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List of Top MBA Coaching Institute Chandigarh Haryana :-
|Aakash Institute
|SCO-332-33-34, 4th Floor, Sector-34A,
Chandigarh – 160034
SCO, 157, 2nd Floor, Sector 37C,
Chandigarh – 160022
|Ruchika Coaching Classes
|1850, Sector 34 D,
Chandigarh – 160022
|Tandon Commerce Academy
|H.No. 1831A, FF, Facing Telephone Exchange, Sector 49B,
Chandigarh – 160047
|Biswas Bio Institute Pvt. Ltd
|SCO 224, Top floor, Sector 36 D,
Chandigarh – 160036
|Mitochondria Tutorials
|Stepping Stones School Campus, Sec 38 A,
Chandigarh – 160014
|CMC Coaching
|Sector 10, Sector-30d, Sector-30 C,
Chandigarh – 160030
|Impact Coaching & Educational Services Pvt Ltd
|Sector 380, 2nd Floor, Sector-37d,
Chandigarh – 160036
Institute of Hospitality & Retail Education
|SCO 215-16-17, Third Floor,
Chandigarh – 160017
|Excellent Result Oriented Coaching
|H No-48, Sector-16A,
Chandigarh – 160016
|Academic Perfect Coaching Zone
|Scf-76, Phase 11, Mohali Sas Nagar,
Chandigarh – 160055
|Excellent Coaching Sec Thirty Three
|173, Sector-33A,
Chandigarh – 160020
|M S Coaching Centre
|Sector 68, Sector-40 C,
Chandigarh – 160036
|Chandigarh Coaching Centre
|Sector 3104, Sector-35d,
Chandigarh – 160023
|French Coaching
|House No-1257, Sector-15, Panchkula,
Chandigarh – 160019
|Chemistry Coaching Circle
|2255, Sector-15,
Chandigarh – 160015
|Commerce Coaching
|297, Sector-15, Panchkula,
Chandigarh – 160019
|Coaching Centre
|Scf-23, Phase 11, Sector-29d, Mohali Sas Nagar,
Chandigarh – 160055
|J C Mehta Coaching Classes
|449, Sector-4, Panchkula,
Chandigarh – 160019
|Excellent Coaching
|45, Sector-17, Panchkula,
Chandigarh – 160019
|Drovers The Learning Collegium
|S.C.F. 43, Level 2, Phase 5, Mohali,
Chandigarh – 160055
|Ganeshan Physics Course
|1210, Sector 15b,
Chandigarh – 160015
|Dr. Khera's Chandigarh Coaching Centre
|3104, Sector 35-D,
Chandigarh – 160022
|Ankur Coaching Centre
|Scf-97, Phase-II, Mohali,
Chandigarh – 160055
|Apex Tutorials
|SCO 153, Sector 37c,
Chandigarh – 160036
|Vision Academy
|Sector 207, Sector 36d,
Chandigarh – 160036
|B R C Institute
|188, Sector 19-A,
Chandigarh – 160019
|Career Joint
|SCO 1136, 1st Floor, Sector 22-B,
Chandigarh – 160022
|Sachadeva New P T College
|SCO130-131, Sector 8-C, Madhya Marg,
Chandigarh – 160022
|Bulls Eye
|SCO 58-61, 2nd Floor, M-Marh, Sector 8-C,
Chandigarh – 160018
|Swati Maths Academy
|SCO 210/2, Sector 36d,
Chandigarh – 160036
|Oriental Institute Of Maths
|Sector 69, Tribune Road, Sector 20,
Chandigarh – 160020
|Icd The Career Designers
|SCO 77, Sector 17c,
Chandigarh – 160017
|Dadhwal Competitve Courses
|Sector 171, Sector 37c,
Chandigarh – 160036
|K Ganeshan Physocs Course
|1210, Sector 15-B,
Chandigarh – 160015
|Phi Tutotials
|Sector 30, Tribune Road, Sector 20d,
Chandigarh – 160020
|Vipin Kaushal Chemistry Classes
|244, Ist Floor, Sector 15a,
Chandigarh – 160015


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A beautiful hardback gift edition of one of the most famous animal stories in children's literature. TARKA THE OTTER is the classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes. The story's atmosphere and detail make it easy to see why Tarka has become one of the best-loved creatures in world literature.
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If you are in the wedding industry or have been reading wedding blogs for more than a month, I'm sure you know Jose Villa and Joel Serrato. Not only are they both amazing story tellers with their photos + films, they are two of the sweetest and most passionate people I've met. They were married this past spring and their GORGEOUS wedding is featured in the latest Martha Stewart Weddings (Winter 2012). And who do two of the most talented in our industry ask to capture their day? The amazing + sweet Elizabeth Messina of course!
It's so obvious from the photos that she was the perfect choice to capture their love and the beautiful venue, The Figueroa Mountain Farmhouse (which is actually right down the street from their home in Los Olivos, CA). A gorgeous outdoor ceremony with the most scenic backdrop – I've been to the venue and it really is just stunning! Joel told me there were crazy winds the day of their wedding, so they had to go with their plan B and move the reception indoors, but you can see that made for the most intimate dinner. I'm super excited to share a small peek into their intimate and rustic affair today. Be sure to pick up the latest copy of Martha Stewart Weddings next week to see the entire spread!
Leather details and succulent accents added a soft yet masculine touch for their day. Above right is a lamp made from antique camera parts that Joel gave Jose. I love that their design scheme was based off their Polaroid collection, which is presented so well on their ceremony programs.
Congrats to Jose + Joel! We wish you both a lifetime of happiness and lots of laughs :) Be sure to check out both their blogs (Jose's blog + Joel's blog) to read more about their wedding and Elizabeth's blog where she is sharing a few more photos. All of us in the wedding industry are so happy for Jose + Joel, so check out Style Me Pretty and 100 Layer Cake later this afternoon as they share a few additional photos from their special day.
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Pearl Jam @ KeyArena, 10/6
Show Review by Abby Williamson
Photos by Kirk Stauffer
Sitting down to write this, coming up with how to begin was harder than anything I've written in a long time. I've seen many musicians in the last five years, but I haven't seen many legendary bands. I've seen one legendary band. And not just any legendary band, but our legendary band. Pearl Jam.
Growing up, I had a lot of musical influences, but the strongest came from my mom's little brother. He is the musical encyclopedia to me, and he was just around my age when grunge happened, so grunge is a part of his soul, thus, part of my soul. So seeing Pearl Jam's Seattle show – the last date of their latest tour – was extra special for me. There in section 114, three rows behind me was my uncle, taking all 3 hours of music in with me.
Yes, you did read that right – three hours, give or take 15 minutes or so. Eddie, Stone, Mike, Jeff, and Matt started the show just after 8:45 and finished just after midnight. And in those three phenomenal hours, they played 37 songs, spanning from the beginning of their 20+ year career to their newest album Lightning Bolt. And sprinkled among the night were covers of fellow Seattleites Mother Love Bone, as well as a touching tribute to Lou Reed with Velvet Underground's "After Hours."
For fear of getting too sappy, I'll now tell you that Eddie Vedder downed almost a dozen bottles of wine that night, even pouring some for the crowd up against the barrier. He toasted the bottles to several local establishments – including KEXP, Easy Street Records, The Stranger – as well as the one-year anniversary of the legalization of gay marriage and marijuana. So needless to say, Eddie got hammered. But I'm sure he worked up enough of a sweat to burn off half the booze he consumed, because I'm pretty positive that he didn't sit still for the first hour and a half. He still has all the energy and charisma of his younger days, so it's obvious what keeps him young. But Eddie wasn't the only one working up a sweat – Jeff Ament was jumping around almost just as much as Eddie, and Mike McCready ran laps around the stage at one point. I think I counted seven laps.
Speaking of Mike, I think he's some sort of superhuman, because during an epic extended version of "Even Flow," he played the hell out of his guitar behind his back. It was nothing short of magic.
One of my favorite moments of the night came during one of Eddie's stories (he's a great storyteller, by the way). He spoke of a young girl and her father going out on the water during a huge storm in Hawaii, and the daughter hearing voices shouting out for help amongst the waves. Eddie said that these people would have most likely drowned had it not been for this girl insisting that her father take her out on the water. Then my heart just about jumped when Eddie said, "I know all of this, because I was one of those three people she heard." I might have shed a tear when he brought that girl out on stage, whom he hadn't seen in the 11 years since she saved his life – she is now 18. How cool is that? She gets to live her life as the girl who saved Eddie Vedder's life. Appropriately, Eddie dedicated "Future Days" to that lucky girl.
