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Agents seize 8,000 counterfeit DVDs and fake movies from Polk County crime ring
POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Homeland Security Agents said Friday they busted a Polk County crime ring for a third time, confiscating 8,000 counterfeit DVDs. The movies included recent releases like Zero Dark Thirty and Les Miserables.
The first seizure took place July 27, 2011, and involved 30,000 DVDs. The second came on April 24, 2012, and included 113,000 DVDs.
Thursday's seizure ended with 8,000 DVDs, $120,000 in US currency, and just under $170,000 in bank accounts.
"The sale of these DVDs could be funneled back to terrorist organizations which could, in turn, hurt the United States," explained Homeland Security Group Supervisor Fred Butler.
Agents traced the DVDs to China, sold by Jian Huang to bulk distributors in the US.
Seven people now face federal charges for profits that surpassed a half-million dollars. They include Huang as well as his co-conspirators: Alex Lee Lim of Lakeland, Robert Edmond Mattie of Winter Haven, James William Ray of Bartow, Donald Kenneth Brown, Jr. of Lakeland, Martin William Grenfell of Lakeland, and Christopher Alexander T. Clark of Lakeland.
The six Polk County residents bought the DVDs for a little more than $1.
"And they were selling them for roughly $12 so they were making a significant profit off an illegal activity," Butler said.
According to HSI, some of the men made $40,000 every two weeks, which they used to support other criminal activity from narcotics to a variety of fraud.
As they continue to dig deeper, agents expect to find even more.
"This is not the end. We do know there are additional violators out there and we will move forward to locate, find, and prosecute those involved in counterfeit DVDs," Butler said.

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WashPost Seeks to Spin Positive Poll Numbers As Negative for Potential GOP Veep Nominee Gov. Bob McDonnell
Fifty-six percent of Virginians approve of Republican Bob McDonnell's job as governor and 49 percent believe the Old Dominion is on the right track. That contrasts with a 47 percent average approval rating for President Obama and an average of 32.7 percent of Americans who believe the country is on the "right track."
Yet the Washington Post chose to spin the polling numbers as a negative, noticing a downward trend from previous numbers and attributing the shift to "a contentious legislative session that drew large protests and national ridicule to the state Capitol."
"The approval rating for McDonnell (R) dropped six points over the past year, from 62 percent to 56 percent. Thirty-five percent disapprove of the job he is doing — a nine-point increase from a year ago," staff writer Anita Kumar noted.
Yes, Kumar conceded, "The governor still has firmly positive ratings at a time of political discord nationwide. But he has lost support among independents and urban women after a 12-month period that closed with a partisan standoff over the state budget and an uproar over a bill requiring women seeking an abortion to first undergo a vaginal ultrasound."
Of course, it was the Democrats in the state senate who held up timely approval of the state budget, scuttling approval of the state spending blueprint three times before a lone Democratic senator crossed party lines to vote in favor of the budget. Democrats in the state senate had attempted to use the budget as a bargaining chip for more power in the evenly-divided state senate, which is presided over by the state's Republican Lieutenant Governor.
As to the ultrasound requirement, the Post's own polling shows that Virginia voters are roughly evenly-divided on the question with 51 percent opposing it, 46 percent favoring it and about 4 percent with no opinion. Keep in mind that the Post did its level best to scuttle the ultrasound requirement and that Post staffer Anita Kumar repeatedly failed to inform readers that Planned Parenthood clinics as a matter of course perform pre-abortion ultrasounds anyway. Also of note is that fact that the Washington Post editorial board has gone on the record opposing the compromise legislation that McDonnell ultimately signed.
"Republicans hope McDonnell, an oft-mentioned vice presidential contender, will help deliver Virginia in November, when the state will play a crucial role in determining the outcome of the presidential race and the balance of power in the U.S. Senate," Kumar noted.
But for all Kumar's spin about how McDonnell was souring on voters, the polls numbers themselves cut against the Post's desired pessimistic narrative (emphasis mine):
Fifty-two percent of women in Virginia approve of McDonnell's job performance despite an 11 percentage point increase in his disapproval rating. Among independent women his disapproval jumped by 18 points.
More than seven in 10 independent voters, men and women, say that adding McDonnell to a national ticket would not affect their presidential choice — 8 percent are more likely to back Romney and 18 percent say it would push them toward President Obama.
Try as it might -- and our archive proves that they have -- the Post has a long way to go to take down Virginia voters' estimation of their successful conservative governor.
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It's All The Leftists Have
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 12:06pm.
Democrats doing poorly?, make the Republicans look even worse, even if you have to lie about it or distort the truth. God help us Americans, one and all.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read "Leftism As Psychopathy" by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
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Same old Washington Post
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 12:51pm.
I've lived in northern Virginia since 1993, and I've never seen the Post praise a Republican let alone endorse one. I doubt that they've ever even consider doing so over that period.
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Zurich Global Life CEO Seeks Emerging Market Distribution Deals
Insurer is looking at new distribution deals, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil.
INN Breaking News, January 22, 2014
(Bloomberg) -- Zurich Insurance Group AG, the biggest Swiss insurer, is seeking more agreements to sell life insurance via banks to help expand in emerging markets.
We will keep looking at new distribution deals, particularly in the geographies that were excited about including Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil, Kristof Terryn, CEO of Zurich Insurances global life unit, said in an interview in Davos. If we have the opportunity to expand bank distribution there through distribution or joint venture, we will definitely look at it.
Terryn, named CEO of global life after Kevin Hogan resigned in August to join American International Group Inc., has a brief to boost cash and operating profit in the coming three years, while saving costs and exiting underperforming businesses. Global life was the only unit within the group that hit its targets last year.
Bank distribution currently gives us access to 60 million customers, Terryn said, adding he only wants to invest where we have truly distinctive positions.
To help reach the units new targets, Terryn could sell small parts of the business. It may very well be the case that for smaller parts of the book, smaller products where it is economically unfeasible for us to profitably maintain that, we look at a sale of smaller parts of our book, he said.
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Breaking Local News
Kanawha County loses Cpl. to battle with cancer
The Kanawha County Sheriff's office has lost a beloved officer. Cpl. Greg Eplin had been battling colon cancer for over a year, and died Friday at Logan Regional Medical Center's critical care unit. During Eplin's treatment, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Association did their best to raise money for medical treatment and travel expenses to support Eplin. Last week was a tough one for law enforcement officers, who are also mourning two fallen state police troopers after the shooting in Wallback.
Food Pantry needs to restock
The Salvation Army food pantry in Charleston is running low. The shelves are sparse with food and many families are still inquiring about help, so donations are appreciated to help the pantry stock up. The June 29 storms had a big impact on the Salvation Army and drained some of its resources. Big food drives are planned by Putnam and Kanawha County schools this fall, but the Salvation Army could use help in the meantime.
