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Sleeman Amber Ale - Sleeman Breweries Ltd.
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1.95/5 rDev -32.8%
Poured out of a 12oz bottle into a pilsner glass
A-off white head that has some staying power, reddish-brown body, very clear
S-band-aid, antiseptic, some Saaz like hop at the end
T-sweet, fruity front, bitter almost fruit pit like at the end
M-light, thin but highly carbonated
D-Canada makes some great varieties of this beer. I am not sure I would put this in that category. It seems to have a very processed taste to it. Find a good Quebec version of this style for the real thing. You won't regret it.
05-04-2009 15:56:58 | More by jneiswender
2.05/5 rDev -29.3%
Poured a light amber with a touch of off white head.
Smell was limited to a thin little bit of grain.
Taste has just a hint of thin malt flavor with a very minor touch of hops.
Mouthfeel is thin and watery.
I could finish it, but won't be seeking out another anytime soon.
02-12-2006 22:23:32 | More by bashiba
2.53/5 rDev -12.8%
Thought it'd be nice to sample a domestic while visiting Canada...wish I had thought a little longer.
Appearance wise, nothing spectacular. It was the right hue, not off-colored, so it gets a three for looking pretty once poured in the glass.
Not much of a nose, really, bordering on musty, and no discernable bouquet an immediate tip-off of what was to come.
The company line is that this beer is brewed to be full-flavoured yet with a surprising refreshing finish.
Sadly, this beer had the feel and taste of almost flat soda not pleasant in a soda, but a definite no-no for a beer. I kept sipping at it thinking hoping, really for that subtle, surprise finish, but in the end, it basically fell flat.
10-17-2004 22:50:20 | More by TheLiterati
2.6/5 rDev -10.3%
Nice tan head on a clear brown body, decent duration to the foam. Not bad look, but unfortunately the best part of this dud. Faint caramel malt aroma bothers me. Worse, the taste was thin and fairly flavorless. The texture is nice and smooth, but this lacks defining character. It needs a serious infusion of malt, something to make this a bold beer, perhaps some good fruit. Right now, this is fairly tepid.
Pass on this. Not a total zero, but not good.
06-08-2008 22:48:48 | More by Gehrig
Ontario (Canada)
2.63/5 rDev -9.3%
POurs a clear amber color,weak heading, weak lace, no off tastes or aromas.
Weak mouth feel, some fruits and stale malt presence over attenuated hopping,... fast finish... clean and fizzy.
A dollar beer tarted up in a premium package...but not premium taste.
04-30-2010 00:46:13 | More by pootz
Manitoba (Canada)
2.63/5 rDev -9.3%
330ml bottle poured into a pint glass, dark amber brown copper colour, Pours with a cola-fizz head that doesn't stick around long, no lacing and looks very flat right off the bat. Smell has that slight adjunct smell that comes with most of Sleeman's brews, a light maltiness, and a distinct Hop character that makes me think this one might not be all that bad. Really not much revealing in the nose though....
Taste is very sweet and full of caramel roasted malts. Hops are present, but not as much as in the nose, and I find this more than a little bit on the cloyingly sweet side. Thin bodied in the mouth, and too fizzy as well. I really don't find this beer very appealing and way too sweet for my liking.
06-26-2006 04:09:00 | More by trevorwideman
British Columbia (Canada)
2.75/5 rDev -5.2%
05-11-2012 00:10:54 | More by bumchilly25
Ontario (Canada)
2.75/5 rDev -5.2%
02-13-2013 22:03:11 | More by DaPan
Ontario (Canada)
2.93/5 rDev +1%
Pours a clear brown/orange, big off white head forms, some minor lacing on the glass. Smell is malty, some grains, slight skunk, citrus. Taste is chocolate, coffee, and roasted grains, very malty, some citrus and floral hops, roasty finish. Mouthfeel is light bodied with medium carbonation.
12-21-2005 10:52:57 | More by Viggo
Saskatchewan (Canada)
3.03/5 rDev +4.5%
341ml clear bottle poured in a dimpled mug. I like the relief on the bottle of a beaver and maple leaf as well as just the neck label, but I still don't understand the clear bottle. I guess it's just their gimmick on the Canadian market.
Foamy cream coloured head is 1/4 inch on the pour, but quickly recedes to a thin ring around the edge. Amber (Brown-red) colour and clear. Halfway through the glass some thin lacing develops.
Very mild aroma. There are barely detectable traces of malt with woody-nutty highlights. I'd call it pleasant if it wasn't so bloody faint.
Nice smooth mild malt flavour throughout. Light hops and woody-nutty highlights at the finish and in the aftertaste. Light sweetness at the start. Has a bit of a bitter, inside of a pecan shell (part that isn't the meat of the nut) flavour that bleeds from the malt as it warms.
Medium bodied and moderately carbonated.
There really isn't anything wrong with this ale, but nothing jumps out at me either. Plain, but smooth and solid. One of the better Sleemans offerings I've had to date.
12-18-2005 17:58:35 | More by Noxious26
Alberta (Canada)
3.08/5 rDev +6.2%
A- Pours a nice color...dark amber with a red hue mixed into it. The head is eggshell colored, starts off foamy and with a couple of peaks, slowly dissipating to about a half inch thick layer. Lacing is very nice as well, with oblong shapes sticking to the glass in unison. Carbonation appears to be of the finer variety, rising slowly in lots of columns.
S- Dry roasty grain blends in with sweet malt to create a somewhat "stale" aroma. If I try hard, I do notice a molasses smell that is hidden and cowers in the corner, not wanting to really be noticed. The finish doesn't scream bitter either...the hops must be hiding in the same place with the aforementioned molasses.
T- Slightly malty, slightly fruity about sums this one up. Overall, it is a mellow, almost bland flavor. There is a slight taste of roasted barley grains but it fades quickly. No real bittering finish to speak of either.
M- Kind of thin bodied and crisp for an amber ale....more like a dark lager if you ask me. The carbonation is also higher than I'd like to have, but at least it doesn't scrub the palate clean. Average at best.
O- Like many of the Sleeman lineup, this is an average brew overall. I have to say that drinkability wise, it would do the job and doesn't offend me at all, but I wish there was a little more to this beer. Decent if you want something more than a lager...at least there is some flavor here and could hold up as something to drink over an evening...might get a little boring though. Still, give this one a try.
