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I was going to type this up before this post came down. This isn't meant as a slight to stranded, at all. I've almost always enjoyed what he(she)'s had to say but I disagree with the idea that Dwight Freeney is a disaster in this defense.
Now I said I disagree, that's probably not accurate. I'm just not sure that he is in fact a disaster. We don't know if he's going to be great or if he'll be awful. I'll argue that we still have no clue because we're watching preseason football.
Statistical Proof that the preseason means NOTHING to DFree-93: (if you'd like you can skip the italics and just look at the chart, it'll save about 3 minutes.)
Since 2006* Dwight Freeney has played in 16 preseason games amassing 11 total tackles and 5 sacks. For the astounding averages of: 0.6875 tackles per game, and 0.3125 sacks per game. And over these 7 preseasons he's averaged playing in 2.29 games per year while making 1.57 tackles per year and bringing down the QB 0.71 times each preseason.
In the same time (2006-2011) Freeney has played in 86 regular season games (out of 96) racking up 121 total tackles and 51.5 sacks... or for those of you that like per game stats: 1.4 tackles per game, 0.60 sacks per game. Or season averages: 14.3 games played per year, 20.1 tackles per year, and 8.5 sacks per year.
In comparing 93's preseason stat line to his regular season numbers; his production literally doubles. His production doubles, but these numbers fail to take into consideration the 2006 season where Dwight battled injuries throughout much of the year, take away the injury and the numbers may be slightly higher.
Also someone in the week 3 open thread said that he wasn't playing hard because it was a preseason game. I don't know if Dwight tries harder in bigger (or in prime time) games but in 12 total playoff games he's wrapped up 9 total tackles and 9 total sacks.
In 12 Monday and Thursday night games for his career he's made 13 tackles and 13.5 sacks in these games.
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Does Dwight Freeney "turn it on" for prime time and big games? It sure seems that way.
*please note the only reason I stopped looking at 93's preseason stats in 2006 is because that's all nfl.com would let me see.
Now I'm not saying that it's okay that Dwight's sack per game total nearly quadruples from the preseason to regular season prime time games, but it is what it is. The preseason means nothing to Dwight Freeney.
I'm also not arguing that he's currently worth 19 mil. But to call keeping him on the roster "Grigson's biggest mistake" is very nearsighted. This is the preseason, playcalling isn't what it's going to be, effort isn't what it's going to be, teammates aren't who they're going to be. Given the fact that 93 will likely be rushing with his hand in the dirt more than 60% of the time he's on the field, to suggest cutting him is insane.
Why would Ryan Grigson cut a man (with plenty more in his tank) with 102.5 career sacks, a man who demands a double/triple team/chip block on, every. single. passing play?! It's not like we're talking about turning Dwight into a strong safety, he's a rush linebacker who will drop back into coverage every now and then. Does he look bad in rush D? Yeah. But he's Dwight Freeney, this is the preseason and he's NEVER been a force against the run; all that and he's less likely to make a tackle in the preseason than Chandler Harnish!
The real issue isn't Dwight Freeney's performance against the run it's our DE and NT's ability/production. As it stands they have the most to prove against the run.
If anyone needs to see a spark, re-watch the game. I believe it was in the 2nd quarter after 93 bit hard on a play fake in the 1st Dwight starts to squeeze down on the apparent handoff only to explode towards Griffen III. Turns out Dwight guessed wrong, the Running back actually had the ball this time, but Dwight's burst is there. His desire to hit the quarterback is there. Is he 19 million dollars there? I don't think anyone in the league is, but that contract isn't Grigson's fault. Cutting it wouldn't have saved that much and who's taking on 19 million extra cap space in a trade? No one.
I'm not saying he's going to be as effective as Terrell Suggs is in Balt., in fact he may suck, but with what we know right now, how in the world is keeping the only Colts defender who currently demands a double team, our new GM's biggest mistake?


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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
This one time, at dance camp
And there is the instructor - he's a very good dancer, but I think he ought to wear a cup or something. There was just too much flopping in the breeze - it was almost hypnotizing! Honest to goodness, my GNO friends pushed me up on the front row when we started while they cowared behind me, but I had to leave for the other side of room the because I kept getting distracted by following the bouncing.....well, you get my drift. And it wasn't distracted in that good way, it was like a train wreck that one can't look away from.
When the GNO group finally caught sight of ..... they hurriedly joined me on the other side of the room, all with WTH looks on their faces. Let me tell you that the jokes flew after we left class.
All in all, it was a fun and energetic class. Our final lesson (our recital, as it were) will be held at a Latin dance club!
Today was an interesting drive into work - I did a little mudding in MalibuKen, as a huge oak tree had fallen over three lanes of traffic blocking all sorts of progress. While I KNEW I wasn't going to go through any high water, I did have to go over the median mud to get out of the blind canyon the tree put me in. Hermine is keeping is soaked today. Bick sent me a picture of SadieLu up to her elbows in his front yard during her afternoon constitutional. Poor girl needed some water wings!
Tonight is another clean up night. Not looking forward to it, but did some extra reading work this morning to prepare me. Tomorrow I want to have no regrets about my behavior.
Take good care of yourself. Be kind to others. Find support.
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Dang - I have an image in my head now that I don't want there.....ReplyDelete
Oh.my.god. I cannot IMAGINE getting through a dance class while witnessing floppage. Gah! Wonder if you will have to dance with the instructor at some point? My face is turning red just thinking about YOU doing that!!! Any case, sounds like the class was good for laughs as well as exercise, which is a great combo!ReplyDelete
Good luck tonight. Glad you "weathered" yesterday's storm so well in MK.
Favorite blog today.ReplyDelete
The visuals are laugh out loudable!! In fact, I think I'll be chuckling all day.
Glad to hear it was ultimately a good, fun class though.
Glad to hear you're holding up under Hermine which sounds way worse than Earl was over here on the right side of the country.
Hah! Sounds like a great class - giggling = twice the exercise!!! I would need distracting from my own lack of co-ordination and that would do it!ReplyDelete
Floppage? They need to sign up for Miz's giveaway!ReplyDelete
Ohhh this had me laughing out loud and brought me to a huge sigh afterwards. I soooo wish I could have been there to view for myself. Is that weird? Probably, but oh well. Too fun for you and your GNO's...ReplyDelete
I couldn't stop laughing when you said "it was almost hypnotizing! " lol. I definitely had an image in my mind lol. Glad it was fun though.ReplyDelete
It made me think of a song:ReplyDelete
Men in jock straps
to keep their dickie in place
Men in jock straps
to keep from floppin in their face
Men in jock straps
better then a cup
Men in jock straps
in case you get a hard up.
(Word verification is stica)
Oh.how.funny! And gross at the same time. Fun times.ReplyDelete
I just heard on the news about some really rough weather up there. The pic of the sky was scary, for sure. I hope everyone is ok!
Oh, I just don't even know what to say about this! Seriously. . .ReplyDelete


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The word saďkhŕrŕ is derived from the prefix saü, meaning ßtogether,ű joined to the noun kŕra, ßdoing, making.ű Saďkhŕras are thus ßco-doings,ű things that act in concert with other things, or things that are made by a combination of other things. Translators have rendered the word in many different ways: formations, confections, activities, processes, forces, compounds, compositions, fabrications, determinations, synergies, constructions. All are attempts to capture the meaning of a philosophical concept for which we have no exact parallel, and thus all English renderings are bound to be imprecise. I myself use ßformationsű and ßvolitional formations,ű aware this choice is as defective as any other.
