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CeeLo Green
|CeeLo Green
CeeLo Green at a Gnarls Barkley concert in the Netherlands, July 2008
|Thomas DeCarlo Callaway
May 30, 1975
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|Christina Johnson (m. 2000; div. 2004)
|Musical career
|Years active
|Associated acts
Thomas DeCarlo Callaway (born May 30, 1975),[1] better known by his stage name CeeLo Green (sometimes rendered as Cee Lo Green), is an American singer-songwriter, as well as a record producer, rapper, actor and businessman.
Green came to initial prominence as a member of the southern hip hop group Goodie Mob, and as part of the soul duo Gnarls Barkley, with record producer Danger Mouse. Subsequently he embarked on a solo career, partially spurred by YouTube popularity.[2]
Internationally, Green is best known for his soul work: his most popular was Gnarls Barkley's 2006 worldwide hit "Crazy", which reached number 1 in various singles charts worldwide, including the UK. In the United States, "Crazy" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Its parent album St. Elsewhere (2006), was also a hit, peaked at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart and number 4 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart. Gnarls Barkley's second album, The Odd Couple (2008), charted at number 12 on the Billboard 200.
In 2010, Green took a hiatus from working with Danger Mouse, and released a solo single titled "Fuck You!", on August 19. The song became a successful single, with the radio-edit version "Forget You", reaching the top spot in the UK and the Netherlands and peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Its parent album, The Lady Killer (2010), saw similar success, peaking within the top five of the UK Albums Chart and debuting within the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, receiving a Gold certification from the BPI in the UK. His next two singles, "It's OK" and "Bright Lights Bigger City" were also hits in Europe. From 2011 to 2014, Green was a judge and coach on American reality television singing competition The Voice, appearing on four of its seasons.[a] In 2013, Green reunited with the rest of Goodie Mob, to release their fifth studio album Age Against the Machine.
He has ventured into work as a voice actor in the animated feature Hotel Transylvania (2012) and also made appearances in a few television programs and films, including his own show The Good Life on TBS. Green has endorsed 7 Up, Duracell, M&M's and sake brand TY KU. His work has earned numerous awards and accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a BET Award, a Billboard Award and a Brit Award.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Music career
- 3 Television and film career
- 4 Other ventures
- 5 Personal life
- 6 Controversies
- 7 Discography
- 8 Awards and nominations
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Early life[edit]
CeeLo Green was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His father died when he was only 2 years old.[4] Later his mother — a firefighter[5][6] — was paralyzed in a car crash and died two years after the accident when Green was 18.[4]
At the time, CeeLo's career with Goodie Mob had just begun taking off. His mother's death led Green into depression, as is reflected in various songs throughout his career, including "Free" by Goodie Mob, songs on St. Elsewhere, and on The Odd Couple ("She Knows", "A Little Better").[4][7] Green also expresses his love for his mother in the song "Guess Who" from Goodie Mob's Soul Food album. In an excerpt of "Cee Lo Distilled", a mini documentary produced by Absolut and The Fader released on YouTube, Green explained that his mother's death was a defining moment to "crossing that threshold over into a career".[8]
Music career[edit]
1991–1998: Early career with Goodie Mob[edit]
Along with Big Gipp, T-Mo, and Khujo, Green was an original member of the Atlanta hip hop group Goodie Mob. He is the youngest of the four.[9] The Goodie Mob was a part of the Atlanta rap collective the Dungeon Family, which also included Outkast. Goodie Mob appeared on two tracks on OutKast's 1994 debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, with Green providing vocals for both Call of da Wild and Git Up, Git Out.
The group released their debut album, Soul Food in 1995. The album received much critical praise as a pioneering record for the then emerging Southern rap scene. It featured a distinctive soulful southern sound by production team Organized Noize, who had also produced Outkast's debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.
During this time, he also contributed backing vocals to TLC's hit 1995 song "Waterfalls".[10]
The group's second album, Still Standing came out in 1998 and also received much critical praise. Its commercial performance was slightly lower than the group's previous effort however. At this time, Green focused primarily on rapping over singing. While he did frequently sing hooks and did some singing, at this point he was a rapper first and foremost. Green took more creative control on the group's next album, World Party. Released in 1999, this album was more of a party record than the group's previous output, getting away somewhat from their socially conscious lyricism.[11]
1999–2003: Move to Arista[edit]
In around 1999, during the making of the album World Party, Green left the group to pursue a solo career under Arista and the remaining members continued to perform together under the Goodie Mob name with Koch Records. They did however collaborate in combinations in the Dungeon Family album Even in Darkness.
The song "Hold On" from Big Boi of OutKast's Got Purp? Vol. 2 album was the first newly recorded Goodie Mob song with all four members since World Party. (Khujo later revealed to fans at an album signing[original research?] for his new album "Mercury", that the song "Hold On" was originally recorded in 1995 before Soul Food was released.)
Green was one of ten guest musicians who contributed to the 1999 Santana album Supernatural. Lauryn Hill wrote "Do You Like The Way," and the two of them trade off on lead vocals.
Green's Arista career was short-lived, as he was dropped after only two albums due to low record sales. His first album, Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections (2004), was heavily in the vein of various other Dungeon Family releases, with southern soul/funk/jazz backings produced solely by himself and boasting appearances by fellow Dungeon Fam members Big Gipp and Backbone. The album explored his departure from Goodie Mob and his solo growth in the song "El Dorado Sunrise (Super Chicken)", as well as socio-political issues, and showcased his singing. The album did not sell very well, but CeeLo achieved some airplay with the single "Closet Freak".
2004–2008: Formation of Gnarls Barkley and second solo album[edit]
Along with DJ Danger Mouse, Green was part of a duo called Gnarls Barkley. Green first met Danger Mouse at a University of Georgia event. They later collaborated on the remix of the Danger Mouse and Jemini song "What U Sittin' On?" from the album Ghetto Pop Life,[12] before working together again on the 2005 Danger Doom album The Mouse and The Mask on the song "Benzie Box" where Green delivers the chorus.[13]
Gnarls Barkley's first collaborative album, St. Elsewhere, was released on April 24, 2006, in the UK and May 2, 2006, in the United States. St. Elsewhere entered the charts at No.1 in the UK, as did the first single "Crazy". "Crazy" is the first single to reach number one in the UK based on digital download sales alone and is ranked by Rolling Stone as the greatest song of the decade, ergo making it Green's most successful project to date.[9] A second album by Gnarls Barkley, titled The Odd Couple, was released in March 2008. Its first single was released in January called "Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)".[9]
His second Arista album, Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine (2008) brought a more branched-out sound and more deeply explored southern rap music. This is evidenced by collaborations with "the biggest hip-hop musicians of all time", including Ludacris, T.I., and Pharrell Williams.[14] The album debuted and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip Hop Album chart.[15] It received critical acclaim and was described as "one of the most ambitious albums to come out of any genre in recent times."[16]
Seeing the success achieved by Gnarls Barkley, Arista and Legacy released a 17-track greatest hits collection of songs by Green, titled Closet Freak: The Best of Cee-Lo Green the Soul Machine. It features predominantly solo tracks by Green and several Goodie Mob songs.[17] His "What Part of Forever" was included in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack.[18] In 2008, he re-did "Kung Fu fighting" for the animated film Kung Fu Panda.[19]
2009–2011: The Lady Killer and tours[edit]
On August 14, 2010, Green released the single "Fuck You!" to YouTube ahead of his planned solo album release, due to its partial leak on April 13. "Fuck You!" was an instant viral smash hit,[2] registering over two million plays in less than a week. Two weeks later on September 1, CeeLo released to YouTube an official music video of the song.[20] "Fuck You" made a debut at No.1 on the UK charts, notably beating out "Shame" from the recently reunited Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow. On December 1, 2010, CeeLo received five Grammy nominations for "Fuck You!", which has been certified Gold in the United States[21] and Denmark.[22] The single achieved platinum status in Canada,[23] New Zealand,[24] and the UK;[25] and multi-platinum status in Australia.[26]
In October 2010, Green released his first mixtape, Stray Bullets.[27] In an interview with Exclaim!, he said his 2010 album The Lady Killer "is a more clear, concise, consistent, conceptual, entire album [than his previous]. It's a complete thought, because it's written to be like a score. The album's meant to be a motion picture, you know? I've never taken that approach to doing an album before."[28] The album was certified Gold in the UK on December 6, 2010.[29]
Green toured during 2010, his highlight was meeting Jason Brooks in London, and 2011 with an all-female backing band named "Scarlet Fever" (made up of Sharon Aguilar, Brittany Brooks, Theresa Flaminio, and Regina Zernay Roberts), performing for Taratata,[30] the BBC,[31][32][33][34] Late Show with David Letterman,[35] W's Symmetry Live Concert Series,[36][37] Saturday Night Live,[38][39] the Jimmy Kimmel Live! special show following the Academy Awards,[40] and many other venues. Green also performed "Forget You", a sanitized version of his hit "Fuck You", with Gwyneth Paltrow and several puppets provided by The Jim Henson Company at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on February 13, 2011, a shout out to Elton John, who wore a very similar costume in a Muppet show performance in 1977.[41] At the 2011 BRIT Awards two days later, he was joined by British vocalist Joelle Bennett in another duet of "Fuck You".[42][43] Shortly thereafter, it was announced that Green will be joining Rihanna and J. Cole on the North American leg of Rihanna Loud Tour in the summer of 2011.[44] However, he later dropped out of the tour citing that his busy work schedule which includes his commitment to judging "The Voice", writing a new book and recording a new album as the reason for his withdrawal.[45]
On August 14, 2011, Green performed at WWE SummerSlam performing "Forget You" and the event's theme, "Bright Lights, Bigger City". His 2011 Billboard Music Awards performance was also notable, particularly for a stage stunt whereby he and his piano began to rise up in the air and turn upside down, as he was playing his solo number Bright Lights Bigger City.[46]
CeeLo rereleased his album The Lady Killer as a Platinum Edition on November 28, 2011.[47] The repackaged album contained the original 16 tracks (including remixed versions of Bright Lights Bigger City (feat. Wiz Khalifa) and I Want You (Hold On To Love) plus one extra track, written by Ross Golan, Anyway. The new track, Anyway, served as the album's sixth overall single and first Platinum Edition single.