04-01-2011 00:44:27 | More by ChrisCage
Alberta (Canada)
3.15/5 rDev +8.6%
Well, it's definitely a nice enough looking beer. Hmmm, how many times has that been the famous last words of one of my lower scoring reviews. But this time around I feel that Sleeman has damn nearly perfected the middle of the road when it comes to this new Amber ale. Appearance is a rich ruddy deep copper hue, crystal clear, and a decent creamy white head on the pour. It looks very appealing. But the aroma, as usual, is faint. Light caramel malt tones, a sweet middle, and I'm almost convinced that I can discern a whisper of hops in there, but it's like one of those things that you catch out of the corner of your eye, and then is gone when you turn to look. Was it ever really there? Flavour, as usual, is mild. Light and watery up front, it eventually gains some malt sweetness. After a while I can even pick up a bit of hops on the aftertaste, it lingers but doesn't leave much of a presence. Mouthfeel is fairly thin, but that is a trademark of Sleeman's. Overall it is inoffensive and an easy drinker, what flavour is actually present is enjoyable enough, especially if malt sweetness is your thing. However for an amber ale the hops are greatly lacking for this attempt at the style by Sleeman, almost as painfully absent as they are in Big Rock's watered down version of an IPA. The lack of hops is more noticable than what is actually in there. This Amber ale is the best I've had from Sleeman so far, but still the middle of the road in general, I expect a hell of a lot more from a company that recently purchased Unibroue.
06-09-2004 22:14:27 | More by IronDjinn
Alberta (Canada)
3.15/5 rDev +8.6%
Poured a 341-ml bottle into a pub ale glass.
Appearance - copper-amber colour with a fast-disappearing off-white head. Has diminished to a thin layer of surface bubbles within minutes.
Smell - thin, musty malts with lightly roasted barley overtones. A whiff of hops beneath.
Taste - well-balanced malt flavour with a watery cider-like finish. No real aftertastes but just a thin hoppy fade.
Mouthfeel - very even, inoffensive, a little watery but pretty smooth.
Drinkability - just not very interesting. A few of these would be a point of indifference.
02-06-2010 05:01:28 | More by DoctorStrangiato
Alberta (Canada)
3.33/5 rDev +14.8%
One of four choices in the Sleeman Selections 12 pack. Familiar Sleeman clear bottle with cream colored neck label.
Appearance is a deep copper color, sparkling clear, with a nice sized creamy white head. The smell is light caramel malt, quite sweet. Taste is good, but not overly flavourful. Malty sweetness, caramel. Tiny touch of lingering metallic aftertaste. No real hop tastes like some better ambers. Mouthfeel is smooth but fairly thin. Easy to drink, and enjoyable, just don't be expecting too much.
07-23-2006 15:07:37 | More by BigBry
British Columbia (Canada)
3.43/5 rDev +18.3%
Sleeman's beers represent what is wrong with the so called Canadian micro movement. No real flavour and no real style. That being said I don't mind this beer. It pours a really nice light chestnut and the head ain't bad. Not much nose but the flavours are kind of malty with real backbone( for Sleemans). Geez, I could probably see myself ordering this on tap which puts Sleemans one step above Canadian fake micro.
06-06-2004 02:51:01 | More by canucklehead
3.5/5 rDev +20.7%
I am visiting Canada for a while and this is one of my first tastes.
Not bad. I will get back to it. I enjoyed the pint.
It has an amber hue, a slightly sweet smell and a slightly bitter hoppy taste. I'm not normally a fan of amber ales, but I like this one.
It went down very easy and was quite refresh on a brisk day.
It had a nice tan head and laced the glass quite nicely.
03-08-2005 04:51:42 | More by Tang07
Alberta (Canada)
3.8/5 rDev +31%
Served in a local pub. Once again, thank the Lord for the local smoking ban, now I can review beer in public. Poured into a curvy Boddington's pint glass, with a satisfyingly creamy 1-finger head that stuck around for most of the drink, and left lacing like high-altitude cirrus clouds on the glass wall. Visuals are a bit hard to pin down in a dark bar, but it's got a nice deep amber teak-furniture look. Smells of darks malts, a little caramel. Mouthfeel is average, with an acceptable smoothness and some good carbonation. Taste is on the money for a good amber - nice full-bodie malt, lingering hop snap, and a nice presiding woodsiness with some caramel, cherry and toasted notes. Very satisfying, and totally superior to Sleeman's other popular brews; the below-average Honey Brown and abysmal Cream Ale. I'll buy this again, and I hope more bars start carrying this on tap instead of poorer Sleeman brews that are golden.
08-27-2005 14:10:10 | More by niangelo
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by D-Miller on August 25, 2011
Pros: + Very good quality and loud enough to be heard when driving
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Summary: I spent a lot of time shopping for a new GPS navigation device during November and December 2010. I read many reviews here and elsewhere, read downloaded user manuals, and ...
Summary: I spent a lot of time shopping for a new GPS navigation device during November and December 2010. I read many reviews here and elsewhere, read downloaded user manuals, and bought and returned two other units before settling on the Garmin Nuvi 2460 LMT. However, I wish there was a cheaper 2460LM variant without the "T."*** P.S. If you will buy this GPS Navigator I suggest you have compare prices before you decide at: www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B003ZX871I?ie=UTF8&ref_=dp_olp_new&condition=new#?ie=UTF8&tag=***************&********=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
While shopping I compared various units to my TomTom GO 510 that I bought "refurb" here four years ago. Thus, the 510's most annoying features were to be avoided; mainly bulkiness and the despised "non-defeatable auto zoom." I travel a lot in rural areas where it's most important for me to have the map view cover 10-50 miles so I can see my progress and location among various towns and intersections. Even in the city where I know where I'm going, a wide area zoom view helps me to learn the city.
Tom Tom is the worst offender of the non-defeatable autozoom. On Tom Tom store demos, I zoomed them out, but after about a half minute they all zoom in automatically to a close factory set level, just like the 510 does. I bought a Megellan Roadmate 5045 that could be set to not autozoom, but the maps were very outdated and the calculated routes were (more often than not) poor choices. The Megellan also had a flimsy annoying way to attach the unit to the bracket and to DC power in one step, a simulated hot-mount. I returned it to the local store and got a Garmin Nuvi 1490LMT which I found to be nice except that it didn't have a hot mount. When I learned of the 2400 series' announcement in January, and that the 2460 would have a hot-mount, I returned the 1490 for that reason alone.
The 2460's hot-mount is nice as I was sold on this feature using the Tom Tom Go 510 for four years. The zoom lock feature is also nice, and it does automatically zoom in just before a programmed turn. However, the temporary auto zoom in has on few occassions been almost too slow or too late to be useful. But the voice announcements are very accurate and timely. Garmin says that the unit's map view updating is slower if a larger area map is loaded. Mine has the whole USA, Canada and Mexico map loaded. My understanding from Garmin is that voice commands are only supported when this hugh map is loaded. By the way, the maps that Garmin uses, Navteq (like TelAtlas maps used by TomTom and lately by Megellan) are also in need of updating for some unpopular but personnally important areas.
