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Listening to the Warriors and Raptors go at it last night got me thinking about how both teams have pieces that may fit very well in the other's respective rotation. The teams have been trade partners recently (the Bellinelli/George blockbuster) and both franchises are coming off disappointing seasons. I think there is potential for the teams to make a solid trade without Bosh or Ellis trading hands.
The Raptors may lose Bosh, but they will do everything they can to keep him by adding talent through trades and free agency. The same could be said about Ellis. Curry is really the "Bosh" of the Warriors, but Ellis is right up there as 1B. The front office has made Ellis' place clear with its actions.
The Warriors would love to move Maggette and Biedrins, and since the Raptors at times have stagnated this year offensively and up front, my guess is they'd be very interested in adding the two players to put with Bosh to create a more balanced roster. The Raptors are also in a precarious position without a 1st rd pick in a loaded draft that becomes a compounded problem with the prospect of their best player leaving for nothing.
So......I'll just launch into the trade proposal:
Corey Maggette, Andris Biedrins, Vladimir Radmanovic, and 2010 1st rd pick (24.5 million)
Andrea Bargnani, Jose Calderon, DeMar DeRozan, and Reggie Evans (22 million)
This would only be on the table from the Warriors' perspective if they don't get picks 1 or 2 in the draft. Getting Wall or Turner would change their thinking entirely. But with Wright coming back and especially with the signing of Reggie Williams for next year, depth will not be a problem. The Warriors must upgrade and diversify their talent to improve. If they pick 3 or lower, though players such as Favors or Cousins are tantalizing, where will they really fit? Picks 3 or 4 could become valuable trade assets for the Warriors.
But first, the Raptors. Adding Maggette would give them an efficient scoring burst that they desperately need. Bargnani is a nice player for them, but he doesn't board well for his position, and he doesn't complement Bosh as well as a player like Biedrins. There's been speculation that the Raptors have sought the services of Bieds before, and my guess is they wouldn't mind essentially swapping Bargnani for Biedrins, especially if Maggette is a part of the deal. Radmonovic would be another international player in Toronto, and he's basically a poor man's Bargnani, fine. Most importantly, the Raptors would get a re-do on the drafting of DeRozan, a guy they've been giving burn all year in the hope of a break out that as of yet hasn't happened. Wouldn't they rather get DeMarcus Cousins or Derrick Favors this year? Yes.
And now, the Warriors. I love this trade for the Warriors. Not only do we dump two big contracts, but we add talent that can definitely make us a better team, all while keeping our core (Curry, Ellis, Randolph) intact. The Warriors are adding big, back-loaded contracts, but it's pretty clear that's the only way they are going to move these players. Bargnani is a big that shoots the three really well. He's not bulky, but he'd pair really well with Randolph on a running team. Calderon would be a solid back-up for Curry; he'd still get big minutes and is only one year removed from almost 10 assists per game. He would probably start on most teams, but Jack's arrival has created a logjam at point in Toronto. DeMar DeRozan could thrive in the Warriors system and give us depth at the 3; Reggie Evans would give us needed toughness up front. The key is diversity: the Warriors add a big that can shoot, a distributor, and some physical presence down low.
Here are the rotations:
Stephen Curry / Jose Calderon
Kelenna Azubuike / Reggie Williams / DeMar DeRozan
Anthony Randolph / Brandan Wright / Reggie Evans
Andrea Bargnani / Ronny Turiaf / Anthony Tolliver
Jarrett Jack / Marco Belinelli
Hidayet Turkoglu / Marcus Banks
Corey Maggette / Vladimir Radmonovic
Chris Bosh / 2nd Rd Pick (#45)
Andris Biedrins / DeMarcus Cousins
Bargnani: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4129
Calderon: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3989
DeRozan: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4614
Evans: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3663
Maggette: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3336
Biedrins: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3828
Radmanovic: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3522
Looks pretty good to me. Thoughts?

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Rose Panek Hamrysky Wetzel, a lifelong resident of Princeton, died at home, with her family at her side, on Wednesday, Dec. 14. She was a volunteer for 22 years with the Red Cross, Princeton University and the Princeton Senior Resource Center.
Rose is survived by her daughters, Gloria Bell and Dolores Doney, a son, Richard Hamrysky, and his wife Marcia, eight grandchildren and ten great- grandchildren.
Family and friends may gather on Tuesday Dec. 20 at the Kimble Funeral Home, 10:30 a.m. until funeral services begin at 11:15 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 11:45 a.m. at St. Paul's Catholic Church. Burial will be in St. Paul's Church Cemetery.
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MTV's Caged S01E09 Complete Show.
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This show is beyond dumb! Wow leave it up to MTV to turn MMA gay. Bellator was their only good show.
i second that.
I'd rather watch Bully Beatdown… Which doesn't say much. Tito is coming to recruit? How is that guy even still in the UFC. hasn't won a fight in 10 years.
This show is worst for MMA than matbattle. these must be the gayest "fighters" of all time
WTF is this SHYTE !
p4p douchebags
With all those bad comments I'm happy I never started watching this HAHA.
@James… Have you been in a coma for the last year? Tito Ortiz recently landed a solid punch that knocked down Ryan Bader and then submitted him with a guillotine choke. Ryan Bader recently beat Rampage so he is not to be taken lightly. You should be on this stupid MTV show and see how you do in your first fight. these ameture fights are dangerous because sometimes the opponent is a world class wrestler or judo practitioner. The probability for a mismatch is pretty high.


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In the middle of the Antarctic summer, the sun does not set and it is visible continually throughout the 24-hour cycle. The closer one is to the Pole, the more days of continuous sunlight there will be. Here Ponting has photographed the sun breaking through the clouds at midnight.
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Rumors out of UCLA today is that they have completely stopped recruiting JP and they have recently started recruiting another PG (in addition to McLaughlin). Considering there is still no offer from UK, and the fact that Perkins has not + has no plans to visit UCONN or UM, it seems that he has already decided that Gonzaga is his school. I suppose Coach Cal could pull a last second offer out of his ass, but it seems that he has already offered literally every other PG in this class not named Perkins.
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"THE Central West Republic has declared independence on this day, January 22."
With these words Dot West, spokesperson for the breakaway republic, launched the world's newest nation.
The country, to be governed by a president, ministers and an elected government, will cover parts of Wellington, Parkes, Forbes and Orange.
"We have written to the Queen and the Governor General to advise them we are forming a nation. This is a radical sovereignty and we know this will be a long haul, but it's for everybody'' Mrs West said.
Claiming the rogue nation has widespread support, Mrs West denied the republic's formation was racially divisive.
"This has the potential to bring black and white together'' she said, standing in front of Wellington Council Chambers, flanked by supporters.
Local woman Violet Lousick said the purpose of the breakaway was to show the higher branches of government local people stood united.
"We need the big boys from the Federal government to come here and talk us and explain why they have ignored Aboriginal people'' she said.
"This is not a land grab. I believe the problem with native title rights is that people try and profit from the land and sell it to developers and miners. That's wrong.
"But we have been discriminated against for too long and now is the time to act once and for all.''
Fred Hooper chairs the Weilmoringle Group - who have attempted a similar move for independence near Brewarrina - and says both nations would be funded by tax payers and the new governments would look after the social needs of their communities.
"This has been raised because Aboriginal people's voice has been suppressed and we have not been afforded equality, on our land or any type of self government and determinations which help our people,'' Mr Hooper said.
"The same benefits that Australians receive like unemployment and aged welfare would be given to those in the republics.
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In 1973, the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals issued a report which stated in part: "The prison, the reformatory and the jail have achieved only a shocking record of failure. There is overwhelming evidence that these institutions create crime rather than prevent it." This same report stated directly: "No new institutions for adults should be built and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed."
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It is my sincere hope this letter will be received in the same spirit of appreciation and cooperation in which it is written. First and foremost, I wish to acknowledge the courage and independent thinking and actions you demonstrated in the unannounced visit to inspect the conditions of confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit and speak with the strike leaders.
December 13, 2012
Yesterday I wrote about the ACLU's efforts to ensure that the U.S. government is properly engaged at a U.N. meeting in Buenos Aires on uniform rules for the treatment of prisoners. Now that the meeting is underway, it appears that the U.S. delegation is playing a constructive role – but we've still got work to do.
September 14, 2012
A bill opposing the shackling of pregnant prisoners, AB 2530, passed unanimously by the California State Legislature, is now on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk, with 30 days to either approve or veto it. Last year, a previous version of this bill was also passed unanimously by the legislature, but it was ultimately vetoed by Gov. Brown. AB 2530 supporters have created two webpages for the public to contact the governor.
