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Fake News from Fake Sites to Guilt Real Voters to Go Vote
Algorithmic politics, 2021.
by Jim Swift
MANASSAS, VA. - OCTOBER 16: A boy watching a video on a phone passes a Glenn Youngkin sign as he exits Sabor A Barrio Restaurant in Manassas, Va. on October 16, 2021. (Eric Lee / Washington Post / Getty)
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Algorithmically speaking, I'm what you would think would be a prototypical Glenn Youngkin voter: a white male around 40 with a near-perfect voting frequency and obvious signs that throughout my voting life, I've been a Republican. That is the kind of publicly accessible information that can be hoovered up by anyone building databases for advertising campaigns.
Much less readily available, though, is the kind of information that would distinguish a Trump-supporting Republican from a longtime Republican now critical of the party and of Trump.
Which is why I wasn't surprised to get this advertisement yesterday on Facebook:
The promoted Facebook ad was for a supposed publication with a Plain Jane logo, the "Old Dominion News." It's a page that had fewer than 20 likes as of Sunday night—which is to say, it was little-read and obscure. It is clearly a fake publication trying to push people like me to turn out to vote.
Despite the "publication" having such little influence, the ad has 840 comments and 209 shares.
It turns out that "Old Dominion News" is an example of what the Columbia Journalism Review calls a "pink slime" outlet, one among hundreds. The sites
can be traced back to conservative businessman Brian Timpone. In 2012, Timpone's company Journatic, an outlet known for its low-cost automated story generation (which became known as 'pink slime journalism'), attracted national attention and outrage for faking bylines and quotes, and for plagiarism. Journatic rebranded as Locality Labs in 2013; Locality Labs is behind many of the publications we discovered that mimic the appearance and output of traditional news organizations. These sites do not bear much information about their political use or funding, but some of them have been funded by political candidates and lobbying campaigns. Metric Media, Locality Labs (or LocalLabs), Franklin Archer, the Record Inc., and Local Government Information Services (LGIS) are the main organizations involved in operating these networks of publications, and Timpone is associated in one way or another with each of them. Michigan Daily has detailed the convoluted relationship between these organizations.
When I clicked through the Facebook ad, I was brought to an (obviously fake) article about a new website:
Affording [sic] to its website, VoteRef.com is "dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair election" by providing public access to official government data pertaining to elections, including voter registration rolls, with a goal of encouraging greater voter participation in all fifty states."
"Our system of government is based upon citizen participation. We believe the people, in effect, own this data and have a legal right to see it in an understandable and transparent form," the site says.
VRF's executive director is Gina Swoboda, formerly an executive with the Arizona Secretary of State.
There are a few things to unpack here.
First, the website that the "news" article points to, VoteRef.com, resembles the mailers that political parties and organizations have used in previous election years and again this year. The idea of these mailers—targeting algorithmically selected voters—is to try to shame the recipients into voting. Maybe the guilt over seeing your own past voting record would get to you; maybe the fear that your neighbors can see that you haven't voted will get to you; either way, the idea is for you to hie yourself to the voting booth.
Second, keeping in mind that this astroturfing fake news site exists only as a way of taking advantage of Facebook's algorithms, it's hilarious that two of the top trending stories on the site are attacking . . . Facebook:
Third, check out the entity behind that VoteRef website: the "Voter Reference Foundation" and its executive director, Gina Swoboda. This new organization has reportedly been spreading lies about the 2020 election. And Swoboda, who served as the director of elections for the Trump campaign in Arizona, is herself apparently a devotee of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election:
Swoboda is also an apparent Sharpiegater, attesting to a conspiracy theory that has been debunked by officials' testimony and abandoned by the Trump campaign's own lawyer who now claims it's not not to their case.
(It's in their complaint and all over the affidavits.) pic.twitter.com/ErGYSZuAWe
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 12, 2020
Finally, one can't read too much into either the Youngkin or McAuliffe campaigns (or their allies) in Virginia based on the use of this sort of eleventh-hour Facebook advertising and astroturfed news outlet. This fake publication—and the hundreds of other such fakes out there, and the ads promoting them—are reminders of just how much money is mysteriously sloshing around on the hidden, fake-news, data-driven side of our politics.
As McKay Coppins reported in the Atlantic last year:
According to one longtime strategist, candidates looking to plant a negative story about an opponent can pay to have their desired headlines posted on some of these Potemkin news sites. By working through a third-party consulting firm—instead of paying the sites directly—candidates are able to obscure their involvement in the scheme when they file expenditures to the Federal Election Commission. Even if the stories don't fool savvy readers, the headlines are convincing enough to be flashed across the screen in a campaign commercial or slipped into fundraising emails.
Cambridge Analytica may be dead and gone, but its successors are still clunking along.
Jim Swift
Jim Swift is a senior editor at The Bulwark.
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READER: On Nov. 16, 1989 ……. 8 Jesuit martyrs were asked to make the greatest sacrifice to give up their lives for Christ and the Gospel…..On December 2nd, 1980 ……. 4 American churchwomen…. also surrendered their lives for Christ and the Gospel….. all because they dared to believe in the Faith that does Justice….
…….. because they committed the heinous crime of loving the poor and believing in the dignity of the human person.
…….. because they believed in reconciliation and peace over violence.
…….. because they stood in solidarity with the poor and the oppressed.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 1 – Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ ….. (sing) "Presente"
READER: Born in the Basque country of Spain, Ellacuria, 59 when he died, had arrived in El Salvador in 1948 as a Jesuit novice. A gifted philosopher and political analyst, Ellacuria had been Rector of the University since 1979. He had been calling for a negotiated solution ever since the war began in 1981.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 2 – Segundo Montes Mozo, SJ …… "Presente"
READER: Segundo Montes Mozo, 56, was born in Spain. His majestic presence earned him the nickname Zeus. He was head of the Sociology Dept. and Human Rights Institute. People knew him as a gentle giant, who charmed, cajoled and encouraged the people of the barrio where he worked with them with great warmth.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 3 – Ignacio Martin-Baron, SJ …… "Presente"
READER: Ignacio Martin-Baro, 44, was also from Spain. He arrived in El Salvador in 1960. He was Academic Vice-President, founder and director of the University's public polling project, head of the psychology department and a prolific writer. He is recognized as a pioneer thinker in social psychology. On weekends he would share the sacraments, play his guitar and give piles of candy to the kids at the parish in Jayuya.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 4 – Amando Lopez Quintana, SJ …… "Presente"
READER: Amando Lopez Qintana, 53, arrived from Spain in 1953 and was known as always jolly, smoking his pipe and smiling. He taught Theology at the UCA and engaged in weekend pastoral work at the parishes around San Salvador.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 5 – Juan Ramon Moreno Pardo, SJ …… "Presente"
READER: Juan Ramon Moreno Pardo, 56, was born in Spain and was known to be shy and a versatile librarian. Along with the others, with the exception of Ellacuria, he gave himself to weekend pastoral work. He also taught Theology to the students of the UCA.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 6 – Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, SJ …… "Presente"
READER: Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, 71, was the only Salvadoran Jesuit killed. He was the son of a prominent family and was the only one who did not work at the UCA, which he had helped found in 1965, but rather in the Jesuit sponsored Fe y Alegria education project for the poor, which he had also helped to start in 1969. He was affectionately known as "Lolo."
