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LoveYourLife, DavidD and Record Rotator like this.
jimod99 said: ↑
yea you're right, I made that mistake too.
mark winstanley, Jul 12, 2019 at 2:47 PM
LoveYourLife and Record Rotator like this.
gritty Well-Known Member
gritty, Jul 12, 2019 at 2:49 PM
mark winstanley said: ↑
Which Powderfinger album would you recommend? Huge fan of The Church (and thus Ian Haug).
To me, Double Allergic through to Odyssey number five are quite brilliant.
Double Allergic has a somewhat more indie-rock thing going on.
sample songs for the flavour -
Skinny Jean
Pick You Up
Living Type
Internationalist is a little more polished, but not in a bad way
The Day You Come
Hindley Street
Odyssey number five is a little more polished again, but also a little left of centre
My Kind Of Scene
Like A Dog
I like all those, but Odyssey number 5 was pretty special in my opinion. Some folks would be all about one of the other two, depends on your musical positioning to a degree.
If you ended up liking all of those, it would be hard to go wrong with any of them. BUT the debut Parables For Wooden Ears, although pretty good, sounds like a band trying to be part of the US semi-grunge scene, and I think it is quite forgettable... from then on they developed their own thing thankfully, that is much better than the debut.
Mclusky
Chorchazade
Trumans Water
feedtime
JAMC
NomeansNo
Couple of others that I think deserve mention...
HenryH, Jul 12, 2019 at 4:08 PM
Eric_Generic and Record Rotator like this.
True, but both of those albums were released in 1979.
Thing is, I'd argue that Simple Minds' real success and impact was in the 80's, and beyond. Sure, their debut sold a bit in the U.K., and then not much else until their third album in 1980. Then Sons And Fascination was the release in '81 that essentially changed everything.
Saga?
As we all know, the 1960s and 1970s represent the golden age of music on this forum.
But which post-1980 bands are your favorites?
These are mine -- in no particular order except no. 1:
1. The Church
3. Lord Huron
4. Midlake
5. Mojave 3
6. Duran Duran
7. Depeche Mode
8. The Posies
9. Wilco
10. The Jayhawks
Which ones are yours?
+ Nada Surf
BryanA-HTX Crazy Doctor
Really? I thought they were unquestionably a '70s band. Their first 3 were '70s, with the debut and LC being their most famous works.
People may say the '60s and early '70s are the golden era for them but for me that shifts a decade forward to the '70s and '80s, being a big fan of hard rock and heavy metal.
Iron Maiden (first and foremost)
Judas Priest (crossover from the '70s)
Van Halen (crossover from '70s)
Rush (crossover from '70s)
I could go on but those are just some that popped into my head.
BryanA-HTX, Jul 12, 2019 at 4:36 PM
danielbravo Forum Resident
Caracas. DC
Ah ! Ok, thanks for the info
HenryH said: ↑
Saga ? Saga ? Yes
danielbravo, Jul 12, 2019 at 6:32 PM
spaulding Hoi Polloi
The Windy City
1. Son Volt
spaulding, Jul 12, 2019 at 6:33 PM
spaulding said: ↑
That's it?
Technocentral said: ↑
Thanks! I read the title as post-1980s, and not post-1980.
Yep, I can go R.E.M. now, too!
Chemguy, Jul 12, 2019 at 6:47 PM
Terrapin Station Forum Resident
NYC Man
By no means a complete list, but some 80s & later artists (well, including a few whose first albums came out at the tail end of the 70s) that are favorites of mine. This at least gives an idea of the range of stuff I like:
!!! (Chk Chik Chick or however you want to spell it), ¡Mayday!, (hed) pe, (International) Noise Conspiracy, *NSYNC & Justin Timberlake solo, 2 Unlimited, 4-3 de Trio, 7 Walkers, A Camp, A Tribe Called Quest, Aaliyah, Aaron Lee Tasjan, A.C.T., Adam & the Ants/Adam Ant (solo), Adrian Belew (solo), African Head Charge, Aimee Mann, Aka Moon, Aksak Maboul, Alabama, Alabama Shakes, Alarum, Alcatrazz, Alice in Chains, Alison Krauss, Allan Holdsworth, Anna von Hausswolff, Angelique Kidjo, Animal Logic, Animals as Leaders, Anita Baker, Anthrax, Apex Theory, Arianna Grande, Ariel Pink, Art Zoyd (although they're questionable as post-70s, but they didn't put out much in the 70s), Asia, Atheist, The B-52's, Backstreet Boys, Barry Adamson, Basement Jaxx, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Between the Buried and Me, Beyonce, Big Pun, Big Thief, Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Bill Frisell, Biohazard, The Birthday Party, Bjork, Black Crowes, Black Eyed Peas, Black Flag, Black Label Society, Blackmore's Night, Blitzen Trapper, Body Count, Bonnie Pink, Brad Paisley, Branford Marsalis, Britney Spears, Brooks & Dunn, Boyz II Men, Busta Rhymes, Butthole Surfers, Camille, Carrie Underwood, Cassandra Wilson, Chelsea Wolfe, The Chemical Brothers, Chick Corea's Elektric Band, Chris Isaak, Chris Stapleton, Christina Aguilera, Chuck Prophet, Circuitry (metal band), Circus Devils, The Cult, Cypress Hill, Daniel Lanois, David Byrne (solo), David Lee Roth (solo), David Murray, David Torn, Dead Kennedys, Death, Death Cab for Cutie, De La Soul, Deee-Lite, Def Leppard, Destiny's Child, Devin Townshend, Devo, Dinosaur Jr., Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dixie Chicks, dredg, Drive Like Jehu, The Dust Brothers, Dwayne Dopsie, Dweezil Zappa, Dwight Yoakam, Eels, Elliott Sharp, Elvis Costello, Euringer, Eurythmics, Faith Hill, The Flaming Lips, Forest for the Trees, Fred