June 29, 2012
In the past year we have witnessed a succession of murderous assaults reflecting a common character structure: The authoritarian psychology: Jason Smith beaten to death by racists in Louisiana; Trayvon Martin murdered by a racist vigilante in Florida; Christian Gomez allowed to die on hunger strike by prison guards in California; 17 people, nine of them children, slaughtered in Afghanistan; Kendrec McDade slain by racist police in California; Gerardo Perez-Ruiz murdered by border vigilantes in Arizona.
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We, as members of activist and community organizations in the Bay Area of California, send our support and salute you for making history as your strike has become the largest prison strike in the history of this nation. We recognize the potential that your action has to improve the lives of millions subject to inhumane treatment in correctional facilities across this country.


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Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) - The Cincinnati Reds have rewarded manager Dusty Baker with a two-year contract extension through the 2014 season.
Baker has managed the Reds for the past five seasons, posting a 419-391 record while leading the club to a pair of NL Central titles and a 97-win campaign in 2012, the best for the franchise since 1976.
"In Dusty's five seasons here he's taken us to the postseason twice and has proven he can lead our teams to championship-caliber play on the field," said Reds president and chief executive officer Bob Castellini. "He's the right manager to continue the building process that will take us deeper and deeper into the playoffs in the future."
The Reds signed Baker to a two-year extension in October 2010 just after the team won the NL Central and before suffering a sweep at the hands of Philadelphia in the NLDS. This year's squad was beaten in the NLDS by the Giants in stunning fashion, dropping all three games at home after winning the first two in San Francisco.
Baker, 63, will enter his 20th managerial season in 2013.
Before joining the Reds in October 2007, Baker previously managed the Cubs and Giants. He led San Francisco to division titles in 1997 and 2000, and guided the Giants to the 2002 World Series as a wild card during his 10-year tenure. He joined the Cubs in 2003 and immediately helped Chicago capture a division title for the first time since 1989, but came up a win short of the World Series with a loss to the Marlins in the NLCS.
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FOOTBALL: Gee hoping new duo provide lift for North Leigh
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North Leigh boss Mark Gee is hoping that the double signing of Mark Bell and Liam Malone can give his side the boost they need ahead of a congested fixture list.
The duo are set to join from Oxford City and will go straight into the squad for tomorrow's trip to Wimborne in Calor League Division 1 South & West providing necessary paperwork is completed in time.
Gee said it was important to strengthen his squad with such a busy period coming up.
"We have got a third of our games for the season in a six-week period," Gee said.
"There's a minimum of 14 games left and we need as many people as possible.
"Liam and Mark have plenty of experience and have been through the play-offs before, so will be important people to have around.
He added: "I think Merthyr and Cirencester will be in the top five at the end of the season, which leaves three more places and we are one of seven or eight teams in contention for that."
Kieran Sanders is back in the squad after injury.
North Leigh (v Wimborne, away): McHugh, Hole, Organ, Turk, Gunn, Caton, Bowles, Osborne-Ricketts, Walcott, Else, Woodley, McDonagh, Williams, Dobson, Clarke, Hopkins, Sanders, Malone, Bell.
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- Dan Goswick '15
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The students definitely set Mount Union apart from other colleges and universities. It was something I noticed the first time I was on campus, how inherently nice everyone was by doing the littlest things
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- Running Toward Success
- August 27, 2014 - by Hannah Shaffer
Financial mathematics major Chase Swisher '15 is running toward success, both on and off the track.See Full Article
- Mount Union Alumni Continue Giving Back
- August 22, 2014 - by Lauren Reihl
Many students engage in community service while at Mount Union, but some students go above and beyond by traveling to a third world country to help the less fortunate.See Full Article
- Students Attend Entrepreneurship Immersion Week
- August 21, 2014
ALLIANCE, Ohio— Five students traveled to The University of Akron to represent the University of Mount Union during Entrepreneurship Immersion Week this summer.See Full Article
- Faculty Recital to Take Place at Mount Union
- August 21, 2014
ALLIANCE, Ohio— Dr. Elaine Anderson, professor of music, and Janelle Penn Phinney, will hold a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 26 in Presser Recital Hall.See Full Article
- Gieses Named Citizens of the Year
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- Center for Student Success to Receive Award
- August 14, 2014
ALLIANCE, Ohio – The University of Mount Union has been selected to share in the 2014 Academic Affairs Awards presented by The Washington Center. Three universities, two college administrators, one state system and a non-profit organization will participate.See Full Article
- Disaster Drill Slated for Tuesday
- August 13, 2014
ALLIANCE, Ohio – The Alliance City School District, the University of Mount Union and Alliance Community Hospital, in conjunction with the Alliance Fire Department and Alliance Police Department, will conduct a disaster drill between the hours of 1 and 5 p.m. on Tuesday, August 19 at Alliance High School.See Full Article
- Faculty Members spread Purple Pride Across Globe
- August 7, 2014 - by Lauren Reihl
During the 2014 spring and summer seasons, Mount Union faculty members traveled with small groups of students to countries across the world.See Full Article
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- August 4, 2014
ALLIANCE, Ohio – Local photographer Mark Pitocco of Louisville, Ohio, chose the Huston-Brumbaugh Nature Center as the location to photograph for his exhibit, "A Sense of Place."See Full Article
- Thirty Honored at White Coat Ceremony
- July 31, 2014
ALLIANCE, Ohio – Nearly 300 people were in attendance July 17 as the University of Mount Union held its fifth annual Physician Assistant Studies Program White Coat Ceremony. This ceremony marked the transition of 30 students from classroom learning to the clinical phase of their physician assistant studies graduate education.See Full Article
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Due to inclement weather, Sunday's performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has been relocated to the Alliance Firehouse Theater, located at 450 E. Market St. Tickets for the performance will be available at the door.See Full Article
- Lindsay Janice named DAAD Young Ambassador
- July 18, 2014 - by Lauren Reihl
ALLIANCE, Ohio – Mount Union senior Lindsay Janice, a German and International Studies major and Japanese minor of Aurora, OH, has been selected by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) as one of 30 DAAD Young Ambassadors to promote study and research in Germany.See Full Article
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ALLIANCE, Ohio – Actors from Shakespeare At The Castle recently conducted workshops for Interfaith Day Care children at Rodman Public Library. The workshops introduced students to Shakespeare's history, language, poetry and his most popular comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."See Full Article
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ALLIANCE, Ohio – The University of Mount Union and the Alliance Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the 50th Annual ArtFest on Saturday, September 27 at Mount Union. This year, ArtFest will return to its historical location by the Campus Lakes.See Full Article
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ALLIANCE, Ohio— At the 61st National Convention in Washington D.C., Mount Union's Epsilon chapter of Phi Kappa Tau was presented with six awards including the Maxwell Trophy, which is awarded to the most outstanding chapter nationwide.See Full Article
- Baja Team Races to Top at Competition
- July 8, 2014
ALLIANCE, Ohio – The University of Mount Union's inaugural Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) Baja Team raced to the top as it placed 29th overall and 14th in maneuverability out of more than 120 registered schools competing in the Baja SAE event held recently in Peoria, Illinois.See Full Article


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How to Do an Epsom Salt Energy CleanseItems Needed:
- One skillet (with lid)
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup of epsom salt crystals
- 1-3 capfuls of Everclear (pure grain alcohol)
- Matches or lighter
How to Prepare Your Energy CleansePlace your skillet on a surface safely away from anything flammable (paper, curtains, loose clothing, etc.).
Pour epsom salt into the skillet, just enough to cover the bottom of the pan. Give the skillet a gentle shake with the handle to scatter the salt evenly.
Add a capful of Everclear and stir. Give the skillet another gentle shake.
You are now ready to set the alcohol/salt mixture to flame. But, before you do this, make sure you have the lid within reach in case the flame is too high or burns too hot so that you can quickly cover and snuff out any flame that is not under your control. When you strike the match or lighter you should have a low flame that hovers approximately one inch over the salt crystals. The flame will give off a violet, pale blue, or clear color. You may need to experiment a bit to get just the right ratio of salt and alcohol create the perfect purifying flame. If the epsom salt is too dry it won't burn, if it is too wet the flame will burn too high.
Clearing Your SpaceAfter setting the epsom salts to flame lift the skillet off of the surface and carry it cautiously with your arms stretched out in front of you. Walk slowly to the various doorways and corners of the room you are clearing.
Continue clearing the space until the flame burns out completely.
To complete your cleanse immediately dump the contents of the skillet into an empty sink. Flush the salt along with all the negative and energies that were drawn into the flame down the drain with a steady flow of water from the faucet. Wash the pan and bless your newly cleared space.
Additional Helps
- You could also substitute using a skillet with a shallow fireproof bowl placed on a tray.
- For your personal safety make sure your hair is free of hair spray and tied back away from your face.