State Fire Code won't change, for now anyway
There won't be any changes to the state fire code. A proposal that would have required professional and volunteer fire companies in West Virginia to follow national safety and training rules was analyzed and considered for quite some time, and some at a public hearing last Friday strongly opposed it. Volunteer fire departments raised concerns about the costs of the plan. All the changes at once might have meant hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional costs for each department per year. The state Fire Commission hasn't scrapped the idea of change all together. They may rework the rule changes and bring them back later on.
Both women could be charged after fight
Kanawha Deputies are still investigating an incident Wednesday evening where a St. Albans woman was shot in the neck with an air rifle. Paramedics were already at the home on Strawberry Road in Saint Albans when deputies arrived, and they were tending to 37-year old Tara Jo Turley. A fight apparently broke out between Turley and an acquaintance, Jacqueline N. McClanahan, who alleged that Turley had assaulted her with a baseball bat. Charges are pending against both women.
Elk may be reintroduced to West Virginia
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin recently spoke to a group of sportsmen and women and during those remarks he talked about bringing elk back to West Virginia. Reports show the last native West Virginia elk was seen 137 years ago. West Virginia has studied it, but hasn't re-introduced elk yet. Kentucky and Virginia have each added elk to their states, although some farm groups oppose it. An elk management plan would have to come before the game animals are introduced.
Teens arrested after St. Ablans car burglary
A St. Albans man called police early Thursday after seeing men trying to break into his car. The took of in another vehicle, but were caught a short time later. All were 18 years old - two are from St. Albans and one is from East Bank. All were arrested and charged with auto tampering, and one was also charged with driving without a license. St. Albans police say this was the second time in a week that cars had been tampered with on Ridgewood Forest Road.
No students hurt after Head Start bus crash
Minor damage was done when a Fayette County Head Start bus and a coal truck collided Thursday morning near the Montgomery Bridge exit ramp on W.Va. 61. There were 22 pre-school children on the bus at the time, and none of them were hurt. Fayette County Head Start told the Gazette their driver was at fault and did not see the coal truck in his mirror when he went to merge into traffic. Drug and alcohol tests are standard procedure, and those results are pending.
Funeral arrangements set for fallen officer
Police are still investigating the Tuesday night shooting where state troooper Marshall Bailey was killed by gunman Luke Baber after he was pulled over for reckless driving along Interstate 79 in Roane County. Trooper Eric Michael Workman was also critically wounded before the suspect was shot and killed. Funeral arrangements have been set now for Cpl. Marshall Lee Bailey. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday at Gatens-Harding Funeral Home in his hometown of Poca. A funeral service will be at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Charleston Civic Center.
Vaccine grace period for students ends Friday
The grace period expires Friday for Kanawha County students, meaning vaccines need to be up to date by then or the students can be held out of school. There are new requirements for meningitis, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis vaccines, and those should have been up to date by the time school started in mid-August, but the state granted a two-week grace period. That ends August 31. Will students actually be sent home? That would be a matter of matching up a lot of student records - as many as 25 percent of the student body - and it's not clear if the school district will act. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department has the vaccines, as do most family physicians.
Marshall Scientist to share new equipment with UC
A big grant that goes to a Marshall University scientist is expected to help many. The $338,000 grant has been awarded to chemistry assistant professor Derrick Kolling and colleagues at Marshall and the University of Charleston. Kolling will use the grant money to buy equipment that will help shed more light on metal compounds. The equipment will be in Huntington, but a University of Charleston faculty member will go there to use it.


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The famous rock at the University of Tennessee's campus got a splash of red early Wednesday as the Vols prepare to face the University of Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday.The rock, which students frequently decorate to express opinions, appeared to be painted red and thenspray painted with the words "Roll Tide Roll" and "Go 2 Hell TN."Photos of the scene spread across social media as more students and alumni caught wind of the rivalry week attack.UT student Zack Royster got a photo of the vandalized rock around 7:50 a.m. on his way to class. He said the Alabama quotes were painted over by 9 a.m.This isn't the first time fans of another SEC school have made their mark on the Rock. Back in 2012,Kentucky fans painted it blue and white to celebrate the basketball team's national championship victory.Read more at WBIR's website.
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Earlier this season I took a look at PER differential which gave us a glimpse of what it takes to make the playoffs. Now that we have actual playoff teams, I thought we should revisit this and see what we can determine. In that article I thought that the Lakers would make the playoff based on their team PER differential, especially at SG. Only Denver ended with a positive at all five positions, as the rest of the playoffs teams gave up something at at least one spot. The Thunder, Heat, Clippers, SA, and Grizzlies all posted a 10+ differential as a team.
When looking deeper at what separates these teams, it becomes clear what positions the non playoff teams should focus on to improve. The playoff teams averaged a positive in both points and PER differential at every position, while the non-playoff teams were all negative. Looking at the teams however paints a much clearer picture of what is really making these teams better.
There where 13 teams whose PF and C positions combined for a positive differential, 10 of them made the playoffs. There where only 12 teams whose SG and SF positions combined for a positive differential, all 12 of these teams made the playoffs. The four playoff teams without a positive were Golden State, New York, Brooklyn, and Atlanta.
Three of these teams however still had extremely effective perimeter players. Golden State had a huge edge with Curry at PG, New York had Carmelo playing PF and was a top 3 pt shooting team, and Brooklyn's starters where very effective and their bench was poor. Only two non-playoff teams had a positive differential at either SF or SG. They were Toronto and Sacramento, both at SG, all other 26 total SG and SF spots for non playoff teams were negative.
When looking at the positional advantage, we see a similar story. The biggest positional advantages for playoff teams based on point and PER differential where in order: SF, PF, SG, C, and then PG. Or you could say that SF is the most important position to have an advantage on in order to be a playoff team, with PG being of the lowest importance.
Only 4 four playoff teams held a significant edge at PG, the Warriors, Clippers, Thunder, and Spurs. Three of these teams have more of a scoring guard playing PG, where only Chris Paul averaged less than 20 ppg this season. Most of the rest of the playoff teams deployed PG's who are strong defenders who are also solid shooters.
Lets take a look at how this applies to our Pistons.
The PF spot was the worst position as far as differential this season, followed by SF, SG, PG, and C. The SF spot is a little deceiving in that it was positive before trading Prince going from a +0.8 to a -2.4 The SG spot actually improved after the trade going from a -5.6 to a -3.5. This is the Singler effect, as he was consistently outperformed at both spots.
We can expect that the PF and C spots will be solid for Detroit next year as both Monroe and Drummond posted positive differentials this year. Interestingly Knight posted a net positive at both point(+3.4) and PER(+1.2) differential at PG this year, while Calderon was negative in point and even in PER. I am not too surprised by this as the team was significantly outscored when Jose was on the floor. Knight's surprising effectiveness at PG this year, and the minimal impact PG play has on most playoff teams, it might be in the best interest for this team to let Knight play PG again next year and focus their resources elsewhere.
