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Your preschool through third-grade ghosts and goblins will have fun with these Halloween-themed worksheets that are fun and educational!
If your kids love paper airplanes, they'll go positively batty for this easy-to-make Halloween-themed paper project.
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Your preschoolers will love making and playing this Halloween-themed board game — great for counting and following directions.
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Help him follow the map's directions to collect the key and escape this spooky haunted house.
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Review the capital letter "H" with your little goblins and have them color in this monster letter with spooky colors.
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Print out this Halloween favorite and have your little trick-or-treaters practice their aim with a handful of candy.
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As she uses a crayon or pencil to go through this maze, your little one will work the muscles she'll need for writing later on.
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This spooky mini-book is perfect for helping kindergartners build fine motor skills and solve fun puzzles all in the name of Halloween.
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Help your little Halloween monsters work on their memorizing skills while enjoying the trick-or-treating season.
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Get your kids into the Halloween spirit and give their fine motor muscles a boost with this enchanting game.
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This matching game features trick-or-treaters, ghosts, pumpkins, and witches, and includes a spinner, playing cards, and directions.
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This colorful cut-and-paste growth chart helps your kindergartners explore the life cycle of a pumpkin.
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Using logic and critical reasoning skills, kids make sure a Jack-O'-lantern, ghost, candy, and bat appear just once in each row, column, and block.
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Celebrate Halloween with this mash-up of two classic games. Instead of lettered columns, players must black out three in a row in order to score. What's the prize? Candy, of course!
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What's in store for your first-grader this Halloween? The Halloween Ghost will let him know with this spooky fortune spinner!
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Your first-grader will love creating her own haunting props — perfect for dress-up to get ready for Halloween.
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These printable envelopes are easy to make, fun to decorate, and perfect for sharing candy and Halloween spirit with friends!
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Your little arts-and-crafter will love this Halloween craft, where she can color, cut, and fold her own witch figurine!
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Have your second-grader go on a hunt for Halloween words! Let him start circling and see how quickly he can complete this Halloween challenge.
Spooky Word Search (146 KB)
Build her vocabulary and writing skills with this worksheet that has her adding spooky adjectives to sentences to make them more interesting.
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If your third-grader likes solving riddles, she'll love this Halloween-themed crossword filled with her favorite treats and tricky monsters.
Halloween Crossword (143 KB)
Why does Frankenstein's monster need a suit? Ask your third-grader to use his imagination to write a story that explains this silly picture.
Frankenstein Writing Prompt (225 KB)
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Race fans watched the gates drop on the opening round of the 2013 Lucas Oil Motocross Championship at the historic Hangtown race track in NorCal. Leading the way at the season's first event were the Yoshimura R&D backed riders in the premier 450MX field, putting 3 riders inside the top 5.
Yoshimura R&D Suzuki's James Stewart made his return to racing in a big way. Grabbing the holeshot in both motos, and riding to a consistent and smooth 3rd overall. In each moto, Stewart rode strong, never leaving the top 3.
Yoshimura-backed Muscle Milk Honda teammates Trey Canard and Justin Barcia charged their way to top 5 overall finishes. Despite the stacked talent pool of the 450MX class, Canard and Barcia could not be separated as the duo went 4-4 and 5-5 respectively.
RCH Suzuki and Yoshimura rider, Broc Tickle went 14-12 and netted himself a 12th overall.
In the 250's, the Yoshimura R&D backed GEICO Honda squad had an arsenal of riders descend on the opening round. Eli Tomac, Zach Osborne, Justin Bogle, and Zach Bell all lined up to do battle with 36 more of the fastest small bike riders in the world. Tomac showed that he has what it takes to be a force this year and the speed to challenge his championship rivals. He finished a strong 2nd in the first moto and followed up with a 3rd in moto 2; which earned him a podium finish for 3rd overall. Teammate Zach Osborne struggled a bit in moto 1 with a 9th place finish, but redeemed himself in moto 2 with 5th, which netted a 5th place overall for the day. The 2013 Hangtown National also marked the long awaited return of GEICO Honda's Justin Bogle. Bogle sat out from Supercross this year, due to a severe wrist injury. He finished 12th overall; a solid ride, and an excellent foundation to start the 2013 outdoors. Zach Bell grabbed the moto 2 holeshot, but as the pack made it around for lap 1, he was nowhere to be seen. The first lap incident would be enough to prevent Bell from being a force at the first round.
The Yoshimura R&D riders and teams head next to the Thunder Valley Motocross in Lakewood, CO on Saturday May 25th.
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Motorex Bike Shine Hi Protecting Formula is the answer to busy riders' prayers, extending intervals between bucket washes.
On the face of things, there's nothing particular about the ingredients, essentially we've a silicone product and solvent carrier but the Swiss brand's years of petrochemical experience ensures a glossy, dirt-repelling sheen.
In common with most aerosol products, the solvent component serves to keep the mixture sprayable, while powerful cleaning agents prime the host surface.
Road bikes with a light, grimy film can pass straight to the beautifying stage but salt and mud encrusted ones need proper bucket washes. Remember to rinse all bikes in cold water first, since warm sudsy stuff will only accelerate salt's corrosive effect.
Having dried everything thoroughly use a fresh, clean rag or microfibre cloth, give the can a thirty-second shake, apply in short bursts to your cloth before whizzing round the bike. This method prevents waste and more importantly, contamination of braking surfaces/contact points. Allow a minute's curing time and then buff effortlessly for that showroom effect.
Having previously used this product, I've been extremely impressed by its dirt and dust repellent properties. Two coats offer optimal protection from UV rays, while targeted application will remove light, localised oxidisation from enamels, polished and plated surfaces.
Unlike most silicone preps, I got a good three weeks out of every treatment. Alas, 'cross and mountain bikes will still demand post ride clean ups but it makes the job considerably easier.
Objectively, several tins of good quality beeswax furniture polish can be had for the same money and will do much the same job but demand more frequent application to achieve the same effect.
Excellent way of keeping bikes shiny for longer.
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Make and model: Motorex Bike Shine Hi Protecting Formula
Size tested: 500ml
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"Freshens colors and gives a high gloss. MOTOREX BIKE SHINE protects, preserves and is water-repellent (beading effect). Its anti-static properties repel dust, making it ideal for conserving bicycles that are infrequently used for display. Ideal for use after cleaning". Just as it says.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Silicone/petrochemical base.
Spray BIKE SHINE on parts to be polished. Polish with a soft cloth if desired. Do not spray on brakes!
Carbon safe.
Good quality furniture polishes aren't so longlived but achieve similar effect for considerably less outlay.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Motorex with all their petrochemical experience have created a vastly superior silicone based protectant that works for bikes in stoage and those in daily service. Light grime is gobbled up by the solvent properties, meaning occasional top ups are five minute affairs, since it repels, rather than attracts road grime in the way most silicone types do.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Delivers a high quality protective sheen that's longer lasting than most-especially on winter bikes/crossers.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
About the tester
Age: 38
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Even better ... use a good wax-based car shampoo every time you wash your bike ... or some Carplan Demon Shine after you wash ... much cheaper and easier ... and it'll reach every nook and cranny.
posted by nbrus [286 posts]
20th December 2012 - 18:58
I really like the sound of this product. While it is not intended as a substitute for a regular routine service, it appears to offer users the ability to keep their bikes clean and ready to go without too many hassles.
posted by stevenxbaker [3 posts]
21st December 2012 - 9:40
I find some GT85 on a cloth and rubbed over the frame has much the same affect as these cleaners and as most people already have this in their bike kit is a much cheaper alternative!
posted by @soundtrooper [1 posts]
21st December 2012 - 12:03
I use armorall, its meant for car dashboards or something, waxy silicony protector. Be extra carefull not ot get it on your wheels/brakes.