The ability to follow voice commands may be the 2460's strongest suite, and the single feature that Garmin uses to justify the high (and seemingly fixed) price over lesser Nuvi models. Because I plan my routes in advance, sometimes using Garmin's MapSource PC software, I've found it convenient to use the voice command feature only once. This was while I was following a calculated route in heavy traffic and wanted to find a certain brand of gas. It understood my voice almost perfectly and directed me to the gas station that was a few miles ahead. And it got me back on track as expected.
If a hot-mount, zoom-lock, voice commands and Navteq based maps are important, the Nuvi 2460 may be a good choice. Also, bluetooth and handfree calling are bonuses. Though the lesser 2450LM may save you a few dollars, if you plan to keep a GPS unit for 3-4 years you might bite the bullet and get the 2460LMT. But I personnally would like to have a 2460LM model, because I have not found the realtime traffic reports to be widely available or current, and alternate routes around traffic are usually not practical. It's a pity Garmin didn't make a cheaper 2460LM model like the 2450LM model. It would be very interesting to know Garmin's justification for this curious decision.
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Pros: Voice activation is a nice feature. It reccognizes my commands and makes it easy to enter addresses and favorites without typing. Loud speaker is also nice when I am listening to music. The unit is quick to activate and pick up satellites. Trip routeing i
Cons: Map detail could be a little better.
Summary: Overall a solid unit with lots of neat features that I have't even talked about and is a great value when you at other GPS units.
Summary: Overall a solid unit with lots of neat features that I have't even talked about and is a great value when you at other GPS units.
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Jeff Bingaman on Government Reform
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Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D, FL-20): We, as Members of Congress, have responsibility not just for the institution, but for the staff that work for this institution, and to preserve the facilities that help support this institution. We have endeavored to do that responsibly, and I believe we have accomplished that goal.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. SCALISE (R, LA-1): It's a sad day when someone attempts to cut spending in a bill that grows government by the size of 7%, and it's not allowed to be debated on this House floor. Some of their Members actually used the term "nonsense" and "foolishness" when describing our amendments to cut spending; they call that a delaying tactic. Well, I think Americans all across this country want more of those types of delaying tactics to slow down this runaway train of massive Federal spending. Every dollar we spend from today all the way through the end of this year is borrowed money. We don't have that money. We need to control what we're spending.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Sen. ORRIN HATCH (R-UT): I am cosponsoring the legislation to provide a House seat for DC and an additional House seat for Utah. Representation and suffrage are so central to the American system of self-government that America's founders warned that limiting suffrage would risk another revolution and could prevent ratification of the Constitution. The Supreme Court held in 1820 that Congress' legislative authority over DC allows taxation of DC. Do opponents of giving DC a House seat believe that DC is suitable for taxation but not for representation?
Opponent's argument to vote No:Sen. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ): I make a constitutional point of order against this bill on the grounds that it violates article I, section 2, of the Constitution. I appreciate the frustration felt by the residents of DC at the absence of a vote in Congress. According to many experts, DC is not a State, so therefore is not entitled to that representation. Also, one has to raise the obvious question: If DC is entitled to a Representative, why isn't Puerto Rico, which would probably entail 9 or 10 Members of Congress? [With regards to the seat for Utah], this is obviously partisan horse-trading.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Sen. BYRD: In 1978, I voted for H.J. Res. 554, that proposed amending the Constitution to provide for representation of D.C. [That amendment passed the Senate but was not ratified by the States]. While I recognize that others believe that the Constitution authorizes the Congress to "exercise exclusive legislation" over D.C., the historical intent of the Founders on this point is unclear. I oppose S.1257, because I doubt that our Nation's Founding Fathers ever intended that the Congress should be able to change the text of the Constitution by passing a simple bill.
Proponents support voting YES because:
Sen. HATCH. There are conservative and liberal advocates on both sides of this issue,and think most people know Utah was not treated fairly after the last census. For those who are so sure this is unconstitutional, [we include an] expedited provision that will get us to the Supreme Court to make an appropriate decision. It will never pass as a constitutional amendment. There are 600,000 people in D.C., never contemplated by the Founders of this country to be without the right to vote. They are the only people in this country who do not have a right to vote for their own representative in the House. This bill would remedy that situation.
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Sen. DOLE. I am proposing a commonsense measure to uphold the integrity of Federal elections. My amendment to require voters to show photo identification at the polls would go a long way in minimizing potential for voter fraud. When a fraudulent vote is cast and counted, the vote of a legitimate voter is cancelled. This is wrong, and my amendment would help ensure that one of the hallmarks of our democracy, our free and fair elections, is protected. Opinion polls repeatedly confirm that Americans overwhelmingly support this initiative.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Sen. FEINSTEIN. If one would want to suppress the vote in the 2008 election, one would vote for this because this measure goes into effect January 1, 2008. It provides that everybody who votes essentially would have to have a photo ID. If you want to suppress the minority vote, the elderly vote, the poor vote, this is exactly the way to do it. Many of these people do not have driver's licenses. This amendment would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to actually carry out. It goes into effect--surprise--January 1, 2008 [to affect the presidential election]. I urge a "no" vote.
For example, I am a big fan of McDonald's. What about the kids working behind the counter? Would they be considered registered lobbyists because McDonald's has lobbyists? Would I not be able to go to lunch with my longtime friend who owns 12 McDonald's?
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Town Cottage - Newly Renovated Exquisite Bungalow in Old Tow in Niagara-on-the-Lake
- bedrooms 3
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Location, location. This charming, renovated 1930's bungalow offers one of the best locations in the historic heart of Niagara on the Lake. 1 block from Queens Royal Park on Lake Ontario and 1 block from the many stores and restaurants on Queen Street.
This bright, spacious bungalow offers three newly bedrooms and one full bathroom. The cottage has a modern, fully equipped open concept kitchen with adjoining dining room. The living room, with its large comfy couch and wood-burning fireplace make it an ideal place to relax. The bathroom has been newly remodeled. A wide porch on the front is an ideal place to watch the horse carriages passing on the street while enjoying a glass of wine from one of the many nearby wineries. There is also a stone courtyard with table and chairs for secluded outdoor dining. It is pet friendly (dogs only please) with a fully enclosed yard.
A private outdoor eating area equipped with a BBQ. The newly renovated home is just a short walk to all 3 Shaw Theaters and 10 restaurants..