- Hava a second person nearby with lid in hand to cover the skillet quickly if needed as a precaution of a fire possibly getting out of hand. Always good to stay safe.
- If the flame goes out before you have canvased the whole space you can prepare a second batch of salt/alcohol to completely clear away a larger area.
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If You Gotta Eat Today…
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damn. almost no one else is reporting about this. . . i dont see anything on CNN or MSNBC. thats a bummer.
i know in my area (Michigan USA) that the local news is all over it bacause its a big deal in Grand rapids.
sad that no national news place picks this stuff up. after all, you need SOME good news on the TV.
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I'm a committed health and fitness enthusiast, and I want to use this site to share my knowledge and experiences with others. I love spending time outdoors, doing things like running, biking, hiking, swimming, and gardening. I love competing in a good race, too! To me, there is no more important issue than teaching our children how to connect with the natural world and stay healthy. Exercise and fitness, along with healthy eating habits, have helped me find confidence and love for myself. I want so much to pass that on to my kids! I hope to share some thoughts here, experiences with racing (triathlon, bikes, running), some healthy tips and maybe even some recipes and exercises. Look around and tell me what you think! If you are in Birmingham, AL and are looking for a new twist on personal training or group exercise, I am available as an instructor. I prefer to train outside, where you can breathe in fresh air and use the money you might spend on a gym membership for something else!! Join me on this journey! CHECK THE GROUPS PAGE FOR NEW CLASS INFO!!!


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Bruce Leeroy is returning to the octagon, and he'll be meeting an Angel of Death. Both bantamweights are badly in need of a win and they'll face off on July 11th in San Jose. UFC.com spills the beans:
A bantamweight scrap has been verbally agreed to between Damacio "The Angel of Death" Page and TUF fan favorite Alex "Bruce Leeroy" Caceres for the July 11 FUEL TV fight card. Both fighters are known for their fast-paced, dramatic wars and the match-up should make this yet another barn-burner.
Caceres (11-5) lost his first two UFC bouts at featherweight so he decided to drop to 135 late last year. He won his bantamweight debut over Cole Escovedo, but suffered a tough break in his next bout when he had two points deducted for groin kicks in his bout with Edwin Figueroa at UFC 143. He went on to lose by decision.
Page (15-7) has lost three bouts in a row, two of which came in the UFC (to Brian Bowles and most recently Brad Pickett). He won a fight of the night bonus for the Pickett fight despite the loss.
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Staples Adds to Martha Stewart Home Org Line with Avery Dennison
By Mark Vruno | Posted: 03/25/2013 3:56PM
click image to zoomStaples, Inc.The Martha Stewart Home Office line with Avery Dennison, available exclusively at Staples. FRAMINGHAM, MA - Staples, Inc. has expanded the Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery line. The new home organization products complement an existing line. "This is a wonderful opportunity to give busy households and home-based entrepreneurs a functional and attractive organizational system," said Martha Stewart, founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. "The Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery line was created to inspire people to organize their projects while enhancing their home office and overall lifestyle."
New exclusive products now available at Staples and Staples.com include:
- Wall Manager modular wall organization system featuring magnetic and dry erase boards, storage caddies, shelves, drawers and a document inbox.
- New line of totes and cases inspired by Stewart's favorite bags for work, travel and leisure. The collection includes small and large totes, laptop cases, slim tablet sleeves, handy wristlets and durable accessory pouches in a variety of sizes to coordinate with and fit inside matching totes.
- Available with a variety of beautiful covers and patterns, Discbound customizable notebooks offer the versatility of a binder with the portability of a notebook, with accessories such as dividers, planner pockets, task pads and more. The disc design makes it easy to add, remove and rearrange pages and accessories.
In addition, Staples offers three exclusive Martha Stewart Home Office furniture collections, available at Staples and Staples.com, that combine distinctive designs and handy features in a variety of styles and finishes.
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Fact-checking claims about race after Ferguson shooting
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The shooting of 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer has led to a broader discussion of race in America. PunditFact has recently fact-checked several claims centering on race.
No. 1 cause of death for young black men
Fox pundit Juan Williams recently expounded upon a column he wrote for the Wall Street Journal in which he described "thuggish behavior" as creating a culture of violence in African-American communities.
"The violent behavior of young black men and the police response have become a window on racial fears," Williams wrote. On Fox News Sunday Williams said, "On the black side of this equation, I think there's fear of intimidation, harassment being legitimized by the fact that there is a high rate of crime, especially among young black men.… Read more
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Insects (Maine Cranberries) - Red-headed Flea Beetle
Order: Coleoptera || Family: Chrysomelidae
Scientific Name: Systena frontalis (F.)
Unfortunately, no economic or action thresholds have been developed for this pest. [But in the event of a major outbreak like one that was observed in Maine in 2009, it isn't very hard to judge when 'action' needs to be taken.]
General Notes: [see also pdf Fact Sheet out of Wisconsin] Adult Red-headed Flea Beetles feed on the the undersides of the leaves, while usually leaving the top leaf surface intact. But they also gouge the berries, and overall, their feeding can significantly impact bud development for the following year if their populations are high, as they were at one site in Maine in 2009 and at another Maine site in 2013.
Description: As visible from the photos above, they are small insects (3.5 to 5 mm long), and are shiny and mostly black; there is a slightly reddish tint to their head that is visible when you look closely or especially when the sun catches it (see the 3rd photo above). Notice, too, their thick hind legs, which look a little like small grasshopper legs. This is what makes them good jumpers, and hence is the source of the 'flea' that's part of their name, but they can also fly as well.
Life Cycle: There is only a single generation per year. They overwinter in the egg stage and although the eggs hatch reportedly in May (probably not until June for much of Maine), the adults don't begin to show up on cranberry beds until late in July (or sometimes later). The adults remain on the beds for a couple of months, feeding, mating, and, when the time is right (late August – early September), laying their eggs, which are deposited just beneath the soil surface. Populations of the adults are often very patchy.
Control: For specific and current control recommendations for Maine for this pest, please refer to the Maine Cranberry Pest Management Guide.
Cranberry questions? Contact Charles Armstrong, Cranberry Professional. University of Maine Cooperative Extension || Pest Management Office || 491 College Avenue || Orono, ME 04473-1295 || Tel: 207.581.2967 [email: firstname.lastname@example.com]


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It's that time again...here are my favorite articles and fashion spreads from this week. First of all, Kate Moss...is iconic to me. I'm so happy to see her on the covers of fashion magazines. She can mold into whatever she wants and her photo shoots are so always so interesting. This one is no exception so for sure check her out in W Magazine. I love the colors and patterns in the photo shoot above, so gorgeous!...I'm loving bright yellow, orange and pink this spring and summer.
I always get so excited when I get Elle Decor in the mail! So many pretty interiors to look at...
My favorite article in this month's issue was the house of Maryam Montague and Chris Redecke in Morocco...absolutely gorgeous! I love morrocan style, it reminds me of Talitha Getty and the bohemian movement of the 60s in Marrakesh.
Town & Country came with lots of interesting articles, especially the cover story about Whit Stillman and his new movie Damsels in Distress which I definitely have to see!
This article caught my eye because it mentions two 60s icons that I wrote about in previous style posts, Francoise Hardy and Peggie Lipton. Plus, I love having a golden glow for summer...
I love these Capri sandals that Jackie O used to wear!! I want some :)
Pretty pastel inspiration in Town & Country's source book.
I hope everyone is having a lovely week! By the way, what are your favorite magazines to read?


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The storm struck Madison County between 5:30 and 6:30 Tuesday morning.
That's according to Emergency Operations Manager Butch Hammack.
Hammack says there are reports from all over the county of trees across roadways and downed power lines.
The most visible damage was at Lake Caroline where a large tree fell against the home of Wayne Watkins at 98 Talbot Court and Lake Ridge Drive.
Further up north in Madison County, just about 3 miles south of Pickens off of Old Highway 51, Rose Hydrick lost her relatively new horse barn which became a pile of crumpled metal.
At least 8 trees were knocked over here.
Madison County Emergency Operations Manager Butch Hammack said he would let the weather service determine if it was a tornado.
"Bert, honestly I don't know, at this point, and I am going to let the weather service make that determination," Hammack said. "If you will look directly behind you there is a tree that has been uprooted and another one that has been twisted off, half way up the trunk. So we don't know if we had a combination of tornadic activity or straight line winds or what happened."
The homeowner at Lake Caroline was just thankful nobody got hurt.
"We heard a thump, and we had a lot of thunder and lightning and I walked outside and looked up and we had a tree laying on the house," Wayne Watkins said. "We are ok and this is nothing but building materials and can be fixed."
Butch Hammack said he had at least 30 reports of trees across roads from all over the county.