However, though it is impossible to discover an exact English equivalent for saďkhŕrŕ, by exploring its actual usage we can still gain insight into how the word functions in the ßthought worldű of the Dhamma. In the suttas the word occurs in three major doctrinal contexts. One is in the twelvefold formula of dependent origination (pa~nicca-samuppŕda), where the saďkhŕras are the second link in the series. They are said to be conditioned by ignorance and to function as a condition for consciousness. Putting together statements from various suttas, we can see that the saďkhŕras are the kammically active volitions responsible for generating rebirth and thus for sustaining the onward movement of saüsŕra, the round of birth and death. In this context saďkhŕrŕ is virtually synonymous with kamma, a word to which it is etymologically akin.
The suttas distinguish the saďkhŕras active in dependent origination into three types: bodily, verbal, and mental. Again, the saďkhŕras are divided into the meritorious, demeritorious, and ßimperturbable,ű i.e., the volitions present in the four formless meditations. When ignorance and craving underlie our stream of consciousness, our volitional actions of body, speech, and mind become forces with the capacity to produce results, and of the results they produce the most significant is the renewal of the stream of consciousness following death. It is the saďkhŕras, propped up by ignorance and fuelled by craving, that drive the stream of consciousness onwards to a new mode of rebirth, and exactly where consciousness becomes established is determined by the kammic character of the saďkhŕras. If one engages in meritorious deeds, the saďkhŕras or volitional formations will propel consciousness towards a happy sphere of rebirth. If one engages in demeritorious deeds, the saďkhŕras will propel consciousness towards a miserable rebirth. And if one attains the formless meditations, these ßimperturbableű saďkhŕras will propel consciousness towards rebirth in the formless realms.
A second major domain where the word saďkhŕras appears is among the five aggregates. The fourth aggregate is the saďkhŕra-khandha, the aggregate of volitional formations. The texts define the saďkhŕra-khandha as the six classes of volition (cha cetanŕkŕyŕ): volition regarding forms, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile objects, and ideas. Though these saďkhŕras correspond closely to those in the formula of dependent origination, the two are not in all respects the same, for the saďkhŕra-khandha has a wider range. The aggregate of volitional formations comprises all kinds of volition. It includes not merely those that are kammically potent, but also those that are kammic results and those that are kammically inoperative. In the later Pali literature the saďkhŕra-khandha becomes an umbrella category for all the factors of mind except feeling and perception, which are assigned to aggregates of their own. Thus the saďkhŕra-khandha comes to include such ethically variable factors as contact, attention, thought, and energy; such wholesome factors as generosity, kindness, and wisdom; and such unwholesome factors as greed, hatred, and delusion. Since all these factors arise in conjunction with volition and participate in volitional activity, the early Buddhist teachers decided that the most fitting place to assign them is the aggregate of volitional formations.
The third major domain in which the word saďkhŕrŕ occurs is as a designation for all conditioned things. In this context the word has a passive derivation: it denotes whatever is formed by a combination of conditions; whatever is conditioned, constructed, or compounded. In this sense it might be rendered simply ßformations,ű without the qualifying adjective. As bare formations, saďkhŕras include all five aggregates, not just the fifth. The term also includes external objects and situations such as mountains, fields, and forests; towns and cities; food and drink; jewellery, cars, and computers.
The fact that saďkhŕras can include both active forces and the things produced by them is highly significant and secures for the term its role as the cornerstone of the Buddha's philosophical vision. For what the Buddha emphasises is that the saďkhŕras in the two active senses Ţ the volitional formations operative in dependent origination, and the kammic volitions in the fourth aggregate Ţ construct the saďkhŕras in the passive sense: ßThey construct the conditioned; therefore they are called volitional formations. And what are the conditioned things that they construct? They construct the body, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness; therefore they are called volitional formationsű (SN 22:79).
Though external inanimate things may be due to purely physical causes, the saďkhŕras that make up our personal being Ţ the five aggregates Ţ are all products of the kammically active saďkhŕras that we engendered in our previous lives. In the present life as well the five aggregates are constantly being maintained, refurbished, and extended by the volitional activity we engage in now, which again becomes a condition for future existence. Thus, the Buddha teaches, it was our own kammically formative saďkhŕras that built up our present edifice of personal being, and it is our present formative saďkhŕras that are now building up the edifices of personal being we will inhabit in our future lives. These edifices consist of nothing other than saďkhŕras as conditioned things, the conditioned formations comprised in the five aggregates.
The most important fact to understand about saďkhŕras, as conditioned formations, is that they are all impermanent: ßImpermanent, alas, are formations.ű They are impermanent not only in the sense that in their gross manifestations they will eventually come to an end, but even more pointedly because at the subtle, subliminal level they are constantly undergoing rise and fall, forever coming into being and then, in a split second, breaking up and perishing: ßTheir very nature is to arise and vanish.ű For this reason the Buddha declares that all saďkhŕras are suffering (sabbe saďkhŕrŕ dukkhŕ) Ţ suffering, however, not because they are all actually painful and stressful, but because they are stamped with the mark of transience and thus cannot provide stable happiness and security.
To win complete release from suffering Ţ not only from experiential suffering, but from the unsatisfactoriness intrinsic to all conditioned existence Ţ we must gain release from saďkhŕras. And what lies beyond the saďkhŕras is that which is not constructed, not put together, not compounded. This is Nibbŕna, accordingly called the Unconditioned Ţ asaďkhata Ţ the opposite of what is saďkhata, a word which is the passive participle corresponding to saďkhŕra. Nibbŕna is called the Unconditioned precisely because it's a state that is neither itself a saďkhŕra nor constructed by saďkhŕras; a state described as visaďkhŕra, ßdevoid of formations,ű and as sabbasaďkhŕra-samatha, ßthe stilling of all formations.ű
Thus, when we put the word saďkhŕra under our microscope, we see compressed within it the entire worldview of the Dhamma. The active saďkhŕras consisting in kammically active volitions perpetually create the saďkhŕras of the five aggregates that constitute our being. As long as we continue to identify with the five aggregates (the work of ignorance) and to seek enjoyment in them (the work of craving), we go on spewing out the volitional formations that build up future combinations of the aggregates. These aggregates Ţ impermanent, unreliable, and deceptive Ţ are the suffering from which we need deliverance.
When, however, we take up the practice of the Dhamma, we apply a brake to this relentless generation of saďkhŕras. We learn to see the true nature of the saďkhŕras, of our own five aggregates: as impermanent, prone to suffering, and devoid of a substantial self. Thereby the engine driven by ignorance and craving is arrested at its root and the process of kammic construction, the production of active saďkhŕras, is effectively deconstructed. By putting an end to the constructing of conditioned reality, we open the door to what is ever-present but not constructed, not conditioned: the asaďkhata-dhŕtu, the unconditioned element. This is Nibbŕna, the Deathless, the stilling of volitional activities, the final liberation from all conditioned formations and thus from impermanence and death. Therefore our verse concludes: ßThe subsiding of formations is blissful!ű
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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In contrast to the typical introductory survey of Buddhism, Harris has not divided the religion up into separate schools and systems, to be compared and contrasted one against the others. She has chosen to treat Buddhism as an organic whole Ţ a whole in which differences serve to provide functional variety rather than confrontational opposition. By systematic organisation of her material, she brings to light the subtle variations in doctrine and practice spread out across the Buddhist world, but she also reveals the high degree of accord that underlies the different Buddhist traditions. Instead of disclosing a close alignment of specific schools with particular attitudes and ways of practice, her interviews show, somewhat surprisingly, that different concerns and emphases cut clear across the schools and are more closely connected to personal temperament and social context than to doctrinal orientation. To take but one example: While academic textbooks generally portray Theravŕda Buddhism as advocating a private quest for salvation and aloofness from society, Harris's fieldwork showed Theravŕdins to be just as actively engaged in social welfare projects as their Mahŕyŕna cohorts, perhaps even more so.