This leaves the obvious SG and SF spots to upgrade. When looking at available free agents, I was only able to find two players at SG or SF who played at a positive level this year: Tyreke Evans and JJ Redick. If we consider that any rookie will not likely produce a positive, these are the two most likely players to improve the important wing play. These are crucial spots that separate the have's and the have not's.
This team should easily make the playoffs if they can be just even at the wings. With the draft and free agency likely to bring help, the team should be much improved next year with the right moves.


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John Kutzli's workshop is in a small section of his studio
apartment in Clinton. John is ninety two years old, and still is blessed with a
steady hand and a creative mind.
John uses a pocket knife and Colorado Aspen Wood to create
beautiful canes and walking sticks. He uses a pencil to draw the designs on the
John has designed hundreds of the canes and walking sticks in
the last fifteen years. He gives them away to people at senior centers and
walking clubs.
He made a walking stick for his wife Marilyn. It has a garden
vegetable theme. John's walking stick has a tackle box, rod and reel, bobbers,
and fish.
His fragile eyesight is certainly not a deterrent to his
ability to work with wood.
He and his wife Marilyn also have quite the touch with stone.
The two designed a piece of art featuring a church. It is made out of petrified
John lives at Prairie Hills in Clinton, and has given several
canes and walking sticks to the senior citizens living there.
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Chalk It Up
Set your child up with a bucket of chalk and a chunk of virgin sidewalk, and she'll be following in a tradition that can be traced to 16th-century Italy. Back then, itinerant artists known as madonnari wandered from village to village, sketching religious pictures in white chalk and charcoal (often the Madonna, hence the moniker) on sidewalks in front of the village church or town square.
Your child's tableaux may not exactly resemble Renaissance masterpieces, but with as much fervor as those madonnari, she'll cover every inch of blacktop with smiling cats and rainbows. Kids like chalk because it's the king of big honkin' art. "Sidewalk and wall chalkboard surfaces entice kids," says Wendy Yaffe, a longtime children's art teacher in Amherst, Massachusetts. "Here they can draw freely, dramatically, cooperatively, and very, very large."
And just as Navajo sand paintings exist only fleetingly, so too the sidewalk artist's efforts — one good storm and the slate's wiped clean for a brand-new gallery opening.
What is chalk anyway?
That stuff your kids love to scrape all over the driveway? Technically it's not chalk. Real chalk, what's used on chalkboards (see Arielle, above), is formed by the accumulated remains of gazillions of microscopic marine organisms. Outside chalk is actually gypsum, a mineral that crystallizes out of evaporating seawater. Gypsum is also the white filling in construction drywall and a dough conditioner in Twinkies.


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Maddon's Starting Rotation Inconsistency
In today's start, Maddon yanked Niemann in the 5th for a pinch-hitter in a key situation. It worked out well and was probably the best decision. But when I look at Niemann's overall line, he only gave up 2 runs in 4 innings, in other words, he was doing a good job of damage control despite not having his best stuff. I'm trying to figure out why he doesn't give the same treatment to Sonnanstine. As much as I love Maddon, he's giving Sonnanstine the benefit of the doubt way too much, and probably not enough to Niemann. At this point you can roll the dice and anticipate better odds with Niemann than Sonny, who's among the league leaders in homeruns given up. In this case, Maddon needs to start looking at Sonny as the Sonny of this year and not from last year.


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Here we go again! The same warm and humid air mass that produced numerous reports of strong wind gusts and hail yesterday will help fuel our second round of severe weather later today. The Storm Prediction Center has just updated their severe weather outlook for today and as you can see, the slight risk (represented in yellow) remains intact for the area with the stronger chances well to our south.
Eastern Iowa and Illinois stands on the warmer side of this system with southerly winds pulling warm, moist unstable air out of the central plains into the Midwest. Factor in a strong jet aloft blowing over 100 mph from west to east and you have the makings of a change in wind direction with height, otherwise known as shearing. This will allow these cluster of thunderstorms to rotate and last longer than the average life span of a thunderstorm.
The prime threat appears to be large hail and straight-line winds. Click this image indicating the potential for large hail. The second image below indicates high wind probabilities.
The bottom line is you want to be prepared. Make sure you know where to go when severe weather is quickly approaching your hometown. Any loose items, such as childen's toys and yard equipment need to be properly stored. Intense winds could carry these items and make them projectiles. Be ready if or when the power goes out in your household. You can always keep in touch with us on our News 8 app or Facebook throughout the entire weather event.
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Posted: January 12th, 2013
House lady — head on out to Walten Woods
Today is a perfect day to look at houses. The snow is pretty much gone, and it's going to be a warm 50+ degree weekend. One area of interest is the Walten Woods region of Harborcreek — just a ride out to this private community along the lake is worth the trip. Here's a link to my cover story about a Howard Hanna listing. Other links to home stories are listed below.
Pam Parker is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa. She is the mom of three, stepmom to three and step-grandmom to one. She has been writing about real estate for more than 20 years.
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Originally posted 01/09/2014 12:30PM
Heidi Klum snatched Brad Paisley's hat at the People's Choice Awards Wednesday, and she looked so amazing that we decided to work a little photo magic and see how other stars would look with Paisley's headgear on their noggins.
Originally posted 11/06/2013 11:55PM
Good cop, bad cop is a strategy we've seen employed many times by celebrity duos, but no two performers have perfected it quite like Country Music Awards co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, who reteamed to emcee the show for the sixth straight year on Wednesday.
Originally posted 11/06/2013 09:45PM
It wouldn't be a music awards show – even a country one – without giving a nod to the year's biggest hit.
"Blurred Lines" got some love during Wednesday night's CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn., when hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley kicked off the night with a parody of Robin Thicke's party anthem. The new version "Duck Lines" was a nod to the cast of A&E's Duck Dynasty.
The reality family joined the hosts on stage for the silly song, which replaced "I know you want it," with "I know you hunt it," and used "You're a country girl," instead of "You're a good girl." The words "Quack, quack, quack" replaced "Hey, hey, hey."
Originally posted 11/06/2013 06:15PM
Producers have some surprises in store for tonight's CMA Awards – and PEOPLE has all the details!
Fans know that Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley – who are hosting the show on Wednesday for the sixth straight year – always bring the fun, but this time around they'll be getting a little help from some unexpected people.
The pair will be performing with the cast of A&E's hit Duck Dynasty. "Look who's gracing us with their presence tonight," Paisley Tweeted along with a pic. "So psyched."
Originally posted 10/24/2013 04:30PM
There was no lack of beauty on Seth Meyers and Alexi Ashe's wedding day.