Hammond, Fugazi, Fugees, Garth Brooks, Gary Numan, George Michael, Georgia Anne Muldrow, The Geto Boys, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Grant Lee Buffalo, Green Day, Hank Williams III, Harold Budd, Hatebreed, Henry Rollins, Henry Threadgill, High on Fire, Hoobastank, Hugo Largo/Mimi Goese, Husker Du, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Ill Nino, IQ, Iron Maiden, Israel & New Breed, Jane Siberry, Janelle Monae, Jane's Addiction, Janet Jackson, Jarboe, Jason Aldean, Jasper Van't Hof's Pili Pili, Jay-Z, Jim O'Rourke, Joe Jackson, John Scofield, John Wetton (solo), Jon Hassell, Joshua Redman, Julia Holter, Julian Cope, Julian Lennon, Kacey Musgraves, Kamasi Washington, Kanye West, Karsh Kale, Kate Bush, kd lang, Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, Kids Eat Crayons, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, King's X, Kirk Franklin, Kombinat M, Kronos Quartet, Kyuss, Laurie Anderson, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, Lily Allen, Living Colour, Lonnie Holley, The Lounge Lizards, Lustmord, Lyle Lovett, Machine Head, Madonna, Mansun, Margareth Menezes, Mariah Carey, Marilyn Manson, Mario Bauza, Martina McBride, Meat Beat Manifesto, Meat Puppets, Medeski Martin & Wood, Megadeth, Melt-Banana, Melvins, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Meshuggah, Metallica, Michael Brecker (solo), Michael Jackson, Mike Keneally, Mike Stern, Ministry, Miranda Lambert, Mojo Nixon, Monster Magnet, Morphine, Motley Crue, Motorhead, Murder by Death, My Morning Jacket, Naikaku, Natural Snow Buildings, Neko Case, Neurosis, Nicki Minaj, Nirvana, niights, Nine Inch Nails, NoMeansNo, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Olivia Tremor Control, Orb, Otis Taylor, OutKast, Overkill, Ozric Tentacles, Ozzy Osbourne (solo), P.G. Six, Panic! At the Disco, Pantera, Paquito D'Rivera, Paul Oakenfold, Pavement (and other Stephen Malkmus projects), Pere Ubu, Perfume Genius, Peter Gabriel (solo), Phil Collins (solo), Pixies, The Police + all members solo work and offshoots, Poncho Sanchez, Porcupine Tree, Porno for Pyros, Pretenders, Primus, Prince, The Prodigy, Psychic TV, Public Enemy, Public Image Ltd., Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ramleh, Rance Allen, Rancid, Randy Travis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Rick James, Rob Halford solo & other projects (Fight, Halford, etc.), Robert Plant (solo), Roberto Fonseca, The Roots, Royskopp, Ruben Blades, Ruins, Ryan Adams, Sade, Salif Keita, Saxon, Scott Henderson, Sean Eldon, Sepultura, Sharon Jones and Dap Kings, Shub-Niggurath, Sieges Even, Sigur Ros, Simon Steensland, Skinny Puppy, Slayer, Slugdge, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths/Morrissey (solo), Snoop Dogg, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Sounds of Blackness, Spock's Beard, Squeeze, St. Vincent, Stereolab, Steve Vai, Stina Nordenstam, Stone Temple Pilots, Steve Smith/Vital Information, Steven Wilson, Strapping Young Lad, Suicidal Tendencies, Sunn O))), Supergrass, Swing Out Sister, System of a Down, Take 6, The Tea Club, Tears for Fears, They Might Be Giants, Tim Berne, Tim Hecker, The Time, Tin Machine, Tom Petty, Tool, Tori Amos, Tortoise, Toto, Trey Gunn, Tribal Tech, Tricky, Trilok Gurtu, Twisted Sister/Dee Snider (solo), Ty Segall, U2, U Totem, Univers Zero, Uz Jsme Doma, Van Halen, Vanessa Williams, Voivod, The War & Treaty, The War on Drugs, Waste of Space Orchestra, Weird Al Yankovich, The White Stripes, Whitney Houston, The Winans, Winger/Kip Winger, Wynton Marsalis, Xiu Xiu, X-Legged Sally, XTC, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Yellowjackets, Yo La Tengo, Youssou N'Dour, Zs
. . . so yeah, I like some newer music
Terrapin Station, Jul 12, 2019 at 7:00 PM
McRich Forum Resident
East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
A few.
Jackpine Snag
McRich, Jul 12, 2019 at 7:04 PM
Toad of the Short Forest Forum Resident
90220 Compton
1. My Bloody Valentine
2. Broadcast
3. Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Fishmans
5. Avalanches
6. Public Enemy
7. Wu Tang Clan
8. Primal Scream (jangle pop era)
9. Ween
10. The Pharcyde
Toad of the Short Forest, Jul 12, 2019 at 7:51 PM
PaoloOcco Well-Known Member
Best: North Mississippi Allstars and if you consider Jeff Healey as Jeff Healey Band (true i think to Jeff Healey as solo artist)
The Commitements (original Soundtrack)
Onorable (Alph. order)
Altered Five Blues Band
Back Door Slam
Georgia Satellites
Howell Devine
Marcus king Band
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds (But i Know Only: Weather Below - good cd)
Travelling Wilburys
Uncle Tupelo
Whiskey Myers
One Shot in the name of the Blues
Mellow Fellows (Street party 1990)
PaoloOcco, Jul 12, 2019 at 8:01 PM
I never think when people use the word "bands" that they literally mean only bands unless they specify that. In my experience on music boards over the years, people tend to use "bands" interchangeably with "artists," "musical acts," etc.
Terrapin Station, Jul 13, 2019 at 7:21 AM
angelo73 and Record Rotator like this.
Thanks! I'll listen to samples of their various albums asap.
TexasBuck Forum Resident
Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Guns 'N Roses
That's just in my top 50 bands. I could go on and on....
TexasBuck, Jul 13, 2019 at 11:43 AM