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Tony Chisholm (416) 605-2366
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- accept credit card
- laundry soap
- towels provided
- activities guide
- local activities guide
- toilet paper
- linens provided
- hair dryer
- soaps basic
- air-conditioning
- firewood
- restaurant dining guide
- central heating
- alarm clock
- local maps
- paper towels
- telephone
- freezer
- full sized refrigerator
- microwave
- washing machine
- clothes dryer
- stove top burners
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- coffee maker
- refrigerator mini size
- cooking utensils
- dish washer
- toaster
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- 4 ring stove
- video library
- satellite or cable
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- fishing
- walking
- roller blading
- cycling (cycle path starts at the end of our street)
- golf
- mountain biking
- tennis
- horseback riding
- sailing
- antiquing
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- gambling casinos
- outlet shopping
- hiking
- live theater
- sight seeing
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- Low Season (Nov-Apr) .. $230/night (2 night min) .. $1300/week;
- High Season (May-Nov) .. $300/night (3 night min) .. $2000/week; $80 cleaning fee charged for stays less than 4 nights and an one time pet fee of $80.
- 50% Deposit Via Visa or Mastercard Required At Booking, Rest just before Check-In; Deposit Less 5% Returned with 30 Days prior to rental period, less 5%, ; Discounted Rates For Extended Stays; VI,MC
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- Dates Available: Year Round
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Top things to do in Niagara-on-the-Lake
- Theatre in walking distance
- Many Wineries
- Fabulous restaurants in walking distance
- Niagara Falls - just 20 min away
- Cycling Paths start nearby
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Tyler Boyd led the Panthers (3-1, 2-1 ACC) with seven receptions for 111 yards. Tom Savage was intercepted twice and completed just 13-of-31 pass attempts while totaling 191 yards and a score.
David Watford completed only 15-of-37 pass attempts for 123 yards for Virginia (2-2, 0-1).Kevin Parks led the Cavaliers with 34 yards rushing and six receptions for 29 yards through the air.
Midway through the first quarter Dominique Terrell fumbled on a punt return, which was then recovered for Pittsburgh by Trenton Coles. The Panthers took over at the Virginia 19-yard line and four plays later James Conner scored on a six-yard touchdown run.
Another Virginia fumble led to a score for Pittsburgh later in the quarter. Watford lost the ball on a third-down run at the Virginia 18-yard line, which was recovered by Bam Bradley. Just two plays later Savage threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Street.
After a scoreless second quarter, the third was nearly the same until Ian Frye booted a 32-yard field goal for Virginia with 1:23 left in the period.
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A sports fan is like a planet. Some of us are like Earth, with one large moon, a single sports team that means everything to us. Not to stereotype, but these sorts tend to be extremely local folks, and whether you support Everton or Auburn, that one team dominates your thinking 365 days a year. There are the Marses of us, with a couple of teams, most likely from different sports, and often in the same town (your prototypical Yankees in the summer, Giants in the winter type).
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Semen Dried into the Silence of Rock and Mineral
Endless Moths Swarming
The Inexpressible Loneliness of Thinking
Flux and Permanence
Refusing a Heavenly Mansion
The Fire of This
Microtonal experimental black metal with irregular meters, dense polyphony, and wastelands of trudging black doom.
"One-man Missouri avant-garde black-metal project Jute Gyte uses guitars retrofitted to play 24-tone equal-tempered scales—meaning he's got twice as many notes in an octave as an ordinary guitarist. His songs teem with unearthly clusters of seasick dissonance, so that they sometimes sound like early Sonic Youth with blastbeats and shrieking. Unfamiliar microtonal intervals create intricate acoustic interference patterns, so that tones shimmer and dislocate. Ears accustomed to Western 12-tone polyphony can barely process these sounds—they sink into your skull like red-hot stones into ice. It's like you're listening to a tape at the wrong speed, or to music warped by a black hole's gravitational lens on its way here from several galaxies away." - Chicago Reader
"You'll recognize the use of microtonal riffing if you've experienced last year's Discontinuities, only rather than repeating that album, he's interpreted the technique into a more unpredictable, angular geometry that throws you curve balls in almost every track on the album. Songs are divided into harsher passages of insectoid, bristling dissonance, or springier and cleaner riffs set off against distorted dementia, with the tempos fluxed between the faster black metallic rushes of his prior works and a slower, creepier miasma of impenetrable doom that is compounded by the fresh intervals being picked and strummed. I couldn't even begin to accurately compare this to anything outside of Jute Gyte's own body of work, but strange word puzzles like 'Philip Glass being filtered through the unwashed demos of the stranger LLN bands' seem to pop into my imagination as I'm listening." - From the Dust Returned
"Kalmbach plays a microtonal guitar, which allows him to lever unbelievable amounts of dissonance into his compositions — so much that it's easy to forget that he's playing a guitar at all. And yet his songs are weirdly compelling, thanks in part to his awesome vocals and lyrics. This is seriously some of the most insane-sounding metal I've ever heard." - Stereogum
"Vast Chains takes all the tropes of black metal and transforms them into something super psychedelic and avant, the tunings, the arrangements, the melodies, fans of groups like Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, who traffic in woozy, slippery riffage, and blurred blackness, Jute Gyte takes that experimentalism a step further... the guitar parts and riffs are so odd, so damaged and atonal, sometimes they conjure utter beauty, lush lovely sonic swells, other times, they're so warped they almost make your eyes water. Opener "Semen Dried Into The Silence Of Rock And Mineral", lays it all out, sounding a bit like a slow motion Mesuhuggah, or a super spare, 20th century Deathspell, the sound chugging and churning, creeping and slithering, the vibe more doomy really than black, the arrangement confoundingly mathy, intricate and constantly shifting, and the guitars, holy shit, even when the heaviness is peeled back, leaving just some haunting clean guitar shimmer, those parts somehow sound even MORE strange and alien." - Aquarius Records
released 03 February 2014
Created Summer 2011 - Summer 2012
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Track Name: Semen Dried into the Silence of Rock and Mineral
Useless blood swayed by sunken moons
The misty sun is grown a dimmer gold
Where beauty with her doom conspires
To tell in flame what death and beauty mean
In a burnt land of ashes
Winter and silence and woe have come
Semen dried into the silence of rock and mineral
Silence all-attending and supreme
Track Name: Endless Moths Swarming
The burdens of embodiment and contingency
Omnipresent delimiters
An obsidian tower at every quadrant
Blood and flesh are the parody of desire
Lust is the plea before the executioner
Endless moths swarming
Golems of spoiled food and excrement
I have seen vases and polished brass
Reflect black windows
The gardener's lichen's human scream
Track Name: The Inexpressible Loneliness of Thinking
The influence of repulsion
A continuity of nothingness
Mind betrays body
Body betrays mind
See us from outside
Vast worms knotted by habit
Vast chains to hold us down
The failure of intimacy
The impossibility of power
The inexpressible loneliness of thinking
The beast obscured by black dusk
Track Name: Flux and Permanence
The murdered innocence of the sea
Flux and permanence
The wave's black banners break endlessly
The wolves of water that howl along our coast
The live red flame of sunset eating the dead blue sky
The sun-spangled blood of the woods
Broken souls and bodies ruinous
Sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal
Meaningless as a burnt scroll
that blackens with the passing of the fire
Track Name: Refusing a Heavenly Mansion
Refusing a heavenly mansion
Raging in the dark
But in the deserts of night and cold and void
Gathered beneath a greater shadow's wings
I saw a city where each house stood
On a rock between black seas
Solitude may rust your words
Track Name: The Fire of This
I cannot find a way through love and through
To lose this ever-aching loneliness in vaster solitude
Only a locked door
The long remorse
Vanished incommunicable moods
The dolor in the bells of blinded lands
The thousand-chorded monotones of pain
Locked doors without keys
Prisons without and prisons within
Labyrinths of newsprint
Coiled and rotting in your cave
The black wastes of the evening sky
Desolate oceans, and the light of lonely plains
What in our lives is burnt in the fire of this?