That was just one diamond out of a night of gems, and it was almost like we all got to know Eddie from the way he spoke to the crowd. There's nothing greater than seeing a great band play to a hometown crowd, especially when they sell out of the biggest arena in the city to some of the most devoted fans in music history. At one point, Eddie brought up the power of that fan base, igniting some friendly competition with Macklemore's fans for The Stranger's Holiday Charity Challenge (you can put a link to that here if you want, Dag: ). "This Macklemore kid, he sold out the KeyArena twice [someone shouts from the crowd three times] Three times? Fuck him! He's written some of the best lyrics I've heard in a long time, fuck him! I met him once and he's a really nice guy. Fuck him!" All out of friendly competition for charity, though.
The main set was 21 songs, about an hour and a half. For me, that's already a good lengthy set. Nope, this was just the beginning. A short intermission, and then came the first encore, chokc-full of the heart-stoppers and covers. Probably the most pleasantly surprising was the duo of Mother Love Bone's "Chloe Dancer" and "Crown of Thorns" as well as several more songs off 1992's Singles soundtrack (a.k.a. the best film soundtrack ever composed).
At this point, it was a little after 11 p.m., and officially the longest set of music from one band that I'd ever seen. However, it still wasn't over yet.
The second encore started with the most perfect song to be played in the KeyArena – the quick and energetic "Supersonic." Then Eddie downed more wine, and swung around on some of the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling during a rousing version of "Got Some." Jeff and Stone even had to dodge some of those light fixtures, and it was a miracle that none of them collided during the giant glowing tether ball game.
They closed out the night with all the gusto they had left. Mark Arm and Steve Turner of Mudhoney, who had opened the show three hours before, joined them on stage, as well as Kim Thayil of Soundgarden for Motor City 5's "Kick Out the Jams," a raucous punk song that turned into an all-out jam session. Then after Mark Arm kept hinting and asking, "Does anyone on stage know 'Eruption?'" Mike McCready jumped right into the Eddie Van Halen shredding solo he knows so well and it led right into the B-side that turned into a hit, "Yellow Ledbetter." It was a perfect song to end the astronomical set. However, it surprisingly didn't include all the hits – "Jeremy" was noticeably absent. But the night was so perfect and memorable that I didn't care. Pearl Jam changes up their set literally every show, so clearly there was going to be some surprises, but all were welcome surprises that night.
I can't think of anything that competes with the feeling I had that night, seeing a band that means so much to my uncle and so much to this city. It was culture shock, but the best kind of culture shock. I'd never seen a band that has been together as long as I have been alive, and now that I have, it's obvious why Pearl Jam has been making music together for so long. Eddie is all about the music, and always has been. Stone, Jeff, and Matt ground the band, and not only rhythmically. Mike is like a sorcerer behind the guitar, by far one of the most underrated guitarists of our time.
While Pearl Jam is one of the most successful groups to come out of Seattle, they're still some of the biggest supporters of the scene, donating to local foundations and playing benefits yearly. You can't help but be proud that we get to call Pearl Jam our own. That's all I could think about as I watched those five men on stage. They have so much history together that it was as if we'd been given a little peek into their world for one night. They were just playing music with each other, and we happened to be there, and we were lucky to witness it.
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Interstellar Overdrive
(Pink Floyd cover)
Lightning Bolt
Mind Your Manners
Given to Fly
Even Flow
In My Tree
Do the Evolution
Unthought Known
Let the Records Play
Spin the Black Circle
Better Man
After Hours
(The Velvet Underground cover)
Let Me Sleep
(First time since 1994)
Future Days
Chloe Dancer
(Mother Love Bone cover)
Crown of Thorns
(Mother Love Bone cover)
State of Love and Trust
Encore 2:
Got Some
Kick Out the Jams
(MC5 cover) (With Mark Arm, Steve Turner, and Kim Thayil)
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Are you breaking into a sweat and having sleepless nights over organising your company's Christmas Party or Annual Conference? Or are you a cool as a cucumber seasoned pro knocking out huge international congresses or the Olympics, or just in it for a laugh and to sort your mate's hen party or your sons first birthday?
Well, you still need to know how to pick the right venue for the occasion, how not to get ripped off and how to make the most of what you've got, so here's some killer tips!
1) Understand your brief
This is essential, although all of the above events need a venue; they are uniquely different from each other. Whether it's for you, your friend, your boss or your client, ask lots of questions and really try and understand what the vision for the event is.
The right venue will depend on who is going to the event and will create or kill the vibe instantly. So ask, who is the audience, how old are they, male/female ratio. How accessible does it need to be for the people attending, does it need to be near public transport links or are people driving. Do they want historic, romantic castle, slick modern hotel, or an underground secret venue? How important is technology? Do they need free wifi for all? Is there a phone signal?
Question the basics and understand capacities, when they say they want a venue for 200 people do they really mean 500 or 50 if they're lucky. Do you need syndicate rooms? Does it need to be licensed? Do you want catering? If so what kind? Do you need AV and staging? Do they want it themed or minimal?
This is the most important part of the whole process, because if you get this wrong, you're going to waste a lot of time and effort and not come up with the right goods. For example it's all very well enthusiastically bestowing the virtues of the white walled, uber cool, minimalist venue that serves 'Bolly and Blinis', with a great view, but if your client/boss/husband to be is expecting a night of beer swilling in medieval costume in an ancient Welsh castle, you're not going to hit the mark.
Of course, sometimes you/they don't know what you want and they/you need to be inspired. So you may well have to come up with some options. But be clear about possibilities and restrictions and what kind of event the venue would be ideal for.
2) See for yourself
Where possible always go and see the venue. Good venue finders have an encyclopaedic knowledge of venues and have lots of experience of organising events in them, but you need to see for yourself and they can't have been everywhere even if they've been doing it a long time. A venue brochure will not tell you everything and can sometimes be misleading. If it's possible go and see it for yourself and if you can take a friend who is an event manager, bonus. If not take photos and ask questions. Also you need to see if you're going to click with the venue manager. Good venue managers will make your event run smoothly and seamlessly even if challenges present themselves. You don't need absent/ panicky venue managers who will make your event even more stressful.
You also need them to be flexible. So if you need to set up through the night before the first day, or bring in heavy equipment in through the back door, or your numbers suddenly increase/drop, you need helpful positive people to be around you. So good rapport from the off helps. You also need to be aware that the lovely sales person who has been utterly charming to date, will not be seen for dust once you sign the contract, so you need to ask to meet the operation manager that will be handling your event.
3) What's hot and what's not
Don't settle for the first venue that can meet all your requirements, be brave and explore your options. Good venue experts will be able to get you into places you never dreamed possible, like exclusive private roof top terraces with drop dead views, or secret crypts under cathedrals, or disused buildings or tunnels, or the coolest bar/ hotel in town that you thought was out of your price range.
4) Negotiate
If you're using a venue finder they should be doing this for you, if you're doing the searching yourself, then negotiate hard and then do it some more. Hotels and venues work on rack rates, which are designed to be flexible and they will try and get as much money as possible, because that's their job, especially on peak dates. So haggle on price, minimum numbers, the amount of bedrooms you're tied into on the contract. Make sure you can set up in plenty of time and have access, if you're providing your own wine or bringing in your own preferred caterer, negotiate on corkage charges. It all adds up and you'll be surprised how much money you can save.
5) Use the local Destination Management Company
Wherever you are holding your event, in whichever venue, there will be a local destination management company/tourist board that cover the area and you would be wise to tap into their expertise. They can give you good advise about what to do in the area for your delegates/guests. Most have a convention bureau that will kick off your search with a free venue finding service. They will know the best AV companies, taxis, caterers, tour guides and they will know all the information you need about travelling to the venue. Good Destination Companies have event experts on hand to take a great deal of pain out of organising your event for you and it's usually all for free!
Happy Venue Finding!
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Welcome back to the 2015-16 Grantland NBA League Pass Rankings. For Part 1 and all the rules, CLICK HERE. Now, back to the rankings:
The Celtics are like an Oscar-bait indie starring Liev Schreiber: perfect execution, nice settings, maybe some cool clothes, but not the kind of thing you crave when you just want to turn your brain off.
Purists will adore the side-to-side ball movement, dribble handoffs, Kelly Olynyk's pump-and-go, Amir Johnson sliding a half-step at just the right time to block a driving lane, bulldog defense from Marcus Smart and Avery Bradley, and so much more. But no one has ever said, "You have to change the channel to see how Jae Crowder is driving against closeouts tonight!"
Isaiah Thomas is a League Pass star, all hesitation dribbles and brute-force finishes, but he doesn't start, and it just feels like we're going to see too much David Lee and Evan Turner for Boston to reach peak entertainment value. Boston needs their passing, since the perimeter trio of Smart, Bradley, and Crowder doesn't have quite enough off-the-bounce juice to puncture tough defenses.
But these guys will be fun, and the narration from Mike Gorman and Brian Scalabrine is as good as it gets. Tommy Heinsohn's whiskey-soaked pipes are an acquired taste, but it's amazing how homerism is almost charming when it rattles out of an old guy who doesn't care what anyone outside Boston thinks.