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It was abundantly clear at the Watauga Commission meeting this morning—that Templeton Properties is withdrawing their offer for the old Watauga High property as of the end of the due diligence period next week. On the agenda was a letter from Templeton's attorneys taking the additional 60-day
extension allowed in the contract, but a letter from Phil Templeton, received by the county late yesterday, closed the door on the $19 million offer on the property, citing what he called "The discriminatory, anti-multi-family housing regulations" adopted by the town. After the board's executive session, the board reopened business and instructed staff to reopen the process toward finding a new buyer—chairman Nathan Miller, "in my opinion, you set a price on it and say 'price is negotiable,'" and the price discussed was $20 million. Commissioner Perry Yates completed Miller's thoughts, "We need to get the money to pay on the county debt. At the 3% average of all county loans, that just cost the county $570,000 in interest paid for one year." There were a number of issues that various commissioners felt were not in the best interest of the county put forward in the proposal that Templeton assumed in becoming the upset bidder, commissioner David Blust asking, "What date is that contract gone," and when told it is this Sunday, May 12th, commissioner John Welch finished the thought by saying, "And I'd like to see it back on the market May 13th." The commission put the task in the hands of the county manager and county attorney to draft a proposal for their consideration in their May 21st meeting.
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| Qetsiyah: When they drank the immortality elixir, they violated the natural law that all living things must die, so Nature found a balance by creating mortal shadow selves.
Stefan: Doppelgängers.
— Qetsiyah and Stefan Salvatore about doppelgängers in Original Sin
Doppelgängers, also known as Shadow Selves, are a supernatural occurrence that came as result of Silas and Amara becoming true immortals. Their purpose is to maintain the natural balance by dying in place of their immortal progenitors, and for this reason, doppelgängers have existed for 1,000 years being born and dying in the place of Amara and Silas not dying
There are two known doppelgänger lines stemming from Silas and Amara respectively, of which Stefan Salvatore, Tom Avery, Tatia, Katherine Pierce and Elena Gilbert belong to.
Introduction of the Doppelgängers
It was first believed that doppelgängers are related to one another through a bloodline; however, it was later revealed that doppelgängers appear after the creation of a truly immortal being, and are a recurrent and mystical supernatural being. However the doubles would be related to each other distantly. Because they're supernatural, their blood can be used as a binding agent for powerful spells, such as the spell that created the Originals, and therefore the creation of the vampire race. Because they have no actual supernatural powers, the only way that it has been confirmed that doppelgängers are supernatural was the fact that Elena killed Alaric while wearing a Gilbert Ring and he came back to life a short time later. This also confirmed Elijah's suspicion that the Gilbert Ring wouldn't work on Elena because she was technically a supernatural being. Though doppelgängers are supposed to represent mortality in the place of an otherwise immortal being, they can achieve immortality through vampirism, as was in the case of Katherine, Stefan, and Elena.
The phenomenon of the shadow-self occurs to counterbalance a disruption to nature's law that all living things must die. Qetsiyah, one of the most powerful witches and member of a very gifted people called the Travelers, created a spell for immortality with the intention that she and Silas would drink it together at their wedding. However, Silas stole the immortality elixir and used it on himself and his lover, Amara, so that the two could be together for eternity. Disrupting the balance of Nature when they became truly immortal, Nature created copies of Silas and Amara that could die to balance itself. With Silas and Amara now both dead, it is unknown if Nature will continue to spawn more doppelgängers.
Silas and Amara: The World's First Immortals
Over two thousand years ago in ancient Greece, a young witch named Silas was engaged to be married to Qetsiyah, also a fellow witch. Together, they were the most powerful members of a gifted people called the Travelers. Silas told Qetsiyah that he wanted their love to last forever, even beyond death, and he convinced her to create a spell that would make them immortal. On the night that their wedding ceremony was to take place, Silas absconded with the elixir Qetsiyah had created, and as Qetsiyah watched the plant life around her wither before her eyes, she knew that not only had Silas taken the elixir, he had also given her portion to someone else. She sought out Silas and found him in the wilderness with another woman – her handmaiden, Amara - who had taken Qetsiyah's share of the immortality elixir.
Silas, having left Amara alone, returned to their hiding place to find Qetsiyah crouching over the chalice that had held the elixir they were to drink at their wedding. He cautiously enquired after Qetsiyah's purpose for being there, so she explained that, to follow up her first gift of the immortality elixir, she had brought a second gift: the cure for immortality. Silas was dumbfounded, hardly believing her, but she insisted that it worked, as she had already used it on another immortal. Filled with dread, Silas ran into the tent he had shared with Amara, only to find blood soaked into every surface, as though someone had been brutally slaughtered there. Qetsiyah followed him into the tent and lifted a bloody human heart out of the chalice, admitting that she had slit Amara's throat before ripping her heart out. After Silas refused to take the cure and live the rest of his mortal life with Qetsiyah, she trapped him on a desolate island in an underground cave, where he desiccated for two thousand years, entombed with the cure.
One major consequence of Silas and Amara becoming immortal was the creation of two lines of shadows, or doppelgängers. Their immortality had violated nature's law that all living things must die, and so the doppelgängers came to exist as versions of Silas and Amara that can die. According to Qetsiyah, many identical replicas of Silas and Amara have been born over the centuries, finding each other time and time again as though drawn together by destiny.
Tatia and the Original Vampires
Tatia was a descendent and the first shadow of Amara. She lived in America during the 10th century as a contemporary of the Mikaelson family. Even though she had already had a child by another man, both Elijah and Klaus fell in love with her and fought each other for her affections. Tatia ended up choosing Elijah over Klaus sometime later. The brothers later learned that it was Tatia's blood that laced the wine they consumed the night their mother turned them into vampires. She was later killed by Elijah out of accidental bloodlust.
Katerina, Elena, and the Hybrid Curse
The notion of the doppelgänger as a class of supernatural beings was introduced in the episode Rose by the character of the same name. Until that point, the term was used simply to describe Elena's uncanny resemblance to the vampire Katherine, but Rose explained that Elena is a "Petrova doppelgänger" and that she is one of the necessary components in a ritual to break the Sun and the Moon curse, which allegedly caused vampires to be ruled by the sun and werewolves to be ruled by the moon. Rose had originally tried to hand Elena over to Elijah, in an effort to earn back his and Klaus' favor, but after Elijah killed her friend Trevor, Rose decided to tell Elena and the Salvatores what she knew about Klaus. Rose's story was corroborated by Katherine, who Katerina told Elena about how Klaus had wanted to use her in the sacrifice five hundred years before, which involved his intention to "drain every single drop of blood" from her body.
In the episode Klaus, Elijah revealed to Elena that the Sun and the Moon curse was actually fake, and that the real curse was one that had been placed on Klaus to suppress his werewolf nature in order to keep him from becoming a true hybrid. He continued to explain that five hundred years ago, Klaus had intended to sacrifice Katerina in the ritual, but she thwarted him by turning herself into a vampire, thus rendering her blood and sacrifice useless – the doppelgänger had to be human for the ritual to break the curse.
In The Last Day, Elena surrendered herself to Klaus, and in The Sun Also Rises, after Jules the werewolf and Jenna the vampire had been sacrificed and their blood spilled over the moonstone by the witch Greta, Klaus drained Elena of her blood until she died, and thus successfully broke the Hybrid Curse.
Fortunately for Klaus, Elena actually survived the sacrifice, and, in The Reckoning, Klaus discovered from Esther (via Bonnie and Matt, who had contacted Vicki on the Other Side) that the blood of the human doppelgänger is required to create more hybrids like himself. After a werewolf drinks Klaus' blood and is killed, they must drink Elena's blood after they reawaken in order to complete the transition and become a hybrid.