A burnt space through ripe fields
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2.88/5 rDev -9.4%
A: Nice dark amber color. Two finger white head.
S: Sweet malt smell with a faint hop smell.
T: Very average taste. Slight hop flavor but very malty for a pale ale. It also has a copper taste in the finish.
M: Light body with moderate carbonation.
D: Session beer.
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3.13/5 rDev -1.6%
Received in (crappy) August shipment of my BOTM club.
Serving glass: Poured from bottle into Nonic Imperial Pint.
Appearance: Clear burnt orange with thin head and some minor lacing.
Smell: Citrus and grapefruit, grainy dry malt, some spiciness.
Taste: Mostly dry grainy malts with light citrus and grapefruit hops. Slightly spicy and bitter at the end, but not nearly as bitter as it should be.
Feel: Moderately high carbonation, light to medium body (kind of watery), slightly dry finish.
Drinkability: Drinkable but very light standard APA. Certainly worth having on the beach in Florida, which I'm not.
09-06-2009 01:12:15 | More by bsp77
3.8/5 rDev +19.5%
12oz bottle poured in an Allagash snifter. Thanks to theghost3 for this!
Pours a nice pale golden color with a small fluffy head, just what you'd expect from an APA. On the nose is a bit of hoppiness and malt. It smells somewhat like a lager but with some tasty undertones.
Taste is surprisingly good after smelling it! It's nice and malty with a bit of toastiness on the finish. Overall quite a solid APA from Florida!
08-21-2009 01:08:37 | More by kingcrowing
4.63/5 rDev +45.6%
Take has not suffered since Ybor bought them out. The other reviews get into the details but this brew stands up to some of the best British Ales. A great blend of aroma, mouth and taste. Not too bitter, has a buttery notem so it is an excellent session brew. Don't like any of the Ybor product but this one is very good.
11-16-2002 15:28:58 | More by DarrellK
New Jersey
2.75/5 rDev -13.5%
03-30-2014 18:30:12 | More by acurtis
Ontario (Canada)
2.6/5 rDev -18.2%
I tried to sample the more interesting styles at the brewery. A little C-hop aroma. More malt that bitterness. Some lacing. Watery. A little more of anything to add to mouthfeel, taste, and preferably hops for some citrus hops taste. Redkneck IPA, sorry redknecks.
02-22-2009 03:05:22 | More by Sammy
3.4/5 rDev +6.9%
Appearance: Solid gold with excellent suspended yeast in the midst of the carbonation.
Smell: Sweet honey and wet hay.
Taste/Mouthfeel: Malted biscuit and a slightly watery/slick finish. Very tame, but rather refreshing for an ale.
Overall Drinkability: A refreshing if not great ale.
05-13-2014 02:48:56 | More by tjsdomer2
2.98/5 rDev -6.3%
Attended a beer tasting party recently and someone brought a Hurrican Reef Pale Ale to try...froma world beer package that his wife got him for some hallmark gift event. The Pale Ale was golden in color and clear. Little carbonation ane no head was present. The smell had some citrus to it....bought also some metallic waifes. The taste was powered by bitterness and grapfruit....so much so it hurt the mouthfeel. Not the best Pale Ale I ever had.
09-11-2011 14:55:22 | More by WoodBrew
3.08/5 rDev -3.1%
Best by date printed on neck of the bottle. 12 oz bottle poured into a pint glass. Pours an orangish amber color with an off-white head. The aroma is a little faint for an APA, with some sweet malt and faint citrusy hops. The taste is slightly toasted malt with some citrus hops in the finsh. Overall, this is a decent pale ale, but not something that I would purchase again.
04-08-2008 01:43:32 | More by cjgator3
3/5 rDev -5.7%
04-13-2012 02:50:32 | More by avisong
New York
4.05/5 rDev +27.4%
Copper-amber coloured, medium carbonation and smallish pale tan/off-white head. Big aroma, earthy, malty of sorts - can't quite place it...
Flavour is well-balanced, malt to the fore is offset by a moderate hoppiness. Some citrus appears later on to form a pleasant aftertaste. A very slight grainy feel on the tongue is there too, but nevertheless a pleasant, well-drinkable beer. Much better than the Key West beer from the same brewery.
02-10-2004 20:55:40 | More by Imbiber
New York
3.18/5 rDev 0%
Pours a toasted straw to light copper color with a small yet dense head that settles into a light ring.
The aroma is of a bready malt, light toast and honey. Mild floral hop aroma, just enough to be noticable. This APA is more malty sweet than hoppy. Just average.
There is a pleasant malt body. Slighty toasted, with some rustic metal notes. A general fruitiness provides some additional sweetness. The hops are mainly for bittering and don't provide much flavor beyond some grassy notes.
Moderate body with fizzy carbonation. Good balance between sweet and bitter. Quite crisp in the finish. Very easy to drink.
A good APA should have somewhat of a hoppy flavor to it and this beer really doesn't have that. The malt body and flavor is enjoyable but doesn't make up for the lack of hop flavor. Can't go wrong drinking this at a BBQ, though.
09-04-2011 19:21:19 | More by Gmann
New Jersey
3.4/5 rDev +6.9%
Poured from a bottle into a plain glass.
Pours mildly cloudy copper with little white foam. Minimal lacing. Mild hop notes in the nose, some wheatiness. Lightly fruity taste backed with a firm but balanced hop. Light citrus. Good carbonation. Tasty brew, well made.
03-20-2010 00:50:55 | More by KTCamm
3.2/5 rDev +0.6%
Appearance - Pours a pale yellow color with over two fingers of white fluffy head that dissipates somewhat quickly but leaves pretty decent lacing.
Smell - Quite a weak nose. Malt, wheat, slight hops, etc. Not much here.
Taste - Slight malts, hops, a hint of bitterness, somewhat like a lager in taste, etc. Has an off taste to it. Not quite sure what it is.
