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Dell Rapids Man Dies in ATV Accident
Authorities are investigating a fatal accident that occurred in the 700 block of East 4th Street in Dell Rapids.
At 1:58 p.m. Sunday, the Minnehaha County Sheriff's Department and the Dell Rapids Fire Department were dispatched to an injury accident. A 44-year-old man lost control of an all-terrain vehicle while traveling on the road. The driver was not wearing a helmet and sustained life-threatening injuries.
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Statewide DFL environmental caucus endorses Otto for governor
ST. PAUL-The Minnesota DFL Environmental Caucus said Tuesday that they have endorsed State Auditor Rebecca Otto in the crowded race for the 2018 DFL gubernatorial endorsement.
The caucus is made up of about 400 members from across the state who are trying to promote an environmental protection agenda among the state's Democrats.
The caucus, which has been around about four years, made headlines in 2016 during the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party convention when it succeeded in advancing an anti-copper mining item in the party platform. That item was later removed after pro-mining Iron Range residents and DFL U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan intervened. An intra-party committee on the issue failed to resolve the dispute, which continues to deeply divide DFLers.
"Rebecca Otto is a powerful voice for the environment and for a better Minnesota economy," said Veda Kanitz, chairwoman of the DFL Environmental Caucus. "We wholeheartedly endorse her candidacy for governor of Minnesota."
Otto in September announced her plan to impose a carbon fee, or tax, on emitters of the greenhouse gas that scientists say is causing climate change - the first candidate for governor to address the issue. She said she'd use the money raised to promote clean energy and help people pay potentially higher energy bills when cheaper coal was eliminated.
Otto is running in a crowded field for the DFL nomination to replace Gov. Mark Dayton, who has said he will not seek a third term in 2018. Other DFLers running include U.S. Rep. Tim Walz of Mankato, state Rep. Erin Murphy of St. Paul, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, Rochester state Rep. Tina Liebling and former House Speaker Paul Thissen of Minneapolis. Party officials will endorse a candidate at their convention in Rochester in June, but an August primary is likely. A dozen Republicans also are said to be considering a run for governor.
New Minneapolis mayor takes oath of office
MINNEAPOLIS-Jacob Frey was sworn in as mayor of Minneapolis on Tuesday along with five new city council members and eight returning members.
"Minneapolis, I am honored to be your mayor," Frey tweeted later in the day.
In addition to Frey, new council members Steve Fletcher, Phillipe Cunningham, Jeremiah Ellison, Andrea Jenkins and Jeremy Schroeder were sworn in for the first time.
There will be a public inaugural ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Monday in the Minneapolis City Hall. Frey and the city council members will take their oaths of office again. Frey also will deliver his inaugural address.
Following the ceremony, the mayor and council members will meet to elect leadership, establish the council's standing policy committees, and adopt a calendar of regular meetings among other items.
Man arrested for attempted murder after fire in home near Bemidji
BEMIDJI, Minn.-A 20-year-old Bemidji man was arrested Monday night after allegedly setting fire to a home near Bemidji.
According to a news release from the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office, deputies and the Bemidji Fire Department responded to a fire at the 700 block of Sunset Way at about 10:22 p.m., and found flames and heavy smoke coming from the lower level of the home.
All of the home's occupants escaped, the release said. While on the scene, deputies noticed one of the occupants acting "odd and erratic," and confronted him before taking him into custody "for his safety."
Damian Smith was arrested after law enforcement interviewed witnesses, and is currently being held in the Beltrami County Jail on suspicion of first-degree attempted murder, first-degree arson and obstruction of the legal process.
The fire remains under investigation.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —
James Hylton is retiring after 50 years of NASCAR racing.
Hylton, a 78-year-old driver from Inman, S.C., announced Thursday that this will be his final season behind the wheel.
He says he's "been thinking about this for quite a while. I'm 78 and the time has come."
Hylton has made 602 starts in the Sprint Cup Series since his rookie season 1964. He won at Richmond in 1970 and at Talladega two years later. He has made 143 starts in the ARCA Series, all since 1997.
He attempted to qualify for the Daytona 500 in 2007, but failed to finish high enough in a qualifying race.
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this smells like the Showcase on The Price is Right!!! In other words, if we want to trade him, we have to play him!!! Or maybe D'Antoni was inspired by Shaq's recent words on Curry... NOT!!!
by Marc Berman (azzhole) in today's NYPOST
With Christmas around the corner, here comes the return of Eddy CurryEddy Curry . The KnicksNew York Knicks ' former starting center is back in coach Mike D'Antoni's plans and could make his season debut in less than two weeks.
Curry confirmed he is on track to join the team full tilt in practice in a little more than a week. After that, "It's up to the coach when he thinks I'm ready to play," he said.
Because of a bruised right knee, Curry hasn't practiced since the regular season began but may start doing on-court drills on Christmas Day, when the club returns to practice.
In a rare interview, Curry told The Post he's genuinely excited about this return. That is a departure from past interviews when Curry seemed resigned to his banished fate, despondent his knee was not healing. He ticked off the coaching staff originally by reporting to training camp well over 300 pounds.
"I'm excited, I'm ready to get back," Curry told The Post. "I'm definitely excited."
Knicks president Donnie Walsh said at practice yesterday Curry "wants to play" and thinks he'll join practice in about one week.
The 7-foot Curry yesterday finished a three-week program during which he was injected with a shot in his knee once a week - a lubricant that has lessened his pain. His final injection was yesterday. In late September, he took a cortisone shot that failed to work.
"I talked to [D'Antoni] a couple of times," Curry said. "He really assured me he wants me to be part of what's going on and for me not to lose my concentration and stay in it mentally and keep trying to work hard so when I come back I'm not too far behind. I'm glad he's anticipating my return."
Curry's season-long inactivity has been less dissected than Stephon Marbury's banishment. Curry habitually dodges reporters. He rarely sits on the bench during games. Though he's been their starting center for three seasons, it seemed fait accompli he didn't fit D'Antoni's program.
Several factors have changed the organization's thinking on Curry, not the least of which is their 11-16 record and four-game losing streak. The trade of Zach RandolphZach Randolph eliminated their lone low-post presence. More important, Randolph and Curry proved they could not play together last season. Without Randolph, Curry can play with the same reckless abandon he displayed during his exceptional 2006-2007 season.
In addition, D'Antoni is realizing 6-11 Jared Jeffries, whom he envisioned as a potential starting center, is not the answer to the Knicks' height woes. Jeffries' lack of durability has become troubling.
Also, Wilson Chandler is wearing down in his first full season. D'Antoni realizes a seven-, eight -man rotation is too taxing for his speedball style. Curry would give the Knicks a sturdy nine-man rotation and enough size where they won't get as overpowered against bigger teams.
Curry will beat rookie Danilo Gallinari back to the court. The Italian Stallion said he won't return to practice until about Jan. 21 when his eight-week exercise program for his back is completed.


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BAUCHI, Nigeria - Gunmen attacked a camp for a construction company in rural northern Nigeria, killing a guard and kidnapping seven foreign workers from Britain, Greece, Italy, Lebanon and the Philippines, authorities said Sunday, in the biggest kidnapping yet in a region under attack by Islamic extremists.
The attack Saturday night happened in Jama'are, a town in Bauchi state. There, the gunmen first attacked a local prison, burning two police trucks, Bauchi state police spokesman Hassan Muhammed told the Associated Press.
The gunmen then targeted a workers' camp for Lebanese construction company Setraco, which is building a road in the area, Muhammed said. The gunmen shot dead a guard at the camp before kidnapping the foreign workers, the spokesman said.
"The gunmen came with explosives, which they used to break some areas," Muhammed said. He did not elaborate and an AP journalist could not reach the town, which is about 125 miles north of the state capital, Bauchi.