Green recorded and wrote "Language of Love", for the Sex and the City 2 soundtrack. It was rumoured in mid-2010 that Green was working with Alien Ant Farm on a track slated for appearance on an upcoming album by the latter.[48] This was confirmed the following year.[49]
2012–present: Upcoming works and autobiography[edit]
In March 2012, Green performed at a fundraiser for President Barack Obama with the president present.[50] He began singing "Fuck You" with the original lyrics, but then switched to the non-profane lyrics.[51] Green released the song "I Love Football" in September 2012, set to the tune of "Blitzkrieg Bop" by Ramones.[52] It was chosen by the National Football League as the theme song of Thursday Night Football 2013.[53]
On February 5, 2013, Green released the song "Only You", featuring Lauriana Mae, a contestant on P. Diddy's Starmaker. It is set to be on Green's upcoming fourth album,[54] tentatively titled Girl Power.[55] In the same month, Green kicked off his "CeeLo Green Presents Loberace" tour (or simply "Loberace").[56] Supposed to be unveiled at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on February 21, 2013, the event was rescheduled to a later date due to a fatal shooting along the Las Vegas Strip where the resort is situated.[57] A few months later, on September 10, Green's autobiography Everybody's Brother was released.[58]
From June to August 2014, Green toured alongside Lionel Richie for his North American "All the Hits All Night Long" gig.[59][60] Green's new band the "Board Memberz" is led by musical director Printz Board and consists of: Timothy "Izo" Orindgreff, Lucy Graves, Jazelle Rodriguez, Ashley Dzerigan, Patty A. Miller, and Sojung "Liso" Lee.
In August 2014, in his first visit to Israel, Green will appear onstage at a concert in Jerusalem, where he is performing a medley of his songs.[61]
Television and film career[edit]
Green, along with the rest of the Goodie Mob, had a cameo in the 1999 film Mystery Men as a member of the Not So Goodie Mob, in which he was credited as "Thomas Burton aka Cee lo". He also has done voice acting work, voicing Prime Cut Miggity-Mo' Macdaddy Gizzabang Doggy Dog Dog on the Brak Show episode "Brakstreet" in 2002, Frank and Buddy Z Class of 3000's Christmas special and as Godzilla in the Robot Chicken episode "Squaw Bury Shortcake" in 2007, and Rev. Rollo Goodlove in the Boondocks episodes "The S-Word" and "The Hunger Strike" in 2008. In 2010, he appeared in T-Pain's Freaknik: The Musical as Light Skin.
On January 15, 2011, Green both acted and performed on NBC's Saturday Night Live hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow, who, in November 2010, covered his song "Forget You" on an episode of Glee.[62]
Green is one of the coaches for contestants on seasons one through three on the singing TV show The Voice.[63] He returned as a coach on the fifth season.[64]
October 11, 2011, Green also made a guest-star appearance in the NBC show, Parenthood - season 3 episode 6, "Tales From the Luncheonette".[65][66]
On August 14, 2011, Green appeared at WWE SummerSlam and performed both "'Bright Lights Bigger City", the official theme song for the event, and his hit "'Forget You". On September 25, 2011, Green appeared as himself in a live-action/voice appearance and as the voice of a hot tub in the American Dad! episode "Hot Water".[67]
The following year, on February 5, Green appeared in the Super Bowl halftime show with Madonna. On March 31, 2012, Green appeared in the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards. Near the end of the show, he was revealed to be the evil mastermind that was trying to ruin the show, and the only reason he was evil was because he wanted to get slimed. However, the show's host, Will Smith, refused to slime him, and he "ice cream sundaed" him instead, claiming it was the "second-best thing" compared to sliming. On August 8 of that year, he played J.C. Carpenter in the TV Land sitcom The Soul Man episode "J.C. Carpenter's Gospel Show".[68] Ten days later, guest starred in the Nickelodeon show How to Rock in an episode called "How to Rock Cee Lo". He did a voice in the animated feature Hotel Transylvania as Murray the Mummy.
On September 6, 2012, NBC said Green would star in and serve as executive producer of a family comedy on the network.[69]
On February 28, 2013, he appeared as himself in the sitcom Anger Management, season 2 episode 8, "Charlie & Cee Lo". He appears in the film Begin Again as well.
Green performed at the Singapore Social Star Awards from May 23, 2013, to May 24, 2013.[70]
On June 23, 2014, Green premiered his new reality-based docu-comedy television series CeeLo Green's The Good Life on TBS which stars him and the other members of Goodie Mob.
Other ventures[edit]
Managed by Primary Wave Entertainment, Green has endorsed various brands, including 7 Up, M&M's and Duracell.[71] Green owns part of the sake brand TY KU and the company has collaborated with him on a few business ventures,[72] including a commercial promoting the brand, dubbed the "first national sake commercial" in the United States.[73] In 2011, it was estimated by a New York Times reporter that Green earned some US$20 million dollars, predominantly from the endorsement deals, in that year alone.[71]
Personal life[edit]
CeeLo Green has described himself as having been a "goon" in his youth, as well as a "kleptomaniac, pyromaniac, just plain maniac".[74][75] He has expressed that, at a number of occasions, he deeply regrets that wrongful behaviour in those days and years. He still feels deeply grieved by the loss of his two parents, whom he both continuously misses, also during these times of having a successful career.
Green was married to Christina Johnson, and divorced in 2005. As well as having a son, Kingston, together in 2000, Green was also stepfather to Christina's daughters, Sierra and Kalah. Sierra appeared on the MTV show My Super Sweet 16 for her 16th birthday party.[76]
On October 30, 2012, Green was accused of sexual battery by a woman with whom he had dined at a Los Angeles restaurant,[77][78] leading to a nearly year-long investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.[79] On October 21, 2013, Green pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of furnishing a controlled substance after the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office declined to file a charge of rape of an intoxicated person, citing insufficient evidence.[80]
In 2014 Johnson joined VH1 Spinoff Atlanta Exes.