Silas' Return and Qetsiyah's Resurrection
In the twenty-first century, a man named Atticus Shane set in motion a series of events that led to the releasing of the immortal Silas from his desiccated state in his tomb. Once he had regained his strength, Silas manipulated those around him to further his agenda: Bonnie was tasked with the creation of the Expression Triangle and destruction of the veil, while Klaus was forced to find the cure and return it to Silas. These things all occurred according to Silas' plan, to some extent – Bonnie completed the triangle and drops the veil, though only within the borders of Mystic Falls, while Silas gained possession of the cure – but Silas' plan went awry when Bonnie subdued him and turned him to stone, allowing Alaric to steal back the cure and give it to Damon.
Later, while trying to resurrect Jeremy, Bonnie died, and with her death, the spell desiccating Silas broke. When Stefan was about to dump Silas' body into the quarry, Silas appeared and revealed to Stefan his true form; Stefan was shocked to see that they look exactly alike, so Silas explained that Stefan is his shadow self, before locking Stefan in a safe and dropping it into the quarry.
Sometime during the period of time that the veil was down over Mystic Falls, Qetsiyah managed to resurrect herself from the Other Side in order to take matters into her own hands. After freeing Stefan and telling him her version of the story between her, Silas, and Amara, she used Stefan in a spell to link him to Silas, then fried his brain, which in turn deprived Silas of his mind control abilities.
The Doppelgänger Prophecy
In Season Five, Qetsiyah explained that over the centuries, she witnessed the doppelgängers of Silas and Amara being drawn to one another, whether by fate, the universe, or some other mystical phenomenon. She surmised that she and Damon were merely obstacles in the doppelgängers' destined true love. Whether she had been deliberately giving misdirection or not, it was later revealed that this is not exactly what the prophecy foretold. Markos, the leader of the Travelers, explained to Damon that the prophecy regarding the doppelgängers was not about them being destined to fall in love; rather, there was a prophecy that the blood of the last two remaining doppelgängers could be used to undo spirit magic, and thus could remove the curse that the witches placed upon the Travelers. Markos had cast a spell 1,500 years ago that would draw the doppelgängers together, as the Travelers needed the doppelgängers to be in one place in order to use them to break the curse, so he used the lure of true love to make this happen. The Travelers tested this prophecy by using Stefan and Elena's blood to create a way to undo the spirit magic used to turn a human into a vampire. They turned Sloan into a vampire using Tyler Lockwood's blood, and then used the mixed doppelgänger blood to undo her vampirism. It worked, but Sloan is reverted to her last human state – that is, when she died from a slit throat. Having discovered that the prophecy is true, the Travelers then left to get more blood from Stefan and Elena to undo the witches' curse upon their people, which prevented them from settling in one place and reaching the full potential of their power.
Powers and Abilities
- Blood: Doppelgängers, being mystical and recurrent, are massive sources of magical power.
- The blood of a doppelgänger can be used to link supernatural beings to kinship with the help of magic conducted by any witch.
- Their blood can also be used to bind a en extremely powerful curse or spell.
- For some spells, the blood must come from a human doppelgänger. For other spells, the blood of a doppelgänger can still be used even if they've been turned into a vampire, as seen in Death and the Maiden when Qetsiyah used Elena's blood to transfer the Anchor from Amara to Bonnie. There are certain spells and uses that require the doppelgänger to be "pure" and human, however, like the undoing of the Hybrid Curse and the siring of hybrids.
- The blood of the last two "living" doppelgängers can be used to reverse spells cast using spirit magic (e.g. turning a vampire back into a [dead] human, undoing the spell that bound the Other Side, reversing the spells cast on daylight rings for vampires, etc).
- Linking: Doppelgängers being modeled after Immortals and other doppelgängers, have an inherently strong mystical connection to each other that can be used to invoke Linking Spells.
- Intermixing: Doppelgängers are fully capable of being another supernatural species without losing their doppelgänger status as such, have the potential to display abilities of said other supernatural beings.
- Magic: Doppelgängers are susceptible to the powers of witchcraft. This is inclusive of mystical objects such as Papa Tunde's Blade, and Dark Objects.
- Mortality: Despite of their supernatural status, doppelgängers are very much human and share many of the same weaknesses as non-supernatural beings (e.g. age, decapitation, disease, heart-failure, suffocation, etc.)
The Progenitors Of Salvatore and Petrova Doppelgängers
Silas or Silvanus (Ancient Greek: Σίλας or Σιλουανός, Latin: Silvanus, Modern Greek: Silouanos) was born sometime in the 1st century B.C., during the Biblical Times. His origins are from Ancient Greece. Silas was the world's very first immortal being and was the earliest known ancestor of the Salvatore family bloodline, as well as the progenitor of the Salvatore doppelgänger bloodline which spawned Stefan Salvatore and several others, and was also a very distant ancestor of the Salvatore Family. Before becoming an immortal, he was a very gifted and powerful warlock. Silas was deeply and passionately in love with his true love and soulmate; a young lady named Amara. Silas' love for Amara was so strong that his love for her was the major motivator behind him wanting to create the very first spell of immortality with the help of his best friend, who was also a powerful witch and also madly in love with Silas, Qetsiyah. Silas and Amara's love, even though powerful and strong, was also forbidden as Silas was engaged to be married to Qetsiyah and Amara was the personal handmaiden of Qetsiyah. In order for Silas to get help to create the spell, Silas manipulated and convinced Qetsiyah that he loved her and wanted to spend an eternity with her. Out of love for Silas, she created the spell of immortality. The spell was to be consumed on Silas and Qetsiyah's wedding night. However, Silas did not intend to give immortality to Qetsiyah and wanted to give immortality to Amara instead so that Silas and Amara could spend eternity together. On Silas and Qetsiyah's wedding night, Silas stole the immortality elixir and made himself and Amara the world's first immortal beings. After Qetsiyah discovered that Silas had granted the gift of immortality to his true love Amara and not her, she supposedly cured Amara of her immortality and then brutally killed her out of jealous rage by slitting her throat and cutting out her heart. Silas was completely and utterly devastated. Qetsiyah then lured Silas to an isolated island and entombed him in darkness, leaving him to starve and desiccate for eternity. Buried with Silas was the cure for immortality, in which Qetsiyah created. Silas had two choices: either take the cure, die a mortal death and be on The Other Side, which is a purgatory meant for dead supernatural beings, with her for eternity or stay entombed in darkness and desiccate forever. Out of spite, anger and vengeance towards Qetsiyah murdering Amara, Silas chose to not take the cure and ended up staying entombed in darkness and starving for over 2,000 years. Because Silas refused to take the cure and die out of spite, Qetsiyah ended up creating the Other Side in order to trap Silas should he take the cure and die. Creating the Other Side would prevent Silas from finding eternal peace and being together in death with Amara on the earth's metaphysical plane, which is where human souls go after they die. Qetsiyah also created The Five, a group of supernatural hunters whose main goal and mission was to find Silas, cure him of his immortality and kill him, so that Silas would end up on the Other Side with Qetsiyah instead of with Amara as she wanted. After over 2,000 years of being entombed in darkness, Silas has risen and plans on wreaking havoc everywhere he goes. He is determined to join his true love Amara in death by getting Bonnie, who is a very distant descendant of Qetsiyah , to drop the veil so that he could take the cure and die a mortal death and cross over to be with Amara. It was revealed after 2,000 years that Qetsiyah had lied to Silas about Amara and had faked her death. Qetsiyah had actually desiccated and entombed Amara and then used her as the physical anchor for the Other Side spell in which Qetsiyah had created in order to trap Silas' soul shall Silas die a mortal death. Silas reunites with Amara after she is re-awakened, Qetsiyah having lied about her death. Amara tells Silas that she loves him and that she is sorry. She then stabs Silas in the neck in order to obtain the cure for immortality which is running through Silas' veins as she doesn't wish to live anymore. Silas still intends on destroying the Other Side so that he could be with Amara in peace in true eternal death. Silas and Amara reunite once more and Amara begs Silas to kill her so that her suffering can end for good and she can find peace. Amara tells Silas that she loves him and that she will always love him but that she cannot live for another day and wants to end her suffering. Silas tells Amara that he understands. Amara stabs herself and dies, crossing over to the metaphysical plane where humans go to after they die. Afterwards, Silas is stabbed by Stefan, his doppelgänger and descendant, and he dies. Unfortunately, Silas dies before he ever had a chance to destroy the Other Side. Silas ends up crossing over to the Other Side, which means that he is separated from Amara forever. To make matters worse and more tragic, Qetsiyah ends up killing herself after transferring the anchor from Amara to Bonnie. Qetsiyah crosses over to the Other Side, where Silas is stuck with her for all eternity. This means that Qetsiyah got her 2,000 year old wish; Silas being stuck with her on the Other Side and beinf separated from his soulmate for all time and for all eternity. When Silas made himself truly immortal, he created an imbalance in nature and nature needed a loophole, a version or versions of Silas that could die. Therefore, shadow selves, doppelgängers or a doppelgänger bloodline of Silas was created in order to maintain the balance of nature. Silas was a distant ancestor to the Salvatore family.