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An eco-friendly way to keep street cats warm in Egypt goes viral (Watch Video)
National,
Islas Marías… from prison to tourism – AMLO –
By Yucatan Times on February 19, 2019
While some applaud the decision, others fear indoctrination to the youth
Mexico (Agencies). – Leftist Mexican president López Obrador announced that "Islas Marías Penitentiary Complex" will cease to be a prison and will become a space to promote tourism, camps for children and young people in which "transformative workshops" will take place.
"We have decided that Isla María, will stop being a prison. The mother island has been a prison dating from the time of Porfirio Diaz, in 1905, and it is an icon of punishment, torture, repression throughout more than a century" Lopez Obrador said.
The Islas Marías Federal Penal House, located on the Marías Islands off the coast of Nayarit, is a penitentiary establishment of the Federal Government of Mexico, was created as such on May 12, 1905, by decree issued by Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico. The Mother Island was destined to serve as a prison colony.
At one time the worst criminals were sent there, later enemies of the state or people against the government or who had fought against the state. On December 30, 1939 by decree of Lázaro Cárdenas prisoners, become settlers, and could live with their families and a new type of inmates were selected to purge sentence in the penal, for the safety of families (not being able to apply sex offenders or psychopaths). Its prison population has fluctuated from 300 to 3000 prisoners for various crimes.
The president also informed that 200 inmates could be released and that there is the possibility of reducing sentences for the rest. Lopez explained that this measure applied to this 113 year-old prison has the intention of ending a model of punishment that violates human rights, as Islas Marias "are infamously known for."
Old photo of cells inside the prison
According to AMLO, there will be savings of around 700 million pesos from the costs of maintaining this location. Josefa González Blanco, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, announced that in Islas Marias there will be camps held for children and young people in which "transformative workshops" will take place (a word that translates to "indoctrination" to many against AMLOS´s leftist government).
As for prison workers, they will be relocated to prisons closer to their homes.
The government claims that the existing infrastructure will be adapted to become a center of environmental education and training for the youth so they can interact with nature. Others in Mexico fear this could become the beginning of indoctrination camps for the youth.
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The Devoir Challenge. How to write like an American Bestseller
by ANDREW PIPER When the books editor of Le Devoir, Catherine Lalonde, called to ask if my lab would supply a data-driven guide on how to write like a bestseller, I enthusiastically said yes. But I expected everyone else would say no. Surely writers will be allergic to data. And surely Quebecois and Canadian writers won't want to…
February 17, 2016 in Research.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Literary Geography
University of Notre Dame: College of Arts & Letters: English POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN COMPUTATIONAL LITERARY GEOGRAPHY Location: Notre Dame Main Campus The Textual Geographies project at the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with the Text Mining the Novel project, solicits applications for a 12-month postdoctoral fellowship in computational literary geography. The fellow will pursue her or…
February 11, 2016 in News & Events, Research.
The Constraints of Character. Introducing a Character Feature-Space Tool
by ANDREW PIPER What is it that we do with characters? And what do they do for us? Different schools of literary theory have provided different answers to these questions. For the Russian formalists, character was above all else a "type," one that served different narrative functions, a move that has been recently reawakened in…
The Instability of Gender
By Ted Underwood and David Bamman 1500-word abstract of a paper delivered Sat, Jan 9th, at MLA 2016, in a panel with Deidre Lynch and Andrew Piper. By visualizing course evaluations, Ben Schmidt has reminded us how subtly (and irrationally) descriptions of real people are shaped by gendered expectations. Men are praised for being funny,…
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module Puppet::Parser::Functions
  # preprocess and expand each vhost
  newfunction(:preprocess_vhosts, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
    vhosts = args.first