Harris has arranged the book into six chapters. The first three deal with topics covered in most primers on Buddhism Ţ the life of the Buddha; the basic teachings of Buddhism; and meditation as ßthe way to enlightenment.ű What distinguishes the treatment here from that found in your standard primer is, again, the freshness and conviction of the voices. Her own text, which deftly and unobtrusively ties together the material selected from the interviews, indicates that one of her underlying concerns in preparing the book has been to dispel the prejudices that have distorted the Western perception of Buddhism. Thus she stresses that the Buddha's focus on suffering does not make Buddhism a negative and pessimistic philosophy of life. She shows that Buddhist morality advocates the practice of positive virtues such as love and compassion as much as an ethic of restraint; she contends that equanimity means balance and impartiality, not apathy and indifference; she presents meditation, not as a way of escaping from life's problems, but as a means of developing the wisdom to deal with them more effectively.
In the last three chapters Harris launches into areas that have gained heightened relevance from the meeting of Buddhism with the modern world: Buddhism and social engagement, the place of women in Buddhism, and Buddhism in relation to contemporary culture. In this last chapter a theme that is commonly voiced in the interviews is that, to meet the challenge of modernity, the ways of teaching the Dhamma must change. The old language and ritualised expressions of Buddhism must give way to fresh embodiments and new applications suited to present conditions.
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Review: The Buddha demonstrates that a sentient being comes into existence and subsists in dependence on nutriment and ceases with the cessation of nutriment.
Having stressed in various ways the importance of seeing for oneself how sentient existence depends on nutriment, the Buddha next gives the monks a crucially valuable piece of advice. He tells them that even this view of conditionality, ßso pure and bright, should not be adhered to, played with, treasured, and appropriated.ű Rather it should be used like a raft, for crossing the stream of suffering and reaching the far shore of safety, Nibbŕna. Here the Buddha alludes to the famous simile of the raft he had introduced in the Alagaddupama Sutta (MN 22). In that sutta he compares a person who learns his teachings without putting them into practice to a man who crosses a lake by means of a raft, and then, out of gratitude to the raft, carries it around on his head wherever he goes. Here, in the Discourse on the Destruction of Craving, the Buddha gives the simile a slightly different twist by emphasising that the very purpose of the raft is for crossing the lake, not for holding on to. Thus if one simply grabs hold of the raft and carries it around without ever using it to cross the lake, one has failed to understand the purpose of a raft. By the same token, if one merely gains an intellectual grasp of the Dhamma but does not use this view to cut away attachment, one has failed to understand its purpose.
In later Buddhist literature, ßclinging to viewsű is almost always interpreted to mean clinging to erroneous views. It is tacitly assumed that right view is inherently exempt from clinging, that one cannot adhere to a view whose objective content derives from the Buddha's teaching. The present sutta, however, does not allow such an exemption. The Buddha's injunction clearly implies that even a subtle and profound right view like that of conditionality can be wrongly grasped Ţ grasped as a plaything of thought, as a pillar of personal pride, as a weapon to be used in argument and debate. In such cases, it is being misapplied, applied contrary to its intended purpose, which is the abolition of clinging.
This does not mean that right view is dispensable or that the ideal attitude for the practitioner to take is that of not entertaining any views at all. Holding right view is essential because right view, even as a conceptual formulation, guides one to a correct understanding of actuality. It protects one from the insidious influence of wrong views, inspires constructive practice, and indicates what one has to see with insight. But the finger should not be mistaken for the moon. The role of right view is instrumental: it is part of the Noble Eightfold Path, the way leading to the extinction of suffering. Right view indicates what we must see and how we should see it, but at the end of the road right view must be used to cut away attachment even to itself. Since clinging lies at the base of suffering, clinging even to right view must be discarded. It is only with complete freedom from clinging, including the clinging to views in all their diversity, that the doorway opens to complete release from suffering.
Following this brief admonition on not clinging to views, the Buddha returns to the theme of nutriment, this time to specify the four nutriments on which life depend: ßThere are, monks, these four nutriments for the maintenance of beings that have come into being and for the support of those about to come into being. What are the four? Material food, gross or subtle, is the first; contact is the second; mental volition the third; and consciousness the fourth.ű In order for the life-process to begin, even from the moment of conception the newly arisen being must have access to a ready supply of nutriment, and this supply must be maintained during the entire course of life. While this is obvious in the case of material food, the Buddha expands our understanding of the role of nutrition by pointing out that there are four nutriments on which sentient existence depends. (For a selection of relevant texts and commentaries, see Nyanaponika Thera, The Four Nutriments of Life, Wh 105/106.)
A nutriment (ŕhŕra) is explained by the commentaries to be a strong support for the continuity of life (ajjhattika-santatiyŕ visesappaccaya). As we know, the Buddha teaches that a living organism is an assemblage of five aggregates: bodily form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness. These five aggregates are sustained by the four nutriments, each of which makes its own distinctive contribution. Material food is the decisive support for the physical body, and since the four other mental aggregates depend on the body, material food also indirectly contributes to their sustenance too.
Contact (phassa) is the coming together of consciousness with an object via a sense faculty. Whenever consciousness encounters an object, the resulting contact inevitably gives rise to a feeling, a perception, and a volitional response. Of these, feeling is singled out as the factor specially nourished by contact. What we seek in our encounters with the world around us is the enjoyment of pleasure and the avoidance of pain, and both pleasure and pain are feelings rotted in contact.
Mental volition (manosa¤cetanŕ) is said to be the nutriment for rebirth itself. For volition is kamma, and following death, when all the conditions for rebirth are complete, conception comes about when a past kamma propels the stream of consciousness towards the particular destination where rebirth is due to take place. Once rebirth has occurred, throughout life mental volition continues to operate behind the scenes, motivating and sustaining all our activities. All actions of body, speech, and mind are expressions or congelations of volition. These actions in turn leave behind kammic deposits with the potential to generate still another rebirth in which volition will operate still again.
The last nutriment is consciousness (vi¤¤ŕőa), which serves as the special condition for ßname-and-formű (nŕma-rĺpa), the psychophysical organism. For the life-process to begin, the stream of consciousness of a deceased being must ßdescendű into the mother's womb, where it turns the ovum into the germ of a living body. Together with its own arising, consciousness brings along ßname,ű the main collaborators of consciousness in the process of cognition: contact, feeling, perception, volition, and attention. None of these can exist or function without consciousness, and therefore consciousness is spoken of as their nutriment. Throughout the embryonic period, as the foetus develops, it must be sustained by consciousness. And after birth, as we grow up and go about our daily activities, it is again consciousness that enables us to do so. Consciousness quickens the mass of tissues, organs, and fluids in which it is lodged and makes them function as a living body. Consciousness also nourishes contact, feeling, perception, volition, and attention so they can participate in cognition. If consciousness departs, the body collapses into a heap of dead matter and all mental activity stops. It is in these respects that the Buddha speaks of consciousness as a nutriment.