Mouthfeel - Relatively light bodied, crisp, decent carbonation.
Drinkability - Relatively so, but would not seek out again.
05-02-2010 02:04:18 | More by SpdKilz
3.5/5 rDev +10.1%
02-05-2012 00:06:27 | More by stampfler07
3.03/5 rDev -4.7%
Muted hop aroma is about all you get...a slight malty presence benath that. Light tea color. Nice thumb thick head. Mild hop flavor with a small amount of pink grapefruit sweetness. Way better than I expected from this brewer, but still not anything to get overly excited about.
02-17-2006 23:58:50 | More by Jredner
4.33/5 rDev +36.2%
Rich copper color, head was tan, fluffy, and full of slow rising hop bubbles. Smell was slightly biscuit and full of cascade hop aromas. Nice even, smooth, cascade assault on your tongue. Creamy, rich feel, smooth finish. Subtle malt backbone. All the right the traits of a classic American Pale Ale. Tastes like they copied the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale formula, and did a nice job. This is a beer Ybor City can hang their hat on. A pleasant surprise. I would buy this again, and hunker down for a category 1-2 storm. Anything more, I evacuate, and take my beer with me.
3 cheers for a really good Florida brewed beer !
08-20-2002 17:51:21 | More by StevieW
3.5/5 rDev +10.1%
This beer poured a slightly hazy golden color with a ½ inch head persistent. The aroma is citrus and malty. The taste is bitter from hops with the malt noticeable. There is a slight citrus taste as well. The mouthfeel is medium bodied. Overall, this is an interesting ale that has noticeable flavors that are not overpowering making it easy to drink.
07-01-2007 17:54:00 | More by barefootbrewer
2/5 rDev -37.1%
01-04-2013 02:47:18 | More by tjsmith910
North Carolina
3.15/5 rDev -0.9%
One of the few "local" beers that was available at the local grocery store while I was visiting Miami for vacation, I grabbed a sixer for my hotel room. The appearance is welcoming, with a golden yellow-orange color and a thin but present foamy white head. The aroma is muted and largely malt-forward, with a sweet bready character being complemented by only a little bit of light, fresh herbal hops. The flavor is likewise dominated by bready malt, although there is some lemony acidity and some pine to a lesser extent. The texture is relatively light and easy, which makes this one no chore to take down. Overall, this is an unremarkable buy pleasant pale ale, making it little better than average but fine enough for reading a spy novel on a hotel balcony.
07-12-2011 16:20:31 | More by devilben02
2.93/5 rDev -7.9%
Pours a cloudy, deep-orange with a very small head that quickly faded. There is not much here in the aroma department, but it's mildly hoppy. There is a slight hop bitterness in the taste with orange rind character. Malt is not strongly represented. This beer (this bottle?) was very lightly carbonated and went flat after a few minutes. Date notches on the label weren't visible (plus the label only went up to 2006). Hopefully it was only my batch that was like this. The beer goes down easy and I could have several in a row if I wanted. But with the general lack of character, I probably won't.
08-08-2007 23:14:44 | More by roller
3.1/5 rDev -2.5%
This review is just a placeholder for now, I will move it eventually. Gold pour with just a few white bubbles for the head. The aroma was heavily grainy, cereal, and just a touch of grassy hops. Flavor was similar. Some chalky bitterness and orange peel shines through but I dont know if I care for it. A good try but I was hoping this would be a bit better. 6/3/5/2/11
10-12-2008 07:44:38 | More by pepsican
3.25/5 rDev +2.2%
03-28-2014 21:15:49 | More by northcoastwolf
New York
3.28/5 rDev +3.1%
Orlando has a number of microbreweries but not all of them are good. I had one in a hotel, made especially for the hotel that was absolutely horrible. This pale ale was quite good. Nothing too special and certainly not has hoppy as it should be but definitely better than any yellow fizzy alternative that so many of these unelightened bars seem to have.
11-22-2009 22:43:46 | More by david18
New York
2.98/5 rDev -6.3%
This came in the August Beer of the Month Club package and poured a clear amber color with 1/2 inch tan head; had a hop, malt and mild grapefruit odor.
Very light carbonation and a crisp feel with a mild hop taste mixed with citrus, wheat, grassy/earthy notes, a touch of malt sweetness and a dry finish. Zero lacing on the glass and refreshing, but a little bland in the flavor. A decent to good beer that misses the mark for an APA, as there is not enough hop presence in this brew and it seems more like a lager than a pale ale after trying 3 of them.
08-22-2009 03:40:59 | More by CHickman
Hurricane Reef Pale Ale from Florida Beer Company
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The Nation magazine is to be commended for its effort to "kick off a spirited dialogue" on "Reimagining Socialism," and especially for putting the ball into the very capable hands of two leading Left thinkers and doers of our time — the team of Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr. Their opening essay appropriately asks, "with both long-term biological and day-to-day economic survival in doubt, the only relevant question is: do we have a plan?" And after adding that capitalism is in a "death spiral" they bluntly declare "no," we do not have any plan and argue that a "great project of collective salvation must be undertaken." Since being posted many others have responded to their opening essay.
As a young adult who believes "Another World is Possible," and knowing I am not the only one from my generation who thinks so, I place much hope in such a dialogue. But people from all generations should be able to see the importance of Ehrenreich and Fletcher's call and we are all united by common concern for the future.
Respondent Immanuel Wallerstein suggests the U.S. Left follow the example of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil, the largest organized social movement on earth, to apply pressure on Obama and to "work in the short run to minimize pain, and in the middle run to ensure that the new system that will emerge will be a better one and not a worse one…" Wallerstein points to the spirit of Porto Alegre and the World Social Forum and says we need to experiment with new structures. More experimentation and discussion about vision and possible structures for a new society is very much needed.
A potential "wave of environmental destruction" and "how to deal with a crisis that will define our world for the foreseeable future" is Bill McKibben's primary concern. However, a number of his statements, for example "The fuel for free-market fundamentalism and Marxism was fossil fuel," perplex me. If rubbing our thumbs together produced enough energy to fuel the world elites would be just as happy with hands in shackles as they are with occupying whole countries, if we let them… The point is undoing elite power and imagining new social structures that will give that power to people most affected so they can exercise their ability to judiciously determine what is environmentally sustainable and what is not.
Ehrenreich and Fletcher place the hard question of what a new society may look like in the hopes of a broad Left tradition when:
people got tired of trying to live on the crumbs that fall from the chins of the rich and rose up in some fashion–preferably inclusively, democratically and nonviolently–and seized the wealth for themselves. Such a seizure would have looked nothing like "nationalization" as currently discussed, in which public wealth flows into the private sector with little or no change in the elites that control it or in the way the control is exercised. Our expectation as socialists was that the huge amount of organizing required for revolutionary change would create an infrastructure for governance, built out of–among other puzzle pieces–unions, community organizations, advocacy groups and new organizations of the unemployed and nouveau poor.