One British citizen, one Greek, one Italian, three Lebanese and one Filipino were kidnapped, said Adamu Aliyu, the chairman of the local government area that encompasses Jama'are. He said one of the hostages was a woman, while the rest were men. He initially had said four of the hostages were Lebanese. He blamed the confusion on incorrect information he received from his staff.
Italian news agency ANSA later said authorities confirmed an Italian had been kidnapped. It quoted Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi saying the safety of the hostage must be given "absolute priority."
Greece confirmed one of its citizens was abducted. A statement from Greece's foreign ministry said authorities had a plane on standby to send investigators to Nigeria and that its foreign minister had been in contact with Terzi.
"Two Greek police officers, liaisons in Greece's Nigerian Embassy, are in contact with their colleagues of the countries involved and the Nigerian authorities," the statement said.
Britain's Foreign Office said Sunday it was looking into the kidnappings.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the abductions, though Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north has been under attack by the radical Islamic sect known as Boko Haram in the last year and a half. The country's weak central government has been unable to stop the group's bloody guerrilla campaign of shootings and bombings. The sect is blamed for killing at least 792 people in 2012 alone, according to an AP count.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, has demanded the release of all its captive members and called for strict Shariah law to be implemented across the entire country. The sect has killed both Christians and Muslims, as well as soldiers and security forces.
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Patience is starting to pay off for Mark Jankowski.
The rookie had two goals and an assist, Kris Versteeg scored the winner with 5:31 left and the Calgary Flames scored five times in the third period to beat the St. Louis Blues 7-4 on Monday night.
The Flames are finally getting secondary scoring with the line of Jankowski, Jaromir Jagr and Sam Bennett leading the way in their third game together.
"We've got a few games under our belts with my two linemates now and we're really clicking," Jankowski said. "We knew we were getting our chances and the goals would come if we kept playing that way."
In a wild third period, the Flames took the lead twice only to see the Blues come back to tie it each time. Calgary finally went in front for good when Versteeg's shot off the wing beat goalie Jake Allen.
"Big win for us. We knew how good they've been playing," Versteeg said.
Bennett scored his first of the season for Calgary, and Micheal Ferland got his fourth goal in four games. Johnny Gaudreau and Michael Frolik also scored as the Flames finished 5-2-0 on their longest homestand of the season.
Gaudreau had two points to extend his point streak to seven games (five goals, seven assists).
Vladimir Tarasenko scored twice for St. Louis (13-5-1), and Jaden Schwartz and Alexander Steen also scored.
"We got what we deserved tonight," Blues coach Mike Yeo said. "We just weren't ready to play and that was evident right from the drop of the puck. We were very fortunate to tie the game up in the third period on a couple occasions — very, very fortunate."
Bennett put the Flames in front 3-2 to open the third-period barrage when his backhand of Jankowski's shot slipped through Allen's pads.
Steen tied it at 11:46 and then Ferland's power-play goal restored Calgary's one-goal lead at 12:31. But 12 seconds later, Tarasenko one-timed a pass from Schwartz to tie it again.
"We just played sloppy the whole time. We played into their hands and we were just very careless," Blues center Paul Stastny said. "We did a good job of coming back and being resilient after we let up what was a questionable goal on the penalty, but we came right back and scored a big goal. Then, just made two careless turnovers. It was just what we did all night."
Mike Smith, who has started 16 of Calgary's 17 games this season, left after the first period with an undisclosed injury. Eddie Lack played the final 40 minutes, stopping 13-of-15 shots for his first win with the Flames.
"It's just very nice to get that first win," Lack said. "It's obviously not the way that I thought it was going to be, for sure, and I didn't play my best game, but I felt I made a huge save when it mattered the most there in the third."
St. Louis had a great chance to tie it with just more than five minutes left when Lack robbed Dmitrij Jaskin on a backhand in front.
Allen stopped 30-of-36 shots.
St. Louis opened the scoring 3:32 in on its first shot. Colton Parayko crossed the blue line and dropped the puck to Tarasenko, who beat Smith from 40 feet on a high wrist shot over his blocker.
Jankowski scored the next two goals to give Calgary its first lead of the night. With the teams playing four skaters aside, he hammered a slap shot over Allen's glove at 4:54. Jankowski then took a slick pass from Jagr and scored on deke at 13:45.
"Time to tighten up. I think we're giving them all their opportunities," Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo said. "Most of them are just puck errors. Our goalies can only stop so many great opportunities."
Notes: Sean Monahan had his six-game point streak snapped. Flames D Travis Hamonic (lower body) returned after missing three games. St. Louis inserted RW Beau Bennett for Magnus Paajarvi. It was Bennett's 100th NHL game. Tarasenko moved onto a line with Steen and Stastny. ... The Blues play Thursday at the Edmonton Oilers. ... The Flames open a six-game road trip Wednesday in Detroit.


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Can French Muslims be funny? And can they get on TV?
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Who says Muslims can't be funny? That's the tagline for a project by a French team that has produced 18 short movies in the last two years that take a humourous look at being a Muslim in France. With 14 million hits on its website, the project has attracted attention, but it has had trouble moving into mainstream television.
The Bordeaux-based filmmakers - known collectively as A part ça tout va bien (Besides that, everything's fine) - have taken on the tricky subject as the French government has been debating secularism and the role of Islam in society.
One of the most-viewed videos on the site is Les nettoyeurs (The clean-up crew). In it, a teenaged boy sits on a couch, looking forlorn; something very bad has happened. He has asked a friend to come over to help deal with "it".
"It's not my fault," he says. "It was for my little brother."
His friend finally agrees to help get rid of "it". In the end, the camera reveals that "it" is a small Christmas tree, with blinking lights.
Some of the films are longer, with more involved plotlines, but all deal with what comedian and co-founder Hassan Zahi, 29, calls "human folly".
"When you consider human folly, there are thousands of sketch ideas: about problems with France, about living together, about conversion, about the relationship, about girls. We have found quite a few subjects," he said.
But it stays in the realm of the human. For Zahi, a practicing Muslim, there is a difference between poking fun at religion and laughing at the humans trying to practice the religion.
"We are not going to do a sketch about things that don't make us laugh personally. I'm not going to make fun of God, for example, because it doesn't make me laugh," he said. "Instead, we talk about the human follies, human weaknesses."
The project was the brainchild of film director Zangro - an atheist - who approached Zahi two years ago. Zahi, who had his own one-man show (and still does), says he was not interested at first.
"I said, 'No, leave me alone; I don't want to touch it.' The subject of Islam for me was too sensitive in France," he said.
"Then I asked myself: Why don't I want to laugh about what scares me? I realised that dedramatising something is to appropriate it. If you laugh about
it, you can appropriate it. So I said OK, let's start."
The first sketches were filmed in Morocco. Then the group started making movies from their home base in the Bordeaux suburbs. Maria Himmich, the group's communications director, says the idea is to focus on France.
"Here in France some people make you feel like you cannot be French and Muslim - that you have to choose one of your identities, it's very tense," she explained. "We really want to laugh at all the stereotypes, in order to make the atmosphere less tense."
Himmich and Zahi particularly like one of the films called Le côté obscur (The Dark Side).
In it, two French women sit on a park bench watching a little girl who is wearing what looks like a black Islamic headscarf. They comment on how shocking it is to see a child so young taken in by religion.
The punchline is that right after the women leave the park, the little girl's father - played by Zahi - tells his daughter it's time to go to a birthday party and hands her a Darth Vader mask to complete her costume.
Short, one-joke comedy sketches are shown on French TV all the time. The format is mainstream, but A part ça tout va bien has had trouble moving beyond its website, into that mainstream.
But there is interest outside of France.
The group received funding from the US consulate in Bordeaux to produce a film based in Chicago: Sweet home, in which Zahi plays a devout Muslim living there.