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Here's a link to photos from TM Tractor: http://www.tm-tractor.com/gim/bladelb_001.htm
The hook up is the same as with a regular Cub, it's just that the brackets are different lengths, etc.
Edit: I read Loboy but didn't look at the heading to see it was for a numbered Cub. Those pictures won't help much.
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I have 1 on a 154,---and it only will raise 1 inch off the floor---so dont expect a great bulldozer IF you get it mounted!---the brackets are a nightmare hanging under there!----wanted to take mine off and get rid of it but its going to take LOTS of time to get it all unhooked and dragged out!
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Where can I find old versions of Acorn?
Here is a list of links to older versions of Acorn, just in case you need one for some reason. However, you should always be running the latest version of Acorn since it has important bug fixes that older versions do not contain.
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Why is it cheaper to upgrade to Acorn 4 at the Flying Meat Store than the Mac App Store (MAS)?
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LOS ANGELES -- The entire Dodgers bullpen crew was called into a meeting with manager Joe Torre after batting practice Wednesday. Dodgers relievers have a composite 5.68 ERA."Right now, we need to get our bullpen straightened out," Torre said before the meeting. "We need an idea when we go down there what to expect. Right now, we're not sure." General manager Ned Colletti went further. "It's upside down out there right now," said Colletti. "You can't fall behind at-bat after at-bat and expect to succeed. Very few ever have. And probably what irritates me even more is getting ahead and not putting away. And it's not just the first week of the season. It's been like that for a while." Reinforcements Hong-Chih Kuo and Ronald Belisario could be arriving soon. Kuo, out with his typical elbow woes, will make a Minor League rehab appearance Thursday night for Class A Inland Empire, starting and throwing one inning. If that goes well, he could be activated on the next trip. Belisario, who missed five weeks of Spring Training with visa problems, was scheduled to throw in an extended spring training game for the second time Wednesday. Colletti was in Arizona to see Belisario's first game Monday. "His slider is still flat," said Colletti. "His arm strength is good, the velocity strong. There's life in his fastball, but he hasn't got a second pitch yet. That's why Spring Training is seven weeks and not seven days." Torre said Jeff Weaver -- who has pitched in six of the Dodgers' seven games -- was unavailable Wednesday and left open the possibility for longer. "We've gone to the well once too often," Torre said.
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LOS ANGELES -- Knuckleball specialist and fifth starter Charlie Haeger, who makes his second start Sunday, became the first Dodger to strike out 12 or more in his first start in April since future Hall of Famer Don Drysdale struck out 14 on Opening Day in 1960, according to research by Jon Chapper of the Dodgers publicity department.Haeger, however, cautioned that a high strikeout total for a knuckleball pitcher is not always a good thing. "It means the ball is really moving, but sometimes it moves too much and leads to walks," said Haeger. "It happened in the fourth inning of that game with the two walks. That's why the pitch can be your best friend one day and you're fighting it the next."
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How you can befriend your office enemyPUBLISHED: 27 Jun 2012 00:05:59 | UPDATED: 27 Jun 2012 10:07:33PUBLISHED: 27 Jun 2012 PRINT EDITION: 27 Jun 2012
Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap
Effective leaders turn rivals into collaborators – strengthening their positions, networks, and careers in the process. Photo: Tamara Dean
Anyone who has faced a rival at work – a colleague threatened by your skills, a superior unwilling to acknowledge your good ideas or a subordinate who undermines you – knows such dynamics can prove catastrophic for your career, and for your group or organisation.
When those with formal or informal power are fighting you, you may find it impossible to accomplish – or get credit for – any meaningful work.
And, even if you have the upper hand, an antagonistic relationship inevitably casts a cloud over you and your team, sapping energy, blocking progress, and distracting group members from their goals.
Because rivalries can be so destructive, it's not enough just to ignore or try to contain them. Instead, effective leaders turn rivals into collaborators – strengthening their positions, networks, and careers in the process. Think of these relationships not as chronic illnesses you have to endure, but as wounds that must be treated so you can lead a healthy work life.
Here we share a method, called the 3Rs, for efficiently turning your adversaries into your allies.
If you execute each step correctly, you will develop new "connective tissue" within your organisation, boosting your ability to broker knowledge and drive fresh thinking.
The method is drawn from case studies – including interviews with business leaders – and from empirical research investigating the physiology of the brain, the sociology of relationships and the psychology of influence.
Many well-intentioned efforts to reverse rivalries fail because of the complex way trust operates in these relationships. Research shows trust is based on reason and emotion. If the emotional orientation towards a person is negative – typically because of a perceived threat – then reason will be twisted to align with those negative feelings.
This is why feuds can stalemate trust: new facts and arguments, no matter how credible and logical, may be seen as ploys to dupe the other side. This effect is not just psychological, it is physiological.
When we experience negative emotions, blood recedes from the cerebral cortex, and rushes to its oldest and most involuntary part, the "reptilian" stem, crippling the intake of new information.
Executives who want to reverse a rivalry will, understandably, turn to reason, presenting incentives for trustworthy collaboration. But in these situations, the "emotional brain" must be managed before adversaries can understand evidence and be persuaded.
Step 1 is to redirect your rival's negative emotions so that they are channelled away from you.
Redirection doesn't have to be hidden. With stage magic, for example, audience members understand that redirection is happening, but this doesn't lessen their acceptance or spoil the payoff of the technique. Other personal interactions work similarly.
For instance, we accept flattery even if we recognise it as such.
Another tactic is to introduce a discussion of things you and your rival have in common, or casually portray a source of tension – a particular initiative, employee or event – in a more favourable light. It sounds obvious, but redirection will shift negative emotions away from you and lay the groundwork for Step 2: reciprocity.
The essential principle here is to give before you ask. Undoing a negative tie begins with giving up something of value rather than asking for a "fair trade". If you give then ask for something right away in return, you don't establish a relationship, you carry out a transaction.
Done correctly, reciprocity is like priming the pump. In the old days, pumps required lots of exertion to produce any water. You had to repeatedly work a lever to eliminate a vacuum in the line before water could flow. But if you poured a little water into the line first, the vacuum was eliminated, enabling water to flow with less effort.
Reciprocity with a rival works in much the same way. Reflect carefully on what you should give and, ideally, choose something that requires little effort from the other party to reciprocate. Reciprocity involves considering ways that you can immediately fulfil a rival's need or reduce a pain point.
Live up to your end of the bargain first, but find a way to ensure a return from your rival without them feeling that pressure.
Professor Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management in Illinois advises leaders in difficult restructurings to generate goodwill among outgoing staff by offering references or placements at other companies as long as employees meet or exceed expectations until their office closes.
The employees see immediate value, and although they don't consciously pay back the organisation, the firm nonetheless benefits by maintaining continuity in its workforce until the closure.
Similarly, a colleague who helps an adversary to complete a project, or a subordinate who works overtime to finish a task for a difficult boss, not only helps that individual but can reap rewards when other team mates or superiors benefit from that effort, too.