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A funeral service was April 7at the Riverside Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chattaroy, with his son, Bishop Bryon Wiltse conducting, for longtime Deer Park area resident Lyle L. Wiltse, who passed away on April 2, 2012 on the family farm.
Born in Hunters on April 15, 1938, his family moved to Deer Park when he was in the seventh grade. He graduated from Deer Park High School in 1957.
A funeral service is planned for a later date for Loon Lake/Deer Lake resident Sharon Grace Carter, 77, who passed away on April 1, 2012, in Spokane.
Born on July 18, 1934 in Bothell, Wash., she was a homemaker and mother. She lived at Loon Lake and then Deer Lake for the past 13 years.
She was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3067 and the Moose Lodge at Loon Lake.
Her husband, Milton Carter, predeceased her.
She is survived by one son, Chris (Barb) Carter.
A funeral service will held at 2 p.m. on April 6 at the Heritage Chapel, N508 Government Way, Spokane, for Chattaroy resident Deborah N. "Debbee" Morgan, 46, who passed away on April 2.
Born on Dec. 25, 1965, in Spokane to Fred and Sandi Uttke, she graduated from Mead High School in 1984 and worked as a para-educator in the Riverside School District. She married Gregg Morgan in 1988 in Spokane. They have lived in Chattaroy for the last 20 years.
She loved camping, boating, the Oregon Coast, "Muscle Cars" and cooking.


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Queen Latifah Comes Out
PASADENA, Calif. — In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet's past.
Cheers and applause echoed through the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory late Sunday after the most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built signaled it had survived a harrowing plunge through the thin Mars atmosphere.
"Touchdown confirmed," said engineer Allen Chen. "We're safe on Mars."
Minutes after the landing signal reached Earth at 10:32 p.m. PDT, Curiosity beamed back the first black-and-white pictures from inside the crater showing its wheel and its shadow, cast by the afternoon sun.
"We landed in a nice flat spot. Beautiful, really beautiful," said engineer Adam Steltzner, who led the team that devised the tricky landing routine.
It was NASA's seventh landing on Earth's neighbor; many other attempts by the U.S. and other countries to zip past, circle or set down on Mars have gone awry.
The arrival was an engineering tour de force, debuting never-before-tried acrobatics packed into "seven minutes of terror" as Curiosity sliced through the Martian atmosphere at 13,000 mph.
In a Hollywood-style finish, cables delicately lowered the rover to the ground at a snail-paced 2 mph. A video camera was set to capture the most dramatic moments — which would give Earthlings their first glimpse of a touchdown on another world.
Celebrations by the mission team were so joyous over the next hour that JPL Director Charles Elachi had to plead for calm in order to hold a post-landing press conference. He compared the team to athletic teams that participate in the Olympics.
"This team came back with the gold," he said.
The extraterrestrial feat injected a much-needed boost to NASA, which is debating whether it can afford another robotic Mars landing this decade. At a budget-busting $2.5 billion, Curiosity is the priciest gamble yet, which scientists hope will pay off with a bonanza of discoveries and pave the way for astronaut landings.
"The wheels of Curiosity have begun to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars," said NASA chief Charles Bolden.
President Barack Obama lauded the landing in a statement, calling it "an unprecedented feat of technology that will stand as a point of national pride far into the future."
Over the next two years, Curiosity will drive over to a mountain rising from the crater floor, poke into rocks and scoop up rust-tinted soil to see if the region ever had the right environment for microscopic organisms to thrive. It's the latest chapter in the long-running quest to find out whether primitive life arose early in the planet's history.
The voyage to Mars took more than eight months and spanned 352 million miles. The trickiest part of the journey? The landing. Because Curiosity weighs nearly a ton, engineers drummed up a new and more controlled way to set the rover down. The last Mars rovers, twins Spirit and Opportunity, were cocooned in air bags and bounced to a stop in 2004.
Curiosity relied on a series of braking tricks, similar to those used by the space shuttle, a heat shield and a supersonic parachute to slow down as it punched through the atmosphere.
And in a new twist, engineers came up with a way to lower the rover by cable from a hovering rocket-powered backpack. At touchdown, the cords cut and the rocket stage crashed a distance away.
The nuclear-powered Curiosity, the size of a small car, is packed with scientific tools, cameras and a weather station. It sports a robotic arm with a power drill, a laser that can zap distant rocks, a chemistry lab to sniff for the chemical building blocks of life and a detector to measure dangerous radiation on the surface.
It also tracked radiation levels during the journey to help NASA better understand the risks astronauts could face on a future manned trip.
Over the next several days, Curiosity is expected to send back the first color pictures. After several weeks of health checkups, the six-wheel rover could take its first short drive and flex its robotic arm.
The landing site near Mars' equator was picked because there are signs of past water everywhere, meeting one of the requirements for life as we know it. Inside Gale Crater is a 3-mile-high mountain, and images from space show the base appears rich in minerals that formed in the presence of water.
Previous trips to Mars have uncovered ice near the Martian north pole and evidence that water once flowed when the planet was wetter and toastier unlike today's harsh, frigid desert environment.
Curiosity's goal: to scour for basic ingredients essential for life including carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, sulfur and oxygen. It's not equipped to search for living or fossil microorganisms. To get a definitive answer, a future mission needs to fly Martian rocks and soil back to Earth to be examined by powerful laboratories.
The mission comes as NASA retools its Mars exploration strategy. Faced with tough economic times, the space agency pulled out of partnership with the European Space Agency to land a rock-collecting rover in 2018. The Europeans have since teamed with the Russians as NASA decides on a new roadmap.
Despite Mars' reputation as a spacecraft graveyard, humans continue their love affair with the planet, lobbing spacecraft in search of clues about its early history. Out of more than three dozen attempts — flybys, orbiters and landings — by the U.S., Soviet Union, Europe and Japan since the 1960s, more than half have ended disastrously.
One NASA rover that defied expectations is Opportunity, which is still busy wheeling around the rim of a crater in the Martian southern hemisphere eight years later.
The Oregon State Police say the number of courthouses that received bomb threats Monday has increased to 28.
Authorities initially reported that 17 county courthouses were targeted in what apparently was a coordinated effort.
State Police Lt. Gregg Hastings says the Oregon Judicial Department did a complete assessment on Tuesday.
Twenty-two of the 28 courthouses were evacuated, along with a state office building in Salem that houses the State Police headquarters.
Hastings says it's unclear whether more than one caller was involved. He says state investigators will gather information from each county that received a threat, but it's unclear why certain counties were targeted.
All Oregon counties were targeted except Clackamas, Columbia, Coos, Douglas, Harney, Hood River, Josephine and Linn.
Similar threats were reported this month in Washington and Nebraska.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rhythm and blues singer Billy Scott has died in North Carolina at age 70.
Bill Kopald with the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame said Scott died from pancreatic and liver cancer Saturday at his home in Charlotte.
Born Peter Pendleton in Huntington, W. Va., he sang with various groups while in the Army. After he was discharged in 1964, he changed his name and with his wife, Barbara, in 1966 began recording as The Prophets. Their first gold record was 1968's "I Got the Fever." Other hits included "California" and "Seaside Love" as the Georgia Prophets.
The group recorded a number of hits in the 1970s in the beach music genre, a regional variant of R&B. Scott was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 1999.
Lenny Kravitz has lined up a starring role in a Marvin Gaye biopic, The Evening Standard reports.
The project is directed by Julian Temple, known for his documentary "London: The Modern Babylon" as well as "Absolute Beginners." Temple also has plenty of experience with bringing music to the big screen, having directed a number of movies about the Sex Pistols.
The Gaye movie will center on the soul singer's later years. Gaye, as NME notes, battled alcoholism and nasty tax issues while living in London. Though his situation improved once he left the town, he was fatally shot by his father in Los Angeles.
Kravitz has kept busy mixing music and acting, appearing as Cinna in "The Hunger Games" and taking up "Negrophilia," an album he started years ago.
National flags from around the world flutter in the bright sunshine by a city gate made of shipping containers painted in the Libyan national colours. A uniformed militiaman examines my passport, then waves me through with a smile. Welcome to the Republic of Misrata.
Libya's third largest city, recipient of a six-month pummelling during last year's revolution against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, has transformed itself into what is an independent state in all but name. Libya is due to hold national elections in 10 days, but these look like they may be delayed as any sense of post-Gaddafi national unity dissipated long ago.
Misrata is divorced from the new government, which it views as secretive, dictatorial and heavy-handed, and, as a city with a long tradition of trading, is going its own way. Shops and restaurants are being fixed up, business is brisk, and there is enough traffic on the pockmarked streets to create honking traffic jams.