The individual parts are so appealing, it doesn't matter that the sum of them will disappoint again — unless you're a Wolves fan sick of lottery appearances. Ricky Rubio played just 588 minutes with Andrew Wiggins and 36 with Zach LaVine last season; if Rubio is healthy, he'll get to fly in transition with two freak athletes and then prod Karl-Anthony Towns's all-around skill set in the half court.
We get to learn how Nemanja Bjelica will translate as an NBA stretch power forward and whether Shabazz Muhammad's progress from the block and the arc will prove lasting. Kevin Garnett is here to scream-teach, and we need to cherish every remaining Prof. Andre Miller PhD lob pass, butt-first post-up, and fully extended two-armed pump fake before he takes an emeritus position. Wiggins should stretch his off-the-dribble game in Year 2.
If you crave smart commentary, you can't do any better than Dave Benz and Jim Petersen. Whenever I hear Petersen toss out a SportVU stat or discuss some nugget he learned watching film the night before, I feel sad that they are not broadcasting for a larger audience. Then again, Petersen, an assistant for the WNBA champion Minnesota Lynx, just got to party with freaking Prince.
The Mavs originally came in at no. 10 — too high for a team that could be bad enough for a midseason tank to keep a top-seven-protected pick due Boston via the disastrous Rajon Rondo trade. I retroactively docked them a couple of JaVale McGee comedy points, figuring he can't possibly add anything new to the repertoire.
Any Dirk Nowitzki–Rick Carlisle team brings a fluid read-and-react system rippling outward from the greatest shooting big man to walk the earth. Dirk's one-legged turnaround is still the prettiest shot in basketball, especially when the ball pauses to caress the glass and then slides straight down through the net. But Dirk is on an old man's minutes limit, the stud wing players are coming off massive injuries, and the Mavs don't have the rim-running center that sets all the drive-and-kick goodness in motion. Jeremy Evans is probably the best pick-and-roll diver on the team, and he's had an intriguing preseason. Justin Anderson is promising. Samuel Dalembert might need one of those bacon-frying alarm clocks that failed on Shark Tank. Zaza Pachulia's high-post passing is splendid.
The three-man broadcast crew is fun and feisty, but the rest of the Mavs' game presentation is mediocre.
San Antonio fans love Sean Elliott's "we"-infused homerism, and that's fine. He serves as their TV stand-in. He gets an almost automatic mute button in the Lowe household, and that drops the league's preeminent beautiful machine out of a top 10 in which they clearly belong. These guys, now and forever, represent everything that is right about basketball — a culture of sharing, hard cuts, fiery defense, and a commitment to the tiny things that add up to winning. They push one another to higher places.
Kawhi Leonard's crouching, swiping defense is every bit as exciting as a windmill dunk. By March of last season, dribbling within a 10-foot radius of Leonard was like trying to sneak past a shark with chum in your swimsuit. Inexpert dribblers might as well have just handed him the ball. Leonard should grasp an even larger role in the offense, and the mutual adaptation process between the Spurs and LaMarcus Aldridge is a welcome new plot that will evolve in every episode.
Boban Marjanovic is 9 feet tall, Manu Ginobili literally invented basketball things, Tim Duncan blocks shots without jumping, and Gregg Popovich is the king of the furious timeout 10 seconds into a quarter. When Boris Diaw decides to look for his own shot, things can get downright tasty.
The league's most intriguing team, with a new starting five that glitters on paper but raises issues that will require work and creativity: a lack of shooting on the wing; the awkward meshing of Goran Dragic's turbo pace with Dwyane Wade's languid style; Hassan Whiteside, a human question mark; the uncertainty of health and age; and a weird bench of newbies, fogies, and offense-only players.
Erik Spoelstra was ahead of the league's pace-and-space surge, even if postseason injuries dragged him there, and he'll be up nights concocting funky ways to make that starting five sing. Chris Bosh, the league's most underappreciated star, is back to serve as its linchpin — a spot-up ace who sucks defenders from the lane and snaps back into a ball-dominant scoring role when Miami needs it. Bosh and Josh McRoberts showed a promising pass-happy chemistry last season, and Spoelstra can use that duo to juice Miami's spacing.
I once proposed that the NBA implement a special League Pass Bat Signal for when the Knicks played Amar'e Stoudemire and Andrea Bargnani together, and I'm renewing that call now for all shared Stoudemire–Gerald Green minutes. Those two can score, but Stoudemire just can't move, and Green will steal a year from Spoelstra's life with all of his flake outs on defense.
Tyler Johnson is more fun than you'd expect, and we'll get the first test of whether Justise Winslow was worth all that draft-day jockeying. The announcing team has grown on me over the years, and the carrot-skinned, buffed-up courtside fans make for good comedy — once they show up seven minutes into the first and third quarters. The Heat lead the league in ridiculous alternate jerseys, for better or worse (usually worse).
A year ago, they were the secret handshake that revealed a true NBA fan. The secret is out now: These guys are awesome to watch, and if you still think they're vanilla, you're probably the same guy who railed on Twitter in 2012 about how boring the Spurs were.
Atlanta has stars, but not the kind of highlight-spitting human volcanoes who demand a channel change. Some nights, all of those gorgeous cuts and screens that usually spring Kyle Korver just don't work. Al Horford's midrange jumpers, bounce passes, and sound defensive positioning don't make you yelp, rewind the DVR, and show your (very patient) wife what in the hell just happened.
In meatier matters, Atlanta faces two challenges that will determine whether the Hawks can push past 55 wins again: the integration of Tiago Splitter, a non-shooting big, into Mike Budenholzer's all-shooting, all-the-time system; and whether Thabo Sefolosha, Tim Hardaway Jr., Justin Holiday, and Kent Bazemore can Voltron into DeMarre Carroll. I can't wait for New York fans to throw their remotes at the television when the Hawks turn Hardaway into a real player. (Note: This may take two years, and Jerian Grant looks good.)
Losing the navy-blue border on the court was smart, and I dig the new feather-inspired shading pattern in that sharp red paint.
You can understand why Danny Ferry, a cool analytical type, didn't enjoy the loud TV stylings of Dominique Wilkins, but damn if I don't smile every time Nique straight-up cackles at some opposing player's shortcomings. He clowned Carlos Boozer's defense for a solid three-minute stretch last season.
Tony Allen is the trump card. He's exhilarating to watch on defense, turning sideways to dodge picks, darting into passing lanes, and going chin-to-chest with the league's best scorers. His nonexistent jumper gives opposing coaches license to try out-of-the-box defensive schemes. One Tony Allen dribble, even on an uncontested fast break, presents infinite possibilities.
A full-time T.A. Bench Cam would probably draw better ratings than most Brooklyn games. He leaps after every good Griz play, meanders along the baseline, wanders onto the court, and throws towels in every direction. He once hit an old lady smack in the face with one.
Marc Gasol finds the sublime within Memphis's grit-and-grind slog — set shots, shoulder shimmies, and backdoor bounce passes he sometimes delivers underhand, as if he's bowling. Last season, he started running one-man fast breaks, only he wasn't a tentative dribbler on the edge of catastrophe like most big men playing at point guard. He would sprint-dribble in full flight down the middle, survey the floor, and slap passes to his wingmen.
Marc Gasol is glorious.
The Griz can't realistically rank higher than this; they play too slowly and they still can't shoot. But they have Allen and Gasol, Zach Randolph's buttery hands and feet, Brandan Wright's go-go-Gadget dunks, Beno Udrih's 60-to-0 pull-ups, and a dangerous level of collective crazy. The production of a Griz game is solid all around, save for Sean Tuohy's occasional appearances as a fanboy analyst.1
The Bulls are a rare mix of the familiar and the mysterious, and the mystery emanates from how much longer the familiar elements can hold together. Joakim Noah can enter free agency after this season; Derrick Rose and Taj Gibson can follow after next season. The Pau Gasol–Noah combination played awkwardly on both ends, but it's too early to declare the pairing untenable; Chicago outscored opponents by 2.8 points per 100 possessions when they played together, and Noah was never healthy. Hell, we don't even know if Noah is healthy now. Last month, when I visited the P3 training facility in Santa Barbara, California, where Noah trained over the summer, officials raved about his progress. The preseason had been discouraging until Monday night. I guess we'll see.
If the duo sputters again, does Fred Hoiberg, among the league's biggest wild cards, have the guts to start Nikola Mirotic? Wonks screamed for Mirotic to start at power forward, or at least play more, since his shooting would open the floor for Rose, Jimmy Butler, and Chicago's paint-bound bigs. But do we actually know if Mirotic is, like, good? He shot just 31.6 percent from 3-point range last season, and only 28.5 percent on triples that weren't wide open, per SportVU data.2 The dude pump fakes at ghosts.