The scenery of the couple's nuptials – Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts – was peaceful and picturesque, covered with trees and flowers.
The Ralph Lauren Black Label-dressed groom, 39, and custom Carolina Herrera-clad bride were joined by friends and family in the intimate ceremony, including Olivia Munn, Allison Williams, Kristen Wiig, Amy Poehler and a handful of other current SNL stars and alumni.
Originally posted 10/16/2013 08:00PM
The actress is making a name for herself on Nashville – but the kids still name-drop Brad Paisley
Originally posted 09/10/2013 08:00AM
Six artists, including Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton, received multiple nominations for the 2013 Country Music Association Awards.
Swift and Shelton received two nominations each, as did Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Florida-Georgia Line and Kacey Musgraves – as the nominees in the top five categories were revealed live on Good Morning America on Tuesday.
Swift, Shelton, Aldean and Bryan will be competing, along with George Strait, for entertainer of the year.
Originally posted 08/13/2013 10:00AM
They're on a roll!
Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley will host the 47th annual CMA Awards on Nov. 6 at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
It will be the pair's sixth consecutive time co-hosting the event known as "Country Music's Biggest Night."
Fellow stars Little Big Town enthusiastically made the announcement during Monday night's broadcast of CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock. (Watch a clip below.)
Originally posted 07/20/2013 08:00PM
It's hot – really hot – these days. To help you get through the sweltering weekend ahead, we picked our favorite summer jams that should make you forget about the sweat dripping down your back.
Whether it's Rascal Flatts "Summer Nights" or Jake Owen's "Barefoot Blue Jean Night," the second we hear one of those songs, we want to grab a beer and go dancing on the beach.
Maybe you're one of the lucky fans who will be attending one of the awesome festivals happening this weekend – Country Thunder in Twin Lakes, Wis., Jamboree in the Hills in Belmont, Ohio, or Faster Horses in Brooklyn, Mich. – where you'll get to hear Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean and more play their hits.
Originally posted 07/04/2013 10:00AM
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Not too different from the one that came out last fall…except some English intertitles. Excited for this one. Maybe this actioner moves Wong Kar Wai one step closer to directing the new Star Wars films?
Not too different from the one that came out last fall…except some English intertitles. Excited for this one. Maybe this actioner moves Wong Kar Wai one step closer to directing the new Star Wars films?
I don't know how I missed this—the teaser came out a few weeks ago—but a new Miyazaki is always promising. The Wind Rises is out in Japan in two weeks, out in the rest of the world, who knows when…but I've never minded watching his films sans subtitles or dubbing. Read more about The Wind Rises here; read my review of Ponyo, the last Studio Ghibli film that Miyazaki directed.
All of this seems so terribly ill-advised. The book is great—not Faulkner's greatest, but it has a linear trajectory that I do think is filmable—but this trailer seems to portray a pale imitation of someone else's vision of what a Faulkner film might look like (no, I don't know what that sentence means exactly, other than this film looks like a bad riff on Faulkner).
I liked David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas.
I reviewed it here in some detail, but here's a brief overview:
Mitchell's Cloud Atlas comprises six sections, each interrupted by the next section (with the exception of the sixth section), and then commenced again in reverse order (a simpler way to think of this might be a schema: 1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1). Sections 1-6 move forward chronologically and, significantly, each section represents a new literary trend. (Again, perhaps a schema with illustrating examples would work better here; for more detail, check out my review: 1: Melville-2: Modernism-3: Airport novel-4: Contemporary novel (Roth?)-5: Dystopian sci-fi (post-Orwell, shades of PKD)-6: Post-apocalyptic (language games, à la Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker)). In short, Cloud Atlas is an exercise in several genre styles, glommed onto a few ideas cribbed from Nietzsche: eternal recurrence, master/slave relationships, will to power, all that jazz. Ultimately—and more interestingly, I think—Cloud Atlas is an exercise in postmodernism-as-genre, a sort of critique perhaps (intentional or not), brought into even greater relief when one examines Mitchell's novels Black Swan Green (a coming of age story) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (a straight-up historical romance), which are, again, genre exercises.
This leads me up to the film adaptation of Cloud Atlas, the long trailer for which dropped today.
I would embed the goddamn trailer, but it's been blocked on YouTube and other similar sites by Warner Brothers, who apparently have absolutely no idea how publicity works. You can watch the trailer here.
[Update] Here's the trailer:
Did you watch it? Okay. I'm gonna riff a little:
I know that trailers have to advertise films to a wide range of potential audience members, and that often leads to overwrought musical cues and lines pulled out of context and big flashing words in all caps, but damn, this is cheeseball stuff. Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is a subtle book (at times), one that works best when the readers are allowed to do most of the work. The trailer suggests spectacle over nuance, bombast over substance. But again—just a trailer.
Not that the Wachowskis—who are directing and writing and producing (along with Tom Tykwer, whose films Run Lola Run and Perfume I recall enjoying)—-are known for restraint.
And, while I'm bringing up the Wachowskis: They are most famous for their visual inventiveness (these are the guys who did The Matrix), but great looking films don't necessarily mean much. I mean, the last film they did was Speed Racer (okay, Cloud Atlas looks a lot more restrained than that fiasco, but still, these guys have major problems with storytelling).
Now, based on the trailer, the filmmakers seem to have done some significant rewrites. In Mitchell's novel, each section (or sections 1-5, at least), exists as a narrative of some kind—fictional narratives, in a few cases. Each protagonist comes to find him or herself echoing or tracing or otherwise repeating or prefiguring the protagonist of another narrative—but there's always the recognition of the textuality (and hence, metatextuality) to this patterning. Put another way, these are all characters in stories that are awfully familiar to us, and Mitchell strives to make the reader aware of this textuality: it's a thoroughly postmodern move.
The film seems to connect the characters in two ways: 1, it seems to use actors across separate roles (this could work) and 2, it seems to have characters from previous segments interact with each other across segments. I might be misreading the trailer when it comes to point 2 here, but I think that having characters actively puncture the nested narratives of Cloud Atlas is a bad idea. And, even if I am misreading this, the film clearly imposes a unifying style across the narratives—sure the dystopian sci-fi scenes will have different set dressing, etc., than the Pacific journal narrative scenes—but take note of how all the scenes seem to follow a unified visual sensibility. The joy of Mitchell's novel is the way he plays with, parodies, adores (etc.) the narrative styles he's reworking. For example, Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery reads like a bad airport mystery (or at least a mediocre one). I was hoping that the filmmakers would attempt to do something similar with the film—actually play with the concept of genre, actually manipulate and amplify the distinct genre conventions at work in Mitchell's book. Which, maybe they do. Again, I know: it's just a trailer.
But it's an awfully slick, shiny trailer.