SUNG BY CANTOR: 7– Elba Julia Ramos …… "Presente"
READER: Elba Julia Ramos, 42, was the wife of the caretaker, who lived with her husband and daughter in the caretaker's cottage near the gate of the UCA. She asked the Jesuits if she and her daughter could take a room closer to the Jesuits' house for security that night. Her husband stayed home to secure their cottage.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 8 – Celina Maricet Ramos …… "Presente"
READER: Celina, 15 years old, a high school student, was the daughter of Elba and her husband, the caretaker at the UCA, and shared in martyrdom with her mother and 6 Jesuit priests on November 16, 1989.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 9 – Sister Ita Ford …… "Presente"
READER: Sister Ita Ford was targeted specifically by US backed Salvadoran death squads because she stood up to them in defense of the disappeared. She told her sister: "If you could choose to enter into other people's suffering, or to love others, you at least have to consent in some way to the possible consequences. Actually what I've learned here is the death is not the worst evil.. We look death in the face every day. But the cause of the death is evil. That's what we have to wrestle and fight against."
SUNG BY CANTOR: 10 – Sister Maura Clarke …… "Presente"
READER: Sister Maura Clarke spent seventeen years in Nicaragua working against the US backed Somoza dictatorship, before moving to El Salvador only months before her death. "If we leave the people when they suffer the Cross, how credible is our word to them?"…she wrote only weeks before her death. She continued: "The Church's role is to accompany those who suffer the most, and to witness our hope in the Resurrection."
SUNG BY CANTOR: 11 – Sister Dorothy Kazel …… "Presente"
READER: Sister Dorothy Kazel joined the Cleveland Mission Team in El Salvador and was assigned to work in the parish of La Libertad with Jean Donovan. Dorothy was beloved by one and all. Feisty and lively and sweet.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 12 – Jean Donovan …… "Presente"
READER: Jean grew up in upper-middle-class Westport, Connecticut, attended Mary Washington College in Virginia, spent a life changing year in Ireland, and tried to become an accountant. Instead, she joined the Cleveland Diocese and Maryknoll Lay Mission programs to serve in El Salvador. After several years, she found herself in the center of a war zone. And more often than not, she and the others spent their days picking up the murdered bodies left along the road. "People are being killed daily," she wrote a friend in May, 1980……"everything is hitting so close now."
SUNG BY CANTOR: 13 – Dean Brackley, S.J …… "Presente"
READER: Dean Brackley was born in upstate New York, joined the Jesuits, and taught at Fordham University in New York in the 1980's. After graduates of the School of the Americas killed six Jesuit priests and their co-workers in El Salvador in 1989, Brackley volunteered to take the place of one of the martyred Jesuits. He joined the staff of the UCA and did pastoral work in a poor urban community in San Salvador. He invites all of us to form a new generation of international solidarity, to be people who live for others, especially the crucified majorities in countries like El Salvador – and the crucified people on the margins everywhere. He died on Oct 16 of last year from cancer.
SUNG BY CANTOR: 14 – Victims of gun violence in Camden, NJ …… "Presente"
READER: This year has been the worst year for homicides in Camden, NJ since 1995. More than 58 people in a city of 77,000 have been killed this year. Fr. Jeff Putthoff, SJ of Hopeworks in Camden writes:
Camden has seen an unprecedented murder rate in 2012…[it's the] highest murder rate in the country and this is the deadliest year on record. If New York City had the same murder rate, there would be 5,654 people dead — twice that of the World Trade Center bombings…The rate of violence here is extraordinary…And yet, there is little outrage about Camden. It is rarely mentioned neither in the news nor by our political leaders at a local, state, or national level. The difference is that unlike New York, Chicago and many other big cities that face violence in the streets, the entire city of Camden is poor….As long as that continues, Camden, and America at large, are no better than the Penn State football coaches who remained silent in the face of ongoing abuse in the Nittany Lions locker room. We know and can attest to the terrible violence being done here, yet the silence perpetuates and deepens its effects. In Camden, we have been planting wooden crosses to remember each of the murder victims. While they are physical representations of the trauma, they do not tell the whole story. It extends to every person who visits them mourning for a lost one and every person who is touched by this unnecessary reality. The crosses break the silence and allow a process of healing to begin simply by acknowledging the pain that exists. It is a small first step that is intended to catalyze many more…"
We remember these and all those who have lost their lives. Amen.
Procession begins
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The opening scene of "The Duel" is all you need to see in order to determine if you're going to want to continue watching or stop after the film's first two minutes. If only I had followed my instincts, I wouldn't have wasted two hours of my time on this tedious, boring and dreadfully dull period western.
The film opens with a clichéd aerial shot of a bloody knife fight accompanied by a classical choral soundtrack (groan). After a man falls to the ground from stab wounds, a small child comes running and crouches down next to the corpse — and it's his daddy (double groan). With that, the child tearfully turns and looks at the camera (triple groan) before the title credits flash. All of these are filmmaking elements that I absolutely detest, and the movie never recovered for me.
Just how boring is this movie? So boring that it feels more like a six hour miniseries than a feature film. It's muddled with far too many tiring plot points (and plot holes) to follow. The lack of focus here is unrivaled.
The yawn-inducing story, set in the late 1800s, focuses on David (Liam Hemsworth, not the good one) and his wife Marisol (Alice Braga). David is a Texas Ranger who is sent to the small town of Helena to investigate a series of mysterious murders, including many Mexicans along the Rio Grande border. Bad, bad guy Abraham (Woody Harrelson) rules the law in the town and appoints David as Helena's sheriff in order to keep his enemy close by. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happens next.
There's a lot of pointless violence that never packs a punch or makes any sort of emotional impact. The indifferent performances are underscored by the uncreative period costuming (yeah, I get it, Abraham is a bad guy who wears white; mind not blown here). Scene after scene after scene of blandness quickly makes this film dreadfully tedious. One of the only things worse than an unfunny comedy is an excruciatingly dull western.
I'm giving this film one star because of an unintentionally hilarious scene near the end where Harrelson hacks off his own leg with a dull blade, cracks the bone off, and yanks it out from under a rock. Yeah, that part was pretty awesome.