His cousin from France comes to visit and wants to eat a hamburger and meet Americans. But Zahi's character wants to show how well you can live as a Muslim in the US.
Zahi says it's a comment on the differences he saw between France and the US.
"I was shocked that there are people in some neighbourhoods who don't speak English!" said Zahi of his visit to Chicago.
"Either we live together and don't wear the jelaba [traditional clothing], the beard and the veil. Or else each lives in his own territory, and you can wear a beard or a veil, but you stay in your neighbourhood and you don't know anything but your own culture.
"What's the better solution, the American style or French style?"
The group is working on another partnership with the US embassy, this time to send young people from Bordeaux to Los Angeles to learn about the movie business.
And they will continue to work on making French movies for a French audience.
"The goal of this whole project is to show that we actually can live together," said Maria Himmich. "We are trying to fight ignorance and the fear of the other."
And, lest you think this is too idealistic, Zahi insists it is actually very down to earth.
"Let's be logical," he says. "Why are we afraid of the dark? It's because we don't know where things are. After a year, you know where things are in your room, and you are no longer scared.
"It's the same with people. Go and meet what makes you afraid."
And humour, he says, is the best way to do this.
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During debate over the energy bill in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Tuesday, Representatives Hall, Green, Murphy, Rogers, Pickering, and Committee Chair Barton, among others, voiced their opposition to any restrictions on future oil and gas exploration within the United States. The committee majority shot down a number of minority amendments, including an amendment by Rep. Stupak of Michigan to prohibit directional, slant, or offshore oil and gas drilling on the Great Lakes. Although Rep. Rogers of Michigan opposed the amendment because he felt the states had already dealt with the issue, others criticized Rep. Stupak's attempt to prevent drilling in the first place. "I don't think we should be closing off areas to production," stated Rep. Pickering of Mississippi. Rep. Pickering added that oil and gas companies need more access to public lands, not less, in order to increase the energy supply of the United States.
According to a recent report by the Environmental Working Group, Rep. Pickering is dead wrong in his assessment of extractive industry access to public lands. This report claims that oil, gas, and mining interests have been gaining access for the past fifty years. Furthermore, when past and current exploration leases are combined, the extractive industry has controlled or currently controls land that is within five miles of 95% of all national parks, wilderness areas, national forests, and other national treasures.
If oil and gas companies already have access, why aren't energy prices going down? The EWG report shows that the amount of fossil fuels that are economically recoverable from these natural areas is so small that it has had no significant effect on domestic oil and gas prices. Thousands of land leases remain untouched because the prices of oil and gas are not high enough to justify the cost of exploration, from an industry perspective. We can either wait for the extractive industry to destroy our national treasures as energy prices go through the roof, or we can reduce energy consumption and invest in renewable energy sources while simultaneously protecting our most cherished American wildlands.


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Israel, like the United States, is a settler society whose establishment was inspired by utopian ideology but was also based on war and violence. Like the United States, Israel is an imperfect democracy, committed to notions of equality yet also divided along class and ethnic lines. In both Israel and the United States law plays a major role in shaping identity, framing political discourse and mediating (and also sometimes exacerbating) social conflicts. In what ways do law and society interact in Israel and what can Americans learn from the Israeli experience? This course will seek to answer these questions by exploring the history of Israeli law. After an introductory section containing a brief overview of Israeli history and a general introduction to legal history, the course will focus on two distinct periods: the British Mandate and the first two decades after Israeli independence. Law will be used as a prism through which major debates about the history of the Israeli state and Israeli society will be analyzed. Among the topics that will be discussed are the reception of English law after the British conquest, law and national identity, varieties of legal pluralism, postindependence legal change and continuity, formalism and rights discourse, the role of law in ethnic, class and gender conflicts and in shaping historical memory (with special emphasis on the Holocaust). No prior knowledge of the history of Israel or its law is assumed.
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Israeli Legal History for Americans
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- Patrick S. O'Donnell said...
Of course one has to make hard choices in a course such as this, still, I was surprised not to see at least several titles from among the following, most of which I think would be fundamental (unlike, say, the Said volume):
Benvenisti, Eyal. Legal Dualism: The Absorption of the Occupied Territories into Israel. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
Benvenisti, Eyal. The International Law of Occupation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Bowen, Stephen, ed. Human Rights, Self-Determination, and Political Change in the Occupied
Territories. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997.
Falk, Richard and Burns H. Weston. 'The Relevance of International Law to Palestinian Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: In Legal Defense of the Intifada,' Harvard International Law Journal 32, No. 1 (1991): 191-204.
Fischbach, Michael R. Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab- Israeli Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Hajjar, Lisa. Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza. London: University of California Press, 2005.
Kattan, Victor. From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949. London: Pluto Press, 2009.
Kattan, Victor, ed. The Palestine Question in International Law. London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2008.
Kretzmer, David. The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
Kretzmer, David. The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Marmor, Andrei, 'Entitlement to Land and the Right of Return: An Embarrassing Challenge for Liberal Zionism' (2003), USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 03-17. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=424622
With regard to the comparative aspect: Unlike the United States, Israel constitutionally, hence legally (yes, I know, there is not a written constitution as such, but Basic Law plays a central part in its 'constitutional' law) defines itself terms of a single religious (or, less plausibly 'ethnic') tradition, Judaism, and thus is a "Jewish and democratic state." This theocratic dimension is in stark contrast to the United States' constitutional understanding of the role of religion in a democratic polity.
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The Dingbats may not be a real band, but Myke Johns really brings their history to full life – with and with these readings from Nicholas Teckosy, Bobbin Wages, Adam Lowe, Myke Johns himself and Jeremy Maxwell they really come to life. The whole thing can be read in the latest issue of Deer Bear Wolf, but this performance is completely charming to the ear.
And if that tickles your fancy: in addition to his own written achievements and efforts with Write Club Atlanta, Myke Johns puts a lot of effort showcasing and championing the efforts of Atlanta's literary scene through his podcast, LitCast, at WABE 90.1. There's a bevy of goodness to be heard. (We Atlantans really owe Myke a lot – so much heartfelt effort goes into these recordings.)


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Article No :84 | November 10, 2006 | by Alex Schleifer
Here's an interesting experiment. A fund where companies are picked according to the user experience they provide. Not sure if I'd have EA in there as, for me at least, "doing business with them" hasn't been that much of a positive experience. And yet I keep buying every single Battlefield game they release.


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The rise of the churrasco craze has given people a narrow, if somewhat authentic, view of Brazilian food. There are, indeed, a lot of churrascarias in Brazil—though in my five trips there I've yet to see a red-and-green block that you position according to how hungry you are. You can eat all the grilled chicken hearts you want, but until you've had rice and beans made by a Brazilian, you haven't truly sampled the cuisine.
James "Jamon" Trujillo, the owner of Jamon's Frybread Cabana, is a half-Brazilian culinary cannibal. Not the kind of cannibal that lives in the jungle and eats tourists, but a chef who takes pieces from each kitchen he's cooked in and incorporates them into his food philosophy. Trujillo's stint at the Pueblo Harvest Café gave him mastery over fry bread, and his atole is as sweet as Brazilian mingao (a coconut-tapioca breakfast porridge).
He offers churrasco, too—including some you may not have tried, such as turkey in bacon—but he doesn't bring it around on a sword or put a colored block on your table. In fact, the only red and green is the chile he grew up loving in Las Cruces, which makes a seamless pairing with many of his Brazilian dishes. Take, for example, his carne adovada folded into a Brazilian pastry called a pastel.
But the masterpiece of his pan-American fusion, in my opinion, is the cabana bowl: a pile of rice and beans on a thin, tostada-like shell of deep-fried pastel dough. A skewer of churrasco tops the affair, along with your choice of chile. Trujillo calls it his "most Brazilian dish."