At the April 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Green had his set cut off while performing, and then stormed off stage.[81] CeeLo had arrived 25 minutes late, performed five songs, including "Fuck You" and Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". His set was scheduled to end at 5:40 p.m. At 5:44, as he was apologizing for being late due to an air travel delays, the audio from his microphone was cut off.[82] He then stormed off stage amid boos.[83]
On June 16, 2011, journalist Andrea Swensson of City Pages negatively reviewed one of Green's performances, writing that it "failed to measure up to the fun factor of his recorded material. Green spent most of the set stationed in front of a microphone at the center of the stage, barely moving an inch while he sang and flanked by two forgettable back-up singers and a DJ that was all but hidden behind a giant LCD display".[84] In response, the following day Green tweeted "I respect your criticism but be fair! People enjoyed last night! I'm guessing ur gay? And my masculinity offended u? well fuck U!"[85] Green promptly received angered responses from some of his followers on Twitter, to which he replied "Apologies gay community! what was homophobic about that?"[86] In a subsequent interview with magazine Us Weekly, Green stated that his comments were in good fun, adding that "I am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community" and that "I am one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that."[87]
On December 31, 2011, Green sang John Lennon's "Imagine" just prior to the ball drop for New Year's Eve at New York City's Times Square. In his rendition, Green replaced the line "and no religion, too" with the words "and all religion's true".[88] Many saw this as a substantial revision of the meaning behind Lennon's original lyrics.[88] Shortly after the performance, Green responded via Twitter: "Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world where u could believe what u wanted that's all" [sic][89] Green deleted a series of tweets pertaining to this event shortly thereafter.[90]
On September 10, 2013 Green's appearance on Sirius Radio's The Opie and Anthony Show was cancelled due to the singer's failure to arrive on time. Green was told on arrival that he should leave the studio or he would be escorted from the building.
Awards and nominations[edit]
- ^ Not counting his appearance as a non-competition performer on the sixteenth episode of the fourth season.[3]
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- ^ "Cee Lo Turns 'Forget You' Into 'Thank You'". CeeLoGreen.com (official site). May 9, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2011. "It's a very noble cause, and I connect with it very, very personally because my mother was a fireman as well —one of the first black female firemen in Atlanta, Georgia, so quite a historic accomplishment."
- ^ Gonzalez, Sandra (May 9, 2011). "Cee Lo adapts 'Forget You' for ode to firefighters. Now this is a tribute!". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
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- ^ "Cee Lo Green Professes Love to Lauriana Mae in 'Only You' Song Premiere - Music News - Rolling Stone". RollingStone.com. 2013-01-29. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
- ^ Lipshutz, Jason (March 15, 2013). "CeeLo Green Talks Las Vegas Residency, 'Girl Power' Solo Album". Billboard.
- ^ Weatherford, Mike (February 22, 2013). "CeeLo Green unveiling 'Loberace'". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
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- ^ "Cee Lo Green". Warner. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
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- ^ "The Voice's Cee Lo Green Addresses "Homophobic" Tweet Controversy". UsMagazine.com. 2011-06-18. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
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Merely a day after my ramblings about Mass Effect 3's conclusion, it seems that the folks at BioWare are going to release a post-game DLC entitled Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut to explain the rather bleak and abrupt ending.
While rabid, vocal, rage-prone fans would consider this a win, I'm beginning to wonder when the hell did the industry devolve into fan service? Rather, would I be wrong to use the word "devolve" in the first place? Reason being, games were first products sold off the shelf, then the business model evolved to sell them as a service, keeping you engaged over the initial "OMG I HAZ NEW GAME TO PLAY" phase what with post-launch DLC and enhanced rosters (FIFA, NBA) among other things.
And then we have this step from BioWare thrown into the mix. A combination of some rather vibrant feedback and developers responding publicly. Though they aren't going to change the ending, they're offering more insight into what happened which should keep most if not all fans in check. A sort of collaborative post-game DLC if you will, squarely purposed around giving fans what they want, even if it isn't exactly all of it.
Considering that consoles have long development cycles (compared to other devices) and sky high development costs, it isn't such a bad thing to keep your existing audience happy. After all it's easier to keep an already receptive gamer buying your new iterations (such as the rumoured Mass Shift game that takes elements from The Lost Guardian) with minimal marketing effort.
I do wonder though, what kind of precedent this sets.Since the smaller publishers don't have the budgets of an EA and there are costs involved in hosting DLC on platforms such as Xbox Live and PSN as well as royalties, it becomes tougher to justify creating content on platforms that isn't as open as say, Steam.
Most of all though, it smirks in the face of even considering games as art and puts it in the same category as cheesy anime and manga which is obviously anything but. Not that it matters though. If anything, this move will ensure sales of the next Mass Effect game are robust.
As for me, I'm curious to see what direction BioWare takes with the franchise though I believe that some mysteries, no matter how bleak and abrupt, should be kept as mysteries. The last thing I want, is another midi-chlorian moment. That's what spoiled Star Wars for me. I don't want the video game equivalent of Star Wars going down the same path.

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Tottenham Hotspur boss Andre Villas-Boas delighted with the form of midfielder Sandro
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Andre Villas-Boas has attributed Tottenham's 3-0 win at Fulham down to the form of midfielder Sandro.
The Brazilian dynamo has been in fine form and scored the first of three goals in their latest away win at Fulham.
Villas-Boas told the Spurs website: "He's such a good player and it's difficult to single out individuals, but Sandro has been amazing for us."
In form striker Jermain Defoe has also been impressed by the midfielders work rate in the middle of the pitch.
He said: "He does so much for the team, he works so hard. He's a real fighter."
Former Fulham man Clint Dempsey added: "Sandro had the confidence to take the shot, credit to him. That jump-started things, it opened the game up.
"Fulham had to push more men forward and we were able to find the gaps behind their midfield to release Jermain. It worked well for us."
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Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford had a tough day on Sunday as his Lions lost to the Atlanta Falcons 23-16. Although Stafford finished with 183 yards and a touchdown, he ended the game on a down note as he suffered an injury to his right leg on the Lions final offensive series of the game.
Stafford will undergo an MRI on his right leg to determine if he suffered any knee or ankle damage on the hit. Stafford limped off the field after the play. While he might be fairly limited in practice this week, barring something unexpected, Stafford will likely be back on the field for the Lions matchup at the Denver Broncos next week. They follow that up with their bye week, which will give him some time to rest up the injuries.
Although the Lions are in the midst of a two-game slide, Stafford remains a solid fantasy option thanks to Calvin Johnson and Brandon Pettigrew. Losing Jahvid Best hurts that offense, but Stafford still has some great receiving weapons.
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CATEGORIES Action, Casting, Deals, New Releases, Cannes, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Distribution, The Weinstein Co., Tom Cruise, Movie Marketing, Movies, UK Box Office, New Releases, Cinematical, UK Box OfficeWhen two movies with similar plots hit theaters around the same time, it usually just reveals the vapidity of Hollywood formula (as was the case when Deep Impact and Armageddon came out a few months apart). The situation changes, however, when the subject matter has far more thematic weight. Defamer's S.T. VanAirsdale points out the potential conflict brewing now that The Weinstein Company has picked up U.S. theatrical, DVD and television rights to the 2004 German film Operation Valykrie, a dramatization of the failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hilter during World War II. Sound familiar? That's because Bryan Singer's upcoming 2009 release, Valkyrie, tells precisely the same story, with Tom Cruise in the role of would-be assassin Col. Claus Von Stauffenberg. In the German movie, the character is played by Sebastian Koch, the debonair star of The Lives of Others and Paul Verhoeven's Black Book.
In addition to the overlapping content, VanAirsdale points out another potential conflict: Koch's female co-star in Black Book, the alluring Carice van Houten, stars opposite Cruise in Valkyrie, creating the sort of meaty overlap that money can buy. Harvey Weinstein's no slouch when it comes to instigating controversy, but his company hasn't exactly had the best of luck with its recent daring titles (few turned out for Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?). Personal drama has impacted Cruise's films before, but this might be the rare case where he would have nothing to do with it.