    # get ldap servers: prefer colo specific info over total list
    ldap = function_hiera(['ldapclient::ldapservers', false])
    ldap ||= function_hiera(['ldapserver::slapd_peers', {}]).values.
      map {|name| "#{name}:636"}.join(' ')
    ldap = 'ldap1-us-west.apache.org:636' if ldap.empty?

    vhosts.each do |vhost, config|
      vhosts[vhost] = ApacheVHostMacros.new(vhosts[vhost], ldap).result
    end
  end

  #
  # Expand 'passenger' and 'authldap' entries into updates to 'custom_fragment'
  #
  class ApacheVHostMacros
    # extract facts, process passenger and authldap entries
    def initialize(facts, ldap)
      @facts = facts.dup
      @docroot = @facts['docroot'] || '/var/www'
      @fragment = @facts['custom_fragment'] || ''
      @ldap = 'ldaps://' + ldap.gsub('ldaps://', '') +
        '/ou=people,dc=apache,dc=org?uid'

      @alias = Hash.new {|hash, key| "#@docroot#{key}"}

      passenger = @facts.delete('passenger')
      expand_passenger(passenger) if passenger

      authldap = @facts.delete('authldap')
      expand_authldap(authldap) if authldap
    end

    # common logic to add/update an Apache http config section
    def section(tag, path, content=nil)
      unless @fragment.include? "<#{tag} #{path}>"
        @fragment += "\n<#{tag} #{path}>\n</#{tag}>\n"
      end

      if content
        path = Regexp.escape(path)
        content.strip!.gsub! /^\s*/, '  '
        @fragment[/\n<#{tag} #{path}>\n.*?()<\/#{tag}>/m, 1] = content + "\n"
      end
    end

    # expand passenger entries
    def expand_passenger(passenger)
      passenger.each do |url|
        @alias[url] = "#@docroot#{url}/public"
        @fragment += "\nAlias #{url}/ #{@alias[url]}\n"
        section 'Location', url, %{
          PassengerBaseURI #{url}
          PassengerAppRoot #{@docroot}#{url}
          Options -MultiViews
          CheckSpelling Off
          SetEnv HTTPS on
        }
      end
    end

    # expand authldap entries
    def expand_authldap(authldap)
      authldap.each do |auth|
        isdn = auth['idsn'] || (auth['attribute']=='memberUid' ? 'off' : 'on')

        auth['locations'].each do |url|
          if url.end_with? '/'
            directive = 'Directory'
            path = @alias[url].chomp('/')
          else
            directive = 'LocationMatch'
            path = '^' + url
          end

          section directive, path, %{
            AuthType Basic
            AuthName #{auth['name'].inspect}
            AuthBasicProvider ldap
            AuthLDAPUrl #{@ldap.inspect}
            AuthLDAPGroupAttribute #{auth['attribute']}
            AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDN #{isdn}
            Require ldap-group #{auth['group']}
          }
        end
      end
    end

    # produce result
    def result
      @fragment.gsub! /\A\n+/, '' # eliminate leading whitespace
      @facts['custom_fragment'] = @fragment unless @fragment.empty?
      @facts
    end
  end
end

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Y Factor | A fresh perspective on dating and life in your 30s.
There's nothing like a good love letter… although in today's case it's more likely to be a love email.
I once saved nearly all the love letters/emails from past boyfriends/love interests/high school crushes. I had a fantasy of writing a book about the love letters compiled during my life. It would be an interesting window into my relationships – a cool chronicle of how many relationships one woman can screw up.
However, in a cleaning hissy fit at my condo – spurred by my parents moving out of my childhood home last fall – nearly all of my adolescent love letters went in the trash.
Not sure why I pitched those and not the more recent ones.
There's just something about first kisses. When, where, how and why they happen can tell you a lot about a person. They can also tell you a lot about what the relationship might be like. Usually imbued with all sorts of anxieties, they can send tingles up your spine, set your loins on fire, or totally turn you off.
I think that was the first time I realized that I could wield power over a man. I remember breaking up with him soon after that – a scene that rolled out on my parents' front lawn. I couldn't give him a good reason; I just didn't want to "date" anymore.
So you know that old expression, "when you fall off, get right back on that horse"? Well, that's what I've been trying to do for the past two months since Frank f*cked me over by standing me up for his ex-wife at his National Guard unit's homecoming.
But this "single-time-around" has been a lot harder for me to get back in the dating scene.
I'm not sure if I'm unmotivated or if I have shut down because I was burned so badly. Maybe it's a combination of both.
So after all the crap that Frank put me through in the past month, you'd think I might have a bad opinion of men. Well, I do, but for only the ones who have screwed me over! There are still good men in this world, I see them every day.
Now judging "good men" and "good relationships" is an inexact science, as I can only see them from the outside. I can only adjudicate what's presented to me because I'm not privy to what happens behind closed doors, so these comments are based purely on my perceptions.
So now it's been three weeks since that fateful night at the Armory when I went to pick up Frank and he disappeared into thin air. After several emails to his sister, I finally heard from him.
Here was what he wrote – mind you this email came two weeks after I was supposed to pick him up.
Seriously? Seriously! Receiving this email was more emotionally disturbing to me than the actual night when he disappeared. I guess I was in shock that night, numb to any emotion except devastation. In the two intervening weeks I had time to process what happened and came to the conclusion that he had some sort of mental break own and couldn't deal with being home and confronting me.
The actual explanation was more frustrating and maddening than what I had thought. I was fuming – practically steaming out my ears – as I read the email.
However, this latest episode takes the cake!
On a recent vacation to DC with my BFF Kathleen (yes, we're that geeky about history that we take holidays in the nation's capitol), we swung by the Jefferson Memorial for a visit with our friend Tom.
Kathleen and I are both fans of this complicated and multi-faceted man; however that's not the point of this blog. One of his quotes, written in bronze on an interior wall, really hit home about something I've been marinating on for a while – change.
The quote reads, in part: "As [man] becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, [man] must advance also to keep pace with the times." I feel like this captures the journey I've been on for the past couple of years. As I've become more enlightened and my circumstances have changed, I have advanced and evolved as well. Or at least I've really tried to advance and evolve.
Reuniting is a strange phenomenon. In my case it's loaded with shaky expectations and lots of unknowns.
Frank is returning from Afghanistan in about four weeks. The past 11 months flew by really fast, but now the last month is going to drag with anticipation. He's hit the part in his tour where they are transitioning their duties to the replacement unit, so he is feeling very superfluous. This is the worst thing for a soldier in theatre. He now has time to contemplate his situation and think deeply about where they are in their life and where they are going.
The subject of mentoring has been on my mind a lot lately. It's been one of those things that when you hear about it once it sticks in your mind and then you keep noticing it everywhere.
It began in early December when I started a new job and my boss gave me a New Yorker article about a surgeon who was skeptical about the idea of having a mentor (he thought he was at the top of his game) until he tried it, and then realized it helped him become a better surgeon. He likened it to coaching.
I laughed out loud. I couldn't picture my Frank, manly and buff plumber/Army Major, reading a "smutty" woman's magazine. When I told Kathleen, she laughed too and then said that he must be highly evolved in order to feel comfortable reading it. Hmmm… highly evolved? I needed to think about that one.
Rick: The elf's name is Hermie, not Herby.


