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'Tár' Director Todd Field Explains Why the End Credits Play at the Beginning of the Film
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One of the most frequently asked questions about "Tár" is why the film begins, rather than ends, with a lengthy credit sequence. Writer-director Todd Field finally cleared the air in a Wednesday interview, explaining that he "wanted to recalibrate the viewer's expectations about hierarchy" both on- and off-screen.
"Tár" tells the story of a fictional composer and conductor named Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), who is at the top of her game when allegations about her abuse of power turn her life upside down.
Echoing these themes, Field took a "last is first" approach, reversing the traditional order of names so that credits typically listed last appear first. Running these credits early in the film's two-hour and 38-minute runtime ensures everyone who contributed will get their due, he explained.
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"If you're going to credit people, then those credits should count as much as any other credits. Many are the hands that make a film," Field told the Los Angeles Times. "There are many filmmakers that lock arms together and so just simply speaking, I wanted to recalibrate the viewer's expectations about hierarchy. That's a fairly low-hanging piece of fruit thematically for the film."
Noticeably missing from the opening credits are its top-billed players: the actors, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, music advisor John Mauceri and conducting supervisor Natalie Murray Beale.
Though "Tár" is a "rehearsal film," Field wanted to highlight the "tremendous amount of performance required" of its principal players by grouping them together at the end.
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"If anyone came at the end other than the performers to take that curtain call, I'd be throwing fruit and tomatoes at the screen," he added. "So it was really important that they come out and we have the pleasure of letting them take a curtain call."
Lastly, Field intended the credit placement to serve as an overture or primer for the audience. He noted that the song playing in the background, "the Shipibo Conibo Icaro that's sung by Elisa Vargas Fernandez," represents the ethnographic fieldwork that is discussed in the scene that follows.
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Whether or not it would be too disorienting for audiences was a "big conversation" after the first screening of the film. There was "some real concern" from distributor Focus Features, but Field prevailed in the end.
"Tár" won Best Film and Best Actress at last night's New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and won Best Screenplay at Monday's Gotham Awards. It has received seven nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards.
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My husband Dave and I have been blessed to travel to many of the world's most exciting and interesting destinations. In fact, the love of travel and the desire to share such wonderful experiences is the principal reason I become a travel agent. While we have only recently begun PhotoBloging, we are happy to share some highlights with you in hopes of inspiring and educating fellow travelers.
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We have been doing something Special for Christmas/New Years the last couple of years. Which means something special for my birthday — which falls on December 28th. The Panama Canal cruise had been on our Bucket List for several years — and everything just fell into place to do it for Christmas 2015. Silversea is very luxurious as well as all-inclusive. Many of my river cruise clients love Silversea, so I wanted to experience it. They did not disappoint, we had a great 17 day cruise.
Luelle and Dave Robinson – Curious Tourists!
Dave and I were curious about this part of the world. So in December of 2014 we jumped at the opportunity to take this Uniworld cruise and land tour. As usual, Uniworld did not disappoint.
Here are some photos and notes from our trip in no particular order. Some temple photos are included along the way but there are a lot more at the end, along with daily itineraries, menus, etc. We started in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.
After two days we boarded our ship and began our journey on the Mekong River. We sailed up and down the Mekong around Phnom Penh, the capital, before driving by bus through the countryside to Siem Reap. Again we stayed in a 5 star hotel and visited several temples including the sites used in the movie, Lara Croft Tomb Raider.
Old World River Cruise through France!
Actually this blog will cover two cruises on French Rivers. First we did the Bordeaux Cruise on the River Royale. That meant flying non-stop from our Dulles airport to Paris and then to Bordeaux. An alternative would have been flying to Paris and then getting the train down to Bordeaux.
This map shows these two cruise locations in France.
The Bordeaux cruise goes up two rivers which join in the estuary, the Dordogne and the Garonne. The Burgundy and Provence cruise goes up the Rhone River from Marseille to Lyon.
Here's the River Royale docked in Bordeaux.
Here's the Catherine at her inaugural cruise just 5 weeks ago.
Final voyage was aboard the Magnifique! S.S. Catherine.
• All Suites and Category 1 staterooms and have full open-air balconies that with the touch of a button raises the glass to create a completely enclosed conservatory.
• Suites and the Royale Suite also offer the option for triple accommodations.
Avignon Deck: Staterooms have French balconies.
To view pictures of our Bordeaux Cruise click here.
To view pictures of our Burgundy and Provence Cruise click here.
The Douro River Valley and wine region is huge. We sailed for most of three days and never stopped seeing terraced vineyards.
Vineyard Terraces used to all run with the elevation contour lines. Now with mechanization, they run any direction that maximizes the use of the land.
Crushing the grapes the old fashioned way. The larger wineries have machines to do this, but many mid to small sized wineries still do it this way.
Going thru the locks. The ships are built as wide and long as the locks will allow with about a foot of clearance on each side.
Slate and Schist rock formation. The slate cracks, either naturally or helped along with dynamite, and allows the water and roots of the grapevines to go to tremendous depths. The rain from the 9 wet months goes down through broken plates of slate and stores in intermediary layers of soil. Then during the dry summer the water is fed slowly up through the roots to the vines as much as a hundred feet above.
Slate "boards" that look like wood but really are stone.
The wineries like to host dinner parties. We went to this one.
Returning to the ship after the dinner party.
Our bus ride from Lisbon up to Porto (where we will start our cruise up the Douro River) gave us a good view of the Portugal countryside. It isn't like the central San Joaquin Valley because there are trees everywhere (pine & eucalyptus mainly). Nor is it like Virginia because only the trees are green … under the trees everything is brown.
Perhaps the landscape that I'm familiar with that this is most like is the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California.
Along the way we stopped at a restaurant. A Christening was happening at the same time … so we lunched in the same room with the celebrating parents …and helped them celebrate. Portugal seem more laid back that way.
We also stopped along the way at Coumbria University … founded in 1290 and toured the library and spoke with some students. Pretty interesting how the preserve the old books from insects. Bats. Yes, a colony of about 50 bats live in the library behind the books. They fly around at night and eat all the insects. Of course the tables must be covered each night and cleanup duty has been happening every morning for hundreds of years. Tradition. The reason given is that they can't fumigate the old paper. They also shut the library down if humidity gets over 69%. Seemed strange to an Air Conditioning Contractor … but hey, this is Europe, they do things differently here.
Porto is at the mouth of the Douro River and is most famous for being the port from which wine from the Douro valley is shipped to the rest of the world. They are most famous for Port wine but grow all varieties. Tomorrow we head up river. Here are some photos of Porto.
Typical river boat with a load of wine. They are not used anymore since the advent of the highway and trucks but they served well for hundreds of years. Note the standing platform for the Tiller operator.
Here's a more modern version. This is the Queen Isabel, our home for the next 7 days. Those are wine warehouses behind the ship.
The famous bridge between Porto and Gaia. It was built by a protege of Eiffel who built the tower. Cars travel the lower platform and trains the upper. Pedestrians can go on both.
Cathedral. Every city has one. Bigger cities have many. This is Porto's largest.
Observing the tiles in the Train Station. Portuguese have always had a fascination with tile, using them to protect buildings from humidity. Early versions didn't have fired glazes but when this technique was learned from China, many buildings got a facelift in the 19th and early 20th century.
The lock is supposed to mean the new marriage will be permanent. The divorce rate in Portugal is the same as elsewhere, both in and out of the church. But it's a nice tradition.
The Imperial McDonalds ??? Ubiquitous.
Today we toured two castles and the coastline around Lisbon. The Castles were a study in contrasts. One was a summer castle, the other was year round. One was build four hundred years earlier than the other … and one had a much warmer feel than the other. In the process we learned a lot about the Portuguese royalty & royalty in general … not something we are familiar with in America. Here are photos of the two castles.
The Queluz Palace was used by the royal family until the end of the monarchy. It is still used for government functions and can be rented for weddings or corporate events. The interior was inspired by the French castle of Versailles and was actually designed by the same designer.