Okay, perhaps I'm griping too much. All the characters seem to be there, and the casting doesn't seem terrible. My curiosity is piqued, admittedly, but mostly because I want to know how the filmmakers will handle the nested narratives (also: how long will the movie be?). In any case, I'm sure this will be one of those movies where people sigh and say, "Yeah, the book is way better."
There's a part in William Gaddis's big novel The Recognitions where Basil Valentine talks about how forged paintings are always outed as fakes over time because they ultimately illustrate not the original genius of the artist, but instead show how the current zeitgeist interprets the artist. Film adaptations of books aren't painted forgeries, but they are highly susceptible to the same critical limitations that Valentine discusses. We can see this plainly in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, a messy, vibrant, flaky film thoroughly shot-through with the aesthetic spirit of the nineties. I like Luhrmann's R&J, despite its many, many faults. One of its great saving graces is that it seems aware of its own spectacle—it unselfconciously acknowledges itself as a product of its time, as just one of many, many adaptations of Shakespeare's deathless work.
Lurhmann has taken a stab at F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. He's not the first. Others attempted to turn Fitzgerald's classic novel of the jazz age into a movie in 1926 (the film is lost), 1949 (there's a reason you never saw it in high school), and 1974 (I'll come back to the Redford Gatsby in a moment). Most recently, a 2000 anemic TV production featured Mira Sorvino as Daisy and Paul Rudd as a terribly miscast Nick Carraway. Up until now, high school teachers across the country who wanted to foist an adaptation on their students (and maybe free up a day or two of lesson planning) have had to choose between the 2000 A&E production or Jack Clayton's 1974 Francis Ford Coppola-penned debacle—this is the one I was subjected to in high school. It features Robert Redford as Gatsby, Sam Waterston as Nick, and Mia Farrow as Daisy, and none of them are terrible, but the movie is dull, overly-reverential of its source material, and heavy-handed. It also looks incredibly dated now, its evocations of the 1920's jazz age petrified in gauzy '70s soft-focus shots. It just looks and feels very 1970s.
Judging by its trailer, Lurhmann's Gatsby is making absolutely no play at all for timelessness. Just as his earlier mashup, 2001's Moulin Rouge!, essentially uses the Belle Époque as a sounding board for transgenerational spectacle, Lurhmann's Gatsby looks like another thoroughly interpretative gesture, a hyperkinetic, hyperstylized film that makes no bid at realism. This is what 2012 thinks 1922 should look like (or at least this is 2012's ideal, shimmering, sexy version of 1922.) Here's the trailer:
Overwrought, frenetic spectacle is exactly what I would expect from Luhrmann. There's a transposition of meaning here, where Gatsby's famous party turns into a rave of sorts, where Daisy's phrasing of "You always look so cool" takes on anachronistic dimensions. But the trailer seems faithful (if hyperbolic) to images described in the book. By way of comparison, let's look at the first shot in the trailer, the car full of young black people treating said car as a party scene. Here's the text:
As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes, two bucks and a girl. I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty rivalry.
"Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge," I thought; "anything at all. . . ."
Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder.
The energy of the scene is expressed—and magnified—in Luhrmann's shot, but it's impossible to say yet whether or not the invocation to change expressed in this citation will transfer to film.
It's also obviously too early to make any pronouncements on the casting, although I'll submit that you could find a worse Jay Gatsby than Leonardo DiCaprio (who I think, for the record, was great as petulant, whiny Romeo in Luhrmann's breakthrough film). I'm not sure about Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, but there's a certain, I don't know, emptiness to him that may work well in our unreliable narrator. My big concern is Carey Mulligan, who I think is very sweet and I will admit to having a mild crush on—is she right for Daisy Buchanan, one of the meanest, most selfish creatures in literature? The other Buchanan, husband Tom, is portrayed by Joel Edgerton with a kind of seething rage here in the clip. Dude looks positively evil—cartoonishly so (which is really saying something, because Luhrmann seems to turn everything into a cartoon). Edgerton's Tom presents as the glowering obstacle to the pure, positive love between Daisy and Gatsby. And here might be the biggest trip up with the film: The trailer seems to be advertising a love story.
Now, of course reading is an act of interpretation, a highly subjective experience dependent on any number of factors (see also: the opening paragraph to this riff). But good reading and good interpretation is generally supported by textual evidence, and the textual evidence in Gatsby reveals not so much a love story, but a bunch of nefarious creeps and awful liars who ruin the lives of the people around them with little thought or introspection. I mean, really, the principal characters are basically vile people (hence the reason your high school English teacher loved to point out Nick Carraway's signature unreliability as a narrator—he glosses over so much evil). But again, it's just a trailer, and trailers are made to make people buy tickets to movies, and people will pay to see a love story. We'll have to wait for the film to assess Lurhmann's interpretation. For now, it's enough to suggest that the trailer achieved what it needed to—as of now, The Great Gatsby is still trending on Twitter. This is buzz; this is what a trailer is supposed to create. And if a byproduct of that buzz is to get more people reading or rereading, that can't be a bad thing.
Trailer for Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Inherent Vice. Is it weird that books have trailers now? Not sure…
Australian director John Hillcoat's movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's bleak and beautiful novel The Road finally has a proper trailer as well as (another) release date, October 16th, 2009. Here's the trailer:
I weighed in on the possible merits (and possible demerits) of a film adaptation of The Road way back in October of last year, back when the movie was planned for a Thanksgiving release (what better time than Turkey Day to watch a story with baby cannibalism?)
The trailer makes the movie look kinda "big"–explosions, way more people than I remember being in the novel, and what appears to be a heavily expanded role for the wife, played by Cherlize Theron. Still. I wanna see this. At the same time, the trailer seems to scream "Go read the book, now!" And you should. It's great.


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Tomato and Green Pepper Omelet Recipe
Fresh green pepper, onion and tomato give this savory omelet garden-fresh flavors. You can easily vary it based on the fresh ingredients you have on hand. —Agnes Ward, Stratford, Ontario
- 1/3 cup chopped green pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped onion
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 Eggland's Best Eggs
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/3 cup chopped tomato
- In a small nonstick skillet, saute green pepper and onion in oil until tender. Remove from skillet and set aside.
- In the same skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Whisk the eggs, water, salt and pepper. Add egg mixture to skillet (mixture should set immediately at edges).
- As eggs set, push cooked edges toward the center, letting uncooked portion flow underneath. When the eggs are set, spoon green pepper mixture and tomato on one side; fold other side over filling. Slide omelet onto a plate. Yield: 1 serving.
Originally published as Tomato and Green Pepper Omelet in Simple & Delicious April/May 2011, p21
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When I grill small vegetables that can easily slip through the grill, I use a grilling tray. If you don't have a grilling tray, you can use foil to grill your veggies like Rebecca at Loose Ends. Vegetables can take anywhere from 5 – 20 minutes to grill. I remove them as they become tender and place them on a covered dish to help retain heat. To speed up cooking time, place the cover on the grill while the veggies are cooking.