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Ricky Burdett
Professor Ricky Burdett
Professor of Urban Studies, Director of LSE Cities and Urban Age
r.burdett@lse.ac.uk
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Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at LSE and Director of LSE Cities, a global centre of research and teaching at LSE which received the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2016-18. At LSE he teaches in the Executive MSc in Cities and other courses and co-directs the Urban Age programme. Burdett is a member of the Mayor of London's Cultural Leadership Board, former Council Member of the Royal College of Art and a Trustee of the Norman Foster Foundation. He was Director of the Venice International Architecture Biennale and Curator of the Global Cities Exhibition Tate Modern in London. He was a member of the UK Government Airport Commission (2012-2015) and a member of UK Government's Urban Task Force. In 2014, Burdett was a Visiting Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University (2010-2014). Alongside his academic activities, Burdett acts as a consultant to national and city governments, private companies and philanthropic agencies. He was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the 2012 London Olympics and Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism, Mayor of London (2001-2006). He is co-editor of 'Shaping Cities in an Urban Age' (2018), 'The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century' (2017), 'Living in the Endless City' (2011) and 'The Endless City' (2007). Burdett was appointed CBE in the 2017 New Year's Honours list for services to urban design and planning and awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Art in 2019.
Executive MSc in Cities (course director)
emc.lsecities.net
LSE Cities
lse.ac.uk/Cities
Twitter: LSECities
Urban Age programme
urbanage.lsecities.net
Shaping Cities in an Urban Age (with Philipp Rode). Phaidon (2018)
The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City (with Suzi Hall). SAGE 2017
Living in the Endless City (with Deyan Sudjic). Phaidon 2011
Publications (selected)
Griffiths, Peter; Burdett, Ricky and Philipp, Rode, eds. Developing Urban Futures, Urban Age conference newspaper, Addis Ababa, LSE Cities. 2018
Burdett, Ricky and Philipp, Rode, eds. Shaping cities in an urban age. Phaidon. London. UK. 2018
Burdett, Ricky 'Flexible Urbanisms' in: R Burdett and P Rode, eds., Shaping cities in an urban age. Phaidon. London. UK. 2018
Sennett, Richard and Burdett, Ricky and Sassen, Saskia and Clos, Joan. The Quito papers and the new urban agenda. Routledge. 2018
Hall, Suzanne and Burdett, Ricky, eds. The Sage handbook of the 21st century city. SAGE Publications. 2018
Burdett, Ricky 'Inequality and patterns of urban growth' in United Nations Development Programme, The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, Volume 13, Issue No. 3, December 2016
JF Sallis, JF, F Bull, R Burdett, LD Frank, P Griffiths, B Giles-Corti and M Stevenson, 'Urban Design, Transport and Health'. The Lancet, Vol. 388, No. 10062, September 2016
Burdett, Ricky 'Designing Inequality?', BRAZIL: Restructuring Urban, March 2016
Burdett, Ricky 'Can Cities reduce poverty?', in Ban Ki-moon (ed), Sustainable Development Goals: the People's Agenda, a UN-INA publication, United Nations Association, March 2016
Burdett, Ricky 'Counterpoint' in H Hartman (ed) Brazil: Restructuring the Urban, Architectural Design, (May/June 2016), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK. 2016
Burdett, Ricky 'Democratizing Public Space', in B Hoidn (ed): DEMO-POLIS, Akademie derKünste, Berlin and Verlag Park Books, Zürich, March 2016
J Kandt, S Shu-Sen Chang , PC Yip and R Burdett 'The spatial pattern of premature mortality in Hong Kong: How does it relate to public housing?', Urban Studies, 2016
Burdett, Ricky et al; Who runs our cities? How governance structures around the world compare, Guardian Cities, 25 November 2015
R Burdett et al, Cities in numbers: How patterns of urban growth change the world, Guardian Cities, 23 November 2015
R Burdett et al, A tale of four world cities – London, Delhi, Tokyo and Bogotá compared, Guardian Cities, 11 February 2015
R Burdett ,ed. 'Innovation in Europe's Cities: A report by LSE Cities on Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2014 Mayors Challenge, LSE Cities, 2015
Burdett, Ricky; Cruz, Teddy; Harvey, David; Sassen, Saskia; Tehrani, Nader Uneven Growth: tactical urbanisms for expanding megacities, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2014
Burdett, Ricky 'Legacies of an archaic modernist: Embracing Cities, Shaping London' in Melvin, Jeremy, (ed.) Richard Rogers RA: Inside Out, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2013
Colantonio, Andrea; Burdett, Ricky and Rode, Philipp, Transforming urban economies: policy lessons from European and Asian cities. Routledge, Hampshire, UK. 2013
Burdett, Ricky 'Resilience and culture in the contemporary city'. In: Wang, Wilfried, (ed.) Culture:city. Lars Müller, Berlin. 2013
Burdett, Ricky 'Designing urban democracy: mapping scales of urban identity'. Public culture, 25 (2). 2013
Burdett, Ricky and Sudjic, Deyan, (eds.) Living in the endless city. Phaidon, London, UK. 2011
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Monthly Cash Thru OptionsMCTO) is an options trading advisory investment services firm that offers three options trading services and two newsletters. An option selling strategy offers unlimited risk and limited reward, which is opposite of what many might consider rational.
So why would anyone in their right mind want to do it. To put on a reversal, a trader would sell stock and use options.
It constitutes the first options trade for someone already familiar with buying selling stocks and would now want to trade options. Find out when to sell options, how to control risk, and the benefits of an option selling strategy for trading in the futures and commodities markets. One of the most important and difficult decisions you ll make after your company navigates a successful IPO and lockup period is when and how much of your stock to sell. The primary advantage of an option selling strategy is its ability to generate profits regardless of market direction.
In last month s article, we focused on the risks and challenges of short option trading, but now let s center on the positive. However, with new technology and services today, home sellers are starting to have a variety of options. Investors may view covered call selling writing) as leasing out the underlying stock with an option to. Put Spread: WO 07.
For this reason, our main earnings strategy is selling premium. The key to selling options is to understand where the greatest risks and opportunities lie.
Profit from stock. For the casual investor, who perhaps only buys stock once a month, the covered call option strategy is an amazing way to generate income with essentially no additional risk.
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As we discussed in part 2, the extrinsic value of an option depreciates as time passes. What about the other side of the trade.
This article will focus on the two most basic, conservative income strategies based on these two options strategies: selling cash secured puts, and covered calls. Recent research by the Asset Consulting Group indicates that the strategy of selling options for income may have some legs.
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Using Cboe LiveVol s extensive historical data empower your trading with optimal strategy selection. So where a call buyer has a capped downside risk and unlimited upside, the.
Example: You own. Here we will focus on selling options.
However, by selling covered calls, investors collect a premium which helps to reduce these falls. Option selling can. In other words in a falling or a flat market covered call writers would do better. Part 2 looked at buying.
Option Selling: A High Probability Trading Strategy TraderPlanet. Scottrade This may be a situation in which you could consider selling short or writing a put option rather than placing a stock limit order. This limits your potential for gains, but it does protect from extreme losses and also earns you immediate incomebecause call sellers are awarded a premium for selling the call option. Know Your Options Six Strategies for Your Home Sale Haus Most homeowners believe they can sell their home in one of two ways: either paying 6% commission to a real estate agent or selling the home on their own.
The investors I work with tend to be looking for steady, consistent growth and income, not high speed thrills. In part I of this arbitrage series we defined arbitrage as the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset to profit from a difference in the price.
The unique properties of options means being on the sell side can add a new dimension to a trading strategy. Heritage West uses both fundamental and technical analysis to project.
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In myweekly paycheck" strategy, we typically sell put options with the goal of our option finishing out of the money on Friday. This uncertainty causes implied volatility IV Rank to spike, and when the announcement is made, IV is crushed shortly after.
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The covered call strategy involves the selling of call options against a long stock position. Bob Lang explains how to do it successfully.
Options Strategies Selling In The Money Puts MH Derivatives Many investors are interested in strategies that help supplement their. Besides Warren Buffett s Berkshire Hathaway also sells options for income.
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The sale of put options can be an excellent way to gain exposure to a stock on which you are bullish with the added benefit of potentially owning the stock at a future date at a price below the current market price. Selling Put Options. Dynamic Option Strategy targets capital appreciation along with income generation by strategically selling options on the broad market index and large cap stocks. It only involves selling 1 call option for every 100 shares of long stock.