Here the judicious giving before asking sets a foundation for reciprocity with third parties, whose buy-in can positively assist in reshaping the adversarial relationship.
Step 3, rationality, establishes the expectations of the fledgling relationship you've built using the previous steps so that your efforts don't come off as dishonest or as ineffective pandering.
When rationality follows redirection and reciprocity, it should push your adversary into considering the situation from a reasoned standpoint, fully comprehending the expectations and benefits, and recognising that he or she is looking at a valued opportunity that could be lost.
Most people are highly motivated to avoid a loss, which complements their desire to gain something.
Rationality is like offering medicine after a spoonful of sugar: it ensures you get the benefit of the shifted negative emotions, and any growing positive ones, which would otherwise diffuse over time. And it avoids the ambiguity that clouds expectations and feedback when flattery and favours come one day, and demands the next.
The 3Rs can work to reverse all kinds of rivalries, including those with a peer or a superior.
Brian Uzzi is a professor of leadership and organisational change at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in Illinois.
Shannon Dunlap is a journalist and writer based in New York.
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Tammy Ferguson is BankEasts new vice president and branch manager for their Maryville main office. Ferguson brings a wealth of experience and understanding of the market to the position.
"BankEast has so much to offer customers in the Maryville market,"
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Ferguson started her career in banking more than 18 years ago. She has worked in many aspects of banking and incorporates that background into her day-to-day work.
"I feel very fortunate to be able to focus my energies on the Maryville market," Ferguson said. "It is a great area to get to know people and work closely with them. Im anxious to continue those relationships."
Bob Sullivan, regional president for Blount County knows that Tammy is a great addition to the Maryville office. "Tammy brings a lot of energy and enthusiasm for the market to the Maryville office," Sullivan said. "We are fortunate to have someone with her background, experience and expertise."
Fergusons office is in the Banks Maryville office located at 417 Foothills Mall Drive. The office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday. Local telephone number for the Maryville Office is 865-980-2900 and Tammys direct office number is 865-980-2912.
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Elrod named to National Judges Panel
Keith Elrod, Certified Picture Framer from Maryville, has been named to the Professional Picture Framers Association panel of competition judges. This panel judges picture framing competitions throughout the United States and is comprised of only 67 members of the PPFA. They serve the art and framing industry by offering programs that elevate professional standards and professional certifications.
This honor was bestowed on Elrod at the recent annual convention of the PPFA in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is only the second custom picture framer in the state of Tennessee to hold this position.
Elrod is the owner of K & M Gallery, LLC, located at 705 Hoegridge Point, Maryville. Contact the gallery at 865-977-9441.
Yoakum joins Curtis Mortgage
Jimmy Yoakum joins Curtis Mortgage as Mortgage Loan Originator for their College Branch office.
A native of Maryville, Yoakum is excited about his new position. "Im eager to get started," Yoakum said. "This is a great opportunity for me to work with the people of Blount County, who Ive known my entire life."
Bill Curtis, CEO of Curtis Mortgage believes that Yoakum will be a great addition to the Curtis Mortgage staff. "Jimmy is a great fit for Curtis Mortgage," Curtis said. "As a native of the Maryville area he knows the people and wants to work with them to achieve their home financing goals."
Yoakums office is in the new College Branch office located at 826 E. Lamar Alexander Pkwy. in Maryville. The office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday. Yoakums direct office number is 865-273-4421.
Yoakum graduated from William Blount High School and East Tennessee State University. He spent four years in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg and 10 years in law enforcement.
Active in the local community, Yoakum works in the youth ministry for Blount Community Church, is a former Young Life leader, and is a coach for midget football and little league baseball.
He and his wife, Traci, have three children.
Tennessee Marble Co. acquires Tennessee Valley Marble
Tennessee Marble Company, a vertically integrated quarrier and fabricator of natural stone headquartered in Friendsville, Tenn., has acquired the assets of Tennessee Valley Marble, also located in Friendsville.
Monica Gawet, president of Tennessee Marble Co., says the acquisition makes the company the largest marble cutting and fabricating operation in the United States.
"This enables us to offer a greater variety of Tennessee marble with a better ability to match existing products," Gawet says, noting that the acquisition involves the purchase of quarry rights & minerals and several leases.
Gawet says her companys strategic move was taken primarily to bring stability to the supply for Tennessee Pink marble, which is found only in East Tennessee. She says the material also has historical significance for the East Tennessee region, having been quarried since the 1890s with a comeback in popularity over the past decade.
The former owners of Tennessee Valley Marble are Tom and Mary White, who owned the company since August 2003 and recently decided to retire.
The two companies worked on several projects together, most notably the Knoxville Convention Center and the ongoing U.S. Capitol Visitors Center project in Washington, D.C. Gaw et says that Tennessee Marble Co. will assume completion of several projects started by Tennessee Valley Marble.
Tennessee Pink marble supplied by Tennessee Marble Co., has also been installed in Grand Central Station in New York City, the Smithsonians Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and in the City of Maryville, Tenn., Municipal Building. Marble from Tennessee Valley Marble can be found in the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Ark., the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Tennessee Marble Company, founded in 1993, is family-owned and operated and affiliated with Gawet Marble & Granite of Center Rutland, Vt. The Gawet family has been in the stone business for nearly 100 years. Gawet notes that the acquisition will increase the companys production capacity by more than 30 percent.
Gawets husband, Gus Zacharias, is Tennessee Marble Companys general manager, overseeing approximately 100,000 square feet of production space and approximately 45 employees. The company plans to actively quarry natural stone at five sites in Blount, Knox and Loudon counties in Tennessee and in Isle LaMotte, Vt
Marble varieties manufactured by Tennessee Marble Co. include Tennessee Light Rose, Dark Rose, Tennessee Cedar, Georgia Cherokee, Vermont Danby, Vermont Windham Green, Imperial Black, Champlain Black, Alabama White and Colorado White. Over the last 16 months, the two companies estimate that more than 100,000 square feet of Tennessee marble was fabricated and supplied on projects throughout the country.
BB&T names new regional retail banking manager
Michael W. Honeycutt has been named retail banking manager and senior vice president for BB&Ts East Tennessee region, which includes Blount County.
Honeycutt will oversee 71 retail branch locations in an area stretching from Abingdon, Virginia to Blue Ridge, Georgia, and from Nashville to Murphy, N.C.
"Michael is a first-tier banking professional and we are fortunate to have someone of his background, experience and knowledge of BB&T to fill this key role," said Missy Wallen, BB&T Tennessee president. "At each step in Michaels career he has been assigned positions of increasing responsibility, and he has done an outstanding job every time."
Retail banking includes retail lending, deposit and fee income generation and client service. More than 400 BB&T employees work in the branches under Honeycutts charge.
"I am deeply grateful for the confidence Missy Wallen has shown in me," said Honeycutt. "BB&T offers customers the benefits that come from working with one of the countrys largest financial institutions that emphasizes decisions being made locally."
With BB&T since July 2000, Honeycutt, 33, previously was regional business banking manager. Before that, he was a business service officer in Blount County.
He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1996 with a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance.
Honeycutt lives in Knoxville with his wife, Karen, and his two daughters, Ansley and Reagan. He is a member of the Maryville Rotary Club and the allocations panel for the Blount County United Way.