Cut squash, eggplant, and potatoes 1/4 – 1/2 inch thick lengthwise, brush with oil, and cook directly on the grill 4 inches above coals. If I am cooking veggies with meat, I place the vegetables around the side so they are not directly over the coals which will flare up when the meat drips on them. If I am not cooking with meat, I cook the vegetables directly over the coals. They usually cook through in about 15 minutes.
Batch grill! Since you have the coals lit, cook a week's worth of veggies in one night.
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Melbourn Bros. Apricot - Melbourn Bros.
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4.85/5 rDev +29.3%
A fun beer. Beneath the tart, ripe, natural tasting apricot flavor there is a nutty maltiness and doughy sourness that makes it a compelling drink. What's impressive is the seemless joining of fruity, yeasty malt with apricot-seed and fruit. I know nothing of the heritage, but I did notice a mention of "spontanaeous fermentation."
I was sceptical. How foolish.
This is a sour beer-drinkers delight. How has it been kept from for this long? I'm almost 35 for crying out loud! I needed to know about this at least 5 years ago.
Very complex with pure, sunny honey aromatics, meyer lemons, and crushed, raw pistachios. As dry as any American Pale Ale or IPA, only the fruit isn't simple piney grapefruit. It's apricot and almond butter!
12-19-2003 02:47:28 | More by putnam
4.72/5 rDev +25.9%
Part of me is sad to fawn over such a sweet brew. But I must say, I'm a sucker for the cloyingly sweet Melbourn Bros. beers. Dead on apricot flavors, never over the top, but right to the edge. Pricey at $5 a bottle but I have to admit they are worth it. Have a friend who loves cider but dismisses beer, give them this beer.
05-12-2002 19:24:43 | More by Andy
4.7/5 rDev +25.3%
Poured out a nice honeyed golden with just a bit of thick, creamy white head that stayed as a nice thick layer with a few large bubbles. For $5.50 for this 12ozer that I had never had before I really don't know what I have in store for me, but hey, I am always up for an adventure, and that was what my freakin shopping cart at Stateline was all about!
Wow, wonderfully scented... thick, fresh bread dough... slightly sour... malty.... and then a bit of of apricot punching through....
Almost champagnelike in the mouthfeel, but maybe one step down from being too fizzy... Almost creamy, almost thickish. Very vineous in the taste though, more chardonnay, white grapes. Maltyness is fairly pronounced but also very nice. Man, this is very good. When I want to have a fruit beer, a lambic, this is what it should be tasting like. This is bordering on a sour, makes me think of Monk's flemish sour a bit- and that is a complement! But the sourness is not too overpowering at all, just wonderful.... the apricot flavors are perfect. This is something that is just done so well, I mean, it is not one where you search for the flavor, or where it is too overbearing. It leaves just enough flavor in your mouth, but not too much. I could easily sit back with a few of these and sip away!
11-30-2004 23:38:49 | More by shapudding
4.7/5 rDev +25.3%
The first experience of this beer was the overwelming smell of apricot when pouring the beer. The color of the foam was light wheat with a small hint of orange. During the pouring into my mouth, there was a distinct and potent smell of dried apricots - beauty! There was more taste of apricots than hops. It felt like I was drinking pure apricots. Mouthfeel - light, smooth and excellent.
04-10-2009 02:55:23 | More by Monsteruss
4.7/5 rDev +25.3%
This is a nice beer, fruity yet also yeasty, with good balance and highly drnkable.
A bubbly, light amber it has a fairly large off-white head that slowly shrinks to a smaller head and leaves a little lace.
The aroma is lightly apricoty, yeasty, slightly sharp, with yeasty dough and crackers.
The flavour is apricoty through to the end, but this is light and zesty balanced with slightly sour yeasty dough, hints of tart apples and lemon-lime soda pop before a lightly tart, yeasty finish of grain and apricot. It is nicely sweet, sour, and tart, very appetizing, and nicely balances the sweet apricot fruitiness with tartness and yeasty dough.
05-22-2008 18:26:30 | More by Offa
4.47/5 rDev +19.2%
After pouring Melbourn Bros. Apricot I immediately started out to determine if this was beer with apricot or apricot beer. Even after finishing off the bottle I'm not sure, but it was so good that I no longer care.
The beer's golden color, great smell, and great taste were all a welcome surprise (after having a few so-so fruity beers of late). The amount of apricot was the perfect balance between a hint of apricot and a lot of apricot.
This is now my favorite fruity beer just slightly behind Lindemans Framboise.
11-28-2004 04:29:45 | More by MarcGetty
4.43/5 rDev +18.1%
One of the beers from the Merchant du Vin line-up in the U.S. It pours a slightly hazy orange-marmalade colored with with a creamy off-white head that holds OK. It eventually drops to a thin, creamy collar but also leaves some spotty lace. The nose expresses softly tart and sweet dried fruit that's surprisingly authentic. The body is light but creamy from a very fine and moderate carbonation. The flavor mirrors the aroma with a tart and sugary apricot flavor that hints at some grainy maltiness underneath. It finishes surprisingly clean and short with just some mild tart fruitiness. I had to question the labels claim of "spontaneous fermentation" from a brewery in Stamford, England and came up with a quote from "The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Wine, Beer, Spirits & Liqueurs" that suggests they innoculate with wild yeast acquired from Belgium. It reads, "Since 1993 Melbourn have brewed fruit ales in the old brewery, using wild yeasts from Belgium". That makes much more sense as it expresses some of the Brettanomyces and Pediococcus character but is much cleaner than most authentic lambics. Still, it's interesting and nicely done. It would make a good after-dinner conversation drink or a nice "kick back on the front porch" beer as the crisp fall weather enters. Worth trying.
Taste: Tart and sherbet like, sugary mouth feel that puckers with the tartness. Touch of actual beer quality ... hints of grain and hop, though they still don't even come close to the lingering tartness from the fruit. Quite clean for a spontaneous fermented brew.
01-12-2003 20:34:48 | More by NeroFiddled
Quebec (Canada)
4.33/5 rDev +15.5%
Bottle: Poured a bright golden color ale with a large pure white foamy head with good retention with some lacing. Aroma consists of real apricot without any fake syrup as well as some subtle sour notes. Taste is again dominated by some nice real apricot taste without the domination of the fake syrupy fruit stuff you sometime find in those beers. Great carbonation with a somewhat full body. I really enjoyed this for what it was and wouldn't mind having a more regular access to this beer.
