulness, we can see how our thoughts are not facts—they come and go." To slow down your thinking and realize that you can release negative thoughts as quickly as they come, try this eating meditation: Hold a raisin in your hand and intentionally look at it as if you've never seen one before. Roll it between your fingers and notice each crease. Pay attention to your thoughts about it—maybe you'll think, This is ugly or I've never noticed the true color of a raisin before. Then put it in your mouth and observe how your saliva flows as you chew.
Uncover your unconscious. Imagine you're walking down the street and see a good friend walking in the opposite direction. You nod and smile, but your pal just looks ahead and keeps going. How do you respond? "Someone might say, 'Oh, she probably didn't see me.' Another might think, 'What did I do wrong now?' Depending on how you interpret that event, you're going to feel good or bad," says Coumar. This kind of cognitive exercise can teach us how we unconsciously have these thoughts. The point? To make the normally unconscious thoughts that fuel depression conscious so you can acknowledge them—and then more easily let them go. —Ziba Kashef
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If you skipped the first hour and didn't tune into the Montreal Impact vs. the Columbus Crew until the last 30 minutes then you have impeccable timing. It took until the 58th minute for either team to actually put a shot on goal, but it ended with three goals in the last 26 minutes and a 2-1 comeback win for the Impact.
Milovan Mirosevic struck for the opening goal when the Impact failed to mark him and Donovan Ricketts wasn't much better so the blame could be spread around, not that the Crew cared. They were ahead and considering how inept Montreal looked going forward, it felt as if it would stay that way.
The Crew did not account for equally poor defending on their end, though. Zarek Valentin took a pass from Sanna Nyassi and with nobody looking keen to defend him, Valentin raced in to slot one past Andy Gruenebaum for the equalizer.
Then in the 89th minute the Crew conceded a penalty when Chris Birchall clumsily ran over Justin Mapp. The referee had no choice except to point to the spot and Patrice Bernier converted the kick for the winning goal.
Neither team played particularly well, but at least it entertained late. Even if they were the result of bad defending, you can't complain about the drama of three late goals and a comeback win in the waning minutes.


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Nedumkandam, Idukki, kerala, india
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Nedumkandam, Idukki, kerala, india
This is a panorama i have taken when seeing an elevated place that covers the entire place of nedumkandam town, which is a famous place in idukki district for cardamom plantation.
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Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.
Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?
China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.
Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.
Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.
I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.
The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.
China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.
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Just a couple of hundred feet away you can stroll to the heated, community designer pool, cabana covered lounge and outdoor kitchen not forgetting the fitness room, full court basketball, tennis courts which are floodlit for an evening match!
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The feel-good TV shot is of Eli Manning and Co. grinning and backslapping for tying up the Packers late. A big scoring drive. Hats and hooters for everybody.
Then, poof — Aaron Rodgers twitches his beard and goes racing the other way for the go-ahead field goal. Ho hum, the Pack does it again. So calm, so cold-blooded. What does it take to freak these guys out anymore? Lock them in the basement and throw on The Exorcist?
"Those are the champs," said Justin Tuck, the Giants' struggling pass rusher. "You have to knock the champs out. You can't let them linger around."
No Packer team has ever visited 12-0. The fastest Lombardi start, the great gentleman himself, was 10-0. After Green Bay's 38-35 win at MetLife Stadium, OLB Clay Matthews slipped into civilian gear and revealed the Packers' internal strategy on winning them all.
"We understand that in order to get to the 16-0 mark, you have to make it to 12-0 [first]," Matthews said. "So we focus on the team that's at hand, and it's been talked about since Week Seven or Eight, so we just continue to move along and progress as the season progresses and get to the playoffs and keep our nice little streak going."
A long time ago, Larry Csonka said it a little cleaner. He was an unbeaten Miami Dolphin, and after his club finished cracking the Redskins in Super VII they asked him to describe the mind science behind their glorious 17-and-O humpbuster.
"Riding an unbeaten streak all season is like a witch riding a broomstick," he said. "The minute you look back, you crash."
I chuckled over this one, a swat at Tim Tebow from Mike Francesca of WFAN radio in New York — "His passes are so bad nobody can even intercept them!"
He said this a few weeks back, after another night of Tebow flutterballs — and a win — against the Jets in Denver in Week 11.
But the Tebow wins keep coming, don't they? Like some kind of .230 guy on a wild hitting streak. For the first time in the study of drop-back football, flutterballs ain't so funny anymore.
Handing any quarterback a short field is like playing around a viper den. Give a short one to a character like Rodgers or Drew Brees or Tom Brady and you're sticking your face in the front door.