The Sintra Palace was built 400 years earlier. It is about 20 miles outside of Lisbon at about 1800 feet elevation in a micro-climate that makes it an ideal summer retreat from the heat. It was also used as an escape from the plagues that went through Europe in the middle ages. The floors & ceilings are wood which gives the warmer feeling of this palace compared to the marble and plaster and tile of the Queluz Palace.
Another shot of the dining room of the Sintra summer palace. I could see having a meal there. Could you? (That's not a sit down table. It's a buffet table and otherwise used for displaying objects) (Note: Most of the furniture was gone from both of these castles. When Napoleon was invading the country, the royal family left to Brazil for 14 years, until things cooled down … taking a lot of the furniture with them. Napoleon took the rest.
The Kitchen of the Sintra Palace. Here two complete cows could be roasted. Coals from the fireplaces would be placed under the super sized skewers and turned until done. The Palace and the town have recently been named a UN World Heritage Site.
Caravelles had 3 masts and 3 triangular sails and a crew of about 30 men. They were very maneuverable and were easy to sail. They were the main tool of the explorer and did most of the first exploration work such as down the coasts of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope and around Cape Horn and up around South America. These were not treasure ships, but were often used to protect Treasure Ships.
Galleons were the "Treasure Ships" that were loaded down with silk, spices, jewels, gold and silver from the New World that were such choice targets of pirates. These ships had square sails and were much larger and required a larger crew of over 100. They were armed with cannons but were not very maneuverable. That's why they were usually accompanied by Caravelles and travelled in convoys.
A modern comparison would be: Caravelles were pick up trucks … Galleons were the 18 Wheelers that really carried the cargo.
Sofia, our guide, today was knowledgeable and very expressive. The guides have all been very good and really make the tours worthwhile. There is no way we could have learned all that she told us through a tour book.
Is there anything that cant be made out of cork? Probably not. With the modern methods of veneering … very thin layers of cork (a few thousandths of an inch) can be laminated onto hard or soft surfaces. So just about anything that can be made can have a layer of cork applied to it … and get a whole new fashionable look. These are in the shops in Sintra.
Maintenance is a problem when you have a lot of 200 to 1200 year old castles and palaces to preserve and show to the public. This photo looks like it might be on a shack in backwoods Appalachia. But it's on the National Palace. And there are a hundred more doors and 400 more windows in need of the same kind of work. This is where austerity demanded by the bailouts has cut the renovation budget to just about zero.
Lisboners may not have the budget to repair their castles … but they know how to go to the beach! This is fairly cold water (Atlantic) at the mouth of the Tagus River. Most people are just sun bathing, with the kids and some brave should out in the water.
We lunched in Sintra. This was a dish for two with prawns and monkfish in a soup with rice on the side. Excellent. I dont know if dunking that bread in the soup would have been acceptable at a royal banquet but I didn't see any culture police … and it sure was good!
She is stepping out of the hiding place thru a cutaway that was added later. An architect was retained to make a false wall with a space behind it. When the Nazis came, there were several in the hiding place. They remained quiet for 47 hours and finally escaped through the roof. Can you see the entrance? The Nazis couldn't either.
Looking across the Danube to the New City of Vienna.
changing and interesting enough to justify another look, especially at another time of year. Last time we were here was the "Christmas Markets" cruise.
Church right across the street from where the River Ships dock.
This is truly a case where the people in charge are resting on laurels of previous generations and they dont care much for the comfort of the consumer… they figure it was good enough in the 1800's … it''s good enough for today. And there's no competition … yet. Since every single person complained of the hard chairs and tight quarters … I'll bet a place with good accoustics and comfortable chairs would do very well here.
Gustav Klimpt exhibition at the Belvedere Palace.
His art was a departure from the type of works popular in the late 1800's in Europe … bringing a greater sensuality to his works and forgoing all depth perspective except on the subject. The conservative art critics were harsh and unaccepting of this new style.
Headquarters of the Secession movement of modern artists started by Gustav Klempt … still in use today.
"The Kiss" was Klempt's first piece of this style that caused an uproar in European Art Circles.
Some facts we learned about him: He avoided the social scene & stayed to himself & never gave interviews. He travelled only for art inspiration, one of which were early Christian Mosaics. He worked hard, morning till nite … His only social outlet was his artist's secessionst group which he continued with his whole life. And his female models… With whom he fathered 14 children. He never married, but had one life long companion, who historians think was possibly lesbian.
There are several more examples of his work in the Photo Album. Pull down "Photos" on the banner menu and then choose Vienna 2012. Some of these works have recently sold for over $50,000,000.00 apiece!
Physically weak and unattractive, Eugene was rejected by the French for military service, but he was determined on a military career, so he moved to Austria and became their most famous and undefeated General.
Prince Eugene of Savoy, Austria's ugly but undefeated general.
has been a landmark for nearly 100 years. It takes 20 minutes to make the complete circle and the cabins carry 15 people.
The Vienna Ferris Wheel. Each car holds 15 people and the cycle takes 20 minutes.
People have done unique things in those 20 minutes … have a meal, get married… ??
The National Library houses one of the largest collections in the world … Over 8 million volumes …many of which are very old, even a large papyrus collection. To access these old books you must be a certified academic and can only read the books in a special reading room and wear gloves.
One of 70 posters marketing Austrian Tourism in the early 20th century.
There was an exhibit of austrian tourism posters from 1900 – 1970. After that, television and other media replaced the poster, but it was interesting to see the development of the number one method of tourism marketing in the first half of the 20th century.
Our guide had a masters degree in art history, and was a good story teller. On tours like this the local guides make or break the value of the tour. Uniworld does a good job of selecting their local guides.
Here our guide is doing a sound check before we head into town … with the earpiece that we have in one ear … so that we dont have to stay tightly bunched and they dont have to shout.
Most had advanced degrees and were passionate about their city and country. Stuff that's pretty hard to get from just a guidebook. In asking this Vienna guide about all the graffiti, she said it was mainly just youths, not so much gangs, like in some US cities. She said that the authorities dont do much about petty crimes because they dont want to be seen as "harsh" Even the ordinance requiring dog owners to clean up their dog poop … the city refused to enforce … until a mother got tired of it and got 145,000 signatures. Only then would the city begin to enforce the law. All for not wanting to be seen as harsh & authoritarian. Perhaps understandable after a heavy dosage of harshness under Hitler and Communism …. Interesting.
In addition "George" our keyboardist, Local talent came on board when we were in towns for the evening.
The on board entertainment is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to the big Ocean Cruise ships. Where they have lots of options every night, the river cruise ships usually have a keyboardist who plays every afternoon and evening. Except when special local folklore groups come on board and play. Most people come on river cruises for the destinations rather than the entertainment and after the tours and free time roaming, dont need a lot of entertaining. There are also special lecturers on topics of interest … like our History professor who gave a great lecture on the war(s) in the Balkans including the recent Kosovo war. She used the metaphor of making a stew, using many ingredients, mixed in over time, with lot's of stirring, and pressure. It was a good overview of 1500 years of history of this area. One fact that was new to me was that the Turkish Sultans maintained a level of religeous tolerance.
The subway is easy to use and is perhaps the cleanest we've been in.
They didn't even want full conversion to Islam … because the Christians and Jews were taxed higher and had to do the less desirable jobs. Like defend the frontier and fight in the Sultan's army. So changing religons became for some a matter of expedience that would change with the many regime changes this crossroads area has seen over the centuries. Our historian suggested that the "corruption" that Eastern European countries are known for is an extension of the people's skill at working outside normal channels that they have developed in order to survive the many changes over these many centuries.
Like the Entertainment, the dining is limited. There are no specialty restaurants like on the big ships. But the food onboard Uniworld ships has been excellent. Our chef on the River Princess was from Portugal and had trained in France and Italy. He favored Italy and it showed in his offerings.
George and Lianna, two doctors from Rumania. She was the official doctor. He and I were protecting our wives from pirates. … And having a good holiday!
Perhaps the best thing about the dining room is that it's the place where you meet people from all over the world. This trip we met a lot of people from Australia, Canada and England, as well as from lots of places in the US. We met the the ship's doctors, who we shared several dinners and bus rides with. Lianna was an internist from Rumania as the official doctor on board. Her husband George was also a doctor, a psychiatrist who came along … kind of like me. We joked that in both our cases, Uniworld was getting two for the price of one …. And that George could fix us if the tour got stressfull.