The pastel flour tostada has a soft, dry crisp. It grabs onto the rice and beans nicely and creates a hybrid material of rice, bean and pastel. It's analogous to the texture alchemy at play in a grilled cheese sandwich.
The cabana bowl is the exact spot where Brazil meets New Mexico, at once humble, elegant, satisfying and full of flavor from both ends of the hemisphere. I recommend green on top and a side of red-chile-dusted potatoes, which are perfectly light.
Trujillo is hoping to succeed in a location that's had high turnover in recent years: on Central, just west of the river, where Esperanza's Cocina Mexicana and Delicia's Diner used to be. I think Senhor Jamon has the chops and the wherewithal to make a run. He's decked out the place in charming fashion, a more honest version of the seaside shack setting that Bailey's on the Beach paid good money for. Jamon's is brightly painted and adorned with a few key objects of Brazilian lore—a guitar, a hammock and a picture of a sailboat, under which the word "sailboat" is printed.
What I'd like to see next from the chef is feijoada—a Brazilian black bean stew that's basically a meatier version of his beans, served ceremoniously on weekends in Brazil as feijoada completa. C'mon Jamon, make it happen!


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Given that James Cameron took 13 years to make another movie after "Titanic," and given the fact that he is currently engaged in trying to single-handedly solve the BP oil spill (This man knows the sea… he did "The Abyss," people), AND given that he plans on releasing "Titanic" in 3D in 2012, you would think it would be a very long time before Cameron to get around to making another new movie.
Ah, but that's where you're wrong. The Wall Street Journal reports that Cameron is already planning to release a new movie within the next four years, and that it could very well be a sequel to "Avatar."
Director James Cameron said he plans to release his next film in three to four years and might embark on a sequel to "Avatar."
Mr. Cameron, speaking at the All Things Digital conference Wednesday, said he planned on pushing 3D technology to new levels for his next project. If his next film isn't "Avatar II," it will be "some other big film that uses that same technology."
Cameron already hinted a while back that "Avatar 2" would be set in the oceans of Pandora, the fictional planet he dreamed up for the megablockbuster. It makes sense that, after perfecting the 3D process he pioneered with "Avatar," Cameron would become more prolific than he was in the previous decade. He has the tools now to tell any story he likes, and he probably didn't feel that way before.
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Pompadour – Nothing To Worry AboutWednesday, February 18th, 2009
Some may ask, why does Warusan have a pompadour? Well, alright nobody's asked that, but in case you were wondering, here's a Peter Bjorn video that provides insight into the inspiration behind Warusan's hair.
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The Sword Of Elendil
Chapter 024
The Grave
Chapter Notes
See "Horse Thief" in "Many Guises and Many Names" and Gwynnyd's "Lighting Fires" for more tales of Estel's childhood.
Elladan stopped when he reached the crest of the rocky hill. "There it is: Dol Draug. Beyond lies the pass into Angmar, where the sorcerer had his fortress in the old days. Before Arathorn's death we made forays there every few years, seeking out any new Orc lairs."
Aragorn took the last few steps to Elladan's side at a long stride. Before him, the land fell to grassy downs crisscrossed with meandering rocky pathways and gulches before it began to climb again to hills receding into the blue distance. Towering beyond the downs rose Dol Draug, Wolf's Head Mountain, a sharp, black point like a wolf's ear thrust into the sky, while to the east a sloping shoulder of rock dropped suddenly in a cliff, looking indeed like the snout of a wolf against the misty blue ridges to the north.
"My father says it once was a fire mountain, and that is why it looms over all the other peaks. But long ago it ceased to burn."
Aragorn gazed out over the rough, dry country. "It will be a slow journey through this slag."
"For some distance, we know paths around the rougher places. But closer to the mountain, we know the land less well and our way will be more difficult."
They waited for Elrohir and Halbarad to catch up before beginning the winding way to the downs below. That day, and the next, and the day after that, they picked their way across the plain, following dry stream beds and paths of stone through the maze of rocky hills tufted with dry grass. Beyond the plain, they began to climb rough slopes into a bleak and weary land. Even in the early autumn, little grew but grey lichen and a few straggling weeds. The land leveled out into a wide and desolate plateau; an ancient river bed divided it from the mountains proper. Elladan led them to a promontory overlooking the valley below, where a stream, all that now remained of the river, coursed through sullen brown rocks covered in thorny brush.
Elladan strode to the edge of the sheer drop, gesturing for Aragorn to follow him. "It was there," he said, pointing to the harsh ledges below. "I came up here to scout the way ahead, looking for any threats before we rode our horses into the valley. We had not been here for some years, but Orcs had seldom been seen here before. That's why we tracked them, because we feared they were expanding their range. We were headed to the higher country, where we were more likely to find them—we feared they were setting up camps from Gundabad in the far north. The risks had increased, indeed, rather suddenly since the death of Arador only three years before."
Sighing, he turned to his foster brother. "You know the problem, Estel—we must be cautious and not risk ourselves needlessly, nevertheless risks must be taken. I bitterly regret that I judged wrong in this case."
Elrohir said, "We saw no sign of them, my brother. You are not to blame. As we have learned before to great cost, they have many secret passages and hidden doors."
Aragorn knew he meant the Orcs' seizure and torture of Celebrían, their mother. Arwen's mother. Once she had spoken to him of her, a slow tear coursing down her cheek into the soft down of her hair. He had caressed it away as she wept over her mother's torment. For her, too, I will seek the deaths of these Orcs and all servants of the Enemy.
Elrohir continued, "It was particularly dangerous in those years, before the Battle of the Five Armies reduced the plague of mountain Orcs and ended the terror of the dragon."
Aragorn nodded. "Tell me more of how it happened."
"After my survey, we followed the lesser slope there to the east, into the river valley. Beleg and Arathorn rode ahead and disappeared around that black stone below." Elladan pointed to a pillar of dark rock accusing the sky like a malevolent finger. The river bed swung sharply around it to the north and disappeared from view. "We did not see the attack, which began with a sudden, silent ambush. But we heard a scream—Beleg calling out for help. We quickened our pace and as we came up we saw the Orcs dragging Arathorn away and attempting to seize Beleg as well. Arathorn was already dead. He could not have survived that arrow through his eye—he must have died instantly, the only mercy of the day."
He stopped to draw a ragged breath, sorrow on his fair face. "We prevented them from seizing Beleg, but not before he was badly injured himself. We had to leave him to pursue the Orcs, and we killed all of them and recovered Arathorn's body. It was a terrible moment when we saw he was dead and how he had died—and they had hacked his body after death."
Silent, Aragorn listened to the tale of his father's death. A wave of weakness in the pit of his stomach threatened to bring him to his knees as sudden horror flared in his mind's eye.
Elladan gripped his arm in solace. "The Orcs paid for what they did. Then we had to tend to Beleg, of course. We heard wolves howling and feared the Orcs would return. We retreated to the southeast, to a secluded valley that we will show you tomorrow. There we cared for Beleg till he could ride, and we buried Arathorn, away from the Orcs' foul dens." He gazed far and wide with his keen eyes. "I see no threats now. But so we thought then. It is a dangerous place. Tomorrow we will bring you to the spot where he died, but we must not linger there. Even without horses we risk being seen, if there are enemies about."
"Nevertheless we must find out what we can while we are here," Aragorn said. "Halbarad and I mean to continue east into the mountains to join the Rangers later in the autumn. They will be scouting through the mountains and we hope to add our findings to the plan to move against the Orcs."
They stayed that night in the shelter of a grove of stumpy trees a mile from the edge of the promontory. The stars bloomed in the cloudless sky, with no moon to blunt their glory. Low in the west hung Gil-Estel, the star of Eärendil, a bluish glow to its flame.