08-20-2008 19:48:18 | More by Phyl21ca
4.33/5 rDev +15.5%
Clear golden color. Fizzy white head, didn't last very long. Huge nose of a basket full of apricots, hits you at arms length. Nice bubbly, nearly champagne like carbonation. Apricot taste is strong, but balanced. Very sweet initial taste. Finish is tart, sour, and dry. Very well done fruit beer.
A highly recommended dessert beer. No need to have more than one of these a night.
11-15-2002 18:49:08 | More by StevieW
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
4.33/5 rDev +15.5%
330ml Bottle bought from the Vineyard, Belfast..
Poured a light golden colour... Head was big and foamy and white but disappeared quite quickly...
Aroma - Strong apricot, sugary, grassy, vanilla, slight lemony notes...
Taste First sip was very sweet but was followed by strong sourness almost instantly. Strong lemon and apricot flavours, ginger, hints of lambic/gueuze flavours, peppery notes...
Feel - Quite sharp and dry. Medium carbonation...
Overall - An excellent fruit beer. Just the correct balance of sweet and sour...Highly recommended...
10-17-2005 09:04:02 | More by mdagnew
New York
4.33/5 rDev +15.5%
The beer pours a peach color with a thick frothy white head that fades to lacing. The aroma is good. It has a light peach scent that is sweet and almost cider-like. The taste is great. It has a very seductive peach flavor that is like peach schnapps. It is an easy drinker that finishes a bit on the tart side. The mouthfeel is good. It is a medium bodied beer with good carbonation. This beer, like their others is outstanding and a standout fruit brew.
02-04-2005 01:57:20 | More by WesWes
4.3/5 rDev +14.7%
12-oz bottle in a chalice glass.
Appearance: Golden amber, crystal-clear, with initial head that disappears within seconds of pouring.
Aroma: Highly fruity (more apple than apricot I think), with tart underpinning. A slight metallic, coppery scent lingers around the side.
Flavor: Apricot flavor up front, starting very sweet, and then a large burst of mouth-puckering tartness. Some small leathery, metallic flavors as the taste develops. Finish is long, acidic, and dry.
Body: Medium-low body, appropriate for style, medium carbonation.
Great beer! Adventurous.
12-14-2004 01:57:03 | More by allengarvin
4.25/5 rDev +13.3%
10-28-2012 16:58:00 | More by t0rin0
4.22/5 rDev +12.5%
12/29/04- Purchased from Beltramo's Wine and Spirit's in Menlo Park, CA
Presentation- 12 oz thick glass bottle with no expiration date. Poured into my Lindemans flute glass.
Appearance- At first a spritzy and foamy head that quickly evaporates. Pours a light yellow color. Maybe some orange tinges. Zero lacing to be found.
Smell- Lots a sweet fruit. Doesn't necessarily smell like apricots though. Just a bunch of fresh sweet fruits.
Taste- Sweet and sour tastes with various fruits thrown together. I know it's apricot, but at first I would have guessed a peach, nectarine or some other. But, when the aftertaste kicks in, you can definitely taste the apricots. Tastes exactly like after you have finished eating dried apricots.
Mouthfeel- Super carbonated like a wine color or a champagne. Stomach is all gassed up now.
Drinkability- Pretty sweet for a lambic. Reminds me of Lindemand's Peche, but not quite as good. The carbonation makes this one a chore to get down. Otherwise it tastes good and is refreshing. May try again in the future.
12-30-2004 03:58:17 | More by GClarkage
4.2/5 rDev +12%
I enjoyed the fruitiness of this beer. The malt was in the background but stood up to the apricots to balance the flavors.
09-20-2001 19:53:26 | More by QXSTER1
4.2/5 rDev +12%
I've had this before, but I didn't review it. The beer is poured into a Melbourn Bros glass I picked up earlier this month. The color is a beautiful golden, with a small coat of head over top, and an active carb. The nose is fruit forward, very sweet apircot, with a subdued malty background. The flavor is great. Big apircot flavors, slightly tart and sour, finishing sweeter and very fruity. I really enjoy this beer. The feel is moderate to thick, slightly carbonated, and nice. Overall, this is a really refreshing beer, a nice change of pace. I recommend this brewery very much, as they have made some good beers.
01-15-2005 04:07:39 | More by kmpitz2
4.18/5 rDev +11.5%
Pale golden color, very peachy, shall I say, apricotty..with a short, thin ordinary head...
Aroma: mellow, and apricotty, slightly sour, a touch sweet, like I said, apricotty... sweet and sour, like a jolly rancher...yum, yum, and yum, yummy,yumalicious....tasty....you'd just have to be the sort of folk that gets moved by an apricot jolly rancher, like I may be...a bit sweet, or is it too tart?
Nah, who cares, I like it, that's all that matters...this is super-nice, the best fruit beer that doesn't come out of Belgium!
11-24-2003 08:58:44 | More by feloniousmonk
4.13/5 rDev +10.1%
Appearance: Poured into a flute glass since I don't get too many chances to utilize that type of glassware. Surprising amount of head appears for this type of glass, but dissipates rather quickly. The color is a pale orangish/salmon color akin to apricot flesh.
Smell: Apricot juice dominates. Smells like this sucker is going to be sour.
Taste: Loads of sweet apricot juice. You can tell that it's real juice and not simply a flavoring, but it is also apparent that the juice was added after fermentation. Not as sour as I was expecting, but still tart. Just a hint of lambic-type funk. One dimensional, but I love apricots, so I don't mind at all!
Mouthfeel: Champagne-like carbonation, but wetter and smoother than champagne.
Drinkability: The alcohol level is ridiculously low, which always helps with drinkability. However, by the end of the bottle I found myself wishing I had shared this with someone. Any more than those 12 ounces would have become cloying.
Notes: This beer did not end up being what I was expecting, but it was a pleasant fruit beer nonetheless. Being from the same country as Samuel Smith (England) and imported by the same company (Merchant Du Vin), I thought it would be more along the lines of Samuel Smith's excellent fruit beers. However, it really is more like a less sweet and more tart version of Lindeman's peche lambic.
01-29-2010 19:39:49 | More by Josievan
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
4.1/5 rDev +9.3%
355ml bottle poured into a large snifter glass
Pours with a yellowy body, thin lemony hues. Thick puffy white head with good retention, forms about half an inch thick. Lacing like little snakes up and down the glass
Smell, sharp citric acidic fresh fruit, syrupy, maderia soaked apricots and fresh peaches. A strong fragrant fruity yogurt aroma, some zesty sherbet on the nose too. Little bit of dry slightly funky brett character on the finish
Taste, some sharp acidic notes, spritzy and zesty mouthfeel. Some quinine bitterness along with a little bit more funk (but very slight and lingering in the background. Fresh syrupy fruit along with some concentrated fruity sweetness
Another tasty fruit beer from the Melboun bros. Very drinkable and full of tight, sour fruity flavour
02-02-2007 21:48:47 | More by cypressbob
4.1/5 rDev +9.3%
Served in the 12 oz. bottle. The color is golden, with a wispy white head. The smell is apricot. The taste is a very sweet apricot, with a fairly sour base to it. Mouthfeel is smooth. Drinkability-wise, the sweet and sour mix (so to speak) probably wouldn't give this a lot of sessionability.