Qasr Ahmed, Libya's biggest container port, is the jewel in the city's crown. The harbour that once spouted the geysers of incoming rockets is now jammed with shipping, and I get a tour in the only tug in Libya that can do something complicated with its engines that allows it to move sideways. The port authority has decided to run the place without reference to central government, which means that the port is open 24 hours a day, and also means that Misrata gets to keep the tugboat.
"In the old days there would be 12 forms and it would take 10 days to pay all the bribes," says Nasser Mokhtar, who printed photographs of the shaheed – martyrs – in the war in his print shop and is now back at his clothing import business.
Now, he explains, there are no bribes; customs officers fear the wrath of the port authority if they try it on.
Misrata held its own city elections in February, the first anywhere in Libya for four decades, and the new council is now busy organising the police, army, education and health services.
And that is the problem. The price of this success has been a divorce from a central government. "We don't want to be independent, we want Libya to be like us," says Farouk Ben Amin, a former rebel fighter now working in the family import business, who has shaved off his rebel beard and looks 10 years younger.
It's not just Misrata. From all points of the compass, revolt, even revolution, is in the air as Libya's former rebel towns go their own way.
More than 100 miles from Misrata is Zintan, a humble metropolis nestling in the cool foothills of the jagged Jabal Nafusa mountains.
In the war, Zintan's rebels were one half of the pincer movement – Misrata was the other – that captured Tripoli. Its units poured out of the mountains and into the west of the city, while Misrata's units punched in from the east. Now the mood in both cities is suspicious about the ruling National Transitional Council; not least about what it is doing with the £1bn a month now being earned as oil exports pick up.
Zintan's uneasiness has seen it change its mind about handing over Libya's top war crimes suspect, Saif al-Gaddafi, son of the late dictator, who continues to languish in a fortified villa on the edge of town. "It is safer to hold his trial here; the government is very weak, they can't control their country," said Attaher Eturki, the ever-smiling city council leader, his crisp English a product of a degree in engineering in Leicester a couple of years ago. "We have good security here."
To the south, meanwhile, battles between the Tibu, a people who inhabit a large stretch of the Sahara, and Arab tribes have left 200 dead and the towns divided into war zones.
The most serious challenge to central authority is Benghazi, where the revolution began in February last year. Like Misrata, Benghazi held its own elections earlier this year, and like Misrata the city council is busy assuming powers for itself at the expense of central government.
Some in the city want to go further. Benghazi is the capital of Cyrenaica, which with the regions of Tripolitania and Fezzan make up Libya, and many citizens are unhappy that the province gets only 60 of the 200 seats in the national elections. A self-proclaimed Council of Barqa – the Arab name for Cyrenaica – is urging a boycott of the national elections unless it gets a bigger slice of seats.
Benghazi is a good place to feel the continuing heartbeat of the revolution: teams of teenage volunteers collect the rubbish, fix up the streets and paint white lines on the highways. Those white lines zigzag alarmingly, but the citizens appreciate the effort; a vivid contrast to the potholed roads of Tripoli.
It's not independence but democracy that the people want, says Hanna El Gallal, a human rights activist. "We got rid of Gaddafi, but not the regime," she tells me. She points to the secrecy of the NTC, which, despite promising democracy, keeps its meetings secret and refuses even to disclose its full membership. "We didn't do a revolution and our people did not die to bring a new dictatorship."
When the NTC does issue decrees, Libyans are aghast; last month it issued law number 37, making it a criminal offence to criticise the "17 February revolution".
Human Rights Watch pointed out in a scathing report that the law is, word for word, almost the same as Gaddafi's rule banning criticism.
In London last month, Libyan prime minister Abdurrahim el-Keib insisted that the law would soon be cancelled, but failed to explain why the government had introduced it in the first place.
"The NTC don't mean to act this way," said an official with a western embassy in Tripoli. "But they don't know any other way."
The NTC took power in the chaos of last year's revolution in Benghazi, led by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, a career judge, and the only politician in Libya to enjoy widespread support.
That support comes from the mark he made when he resigned as Gaddafi's justice minister in 2010, making the announcement on live television, an unheard of event in the former dictatorship. But Jalil's star is starting to wane, with Libyans divided about whether he is responsible for the NTC's heavyhandedness, or too weak to stop it.
And then there is history: Libya is a young country, named as such by its Italian occupiers only in 1934. Before that, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan were separate provinces.
There is wild talk of a second uprising on the streets of former rebel towns, but the weapon of choice is not the gun but the ballot box. City elections have been rushed through while the central authorities dither with the national election, and the municipalities adopt their own powers. El Gallal explained that, if the elections nationally go well, all will be fine. If not, Benghazi will fall back on its own city administration. "If it (the national election) goes wrong, we don't need the national congress," she said.
Back in Tripoli, the signs are that the national elections are going very wrong indeed. The NTC insists that the vote will take place, as promised, on 19 June. But staff at the election commission tell me that they have yet to agree the list of candidates. Giving Libya's enthusiastic political parties only a few days to campaign will cause uproar. But so will a delay, stoking fears by the rebels that the NTC plans to hang on to power.
None of which is good for business: Foreign companies are staying away from Libya, scared off by all the uncertainties. Meanwhile, unemployment remains high, pensions and wages are often unpaid, and rubbish mounts up in vast piles outside the gates of Gaddafi's ruined palace of Bab Azizia.
And then there are the militias. Nowhere has the government's failure to convince Libyans of its good intentions been more visible than with the security forces. The decision to staff the grandly named National Army with Gaddafi-era generals has, unsurprisingly, seen no recruitment from the former rebels.
Instead, security is being entrusted to a national gendarmerie, the 60,000-strong Special Security Committee (SSC). The pay is good and rebels and former Gaddafi units have joined en masse, but the force is distrusted by the armies of Misrata and Zintan.
SSC units last month kidnapped and tortured a prominent health ministry official and, despite pleas from the minister, the government has not called them to account.
Nor has the SSC dared to move against Islamist units in eastern Libya who have vandalised Commonwealth war graves, launched bomb attacks on a UN convoy and a Red Cross office, and last week bombed the US consulate in Benghazi.
And it was Tripoli militia units, not the SSC, which took back control of the international airport last week after it was stormed by a militia group from Tarhuna who were upset about the abduction of their commander.
At Tripoli's luxurious Rixos Hotel, I meet NTC member Musa al-Koni amid rolling lawns and burbling fountains. The fondness of NTC executives for rooms here, at taxpayers' expense, is a staple of the capital's booming media.
"We made so many mistakes, so many," Koni says. He was once Libya's ambassador to Mali, until the revolution broke out, and in March last year he decided to jump ship after being ordered to recruit mercenaries to come to Gaddafi's aid.
"Old people are the problem," he says. "Old people stole the revolution in Tunisia, they stole it in Egypt, and they are stealing it here," he says.
A few days after we met, he announced that he had quit. Two new NTC members had taken his place, he said, though their identities were being kept secret.
Around the back of the Rixos is a unit of former rebels, the national guard, which is part of the Libyan National Shield, a loose alliance of Libya's militias that bypasses the defence ministry. I hitch a lift with them from positions around Bani Walid, a still restive former Gaddafi town. Arriving at the hotel, an argument starts with men across the road in the sprawling blue-collar Abu Salim neighbourhood.
Like Bani Walid, Abu Salim spent the war backing Gaddafi, and now they shout at the guard, accusing them of being out-of-town interlopers. As the argument worsens, several guardsmen come forward and shout back that they are from Tripoli, and the revolution is safe. The shouting gets worse. Traffic stops. The guardsmen cock their weapons.
A tall, bearded, middle-aged guardsman, who worked before the revolution for an oil company in Paris and London, leads me away through the hotel grounds. "I want to leave Libya," he says.
"These people," he says, gesturing to Abu Salim. "They are poor. Gaddafi had all this oil and he gave them nothing. And still they love him."
Diplomats in Libya worry about where all this is going: not least because while the NTC has the power – and the oil – it is the former rebel militias who have the guns.
In the first public in-depth study of Libya's militias, Oxford University researcher Brian McQuinn says that militias in Misrata and Zintan are well organised and disciplined.
Misrata alone accounts for just under half the total militia units in the country, with slightly more than half of Libya's heavy weapons, including 820 tanks. Both are enthusiastic members of the National Shield, which now has four regional divisions. "Unions of revolutionary brigades from across the country have, in co-ordination, created a national army-in-waiting," he writes.
Exactly what they are waiting for remains to be seen.
Much hangs on the elections. If the NTC botches them, or tries to use its proxies to hang on to power, Libya will be in trouble. At best, the former rebel cities will go their own way, creating administrative gridlock for the country and an economic nightmare. At worst, as a rebel militiaman told me last year on the frontline at Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi: "If we don't like the new government, well, now we know how to do revolution."