Amara (Ancient Greek: Αμάρα, Latin: Amarantha) was born sometime in the 1st century B.C., during the Biblical Times. Her origins are from Ancient Greece. She is the oldest known ancestor of the Petrova family bloodline. Personality wise, Amara comes off as gentle, docile, and innocent, similar to that of Katherine before she became evil. Her age is unknown but it could be assumed that she was anywhere between fourteen to eighteen years old. As a human, she was the handmaiden to Qetsiyah, a very powerful witch. Amara fell deeply and passionately in love with a young, gifted and powerful warlock named Silas. Amara's love for Silas was so strong that she desired to be with him forever. However, her love for Silas was also strongly forbidden as Silas was engaged to be married to Qetsiyah. Therefore, Silas and Amara had a secret relationship. Silas also strongly loved Amara, so much that he desired immortality so that he and Amara could be together for eternity. Silas manipulated Qetsiyah into creating the spell of immortality with the intention of sharing the gift of eternal life with Amara, instead of Qetsiyah. However, after betraying Qetsiyah's trust after she created the spell, Qetsiyah became filled with anger and rage and she wanted revenge. After Silas and Amara drank the immortality elixir, Qetsiyah found the latter by faking her death and forced her to become the phyiscal Anchor to The Other Side, binding it's existence to her immortal life and desiccating her. After her awakening two thousand years later, the pain of her existence was too much to bear and she wished to die. She consumed the Cure in order to become mortal again. Amara reunites with Silas after 2,000 years of being apart from him adn she confesses her undying love for him but says that although she loves Silas, she desires to die just as much. Amara then asks Silas to kill her and end her 2,000 years of suffering. Silas is hesitant to do so at first but he then understands. Unexpectedly, Silas is killed by Stefan after he is stabbed with a blade. Silas passes through Amara as she was still currently the anchor before Qetsiyah had transferred the spell and made Bonnie the anchor instead. Amara, realizing that she has officially nothing to live for now that her beloved is dead and she has endured endless suffering for centuries and centuries, tells a dead Silas that their eternity together would start with her death. She then takes the same knife that killed Silas and stabs herself, killing her and ending her endless suffering. She is presumed to have found peace and has passed on to the afterlife where human souls go to once theyr die. Unfortunately for Amara, she did not get her dying wish which was to be reunited with Silas in true death as Silas ended up stuck on The Other Side with Qetsiyah, who ended up killing herself to be with Silas. It is currently unknown whether or not Amara reunited with Silas and found happiness in death with her true love after the Other Side deteriorated since Silas was seen being sucked into oblivion.}}
Known Doppelgängers
Amara's Doppelgängers
Amara's doppelgängers are Tatia, Katherine and Elena, all three of which have appeared on-screen. Elena is sometimes referred to as the Petrova doppelgänger because of her striking resemblance to Katerina Petrova.
Tatia was born during the 10th century A.D. in the area where Mystic Falls was to be formed. She was a contemporary of the Mikaelson Family around the early 10th century. During the Middle Ages, Tatia had a child with an unknown man; later in time, she met Elijah and Niklaus Mikaelson, both of whom fell in love with her (especially Klaus, according to Elijah). Esther, the mother of Elijah and Niklaus and also the Original witch, used Tatia's blood in the spell or ritual to create the Original Vampires, as part of the wine laced with blood in which Mikael had given his children. Her blood was also part of the spell Esther used to bind Klaus' werewolf side, which resulted in Klaus' werewolf gene being dormant.
Klaus. She knew that she was going to die, so she tricked Trevor, one of Klaus' servants, into helping her escape. Katherine was clever, cunning and smart; she knew that if she became a vampire, she'd be rendered useless to Klaus. Katherine stabbed herself with a knife but was given vampire blood by Rose in an attempt to heal her stabbing wound and afterwards, Katherine hung herself and came back as a vampire. In return for her escape, Klaus made her suffer by killing her entire family in Bulgaria, thinking that the doppelgänger would never appear again. What Klaus didn't know was that Katherine had a child out of wedlock that was kept secret and this child continued the bloodline of the Petrova family, leading to the birth of Elena Gilbert. Tired from running, Katherine intended to make a deal with Klaus by giving him the ingredients he needed to break the curse in exchange for her freedom. She planned to hand over the moonstone, Elena Gilbert, Caroline Forbes (a vampire), Tyler Lockwood (a werewolf) and Bonnie Bennett (a witch). When Katherine was about to take out her own doppelgänger, Elena shoves the cure, into her mouth. She is the doppelgänger of Tatia and her doppelgänger is Elena Gilbert.
Elijah was the first one who found out about Elena before Klaus. At first, when Rose told Elijah about this, he didn't believe it. But soon enough he found out that the Petrova family line didn't end with Katherine because she had given birth to a baby girl, thus continuing the Petrova bloodline. Once Klaus learned of the Petrova doppelgänger, Elena, he came to Mystic Falls, and he kidnapped Katherine, temporarily taking over the body of Alaric Saltzman. As with Katherine, Klaus is responsible for the death of Elena's family, most notably their aunt Jenna Sommers, Elena and Jeremy's legal guardian. He terned Jenna into a vampire and killed her for the sacrificial ritual. Unlike with Katherine, Klaus successfully killed Elena and as a result, he breaks the curse. Fortunately for Elena, John Gilbert had Bonnie form a special spell that bound Elena's life force or essence to his. This spell brought Elena back to life, but in return, killed John and took his life. In The Departed, Jeremy took Elena to Mystic Falls Hospital after discovering her lying unconscious at home. Meredith Fell discovered Elena was suffering from a serious cerebral hemorrhage and secretly injected her with vampire blood to heal her. This action fortunately saved Elena from death. The same day, Rebekah ran Elena and Matt off Wickery Bridge to save her siblings from Alaric, since his life force was tied to Elena. That way, if she died, so would Alaric. Jeremy arrives home to see Alaric, and he talks to him and Jeremy realizes that he is a ghost, and that if he is dead, that means his sister, Elena, must also be dead. Stefan hurried to Wickery Bridge, intending to save Elena, but she insisted that he save Matt's life instead, who was unresponsive after crashing into the water. By the time Stefan pulled Matt out of the water, Elena had drowned and died. Stefan brought her body back to Mystic Falls Hospital, where she woke up, transitioning into a vampire with Damon's blood in her system. She is the last of Amara's doppelgängers. More recently, She has revert back to being human human again after taking The Cure.