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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives put off a scheduled vote on the state budget Tuesday.
A House Republican spokesman said leaders decided to postpone the vote until Wednesday so lawmakers could get "a fresh start" on the expected debate.
But according to one long-time observer, the debate you see on the floor is separate from what actually goes on with budget negotiations. Political activist Eric Epstein said the actual work only involves a core group of powerful caucus leaders.
"There are only about 12 to 15 legislators that make the budget with the governor behind closed doors," he said. "The other 240 don't do much of anything other than collect a paycheck, submit a per diem and eat for free and have a lot of fund raisers."
Epstein said the rank-and-file does have a role: to vote the way the leaders tell them to vote. He said the less influence lawmakers have, the less money they get for their people.
"So essentially, if you're a freshman legislator, you're irrelevant and the district that you represent has no representation," he said. "That's reality. You could be a representative with a lot of power in the middle of nowhere and have a bridge paved over and over and over again, and be a freshman legislator and be in an area that needs a bridge and that bridge ain't ever getting paved."
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He was born on May 10, 1932, in Traders Point, Ind. Kenneth graduated from Anderson High School in 1950. He served his country in the U.S. Army as a cook and military police during the Korean War.
He retired from St. John's and worked at Linders and Delco Remy as a cook.
He was a member of Cross Roads United Methodist Church, Masons and Methodist Men.
Kenneth is survived by his children, Debbie (Jeff) Wellons, and Darla (Lauri Fisher) Howearth; siblings, Katherine (Gene) Hamm, Charles David (Kay) DeLong, Norma Murdock, Betty Edwards, and Frank Jr. (Kathy) DeLong; grandchildren, Rachael (Grant) Rutledge, Heather Howearth and Hope Howearth; great-grandchildren, Connor Rowell, Chandler Richardson and Cameron Rutledge; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by wife, Janice "Nadine" (Westerfield) DeLong; parents, Cassie Lavon (Miller) and Frank DeLong; and siblings, Charles Edward DeLong and Annie Daily.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Robert D. Loose Funeral Homes & Crematory, 200 W. 53rd St., Anderson.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home with Pastor John Hackney officiating.
Burial will take place in the Anderson Memorial Park with flag presentation by the U.S. Army.
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Linaro Tools and Infrastructure Sprint
For the past couple of days I've been attending the first ever sprint held by the Linaro Tools and Infrastructure team. The sprint itself lasts all week but I arranged to be there for just Tuesday and Wednesday to find out what they had planned and to join up with a few guests.
This event is slightly different from what we typically do at Ubuntu sprints. The team hasn't been together for that long so there was equal focus on both information sharing and collaboration. To that end, mornings were for presentations and discussion, afternoons for hands-on hacking.
A link to the whole schedule is here; for my account of what happened whilst I was there, read on.
Tuesday started with a discussion on image building by Michael Hudson. Often lively and full of good information, the key steps to producing the Linaro images was the focus of conversation. Two launchpad specifications cover this effort, the first, arm-m-image-building-tool concerns improving live-helper to accommodate Linaro's needs, the second, arm-m-image-building-console aims to produce a web based front-end for the image building tools.
Zygmunt Krynicki's project entitled Validation Dashboard was next (slides can be found here). An ambitious project to produce a front end visual representation for various testing tools; this effort is of great importance as validation and correctness is paramount to the software releases Linaro makes.
Another requirement for Linaro is the ability to branch and rebuild parts of the Ubuntu archive. Linaro benefits from the great effort that is put into the Ubuntu archive but as Linaro's needs are at times, different, being able to diverge without affecting Ubuntu itself is important. This effort is being lead by James Westby.
Tuesday morning finished with Paul Larson's testsuite and profiler presentation. Closely related to Zygmunt's dashboard effort, Paul is working on combing the various testsuites and profiles into one big validation effort.
At this point the guys from Code Sourcery joined us to discuss toolchain's and related tools. Will Deacon, Matthias Klose and David Rusling joined the conversation and many points were ironed out. Linaro will benefit from the great work Code Sourcery do around GCC and related tools, producing what we think will be the industry standard tool chain for ARM based devices. A lofty goal but everyone behind the effort is confident.
Talk on tools and toolchains continued to be the focus for the rest of Tuesday and Wednesday. Code Sourcery went away with a pile of work items and the Linaro members todo lists were equally full. There was just enough time Wednesday to sit down with Dave Rusling to formally sign off the technical requirements.
As one Linux Weekly News author put it,
the list of planned achievements for the five months before the release is quite ambitious … even completing a big chunk of it would be quite an accomplishment
We believe we can do it and with the great individuals such as those at the sprint this week, the 10.11 release will be something special.
Towards Linaro 10.11
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction".
- Albert Einstein
A little history
Perhaps a little known fact is that well over 15 billion chips have been shipped using ARM's technologies, 1.3 billion in the last quarter of 2009 alone and as the internet goes truely mobile this is set to sky rocket. ARM have sold over 600 processor licenses to more than 200 companies and 12 of the top 20 semiconductor companies use their technologies. ARM based devices really are everywhere. In contrast, Intel have shipped just 3.3 billion to date. Renowned for their low power consumption and high performance, ARM based devices really do seem to be the holy grail of computing but why is it that Intel continues to dominates the desktop, laptop, netbook and server market?
Developing for ARM devices isn't without its problems. There are a lot of companies all working independently on producing their own products, often duplicating effort. Kernels, boot loaders, and to a lesser extent middleware are being worked on in isolation with little in the way of standards and a common direction. This is scary for those who are used to working in the Intel world where one kernel and one boot loader will pretty much work on all compatible devices. To really push ARM devices into the standard spaces Intel currently enjoy's, something needs to be done.
Ubuntu's Linux on ARM initative
Canonical, creators of the renowned Ubuntu distribution, and ARM saw the need to rally around an effort to produce a modern, full-featured Linux distribution tailored for ARM devices. Together, starting in 2008, Canonical and ARM took on the task of bring Ubuntu to ARM platforms. Release 9.04, codenamed "Jaunty Jackalope" was the first Ubuntu release supporting Freescales iMX51 and Marvell's Dove platforms. This distribution was further refined in the 9.10 Karmic Koala release and 10.04, Lucid Lynx even added support for a third ARM platform, TI's Beagle Board. With a completely redesigned user interface, a web based office solution and many more improvements, Lucid is a magnificent release; however there is still a need for a more consolidated effort. This is where Linaro fits into the story.
What is Linaro?
Linaro is an initiative undertaken by ARM, Canonical and partners with the task of improving the state of the whole Linux on ARM ecosphere. It brings together the vast talents of the open source community and ARM's wealth of experience in the electronics industry to work on key and game-changing projects. It will work in the various upstreams where possible and provide engineering, technical and guidance support for a wide and diverse set of problem area's. Linaro will not just help other projects, there will also be a clear set of deliverables which will culminate Linaro's efforts into regular 6 monthly engineering releases, starting this November.
Release Objectives
So this is the area which gets me the most excited. As the release manager for Linaro I am responsible for making sure each and every release captures exactly what the essence of Linaro is, consolidation, collaboration, improvement and robustness. Each of these qualities are goals for the Linaro releases and to that end our first release, 10.11, will contain all of these in abundance.
Building upon the already successful Linux on ARM effort, Linaro will utilize Canonical's Launchpad framework including bug management, code hosting and blueprints.
Just some of the high-level highlights are below. I'll leave the other Linaro team members to blog the details about their teams efforts later.
- Help standardize the industry on common kernel versions and features.
- Improve debugging and performance analysis at the kernel level.
- Bring power management and performance improvements including boot speed reduction.
- Promote and implement device-tree's on ARM hardware.
- Provide test 'heads', whole vertical software stacks and distributions, to show what can be done on top of Linaro.
- Explore integrating telephony right into the distribution.
- Improve the state of graphics acceleration.
- Provide QA and validation harnesses to ensure anything built with Linaro is of the highest standard.