A trip to downtown Vienna wouldn't be complete without a look at St Stephen's Cathedral. It's over 1000 years old … and eternally now in maintenance and cleaning on the exterior.


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No screen caps now = no review from me sooooo me blabbering
Oh gosh, I can not review any movies with out screen caps anymore. My blog post seems so naked without it. Therefore, I am going to just talk nonsense in this blog post. So hopefully I won't bore anyone with no pictures to showcase.
Since I'm Hmong, a non-desi, I thought about countries around the world that watches Bollywood films. But Hmong people don't have a country!!! Regardless I thought this would be a fun post and for me to have some nostalgia moments.
I do see that some Bollywood stars have more fan base outside of India than India, itself sometimes. What do I mean by that? Well, for example: Dino Morea is not a very popular Bollywood star in India. Sure he has some hit movies, mainly not due to his acting but due to the star cast of the film. However, he's more popular and well-known in European countries, particularly Italy (maybe cause he's half Italian) and Germany.
I thought about Bollywood movies that are dubbed in Thai and Hmong. Most of the time, the films that are chosen to be dub are consistent with the star cast -- seeing a familiar face. When I was younger, my parents used to watch Dharmendra, Hema Malini, and Rajesh Khanna films. That's how I got into Bollywood films. I fell in love with the music and romantic storylines.
When I got into the double digits - 10 years old -- I started to watch more Bollywood movies with the same star cast. 80s stars - Kumar Gaurav, Poonam Dhillon, Padmini Kolhapure, Govinda, Chunky Pandey, Neelam, Rishi Kapoor.....
I remember going to the Indian store to request more Govinda movies. The store owner suggested I watch some Amitabh Bachchan movies. My mom was like "what? Who's that?" and later said to me, "he's the most popular guy in India??" She was shocked because she's never seen any of his movies. Hmong people are quite shallow human beings. What I mean by that is if there isn't a good looking star cast, then forget it. They don't want to watch the film. No wonder I get this mentality of I have to watch some hot guys on screen, lol.
Since I was a legal teenager (doesn't that sound funny?), my parents' love for Bollywood films have faded. But I still made my mom go to the Indian store to rent me movies. They just don't have enough patience to watch anymore non-dub Bollywood films in Hmong and/or Thai.
So I started learning more about Bollywood and branching out and reading on other stars. Stardust was the only available magazine at the time so it was my only source. Reading about "hit" movies introduced me to Aashiqui and Maine Pyar Kiya helped me get started to see new faces in Bollywood. Since then, I've stopped watching dub Bollywood films. Most of the times, I would end up watching the movies without subs. I didn't care. I just needed my fix of Bollywood.
Wow, I rambled on! Now since my brain has so much more knowledge of Indian cinema, at times I do cringe at Hmong people just watching the dub versions. Or don't branch out and watch more stars. Some stay strictly with only Shahrukh, Kajol, or even Rani movies.<
To get back on track, I find the following stars more loveable in the Hmong/Thai/Lao/Khmer community since I've seen dub film versions of their filmography -- Esha Deol, Amisha Patel, Kareena Kapoor. Wow, I'm listing the ladies only. I've seen mostly Shahrukh, Salman, Aamir, Hrithik movies that are dubbed.
Sorry if I blabbed on too long. I was bored at work
Whatcha say? blabbering, Nicki ApunBindaas
BB said...
It's easy to get attached to stars when they're dubbed in a language in you understand and/or you grew up with them. I started watching Bolly movies with Indian friends when I was in middle school, and since I grew up with English and German, they figured it'd be a kick to put on a movie that included German dubbing. (Of course, they had already seen the film, so they knew what was going on.) It was--by coincidence--an Amitabh Bachchan film, Don. So I have a particular fondness for Big B as a result!
Another coincidence: my grandparents wouldn't watch most things unless the people spoke German, could be dubbed in German, or the media included German subtitles. Nevermind that they spoke perfect English, they just didn't want to be bothered with it! =P
I'm a very open-minded person, however, which I think is the French side of me popping out, so I'll try all kinds of movies with a variety of stars. But like everybody else, I have my favorites!
And there's no shame in watching a movie just cause it has John Abraham in it. I don't usually go for men, especially not model-esque men, but damn, he's pretty!
Thanks the bolly list for telling me about how you got started. As a non-desi, I always find it interesting how other non-desi got interested in Bollywood.
Yes, I think you're a very open-minded person! You're going to be multi-languagial (is that even a word??). You have English, German, French, Hindi, and now Korean languages you're into. Dang, you go girl!!
As for John Abraham, how can you say that??? Didn't you show me your metrosexual Japanese man? Now, he's more prettier than John. :P Even though John is a model, I don't find him pretty. He's got that raunchy, sexy, bad-boy look to him - it's the stubs, I tell you!
Haha! Thanks! I actually don't speak French; my oldest French relatives speak German and Draconian French, thanks to the Franco-Prussian war, and they're still IN France, anyway. Sometimes my younger cousins will call me blathering in French, and I'm like, "OMFG SPEAK ENGLISH!" My Hindi is abyssmal. But I'll get there some day!
John Abraham is just too modelly for me to be sexually attracted to him. I don't find Gackt (my metro Japanese guy) sexy either; very beautiful, but not sexy. It's like I always say about certain actors/models/singers/etcetera: once you reach a certain level of pretty perfection, I stop finding you attractive and I just want to take your picture! LOL! When it comes to sexiness, I tend to prefer the earthier, more "every day" look, like Manoj Bajpai, SRK, Kajol, Tabu...none of them are OMFG GORGEOUS, and they're physically flawed, and I love that!
And it doesn't hurt that I'm 95% gay, either, so men don't often push my buttons. =P
Now I really wanna watch more dubbed Bollywood. I tend to hate dubbed movies because they look ridiculous, but it'll bring back my childhood. =)
the bolly list - you're so silly!
I can understand. My parents speak Thai, Lao, and French too but I don't speak that - only Hmong and English.
Shoot, I love my model men, hehehe. I know your love for Manoj Bajpai already.
Hahaha, I have my girl crushes too but I also like the modelly types too. That's sad cause I don't even look like one either! Maybe because I want to look like that, I love it!
You're absolutely right!! I hate watching dub Bollywood films too but they do bring back childhood memories.
That is an almighty BUTT TON of languages. O_o
Like I said, I love to look at the modelly types (photographer and all that jazz), but they stop being sexy to me when they reach a certain level of PRETTY.
My dad was watching "The Drunken Master," dubbed, tonight and I almost cried. God, dubbing always looks so stupid. XD
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Elisabeth Piner, daughter Melissa and the staff of Having A Ball Dress Hire, provided a full dress, hair and make-up service for female tennis stars, celebrities and press, attending the Wimbledon Champions Ball, 2017.
Once again this year was so busy that we didn't get time to take pictures for the website. Fortunately the Telegraph were there to capture the event.
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Mendocino Pinot Noir. from left: 2010 Drew Morning Dew Vineyard Anderson Valley Pinot Noir; 2010 Straight Line Mendocino Pinot Noir; 2010 Londer Vineyards Anderson Valley Pinot Noir.
It has been tough to get my head around Anderson Valley.
This region in western Mendocino has long been a little-known sweet spot for Pinot Noir and a few other projects like hearty Gewurztraminer. But fame of sorts arrived for Anderson Valley as it was traversing a weird progression of vintages (go to: sfg.ly/QCXeMM).
The 2008s were largely hobbled by nearby wildfires, which rendered many wines not only smoky but ashy; the buoyant 2009 vintage brought a great passel of wines but also some signs that the stylistic muddle that had taken place in other Pinot regions - Sta. Rita Hills, Russian River Valley - had also arrived in the environs of Philo.
And now we have the 2010s, a colder and more difficult year than '09 - with a few hot days that led to a lot of uneven flavors.