Matt was unavailable for review.
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Box Office Breakdown: Audiences Drawn to Obsessed
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Disney, Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros, Action, Animation, Documentary, Drama, Family, Musicals, Sequels, Comedy, Thrillers, Box Office, Lists,
It was a battle between two Dreamgirls stars at the box office this weekend.
After back-to-back roles in music-related dramas, Beyonce Knowles proved she could deliver without having to sing a note. Obsessed, a thriller produced for approximately $20 million, pulled in nearly $29 million for a 1st place finish. The film, also featuring two NBC stars (The Office's Idris Elba and Heroes' Ali Larter), more than doubled last week's champ, 17 Again.
Meanwhile, an Academy Award winner and an Iron Man joined forces for a surprising fourth place finish. The Soloist, costarring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr., didn't even cross the $10 million mark. Although it was once considered as a pre-Oscars release, the film's debut grossed less than last week's nominee-filled entry, State of Play.
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Obsessed, Sony, $28,612,730 (avg. $11,260)
17 Again, Warner Bros., $11,518,495 (avg. $3539)
Fighting, Universal, $11,024,370 (avg. $4775)
The Soloist, Paramount, $9,716,458 (avg. $4801)
Earth, Disney, $8,825,760 (avg. $4892)
Monsters vs. Aliens, Dreamworks, $8,520,826 (avg. $2537)
State of Play, Universal, $6,848,885 (avg. $2440)
Hannah Montana: The Movie, $6,437,141, GROSS (avg. $1992)
Fast & Furious, Universal, $6,204,940 (avg. $1740)
Crank: High Voltage, Lionsgate, $2,618,379 (avg. $1178)
(You can review last week's numbers here.)
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– Look at all those people held by snakes.
– Those are satan's soldiers, torturing bad people, and that's satan in the corner.
– Bad people will end up there, in hell.
This was a sample of our childhood conversations at the Haygazian Armenian elementary school in Aleppo, which was in the same estate as the Forty Martyrs Armenian church, which was bombed and leveled two days ago.
Every Friday at 8 AM they took 5th and 6th graders to the church to practice the Holy Liturgy, we spent an hour and a half singing every week for months, preparing for the annual Armenian Genocide commemoration service on April 24th in the Armenian cemetery of Aleppo.
There were six guys in my 6th grade class, we had formed a gang, and were the trouble makers of the school that year. One of the little games we used to play during the Friday morning rehearsal was the "Yawning game", which George from our group came up with, which basically was looking into the victim's face during the rehearsal and faking a yawn, and the victim would start yawning for real within seconds. Mr. Vahe, the music teacher or Der Yeznig the priest and our religion teacher would make angry eye contact with the victim, which basically for a 11 year old meant doom.
My friends Alex and Tavit, were the masters of the spit balls, and the main weapon of the rest of us were the rubber band slingshots, of course a regular book would become a "pizza" shot as we called them, if needed.
The estate also included the center of "Hamazkayin" the Armenian Educational & Cultural Society, with the Arshile Gorky academy, the music halls and the offices. One of the most interesting memories associated with this place was the rumor we kept hearing during every break between classes in the school yard, – "Jesus is playing piano in the hall upstairs". Everybody would run over to sneak behind the door and listen "Jesus" play the piano, which actually was Maestro Sedrak Yerkanyan, who back then was the conductor of Hamazkayin's Zvartnots choir, we confused him with Jesus because of his very long hair.
Ruins of the church and the nearby stores.
Those days are just memories from my childhood now, alongside thousands of others, from the Forty Martyrs church, The Haygazian school, and the narrow streets around them.
The characters and places behind those memories are gone now. Days after the centennial of the Armenian Genocide the place where we commemorated the event as children was bombed and brought down to the ground, all that is left is a destroyed belfry and the six young men that shared memories in that church. It is hard now to get together and relive the past with my friends as we are all living all over the world; from Worcester, Massachusetts to Yerevan, Armenia to Beirut, and Aleppo. The last time I saw those guys was the last time I visited Syria back in 2010, months before the conflict started. I don't know if the six of us will be in the same place again together, but I'm sure each of us will hold onto those memories, and remember the first chapter of our lives every time we use a pen or a rubber band like the ones we used when we were young trouble-makers. I know I still look at these simple things and smile when I am reminded of those days, it is something that will always trigger memories of the past.


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The risks of AI: a real-world problem or academic speculation?
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Artificial intelligence (AI) isn't a future concept – it's something that's being deployed in a number of settings right here and now. And while AI technology has the ability to transform our society for the better, many are concerned about the harmful side effects that might come alongside it.
I recently hosted a panel discussion on AI safety with our partners at ASI Data Science, and I was surprised to find most of the risks aren't immediate, pressing concerns, but more academic problems that could take place in five or 10 years' time.
So, I put the question to our panel of tech, legal and commercial experts: Is AI safety a real-world problem today, or purely academic speculation?
AI poses threats both now and in the future.
There's a good reason why academics are so strongly focused on the future risks of AI, said ASI Data Science's Head of Science, Dr Ilya Feige. "The largest existential risk to humanity is this" he claimed, pointing out that AI is a far more pressing concern than the likes of climate change.
The academic community is mainly focused on threats posed by autonomous algorithms, which we are a few years away from fully developing. The main obstacle with autonomous robots is that once they're activated, we don't know how to switch them off, said Ilya.
"Generally intelligent autonomous robots that go out and solve problems, those I think should be regulated," said Ilya.
Human-controlled algorithms, on the other hand, pose less of a threat to society as a whole and shouldn't be regulated any more than they are already, but these algorithms still pose real-world problems that are impacting us today, particularly as organisations look to incorporate AI technology into their business offerings.
The argument for greater regulation.
Digital Ethicist and TEDx Speaker, Charles Radclyffe, believes AI is a real-world problem right now, and expressed a strong belief that more regulation needs to be put in place.
Drawing contrasts to the industrial revolution, Charles argued that the drive for technological innovation took precedence over what was best for society as a whole, and perhaps more regulation throughout this period could have stopped some of the less favourable side effects from taking place.
Mentioning internet giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Netflix, Charles argued that the "different economic climate we have today is very much a winner takes all economic model," and while technology has done some great things, it has also "broken and exploited some of the weaknesses in the capitalist economic structure."
On the end of the spectrum, Charles highlighted the general confusion that surrounds AI technology. "It's just math," he said, pointing out that "people fundamentally misunderstand the distinction between reality and science fiction, and I think that's a dangerous thing."
Governmental regulations will hinder AI innovation.