As with anything in life ignorance and stupidity only lead to unmanageable risk. Covered Call Tables This Covered Calls selling table ranks over 20 covered call trades by their call option yields. Here s how it works: When you short a put, you take on the obligation to buy. The win rate is very high, because we can make money even if the stock remains stagnant or even falls a modest amount.
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25 Proven StrategiesPDF) CME Group Sell out of the moneylower strike) options if you are only somewhat convinced, sell at the money options if you are very confident the market will stagnate or rise. Selling a put creates a profit and loss scenario that is exactly the opposite of long put.
The strategy is so simple that most brokerage. There are other variations of this, such as selling spreads, or including the underlying stock.
As many of my readers know, my favorite option strategy is to sell out of the- money put credit spreads. Bear Put Spread The Options Industry Council Assuming the stock moves down toward the lower strike price, the bear put spread works a lot like its long put component would as a standalone strategy.
There are many benefits to selling premium as opposed to buying premium, but there are environments where each strategy flourishes. The Basics Of Income Generating Options Strategies.
The profit payouts of the option writers are the mirror opposites to those of the option buyers. Our first options strategy for beginners is selling put spreadsshort put spreads, as the strategy has bullish market.
In doing so, you re immediately paid a premium just for selling the put option, regardless of the outcome. Com Naked" options writing brings substantial profit potential, but also high risk.
For example, if a trader is long. The basic idea behind the option selling strategy is to hope that the options you sold expire worthless so that you can pocket the premiums as profits.
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As we ve discussed in this article, an earnings event is a binary event that holds a lot of uncertainty. Covered or UncoveredNaked.
He also wants a strategy that is relatively short term that has a set amount of risk. Call options, simply known as calls, give the buyer a right to buy a particular stock at that option s strike price.
INTC moves up to28 and so your option gains at least2 in value, giving you a 200% gain versus a 12% increase in the stock. Over the last 7+ years it s been my bread and butter strategy.
Buying a call is the most basic of all options strategies. He has a hefty stock portfolio and wants to use his futures account as a way to hedge some downside risk he is exposed to in his stock portfolio.
The Options Forum 5 Minute Trading Strategy Video Best High Frequency Trading Binary Options Strategy For Beginners. It should be noted that the combined position has a profile similar to the short put.
If you fall into the latter category. The short call position is considered covered " in the event of an assignment, by the long stock position.
However, in contrast to a. Furthermore, limiting the margin requirement by selling put spreads instead of.
By using this strategy, you can easily generate a yield of. In fact covered calls.
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Plus, it s a very simple strategy. Options strategy Wikipedia Option strategies are the simultaneous, and often mixed, buying or selling of one or more options that differ in one or more of the options' variables.
Selling puts, when utilized correctly, is one of the most powerful strategies for bringing in a steady income stream. Simple Options Trading Strategies Every Investor Should Know.
When it comes to selling options, one. This strategy consists of buying one call option and selling another at a higher strike price to help pay the cost. Covers long term versus short term expiration. Options Strategies with Examples CNBC.
NakedUncovered) Call Strategies The Options Playbook A short callAKA naked call uncovered call) is a bearish outlook advanced option strategy obligating you to sell stock at the strike price if the option is assigned. The objective is to select options with the highest probability of expiring worthless.
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How To Sell Put Options To Benefit In Any Market Investopedia. Although shortnaked) puts are not quite as risky as shortnaked) calls, they are still not a strategy for inexperienced option traders or traders without substantial risk capital. Selling Options Heritage West Financial: Futures, Options. To understand how selling puts may benefit your investment strategy, a quick primer on options.
The table is updated daily, and the yields are all annualized yields, for ease of comparison, since these trades have varying time periods. Being successful selling options will always depend on your trading discipline and.
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By Bob Schultz, Contributing Editor. Decay of a particular short option will overcome any increase in option value due to adverse price movement in the underlying futures market.
Here are ten ways to help mitigate that risk and reap greater rewards when executing this type of strategy. What s more, if the stock declines by more.
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Conversely, put options, simply known as puts, give the buyer the. Basic Options Strategies with Examples.
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I only suggest selling options on companies with a moat and a good balance sheet that you would actually. Monthly cash thru options: ETF Credit Spread.
He has a passion to create millionaires. With time on your side, selling option premium is a great trading strategy, especially around holidays.
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It is a trade that. How To Trade Weekly Options With These 9 Strategies OptionSIZZLE Mechanics of strategy: Buying one option and selling another which is further OTM, in the same expiration period.
The spread generally. Options selling strategies.
Earnings Options. The spread generally profits if the stock price moves higher, just as a regular long call strategy would, up to the point where the short call caps further gains.
Using Options to Profit from Time Decay. Two of the trading services are non directional, options selling strategies that use index credit spreads iron condors.
The strategy typically returns in the neighborhood of 10% to 20 on margin) in less than two months while the underlying stock remains flat, rises, or even falls a bit. Selling Options: Strategies and Results.
While this list may seem daunting, in reality these strategies are mostly just combinations of the two most basic forms of options: puts and calls. I know of some traders that do utilize this strategy and hats off to them.
This is always done for a debit. An income generating option strategy is simply one where you sell call or put options.
OPTIONS TRADING STRATEGIES MODULE workbook final NSE calls can be an excellent way to capture the upside potential with limited downside risk. Selling Put Options: Tutorial Examples Lyn Alden I see people teaching different put selling strategies on more volatile, high risk stocks with no intention to ever buy them, just to speculate with high premiums, and that s not something I recommend for most people.
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However, I would consider this a very aggressive, almost day trading approach to option selling. The 2 Best Options Strategies, According To Academia.
Selling options against stocks that you own, or want to own, is a proven method for enhancing stock returns and reducing risk. We seek to generate positive portfolio cash flow through careful risk management in all market environments.
When you sell put options, you re betting the stock goes up, stays the same, or falls just below where it is now. The Options Futures Guide Selling options is another way to profit from option trading.
The Blue Collar Investor Posted on December 23, by Alan Ellman in Exit Strategies, Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Calculations, Put selling, Stock Option Strategies. Options Trading Blog posts tagged option selling strategies Stock.
Reversal: Primarily used by floor traders, a reversal is an arbitrage strategy that allows traders to profit when options are underpriced. Professional Builder Strategies for selling more options.
The short put may allow you to get in at a lower cost basis, while providing some profit if the stock price continues to rise. Options Strategies Made Easy: Selling Puts. Further, an option seller can be wrong in regards to market direction and. The third service is a long short directional. Writing uncovered options has the traditional connotation of picking up nickels in front of a steamroller. Do a cashless exercise.
Learn How To Trade Earnings tastytrade blog. After numerous Wealthfront clients asked the question, Jared Jacobs one of the engineers here at Wealthfront, created a simulation to.
Option strategies selling covered calls Bullish neutral strategies. Short Put Strategies.
Why Holidays Are Ideal for Selling Option Premium Explosive. Selling Put Options: Better Yield Than Stocks.
A bear put spread consists of buying one put and selling another put, at a lower strike, to offset part of the upfront cost. Latest Covered Call Tables and Strategies DoubleDividendStocks.
Selling Options: Understand Benefits and Risks for Stock Traders. Learn trading options from CBOE and OIC veteran Dan Passarelli.
However, short option trades can have significant risk. This is how it would look if we bought, to open, a weekly call and a weekly put spread using the platform thinkorswim: Call Spread: WO 06.
Things to Consider When Selling Options.