Elladan raised his carved wooden cup. "Our forefather watches still. Let us greet him, and drink to our lost ones."
Aragorn joined the others in a salute. Only the sizzle of the fire broke the silence—too silent, Aragorn thought, for a night in the wilderness. At last Halbarad spoke in a low voice. "You must take some comfort in knowing your mother, at least, is now healed in the Blessed Land."
Elrohir shrugged, a gesture of sadness and resignation. "We hope so, certainly. But we don't know, unless you count faith, or trust, as knowing. It is like death that way. No one returns."
A spark of challenge lit Halbarad's eyes. "Surely not. You know you will see her again."
"Will we?" asked Elladan. "Not all are called to the West, and for us, as peredhel, it is even more unsure. Do not forget that we carry the blood of the Secondborn."
Aragorn recognized the lines of fierce sorrow about Elrohir's mouth as he said, "Not all are called. Many will not go—so our mother's father says of himself. The ban still lies on our mother's mother, and all of our family has suffered from the doom of Mandos. If it were not for the courage of Eärendil, we all would long ago have found the grave. Dior, slain by the sons of Fëanor. His sons, left to starve in the woods by Celegorm's cruel servants. It is only by our grandfather's fate that we have the life of the Eldar. But will that include the call to the West? I do not know."
Stirring in surprise, Aragorn watched his brothers' faces closely. He had rarely heard them speak so. But Halbarad said, "I don't understand. Surely you have the grace of the Elves."
"We are peredhel," said Elrohir, speaking the word with slow emphasis. "By the laws of the One, we would have been born mortal but for the choice given to our father through his own father. As it is, we too have that choice. Although I don't know if 'choice' is the right word. Rather it is what calls to our hearts. I do not know if, when it comes to it, I would leave Middle-earth. I question whether our people should ever have gone across the sea." He lowered his head, the shadows hiding his bright eyes.
"Then you will join your grandmother in exile forever?" asked Halbarad.
"Rather, I believe, we will die as Men do," Elladan said. "We and our sister."
Aragorn swung his gaze to his brother's face, lit golden by the fire. Elrohir remained hidden in the shadows. "You never told me that."
A faint smile softened Elladan's face. "We don't talk of it, Estel. But it's time that you knew."
They tell me for Arwen's sake. They tell me why she has turned from me. Could she truly think I would want her death?
But Halbarad exclaimed, "Your sister! I didn't know you had a sister. Idhril did not mention her, nor Aragorn, either."
A smile tugged again at the edge of Elladan's mouth. "Arwen Undómiel she is called. She's rarely in Rivendell, and few Men even know of her. But if you saw her, you would never forget her. She has the face of Lúthien, or so they say, those who knew the daughter of Melian in the Elder Days."
The face of Lúthien. The fate of Lúthien? Is that why she fled from me? Aragorn tried to stop his mouth, but he had to speak. "She did not tell me."
Elladan watched him, but said nothing.
"Did she ask you to tell me this?"
"No, Estel. She is as silent about you as you have been about her."
In the shadows Elrohir stirred, and knowing the two of them as he did, Aragorn gathered there had been a disagreement. Dismay, sorrow, love, anger—all moiled in his heart. Arwen! Never would I ask such a thing. Forgive me, I did not understand. He wanted to cry out with anguish, but the sight of Halbarad's eyes fixed on his face pressed him to silence.
Halbarad nodded briefly and then turned to Elladan. "I hope to meet the Lady Arwen some day, and see for myself if she is truly as beautiful as you say."
Relieved by Halbarad's interruption, Aragorn stared into the fire, seeking he knew not what in the glowing embers. Unable to keep still, he rose suddenly and stalked out into the night. He did not go far—even this distress could not negate the caution that ceaseless training had drilled into him. He leaned against the trunk of a tree and looked up into the sky, his whole being filled with memories of her—her impossibly beautiful wrists, the silky skin of the inside of her thighs, the intoxicating scent of her hair, the taste of her sweet mouth.
That beauty to grow old and die as Men do? Never.
A musical voice called, "Estel!" and a gentle hand touched his arm.
Her brother's face caught the starlight as hers did. He smiled softly. "You did not hear me come. Sharpen your ears, little brother."
Aragorn laughed shortly. It was an old joke between them, from the days of training the young Estel. For a while they stood together in the still of the night. "Elladan, what am I to do?" he cried in misery.
"I cannot advise you, except—" He fell silent.
"What do you mean?"
"Just that. Wait. Time changes many things."
Aragorn shook his head. "My feelings will not change."
"Maybe not, but that is not what I meant."
"I don't understand you."
"That, too, may change."
And he refused to say any more.
"Here is where Arathorn met his death." Elrohir stood on an expanse of grey rock; he cocked his head. "The earth remembers. I hear its voice, mourning the blood and the loss. For all that the sorcerer took this land, its heart belongs to the Dúnedain."
Aragorn stood still and silent on the spot where his father had died, hoping that memories would come at last. In his hands he held the broken remnant of Narsil, the heirloom of the House of Isildur. "Tell me how it happened."
"The Orcs came from there, a crevice around the bend. About a dozen. Some died at Beleg's hand before we reached Arathorn. Did he tell you about it?"
Aragorn shook his head. "He doesn't remember, and when I asked him, he became so distressed that I did not ask again, even about the journey."
"Yes, Hallor said that too," Elrohir cupped his chin and frowned, "now that you mention it. It's odd that Beleg hasn't yet visited us in Rivendell. Talking with us might help him, and my father's skill could certainly ease his distress."
"The acting chieftain has given him leave, and he keeps saying he will go," Halbarad said. "But we are pressed, as usual. Some day, I'm sure he will come."
"That would be excellent, for we loved him, too, as a dear friend. He and Arathorn together were deadly in battle. I'll never forget their deeds on that fateful sortie in Mirkwood, when Beleg took on the lieutenant from Dol Guldur. They still talk about it in Thranduil's halls. This lieutenant had been the bane of southern Mirkwood for more years than even an Elf can count, and Beleg managed to wound him. Not to kill him, for I don't even know if that can be done to such a being."
"What is he? A Ringwraith?"
"We don't know," Elladan said. "But surely no Ringwraith. He appears to be a Man, but he must know the dark arts, like the sorcerer that dwelt here in Rhudaur during the time of Angmar. Maybe he is the same one—who can say? The Elves in Mirkwood believe he can change his form. Sauron has a number of such evil-doers in his service, and they use the dark arts to prolong life. Now they are gathered in Mordor itself, and, perversely, there is a strange quiet in Mirkwood. For a little while. Thranduil knows it will not last, and keeps ever sharper watch." He looked up at the sky. "The sun is sinking, and we must move on. It's perilous to linger here."
For half a day they returned the way that they had come, and then turned sharply east into a narrow cleft where a trickle of water darkened the rocky floor. As they followed its course it grew in width and depth, and soon became a proper stream and then a small river. The cleft widened into a deep valley filled with small trees, brush and vines, protected from the harsh eastern winds blowing from the Misty Mountains.
They trudged deeper into the valley, following the stream. Elladan said, "We are nearing the outlying areas of the Ettenmoors here. If you follow this way for two days, you will meet the Hoardale. We battled the forces of Angmar there many years ago, when the Witch-king launched his attack on Rivendell. If you truly mean to go that way, take extra caution. Wights still dwell in ruins from the old days, and the hill folk do not like strangers."
Halbarad nodded. "We know. But my father is sending more Rangers into the mountains as well, we hope to join up with them at the Refuge. Those Uruks had to come from somewhere."
Elladan's face darkened; Aragorn recognized the feral grimace of the hunt. "We have to leave you in a few days to meet our father, but when we're free, we'll return and join you for the kill."