At their best, California's 2010 Pinots have shown a gossamer touch as I've tasted through them this year. But they have also underscored the identity crisis for a grape that could have taken a lesson from Carly Rae Jepsen about finessing a star turn.
Overexposed, maybe? I couldn't get that out of my mind as our panel sat down for a lineup of about 40 Pinot Noirs from Mendocino County. Among the few bottles from outside Anderson Valley, 2010 was pleasant enough; for example, Girasole Pinot Noir from Charlie Barra's organically farmed Redwood Valley plantings is a benchmark for how California can pull off value-priced Pinot without resorting to dark magic.
When we got to the core of Anderson Valley, though, what became clear was that the incursion of big North Coast names is creating a stark divide in style.
This is all part of Anderson Valley 2.0. But 2010 also brought out the unpleasant side of more ambitious winemaking: too many roasted flavors and hard edges to the wines, too many picking decisions that landed a few days too late. Anderson Valley's classic, tightly wound flavors in particular seem to suffer in this scenario.
The Londer label, which had been a stalwart of that middle era in Anderson Valley when Pinot first came to the fore, had its strongest lineup in years with 2010. It's still possible to find energy-filled wines that show the possibility of the sandstone and clay loam soils that made the area so compelling.
We've arrived at a curious time for Anderson Valley. It has hit critical mass for a Pinot-growing region, and with that has come a culture clash. There's more opportunity than ever for success. But perhaps the stakes are higher now than when Boonville was a quiet asterisk in California wine.
2010 Drew Morning Dew Vineyard Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($48, 13.5% alcohol): What a pairing - Jason Drew, one of Mendocino's best talents, combined with fruit from Williams Selyem founder Burt Williams' vineyard above Philo. A mix of lesser-used vine selections (the 828 clone, plus material replanted from Rochioli and one thought to have a top Burgundy lineage) makes this a shy wine at first. But its mysterious, fecund nature comes forward, full of plum skin and dark loam and anise, with fantastic energy and minerality. It's ready for a long life. That's not to diminish the charms of the savory, tightly wound 2010 Drew Fog-Eater ($42, 13.6%), which blends Morning Dew and the Balo site. But the Morning Dew is a sign of two master talents in sync.
2010 Straight Line Mendocino Pinot Noir ($28, 13.4%): Jon Grant, who also makes the Couloir wines, devised this blend using a mix of Mendocino fruit - mostly from three Anderson Valley sites (Monument Tree, Londer, Roma's) plus some grapes from the Oppenlander site in northern Mendocino and from Chileno Valley in Marin. Perfumed and savory, it brims with raspberry and talc, and those lifted aromas so classic to Mendocino. A welcome light touch here, of the sort that once made Anderson Valley wines stand out.
2010 Londer Vineyards Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($30, 14.3%): After selling their estate vineyard last year, Larry and Shirlee Londer have focused on their brand, and 2010 marks their best vintage in years. This blend is as dense and stylish as Londer usually is, with oak toast to the plum fruit but also a graceful mineral edge that sings of classic Anderson Valley. Their 2010 Ferrington Vineyard ($38, 14.5%) mixes that famous site's broad shoulders with a great raciness, but the basic bottle is tribute to the valley's best traditions.
2010 Knez Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($27, 13.4%): With help from winemaker Anthony Filiberti (Anthill Farms), Peter Knez - the new owner of the beloved Demuth and Cerise vineyards - offers a great affordable addition to the Anderson Valley roster. This blend from the two sites is still a bit quiet right now, marked by savory wood aromas and a sage-and-underbrush aspect. But the sappy berry fruit is enjoyable right now, as you'd hope for from a Pinot priced to show its origins but be enjoyed in the moment.
2010 Girasole Mendocino Pinot Noir ($16, 13.5%): Give Charlie Barra a lot of credit. After farming in Mendocino's Redwood Valley for nearly 60 years, he knows how to make the numbers work. That's why this subtle, strawberry-tinged effort, from Barra's own organic vineyards, rises above most Pinot Noir at this price and shows a truth to itself, with its floral and birch-bark aspects. Winemaker Jason Welch has found a way to let Pinot from a relatively warm spot speak with class and without pretense.
2010 Twomey Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($50, 13.6%): Another score for winemaker Ben Cane, who has brought the Silver Oak empire a capability with Pinot Noir that should prompt jealousy among the other Napa names in Anderson Valley, whose efforts can taste like rancid maple syrup in comparison. It's stylish and a touch sweet, but also subtle with its aromas of sweet bayberry and thyme. Clean and light-footed, this is (admittedly spendy) Pinot with great class.
2010 Navarro Methode a L'Ancienne Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($29, 14.1%): Navarro's benchmark edition is a bit wonky in 2010, perhaps a sign of the vintage struggle. On one hand it's almost sharp, with cranberry and watermelon skin, and then it has a roasted, almost charred, black-fruit aspect. The Anderson Valley mineral presence is there, but this seems like a Navarro vintage for the near term.
Panelists: Jon Bonné, Chronicle wine editor; Rebecca Rapaszky, manager, Noe Valley Wine Merchants; Clay Reynolds, general manager, Coco 500.


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Mesquite, Nevada is one of our nation's premier golf destinations, with 7 top notch championship courses in close proximity to casino/hotels with restaurants, spas and a full scale of resort experiences. The PALMS Golf Club is the granddaddy of the group, being the first course built in Mesquite - igniting the way to the golf explosion that has been created here. Unique to the area, the Palms features a front nine that is reminiscent of a Florida type golf experience - spacious fairways lined with gorgeous palms and ample water and sand hazards. The only difference - are the incredible surrounding mountains that provide a panorama of scenic views. Golfers will appreciate the opportunity to "warm up" on the front - as the backside provides a roller coaster ride through canyons and desert arroyos - mixed in with unique natural areas. While distance is important on the initial nine (3566 yards from the tips), the emphasis is on accuracy on the mountainous back-side. Bring your camera for a shot from the tee area on the 545 yard par five 15th - which presents a drop of 114 feet to the fairway below.
The Palms features a spacious grass range - which was used for several years as a venue for the National Long Drive Championship. An ample putting green is also on property - conveniently located near the first tee. The clubhouse features a dining area for snacks and sandwiches, with an outdoor patio featuring gorgeous vistas of the course and surrounding mountains. We were impressed with the courteous and friendly service from all employees at the club.
There are 3 sets of tees at the Palms - ranging in total distance from 4806 to 6860 yards. Women and seniors/beginners catch a good break on the tee areas on some of the more challenging holes. The 6124 yards from the mid tees provides a fair challenge for the average golfer. Play from the tips and you will find 5 par fours of 400 + yards on the front -some compounded with a challenge from the wind. The 18th is the only long par four on the back - but it plays 426 yards and uphill all the way. Overall - the Palms is a great resort golf experience - reasonably priced and one that should be part of any Mesquite golf itinerary.
The opening hole is a reachable par five that lets you grip it and rip it right off the bat. Placement long and just to the left of the huge palm/sand complex in the center of the fairway will leave the best approach. Those venturing to the right onto the 2nd fairway will also find a decent approach. Wind is often a factor on this hole. Be careful on two. The water hazard on the left is closer than it appears to be - anything hit through the fairway left will reach it. After a long but playable par three, you are confronted with perhaps the most interesting hole on the front - a dogleg right par five, with a water hazard on the right that is hidden off the tee. Some distance can be cut by staying right, but a blind second over the pond is a difficult proposition. The left side of the fairway is the safest play here. This number one handicap proceeds the easiest hole on the front - a mid range par four with little to keep you from a good score. Six provides a stern test, as it plays into the prevailing wind. The water on the right can be reached off the tee. A beautiful, Florida-style green complex with palms and bunkers is featured here. Be cautioned that the water hazard along the left side of the green extends behind the putting complex as well. The par three 7th is also challenging, with water hazards fronting and also immediately behind the green. There is ample bail-out room both right and left. Though quite long, the par four 8th is a score-able hole, especially if you can cut off some distance by playing the left side of the fairway. Be mindful of the water hazard to the left of the green on your approach. Nine heads back towards the clubhouse, and is challenging off the tee due to a water hazard along the left side and a huge bunker right. Land it on the fairway over the forward tees and a good score is possible.