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Each Monday, Tommy Tomlinson delivers thoughtful commentary on an important topic in the news. Through these perspectives, he seeks to find common ground that leads to deeper understanding of complex issues and that helps people relate to what others are feeling, even if they don't agree.
To understand COVID-19 better, maybe we should think of it as a storm
WFAE | By Tommy Tomlinson
I've been trying to figure out some kind of unifying theory to make sense of how we should deal with the waves of COVID-19 that we're dealing with now and probably for a good while longer.
It feels to me like none of the extreme positions on COVID make much sense. It's foolish beyond belief to blow off COVID as some minor threat. Nearly five and a half million people have died from it – more than 830,000 in the United States alone. Kids will be reading about this in history books 100 years from now. It's not just a freaking cold.
But in its current form, if you're vaccinated and boosted, it's not the same threat it once was. I can understand the fear of people who want to lock things back down every time there's a surge in cases. But we have to come up with some way to calibrate the proper level of caution.
Maybe we should think about COVID the way we think about hurricanes.
The first strain of COVID was a Category 5 – Hurricane Katrina but on a global scale. It killed the cautious and the reckless alike. The best you could do was board up your house and hope that it didn't hit you.
The current omicron variant is more like a tropical storm. It's still dangerous and can still be deadly, especially for the unprepared. But if you take precautions, it's less likely to be a disaster.
There have always been people who believe they can ride out any storm. They're the ones you see every time the Weather Channel is out on the coast somewhere, interviewing some doofus who thinks he's invincible. They're the ones you see these days protesting in some Burger King because you have to wear a mask to order a Whopper.
But even for the rest of us, there are so many variables that it's not clear at any moment what we should and shouldn't do. It would help to have some sort of threat level, paired with a set of instructions. Is this strain of COVID a Category 3? Maybe we go back to wearing masks indoors, but still send kids to school. Whatever the doctors and scientists think makes the most sense.
Of course, there is one big difference between the pandemic and a hurricane. Hurricanes aren't contagious. There aren't any conspiracy theorists who think hurricanes aren't real, or anti-evacuators who mock people leaving for safer ground.
COVID is not just an act of God or fate. It's something where each of us can act in a way that tries to protect our fellow human beings. Those who refuse to do that turn themselves into storms.
Tommy Tomlinson's On My Mind column runs Mondays on WFAE and WFAE.org. It represents his opinion, not the opinion of WFAE. You can respond to this column in the comments section below. You can also email Tommy at ttomlinson@wfae.org.
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Cheapass Games presents Kill Doctor Lucky! In this notorious family game of cold-blooded murder, you hate Doctor Lucky. Why? We don't quite know. Bottom line is: you want the man dead. At the same time, so do all the other players. You don't want to get caught and go to prison, now, do you? So, you have to attempt the hit job in secret. If anyone sees you, Doctor Lucky gets to live on until next time.
The game is set in Lucky Mansion, a huge estate north of nowhere. It's just past midnight, and the killings are about to begin. But the man is called Doctor Lucky for a reason; he doesn't go easily. This job requires wits, cunning thinking, and a clever plan.
The first thing I noticed when I opened this game box was the board. It's double-sided with the usual the usual mansion-esque rooms labeled from end to end. We have different, intriguing rooms around the mansion, to say the least. They are labeled as follows: Rose Suite, Servant's Quarters, Armory, Lancaster Room, Gallery, Nursery, Trophy Room, Library, Skipper's Rest, Master Suite, Lilac Room, Tennessee Room, White Room, Winter Garden, Pantry, Kitchen, Wine Cellar, Hedge Maze, Green House, Dining Hall, Main Hall, Drawing Room, Billiard Room, Piazza, Sitting Room, Foyer, Parlor, and Carriage House. Posh, huh? Clearly, there are a lot of rooms and opportunities to kill Doctor Lucky, as you can only kill him when you two are alone and inside one of the rooms. When you try to kill him, his luck (played by other players) will save him. However, with each attempt, you get stronger, and his luck will run out.
Artists James Ernest (also the designer for the game), Israel Evans, and James Ryman have done a fantastic job with the aesthetic of the game, the board, and clarity of the cards.
This game comes with a fairly complex, but well-understandable set of rules, and a variant game in which Doctor Lucky has risen from the dead and seeks revenge; the players must escape the mansion before being killed. Moving around such a sprawling mansion and collecting murder weapons leads me to believe this game was heavily based off of Clue, a similar game in which players have to find the murderer of a death that happened within the estate.
Truly a family game, Kill Doctor Lucky requires three to eight players. However, it holds a rather mature theme for children (even though it is ages 12 and up): murder (not to mention secrecy and deception). I'm not sure if the pre-teen age is stable enough to handle such concepts and realize that they're just from a game.
Kill Doctor Lucky definitely takes some thinking, but once you catch on, it's easy to get enthralled in the game. The Weapon, Failure, and Move cards push the play time along, keeping the gameplay to less than an hour, give or take. If you ask me, this is the perfect amount of game time.
Board games have always been a great way to bring people together. Trust me, I'm a huge fan of video games, but staring at a screen isn't the same as looking around a table and seeing your friends and family having a good time—being happy. Kill Doctor Lucky is exactly what you need to make family game night a success!