Coming upon a grove of slender white birches, Elrohir turned among the trees to a small dell, grown over with coarse brush and wildflowers. Without hesitation the twin brothers stopped at a patch of nodding daisies. A break in the leaf cover let in the sunlight, glinting on their yellow faces. "Here, but the stone is covered now," said Elladan.
They dug with sticks to find the marker, buried in a shallow fall of leaves and dark earth, where the daisies smiled. The warm scent of the earth and the early autumn flowers hovered in the air. The others stood back when its edge came into view, and Aragorn knelt down in the rich earth and swept the stone clean with his hands. Two glyphs had been scratched into the rock: AA. He was silent for a long time. Then he rose and said to his companions, "I asked my mother once if she wished for me to return his bones. I would do it if she wished, but she said no. A warrior belongs near the field of battle where he fell, however remote or lonely it may be."
The others nodded in silence. Aragorn embraced his foster brothers. "You chose a good place. Thank you."
"We could not leave him near the Orcs," Elrohir said. "This valley is a place fit for a man to dwell, at least for a little while. You will find small game here, and there is the stream for water. About a half mile further it widens into a pool where you can fish. We stayed here for a while, then, until Beleg was stronger."
"Tell me what the Orcs did to his body."
Elrohir shook his head. "No, Estel, you don't want to know that."
"I do. If I had been here, it would have been my place as his son to bury him. You have done it in my stead, but I want to see it with your eyes. And as you well know, I have no illusions about Orcs."
So they told him in as few words as possible, and he listened white-faced and shaken, for all the preparation he had made in his mind. Halbarad cried out and hid his face in his hands.
A short distance from the grave, on the shores of the stream, they set up a simple camp, making a small shelter and stockpiling provisions and firewood. They placed traps and snares around the narrow valley to catch what meat they could, and foraged for early autumn fruits and roots. That evening Elrohir roasted trout, a welcome change from waybread and dried meat.
"Good fish, this." Halbarad licked the juices from his fingers. "And in celebration, I declare that no sad stories shall be told tonight."
His eyes alight, Elladan laughed. "I suspect I know what you want to hear instead."
Dismayed, Aragorn suspected he knew, too. "No."
"Oh, yes. It's time." Halbarad rubbed his hands together. "Tell me everything."
Elladan and Elrohir grinned at each other. Aragorn groaned; he knew that glee only too well.
Elladan began, "Let's just say that in the last two years, since a certain person left, a deep quiet has settled on the House of Elrond."
"Dull as a Dwarf dirge," muttered Elrohir.
"Young Estel, now—truth be told, he turned the whole valley upside down," Elladan said. "I was astonished at how much trouble a small child could make, but that was nothing to the exploits of a growing boy. There was the climbing stage."
"Up on the roof every day," Elrohir said. "Gilraen would rant and wail and beg him to come down. Very disobedient child."
Elladan said, "Then he fell. Broke an arm. That slowed him down a bit."
"Not much," Elrohir said. "Erestor might have some rose bushes left if that were so."
"Rose bushes?" Halbarad asked, raising his eyebrows at Aragorn.
Aragorn shrugged. "You will hear nothing from me."
"Yes, rose bushes," Elladan said. "He attacked the garden with his wooden sword, and whacked the roses to pieces. Our father said, 'Estel, why?'—a question many asked, many times, over these turbulent years, may I say—'why the roses, Erestor's pride and joy?'"
Halbarad chuckled. "I can't begin to guess."
"The lilies and irises were too flimsy, and the trees too big, he told us solemnly," Elrohir said, rolling his eyes. "A good workout means sparring with an opponent of equal skill."
Halbarad choked.
"At least the training proved some good. He is tolerable with a blade." Elrohir's eyes danced. "We didn't have so much luck training him to the bow. Then he stole Glorfindel's horse."
"And lived to tell the tale," Elladan said. "Although I nearly didn't."
"There was the pretend training, of course, where Estel killed our brother."
"Fortunately, I was revived," Elrohir said. "Good thing, too, because I would have missed the next few years, and they were not to be missed."
"But the best part—"
Aragorn cleared his throat. "You can stop now."
"—the best part was when his whiskers began to grow," said Elladan, sliding across the ground away from Aragorn, who assumed a not-entirely pretended glower.
Halbarad grinned. "The only beard in the valley?"
"Just so," said Elrohir. "So enticing to the maidens! Our Estel did not remain a virgin very long."
"Be quiet," Aragorn hissed.
"You never breathed a word of this," said Halbarad accusingly.
"Discretion is the Elvish way," said Aragorn, "although you would never know it by the example these two set."
"Just a bit of brotherly teasing, Estel."
Aragorn began to laugh. "The three of you! I should have known better than to travel to the middle of nowhere with such a group."
Elladan threw a twig at him. "You deserve it." Elrohir jumped on him and pushed him to the ground as they began one of the brotherly wrestling matches that once were daily events in Rivendell. "Halbarad!" Aragorn said, still laughing "Take the other one!"
After a bout of rough-housing the four of them caught their breath, and Halbarad said, "How do you tell them apart, anyway?"
"Oh, it's easy when you know them. This one tormented me endlessly as a boy, and he took over when I got older."
Elladan and Elrohir left three days later. "We promised to escort our father," Elladan said, but he would not say where. Aragorn knew better than to press him.
As he had expected, Halbarad wasted little time to bring up the subject of Arwen. As they prepared their midday meal, he said, "All right, out with it."
Aragorn did not pretend to misunderstand him. What shall I tell him? About the rosy tips of her fingers that I could kiss all night? Her warm laugh? "What do you want to know?"
"How long has this been going on?"
"Nothing is going on—now. She has spurned me. But to answer your question, we met just before I left Rivendell two years ago."
"I suppose it was not unrelated."
"No, in truth, it was not."
"You must marry some day, you know."
"I cannot marry her."
"Of course not."
Halbarad's ready agreement wounded his heart and pride. He lowered his eyes and winced. "Don't make it harder."
"Harder! As if you needed any help! Elrond's daughter!" Halbarad snorted. "Do you ever choose the easy way?"
Aragorn huffed a short laugh. "No, I suppose not." He looked into his friend's face. "So now you know. But truly, my friend, I do not wish to speak of it."
"Why doesn't that surprise me," grumbled Halbarad. But he held his tongue.
As the days passed, they spoke little, but at night around the fire Aragorn softly sang or chanted the ancient lays in the tongue of the High Elves. Once he returned briefly to the place of his father's death, and Halbarad followed behind in silence.
The night before they left, Aragorn brought Narsil in its worn scabbard to the grave and drew the broken, bare blade over the stone marking his father's resting place. "The Sword of Elendil, the only link I have with this man who made me what I am. I came to a grave looking for answers to unanswerable questions, I suppose."
Halbarad laid his hand on Aragorn's shoulder. "I suspect that Arathorn went looking for those answers, too, once upon a time."
"But he knew his own father, knew always who he was, knew from childhood that he would carry this sword and have this destiny. I, however—" He laughed in bitterness. "Am I Aragorn, or Estel?"
"Both," said Halbarad. He squeezed Aragorn's shoulder. "And Anborn, don't forget. And maybe a few other names as well." He grinned. "Besides being a damned nuisance."
The laughter felt good.
Aragorn knelt at the grave with Narsil gripped in his right hand. Slashing the sharp edge across his palm, Aragorn let his blood fall onto the two glyphs carved into the rock.
"Elrohir said the earth remembers his blood," he said to Halbarad. "Now may it remember the father and the son together."
That night, the dreams came back.
The horse's fierce strength flows beneath him. He shouts a challenge to the Orcs in his path; the monster leers as he swings his studded club. Wolves howl. Then, blackness, terror, a crushing, strangling grip. He throws his arms wide and cries out, "Beleg!"
Strong arms shook him. "Aragorn! Aragorn, wake up!"