- Offer performance analysis and suggestions on how to improve.
- Supply a whole host of development, archive and image management, and distribution creation and customization tools.
And much, much more. A full list of blueprints which capture what we are trying to achieve can be found on the Linaro wiki.
Get Involved
For more information on the Linaro initiative please see the official website and the wiki. We have mailing lists and a Launchpad project page and I invite you all to come and participate in this exciting and ground-breaking venture.
What next?
So whats next? Well, the famous words of Albert Einstein that opened this post are most relevant here. We are the Genius's trying to make ARM development both easier and simpler. So with courage and a bit of luck, Linaro will succeed in bring Linux and ARM to a whole new level.
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on ARM
What a fantastic release Ubuntu 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx was. Many, many people helped to make 10.04 rock and as some of them attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) this week to thrash out the roadmap for Maverick Meerkat, its a good time to look back at what happened to the ARM version of Lucid this cycle.
A new user interface
One of the most obvious changes is the user interface. The ARM version of Ubuntu's previous release, Karmic Koala, booted to the default Ubuntu desktop. For some this was fine but typically today's ARM devices tend to be different. At present, they tend to have smaller screens, less resources and little in the way of graphics acceleration. To overcome some of these limitations in the x86 netbook world, the netbook-launcher user interface was created. Based on Clutter, netbook-launcher could not run on the ARM devices Ubuntu was targeting due to a lack of 3D acceleration. Enter netbook-launcher-efl, a 2D version of the x86 netbook interface written using EFL packages.
Read more about the 2D EFL based launcher.
Faster Live CD boots
Booting a Live CD is something that most new Ubuntu users do (and many existing users too). Its often their first experience of an Ubuntu release and should give a good impression. Well, on some ARM hardware, booting this Live CD image took over 3 minutes, not exactly the impression we would hope. So investigations happened into what was causing this slowness. In the end the final boot time was reduced by around 35% on all Ubuntu Live images, not just ARM ones.
Read more about the Live CD boot time improvements.
Web Office and Web Mail integration
Open Office on a resource limited platform isn't the greatest experience and to make matters worse, on the ARM architecture there are issues building it correctly. A new way of viewing, editing and saving office documents was needed and for the Lucid cycle a web-based solution was integrated into the desktop called webservice-office-zoho.
Read more about the web office integration.
Similarly, Evolution could be considered too heavy-weight for ARM device needs. A solution was implemented to enable integration with several online mail providers.
Read more about the web mail integration.
Optimized Tool Chain Defaults
This release includes a complete archive rebuild using more modern tool chain defaults that the latest ARM hardware can take advantage of. As of Lucid Lynx, packages are built using Thumb-2 to reduce code size and improve performance, NEON for accelerate multimedia and signal processing, and are optimized for ARMv7A based chips. Although this means that some older hardware will not work with the latest Ubuntu release it does mean that the images perform much better on modern hardware.
Other Improvements
Much bug fixing went on this cycle. The fail to build list (FTBFS), a list of packages that fail to build on a given architecture, was a focal point of activity. For the first time ever, the number of packages that failed to build on ARM from the main archive was zero (apart from libx86 which refuses to leave the build queue for ARM due to a bug), a great achievement.
The Chromium browser now works on ARM, rootstock, the tool to build ARM rootfs tarballs gained a gui frontend, we added support for the very popular OMAP platform (beagle board) and many small improvements were implemented, making this the best Ubuntu ARM release ever.
We here at Canonical are very proud of the Lucid Lynx on ARM and are extremely excited at what future releases will bring.
Ubuntu's New Web Office Integration
Why Online?
Desktop Integration with the cloud is hot news. Ubuntu One is a great example of this. Currently Ubuntu One integrates file storage, contacts and notes sync, and now you can even buy music from the online store, delivered straight to the Rythmbox media player. But for some devices, integration with the cloud isn't just a nice feature, it completely changes the user experience (UX). Take for instance a low powered, possibly mobile/embedded system with limited processing power and memory. A cloud based service for these devices could allow resource intensive tasks to be offloaded to an online server somewhere, greatly improving the UX. One set of tasks that are used often but can put a strain on resources are related to office document editing.
Ubuntu's Current Offerings
The standard Ubuntu image currently contains the Open Office suite. For those that do not know, Open Office is, from the website:
"OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers."
Open Office also has around 9 million lines of code spread over 30 thousand files, in short, its a large project. Running this on a device with limited resources is a recipe for disaster. Of course there are alternatives, Abiword and Gnumeric are examples of two applications that replicate functionality found in Open Office's Writer and Calc respectively. There are also online services such as Google Docs and Zoho but neither of these are tightly integrated with the desktop, until now. Enter webservice-office-zoho.
Why Zoho?
First off, why Zoho and not, for instance, Google Docs. Both services offer great functionality and are very competitive but the ultimate decision came down to which suited our use case the most. What we wanted was for a user to double click on a document which would then seamlessly open ready for editing. From there the user would edit, read, and maybe even save it back to the local device. No fuss, no logging in, no other requirements, just open and get on with it. Similary, when a user launches the application on its own, we wanted the correct type of service to open ready for the user to concentrate on their document. The service that allowed us to do this was Zoho. Zoho allows the user to do all of this without ever registering or logging in. Of course you get online storage with Zoho if you do register, but if you choose not to you can still get a full featured experience.
Integrating Zoho with the Desktop
So what do you get with this new integration. Well as alluded to before you can:
- Open, read, edit and save email document attachments.
- Open, read, edit and save local documents.
- Open, read, edit and save remote documents linked to with a url.
- Launch the required application, Writer, Show or Sheet (Word Processor, Presentations, Spreadsheets) which will present the user with an empty document of that type ready to edit.
- More functionality to come in Maverick Meerkat.
webservice-office-zoho shown here installed along side Open Office
The Future
This functionality is currently only available as default on Ubuntu's ARM images, typically where limited hardware resources are more commonly found. But that's not to say webservice-office-zoho can't be used on any other Ubuntu install. As the package is in the main Ubuntu repository, a simple:
sudo apt-get install webservice-office-zoho
will install it on your Lucid based machine or if you are feeling brave, checkout the latest bazaar branch with:
bzr branch lp:webservice-office-zoho
There are lots of things planned for the future of webservice-office-zoho. If you have comments, idea's or just want to rant, come along to the web integration UDS session this May, either in person or via online methods or just leave your thoughts here.
The New UI for ARM Based Ubuntu Devices
ARM based platforms traditionally have a problem with graphics drivers and free software. Encumbered by licensing issues, many platforms only ship with 2D based drivers whilst the 3D driver-enabled offerings only frequent the poshest of circles such as Nokia's N900. There are exceptions, but its a painful reality at the moment.
Vendors are trying to work around it, especially as there is the expectation of a ramp-up in the availability of ARM based hardware. Super long-life netbooks, low powered touch based computers, and even a flurry of smaller embedded devices are forecast to hit the market this year, many of which will be based on the Linux operating system. Ubuntu would be a great match for this. Read the rest of this page »
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Ubuntu live cd's, now 33% faster
One of the goals for the Lucid cycle was to investigate why it took so long to boot an Ubuntu live cd session. Why is this important I hear you ask? Well the live cd is usually the first thing a potential new Ubuntu user sees. They get an Ubuntu Desktop (or other flavour) cd from their friend/colleague/random person, insert it into their machine, wait for a while and are then presented with a live session. All well and good but if your running on slower hardware, even a different architecture such as ARM, this initial slowness can be orders of magnitude more than a fast desktop/laptop. For example, the ARM images we shipped for Karmic took over 3 minutes to boot into a live desktop session. Read the rest of this page »
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Ubuntu Platform Sprint
So its that time of year again, a great Ubuntu release was made late last year and the team is frantically trying to make the next release even better. So to facilitate this the Ubuntu platform team got together for a sprint in the most awesome city of Portland, Oregon last week. Whoever designed the city must be commended, its easy to explore, well laid out and you never get the sense that you are lost, much kudo's to them.