Also: Which fellow big makes for a good match with Mirotic? The Mirotic-Gasol pairing might be suicide on defense. Mirotic and Noah look good in theory, but only if Noah is healthy and mobile protecting the bucket. The Mirotic-Gibson combination managed well, but it's an undersize front line that did a lot of its damage against backups. And where, exactly, does Bobby Portis fit after a super-encouraging preseason?
The Bulls feel unsteady, and that's part of the appeal. Hoiberg figures to introduce more passing and 3-point shooting, and he'll give Doug McDermott a chance. Chicago's vaunted defense slipped to 11th in points allowed per possession in Tom Thibodeau's last season, and it will be a struggle to climb the defensive rankings if the Hoiberg Bulls can't maintain the classic Thibodeau opponent shot selection: no corner 3s, tons of midrange jumpers.
And I will stand, armed to the teeth, in the Neil Funk–Stacey "Burger" King corner. The Bulls needed an expansive soundboard to fit all of King's catchphrases, and it doesn't even include some of the goodies King used for former Bulls — the "hot sauce" on Kyle Korver 3s, and "Asik and destroy" for Omer Asik rejections. King spits on the line between corny and funny, and it works.
The uniforms, logo, and court are all awesome, especially since the Bulls ditched the balloony font they used along the baselines for years — the only complaint I lodged in my court design rankings last year.
Otto Porter's Year 3 development, after a strong showing in the playoffs, is one of the league's quiet swing issues. If he keeps canning spot-up 3s and hounding multiple positions on defense, the Wizards have a chance to inch up the East standings — and buff their appeal for a certain free agent. Plus, Porter dozed into last season's best blooper:
The Wiz are leaning toward starting Kris Humphries over Nene, and they've given Humphries the green light to chuck 3s around John Wall pick-and-rolls. They'll also play more small ball, especially when Jared Dudley gets back. Playoff Wittman might be a full-season thing now! Between Wittman Faces and the whiteboard directional struggle, Randy Wittman has to be the reigning unintentional comedy champ among head coaches, right?
Marcin Gortat rips towels, Drew Gooden spasms into double and triple pump fakes for no reason, and Wall racing up the court with shooters flanking him is one of the most exciting snapshot moments in sports. Wall is the rare brilliant passer who has advanced beyond just finding open players — though he's damn good at that. He coaxes guarded teammates open with dribbles and shoulder fakes designed to trick defenders into shifting just a half-step away from his target. He plays two steps ahead of everyone else.
The Thunder are the biggest story in the league, and they might be no. 1 here if not for a D-League-level League Pass experience — the nonsense logo, blah court, sneering homer announcing, and ugly uniforms. Billy Donovan is revamping the offense and it will be interesting to see how Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant, two killer one-on-one scorers, take to a system heavier on ball movement. Things may not end up looking much different than when Scott Brooks cycled through the same three plays. Still, any stylistic improvement will be welcome.
There is so much TV goodness here:
• Enes Kanter trying to remain upright on defense and becoming the rare max player so awful at one end of the floor that he comes off the bench.
• Dion Waiters calling for Durant and Westbrook to pass him the ball, and then pouting, arms drooping at his sides, when he doesn't get it.
• Waiters catching the ball open behind the arc, taking one useless dribble into 2-point range, and barfing up 20-foot bricks.
• Nick Collison's impeccably gelled hair.
• Mitch McGary running like a toddler on a sugar high, knees churning, arms working so hard he almost punches himself in the face.
• Steven Adams pissing off opposing players, then staring at them, stone-faced, as they attack him — and get ejected.
• Kyle Singler's hair.
• And Russell Westbrook, hurling himself down the court so fast on those furious end-to-end rushes that he almost transforms from human basketball player into a streaking beam of light and sound and anger. There is no better edge-of-your-seat moment in basketball. It carries suspense and a hint of danger; you almost worry that Westbrook is going to hurt himself or some bystander.
I mean … DeMarcus Cousins might be, like, the fifth-craziest person in the franchise now! Just kidding. He's no. 2 at the absolute lowest. No superstar has ever approached cranky Boogie levels of not giving a crap. Rudy Gay is isolating on the wing again? I should probably crash the offensive glass, but that takes effort, and, oh, Rudy lost his grip on the ball — let me just see how this plays out.
He looked like he might vomit on the court. How do you express displeasure over the team inexplicably firing the only coach you deigned to respect? With defense like this!
This crap gets old, and five years in, we're still waiting for Cousins to go 10 straight games without loafing in transition defense or humiliating a teammate with a tantrum about some alleged mistake. But when Cousins tries, he is a unique force — one of the league's last true bullies, capable of bum-rushing dudes with Shaq-like post-ups or face-up drives someone his size shouldn't be able to pull off. He finishes with artful pivots, killer fakes, and a pillow-soft touch off the glass.
He's shooting 3s in preseason, and that's good, since it's unclear how a starting group featuring exactly one good outside shooter will be able to enter him the ball on the block. Things will get easier when Marco Belinelli comes in, and especially when George Karl shifts Gay or Omri Casspi to power forward. Karl is an offensive savant who defies convention; he'll use Cousins all over the floor, including as a point center, and squeeze more points from this team than you'd expect.
Not to state the obvious, but: George freaking Karl is coaching a team with Cousins and Rajon Rondo; the Kings are owned by a guy who suggested playing 4-on-5; and Vlade Divac and associated cronies are making basketball decisions. I almost moved to Sacramento just to document this. Even if things implode, rubber-necking will be irresistible.
Also, watch Kosta Koufos on this random pick-and-roll: Is his late leap some baseball-style deke to convince defenders the ball is coming to him? Has anyone ever tried this before?
Embrace this trickery, Kings!
We presumed too much in anointing these guys at no. 1 last season. LeBron James took a two-week vacation, David Blatt didn't implement much of his motion offense, and Kevin Love spent too many possessions chilling in the corner as a glorified James Jones. Kendrick Perkins appeared just to ugly things up.
An offense featuring only LeBron–Timofey Mozgov3 pick-and-rolls, with Love and Kyrie Irving spotting up, is still enough to crack the top five here. LeBron is probably the sharpest pick-and-roll passer ever, slinging comets to the corner, and Irving's catch-and-drive layups are more acrobatic than most dunk contest slams. The Cavs are talking big about unleashing the diversity of Love's game, and they showed in flashes after January how dynamic they could be mixing in his canny screening, cutting, and passing from the elbows. These guys were 32-3 in the last 35 games that James, Irving, and Love played together. They destroyed people. I want to see that team again.
LeBron is smart to conserve energy, but he can still rev up from standstill to full sprint faster than anyone else. When he hits top gear, he reaches a higher plane of existence:
He's like Westbrook, only bigger, stronger, smarter, and more under control.
And I have to admit: Austin Carr has won me over. Five years ago, I thought he was just another loudmouthed homer. He is a homer, but he's a giddy, smiling homer who doesn't take the Cavs too seriously or pretend that games are part of some good-versus-evil drama. He would never turn on an ex-Cav the way some announcers suddenly notice all of a player's flaws once he leaves in free agency. His joy radiates through the TV.
Anthony Davis is limitless.
Always the bridesmaid. The Clips have finished third, second, and second in these rankings, despite sporting two of the best and cruelest dunkers in league history. DeAndre Jordan can't go coast-to-coast for hammer jobs like Blake Griffin, but the dude can catch the ball above the square and plunge it straight down onto some poor sap's noggin. Any L.A. game is one blink — one extra pass, one steal, one defender rotating a half-step in the wrong direction — away from an all-time highlight.
The appeal here goes way beyond dunks, especially now that the Clips have a bench of stock NBA supporting characters: Paul Pierce, the brash, big-balls shooter who gives L.A. new lineup flexibility; Lance Stephenson, the hothead whose playground dribble moves will produce either highlights or high comedy; Josh Smith, always looking as if he might throw his next diagonal pass five rows into the stands; Pablo Prigioni, King of the Sneaks; and Cole Aldrich, flinging up no-chance hooks that spray across the arena. What a motley crew.
Boil it down, and this is about having two of the league's best passers playing positions in which they often pass the ball to each other. Griffin and Chris Paul make magic together, and they're both such dangerous scorers that they draw extra defensive attention when they catch it — extra help that opens up the next pass in some gorgeous L.A. sequence. When they're humming, the Clips' half-court offense whirs as fast as San Antonio's, only with finishes like this:
They might have snagged the no. 1 spot if not for the awful logo, designed by the freaking Miami Heat,4 and the noisy jerseys and court design it spawned like some cursed Lestrange trinket at Gringotts. Seriously, Heat designers: Fantastic job of team-on-team art sabotage. The Clips never saw it coming and they deserve it for giving up on the job.
The Warriors falling from no. 1 to no. 3 in last year's rankings was a colossal mistake — an underestimation of Steve Kerr and an inability to shake the stench of Mark Jackson–era isolations that shackled one of the most creative teams ever. The Warriors don't have Mozgov-ing high fliers like Griffin and Jordan, but they actually finished with more dunks than the Clippers last season — a tribute to how elite passing, shooting, and spacing can open up lanes wide enough for the ground-bound to fly. The Clippers make it work in tight crevices; the Warriors manipulate defenses into surrendering four-lane highways.