The tee shot on number ten demands a carry over a ravine. There is ample room on the fairway, and a correction is possible on the second shot if you are a little right or left off the tee. The approach plays downhill and bends to the left, with palms and traps guarding a beautifully tropical green complex. Number 11 is a pretty par three, which also plays downhill. There is plenty of room short here. We found 12 to be one of the most challenging holes on the course. At 322 from the tips, it is quite short, but plays 100 yards longer due to its uphill nature and to the prevailing wind. Thirteen is also difficult, with a narrow fairway off the tee along a route that bends left towards the desert area. Land it on the fairway towards the middle right, and the approach is an easy one. Fourteen begins a set of closing holes that are collectively visually stunning. This par three plays over a ravine, with some bail our room along the grass slope that runs short of the green. Long is trouble here. 15 is one of Mesquite's top golf holes. Do not venture too close to the edge of the tee areas, as the drop off is straight down - 114 feet. You will need some distance here off the tee - even though playing considerably downhill, a good poke is needed to reach the fairway. A creek left and natural areas right make this a demanding shot. Land in the sistern that stands in the center of the fairway - as I did - and you get a free drop - no penalty. If you reach the fairway here, you may have a reasonable shot at par or better here. The water hazard to the right on 16 is possible to clear. A creek along the left is more of a hazard. Anything running through the fairway on that side will be wet. A lay up off the tee is a prudent move here as this hole plays just 363 from the tips and 314 from the whites. Seventeen requires some accurate manipulation off the elevated tee. The best case scenario is to stop your ball just short of the water hazard in the center of the fairway. A high, arcing approach is needed to carry the water hazard, while stopping short of the natural area just past the green on this number two handicap. Give it all you've got off the tee on 18 - as this finishing hole plays uphill all the way. Pay attention to the pin placement (red is up, white is middle and blue is back) and take enough club on the approach - which plays 1 to 2 clubs more.
With the slope rating ranging from 115-125, the Palms is an experience that will challenge and yet be enjoyed by all levels of golfers. Take a few extra balls - especially for the backside, and enjoy the great views and diversified layout of the Mesquite's initial course. You will find that the Palms is adequately marked, with a 150 in the center of the fairways , sprinkler heads measured to the center of the greens, and color-coded pin placements. Rates barely top $100 in season, and great off-season rates are available. Visitors may be initially a bit taken aback by the bermuda greens (all other Mesquite courses are bent grass), but after a few holes you will get used to their roll. Packages at the Casablanca Resort are incredible deals that feature accommodations and golf on a variety of courses including the Palms, Casablanca, Oasis and Falcon Ridge - rated by the Two Guys Who Golf as the most spectacular layout in the Vegas area! Packages at the Virgin River, and golf in nearby St.George can also be arranged. Visit www.virginriver.com and call 1-888 -711-4653 for more info and to make reservations. Tell em the Two Guys Who Golf sent you!
You can also visit our incredibly informational pages for the Casablanca & Virgin River Resorts and for all seven area golf courses on the Mesquite/St. George section of our golf vacation destination site. Click here!


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How an invasive species or pig hide could solve Maine's lobster bait crisis
by Maine Public May 23, 2019 May 23, 2019
A sternman on a lobster fishing boat photographs the sunrise on the way out on Portland Harbor off South Portland, July 27, 2018. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty | AP
Gulf of Maine lobstermen are casting around far and wide for new kinds of bait now that federal regulators have cut herring quotas by 70 percent. Possible solutions range from the mass importation of a nuisance fish from the Midwest, to manufactured baits, to pig hides.
Fisheries managers estimate a 50-million pound "herring gap" in Maine over the next year. To help close it, they are turning to colleagues in Illinois.
On a rainy fishing day in the Illinois River, state invasive species coordinator Kevin Irons oversees the capture of dozens of fish — all freshwater carp, which were introduced to the Mississippi Basin decades ago. They have proliferated at an epic scale, crowding out native fish and damaging ecosystems.
"The big-head, the silvers and the grass carp, you also see some of the common carp — I like to call them Grampa's carp, they've been around a long time," Irons said. "You've got four different species of invasive fish here."
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But one person's invasive species, it turns out, could be another's bait. Irons is working with counterparts in Maine to test the fish and the water they come from to make sure that, should they be trucked east for lobster bait, they do not bring exotic diseases to the Gulf of Maine.
The primary concern is a virus that can cause massive die-offs among freshwater and marine species — including herring — called viral hemorrhagic septicemia.
"Viral hemorrhagic septicemia," Irons said. "We've never seen it in the Illinois River. We've done a lot of work. We're right on the forefront of surveillance since 2005, so we have confidence that these are very healthy fish. They don't threaten other places. They're very good for humans to eat and other things."
Patrick Keliher, Maine's commissioner of Marine Resources, said "For me it's all still about safety. There may be 50 million pounds that could come here tomorrow. If it's not safe, I'm not allowing it."
Keliher's staffers have been back and forth to Illinois, as they try to determine whether the carp, once killed and frozen, would pose a biosecurity threat to the Gulf.
Keliher said that before giving his stamp of approval, he wants to see that systems are in place to ensure that no fish or water come from anywhere near Lake Michigan, where viral hemorrhagic septicemia has been found.
"It's really about chain of custody," he said. "Because, for instance, there could be mixing, they could be 'yes that facility could be getting them from the Illinois,' but they might be getting them from somewhere else that we don't want them from."
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Initial samples tested by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are good so far, and some Maine lobstermen are showing interest.
Loren Faulkingham docks his lobster boat Downeast in Jonesboro. He said that back before Maine became the first — and, still, the only — Atlantic state to institute bait biosecurity rules more than a decade ago he had good luck with carp.
"It seemed to work all right," he said.
Faulkingham and other lobstermen are also considering a number of other bait sources: Menhaden from the Gulf of Mexico — known as pogies here — were just added to the state's approved bait list. And some scientists are trying to engineer manufactured lobster baits from fishmeal.
And Faulkingham is one of a growing number of other lobstermen who have been experimenting with pig hides as bait. He said pig hide lasts longer in the water than other baits and that lobster seem to like it.
"I actually believe that we could probably bait exclusively on pig hides and, in the long run, probably bait our traps cheaper than we could have exclusively on herring."
But while lobsters may enjoy a bit of bacon, will humans like pork-fed lobsters? Matt McDonald, proprietor of First Rate Bait in Alton, said he joined forces with a University of Maine researcher to do a taste test.
"We force-fed lobster traditional fish bait, and we force-fed lobster this bait," McDonald said. "Then we purged them for like three days, cooked them and they basically did a blindfold test with 40 people, and 39 chose lobsters that were eating pig skins."
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Since he started selling pig-hides for bait 11 years ago, McDonald said, there have been other concerns to overcome. Two years ago, the Legislature required that all hair be removed from animal-hide bait to avert potential harm to lobster health, or the chance of a hairball turning up in a diner's fresh-cooked lobster tail. Lawmakers, in addition, required that fat content be minimized.
McDonald said he has also had to fend off an old maritime superstition that swine on deck bring bad luck.
"Ham sandwiches, you shouldn't eat bacon in the morning before you're jumping on board," he said.
Acceptance has grown over time, he said. This winter McDonald invested in a processing and packaging plant that will amp up capacity from last year's 2 million pounds of pig-hide, to 10 million pounds this year.
Just as the herring shortage begins to hit.
McDonald said that with the retail price of herring projected to approach his pig-hide price this summer, around $50 a bucket, he is feeling some pressure.
"I stay up at night, I'm a little worried that 250,000 cans isn't going to be enough," he said. "But we're going to do everything in our power to knock out as much bait as we can, and fill that void."
[Bait crisis could take the steam out of Maine's lobster industry this summer]
Back on the rainy Illinois River, where millions of dollars are spent every year on carp-control, fisherman Shawn Price said Maine could find an affordable solution to its bait problem, including some fish from Illinois that cost next to nothing.
"You can honestly get these fish for free if you can supply the means to transport them," Price said. "[I] hope and pray that all this works out, and Maine gets their fish. I think it would be great for everybody."