Gasping for breath, he opened his eyes. In the dull glow of the dying embers, a dark shape loomed. He struck out.
"Aragorn, it's me, Halbarad. Wake up!"
He clutched his sweating brow and tried to quiet his racing heart. "Ai! Forgive me. More of these horrible dreams." He sat up and leaned against Halbarad's broad shoulders. He struggled to clear his mind.
"I had trouble waking you," said Halbarad. "You were screaming as if you had met death itself."
"Perhaps I did," he murmured. "Perhaps I did."
He stayed awake for the remainder of the night, staring into the night. In the morning he said, "Halbarad, it's time to go. I have found what I can find here. The rest of the tale lies elsewhere."
Note: See "Horse Thief" in "Many Guises and Many Names" and Gwynnyd's "Lighting Fires" for more tales of Estel's childhood.


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Brewery: Green Flash Brewing Co.
Location: Vista, CA
Beer: West Coast IPA
Web: http://www.greenflashbrew.com/
Presentation: 12 oz. — Brown Glass Bottle — Capped
Vintage: 2010
Style: American Style India Pale Ale
Barrel: N/A
Hops: Simcoe, Centennial, Columbus, Cascade
Malt: N/A
Commercial Description:
This West Coast-Style India Pale Ale is extravagantly hopped, full flavored, medium bodied and copper-colored. A menagerie of hops is combined throughout the brewing process to impart specific characteristics. Hops used include Simcoe for a unique fruitiness and grapefruit zest, Columbus for strong hop pungency, Centennial for pine and citrus notes, and Cascade for floral aroma.
Beer Advocate: A- (4.17)
Rate Beer: 99 (3.87)
Timperial's Notes:
Green Flash is, unofficially, a member of the San Diego IPA Masters Club (SDIPAMC). The only reason that they are not official members is because the SDIPAMC doesn't exist. I just made it up, right then. But by golly it should exist. There is something in the warm air down there, or maybe it's the water…who knows, but San Diego county seems to have an endless supply of IPAs come out of it, each one better than the last. I think I'll just let the numbers tell the tale.
All of the following rating are courtesy of www.ratebeer.com
Green Flash (Vista, CA) West Coast IPA: 99
Green Flash Imperial IPA: 99
Coronado (Coronado, CA) Idiot IPA: 98
Coronado Hoppy Daze IPA: 97
Stone (Escondido, CA) IPA: 100
Stone Ruination IPA: 100
Alesmith (San Diego, CA) Yulesmith Summer IPA: 100
Alesmith IPA: 100
Ballast Point (San Diego, CA) Sculpin IPA: 100
Ballast Point Dorado Double IPA: 99
Ballast Point Big Eye IPA: 98
Karl Strauss (San Diego, CA) Big Barrel Double IPA: 97
Karl Strauss To The 9s Imperial IPA: 96
Port Brewing (San Marcos, CA) Hop 15: 100
Port Brewing Wipe Out IPA: 99
Port Brewing Mongo: 99
Alpine (Alpine, CA) Exponential Hoppiness: 100
Alpine Pure Hoppiness: 99
Alpine Nelson IPA: 99
Alpine Duet: 99
And I didn't even get into the Pizza Port IPAs. It's just plain ridiculous. It's clear that SD is IPA Valhalla.
West Coast IPA pour an extremely cloudy (chunky even) orange tinted amber with a big rocky head formed of varying sized bubbles. The foam takes quite some time to settle, leaving generous globs of lace in its wake. The lace and head are stark white. About a millimeter or two of foam remains atop this bitter masterpiece throughout.
There is an obscene amount of particulate suspended in the solution. I'd imagine that, most likely, the floaters consist of tiny bits of whole leaf hops that were left behind after dry-hopping.
The nose is full of hop resin. Pine and citrus seem to weigh in with equal parts. Much to my delight, there is a sturdy framework of sweet, biscuity malt at the core of the hop mountain. The hop scent is very pungent and earthy. There is some muskiness, like wet wood or mud. It garners images of a harvest on a rainy day. Clearly there is no fresh hops within, but the profile portrays the guise exquisitely. There is a small amount of skunkiness to the odor as well but all of the attributes coalesce to better allow me to appreciate the highlighted spice of the style.
West Coast IPA feels wonderful in the mouth. It's not to thin and not too syrupy. Actually, I'm very impressed with its density. It feels much more like an imperial IPA
The bitterness in the flavor is intense, but the above IBU stats already said that. Personally, I find it to be a bit much, but I am thankful that there is a lot of hop flavor here to seduce my thoughts away from my impending facial implosion. Grapefruis, most likely from the Simcoe, is most easily pinpointed, and is most prominent on the back of the tongue and in the back corners of the mouth. Yeah…it's pretty much all citrus, and it's the adjoining bitterness that forces thoughts of grapefruit, or of bitter orange.
There is a malty, sweet component to the flavor, but it is nearly all relegated to the aftertaste. I'm mostly impressed with how intensely bitter this is, yet somehow I'm left feeling excited about the complete picture that this beer paints. It's as complex a single IPA could be. Or, possibly more aptly, it's the most complete, rounded example of an IPA that I can think of. No one element unanimously blows me away, but each characteristic is well composed and the layering of it all has been executed adroitly. This is a superb example that all brewers should study.
The bitterness wants this beer to finish bone dry, but somehow the lingering sweetness combats most impressively. I'll give it a high B grade, mostly because there is balance amidst the 95 IBUs.
Color/Head/Retention [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 0.89
Odor [maximum of 2.00 points possible]: 1.94
Carbonation/Mouthfeel [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 0.97
Hop Flavor [maximum of 3.00 points possible]: 2.70
Malt Flavor/Balance [maximum of 2.00 points possible]: 1.86
Finish/Aftertaste [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 0.90
Total [maximum of 10.00 points possible]: 9.26
Filed under: The Cellar, The Hop Brief Tagged: Green Flash Brewing Co., Hops, IBU, IPA, The Hop Brief, Timperial Stout, West Coast IPA


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Use the Europass Diploma Supplement, a document describing the knowledge and skills acquired by holders of higher education degrees.
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NASA scientists have announced that at least one of the giant lakes previously spied on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons - making it the "only body our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface", as the agency puts it.
The lakes were identified by the Cassini spacecraft, and although scientists couldn't be sure they were liquid, "their dark appearance in radar indicates smoothness and their other properties point to the presence of liquids".
Investigators further suspected these features would be filled with methane, ethane and other light hydrocarbons, but Titan's hazy atmosphere - 95 per cent nitrogen and five per cent ethane, methane and other hydrocarbons - made confirmation difficult.
Back in December last year, though, Cassini used its visual and mapping instrument to cut through the atmospheric hydrocarbon smog and probe "chemically different materials based on the way they absorb and reflect infrared light" in the lake dubbed Ontario Lacus, lying in Titan's south polar region. The feature is roughly 7,800 square miles in area, "slightly larger than North America's Lake Ontario", NASA notes.
The resulting data showed that the lake contains liquid hydrocarbons, and certainly ethane. Larry Soderblom, a Cassini interdisciplinary scientist with the US Geological Survey, said: "Detection of liquid ethane confirms a long-held idea that lakes and seas filled with methane and ethane exist on Titan. The fact we could detect the ethane spectral signatures of the lake even when it was so dimly illuminated, and at a slanted viewing path through Titan's atmosphere, raises expectations for exciting future lake discoveries by our instrument."
NASA explains that the ethane is present in "a liquid solution with methane, other hydrocarbons and nitrogen". It adds: "At Titan's surface temperatures, approximately -300°F (-184°C), these substances can exist as both liquid and gas. Titan shows overwhelming evidence of evaporation, rain, and fluid-carved channels draining into what, in this case, is a liquid hydrocarbon lake."