Flinging the ball across the full width of the court, a step ahead of defenders chasing with panic in their eyes, can produce a sort of hyper-creativity that we've never seen before. The Warriors did this in preseason:
Preseason! All the nice fringe stuff — the blue-and-yellow goodness, eardrum-bursting crowd, Andrew Bogut arm bars, Klay Thompson–Steph Curry screening ballet, Marreese Speights heat checks, Andre Iguodala defense, everything Draymond Green, repeat trickery, a solid local announcing team — almost doesn't matter. This is the league's most watchable team for the second time in three years, and it really should be a three-peat.
Let's go.
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In 2014 it was announced that the Offices of the Prime Minister would move from Hungary's oversized parliament to the former Carmelite Monastery next to the presidential palace in the Castle District of Budapest. Originally estimated to cost HUF 5 billion (USD 18 million), by the end of 2015 the figure had increased to HUF 6.8 billion after it was decided to build a large hall suitable for hosting formal state events in the area where the monastery's garden is presently located.
Artwork and balcony
In February, the government decided to add an extra HUF 1 billion (USD 3.6 million) to the budget with which to purchase artwork for the new Offices of the Prime Minister. According to calculations by Hungarian news website Index.hu, the total cost of renovating the Carmelite Monastery will exceed HUF 20 billion (USD 72 million). This is in addition to HUF 4.9 billion (USD 18 million) spent earlier on "preparations".
Moreover, the cost of moving the previous residents – the National Dance Theatre – will top HUF 3 billion (USD 10.8 million).
Moving the Offices of the Prime Minister has caused controversy not only because of the enormous cost but also because of building a new balcony overlooking the Danube. This part of Budapest is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and such an addition would change the cityscape dramatically. Interestingly, the building of the balcony was not announced at all, but was noticed only by an architectural blog after parts of the monastery had already been demolished.
Ministries moving
It is not only the prime minister who is going to move to the Castle District. Last November, the Hungarian Gazette (Magyar Közlöny), the official government bulletin, announced that the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of National Economy will also get newly renovated offices in the historic quarter.
The interior ministry will move to Országház Street 28-32 and Úri Street 49-51, while the economy ministry will move to Szentháromság tér 6. The project to move the Ministry of National Economy was already awarded for a staggering HUF 26.7 billion (USD 96 million).
Meanwhile, the government decided to expand the Castle project and is building new offices for the prime minister next to the Carmelite Monastery. As this will take more time than expected, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán – who had plans to move into Sándor Palace before – will probably have to wait until just before the 2018 elections before he can enjoy his new premises.


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Youth. Science. Innovation.
The Karaganda economic university of Kazpotrebsoyuz holds the International meeting of students "New generation. New energy. New era" on April 26-27, 2017.
Meeting purpose: development of student's science, identification and support of talented youth.
Meeting objectives:
· increase in communicative communications between student's youth of various countries;
· improvement of the high school innovative environment;
· formation and expansion of base of student's scientific research and innovative projects;
· expansion and deepening of communications between research activity, business and government institutions.
The program of the international meeting of students includes:
1. Competition-exhibition of the innovative projects "Youth Contribution to the Future";
2. International scientific and practical conference of students and magistrands "Modern world and youth: vision and dialectics of development";
3. Discussions on urgent problems of science and business;
4. Business trainings and other actions.
The international meeting of students covers the following directions:
· social humanities: philosophy, sociology, conflictology, religovedeniye, philology, history, pedagogics, psychology, political science, law and international relations;
· economic sciences and business: economy, management, finance, accounting, marketing, business, services, industry of hospitality and tourism, logistics, public and local administration, ecology, management of the national economy;
· technical science: information technologies, mathematical and physical modeling, physics and technology and chemical processes of production, power engineering specialist, organization of production and technology of production, standardization and certification.
Sections of a scientific conference "Modern world and youth: vision and dialectics of development":
1. Social and humanitarian problems: state and solutions;
2. Models of an interethnic and interfaith consent youth eyes.
3. Urgent problems of the international and national law.
4. Development of national and foreign languages in modern conditions.
5. Modern problems world and national economies.
6. Social and economic, demographic and ecological aspects of development of modern society.
7. Urgent problems of production and safety of food products.
8. State and prospects of development of a services sector, management, marketing and tourism.
9. Improvement of the financial mechanism and monetary and credit system of the country.
10. Accounting, the analysis and audit in modern conditions.
11. Application of mathematical methods in the analysis and modeling of modern processes.
12. Information technologies in production and education.
13. Prospects of development of power systems: traditional and alternative approaches.
14. Physics and technology and chemical processes of production.
Working languages of a forum: Kazakh, Russian and English.
Scientific articles, research and innovative projects will undergo competitive selection, to be reviewed and checked for plagiarism existence. Degree of originality of author's materials has to be not less than 60%. Responsibility for reliability of data and quality of article is assigned to the author.
The structure of jury will include representatives of business, science, public organizations and HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS. Work of jury is supposed in two stages: the first – at a stage of selection of projects, final – in days of work of the Meeting.
For foreign participants, whose innovative projects have passed the first stage of competitive selection, the return fare and accommodation (the scientific leader and students) is incurred by the inviting party.
Models, drawings, the illustrations, natural exhibits of projects which have passed the first stage of selection will be exposed in the lobby of KEUK in days of the Meeting.
Winners of competitions of innovative projects will be awarded by monetary and valuable prizes, and also diplomas, commendations of various nominations. To the owner of the first place in a competition of innovative projects the cash bonus of 350 thousand tenge (in an equivalent of $1000), the second place – 175 thousand tenge (in an equivalent of $500), the third place – a valuable prize is awarded.
Authors of the best reports will be awarded by diplomas of I, II, III degrees, and all participants of a meeting will be handed certificates.
Articles to projects and reports on a conference will be published in the collection, his electronic version will be posted on the website by KEUK www.keu.kz
Articles to projects on a competition need to be provided till April 01, 2017. The jury draws the conclusion about the admission of the applicant on a competition till April 08, 2017 and reports about it on e-mail of the participant.
Reports on the international scientific and practical conference for the publication are accepted till April 08, 2017.
Arrival of foreign guests on April 25, 2017 in consultation with the Organizing Committee of the meeting.
1 day of the meeting (April 26)
10:00 – Opening of a meeting.
11:00 – the Plenary session.
13:00 – the Lunch break.
14:30 – Section meetings of a conference "The modern world and youth: vision and dialectics of development";
14:30 - Competition of the innovative projects "Youth Contribution to the Future".
18:00 – the Cultural program and sightseeing tours.
2 day of the meeting (April 27)
10:00 – Continuation of a the Competition of the innovative projects "Youth Contribution to the Future";
13:30 – a lunch break;
14:30 – Business trainings and discussions on problems of science and business;
14:30 – The work of jury of the Competition of innovative projects;
16:00 – Summing up a meeting and rewarding of winners and nominees;
17:30 – the Cultural program.
Conditions for participation in the competition of innovative projects
When nominating scientific works of students for participation in the competition of innovative projects, the university sends the following documents:
1) The explanatory note to the project;
2) Summary of the innovative project (appendix 1);
3) A response of the research advisor (no particular form);
4) Information about the author (authors) and research advisor (appendix 2);
5) The letter signed by the rector (vice rector) on the results of the intra-university stage of the competition or the decision of the Academic Council of the University on the nomination of a project for a contest, which is formalized by a protocol (Appendix 3).
Requirements for publication materials
In the article to the stated: subject, author's full name, educational institution (production association, enterprise), research advisor.
Relevance, perspective, the idea of the project have to be reflected in article; way (method) of the decision; results and prospects of implementation of the project. It is recommended to have a photo of the research object, the physical model and the software implementation environment (animation).
The article is presented in the form of one file in the WinWord format. Parameters: a page format – A4, all fields on 2 cm. The volume of article shouldn't exceed 5 pages, without numbering of pages. Font: Times New Roman, size 12. Line spacing: unary. Space of a new paragraph: 1,25 cm. Alignment of the text: on width. Formulas and drawings are inserted into the text of theses as an object.
References to literature are specified in square brackets, for example [1, page 152]. The list of references is made out according to the existing standards. References to drawings on the course of the text are obligatory.
Payment for the publication and for one copy of the collection – 2000 tenge. The price of the additional collection – 2000 tenge.
Additional information on phones: 8-721-2-44-16-34 (ext. 65-64), 8-747-640-18-79, 8-778-108-86-96 and on the website www.keu.kz
Venue of a meeting: Karaganda economic university of Kazpotrebsoyuz. Karaganda, Akademicheskaya St., 9.
Travel by buses 3, 19, 30, 31, 44.