Keliher said his ultimate hope is a rebound in the local herring fishery. But for now he is waiting on the latest sample results from the Illinois waterways, and he could make a decision on the new bait as soon as this week.
Maine Public's Jennifer Mitchell and Harvest Public Media's Madelyn Beck contributed to this report.
This article appears through a media partnership with Maine Public.
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CONGRATS TO ALL OUR 2020 GRAMMY NOMINEES!!
The Big Deal Music Group family would like to congratulate all of our songwriters and artists who recently received Grammy Nominations! We're looking forward to the 62nd Grammy Awards on January 26, 2020! See our complete list of nominees here:
"Truth Hurts" — Lizzo
Tele co-written and co-produced (Nice Life)
'i, i' — Bon Iver
"iMi" co-written by Jeremy Seth Nutzman (Beggars)
"We" co-written by Phil Cook
'Cuz I Love You (Deluxe)' — Lizzo
"Tempo ft Missy Elliot" co-written by Tobias Wincorn
"Water Me" co-written by Tobias Wincorn
"Truth Hurts" co-written by Tele (Nice Life)
"Cry Baby" co-written by Joe London
Co-written and by Tele (Nice Life)
Best Pop Solo Performance
co-written by Tele (Nice Life)
Best Pop Vocal Album
'The Lion King: The Gift' — Beyoncé
"ALREADY" co-written by Clement Marie Jacques Picard and Maxime Marie Laurent Picard (Mad Decent)
'Lover' — Taylor Swift
"Cruel Summer" co-written by St. Vincent
Best Alternative Music Album
'i,i' — Bon Iver
Best Urban Contemporary Album
Best Country Album
'Stronger Than The Truth' — Reba McEntire
"Stronger Than The Truth" co-written by Hannah Blaylock
"Center Point Road" — Thomas Rhett
"Beer Can't Fix ft. Jon Pardi" co-written by Julian Bunetta (Big Family)
"That Old Truck" co-written by Julian Bunetta (Big Family)
"Blessed" co-written by Joe London
"Look What God Gave Her" co-written by Julian Bunetta & John Ryan (Big Family)
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
'X 100PRE' — Bad Bunny
"200 MPH" co-written by Richard Cook Mears, IV (Mad Decent)
Best American Roots Performance
"I'm On My Way" — Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi
Co-written by Joseph Lee Henry
"Call My Name" — I'm With Her
Written by Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Ellen Jarosz, and Sara Watkins
Best American Roots Song
"Call My Name" — Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan & Sara Watkins, songwriters (I'm With Her)
"Crossing To Jerusalem" — Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal, songwriters (Rosanne Cash)
Best Americana Album
'Who Are You Now' — Madison Cunningham
"Bound" co-written by Joseph Lee Henry
"Dry As Sand" co-written by Jay Bellerose
"Something To Believe In" co-written by Ethan Gruska
Best Bluegrass Album
'If You Can't Stand The Heat' — Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
"My Own Way" co-written by Megan McCormick)
Best Folk Album
'My Finest Work' — Andrew Bird (Produced & Mixed by Paul Butler)
'Front Porch' — Joy Williams
"All I Need" co-written by Matthew Morris
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
'Run Home Slow' — Paul Butler, engineer (The Teskey Brothers)
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media
'The Lion King: The Songs' — (Various Artists)
"ALREADY" co-written by Clement Marie Jacques Picard & Maxime Marie Laurent Picard (Mad Decent)
Best Recording Package
'i,i' — Aaron Anderson & Eric Timothy Carlson, art directors (Bon Iver)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
1963: New Directions — Josh Cheuse, art director (John Coltrane)
BIG DEAL and GRNDVW partner up!!!
Pat Magnarella Management today announced it has relaunched as GRNDVW and expanded to offer record label and publishing services through strategic partnerships with The Orchard and Big Deal Music. Veteran music managers Pat Magnarella and Graham Martin will serve as co-presidents of the company's new label and publishing branches, and continue to manage artists alongside longtime colleagues Chris Georggin and Steve Masi. "With the ever changing music landscape, we felt it was time to evolve," shared Martin. "We want GRNDVW to function as a full-service music company, not just a management company. The ability offer label and publishing services allows us to work with a more diverse roster of artists, both large and small, in a variety of capacities." "I'm excited to start this new chapter of PMM, INC. under the new name GRNDVW," added Magnarella. "As managers, we handle every detail of our clients' careers, so starting GRNDVW is a natural extension of what we already do. I'm excited for our team to start this exciting new journey."
GRNDVW's management roster includes: Beach Goons, Courtship, Flor, Goo Goo Dolls, Jagwar Twin, Kulick, Layne, Pepper, Quicksand, Rise Against, SWMRS, and The Story So Far. On August 24, 2018, The company's released its first full length album, Beach Goons' hoodratscumbag. In the coming months, GRNDVW is expected to release full length albums from Fences and No Parents.
Over the last two decades, Pat Magnarella has distinguished himself as a visionary manager with a solid track record for spotting talent and nurturing successful long-term careers. He was recruited into management by industry legend Bob Cavallo in 1990, and joined Mosaic Media Group in 1999. Since 2004, he has operated his Pat Magnarella Management company, a full service agency that provides a broad range of management, branding, and marketing services. Magnarella has guided the careers of artists including Weezer, The All-American Rejects, and Green Day, and continues to work closely with some of the biggest names in music today.
Graham Martin began his career at Rolling Stone Magazine in the ad sales department in 2000 before moving to Interscope Geffen A&M Records, where he first served as a Video Production Coordinator, before moving on to the A&R Department. In 2004 he transitioned into management, working under David "Beno" Benveniste at Velvet Hammer Music Management. There he worked for clients including Deftones and Alice and Chains, in addition to overseeing touring and merchandise business for much of company's roster. In 2010 he was promoted to General Manager of the company. Martin joined Pat Magnarella Management in 2014.
Headquartered in Encinitas, CA, the company's new moniker (pronounced "grand view") is a nod to nearby Grandview Beach surf break.
I'm With Her Wins Big at Americana!!
Major congratulations to the lovely ladies of I'm With Her on their win at the Americana Awards this week. The group took home honors for Duo/Group of the Year!! Read more about the ceremony here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/americana-honors-and-awards-2019-winners-brandi-carlile-john-prine-883271/
Big Deal inks JV with Ricky Reed's 'Nice Life'!!
Huzzah!!! Read more via Billboard below —
Indie publisher Big Deal Music Group has entered a joint venture deal with Nice Life Copyright Company, the music publishing company founded by producer-writer-artist Ricky Reed.
Under the new agreement, Big Deal will administer songs for Nice Life, and the publishers will team up to sign new talent. Already, new signings include writer-producer Tele, who co-wrote and co-produced Lizzo's smash "Truth Hurts," and writer-producers King Garbage, who co-wrote For The Throne track "Power Is Power" by The Weeknd, SZA and Travis Scott.
"One of the founding principles of Big Deal was the desire to work with close friends to build a home for songwriters and artists," said Big Deal co-president Casey Robison. "In that same vein, Ricky and I go back many, many years, so to be able to combine our teams and sign and develop new talent with such a close friend is really an extension of the family ethos that drives both of our companies."
Reed has worked with the likes of Halsey, Leon Bridges, Twenty One Pilots, The Weeknd and SZA, and was nominated for producer of the year at the 2017 Grammy Awards. He's a close collaborator of Lizzo, who is signed to his Nice Life Recording Company through Atlantic Records, and co-wrote and produced seven tracks off her 2019 breakthrough album Cuz I Love You including "Truth Hurts."
"Casey and his partners at Big Deal have created an incredibly special, nurturing environment for songwriters and artists," Reed added. "As I continue to build a platform for new songwriters and artists through Nice Life, I can't think of anyone I'd rather partner with than my friend Casey and the rest of the Big Deal family."
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The Burleson Police Department is partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on April 27. Residents can drop off unused, expired or unwanted medications, in both pill and liquid form, for safe disposal. The April event will be held at a new location, WalMart Supercenter parking lot, 951 S.W. Wilshire Blvd.