American Fidelity Bank goes Green
American Fidelity Bank, a subsidiary of Greene County Bank in Greeneville, Tenn., is changing its name to GreenBank. The change, effective April 2, will allow GreenBank to unify each of its locations throughout Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina, making it more convenient to identify the banks affiliate branches.
"Until now, many of our community banks were operating under a different name, each relative to the area in which it is located," said GreenBank President and CEO Stan Puckett. "Few realized that if you banked at American Fidelity Bank, you could also bank at any one of the Greene County Bank affiliates."
Careful to point out that Greene County Bank is not being bought or merged with another entity, Puckett notes that the name change is solely the result of an effort to create a seamless identity across all branches.
"By creating this consistent identity, were able to take GreenBanks services to the next level. Creating a consistent brand allows us to continue to be Tennessees most convenient bank," said Puckett.
Current American Fidelity Bank customers will still be able to use their existing checks and check cards and will also be able to take advantage of the banks new extended weekday hours and seven-day banking in every region.
Joseph Construction named top builder
Joseph Construction Company, Inc., a general contracting company with offices in Knoxville and Sevierville, has been named Builder of the Year for the Southeastern United States by Butler Manufacturing, a BlueScope Steel Company and the world leader in the development and manufacture of metal building systems.
Butler has approximately 1000 builders nationwide - only five builders in the United States received the award. The award recognizes exceptional practices in safety, management, and market share, including the sales of Butler building and roof systems as well as demonstrates superior marketing skills.
Joseph was founded in 1972 and has been a Butler dealer since 1980. They are East Tennessees largest Butler builder.
Joseph operates throughout East Tennessee from its Knoxville headquarters and branch office in Sevierville, building both pre-engineered and conventionally constructed buildings. Joseph is owned by Blount County resident Joe Zappa.
Representative projects and clients include the Marriott National Shared Services Center; Clayton Homes Corporate Headquarters; Freightliner of Knoxville; Bank Easts new Knoxville headquarters; Team Health; the Music Road Inn and Convention Center and Louise Mandrell Theater in Pigeon Forge; multiple projects for JTEKT Automotive, OTICS, Seiko Inc. and Matsuo Automotive in Hamblen and Jefferson Counties, respectively.
With approximately 1,000 Butler Builders® nationwide, Butler Manufacturing Company is a leader in systems construction. Systems construction solutions are applied to the majority of all non-residential, low rise buildings. Advantages of systems construction over traditional construction methods include: faster construction time, lower costs, reduced maintenance costs and ease of expansion.
BankEast opens Townsend Office
BankEast announced today that it has opened a new branch in Townsend. Located at 7971 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, the newest BankEast branch will be a third Blount County location for the local community bank.
"We continue to grow in Blount County," said Bob Sullivan, regional president for Blount County. "Our Townsend office will allow us to meet the banking needs of the Townsend community, providing additional convenience and great service."
There will be some familiar faces serving customers at the Townsend office. Ruth Lindsey and Faye Moser will serve as tellers at the Townsend branch. Both live in Townsend and have been involved in the community for many years.
"Our new location will really allow us to better serve our customers in the Townsend area," said Sullivan. "We are anxious for everyone to come by and see our new branch to experience Banking The Way It Should Be."
The one-story building includes a drive-thru window, ATM and night depository, and is located in front of the IGA Supermarket.
The new office will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday.
"We know its important to be convenient for our customers," commented Sullivan. "Thats why we provide 24-hour banking capability through a variety of methods for our business and consumer customers."


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CAMILLA, Ga. — It's interesting how a simple action can be a matter of life and death.
Richard Shiver, 55, learned that earlier this year when a Zoll LifeVest shocked his heart back into rhythm just outside of his home in Camilla.
At first, he was hesitant to even wear the vest at all.
"I felt like I could pick up a truck, but the tests showed different," Shiver said.
He was told to wear the vest because he needed an internal defibrillator but was not able to get one right away due to a knee infection that first needed to be cleared up.
The vest is fitted with pads on the front and back that act as external defibrillators and are worn beneath the clothing on straps that go over the shoulders and chest, allowing the vest to continually monitor the patient's heart rhythm.
If a patient's rhythm is compromised, the vest shocks him or her.
"(Initially) I felt anger because I felt good," Shiver said. "I decided that I felt like I didn't need it. But in the end, thinking of my family, I decided to wear it."
The LifeVest was something that was bothersome for him to wear, and Shiver said he continued to experience anger and depression as a result of his situation.
Generally, he would wear the vest to work and then take it off for a few hours after getting home. Often, he admitted, it did not get back on him at all until the next morning.
"It would bother me while I was asleep," Shiver said.
One day, before he made it back into his house to take the vest off, Shiver decided to instead install a padlock on his barn door.
"This was at 5:17 p.m., when I normally would not have it on," Shiver said. "The siren on the vest went off, and I tried to turn if off three times."
After that third attempt, he woke up roughly three minutes later, gasping for air to the sound of a command telling him to contact a doctor.
As it turned out, he had nearly flatlined — resulting in the vest shocking him. He never felt the shock and, until he saw the electrocardiogram printout, nobody was able to convince him what had happened.
"When the ambulance got there, I still didn't believe I had been shocked," he said. "It saved my life, no question. I would not be alive today if I didn't have it on."
The first person Shiver called after waking up was his sister, who is a nurse at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany. He then called his brother-in-law, a paramedic from Dougherty County.
After moving his truck, he dialed 911.
The recovery time from the incident was relatively quick. He got over the stress of the situation in a few hours.
"It happened on a Tuesday, and was I back at work the following Monday," Shiver said.
Shiver, who has been a patient of Cardiology Associates for 15 years, eventually did get the internal defibrillator put in last week.
"Technology is a wonderful thing," he said. "I felt like nothing was wrong with me, but that wasn't the case.
"I've been coming here 15 years and have not always been the best patient. But whatever I'm able to experience from this point on, I'm grateful for."
Shiver said he is, in fact, so grateful to still be alive that he has overcome the habit of taking the LifeVest off.
"After that happened, I would not take it off," he said. "I didn't take if off for any reason unless I was getting into the shower. As soon as I got out of the shower, I put it back on."
Shiver, who has a family history of heart problems, did not feel any pain as his heart was about to stop — which is why he encourages any other patient to wear the vest if it's recommended for them, even if they believe it is not necessary.
"It will work; it will save your life," Shiver said. "It saved mine."
Shiver became a patient at Cardiology Associates after having a heart attack. He's had several operations over the last two years.
"I have moments of depression and anger because I can't do the things I used to, but I think about my family," Shiver said.
The LifeVest shocks the patient in the front and back. Along with the straps to hold the pads in place, there is a pack worn on the outside containing patient response controls. There is a soft tone that goes off in the event one of the pads comes loose.
It is used for a wide range of patient conditions that puts a person at risk, including a recent heart attack, before or after bypass surgery or stent placement, as well as for those with cardiomyopathy or congestive heart failure.
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Tusker Premium Lager - East African Breweries Ltd (Kenya Breweries)
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Ratings: 552 | Reviews: 338 | Display Reviews Only:
3.75/5 rDev +25%
09-01-2014 09:35:39 | More by IowaBiertrinker
3.73/5 rDev +24.3%
Tusker, from Kenya: Very pale, absolutely clear beer from Africa in a brown half liter bottle. Best buy/by day clearly shown on the label (4/03). Very white, thick creamy head. Very little aroma, if any it's slightly skunky. The first taste was quite a nice surprise, no euro-lager taste at all, rather it has a very nice bread malt flavor, with a crisp hop bite and a clean aftertaste. Very light bodied, and very easy to drink. Wow, I wish I had found this nice lager while the heat was on, particularly at $2 bucks a bottle.