That's why I was stunned at Lions head coach Jim Schwartz's move to try the long field goal the other night in New Orleans. There was a full quarter of football to go. He's behind by only seven. The imminent danger? If they blow the 55-yarder, then Brees is handed the ball at his own 45.
Detroit, naturally, blows the kick. Three minutes later, New Orleans sticks it in the endzone and the now Lions are gasping and spasming and out of anti-venom. Jim Schwartz, the amateur snake charmer.
Probably the biggest viper-den backfire I ever saw came in that USC-Texas Rose Bowl a few years back — Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll against Vince Young. USC had a late lead but Carroll still took the gamble — a power run on 4th-and-2 — and Texas stonewalled it. Young got the ball at his own 44, and two minutes later … well, you have the idea.
Boise State's Broncos — the "official" BCS ratings formula has them cranked way up to No. 7. But the 2011 postseason has them down in Las Vegas, stuck in something called the MAACO Bowl, playing a shlub Arizona State team that just booted its coach for coming up 6-6.
Dollar considerations: Payout for the 2011 MAACO Bowl is $1.1 million. Payout for a bowl where the No. 7 team in the country should be headed, something sugary or orangey — $17 million. The difference, according to my supercomputer's calculation, is $15.9M.
Question to the BCS cartel, to the BCS conmen — if the No. 7 team in your ratings isn't invited to a bowl that's worthy of the No. 7-rated team, then what good are your damn ratings? What good is the system? Why should anybody pay attention to it?
This is the second consecutive year the Broncos have been stiffed. A season ago, they also were 11-1 and ended up getting MAACO-ed, put off in the dunce corner. "Now be a good boy, Boise, and shut your mouth …"
Here's a laugher from BCS executive director Bill Hancock, released back in June, on his antitrust discussions with the Department of Justice:
"Before the BCS, teams from conferences that did not have guaranteed participation in the top tier of bowl games seldom played in those games — in fact, it happened only six times in 54 years. Thanks to the BCS, it has happened seven times in the past seven years. The BCS has undeniably expanded access like never before. For example, without the BCS arrangement, TCU would not have played in the Rose Bowl."
Expanded access, version 2011: West Virginia (9-3) gets $17M and an Orange Bowl shot for its season of "excellence." Thanks to the BCS, of course.
Thanks to the BCS, Virginia Tech, blowout losers in the ACC finale, also is rewarded with a $17M booty, this one courtesy of the Sugar Bowl. Expanded access means that Michigan, another lowly equal-opportunity candidate (BCS No. 13), will meet them there.
Expanded access. What a con.
Chris Petersen and the fabulous Boise boys have no problem getting their football team together. But after another "expanded access" stiffing from the BCS, I wonder if it's now time they get their legal team together.
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In the beginning, when theorists where trying to explain the universe in mathematical terminologies, they ran into quite a few problems. I want to explain this history and why today we have better models to explain our universe than resorting to the big bang.
The first problem, or inconsistency if you wish, was that there was not enough time to start the universe. We began it about the size of a blood cell, with a finite radius but as small as this was, it was not small enough. This caused for us to look at the universe much smaller - because if we had not, it would not allow enough time for light to reach all four corners of the universe. However, as they universe expanded, we still had this problem they found, so enter the Inflationary model.
This allowed the universe to expand faster than light for a very short amount of time and by doing so allowed light to get where it needed to be in a homogeneous sheet of radiation. Even though this seemed to smooth out the problem, other problems still persisted.
Static Universe models actually predicted phenomena much better than the Big Bang did. A few examples was, that the microwave background temperatures actually could be explained in better terms by saying it was the limiting temperature of starlight. Would make sense - note it is not completely homogeneous either. There is aboutr 10,000th degree of error in any direction we look.
We also required many adjustable parameters to make nucleosynthesis work. Interestingly, the man who created it was Fred Hoyle, one of the biggest proponents against the Big Bang. The age of supergalaxies are also said to require an age exceeding the universe itself, two scientists who were recognized stating this is Lerner and Einstein. And the average luminosity of quasars must decrease with time in such a fine tuned way that their mean apparent brightness is the same at all redshifts, which is exceedingly unlikely.
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Vigil Stop the War Now Aug 28th 5:45
Original post made by Elaine Elbizri on Aug 27, 2007
Participants will be welcomed by the Raging Grannies. This will be followed by small groups reading the toll in U.S lives over the past year.
Lytton Plaza, University Avenue, between Emerson & Ramona 5:45pm
Co-sponsors: Local MoveOn Council District 14; San Mateo County Democracy for America; San Mateo Peace Action; San Francisco Peninsula Raging Grannies Action League; Los Altos Voices for Peace; Declaration of Peace San Mateo County; Peninsula Peace & Justice Center.