Anyway, back to team business. The mobile team managed to get a metric tonne of work done (possibly more) in the 5 short days. To date we now have a new default UNR styled UI, 33% faster-to-boot live-cd images (thats across all images, not just ARM), mature and optimized (can you say Thumb2+NEON) images, the Chrome web browser on ARM, greater integration of testing and many, many, bugs squashed. All this and we are only half-way through the cycle.
ARM hardware is only just proliferating onto the market but when it becomes mainstream, we hope our hard work will make Ubuntu the default operating system. The team is working hard to make Lucid the best ever ARM optimized Linux release and we invite you, if you have hardware, to use, test, and contribute to make Linux the choice for ARM hardware.
2010: What will the year bring?
As is tradition each year I post my new years resolutions, mainly to shame myself into at least attempting them. So hear is this years. Read the rest of this page »
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XBMC + Acer Aspire Revo = Awesomeness
Its not often that I get suckered into buying something based solely on the advocacy of a few people on a mailing list but when a said few people, on different lists, all recommended the XBMC + Acer Aspire Revo combination almost simultaneously, I went to investigate.
Now I'm a big media fiend, just ask my wife. We now don't have a garage because I went and converted it into a home cinema room (8 foot screen, HD projector, 500+ films archived, DVD+Blueray+HD-DVD sources …). I hack on the Entertainer Media Center project (although its a little stale at the moment, effort really appreciated) and I'm a former user of XBMC on the first generation XBOX's from Microsoft and now uPNP of the XBOX 360. So when someone says to me they have a £150 tiny and silent PC, running Linux and decoding HD material, I got a little credit card jumpy.
A couple of days later the Revo arrived. I was a little in two minds on whether this was a good purchase or not. I count at least 23 computers in my house so another was probably not a good idea but none-the-less, I justified it as a replacement for the excellent but slow Viglen MPC-L which, coupled with many USB disks, was a great file server. The first thing I did was install Ubuntu Karmic Koala. Out of the box it worked great (no surprise there ;)). Install the Nvidia drivers, tweak the screen resolution for my plasma TV, install XBMC and away we go. One tweak every media concerned individual must do on this device is to disable compiz. For some reason, on full screen playback, compiz causes video tearing. It took me a little while to figure this out and I don't mind admitting that I was initially disappointed to see video playback on this machine (when compiz was enabled) but my god did things change.
I enabled my old Windows Media Center remote, added all my video sources to XBMC, tweaked the interface a little and now, all I can say is WOW. The Revo+XBMC combo ranks up there with the best of my purchases. The interface is wonderful; the little things like showing you the actual time a video you are watching is going to end, the UI which puts every set-top-box maker to shame and the shear extensibility of the thing is immense. I won't even mention that this is running Ubuntu, doing my work-related backups, downloading (legal) torrents, running scripts, mail, and a whole host of other services, and drawing a trickle of power.
If your considering replacing a uPNP enabled XBOX (which I did) or PS3, getting rid of your aging server or just wanting a great media experience, I whole-heartedly recommend this combination.
Why I lo(ve)athe the n900
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Murray's Best Extra Porter - Murray's Craft Brewing Co.
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Ratings: 20 | Reviews: 20 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by danieelol:
3.6/5 rDev -7%
A: despite being apparently low in carbonation, this pours with quite a decent head. Good lacing and colour is cola black including when held up to light.
S: Weak roast and a lot of green apple, light almost apple pie flavours. Quite an enjoyable malt profile, with a fair bit of alcoholic spice and cinnamon. Maybe some caramel.
T: Mainly roast (not that strong though), with combination of alcohol dryness and some roast bitterness. Some of the bitterness also seems to come from hops.
M: pretty thin. Relatively low carb, as expected.
O: Really keen to see how this ages. The sweet profile in the nose and the alcoholic spice suggests this could improve down the track, will update as it ages.
08-06-2011 13:11:13 | More by danieelol
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3.65/5 rDev -5.7%
Dark brown pour with an off-white small persistent head.
Quite sweet aroma of chocolate, coffee, caramel, along with more unconventional notes of citrus (orange), white grapes, and cinnamon. A lot lighter and fruitier than I expected!
Big flavour profile of sweet roasted malt and some of those afore-mentioned fruits and spices. Alcohol is definitely present in a sweet almost cloying finish. Some spicy hop flavours present but little of the bitterness.
Very rich body, quite chewy. Alcohol makes for a velvety mouthfeel.
If it wasn't for the massively sweet boozy finish this would be great.
10-13-2009 10:06:03 | More by CrazyDavros
3.78/5 rDev -2.3%
Bottle poured into a tulip glass. Acquired it last year while on vacation in Sydney, but forgot about it until recently. Beer pours dark opaque brown, with a finger and a half of creamy beige colored head. The head slowly recedes to a film of small bubbles, leaving a sheet of lacing on the edges.
Classic porter aroma, dark roasted malt, drip coffee, bittersweet chocolate, with a bit of caramel sweetness. Fruit esters as the beer warms a little.
Taking a sip, the fruity esters mingle with a nice roasted malt flavor. Not overly interesting, but enjoyable.
Medium body with a nice soft but present carbonation. For it's abv, this is entirely too easy to drink, with its good but not overly powerful flavors and lack of alcohol in the taste. A nice porter from down under.
10-28-2012 01:33:46 | More by nataku00
4.25/5 rDev +9.8%
A big thank you to chaosworrier for this bottle.
330ml bottle poured into a tulip pint glass.
A = Great clear, dark red oak color, fair sized head with decent retention. Some sediment in the bottle, but was able to leave it there (and drink later, no reason to waste good beer).
S = Strong semi-sweet chocolate notes, some amount of citric bitterness detected, some maple syrup, fresh dark biscuits. Well balanced and mouthwatering smells.
T = Dark chocolate, bitterness of burnt toast without the unpleasant coal taste, dried prunes, frothed creamy hot chocolate. Quite complex and very tasty. A good porter.
M = Medium-heavy body, very smooth, luscious feel contributed in part by a relatively low carbonation, great mouthcoating. Alcohol does add some burn, but it is pleasantly stinging, not overly burning.
D = A very drinkable beer. This would be an excellent dessert beer or one to drink by a fire on a cold day.
08-24-2008 15:19:42 | More by Traquairlover
2.3/5 rDev -40.6%
Had on-tap at the Local Taphouse, Darlinghurst on 02/09/2011.
They classify this beer as an Imperial Porter.
Looks very dark brown with hints of red around the edges of the glass. Head dissipates fairly quickly but that could be due to the fact that this is fairly high alcohol for a porter(?). Head halfway between white and brown colour.
The first smell I get is of degraded tyre rubber mixed with sheep's cheese. Not terribly unpleasant but I expected a bit more roastiness.
Taste has some sweetness to it, almost like dessert wine but extremely dry. I'm not sure it ends that well either, pretty dry on the back palate - would be good to see some roastiness there as well as some more hop flavours.
I don't like to be saying this as I generally think Murray's beers are very good but this isn 't really up there. It's nowhere near as refreshing or exciting to the palate as their standard porter, which I've had on-tap a few times. It's like the flavours just sit and I'm use to Murray's beers with bounce.
09-03-2011 02:20:03 | More by tobeerornottobe
4.05/5 rDev +4.7%
Very dark brown, slight haze with some amber highlights. Thinish white head head which persists through the whole glass. Floral hop aroma with dark chocolate and espresso notes beneath and just a slight hint of booziness. Sweet in the mouth up front but the bitterness hits early and remains robust through to the finish. Loads of toasty melanoidins with just a hint of roast in the aftertaste. Full mouthfeel, well balanced by the bitterness. Quite drinkable for an 8%er. Another outstanding creation from Murrays, by far the most progressive micro in the country.