Financial Services and FinTech Partner at Slaughter and May, Ben Kingsley, said AI safety isn't a purely academic topic – it is a real-world problem right now and will result in real-world casualties, just like any other revolution.
"AI is already in use in some quite mundane contexts," Ben pointed out. "I don't think the solution or the means of achieving safety in that deployment is through some generic form of legislation or regulation."
A government regulation "would have a very negative impact on all of the good that is already being done through research and development of AI solutions."
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Q: Compile simple C Bluez program withouth installed libraries I have written a simple C program the performs an LEScan, which is present as a function in hcitools (Bluez). The following are my Bluez library includes, and all the function definitions are present in there:
//Bluez Libraries
#include "lib/bluetooth.h"
#include "lib/hci.h"
#include "lib/hci_lib.h"

My question is: When I compile, I have to include the installed bluetooth libraries. Is there any way around this? Could I compile without the need for the installed Bluetooth Libraries?
gcc main.c -lbluetooth -o exe/simpleScan

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Florida law requires owners of new public food service and new owners of existing establishments to obtain a license from the division before operating. In addition, plan review is required when the establishment is: 1) newly built, 2) converted from another use, 3) extensively remodeled or 4) re-opened after being closed at least 1 year. Usually, we recommend you apply for plan review prior to building or remodeling your establishment, and then apply for license at least 30 days before you begin operations. If you want to apply for your plan review and food service license separately, please return to the previous screen and choose the appropriate plan review or license application. The application process described below is for a NEW CATERING LICENSE WITH PLAN REVIEW.
Caterers are public food service establishments where food or drink is prepared for service elsewhere. The term includes catering kitchens and commissaries. The term "caterer" does not include those establishments licensed pursuant to Chapters 500 or 381, FS, or which exclusively prepare or serve traditional bakery goods such as cakes, pastries, bagels, or confections. If a licensed establishment provides catering services, it is not required to hold a separate catering license from the division. Caterers must meet all applicable standards of a public food service establishment as provided in rule. Separate independent caterers utilizing the equipment or premises of a licensed establishment are deemed operators as defined by subsection 509.013(2), FS, of such public food service establishment and subject to all applicable requirements of law and rule, including a separate public food service establishment license. [Rule 61C-1.002(5)(a)3., Florida Administrative Code]
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The opposition's dilemma
June 20, 2021 by Randy David
By "opposition," I simply mean here the many groups and individuals that are determined to prevent the Duterte regime from perpetuating itself beyond the 2022 presidential election. I do not use the term in the context of the "government/opposition" rivalry that one finds in mature democracies, where stable political parties regularly compete with one another for the right to hold the reins of government.
Martial law destroyed such parties in our country in 1972.
So-called "coalitions," cobbled together by political impresarios, have tried to perform some of the functions of the pre-ML parties, with varying results. They sometimes manage to elect a president, but not a "government" in the true sense of the word. As their shelf life does not go beyond the elections, they have no influence over the people they thrust into office.
This state of affairs essentially leaves the country with administrations that have no coherent programs, surrounded by sycophants and politicians with an ever-shifting relationship to the current administration. At the same time, it offers little incentive for the formation of a strong and unified opposition.
The Duterte presidency has been no exception. President Duterte has done little to strengthen the party, PDP-Laban, under whose banner he ran as a candidate in 2016. Neither has he created his own national party or movement—or formed a new political force that might provide ideological continuity or support for his agenda.
Everything about this administration has revolved basically around the Duterte persona — and the pet projects he has championed: the bloody war on drugs and the pivot to China. As costly and controversial as these have been in their consequences, the drug war and the turn to China have barely dented his popularity.
It is the uniqueness of the Duterte persona itself that has shaped the public attitude toward this administration. In previous columns, I have tried to spell out the nature of this persona, the popular sentiments to which it effectively responds, and the presidential style it has spawned — for which I coined the term "Dutertismo."
Dutertismo is primarily defined by its open disregard of a society's institutional guardrails, especially of the checks to executive prerogative. It is impulsive, relying mostly on gut feel, and has no patience for careful study of crucial questions. Its gauge of policy effectiveness is the shock value it creates and the fear it induces in its intended targets. It has no need for periodic assessment of policy outcomes. It is more concerned with impression management than on the production of enduring social change. It does not hide its preference for direct authoritarian means over the slow deliberative procedures of a democratic system.
This style of decision-making should have long gone out of fashion in the modern world. It is mostly associated with traditional patriarchal societies. That it has made a comeback even in developed countries attests to the growing need of voters in the era of globalization to simplify political choices in favor of drastic solutions to old and new problems.
The point is, there is no way the opposition can challenge this administration without directly addressing the fundamental issue that is staring us in the face — namely, this President's dictatorial decision-making style and its dysfunctions. The opposition must patiently explain what is wrong with this form of governance, how it has brought the country to the dire situation it is in, and why we urgently need a different kind of leader. This is different from merely demonizing a political enemy.
Elections in our country have seldom been driven solely by issues. In fact, they have mostly been about personalities and what they represent in terms of the things that are valued. That is why our presidential debates have rewarded not those who offer the clearest answers to policy questions, but those who present themselves in a manner that creates the desired impressions.
What are some of the images that are highly valued in our present political culture? Foremost of these are the following: Authenticity — you confess your weaknesses, you don't pretend to be what you are not; Compassion — you treat the suffering of the many as your own and promise to avenge them; Boldness — you do not hesitate to offend the powerful, the rich, and the respectable; Decisiveness — you act swiftly and demand quick results, even if it means having to cut corners and defy the law. These are at the heart of today's populism.
This kind of culture puts a premium on personal projection rather than on governmental performance. To zero in exclusively on the failures and shortcomings of the government, and not pay equal attention to the dysfunctions of the Duterte style of leadership from which they emanate, is to misunderstand our political culture. The issue is Duterte and what he represents.
The principal question in the 2022 elections is whether our country can allow this presidency to continue for another six years using as proxy its anointed successor. To field a presidential candidate and a senatorial slate that will solely focus on policy issues, while expressly avoiding direct criticism of a wildly popular president for fear of alienating his devotees, is to lose a rare opportunity to invite Filipino voters to do a soul-searching. It is to fail to undertake what is demanded of true leaders—which is to lead, to teach, and to remind our people that we are all ultimately responsible for what happens to the nation.
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Duonao – Massive HD Videos Watch Online for Free (Find All Working Links)
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Duonao, also known as the IYF.TV in China and the US is an online movie and film streaming platform where you can watch your favorite shows for free.
People everywhere around the world want to watch their favorite shows but there is one thing keeping them from watching them – the hefty subscription fee.
One must assume that you need to buy Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and even HBO subscriptions to watch them all but what if we told you about that one platform, where you can watch all kinds of Asian, especially Chinese content for free without paying anything?