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Benson to work out for Cubs
Buried within The Boston Globe's Baseball Notes column was a nugget about Kris Benson working out this upcoming Friday for the Cubs, Dodgers, Diamondbacks and Rangers. Looks like Jim Hendry is doing his due diligence and looking to add more starting pitching depth. Obviously, the Cubs aren't close to signing Benson, but it's something to monitor.


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Royal Oak Pale Ale - O'Hanlon Brewing Co. Ltd.
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Significantly murky apricot filled with a furious fusillade of frenetic carbonation. The orangish ivory head is Brobdingnagian in size, initially filling 95% of the glass and causing me to break off my pour almost before it began. This is a lively one, no doubt about it. The foam is as stiff as the Queen's upper lip and as it settles, interesting geologic formations take shape. It's sticky as well since a fair amount of lace ends up on the glass.
The nose is deeper and more complex than the run of the mill English pale ale nose. It lacks a corresponding power, though trying to take its measure through several inches of foam might have something to do with that. I smell herb-dusted orchard fruit that is more sour than it is sweet.
Thankfully, the deep and complex nose translates into a deep and complex flavor profile. It's more toasted than most, with hints of toffee and a definite, firm woodiness. I have no idea if Royal Oak ever spent time in oak--or any other wood for that matter--but it sure tastes like it.
This really is a supremely balanced ale, which would ordinarily cause me to complain about a relative lack of hoppiness. There's enough hop flavor to keep me quiet, although it is a bit lacking in the bitterness department. As in the nose, spicy-herbal-fruity hops are in the front seat, if not in the driver's seat. It's still more sour than sweet until the finish, when a modest sugary sweetness makes an appearance.
The body is medium-firm and fits the flavor well. Despite the appearance and the controlled explosion with each pour, the mouthfeel isn't all that fizzy. Oh it's energetic all right, but Ritalin won't be required.
Royal Oak is a solid English pale ale that is different enough and tasty enough to warrant its reputation. I don't believe that it's the best of this style that I've ever had, but it's among the leaders for damn sure. I'd love to taste it on-tap or on-cask, so that trip to England that my wife has been bugging me about for years may yet be in the offing.
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North Carolina
4/5 rDev +0.3%
Appearance: Volcanic opening of the bottle - it was still spuming even after half the liquid had been poured; pours a cloudy toffee brown color with a mountainous head that leaves lacing all over the glass and remains intact throughout the tasting
Smell: Pears and apples, leather and yeasty notes emerge from the brew
Taste: Starts out with an orchard fruit flavor with a touch of caramel; after the swallow, some earthy bitterness steps in along with some sour lemon flavors and mixes with some chocolate hints; the finish is long-lasting
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied but a bit too fizzy (the offset of the great visuals)
Drinkability: A very nice and distinctive effort that casts a vote for what's good about English brews; for those who are arguing that it is more an ESB than an English Pale, I disagree - according to the BJCP, English Pale is often considered to be the bottled version of ESB and this beer's abv and carbonation levels are too low and high, respectively, to fall squarely within the ESB category
(Best by 7/18/06 so I have a relatively fresh bottle thanks to the
dedicated efforts of Knightly Spirits in Orlando.)
05-06-2006 18:09:11 | More by brentk56
North Carolina
4.2/5 rDev +5.3%
Poures a deep orange with a big blooming head that sticks like glue to the glass,wow some intermingling of aromas here some herbal/grassy hop shows itself up front with biscuity malt aroma in the background that intertwinds very well with the herbalness.Wow the complexities to this rather "small" beer hop tilted very herbal and minty up front but very firm biscuity malt backbone with a hint of brown suger in the finish.Wow this has to rank as one of the best English ales I have had and this isnt even the original Eldridge Pope stuff man I would love this on cask I see alot more in my future.
02-17-2005 20:25:01 | More by oberon
3.98/5 rDev -0.3%
Okay I saw on the bottle now that I've already opened it BBD of 02/28/05!!?! So I was just gonna drink it & forego the review, nope this still acquit itself well (bottle conditioning helped, I'm sure!)
Pours tea colored with a fluffy of white head exceeding 4 fingers. Very good head retention & lacing
Smell: Fruitiness, brown sugar & honey
Taste: fruity, dry &slight floral/bitter hops taste. Finishes dry & fruitty
Slight syruppy feel, good carbonation, maybe skews a little dry to me...
Pretty drinkable, not ponderous, but flavorful. Would love to try a fresher bottle. As I recall this was very tasty on cask in devon & other parts of england (was made by a different brewer as I recall)
04-14-2006 03:33:13 | More by russpowell
3.93/5 rDev -1.5%
Royal Oak Pale Ale, brewed in Devon, full of legends and Parliaments, and kings, Cromwell's Roundheads, grilled meat and cheeseboard.
Opaque, dark amber hue, maybe maroon?, highly carbonated, with a big fizzy head that drizzles down quick.
Big cherry aroma, rich and malty, nice hops, rather mild, though. Sweet and serene. Nice.
Remains sweet and tasty on the tongue. Decent hops, not too large, but a neat, if mild little firedance in the mouth. Continues bitter and sweet throughout. Cherry flavor dominates.
Nice, but... Not one I'll return to, unless I get filthy rich sometime soon. Quite different from other british pale ales, perhaps overly carbonated, a little too much for my taste. Just not loving it. MEh.
09-06-2006 07:29:34 | More by feloniousmonk
3.75/5 rDev -6%
05-25-2013 10:31:55 | More by Slatetank
New York
4.03/5 rDev +1%
The beer pours a nice golden color with a thick frothy off-white head. The aroma is good. It has a nice pale malt scent with a wonderful array of citrousy aroma hops. The taste is good. It has a solid pale and light crystal malt palate. The citrous hops are present in the flavor and leave a slight aftertaste. It goes down smooth and finishes refreshing. The mouthfeel is fine. It is a medium bodied beer with good carbonation. This is a fine pale ale. It has good flavor and refreshing mouthfeel; a good drinker.
05-23-2004 01:40:55 | More by WesWes
3.88/5 rDev -2.8%
Best before 05/23/08:
Pours hazy amber with a thick off-white pillowy head that descends to a lasting creamy cover. Some traces of lacing stick.
The smell is of a cherry-like fruitiness and spiced bread. Caramelish graininess mixes in in the back.
The taste is of sweet cherry-like fruitiness with lightly spiced caramelish breadiness. Fairly balanced sweetness in the finish. Taste is a bit more muted/softer than the aroma.
It is smooth - with a push from the carbonation - and medium-bodied.
I thought, from its name, that it would be oaky. But - it's not. It refers to a story of King Charles II (wonder if his friends called him "Chuck 2" ? ;) ) hiding from Oliver Cromwell (Ollie?) in branches of an oak tree - as described briefly on the label...
Anyway - it is "sessionable" - easy drinking...Would have been nice had it had more bittering hops - would still be "balanced" - even more so I'd say. Nothing especially notable, but it does have a nice appearance and aroma and a high drinkability level, and taste isn't bad - though not much higher than typical for style.
12-10-2007 22:26:17 | More by jwc215
New Hampshire
5/5 rDev +25.3%
11-27-2011 15:34:49 | More by Rochefort10nh
3.48/5 rDev -12.8%
Pours with a lightly hazy, darkish, ruby amber color. The head is topped by an amber-tinged, tan colored head that leaves a bit of lace as it falls back into the main beer. As I pour this beer an deep fruity note is immediately noticeable; a sort of cross between red grapes, raisins and sweet plums. As I go in for a deep smell, an immediate tart note is noticeable. It is a bit like tamarind, and definitely reminds me of a sour plum.
The beer is quite well carbonated, at least much more than I was expecting. There is still a touch of sweetness here though, it accentuates a caramel like note that in turn accentuates a raisin, sweet plum and even apple like fruitiness. A touch of hop bitterness is found throughout this beer, it adds a bit of tingle to the throat, which competes a bit with the tart flavors. There are other hop flavors here as well; lightly grass, a bit herbal, and even a touch of fruit character (a hint of citrus, and even some currant like berry notes perhaps).
This is on the verge of being quite tasty, I can't tell if the tartness is just a product of the yeast (sort of doubtful), or is a low grade bacterial infection. Either way it is still quite drinkable, I easily finished this bottle of, perhaps slightly infected, brew.
08-18-2006 04:41:20 | More by Gueuzedude
4.05/5 rDev +1.5%
500 mL bottle,
A: Pours a translucent amber with a finger of white head, great head retention and lace throught the whole pint.
S: Maris Otter malt, some fruit and lemon, but quite light.
T: The flavour is impressive. Strong toffee and biscuit malt, balanced well with some dry, earthy and hearty Goldings flavour. Twinge of sourness mid-palate and finishes bitter.