08-31-2008 09:31:57 | More by goatherder
4.35/5 rDev +12.4%
a style i've been trying to brew myself with limited success. we'll see how the pros do it. 330ml bottle best before 5/09. 8% abv
pours a dark viscous fluid into my pizza port real ale fest glass. does look seriously thick. quite dark with only the lightest hint of red/brown at the edges. a thin layer of lightly tanned dense foam sits atop the brew. very low carbonation.
great aroma. full and complex. coffee and chocolate, a bit stouty really, followed by some dark fruits and a good dose of sweet unfermented sugars and just a hint of alcohol. a touch too sweet for me, but damn if it isnt appetizing.
intense. rich. like a good desert really. heavy mix of chocolate and coffee again but without being too one (or would that be two) dimensional. finish just sort of fades away with a slight drying feeling. not a lot of bitterness to cut through the sweet.
ohh man! this is a beer that can get me in trouble. i know its a sipper but i just cant help myself. unbelievably smooth mouthfeel and way too easy to drink for a beer this big. too bad its so early cause this would make a fantastic nightcap. oh well, on to the next.
quick edit: not sure how well this fits as an english porter. its just way too big and sweet. dry it out a bit and let it stale/oxidize and its a lock as a baltic. (but im no expert)
04-03-2009 08:46:29 | More by joecast
3.9/5 rDev +0.8%
Drank this poured into a Unibroue tulip.
Appearance - Quite dark, with a tinge of red when held up against the light. Head poured up beautifully, two fingers with nice tight bubbles.
Smell - Smells more like an Imperial Stout than a Porter. Hint of raisins, dark fruits, almost Dubbel like smells, roasted coffee.
Mouthfeel - Oily, thick and filling. Leaves a nice residue behind on the palate.
Taste - Flavours of chocolate, coffee and christmas pudding are dominant at the start then it gives way to a delicious bitter. Hops taste similar to other Murray's ales, not that thats a bad thing! Alcohol warming but extremley well masked.
Overall - A great winter warmer, I could easily drink 2-3 of these in a session. It clocks in at 8% so its a reasonably strong beer that could creep up on you real quick, so as with all strong beers, moderation is the key (haha, i wish i would take my own advice). Another great beer from Murray's, I haven't had an average one from them yet, two thumbs up!
07-07-2009 08:47:53 | More by THEMGG
3.78/5 rDev -2.3%
A 330 ML bottle poured into a tulip. Note-- these have been in a cellar since August 09 so 3 months age since purchased.
A-- Poured a reddish black color, a decent half inch tan head that does hold retention well. Leaves some lacing but not much.
S-- Coffee, chocolate and nuts. Not a big booze smell to this for an 8% beer but you do get a warming feel in the nose.
T-- Light chocolate, coffee (more like espresso), a little bit of toffee or carmel in this. Vanillia would be a great touch to this.
M-- Flavors stay in the mouth for a while. Especially the coffee taste. Not as thick as hoped but solid. Get a warming sensation pretty quickly in the mouth and the combination of coffee and chocolate is good.
D-- Bigger than the Coopers Stout and better just due to the flavor profile. Good mix of chocolate, coffee and then the touch of sweetness with a bit of a bite in the end. Very drinkable but not scary drinkable due to the hidden ABV. Is a little boozy. Good end of night beer on a cold night.
Murrays could come up with a really good version if they did a Oak aged Porter. Needs just a little more sweetness though in this.
11-23-2009 12:42:53 | More by mulder1010
4.38/5 rDev +13.2%
I had meant to review this when I first had it about a year ago but never got around to it. I loved it then and I love it now that the last of the 2008 bottles have made their way to my local in profusion.
Previously, my notes contained a mention or two of "tar" flavor, "that Finnish licorice that's made with wood tar" - which I was pretty into at the time but has receded significantly a year on.
Almost opaque with a tight, voluminous head.
At this stage in it's life, has a vaguely citric American hop character which I didn't notice before, but that's an afterthought compared to the chocolate, wood and raisin smells coming out of the glass. Party.
Not overly roasty-bitter, but definitely roasty. Toast cooked on 4 (if 5 is the maximum setting on your toaster), rummy fruit, chocolate, dark espresso, and a little citric note (again) that pulls it out of the abyss. A nice balance of bitter & sweet where it counts. Still a little licorice/tar as well, but not like before.
Murray's seem to nail the mouthfeel of their higher-grav beers - I recently had the Anniversary Ale and while it was very tasty, the thing that impressed me most about it was just how ridiculously creamy it was, but never too much. Like the beer equivalent of an Aero bar. It's the bubbles of nothing, etc. This is no different.
You probabably won't start out your night wanting to drink too many of these, but I dare you to stop. This might be the best beer in Australia.
EDIT: Have recently had the 2011 version both on tap and bottled and am distressed to report that it is a thin, watery, overly sweet shadow of the beer it once was. Consider thyselves fairly warned.
09-05-2009 11:42:45 | More by Parrotshake
4.03/5 rDev +4.1%
Pours a deep dark red/brown in colour with a little head that disappears quick.
Complex aromas of roasted grain and wood, caramel, toffee and chocolate. Good stuff.
Top flavour - Chocolate malts, dried fruits, anise, burnt/roast flavours and a slight hoppy aftertaste mix on a sweet and bitter palate. Large and brooding, it has a touch of heat from the alcohol.
Big and sweet/viscous body on this. Good length and some well rounded bitterness. Good finish.
Great effort with this monster! Try it before it gets too warm out there. The lack of any real head is its only downfall.
10-14-2008 08:56:29 | More by koolk
4.43/5 rDev +14.5%
2009 Release - Reviewed 28 January 2010
Released in late July 2009, I tasted this a week after release. There had at that stage been no secondary in the bottle, so it was syrupy and stone flat. Waited six months for this review
a) Good 'pshht' on opening, so there has been some secondary in bottle. Heavy, steady tan head. Very dark, almost opaque with red tinges.
s) Roasted malt, yeast, hint of ginger, almost Dubbel like.
f) Superb. Licorice bullets, charry, chocolate, caramel. Hint of lemon.
m) 1st class... wonderful tingle up front, followed by smooth body which finishes quite dryly, but with no astringency.
d) A delight. I recommend sitting on these for 6 months post-release.
2008 Release - Reviewed 22 July 2009
4.0 4.5 4.0 4.0 4.0 Total 4.1
A bottle given to me by Murray Howe, a week before the 2009 release; asked me for my opinion, a year on from release... here it is:
a) Quite syrupy in the pour, hard to work a 4mm head up, but was able to kick some head up wuth the last drizzle from the bottle. Rocky beige; the ale is very dark chocolate brown, but when held up to the evening sunlight, radiates a deep yet brilliant garnet.
s) Xmas cake brandied fruits, rum & raisin. Fresh chocolate muffins from the oven.
t) As above, but also some caramel, pecan pie, molasses, spice, hint of choc/cherry.
m) Syrupy, some alcohol warmth, luscious.
d) Superb... 12 months in bottle have seen the aroma improve, but the flavour ease slightly.
Review 02 October 2008
4.0 3.5 4.5 4.0 4.0
a) Beautiful deep dark garnet, dense tan head that persists nicely.
s) Roasted grains, some black coffee, toffee
f) Lovely complex of malts, hints of licorice, char, chocolate, coffee creams.
m) Creamy smooth, with a velvety texture that coats the tongue. Slight back palate bitterness to balance the sweetness of the malt.
d) Wonderful porter, well balanced and very enjoyable.
01-28-2010 04:35:53 | More by vancurly
3.3/5 rDev -14.7%
Pours a nice black colour, red tinged when held up to the light, with a thin rim of beige head. Leaves some nice sticky lacing, and some decent carbonation in there. Looks pretty good.
Pretty intense alcomohol phenols on the nose, some nice burnt characters with a hint of molasses and spice, but yeah mostly an intense boozey character, metho-esque. Interesting, not fantastic.
More stinging boozey character on the palate. Dark malt without much roastiness. Bit of a buttered popcorn character, slightly salty. Seriously smacks of alcohol, with a very harsh phenolic character on the back, and pretty simple. Just needs more flavour to compensate for the alcohol - and it's not that alcoholic.
Mouthfeel obviously a bit stinging, but has a nice full body and a good stickiness for all that. The alcohol kick is not repellant but is very noticeable.
Reasonably drinkable for its faults. Could use more roastiness or bitterness to cover the booze.