In this article, we will review Duonao, one of the most famous Movie and TV streaming services in the world that works like a charm no matter where you are in the world.
1 Duonao – A Platform to Watch Unlimited Movies for Free
2 Why Duonao is the Best Platform to Watch your Favorite Movies & TV Shows
2.1 Huge Database of Movies and TV Shows
2.2 Free Content
2.3 Uncensored Content
2.4 Geo-Unlocked
3 Duonao Has a VIP Subscription too (It's Cheap)
4 Does Duonao Often Change Its URL?
5 Best Alternative URLs to Duonao – 100% Working
5.1 IYF.TV
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Duonao – A Platform to Watch Unlimited Movies for Free
Nowadays, Duonao has become so successful and popular that everyone is talking about this groundbreaking video streaming service. The website is so full of TV shows that as soon as you open it, you are flooded with tons of choices.
For some, TV shows are so many in quantity that users usually get confused about which movie or show to watch; they are endlessly scrolling through the massive collection of content.
Duonao contains almost all the genres and categories in the world of cinema and TV. For example, if you want to watch something as mind-bending as Inception, you will have to look no further.
Why Duonao is the Best Platform to Watch your Favorite Movies & TV Shows
You've read that we're bragging about how excellent Duonao is, let's talk about the actual benefits of using this video streaming service that any other.
Huge Database of Movies and TV Shows
One of the reasons why people use Duonao is because they offer a huge collection of movies and TV shows that you can watch. You can watch any genre, from mystery to comedy, there is everything you need to watch and have fun.
Whenever someone hears about a huge collection of movies, they think hefty subscription amount but that's not the case with Duonao – you can watch everything for free.
Uncensored Content
There is no restriction on what kind of movies are uploaded, you can watch all the movies without any restrictions.
Geo-Unlocked
Unlike most free websites where you can access it from a specific location in the world, this website does not face any of these problems because you can access it and watch movies from anywhere in the world.
Duonao Has a VIP Subscription too (It's Cheap)
The Blu-ray VIP 4K subscription is one of the most elite subscriptions you'll ever get thanks to its unbelievable benefits and ultra-clear video quality. When you subscribe to this VIP package, most of the supported movies you see will be shown via advanced encoding technologies so that no moment is missed.
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The yearly subscription will cost you around $120 which is 10 dollars a month for 4K exclusive content.
Does Duonao Often Change Its URL?
As good as these websites can be, they need to keep changing their URL from time to time due to some privacy and copyright issues. Take Kickass torrents for example. Kickass needs to keep changing its website's URL and so does Duonao.
As a matter of fact, any website that offers such a huge collection of informative content including a flood of movies and famous TV shows. The same goes for Duonao which is the reason why you'll come across different names and URLs for this website which can be confusing at times.
One good example is that the website is using IYF.TV which cannot be confirmed if it's the legit URL for that or not. One good thing is that it comes at the top when searched and contains all the content that Duonao would offer otherwise.
Best Alternative URLs to Duonao – 100% Working
As we said earlier, there may be some times when you may have issues with accessing the original website for watching your favorite movies, so we've compiled a list of links and verified URLs that you can type in your search bar and start watching your favorite content right away.
IYF.TV
IYF.TV (Ai Yifan) is one of the websites that claim to be the alternative for Duonao. Upon extensive investigation and user reviews, we've come to the conclusion that Duonao does keep changing its URL and IYF.TV is a legit alternative to using the original one.
Duonaovod
Duonaovod is the most underrated website and alternative because of the fact that it does not show up on search engines most of the time. When you want to watch some TV shows online with all the capabilities that the original one offers, we recommend you click on the link above and go straight to a website collecting all the content there is to cover.
Even though you might like the idea of a one-solution-for-all website, Duonao isn't far from perfect because you can watch everything for free without having to personal details to the website.
Apart from the fact it often changes its URL (not always), the website is almost perfect as you can watch full HD content which is nowhere to be found on the internet for free.
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This year one millionth passenger is welcomed 8 days earlier than last, 2014, year. Namely, Split Airport already records 11 percent traffic growth comparing to same period last year.
On the occasion of arrival of one millionth passenger we organised a small celebration hosted by Mr Pero Bilas, General Manager Deputy, who congratulated the lucky passenger and presented her on behalf of our airport with 300 EUR Gift Voucher to be spent in Split Airport Duty Free Shop, and, on behalf of Croatia Airlines, with two return tickets on one of their flights, at Mrs Satumaarika Emmesjoe choice.
Today, in presence of journalists and numerous guests, the project of Welcome Desk was introduced. This project represents initiative of Tourist Board of Kaštela, supported and co-financed by all tourist boards from Split Dalmatia County, and by Split Dalmatia County Tourist board itself, and by Town of Kaštela. Split Airport has also supported this project by offering the space free of charge.
Welcome Desk will be open from April to October, in times of greatest traffic frequencies, and its purpose is to give the guests most qualitative information on Split Dalmatia County, as well as any other service information important for all our users.
The event was accompanied with welcome drinks.
During summer season, from 29th March to 31st October, from 00:00 to 24:00, Split Airport becomes schedules facilitated airport.
All regular traffic, charter flights, general and business aviation are subject to harmonisation of flight schedules performed by Operations Centre.


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NYC Vegan Chefs and Restaurant Owners are Gathering Next Week to Speak Their Minds and Share Their Expertise
NYC's Vegan Culinary Experts are Taking the Stage at the 10th Anniversary of the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival & Symposium
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, May 13, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The return of the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival + Symposium this …
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Join us at the 10th Anniversary of the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival + Symposium on May 21-22, 2022 at the Metropolitan Pavilion
The event has given a platform to some of the most talented chefs and culinary experts in the industry and has launched some of the city's most popular restaurants, and this year is no exception."
— Nira Paliwoda, Co-Founder and President of U.S. Veg Corp
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, May 13, 2022/EINPresswire.com/ — The return of the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival + Symposium this year to Manhattan on May 21-22 marks its 10th installment. "The event has given a platform to some of the most talented chefs and culinary experts in the industry and has launched some of the city's most popular restaurants, and this year is no exception," says Nira Paliwoda, Co-Founder and President of U.S. Veg Corp.
The event's Pear Stage is fully programmed with chef demos all weekend from an exceptional line-up of both celebrity and up-and-coming chefs. Just a few of the chefs featured this year are Cathy Katin-Grazzini, Mario Buccellati, and Shenarri Freeman. Cathy Katin-Grazzini is Features and Food Editor for VEGWORLD Magazine and author of LOVE the FOODS that LOVE YOU BACK, Clean, Healthy Vegan Recipes for Everyone. Mario Buccellati is an Italian-American plant-based chef, restaurant consultant, recipe developer, and the founder of Mariolino's. Shenarri Freeman, aka "Shenarri Greens," is Executive Chef of Cadence, a plant-based restaurant with Southern soul in New York's East Village by Overthrow Hospitality. She is also a 2022 James Beard Award semifinalist for Emerging Chef.