If you can't make it to the Drug Take Back Program, a drug drop box has been installed in the lobby of the police department, 1161 SW Wilshire Blvd., and is available to the public Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. to deposit unneeded prescription and over-the-counter medications.
For additional information about this program, please call Sgt. Wes Routson at 817-426-9947.


I attended because I wanted to see what was making one of PM Abe's leading advisors tick. Dr. Kitaoka did not disappoint.
There were a couple more surprises in Dr. Kitaoka's talk. One was that he was arguing that Japan is essentially in the same position today as China was in the early 20th century, where Japan is the one now who should think about how to defend itself from unjustified aggression from China! The other surprise was his reasoning about why the world should not worry about Japan's potential renewed territorial expansion abroad — because treaty agreements between the US and South Korea would preclude Japan's need to invade the Korean Peninsula for defensive reasons (now that's a novel take on Japan's colonial history!).
Oh, and that it would be an impossibility for Japan to go nuclear again, because Japan as a huge developed economy integrated into world markets is particularly vulnerable to international sanctions. But China, you see, is a member of the UN Security Council, unlike Japan, and they make UN sanctions more "ineffective". Less democratic countries, such as China and Russia, have more power in the UN than the democratic countries such as Japan, Germany, India, and Brazil… (and that was a very neat way to allude to Japan's need for a UNSC seat — told you he was smooth).
The Q&A was done by people passing papers to the front to be sorted, vetted, and read by EWC staff.
In the end, Dr. Kitaoka talked like I would expect one of Japan's elites to talk — seeing the world only in terms of power, and how Japan needs more of it because its neighbors are security threats. That's what any security analyst will say, of course (that's how they're trained), but Dr. Kitaoka spoke like a trained Gaijin Handler representing PM Abe's political agenda, not a scholar. Fascinating in that light, but scary, since these are the people who have been voted right back into power and want to dramatically alter Japan's future policy.
Japan's New National Security Strategy in the Making from East-West Center on Vimeo.
You should watch Slavoj Zizek's videos on Youtube about Nationalism & Violence. When he talks about Burlusconi's model of society (popular buffoon leading a country in which the people can enjoy all perversions, but without freedom of social discourse), he could almost be writing the textbook on Abe.
It's very interesting if you watch from a position of knowing who Abe is and what he is up to. It explains that inflation and war are essential ingredients for fascism, and we know that Abe belongs to (even leads some) groups that have policy goals aimed at returning Japanese society to 1930's values (i.e. fascism).
Also very interesting is Zizeks attack on buddhism, in which he singles out buddhism's role in normalizing Japan's war-crimes (in the process showing that D. T. Suzuki, though popular in the west, actually was a prime-mover in rationalizing, even inciting the Japanese to commit war-crimes).
Many thanks for the precious – and timely – Zizek links. His remarks on the sacred cow D.T. Suzuki are spot on and should be more widely discussed.
This speaks volumes of Japan's self-perception vis-a-vis its nemesis – up to the present day. Well, no wonder then that, as Zizek points out in one of his talks, the Japanese construed their invasion of China as a "merciful" intervention to teach those people some manners and save them from themselves.
As Befu observes in his concluding remark, it's no wonder either that Watsuji's Fuudo has remained so popular in Japan: "it is constructed on 'we-philosophy', which fits the Japanese mode of thinking like hand and glove". Abe, Kitaoka & Co. would certainly endorse it!
The full reference: Befu, Harumi. 2004. "Watsuji Tetsuro's Ecological Approach: Its Philosophical Foundations". In Asquith and Kalland (eds.), Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. London: Routledge.
@ DK, Watsuji, Abe, Aso'le and co. just dont get civil disobedience. They are frightened of it, of individual freedoms.
Japan could benefit a bit more from e.g. the alleged "chinese evasion of state control" but this is all Pot and Kettle.
Lots of crooked Japanese little companies and businessmen (I can say mostly men, in misogynist Japan) ignoring laws like paying health insurance for their NJ workers etc.
And what is pachinko? Its gambling.
"has no mind for tax burdens imposed by the state"- you mean like those crooked Japanese corporations that have no paid tax in the UK recently?
This can be traced back even to Ito Hirobumi. His limited revolution ushered in some change, but a bit like Deng Xiaoping and not like Gorbachev, human rights were never part of it- the Prussian model/German law etc was the order of the day.
Ditto the recent official in Japan who said "the people might get the mistaken idea that they govern themselves" (sorry, forget who).
Can you really believe that these bluebloods, who inherited their seats, are democrats? Their whole mission since 1955 has been to roll back individual freedoms in favor of citizen obligations to the state. And now they are getting their way.
Fascism is linked with corporatism; that is, the subordinance of individuals to large company/state interests. Yes, that sounds like Japan, and it becomes more so with each new item of the Abe agenda.


So we can keep growing across Latin America and Europe.
Rakuten has seen that we have had an unprecedented growth since their last investment cycle in July 2015 and has decided to do it again. We are now in 14 cities in Spain, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia, but we will keep growing and reach many more cities.
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Subject line. This is the most popular test where you are determining the impact of your subject line. The primary measure of success here is open rate because the Subject line mostly determines whether the subscriber will open the email or not. A common tactic is to test the email with and without personalization. This can be easily done using the Merge feature in your bulk email sender software. More tests can include email versions with and without the company's name, the subscriber's name, the product's name in the Subject line.
Create random test groups. If you keep a control group, you'll want to send test versions of your email to that group. Divide the group into several segments including the equal number of recipients and send a different copy of your mail newsletter to each segment.


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Actually, I think the patent uppers and colour choice here gives these shoes a bit of an 80s vibe. This is particularly true of the bright pink pair, which could've stepped right out of a Cindy Lauper video, but the red version is also a bit of a throwback: I know the models in Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love' video wore black pumps, not red ones, but that's what these shoes make me think of anyway!
In addition to the colours, these shoes are also notable due to the triangular insert under the heel, which gives them a more angular appearance. I'd actually prefer the shape without it, because my preference has always been for curved shapes rather than square ones, but it certainly adds another point of interest, to set these apart from all of the other pointed pumps out there right now.
I quite like the shape! Red would definitely be my colour.
It's funny, in my head Charles Jourdan is akin to Louboutin or Jimmy Choo, but in reality I know next to nothing about the brand. Never seen in Australia.


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Thanks to README_CRYPT.TXT (in current) section "Combining LUKS and LVM"
TODO - Confirm if filenames are encrypted.
I refer to my experimental drive as /dev/sdx.
In my usage, I had /dev/sda because I only had one drive.
You can double-check what you have with ls /dev/sd*.
intermediate: Be absolutely certain you differentiate it from a USB stick. You must not get this wrong. Perhaps you should mount it somewhere and look at its contents to verify it.
I refer to the main two partitions I use as /dev/sdx1 and /dev/sdx2. Modify these instructions accordingly based on what your /dev/sdx becomes.
These instructions can be easily modified to have this encrypted Slackware setup happily coexist with existing operating systems.
Partitioning is straightforward, and the Slackware setup sees and automatically configures LILO to boot Windows, and LILO is very easy to hand-edit as needed.
If you insist on using a drive which has data, or booting into a system that has another drive that has data which you're too stubborn to disconnect, always back up your data before experimenting like this. Also double-check that all your data is being backed up properly and also that you definitely know how to access and restore that data.
For drives 2TB and under, you can use fdisk, but I prefer cfdisk.
For hard drives over 2TB, you can use gdisk, but I prefer cgdisk.
Instructions have not been given here for how to use these tools. Sorry, beginners, you will have to look elsewhere for their usage.
TODO - reproduce and use the correct lingo.
Create a small unencrypted partition (~100 MB). In this documentation we are calling it /dev/sdx1.
If a small empty partition is automatically created at the beginning of your disk, ignore it.
intermediate: It is created for "partition alignment". It recommended you leave it alone and don't try to use it.
advanced: Partition Alignment has my (very) rough notes on this topic.
fdisk/cfdisk will suggest you mark this as type 82 (Linux data).