M: Smooth, medium-bodied but not heavy. Calming hoppy aftertaste. Light carbonation makes it very quaffable.
D: A very nice bitter/pale ale right here. Wish it wasn't so expensive, it could be my new easy drinking British ale to stick with for an evening.
12-17-2009 02:03:50 | More by Halcyondays
United Kingdom (England)
3.8/5 rDev -4.8%
I was happy to bump into this bottled-beer again, this time at the Sainsbury's in Basingstoke, at the discounted price 1 pound! BB 15/03/10, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.
A: dark reddish amber to almost light copper hue carrying a beige foamy head that settles fast to a thin cap, along with a translucent whiff of yeasty shadow and extremely fine carbonation.
S: 50-50 chocolatey and caramelised amber malts come on a par with sour stone fruits, cranberries and oxidised Chinese round pears, while a whiff of perfumy hops and nuttiness stay quietly underneath. Sour-sweet overall, showing a considerable input of yeast sediments that could've been intrusive if I allowed a "free", rather than careful, pour in the first place.
T: the taste is sour-sweet fruity (tangerine-ish) upfront with clear yeasty hints, albeit not pungent; then gristy, brown-bready and caramely malt middle-taste catches up, mingling well with aromatic, semi-tea-ish bitter hops, while the roast-nutty maltiness simultaneously goes deep yet rich that makes an almost "warming" palate overall. For a Premium Bitter type of ale, the bitter tail is short-lived and restrained in intensity, yet a tannic-edge almost like crushed grape-seeds still lingers.
M&D: very smooth on the carbonation, medium-bodied, plus semi-balanced flavour profile but still in need of more input from hop bitterness. The yeast sediments seem to be very lively in the glass too, bringing down the overall taste a bit.
* Tasting Date: 17/04/05
Served cool in the goblet specially designed for Fuller's ESB. It's bottle-conditioned, 5%abv in a 500ml bottle, with expiry date of 9 Sept. 05. I've always wanted to try this beer as it's from a prestigious brewery in Devon, UK, and the beer is said to have won the Guardian/CAMRA Champion Bottle-conditioned beer of Britain in 2003.
3.5 A: rhubarb to mahogany colour; hazy and a bit too gassy (coz I stupidly disturbed the sediment...), with a thin but long-lasting head. Again, my question to the editors' categorisation of it as an English Pale Ale: it's anything but PALE, if not only the colour! And to me, though I'm not a very experienced drinker of British real ales, it has a character more of a premium bitter than a pale ale...
4.5 Smell: distinguished ripe-cranberry tart/sweet note; scent of nutty-malty-coriander-perfumy nose. Can't tell which is which, it's pretty complex for me at least...
4 T: a bit disappointing compared to the smell: it's bitter sweet, nutty to bitter-almondy palate. The best part: very lively bitterness throughout; rounded, dry, nuttiness stand out; quite balanced between maltiness and hoppiness.
4.5 M&4.5 D: I would certainly recommend this beer to anyone who loves the idea of an English bitter in bottle-conditioned version. A rare gem, that is!
02-07-2009 20:06:11 | More by wl0307
New Hampshire
3.1/5 rDev -22.3%
Pours a three finger off-white head that fades to a thin layer leaving a little lace. Almost clear, amber color. Light carbonation and light-medium bodied. Woody apple nose. Starts nearly balanced with moderate hops, finish is distinctly hoppy but not as harsh as American pales. Tastes fresh even with a best before Feb 28, 2005. $3.69 for a 500ml bottle from Lina's Beverages Painesville, OH.
10-28-2006 22:39:30 | More by jdhilt
4.15/5 rDev +4%
A clear reddish orange colored ale with a tan head.
Smell is sweet and grainy with spicy hop scent and notable fruitiness. Faint citrus scents and some maltiness.
Taste is malty and chewy from the beginning. Nice bitter snap in the finish. Fruity and a bit woody and a little astringent, there are herbal flavors in the hops. Faint flavors of vanilla and burnt sugar in the background
Mouthfeel is good, creamy sensation to this.
Nice drinkable ale here mild and flavorful and well executed.
08-07-2005 04:04:46 | More by Zorro
4/5 rDev +0.3%
12-07-2013 23:12:46 | More by BillRoth
New Jersey
4/5 rDev +0.3%
05-26-2014 15:04:30 | More by Latarnik
New Jersey
4.13/5 rDev +3.5%
A: Poured a nice burnt orange color off tan head.
S: some dried fruit and a dry british floral hopping.
T: The flavor had a huge malty backbone that coats and smoothers the tongue with a nice lacing. There was some dry honey toast and light toffee notes as well. Some dried fruit (apples, pears) along with a dry floral hopping really make this beer a stand out per style before finishing dry with warm bread and some alcohol notes. The malty character of this beer clearly define its uniqueness.
M: heavy and full with chewy bread and a good carbonation presence.
D: A big malty british pale that is very drinkability per style and enjoyable. A tasty treat to say the least that will fill you up.
07-23-2008 22:26:24 | More by beerthulhu
Ontario (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev -12.3%
Half liter bottle, I think this was supposed to be in an earlier LCBO release so probably not very fresh at this point.
Pours a cloudy rusty orange, massive thick off white head forms, leaves some nice lacing behind, settles to a medium layer. Smell is fruity, yeast, some bread, bit of toast, citrus hops, spicy nuttiness, not a lot there but the aroma works well. Taste is bready malt, some citrus, yeast, very spicy middle, nutty, very fruity and spicy finish, solid bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation, relatively smooth, easy to drink, not bad.
12-22-2007 20:21:56 | More by Viggo
4.25/5 rDev +6.5%
The beer emerges from the 500ml brown bottle a bemused rusty orange color with a mount Everest sized frothy light tan head and a bazillion tons of sediment, well maybe only the size of K-2 and just a ton or two of goodies floating in suspension, with the left over lace a thick blanket to cover the glass. Nose has an unmistakable woody aroma, fresh malts, a bit soapy, fresh and clean, the start is nicely malted and lightly sweet with a light to medium feel at the top. Finish is pesky in its acidity, the hops ever so spicy and pleasant, very dry and long lasting aftertaste, what better treat after a long day of drudgery and the ride home in this 106-degree heat amongst some of the worst drivers on Gods green earth.
05-23-2005 23:11:21 | More by Gusler
4.33/5 rDev +8.5%
Poured a lovely cloudy gold with a great head and nice lacing that remained throughout.
The smell is definitely malt mixed with fruit...one of the nicest aromas of any Pale Ale I've tried.
The taste is malt with sour undertones that represent the fruity smell I spoke of and is pretty long lasting. A very nice ale for sure and one that I'd visit again.
PS: This bottle's best by date is 02/28-05.
10-16-2005 20:11:22 | More by Bitterbill
South Carolina
3.2/5 rDev -19.8%
A: When I poured this one from a bottle to a pint glass, it had a rich amber color and a thick, cloudy texture. A bit of sediment, also. There was about a half inch of head and some OK lacing.
S: There was a mild aroma, with some malt and light fruit. Not overwhelming, but that's pretty common with English beers.
T: While you get a taste of roasted malt, fruit and biscuit, this is mainly pretty thin. It doesn't have a kick to it at all.
M: A fair amount of carbonation and a dry finish. This is a medium-bodied beer.
D: This is an uneven beer. Some elements of it are well done, but others (like the taste) are thin.
05-14-2008 13:11:21 | More by avalon07
4.4/5 rDev +10.3%
Appearance This ale was absolutely gorgeous! The body is crystal clear orange in color with shades of brown. The head was explosive and went down with utter finesse. It left huge clumps of shaving cream-like foam all around the glass.
Smell The light fruits came out first followed closely by some nice, biscuity malt. A deep breath drew a balanced bouquet of more brownish-type of malts and some good, citrusy fruity hops.
Taste This is a very balanced ale. The hops are fruity and play well off of the toasted biscuit malt flavor. Theres a touch of yeast to this one as well. Its that kind of almost sour taste that you get from dough that has risen and is ready to bake.
Mouthfeel This is a big un. Its almost full-bodied and is somewhat chewy. Theres a slight yeasty tingle in the mouth like eating raw quick-bake biscuit dough.
Drinkability Talk about your session beer. I love American Pale Ales and IPAs but if I had to go on a drinking marathon (someone twist my arm) this would be the one.
12-19-2004 01:40:43 | More by RoyalT
4.3/5 rDev +7.8%
from notes:
Rusty orange/brown with a huge pillow/billowy head of off white. Aromas of a nice proper English pale ale/bitter ensue with toasted malt, and a nice hop in the back palate. Taste is not very hoppy but very malty and complex, yet simple at the same time, if that makes any sense. Mouthfeel is smooth and fantastic as is the drinkability. Super duper solid enligh pale right here.