The event also features the newest in kitchen innovation from companies such as CookingPal® and Tellus. CookingPal® aims to redefine the future of cooking through beautiful, thoughtfully-designed products. Multo® is their first product, and the ultimate all-in-one smart kitchen appliance. With hundreds of smart recipes that can teach one to cook like a professional chef, 15+ cooking functions, and a dedicated tablet for remote control cooking experience. Chef Shenarri is introducing the Multo® at the event. Tellus is a packaging company based in Belle Glade, Florida. Their products are made from U.S. grown plant fibers, including upcycled sugarcane fibers. They blend it and convert it to foodservice packaging products such as plates, bowls and takeout containers.
But among the hot topics of this year's event centers around the fate of NYC's restaurant industry. On the event's Apple Stage, Saturday, May 21st, Diana Edelman, Sarah Ellen, Yesenia Ramdass, and Guy Vaknin will be discussing "The Changing Landscape of Restaurants". This panel will not only address overcoming the challenges brought about by the pandemic but will also provide insight into opportunities that have materialized.
Diana Edelman is the founder of Vegans, Baby and shows people vegan dining is approachable and accessible. She consults with restaurants around the country to help them become vegan-friendly, curates chef-driven events and hosts international tours. Diana is the exclusive vegan tour curator for Alluring Africa, a partner with the James Beard Foundation and has been featured in Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, Forbes, The LA Times and more.
Sarah Ellen is the founder and brains behind NYC Chinatown's newest plant-based eatery, Cleanse Theory Kitchen. Sarah's background as an International Wellness Expert and her passion toward Plantbased Cleansing, Fasting & ways to Detox gently, has inspired the menu. Besides providing delicious food, the restaurant gives her the opportunity to show more people the way to rapid nutritional healing, gut health, digestion & absorption.
Yesenia Ramdass is the founder and owner of Healthy As A Motha Vegan Kitchen, was born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC. After years of sharing her passion for rethinking lifestyle choices, she opened up her first 100% plant based restaurant in Long Island City, NY. Her concept offers Caribbean inspired dishes free from not just animals but free from toxic ingredients like artificial food colorings, carcinogenic oils, refined sugars and provide simple, clean and mostly organic ingredients.
Guy Vaknin is a renowned vegan chef known for his New York City restaurants Beyond Sushi, Willow, and Coletta. He celebrates plant-based cuisine through innovative flavors, techniques, and presentation. He's appeared on FOX's Hell's Kitchen and ABC's Shark Tank, and has plans to continue expanding his restaurants in New York City through his new hospitality group, City Roots. He's passionate about bringing veganism to the masses through delicious food and creating a memorable dining experience. Chef Guy got his start at the very first NYC Vegetarian Food Festival in 2011!
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Planning a vacation is taxing, especially when you're looking for the perfect accommodation. In the age of the internet, websites are a user-friendly way to book a room. Hotel brands bend over backward to ensure that the properties they own are positively represented online. Honest reviews tell the good, and the bad, stories. Check out these two hotel booking sites, that make choosing temporary lodgings, an efficient and straightforward process.
Expedia.com allows travelers to book rental cars, cruises, flights, and lodgings. The hotel search is a streamlined process that gives site visitors information about properties that have rooms available on the dates of travel. Customers choose from the list of accommodation that the website presents. Expedia provides a platform for previous customers to leave feedback about experiences at the hotels on the website. The site verifies millions of reviews, to ensure that they are posted by the people who purchased the hotel room. Customers can sort and filter reports based on relevant keywords, such as kid-friendly or hotel type. Millions of customers use the website every month, taking advantage of Expedia's best rate guarantee.
Priceline brands itself as the negotiator, because the website gives its customers competitive pricing for all types of travel needs, including lodging. Its simple navigation helps vacationers find great deals. It even has a "name your price" option, that allows a customer to make an offer for the type of accommodation he is seeking. Hotels and other service providers can choose to reject or accept the customer's price.
The disadvantage to the name your price option is that customers find out the name of the hotel later. The same is true for the "express" option that shows the customer a list of hotels in the travel area. The traveler will find out the name of an express option hotel, after booking the room. However, Priceline offers reviews for budget and high-end properties. The selection caters to customers at both ends of the spectrum.
Online hotel booking sites are a convenient way to manage travel details. The reviews showcase customer experiences so that new travelers are more likely to book the perfect lodging. The sites aren't always ideal. However, for a time-saving experience, online booking is a great choice.


The average pay for an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist is €43,764 a year and €21 an hour in Finland. The average salary range for an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist is between €30,709 and €54,219. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Finland.
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AMO report highlights need for 'coherence' in Czech diplomacy, greater EU autonomy in age of Covid-19
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The Association for International Affairs (AMO) has just published its annual "Agenda for Czech Foreign Policy" report. As always, the Prague-based think tank has not only analysed global developments and the role of Czech diplomacy in them, but also laid out recommendations for the direction it should take, given new challenges.
AMO released its latest "Agenda" report on Wednesday ahead of a discussion – socially distanced, with everyone wearing facemasks – on its findings and policy prescriptions with Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček.
Topping the agenda was how the Covid-19 pandemic has shown the need to intensify and better coordinate action among European Union member states, says AMO research fellow and report co-author Pavel Havlíček.
"The main conclusions of the report, obviously, have a lot to do with the Covid-19 pandemic and how this is transforming the international world order and poses a challenge to Czech foreign policy, what we should do vis-à-vis the current crisis.
"While the world order has not changed completely, Covid-19 has exposed existing trends and tendencies present for quite some time. This includes a highly problematic trans-Atlantic bond between the EU and the United States, but also a rivalry between the US and China. It has also exposed the EU's dependency on trade chains, again going back to China.
Pavel Havlíček, photo: Archive of Pavel Havlíček
"So, basically, it has brought to the forefront the need for more strategic EU autonomy and at the same time, from the Czech foreign perspective and also in terms of the country's 'survival mode', we have called on Czechia to be much more creative, much more coherent, and much more constructive with EU institutions and member states."
Apart from such issues related directly and indirectly to Covid-19, AMO's Agenda for Czech Foreign Policy report includes new thematic chapters on EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, specifically on Czech efforts to promote liberal democracies; the EU's Green Agenda; and the Czech Presidency of the EU Council in the second half of 2022. Newly, it also goes deeper into Czech initiatives in Africa.