This context leads us to question "what happened to the revolution and why?" which many people have poured over for decades and to which Rebecca Solnit surprisingly replies "there was and is a revolution, just not one that looks the way socialists and a lot of '60s radicals imagined it." In response to the lead essay's call for a "plan" Solnit says "We have thousands of them, being carried out quite spectacularly." Are these plans being carried out in isolation from one another or together in some fashion? Would Solnit agree that coordination among movements in a decentralized non-hierarchical way could galvanize movement ability to achieve their own objectives rather than working alone against the forces that inhibit their progress? Wouldn't the ultimate conclusion be for movements to build their own structures eventually transcending and replacing the ones blocking them from doing so? Can we imagine that these structures should be classless, self-managing, solidaritous, diverse, non-sexist, and non-racist? Fundamental transformation of society's defining institutions — revolution — is necessary so that all can harvest the fruit of our struggles for new social and material relations. As long as there is class segregation, political powerlessness, alienation and anti-social behavior, sexism and racism then revolution will be needed for our emancipation. Has this revolution happened on a scale that can reverberate around the world and inspire others to join? Has it happened in one of the most powerful and interventionist countries in history? Simply asking these questions is to answer them.
Solnit concludes that "one of the questions for the long-term [for state and economy] is about scale," but the only ones who should have any decision-making say about that are workers, consumers, and people who are affected by political and economic outcomes. Imagining and working toward implementing the institutional structures to convey the necessary information and empowerment to people so that they make these decisions is the task today. The answer to the question, and there will be many different answers, belongs to tomorrow.
Today's hopes for this new world are in many ways the same as those of the past. As Ehrenreich and Fletcher put it, we, "not the market or the capitalists or some elite group of über-planners–have to control our own destiny." However, as Tariq Ali argues in his contribution, "Until the emergence of a viable sociopolitical and economic alternative, perceived by a majority as such, there will be no final crisis of capitalism." Thus it would seem discussing, debating, and sharing ideas should be of the highest priority.
Responding to the task Robert Pollin makes the next contribution in the symposium and says that the problem is that "we do not know what a socialist economy would look like." This is not true. As recent as last century there were the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union, China, and Cuba. There was the Yugoslav model of "market socialism" or "market coordiantorism" and of course there are also the examples that Ehrenreich and Fletcher suggest in their opening essay. Not to mention many of this century's examples in Latin America and others mentioned in other symposium contributions. There is a lot to learn from, discuss, debate, and share. Now we need to put ideas through the sieve to see what these candidates offer for the future and try to develop a shared coherence and direction.
Pollin also says "We need to stop consuming fossil fuels and defeat global warming over the next twenty to thirty years," and he is right, however, not only will doing so take at least as much coordination of energy and resources as moving toward a post-capitalist economy, but as long as capitalism's defining features of private ownership of productive assets, markets, and corporate hierarchies exists, any progress made toward a "green economy" will always be threatened by market pressures pushing for production and consumption of private goods and services over public ones and hiding the true social and material costs of economic activity.
Pollin admits embracing the sentiment "Be Utopian, Demand the Realistic" rather than the revolutionary "Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible." If the symposium were "Reimagining Capitalism" and this were an effort to give capitalism a human face then this might make sense. But conditions long before, during, and after the current crisis, while needing immediate reforms, will ultimately require fundamental transformation of society's defining institutions to ensure the success of reforms and their eventual melting into the attributes of a new society.
All of the symposium contributors note the worsening conditions of capitalism and additionally John Bellamy Foster highlights global resistance outside the U.S. and proposes that "Today the prospect of a revolt from below in the United States, which could well gain momentum within several years under conditions of deep economic stagnation, promises new space for a radical/socialist movement." However, as Foster and the others would likely agree, social revolt is not like chemistry, in the sense that there is no "boiling point" at which social and material conditions worsen so much to trigger a Left resistance. In conditions of severe social and material crisis public opinion is prone to extreme swings — either to the Right or to the Left. In fact it should be a sobering reminder that although John McCain lost the 2008 presidential ticket he had 45% of the popular vote. Similarly to the South, despite his victory, 46% of Venezuelan's who came out to vote last month did so against Chavez's proposal to remove presidential term limits. It would be wise to balance our optimism about today's social movements and further potential for mobilization while offering an idea of where we want to go in an effort to build a mass coordinated movement with shared vision to help ensure we remain on course in route to victory.
Considering capitalism's current crisis Christian Parenti echoes other contributor's proposals that we need a "program of progressive restructuring." And when considering global climate change he writes, "The disastrously, apocalyptically, compressed timeframe of climate change will not wait for revolution. Realistically all we have time for is a program of reform that will get us to capitalism with a green and social democratic face." Almost everyone will agree with the need for short-and long-term reforms to address the immediate problems we face. But our reforms should be made with an orientation and consciousness towards, well, ultimately, revolution. And if the situation is urgent than we should take up the lead essay's challenge all the sooner. On "Reimagining Socialism" Parenti writes that we need to reimagine our intellectual lives in the sense, I think he means, that the poor and working classes in the U.S. should have access to more political education. But who on the Left would disagree?
(Note March 14: Actually, I don't think I interpreted Christian's words how he meant them. But re-reading them I am still uncertain what he meant. He was speaking of his impressions of popular political education and culture in India but summarizes with "So in facing the big question of reimagining socialism, one small task for us might be to more rigorously reimagine our intellectual lives. We might do well to be more grown-up and less self-righteous, to address and accept contradictions." Does he mean less self-righteous in that U.S. Leftists should be careful to comment on movements in other countries? Most would agree… Does he mean that we should accept contradictions such as, for example, class rule in other countries or our own government's imperialist interventions? I really don't think he means this either. Does he mean the lead essay authors shouldn't be proposing we discuss vision? I doubt it too. I just can't figure out what is meant here.)
Movements pressuring government to make more resources readily available for popular education (and health care, and welfare, national infrastructure, etc.) should be part of a larger program at mobilizing for more far reaching and long-term change aspiring to reduce and eventually abolish class society.
For me, the call made by Ehrenreich and Fletcher to imagine the kind of future society we want, how to develop shared commitments to it, and also how we arrive at that mutual conclusion, is like trying to cure a horrendous disease. Only the disease is not new and people have been working on its treatment for centuries. The lead authors ask others to consider how to cure it — not only because daily conditions living with the disease cause immense suffering, death, and damage, but now especially because it is cycling worse than usual. Those responding to their call for a cure fall into the following categories:
(a) Look at some of the most effective resistances, work to reduce the suffering, experiment more, and hope that a cure will emerge but do so warned in advance that it will be difficult.