Silas' Doppelgängers
Compared to the Petrova Doppelgängers, the Salvatore Doppelgänger do not seem to be as recognized, since Klaus and Rebekah seemed to have failed at recognizing Stefan for what he was during the early 20th Century, other than an emotionless Vampire at the time.
Stefan Salvatore was born in Mystic Falls, Virginia during the 19th century on November 1ST, 1846. He was turned into a vampire along with his older brother Damon in the year 1864 by Amara's distant descendant, Katherine Pierce. Like his ancient ancestor Silas, Stefan was involved in a love triangle with Katherine and Damon. Stefan was unaware of the fact that he was a doppelgänger during his human years, and had no idea Katherine herself was a doppelgänger. Stefan was turned into a vampire against his will; Katherine had been compelling Stefan to consume her vampire blood for weeks. When Katherine is captured by the Founders Council Members, Stefan and Damon plot to rescue Katherine from being burned in a church by fire. Although Stefan and Damon do end up rescuing Katherine, Stefan and Damon are both shot dead by their own father Giuseppe. It was then that Stefan transformed into a vampire. When he first transitioned, Stefan suffered from severe hunger for blood and therefore, had problems controlling himself around human blood. Regarding the bloodline of Silas, not too much is known about it, its background and its history. Qetsiyah mentioned to Stefan that she has seen doppelgängers of Silas preceding Stefan while watching from The Other Side.
While You Were Sleeping. He is a paramedic who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. In Rescue Me, it is revealed that he was kidnapped by a witch named Hazel and put in a comatose state under a cloaking spell in order to protect him from The Travelers. He is later found by Caroline and Enzo. Caroline snaps Enzo's neck in order to prevent him from killing Tom. Caroline then takes Tom to a diner and compels him to tell her about his life. Confirming he is a good person, she compels him to run, far from the Travelers and Enzo. Before he can leave, however, Enzo catches up to them and snaps Tom's neck, killing him and making Stefan the last living doppelgänger of Silas.
Doppelgänger Lines
|Immortal Beings
|1st century
|Amara †
|Silas †
|10th century
|Tatia †
|Unknown Doppelgänger †
|15th century
|Katerina Petrova †
|Unknown Doppelgänger †
|19th century
|Stefan Salvatore
|20th century
|Elena Gilbert
|Tom Avery †
- In some traditions, when a doppelgänger is seen by a person's friends or relatives, the contact prophesies illness or danger, while a person seeing their own doppelgänger is an omen of death.
- In other traditions or legends, a doppelgänger is connected with the person copied; sometimes causing the feelings of injuries between the original and the doppelgänger. For example, if the doppelgänger is injured, the other person will also be hurt or feel pain.
- "Doppelgänger" is a German word or term meaning "double walker" or "double goer"―a shadow self that is thought to accompany every person. Traditionally, it is said that only the owner of the doppelgänger can see this phantom self and that it can be a harbinger of death. Occasionally, however, a doppelgänger can be seen by a person's friends or family, resulting in quite a bit of confusion.
- The word doppelgänger is a loanword from German, written there (as any noun) with an initial capital letter Doppelganger, composed from doppel, meaning "double", and gänger, as "walker." In English, the word is conventionally not capitalized, and it is also common to drop the German diacritic umlaut on the letter "a" and write "doppelganger," although the correct spelling without umlaut would be "doppelgaenger".
- The term has, in the vernacular, come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin, or to bilocation. Alternatively, the word is used to describe a phenomenon where you catch your own image out of the corner of your eye. In some traditions, seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death. A doppelgänger seen by friends or relatives of a person may sometimes bring bad luck, or indicate an approaching illness or health problem.
- The doppelgängers of folklore cast no shadow, and have no reflection in a mirror or in water. They are supposed to provide advice to the person they shadow, but this advice can be misleading or malicious. They can also, in rare instances, plant ideas in their victim's mind or appear before friends and relatives, causing confusion. In many cases once someone has viewed his own doppelgänger, he is doomed to be haunted by images of his ghostly counter-part.
- Other folklore says that it is considered unlucky to try to communicate with a doppelgänger.
- Silas and Amara's doppelgängers may not be limited to a continuous 500 years recurrence as it has been speculated since Season Two: Qetsiyah said in Original Sin that "century after century" she watched versions of Stefan and Elena find each other and fall in love-- this could mean that Klaus only presumed the time period between the Petrova Doppelgängers because it took him that long to find one after losing Katherine. But Qetsiyah's statement could be interpreted as just being hyperbolic.
- According to Qetsiyah, the shadows of Silas and Amara are destined to find each other and fall in love, based on her observations throughout the centuries. However, evidently, they are also capable of developing romantic feelings for other people. Examples include:
- The term doppelgänger doesn't seem to imply any hierarchy.
- Qetsiyah has, in one instance, mentioned Silas as Stefan's doppelgänger.
- Silas himself referred to Amara as Elena's doppelgänger.
- Silas and Stefan can be called doppelgängers of each other. Similarly, Tatia, Katherine, Elena and Amara are all doppelgängers of each other since they are all lookalikes of each other.
- The term "Shadow" has some implied hierarchy as opposed to doppelgänger.
- Katherine referred to Elena as her shadow self and Silas did the same to Stefan.
- Elena is the shadow of Amara, Tatia and Katherine, while Katherine is that only of Amara and Tatia.
- Doppelgängers are humans for most intents and purposes. However, they are a supernatural occurrence and are therefore, considered to be a supernatural species. The difference between regular humans and doppelgängers is that spells that use a doppelgänger can be broken using another doppelgänger.
- Death by a doppelgänger counts as a supernatural death. A person wearing a Gilbert ring will come back to life if killed by a human doppelgänger.
- The Gilbert rings do not protect supernatural creatures and is, thus, theorized not to work on a doppelgänger. This has never been confirmed.
- They can, however, be compelled by vampires like any regular human.
- It seems that the men who spend a lot of time with doppelgängers of Amara can't help but fall in love with her or fall vulnerable to her charms. Back in the 11th century, it was stated that every man in the village fell in love with Tatia, though Elijah and Klaus more than any others. Trevor, Elijah, Damon, Stefan and Mason fell in love with Katherine, and Noah was obsessed with her. Matt, Stefan, and Damon fell in love with Elena.
- Similarly, it seems that many women also fall madly for Salvatore Doppelgängers, almost to psychotic and crazy proportions. An example is Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, Katherine, Qetsiyah and Rebekah all finding Stefan appealing and all of them being attracted to him. It could easily be assumed that Silas was also very attractive to the opposite sex as well, since he had two women who were passionately (and one psychotically) in love with him in Qetsiyah and Amara.
- Katherine and Elena both became vampires, though Katherine was cured of her vampirism and returned back to a human/witch before eventually dying of old age.
- Silas and his doppelgänger, Stefan, have first names beginning with the letter "S". It is unknown if other doppelgängers of Silas also had names beginning with the letter S.
- Tom Avery, the assumed fifth and final doppelgänger of Silas, seems to break this tradition, as his name begins with the letter T.
- All of the known shadows of Amara, like herself, have first names that rhyme with each other. All of the known Petrova doppelgängers, including the progenitor Amara, all have first names which end with an "A" (AmarA, TatiA, KaterinA, ElenA).
- A person and his or her doppelgänger will look identical in appearance, but the differences stem from their rearing and community standards (such as their expressions, speech, reason, and connections with others).
- According to some myths, doppelgängers tend to undo the lives of each other. Tatia was used to create the Original Vampires but her doppelgängers have influenced the deaths of all three deceased Original Vampires.