"We have also highlighted some of the inconsistencies between the key decision-makers and highest Constitutional players in the realm of Czech foreign policy – so, the government, including both the prime minister and foreign affairs minister but also the Prague Castle, the Office of the Czech President.
"We expose and analyse missing leadership and missing coordination among the three pillars of Czech foreign policy and not that this void or vacancy has been filled in by new players – and we have seen that very clearly, for example when Senate chairman Miloš Vystrčil travelled to Taiwan recently."
AMO research fellow Pavel Havlíček said that during Wednesday's discussion, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček also stressed that the promotion of human rights in places such as Russia and especially in recent weeks Belarus remains a pillar of Czech diplomacy – increasingly in very close cooperation with civil society actors.
Meanwhile, Africa has been a growing priority, as evidenced by the rising number of Czech diplomats and trade representatives posted to the region. But the often turbulent region of Latin America, with the exception of Cuba, has "been somehow off the agenda", as Havlíček put it.
Author: Brian Kenety
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Israeli News
Rocket Attacks Continue
Thousands of residents of southern Israel spent Shabbat in bomb shelters, as Hamas terrorists from Gaza continued firing rockets at Israel.
David Lev
Published: Apr 9, 2011, 9:29 PM (GMT+3)
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KassamIsrael news photo: Flash 90
Thousands of residents of southern Israel spent Shabbat in bomb shelters, as Hamas terrorists from Gaza continued firing rockets at Israeli targets in the Negev. Since Thursday, Arab terrorists have fired over 100 mortar shells and Kassam rockets at Israeli targets, with fifty fired since early Saturday.
The rockets hit not only areas near the border, but areas further inside Israel, including the Ashkelon area. Four Grad-style Katyusha rockets hit areas near the city, but there were no injuries or damage reported. However, several people were hospitalized for shock, and as of Saturday night, three were still in the hospital.
Damage was reported in several towns, and major damage was reported in a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, where a water pipe was destroyed. Residents said that they felt that the days of Operation Cast Lead, when Hamas fired hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians, had returned.
Other cities further inside Israel were also hit, with Ofakim absorbing hits from three Grad rockets. One rocket hit very close to a school, and city officials said that there would have been many injuries had the rocket hit when classes were in session.
The Iron Dome system registered a number of successes, intercepting several rockets aimed for Be'ersheva, Ofakim and Be'ersheva. The system has intercepted eight rockets since Thursday.
Meanwhile, Israel has struck back hard at Hamas terrorist targets in Gaza. Overnight Friday, IDF planes targeted several terror activity sites in Gaza, with precise targeting of several terror gangs who were in the midst of preparing to fire more rockets at Israel. The IDF said that fifteen terrorists had been eliminated. Among them was a senior Hamas operative in the southern Gaza Strip, Tayser Abu Snima, along with two additional Hamas operatives. Snima held several major roles in the military wing of Hamas and was involved in many terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers. Most recently, he was in charge of executing a terror attack from Sinai, firing rockets at the city of Eilat. In addition, the IDF said, Snima was also directly involved in the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
Israeli officials said that Hamas has asked for a ceasefire several times, and the Hamas website said that the terror group had declared a unilateral ceasefire on Thursday night. The terror group blamed the subsequent rockets on outside terror groups, saying that they were responding to Israeli attacks.
Meanwhile, the youth injured in the rocket attack on a school bus near Ashkelon on Thursday, Daniel Viflic, remained in critical condition. Doctors are continuing to work to save his life, and said that the next 24 hours would be "crucial." The public was asked to continued to pray for Rafael Daniel Aryeh ben Tamar.


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Richard Jennings, Contributor
Wine writer and reviewer
Syrah: The Rodney Dangerfield of Wine
Syrah is a black grape that, unlike Pinot Noir, is relatively easy to grow and to make great wines from. Unfortunately, while it is a grape that is popular with winemakers, and there are many very well made and reasonably priced bottlings on the market, it has yet to gain much respect among U.S. consumers.
The standard joke in the wine business the past couple years has been, "What's the difference between syphilis and Syrah? You can get rid of a case of syphilis." I believe the lack of consumer acceptance in this country has a lot to do with the different styles of Syrah, and the fact that consumers here experienced mainly the jammy, high alcohol style before they got to try more profound, complex and savory versions. As a result, many seem to have tuned out on the grape entirely without giving other styles of Syrah-based wine a chance.
Syrah is the great grape of France's Northern Rhone region, producing complex, powerful and long aging wines on the steep slopes of its Hermitage, Côte-Rôtie and Cornas appellations. It originated in this part of the world, probably centuries ago, as the result of a natural crossing between two obscure grapes -- the black grape Dureza and the white grape Mondeuse Blanc.
Its success in the Northern Rhone and the fact that it is relatively easy to grow led to Syrah being widely planted in the Southern Rhone and other winegrowing regions of Southern France starting in the mid-'70s. It has long been the most widely planted black grape in Australia, where it is known as "Shiraz." It has also become a major black grape in Washington State, South Africa and Argentina. As a result, it is estimated that Syrah is now the world's seventh most planted grape.
California was slow to get on the Syrah bandwagon, starting only in the early 1990s. The number of Syrah vines planted quickly skyrocketed after that, however, going from around 800 acres in 1992 to over 19,000 by 2010.
Syrah is practically Pinot Noir's opposite. Where Pinot prefers cooler climates and is hard to grow, Syrah likes somewhat warmer conditions and is a hardy grape that is much less susceptible than Pinot to diseases and rot. Unlike Pinot's relatively low amounts of coloring material and tannin, Syrah is full of anthocyanins, producing dark purple and tannic wines. Syrah also very much benefits from whole cluster pressing, or stem inclusion, whereas delicate Pinot fruit can often be obscured and overwhelmed by more than a little bit of stem inclusion. And while Pinot Noir is celebrated in an endless array of festivals and events, there is no event in this hemisphere solely devoted to Syrah.
Yes, Syrah grown in very warm climates and allowed to get quite ripe can produce jammy, chocolaty, blueberry and black fruit flavored, high alcohol wines. There's a market for that, but very inexpensive Shirazes from Australia--we're talking brands like Yellow Tail and Rosemount--have saturated the demand for that kind of wine. They're also not at all food friendly.
Syrah grown in cooler locations--like Edna Valley, the Sonoma Coast and Mt. Veeder in California; the Margaret River and Adelaide Hills regions of Australia; and Washington State--reminds me a lot more of Syrah from the Northern Rhone. These wines show white and black pepper, savory flavors like olive and green herbs, along with tart black fruits, berries and good acidity. They also tend to age very well, eventually showing such delicious mature flavors as bacon fat and beef brisket.