This is a MoveOn.org event
National Take a Stand Day--to remember the human cost of the war and urge our members of Congress to stand up in September and end this endless war
On Tuesday, August 28, 1000s of members of MoveOn.org Political Action throughout the Bay Area will hold candlelight vigils as witnesses against the war to call on Congress to vote to end the war in September.
Along with over 600 vigils across the nation being held to demand an end to the Iraq War Now residents of the Bay Area are participating in a peaceful vigil. The vigils are calling on Congress as it returns in September to end a war that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of US troops. In $$$ terms the war has cost $54.55 billion.
"Seventy percent of the US populace are against this war. It is time for the Bush Administration to stop looking through rose-colored glasses and realize that the surge has been a total failure." said local MoveOn member Alice Smith. "All our Bay Area Representatives must Stand Up in September and vote to end this religious civil war that cannot be won," concluded Smith.
Participants in the vigils will read from a "War Toll Calendar" to honor and remember the soldiers and civilians that have died or been grievously injured in the past year.
Vigils like these are part of national Take A Stand Day - a coordinated day of action to end the war initiated by the Americans Against Escalation in Iraq coalition, including MoveOn.org, Political Action, VoteVets.org, the Service Employees International Union, True Majority and others.
on Aug 27, 2007 at 2:11 pm
This demostration should take place in a district with hard-core Republican representatives. Around here, there are no representatives and very few people to convert.
I would rather spend my time and energy on something that has practical effect and not something that just makes me feel good and superior to people who have opposing views.
on Aug 27, 2007 at 3:53 pm
How about a "Think twice before we let Al Quaida win" rally. Just an idea. I do appreciae the idea of remember the toll of this war, however. Lets not let those deaths be in vain.
on Aug 27, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Chris you are spot on these demonstrations are nation wide and Repulican representatives are a special focus. There are more than 600 vigils tomorrow and the message is to tell congress to end this war.
GMC - Let's go after Al Queda not the Iraqi people and their nation. Read Barbara Boxer's support for these vigils:
From: Barbara Boxer <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: Take A Stand On Iraq
Help us end the occupation in Iraq.
Got to www.MoveOn.org to find a "Take a Stand Day" event near you on Tuesday!
Did you hear President Bush last week talking about Iraq? Instead of
listening to the vast majority of the American people on Iraq,
President Bush is talking about how wrong it was to leave Vietnam.
Well, just a reminder to this President: U.S. troops stayed in
Vietnam, in the middle of a civil war, for more than ten long and
painful years. More than 50,000 of our young people died, countless
wounded mentally and physically. Suicides and homelessness still
follow too many of our Vietnam veterans. How many more would have died
if George W. Bush had been President in the 1970's? How many more of
our troops and innocent Iraqis will die if we don't finally end this
For the past ten weeks, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) --
a broad coalition of organizations working to end the war -- have been
ratcheting up the pressure on those who keep voting to keep the war
Tomorrow, August 28, AAEI's "Iraq Summer" program culminates in one
nationwide day of action: Take A Stand Day. In coordination with
coalition partner MoveOn.org, they're hosting Town Halls on Iraq and
Stand Up Vigils across the country to send a clear message to all of
my colleagues in Congress and to the President: It is time to bring a
responsible end to the war.
Can you attend the Take A Stand Town Hall or Stand Up Vigil in your
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that it is time to end this reckless war?
Sign Up Here: Web Link
In September, the White House will release its Iraq report on the
troop escalation and General Petraeus will testify before the Senate.
Our courageous men and women in uniform are doing everything they can
in Iraq, and they have performed superbly -- but they cannot win this
war militarily. Without a change in our political and diplomatic
strategy in the region -- and that is President Bush's responsibility
-- there will be no real progress in Iraq.
I am asking you to join thousands of Americans tomorrow, to say loud
and clear: George W. Bush's strategy in Iraq has failed. We must end
this occupation in Iraq. It is time to redeploy our troops out of the
quagmire in Iraq.
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TOLEDO, OH (Toledo News Now) – A local family is grieving this Christmas after Wendabi Triplett was shot and killed on South Terrace View Christmas Eve.
Toledo Police arrived at Triplett's home on the 2400-block of South Terrace View just before 11 p.m. Monday. When they arrived, they found 41-year-old Triplett lying near a car, with multiple gun-shot wounds. She was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Triplett's ex-husband, Robert Carter, 43, turned himself in Christmas morning. He has been charged with aggravated murder.
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