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I have been watching Married to Medicine on Amazon Prime for months now, and I am loving the reality show. I stumbled upon this show earlier in the year, and I have been hooked ever since. For those who have never heard or watched the show, Married to Medicine is a reality show showcasing the lives of a group of doctors and their families in Atlanta. Cameras follow these doctors and their spouses, as they try to juggle their careers with family and social lives. I find the series very entertaining and informative. There are currently 6 seasons on Amazon Prime and I am currently watching the last season – Season 6.
Married to Medicine
Married to Medicine is one of the few reality tv shows I can relate to now that I am in my 30s. Back in the day, you would catch me watching Keeping up with the Kardashians, The Only Way is Essex, and many other reality shows like that. But these days, I can't bring myself to watch most of what I used to work back then. I just don't have the time or energy to watch crap, so I save my TV time for programmes that make sense to me.
The Married to Medicine crew are fun to watch. I find their lives very interesting. My favourite couple on the show is Toya and Eugene Harris. Toya is a work from home mum (like myself) and Eugene is a doctor. I admire their relationship. They keep it real and you can tell they value one another. My least favourite couple was Quad and Greg Lunceford. I am happy to hear they have started their divorce proceedings. The marriage looked off from day 1, with no chemistry at all. And with all that has happened between them, I am glad they are letting themselves go their separate ways.
What I have learnt from Married to Medicine
I am not married to medicine in any way but I can relate with many of the women on the show in different ways. Marriage is hard work, and juggling a family is a blessing but it does not come easy. Don't let anyone fool you. So seeing these women struggle with these many hats deeply resonates with me.
Here are 2 things I have learnt from watching the show –
Marriage counselling is not a taboo
Today, we have Many couples all over the world are suffering in silence. They rather keep their issues to themselves than to share it with a qualified therapist. The whole idea of getting marriage counselling is not something that even crosses their minds, and I think that is so sad. Marriage counselling is not a taboo and this is a message that is heavily promoted on the Married to Medicine show.
Most of the couples on the show have had some form of marriage counselling. We have been able to follow them on their journey as they try to save their marriages. All but 1 marriage was saved. That only confirms how amazing marriage counselling can be. It is definitely not a taboo and every couple struggling with marital issues should consider getting some marriage counselling.
No marriage is perfect
No marriage is perfect. If any couple is pretending to have a picture perfect relationship, then they are living a lie. Many couples go about pretending to have the best marriage but the reality is usually a different story. No one really knows what goes on behind closed doors except the parties involved. So it is best to not get carried away with the lives other couples show off but instead focus on our marriages and relationships.
Have you seen any of the episodes of Married to Medicine? What are your thoughts on marriage counselling?
*Collaborative post.


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So in writing the book, I've used the major beer websites for cross-referencing information and other research purposes. So tonight in looking at RateBeer.com, a site I don't often find myself on, I was perusing its Top Beers of 2009 and Best American Beers lists. I was struck not so much by the alcohol bombs that dominate their ranks, a topic I address in my next BeerAdvocate column, but by what is absent: lager beers. As in none. And no, I'm not counting the Livery's Bourbon Cask Aged Wheat Trippelbock weighing in at 11-14% abv. And to be fair, the BeerAdvocate top beer list isn't much better on this point but it does offer a half-dozen or so lagers and isn't quite as booze/hop/barrel heavy. I know that by now I shouldn't be surprised or bothered by these lists, but I have to say the beer geek addiction to alcohol, hop, and barrel bombs is not only disturbing but I just can't bring myself to even feign interest in them at this point. So in an upcoming BA column I discuss why we should shy away from these mind-numbingly boring beers and seek out a new definition of extreme beer.
32 thoughts on "RateBeer Hates On Lagers…"
What's more extreme than growing your own ingredients and looking for the perfect water for German-style lagers here in the States. It's coming to NH soon. More to follow.
Cheers and thanx for the Lager Lovers
Paul Davis
Prodigal Brewing Co.
I had a similar experience with Rate Beer last month while doing a bit of research. I suppose it isn't surprising really as the craft beer movement (especially outside the US) has been falling over itself to distance itself from lagers.
The good news is that brewers are beginning to return to lager as there are only so many testosterone fuelled brews you can brew.
I was brought up on lager and still write about it at http://www.lager-frenzy.com so I'm a bit biased, but I still think it is a fantastic beer.
I am glad to learn that I am not the only one who is completely bored by the "extreme" beer thing. And it precisely for this reason that I find myself spending less and less time on sites like BeerAdvocate and RateBeer. I look forward to your take on this issue.
Good luck, Paul! A nice Bohemian Pils would do nicely 'round here. And by 'round here, I mean my fridge!
Why should we "seek out a new definition of extreme beer"? Wouldn't it be better to seek out good beer? Other than little BMX boys, haven't we all ditched the 2002 attraction of "X-treme" in all other parts of life? No, to be fair there is MMA. They like black t-shirts, too.
It was my greatest hope that the recent hop shortage would put an end (or at least slow) to the craft beer mantra of "just add more hops". Unfortunately it just made many brewers add even more hops. In advocating balance in beers I have gained a local reputation as a hop-hater.
There is almost nothing more sublime than the subtle beauty of a well-made Pilsner or Munich dunkel. One trip to the GABF a couple years ago was all it took to send me back to light-colored lagers. After a night of drinking every brewer's monster beers I found myself wandering the hall looking for a pilsner. They were very hard to find.
Let me add to the pile of "lager love". There is indeed something "extreme" about crisp, clear, and simple flavors of any good pilsner or lager that show proper respect and touch of the brewer. I've also grown a little tired of beer geeks raving about beers that come across as very agressive, unbalanced, where the brewer's "skill" is simply lack of restraint.
"the beer geek addiction to alcohol, hop, and barrel bomb…"
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I love the idea of BA and RateBeer but they are so dominated by this sort of thing that they are starting to feel like a niche within a niche. …and then there is the nature of the reviews themselves. Maybe I'm not a beer geek at all. Is there a place for people who are just beer lovers?
Many BA and RB members seem to have no interest in judging according to style guidelines. If they did, you would see a number of subtle beers on their lists of top beers.
Last time I looked at the BA list, if you went down far enough you came across Live Oak's Hefeweizen. This was an exception in a long list of incredibly roasty, hoppy and huge beers.
It reminds me of the beers one might see if Playboy were a beer magazine.
I have to say that lager is my favorite style. Paulaner's Salvator is IMO the best beer ever made. while it is not a thirst quenching session beer, it's still my favorite. Perhaps Weinstaphener's Korbinian has a touch more flavor and is the top, but Salvator is always my first beer at the Bauhaus.
Victory's prima pils is a frequent guest in my fridge for the "Lawnmower beer" as is Slyfox's pils in a can for boating /rafting trips.
I must admit that I am bored to tears with Yeulenling's corn fed lager (the philly staple) and I just can not find much, if any interest in ricey Budweiser or Stella artrois.
Rate beer/real beer public polls are driven by the misguided philosophy of "bigger is better". Brewers will soon realize that much of these brews are a one and done beer and don't sell as quickly as the good old American amber like Stoudts APA or even Phila Brewing Co's Kenzinger (Kolsh style).
Lagers are time consuming and expensive to make due to the long and cold fermentation process. I applaud the brewer who takes the time to make them. It is a tough business decision to brew a well made balanced lager that does not stand out in a crowd, unless you have a massive marketing budget like Sam Adams.
Another related issue is folks who rate a beer without any knowledge of what it is supposed to be. They knock the beer for the very qualities it should display. Look at reviews for Pinkus Munster Alt and you will see what I mean. People are rating it as though it were a Dusseldorf Alt and knocking it because it doesn't display those characteristics.
The annoying thing about those sites is they now produce shelf-talkers, which I have seen deployed in bottle shops, which is going to totally screw up the craft beer market for years to come. This exact same thing happened in the wine industry, with undue praise heaped upon big, rich, oaky, high-alcohol tannin bombs that needed years of aging before being drinkable – which resulted in many years of people thinking they should only be drinking cabernet sauvignon while ignoring the numerous ready-to-drink, low-alcohol, food-friendly wines that didn't have the benefit of a "90-whatever" score in Wine Spectator.
It seems to be the American mindset that more is always better.
I completely agree; it's a hell of a lot easier to hide imperfections in a 12% ABV barley wine than a 5.0% Helles. I respect breweries that are willing (and able) to craft flawless, low-ABV recipes.
I'll use the epitome of tough-guy marketing as an example: attend any Stone Brewing festival and you'll find no shortage of EXTREME beer enthusiasts who believe the bigger the ABV, the better.
However, I suspect this is a sign of the industry maturing. As the market gets flooded with nearly indistinguishable barrel-aged or triple-hopped ABV bombs, opportunities will open up for other breweries to focus on the art of subtlety.