I, for one, think it's high time that Syrah got some love. Frankly, consumers would get a lot more value -- wines of more interest and complexity -- if they plunked down $25 or $35 for a Syrah than the average Cabernet. The wines tend to go with the same kinds of foods -- grilled meats, game, beef stews, barbecue -- and will satisfy those looking for big, serious, hearty wines.
The world's greatest Syrahs -- Chave's Hermitage, Guigal's Côte Rôtie bottlings -- often run hundreds of dollars. One of the relative bargains among great Syrah from the Rhone are the complex and delicious wines made by Thierry Allemand in Cornas, which go for $60 to $80. Australia also makes some truly great Syrahs/Shirazes, such as Torbreck's Run Rig and Penfold's Grange, but these are hard to find and very pricey. Washington State's best Syrahs are very much in demand in that state, with bottlings from Cayuse being sought after by collectors around the country.
For much less money, savvy shoppers can get world-class Syrah from California producers. Among the best are wines from Arnot-Roberts, Bedrock, Cabot, Copain, Peay and Qupé. Syrahs from these producers range in price from $25 to $50. One of my favorites, year after year, is the great Mt. Veeder Syrah from Lagier-Meredith, which sells for less than $50.
Steve Lagier and Carole Meredith of Lagier Meredith
If you have never tried Syrah, you owe it to yourself. If you previously gave up on Syrah/Shiraz because it was jammy and high in alcohol, try some of the producers listed above. Syrah really is a world class grape and there are lots of outstanding versions of it around.
This post was previously published on Palo Alto Patch.
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A decade ago, Tuppett Yates, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, launched the Guardian Scholars Program in the hopes of creating a support system for students who grew up in foster care. Beginning with four students who were provided $500 scholarships during the 2008-2009 academic year,...
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I love reading an article written by someone who loves Hdrangeas as much as me. I am absolutely infatuated wth them! :). I am planning a very large hedge of Incrediball Hydrangeas and am wondering about spacing? I read that you recommend 30″-36″ for the Limelights. I certainly want a homogenous hedge so I plan to plant close, I just want to do it right.
How wide do you find your Lime Light Hedge to grow?
I notice they are growing into the walk way.
I'm putting in a hedge this spring next to a street and don't want them growing into the street.
Have you noticed pollinators on the blooms?
I have one PeeGee hydrangea which attracts loads of pollinators during the summer.
Have always appreciated that I can come to your blog and learn something.
I love your gardening blog. My bird's nest spruce died over the winter and I am thinking of replacing them with green velvet boxwoods and limelight hydraganeas. My front garden faces east and gets considerable sun. Do you think this is a good combination, or would you recommend another combination?
Thanks for the very informative post, Deborah. I especially enjoyed seeing the pictures of your Lime Light hydrangeas at different times of the year with their blooms showing different colors. You are so right about masses of hydrangeas having greater impact. I have a grouping of three tall Pinky Winky hydrangeas and they put on quite a show from August through November as their blooms change from white to pink.
Since they love/need water, would they survive around the edges of a rain garden?
I have several Quick Fire Hydrangeas and just love the long lasting blooms – white to darker rose color. I keep them to around 5′ on south and west side of house. No problem with drooping and do normal watering. Thanks for all your info on hydraneas.
I'm not a fan of hydrangeas, though (perhaps because?) they're ubiquitous here in coastal New England. The shrubs seem so stiff and their flowers so blob-like. I am trying to learn to appreciate the oakleaf ones for their fall leaf color.
OH! I adore them too!
However……they are breaking my heart throughout this drought! I hope they survive at all!!!
I am a hydrangea fan in Santa Barbara! SOB!!!!
How much sun do limelight hydrangeas need? I would like to plant them along the east side of my house but it only gets a few hours of early morning sun. Thank you for your time.
I planted a limelight on the north side of the house. It only gets late afternoon sun in the summer months. It is thriving! It is irrigated daily.
It is because of you that I now have a lovely Limelight hedge! I planted them last fall 30″ apart.
and they have sprung back a little but not to form. We have dry spells and rainy spells here in the Piedmont region of central Virginia. I keep them hydrated during the dry spells. I give each plant about 2 gallons every other day. Our native soil is red and gray clay and very acidic. The garden has been amended with organic compost and clay breaker. They were thriving but now the poor shrubs look droopy and rain beaten. I have purchased five 3 gallon and two 5 gallon Korean Buxus to plant in front of my five hydrangeas. Hopefully this will help support them in years to come. But I'm a little tentative about how close to plant them to our adolescent flowers. Do you ever stake your hydrangeas? Would you kindly advise me?
Deborah, I think you know you made a believer out of me…and I am thanking you for it every time I look at all my Limelights and Little Limes. Thanks for all you do.
i will say that i am enjoying the attributes of the incrediballs. your thought deborah?
I love hydrangeas, and have many you listed, in addition to many Oak Leaf Hydrangeas. I love, love them. They tolerate the heat, have huge blooms that change color, and in the fall, the leaves turn a bright crimson red. Do they do well your way?
Should I be feeding my hydrangeas? What and when?
An lovely ode to Hydrangeas! Such great information for the rest of us. You grow and use hydrangeas expertly and understand all their habits. A pleasure to read!


A District of Columbia judge has ruled against Donald Trump's repeal of the DACA program, stating that not only should the administration continue providing for those in the program, but that they should also begin accepting new applications.
This differs from the previous two challenges in that it insists new applications must be considered.
The government now has a period of time in which to explain exactly why it is lawful to terminate the DACA program (with a 90-day stay).
The fact of the matter is that President Obama circumvented Congress when he made this law. It was never put through the proper systems and is therefore not a valid law. By rescinding it, it would force Congress to come up with a proper solution, within the bounds of the law, that would settle the immigration status of 700,000 people once and for all.
Since when does a district judge have the power to override the POTUS? He and a lot of other people are in favor of this, but we don't get to vote on it. So some district court judge is now in charge of this all on his own?


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Exclusive offer gives purchasers of PopChar X a 30% discount off Take Control font handling ebooks
Hagenberg, Austria: October 11, 2006 — Ergonis Software and Take Control Books today announced a special offer that gives Macintosh users buying a copy of PopChar X 3.0 a 30% discount off Sharon Zardetto Aker's "Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X" and "Take Control of Font Problems in Mac OS X."
PopChar X 3.0 was completely redesigned earlier this year to make it even easier for Mac users in font-intensive professions to discover and insert special characters into the text of any document, in any application. Notable improvements in PopChar X 3.0 include universal binary support, quick search for special characters, an always-available floating window interface, and an optimized approach for selecting recently used fonts and characters.
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