- Now that Stefan has been revealed to be a doppelgänger of Silas, in retrospect, it seems more than just a mere coincidence that Stefan too influenced the deaths of the three Original Vampires.
- Stefan intervened when Damon tried to take a shot at Klaus which led to the death of Mikael.
- Stefan took the first shot at Finn and was disarmed immediately by Sage. In his process of recovering the stake, Elena shot Finn with the crossbow.
- Stefan spent an entire evening trying to obtain the dagger from Rebekah which, at the very least kept her at bay, while Elena and Jeremy went about killing Kol.
- On more than one occasion, Katherine has actively harmed her doppelgänger Elena. Silas made his doppelgänger, Stefan, suffer for a whole summer by stabbing him, locking him in a safe and throwing the safe off a cliff into the water under a quarry, where Stefan would drown repeatedly and die over and over for three months.
- The very danger, of being prematurely undone by his doppelgänger, is probably why Silas locked Stefan in the safe and left him to drown repeatedly - he might have wanted to keep Stefan out of the way for as long as he remains immortal. As it turns out, Stefan's release from the safe allowed Qetsiyah to neutralise Silas' mental powers.
- The term "Petrova Doppelgänger" comes from the last name of Katherine Petrova, the second doppelgänger of Amara. It is a term used by those who strived to find Katherine's doppelgänger and once discovered, directly referred only to Elena.
- It is possible that the doppelgängers were finding each other and falling in love on The Other Side. Doppelgängers are known to be supernatural beings and hence, would go to The Other Side when they die. This could possibly be what Qetsiyah meant when she said she has watched versions of Silas and Amara find each other and fall in love century after century; she could have been watching them find each other and fall in love on the Other Side. However, with the destruction of the Other Side, this is presumably no longer possible.
- Doppelgängers can be born or the doppelgänger "gene" can be passed down the bloodline without the doppelgänger himself/herself having children or a direct bloodline due to having children. For example, Silas and Amara, the progenitors of the Salvatore and Petrova doppelgänger bloodlines respectively, were assumed to not have had any children before they became truly immortal. Therefore, it is very likely that they had a sibling(s) which would have passed down the doppelgänger "gene" through Silas and Amara's respective bloodlines. So, doppelgängers would not need to have children in order for the doppelgänger "gene" to be passed down the bloodline. It should be noted that all of the known Petrova doppelgängers (i.e. Tatia and Katherine), with the exception of Elena due to becoming a vampire, have had children. It could be assumed that Silas' doppelgängers all had children as well, with the exception of Stefan, since he became a vampire and therefore, could not reproduce.
- The two known doppelgänger lines are, both, the result of the Immortality Spell being cast. It is possible that other spells (such as the Hybrid Curse while it was active) may also produce doppelgängers depending on their nature.
- As of fifth season of The Vampire Diaries, both Amara and Silas had become mortal and died. Theoretically, being cured of immortality and their deaths means the end of their doppelgänger lines, as nature would no longer require their shadow selves to die in their places.
- Since Tom Avery was born in the 20th century chances are is that he was meant for Elena, had she not met Stefan. If the prophecy held truth, then that means that Stefan may have never been meant to meet neither Katherine or Elena, nor fall in love with them. Katherine may have had another Salvatore doppelgänger that was meant for her, and Stefan could have had a different Petrova Doppelgänger that was meant for himself, IF, of course, the prophecy meant that two doppelgängers were born in the same century and were meant fall in love with each other.
- It was revealed that the reason why the Travelers want the blood of the doppelgängers was because they wanted to break the curse that was placed on them by Luke and Liv's coven 2,000 years ago.
- Qetsiyah's belief that the shadows of Silas and Amara were destined to find each other and fall in love was proven to be incorrect; it was revealed that the reason why the Salvatore and Petrova doppelgängers find each other is because of the spell that was placed on them by Markos 1,500 years earlier to obtain doppelgänger blood. The Salvatore and Petrova doppelgängers fell in love on their own throughout the centuries.
- It was coincidental how Amara was the handmaiden of Qestiyah in 100 BC, while in the 19th century, Qestiyah's descendant Emily Bennett was the handmaiden of Amara's doppelgänger and descendant, Katherine. Another one of Qetsiyah's descendants, Bonnie Bennett, was best friends with Petrova doppelgänger Elena Gilbert, showing a pattern of Qetsiyah's descendants being involved in some way with Amara's doppelgängers. Likewise to this, Ayana was a witch, and one of Qetsiyah's descendants, that lived in the same 'New World' village as Tatia.
- There are several theories in the show's fandom that speculate the true number of doppelgängers spawned by Amara and Silas' immortality. One theory suggests that there were nine total doppelgängers for each line, not including Silas and Amara, one for each century. This theory came from Qetsiyah's comment in Original Sin that she has been forced to watch as century after century, Silas' doppelgängers fell in love with Amara's doppelgängers and vice-versa. However, Qetsiyah could have been exaggerating or using hyperbole to describe the torture of watching their love. The second theory is that there has been one doppelgänger from each line every five hundred years, meaning that there would be Amara (1st century BC), her first doppelgänger (5th century AD), Tatia (10th century AD), Katherine (15th century AD) and Elena (20th century AD). However, since Executive Producer Julie Plec and actress Nina Dobrev had described Tatia, the Petrova doppelgänger who came between Niklaus and Elijah Mikaelson, as the first true doppelgänger after Amara became immortal, making this theory also unlikely.
- Due to Klaus's obsession to break the Hybrid Curse over the last 1,000 years he would have kept an eye on the Petrova Bloodline which led him to Katerina Petrova in 1492 a little over 500 years after the curse was placed on him. Then he killed her entire family after she turned herself into a vampire not knowing about Katherine's daughter, having been given away at birth two years earlier. Still he had vampires go around the world chasing after Katherine and looking for ways to break the spell for 500 years. If there had been a human Petrova Doppelgänger in the 19th Century any vampire working for Klaus would have notified him immediately. It wasn't until the 21st Century that a human Doppelgänger was found: Elena Gilbert. So not including Amara there are ONLY three Doppelgängers in her line: Tatia, Katherine and Elena.
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Q&A: Hopslam 2013 release info and availability at the Eccentric Cafe
Below are a few answers to some of the more commonly asked questions about this year's Hopslam release.
Q: Is there more Hopslam this year?
A: Yes, we were able to brew more this year, but availability will still vary from area to area.
Q: When/where will it be available?
A: Hopslam will start shipping to areas in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio the week of Jan. 7.
It will begin shipping to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Missouri and Arizona the week of Jan. 14.
It will then start shipping to Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC, Kentucky and Pennsylvania the week of Jan. 21.
Keep in mind, availability will also depend on delivery and trucking schedules, so please be patient with your local bars, restaurants and retailers.
You can also keep an eye on our website's Event Calendar for release party information as well as our website's Beer Finder.
Q: Will there be mini-kegs this year?
A: Unfortunately, no. We want to spread as much of this popular winter seasonal to as many of our fans as possible.
Q: When will it be available at the Eccentric Café/Bell's General Store in downtown Kalamazoo?
A: Friday, Jan. 4
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Below is a look at our events this week in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.
Dec. 17
Bell's Sampling: Dublin Square Irish Pub in La Crosse from 6-9 p.m. - Two Hearted, Amber, Best Brown and Winter White
Dec. 18
Bell's Tasting: Ale Jail in St. Paul from 5-7 p.m. - fall/winter seasonals plus some specialty stouts and more
Dec. 19
Bell's & Burgers Beer Dinner & Tap Takeover: The Buck Burgers & Brew in Saint Joseph at 5 p.m. - Bourbon Barrel Aged Batch 9,000, Kal-Haven Ale, our Jazz Series, Roundhouse IRA, Rye Stout, Debs' Red, Midwestern Pale Ale, Two Hearted, Winter White, Christmas Ale, an a la carte beer dinner and Bell's swag!