I don't know if lambic specifically means a spontaneously fermented beer, or a spontaneously fermented beer made around Brussels, but this is as good as some of the lambics from Belgium. Though a bit overpriced due to its Merchant du Vin distribution, still a good beer and hope to try the rest of the line!
09-28-2003 18:07:29 | More by beergeek279
4.1/5 rDev +9.3%
A: Pours a nice light golden yellow color with a small white head. There are plenty of bubbles hanging around, but very little lacing is seen.
S: Nice big apricot smell. The aroma of dried apricots dominate. There is a nice wheaty aroma in the background with a hint of spiced honey.
T: Wow the apricots do come out in this one. Nice fresh sweet apricots are the dominate force with hints of spiced brown sugar sweetness.
M: Nice and light brew very enjoyable.
D: Sooo drinkable, with this one came by the bomber.
Overall: Very great tasting brew. I would pass up dessert any day to enjoy this brew. I like nice sweet fruity beers and this one really fits the bill.
11-13-2007 19:05:50 | More by tpd975
North Carolina
4.08/5 rDev +8.8%
The beer poured into the chalice clear medium golden with a dullness to the color, but no haze. The head was white and rose slightly to fall quickly and lace the glass.
The aroma was acetic in nature with caramel most prominent and apricot aromas. The aroma also contained a slight sweetness.
The flavor was actually nicer that expected. The flavor was slightly sweet at first with acidity that caused a good balance of the sweetness and prevented it from becoming cloying. The fruit flavor was of course apricots and those flavors were nicely achieved.
The finish was just dry with lasting slight acidity and long lasting impressions of fruity apricots into the aftertaste. The body was medium light and the carbonation on the low side. Nicely done, very easy to drink. Easily as good as other fruit lambics that have been sweetened. The bottle says spontaneously fermented so is this a lambic?
12 ounce bottle. No freshness dating. One part of the label states made with fresh apricots and another says apricot juice added.
06-11-2005 22:41:26 | More by GCBrewingCo
4.05/5 rDev +8%
A golden orange liquid with a champagne-like, fizzy head that disappears fast leaving a nearly transparent film and no lace at all.
Smell is not surprisingly, malt & apricot, with some spice (clove & nutmeg?) hanging around the periphery.
Taste is apricot, of course, followed by spice ans some light hop bitterness late.
Mouthfeel is smooth, tangy, nice effervescence, medium bodied. Finishes fairly dry but has some lingering flavor stickiness that could get annoying in greater quantities.
Drinkability is quite high. Love the flavor but don't expect everyone will. A great beer to have for dessert.
09-09-2004 02:18:25 | More by PorterLambic
4.03/5 rDev +7.5%
The color a translucent golden amber color, the head is moderate in size and the lace thin sticky sheets to coat the glass. Sweet ripe apricot aromas permeate the nose, which is, also crisp and lightly tart, a real treat to the senses. Sweet and sour start, the top light in feel, the finish exceedingly acidic, the hops scarce and the aftertaste relatively dry and long lasting. Personally I like this lambic, and think it worth a sample.
12-26-2002 08:59:04 | More by Gusler
New Jersey
4.03/5 rDev +7.5%
Poured out clear and gold, the bubbly off white head dies quick. Smells sweet, marmalade, close to a gueze but without the funk and sourness. There is definitly apricot in there, but not overpoweringly obvious. The taste again reminds me first of gueze, crisp, with that unique gueze flavor, but no where near as instense. If someone wants to try gueze, give them this as a bridge to let them know what they're in for. If you took gueze and a peach lambic and threw in a little more sweetness, you'd be here. It works, but a little too sweet for sessioning. A nice beer though, lots of fun flavors without the apricot being the one and only aspect.
11-12-2006 20:03:54 | More by dherling
Melbourn Bros. Apricot from Melbourn Bros.
84 out of 100 based on 87 ratings.


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Sami Salo set to return, who gets traded?
Sami Salo is back, well, almost. He's been skating for a long time now, and has been practicing and traveling with the team for a couple of weeks also. So when is he set to return? The Canucks are keeping this somewhat secretive, but it looks to be soon. The reason is of course the salary cap. The Canucks are very close to the cap right now and will be over it when Salo returns. According to CapGeek, the Canucks would need to get rid of $1.8 million of annual salary if Salo returned today.
We are all BIEKSA!?
Dear Kevin, I have an apology to make. I was in favour of trading you last summer. Well, not even just last summer. I didn't like your game. I thought you couldn't return to the player that the city of Vancouver fell in love with in 2006-07. Even this year, I said some nasty things. I said you were not a shutdown defenseman. But here you are, paired with Dan Hamhuis playing against the other teams' best lines and playing great! You're now leading the defense corps in plus-minus, are back to playing mean and lately you've even begun putting up points again!
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The rumour mill is heating up with regards to Willie Mitchell and shockingly it appears the Canucks may still be in the race. It looks like the free agent d-man is now symptom free and will be ready to start the season. He has also reportedly narrowed his search to four teams: Washington, Detroit, San Jose and Vancouver. Mike Gillis didn't do anything to curtail rumours, admitting to talking to Mitchell.
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Trade Deadline Aftermath
Am I the only one that had a little bit of trouble adjusting to life after Olympic hockey? What an amazing tournament with such speed, skill and intensity. Then two days later, we have to watch the Canucks take on the Blue Jackets? Tough transition, but I think I'm getting back into the swing of things. The Canucks are on a nice little post-Olympic roll, beating the Blue Jackets in a comeback and laying a surprising beat down on the Red Wings.
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LAFOLLETTE (WATE) - A lawyer filed for a change of venue Thursday ahead of the trial for the former Campbell County High School student accused of opening fire at the school, killing an assistant principal and injuring two others.
In 2005, Kenny Bartley, who was 14 at the time, opened fire
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In 2007, Bartley pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 years for
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Bartley's attorney, Greg Isaacs, said Bartley was only given a few seconds to make the deal.
The new trial is slated to begin this fall.
Ahead of the trial, Isaacs has filed for a change of venue, saying that intensive media coverage has lead to intense and prejudicial scrutiny of his client.
The attorney also argues that the small size of the Campbell County population and the fact that there is only one high school in the county means it is likely that jurors will have ties to Bartley, the victims or the school.
Isaacs noted that in the original jury selection for the case, many of the potential jurors had strong ties to the case.
One potential juror assisted in the embalming of the victim's body. Another was an emergency responder to the initial shooting scene.
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