Cassinin's obervations "also suggest the lake is evaporating", since it's "ringed by a dark beach, where the black lake merges with the bright shoreline". The spacecraft "also observed a shelf and beach being exposed as the lake evaporates".
Soderblom concluded: "During the next few years, the vast array of lakes and seas on Titan's north pole mapped with Cassini's radar instrument will emerge from polar darkness into sunlight, giving the infrared instrument rich opportunities to watch for seasonal changes of Titan's lakes." ®
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly has approved a bill that would tighten Wisconsin's human trafficking laws and give victims a way to void any crimes they may have committed.
Current Wisconsin law defines trafficking as recruiting, enticing, harboring or transporting someone against their consent. The bipartisan bill removes the consent element and adds using schemes to control an individual to the definition.
The proposal would allow trafficking victims to ask a judge to vacate or expunge prostitution convictions. The judge could grant the request if he or she gives the prosecutor a chance to respond and determines society won't be harmed.
The measure also would allow evidence of similar acts into trafficking prosecutions.
The Assembly passed the bill on a voice vote Thursday. It now goes to the state Senate.


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Royals hit on all cylinders in homecoming win
Aoki, Infante enjoy three-hit games, Gordon belts three-run double
KANSAS CITY -- What better way to warm a Kansas City baseball fan's heart on a chill, windy, overcast afternoon than a satisfying Royals victory?
All of the pomp and circumstance of Opening Day at home is a nice touch but, really, there's nothing better than the hint of future glory in April for Royals fans who have been waiting decades for October baseball.
That's what a full house of 40,103 got on Friday with a 7-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Kauffman Stadium. Never mind those sour notes of the first two games at Detroit, this was a rhapsody in blue.
The win featured three hits each by newcomers Nori Aoki and Omar Infante, plus a three-run double by old reliable Alex Gordon and Lorenzo Cain's two-run single.
In all, the Royals rustled up 13 hits, including three doubles and six walks.
"I knew our offense was ready to do something and the energy of the crowd today, I think really had us locked in," said winning pitcher Jeremy Guthrie.
Aoki and Infante triggered the first-inning outburst with back-to-back singles off White Sox right-hander Erik Johnson. Hosmer was hit by a pitch to load the bases and, after Billy Butler popped out, Gordon unloaded a long drive to right-center. The ball sailed just over the outstretched glove of right fielder Avisail Garcia and, no hesitation, all three runners raced across the plate.
The strong wind blowing toward right field may have been factor.
"It's pretty windy out there," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "Once it gets up there, it takes off. I don't know if he [Gordon] necessarily hit it as well as he could, but once it gets up in that wind it takes off."
No matter, the Royals were ahead to stay, 3-1, and manager Ned Yost was giving Aoki and Infante their due.
"It was huge. That's why we made those additions," Yost said. "Guys that get on base, put the ball in play. I think Omar and Nori were on base seven times today which was big. That set the table for Gordy's big double. Hoz getting hit by a pitch in the first inning was big. It was a good offensive day for us."
Indeed the Royals came out of two losses at Detroit with a measly .191 average.
"I thought we hit the ball pretty hard in Detroit. We just never got that big hit," Gordon said. "When guys get on base, it's going to be a fun year when you've got Hosmer, Billy, me, Salvy [Perez] -- somebody's going to get a big hit and that's what happened."
There was another three-run burst in the fifth inning after the Royals again loaded the bases on two walks and Perez's single. This time, Johnson's wild pitch scored one run and Cain's single off the glove of second baseman Marcus Semien accounted for two more and a 7-2 lead. In fact, given the White Sox' comeback efforts, those two runs proved to be the difference.
"I just tried not to do too much -- stay up the middle, ground-ball single. I'll take 'em all day," Cain said.
Guthrie, on a miserable day for pitching, shrugged off the elements.
"It was just windy, never was really cold," he said. "Grip was not perfect but, aside from that, pitchers are fortunate that we're moving around, and we stay pretty warm."
After giving up single runs in the first and fifth, Guthrie encountered a two-out, bases-loaded jam in the sixth inning when he issued two walks and Tyler Flowers singled.
"I probably left him in one hitter too long," Yost said. "I probably should have went and got [Kelvin] Herrera for Flowers, but I was hoping with the five-run lead there, he could get us through that inning."
Herrera inherited that dicey situation and gave up a two-run single to Adam Eaton before ending the inning with the score 7-4.
Yost made the franchise's first challenge under the new instant replay procedure in the seventh inning but lost. A video review confirmed umpire Ted Barrett's call that Jose Abreu was safe at first base on third baseman Mike Moustakas' throwing error. As a result, the White Sox had two runners on base with no outs against left-hander Francisley Bueno. Before the inning was over, a run scored for a two-run margin.
That proved enough for Wade Davis, who worked a scoreless eighth around a dropped fly ball by Aoki, and Greg Holland, who wheeled through a perfect ninth with two strikeouts.
The Royals' first victory of the season was on the board. They now have an all-time record of 23-23 in home openers, including 4-1 against the White Sox.
What remained of the sellout crowd after 3 hours, 37 minutes in the wind-blown cold trooped out of the stadium warmed by victory.
"Opening day at The K is always fun. It's always an energetic crowd and you always want to win for your home crowd, especially that first day," Holland said. "You kind of control your nerves a little bit, too, but it's always good to be out there in front of a bunch of fans that are cheering for you. It kind of helps energize you and stuff so I really enjoyed it."
Aoki's three hits were his first in a Royals uniform.
"Just getting that first win out of the way was big and especially doing it at home in front of our fans," Aoki said.
"You always want to try to give a good effort on a day like this," Guthrie said. "It's a special day to a lot of people and to us players as well."


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The latest push to SVN added FocusableTips and the SpellChecker add-on makes full use of them. I've prettied up the SpellChecker tips. They now make use of a few icons from the excellent Silk icon set, and here's how they currently look:
Note that the "Add to dictionary" functionality doesn't work yet, but clicking on a suggested fix does correct the word in the editor.
FocusableTips are now the default tooltips used by RSyntaxTextArea. I still need to work on the placement code to better mimic placement of "real" tooltips. You can toggle whether "real" JToolTips are used or FocusableTips by these new methods in the RSyntaxTextArea class:
public void setUseFocusableTips(boolean use); public boolean getUseFocusableTips();
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Kate Gosselin's Single Mom Confession: 'I Cry Behind Closed Doors'
She admits in a sneak peek from TLC's Kate Plus Eight special that "it's not ideal" being a single mom to eight kids
Kate Gosselin looks like she has her life under control, but she wants the world to know it's not easy being a single mom to eight kids.
"I'm one of many single moms out there. It's not ideal. On a very busy day where the logistics aren't lining up – I have to be here to pick this kid up and I have to be there to do whatever, that happens so often now I can't even tell you," she says in an exclusive sneak peek from TLC's two-part Kate Plus Eight special, airing June 26 (10 p.m. ET).
"It's really easy to feel like just saying, 'It's too much. There's me and there's eight kids,' " the 39-year-old continues. "I don't think an hour goes by that I'm not reminded that those odds are completely unbalanced."
Gosselin, who divorced husband Jon in 2009 after 10 years of marriage, says in an exclusive teaser from the show that like a lot of moms, her goal is simply to get through the day.
"It was never my intent to portray myself as superwoman," the author of three New York Times best-sellers insists. "I mean, I cry behind closed doors, I struggle. But I have to remind myself, this is my one shot. You're going to mess up. Just don't give up."
In a second clip from the special, the multi-tasker is making a birthday cake for her daughters with "2,000 lbs. of butter in it" and even though she is her own worst critic, Gosselin's almost convinced herself it looks okay – until the family's pet bird, Zorro, decides to fly over for a closer inspection.