(b) The disease has already been cured! It's just not cured how you thought it was going to be…
(c) The disease could cause apocalyptic catastrophe. In the meantime we will have to adapt to the suffering, accept many of the symptoms, and take care of ourselves better.
(d) Until a widely accepted cure is on the table there will be no
end to the disease.
(e) The disease is getting worse, there is resistance outside the center of the problem, let's hope resistance in the center grows.
Real life is much more complicated than any metaphor and social change is not medicine. But the analogy does highlight a range of responses from support of the lead authors call for vision to various degrees of Thatcher's "There Is No Alternative" (TINA) to capitalism – both without much reimagining overall.
Imagining a new society should be about proposing ideas and examples from the past and present about how to empower all to control their own social and material destinies. It should mean reorganizing society's institutions to realize egalitarian relations between sexes; balanced divisions of economic labor for classlessness; for decentralized and participatory self-managed decision-making; for cultural inter-relations and multiplicity; and for environmental stability. The most inspiring propositions for a new world are often the most simplistic and bold: organizing and activism with the ultimate conclusion being transformation of society's defining institutions and the totality of social and material relations. We only need to try a little harder to imagine what that may look like.
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There is no other fish that has influenced the entire world as much as the humble cod has. Fishing the outer islands of Boston Harbor every May during the 1980's, I would catch market-size "schrod" (fish between 8-12#) on cut clams. It was the first time I began to understand how important it was to find structure and fish on and around it. I quickly became a fan of fresh schrod and pollock.
Any other white fleshed fish will work in this recipe.
I like this recipe because the Italian breadcrumbs do not soak up an excess amount of frying oil as a batter mix does. I also like to juice up any store bought tartar sauce with fresh chopped herbs and chopped marinated artichoke hearts.
New England Fried Schrod And Nantucket Bay Scallops With Green Cabbage & Carrot Slaw
Yield 4
1# Fresh, Boneless Schrod Fillets
1# Nantucket Bay Scallops
1 ea. Whole Egg
2 oz. Whole Milk
¼ Cup AP Flour
1 Can Italian Style Bread Crumbs
Vegetable Oil - for frying
In a mixing bowl, mix the egg, milk and flour together to make a batter. Put the Schrod and Scallops in another mixing bowl and add the batter. Work the batter on all of the fish. Keeping your left hand "wet" in the fish bowl, transfer the Scrhod and scallops a little bit at a time to the bowl with the Italian Bread Crumbs. Using your right "dry" hand, coat the fish with breadcrumbs and place on a plate lined with paper towels.
In a large pot, heat up the oil to 350 degrees. Cook your Schrod and Scallops in small batches so the oil temperature does not drop too dramatically. Fry for 2-3 minutes, pull out and place on a plate with paper towels to drain off the excess oil.
Be careful not to over heat the oil as it will pose a fire hazard. A frying oil thermometer always makes this easier. Use prudence and slowly heat up the oil.
Green Cabbage & Carrot Slaw
½ head Green Cabbage, Chiffonade(thin) cut
3 ea. Peeled Carrots, shredded using a box grater
4 oz. Champagne Vinaigrette
2 ea. Sweet Oranges, juiced, save the juice
2 oz. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Salt, Fresh Ground Black Pepper
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6:30pm Thursday 31st January 2013 in News By Adam Richards
A BASINGSTOKE-based housing association is hosting a series of community brainstorming sessions to help shape a major new housing development.
Sentinel Housing Association will hold three consultations to get feedback about how it should regenerate the former Eli Lilly industrial site, in Kingsclere Road.
Sentinel plans to build 500 homes on the 10-hectare former Lilly and Liverpool Victoria sites, which they bought last year. The consultations will help to shape a future planning application.
A Sentinel spokeswoman said: "We are taking a step back. What we are saying is we have got this land and we want to do something with it – what do you want to see done?"
In December, the first glimpses of how Sentinel would regenerate the land were revealed in a preliminary scoping report.
The report said that 500 "high-quality" homes would be built.
The report also suggested a care home could be built on site, and new pedestrian and cycle routes would be built to and from the development.
The informal drop-in sessions will be held at Sentinel's offices in Kingsclere Road today from 3pm to 8pm, Friday February 1, from 1pm to 5pm, and on Saturday February 2, from 10am to 1pm.
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A couple months ago the world was introduced to Google's Chromium. In short, it's a browser that does a few OS things - but when finished it's going to be an internet client machine with little to no functionality beyond this.
I scoffed as have a lot of people. Google's a big company after all, but Microsoft OWNS the desktop. After 15 years of trying Linux has barely put a scratch in the Windows market share. Apple has had only slightly more success. How does Google think they can beat Windows. I had my laugh, cracked some jokes and forgot about Chromium. After all, it isn't going to run my PC games and can't do anything but browse so I don't need it. Grandpa and Grandma can barely figure out how the mouse works might like the simplification, but I don't care.
Or at least I didn't. Funny thing happened at work.
I am a web developer and my current job is building a database application for a medical billing company. My boss hates Microsoft with a passion and has instructed me to only test the application in Firefox 3.5. He doesn't care if it works on anything else.
I was thinking about this one day when it occurred to me, that directive is how IE 6 got it's hooks in the first place - make sure the company intranet pages work on IE 6, to hell with anything else.
Microsoft won the browser war and rested on their laurels, giving IE 6 a huge amount of inertia.
So what does this have to do with Chrome and Chromium? Well, Windows got it's dominance by insuring that corporations needed Windows to run their business aps, most critically the ones they wrote themselves. However, as these have moved online the applications are becoming OS agnostic. But they aren't browser agnostic (at least not IE 6 vs the rest of the world).
Microsoft has created a pickle for themselves. IE 6 isn't supported in their newest OS, and keeping pages that worked in IE 6 working in IE 7 and 8 is next to impossible. Hence they are slowly forcing these companies to rewrite their in house stuff. Now, are these companies going to trust Microsoft not to drop support for a browser again?
Enter Chromium. First, it is only a browser. But my company only needs a browser on the computer - there are no other applications used by the staff in their day to day operations. I'm guessing there's quite a few companies out there in a similar position. Now, if chromium will run browser based software better and faster than Windows...
And if it does it cheaper...
Suddenly Google's OS doesn't look so Quixotic after all. Windows will continue to be a desktop/laptop monopoly. But it's ill equipped to handle the thin-client world. For corporations that have a lot of web based software there's a lot of attractiveness in Chromium. The limited functionality actually becomes a feature in this environment.
And if Google succeeds in this they can thank IE 6 for creating the favorable environment and getting corporations to move off OS specific applications in the first place.