09-03-2002 19:19:43 | More by jackndan
Alberta (Canada)
3.73/5 rDev +24.3%
Drinking directly from a 500-ml bottle.
Appearance - brown bottle with interesting label featuring an elephant's head. Extended stubby-style bottle does decant the beer a little as I progressed with it.
Smell - clean, grainy smell. Fresh malt attributes.
Taste - again, clean, crisp taste. This beer was exceptionally cold, a degree or 2 above freezing. Some of the flavour took a little bit to come out. Fairly subtle alcohol as it's a low 4.2%.
Mouthfeel - crisp and refreshing feel and excellent when served as cold as I had it.
Drinlability - we've got a winner here! This satisfies very well when you're thirsty and you could pound a few litres of this away without getting messy. I would go for this whenever convenient to do so. Recommended.
07-31-2009 18:52:01 | More by DoctorStrangiato
3.73/5 rDev +24.3%
A bottle from Beltway Liquors, in Baltimore, poured into a Weizen glass
A: Beautiful lager appearance. Nice and yellow/amber, with an impressive two-and-a-half head and champagne bubbles. Looks nice.
S: A bit farmhouse-y, but not hoppy like a farmhouse IPA. Barley clearly present.
T: Average+ lager. Better than, say, Miller, and better than most developing countries' lagers I've had, i.e. Latin American ones.
M: Pleasant bubbles and mild taste = refreshing, if simple
O: Comparing to other foreign lagers, excellent. NOT WORTH the 3.49 a bottle, but still very good!
10-18-2012 02:51:48 | More by beerme626
New Jersey
3.7/5 rDev +23.3%
Single, twelve ounce bottle purchased from The Palisade Liquor Store in Jersey City...
First beer from this Kenyan brewery with a black elephant on the front logo sticker...
An aggressive pour yielded a light, lucid, golden-colored hue with minimal lacing and a very minor head...
Sweet, corn and grain-dominated aroma with hints of honey...
Taste strongly complemented the smell, with an ultra-sweet, yet crisp and refreshing after taste... Candy sugars dance on the tongue, and the modest 4.2% ABV makes this an easily drinkable beer...
Not bad...
07-27-2008 22:10:51 | More by dsa7783
North Carolina
3.68/5 rDev +22.7%
This is a good example of the style. Light yellow in color with a white head. The smell is somewhat sweet and grainy. The taste is smooth with no negative bite. There is hints of vanilla and just a touch of hop bitterness. The mouthfeel is smooth. Not a chore to drink. One of the better macro style beers I have had. A much better choice than some others. I could easily session this beer, although the price would kindly limit that. $1.99 for a 12oz bottle.
04-03-2007 21:17:36 | More by Enola
New Hampshire
3.66/5 rDev +22%
Bottle from Andover Liquors
Pour a crystal clear golden straw color with a decent sized tightly bubbled white head that dissipates quickly to a faint cap on top. Aromas of sweet grainy honey like pilsner malt and a faint floral hop. I'm a bit surprised that the aroma is so damn inviting. The flavor is lightly sweet and honey like with some faint earthy spicy hop to balance. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and slick sugary water mouthfeel. Very nice example of a pale lager, I could see some of these on a warm summer day.
03-09-2014 20:38:10 | More by johnnnniee
3.65/5 rDev +21.7%
"From Kenya?", I thought. I just had to try this. Poured a nice golden yellow with a medium head. The taste was surprisingly crisp, with subtle hops, and a citric quality. Very refreshing, a good "summer" brew, probably because Kenya is in perpetual summer. A little on the exspensive side at $2.79 for 500 ml, but the price was worth it to taste what they are drinking in Africa.
03-28-2003 06:34:43 | More by bewareOFpenguin
3.65/5 rDev +21.7%
Born on 5-23-06, not super fresh, let's see how this goes. My friend deployed to kenya back before somolia went to poop & he raved about this beer (in-country)
Pours an efferevescent & chill-hazed straw color with 3 fingers plus of head. This cleared 1/2 way through the beer. Great lacing & good head retention
S: Nice Perfumy/flowery nose
T: Some Grassyness & grainyness up front. Cornyness & soapynmess follows as it warms. Some lemon notes& a little malty sweetnes follow. Has fair taste for the abv. Finishes slightly sweet & grainy
MF: Light bodied with medium carbonation
Drinks semi-okay. More malt please! I'd take this over a BMC any time. Love to get a sem--fresh bottle of this
01-12-2007 04:10:54 | More by russpowell
3.65/5 rDev +21.7%
Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass. Tusker pours a clear medium straw in color and yields a thin white head. Retention was brief but a surface film lingered longer than expected, yielding some spotty lacing.
Standard cereal grains, barley and rice, on the nose though seems to offer a bit more in body than your typical Adjunct. Hints of Euro. hops hide in the shadows, perhaps some light wheat.
Taste is fairly good. Slightly rich in malts and with a decent body, offering a bit of breadiness on the tongue and with a slightly chewy but short lived finish.
Another example of an 'American Adjunct Lager' done better by non-Americans. 'Named after George Hurst a co-founder of Kenya Breweries Ltd, who was killed by an elephant during a hunting expedition in 1923.'
04-14-2009 01:52:29 | More by HalfFull
3.65/5 rDev +21.7%
Pours a clear yellow brew.
Smell is lots of big grain smells and hay.
Taste is mildly sweet and grain with a strong hay/smoke flavor. It is good in a rustic untamed way. Taste is of Wild wheat and Barley. Finishes sweet.
Mouthfeel is good.
Drinkable, EXTREMELY well suited to eating wild game dishes like Antelope.
03-22-2004 05:47:09 | More by Zorro
Alberta (Canada)
3.65/5 rDev +21.7%
--Beer poured a nice clear, straw like color. Nice head that diminished fairly quickly.
--This was my first try of a beer from Kenya so I was pretty pumped. Like all Beer Advocates it is fun to try a beer you have never tried before but even better to try a country you have never tried. I was very impressed with this beer. It was fairly mainstream and nothing spectacular, but it went down smooth and quenched my thirst. Would drink again.
03-11-2003 12:19:28 | More by canadianbarman
3.65/5 rDev +21.7%
So, A beer named after an elephant that killed George Hurst. Interesting.
Poured from the brown heavy duty body into a clear pint glass. Bottled on date of Apr 09 stamped on the bottle.
A - Poured a clear and very pale straw yellow in color, topped with a bright white head. The head receded to a thin cap fairly quickly but left some spotty lacing down the inside of my glass.
S - Lemongrass and a bit of grain. Seems like I'm detecting a buttery diacetyl note as well. Smells a lot better than I would have expected from a Kenyan brewery...smells better than most American Adjunct Lagers that I've had in the past.
T & M - The buttery Diacetyl I smelled in the nose comes across a lot larger in the taste. The lemongrass almost takes a back seat to it. There is also just the slightest hop bite on the back end to make things interesting. Thin mouthfeel (as expected) and it finishes fairly clean, except for a little diacetyl for aftertaste.