Dec. 20
Hop Head Heaven: Hermann's Ole Town Grille in Plymouth at 6 p.m. - Hopsoulution DIPA, The Oracle DIPA, Two Hearted, This one goes to 11 Ale and Christmas Ale (for the non hop heads)
The Darkest Day of the Year: The Beer Exchange in Kalamazoo - Bourbon Barrel Aged Batch 9,000, Black Note, Rye Stout, Sweet Potato Stout, Java Stout, Expedition Stout, Kalamazoo Stout and Porter
Dec. 20
Bell's Tasting: Bottle & Keg in Roanoke from 5-7 p.m.
Bell's Stout Night: Corner Wine Bar in Indianapolis at 5 p.m. - Bourbon Barrel Aged Cherry Stout, Kalamazoo Stout, Rye Stout, Java Stout, Double Cream Stout, Two Hearted and more
Dec. 21
Beer Tasting: Plymouth Party Pack in Plymouth from 5-7 p.m.
Dec. 28
Beer Tasting: Blarney Stone Wine & Spirits in South Bend from 5-7 p.m.
Dec. 20
Bell's Night: Village Tap in Chicago at 5 p.m. - This One Goes to 11 Ale, Expedition Stout, 2011 Cherry Stout, Special Double Cream Stout, Rye Stout, Winter White and Two Hearted
Looking ahead to 2013
Join us for beer dinners in Owosso and Grand Rapids, Michigan – plus, Hopslam's return in January.
Photos: Brewing Eccentric Ale with Jamie Floyd of Ninkasi Brewing Co., Eccentric Day 2012
We were joined by a very special guest in our Kalamazoo brewhouse on Eccentric Day Eve.
Jamie Floyd, owner and founding brewer of Ninkasi Brewing Co. in Eugene, Oregon, stopped by to help brew next year's batch of Eccentric Ale.
Traditionally, our guest brewers bring an ingredient or two to contribute to the recipe and Jamie did not disappoint. He brought honey and a combination of pureed squash, pumpkin and sweet potatoes - ingredients all local to the Eugene area - along with him.
That batch of Eccentric Ale, which will be released in December 2013, was also brewed with ginger, Michigan maple syrup and a variety of spices.
Below are a few more photos from our brew with Jamie.
Photos from this year's Eccentric Day are also now online. Take a look at them on our Flickr page, on the Eccentric Café's Facebook page or on Google+, depending on your preferred social network.
Also, If you haven't already, be sure to take a look at our post about how this year's eccentric menu came together as well.
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Call it the ultimate space camp: for one week this summer, a group of middle school students will learn how to use the Museum's Digital Universe Atlas, a three-dimensional, scientifically accurate map of the cosmos, and discover how the atlas is built from data gathered by scientists around the world. Then, using gaming laptops, the students will create their very own digital tour to a favorite spot of the universe, which will be shown in a special evening program in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on Friday, July 13.
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Chili peppers, a spicy fruit featured in cuisines around the world, were used in Mexico long before going global, as was the agave-derived distilled drink tequila. This week, the Museum's Adventures in the Global Kitchen series presents Tequila and Chilies, which will include a conversation with Juan Carlos Aguirre, the executive director of Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders. Aguirre, who will be providing samplings of chili-based dishes from across Mexico alongside tequila from Richard Sandoval Restaurants, recently offered a quick history lesson about the ubiquitous chili pepper.
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Skin is the body's largest organ, and one with a complex cultural and evolutionary past. At the upcoming SciCafe on Wednesday, May 2, biological anthropologist Nina Jablonski will discuss how human skin evolved, particularly as an adaptation to ultraviolet radiation. She recently answered a few questions about skin and its role in our lives.
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The Miami Dolphins and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez held a news conference Monday to announce a referendum on whether the county should help pay for major renovations to Sun Life Stadium.
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Zahru II wrote:Why would you play 'UN'? Sounds like the boringestest thing when you could play Brikwars instead. Not necessarily flaming, just honestly curious (I mean I get that you have an almost unnatural attraction to the whole UN thing, but I cannot connect the dots why)
Colette wrote:So Kalvinator, there's this school club called Model United Nations. When you first get into it they put you in novice and General Assembly committees, which are honestly pretty boring. However, as you win awards and do well then your club leaders will like you and put you in better positions (specialized and crisis). Specialized (Constitutional Convention) and Crisis (Star Wars) tend to do pretty bat-shit insane stuff towards the end. Crisis committees in particular are designed to basically be batshit stuff throughout the entire committee session.
Colette wrote:Yes, this is for high school Model UN...I might already be on some secret watch list for organizing an invasion of the United States during a mock conference...Of course, I remember one of my friends assassinated a delegate at a national conference and not only got away with it, but won the gavel, so maybe they are good ideas.
Colette wrote:Alright, I'm in committee now. This has got to be one of the most committees I will ever be in.
First off, everyone has to dress like a Sith and bring a lightsaber. Why? Well, there's a sister Jedi committee as well, and so the chair sometimes just randomly gets up and goes like "OK let's have a battle" and bring the Sith and Jedi into the gym where we literally just whack at each other with lightsabers. Also, we are allowed to clobber each other in the halls if we see each other.
I'm doing well in committee so far. My proposal to bring up a fake peace treaty with the Republic and then (inevitably) backstab it later got rejected by the chair. I've recruited Malgus to lead a force against major Republic planets and will submit a directive to start producing a virus to spread through Coruscant tomorrow.
Colette wrote:All right, so the Model UN conference is over. Here's basically what happened on the second day:
I walk in, hand in some directives. The second in command of the committee plays Grocery Store Wars on the board before it starts.
I continue to discuss with Darth Malgus attacking major Republic(an) planets in a shock and awe campaign. We introduce a directive to start amassing forces near Dromund Kaas to prepare for this, but the directive utterly fails in committee.
My earlier directive to steal Mandalorian battle armor is approved by the crisis staff, everyone in committee hates me and passes a resolution to raid cortosis mines to obtain their own lightsaber-proof armor.
I introduce a directive to develop a virus that destroys the frontal lobe of people making them into dumb zombies. It later passes, but I am interrupted in the middle of Q&A...
...The committee is utterly jealous of my direktive-writing skizzles and when word comes that my effort with Malgus to conquer Kayshyyk (for practice) failed, the Emperor's Wrath uses it as an excuse to execute me. I am then reincarnated as Darth Glovoc in committee.
Luckily Darth Vich had a directive that would be submitted to the chair "upon his death", it involves his Rattataki agents dressing in ghetto hoodies and Guy Fawkes masks and dumping said virus into Coruscant's water supply. Sadly crisis staff never acts on it despite its awesome Project Chanology reference that everyone laughed at.
The Jedi begin amassing forces over Tython including a massive 5-mile wide dreadnought named the Star of Coruscant. It turns out Darth Glovoc is the commander of a Sith fleet en route to Tython.
There is a huge argument in committee over how to defeat the Star of Coruscant, including EMP-proof nuclear missiles (donated by Spain and friends from DISEC, no less), metal-eating parasites, and a suicide ship filled with nothing but a Penning Trap and a 2000 kg of antimatter(that was my idea).
It is decided that we would slam the antimatter ship (dubbed the Richard Feynman by me) and some nukes straight into the Jedi Temple while nuking the hell out of the Star of Coruscant. Also, while we were doing this apparently the Jedi committee on the other side of the building were going to use Centerpoint station to lob Coruscant into Korriban. The chair leaves the room and we play Star Wars Gangsta' Rap while he's gone.
We tried to raid the Jedi's committee room but then we got into trouble so no more big lightsaber battles. Also, the chair leaves again and his assistant looks the other way and let us convert our room into a dueling ground and just have a massive lightsaber fight amongst the Sith.