10-26-2009 23:23:31 | More by laituegonflable
3.8/5 rDev -1.8%
Deep ruddy brown, quite dark, but rather transparent at the edges. Head is a filmy ring of light beige bubbles. Lacing ok. It's not an amazing looking beer, but it's pretty decent.
Deep dark characters with a very robust boooze note. Hints of nuts and coffee, a little chocolate a hint of coconut. Really, it's quite a complex nose, and with some truly lovely characters.
Very smooth palate, very clean, but really without the complexity I'd expect. Some booziness, a little roasted characters, but it's quite subtle. It doesn't smack me in the face as much as I was expecting.
There's certainly things to like about this. It's not a huge beer, it's not something that's going to extremes. To be honest, I like Murray's because of their attempts at taking on extreme styles, and this one fails a little for me.
10-28-2009 02:45:18 | More by lacqueredmouse
3.93/5 rDev +1.6%
Big shout out to Mrkennedy for this extra appreciate it buddy as i dont see this in the west and it pours a dark kola hue with average carbonation that leaves a one finger head that stays and sporadic lacing,the smell is apples,blueberry pie,weak coffee and figs,the mouthfeel is medium bodied and has tastes of milky coffee,raspberries dipped in chocolate,a touch of blueberries,caramel and finished with a dark belgian chocolate bittersweetness and overall i like it for a cold night like tonight it perfectly suits and definately recommend cheers.
08-17-2011 11:26:16 | More by ADZA
3.5/5 rDev -9.6%
OK - be careful what you wish for...
I had been looking forward to trying this @ Taphouse since I saw it on the Menu. Had previously had the one-off BA version @ Manly which I considered one of the better beers in recent memory to cross my taste buds. So...
Poured usual one finger black 'n' tan.
Aromas? Not too much - served too cold.
Taste is all malts and raisins and sherry. Nice. However, not in the same league as the BA version.
Mouthfeel is very, very light - sad...
Very drinakable - but is that what I am looking for in an 8% ABV beer?
AND - looking at previous review - is this a bad batch? I was expected to dish out 4.5 - 5 across the board.
I'll review again when I get a bottle.
09-04-2011 11:57:21 | More by heygeebee
4.3/5 rDev +11.1%
First BA review for my favourite Aussie Beer.
Deep tawny brown colour with dense head. Had a whiff of plum, raisin and rum. Reminded me of rum raisin ice cream. Very silky body. Dense, but not overbearing.
Similar overtures in the mouth. A perfect dessert beer - liquid divinity if you will.
Probably the closest thing I have seen in Australia to a world class brew. Everything is muscular and dense, but never over powering.
Looking forward to the next batch.
03-24-2011 08:43:48 | More by jonno79
3.78/5 rDev -2.3%
Yep, this is no stout. Some dark chocolate and fruit cake on the nose, and perhaps the faintest hint of a sweeter fruity note. Palate is very serious (in my book) with dark bitter chocolates overlaying a sweeter fruit cake / berry / brandy note. Flavours get progressively lighter and sweeter as the beer travels through the mouth. I reckon the flavours are bound up somewhat and I think this could age quite well. Kinda IP like but without the absolute clout from the palate weight. Can't be too many better stouts doing the rounds in Oz.
07-03-2011 09:05:38 | More by Stew41
4.08/5 rDev +5.4%
A - Pours an extremely dark brown, almost black with a couple of centimetres of solid beige head that hangs around for a fair while.
S - Initially the aroma is all roasty, chocolately goodness. Delving deeper there is also a slight smokey hint & a vauge dark fruit aroma.
T - Taste is very much chocolate with some roasty notes and again a vauge dark fruit character.
M - Smooth, medium to full bodied porter with a very low carbonation.
D - At 8% it's not something to session but I'll be buying more while it's around. Maybe even put a couple aside to see how they age.
08-13-2008 11:16:51 | More by brendan13
4.22/5 rDev +9%
Slightly dusty, chocolatey aroma. Slightly metallic.
Great, dark brown colour with a nice small brown head.
Really tasty. This has evolved wonderfully over the last 8 months. The sweetness has worked itself out. I get plenty of bitter chocolate and a nice coffee note. There's a hint of roast but this is well balanced and very tasty. Nicely fruity.
Medium body with moderate carbonation. Good though it could be silkier.
A great beer and certainly one of the best beers being produced in Australia.
09-20-2010 10:28:28 | More by dgilks
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Now that all the ghost, ghouls and goblins have gone back into hiding, it's time to kickoff the holiday shopping season.
And there's no better place to begin looking for those Christmas gifts then at this year's Heritage Festival in Harrisburg.
More than 100 vendors from across southern Illinois brought out their holiday creations for thousands of shoppers over the past two days.
The festival is as big of an event for the vendors as it is for the bargain hunters."It draws a good crowd," said Lisa Wallace with Stones and Fair Colors Creations. "And with the economy women can make things at home, and they have a venue where they can sell their products and still be at home with their children. Then they can do all their other responsibilities and have a weekend where they can make some money."
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Invention USA.
History Channel tonight. Invention uses what looks like a log splitter conversion to pack/compress leaves into burnable logs. Kinda dubious of the feasibility.
I have an excuse. CRS.
Re: Invention USA.
My guess is that more energy is consumed operating the splitter than is retrieved from the log. Make compost.
Re: Invention USA.
I saw the promo on TV the other day. It kind of reminds me of back in the day when they were promoting the "roll your newspaper into a log" devices. I don't know if those ever worked or not either.
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Re: Invention USA.
Not powered by a log splitter but the same concept. I agree with Bob, let it rot in a pile. Better yet, cut the tree down and burn it, then you won't have to rake leaves next year.
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Re: Invention USA.
I like the idea
I am impressed by folks who are creative. Will this be a viable product? Who knows. Maybe yes, maybe no. Up here a number of years ago they were making furnace fuel bricks out of sawdust from local mills. The sawdust was delivered by truck and stored loose in the basement. Bricks would be made and then stored to dry awhile prior to burning. Each brick probably gave up 1/2 hour of heat ... the loose sawdust however was a bit of a risky idea. It worked for a while.
Two hours burn time isn't too bad ifn you really had the time to make the logs.
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Re: Invention USA.
Hey it is some what like pellet stoves. There is a guy in Unadilla or there about making pellets from hay and brush from abandoned fields.
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Re: Invention USA.
The concept may be feasible on a larger commercial scale at locations where yard debris is collected and available in extremely large quantities.
I don't see the concept as economically viable for the average home owner. The system demonstrated produced one log in 8 minutes or 7.5 logs per hour.
I have an excuse. CRS.
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Zachary Joshua Reeder of Orange, who was arrested Saturday, made his first court appearance today and had his bail set at $1 million, Deputy District Attorney Nicole Nicholson said. Prosecutors had requested $3 million bail, she said.
Reeder teaches history at Anaheim's Servite High School, where he has worked since 2008, Irvine police Lt. Julia Engen said. He has also worked at Beckman High School in Irvine, where he was an assistant baseball coach for four seasons -- through the last school year, she said.
"We're expecting additional victims to come forward," Engen said. "We are starting to receive calls from parents concerned about activity on Facebook. He's been doing this for, it looks like, a couple of years, and we want to make sure that we have as many victims identified as possible. Right now, there doesn't appear to be any physical contact between him and the victims."
Reeder, whose arraignment was rescheduled for March 11, faces 34 counts each of distributing pornography to a minor, contacting a child with the intent to commit a lewd act and using a minor for sex acts, six counts of committing a lewd act on a child, and one count each of control and possession of child pornography and bringing obscene matter into the state, Nicholson said.
Most of the exchanging of allegedly pornographic material was done over the past 18 months, she said.
"What's disturbing in this case is he selected his victims, which shows his predatory nature," Nicholson alleged. "He sought them out on the web and induced them and seduced them more or less."
After exchanging messages with some of the boys, he would see them the next day in class or on the baseball diamond, Nicholson alleged.
Investigators suspect Reeder took a woman's photo and used it to create a Facebook profile to lure the teenage boys into sending him lewd photos, Engen said.
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