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BY STEPHEN TANZER | APRIL 3, 2019
This past December seemed an ideal time for me to taste a vertical collection of the Domaine des Lambrays' historic Grand Cru Clos des Lambrays. New winemaker Boris Champy, who took over in early 2017, had just completed his first vinification on his own following the retirement of long-time estate director and winemaker Thierry Brouin last spring. Yet the veteran Brouin, who has devoted most of his adult life to painstakingly restoring this previously underperforming old property to excellence over the past nearly 40 years, was still close enough to his subject to attend the tasting as well. This turned out to be fortuitous, in light of a subsequent and unexpected change in personnel (see below).
Headquarters of the Domaine des Lambrays
The Ancient History of the Clos des Lambrays
The Clos des Lambrays is one of Burgundy's oldest and most famous Grand Crus, first cited (as Cloux des Lambreys) in the deeds of the Abbaye de Citeaux in 1365. It's also the largest clos in Burgundy that's almost entirely under single ownership. The property was broken up among more than 70 owners during the French Revolution but was mostly reassembled during the middle of the 19th century by négociant owner Louis Joly, then fully reunited by Albert-Sebastien Rodier in 1868. The Clos des Lambrays essentially became a monopole.
The property was ranked as a "première cuvée" in the 19th century, but when Burgundy's appellations were created in the 1930s, the vineyard had fallen on hard times and it was not granted Grand Cru status. (Both Clos de la Roche and Clos Saint-Denis in Morey-Saint-Denis obtained Grand Cru status in 1936, with Clos de Tart following in 1939.) And when Renée Cosson purchased the Domaine des Lambrays in 1938 from Albert Rodier, the grandson of Albert-Sebastien, the new owner did not seek Grand Cru status since that would have resulted in higher taxes. Subsequently, Cosson—and her son Henri during the 1970s—for the most part neglected the estate during their 40+ years of ownership. Although some outstanding wines were made during Cosson's ownership, such as the '37 and the '45, the vineyard was in disarray by the end of their tenure as many dying vines had not been replanted. Some vintages in the 1970s were not even bottled. By then, the locals commonly referred to the property as Clos Délabré (dilapidated).
A stone marker commemorating a very old vineyard
The Rehabilitation and Modern History of Domaine des Lambrays
The property's fortunes took a major positive turn when Roland Chambure and the brothers Fabien and Louis Saier purchased it in 1979, shortly after the death of Renée Cosson. (A tiny portion in the lower part of the Clos des Lambrays—less than one-twentieth of a hectare—has been owned since 1965 by the Taupenot-Merme family and is essentially the back yard of their house in Morey-Saint-Denis. Romain Taupenot produces less than a barrel of wine annually from these vines.) The new owners quickly hired enologist Thierry Brouin the following year to direct the estate and make the wines.
Domaine des Lambrays changed hands again in late 1996 when German contractor and long-time Burgundy lover Günter Freund and his wife Ruth acquired the estate for the current equivalent of 15 million Euros. They subsequently made further investments in vineyard replanting and renovation of the estate, undertook stricter selection of grapes on the sorting table, purchased a gentler and more efficient pneumatic press, and created an orangerie on the property.
An ancient vine in Clos des Lambrays
More recently, in the spring of 2014, the town of Morey-Saint-Denis was rocked by the news that Bernard Arnault's Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) luxury group had purchased Domaine des Lambrays at a staggering price of 105 million Euros. In addition to the prime Clos des Lambrays holding (8.66 hectares), LVMH's purchase also included about a hectare of Morey-Saint-Denis village vines grown on thin soil above the Clos, and just over 0.3 hectare of Morey Premier Cru, plus small pieces of Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Caillerets and Les Folatières, which had been bought by the Saier brothers in 1993.
With the subsequent purchase of the neighboring Clos de Tart in 2017 by François Pinault's Artémis group (which also owns Château Latour, Château Grillet and Eiseley Vineyard in Napa Valley, as well as Domaine d'Eugénie in nearby Vosne-Romanée), two of France's richest men can now be said to be waging a civilized proxy war on the slopes of Morey-Saint-Denis.
Multimedia: A Conversation with Boris Champy and Thierry Brouin
Or perhaps not so urbane: as I was finishing up this article, I was shocked to hear that Boris Champy had abruptly left Domaine des Lambrays at the end of February after barely two years there and that Jacques Devauges, who had been hired away from Domaine de l'Arlot at the beginning of 2015 to direct Clos de Tart and make its wines, was moving next door to Domaine des Lambrays. Never a dull moment in Burgundy! Devauges, who was not yet ready to discuss the reasons for the move, mentioned to me that he had worked with Brouin as a trainee at Clos des Lambrays during the vinification of the 1997 vintage. And Brouin, despite being officially retired, will once again be available for consulting advice—a good thing, as Brouin knows where the vines are buried at Domaine des Lambrays.
Clos des Lambrays vines high on the hillside
Brouin in the Vineyards and in the Winery
One of Brouin's first projects after being hired by the Saier brothers in 1980, other than distilling some remaining barrels of 1973 and 1974 Clos des Lambrays into the local brandy, was to replant about 2.5 hectares of diseased vines in 1981 and 1982—more than a quarter of the estate's vines in Clos des Lambrays—in Les Bouchots. This parcel, situated in the high northwestern section of the clos situated just to the south of the Domaine Ponsot home and cellar, had been totally ignored by the previous owners. Brouin also replaced about another quarter hectare of missing vines in the other parts of the clos because the Cossons hadn't bothered to do any replanting during their tenure. Brouin's early work at the estate enabled Clos des Lambrays to be granted Grand Cru status in 1981.
Today the vines in Clos des Lambrays range from 35 to more than 100 years of age, and Brouin told me that one of his biggest challenges has always been the need to handle the various plots and ages of vines differently. "Normally, we get four to six cuvées from the clos and for sure they are all different, depending on the microclimate, the age of the vines, and the harvest date," he told me, adding that if a particular cuvée did not have "all of the qualities that a Grand Cru requires," it could be declassified into the estate's premier cru Les Loups, the foundation of which is the premier cru parcels La Riotte and Le Village.
A steep section of Clos des Lambrays
From the time he arrived at Domaine des Lambrays, Brouin has been an early harvester. During my tastings with him through the years he always contrasted his approach to that of Sylvain Pitiot at neighboring Clos de Tart, who was notorious for picking late. Brouin's approach explains why the alcohol level of the finished Clos des Lambrays has only hit 14% once (in 2000). He also believes that his harvesting strategy preserves minerality and terroir character. At our tasting in December, Brouin told me that he regretted not waiting longer to harvest in only about 4 or 5 vintages out of the 38 he vinified here, including 1995, 2004, 2007 and 2008.
Brouin is certain that during the Cosson years, Clos des Lambrays was destemmed. But during the harvest of 1985 he kept some stems for the first time, and beginning with 1990 he made the wine entirely with whole clusters. Brouin also told me that he always practiced a fairly soft extraction. After three or four days of cold maceration, the fermentation started with the native yeasts. Brouin carried out four or five pigeages per day for about six days, using a pneumatic compressor to perform this action gently, and the total duration of the cuvaison has consistently been 12 to 14 days. Brouin was always able to hold the temperature of the fermentation to no higher than 34 degrees C. using what he described as "a really efficient system" of streaming water along the sides of the stainless steel vats. He has consistently used "no more than 50% new oak" to age the Clos des Lambrays, with François Frères his preferred cooper.
Fruit flavors in the Clos des Lambrays include black cherry and raspberry, as well as other dark fruits such as plum and even blueberry. But this is essentially a soil-driven style, with the underbrush evident in the wine mingling with herbs, olive, pepper, and dark spices.
Vines in Clos des Lambrays in winter
A Varied Terroir
Owing partly to its sheer size, the Clos des Lambrays is a rather heterogeneous site, with a 60-meter difference in elevation between the bottom and top. It's an essentially rocky, clay-rich terroir, but with mostly heavier clay and loam at the bottom, in the lieu-dit Meix-Rentier. The midslope, Les Larrets, features chalky, gravelly soil, and Brouin describes this parcel as "classic" Grand Cru, "with finesse, elegance and complexity and a perfect balance of tannins and acidity." The top section of the clos, Les Bouchots, is an undulating band of rocky limestone- and iron oxide-rich brownish-red soil that's open to the cooling influence of the Combe de Morey, which brings added elegance to the wine. Brouin considers the Clos des Lambrays to be the center of Morey-Saint-Denis, and he maintains that it boasts greater soil diversity than Clos de Tart, with part of the vineyard higher than any other Grand Cru parcel in Morey-Saint-Denis.
Brouin typically begins to assemble the blend during the first December. At this stage, inferior lots can be declassified into the estate's premier cru, usually due to underripeness and lack of body. Owing to the whole-cluster vinification, the malolactic fermentations are usually early here. Lesser barrels—for example, those with high levels of volatile acidity—may also be declassified right up to the end of aging, and the bottling typically takes place during the second March.
The top of Clos des Lambrays, high above the village of Morey-Saint-Denis
The Nature of the Wine
Brouin has always described Clos des Lambrays as an elegant, cooler blue-fruit-and-mineral expression, compared with the bigger, more new-oaky, dark-fruit-driven nature of Clos de Tart, but I often find as much red fruits (from the iron element in the soil?) as blue, particularly as the wines age. It's clearly a Grand Cru of suppleness and finesse rather than sheer power. Although its hillside is essentially an extension of Gevrey's, the Clos des Lambrays does not have the same power, muscularity and density of nearby Gevrey Grand Crus. Nor does it begin with color as deep as that of the Clos de Tart, in part due to its vinification with whole clusters. Still, it's a concentrated, intense wine that's kept vibrant and precise by a core of minerality.
A vertical collection of Clos des Lambrays
In cool vintages, Clos des Lambrays can come across as a bit spiky in the early going due to the combination of early harvesting and whole-cluster vinification, which can give the young wines distinct notes of pepper, spices, flowers, menthol and even eucalyptus. But it's enticingly fragrant from the outset and its essentially elegant tannins and underlying minerality support an orchestral expansion in bottle. The vintages of the 21st century have shown more consistent density than previous years without any loss of this Grand Cru's oxymoronic combination of musky wildness and refinement. It will be fascinating to see what the talented Jacques Devauges brings to this singular site in the coming years.
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Domaine Faiveley's Corton Clos des Cortons Faiveley: 1986-2015, Stephen Tanzer, March 2019
Domaine Joseph Roty's Charmes-Chambertin Cuvée de "Très Vieilles Vignes", Stephen Tanzer, February 2019
Joseph Drouhin's Beaune Clos des Mouches Blanc: 1979-2016, Stephen Tanzer, February 2019
Vertical Tasting of Louis Jadot's Corton Pougets, Stephen Tanzer, Febuary 2019
Château de la Tour Clos-Vougeot Vieilles Vignes 1985-2016, Stephen Tanzer, January 2019
Rocca di Montegrossi: Vigneto San Marcellino 1995–2013 (Aug 2018)


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The first sign of that was the Spanish Town flamingos flocking to the City Park lake.
The Krewe of Spanish Town stocked the lake last night and within hours of daylight, the flamingos went extinct.
Spanish Town President Bill Brumfield says it's become a tradition for the pink birds to be "adopted."
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