02-09-2008 03:31:19 | More by francisweizen
4.23/5 rDev +6%
A: Pours a hazy, murky amber with a thick, puffy off-white head.
S: Aromas of minerals, toffee, dates, and ripe plums mingle with peppery hops on the nose.
T: Notes of toffee, minerals, roasted chestnuts, black walnut, plums, dates, leather, soda bread, and peppery English hops wash across the palate. The finish is straight-forward and quenching with toffee, nutty malt, and spicy hop flavors.
M: This ale is on the lighter side of medium in body and quite dry. Carbonation is firm. Very drinkable.
O: This is one of the better English pale ales I've tried in recent months. I am particularly impressed with the complexity of the flavor profile. Highly recommended.
02-16-2012 03:26:46 | More by mrfrancis
4.38/5 rDev +9.8%
Presentation: John OHanlon teamed up with Dan Thomasson, the former head brewer at Eldridge Pope, to recreate both Thomas Hardy's Ale and Royal Oak. From what I read they have used the original 1896 recipe for the Royal Oak, so this is no clone-brew or rebadged beer hopefully. The revived version comes to the US in a 1 Pint, 0.9 fl.oz. (500ml) bottle with one main label that runs continually around the body of the bottle. The label is a completely new design, on the front the words Royal Oak are in blue text on a white banner set against a background of acorns and oak leafs. Underneath the Royal Oak banner, the words brewed in Devon are noticeable. Listed as Alc. 5% Vol and Best Before 02-28-05. The reverse of the label has a detailed history of the beers name as well as a short explanation on the reason why OHanlons are now brewing it. This is a Bottle-Conditioned brew though, unlike its predecessor. One curiosity is that it is labeled a Pale Ale, whereas for me it is more of a Premium Bitter, or maybe even heading into ESB territory.
Appearance: Pours with a dark amber body, hazed due to my impatience to drink this magnificent Ale, the body had a clotted cream Devon toffee appearance. Big frothy tan head, one pour had the whole bottle in my imperial Pint Glass, complete with a small dark brown yeasty patch where the dregs were ejected onto the already formed 1 thick head.
Nose: Warm toasted malts, sun soaked oak, a mixed fruit bowl of Apples and Pears and some yeast and hops in the back end. Smells great.
Taste: Just as it smells, it tastes. Toasted malts with some grain in the start, warming lightly roasted malts in the middle mix with luscious fruits and some leather in the latter third. Apples and Pears mix in and out at times with baked bread and the dry bitter finish, which is stronger than I remember. A solid brew that is quite complex in its own way.
Mouthfeel: Full bodied and rich, almost chewy at times. This is a hearty brew that would stand up against most of the stodgy foods that the British can throw at it. It goes particularly well with a Roast Beef Sunday Lunch because it can withstand a fierce Horse-Radish sauce, but it is equally at home with strong Cheeses.
Drinkability: 5% is reasonably high for most UK beers, but I recall the original EP version had a seriously high Drinkability. In this respect this is a perfect recreation. A wonderful brew, it has a rich palate of tastes including some toasted malts, tangy fruits and astringently bitter hops that lend a massive quaffability to this marvelous English Classic.
Overall: Right here and now I have to state that this is a job well done. I had an extremely high expectation of this once I saw it on the shelf. Maybe I am looking at this through Rose-Tinted Glasses perhaps but I do note a few differences from the original. It was always much better from the Cask than the Bottle or Can (yes you could get Royal Oak in Cans!). The original Eldridge Pope Royal Oak was the first premium bitter that I had when I legally entered a Pub in the South of England for the first time with my Dad. It altered my whole perception of premium Ales and remained a firm favorite ever since. I recall that on draft it was listed at 4.8% and had a slight ruddiness to its dark amber body and wasn't as bitter in the finish. It had a very memorable and impressive off-white ceramic Pump Clip that had the words Royal Oak set against a purple background with a picture of the Charles II underneath surrounded by dark green hops. Royal Oak was probably one of the greatest sub 5% Premium Bitter Cask Ales that I have ever had from the South of England. I can taste it now and recall its looks as I examined it closely and berated my father for drinking some processed lager crap. This is the recreation of an old classic that is extremely welcome, I would love to see how it develops with a few months under its belt, and I for one will certainly be interested in having a few more bottles of this, though it is way too expensive to keep more than one or two of these in the fridge.
07-18-2004 21:07:11 | More by TheLongBeachBum
Royal Oak Pale Ale from O'Hanlon Brewing Co. Ltd.
89 out of 100 based on 73 ratings.


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High school students all across the country woke up this morning and picked out their favorite pens to sign their national letter of intent.
South Dakota's top two prospects, Dan Marlette and Caden Quintanilla, woke up and signed the next four years of lives away. Marlette will join powerhouse NDSU, while Quintanilla will go up the road to Augie.
"It was exciting; I actually woke up and was excited for the day. It's time to get some stress off my back and be officially committed to North Dakota St. University," Washington Senior Dan Marlette said.
"I was really excited; I have been waiting for this for as long as I have been playing football. It's great to know that I'm finally settling in for college and getting ready to go," Lincoln Senior Caden Quintanilla said.
Quintanilla comes from the first ever 11AAA champion Patriots and is excited to come in as a running back in coach Olszewski's second season at Augie. As for Marlette he will play linebacker for a Bison squad that is coming off its third straight national title, but with a new coach at the helm now.
"One thing that he told me coming into this was that I was going to have the same head coach, as opposed to how Bohl left. He has the new job and he knows he is going to be around for awhile. That is comforting," Marlette said.
"When I first talked to coach Olszewski I thought he was a great guy, he was amazing. No other guy has ever made me want to put on pads and make me want to lay out for the guy more than him. He is a great person and he makes me want to be like him," Quintanilla said.
These two were the man on their respective high school teams as seniors. Now freshman at major universities they have different goals.
"I will be red-shirting, so I will be trying to gain some weight, get stronger, and hopefully be physically and mentally ready to play," Quintanilla said.
"I want to pass all my classes actually. I want to be a good student. If I get a chance to play, I want to do what I can, if not I will red-shirt and prepare for the next season," Marlette said.
Quintanilla verbally committed to SDSU before changing at the last minute due to his major and feelings for Augie. USD wanted Marlette, but he didn't want to be known as Tim's little brother down there. He wanted to make his own name somewhere else. The spring sport athletes will sign their letters on April 16th.


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Snow that blanketed parts of Scotland and the north east of England is to give way to cold, sunny weather.
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… that Stratovarius made an album without Timo Tolki on six string strafing. So is it still Stratovarius? Well, I'll leave that debate to others and just plough into a review of the album;
# The album kicks off with Deep Unknown which is a fine tune totally in keeping with the Strats vision. In fact this album doesn't really seem to have taken any departures at all from their signature motifs of speedy riffs, lots of keys and a hammering drum attack all leavened with Timo Kotipeltos' highly strung vocal stylings. It's all somewhat highly strung mega-goth-speed-metal with goth twinges, the latter more by default than any real gothic leanings of the band itself. After a number of plays I think Deep Unknown is a good track to sample to see if you want to buy this album, ditto for Blind though for me this track has too much emphasis on the drums to the detriment of enjoyability.
# Production by the band and having keyboardist Jens Johansson involved in the engineering has made sure that what you are getting is the bands musical vision. The sound is quite clean as you'd expect and kudos to Jens for not beefing up the keyboard sound until it drowns out everything else.
# The album does contain a number of mellow tracks. But then the Strats have been doing that for quite some time, the lumbering Winter Skies being a good example of where the band are at with this tangent at present and King of Nothing being a bit too plodding for its own good.
# The stepping aside (or call it what you will) of Timo Tolki has meant that the other band members have had to come to the party in the songwriting department. Of course most Strat fans know that the majority of the past writing has been done by Tolki and Kotipelto and most of the bands fans knew that the latter could pen a decent enough tune himself. But perhaps less people have heard the other works of Jens Johansson – albums like Sonic Winter for instance – and so his contribution to this disc will perhaps surprise many. But as I alluded to earlier, the absence of the bands main writer on this release has produced negligible effect. If you liked Infinite then you'll like this. And as for the new guitarist – Matias Kupiainen – just check out some of the trade offs with Jens on tunes like Forever is Today. And at least this way the royalties might be shared a bit more evenly!
All up an album that stands alongside their earlier albums and is probably marginally better than the last, self titled, studio effort though it doesn't rise to the realms of Visions, which would appear to be an album the band will never quite be able to surpass. Ultimately this album is a victory of sorts as it could very easily not have ever gotten made and it would be a shame to no longer be able to hear these guys perform in a group which obviously means so much to them. Fans of the hard rock musings of Stratovarius should buy with confidence even if it's not their best work.


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