D - This one surprised me. I'm not a fan of the American Adjunct style of brewing, but if I did have to drink it, I think I would choose Tusker. This has been a pleasant surprise, from a country that I didn't think would surprise me.
03-15-2010 15:57:40 | More by drizzam
3.63/5 rDev +21%
Consumed in both a bottle and plastic cup. Enjoyed the beer in the plastic cup.
A- Lots of froth on the head with good retention in my cup. medium yellow color with good carbonation
S- Malt, corn, grains, with a light floral hop presence
T- A malty flavor with a light touch of hops. This is a surprisingly balanced beer that is buttery on the finish.
M- Light body with good carbonation
D- Decent beer for an adjunct lager. Good session beer and one that I would drink again
07-03-2009 16:54:45 | More by racer2k
New Jersey
3.63/5 rDev +21%
Poured a clear, light yellow color with a pleasant, bubbly white head. Smell was fairly average and mild: some grainy malts and a little grassy hops. The taste had malts up front that were kind of bready, plus hops that were a little earthy and tangy, leaving a light zing at the end. A tad watery, a dry finish, but the taste was what a light macro lager should be: crisp and freshing.
07-16-2008 16:14:11 | More by micahgoldfus
Ontario (Canada)
3.63/5 rDev +21%
This poured from the bottle a very average yellow with a slight ring of head at the top of the glass. A grassy smell makes it's way to the nose in this one, not too bad. Flavor is slightly sweet, very subtle in the hops and malt, with a very clean finish. This is one of the more easy drinking and refreshing brews i've had, Overall, not bad.
08-11-2006 23:39:51 | More by funkengruven
New York
3.63/5 rDev +21%
A - Poured a golden color with a white head that leaves lacing behind
S - Is of sweet grainy malt and corn
T - Like the smell sweet malt and corn flavors
M - This beer has a medium body with medium carbonation to it
D - For what it is its not all that bad and pretty much fits the style its a decent tasting lager that's refreshing if you haven't had an African beer yet this is one to try
11-17-2010 06:31:12 | More by armock
New York
3.61/5 rDev +20.3%
Bottle purchased at Beers of the World in Henrietta, NY. First beer drank from Africa!
Pours an effervescent, fizzy, golden yellow, classic adjunct lager look. A big 2.5 inch fizzy head forms.
Doesn't smell like a whole lot, smells like sweet grain, with a bit of corniness, and the slightest bit of grassiness.
Nice little bite up front, a kiss of hops, but the bite mostly comes from the carbonation. Finishes a bit sweet and corny. For an adjunct lager, this isn't half bad, honestly. I'd get it again.
Light bodied, slightly thicker body than typical for the style. High carbonation, very refreshing and drinkable.
I'm surprised at how tasty this was.
06-10-2014 21:34:50 | More by GreesyFizeek
3.6/5 rDev +20%
A: Poured a clear, pale yellow into a stein with a thick, frothy white head that, surprisingly enough, dissipated quickly.
S: Some malty sweetness and honey; generically clean.
T: Strong honey malts hit the palate, followed by a slight bit of astringency and medicinal hops.
M: Light to a fault; very thin and watery with not enough carbonation to compensate.
D: The sweet honey flavor of the malts make this a very drinkable and refreshing beer; I can see myself having this with Ethiopian food.
02-26-2010 06:26:15 | More by thekanna
3.6/5 rDev +20%
This was a 12oz that I picked up from Beverage Warehouse in Culver City.
This is a very drinkable beer.
Goes down quite smooth.
The taste is inoffensive.
To me I do not care what a beer smells like, or looks like. What matters is its taste.
This one tastes good..
Would buy again.
07-29-2008 05:41:02 | More by Montee
Ontario (Canada)
3.6/5 rDev +20%
Pours an incredibly pale yellow, the palest I've seen. Some people have marked this beer down on it, but I thought it looked kinda cool and different. Very highly carbonated with a big, bubbly head.
Smell is spicy and pepperly, with some herb and soap flavours. Not strong though -- quite weak, like most mainstream lagers.
Taste is very clean and crisp, but again sort of weak and watery. What's there is fairly pleasant though, at least a step up from Bud or Molson. Bit of soapyness here too, as well as some more prevalent hops than mainstream American/Canadian versions.
This is quite drinkable, and has a cool looking 500 mL bottle -- with an ELEPHANT on it. Not great, but worth trying.
12-17-2005 20:09:28 | More by crwills
3.6/5 rDev +20%
My first African beer!
Showed a very light gold in color with white head building about half an inch, dissipating fast leaving some lacing on the glass.
smell is light malt flavor, maybe hint of honey, little hop.
Very light taste of the same. a little doughy, but actually very refreshing taste and good carbonation.
Considering where it is mostly consumed, a perfect brew for hot climates to quench thirst. very light and smooth, therefore very drinkable. Over all a interesting different kind of beer.
02-05-2011 03:28:34 | More by Hopfenpeter
3.58/5 rDev +19.3%
Had this pool-side at Walt Disney's Kadani Village Resort. As such, this beer was consumed from a plastic cup.
Pours a straw-yellow with a fair amoutn of carbonation, with a white head that disipates to a thin white sheen.
Smells sweet, like orange blossoms and honey, with definite floral notes to it. Very nice smelling!
This is a smooth tasting beer, especially as it was served nice and cold. Very refreshing in the late June Florida heat. Crisp and light, with very little in the way of complexity. Some grassiness, slight malt. Very little of the smell translates to the taste.
Mouthfeel is thin, crisp, light.
Overall, very drinkable and refreshing, which is good for a Kenyan beer. However, at $6 a pop poolside in Disney, it will be my last.
07-03-2010 02:08:49 | More by TheHoppiest
3.58/5 rDev +19.3%
(purchased at Binny's Beverage, Marcey St., CHI - no freshness date - poured into a half pint)
A: pale, faded, corn gold color... relatively clear... good bit of white foam forms on the pour, holding longer than expected, leaving a cap riddled with big bubbles
S: sweetish malt with shades of pancake... not all that different from your average mass-produced lager
T: basic pale lager taste with some interesting nuances... no clear cut indication anywhere whether this is all-malt or not, but it sort of tastes like it could be... corn muffin, shortbread flavors, light toasted notes... no hops, minimal balancing bitterness
M: feels like an all-malt lager, a bit fuller than a rice or corn beer... clean, soft, mellow... no bite
O: pretty decent... wouldn't mind drinking a few of these if it was the only thing around
07-27-2014 23:50:12 | More by Bouleboubier
3.58/5 rDev +19.3%
Well, the only other African beer I can remember was from Namibia, and this one is quite a bit better.
Pours a very light golden, clean and clear. Moderate semi-soapy head inches up to about 1 finger, then settles to a very fine collar
Aroma is...not much. And that's good. Well, it's not bad. It lacks to unsavory characteristics of some/most AAL, like stale malt, socks and vinegar. It has a bit of a sweetness and light, very light, caramel. Hint of vague spice
A light flavor profile. Sweet malt, some corn leaves, and light caramel. A quick small burst of hops and some floral spice. All is fleeting, but that's good. The finish has a bit of film on it, but otherwise it does have a zing quality.
Carbonation could use a boost, I think it would help a bit. But not too much bubbles as they would detract from the flavors
01-29-2012 07:58:01 | More by Mebuzzard
Tusker Premium Lager from East African Breweries Ltd (Kenya Breweries)
70 out of 100 based on 552 ratings.