With gdisk/cgdisk you will need to mark this as type 8200 (Linux data).
You do not need to format this partition at this time. This will be done for you during the setup process.
Creating your "everything" large partition. This will become the encrypted LVM Volume Group.
Create a second large partition.
In my testing I used the rest of the available space.
In this documentation we are calling it /dev/sdx2.
For fdisk/cfdisk, set this partition's type to 8e (Linux LVM).
For gdisk/cgdisk, set this partition's type to 8e00 (Linux LVM).
Making /dev/sdx2 an encrypted partition.
Although this step can be skipped, it is highly recommended, for security reasons.
You could mount it and do something like cat /dev/urandom >> file.random, which is a resumable way of filling the drive with random data.
As I understand it, /dev/random would be better, but just isn't practical. Boy is it slow. I mean slow.
Setting up the encryption on the data partition.
The above command is something you'll have to remember or write down if you ever want to manually unlock your partition.
Setting up LVM to create targets for your various mountpoints.
This is done in the usual way.
This is done automatically by Slackware's setup.
TODO - how do I do this manually?
Manually assign /mnt/sdx1 for /boot and format it ext4.
Whilst LILO works well with any file system format that is compatible with the FIBMAP ioctl (required to map files to block numbers), you are likely to have issues when /boot is located on XFS, Btrfs or Nilfs2. You can avoid this by making an ext2 /boot partition or using a different bootloader." and so I would recommend using ext4 for this to-be-unencrypted partition.
Continue on to the liloconfig dialog.
Install lilo to the MBR. Choose "expert lilo configuration" with the option "Install to Master Boot Record (MBR)".
Assign the partition /dev/sdx1 to a /boot filesystem.
Select /dev/cryptvg/root as the root partition to boot.
Warning: "/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
Warning: Name change: ... etc.
FIXME - exactly quote the message I get.
TODO - Slackware 12.0 has errata which use bindpoints. Are these necessary?
This is if Fatal: Illegal 'root' specification: /dev/mapper/cryptroot is seen.
Remember that you are still in a chroot.
TODO - exactly quote from my attempt.
# language_code='-l nl'  # A Dutch-language keyboard.
intermediate: As the above is a complex script, you should save it into a file, mark it executable and place it in your /mnt. This way you can access it from within your chroot.
If you use a non-US keyboard, append your language code with -l <code> That's an l as in "ell".
e.g. the Dutch (nl) keyboard would append -l nl to the mkinitrd command.
intermediate: You'll have to use vi. Ugh. In vi, you press i to begin editing.
TODO - exactly quote this block of text and provide my entire lilo.conf.
advanced: why use a generic kernel?
Warning: The initial RAM disk is too big to fit between the kernel and the 15M-16M memory hole.
It will be loaded in the highest memory as though the configuration file specified "large-memory"
and it will be assumed that the BIOS supports memory moves above 16M.
When you use an initrd file for your box (a requirement for installing Slackware to LVM or LUKS partitions) you will notice that there is a maximum to the size of the kernel you use with it.
The 'huge' kernels are not meant for day-to-day use anyway. They are meant to install Slackware on a wide range of computers and that is why they are 'huge'. Either you compile your own custom kernel, or use one of the generic kernels with an initrd.
Be patient, as this may take several seconds.
You will be presented with a "Enter passphrase: " prompt.
This is where my computer always freezes.
After entering the passphrase which unlocks your encrypted partition, the system will boot into Slackware. You will be able to work as usual, and when you shut the machine down (or suspend to disk using the swap partition) all your data (including swap) will be encrypted when stored on disk.
TODO - While I presume this is included in the default kernel used in this page's example, I think maybe this is the problem I've had all along!
If you have set up an encrypted root partition, you will need to have access to your keyboard in order to type the passphrase. This may require you to add the 'uhci-hcd' and 'usbhid' modules to your initrd image if you have a USB keyboard.
Do not compile these as module! They are required in your kernel.


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Ok, so I downloaded Antergos Minimal ISO and used USBWriter for Windows to copy it to a usb drive, and boot it, and the bootloader menu comes up and I choose live usb, it attemps to boot but halts with the error message: "vmlinuz not found".
Then I checked the MD5 checksum, to make sure I got the right file, and that checks out good.
Then, I tried rufus to copy to usb, in it's default configuration, and I get an error message that when mounting the Antergos iso, filetype vfat is not supported, and it drops me into a busybox. I can't mount it from there either.
So, I try various other configurations of rufus, and some won't boot at all, bypassing to the HDD boot. Some boot and then return to the "firmware restart", and some give me the same "vmlinuz not found" error that I got from the usbwriter drive.
Computer is an hp desktop with 8g of ram. What am I doing wrong?
i'm assuming you're trying to make bootable antergos in windows?
On Windows, the recommended usb writing programs for Antergos are Etcher and Rufus (in DD mode).
On linux, dd is recommended.
Others may or may not work correctly.
Using joekamprad's suggestion of trying the boot entry for cd/DVD, did the trick!
Thank you everyone for suggestions. I had tried Rufus in dd mode, and also got the "can't find vmlinuz" from that and using USBwriter. But I was using the boot entry (default) to boot from usb.


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News|Joseph Kabila
Another African bloc calls for DR Congo vote recount
CIRGL, which includes Kenya and Uganda, calls for recount in order to guarantee transparency of poll results.
SADC, another regional body, called on the electoral commission to do vote recount on Sunday [Baz Ratner/Reuters]
A second African regional body has called for a recount in Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) contested presidential election, raising pressure on Kinshasa to fix a dispute that could fan unrest.
The International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), a 12-member body including DRC allies Angola and the Republic of the Congo, expressed "great concern" at the controversy surrounding the poll results.
"We suggest that the competent structures consider counting the votes in order to guarantee the transparency of the results," it added in a statement.
The December 30 vote was supposed to herald Congo's first democratic transfer of power in six decades of independence and a new era after President Joseph Kabila's chaotic 18-year rule.
But monitoring groups noted widespread irregularities, including faulty voting machines and poorly run polling stations, overshadowing talk of democratic progress in the vast country of 80 million people.
Second-place finisher, former Exxon Mobil executive Martin Fayulu, says he in fact won by a landslide with over 60 percent of votes and that the official winner, opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi, struck a deal with Kabila to be declared the victor.
Tshisekedi and Kabila deny this.
International pressure on Kabila has built since the vote, in part because Congo's influential Catholic Church said tallies by its 40,000-strong monitoring team show a different winner to that announced by the electoral commission.
France, Belgium, the United States and the United Kingdom have all expressed concern about the vote. But perceived criticism from inside Africa could hold greater sway in Congo.
The CIRGL statement late on Sunday echoed a statement from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which contains allies of Kinshasa like South Africa and Angola.
Approval of the election results from regional partners is critical for the legitimacy of president-elect Tshisekedi.
Spokespeople for Kabila and Tshisekedi were not reachable for comment on the statements from African bodies.
Fayulu has welcomed calls for a recount.
Isolated post-election violence in the country has many fearing a return to the kind of conflict and upheaval that killed millions since the 1990s and destabilised the region.
The DRC is the world's leading miner of cobalt, a mineral used in electric car batteries and mobile phones, and Africa's biggest copper producer. It also mines gold and diamonds.


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Horodnica – dawna gmina wiejska w powiecie kopyczynieckim województwa tarnopolskiego II Rzeczypospolitej. Siedzibą gminy była Horodnica.

Gminę utworzono 1 sierpnia 1934 r. w ramach reformy na podstawie ustawy scaleniowej z dotychczasowych gmin wiejskich: Horodnica, Postołówka, Raków Kąt i Samołuskowce.

Od września 1939 do lipca 1941 gmina znajdowała się pod okupacją ZSRR, a 1 sierpnia 1941 weszła w skład Generalnego Gubernatorstwa i nowo utworzonego dystryktu Galicja, gdzie jednocześnie została zniesiona przez włączenie do gminy Husiatyn w powiecie czortkowskim (Kreishauptmannschaft Czortków).

Po II wojnie światowej obszar dawnej gminy znalazł się w ZSRR.

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