That's a very valid point another Yet another Andy (there's a lot of us out there)many of the craft beers are full of 'faults' – depending how strict you are. Not only that but they are very unharmonious and pull the tastebuds in different directions,alright once in a while, but all the time? No thanks. I'm just off to find a Thy Pilsner…
I would agree that Rate Beer and BA are more or less useless in terms of objective ratings. It's true that some beers are slammed, as someone pointed out, for qualities which that beer is _supposed_ to have.
But by the same token, the "style guidelines" that have become the current fad are being taken a bit too seriously in other corners of beer geekdom. The guidelines published by the Beer Judge Certification Program are a good example of that…the older list of guidelines published 20 years ago by the American Homebrewers Association is a much saner and more useful list. The BJCP seems too obsessed with making every variation of a classic style a new style in and of itself. It is really blurring beer dialogue more than it is clarifying it.
I've read that criticism before, Professor, but on the other hand I think those guidelines have expanded as brewers have started pushing the bounds of the original definitions. You can't have everything that doesn't fit into the original styles simply lumped into "experimental". Is an 8% IPA really experimental?
No. It's an IPA.
And it's not too far off from the IPA I first bought more than 40 years ago which was a little over 7.5% and just as hoppy (if not moreso) than any I've tasted recently.
I don't argue that the trend of the new brewers pushing the envelope warrants some thought in terms of "style" ("style" being a relatively modern fetish). But far, far too much emphasis is being placed on the "styles" anymore, and especially the guidelines…the guidelines are perhaps slightly useful in categorizing competition entries, but beyond that, there has _always_ been great variation in traditional styles.
In any case, trying to pigeonhole every beer into a "style" category (other than very broadly) is just a wee bit silly, really. When I hear someone in a bar authoritatively stating that the beer he is drinking is not "to style", all I can do is roll my eyes. Often, such folks are passing judgement on a "style" that they have never tasted a truly authentic example of anyway, but rather are spitting back information they have read in the guidelines list…which, again, was designed mainly to make amateur competition judging more organized. Beyond that purpose, it has little other purpose.
Bringing the "styles" list into the world of commercial beers only makes for more confused consumers, not better informed ones.
You may have already figured this out, but when I mentioned judging to style, I just meant in a general way. I agree 100% that the style handcuffs can quickly tighten.
I remember years ago there was a discussion on the DC-BEER list about Dominion's seasonal witbier. Someone had an issue with its inclusion of ginger. I thought this especially amusing, as if the Belgians are slaves to style.
I find this interesting and somewhat amusing.
Doesn't Maureen Ogle in her excellent Book "Ambitious Brew" sort of describe the beginnings of the "BMC" or at least the early days as, maybe not a reaction, but a strong movement away from ales? [I don't have the book in here with me…]
And some of this, current activity, is definitely a reaction of the boring similar tasting BMC lagers, [Especially the Beer geeks] Right?
It's sort of the cycle of things? The pendulum swings back and forth.. maybe it will settle down?
Just my 2 cents
I would say the advent of craft beer in the US was a direct reaction to the beers made by BMC. (And ales were easier to make on a shoestring budget.) The embracing of huge ales by RB and BA members is the action of a tiny subculture of beer aficionados.
I have been wondering for a while just when the pendulum will swing for the broader culture of craft-beer drinkers, i.e., when they will start to appreciate subtlety and move away (at least a bit) from huge, hoppy beers.
Many good arguments made here…but one that is not: Money! Brewing these pushing-the-envelope, over-the-top hop and barrel bombs allow the brewer to charge outrageous prices for these borderline drinkable beers. When a brewer can get beer sycophants to pony up $15 a six-pack or $12 for a 22-oz. bottle, why should he bother making a run-of-the-mill lager and only be able to charge $7 or $8 per six-pack…and lose the interest that bigger beers generate, as well? The bigger and badder the beers are, the more money there is to be made and the more "buzz" from the beer press.
I'll concede that the cost-to-revenue ratio is probably not as high, but I'm thinking that the breweries are making that up in volume. In producing limited edition beers and stoking the hype that accompanies them, they are artificially creating a very strong demand for these high-priced beers.
I also believe that some breweries purposely inflating their retail prices because they know they have a rabid following; they are testing the limits of supply-and-demand.
Case-in-point: there is a well-known brewery here in the Chicago area that brews one of my favorite beers. I used to be able to buy this beer for $5.99/6-pk. (a great deal, to be sure). Now I can't touch this beer for under $10.99/6-pk. The fact that I (and presumably others) refuse to buy that beer anymore has had zero impact on the brewery in question…they can't brew enough to keep the shelves full.
-Marty Nachel
I agree with the latter point in your post, but I take issue with the first part.
Isn't this a commentary on the beer drinking community rather than the web sites themselves, given that ratebeer and BeerAdvocate are community-driven sites? Perhaps you're saying this when you write "the beer geek addiction to alcohol, hop, and barrel bombs is not only disturbing but I just can't bring myself to even feign interest in them at this point." My issue is that you're calling out the site in the heading when your issue really seems to be with the consumers themselves.
From what I read, it sounds like you're basically saying that consumers' palates have been deceived and they don't really like what they're drinking, they're just supposed to think they do, and that what they should really be reaching for is a more tempered, traditional style beer with a broader base. In summary, I'm picking up that you're not happy that people are enjoying drinking what they're drinking and, unless you have a vested interest in consumers branching out from these styles, I don't understand the argument.
My position on this is that this the list is not intended to be reflective of beers based on their rankings when compared to the BJCP guidelines for the styles. Unless you're tasting and reviewing a beer objectively on its adherence to those guidelines, a beer that is bold, assertive, flavorful and, yes, palate-wrecking is more likely to end up at the top of a list like this than a well-crafted and refreshing yet subtle and distinguished lager. I suppose that is the nature of crowds. I'm not taking issue with your position, in fact I agree with it. At 2beerguys, we are just as prone to giving higher scores to styles that we enjoy, because we're not ranking beers on a purely objective basis. How we review beers at home is very different from how we review beers when we're judging at a BJCP-sanctioned event. Both review methods have their place, as hopefully the objective and subjective provide a complete picture of the quality of the beer. What good is a perfectly crafted beer if you don't enjoy drinking it?
I feel the need to chime in on this subject. For one, I can see where the majority of you are coming from. I must point out that RB does have a top BY STYLE list as well, and this is more indicative of the best pils, or weizen or whatever, than a combined list of all the beers on the site. BA also stresses to rate by style, however thats not exactly true when you look. Also, what kind of lagers are we talking about here? You can look for yourself and see the praise given to numerous styles of German lagers on RB, as well as BA. (such as bocks, doppelbocks, rauchbier, marzen, dunkels) I'm sorry to say, but to look at the "World's best beer list" and then say that RB doesn't include "blahblah pilsner" without actually looking for the beer by style, or looking at its rating in that style, is ignorant. Big and complex beers make the top of the lists because they are more complex, to say that a Belgian strong ale doesn't require as much skill as a "subtle" pilsner is ignorant.
Joe, point taken about the By Style list.
On the other hand 😉 I don't think it is ignorant to talk about the skill levels to produce a really good Pilsner. Ales are more complex because of the yeast they use, which allows the various ingredients to shine through in different ways.
Lager brewing is a different exercise. Brewing lager is an underrated skill – one of the reasons it is brewed mainly by the multinationals is because they are, all prejudices of the style aside, supremely skilled in brewing. (Why they use their skills as they do is another argument).
And complex beer isn't necessarily better. Complexity often is the curse of good ales – my personal preference is for ales that are just complex enough without ruining the overall palate. That's just me.


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From appearances on "Mythbusters" to a cameo in the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video game, the spooky cells and windswept vistas of Alcatraz Island are enjoying a renewed moment in the pop-culture spotlight. If you're considering taking your family to The Rock, these tips will help you get the most out of your trip.
Try the night tour for smaller crowds. While planning our Alcatraz trip, I asked a park ranger — the island is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area — how he would recommend seeing the park. (One of the great things about being a travel writer is having an excuse to ask questions like this.) His advice: On a given day, 5,000 visitors or more might stream through the corridors of the prison, but the night tour is limited to about 600, enabling rangers to offer talks and programs not available during the day. Not only are the crowds easier to manage with kids, but the smaller numbers make for a more intimate experience: At one point, my husband, son and I found ourselves all alone in a spooky, lantern-lit room of the hospital ward. We could truly feel the isolation of The Rock, which made for some spine-tingling memories.
Plan ahead for food and drink. If you're one of those parents who won't venture forth without snacks for the smalls (and who isn't?), it's worth noting that there's no food in the park: Not only are there no concessions, but food and drinks other than bottled water are not allowed beyond the landing dock. Counting the ferry ride to and from the island, you'll be touring for several hours, so one solution is to snack on the ferry. The ferry concession sells hot dogs, sandwiches, snacks and drinks, but lines can get long once the captain makes the "no food on the island" announcement, so if you go this route, line up soon after getting on the boat. A great alternative is to pack food from one of the many vendors along the Embarcadero. Don't miss the local shops in the Ferry Building, where you'll find everything from fresh-baked bread and handmade chocolate to artisanal meats and cheeses.