Also, not related to Star Wars committee but NATO ran around throwing paper balls at everyone. The sponsors looked the other way until they attacked the Organization of Islámic Cooperation, the sponsors drew the line there and got NATO into trouble.
Colette wrote:So at my last Model UN I was in Constitutional Convention. We passed the Constitution and had a few hours left to dick around- our chair suggested we do a crisis alt-world war ii scenario.
So Nazis got all of Europe and north africa, while Japan conquered China and southeast asia and australia. The guy who basically won our committee got FDR, but on the condition that he is not allowed to walk or stand without assistance. I got Oppenheimer, and I immediately started an atomic bomb project, a nuclear-pulse spacecraft to launch an orbital killsat into orbit, and a particle accelerator to experiment with quantum teleportation. I also commissioned a Captain America project on the insistence of Gandhi.
A new plague from Siberia infects the US and lowers its readiness. We try to weaponize it but Madagascar closes its ports. Also, some obscure air force pilot named George H W Bush gets taken as a POW by the nazis and his Senator father boycotts Congress.
Gandhi killed Hítler (who was in our committee as a spy) through a kung-fu deathmatch challenge. De Gaulle makes a plea to the American people since the French cheese industry is suffering under the nazis, which utterly fails. Instead, we send Ronald Reagan and a Les Miserables screenwriter to begin composing revolutionary anthems for the French to sing along with.
My spacecraft crashes into the Arctic and melts tons of ice, flooding finland and opening up a new route of invasion. My particle accelerator gets sabotaged by a scientist fearing black holes. Finally, my scientists create a nuke but accidentally detonate it, killing a few thousand in Arizona. The public begins rioting outside the Capitol against nukes.
General MacArthur and Ronald Reagan win over radical muslim jihadists by conquering the Suez Canal. Unfortunately the US troops in the Middle East convert to Islam and join the Jihad themselves.
I release a press release to the public saying we need the nukes to destroy Berlin and Moscow, but I only inflame the public more and get assassinated. The chair says I must be reincarnated as a peace activist so I choose Martin Luther King Jr.
Soviet Russia invades Alaska. FDR declares war on the USSR.
I give a "I have a dream" speech to promote peace and brotherly love but FDR has me detained by the FBI and declares war on the Nazis and Japan. He also has every non-military person in the room including his wife arrested.
Buddhist shaolin kung-fu monks steal a Piltogg nuke and sneak it into Tokyo.
We invade Germany with an allied army of 70 million men. The American nuke is completed, and we evacuate our forces except for the mongol horsemen who die in a last stand. Captain America parachutes down with the nuke and destroys Berlin. Germany surrenders.
Japan is defeated by an upstart Korean named Kim Il-Sung, who offers friendship to the US. Seeing nothing suspicious, we accept. Japan is defeated. America also conquered Canada somewhere in the middle of this.
It turns out FDR was cheating on his wife with Reagan. As a finale, Piltogg zombies invade from the moon.
The end.
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BrikWars Chat wrote:<colette>: that's literally what happened in my Model UN committee
<colette>: we needed unanimous consent among full member nations to elevate another member nation
<colette>: we all agreed Serbia was a good idea
<colette>: then one country fucked it all up
<KomradeKen>: Uh.
<colette>: it was done by secret ballot, but we found out it was Denmark eventually
<colette>: in last committee session
<colette>: I (Belgium) seized control of the European Commission
<colette>: we liquidated the Horizon 2020 initiative and redirected the funds towards an anime adaptation of the Manga Guide to Linear Algebra in english, french, and german dubs for syndication across the Eurozone
<Silverdream>: German dubs
<Silverdream>: ugh
<colette>: furthermore
<colette>: in retaliation for Belgium's militarization of Brussels
<colette>: Netherlands launched a pot nuke at Brussels
<colette>: achieving nuclear fusion with marijuana
<colette>: thus everyone in Belgium became the high overlords of Europe
<colette>: citizens of Belgium then demanded to be referred to as "their Highness"
<colette>: not sure how damaging the "dank explosion" was
<colette>: CERN commissioned research on either the construction of the TARDIS or an interstellar starship
<colette>: the Super-Proton Synchrotron exploded
<colette>: my proposal to liquidate all former Antiproton-Cell Experiment assets towards the construction of a planet-buster or star-killer bomb failed, unfortunately
<colette>: Model UN is great
<Silverdream>: yeah
<Silverdream>: that's awesome
<Silverdream>: I wish I did MUN in High School
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The Obama administration is touting improvements to its trouble-plagued healthcare.gov Web site, which has been getting lots of bad press since it officially opened in October. Independent Sen. Angus King, meanwhile, was in Maine on Monday to promote what he says are the unrecognized benefits of the Affordable Care Act. Patty Wight reports.
The Affordable Care Act, say its advocates, is about a lot more than just increasing access to health care through new insurance options - it also aims to improve the quality of health care.
One of the ways it strives to do that is through Accountable Care Organizations - groups of health care providers who coordinate to ensure they give the best possible care to patients, without duplicating services.
MaineHealth, the state's largest health system, formed an ACO in 2010, and Sen. Angus King says the results, so far, are promising.
"What they're seeing is a decline in emergency room visits, and in readmissions to the hospital, while maintaining incredibly high quality standards," King said, at a press event in Portland.
King, who spent Monday morning meeting with MaineHealth officials, says the decrease in hospital use translates into a decline in health costs, which has the potential to have a huge impact - not just on patients, but on the nation as a whole.
"All of the federal government's future deficit problems are all about health care - it's all health care," King said. "It's not national parks, it's not Pell grants, it's not the defense department, it's not the CIA - it's health care costs." Control health costs, King says, and the deficit melts away.
Providers such as MaineHealth say they're all for reduced costs, and fewer readmissions. "That's a really good thing when you prevent someone from going back to the hospital unnecessarily," says MaineHealth's Katie Fullam Harris.
But Harris says the change has a direct impact on hospitals. "It also means, in our current payment structure, we've been paid for each admission that that patient had," she says. "So we actually lose money when we reduce readmissions."
The Affordable Care Act rewards Accountable Care Organizations like MaineHealth's that reduce costs while maintaining quality. But Harris says those reimbursements don't make up for the total cost of improving care.
"We have nurse care managers embedded in all of our primary care practices now to help patients ensure that they know what kind of medications to take, when to take them, to help them to get the different kinds of information they need to stay healthy," she says. "But that's an investment that costs money, and that's not reimbursed by the federal government."
Providers are also facing reductions in Medicare reimbursements. Harris says MaineHeath is fully committed to improving care, but new incentives need to be designed to ensure providers can still stay financially afloat.
In addition to focusing on health care providers, the Affordable Care Act is also doling out money to prevent health problems. One of the recipients of that funding in Maine is the Let's Go! program, which, for nearly 10 years, has promoted healthy eating and active living,
["We work in all 16 counties - over a thousand sites we work in," says Dr. Tory Rogers. Rogers says Let's Go! teaches kids the proper amount of fruits and vegetables to eat every day and the ideal amount of daily exercise. At the East End Community School in Portland, physical education teacher Marge Queen says its strength is in its community-wide message.
"That's the piece that's really exciting for a physical educator - that you can sit back, watch it all happen, and realize that it is growing outside your gym," Queen says - ideally, growing enough to not only create a healthier population, but to reduce health costs in the future.
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Earth Day: going green
Published On: Apr 22 2014 01:00:00 AM EDT
Earth Day has many of us thinking about ways to go green. Living an eco-friendly lifestyle doesn't have to be difficult, time-consuming or expensive. Here are some quick and easy tips to help you and your family start living green and stay that way for years to come.
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