Book your tour early. Only one company, Alcatraz Cruises, offers transportation to the park, and tours can book up weeks in advance. You can print passes at home or visit the will call window, but don't wait until you arrive in San Francisco to book your tour, or you might wind up with some disappointed kiddos.
Don't count kids out of the audio tour. I wasn't sure the audio tour that comes with the ferry ticket would hold our 10-year-old's interest: He's usually intent on exploring at his own pace and not being shackled to a guided tour. But the newly redone audio tour's mp3-player interface and engaging content, from cellblock life to escape plots to some of The Rock's famous inmates kept him – and all of the kids we saw — riveted. The best part: Instead of a dry, academic-sounding narration, the tour is voiced by the officers and inmates who lived here.
On the night tour, you can complete the 45-minute audio tour and still have time to wander the prison and the grounds and hear ranger presentations about the island. Don't miss the talk about escapes from The Rock, which details how inmate managed to escape and swim all the way to San Francisco, only to be scooped up and delivered right back to Alcatraz. The kids in the audience were agape.
Dress in layers. This goes for San Francisco in general, but it's doubly true at Alcatraz, where chilly winds can send you scurrying for the shelter of gift shop when you'd rather be snapping family photos on the stunning grounds of the island. Even on a sunny day, a hoodie or windbreaker is a must, not just on the island but also on the top deck of the ferry, where you'll get the best views and photo opps.


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"White supremacists are voters, too."
Those words, uttered by a man in horn-rimmed glasses and a button-down shirt who could have just as easily been sitting at the next table in the Yale Club dining room, were what finally made me get up and leave the Coffee Hour with my state legislators.
It was bad enough that Greenwich's four Republican legislators — state Reps. Fred Camillo, Mike Bocchino, Livvy Floren and state Sen L. Scott Frantz — sat there silently as the white-haired lady next to me told me to "Be quiet" and the man across the table kept saying "Stop talking" the entire time I was trying to speak. They were joined by many others in the crowd, according to the person accompanying me.
I had attended these coffees with legislators before as a Greenwich resident, an RTM member, and a columnist for CTNewsJunkie.com. I'd actually had a medical appointment scheduled for Monday morning, but rescheduled it, because I'd been so dismayed by an article in the Greenwich Time in which Rep. Camillo, First Selectman Peter Tesei, Connecticut Republican State Central member Ed Dadakis, and to some degree, new RTC chair Stephen Walko, said they would support Donald Trump if he were the Republican nominee. And Sen. Frantz and Rep. Floren refused to rule it out. So I felt it important to attend.
I've been writing about the dangers posed by Donald Trump and his charged rhetoric for months now, and for my efforts have been called mentally unstable and incurred some truly vile comments. Sadly, that's become par for the course for a woman who dares to express her political opinions online — Trump has just made it more acceptable. Just listen to Fox News' Megyn Kelly on that subject. She has also been targeted with more than her share of vile comments after standing up to Trump.
But the scene at Glory Days Diner in Greenwich, a place where I've eaten with my kids since they were in elementary school, was even more sickening than the worst online threats I've received. I left wondering if America has completely lost its critical thinking skills. What made this more disturbing than the online vitriol was that these are supposedly the "nice" people — the folks you see in the Greenwich Magazine society pages. These are my neighbors. These are the people with whom I serve on the Representative Town Meeting.
Sen. Frantz gave his usual stump speech that Connecticut is dying because of taxes and it's all the Democrats' fault. To Rep. Floren's credit, she was honest enough to admit that part of the pension problem originated under Republican Gov. John Rowland. Sen. Frantz went on to say businesses need predictability.
And this is where I start to experience cognitive dissonance with the Republican Party, and members who say they will support Trump if he is the nominee because he is "good for business."
When Sen. Frantz called on me, I agreed the businesses do need predictability, and that's why we needed to talk about the top of the ticket. The GOP frontrunner, Trump, can't even be consistent from the beginning of one day to the next. And among his more disturbing positions is his refusal to rule out the use of nuclear weapons in Europe, his dictatorial attitude toward a free press, and his incredibly dangerous ideas about increasing nuclear proliferation — while simultaneously saying that it is a bigger risk that global warming — which is it, Donald?
That's before I even start on his misogyny, racism, and vulgarity.
Yet my four state legislators sat mute as a crowd of people told me to be quiet, from practically the first moment I began talking. "This isn't the place to talk about that," one woman snapped. Oh really? Where is the place for me as a constituent to express such concerns to my legislators? There's nothing on the invitation that limited the subject matters for discussion. Still, the four legislators sat there and just let it happen.
Fred Camillo, whom I've always considered to be a nice guy, told me rather heatedly that he'd changed his mind and is now supporting Kasich, but that he "has the right to support anyone" he wants.
Yes, Fred. You do. This is America. You can support anyone you want, as can the man who told me "I'm voting for Trump because he's a businessman and an outsider." And when I said, "Yes, but he's enabling White Supremacists," the same guy responded, "White Supremacists are voters, too." Words I'd never thought to hear from an allegedly civilized and educated person in the town where I live.
But here's the thing. You can't dissociate yourself from the consequences of that support. And the consequences of that support are real and they are very, very ugly, as we witnessed at Glory Days on Monday morning. Trump has unleashed America's most primitive subconscious.
Too many people are putting their extremely strange concept of "business" above foreign policy, international relations, and most of all, basic decency.
What was most disturbing to me, though, and what I have been talking to people about ever since, was the silence. That none of these four elected representatives had the courage to tell the mob in that diner that I had a right to speak is not just depressing, it's chilling. It's proof that my elected representatives are willing to put party over country. And isn't that how we got into this mess in the first place?
My father was a life-long Republican, who proudly served this country. I miss him every single day, but I am glad that he isn't alive to see what happened in that diner on Monday morning. It would have killed him.
Sarah Darer Littman is an award-winning columnist and novelist of books for teens. A former securities analyst, she's now an adjunct in the MFA program at WCSU, and enjoys helping young people discover the power of finding their voice as an instructor at the Writopia Lab.
DISCLAIMER: The views, opinions, positions, or strategies expressed by the author are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or positions of CTNewsJunkie.com.


text: Back in January, model Liskula Cohen decided to sue Google for refusing to reveal the identity of the anonymous blogger who ran a site entirely devoted to calling her a "skank" and an "old hag" and so on. Now, finally, she will get her justice, as a judge has ordered Google to fess up so Cohen can slap the offender with a defamation lawsuit. For all we know this ruling could shake the foundation of anonymous Internet mudslinging to its very core. But it may have ever greater implications for Cohen. "I really hope it's not somebody I know," she said yesterday. But come on, it probably will be. Who else would have any reason to harbor such animosity toward a barely known model? Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be someone really awkward, like her roommate or worse, her mom. Ultimately, this may be one of those things that's better left unknown, like your husband's Internet browsing history or the fat content of a Bacon Turkey Bravo.


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A Devon pub with "tough" customers that has seen an increase in police call-outs is to be transformed.
The Bolton Hotel in New Street, Brixham, is closed for improvements and will be renamed The Birdcage.
Details emerged at a hearing into a review of the pub's licence requested by the police on the grounds of crime and disorder.
Police said licence conditions had been breached and two of the people put forward last year to be premises supervisors were not "suitable or competent".
Torbay Council's licensing sub-committee was told £275,000 was due to be invested in the pub and there would be a focus on food when it reopened at the end of March.
Councillors were told the next phase was to create boutique-style hotel rooms.
Matthew Phipps, on behalf of owner Punch Taverns, accepted there had been problems with the pub last year, with "too much distance" between the owner and tenant who managed the premises.
He said the pub had attracted a "tough clientele" in the past who had needed strong management.
Mr Phipps said the plan was now to transform the pub under a joint venture between Punch and business operator Dan Simpson, with a new couple brought in as managers.
Mr Phipps said license conditions including offering meals would attract new customers and fundamentally change the "nature, type and style of the business".
He said: "They are a comprehensive suite of recommendations that don't allow The Bolton to return, and only allow The Birdcage to be the future."
Police licensing officer Julie Smart blamed the number of crimes and police calls last year on failings by management company Pub Solutions, which had been brought in to run the premises.
Ms Smart said: "We have been reassured that Pub Solutions are not going to have any further involvement in this."
She told councillors police had reported breaches of licence conditions, management under the influence of alcohol, problems with CCTV and staff not co-operating with officers.
Ms Smart said: "I think it would be fair to give them the opportunity to demonstrate that they can turn these premises around."
The sub-committee approved a set of new licence conditions, including allowing alcohol sales from 8am to midnight and offering table meals until 9pm.